Summary: A grand memorial ceremony was held in Beijing on August 17 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jiang Zemin, with Xi Jinping delivering a keynote speech that praised Jiang's contributions to China's reform, opening-up, and socialist modernization. Xi called on the Party and the people to learn from Jiang's political conviction, dedication to the people, innovative spirit, strategic vision, and courageous resolve. The event was attended by senior leaders including Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi, and Vice President Han Zheng. Xi emphasized the need to advance Chinese modernization and national rejuvenation while maintaining unity under the Party's leadership. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the reported proceedings.
Summary: President Xi Jinping sent a message of condolence to Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto on August 17 regarding a strong earthquake in Indonesia. Xi expressed condolences for the victims and sincere sympathy to their families and the injured on behalf of the Chinese government and people. He expressed confidence that under President Prabowo's leadership, the Indonesian people would overcome the disaster and rebuild their homes. The message did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Azerbaijani-language version of the program *Xi Jinping's Cultural Connections*, produced by China Media Group, held its launch event in Baku. The program showcases Xi Jinping's dedication to cultural heritage and his philosophy that "cultural prosperity leads to national prosperity," aiming to explain Xi Jinping Thought on Culture to international audiences. Chinese Ambassador to Azerbaijan Lu Mei spoke at the event, stating that the launch marks a new level of China-Azerbaijan media cooperation. Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Culture Committee Deputy Chair Yefendiyeva also spoke, emphasizing the shared commitment of both countries to protecting cultural heritage. Following the event, the program aired on Azerbaijan's state television cultural channel and ARB24.
Summary: The article reports the nationwide publication of "Selected Works of Jiang Zemin on Diplomacy," compiled by the CPC Central Committee's Institute of Party History and Literature and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with approval from the CPC Central Committee. The collection contains 115 works—including reports, speeches, talks, and letters—written between July 1989 and July 2003, totaling about 320,000 characters, with some pieces published for the first time. It showcases Jiang Zemin's important thoughts and contributions to socialist diplomatic theory and practice. The publication is intended to help cadres and the public study the Party's history of reform, opening-up, and socialist modernization. It is also framed as a means to strengthen unity around Xi Jinping and enhance the study and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy.
Summary: Xi Jinping delivered a speech at a gathering commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of former leader Jiang Zemin, lauding his role as the core of the Party's third generation of central leadership. The speech reviewed Jiang's key contributions, including reform and opening-up, the establishment of the "Three Represents"重要思想, joining the WTO, and the return of Hong Kong and Macao. Xi called for learning from Jiang's political conviction, people-centered approach, innovative spirit, strategic thinking, and extraordinary courage. The address mentioned Jiang's foreign policy and international strategies, such as promoting multipolarity and globalization, but did not specifically discuss the United States or bilateral relations. Xi concluded by urging unity to advance Chinese modernization and national rejuvenation.
Summary: China Post issued a commemorative stamp set and a souvenir sheet on August 17 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jiang Zemin. The two stamps depict Jiang in Shanghai and at the 15th CPC National Congress, while the sheet shows him waving to a parade crowd from Tiananmen Gate. The designs were created by Xing Wenwei and Yin Xiaofei, with printing by Beijing Stamp Factory Co., Ltd. The set has a face value of 2.40 yuan (4 million sets issued), and the sheet is 6 yuan (3.2 million issued). They will be sold for six months through designated postal outlets and digital channels.
Summary: The National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration jointly issued the "15th Five-Year Plan" for oil and gas development, setting 2030 targets including domestic supply of 440 million tons of oil equivalent and 220,000 kilometers of pipeline networks. The plan prioritizes energy security and green low-carbon development, aiming to build a modern oil and gas industry system. It designates strategic production bases in regions such as Ordos, Bohai Bay, and Sichuan-Chongqing to support domestic output goals. Additionally, the plan calls for constructing the Qiong-Yue natural gas pipeline to end Hainan's isolated network status. No specific officials were named as accompanying the announcement.
Summary: At an August 17 press conference, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) spokesperson Fu Linghui and deputy director Wang Guanhua reported that China's economy remained stable in the first seven months, with output and consumption expanding. They highlighted that new industries, including high-tech manufacturing, digital transformation, and green energy, are strengthening, with new momentum contributing 50.9% to industrial growth. Investment is shifting towards manufacturing and innovation, while trade is upgrading towards high-tech and knowledge-intensive exports. They also noted a decline in overall fixed-asset investment but argued for focusing on its structure, quality, and role in promoting development.
Summary: The Ministry of Transport (MOT), together with the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) and other departments, jointly issued the "15th Five-Year Plan" for comprehensive transportation standardization. The plan sets a target for 2030 of implementing over 800 standards, with an international standard conversion rate exceeding 90%. It emphasizes strengthening the supply of key core standards, prioritizing the layout of a standard system for low-altitude civil aviation and air-ground coordination. The plan also calls for building standards for transportation-energy integration. Additionally, it focuses on developing standards for autonomous driving, vehicle-road coordination, intelligent shipping, smart travel, and intelligent transport equipment.
Summary: The National Financial Regulatory Administration released data showing that by the end of Q2, inclusive loans to small and micro enterprises reached 38.9 trillion yuan (up 8% year-on-year), while inclusive agricultural loans hit 15 trillion yuan (up 7.5%). For the first half of the year, insurance premium income totaled 3.9 trillion yuan (up 3.2%), with claims and benefit payments rising 3.8% to 1.4 trillion yuan, and new policy count surging 27.4% to 66.8 billion. Total assets for banking institutions grew 6.6% year-on-year to 498 trillion yuan, while insurance and insurance asset management companies' assets rose 6.2% from the start of the year to 43.9 trillion yuan. These figures indicate continued expansion and stability in China's financial sector, with notable growth in inclusive finance and insurance activity. The report did not mention any specific official statements or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Azerbaijani-language version of "Xi Jinping's Cultural Bonds," produced by China Media Group, launched in Baku on August 17. The program showcases Xi Jinping's dedication to cultural heritage and his thesis that culture drives national prosperity. Chinese Ambassador to Azerbaijan Lu Mei stated at the event that the launch marks a new phase in Sino-Azerbaijani media cooperation and helps Azerbaijani audiences understand Xi Jinping's cultural thought. Azerbaijani National Assembly Culture Committee Vice Chair Yefendiyeva said both nations share common values on protecting cultural heritage, making the broadcast highly significant. The film was subsequently aired on Azerbaijan's state television culture channel and ARB24.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang chaired the State Council's 12th plenary meeting on August 17, urging full implementation of Xi Jinping's guidance on the economy and completion of annual targets for a strong start to the "15th Five-Year Plan." He acknowledged persistent weak domestic demand, rising enterprise difficulties, and growing external uncertainty, calling for effective use of existing policies and timely introduction of incremental measures. Li stressed expanding domestic demand, advancing major projects, boosting private investment, stabilizing external demand, and accelerating industrial upgrading through technology. He also emphasized improving people's livelihoods, preventing large-scale return to poverty, and balancing development with security. The meeting was attended by State Council members and provincial officials via video, with no mention of U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A seminar on Jiang Zemin's life and thought was held in Beijing from August 17-19, with Cai Qi, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, attending and delivering a speech. Cai emphasized the need to study Xi Jinping's remarks at the centenary of Jiang's birth, deepen research on the "Three Represents" theory, and uphold the Party's leadership while advancing Chinese modernization. He called for adherence to the "Two Establishments," "Two Upholds," and the Party's self-reform, among other principles. The meeting was chaired by Li Shulei, with Shi Taifeng, Liu Guozhong, Zhang Shengmin, Qu Qingshan, and Xin Changxing also speaking. About 500 officials and experts attended the event, which was organized by several central Party bodies.
Summary: Chinese President Xi Jinping has invited King Abdullah II of Jordan for a state visit to China from August 18 to 24, during which Xi will hold talks covering bilateral relations and regional issues. The visit marks the King's ninth trip to China since his accession, following the 2015 elevation of Sino-Jordanian ties to a strategic partnership. As the first Arab head of state hosted by Beijing this year amid a volatile Middle East, the visit aims to provide strategic guidance for deepening the partnership and regional stability. The article highlights growing political trust, with Jordan adhering to the One-China principle, and notes that China became Jordan's largest trading partner in 2025, with bilateral trade surging over 30% in the first quarter. The piece also emphasizes cooperation in development, people-to-people exchanges, and joint support for multilateralism and peace in the Middle East, without referencing the United States.
Summary: The article argues that development requires not only economic cooperation but also sustained mutual understanding between nations, as trade and infrastructure alone cannot bridge civilizational gaps or ensure lasting peace. It emphasizes that deep cultural comprehension, built through translation and academic exchange, is essential for stable international relations and long-term strategic continuity. The author cites his experience with Egypt's Hikma Cultural Group, which has translated nearly a thousand Chinese works, and notes growing Arab interest in Chinese studies as a model for cross-civilizational understanding. He highlights that recent Arab-Chinese cooperation, including more translations and youth language learning, is fostering independent, direct mutual perceptions that benefit bilateral ties. The piece concludes that genuine understanding and inclusive exchange are rare and vital for addressing global challenges, without referencing the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, King Abdullah II of Jordan will make a state visit to China from August 18 to 24. The Xinhua report provides biographical details, noting the King was born in 1962, served as commander of the Jordanian Special Forces, and ascended the throne in 1999. No accompanying officials are mentioned in the brief announcement, and the report does not address U.S.-China relations.
Summary: King Abdullah II of Jordan will make a state visit to China from August 18-24 at the invitation of President Xi Jinping. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian announced that President Xi will hold talks with the King, while Premier Li Qiang and NPC Standing Committee Chairman Zhao Leji will also meet him, with additional stops scheduled in Shanghai and Shenzhen. Lin Jian noted this is Abdullah II's ninth visit to China since his accession, highlighting the traditional friendship and deepening strategic partnership between the two countries. He expressed China's willingness to use the visit as an opportunity to enhance political trust, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, and promote people-to-people exchanges. Lin Jian stated that China aims to elevate the Sino-Jordanian strategic partnership to a new level and contribute to regional peace, stability, and development.
Summary: Chinese enterprises have invested in multiple clean energy projects in Bangladesh, including the Cox's Bazar wind farm—the country's first centralized wind project—which began operations in October 2023 and now powers 100,000 households, with local officials praising it as a model of Bangladesh-China energy cooperation. The projects also introduced Chinese technology and standards, trained local personnel, and expanded into solar and hybrid smart-energy initiatives, with plans for a large-scale wind-solar-storage base. Additional ventures, such as the Mymensingh solar plant and the Sirajganj photovoltaic station, have boosted rural development and cut carbon emissions significantly. Bangladeshi officials and association leaders highlighted these projects as vital for accelerating the country's energy transition and expressed interest in deepening cooperation with China, which they regard as a global leader in renewable energy technology.
Summary: Chilean Foreign Minister Perez will make an official visit to China from August 18 to 22, as announced by the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on August 17. The visit is at the invitation of Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and China's Foreign Minister. Wang Yi will serve as the host for the Chilean delegation during this bilateral engagement.
Summary: The 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification opened in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, with the theme "Restoring Land, Enabling Hope." UNCCD Executive Secretary Ibrahim Thiaw (referred to as Yasmin Fouad in the article, but likely a translation issue) stressed that land degradation and drought are urgent issues requiring concrete action and multilateral cooperation. Delegates from 197 parties will discuss sustainable land management, drought resilience, and grassland restoration, with high-level dialogues on financing and pastoral well-being. The Chinese government delegation will participate in high-level dialogues and propose establishing an International Grassland Day to promote global grassland conservation. China will also host a "China Pavilion" in the blue zone to showcase its desertification control practices.
Summary: The 4th Russia-China "Sprout" Forum for mutually beneficial cooperation opened in Kazan, Russia, on August 17. Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui reported that bilateral trade reached $159.2 billion from January to July 2026, a 26.3% year-on-year increase, with annual figures expected to hit a new record. Zhang emphasized the forum's role in boosting economic and trade ties and regional cooperation. Russian State Duma Deputy Chairman Babakov stated the forum's key value lies in converting political trust into concrete projects, noting the vast potential of local cooperation. Tatarstan's head Minnikhanov outlined the agenda, which spans AI, industry, finance, and healthcare, among other sectors.
Summary: The article reports on a seminar held to study the life and thought of Jiang Zemin, following a memorial conference marking the centenary of his birth. The speaker emphasizes the importance of Xi Jinping's speech at the memorial event and outlines seven areas for deepening research on the "Three Represents"重要思想, including party leadership, Marxist theory adaptation, socialist construction, development philosophy, cultural advancement, globalization, and party governance. The speech stresses the need to apply these theories to contemporary challenges, including modernization, high-quality development, and party discipline. No specific U.S. or U.S.-China relations content is discussed in the article.
Summary: The article highlights ongoing efforts across Chinese localities to enhance government services through digital and integrated platforms. In Yinchuan, a mobile "unfinished business" window and smart document tools have streamlined approvals, achieving a 100% completion rate for 687 public requests. Dandong's public security bureau uses a "code-based service" QR system for rapid responses, such as issuing certificates and residence permits within hours. Jilin City established offline service zones paired with an online management platform to resolve complex cases, including verifying work history for pension adjustments. These initiatives aim to improve efficiency and accessibility, aligning with the "15th Five-Year Plan" call for smart, inclusive digital governance.
Summary: The article reports on Sanya Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City's comprehensive intellectual property (IP) services for seed industry enterprises, highlighting a case where the "Zhi Xiao Er" service team helped Hainan Danruo Agriculture obtain a plant variety right certificate for its "Danruo No. 1" soft-seed pomegranate after resolving an on-site examination bottleneck. It details how patent pre-examination services expedite approvals, and how provincial and municipal IP authorities have delegated administrative powers to the management bureau for one-stop processing. The piece also mentions the launch of a seed industry large model "Fengdeng" and a national-level seed industry IP operations center to support data-driven breeding and commercialization. By 2025, the high-tech zone held 24.46% of Hainan's effective invention patents, with Sanya's technology contract deals growing 87.9% year-on-year. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations topics are discussed.
Summary: The article reports on China's coordinated disaster response to recent extreme weather, with the National Flood Control Headquarters Office and the Ministry of Emergency Management leading multi-departmental consultations alongside officials from Sichuan, Henan, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang provinces. They issued yellow warnings for mountain torrents and geological hazards, in conjunction with the Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of Natural Resources, as heavy rainfall is forecast for the Sichuan Basin, Yunnan, and Hainan. The authorities maintained emergency response levels for flooding in Jiangsu, Henan, Zhejiang, and Anhui, with dispatched work teams assisting in the Taihu Lake region. Additionally, in response to a request from the Xinjiang regional flood and drought relief headquarters, these central bodies coordinated with the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration to allocate drought-relief equipment, including pumps and generators, to support Xinjiang's drought mitigation efforts.
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Summary: The People's Daily published a dialogue between commentator Sheng Yulei and Huang Haihua, director of the Research Office of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee, on the occasion of the Ecological Environment Code taking effect on August 15. Huang stated that the Code, guided by Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization and rule of law, consolidates China's theoretical, institutional, and practical achievements in ecological governance and marks a new stage of systematic and law-based environmental management. He emphasized that the Code is the world's first codification named after "ecological environment," adopting a compilation approach that enhances system integration and institutional innovation, including new provisions on emerging pollutants like chemical substances, electromagnetic radiation, and light pollution. Huang argued that ecological protection is a "multiplication of value" rather than a subtraction from development, citing the shift from energy consumption control to carbon emission control as fostering green new quality productive forces. He also stressed that the Code addresses public concerns through measures such as refined noise and油烟 pollution management and stricter penalties for fraudulent reporting, while its "moderate codification" approach allows parallel single laws to maintain legislative flexibility.
Summary: The article, authored by a Xi'an Drama Academy professor and Plum Blossom Award winner, argues that Qin opera remains vital when performers combine rigorous traditional skills with emotional authenticity. It highlights how innovations like the play *Fen Xiang Ji* use expressive techniques, such as ten-foot water sleeves, to make inner drama accessible to audiences. The author stresses preserving the art's grassroots character through disciplined practice and sincere performances, including rural tours. To reach younger viewers, she advocates open teaching and cross-genre fusion while staying rooted in tradition. The piece underscores that only by balancing heritage and innovation can ancient art thrive without losing its soul.
Summary: The article highlights a viral moment where a boy in Beichuan, Sichuan, responded to netizens' advice to "study hard and leave the mountains" by saying he can simply take a bus out, reflecting improved rural connectivity. It discusses how rural road networks (now totaling 4.7 million km) and infrastructure have made "leaving the mountains" an ordinary daily act, symbolizing closer urban-rural ties and tangible development gains. The piece cites educator Zhang Guimei's changed advice to students—from urging them never to return to welcoming them back—as evidence that hometowns now offer opportunities. It concludes that development, by investing in infrastructure and people, expands individual possibilities and fuels social progress. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports preliminary data showing China's marine economy reached 5.5 trillion yuan in the first half of 2024, growing 5.1% year-on-year. It highlights breakthroughs in deep-sea technology and notes that China's shipbuilding industry maintains a global lead across new orders, completions, and backlog orders. The report also points to a steady enhancement in the supply capacity of marine products. Overall, it characterizes the sector as demonstrating strong development resilience and an increasingly prominent role in driving the national economy. The piece concludes with a poem celebrating the flourishing state of China's "blue economy."
Summary: The article discusses a viral trend of Chinese citizens voluntarily fixing public hazards, such as removing protruding ground nails or adding reflective strips to lampposts, praising their civic awareness. It cautions, however, that such self-help actions carry legal and safety risks, including incomplete fixes or unclear liability for accidents. The piece argues that while public participation is valuable, city management must establish robust mechanisms for reporting, responding, and resolving issues, with clear guidance to citizens on when to defer to authorities. It emphasizes that effective urban governance requires a two-way collaboration between proactive residents and responsible government departments, ensuring every reported hazard is properly addressed.
Summary: The article highlights the "two 80%" statistic—where 80% of corruption cases among county-level officials are directly linked to close relatives, especially spouses and children—to argue that family values are crucial for preventing corruption. It quotes President Xi Jinping's directive to place family conduct building at the core, warning against "pillow talk" serving as a fuse for corruption and preventing children and close associates from profiting illegally under officials' names. The piece stresses that good family values are a strict disciplinary requirement, citing Party regulations that penalize officials who fail to manage their spouses and children, and emphasizes clarifying the boundary between public power and private interests. It also calls for innovative methods in family education, such as interactive pledges and extending discipline education beyond office hours, to ensure lasting impact. Ultimately, the commentary links robust family values to the broader goal of deepening comprehensive Party discipline and fostering a clean political environment.
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Summary: In a speech at a meeting marking the 100th anniversary of Jiang Zemin's birth, Xi Jinping reviewed Jiang's contributions to party building, including his emphasis on upholding party leadership, advancing theoretical innovation through the "Three Represents," strengthening cadre and grassroots organizations, and intensifying anti-corruption efforts. The article highlights Jiang's role in shaping party construction principles and his legacy in guiding China's political development. It also stresses the importance of Xi Jinping's party-building thought as the current guiding framework. The piece concludes by urging continued commitment to party discipline and the realization of national rejuvenation. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article summarizes a speech delivered by Xi Jinping in remembrance of former leader Jiang Zemin, highlighting Jiang's role as the core of the Party's third-generation central leadership and his creation of the "Three Represents"重要思想. Xi's address emphasized the need to continue theoretical innovation under Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, pursue high-quality development, deepen reform and opening-up, and uphold the people-centered philosophy. The article also notes that Cai Qi will deliver a follow-up speech, and it underscores the importance of implementing Xi's directives. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article commemorates Jiang Zemin's contributions to China's national defense and military modernization, highlighting his establishment of the "Jiang Zemin Defense and Military Building Thought." It details his emphasis on absolute Party leadership over the military, his "five requirements" for army building (political loyalty, military capability, fine conduct, strict discipline, and reliable support), and his push for a Chinese-style military transformation to prepare for high-tech local wars. The piece also notes his efforts in strengthening national defense mobilization and civil-military unity, including commanding major disaster relief operations like the 1998 floods. Finally, it connects this legacy to the current goal, under Xi Jinping's leadership, of building a world-class military by 2027, framing it as the best tribute to revolutionary predecessors.
Summary: The article is a speech reflecting on Xi Jinping's recent address honoring Jiang Zemin, emphasizing Jiang's legacy of "advancing with the times." The speaker highlights Jiang's theoretical innovation in formulating the "Three Represents"重要思想, his establishment of the socialist market economy framework, and China's WTO accession. Jiang is credited with guiding the Party through complex domestic and international challenges, successfully advancing socialism with Chinese characteristics into the 21st century. The speech concludes that the best tribute to Jiang is rallying around Xi Jinping and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
Summary: The article commemorates the centenary of Jiang Zemin's birth, highlighting his early life in Jiangsu province, his education, and his revolutionary activities against Japanese occupation. It details his later leadership role in advancing China's reform and opening-up, his creation of the "Three Represents"重要思想, and his nine inspection visits to Jiangsu while in office. The piece emphasizes Jiang's deep connection to his hometown, including his personal involvement in flood relief efforts in 1991, and his guidance for Jiangsu's economic and social development. It concludes by affirming Jiangsu's commitment to honoring Jiang's legacy by continuing its modernization drive under Xi Jinping's leadership.
Summary: The Apollo Future Industry City in Shenzhen's eastern tech corridor has built a 5.6-kilometer underground utility tunnel, one of China's largest in cross-section and capacity, housing nine types of municipal pipelines to free up land resources and eliminate repeated road digging. Smart inspection robots and real-time monitoring systems enhance maintenance efficiency, while sponge-city features and "tunnel-sharing" construction methods prevent flooding and preserve the environment. The project reserves space for future technologies like 6G and computing networks, and since 2016, Longgang District has completed 60.45 kilometers of utility tunnels, with the model expanding to other Shenzhen areas.
Summary: The article highlights China's efforts to build resilient cities by improving underground pipeline networks, particularly through integrated utility tunnels that enhance safety and disaster response. It notes that China's underground pipeline construction is the largest and fastest globally, with about 7,880 kilometers of utility tunnels completed. Examples include Xiong'an New Area's high-standard tunnels with smart logistics and digital twin features, and Hengqin's 33-kilometer tunnel system that withstands typhoons and boosts land value. The piece outlines future upgrades in green construction, smart maintenance, and market-based operations to strengthen the "underground lifeline." The author is a professor-level senior engineer at South China University of Technology, with the article compiled by People's Daily reporter Lü Shaogang.
Summary: The article highlights Rizhao's Olympic Water Sports Town in Shandong, where tourists like Shanghai visitor Liu Yunfei enjoy paddleboarding, dragon boat races, and other activities with professional coaching. The town hosted over 20 sports events this year, contributing to Rizhao's broader coastal tourism development, including restored beaches, wetland parks, and a 28-kilometer greenway. Nearby Dongyi Town offers nighttime cultural experiences and affordable, clearly priced seafood, boosting local consumption. The town attracted over 300,000 visitors this year, driving over 90 million yuan in spending, while Dongyi Town saw 2 million visitors in the first half of 2025, up 20% year-on-year. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China is advancing its role in setting international quantum technology standards, as reported by the State Administration for Market Regulation. A Chinese-led proposal on quantum entropy source randomness was officially approved, marking a key step in core device standardization. Another proposal, co-led by China, the U.S., and Canada, on single-photon device characterization metrics, also gained approval. Two additional Chinese-led pre-research projects on quantum-classical fusion computing were initiated. China has led all three published ISO/IEC quantum standards and is currently spearheading five more.
Summary: On August 16, the Ma'anshan Yangtze River Highway-Railway Bridge entered its final construction phase. Located in Dangtu County, Anhui Province, it serves as a key control project for the Chaoma (Chaohu-Ma'anshan) intercity railway. Once completed, the bridge will open a fast cross-river passage in the Wanjiang region, significantly shortening the spatial-temporal distance between the Hefei and Nanjing metropolitan areas. This infrastructure milestone advances the "Yangtze River Delta on Rails" initiative, underscoring regional integration efforts.
Summary: Kunming Customs reported that in the first seven months of the year, the China-Laos Railway's import and export value reached 20.11 billion yuan, a 29.9% year-on-year increase, with imports of ASEAN tropical fruits rising 14.9% and exports of "new three items" (NEVs, lithium batteries, and photovoltaic products) surging 306.2%. The railway has facilitated a two-way trade pattern of "Southeast Asian specialties heading north and Chinese smart manufacturing heading south," with cumulative cross-border cargo value exceeding 94 billion yuan since its 2021 opening, serving over 7,000 domestic trading entities across 19 countries and regions. To enhance efficiency, Kunming Customs implemented the "Belt and Road" Silk Smooth Action, promoting measures like "advance declaration" and "railway express clearance," alongside intelligent supervision equipment to boost clearance speed. These efforts ensure the efficient operation of international freight trains, including the "Lancang-Mekong Express" and the "China-Laos Railway + China-Europe Railway Express," continuously unlocking the railway's cross-border logistics potential. The article contains no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on Datong County in Qinghai Province developing a nursing-care worker industry under the brand "Datong Hugong" to address rural employment challenges. A local resident, Lin Yonghong, transitioned from farming to caregiving, reflecting the program's impact. County officials, including employment bureau director Dai Guocang and company deputy manager Liu Yaqiong, described government-funded training with "five guarantees and six waivers," plus support like hospital agreements and worker stations. The initiative has employed 14,000 people, holding over 60% of Qinghai's caregiving market share, with a target of 30,000 workers by 2027. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The Heilongjiang Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau has driven the development of the "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Products" provincial forestry public brand since 2023, expanding it to 200 enterprises with 599 products and generating 82.49 billion yuan in revenue for participating firms in 2025, a 58% year-on-year increase. The bureau established a quality standards system comprising 68 group standards developed with the China National Institute of Standardization and the Heilongjiang Academy of Forestry Sciences, incorporating regional advantage indicators into the framework. Brand promotion efforts have included international design awards, bilingual publicity campaigns, and showcase events at the Harbin International Economic and Trade Fair and other global platforms. Market expansion has involved online sales across major e-commerce platforms, 20 physical stores, and promotional activities in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Chengdu, alongside international appearances at events such as the China International Import Expo and the Osaka World Expo. Looking ahead, the bureau plans to strengthen coordination among provincial forestry groups and leading enterprises to advance the brand's market reach and support rural revitalization.
Summary: The article summarizes Xi Jinping's key statements on urban governance as compiled in his published works, emphasizing a people-centered approach to building modern cities that are innovative, livable, resilient, green, civilized, and smart. It highlights that Xi has framed urban governance modernization as part of broader national governance, with systematic deployments at two Central Urban Work Conferences. The piece cites specific examples of Xi's guidance for Beijing, Shanghai, and Xiong'an New Area, where he called for precision governance, "embroidery-style" management, and integrated high-quality construction with efficient governance. The authors argue these doctrines develop Marxist urban theory and offer a Chinese model for global sustainable urban development. No references to the United States or U.S.-China relations appear in the article.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of "rectifying the mind" (正心) in traditional Chinese culture and links it to Communist Party members' cultivation of party spirit, citing Xi Jinping's remarks that party spirit education is the "mind science" for communists. Xi is quoted as urging officials to maintain inner purity, respect rules, and resist corruption to ensure correct political achievements. The piece argues that a correct view of political performance depends on party spirit, warning that distorted performance views stem from spiritual deviation and lost ideals. It concludes that combining inner rectitude with concrete action is essential for delivering lasting results for the people. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: President Xi Jinping, speaking at the opening of the 2026 World AI Conference and High-Level Meeting on AI Governance, used the metaphor of a "swift and steady horse" to emphasize that AI must develop rapidly while remaining safe, reliable, and controllable. The article argues that "running fast" and "running steadily" are mutually reinforcing, as innovation without safety risks harm, while safety without innovation leads to stagnation. It highlights China's progress in AI development, placing it in the global first tier, while also acknowledging challenges such as the global intelligence gap and fragmented governance rules. The authors advocate for combining effective markets with a capable government, encouraging innovation while establishing risk management systems and international governance frameworks. The piece contains no references to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Biomanufacturing, a future industry highlighted in China's 15th Five-Year Plan, uses engineered microbes in "cell factories" to produce items like low-calorie sweeteners and biomaterials, with the sector's total output reaching 1.1 trillion yuan during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. Experts and company founders, such as Liu Bo of Weiyuan Synthesis and Cao Hui of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, note that biomanufacturing can replace chemical synthesis and animal/plant extraction, reducing costs and environmental impact—for example, hyaluronic acid production no longer requires rooster combs. Key challenges include insufficient original innovation in strain design, with core patents and tools still dominated overseas, and a roughly 20% success rate when scaling lab processes to industrial fermentation tanks. AI is accelerating the field by enabling computation-driven strain development, cutting construction time from 10 years to 1–2 years, and improving enzyme performance. Feedstock evolution—from crops to agricultural waste and ultimately carbon dioxide—could combine with clean energy to create a sustainable, globally competitive production system, leveraging China's complete manufacturing chain advantages.
Summary: The Ministry of Transport has issued a plan for premium self-driving tourism roads. The plan aims to establish a network of long-distance scenic routes by 2030, with a main framework of about 60,000 kilometers structured as "three rings, four horizontals, and five verticals" along ordinary national highways. It focuses on improving infrastructure, such as viewing and safety facilities, and enhancing service systems, including car rentals and charging networks. The plan also calls for data sharing between transport and cultural tourism departments to analyze self-driving travel patterns. No specific official was named as accompanying the announcement, and there is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The People's Bank of China (PBOC) announced the addition of eight new banks—including Ping An Bank, Hengfeng Bank, and Bohai Bank—as digital yuan operating institutions, integrating them into the central bank's digital currency system. This expansion follows the "15th Five-Year Plan" directive to steadily develop the digital yuan and enhance the inclusiveness of its services. The newly added institutions will begin digital yuan operations after completing necessary business and technical preparations. With this move, the total number of digital yuan operating institutions has grown to 30. The report does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's State Administration for Market Regulation has approved and released five certification industry standards for automotive chips, including general evaluation requirements for institutional certification reviews. These standards form the world's first national-level capability evaluation system for organizations across the entire automotive chip supply chain. The move marks a major institutional breakthrough in building a self-reliant quality assurance system for domestic chips. Previously, a lack of unified evaluation criteria created high entry barriers and low market trust, hindering the large-scale application of domestic chips. The new standards aim to guide industry-wide capability improvements, accelerate the quality chain from R&D to vehicle deployment, and support the development of a trillion-yuan automotive chip industry ecosystem.
Summary: The article highlights PICC Property and Casualty's Ali branch in Tibet, which provides medical insurance services across the remote, high-altitude region under local health authority guidance. The team, over 60% party members, built a three-tier service network spanning 37 townships and 145 villages, offering bilingual outreach and door-to-door assistance. In 2025, they served nearly 400,000 residents with medical insurance payouts of about 1.59 billion yuan. The company also underwrites supplementary insurance schemes, covering 143,800 insured individuals with risk protection of 134.236 billion yuan, including border-county residents. The report emphasizes party-led service delivery as a model for ensuring accessible healthcare in sparsely populated frontier areas.
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Summary: Shandong Binzhou’s market regulator sent ten young cadres to work as food-delivery riders for two weeks to uncover hidden problems in the industry, such as “ghost kitchens” and safety violations. The riders documented 145 issues, which were logged and assigned for correction through a coordinated effort involving police, streets, platforms, and the city’s party committee. The initiative aimed to sharpen regulatory insight by experiencing frontline conditions firsthand. Cadre Zhang Xuesong noted that the work revealed real difficulties like poor signage, long traffic waits, and navigation errors, pushing regulators to move from solving single cases to broader governance. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes that effective investigative research by officials requires genuine commitment ("心入") and warns against performative, follow-the-trend, or redundant forms of investigation. It stresses the importance of pre-identifying policy bottlenecks, staying adaptable during research, and correcting biases based on real conditions to achieve depth, accuracy, and efficiency. To understand grassroots realities, officials should use "four不两直" (no notifications, no rehearsed routes, no receptions, no reports; go directly to the grassroots and directly to the scene) and prioritize listening to local voices and gathering firsthand information. This approach helps identify and solve genuine problems, especially those concerning people's urgent needs.
Summary: The article profiles border patrol guards in Jigen Township, Wuqia County, Xinjiang, highlighting 29-year-old Hanikai Tuerhanbay, who joined after seeing a recruitment notice, and veteran Abudusaiti Wurouzimaimaiti, whose monthly subsidy rose from 150 yuan in 2012 to over 2,000 yuan since 2016. Township Party Secretary Ma Xiaoliang said the government implemented a "Seven Small Projects" to boost guards' incomes through livestreaming, homestays, and other sidelines, with local tourism generating over 16 million yuan last year. The guards describe improving conditions—better roads, new outposts with satellite phones and oxygen equipment—and frame their duty as protecting their homes and livelihoods. The report emphasizes their patriotic dedication, including the legacy of "People's Model" Burumahan Maoleduo, who carved over 100,000 "China stones" along the border. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations topics are mentioned.
Summary: Chinese public security cyber departments recently cracked three cases of online public-opinion extortion targeting the film and television industry, arresting 24 suspects. The criminal gangs allegedly used social media accounts to fabricate negative information about popular dramas, variety shows, and celebrities, pressuring victims into paying for "drama protection" services. Cases in Hangzhou, Fuzhou, and Heyuan involved different tactics, including AI-manipulated accounts and hired writers, to generate negative buzz and demand payments for deleting posts. A公安部 cyberspace official stated such organized extortion seriously disrupts network order and constitutes illegal activity, vowing continued crackdowns. The announcement also urged netizens to engage rationally and help foster a clean online environment.
Summary: The Ministry of Justice released six model cases on regulating administrative law enforcement involving enterprises, covering regions including Hainan, Zhejiang, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Shanxi. The cases address issues such as unclear regulatory boundaries and inconsistent enforcement standards, with examples like Haikou clarifying "interlaced land" jurisdiction to reduce burdens and Wuxi using digital tools for smarter inspections. The Ministry stated it will deepen these efforts, strengthen coordination and supervision, and promote long-term normalization of standardized enforcement to support business operations.
Summary: On August 16, the Chenni Road community in Zhuangshi Street, Zhenhai District, Ningbo, Zhejiang, organized a summer cooling-off activity for residents. The event featured traditional folk customs, including intangible cultural heritage shadow puppetry, alongside a fun watermelon-eating contest, which proved popular with attendees. A photograph by Hu Xuejun (People's Vision) depicts residents and children watching the shadow play at the community sports field. This initiative reflects local-level community engagement and the promotion of cultural heritage in everyday life.
Summary: The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and the National Supervisory Commission (NSC), with approval from the CCP Central Committee, have concluded an investigation into Xu Yiding, former Vice President of the Agricultural Development Bank of China. Xu was found to have violated Party discipline, including accepting gifts and banquets, abusing his power in loan approvals and personnel matters, and engaging in large-scale power-for-money transactions. The CCDI determined his actions constituted serious duty violations and suspected bribery, noting he failed to restrain himself after the 18th Party Congress. Consequently, he has been expelled from the Party and public office, with his illegal gains confiscated and his case transferred to prosecutors for criminal review.
Summary: Beijing's consumer association recently summoned 20 children's bedding manufacturers over product safety violations found in comparative testing, including missing warning labels, hazardous substance超标, and structural hazards. One sample showed chromium and lead levels exceeding standards by over 2 and 10 times respectively. Fifteen samples lacked complete warning labels, and three bunk beds plus two multifunctional cribs failed safety requirements. The association ordered immediate sales suspensions, comprehensive self-inspections against national standards, and long-term quality control mechanisms. Companies must submit rectification reports within 10 working days.
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Summary: The 13th National Acrobatics Exhibition concluded in Guangxi, featuring eight full-length productions and 45 individual acts across Nanning and Beihai, showcasing innovation in blending technique with artistry. The event, co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region government, attracted around 26,000 in-person attendees and over 12 million livestream views. Officials emphasized the exhibition’s cultural benefit initiatives, including subsidized tickets and outdoor performances, to bring acrobatics to broader audiences and boost local cultural tourism. A Guangxi culture and tourism department official noted the event served both as a platform for acrobatic exchange and a driver of regional travel consumption via performance-linked discounts. No references to the United States or U.S.-China relations appear in the article.
Summary: The article reports that after the FAST telescope project won the 2025 National Science and Technology Progress Award (First Class) on July 8, tourist numbers at its site in Pingtang County, Guizhou, surged past 220,000 in July, up over 10% year-on-year. Students like sixth-grader Wang Yubiao visited to see the world's largest and most sensitive single-dish radio telescope, and a new eighth-grade Chinese textbook lesson titled "There's a 'Nan Rendong Star' in the Sky" now honors the late chief scientist Nan Rendong. Brazilian journalist Mao Lu, who toured the site, praised China's scientific investment for building the telescope capable of detecting such distant signals. Local authorities have developed 48 research courses and 18 travel routes, hosting over 300 science activities for more than 12,000 students this summer. Pingtang County's deputy culture and tourism bureau chief Yang Li said research tourism has become a local brand, with plans to further expand science education and facilities.
Summary: The article reports on the opening of the "Light of Chinese Civilization—Henan Cultural Relics and Treasures Exhibition" at the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum. Curated by the Henan Museum and hosted by the Xinjiang museum, the exhibition features 135 sets of artifacts spanning from the 21st century BC to the 12th century AD. It is structured into two thematic sections, "Formation of the State" and "Craftsmanship Techniques," to illustrate the evolution of Chinese civilization. The exhibition is part of the museum's deepened inter-institutional exchanges and is timed to coincide with Xinjiang's peak tourism season. This initiative aims to promote deep integration of culture and tourism through high-quality cultural offerings.
Summary: The article reports that the Second Qilian Mountain Symphony Concert was held at Shandan Horse Farm in Zhangye, Gansu Province, featuring musicians from the Gansu Symphony Orchestra performing works inspired by the natural scenery, history, and folk customs of the Qilian Mountains and Hexi Corridor. No official statements or U.S.-related topics are mentioned.
Summary: The article reports that Shenyang Palace Museum will mark the centennial of its founding in 2026, and has launched an exhibition titled "Treasures of Mountains and Rivers" featuring 100 artifacts from its collection. The museum originated as the Northeast Provincial Museum in 1926, the first public museum in Northeast China, opening to the public in 1929. The exhibits span calligraphy, paintings, ceramics, jade, lacquerware, ancient books, and glassware, including notable Ming and Qing dynasty pieces. Highlights include calligraphy by Zhu Yunming and paintings by Wang Shimin, Lang Shining, and Zheng Banqiao, as well as a rare Song-dynasty edition of the *Book of Rites* from the Qing imperial collection. The exhibition underscores the museum's century-long preservation of cultural heritage, with no mention of U.S. or bilateral relations.
Summary: The article reports on a new AI-driven immersive experience at the 970-year-old Yingxian Wooden Pagoda in Shanxi, allowing visitors to virtually ascend floors two through five via 3D modeling and panoramic scanning. The project, developed by the local cultural tourism company with China Unicom Shanxi, uses multi-source data collection and AI algorithms to create a high-precision digital twin for structural monitoring and disease warning. A tourist praised the experience for making visible details like plaques and inscriptions, compensating for the inability to physically climb the upper floors. Company official Sun Jiajun explained that the digital model enables real-time tracking of settlement, tilt, and wood aging, supporting preventive conservation. The site plans to expand with themed tickets and cultural products, though no mention is made of U.S. or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Chinese localities have implemented various measures to protect outdoor workers from summer heat, including high-tech cooling gear like solar-powered fan hats and cleaning robots in cities such as Xiamen and Hangzhou. Union rest stations and volunteer-run supply points offering free water and cool-down amenities have been established across Shanghai and Henan's Yucheng County, creating "15-minute cooling service circles." Many regions have adopted flexible work schedules, with cities like Mianyang and Alxa adjusting shifts to avoid peak heat hours, and construction sites in Alxa mandated to halt heavy outdoor work during the hottest periods. Officials including Yucheng County's union head Tang Yajie and sanitation center director Zhang Hong emphasized ongoing supervision and support for workers, while Alxa's urban-rural development bureau underscored strict enforcement of staggered work rules. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights various measures across Chinese cities to protect outdoor workers from summer heat, emphasizing technological tools like smart cleaning robots and cooling fans in Xiamen and Hangzhou, and service upgrades such as rest stations in Shanghai and Yucheng. It also mentions flexible scheduling in Mianyang and Alxa to reduce heatstroke risks. The piece calls for more refined and humane governance policies to support frontline laborers. No U.S. or bilateral relations are discussed.
Summary: The article reports that China's State Administration for Market Regulation has released 10 typical cases of implementing the fair competition review system to advance the construction of a unified national market. Various provincial and municipal market regulators, including those in Beijing, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Sichuan, and Yunnan, have adopted innovative measures such as cross-regional mutual reviews, AI-based smart review platforms, local legislation, and specialized review teams. These efforts aim to eliminate local protectionism and market segmentation while strengthening the rigidity of fair competition review. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that Anhui Province's development and reform commission, culture and tourism department, health commission, and traditional Chinese medicine administration jointly issued a 2026–2028 action plan to integrate TCM wellness with cultural tourism. The plan designates pilot zones in cities including Hefei, Bozhou, and Huangshan, aiming to establish about 20 trial scenarios and support Huangshan in creating a provincial medical-wellness integration pilot area. By the end of 2028, it targets cultivating themed wellness lodging and establishing 100 studios for renowned TCM practitioners and specialty nursing techniques. It also proposes building a digital wellness platform connecting government, enterprises, and industry to offer services such as online booking, health consultation, and product traceability. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A one-year-old girl in Shenzhen developed severe encephalitis after playing in her residential complex, caused by contact with an African giant snail. The snail, an invasive species, is a host for the rat lungworm parasite, which can cause eosinophilic meningitis or meningoencephalitis in humans. Zhang Weiwei, a deputy chief physician at the Guangxi CDC, warned that direct contact with the snail or its mucus and feces poses serious health risks. He advised washing exposed skin with soap and running water, disinfecting wounds, and seeking medical attention if fever or headache develops. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In Jiangxi Province's Fengcheng City, volunteers taught calligraphy to children at a summer public托管 class in the Jianguang subdistrict. The city utilized party-mass service centers and新时代文明实践 stations to offer activities in science, art, reading, and safety. The program aims to enrich children's summer vacation experiences. No official statements or U.S.-related topics were mentioned in the article.
Summary: Macau Chief Executive Sam Hou-fai convened a government meeting to accelerate urban renewal, calling it a key livelihood issue tied to the city's image, security, and new economic growth, and a priority for Macau's "Third Five-Year Plan." He proposed a model combining government guidance, market operation, district-specific approaches, and integrated redevelopment and revitalization. Sam established a "Promoting Urban Renewal Leading Group" under his own leadership, with two working groups headed by Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheong and Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raymond Tam. He emphasized selecting pilot areas, improving planning, and strengthening legal and resource support to create demonstration cases and enhance Macau's modern, international image.
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Summary: The article reports that China's new Ecological Environment Code, effective August 15, mandates coordinated ecological protection and restoration of major river basins including the Yellow River, which has achieved 27 consecutive years of continuous flow since 1999. It features three hydrological stations along the river, where officials including Li Peiyan of the Maduo team, Liu Jinyang of the Longmen station, and Xing Xijin of the Lijin station described technological upgrades, improved monitoring accuracy, and ecological gains such as rising lake levels and wetland biodiversity. Zhou Kangjun of the Yellow River Water Conservancy Commission detailed the shift from unregulated water use to unified national water allocation and dual controls on total usage and flow. The commission's international cooperation deputy director Si Quan noted that the "three Yellow Rivers" system—physical, model, and digital twin—has transformed governance from experience-based to data-driven prediction. The commission stated it will continue prioritizing ecological protection and green development across the basin from source to estuary.
Summary: The Supreme People's Court released six typical cases on the judicial protection of the marine ecological environment. These cases aim to demonstrate the role of maritime adjudication in safeguarding national maritime rights, protecting the marine environment, and promoting green development, while also supporting the implementation of the Ecological Environment Code. The cases cover ship pollution, land-based pollution, management of marine nature reserves, and protection of rare aquatic life in exclusive economic zones. The courts emphasized integrated liability determination and coordinated restoration across regions, applying the principle of "land-sea coordination and systematic governance." Notable rulings include confirming compensation for compound marine and atmospheric pollution and mandating restoration for multi-tiered "soil-tidal flat-offshore" damage from land-based leaks.
Summary: The article reports that China's Ministry of Natural Resources issued new interim regulations on temporary sea use, replacing the previous rules. The 20-article document introduces three management innovations: categorized management (requiring permits, filing only, or prohibition), streamlined approval procedures, and strengthened whole-chain oversight. It specifies that activities like marine cultural tourism and ecological restoration may only need filing, while reclamation and long-term uses are barred from temporary status. The regulations mandate integration with the national "one map" land-sea planning system and require removal of structures and ecological restoration after use. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's state-owned resource recycling firm, China Resources Recycling, has launched the remanufacturing of 25 retired wind turbines in Jiuquan, marking the country's first batch-scale cascade utilization project for decommissioned wind turbines. The turbines, all over 15 years old, were refurbished through self-developed repair and enhancement processes, with performance of some core components approaching new products. The project aims to raise the comprehensive utilization rate of retired turbines from 30% to 70%, offering a replicable model for high-value recycling. Project head Jiang Dong said the initiative replaces crude disposal methods with refined dismantling and reuse, boosting economic value. No U.S.-related topics were mentioned.
Summary: Hunan Province's Department of Ecology and Environment issued a revised provincial reward measure for reporting environmental violations. The new measure grants rewards upon verification, with a maximum of 500,000 yuan for leads that lead to case filing. It expands the reward scope to cover all ecological violations subject to provincial-level administrative penalties, increasing key reward items from 27 to 31. The revision also adds a catch-all clause and channels reports through the 12345 hotline and petition systems. Four tiered reward mechanisms are established, including immediate verification rewards and additional rewards for penalties.
Summary: A report from Sanya, Hainan, highlights the successful captive breeding of 12 critically endangered blue-snout guitarfish pups, a practice deemed world-leading for the species' conservation. The species' wild population has declined over 80% in the past 45 years due to habitat degradation and overfishing. The local conservation team achieved this by using a large 13,500-ton tank system and low-interference, meticulous care since 2018 to simulate their native environment. All 12 pups are healthy and independently feeding, with the breeding chain verified on-site by Zhang Jie, an Associate Researcher from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Experts concluded that the success resulted from long-term adaptation to the species' biological habits rather than forceful technological intervention.
Summary: The article reports that the first batch of artificially bred Chinese alligator hatchlings this year emerged successfully in Anhui Province, marking the start of the集中 hatching period. A keeper discovered the newborn on August 14, measuring about 20 cm with healthy black-and-yellow stripes. The reserve had completed pre-breeding preparations, including disinfection and temperature control, to improve egg fertilization success. Staff will continue monitoring remaining eggs, care for hatchlings, and optimize breeding techniques for future wild release.
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Summary: A weekly Chinese wrestling (撂跤) gathering takes place every Sunday morning at the "Jiaochang Pocket Park" in Hongqiao District, Tianjin, drawing crowds of up to 200 spectators. The site, historically a canal dock where laborers practiced the sport, was upgraded in 2025 through a municipal renovation project to feature a professional wrestling mat and tiered seating. Organized by the volunteer-run "Jinyou Wrestling Club" for over 20 years, the free event attracts enthusiasts from across the country, including former provincial coach Tian Jingsheng. The practice emphasizes technique over brute force, with veterans mentoring newcomers on respect and psychological discipline. The gatherings exemplify how this traditional sport remains a vibrant part of community life, passed down through generations.
Summary: The article highlights grassroots wrestling ("liao jiao") in Tianjin, where spontaneous matches in local pocket parks draw spectators and participants of all ages and skill levels. Organized by dedicated fans for over 20 years, these free, open events attract even out-of-town enthusiasts. The piece argues that such traditional sports, rooted in community life, reflect the authentic vitality of China's cultural heritage and connect past with present.
Summary: Chinese table tennis team completed the WTT Europe Grand Smash in Sweden on August 16, winning the women's singles title and runner-up, plus the mixed doubles crown. In the women's final, Wang Manyu defeated Wang Yidi 4-2 after rallying from a 2-7 deficit in the fourth game. The team's men's singles campaign ended in the round of 16, with France's Felix Lebrun taking the title. Lin Shidong and Kuai Man successfully defended their mixed doubles title by beating Hong Kong's Wong Chun-ting and Doo Hoi-kem 3-1. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations topics were mentioned in the report.
Summary: The 2026 World Renju Team Championship, organized by the International Renju Federation, concluded in Yerevan, Armenia, with Chinese teams securing both the championship and runner-up positions. Nine teams from seven countries, including China, Armenia, Japan, Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Estonia, competed with 45 players total. After nine rounds of round-robin play, China's second team narrowly won the title, while China's first team took second place, and Japan finished third. No U.S. or bilateral relations topics were mentioned in the report.
Summary: The 2026 IFSC Asian Youth Cup concluded in Quannan County, Jiangxi, attracting 174 athletes from eight countries and regions. China topped the gold medal table with 8 gold, 6 silver, and 5 bronze medals, followed by South Korea and Japan. The local government highlighted its high-standard climbing town, where youth participation in the sport has surpassed 60%. Quannan is leveraging the event's influence to deepen the integration of sports, culture, and tourism through promotional activities and intangible heritage performances.
Summary: The 2026 China-ASEAN Pickleball Training Camp recently opened at the Santang Sports Training Base in Nanning, Guangxi. Targeting roughly 50 youth aged 11-14, the camp is divided into U12 and U14 groups. Its curriculum systematically covers basic skills, doubles training, tactical thinking, and live competition drills. The program also integrates cross-cultural exchange activities to foster regional ties.
Summary: The article reports that Bank of China's Anhui Branch is aligning with Anhui Province's "Three Places One Zone" strategic positioning at the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan period in 2026, focusing on advanced manufacturing, high-level opening-up, and green transformation. The branch reported manufacturing loan balances exceeding 170 billion yuan by June 2026, serving over 11,000 manufacturing enterprises, with tailored financing for new energy vehicle, high-end bearing, and technology firms. On the international front, the bank is providing global treasury management for automakers' overseas operations and small-currency clearing services for emerging markets including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Thailand, and Malaysia. The branch is also deploying green finance products to support wind-solar-storage integration projects and energy transition, including over 800 million yuan in loans for a Huainan project. The article positions the bank's efforts as supporting Anhui's high-quality development and the province's modernization goals under the 15th Five-Year Plan.
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Summary: The FAO and other UN agencies released the 2026 "State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World" report in Rome, showing global hunger fell for a third consecutive year to 645 million people (7.8% of the population), but progress remains fragile and uneven across regions. Africa surpassed Asia as the region with the most hungry people, totaling 309 million, while healthy diet costs have risen to $4.28 per day, leaving nearly one-third of the global population unable to afford nutritious food. FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu stated hunger is not inevitable and can be reversed through economic policies, social protections, and investment in sustainable agrifood systems. The report warns that risks including Middle East conflict disrupting fertilizer shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, El Niño-driven extreme weather, and shrinking development aid could erode gains, projecting 510-520 million people will still face hunger by 2030. Recommendations include reallocating agricultural subsidies toward nutrient-dense foods and region-specific measures to improve cold chains, logistics, and post-harvest capacity.
Summary: Ecuador's central bank reported record-breaking exports of $19.571 billion in the first half of 2025 (up 4% year-on-year), following a record full-year 2025 total of $37.152 billion (up 7.9%). Non-oil exports dominate the trade structure, with shrimp surpassing oil as the top export category (growing 10% in H1), while minerals and bananas grew 41% and 6%, respectively. Policy measures include government agency consolidation and an expanded free trade agreement network (with China, Canada, and others), which contributed to S&P's upgrade of Ecuador's sovereign rating to "B". China serves as a key growth engine, with bilateral trade reaching $17.33 billion in 2025 (up 24%); Ecuador-China Chamber president Magali Cacedo and trade official Luis Salvador credited the bilateral FTA with reshaping export strategy and plan to add blueberries and avocados to China-bound shipments. A new logistics corridor via Peru's Chancay Port has cut shipping time to Shanghai to 27 days, boosting competitiveness for perishable goods like bananas.
Summary: Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lin Jian responded at a routine press conference to Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae's remarks at the national memorial ceremony for war dead on August 15. Lin criticized Takaichi for evading "reflection" and "lessons," obscuring the guilt of aggression, and attempting to whitewash and overturn history, which has drawn widespread condemnation. He noted that Takaichi sent ritual offerings to the "war criminal shrine" and that Defense Minister Koizumi Shinjiro and other officials visited the shrine, heightening vigilance among Asian neighbors. Lin cited Japanese intellectuals who argue that a nation failing to reflect cannot gain trust and that the defense minister's actions amount to endorsing the war of aggression. Marking the 81st anniversary of China's victory in the War of Resistance and the 80th anniversary of the Tokyo Trial, Lin urged Japanese leaders to confront history, repent fully, and completely sever ties with militarism.
Summary: A report from People's Daily describes Germany experiencing another heatwave in mid-August, with temperatures nearing 40°C in many areas and the Rhine River at a historic low water level. Meteorological authorities predict that drought conditions caused by climate change will persist across parts of Germany in the near future. The article is filed by staff reporter Liu Zhonghua.
Summary: Japanese researcher Matsuno Seiya of Meiji Gakuin University reported on August 17 that he uncovered records showing Japanese Army Medical School doctors conducted human experiments during the invasion of China. The 1940 experiment at a Chiba hospital involved having mosquitoes bite ten mentally ill Japanese soldiers after feeding on blood from soldiers infected with malaria in China, causing several to develop high fevers. The records indicate that Shiro Ishii, the head of Unit 731, guided the experiment. Matsuno stated this reflects the Army Medical Corps' horrific view of treating humans as mere "research materials," similar to the inhuman acts of Unit 731. He emphasized the severe ethical problems, noting that the experiments were effectively coercive given the subjects' mental conditions.
Summary: President Trump announced on August 16 that he had ordered the Pentagon to significantly reduce the scale of U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises, citing their high cost and the "completely inappropriate and hostile signal" they send to North Korea. He expressed displeasure over the U.S. having long agreed to participate in the drills, given his "very good relationship" with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Trump said it was too late to cancel the exercises, so he directed a major reduction instead. He also noted that South Korea had recently refused his request to join the U.S. in pushing for North Korea's denuclearization. The report was filed by Xinhua correspondent Yan Liang from Washington.
Summary: A European Commission study with the University of Copenhagen assessed 862 European cities and found widespread green space shortages and "green gaps" between neighborhoods. Only 13.5% of urban residents met all three "3-30-300" green standards (visibility, canopy cover, accessibility), while 21% met none. Higher compliance clustered in northern/central Europe (e.g., Berlin, Stockholm), while southern and southeastern cities lagged, especially in tree visibility and park access. The study attributes the gaps to land competition from urban expansion, historical spatial constraints, and climate differences, as well as socioeconomic factors linking higher income with better green access. It suggests design and transport reforms—like pedestrian-friendly streets and converting idle spaces into pocket parks—can narrow the gap.
Summary: Foreign ministers from Egypt, Qatar, Jordan, the UAE, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia issued a joint statement condemning Israel's rejection of a Gaza peace plan. The statement asserts that the plan, accepted by Palestinian factions, is a key outcome of broad mediation efforts, and that Israel's public rejection fundamentally undermines collective efforts for a just and lasting peace. The ministers hold Israel directly and fully responsible for all consequences, including the deteriorating situation, and urged the United States to remain actively involved to ensure Israel's full compliance. They reiterated opposition to any unilateral actions denying Palestinian statehood, insisting that only a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as the capital can achieve a comprehensive peace. The statement follows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's August 9 rejection of the US-initiated plan, in which he declared that Israeli forces would not withdraw from Gaza until Hamas is fully disarmed.
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Summary: From August 1 to 7, a joint media interview campaign was held to highlight high-quality Belt and Road cooperation between China and Kyrgyzstan. The team, comprising People's Daily and several major Kyrgyz outlets, visited Bishkek, Chuy, and Issyk-Kul regions. They covered bilateral projects in transportation, energy, and joint archaeological and cultural exchanges. The coverage was disseminated across both countries' media and social platforms in various formats.
Summary: A Kyrgyzstan newspaper commentator recounts a joint interview trip with People's Daily reporters across Kyrgyzstan, visiting Belt and Road projects like a waste-to-energy plant, a highway, and a solar farm. He emphasizes that these initiatives form a systemic cooperation in transport, logistics, and energy, boosting Kyrgyzstan's long-term development. The author highlights the growing role of young Kyrgyz engineers, who no longer need to work abroad, and notes that China brings both technology and talent. He observes deepening bilateral ties, with Kyrgyz interest expanding to Chinese innovation, governance, and culture. The piece concludes that future cooperation will enhance trade, digital links, and people-to-people exchanges.
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Summary: Lishui city in Zhejiang province is promoting a reform to cultivate "skill-based cadres" and build a "skill-based government," aiming to enhance cadres' practical abilities to serve rural development and boost local industries. The article highlights innovations such as a popular "zongzi tea" product that combines local tea and bamboo leaves, developed by cadres in Suichang county to revitalize two signature local products. Cadres are trained through a structured skills list, practical platforms, and 354 skill service teams across townships, helping address over 20,000 urgent issues and increase incomes for 82,000 rural residents. A dual evaluation system assesses cadres on both basic performance and value-added contributions, with 173 skilled cadres promoted based on demonstrated results. As of 2025, Lishui's per capita disposable income grew 5.9% year-on-year, ranking among the fastest in Zhejiang province.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of learning and theoretical education for the Chinese Communist Party, citing Xi Jinping's "first lesson of the year" speech on improving Party leadership capabilities for the 15th Five-Year Plan period. It argues that continuous study is essential for adapting to changing circumstances, strengthening ideological conviction, and preventing "capability panic" among officials. The piece highlights that learning must be applied in practice, using "new quality productive forces" as an example of adapting theory to local conditions. It concludes that the Party's past and future success depends on persistent learning and application of Marxist theory. No reference is made to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Deeply cherish the memory of Comrade Jiang Zemin's immense contributions, and earnestly study his noble conduct, inspiring the entire Party, the military, and people of all ethnic groups across the country to continuously advance the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Through long-term efforts, the cause of the Party and the state is thriving, the land of China is stable and peaceful, the people's lives continue to improve, the prospects for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation are bright, and the dream that generations have striven for is gradually becoming reality. The entire Party, the military, and people of all ethnic groups across the country must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, strengthen confidence, and work hard with determination, making unremitting efforts to comprehensively build a strong country and advance the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization, continuously creating a better life for the Chinese people and writing a more magnificent chapter for the Chinese nation.
Beijing, August 17 (Xinhua) — The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the State Council, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Central Military Commission held a grand meeting at the Great Hall of the People on the morning of the 17th to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Jiang Zemin, a great Marxist, a great proletarian revolutionary, statesman, military strategist, and diplomat, and an outstanding leader of the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the state, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech, emphasizing that we should deeply cherish the memory of Comrade Jiang Zemin's immense contributions, earnestly study his noble conduct, and inspire the entire Party, the military, and people of all ethnic groups across the country to continuously advance the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi, members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and Han Zheng, Vice President of the state, attended the meeting.
The atmosphere in the Great Hall of the People's main auditorium was solemn and dignified. Above the rostrum hung the banner reading "Meeting Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Comrade Jiang Zemin." At the center of the backdrop was a large portrait of Comrade Jiang Zemin, with the inscription "1926–2026" below it. On the second-floor balcony hung a slogan: "Unite closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, uphold the Party's basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, and make unremitting efforts to comprehensively build a strong country and advance the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization."
At 10 a.m., the meeting began with the majestic sound of the national anthem.
Xi Jinping delivered an important speech. He pointed out that Comrade Jiang Zemin's life was a glorious life and a life of struggle. He devoted himself wholeheartedly to the struggle for national independence, the liberation of the people, the realization of national prosperity and strength, and the happiness of the people. He led and promoted the construction of socialist material civilization, political civilization, spiritual civilization, and Party building, achieving new progress that attracted worldwide attention. He made indelible contributions to defending the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, opening up a new situation of comprehensive reform and opening up, realizing the overall well-off life of the people, and successfully carrying socialism with Chinese characteristics into the 21st century, winning the heartfelt love of the entire Party, the military, and people of all ethnic groups across the country, as well as broad praise from the international community.
Xi Jinping emphasized that over more than 70 years of revolutionary career, especially in the great practice of promoting the tremendous achievements of the Party and the state after the Fourth Plenary Session of the 13th Central Committee, Comrade Jiang Zemin fully demonstrated his outstanding talent, key role, and leadership artistry as a Marxist statesman, establishing a noble conduct that is always worthy of our study and always inspires us to move forward.
Xi Jinping pointed out that Comrade Jiang Zemin was unswervingly loyal to the communist ideal, infinitely loyal to the Party and the people, and unwaveringly fought for the cause of the Party and the people. We must learn from his rock-solid political conviction, remain true to our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind, strengthen our belief in Marxism, our conviction in communism, and our confidence in socialism with Chinese characteristics, uphold the Party's basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, and consciously enhance the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthen the "Four Confidences," and achieve the "Two Upholds." We must uphold the Party's overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, persistently advance full and rigorous Party self-governance, and ensure that the Party always remains the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Xi Jinping emphasized that Comrade Jiang Zemin always stood on the side of the people, cared about the safety and well-being of the people, and deployed and promoted work from the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people. We must learn from his sincere and profound feelings for the people, bear in mind that the country is the people and the people are the country, adhere to the people-centered development philosophy, establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, firmly stand on the people's side, strengthen the awareness of being public servants, follow the Party's mass line in the new era, rely on the people to create historic achievements, and make solid progress in promoting the all-round development of the people and common prosperity for all.
Xi Jinping pointed out that Comrade Jiang Zemin adhered to emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, and keeping pace with the times, conforming to the requirements of the times and the needs of practical development, and continuously promoted theoretical innovation, institutional innovation, scientific and technological innovation, cultural innovation, and innovation in all other aspects. We must learn from his spirit of innovation in keeping pace with the times, adhere to combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with China's excellent traditional culture, and continuously open up new realms of adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times. We must further deepen reform and opening up in an all-round way, advance the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, stimulate the creative vitality of the entire Party and society, and provide a steady stream of momentum for economic and social development.
Xi Jinping emphasized that Comrade Jiang Zemin was far-sighted, assessed the situation, was good at observing and thinking about problems from the general trend of China and the world and from the overall work of the Party and the state, and promoted the development of the cause of the Party and the state through a series of major decisions and important measures that faced the world and looked to the future. We must learn from his far-sighted strategic thinking, coordinate the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the major changes unseen in a century in the world, oversee the great struggle, the great project, the great cause, and the great dream, coordinate the promotion of the "Five-sphere Integrated" overall plan and the coordinated advancement of the "Four-pronged Comprehensive" strategic plan, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, and solidly promote high-quality development. We must promote the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, and inject more positive energy into world peace and development.
Xi Jinping pointed out that Comrade Jiang Zemin was courageous in making decisive decisions at major historical junctures and critical moments, calmly responded to risks and challenges, resolutely overcame difficulties and obstacles, and opened up broad space and created a favorable environment for modernization. We must learn from his resolute and courageous extraordinary boldness, strengthen our awareness of potential dangers, establish bottom-line thinking, better coordinate development and security, actively respond to major tests of high winds and rough waves, or even violent storms, with tenacious fighting spirit and superb fighting skills, resolutely defend national sovereignty, security, and development interests, and continue to write a new chapter in the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability.
Xi Jinping emphasized that through long-term efforts, the cause of the Party and the state is thriving, the land of China is stable and peaceful, the people's lives continue to improve, the prospects for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation are bright, and the dream that generations have striven for is gradually becoming reality. The entire Party, the military, and people of all ethnic groups across the country must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, strengthen confidence, and work hard with determination, making unremitting efforts to comprehensively build a strong country and advance the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization, continuously creating a better life for the Chinese people and writing a more magnificent chapter for the Chinese nation. (Full text of the speech on page 2)
Li Qiang, while presiding over the meeting, pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech reviewed Comrade Jiang Zemin's glorious and fighting life, highly evaluated the immortal contributions Comrade Jiang Zemin made to the Party and the people, systematically summarized Comrade Jiang Zemin's noble conduct, and emphasized the need to earnestly study Comrade Jiang Zemin's rock-solid political conviction, sincere and profound feelings for the people, spirit of innovation in keeping pace with the times, far-sighted strategic thinking, and resolute and courageous extraordinary boldness. The speech has strong political significance, ideological depth, and guiding value. We must deeply study and understand it, implement it thoroughly, unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," enhance the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthen the "Four Confidences," and achieve the "Two Upholds," and make unremitting efforts to comprehensively build a strong country and advance the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.
The meeting concluded with the solemn sound of the "Internationale."
Also attending the meeting were: Wang Yi, Yin Li, Shi Taifeng, Liu Guozhong, Li Ganjie, Li Shulei, Li Hongzhong, He Lifeng, Zhang Guoqing, Chen Wenqing, Wen Jiabao, Jia Qinglin, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Li Lanqing, Zeng Qinghong, Li Changchun, He Guoqiang, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan, Zhang Gaoli, leading comrades of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the State Council, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the Central Military Commission, and comrades who have retired from leadership positions.
Responsible comrades of the central Party, government, military, and mass organizations departments and of Beijing Municipality, responsible persons of the central committees of democratic parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and representatives of non-party personages, members of the Central Committee and alternate members of the Central Committee in Beijing, members of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and members of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing, representatives of retired cadres and old comrades, relatives of Comrade Jiang Zemin, former staff members and representatives from his hometown, representatives attending the seminar on Jiang Zemin's life and thought, representatives from all walks of life in the capital, and representatives of officers and soldiers stationed in Beijing, totaling about 6,000 people, attended the meeting.
Before the meeting began, Xi Jinping and other leading comrades cordially met with the relatives of Comrade Jiang Zemin and had a group photo taken with them.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 17 — On August 17, President Xi Jinping sent a message of condolence to Indonesian President Prabowo over the strong earthquake that struck Indonesia.
Xi Jinping stated that he was shocked to learn of the strong earthquake in your country, which caused severe casualties and property losses. On behalf of the Chinese government and the Chinese people, he expressed condolences to the victims and extended sincere sympathy to the families of the victims and the injured. He expressed belief that under the leadership of the Indonesian government headed by President Prabowo, the Indonesian people will surely overcome the disaster at an early date and rebuild their homeland.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Baku, August 17 (Reporter Zhou Liang) — The launch event for the first Azerbaijani-language version of the program Xi Jinping's Cultural Connections, translated and produced by China Media Group (中央广播电视总台), was recently held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
Xi Jinping's Cultural Connections selects vivid stories of President Xi Jinping's dedication to the inheritance and development of culture, presenting his profound reflection that "when culture prospers, the nation's fortunes prosper; when culture is strong, the nation is strong" (文化兴国运兴，文化强民族强), as well as his deep sentiment for cherishing cultural heritage and continuing the historical lineage, explaining to international audiences the essence of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture and the profound cultural foundation of President Xi Jinping's philosophy of governance.
Chinese Ambassador to Azerbaijan Lu Mei (鲁梅) said in her speech at the event that the launch of Xi Jinping's Cultural Connections in Azerbaijan marks a new level in China-Azerbaijan media cooperation and will help Azerbaijani audiences gain a deeper understanding of the core essence of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture and perceive the profound cultural heritage in which President Xi Jinping's governance philosophy is rooted.
Yefendiyeva, Deputy Chair of the Culture Committee of the Azerbaijan National Assembly, said that both Azerbaijan and China possess long histories, and that beyond many other bonds, today the two countries are also closely connected by their shared commitment to the protection of cultural heritage. The broadcast of Xi Jinping's Cultural Connections in Azerbaijan is of extremely important significance.
After the event, the Culture Channel of Azerbaijan State Television and Radio Company and Azerbaijan's ARB24 television channel successively broadcast the program.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 17 — Upon approval by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Selected Works of Jiang Zemin on Diplomacy, jointly compiled by the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央党史和文献研究院) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国外交部), has been published by the Central Party Literature Press (中央文献出版社) and is now distributed nationwide.
Selected Works of Jiang Zemin on Diplomacy contains Comrade Jiang Zemin's important works on diplomatic affairs from July 1989 to July 2003, comprising 115 reports, speeches, talks, addresses, letters, replies to questions, inscriptions, and other items, totaling approximately 320,000 characters, some of which are published for the first time.
Selected Works of Jiang Zemin on Diplomacy centrally reflects Comrade Jiang Zemin's important thinking and outstanding contributions in the theory and practice of socialist diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. The compilation and publication of this collection is of great significance for cadres and the masses to systematically study the Party's history of leading the new period of reform and opening up and socialist modernization, to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, to enhance the consciousness and resolve in studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy, and to strive to open up a new situation in China's diplomatic work in the new era.
Return to TopBy: 习近平
Comrades and friends,
Today, we gather in solemn ceremony to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Comrade Jiang Zemin, to deeply recall his magnificent achievements, to earnestly study his lofty character, and to inspire the entire Party, the entire military, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to continuously advance the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Comrade Jiang Zemin was a distinguished leader of high prestige recognized by the entire Party, the entire military, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, a great Marxist, a great proletarian revolutionary, statesman, military strategist, and diplomat, a tested communist fighter, an outstanding leader of the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the core of the Party's third generation of central collective leadership, and the principal founder of the important thought of Three Represents.
One hundred years ago today, Comrade Jiang Zemin was born into a patriotic intellectual family in Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. From his youth, he was determined to pursue truth and actively participated in patriotic progressive student movements. He joined the Communist Party of China in April 1946, and from then on devoted his entire life to the cause of the Party and the people.
After the founding of New China, Comrade Jiang Zemin successively worked in enterprises, scientific research institutions, and central government ministries and commissions. In every post he fulfilled his duties with dedication and diligence, devoting his vigorous years to the cause of socialist revolution and construction. During the early period of reform and opening up, Comrade Jiang Zemin served as Deputy Director and Secretary-General of the State Import and Export Administration Commission and the State Foreign Investment Administration Commission, and later as First Deputy Minister and then Minister of the Ministry of Electronics Industry, doing a great deal of pioneering work in reform and opening up. At the Twelfth National Congress of the Party, he was elected as a member of the Central Committee.
In 1985, Comrade Jiang Zemin became Deputy Secretary and Mayor of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee. In 1987, at the First Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and became Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee. During this period, Comrade Jiang Zemin led the cadres and masses of Shanghai to uplift their spirits and dare to explore, directed the formulation of Shanghai's economic development plan and urban construction plan, promoted the strategic preparation for the development and opening up of Pudong, and made outstanding contributions to advancing Shanghai's reform, opening up, and socialist modernization. In the spring and summer of 1989, when a serious political disturbance occurred in our country, Comrade Jiang Zemin resolutely supported and implemented the correct decisions of the Party Central Committee and effectively maintained stability in Shanghai.
In June 1989, Comrade Jiang Zemin was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau and General Secretary of the Central Committee at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee. In November of the same year, the Fifth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee decided that he would serve as Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, forming the Party's third generation of central collective leadership with Comrade Jiang Zemin at its core.
During the 13 years from the Fourth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee to the Sixteenth National Congress of the Party, the international situation was complex and volatile, and the course of our country's reform, opening up, and socialist modernization was magnificent. Comrade Jiang Zemin led the Party's central collective leadership, holding high the great banners of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, and Deng Xiaoping Theory, adhering unwaveringly to the Party's basic line, relying closely on the entire Party, the entire military, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, unswervingly upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, and opening up a new situation in our country's reform, opening up, and socialist modernization.
While preparing for the Sixteenth National Congress of the Party, Comrade Jiang Zemin proactively proposed not to continue serving in central leadership positions, and in 2004 proactively resigned from his positions as Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Party and the State. After stepping down from leadership positions, Comrade Jiang Zemin resolutely supported and endorsed the work of the Party Central Committee, cared about the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and firmly supported the construction of Party conduct and integrity and the fight against corruption.
Comrades and friends,
Comrade Jiang Zemin's life was a glorious life, a life of struggle. He devoted himself entirely to striving for national independence, people's liberation, and the realization of national prosperity and people's happiness, working tirelessly until his last breath. He led and promoted the construction of socialist material civilization, political civilization, spiritual civilization, and Party building, achieving new progress that attracted worldwide attention. He made indelible contributions to defending the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, opening up a new situation of comprehensive reform and opening up, achieving an overall well-off life for the people, and successfully bringing socialism with Chinese characteristics into the twenty-first century, winning the heartfelt love of the entire Party, the entire military, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, and broad acclaim from the international community.
Comrades and friends,
In his revolutionary career of more than 70 years, especially in the great practice of promoting the tremendous achievements of the Party and the country's cause after the Fourth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee, Comrade Jiang Zemin fully demonstrated his outstanding talent, key role, and leadership artistry as a Marxist statesman, establishing a lofty character that is forever worth learning from and forever inspires us to advance.
— We must learn from Comrade Jiang Zemin's rock-solid political conviction. Comrade Jiang Zemin was unwaveringly loyal to the communist ideal, infinitely loyal to the Party and the people, and unswervingly fought for the cause of the Party and the people. He said: "The fundamental political conviction of us communists is socialism and communism, and our worldview is Marxist dialectical materialism and historical materialism; this cannot be shaken in the slightest at any time." When he was entrusted with major leadership positions of the Party and the military at a critical moment, he stated that regarding the line and basic policies adopted since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, "two sentences must be stated very clearly: one is to be firm and unswerving, without the slightest wavering; the other is to implement comprehensively and consistently." "For the cause of the Party and the people, I will devote myself entirely to it, working until my last breath." Facing the major test of volatile international changes in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the serious political disturbance at home, he unwaveringly adhered to economic construction as the central task, clearly upheld the Four Cardinal Principles, adhered to reform and opening up, carried out rectification and consolidation, conducted diplomatic struggles, and resolutely safeguarded the country's independence, dignity, security, and stability. He profoundly summarized domestic and international lessons and experiences, emphasizing that to govern the country well, one must first govern the Party well, and that governing the Party must be strict; the more reform and opening up and economic development progress, the more necessary it is to strengthen Party leadership and Party building. He proposed that our Party is always the vanguard of the Chinese working class, and at the same time the vanguard of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, emphasizing that leading cadres must stress study, stress politics, and stress integrity, promoting efforts to solve the two major historical issues of improving leadership and governance capacity and enhancing the ability to resist corruption, prevent degeneration, and withstand risks, maintaining the Party's advanced nature and purity, and solidly advancing the great new project of Party building.
On the new journey, we must not forget our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind, strengthen our belief in Marxism, our conviction in communism, and our confidence in socialism with Chinese characteristics, adhere to the Party's basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, consciously enhance the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthen the "Four Confidences," and achieve the "Two Upholds." We must uphold the Party's overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, persistently advance strict governance of the Party in all respects, and ensure that the Party always remains the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
— We must learn from Comrade Jiang Zemin's sincere and profound affection for the people. Comrade Jiang Zemin always stood on the people's side, cared about the people's safety and well-being, and deployed and promoted work from the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people. He emphasized: "Wholeheartedly serving the people, building the Party for the public, and governing for the people are the fundamental differences between our Party and all exploiting-class parties." "Under any circumstances and at any time, the stance of breathing the same air, sharing the same fate, and keeping heart and soul together with the people must not change; the purpose of wholeheartedly serving the people must not be forgotten; and the historical materialist viewpoint of firmly believing that the masses are the true heroes must not be discarded." He profoundly pointed out that the fundamental purpose of economic development is to improve the living standards and quality of life of the people, and emphasized the need to comprehensively build a higher-level well-off society benefiting more than a billion people. He required Party members and cadres to always harbor love for the people, faithfully fulfill their responsibilities to the people, be adept at devising policies to enrich the people, and do more things that benefit the people, realizing, safeguarding, and developing the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people, and guiding, protecting, and giving play to the enthusiasm of the people. He led the implementation of the Western Development Strategy and the National Eight-Seven Poverty Alleviation Plan, and introduced policies and measures to increase farmers' income and to care for the livelihood and reemployment of laid-off workers in state-owned enterprises, effectively promoting the historic leap in the new period from inadequate food and clothing to an overall well-off life and toward a comprehensively well-off society.
On the new journey, we must remember that the country is the people and the people are the country, adhere to the people-centered development philosophy, establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, firmly stand on the people's side, strengthen our awareness of being public servants, follow the Party's mass line well in the new era, rely on the people to create historic achievements, and make solid progress in promoting people's all-round development and common prosperity for all the people.
— We must learn from Comrade Jiang Zemin's innovative spirit of advancing with the times. Comrade Jiang Zemin adhered to emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, and advancing with the times, and in response to the requirements of the times and the needs of practical development, continuously promoted theoretical innovation, institutional innovation, scientific and technological innovation, cultural innovation, and innovation in all other aspects. He emphasized: "Innovation is the soul of a nation's progress, an inexhaustible motive force for a country's prosperity, and also a source of a political party's eternal vitality." "We must take the practical problems of our country's reform, opening up, and modernization as well as what we are doing as the center, focus on the application of Marxist theory, focus on theoretical thinking about practical problems, and focus on new practices and new developments." He proposed that all the Party's theories and work should reflect the characteristics of the times, grasp the laws of development, and be full of creativity, and that the Party should pool the wisdom of the whole Party to create the important thought of Three Represents, emphasizing that our Party must always represent the development demands of China's advanced productive forces, represent the forward direction of China's advanced culture, and represent the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the Chinese people, further answering the question of what socialism is and how to build socialism, creatively answering the question of what kind of Party to build and how to build it, and deepening our understanding of the laws of advancing the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and strengthening Party building under new conditions of the times. He led us in defining the Party's basic program for the primary stage of socialism, establishing the reform goals and basic framework of the socialist market economy system, establishing the basic economic system with public ownership as the mainstay and diverse forms of ownership developing together, and the distribution system with distribution according to work as the mainstay and multiple modes of distribution coexisting, and promoting reforms in the economic system, political system, cultural system, and other aspects. He proposed adhering to the combination of "bringing in" and "going global," promoting reform and development through opening up, led us in successfully joining the World Trade Organization, and formed a new pattern of opening up to the outside world.
On the new journey, we must adhere to combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with China's excellent traditional culture, scientifically answering the questions of China, the questions of the world, the questions of the people, and the questions of the times, continuously opening up new realms of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism, and always maintaining the vigorous vitality and exuberant energy of Marxism. We must further comprehensively deepen reform and opening up, advance the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, stimulate the creative vitality of the entire Party and society, and inject an inexhaustible driving force into economic and social development.
— We must learn from Comrade Jiang Zemin's far-sighted strategic thinking. Comrade Jiang Zemin had broad vision and assessed the situation judiciously, was adept at observing and thinking about problems from the general trend of China's and the world's development and from the overall situation of the Party's and the country's work, and promoted the development of the Party's and the country's cause through a series of major decisions and important measures oriented toward the world and focused on the future. He emphasized: "All comrades in the Party must observe the world with the broad vision of Marxism. The so-called broad vision means, first, having a far-reaching historical perspective, and second, having a global overall perspective." "We must correctly understand the major changes that have occurred in our society and in the world today, correctly understand the major changes that have occurred in the working and living conditions and social environment of the broad masses of Party members, cadres, and the people, correctly understand the new tasks, new issues, and new challenges that these changes have posed to the development of the Party's and the country's cause, and strengthen research on overall, strategic, and forward-looking major theoretical and practical issues." Proceeding from the major judgment that the first 20 years of the twenty-first century are an important period of strategic opportunity that our country must firmly grasp and in which much can be accomplished, he made forward-looking plans for comprehensively building a well-off society and achieving the third-step strategic goal; proposed the basic policy of seizing opportunities, deepening reform, expanding opening up, promoting development, and maintaining stability; comprehensively expounded on correctly handling the twelve major relationships in socialist modernization; adhered to taking development as the Party's top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country, leading the entire Party, the entire military, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to concentrate on construction and devote themselves wholeheartedly to development; led us in actively developing socialist democratic politics, implementing the basic strategy of governing the country according to law, and developing advanced socialist culture; presided over the formulation of the military strategic policy for the new period, advanced military transformation with Chinese characteristics, and strengthened the revolutionization, modernization, and regularization of the people's military; led the smooth return of Hong Kong and Macao, promoted the two sides of the Taiwan Strait to reach the "1992 Consensus" embodying the One-China principle, and vigorously carried out major struggles against separatism and against "Taiwan independence"; and proposed a series of diplomatic and international strategic thoughts, promoting the development of multipolarization and economic globalization in the correct direction.
On the new journey, we must coordinate the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the major changes unseen in a century in the world, coordinate the great struggle, the great project, the great cause, and the great dream, comprehensively advance the "Five-sphere Integrated" overall plan, coordinate the advancement of the "Four Comprehensives" strategic plan, completely, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, and solidly promote high-quality development. We must adhere to the foreign policy purpose of safeguarding world peace and promoting common development, promote the implementation of the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, and inject more positive energy into world peace and development.
— We must learn from Comrade Jiang Zemin's resolute and courageous extraordinary boldness. Comrade Jiang Zemin was brave in making decisive decisions at major historical junctures and critical moments, calmly responding to risks and challenges, resolutely overcoming difficulties and obstacles, and opening up broad space and creating a favorable environment for modernization. He pointed out: "To succeed in the cause of modernization, one must have an iron will that fears no difficulty and fights tenaciously, and a heroic spirit that is unyielding and dares to win." "For matters that conform to the Party's line, principles, and policies and the requirements of the Central Committee, once they are clearly identified, decisions must be made decisively and carried out with vigor and dispatch, and one must never be indecisive or delay the opportunity." With strong historical responsibility and tremendous political courage, he led us in properly handling major hidden dangers that threatened the stability of the country's political situation, calmly responding to a series of international emergencies related to our country's sovereignty and security, overcoming difficulties and risks in the political, economic, and natural realms, especially successfully withstanding the impact of the Asian financial crisis, achieving a comprehensive victory in the 1998 flood rescue and relief efforts, withstanding test after test, eliminating disturbances of all kinds, maintaining overall social stability, and ensuring that the ship of reform, opening up, and socialist modernization broke through the waves and sailed steadily and far.
On the new journey, we must strengthen our awareness of potential dangers, establish bottom-line thinking, better coordinate development and security, actively respond to major tests of high winds and rough waves or even violent storms with tenacious fighting spirit and superb fighting skills, resolutely defend national sovereignty, security, and development interests, and write a new chapter in the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability.
Comrades and friends,
Comrade Jiang Zemin once looked to the future with full confidence: "In the new century, the Chinese people will unswervingly continue to advance along the path of building socialism with Chinese characteristics. The socialist system of China will become more consolidated and improved through continuous reform. China's development will achieve universal prosperity through the common progress of all regions. The Chinese nation will achieve great rejuvenation on the basis of completing national reunification and building a prosperous, strong, democratic, and culturally advanced modern socialist country!" Today, we can say with immense pride that through long-term efforts, the cause of the Party and the country is flourishing, the land of China is peaceful and harmonious, the people's lives are continuously improving, the prospects for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation are bright, and the dream that generations have striven for is gradually becoming a reality.
"Every scene of splendor is born of hardship; all things in the world come from toil." This was Comrade Jiang Zemin's interpretation of struggle in bold poetic lines. The entire Party, the entire military, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, strengthen confidence, and strive to become stronger, making unremitting efforts to comprehensively build a strong country and advance the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization, continuously creating a better life for the Chinese people and writing a more magnificent chapter for the Chinese nation.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 17)
Return to TopBEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) — China Post issued on August 17 a set of 2 commemorative stamps and 1 souvenir sheet to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Jiang Zemin. The stamp designs respectively depict: Comrade Jiang Zemin in Shanghai, and Comrade Jiang Zemin at the Fifteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The souvenir sheet design depicts: Comrade Jiang Zemin waving to the mass parade procession from the Tiananmen Rostrum.
The commemorative stamps and souvenir sheet were designed respectively by Xing Wenwei (邢文伟) and Yin Xiaofei (尹晓飞), and printed by Beijing Stamp Factory Co., Ltd. (北京邮票厂有限公司) using photogravure. The face value of the complete set of commemorative stamps is 2.40 yuan, with a planned print run of 4 million sets. The face value of the souvenir sheet is 6 yuan, with a planned print run of 3.2 million pieces.
The commemorative stamps and souvenir sheet will be sold at designated postal outlets nationwide, the philately online hall, the China Post mobile client, and other channels, with a sales period of 6 months.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, August 17 (reporter Wang Yunshan) — Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for Oil and Gas Development," proposing that by 2030, domestic oil and gas supply will reach 440 million tons of oil equivalent, new long-distance oil and gas transmission pipelines will total 20,000 kilometers, the scale of the national long-distance oil and gas pipeline network will reach 220,000 kilometers, natural gas reserve scale will continue to grow, accounting for more than 13% of national consumption, LNG receiving station unloading capacity will reach 200 million tons per year, and onshore pipeline natural gas import capacity will reach 114 billion cubic meters per year.
The plan clarifies that, anchoring on the two major tasks of ensuring energy security and green low-carbon development, by 2030 it will gradually build a modern oil and gas industry system featuring "continuously strengthened independent support capability, efficient connection of pipeline network transmission and distribution, sufficient and flexible reserve regulation, green and low-carbon production methods, safe, stable, and efficient operation, high-end and high-quality processing and utilization, independent breakthroughs in technological level, and flexible and diversified international cooperation."
According to the plan, in focusing on building oil and gas strategic support bases, it establishes oil and gas strategic support bases in Ordos, Bohai Bay, Sichuan-Chongqing, Tarim, Songliao, and Junggar to support the completion of domestic oil and gas production targets. In comprehensively building the oil and gas "one national network" (全国一张网), it advances the construction of the Hainan-Guangdong natural gas pipeline, ending the history of Hainan's isolated network operation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘志强
Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on August 17 show that in the first seven months, China's national economy operated generally smoothly, continuing the development trend of momentum shifting toward innovation and structure improving. At a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on the 17th, Fu Linghui, spokesperson of the National Bureau of Statistics, chief economist, and director of the Department of Comprehensive Statistics of the National Economy, and others introduced the relevant situation.
Output and consumption continued to expand.
"All regions and departments effectively implemented more proactive and effective macro policies and actively responded to internal and external risks and challenges. China's economy maintained a generally stable development trend, moving toward innovation and improvement, with resilience and vitality demonstrated." Fu Linghui introduced the main characteristics from four aspects.
Economic growth was stable, with the important manifestation being the continued expansion of output. In July, affected by short-term international and domestic factors, the growth rates of major production indicators fell somewhat compared with the previous month. However, on a cumulative basis, major production indicators from January to July maintained overall stability: the value added of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 5.3 percent year on year, and the services production index increased by 4.7 percent year on year. The trend of stable production growth has not changed.
Consumption continued to expand, playing an important role in stable economic growth. From January to July, the total retail sales of consumer goods and services increased by 2.6 percent year on year, remaining generally stable compared with the first half of the year. The total retail sales of consumer goods, mainly commodity retail, grew basically steadily, increasing by 1.2 percent from January to July.
The vitality of development was demonstrated in three aspects: industrial upgrading, digital-intelligent transformation, and foreign trade growth. The leading role of innovation was strengthened, and the trend of industrial upgrading was evident. In July, the value added of high-tech industries among industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 16.9 percent year on year; from January to July, investment in high-tech industries increased by 5 percent cumulatively. Digital-intelligent transformation advanced steadily, and the growth of emerging industries accelerated. In July, the value added of the digital products manufacturing industry increased by 17.3 percent year on year, and intelligent products such as industrial robots and robot reducers grew by more than 20 percent. Open vitality continued to strengthen, and foreign trade maintained a good growth momentum. In July, the total value of imports and exports of goods increased by 19.2 percent year on year, continuing to maintain relatively rapid growth.
Livelihood security was strong. In July, the crude oil output of industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 0.8 percent year on year, reaching a record high for the same period in history; natural gas output and power generation both maintained relatively high output levels, effectively ensuring production and living energy needs. In July, consumer prices rose by 0.5 percent year on year, maintaining moderate increases; the core CPI excluding food and energy rose by 0.9 percent, remaining basically stable.
The supporting role of new industries was strengthened.
Wang Guanhua, spokesperson of the National Bureau of Statistics and deputy director of the Department of Comprehensive Statistics of the National Economy, analyzed the progress of China's economic momentum transformation based on the data.
The "innovation content" continued to increase, and the supporting role of new industries was strengthened. In July, the equipment manufacturing industry and high-tech manufacturing industry showed a good development momentum, with growth rates accelerating by 1.3 and 2.8 percentage points respectively compared with the previous month. Preliminary calculations show that in the first seven months, new momentum contributed 50.9 percent to the growth of industrial enterprises above designated size, an increase of 3 percentage points over the first half of the year. From the perspective of the service industry, advanced manufacturing and modern service industries were deeply integrated. In the first seven months, the information transmission, software and information technology services industry and the leasing and business services industry, two modern service industries, contributed more than 40 percent to the growth of the services production index.
The "intelligence content" continued to increase, and artificial intelligence became an accelerator for the transformation of old and new momentum. On the production side, the digital products manufacturing industry performed prominently. In July, the value added of AI-related electronic components and equipment manufacturing and intelligent equipment manufacturing increased by 24.7 percent and 15.1 percent respectively. On the consumption side, intelligent products iterated rapidly. From January to July, retail sales of wearable intelligent devices above designated size increased by more than 100 percent, and consumption scenarios such as AI-guided tours and virtual fitting rooms accelerated their implementation. On the investment side, from January to July, investment in information services and the electronic and communication equipment manufacturing industry increased by 19.2 percent and 7.1 percent respectively.
The "green content" continued to increase, and the cultivation of green new momentum accelerated. On the production side, a number of new industries and new products aligned with the green and low-carbon trend grew rapidly. In the first seven months, energy consumption per unit of value added of industrial enterprises above designated size decreased by 3.5 percent year on year, indicating an improvement in the efficiency of energy and resource utilization. On the demand side, green consumption and green trade became 蔚然成风 (wèi rán chéng fēng - "luxuriant growth becomes the wind," to become a widespread practice), and the retail penetration rate of new energy passenger vehicles exceeded 60 percent for four consecutive months, reaching 65.1 percent in July.
Demand structure was optimized, and the upgrading trend was evident.
Judging from the data for the first seven months, the trend of China's economic structural optimization continued. Fu Linghui made a specific analysis at the meeting.
The demand structure was being optimized. In the consumption structure, the proportion of service consumption and quality consumption was rising. In the first half of the year, the proportion of per capita service consumption expenditure of residents in total consumption expenditure increased by 0.2 percentage points year on year. From January to July, service retail sales increased by 5.0 percent year on year, significantly faster than the growth rate of commodity retail sales. In commodity consumption, the proportion of upgraded commodity consumption was also rising.
In the investment structure, as various high-quality resources gathered in the manufacturing industry, the proportion of manufacturing investment rose. From January to July, manufacturing investment accounted for 26.6 percent of total investment, an increase of 1.4 percentage points year on year; fixed asset investment decreased by 6.7 percent year on year, with the decline continuing to widen. "When judging the current investment situation, we cannot only look at changes in growth rates; we should pay more attention to the promoting role of investment in development and to the structure, quality, and efficiency of investment," Fu Linghui believed. Since the beginning of this year, the role of investment in promoting transformation, strengthening foundations, and benefiting people's livelihoods has become increasingly prominent. For example, funds are accelerating their concentration in advanced manufacturing, the digital economy, and green and low-carbon fields, and the focus of enterprise investment is shifting toward innovation links such as research and development and design. On the whole, the investment structure continued to be optimized, and investment quality improved steadily, which is conducive to enhancing the staying power of economic development.
The foreign trade structure was optimized, and the value chain continued to leap upward. In the first seven months, China's exports of mechanical and electrical products accounted for 63.8 percent of total goods exports, an increase of more than 3 percentage points year on year. In the first half of the year, knowledge-intensive service exports accounted for more than half of total service exports, reaching 53.5 percent. The data show that China's product exports have gradually shifted from being mainly labor-intensive to being mainly high-tech and high-value-added, and service exports have shifted from being mainly labor-intensive service exports to being mainly knowledge-intensive service exports.
The trend of industrial upgrading was evident. From the perspective of industry, the pace of industrial high-end development was steady. In the first seven months, the value added of high-tech manufacturing and equipment manufacturing accounted for 17.9 percent and 37.2 percent respectively of the total value added of industrial enterprises above designated size, up 1.5 and 1.7 percentage points year on year respectively.
Urban-rural and regional development improved. In the first half of the year, the ratio of per capita disposable income of urban residents to that of rural residents was 2.37, a decrease of 0.05 from the same period of the previous year. The consumption vitality of lower-tier markets was strengthening. From January to July, rural consumer goods retail sales accounted for 13.4 percent of total retail sales of consumer goods, an increase of 0.2 percentage points over the same period of the previous year. The eastern region accelerated the building of innovation source bases, and the late-mover advantages of the central and western regions continued to manifest. In the first seven months, industrial growth in many central and western provinces was faster than the national average.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, August 17 (Reporter Han Xin) — Recently, the Ministry of Transport, together with the State Administration for Market Regulation and other departments, jointly issued the "15th Five-Year Plan" for the Development of Comprehensive Transportation Standardization, which proposes that by 2030, more than 800 standards will be released and implemented, and the conversion rate of international standards will reach more than 90%.
The plan proposes to vigorously strengthen the supply of key and core standards. It will make forward-looking arrangements for the standard system for land-air coordination of low-altitude civil aviation, leading the development of land-air coordination and intermodal transport of low-altitude civil aviation. It will strengthen the integrated development of transportation and energy, and research and construct a standard system for transportation-energy integration. It will strengthen the development and formulation of standards in key directions such as autonomous driving, vehicle-road coordination, intelligent shipping, smart mobility, intelligent transport vehicles and operating equipment, and the transportation platform economy.
Return to TopBEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Zhao Zhanhui (赵展慧)) Data released by the National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局) show that at the end of the second quarter, the balance of inclusive loans to small and micro enterprises by banking financial institutions stood at 38.9 trillion yuan, up 8 percent year on year; the balance of inclusive loans related to agriculture stood at 15 trillion yuan, up 7.5 percent year on year.
In the first half of this year, insurance companies' original insurance premium income reached 3.9 trillion yuan, up 3.2 percent year on year; claims and benefit payments totaled 1.4 trillion yuan, up 3.8 percent year on year; the number of newly added insurance policies reached 66.8 billion, up 27.4 percent year on year.
Total assets of the banking and insurance industries continued to grow. At the end of the second quarter, the total assets in local and foreign currencies of banking financial institutions in China stood at 498 trillion yuan, up 6.6 percent year on year; the total assets of insurance companies and insurance asset management companies stood at 43.9 trillion yuan, up 6.2 percent from the beginning of the year.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Baku, August 17 (Reporter Zhou Liang) — The launch event for the first Azerbaijani-language version of the program Xi Jinping's Cultural Connections (习近平的文化情缘), translated and dubbed by China Media Group, was recently held in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
Xi Jinping's Cultural Connections selects vivid stories of President Xi Jinping's dedication to the preservation and development of culture, displaying his profound thinking on "when culture prospers, the nation's fortune prospers; when culture is strong, the nation is strong" and his deep sentiments of cherishing cultural heritage and continuing the historical cultural lineage, explaining to international audiences the essential meaning of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture and the deep cultural foundation of President Xi Jinping's philosophy of governance.
Lu Mei (鲁梅), Chinese Ambassador to Azerbaijan, said in her speech at the event that the launch of Xi Jinping's Cultural Connections in Azerbaijan marks a new level in China-Azerbaijan media cooperation and will help Azerbaijani audiences gain a deeper understanding of the core meaning of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture and perceive the profound cultural heritage in which President Xi Jinping's philosophy of governance is rooted.
Yefendiyeva, Deputy Chair of the Culture Committee of the Azerbaijan National Assembly, said that both Azerbaijan and China possess long histories, and beyond many other bonds, today the two countries are also closely connected by their shared concept of protecting cultural heritage. Broadcasting Xi Jinping's Cultural Connections in Azerbaijan is of extremely important significance.
After the event, the Culture Channel of Azerbaijan State Television and Radio Company and Azerbaijan's ARB24 TV successively broadcast the program.
Return to TopBEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Premier Li Qiang of the State Council chaired the 12th plenary meeting of the State Council on August 17, at which he thoroughly studied and implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech on the current economic situation and economic work, and stressed the need to effectively unify thoughts and actions with the Party Central Committee's scientific judgment on the situation and its decision-making and arrangements, do all work in a solid manner, strive to accomplish the year's economic and social development goals and tasks, and achieve a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."
Li Qiang pointed out that since the beginning of this year, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and with the joint efforts of all parties, China's economy has been running generally stable, with progress achieved amid stability, showing a development trend of momentum shifting toward the new and the structure improving, and demonstrating strong resilience and vitality. At the same time, it is necessary to clearly recognize that the problem of insufficient domestic demand remains prominent, difficulties for some industries and enterprises are increasing, and uncertainty in the external environment is rising. It is necessary to anchor onto development goals, fully leverage the effectiveness of existing policies, promptly plan and introduce pragmatic and effective incremental policies, remove various bottlenecks and sticking points, and promote sustained development of the economy toward the new, the superior, and the good.
Li Qiang stressed that this year is the first year of implementing the "15th Five-Year Plan," and it is necessary to promptly and firmly advance the implementation of the plan from the very beginning, do a good job in major engineering project construction, and give full play to the plan's leading and driving role in all areas of work. It is necessary to make every effort to maintain stable economic operation, adhere to the strategic basis of expanding domestic demand, focus on major contradictions and problems, seize areas with long industrial chains and large scale to make sustained efforts, further strengthen the domestic economic cycle, and fully release the potential of domestic demand. Accelerate the implementation of the construction implementation plan for the "six networks" (六张网), and innovate investment and financing mechanisms to attract social capital. Coordinately promote investment in people and consumption, and increase the tilt of policy resources. Accelerate the progress of the use of various policy funds, and form tangible workload as early as possible. Vigorously promote private investment, and give more support to investment in emerging fields, new-type infrastructure, and consumption upgrading. Actively stabilize external demand, expand space for mutually beneficial international economic and trade cooperation, and promote balanced trade development. It is necessary to strengthen the empowerment of science and technology, accelerate the conversion of old and new growth drivers, increase support for the cultivation of emerging pillar industries and future industries, continuously promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and consolidate the foundation of the real economy. It is necessary to do a solid job in safeguarding and improving people's livelihood, do a good job in employment and income growth, improve the level of public services, strengthen basic living guarantees for disaster-affected people and post-disaster reconstruction, resolutely hold the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty or re-impoverishment, and continuously enhance people's well-being. It is necessary to better coordinate development and security, do a good job in risk resolution, disaster prevention and reduction, and work safety, and promote positive interaction between high-quality development and high-level security.
Li Qiang pointed out that under the new situation, doing a good job in economic and social development places higher demands on the governance capacity and work style of governments at all levels. It is necessary to be more pragmatic, continuously consolidate and expand the achievements of learning and education in establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, and persist in taking practical measures, doing practical things, and seeking practical results. It is necessary to uphold fundamental principles and break new ground, be good at using the thinking of reform and innovative methods to solve problems, and stimulate the enthusiasm of all parties for work and entrepreneurship.
Members of the plenary meeting of the State Council attended the meeting, and responsible comrades of relevant departments and units attended as non-voting participants. The principal responsible comrades of all provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps attended the meeting by video at their local venues.
Return to TopBeijing, August 17 (Xinhua) — A symposium on Comrade Jiang Zemin's life and thought was held in Beijing from the 17th to the 19th. Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. He emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the conference commemorating the centenary of Comrade Jiang Zemin's birth, carry forward and pass on Comrade Jiang Zemin's brilliant thought and noble demeanor, deepen research on the important thought of the "Three Represents" in light of the new conditions of the times, strengthen confidence, continue to strive, pursue rigorous scholarship, seek truth and innovate, and make new and greater contributions to comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.
Cai Qi pointed out that deepening research on the important thought of the "Three Represents" requires further deepening understanding of the extreme importance of upholding the Party's overall leadership, always upholding the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, more deeply comprehending the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," and resolutely achieving the "Two Safeguards"; further deepening understanding of Marxism's theoretical character of advancing with the times, always upholding the "Two Combinations," and continuously advancing the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism; further deepening understanding of the laws of socialist construction, always strengthening the "Four Confidences," and comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization; further deepening understanding that development is the Party's primary task in governing and rejuvenating the country, always adhering to the people-centered development philosophy, and unswervingly promoting high-quality development; further deepening understanding of the forward direction of advanced culture, always upholding the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation, and promoting the prosperity and flourishing of socialist culture with firm cultural confidence; further deepening understanding of world multipolarity and economic globalization, always adhering to the path of peaceful development, and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind; further deepening understanding that to govern the country well, the Party must first be governed well, and that governing the Party must be strict, persistently exercising full and rigorous Party self-governance, and deeply advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era. (Full text of the speech on page 4)
Li Shulei, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting. Shi Taifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee; Liu Guozhong, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council; Zhang Shengmin, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission; Qu Qingshan, President of the Central Institute of Party History and Literature; and Xin Changxing, Secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, delivered speeches in succession.
Peng Qinghua, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and Wang Dongfeng, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, attended the meeting.
Approximately 500 people, including responsible comrades from relevant departments and representatives of experts and scholars, attended the meeting.
The symposium was organized by the Central Publicity Department, the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance), the Central Institute of Party History and Literature, the Ministry of Education, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission.
Return to TopBy: 郭 伟
At the invitation of President Xi Jinping, His Majesty King Abdullah II of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan will pay a state visit to China from August 18 to 24. President Xi Jinping will hold talks with King Abdullah II and exchange views on bilateral relations and international and regional issues of common concern. King Abdullah II is an old friend of the Chinese people, and this visit will be his ninth to China since his accession to the throne. During his visit to China in 2015, the two heads of state jointly announced the elevation of China-Jordan relations to a strategic partnership. The King's visit this time is an important visit for the traditional cause of China-Jordan friendship as it stands at a new historical starting point. Against the backdrop of continued complex changes in the situation in the Middle East, King Abdullah II is the first head of state of an Arab country received by China this year. President Xi Jinping will, together with him, provide strategic guidance for further deepening the bilateral strategic partnership and safeguarding regional peace and stability.
Political mutual trust sets the keynote of friendship. Over the 49 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, China-Jordan political mutual trust has continued to deepen, with both sides firmly supporting each other on issues involving each other's core interests and major concerns. The Jordanian side adheres to the One-China principle and resolutely opposes any form of "Taiwan independence." The Chinese side supports the Jordanian side in exploring a development path suited to its own national conditions, supports the Jordanian side in safeguarding its national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity, and supports the Hashemite custodianship of the Islamic and Christian holy sites in occupied Jerusalem. China and Jordan share similar positions on international and regional issues, both firmly upholding the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, firmly supporting the just cause of Palestine and the Arab nations, striving to maintain regional peace and tranquility, and working together in international humanitarian endeavors.
Mutual benefit and win-win cooperation strike the chord of development. In recent years, China-Jordan practical cooperation has yielded fruitful results. In 2025, China became Jordan's largest trading partner. According to Chinese statistics, in the first quarter of this year, total bilateral trade reached approximately 2.58 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of over 30 percent, showing strong momentum of development. The two sides plan to sign a series of cooperation documents to strengthen cooperation in such fields as trade, investment, energy, minerals, tourism, education, agriculture and science and technology, expand cooperation in emerging fields such as green development, the digital economy, artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing, promote the alignment of Belt and Road cooperation with Jordan's economic modernization vision, and jointly embark on a new journey of modernization.
People-to-people connectivity sings the harmony of resonance. China-aided projects in Jordan, including the construction of the Sports City, water network renovation and highway upgrading, bear witness to the journey of friendship between the two peoples. Chinese culture is deeply loved by the Jordanian people. The "Chinese language fever" in Jordan continues to heat up, and the foundation of seven official Chinese language teaching sites and two Confucius Institutes will be further expanded. The two sides have made continuous new progress in such fields as universities, media, think tanks, culture and tourism, film, sister-city exchanges and facilitation of personnel exchanges, and will cultivate more envoys to carry forward the China-Jordan friendship from generation to generation, which will also help China-Jordan cooperation play a role in a broader scope.
Solidarity and coordination compose the sound of peace. The Jordanian side highly appreciates and supports the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind proposed by President Xi Jinping, supports the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative and the Global Governance Initiative, and supports the four-point proposal put forward by President Xi Jinping on maintaining and promoting peace and stability in the Middle East. The two sides uphold true multilateralism and advocate peace over war and cooperation over confrontation. In the face of turmoil in the Middle East, China and Jordan advocate resolving contradictions and differences through political dialogue, support the unity and self-reliance of Arab countries, maintain close communication and coordination on regional hot-spot issues, and contribute to the early restoration of peace and stability in the Middle East.
China and Jordan are located at the eastern and western ends of Asia respectively, and their friendly exchanges have a long history. More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient city of Petra in Jordan was a commercial hub on the ancient Silk Road, bearing witness to the mutual understanding and interaction between Chinese civilization and Arab civilization. Today, standing at a new historical starting point, the two sides will take this visit as an opportunity to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, continue the friendship, forge ahead with enterprise, and jointly write a new chapter in the China-Jordan strategic partnership.
(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to Jordan)
Return to TopBy: 艾哈迈德·赛义德
Promoting development requires not only deepening practical cooperation at the economic level, but also continuously enhancing mutual understanding between countries
For a long time, when the international community has discussed development issues, it has often formed a habitual perception: equating development with economic growth, simplifying international cooperation to trade and investment exchanges, and one-sidedly understanding modernization as the accumulation of material wealth. This development logic occupied an important position in the postwar international order for a long period, profoundly influencing interactions between countries and the operation of multilateral mechanisms. Entering the third decade of the 21st century, global economic and trade ties have become increasingly close, and scientific and technological innovation continues to advance, but trust and understanding between countries have not risen correspondingly; rather, the cognitive gap between different civilizations has instead widened. Drawing on long-term practice in Arab-Chinese translation, publishing, and academic exchange, I believe that promoting development requires not only deepening practical cooperation at the economic level, but also continuously enhancing mutual understanding between countries.
Traditional development theory contains such an assumption: that deepening economic ties will naturally bring political mutual trust and social stability. However, examining the reality of global development today, it is not difficult to see that the expansion of trade does not necessarily eliminate differences, and the advancement of infrastructure construction does not necessarily bridge social estrangement. This shows that economic ties themselves cannot automatically generate mutual understanding between civilizations, still less directly forge lasting peace. Tracing the root cause, a single economic narrative is difficult to interpret the rich connotations of civilization. If one relies solely on trade data and investment flows to understand a country, it is difficult to read its historical traditions, social logic, and cultural heritage—and these are precisely the deep-seated drivers that determine a country's development path and orientation in foreign exchanges.
A stable external environment is an important prerequisite for development; bilateral relations maintained solely by economic interdependence often have fragile foundations. Only cognition and mutual trust built on civilizational understanding can create a long-term stable international environment for the development of all countries. At the same time, development cannot be separated from continuous self-renewal and open learning; only by being adept at drawing on the development wisdom of different civilizations can one break the shackles of closed development and better respond to various long-term development challenges. The long-term development of a country also cannot be separated from strategic resolve and policy continuity; without deep mutual understanding, long-term development strategies are prone to deviation under disturbance from the external environment, and development momentum will consequently weaken. From this it can be seen that mutual understanding is not a soft supplement to development, but an objective necessary condition supporting high-quality development.
Mutual understanding does not arise out of thin air; it requires sustained cultivation through people-to-people and cultural exchanges. Translation is an important foundation for cross-civilizational cognition. The depth of one civilization's understanding of another depends to a large extent on the quantity, quality, and breadth of coverage of works translated between the two sides. Over more than 10 years, Egypt's Hikmat Cultural Group has cumulatively translated nearly a thousand Chinese works, building an important platform for the Arab world to understand China. At the same time, a number of China research institutions have emerged in the Arab region in recent years, and their long-term value will continue to manifest as time passes. In the present era of highly convenient information dissemination, shallow information exchanges can only transmit fragmented content; only by deeply cultivating classic texts, sorting through historical threads, and grasping the narrative logic of civilizations themselves can genuine in-depth cognition be formed.
The practice of sustained development of Arab-China relations and the upgrading of cooperation in quality and level has established a beneficial model for different civilizations to deepen understanding and jointly seek development. In recent years, more Chinese works have been translated into Arabic, more and more Arab youth have devoted themselves to learning Chinese, exchanges between scholars on both sides have become more frequent, and cooperation between publishing institutions has continued to deepen and solidify. These positive changes have helped the Arab and Chinese sides gradually build an autonomous, direct, and authentic mutual cognition system, which not only helps bilateral relations continuously reach new levels, but also provides valuable inspiration for the international community to explore people-to-people and cultural exchanges that transcend the economic dimension and to build a new type of international relations.
The current world does not lack massive flows of information; what is truly scarce is sincere and deep understanding, solid and substantial cognition, and the capacity for cooperation built on mutual understanding. In today's era full of uncertainty, mutual understanding, tolerance, and mutual learning are precisely the precious forces for humanity to join hands in addressing common challenges and achieving common development.
(The author is Secretary-General of the Research Department on Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy at the Egyptian Liberation International Research Center, and President of Egypt's Hikmat Cultural Group.)
Return to TopAt the invitation of President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China, King Abdullah II of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan will pay a state visit to China from August 18 to 24.
Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein, male, born on January 30, 1962. He previously served as Commander of the Jordanian Special Operations Forces. He ascended to the throne in February 1999. He is married, with 2 sons and 2 daughters.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 17)
Return to TopBeijing, August 17 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Han Xiaoming) At the invitation of President Xi Jinping, King Abdullah II of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan will pay a state visit to China from August 18 to 24. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian introduced the arrangements for the visit and China's expectations at a regular press conference on the 17th.
Lin Jian stated that this visit is the ninth visit to China by King Abdullah II since his accession to the throne. During the visit, President Xi Jinping will hold talks with King Abdullah II and exchange views on bilateral relations and international and regional issues of common concern. Premier Li Qiang and Chairman Zhao Leji will meet with King Abdullah II respectively. King Abdullah II will also visit Shanghai and Shenzhen.
Lin Jian said that China and Jordan enjoy traditional friendship. Under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and King Abdullah II, in recent years China-Jordan relations have continued to deepen and solidify, cooperation in various fields has yielded fruitful results, and friendly exchanges between the two countries have continued to deepen.
"The Chinese side is willing to work with the Jordanian side, taking this visit as an opportunity, to jointly enhance political mutual trust, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, promote people-to-people and cultural exchanges, strengthen multilateral coordination, and push the China-Jordan strategic partnership to a new level, making positive contributions to regional peace, stability, and development," Lin Jian said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孙广勇
As the aircraft flew over Cox's Bazar, a city on the southeast coast of Bangladesh, looking down from the plane, silver-white wind turbine blades, the azure sea, and verdant farmland formed a beautiful tableau. Twenty-two turbines spun in the wind, delivering a steady stream of green energy... This is Bangladesh's first centralized wind power project — the Cox's Bazar Wind Power Project.
In recent years, Chinese enterprises have invested in and built clean energy projects in Bangladesh, including the Cox's Bazar wind farm, the Mymensingh solar photovoltaic power station, and the Sirajganj photovoltaic power station, which have become a bond for further deepening cooperation between the two sides.
Cox's Bazar is a renowned tourist city. The Cox's Bazar Wind Power Project, which began commercial operation in October 2023, meets the electricity needs of 100,000 local households and has been hailed by the media as "a model of Bangladesh-China energy cooperation." A local power development authority official, Goni, told reporters: "Previously, hotels and restaurants were most troubled by power outages, because they affected customers. With a reliable power supply, economic development is also guaranteed."
At the operation and maintenance station's control center, local employee Arif was operating equipment. He once studied electrical engineering in China and is currently responsible for the maintenance and management of the project's power equipment. During the project's construction, Chinese solutions, Chinese standards, Chinese equipment, and Chinese technology were introduced, and Bangladesh's first batch of hands-on professionals in the wind power sector was also trained. "Here, I not only learned the principles of wind power generation, but also gradually mastered the skills of project operation and management. Being able to participate in the construction and operation of Bangladesh's first centralized wind power project gives me a great sense of achievement," Arif said.
"The project has also built a comprehensive smart energy park integrating rooftop photovoltaics and charging piles, achieving intelligent control. We plan to further develop a comprehensive smart energy project combining wind and solar energy in the area north of this project, turning this region into Bangladesh's first large-scale wind-solar-storage integrated smart energy base," said Hei Zhao, General Manager of the Bangladesh branch of SPIC Wuling Power, a subsidiary of China's State Power Investment Corporation.
The renewable energy projects invested in and built by Chinese enterprises have helped numerous ordinary Bangladeshi villages develop into market towns, improved the living standards of local people, and injected a steady stream of green momentum into the local economy. In 2020, the Mymensingh photovoltaic project, invested in by Huaxin Power Co., Ltd., which is controlled by China Huadian Overseas Investment Co., Ltd., was put into operation. Approximately 170,000 solar panels from China convert solar energy into electricity, lighting up thousands of households. The project helps reduce carbon emissions by more than 50,000 tons each year. In July 2024, the Sirajganj photovoltaic power station, with a total installed capacity of approximately 68 megawatts, was put into operation. It was invested in and built by Bangladesh-China New Energy Co., Ltd., a joint venture established by China National Machinery Industry Corporation (Sinomach) under China General Technology Group and the Northwest Power Generation Company of Bangladesh. The project is equipped with 157,000 photovoltaic modules, which can provide clean energy to 65,000 local households, equivalent to saving 43,000 tons of standard coal and reducing approximately 110,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year.
Karim, Chairman of the Bangladesh Power Development Board, stated: "The clean energy projects invested in by Chinese enterprises have played an important role in accelerating Bangladesh's energy transition, increasing the share of renewable energy, and promoting energy conservation and emission reduction, helping optimize Bangladesh's power structure and economic development." "China is a world leader in renewable energy technology research and development and industrial application. We look forward to further deepening cooperation with China in the field of renewable energy," said Mustafa, Chairman of the Bangladesh Sustainable and Renewable Energy Association.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 17 — A Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on the 17th: At the invitation of Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chilean Foreign Minister Pérez will pay an official visit to China from August 18 to 22.
Return to TopThis newspaper Ulaanbaatar, August 17 (Reporter Zhang Penghui (张朋辉)) — The seventeenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (hereinafter referred to as "the Convention") officially opened on the 17th in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. The two-week conference, themed "Restoring Land, Rekindling Hope," will conduct consultations and exchanges on topics including degraded land restoration, sustainable land management, drought resilience building, and grassland protection and restoration.
Yasmin Fouad, Executive Secretary of the Convention Secretariat, stated that land degradation and drought are no longer distant environmental problems. Healthy land is the foundation of healthy food systems, resilient economies, and stable societies; therefore, COP17 must focus on implementation. At a time when multilateralism is being tested, COP17 is also an opportunity to show the world that countries can work together to provide concrete solutions that improve people's livelihoods.
This session of the Conference of the Parties will bring together representatives of the Convention's 197 Parties, as well as representatives from relevant United Nations agencies, international organizations, civil society organizations, research institutions, enterprises, and others. During the conference, a series of activities will be held, including plenary sessions of the Conference of the Parties, meetings of the Committee on Science and Technology, meetings of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention, and high-level meetings. The high-level segment will focus on ministerial dialogues on innovative financing, drought resilience, grassland restoration, and herder well-being, and will hold interactive forums on special topics such as water resources, land and people, food systems and soil health, exploring solutions through science empowerment, policy support, and technological innovation.
The Chinese government delegation will participate in high-level dialogues on financing, drought, and grasslands. China proposes the establishment of an International Grassland Day as an important component of the long-term transformation of the outcomes of the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists, to further promote the international community's continued deepening of cooperation on grassland protection and restoration, and to make positive contributions to the implementation of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. During the conference, China will set up a "China Corner" in the Blue Zone and will hold multiple thematic side events to showcase China's wisdom and responsibility in desertification prevention and control, and to exchange ideas, technologies, and practices in desertification prevention and control.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Kazan, Russia, August 17 (reporters Wang Zuokui, Zhao Bing) — The opening ceremony of the 4th Russia-China "Sprout" Forum for Mutually Beneficial Cooperation was held on the 17th in Kazan, capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.
Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui (张汉晖) said in his speech at the opening ceremony that in recent years, China-Russia economic and trade cooperation has continued to develop soundly. From January to July 2026, bilateral trade volume reached US$159.2 billion, up 26.3 percent year-on-year, and the full year is expected to set another record high. Zhang Hanhui said that the "Sprout" Forum has become an important platform for promoting economic and trade cooperation between the two countries and has played a positive role in deepening China-Russia economic and trade relations and inter-regional cooperation. The two sides should make good use of the forum platform, fully align demands, deepen exchanges and cooperation, achieve more results, and promote the quality improvement and upgrading of bilateral economic and trade cooperation.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) Babakov said in his speech that the important value of the "Sprout" Forum lies in truly transforming the political mutual trust between Russia and China into concrete cooperation projects, enabling the macro-strategic consensus of the two countries to 落地生根 (luò dì shēng gēn - "fall to the ground and take root," to become established and take hold). Russia-China regional cooperation contains enormous potential. I believe this forum will inject new strong momentum into Russia-China cooperation and become an important platform for giving birth to new enterprises, new investments, and new jobs.
Head of the Republic of Tatarstan Minnikhanov introduced that this forum has a rich agenda, with various forms of business dialogues to be held around fields such as artificial intelligence, industrial cooperation, economy and finance, and healthcare, and expressed the expectation that this forum will continue to yield fruitful results.
This forum is held from August 16 to 19, with more than 50 industry-specific exchange events arranged, focusing on trade, logistics, finance, energy, science and technology, industry, agriculture, and healthcare. In addition, cultural exchange activities such as dragon boat races and painting exhibitions are also held during the forum.
Return to TopBy: 蔡 奇
Comrades:
With the approval of the Party Central Committee, we convene today the symposium on Comrade Jiang Zemin's life and thought, to deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the grand gathering commemorating the 100th anniversary of Comrade Jiang Zemin's birth, and to carry forward and pass on Comrade Jiang Zemin's brilliant thought and lofty bearing.
This morning, the Party Central Committee solemnly held the grand gathering commemorating the 100th anniversary of Comrade Jiang Zemin's birth. General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech, comprehensively reviewing Comrade Jiang Zemin's glorious and militant life, highly evaluating Comrade Jiang Zemin's immortal contributions to the Party and the people, profoundly expounding the historical status and guiding significance of the important thought of the "Three Represents" (三个代表), and emphasizing the need to learn from Comrade Jiang Zemin's lofty bearing and strive unremittingly to comprehensively advance the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization (中国式现代化). General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech is highly political, ideological, and instructive, and we must earnestly study and implement it.
Here, I would like to share some thoughts on deepening research on the "Three Represents" important thought around studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, to exchange with everyone.
Since the Fourth Plenary Session of the 13th Central Committee of the Party, Chinese Communists with Comrade Jiang Zemin as the principal representative, in the practice of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, have deepened their understanding of what socialism is and how to build socialism, and what kind of party to build and how to build the party, accumulated new valuable experience in governing the party and the state, and formed the important thought of the "Three Represents." The important thought of the "Three Represents" is an inheritance and development of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, and Deng Xiaoping Theory, reflects the new requirements of the development and changes of the contemporary world and China for the work of the Party and the state, is a powerful theoretical weapon for strengthening and improving Party building and promoting the self-improvement and self-development of China's socialism, is the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the Communist Party of China, and is the guiding ideology that the Party must uphold for a long time. To understand and grasp the important thought of the "Three Represents," we must deepen research on the "Three Represents" important thought in light of the conditions of the new era.
First, deepening research on the "Three Represents" important thought requires further deepening our understanding of the extreme importance of upholding the Party's overall leadership, always upholding the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, more deeply comprehending the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments" (两个确立), and resolutely achieving the "Two Upholds" (两个维护). Party leadership is the fundamental guarantee for the cause of the Party and the people to advance from victory to victory. Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out: "To unify the thinking of more than 1.2 billion people, gather their strength, and advance toward the common goal of socialist modernization, there must be the Communist Party of China as the core force, there must be the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China." "Upholding Party leadership and upholding the Party's centralized unity—this is the overall situation, this is above all else." "The more we reform and open up and develop the economy, the more we must strengthen Party leadership." Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping has clearly proposed that the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the greatest advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, emphasized that strengthening and maintaining the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is the common political responsibility of the entire Party, and promoted the comprehensive strengthening of Party leadership in the new era, with the entire Party more unified in thought, more united politically, and more consistent in action.
We must, in connection with the historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the state in the new era, deeply explain that the Communist Party of China is the most reliable backbone of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, and that Party leadership is the foundation and lifeline of the Party and the state, and the interests and destiny of the people of all ethnic groups across the country. We must guide Party members and cadres to deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," strengthen the "Four Consciousnesses" (四个意识), firm up the "Four Confidences" (四个自信), achieve the "Two Upholds," and maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in thought, politics, and action.
Second, deepening research on the "Three Represents" important thought requires further deepening our understanding of Marxism's theoretical quality of advancing with the times, always upholding the "Two Combinations" (两个结合), and continuously advancing the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism. Adhering to scientific theoretical guidance and courageously advancing theoretical innovation is the key to ensuring that the cause of the Party and the people always advances in the correct direction. Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out: "The secret of Marxism's strong vitality lies in its theoretical quality of 与时俱进 (yǔ shí jù jìn - "advance together with the times," to keep pace with the times)." "We must closely combine with new realities to continuously enrich and develop Marxism, consciously liberate our thinking and understanding from outdated concepts, practices, and systems, from erroneous and dogmatic understandings of Marxism, and from the shackles of subjectivism and metaphysics." Entering the new era, Chinese Communists with Comrade Xi Jinping as the principal representative have adhered to combining the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with China's excellent traditional culture, founded Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and achieved a new leap in the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism.
We must deeply understand the dialectical unity of upholding Marxism and developing Marxism, hold fast to the soul and root of theoretical innovation, open new theoretical horizons and make new theoretical generalizations in the "Two Combinations," continuously answer the questions of China, the questions of the world, the questions of the people, and the questions of the times, and let contemporary Chinese Marxism and 21st-century Marxism radiate even more brilliant light of truth. We must continue to deepen the systematic and scholarly research and interpretation of the Party's innovative theory, adapt to the requirements of the times, base ourselves on China's actual conditions, systematically refine and summarize iconic concepts and original theories, and accelerate the construction of an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences.
Third, deepening research on the "Three Represents" important thought requires further deepening our understanding of the laws of socialist construction, always firming up the "Four Confidences," and comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is the only way to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out: "Building socialism with Chinese characteristics is the 康庄大道 (kāng zhuāng dà dào - "broad and smooth road," a wide and easy path) to China's economic prosperity and comprehensive social progress." "Taking this road is the historic choice made by the Chinese people after more than 100 years of struggle and exploration." "In the entire historical process of building the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, we must always adhere to the socialist road." Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has coordinated the promotion of the "Five-in-One" (五位一体) overall layout and the coordinated advancement of the "Four Comprehensives" (四个全面) strategic layout, successfully advanced and expanded Chinese-style modernization, created great achievements in socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, and promoted the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation to enter an irreversible historical process.
We must deeply understand and grasp the process of human social development, deeply explain the historical inevitability, scientific truth, and enormous superiority of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and guide cadres and the masses to strengthen their conviction and confidence in upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. Deeply explain that Chinese-style modernization, with its distinctive features, successful practice, and unique advantages, has created a new form of human civilization and demonstrated the strong vitality of socialism with Chinese characteristics. We must deeply understand that upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era requires carrying out great struggles, consciously overcoming difficulties, withstanding risks, and meeting challenges with the spirit of historical initiative, and relying on tenacious struggle to open up new prospects for the development of the cause.
Fourth, deepening research on the "Three Represents" important thought requires further deepening our understanding that development is the top priority in governing and rejuvenating the country, always adhering to the people-centered development philosophy, and unswervingly promoting high-quality development. Development is the key to solving all problems. Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out: "Without development, upholding the Party's advanced nature, giving play to the superiority of the socialist system, and realizing a prosperous country and a strong people are all out of the question." He emphasized that concentrating efforts on developing social productive forces must be placed in the primary position; that the safety, warmth, and well-being of the people must be given high attention, and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people must be realized, safeguarded, and developed. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has accurately grasped the changes in the principal contradiction in Chinese society, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implemented the new development philosophy, accelerated the construction of a new development pattern, solidly promoted high-quality development, coordinated development and security, focused on safeguarding and improving people's livelihood, won the battle against poverty, completed the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, promoted solid steps in building a modern socialist country in all respects, significantly enhanced the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security, and China's development has stood on a higher historical starting point.
We must grasp the trend of development, focus on high-quality development, deeply study the ideas and measures for implementing the new development philosophy, building a new development pattern, and promoting high-quality development, study measures and methods for accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement and developing new quality productive forces (新质生产力) in light of local conditions, study the paths and methods for coordinating development and security, and promote the steady and long-term progress of Chinese-style modernization. We must fully implement the "15th Five-Year Plan" and lay a solid foundation and make comprehensive efforts for basically realizing socialist modernization. We must focus on promoting people's all-round development and common prosperity for all the people, focus on solving the people's urgent, difficult, worried, and longed-for problems, and let the fruits of development benefit all the people more and more fairly.
Fifth, deepening research on the "Three Represents" important thought requires further deepening our understanding of the direction of advanced culture, always upholding the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation, and promoting the prosperity of socialist culture with firm cultural confidence. Without the prosperity and development of socialist culture, there is no socialist modernization. Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out: "Striving to build China's advanced culture and striving to develop China's advanced productive forces are both strategic tasks for us to realize socialist modernization." He proposed "developing a national, scientific, and popular socialist culture oriented toward modernization, toward the world, and toward the future," emphasized that carrying forward and cultivating the national spirit must be made an extremely important task of cultural construction, implementing the combination of ruling the country by law and ruling the country by virtue, and promoting the coordinated development of socialist material civilization, political civilization, and spiritual civilization. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has insisted on placing cultural construction in a prominent position in governance, promoted historic achievements in cultural construction through 正本清源 (zhèng běn qīng yuán - "rectify the root and cleanse the source," to address problems at their root) and upholding integrity and innovation, and the cultural confidence of the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country has been significantly enhanced, and their spiritual outlook has become more vigorous and uplifted.
We must firmly grasp the cultural mission of the new era, further strengthen research on major issues such as upholding the Party's cultural leadership, upholding the fundamental system of Marxism's guiding position in the ideological sphere, carrying forward and practicing socialist core values, and promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, and develop socialist culture with Chinese characteristics for a new era with strong ideological leadership, spiritual cohesion, value appeal, and international influence. We must stimulate the cultural innovation and creativity of the entire nation, prosper and develop cultural undertakings and cultural industries, enhance the dissemination and influence of Chinese civilization, and promote more solid steps in building a culturally strong country.
Sixth, deepening research on the "Three Represents" important thought requires further deepening our understanding of world multipolarity and economic globalization, always adhering to the path of peaceful development, and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体). China's development cannot be separated from the world, and the world's prosperity cannot be separated from China. Comrade Jiang Zemin always observed the general trend of world development with a broad world vision, and proposed that "the world is in a period of great change, with two basic features: one is world multipolarity, and the other is economic globalization." He pointed out: "The world wants peace, the people want cooperation, the country wants development, and society wants progress—this is the trend of the times." "For all international affairs, we must proceed from the fundamental interests of the Chinese people and the people of the world, and decide our own positions and policies according to the rights and wrongs of the matter itself, without succumbing to any external pressure." Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping has coordinated the strategic overall situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the major changes unseen in a century in the world, clearly proposed building a community with a shared future for mankind, promoting the common values of all mankind and the four major global initiatives, advocating an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, promoting the high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative (一带一路), promoting the comprehensive strengthening of diplomatic work in the new era, and contributing Chinese wisdom, Chinese solutions, and Chinese strength to solving the major problems facing human society.
We must deeply study the complex characteristics and deep-seated factors of the world entering a new period of turbulence and transformation, and clarify that building a community with a shared future for mankind is 人心所向 (rén xīn suǒ xiàng - "where the people's hearts turn," popular support) and 大势所趋 (dà shì suǒ qū - "the direction of the general trend," an inevitable trend). Deeply explain that Chinese-style modernization is a modernization that develops itself while benefiting the world, and that socialist China will forever be a builder of world peace, a contributor to global development, and a defender of the international order. We must firmly stand on the correct side of history and on the side of human civilization and progress, correctly understand and handle the relationship between China and the outside world, create more favorable external conditions for China's development, and inject more positive energy into world peace and development.
Seventh, deepening research on the "Three Represents" important thought requires further deepening our understanding that to govern the country, one must first govern the Party, and to govern the Party, one must be strict, persistently and comprehensively governing the Party with strict discipline, and deeply advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era. The Communist Party of China is the leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and comprehensive and strict Party governance is always on the way. Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out: "The Party managing the Party and governing the Party strictly is an important guarantee for maintaining the Party's advanced nature and purity and consolidating the Party's ruling position." He proposed that the entire Party must solve the two major historical issues of improving the level of leadership and governance and enhancing the ability to resist corruption, prevent degeneration, and withstand risks; required Party members and cadres to emphasize study, politics, and healthy tendencies, and always maintain the Communist's vigorous spirit, high-spirited courage, and awe-inspiring righteousness; emphasized that opposing corruption is a serious political struggle related to the survival or death of the Party and the state, and that the construction of Party conduct and clean government and the fight against corruption must be carried through to the end. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has faced the prominent problems within the Party head-on, made the strategic deployment of comprehensive and strict Party governance, turned the blade inward, severely punished corruption, opened up a new realm of self-revolution for a century-old major party, made the Party stronger and more resolute through revolutionary tempering, and the Party and the people have won the historical initiative of strengthening the Party and the country.
We must clearly understand the situation facing comprehensive and strict Party governance, deepen our understanding of the laws of Party building, and further study and answer the major issue of the times of what kind of long-term governing Marxist party to build and how to build a long-term governing Marxist party. We must promote the deepening and solidification of the study and implementation of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, improve the system of comprehensive and strict Party governance, improve effective measures in areas such as strengthening the theoretical arming of the Party's innovative theory, establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, strengthening the political and organizational functions of Party organizations, stimulating the endogenous motivation and overall vitality of the cadre team, promoting the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction, comprehensively giving play to the constraining, guaranteeing, and motivating roles of disciplinary education, and integrating the promotion of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, continuously improve the level of Party management and governance, and ensure that the Party never changes its nature, color, or flavor, and always has strong creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness.
Comrades, deepening research on the "Three Represents" important thought, the social science and theoretical circles bear a major responsibility. We must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, comprehensively implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, strengthen confidence, continue to struggle, be rigorous in scholarship, seek truth and innovate, and make new and greater contributions to comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization!
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 17)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 焦思雨 刘洪超 郑智文
Continuously improving government services is an inherent requirement for building a service-oriented government that satisfies the people and for advancing the modernization of China's governance system and governance capacity. The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan states: "Develop ubiquitous, accessible, smart, convenient, fair, and inclusive digital-intelligent government services."
Opening a mobile "matters that cannot be handled" reporting window, applying convenience codes for the people and enterprises, building online-offline integrated platforms... At present, localities across the country are continuously innovating measures and improving work styles, striving to promote the quality and efficiency of government services and make it more convenient for enterprises and the public to handle affairs.
Mobile Platform — Capable of Writing and Calculating
"Through the mobile 'matters that cannot be handled' reporting window, I received my new license the very same day," said Wang Yingui, general manager of Ningxia Enhuang Beef and Mutton Co., Ltd.
Previously, Wang Yingui had applied for the "individual-to-enterprise" conversion business, but his application was returned due to incomplete materials. Unsure of whom to turn to, he expressed his concerns through the mobile "matters that cannot be handled" reporting window in Yinchuan.
After receiving the request, the staff immediately coordinated with the Registration and Certification Section of the Yinchuan Municipal Examination and Approval Service Administration Bureau to handle the matter. Under the "one-on-one" guidance provided by the staff, Wang Yingui completed the missing materials, resubmitted his application, and obtained his new license the same day.
In 2024, the Yinchuan Municipal Examination and Approval Service Administration Bureau launched the mobile "matters that cannot be handled" reporting window, through which enterprises and the public can report issues online and upload images, audio, and video to accurately describe their concerns.
"The platform has established a request-handling mechanism featuring integrated operation and immediate response upon receipt, allowing the public's requests to reach the relevant departments directly," said Duan Xunshan, head of the Efficiency Supervision Section of the Yinchuan Municipal Examination and Approval Service Administration Bureau.
Beyond being a channel for receiving requests, the mobile "matters that cannot be handled" reporting window is also a smart platform "capable of writing and calculating."
By calculating and analyzing the data received through the window, the Yinchuan Municipal Examination and Approval Service Administration Bureau found that problems such as insufficient material compliance and repeated filling and uploading frequently troubled enterprises. In July 2025, the Bureau launched the "Smart Documents" application, providing standard templates for high-frequency matters covering the entire life cycle of enterprises, with dynamic updates. Applicants enter basic information online, and the system can generate a full set of compliant, customized application materials with one click, while also supporting online signing and sealing.
In addition, in response to the inconvenience reported by the public regarding the loss reporting of real estate ownership certificates, the Yinchuan Real Estate Registration Affairs Center opened a mobile "loss reporting" function, allowing the public to handle the procedure directly online.
According to statistics, since the launch of the mobile "matters that cannot be handled" reporting window, a total of 687 requests have been received from enterprises and the public, with 412 government service matters transferred for handling and a 100% completion rate. "The platform can compile real-time statistics on request data, sort out problems, analyze causes, and apply targeted remedies, achieving the goal of 'solving one problem and eliminating one category of difficulties,'" Duan Xunshan said.
Scanning the Code for Feedback — Rapid Response
"I thought it would take most of the day, but unexpectedly, by scanning a QR code and making a phone call, the problem was solved in just a few minutes!" said Li Dong, a resident of Tangshan Town, Zhen'an District, Dandong City, Liaoning Province, after successfully completing his procedures.
That morning, Li Dong was handling a property transfer at the Dandong Real Estate Registration and Housing Transaction Hall. Because he lacked a key kinship certificate issued by the public security authorities, the transaction hit a snag. Li Dong was troubled: Tangshan Town was more than 40 kilometers from the city center, and a round trip would not only be exhausting but could also delay the subsequent transfer process.
Just as Li Dong began to worry, the on-site staff promptly recommended the "handle it on the code" convenience service QR code for the people and enterprises. Li Dong scanned the code with his phone, filled in his request and contact number under the staff's guidance, and then clicked the submit button.
Before long, a police officer called him, and after understanding the situation, added Li Dong on WeChat. Subsequently, the two connected via video, and the police officer carefully verified Li Dong's identity information and kinship materials through the screen. After completing the verification, an electronic kinship certificate was issued online.
In recent years, the Dandong public security authorities have promoted the "handle it on the code" mechanism and developed and applied convenience service QR codes for the people and enterprises. Members of the public scan the code to enter the page and leave messages with their requests, and the public security authorities respond and process them quickly upon receipt.
Sui Hucheng, deputy director of the Dandong Municipal Public Security Bureau, introduced that not long ago, a textile enterprise also used the "handle it on the code" service. Several employees of the enterprise with household registration elsewhere urgently needed residence permits, so the person in charge of the enterprise scanned the QR code and sought help from the public security authorities. Police officers soon arrived at the enterprise and completed material verification and portrait collection on site. In less than two hours in total, the employees received their permits.
"We will continue to make good use of the 'handle it on the code' working mechanism and strive to resolve difficulties for the people," Sui Hucheng said.
Online and Offline — Coordinated Handling
"Before retirement, I worked in a special type of job. I heard that my years of service can be converted. I wonder if it can be done and where I should go?" At the livelihood issues reporting service area of the Jilin Municipal Government Service Center in Jilin City, 63-year-old citizen Li Xiuyun asked for help.
Staff member Jin Chunren replied: "Auntie, this matter involves multiple units. Let me take you to the relevant windows."
The two first went to the window of the Municipal Social Insurance Affairs Administration, where they learned what supporting materials were needed, and then moved to the service window of the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau. Upon review, the staff found that the original employing enterprise had gone bankrupt and that Li Xiuyun's files were incomplete.
"Whether it can be handled mainly depends on two aspects," said Jin Zhaocun, a fourth-level researcher at the Jilin Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, helping with the analysis. "First, whether your job type meets the conditions; second, whether your working hours meet the requirements. Both need to be proven with relevant materials."
"The enterprise has gone bankrupt, and I don't know whom to turn to. What can I do?" Li Xiuyun looked worried.
"Don't worry, there is still hope," Jin Zhaocun said. "We will do our utmost to help you search."
Under the coordination of the Jilin Municipal Government Service and Digitalization Construction Administration Bureau, the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, the Municipal Social Insurance Bureau, and other units conducted cross-departmental investigations both online and offline. After more than a month, the relevant supporting materials were finally found.
"We discovered that when the enterprise went bankrupt, it had issued materials to its employees that could prove Li Xiuyun had been exposed to toxic and hazardous environments for more than 10 years due to work requirements," Jin Zhaocun explained. Based on the policy, the relevant departments converted 5 years of service for Li Xiuyun and adjusted her pension benefits accordingly.
Since September 2024, Jilin City has established livelihood issues reporting service areas at the municipal and county-level government service centers to address the "difficult and complicated cases" encountered by the public. "Windows are set up offline to facilitate public consultation and handling, with staff providing whole-process follow-up services; online, a livelihood issues acceptance and handling management platform has been built to broaden the channels for receiving requests," Jin Chunren said. The combination of online and offline channels allows simple problems to be solved on the spot offline, while complex problems are transferred and handled online.
"Establishing service areas with online-offline coordination can better benefit groups such as the elderly," said Miao Chunlin, deputy director of the Jilin Municipal Government Service and Digitalization Construction Administration Bureau. As of now, the municipal and county-level livelihood issues reporting service areas have received more than 3,000 visits from the public.
This issue coordinated by: Han Chunyao
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Through scientific breeding and cultivation, pomegranates that were once only available for sale in the autumn season can now bring sweetness to consumers all year round.
In the pomegranate garden of the Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City High-Tech Zone in Sanya, Hainan, another crop of pomegranates has turned red. Huang Zhekai, general manager of Hainan Danruo Agriculture Co., Ltd. (海南省丹若农业有限公司), and his workers sorted and packaged the pomegranates by weight and appearance, preparing them for sale to various regions.
Soft-seed pomegranates are a temperate-zone fruit, and planting them in tropical Hainan can easily cause them to fail to adapt to local conditions. The Danruo Agriculture R&D team crossed ordinary local Hainan pomegranates with temperate-zone varieties through hybridization and selective breeding, successfully achieving year-round flowering and fruiting of soft-seed pomegranates in Hainan.
However, when the enterprise applied for a certificate of plant variety rights, it encountered difficulties. "We got stuck at the on-site substantive examination stage," said Huang Zhekai. Because the company was unfamiliar with the application process and the channels for coordination, it was unable to bring the relevant experts to the site.
At a loss for what to do, the "Zhi Xiao'er" (知小二) service team of the Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City High-Tech Zone extended a helping hand. "We actively coordinated with the East China Sub-Center of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration's Plant Variety Testing Center and arranged for experts to make a special trip to Hainan," introduced Lin Xianrui, a relevant official of the Intellectual Property Department of the Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City Administration Bureau.
In February 2025, the expert team arrived in Hainan and conducted on-site observation of the traits of the variety under application. After inquiry, discussion, comparison, and verification, they gave a positive evaluation. In July 2025, the "Danruo No. 1" soft-seed pomegranate obtained its plant variety rights certificate and quickly opened up sales channels.
By building a full-chain intellectual property service system, the Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City High-Tech Zone has aggregated factors, integrated resources, and built the "Zhi Xiao'er" professional service team, promoting centralized management of matters and helping seed industry enterprises rooted in the zone to breed new varieties, apply for patents, and expand markets.
In the breeding base of the High-Tech Zone, soybean seeds that once rode aboard the Shijian-19 satellite have already been propagated for multiple generations, and their excellent traits are rapidly becoming apparent. "Going to space pressed the fast-forward button for breeding. The High-Tech Zone's intellectual property services have also put our enterprise's development on the fast lane," said Liang Yi, intellectual property director of Longping Biotechnology (Hainan) Co., Ltd. (隆平生物技术（海南）有限公司). The zone's patent pre-examination service helped the enterprise obtain authorization and commercialize its achievements more quickly.
"Pre-examiners check the patent application materials submitted by enterprises in advance. After pre-examination passes, applicants then submit the materials to the China National Intellectual Property Administration, which removes bottlenecks and makes the subsequent process smoother," introduced a relevant official of the Pre-Examination Department of the Sanya Intellectual Property Protection Center. Patent pre-examination services can significantly shorten examination time, winning a head start for the implementation of enterprise R&D achievements.
In addition to vertical acceleration, there is also horizontal integration.
In the past, breeding enterprises often had to rush around on multiple fronts to handle different intellectual property matters, with complex and lengthy procedures. Through authorization, delegation, and other means, the intellectual property administrative departments at the Hainan provincial and Sanya municipal levels have integrated multiple categories of intellectual property matters, adjusting administrative authority to be centrally managed by the Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City Administration Bureau, so that enterprises can enjoy one-stop intellectual property services.
As of 2025, the Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City High-Tech Zone's valid invention patent holdings accounted for 24.46% of Hainan Province's total and 96.26% of Sanya's total.
Seed industry intellectual property operations focus not only on visible improved crop varieties but also on invisible data elements.
The Yazhou Bay National Laboratory, jointly with research institutions and universities, released the seed industry large model "Fengdeng" (丰登), helping scientific researchers better organize knowledge, optimize experiments, and cultivate new varieties. Yang Fan, a researcher at the laboratory, explained: "The large model can fully leverage its advantages in data aggregation and reasoning, clarifying the specific mechanisms by which genes regulate traits."
In March of this year, the National Seed Industry Intellectual Property Operations Center was officially launched in the Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City High-Tech Zone. "The Operations Center will build a seed industry intellectual property data platform, providing specialized services such as retrieval and analysis, transaction matching, and financial support for agricultural research institutes, universities, and seed industry enterprises, and promoting the intellectual propertyization and industrialization of R&D achievements," introduced a relevant official of the Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City Administration Bureau.
In 2025, Sanya completed the registration and filing of 1,139 technology contracts, with a transaction value of 2.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 87.9%. "We will strengthen the cultivation of seed industry intellectual property service talent teams, promote the construction of the National Seed Industry Intellectual Property Operations Center, and keep the agricultural 'chip' of seeds continuously updated," said a relevant official of the Sanya Intellectual Property Bureau.
Beijing, August 17 (Reporters Jiang Xuehong (蒋雪鸿), Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)) — Meteorological monitoring shows that during the daytime of August 17, heavy rain or torrential rain occurred in parts of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong and other regions, with locally extremely heavy rain. The Central Meteorological Observatory (中央气象台) forecasts heavy rainfall in the Sichuan Basin, Yunnan, Hainan and other areas, with frequent thundershowers in North China, Northeast China and other regions.
Specifically, over the next three days, scattered heavy precipitation will occur in the eastern and southern parts of Southwest China, eastern Jiangnan, South China and other areas, with torrential rain or extremely heavy rain in parts of Hainan, the western Sichuan Basin and other places. Among these, the period of heavy rainfall in the western Sichuan Basin is mainly from the night of the 19th to the daytime of the 20th. At 18:00 on the 17th, the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) and the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) jointly issued a yellow meteorological warning for mountain torrent disasters; the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) and the China Meteorological Administration jointly issued a yellow meteorological risk warning for geological disasters.
On the 17th, the Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (国家防总办公室) and the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) continued to organize joint consultations among multiple departments as well as Sichuan, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other provinces, assessing the recent trend of heavy rainfall development and deploying flood control work. The consultation pointed out that the Shaying River (沙颍河) in the Huai River basin and the Nihewa (泥河洼) flood storage and detention area are still in the recession stage, and Taihu Lake and the surrounding river network continue to operate at high water levels, making dike patrol and defense and flood control safety assurance tasks arduous. In addition, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning and other places have recently experienced relatively heavy rainfall, and prevention and response measures must be taken. The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management maintained the Level III flood control emergency response for Jiangsu, as well as the Level IV flood control emergency response for Henan, Zhejiang and Anhui. The working groups previously dispatched continue to assist and guide flood fighting and emergency rescue work on the front line in the Taihu Lake area of Jiangsu. The 13 drainage teams previously dispatched by the Ministry of Emergency Management continue to carry out drainage operations in Zhoukou, Henan.
On the 17th, at the request of the Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区防汛抗旱总指挥部), the Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management, together with the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration (国家粮食和物资储备局), additionally transferred 55 drought-relief water pumps, 37 generators, 100 water storage tanks and other central drought-relief supplies to support Xinjiang in doing a good job of drought relief and disaster reduction.
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Sheng Yulei (盛玉雷), commentator of this newspaper
Huang Haihua (黄海华), Director of the Research Office of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
Sheng Yulei: On August 15, the Ecological Environment Code formally came into effect. The law safeguards mountains and rivers; the code benefits a thousand generations. From the perspective of the rule of law, how should we understand the "historic, transformative, and overall changes" in ecological civilization construction in the new era?
Huang Haihua: Under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, a comprehensive, practical, effective, scientific, and rigorous legal system for the ecological environment has basically taken shape, leading and promoting the construction of a Beautiful China to achieve major accomplishments recognized worldwide. The development of the cause has in turn given rise to a unified code. The Ecological Environment Code consolidates the theoretical, institutional, and practical achievements of ecological civilization construction in the new era, marking the entry of ecological environment governance into a new stage of systematization and rule-of-law governance.
One notable change lies in the elevation of social concepts. For example, Article 4 of the 1989 Environmental Protection Law stated "to coordinate environmental protection work with economic construction and social development," which was adjusted in the 2014 revision to "to coordinate economic and social development with environmental protection," and the Ecological Environment Code further clarifies "to coordinate industrial structure adjustment, pollution prevention and control, ecological protection, and climate change response, and to synergistically advance carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and economic growth"... Practice is continuously developing, understanding is continuously deepening, and law is continuously improving — this is also a manifestation of observing the era, grasping the era, and leading the era.
Sheng Yulei: "Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" and "new quality productive forces are themselves green productive forces" — how should we view the safeguarding role of the Ecological Environment Code in promoting high-quality development?
Huang Haihua: The Ecological Environment Code coordinates high-quality development and high-level protection, with a dedicated part on green and low-carbon development, highlighting ecological priority, conservation and intensive use, and green and low-carbon development. In the logic of traditional industrialization, ecological protection is a "subtraction" from development — pollution control is a cost, environmental protection is a burden, and nature is a drag. Under the guidance of the new development philosophy, ecological governance is a "multiplication" of value — lucid waters and lush mountains are themselves a rich mine of stored value.
Take the "dual carbon" goals as an example. Not long ago, the National Climate Change Response "15th Five-Year Plan" was issued, clearly implementing a dual control system over total carbon emissions and carbon intensity, which is consistent with the relevant provisions of the Ecological Environment Code. The shift from dual control over energy consumption to dual control over carbon emissions helps establish a clear orientation that encourages the development of renewable energy and focuses on controlling fossil energy consumption, promotes the research, development, and application of advanced green and low-carbon technologies, and cultivates new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions.
Sheng Yulei: Looking at the world, the Ecological Environment Code demonstrates Chinese wisdom and Chinese practice in ecological environment governance. Where do its innovativeness and leading character lie?
Huang Haihua: Unlike the "environmental codes" or "ecological codes" of other countries, the Ecological Environment Code is the world's first code named after "ecological environment." The adoption of a codification model rather than a compilation model reflects stronger capacity for systemic integration and institutional innovation. At the same time, China, as a major country with a population of over 1.4 billion and one of the few countries in the world that possesses a complete "mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, grasslands, and deserts" ecosystem, compiling the Ecological Environment Code and advancing ecological civilization construction has an irreplaceable and unignorable impact on global ecological governance and environmental well-being.
In terms of innovativeness, the Ecological Environment Code elevates mature experience and practices into legal provisions, and makes principled provisions for matters that still require continued exploration and practice. For example, in the part on pollution prevention and control, a ninth sub-part has been added, covering new fields and new situations such as new chemical substances, electromagnetic radiation, and light pollution, filling gaps in traditional legislation. In terms of leading character, it does not address matters in isolation, but replaces fragmented cognitive frameworks with systemic thinking, promotes the transformation from single-pollutant pollution control to coordinated control of composite pollution, strengthens the systemic governance of mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, grasslands, and deserts, establishes green and low-carbon development as the source-governance thinking for solving ecological environment problems, and enhances the systemic, holistic, and coordinated nature of ecological environment governance.
Sheng Yulei: This substantial code brings together more than 30 ecological environment laws, over 100 administrative regulations, and more than 1,000 local regulations. How can it be made more directly and tangibly felt by the ordinary people?
Huang Haihua: A good ecological environment is the most inclusive form of public well-being. Safeguarding public health and ecological environment rights and interests is the legislative purpose of the Ecological Environment Code and also the top priority in its comprehensive and effective implementation.
It is felt in the concerns of daily life. Oil fume pollution control emphasizes source-level layout planning, requiring relevant departments to provide reminders when catering enterprises register; noise pollution highlights the improvement of standards and optimization of management, advocating that disputes be resolved first through consultation after they arise; the problem of straw burning is no longer handled with a "one-size-fits-all" approach, but instead provincial-level and above people's governments are authorized to designate no-burning zones and time periods; and so on. In simple terms, it is about showing concern for matters around the people and removing the livelihood worries and troubles caused by pollution.
It is also felt in institutional rigidity. The ecological environment damage compensation system is implemented, with clear provisions on applicable circumstances, responsible subjects, and claims procedures; for acts such as falsification and issuing false reports, measures such as increased fine amounts and employment restrictions are adopted for severe punishment... Only the strictest institutions and the most rigorous rule of law can provide the most reliable safeguards.
Sheng Yulei: Looking to the future, what space remains in ecological environment legislation to make greater contributions to the construction of a Beautiful China?
Huang Haihua: By adopting "moderate codification," the Ecological Environment Code itself is more directive and inclusive, and in the fields of ecological protection and green and low-carbon development, it allows external separate laws to develop in parallel with it. For example, the draft amendments to the Water Law and the draft law on farmland protection and quality improvement currently under review complement the Code and maintain the flexibility of the system. Adapting to new situations and new needs, laws in the field of green and low-carbon development will also be successively revised and enacted.
Making plans for the present and seeking long-term strategies, the implementation of the Ecological Environment Code is not an end point. We must better leverage the rule of law's safeguarding role of consolidating foundations, stabilizing expectations, and benefiting the long term, and advance the modernization of harmony between humanity and nature through the construction of a Beautiful China, advancing with swift steps yet steady pace, and pursuing the course with unwavering determination.
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Opera is never a patchwork of moves and routines, but the 起承转合 (qǐ chéng zhuǎn hé - "rise, develop, turn, conclude," the four-part structural progression of a literary or artistic work) of operatic principle and vital resonance. Only when performance has substance and performance forms coherent meaning can audiences understand what they hear, take in what they see, and love it deeply.
Some time ago, the television drama The Protagonist was broadcast to great popularity, bringing Qin opera into the public eye. For a time, many of the virtuoso feats and special techniques that we opera practitioners regard as ordinary attracted widespread attention, and many classic works came alive again. This shows that our "old craft" is not aging; in the rhythm of the times it is in full bloom.
Audiences all have 火眼金睛 (huǒ yǎn jīn jīng - "fiery eyes, golden pupils," discerning vision that sees through pretense); they detest exaggerated fake moves and love genuine skill. Take, for example, the "blowing fire" and "slow lying fish" feats in Wandering West Lake — both are tempered by sweat. When I was young, practicing the "slow lying fish," my legs would not stop trembling and tears would not stop flowing; I felt only that time was hard to endure. "Slow" contains profound meaning: the slowness of the body gives concrete form to external pressure, while the core is Li Huiniang's unyielding spiritual backbone. Pressure and uprightness form the tension of slowness, supporting a full-bodied character. For the individual, the torment of training and the persistence of learning opera accumulate into solid foundation skills, allowing performance to "quench the thirst" of audiences. Only by polishing a signature piece with slow effort can one live up to audience expectations and withstand audience scrutiny.
Opera is never a patchwork of moves and routines, but the rise, development, turn, and conclusion of operatic principle and vital resonance. Some people find opera beautiful on first encounter but stop at "not understanding it." This is because some modes of expression and narrative conventions have become estranged. Innovative expression and bridge-building help translate the "subtext" of a play, moving people with emotion and astonishing people with skill. In previous years, when we created and staged Burning Incense, we focused on using Qin opera's grand opening and closing to express feelings directly. A ten-foot water sleeve is heavy and hard to control; driven by emotion, the sleeve rises like surging thoughts and falls like sinking grief and resentment, making the character's inner world concrete and directly visible. In singing, recitation, acting, and acrobatics; in hands, eyes, body, technique, and steps — every convention and every virtuoso feat must not be reduced to mere form. Only when performance has substance and performance forms coherent meaning can audiences understand what they hear, take in what they see, and love it deeply.
Opera has its source; art has its original heart. Qin opera was born of the loess plateau and is the spiritual sustenance of the people of the northwest. This folk foundation is our weightiest root. To guard the original heart is to guard reverence for the stage and sincerity toward the audience. I have long persisted in going to the countryside for performances that benefit the people. Whether on a crude and simple village stage or an ornate and exquisite theater stage, I treat every performance with the most rigorous classical interpretation and the fullest stage presence, holding fast to Qin opera's original foundation and fully inheriting the classic repertoire and refined techniques left by the older generation. My teacher Ma Lanyu (马蓝鱼) often said: to learn opera, first cultivate virtue; to train skills, first engage the heart. As I understand it, this virtue is a kind of faithfulness and decency toward the audience — using pure steadfastness to hold fast to the people's character of popular art.
Only by upholding the organic integration of preserving the orthodox and innovating can China's fine traditional culture thrive 生生不息 (shēng shēng bù xī - "born born not cease," to thrive and multiply without end) in the river of time. Over the years, one point of integration I have explored is not losing the original heart and opening the door to pass on the new. To help more young people understand and fall in love with Qin opera, I have long traveled among campuses, public lectures, and art forums, 言简意赅 (yán jiǎn yì gāi - "words simple, meaning complete," concise and comprehensive) unpacking classical techniques, interpreting operatic aesthetics, and telling Qin opera stories, bringing a thousand-year-old charm into the vision of the young.
The point of integration also lies in fusion. China's opera forms are rich and varied; though their forms differ, they are inwardly connected. Why not actively break down walls and promote fusion? Taking Burning Incense as an example, we preserved the essence of traditional Qin opera while absorbing and borrowing elements from other sibling opera genres, adding new flavor to Qin opera. This ingenious combination has resonated with many audiences. I am happy to make friends with young performers of different opera genres. Regardless of age and across categories, the process of exchange, learning, and the collision of inspiration is itself a form of inheritance and innovation.
Sink the heart down — revere tradition and anchor the roots; raise the eyes up — explore boldly and 兼收并蓄 (jiān shōu bìng xù - "absorb all, store all," to incorporate everything without discrimination). Only then can traditional skills fit the stage of the times. Reduced to an empty shell and losing its audience, an ancient art will gradually wither. Guard the soul of opera and transmit new resonance, and the arts can remain evergreen year after year, with enduring spirit and bone.
(The author is a winner of the China Theatre Plum Blossom Award (中国戏剧梅花奖) and a professor at Xi'an Drama Academy (西安戏剧学院). This article was compiled from an interview by our reporter Jia Fengfeng (贾丰丰).)
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【Keyword】Rural bus
【Event】Recently, a reply posted on social media by a boy in Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County, Sichuan, went viral online. A netizen said: "Study hard, and strive to get out of the mountains." Facing the netizen's well-intentioned advice, the boy replied calmly: "I can get out just by taking the bus." The child's words struck a chord, and some netizens remarked, "His calmness is the meaning of development."
【Commentary】
One question and one answer — it is as if two eras have met.
In the past, when people said "get out of the mountains," it always carried a certain heaviness. It meant climbing over mountains and ridges, meant leaving one's hometown far behind, and meant that a person, or even a place, had to spend a long time and expend great effort, through some single path, to shake off the label of backwardness and break free from the constraints of geography and resources.
Today, in the eyes of a child, "getting out of the mountains" has been demystified — one only needs to take a bus. What once had to be solemnly written as a life aspiration has now become an everyday routine reachable with a single step.
That a child can speak of the distance so calmly reflects the closer ties between urban and rural areas, and the fact that the fruits of development are more tangible and accessible.
After the post went viral, many netizens flooded into the boy's social media account. Some asked him how to live so relaxed, some made plans to visit Beichuan, and some said they would send him his favorite egg tarts — and the boy answered them all calmly. The rural daily life he casually shared also drew netizens' attention. There are green mountains and streams, rural roads, bus stops, and communication base stations. When the outside world is no longer out of reach, the lucid waters and lush mountains of the deep countryside become all the more endearing.
This calmness did not come out of thin air. Today, the total mileage of rural roads in China has reached 4.7 million kilometers, and all townships and incorporated villages with the necessary conditions have achieved bus service. Whether on the snowy plateau or deep in the old forests and mountains, wherever there is need, there is our infrastructure. The road network continues to extend, school conditions keep improving, the internet crosses the mountain ridges, and public services reach deeper into the villages.
When the road is built to the village entrance, the distance is no longer out of reach; when the school is built nearby, dreams have a place to set sail; when the internet reaches the mountain village, markets, knowledge, and opportunities can follow. Investing in things is, in the final analysis, investing in people — investing in the lives that children are unfolding, investing in the people's happy life.
Such investment may not decide anyone's fate, but it is like lamps lighting the road ahead. The profound meaning of development lies not only in improving production and living conditions, but also in giving every ordinary person the opportunity to change their life and create more possibilities.
In earlier years, Zhang Guimei often told her students: "When you pass the college entrance examination and get out of the mountains, don't come back." This year, when seeing off her graduates, she said instead: "My 'you are not allowed to come back' is void! I will strive to stay alive and wait for you every year." This change is not a change of wish, but a change of hometown. In the past, going out was to find a way forward; today, going out can build one's capabilities, and coming back one can also settle down to cultivate life and place one's ideals. The native soil and the distance are no longer opposed to each other, but have become places where life can be freely written.
Starting from a small bus stop, a person may head toward a bustling metropolis, may come back to build their hometown, or may go toward even more unknown distances — and this is precisely the broad road paved by development. Zhang Xue, who "chases dreams on a motorcycle," Wang Jibing, the "courier poet"... in recent years, we have seen more and more "ceilings" in one field after another broken through, more and more labels of "impossible" torn off, and more and more dream chasers shining in their respective fields. Everyone has a different starting point and a different life trajectory, but it all illustrates a common truth: the more ample the opportunities society provides, the more directions life can unfold.
Some once said that education changes destiny. Today, we would rather say that development enriches destiny. With our continuously improving infrastructure, and with long-term planning that insists on closely combining investment in things with investment in people, everyone has more possibilities to grow upward, to move far, and to race toward the future. When thousands upon thousands of possibilities are respected, and thousands upon thousands of ordinary people can freely choose their lives, a society will have an inexhaustible driving force for development.
Deep-sea hardcore technology continues to achieve breakthroughs; the three major indicators of new ship orders, completed tonnage, and orders on hand continue to maintain a global leading position; the capacity to guarantee the supply of marine products has steadily strengthened... According to preliminary calculations, in the first half of this year, China's Gross Ocean Product reached 5.5 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.1%, demonstrating sound development resilience, and its leading role in the national economy has become increasingly prominent.
This is precisely:
Sirens sound, sails unfurl toward the distant ocean,
Wind turbines stand tall, holding back the glow of rosy clouds.
Tides rise, waves surge, urging forth new industries,
The blue ocean's splendid vista flourishes with each passing day.
Xu Zhiwen (徐之文)
Return to TopBy: 曹继东
Recently, a set of short videos went viral online: some citizens saw raised ground nails on the roadside and pulled them out themselves; some citizens found that streetlight poles were not conspicuous enough at night and proactively affixed reflective strips. Similar acts won praise, and netizens left messages one after another: "Well done," "This is what being a master of the city looks like," "I want to try too." These warm-hearted citizens have also been affectionately called "nail-pulling heroes."
The likes reflect a change — today, people's awareness of participating in urban governance is strengthening. More and more people no longer treat urban governance as "someone else's business," but are willing to proactively discover problems and try to solve them. However, while applauding warm-hearted citizens, a practical problem is equally worthy of attention: is it really appropriate for ordinary people to handle hidden dangers in public facilities on their own?
Pulling out one ground nail seems simple, but without professional tools, it may not be pulled out thoroughly, instead leaving new hidden dangers behind; affixing reflective strips to streetlight poles, if the position is improper or the material is substandard, may affect the original function, or even cause misleading. More critically, once an accident occurs during self-handling — such as being tripped, scratched, or accidentally electrocuted — how should responsibility be defined? Behind the problem are real legal and safety risks. The enthusiasm of the masses deserves to be cherished all the more, but urban governance cannot long rely on citizens 赤手空拳 (chì shǒu kōng quán - "bare hands and empty fists," to fight without tools or preparation) to patch up loopholes.
Citizens are the most sensitive antennae of urban governance. They pass through 大街小巷 (dà jiē xiǎo xiàng - "big streets and small lanes," every street and alley) every day, and can discover at the first moment those overlooked corners and neglected risks. This kind of "micro-perspective" from the front line can make up for the blind spots of daily inspections. But discovering problems is only the first step; the key is that urban management departments must be able to "catch it" — so that every discovery by citizens has a response, and every appeal has a resolution.
This requires functional departments to establish a smoother mechanism for discovery, reporting, handling, feedback, and follow-up visits. First, smooth the feedback channels and improve response speed. Citizens should know "where to report a discovered problem" — whether it is the 12345 hotline, community grid workers, or the mobile phone "snap-and-report" mini-program, all should be convenient to use and smooth to report. Second, form a closed loop of handling. After the problem is resolved, promptly feed back the handling result to the person who reported it, and conduct regular follow-up visits to ensure the problem does not recur. Only by forming a complete closed-loop chain can the masses' sense of participation be transformed into a tangible sense of gain. Finally, improve the bottom-line guarantee. For situations that are indeed safety hazards but not suitable for citizens to handle themselves, there must be clear prompts and guidance, telling the masses "leave this matter to us to handle," rather than letting the masses take risks themselves.
Public participation deserves encouragement; departmental responsibility must not be absent. Urban governance is a two-way running toward each other between government departments and citizens. Citizens use their eyes to discover problems, government departments use action to solve problems — the two cooperate with each other to make the city both warm and orderly. Let every ground nail have someone to manage it, and every hidden danger have someone to ask about it — this is both a manifestation of urban governance capacity and a respect for every warm-hearted citizen.
(Excerpted from Liaoning Daily, original title: "'Nail-Pulling Heroes' Are Hot, Urban Management Must Catch It")
Return to TopBy: 郭光文
A passage on the wall of a warning education room in a certain city draws people into deep thought (引人深思, yǐn rén shēn sī – "draw people into deep thought," to provoke deep reflection): in recent years, among the various corruption cases involving county and department-level leading cadres investigated and dealt with in our city, 80% were directly related to their principal relatives, and in particular, 80% of those were closely connected with their spouses and children.
The "two 80 percents" reveal the extreme importance of Party members and cadres, especially leading cadres, strengthening the building of family, family education, and family tradition.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Family tradition building must be placed in an important position, cultivate integrity through self-cultivation, cultivate integrity in managing the family, prevent the 'pillow wind' from becoming the fuse for corruption, prevent children from using one's name to illegally seek profit, and prevent those around one from dragging one into the water." These clear requirements warn Party member leading cadres to nourish fine work styles with clean and honest family traditions, and to push family tradition building to go deeper and be more solid.
To do well in family tradition building, one must first correct ideological understanding and must never be muddle-headed. Some leading cadres mistakenly believe that using the convenience of their positions to seek some benefits and advantages for family members is 人之常情 (rén zhī cháng qíng – "common human feeling," a normal human reaction), not realizing that losing one's grip on small matters will lead step by step into the abyss of corruption. Others treat power as a tool to pave the way for their children, thinking they are helping their children grow, but in reality they are transmitting privileged thinking, ultimately both delaying their children's lives and destroying their own futures. Leading cadres must, at all times and in all places, clarify the boundary between public and private, properly handle the relationship between sentiment and law, recognize that doting is not love and indulgence is not protection, and build affection for family members on the foundation of 遵纪守法 (zūn jì shǒu fǎ – "abide by discipline and law," to be law-abiding) and living an honest life.
For leading cadres, a good family tradition has never been a mere family matter or private affair, but rather a strict disciplinary requirement. The Code of Integrity and Self-Discipline of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党廉洁自律准则) clearly requires Party member leading cadres to "cultivate integrity in managing the family, and consciously take the lead in establishing a good family tradition." The Regulations on Disciplinary Action of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党纪律处分条例) stipulates that "failure to manage and educate one's spouse, children, and children's spouses" will result in corresponding disciplinary action. Various localities have continuously carried out special rectification of problems of leading cadres and their spouses, children, and children's spouses engaging in business and running enterprises in violation of regulations, closely watching the problem of relatives using influence to seek private gain and engage in corruption, and incorporating family tradition into the daily supervision and assessment of cadres. To forge iron, one must be strong oneself. Strictly managing one's family and relatives and nurturing a fine family tradition is not a soft constraint but a hard requirement.
To do well in family tradition building, one must also innovate methods and approaches. Family tradition building emphasizes daily infiltration and cannot stop at meetings and preaching. Some localities organize "top leaders," newly promoted cadres, young cadres, cadres in key positions, and their family members to visit integrity education bases and sign commitments to assist in clean governance; some localities make full use of resources such as warning education films and family tradition themed exhibitions, organize sharing of red family tradition stories, and extend discipline education beyond the eight working hours and into the family... Practice shows that family tradition building values persistence and long-term effort.
Innovating methods and approaches, changing the past one-way indoctrination model of "I speak and you listen," and placing more emphasis on two-way interaction and emotional resonance can allow the seeds of integrity to take root and sprout in more families, and build a solid defense line of 拒腐防变 (jù fǔ fáng biàn – "resist corruption and prevent degeneration," to guard against corruption and moral decay).
The comprehensive and strict governance of the Party advancing in depth inevitably requires grasping and firmly holding family tradition building as an important part of work style building. The warning of the "two 80 percents" reminds us that resisting corruption and preventing degeneration requires guarding the family as this important line of defense. The broad masses of Party member leading cadres must persist in self-cultivation and self-discipline, strictly govern their families, manage themselves well, and keep their family members in check, only then can they nourish clean and upright Party conduct and government conduct with pure family traditions, and gather clean and upright energy for the development of the cause.
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Return to TopBy: 中央政治局委员、中央书记处书记、中央组织部部长 石泰峰
This morning, at the conference commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Jiang Zemin, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech, affectionately reviewing Comrade Jiang Zemin's glorious and militant life, and deeply cherishing his immense contributions and lofty character. In the course of leading the practice of building socialism with Chinese characteristics, Comrade Jiang Zemin elevated Party building to the height of a "new great project," clearly put forward the overall goal of Party building, comprehensively raised the two historic subjects of improving the level of leadership and governance and enhancing the ability to resist corruption and prevent degeneration and withstand risks, and profoundly answered the questions of what kind of Party to build and how to build it, enriching and developing the Marxist theory of Party building. Here, I will focus on sharing some understanding and insights from the perspective of Party building and organizational work.
Comrade Jiang Zemin emphatically stressed that upholding the Party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee for the victorious advance of our cause, and that Party leadership must be strengthened and improved without the slightest relaxation. He profoundly pointed out that the more we reform and open up and develop the economy, the more we must strengthen Party leadership and do well in Party building; this point must never be ignored or relaxed at any time, otherwise we would commit historic mistakes. He stressed that the centralized leadership of the Central Committee must be strengthened and the authority of the Central Committee safeguarded. He said with deep feeling that all Party comrades must always place the Party in the highest position in their hearts and always consciously uphold and maintain the Party's leadership in all work. In response to the problem of weakened Party leadership exposed in the serious political turmoil of the late 1980s, he required that, in accordance with the principle of grasping the overall situation and coordinating all sides, Party leadership be further strengthened and improved, democratic centralism be upheld and improved, the Party's vitality and unity and solidarity be enhanced, and it be ensured that the Party always becomes the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Comrade Jiang Zemin insisted on placing the strengthening of the Party's ideological and theoretical development first, stressing that efforts must be made to raise the whole Party's level of Marxist theory. He pointed out that the Party's improvement in ideology and theory is the ideological guarantee for the continuous development of the Party and the country's cause; for both the Party and Party cadres, theoretical maturity is the foundation of political maturity. With tremendous theoretical courage, he advanced theoretical innovation, pooled the wisdom of the whole Party to create the important thought of the "Three Represents," and realized another advance with the times in our Party's guiding ideology. He issued the call to the whole Party to "study, study, and study again," pushing the whole Party's theoretical arming to go deeper and deeper. From November 1998 to the end of 2000, our Party deeply carried out Party spirit and Party conduct education with "speak of study, speak of politics, speak of healthy tendencies" as the main content, and the broad ranks of cadres universally received a profound Marxist education.
Comrade Jiang Zemin attached great importance to the building of leading bodies and the cadre contingent, stressing that large numbers of outstanding leading talents skilled in governing the Party, the state, and the military must be cultivated and trained. He pointed out that whether China's socialist cause can be consolidated and developed, and whether China can remain forever strong and prosperous in the fierce international competition of the future, depends on whether our Party can continuously cultivate and train large numbers of high-quality leading talents. He required seizing the opportunity to advance the reform of the cadre and personnel system, formulating and issuing the Interim Regulations on the Selection and Appointment of Party and Government Leading Cadres, establishing the national civil service system, strengthening the building of leading bodies at all levels, and promoting the formation of a vigorous and enterprising leadership. He cared very much about intellectual work, clearly put forward that "human resources are the primary resource," and promoted the establishment of a management system and operational mechanism for human resources, providing a solid talent guarantee for implementing the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and advancing socialist modernization.
Comrade Jiang Zemin paid great attention to strengthening Party building at the grassroots level, stressing that the Party's class base must be continuously consolidated and its mass base expanded. He pointed out that if the foundation is not solid, the earth shakes and the mountains move; the Party's grassroots organizations are the foundation of all the Party's work and combat effectiveness, and efforts must be made to build grassroots Party organizations into fighting bastions that unite and lead the masses in reform and construction. He guided and promoted the building of Party grassroots organizations in all fields, formulated and implemented work regulations and opinions for grassroots organizations in Party and government organs, universities, state-owned enterprises, rural areas, social organizations, and the non-public sector, and especially explored strengthening Party building in new economic organizations and new social organizations, blazing a new path for grassroots Party building under the conditions of the socialist market economy. He required strictly developing Party members in accordance with the standards stipulated in the Party Constitution, strengthening the education and management of Party members, seriously handling unqualified Party members, and striving to maintain the advanced nature and purity of the Party's ranks.
Comrade Jiang Zemin unswervingly advanced the fight against corruption and the building of a clean and honest Party and government, stressing that to govern the country well, the Party must first be governed well, and that governing the Party must be strict. He pointed out that the Party's work style bears on the Party's image, bears on the will of the people, and bears on the life of the Party; that the Party must uphold the principle of building the Party for the public and exercising power for the people, follow the Party's mass line, and realize, safeguard, and develop the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people. The Sixth Plenary Session of the Fifteenth Central Committee of the Party adopted the Decision on Strengthening and Improving the Party's Work Style, clearly putting forward the requirements of "eight upholds and eight opposes," and comprehensively advancing the building of the Party's work style. He pointed out that the fight against corruption is a serious political struggle bearing on the hearts of the Party and the people and on the future and destiny of the Party and the state, and required that punishing corruption be handled as a systematic project. Under his leadership, our Party continuously intensified the fight against corruption, seriously investigated and dealt with cases of discipline and law violations, and achieved important stage-by-stage results.
Reviewing Comrade Jiang Zemin's theory and practice in leading the advancement of Party building, we have come to understand more deeply that the key to running China's affairs well lies in the Party, and that the new great project of Party building must be advanced consistently.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, centering on the major issues of the era of what kind of long-term governing Marxist party to build and how to build it, has put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies for governing and managing the Party and for rejuvenating and strengthening the Party, forming Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. This thought is the latest achievement of adhering to the "two combinations" in advancing theoretical innovation, is the chapter on Party building in Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and provides the fundamental guideline and action guide for deeply advancing the new great project of Party building in the new era. This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. We must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the "two establishments," resolutely achieve the "two upholds," deeply study and implement the spirit of the General Secretary's important speech on July 1 and Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, persistently advance full and rigorous Party self-governance, continuously build the Party to be stronger and more powerful, and provide a strong guarantee for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization!
By: 中央政治局委员、国务院副总理 刘国中
This morning, we listened to General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, which affectionately reviewed Comrade Jiang Zemin's lifelong struggle, historical contributions, and noble demeanor. Our hearts are filled with reverence and gratitude. Comrade Jiang Zemin was the core of the Party's third generation of central collective leadership and the principal founder of the important thought of Three Represents. At the turn of the century marked by 风云变幻 (fēng yún biàn huàn - "winds and clouds shift and change," volatile and changing circumstances), he led the Party's central collective leadership, closely relying on the entire Party, the entire military, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, and successfully carried socialism with Chinese characteristics into the 21st century, leaving us a precious spiritual treasure that is 历久弥新 (lì jiǔ mí xīn - "the longer it lasts, the fresher it becomes," growing more valuable with time). In a moment, Comrade Cai Qi will deliver a speech, and we must earnestly study and implement it. Below, I would like to share some understandings and reflections on studying and implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech.
First, inherit the bloodline of theoretical innovation, and more consciously use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to unite hearts and forge souls and guide direction. The history of our Party is a history of continuously advancing the sinicization and modernization of Marxism, and a history of continuously advancing theoretical innovation and theoretical creation. Throughout Comrade Jiang Zemin's life, he always adhered to Marxist beliefs, based on the profound changes in domestic and international situations, concentrated the wisdom of the entire Party to create the important thought of Three Represents, deepened our understanding of the laws of advancing the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and strengthening Party building under the conditions of the new era, and fully demonstrated the theoretical character of adhering to the original source, keeping pace with the times, and upholding integrity while innovating. Practice has no end, and theoretical innovation also has no end. In studying and comprehending his life and thought, we must continuously strengthen the armed force of the Party's innovative theory, deeply study and thoroughly understand the scientific connotation and essential meaning of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, uphold and apply the standpoints, viewpoints, and methods that run through it, use scientific theory to assess situations and solve difficult problems, firmly support the "Two Establishments" and resolutely achieve the "Two Upholds," and be executors, actionists, and doers in implementing the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements, ensuring that all work steadily advances in the direction guided by the Party Central Committee.
Second, adhere to development as the top priority, and more consciously advance Chinese modernization with high-quality development. Development is the top priority for the Party in governing and rejuvenating the country. As early as the 1990s, Comrade Jiang Zemin keenly grasped the laws of economic development and clearly put forward strategic ideas such as transforming the economic growth model and making strategic adjustments to the economic structure. He pointed out that we are a developing country; to achieve modernization and narrow the gap with developed countries, the key lies in finding a path for national economic development that has both relatively high speed and relatively good benefits, realizing the transformation of the economic growth model from extensive to intensive, and maintaining sustained, rapid, and healthy development of the national economy. He emphasized that the issues of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers have always been fundamental issues concerning the overall situation of the Party and the country, and that coordinating urban and rural economic and social development, building modern agriculture, developing the rural economy, and increasing farmers' income are major tasks for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. Reviewing these discussions today still has important value. In studying and comprehending his life and thought, we must completely, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, solidly promote high-quality development, better coordinate development and security, develop new quality productive forces according to local conditions, promote the effective improvement of economic quality and reasonable growth of quantity, and continuously consolidate the material foundation of Chinese modernization.
Third, forever maintain a pioneering and enterprising attitude, and more consciously stimulate the vitality and dynamism of the whole society through deepening reform and expanding opening up. Reform and opening up is an important magic weapon for the Party and the people's cause to catch up with the times in big strides. During the 13 years from the Fourth Plenary Session of the 13th Central Committee to the 16th National Congress of the Party, Comrade Jiang Zemin further deepened theoretical thinking on China's socialist reform, promoted the establishment of the socialist market economy system as the goal of China's economic system reform, and implemented a series of far-reaching reforms in state-owned enterprises, finance, fiscal affairs, and distribution systems. At the same time, he firmly grasped the trend of accelerating economic globalization, emphasized that for China to develop, progress, and become prosperous, it must open up to the outside world, strengthen economic, scientific, technological, and cultural exchanges and cooperation with countries around the world, and made the strategic decision to join the World Trade Organization, winning valuable opportunities for China's development. Reform and opening up has only ongoing progress, no completion. In studying and comprehending his life and thought, we must further comprehensively deepen reform, adhere to and improve the basic socialist economic system, fully leverage the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, better leverage the role of the government, build a high-level socialist market economy system, promote high-level opening up to the outside world, and provide strong impetus and institutional guarantees for Chinese modernization.
Fourth, firmly stand on the people's standpoint, and more consciously realize the people's aspirations for a better life through solid and effective measures. Serving the people wholeheartedly is the fundamental purpose of our Party. In the great practices of revolution, construction, reform, and the new era, our Party has always adhered to development for the people, development relying on the people, and development achievements shared by the people. Comrade Jiang Zemin personally experienced the historic transformation from the old society to New China, harbored deep feelings for the Chinese people, and had a strong desire to enable the Chinese people to live good lives. He emphasized that the starting point and foothold of all work in building socialism with Chinese characteristics is to continuously realize, safeguard, and develop the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people. He required leading cadres at all levels to bear in mind the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, establish a strong sense of public servant consciousness, deeply cherish love for the people, strictly fulfill responsibilities to the people, be good at planning strategies to enrich the people, and do more things that benefit the people, always keeping the safety and well-being of the people in mind, caring about their hardships, and striving to do practical and good things for them. In studying and comprehending his life and thought, we must always place the people in the highest position in our hearts, establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, adhere to ensuring and improving people's livelihood through development, firmly grasp the interests that the people are most concerned about, most direct, and most realistic, continuously improve the basic public service system, and do practical things for the people's well-being in areas such as employment, education, medical care, and services for the elderly and children, so that the fruits of reform and development benefit all the people more and more fairly.
Return to TopBy: 中央军委副主席 张升民
Building a strong national defense and a powerful people's military is a goal our Party has pursued with unremitting effort. During his tenure as Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Comrade Jiang Zemin accurately grasped the trends of world development and the pulse of China's progress, and, centering on the questions of what kind of military to build and how to build it, led the entire military in in-depth theoretical exploration and practical creation, establishing Jiang Zemin's thought on national defense and military building. Jiang Zemin's thought on national defense and military building, grounded in the historical conditions of the tortuous development of world multipolarity, the vigorous rise of the new military revolution, and the deepening of China's socialist market economy, scientifically answered the two historic subjects of the people's military being able to "win battles" and "never change its nature," guided the entire military in seizing opportunities and accelerating development, provided security guarantees for building socialism with Chinese characteristics, and created favorable conditions for continuously advancing the modernization of national defense and the military.
Comrade Jiang Zemin put forward that the Party's absolute leadership over the military is the eternal military soul of our armed forces, insisted on placing ideological and political development at the forefront of all military development, and ensured that our military has always remained a revolutionary military under the Party's absolute leadership. In whose hands the military of a country falls has always been a major issue bearing on the future and destiny of that country. In response to the complex situation of the drastic changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and the severe tests in which hostile forces vigorously advocated "depoliticizing and de-partifying the military" and "nationalizing the military," Comrade Jiang Zemin treated the Party's absolute leadership over the military as the primary issue in military development and construction, led the entire military in conducting education in patriotic dedication, revolutionary views on life, respecting officers and cherishing soldiers, and hard struggle, made great efforts to build party committees and the cadre ranks at all levels, resolutely opposed and overcame mountain-stronghold mentality, sectarianism, and other erroneous tendencies harmful to the military's centralized unity, and ensured that the gun barrel was kept in the hands of reliable people loyal to the Party. On the new journey, we must uphold the Party's absolute leadership over the military, unswervingly use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to consolidate hearts and forge souls, thoroughly implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building and Xi Jinping's thought on strengthening the military, fully implement the strategy of political military building in the new era, carry out regular political training, enhance the leadership, organizational, and executive capabilities of Party organizations, strengthen the revolutionary forging of the cadre ranks, and ensure that the troops resolutely obey the command of the Party Central Committee, the Central Military Commission, and Chairman Xi.
Comrade Jiang Zemin put forward the general requirements of military building in "five phrases," establishing from the perspectives of epistemology and methodology the guiding ideology for comprehensively advancing military building, and propelling our military's revolutionization, modernization, and regularization into a new stage of development. How to realize the overall goal set by Comrade Deng Xiaoping of "building our military into a powerful, modernized, regularized revolutionary military" was an overall strategic issue. Comrade Jiang Zemin put forward the general requirements for military building of being politically qualified, militarily competent, having fine conduct, strict discipline, and strong logistical support, grasped the five basic elements directly related to the generation of our military's combat effectiveness, and promoted coordinated development, integrated advancement, and comprehensive progress in military building. In particular, in response to the malpractices brought by the military's engagement in business during a certain period, he required resolute and decisive cessation of all military business activities; in response to the erosion and infiltration of decadent external ideas under the conditions of reform and opening up, he required resolute resistance to the negative influence of "wine, women, and luxury," which has major and far-reaching significance for preserving the nature and conduct of the people's military. On the new journey, we must focus on realizing the Party's goal of strengthening the military in the new era, comprehensively advance political military building, strengthening the military through reform, through science and technology, through talent, and through law-based governance, adhere to simultaneously engaging in struggle, war preparedness, and development, advance the modernization of national defense and the military with high quality, realize the centenary goal of military building on schedule, and promote decisive progress in basically realizing the modernization of national defense and the military.
Comrade Jiang Zemin put forward actively advancing military transformation with Chinese characteristics, led the formulation of the military strategic guideline for the new period, and accelerated the enhancement of our military's capability to win high-tech wars. After the outbreak of the Gulf War, Comrade Jiang Zemin keenly observed the development trend of the world's new military revolution, presided over the formulation of the military strategic guideline of active defense for the new period, adjusted the baseline of military struggle preparations, unswervingly followed the path of elite troops with Chinese characteristics, and promoted the shift of military struggle preparations from coping with local wars under general conditions to preparing to win local wars under modern technology, especially high-tech conditions, and the shift of military building from a quantity-and-scale model to a quality-and-effectiveness model, and from a manpower-intensive to a technology-intensive model. He strengthened the centralized unified leadership and management of weaponry and equipment development, vigorously developed the navy, air force, strategic missile and aerospace forces, formed emergency mobile operational units, and made solid progress in military struggle preparations against separatism and against "Taiwan independence." On the new journey, we must thoroughly implement Xi Jinping's military strategic thought, thoroughly implement the military strategic guideline for the new era, closely track changes in technology, changes in warfare, and changes in adversaries, deepen reform and innovation, accelerate the development of advanced combat effectiveness, carry out military struggle firmly and flexibly, and safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests with greater capability and more reliable means.
Comrade Jiang Zemin emphasized relying on the people to build the military and national defense, enhancing national defense mobilization capability, consolidating the unity between the military and the government and between the military and the people, and gathering powerful strength for winning people's wars under high-tech conditions. No matter how weaponry and equipment develop or how the forms of warfare change, the people's war remains our magic weapon for defeating the enemy. Comrade Jiang Zemin led the strengthening of national defense reserve force development, improved the national defense mobilization system in accordance with the policy of combining military with civilian purposes, combining peacetime with wartime, and embedding the military in the civilian sphere, and developed the strategy and tactics of people's war under high-tech conditions. He mobilized the entire military to actively participate in supporting national reform and development, and personally commanded the "1998 flood relief" and a series of other major emergency rescue and disaster relief operations. On the new journey, we must bear in mind the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, jointly write a new chapter of the people loving the military and the military loving the people, better consolidate and enhance the integrated national strategic system and capability, and promote the cause of a strong country and a strong military to advance steadily and far.
A strong country must have a strong military; only when the military is strong can the country be secure. In the new era, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the cause of strengthening the military has achieved historic accomplishments and undergone historic changes, and the path of strengthening the military with Chinese characteristics has grown ever broader. The people's military is about to welcome its centenary, and the best tribute to the revolutionary predecessors who founded and developed this heroic military is to accelerate the building of the people's military into a world-class military. We must deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," enhance the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthen the "Four Confidences," and achieve the "Two Upholds," implement the system of the Chairman of the Central Military Commission assuming responsibility, resolutely complete all tasks assigned by the Party and the people, and provide strong strategic support for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.
By: 中央党史和文献研究院院长 曲青山
This morning, we listened to General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, which was deeply instructive and greatly inspiring. General Secretary Xi Jinping deeply recalled and highly praised Comrade Jiang Zemin's immense contributions, and put forward clear requirements for studying and carrying forward Comrade Jiang Zemin's brilliant thought and noble conduct. Below, I will share some reflections on studying Comrade Jiang Zemin's spirit of advancing with the times.
Advancing with the times was Comrade Jiang Zemin's highly condensed summary of the theoretical character of Marxism, and it was also his distinctive intellectual quality as a great Marxist. Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out: "To advance with the times means that all the Party's theory and work must reflect the characteristics of the times, grasp the laws of development, and be full of creativity." As the core of the Party's third generation of central collective leadership, Comrade Jiang Zemin assumed his mission at a time of crisis. Facing the severe test of highly complex domestic and international situations and serious setbacks in world socialism, he led the entire Party, the entire military, and people of all ethnic groups across the country in advancing with the times, courageously defending the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics at critical historical junctures concerning the destiny of the Party and the country, and successfully carrying socialism with Chinese characteristics into the 21st century.
Comrade Jiang Zemin advanced with the times in grasping the general trend of the era, promoting new development in the cause of the Party and the state. Advancing in the logic of historical progress and developing in the currents of the times is the valuable experience of our Party in governing and rejuvenating the country, and correctly grasping the general trend of the era is its basic premise. Comrade Jiang Zemin emphasized that "only by understanding the general trend of the world can we plan well for the overall domestic situation." He often used expressions such as "profound changes," "major changes," "comprehensive changes," and "constant changes" to conduct in-depth analysis of the new changes in the world situation, the national condition, and the Party's condition, promptly raising to the entire Party the major proposition of the "four how to understand" (四个如何认识), and making major judgments on the theme of the era and the period of strategic opportunity. Comrade Jiang Zemin "insisted on proceeding from the ever-changing reality" to advance the development of the cause, leading our Party to "stand firmly at the forefront of the currents of the times."
Comrade Jiang Zemin advanced with the times in pooling the wisdom of the entire Party to establish the important thought of the "Three Represents," promoting new achievements in the Party's theoretical innovation. Marxism is a developing theory, and the history of the development of Marxism is a history of advancing with the times. Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out that advancing theoretical innovation with the times "is the path of governing the Party and the state that we must uphold for a long time." He emphasized the need to "constantly innovate according to the requirements of practice," which is "reflecting the characteristics of the times"; emphasized the need to "find the correct direction, path, and experience that guide us forward from the continuous understanding and grasp of historical laws," which is "grasping the laws of development"; emphasized the need to "promote institutional innovation, scientific and technological innovation, cultural innovation, and innovation in all other aspects through theoretical innovation," which is "being full of creativity." It was with this scientific attitude of advancing with the times that the important thought of the "Three Represents" inherited, enriched, and developed Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, and Deng Xiaoping Theory, becoming the guiding ideology and guide to action that the Party must uphold for a long time. This is the most precious spiritual wealth Comrade Jiang Zemin left us.
Comrade Jiang Zemin advanced with the times in proposing the basic framework of the socialist market economy system, promoting a new situation in reform and opening up. How to accelerate the pace of reform, opening up, and modernization under new historical conditions was a major question that the entire Party needed to answer. After long deliberation, Comrade Jiang Zemin clearly recognized that "the original highly centralized planned economy system could no longer meet the requirements of the development of the productive forces; without reform, there would be no way out for the development of our country's economy," and that it was necessary to "establish a new economic system full of vigor and vitality." For this new economic system, Comrade Jiang Zemin clearly proposed using the formulation "socialist market economy system." This formulation was endorsed by Comrade Deng Xiaoping, accepted by the entire Party, and made important ideological and theoretical preparations for the successful convening of the Fourteenth National Congress of the Party. Comrade Jiang Zemin attached great importance to promoting reform and development through opening up, led us through arduous and complex struggles to formally join the World Trade Organization, and formed a new pattern of opening up to the outside world. Establishing the socialist market economy system and joining the World Trade Organization were two major events of great historical significance in the process of China's reform and opening up, laying a solid foundation for the country's long-term development.
Comrade Jiang Zemin advanced with the times in proposing the new great project of Party building, promoting a new atmosphere in the Party's leadership and Party building. Comrade Jiang Zemin repeatedly emphasized that "under new historical conditions, the Party must seriously study the new situations and new problems encountered in its own building" and must "insist on examining itself with the requirements of the development of the times and strengthening and perfecting itself with the spirit of reform." Regarding the new situations, new problems, and new requirements facing Party building, Comrade Jiang Zemin emphasized four aspects: first, "changes in the domestic and international situations"; second, "the latest development of our country's productive forces and the profound transformation of the economic system"; third, "the new development requirements raised by the people for material and cultural life"; and fourth, "the major changes that have taken place in our Party's cadre and membership ranks." Comrade Jiang Zemin firmly grasped "the basic question of what kind of Party to build and how to build it under new historical conditions," clearly proposed "the two major historical subjects of improving the Party's leadership and governance capacity and enhancing its ability to resist corruption, prevent degeneration, and withstand risks," and led us in advancing the new great project of Party building, ensuring that our Party always maintains its advanced nature and purity and always remains full of creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness.
At the Sixteenth National Congress of the Party, upholding the principle of advancing with the times, together with emancipating the mind and seeking truth from facts, was formally written into the Party Constitution as the basic connotation of the Party's ideological line, which is of great significance to our Party's continued vigor and vitality. Our Party has led the people in continuously advancing theoretical and practical innovation. After long-term efforts, since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Party, socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. In the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has united and led the people of all ethnic groups across the country, with confidence and self-reliance and upholding fundamental principles while breaking new ground, achieving historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the state, making the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation enter an irreversible historical process and showing unprecedented bright prospects. On the new journey of the new era, the best way to commemorate Comrade Jiang Zemin is to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," and work together with one heart and one mind, forging ahead with determination, to strive for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization!
By: 江苏省委书记、省人大常委会主任 信长星
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Jiang Zemin, the Party Central Committee solemnly convened a commemorative conference, organized research on Comrade Jiang Zemin's life and thought, and deeply recalled his great achievements, his revolutionary spirit, and his revolutionary conduct. The significance of this is extremely great. More than 85 million people of his hometown deeply cherish the memory of Comrade Jiang Zemin and are determined to, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, build Comrade Jiang Zemin's hometown even better and make new contributions to the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
Jiangsu is where Comrade Jiang Zemin was born and grew up. From here he embarked on the path of study and then took to the revolutionary road. On August 17, 1926, Comrade Jiang Zemin was born into a patriotic intellectual family in Yangzhou, Jiangsu. Deeply influenced by the excellent traditional Chinese culture, he was enlightened from childhood with patriotism and democratic revolutionary ideas, and in his youth he aspired to pursue truth. From 1932 to 1943, he completed primary and secondary school in Yangzhou. At that time, China was in the midst of suffering, and the turbulent situation deeply stirred his patriotic sentiments. As he later wrote in his reply to the Young Pioneers of his alma mater, Yangzhou Dongguan Primary School, "Although we were still young at the time, we all harbored fervent hearts to serve the country and were determined to study hard and, when grown up, to serve the motherland and the people." During his secondary school years, Yangzhou was occupied by Japanese aggressor troops. He and his classmates took the rise and fall of the nation as their own responsibility, circulating progressive books and periodicals at school and teaching anti-Japanese songs. He often visited the tomb of Shi Kefa, the famous Ming dynasty patriotic general, and recited the couplet at the Shigong Shrine, "A few plum blossoms, tears for a fallen nation; a divided bright moon, the heart of a former minister," to express his grief and indignation. In September 1943, he was admitted to the Electrical Engineering Department of Nanjing Central University. Shortly after enrollment, he participated in the patriotic progressive student movement led by the Party, mobilizing fellow students to take to the streets in demonstrations, smashing opium dens and burning opium, showing no fear in the face of Japanese military police lined up with rifles. In his article "Remembering Comrade Li Enyu," he recalled, "The scene greatly boosted the morale of the Chinese people and also awakened the masses."
Comrade Jiang Zemin's study and struggle experiences in his hometown during his youth laid the foundation for his formation of a Marxist worldview, his choice of life path, and his ultimate establishment of the life ideal and conviction of striving for national liberation and the happiness of the people. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, he transferred to the Electrical Engineering Department of Shanghai Jiaotong University and joined the Communist Party of China in April 1946. From then on, he devoted all his energy to the Party and the people. In particular, after the Fourth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee, in the face of severe tests when the domestic and international situation was extremely complex and world socialism suffered serious setbacks, he led the Party's central leadership collective, closely relying on the entire Party, the entire military, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, safeguarded the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, established the important thought of the "Three Represents," successfully carried socialism with Chinese characteristics into the twenty-first century, rendered indelible contributions, and won the heartfelt support of the entire Party, the entire military, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, as well as broad acclaim from the international community.
Comrade Jiang Zemin was deeply concerned about and attached great importance to Jiangsu's development. He had deep affection for his hometown and always thought of its people. After assuming leadership positions in the Party and the state, he made 9 inspection visits to Jiangsu and attended 3 meetings of the Jiangsu delegation at the National People's Congress. He planned and guided Jiangsu's construction from the overall national situation, emphasizing that "Jiangsu has a solid economic foundation, obvious geographical advantages, profound cultural heritage, and great development potential," hoping that Jiangsu would "expand new advantages, create new achievements, take the lead in comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society, and take the lead in basically realizing modernization." He encouraged Jiangsu to boldly reform and explore, repeatedly went to the grassroots level for research, and stressed that realizing the transformation of the economic system and the mode of economic growth was a major task of economic reform and development, hoping that Jiangsu would play a leading and promoting role for other regions. He emphasized the need to "enhance the vitality of state-owned enterprises through deepening reform so that they form new advantages," and required giving full play to the flexible mechanism advantages of township enterprises and taking the path of reform and opening up and institutional innovation. When the Suzhou Industrial Park was first established, he encouraged the locality to accelerate the construction of the park and accumulate new experience for developing mutually beneficial economic and technological cooperation between China and foreign countries. He attached great importance to coordinated development of agriculture, rural areas, and urban and rural areas, emphasizing that "the foundational position of agriculture must never be shaken," and stressing that the construction of small towns must both be suited to local conditions and have a long-term development vision, achieving scientific planning, rational layout, and meticulous construction. He paid close attention to the building of spiritual civilization, requiring that while doing a good job in material civilization construction, great importance be attached to the building of socialist spiritual civilization; he stressed the need to conduct education in patriotism, collectivism, and socialism in forms that the masses are happy to see and hear. He was always concerned about the safety and well-being of his hometown people. In the summer of 1991, when Jiangsu suffered a once-in-a-century catastrophic flood that seriously threatened the safety of people's lives and property, he personally went to the front line of flood relief in Suzhou, inspected the disaster situation at Wujiang Taipu Sluice and Xumen Substation, waded through accumulated water to visit disaster-affected people, and greatly inspired the military and civilians engaged in flood relief. After retiring from leadership positions, he returned to his hometown many times, going deep into enterprises, schools, cultural districts, and other places for inspection and research, caring about the development of various undertakings in his hometown and expressing deep affection for its people. Whenever the people of his hometown think of these things, they feel particularly warm.
Comrade Jiang Zemin's kind concern for Jiangsu's work inspired the people of Jiangsu to strive forward on the journey across the century. Entering the new era, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, Jiangsu has fully implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches on Jiangsu's work, kept in mind his instructions, advanced with gratitude, resolutely shouldered the responsibility of a major economic province to carry the main beam, continued to take the lead in promoting high-quality development, and achieved important stage-by-stage results in the modernization drive of a new Jiangsu that is "strong, prosperous, beautiful, and high."
The best way for us to commemorate Comrade Jiang Zemin today is to continue advancing the cause to which he devoted his life and to build his hometown even better. We will unite even more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," firmly take the lead and set an example in advancing Chinese modernization, and strive to write a new chapter in the modernization of a new Jiangsu that is "strong, prosperous, beautiful, and high," so as to live up to the care and support that General Secretary Xi Jinping and the Party Central Committee have shown for Jiangsu.
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In the eastern science and technology corridor of Shenzhen, Guangdong, the Apollo Future Industry City is located here. This park of approximately 50 square kilometers is neat and orderly, with no intricate underground pipelines and no dense overhead cables visible. Where are the municipal pipelines "hidden"? The reporter conducted a visit.
Pipelines entering the corridor, releasing land resources
Deep beneath the core area of the industry city, a utility tunnel with a total length of approximately 5.6 kilometers runs through it. Electricity, communications, gas, water supply, sewage... almost all municipal pipelines have been "placed" into this underground passage.
Zhang Gelei put on his helmet and walked into this underground utility tunnel. The corridor is well lit and the air circulation is smooth. As the project installation manager, he and his colleagues carefully inspected the utility tunnel structure and checked the drainage system, making full preparations for the rainy season.
The Apollo project is currently one of the utility tunnel projects in China with the largest cross-section, the most compartments, and the most complete range of pipelines incorporated. It is like a "collective dormitory" with distinct functions: the stormwater compartment, sewage compartment, gas compartment, comprehensive pipeline compartment, power and telecommunications compartment, and high-voltage power compartment are arranged side by side. The compartments are separated by concrete walls, neither interfering with each other nor coordinating efficiently: the gas compartment is equipped with explosion-proof electrical equipment and independent ventilation; the sewage compartment has its own "sewage discharge system" and deodorization devices to prevent odor diffusion and sediment blockage; the pipes for water supply and reclaimed water are located on both sides of the same compartment, each following its own path.
"After the intensive utilization of underground space, high-value land resources have been released, freeing up precious space for the implementation of high-end industries in the park," said Xi Chunhuai, general manager of Shenzhen Longgang Information Pipeline Co., Ltd. The utility tunnel project is divided into compartments according to pipeline safety levels and is installed beneath green belts, striving to minimize the impact of daily operation and maintenance on municipal traffic.
Intelligent inspection, improving maintenance efficiency
Under the traditional direct burial method, different pipelines were constructed separately by different parties, and "road zippers" were repeatedly opened, affecting both traffic and people's livelihoods, and also being detrimental to the business environment. "Pipelines buried underground, in direct contact with soil and groundwater, corrode quickly and have short service lives, and the later management risks and operation and maintenance costs are also relatively high," introduced Liu Pengfei, chief engineer of the Apollo project of China MCC20 Group Corp., Ltd.
Now, in the industry city, all pipelines are centrally placed in the corridor, with unified planning, unified construction, and unified management. When faults occur, workers only need to enter the utility tunnel from the personnel access points to carry out work, without closing roads, setting up barriers, or disturbing residents above ground. New pipelines can be laid within the utility tunnel, and there is no need to "open openings" in the roads.
Zhao Shidong, deputy general manager of the Shenzhen branch of China MCC20 Group Corp., Ltd. and head of the Apollo project, calculated an account: building an underground utility tunnel, although the one-time investment is relatively high, reduces the hidden costs of repeated road excavation, the losses from premature scrapping of pipelines, and the social costs brought by traffic congestion, and in the long run is actually more cost-effective.
In the comprehensive pipeline compartment, an inspection robot moves slowly along an overhead track, using infrared cameras and various sensors to monitor in real time the corridor structure, pipeline status, and environmental indicators. A firefighting robot is on standby at all times; once it detects flames or abnormal temperature rises, it will automatically rush to the target area for rapid disposal.
Back on the ground, on the large screen of the project monitoring center, the "vital signs" of the utility tunnel are clear at a glance: temperature, humidity, oxygen concentration, fire monitoring... all types of data are monitored in real time with intelligent early warning, which not only liberates staff from the heavy burden of manual inspection, but also significantly enhances the city's resilience in responding to extreme weather and emergencies. "The combination of robots and manual inspection effectively makes up for the shortcomings of traditional inspection, such as being time-consuming and labor-intensive, having blind spots, and posing high safety risks, and the maintenance response efficiency has been greatly improved," said Zhang Gelei.
Innovative construction, reserving space for upgrades
In addition to intelligent operation and maintenance, the utility tunnel also demonstrates ingenuity in ecology and construction. The area where the Apollo project is located has a relatively low terrain, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing water on one side. In the past, during heavy rainstorms, rainwater rushed down from the slopes, and low-lying areas instantly accumulated water into rivers. The planning and construction of the utility tunnel fully incorporated the sponge city concept, with the stormwater compartment linked with sponge facilities such as ecological permeable paving, sunken green spaces, and ecological storage ponds, improving the drainage and flood prevention system. "Since the utility tunnel was put into use in 2021, there has been no more waterlogging here," said Liu Pengfei. The stored and regulated rainwater can be used for municipal irrigation and road washing, and during dry seasons can supplement nearby rivers, achieving on-site consumption or reuse.
The section of the project passing through the mountain innovatively adopted the "tunnel and corridor co-construction" construction method, with the vehicle tunnel and the high-voltage power compartment of the utility tunnel built simultaneously, which not only avoided cutting into the mountain and destroying forests, protected the landscape, but also shortened the construction period.
Walking into the power and telecommunications compartment, multiple telecommunications optical cables are neatly arranged on one side of the bracket arms, and reserve space is also left for future pipeline expansion. On the walls of the utility tunnel, 22 communication pipeline interfaces leading to the park are arranged in order, like unopened sockets. In the future, whether new enterprises moving in need to connect to the network, or communication technology upgrades require laying new lines, it can all be done easily without breaking the road again for construction. "At present, there are 9 types of municipal pipelines in the corridor. While fully reserving power and communication channels, it also reserves upgrade space for new technologies such as 6G and computing power networks," said Zhao Shidong.
"The practice of the Apollo project has provided technical experience and management experience for utility tunnel construction," introduced Yang Yongli, deputy director of the Housing and Construction Bureau of Longgang District, Shenzhen. Since 2016, Longgang District has started construction on 8 utility tunnel projects, completed 60.45 kilometers of utility tunnels, and is continuously expanding the coverage breadth and depth of the utility tunnel network.
In Shenzhen, this utility tunnel construction model is being steadily promoted in projects in areas such as the Airport New City and Keyuan Avenue. In addition to new urban development areas, it is also extending to built-up areas. Through prefabricated assembly construction, construction in conjunction with subways, and other methods, it is "transfusing new blood" into old pipeline networks, making underground space more orderly and safer. Through forward-looking planning, high-standard design, and intelligent operation and maintenance, the utility tunnel network system is being rapidly constructed in Shenzhen, becoming an important component of municipal infrastructure.
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Building safe and reliable resilient cities requires both optimizing the spatial layout above ground and, more importantly, improving the underground pipeline network system. Urban underground pipeline networks include gas, water supply, drainage, sewage, and heating pipelines as well as comprehensive utility corridors, providing foundational support for the normal operation of cities. At present, China's urban underground pipeline network is the largest in scale and fastest in speed of construction globally.
For a long time, the scattered direct-burial model of underground pipeline networks has had problems such as disorderly construction, fragmented operation and maintenance, and unclear rights and responsibilities. Aging pipelines and damage caused by third-party construction have triggered various types of pipeline accidents. In contrast, comprehensive utility corridors centrally house all types of pipelines, fundamentally eliminating the problem of repeated road excavation. Relying on a closed protective environment, they extend the service life of pipelines and significantly enhance urban disaster prevention and emergency response capabilities.
The core value of underground comprehensive utility corridors lies in intensive layout, efficient operation and maintenance, and resilient protection. At present, China has cumulatively built approximately 7,880 kilometers of underground comprehensive utility corridors, leading the world in construction scale. The Xiong'an New Area adheres to the principle of "underground first, above ground second," having built high-standard comprehensive utility corridors in the Rongdong and Rongxi areas that integrate all types of municipal pipelines, reserve underground intelligent logistics passages, and create a model of coordinated above-ground and underground development with simultaneous construction of physical entities and digital twins. The Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone has built 33 kilometers of comprehensive utility corridors that can effectively withstand extreme weather such as super typhoons, stably guarantee energy and communications connectivity between Hengqin and Macao, while intensively freeing up more than 400,000 square meters of core land, driving land value appreciation, and achieving multi-dimensional win-win outcomes in safety, ecological, and economic benefits.
Looking to the future, China will continue to consolidate the city's "underground lifeline." Taking the construction of underground comprehensive utility corridors as an example, iterative upgrades will be made in systematic layout, green construction, intelligent management and maintenance, composite utilization, and market-oriented operation and maintenance. Measures such as implementing renovation and renewal and promoting intelligent construction will be adopted to drive the continuous growth of safe, intelligent, and efficient urban "underground intelligent living entities," providing strong support for safe urban operation and high-quality development.
(The author is a professor-level senior engineer at the School of Civil Engineering and Transportation of South China University of Technology; compiled and organized by this newspaper's reporter Lü Shaogang)
By: 本报记者 王 者
"Tilt it a bit more, cut into the water like slicing a watermelon."
At the Olympic Water Sports Town in Rizhao City, Shandong Province, Shanghai tourist Liu Yunfei, wearing a quick-dry top and a sun hat, paddled a long oar under the guidance of a paddleboard coach, splashing up sheets of water.
Under the sunlight, the Wanpingkou Lagoon sparkled. The water here is not only open and wide with gentle winds and steady waves, but also connected to the sea. Rizhao has built a water sports town on this body of water, creating facilities such as training and competition waterways and a water sports center.
"There are so many activities here!" Taking advantage of the summer break, Liu Yunfei's family headed straight for the water sports center as soon as they arrived. Liu Yunfei took his son Liu Chengyuan to try paddleboarding, while his wife Gao Qi tried sea golf.
Can a sports novice handle it?
"Don't worry, we have more than 10 professional coaching teams," said coach Zhang Jie. "Retired athletes and certified coaches provide on-site instruction, so even those starting from zero can pick it up easily."
"Riding the waves on the blue water — this is the feeling!" Before long, father and son Liu found their paddling rhythm. What surprised them even more was that they could not only have fun here, but also watch competitions.
"Thump, thump, thump!" The drumbeats were rousing, cutting through the sea breeze as three dragon boats shot out at once — as dusk fell, a dragon boat race began.
"Look! That big brother is paddling with such vigor!" Liu Chengyuan jumped and bounced with excitement. Quite a few spectators had gathered on the shore, mostly tourists visiting the town, and their cheers rose and fell one after another, filling the air with high spirits.
Since the start of this year, the Olympic Water Sports Town has hosted more than 20 sports events and activities, including sailing, windsurfing, paddleboarding, and beach volleyball, promoting the transformation of "competition venues into scenic spots, and spectating into tourism." In 2025, Rizhao hosted more than 155 sports events at the provincial level and above, generating 568 million yuan in direct economic benefits.
Doing a good job on the "water" front, Rizhao's cultural tourism scene keeps "introducing new offerings" —
After restoration and remediation of the port shoreline, the former coal yard was transformed into the golden sandy beach "Hailong Bay" covering nearly 500,000 square meters; the saline-alkali wasteland and abandoned aquaculture ponds were converted into Taigong Island Wetland Park; a 28-kilometer ecological greenway was built, linking 16 scenic spots and 13 folk villages... Along the 226-kilometer coastline, Rizhao has carefully created a string of distinctive attractions, linking them together like beads on a chain.
By day, one can ride the waves and play in the water; at night, there are also good places to go.
In the evening, at the nearby seaside tourist attraction Dongyi Town, ancient-style parades, lantern night scenes, and intangible cultural heritage experiences... the rich array of experiences drew many visitors, and the town was bustling with activity.
At a time-honored noodle shop, Liu Yunfei ate with great relish; Gao Qi, meanwhile, queued up at a stall next door — charcoal-grilled oysters, piled high with minced garlic, sizzling with oil. "The price is about the same as in the city center, and with clearly marked prices, you can feel at ease."
Rizhao has taken multiple measures, carrying out in depth actions such as strengthening the foundation of the consumer environment, safeguarding consumer safety, improving consumption quality, and purifying the consumer market, to further optimize the consumption environment and help boost consumption. Since the start of this year, the Rizhao Olympic Water Sports Town has received more than 300,000 visitors in total, driving consumption of over 90 million yuan. In the first half of this year, Dongyi Town alone received more than 2 million visitors, a year-on-year increase of 20%.
Beijing, August 17 (Reporter Lin Lili) — As a future industry, quantum technology is currently at a critical window period of moving from the laboratory to industrialization, with quantum communication, quantum computing, quantum precision measurement and other technologies developing rapidly. The reporter learned from the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) on August 17: During the fifth plenary meeting of the International Standards Organization's Joint Technical Committee on Quantum Technologies (IEC/ISO JTC3), multiple international standard proposals for quantum technology led by China made positive progress.
The international standard proposal "Overview and Analysis of Quantum Entropy Source Randomness Quality and Testing Methodology" led by China was officially approved for project initiation, marking an important step for China in the formulation of international standards for quantum core devices. The international standard proposal "Survey of Measurement Standards for Single-Photon Device Characterization and Potential Recommended Measurement Practices," jointly led by China together with the United States and Canada, was also approved for project initiation. This standard will sort out the priority of standard development in the field of single-photon detectors and lead subsequent international standardization work in this field. Two international standard pre-research topics led by China, including "Quantum-Classical Hybrid Computing," also passed project initiation, which will assist the exploration of international standardization and the improvement of the system in the field of quantum computing.
Deep participation in the formulation of international standards helps to break through technical barriers and accelerate the large-scale application of innovative achievements, and will also continue to contribute Chinese wisdom to the high-quality development of the world's quantum technology industry. At present, all three international standards on quantum technology published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) were led by China in their formulation, and five more international standards are being led by China in their development.
Return to TopOn August 16, the Ma'anshan Yangtze River Highway-Railway Bridge fully entered the final stage of construction, with project construction being accelerated. The bridge is located in Dangtu County (当涂县), Ma'anshan City, Anhui Province, and is a control project of the Chaoma intercity railway. Upon completion, the bridge will open up a fast cross-river passage on the Wanjiang (Anhui section of the Yangtze) corridor, shorten the spatial-temporal distance between the Hefei metropolitan circle and the Nanjing metropolitan circle, and help build the "Yangtze River Delta on Tracks" (轨道上的长三角).
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Our newspaper Kunming, August 17 (Reporter Ye Chuanzeng (叶传增)) The reporter learned from Kunming Customs (昆明海关) that in the first seven months, the value of imports and exports via the China-Laos Railway reached 20.11 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 29.8%. Among which, imports of ASEAN tropical fruits reached 4.92 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.9%; exports of the "new three items" (新三样) such as new energy vehicles and photovoltaic products reached 2.31 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 306.8%; cross-border e-commerce B2B (business-to-business) export value grew 1.5 times year-on-year, and the foreign trade structure continues to shift toward the "new."
Relying on the China-Laos Railway, this "golden thoroughfare," the two-way trade pattern of "Southeast Asian specialty products heading north, Chinese smart manufacturing heading south" is accelerating its formation. According to Kunming Customs statistics, since its opening to traffic in 2021, the China-Laos Railway has cumulatively transported cross-border cargo valued at over 94 billion yuan, with more than 3,900 types of goods, radiating to 19 countries and regions, and serving more than 7,000 domestic foreign trade business entities.
Kunming Customs has implemented the Belt and Road "Silk Smooth" Action (丝畅行动), continuously improving the level of customs clearance facilitation at railway ports, promoting convenience measures such as "advance declaration" and "railway fast clearance," and with the help of intelligent supervision and inspection equipment such as automated guided vehicles, supervision and clearance efficiency has been greatly improved, ensuring the efficient operation of international freight trains such as the "Lancang-Mekong Express" (澜湄快线) and "China-Laos Railway + China-Europe Railway Express," continuously releasing the cross-border logistics efficiency of the China-Laos Railway.
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In Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County, Xining City, Qinghai Province, 44-year-old Lin Yonghong has farmed land for half her life, and last year she switched to working as a nursing caregiver. "After my first shift, when the five-day nursing care ended, the patient was very approving of me. With skills in hand, I have confidence in my heart, and my income is also more stable," Lin Yonghong said.
From the fields to a nursing caregiver post, Lin Yonghong's change is a microcosm of the development of the nursing caregiver industry in Datong County.
As a traditional agricultural county, Datong County's rural permanent population accounts for more than 60 percent, and it generally faces problems such as narrow employment channels and limited avenues for increasing income. "In recent years, the care needs of 'the elderly, the young, and the sick' have been great, the nursing caregiver industry has had a large labor gap, and professional service capacity cannot keep up with market demand," introduced Dai Guocang, director of the Datong County Employment Service Bureau. On the basis of pioneering exploration by enterprises, the local government decided to develop the nursing caregiver industry with a branding approach, creating the distinctive "Datong Nursing Workers" labor service brand.
In June 2024, "Datong Nursing Workers" was recognized as the third batch of "Ning-brand" labor service brands in Xining City. To promote the standardized development of the industry, in 2025, Datong County established the Datong Nursing Worker Industry Base Operation Co., Ltd. as the operating entity of the "Datong Nursing Workers" labor service brand.
What does the base teach? Medical nursing caregivers, maternal and infant care nurses, elderly care nursing caregivers, housekeeping managers... For different positions, the base tailors theoretical and practical courses.
To eliminate everyone's worries about the future, Datong County introduced the "Five Guarantees and Six Exemptions" policy: guaranteeing food, accommodation, transportation, training, and employment; exempting fees for uniforms, physical examinations, insurance, miscellaneous academic expenses, teaching materials and materials, and certification. "The costs are borne by the government. As long as people are willing to work, we provide everything free of charge throughout the process and assist them in getting on the job," said Liu Yaqiong, deputy general manager of the Datong Nursing Worker Industry Base Operation Co., Ltd.
"There are no problems with practical operations, but the theory classes are still somewhat difficult," Lin Yonghong said. "The teachers lecture during the day, and in the evening everyone looks at their notes and quizzes each other, and gradually they memorize it." According to reports, the training cycle ranges from 7 to 21 days. After trainees are trained at the base, the certificate-holding rate reaches over 90 percent. "We train according to demand, and it often happens that while trainees are still in training, orders come knocking on the door," Liu Yaqiong said.
Datong County has also built a full-chain service system for the nursing caregiver industry. "The base has signed admission agreements with 22 hospitals in the province, ensuring that nursing caregivers have posts to take up after completing their studies. Before new trainees start on the job, they must undergo 3 to 5 days of 'old-hand leading new-hand' on-the-job shadowing," Liu Yaqiong introduced. To solve the transitional accommodation problem between orders after going to households, the base has opened "nursing caregiver stations" in the urban area of Xining City, Datong County, Delingha City, and other places, providing free temporary accommodation.
In addition, the base has developed a mini-program that establishes personal files and credit ratings for nursing caregivers. Clients can view nursing caregivers' years of practice, number of services, and employer evaluations. "As the rating rises, income also rises," Liu Yaqiong said.
Wu Yongping, 47, obtained two certificates at the base: elderly care nurse and medical care nurse. "My monthly income is six to seven thousand yuan, and I have had a continuous stream of orders," Wu Yongping said. "In the future, I want to obtain a housekeeping manager certificate and become a lecturer myself!"
As of now, "Datong Nursing Workers" has driven 14,000 people into employment, accounting for more than 60 percent of the nursing caregiver market share in Qinghai Province, and is gradually expanding to other provinces. According to reports, Datong County plans to achieve employment for more than 30,000 nursing caregivers by 2027, with per capita annual income reaching more than 50,000 yuan.
Return to TopTo advance the branding of Heilongjiang's forestry sector and build a sound ecosystem in which regional public brands, enterprise brands, and product brands develop in coordination, the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Heilongjiang Province took the lead in 2023 in creating the provincial forestry public brand "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" (九珍十八品) for forest food from Longjiang, and scientifically selected the catalog of product categories for the "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies," identifying 27 representative forest food categories on the basis of merit.
Over the past three years, the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Heilongjiang Province has, in strict accordance with the work arrangements of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, made every effort to advance the building of the "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" brand in an all-round manner. It has unswervingly developed high-quality forest food characterized by "high-cold-region plants and high-multiple nutrition," striven to build the first public-interest brand for forest food in China, and continuously enhanced the brand's cohesion, leading role, and influence. The brand family has grown to 200 enterprises and 599 products, covering categories such as mushrooms and fungi, nuts, berries, beverages, and tonics, forming a pattern of "one brand, multiple products, and clustered development." In 2025, relying on measures such as the building of a standards system, the establishment of market channels, and brand publicity and promotion, the "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" brand continued to amplify its agglomeration effect, driving the selected enterprises to achieve operating revenue of 8.249 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 58 percent.
Improving the standards system to promote brand building
Heilongjiang has actively practiced the big food concept (大食物观), put forward the goal of "building a pioneering place for practicing the big food concept," adhered to the four-dimensional brand strategy of "ecology + technology + culture + internationalization," and, through unified image, unified standards, and unified communication, continuously strengthened policy guidance, advanced base construction, carried out investment attraction, cultivated key industries, and made every effort to implement the brand strategy, so as to build a forest food brand that is nationally leading and internationally renowned across the entire domain.
Upholding quality improvement and green development. In order to build a whole-chain quality standards system and strictly control quality throughout the entire process from source collection, production and processing to circulation and traceability, the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Heilongjiang Province, together with the China National Institute of Standardization and the Heilongjiang Academy of Forestry Sciences, completed the initial construction of the "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" standards system. The 68 group standards issued in alignment with similar international standards not only cover the whole-process standards for 34 key forest food categories, but also creatively incorporate the advantageous indicators of Heilongjiang's forest food into the standards, defining high quality by data, with the overall standards system reaching an internationally leading level.
Making every effort to implement the brand strategy. The Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Heilongjiang Province has made every effort to advance the building of the "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" provincial forestry public brand, formulated the Strategic Plan for the "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" Brand (2024–2026), and determined the brand's strategic goals, annual work tasks, and specific promotion measures, leading and driving the high-quality development of the province's forest food industry.
Strengthening brand communication, with initial results in going global
Focusing on brand leadership and enhancing brand visibility across the entire domain. The Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Heilongjiang Province has adhered to combining high-level promotion with all-domain layout, helping to accelerate the accumulation of brand momentum. Brand reputation has been effectively disseminated. The spatial design of the "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" brand complex won the 2025 London Outstanding Property Award (OPAL), the 2024–2025 China Successful Design Award, and the 2025 Finland Arch Interior Design Silver Award, with the brand's series of designs having won a total of 11 international awards. Three-dimensional publicity has taken deep root in people's minds. Bilingual promotional videos have been carefully produced and released, and, taking advantage of international events and activities such as the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games and the Global Tourism Economy Forum, "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" tasting and promotion activities have been carried out. Cultural connotations have continued to deepen. In the form of a "Heilongjiang Forest Food Culture Museum," the brand has appeared at important domestic and international platforms such as the Harbin International Economic and Trade Fair, the World Timber Industry Conference, and the World Biosphere Reserve Congress, receiving a cumulative audience of more than 200,000 visitors, with brand influence and ecological value rising in tandem.
Focusing on market-oriented operation and continuously deepening the brand market. Heilongjiang has adhered to multi-dimensional promotion and online-offline linkage, accelerating the expansion of sales networks and channels. Breakthroughs have been achieved in attracting major investment. In 2025, 74 "first-tier city tour" and various exhibition and sales activities were carried out in key cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen in Guangdong, and Chengdu in Sichuan. A "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei promotion conference was held in Beijing, attracting more than 550 participants, and the "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" brand operation and management center signed cooperation agreements with the Heilongjiang chambers of commerce in Beijing, Tianjin, and Langfang in Hebei. The sales system has expanded in depth. The "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" brand has fully entered mainstream e-commerce platforms such as Taobao, JD.com, and Douyin online, driving the selected enterprises to achieve online sales of 1.4 billion yuan; the offline channel network has continued to expand, with a cumulative total of 20 specialty stores opened (9 outside the province), the innovative incubation of the "Forest Momo" (森林茉茉) tea beverage brand with 13 stores opened, and entry into 3 Biot (比优特) supermarkets in the form of "brand zones," with offline product sales reaching 2.014 billion yuan. Circle-level marketing has achieved precise reach. Special exhibition and sales activities have been carried out in depth in government organs, enterprises, and universities, totaling 29 sessions. Brand cultural carriers have been enriched. The "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" brand complex has been successfully built, creating 4 sections including a brand culture museum, presenting the "Longjiang green check-in destination" to all sectors of society, with a cumulative audience of 16,000 visitors.
Focusing on international development and deeply expanding the brand layout. The Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Heilongjiang Province has adhered to a global vision, built platforms for going global, and taken solid steps in brand internationalization. The "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" brand has been displayed at international platforms such as the World Brand Conference in Hong Kong, the China International Import Expo, the Osaka World Expo, and the Australia-New Zealand Economic and Trade Promotion Conference, and has deeply participated in the China-Russia Expo and the Ethiopia-China Friendship Business, Culture and Art Week, with the brand's international visibility significantly enhanced.
Strengthening policy support to empower brand development
Relying on scientific planning and overall coordination, Heilongjiang has empowered the high-quality development of the "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" brand with a series of pragmatic measures. Planning provides guidance, and a high-quality standards system has been established. Overall planning has been strengthened and policy support consolidated. Policy documents such as the Heilongjiang Province Under-Forest Economy Development Plan (2021–2035), the Heilongjiang Province Forest Medicine Industry Development Plan (2025–2030), and the "15th Five-Year" Development Plan for the White Birch Sap Industry in Heilongjiang Province have been successively formulated and issued to accelerate the high-quality development of Heilongjiang's under-forest economy. Quality improvement has been upheld to promote high-end development. With reference to high-level standards in the forest food field at home and abroad, with product quality and safety as the foundation, with the specificity, superiority, and quality indicators of Longjiang forest food as the breakthrough point, and with the integrated innovation of technology, standards, and quality as the driving force, the supply-side structural reform of Longjiang forest food has been advanced, and 68 quality and safety standards have been improved.
In the next step, the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Heilongjiang Province will resolutely implement the work requirements of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government concerning the building of the "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" brand, strive in brand-building practice to give full play to the main role of government departments in planning, guidance, strategic layout, and overall coordination, while also fully mobilizing the enthusiasm of the three major forest industry groups, relevant leading enterprises, and various business entities, jointly advance the building of the "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Delicacies" brand, continuously expand the market with Heilongjiang's high-quality forest products, and contribute to the revitalization of rural industries and the cause of strengthening forestry through brands.
Data source: Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Heilongjiang Province
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Since the new era began, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has attached great importance to urban work, continuously strengthened the Party's leadership over urban work, adhered to the people's city serving the people, and blazed a new path of urban modernization with Chinese characteristics. Urban governance is an important component of urban work. General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the major proposition of promoting the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capacity and made systematic expositions and deployments, providing fundamental guidance and directional orientation for urban governance work in the new era. Volumes 1 through 5 of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China contain General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important expositions on urban governance. Deeply studying these important expositions, and combining them with the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches at the two Central Urban Work Conferences, and systematically grasping the governance thinking and wisdom contained in these important expositions, has great theoretical and practical significance for strengthening the Party's leadership over urban work and continuously promoting the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capacity.
Systematically grasping the rich theoretical connotation of promoting the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capacity
Since the 18th Party Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made a series of important expositions around promoting the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capacity. These are lofty in conception, rich in connotation, and profound in thought, clarifying the values and methodology of urban governance work, revealing the basic laws of urban governance work with Chinese characteristics, and effectively promoting the people's city concept to empower the modernization of urban governance.
The people's city concept is the ideological core of promoting the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capacity. Volume 1 of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China takes "The people's aspiration for a better life is our goal of struggle" as the title of its opening article. The 2015 Central Urban Work Conference proposed "adhering to the people-centered development thinking, adhering to the people's city serving the people." In November 2019, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Shanghai, he first proposed the concept of "the people's city is built by the people, the people's city serves the people." At the 2025 Central Urban Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward overall requirements for urban work in the current and future period, emphasizing the need to "adhere to and strengthen the Party's comprehensive leadership, and earnestly practice the people's city concept." In July this year, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Shanghai, he emphasized: "We must comprehensively practice the people's city concept, adhere to asking the people about their needs, asking the people for their plans, and asking the people about results." The people's city concept combines Marxist urban theory with the reality of Chinese urban governance, conforms to the new situation of urban development, the new requirements of reform and development, and the new expectations of the people, and provides value guidance for building a modern people's city centered on the people.
Optimizing the modern urban system is a strategic deployment oriented toward the spatial dimension of the urban governance system. In Volume 5 of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Comprehensively promote coordinated development between urban and rural areas and among regions." The two Central Urban Work Conferences respectively emphasized, "Each city should, in light of its resource endowments and locational advantages, clarify its leading industries and distinctive industries, strengthen industrial collaboration and coordination among large, medium, and small cities and small towns, and gradually form a development pattern of horizontal differentiated development and vertical division of labor and collaboration" and "To optimize the modern urban system, it is necessary to promote the coordinated development of large, medium, and small cities and small towns." These important expositions clarify that high-quality development of the urban system must both be based on resource endowments and rely on scientific planning and layout, painting a spatial governance blueprint for building a modern urban system and promoting the coordinated development of large, medium, and small cities and small towns.
Building vibrant innovative cities injects momentum into enhancing urban governance capacity. Cities play an important role in promoting the aggregation of innovation factors, the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and the creation of an innovation ecosystem. Enhancing urban innovation capacity can help boost the effectiveness of urban governance. In Volume 2 of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that we should "make innovation the foundation of development, expand new space for development, create new opportunities for development, build new engines of development, and promote the synchronous development of new industrialization, informatization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization," emphasizing the need to "give play to the enthusiasm and initiative of all localities in innovative development" and "accelerate the building of science and technology innovation centers with global influence, and build a number of innovative cities and regional innovation centers with strong driving force." In Volume 5 of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Shanghai should play the leading role in this regard and accelerate its march toward becoming a science and technology innovation center with global influence." These important expositions profoundly reveal the mutually supporting role of scientific and technological innovation and the promotion of urban governance modernization, driving the formation of stronger and more enduring endogenous momentum for the modernization of urban governance.
Building comfortable, convenient, and livable cities is the value destination of the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capacity. Improving urban livability is an important aspect of practicing the people's city concept, and it bears on the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security. In the article "Let the People Have More Sense of Gain, Happiness, and Security" in Volume 3 of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping gave specific instructions on urban shantytown renovation and waste sorting, pointing out that "our cities cannot have high-rise buildings on one side and dirty, messy, and poor shantytowns on the other" and that "implementing waste sorting bears on the living environment of the broad masses of the people." In Volume 5 of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "the improvement of people's livelihood and well-being should be made the starting point and foothold of urban construction and governance" and that we should "open up the 'last kilometer' of serving the people." These important expositions encompass both the macro and the micro, clarify the value orientation of the livability of the people's city, and provide action guidance for the modernization of urban governance.
Building green, low-carbon, and beautiful cities consolidates the ecological foundation of urban governance. In Volume 4 of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must strengthen territorial spatial planning and use control, and implement spatial control boundaries such as ecological protection, basic farmland, and urban development." In the Excerpts from Xi Jinping's Expositions on Urban Work, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Urban development must pursue not only economic goals but also ecological goals and goals of harmony between humanity and nature, establish the awareness that 'clear waters and green mountains are also gold mountains and silver mountains,' strengthen concepts such as respecting nature, inheriting history, and green low-carbon development, and take environmental capacity and comprehensive urban carrying capacity as the basic basis for determining urban positioning and scale." In November 2020, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Jiangsu, he pointed out: "To build modernization with harmony between humanity and nature, the protection of the urban ecological environment must be placed in a more prominent position." These important expositions profoundly reveal that urban governance must adhere to the harmonious coexistence of humanity and nature, and through integrated promotion of governing mountains, governing waters, and governing cities, and promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of infrastructure, transform ecological advantages into governance advantages, making green development the distinctive background of the modernization of urban governance.
Building safe and reliable resilient cities firmly establishes the safety bottom line of urban governance. The concept of safe development has run through the entire process of General Secretary Xi Jinping's guidance of urban work. In Volume 1 of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "development is the foundation of security, and security is the condition for development." In Volume 5 of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed "strengthening urban infrastructure construction, and building livable, resilient, and smart cities," emphasizing that "urban governance involves many aspects, and the foremost is to make preparations, exercise precise control, and respond quickly with a sense of responsibility of 'always being at ease about safety,' effectively handle various situations, and ensure the safe and orderly operation of the city." At the 2025 Central Urban Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must firmly establish the concept of safe development and continuously improve the level of safety and resilience." These important expositions profoundly reveal the inherent consistency between urban development and urban security, providing value guidance for统筹 development and security in the process of urban governance modernization.
Building civilized cities that esteem virtue and move toward goodness injects humanistic strength into urban governance. In Volume 5 of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Lay a solid cultural foundation for social governance." The two Central Urban Work Conferences respectively emphasized "the need to comprehensively consider multiple factors such as urban functional positioning, cultural characteristics, construction, and management in formulating plans" and "the need to improve the system for preserving and inheriting history and culture, and attach importance to protecting the city's unique historical context, human geography, and natural landscapes." In February 2014, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Beijing, he clearly stated that "history and culture are the soul of a city." These important expositions profoundly reveal the unique essence of the city as a cultural carrier, provide directional guidance for urban cultural construction, and effectively promote the city's elevation from physical space to spiritual home.
Building convenient and efficient smart cities provides advanced methods for urban governance. With the widespread application of new technologies, technical means such as big data have become important handles for improving the level of urban governance modernization. In Volume 5 of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, "Strengthen grid-based management and informatization support, and improve the level of refined community governance and precision services," emphasizing that "to strengthen digital empowerment and promote the modernization of urban governance, it is necessary to scientifically plan and build big data platforms and network systems, strengthen joint command and coordination among all parties, and effectively improve execution." These important expositions profoundly grasp the trend of the world's scientific and technological revolution and digital transformation in the current era, providing precise action guidance for the leap of urban governance from traditional models to modernized and digitalized transformation.
Deeply understanding the theoretical significance and contemporary value of promoting the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capacity
In Volume 1 of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The national governance system and governance capacity are the concentrated embodiment of a country's system and its implementation capacity." In March 2020, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Zhejiang, he emphasized: "To promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, it is necessary to do a good job in the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capacity." Promoting the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capacity is not only work guidance, but also contains profound scholarly innovation. It is the inheritance and innovation of Marxist urban theory, and has major theoretical significance and practical value.
The people's city concept upholds the people's principal position and develops Marxist urban theory. Marxism holds that the emergence of cities is the result of the development of social productive forces and the product of the social division of labor. Different from Western urban regime theory and growth machine theory, which focus on power alliances and capital accumulation, the people's city concept proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping takes the comprehensive development of human beings and common well-being as the ultimate goal, fundamentally solves the question of for whom cities are built and for whom they prosper, takes enhancing the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security as the starting point and foothold of urban planning, construction, and governance, emphasizes that the people are the fundamental driving force of urban development, and embodies the inheritance and transcendence of China's traditional people-oriented thinking and modern people-oriented urban views. It is the inheritance and innovation of Marxist urban theory in the contemporary era.
Constructing an urban governance system with Chinese characteristics manifests the institutional logic of "systematic integration." From the 2015 Central Urban Work Conference emphasizing "building modern cities that are harmonious, livable, vibrant, and distinctive," to the 2025 Central Urban Work Conference emphasizing "taking the construction of innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and smart modern people's cities as the goal," from modern cities to modern people's cities, this change in expression shows that our Party's understanding of the goal of building modern people's cities has achieved a systematic leap in multiple aspects such as development momentum, livability of life, security guarantees, cultural connotation, and governance effectiveness, enabling the concentrated exertion of the theoretical and institutional advantages of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and providing a complete institutional operation plan for the modernization of urban governance.
Anchoring the scientific path of enhancing urban governance effectiveness demonstrates the action logic of "refinement and intelligence." General Secretary Xi Jinping accurately grasps the laws of urban governance, accurately studies and judges the stage-specific characteristics of urban governance, and effectively promotes the continuous advancement of the modernization of urban governance. In terms of governance concepts, it promotes the transformation of urban governance from extensive management to precise governance, guiding all localities to make sufficient efforts in scientific, refined, and intelligent governance, making the granularity of governance finer and the sensitivity higher. In terms of governance means, taking "from digitalization to intelligentization and then to smartification" as the technical path, it promotes the systematic innovation of management means, management models, and management concepts, making cities smarter and more intelligent. In terms of governance subjects, it adheres to Party building leadership and pluralistic co-governance, promotes the sinking of resources, services, and management to communities, and builds a grassroots governance pattern of co-construction, co-governance, and shared benefits. In terms of governance value orientation, it adheres to being people-centered, precisely solves and responds to the people's urgent, difficult, and anxious problems, so that the improvement of governance effectiveness is ultimately reflected in the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security.
Contributing China's solutions for the sustainable development of global cities demonstrates the civilizational logic of "inclusiveness and symbiosis." Facing challenges commonly faced by global cities such as widening inequality, ecological degradation, and insufficient resilience, General Secretary Xi Jinping examines the future of cities from the perspective of the "community with a shared future for mankind," embodies the realization of common prosperity for all people and the comprehensive development of human beings in urban governance, adheres to the original aspiration and mission of the Communist Party of China to seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, and also demonstrates the broad mind of seeking common harmony for humanity, contributing to the world China's urban governance wisdom and solutions that balance efficiency and fairness, development and security, history and the future, and expanding the urban dimension of the new form of human civilization.
General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important expositions have led China's urban governance system and governance capacity modernization to continuously achieve new progress
Since the new era began, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has convened the Central Urban Work Conference twice, and the important speeches delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping at the conferences have drawn the blueprint for urban work including urban governance. At the same time, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected localities, he put forward specific requirements for urban governance work in light of local characteristics, effectively leading all localities to make positive progress in promoting the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capacity.
Adhering to the supremacy of the people, creating cities that are more satisfying to the people. Taking Beijing as an example, in February 2017, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Beijing, he pointed out: "We must adhere to the people's city serving the people, take the issues of greatest concern to Beijing citizens as the orientation, take solving problems such as overpopulation, traffic congestion, soaring housing prices, and air pollution as the breakthrough points, and propose a comprehensive strategy for solving the problems." In February 2026, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Beijing, he emphasized: "Adhere to the people's city concept, make efforts to improve the basic public service system, make good use of mechanisms such as 'immediate handling upon receipt of complaints,' and solidly solve the people's urgent, difficult, and anxious problems." Beijing has kept in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions, innovatively carried out the reform of immediate handling upon receipt of complaints under Party building leadership, improved the mechanism for big data-assisted decision-making on people's livelihood, used big data, artificial intelligence, and other technical means to continuously improve the quality and effectiveness of problem-solving, and while solving the people's demands, promoted the deep integration of digital-intelligent technology and urban governance, making the people truly the key subjects of urban governance. The people's sense of gain, happiness, and security has been significantly enhanced, contributing Chinese wisdom and the Beijing solution to the governance of megacities worldwide.
Practicing refined governance, enhancing the quality of urban governance with "embroidery skill." Taking Shanghai as an example, during the 2017 National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference sessions, when General Secretary Xi Jinping participated in the deliberation of the Shanghai delegation, he proposed: "Urban management should be as refined as embroidery." In November 2018, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Shanghai, he pointed out: "We must not only be good at using modern scientific and technological means to achieve intelligentization, but also improve the level of refinement through embroidery-like care, patience, and ingenuity, embroidering the quality and brand of the city." In July this year, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Shanghai, he emphasized: "We must continuously improve community property management and convenience service levels with 'embroidery skill,' and strive to make residents and the masses satisfied." Shanghai has fully implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, built the "one-network comprehensive handling" for government services and the "one-network unified management" for urban operations as a city digital operation system, earnestly responded to, solved, and handled well the demands reported by the people regarding transportation, noise, city appearance, and other matters, provided personalized and humanized services for the people, promoted the refinement and normalization of the "embroidery skill" of governance, blazed a new path of megacity management with Chinese characteristics, and pushed the level of urban governance modernization to a new level.
Adhering to forward-looking layout, realizing the unity of high-quality construction and high-efficiency governance. Taking Hebei Xiong'an New Area as an example, in February 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium on the planning and construction of Hebei Xiong'an New Area and proposed seven key tasks that should be highlighted in the planning and construction of Xiong'an New Area. In January 2019, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Xiong'an New Area for the second time, he pointed out: "Building Xiong'an New Area is an undertaking of millennial significance. The new area must first be new in the concepts of planning and construction, reflecting forward-looking and leading qualities." In May 2023, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Hebei Xiong'an New Area for the third time, he pointed out, "It is necessary to simultaneously promote the modernization of urban governance, do a good job of 'embroidery' work from the very beginning, actively promote the equalization of basic public services, and build a 'people's city' suitable for work and living in the new era," emphasizing that "it is necessary to widely apply advanced science and technology, make efforts to strengthen the construction of scientific and technological innovation capacity, increase the intensity of transformation of scientific and technological achievements, actively develop new business forms and new models, cultivate new growth points and form new momentum, and make intelligence, green, and innovation the shining business cards of Xiong'an New Area." In March this year, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Hebei Xiong'an New Area for the fourth time, he emphasized: "To continuously enhance the comprehensive carrying capacity of Xiong'an New Area, it is necessary to make systematic plans and integrally promote high-quality construction and high-efficiency governance. It is necessary to scientifically grasp the pace and sequence, concentrate efforts on promoting the construction of the startup zone and the initial development zone, and strive to create 'Xiong'an quality.' It is necessary to adhere to Party building leadership in the governance of the new area, improve the public service system, make efforts to ensure and improve people's livelihood, actively explore future-oriented smart city management models, and build a beautiful Xiong'an with blue skies, green land, and clear water." Over the past nine years, Hebei Xiong'an New Area has adhered to the concept of "digital twin city," built smart transportation, smart construction sites, smart communities, smart ecology, and other application scenarios of urban governance modernization, precisely provided people's livelihood services, turned the high-standard urban planning blueprint into the reality of high-quality urban development and governance, and provided a typical solution for modern urban governance.
In summary, since the 18th Party Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has led China's urban governance modernization to achieve remarkable results. The people's city concept has taken deep root in people's hearts, and the level of refinement, intelligentization, and rule of law has been continuously improved. We must take Volumes 1 through 5 of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China as the guide, deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on urban work, promote the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capacity with greater efforts, and provide more and better Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions for global urban governance through the theoretical innovation and practical innovation of the modernization of urban governance with Chinese characteristics.
(The authors are respectively the Dean of the Capital Development Research Institute of Peking University and an Assistant Researcher at the Institute of Economic System and Management of the National Development and Reform Commission)
Return to TopBy: 秦 强
The fine traditional Chinese culture places great importance on "rectifying the mind and making the will sincere" and "nourishing the mind and cultivating one's nature," advocating the construction of ethical norms and social order on the foundation of "conscience" and "benevolent heart." "The mind is like the source of water; if the source is clear, the stream is clear; if the mind is upright, affairs are upright." Only when the inner self is pure and upright can one's conduct be proper; only when there are no reckless thoughts within can there be no reckless actions without. If a person persists in rectifying the mind and illuminating the Way, cherishing virtue and self-respect, holding awe in the heart and keeping a yardstick in hand, then naturally they will walk straight, sit properly, and act with substance. An upright mind is reflected in an upright bearing, externalized in upright conduct, and embodied in upright affairs. For those who hold office, only by first cultivating the inner mind and forging character can they walk the path of governance well and win the support and love of the people. Therefore, to cultivate oneself, one must first rectify the mind; only when the mind is upright can affairs be upright.
For a person to accomplish a great undertaking, they need to rectify the mind, make the will sincere, and cultivate the self and nourish one's nature. For Communists to stand for the Party and serve the people, they must all the more establish the mind and illuminate the aspiration, purify the source and consolidate the foundation — this is precisely the core content of Party spirit education. General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to Party spirit education, pointing out that "Party spirit education is a required course for Communists to cultivate themselves and nourish their nature, and it is also the 'study of the mind' for Communists," admonishing Party members and leading cadres to "hold awe in the heart, exercise restraint in speech, and stop at proper limits in conduct," to frequently brush away the "dust of thought," to think more about the "harm of greed," to constantly break the "thief within the heart," to build a solid foundation of faith, to replenish the calcium of the spirit, to steady the helm of thought, and to grasp well the fundamental of ideological education. Only by cultivating well the "study of the mind" of Communists and reciting well the "true scripture" of Marxism can Party members and leading cadres know awe, maintain vigilance, and hold the bottom line, guard the inner heart, steady the defense line, forge an indestructible body, and build a body immune to all poisons.
"Governance means uprightness." General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "What plays a decisive role in establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements is Party spirit." Only when the mind is upright will affairs be upright, and only then can the correctness of the view of political achievements be ensured. Only with strong Party spirit and the rejection of selfish thoughts and distracting ideas can the view of political achievements be guaranteed not to deviate. A misguided view of political achievements is, in the final analysis, an unrectified mind, rooted in having deviated from Party spirit, discarded the purpose, and abandoned conviction. Political firmness comes from theoretical sobriety; Party spirit strength comes from firm conviction. Insufficient theoretical study and weak consciousness of the purpose will inevitably lead to ideological decline and weakened awareness of discipline and rules; when faced with various temptations and tests, one is prone to lose direction and fall into the vortex of various "encirclement" and "rent-seeking" from which one cannot extricate oneself. "If one wishes to establish affairs, one must first establish the mind." For Party members and leading cadres to create political achievements, they must rely on rectifying the mind and illuminating the Way, and on self-discipline, to ensure that political achievements truly solve problems for the people and increase their well-being, rather than "putting up a facade" for themselves or seeking promotion; rely on theoretical sobriety and political firmness to ensure that political achievements are always rooted in the soil of reality and follow the guidance of laws, rather than becoming "image projects" that waste resources and produce no practical effect. They must constantly cultivate and temper strong Party spirit, build a solid ideological dam against deviations in the view of political achievements and against the impulse for achievements, achieve wholehearted devotion to the Party and wholehearted commitment to the public interest, remain spotless and incorruptible for life, and devote all their thoughts and energy to undertaking endeavors for the Party and the people.
In establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, "establishing" and "practicing" form an integrated whole. An upright mind can ensure the establishment of a correct view of right and wrong, a correct view of righteousness and benefit, a correct view of power, and a correct view of career, take a firm stand with the people, possess the realm and breadth of mind to "make both conspicuous achievements and behind-the-scenes achievements," and thus enable the correct view of political achievements to be established. The transformation of a correct view of political achievements into concrete achievements, one by one, requires even more down-to-earth and solid work, hard work that fears no hardship, daring work that gnaws at "hard bones," and skillful work that breaks through ice and blazes new trails. Only by organically combining an upright mind with upright conduct and upright affairs can one create achievements that withstand the test of practice, the people, and history.
By: 陈柏良 李闽榕
President Xi Jinping pointed out at the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance: "Ensure that AI is safe, reliable, and controllable, so that this thousand-li horse of AI both runs fast and runs steadily." This vivid metaphor directly confronts the contradiction between the rapid development of AI technology and the relatively lagging construction of governance systems, profoundly reveals the dialectical logic of AI development and governance, and provides fundamental guidance for promoting the healthy and orderly development of AI in a beneficial, safe, and fair direction.
At present, AI technology innovation is showing a trend of clustered breakthroughs, entering an unprecedented period of activity, with the iteration cycle of top-tier large models compressed from several months to several weeks. At the same time, AI technology is extensively penetrating all fields of economic and social development, becoming the core engine driving the accelerated development of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and fostering and developing new quality productive forces. Only by firmly grasping this major opportunity, promoting AI technology innovation, striving to seize the commanding heights in frontier AI fields, and enabling AI to "run fast," can we create favorable conditions for winning the initiative in future development. At the same time, the more rapidly AI technology develops, the more firmly the direction of striving upward toward goodness and benefiting humanity must be anchored. Only by precisely grasping the scale of regulation and governance, promptly improving mechanisms to prevent loss of control, and promoting AI to "run steadily," can technological innovation continuously serve the development of human society and the progress of civilization. From the perspective of the relationship between the two, "running fast" and "running steadily" support each other and neither can be neglected.
On the one hand, stability without "running fast" is stagnation. At present, global AI development is increasingly showing the characteristic of "winner takes all." Once an ecosystem forms, it will produce a strong lock-in effect, and being one step slow may result in passivity. In recent years, China has grasped the trends and laws of AI development, adhered to innovation-driven development, deeply implemented the "AI+" action, comprehensively promoted AI technological innovation, industrial development, and scenario application, promoted the extensive and deep integration of AI with various industries and fields of the economy and society, and enabled AI to empower a thousand industries and ten thousand enterprises. China's overall AI development is already in the world's first tier, with the scale of related core industries continuing to grow; AI is accelerating its integration from laboratories into a thousand industries and ten thousand enterprises, with diversified application scenarios continuously being implemented. Intelligent robots are entering production lines and conducting inspections in complex environments such as high altitudes and underground spaces, not only providing strong momentum for China's economic and social development but also injecting strength into world peace and prosperity. Practice has shown that only by mastering key core technologies, strengthening industrial collaboration, and expanding application space can we transform technological potential into development momentum and win the initiative in the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation.
On the other hand, speed without "running steadily" is recklessness. The various risks arising from AI technology development have cross-border characteristics. Overt problems such as model hallucination, data deficiencies, and the spread of harmful information, or risks brought by technological loss of control, may all infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of others, disrupt social order, and ultimately backfire on human well-being, reducing "speed" to zero in an instant. In recent years, China has strengthened its risk awareness, continuously improved AI governance systems, promoted the construction of systems encompassing laws and regulations, technical monitoring, risk early warning, and emergency response, actively explored tiered and categorized regulatory approaches, promoted the coordinated advancement of innovative development and law-based governance, and ensured that AI is safe and controllable. Practice has shown that clear and stable rules can define behavioral boundaries, reduce the uncertainty of innovation, and enhance the confidence of enterprises in investment, society in application, and the public in use.
At the same time, it must be recognized that the global intelligence divide still exists, with some developing countries being significantly constrained in computing power, data, and talent; the construction of global AI governance systems is clearly lagging behind, with situations of artificially setting up technological barriers and politicizing scientific and technological cooperation still existing. Challenges such as fragmented governance rules, algorithmic imbalance, ethical anomie, and the intelligence divide are becoming prominent. These will only widen the gap, trigger trust crises and ethical anomie, and thereby increase risks. We must grasp the trends and laws of AI development, both activating the development momentum of "running fast" and building a solid safety bottom line for "running steadily," strengthening AI development and governance, and making it truly a powerful positive force for enhancing the well-being of all humanity and promoting the progress of human civilization.
Specifically, we must adhere to combining an effective market with a proactive government, both encouraging bold exploration and holding the safety bottom line and preventing and defusing risks. We must adhere to letting the market play a decisive role in AI technology route selection, business model innovation, and allocation of factor resources, guiding enterprises to respond to real needs and solve real problems in real scenarios, exploring replicable and scalable profit models, promoting the resonance of technological innovation with market demand, and maximizing the stimulation of the industry's innovation potential and development vitality. Better leveraging the role of the government, introducing policy measures to support the development of the AI industry, and increasing financial and fiscal support for the AI field can lay a solid foundation for AI technological progress and industrial development; accelerating the establishment of governance mechanisms that match the evolution of AI technology, exploring new regulatory methods such as "sandbox regulation" and trigger-based regulation, and promoting the establishment of a full-lifecycle AI risk management system can prevent the misuse and abuse of AI technology. At the same time, we must focus on major issues in global AI governance, strengthen the alignment and coordination of AI development strategies, governance rules, and technical standards, promote the establishment of an AI governance framework with broad participation of all countries, continuously bridge the intelligence divide and governance capacity gaps, and ensure that AI develops healthily and orderly in a beneficial, safe, and fair direction.
(The authors are both specially appointed researchers at the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Fujian Province)
Return to TopBy: 《中国经济周刊》记者 孙 冰 孙庭阳
Straw becomes degradable drinking straws, corn becomes quick-drying T-shirt fabric, carbon dioxide becomes starch... These seemingly unrelated scenarios all point to the "micro" side of Chinese manufacturing — biomanufacturing.
Biomanufacturing is one of the future industries proposed in the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, and it concerns people's livelihoods and green development. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the total scale of China's biomanufacturing industry reached 1.1 trillion yuan. An increase in the scale of the biomanufacturing industry will not only alleviate carbon emission pressure but also bring a huge new market. Recently, reporters interviewed relevant experts and enterprises to see what stories are unfolding in the "cell factories" closely related to biomanufacturing.
— Editor's Note —
Moving more manufacturing from chemical plants to "cell factories"
"In these fermentation tanks, trillions of microorganisms invisible to the naked eye are working tirelessly — consuming corn starch, glucose, and the like, and producing various products." Liu Bo, founder of Weiyuan Synthesis, handed the reporter a small cup of transparent, viscous liquid. "This is allulose produced using microorganisms; it tastes very similar to honey."
Allulose has extremely low calories. In the past, the production of allulose long faced the difficulties of high cost and complex process flows. Synthetic biology manufacturing, however, can enable designed living organisms to convert starch sugars into allulose within the body. At present, factories under Weiyuan Synthesis can already mass-produce allulose and several other products.
"Biomanufacturing is highly aligned with the 'dual carbon' goals; humanity needs new ways to solve energy and material problems," said Cao Hui, Party Committee Secretary and professor at the School of Life Science and Technology of Beijing University of Chemical Technology.
"Biomanufacturing has two main development directions: one is replacing chemical synthesis, and the other is replacing extraction from animal and plant tissues. Chemical synthesis has good economics but is not environmentally friendly, while extraction from animal and plant tissues is often costly or difficult to obtain," Liu Shuwen, project researcher at the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told reporters. "This is an important reason why we hope to move more manufacturing from chemical plants and the like to 'cell factories.'"
What is a "cell factory"?
Whether in laboratories of universities and research institutions, or in biomanufacturing pilot platforms and production bases, what reporters saw most were fermentation tanks of various sizes, inside which were countless "cell factories." "Simply put, biomanufacturing is the process of processing and manufacturing through biological organisms. It mainly utilizes cells — such as bacteria, yeast, and animal and plant cells — which, through enzyme-catalyzed physiological metabolism, 'consume' raw materials and metabolize substances people need, and then achieve scaled-up production through engineering technologies," Cao Hui said. This is the "creation" process inside fermentation tanks.
If biomanufacturing's replacement of chemical synthesis is a contest of which is cheaper and which is greener, then in replacing extraction from animal and plant tissues, biomanufacturing's performance is even more impressive.
Take hyaluronic acid, once called "soft gold," as an example. In the past, extracting hyaluronic acid required large quantities of rooster combs. Today, domestic enterprises produce hyaluronic acid through "cell factories," and production costs have fallen substantially. Bloomage Biotechnology alone accounts for more than 40 percent of the global hyaluronic acid raw material market share, with products sold to more than 70 countries and regions.
Another example is glucosamine, an important raw material for knee-joint health products. Previously, shrimp and crab shells were crushed into powder and degraded and extracted with concentrated hydrochloric acid — costly and with serious waste-acid pollution. Domestic enterprises successfully developed a microbial fermentation method, reducing production costs to one-quarter of the traditional extraction process. Relying on this technological advantage, China's glucosamine raw material exports account for 60–70 percent of the global market.
"Biomanufacturing can help many fields reduce costs and improve efficiency, and it may even completely transform an industry," Cao Hui said.
Industrializing technology faces multiple challenges
Like the industrialization path of other technologies, biomanufacturing must also pass through original innovation, technology transfer, and industrialization before moving from the laboratory to the big market, and each step is not easy.
Liu Shuwen explained that the technology chain of biomanufacturing can be divided into three core links: first, strain design, which creates "cell factories" through the "design–build–test–learn" cycle; second, fermentation process, namely scale-up cultivation and process control; and third, separation and purification, namely product extraction and refinement. "In the latter two links, we are basically on par with advanced foreign levels, and our engineering capability is even stronger, with the highest industrial chain efficiency globally. The biggest challenge lies in the strain design link — insufficient source innovation," Liu Shuwen said.
"Strains (including enzymes) are the foundation of biomanufacturing and the most critical part. How to improve strain metabolic efficiency, raw material adaptability, and process compatibility has already become the core competitive point in biomanufacturing," Wang Huaping, director of the National Innovation Center for Advanced Functional Fibers and professor at Donghua University, told reporters. "There are very many strains and enzymes in nature. First, we must identify which ones are efficient and usable, and then edit, modify, and improve the strains. This process requires gene sequencing equipment and gene editing tools. These were all imported before; now Chinese enterprises such as BGI can also provide domestically produced gene sequencing equipment, but some equipment still lags behind the most advanced international levels."
Kang Zhen, professor at the Future Food Science Center of Jiangnan University, told reporters that biomanufacturing has become a new track on which countries are competing for scientific, technological, and industrial leadership, and the focus of competition is control over underlying core technologies. "The main current challenges are that underlying core patents are still monopolized overseas; basic databases and biomanufacturing design industrial software lack self-sufficiency; strain design is still mainly iterative improvement — usable but not leading, applicable but difficult to pioneer; and the risk of being 'choked' on high-end special strains and underlying tools is prominent," Kang Zhen said.
Another major challenge is passing the pilot-scale test. Pilot-scale testing is the key link and necessary gateway from laboratory to industrialization. Wang Enxu, general manager of Bloomage Biotechnology's pilot-scale achievement transformation center, told reporters that strains and processes that perform excellently in the laboratory, once scaled up to fermentation tanks of several tons or even dozens of tons, have an overall success rate of only about 20 percent.
AI technology reshaping the entire biomanufacturing process
Using sugars from corn or straw to "feed" genetically edited microorganisms, which metabolize basic monomer chemicals that are then polymerized and compounded into a high-performance bio-based material with a density only one-quarter that of steel and one-third lighter than aluminum — this is the innovative technology of Shanghai Cathay Biotech. Today, the new materials produced by the company have left the laboratory and are applied in new-energy vehicle battery casings, unmanned logistics vehicle compartments, and temperature-controlled boxes for aviation cold chains.
The R&D end is still accelerating. Cathay Biotech has invested in the bio-large-model enterprise "Molecular Heart," using AI (artificial intelligence) to design and predict protein structures and directly modify enzymes and strains. In just a few months, the productivity of wild strains can be increased fivefold.
Multiple experts interviewed believe that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, driven by multiple factors including national strategic guidance, technological breakthrough empowerment, and market demand pull, biomanufacturing will usher in a golden period of comprehensive acceleration. In particular, the rapid progress of AI technology is reshaping the entire process of biomanufacturing from R&D to production.
Taking the strain design link as an example, in the past R&D was a trial-and-error model; now it is computation-driven. "Combining AI's data simulation with real experiments has greatly improved success rates and completion efficiency. In the past, constructing a strain might have taken 10 years of R&D; now it has been shortened to one to two years," Cao Hui said.
AI has accelerated the pace of technological iteration, but biomanufacturing still has a more fundamental question to answer: What should "cell factories" eat?
Experts explain that the raw materials of biomanufacturing are constantly evolving. First-generation raw materials are grain crops such as corn. This is the current mainstream choice — cheap and most efficient — but it also raises concerns about "competing with people for grain." Second-generation raw materials are agricultural and forestry wastes such as straw. Conversion efficiency is lower than grain, collection, storage, and transportation costs are higher, and technical difficulties have yet to be overcome. Third-generation raw materials are chemical by-products such as methanol and acetic acid, or one-carbon compounds. The ultimate goal is to directly use carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Cao Hui stated that industrial tail gas produced during steelmaking in steel plants, after metabolic conversion by Clostridium autoethanogenum, can become fish feed protein with a crude protein content exceeding 80 percent, and such processes have already been applied at scale in some steel enterprises.
Wang Huaping believes that China, in the field of biomanufacturing, can leverage the completeness of the entire manufacturing chain and industrial chain to achieve scaled-up production and ultimately form global competitiveness. Another advantage is the energy advantage. If clean energy can be coupled with biomanufacturing — integrating solar and wind energy into the biomanufacturing process, using straw and carbon dioxide as raw materials, and merging the new energy system with the biomanufacturing system — it would be possible to establish a sustainable, complete system from resources to products.
Return to TopReport from this newspaper, Beijing, August 17 (Reporter Han Xin): The "Premium Self-Driving Tourism Highway Implementation Plan" recently issued by the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部) proposes accelerating the construction of a "1+N" premium self-driving tourism highway system. By 2030, cross-regional, long-distance premium self-driving tourism highway routes will be basically formed, with the good-and-excellent road rate higher than the average level, supporting facilities gradually improved, key road sections becoming well-known destinations for self-driving travel, and initially realizing networked, systematic, and branded development.
According to the plan, the premium self-driving tourism highways coordinated and advanced by the Ministry of Transport take ordinary national highways as the main body and, following the principle of "maintaining stability of the overall skeleton, expanding branch lines in important regions, and providing multiple routes for local sections," form a main skeleton of "three rings, four horizontals, five verticals" premium self-driving tourism highways with a total mileage of approximately 60,000 kilometers. The "three rings" are three premium self-driving tourism highway ring lines: the border-and-coastal ring line, the capital metropolitan area ring line, and the Qinghai-Gansu ring line; the "four horizontals" are four premium self-driving tourism highways: the Great Wall culture, Yellow River culture, Yangtze River culture, and western snow-covered plateau sky road; the "five verticals" are five premium self-driving tourism highways: the Grand Canal culture, East China World Heritage, central China's splendid mountains, Long March culture, and ancient roads and secret realms.
The plan specifies that in improving infrastructure, a tourism highway network with main and branch roads connected will be built with ordinary national highways as the skeleton, quality improvement and renovation of key road sections will be advanced by category, and scenic viewing and safety facilities will be gradually improved. In improving the service system, the car rental and cross-province vehicle transport network at transportation hubs will be improved, the charging facility network will be rationally optimized, and extended services such as quick repair and maintenance and outdoor equipment rental will be expanded; in strengthening safety and smart systems, data sharing between transportation, culture and tourism departments will be promoted, and self-driving travel characteristics and demand will be systematically analyzed.
Return to TopBeijing, August 17 (Reporter Wu Qiuyu) — The reporter learned from the People's Bank of China: In order to implement the decision and deployment in the "15th Five-Year Plan" Outline regarding "steadily developing the digital RMB," further enhance the inclusiveness of digital RMB services, and continuously respond to the people's demand for safe, convenient, and efficient digital RMB services, the People's Bank of China has added Ping An Bank, Hengfeng Bank, Bohai Bank, Bank of Shanghai, Bank of Hangzhou, Huishang Bank, Bank of Changsha, and Guangxi Beibu Gulf Bank as banking-type digital RMB business operating institutions, and has connected them to the central bank-side digital RMB system. The newly added institutions will conduct digital RMB business after completing business and technical preparations.
At present, the number of digital RMB business operating institutions has expanded to 30.
Our newspaper, Beijing, August 17 (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) — Recently, five certification and accreditation industry standards, including the "General Evaluation Requirements for Certification and Review of Automotive Chip Institutions," which were approved for project initiation by the State Administration for Market Regulation (National Certification and Accreditation Administration) (市场监管总局（国家认监委）), were released. These five standards constitute the world's first national-level institutional capability evaluation standard system targeting the entire automotive chip industry chain, marking a major institutional breakthrough in China's construction of an independent and controllable automotive chip quality assurance system.
Automotive chips are the central nervous system of intelligent connected vehicles and also a core strategic resource. For a long time, due to the lack of a unified evaluation system, domestic chips have faced challenges such as high access barriers and low market trust in the process of vehicle application, with large-scale application being hindered. The five standards released this time systematically construct an institutional capability evaluation system for the automotive chip field, establishing both the general evaluation requirements for certification and review of automotive chip institutions and providing professional guidance and operational procedures for capability evaluation for various institutions such as design, certification, testing, and computing power. This will effectively guide institutions across the entire industry chain to enhance their professional capabilities, ensure the professionalism, consistency, and authority of automotive chip certification and review activities, accelerate the opening of the quality chain for domestic chips from research and development to vehicle application, lay a solid institutional foundation for high-quality industry development, and promote the formation of a trillion-yuan-level automotive chip industry ecosystem.
Ngari Prefecture is located in the western part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, with an average elevation of over 4,500 meters, and is known as "the roof of the roof of the world." How to bring medical insurance policies into thousands of households, enable remote residents to complete medical insurance matters at their doorsteps, and receive timely protection when suffering from illness or hardship is a livelihood question that must be answered well on the snowy plateau. Under the guidance of the Ngari Prefecture medical security department, the medical insurance handling service team of PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited Tibet Ngari Branch (中国人民财产保险股份有限公司西藏阿里分公司; hereinafter "PICC P&C Ngari Branch") has always adhered to Party building as the guide, focused precise efforts on the four dimensions of team, network, service, and guarantee, woven a warm and resilient service network across the borderland, at the foot of snow mountains, and in lakeside villages, and responded with day-after-day perseverance to the plateau people's expectations for convenient medical insurance services.
Party building strengthens the team: from "close communication" to "close to the heart"
To deliver medical insurance policies to borderland farmers and herders, the Party committee of PICC P&C Ngari Branch insists on transforming organizational advantages into service advantages, recruits local backbone personnel in a targeted manner, and has formed a 26-person full-time handling team, of which Party members account for over 60%. Party member backbones take the initiative to reveal their identity, fulfill their commitments, and set an example, becoming the backbone force rooted in the plateau and serving the masses. The service team has traversed all 37 townships and 145 administrative villages in Ngari Prefecture, using their footsteps to open up the "last kilometer" of serving the masses, delivering medical insurance services to "the farthest family," and enabling residents in remote pastoral areas to handle medical insurance at their doorsteps.
Gaize County (改则县) covers an area of 135,580 square kilometers, but has a permanent population of only 25,500 people. 地广人稀 (dì guǎng rén xī - "vast land, sparse people," a vast territory with a sparse population) has an intuitive manifestation here. Undaunted by practical difficulties such as high altitude, scattered settlements, and difficult roads, service team members go deep into pasturelands, villages, and herders' tents, innovatively implementing the "bilingual frontline work system," compiling promotional brochures and handling guides in both Tibetan and Chinese, and explaining policies, procedures, and answering questions to Tibetan herders in everyday language that the masses can understand and remember.
Meticulously weaving the network: from "single sites" to "full-area coverage"
Townships in Ngari Prefecture are hundreds of kilometers apart. Long distances for medical treatment and difficult reimbursement are the practical plight of plateau residents. Relying on its own network advantages, PICC P&C Ngari Branch has built a three-tier service network of "county-level centers + township points + village-level stations," with 10 fixed service points as the core and 16 service windows as the link, coordinating the construction of township- and village-level service stations. Relying on county-level network points in Gar (噶尔县), Burang (普兰县), Zanda (札达县), Rutog (日土县), Gaize, Geji (革吉县), and Coqen (措勤县) counties, it has fully established "PICC + medical insurance" convenience service stations, equipped with 16 part-time service personnel. The stations operate under unified signage, service standards, and process specifications, providing the masses with high-frequency basic services such as policy publicity, insurance registration, information inquiry, cross-regional medical treatment filing, and medical insurance code activation, enabling the masses to handle medical insurance matters nearby and promoting the "full-area coverage" of medical insurance services on the snowy plateau.
Going all out to optimize services: from "the masses coming to the door" to "services going down"
The Party committee of PICC P&C Ngari Branch gives full play to the role of grassroots Party organizations as fighting fortresses and the vanguard and exemplary role of Party members, integrating responsibility and commitment into the entire service process. Party member vanguard posts have been set up at service points, displaying standards, commitments, and services, providing the masses with attentive services such as answering questions and full-process agency handling. At the same time, a mobile medical insurance service team led by Party member backbones has been formed, promoting the transformation of the handling service model from "the masses coming to find services" to "Party members going to the countryside to deliver services." The mobile medical insurance service team goes deep into the vast wilderness and border villages, handling insurance registration at doorsteps, assisting with document organization, and implementing guarantee benefits, extending attentive services to the doorsteps of the masses and infusing livelihood warmth into the hearts of borderland residents.
In 2025, PICC P&C Ngari Branch served nearly 400,000 person-times in total, with medical insurance benefit expenditures of approximately 159 million yuan, writing a livelihood answer sheet on the snowy plateau of "PICC provides more services, the masses worry less."
Collaboration gathers strength: from "single guarantee" to "multiple protection"
Under the guidance of the Ngari Prefecture medical security department, the Party committee of PICC P&C Ngari Branch has taken the initiative to participate in the construction of a multi-tiered medical security system of "basic medical insurance + serious illness insurance + medical assistance + supplementary protection," giving play to the supplementary protection role of commercial insurance and strengthening inclusive, foundational, and bottom-line livelihood protection. It underwrites urban and rural residents' serious illness insurance, urban workers' large-amount supplementary medical insurance, urban and rural residents' super-large-amount supplementary medical insurance, and Ngari borderland urban and rural residents' supplementary medical insurance, providing a cumulative risk protection of 134.236 billion yuan for 143,800 insured residents. For approximately 36,400 residents in the four border counties of Burang, Zanda, Rutog, and Gar, it has provided a cumulative risk protection of 30.036 billion yuan, paid claims of 776,400 yuan, with the number of protected persons continuing to grow. The establishment of supplementary insurance provides bottom-line reimbursement protection for large medical expenses of urban and rural residents, reducing the risk of residents falling back into poverty or becoming impoverished due to illness.
From clusters of Pangong willows growing in the wind by the shores of Pangong Lake, to PICC people holding their posts one by one amid snow mountains and Gobi deserts, the medical insurance handling service team of PICC P&C Ngari Branch adheres to Party building as the guide and serves with a sense of mission, converging each policy briefing, doorstep agency handling, and timely claim payment into a trickling warm current on the snowy plateau, precisely delivering benefit policies to borderland residents, using the insurance function to safeguard the health and tranquility of thousands of families, and demonstrating PICC P&C's responsibility and commitment in stabilizing the border, consolidating the border, revitalizing the border, and enriching the people.
Data source: PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 蕊
At 10:30 in the morning, heat waves shimmered over the asphalt road. Zhang Xuesong (张雪松), a cadre from the Binzhou Municipal Market Regulation Bureau (滨州市市场监管局) in Shandong, transformed into a food delivery rider, shuttling through streets and alleys.
During gaps between waiting for orders, he skillfully parked his electric bike in front of a shopping mall — where the orders he could grab were often more numerous. Zhang Xuesong sat astride the bike, staring intently at the phone mounted on the handlebars, his thumb hovering over the order-accept button: "Ready to grab orders at any moment."
In July this year, the Binzhou Municipal Market Regulation Bureau selected and dispatched 10 young cadres to work as delivery riders for two weeks on platforms such as Meituan, JD Seconds Delivery (京东秒送), and Taobao Flash Purchase (淘宝闪购). Zhang Xuesong was one of them.
Why let government agency cadres rush through streets and alleys delivering food? Online catering is developing rapidly, many problems are highly concealed, and investigation is difficult. "Sitting in the office looking at reports and checking complaints, there are always corners you cannot see. Cadres transformed into riders can directly observe storefronts and 'fish' problems up." Wang Bing (王兵), director of the Binzhou Municipal Market Regulation Bureau, explained.
In 2022, the Binzhou Municipal Market Regulation Bureau took the lead in establishing the Municipal Online Ride-Hailing Delivery Industry Party Committee (市网约配送行业党委), with the Municipal Federation of Trade Unions, the Communist Youth League committee, Human Resources and Social Security, and other units participating. Wang Bing concurrently serves as Party Committee secretary, with the office located in the Market Regulation Bureau. In the early stage of visits and investigations, facing regulatory cadres, many riders had concerns: some swallowed their demands just as they reached their lips, some did not know how to express themselves, and some simply waved their hands and said "everything is fine." "The best investigation is to put on the other person's shoes and walk a stretch of the road he walks — only then do you know where the difficulties are, where the needs are, and only then is service more precise." Wang Bing said.
30-year-old Zhang Xuesong is a young cadre in the Pharmaceutical Products Section, having just completed three years on the job. When he received the bureau's notice to select young cadres to serve as delivery riders, he was somewhat excited, but also worried. "There was both anticipation of stepping out of the office and going deep into the front line, and anxiety in the face of an unfamiliar industry." Zhang Xuesong said.
In the early stage, the Binzhou Municipal Market Regulation Bureau first communicated with each platform's regional managers one by one — obtaining health certificates, buying insulated delivery boxes, renting electric bikes... everything was prepared according to the standards for formal riders. The platforms arranged for veteran riders to conduct pre-job training, and in the initial period adopted a "one order, one delivery" flexible order-dispatching model, gradually relaxing the order volume once the process became familiar. "The most critical point is to dispatch orders throughout in the identity of a rider, not going through the motions — only this way can you see the most authentic appearance of this industry." Gao Lianqiang (高连强), deputy director of the Binzhou Municipal Market Regulation Bureau, said.
"I used to think delivering food was just running errands, but when I actually did it, I discovered there are too many intricacies here." Under the guidance of veteran riders, Zhang Xuesong passed through the "novice period" and gradually figured out delivery techniques — which road sections tend to be congested, which residential compounds have no elevators, which commercial districts produce orders quickly — and gradually kept a ledger in his heart.
Just as he was speaking, the order-accept notification sounded. Zhang Xuesong started the vehicle and hurried toward the pickup point. Following the navigation, Zhang Xuesong arrived at a pickup point, and the phone indicated "arrived," but he rode around in a circle without finding the store. His gaze became alert.
"Let me go check that side." He turned the vehicle around, slowed down, and finally found the small restaurant in an inconspicuous position among a row of shops. After picking up the meal from the store, he let out a sigh of relief.
This vigilance was not 无的放矢 (wú dì fàng shǐ - "release the arrow without a target," to act without purpose or aim). Before departure, the Catering Section organized special training for the cadres, clarifying the five dimensions of investigation —
"First, look at business qualifications — whether licenses and certificates are complete and whether public display is in place; second, look at the pickup address — whether it is the same place as the registered address; third, look at kitchen hygiene and equipment; fourth, look for extravagance and waste; fifth, look at the delivery seal — whether it is affixed and whether it is affixed properly." Zhang Xuesong counted on his fingers. "You must forge a pair of 火眼金睛 (huǒ yǎn jīn jīng - "fiery eyes and golden pupils," keen discerning vision) to capture the catering chaos hidden in the dark."
"Some delivery merchants without dine-in premises rely on renting licenses and certificates, using false addresses, forging store photos, and other means to enter delivery platforms, even packaging themselves as high-scoring stores. This is the long-criticized 'ghost takeout.'" Zhang Xuesong said he was especially vigilant about hidden storefronts.
The lunch rush came to an end at 3 p.m., and Zhang Xuesong wiped the sweat from his forehead. On the delivery route, he discovered many problems difficult to detect while sitting in an office: some old residential compounds had disorderly buildings and unclear signage, some did not even hang building numbers, making it time-consuming to find buildings; at some intersections in the urban area, red light waiting times were relatively long, and individual riders, in order not to be late or receive bad reviews, could only helplessly rush through green lights at excessive speed.
The streets and alleys where he ran orders were the real investigation site. The reporter flipped through the "Ledger of Rider Experience Activity Situation Summary," which recorded problems such as riders' rights protection and shortcomings in supporting services: during order peaks, battery swap stations sometimes had no batteries available for exchange; rider app navigation was inaccurate, often causing riders to take "wasted" detours; on some road sections, non-motorized lanes were fully occupied by parked vehicles, creating considerable traffic risks...
Once problems were brought back, how were they solved? The Binzhou Municipal Market Regulation Bureau established a mechanism of "same-day reporting, same-day ledger creation, and classified handling." Every evening, the experienced cadres returned to the bureau and recorded the problems they discovered in the ledger, with relevant departments taking the lead in verification. In 14 days, the 10 cadres discovered a total of 145 problems, and all have now been placed in rectification ledgers, with write-off management implemented.
After finding out the real situation, one must also prescribe the right remedy. The Market Regulation Bureau linked up with public security, local sub-district offices, commercial district operators, and major delivery platforms to build a collaborative co-governance model. "For example, regarding unclear signage in old residential compounds, we proactively coordinated with housing and construction, sub-district, and property management parties for rectification; regarding intersection passage time issues, we coordinated with public security to optimize signal light timing, providing convenience for riders rushing on the road." Gao Lianqiang explained. The city, relying on the Municipal Online Ride-Hailing Delivery Industry Party Committee, has also hired a number of riders as food safety supervisors, established a "snap and report anytime" direct reporting mechanism for leads, and optimized the merchant inspection system — "all to promote the extension from 'solving one matter' to 'governing a category of matters.'"
By throwing oneself down, 走街串巷 (zǒu jiē chuàn xiàng - "walk streets and thread alleys," to wander through streets and lanes), training one's legs, and raising the ability to put oneself in others' shoes, young cadres can deepen their understanding of regulatory responsibilities by one more layer. After more than ten days of rushing about, Zhang Xuesong was filled with emotion. In his diary, he left this passage —
"My arms have been sunburned with a clear dividing line, and my hands have worn calluses. Let these marks stay a while longer! They constantly remind me: the feet of regulation must step in the soil to hold that invisible safety bottom line. Whether it is pharmaceutical or food regulation, what we protect are concrete individuals and the trust they have placed in us. This weighty entrustment requires us to catch it with our hearts."
Return to TopBy: 迟嘉瑞
How to achieve "heart-in" engagement in research and investigation is a comprehensive test of both the individual Party-member cadre and the coordination mechanisms at play. As development scenarios grow richer, the settings and models of cadre research are also constantly expanding, making it all the more necessary to guard against "follow-the-trend" and "showcase-style" research that puts up a false front, to be vigilant against formalism such as flocking research, multi-track research, and duplicate research, and to seek practical and effective research methods that allow cadres to hear the truth and see the real situation.
Research and investigation hinge on the word "real." Before conducting research, one should make advance assessments of possible policy bottlenecks, strengthen problem awareness, and avoid blind work and sweeping generalizations; during the research process, one should make good observations and adjustments, use real situations and objective laws to correct experiential biases and prevent first-impression preconceptions, and strive to achieve "depth, substance, detail, accuracy, and effectiveness."
The key to doing grassroots work well lies in having a clear picture of the situation. One should conduct research more often through the "four nots and two directs" method, identify the focal points and breakthroughs of reform from the urgent difficulties and anxious expectations of the masses, listen more to grassroots opinions, and grasp more first-hand information — only then can one find real problems and solve real problems.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 贺 勇 李亚楠
In Jigen Township (吉根乡), Wuqia County (乌恰县), Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture (克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州), Xinjiang, the sun blazes fiercely, yet in the mountains a chill lingers, requiring autumn clothing for warmth.
29-year-old Hanikai Turhanbek (哈尼开·图尔汗拜克) loaded water and naan bread onto his back and, together with several other border guards, set out on the patrol route.
After graduating from university, Hanikai worked in the Wuqia county seat. This year, seeing the recruitment notice for border guards in Jigen Township, he signed up without hesitation and took up his post in April: "I have lived here since I was a child, right next door to 'People's Model' (人民楷模) Burumahan Maoleduo (布茹玛汗·毛勒朵)."
Wuqia County lies at the westernmost point of China's territory. In the early years, there were no clear boundary markers along the border line, and herders would occasionally cross the border to graze. To guard the border, Burumahan came up with the method of "carving stones to erect markers." Along the border line of the Pamir Plateau, Burumahan personally carved more than 100,000 "China Stones" (中国石) bearing the feelings of family and country.
Hanikai still remembers the scene of his first patrol on April 1 vividly: "My colleagues are all elders who watched me grow up. Along the way, they taught me precautions and emergency response. When we stopped to rest, everyone chatted about daily life, told red stories, and sang the national anthem. I like this life very much."
Jigen Township has a total of 792 border guards, with nearly every household having one. Each month, 10 days are spent on patrol and 10 days on training, with the remaining time for rest, allowing border guards to engage in production. The local famous scenic spot, the West Pole Tower (西极塔), is located in Simhana Village (斯姆哈纳村), Jigen Township. During rest days, Hanikai leads his family's horse to join the scenic area's horse team, taking tourists up the mountain on horseback.
Abduseyit Wurouzimaimaiti (阿布都赛依提·吾肉孜买买提) is a veteran border guard, having joined the border guard team in 2012, when the monthly subsidy was 150 yuan, which rose to over 2,000 yuan starting in August 2016. Beyond border guarding, he opened a small restaurant near the township government and turned his home into a pastoral home-stay (牧家乐). Last year, these two items alone brought a net income of 120,000 yuan.
Ma Xiaoliang (马小亮), Party Secretary of Jigen Township, introduced that the township implements the "Seven Small Projects" (七小工程) proposed by the County Party Committee's Political and Legal Affairs Commission (县委政法委), covering small livestreams, small home-stays, small construction teams, and the like, giving border guards an additional income beyond guarding the border. In addition, many border guards work at the nearby Irkeshtam Port (伊尔克什坦口岸), and the township also encourages border guards to raise chukar partridges, expanding sales channels through livestreaming. The township operates 7 hotels, receiving over 300,000 tourists last year, with tourism revenue exceeding 16 million yuan.
Asked whether being a border guard is hard, Abduseyit said it certainly is — in winter when it snows, the snow can reach past the knees, and patrolling requires shoveling snow while advancing. In the past, the mountain roads were difficult to traverse, and there was no signal on the mountains. If a border guard on duty fell ill, they could only be carried down the mountain by manpower for medical treatment. "Now the roads are much easier to travel, and duty posts have been built all around, providing temporary supplies, satellite phones, first-aid medicines, oxygen concentrators, and other emergency support." Abduseyit said that conditions are getting better and better, and our lives are thriving more and more, so we must do the border guarding work even better and protect the motherland's border line. "Patrolling and guarding the border is guarding our own home, guarding our own good life."
Return to TopBeijing, August 17 (Xinhua) — Reporter Zhang Tianpei: The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security that recently, network security departments of public security organs followed leads and overcame difficulties, successively cracking three cases of online public-opinion extortion targeting the film and television industry, arresting a total of 24 criminal suspects, effectively striking at the arrogant momentum of online black and gray industry chains, and practically safeguarding the order of online communication and the legitimate rights and interests of relevant entities.
Among them, in a case cracked by the public security organ of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, involving extortion through public opinion in the entertainment field, a criminal gang headed by Li Mou and Liao Mou used self-media accounts with millions of followers under their actual control to long-term target popular TV dramas, hit variety shows, and traffic stars, piecing together, fabricating, and publishing large amounts of negative information to form public opinion pressure, forcing the victimized parties to proactively contact them and purchase so-called "drama protection" services, thereby illegally profiting; in a case cracked by the public security organ of Fuzhou, Fujian, involving extortion through fabricating "negative information" about new dramas and celebrities, Zheng Mou and Huang Mou long-term collected "negative information" about new dramas and celebrities, deliberately created negative public opinion hotspots, and because relevant film crews and artist management teams feared that negative public opinion would affect the reputation of their works, the personal reputations of artists, and commercial revenue, they proactively contacted the two to handle the negative information, and the two deleted the relevant negative posts after receiving payment; in a case cracked by the public security organ of Heyuan, Guangdong, involving extortion in the name of "drama protection," the gang headed by Li Moujun long-term hired online ghostwriters to search for and piece together various celebrity gossip, used artificial intelligence tools to manipulate the posting of multiple big-V accounts under their control, deliberately created negative public opinion hotspots during the broadcast period of TV dramas and variety shows, and when relevant crews bore public opinion pressure and proactively contacted them to negotiate post deletion matters, Li Moujun took the opportunity to demand that TV drama broadcast platforms or celebrity management companies purchase his so-called "drama protection" services, otherwise refusing to delete the negative online posts, which in essence constituted extortion.
A relevant person in charge of the Network Security Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security stated that using online platforms to organize public-opinion extortion in a planned manner seriously disrupts network order and constitutes illegal and criminal conduct. Network security departments of public security organs nationwide will continue to maintain a high-pressure and severe-strike posture, dig deep into the entire chain of black and gray industries, and severely punish criminals. At the same time, they call on the general public to express themselves rationally and discuss in a civilized manner, jointly creating a clean and upright online ecosystem.
Return to TopOur newspaper, Beijing, August 17 (Reporter Zhang Cong) — A reporter learned from the Ministry of Justice (司法部) that, in order to continuously deepen the effectiveness of the special campaign to standardize administrative law enforcement involving enterprises and promote the deep integration of law enforcement supervision with convenience for the people and benefit for enterprises, the Ministry of Justice recently released typical cases of standardizing administrative law enforcement involving enterprises and doing practical things for the people. This batch of 6 cases covers Hainan, Zhejiang, Shandong, Jiangsu, Shanxi and other places, involving multiple dimensions such as the standardization of authority and responsibility boundaries, innovation of law enforcement models, and optimization of service supply.
The cases show that various localities fully leveraged the coordinating and supervisory role of administrative law enforcement coordination, and, targeting prominent problems strongly reflected by enterprises such as unclear regulatory boundaries and inconsistent law enforcement standards, integrated law enforcement resources, clarified the division of authority and responsibility, and standardized law enforcement order from the source. For example, Haikou City, Hainan Province, closely followed enterprises' demands for burden reduction, clarified the law enforcement boundaries of "interleaved land" (插花地), solved the dilemma of one place being managed by two authorities, provided services proactively, went down to the front line to implement on-site review, entry, and certificate issuance, and realized the transformation from "handling at multiple offices" to "zero running around."
Various localities broke through traditional law enforcement thinking patterns, driven by the dual wheels of digital empowerment and concept transformation, promoting the transformation of law enforcement from extensive to refined, from passive control to active guidance, and effectively reducing enterprises' institutional transaction costs. For example, Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, reshaped law enforcement processes with digitalization, opened up multi-department data sharing channels, created a smart cloud inspection model, and expanded application scenarios such as remote video and drone site surveys, significantly improving the quality and efficiency of administrative law enforcement involving enterprises.
Next, the Ministry of Justice will consolidate and deepen the achievements of the special campaign, strengthen the effectiveness of administrative law enforcement coordination and supervision, promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of standardizing administrative law enforcement involving enterprises, closely monitor the bottlenecks and difficulties in the operation and development of business entities, actively promote various localities to firmly establish the concept of law enforcement for the people, improve cross-departmental coordination and linkage mechanisms, introduce more precise and pragmatic measures to help enterprises relieve difficulties, and continuously improve the level of law enforcement standardization and service refinement.
Return to TopOn August 16, Chenni Road Community (陈倪路社区) in Zhuangshi Subdistrict, Zhenhai District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, held a summer cooling activity, where traditional folk customs such as intangible cultural heritage shadow puppetry and watermelon-eating contests were interwoven with fun activities, winning popularity among the masses. The photo shows residents with their children watching shadow puppetry at the Chenni Road Community sports ground. Photo by Hu Xuejun (胡学军) for People's Vision.
Return to TopBEIJING, August 17 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Shi Yiqi) With the approval of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC and the National Supervisory Commission conducted an investigation into Xu Yiding, former member of the Party Leadership Group and former vice president of the Agricultural Development Bank of China, for serious violations of discipline and law.
The investigation found that Xu Yiding lost his ideals and convictions, abandoned his original aspiration and mission, violated the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulations, illegally accepted gifts, and accepted banquets that might affect the impartial execution of official duties; sought benefits for others in the recruitment and post-adjustment of employees; illegally occupied property of his former employing unit; showed utter disregard for the bottom line of discipline and law, turning the credit power for poverty alleviation and agricultural support into a tool for seeking personal gain, engaging in large-scale power-for-money deals, using his position to seek benefits for others in project loan approval and disbursement, and illegally accepting huge amounts of property.
Xu Yiding seriously violated the Party's organizational discipline, integrity discipline, and conduct discipline, constituted serious duty-related violations, and is suspected of bribery crimes. Moreover, after the 18th National Congress of the CPC, he did not restrain himself or stop his misconduct. The nature of his case is serious and the impact is adverse, and he should be dealt with severely. In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Regulations of the Communist Party of China on Disciplinary Actions, the Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China, and the Law of the People's Republic of China on Administrative Discipline for Public Officials, and after study by the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and approval by the CPC Central Committee, it was decided to expel Xu Yiding from the Party; the National Supervisory Commission will dismiss him from public office; his disciplinary and illegal gains will be confiscated; and the suspected criminal issues will be transferred to the procuratorial authorities for review and prosecution in accordance with the law, along with the involved property.
Return to TopBeijing, August 17 (Reporters Pan Junqiang, Qi Zhiming) — Recently, the Beijing Consumers Association summoned 20 children's bed production enterprises, informing them that in recent comparative testing, some products had problems such as edges not rounded, sharp protrusions, non-compliant holes and gaps, excessively long cords, missing warning labels, and excessive hazardous substances, and required the enterprises to immediately stop selling the problematic products, conduct comprehensive self-inspection against national standards, and establish long-term quality control mechanisms.
The 20 samples in this comparative testing were randomly purchased by staff from e-commerce platforms and offline furniture markets and shopping malls, and were tested in accordance with the mandatory national standard "Safety Technical Specification for Infant and Children's Furniture." The test results showed that none of the tested samples had problems such as decay or insect infestation of wooden parts or rusting of metal parts, but there were problems of varying degrees in warning labels, limits on hazardous substances, and other areas.
The problem of warning labels was relatively prominent. A total of 15 samples had problems of missing labels or incomplete labels, with no warning labels on the product body itself; products had functions such as adjustable guardrails and foldable bed frames, but the corresponding functional positions were not marked with safety warning text, the instruction manuals were incomplete, or warning information was missing. Missing or incomplete labels will make it difficult for parents to accurately learn the applicable age range of the product, structural safety precautions, and correct installation and adjustment methods, easily leading to misuse or incorrect use and increasing the risk of accidental injuries to children such as falls, pinching, and suffocation.
Individual samples exceeded limits for hazardous substances. The testing of limits on hazardous substances covered multiple items including formaldehyde emission and migratable hazardous elements, and 1 sample had problems with migratable hazardous elements. The "Jinduoxi" brand sample had chromium content exceeding the limit by more than 2 times and lead content exceeding the limit by more than 10 times. If children bite or touch the bed body, heavy metals may enter the body through the mouth or skin, and long-term accumulation will harm health.
Hidden dangers existed in the structural safety of specific products. Among the 20 samples purchased this time, there were 11 products in the categories of bunk beds, children's beds, folding cribs, and baby cribs, and staff conducted safety testing of specific product requirements on these samples by category. The test results showed that 3 bunk bed samples failed to meet standards on items such as safety guardrails, bed surfaces, and entry and exit passages; 2 multifunctional baby crib samples had problems such as insufficient stability, insufficient or missing guardrail height, and failure to be equipped with fixing devices for connection to adult beds.
At the meeting, the Beijing Consumers Association required merchants to immediately stop selling the problematic products, conduct comprehensive self-inspection against national standards, and establish long-term quality control mechanisms. All relevant enterprises must submit rectification reports or explanations within 10 working days, including analysis of the causes of the problems, specific rectification measures already taken, disposal plans, timelines for rectification progress, and subsequent quality control plans, to ensure that the entire rectification process can be inspected and traced.
By: 本报记者 张云河
Headline Highlights
The 13th National Acrobatics Exhibition recently concluded. Eight major productions and 45 programs, with superb skills and tangible public benefits, combining hardness with softness (刚柔并济 - gāng róu bìng jì - "hardness and softness combined") and interweaving wonder with peril, fully displayed the vitality of Chinese acrobatics in upholding the fundamental while innovating (守正创新). The exhibition emphasized the fusion of "technique" and "artistry," planting "beauty and warmth" in the hearts of audiences.
Offline audiences applauded like waves; online livestreams drew booming popularity. The warmth of the exhibition extended beyond the theater: cultural benefit measures (文化惠民) helped bring top-tier skills out of the theater, using the "traffic" of performances to leverage "growth" in cultural tourism and enrich the cultural life of the people.
Flipping, spinning. A single long bar, two people lifting, the performer leaping on the bar. The more the bar shook, the steadier the posture.
This bar-shaking performance came from the acrobatic drama Huawaliang Soldiers. The production was the closing show of the 13th National Acrobatics Exhibition, staged on the evening of August 15 at the Nanning Theater in Guangxi. The exhibition was held from July 21 to August 15 in Nanning and Beihai, Guangxi, with various acrobatic and magic programs taking the stage in turn.
Diverse program styles, fully displaying creative brilliance
Two female performers arched their bodies, borrowing strength from each other, with glass cups filled with water placed on their foreheads, palms, and soles — nearly a hundred cups stacked layer upon layer. They continuously changed their postures, pushing flexibility and control to the limit, while the water in the cups remained perfectly steady, not a single drop left behind (涓滴不遗 - juān dī bù yí - "not a single drop left behind").
On the evening of July 21, at the Beihai People's Theater, at the opening ceremony of this exhibition, the "Cup Rolling" performance by China Acrobatic Troupe Co., Ltd. (中国杂技团有限公司) amazed the entire audience.
If the bar-shaking in Huawaliang Soldiers was full of power and peril, Cup Rolling displayed flexibility and composure. This traditional acrobatic art does not rely on high-altitude stunts to attract attention; it relies on solid balance skills honed over years. Performer Yue Mingxin, who can steadily balance ten cups on one hand, said: "A watertight (滴水不漏 - dī shuǐ bù lòu - "not a drop of water leaks," flawless) performance on stage cannot be separated from thousands of repeated practices off stage."
From one outstanding opening program, one could glimpse the overall standard of this exhibition.
This national-level artistic event was hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) and the People's Government of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, co-organized by the Art Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区文化和旅游厅), building a centralized platform for display and exchange of national acrobatic and magic works.
This exhibition gathered the artistic strength of 23 provinces. Among the participating troupes were state-owned professional companies, as well as vocational art schools, grassroots cultural units, and new art groups. Through expert review, eight acrobatic productions and 45 individual acrobatic and magic programs were selected.
During the exhibition, 24 performances attracted approximately 26,000 offline viewers. Through an all-media matrix, over 1,500 pieces of related content were published; 12 online livestreams were simultaneously rebroadcast by more than 30 mainstream media outlets, with livestream views exceeding 12 million.
Works from various regions appeared on the same stage, presenting the vibrant and diverse creative state of the current acrobatics industry.
On one side of the stage stood a mulberry tree. The magician carried a bamboo basket, raised a hand as if plucking leaves, and mulberry leaves appeared out of thin air one by one. After several movements, silkworm cocoons also appeared in her hands, then transformed into long silk fabrics, and fans emerged one after another. A puff of white smoke spread, the mulberry tree vanished into thin air, and in its place appeared a loom.
Layer upon layer of reversals, beyond expectations (出人意料 - chū rén yì liào - "beyond people's expectations") — this was the impressive magic performance "Silk Whispers."
"I hope to use elements like the mulberry tree and silkworm cocoons, with one link after another of magical transformations, to bring audiences a different experience," said Wei Yinghui, performer of the Hebei Acrobatic Troupe Performing Arts Co., Ltd. (河北省杂技团演艺有限公司) and magician of "Silk Whispers."
Traditional acrobatics and innovative magic shone together on the same stage, with programs of diverse styles outlining the colorful stage landscape of this exhibition.
Not just competing in astonishment, wonder, and peril, but also in beauty and warmth
An oil-paper umbrella spun rapidly at a height. Beneath the umbrella were a pair of feet treading in midair. Xu Xian stood steady, lifting with both hands. Lady White Snake braced against his palms, curled up in a handstand, and kicked her legs back and forth like pedaling a bicycle. Her toes touched the umbrella handle base, the umbrella rim, and the umbrella top, circle after circle.
Suddenly, the performer sent the umbrella handle flying with a fierce kick of her right foot, and the oil-paper umbrella shot into the air, spinning 270 degrees in midair. In an instant, her right foot caught the umbrella rim. With only this single point of support, the oil-paper umbrella stood upright on its own. Between rise and fall, the scene froze at the Broken Bridge reunion.
With feet as the axis and the umbrella as the dance. This scene came from the acrobatic drama Legend of West Lake: White Snake. Guo Hongbo, second-level director of the Zhejiang Quyi Acrobatics General Troupe (浙江曲艺杂技总团) and director of Legend of West Lake: White Snake, said: "In the past, works related to The Legend of the White Snake were mostly fragmentary acrobatic programs. We have fully developed it into a complete acrobatic drama, filling a gap in subject matter. The entire production has no act divisions and does not rely on long passages of dialogue; it advances the plot through performers' acting, subtitles, and narration."
In his view, acrobatic drama is not competitive sport and cannot rely solely on technique. "Artistic expression and watchability are equally important; one must grasp the balance between technique and artistry. Acrobatics should not blindly pursue astonishment, wonder, and peril; it must also have beauty and warmth," Guo Hongbo said.
Yuan Wenxiang, the actor playing Xu Xian, deeply understood this. "In order to shape the character well, I had to do solid preparatory work — sorting out the character file, writing a character biography, and blending Xu Xian's state of mind into the umbrella-treading performance."
The entire production was streamlined in its staging, with one person playing multiple roles and one specialty serving multiple abilities (一专多能 - yī zhuān duō néng - "one specialty, multiple abilities"). In addition to playing Xu Xian, Yuan Wenxiang also made guest appearances in multiple roles, mastering umbrella skills, blanket spinning, and other techniques.
Following reproduced the revolutionary historical tapestry of the Long March, Wild Elephant Valley focused on the China-Laos Railway construction and ecological protection, Heavenly Craft: Pearl Shining Chapter fused intangible cultural heritage with modern stage expression... The participating works were rooted in inheritance and focused on innovation, covering a variety of themes. Around these new works, on August 14, an exhibition seminar and exchange activity was held in Beihai. Industry experts from various regions, some focusing on the overall industry landscape and others closely examining the dramatic texts, analyzed the present and future of acrobatic art.
Yu Yigang, chairman of the Chinese Acrobats Association (中国杂技家协会), said: "The practical wisdom of generations of acrobats — 'upholding the orthodox without being conservative, innovating without losing the roots' — has enabled acrobatic art to retain its charm through a thousand years and remain an art form deeply loved by audiences to this day."
Cultural benefit measures, driving cultural tourism consumption
This exhibition adhered to the principle of "benefiting the people through art," launching multiple public welfare performances in scenic areas and streets, bringing acrobatic art out of the theater and into citizens' lives, allowing the general public and out-of-town tourists to experience the charm of acrobatic art.
As night fell, at Beihai Silver Beach, the lights of the Tide Sculpture Square lit up one by one. With the blue sea as the backdrop and the sand as the stage, the outdoor public welfare performance of the acrobatic fairy tale Budding Miracle created by the Guangzhou Acrobatic Troupe (广州杂技团) was underway. The square was crowded with people (人头攒动 - rén tóu cuán dòng - "heads bobbing and crowding"). Citizens and tourists supported the elderly and led the young (扶老携幼 - fú lǎo xié yòu - "supporting the old and leading the young"); children squeezed to the front rows, standing on tiptoe and watching intently. On stage, ball treading, plate spinning, and contortion were all on display. The performers moved and maneuvered (辗转腾挪 - zhǎn zhuǎn téng nuó - "moving and maneuvering"), and the difficult moves drew wave after wave of cheers from the audience.
In Nanning, the outdoor public welfare performance of Legend of West Lake: White Snake landed at the water-screen movie plaza of Nanhu Park, where the lake scenery and acrobatic performance merged into one.
This exhibition also worked on multiple fronts including ticket prices, consumption subsidies, and online dissemination to effectively lower the threshold for audiences to attend performances. The theaters introduced tiered universal ticket prices, and simultaneously set up family packages and cross-venue passes to suit the needs of different audiences.
The 2026 "Follow Performances to Tour Guangxi" (跟着演出游广西) performing arts consumption exclusive card was open for application nationwide. Audiences who registered and recharged with real-name verification through the "Guangxi Cultural Benefits" (广西文化惠) official account and mini-program could receive government subsidies, which could be used to offset all performance tickets, packages, and passes for this exhibition. Multiple productions and special performances simultaneously conducted online livestreams, allowing audiences everywhere to appreciate the unique charm of acrobatics and magic without leaving home.
By day, tour the landscapes; by night, enjoy acrobatics; the whole city promotes consumption. With exhibition ticket stubs, audiences could also enjoy supporting discounts at scenic areas, hotels, and commercial districts. The exhibition also extended the skill stage to streets and alleys, with various acrobatic flash mobs coming to the side of citizens and tourists.
"We came from Zhejiang for tourism. We had planned to leave, but in order to watch the acrobatics exhibition, we stayed a few more days," said tourist Zhang Mingye.
A thousand skills take the stage, ten thousand households watch together. A relevant official from the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region said: "This exhibition is both a platform for exchange and display of acrobatic creation, and it uses the traffic of performances to drive local cultural tourism consumption, allowing quality art to benefit more people."
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 欧东衢 汪 军 吴 思
Pingtang County in Guizhou Province is a "summer paradise" and, even more so, a "hotbed for study tours." Inside the "China Sky Eye" (中国天眼) scenic area embraced by mountains, tourists from all over, filled with curiosity, approach the major national instrument and embark on a scientific rendezvous with the stars and the sea.
On September 25, 2016, deep in the mountains of Pingtang County (平塘县), the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) was officially completed and put into operation. It has a more widely known name — "China Sky Eye." On July 8 this year, the "Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST)" project won the first prize of the 2025 National Science and Technology Progress Award (国家科学技术进步奖). Since winning the award, its popularity in science popularization has continued to climb. Statistics show that in July this year, the "China Sky Eye" scenic area received over 220,000 tourist visits, a year-on-year increase of more than 10 percent.
Wang Yubiao (王玉彪), a sixth-grade student from Chongqing, after viewing the "China Sky Eye" up close, voiced his sincere reflection: "Why China's scientific and technological progress is praised by the whole world — the answer can be found right here." Upon learning that this telescope is currently the world's largest and most sensitive single-aperture spherical radio telescope, with a total reflector panel area equivalent to 30 standard football fields, he was 迫不及待 (pò bù jí dài - "too urgent to wait," unable to contain one's impatience) to send a message to classmates who share his interest in astronomy.
When the words in students' textbooks overlap with the major national instrument in reality, the seeds of knowledge quietly sprout in the hearts of young learners. In the fall semester of 2025, the nationally compiled eighth-grade Chinese language textbook (统编八年级语文教材) welcomed a notable new lesson — "There Is a 'Nan Rendong Star' in the Sky," which tells the moving story of Nan Rendong (南仁东), former chief scientist and chief engineer of the "China Sky Eye," who devoted his entire life to the scientific cause and dedicated his whole life to the major national instrument.
This summer vacation, many students came to Pingtang precisely carrying the memories from their textbooks, entering the Nan Rendong Memorial Hall (南仁东纪念馆), the Astronomy Experience Hall (天文体验馆), and other venues. Through precious images, texts, and video footage, they sincerely perceive the original aspiration of Nan Rendong's scientific research — leading his team to take root deep in the mountains, pursue dreams toward the firmament, and make selfless contributions.
Pingtang County was once a small mountainous county "hidden in a deep boudoir, unknown to the world." Today, relying on the "China Sky Eye," it has transformed like a butterfly into an international destination for astronomical science popularization and study travel. Centering on the core of astronomical science popularization, the locality has developed 48 distinctive study tour courses and 18 premium routes. Newly completed business formats such as the Metaverse XR Experience Hall (元宇宙XR体验馆) and the dome-screen flight cinema (球幕飞行影院) have made profound astronomical knowledge vivid and tangible.
Mao Lu (毛路), a journalist working for a media outlet in Brazil, is full of curiosity about the "China Sky Eye" and happened to have the opportunity this time to see it in person on site. Looking at the giant device erected amid the mountains, "like a large wok," he could not help but marvel that China has developed the world's largest single-aperture spherical radio telescope and is able to detect such distant reaches, reflecting China's investment in science.
As a major national instrument, the "China Sky Eye" has not only borne 硕果累累 (shuò guǒ lěi lěi - "abundant fruits hanging in clusters," bearing rich fruits) in the field of astronomical research, but has also sown the seeds of scientific exploration in the hearts of young people through study tour activities. From "seeing the Sky Eye" to "learning science" to "setting aspirations," the "China Sky Eye" is becoming an important front for nationwide science popularization and patriotic education for young people through immersive science experiences. Since this summer vacation, more than 300 science popularization activities have been carried out here, with over 12,000 student participants.
Yang Li (杨立), deputy director of the Pingtang County Culture and Tourism Bureau (平塘县文旅局), said that study tours have become a calling card for local cultural tourism development. Pingtang will continue to innovate in science popularization business formats, deeply explore the cultural heritage of astronomy, improve tourism service facilities, make the brand shine even brighter, and provide more tourists with a unique experience of exploring the universe and perceiving science.
Return to TopUrumqi, August 17 (Reporter Shang Rongzheng) — The "Light of Chinese Civilization — Exhibition of Henan Cultural Relics and Treasures" recently opened at the Museum of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区博物馆), presenting the evolutionary thread of Chinese civilization. The exhibition was curated by the Henan Museum and introduced and hosted by the Museum of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
The exhibition features 135 pieces (sets) of selected cultural relics unearthed in Henan, spanning from the 21st century BC to the 12th century AD, and is organized into two sections: "Formation of the State" and "Craftsmanship and Techniques." The Museum of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has continued to deepen inter-museum exchanges, and this introduced exhibition coincides with Xinjiang's peak tourism season, helping cultural and museum venues advance the deep integration of culture and tourism through high-quality cultural supply.
Return to TopRecently, the Second Qilian Mountain Symphony Concert resounded at the Shandan Horse Farm in Zhangye City, Gansu Province. Beneath the Qilian Mountains, musicians from the Gansu Symphony Orchestra performed symphonic works such as Dreaming of Qilian and The Eternal Oasis — the Hexi Corridor, which express the natural scenery, historical culture, and local customs of the Qilian Mountains and the Hexi Corridor. In the photo, musicians of the Gansu Symphony Orchestra perform at the Second Qilian Mountain Symphony Concert.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lang Bingbing
Shenyang, August 17 (Our newspaper) (Reporter Liu Hongchao (刘洪超)). 2026 marks the centennial of the founding of Shenyang Palace Museum. Shenyang Palace Museum has launched the "Treasuring Mountains and Rivers — Centennial Exhibition of One Hundred Cultural Relics of Shenyang Palace Museum" (典藏山河——沈阳故宫博物院建院百年百件文物展), looking back on the museum's century-long development. In 1926, the predecessor of Shenyang Palace Museum, the Museum of the Three Eastern Provinces (东三省博物馆), 应运而生 (yìng yùn ér shēng - "to arise in response to the times," to emerge at an opportune moment) as the first public museum in Northeast China, and opened to the public in 1929.
The one hundred cultural relics exhibited in this exhibition cover such categories as calligraphy and painting, porcelain, jade, embroidery and textiles, lacquerware, ancient books, glassware, and enamelware. Among the exhibits are precious cultural relics including the Ming dynasty "white-glazed yuhuchun vase," the Qing dynasty "gold-lacquered polychrome-painted openwork octagonal box with bat-and-longevity patterns," and the "carved polychrome lacquer double-coin-shaped nested box." The exhibition also brings together authentic works by famous Ming and Qing calligraphers and painters. Zhu Yunming's cursive-script "Ode to the Goddess of the Luo River," Wang Shimin's "Cloud Valley and Tall Pines," Wang Jian's "Emerald Surging from the Southern Mountains," as well as the "Pines and Cranes" painted jointly by Giuseppe Castiglione and Tang Dai, Shen Quan's "Red Phoenix Facing the Sun," Zheng Banqiao's "Clustered Bamboo," and other masterpieces handed down through the generations all make their appearance. In addition, there are Song dynasty editions and silver notes that circulated for less than ten years, which are 难得一见 (nán dé yī jiàn - "hard to obtain at a single glance," rarely seen). Among them, the "Song dynasty pocket edition of the Book of Rites" (宋巾箱本《礼记》), which belongs to the collection of the Qing palace's "Tianlu Linlang Bibliography, Third Compilation" (天禄琳琅书目三编), still retains its Qing court binding, covered with a yellow gold-flecked silk book wrapper. According to reports, fewer than 20 copies of the "Tianlu Linlang Bibliography, Third Compilation" are known to exist in the world, and it is classified as a national precious ancient book.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 马睿姗
What does the 970-year-old Yingxian Wooden Pagoda look like from its second to fifth floors? Step into the digital immersive experience space of the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda scenic area, located in Shuozhou City, Shanxi Province, and you will have the answer.
Here, the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda is "within reach." Without wearing any equipment, visitors follow the immersive film to "ascend the pagoda" floor by floor, as scenes of Liao Dynasty craftsmen constructing the wooden pagoda unfold before them. With a light step on the ground, lotus patterns bloom one after another; the grain on the mortise-and-tenon joints is clearly visible; sunlight spills onto the corridor inside the pagoda, almost indistinguishable from the real scene.
The Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, first built in the Liao Dynasty, is the tallest and oldest existing pure timber frame pavilion-style structure in the world. With more than 80,000 mortise-and-tenon interlocking joints bearing thousands of tons of weight, it is a marvel in the history of world architecture, standing for nearly a millennium. Having weathered wind and rain, earthquakes, and wars... today, the second floor's open story is severely tilted. To protect the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, only the first floor is open to visitors, and the second floor and above cannot be physically accessed.
To balance cultural relic preservation with visitor experience, the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd., together with China Unicom Shanxi Branch and several other units, jointly created the "Yingxian Wooden Pagoda AI + Multimodal Immersive Experience" project. Relying on AI (artificial intelligence) modeling, naked-eye 3D, and 360-degree panoramic photography and scanning technology, it constructs a three-dimensional immersive space. Inside the venue, the digital immersive experience space has become a hotspot for visitors, recreating multiple dynamic scenes such as the construction history of the wooden pagoda and the splendor of the Liao Dynasty. As visitors "ascend the pagoda" floor by floor to explore, through the three-dimensional tour of "personified narration + floating graphics and text + full-scene animation," they can closely experience the pagoda's exquisite structure and construction wisdom. "Those plaques hanging high up and the restoration inscriptions hidden in corners are all clearly visible, making up for the regret of not being able to climb the pagoda in person!" said visitor Hu Kaili.
AI technology is being used for cultural relic protection, establishing a digital archive for the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda: the venue construction adopts multi-source data collection technology, integrating 3D scanning, drone oblique photography, and other methods to comprehensively collect data on the pagoda's structure, texture, and color. Through AI algorithms, disease identification and semantic annotation are completed, building a high-precision digital "twin" of the wooden pagoda.
"With this high-precision digital twin model, we can achieve dynamic structural monitoring of the pagoda and intelligent early warning of diseases, providing scientific support for the preventive protection of cultural relics," introduced Sun Jiajun, office director of the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd. Management personnel can view in real time data on the pagoda's settlement, tilt, and wood aging, precisely locating potential risks.
The Yingxian Wooden Pagoda scenic area highlights the digital immersive experience space, paired with distinctive cultural tourism activities, and refines service guarantees in all aspects. "In the future, we will link up with surrounding catering, accommodation, and cultural creative industries to launch 'Digital Wooden Pagoda' themed joint tickets and cultural creative products, continuously enriching the visitor experience," Sun Jiajun said.
Return to TopDuring the summer vacation period, high temperatures have persisted in many places, and the vast number of outdoor workers sustain the operation of cities and the progress of engineering construction with their sweat.
Under the high temperatures, protection has never been absent. Using technological means to improve wearing comfort, implementing staggered shifts to avoid high-temperature periods, setting up care stations for convenient water refills and shade... localities have adopted multiple measures simultaneously, and each measure and each bit of care protects the physical and mental health of outdoor workers.
Ventilated sun hats, intelligent cleaning robots
Outdoor workers use "heat-relief black technology"
By our reporters Shi Yu, Dou Hanyang
A batch of heat-prevention and cooling "black technologies" have taken to the streets, bringing coolness to workers under the scorching sun.
Chen Lingmin, a road cleaner at Xiamen Jimei Municipal Group Environmental Services Co., Ltd., held a broom and cleaned roads on Xinglin Subdistrict as usual. This year, she has a new piece of equipment in her work — a fan sun hat, which has made her outdoor work more comfortable.
"In the past, I wore an ordinary hat to block the sun in summer, and my head and neck were soaked with sweat from the stuffiness," Chen Lingmin said. In high temperatures of 36 or 37 degrees Celsius, it was unbearably hot and stuffy. "Now the hat has its own fan, it's much cooler, and I don't sweat as much."
The fan sun hat Chen Lingmin wears is designed to fit the needs of sanitation work — the wide brim effectively blocks ultraviolet rays, and the brim carries two small fans powered by photovoltaic panels, which are continuously powered by solar energy, usable whenever exposed to the sun, without frequent charging. It is both green and environmentally friendly, and portable and practical.
Huang Zibin, supervisor of the Second Business Department of Xiamen Jimei Municipal Group Environmental Services Co., Ltd., introduced that the company began distributing fan sun hats or waist-mounted fans in batches to fixed-post road cleaners in Jimei District in July this year. "We tested and compared multiple products and found that the fan sun hat is practical and does not need daily charging," Huang Zibin said. The company will continue to base itself on the actual conditions of sanitation work, screen and introduce heat-relief and cooling equipment suited to the work scenarios, and continuously improve the working conditions of frontline sanitation workers.
In Yuhang District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Wu Jishui, a cleaner responsible for the sanitation of Tashan Park public restroom, recently gained a new "colleague" — the intelligent cleaning robot "Xiaojie." In appearance, "Xiaojie" has a silver-gray base with a multi-joint robotic arm painted black growing from it, with a complex multi-functional work module and visual sensors at the end, full of technological flair.
A relevant person in charge of the Yuhang District Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau introduced that this is a public restroom cleaning robot introduced jointly with Yuhang Subdistrict in November 2025, with functions including countertop cleaning, urinal washing, and squat toilet pit scrubbing.
Wu Jishui demonstrated it — he took out his phone, opened the software, and followed the steps from previous training. "Xiaojie" beside him began working after receiving the command. It nimbly circumvented obstacles such as trash bins, stopped in front of the washbasin, and sprayed water, scrubbed, suctioned waste, and blow-dried... a series of movements completed 一气呵成 (yī qì hē chéng - "completed in one breath," done smoothly without interruption), and it could even clean the bottom of the fixtures and the gaps in the corners.
As the actual usage scenarios have become increasingly diverse, the robot has been continuously upgraded, from initially only being able to clean and dry countertops, to later learning to open and close compartment doors and pick up dropped paper balls, and most recently adding a voice broadcast function. "On such hot days, it can help me with a lot of work, saving worry and effort," Wu Jishui said with a smile.
At the other end of the city, on Fengqi East Road in Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, unmanned low-speed sweeping vehicles routinely undertake sweeping work, capable of dynamic obstacle avoidance and path optimization. "It doesn't need an operator, and sanitation workers don't need to patrol back and forth and sweep up garbage under the scorching sun," sanitation worker Zhang Wei introduced. River channel cleaning has also adopted intelligent equipment. On Beitang River in Hangzhou, an intelligent unmanned salvage boat in black and green colors, equipped with two "long arms," patrols the river along a preset route every day. "It can clean floating garbage on the water surface and automatically adjust the length of its interception arms according to the width of the river," administrator Fang Ye said. The Hangzhou urban management system is comprehensively promoting the "avoiding high temperatures" work mode and the "machines help" model, shortening the time outdoor workers spend working in the scorching heat.
Upgrading union service stations, opening care supply points
Creating a "cool harbor" within reach
By our reporters Cui Yin, Zhao Shuaijie
From union service stations distributed along streets to care ice boxes spread across the city, many localities have built a 15-minute cooling service circle, creating a "cool harbor" for outdoor workers.
At noon, near Baolong Plaza in Qingpu District, Shanghai, delivery rider Yang Wen, who had just delivered an order, walked into Xiangxin Baolong Station and filled a full cup of water. "The station's location is just right — I can come in along the way to enjoy the air conditioning and drink water. During the dog days of summer, I can escape the sun, and when it rains heavily, there's also a place to rest," Yang Wen said.
Inside the station, seats, refrigerators, microwave ovens, charging sockets, heatstroke prevention medicine, and emergency toolboxes are 一应俱全 (yī yìng jù quán - "all present in full," everything needed is available). During this period, Xiangxin Baolong Station receives two to three hundred outdoor workers per day on average.
Cleaner Uncle Zhao always stops by Xiangxin Baolong Station to rest for a while after finishing his cleaning work. "Working outside all day, coming here after work to enjoy the air conditioning, drink some water, and chat with everyone — it makes me feel at ease," Uncle Zhao said.
As of now, Qingpu District has built 108 union service stations. "The stations are mainly set up along streets relying on union grassroots service stations, party-masses service centers, bank and communication network outlets, community service points, and so on, making it convenient for outdoor workers to use them nearby," Zhou Jiejin, head of the Qingpu District Union Service Station project, introduced. Relying on the union service stations, a 15-minute cooling service circle for outdoor workers has been built, effectively enhancing outdoor workers' sense of happiness and security.
In Yucheng County, Shangqiu, Henan, sanitation worker Zhang Yunlian had just finished sweeping her assigned road section, and her orange work uniform was soaked with sweat. She put down her broom, walked straight to the care ice box by the street, opened the glass door, took out a bottle of ice water, and unscrewed the cap to drink.
The 12 care cooling supply points operated by the Yucheng County Loving Home Volunteer Service Team cover the county's main roads. "The water refill points are set up relying on street-facing shops, open free of charge to outdoor workers such as sanitation workers, urban management officers, and delivery riders, with shop staff assisting in looking after them," said Yuan Zhiyong, head of the service team.
"It's hot, and the water I bring myself runs out quickly. With the supply points, it's convenient to refill water and rest," Zhang Yunlian said.
Taking the care ice boxes as an entry point, Yucheng County has coordinated resources and forces from all sides to build a high-temperature protection system covering urban and rural areas and meeting frontline needs. Twenty outdoor worker stations are open around the clock, equipped with air conditioning and charging facilities, and provide free mung bean soup... Since the start of summer, the Yucheng County Federation of Trade Unions has organized six condolence teams that have visited sanitation work groups, construction sites, and other locations, visiting and offering condolences to nearly 10,000 outdoor workers, and distributing a total of more than 1,800 sets of materials such as mineral water and water cups. "We not only deliver heat-relief supplies to frontline outdoor workers, but also urge all employing units to implement relevant policies such as high-temperature subsidies," said Tang Yajie, Party secretary and executive vice chairman of the Yucheng County Federation of Trade Unions.
In addition, Yucheng County has added temporary sun-shade posts at 28 intersections with heavy traffic, making it convenient for public security traffic police and urban management officers to take turns resting; construction sites under construction have clarified that outdoor work is suspended from 11:00 to 15:00, with sun-shade canopies set up at construction sites and heat-relief supplies distributed regularly. "Yucheng County continues to implement various measures for high-temperature labor protection, caring for outdoor workers with long-term warm-hearted services," said Zhang Hong, director of the Yucheng County Environmental Sanitation Affairs Center.
(Liu Siqi and Jia Zhen participated in the reporting and writing)
Going out early and returning late, resting at noon to avoid the heat
Flexible working hours protect workers' health
By our reporters You Yi, Li Zhiyao
In many places, a heat protection campaign centered on time is quietly underway — staggered shifts, flexible scheduling, rotation and rest, using institutional safeguards to hold up a "sun umbrella" for outdoor workers.
At 4 a.m., while the heat had not yet risen, Xiang Yunhui, a sanitation worker in Anzhou District, Mianyang, Sichuan, had already thrown herself into morning cleaning work. "Working in the early morning and evening avoids the high temperatures. Sweeping the roads clean early makes everyone feel comfortable when they go out," Xiang Yunhui said while sweeping fallen leaves in her orange work uniform.
This work mode of "going out early and returning late, resting at noon to avoid the heat" has been implemented in Anzhou District for more than two months.
Liao Qian, head of the Sanitation Office of the Anzhou District Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau, said that in order to reduce risks such as sun exposure and heatstroke, since June 8, Anzhou District has adjusted the frontline working hours of sanitation workers, avoiding high-temperature periods and reasonably staggering shifts.
Frontline work groups dynamically schedule shifts according to the daily temperature, starting work at 3 or 4 a.m., and completing morning sweeping and finishing work before 9 a.m. After the temperature drops in the evening, they return in batches for supplementary sweeping. "Working staggered shifts is much cooler, and people feel much more relaxed," Xiang Yunhui said with deep feeling. Since 2020, Anzhou District has comprehensively optimized the summer sanitation work system and promoted flexible staggered work. At the same time, it uses washing and sweeping vehicles, sprinkler trucks, and the like to carry out full-coverage washing, sweeping, dust reduction, and cooling on main and secondary roads, reducing labor intensity under high-temperature conditions.
"In the past, working under the scorching sun during the dog days of summer was inefficient and I feared heatstroke. Now that construction is changed to the morning and evening, I have the physical strength to keep up and feel much more at ease," said Master Li, a worker at a project under construction in Alxa High-tech Zone, Inner Mongolia.
"Open-air construction work is intensive, and high-temperature environments can easily trigger health problems such as heatstroke, as well as risks of various construction accidents," said a relevant person in charge of the Alxa High-tech Zone Urban-Rural Development Bureau. To standardize high-temperature construction management, on July 7, the Alxa High-tech Zone Urban-Rural Development Bureau promptly issued a work safety notice for high-temperature weather, requiring strict implementation of the staggered construction system. Based on the temperature publicly forecast by the meteorological department, when the daily maximum temperature is above 35 degrees Celsius, heavy physical work such as open-air high-altitude work, steel reinforcement work, and formwork work is strictly prohibited from 11:00 to 16:00; when the maximum temperature exceeds 37 degrees Celsius, the total cumulative time for outdoor open-air work by workers throughout the day must not exceed 6 hours; when the maximum temperature reaches 40 degrees Celsius, all outdoor construction must be completely stopped.
It is understood that most construction sites have adjusted their construction periods to two time slots: 7:30 to 11:00 in the morning and 3:00 to 7:00 in the afternoon. Some construction sites implement a rotation system of "work for 1 hour, mandatory rest for 15 minutes," and special positions such as tower cranes and hoisting operate with multiple people on two shifts, eliminating single-person long-duration high-temperature duty.
At construction sites, standardized cooling rest areas have been built — mung bean soup, purified water, and salt-containing drinks are all available, along with fans, spray sprinklers, and other on-site cooling facilities, effectively improving the open-air working environment.
To ensure the implementation of the staggered construction system, routine supervision is indispensable. "We consolidate the main responsibilities of the construction, construction, and supervision parties, form special inspection teams for routine regular inspections and random spot checks, and immediately urge rectification when violations are found on site," said the relevant person in charge of the Alxa High-tech Zone Urban-Rural Development Bureau.
Return to TopBy: 刘子赫
The summer heat is still thick, and the vast number of outdoor workers remain steadfast at their posts, keeping the city running. All localities, based on the actual conditions of their posts, use meticulous measures to hold up a "cooling umbrella" for frontline workers.
Technology empowerment makes outdoor operations safer and more efficient. Xiamen, Fujian, and Hangzhou, Zhejiang, use fan-equipped sun hats, intelligent cleaning robots, and other tools to improve workers' operating conditions and shorten the duration of outdoor sun exposure, using technology to lighten the burden on workers.
Service quality improvement builds a warm and people-friendly "cooling circle." Shanghai and Yucheng, Henan (虞城), have set up stations, caring supply points, and shaded posts, so that outdoor workers can rest and cool off at any time.
Flexible policy implementation protects workers' health. Mianyang, Sichuan, and Alxa, Inner Mongolia (阿拉善), implement staggered work-shift models, optimize rotation mechanisms, and strictly control work during high-temperature periods to reduce the risk of heatstroke.
These subtle and heartwarming measures carry respect and consideration for frontline workers. We look forward to all localities introducing more refined and humanized governance measures, so that faces under the scorching sun can be more composed.
BEIJING, August 17 (Our newspaper dispatch) (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) — The State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) recently published 10 typical cases of "implementing the fair competition review system and deepening the construction of the national unified large market." According to reports, since the formal implementation of the Regulations on Fair Competition Review, market supervision departments in various localities have deeply promoted the implementation of the fair competition review system, improved supporting systems 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "act according to the locality," to adapt measures to local conditions), perfected working mechanisms, strengthened the building of review personnel teams, established cross-regional working mechanisms, explored digital intelligent review, and accumulated a batch of good experiences and good practices.
The Beijing Municipal Market Supervision Administration has constructed a fair competition review spot-check work system of "municipal-level overall planning and spot-checking, regional coordinated mutual inspection, and grassroots exploration and practice." The three regions of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei have carried out online cross-mutual inspections for five consecutive years, promoting unified regional review standards and mutual recognition of results.
The Heilongjiang Provincial Market Supervision Administration has innovatively constructed six major mechanisms including high-level overall planning and implementation, unified review by specific institutions, and trinity-linked spot-checking, continuously promoting the improvement of quality and efficiency of fair competition review, continuously breaking down local protection and market segmentation, and serving the construction of the national unified large market.
The Jiangsu Provincial Market Supervision Administration took the lead nationwide in developing and launching an online monitoring and evaluation system for fair competition review, using technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence to conduct real-time monitoring, intelligent review, and risk early warning of policy measures involving business entities issued by policy-making organs at all levels.
The Zhejiang Provincial Market Supervision Administration innovatively created a fair competition AI (artificial intelligence) intelligent review platform, constructing a three-level progressive review mechanism of "AI preliminary screening — expert re-review — intelligent archiving," realizing intelligent management of the full lifecycle of policy measures. The platform adopts localized deployment, driven by domestic large models, integrating functions such as intelligent review, dynamic inspection, closed-loop handling, and intelligent learning.
The regionalized construction of fair competition review in the Yangtze River Delta region is an important measure for advancing the construction of the national unified large market and breaking down local protection and administrative monopoly. At present, the region has deepened from agreement signing at the provincial level to coordinated practice of specific city clusters, forming a multi-level, three-dimensional cooperation system.
The Fujian Provincial Market Supervision Administration took the lead in issuing the Fujian Province Regulations on Promoting Fair Competition, consolidating the rigid constraints of fair competition review through local legislation, and innovating practical measures such as supporting joint review, cross-regional coordination, and corporate compliance incentives.
The Shenzhen Municipal Market Supervision Administration of Guangdong Province, in order to implement the fair competition review system, established a four-in-one review system of "self-review + centralized review + intelligent review + external supervision." This system has effectively improved the quality and efficiency of review, preventing at the source the issuance of policies that exclude or restrict competition.
The Chongqing Municipal Market Supervision Administration insists on treating institutional construction as an important foundation for implementing the fair competition review system and deepening the construction of the national unified large market, forming a "1+2+N" fair competition review system supported by local regulations and supplemented by multiple supporting rules. Through the construction of the "1+2+N" institutional system and the operation of supporting mechanisms, Chongqing's fair competition market environment has been continuously optimized.
The Sichuan Provincial Market Supervision Administration broke through with mechanism innovation and answered with team building, exploring the establishment of a fair competition review post system. Through post designation and responsibility clarification, rigid constraints, and training empowerment, review forces have achieved a transformation from "scattered and weak" to "dedicated and professional," significantly improving the quality and effectiveness of review work, providing solid support for breaking down local protection and market segmentation and serving the construction of the national unified large market.
The Yunnan Provincial Market Supervision Administration has constructed an intelligent supervision mechanism of full-volume collection, intelligent screening, and closed-loop rectification. Through technology empowerment, it has achieved full coverage dynamic monitoring of policy measures across the province, comprehensively cleaned up various regulations and practices that hinder the construction of the national unified large market and fair competition, and continuously strengthened the rigid constraints of fair competition review.
Return to TopThis newspaper Hefei, August 17 (Reporter Tian Xianjin) — Recently, the Anhui Provincial Development and Reform Commission (安徽省发展和改革委员会), the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the Provincial Health Commission, and the Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine jointly issued the "Action Plan for Promoting the Integrated Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Preservation, Culture, and Tourism (2026–2028)" (《推进中医药康养文旅融合发展行动计划（2026—2028年）》), requiring the full utilization of Anhui's endowment advantages in traditional Chinese medicine resources, accelerating the integrated development of TCM health preservation, culture, and tourism, and cultivating new growth points for consumption.
The Action Plan specifies the implementation of a new scenario construction initiative to create development space for the TCM health preservation, culture, and tourism industry. Focusing on cities including Hefei, Bozhou, Lu'an, Xuancheng, Chizhou, Anqing, and Huangshan, approximately 20 scenarios will be selected to carry out pilot programs for the integrated development of TCM health preservation, culture, and tourism, and support will be given to Huangshan City in establishing an "Anhui Provincial Medical Health Preservation Integrated Development Pilot Zone" (安徽省医康养融合发展试验区). By the end of 2028, a number of health-preservation-themed characteristic homestays (hotels) will be cultivated, and 100 studios (stations) for renowned TCM physicians and TCM characteristic nursing techniques will be established.
The Action Plan proposes the implementation of a new business format cultivation initiative to build an industrial system for TCM health preservation, culture, and tourism. A digital-intelligent health preservation platform covering the three ends of "government end + enterprise end + industry end" will be constructed to coordinate health preservation resources, projects, industries, and services across the province, providing one-stop services such as online reservation, health consultation, sales of comprehensive health products, and product traceability, removing bottlenecks between supply and demand in the health preservation industry, and carrying out industry monitoring and analysis. Platform enterprises will be encouraged to connect with various consumption scenarios, and the industry's consumer dispute resolution system will be improved.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 祝佳祺
Recently, in Shenzhen, Guangdong, a 1-year-old girl developed persistent high fever after playing in her residential community and suffered severe encephalitis. The culprit was a palm-sized brown cloud agate snail.
The brown cloud agate snail has a more widely known name: the African giant snail.
The African giant snail is native to the eastern coast of Africa and prefers humid, warm environments. Its notable feature is its size: adult shells are generally 5–10 cm long, with the longest exceeding 20 cm. The shell is usually light brown with pale yellow vertical spots, and the depth of color can vary with environmental conditions and diet.
The African giant snail is hermaphroditic, reproducing through cross-fertilization between individuals, and has strong reproductive capacity. In southern China, its average lifespan is 5–6 years, it can lay eggs 4 times per year, and it can produce more than 6,000 eggs in its lifetime. In 2000, the African giant snail was listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as one of the world's 100 worst invasive alien species. In 2003, it was included in China's First Batch of Invasive Alien Species List (《中国第一批外来入侵物种名单》), and in 2022 it also entered the List of Key Managed Invasive Alien Species (《重点管理外来入侵物种名录》) — the extent of its harm is evident at a glance (可见一斑 (kě jiàn yī bān - "one spot reveals the whole," a glimpse suffices to show the larger picture)).
Zhang Weiwei (张伟尉), deputy chief physician of the Guangxi Center for Disease Control and Prevention (广西疾控中心), introduced that the key reason the African giant snail threatens human health is that it is one of the intermediate hosts of Angiostrongylus cantonensis, and may carry other pathogenic organisms. If one eats raw or undercooked freshwater snail meat containing third-stage (infective) larvae of Angiostrongylus cantonensis, such as the African giant snail, or eats raw vegetables or fruits contaminated by Angiostrongylus cantonensis (infective larvae), or drinks water contaminated by Angiostrongylus cantonensis (infective larvae), one may become infected with angiostrongyliasis, causing eosinophilic meningitis or meningoencephalitis. The most obvious clinical manifestation is acute severe headache or meningoencephalitis symptoms, followed by neck stiffness, which may be accompanied by neck pain upon movement, nausea and vomiting, low or moderate fever, and even coma or psychiatric symptoms.
"The most critical thing in preventing harm from the African giant snail to people is to reduce contact with the African giant snail. Stepping on or catching African giant snails without protection poses great hygiene and safety hazards. One should not only avoid direct contact with African giant snails, but also avoid contact with their mucus, feces and other secretions," Zhang Weiwei said.
The Guangxi Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that once one accidentally comes into contact with an African giant snail, one should immediately use soap and running water to thoroughly clean the contact area, disinfect broken skin with iodophor, and continuously observe whether fever, headache or other symptoms appear. If discomfort occurs, seek medical attention at a regular medical institution immediately, and proactively inform the doctor of the contact history. If large numbers of African giant snails are found gathering in residential communities or parks, notify the community property management immediately and leave it to professionals for proper handling.
Return to TopIn Pingjiahui Community (坪家湖社区), Jianguang Subdistrict (剑光街道), Fengcheng City (丰城市), Jiangxi Province, volunteers teach children calligraphy practice at a summer public welfare care class.
During the summer vacation, Fengcheng City actively utilizes Party-Mass Service Centers (党群服务中心) and New Era Civilization Practice Institutes (Stations) (新时代文明实践所（站）) and other venues to open summer public welfare care classes, launching activities in science popularization, art, reading, safety, and other aspects, enriching the children's holiday lives.
Photo by Zhou Liang (周亮) (Image China)
Return to TopMacau, August 17 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Fu Zimei (富子梅)) Sam Hou Fai, Chief Executive of the Macau SAR, recently chaired a Government Affairs Meeting. When making overall arrangements to accelerate the advancement of urban renewal, he stated that urban renewal is an important livelihood issue concerning Macau's city image and safety resilience, an important measure for cultivating new economic growth points, and a key lever during Macau's "Third Five-Year Plan" period.
Sam Hou Fai stated that it is necessary to explore a complete set of urban renewal models of "government guidance, market operation, adaptation to district conditions, comprehensive utilization, and the combination of reconstruction and revitalization with area development," and to advance the construction of a happy Macau (幸福澳门) with tangible, perceivable projects and measures.
Sam Hou Fai required the establishment of a "Leading Group for Promoting Urban Renewal" (促进都市更新领导小组), with himself serving as the group leader, to lead and coordinate all public departments and entities in carrying out and implementing urban renewal-related work. At the same time, an "Urban Renewal Legal Policy Working Group" (都市更新法律政策工作组) headed by Wong Sio Chak, Secretary for Administration and Justice, and an "Urban Renewal Technical and Coordination Working Group" (都市更新技术及协调工作组) headed by Tam Wai Man, Secretary for Transport and Public Works, were established under it, to strengthen the various supporting guarantees for advancing urban renewal.
Sam Hou Fai stated that it is necessary to scientifically select pilot areas, meticulously strengthen planning and design, pragmatically improve legal and resource support arrangements, create demonstration cases and accumulate useful experience for urban renewal, steadily advance the comprehensive renovation, functional reshaping, and overall renewal of old urban areas, and effectively enhance Macau's image as a modern and international city.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 浩
The Ecological Environment Code, which came into effect on August 15, stipulates that "the state shall coordinate planning and promote the ecological environmental protection and restoration of important river basins, such as the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, and key sea areas." At 8:00 on August 12, the Lijin Hydrological Station—the national hydrological station located at the lowest reaches of the Yellow River—measured a real-time flow of 2,030 cubic meters per second, which means the Yellow River has achieved 27 consecutive years of continuous flow since 1999.
Water is the lifeblood of the Yellow River, and water resource scarcity is the most prominent contradiction in the Yellow River basin. Between 1972 and 1996, the Yellow River experienced 19 years of flow cessation.
From the implementation of unified water volume dispatch for the Yellow River in 1999, to the inclusion of "the state implements unified allocation of Yellow River water volume" in the Yellow River Protection Law, and then to the relevant provisions made in the Ecological Environment Code, the "four beams and eight pillars" (sì liáng bā zhù - "four beams and eight pillars," the fundamental framework or structural pillars) institutional system has been continuously improved; the great river surges unceasingly, and the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin have stood at a new starting point.
What has 27 years of continuous flow brought? More than 180 hydrological stations along the Yellow River are the "eyes" of the Yellow River. Entering three hydrological stations, one can observe the protection of the great river through the changes of the great river.
Huangheyan Hydrological Station, Maduo, Qinghai
At the first station of the ten-thousand-mile Yellow River, observing the protection of the source of living water
The source of the Yellow River is where the great river is first born. The "Water Tower of China," where water veins intersect, is the main replenishment area for the Yellow River's water source.
Zhalong Lake and Eling Lake are the "sister lakes" of the Yellow River source. By the lakeside, hydrological reporting equipment equipped with Beidou captures changes in lake water levels. Li Peiyan, deputy captain of the Maduo Hydrological Branch of the Yellow River Water Resources Commission, said: "We can receive hydrological data uninterruptedly 24 hours a day."
Every month, hydrological巡测 (xùncè - "patrol and measurement") personnel regularly conduct inspections and calibrations at the "sister lakes." On the road, Li Peiyan always has surprising discoveries: "Groups of Tibetan gazelles and wild asses appear in clusters, and wild flowers are everywhere by the lake; this shows that the ecology of the Yellow River source is getting better and better."
The Maduo Hydrological Branch manages six stations, including Zhalong Lake, Eling Lake, and Huangheyan, feeling the "pulse" of the uppermost reaches of the Yellow River. Li Peiyan said: "Our work is to serve as good 'health inspectors' to clearly understand the health status of the Yellow River source."
Being a "health inspector" for the Mother River is not easy; every hydrological report is a contest against high cold and high altitude.
The Huangheyan Hydrological Station is at an altitude of approximately 4,300 meters; it is the first station of the ten-thousand-mile Yellow River and also the highest altitude hydrological station in the Yellow River basin. "In the past, to get data from the great river, team members had to carry equipment into the water to measure the flow, standing in the water for two or three hours. In the high plateau winter, even wrapping legs in thick cotton trousers and rubber trousers could not block the bone-chilling cold," Li Peiyan said. "Now, equipment such as radar online flow measurement systems has successively gone online; team members no longer wade into the water to measure flow, and reporting efficiency is higher."
Decades of steadfastness have accumulated a thick "health archive" for the Mother River. Sets of data witness the improvement of ecology: the average lake water level of Eling Lake from 2013 to 2025 was 4,270.14 meters, an increase of 0.19 meters compared to 2000–2012; the runoff of the Huangheyan Hydrological Station experienced a phased change of first drying up and then becoming abundant between 2000 and 2025, with runoff increasing significantly in recent years.
Protecting the source and guarding the living water. The Yellow River source area is the main source area and water conservation area for Yellow River runoff, with water production exceeding one-third of the Yellow River's runoff. From continuously increasing the intensity of protection for rivers and lakes such as Zhalong Lake and Eling Lake, to strengthening desertification control in key areas, the water conservation capacity of the Yellow River source area continues to rise. The water conservation volume in the Sanjiangyuan region has increased to 40.895 billion cubic meters annually, and the water quality of the Yellow River exiting Qinghai remains stably at Grade II or above.
Looking at the entire basin from the source of living water, the Yellow River's 27 consecutive years of continuous flow cannot be separated from the full-chain governance of protecting water, using water, and saving water.
From disorderly water diversion to the implementation of unified water volume dispatch, "how much soup is used to soak how many steamed buns." Zhou Kangjun, a first-level researcher at the Water Dispatch Division of the Water Resources Management Bureau of the Yellow River Water Resources Commission, introduced that the state uniformly allocates water volume, basin institutions are responsible for organizing implementation, provinces (regions) are responsible for water allocation and use, both total water use and sectional flow are dual-controlled, and important water intakes and backbone reservoirs are uniformly dispatched. Each water volume dispatch order has become a hard constraint, controlling unreasonable water use demands.
From excessive water use to deep water saving and water control, determining cities with water, determining land with water, determining people with water, and determining production with water. 14 national mandatory standards for water use quotas in the Yellow River basin have been officially implemented, basically establishing a water use quota system covering major crops, industrial products, and the service industry.
Over the past 27 years, the unified water volume dispatch of the Yellow River has gradually upgraded from the basic goal of "ensuring no cessation of flow" to fine-grained dispatching with multiple coordinated objectives; the capacity for economical, intensive, and optimized allocation of water resources continues to rise, providing solid support for guarding the health of the Mother River.
Longmen Hydrological Station, Hancheng, Shaanxi
At the hydrological station on the cliff, observing monitoring "moving" into the "cloud"
Behind it, the mountains are like knife-cut edges, and beneath it, the river water rolls on; the Longmen Hydrological Station of the Yellow River Water Resources Commission is located at the tail of the Jin-Shan Canyon, built on a cliff.
As the flood season enters, Liu Jinyang, head of the Longmen Hydrological Station's internal operations group, and his colleagues stand guard 24 hours a day, closely watching the rising and falling of the river water.
At 18:00 on August 6, upon receiving a flow testing instruction, Liu Jinyang and his colleagues acted immediately, debugging equipment and recording parameters: "Sectional flow is 1,300 cubic meters per second; the online photoelectric sand meter measured a sand content of 50 kilograms per cubic meter," with data transmitted directly to the Yellow River Flood Control and Dispatch Center.
Guarding the exit of the Jin-Shan Canyon, the Longmen Hydrological Station receives water from the middle reaches of the Yellow River and sand produced by the Loess Plateau from above, and looks down upon the Sanmenxia and Xiaolangdi reservoirs below; it is a key "sentinel" on the Yellow River.
"The data is measured accurately; new equipment has helped a lot," Liu Jinyang introduced. "Swimming" in the river is the mobile ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler), which can measure flow data in a single "swim" through the water; "standing" on the shore is the image-based online flow measurement system, where cameras shoot and algorithms calculate, allowing the flow to be "seen" from photos; "flying" in the sky are drones, which can travel between 12 points in just 15 minutes; "data from various groups verify each other, making the reporting results more precise."
The Longmen Hydrological Station has "moved" into the "cloud." Liu Jinyang introduced that monitoring data is mapped to the "cloud" in real-time, allowing staff to carry out flood prediction and simulation to pre-judge changes in water trends.
"The Yellow River has had continuous flow for 27 years, and hydrological reporting has played a key role." Dealing with the Yellow River every day and seeing the appearance of the Yellow River improve day by day, Liu Jinyang feels proud.
Each new technology witnesses the continuous improvement of Yellow River protection and governance capabilities. This includes achieving the integrated application of data from hydrological rain-radar between the Sanmenxia and Xiaolangdi sections, surrounding meteorological radar, and ground rain gauges; the application of independently developed online photoelectric sand meters, "intelligent stones," and "dam bank intelligent guardians"; and the construction of an integrated "sky-space-ground-water-engineering" monitoring and perception system including satellites such as Water Resources No. 1, drones, and video, with the digital twin Yellow River system architecture continuously being perfected.
Si Quan, deputy director of the International Cooperation and Science and Technology Bureau of the Yellow River Water Resources Commission, introduced that after years of continuous construction, the "three Yellow Rivers"—composed of the prototype Yellow River, the model Yellow River, and the digital twin Yellow River—are deeply coupled and linked, promoting a historic transformation of the Yellow River governance model from "experience-based judgment" to "digital-intelligent prediction."
Lijin Hydrological Station, Dongying, Shandong
At the last hydrological station before entering the sea, observing the effectiveness of ecological governance
Dongying, Shandong; Lijin Hydrological Station, the last hydrological station before the Yellow River enters the sea.
Two steel towers face each other on opposite banks, and a cable spans across the great river. The hydrological reporter presses the start button.
2,030 cubic meters per second; the data is transmitted back to the screen. Xing Xijin, deputy station master of the Lijin Hydrological Station, said: "Continuous flow for 27 years is not easy."
In the past, when the Yellow River ceased to flow, no water entered the sea. Cao Jianzhong, an old employee of the Lijin Hydrological Station, clearly remembers that the river channel was filled with endless yellow sand, and hydrological reporting was out of the question.
On March 11, 1999, after experiencing 41 days of flow cessation, the Lijin Station finally saw the arrival of Yellow River water; reporters took up water gauges and carried instruments to get busy, excitedly reporting the flow, marking the end of the Yellow River's history of flow cessation.
Today, from unified water volume dispatch to water and sand diversion, and then to ecological water replenishment, the tasks undertaken by the Lijin Hydrological Station are increasing. In early July, during the water and sand diversion period before the main flood season of the Yellow River, a cumulative 165 million cubic meters of ecological water was replenished into the Yellow River Delta Nature Reserve. At the Diaokou River Road and Shenxiangou Stream routes, Xing Xijin and his colleagues set up monitoring sections to track the water head, measure data, and estimate effects.
"We are the last pair of 'eyes' before the Yellow River enters the sea; the effectiveness of Yellow River protection and governance is reflected in these data." Xing Xijin detailed the changes: the wetland area of the Yellow River Delta is steadily increasing, the habitat for animals and plants continues to improve, and biodiversity has significantly increased.
The Yellow River basin has rich ecological elements and diverse species types. The upper, middle, and lower reaches base their efforts on resource endowments and persist in the systematic governance of mountains, waters, forests, fields, lakes, grasses, and sands. In the upper reaches, efforts to protect and restore important water replenishment areas are strengthened to fortify the "Water Tower of China." In the middle reaches, emphasis is placed on strengthening soil and water conservation. In the lower reaches, the construction of green corridors is accelerated, and the ecological protection and restoration of the estuary area is promoted. Currently, the ecological flow guarantee rates for all 20 major controlled sections of the main and branch streams of the Yellow River have met the standards; the soil and water conservation rate of the Yellow River basin reached 69.75% in 2025, and the ecological appearance of the rivers and lakes in the Yellow River basin has significantly improved.
A relevant official of the Yellow River Water Resources Commission stated that the Yellow River basin is an important ecological barrier for China, and that they will persist in prioritizing ecology and green development, continuously improve the pattern of large-scale ecological protection and large-scale coordination in the Yellow River basin, and improve the full-basin ecological protection system from the source to the estuary, allowing the Mother River to flow vigorously with green banks and clean waters.
Return to TopBeijing, August 17 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Wei Zhezhe) The Supreme People's Court recently released six typical cases of judicial protection of the marine ecological environment, collectively showcasing the unique role and professional responsibility of maritime adjudication in safeguarding national maritime rights and interests, protecting the marine ecological environment, and promoting green and low-carbon development, fully leveraging the demonstrative and guiding role of typical cases in explaining the law through cases and popularizing the law through cases, intensifying efforts to study and publicize the Ecological Environment Code, and promoting and deepening the comprehensive and accurate implementation of the Ecological Environment Code.
The cases released this time cover key areas including ship pollution, land-based source pollution, development control of marine nature reserves, protection of rare aquatic organisms in the exclusive economic zone, and public interest litigation concerning the marine ecological environment.
The marine ecological environment is highly systemic and interconnected. In response to the cross-media and cross-regional complex ecological damage commonly encountered in maritime adjudication practice, the people's courts implement integrated determination of causation, integrated assumption of tort liability, and synchronized restoration across the entire area, effectively translating the principle of "land-sea coordination and systematic governance" into judicial practice. Among them, Case One is the first domestic case of compensation for compound-type ecological environmental damage caused by ships polluting both the ocean and the atmosphere. The Xiamen Maritime Court confirmed for the first time in a judicial ruling that atmospheric environmental damage, loss of marine environmental capacity consumption, and loss of service functions during the marine ecosystem recovery period all fall within the scope of compensation, achieving full coverage of the protected scope. Case Three concerns ecological damage caused by pollutants entering the sea from a nearshore storage tank leak. The ecological environment supervision and management department filed a public interest lawsuit, and the Dalian Maritime Court ruled in accordance with the law that synchronized restoration across the entire area be implemented for the multi-level damage of "soil–mudflat–inshore waters" caused by land-based source pollutants entering the sea through surface runoff, implementing the principle of "liability for damage," achieving "whoever pollutes bears responsibility, whoever is responsible carries out restoration," and forming a full-chain judicial governance model from land to sea of "source control of pollution, full compensation for damage, and timely follow-up restoration."
BEIJING, August 17 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Liu Shiyao) Recently, the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部) issued the "Measures for the Administration of Temporary Sea Use" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"), and the former "Interim Measures for the Administration of Temporary Sea Area Use" was simultaneously repealed. The Measures contain 20 articles in total, systematically optimizing the temporary sea use management system, and achieving management innovation in three aspects: implementing classified management, simplifying the approval process, and strengthening whole-chain management.
Implementing classified management to enhance policy targeting. The Measures pioneer a classified management model for temporary sea use, clearly defining three categories: "permit required, filing acceptable, and not permitted." First, activities involving ecological protection red lines, altering the form and function of natural coastlines, or that may have a major impact on national defense security, maritime traffic safety, or other lawful sea use activities must apply for a temporary sea use permit. Second, marine cultural tourism activities, ecological protection and restoration, disaster prevention, mitigation and relief, marine observation and monitoring, and scientific research and teaching that do not involve ecological protection red lines or altering the form and function of natural coastlines may proceed without a permit and only require filing. Third, sea reclamation, cross-sea bridges, subsea tunnels, marine sand mining, and other sea use activities aimed at long-term use of sea areas shall not be managed as temporary sea use. The Measures simultaneously clarify differentiated management requirements for different categories, facilitating implementation by natural resources (marine) authorities and administrative counterparts.
Strengthening whole-chain management to maintain order in temporary sea use. The Measures clarify that review should be conducted in accordance with the "one map" (一张图) of natural resources management and territorial spatial planning. After a temporary sea use permit is issued or filing is completed, the relevant temporary sea use information shall be promptly incorporated into the "one map" for implementation and supervision, and simultaneously communicated to law enforcement agencies and announced to the public to accept public oversight. The Measures strengthen the obligation to dismantle temporary sea use facilities, requiring that upon expiration of the temporary sea use period, sea use facilities and structures be dismantled promptly, emphasizing strict adherence to the ecological security bottom line. For activities involving ecological protection red lines or altering natural coastlines, it is clarified that sea use entities must strictly fulfill ecological restoration obligations to effectively protect the marine ecological environment.
Return to TopOur newspaper Tianjin, August 17 (Reporter Jin Bo): A reporter learned from China Resources Recycling (中国资环) that recently, the remanufacturing of 25 retired wind turbine units, implemented by Xinyuan Jiuquan Company under Zihuan New Energy (资环新能源), a subsidiary of China Resources Recycling, was officially launched, marking the landing and implementation of the country's first batch-scale cascade utilization project for retired wind turbines, exploring replicable models and pathways for turning retired wind power equipment 变废为宝 (biàn fèi wéi bǎo - "turn waste into treasure," to convert waste into valuable resources), and filling the domestic blank in high-value utilization of batch-retired wind turbines.
The 25 wind turbine units in this batch are all existing old units in domestic wind farms, having been in service for more than 15 years, and commonly exhibiting problems such as equipment aging, declining power generation efficiency, and operation and maintenance costs rising year by year, meeting the retirement standard. Zihuan New Energy strengthened scientific and technological research to promote high-value utilization of this batch of retired turbines, organizing professional technical personnel to conduct itemized testing, flaw detection, and assessment of relevant components, formulating an overall cascade utilization plan and carrying out refurbishment and remanufacturing trials. Through self-developed processes such as damage repair, performance enhancement, and precision restoration of transmission systems, the prototype remanufacturing was successfully completed. According to assessment, the overall performance of the remanufactured prototype has significantly improved compared with before retirement, with the performance of some core components close to that of new products of the same grade currently on the market, and it can be adapted to diverse power generation scenarios such as distributed wind power, small self-provided power stations, and industrial auxiliary power supply.
Promoting high-value utilization of retired wind turbines has opened up the "last mile" of the industry's full-cycle green circular development. Project leader Jiang Dong (姜冬) introduced: "The project changes the traditional extensive disposal model, conducting fine dismantling and high-value utilization of composite materials, metal raw materials, and core components, raising the comprehensive utilization rate of retired wind turbines from 30% to 70%, and increasing the economic value of retired wind turbines."
Return to TopOur newspaper Changsha, August 17 (Reporter Yang Xun) — The Hunan Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment (湖南省生态环境厅) recently issued the newly revised "Hunan Province Measures for Provincial-Level Reporting Rewards for Illegal Acts Against the Ecological Environment" (hereinafter referred to as the "New Measures"). On the basis of the old version, the New Measures further optimize and upgrade, providing rewards upon verification for reports by the masses of illegal acts against the ecological environment, with reported clues that are filed and investigated rewarded up to 500,000 yuan.
Since the original reward measures have been in operation, although certain results have been achieved, problems such as few accepted clues still exist. The New Measures consist of 6 chapters and 29 articles, focusing on the direction of "expanding the reward scope, broadening clue sources, and optimizing reward tiers" to make institutional adjustments, building a social supervision network for the ecological environment with broader coverage and stronger incentive intensity.
The New Measures include within the reporting reward scope all illegal acts against the ecological environment that should be investigated and handled by ecological environment departments at all levels according to law. At present, the provincial catalog of administrative punishment matters totals 195 items, with key reward matters expanded from 27 items to 31 items, and a catch-all provision newly added. On the basis of the Hunan provincial reporting reward platform, clues truthfully reported through channels such as the 12345 government service convenience hotline and petition and complaint channels can likewise receive rewards after verification. The New Measures form 4 types of tiered reward forms: reward upon verification, key reward upon verification, reward upon punishment, and additional reward.
Return to TopSanya, August 17 (Our reporter Dong Zeyang (董泽扬)) — Recently, in Sanya, Hainan, the globally critically endangered species blue-spotted guitarfish successfully bred 12 juveniles under artificial conservation conditions. This breeding practice is at the leading level in the global conservation field for this species, leaving precious observation samples for the protection of endangered marine organisms.
The blue-spotted guitarfish is an important benthic cartilaginous fish in tropical and subtropical coastal waters, playing an important role in maintaining the balance of marine ecosystems. The species is listed as a critically endangered species on the IUCN Red List. Affected by factors such as coastal habitat degradation, overfishing, and bycatch injury, the wild population has declined by more than 80% over the past 45 years.
Artificial breeding of the blue-spotted guitarfish is extremely difficult. The local team relied on a large exhibition tank with 13,500 tons of water volume, introduced up-to-standard natural seawater, and relied on a 24-hour stable life support system to simulate the native marine environment. Since 2018, the conservation team has adhered to low-interference, refined management and care, minimizing human operations to avoid stress risks to broodstock. The team continued monitoring, and in May this year observed the female fish becoming pregnant. Throughout the process, the mother was not moved arbitrarily, and only when delivery was approaching was she safely transferred to an isolated breeding pool. Now the female broodstock is 2.3 meters long and the male 2.2 meters, both in good physical condition.
It is reported that all 12 juvenile rays are healthy live births, swimming flexibly, able to feed independently, with all physiological indicators normal. They have been placed in separate waters for one-on-one tracking observation. Zhang Jie (张洁), associate researcher at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院动物研究所), led a team to the site to complete on-site verification. Experts stated that completely recording the growth chain of the blue-spotted guitarfish from juvenile to adult breeding is rare globally. This success was not the result of forced technical intervention, but the fruit of long-term adaptation to biological habits and scientific conservation.
Return to TopOur newspaper Hefei, August 17 (Reporter Tian Xianjin) — Recently, the reporter learned from the Administration Bureau of the Anhui Yangtze Alligator National Nature Reserve: this year's first nest of artificially bred Chinese alligator hatchlings has successfully broken through their shells and been born, marking that this year's artificial incubation of Chinese alligators has officially entered the concentrated hatching stage.
On August 14, when alligator keepers carried out routine incubation inspections, they heard chirping sounds of hatchlings coming from inside incubation box No. 53. After opening the nesting material, they discovered that one newly hatched baby alligator had already pierced through the egg membrane and pushed open the eggshell, and the remaining eggs in the same nest also showed signs of beginning to hatch. The newborn hatchling is about 20 centimeters in body length, with black-and-yellow transverse stripes distributed on the body surface, full of vitality, and in good developmental condition.
Every year, before the Chinese alligator breeding season, the reserve completes various artificial breeding preparatory tasks, including cleaning and disinfecting the incubation room, debugging and repairing facilities, and cleaning and air-drying nesting materials. After the Chinese alligators lay eggs, staff complete the full-process operations of egg sorting, marking, and placement into incubation according to regulations, implement 24-hour shift duty in the incubation room, rely on the temperature control system to stably regulate incubation temperature, avoid various incubation risks such as temperature fluctuation and mold growth, and help improve the hatching success rate of fertilized eggs.
In the next step, the Administration Bureau of the Chinese Alligator Reserve will continue to track the incubation progress of the remaining batches of eggs, promptly clean and cut the umbilical cords of hatched hatchlings, isolate and manage their care, and scientifically guide the start of feeding after the yolk is completely absorbed. At the same time, it will continue to optimize breeding management and improve breeding technology, so as to reserve healthy and high-quality individuals for subsequent wild release and reintroduction.
By: 本报记者 龚相娟
After 9:30 on Sunday morning, the open space on the east side of the Lixingli residential community (立兴里小区) in Hongqiao District (红桥区), Tianjin, began to liven up.
Before long, the audience grew from more than 20 people to more than 200. "This is a small number. It's hot now; when it's cooler, there are more people." Xue Chunxiang (薛春祥), head of the "Jinyou Wrestling Society" (津友跤社), said that seasoned enthusiasts already know well that, except in the depths of winter or in rainy or snowy weather, at 10 a.m. every Sunday, a liao jiao (撂跤) exchange session is held here.
Chinese-style wrestling is colloquially called "liao jiao" (撂跤) or "guan jiao" (掼跤). In old times it went from the imperial court to the common people; there were both professional wrestlers who made a living at it and ordinary people who entertained themselves by sparring. Liao jiao emphasizes "using skill to overcome a thousand jin of force," does not advocate brute strength and hard grappling, and focuses on borrowing momentum and following the situation to win. It is a traditional sport that integrates strength, technique, and etiquette.
The wrestling ground beside the Lixingli community, also called the "Wrestling Ground Pocket Park" (跤场口袋公园), is only two or three kilometers from Tianjin West Station, and a few hundred meters' walk from the South Canal.
This used to be a water-and-land dock for grain transport by canal, where people from north and south converged. In the area west of the old city, dock laborers gathered, and ordinary working people treated liao jiao as a fitness pastime, using open street spaces and sand pits to spontaneously form folk wrestling grounds, passed down from generation to generation, known as Tianjin's "wrestling nest" (跤窝子). Tianjin, together with Beijing, Baoding, and Jinan, was known as one of the "Four Great Wrestling Cities" (四大跤城).
The bustling street scene of liao jiao was vividly recorded in many Tianjin-flavored literary works. Writer Feng Jicai (冯骥才), in his short story collection "Extraordinary Folk" (俗世奇人), has a piece called "A Gust of Wind" (一阵风) that specifically writes about a wrestling master at Tianjin's Sancha River Mouth (三岔河口): "The moment his hands rested on the opponent's shoulders, he gripped tightly, and with a twist of his waist, lifted the opponent up."
In 2003, several wrestling fans spontaneously formed the "Jinyou Wrestling Society" to make friends through wrestling. Every Sunday morning, society members take turns on duty, receiving and guiding new wrestling friends, laying out protective mats, serving as referees and "commentators" (说跤人), and promoting Chinese-style wrestling on a volunteer basis—all tasks busy but orderly.
Over more than 20 years, the wrestling ground has moved several times, finally settling on the open space beside the Lixingli community. At first it was simply bare sandy soil; in 2025, relying on the pocket park renovation project under the Hongqiao District people's livelihood project, the venue was renovated, with a professional rubber wrestling platform laid and tiered spectator seating added, greatly improving the hardware conditions. This open space was therefore named the "Wrestling Ground Pocket Park."
Every Sunday when the exchange is held, spectators who arrive early can sit in the stands; those who arrive late have to stand or sit on the ground.
Wrestling beside residential buildings attracts not only neighbors. Among the standing crowd was Mr. Liu and his family of three from Jinan, Shandong. "We brought our child first to Qian'an, Hebei (迁安), to participate in a professional competition, and after finishing, came to Tianjin to sightsee, and made a special trip here to watch the liao jiao matches," Mr. Liu said. Earlier they had learned that although this is a folk wrestling ground, professionals often come to exchange.
That day, Mr. Liu's family encountered an expert—Tian Jingsheng (田景生), a former wrestling coach of the Hebei Provincial Sports Team. When his interest was roused, the 63-year-old Tian Jingsheng also stepped onto the platform to spar with a wrestler who had come from afar. "I haven't wrestled in over a year; I'll go up and move around a bit, just to enjoy it," Tian Jingsheng said.
Probing, gripping hands, twisting the waist, hooking the leg—the two on the platform advanced and retreated, circling each other, their movements agile, their techniques showing composure and experience.
"Good strength!" someone in the audience cheered.
The "commentator" on site picked up the thread: "That's someone who knows what they're looking at. When watching wrestling, some people shout 'good wrestling,' but those in the know shout 'good strength.' Those in the know don't just watch who wins or loses; they watch body movement, center of gravity, and the measure of borrowed force—they're watching clever strength and steady strength."
After the match, many people were reluctant to leave, sitting in the park to savor the highlights and lessons of the match just concluded.
"Unlike formal competitions, folk wrestling exchanges don't divide weight classes. No matter who the opponent is, you can't take them lightly; 全力以赴 (quán lì yǐ fù - "use all one's strength," to go all out) is respect for the opponent." After the match, wrestling enthusiast Li Jian (李健) pointed out problems in the students' exchanges—because the opponent was younger and lighter, the students developed a careless attitude and made mistakes. "Even if it's a cat, wrestle it like a tiger. Besides physical technique, psychological gamesmanship is also important." "Bow on entering the ring, settle who's better in the ring, and be friends off the ring." These plain words of advice are passed down from generation to generation among liao jiao enthusiasts.
A folk wrestling ground in a community can attract enthusiasts from all directions, and even professional wrestlers 慕名而来 (mù míng ér lái - "admire the name and come," to come drawn by someone's reputation)—it naturally has a unique charm. "Its special quality is that it lets people feel the passion and power of the sport, while also being full of the flavor of everyday life, enriching people's daily lives," Tian Jingsheng said.
This also explains the motivation behind the "Jinyou Wrestling Society" persisting for more than 20 years. Wu Ruichang (吴睿昌), an 81-year-old wrestling fan, occasionally still goes up to spar with wrestling friends, not for winning or losing but for love of the sport; Li Deyuan (李德元), 78, serves year-round as on-site referee and "commentator," never failing to mention "promoting and passing on Chinese-style wrestling" in his commentary; Li Jian often uses holidays and days off to work as a coach, giving free guidance to beginners...
In Tianjin, folk liao jiao has become part of daily life, allowing the masses to gain health and joy at their doorstep, and allowing traditional sports to 生生不息 (shēng shēng bù xī - "born born not cease," to grow and thrive without end) and 薪火相传 (xīn huǒ xiāng chuán - "firewood fire pass on," to pass the torch from generation to generation) in the new era.
Return to TopBy: 史 哲
Coming across a set of down-to-earth wrestling photos by chance, I was struck by a "wild" kind of power. An old hand throws a young man to the ground, while the elderly onlookers watch, utterly absorbed. In the pocket parks right at people's doorsteps, such raw and unpolished contests are a regular occurrence.
I asked a reporter to go to the "wrestling nest" (跤窝子) to find out what was going on, and there were even more surprises. Wrestling fans spontaneously organized sparring sessions, and have kept them going for over 20 years — regardless of age, no admission fee, with professional and amateur wrestlers competing on the same stage, and even wrestling fans from other cities making special trips to come and exchange skills.
What makes a single wrestling platform so moving? The answer lies in the fabric of urban development. Tianjin, at the confluence of the Nine Rivers, has a diverse culture that nurtures a distinctive local character. Wrestling (撂跤) came from the masses and returns to the masses, giving life to the most authentic vitality of traditional sport.
Traditional sports are like a treasure house; someone needs to open the door before the "treasures" can "pop out" one by one. Wrestling, Bökh, coconut-tree climbing, duck catching — these events connect the past and the present, showcasing the most vivid people and stories in the river of time, and are also the living resonance of China's fine traditional culture in the everyday lives of the people.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Beijing, August 17 (Reporter Sun Longfei) — On August 16 local time, the nine-day World Table Tennis (WTT) European Grand Smash Sweden stop concluded. In the competition across the five individual events at this stop, the Chinese table tennis team captured the women's singles champion and runner-up, as well as the mixed doubles title.
The men's and women's singles semifinals and finals were held on the final day of competition. On the women's singles court, three Chinese team players advanced to the semifinals. Wang Yidi defeated Japan's Miwa Harimoto 4–2, while Wang Manyu defeated her teammate Kuai Man 4–0, and the two winners met in the final. The final was tightly contested: Wang Manyu led by two games before Wang Yidi pulled one back. In the pivotal fourth game, Wang Manyu mounted a fierce comeback from a 2–7 deficit and turned it around 12–10, ultimately winning the title by a large margin of 4–2, with Wang Yidi taking silver.
On the men's singles side, the Chinese team stopped at the round of 16. France's Felix Lebrun defeated Japan's Tomokazu Harimoto 4–1 to claim the title. In mixed doubles, the Chinese team pair of Lin Shidong/Kuai Man defeated the Hong Kong, China pair of Wong Chun-ting/Doo Hoi Kem 3–1 to successfully defend their title.
Return to TopBeijing, August 17 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Zheng Yi) The 2026 World Renju Team Championship, hosted by the International Renju Federation, recently concluded in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, where the Chinese teams secured both the championship and runner-up positions with outstanding performances. This tournament brought together 9 teams from 7 countries — China, Armenia, Japan, Poland, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Estonia — comprising a total of 45 players. The competition adopted a 9-round single round-robin format. After intense competition, China's second team clinched the championship by a narrow margin, China's first team took the runner-up position, and Japan's team finished third.
Return to TopNanchang, August 17 (Reporter Wang Dan) — On the evening of the 16th, the 2026 IFSC Asian Youth Cup (Quannan, China) concluded at the Climbing Town in Quannan County (全南县), Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. The event set up two major groups, U15 and U17, covering men's and women's bouldering, lead, and speed events, attracting 174 athletes from 8 countries and regions. After four days of intense competition, the event produced a total of 36 medals. The Chinese team topped the gold medal table with 8 gold, 6 silver, and 5 bronze medals, with the South Korean team and the Japanese team ranking second and third respectively.
In recent years, Quannan County, Ganzhou City, has built an all-format Climbing Town to high standards, routinely carrying out activities such as public climbing popularization and youth climbing practical training. The local youth climbing popularization rate has exceeded 60%, and the climbing sports atmosphere is strong. Relying on the influence of the event, Quannan County has deepened the integrated development of "sports + culture and tourism," simultaneously carrying out activities such as cultural tourism consumption promotion and intangible cultural heritage folk performance exhibitions.
Return to TopNanning, August 17 (Reporter Pang Geping) — The 2026 China-ASEAN Pickleball Training Camp recently opened at the Santang Sports Training and Competition Base (三塘体育训练比赛基地) in Nanning, Guangxi. The training camp is oriented toward youth aged 11 to 14, and carries out systematic, professional training in two groups, U12 and U14, with a training scale of approximately 50 participants. The camp's curriculum is complete in structure and advances 循序渐进 (xún xù jiàn jìn - "advance step by step in proper order," to proceed gradually and systematically), covering four major modules: consolidation of foundational abilities, specialized doubles training, cultivation of tactical thinking, and practical match drills, while also incorporating cross-national cultural exchange activities.
Return to Top2026 is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." Bank of China Anhui Branch closely adheres to Anhui Province's "Three Places, One Zone" strategic positioning — building a source of scientific and technological innovation with important influence, a gathering place for emerging industries, a new highland for reform and opening up, and a comprehensive green transformation zone for economic and social development — and, based on the responsibility of a major state-owned bank, fully leverages the Group's globalization advantages and comprehensive characteristics, focusing on the three major areas of advanced manufacturing, high-level opening up, and green transformation, serving Anhui's high-quality development with high-quality financial supply, injecting strong momentum into the construction of a modern and beautiful Anhui.
Focusing on the goal of a strong manufacturing province, empowering the upgrading of modern manufacturing
Manufacturing is the foundation of Anhui's standing as a province. Bank of China Anhui Branch, focusing on advantageous industries such as new energy vehicles, high-end equipment, and bearings, deepens "one enterprise, one policy" services, helping chain-leading enterprises and upstream and downstream enterprises develop in coordination. As of the end of June 2026, Bank of China Anhui Branch's manufacturing loan balance exceeded 170 billion yuan, serving more than 11,000 manufacturing enterprises.
Precise drip irrigation of advanced manufacturing clusters. In response to the credit difficulties arising from the differences in development stages, industrial directions, and specific financing needs of four subsidiaries of a key automobile enterprise in Hefei, Bank of China Hefei Branch tailored a "one enterprise, one policy" comprehensive financing plan, allocated special medium- and long-term credit lines, and assisted the client in implementing foreign debt capital business. As of the end of June 2026, it had cumulatively provided more than 7 billion yuan in loan capital support for the construction of the enterprise's various subsidiary projects, fully guaranteeing the enterprise's R&D investment in frontier tracks such as high-level autonomous driving, power batteries, and intelligent cockpit operating systems.
Chain-based services for breakthroughs in the high-end bearing industry. A leading high-end bearing group has laid out industrial fields such as robot bearings and low-altitude aircraft bearings, and its new super factory project faces challenges such as long construction cycles and large capital demands. Bank of China Wuhu Branch, relying on the Yangtze River Delta integration service mechanism, coordinated with Bank of China Shanghai Branch to provide 1.2 billion yuan in credit support, promoting the rapid implementation of the project. At the same time, it proactively sorted out the financial needs of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, providing nearly 2 billion yuan in comprehensive credit to the group's Wuhu subsidiary, unblocking capital circulation bottlenecks, and helping the enterprise transform from single manufacturing to "R&D + testing + supply chain + full life-cycle services." At the bearing industrial park in Lingbi County (灵璧县), Suzhou, Bank of China Suzhou Branch has cumulatively provided credit support to nearly 20 supporting enterprises, letting "small bearings" drive a big industry.
Innovation scoring activates the momentum of the science and technology industry. In response to the financing pain points of technology-based enterprises, Bank of China Anhui Branch built an innovation scoring evaluation model, allowing enterprises' "technology flow" to be transformed into "capital flow." A national-level "specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative" "little giant" enterprise in Hefei is deeply engaged in pan-semiconductor and new energy digital intelligent manufacturing. Bank of China Hefei Branch, using the innovation scoring evaluation model, broke through traditional credit models and provided it with a combined plan of "medium- and long-term working capital loans + discounting," approving comprehensive credit of 40 million yuan, helping the enterprise tackle the domestic substitution of industrial software.
Serving high-level opening up, enhancing cross-border financial service capabilities
Bank of China Anhui Branch fully leverages the Group's globalization advantages, helping enterprises "go global" and proceed steadily to reach far (行稳致远, xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "walk steadily, reach far," to proceed steadily and achieve long-term goals).
Global treasury management escorts the internationalization of automobile groups. In response to the pain points of a large automobile group's numerous domestic and overseas accounts and difficult management, Bank of China Anhui Branch tailored a plan of "domestic cash management + cross-border integrated local and foreign currency capital pool + overseas treasury center." It launched the "Global Vision" service for the group, enabling the group to conduct visualized management of its accounts in multiple countries and regions; coordinated with Bank of China (Hong Kong) to establish an overseas treasury center, building a multi-currency capital pool covering member units in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and other places; through the cross-border integrated local and foreign currency capital pool, it connected the capital channels between the mainland and Hong Kong, achieving global capital visibility and controllability, significantly enhancing security and efficiency. Through the global treasury integration plan, the bank and the enterprise have achieved deep binding and value symbiosis.
Small-currency clearing services safeguard the expansion of emerging markets. In response to the needs of Anhui Province's foreign trade enterprises in expanding into Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and other markets, Bank of China Anhui Branch established an integrated service mechanism of rapid response and coordinated handling, providing enterprises with clearing services for multiple emerging market small currencies including UAE dirham, Saudi Arabian riyal, Turkish lira, Thai baht, and Malaysian ringgit, effectively reducing currency conversion links, lowering exchange costs, and improving capital turnover efficiency.
Leveraging the role of green finance, polishing the ecological foundation of Jianghuai
Bank of China Anhui Branch innovates green financial products to serve the transformation of the energy structure. "Equity, bond, loan, and lease" coordinated services for green energy leaders. A power and energy enterprise focuses on core products such as power batteries and energy storage batteries. Bank of China Anhui Branch, through a comprehensive plan of "loans + bill financing + green bonds + equity financing + financial leasing," helps the enterprise improve production capacity and energy efficiency levels.
Full-cycle support for wind-solar-storage integration. A wind-solar-storage integration project in Huainan is a pilot project for Anhui Province's source-grid-load-storage integration and multi-energy complementarity. Bank of China Huainan Branch deeply connected with the needs of each stage of the project, providing personalized financial service plans matching construction progress, precisely guaranteeing capital needs, and cumulatively providing more than 800 million yuan in loan capital. This project revitalizes idle pond water surface land, enhances power grid regulation capacity, drives fishery and other ancillary industries, takes into account both ecological and economic benefits, and explores a new path for sustainable financing practices for regional new energy enterprises.
Striving forward in the "15th Five-Year Plan," Bank of China Anhui Branch will anchor to Anhui's "Three Places, One Zone" strategic positioning, continue to do well in the "five major articles" of finance, integrate into the construction of a modern and beautiful Anhui with higher-quality financial supply, and contribute new and greater strength to striving to write the Anhui chapter of Chinese-style modernization.
Data source: Bank of China Anhui Branch
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 谢亚宏
Recently, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and multiple UN agencies jointly released the 2026 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report (hereinafter referred to as "the report") in Rome, Italy. The report shows that the number of hungry people worldwide declined for the third consecutive year in 2025, but the momentum of improvement remains fragile, development is uneven across regions, and achieving the "Zero Hunger" goal of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development still faces severe challenges. At the same time, the global average cost of a healthy diet has risen, and nearly one-third of the global population still cannot afford a healthy diet — how to "eat well" after "eating enough" is becoming a new issue in global food security governance.
Hungry population continues to decline; regional divergence is pronounced
Multiple data points in the report confirm that global hunger governance has achieved phased positive progress: in 2025, approximately 645 million people worldwide were in a state of hunger, accounting for about 7.8% of the global population, marking a third consecutive year of decline from 8.1% in 2024 and 8.6% in 2022. In absolute terms, the number of hungry people in 2025 decreased by nearly 14 million compared with 2024, and by a cumulative 43 million compared with 2022; during the same period, approximately 2.1 billion people worldwide were in a state of moderate or severe food insecurity, accounting for 25.8% of the global population, a decrease of about 86 million compared with 2024 and 135 million from the 2020 peak. The overall downward trend in both indicators is evident, marking the return of global food security to a track of improvement — a comprehensive result of countries stabilizing agricultural production, improving social security, and advancing poverty reduction governance.
The report also shows that improvements in global food security are uneven, and the North-South development gap continues to widen. The process of eliminating hunger in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean is advancing steadily: in Asia, the proportion of hungry people has fallen to 6.0%, with a moderate or severe food insecurity rate of 20.3%; in Latin America and the Caribbean, the proportion of hungry people is 4.8%, with a food insecurity rate of 22.9%; in North America and Europe, food insecurity rates are both below 10%.
Africa has for the first time surpassed Asia to become the region with the largest number of hungry people in the world, with a total of approximately 309 million, exceeding Asia's 292 million. Although Africa's hunger rate edged down from 20.3% in 2024 to 20.0%, reversing a multi-year upward trend and achieving initial stabilization, the proportion of people in moderate or severe food insecurity in the region has reached 56.6%, affected by factors such as rapid population growth. The gap between Africa and other regions has further widened, making it a key priority region for implementing the "Zero Hunger" goal of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu said at the report's launch event: "Hunger is not inevitable. With strong economic policies, social protection, and sustained investment in more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agrifood systems, we can reverse the hunger curve."
Multiple risks intertwined and superimposed; the foundation for improvement remains fragile
The report warns that multiple negative factors are currently intensifying, the foundation of global food security improvement is not solid, and the governance progress already achieved faces the risk of being eroded.
Gulf countries are important suppliers of fertilizer products. The Middle East conflict that broke out early this year has disrupted energy and fertilizer transport through the Strait of Hormuz, triggering a sharp rise in fertilizer prices and in turn exacerbating food price inflation. The latest research by the World Trade Organization shows that since the outbreak of the Middle East conflict, fertilizer vessels departing through the Strait of Hormuz have fallen to nearly "zero." Although some products can be exported via a detour through the Red Sea port of Yanbu, shipping capacity and efficiency are far inferior to the pre-conflict period. FAO Chief Economist Maximo Torero warned that if transport through the strait remains disrupted, global food security could be affected faster than energy markets.
Increasingly frequent extreme weather is forming a normalized disruption to agricultural production. The World Meteorological Organization recently stated that El Niño has developed in the tropical Pacific region and is expected to strengthen rapidly in the coming months, increasing the probability of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, droughts, and heavy rainfall around the world. FAO believes that extreme weather is making it increasingly difficult for agricultural production to rely on traditional experience to arrange sowing and harvesting, and a new round of El Niño could become the largest climate variable affecting global agriculture in recent years. The agency's global drought early warning map shows that the African Sahel region, Southern Africa, South Asia, and Central America are all key risk areas, and it calls on countries to prepare and cooperate in addressing the challenges extreme weather poses to agriculture.
The reduction in official development assistance and humanitarian funding may further offset the progress achieved in global hunger governance. The report holds that with multiple negative factors superimposed, 510 million to 520 million people worldwide will still face hunger by 2030, and the prospect of achieving the "Zero Hunger" goal on schedule is not optimistic. UN Secretary-General António Guterres emphasized that conflict remains the primary driver of severe global food insecurity and malnutrition, and the international community should accelerate the expansion of humanitarian assistance and promote the resolution of conflicts through peaceful means. World Food Programme Acting Executive Director Carl Skau stated that the progress in food security governance is 有目共睹 (yǒu mù gòng dǔ - "all eyes see together," evident to all) but the foundation is extremely fragile. The international community must jointly build resilient food systems to ensure that families can afford nutritious diets even in times of crisis, which requires sustained investment commensurate with the task.
Healthy diet costs rise; how to "eat well" urgently needs a breakthrough
This year's report takes the affordability of healthy diets as an important topic, expanding the nutritional dimension of food security governance. According to the definitions of FAO and the World Health Organization, a healthy diet must satisfy the principles of "adequate, balanced, diverse, and moderate," covering six major categories including starchy staples, animal-source foods, legumes and nuts, oils and fats, and fruits and vegetables. The report uses a daily intake of 2,330 kilocalories as the benchmark to calculate the minimum daily expenditure for residents of each country to purchase a healthy diet combination that meets minimum nutritional needs. Data show that the global average cost of a healthy diet has risen from US$2.94 in 2017 to US$4.28 in 2025, higher than the international extreme poverty line of US$3.
Regional divergence is equally pronounced: Latin America and the Caribbean has the highest cost at US$4.9; Africa and Asia are US$4.35 and US$4.33 respectively; North America and Europe are the lowest at US$3.64. Torero stated that 2.69 billion people worldwide — nearly one-third of the population — still cannot afford a healthy diet. Although this figure has declined from the 2020 peak of 3.13 billion, the regional gap remains significant — in 2025, 66.6% of Africa's population cannot afford a healthy diet, more than double the rate in Asia and Latin America, and the trend is still deteriorating. In regions where factors such as inadequate infrastructure, weak cold chains, and unstable energy are superimposed, prices of fruits, vegetables, and animal-source foods are being continuously pushed up. "The challenge is not whether sufficient calories can be provided, but in making nutrient-rich foods more affordable," Torero said.
The report also discloses that only 30.8% of infants and young children aged 6 to 23 months worldwide meet the minimum dietary diversity standard; the anemia rate among women of reproductive age (15 to 49) rose from 27.6% in 2012 to 30.7% in 2023; the adult obesity rate reached a record high of 16.2% in 2024; and the number of children under 5 with stunted growth remains at approximately 150 million. According to estimates, the hidden costs of unhealthy diets, including disease burden, amount to as much as US$8.1 trillion annually.
In response to the above problems, the report proposes differentiated governance solutions: at the global level, the structure of agricultural support needs to be optimized — currently about 70% of agricultural support goes to crops such as cereals and sugar, while nutrient-dense foods such as fruits, vegetables, and legumes receive insufficient support, and the allocation of agricultural resources urgently needs adjustment; at the same time, costs at all stages of the value chain need to be reduced and the supply of nutritious food expanded. In terms of region-specific measures, the report recommends that Africa focus on filling the cold chain gap and improving the supply of animal-source foods; Asia needs to strengthen production-marketing linkages and improve post-harvest handling capacity for fruits and vegetables; Latin America needs to upgrade logistics facilities and reduce transport costs.
UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell stated that the existing food system still cannot adequately guarantee the nutritional needs of children and families, and the international community needs to increase investment. WHO Director-General Tedros emphasized that a healthy diet is the cornerstone of public health and must be made accessible to all.
(This newspaper, Rome, August 17)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 时元皓
The foreign trade statistics report recently released by the Central Bank of Ecuador shows that the country's total merchandise exports in the first half of this year reached USD 19.571 billion, a year-on-year increase of 4%, setting a record high for the same period in history, with a trade surplus of USD 2.339 billion. In recent years, Ecuador's exports have maintained steady growth momentum, with full-year export volume reaching USD 37.152 billion in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 7.9%, the highest level in history.
By category, Ecuador's oil exports in the first half of the year reached USD 4.92 billion, a year-on-year increase of 14%, mainly driven by the rise in average crude oil prices; non-oil exports reached USD 14.651 billion, occupying a dominant position in exports. The Central Bank of Ecuador stated that, dragged down by the sharp decline in exports of cocoa and cocoa products, the overall growth rate of non-oil exports slowed; excluding the cocoa category, non-oil exports grew 12% year-on-year, highlighting the resilience of the industry.
In recent years, Ecuador has actively promoted the diversified transformation of its export structure. For a long time, oil was the country's largest single export product; with the rapid development of non-oil industries, the trade structure has continued to improve. In 2025, shrimp exports exceeded oil for the first time, leaping to become the largest export category. In the first half of this year, shrimp products continued to lead non-oil exports, with export volume reaching USD 4.698 billion, a year-on-year increase of 10%; exports of mineral products and bananas reached USD 2.634 billion and USD 2.361 billion respectively, up 41% and 6% year-on-year respectively. Ecuadorian economic analyst Alberto Burneo stated that the shrimp industry has strategic value for Ecuador's economic development, and its industrial chain drives the development of related industries such as feed, logistics, and transportation, with prominent economic spillover effects. Industry expert Gabriel Luna believes that sustained industrial investment, capacity enhancement, diversified market layout, and expansion of high-value-added products are important reasons for the rapid growth of the country's shrimp industry over the past decade or more.
To consolidate the foundation for export growth, Ecuador has introduced multiple policy measures. In February this year, Ecuador launched the integration process of government agencies related to foreign trade, further improving administrative efficiency, deepening strategic cooperation, and exploring emerging markets. The country has continued to expand the coverage of free trade agreements, signing FTAs with China, Costa Rica, South Korea, and other countries in recent years. In July this year, it reached an FTA with Canada, bringing more export products into the duty-free access lists of these countries. Recently, international credit rating agency Standard & Poor's upgraded Ecuador's long-term sovereign credit rating from "B-" to "B," with the optimization of the foreign trade structure and steady export performance being important factors in the rating upgrade.
The Chinese market is an important engine for Ecuador's export growth. In May this year, the China-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement marked its second anniversary of entry into force, with tariff reduction dividends and trade facilitation measures continuing to empower bilateral trade between China and Ecuador. Data from the General Administration of Customs of China show that bilateral trade between China and Ecuador reached USD 17.33 billion in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 24%, of which Ecuador's exports to China reached USD 9.5 billion, up 19.3%. In the first quarter of this year, Ecuador's exports to China reached USD 2.663 billion, a year-on-year increase of 13.8%.
"The Ecuador-China FTA has not only expanded market access but also reshaped our export strategy toward Asia." Magaly Caicedo, president of the Ecuador-China Chamber of Commerce, stated that the significant growth in exports of non-oil products such as shrimp, bananas, minerals, and flowers has both created opportunities for export diversification and driven the private sector to absorb more employment. In the next step, the chamber will promote small and medium-sized export entities to further integrate the industrial chain, enhance product added value, and better match the demand of the Chinese market. Luis Salvador, director of the Asia, Oceania and Africa Directorate of Ecuador's Ministry of Production, Foreign Trade, Investment and Fisheries, stated that the entry into force of the Ecuador-China FTA marks "a new stage in bilateral relations," and in the future, efforts will continue to promote the export of more products such as blueberries and avocados to China.
The upgrading of logistics channels such as Peru's Chancay Port has provided new impetus for Ecuador's export growth. In February 2025, the route from Ecuador's Guayaquil Port via Peru's Chancay Port to Shanghai Port was officially opened, reducing shipping time between the two places to 27 days. José Hidalgo, executive president of Ecuador's Banana Exporters Association, stated that the new logistics corridor has greatly improved transportation efficiency, creating a competitive advantage for fresh products such as bananas to expand into the Asian market. The Ecuadorian Maritime Chamber of Commerce believes that Chancay Port has opened a new path for export transportation and enhanced the overall efficiency of the regional logistics chain.
Beijing, August 17 (Reporter Han Xiaoming) — In response to Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae's address delivered at the "National Memorial Ceremony for the War Dead" held on the 15th, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian stated at a regular press conference on the 17th that Takaichi Sanae, in her address, evaded "reflection" and "lessons," obscured the criminal responsibility of aggression, and greatly turned back the wheel of history, once again exposing the sinister intention of the Takaichi administration to cover up, distort, and overturn the history of aggression, which has already drawn strong condemnation and widespread opposition from all sides.
Lin Jian said that on the day of Japan's defeat and surrender in the war, Takaichi Sanae offered ritual fees to the "shrine of war criminals," and Japanese Defense Minister Koizumi Shinjiro and other senior officials and political figures also went to pay homage, further heightening the vigilance of neighboring Asian countries and the international community over Japan's national trajectory. Insightful figures within Japan have pointed out that a country that does not know how to reflect cannot gain trust, and the defense minister's actions are tantamount to endorsing wars of aggression.
Lin Jian stated that this year marks the 81st anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, and also the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Trials. Only by facing history squarely and taking history as a mirror can one avoid repeating the same mistakes and going astray again. "We once again urge those in power in Japan to earnestly heed the voices of justice at home in Japan and in the international community, deeply reflect on their criminal responsibility, completely break with militarism, and not go further and further down the wrong path."
In mid-August, Germany once again experienced sustained high temperatures, with maximum temperatures in many places approaching 40 degrees Celsius, and the Rhine River at a historically low water level. Meteorological departments predict that drought conditions triggered by climate change in many parts of Germany will continue in the near future.
(Staff Reporter Liu Zhonghua)
Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, August 17 (reporters Li Ziyue, Chen Ze'an) — Matsuno Seiya, researcher at the International Peace Research Institute of Meiji Gakuin University in Japan, said on the 17th that his latest research has found that military doctors of the Japanese Army Medical School conducted human experiments on Japanese soldiers hospitalized with mental illness during the war of aggression against China, infecting them with malaria. This reflects the horrifying mindset of Japan's "Army Medical Corps" in treating human beings as "research materials," and this inhumane conduct shares commonalities with the human experiments carried out by Unit 731.
Matsuno discovered the relevant records in papers published in the organ journal of Japan's "Army Medical Corps." The papers show that this experiment was conducted in 1940 at the Kokuradai Army Hospital in Chiba Prefecture, with the aim of preventing the spread of malaria within Japan. The researchers had mosquitoes feed on the blood of soldiers infected with malaria on the China battlefield, then had these mosquitoes bite 10 Japanese soldiers hospitalized with mental illness, observing whether they would become infected. In the end, several of the 10 developed symptoms including fever above 40 degrees Celsius, headache, body pain, and loss of appetite.
The papers also show that Ishii Shiro, head of the Kwantung Army Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department (Unit 731), participated in directing this human experiment.
Matsuno stated that this experiment involved serious ethical problems. Japan's "Army Medical Corps" treated people only as "research materials" and objects. Because the experimental subjects were patients with mental illness, who may have been unable to accurately understand the content of the experiment and the risks it might entail, this experiment can in fact be regarded as a coercive human experiment.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Washington, August 16 (Reporter Yan Liang) — US President Trump said on the 16th that he has asked the Department of Defense to drastically reduce the scale of joint military exercises between the United States and South Korea.
Trump said in a social media post that these exercises are "extremely costly," with a large portion borne by the United States, and at the same time send a "totally inappropriate and hostile signal" to North Korea.
Trump stated that, given his "very good relationship" with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, he is "displeased" that the United States "agreed long ago to participate in joint exercises with South Korea."
He said that since it is now too late to cancel the exercises, he has instructed the Department of Defense to "drastically reduce" the scale of the US-South Korea joint military exercises.
At the end of the post, Trump noted that he had recently asked South Korea to work with the United States to promote the "denuclearization of Iran," but was refused by the South Korean side.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 牛瑞飞
A study released by the European Commission jointly with the University of Copenhagen and other institutions shows that cities across many European countries commonly face problems such as insufficient green space supply, relatively low tree coverage, and a prominent "green divide" between different communities, presenting new practical challenges for sustainable urban development and spatial planning.
The study conducted a systematic assessment of 862 European cities, covering cities with populations exceeding 50,000 in the 27 EU member states as well as the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland. The assessment employed the "3-30-300" standard widely used in the current urban greening field, namely that residents can see at least 3 trees from their homes, that the tree canopy coverage of their community is no less than 30 percent, and that a public green space of no less than 1 hectare is accessible within a 300-meter walk.
The study results show that many European cities still have a considerable gap from this standard. Overall, only 13.5 percent of the population in the assessed cities simultaneously meets all three "3-30-300" criteria, 21 percent of the population fails to meet any of the three criteria, and approximately 35 percent of the population meets only one of the criteria. Among the 862 assessed cities, more than half of the population lives in spaces where green space visibility, coverage, and accessibility are all relatively limited.
Looking at the sub-indicators, the rates of meeting the three standards differ markedly. Approximately 46.7 percent of the urban population can see at least 3 trees from residences and other locations, approximately 28 percent of the population lives in communities meeting the "30 percent tree canopy coverage" standard, and 57 percent of the population can reach a park or other urban green space within a 300-meter range.
Looking at regional distribution, cities with higher compliance rates are concentrated in central and northern Europe, including Sweden, Germany, and Poland. Cities such as Berlin, Stockholm, and Helsinki rank among the top in the proportion of their populations meeting the "3-30-300" standard, with more than 70 percent of residents in some cities living in communities with adequate tree canopy coverage or able to see more than 3 trees from their homes. By contrast, cities in southern and southeastern Europe perform more weakly, with cities in southern Spain, southern Italy, Greece, and elsewhere generally scoring low on the two indicators of "visible trees" and "green space accessibility," and in some cities fewer than 10 percent of the population can reach a green space exceeding 1 hectare within 300 meters.
The study points out that the causes of the "green divide" are multifaceted. The first is land competition brought about by urban expansion. Between 2010 and 2020, the population of the assessed European cities grew by an average of 16 percent, urban area expanded by 2.3 percent, while over the same period urban green space area declined by 0.3 percent and tree coverage density decreased by 1.6 percent. Housing, roads, parking lots, and commercial development occupy large amounts of land, with the scale of newly added construction land exceeding that of newly added greening area, and the squeezing effect on green space being particularly pronounced in densely populated large cities. The second is the constraints of urban history and spatial conditions. Many old European city districts have compact layouts and were built long ago, and later efforts to add contiguous green spaces or plant large trees on a supplementary basis face practical difficulties such as insufficient space and high renovation costs. The third is differences in natural climate. Cities located in humid climate regions more easily maintain relatively high proportions of green space, while cities in southern and southeastern Europe have hot, arid climates where the cost of maintaining high levels of tree coverage is higher.
It is worth noting that the "green divide" in European cities is not determined solely by natural conditions, but is more closely related to the level of economic development and social structure. Cities with higher per capita GDP generally have stronger green space supply capacity. The study, combining analysis of disposable income data from France, Belgium, Spain, and other countries, found a significant positive correlation between income level and the degree of enjoyment of greening resources. Higher-income groups are more likely to live in communities that are tree-rich, livable, and close to parks, while lower-income groups are more concentrated in areas with insufficient greening, pronounced heat island effects, and greater environmental pressure.
The study holds that European cities still have considerable room for improvement in narrowing the "green divide." Currently nearly 90 percent of the population actually lives within a 1-kilometer range of a park, and through refined urban design, transformation of transportation space, and redistribution of public space, the efficiency of green space supply can be effectively improved. For example, building pedestrian- and cycling-friendly cities, reducing space for private automobile traffic and parking, and converting some idle municipal facilities and marginal plots into green spaces, pocket parks, and ecological corridors are all feasible paths to reducing the "green divide."
(Our newspaper, Brussels dispatch)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Cairo, August 17 (Reporters: Xu Haofu (徐皓夫), Yao Bing (姚兵)) — The foreign ministers of eight countries, including Egypt, Qatar, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, issued a joint statement on the 16th, strongly condemning Israel's recent refusal to accept the Gaza peace plan.
The statement said that the plan has been accepted by all Palestinian factions and is an important outcome formed through the extensive efforts of the various mediating parties. Israel's public refusal to implement the Gaza peace plan constitutes a direct negation of the plan and fundamentally undermines the collective efforts made to achieve a just and lasting peace. The statement also pointed out that Israel should bear direct and full responsibility for all consequences arising therefrom, including the deterioration of the local situation and the obstruction of the Gaza peace process.
In the statement, the foreign ministers of the eight countries expressed that the United States should continue to actively participate in the implementation of the Gaza peace plan, so as to ensure that Israel fully complies with the plan and fulfills its commitments, and to prevent further obstruction of the plan's implementation.
The statement said that the Gaza peace plan urgently requires comprehensive and immediate implementation at present, in order to safeguard the safety of the people of Gaza and create conditions for the reconstruction of Gaza. In the statement, the foreign ministers of the eight countries reiterated their firm opposition to any attempt to negate or prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state through unilateral actions. They pointed out that only by implementing the "two-state solution" and establishing an independent State of Palestine with full sovereignty, based on the 1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with international law and relevant United Nations resolutions, can a just, lasting, and comprehensive peace be achieved. "Any act that negates or prevents the establishment of a Palestinian state will directly undermine the prospects for peace, security, and stability in the entire region."
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said on the 9th that Israel rejects the Gaza peace plan proposed by the "peace committee" initiated by the United States, and stated that the Israeli military will not withdraw from the Gaza Strip until the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is truly disarmed.
Return to TopFrom August 1 to 7, the China–Kyrgyzstan joint interview activity on high-quality Belt and Road cooperation in the media was held. A joint interview team composed of People's Daily and multiple media outlets including Kyrgyzstan's Flag, Kyrgyzstan Opinion, Kabar National News Agency, the National Television and Radio Company, and Bishkek Evening News visited Bishkek city, Chuy Region, Issyk-Kul Region, and other places, going deep into the sites of China–Kyrgyzstan transportation, energy, and other infrastructure construction projects as well as China–Kyrgyzstan joint archaeological and other people-to-people and cultural exchange projects, presenting the vivid picture of China–Kyrgyzstan cooperation from multiple angles. The reports from this joint interview were widely disseminated on the media and social platforms of both countries in various forms such as video, images, and text.
(The text on this page was compiled by our reporters Qu Pei (屈佩), Qu Song (曲颂), and Li Qiang (李强).)
By: 安德烈·托科姆巴耶夫
In August, the sun blazed over Kyrgyzstan, and I had the privilege of joining colleagues from People's Daily on a journey of joint reporting filled with enthusiasm. We visited Bishkek, Chuy Region, Issyk-Kul Region, and other areas, going deep into multiple China-Kyrgyzstan cooperation project sites, and witnessed with our own eyes how the grand vision of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation has been translated into roads, power stations, and industrial facilities, ultimately becoming part of the daily lives of ordinary people.
The Bishkek waste-to-energy project has not only solved the landfill problem that plagued the locality for years, but also provides energy for the city; the Barskoon-Bedel highway project has further improved transportation connectivity, creating conditions for our landlocked country to better integrate into regional and international economic and trade networks; the 100 MW photovoltaic power station in Chuy Region provides green electricity to nearly 30,000 households in the region, effectively mitigating the impact of seasonal water resource fluctuations on local electricity supply...
In the past, we may have been accustomed to evaluating the results of economic cooperation through project numbers, investment scale, and similar metrics. But when we actually go to the sites and connect the dots of cooperation, observing from a broader perspective, we find that China-Kyrgyzstan cooperation is a systematic cooperation spanning transportation, logistics, energy, and other fields, in which every component is accumulating momentum for Kyrgyzstan's long-term stable development in the future.
What moved me most were the busy figures at these projects. Visiting the photovoltaic power station and highway construction sites, we saw more and more young Kyrgyz engineers and technical professionals taking part. Thanks to China-Kyrgyzstan cooperation, they no longer have to leave their homeland to make a living. The professionalism and confidence they displayed in their work made me understand that what China brings is not only advanced technology and facilities, but also valuable human resources for Kyrgyzstan.
At present, Kyrgyzstan is at an important stage of national development, actively exploring a development path suited to its own national conditions. Across all sectors of Kyrgyzstan society, attention to China and to China-Kyrgyzstan cooperation is growing. They want to understand China's scientific and technological innovation achievements, urban governance strategies, and the way of life of the Chinese people that combines tradition and modernity. This attention itself is a manifestation of the deepening exchanges between the two countries. During our reporting, we also deeply felt that the China-Kyrgyzstan relationship is continuously deepening, with increasingly rich cooperation content, ever-wider coverage, and benefits reaching more and more people.
I began working in journalism in 1992, and I have not only always followed China's development, but also hope to truthfully, objectively, and professionally record China-Kyrgyzstan cooperation. I believe that in the foreseeable future, China-Kyrgyzstan cooperation will continue to release enormous potential, further promoting unimpeded trade, deepening digital cooperation, and expanding people-to-people and cultural exchanges, creating more opportunities for the common development of both countries.
(The author is a commentator for Kyrgyzstan's Slovo Kyrgyzstana newspaper; compiled from an interview by People's Daily reporter Qu Pei)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘军国
Inside a mini zongzi, what is wrapped is not glutinous rice but tea leaves. Once steeped in boiling water, the mellow aroma of the tea interweaves with the fresh fragrance of the reed leaves. Recently, a tea product named "Wanshi Zongyi" (Everything Zongzi as You Wish) in Lishui, Zhejiang, went viral as soon as it appeared.
This "match on the tip of the tongue" embodies the ingenuity of cadres in Suichang County, Lishui: binding together the two county-level "golden leaves" of reed leaves and tea leaves, both revitalizing local specialty products and boosting consumer enthusiasm.
In recent years, Lishui has deepened the reform and exploration of "cultivating skill-based cadres and building a skill-based government" in the new era, starting from strengthening skills to solve the problem of transforming government functions, promoting cadres to fulfill their duties and serve development, and creating a "two-way empowerment" between stimulating internal drive and strengthening responsibility and action, thereby empowering high-quality development in mountainous areas.
What to cultivate
Fill capability gaps according to needs
"'Zhe BA' is extremely popular. If we turn moss into a mini basketball court and add some cartoon players and animal dolls, it will definitely sell well!" Early in the morning, Chu Min, a member of the "Sheyun Lianhua" (She Ethnic Rhyme and Lotus) skill service team in Laozhu She Ethnic Township, Liandu District, Lishui, came to the moss common prosperity workshop to personally guide villagers in making basketball-themed miniature landscape bonsai.
In the past, the moss industry meant growing moss and selling moss. "Villagers did not understand marketing and could not reach sales channels, and cadres only interpreted policies and conveyed documents. How could the industry upgrade? Everyone's thinking was unclear," said Lin Pengfei, Party Secretary of Laozhu She Ethnic Township.
Now, the cadres of the skill service team in Laozhu She Ethnic Township have stepped out of traditional administrative thinking, thoroughly understood market demand and operational logic, and created multiple best-selling products, attracting trading companies to proactively seek cooperation.
Lin Pengfei integrated the concept of "corporate operation" into the entire chain of the moss industry—"front-end planting, mid-end cultural creativity, back-end operation"—and built a practical training path of list-guided learning, hands-on research learning, frontline practice learning, and closed-loop evaluation learning. The unit price of moss has increased nearly fourfold, and the total number of orders this year has exceeded 11,000.
The dilemma of insufficient innate resources for development in mountainous areas intertwines with the challenge of rapidly changing industrial forms, and the cadre team once faced a capability panic of "old methods no longer work, new methods are not yet mastered."
"More than 20 years ago, cadres proficient in specific professional skills—such as 'cauliflower cadres,' 'mao bamboo cadres,' and 'water bamboo shoot cadres'—became guides for the masses to increase income and become prosperous," said Ye Yuxu, Member of the Standing Committee and Head of the Organization Department of the Qingyuan County Party Committee. Now, it is also necessary to keep pace with the times and enhance cadres' abilities.
When cadres "have skills in hand," they have "confidence in their hearts" when serving the masses. Lishui focuses on "learn what you do, fill what you lack," and formulates a "New Era Rural Cadre Skills List" by level and category, providing guidance for "having direction in learning, having standards in doing, and having basis in evaluation."
For township cadres, Lishui closely follows the entire industrial chain of rural "planning, incubation, production, processing, marketing, branding, and financing," and sorts out 26 "value-added skills for empowering common prosperity" in 10 aspects, including industrial development planning and market-oriented operation of village-strengthening companies; for village cadres, it focuses on 17 "comprehensive skills" in 4 aspects, including ideological and political work for the masses and specialty brand building. The two lists are integrated and together constitute a systematic framework for the capabilities of rural cadres in the new era.
At the same time, Lishui has also built a systematic practical training platform, established the country's first Rural Cadre Skills Academy, woven a three-level training network of "1 municipal-level academy, 9 county-level training centers, and 39 practical training bases," developed a boutique general education curriculum of "10 development courses + 1 governance course," as well as more than 300 special practical courses tailored to mountainous area development, and provided regular learning resources on industry, cultural tourism, e-commerce, digital economy, and other topics.
"At present, 80% of rural cadres in the city have mastered at least one value-added skill, achieving a resonance between capability supply and common prosperity demand," said Lin Meiyuan, Director of the Organization Division of the Lishui Municipal Party Committee Organization Department. Everyone learning skills, mastering skills, and using skills has now become a common practice among the cadre team in Lishui.
"I never expected that traditional handicrafts could be made into cultural and creative products and be so popular! In the past, we were busy for a few days around the Lantern Festival, but since the beginning of this year, we have not stopped at all." Looking at the increasing number of tourists coming to buy small plank dragons and experience the production process, Zhu Zuyu, a 77-year-old inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Xixi plank dragon, said with relief.
Yaxi Town in Liandu District focuses on the "intangible cultural heritage + national trend + immersive" business format, launching the themed activity "Play with 'One Dragon,'" and building a "Dragon Seeking" skills hall to make intangible cultural heritage visible, experienceable, and perceptible in daily life. Since the beginning of this year, the town has driven collective income growth of more than 200,000 yuan for Xixi Village and four villages along the route, and enabled more than 40 households to increase their income at their doorstep.
How to train
Temper experts on the front line
Not long ago, a "Trendy Play Gathering" activity independently planned by a group of young cadres in Hushan Township, Suichang County, drove the township to receive more than 60,700 tourists within five days and achieve total tourism revenue of over 9 million yuan. At present, they are busily planning more projects, systematically mastering capabilities in theme planning, process design, creative content production, and other areas through frontline training.
Leveraging the unique advantages of the national 4A-level tourist scenic area Guyan Huaxiang (Ancient堰 Painting Township), Datoutou Town in Liandu District established the "Painting Dream Experience" rural cultural tourism planning and operation team. Team members deeply explored local elements such as the thousand-year-old camphor trees and the sailing shadows on the Oujiang River, planned and launched 25 cultural and creative products including silk scarves and mystery blind boxes of local specialties, and held activities such as the Great Camphor Tree Market and oil painting experiences. During this year's May Day holiday, the area attracted 149,500 tourists, a year-on-year increase of 13.52%.
To address the problems of scattered grassroots cadre strength and single specialization, Lishui breaks down administrative barriers and departmental fragmentation, builds practical platforms according to industrial needs and people's aspirations, and forms multiple characteristic teams for industrial development planning, rural cultural tourism operations, and other areas.
Relying on skill teams, Party members and cadres go down to the front line and set up "team studios" at industrial bases, common prosperity workshops, key projects, and central villages and communities, achieving "one team follows through to the end" for industrial projects and people's needs.
Suichang uses the industrial chain as a link, breaks conventional division of labor, coordinates the establishment of county-level common prosperity skill teams, and links up multiple township-level skill service teams for planting and cultivation, processing and production, and e-commerce marketing to carry out practical operations, providing precise services for each link of the industrial chain. Driven by the skill teams, in the first half of this year, the county's online sales of long zongzi exceeded 40 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.2%, and the annual output value of the entire industrial chain is expected to exceed 300 million yuan, driving more than 4,000 farming households to increase their income by 80 million yuan.
"In the past, we temporarily 'formed a team' to sell goods before festivals. Now, we advance with systematic planning, brand operation, and diversified channels simultaneously," said Zhou Xin, Deputy Head of the Organization Department of the Suichang County Party Committee. When cadres have real skills and services have real leverage, even a long zongzi can leverage a common prosperity industry.
At the stone frog breeding base in Jinzhu Town, Suichang County, skill team member Zhu Xihong skillfully picked up a stone frog and introduced: "By looking at the color and luster of the skin, you can judge its health condition."
Jinzhu Town guides farmers to achieve standardized ecological breeding through technical guidance for rural specialty industries, allowing technology to be transmitted along the chain, benefits to accumulate along the chain, and the masses to increase income along the chain. In particular, it innovatively launched the "one mu of land, ten thousand yuan of money" common prosperity plan, established a benefit linkage mechanism of "guaranteed bottom-line income + dividends according to shares," and promoted more of the value-added benefits of industrial development to stay in rural areas and benefit farming households.
In the past, the processing of Jinyun hemp ducks was limited to slaughtering, cleaning, and freezing, with duck feathers treated as waste. Xinjian Town in Jinyun formed a "Duck Buddy" team and established a special research and development team with universities, successively developing more than 60 products including cooked duck meat products and feather products. Now, the annual output value of the entire Jinyun hemp duck industrial chain exceeds 3 billion yuan, driving more than 25,000 farmers to increase their per capita annual income by more than 20,000 yuan.
From fighting alone to tackling problems as a group, from scattered efforts to full-chain empowerment, skill service teams enable seamless connection between cadre strength, industrial resources, and people's needs. At present, Lishui has formed 354 skill service teams of various types, spread across 173 townships (subdistricts), cumulatively tackling 651 projects and solving more than 20,000 urgent and difficult problems of the masses.
How to evaluate
Establish a orientation that those who have achievements have positions
"In the past, cadres stayed in the countryside for a short time; now cadres stay to help us work" "Following cadres to learn skills and find sales channels, life is increasingly promising"... Cadres engage in practical training in the fields, workshops, and factories, not only transforming from "approval clerks" and "affairs handlers" into professional service providers, but also winning good reputation among the masses with real skills.
From performing duties to increasing skills, the value of capability is tested by actual results. Lishui has established a dual-track evaluation system of "basic effectiveness + value-added achievements," looking not only at the "basic score" of cadres doing their own jobs well, but also at the "contribution value" of using value-added skills to serve development and serve the masses.
Jin Zhihong, Deputy Head of the Organization Department of the Lishui Municipal Party Committee, said that the city has implemented the "one post, dual capabilities, dual evaluation" mechanism, which has stimulated the internal drive of cadres to "want to learn, want to do," and achieved a transformation from "task executors" to "value creators."
"We go to the front line and to the grassroots to closely observe cadres' actual performance in serving industry and driving common prosperity, making 'what was done and what was accomplished' the yardstick for measuring capability," Jin Zhihong introduced. At present, Lishui has promoted or further appointed 173 skill-based cadres with outstanding achievements and recognition from the masses, truly making those who endure hardship popular and those who have achievements have positions.
Lishui implements a "one person, one file" dynamic profile for every township skill cadre, incorporating skill learning, team collaboration, and project practical results into cadres' growth files.
"The learning process, growth trajectory, and evaluation standards of cadres are all evidence-based," said Pan Jun, Party Secretary of Hushan Township, Suichang County. Since last year, four skill team members in the township have been promoted to section-level positions due to outstanding achievements, achieving a virtuous cycle of "cultivation—evaluation—appointment."
Chen Junliang came to Qingyuan County to engage in edible fungus research work after graduating from university. As deputy head of the Qingyuan County edible fungus industrial chain common prosperity skill team, what he has to do is not only to issue "ID cards" for high-quality strains, but also to open up the entire chain from primary industry to tertiary industry.
Collecting more than 2,100 germplasm resources, breeding 2 new varieties, and tackling 4 technical difficulties... In Chen Junliang's file, the "achievements" are clear at a glance. This year, Qingyuan County has included him in the reserve pool of outstanding skill-based cadres.
In December last year, the Lishui Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government issued implementation opinions to deepen the promotion of skill-based cadre cultivation, skill-based government construction, and skill-based society building in the new era, fully stimulating the vitality of economic and social development.
Up to now, Lishui has promoted 1,011 common prosperity workshops to connect with skill schools, helping more than 82,000 people in mountainous areas to increase skills and income at their doorstep. In 2025, the per capita disposable income of Lishui residents increased by 5.9% year-on-year, ranking among the forefront of Zhejiang Province.
Wu Huading, Member of the Standing Committee and Head of the Organization Department of the Lishui Municipal Party Committee, said that Lishui will continuously improve the full-chain mechanism of cadre skills "learning, practicing, evaluating, and using," injecting stronger momentum into the revitalization and development of the old revolutionary base areas and common prosperity.
By: 张 洋
Emphasizing the building of the Party through thought and the strengthening of the Party through theory is a distinctive feature and glorious tradition of our Party. Ideological construction is the foundational construction of the Party. As one of the connotations of the "Fourteen Persistences" in Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, "persisting in using the Party's innovative theory to condense hearts and cast souls" is the fundamental task of the Party's ideological construction and an important path for building a Marxist learning-oriented political party. Deepening theoretical arming and promoting the condensing of hearts and casting of souls — its foundation lies in continuous learning, using learning to cast the soul, using learning to increase wisdom, using learning to rectify conduct, and using learning to promote action.
Learning bears on the overall strategic situation.
At the "first lesson of the new year," General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "To successfully complete the goals and tasks of the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we must focus on improving the Party's ability and level in leading economic and social development." Where does ability come from?
"Scholars need not necessarily become officials, but officials must certainly study." The situation is changing, the tasks are changing, the problems are changing. To accurately identify changes, scientifically respond to changes, and actively seek changes ultimately depends on learning. History and practice show that when Party members and cadres do not attach importance to learning, they often fail to understand the ropes and fail to follow the right path, giving rise to the "capability panic" of not knowing how to use new methods and old methods no longer working.
Possessing the guidance of Marxist scientific theory is the fundamental basis for our Party to firmly believe in its faith and grasp historical initiative. Reviewing the Party's history, at every major turning point, in the face of new situations and new tasks, our Party has always called on the whole Party to strengthen learning; and each such wave of learning has been able to promote great development and great progress in the cause of the Party and the people.
"There is no end to the development of the cause, and there is no end to learning." Persisting in using the latest achievements of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism to arm the whole Party, guide practice, and promote work is the key to our Party's continuously delivering excellent answers in the great tests of the times.
Learning bears on the pursuit of faith.
"The issue of political achievement views is a fundamental issue, bearing on establishing the Party for the public and exercising power for the people." At present, the study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements is being carried out in depth throughout the whole Party. The broad masses of Party members and cadres are advancing study, examination, and rectification as an integrated whole, calibrating the ideological coordinates of undertaking endeavors and starting businesses.
Learning has never been merely the increase of knowledge; it is even more the tempering of faith. For individuals, the firmness of ideals and beliefs comes from the firmness of ideological theory. Therefore, learning should be treated as a political responsibility and a realm of life — "keep learning until old age, keep cultivating until old age."
For our Party, the world's largest Marxist governing party, "only when theory is strong can direction be clear, hearts be united, and confidence be sufficient." Since the new era, our Party has carried out successive intra-Party centralized education campaigns. Each time, ideological education has led the way, promoting the broad masses of Party members and cadres to always be firm believers and faithful practitioners of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, promoting the whole Party to work together with one heart and one mind, and to move forward firmly step by step.
The deeper the learning, the firmer the belief, the more resolute the action. Only in this way can our Party forever maintain its original aspiration and mission, forever maintain its advanced nature and purity, and always become the most reliable leading force for national rejuvenation.
The key to learning lies in application.
Practicality is a distinctive feature of Marxism, and the purpose of learning the Party's innovative theory lies entirely in application. General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: "Arming the mind, guiding practice, and promoting work — the ultimate foothold lies in guiding practice and promoting work; understanding thoroughly and doing solidly — the ultimate foothold lies in doing solidly."
Take "developing new quality productive forces according to local conditions" as an example. This contains both epistemology and methodology. It emphasizes objective regularity while also putting forward higher requirements for subjective initiative. Some localities lay out emerging industries and future industries, which is developing new quality productive forces; some localities use new technologies to transform and upgrade traditional industries, which can also develop new quality productive forces. The key lies in basing oneself on local realities and "using one key to open one lock," preventing a blind rush and duplicate construction.
"The effectiveness of theory's role depends on the depth of theory's practice." This enlightens us that we should carry forward the fine style of study of integrating theory with practice, get our thinking methods right, both "enter into it" to profoundly comprehend the essence and "step out of it" to creatively implement, achieving the integration of learning, thinking, and application and the unity of knowledge, faith, and action, truly turning the ideological weapon into a powerful force for transforming the subjective world and the objective world.
Our Party has come this far by relying on learning, and it will inevitably rely on learning to move toward the future. Persist in learning, learning, and learning again; persist in practicing, practicing, and practicing again. The light of thought always shines, and the path of Chinese-style modernization will surely become broader and broader.
Return to Top“At the time, I thought everyone was throwing themselves into the project and working around the clock, which was too hard, so issuing a bit of subsidy was also within reason, and it was decided through collective meeting discussion — I never expected to cross the disciplinary red line.” Speaking of the issue of improperly issuing work-loss subsidies and fuel subsidies, Song (宋某), Party branch secretary and village committee director of a certain village in Banqiao Township (板桥镇), Luliang County (陆良县), Qujing City (曲靖市), Yunnan Province, was full of remorse.
In April 2025, the County Party Committee’s Third Inspection Team (县委第三巡察组) conducted routine inspection of the village and, while reviewing the village committee’s financial vouchers, discovered an anomaly: on a list for the issuance of work-loss subsidies and fuel subsidies, the names of multiple village cadres conspicuously appeared.
The inspection team then verified the relevant situation through methods such as field visits and verification of personnel identities, and after confirming that the problem leads were factual, transferred the matter to the County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision (县纪委监委) for handling according to procedure. Investigation found that during the implementation of a certain project in the village, Song, citing the large project workload, long duty hours, and the hard work of cadres, organized village group cadres, villager representatives, and party member representatives to hold a meeting, decided to use village collective funds to issue work-loss subsidies and fuel subsidies, and also improperly issued relevant subsidies to personnel who had already received basic remuneration for village cadres. As the principal person in charge of the village committee, Song bears primary leadership responsibility and direct responsibility for this.
After the inspection team discovered this problem, it urged the relevant personnel to return the full amount of the improperly received subsidy funds to the village collective account. In September 2025, Song, for violating the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulations (中央八项规定) and improperly deciding to issue work-loss subsidies and fuel subsidies, received a Party disciplinary warning.
[The Discipline Enforcers’ Commentary] This case exposes problems such as weak awareness of discipline and law among a small number of grassroots cadres, irregular management of village-level “three assets” (三资), and absence of supervision over the operation of “micro-power” (小微权力). The use of village collective funds has clear institutional red lines, and no reason that appears “reasonable” can become an excuse for violating discipline and rules.
(Interviewed and compiled by Zhang Chi (张驰), reporter of this newspaper.)
Return to TopBy: 何昭宇 刘子祺
In the Optoelectronics Park Industrial Community of Weifang High-tech Zone (潍坊高新区) in Shandong, the reporter met Kang Meili (康美丽), deputy general manager of Shandong Huanke Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. (山东环科环保科技有限公司). She spoke about her considerations in choosing to develop in Weifang High-tech Zone in 2017.
At a business tea gathering organized by the park, Kang Meili learned that a company in the park produced a membrane that could recover waste acid and reduce waste salt generation, and that this company also needed environmental protection equipment to treat high-salinity wastewater. "Isn't this company exactly the one we were looking for?" Kang Meili said. "Our approach to treating acid-containing waste liquid mainly uses alkali neutralization, but the solid waste salt generated from treatment is costly." The two companies 一拍即合 (yī pāi jí hé - "one clap and it comes together," to hit it off immediately), joining forces to achieve closed-loop utilization of wastewater resources, and Kang Meili also made up her mind to develop in the High-tech Zone.
"Upstairs and downstairs in the park means upstream and downstream in the industry. Smooth communication between companies also makes business expansion convenient." Kang Meili's words expressed the sentiments of many talented people.
"Attracting talent with industry, promoting industry with talent, and integrating industry and talent (以产引才、以才促产、产才融合) is our secret to enhancing talent appeal," introduced Lin Weiwei (林伟伟), deputy director of the Party-Masses Work Department (党群工作部) of Weifang High-tech Zone. The locality, relying on the park, has formed two industrial communities, divided into eight industrial grids (service stations), with party member backbone personnel serving as service specialists, continuously amplifying the industrial agglomeration effect, creating a high-quality industrial ecology suitable for living and working, and building a place of aspiration for all kinds of talent to innovate and start businesses.
Among all kinds of talent, there are both those introduced from outside like Kang Meili and many who are 土生土长 (tǔ shēng tǔ zhǎng - "born and raised on native soil," locally born and bred). Wang Qian (王茜) is a graduate student in the first batch of the Engineering Master's and Doctoral Training Reform Special Program (Pilot). From enrollment, she was jointly guided by school and enterprise mentors from Shandong University's School of Mechanical Engineering and Goertek Inc. (歌尔股份有限公司), not only completing professional coursework but also entering Goertek for two years of professional practice.
"Bonding process method and high-precision bonding device for aspherical resin optical lenses of VR (virtual reality) glasses"—this was Wang Qian's important research achievement during her graduate studies, and this topic directly originated from enterprise needs.
During her studies, Wang Qian focused on the technical bottlenecks encountered by Goertek in ultra-precision assembly and packaging of high-end optoelectronic devices, combined with Shandong Province's major scientific and technological innovation engineering projects, and went to the enterprise workshop to tackle key problems. "This achievement effectively improved bonding precision and saved production costs," Wang Qian introduced. Some of the technology has been integrated into the design plan of Goertek's optical lens bonding workstation and will be applied to mass production of high-end VR products.
Wang Qian's growth path is a vivid microcosm of Weifang High-tech Zone's promotion of the integration of science and education and the integration of industry and education. More than 300 such engineering doctors and masters have been cultivated cumulatively. Weifang High-tech Zone has organized enterprises to jointly build education consortia with Tsinghua University, Stanford University in the United States, and others, and to co-build modern industry colleges with 15 universities including Shandong University of Technology, offering "Craftsman Class" and "Outstanding Engineer Class" programs, with "order-based" cultivation of industrial talent reaching 1.3 million person-times.
Whether it is external talent or local talent, "staying" is the key.
"This city has let me settle down and start a family!" Wang Feng (王锋), a teacher at Jiangsu University, has long been engaged in research on microecological bacterial agents and environmental pollution remediation, holding 12 authorized invention patents. Some time ago, through industry-university-research cooperation, he and his wife came to Weifang to develop. "The industrial community service specialist provided full-process guidance and helped us complete household registration transfer, preferential policy applications, and other matters in one go," Wang Feng said.
In Weifang High-tech Zone, "worry-free residence, worry-free study, worry-free medical care, worry-free entrepreneurship" (居无忧、学无忧、医无忧、创无忧) is increasingly becoming a golden business card for attracting talent. The locality has built high-quality talent communities, with supporting facilities such as talent apartments and fitness centers, and established venture capital funds and talent science and technology innovation funds to provide all-round support for talent.
Industrial synergy between upstairs and downstairs, joint talent cultivation by schools and enterprises, 无微不至 (wú wēi bù zhì - "no detail not attended to," meticulous and considerate in every way) talent services... Weifang High-tech Zone uses a "talent-nurturing" ecosystem to attract the living water of talent, allowing more talent to settle down and take root here.
Return to TopBy: 梅雪风
《欢迎来龙餐馆》向我们展示了一部按照经典电影模式拍摄出来的作品的能量，一部主流类型电影所应该具有的品质
This is a film that deserves to be taken seriously. It extends its field of vision beyond China, reflecting the creative team's ambition to broaden the boundaries of their craft, yet internally it maintains director Wen Muye's consistent solidity and consistent concern for ordinary people.
To a certain degree, Wen Muye is the "sociologist" among China's new generation of directors. In his representative work I Am Not the God of Medicine, built around the story of a cancer wonder drug, the conflict between emotion and law, the tension between corporate interests and patients' right to life, and the divergent choices of different individuals are all entangled together. Its complexity and scale, and the film's composure and aptness in expressing that complexity, are deeply impressive.
In Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant, he presents a world of greater scale and greater intensity. In the Middle East setting of the film, terrorists, U.S. troops, civilians, and the government exist in a complex web of antagonism and symbiosis. Individuals shift among various identities for reasons both contingent and inevitable. Fear and hatred are like twin siblings, intertwined with each other, trapped in a vicious cycle.
This observation of the world is also injected by the director, in a low-key yet forceful manner, into the film's form. The entire story unfolds in just three settings—the Dragon Restaurant, the U.S. military prison, and the terrorist prison—like three silent and massive pedestals. The longing for a peaceful life and the suppression of that longing are made self-evident through this juxtaposition. The cooking scenes that recur at key plot points reflect the creative team's respect for the complex truth of the world: the mundane warmth of human life and the small kindnesses within that warmth still possess the energy to loosen this world by a crack.
Although Wen Muye displays formidable powers of social analysis, his true interest does not lie there. His aim is to give his characters a real and complex space, to see how they struggle to survive and what colors of humanity they burst forth with. Like the characters played by Shen Teng and Jiang Qiming, both are adept at navigating complex environments with ease, their flexibility seemingly without limit. But in the end, beneath their highly elastic moral surfaces lie hard bones that even they themselves do not recognize. And Zaid, the former government official in the film, becomes a terrorist who kills without blinking after the tragedy of his family members' deaths. Yet his final show of mercy toward Xu Fu indicates that deep within his petrified heart, there remains a residual warmth of humanity that perhaps even he himself would not acknowledge.
Here we can see a precious quality that distinguishes Wen Muye from other creators: patience. He possesses the self-awareness to make everything he depicts concrete. This may not sound like a particularly high compliment, yet it is the most important reason his films stand out. If he wants to tell a social story, he has the rigor to sort out the structural texture of that event. If he wants to depict an environment, he knows it is not merely background but an invisible protagonist bound up with the characters, and so the effort invested in shaping the atmosphere of the era must be no less than that invested in the characters themselves. If he wants to portray the complexity of human nature, he also understands that this complexity is not a rigid splicing together of opposing concepts, but a genuine engagement with the nameless territory between those concepts, refusing to let it become thin and distorted through excessive clarity.
The entire film bears a certain degree of conceptualization and deliberate artifice, yet under the polish of detailed realism and the director's consummate technique, it also possesses a natural charm. This is also the vital vulnerability of many Chinese films. Naturalness in cinema is never a matter of letting things run wild; it is a highly intricate and subtle design. If a film is not natural enough, the problem is never over-design, but insufficient design and insufficient care in the design process.
Of course, this film falls short of I Am Not the God of Medicine. The reason for the gap still lies in the degree of patience. For example, the speed with which Xu Fu meets the children and forms a connection with them is too fast, and the subsequent layering of emotional change feels monotonous. The inner journey of whether Xu Fu will take the children and flee, apart from Ma Junsheng's death as a catalyst, has no more subtle nuances and no other progressive gradations. It is likewise a struggle between heaven and man, yet compared with the scorching torment between the desire for self-preservation and conscience in I Am Not the God of Medicine, the two are not on the same level.
This excessive haste and excessive economy of expression, to some degree, reflects the current creative ecology. The skit-ification of short videos and short dramas feeds off each other with audience demand for pacing and plot density, and their immense popularity has also eroded creators' faith in the fine qualities handed down by classic cinema. But let us not forget that a film is a long-form medium of dozens or a hundred-plus minutes; audiences' demands on its imagery, content, and pacing are entirely different from those for short videos. The more such times demand it, the more creators need stillness. The infinite pandering to audiences' surface tastes is in fact a betrayal of the true tastes that audiences cannot articulate. The occasional blockbusters in the film world, such as Love Letter to Grandma, serve as a wake-up call to that creative attitude of following trends step by step.
Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant can be said to be the most "substantial both inside and out" Chinese film of recent times. It is an encouragement to ambitious creators, and it shows us the energy of a work shot according to the classic cinematic model, the qualities that a mainstream genre film ought to possess. A good film is always a systematic project in which structure, plot, detail, and resonance are all indispensable. Structure is not a simple listing of plot points, but a powerful expression by the author without uttering a word—a conclusion that is not rash, or the most honest of inquiries. Plot is not endless twists and clever tricks of petty ingenuity, but the externalization of characters' inner worlds, a spiritual exploration framed and guided by the film's structure. Detail is not merely a means of making characters vivid and real; it is also a respect for the complexity of life. And resonance is never merely a surface-level aesthetic matter; it is also the creator's active leaving of blank space within the meaningful domain constructed by structure, plot, and detail—the breathing of a work, a silent invitation for the audience to participate beyond rationality.
All of this requires not the artist's spontaneous flourish of inspiration, but a craftsman's single-minded, meticulous refinement—the transformation of all grand words into the plainness and clumsiness of craft. We do not lack innovation; what we lack is the genuine expression behind innovation, and a profound belief in that expression. Nor do we lack the technique of storytelling; what we lack is the patience to truly use technique to weave the human heart and the world, and that craftsman's spirit. Even more lacking is the calm equanimity that does not regard such patience as bitter toil, does not regard it as sitting on a cold bench, but regards it simply as one's proper due.
Return to TopBy: 许 婷
Some time ago, because of my work, I often sent documents to the Chinese Writers' Association. Every time, the same courier came to pick them up. After we had met a few times, he suddenly spoke up, a little shyly: "Are you a writer?" I said no. He smiled, with a hint of pride: "I am!"
Because I am engaged in research on online literature, I almost instinctively followed up: "Do you write web fiction?" He said no, he wrote travel essays. When delivering packages, he would notice interesting places in the city; when traveling, he also wanted to record what he saw and heard along the way, so he gradually began writing travel essays.
I have since thought repeatedly about the tone in which he said "I am," which contained a self-sufficiency that needed no confirmation from others. He did not show his works, nor did he list his publication history. For him, "writer" did not seem to be a title awaiting external conferral, but an identity confirmed through sustained writing.
This made me begin to think: from what point does a person become a writer, and at what point does one begin to call oneself a "writer"? Is it from the moment one picks up a pen and uses words to organize life, or only after one's works are published and win awards?
Literature often occurs before literature becomes visible.
When people today speak of mass writing, what first comes to mind are often those dazzling moments: a poem spreading on social media, an ordinary worker attracting attention, a work entering the horizons of publication and awards. These moments turn "I am writing" into "someone is reading," and also bring experiences buried deep in daily life into public expression. However, before becoming news, trending topics, or publications, writing may have already existed quietly for a long time in a notebook or a phone.
The internet has significantly increased the visibility of writing: platforms lower the threshold for expression, serialization allows stories to unfold continuously, and comments, reposts, and reader feedback give originally isolated writing a response. But this also brings another misunderstanding: as if only writing that gains clicks, enters rankings, or generates discussion truly counts as existing. In fact, beyond trending topics and awards, there is a vast amount of writing that is unrecorded, unreported, and never even published. Some people record what they see and hear in the gaps between work; some send their works only to a few friends; others write for years, revising repeatedly, yet are in no hurry to find readers. Their artistic levels and social influence vary greatly, but together they show that writing is not entirely activated by external opportunity. "Being seen" changes the fate of writing, but it is not where writing begins. For many people, writing is first of all a way of preserving experience and understanding life, and moreover a process of exploring the eternal question of "who I am."
From this perspective, what is "new" about the new mass literature and art lies not only in more ordinary people stepping into the spotlight, but also in the front end of literature being seen anew: outside professional identity, before formal publication, in the daily life that has not yet been named, creation has already begun. By the time the lights shine on them, they have long since taken root in life.
Why a person writes, and on what basis a work stands, are two questions that must not be confused. The former can originate from the need to record experience, understand life, and confirm the self; the latter must withstand the test of reading, criticism, and time. Acknowledging that writing occurs widely in the daily life of the masses does not mean abolishing artistic standards; precisely because there are more people writing and more diverse voices, professional criticism should all the more go to the scene of creation, discerning within it truly powerful new experiences, new language, and new forms. An open literary ecology must both allow more people to express themselves and allow works to receive patient reading and honest judgment; it must neither rashly bestow the name of "literature" on all writing, nor let genuinely valuable expression drown in rapid likes and forgetting. Only in this way can mass writing avoid stopping at a passing craze and instead become a lasting part of literary life.
That courier did not tell me his name, and I have not read his travel essays. When we parted, he packed up the documents, rode his bike into the flow of traffic, but that proud "I am" stayed with me. I do not know how well his travel essays are written; that must be left to readers to judge. But whether he is a writer or not seems not to require my confirmation. Among the crowds we brush past every day, there may be many others who, busy making a living by day, write down their own stories at night or in some brief interval. Literature is often like this: it first occurs in life unnoticed by anyone, and only then waits to be read, judged, and also to be seen.
By: 覃皓珺
Recently, news that a certain provincial satellite TV station had broadcast the AI (artificial intelligence) drama series The Tale of Peach Blossom Pool (桃花潭记) made it to the trending searches. The series had previously been released on online platforms, and the combination of intangible cultural heritage subject matter with full-process AI creation carried its own novelty, earning considerable praise. After it aired on television screens, some viewers felt it was "full of freshness," while others bluntly said "there are many visual flaws," sparking heated discussion.
In fact, The Tale of Peach Blossom Pool is not the first AI drama series to meet audiences on traditional satellite TV; several satellite TV stations had previously tested the waters by broadcasting AI micro-dramas, with passable market feedback. When faced with new technologies and new content models, the public generally adopts a tolerant attitude at first, but as more and more AI content enters television screens, expectations continue to rise. Moving from the small screen of a mobile phone to the big screen of a television changes not only the screen size but also the quality threshold. Audiences expect "AI + satellite TV" to deliver a "substantial dish" of brand-new audiovisual experience, not an undercooked "tasting sample."
Taking The Tale of Peach Blossom Pool as an example, compared with traditional live-action filmed dramas, AI dramatically compresses production costs while shaping ancient-style atmospheres and martial arts scenes with great visual impact. But at the current stage, AI production technology cannot yet fully adapt to the ultra-high-definition broadcast standards of television screens: mobile phone screens are limited in size and viewing distance is close, so audiences focus more on plot and character emotions; therefore, AI drama series adapted for mobile phones mostly emphasize single-person close-ups, lack rich ensemble shots, and have weaker visual detail expressiveness. By contrast, on television, ultra-high-definition screens magnify all details many times over and also impose higher demands on the complexity of characters and scenes. In the comment section of the series, some viewers captured characters' faces "changing" when scenes shifted, and supporting characters "sharing faces" as if copy-pasted. These jarring incongruities are problems that AI content must solve in moving from the small screen to the big screen.
At present, satellite TV stations across the country generally face difficulties such as high procurement costs for head live-action dramas and audience attrition. Relying only on reruns of classic dramas and second-run broadcasts of previously aired series makes it hard to meet audiences' diversified needs. Embracing AI drama series can both achieve cost reduction and efficiency gains, expand platforms' content reserves, and, through new forms and new content, narrow the distance with younger audiences — this is the important practical motivation for traditional satellite TV stations to proactively introduce and self-produce AI drama series. But at the same time, one must also be vigilant against quality failure under the "low price, high volume" positioning of AI drama series; low-quality content occupying broadcast resources and squeezing the living space of quality works could cause bad money to drive out good, harming the industry ecosystem.
Furthermore, as AI creation moves from tool empowerment to deep process integration, AI's role in drama production has also extended from purely visual generation to full-chain links including script breakdown, virtual set construction, professional visualization presentation, and post-production efficiency enhancement. For traditional satellite TV stations, they should also use the production and introduction of AI drama series to upgrade creative tools and achieve renewal and iteration of production methods. At present, multiple provincial satellite TV stations have already applied AI technology extensively in self-produced short dramas, documentaries, and other projects.
AI drama series landing on television screens can be regarded as a comprehensive stress test for AI film and television producers. What determines audience evaluation has never been "AI production" versus "live-action filming," but rather the creativity and degree of completion of the work in narrative architecture, aesthetic presentation, and emotional transmission. Many AI works now devote their energy to "how to look more like real people" while neglecting "why tell this story." In the final analysis, AI generating smooth images and vivid characters is only the baseline; what audiences want has never been technical virtuosity that passes off the fake as real, but emotional resonance that strikes the heart. No matter how film and television production technology iterates and develops, adhering to the laws of artistic creation, settling down to carefully polish one's work — this remains the industry's unchanging principle.
Return to TopBy: 李春沐
Since its founding in 1956, the Nanjing Yue Opera Troupe has created many outstanding works, including Liu Yi Delivers a Letter, Southern Crown Grass, Lady Mochou, Song of the Newsboys, Dream of the Qinhuai, and Phoenix Terrace. On the occasion of the troupe's 70th anniversary, the newly created work Tiger Crouching, Dragon Coiling not only carries forward the troupe's excellent artistic tradition, but also achieves new breakthroughs in content and form, showcasing the youthful brilliance of Jiangsu Yue Opera artists.
Zhuge Liang is one of the historical figures who appears most frequently on the Chinese opera stage, but he is mostly portrayed in the laosheng (old male) role, displaying composure and wisdom. The Yue Opera Tiger Crouching, Dragon Coiling instead focuses its gaze on the 28-year-old young Zhuge Liang, played in the xiaosheng (young male) role. At this time, Zhuge Liang has not yet become the prime minister who 鞠躬尽瘁 (jū gōng jìn cuì - "bend his back, exhaust his strength," to give one's all until death), but rather a young strategist who has begun to 崭露头角 (zhǎn lù tóu jiǎo - "thrust out head and horns," to show one's talent and distinguish oneself) after the Battle of Red Cliffs. This age setting allows the audience to see a 意气风发 (yì qì fēng fā - "high spirits, wind-like vigor," full of energy and ambition) young man venturing alone into Jiangdong. The performer Li Xiaoxu, using her foundation in the Bi school of Yue Opera and the performance techniques of Kunqu art, creates a Zhuge Liang image of "the white feather fan lightly sways in hand, to settle the tripartite division of the realm," achieving a two-way fusion between the person and the play, the actor and the character.
The five scenes in the play — "Arranging Cups," "Serving Soup," "Sharing the Zither," "Guarding the Heart," and "Reining the Horse" — perform the story of Zhuge Liang going to Moling to discuss borrowing Jingzhou and allying with Sun Quan against Cao Cao, highlighting his far-sighted strategy of "dividing the realm into three, to bring peace to the people, to await unification." In Jiangdong, Zhuge Liang maneuvers with 纵横捭阖 (zòng héng bǎi hé - "vertical and horizontal, open and close," diplomatic maneuvering), surrounded by equally young heroes: Sun Quan, 27; Lu Xun, 26; Zhou Yu, 34... This is the creative team's rediscovery of the Three Kingdoms story, and also an innovative interpretation of Yue Opera art. For Yue Opera, which is known for 才子佳人 (cái zǐ jiā rén - "talented scholars and beautiful ladies," the scholar-beauty romance genre) themes, writing 缠绵悱恻 (chán mián fěi cè - "deeply sentimental and sorrowful," moving and poignant) stories is an advantage, but transcending this thematic positioning to focus on heroes and the nation will inevitably bring new changes in appearance and temperament. The portrayal of Three Kingdoms figures extends Yue Opera's expressive space, and the male ensemble also adds new images to the role categories and schools, giving Yue Opera a unique masculine quality.
Technology was originally an auxiliary to stage design, but it is now changing the aesthetic paradigm of the opera stage. The central stage image of Tiger Crouching, Dragon Coiling is a bamboo slip, using projection to create a backdrop that ranges from nature to the cosmos, from physical objects to ethereal realms. Multimedia imagery and physical stage design are deeply integrated; the scenery shifts with the characters, and the environment shifts with the emotions. When presenting the bustling market life of Moling, the actors walk among the audience to share Nanjing's delicious snacks, and the audience feels as if they have stepped into the Qinhuai market more than 1,800 years ago, forming a more genuine connection with the characters and stories on stage.
"In the breast surges the hero's ambition; in dreams lingers the feeling of clouds and waters." On the one hand, Tiger Crouching, Dragon Coiling unfolds the Three Kingdoms era's atmosphere of contending heroes, displaying the heroic sharpness of Zhuge Liang and other figures; on the other hand, it renders the city's prosperity and society's tranquility, displaying the resilience of secular life. The play's "dividing the realm into three" is more precisely "pacifying the realm in three parts" — this is also what the heroes' contest ultimately concerns. Such a Zhuge Liang, such a Three Kingdoms — this is the "hero's ambition" presented by the creative team of the Nanjing Yue Opera Troupe.
Return to TopIn the public eye, China's aerospace achievements have drawn worldwide attention, owing much to the gray-templed strivers. In fact, scientists and engineers born in the 1990s and even the 2000s have already grown into the backbone of the field. The drama series Starry Journey focuses on a group of young people in the aerospace flight-control sector with an average age of under 35, portraying their transformation from green dream-chasers to bearers of the heavy responsibility of the lunar mission.
What moves audiences is not only the tense, orderly orbit calculations and command dispatches in the hall, but also the texture of life in these young people. Chu Jiajia is torn between ideals and a stable life; Xu Xu uses harsh self-discipline to overcome the knot left by a past mistake. The series does not shy away from setbacks; on the contrary, it uses these stumbling blocks to bring viewers closer to the aerospace workers. Their confusion, struggles, and midnight self-doubt, their falls and their getting back up again, make their perseverance more concrete and more weighty.
The year 2026 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of China's aerospace industry. At this juncture linking past and future, Starry Journey tells us — the sea of stars is never far away; it is right there where you can see it when you look up, waiting for everyone who holds it dear in their hearts.
(Shenyang, Liaoning Province Ye Zi)
Return to TopThe cultural variety show "Ritual and Music of the East" (礼乐东方) uses short films, staged performances, expert interpretations and other rich forms to carefully unpack, one by one, the major and minor ceremonies that ordinary people experience from infancy to old age. The program always takes "people" as its origin point, deeply examining the relationship between ritual and life. Along the axis of life, the program presents in turn the birth ceremony of hanging a bow and setting out a cloth, the initiation ceremony of beating drums to declare aspirations, and the Qionglin Banquet that esteems virtue and values worthies — each ritual custom carries the ancients' sincere and abundant emotions, allowing viewers to transcend time and space and feel the warmth of traditional ritual and music.
An excellent cultural variety show should not stop at the concrete reproduction of tradition; it should also 寓教于乐 (yù jiào yú lè - "to teach through entertainment"), letting the weighty cultural lineage step out of ancient texts and classics and reach directly into people's hearts. "Ritual and Music of the East" is precisely by picking up scattered ritual daily life, tracing the background color of ritual and music civilization in fine details, leading viewers to understand the profound meaning that "ritual is not far from people." From ancient times to the present, ritual has always vividly participated in every Chinese person's important life moments, responding to such simple propositions as how people get along and how to live. The beautiful and solemn thoughts deep in viewers' hearts are both the source of ritual and the reason for resonance.
(Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou City — Xu Dian)
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