Summary: The General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council jointly issued the revised "Measures for Accountability for Ecological and Environmental Damage by Party and Government Leading Cadres," following approval by the Politburo Standing Committee. The measures, effective immediately, target leading cadres at county level and above, emphasizing principles of "party-government shared responsibility" and "lifelong accountability." They enumerate specific grounds for holding top party and government leaders accountable, such as poor implementation of green transition policies, decisions breaching ecological red lines, and inadequate response to severe pollution incidents. The document also specifies accountability for other leaders and department heads, including failures in supervision, illegal project approvals, and obstruction of inspections, with procedures for investigation, transfer to disciplinary bodies, and public disclosure. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued important instructions on the study and education campaign for establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, affirming its results and demanding long-term mechanisms. Party officials quoted in the article expressed commitment to implementing Xi's directives, with provincial and local officials such as Bai Jing, Wang Yongming, Wang Bo, Qu Maoxian, Li Xin, Yu Ming, Su Huaye, Yu Xinjie, Shu Zufei, and Guo Yuhai emphasizing service to the people, rectifying deviations, and institutionalizing reforms. The article notes the campaign coincides with the 105th anniversary of the CPC and the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan, aiming to guide cadres in creating tangible results for the people. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: President Xi Jinping emphasized that a correct view of political achievements is fundamental to serving the people, urging officials to prioritize scientific decision-making, practical work, and long-term benefits over short-term or self-serving projects. He stressed this during a January seminar for provincial and ministerial leaders, and again during a pre-Spring Festival inspection in Beijing, as the country begins its 15th Five-Year Plan and local leadership transitions approach. The article details a nationwide education campaign, launched via a Central Committee Office notice in February, to rectify deviations in performance views, with party organizations at all levels studying Xi's guidance, addressing problems, and strengthening institutional rules. It reports on concrete outcomes, including improved public services, industrial development in places like Xiong'an and Mianyang, disaster prevention, and anti-corruption mechanisms, all tied to Xi's call to put people's welfare first. Finally, Xi urged continuous efforts to consolidate these achievements through durable systems and supervision of top officials, ensuring all work meets the test of practice, the people, and history.
Summary: This article reports on Xi Jinping's directives positioning new energy vehicles (NEVs) as the "only way" for China to transition from a large automobile country to a powerful one, first stated during his 2014 inspection of SAIC Motor and reiterated at FAW in 2020, emphasizing self-reliance in core technologies. It highlights China's NEV dominance, with sales rising from 17,600 units in 2013 to 16.49 million in 2025, and production/sales ranking first globally for 11 consecutive years since 2015. The piece details China's strategic "lane-changing overtaking" through the world's first top-level definition of "intelligent connected vehicles," integrating electrification, intelligence, and connectivity to break from traditional multinational rules. It quotes domestic executives from Changan, Xiaomi, XPeng, and CATL redefining the "new car" as a smart terminal, mobile living space, and super-fusion of technologies, while citing Huawei's empowerment of smart driving capabilities. The article concludes with foreign reactions, such as former EU Chamber of Commerce in China President Jörg Wuttke noting that German auto executives were shocked by China's "digital wonderland" auto show, realizing cars are no longer just mechanical chassis plus engines.
Summary: The 24th session of the 14th NPC Standing Committee held its first plenary meeting in Beijing on August 25, presided over by Chairman Zhao Leji with 149 members in attendance. The meeting reviewed legislative reports on several draft laws, including final deliberations for the Medical Security Law and Cultivated Land Protection Law, as well as revisions to the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law and Banking Supervision Law. Proposals were also submitted for new laws on Road Traffic Safety and Anti-Cross-Border Corruption, alongside a motion to ratify an extradition treaty with Hungary. The session heard government reports on economic and social development, budget execution, government debt, cultural product quality, and rural revitalization. Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing, Supreme People's Court President Zhang Jun, and Procurator-General Ying Yong were among those listed as attending the session.
Summary: The 18th session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee's Standing Committee opened in Beijing, chaired by CPPCC Chairman Wang Huning, to discuss boosting people's livelihood and advancing common prosperity. Vice Premier He Lifeng attended and delivered a report, stressing implementation of Xi Jinping's directives and the 20th CPC Central Committee's Fourth Plenum and the 15th Five-Year Plan, with priorities including high-quality employment, income distribution, social security, real estate, and equalized public services. CPPCC Vice Chairman Shi Taifeng presided over the meeting and called for deeper consultation on these goals. The session also heard a report on the CPPCC's work in the first half of 2026, delivered by Vice Chairman and Secretary-General Wang Dongfeng. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Vice President Han Zheng met with Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval in Beijing on August 25. Han noted that Presidents Xi and Modi had reached important consensus during two meetings in Kazan and Tianjin, steering bilateral ties back toward recovery and improvement. He urged both sides to view relations from a strategic and long-term perspective, enhance mutual trust, expand cooperation, and properly manage differences. Doval, accompanying Modi's high regard for ties with China, said India sees historic opportunities for cooperation and is willing to deepen mutual benefit and address border issues. The meeting focused on bilateral and boundary matters, with no reference to the United States.
Summary: President Xi Jinping recently issued an important directive emphasizing the need for regular education on correct views of political achievements, urging party members and officials to act with proper performance outlooks. The article stresses that adhering to high-quality development is central to this outlook, warning against reverting to short-termism or blindly following trends in emerging industries. It argues that only through scientific decision-making and genuine effort can development direction and pace be properly managed. The piece concludes that the ultimate test of such education is improving people's livelihoods, citing examples like the "vegetable basket" project and the "toilet revolution." No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Vice Premier Liu Guozhong attended and delivered the opening speech at the 11th APEC Ministerial Meeting on Food Security in Hangzhou. Quoting Xi Jinping, Liu stated that food security is an eternal issue and highlighted China's success in feeding its 1.4 billion people through a strategy of self-reliance, domestic production, moderate imports, and technological support. He proposed four suggestions for APEC cooperation: boosting production capacity, deepening agricultural tech innovation, maintaining open trade and supply chain stability, and promoting inclusive policy coordination. The meeting, themed "Building an Asia-Pacific Community for Shared Prosperity," drew nearly 200 representatives from APEC economies and international organizations.
Summary: The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued a revised "Measures for Accountability for Ecological and Environmental Damage by Party and Government Leading Cadres," with the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee answering reporters' questions on the revision. The revision strengthens Party leadership, expands coverage to state-owned enterprises and development zones, and refines accountability scenarios for four types of responsible subjects. It specifies disciplinary measures such as talks, organizational adjustments, and Party or government sanctions, while improving investigation, evidence transfer, and coordination mechanisms. The measures emphasize both strict lifelong accountability and avoiding excessive or simplistic punishment. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 26th China International Fair for Investment and Trade (CIFIT) will be held in Xiamen from September 8-11, with preparations complete and exhibition space expanded to a record 200,000 square meters. At a State Council Information Office press conference on August 25, Commerce Ministry spokesperson and Vice Minister Ling Ji announced the fair will feature Finland and Saudi Arabia as dual guest countries of honor, with 123 countries and regions participating. Ling Ji outlined three shifts in multinational investment in China—from cost-focused to value-focused, from filling gaps to building strength, and from independent operations to collaborative development—while also highlighting three new features of China's outbound investment: diversification, mutual benefit, and Belt and Road cooperation. Fujian Vice Governor Zhao Zenglian reported that over 2,600 key business guests have been invited and 828 investment projects are prepared for pre-matching. The fair will include 16 "Invest in China" activities and a financial zone with double the area and institutions of last year.
Summary: The article reports that the General Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council General Office have issued a revised "Measures for Accountability for Ecological and Environmental Damage by Party and Government Leading Cadres," which was approved by the Political Bureau Standing Committee in July 2026. The measures apply to leading members of local Party committees, governments, and relevant departments at or above the county level, as well as central state organs, and establish principles of joint Party-government responsibility, strict accountability, and lifelong liability. They specify nine situations triggering accountability for principal officials, including ineffective implementation of ecological policies, reckless decision-making, and poor response to environmental incidents. The measures also outline accountability methods such as admonishment, organizational adjustment, and disciplinary action, and reiterate a lifelong accountability system regardless of transfer, promotion, or retirement. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article focuses on Xi Jinping's strategic guidance for China's new energy vehicle (NEV) industry, citing his 2014 inspection of SAIC Motor where he declared NEVs the "only way" to transform China from a large to a strong automotive nation, and his 2020 call at FAW for self-reliance in core technologies. It details the industry's explosive growth, from 17,600 sales in 2013 to 16.49 million in 2025, crediting China's unique "intelligent connected vehicle" definition and a top-down strategy that integrates electrification, networking, and intelligence. The piece quotes industry leaders and executives like Fu Bingfeng, Zhang Jinhua, Lei Jun, and He Xiaopeng on the evolution of cars into smart terminals and "super fusion bodies" of new productive forces. It also notes international reactions, including former EU Chamber of Commerce President Jörg Wuttke's admission that German executives were "shocked awake" by China's technological lead at the Beijing auto show. Overall, the article attributes China's success to "lane-changing to overtake" by bypassing the traditional fuel vehicle race to set new global standards and rules.
Summary: Foreign journalists from APEC economies toured the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, focusing on innovation, openness, and regional cooperation. They visited tech firms, smart ports, and cultural sites, praising the area as a vivid example of Chinese modernization. Thai journalist Kanokwan highlighted the Bay Area's complementary development as a model for Asia-Pacific cooperation, while CNN Chile reporter Cárdenas emphasized Shenzhen's deep-rooted innovation and openness. Indonesian journalist Luky noted the real-world applications of advanced technologies and the value of exchange visits. All expressed expectations that China's APEC host year in 2026 will boost regional integration and dialogue.
Summary: The article highlights a 26-year friendship between Chinese desertification fighter Yin Yuzhen and American Ronald Sakolsky, whose $5,000 donation helped plant over 50,000 trees in the Mu Us Sandy Land, symbolizing grassroots U.S.-China ties. It cites Xi Jinping's view that the U.S.-China relationship's hope lies in the people, citing historical exchanges like ping-pong diplomacy and the program bringing 50,000 American youths to China. The piece frames ecological cooperation as a shared interest between the two nations, showcasing China's anti-desertification achievements and global green contributions. It concludes that people-to-people friendship is the foundation for stable bilateral relations and mutual benefit.
Summary: The third U.S.-China 1.5-track dialogue, co-hosted by the International Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Asia Society, convened in Beijing on August 25, with participants discussing political trust, trade, and AI cooperation. Attendees referenced the historic May meeting between Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, which established a framework for a constructive and stable bilateral relationship. American representatives, including Asia Society co-chair Stephen Schwarzman and vice president Qian Jing, stressed the importance of implementing the leaders' consensus through concrete measures and ongoing communication. On trade, former U.S.-China Business Council president Allen argued that both nations benefit from open markets and cannot afford "decoupling," citing recent growth in bilateral goods trade. The dialogue also explored health cooperation and youth exchanges, with participants optimistic that sustained engagement can expand mutual trust and practical collaboration.
Summary: A joint Chinese-Egyptian media team visited the Central Business District project in Egypt's new administrative capital, featuring the 385.8-meter "Iconic Tower," Africa's tallest building, built by China State Construction. Egyptian project deputy manager Yasser described how local staff gained new technical skills and grew professionally through collaboration with Chinese engineers. Egyptian China expert Derbik noted the cooperation's value extends beyond construction to accumulating talent, technology, and experience. Journalists praised the project as a symbol of Egypt's modernization and a milestone in bilateral ties, with Egypt's MENA agency calling it proof of advancing friendship. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned in the article.
Summary: The 25th Special Representatives meeting on the China-India boundary issue was held in Beijing, with Chinese Special Representative Wang Yi (Politburo member and Director of the CPC Central Foreign Affairs Office) meeting Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval. Wang Yi emphasized that healthy and stable bilateral ties serve fundamental interests, citing the Xi-Modi summits in Kazan and Tianjin, and urged placing the boundary issue in an appropriate position to achieve "dragon-elephant dance" cooperation. Doval stated that relations are back on track and expressed willingness to strengthen strategic communication, manage border areas, and seek solutions. Both sides agreed to advance demarcation talks, improve border control mechanisms, and pursue a fair and mutually acceptable package solution through dialogue and consultation.
Summary: Chen Wenqing, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, met with Nguyen Van Quang, Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court of Vietnam, in Beijing. Chen noted that the top leaders of both parties have drawn a blueprint for deepening bilateral relations and urged both sides to strengthen judicial exchanges and cooperation. He specifically proposed improving channels for resolving cross-border commercial disputes and deepening talent exchanges in legal affairs to support healthy bilateral trade and economic development. Nguyen Van Quang expressed a willingness to enhance mutual learning on building socialist rule-of-law states and to advance the China-Vietnam community with a shared future. The meeting focused exclusively on bilateral judicial and legal cooperation, with no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Wang Dongming, Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, delivered a keynote speech at the opening of the "Promoting the Building of an Asian Community with a Shared Future for Peace and Prosperity" dialogue in Beijing on August 25. He stated that since President Xi Jinping proposed the concept of an Asian community with a shared future, joint efforts have injected strong momentum into Asia's peace, stability, and prosperity. He called on all parties to follow the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and implement the four global initiatives to jointly write a new chapter of peace, development, cooperation, and prosperity in Asia. The event was co-hosted by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Renmin University of China, and the Beijing People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. Approximately 300 representatives from Asian countries attended, including political figures, former officials, and delegates from local governments, friendship organizations, business, think tanks, and youth.
Summary: The third U.S.-China 1.5-track dialogue, co-hosted by the International Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Asia Society, was held in Beijing on August 25 under the theme "Constructive Strategic Stability – Pragmatic U.S.-China Cooperation in a New Era." Liu Haixing, head of the International Department, delivered a keynote speech, with about 40 participants including American strategists and business leaders such as Asia Society board co-chair Thornton. Both sides engaged in candid, in-depth exchanges, agreeing that bilateral ties are crucial and currently at an important juncture. They stressed implementing the consensus of the two heads of state, strengthening communication and trust, and promoting cooperation in trade, culture, local ties, healthcare, AI, and food security while managing differences and addressing global challenges.
Summary: The 26th China-ROK forum of prominent figures, co-hosted by the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs and the Korea 21st Century China-Korea Exchange Association, was held in Seoul on August 25th. Under the theme of deepening bilateral friendly cooperation for peace, stability, and prosperity, the event featured addresses from CPIFA President Wu Ken, Chinese Ambassador to the ROK Dai Bing, Kim Han-kyu, and former ROK National Assembly Vice-Speaker Lee Ju-young. ROK Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul also met with the attending delegates.
Summary: The National People's Congress Standing Committee reviewed multiple draft laws on August 25, including measures to specify flexible employment workers' participation in职工医保 and to ban misappropriation of high-standard farmland construction funds. Draft revisions also encourage AI and new technologies in agriculture, define national defense mobilization, and promote foreign-related legal services. A government report highlighted that per-capita disposable income in formerly impoverished counties grew at an average annual rate of 8.2% from 2020 to 2025, with continued efforts in poverty prevention and rural revitalization. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations topics were mentioned in the article.
Summary: The article reports on the Third Beijing Park Art Season, featuring nearly 200 cultural events held in major parks from late June to August, integrating opera, exhibitions, and workshops to promote traditional Chinese culture. This initiative aligns with the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline's goal of enhancing public cultural services. Miao Xiangliu, director of the municipal park management office, stated that the season aims to create a "three-dimensional" cultural scene—viewable, tourable, interactive, and creative—making cultural enjoyment a routine summer option for citizens. The season also includes a Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development segment, showcasing cultural promotions from Zhangjiakou, Tianjin's Jizhou district, Wuqiao, and Xiong'an. As a result, Beijing's municipal parks project over 20 million visitors this summer.
Summary: The article highlights Beijing's initiative to transform parks from scenic spots into "cultural living rooms" by hosting activities like Peking Opera, intangible heritage crafts, and cross-regional performances. This "culture + park" model aims to meet public demand for high-quality cultural life and boost cultural consumption. It bridges the "last mile" of public cultural services, making traditional arts and heritage more accessible while activating parks' cultural potential. Ancient architecture and gardens are repurposed as spaces for new consumption scenarios. The piece concludes that sustained innovation will further unleash urban cultural spaces, enriching city life with accessible cultural offerings.
Summary: Chinese leader Xi Jinping issued an important directive affirming the achievements of the education campaign on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, urging efforts to consolidate its results and build a long-term mechanism. Party officials across various regions responded by pledging to internalize the directive, prioritize serving the people as the ultimate benchmark for political achievements, and rectify prominent deviations through persistent problem-checking. Several local and institutional leaders, including those from Yunnan, Sichuan, Tibet, Zhejiang, Chongqing, Jiangsu, Qinghai, Tsinghua University, Guangdong, and Inner Mongolia, detailed plans to institutionalize effective practices, refine evaluation systems, and integrate the campaign into cadre training. The article emphasizes that the campaign is a new starting point for realizing the "15th Five-Year Plan" goals. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 24th session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee convened its first plenary meeting in Beijing on August 25, chaired by Chairman Zhao Leji. The session reviewed deliberation reports on multiple draft laws, including medical security, farmland protection, agriculture, national defense mobilization, lawyers, enterprise bankruptcy, banking supervision, water resources, road traffic safety, and anti-cross-border corruption. Reports on economic and social development plans, budget execution, government debt, cultural product quality, and rural revitalization were also heard from State Council and central agency officials. Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing, Supreme People's Court President Zhang Jun, and Procurator-General Ying Yong were among those in attendance. The meeting also reviewed personnel appointments and the qualifications of individual deputies.
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Summary: The article argues that China's governance must simultaneously address both emerging and long-standing problems, citing examples like regulating smart-driving headlights and adjusting delivery-rider traffic rules. It emphasizes systematic, forward-looking approaches, including front-loaded regulation and source-level governance, such as blockchain-based wage platforms and prepaid-consumption supervision. The piece advocates a "prudent and inclusive" balance between innovation and safety, referencing AI content labeling, low-altitude economy zones, and autonomous driving test roads. It frames problem-solving as a driver of development, urging coordinated action to support Chinese modernization. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
Summary: This commentary argues that genuine urban-rural integration in China must address the psychological "double loss" of migrants feeling disconnected from both their hometowns and cities, not just physical relocation. It references the Third Plenum's directive to coordinate new industrialization, urbanization, and rural revitalization by promoting equal exchange and two-way flow of factors. For rural areas, the article contends that preserving cultural roots while fostering new economic vitality (e.g., e-commerce, rural tourism) turns "returning" into a viable path rather than a retreat. For cities, it emphasizes dismantling barriers like household registration and expanding public services to transform migrants from "passersby" into "family" by granting them a sense of belonging. The piece concludes that true modernization dignifies all lifestyles, allowing people to freely choose between a livable hometown and an accommodating city.
Summary: The article highlights China's major technological achievements, such as the Baihetan hydropower turbines and C919 aircraft, as symbols of national strength and self-reliance. It emphasizes breakthroughs in key technologies, citing examples like the 82 national and world firsts by Harbin Electric Machinery. The piece quotes President Xi Jinping, who stressed that core technologies must be developed independently rather than relying on external sources. It also underscores the role of the national system for mobilizing resources, involving thousands of units and personnel in projects like BeiDou and C919. The author concludes that innovation and collective effort are vital for China's future high-tech development.
Summary: The article reports on the issuance of the "15th Five-Year Plan" for the coal industry. The plan sets 2030 targets, including enhanced coal support capability, improved safety and green development, and higher clean and efficient utilization levels. It also aims to accelerate the formation of a diversified coal-based industrial pattern and basically build a modern coal industry system. Emphasizing the ongoing green transition, the article underscores that coal must continue to serve as a "ballast stone" and "stabilizer" for energy security.
Summary: The article criticizes two forms of insincere grassroots research by Chinese officials. It first cites a report from the Henan Provincial Committee of the China Democratic League noting that some submitted information bore clear traces of AI generation, with fabricated cases and data undermining credibility. The author argues such "AI-facilitated research" reflects poor work ethics and misleads policy-making, urging officials to gather firsthand information through field visits. The second part addresses "prefabricated speech" during grassroots visits, where officials use scripted, evasive language to avoid responsibility, widening the gap between cadres and the public. It calls for genuine dialogue, direct responses to problems, and evaluation criteria focused on real problem-solving rather than superficial documentation.
Summary: The article consists of two commentaries on Chinese governance. The first praises the "air school bus" elevator in Yunnan's Nizhu River Grand Canyon, highlighting how it reduces travel time, boosts local tourism, and exemplifies a people-centered approach to infrastructure investment. The second commentary criticizes local cadres who defer work by saying "wait until the inspection is over," labeling this as a bureaucratic excuse and a "performance-style" response to inspections. It argues that inspections are meant to drive reform and development, and cadres must pass the test of responsibility and diligence rather than merely avoiding trouble during the inspection period. The piece ultimately underscores the need for authentic implementation of policies and honest acceptance of oversight.
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Summary: The article profiles Fan Zaixuan, a senior researcher at the Dunhuang Academy, highlighting his 40-year career as a leading expert in ancient mural restoration. It details his scientific breakthroughs, such as developing techniques to extract soluble salts to combat "mural cancer" (alkali efflorescence) and creating targeted materials for smoke and hollowing damage. Fan emphasized the importance of systematizing and standardizing restoration experience, having authored numerous protocols and trained over 300 technicians nationwide. His colleague and student, Dai Chuan, is noted as accompanying him in the team's expansion from fewer than 10 to over 40 multi-disciplinary professionals. The article underscores Fan's ongoing commitment to cultural heritage preservation, including work at the Potala Palace and Yungang Grottoes, well after his official retirement.
Summary: A training seminar for leaders of national industry media was held in Beijing from August 25 to 28, organized by the All-China Journalists Association and the national "Three Studies and Education" campaign office, with over 110 editors-in-chief and publishers from more than 100 media outlets attending. The organizers stressed that studying and promoting Xi Jinping's thought on party building is a key political task for the news front, urging media to accurately grasp its essence and integrate it into systemic media reform. The seminar featured reports by former head of the CPC Central History Research Office Ouyang Song and Central Party School Vice President Li Yi, alongside other experts, covering topics such as mainstream media reform, online communication, and AI in media. The event aimed to deepen theoretical learning and enhance the capacity of media in fulfilling their propaganda and public opinion duties. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has established a new Green and Low-Carbon Standardization Technical Committee to support industrial green development. The committee comprises 71 members from government, research institutes, universities, industry associations, and leading enterprises, with its secretariat based at the China Electronics Standardization Institute. The committee recently approved its charter and operational procedures to formalize its work. Going forward, it will coordinate standardization efforts across industries, focusing on energy conservation, emissions reduction, water saving, clean production, resource utilization, and green manufacturing. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese leader Xi Jinping has emphasized the critical importance of a correct "view of political achievements" (政绩观) at the outset of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, warning that deviations lead to waste, formalism, and corruption. He has launched a party-wide education campaign requiring officials to prioritize serving the people, scientific decision-making, and practical work over personal or short-term gains. The campaign, implemented across central and local agencies, state enterprises, and universities, uses both positive and negative examples to correct cadre behavior and promote high-quality development. It stresses integrating this correct view into all governance aspects, from industrial policy and disaster prevention to livelihood improvements like water supply and market upgrades. Finally, Xi has mandated the strengthening of institutional rules and supervision mechanisms, including leadership transitions and democratic decision-making procedures, to ensure these standards are upheld long-term.
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Summary: The article reports on China's summer tourism boom, highlighting new trends in short-distance getaways, outdoor stream hiking, and slow-paced "recharge" travel. In Nanjing's Lishui district, official Wei Renjian promoted "small but refined" micro-vacations blending local culture and nature. In Wuhan, official Dong Xiandan described a stream camping site attracting up to 1,500 daily visitors. In Zhaotong, official Wang Changqing credited cool climate and cultural activities for an 7.98% rise in summer visitors. The piece emphasizes immersive experiences over sightseeing, with local officials accompanying tourism promotion efforts.
Summary: The article reports on the opening of the 2026 Hinggan League Nadam fair in Inner Mongolia, highlighting its shift from government-funded to market-driven operations. Deputy Banner Chief Ma Ning of Horqin Right Front Banner explained that local enterprises and professional teams now manage the event, with nearly 4,000 premium viewing seats sold to the public. The new model attracted 200,000 visitors on opening day and generated over 200 million yuan in consumption, while free areas remained accessible. Ma Ning noted that no exclusive podium was set up, and special seating for the elderly was provided. The event also linked with surrounding counties to extend its seasonal economic benefits.
Summary: The 2026 China Literature Festival and Lu Xun Literature Week officially launched in Shanghai on August 25. The main Lu Xun Literature Award Night, co-hosted by the Chinese Writers' Association and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, is scheduled for August 28. This marks the first time the prestigious Lu Xun Literature Award ceremony will be held in Shanghai, and it has been permanently designated to remain there. The festival includes a series of official symposia and promotion meetings aimed at advancing high-quality literary development in the new era. The event commemorates the 145th anniversary of Lu Xun's birth and the 90th of his death, emphasizing his enduring legacy in Shanghai's Hongkou District.
Summary: The article highlights Guilin's "fireside discussion" (火塘议事) grassroots governance model, rooted in the traditional cultural importance of the communal hearth in Guangxi villages. Under this initiative, party members and grassroots cadres are dispatched to rural communities to sit with residents, publicize policies, gather local concerns, and resolve problems directly. This approach shifts the dynamic from "residents seeking officials" to "officials proactively visiting residents," aiming to mediate disputes and address livelihood issues on the spot. The report includes a photo from August 25 showing township cadres (left, middle) at a villager's home in Guangnan Village, Pingsheng Town, Longsheng Autonomous County, engaged in such a fireside conversation.
Summary: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released data showing China's digital industry revenue reached 20.71 trillion yuan in the first half of 2024, up 13.6% year-on-year, with growth accelerating by 4.1 percentage points. Profits surged 19.3% to 1.79 trillion yuan, driven by domestic AI demand and strong export growth, with the profit margin improving to 8.6%. Digital infrastructure continued to upgrade, with 5.102 million 5G base stations and over 32.86 million 10G-PON gigabit-capable ports operational by end-June. The electronics manufacturing sector saw value-added growth of 14.8%, while above-scale electronic information manufacturers reported a 66% jump in profits to 703.6 billion yuan. This data underscores the robust expansion and improved profitability of China's digital economy amid ongoing industrial upgrades.
Summary: A Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences service team has partnered with Baisha County in Hainan's central mountains to revitalize its natural rubber industry, which faced declining yields and a 35% abandonment rate due to low market prices. The team introduced electric tapping knives, improved planting techniques, and a digital "industry map" (科技入链一张图) to identify bottlenecks—mainly in front-end cultivation and management—and guide precision interventions. Under this "one institute per county" mechanism, researchers conducted field surveys, trained 2,475 farmers, and promoted under-forest crops like tiger milk灵芝 to diversify income. Over three years, rubber output grew at a compound annual rate of over 9%, abandonment fell below 10%, and the county's under-forest economy now spans 213,400 mu with output exceeding 1 billion yuan. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Huanggang Road Yellow River Tunnel in Jinan, Shandong, officially opened to traffic on August 25, marking the world's largest diameter underwater shield tunnel as operational. Built by China Railway 14th Bureau, the 5.75-kilometer tunnel features a 17.5-meter excavation diameter and a design speed of 60 km/h. As the first single-hole, double-deck shield tunnel crossing the Yellow River, its 4.2-meter internal clearance accommodates buses, fire, and rescue vehicles. The project aims to boost Jinan's cross-river development and economic exchanges between the northern and southern banks. The site leader detailed the complex "suspended river" geology and the advanced technologies applied—such as a large-opening pressurized composite cutterhead and an intelligent equipment system—to ensure safe and efficient excavation.
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Summary: The 2026 summer box office in China has surpassed 11.7 billion yuan (including pre-sales) as of August 25, driven by a string of well-received films. Creators are producing grounded, emotionally resonant works that connect deeply with audiences, while outdoor screenings and community events bring cinema to households nationwide. Beyond the screen, ticket stubs are fueling cross-sector consumption in cultural products, retail, and exhibitions. Advances in virtual production and other technologies are boosting domestic blockbusters' visual ambitions. Chinese films are also expanding overseas, showcasing the industry's growing vitality and leaving lasting impressions on viewers.
Summary: The article is a brief layout and editorial note, crediting designer Zhang Danfeng and reporters Pan Junqiang, Li Rui, and Wang Xinyue for interview support. It contains no political analysis, official statements, or references to U.S.-China relations.
Summary: President Xi Jinping, in his keynote speech at the 2026 World AI Conference, proposed upholding open and win-win cooperation, strengthening risk awareness, encouraging inclusiveness, and promoting global governance to build a fair global AI governance system. He emphasized that AI should serve human welfare, remain under human control, and not erode civilizational diversity, while urging global cooperation rather than unilateral action. China supports the UN's central role and the establishment of a World AI Cooperation Organization, offering public goods like the "AI+" initiative and capacity-building programs for Global South countries. The article underscores China's commitment to bridging the AI divide and contributing to inclusive, safe, and orderly global AI development. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the 2026 World AI Conference and delivered a keynote speech, outlining China's policy stance on AI development and governance and proposing four points aligned with global initiatives on development, security, civilization, and governance. He urged countries to uphold people-centered, benevolent principles to make AI a driver of common prosperity and shared security, and to build a fair global governance system. The article highlights challenges such as fragmented governance, insufficient action, and geopolitical interference, while emphasizing China's contributions through practical measures, including the establishment of a World AI Cooperation Organization and assistance to developing countries.
Summary: The article reports on Chengdu's disciplinary watchdog campaign, "Happiness Showcase," which publicly addresses corruption and misconduct in people's livelihoods, including school meals, migrant worker wage arrears, tourism scams, and sanitation bidding. Officials, led by the Chengdu Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, encourage citizens to submit complaints via QR codes and online platforms, with departments required to respond promptly and publicly. The commission supervises rectification, using data models to uncover violations and issuing disciplinary actions against hundreds of officials and employees. The initiative shifts from monitoring cadres to engaging the public, forming a governance loop of "people raising issues, departments solving, discipline commissions supervising, and people verifying." No U.S.-related topics are mentioned.
Summary: The article addresses high airline ticket refund fees in China, citing a recent case and a report showing nearly half of complaints involve excessive cancellation charges. A China Air Transport Association official explained that fees reflect the time-sensitive, non-storable nature of airline seats, and that carriers use tiered refund policies, urging travelers to choose flexible fares if plans may change. The official acknowledged transparency shortcomings in displaying rules, especially for international tickets, and announced plans to issue a national standard this year to mandate clear disclosure before payment. It also highlighted China Eastern’s new policy allowing free refunds for all fare classes if canceled 14+ days before departure, and efforts to improve compliance training and cross-border rule transparency. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: The article profiles border police at the Keketuohai station in Altay, Xinjiang, who patrol an 8.8-km frontier through mosquito-infested wetlands and marshes, enduring heavy bites during summer. Officers Ma Xiao and Ma Zhenguo describe the evolution of protective suits from simple tops to fourth-generation full-body gear, with Ma Zhenguo having settled locally in Habahe County. Native officer Liu Wei, who once feared the area as a child, now serves there as a border guard. A 2022 letter from a citizen praising their dedication in harsh conditions is kept at the station, which station chief Zhang Hailong cites as the value of their mission. The report highlights the officers' resilience and commitment to defending the border despite extreme hardship.
Summary: The Beijing General Station of Immigration Inspection reported that summer travel, including tourism, business trips, and family visits, has driven a sustained surge in passenger flow at Beijing ports. As of August 25, total inspections for the year surpassed 15 million, a 9% year-on-year increase, reaching this milestone 20 days earlier than last year. Daily crossings in August have consistently exceeded 70,000, with August 9 setting a six-year single-day record of over 82,000. Foreign entries and exits reached 4.88 million, up 31.6%, of which 1.86 million utilized visa-free or temporary entry permit policies, accounting for 74.5% of all foreign arrivals.
Summary: Shandong Provincial Party Committee's Social Work Department issued a guideline on advancing grassroots deliberative consultation, aiming to institutionalize and standardize procedures to enhance party-led governance effectiveness. The guideline emphasizes consultation for and by the people, focusing on expanding orderly participation, information transparency, and power oversight. It calls for dynamic revision of consultation lists at township and village levels, tailored to local conditions. Participation should include community workers, social work professionals, volunteers, and new employment groups alongside stakeholders. Procedures follow a set sequence: identifying topics, confirming participants, sharing information, conducting deliberation, publicizing results, and implementing outcomes.
Summary: The article reports on a symposium on foreign-related legal services held in Hebei Province, where a special action plan was issued to support enterprises "going global." The plan outlines six measures, including legal training, exchange activities, and improved arbitration services, and establishes a 66-member provincial legal service team. The team comprises arbitration experts, foreign-related lawyers, notaries, trade legal specialists, and overseas Chinese federation legal professionals, managed dynamically with annual rotation. They will conduct legal health checks and compliance guidance at key industrial parks and enterprises, offering full-chain services covering overseas investment, cross-border trade, and intellectual property protection. The piece does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on the opening of the "United Hearts and Actions – Cross-Strait Youth Exchange Season Shanghai Stop" event, co-hosted by mainland institutions and Taiwan's KMT-affiliated youth organizations. Mainland officials, including Song Tao, Gong Zheng, and A Dong, conveyed Xi Jinping's expectations for youth, urging them to oppose "Taiwan independence" and external interference while promoting cross-strait integration and national rejuvenation. They were joined by KMT Deputy Chairman Zhang Ronggong and KMT Youth Committee head Lian Shengwu, who affirmed the "1992 Consensus" and the shared Chinese identity of both sides. The event featured keynote speeches from figures like Olympic champion Ma Long and cultural figures, alongside sports, cultural, and technology activities, with the delegation set to visit Zhejiang next.
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Summary: As the new school year approaches, experts including Han Fang, director of the Sleep Medicine Department at Peking University People's Hospital, and Zhang Shiyu, a psychologist there, advised families to gradually adjust sleep, diet, and exercise routines to ease children's transition, while cautioning against parental pressure. Police and education authorities, including临沂市公安局兰山分局 and Heilongjiang Institute of Business and Technology's student affairs head Zhang Yuna, warned of two common scams: fraudulent "internal channel" school enrollment offers and impostors posing as university staff to collect personal information. They urged parents to verify information only through official school channels and to report suspicious activity to police immediately.
Summary: The article discusses a public controversy over two children occupying three train seats, refusing to let a standing passenger sit. China Railway's customer service stated that seat usage rights belong to the ticket holder, while the Chengdu bureau clarified that unclaimed seats cannot be occupied by third parties. The children's mother later explained she bought three tickets but left the train due to work, highlighting the plight of unaccompanied minors traveling alone. The piece argues that such public debates help refine rules and build consensus, citing examples like pet transport trials on trains and elevator installations in old communities. It concludes that rational, respectful discussion, rather than emotional confrontation, is essential for social progress.
Summary: China's State Administration for Market Regulation held an administrative guidance meeting with electronic scale manufacturers and distributors to combat cheating scales, requiring them to integrate anti-fraud controls into production, secure core components, and ban tampering channels. Sales and repair entities must implement purchase verification, ledgers, and real-name registration, while online merchants are prohibited from using coded language or off-platform transactions to evade oversight. The meeting aimed to unify industry compliance standards and protect consumer rights, addressing new cheating methods such as chip implantation and remote control across the full supply chain.
Summary: 民政部养老服务司副司长孙文灿在武汉举行的新闻通气会上介绍，全国老年助餐点已达8.2万家，每天为400余万人次老年人提供服务，形成覆盖城乡的助餐网络。他提到各地探索出“养老服务机构+助餐”“社会餐饮企业+助餐”等多元模式，中央财政累计投入6亿元支持，并落实税费减免等优惠政策。孙文灿表示，下一步城市将依托“一刻钟便民生活圈”推动连锁化运营，农村则探索邻里互助等低成本模式。
Summary: On August 24, traffic police from the Jin'gang Brigade of the Jinhua Municipal Public Security Bureau's Traffic Management Detachment in Zhejiang conducted an inspection of school buses. The inspection took place at the Duohu depot of the Jiangnan branch of the Jinhua Public Transport Group, focusing on safety features such as escape devices and fire extinguishers. The operation aims to identify and eliminate potential hazards to ensure student safety as the new school term begins. The accompanying photo was taken by Chen Ye for the "Image China" section.
Summary: The Nanning Municipal Postal Administration, Trade Union, and Human Resources Bureau jointly issued a trial guideline on labor management for the express delivery industry, along with a model labor contract. It is the first such specialized guideline in Guangxi, aiming to standardize employment practices and protect workers' rights. The guideline addresses six areas: employment management, pay, rest and leave, insurance and benefits, labor protection, and rights maintenance. It requires companies to sign written contracts, clarify salary and penalty standards, and ensure workers have channels for grievances. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The 7th HICOOL Global Entrepreneurship Summit opened in Beijing on August 26, drawing a record 10,209 projects and 13,472 entrepreneurs from 141 countries and regions. The event introduced a new "one main, three sub-competitions" structure—including a main competition, a youth startup dream competition, an OPC special competition, and a large-enterprise challenge—to support innovators from individuals to teams. It showcases a full innovation ecosystem, connecting world-class university labs (MIT, Berkeley, Harvard) with venture capital firms and industry applications to bridge the gap from lab research to market production. Over seven years, HICOOL has cultivated 5 listed companies, 18 unicorns, 26 quasi-unicorns, and 219 specialized SMEs, with post-competition financing totaling 71.9 billion yuan. The summit underscores Beijing's strategic ambition to become a global hub for entrepreneurship and innovation, integrating talent, capital, and industrial chains to drive high-quality development.
Summary: Typhoon "Zitan" made landfall in Hainan on August 25, amid an unusually active season with 21 typhoons formed in the Northwest Pacific and South China Sea, including a brief "four typhoons dancing" event, according to Central Meteorological Observatory director Zhao Wei. Typhoons "Sadel" and "Zitan" remain active, with Sadel expected to hit Fujian or Zhejiang, while heavy rain is forecast for southern and southwestern China. Xu Weihong of the Ministry of Water Resources outlined pre-landfall precautions (wind, storm surge, evacuation) and post-landfall risks (floods, landslides, urban waterlogging). Yang Jiguo of the National Early Warning Center warned that a typhoon's dissipation does not end risks, as residual circulation can still trigger delayed secondary disasters.
Summary: American friend Ronald Sakolsky (known as "Sakorsky") revisited Yin Yuzhen, a renowned desertification fighter in the Mu Us Sandy Land in Inner Mongolia, 26 years after first supporting her tree-planting efforts with a $5,000 donation. During the August 2024 visit, Yin gifted him handmade embroidered shoe pads with messages of friendship and peace, and the two planted a pine tree together in the "Sakorsky Forest," symbolizing their enduring cross-border bond. Sakolsky marveled at the transformation of the once barren desert into a lush oasis, crediting Yin's hands for achieving what he once deemed impossible. The meeting highlighted decades of grassroots U.S.-China environmental cooperation and personal friendship, with both pledging to meet again.
Summary: The article reports on Yuhang District in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, advancing rural revitalization under the province's common prosperity demonstration zone framework. It highlights smart agriculture via AI-powered farms, automated equipment, and a comprehensive network of agricultural service centers. The district leverages its 5,000-year Liangzhu cultural heritage to integrate industries like rural museums, tea, and eco-restoration, fostering local economic growth. Human capital is mobilized through 32 rural professional managers and 27,000 rural talents, supported by full-cycle support systems and innovation platforms. Reported outcomes include a 6.5% year-on-year increase in rural per capita disposable income for the first half of the year, reaching 35,999 yuan, with the urban-rural income gap narrowing to 1.48:1.
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Summary: The article highlights Xiong'an New Area's progress in integrating technology innovation with industry, featuring a digital infrastructure ("Xiong'an Eye") that supports smart city operations with over 40 billion data records. It details the growth of AI, satellite internet, and new materials industries, citing companies like Mech-Mind and Wen-Zhun AI leveraging the area's digital twin environment. The piece also covers efforts to commercialize research, including a soil big-data lab and a pilot testing base, with 2,846科技成果 listed for transfer. No mention is made of U.S. or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on the synchronized construction of Xiong'an New Area's physical and digital twin city, emphasizing its "three cities" (above-ground, underground, and cloud) architecture. Li Haibo, deputy general manager of China Xiong'an Group Xiongshang Company, highlighted the use of Building Information Modeling (BIM) to create a parallel virtual space for intelligent construction and data asset management. The city's "digital base" includes a central computing hub and an urban information model (CIM) platform that has undergone three iterations, now integrating AI for intelligent management across governance, safety, and livelihood sectors. Specific applications include smart meters monitoring 252 elderly residents living alone and sensor-driven underground pipe inspections for anomaly detection. The system prioritizes security through domestically produced technology and a six-layer protection framework, including disaster recovery.
Summary: In Xiong'an New Area, a training facility for embodied intelligence has opened, where robots are manually guided through tasks like toasting bread and shelf-stocking to generate data for AI models. Cao Yue, business manager at China Xiong'an Group Digital City Technology, explained that workers repeatedly demonstrate simple actions thousands of times to build training datasets. The facility, operational since December 2025, covers multiple robot types and five real-world scenarios, serving as infrastructure for model training and algorithm iteration. Xiong'an is advancing a full-chain innovation ecosystem from basic research to application, positioning embodied intelligence as a key driver of urban development.
Summary: The article highlights BeiDou+5G indoor positioning technology deployed in underground parking garages in Xiong'an New Area, enabling meter-level navigation via signal boosters ("small mushroom heads") and a combined positioning algorithm, as explained by Zhao Yuanjian, deputy director of the BeiDou indoor positioning R&D center. The technology is also used in Sichuan highway tunnels and Beijing's civil air defense museum. Meng Youtong, assistant to the general manager of Xiong'an Guochuang Center, praised Xiong'an's willingness to pilot new ideas. The piece also covers the rapid production of the "Xiong'an-1" satellite in 2025, attributed by Sun Dezhi, deputy general manager of Hongqing Technology, to the local pilot base, while Yang Yunjie, operations manager of the pilot base, cited the relocation of China Satellite Network Group and talent-friendly policies as key draws for aerospace firms.
Summary: The article highlights Xiong'an New Area as a thriving hub for innovation and entrepreneurship, attracting firms through efficient services and a supportive ecosystem. Meikamande, a robotics company, values the area's industrial synergy and real-world application scenarios, while biomedicine firm Miaoxin Bio praises same-day licensing approvals. The Zhongguancun Science Park in Xiong'an enables nearby collaboration, with one deal completed over coffee between neighboring firms. The piece emphasizes that full-chain services and clustered industries allow companies to grow seamlessly. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are mentioned.
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Summary: The article reports on Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae's government accelerating remilitarization, including a record ¥8.9 trillion defense budget request for FY2027 for drones and missiles, alongside expanded arms exports and constitutional revision efforts. Domestic critics, including Okinawan senator Iha Yoichi and scholar Koketsu Atsushi, are quoted warning that these policies are dangerously belligerent and risk repeating Japan's past militarist path. Former Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru is reported opposing Takaichi's removal of "reflection" language, stressing Japan must learn from history and hasn't fully severed ties with militarism. The article highlights widespread criticism that the military buildup undermines the pacifist constitution and neglects citizens' welfare, with figures like Fukushima Mizuho pointing out the contrast between surging defense spending and cuts to disaster prevention. Analysts conclude the soaring military expenditures will burden the economy and society, urging a shift toward diplomacy and regional cooperation.
Summary: The seventh Forum on China-Africa Media Cooperation was held in Beijing under the theme "Sharing New Development Opportunities, Creating a New Audiovisual Future," attracting about 400 delegates from China and 45 African countries. Bach, the African Union's representative to China, stated that media should act as a tool for development and economic opportunity, urging African and Chinese media to jointly promote understanding and peace. In a video address, UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa, Iza Konwa, emphasized deepening media exchanges within the FOCAC framework to enhance understanding of Africa and strengthen narrative sovereignty, supporting the AU's Agenda 2063. Officials from Niger, Angola, and Burkina Faso, including Diallo, Albino, and Ouedraogo, focused on youth engagement, digital technology, and joint training programs, with Albino noting nearly 50 Angolan media professionals have trained in China. The forum, coinciding with the 70th anniversary of China-Africa diplomatic ties and the "China-Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges," released a joint declaration and 80 cooperation achievements, highlighting the broadcast of over 80 Chinese audiovisual works across Africa.
Summary: U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent announced new sanctions targeting Iran's aviation, digital assets, gold, shipping, and tech sectors, vowing to sever all economic lifelines and take unilateral action against entities facilitating Iranian money laundering, with President Trump calling foreign leaders to press for cessation of ties. In response to U.S. tariff threats, Canadian leaders—including Prime Minister Carney, Finance Minister Freeland, former PM Chretien, and Ontario Premier Ford—rejected unequal relations, vowing retaliation through export taxes, cutting off energy supplies, or other means. Bessent also confirmed the Treasury will maintain its quarterly debt refinancing plan, noting no bonds were purchased under the expanded buyback program. U.S. Secretary of State Rubio formally revoked Syria's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism and removed a designated group from the terror list, citing counterterrorism progress to boost investment. OECD data showed G7 economic growth slowed to 0.3% in Q2, with U.S. growth easing to 0.4% and Canada accelerating to 0.8%.
Summary: The article reports the launch of a zero-carbon technology R&D, demonstration, and training center in Slovenia's Central Sava region, co-funded by the EU and the Slovenian government with €32 million, aimed at aiding the former coal-mining area's green transition. It notes the region's economic decline since coal plants closed in 2014–2015, with high unemployment and population loss, and EU transition funds of €258 million supporting new industries. EU Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation Ekaterina Zaharieva said the center exemplifies turning decarbonization goals into regional development opportunities, while Slovenian State Secretary Uroš Vajgl stated the region's practice shows green transitions can create jobs and growth. The article highlights ongoing challenges such as skill gaps and attracting investment, but does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article reports on the Yangtze River Literary Collection, a mass literary platform created by Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group to encourage ordinary citizens to write about authentic life experiences. Since its inception over two years ago, the platform has published numerous essays from more than 18,000 grassroots authors across 30 provinces, amassing over 6 million total reads. The works, which cover themes such as human warmth, industrial endeavor, and patriotic sentiment, serve as a bridge connecting rural and urban areas as well as the industrial and cultural sectors. The platform's future direction involves promoting the Taizhou School's philosophy of "daily life as the Way" to further encourage public writing, reading, and sharing. No discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations appears in the article.
Summary: The article reports on two French citizens, Royke and Benjamin, who walked from France to Shanghai along the ancient Silk Road over 518 days, crossing 16 countries. Their journey is framed as a grassroots initiative to observe China's modern infrastructure and digital society while experiencing local culture and hospitality firsthand. The travelers assert that the ancient Silk Road has not disappeared but has evolved into modern trade networks of trucks and trains. They highlight the warmth and support from ordinary Chinese citizens, which they describe as fostering a closer emotional distance between France and China. The narrative serves as an example of people-to-people diplomacy, emphasizing cultural exchange and mutual understanding outside of official state channels.
Summary: The article is a first-person account by a Hungarian associate professor of Chinese at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, describing her lifelong bond with China since childhood. She recounts studying Chinese, teaching in Hungary, and witnessing the growth of Sino-Hungarian cultural exchanges, including Confucius Institutes and language programs. She highlights China's rapid development, from slow trains to high-speed rail, and praises Chinese people's friendliness, inclusiveness, and spirit of cooperation. The piece concludes with her optimism for future Hungary-China ties and her role as a bridge between the two cultures. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Mike Hoyman, an American from Louisiana, moved to Dalian in 2016 and later married into a local cherry-growing family, learning farming from scratch. He now promotes their cherries through e-commerce and short videos, using a mix of Dalian dialect and rap, which won first prize in a local "Cherry Red" video contest. He credits China's cold-chain logistics for enabling fresh deliveries nationwide, and says he plans to keep filming rural life to share with friends across the Pacific.
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Summary: The article analyzes why CATL (宁德时代) achieves a 16.9% net profit margin versus the auto industry's 3.8%, attributing the disparity to a structural value-chain shift toward batteries and software in smart NEVs. It highlights CATL's massive R&D spending (over 90 billion RMB cumulative) and technological moats—such as record energy density and 94.86% capacity utilization—as key drivers of its sustained high profitability. CATL's proactive measures, including sodium-ion batteries to mitigate overseas resource constraints and an overseas market share rise to 33.7%, are framed as securing the initiative in international geopolitical competition (alluding to US-China tech rivalry). The analysis concludes that CATL's strategy of avoiding price wars for long-term competitiveness aligns with China's "15th Five-Year Plan" goals of advancing smart NEVs and becoming a manufacturing power.
Summary: The article reports on a surge in AI hardware exports from Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei electronics market, which now attracts nearly 8,000 foreign buyers daily. Key products like AI translation devices and AI glasses are seeing massive sales growth, with AI glasses shipments reaching 4,000-5,000 units monthly, 95% for export. The market's success is driven by the "front shop, back factory" model and Shenzhen's trillion-yuan electronics cluster, enabling rapid iteration and prototyping. Innovation extends to frontier tech like non-invasive brain-computer interfaces for sleep and focus training, targeting overseas markets including the US and Japan. Supportive policies, such as "buy now, refund now" tax rebates and visa-free entry, are facilitating this international trade boom.
Summary: The article reports on the successful grid connection of the "Haiyou Anlan" (海油安澜号), the world's first 16-megawatt tension-leg floating wind platform, in the Pearl River Mouth Basin off Shenzhen. Project leader Yu Yingping stated that while fixed-foundation turbines lose economic viability beyond 60 meters of water depth, this tension-leg design offers superior stability and reduced steel usage, opening a new technical route for deep-sea wind development. Engineer Feng Dong attributed the project's success to the "new type of nationwide system" (新型举国体制), highlighting collaborative innovation among central state-owned enterprises and private firms to overcome unprecedented technical challenges. The platform is expected to supply 54 million kWh of green electricity annually to the Lufeng oil field, reducing CO2 emissions by 35,000 tons. This milestone supports China's "15th Five-Year Plan" goals for standardized deep-sea wind power development, positioning the nation's floating wind technology at the global forefront.
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Summary: The article reports on China's consumption data for January-July, highlighting a 2.6% year-on-year growth in total retail sales of goods and services, with service retail sales growing faster at 5.0%. It emphasizes the rising "welfare content" of consumption, driven by service sector expansion, upgrades to green and intelligent goods (e.g., NEV penetration at 65.1%), and improved rural-urban parity, where rural sales growth outpaced urban by 1.3 percentage points. The analysis frames these trends as a deliberate policy outcome, arguing that the state's strategy tightly integrates livelihood improvement with consumption promotion through trade-in schemes, community services, and social security enhancements. The article concludes that this mutually reinforcing cycle makes growth more sustainable and represents a long-term, irreversible shift in consumption patterns beyond mere statistical numbers.
Summary: The article reports on Lixi County, Jiangxi Province, a century-old hub for electric porcelain insulators, which now supplies 75% of China's domestic low- and medium-voltage ceramic insulators and 20% of the global market, exporting to over 40 countries. It highlights technological upgrades through a local research institute that broke key barriers in ultra-high-voltage insulator production, boosting product quality and capacity. Market expansion is driven by overseas demand, with 2025 exports reaching 381 million yuan (up 79%), aided by digital marketing and local testing platforms that meet international standards. The industry is also diversifying into cultural products and industrial tourism, creating an IP called "Zizi" and generating over 17 million yuan in retail sales. The piece underscores Lixi's transformation from a follower to a leader in the global insulator sector, positioning Chinese manufacturing as a reliable choice for world power grids.
Summary: China's rental consumption is surging, with young people increasingly favoring "use-over-own" models for items like cameras, camping gear, and game equipment. Government policies, including a January green consumption notice and a July 15th Five-Year Plan for circular economy, have driven the sector's growth, with 2024 transaction volume reaching 4.2 trillion yuan, up 32% year-on-year. Platforms like Renrenzu use deposit-free credit systems and AI-based inspection to build trust, while new national and industry standards are formalizing quality and service rules. The model reduces electronic waste and extends product lifespans, contributing to China's circular economy. Analysts say rental consumption is transitioning from a niche to a mainstream trend, boosting both domestic demand and green development.
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Summary: This memoir by renowned scholar Xie Mian traces his life from a war-torn childhood in Fuzhou to a distinguished career at Peking University. He credits the May Fourth Movement's spirit for shaping his lifelong ideal of serving society, which he formalized as a "poetry volunteer." His primary life's work was the study of modern Chinese poetry, leading him to co-author foundational histories and establish institutions like the Peking University Academy of Poetry. He reflects on his resilience, including recovering from a hip replacement at age 90, and continues to write and engage in academic life. The piece is a personal testament to intellectual dedication, emphasizing that he devoted his life to a single, selfless pursuit.
Summary: This essay by the biography's author reflects on the life of Du Xiangwan, a prominent Chinese nuclear physicist and strategic scientist. It details his early choice to abandon astronomy for nuclear physics to serve national needs, his work on the hydrogen bomb, and his late-career pivot to energy strategy and climate change. The author contrasts Du’s ethos with contemporary "lying flat" attitudes, emphasizing his relentless pursuit of national service. Du is compared to his mentor Zhu Guangya, highlighting a shared lineage of traditional Chinese intellectual virtues centered on "establishing virtue, merit, and words." The piece concludes by framing their lives as spiritual benchmarks for China's cultural and scientific heritage.
Summary: The article is a reflective essay on the Red Army Long March Victory Memorial Hall in Huining, Gansu, using historical relics to evoke the spirit of the 1936 meeting of the three main Red Army forces. It highlights specific artifacts, such as a soldier's registration form, a bugle, and a worn map, to underscore the endurance and sacrifices of the Long March. It specifically notes that Commander-in-Chief Zhu De used a Ming-Qing offering table in the county's Confucian temple to address the troops and read the central committee's congratulatory telegram. The narrative concludes by linking the physical relics to a visceral, emotional connection for contemporary visitors, reinforcing the ideological legacy of the Long March in Chinese revolutionary memory.
Summary: The provided text is a caption identifying a Chinese painting titled "Palm Tree and Small Bird" by artist Jiang Hanting, held in the collection of the National Art Museum of China. It contains no political analysis, official statements, or references to U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A Chinese man recounts his elderly father's emergency surgery, during which he and his brother repeatedly tried to give the lead surgeon, Dr. Yang, a red envelope as a customary gesture to ensure attentive care. Dr. Yang firmly declined each time, reassuring them that saving lives is his duty and that he would do his utmost. The surgery succeeded, and Dr. Yang provided diligent postoperative care. The experience reshaped the narrator's assumption that gifts are needed to secure medical diligence. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The provided text is a lyrical poem set in the Ningxia region, centered on the Tengger Desert and the Yellow River. It uses vivid imagery, such as wind turbines acting as guiding hands and sheep searching for a lost river, to depict the local environment. The poem highlights a shared identity between the narrator and local residents who have historically endured wind and sand. It emphasizes the silent, awe-inspiring endurance of the natural landscape, including mountains and snow leopards. The narrative concludes with the setting sun diving into the Yellow River, symbolizing the region's deep connection to nature.
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Beijing, August 25 (Xinhua) — Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the Measures for Accountability Investigation of Ecological and Environmental Damage by Party and Government Leading Cadres, and issued a notice requiring all regions and departments to earnestly implement them in accordance with the provisions. The full text of the Measures for Accountability Investigation of Ecological and Environmental Damage by Party and Government Leading Cadres follows.
Measures for Accountability Investigation of Ecological and Environmental Damage by Party and Government Leading Cadres
(Approved by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on August 9, 2015; issued by the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council on August 9, 2015; revised at a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on July 9, 2026; issued by the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council on August 3, 2026)
Article 1. For the purposes of upholding and strengthening the Party's overall leadership over ecological civilization construction, comprehensively advancing the construction of a Beautiful China, strengthening the ecological and environmental protection responsibilities of Party and government leading cadres, and promoting the establishment and practice of a correct view of political achievements, these Measures are formulated in accordance with relevant intra-Party regulations and laws.
Article 2. These Measures apply to the accountability investigation for ecological and environmental damage of leading members of local Party committees and governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments, leading members of relevant departments of central and state organs, and leading personnel of relevant institutions under the aforesaid departments.
The accountability investigation for ecological and environmental damage of leading members of townships (subdistricts), public institutions, and various development zones, and leading personnel of state-owned enterprises and their internal institutions and subordinate enterprises, shall be implemented with reference to these Measures.
Article 3. The accountability investigation for ecological and environmental damage of Party and government leading cadres shall adhere to the following principles:
(1) Shared responsibility of the Party and government, accountability for dereliction of duty;
(2) In accordance with regulations and laws, precise and effective;
(3) Serious accountability, lifelong investigation.
Article 4. Under any of the following circumstances, the responsibility of the principal responsible persons of the relevant local Party committee and government shall be investigated:
(1) Implementation of the principles, policies, and decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on ecological civilization construction and ecological and environmental protection is ineffective, organization and implementation of the tasks of deepening the reform of the ecological civilization system and coordinated advancement of the construction of the ecological environment governance system are not in place, resulting in prominent ecological and environmental problems, or a marked deterioration of the ecological and environmental situation during the term of office;
(2) Decisions made violate intra-Party regulations, laws and regulations, policies, or plans on ecological and environmental protection, or blindly make decisions ignoring the ecological environment, breaking through the ecological protection red lines, the bottom line of environmental quality, and the upper limit of resource utilization;
(3) Implementation of the target tasks of comprehensively advancing the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development is ineffective, implementation of territorial spatial planning, ecological environment zoning control, rigid water resource constraints, and other work is not in place, causing serious consequences or adverse effects;
(4) Promotion of the implementation of ecological and environmental protection responsibilities is not in place, and there is shifting of blame and wrangling in ecological and environmental protection coordination, causing serious consequences or adverse effects;
(5) Serious environmental pollution and major ecological damage incidents or accidents occur in the region, or the principal responsible persons of the Party committee and government respond to and handle serious environmental pollution and major ecological damage (disaster) incidents or accidents ineffectively;
(6) Promotion of the integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, grasslands, and deserts is ineffective, organization and implementation of ecological environmental protection and restoration is not in place, resulting in serious ecological degradation;
(7) Organization and implementation of ecological and environmental damage compensation work in the region is not in place, there is a relatively large gap in achieving full compensation where compensation is due, or organization and promotion of ecological and environmental damage compensation work for cases of serious environmental pollution and major ecological damage is ineffective;
(8) For ecological and environmental problems pointed out by inspections and patrols, ecological and environmental protection inspections, natural resource inspections, natural resource asset departure audits, discipline inspection and supervision recommendations, and administrative public interest litigation judgments, organization and promotion of rectification is not strict or solid, with perfunctory rectification, superficial rectification, and false rectification;
(9) Other circumstances where responsibility should be investigated.
Where the above circumstances exist, while investigating the responsibility of the principal responsible persons of the relevant local Party committee and government, corresponding responsibility shall be investigated for other relevant leading members and leading members of relevant departments in accordance with the division of duties and performance of duties.
Article 5. Under any of the following circumstances, the responsibility of relevant leading members of the local Party committee and government shall be investigated:
(1) Supervision and guidance of departments under their charge in performing ecological and environmental protection duties and implementing ecological and environmental protection target tasks is not in place, work such as pollution prevention and control, green transformation of development modes, ecological protection and restoration, and promotion of carbon peak and carbon neutrality is carried out ineffectively, and prominent ecological and environmental problems in the industries and fields under their charge remain unresolved for a long time or recur repeatedly;
(2) Failure to supervise, detect, and stop violations of intra-Party regulations, laws and regulations, policies, or plans on ecological and environmental protection by departments, industries, or fields under their charge, or even shielding and conniving at such violations;
(3) Failure to correctly perform duties, resulting in enterprises, public institutions, and other production and business operators that should have been ordered by the government to suspend business or close down in accordance with law due to serious environmental pollution or major ecological damage not suspending business or closing down;
(4) Within the scope of their duties, response, handling, organization, and investigation of serious environmental pollution and major ecological damage (disaster) incidents or accidents is ineffective;
(5) Failure to arrange and disburse funds for ecological and environmental protection in accordance with policy provisions or contract agreements, or illegal appropriation or misappropriation of ecological and environmental protection expenditures that the government is obligated to pay, causing serious consequences or adverse effects;
(6) Other circumstances where responsibility should be investigated.
Where the above circumstances exist, while investigating the responsibility of relevant leading members of the local Party committee and government, corresponding responsibility shall be investigated for leading members of relevant local departments in accordance with the division of duties and performance of duties.
Article 6. Under any of the following circumstances, the responsibility of leading members of relevant departments of local governments shall be investigated:
(1) Formulated rules and regulations or adopted work measures contradict intra-Party regulations, laws and regulations, policies, or plans on ecological and environmental protection;
(2) In violation of laws, regulations, and policies on ecological and environmental protection, approving development and utilization plans and projects;
(3) Implementation of intra-Party regulations, laws and regulations, policies, or plans on ecological and environmental protection is ineffective, failure to conduct supervision and inspection of implementation in accordance with provisions, or perfunctory and derelict in supervision and inspection, causing serious consequences or adverse effects;
(4) Problems such as inaction, arbitrary action, or non-standard conduct exist in the implementation of administrative licensing, punishment, compulsory measures, levy, and other law enforcement acts related to ecological and environmental protection, causing serious environmental pollution or major ecological damage;
(5) Failure to investigate and handle serious ecological and environmental damage problems discovered or reported by the masses in accordance with provisions, or failure to correctly perform duties or ineffective performance of duties in handling ecological and environmental problems that infringe upon the interests of the masses;
(6) Failure to report, notify, or publicly disclose information on environmental pollution and ecological damage (disaster) incidents or accidents in accordance with provisions;
(7) Failure to transfer clues or cases of violations of discipline or law in the ecological and environmental field that should be transferred to relevant organs for handling in accordance with provisions;
(8) Other circumstances where responsibility should be investigated.
Where the above circumstances exist, while investigating the responsibility of leading members of relevant departments of local governments, corresponding responsibility shall be investigated for leading personnel of their relevant institutions.
Article 7. Where leading members of relevant departments of central and state organs, leading members of relevant departments of local Party committees, and leading personnel of relevant institutions under the aforesaid departments are derelict or negligent in performing ecological and environmental protection responsibilities and advancing ecological civilization construction, causing serious consequences or adverse effects, corresponding responsibility shall be investigated in accordance with provisions.
Article 8. Where Party and government leading cadres, by using the influence of their positions, fall under any of the following circumstances, their responsibility shall be investigated:
(1) Failure to cooperate with ecological and environmental protection inspections, restricting, interfering with, or obstructing ecological and environmental protection supervision and law enforcement work;
(2) Interfering with judicial activities, meddling in the handling of specific judicial cases related to ecological and environmental protection;
(3) Interfering with or meddling in construction projects, resulting in the approval, permission for construction, or commissioning (use) of construction projects that do not conform to laws, regulations, policies, or plans on ecological and environmental protection;
(4) Instigating the tampering with or falsification of statistical, survey, assessment, monitoring, or environmental impact assessment data related to ecological and environmental protection;
(5) Other circumstances where responsibility should be investigated.
Article 9. The following methods may be adopted for accountability investigation for ecological and environmental damage of Party and government leading cadres:
(1) Conversation reminders, criticism and education, orders to make checks, and admonishment;
(2) Organizational adjustment or organizational handling;
(3) Party discipline and government affairs disciplinary action.
The above accountability investigation methods may be used individually or in combination in accordance with provisions.
Where suspicion of illegal or criminal conduct exists, the matter shall be promptly transferred to relevant organs for handling in accordance with law.
Article 10. Where departments of the government responsible for ecological and environmental protection supervision and management duties discover circumstances for accountability investigation as provided in these Measures, they must, in accordance with their duties, conduct investigation of the ecological and environmental damage problem in accordance with law. Where major ecological and environmental damage problems or complex ecological and environmental damage problems involving multiple regions, river basins, or departments are encountered, the investigation may be elevated to a higher level. While making administrative penalty decisions or other handling decisions in accordance with law based on the investigation results, materials requiring accountability investigation of relevant leading cadres shall be promptly transferred to discipline inspection and supervision organs and organization (personnel) departments in accordance with the authority for cadre management, which shall carry out accountability investigation in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law.
Important ecological and environmental damage problems and situations of dereliction of duty by leading cadres discovered in work such as inspections and patrols, ecological and environmental protection inspections, natural resource inspections, and natural resource asset departure audits shall be transferred to discipline inspection and supervision organs and organization (personnel) departments in accordance with relevant authority, procedures, and requirements, which shall carry out accountability investigation in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law.
Where judicial organs, in the process of handling cases such as ecological and environmental damage, discover circumstances for accountability investigation as provided in these Measures, they shall transfer the problem clues to discipline inspection and supervision organs or organization (personnel) departments in accordance with provisions.
Article 11. Discipline inspection and supervision organs, organization (personnel) departments, and departments of the government responsible for ecological and environmental protection supervision and management duties shall improve the communication and coordination mechanism for accountability investigation for ecological and environmental damage, achieve early discovery, early reminder, and early correction of ecological and environmental damage problems, and strengthen consultation and joint assessment as needed for work, making comprehensive accountability investigation decisions or putting forward accountability investigation recommendations.
The circumstances of accountability investigation shall generally be disclosed to the public by appropriate means.
Article 12. A lifelong accountability investigation system for ecological and environmental damage shall be implemented. Where serious damage to the ecological environment is caused due to deviations in the view of political achievements, violation of the new development philosophy and high-quality development requirements, and other such circumstances, regardless of whether the responsible person has been transferred, reassigned, promoted, left office, or retired, serious accountability investigation must be carried out.
Article 13. Where discipline inspection and supervision organs, organization (personnel) departments, and departments of the government responsible for ecological and environmental protection supervision and management duties, with respect to circumstances for accountability investigation as provided in these Measures that have been discovered, should have investigated but did not investigate, should have transferred but did not transfer, or should have investigated accountability but did not investigate accountability, the responsibility of the relevant responsible personnel shall be investigated in accordance with provisions.
Article 14. The accountability investigation for ecological and environmental damage of Party and government leading cadres shall correctly grasp policy boundaries, and in light of historical causes, nature and degree, response and handling, consequences and impact, recovery of losses, and other circumstances, accurately make responsibility determinations and accountability investigation decisions, preventing the generalization and oversimplification of accountability.
Article 15. Leading cadres who have been subject to accountability investigation and are dissatisfied with the accountability investigation decision may apply for review, re-examination, and lodge appeals in accordance with the prescribed procedures. The relevant organs and departments shall accept and handle such applications in accordance with relevant provisions.
During the period of review, re-examination, or appeal, the execution of the accountability investigation decision shall not be suspended.
Leading cadres shall not be subjected to aggravated accountability investigation because they apply for review, re-examination, or lodge appeals.
Article 16. Leading cadres who have circumstances for accountability investigation as provided in these Measures and are undergoing review and investigation shall not be promoted in position, promoted in rank, or further used before the handling and disciplinary decision is made. Where the handling and disciplinary decision made has an impact period, it shall be implemented in accordance with relevant provisions.
Article 17. All provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government may formulate implementation rules in accordance with these Measures, refining the relevant circumstances, standards, procedures, and other aspects of accountability investigation in light of actual conditions. Departments of the State Council responsible for ecological and environmental protection supervision and management duties shall formulate specific institutional measures for implementing these Measures.
Article 18. These Measures shall be interpreted by the Organization Department of the Central Committee in consultation with the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision.
Article 19. These Measures shall come into force on the date of issuance.
(Answers by the head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee to reporters' questions are on page 2)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 史一棋 李林蔚
Recently, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions, fully affirming the study and education work and its results, and putting forward clear requirements for consolidating and expanding the results of study and education and establishing a long-term mechanism for establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements (政绩观).
The broad masses of Party members and cadres expressed that they must earnestly study and understand and comprehensively implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instruction spirit, treat establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements as a long-term task, persist with sustained effort 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "persist long and achieve," to keep working at something over a long period), continuously consolidate and expand the results of study and education, and strive to create achievements that can stand the test of practice, the people, and history.
This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and is also the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." "Carrying out study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements throughout the entire Party is precisely the right time." Bai Jing (白婧), deputy dean and professor of the School of Marxism at the Yunnan Provincial Party School (云南省委党校), said that through the tempering of study and education, the broad masses of Party members and cadres have further corrected their ideological understanding of "for whom political achievements are established, what kind of political achievements to establish, and on what to rely to establish political achievements," deepened their understanding and comprehension of the correct view of political achievements, their ideals and convictions have become increasingly firm, their drive for practical work has become more sufficient, and this has powerfully promoted the "15th Five-Year Plan" to get off to a good start and take a good first step.
Through study and education, the broad masses of Party members and cadres have strengthened their awareness of the Party's purpose and deeply understood that benefiting the people is the greatest political achievement.
"The people are the greatest confidence in our Party's governance. Party members and cadres must strengthen, from both ideology and action, the firmness and consciousness of always taking benefiting the people as the greatest political achievement, seek happiness for the people, and do practical things for the people." Wang Yongming (王永明), member of the Standing Committee of the Wanyuan Municipal Party Committee (万源市) and head of the Organization Department, Sichuan Province, said.
"Communists undertake undertakings and create political achievements for the purpose of benefiting the people." Wang Bo (王波), executive deputy secretary of the Naidong District Party Committee (乃东区) and executive deputy district head of Shannan City, Tibet Autonomous Region, said, "We must deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instruction spirit, firmly establish the people-centered development philosophy, adhere to development for the people, development relying on the people, and development results shared by the people, and take how many good deeds and practical things have been done for the common people as an important standard for testing political achievements."
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that we must adhere to normalizing the identification and rectification of problems, and for prominent problems of deviation in the view of political achievements that require long-term rectification, we must keep a close watch and follow up to assess effectiveness.
"Identifying and rectifying problems means taking real action on specific matters, taking the needs of the masses as the orientation, taking actual results as the yardstick, continuously preventing and correcting prominent problems of deviation in the view of political achievements, and promoting Party members and cadres to continuously enhance their ideological consciousness and action consciousness of establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements." Qu Maoxian (瞿茂贤), deputy secretary of the Songyang County Party Committee (松阳县) of Lishui City, Zhejiang Province, said.
"During the study and education period, in response to the governance shortcoming of 'emphasizing construction over management' in rural water supply, we promoted the upgrading and renovation of pipeline networks and improved operation and maintenance mechanisms, so that the masses can drink assured water. In the next step, we must focus on people's livelihood and welfare, and continue to track and rectify prominent problems of deviation in the view of political achievements." Li Xin (李新), secretary of the Party Committee of Youxi Town (油溪镇), Jiangjin District, Chongqing, said.
"Facing problems left over from history and pain points at the grassroots level, we must have the courage and determination to take real action, tackle hard problems, and work earnestly and solidly, step by step, item by item, to ensure implementation." Yu Ming (郁明), member of the Party Working Committee and deputy director of the Management Committee of Wuxi Taihu National Tourism Resort (无锡太湖国家旅游度假区), Jiangsu Province, said.
"The key to consolidating and expanding the results of study and education lies in solidifying practical results into a long-term mechanism." Su Huaye (苏铧烨), secretary of the Mangya Municipal Party Committee (茫崖市) of Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, said that efforts will be made to improve institutional mechanisms, improve the scientific demonstration mechanism for major decisions, strengthen pre-review of key links such as project construction; improve the differentiated assessment and evaluation system, and accurately assess the political achievements of cadres.
"In the next step, we will solidify the effective experience and practices from study and education into institutional norms, continue to establish and improve a teacher teaching evaluation system characterized by comprehensive evaluation and developmental evaluation, and strive to let teachers with outstanding achievements receive due recognition." Yu Xinjie (于歆杰), director of the Personnel Department of Tsinghua University, said.
Study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements is not the end point, but a new starting point.
"To implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's requirements on regularly carrying out education on the view of political achievements, we must find the focal points." Shu Zufei (束祖飞), director of the Guangdong Chebaling National Nature Reserve Administration (广东车八岭国家级自然保护区), said that the correct view of political achievements must be implemented in various specific work such as ecological resource protection and management, scientific research and monitoring, and cultural tourism development, integrating ecological protection with green industries, and safeguarding the Nanling ecological barrier.
"To regularly carry out education on the view of political achievements, we plan to integrate relevant content into the full-cycle training of young cadres, open the first lesson on performing duties with a correct view of political achievements for newly promoted cadres, and carry out special training for cadres in key positions around deviation in the view of political achievements, clean and standardized performance of duties, and continuously calibrate the value orientation of cadres in working and starting undertakings." Guo Yuhai (郭郁海), executive deputy director of the Organization Department of the Bayannur Municipal Party Committee (巴彦淖尔市) of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said.
Political achievements are made for the people; work earnestly toward the future. The broad masses of Party members and cadres expressed that they must deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building and General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instruction spirit, always take responsibility and act with a correct view of political achievements, perform duties with dedication, and continuously transform the grand blueprint of the "15th Five-Year Plan" into beautiful reality.
(Our reporters Wang Mingfeng, Qiao Dong, Yao Xueqing, Zhang Cheng, Li Zong, Wu Yue, Liu Xinwu, Dou Hao, Xian Gan, and Zhang Chi participated in the reporting.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孟祥夫 何昭宇
The question of the view of political achievements is a fundamental question, bearing on building the Party for the public and exercising power for the people.
"In the opening year of the '15th Five-Year Plan,' whether in formulating plans or in deploying implementation, a correct view of political achievements is needed. The leading bodies of provinces, cities, counties, and townships will undergo successive transitions, so emphasizing the view of political achievements is also highly targeted." In January of this year, at the opening ceremony of the special seminar for provincial and ministerial-level leading cadres on studying and implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping set forth the far-reaching considerations behind establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, during an inspection in Beijing, General Secretary Xi Jinping again urged: "The '15th Five-Year Plan' has already started and gotten underway. Leading bodies at all levels have high enthusiasm and abundant drive — this is good; the key is that the view of political achievements must be correct."
In February of this year, the General Office of the Central Committee issued the Notice on Carrying Out the Learning and Education Campaign for Establishing and Practicing a Correct View of Political Achievements Throughout the Party, clarifying: "Taking building the Party for the public, benefiting the people, scientific decision-making, and genuine and solid work as the general requirements, and taking the integrated advancement of study, examination, and rectification as the starting point, educate and guide Party organizations at all levels and Party members and cadres to adhere to seeking truth from facts and being pragmatic and down-to-earth, to produce political achievements for the people and to produce political achievements through solid work."
In his important instructions on the learning and education campaign for establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements throughout the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "conscientiously and solidly raise ideological understanding," "conscientiously and solidly rectify prominent problems," and "conscientiously and solidly establish institutional rules."
Since the learning and education campaign was launched, all regions, departments, and units have deeply studied and implemented Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, and earnestly implemented the work arrangements of study and discussion, problem examination, rectification and governance, establishment of rules and regulations, and open-door education. The broad masses of Party members and cadres have corrected their ideological cognition, calibrated their value deviations, and established a practical and results-oriented orientation, implementing the correct view of political achievements in undertaking work and starting enterprises, with the results of the learning and education campaign continuously transformed into practical results that promote high-quality economic and social development.
"This learning and education campaign for establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, adhered to carrying theoretical study through to the end, truly examined and practically rectified problems of deviation in the view of political achievements, focused on establishing institutional rules that are practical and effective, and carried through with strict and solid work style to the very end, achieving notable results and reaching the intended objectives." General Secretary Xi Jinping recently made important instructions emphasizing this.
Cadres receive education
"Enhance the ideological consciousness and action consciousness of establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements"
What is a correct view of political achievements? What is an erroneous view of political achievements?
In the "first lesson" of the opening year, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly analyzed the two different views of political achievements —
"A correct view of political achievements requires us to adhere to proceeding from reality and acting according to laws, and through scientific decision-making and solid and hard work, create achievements that can withstand the test of practice and history, truly benefit the people, and gain public recognition."
"An erroneous view of political achievements proceeds from the interests of individuals or small groups, being 心浮气躁 (xīn fú qì zào - "restless in heart and impatient in spirit," impetuous and anxious), 急功近利 (jí gōng jìn lì - "eager for merit and quick profit," seeking quick success and instant benefits), 弄虚作假 (nòng xū zuò jiǎ - "engage in falsehood and deceit," resorting to deception), and acting blindly and recklessly, engaging in 'image projects' and 'vanity projects,' leaving behind burdens and hidden dangers, and arousing strong dissatisfaction among the masses."
The General Secretary's important speech profoundly revealed the essential difference between the two views of political achievements, educating and guiding Party members and cadres to raise their ideological awareness and calibrate their behavioral deviations.
"A large amount of facts show that deviation and dislocation in the view of political achievements will waste resources, abet formalism, breed unhealthy tendencies and corruption, ultimately 劳民伤财 (láo mín shāng cái - "wear out the people and harm the treasury," waste money and manpower), damage the relationship between the Party and the masses and between cadres and the masses, affect the image of leading bodies and leading cadres in the hearts of the people, and if left unchecked, will shake the Party's governing foundation — the harm is extremely serious." General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out profoundly.
How to calibrate the view of political achievements? "Raise Party spirit awareness, and with an attitude of high responsibility toward the Party and the people, enhance the ideological consciousness and action consciousness of establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements."
Political firmness and Party spirit firmness are inseparable from theoretical firmness. Since the learning and education campaign was launched, the broad masses of Party members and cadres have deeply studied and carefully comprehended General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, insisted on finding gaps, tracing roots, and strengthening self-cultivation from the perspective of Party spirit, and promoted the correct view of political achievements to be internalized in the heart and externalized in action.
The Central and State Organs Working Committee organized Party members of central and state organs to "attend the same class together," with Party members and cadres further enhancing their consciousness and firmness in studying, comprehending, and applying thought, more deeply comprehending the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," and taking the lead in achieving the "Two Upholds."
Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Gansu and other localities held reading classes for the learning and education campaign and special study sessions of theoretical learning center groups, using the "key minority" to lead study and drive Party members and cadres to study in follow-up and on a regular basis.
The Party Group of China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. deeply studied and carefully comprehended Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, and formulated and implemented the company's "high-standard Party building" action plan. The Party Group of State Power Investment Corporation Limited insisted on carrying study and discussion through to the end, holding special reading classes in five dimensions including practicing Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization and implementing the holistic approach to national security. The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences held a special reading class and a collective study session of the Party committee theoretical learning center group, organizing all deputy division-level and above middle-level management personnel of the university to participate in online study, achieving full coverage of management cadre study. At Jilin University, Party organizations at both the university and college levels carried out theoretical learning center group study and reading class study, with 1,256 grassroots Party branches carrying out study and discussion in forms such as "Three Meetings and One Lesson," themed Party days, and special study sessions.
Models are a mirror; looking into the mirror allows one to straighten one's attire. In the learning and education campaign, all regions, departments, and units have paid attention to making good use of both positive and negative models.
Hangzhou, Zhejiang — the thousand-year Grand Canal, a clear current nourishing ancient and modern times. Not long ago, Gongshu District carried out the activity of "tracing origins to comprehend thought, doing solid work to create real achievements," organizing Party members and cadres in key positions and young Party members to walk into the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Museum, deeply studying General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on building the Grand Canal cultural belt, and comprehending the view of political achievements contained therein. "We must do more foundational work, do more practical things that benefit future generations, and create sustainable, high-quality achievements." A leading cadre of a district-level direct organ said.
Positive models set benchmarks; negative models sound the alarm. The central-level special work team for the learning and education campaign on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements and the General Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection publicly notified 7 cases of deviation in the view of political achievements; the General Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection publicly notified 5 typical cases of deviation in the view of political achievements... The typical cases publicly notified deeply moved and alerted people, educating and guiding Party members and cadres at all levels to 举一反三 (jǔ yī fǎn sān - "raise one and infer three," draw inferences from one instance) and draw lessons.
Recently, the meeting room of Sinograin Zhengzhou Direct Depot was packed to capacity, as the group Party group's warning education conference for the learning and education campaign on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements was being held. Through the video conference system, Sinograin Group organized more than 1,400 Party organizations and over 28,000 Party members, cadres, and employees across the entire system to collectively watch warning education films. "Guarding every granary for the Party and the people, protecting every grain of food, and contributing to national food security — this is the political achievement we pursue." A cadre said.
Since the learning and education campaign was launched, the broad masses of Party members and cadres have continuously advanced the "Four In-depth Studies," consciously benchmarking against standards and promptly calibrating deviations in ideological understanding; strictly implementing the requirements of the "Three Comparisons," earnestly examining problems existing in the performance of duties, correcting immediately upon knowing and acting immediately upon learning, and effectively transforming learning results into practical actions and results that guide practice and promote work.
Development gains new momentum
"Fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept and strive to promote high-quality development"
The view of political achievements is connected to the view of development. Whether the view of political achievements is correct is reflected in the quality of development. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out profoundly: "Since the 18th Party Congress, I have repeatedly emphasized the need to fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept and strive to promote high-quality development. To implement this requirement level by level, it cannot be done without a correct view of political achievements."
Regarding forward-looking layout and development of future industries, he pointed out, "adhere to the national game of chess, adapt measures to local conditions, develop with differentiated positioning, and prevent blindly 'following trends' in launching projects and recklessly 'burning money'"; he made important instructions on Yiwu, requiring "combining with the learning and education campaign for establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, to further summarize and apply well the 'Yiwu development experience'"; at the 25th collective study session of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, he emphasized, "establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, and resolutely correct tendencies such as emphasizing development over safety and emphasizing disaster relief over prevention"...
At the satellite shared testing center of the Hebei Xiong'an Science and Technology Innovation Center pilot production base, Party members and cadres of the Xiong'an Science Park Management Committee are debugging equipment together with technical personnel.
Commercial aerospace is flourishing — how to leverage it to move forward? Previously, for Xiong'an enterprises to conduct aerospace testing, technical personnel had to take satellites to other places, which was time-consuming, labor-intensive, and costly. In the learning and education campaign, after learning of the shortcoming that the aerospace information industry lacked a market-oriented public testing platform, the Xiong'an Science Park Management Committee decided to accelerate the construction of platforms such as satellite shared intelligent manufacturing and satellite shared testing, helping local industrial development while also radiating to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Xiong'an's development must be considered under the grand strategy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development, integrating into and serving the national development overall situation. Since the learning and education campaign was launched, Xiong'an New Area has deepened the Beijing-Xiong'an "same-city" development, with 625 Beijing municipal-level matters now directly processable in Xiong'an, and 244 Beijing qualifications and credentials in fields such as human resources and medical health included in the Xiong'an recognition list... Deeply integrating into the overall situation of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development, Xiong'an's development space has become broader.
Tower cranes stand in rows, machinery roars — at the Nuclear Medical Health Industry Park of the China (Mianyang) Science and Technology City, the new factory area of Guoboron Neutron Technology (Mianyang) Co., Ltd. is under vigorous construction. Standing before the project renderings, Li Liguo, captain of the nuclear technology application assault team of Youxian District, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, was full of confidence: "Our goal is to build a complete nuclear medical equipment industry system covering four types of particles — protons, electrons, photons, and neutrons. Neutrons are the key link that must be filled in."
For this "key link," the Youxian District nuclear technology application assault team transformed into a "vanguard for investment attraction" and "logistics service corps for projects," moving their offices to the front lines of investment attraction and project construction sites. "The park's positioning highly matches our development path, and what also reassures us is the warm service of the relevant departments." Cheng Jiuxin, deputy chief engineer of Guoboron Neutron, said.
The nuclear medical industry has high technical thresholds, large investment, and long cycles. The Mianyang Science and Technology City Management Committee carefully analyzed the current state of the industrial chain, combined technical reserves with market demand, issued policies such as the "special policy for nuclear medical talent," and established industrial investment funds such as the Science and Technology Innovation Investment Fund. In addition, it conducted research and assessment on cultivated and attracted nuclear medical enterprises, identified their upstream and downstream and product application scenarios, and achieved "precise drip irrigation." As of now, the city has cumulatively coordinated and resolved 9,551 enterprise production and operation difficulties.
Safety is the premise of development, development is the guarantee of safety, and high-quality development cannot be separated from the escort of high-level safety.
Some time ago, affected by typhoons, sustained heavy rainfall occurred in parts of Guizhou Province, and a landslide geological disaster occurred in Guanxiong Village, Donglang Town, Congjiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. Local authorities accurately predicted and judged the situation, evacuated the masses in advance, and the houses collapsed only 10 minutes after the masses evacuated, with no casualties.
Coordinating development and safety and guarding the health and safety of the masses — since May, Congjiang County has initiated flood prevention emergency responses 14 times, with county-level cadres going down to the townships they are connected with to supervise, and Party members and cadres at all levels participating in flood prevention and disaster relief, while also paying attention to post-disaster recovery and reconstruction to ensure that the production and life of the masses are restored in a timely manner.
In the learning and education campaign, the broad masses of Party members and cadres have focused on the chronic and stubborn diseases hindering high-quality development, insisted on solving whatever problems exist and focusing rectification on whatever problems are prominent, and, guided by a correct view of political achievements, pursued higher quality, more efficient, fairer, more sustainable, and safer development.
The masses gain tangible benefits
"Establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements must ultimately be reflected in benefiting the people"
What is true political achievement? What is used to test political achievement?
The Communist Party of China, with an initial aspiration as firm as a rock, "takes doing things for the people and benefiting the people as the most important political achievement, and takes how many good and practical things have been done for the people as an important standard for testing political achievement."
General Secretary Xi Jinping has always had the people in his heart, with a sincere and profound feeling for the people that has been consistent throughout. In Dezhou, Shandong, he learned in detail whether the Party's "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" policies had all been fully implemented, pointing out that "establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements must ultimately be reflected in benefiting the people"; in Shanghai, after hearing an introduction about Shanghai's promotion of upgrading old houses without sanitary facilities, historically solving the problem of old city residents "carrying chamber pots," and community renovation, he emphasized that "in work, one must firmly establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, think what the masses think, and be anxious about what the masses are anxious about."
All regions, departments, and units have adhered to open-door education, listening to the opinions of the masses when examining problems, accepting the supervision of the masses in rectification and governance, and accepting the judgment of the masses in testing results. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security organized an employment service assault action. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and other relevant departments held the bottom line of no large-scale return to poverty or new poverty, formulated and implemented targeted assistance measures on a "one household, one policy" basis, and helped the employment of people who have shaken off poverty...
The Tibet Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China went deep into the grassroots to carry out special research, focusing on the weak links in credit services for farmers and herdsmen in remote areas, forming a work list, and providing localized and adapted financial services to the broad masses of farmers and herdsmen through targeted measures such as establishing a remote video customer service team and optimizing mobile banking services, while also relying on the "Gelsang Flower" financial service team to provide door-to-door services, building an integrated online and offline service system.
In Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing, residents of Qingquan Township turned on their faucets and clear water gushed out. Named "Qingquan Township" ("Clear Spring Township"), the masses here used to have no shortage of worries about water. Due to problems with the water supply contracting enterprise, there were once chronic problems such as substandard water quality, frequent water stoppages, and opaque billing.
In the learning and education campaign, Youyang County listened to the voices of the people, gathered public sentiment, and resolved people's difficulties, focusing on the problems of "contract performance" and "aging pipe networks." After multiple rounds of consultation and mediation, a 20-year contract was terminated through judicial channels, while simultaneously promoting pipe network renovation, carrying out routine water quality monitoring, and publicly disclosing water fees, resolving the drinking water difficulties of more than 500 households.
"Needs are set by you, methods are proposed by you, results are evaluated by you!" Not long ago, at a mass report meeting in Fangzhuang Subdistrict, Fengtai District, Beijing, a subdistrict cadre said this in response to a suggestion raised by the masses for "upgrading and improving the Fangzhuang Market."
Subdistrict cadres visited more than 140 merchants, held 3 rounds of mass forums, and adopted 35 effective suggestions. Soon, the food plaza of Fangzhuang Market was renovated and upgraded, releasing 400 square meters of space to create a dine-in area, and the masses praised it one after another.
Whether political achievements are good or not — the masses have the final say. Fengtai District adheres to open-door education, improving the mechanism of "streets and towns reporting work to the masses," with street and town cadres reporting on their work face-to-face with the masses at report meetings, advancing simultaneous online and offline deliberation, dynamically publicizing the progress of problem handling, and planting political achievements in the hearts of the masses.
People's livelihood has no small matters; every branch and leaf concerns us. A hotline call for immediate response to complaints, an on-site work session in streets and alleys, a perspective-shifting experience of standing behind the "service window"... The broad masses of Party members and cadres adhere to following the Party's mass line in the new era, thinking together with the masses and working together with them, treating every small matter of people's livelihood as a top priority and turning them into heartwarming practical matters.
Institutions govern the long term
"Earnestly fill in and establish institutional rules"
"The problem of the view of political achievements is highly correlated with the willful and abusive exercise of power; power must be confined in the cage of institutions";
"One must discover institutional loopholes, shortcomings, and weaknesses from the problems examined and rectified in this learning and education campaign, and earnestly fill in and establish institutional rules";
"One must strengthen supervision over 'top leaders,' preventing 'top leaders' from exercising power willfully and making arbitrary changes overnight";
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General Secretary Xi Jinping made clear requirements on strengthening institutional development, pointing the direction for consolidating and expanding the results of the learning and education campaign.
Institutions carry overall and stable significance; they govern the fundamental and the long term. Since the learning and education campaign was launched, all regions, departments, and units have adhered to combining "immediate rectification" with "long-term establishment," making efforts in establishing rules and regulations, and promoting the normalization and long-term effectiveness of establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements.
The Ministry of Public Security has focused on sorting out and evaluating institutional mechanisms in areas such as law enforcement and case handling, improving the working mechanism for preventing and correcting deviation in the view of political achievements and the normalized education mechanism, achieving institutional governance of power and exercise of power according to rules. The Ministry of Science and Technology has improved the institutional systems for science and technology evaluation, project management, resource allocation, and research integrity, promoting the formation of a clear orientation that values solid work, real achievements, and long-term vision.
Establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements — scientific decision-making, democratic decision-making, and law-based decision-making are inherent requirements. Some localities and units have taken the learning and education campaign as an opportunity to improve the deliberation and decision-making rules of leading bodies, regulate the exercise of power, and continuously improve the quality and level of decision-making.
The total investment in the smart hospital construction exceeds 16 million yuan — how to ensure the efficient use of fiscal funds and improve the medical experience of the masses? The Party Committee of Baotou Third Hospital in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region adhered to scientific and democratic decision-making, organized cadres to go to the front line to conduct clinical needs research, organized multi-field experts to conduct centralized review, demonstrated details such as module configuration, technical standard adaptation, capital investment, and application scenarios, and formed a project implementation plan. At the same time, the Baotou Municipal Health Commission fully demonstrated and reviewed for filing before project approval, and conducted unannounced spot checks during the construction period. Today, more and more patients are experiencing the convenience brought by the "smart hospital."
Around upholding and improving democratic centralism, Baotou City revised and improved the deliberation and decision-making rules of Party committees (Party groups) and the decision list for "Three Major and One Large" matters, clearly defining decision-making boundaries, scope of application, deliberation procedures, and voting methods, preventing arbitrary decision-making, blind decision-making, and rule-violating decision-making.
In the learning and education campaign, many localities have explored improving the handover system for changes in principal responsible persons of leading bodies, clarifying handover lists and standardizing handover procedures.
"I undertake that I am responsible for the authenticity, accuracy, and completeness of the handed-over content, and I accept organizational supervision and verification." In Zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, some units carried out handover for changes in leading cadres under the supervision and witness of discipline inspection and supervision, organization, audit, and other relevant departments. Zhongwei City, focusing on the four categories of principal responsible persons of organs, mass organizations, state-owned enterprises, and public institutions, clarified and detailed 19 specific handover items in 4 aspects, building a handover system with list-based responsibilities, pre-review, standardized procedures, and three-dimensional assessment.
Small wisdom governs affairs; great wisdom governs institutions. All regions, departments, and units have deeply examined provisions in current institutional mechanisms that do not conform to the requirements of a correct view of political achievements, abolishing what should be abolished and revising what should be revised. The cage of institutions is being woven tighter and tighter, and the dike of responsibility is being built more and more solidly.
"Establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements is a long-term task; one must 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "persist for a long time to achieve success," make unremitting efforts over time), continuously consolidate and expand the results of the learning and education campaign, and continuously promote Party organizations at all levels and the broad masses of Party members and cadres to build the Party for the public, benefit the people, make scientific decisions, and do solid work, striving to create real achievements that can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history." General Secretary Xi Jinping recently made important instructions emphasizing this.
The wind is just right for setting sail; the time for struggle is now. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and comprehensively exerting effort in basically realizing socialist modernization.
On the new journey, leading bodies at all levels and the broad masses of Party members and cadres firmly support the "Two Establishments" and resolutely achieve the "Two Upholds," always acting with responsibility and performing duties with a correct view of political achievements, strengthening confidence and continuing the struggle — they will surely turn the grand blueprint of Chinese-style modernization into a beautiful reality step by step.
(Staff reporters Pan Junqiang, Shao Yuzi, Wang Xinyue, Zhao Jingfeng, Jiao Siyu, and Wang Yongzhan of this newspaper participated in the reporting)
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"Developing new energy vehicles is the only way for China to transition from a major automobile country to an automobile power," General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during his inspection of SAIC Motor in May 2014. Over the past decade and more, under the blueprint and leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping, China's new energy vehicle industry has achieved achievements that have attracted worldwide attention, endowing automobiles with a new definition, creating a new model for the automobile industry, reconstructing new logic for the automobile market, shaping a new ecosystem for automobile going global, and defining new standards for automobiles. New energy vehicles have become a brilliant calling card of Made in China.
Based on the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and oriented toward the long-range goal of basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035, how can China promote the high-quality development of its new energy vehicle industry, and how can China's new energy vehicles consolidate and expand new global advantages? A research team composed of reporters from People's Daily and China Automobile News conducted in-depth research.
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China's new energy vehicles, since 2015, have ranked first in the world in production and sales volume for 11 consecutive years.
In the first half of 2026, China's new energy vehicle production and sales maintained high growth, with overseas market sales increasing 1.2 times year-on-year. Looking back from the midpoint of the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, a full 70 years have passed since July 1956, when New China's first automobile officially rolled off the production line at the First Automobile Works in Changchun.
From the resolute start determined to change the situation in which "we cannot make a single automobile, a single airplane, a single tank, or a single tractor," to the successive birth of the first "Jiefang" (Liberation), "Dongfeng" (East Wind), and "Hongqi" (Red Flag) brand automobiles; from the arduous exploration of "exchanging market for technology" during the reform and opening up, to the powerful rise of "technology leading the world" in the new era — China's automobile industry, through a magnificent leap, has carved a striking eastern coordinate on the world automobile industry map.
China's automobile industry wins by changing lanes to overtake, and triumphs by reshaping new rules.
In May 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during his inspection of SAIC Motor: "Developing new energy vehicles is the only way for China to transition from a major automobile country to an automobile power." In July 2020, the General Secretary emphasized during his inspection of FAW Group: "To promote the high-quality development of China's automobile manufacturing industry, we must strengthen the independent research and development of key core technologies and key components, achieve technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, and make the national brands bigger and stronger."
The far-sighted strategic blueprint has opened up a brand-new path for the automobile industry.
For every 3 automobiles sold globally, 1 is made in China; for every 3 passenger vehicles sold in China, 2 are new energy vehicles. How did China's new energy vehicles achieve the historic leap from following to leading?
17,600 vehicles and 16.49 million vehicles — these are China's annual new energy vehicle sales in 2013 and 2025.
0.08% and 47.9% — these are the penetration rates of new energy vehicles among new cars in China in 2013 and 2025.
In 13 years, new energy vehicle sales have grown more than 930-fold, and the penetration rate has increased more than 590-fold. A trillion-yuan-level strategic emerging industry has risen abruptly from the ground.
Let us return to 13 years ago. At that time, China had already become the world's major automobile consumer market, with automobile production and sales ranking first in the world since 2009. However, within this "world first," Chinese automakers were always learners rather than creators, participants rather than leaders, on the fuel vehicle track.
What kind of technology route to take was the primary question for the industry's breakthrough.
In December 2008, BYD's F3DM went on sale — the world's first mass-produced plug-in hybrid passenger vehicle. China opened the era of civilian use of new energy vehicles. But first-mover advantage does not equal industrial certainty: in the 1990s, the West had set off a wave of pure electric vehicles; entering the second decade of this century, mainstream international automakers turned toward hybrid electric, short-range plug-in hybrid, and range-extender routes. Standing at the "crossroads" of transitioning from a major automobile country to an automobile power, domestic automakers were generally hesitant and waiting on electrification transformation. The contest over technology routes remained unresolved.
May 24, 2014, was a day of milestone significance in the history of China's automobile industry development. On this day, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to SAIC Motor for an inspection and learned in detail about the development of new energy vehicles. The General Secretary urged everyone: the automobile industry is one with a large market, high technological content, and a very high degree of refined management; developing new energy vehicles is the only way for China to transition from a major automobile country to an automobile power. We must increase research and development efforts, seriously study the market, make good use of policies, and develop products that meet the needs of various demands, making it a strong growth point.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping chose the right 'new track' for building an automobile power," said Fu Bingfeng, Vice President and Secretary-General of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, with deep feeling.
Anchoring on the new track, going all out to sprint toward the commanding heights.
In 2014, China's new energy vehicle production and sales grew more than 3-fold year-on-year, and the year was called the "first year of new energy vehicles."
Since 2014, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments have issued nearly a hundred policy measures, providing all-round support for the development of the new energy vehicle industry.
"China must seize the right to define new energy vehicles," said Zhang Jinhua, Chairman of the China Society of Automotive Engineers. "On a track set by multinational corporations, acting according to others' rules, no matter how hard one tries, one is only a 'follower.' Only by accurately grasping the technological development trends of the automobile industry, proactively opening up new tracks, and putting forward 'new definitions' can one lead the world."
China was the first in the world to put forward the concept and definition of "intelligent connected vehicles." This is an industrial concept of China's original creation.
The "Made in China 2025" plan, issued in May 2015, proposed "mastering core technologies for automobile low-carbonization, informatization, and intelligentization," binding new energy vehicles and intelligent connected vehicles as the same upgrade mainline.
This was the earliest top-level design among the world's major powers to coordinate and plan "intelligence + connectivity + new energy complete vehicles" as a whole.
In the same year, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers released the Chinese definition, classification, and technical architecture of ICV (intelligent connected vehicles), creating the Chinese-characteristic expression of "intelligence + connectivity dual-wheel drive."
The "13th Five-Year Plan for the Development of National Strategic Emerging Industries," released at the end of 2016, proposed accelerating the application and innovation of intelligent technologies for electric vehicles and developing intelligent autonomous driving vehicles; in the same year, the "Technology Roadmap for Energy-Saving and New Energy Vehicles" and the "Technology Roadmap for Intelligent Connected Vehicles" were released; in April 2017, the "Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan for the Automobile Industry" proposed using new energy vehicles and intelligent connected vehicles as the breakthrough point to lead industrial transformation and upgrading.
Without copying international experience, unswervingly choosing the pure electric drive strategic orientation, and locking in from the top-level system: the future mainstream new energy vehicle must be an intelligent connected new energy vehicle — the China solution broke out of its cocoon.
Intelligent connected new energy vehicles are the new definition that China has endowed automobiles with, through its ambition to lead and its forward-thinking mindset.
There is a saying in the automobile industry: the first half of the new energy vehicle race is electrification, and the second half is intelligentization. But China's new energy vehicle practice over the past decade and more has taken a different path: electrification, intelligentization, and connectivity — from the top-level design, three tracks running in parallel and advancing as one — electrification laying the foundation, connectivity building the bridge, intelligentization steering the way, with the three mutually supporting each other and taking shape in sync.
With clear direction, the track marked out, and policies vigorously promoting, China's new energy vehicles, like a butterfly breaking out of its cocoon, like a galloping horse, grow vigorously and surge forward.
New car-making forces such as NIO, Xpeng, Li Auto, and Leapmotor were founded in concentrated fashion in 2014 and 2015, starting on the electrification and intelligentization track. Traditional independent brands such as BYD, SAIC, Chery, Geely, Changan, and Dongfeng accelerated their transformation, successively incubating intelligent pure electric brands and releasing new models. Huawei's Harmony Intelligent Mobility empowers the ecosystem, and the AITO M5 intelligent driving version launched in 2023 became the fastest-deployed high-level assisted driving passenger vehicle in China. In March 2024, cross-sector tech automaker Xiaomi delivered its first model, the SU7, with a self-developed assisted driving platform and seamless connectivity between phone and vehicle... With the combined force of old and new, "intelligent connected" has become the standard attribute of China's new energy vehicles.
Regarding the new definition of automobiles, Chinese automakers and entrepreneurs standing at the forefront of the times and competing for the industry's commanding heights have their own unique understanding.
Zhao Fei, General Manager of Changan Automobile, said: "Automobiles have transitioned from the basic function of transportation to human-machine interaction and providing emotional value, and are evolving toward an ultimate intelligent tool."
"Automobiles are transforming from means of transportation into intelligent terminals," said Lei Jun, Chairman of Xiaomi Group. "The entire concept of the automobile is undergoing tremendous change, and in the future it will become a mobile living space and the prototype of a robot."
"As an important carrier of new quality productive forces, the 'new automobile' is a 'super fusion body' of mechanical, electronic, chemical, energy, information and communication, and artificial intelligence technologies," said He Xiaopeng, Chairman of Xpeng Motors.
"New energy vehicles are also intelligent computing power terminals," said Zeng Yuqun, Chairman of CATL. An electric vehicle is a "computing node with wheels," and when aggregated, they can form a vast distributed data center providing computing power support.
The "new automobile" comes from new concepts; the "new definition" gives birth to new creations.
BYD created the world's first mass-produced megawatt-level ultra-fast charging technology; CATL created the world's first cell-to-pack battery technology; SAIC's IM Motors launched the world's first fully wire-controlled digital chassis; Geely released the world's first AI electronic and electrical architecture equipped with quantum security encryption technology; Huawei launched the world's first dual-optical-path image-level 896-line LiDAR; Li Auto mass-produced the M100 assisted driving chip with a single-chip computing power of up to 1280 TOPS (trillion operations per second)...
A large number of world-disruptive original technologies and underlying core technologies have achieved dense breakthroughs and full-stack self-reliance and controllability, supporting China's new energy vehicles in turning new concepts and new definitions into reality one by one, and forming a generational leading advantage on the intelligentization and electrification new track. Data show that since 2026, the market penetration rate of new passenger vehicles equipped with L2-level combined assisted driving functions in China has reached 70%.
This summer, elementary school student Beibei rode in her family's newly purchased intelligent electric vehicle to school for the first time. The door opened gently, the chassis automatically lowered, and she easily stepped into the seat. Just as she fastened her seatbelt, the anthropomorphic in-vehicle robot "smiled" and praised her: "A good baby with safety awareness, giving you a thumbs up!" Following her voice command, the sunshade slowly opened and children's songs softly began to play. Beibei opened her eyes wide in surprise — it turns out the road to school can be this fun.
At the 2010 Shanghai World Expo Automobile Pavilion, the future mobility depicted in the film "2030, Go!" once captivated audiences. The sci-fi scenes on the screen back then — intelligent cockpits, assisted driving, human-machine co-driving — have today become commonplace in China's new energy vehicles.
At the 2026 Beijing Auto Show, the focus of overseas merchants and media shifted from "curiosity about low prices" to "curiosity about technology." "They kept asking 'how to improve R&D efficiency' and 'whether technology can be licensed,'" said a Leapmotor staff member.
Jörg Wuttke, former president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, stated bluntly that German automotive executives were thoroughly awakened at the Chinese auto show, which was like a "digital wonderland." He said one must accept a disruptive reality: today's automobile is no longer simply a mechanical chassis plus an engine...
"Many executives from multinational corporations flew in specially from abroad to see what China's new energy vehicle development actually looks like, and they were all amazed and full of admiration," said a person from Huawei's Intelligent Automotive Solution business unit. Most of China's independent brand new energy vehicles provide relatively standardized intelligent capabilities, sketching a brand-new picture of future mobility for foreign consumers.
(Research team members: Xu Lijing, Xie Rongbin, Du Haitao, Gui Junsong, Wang Zheng, Shen Qian, Ge Mengchao, Feng Yingjie)
Return to TopBeijing, August 25 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Peng Bo) The 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress held its first plenary meeting on the morning of the 25th at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Chairman Zhao Leji presided over the meeting.
A total of 149 members of the Standing Committee attended the meeting, and the number of attendees met the statutory requirement.
The meeting heard a report by Cong Bin, deputy director of the Constitution and Law Committee of the National People's Congress, on the review results of the draft medical security law. The third-review draft adds "implementing the healthy development priority strategy" to the legislative purpose, further improves the relevant provisions on the medical security system, enriches the relevant provisions on the use and management of medical security funds, refines the requirements for settlement of medical expenses for cross-regional medical treatment, adds relevant provisions on long-term care insurance, and improves the relevant provisions on legal liability.
The meeting heard a report by Xin Chunying, director of the Constitution and Law Committee, on the review results of the draft law on farmland protection and quality improvement. The third-review draft adds provisions encouraging institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutes to strengthen talent cultivation in farmland protection and quality improvement; clarifies that land within the management scope of rivers and lakes shall in principle not serve as a source of supplementary farmland; strengthens supervision and management of funds for high-standard farmland construction; adds provisions on carrying out comprehensive treatment of desertified, wind-eroded, and water-eroded farmland and on preventing and controlling soil erosion; and increases the intensity of protection of black soil.
The meeting heard Xin Chunying's report on the review results of the draft revised agricultural law. The second-review draft improves measures supporting the development of agriculture and the rural economy, enriches the content of international exchange and cooperation in the agricultural field, improves the provisions on the protection of farmers' rights and interests, strengthens rural construction and governance, and further improves coordination with laws such as the ecological environment code.
The meeting heard a report by Luo Yuan, deputy director of the Constitution and Law Committee, on the review results of the draft revised national defense mobilization law. The second-review draft clarifies the concept of national defense mobilization; further clarifies the provisions on the collection, use, and security management of national defense mobilization data; adds provisions promoting the application of advanced technology and developing national defense mobilization forces in emerging fields; and adds prohibitive provisions on the fabrication and dissemination of false national defense mobilization information.
The meeting heard a report by Yuan Shuhong, deputy director of the Constitution and Law Committee, on the review results of the draft amendment to the Lawyers Law. The draft clarifies the Constitution as the legislative basis; further improves the relevant provisions on foreign-related legal service clauses; and adds provisions coordinating with the Legal Aid Law.
The meeting heard a report by Wang Hongxiang, deputy director of the Constitution and Law Committee, on the revision status of the draft revised Enterprise Bankruptcy Law. The second-review draft refines and improves the relevant systems for bankruptcy of jointly and severally liable individual debtors, safeguarding the lawful rights and interests of creditors and debtors; clarifies that during the review period of a bankruptcy application, the people's court may decide to temporarily suspend enforcement procedures concerning the debtor's property; improves the scope of bankruptcy administrators; improves the relevant systems for reorganization, fully leveraging the function of reorganization in rescuing distressed enterprises; and adjusts and optimizes the provisions on the order of satisfaction of bankruptcy claims.
The meeting heard Yuan Shuhong's report on the revision status of the draft revised Banking Supervision and Administration Law. The second-review draft adds "improving the quality and efficiency of financial services to the real economy" to the legislative purpose; adds provisions on implementing classified and tiered supervision and administration of banking financial institutions; further strengthens the management of part-time employment and post-departure employment of staff of banking supervision and administration institutions; adds provisions on the issuance and standardized use of financial licenses; consolidates the responsibilities of supervisory institutions and improves the system for protecting the rights and interests of banking consumers; and sets up a separate chapter on "risk disposal" to strengthen risk disposal measures.
The meeting heard Cong Bin's report on the revision status of the draft revised Water Law. The second-review draft coordinates with the ecological environment code, further improves the overall requirements for water resources protection, development, and utilization, clearly stipulates the coordinated governance of water resources, water environment, water ecology, and water disasters, and the state's strengthening of protection of water cultural heritage; enriches the content on national water network construction; enriches and improves the relevant provisions on water resources and water ecology protection; and further improves the relevant provisions on water conservation and recycling of water resources.
To improve the road traffic safety management system and strengthen the legal guarantee for maintaining road traffic order, preventing and reducing traffic accidents, improving road traffic efficiency, and safeguarding the personal and property safety of the people, the State Council submitted a proposal for deliberation on a draft revised Road Traffic Safety Law. Entrusted by the State Council, He Rong, Minister of Justice, made an explanation.
To thoroughly implement the decision-making arrangements of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, prevent and punish cross-border corruption, deepen international cooperation against corruption, protect the lawful rights and interests of organizations and individuals, and safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests, the National Commission of Supervision submitted a proposal for deliberation on a draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law. Liu Jinguo, Director of the National Commission of Supervision, made an explanation.
Entrusted by the State Council, Hua Chunying, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, made an explanation on the proposal for deliberation on approving the Treaty on Extradition between the People's Republic of China and Hungary.
Entrusted by the State Council, Wang Changlin, Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission, made a report on the implementation of the national economic and social development plan since the beginning of this year. The report pointed out that since the beginning of this year, economic operation has been generally stable, making progress while maintaining stability, showing a development trend of new momentum and optimized structure, with continuous optimization of the supply and demand structure, accelerated development of new quality productive forces, solid advancement of high-quality development, and overall social stability maintained, achieving effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity. In the second half of the year, efforts should focus on implementing the "15th Five-Year Plan," improving the effectiveness of macro policy implementation, stimulating and releasing domestic demand potential with greater intensity, leading the construction of a modern industrial system through innovation, deepening reform and expanding opening up comprehensively, promoting coordinated development between urban and rural areas and among regions, accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, strengthening security capacity building in key areas, taking multiple measures to safeguard and improve people's livelihoods, and steadily and orderly resolving risks in key areas.
Entrusted by the State Council, Lin Zechang, Vice Minister of Finance, made a report on the implementation of the budget since the beginning of this year. The report pointed out that fiscal policy has been more proactive and precisely targeted, and budget execution and fiscal operation have been generally stable. The report introduced the implementation of the budget resolution of the 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress, and proposed the next steps for key fiscal work: implementing a more proactive fiscal policy precisely and effectively; accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system; effectively safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods; strengthening prevention and resolution of risks in key areas; continuously deepening fiscal management reform; and strengthening penetrating fiscal supervision.
Entrusted by the State Council, Lin Zechang made a report on the management of government debt in 2025. The meeting heard a supervision and research report on the management of government debt in 2025 by Xu Hongcai, deputy director of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress and director of the Budgetary Work Commission of the Standing Committee.
Entrusted by the State Council, Sun Yeli, Minister of Culture and Tourism, made a report on the work of improving the quality of cultural products and services. The report introduced the relevant work measures and results, pointed out the main existing problems, and proposed that the next step will be to improve institutional mechanisms and safeguard systems, continuously enhance the capacity to supply high-quality products, take multiple measures to jointly improve service quality, strengthen the application of science and technology to promote cultural innovation, and promote Chinese culture to better reach the world.
Entrusted by the State Council, Mardan Möketi, Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, made a report on the work of continuously consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and solidly advancing comprehensive rural revitalization. The report introduced the relevant work results, as well as the difficulties and challenges currently faced in carrying out normalized assistance and advancing comprehensive rural revitalization, and proposed that the next step will be to strengthen political responsibility and consolidate responsibilities at all levels; improve the monitoring system and implement targeted assistance measures; improve the quality and effectiveness of industrial and employment assistance, continuously consolidating the foundation for income growth; provide tiered and classified assistance to underdeveloped regions, accelerating the filling of development shortcomings; and deepen the study and application of the experience of the "Thousand-Village Demonstration, Ten-Thousand-Village Improvement" project (千万工程), advancing the construction of livable, workable, and beautiful villages.
The meeting heard a report by Yang Xiaochao, director of the Credentials Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, on the qualifications of individual deputies.
The meeting also deliberated on relevant appointment and dismissal proposals.
Vice Chairpersons of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Li Hongzhong, Wang Dongming, Xiao Jie, Zheng Jianbang, Ding Zhongli, Hao Mingjin, Cai Dafeng, He Wei, Wu Weihua, Tie Ning, Peng Qinghua, Zhang Qingwei, Losang Jamcan, and Shohrat Zakir, and Secretary-General Liu Qi attended the meeting.
Vice Premier of the State Council Zhang Guoqing, President of the Supreme People's Court Zhang Jun, Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate Ying Yong, members of the various special committees of the National People's Congress, responsible comrades of the standing committees of people's congresses of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government, principal responsible comrades of the standing committees of people's congresses of some sub-provincial cities, some deputies to the National People's Congress, and responsible comrades of relevant departments attended the meeting as non-voting participants.
Return to TopBeijing, August 25 (Reporter Jiang Jie) The 18th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) opened in Beijing on the morning of the 25th, conducting consultation and deliberation on political affairs centered on "increasing efforts to safeguard and improve people's livelihoods and solidly advancing common prosperity for all the people." Wang Huning, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, attended the opening meeting.
He Lifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, was invited to attend the meeting and delivered a report. He Lifeng stated that it is necessary to deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on increasing efforts to safeguard and improve people's livelihoods and solidly advancing common prosperity for all the people, fully implement the deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan, accurately grasp the practical requirements of livelihood work, and effectively ensure the implementation of key livelihood work tasks in such areas as promoting high-quality and full employment, improving the income distribution system, perfecting the social security system, promoting high-quality development of real estate, and steadily advancing the equalization of basic public services.
Shi Taifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, presided over the opening meeting. He stated that the solid steps taken in common prosperity for all the people constitute an overall requirement guiding the economic and social development of the 15th Five-Year Plan period. Members of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, conscientiously implement the decisions and deployments of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, effectively enhance the political sense of responsibility and historical sense of mission in performing their duties, focus on the systematic planning and strategic deployment for "increasing efforts to safeguard and improve people's livelihoods and solidly advancing common prosperity for all the people" during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, anchor on the great matters of the state (国之大者) and the concerns of the people, conduct in-depth consultation and deliberation on political affairs, actively offer suggestions and proposals, and strive to contribute wisdom and strength to advancing Chinese-style modernization.
The opening meeting heard the report of the Chairman's Meeting of the CPPCC National Committee on the work of the CPPCC National Committee in the first half of 2026. Wang Dongfeng, vice chairman and secretary-general of the CPPCC National Committee, delivered reports and explanations on relevant topics.
Vice chairmen of the CPPCC National Committee Hu Chunhua, Shen Yueyue, Wang Yong, Zhou Qiang, Ho Hau Wah, Leung Chun-ying, Bater, Su Hui, Shao Hong, Gao Yunlong, Mu Hong, Xian Hui, Jiang Xinzhi, Jiang Zuojun, He Baoxiang, Wang Guangqian, Qin Boyong, Zhu Yongxin, and Yang Zhen attended the meeting.
Return to TopBeijing, August 25 (People's Daily) — Vice President Han Zheng met in Beijing on the 25th with India's National Security Advisor and Indian Special Representative on the China-India Boundary Question, Doval.
Han Zheng stated that over the past two years, President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Modi have held two meetings in Kazan and Tianjin, reaching a series of important consensus on the development of China-India relations and leading the bilateral relationship back onto the track of recovery and improvement. As neighboring major developing countries and important emerging economies, China and India should view and handle their bilateral relations from a strategic height and long-term perspective, jointly implement the important consensus of the two leaders, enhance strategic mutual trust, tap the potential for cooperation, strengthen multilateral coordination, properly manage and control differences, and promote the sustained and stable development of China-India relations.
Doval stated that Prime Minister Modi attaches great importance to relations with China and admires the tremendous development achievements China has made. As the two most populous and fastest-developing major economies, India-China cooperation faces historic opportunities. India is willing to work with China to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, properly handle the boundary question, and promote new progress in bilateral relations.
Return to TopBy: 长 风
General Secretary Xi Jinping recently made an important instruction, emphasizing the need to "regularly carry out education on the correct view of political achievements," and requiring that "party members and cadres be guided to always act and fulfill their duties with the correct view of political achievements."
Adhering to high-quality development is an important component of the view of political achievements held by leading cadres, from which the importance of continuously advancing education on the view of political achievements can be seen.
In promoting economic growth, if the "speed anxiety" rebounds, one will repeat the mistake of seeking quick success and instant benefits; in developing future industries, if one blindly follows trends, the result will only be counterproductive. Only by making scientific decisions with the correct view of political achievements and doing solid work can one grasp the correct direction of development and maintain a steady pace of development.
Transforming the results of learning and education into tangible outcomes of high-quality development must ultimately be reflected in benefiting the people. The "vegetable basket" project enhances people's livelihood and well-being, the "toilet revolution" improves the quality of life... By focusing on safeguarding and improving people's livelihood in the course of development and doing practical work for the people's well-being solidly, political achievements can become the long-term welfare of a region and the heartfelt praise of the people.
Forging ahead on the new journey, integrating the correct view of political achievements into one's very being and turning it into conscious action, we will surely write a new chapter in the great cause of building a strong country and realizing the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Return to TopXinhua, Hangzhou, August 25 — The 11th APEC Ministerial Meeting on Food Security was held on August 25 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Liu Guozhong (刘国中), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the opening ceremony and delivered remarks.
Liu Guozhong stated that food security is a fundamental issue concerning human survival. President Xi Jinping pointed out that ensuring food security is an eternal topic that must not be relaxed at any time. The Chinese government insists on making work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农) the top priority, deeply implementing the food security strategy of "self-reliance as the mainstay, based on domestic resources, ensuring production capacity, appropriate imports, and supported by science and technology" (以我为主、立足国内、确保产能、适度进口、科技支撑), adhering to storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology (藏粮于地、藏粮于技), striving to enhance comprehensive agricultural production capacity, solving the food problem of more than 1.4 billion people, and blazing a food security development path with Chinese characteristics.
Liu Guozhong emphasized that APEC holds a 举足轻重 (jǔ zú qīng zhòng - "a lift of the foot determines the weight," to hold a decisive position) position in maintaining global food security. China is willing to work with all economies to jointly build a more solid food security system. He put forward four suggestions: First, focus on enhancing production capacity, based on each economy's resource endowments, and jointly consolidate the foundation of food security. Second, strengthen innovation-driven development, deepen agricultural science and technology cooperation, and jointly cultivate new momentum for ensuring food security. Third, smooth trade circulation, adhere to the general direction of multilateralism and an open economy, and jointly maintain the security and stability of the food supply chain. Fourth, uphold inclusiveness and mutual benefit, strengthen policy coordination, and jointly guard the bottom line of food security.
The meeting was themed "Building an Asia-Pacific Community for Shared Prosperity" (建设亚太共同体，促进共同繁荣), with nearly 200 representatives from APEC economies, the secretariat, and relevant international organizations attending.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 25 — Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the newly revised Measures for Accountability Investigation of Ecological Environment Damage Responsibility of Party and Government Leading Cadres (hereinafter referred to as the Measures). A few days ago, a responsible person from the Organization Department of the Central Committee answered reporters' questions on matters such as the revision and implementation of the Measures.
Question: What is the background and significance of this revision of the Measures?
Answer: The construction of ecological civilization bears on the well-being of the people and concerns the future of the nation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has placed the construction of ecological civilization in a prominent position in the work of the Party and the state, has made institutional development the top priority in advancing ecological civilization construction, and has driven the construction of ecological civilization to achieve achievements that have attracted worldwide attention, with the construction of a Beautiful China making major strides. Whether ecological environmental protection can be implemented in practice depends on leading cadres, and the fundamental guarantee lies in institutional safeguards. The Measures (Trial), printed and implemented in August 2015, made institutional arrangements for the first time for investigating the responsibility of Party and government leading cadres for ecological environment damage, and played an important role in promoting Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization to take root in people's hearts and in ensuring that ecological environmental protection responsibilities were implemented and carried out. At present, China's economic and social development has entered a stage of high-quality development with accelerated greening and low-carbon transformation. Ecological civilization construction has undergone historic, transformative, and overall changes from theory to practice. However, the structural, root-cause, and trend-based pressures on ecological environmental protection have not yet been fundamentally alleviated, and problems of ecological environment damage still occur from time to time. Ecological civilization construction remains in a critical period of superimposed pressures and carrying heavy burdens while moving forward. In recent years, the Party Central Committee has made a series of new deployments and new requirements for ecological environmental protection work in the new era and new journey, making it necessary to revise and improve the Measures in step with the times.
The newly revised Measures thoroughly implement Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, uphold and strengthen the Party's overall leadership over ecological civilization construction, adhere to the strict tone and problem orientation, seize the "key minority" of leading cadres, and delineate the "red lines" of responsibility, providing guidance for further conducting accountability investigation of ecological environment damage responsibility of Party and government leading cadres. The revision and issuance of the Measures is of great significance for advancing the rule of law in ecological environmental protection, improving the institutional system for ecological environmental protection, enhancing the responsibility awareness and spirit of responsibility of leading cadres at all levels, promoting the implementation of responsibilities for ecological civilization construction and ecological environmental protection, and promoting new major progress in the construction of a Beautiful China during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
Question: Please introduce the main contents of the revision of the Measures.
Answer: The Measures consist of 19 articles in total, with modifications mainly made in the following aspects: First, further strengthening the leadership of the Party. The upholding and strengthening of the Party's overall leadership over ecological civilization construction runs through the entire text of the Measures, fully reflecting in the purposes, principles, circumstances, and other parts the Party Central Committee's series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies on ecological civilization construction and ecological environmental protection, using the shared responsibility of the Party and government and accountability for dereliction of duty to consolidate the political responsibility of Party and government leading cadres at all levels, and promoting the implementation of the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments. Second, broadening the applicable targets. Leading members of public institutions and various development zones, especially leading personnel of state-owned enterprises and their internal institutions and subordinate enterprises, have been added as targets for reference in implementation, strengthening supervision over key areas and important targets, and comprehensively consolidating ecological environmental protection responsibilities. Third, refining and improving the circumstances for accountability investigation. In accordance with the new deployments and new requirements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on ecological civilization construction and the new spirit and new provisions of relevant intra-Party regulations and laws and regulations, combined with prominent ecological environment problems discovered in recent years through inspections and tours, ecological environmental protection inspections, audits, and other work, refinements, adjustments, and supplements have been made on the basis of the original circumstances for accountability and questioning, so as to facilitate better reference and grasp in work. Fourth, improving the methods and mechanisms for accountability investigation. In terms of accountability investigation methods, attention is paid to aligning with existing laws and regulations, and further improving working mechanisms such as investigation of ecological environment damage problems, transfer of clues, and communication and coordination. In addition, considering that the Ecological Environment Code's definition of "ecological environmental protection" includes "resource protection," in order to align with the Code, the Measures uniformly changed the original expression "ecological environment and resource protection" to "ecological environmental protection."
Question: What new changes are there in the circumstances for accountability investigation in the Measures?
Answer: In accordance with the Party Central Committee's relevant decisions and deployments and the prominent problems in the ecological environment field, and based on the responsibilities of Party committees, governments, and their relevant departments in decision-making, execution, and supervision, the Measures focuses on refining and improving the circumstances for accountability investigation of four categories of responsible subjects. For the principal responsible persons of local Party committees and governments, the main additions are circumstances for accountability investigation such as organizing and implementing the tasks of deepening the reform of the ecological civilization system, coordinating and advancing the construction of the ecological environment governance system, coordinating and advancing the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, implementing systems such as territorial spatial planning, ecological environment zoning control, and rigid constraints on water resources, promoting the integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasslands, and deserts, and organizing and carrying out work on compensation for ecological environment damage. For relevant leading members of local Party committees and governments, the main additions are circumstances for accountability investigation such as supervising and urging the departments under their charge to perform ecological environmental protection duties, implement ecological environmental protection goals and tasks, and guarantee funds related to ecological environmental protection. For leading members of relevant departments of local governments, the main additions are circumstances for accountability investigation such as implementing administrative law enforcement for ecological environmental protection and handling ecological environment problems that infringe upon the interests of the masses. At the same time, the circumstances for accountability investigation of leading members of relevant departments of central Party and state organs and relevant departments of local Party committees are separately listed in one article with provisions.
Question: How do the Measures provide for the methods of accountability investigation?
Answer: The Measures clarify the following methods of accountability investigation: First, talk reminders, criticism and education, orders to make inspections, and admonishment; second, organizational adjustment or organizational handling; third, Party discipline and government affairs disciplinary sanctions. These methods of accountability investigation may be used individually or in combination in accordance with provisions. At the same time, for those suspected of illegal or criminal conduct, it is required that they be promptly transferred to relevant organs for handling in accordance with the law. The above revisions to the methods of accountability investigation in the Measures achieve alignment with intra-Party regulations and laws such as the Regulation on Accountability, the Regulation on Party Discipline Sanctions, and the Provisions on Organizational Handling, reflecting both the grasping of early and small problems and the prevention of problems before they become serious, and covering multiple methods applicable to different circumstances, which is conducive to carrying out accountability investigation precisely and ensuring that the handling received by cadres matches their dereliction of duty and the consequences and impacts caused.
Question: What new provisions do the Measures have regarding the working mechanisms for accountability investigation?
Answer: Improving the working mechanisms for problem investigation, transfer of clues, and communication and coordination is an important guarantee for promoting the standardized and effective conduct of accountability investigation work. The Measures put forward new requirements for each of these three aspects. Regarding problem investigation, it is proposed that departments of the government that bear supervisory and management responsibilities for ecological environmental protection may conduct investigation at a higher level when encountering major ecological environment damage problems or complex ecological environment damage problems that cross regions, river basins, or departments. Regarding the transfer of clues, it is required that important ecological environment damage problems and situations of dereliction of duty by leading cadres discovered in work such as inspections and tours, ecological environmental protection inspections, natural resources inspections, and outgoing audits of natural resources assets should be transferred for the conduct of accountability investigation. Regarding communication and coordination, it is clarified that relevant organs and departments should improve the communication and coordination mechanism for accountability investigation of ecological environment damage, achieve early discovery, early reminder, and early correction of ecological environment damage problems, and strengthen consultation and joint analysis according to work needs, making comprehensive decisions on accountability investigation or putting forward suggestions for accountability investigation.
Question: What requirements do the Measures have for carrying out accountability investigation work?
Answer: The work of accountability investigation for ecological environment damage is work with strong political and policy nature. It must be precise and scientific, effectively promoting work, and must not be simple and crude, dampening the enthusiasm of cadres, or even affecting the credibility of the Party and the government. In this regard, the Measures both emphasize the need to seriously pursue accountability and lifelong accountability, promoting leading cadres to firmly bear in mind that those with power must bear responsibility, those with responsibility must take on responsibility, and those who lose responsibility must be held accountable, and also emphasize the need to correctly grasp policy boundaries, combining circumstances such as historical causes, the nature and degree of the problem, response and handling, consequences and impacts, and recovery of losses, to accurately make responsibility determinations and accountability investigation decisions, preventing the generalization and simplification of accountability.
Question: What considerations are there for grasping the implementation of the newly revised Measures?
Answer: All regions and relevant departments should thoroughly implement Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, adopt effective measures, and promote the implementation of the Measures. First, strengthening study and training. The Measures should be incorporated into the content of study by Party committee (Party group) theoretical learning center groups and cadre education and training, and should be integrated with the study and implementation of laws and regulations such as the Ecological Environment Code and the Provisions on the Ecological Environmental Protection Responsibility System for Local Party and Government Leading Cadres, promoting leading cadres to accurately grasp the essential meaning and practical requirements, and to know their responsibilities, understand their responsibilities, and take on and fulfill their responsibilities. Second, improving supporting measures. All provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government may formulate implementation rules in accordance with the Measures, refining the relevant circumstances, standards, procedures, and other aspects of accountability investigation in light of actual conditions, to further improve pertinence and operability. Departments of the State Council that bear supervisory and management responsibilities for ecological environmental protection should formulate specific institutional measures for implementing the Measures. Third, strengthening the implementation of institutions. The Measures should be used to unify understanding and regulate work, and accountability investigation should be carried out in accordance with the principles, circumstances, methods, and procedures provided in the Measures, achieving the organic unity of political effects, disciplinary and legal effects, and social effects. For those who are ineffective in implementing institutions, responsibility should be seriously pursued.
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The 26th China International Fair for Investment and Trade will be held from September 8 to 11 in Xiamen, Fujian Province. On August 25, the State Council Information Office held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation.
The fair takes "Expanding Two-Way Investment, Promoting Global Development" as its permanent theme. Centering on the three major sections of "Invest in China," "China Outbound Investment," and "International Investment," the preparatory work for this year's fair is basically complete. The fair has been relocated in its entirety to the Xiamen International Expo Center, with the exhibition area expanded from 120,000 square meters in previous sessions to 200,000 square meters this year, setting a new record.
Ling Ji, spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, Vice Minister, and Deputy International Trade Negotiation Representative, introduced that this year's fair has for the first time established "dual guest countries of honor," with Finland and Saudi Arabia serving in that role. Delegations from 123 countries and regions have registered to participate, 60 countries and regions will set up exhibitions, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development will hold the "Future Investment Conference" concurrently. The area of the financial zone and the number of institutions participating in exhibitions and events have both doubled compared to last year, with 140 leading financial institutions and listed companies participating. A number of artificial intelligence and green low-carbon enterprises will appear at the fair.
"This year, the enthusiasm and initiative of domestic and overseas merchants to participate have increased significantly. The fair has already invited more than 2,600 important merchants." Zhao Zenglian, Vice Governor of Fujian Province, introduced that the province has sorted out 828 investment promotion projects for domestic and overseas merchants to conduct pre-matching and pre-negotiation.
A large number of multinational companies will participate, and the heat of "Invest in China" shows no sign of cooling. Ling Ji summarized the new trends in multinational companies' investment in China as "three transformations":
Transformation from "focusing on cost" to "focusing on value," with greater attention to the supply of new types of production factors such as green electricity and computing power, as well as efficient supply chain systems, vibrant innovation ecosystems, and high-quality talent supply. Transformation from "filling gaps" to "forging strength," treating China as a "training ground" and "gym" for enhancing their global competitiveness. Transformation from "independent operation" to "collaborative development," deeply integrating into China's industrial ecosystem, with increasingly strengthened collaborative development with Chinese partners.
Liu Minqiang, Director of the Investment Promotion Agency of the Ministry of Commerce, introduced that this year's fair actively builds a fusion platform for linkage and collaboration, organizes two-way investment promotion activities, and creates more opportunities for investors and investment attractors to negotiate and cooperate.
Meng Huating, Director of the Department of Foreign Investment Administration of the Ministry of Commerce, stated that during this year's fair, 16 "Invest in China" activities will be held focusing on key countries, key industries, and key platforms, showcasing China's investment opportunities from multiple dimensions.
Regarding China's outbound investment, Ling Ji introduced three new features——
A trend of diversified investment is emerging. In 2025, China's outbound investment flow was 213.58 billion US dollars, an increase of 11.1 percent over the previous year. The stock of outbound investment has reached 3.4 trillion US dollars, maintaining a position in the global top three for nine consecutive years, with its share of global investment increasing to 7.4 percent. In recent years, outbound investment industries have gradually and steadily expanded toward green low-carbon, digital economy, and green mineral sectors.
Mutual benefit and win-win results are notable. As of the end of 2025, Chinese enterprises have established 58,000 overseas enterprises, spread across 189 countries and regions, which not only drives China's own development but also creates more than 2 million jobs annually for host countries.
The achievements of "Belt and Road" cooperation are fruitful. In 2025, Chinese enterprises' direct investment in countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" reached 46.05 billion US dollars, accounting for 21.6 percent of that year's outbound investment flow. The number of overseas enterprises established by China in countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" is 22,000, with a direct investment stock of 407.25 billion US dollars.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 25 — Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council printed and distributed the Measures for Pursuing Accountability for Ecological and Environmental Damage by Party and Government Leading Cadres, and issued a notice requiring all regions and departments to earnestly implement them in accordance with the provisions. The full text of the Measures for Pursuing Accountability for Ecological and Environmental Damage by Party and Government Leading Cadres follows.
Measures for Pursuing Accountability for Ecological and Environmental Damage by Party and Government Leading Cadres
(Approved by the CPC Central Committee on August 9, 2015; issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council on August 9, 2015; revised at a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on July 9, 2026; issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council on August 3, 2026)
Article 1. These Measures are formulated in accordance with relevant intra-Party regulations and laws, for the purposes of upholding and strengthening the Party's overall leadership over ecological civilization construction, comprehensively advancing the construction of a Beautiful China, strengthening the ecological and environmental protection responsibilities of Party and government leading cadres, and promoting the establishment and practice of a correct view of political achievements.
Article 2. These Measures apply to the pursuit of accountability for ecological and environmental damage against leading members of local Party committees and governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments, leading members of relevant departments of central Party and state organs, and leading personnel of relevant institutions of the aforementioned departments. The pursuit of accountability for ecological and environmental damage against leading members of townships (subdistricts), public institutions, and various development zones, and leading personnel of state-owned enterprises and their internal institutions and subordinate enterprises, shall be implemented with reference to these Measures.
Article 3. The pursuit of accountability for ecological and environmental damage against Party and government leading cadres shall adhere to the following principles: (1) Party and government share responsibility; dereliction of duty is investigated; (2) in accordance with regulations and law; precise and effective; (3) serious accountability; lifelong investigation.
Article 4. Under any of the following circumstances, the responsibility of the principal responsible persons of the relevant local Party committee and government shall be pursued: (1) implementation of the principles, policies, and decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council regarding ecological civilization construction and ecological and environmental protection is ineffective, organization and implementation of the tasks of deepening the reform of the ecological civilization system and the coordinated advancement of the construction of the ecological environment governance system is not in place, resulting in prominent ecological and environmental problems, or a marked deterioration of the ecological and environmental situation during the term of office; (2) decisions made violate intra-Party regulations, laws and regulations, policies, or plans regarding ecological and environmental protection, or decisions are made blindly without regard for the ecological environment, breaking through the ecological protection red line, the environmental quality bottom line, or the resource utilization ceiling; (3) implementation of the goals and tasks of comprehensively advancing the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development is ineffective, and implementation of territorial spatial planning, ecological environment zoning control, rigid water resource constraints, and other work is not in place, causing serious consequences or adverse effects; (4) promotion of the implementation of ecological and environmental protection responsibilities is not in place, and there is 推诿扯皮 (tuī wěi chě pí - "push and shirk, pull and argue," to pass the buck and shirk responsibility) in ecological and environmental protection coordination, causing serious consequences or adverse effects; (5) serious environmental pollution and major ecological damage incidents or accidents occur in the region, or the principal responsible persons of the Party committee and government fail to respond to and handle serious environmental pollution and major ecological damage (disaster) incidents or accidents effectively; (6) promotion of the integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, grasslands, and deserts is ineffective, and organization and implementation of ecological environmental protection and restoration is not in place, resulting in severe ecological degradation; (7) organization and implementation of ecological and environmental damage compensation work in the region is not in place, there is a relatively large gap in achieving full compensation where compensation is due, or organization and promotion of ecological and environmental damage compensation work for serious environmental pollution and major ecological damage cases is ineffective; (8) for ecological and environmental problems pointed out by inspections and patrols, ecological and environmental protection inspections, natural resources inspections, natural resource asset departure audits, discipline inspection and supervision recommendations, and administrative public interest litigation judgments, organization and promotion of rectification is not strict or solid, and rectification is perfunctory, superficial, or false; (9) other circumstances where responsibility should be pursued. Where the above circumstances exist, while pursuing the responsibility of the principal responsible persons of the relevant local Party committee and government, corresponding responsibility shall be pursued for other relevant leading members and leading members of relevant departments in accordance with their division of duties and performance of duties.
Article 5. Under any of the following circumstances, the responsibility of relevant leading members of the local Party committee and government shall be pursued: (1) supervision and guidance of departments under their charge in fulfilling ecological and environmental protection duties and implementing ecological and environmental protection goals and tasks is not in place, work such as pollution prevention and control, green transformation of development modes, ecological protection and restoration, and advancing carbon peak and carbon neutrality is carried out ineffectively, and prominent ecological and environmental problems in the industries and fields under their charge remain unresolved for a long time or recur repeatedly; (2) for violations of intra-Party regulations, laws and regulations, policies, or plans regarding ecological and environmental protection by departments, industries, or fields under their charge, supervision is negligent, stopping is ineffective, or even shielding and conniving; (3) failure to correctly perform duties, resulting in enterprises, public institutions, or other production and business operators that should have been ordered by the government to suspend business or close down in accordance with law due to serious environmental pollution or major ecological damage not being suspended or closed; (4) within the scope of their duties, response to and handling and organization of investigation of serious environmental pollution and major ecological damage (disaster) incidents or accidents is ineffective; (5) failure to arrange and disburse funds for ecological and environmental protection in accordance with policy provisions or contract agreements, or illegal appropriation or diversion of ecological and environmental protection expenditures that the government is obligated to pay, causing serious consequences or adverse effects; (6) other circumstances where responsibility should be pursued. Where the above circumstances exist, while pursuing the responsibility of relevant leading members of the local Party committee and government, corresponding responsibility shall be pursued for leading members of relevant local departments in accordance with their division of duties and performance of duties.
Article 6. Under any of the following circumstances, the responsibility of leading members of relevant departments of the local government shall be pursued: (1) the formulated rules and regulations or adopted work measures contradict intra-Party regulations, laws and regulations, policies, or plans regarding ecological and environmental protection; (2) approval of development and utilization plans and projects in violation of laws, regulations, or policies regarding ecological and environmental protection; (3) implementation of intra-Party regulations, laws and regulations, policies, or plans regarding ecological and environmental protection is ineffective, supervision and inspection of implementation is not carried out in accordance with provisions, or supervision and inspection is 敷衍塞责 (fū yǎn sè zé - "perfunctory and negligent," to do things superficially and shirk responsibility), causing serious consequences or adverse effects; (4) in implementing administrative licensing, punishment, compulsory measures, levy, and other law enforcement acts regarding ecological and environmental protection, there are problems such as inaction, arbitrary action, or non-standard conduct, causing serious environmental pollution or major ecological damage; (5) failure to investigate and handle serious ecological and environmental damage problems that have been discovered or reported by the masses in accordance with provisions, or failure to correctly perform duties or ineffective performance of duties in handling ecological and environmental problems that infringe upon the interests of the masses; (6) failure to report, notify, or publicly disclose information on environmental pollution and ecological damage (disaster) incidents or accidents in accordance with provisions; (7) failure to transfer clues or cases of violations of discipline or law regarding ecological and environmental protection that should be transferred to relevant organs for handling in accordance with provisions; (8) other circumstances where responsibility should be pursued. Where the above circumstances exist, while pursuing the responsibility of leading members of relevant departments of the local government, corresponding responsibility shall be pursued for leading personnel of their relevant institutions.
Article 7. Where leading members of relevant departments of central Party and state organs, leading members of relevant departments of local Party committees, and leading personnel of relevant institutions of the aforementioned departments fail to perform their duties or are derelict in performing their duties in fulfilling ecological and environmental protection responsibilities and advancing ecological civilization construction, causing serious consequences or adverse effects, corresponding responsibility shall be pursued in accordance with provisions.
Article 8. Where Party and government leading cadres use their positional influence under any of the following circumstances, their responsibility shall be pursued: (1) failure to cooperate with ecological and environmental protection inspections, restricting, interfering with, or obstructing ecological and environmental protection supervision and law enforcement work; (2) interfering with judicial activities, meddling in the handling of specific judicial cases regarding ecological and environmental protection; (3) interfering with or meddling in construction projects, resulting in the approval, permission for construction, or commissioning (use) of construction projects that do not conform to laws, regulations, policies, or plans regarding ecological and environmental protection; (4) instigating the falsification or forgery of statistical, survey, assessment, monitoring, or environmental impact assessment data regarding ecological and environmental protection; (5) other circumstances where responsibility should be pursued.
Article 9. The following methods may be adopted for the pursuit of accountability for ecological and environmental damage against Party and government leading cadres: (1) conversation reminders, criticism and education, orders to make inspections, admonishment; (2) organizational adjustment or organizational handling; (3) Party discipline and government affairs sanctions. The above accountability methods may be used individually or in combination in accordance with provisions. Where crimes or violations of law are suspected, the matter shall be promptly transferred to relevant organs for handling in accordance with law.
Article 10. Where departments of the government that bear the responsibility for ecological and environmental protection supervision and management discover circumstances for pursuing accountability as provided in these Measures, they must, in accordance with their duties, conduct investigations into the ecological and environmental damage problems in accordance with law. Where there are major ecological and environmental damage problems or complex ecological and environmental damage problems involving multiple regions, river basins, or departments, the investigation may be elevated to a higher level. While making administrative penalty decisions or other handling decisions in accordance with law based on the investigation results, materials requiring the pursuit of responsibility of relevant leading cadres shall be promptly transferred to discipline inspection and supervision organs and organization (personnel) departments in accordance with the authority for cadre management, which shall carry out the pursuit of accountability in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law. Important ecological and environmental damage problems discovered in inspections and patrols, ecological and environmental protection inspections, natural resources inspections, natural resource asset departure audits, and other work, as well as situations of dereliction of duty or failure to perform duties by leading cadres, shall be transferred to discipline inspection and supervision organs and organization (personnel) departments in accordance with relevant authority, procedures, and requirements, which shall carry out the pursuit of accountability in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law. Where judicial organs discover circumstances for pursuing accountability as provided in these Measures in the process of handling ecological and environmental damage and other cases, they shall transfer the problem clues to discipline inspection and supervision organs or organization (personnel) departments in accordance with provisions.
Article 11. Discipline inspection and supervision organs, organization (personnel) departments, and departments of the government that bear the responsibility for ecological and environmental protection supervision and management shall improve the communication and coordination mechanism for the pursuit of accountability for ecological and environmental damage, achieve early discovery, early reminder, and early correction of ecological and environmental damage problems, and strengthen consultation and joint assessment based on work needs, making comprehensive accountability decisions or putting forward accountability recommendations. The situation of the pursuit of accountability shall generally be disclosed to the public through appropriate means.
Article 12. A lifelong accountability system for ecological and environmental damage shall be implemented. Where serious ecological and environmental damage is caused due to deviations in the view of political achievements, violation of the new development philosophy and high-quality development requirements, etc., regardless of whether the responsible person has been transferred, reassigned, promoted, left office, or retired, serious accountability must be pursued.
Article 13. Where discipline inspection and supervision organs, organization (personnel) departments, and departments of the government that bear the responsibility for ecological and environmental protection supervision and management fail to investigate circumstances for pursuing accountability as provided in these Measures that should be investigated, fail to transfer matters that should be transferred, or fail to pursue accountability that should be pursued, the responsibility of the relevant responsible personnel shall be pursued in accordance with provisions.
Article 14. The pursuit of accountability for ecological and environmental damage against Party and government leading cadres shall correctly grasp policy boundaries, and in light of historical causes, nature and degree, response and handling, consequences and impact, recovery of losses, and other circumstances, accurately make responsibility determinations and accountability decisions, preventing the generalization and oversimplification of accountability.
Article 15. Leading cadres who have been subject to the pursuit of accountability who are dissatisfied with the accountability decision may apply for review, re-examination, and appeal in accordance with the prescribed procedures. Relevant organs and departments shall accept and handle the matter in accordance with relevant provisions. During the period of review, re-examination, or appeal, the execution of the accountability decision shall not be suspended. Leading cadres shall not be subjected to aggravated accountability because they apply for review, re-examination, or file an appeal.
Article 16. For leading cadres who have circumstances for pursuing accountability as provided in these Measures and are undergoing review and investigation, they shall not be promoted to positions, promoted in rank, or further used before the handling and sanction decision is made. Where the handling and sanction made has an impact period, it shall be implemented in accordance with relevant provisions.
Article 17. All provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government may formulate implementation rules in accordance with these Measures, refining the relevant circumstances, standards, procedures, etc. for the pursuit of accountability in light of actual conditions. Departments of the State Council that bear the responsibility for ecological and environmental protection supervision and management shall formulate specific institutional measures for implementing these Measures.
Article 18. These Measures shall be interpreted by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee in consultation with the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Commission of Supervision.
Article 19. These Measures shall come into force on the date of promulgation.
(Interview with the head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee answering reporters' questions, see page 2)
Return to TopBy: 本报调研组
"Developing new-energy vehicles is the only path for China to transform from a major automobile country into an automobile powerhouse," General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during his inspection of SAIC Motor in May 2014. Over the past decade and more, under the strategic planning and leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping, China's new-energy vehicle industry has achieved remarkable accomplishments that have captured worldwide attention, endowing automobiles with a new definition, creating a new model for the automobile industry, restructuring the new logic of the automobile market, shaping a new ecosystem for automobile going global, and defining new standards for automobiles. New-energy vehicles have become a shining calling card of Made in China.
Based on the 15th Five-Year Plan and looking toward the long-range goal of basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035, how can China promote the high-quality development of its new-energy vehicle industry, and how can China's new-energy vehicles consolidate and expand new global advantages? A research group composed of reporters from People's Daily and China Automobile News conducted in-depth research.
— Editor's Note
China's new-energy vehicles have ranked first in the world in production and sales volume for 11 consecutive years since 2015.
In the first half of 2026, China's new-energy vehicle production and sales maintained high growth, with overseas market sales increasing by 1.2 times year-on-year. Looking back from the midpoint of the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, exactly 70 years have passed since July 1956, when New China's first automobile officially rolled off the production line at the First Automobile Works in Changchun.
From the resolute start driven by the determination to change the situation in which "we cannot make a single automobile, a single airplane, a single tank, or a single tractor," to the successive birth of the first "Jiefang" (Liberation), "Dongfeng" (East Wind), and "Hongqi" (Red Flag) brand automobiles; from the arduous exploration of "exchanging market for technology" during the reform and opening up, to the powerful rise of "technology leading the world" in the new era — China's automobile industry has, through a magnificent leap, carved a striking eastern coordinate on the world automobile industry map.
China's automobile industry wins by changing lanes to overtake, and succeeds by reshaping new rules.
In May 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during his inspection of SAIC Motor: "Developing new-energy vehicles is the only path for China to transform from a major automobile country into an automobile powerhouse." In July 2020, the General Secretary emphasized during his inspection of FAW Group: "To promote the high-quality development of China's automobile manufacturing industry, we must strengthen independent research and development of key core technologies and key components, achieve technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, and make the national brands bigger and stronger."
The far-sighted strategic planning has opened up an entirely new path for the automobile industry.
For every 3 automobiles sold globally, 1 is made in China; for every 3 passenger vehicles sold in China, 2 are new-energy vehicles. How did China's new-energy vehicles achieve the historic leap from following to leading?
17,600 vehicles and 16.49 million vehicles — these are China's annual new-energy vehicle sales in 2013 and 2025 respectively.
0.08% and 47.9% — these are China's new-energy vehicle penetration rates among new cars in 2013 and 2025 respectively.
Over 13 years, new-energy vehicle sales have grown by more than 930 times, and the penetration rate has increased by more than 590 times. A strategic emerging industry worth trillions of yuan has risen abruptly from the ground.
Let us return to 13 years ago. At that time, China had already become the world's major automobile consumer market, with automobile production and sales ranking first in the world since 2009. However, within this "world first," Chinese automakers were always learners rather than creators, participants rather than leaders, on the fuel vehicle track.
What kind of technology route to take was the primary question for the industry's breakthrough.
In December 2008, BYD's F3DM went on sale — the world's first mass-produced plug-in hybrid passenger vehicle, marking the beginning of China's civilian era of new-energy vehicles. But first-mover advantage does not equal industrial certainty: in the 1990s, the West had launched a wave of pure electric vehicles; entering the second decade of this century, mainstream international automakers shifted toward hybrid electric, short-range plug-in hybrid, and range-extender routes. Standing at the "crossroads" of transforming from a major automobile country into an automobile powerhouse, domestic automakers generally hesitated and waited on electrification transformation. The debate over technology routes remained unresolved.
May 24, 2014, was a milestone day in the history of China's automobile industry development. On this day, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to SAIC Motor for inspection and learned in detail about the development of new-energy vehicles. The General Secretary urged everyone: the automobile industry is one with a large market, high technological content, and a high degree of refined management; developing new-energy vehicles is the only path for China to transform from a major automobile country into an automobile powerhouse. We must increase research and development efforts, seriously study the market, make good use of policies, and develop products that meet the needs of various demands, making it a strong growth point.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping chose the right 'new track' for building an automobile powerhouse," said Fu Bingfeng, Vice President and Secretary-General of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, with deep feeling.
Anchoring on the new track, going all out to sprint toward the commanding heights.
In 2014, China's new-energy vehicle production and sales grew by more than 3 times year-on-year, earning it the title "Year One of New-Energy Vehicles."
Since 2014, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other departments have issued nearly 100 policy measures, providing all-round support for the development of the new-energy vehicle industry.
"China must seize the right to define new-energy vehicles," said Zhang Jinhua, Chairman of the China Society of Automotive Engineers. "On the track set by multinational corporations, acting according to others' rules, no matter how hard one tries, one is only a 'follower.' Only by accurately grasping the technological development trends of the automobile industry, proactively opening up new tracks, and introducing 'new definitions' can one lead the world."
China was the first in the world to propose the concept and definition of "intelligent connected vehicles." This is an original industrial concept of China.
The "Made in China 2025" plan issued in May 2015 proposed "mastering core technologies in automobile low-carbonization, informatization, and intelligence," binding new-energy vehicles and intelligent connected vehicles as the same upgrade mainline.
This was the earliest top-level design among the world's major powers to coordinate the overall planning of "intelligence + connectivity + new-energy complete vehicles."
In the same year, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers released the Chinese definition, classification, and technical architecture of ICV (Intelligent Connected Vehicles), creating the uniquely Chinese expression of "intelligence + connectivity dual-wheel drive."
The "13th Five-Year Plan for National Strategic Emerging Industries" issued at the end of 2016 proposed accelerating the application and innovation of intelligent technologies for electric vehicles and developing intelligent autonomous driving vehicles; in the same year, the "Technology Roadmap for Energy-Saving and New-Energy Vehicles" and the "Technology Roadmap for Intelligent Connected Vehicles" were released; in April 2017, the "Medium- and Long-Term Development Plan for the Automobile Industry" proposed using new-energy vehicles and intelligent connected vehicles as the breakthrough point to lead industrial transformation and upgrading.
Without copying international experience, unswervingly choosing the pure electric drive strategic orientation, and locking in from the top-level system: the future mainstream new-energy vehicle must be an intelligent connected new-energy vehicle — the China solution has broken out of its cocoon.
Intelligent connected new-energy vehicles are the new definition that China has endowed automobiles with, driven by a spirit of leadership and forward-thinking.
There is a saying in the automobile industry that the first half of the new-energy vehicle race is electrification, and the second half is intelligence. But China's new-energy vehicle practice over the past decade and more has taken a different path: electrification, intelligence, and connectivity — running on three tracks in parallel and advancing as one from the top-level design — electrification lays the foundation, connectivity builds the bridge, and intelligence takes the helm, with the three supporting each other and taking shape simultaneously.
With clear direction, defined track, and policy support, China's new-energy vehicles are like butterflies breaking out of their cocoons and galloping horses — thriving and surging forward.
NIO, XPeng, Li Auto, Leapmotor and other new car-making forces were founded in concentrated fashion between 2014 and 2015, starting on the electrification and intelligence track. Traditional independent brands such as BYD, SAIC, Chery, Geely, Changan, and Dongfeng accelerated their transformation, successively incubating intelligent pure electric brands and launching new models. Huawei's Harmony Intelligent Mobility empowers the ecosystem, and the AITO M5 intelligent driving version launched in 2023 became the fastest-deployed high-level assisted driving passenger vehicle in China. In March 2024, cross-sector tech automaker Xiaomi delivered its first SU7, with self-developed assisted driving platform and seamless connectivity between phone and vehicle... With the combined force of old and new, "intelligent connected" has become the standard attribute of China's new-energy vehicles.
Regarding the new definition of automobiles, Chinese automakers and entrepreneurs standing at the forefront of the times vying for the industrial commanding heights have their own unique understanding.
Zhao Fei, General Manager of Changan Automobile, said: "Automobiles have transitioned from the basic function of transportation to human-machine interaction and providing emotional value, and are evolving toward an ultimate intelligent tool."
"Automobiles are transforming from means of transportation into intelligent terminals," said Lei Jun, Chairman of Xiaomi Group. "The entire concept of the automobile is undergoing tremendous change; in the future it will become a mobile living space and the prototype of a robot."
"As an important carrier of new quality productive forces, the 'new automobile' is a 'super fusion body' of mechanical, electronic, chemical, energy, information and communication, and artificial intelligence technologies," said He Xiaopeng, Chairman of XPeng Motors.
"New-energy vehicles are also intelligent computing power terminals," said Zeng Yuqun, Chairman of CATL. An electric vehicle is a "computing node on wheels," and when aggregated, they can form a massive distributed data center providing computing power support.
The "new automobile" comes from new concepts; the "new definition" gives birth to new creations.
BYD pioneered the world's first mass-produced megawatt-level ultra-fast charging technology; CATL pioneered the world's first cell-to-pack battery technology; SAIC's IM Motors launched the world's first fully wire-controlled digital chassis; Geely released the world's first AI electronic and electrical architecture equipped with quantum security encryption technology; Huawei launched the world's first dual-optical-path image-level 896-line LiDAR; Li Auto mass-produced the M100 assisted driving chip with a single-chip computing power of up to 1280 TOPS (trillion operations per second)...
A large number of world-disruptive original technologies and underlying core technologies have achieved dense breakthroughs and full-stack self-reliance and controllability, supporting China's new-energy vehicles in turning new concepts and new definitions into reality one by one, forming a generational leading advantage on the intelligent electrification new track. Data shows that since 2026, the market penetration rate of new passenger vehicles equipped with L2-level combined assisted driving functions in China has reached 70%.
This summer, elementary school student Beibei rode in her family's newly purchased intelligent electric vehicle to school for the first time. The door opened gently, the chassis automatically lowered, and she easily stepped into her seat. As soon as she fastened her seatbelt, the anthropomorphic in-car robot "smiled" and praised her: "A good baby with safety awareness — thumbs up for you!" Following her voice command, the sunshade slowly opened and children's songs softly began to play. Beibei opened her eyes wide in surprise — it turns out the road to school can be this fun.
At the 2010 Shanghai World Expo Automobile Pavilion, the future mobility depicted in the film "2030, GO!" once captivated audiences. The sci-fi scenes on the screen back then — intelligent cockpits, assisted driving, human-machine co-driving — have today become commonplace in China's new-energy vehicles.
At the 2026 Beijing Auto Show, the focus of overseas merchants and media shifted from "curiosity about low prices" to "curiosity about technology." "They kept asking 'how to improve R&D efficiency' and 'whether technology can be licensed,'" said a Leapmotor staff member.
Jörg Wuttke, former President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, stated bluntly that German automotive executives were thoroughly awakened at the Chinese auto show, which was like a "digital wonderland." He said one must accept a disruptive reality: today's automobile is no longer simply a mechanical chassis plus an engine...
"Many executives from multinational corporations flew in specially from abroad to see what China's new-energy vehicle development actually looks like, and they were all amazed and full of admiration," said a representative from Huawei's Intelligent Automotive Solution business unit. Most of China's independent brand new-energy vehicles provide relatively standardized intelligent capabilities, sketching out a brand-new picture of future mobility for foreign consumers.
(Research group members: Xu Lijing, Xie Rongbin, Du Haitao, Gui Junsong, Wang Zheng, Shen Qian, Ge Mengchao, Feng Yingjie)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张矜若 时元皓 曹诗韵 陈尚文
Foreign media journalists from Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies recently visited the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, focusing on innovation-driven development and open cooperation. The journalists visited sci-tech innovation enterprises, smart ports, ecological parks, and historical and cultural landmarks, experiencing the vigorous momentum of the local digital economy and regional coordinated development. They said that the Greater Bay Area is a vivid sample for the world to understand Chinese-style modernization, giving people more expectations for the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in November, and this grand gathering will inject strong momentum into Asia-Pacific cooperation.
Kanokwan Kopharanan, International News Editor of Thailand's Bangkok Business News —
The Greater Bay Area's development practice brings important inspiration for deepening Asia-Pacific regional cooperation
"The sightseeing boat slowly sailed across the Pearl River, with brilliant lights on both banks, and the scene of a modern city unfolded gradually before my eyes. I immediately made a video call to my family in Thailand, hoping they could also feel Guangzhou's prosperity and vitality through the lens," said Kanokwan Kopharanan, International News Editor of Thailand's Bangkok Business News.
Openness was one of Kanokwan's profound impressions from this visit. In Guangzhou, she found that her hotel had many foreign business guests, including a French guest who had come to attend an exhibition. Kanokwan said that from the prosperous and active business environment, complete and convenient infrastructure, to close international exchanges, Guangzhou has long been an important gateway for China to connect with the world. "Hong Kong has prominent advantages in international finance and professional services, Macao has distinctive features in tourism and cultural exchanges, and Guangzhou has a deep commercial tradition as well as strong manufacturing, innovation, and education capabilities..." Kanokwan said that the cities in the Greater Bay Area, based on their own endowments and advantages, rely on transportation, logistics, industry, and personnel exchanges to strengthen connectivity, forming a pattern of complementary functions and coordinated development, and strengthening cooperation in a broader region, continuously raising the level of opening up to the outside world.
"Many Asia-Pacific economies are currently facing common challenges such as industrial upgrading, green transformation, and enhancement of innovation capabilities. The Greater Bay Area closely links production lines, research institutes, technology enterprises, logistics networks, and open platforms, which helps accelerate the transformation and application of new technologies and enhance the overall competitiveness of the region," Kanokwan said. The Greater Bay Area's development practice brings important inspiration for deepening Asia-Pacific regional cooperation.
"For Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, the open Greater Bay Area contains broad space for cooperation," Kanokwan said. As economic ties between ASEAN countries and China continue to deepen, both sides can further expand trade, investment, science and technology, tourism, education, and youth exchanges, promoting smoother flows of knowledge, talent, and innovation factors.
This trip to Guangdong gave Kanokwan more profound feelings about the APEC "China Year": "I look forward to China continuing to play a positive role in Asia-Pacific cooperation, and I believe that the APEC 'China Year' will further consolidate the consensus on openness, deepen practical cooperation, and bring more stability and development opportunities to the Asia-Pacific region."
Francisca Cardenas, reporter for CNN Chile —
Innovation is deeply rooted in the daily lives of ordinary people
"Skyscrapers, humanoid robots, high-speed trains... Shenzhen seems to be in the future. China is developing rapidly, and I hope the world can witness this achievement..." After concluding her trip to Guangdong, Francisca Cardenas, a reporter for CNN Chile, wrote in her article.
"Shenzhen not only focuses on current development, but is also committed to building the future. In this city, technology, modern infrastructure, and long-term development concepts are deeply integrated, which is impressive," Cardenas said. Visiting Huaqiangbei (华强北) especially made her 大开眼界 (dà kāi yǎn jiè - "open the field of vision wide," to have one's horizons greatly expanded). This street, less than one kilometer in total length, is becoming a popular destination for global "tech shopping."
"What surprised me most was that a robot made popcorn for me on the spot — this was simply a vivid slice of the future world," Cardenas said. In Shenzhen, innovation exists not only in large laboratories or enterprises, but is also deeply rooted in the daily lives of ordinary people. "From the transportation system to digital payments, to various intelligent services, everyone can feel the convenience brought by technology."
Cardenas has long followed China's development, and technological innovation is the field she reports on most. The humanoid robot half marathon held in Beijing's Yizhuang (亦庄), and the split-type flying car unveiled at the China International Consumer Products Expo in Hainan, are both vivid epitomes of China's scientific and technological innovation achievements in her writing. "Long-term planning, sustained innovation investment, and close collaboration among the government, universities, research institutions, and enterprises are important reasons for China's rapid scientific and technological development," Cardenas said. In the Greater Bay Area, each city fully leverages its own advantages, while also forming complementary advantages through high-level connectivity and complete transportation and logistics networks, jointly promoting the overall development of the region.
"Openness, innovation, and cooperation" are the three priority areas of the APEC "China Year." Cardenas said that Shenzhen very distinctly embodies these characteristics. "Shenzhen is highly connected with the world, demonstrating a high level of openness in international trade, scientific and technological exchanges, and other aspects." Cardenas said that the APEC "China Year" is both an important window for China to showcase its development achievements to the world, and a clear signal that China is willing to deepen practical cooperation with various economies.
"China's role as the host of APEC 2026 is a valuable opportunity to promote in-depth dialogue among Asia-Pacific parties on current important issues," Cardenas said. "I look forward to China continuing to promote dialogue, experience sharing, and deepened cooperation among all parties, pushing Asia-Pacific regional economic integration to a higher level."
Luky Aulia, reporter for Indonesia's Kompas —
Seeing the true picture beyond news and data
The car slowly entered the undersea immersed tube tunnel of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. The bridge body gradually "disappeared" beneath the sea surface, and reappeared before the eyes after emerging from the tunnel. Luky Aulia, a reporter from Indonesia's Kompas, was surprised and curious: "How was such a super project actually built?" Previously she had only seen video footage online. Now, being in it, she truly felt its enormous scale and complex structure.
Luky is not a first-time visitor to China, but this in-depth trip to the Greater Bay Area left her deeply impressed by the vigorous vitality of China's advanced manufacturing and the three-dimensional presentation of the "great instruments of the nation." At the final assembly workshop of the AG600 "Kunlong" aircraft, she observed up close this largest civil amphibious aircraft in the world by takeoff weight. "Forest firefighting, emergency rescue... the broad practical uses of this aircraft made me realize that true innovation must solve real-world problems, not just showcase technology," Luky said. Such equipment has important practical significance.
After visiting the Zhuhai Space Center (珠海太空中心), Luky wrote a special article recording her experiences: "Within one day, the dream of becoming an astronaut can come true" and "In the exhibition hall, technology that was once 遥不可及 (yáo bù kě jí - "distant and beyond reach") has become 触手可及 (chù shǒu kě jí - "reach out and touch," within easy reach)." In her view, the 1:1 replica of the "Tiangong" space station, the space technology that can be experienced up close, and other immersive exhibitions have brought the public closer to technology. What is displayed here is not isolated achievements, but a development chain that runs through from scientific research and manufacturing to industrial application. "This makes me better understand why China can continuously transform innovation achievements into real productivity," Luky said.
At the Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture Experience Hall in Hengqin (横琴), Zhuhai, holographic projections, digital interaction, and traditional Chinese medicine culture are skillfully integrated, showcasing the long history of traditional Chinese medicine and how China preserves, researches, and passes down traditional knowledge from generation to generation. Luky said that while advancing scientific and technological innovation, China always attaches importance to the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage. "Indonesia also has a long and rich herbal culture, and both countries cherish traditional wisdom passed down from generation to generation."
"Only by going deep into a city, entering the front lines of industry and the lives of the people, can one see the true picture beyond news and data." Luky believes that media visit and exchange activities have built an important platform for APEC economies to enhance understanding and deepen mutual trust. She hopes that through observation and reporting, she can help Indonesian readers understand a vibrant China. "Facing common challenges such as digital transformation and energy transition, APEC economies need to strengthen exchanges and mutual learning and deepen practical cooperation more than ever. I hope that China, as the host of APEC 2026, will promote deeper dialogue and more practical cooperation, making the region more connected and the regional economy more resilient," Luky said.
Return to TopIn the Mu Us Sandy Land of Inner Mongolia, trees grow lush and verdant, brimming with vitality. Chinese desertification fighter Yin Yuzhen and her American friend Ronald Sakolsky have met here again after a reunion spanning 26 years. In 1999, Sakolsky, then teaching in Luoyang, Henan, was moved by Yin Yuzhen's story of planting trees and combating desertification while rooted in the barren sands. Under the name "Sakoss," he raised $5,000 in donations to support the desertification control effort. Over more than twenty years of changing seasons, small acts of kindness have grown into more than 50,000 trees, and vast expanses of yellow sand have been transformed into contiguous oases. This cross-national friendship that began in the smallest of ways has also become a heartwarming tale in people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States.
The green pact on the Mu Us Sandy Land is a vivid microcosm of the torch being passed in China-US people-to-people friendship. Yin Yuzhen and "Sakoss" are two ordinary people separated by vast oceans, differing in language and culture, yet tightly bound together by a shared pursuit of a green homeland. This story of China-US people-to-people exchange reflects the most simple value resonance between the two peoples: the longing for a better life, the cherishing of the ecological environment, and the recognition of goodness and perseverance are common emotions that transcend borders and cultures. The Chinese character of forging friendships with sincerity and valuing gratitude, meeting the goodwill of international friends who watch over across mountains and seas in a two-way endeavor, endows this people-to-people friendship with a vitality that endures through the years.
President Xi Jinping has profoundly pointed out that the hope of China-US relations lies in the people, the foundation lies in the grassroots, the future lies in the youth, and the vitality lies in local exchanges. The Guling friendship spanning over a century has written a moving chapter of mutual understanding and mutual commitment between the two peoples; the experience of fighting side by side and sharing hardships during the anti-fascist war has made this people-to-people friendship ever more profound and solid; "ping-pong diplomacy" used a small ball to move a big ball, opening the historical prelude to the normalization of bilateral relations and becoming a memory etched in the hearts of several generations of both peoples... Entering the new era, the initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping to "invite 50,000 American youths to China for exchange and study over five years" achieved its expected goal two and a half years ahead of schedule. The mutual understanding and friendship among the younger generation has injected a continuous stream of new vitality into China-US people-to-people friendship. History and reality repeatedly confirm that people-to-people friendship is the deepest social foundation of China-US relations and a reliable support for bilateral relations to weather storms and proceed steadily toward long-term stability.
Only when the people's hearts are connected can a solid social foundation be built for practical cooperation, and ecological governance is precisely an important area where the interests of China and the United States converge and their philosophies align. The green transformation of the Mu Us Sandy Land is a true portrayal of China's historic achievements in desertification control. For more than half a century, generations of Chinese desertification fighters have continued the struggle, forging the "Three-North" spirit, the Saihanba spirit, and the Youyu spirit, exploring a path of sand prevention and control that conforms to the laws of nature and suits China's national conditions, achieving a historic transformation from "sand advances, people retreat" to "green advances, sand retreats." China's persistent advancement of ecological civilization construction has not only consolidated its own ecological security barrier but also built a broad platform for ecological exchange and cooperation between China and foreign countries, allowing more international friends to witness firsthand the resolve and responsibility of China's green development.
At present, global challenges such as climate change, land desertification, and biodiversity loss are becoming increasingly prominent. Protecting the Earth, our shared home, is a common cause for all humanity. No country can thrive in isolation, and joining hands to address common challenges is always the right path in the human world. China upholds the concept of a community of life for humanity and nature, actively sharing desertification control experience with the world, promoting applicable technologies, and training professional talent, contributing to the construction of Africa's "Great Green Wall," supporting ecological governance of the Aral Sea in Central Asian countries, and conducting technical exchange and cooperation on water-saving agriculture in arid regions with Arab countries... China contributes its strength to global ecological governance through practical actions. As two major countries with significant influence, China and the United States share broad common interests in areas such as ecological and environmental protection, clean energy, and climate governance. The fruits of cooperation not only benefit the peoples of both countries but can also inject momentum into global green development.
A single seedling can grow into a forest; a single act of kindness can warm mountains and seas. The story of "Sakoss" and Yin Yuzhen enlightens us that the sincere joining of hands between ordinary people can create astonishing miracles; when major countries move toward each other with goodwill, they can bring profound well-being to the world. By always cherishing the deep foundation of people-to-people friendship and always upholding the way of win-win cooperation, China and the United States will surely continue to build consensus and expand cooperation, allowing more seeds of friendship to take root and sprout, injecting more stability and positive energy into a turbulent and changing world, and jointly safeguarding the common home on which humanity depends for survival.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘玲玲 宋亦然
The third China-US 1.5-track dialogue (中美1.5轨对话), co-sponsored by the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央对外联络部) and the Asia Society of the United States, was held in Beijing on August 25. Chinese and American representatives conducted in-depth discussions on topics including enhancing political mutual trust, expanding economic and trade cooperation, and exploring cooperation in artificial intelligence and technology, jointly offering suggestions and advice for promoting the building of a constructive strategic stable relationship between China and the United States.
In May this year, President Xi Jinping and President Trump held a historic meeting in Beijing and agreed to build a constructive strategic stable relationship between China and the United States, hoping that the two countries would work toward the direction of cooperation as the main theme, competition with appropriate limits, controllable differences, and a peaceful and promising future, jointly exploring the correct way for major countries to get along in the new era.
Thornton, co-chair of the board of the Asia Society, stated that strategic guidance by heads of state is of great significance to the development of US-China relations. The two sides reached important consensus on building a constructive strategic stable relationship, providing an important strategic framework for the future development of bilateral relations. Going forward, the two sides should continuously enrich the substance of this positioning through sustained communication and concrete actions, translating the consensus of the heads of state into more tangible results that benefit the people of both countries.
Qian Jing (钱镜), vice president of the Asia Society and co-founder and director of the Asia Society China Center, stated that the new positioning of a constructive strategic stable relationship established by the two heads of state is of historic significance. This overall strategic framework provides foundational support for bilateral relations and requires joint efforts from both sides to implement. "We hope to see concrete implementation measures in relevant fields afterward, to promote the implementation of the consensus reached by the two heads of state in May."
Chen Dongxiao (陈东晓), president of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (上海国际问题研究院), stated that the atmosphere of this dialogue was sincere and highly constructive. All parties expressed their concerns and expectations with a pragmatic attitude, and information was fully conveyed. He looks forward to translating the useful suggestions and consensus ideas from the dialogue into concrete policy actions, especially advancing substantive cooperation in artificial intelligence governance and youth programs, jointly contributing positive forces to building a constructive strategic stable relationship between China and the United States.
A report released by the US-China Business Council in June this year showed that 80 percent of US respondent companies believe that the Chinese market is important or very important to their global competitiveness. In the second quarter of this year, the total value of China-US trade in goods increased by 13.7 percent year-on-year. Allen, senior fellow at the Asia Society China Center and former president of the US-China Business Council, stated that trade has always been an important component of US-China relations. Over the years, the two countries have continued to conduct trade, investment, and technological exchanges, achieving common development in the process. "Both the US and China have benefited from trade and an open international environment. Maintaining an open trade and investment environment is crucial." Allen stated that the two countries should further deepen economic and trade exchanges, and "neither side can afford the cost of 'decoupling.'"
At present, the relevant departments of both China and the United States are maintaining communication in areas such as economy and trade, diplomacy, military, counternarcotics, law enforcement, artificial intelligence, and people-to-people exchanges, following the track set by the two heads of state, injecting stability into the respective development of the two countries with positive expectations. Thornton stated that the economic teams of both sides are currently maintaining open, sustained, and effective communication, and the relevant communication mechanisms are operating well. He is optimistic about the progress of bilateral relations in the future and believes that continued engagement between the two heads of state will create more opportunities for deepening communication and cooperation and promoting the steady progress of bilateral relations.
"Both China and the United States play an important role in driving global economic growth and the innovation and application of new technologies." Allen believes that both China and the United States have vast markets with large populations, and companies from both countries have significant influence in various industrial sectors. Facing rapid global technological change, as long as both sides seize the opportunities and fully leverage the opportunities brought by the vibrant technological innovation environment, the future of China-US cooperation has unlimited possibilities. Allen emphasized that the rapid development of artificial intelligence is both a development driver and a source of risks. Both China and the United States have the responsibility to strengthen cooperation in this field and make greater contributions to global public interests.
The participating representatives conducted in-depth discussions and outlooks on China-US medical cooperation and people-to-people exchanges. Qian Jing stated that the talks between the two heads of state in May this year explicitly proposed expanding exchanges and cooperation in areas such as health, creating an important opportunity for strengthening health cooperation between the two sides. "Under the strategic guidance of the heads of state, the US and China can find more common interests in the health field and translate the potential for cooperation into more tangible results that benefit the people of both countries."
"Personal experience can change the relationship between people." Speaking of youth exchanges, Gu Minde (谷民德), non-resident fellow at the Asia Society China Center, was deeply impressed. He believes that it is very important for American youth to come to China and understand the real China, and equally important for Chinese youth to go to the United States for exchanges and learn about the United States up close. The "50,000 in five years" initiative (5年5万倡议) has given more American students the opportunity to come to China and also given more Chinese students the opportunity to go to the United States for exchanges, and its results are gratifying. "There are many common concerns between China and the United States. The two sides can start with concrete steps, continuously accumulate positive results and mutual trust in pragmatic exchanges and cooperation, and gradually expand to broader cooperation," Gu Minde said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 任皓宇 黄培昭
On August 24, the China-Egypt media joint interview team for high-quality Belt and Road cooperation visited the Central Business District project in Egypt's New Administrative Capital, east of Cairo, and climbed the "tallest building in Africa" to interview the stories of Chinese and Egyptian builders working together and growing together.
After driving east from downtown Cairo for nearly an hour, a silver-gray skyscraper leapt from the horizon, pointing straight into the sky.
"That is the Iconic Tower," said Fawaz, a reporter from Egypt's Al-Akhbar newspaper, raising his camera. "More than a year ago I came here to report, and it was a different scene then. Now the changes are enormous."
This stretch of former desert before our eyes is now lined with towering buildings. The Central Business District project is being constructed by the Egypt branch of China State Construction Engineering Corporation, and includes 10 office buildings, 5 residential towers, and 4 large hotels, as well as the 385.8-meter "tallest building in Africa," the Iconic Tower. As one of the core projects of the New Administrative Capital, the Central Business District is not only a new landmark in Egypt's urban development process, but also a key project in the high-quality China-Egypt Belt and Road cooperation.
Yasser, deputy manager of the project's engineering department, told reporters that Egypt has relatively limited experience in super high-rise construction. Faced with technical difficulties during construction, Egyptian and Chinese technicians worked side by side, exploring each challenge one by one and advancing step by step. "Many technologies I had never encountered before," Yasser said. As the project advanced, he took part in more and more work and mastered an increasingly rich set of professional skills, growing from an ordinary technician into an engineer capable of managing construction.
"My personal dream has also been realized here," Yasser said. The project attracts great attention from the Egyptian public. Whenever a television program broadcasts a report about the New Administrative Capital's Central Business District, he stops to watch. Sometimes his children watch along with him. "I tell them, 'Look, this building is the one we built.'" As he said this, Yasser's sense of pride could not be hidden.
Derbik, an Egyptian expert on Chinese affairs who participated in the joint interview, has visited the New Administrative Capital Central Business District many times and has continuously followed the fruits of Egypt-China cooperation, including the Central Business District project. He said: "The significance of Egypt-China cooperation lies not only in completing a tall building, but also in the accumulation of talent, technology, and experience formed during the cooperation process."
During the interview, the reporters climbed the Iconic Tower and learned in detail about the project's progress.
"The Central Business District is not only a modern architectural complex, but also embodies Egypt's determination to explore modern development," Fawaz said. Egypt and China share compatible development philosophies, and "we look forward to Egypt-China cooperation bearing even more abundant fruits."
Shukhrat, a reporter from Egypt's Middle East News Agency who participated in the joint interview, wrote in a report published that day that the smooth implementation of the Central Business District project marks the entry of bilateral cooperation into a new stage, confirming that Egypt-China friendship surges forward like the waters of the Nile.
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Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 25 (Reporter Wu Yue) — The 25th Meeting of Special Representatives on the China-India Boundary Question was held in Beijing on the 25th. Wang Yi, Special Representative of the Chinese side, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, and Ajit Doval, Special Representative of the Indian side and National Security Adviser, conducted comprehensive, in-depth, friendly, and candid communication on the China-India boundary question and bilateral relations.
Wang Yi stated that the healthy and stable development of China-India relations serves the fundamental interests of the peoples of both countries and carries global and strategic significance. In recent years, President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Modi have held two meetings in Kazan and Tianjin, reaching a series of important consensuses and charting the course for the improvement and development of bilateral relations. China is willing to work with India to grasp bilateral relations from a strategic height and a long-term perspective, to be good-neighborly and friendly partners, to be partners in mutual achievement, and to realize the "dragon-elephant dance."
Wang Yi stated that both sides should sum up historical experience, place the boundary question in an appropriate position in bilateral relations, persist in moving forward, without stagnation, without retrogression, without deviation, let dialogue, peace, consultation, and cooperation become the mainstream, and inject positive factors into the healthy and stable development of bilateral relations.
Doval stated that under the guidance of the leaders of the two countries, India-China relations have returned to the right track, and exchanges and cooperation in various fields are advancing steadily. India is willing to work with China to further strengthen strategic communication, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, deepen multilateral coordination, effectively manage and control the border areas, explore solutions to the boundary question, and accelerate the improvement and development of India-China relations.
The two sides conducted in-depth communication on advancing boundary delimitation negotiations, doing well in border management and control, improving mechanism building, and advancing cross-border cooperation, and reaffirmed that they will, in the spirit of mutual respect and mutual understanding, seek a fair, reasonable, and mutually acceptable package solution to the boundary question. The two sides will continue to properly handle the boundary question through dialogue and consultation, and jointly safeguard peace and tranquility in the border areas.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 25 — Chen Wenqing, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, met in Beijing on the 25th with Nguyen Van Quang, member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President of the Supreme People's Court of Vietnam.
Chen Wenqing noted that General Secretary Xi Jinping and General Secretary To Lam have drawn the blueprint for continuously deepening relations between the two parties and the two countries. He expressed the hope that both sides will, in accordance with the strategic direction set by the top leaders of the two parties and the two countries, strengthen exchanges and cooperation in the judicial field, improve diversified channels for resolving cross-border civil and commercial disputes, deepen exchanges and training of rule-of-law talent, and serve the healthy development of bilateral economic and trade relations with high-level judicial cooperation.
Nguyen Van Quang stated that Vietnam is willing to strengthen exchanges and mutual learning with China on such matters as the building of a socialist rule-of-law state, and to push the building of a Vietnam-China community with a shared future to go deeper and more substantive.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 25 (Reporter Wu Mengtong) — On August 25, the dialogue conference "Promoting the Building of an Asian Community with a Shared Future for Peace and Prosperity" was held in Beijing. Wang Dongming, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech.
Wang Dongming stated that since President Xi Jinping put forward the concept of building an Asian community with a shared future (亚洲命运共同体), all parties have worked together to inject strong momentum into Asia's peace, stability, prosperity, and development. This conference takes "Shared Destiny · A New Chapter for Asia" (命运与共·亚洲新篇) as its theme, and it is expected that all parties will be guided by the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind (人类命运共同体), implement the four global initiatives (四大全球倡议), jointly advance the building of an Asian community with a shared future, and jointly write a new chapter of peace, development, cooperation, and prosperity for Asia.
The conference was co-hosted by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (中国人民对外友好协会), Renmin University of China (中国人民大学), and the Beijing People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (北京市人民对外友好协会). Approximately 300 representatives attended, including political figures and former political figures from relevant Asian countries, as well as representatives from local governments, friendship organizations, economic and trade circles, think tanks, and youth sectors.
Return to TopPeople's Daily, Beijing, August 25 (Reporters Liu Lingling (刘玲玲), Song Yiran (宋亦然)) — On August 25, the Third U.S.-China 1.5-Track Dialogue, co-hosted by the International Department of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央对外联络部) and the Asia Society, was held in Beijing, themed "Constructive Strategic Stability — U.S.-China Practical Cooperation in the New Era." Liu Haixing (刘海星), head of the International Department, attended and delivered a keynote speech. Approximately 40 Chinese and foreign representatives participated, including personnel from relevant Chinese departments, local governments, think tanks, and universities, as well as American strategic and business circles, including Thornton, co-chair of the Asia Society board of directors.
The two sides conducted candid, in-depth, and constructive exchanges, holding that the U.S.-China relationship is of vital importance and that the current bilateral relationship is at an important juncture. The two sides should jointly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, base themselves on the new positioning of the constructive strategic stability of U.S.-China relations, strengthen communication and dialogue, enhance political mutual trust, promote exchanges and cooperation in such fields as economy and trade, people-to-people and cultural exchanges, subnational relations, healthcare, artificial intelligence, and food security, properly handle differences, and jointly address global challenges.
Return to TopOur Dispatch, Seoul, August 25 (Reporters Mang Jiuchen, Wu Lejun) — On August 25, the 26th China-Korea Distinguished Persons Forum, co-hosted by the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs and the Korea-China Exchange Association of the 21st Century, was held in Seoul, the Republic of Korea. The theme of this forum was "Deepening China-Korea Friendly Cooperation, Promoting Peace, Stability and Prosperity." Wu Ken, President of the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs; Dai Bing, Chinese Ambassador to the Republic of Korea; Kim Han-kyu, President of the Korea-China Exchange Association of the 21st Century; and Lee Ju-young, former Vice Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, attended and delivered speeches. Cho Tae-yul, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea, met with the participating representatives.
Return to TopSpecific measures to be formulated for flexibly employed persons to participate in employee basic medical insurance
Reported by our correspondent Peng Bo
On August 25, the third draft of the Medical Security Law was submitted to the 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress for deliberation. The third draft further improves the relevant provisions of the medical security system and further enriches the provisions on the use and management of medical security funds.
In accordance with relevant suggestions, the third draft clarifies that the state establishes and improves the basic medical insurance system, strengthens the overall coordination between basic medical insurance for employees and basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents, and promotes fairness and uniformity. It clarifies that the medical security administrative department of the State Council, together with relevant departments of the State Council, formulates specific measures for flexibly employed persons to participate in basic medical insurance for employees. At the same time, provisions are added that when persons in extreme difficulty, family members covered by the minimum subsistence guarantee, and eligible targets for preventing relapse into poverty participate in basic medical insurance for urban and rural residents, their individual contribution portions shall be subsidized in accordance with regulations.
In response to suggestions on further enriching the provisions on the use and management of medical security funds, the third draft clarifies that when the medical security administrative department of the State Council organizes the formulation of the scope of basic medical insurance fund payments and organizes evidence-based medicine and economic evaluations, it shall listen to the opinions of medical institutions, pharmaceutical business units, relevant enterprises, experts, and insured persons. At the same time, provisions are added that the state establishes and improves the centralized procurement system for drugs and medical consumables, and the state improves the payment mechanism for basic medical insurance funds, implementing diversified composite medical insurance payment methods according to the characteristics of different medical services, and improving payment methods suited to the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine services.
The third draft further refines the requirements for settlement of medical expenses incurred in different places of medical treatment, adding provisions that for the portion of medical expenses incurred by insured persons seeking medical treatment in other places at designated medical and pharmaceutical institutions that should be paid from medical security funds, the medical security handling agencies shall, after review in accordance with regulations, conduct direct settlement and disbursement in full and in a timely manner.
In addition, the third draft also adds relevant provisions on long-term care insurance, clarifying that the state establishes and improves the long-term care insurance system.
Interception, squeezing, or misappropriation of high-standard farmland construction funds prohibited
Reported by our correspondent Zhang Cong
On August 25, the 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress continued deliberating the draft of the Farmland Protection and Quality Improvement Law. Previously, the 22nd session of the Standing Committee conducted a second deliberation on the draft.
The second draft provided for the types of land that in principle shall not serve as sources of supplementary farmland. Some opinions suggested that, for flood control safety, land within the scope of river and lake management shall also in principle not be used as sources of supplementary farmland, and recommended that this be clarified. The third draft accordingly adds corresponding provisions.
Some opinions suggested that in recent years, the problem of illegal use and occupation of high-standard farmland construction funds has been relatively prominent, seriously affecting the quality of high-standard farmland construction, and recommended further strengthening supervision and management over high-standard farmland construction funds. In response, the third draft adds the provision: "It is prohibited for any unit or individual to intercept, squeeze, or misappropriate high-standard farmland construction funds."
The second draft provided for the governance of degraded farmland such as acidified and gleyized farmland by local people's governments at or above the county level. Some opinions suggested adding provisions on carrying out comprehensive governance of farmland affected by sandy desertification, wind erosion, and water erosion, and preventing and controlling soil erosion and water loss. The third draft adopts this opinion and adds corresponding provisions.
The second draft provided for the state's establishment of a black soil protection system. Some opinions suggested that black soil is the most precious farmland and recommended further increasing the intensity of black soil protection. The third draft adds the provision: "Protect the excellent productive capacity of black soil, ensuring that the total amount of black soil does not decrease, functions do not degrade, quality improves, and production capacity is sustainable."
Some opinions suggested that the state's major grain-producing areas have played an important role in farmland protection and food security, and recommended further reflecting benefit compensation for major grain-producing areas. The third draft adds the provision: "The state improves the benefit compensation mechanism for major grain-producing areas, improves the fiscal transfer payment system for major grain-producing areas and major grain-producing counties, and improves the inter-provincial horizontal benefit compensation mechanism between grain-producing and grain-consuming regions."
Encouraging integration of new technologies such as artificial intelligence with agricultural production
Reported by our correspondent Peng Bo
On August 25, the 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress deliberated the second draft of the revised Agriculture Law. The second draft of the revised draft further aligns with laws such as the Ecological Environment Code and adds provisions on strengthening rural construction and governance.
In accordance with relevant suggestions, the second draft of the revised draft improves measures supporting the development of agriculture and the rural economy, adding provisions: coordinate the development of science-and-technology agriculture, green agriculture, quality agriculture, and brand agriculture; safeguard seed industry security and raise the level of seed industry modernization; raise the level of agricultural insurance protection and service quality; encourage the integration of new technologies such as the "Internet of Things and artificial intelligence" with agricultural production, operation, and management.
Some members of the Standing Committee, localities, departments, and deputies suggested implementing the requirements of rectifying formalism to reduce burdens at the grassroots, streamlining relevant plans, and improving the content on protection of farmers' rights and interests. Accordingly, the second draft of the revised draft adds provisions that people's governments at all levels shall establish and improve a long-term mechanism for rectifying formalism to reduce burdens at the grassroots. It clarifies that people's governments at the level of cities divided into districts and at the county level formulate agricultural development plans "according to actual needs," and no longer explicitly requires the formulation of agricultural science and technology and education plans. The second draft of the revised draft also adds provisions that farmers and agricultural production and operation organizations enjoy tax reductions and exemptions provided for in laws and administrative regulations, and deletes the provisions on relevant units withholding and collecting taxes on their behalf.
Strengthening rural construction and governance is crucial to agricultural and rural development. The second draft of the revised draft adds provisions that the state strengthens rural governance, advances the construction of safe villages, builds a harmonious and orderly rural society, and continuously enhances the broad masses of farmers' sense of gain, happiness, and security.
In addition, the second draft of the revised draft further aligns with laws such as the Ecological Environment Code, clarifying that the state adheres to the integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, grasslands, and deserts, and strengthens ecological protection and restoration. Provisions are added that local people's governments at all levels shall scientifically and precisely strengthen the organization, guidance, and management of straw burning.
Advancing the application of advanced technologies in national defense mobilization
Reported by our correspondent Ni Yi
On August 25, the 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress deliberated the second draft of the revised National Defense Mobilization Law.
Some members of the Standing Committee, departments, localities, and experts and scholars suggested clarifying the concept of national defense mobilization in the revised draft. After study, the Constitution and Law Committee of the National People's Congress suggested adding a paragraph providing: "National defense mobilization as referred to in this Law means the activities in which the state, in order to respond to threats to national sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity, security, and development interests, takes necessary measures in accordance with the law to ensure rapid peacetime-wartime transition and convert economic and social strength into national defense strength."
Some members of the Standing Committee, localities, and members of the public suggested further clarifying the provisions on the collection, use, and security management of national defense mobilization data. After study, the Constitution and Law Committee of the National People's Congress suggested adding the provision that the state "collects and uses data closely related to national defense mobilization in accordance with the law, and ensures data security."
Some members of the Standing Committee and localities suggested that new-domain and new-quality national defense mobilization forces play an important role in enhancing national defense mobilization capability, and recommended reflecting this in the revised draft. After study, the Constitution and Law Committee of the National People's Congress suggested adding a provision: "The state advances the application of advanced technologies in national defense mobilization and develops national defense mobilization forces in emerging fields."
Some localities and members of the public suggested further clarifying the corresponding obligations of the subjects of statistical surveys of national defense mobilization potential. After study, the Constitution and Law Committee of the National People's Congress suggested adding a paragraph providing: "The subjects of statistical surveys of national defense mobilization potential shall, in accordance with the law and relevant state regulations, truthfully, accurately, completely, and promptly provide the materials required for statistical surveys of national defense mobilization potential."
Some members of the Standing Committee and members of the public suggested making prohibitive provisions on acts of fabricating and disseminating false national defense mobilization information. After study, the Constitution and Law Committee of the National People's Congress suggested adding the provision: after the state decides to implement national defense mobilization, relevant departments and organs shall "handle in accordance with the law organizations and individuals that fabricate or disseminate false national defense mobilization information or disrupt or undermine the order of national defense mobilization work," and provide for corresponding legal liability.
Actively developing foreign-related legal services industry to safeguard parties' lawful rights and interests
Reported by our correspondent Zhang Cong
On August 25, the 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress continued deliberating the amendment draft of the Lawyers Law. Previously, the 23rd session of the Standing Committee conducted an initial deliberation.
The amendment draft improves the legislative purpose. Some opinions suggested that the lawyer contingent is an important force in governing the country according to law, and improving the lawyer system is an important measure for implementing the provisions of the Constitution, and recommended clearly making the Constitution the legislative basis of this Law. After study, the Constitution and Law Committee of the National People's Congress suggested adopting this opinion and adding the provision that this Law is formulated "in accordance with the Constitution."
The amendment draft provides for the state's active development of the foreign-related legal services industry. Some opinions suggested that the state's active development of the foreign-related legal services industry is conducive to better safeguarding the lawful rights and interests of parties, and recommended adding relevant provisions on safeguarding parties' lawful rights and interests in this article. After study, the Constitution and Law Committee of the National People's Congress suggested adopting this opinion.
The amendment draft provides that when staff members of the people's courts, people's procuratorates, judicial administrative departments, and other units resign from public office or retire and then engage in the legal profession or work in law firms, they shall comply with the relevant provisions on management of public servants. Some opinions suggested clarifying the meaning of "relevant provisions on management of public servants." After study, the Constitution and Law Committee of the National People's Congress suggested revising "relevant provisions on management of public servants" to "relevant provisions on management of departure from public office for public servants."
The amendment draft provides for encouraging and supporting law firms and lawyers to participate in public-interest legal services, with judicial administrative departments and lawyers associations strengthening coordination and organizational guidance. Some opinions suggested aligning with the Legal Aid Law and adding "providing legal aid in accordance with the law" after "encouraging and supporting law firms and lawyers to participate in public-interest legal services." After study, the Constitution and Law Committee of the National People's Congress suggested adopting this opinion.
Per capita disposable income of rural residents in counties that have shaken off poverty grows at average annual rate of 8.2 percent
Reported by our correspondent Ni Yi
On August 25, the 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress heard the "Report of the State Council on the Work of Continuously Consolidating and Expanding the Achievements of the Fight against Poverty and Steadily Advancing Comprehensive Rural Revitalization" delivered by Maierdan Mugaiti, Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
The report shows that after winning the battle against poverty, all regions and departments have steadily advanced the effective linkage between consolidating and expanding the achievements of the fight against poverty and rural revitalization. After five years of continuous assistance, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in counties that have shaken off poverty increased from 12,588 yuan in 2020 to 18,627 yuan in 2025, with an average annual growth rate of 8.2 percent. The level of rural infrastructure and public services has been greatly improved, the development gap between regions that have shaken off poverty and other regions has been continuously narrowed, and the achievements of the fight against poverty have been continuously consolidated and expanded, laying a solid foundation for deeply advancing comprehensive rural revitalization.
Implementing the "four no-removal" (四个不摘) requirements, the assistance system has transitioned smoothly and orderly. Adhering to the effective mechanism of five-level party secretaries grasping the work, strong organizational guarantees have been provided for consolidating and expanding the achievements of the fight against poverty. Relevant departments have issued 38 policy documents, and the main assistance policies have remained generally stable. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, central government subsidy funds for linking and advancing rural revitalization totaled 850.5 billion yuan, an increase of 320 billion yuan compared with the 13th Five-Year Plan period; banking and insurance institutions have cumulatively invested 35.2 trillion yuan in credit funds in counties that have shaken off poverty.
Establishing and improving the monitoring and assistance mechanism, the bottom line of preventing relapse into poverty has been continuously secured. Localities are guided to scientifically and reasonably determine the monitoring scope for preventing relapse into poverty each year. Monitoring methods and approaches have been optimized and improved, the national information system for preventing relapse into poverty and linking with rural revitalization advancement has been upgraded, and localities are guided to use new technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence to improve monitoring quality and efficiency.
Strengthening division of labor and collaboration among departments, the achievements in safeguarding the "three guarantees" (三保障) and drinking water security have been continuously consolidated. School dropouts among children of families that have shaken off poverty at the compulsory education stage have maintained dynamic zeroing, and the national nine-year compulsory education consolidation rate reached 96.1 percent in 2025. A national dynamic monitoring system for preventing relapse into poverty due to illness has been established, and the basic medical insurance participation rate of the population that has shaken off poverty and the targets for preventing relapse into poverty has remained stable at over 99 percent each year. A dynamic monitoring mechanism for housing security has been established and improved, and dilapidated houses of eligible groups such as targets for preventing relapse into poverty have been promptly included in the scope of rural dilapidated housing renovation policy support. The integration of urban and rural water supply, scaled centralized water supply, standardization of small-scale water supply, and professional unified management at the county level have been comprehensively promoted, and the national rural tap water penetration rate reached 96 percent in 2025.
Highlighting the orientation of development-oriented assistance, the driving role of industrial and employment assistance has been effectively brought into play. More than 60 percent of central government subsidy funds for linking and advancing rural revitalization has been used to promote industrial development. All 832 counties that have shaken off poverty have cultivated and formed 2 to 3 characteristic and advantageous assistance industries, with a total output value exceeding 2 trillion yuan.
Strengthening factor support and safeguards, the development foundation of key regions has been continuously consolidated. A total of 160 national key assistance counties for rural revitalization have been designated, with concentrated resources from finance, banking, land, talent, and other aspects given tilted support.
Deepening coordinated assistance, the joint force of social assistance has been further consolidated. Eight eastern provinces have carried out paired assistance with 10 western provinces. During the transition period, the east has cumulatively invested more than 110 billion yuan in fiscal assistance funds in the western coordinated assistance regions and guided enterprises to invest more than 750 billion yuan.
Learning from and applying the experience of the "Thousand-Village Demonstration, Ten-Thousand-Village Improvement" project (千万工程), comprehensive rural revitalization has been steadily advanced. The comprehensive agricultural production capacity has been steadily improved, with a cumulative total of more than 1 billion mu of high-standard farmland built, and grain output reached 1,429.8 billion jin in 2025. A modern rural industrial system integrating production, processing, and sales and integrating agriculture, culture, and tourism has been accelerated, with the operating revenue of agricultural product processing enterprises above designated size nationwide reaching approximately 18 trillion yuan in 2025. The rural construction action has been deeply implemented, and by the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan period, all townships and administrative villages with the necessary conditions have been connected to hardened roads, passenger transport, and power electricity.
Maierdan Mugaiti introduced that in the next step, normalized assistance will be incorporated into the overall implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, targets for preventing relapse into poverty and underdeveloped regions will be treated as the objects of normalized assistance after the transition period, endogenous development momentum will be enhanced through effective development-oriented assistance, the bottom line of people's livelihood will be secured through a sound and complete social security system, and the goals of long-term policy supply, routinized measures and methods, efficient management methods, and institutionalized factor safeguards will be achieved, so as to continuously consolidate and expand the achievements of the fight against poverty and steadily advance comprehensive rural revitalization.
By: 本报记者 施 芳
Improve the public cultural service system, pass on and promote the excellent traditional culture of China, and let the people enjoy a higher-quality cultural life.
— Excerpted from the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan
As the jinghu fiddle sounds and the stage curtain rises, on the grand stage of the Dehe Garden in the Summer Palace, the "Yi Yun Qing Yin" Peking Opera special performance begins. Two actors from the Beijing Jingju Theatre Company delivered a superb performance of the Peking Opera repertoire Sitting in the Palace, winning rounds of applause from the audience. "I originally just came to stroll in the park, but I didn't expect to catch a wonderful opera." said Ms. Chen, a tourist from Guangdong.
This is one of the events of the Third Beijing Park Art Season. From late June to the end of August this year, nearly 200 events were staged in major parks across Beijing, bringing a 别开生面 (bié kāi shēng miàn - "open a new face," to break new ground and present something fresh and distinctive) artistic feast to citizens and tourists.
This Art Season is jointly hosted by the Beijing Municipal Forestry and Parks Bureau, the Beijing Municipal Park Management Center, the China Culture and Arts Development Promotion Association, and the Capital Culture and Technology Group, covering six major sections: borderless exhibitions, scenery and object collective performances, participatory co-creation, immersive experiences, cultural gatherings, and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei joint linkage.
"This Art Season is committed to creating a three-dimensional cultural scene that can be viewed, toured, interacted with, and created, making strolling in parks and appreciating culture a routine choice for citizens and tourists during summer leisure." said Miao Xiangliu (缪祥流), director of the Municipal Parks Management Division of the Beijing Municipal Park Management Center.
The Guande Hall in Jingshan Park hosts a six-province fine Chinese painting invitational exhibition, displaying more than 40 fine Chinese paintings in three major themes: landscapes, figures, and flowers and birds; in the courtyard, a "Jing Garden · Central Axis" bonsai exhibition is arranged, where bonsai from Shandong, Hubei, and other places 交相辉映 (jiāo xiāng huī yìng - "shine upon each other," to complement and enhance each other) with the red walls of the ancient architecture. "Besides viewing the scenery, you can also view exhibitions — the parks are increasingly worth a good stroll!" said citizen Bi Meng.
Entering the parks, citizens and tourists are not only visitors but also creators. Taoranting Park and Zizhuyuan Park have set up "Art Workshop" zones, offering activities for all age groups such as garden model building, classical pattern rubbing, and intangible cultural heritage handicraft experiences, allowing citizens and tourists to personally experience the unique charm of traditional culture.
The Art Season is also a "grand feast" of cultural benefits shared by the whole people. Nearly 100 young actors under the Capital Culture and Technology Group walked into the Temple of Heaven Park, Zizhuyuan Park, Yuyuantan Park, and Beijing Zoo, presenting themed concerts, folk music concerts, children's art plays, and dance parties, bringing citizens and tourists performances that are down-to-earth and full of warmth. "I participated in two performances in the Temple of Heaven Park. Through close interaction with the audience, I truly felt everyone's love for excellent traditional art." said Yu Kai, a young actor from the China Acrobatic Troupe.
This Art Season for the first time established a Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei joint linkage section, promoting coordinated cultural and tourism development among the three regions. The Zhangjiakou Culture and Art Season in Hebei entered multiple parks, and events such as the Jizhou Characteristic Culture and Tourism Day in Tianjin, the Wuqiao Acrobatics Tour in Hebei, and the Xiong'an New Area Culture and Tourism Feature Promotion were successively staged.
Attracted by the rich activities, more and more people are entering parks to embark on journeys of experience blending historical culture and contemporary art. According to estimates by the Beijing Municipal Park Management Center, during this summer, the municipal parks of Beijing are expected to receive more than 20 million visits.
Return to TopBy: 韩春瑶
From Peking Opera performances on the stage of the Summer Palace, to intangible cultural heritage handicrafts that citizens can experience firsthand, to cultural and artistic exhibitions coordinated across the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region... Beijing has used its parks as a vehicle to upgrade "scenic destinations" into "cultural living rooms," building a platform for cultural exchange and display shared by all the people.
Exploring the creation of a "culture + parks" integrated scenario responds to the public's expectations for a high-quality cultural life and injects new momentum into cultural consumption. This model not only opens up the "last mile" of public cultural services, bringing traditional arts and intangible cultural heritage crafts closer to the people, but also activates the cultural "pulse" of parks, turning ancient architectural courtyards and garden landscapes into cultural spaces that carry new consumption scenarios.
By upholding innovative thinking and continuously releasing the cultural potential of urban public spaces, and by advancing the "culture +" approach in depth and with substance, more high-quality, down-to-earth cultural services will continue to emerge, allowing fine culture to permeate the fabric of the city and nourish the lives of its citizens.
By: 本报记者 史一棋 李林蔚
Recently, General Secretary Xi Jinping made an important instruction, fully affirming the work and results of the study and education campaign, and putting forward clear requirements for consolidating and expanding the results of the study and education campaign and establishing a long-term mechanism for establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements.
The vast number of Party members and cadres have stated that they must earnestly study and understand, and comprehensively implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instruction spirit, treat establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements as a long-term task, make unremitting efforts over time, continuously consolidate and expand the results of the study and education campaign, and strive to create real achievements that can stand the test of practice, the people, and history.
This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, and is also the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." "Carrying out the study and education campaign on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements throughout the entire Party is precisely the right time." Bai Jing (白婧), deputy dean and professor of the School of Marxism at the Party School of the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the CPC, stated that through the tempering of the study and education campaign, the vast number of Party members and cadres have further corrected their ideological understanding of "for whom political achievements are established, what kind of political achievements to establish, and by what means to establish political achievements," deepened their understanding and comprehension of the correct view of political achievements, their ideals and convictions have become increasingly firm, their momentum for practical work has become more sufficient, and this has effectively promoted a good start and a solid beginning for the "15th Five-Year Plan."
Through the study and education campaign, the vast number of Party members and cadres have strengthened their awareness of the Party's purpose and deeply understood that benefiting the people is the greatest political achievement.
"The people are the greatest source of confidence for our Party in governing. Party members and cadres must strengthen, from both thought and action, the firmness and consciousness of always treating benefiting the people as the greatest political achievement, seeking happiness for the people and doing practical things for the people." Wang Yongming (王永明), member of the Standing Committee of the Wanyuan Municipal Party Committee and head of the Organization Department of Sichuan Province, said.
"What Communists do in undertaking endeavors and creating political achievements is for the purpose of benefiting the people." Wang Bo (王波), executive deputy secretary of the Naidong District Party Committee and executive deputy district governor of Shannan City, Tibet Autonomous Region, said, "We must deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instruction spirit, firmly establish a people-centered development philosophy, adhere to development for the people, development relying on the people, and development achievements shared by the people, and take how many good deeds and practical things have been done for the people as an important criterion for testing political achievements."
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that it is necessary to adhere to the normalized investigation and rectification of problems, and to keep a close watch and track the effectiveness of prominent problems of deviation in the view of political achievements that require long-term rectification.
"Investigating and rectifying problems means taking real action on specific matters, taking the needs of the masses as the orientation and actual results as the yardstick, continuously preventing and correcting prominent problems of deviation in the view of political achievements, and promoting Party members and cadres to continuously enhance their ideological consciousness and action consciousness in establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements." Qu Maoxian (瞿茂贤), deputy secretary of the Songyang County Party Committee of Lishui City, Zhejiang Province, said.
"During the study and education campaign, in response to the governance shortcoming of 'emphasizing construction over management' in rural water supply, we promoted the upgrading and renovation of pipeline networks and improved operation and maintenance mechanisms, so that the masses can drink assured water. In the next step, we will focus on people's livelihood and well-being, and continue to track and rectify prominent problems of deviation in the view of political achievements." Li Xin (李新), secretary of the Party Committee of Youxi Town, Jiangjin District, Chongqing, said.
"In the face of problems left over from history and pain points at the grassroots level, one must have the courage and determination to confront real problems and do solid work, step by step, and implement each item one by one." Yu Ming (郁明), member of the Party Working Committee and deputy director of the Management Committee of Wuxi Taihu National Tourism and Holiday Resort in Jiangsu Province, said.
"The key to consolidating and expanding the results of the study and education campaign lies in solidifying practical results into a long-term mechanism." Su Huaye (苏铧烨), secretary of the Mangya Municipal Party Committee of the Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Qinghai Province, stated that efforts will be made to improve institutional mechanisms, improve the scientific demonstration mechanism for major decisions, strengthen pre-review of key links such as project construction, improve the differentiated assessment and evaluation system, and accurately assess the political achievements of cadres.
"In the next step, we will solidify the effective experiences and practices from the study and education campaign into institutional norms, continue to establish and improve a teacher teaching evaluation system characterized by comprehensive evaluation and developmental evaluation, and strive to let teachers with outstanding achievements receive the recognition they deserve." Yu Xinjie (于歆杰), director of the Personnel Department of Tsinghua University, said.
The study and education campaign on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements is not an end point, but a new starting point.
"To implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's requirements on regularly carrying out education on the view of political achievements, we must identify the focal points." Shu Zufei (束祖飞), director of the Guangdong Chebaling National Nature Reserve Administration, stated that the correct view of political achievements must be implemented in various specific tasks such as ecological resource protection and management, scientific research and monitoring, and cultural tourism development, integrating ecological protection with green industries, and safeguarding the Nanling ecological barrier.
"For the regular conduct of education on the view of political achievements, we plan to integrate relevant content into the full-cycle cultivation of young cadres, open the first lesson on performing duties with a correct view of political achievements for newly promoted cadres, and carry out special training for cadres in key positions around deviation in the view of political achievements and clean and standardized performance of duties, continuously calibrating the value orientation of cadres in undertaking endeavors." Guo Yuhai (郭郁海), executive deputy director of the Organization Department of the Bayannur Municipal Party Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, said.
Political achievements are made for the people, and practical work leads to the future. The vast number of Party members and cadres have stated that they must deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building and General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instruction spirit, always take responsibility and perform duties with a correct view of political achievements, and continuously transform the grand blueprint of the "15th Five-Year Plan" into a beautiful reality.
(Our reporters Wang Mingfeng, Qiao Dong, Yao Xueqing, Zhang Cheng, Li Zong, Wu Yue, Liu Xinwu, Dou Hao, Xian Gan, and Zhang Chi participated in the reporting and writing)
Beijing, August 25 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Peng Bo) The 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress held its first plenary meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the morning of the 25th. Chairman Zhao Leji presided over the meeting.
A total of 149 members of the Standing Committee attended the meeting, and the number of attendees met the statutory requirement.
The meeting heard a report by Cong Bin, deputy director of the Constitution and Law Committee of the National People's Congress, on the review results of the draft Medical Security Law. The third-review draft adds "implementing the healthy development priority strategy" to the legislative purpose, further improves the relevant provisions on the medical security system, enriches the relevant provisions on the use and management of medical security funds, refines the requirements for settlement of medical expenses for cross-regional medical treatment, adds relevant provisions on long-term care insurance, and improves the relevant provisions on legal liability.
The meeting heard a report by Xin Chunying, director of the Constitution and Law Committee, on the review results of the draft Cultivated Land Protection and Quality Improvement Law. The third-review draft adds provisions encouraging institutions of higher learning and scientific research institutes to strengthen personnel training in cultivated land protection and quality improvement; clarifies that land within the management scope of rivers and lakes shall in principle not serve as a source of supplementary cultivated land; strengthens supervision and management of funds for high-standard farmland construction; adds provisions on carrying out comprehensive treatment of cultivated land affected by desertification, wind erosion, and water erosion, and on preventing and controlling soil and water loss; and increases the intensity of protection of black soil.
The meeting heard Xin Chunying's report on the review results of the draft revision of the Agricultural Law. The second-review draft improves measures supporting the development of agriculture and the rural economy, enriches the content of international exchange and cooperation in the agricultural field, improves the provisions on the protection of farmers' rights and interests, strengthens rural construction and governance, and further improves coordination with laws such as the Ecological Environment Code.
The meeting heard a report by Luo Yuan, deputy director of the Constitution and Law Committee, on the review results of the draft revision of the National Defense Mobilization Law. The second-review draft clarifies the concept of national defense mobilization; further clarifies the provisions on the collection, use, and security management of national defense mobilization data; adds provisions promoting the application of advanced technology and developing national defense mobilization forces in emerging fields; and adds prohibitive provisions on the fabrication and dissemination of false national defense mobilization information.
The meeting heard a report by Yuan Shuhong, deputy director of the Constitution and Law Committee, on the review results of the draft amendment to the Lawyers Law. The draft explicitly establishes the Constitution as the legislative basis; further improves the relevant provisions on foreign-related legal service clauses; and adds provisions coordinating with the Legal Aid Law.
The meeting heard a report by Wang Hongxiang, deputy director of the Constitution and Law Committee, on the revision status of the draft revision of the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law. The second-review draft refines and improves the relevant systems for bankruptcy of jointly and severally liable individual debtors, safeguarding the lawful rights and interests of creditors and debtors; clarifies that during the review period of a bankruptcy application, the people's court may decide to temporarily suspend enforcement procedures concerning the debtor's property; improves the scope of bankruptcy administrators; improves the relevant systems for reorganization, fully leveraging the function of reorganization in rescuing enterprises in difficulty; and adjusts and optimizes the provisions on the order of distribution of bankruptcy estate.
The meeting heard Yuan Shuhong's report on the revision status of the draft revision of the Banking Supervision and Administration Law. The second-review draft adds "improving the quality and efficiency of financial services to the real economy" to the legislative purpose; adds provisions on implementing classified and graded supervision and administration of banking financial institutions; further strengthens the management of part-time employment and post-departure employment of staff of banking supervision and administration institutions; adds provisions on the issuance and standardized use of financial licenses; consolidates the responsibilities of supervisory institutions and improves the system for protecting the rights and interests of banking consumers; and sets up a separate chapter on "risk disposal" to strengthen risk disposal measures.
The meeting heard Cong Bin's report on the revision status of the draft revision of the Water Law. The second-review draft coordinates with the Ecological Environment Code, further improves the overall requirements for water resources protection, development, and utilization, clearly stipulates the coordinated governance of water resources, water environment, water ecology, and water disasters, and the state's strengthening of protection of water cultural heritage; enriches the content on national water network construction; enriches and improves the relevant provisions on water resources and water ecology protection; and further improves the relevant provisions on water conservation and recycling of water resources.
In order to improve the road traffic safety management system, strengthen the legal guarantee for maintaining road traffic order, preventing and reducing traffic accidents, improving road traffic efficiency, and safeguarding the personal and property safety of the people, the State Council submitted a proposal to deliberate on the draft revision of the Road Traffic Safety Law. Entrusted by the State Council, He Rong, Minister of Justice, made an explanation.
In order to thoroughly implement the decision-making arrangements of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, prevent and punish cross-border corruption, deepen international cooperation against corruption, protect the lawful rights and interests of organizations and individuals, and safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests, the National Commission of Supervision submitted a proposal to deliberate on the draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law. Liu Jinguo, Director of the National Commission of Supervision, made an explanation.
Entrusted by the State Council, Hua Chunying, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, made an explanation on the proposal to deliberate on the approval of the Treaty on Extradition between the People's Republic of China and Hungary.
Entrusted by the State Council, Wang Changlin, Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission, made a report on the implementation of the national economic and social development plan since the beginning of this year. The report pointed out that since the beginning of this year, economic operation has been generally stable, making progress while maintaining stability, showing a development trend of new momentum and optimized structure, with continuous optimization of the supply and demand structure, accelerated development of new quality productive forces, solid advancement of high-quality development, and overall social stability maintained, achieving effective improvement in quality and reasonable growth in quantity. In the second half of the year, efforts should focus on implementing the "15th Five-Year Plan" to enhance the effectiveness of macro policy implementation, stimulate and release domestic demand potential with greater intensity, lead the construction of a modern industrial system through innovation, deepen reform comprehensively and expand opening up, promote coordinated development between urban and rural areas and among regions, accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, strengthen security capacity building in key areas, take multiple measures to safeguard and improve people's livelihoods, and steadily and orderly resolve risks in key areas.
Entrusted by the State Council, Lin Zechang, Vice Minister of Finance, made a report on the implementation of the budget since the beginning of this year. The report pointed out that the fiscal policy has been more proactive and precisely targeted, and budget execution and fiscal operation have been generally stable. The report introduced the implementation of the budget resolution of the 24th session of the 14th National People's Congress, and proposed the next steps for key fiscal work: accurately and effectively implementing a more proactive fiscal policy; accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system; effectively safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods; strengthening prevention and resolution of risks in key areas; continuously deepening fiscal management reform; and strengthening penetrating fiscal supervision.
Entrusted by the State Council, Lin Zechang made a report on the management of government debt in 2025. The meeting heard a supervisory research report on the management of government debt in 2025 by Xu Hongcai, deputy director of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress and director of the Budgetary Work Commission of the Standing Committee.
Entrusted by the State Council, Sun Yeli, Minister of Culture and Tourism, made a report on the work of improving the quality of cultural products and services. The report introduced the relevant work measures and achievements, pointed out the main existing problems, and proposed that the next step will be to improve institutional mechanisms and safeguard systems, continuously enhance the capacity to supply high-quality products, take multiple measures to jointly improve service quality, strengthen the application of technology to promote cultural innovation, and promote Chinese culture to better reach the world.
Entrusted by the State Council, Maierdan·Mugaiti, Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, made a report on the work of continuously consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and solidly advancing comprehensive rural revitalization. The report introduced the relevant work achievements, as well as the difficulties and challenges currently faced in carrying out normalized assistance and advancing comprehensive rural revitalization, and proposed that the next step will be to strengthen political responsibility and firmly consolidate responsibilities at all levels; improve the monitoring system and implement targeted assistance measures; enhance the quality and effectiveness of industrial and employment assistance, continuously consolidating the foundation for income growth; provide tiered and categorized assistance to underdeveloped regions, accelerating the filling of development shortcomings; and deepen the study and application of the experience of the "Thousand-Village Demonstration, Ten-Thousand-Village Improvement" project (千万工程), advancing the construction of livable, workable, and beautiful villages.
The meeting heard a report by Yang Xiaochao, director of the Credentials Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, on the qualifications of individual deputies.
The meeting also deliberated on relevant appointment and dismissal proposals.
Vice Chairpersons of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Li Hongzhong, Wang Dongming, Xiao Jie, Zheng Jianbang, Ding Zhongli, Hao Mingjin, Cai Dafeng, He Wei, Wu Weihua, Tie Ning, Peng Qinghua, Zhang Qingwei, Losang Jamcan, and Shohrat Zakir, and Secretary-General Liu Qi attended the meeting.
Vice Premier of the State Council Zhang Guoqing, President of the Supreme People's Court Zhang Jun, Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate Ying Yong, members of the various special committees of the National People's Congress, responsible comrades of the standing committees of people's congresses of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government, principal responsible comrades of the standing committees of people's congresses of some sub-provincial cities, some deputies to the National People's Congress, and responsible comrades of relevant departments attended the meeting as non-voting participants.
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The process of solving problems is also the process of advancing development. Tackling new and old problems simultaneously tests governance wisdom, demonstrates mission commitment, and embodies the scientific spirit.
In recent days, two pieces of news about transportation have drawn attention.
One directly targets a "new pain point." The "little blue light" of smart driving causes glaring nighttime dazzle, and the relevant authorities have initiated the revision of the Requirements for the Installation of External Lighting and Light-Signalling Devices for Motor Vehicles and Their Trailers standard to further regulate the installation and use of vehicle lamps.
The other tackles a "long-standing ailment." Facing the dilemma of delivery riders caught between "following the rules means being late, and running through traffic means violating regulations," Suzhou, Jiangsu, has incorporated riders' waiting time at intersection traffic lights into the delivery timing system, alleviating riders' "overtime anxiety."
Today, new technologies and new business formats are iterating at an accelerated pace, and new and old problems affecting the interests of the masses are intertwined. "Solving old problems is an urgent task, but attention must also be paid to new problems—they must be tackled simultaneously." Insisting on tackling new and old problems simultaneously is both a pragmatic measure to respond to the needs of the people's livelihood and an important method for deepening reform and enhancing governance effectiveness.
Some problems that appear to be new are in fact interconnected with and mutually driven by old problems. Therefore, it is necessary to uphold systematic thinking and avoid "pressing down the gourd only to have the ladle float up" (solving one problem only to create another).
To rectify safety hazards in electric bicycles, it is necessary to pay whole-chain attention to production and sales access, charging and battery-swapping facilities, and road traffic rules; to safeguard food safety, all links from the source of planting and breeding, to processing and production, and to circulation and sales must be covered; to advance waste sorting, front-end disposal, mid-stream collection and transport, and end-stage utilization must be promoted as an integrated whole. Only by incorporating related factors into the same framework for overall planning and seeking the optimal solution among multiple objectives can one escape the passive cycle of "treating the head when the head aches, and treating the foot when the foot hurts."
Governance cannot wait until contradictions are exposed or even intensified before "fighting the fire"; the gate should be moved forward to promote source-level governance.
Nanjing, Jiangsu, has built a migrant worker wage service platform integrating blockchain, digital RMB, and other technologies, constructing a "firewall" against wage arrears through smart supervision; Shanghai has issued "compliance guidelines" for outdoor advertising, clarifying that in principle, audible advertisements shall not be played in residential elevator nighttime periods, safeguarding residential tranquility from the source; Jinan, Shandong, has established a "trust-type" supervision mechanism for prepaid consumption, with prepaid funds fully entering supervised accounts, ensuring that consumers do not suffer losses due to merchants "absconding." With rules set in advance and supervision moved forward, governance can truly run ahead of risks.
Viewed from a broader perspective, preventing and defusing major risks requires preparing for a rainy day and taking the initiative, putting effort into ordinary times. For example, under conditions of frequent extreme weather, respond to impacts with worst-case-scenario thinking, enhance foresight regarding the "difficult to anticipate" and "unknowable," and open up the entire chain of "monitoring, forecasting, prevention, resistance, rescue, and relief"; as another example, keep a close and firm watch on major risks in high-risk industries such as mines and hazardous chemicals, and strengthen the investigation and rectification of hidden dangers in weak links. Only by resolving stock risks and preventing incremental risks simultaneously can we firmly grasp the initiative in development.
The process of solving problems is often also the process of finding a balance point between stimulating innovation vitality and maintaining existing order.
Inclusive and prudent regulation is the governance wisdom for responding to the impact of new business formats and resolving friction between new and old rules. Rigidly "banning outright" can easily stifle innovation vitality, while letting things run unchecked will accumulate risks. The relevant authorities have issued regulations clarifying the labeling obligations for content generated and synthesized by generative artificial intelligence; Shenzhen, Guangdong, has delineated suitable flight airspace for the low-altitude economy; Beijing has opened up autonomous driving test roads in a graded manner... These measures both leave ample room for innovation to explore and hold the bottom line for public safety, embodying precisely the organic unity of "letting it be flexible" and "managing it well."
Coordinating high-quality development and high-level security is an inherent requirement of comprehensively deepening reform. Encouraging exploration within the framework of rules, tolerating errors and correcting deviations, regulating and guiding through dynamic adjustment while preventing risks—being vibrant yet orderly, moving with rules—only then can development and security support each other.
The process of solving problems is also the process of advancing development. Tackling new and old problems simultaneously tests governance wisdom, demonstrates mission commitment, and embodies the scientific spirit. Whether taking the assault on old problems as a breakthrough point or solving new problems with new ideas, promoting development through problem-solving, we will surely be able to safeguard the steady and long-term progress of Chinese-style modernization with high-level governance.
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In Gushang Village, Wanqiao Township, Dali, Yunnan (云南大理湾桥镇古生村), villager Yang Jiang (杨江), after repairing motorcycles outside for more than 20 years, returned to the village to open a café. "Four years ago, I made a careful decision to return home and start a business. Now the village environment is so good there is nothing to fault, and tourists come in an endless stream all year round — all of this shows my original choice was right!"
In Chengkou County, Chongqing (重庆城口县), more than a thousand miles away, delivery rider Liu Yongzheng (刘勇正) came from the countryside to the city two years ago, and has now become a member of the grid governance team. "After joining the grid team, I can both handle matters for everyone and get to know many neighbors. The grid is my second home."
One can return to a hometown, the other can integrate into a city. These seemingly ordinary scenes reveal the deepest hopes within the tide of urbanization.
Once, "a hometown one cannot return to, a city one cannot integrate into" became a collective sorrow. In the physical sense, returning to one's hometown is not difficult, yet the former countryside lacked development opportunities and could hardly bear the hopes of life; in some villages, old houses and old streets have changed their appearance, the former scenes of everyday life and local customs no longer exist, and the hometown in the spiritual sense has also drifted further and further away. Those striving to settle in cities likewise carry an indissoluble sense of drifting — the city accepts the figure of struggle, yet may not be able to house a person's spiritual world. The countryside is bound together by the human ties of an acquaintance society; the city builds its order on the rules of a stranger society. In the switching between these two logics, many people can neither find the roots of their native soil nor the anchor of the city.
This state of "double weightlessness" is an unavoidable pain of the transition period. The Decision of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed that "we must coordinate new industrialization, new urbanization, and comprehensive rural revitalization, comprehensively raise the level of integration in urban-rural planning, construction, and governance, and promote equal exchange and two-way flow of urban-rural factors." Overcoming the pain and resolving the bottlenecks is the starting point of coordinated development. It reminds us that true urban-rural integration is not merely geographic migration, but even more the settling of people's hearts.
What the native soil must nurture is not only roots, but even more vitality.
The continuation of roots depends not only on the warmth of nostalgia, but even more on fertile soil. This soil is increasingly complete public services, sustainable sources of livelihood, and, even more, development space where people can place their dreams.
Today, roads form networks, express delivery reaches villages, and broadband enters households — once-isolated villages now pulse with the heartbeat of the times; new business forms such as e-commerce livestreaming, specialty planting, and rural cultural tourism are flourishing vigorously, opening more possibilities for those who return. In Zigui, Hubei (湖北秭归), returning new farmers use livestream sales to bring navel oranges out of the mountains; in Sanwan Village, Yongxin, Jiangxi (江西永新三湾村), by revitalizing old dwellings to develop homestays and study tours, villagers increase their incomes at their own doorsteps. When those who return can reconnect with their native soil through new identities and new occupations, "going back" is no longer a retreat, but a way out.
With roots and vitality, one must also hold fast to the familiar atmosphere of everyday life. Zhejiang's "village galas" bring intangible cultural heritage folk arts to the stage, singing of prosperous days; in Fujian, old mansions open specialty "village cafés," and the aroma of coffee wafts through ancient residences. This shows that rural construction does not necessarily require 推倒重来 (tuī dǎo chóng lái - "push down and start over," to discard the old and rebuild from scratch); protecting old houses and ancient lanes, preserving folk customs and local ways, and letting those who return "see the mountains, see the water, and remember their nostalgia" are the deep forces that attract people to return to and take root in their hometowns.
What the city must accept is not only population, but even more people's hearts.
Shanghai's "Bee Gathering Station" (聚蜂驿) keeps a warm light on for delivery riders; Kunshan, Jiangsu's (江苏昆山) "Kunxiaoge School" (昆小哥学堂) helps new employment groups realize their "dream of schooling"; Chongqing's public rental housing brings migrant workers, outside laborers, and other groups into the scope of protection... Only by letting every running person be seen, respected, and accepted can they shed their sense of drifting and gain a sense of belonging.
Today, household registration restrictions are being gradually broken down, and basic public services in education, housing, employment, and other areas continue to extend to broader groups. Outsiders participate equally in urban life and better enjoy the fruits of development, and the confidence to "stay" is more solid. When the city becomes a harbor that houses ideals and entrusts daily life, those from other places truly transform from "passersby" into "family."
Looking further, "being able to return" and "being able to integrate" are originally two sides of one whole. The native soil is the starting point of departure; the city is the distant place one pursues — together they constitute the spiritual map of modern people. Only by letting the native soil also bear the footsteps of dream-chasers, and letting the city better house drifting souls, can people in this era of rapid change all find the spiritual belonging of "where the heart is at peace, there is my hometown" (此心安处是吾乡).
Development has never been about widening the distance between city and countryside, but about letting every way of life gain dignity. From "opposition" to "integration," from "drifting" to "settling" — this is the advancement of governance, and even more, the self-awareness of civilization.
The native soil can be returned to; the other place can be settled in. A society that allows people to choose freely and settle calmly is the true modern home.
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The continuous emergence of major national equipment showcases Chinese wisdom and Chinese strength, consolidating the confidence and foundation for achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.
“One, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, hundred thousand…” Stepping into the intelligent equipment workshop for hydropower products at Harbin Electric Machinery Company Limited (哈尔滨电机厂有限责任公司) under the Harbin Electric Group (哈电集团), hereinafter referred to as “Harbin Electric Machinery,” one needs to strain one’s eyes to count the weight marked on the product nameplates. Here, the “weight” of major national equipment can be felt and touched.
The weight lies in scale. In the Harbin Electric Machinery exhibition hall, the model of the long-and-short-blade runner for the Baihetan Hydropower Station is highly eye-catching. This giant with a diameter of 8.87 meters weighs 338 tons, equivalent to the weight of more than 50 adult African elephants. It can precisely regulate the water flow angle, optimize the flow pattern at the runner outlet, and enable the generating unit to operate with higher efficiency and greater stability.
The weight lies in value. From the 横空出世 (héng kōng chū shì - “to burst forth across the sky,” to emerge suddenly and dramatically) of the million-kilowatt units at Baihetan, to the world’s largest impulse runner advancing onto the snowy plateau, to filling the gap in pumped-storage technology… Harbin Electric Machinery’s 82 “Firsts of the Republic” and “World’s Best” mark the height and precision of Chinese manufacturing.
Core equipment or major projects that possess highly independent intellectual property rights and strategic significance manifest a country’s innovation capability and comprehensive national strength. From the Shenzhou spacecraft family to the C919 large passenger aircraft, from the domestically built aircraft carrier to the domestically built large cruise ship, from the BeiDou system to Chang’e-6… the continuous emergence of major national equipment showcases Chinese wisdom and Chinese strength, consolidating the confidence and foundation for achieving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance.
Innovation and creation — overcoming difficulties with a spirit written in capital letters.
During the summer vacation, the Harbin Institute of Technology has many visitors. Ben De (贲德), winner of the 2025 National Highest Science and Technology Award, set his aspiration here: “Learn civil and military skills, serve the new China.” “What the country needs is my responsibility and duty.” After the successful development of China’s first-generation long-range early-warning phased-array radar, he started from scratch again and successively completed the development mission of the airborne pulse-Doppler fire-control radar.
Qian Xuesen said, “What foreigners can do, can Chinese not do it?” Huang Xuhua (黄旭华) “vowed to do 惊天动地 (jīng tiān dòng dì - “to shake heaven and earth,” earth-shaking) deeds, willing to be an 隐姓埋名 (yǐn xìng mái míng - “to conceal one’s surname and bury one’s name,” to live in anonymity) person.” Nan Rendong (南仁东) worked for the “China Sky Eye” for more than 8,000 days and nights until the last moment of his life… Generation after generation of scientific and technological workers have lit the spiritual torch, pursuing their dreams of building a strong scientific and technological nation.
Clenching fingers into a fist — pooling strength through the advantages of the system.
When using BeiDou navigation, one must not forget the wisdom and sweat of more than 400 units and over 300,000 scientific researchers nationwide. When riding the C919 large passenger aircraft soaring through the blue sky, one can better appreciate the preciousness of the coordinated efforts of 22 provinces, more than 200 enterprises, and nearly 200,000 people working together.
Only with 众志成城 (zhòng zhì chéng chéng - “unity of will forms a fortress,” solidarity and collective strength) and concentrated strength can there be one surprising progress and leap after another. During the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, to achieve decisive breakthroughs in key fields such as integrated circuits, industrial machine tools, and high-end instruments, it is still necessary to leverage the advantages of the new nationwide system for mobilizing resources and concentrate high-quality resources to conquer key core technologies.
In the workshop, Qin Daqing (覃大清), chief scientist of the Harbin Electric Group, recounted some details: In 1997, at the left bank of the Three Gorges, Harbin Electric Machinery jointly designed and co-manufactured 8 of the hydro-turbine generating units with two foreign companies; in 2021, at the right bank of the Baihetan Hydropower Station, the world’s first 1-million-kilowatt hydro-generating unit developed by Harbin Electric Machinery was put into operation with high quality, and has been operating stably for more than 1,800 days and nights to date. From “learning by following” at the Three Gorges left bank to “doing independently” at the Baihetan right bank, this outlines the growth trajectory of an enterprise’s determined innovation and engraves the advancing steps of a country’s arduous journey through wind and rain.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Truly major national equipment must be firmly in our own hands. Core technologies and key technologies cannot be obtained by begging; they must be achieved through our own hard work.” The frequent good news of major national equipment fundamentally stems from the guidance of thought. Placing the foundation of development on innovation and developing industry and manufacturing through our own strength — this path is correct, and we must continue to walk it with unwavering determination.
Harbin Electric Machinery, having traversed 75 glorious years, does not cling to old times. In the digital workshop, the digital twin large screen displays operational status in real time, orange-yellow robotic arms rise and fall in an orderly manner, AGVs (Automated Guided Vehicles) shuttle back and forth. High-end, intelligent, and green — these remain the focal points of major national equipment.
The innovative breakthroughs on the Songnen Plain (松嫩平原) have 落地生根 (luò dì shēng gēn - “to land on the ground and take root,” to take root) in the mountains of the southwest; the green electricity by the Jinsha River can reach the Yangtze River Delta in just 7 milliseconds. Protecting the nation and benefiting the people, one major national equipment after another polishes the spiritual coordinates: “Socialism is built through hard work; the new era is achieved through struggle.”
(The author is an editor of this newspaper’s commentary department.)
Return to TopNot long ago, the Coal Industry Development "15th Five-Year Plan" (煤炭工业发展“十五五”规划) was issued, proposing that by 2030, coal's capacity for bottom-line guarantee of energy security will be further strengthened, the level of safe, green development and clean, efficient utilization will be markedly improved, a diversified coal-based industrial pattern will accelerate its formation, and a modern coal industry system will be basically completed. Against the backdrop of the orderly advancement of green and low-carbon transformation, coal still needs to continue to play its role as the "ballast stone" and "stabilizer."
This is precisely:
Low-carbon momentum surges like a rainbow,
Black gold displays its mighty vigor.
Say not that the setting sun is late,
Toward green, build new achievements.
Text by Zhai Qinqi (翟钦奇).
Return to TopResearch must not be "run on behalf of" by AI
Zhang Shuangshuang
Recently, when the Henan Provincial Committee of the China Democratic League reported on the status of social conditions and public opinion information for July, it pointed out that some submissions bore obvious traces of AI (artificial intelligence) generation, and that under the influence of "AI hallucinations," the cases and data in the submissions were fabricated and untrue, seriously undermining the credibility of the information.
Social conditions and public opinion transmit the people's urgent difficulties, worries, and expectations, as well as the real dilemmas at the grassroots level, upward, providing a practical reference for policy optimization. Its vitality lies in the authenticity of problems and the reliability of data. Entering a few keywords and having a large model generate a report may seem to provide data, cases, and countermeasures in full, but in reality it is a "hollow radish" — good to look at but useless. The unhealthy trend of "AI research" is, at its root, a matter of unsolid work style and weak sense of responsibility, interfering with departmental analysis and misdirecting policy direction.
"Without investigation, there is no right to speak." In collecting social conditions and public opinion, one cannot be lazy with the soles of one's feet, and there is no room for cutting corners. Only by going more often into the fields, into factory workshops, and into community courtyards, listening to ordinary people speak the truth and report the real situation, and grasping first-hand materials, can one summarize grassroots experience well and prescribe remedies that hit the mark.
(Excerpted from Hubei Daily, original title: "How can research be 'run on behalf of' by AI")
When going to the grassroots, do not speak "prefabricated words"
Luo Yi
Recently, reports analyzing the phenomenon of "prefabricated words" (预制话) in grassroots research have struck a chord. Some cadres, when going to the grassroots, prepare scripted talking points before their visits and adhere to standard wording in their exchanges. The language is rigorous, appropriate, and comprehensive — yet it is "prefabricated words" that answer beside the point. When the research ends, the distance between cadres and the masses has instead widened.
"Prefabricated words" may appear to be a problem of speaking style, but they reflect a deviation in work style. Some cadres harbor a mentality of avoiding responsibility, fearing that verbal replies may contain flaws and worrying that directly facing sharp demands will mean bearing responsibility; some treat going to the grassroots as completing an assessment task, emphasizing traces over actual results... All such behaviors consume the trust of the masses.
Opposing "prefabricated words" does not mean that preparation before research is unnecessary, nor does it advocate speaking irresponsibly. Explaining policies requires rigor and standardization, and one cannot recklessly pound one's chest when facing complex contradictions — but standardization does not mean reading from a script. Problems that can be solved on the spot should be responded to promptly; those that cannot be solved for the time being should be frankly explained in terms of where the crux lies and how progress is going, giving a clear expectation — this far better wins the understanding of the masses than an ambiguous platitude.
Words are the voice of the heart; language reveals the original aspiration. In the communication and exchange of research, what matters most is the word "genuine." On the one hand, when going to the grassroots, one should think more about "what the masses need to hear" and dare to face contradictions and problems directly. On the other hand, the orientation of research assessment should be optimized — not looking at how beautifully notes are written or how completely photos are taken, but focusing on whether real problems have been collected and whether contradictions have been promoted toward resolution. I believe that the relationship between the Party, cadres, and the masses can become even closer through sincere dialogue.
(Excerpted from Anhui Daily, original title: "Why does 'speaking fewer prefabricated words' resonate?")
Return to TopWhen "Engineering Miracles" Merge into the Daily Life of Ordinary People
Chaoyang District, Beijing — Ding Yixin (丁亦鑫)
Not long ago, the No. 2 "aerial school bus" of the Nizhu River Grand Canyon (尼珠河大峡谷) in Yunnan — the "Soaring Stairway" (扶摇梯) — was officially put into operation. This 288-meter-high glass-curtain-wall elevator stands shoulder to shoulder with the "Azure Cloud Stairway" (青云梯) completed in 2022. The two elevators plus a section of high-altitude cable car compress the passage time from the valley floor to the mountaintop from more than 3 hours to 30 minutes, greatly facilitating mountain village children's pursuit of schooling.
The most valuable aspect of the "aerial school bus" is that it has found a path that coordinates promoting development with benefiting people's livelihoods. The "majesty, wonder, peril, and seclusion" of the Nizhu River Grand Canyon once blocked the development of the mountain villages at the valley floor. Relying on the eco-cultural tourism project, the "aerial school bus" has facilitated the villagers and also formed a new landscape experience. In 2025, the scenic area cumulatively received more than 200,000 tourist visits, driving more than 200 surrounding catering and homestay businesses. It can be said that this infrastructure project not only crosses the physical natural chasm, but also helps bridge the development gap, achieving a multi-party win-win.
Closely combining investment in things with investment in people, calculating not only the economic account but even more the livelihood account, every growth spurt of major national engineering projects is the most vivid footnote to "people first." When "engineering miracles" one by one transform into ordinary roads under the feet of ordinary people, what we see is not only hardcore strength, but even more this country's responsibility and commitment to embodying the expectations of every ordinary person in its development blueprint.
Real Work Cannot "Wait Until the Inspection Tour Is Over"
Nanjing, Jiangsu Province — Zhou Guangli (周广立)
When conducting research at the grassroots level, one often hears some cadres say "wait until the inspection tour (巡察) is over" when encountering matters. Why wait? What exactly are they waiting for? This ordinary sentence deserves deep reflection, and even more so, vigilance.
Inspection tours are the extension of disciplinary inspection work to the grassroots level, and their purpose lies in "discovering problems, forming deterrence, promoting reform, and advancing development." Postponing matters that are challenging and require decision-making responsibility appears to be "respect" for the inspection work, but in reality it treats the inspection tour as a shield for avoiding contradictions and delaying responsibility, turning it into an excuse for lazy and indolent governance, reflecting a bureaucratic work style.
Going further, "wait until the inspection tour is over" also exposes the problem of "performance-style inspection reception" (表演式迎检). Behind coping with the inspection tour, a "pass-the-check" mentality is at work, believing that as long as "nothing goes wrong" and "no trouble is stirred up" during the inspection period, all will be safe. What is not understood is that what truly needs to be passed are the gate of responsibility, the gate of work style, the gate of original aspiration, and the gate of practical work. Clinging to a fluke mentality, not only will work not be done well, but one will inevitably stray onto deviant and evil paths.
Inspection tour work is a sharp sword that 惩前毖后 (chéng qián bì hòu - "punish the past, guard the future," to learn from past mistakes to avoid future ones) and 治病救人 (zhì bìng jiù rén - "cure the illness, save the person," to help someone correct their errors). Accepting inspection supervision with a candid and positive attitude, and advancing daily work with a more vigorous and promising demeanor — this is the proper state for accepting an inspection tour.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 宋朝军
Biographical Sketch
Fan Zaixuan, born in June 1961 in Xinxiang, Henan, is a researcher at the Dunhuang Research Academy, engaged in the conservation, restoration, and research of ancient murals. As the lead completer, he compiled the Specifications for the Restoration Technology and Restoration Effect Assessment of Flaking Disease in Ancient Murals, wrote more than 30 restoration plans, and led more than 10 restoration projects. As the lead completer, he was granted patents including "A Grouting Material for Treating the Hollowing Disease of Ancient Murals Supported by Brick Walls and Its Preparation Method," and his research has repeatedly won the National Cultural Heritage Administration's Award for Scientific and Technological Innovation in Cultural Heritage Conservation.
"Humidity is high in the south, and these murals are underground — how to restore them requires careful study on our part." In the office of the Conservation Research Institute at the Dunhuang Research Academy, Fan Zaixuan, a "mural doctor" who had just returned from Nanjing, Jiangsu, was introducing his colleagues to his latest research topic.
From the desert Gobi to the water towns of the Jiangnan region, mural restoration always encounters new situations. In more than 40 years of restoration practice, Fan Zaixuan has devoted himself to intensive study, growing from an ordinary apprentice into a technical leader in the field.
"Finding the 'prescription' that suits the ailment"
Since joining the institute in 1981, Fan Zaixuan has been rooted in the field of mural restoration. Flaking, hollowing, detachment, salt efflorescence, biological damage... over decades of restoration practice, Fan Zaixuan has encountered nearly every type of mural disease, each distributed in different locations and over different areas. "What we do is, when faced with different 'chronic ailments,' find the 'prescription' that suits the ailment."
Among these, the experience of conquering salt efflorescence disease remains unforgettable to Fan Zaixuan to this day. Because it is extremely difficult to treat, salt efflorescence disease is known as the "cancer of murals." In the Mogao Caves alone, 710 square meters of murals face the threat of salt efflorescence disease.
A mural, from the inside out, consists of the support body (cliff rock mass), the ground layer (mural plaster layer), and the pigment layer. From the ground layer to the pigment layer on the mural surface, large amounts of soluble salts are present. When air humidity increases, the soluble salts deliquesce; when the air dries, the soluble salts recrystallize. This repeated cycle causes the mural to detach. "Expanding and then contracting, repeated many times, the mural falls off again," Fan Zaixuan said.
Soluble salts are the "chief culprit" — how can they be "taken out" of the mural?
Fan Zaixuan's team conducted humidity simulation experiments and ultimately discovered that 67% relative environmental humidity is the critical point at which soluble salts inside murals deliquesce — that is, the "switch" that triggers their movement. They attempted, in a low-temperature steam environment, to cause the soluble salts in the murals to deliquesce into a liquid state, thereby "sucking" the salts out of the mural ground layer.
"The water and salt absorption must be fast and high-volume; it must not produce any chemical reaction with the mural's pigments, binding materials, or components of the ground layer; and it must also be thin and lightweight for ease of operation." After repeatedly testing more than a hundred materials, they finally screened out an adsorption material composed of non-woven fabric, wood pulp, starch-grafted polyacrylamide resin, and other components, which has strong adsorption capacity and good desalination效果.
Over eight years, the team studied the mechanism of salt efflorescence disease and produced a scientifically feasible restoration plan. To date, more than 500 square meters of murals in the Mogao Caves affected by salt efflorescence disease have been restored.
Through the team's efforts, one "prescription" after another for conquering "chronic ailments" emerged in practice — to address smoke damage disease, Fan Zaixuan's team screened out a set of composite materials containing surfactants that dissolve only the oil smoke in the smoke layer without damaging the mural; to restore hollowed murals, Fan Zaixuan's team found a grouting material that is lightweight, highly fluid, and quick-drying, injected into the hollowed areas... Summarizing practical experience, Fan Zaixuan compiled more than 30 specialized restoration plans and, as lead completer, also compiled several process specifications.
"Systematizing, scientizing, and standardizing experience preserves the excellent experience and practices of our predecessors while also providing guidance and reference for the restoration of more murals in the future," Fan Zaixuan said.
"Use hands to restore murals, use the mind to think diligently"
"The wind blows from the direction of Mount Sanwei, and the sound of copper bells on the nine-story tower spreads along the cliff face, crisp and lively." Fan Zaixuan still remembers the impression that the pavilion of Cave 96 made on him when he first arrived at the Mogao Caves.
In 1981, at the age of 20, Fan Zaixuan applied for admission to the Dunhuang Cultural Relics Research Institute (the predecessor of the Dunhuang Research Academy). "I had heard of Dunhuang before, but had never been there; my heart was full of longing," Fan Zaixuan said. "Coming to Dunhuang felt like a kind of fate." After joining, Fan Zaixuan and his colleagues underwent more than half a year of training, which deepened their understanding of the Mogao Caves. "I love working with my hands, and I also had a relatively strong foundation in science and engineering knowledge." Fan Zaixuan learned while thinking, and ultimately decided to work in the Conservation Research Office. This choice became the career of his lifetime.
The Mogao Caves, built up through successive dynasties, form a massive complex of cave grottoes. Having endured more than a thousand years, many have suffered varying degrees of man-made and natural damage. Completing "rescue" restoration requires a large number of technical personnel. "At the time, including me and the newly recruited colleagues, the Conservation Research Office had fewer than 10 people," Fan Zaixuan said.
With a shortage of personnel, Fan Zaixuan needed to "enter the profession" quickly and well. At first, he had only a partial understanding of the chemical composition of mural pigments and restoration materials, so he taught himself inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, analytical chemistry, and other subjects. Combined with the knowledge of art, history, and archaeology imparted by his predecessors, he gradually gained a clear picture.
With a foundation of basic knowledge in place, Fan Zaixuan, under the guidance of senior cultural relic restoration experts such as Duan Xiuye and Li Zuixiong, picked up the restoration scalpel. "Use hands to restore murals, use the mind to think diligently, and never stop learning." Fan Zaixuan still remembers following his predecessors into the caves and looking at the "wounds" on the murals one by one. Beyond hands-on restoration, his predecessors also guided him in analyzing the causes and mechanisms of disease, researching and selecting suitable restoration materials, and summarizing scientific and reasonable restoration and conservation experience... Through such on-site teaching, Fan Zaixuan's restoration skills became increasingly proficient.
Over more than 40 years, Fan Zaixuan successively studied cultural heritage conservation and history at Lanzhou University, Fudan University, and other institutions, and also exchanged ideas overseas as a visiting scholar. "Learning is a lifelong matter, and the Mogao Caves are my 'home for a lifetime,'" Fan Zaixuan said.
"Making long-term plans for cultural relics"
Dunhuang is located in the desert Gobi. Sometimes the ground temperature outside the Mogao Caves exceeds 30 degrees Celsius, yet inside the caves it is only around ten-plus degrees Celsius.
Dai Chuan was leading more than 20 researchers out of the caves. For more than 10 years, Dai Chuan has become accustomed to the climate here. As a colleague and student of Fan Zaixuan, Dai Chuan's entry into the field of mural restoration is inseparable from Fan Zaixuan's guidance.
In 2014, Dai Chuan graduated from university and joined the Dunhuang Research Academy. From that time on, he heard the story of Fan Zaixuan's mural restoration, which deeply inspired Dai Chuan, who came from a cultural heritage conservation background.
"One must maintain a cautious attitude and hold reverence for cultural relics; one must also have long-term comprehensive judgment and make long-term plans for cultural relics." In the more than 10 years since joining Fan Zaixuan's team, Dai Chuan has felt this deeply: "Teacher Fan not only teaches technique, but also conveys to us the scientific concept of cultural relic conservation." From rescue conservation to scientific and technological conservation and preventive conservation, Fan Zaixuan has witnessed the development of mural conservation at the Mogao Caves, which also made him understand the importance of passing on skills to others. Today, the cultural relic conservation team at the Dunhuang Research Academy has grown from fewer than 10 people at the time to a professional team of more than 40 people composed of specialists in history, chemistry, geology, geography, civil engineering, architecture, biology, and other disciplines.
Over more than 40 years, the conservation team to which Fan Zaixuan belongs has participated in restoration work at the Tiantishan Grottoes in Wuwei, Gansu; the Potala Palace in Tibet; and the Yungang Grottoes in Shanxi, summarizing new experience in new restoration practice.
Fan Zaixuan still remembers that when participating in the restoration of some murals at the Potala Palace in Tibet, they encountered difficulties from the very beginning — the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang are at an altitude of about 1,300 meters, while the Potala Palace exceeds 3,700 meters, and the techniques used in making the murals at the two sites also differ greatly. Moreover, the ground layer of the Potala Palace murals is a kind of "Aga soil" that is half earth and half stone — very brittle and hard, and prone to collapse when exposed to water. For this reason, Fan Zaixuan and his conservation team immersed themselves in the laboratory, simulating the Potala Palace murals, screening restoration materials and grouting reinforcement materials, and ultimately completing the restoration.
Today, the National Research Center for Ancient Wall Paintings Protection Engineering is established at the Dunhuang Research Academy, and Fan Zaixuan has trained more than 300 mural restoration technical personnel for local cultural and museum institutions across the country. Even though he has retired, he still actively remains on the front line of cultural relic mural restoration. "In the current research on ancient murals, there are still some diseases or difficult problems that have not been resolved. Through the efforts of generation after generation of the team, we must ensure that the beauty of Dunhuang endures," Fan Zaixuan said.
Reporter's Notes
Restoring the abrasions of time with artisan spirit
The Mogao Caves murals are invaluable, yet disease has become a pain in the hearts of visitors. Fan Zaixuan has used more than 40 years to measure the depth of civilization, and with a lasting artisan spirit, to repair the defects worn by time.
A lasting artisan spirit requires the spirit of arduous struggle. Mural restoration requires "slow work produces fine work" — a skilled technician can restore only an area the size of a palm in a day. Fan Zaixuan, with the tenacity of Yu Gong (the Foolish Old Man who moved mountains), has fought inch by inch against disease. His footsteps have reached the Mogao Caves, the Potala Palace, and other sites, bringing hope to the damaged parts of murals.
A lasting artisan spirit is inseparable from the foundation of continuous innovation. Faced with mural disease, Fan Zaixuan has repeatedly observed, recorded, and analyzed, exploring and researching new solutions. From rescue conservation to scientific and technological conservation and preventive conservation, replicable and promotable plans have been produced.
Fan Zaixuan has not only rooted himself in the desert himself, but has also generously imparted his skills and spirit to others, training several hundred mural restoration technical personnel over the years, who together converge into the light of passing on civilization.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 25 — The All-China Journalists Association and the Office of the Leading Group for the "Three Studies and Education" Activity on the National Journalism Front held a special training class in Beijing from the 25th to the 28th for responsible persons of national industry-specific media outlets to study, publicize, and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. More than 110 presidents and editors-in-chief from over 100 national industry-specific media outlets participated.
According to the organizers, studying well, publicizing well, and implementing well Xi Jinping's thought on Party building is an important political task for the journalism front. As the "professional formation" of the mainstream public opinion front, national industry-specific media outlets must accurately grasp the essential meaning and core tenets of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, meticulously carry out the publicity and interpretation of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, run Xi Jinping's thought on Party building through the entire process of systematic transformation as a guide, truly internalize Xi Jinping's thought on Party building in the heart and externalize it in action, transform the Party's political advantages and organizational advantages into media development advantages, innovation advantages, and competitive advantages, and contribute the strength of industry-specific media to better shouldering the new cultural mission.
The training class invited former Director of the Central Party History Research Office Ouyang Song (欧阳淞) to deliver a special report titled "A Scientific Guide for Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Party Self-Governance in the New Era," and Li Yi (李毅), Vice President of the Party School of the Central Committee of the CPC (National Academy of Governance), to deliver a special report titled "Deeply Studying and Comprehending Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building." It also invited responsible comrades and experts and scholars from the Central Publicity Department, the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, China Media Group, Renmin University of China, the China Institute of Discipline Inspection and Supervision, and other units to give reports on themes such as the systematic transformation of mainstream media, online communication work in the new era, artificial intelligence and the development of the media industry, and the All-China Journalists Association and the Chinese Young Journalists Association. The training class organized participants to conduct study and exchange around such content as studying, publicizing, and implementing Xi Jinping's thought on Party building and deepening the systematic transformation of mainstream media.
According to reports, holding this training class is a concrete action by the All-China Journalists Association and the Office of the Leading Group for the "Three Studies and Education" Activity on the National Journalism Front to deeply study, publicize, and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, and is also an important measure to deepen the study, publicity, and education of the Party's innovative theories, accelerate the systematic transformation of mainstream media, and raise the capability and level of doing journalism and public opinion work well.
Return to TopBeijing, August 25 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)) To further bring into play the supporting and leading role of standards in promoting the green and low-carbon development of industry, the Green and Low-Carbon Standardization Technical Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) was recently established. The first Green Standards Committee is composed of 71 members from government departments, ministry-affiliated units, scientific research institutes, universities and colleges, industry associations, and leading enterprises, with its secretariat located at the China Electronics Standardization Institute (中国电子技术标准化研究院).
It is learned that recently the Green Standards Committee reviewed and approved institutional documents including its charter, secretariat work rules, and standard formulation and revision work procedures, promoting the institutionalized and standardized operation of the Green Standards Committee's work. In the next step, the Green Standards Committee will thoroughly implement the spirit of the Ministry's standardization work leading group meeting, coordinate and integrate the standardization institutions of various industries, strengthen standard pre-research and formulation and revision work in the fields of energy conservation and carbon reduction, water conservation and emission reduction, cleaner production, comprehensive utilization of resources, and green manufacturing, and intensify efforts in standard publicity and implementation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孟祥夫 何昭宇
The question of the view of political achievements is a fundamental question, bearing on building the Party for the public and exercising power for the people.
"In the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, whether formulating plans or deploying implementation, a correct view of political achievements is needed. Provincial, municipal, county, and township leadership teams will undergo successive transitions, so emphasizing the view of political achievements is also highly targeted." In January this year, at the opening ceremony of the special seminar for principal leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial level on studying and implementing the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping explained the far-reaching considerations behind establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements.
On the eve of the Spring Festival, during an inspection in Beijing, General Secretary Xi Jinping again urged: "The 15th Five-Year Plan has already started and gotten underway. Leadership teams at all levels are full of enthusiasm and drive — this is good — but the key is that the view of political achievements must be correct."
In February this year, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee issued the Notice on Carrying Out Study and Education on Establishing and Practicing the Correct View of Political Achievements Throughout the Party, clarifying: "Taking building the Party for the public, benefiting the people, scientific decision-making, and solid and earnest work as the general requirements, and taking the integrated advancement of study, examination, and rectification as the starting point, educate and guide Party organizations at all levels and Party members and cadres to adhere to seeking truth from facts and pursuing practical results, to produce political achievements for the people and through solid work."
In his important instruction on carrying out the study and education on establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements throughout the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "conscientiously and solidly raise ideological understanding," "conscientiously and solidly rectify prominent problems," and "conscientiously and solidly establish institutional rules."
Since the study and education was launched, all regions, departments, and units have deeply studied and implemented Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, and earnestly implemented the work arrangements of study and discussion, problem examination, rectification and governance, institution building, and open-door education. The broad masses of Party members and cadres have corrected their ideological cognition, calibrated their value deviations, and established a practical and results-oriented orientation, implementing the correct view of political achievements in undertaking work and starting businesses. The results of the study and education have been continuously transformed into practical results that promote high-quality economic and social development.
"This study and education on establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, adhered to carrying theoretical study through from beginning to end, truly examined and practically rectified problems of deviation in the view of political achievements, focused on establishing institutional rules that are practical and effective, and carried through with strict and solid work style to the end, achieving notable results and reaching the intended objectives." General Secretary Xi Jinping recently made an important instruction emphasizing this.
Cadres Receive Education
"Enhance the ideological and action consciousness of establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements"
What is the correct view of political achievements? What is the erroneous view of political achievements?
In the "first lesson" of the opening year, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly analyzed the two different views of political achievements —
"The correct view of political achievements requires us to adhere to proceeding from reality and acting according to laws, and through scientific decision-making and solid, hard work, create achievements that can withstand the test of practice and history, truly benefit the people, and gain public recognition."
"The erroneous view of political achievements proceeds from the interests of individuals or small groups, being 心浮气躁 (xīn fú qì zào - "heart floating, breath restless," impatient and impetuous), 急功近利 (jí gōng jìn lì - "eager for quick merit and immediate profit," hasty pursuit of quick success), 弄虚作假 (nòng xū zuò jiǎ - "engage in falsehood and deception," to deceive and fake), and blindly acting recklessly, engaging in 'image projects' and 'achievement projects,' leaving behind burdens and hidden dangers, and arousing strong dissatisfaction among the masses."
The General Secretary's important speech profoundly revealed the essential difference between the two views of political achievements, educating and guiding Party members and cadres to raise their ideological awareness and calibrate their behavioral deviations.
"A large amount of facts show that deviation and dislocation in the view of political achievements will waste resources, abet formalism, breed unhealthy tendencies and corruption, and ultimately 劳民伤财 (láo mín shāng cái - "weary the people and harm wealth," to waste resources and burden the people), damaging the relationship between the Party and the masses and between cadres and the masses, and affecting the image of leadership teams and leading cadres in the minds of the people. If left unchecked, it will shake the Party's governing foundation, and the harm is extremely serious." General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out profoundly.
How to calibrate the view of political achievements? "Raise Party spirit awareness, and with a highly responsible attitude toward the Party and the people, enhance the ideological and action consciousness of establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements."
Political firmness and Party spirit firmness are inseparable from theoretical firmness. Since the study and education was launched, the broad masses of Party members and cadres have deeply studied and carefully comprehended General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements, insisted on finding gaps, tracing roots, and strengthening self-cultivation from the perspective of Party spirit, and promoted the internalization of the correct view of political achievements in the mind and its externalization in action.
The Working Committee of Central and State Organs organized Party members of central and state organs to "attend the same lesson together," and Party members and cadres further enhanced their consciousness and firmness in studying, comprehending, and applying thought, more deeply comprehending the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments" (两个确立), and taking the lead in achieving the "Two Upholds" (两个维护).
Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Gansu and other places held study and education reading classes and theoretical learning center group special study sessions, using the "key minority" to lead by example and drive Party members and cadres to study along and study regularly.
The Party Group of China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. deeply studied and carefully comprehended Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, and formulated and implemented the company's "high-standard Party building" action plan. The Party Group of State Power Investment Corporation Co., Ltd. insisted on carrying study and discussion through from beginning to end, and held special reading classes in five dimensions including practicing Xi Jinping's thought on ecological civilization and implementing the holistic approach to national security. The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences held a special reading class and a collective study session of the Party Committee Theoretical Learning Center Group, organizing all middle-level management personnel at the deputy division level and above to participate in online study, achieving full coverage of management cadre study. Jilin University's school-level and college-level Party organizations carried out theoretical learning center group study and reading class study, and 1,256 grassroots Party branches carried out study and discussion in the forms of "Three Meetings and One Lesson" (三会一课), themed Party days, and special study sessions.
Models are a mirror; only by looking into the mirror can one straighten one's attire. In the study and education, all regions, departments, and units have paid attention to making good use of both positive and negative models.
Hangzhou, Zhejiang — the thousand-year-old Grand Canal, a clear current nourishing ancient and modern times. Not long ago, Gongshu District carried out the activity of "tracing origins to comprehend thought, working solidly to create real achievements," organizing Party members and cadres in key positions and young Party members to visit the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Museum, deeply studying General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instruction spirit on building the Grand Canal cultural belt, and comprehending the view of political achievements contained therein. "We must do more foundational work, do more practical things that benefit future generations, and create sustainable, high-quality achievements," said a leading cadre from a district-level direct organ.
Positive models set benchmarks; negative models sound the alarm. The central-level special work class for study and education on establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements and the General Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection publicly notified 7 cases of deviation in the view of political achievements; the General Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection publicly notified 5 typical cases of deviation in the view of political achievements... The typical cases publicly notified deeply touched and alerted people, educating and guiding Party members and cadres at all levels to 举一反三 (jǔ yī fǎn sān - "raise one, infer three," to draw inferences from one instance) and draw lessons from them.
Recently, the meeting room of Sinograin Zhengzhou Direct Depot was packed, and the Party Group's warning education conference on establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements was underway. Through the video conference system, Sinograin Group organized more than 1,400 Party organizations and over 28,000 Party members, cadres, and employees across the entire system to collectively watch warning education films. "Guarding every granary and protecting every grain of food for the Party and the people, and contributing to national food security — that is the political achievement we pursue," said a cadre.
Since the study and education was launched, the broad masses of Party members and cadres have continuously advanced the "Four In-depth Studies" (四个深入学习), consciously benchmarking against standards and promptly calibrating deviations in ideological understanding; strictly implementing the requirements of the "Three Comparisons" (三个对照), earnestly examining problems existing in the performance of duties, knowing and correcting immediately, and practically transforming learning results into practical actions and results that guide practice and promote work.
Development Gains New Momentum
"Fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept and strive to promote high-quality development"
The view of political achievements is connected to the view of development. Whether the view of political achievements is correct is reflected in the quality of development. General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: "Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, I have repeatedly emphasized the need to fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept and strive to promote high-quality development. This requirement must be implemented level by level. Without a correct view of political achievements, this cannot be done."
Regarding forward-looking layout and development of future industries, he pointed out, "Adhere to the national game of chess, adapt measures to local conditions, develop with differentiation, and prevent blindly 'following trends' in launching projects and recklessly 'burning money'"; he made an important instruction on Yiwu, requiring "combining with the study and education on establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements, further summarize and apply well the 'Yiwu development experience'"; at the 25th collective study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, he emphasized, "establish and practice the correct view of political achievements, and resolutely correct tendencies such as emphasizing development over safety and emphasizing disaster relief over prevention"...
At the satellite shared testing center of the Hebei Xiong'an Science and Technology Innovation Center pilot base, Party members and cadres of the Xiong'an Science Park Management Committee were debugging equipment together with technical personnel.
Commercial aerospace is booming — how to leverage it for progress? Previously, for enterprises in Xiong'an to conduct aerospace testing, technical personnel had to take satellites to other places, which was time-consuming, labor-intensive, and expensive. In the study and education, after learning about the shortcoming that the aerospace information industry lacked a market-oriented public testing platform, the Xiong'an Science Park Management Committee decided to accelerate the construction of platforms such as satellite shared intelligent manufacturing and satellite shared testing, helping local industrial development while also radiating to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Xiong'an's development must be considered under the grand strategy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development, integrating into and serving the national development overall situation. Since the study and education was launched, Xiong'an New Area has deepened the "same-city" development of Beijing and Xiong'an. 625 Beijing municipal-level matters can now be directly handled in Xiong'an, and 244 Beijing qualifications and credentials in fields such as human resources and medical health have been included in Xiong'an's recognition list... Deeply integrating into the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development overall situation, Xiong'an's development space has become even broader.
Tower cranes stand in rows, machinery roars — at the Nuclear Medical Health Industry Park of China (Mianyang) Science and Technology City, the new factory area of Guoboron Neutron Technology (Mianyang) Co., Ltd. is under vigorous construction. Standing before the project renderings, Li Liguo, captain of the nuclear technology application commando team of Youxian District, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, was full of confidence: "Our goal is to build a complete nuclear medical equipment industry system covering four types of particles — protons, electrons, photons, and neutrons. Neutrons are the key link that must be completed."
For this "key link," the Youxian District nuclear technology application commando team transformed into a "vanguard for investment attraction" and "logistics service corps for projects," moving their office to the front line of investment attraction and project construction sites. "The park's positioning highly matches our development path, and what also reassures us is the warm service of the relevant departments," said Cheng Jiuxin, deputy chief engineer of Guoboron Neutron.
The nuclear medical industry has high technical thresholds, large investment, and long cycles. The Mianyang Science and Technology City Management Committee carefully analyzed the current state of the industrial chain, combined with technical reserves and market demand, issued policies such as the "special policy for nuclear medical talent," and established industrial investment funds such as the Science and Technology Innovation Investment Fund. In addition, it conducted research and assessment on cultivated and attracted nuclear medical enterprises, identified their upstream and downstream and product application scenarios, and achieved "precise drip irrigation." As of now, the city has cumulatively coordinated and resolved 9,551 enterprise production and operation difficulties.
Safety is the premise of development, development is the guarantee of safety, and high-quality development cannot be separated from the escort of high-level safety.
Some time ago, affected by typhoons, some areas in Guizhou experienced persistent heavy rainfall, and a landslide geological disaster occurred in Guanxiong Village, Donglang Town, Congjiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture. Local authorities accurately predicted and warned, evacuated the masses in advance, and the houses collapsed only 10 minutes after the masses evacuated, with no casualties.
Coordinating development and safety, and guarding the health and safety of the masses — since May, Congjiang County has activated flood prevention emergency responses 14 times, county-level cadres went down to contact townships for supervision, Party members and cadres at all levels participated in flood prevention and disaster relief, while also paying attention to post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, ensuring that the masses' production and life were promptly restored.
In the study and education, the broad masses of Party members and cadres focused on the chronic and stubborn diseases hindering high-quality development, insisted on solving whatever problems exist and focusing on rectifying whatever problems are prominent, and, guided by the correct view of political achievements, pursued higher quality, more efficient, fairer, more sustainable, and safer development.
The People Reap Benefits
"Establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements must ultimately be reflected in benefiting the people"
What is true political achievement? What is used to test political achievement?
The Communist Party of China, with an initial aspiration firm as a rock, "regards doing things for the people and benefiting the people as the most important political achievement, and regards how many good and practical things have been done for the people as an important standard for testing political achievement."
General Secretary Xi Jinping has always had the people in his heart, and his sincere and profound feelings for the people have been consistent throughout. In Dezhou, Shandong, he learned in detail whether the Party's "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" policies had all been fully implemented, and pointed out that "establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements must ultimately be reflected in benefiting the people"; in Shanghai, he listened to the introduction of Shanghai's promotion of the renovation of old houses without sanitary facilities, the historic resolution of the problem of residents in old urban areas "carrying chamber pots," and community renovation, emphasizing that "in work, we must firmly establish and practice the correct view of political achievements, think what the masses think, and be anxious about what the masses are anxious about."
All regions, departments, and units have adhered to open-door education, listening to the opinions of the masses in examining problems, accepting mass supervision in rectification and governance, and accepting mass evaluation in testing results. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security organized an employment service offensive action. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and other relevant departments held the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty, formulated and implemented targeted assistance measures with "one household, one policy," and helped the employment of people lifted out of poverty...
The Tibet Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China went deep into the grassroots to carry out special research, focused on the weak links in credit services for farmers and herdsmen in remote areas, formed a work list, and provided localized and adapted financial services for the broad masses of farmers and herdsmen through targeted measures such as establishing a remote video customer service team and optimizing mobile banking services, while also relying on the "Gelsang Flower" financial service team to provide door-to-door services, building an integrated online and offline service system.
In Youyang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Chongqing, residents of Qingquan Township turned on their faucets and clear water gushed forth. Named "Qingquan Township" (Clear Spring Township), the masses here used to worry a lot about water. Due to problems with the water supply contracting enterprise, there were once chronic problems such as substandard water quality, frequent water outages, and opaque billing.
In the study and education, Youyang County listened to the voices of the people, gathered public sentiment, and resolved people's difficulties, focusing on the problems of "contract performance" and "aging pipeline networks." After multiple rounds of negotiation and mediation, a 20-year contract was terminated through judicial channels, while pipeline renovation was promoted, routine water quality monitoring was carried out, and water fees were publicly disclosed, resolving the drinking water difficulties of more than 500 households.
"Needs are set by you, methods are proposed by you, results are evaluated by you!" Not long ago, at a mass report meeting in Fangzhuang Subdistrict, Fengtai District, Beijing, a subdistrict cadre said this in response to the masses' suggestion of "upgrading and improving the Fangzhuang Market."
Subdistrict cadres visited more than 140 merchants, carried out three rounds of mass forums, and adopted 35 effective suggestions. Soon, the food court of Fangzhuang Market was renovated and upgraded, releasing 400 square meters of space to create a dine-in area, and the masses praised it one after another.
Whether political achievements are good or not, the masses have the final say. Fengtai District adhered to open-door education, improved the mechanism of "subdistricts and townships reporting work to the masses," subdistrict and township cadres reported on their work face-to-face with the masses at report meetings, promoted simultaneous online and offline deliberation, dynamically publicized the progress of problem handling, and established political achievements in the hearts of the masses.
There are no small matters in people's livelihood; every leaf and branch touches the heart. A hotline call for immediate response to complaints, an on-site office work session in the streets and alleys, a perspective-taking experience at a "service window"... The broad masses of Party members and cadres adhere to following the Party's mass line in the new era, thinking and working together with the masses, treating every small matter of people's livelihood as a top priority and turning it into a heart-warming practical matter.
Institutions Govern the Long Term
"Earnestly complete and establish institutional rules"
"The problem of the view of political achievements is highly correlated with the arbitrary and abusive exercise of power; power must be confined in the cage of institutions";
"We must discover institutional loopholes, shortcomings, and weaknesses from the problems examined and rectified in this study and education, and earnestly complete and establish institutional rules";
"We must strengthen supervision over 'top leaders,' preventing 'top leaders' from exercising power arbitrarily and changing decisions at will";
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General Secretary Xi Jinping made clear requirements on strengthening institutional development, pointing the direction for consolidating and expanding the results of the study and education.
Institutions have an overall and stable character; they govern the fundamentals and the long term. Since the study and education was launched, all regions, departments, and units have adhered to combining "immediate rectification" with "long-term establishment," focused efforts on building systems and rules, and promoted the normalization and long-term effectiveness of establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements.
The Ministry of Public Security focused on areas such as law enforcement and case handling to sort out and evaluate institutional mechanisms, improved the working mechanism for preventing and correcting deviations in the view of political achievements and the normalized education mechanism, achieving institutional governance of power and exercise of power according to rules. The Ministry of Science and Technology improved institutional systems for science and technology evaluation, project management, resource allocation, and research integrity, promoting the formation of a clear orientation that values solid work, real results, and long-term development.
To establish and practice the correct view of political achievements, scientific decision-making, democratic decision-making, and law-based decision-making are inherent requirements. Some localities and units took the study and education as an opportunity to improve the deliberation and decision-making rules of leadership teams, regulate the exercise of power, and continuously improve the quality and level of decision-making.
The total investment in smart hospital construction exceeds 16 million yuan — how to ensure the efficient use of fiscal funds and improve the medical experience of the masses? The Party Committee of Baotou Third Hospital in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region adhered to scientific and democratic decision-making, organized cadres to conduct clinical needs research at the front line, organized multi-field expert centralized review, demonstrated details such as module settings, technical standard adaptation, capital investment, and application scenarios, and formed a project implementation plan. At the same time, the Baotou Municipal Health Commission fully demonstrated and reviewed for filing before project approval, and carried out unannounced spot checks during the construction period. Now, more and more patients are experiencing the convenience brought by the "smart hospital."
Around adhering to and improving democratic centralism, Baotou revised and improved the deliberation and decision-making rules of Party committees (Party groups) and the decision list for "Three Major and One Large" matters (major decision-making, important personnel appointments and removals, major project arrangements, and large amounts of funds), clearly defining decision-making boundaries, scope of application, deliberation procedures, and voting methods, preventing arbitrary decision-making, blind decision-making, and rule-violating decision-making.
In the study and education, many places explored improving the handover system for changes in principal leaders of leadership teams, clarifying handover lists and standardizing handover procedures.
"I promise that I am responsible for the authenticity, accuracy, and completeness of the handed-over content, and I accept organizational supervision and verification." In Zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, some units carried out handover of changes in leading cadres under the supervision and witness of discipline inspection and supervision, organization, audit, and other relevant departments. Zhongwei City, focusing on the four types of principal responsible persons in organs, mass organizations, state-owned enterprises, and public institutions, clarified and detailed 19 specific handover items in 4 aspects, building a handover system with list-based responsibilities, pre-review, standardized procedures, and three-dimensional assessment.
Small wisdom governs affairs; great wisdom governs institutions. All regions, departments, and units have deeply examined provisions in current institutional mechanisms that do not conform to the requirements of the correct view of political achievements, abolishing what should be abolished and revising what should be revised. The cage of institutions is being woven ever tighter, and the dike of responsibility is being built ever more solidly.
"Establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements is a long-term task; we must 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "persist long to achieve merit," sustained effort over time), continuously consolidate and expand the results of the study and education, and continue to promote Party organizations at all levels and the broad masses of Party members and cadres to build the Party for the public, benefit the people, make scientific decisions, and work solidly and earnestly, striving to create real achievements that can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history." General Secretary Xi Jinping recently made an important instruction emphasizing this.
When the wind is fair, hoist the sails; now is the time to strive. The 15th Five-Year Plan period is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and comprehensively exerting effort to basically realize socialist modernization.
On the new journey, leadership teams at all levels and the broad masses of Party members and cadres firmly support the "Two Establishments" and resolutely achieve the "Two Upholds," always acting with responsibility and performing duties with the correct view of political achievements, strengthening confidence and continuing to strive, and will surely turn the grand blueprint of Chinese-style modernization into a beautiful reality step by step.
(Staff reporters Pan Junqiang, Shao Yuzi, Wang Xinyue, Zhao Jingfeng, Jiao Siyu, and Wang Yongzhan contributed to the reporting)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尹晓宇 吴 君 叶传增
Summer is the peak season for cultural tourism consumption, and residents' strong desire for leisure, entertainment, and travel brings vigorous vitality to the consumer market. Short-distance vacations not far from home, outdoor activities that bring people close to mountains and waters and let them enjoy nature, and wellness sojourns that slow down the pace and blend into daily life... The endless variety of leisure pursuits reflects a new trend of shifting from "a visit to see the sights" to in-depth experiences, expanding greater space for cultivating new growth points in cultural tourism consumption.
What popular leisure options are available this summer? How can the supply of cultural tourism products be reshaped? Our reporter conducted a field visit.
Short-distance vacations: poetry need not be in the distance
Where can one go for a relaxed micro-vacation on the weekend? In Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, Lishui District, a one-hour drive from the city center, has become a popular summer leisure destination for residents. It is not only close to downtown Nanjing but also adjacent to Changzhou, Zhenjiang, and Ma'anshan in Anhui Province, providing a rich source of short-distance tourists.
At 10 a.m., in Liangpengxia Village, Yongyang Subdistrict, Lishui District, the Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture Experience Base was already bustling. More than 20 tourists from Changzhou were listening to the explanation of Ding Xiaoyun, the base's manager. "Liangpengxia Village is embraced by Donglu Mountain, Wuxiang Mountain, and Qiuhu Lake, and has historically had a tradition of planting the medicinal herb gardenia. Our Traditional Chinese Medicine culture experience program can teach everyone to make sachets, herbal soaps, medicinal meals, and more," said Ding Xiaoyun.
Several tourists learning to make sachets selected seven or eight kinds of Chinese herbs, mixed them together, ground them into powder in a medicine grinder, and then wrapped them in exquisite sachet bags. "The herbal fragrance is rich, and the process of making it is also very interesting," said one tourist.
In the afternoon, under the blazing sun, Wuxiang Mountain is a good place to relax both body and mind. The lush trees provide large areas of shade, perfect for resting. Walking on to the Qiuhu bamboo sea, visitors can also stop for a while at "Wuxiang Coffee." In front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, the beautiful courtyard and the green bamboo sea set each other off, and tourists were taking photos to check in.
Continuing on, passing the Wuxiang Reservoir, one arrives at Zhangtangjiao Village, Honglan Subdistrict, at the foot of the mountain. Many tourists choose to rest at Shannan Xiaozhu, a homestay with an intangible cultural heritage theme. The homestay's manager, Yan Xuemin, prepared glutinous rice flour and led customers in making rice cakes. Mixing the rice flour, sifting the rice flour, filling the molds, demolding and placing them in the steaming cabinet... After more than ten minutes, fragrant rice cakes were ready. Tourists can also go fruit picking, shrimp catching, fish catching, and experience tea art.
Towards evening, many tourists go to Shijiu Lake to watch the sunset. The towering lighthouse, clear lake water, a trestle bridge stretching into the distance, and the orange-red setting sun form a picturesque scene. A team of motorcycle enthusiasts from Ma'anshan was taking photos. "This place photographs beautifully, so we came specifically to check in. Tonight we also plan to camp at the camping base in Jingqiao Town," said Mr. Qin, the team leader.
"Lishui leverages its locational advantage of being close to the metropolitan circle, makes good use of its landscapes and local cultural resources, follows the path of 'small but exquisite' micro-vacations, revitalizes rural resources, and creates immersive experiences," said Wei Renjian, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Lishui District Culture and Tourism Bureau. He introduced that the district has created the "Wuxiang Weekend" cultural tourism brand, and the district receives nearly 20 million tourist visits annually. Micro-vacations lengthen tourists' stay, drive consumption in catering, homestays, and specialty agricultural products, enrich leisure supply, increase villagers' income, and promote the coordinated development of ecology and cultural tourism.
Outdoor stream tracing: getting close to nature and enjoying rustic fun
At 9:30 a.m., the temperature in Wuhan, Hubei Province, had already risen to 30 degrees Celsius. As soon as the "Sensen Buxi" stream tracing camp in Baiquan Subdistrict, Dongxihu District, opened its gates, it welcomed its first batch of tourists.
"In the past, when it was hot, we could only go to the mall for air conditioning. Now I bring my grandson to play in the water by the stream; it's both a way to escape the heat and to exercise," said Shi Donggui, a resident playing with his grandson by the stream. They set out early from downtown Wuhan and arrived in half an hour. "Immersive stream tracing lets you completely blend into nature, and your mood becomes fresh and pleasant."
Entering the stream tracing camp, trees provide shade, and a winding, clear stream runs through the woods, with tourists playing in it. "This year, stream tracing has become a popular leisure choice for residents, and our camp receives up to 1,500 visitors per day," said Dong Xiandan, head of the Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd. of the Wuhan Lingang Economic and Technological Development Zone Urban Development and Investment Group.
"The 'Sensen Buxi' stream tracing camp covers 26,000 square meters and opened for operation in June this year, building a diversified product system around the stream tracing experience," Dong Xiandan introduced. The park not only offers rich daytime activities such as camping, light hiking, and cute pet interactions, but has also carefully created multi-tiered boutique guest rooms and launched parent-child package tickets, allowing tourists to enjoy nature and rustic fun in one stop.
Across from the stream tracing camp, there is also a non-powered forest playground. "Here you can experience rock climbing, slides, balance beams, and other activities, exploring the forest while building up your strength," said Dong Xiandan. The camp is also equipped with canopies, tables and chairs, and barbecue grills, so tourists don't need to bring their own equipment or ingredients—they can just show up empty-handed and start having fun.
"For an average of just over 100 yuan per person, you can have three meals here, and you don't need to change locations from morning to night—food, drink, entertainment are all covered," said Shi Donggui. This summer, his whole family has fallen in love with stream tracing, an outdoor activity that is both worry-free and inexpensive.
Under the scorching sun, many outdoor venues in Wuhan have refined their services to ensure tourists enjoy a cool experience. Dong Xiandan explained that at the "Sensen Buxi" stream tracing camp, ice is regularly placed under tables and chairs; a misting spray system along the stream lowers the ambient temperature, and mosquito repellent is added to the water.
"Relying on natural endowments such as lakes, streams, and forests, we are developing the ecological leisure cultural tourism industry, attracting residents and tourists to experience the beauty of nature through outdoor activities," said a relevant official from the Dongxihu District Culture and Tourism Bureau. Next, the local area will also integrate surrounding resources such as suburban greenways, ecological farms, and specialty picking gardens, and launch more themed products that combine natural experiences with cultural leisure.
Leisurely slow travel: exploring a different kind of local charm
Taking a morning stroll to the Fengxia Road farmers' market to pick fresh, affordable fruits and vegetables; wandering through the ancient Zhaotong Old Town in the afternoon to explore its antique charm, then sitting down in an old teahouse to rest; in the evening, walking to the Shenggeng Guoxue Culture Park to watch the sunset spread across the thousand-mu lake surface... This summer, Zhang Kehua, a tourist from Yibin, Sichuan Province, once again came to Zhaoyang District, Zhaotong, Yunnan Province, to begin a thoroughly enjoyable "slow recharge trip."
"Traveling in Zhaotong, we middle-aged and elderly people eat with peace of mind, stay comfortably, get around smoothly, and have fun happily," said Zhang Kehua. After retiring, he has come to Zhaoyang District for summer sojourns for several consecutive years. This year, at a local cultural tourism gathering, square dancing and artistic performances were staged in turn, and Zhang Kehua made many new friends. "I plan to come here every year for a sojourn from now on and treat this place as my second home," Zhang Kehua said.
This summer, "slow recharge travel"—characterized by long stays, in-depth experiences, and immersion in local life—is becoming a new trend in cultural tourism consumption. Wang Changqing, Director of the Zhaotong Municipal Culture and Tourism Bureau, introduced that relying on its unique cool climate and rich urban and rural cultural tourism resources, Zhaotong precisely matches market demand, vigorously cultivates distinctive business formats, and builds a high-quality summer resort and sojourn destination that is livable, visitable, and suitable for wellness.
Enriching cultural and sports activities so that sojourners have "fun every day." Since the start of summer, Zhaotong has coordinated municipal and county resources to jointly launch 1,064 distinctive cultural, sports, and tourism activities, inviting sojourning tourists and local residents to perform on the same stage and share in the fun, bringing them closer together through laughter and joy.
Activating resources across the entire region so that the journey offers "scenery at every step." Zhaotong is deepening its scenic area quality improvement initiative, creating multiple slow-travel leisure routes across the region, cultivating new business formats such as specialty markets, intangible cultural heritage shops, and cultural and creative stores, enriching tourists' sojourn experiences, and letting visitors fully enjoy the beauty of mountains, fields, and local life as they move from scene to scene at a leisurely pace.
Improving supporting supply so that tourists "stay more comfortably." The local area is integrating various accommodation resources, including hotels, boutique homestays, and idle rural houses, to build a multi-tiered, differentiated accommodation system that precisely matches tourists' different needs for short-term sightseeing and long-term sojourning.
Since June this year, the number of summer tourists to Zhaotong has increased by 7.98% year-on-year, and the business turnover of the accommodation and catering industries has increased by 25.8% year-on-year. What attracts tourists is the cool scenery; what moves tourists is the warm-hearted service. Zhaotong has formulated and implemented 25 measures for summer tourism services, optimizing services and improving efficiency in areas such as market supervision, price regulation, flexible law enforcement, traffic management, volunteer services, and preferential concessions. In response to tourist demands, it implements the system of "5-minute response, 24-hour completion and follow-up," winning over tourists with refined, warm services and safeguarding the development of the cultural tourism industry.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 枨
"Quick, look! The racehorses are charging over!" On the Ulan Maodu Grassland (乌兰毛都草原) of Horqin Right Front Banner (科尔沁右翼前旗), Hinggan League (兴安盟), Inner Mongolia, pasture grass surged into layer upon layer of green waves, and cheers rose 此起彼伏 (cǐ qǐ bǐ fú - "this rises, that falls," rising one after another). Not long ago, the Inner Mongolia Grassland Leisure Sports Conference and 2026 Hinggan League Naadam opened here.
On the horse racing field, fine horses were like 离弦之箭 (lí xián zhī jiàn - "arrow leaving the string," at full speed), riders bending forward and pressing close to their mounts, spurring their horses in a gallop; on the Bokh wrestling ground, contestants in traditional wrestling attire faced off in pairs, testing strength and skill; on the archery range, bowstrings hummed and arrows struck dead center of the target... The splendid traditional folk competitions drew tourists from all over. "We came specially from Hebei, just to see an 原汁原味 (yuán zhī yuán wèi - "original juice, original flavor," authentic and unadulterated) Naadam!" Tourist Jiang Jinli could hardly contain his excitement.
The traditional grassland gathering with many years of history has new tricks this year — around the competition grounds, freshly made hand-grabbed mutton and dairy products gave off rich aromas, stalls for intangible cultural heritage creative products and local agricultural and livestock specialties were 人头攒动 (rén tóu cuán dòng - "heads gather and move," crowded with jostling people), and business formats such as traditional costume rental and custom travel photography were rich and diverse.
"In the past, the Hinggan League Naadam was long stuck in a bottleneck; the event relied on fiscal support as a safety net, lacking momentum and popularity," said Ma Ning, deputy banner chief of Horqin Right Front Banner. This year, the locality took the lead in coordinating through a local enterprise platform, hired a professional operations team for overall planning, and promoted the Naadam's market-based investment attraction and multi-format operation.
This session of the Hinggan League Naadam brought in a total of 70 food merchants, 14 entertainment projects, and 22 intangible cultural heritage exhibition booths, and specially set up rent-free stalls for farmers and herders, radiating and driving more than 500 surrounding catering and accommodation businesses to increase revenue.
"This session of the Naadam no longer sets up an exclusive rostrum; nearly 4,000 quality viewing seats are all sold to the public, covering single tickets, group tickets, and special experience package tickets, accommodating the needs of different tourists," Ma Ning said. Outside the paid viewing area, other areas of the venue are open free of charge, and tourists can watch all kinds of grassland competitions and folk performances for free.
The brand-new business model ignited the public's enthusiasm for participation. Opening ceremony tickets sold out as soon as they went online, and popular seats were "gone in seconds." Jilin tourist Miao Xinyu, who grabbed a quality viewing seat ticket, exclaimed in surprise: "The ticket price is not expensive, and sitting high in the stands, I can see the full panorama of the opening ceremony — totally worth it!"
This session of the Naadam also thoughtfully built convenience facilities for serving the elderly, designated a dedicated elderly viewing zone, and reserved parking spaces preferentially for out-of-town tourists... Dalai Qiqige, an 85-year-old herder sitting in the viewing stand to watch the events, said: "I come to my hometown's Naadam every year, but this is the first time I've sat in the viewing stand to watch — it's especially breathtaking."
From "government pays the bill" to "self blood-making," high-quality supply has activated the momentum of cultural tourism consumption. Relying on the brand-new operating model, this session of the Naadam received 200,000 tourist visits on opening day alone, driving consumption to exceed 200 million yuan. At the same time, Hinggan League also coordinated with all counties and banners to carry out "Naadam Everywhere" themed activities, so that the Naadam is no longer "opens and immediately closes, disperses and immediately goes quiet," transforming the short-term festival heat into long-term dividends.
Return to TopOur newspaper Shanghai, August 25 (Reporter Cao Lingjuan). On the 25th, the launch ceremony of the 2026 Chinese Literature Gala · Lu Xun Literature Week was held at the "Meeting the Great Master" Lu Xun cultural and creative market in Lu Xun Park, opening the prelude to the series of activities of the Lu Xun Literature Award.
It is understood that the 2026 Chinese Literature Gala · Night of the Lu Xun Literature Award, jointly hosted by the China Writers Association (中国作家协会) and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government (上海市人民政府), will be held in Shanghai on August 28. This is the first time that the Lu Xun Literature Award, one of China's highest literary awards, has landed in Shanghai, and the Lu Xun Literature Award ceremony will henceforth be permanently held in Shanghai.
The series of activities include the launch ceremony of Lu Xun Literature Week, the Lu Xun Literature Award ceremony, the symposium on high-quality development of literature in the new era and the symposium with Lu Xun Literature Award-winning writers, the 8th Plenary Session of the 11th Presidium Meeting of the 10th China Writers Association, and the promotion meetings of the "New Era Mountain-Village Great Transformation Creation Plan" (新时代山乡巨变创作计划) and the "New Era Literature Climbing Plan" (新时代文学攀登计划).
According to reports, this year marks the 145th anniversary of Mr. Lu Xun's birth and the 90th anniversary of his death. He spent the last 10 years of his life in Hongkou District (虹口区), Shanghai, where he created a large number of classic works. Hongkou District preserves the most concentrated Lu Xun historical sites in the country.
Return to TopThe fire pit used for cooking water and meals is indispensable in the daily life of Guangxi's villages, carrying local customs and neighborly warmth. In recent years, based on the regional characteristics of multi-ethnic cohabitation, the city of Guilin has promoted the "fire pit deliberation" (火塘议事) grassroots governance model, in which Party members and cadres go down to the fields and villages, sit around the fire pit to chat about everyday matters, publicize policies, learn about people's conditions, and solve problems, transforming "the masses coming to the door" into "cadres going down to visit," resolving grassroots disputes on the spot and tackling difficulties in people's livelihoods.
The photo shows that on August 25, in Guangnan Village, Pingdeng Town, Longsheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County, Guilin City, township cadres (left, center) learn about people's conditions by the fire pit at a villager's home.
Photo by Liu Jiaoqing (China Images)
Beijing, August 25 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Liu Wenxin) Data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology show that in the first half of this year, the digital industry achieved revenue of 20.71 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.6 percent, with the growth rate accelerating by 4.1 percentage points compared with the same period last year.
Profits grew substantially. Driven by both the growth in domestic artificial intelligence demand and strong export momentum, the profitability of the digital industry continued to improve. From January to June, total profits reached 1.79 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.3 percent, with the growth rate accelerating by 10.3 percentage points compared with the same period last year. The profit margin on revenue reached 8.6 percent, an increase of 0.7 percentage points over the same period last year.
Digital infrastructure continued to optimize and upgrade. As of the end of June, 5G base stations reached 5.102 million, 10G PON ports with gigabit network service capability reached 32.86 million, and more than 80,000 5G industry virtual private networks had been built.
The digital manufacturing industry saw simultaneous gains in both volume and efficiency. The value added of the electronics industry increased by 14.8 percent year on year, with the growth rate accelerating by 1.2 percentage points over the first quarter and running 9.4 percentage points higher than the overall industrial sector. Industrial enterprises above the designated size in electronic information manufacturing achieved operating revenue of 12.15 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.8 percent, and realized total profits of 703.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 66 percent.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曹文轩
The mountain roads wind and stretch continuously, and contiguous natural rubber forests spread like a vast green carpet straight to the horizon. Located in the mountainous area of central Hainan, Baisha Li Autonomous County (白沙黎族自治县) has a total natural rubber production protection area of 1.047 million mu, and the rubber forests covering the mountains are the local pillar industry.
In previous years, the natural rubber market was depressed for a long time, squeezing rubber farmers' income, and many farmers fell into the dilemma of "hard to increase income by planting, no way out by abandoning," with the county's rubber garden abandonment rate once reaching 35 percent. How to explore a new path for industrial quality improvement and efficiency increase? The answer is science and technology assistance. The science and technology service team of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (中国热带农业科学院) brought new technology and new directions to local rubber farmers.
To promote the quality improvement and upgrading of Hainan's tropical characteristic high-efficiency agriculture and help rural revitalization, CATAS explored the "one institute paired with one county" counterpart assistance mechanism. All 11 research institutes of the academy precisely connected with the leading agricultural industries of 18 cities and counties in the province. The Rubber Research Institute (橡胶所) immediately formed a science and technology service team stationed at the front line in Baisha County.
It happened to be the day the science and technology service team went to the countryside. When the vehicle arrived at Yongchu Village, Qingsong Township (青松乡拥处村), growers had already gathered around waiting. This service team brought two courses: on-site practical teaching of the new generation electric rubber tapping knife, and explanation of standardized cultivation technology for under-forest tiger milk ganoderma. "Each training topic is precisely formulated against the industrial pain points identified and analyzed in the 'one map for science and technology entering the chain' (科技入链一张图)," introduced Zhang Shaoshuai (张少帅), a staff member of the CATAS Industrial Development Division.
What is the "one map for science and technology entering the chain"? In the assistance research, the science and technology service team reached a consensus: to improve industrial quality, one must first have a clear baseline and scientific assistance.
In 2024, the CATAS Institute of Science and Technology Information took the lead in using Baisha County as a pilot, creating a digital industrial ledger of the "one map for science and technology entering the chain," clarifying the development status of the entire natural rubber chain, the distribution of business entities, industrial bottlenecks and difficulties, and scientific research directions, using big data to draw an industrial map, providing decision support for the county's rubber industry and under-forest economy development.
"The biggest difficulty is that dynamic data such as the scale of under-forest crop cultivation in each township, the distribution of old rubber gardens, and farmers' production demands are scattered, requiring regular field visits to supplement," said Li Yuping (李玉萍), a researcher at the CATAS Information Institute. The 18 members of the Rubber Research Institute's science and technology service team stationed at the front line, together with seconded cadres and first secretaries stationed in villages, formed multiple research teams, going deep into village rubber gardens, processing plants, and farmers' homes to investigate and survey, and finally got a clear picture of these data.
"With this map, industrial shortcomings are clearly visible, and the direction for transformation and application of scientific research achievements is also clarified," introduced Cao Jianhua (曹建华), a researcher at the CATAS Rubber Research Institute and captain of the Baisha County science and technology service team. "Baisha County's rubber industry has relatively sufficient downstream processing capacity, and the development bottleneck is concentrated in the upstream planting, management and protection links."
Having identified the crux, precise policies were implemented, and a set of science and technology transformation plans took effect: in response to the problems of aging rubber tappers and traditional tapping being time-consuming and laborious, CATAS accelerated the promotion of its self-developed lightweight electric rubber tapping knives, cumulatively distributing over 2,000 free of charge, while fully automatic tapping machines were simultaneously piloted and applied in demonstration rubber gardens; promoted the renewal and renovation of low-yield, inferior, old rubber gardens, selected and promoted high-yield improved varieties, improved the traditional rubber garden planting model, and made room for large-scale cultivation of diverse under-forest crops...
"My family has over 1,000 natural rubber trees. This year I plan to try planting some tiger milk ganoderma under the forest. With experts providing on-site guidance, I feel at ease," after this training, villager Sister Luo from Yongchu Village made her plan.
"In early years, farmers planted in a swarm without coordination. In bumper harvest years, supply exceeding demand could pull down purchase prices. We rely on the one map for overall planning, and with the support of the Baisha County agricultural department, we demonstrate and promote various southern medicinal herbs and cash crops such as tiger milk ganoderma, Alpinia katsumadai, pineapple, and konjac 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "adapt measures to local conditions," to take measures suited to local circumstances), optimize the under-forest planting structure, and help farmers diversify market risks," Cao Jianhua introduced. In the past three years, the CATAS Rubber Research Institute has cumulatively organized 634 person-times of experts to go down to Baisha County to carry out 186 sessions of technical guidance and field science popularization, providing offline training services to 2,475 rubber farmers; opened 21 professional technical training classes, cultivating 884 rural practical technical talents.
Science and technology assistance to agriculture, plus the incentive of Baisha County's series of supporting policies benefiting farmers, in the past three years the county's total natural rubber output has grown at a compound annual rate of over 9 percent, and the rubber garden abandonment rate has dropped to below 10 percent. At present, the county's total under-forest economy area has reached 213,400 mu, with output value exceeding 1 billion yuan.
Return to TopReport from Jinan, August 25 (Reporter Wang Pei (王沛)) — On the 25th, the Huanggang Road Yellow River Tunnel in Jinan, Shandong was completed and opened to traffic, marking the official commissioning of the world's largest diameter underwater shield tunnel.
The tunnel was constructed by China Railway 14th Bureau Group (中铁十四局), with a total length of approximately 5.75 kilometers, of which the shield section is approximately 3.3 kilometers, driven by the "Shanhe" (山河号) shield machine with an excavation diameter of 17.5 meters. The tunnel has a design speed of 60 kilometers per hour and is the first single-hole double-deck shield tunnel crossing the Yellow River. The tunnel's internal clear height reaches 4.2 meters, meeting the passage requirements for buses, firefighting, management, and rescue vehicles. The completion of the tunnel will further promote Jinan's river-embracing development and facilitate economic exchange and cooperation between the north and south banks of the Yellow River.
The on-site project manager of China Railway 14th Bureau Group introduced that the Jinan section of the Yellow River is a typical "suspended river above ground" with complex geological conditions. The project team innovatively applied a large-opening-rate pressurized composite cutter head for the "Shanhe" shield machine, equipped it with advanced apparatus such as a retractable main drive and a telescopic camera in the excavation chamber, and mounted an intelligent equipment system, ensuring safe and efficient tunnel boring.
Return to TopThe 2026 summer film season is drawing to a close, with quality films released one after another, bringing audiences a bountiful cinematic feast. Platform data show that as of August 25, total box office for the 2026 summer season (including presales) has surpassed 11.7 billion yuan. Film creators have offered works that carry dew and soil, reaping deep resonance from audiences. With outdoor screenings and community summer special events, light and shadow reach into thousands of households. Beyond the silver screen, small ticket stubs link up consumer formats such as cultural merchandise, retail, and exhibitions. With technological upgrades, new film technologies such as virtual production fuel the visual ambitions of domestic blockbusters. Increasingly compelling Chinese films are breaking waves abroad and setting sail on distant voyages. Rooted in the fertile soil of life, Chinese cinema radiates even more brilliant luster, leaving warm memories that linger long with audiences.
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By: 陈志敏
President Xi Jinping, in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, put forward the propositions of "upholding openness and win-win cooperation to drive innovative development," "strengthening risk awareness to ensure safety and controllability," "encouraging inclusiveness and mutual accommodation to promote mutual learning among civilizations," and "advocating solidarity and shared effort to improve global governance." From the four dimensions of development, security, civilization, and governance, he systematically addressed a series of major issues in building a fair and reasonable global AI governance system.
China actively participates in and leads the process of global AI governance, working with all parties to jointly promote the healthy, safe, fair, and orderly development of global AI, demonstrating the responsibility of a major responsible country. We must deeply study and implement the spirit of President Xi Jinping's important speech, further enhance the appeal of AI governance concepts, the effectiveness of governance institutions, and the enabling capacity of governance actions, pool global synergy for joint governance, vigorously promote the inclusive and universally beneficial development of global AI, and make greater contributions to building a fair and reasonable global AI governance system.
Conceptual Leadership: Keeping the Correct Direction of Global AI Governance
"Promoting the development of global AI in a direction that is upward and toward good, and that benefits humanity" — this important statement by President Xi Jinping provides value guidance for countries around the world to transcend interest differences and build the greatest consensus in the field of AI. China's AI governance concept takes enhancing the common well-being of humanity as its goal, takes ensuring social safety and respecting human rights and interests as its premise, and places the principal position of human beings, the common development of all countries, universal security safeguards, and the coexistence of diverse civilizations within the same governance framework, ensuring that AI always develops in a direction conducive to the progress of human civilization.
Adhere to a people-centered approach and the principle of upward and toward good, taking the enhancement of humanity's common well-being as the fundamental goal of global AI governance. Technological progress can extend human capabilities and expand development space, but the growth of technological capacity does not automatically translate into universal well-being. How AI is developed, deployed, and used ultimately depends on what value choices and institutional arrangements humanity makes. President Xi Jinping emphasized: "AI should become a trustworthy tool for humanity" and "ensure that AI always remains under human control." This requires respecting the principal position of human beings, running the protection of human dignity, rights, and safety through the entire process of research, development, and application, and not allowing algorithmic logic to replace human value judgments, still less allowing technology to become a tool for manipulating society and infringing upon rights and interests. China advocates the principle of upward and toward good in order to chart the correct direction for innovation, so that technological progress is unified with the comprehensive development of human beings and the progress of human civilization.
Adhere to openness, win-win cooperation, and innovative development, placing common prosperity in an important position on the global AI governance agenda. AI contains enormous potential for promoting economic growth, improving people's livelihoods and well-being, and advancing sustainable development. At present, the urgent development aspirations and capacity shortcomings of Global South countries in AI require more adequate attention and response. President Xi Jinping emphasized: "Encourage open source, openness, cooperation, and sharing" and "let AI empower all industries." China incorporates the right to development, the right to use, and the right to benefit into the global AI governance agenda, promoting the global AI governance agenda to fully attend to and respond to the question of how countries around the world, especially Global South countries, can share development opportunities while placing equal emphasis on risk prevention, providing important value support for Global South countries to enter the intelligent era on an equal footing.
Adhere to fairness, universal benefit, inclusiveness, and mutual accommodation, taking equal participation and civilizational diversity as important sources of legitimacy for global AI governance. All countries, regardless of size, strength, or weakness, have the right to equal development and use of AI, and should equally participate in agenda setting, rule-making, and governance decision-making. What AI processes is not just data; it also carries the languages, cultures, ethics, and social experiences of different countries. President Xi Jinping pointed out: "The development and application of AI should not erode or damage the diversity of world civilizations and the cultural uniqueness of various countries. We should use the common values of all humanity to shape the values of AI, make good use of AI technology to enhance understanding and tolerance among different civilizations, promote exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations, and carefully cultivate a garden of civilizations where each showcases its own beauty and all beauties are shared." China advocates respecting the national conditions, development stages, and governance choices of various countries, both promoting the bridging of gaps in infrastructure, technological resources, and talent capacity, and attaching importance to enhancing the representation and voice of developing countries in global governance, avoiding the creation of new injustices in the field of AI. This value position that takes into account fairness of rights, fairness of opportunities, fairness of rules, and diversity of civilizations is a concrete manifestation of the concept of building a community with a shared future for humanity in guiding global AI governance.
Institutional Leadership: Moving Global AI Governance from Fragmented Exploration to Collaborative Co-Governance
President Xi Jinping emphasized: "The development of AI should not be a solo performance by one country, but rather a symphony of global cooperation." The impact of AI transcends national borders, and risks are transmitted mutually; no country can insulate itself or respond alone. At the same time, the development opportunities brought by AI are unprecedented and require cooperative sharing among all countries. At present, the international community has established a series of governance mechanisms in the field of AI, but prominent problems remain of fragmented governance mechanisms and severely insufficient governance capacity. China consistently upholds true multilateralism, actively promotes the building of AI governance mechanisms within the United Nations system through a series of measures, advocates and promotes the establishment of a World AI Cooperation Organization, pools governance consensus through institutionalized cooperation mechanisms, and promotes the formation of a governance pattern in which the United Nations plays an important role, global and regional mechanisms complement each other, and multiple actors participate in coordination.
Give play to the role of the United Nations as the main channel, and safeguard the universality, representativeness, and authority of global AI governance. The United Nations is the most universal, representative, and authoritative intergovernmental international organization. Supporting the United Nations in playing a coordinating role is conducive to ensuring the equal participation of all countries, especially the vast number of developing countries, in agenda setting and rule discussions, and is conducive to safeguarding the universal application of international rules. Since the Global AI Governance Initiative was put forward, China has promoted the adoption by consensus of the UN General Assembly of a resolution on strengthening international cooperation on AI capacity building, supported the establishment of the "Independent International Scientific Panel on AI" and the "Global Dialogue on AI Governance" mechanisms under the UN framework, and actively participated in them. Building multilateral cooperation platforms is precisely for the purpose of translating dialogue consensus into long-term mechanisms and common visions into practical outcomes.
Promote the building of the World AI Cooperation Organization and establish an institutional platform for global AI governance. As the world's first intergovernmental international organization on AI, the World AI Cooperation Organization follows the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, adheres to the principles of toward good and universal benefit, upholds the concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, and is open to all countries. Its important significance lies in transforming periodic meetings and policy dialogues into institutionalized cooperation, incorporating development strategies, governance rules, technical standards, capacity building, and joint research into a relatively stable cooperation framework, and providing a new institutional platform for all countries, especially Global South countries, to continuously participate in governance, connect with resources, and carry out projects. At the same time, building the World AI Cooperation Organization will also form a beneficial supplement to and provide strong support for existing international mechanisms under the UN framework.
Promote the alignment and coordination of development strategies, governance rules, and technical standards, and enhance the overall effectiveness of global AI governance. The Chair's Statement of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance proposes: "Establish a standards and norms framework with broad consensus that is scientific, transparent, and inclusive, promote mutual recognition of standards among countries, and lower the cost and threshold of international cooperation on AI." At present, AI governance in various countries is still in a stage of rapid exploration, with differences in institutional norms, regulatory paths, and technical standards, and it is necessary to strengthen the precision of alignment in light of the specific conditions of different regions and countries. China vigorously promotes the building of AI cooperation mechanisms oriented toward different regions and countries. Since 2024, it has successively established the China-BRICS Countries AI Development and Cooperation Center, the China-SCO Countries AI Application Cooperation Center, and the China-ASEAN Countries AI Application Cooperation Center. International AI application cooperation centers oriented toward the Arab League, the African Union, and CELAC have also been incorporated into planning.
Action Leadership: Translating China's Propositions into Practical Governance Outcomes
President Xi Jinping pointed out: "As a responsible major country, China has always been committed to being a provider of international public goods in the field of AI." The vitality of concepts lies in practice, and the effectiveness of governance lies in action. China continuously enriches the experience of global AI governance through its own innovative development and governance practice, and at the same time provides technology, talent, platforms, and application solutions around the practical needs of the international community, especially Global South countries, promoting the transformation of China's propositions from principled initiatives into perceptible, participatory, and sustainable cooperation outcomes.
Strengthen innovative development and an open ecosystem, and expand opportunities for global AI development. In recent years, China has adhered to the combination of an effective market and a proactive government, strengthened AI technological innovation, actively advanced the "AI+" action, and cultivated a healthy ecosystem in which various entities coexist and prosper together. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China will accelerate breakthroughs in basic theories and core technologies of AI, and promote the integrated development of model algorithms, intelligent chips, cloud platforms, and scenario applications; advance the construction of high-quality industry datasets and improve mechanisms for data supply, circulation, utilization, and security governance; develop an open-source and open ecosystem and lower the threshold for small and medium-sized enterprises and the broad user base to use AI technology; advance the construction of green computing infrastructure and give play to AI's enabling role in energy dispatch, energy conservation, carbon reduction, and green transformation; promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, and consolidate the talent foundation for sustained innovation. With a complete industrial system, an ultra-large-scale market, and rich application scenarios, China continuously provides new open-source technologies, market space, and cooperation opportunities for global AI innovation and development.
Coordinate development and security, and explore a balanced path for global AI governance. President Xi Jinping attaches great importance to coordinating AI development and security, emphasizing: "We must attach great importance to the various endogenous and derivative risks triggered by AI, promote the building of systems for laws and regulations, technical monitoring, risk early warning, and emergency response, firmly hold the bottom line of security, prevent abuse and malicious use, and ensure that AI always remains under human control. At the same time, we should jointly oppose the practice of overstretching the concept of national security in the field of AI and placing one's own national security above that of other countries." China continues to improve systems for risk assessment, algorithm filing, content labeling, technical monitoring, and emergency response around new technologies and new applications such as algorithmic recommendation, deep synthesis, and generative AI, and explores the formation of practices such as classified and graded management, full life-cycle governance, and agile governance, providing experience and tools that the international community can draw upon for identifying risks, clarifying responsibilities, and improving standards.
Advance capacity building and provide international public goods, and promote the equal benefit of Global South countries. China responds to the AI capacity building needs of Global South countries, and has successively put forward the AI Capacity-Building Action Plan for Good and for All and the "AI+" International Cooperation Initiative at the United Nations, forming a systematic cooperation framework around infrastructure, data resources, talent cultivation, application scenarios, and governance capacity; initiated the establishment of the Group of Friends for International Cooperation on AI Capacity Building, pooling resources from governments, international organizations, enterprises, and scientific research institutions; actively participated in the building of the global AI capacity development network under the auspices of the United Nations, promoting the continuous alignment of countries' needs with technology, knowledge, talent, and project resources, carrying out international exchanges and training on a regular basis, and promoting the landing and application of the "Mazu" intelligent meteorological early warning solution in 30 countries, helping developing countries make up for their shortcomings. From issue advocacy to solution design, and then to cooperation networks and specific projects, China is promoting the transformation of capacity building from principled initiatives to practical measures, helping bridge the intelligence divide with concrete actions and demonstrating the responsibility of a major country.
(The author is a researcher at the Fudan University Base of the Shanghai Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era)
Return to TopBy: 张薇薇
In July this year, President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance and delivered a keynote speech, comprehensively and systematically elaborating China's policy positions and conceptual propositions on AI development and governance. He pointed out: "Countries should uphold the principle of putting people first and pursuing goodness and progress, making AI an important source of power for promoting shared prosperity and safeguarding common security, and working together to build a fair and reasonable global AI governance system." At present, global AI technological innovation is entering an upward period of intensive breakthroughs, and various endogenous and derivative risks are following in its wake. President Xi Jinping, directly confronting the pain points in global AI development and governance, put forward four points of view from the dimensions of development, security, civilization, and governance, which are highly consistent with the core essence of the four global initiatives, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to advancing global AI governance.
Global AI governance urgently needs to break new ground
President Xi Jinping pointed out: "At present, the world is undergoing accelerated transformation unseen in a century, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating breakthroughs, and global AI technological innovation has entered an unprecedented period of vitality. Intelligent technologies of universal connectivity of all things, human-machine collaboration, cross-domain integration, and co-creation and sharing are releasing enormous energy in叠加 fashion, containing both immense opportunities and facing governance challenges." AI is an important driving force of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. In recent years, driven by breakthroughs across the entire chain of algorithms, data, and computing power, AI's capabilities in various aspects have rapidly improved, pushing all fields of economic and social development to accelerate their leap from digitalization and networking to intelligentization.
With the development of AI technology and the spread of its application, related risks are becoming increasingly prominent. On the one hand, various risks such as model hallucination, information manipulation, and employment impact continue to transmit to the economic and social level. If not handled in a timely manner, related risks and challenges can easily accumulate and spread. This requires us to strengthen proactive and forward-looking responses. On the other hand, AI risks have a natural cross-border attribute. A large model trained in one country being called upon by users in another country means risks may cross national borders along with it. A malicious deepfake video may spread across the entire internet within hours, triggering social conflict. Furthermore, the widening gap in AI development between different countries will also exacerbate international political and economic inequality. This determines that AI governance cannot be confined to the level of a single country; it must凝聚 governance consensus at the global level and form governance synergy.
At present, global AI governance still faces multiple challenges, specifically reflected in the following aspects. First, fragmentation of governance. Some international organizations and regional organizations have made AI a key topic and formed related mechanisms, but there are considerable differences among these mechanisms in governance themes, governance concepts, institutional arrangements, and policy rhythms, and there is no hierarchical relationship or effective coordination among them. Second, insufficient governance capacity for action. Some international documents on global AI governance, such as declarations and initiatives, remain at the stage of principled consensus, with signatory countries deciding for themselves the manner and intensity of implementation, and lacking effective institutional safeguards for execution and supervision. Third, interference from geopolitical games. AI is regarded as a strategic technology affecting national comprehensive strength. Some countries, out of consideration for maintaining or expanding their own advantages, either refuse global AI governance or attempt to monopolize the rule-making power of governance, eroding the trust foundation of multilateral cooperation and raising the difficulty of coordinating global governance. These challenges mean that advancing global AI governance requires scientific and clear conceptual guidance, stable and effective institutional support, and practical and forceful action measures.
The four global initiatives point the correct direction for global AI governance
At present, the international community's concerns about AI involve many fields such as technological innovation, safety prevention and control, ethical norms, and industrial development. The topics are diverse and the challenges are intertwined, but in the final analysis they converge on four aspects: development, security, civilization, and governance. At this meeting, President Xi Jinping put forward four points of view: "uphold openness and win-win cooperation to drive innovative development," "strengthen risk awareness to ensure safety and controllability," "encourage inclusiveness and mutual learning to promote inter-civilization exchange," and "advocate solidarity and cooperation to improve global governance." These are in the same lineage as the four global initiatives, deeply aligned with the practical requirements of AI pursuing goodness and progress, systematically answering the fundamental questions of global AI governance, and providing important ideological guidance for breaking the deadlock in global AI governance.
"Upholding openness and win-win cooperation to drive innovative development" is in the same lineage as the Global Development Initiative, providing guidance for promoting inclusive development and bridging the intelligence divide. The Global Development Initiative places development in a prominent position within the global macroeconomic policy framework, emphasizes promoting synergy and efficiency in multilateral development cooperation processes, achieving development for the people, development relying on the people, and development成果 shared by the people, and calls for seizing the historic opportunity of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation to jointly achieve leapfrog development. AI is a key general-purpose technology that can be widely empowering and penetrate layer by layer. How to precisely embed it into every link of production and life, making it a sharp tool for promoting inclusive development and enhancing people's well-being, tests governance wisdom. At the same time, developing countries have shortcomings in digital infrastructure, data, and talent, and the risk of a deepening AI divide always exists. Upholding openness and win-win cooperation to drive innovative development is conducive to promoting the deep integration of AI with economic and social development, comprehensively empowering agriculture, manufacturing, urban management, disaster prevention and mitigation, education, and healthcare, so that technological progress can quickly transform into tangible and perceptible warmth for people's livelihoods. In this process, upholding inclusiveness and universal benefit, helping developing countries build AI infrastructure, train AI talent, promote open-source sharing of AI models, and support developing countries in developing localized AI applications is conducive to better leveraging the comparative advantages of various countries through advanced technology and helping resolve the problem of unbalanced development worldwide.
"Strengthening risk awareness to ensure safety and controllability" is in the same lineage as the Global Security Initiative, clarifying the path for resolving technological risks and safeguarding human security. The Global Security Initiative advocates upholding a vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security, jointly safeguarding world peace and security; upholding the principle of indivisibility of security, opposing the establishment of one's own security on the basis of the insecurity of others; and so on. At present, the security risks arising from AI development roughly include two categories: first, endogenous risks caused by the technology itself, such as algorithmic black boxes, data bias, and breakthroughs beyond the boundaries of human control, deviating from human values and instructions; second, derivative risks caused by malicious use of the technology, such as its use in cyberattacks and the manufacture of biological weapons. It is particularly necessary to point out that AI applied in the military field will enhance situational awareness capabilities and reduce the cost of strikes; applied in cyberspace, it may greatly enhance the information suppression and cognitive shaping capabilities of relevant countries. Blindly pursuing asymmetric advantages through technology will aggravate the security dilemma of the international community, leading to greater insecurity or even tragedy for all humanity. Faced with this situation, island-style governance by one country or one region is difficult to be effective. Only by strengthening risk awareness, ensuring safety and controllability, promoting dialogue and cooperation among countries, and carrying out joint rule-making and joint risk prevention on preventing hidden dangers at the underlying technical level and restraining malicious abuse of technology can the safety bottom line of AI be firmly established.
"Encouraging inclusiveness and mutual learning to promote inter-civilization exchange" is in the same lineage as the Global Civilization Initiative, delineating the coordinates for safeguarding civilizational diversity and promoting exchange and mutual learning. Diversity is a basic feature of the world and also the charm of human civilization. Today's world has more than 8 billion people, more than 200 countries and regions, more than 2,500 ethnic groups, and multiple religions. But in the long river of world history, theories such as the "superiority of civilizations" and the "clash of civilizations" have appeared, even triggering wars and massacres, leaving historical wounds that are difficult to heal. The Global Civilization Initiative advocates respecting the diversity of world civilizations, promoting the common values of all humanity, attaching importance to the inheritance and innovation of civilizations, and strengthening international people-to-people and cultural exchanges and cooperation. AI has a dual role in promoting the development and progress of human civilization. On the one hand, it can enable people speaking different languages to converse conveniently, can carry out systematic modeling and digital preservation of endangered languages and cultural heritage, and can also enable niche cultures to precisely reach their target audiences, helping their inheritance. On the other hand, if AI large model training relies on a small number of languages for a long time, other languages and cultures may be marginalized in digital space, eroding the diversity of world civilizations. Encouraging inclusiveness and mutual learning to promote inter-civilization exchange introduces a civilizational perspective into AI development and governance, uses the common values of all humanity to shape AI's value system, builds multilingual and cross-cultural training datasets, and enables different civilizations to be "seen" and "expressed" by algorithms. In this way, AI can become a bridge for enhancing mutual understanding and tolerance among different civilizations.
"Advocating solidarity and cooperation to improve global governance" is in the same lineage as the Global Governance Initiative, establishing the guidelines for promoting the strengthening of global AI governance. At present, global AI governance is in its initial stage. The Global Governance Initiative, with the core concepts of upholding sovereign equality, abiding by international rule of law, practicing multilateralism, advocating a people-centered approach, and emphasizing action orientation, has established the guidelines for promoting the strengthening of global AI governance. Advocating solidarity and cooperation to improve global governance, upholding the global governance concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, effectively giving play to the important role of the United Nations, building the rules of global AI governance on the basis of broad international consensus, and strengthening the alignment and coordination of AI development strategies, governance rules, and technical standards are all conducive to, on the one hand, early formation of a global governance framework with broad consensus, enhancing the representation and voice of developing countries in global AI governance, and ensuring that all countries enjoy equal rights, equal opportunities, and equal rules in global AI governance; and on the other hand, taking the enhancement of people's sense of gain, happiness, and security as the goal, enabling this cutting-edge technology to better benefit human society and avoiding the creation of new inequality in the AI field.
China makes contributions to advancing global AI governance through concrete actions
President Xi Jinping pointed out: "As a responsible major country, China has always been committed to being a provider of international public goods in the AI field." China is not only an active advocate of global AI governance, but also an important practitioner. In 2025, the scale of China's core AI industry has exceeded 1.2 trillion yuan, with more than 6,200 enterprises. With increasingly rich application scenarios, China's AI governance has also been carried out in an orderly manner, making Chinese contributions to advancing global AI governance.
Governance practices provide useful reference for the international community. China's AI governance practices follow the value orientation of putting people first and AI for good, emphasize the coordination of technological progress with social fairness, public order, and the comprehensive development of human beings, and enhance the overall well-being of society. At the same time, China upholds equal emphasis on development and security, coordinates the advancement of technological innovation and risk prevention and control, and both encourages AI to comprehensively empower high-quality economic and social development and attaches importance to building a solid safety bottom line. In practice, China adopts an agile governance approach, moving forward in small steps and at a fast pace, continuously iterating, dynamically calibrating governance plans, establishing a multi-level AI legal and institutional system, and forming a diversified collaborative governance pattern with the government taking the lead, enterprises bearing primary responsibility, and the public exercising supervision. These practices powerfully prove that AI development and security can be coordinated and balanced, that principles such as people-centeredness, safety and controllability, and fairness and transparency can be embedded in the entire life cycle of technology development and application, and that agile governance can reserve space for technological innovation while building a safety bottom line.
Actively promoting cooperation in global AI governance. In 2023, China proposed the Global AI Governance Initiative. In 2024, China promoted the UN General Assembly to adopt by consensus a resolution on international cooperation on AI capacity building and released the AI Capacity-Building Action Plan for Good and for All. In 2025, China promoted the 2025 World AI Conference and the High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance to issue the Action Plan on Global AI Governance, proposed the establishment of the World AI Cooperation Organization, and put forward the "AI+" international cooperation initiative at the high-level meeting of the Global Development Initiative. This year, representatives of 29 founding member countries signed the Agreement on the Establishment of the World AI Cooperation Organization in Shanghai. The establishment of this organization will build an institutionalized platform for cooperation in global AI governance and promote the organic combination of conceptual advocacy and action implementation. These measures and actions constitute China's contribution to advancing global AI governance.
Using concrete actions to help developing countries. China has always placed the promotion of inclusive and universally beneficial AI development in a prominent position in global AI governance, jointly held AI capacity building seminars with the United Nations, helped countries around the world, especially Global South countries, strengthen capacity building, actively assisted developing countries in building digital infrastructure, and helped developing countries build autonomous and controllable AI models. For example, the national large model that China helped Laos develop performs excellently in Chinese-Lao-English translation, especially in the understanding and content generation of the Lao language, as well as in fields related to local culture and localization adaptation capabilities, and has now been deployed, launched, and opened for use. At the same time, China's open-source large models are an important tool for promoting inclusive and universally beneficial AI development. Open-source large models can generally be independently adapted and locally deployed, have relatively low usage costs, can greatly lower the threshold for AI use, and provide important assistance for developing countries to create solutions that fit their actual needs and enhance their own AI capabilities. With the comprehensive advantages of low cost, high performance, and high controllability, open-source large models are bringing benefits to more and more countries and people, promoting AI to truly become a public good that benefits all of humanity.
(The author is Deputy Director of the Institute of World Peace and Security Studies, China Institute of International Studies (中国国际问题研究院))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王明峰
At 7 a.m., in the kitchen operation area of a primary school in Qingbaijiang District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, steam slowly dispersed carrying the aroma of food. Several parent representatives, wearing gloves and masks, were gathered around the operation table inspecting the freshness of each ingredient, verifying meat quarantine certificates, and tracing source information item by item, leaving no detail unchecked.
"In the past, parents had no idea how their children were eating at school," said parent representative Ms. Li, pointing to the QR code posted on the wall with a smile. "Now it's different — we can come to the school every week to participate in acceptance checks. If we find a problem, we can report it immediately through the QR code. It's convenient, transparent, and reassuring."
This is a routine scene in the "campus meal" sector of the "Happiness Sunning Ground" (幸福晒场) activity carried out by the Chengdu Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission to deepen the concentrated rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses, aimed at openly "airing out" governance results, work progress, and livelihood changes to the public. Since the beginning of this year, Chengdu has used the "Happiness Sunning Ground" activity as its starting point, shifting from "watching cadres" to "watching the masses," exploring open-door rectification, and forming a governance pattern of "the masses set the topics, departments answer the questions, disciplinary inspection commissions supervise the answers, and the masses verify the results," exploring a new path for a megacity to resolve pain points in the livelihood sector.
Opening the door to set topics — "what to air" is decided by the masses
"Before, we relied entirely on the foreman to manually record attendance, and if there were errors in the accounts there was no way to verify them; now, with a tap on the phone, how much work was done each day and how much money should be paid is clear at a glance." At the construction site of the Jinma River Bridge on the TJ2 section of the Chengdu–Wenjiang–Qionglai Expressway expansion project, ordinary worker Lao Li took out his phone and opened the "Cheng-Wen-Qiong Safety Management Platform," on which the screen clearly recorded his complete attendance and wage information for 26 days of the current month.
Lao Li's peace of mind stems from Chengdu's deepened special campaign to rectify wage arrears.
In early February this year, while publishing the news release on the municipal party committee's special meeting on wage arrears governance and support for people in difficulty, the official WeChat public account of Chengdu also pinned at the top the wage-rights-protection complaint hotlines of municipal and district-level functional departments, and opened a message channel to collect public demands around the clock, allowing the masses to set topics for the rectification work.
"Whether the rectification results are good or not, and what the supervision priorities should focus on — all of this is left to the masses to set the topics." A relevant person in charge of the Chengdu Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission stated that Chengdu runs mass supervision and public opinion supervision through the entire process of the concentrated rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses, presenting public demands and departmental reply situations "in their original flavor," forcing functional departments to implement rectification responsibilities and improve governance capacity.
To rectify the problem of wage arrears for migrant workers, Chengdu incorporated municipal construction, transportation and water conservancy, public supporting facilities, and industrial parks into the scope of investigation, and simultaneously established a master project ledger, a problem list, and a responsibility list. "It is suggested that at least one special research and deployment meeting and one on-site research and supervision session be conducted each month, urging relevant functional departments to earnestly fulfill their primary responsibilities." In early March this year, the municipal leader in charge of human resources and social security work received a personalized duty performance list pushed by the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission, reminding him to take the lead in handling wage arrears governance for government-invested projects and state-owned enterprise projects and related work responsibilities.
After a full-region investigation, the Chengdu Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission promoted the human resources and social security departments to build a normalized supervision ledger for government and state-owned enterprise projects, with all 589 related projects in the city connected to the provincial migrant worker wage payment supervision platform, achieving dynamic monitoring of wage distribution and real-time risk alerts; 39 existing wage arrears projects were sorted and consolidated, involving 1,103 workers and a total arrears amount of 25.479 million yuan.
Departments answer the questions — turning the "sunning ground" into a "competition ground" for duty performance
"I never expected that the money I was cheated out of by a 'wild tour guide' would be recovered the very same day." Recently, Mr. Zhang, who had come to Dujiangyan from Luoyang, Henan Province, said with emotion when he received his refund and compensation at the Dujiangyan Scenic Area Visitor Center.
Having thought that a "wild tour guide" could lead the way and take a shortcut to save time and energy, Mr. Zhang paid 300 yuan and walked a long way without even entering the scenic area, and the "wild tour guide" was nowhere to be found. Realizing he had been scammed, Mr. Zhang reported his experience on the "Complaints Are Reasonable" (吐槽有理) section of the "Come to Dujiangyan Travel" (都来旅行) WeChat mini-program, and that same afternoon, he received his 300 yuan refund and 500 yuan in compensation.
In June this year, the "Come to Dujiangyan Travel" WeChat mini-program launched the "Complaints Are Reasonable" feedback channel, actively responding to livelihood demands. Mr. Zhang's "complaint" caught the attention of Wang Tao, leader of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group stationed at the Municipal Party Committee Publicity Department of the Dujiangyan Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission. Without going through the lengthy process of layer-by-layer forwarding, Wang Tao immediately opened the dedicated joint liaison group and simultaneously sent Mr. Zhang's original complaint text, contact information, and location positioning to the on-duty personnel of the Qingcheng Mountain–Dujiangyan Tourist Scenic Area and relevant functional departments, and issued a supervision reminder to "immediately activate the rapid handling procedure." Based on the clues provided by Mr. Zhang, the staff quickly found the "wild tour guide" involved and arranged for both parties to negotiate a resolution at the Dujiangyan Scenic Area Visitor Center.
The fact that the complaint received such a rapid response benefited from the special work team for rectifying chaos in the tourism market, formed by the Dujiangyan Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission, culture and tourism, public security, market supervision, and other departments (units), which took the quality and efficiency of handling tourism-related complaints as an important yardstick for testing the effectiveness of the concentrated rectification, opened the "Come to Dujiangyan Travel" WeChat mini-program, the "12345" hotline, and the "96526" tourism service special line, and implemented 24-hour duty.
The rectification of chaos in the tourism market reflects Chengdu's effective exploration in social governance models — by building a mechanism of "handle immediately upon message, open supervision, closed-loop rectification," it compresses the primary responsibilities of functional departments, transforming from handling matters one by one to co-governance of an entire sector. Dujiangyan embeds disciplinary inspection and supervision into every handling link — assignment, undertaking, supervision, and completion — and establishes a cross-departmental mechanism of "handling before complaints arise, governance at the source," promoting the transformation of livelihood demand handling from "passively receiving orders" to "actively governing."
When the masses report problems online, relevant departments claim them immediately, handle them within a time limit, and "air out" the handling progress throughout the entire process. This model of online-offline coordinated linkage effectively breaks down departmental barriers and forms a synergy of governance.
Disciplinary inspection commissions supervise the answers — making the "airing" more effective
"All the problem ledgers, handling receipts, and publicity records from this 'look-back' are placed on the table, and we are checking off each item one by one against the accounts." In the meeting room of the Jinjiang District Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau, the special case team of the district commission for discipline inspection and supervision invited relevant functional departments and district-owned sanitation enterprise staff to be present together, organizing the involved business entities and public officials to carry out "account-checking-style" verification of the rectification results of a case investigated and handled in the sanitation sector.
Previously, in the bidding work for a sanitation service project in Jinjiang District, relevant supervisory public officials took advantage of their positions to illegally manipulate bid evaluation and daily assessments, accepting kickbacks in the process, and the involved personnel were disciplined and punished in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law.
At the "look-back" site for case rectification, on the industry dishonesty list spread out on the table, the names, violation facts, and punishment periods of three enterprises that illegally participated in bidding were clearly marked, and next to them were neatly pasted the dishonesty list entry receipts issued by the industry competent departments and system screenshots of the implementation of punishment measures. From project database locking to bidding qualification restrictions, every step of the operation was clear and transparent.
"This year, together with the education and training center, we built six supervision models for 'high-frequency winning bids and abnormal subcontracting,' and carried out full-coverage inspections of 11 subdistricts, 3 district-level departments, and their subordinate grassroots stations (offices)." The person in charge of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group stationed at the District Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau of the Jinjiang District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission introduced that through data comparison, a total of 428 items of abnormal data were screened out. Subsequently, after further analysis, research, and judgment, and following the vine to find the melon (shùn téng mō guā - "follow the vine to find the melon," to track down clues to uncover the truth), the problem clue was ultimately discovered and verified.
In response to the prominent problems exposed by the case — bid rigging and collusive bidding in sanitation projects, collusion between government and business, behind-the-scenes manipulation, non-standard law enforcement, and dereliction of duty — the district commission for discipline inspection and supervision issued 11 disciplinary inspection and supervision recommendation letters, making joint efforts from both "institutional reform + technological empowerment," promoting the revision of 4 institutional mechanisms in the sanitation sector, building a "Jinjiang Smart Clean" (锦江智慧清) supervision system, and forming a full-chain supervision closed loop covering "before, during, and after the event."
At the same time, the Chengdu Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission included high-frequency livelihood demands exposed through media supervision into the daily supervision ledger, deeply investigating the work style, corruption, and responsibility problems behind them, and earnestly resolving the masses' urgent, difficult, worried, and longed-for matters. As of now, the city has accepted a total of 8,974 clues about unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses, filed cases against 3,623 people, including 427 cadres managed by the party committee at the same level, and imposed disciplinary actions on 2,210 people.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 邱超奕
Spending over 6,000 yuan to book a flight ticket on an online platform, a passenger mistakenly selected the wrong departure date. About one hour after booking, she applied for a refund, and the merchant deducted nearly the entire ticket fare, refunding only the 600 yuan insurance premium. Recently, the experience of passenger Ms. Feng has drawn considerable attention.
A report released in July by the Black Cat Complaint Platform shows that in the first half of this year alone, the platform received nearly 27,000 complaints about airports and airlines, of which complaints about "high refund and change fees" exceeded 13,000, accounting for nearly half. The report noted that consumers generally reported that even when applying for refunds more than seven days or even more than ten days in advance, platforms still deducted over 40 percent or even 90 percent of the ticket price as handling fees.
Why are airline ticket refund handling fees so high? How can the problems raised by passengers be resolved? A reporter interviewed the relevant person in charge of the China Air Transport Association (hereinafter referred to as "CATA").
Airline tickets and flight seats possess three major characteristics: extreme time-sensitivity, non-storability, and resource exclusivity. The operational resources of civil aviation flights are all pre-allocated for established flight plans. Aircraft dispatch, aviation fuel reserves, crew scheduling, air traffic control command, airport ground support, and other elements all incur costs, and these costs are not reduced because seats are left empty. Once a flight takes off, the vacant seats on board lose their value for use and secondary sale, constituting irreversible resource consumption.
The relevant person in charge of CATA introduced that currently, domestic airlines generally implement tiered refund fee structures. The earlier a passenger applies for a refund, the more time the airline has to re-release the vacant seats to the market and complete a secondary sale, so the refund handling fee standard is generally relatively lower. It is suggested that passengers with uncertain or changeable itineraries choose full-fare tickets or premium cabin classes with flexible refund and change options to better enjoy refund and change rights; passengers with fixed and confirmed itineraries may choose high-discount preferential tickets and accept moderate refund and change restrictions in exchange for cost-effectiveness in travel.
Regarding passengers' reports of not understanding refund rules and other issues, the relevant person in charge of CATA introduced that the tiered refund fee structure does indeed have some service shortcomings in actual implementation: insufficient transparency in rule disclosure. Some online platforms and sales agency channels have problems with hidden rule presentation, such as refund and change clauses in fonts that are too small, positioned in obscure locations, using abstruse professional terminology, or collapsed by default and not displayed; the international ticket refund and change system is complex. Some foreign airlines have non-public deduction rules and opaque fee rates, and sales platforms fail to interpret them adequately; the industry lacks standardized norms. Although each domestic airline follows the tiered fee logic, there are differences in specific time thresholds, handling fee percentages, thresholds for free refunds and changes, and other details.
In response to the pain points in airline ticket refund and change services that passengers are concerned about, CATA has taken the lead in coordinating and advancing the upgrade and optimization of ticket refund and change services, launching multiple measures.
Research and introduce refund and change standards to comprehensively enhance rule transparency. CATA is currently leading the formulation of a special group standard for airline ticket refunds and changes, planned to be officially released and implemented within this year. The standard will clarify refund and change requirements. All ticket sales platforms and official airline channels must proactively disclose refund and change fee rates, restriction conditions, and scenarios for free refunds and changes before passengers pay for their orders, through conspicuous fonts, pop-up mandatory prompts, dedicated markings, advance notification, and other means, resolving the problems of hidden rules, incomprehensibility, and lack of awareness, and safeguarding passengers' right to know and right to choose.
Promote quality policies benefiting the people and guide industry service upgrades. China Eastern Airlines recently took the lead in adjusting its domestic ticket refund and change rules, clarifying that for domestic tickets sold from August 6 (inclusive) onward, all cabin classes can enjoy free voluntary refunds and changes more than 14 days before flight departure, breaking the traditional restriction that discount tickets cannot be refunded or changed for free.
Strengthen industry compliance training and standardize service implementation standards. Conduct regular special training for frontline customer service staff, ticket agency agents, and online platform personnel, standardizing the interpretation of refund and change rules, dispute handling procedures, and other work.
Tackle the difficult problem of international ticket services and achieve transparency in cross-border rules. Urge domestic airlines and sales platforms to refine refund and change rules for international routes and provide advance risk warnings. Proactively engage with foreign airlines, increase coordination efforts, and promote the standardization and transparency of cross-border and cross-airline refund and change services.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尚嵘峥摄影报道
Wrapping his ankle tightly in plastic wrap, putting on a one-piece mosquito-proof suit, pulling on rubber gloves, and carrying a bottle of mosquito repellent spray, Ma Xiao, a police officer at the Koktokay Border Police Station under the Altay Border Management Detachment of the Xinjiang Entry-Exit Border Inspection General Station, was ready to set out on border patrol.
The 8.856-kilometer border defense line crosses wetlands, marshes, shrubland, woods, and the Gobi Desert, taking about two hours to walk. "After one patrol in summer, I come back drenched in sweat, my clothes completely soaked, and my body covered in large and small bites from mosquitoes and other insects," Ma Xiao said with a smile. "Here, a casual slap can kill over a hundred mosquitoes. It's called the 'Kingdom of Mosquitoes.' Though the environment is harsh, the police officers are not afraid of hardship and can endure it."
Inside the police station are displayed four generations of mosquito-proof suits worn by officers since the station was established. The earliest mosquito-proof suit had only an upper garment; although the material was light and breathable, mosquitoes could easily pierce it, and the protective effect was limited. "Later, through generations of improvement, the fourth-generation suit we wear now is designed as a one-piece garment, and the fabric is thinner and more breathable," said Officer Ma Zhenguo. Originally from Hebei, he has now made his home in Habahe County in the Altay region, where the police station is located. With his family here, his steadfastness has a stronger backing.
Officer Liu Wei is a native of Habahe. After graduating, he returned to his hometown and came to Koktokay, a place he dared not visit as a child. He remembers once coming here with his parents; before they even got out of the car, his parents wrapped their heads tightly with their clothes. The moment they stepped out, dense swarms of mosquitoes immediately surrounded them, and Liu Wei was so frightened he dared not get out of the car. Today, that once timid boy has grown into a border guard officer, standing firm here. Koktokay has no sea, yet the officers surge forward like waves.
A letter from a member of the public lies quietly in the display cabinet of the police station. "Dear beloved People's Police of the Border Police Station: The day before yesterday, we saw in the People's Daily a video of you patrolling in a mosquito-infested environment... The conditions are harsh, yet no one retreats... Thank you for your contributions to defending the motherland's border..." Every time he reads this letter from July 2022, Zhang Hailong, the station chief, feels warmth in his heart. "This is the value of our border defense and national protection."
Return to TopBeijing, August 25 (People's Daily — reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)). The reporter learned from the Beijing General Station of Immigration Inspection (北京边检总站) that at present, the momentum of entry-exit tourism, business travel, and family visits during the summer period continues to run high, and passenger flow at Beijing ports is showing a trend of steady climbing and high-level operation. As of August 25, the total inspection volume of entry-exit personnel by the Beijing General Station of Immigration Inspection this year has exceeded 15 million person-times, a year-on-year increase of 9%, reaching this figure 20 days earlier than last year.
Since the beginning of August, the daily entry-exit personnel volume at Beijing ports has been above 70,000 person-times each day, of which on August 9, the single-day inspected entry-exit personnel volume exceeded 82,000 person-times, setting the highest single-day record for Beijing ports in the past six years.
As of August 25, the number of foreigners entering and exiting through Beijing ports this year reached 4.88 million person-times, a year-on-year increase of 31.6%, accounting for 32.5% of the total entry-exit personnel volume. Among them, foreigners entering under the visa-free and temporary entry permit policies reached 1.86 million person-times, accounting for 74.5% of the total number of foreigners entering the country.
Return to TopOur newspaper Jinan, August 25 (Reporter Wang Zhe) — The Social Work Department of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee recently issued the Guiding Opinions on Deepening Grassroots Deliberation and Consultation Work, aiming to advance the institutionalization, standardization, and proceduralization of grassroots deliberation and consultation, and to enhance the effectiveness of grassroots governance led by Party building.
The Guiding Opinions clearly stipulate that, in accordance with the requirements of deliberating with the people and deliberating for the people, and with a focus on expanding orderly participation, advancing information disclosure, strengthening deliberation and consultation, and reinforcing oversight of power, a system of grassroots deliberation and consultation led by Party organizations of townships (subdistricts) and villages (communities) shall be improved, so as to elevate the capacity and practical effectiveness of grassroots deliberation and consultation.
The Guiding Opinions propose enriching the content of deliberation and consultation, implementing the dynamic revision mechanism for consultation catalogs at the township (subdistrict) and village (community) levels, and reasonably determining the content of deliberation and consultation in light of the characteristics of different levels and different localities. It also proposes expanding the subjects of deliberation and consultation — on the basis of ensuring the participation of interested stakeholders, attention should be paid to drawing in community workers, social work professionals, volunteers, and new employment groups. It further proposes standardizing the procedures of deliberation and consultation, which shall generally proceed in accordance with the following steps: collecting and determining agenda items, clarifying participating subjects, circulating consultation information, organizing and carrying out consultation, publicizing consultation results, and promoting the implementation of outcomes.
Return to TopShijiazhuang, August 25 (Reporter Shao Yuzi) — The Hebei Province Foreign-Related Legal Services Work Symposium was held recently, at which the "Hebei Province Special Action Plan for Serving 'Going Global' Enterprises" was issued, making arrangements in six areas including strengthening foreign-related rule-of-law publicity and training work, carrying out foreign-related legal services exchange activities, and enhancing the level of foreign-related arbitration services, and establishing a Hebei Province foreign-related legal services team composed of 66 experts.
At present, Hebei Province has established a 342-person international law enforcement cooperation talent pool in six categories within the provincial public security system, and a 474-person foreign-related rule-of-law talent pool in four categories within the judicial administrative system, designated five law firms as foreign-related lawyer business research and training units, and continued to advance the construction of three international arbitration centers. According to a relevant person in charge of the Hebei Provincial Department of Justice (河北省司法厅), the members of this foreign-related legal services team include provincial arbitration backbone personnel, outstanding foreign-related lawyers, senior notaries, legal experts from commerce, trade promotion, and the Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, among others. They are grouped according to professional fields and subject to dynamic management and annual rotation. The foreign-related legal services team will adopt a combination of circuit and fixed-point approaches, going deep into key parks and key enterprises to carry out rule-of-law physical examinations and compliance guidance, providing enterprises with full-chain legal services covering overseas investment, cross-border trade, intellectual property protection, and other areas.
Return to TopThis newspaper Shanghai, August 25 (Reporter Jiang Hongbing) — The "Walking Together with One Heart — Cross-Strait Youth Exchange Season Shanghai Stop" event, co-hosted by the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office (国务院台办), the All-China Youth Federation, the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, and the Chinese Kuomintang Youth Affairs Development Committee, the China Qingyan Peace Education Foundation, the Taiwan Industrial and Commercial Research Association Youth Corps, and the Taiwan Cross-Strait Peace Development Foundation, opened in Shanghai on the 25th, with approximately 1,000 people from all walks of life and youth representatives from both sides of the strait participating.
Song Tao, director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, stated that General Secretary Xi Jinping holds ardent expectations for youth on both sides of the strait, and this event is a concrete measure to implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important remarks and to establish an institutionalized platform for two-way youth exchange between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Today, the prospects for realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation are incomparably bright, and the baton of history is being passed into the hands of contemporary youth. It is hoped that youth on both sides of the strait will strive to be contributors to national rejuvenation, actors in maintaining peace across the Taiwan Strait, strivers for spiritual harmony, and dream-chasers in deepening exchange and integration, resolutely oppose "Taiwan independence" separatist activities and foreign interference, and join hands to create a bright future of national reunification and national rejuvenation.
Gong Zheng, deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and mayor, stated that General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized that youth are the hope of the country and the future of the nation. Shanghai is China's largest economic center city and also a fertile ground for exchanges, interactions, and integration among youth on both sides of the strait. Youth on both sides of the strait are connected by blood and share the same roots and origin, jointly bearing the era's mission of national rejuvenation. Shanghai will always uphold the concept of "the two sides of the strait are one family" (两岸一家亲), thoroughly implement policies benefiting Taiwan, benefiting enterprises, and benefiting youth, and provide a broad world for everyone to pursue and realize their dreams in Shanghai and write a new chapter of youth in this era with an optimal environment and the best services.
A Dong, first secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, stated that General Secretary Xi Jinping ardently hopes that youth on both sides of the strait will run the historical relay well and contribute youthful strength to realizing national rejuvenation. Youth on both sides of the strait should, with one heart, jointly plunge into the tide of exchange and interaction, drawing closer and closer, growing ever more intimate; with one heart, jointly promote the general trend of integrated development, achieving dreams and realizing value in the construction of Chinese-style modernization; with one heart, jointly create the great cause of national reunification, upholding the nation's greater good and bearing the great responsibility of the era, jointly composing the era's chapter of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Chang Jung-kung, vice chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang, stated that both sides of the strait belong to one China and are all Chinese people nurtured by Chinese culture; they must achieve mutual benefit and common prosperity on the basis of adhering to the "1992 Consensus" and opposing "Taiwan independence." Youth on both sides of the strait should strengthen exchanges and cooperation, move toward each other in the process of revitalizing China, and create a glorious and shared Chinese era. Lien Sheng-wu, chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang Youth Affairs Development Committee, stated that compatriots on both sides of the strait are all Chinese people, one family, and it is hoped that youth on both sides of the strait will understand each other, learn from each other, and join hands with one heart, walking together, to create a better future for the Chinese nation.
The event's main forum was held on the same day. Cross-strait guests including Zhou Yuxiang (周宇翔), founder and chief executive officer of Shanghai Heihu Network Technology Co., Ltd.; Wu Xuelan (吴雪岚), author of "The Legend of Zhen Huan"; Olympic champion Ma Long; and Chen Dingwen (陈鼎文), founder and chief executive officer of Taiwan Weituo Technology, delivered keynote speeches on themes including technology, Chinese culture, and cross-strait youth exchange.
During the event, a cross-strait youth volleyball invitational tournament, a trend market, and a gala evening were also held. Youth from both sides of the strait visited the Bund, Yu Garden, the "Model Speed Space" AI black technology experience space, and other sites in Shanghai, and the next stop will be visits and study tours in Zhejiang and other places.
Return to TopThe start of the school season has arrived, and many students' biological clocks have not yet adjusted in time, and they may also experience emotions such as irritability and resistance; at the same time, lawless elements are exploiting parents' and students' anxiety and information asymmetry regarding school transfers and integration into school life to commit fraud.
How should one adjust one's physical and mental state and alleviate back-to-school anxiety? How should students and parents respond to the deceptive tricks of lawless elements? Relevant departments and experts have issued reminders to help everyone adjust their body and mind, keep their eyes open, and calmly welcome the new semester.
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Adjust body and mind well, calmly welcome the new semester
Staff Reporter Lu Fanbing
As the summer vacation draws to a close, many children have had irregular schedules and reduced exercise during the holiday, and as school approaches, it is inevitable that they will experience irritability, resistance, inability to wake up, and scattered attention. Many parents are eager to forcibly rein in their children and quickly reverse their state, which instead intensifies parent-child conflicts and makes it more difficult for children to adapt physically and mentally. In response, Han Fang, Director and Chief Physician of the Sleep Medicine Department at Peking University People's Hospital, and Zhang Shiyu, Attending Physician in the Medical Psychology Department, shared a set of simple and easy-to-operate family physical and mental adjustment plans. Scientifically adjusting sleep schedules, emotions, exercise, and eating habits can help children transition smoothly from the relaxed state of the holiday to the state of campus learning, achieving both short-term adjustment and long-term habit formation.
Adjust schedules step by step, calibrate the biological clock
Irregular schedules during the holiday are one of the main reasons children feel fatigued at the start of school, lose focus in class, and have difficulty concentrating. Han Fang explained that sleep is related to the brain's memory, growth hormone secretion, and emotional regulation, and that regular and sufficient sleep is an important foundation for children to study efficiently and maintain a stable mindset. According to Ministry of Education standards, the recommended daily sleep duration for students at each stage is: no less than 10 hours for primary school students, no less than 9 hours for junior high school students, and no less than 8 hours for senior high school students.
Many parents are accustomed to forcibly correcting their children's schedules on the eve of the new semester. This kind of "sudden braking" adjustment can easily lead to insomnia, irritability, and poor adaptation in children. Experts recommend a gradual method of going to bed early and waking up early: start adjusting one week before school begins, moving both bedtime and wake-up time forward by 15–30 minutes each day, gently aligning with the campus schedule, giving the biological clock sufficient time to adapt, and avoiding drastic fluctuations in rhythm.
At the same time, management of the pre-sleep environment and habits is crucial. One hour before bed, parents should urge children to put down electronic devices such as mobile phones, tablets, and computers, to prevent the blue light from screens from inhibiting melatonin secretion, delaying sleep onset, and reducing sleep quality. Parents can accompany children in reading paper books or listening to soothing music, creating a quiet and relaxed pre-sleep atmosphere to help children fall asleep quickly and peacefully.
Accept small back-to-school anxieties, gently rein in without pressure
Many parents find that as school approaches, children are prone to tantrums, feeling gloomy, and repeatedly muttering "I don't want to go to school." Zhang Shiyu reminded that tension and worry before the start of school are normal adaptive reactions—what people commonly call "back-to-school syndrome." Parents need not be overly nervous, and certainly should not deny or criticize their children's negative emotions. "Belittling or denying a child's anxiety will only make the child close off their heart and refuse to communicate. First accept the emotions, then guide gently—that is the correct way to rein in."
In parent-child communication, it is recommended to replace negative nagging with positive suggestion. Say less "Hurry up and get your mind back on school, no more playing," and say more "Soon you'll be able to meet your good friends and participate in classroom activities together," awakening children's expectations for campus life.
At the same time, parents can also work with their children to set light, easy-to-implement small goals for the new semester, encouraging children to independently organize their schoolbags, prepare stationery, and plan their daily schedules. The process of autonomous participation can alleviate the unease brought by environmental changes.
Zhang Shiyu reminded that if a child experiences severe insomnia, loss of appetite, avoidance of social interaction, resistance to attending school for more than two consecutive weeks, accompanied by unexplained abdominal pain, headaches, or other discomfort, it is recommended to promptly contact the school's psychological counselor or go to a professional psychological outpatient clinic for evaluation and intervention.
Adjust diet and nutrition well, cultivate a good state for the new semester
Scientific exercise and regular diet are guarantees for children's physical and mental state to return to normal. Prolonged sitting, little movement, and insufficient outdoor activity during the holiday can cause a significant decline in children's physical fitness. If they suddenly participate in high-intensity sports activities after school starts, they are very likely to experience fatigue, muscle soreness, and even sports injuries. Exercise should be moderate, gradually restoring physical fitness. Zhang Shiyu recommends following the principle of "from stillness to movement, step by step": in the early stage of adjustment, engage in 20–30 minutes of low-intensity exercise daily—brisk walking, stretching, or home gymnastics are all fine; after the body adapts, gradually transition to 60 minutes of moderate-to-high-intensity outdoor exercise daily. Being active outdoors in natural light in the morning can also help calibrate the biological clock and soothe anxious emotions.
Regular diet, say goodbye to snack dependence. Irregular meals, excessive snacks and sweets, and an abundance of sugary drinks are important triggers for children's listlessness, gastrointestinal discomfort, and declining concentration after school starts. It is recommended to adjust the diet one week before school begins, gradually reducing intake of snacks, desserts, and sugary drinks, and returning to the regular rhythm of three meals at fixed times and in fixed amounts. The daily diet should include coarse grains, fresh vegetables and fruits, and high-quality protein—light on the stomach, balanced in nutrition—improving problems such as holiday food stagnation, weakness, and fatigue, so that children can welcome campus collective life with a full and healthy body.
The back-to-school transition is not about urging children to quickly "switch modes," but about parent-child cooperation, providing buffer time, understanding, and companionship. Adjust schedules slowly, talk through emotions well, and let exercise and diet steadily return—proceeding step by step is the only way to reduce the pain of adaptation. Experts remind: physical and mental health is the most important starting point of the new semester. A little more patience, a little less urging—families and schools working together to protect every child as they healthily and calmly head toward the new semester.
(Zhong Yanyu participated in the reporting)
Beware of fraud, build a solid safety line
Staff Reporters Li Rui, Liu Mengdan
The start of the school season is a high-incidence period for lawless elements to commit fraud by exploiting parents' anxiety and information asymmetry. Recently, public security organs and education departments in various regions have jointly cracked down on multiple online chaos cases involving school admissions, sounding an alarm for students and parents. Based on recent cases, police remind that two types of scams currently require focused prevention: first, false propaganda of "paying money to choose a school," and second, impersonating school authorities to collect information.
Scam One: Fabricating "internal channels" to commit school-selection fraud
During their work, the Lanshan Branch of the Linyi City Public Security Bureau in Shandong Province discovered that netizens with WeChat nicknames "Qixu," "Taotao," and "Xiao Liu Tongxue" repeatedly posted on their personal Moments and in more than 10 WeChat groups false information about "focusing on school transfer and enrollment (anytime) and post-summer-vacation enrollment processing," claiming they could handle enrollment and transfer for more than 30 primary and secondary schools in Lanshan District and Hedong District, boasting of "100% guaranteed enrollment, safe and reliable throughout the entire process," inducing parents in the groups to add WeChat contacts for private consultation, disrupting normal education order.
After preliminary assessment, police quickly launched investigation and evidence collection, and apprehended the involved person Wang Moumou and others. Upon investigation, Wang Moumou exploited parents' anxiety about school selection and, without any actual ability to handle the matters, published false enrollment and transfer information, while the other three people forwarded it, forming an illegal chain of publishing and引流 (traffic diversion). In accordance with the relevant provisions of the Public Security Administration Punishments Law, the four individuals were given administrative penalties for disrupting the enrollment and admissions order.
The case-handling police officer of the Lanshan Branch of the Linyi City Public Security Bureau explained that this type of fraud involving admissions and enrollment is not complicated: lawless elements specifically target parents' eager mentality of hoping their children will succeed, fabricating lies about "having internal connections," "having remaining quotas," and "paying money to choose a school," and spreading them through social groups, Moments, and short-video platforms. Many parents transfer money with a "give it a try" mentality, and in the end, not only is the money lost, but it may also delay the child's normal enrollment—得不偿失 (dé bù cháng shī - "the gain does not compensate for the loss," the loss outweighs the gain).
Scam Two: Using a university's name to form "freshman groups" to gain trust
In early August, Heilongjiang Institute of Business and Technology received a report from freshman parent Ms. Wang that a person claiming to be a "school teacher" contacted her, asking her to provide personal information such as her name, ID card number, and contact information under the pretext of assisting with campus card processing and registering freshman service information. Ms. Wang did not provide her personal information at the time, but instead called the school's official phone number provided on her child's admission notice to consult. After communicating, she learned that the person was not a school staff member, and the relevant phone number and service content had not been authorized by the school.
"With the arrival of the freshman enrollment season, some organizations and individuals exploit the high level of attention from examinees and parents, steal school names, school emblems, and other identifiers to register unofficial accounts and form freshman exchange groups, gaining trust through methods such as 'senior student Q&A' and 'freshman services,' and then ask for ID card numbers and bank card information under the pretext of assisting with campus card processing, service information registration, and promoting bedding products, and even guide people to transfer money. This kind of online activity conducted under the false name of universities has become a key issue of concern in our summer admissions service phase," said Zhang Yuna, Director of the Student Affairs Office at Heilongjiang Institute of Business and Technology.
Official channels are the most reliable; verify through multiple sources and do not trust easily
In response to the above risks, public security and education departments remind that attention should be paid to the following aspects:
First, recognize official channels. The Linyi City Education Bureau reminded that the entire school admissions process strictly implements education department policies, with open standards and transparent procedures, and has never entrusted any individual or third-party organization to handle enrollment or transfers, nor are there so-called "internal quotas" or "special indicators." Legitimate colleges and universities will not request important private information through unfamiliar social groups. The Linyi City Public Security Bureau also issued a reminder that if parents need to consult admissions policies or handle enrollment procedures, they should call the official consultation phone number published by the education department, or go directly to the school to learn on-site—this is the most reliable way to obtain admissions information.
Second, remain vigilant and verify in a timely manner. Liang Zequn, a police officer of the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Heilongjiang Provincial Public Security Department, stated that any request on non-official channels for ID card numbers, bank card information, or guidance to transfer money should be met with a high degree of vigilance. All freshmen and parents of freshmen must, when obtaining enrollment-related information, be sure to recognize the school's official website, official public account, and the contact phone number stated on the admission notice, be cautious about joining freshman exchange groups of unknown origin, not easily trust various service information posted by strangers in the groups, and when encountering suspicious people or suspicious information, prioritize calling the school's official phone number to verify identity.
Third, preserve evidence and report to the police immediately. The Linyi City Public Security Bureau reminded that if one unfortunately falls victim to fraud, or discovers leads about fabricated and disseminated false admissions information, one should completely preserve chat records, transfer vouchers, audio and video recordings, and other evidence, and immediately report to the public security organ.
The Linyi City public security organs stated that they will continue to advance the "Clean Network" operation and the centralized rectification of online education-related chaos, maintaining "zero tolerance" for illegal acts of fabricating and disseminating false admissions information and disrupting public order, cracking down severely in accordance with the law, effectively maintaining normal education and admissions order, and safeguarding the safety of the people's property.
By: 唐天奕
Many matters that were not clearly explained at the outset and that people had not given much thought to are precisely through sustained attention and discussion that gaps in detail are filled, more rigorous rules and social consensus are formed, and more referenceable solutions are provided for those who come later.
In recent days, topics related to "two people buying three seats" have repeatedly surged to the top of online hot searches.
The cause was that on a train from Shanghai to Chengdu West, two children "possessed" three hard seats, using the vacant seat to place snacks, and refused to let a standing passenger take a seat.
In response, the 12306 customer service replied, "The right to use the seat belongs to the ticket purchaser; whether to yield the seat is decided by that person." Subsequently, China Railway Chengdu Group (国铁成都局) clarified, "If a passenger does not check in and board the train after purchasing a ticket, it is deemed that the passenger does not exercise their right to use the seat during that period" and "third parties also cannot occupy or dispose of that seat."
With responses from various parties, the discussion gradually opened up more dimensions. At first, the disagreement centered on "whether spending money allows one to occupy a seat," after all, railway transport capacity is a public resource, and during peak periods such as summer travel and Spring Festival travel, seats are in short supply. After the railway department responded, people came to understand the boundaries of seat usage rights. The children's mother subsequently explained that she had bought three tickets, and because she could not get leave approved, she settled the children in and got off the train. This allowed people to see the helplessness of "little migratory birds" (小候鸟) crossing thousands of miles to return home on their own.
Different perspectives broaden people's understanding, prompting everyone to think about how to find a better solution amid "each side insisting on its own version of the story" (公说公有理，婆说婆有理 - gōng shuō gōng yǒu lǐ, pó shuō pó yǒu lǐ - "the husband says the husband is right, the wife says the wife is right," each side claims to be in the right): if the rules were clear and known to the public in advance, if the railway department launched ride services for minors traveling alone, then passengers facing similar situations would have more reasonable and sensible solutions available. This is also the value of public discussion—not merely to determine right and wrong, but to put the diverse needs of different circumstances on the table, allowing people to see each other, listen to each other, and find the greatest common divisor.
Many highly controversial incidents are sorted out and resolved through this path. Also related to railways—whether pets can be brought on trains—pet owners and opponents once each held their own positions. In 2025, the railway department launched a pet consignment pilot program on the basis of extensive research and solicitation of opinions. Today, this service has gradually been upgraded to the "Love Pet Travel" (爱宠行) service covering 364 high-speed train services. The intense discussions of that time became the starting point for refined services.
There are many similar matters. For installing elevators in old residential communities, how should the demands of residents on different floors be coordinated? For food delivery platform algorithms, how should delivery efficiency and rider rights and interests be balanced? These questions all arise from the collision of the genuine demands of different groups. Many matters that were not clearly explained at the outset and that people had not given much thought to are precisely through sustained attention and discussion that gaps in detail are filled, more rigorous rules and social consensus are formed, and more referenceable solutions are provided for those who come later.
Truth becomes clearer through debate; the purpose of public discussion is not to win, but to seek truth. The prerequisite for reaching consensus is rational discussion, not gratuitous quarreling or even wanton abuse. If discussion slides into emotionally charged confrontation, finding solutions becomes impossible. On the basis of mutual respect and equal dialogue, rational discussion can truly advance social progress.
Return to TopOur newspaper, Beijing, August 25 (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) — To protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers and curb illegal and non-compliant acts involving cheating scales, recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) convened an administrative guidance meeting for electronic pricing scale manufacturers and distributors, unifying industry regulatory requirements and compliance standards, and consolidating the primary responsibility of business operators.
The measurement accuracy of electronic pricing scales directly concerns the people's "vegetable basket" and "money bag." At present, cheating methods are iterating and upgrading, evolving from traditional mechanical modification to new methods such as chip implantation, program burning, and remote control, with illegal activities covering the entire chain of production, sales, maintenance, and use.
Market regulation departments require production enterprises to align with the new verification regulations and integrate anti-cheating controls into the entire product production process; strictly control core components such as sensors and main control chips, fully equip products with tamper-proof, locking, and identity recognition protection functions, and strictly prohibit reserving channels for cheating modification; increase technological research and development efforts, improve product performance, and resist 偷工减料 (tōu gōng jiǎn liào - "steal work, reduce materials," cutting corners and using inferior materials) and low-price vicious competition. Sales and maintenance entities should implement incoming goods inspection, purchase and sales ledger, and real-name registration systems, verify product qualifications and seal information, eliminate the purchase and sale of modified cheating scales, and must not carry out illegal modifications under the guise of maintenance. Online merchants are prohibited from using coded language to attract customers, private transactions, and other methods to evade regulation; upon discovering leads of violations, they must retain evidence and report it upward.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 范昊天
At lunchtime, at the "Haoweidao" (好味到) canteen in Qingyiju Community (青宜居社区), Gongrencun Subdistrict (工人村街道), Qingshan District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, dishes at various price points are diverse in variety and fragrant in aroma.
"I come several times a week. The variety is rich and the prices are affordable, and elderly people get an additional two-yuan discount on lunch and dinner." Zhou Wenjun (周文俊), a 90-year-old resident living in the nearby Qingheju Community (青和居社区), said with a smile that the canteen also provides door-to-door meal delivery services for elderly people with limited mobility.
The reporter learned that the "Haoweidao" canteen adopts the approach of "subdistrict leadership, catering enterprise participation, community co-construction," leveraging catering enterprises' advantages in professional procurement, dish development, and back-of-house management to solidify the elderly meal table service. The Qinghuiju Community (青惠居社区) Happiness Canteen, less than one kilometer away, relies on a property management company to promote the renovation and upgrading of idle spaces in the residential area, using market-based revenue to subsidize public welfare services for the elderly.
On August 25, at the "Elderly Care Assistance" (颐养助老) elderly meal assistance service press conference held in Wuhan, Sun Wencan (孙文灿), Deputy Director of the Department of Elderly Care Services of the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部养老服务司), introduced that various localities have incorporated elderly meal assistance into the overall planning of the "15-minute convenient living circle" (一刻钟便民生活圈). As of now, the number of elderly meal assistance points nationwide has reached 82,000, providing meal assistance services to more than 4 million elderly person-times per day, forming a meal assistance service network that covers urban and rural areas with a reasonable layout.
"We encourage all localities to explore meal assistance service mechanisms with distinctive features, forming multiple models such as 'elderly care service institution + meal assistance,' 'social catering enterprise + meal assistance,' and 'central kitchen + meal distribution.'" Sun Wencan said that some regions have actively coordinated with leading platform enterprises to explore new models of market-based meal assistance services, and a diversified supply pattern for elderly meal assistance services has initially taken shape.
In 2024 and 2025, central fiscal funds have invested a total of 600 million yuan to support various localities in developing elderly meal assistance services. At the same time, localities have been guided to implement preferential policies such as tax and fee reductions and the application of residential prices for water, electricity, gas, and heating, reducing operational pressure. Various localities have also actively promoted smart services such as "online ordering + community delivery" and "frictionless payment," and implemented "Internet + bright kitchen, clear stove" (明厨亮灶) to safeguard the "safety on the tip of the tongue" of elderly people.
Tianjin's 1,852 elderly canteens have achieved 100% market-based operation, attracting state-owned and private enterprises to participate through "exchanging venues for services"; in Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, in view of the actual situation of many left-behind elderly people in rural areas, idle school buildings have been revitalized to build rural elderly meal assistance points... Sun Wencan stated that in the next step, in urban areas, the focus will be on relying on the "15-minute convenient living circle" to encourage chain and brand operation; in rural areas, the focus will be on relying on village-level mutual aid points and happiness homes to explore low-cost models such as neighborhood mutual aid and multi-household joint dining.
Return to TopOn August 24, traffic police from the Jindong Brigade of the Traffic Management Detachment of the Jinhua Municipal Public Security Bureau in Zhejiang Province inspected school buses.
As the school season arrives, to ensure students travel safely, the brigade inspected facilities including school bus escape devices and fire extinguishers at the Duohu Station of the Jiangnan Company operated by the Jinhua Public Transport Group, checking for hidden dangers.
Photo by Chen Ye (Image China)
Nanning, August 25 (Reporter Pang Geping) — The Nanning Municipal Postal Administration, the Nanning Municipal Federation of Trade Unions, and the Nanning Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau have recently jointly issued the Nanning Municipal Express Delivery Industry Labor Employment Management Guidelines (Trial), with the Model Text of Labor Contract for Express Delivery Practitioners concurrently released as a supporting document. These guidelines constitute the first special guidelines for labor employment in the express delivery industry in Guangxi, providing institutionalized and standardized support for compliant employment by express delivery enterprises throughout Nanning and for the protection of practitioners' rights and interests, ensuring that express delivery practitioners have "guaranteed rights and interests, someone to hear their appeals, and channels for rights protection."
In response to the lack of industry-specific employment norms and the absence of unified standards for employment management in the express delivery industry, these guidelines, taking into account the characteristics of flexible employment models and high personnel turnover in the express delivery industry, systematically regulate the industry's employment order across six aspects: employment management, labor remuneration, rest and leave, insurance and welfare, labor protection, and rights maintenance. In regulating onboarding management, enterprises are required to sign written labor contracts in accordance with the law, clarify salary assessment and deduction standards, and ensure that onboarding is accompanied by contracts, performance of duties is governed by standards, and deductions are based on clear grounds.
Return to TopFrom the source of innovation to the crest of industry, how far must one travel? HICOOL has used seven years to carve out an increasingly smooth path in Beijing.
On August 26, the HICOOL 2026 Global Entrepreneur Summit opened at the China International Exhibition Center (Shunyi Hall) (中国国际展览中心（顺义馆）), marking HICOOL's seventh summit. Over the past seven years, HICOOL, as a global innovation and entrepreneurship service platform built by Beijing, has adhered to the deep integration of "competition, exhibition, and conference," striving to build the first-choice destination for global entrepreneurs. This year, 10,209 entrepreneurial projects and 13,472 entrepreneurs from 141 countries and regions crossed mountains and seas to come, with registration scale reaching a new high.
Over the past seven years, HICOOL has consistently been solving the same proposition: how to make every link in the innovation chain fit more tightly and turn faster? Now, the answer for the seventh year is being submitted: seamlessly connecting the "last kilometer" of innovation transformation with the "first kilometer" of industrial application, allowing more "innovation seeds" to 破土而出 (pò tǔ ér chū - "break through the soil and emerge," to come into being) here and grow into towering trees.
Competition: Building a "One Main Competition, Three Side Competitions" for Youth Entrepreneurship
Enabling everyone with ideas to set off
This year, in addition to the traditional main competition, HICOOL upgraded the Youth Entrepreneurship Dream Competition, newly established the OPC Special Competition and the Large Enterprise Challenge, constructing a new pattern of "one main competition and three side competitions."
Regarding the "one main": from "attracting large teams" to "empowering everyone with ideas," main competition registrations have seen positive growth for seven consecutive years, with this year's overseas projects accounting for 56% and foreign participants exceeding 30%.
Regarding the "three side competitions": the Youth Entrepreneurship Dream Competition targets students at more than 300 universities worldwide and young entrepreneurs within two years of graduation, providing a stage for their entrepreneurial "debut"; the OPC Special Competition targets new-type entrepreneurs who use AI as a core tool and can drive a company with one person, equipped with computing power subsidies and free workstations; the Large Enterprise Challenge has leading enterprises open real scenarios, soliciting needs from small and medium-sized teams globally.
Over the past seven years, HICOOL has cultivated numerous science and technology innovation entities: 5 have landed on the capital market, 18 have grown into unicorn enterprises, 26 have entered the ranks of quasi-unicorn enterprises, 219 have been recognized as specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative (专精特新) enterprises, with total post-competition financing reaching 71.9 billion yuan.
Entrepreneurs from around the world have found at HICOOL the same "shortest path" from laboratory to production line. From basic research to applied development, and then to landing and transformation, batch after batch of award-winning projects have completed their "butterfly transformation" here.
Exhibition: Building a "Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecology Capital"
Opening up the "last kilometer" of innovation achievement transformation and application
At the China International Exhibition Center (Shunyi Hall), five exhibition areas are connected end to end, from the growth trajectory of past award-winning projects, to the source achievements of world-class universities, to the actual landing of industrial clusters, the cross-border connection of international resources, and the capital empowerment of venture capital institutions, forming a panoramic reproduction of the entire process of innovation and entrepreneurship.
The HICOOL Serving Beijing High-Quality Development Achievements Exhibition Area focuses on displaying the "growth report card" of the HICOOL Global Entrepreneurship Competition. From competition arena to industry, past award-winning projects have 落地生根 (luò dì shēng gēn - "land and take root," to establish oneself firmly in a new place) in Beijing, nurturing 7 unicorn enterprises, with remarkable achievements in listing and investment.
The International Cooperation Exhibition Area brings together 142 overseas institutions and projects from more than 30 countries and regions. Here are both Founders Lair, participating for the fifth consecutive year, and the Steinbeis Transfer Center, a technology transfer institution dating back to 1868; both the Nanyang Technological University AI Robotics Laboratory, bringing wheeled quadruped robots and bipedal humanoid robots, and Rwanda's Kapsule healthcare data platform, connecting more than 80,000 medical institutions across 24 African countries.
The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Exhibition Area concretely presents the "future scene" of technology reshaping thousands of industries. In the artificial intelligence field, frontier achievements such as large models and embodied intelligence are showcased collectively; in the medicine and health field, 35 institutions bring innovative technologies such as medical robots and AI-assisted diagnosis and treatment. The characteristic industry zone covers agricultural technology, low-altitude safety, and other fields, collectively displaying seed industry scientific research achievements, aerospace technology equipment, and other results; the advanced manufacturing zone focuses on automobiles, semiconductors, and other fields, decoding the leapfrog path of "Beijing Intelligent Manufacturing"; the future industry zone targets benchmark achievements in new-type energy storage, brain-computer interfaces, synthetic biology, and hydrogen energy, outlining the complete chain from original innovation to demonstration landing.
The World-Class Universities Exhibition Area brings together 19 world-class universities and innovation institutions with more than 70 participating projects. MIT's voice state intelligent system, UC Berkeley's 6DoF tracking system, Harvard University's AI digital content industry-education integration platform... achievements from world-renowned laboratories are completing their first step out of the laboratory at HICOOL.
The Venture Capital Institutions Exhibition Area gathers well-known institutions such as Plum Ventures (梅花创投), Inno Fund (英诺基金), and ZhenFund (真格基金). Award-winning projects take turns roadshowing, with legal and intellectual property services empowering simultaneously. Finding financing, viewing projects, linking resources — unlock new entrepreneurial possibilities from capital injection to professional escort in one stop.
At HICOOL, innovation is no longer an abstract concept but a clear picture: "innovation seeds" in the laboratory sprout in the industrial soil and grow under the watering of venture capital. The five exhibition areas are not only a concentrated review of HICOOL's achievements but also a visible "path of advancement" that Beijing has paved for global entrepreneurs.
Global innovation resources are attracted by the summit, but what truly makes entrepreneurs stay is a city's systemic capability. Taking Shunyi District (顺义区) as an example, as the permanent home of HICOOL, Shunyi District does not simply "undertake projects" but rather "continuously builds infrastructure," using seven years to construct a complete channel for projects from "landing" to "taking root." From startup teams to new industry leaders, HICOOL award-winning projects find here not only development space but also an innovation ecosystem where ideas can be quickly validated and products can quickly iterate.
Conference: Building a "Global Entrepreneur Carnival"
Let global innovation forces converge here
The HICOOL 2026 Global Entrepreneur Summit lasts four days. The opening ceremony, main stage, and sub-stages weave into a dense network of innovation and entrepreneurship — everyone who walks in can find their own place.
The opening ceremony will be held on the evening of August 26 and will feature four major ceremonies. The 2026 Global Entrepreneur Insight Report will be released, bringing five global entrepreneurship trends and four points of enlightenment; the Global Entrepreneurship Service Alliance will be established, and the Global OPC Support Plan released, linking Beijing with the global innovation ecosystem, covering more than 200 global entrepreneurship service institutions, promoting factor integration, scenario opening, and technology trading; through five major actions including establishing an OPC recruitment network and holding the OPC Special Competition, achieving "one person starting a business, no longer alone." Preparations will begin for the "Panoramic Digital Life International Grand Science Plan," initiated jointly by academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and leaders from world-renowned research institutions. The Robot Autonomous Evolution Academy will be pre-released, starting from tactile sensing, allowing robots to move from "passive imitation" to "autonomous evolution" in real interactions. The "Five Outstanding Entrepreneurial Projects Peak Roadshow" will take the stage next, holding the HICOOL 2026 Global Entrepreneurship Competition award ceremony, with 200 award seats and a total prize pool exceeding 100 million yuan, sending a strong signal to the world of Beijing's vigorous support for hard-tech entrepreneurship.
The main stage features intellectual collision, with five special sessions progressing layer by layer: the "Innovation Source" forum asks "where does technology come from" — university scholars and investors share the stage to discuss how laboratory achievements take their first step; the "Technology Inflection Point" forum deconstructs the hurdle between "feasible" and "usable"; the "AI Landing" forum no longer discusses "what AI can do" but directly faces "whether AI makes money and whether it's worth investing in"; the "Going Global Breakthrough" forum turns its vision to the world, exploring how Chinese innovation can go global. At the closing ceremony, a Turing Award laureate will also engage in a final dialogue on "future vision" with guests from the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (智源研究院) and Tsinghua University.
The sub-stages will reach every specific need more finely and densely. The eight sub-stages each have their own focus while working in coordination: the venture capital matchmaking stage directly faces capital, building a precise roadshow bridge for competition award-winning projects; the university innovation stage brings together hard-tech projects from domestic and overseas universities including the University of Hong Kong, Peking University, and MIT, shortening the distance from laboratory to production line; the overseas innovation stage connects with the industrial needs of Central Asian countries and BRICS countries, both introducing high-quality overseas projects and escorting enterprises going global; the international talent recruitment fair links platforms such as Zhaopin (智联招聘), opening direct-hiring booths for enterprises to solve team-building challenges; the HICOOL reception room focuses on vertical fields such as Beijing medical transformation, space planting, and youth science and innovation, promoting talent policies and providing face-to-face deep docking between government and enterprises; the AI industry empowerment special session focuses on macro trends and frontier research, gaining insight into how AI reshapes industrial value; the AI practical combat special session directly faces large enterprises' real technology needs and embodied intelligence scenarios, allowing technology to be tested in real scenarios; the "hackathon" sparks creative ideas in extreme programming, quickly "running" ideas into product prototypes.
In addition, this year's summit launched the HICOOL YOUNG section for the first time, opening an exclusive innovation space for youth. The "Youth Hackathon" allows children to collaborate with AI to complete the entire process from idea to product. From discovering today's entrepreneurs to cultivating tomorrow's innovators, HICOOL is pushing the innovation chain to extend forward.
From competition talent selection to butler services, from university acceleration to fund empowerment, from industrial park landing to digital platform docking, HICOOL has developed from a competition into a complete ecosystem, stringing together the complete chain from innovation source to industry crest.
From August 26 to 29, HICOOL invites you to gather in Beijing.
Data source: HICOOL Global Entrepreneur Summit and Entrepreneurship Competition Organizing Committee
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 浩 蒋雪鸿
At around 18:40 on August 25, Typhoon "Zitan" made landfall on the coast of Changjiang Li Autonomous County (昌江黎族自治县), Hainan Province, with maximum wind force near its center of level 8 at the time of landfall.
Recently, typhoons have been frequently generated and remained persistently active in the Western Pacific and South China Sea, with even a brief appearance of "four typhoons dancing together." When a typhoon comes, how should one respond?
This year, 21 typhoons have already been generated in the Western Pacific and South China Sea, with a brief appearance of "four typhoons dancing together."
"Meteorological data statistics show that this year, 21 typhoons have been generated in the Western Pacific and South China Sea, 8.6 more than the historical average for the same period," said Zhao Wei (赵伟), director of the Typhoon and Ocean Meteorological Forecast Center of the Central Meteorological Observatory (中央气象台).
In the past week, 4 typhoons were generated: on the 19th, this year's 18th typhoon "Sadel" was generated; on the 21st, this year's 19th typhoon "Zitan" was generated; on the 22nd, this year's 20th typhoon "Janlavi" was generated; on the 24th, this year's 21st typhoon "Aisani" was generated, and the Western Pacific and South China Sea briefly saw "four typhoons dancing together." At 18:00 on the 25th, the Central Meteorological Observatory continued to issue an orange typhoon warning and a yellow rainstorm warning.
Zhao Wei introduced that at present, "Janlavi" and "Aisani" have been removed from tracking on the 24th and 25th respectively, while "Sadel" and "Zitan" remain persistently active.
At 17:00 on the 25th, the center of "Sadel" was located on the Western Pacific Ocean surface about 920 kilometers due east of the border between Zhejiang and Fujian, with maximum wind force near its center of level 14. The Central Meteorological Observatory predicts that "Sadel" will make landfall on the coast from Xiangshan (象山), Zhejiang to Fuqing (福清), Fujian between the night of the 27th and the morning of the 28th.
"After landfall, 'Zitan' will rapidly weaken," Zhao Wei introduced. In the next 3 days, affected by "Zitan" and "Sadel," parts of southern and western Jiangnan, South China, Guizhou and other areas will see heavy to torrential rain, with localized heavy rainstorms or exceptionally heavy rainstorms.
It is expected that before the end of August, 1 to 2 more typhoons will be generated in the Western Pacific and South China Sea.
Before and after typhoon landfall, the key points of prevention differ at each stage.
Xu Weihong (徐卫红), senior engineer at the Disaster Reduction Center (Defense Center) of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部减灾中心), introduced that the direct disasters brought by typhoons mainly include violent winds, heavy rain, storm surges, etc., and the key points of prevention differ at each stage before and after landfall:
Before typhoon landfall, the main risks are violent winds and the large waves they cause at sea. During this stage, ships sailing at sea, fishing vessels at work, etc., should return to port for shelter at the first opportunity. Storm surges caused by strong typhoons can raise coastal water levels by 5 to 6 meters, and in severe cases may cause seawater to overflow, submerge farmland, destroy houses and infrastructure, etc. In response to the impact of storm surges on coastal dikes, windproof reinforcement should be carried out at this stage, and personnel in coastal dangerous areas should be organized to evacuate in an orderly manner.
After typhoon landfall, although the wind force weakens, rainfall continues, and affected by earlier rainfall, soil moisture tends toward saturation, and the stability of mountain rock and soil decreases. At this stage, one should guard against floods in small and medium rivers, mountain torrent geological disasters, urban waterlogging, and landslides, mudslides, etc.
"Many people think that after a typhoon passes and is removed from tracking, there is no more risk. This is a common cognitive misunderstanding," said Yang Jiguo (杨继国), deputy chief of the National Early Warning Information Release Center (国家预警信息发布中心). The removal of a typhoon from tracking does not mean the risk is lifted. The residual circulation after a typhoon weakens can still bring heavy rainfall. Mountain torrents, landslides, waterlogging and other secondary disasters have a lag effect, and the risk will not "exit the stage" together with the typhoon.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵景锋 李祉瑶
A cross-stitch, with green leaves and peace doves surrounding the Earth, embroidered above with "One Earth, One Dream," carefully framed; two pairs of handmade shoe insoles, one embroidered with 念念不忘 (niàn niàn bù wàng - "never forget, never forget," to bear in mind forever), the other with "Desert" and "Friendship," with vivid rose patterns full of life.
On the morning of August 25, when American friend "Sekos" (real name Ronald Sakolsky) was leaving the Mu Us Sandy Land, desertification control model Yin Yuzhen (殷玉珍) presented him with gifts made by her own hands. Sakolsky solemnly received the gifts, his gaze finally resting on the two pairs of shoe insoles.
Twenty-six years ago, at the same place, Sakolsky had also received two pairs of shoe insoles sewn by Yin Yuzhen; twenty-six years later, the two pairs of shoe insoles of the same size had a few more characters than before. These characters were carefully designed by Yin Yuzhen, expressing her longing over the years and the shared belief in world peace and beauty. Sakolsky carefully asked the interpreter beside him, then marked the corresponding English on the insoles one by one.
At noon 12 o'clock, the moment of farewell arrived.
"I don't like saying goodbye." When getting into the car, Sakolsky waved goodbye to everyone, tears falling once again. Yin Yuzhen handed him tissues and gently comforted him.
During this trip to China, Sakolsky witnessed too many surprises, most of them from Yin Yuzhen's home and nearby woodlands.
At noon on August 24, after nearly 4 hours on the road, Sakolsky arrived by car at Yin Yuzhen's home in the Mu Us Sandy Land, Uxin Banner (乌审旗), Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. In the clean and bright courtyard, plants grew vigorously, with flowers, melons and fruits dotted among them, a scene full of 生机盎然 (shēng jī àng rán - "vitality overflowing," full of life and vigor). He 迫不及待 (pò bù jí dài - "too urgent to wait," unable to contain one's eagerness) recorded the scene before him with his camera, repeatedly confirming whether this was the same place he had been to before. In his memory, Yin Yuzhen's home was a dugout half-buried in the sand, with only vast yellow sand all around. "Amazing!" Sakolsky exclaimed repeatedly.
As soon as Sakolsky got out of the car, Yin Yuzhen's eldest grandson Bai Yunhe (白芸赫) stepped forward quickly and placed a beautiful flower garland on him. The garland was woven by Yin Yuzhen's own hands, with round sand onion flowers, golden sunflowers... Most of the garland's materials grew from this sandy land.
Walking into Yin Yuzhen's small courtyard, on the long table, corn, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and other specialty agricultural products were piled up full. Yin Yuzhen picked up a large, plump ginseng fruit and handed it to Sakolsky: "This is what I grew from the 'sand,' try it and see if it's sweet!" Although the languages were mutually unintelligible, seeing the happy expression on Yin Yuzhen's face, Sakolsky gave a thumbs up: "Treat the earth well, and the earth will reward you."
Moving inside the house, Yin Yuzhen and Sakolsky sat down to chat. The two looked through yellowed old photos together, and scenes of the past emerged before their eyes. Sakolsky recalled with a smile: "When I first came here, the road was almost all sand. After stopping the car, Yin Yuzhen walked out of a 'cave' half-buried in the sand, which startled me!"
Sakolsky spread open Yin Yuzhen's hand, revealing her rough palm: "This is a pair of beautiful hands — I have seen other people plant trees with machines, but Yin Yuzhen achieved it with these hands. I said 'impossible' many times, but she proved me wrong with practical action." Hearing the Chinese translation, Yin Yuzhen beside him laughed and laughed, tears welling up and streaming down.
On the afternoon of the 24th, Yin Yuzhen and Sakolsky returned by car to a woodland near Yin Yuzhen's home.
In 1999, Sakolsky, who was teaching in Luoyang, Henan, learned about the desertification control story of Yin Yuzhen and her husband, and raised $5,000 through a foundation to support tree planting in the sandy land. In this 郁郁葱葱 (yù yù cōng cōng - "lush and verdant," thick and green with vegetation) woodland, most of the saplings came from that donation, and Yin Yuzhen named the woodland "Sekos Forest."
"Twenty-six years ago, I stood at this spot and saw only sand; unexpectedly, Yin Yuzhen and her family actually created an oasis — they accomplished an 'impossible' thing." Gazing at the sea of trees, Sakolsky was 感慨万千 (gǎn kǎi wàn qiān - "ten thousand emotions surge," filled with a myriad of emotions).
In the woodland, a thick, tall poplar tree attracted attention. "This is the tree I planted together with 'Sekos' 26 years ago," Yin Yuzhen said.
The sapling that was as thick as a finger back then has grown into a tree over 10 meters tall. "I won't stay here forever, but these trees will always be here," Sakolsky said with emotion.
Bending down, supporting the sapling, covering it with soil, jointly pouring a bucket of water, a green Mongolian pine sapling took firm root here.
In "Sekos Forest," the two jointly planted a Mongolian pine symbolizing "everlasting friendship." This Mongolian pine sapling came from Yin Yuzhen's own seedling nursery. Over more than 40 years, over 70,000 mu of sandy land around Yin Yuzhen's home has been treated, with over 8 million trees planted.
Before leaving "Sekos Forest," Sakolsky bent down and scooped up a bottle of sand and soil, preparing to take it home for collection. "In another 20-plus years, I will be over 90 years old, and I'm afraid I won't have the chance to come back and see it again." Speaking of this, Sakolsky choked up a bit.
"Our next meeting won't be 20-plus years later; I will also go to see you," Yin Yuzhen said.
The next "green appointment" has already been made. The green story on the Mu Us Sandy Land, and this cross-border folk friendship, to be continued...
Return to Top围绕浙江省高质量发展建设共同富裕示范区要求，立足五千年良渚文化深厚底蕴，杭州市余杭区以科技赋能农业生产，以机制改革盘活乡村资源，以人才集聚激活多元业态，持续推进乡村全面振兴。余杭区连续4年夺得浙江省乡村振兴领域最高荣誉“神农鼎”，交出一份优异的“三农”答卷。
In response to the requirements of Zhejiang Province's high-quality development and construction of a demonstration zone for common prosperity, and grounded in the profound heritage of 5,000 years of Liangzhu culture, Hangzhou's Yuhang District empowers agricultural production with technology, revitalizes rural resources through institutional reform, and activates diverse business forms by gathering talent, continuously advancing the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. Yuhang District has won the "Shennong Tripod" (神农鼎), the highest honor in Zhejiang Province's rural revitalization field, for four consecutive years, delivering an outstanding "three rural" (agriculture, rural areas, and farmers) answer sheet.
智慧守好“一方田”
Safeguarding "Every Field" with Smart Technology
余杭区大力发展智慧农业，建设AI赋能的“智慧农场”，实现粮食“耕种管收”全流程智慧化作业。瓶窑镇引入全自动水稻精准播种成套设备，供盘机与自动上料系统协同作业。瓶窑镇联合浙江大学团队为农田建立“卫星档案”，赋予田块专属识别编码，农户可通过移动端随时查阅地块信息，便捷开展田间管护。
Yuhang District vigorously develops smart agriculture, building AI-empowered "smart farms" to achieve intelligent operations throughout the entire process of grain "plowing, planting, managing, and harvesting." Pingyao Town has introduced complete sets of fully automatic precision rice seeding equipment, with tray supply machines and automatic feeding systems working in coordination. Pingyao Town, in collaboration with a Zhejiang University team, has established "satellite archives" for farmland, assigning exclusive identification codes to field plots. Farmers can consult plot information at any time via mobile terminals, conveniently carrying out field management and protection.
遍布全区的农事服务中心，为农户提供育秧、机插、飞防、收割等“一条龙”服务，有效降低农业生产受自然条件制约的影响。目前，余杭区已建成省级农事服务中心3个、区域性中心7个、基层站点10个，织就了一张覆盖全域的现代农业服务网络。同步推进高标准农田改造提升，夯实粮食稳产保供基础。
Agricultural service centers spread throughout the district provide farmers with "one-stop" services including seedling cultivation, mechanical transplanting, aerial pest control, and harvesting, effectively reducing the impact of natural conditions on agricultural production. At present, Yuhang District has built 3 provincial-level agricultural service centers, 7 regional centers, and 10 grassroots stations, weaving a modern agricultural service network covering the entire area. In parallel, the district is advancing the renovation and upgrading of high-standard farmland, consolidating the foundation for stable grain production and supply.
余杭区持续健全联农带农利益联结机制，解决农户销售后顾之忧。今年上半年，建设共富新农园项目22个，联农带农工作走深走实。深化“共富好铺—共富工坊—共富基地—农户”联结链条，“共富好铺”让优质农产品直达社区和商圈，有效带动农产品销售和农户增收。今年上半年，余杭区农村居民人均可支配收入同比增长6.5%，实现“种得好”更“卖得俏”。
Yuhang District continuously improves the benefit-linking mechanism that connects and drives farmers, resolving farmers' worries about sales. In the first half of this year, 22 common prosperity new agricultural park projects were built, and the work of linking and driving farmers has been deepened and solidified. The district has deepened the linkage chain of "common prosperity good shops—common prosperity workshops—common prosperity bases—farmers," with "common prosperity good shops" bringing quality agricultural products directly to communities and commercial districts, effectively driving agricultural product sales and increasing farmers' incomes. In the first half of this year, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in Yuhang District grew by 6.5% year-on-year, achieving the goal of not only "growing well" but also "selling well."
描绘共富“好风景”
Painting a "Beautiful Landscape" of Common Prosperity
余杭区将生态与文化资源转化为产业动能，构建田野上的“共富链”，推动乡村人居条件与产业产值同步提升。
Yuhang District transforms ecological and cultural resources into industrial momentum, building a "common prosperity chain" in the fields and promoting the simultaneous improvement of rural living conditions and industrial output value.
余杭区多地立足自身资源禀赋，探索差异化的乡村产业发展路径。百丈镇溪口村打造“村博”文化IP，依托15家乡村博物馆集群推动“村博+非遗+旅游+研学”融合，2025年，乡村博物馆集群营收超6000万元。径山镇径山村深耕茶产业全链条，2026年，径山茶区域公用品牌价值达44.79亿元。黄湖镇青山村通过全国首个水基金信托“善水基金”修复生态，吸引130余名全球设计师、艺术家前来共建“未来乡村”。
Many areas in Yuhang District, based on their own resource endowments, explore differentiated paths for rural industrial development. Xikou Village in Baizhang Town has created the "village museum" (村博) cultural IP, relying on a cluster of 15 rural museums to promote the integration of "village museums + intangible cultural heritage + tourism + study tours." In 2025, the revenue of the rural museum cluster exceeded 60 million yuan. Jingshan Village in Jingshan Town deeply cultivates the entire tea industry chain; in 2026, the regional public brand value of Jingshan tea reached 4.479 billion yuan. Qingshan Village in Huanghu Town restored its ecology through the "Shanshui Fund" (善水基金), the nation's first water fund trust, attracting more than 130 global designers and artists to jointly build a "future village."
为打破边界、让乡村联动发展，余杭区推出片区组团发展模式，以21个重点村带动48个周边村联动发展，成立74家强村公司，统一运营闲置资源、打造区域公共品牌。“国际艺术村落”“古城共富”“运动良渚”等特色片区应运而生，放大乡村产业集群综合效益。
To break down boundaries and enable interconnected rural development, Yuhang District has launched a cluster-based development model, with 21 key villages driving the linked development of 48 surrounding villages. The district has established 74 village-strengthening companies to uniformly operate idle resources and build regional public brands. Characteristic clusters such as "International Art Village," "Ancient City Common Prosperity," and "Sports Liangzhu" have emerged as the times require, amplifying the comprehensive benefits of rural industrial clusters.
引得人才“活水来”
Drawing in Talent as "Living Water"
推进乡村全面振兴，关键在人。2019年，余杭区探索实施农村职业经理人制度，将现代企业管理理念植入乡村治理。目前，32名农村集体经济经理人驻扎在各重点片区，统筹资源打造区域品牌、建立标准化生产体系、拓展多元销售渠道，带动村集体和农户双增收，累计引进产业项目超百个，撬动乡村投资2.9亿元。
The key to advancing comprehensive rural revitalization lies in people. In 2019, Yuhang District explored and implemented a rural professional manager system, implanting modern enterprise management concepts into rural governance. At present, 32 rural collective economy managers are stationed in various key clusters, coordinating resources to build regional brands, establish standardized production systems, and expand diversified sales channels, driving dual income increases for village collectives and farmers. They have cumulatively introduced more than 100 industrial projects and leveraged 290 million yuan in rural investment.
余杭区搭建起覆盖落地、成长到发展的全周期人才支持体系，已引育2.7万名乡村人才。建设30个青年入乡实践站点，提供“拎包入乡”的低成本创业空间；开设直播运营、文创设计等实操课程，组建“乡创导师团”开展一对一帮带，建立起“乡村逐梦人—创客青年—领军人才”梯次发展的人才队伍。各类入乡人才积极投身文创产品研发、乡村电商等乡村新业态，助力乡土特色产品拓宽市场。在此基础上，余杭区累计为全国培养输送近千名乡村运营骨干人才，助力本地实践经验向外辐射推广。
Yuhang District has built a full-cycle talent support system covering landing, growth, and development, having attracted and cultivated 27,000 rural talents. The district has built 30 youth practice stations for entering the countryside, providing low-cost entrepreneurial spaces where young people can "move in with just a suitcase." It offers practical courses such as livestream operations and cultural creative design, organizes a "rural entrepreneurship mentor group" for one-on-one guidance, and has established a talent team with echelon development from "rural dream chasers" to "maker youth" to "leading talents." Various talents entering the countryside actively devote themselves to new rural business forms such as cultural creative product development and rural e-commerce, helping local specialty products expand their markets. On this basis, Yuhang District has cumulatively trained and supplied nearly 1,000 rural operation backbone talents to the whole country, helping local practical experience radiate outward and be promoted.
各类实践落地见效，发展成果充分惠及乡村群众。今年上半年，余杭区农村居民人均可支配收入达35999元，城乡居民收入倍差缩小至1.48∶1。根植五千年良渚文化，锚定和美乡村建设，余杭区立足乡土实际，以农业提质、产业融合、人才赋能持续夯实乡村全面振兴根基，在广袤乡野间书写乡村全面振兴的余杭答卷。
Various practices have been implemented and produced results, with development achievements fully benefiting rural residents. In the first half of this year, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in Yuhang District reached 35,999 yuan, and the income ratio between urban and rural residents narrowed to 1.48:1. Rooted in 5,000 years of Liangzhu culture and anchored to the construction of harmonious and beautiful villages, Yuhang District, based on local rural realities, continues to consolidate the foundation of comprehensive rural revitalization through agricultural quality improvement, industrial integration, and talent empowerment, writing Yuhang's answer sheet for comprehensive rural revitalization across the vast countryside.
数据来源：中共杭州市余杭区委宣传部
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Hangzhou Yuhang District Committee (中共杭州市余杭区委宣传部)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 史鹏飞 邵玉姿 人民网记者 刘师豪
On the streets, driverless taxis glide smoothly through traffic, smart shuttle services facilitate residents' travel; in the utility tunnels, robot dogs conduct intelligent inspections, monitoring equipment operating status in real time... Stepping into Xiong'an New Area in Hebei, what comes into view are modern buildings, and what greets you is the powerful growth momentum of a city of the future.
Rooted in the strategic positioning of a "millennium plan, a matter of national importance," Xiong'an New Area is anchoring itself to frontier tracks, precisely mapping out an innovation blueprint suited to the New Area's actual conditions, promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, and presenting a magnificent picture of industrial clusters growing from nothing to thriving. Three leading industrial chains — aerospace information and satellite internet, digital economy and artificial intelligence, and new materials — have accelerated their formation and begun to take shape at scale.
Consolidating the Digital Foundation
Cultivating Fertile Soil for Innovation
At dusk, on Baitai Road in the Rongdong area of Xiong'an New Area, a deep-blue "eye" slowly lights up. This highly futuristic landmark is the Xiong'an Urban Computing Center, poetically called the "Eye of Xiong'an" due to its ingenious architectural design.
One city above ground, one city underground, one city in the cloud — Xiong'an's "three cities" are planned and constructed simultaneously. The "city in the cloud" constitutes the digital foundation of the entire city.
"The 'Eye of Xiong'an' is not only the core hub of Xiong'an's digital city construction, but also the 'super brain' of the entire city," said Cao Ying, deputy general manager of Xiong'an Cloud Network Technology Co., Ltd. Whether it is smart transportation, government services, or smart living, all rely on the support of the Xiong'an Urban Computing Center.
Cao Ying has witnessed the growth of the "Eye of Xiong'an": what was initially just a concept in the planning stage has now aggregated over 40 billion pieces of city operation data. "Every second, tens of thousands of pieces of information are racing through." Cao Ying said with considerable pride.
Pausing before the digital twin platform of the Xiong'an Urban Computing Center, the content displayed on the large screen dazzled the reporter: the roads, buildings, underground utility corridors, and even streetlights of Xiong'an New Area all have precise three-dimensional digital "twin brothers."
"Xiong'an New Area has coordinated and intensively deployed over 1 million sensing terminals of various types, built over 500 kilometers of digital roads and over 130 kilometers of digital utility corridors, connected over 100,000 video terminals, and achieved real-time visualization and precise sensing of newly built areas," introduced Wang Zixuan, a staff member of the Xiong'an New Area Industry, Information Technology, Science and Technology, and Data Bureau.
The digital foundation not only makes urban governance "sharp-eared and clear-eyed," but also provides the most scarce "raw material" for industrial development — real, broad, and structured urban scenario data. It is precisely based on this digital foundation that Xiong'an New Area's innovation ecosystem has gained fertile soil to take root downward.
Aggregation of Factor Resources
Vigorous Industrial Development
Actively embracing the future, Xiong'an New Area is striving to build itself into an innovation highland for the new era and a model for high-quality development.
In the Xiong'an New Area Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park, inside the exhibition hall of Mech-Mind (Xiong'an) Robotics Technology Co., Ltd., an intelligent robotic arm equipped with "eyes" and a "brain" is flexibly sorting parts of various shapes.
"This is our self-developed 'AI + 3D vision' system, which is equivalent to installing 'eyes' and a 'brain' on industrial robots," introduced Shao Tianlan, founder of Mech-Mind. In 2024, the company established its global headquarters in Xiong'an New Area, attracted by Xiong'an's emphasis on talent, its unique digital foundation advantages, and its potential to connect with rich application scenarios.
In January of this year, Wenzhun Intelligent (Xiong'an) Technology Co., Ltd., which settled in the Xiong'an Artificial Intelligence Industrial Park, officially released the "Jishu" data large model. This is a general-purpose large model focused on processing structured data, filling a technological gap in China's general data intelligence field.
"Xiong'an's digital twin system and million-level sensing terminals provide scarce, large-scale, multi-dimensional testing scenarios for the continuous iteration, algorithm optimization, and real-world validation of the 'Jishu' data large model," said Zhu Yu, operations director of Wenzhun Intelligent (Xiong'an) Technology Co., Ltd.
While the artificial intelligence industry is flourishing, the aerospace information and satellite internet industry is also forming clusters: relying on platforms such as China Satellite Network Group and the China Aerospace Information and Satellite Internet Innovation Alliance, Xiong'an has gathered over 60 backbone enterprises in the aerospace information field, with business coverage spanning the entire industrial chain of satellite R&D, intelligent manufacturing, orbital launch, and data application.
With the accelerated aggregation of innovation entities, the continuous expansion of application scenarios, and the increasingly improved industrial ecosystem, one leading industrial chain after another is clearly emerging. In Xiong'an, technological breakthroughs, platform sharing, and scenario application empower each other and advance in coordination.
Unblocking Transformation Pathways
Promoting the Landing of Achievements
How to accelerate the landing of scientific research achievements? Xiong'an's answer is: open up the "last mile" from the laboratory to the production line.
In the Soil Big Data and Intelligent Detection Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, researchers are using advanced soil rapid-detection technology to give the earth a meticulous "X-ray physical examination." "This technology can achieve customized fertilization and precision irrigation that 'supplements what is lacking, and supplements where it is lacking,'" introduced Wu Wei, from the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Not far away, the 2,600-mu base planned and constructed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has begun to take shape. This will become the scenario carrier for three key core technologies: soil rapid detection, intelligent breeding, and intelligent agricultural machinery. This smart farmland is transforming cutting-edge technology into tangible yield-increasing benefits.
At the Xiong'an Science and Technology Innovation Center Pilot Testing Base, rows of pilot testing workshops are neatly arranged. "The pilot testing base provides multiple forms of support and services, leaving us with no worries," said Liu Zhijun, production manager of Xinsheng Technology Co., Ltd. This third-level subsidiary of China Mobile has released multiple chip products since settling in Xiong'an in May 2024.
Connected to innovation on one end and industry on the other, the pilot testing base has become an important channel for transforming scientific and technological achievements into the production field. It has attracted a number of technology innovation enterprises mastering core technologies, such as Landspace Hongqing, Xinlianxin, and Xiong'an Baixin, covering multiple frontier tracks including satellite manufacturing, optoelectronic devices, intelligent equipment, and chips.
Entering the hall of the Xiong'an Science and Technology Achievements Trading and Transformation Center, the large screen scrolls through the project names, publishing units, reference prices, and other information of scientific and technological R&D achievements. The center has registered and listed a cumulative total of 2,846 scientific and technological achievements.
From the soil big data laboratory to the chip workshops at the pilot testing base, from 2,846 listed scientific and technological achievements for trading to the concept verification fund providing protection — Xiong'an is transforming the "key variables" of technological innovation into the "maximum increment" of high-quality development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李铁林 《民生周刊》记者 徐英子
In the Xiong'an Intercity Station and International Trade Center area of Hebei Xiong'an New Area, construction of major projects is in full swing. Behind the visible buildings, an invisible city is growing in tandem.
Li Haibo, deputy general manager of Xiongshang Company under China Xiong'an Group, introduced that the International Trade Center project applies Building Information Modeling (BIM) for intelligent construction. The model simultaneously constructs a virtual space corresponding to the physical space, forming valuable data assets that provide key references at different stages of building design, construction, and operation.
The fusion of virtual and real is the underlying "gene" of the future city. Xiong'an New Area adheres to the synchronous planning and synchronous construction of the digital city and the physical city, laying out the overall architecture of a digital twin intelligent city, with the "three cities" — above ground, underground, and cloud-based — advancing in coordination.
Relying on systematically deployed全域感知 capabilities, Xiong'an precisely grasps the city's operational state, forming a fully digitalized environment. The City Computing Center functions like the "brain," collecting and maintaining various data.
According to reports, the Rongdong area has full coverage of smart meters. After residents authorize real-time monitoring, the data can be used for scenarios such as care for elderly people living alone, leak alerts, and elimination of public security hazards. Currently, 252 elderly people living alone have been included in the key monitoring list.
For underground pipe corridor inspections, operational data and real-time images are clear at a glance. Once an anomaly occurs, sensors can precisely pinpoint the source location information. In the event of a fire, key information such as time, location, populations requiring focused attention, and fire spread conditions is grasped at the first moment, and fire truck routes are reasonably planned, greatly improving disposal efficiency. Scenarios are spread across all fields and links of urban governance, and the "digital foundation" of the future city demonstrates its powerful enabling role.
Xiong'an's City Information Model (CIM) platform has undergone three iterations. From relying on BIM and geospatial data to achieve static spatial digitalization, to connecting the Internet of Things to build a全域 intelligent perception system, to integrating artificial intelligence technology to realize the intelligentization of urban management, operation, production, and life, the supply of technology continues to be enriched.
In smart city construction, safety and efficiency are equally important. Xiong'an City Computing Center adopts a fully domestically produced technology solution, building an autonomous and controllable city-level computing system. At the same time, it adopts six layers of protection including same-city dual-active and remote disaster recovery, with expert teams providing round-the-clock protection and resisting attacks to ensure data security.
Data-driven and intelligence-driven governance is the development trend of urban governance. Benefiting people's livelihoods through governance optimization and setting benchmarks through frontier exploration, Xiong'an New Area is speeding along the fast track.
By: 王雅婷 王堃宇
Simple toast — does it really have to be taught hand-by-hand thousands of times?
In Xiong'an New Area, Hebei, there is precisely such a group of "students." When the reporter walked into this embodied intelligence training ground, the scene before his eyes was somewhat unexpected — not the dazzling spectacle of robotic arms spinning at high speed as one might imagine, but robots nearly "clumsily" busy with their respective lessons: learning to bake toast, practicing supermarket shelf-stocking... Their "teachers" are a group of young people holding control handles in their hands.
"Our important work is to provide corpus, that is, underlying data, for embodied intelligence large models," introduced Cao Yue (曹悦), business manager of China Xiong'an Group Digital City Technology Co., Ltd. (中国雄安集团数字城市科技有限公司).
This training ground, officially put into use in December 2025, was constructed and is operated by China Xiong'an Group Digital City Technology Co., Ltd. The training ground has introduced robot bodies from three mainstream manufacturers, achieving full-form coverage of legged, wheeled, and collaborative robots. In terms of scenario construction, the training ground adopts a 1:1 realistic restoration approach, creating five real application scenarios: welcome and guided tours, industrial cargo handling, home life, commercial retail, and logistics assembly.
Inside the training ground, staff members hold their hands suspended in mid-air, slowly and precisely "guiding" the robots to complete the actions of taking bread, aligning it with the slot, and placing it into the breakfast machine. "A single simple action requires high-precision repeated collection thousands of times," Cao Yue said.
"The training ground is like the infrastructure foundation in the field of embodied intelligence. Model training, algorithm iteration, and scenario application all cannot be separated from the most fundamental data support," Cao Yue said. Without enough data from sufficiently real scenarios, large models will find it difficult to evolve from "being able to chat" to "being able to work." Through multi-brand, multi-scenario data collection, the training ground has built a set of "data textbooks" for embodied intelligence large models. At present, the training ground has entered normalized operations, producing high-quality data daily, providing support for the application and implementation of city-level complex scenarios.
Xiong'an New Area is deeply implementing an integrated development system for technological innovation and industrial innovation. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei National Technology Innovation Center Xiong'an Center (京津冀国家技术创新中心雄安中心) has been listed and put into operation. Three sessions of the Xiong'an Future City Scenario Expo have been held consecutively. The area is actively laying out and building an artificial intelligence development testing ground, advancing the full-chain development of embodied intelligence from "basic research — technical breakthrough — scenario application," and promoting the accelerated implementation and transformation of a large number of scientific and technological achievements.
Innovation-driven development is becoming the engine of Xiong'an's high-quality growth. The robots learning in the training ground bear witness not only to technological breakthroughs, but also to the growth of a city. As more and more robot "students" graduate from here, Xiong'an's future will be even more splendid.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 夏康健 人民网记者 李兆民
Imagine that in an underground parking garage 8 meters below ground, positioning and navigation for vehicles and personnel can be accurate to the meter?
The "BeiDou + 5G indoor distribution" combined underground-space positioning and navigation technology can achieve this. In the "underground city" of Xiong'an New Area in Hebei, this technology is being applied and popularized.
"The core principle of this technology is to integrate BeiDou signals into 5G signals through the 'little mushroom head,' thereby constructing an underground positioning and navigation system," said Zhao Yuanjian, deputy director of the BeiDou Indoor-Distribution Positioning R&D Office at the Xiong'an Aerospace Information Research Institute (雄安空天信息研究院).
The "little mushroom head" Zhao Yuanjian refers to is a signal booster. Modern buildings are mostly constructed of reinforced concrete, and outdoor signals often face the problem of being blocked by walls, so indoor distribution systems are needed to achieve signal coverage. The "little mushroom head" is precisely the key device for achieving signal amplification. In the equipment room of the underground parking garage in the Rongdong area of Xiong'an New Area, one line runs directly to the top of the building to acquire BeiDou satellite signals, while another line connects multiple "little mushroom heads" to achieve signal coverage in the underground parking garage.
"This technology also requires algorithm support. We have proposed a '5G + BeiDou combined positioning algorithm.' This algorithm uses simultaneous localization and mapping as its architecture, and by combining BeiDou satellite navigation signals, 5G signals, accelerometer position information, and other data, it can accurately calculate vehicle position," Zhao Yuanjian said. This underground-space combined positioning and navigation technology has also been applied in places such as highway tunnels in Sichuan and the Beijing Civil Air Defense Historical and Cultural Museum.
"In Xiong'an, ideas are easier to realize; people can always try things first and act ahead." said Meng Youtong, assistant general manager of the Xiong'an National Innovation Center (雄安国创中心).
In October 2025, the "Xiong'an-1" satellite officially came off the production line. Its onboard "Baize" high-performance spaceborne computer, "Chiyu" large-size flexible solar wing, and "Jinwu" new-generation Hall electric propulsion system attracted much attention.
"The company was registered and established in January 2025, and in October of that year, its first satellite was produced and came off the line. Here, we achieved registration, commencement of construction, commencement of production, and product rollout all within the same year," said Sun Dezhi, deputy general manager of the Intelligent Manufacturing Center of Hongqing Technology (鸿擎科技). "This would not have been possible without the full support of the Pilot Base of the Xiong'an Science and Technology Innovation Center (雄安科创中心中试基地)."
"A sound industrial ecosystem, especially the relocation of China Satellite Network Group to Xiong'an New Area, has exerted considerable appeal to aerospace information enterprises. At the same time, reasonable talent policies are also boosting the development of Xiong'an New Area," said Yang Yunjie, operations manager of the Pilot Base of the Xiong'an Science and Technology Innovation Center. In November 2023, Xiong'an New Area formulated and issued the "Several Measures on Building an Innovation Highland and Entrepreneurship Hotbed to Gather New Talent" (《关于打造创新高地和创业热土聚集新人才的若干措施》). "Policies that deliver tangible results enable talent to live and work in peace and contentment (安居乐业, ān jū lè yè - "dwell peacefully and work happily," to live and work in contentment)." Yang Yunjie said.
By: 《中国经济周刊》记者 牛朝阁
Tower cranes stand in dense array and a new city is rising with vigor. The ever-changing Xiong'an New Area in Hebei is not only a city of the future rising from the ground, but also a fertile ground of vitality for innovation and entrepreneurship.
For enterprises settling there, Xiong'an's appeal lies not only in policy dividends, but also in a complete, heartwarming, and efficient enterprise growth ecosystem that gives innovation room to grow, development support to rely on, and cooperation pathways to connect.
Entering the R&D center and laboratories of Mech-Mind (Xiong'an) Robotics Technology Co., Ltd., intelligent robots are equipped with embodied intelligence "brains," "eyes," and "dexterous hands," using general physical artificial intelligence technology to independently complete full-process operations such as grasping, sorting, and assembly, adapting comprehensively to all kinds of complex industrial scenarios.
Why did this enterprise choose to place its core R&D and operations in Xiong'an? The company has clear considerations.
"At first we were attracted by the talent policies and the atmosphere of industry-academia-research exchange; now the complete industrial synergy ecosystem and the massive real-world application scenarios have become the resources we value most," said Han Zhuo, Chief Development Officer of Mech-Mind.
Biopharmaceutical enterprises are likewise thriving under the nourishment of Xiong'an's sci-tech innovation ecosystem. "In 2026, our Key Laboratory for Transformation of Medical Testing and New Biopharmaceutical Technologies was selected for the first batch of the New Area's innovation platform construction plan. Continuously advancing the deep integration of industry, academia, research, and medical application has built an efficient bridge for achievement transformation between us and universities and enterprises. The efficiency here is especially high — we submitted the application for the medical institution practice license at 9 a.m. and received the license at 4 p.m. the same day," said Song Han, a staff member of Xiong'an Miaoxin Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Efficient government services have precisely addressed the pain points of long approval cycles and slow settlement for biopharmaceutical enterprises, allowing companies to devote themselves fully to R&D and innovation.
Where there is help and reward, enterprises are willing to come; and as more people come, "finding suppliers and talking to clients between buildings" has become a reality. Today, the Xiong'an New Area Zhongguancun Sci-Tech Park has complete building amenities and convenient exchange.
In June this year, Miaoxin Biotechnology facilitated a cooperation deal in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee. "Our partner does channel distribution. We entered the park at the same time, and our office spaces are less than 100 meters apart," said a relevant staff member of Miaoxin Biotechnology.
The 100-meter distance brings closer not only business, but also more exchange and collaboration. "In the Xiong'an New Area Zhongguancun Sci-Tech Park, we can deeply coordinate with enterprises in intelligent manufacturing, new energy, smart logistics, and other fields in the park, achieving nearby supporting and on-site collaboration," Han Zhuo said. This clustering advantage where the industrial chain runs between buildings is the sci-tech innovation charm of Xiong'an.
With full-chain services, full-industry clustering, and full-scenario enablement, the Xiong'an New Area ensures that enterprises settle without worry and grow with momentum.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘文璋
Recently, the Takaichi Sanae administration of Japan has been vigorously playing up the so-called "severity" of the security environment, and through expanding arms exports, continuously and substantially increasing military spending, advancing the deployment of medium- and long-range missiles, expanding offensive military forces, and promoting amendments to the peace constitution, it has been continuously breaking through the postwar international order and legal constraints, accelerating the process of "re-militarization." According to the latest report by Japan's Kyodo News, regarding the Japanese government's FY2027 budget compilation work, the Japanese Ministry of Defense plans to apply to the Ministry of Finance for approximately 8.9 trillion yen (1 yuan is approximately 23.7 yen), for use in deploying interceptor drones and other purposes, with the scale of the application reaching a record high. A series of dangerous moves have continued to trigger concern and criticism from all walks of life in Japan. In recent days, many Japanese citizens have held protest rallies on various occasions, opposing the Takaichi administration's "re-militarization" trend.
"Japan's current policies exhibit a strong belligerence and are difficult to contain, which is very dangerous"
At present, enemy base attack missiles are being deployed in many places across Japan, and Self-Defense Force bases are also advancing the stockpiling and renovation of missiles and ammunition depots to support the so-called "protracted war." The forced advancement of legislation such as the creation of Japan's "National Intelligence Council," the lifting of arms export bans, and other measures have continuously intensified tensions between Japan and its neighboring countries.
Iha Yoichi, former mayor of Ginowan City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, and member of the House of Councillors, stated that in Okinawa, the Japanese government, under the name of "southwestern strategic shift," is continuously advancing Self-Defense Force base construction and the deployment of enemy base attack missiles, accelerating the local militarization process; on Miyako Island, Ishigaki Island, Yonaguni Island, and other Sakishima Islands, Self-Defense Force missile units are being deployed one after another. "We must apply the brakes to the Takaichi administration's radical moves and avoid repeating the mistakes of war."
Kimura Tomoyoshi, former announcer of NHK, believes that Japan's past aggressive wars were also waged under the banner of "self-preservation and self-defense," packaging military expansion as guaranteeing "one's own security and national survival." Now, the Japanese government is again advancing arms expansion under the pretext of "building up defense capabilities," calling it "necessary for defense," but in essence it is step by step embarking on a "very dangerous" path of military expansion.
Kōketsu Atsushi, professor emeritus of Yamaguchi University, told reporters that under the instigation of Japan's right-wing forces, the Takaichi administration is accelerating "re-militarization" simultaneously at both the institutional and substantive levels, retreading the path of militarism, "Japan's current policies exhibit a strong belligerence and are difficult to contain, which is very dangerous."
"The Takaichi administration is vigorously pushing for military expansion, constitutional revision, and hostility toward some neighboring countries, attempting to completely transform Japan into a country that can wage war. We must be vigilant against Japan step by step embarking on a dangerous path." said Nohira Shinsaku, co-representative of the Japanese civil organization "Peace Boat" dedicated to international exchange.
In a recent speech, former Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru opposed Takaichi's deletion of wording such as "reflection" in her speech, emphasizing that if the Japanese government does not engage in reflection, it cannot draw lessons from history, and that Japan has not yet severed itself from militarism; without seriously discussing these issues, Japan will eventually repeat the same mistakes.
"The Japanese government's various practices attempt to hollow out the peace clauses of Japan's constitution"
Since taking office, the Takaichi administration has sought to accelerate the expansion of the Self-Defense Forces' overseas operational space, including the first large-scale dispatch of combat troops to the Philippines to participate in joint military exercises. After the Takaichi administration revised the "Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment" in April this year and lifted the ban on exports of lethal weapons, it has stepped up efforts to sell weapons and equipment overseas, and has recently promoted the export of military equipment such as "Abukuma"-class frigates to the Philippines.
Japan's Tokyo Shimbun commented that the Japanese government's series of measures to relax arms exports deviate from the purpose of the peace constitution and do not conform to Japan's pacifist philosophy of not fueling international disputes. The fact that arms export-related actions are decided solely by government judgment without the participation of the National Diet is equally unacceptable and cannot be ignored.
Magosaki Ukeru, former official of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told reporters that the Takaichi administration has consistently advocated reexamining the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" and is continuously promoting the expansion of military forces from both institutional design and force deployment levels.
"Purchasing new missiles and promoting the reexamination of the 'Three Non-Nuclear Principles' through the revision of the 'three security documents' will neither gain recognition from the international community nor be expected by the broad masses of Japanese citizens." Shiratori Hiro, professor at Hosei University, told reporters that the Japanese government's ambiguous stance on whether to uphold the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles" and the continuously rising defense budget — these signs have triggered strong concern from the outside world over Japan's "new militarism" trend. "In the era of globalization, Japan should not blindly strengthen its defense forces, but should deepen diplomatic mutual trust and uphold a stance of regional cooperation — this is the responsibility a 'peaceful country' should bear."
Tessa Morris-Suzuki, professor emeritus of Japanese history at the Australian National University, wrote in criticism that "the current Japanese government's various practices attempt to hollow out the peace clauses of Japan's constitution, which must arouse vigilance."
"The defense budget has been skyrocketing, while the disaster prevention budget has been continuously cut"
With the record 8.9 trillion yen defense budget proposal surfacing, the contrast between surging military spending and insufficient investment in people's livelihoods and disaster prevention has become increasingly prominent, imposing heavy pressure on Japan's finances and society, and triggering widespread concern from all walks of life.
Sekiguchi Tatsuo, director of the Nagasaki Association Against War, Constitutional Amendment, and Security Legislation, told reporters that Japan is currently in a cycle of tax increases, compounded by rising prices, and many citizens are under multiplied pressure in their daily lives. Even if the policy of reducing the consumption tax on food to 1% is implemented, it will only last for a short two years, and the subsequent increase in tax burden will be passed on to the people in other forms. "Japan has a low self-sufficiency rate in energy and food, and is essentially a country that cannot withstand the impact of war."
Japan's Kyoto Shimbun commented that the approach of "profiting" from defense deviates from Japan's postwar development trajectory. The currently phased "defense tax increase" is far from sufficient to fill the funding gap, and the financial resources have not yet been secured. "Fiscal instability may shake the foundation of national security guarantees, and military expansion beyond one's own capacity will inevitably squeeze the living space of the people." The government should face such concerns squarely, abandon the route of defense reinforcement premised on war, and implement a security strategy that also promotes diplomatic efforts to ease regional tensions.
Fukushima Mizuho, leader of Japan's Social Democratic Party, stated that not long ago at the disaster site of the Kumamoto earthquake, tap water had yet to be fully restored, and the air conditioning coverage rate in gymnasium shelters was only 13%. Even though cardboard beds have now begun to be equipped in evacuation gymnasiums, there was almost nothing available in terms of supplies in the early stage of the disaster. "The defense budget has been skyrocketing, while the disaster prevention budget has been continuously cut." Fukushima Mizuho said that the common sentiment of local residents is that "compared to military expansion, disaster prevention should be prioritized; compared to arms buildup, the livelihood of the people should be prioritized," yet the Takaichi administration completely ignores the people's livelihood and does not cherish the lives of the people.
Japan's Mainichi Shimbun commented that once military spending is treated as a policy pillar for stimulating the economy, its scale is likely to fall into a situation where it cannot be stopped. Tateishi Soichiro, deputy researcher at the Japan Research Institute, said: "The rise in military spending will inevitably intensify uncertainty in the political and socioeconomic outlook, suppress consumption and investment, and the economy may fall into stagnation."
(This newspaper, Tokyo, August 25)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 琰
"In a 瞬息万变 (shùn xī wàn biàn - "in a blink, ten thousand changes," changing rapidly) international environment, media is not only a channel for information dissemination, but also a tool for promoting development and a catalyst for creating economic opportunities." At the opening ceremony of the 7th China-Africa Media Cooperation Forum held in Beijing a few days ago, Bach, the African Union's representative to China, said in his speech that African and Chinese media should work together to become a driving force for promoting development, deepening understanding, and consolidating peace while witnessing the growth of the partnership between the two sides.
This year's forum, themed "Sharing New Development Opportunities, Jointly Creating a New Audiovisual Future," brought together approximately 400 representatives from China and 45 African countries, who engaged in dialogue and exchanges around core topics including "Content Innovation Empowering People-to-People Cooperation," "Technological Cooperation Empowering Industrial Win-Win," "Audiovisual Services for Economic and Trade Development," and "AI Integration Application Practices in the Radio, Television and Audiovisual Sector."
In a video speech, Izakangwa, UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa to the UN Secretary-General, said that deepening media exchanges under the framework of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation is of great significance for the outside world to enhance its understanding of the real Africa. "African radio and television institutions advancing hand in hand with their Chinese counterparts should not only exchange news content, but also strengthen narrative sovereignty, showcase Africa's development advantages, and promote the realization of the African Union's Agenda 2063."
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Africa, and is also the "China-Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges" (中非人文交流年). During the forum, the "Joint Declaration of the 7th China-Africa Media Cooperation Forum" (第七届中非媒体合作论坛共同宣言) and 80 achievements in China-Africa radio, television and audiovisual cooperation were officially released, injecting rich content and vitality into the "China-Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges."
Since China announced the implementation of the China-Africa "Radio, Television and Audiovisual Innovation Cooperation Plan" (广电视听创新合作计划) at the 2024 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, exchanges and cooperation between the two sides in news, content, dissemination, technology, and personnel have become more extensive and deeper. Data released by China's National Radio and Television Administration shows that more than 80 Chinese audiovisual works, including the TV dramas "Three-Body" and "My Altay," have been broadcast in multiple African countries, and more than 80 programs from 29 African countries have been aired on China's major television channels and streaming platforms. In addition, the two sides have co-produced approximately 50 audiovisual programs, among which the key project of "Beijing Grand Audiovisual" (北京大视听) — the TV drama "Welcome to Maile Village" — received the "Special Contribution Award for Promoting China-Tanzania Friendship."
"China's technology and equipment have made positive contributions to the development and modernization of Africa's broadcasting infrastructure. In the future, Africa-China media cooperation should not be limited to one-way technology transfer, but should also realize the two-way flow of narratives, voices, diverse perspectives, and practical experience. Let more audiovisual products from both sides enter each other's markets and enhance mutual understanding and connection between African and Chinese peoples," said Grégoire Djaka, Director General of the African Union of Broadcasting.
In the view of Diallo, Chairman of Niger's Media Regulatory Commission, the large youth population is Africa's greatest advantage in embracing the digital economy transformation. "I hope young people can embrace digital technology and tell more moving African stories." He proposed that Africa should strengthen cooperation with China in talent cultivation and establish a long-term mechanism that is 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "according to the place, set what is appropriate," adapt to local conditions) and suited to Africa's actual conditions.
"Nearly 50 media professionals from Angola have gone to China for training in recent years, which has not only improved their professional capabilities but also allowed them to observe China's modernization process up close, providing more perspectives for Angolan people to understand China," revealed Albino, Secretary of State for Telecommunications, Information Technology and Media of Angola. He said that the radio and television departments of Angola and China are discussing the possibility of joint creation, and look forward to launching more film and television works.
"Young people possess both internet thinking and innovative vitality, and are the backbone of cross-cultural exchanges," said Ouédraogo, Minister of Communication, Culture, Arts and Tourism of Burkina Faso. He suggested continuing to build exchange platforms such as creative workshops, competitions, and digital art festivals, and carrying out joint training for African and Chinese youth around audiovisual, digital, and cultural industries, so as to consolidate the talent foundation for bilateral cooperation.
Return to TopUS Announces New Measures of "Economic Isolation" Against Iran, Intensifying Pressure
Xinhua News Agency, New York, August 24 (Reporters Liu Yanan, Xu Jing) — US Treasury Secretary Bessent held a press conference on the afternoon of the 24th, announcing that the United States launched a new round of sanctions measures of "economic isolation" against Iran that day, in order to further intensify pressure on Iran.
According to a notice issued on the 24th by the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, the United States has from that day expanded the scope of its economic sanctions against Iran to five areas, including aviation, digital assets, gold, shipping, and technology industries. The notice stated that the United States will also suspend a number of licenses involving Iran, covering certain educational activities and services, personal remittances, sports and academic exchanges, and others. In addition, approximately 60 Iran-related entities, individuals, and vessels have been added to the sanctions list, covering nuclear and missile technology, cyber operations, oil trade, and other areas.
Bessent said that the United States has launched a "blitz" against Iran's global financial connections, aimed at cutting off every economic lifeline of the Iranian government until it is completely isolated. He stated: "Starting today, the Treasury Department and other departments will tighten sanctions and block every potential source of revenue for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Iranian government."
Bessent also stated that the US side no longer accepts so-called "gray zone operations," and if relevant countries do not take measures, the US Treasury Department will take unilateral action. Any entity that launders money for Iran will be removed from the dollar system. US President Trump is calling leaders of multiple parties regarding specific requirements for ceasing exchanges with Iran.
According to information from the Iranian Presidential Office on the 24th, Iranian President Pezeshkian stated that day that the United States "should change its rhetoric and practices in dealing with Iran," and that relying on power and bullying will only make the relevant process more complicated. The same day, Mokhber, senior advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader, stated that in the face of US threats, Iran's response will be more resolute than ever.
Canada Responds Strongly to US Tariff Escalation Threats
Xinhua News Agency, Ottawa, August 24 (Reporter Lin Wei) — Canadian political figures on the 24th issued intensive statements in response to the latest tariff threats from the United States, emphasizing that Canada will not accept an unequal bilateral relationship and may adopt measures including economic relief and export restrictions to respond to the Canada-US trade war.
Canadian Prime Minister Carney said that only on the premise that the United States changes its attitude and establishes a genuine partnership would the Canadian side be willing to return to the negotiating table. He does not accept the attitude that "Canada is a subsidiary of the United States," nor does he accept Canada's disadvantaged position in its relationship with the United States.
Canadian Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc stated that the Canadian government will provide support policies for enterprises affected by the tariff shock. Canada's primary plan has always been to build a strong domestic economy, eliminate trade barriers among provinces, advance economic diversification, and implement major projects domestically.
Former Canadian Prime Minister Chrétien suggested that the Canadian government should impose export taxes on specific exported goods to counter the US's new tariff measures. Chrétien said that if one wants to remain invincible, one must strike the opponent's vital point.
Ontario Premier Ford stated that the Canadian side needs to "use every means available" to fight back, and if the trade dispute further escalates, Canada should be prepared to cut off electricity and critical mineral supplies to the United States.
Trump posted on social media earlier on August 24, saying that from January 1, 2027, the United States will raise import tariffs on Canadian automobiles, auto parts, steel, and other products to 50 percent.
US Treasury Secretary Says Will Maintain Debt Refinancing Plan Unchanged
Xinhua News Agency, New York, August 24 (Reporters Liu Yanan, Xu Jing) — US Treasury Secretary Bessent said at a press conference on the 24th that the US Treasury Department will maintain the quarterly debt refinancing plan announced this month unchanged. He said that the US Treasury Department has currently not purchased any Treasury securities under the expanded Treasury buyback program.
The US Treasury Department issued a statement on the 19th, saying that it plans to at least double the scale of Treasury buybacks for 10-year to 30-year maturities, aiming to provide more liquidity support for the long-term Treasury market. The scale of Treasury buybacks will be increased from the current $2 billion to $4 billion, and this plan is expected to take effect on September 9.
Recently, US long-term Treasury yields have continued to rise, and the federal government's financing costs have subsequently increased. The US 30-year Treasury yield reached 5.31 percent on August 17, setting a new high since June 2007.
The total debt of the US federal government exceeded $40 trillion for the first time on the 19th, and the US government's interest expenditures for this fiscal year are expected to approach $1.2 trillion. As the scale of debt continues to expand, and high interest rates push up debt service costs, US public finances are facing increasingly heavy interest pressure.
US Announces Formal Revocation of Syria's "State Sponsor of Terrorism" Designation
Xinhua News Agency, Washington/Damascus, August 24 (Reporters Huang Qiang, Lin Jianjie) — US Secretary of State Rubio issued a statement on the 24th, saying that he approved that day the formal revocation of the US designation of Syria as a "state sponsor of terrorism." Syria's transitional government welcomed this decision by the US side.
Rubio stated that Syria's transitional government has taken significant measures in counterterrorism, and the above-mentioned US decision "removes the last major obstacle for the private sector to invest in Syria" and will "promote Syria's economic recovery and its reintegration into the global economy." In the statement, Rubio also announced the removal of "Hayat Tahrir al-Sham" from the US list of designated terrorist organizations.
Syria's transitional government Foreign Ministry issued a statement the same day, welcoming the US decision to remove Syria from the "state sponsors of terrorism" list. This decision will help Syria's economic recovery, create favorable conditions for reconstruction work, and consolidate the security and stability of Syria and the region.
OECD: G7 Economic Growth Slowed to 0.3 Percent in Second Quarter
Xinhua News Agency, Paris, August 25 (Reporter Cui Kexin) — The latest data released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on the 24th showed that in the second quarter of this year, the gross domestic product (GDP) of OECD member countries grew by 0.5 percent quarter-on-quarter, slightly higher than the 0.4 percent in the first quarter. During the same period, the G7 economy's quarter-on-quarter growth rate slowed from 0.4 percent in the first quarter to 0.3 percent.
The data showed that among G7 member countries, Japan's GDP grew by 0.3 percent quarter-on-quarter in the second quarter, lower than the 0.5 percent in the first quarter, mainly affected by factors such as stagnant private consumption, reduced inventories, and declining investment; the US economic growth rate also slowed from 0.5 percent to 0.4 percent, mainly due to slowing export growth, declining inventories, and reduced government consumption; Canada's economic growth accelerated markedly, with GDP growing by 0.8 percent quarter-on-quarter in the second quarter, compared with zero growth in the first quarter.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 谢亚宏
Recently, the "Zero-Carbon Technology Research, Demonstration, and Training Center" in the Central Sava region of central Slovenia was officially inaugurated. The center was built with a joint investment of 32 million euros from the European Union and the Slovenian government, and is equipped with scientific research, office, and training facilities. It aims to build an innovation platform connecting research institutions and enterprises, accelerate the industrialization of zero-carbon technology achievements, and is one of Slovenia's important projects supporting traditional coal-mining regions in achieving green transformation.
The Central Sava region was once one of Slovenia's most representative coal-producing areas, where coal mining and thermal power generation shaped the local industrial landscape. As the green and low-carbon transformation advanced, local coal-fired power plants and coal mines were shut down in 2014 and 2015, respectively. A report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows that in 2023, the Central Sava region ranked last in Slovenia in per capita gross domestic product, and its unemployment rate was among the highest in the country. Between 2014 and 2024, the share of the working-age population in the region fell by 5.9%, with population aging and youth out-migration becoming increasingly prominent problems.
In recent years, the European Union has emphasized balancing carbon emission reduction goals with the economic development and social equity of affected regions. In 2022, the EU approved the provision of more than 258 million euros in transition funds to Slovenia, including support for cultivating new industries and creating new jobs in coal-mining regions, with the Central Sava region being one of the key supported areas.
According to the plan, the "Zero-Carbon Technology Research, Demonstration, and Training Center" supported by this initiative will not only undertake scientific research tasks but also provide enterprises with research and development verification, achievement transformation, and professional training services, promoting the development of industries such as batteries and hydrogen energy. According to the project developer, about half of the center's current employees come from the Central Sava region, and in the coming years there are plans to attract more young talent and innovative enterprises to settle in the area.
According to the Central Sava region's plan, the area will continue to advance related projects around economic diversification, technological innovation, talent cultivation, and industrial upgrading, support the innovative development of small and medium-sized enterprises, strengthen research capacity building and vocational skills training, and gradually cultivate a low-carbon industrial system. The region also plans to establish a "small hydrogen valley" through cross-sector cooperation, further optimizing the energy structure and improving energy self-sufficiency. Ekaterina Zaharieva, the European Commissioner responsible for startups, research, and innovation, stated that the "Zero-Carbon Technology Research, Demonstration, and Training Center" is a concrete manifestation of Europe's efforts to translate decarbonization goals into development opportunities for regions, industries, and residents.
However, transformation is not achieved overnight (一蹴而就 - yī cù ér jiù - "accomplished in one step," to succeed at the first attempt without sustained effort). For the Central Sava region, high-tech industries place higher demands on workers' skills and require long-term training and talent accumulation. How to continuously attract corporate investment, improve the supporting industrial chain, and enable more local residents to truly share in the fruits of green development remain real challenges that need to be addressed. Uroš Vajgl, State Secretary of Slovenia's Ministry of Environment, Climate, and Energy, believes that the Central Sava region's practice balances environmental protection and social development, demonstrating that many regions can create new employment opportunities and economic growth points and expand new development opportunities in the process of advancing green transformation.
(Intern Han Jiaxu participated in the reporting and writing.)
Return to Top"Yangtze River Literary Selections" is a new mass literary creation platform established by Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group for the public, aiming to encourage more ordinary people to pick up their pens and write about real life, express genuine emotions, and "write from the heart with my own hand." Since its founding more than two years ago, the "Yangtze River Literary Selections" WeChat public account has published a large number of prose works showcasing local characteristics and reflecting real life, with total readership exceeding 6 million, and has compiled and published the "Yangtze River Literary Selections" book series, opening a window of literature for the public.
Articles that originate from life and come from the grassroots often reach people's hearts directly. Over the years, Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group has persisted in fulfilling its corporate social responsibility of using industry to nourish culture and public welfare to nurture the cultural lineage, extending its corporate philosophy of "protecting and blessing all living beings" from the realm of life and health to the realm of the public's spiritual and cultural life. As of now, the "Yangtze River Literary Selections" book series has received submissions from more than 18,000 grassroots authors across 30 provinces and various industries, with themes covering human warmth, industrial struggle, and feelings for family and country. "Yangtze River Literary Selections" has become an important bridge connecting villages and cities, and the industrial sector with the literary and artistic circles.
In the future, "Yangtze River Literary Selections" will continue to promote the philosophical concept of the Taizhou School that "the daily needs of the common people are the Way," focus on the joys and sorrows of ordinary people, encourage public writing, public reading, public commentary, and public sharing, let the light of the ideal of truth, goodness, beauty, and upward striving shine into more people's literary lives, and inject new momentum into the vigorous development of the new mass literary and artistic cause.
Data source: Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group
● "Playing the Father" | Liu Chunyang (Jiangsu)
Back in the dormitory, I changed my clothes, took out my suitcase, and put on my backpack. I didn't want to let the children down. I was going to seriously be a father they hadn't seen for a long time.
I didn't return the same way I came. Instead, I first went to the village shop, bought drinks, candy, ham sausages, and the spicy strips they liked, then took the mountain path around to the direction leading into the village.
I saw that it was still early, so I stood by the roadside and waited for a while. Only after the sun had set behind the mountains did I set off. Returning to my hometown in the twilight was more fitting for the moment.
Turning the corner, I saw the children from afar. They were all facing the village with their backs to me. What silly children — Dad should be coming from outside.
"Hey—" I called out. The children turned their heads in unison, froze for a moment, then quickly ran toward me: "Dad, Dad!" "Dad's back!"
The children ran and shouted as they came. When they reached me, some grabbed my hands, some hugged my legs. I gathered them into my arms.
Right there by the roadside, I let them distribute the things themselves. They all shouted and cheered, overjoyed.
Throughout the whole process, I kept my head raised, trying hard to hold back, not letting the tears fall.
● "Foreheads Touching" | Bao Hongxia (Gansu)
Auntie's little shop was very quiet. To support her business, unless her store didn't have what I needed, I rarely went to other people's shops. Once I went to buy vinegar and found that Auntie was sick — the old couple was eating instant noodles for every meal. I ate and lived at the village committee, so I conveniently added some rice and vegetables, cooked the food, and brought it over.
In the days that followed, Auntie often came to the village committee to chat with me. Sometimes she would bring me cabbage, potatoes, radishes, or scallions she had grown. Most of the time she would talk about the past. I listened attentively while she spoke slowly. Sometimes she cried, sometimes she laughed. Every time I saw her off, I would hug her and touch my forehead to hers...
● "A Bowl of Shredded Pork Noodles" | Wang Zhong (Jiangsu)
Once, my son, who was in second grade of elementary school, had a fever and hadn't eaten for two meals. I asked him what he wanted to eat, and he said he wanted shredded pork noodles. My son's words put me in a difficult position. It was almost the end of the month, but my salary hadn't been paid yet, and I only had 5 yuan left in my pocket. That little money had to sustain our family of four for two or three days. But I couldn't disappoint my sick son, so I picked up my big bowl and went out. How was I supposed to broach the subject with the shop owner? Some business people are superstitious about good luck — they don't extend credit early in the morning.
Fortunately, when I arrived, the owner himself was cooking the noodles. I walked over as if nothing was wrong, quietly told the owner about buying on credit, and added: "Don't worry, I live right here. I'll bring the money as soon as I get paid." Unexpectedly, the owner smiled and said: "It's just a bowl of noodles, isn't it? If you want to eat, just come!"
After the noodles were cooked, the owner even added a poached egg on top, saying it was for my son, free of charge. In his warm, loud voice, the owner said: "I can't make change for a large bill — pay me together next time." I knew he said that for the owner's wife to hear.
To this day, I remember that the noodles from that day lasted my son two meals. As soon as I got paid, I went and repaid the money immediately.
● "The Babysitter Xiao Zhang" | Yan Qing (Zhejiang)
The days passed quickly, and I became increasingly dependent on Xiao Zhang. One day I came home and found that Xiao Zhang looked terrible, her lips deathly pale. I asked her what was wrong, but she only said it was nothing. At dinner, she barely ate anything, and her hands were trembling as she held the baby. I took the baby from her, and she immediately dashed to the bathroom and vomited. I said: "You should rest. The baby will sleep with me tonight." I was carrying the baby around the room when the baby started crying. Xiao Zhang ran over and took the baby back: "Let me do it." At that moment, her eyes were full of heartache. The moment the baby was back in her arms, it stopped crying. That night, the baby slept beside me. The next day she said to me: "When the baby isn't by my side, I actually feel a bit unaccustomed to it." I said: "You've worked hard these days too." She suddenly fell silent. After a moment, she said to me: "If you want to let me go, you must tell me in advance, so I can prepare myself mentally. Being suddenly separated from the baby would make me very sad."
● "A Stranger" | Li Huixiang (Henan)
After leaving the venue, I came back to my senses and walked alone for a long time along the avenue lined with plane trees on both sides, crying as I walked — not because of the panic and grievance of life being hard to sustain, but because I never expected that when I thought I was grubby and utterly worthless, there was still such a person who saw me, saw the good in me, the good that even I hadn't discovered in myself. He was right — I needed a place where my value could be realized. His gaze made me believe in my own worth. Although the road ahead was still uncertain, I had the strength to keep going.
More than twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye. To this day, that business card is still engraved in my heart. I clearly remember his name and title, and the name of that company. At a moment of crisis, at a turning point in life, the one who cared for me, protected me, and helped me was actually a stranger!
● "My Father's Nickname Was 'Laifu'" | Zheng Wei (Jiangsu)
In 1984, riding the east wind of reform and opening up, my father made another astonishing move: he resigned. This time, he encountered no obstacles at all. What to do? He had already thought it through long before: smoked and braised foods. Food is the first necessity of the people — no matter what era, people always need to eat, and always love to eat. But everyone inevitably doubted: you're just a side-dish cook, can you really make deli-style braised foods? If he had thought the same as everyone else, he wouldn't have deserved the nickname "Laifu." He spent most of his salary on cooking magazines, and from those books he compiled many techniques and recipes for smoked and braised foods. In the end, the business started as a roadside stall in front of the Mixiang Bathhouse entrance, grew bigger and bigger, and finally became a two-storefront shop. Later, my mother also resigned and came home — the husband sings and the wife follows — and the business took off completely.
● "My Brother Is a Great Hero" | Fu Guixia (Tianjin)
That day, my seventeen-year-old brother carried my mother on his back and rode from dawn to dusk, covering more than 100 kilometers. What extraordinary perseverance! Third Grandfather and Third Grandmother, with tears in their eyes, busied themselves cooking. Third Grandmother noticed that my mother still had her headscarf on even after entering the house, and asked what was going on. Mother said her head had been hurting for a long time, and she didn't dare take off the headscarf — this time she had come to see a doctor. Both Third Grandfather and Third Grandmother said, why didn't you come sooner?
The next day, Third Grandfather had Uncle and Auntie take my mother to the hospital, and told my brother to rest at home. But my brother insisted on going with my mother. At the hospital, my brother said to the doctor: "There are still two younger brothers and a younger sister at home — the youngest brother is only ten years old. They can't be without their mother!" My brother cried as he spoke. After the doctor finished looking at the X-ray, he smiled and said to my brother: "Young man, your mother doesn't have any serious illness. Don't worry. I'll prescribe some medicine for her. With proper care, she'll recover soon. Don't be afraid." Hearing the doctor's words, my brother smiled happily.
● "Watching Opera with Mother" | Zhang Xuehua (Gansu)
During the classic passages, the audience spontaneously sang along loudly with the performers on stage, no less enthusiastic than fans chasing after celebrities. I noticed that my mother was even softly humming along with the melody. In all my years of growing up, this was the first time I had seen my introverted mother singing. Mother said: "If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have understood a single word. Once you explained it and I listened again, it felt clear. I'm like a blind person listening to the clapper, or a dog looking at the stars." I thought to myself, without the lyrics as a guide, I would be just like my mother. I could use AI, but my mother had no such recourse. Thinking about it that way, I felt a pang of love for my mother, and I tried not to miss a single line of lyrics, translating every line for her.
During the three days in Baiyin, I accompanied my mother to four full-length operas — "Loyalty to the State," "The Han Revival," "Women of the Yang Family," and "Golden Beach." We left at ten o'clock every morning and returned home at four in the afternoon. I sat through more than four hours a day on a small cold wooden stool outdoors, and I managed to sit through all of it. When the performances moved me, I shed tears along with them. On the eleventh day of the first lunar month, there was one performance in the afternoon and one in the evening. The evening performance was "Women of the Yang Family." Remembering the story of the twelve widows marching west that my mother had told me about in childhood, I wanted to go watch it. I asked my mother if she wanted to go, and she answered without hesitation: "Let's go!"
● "Auntie Man" | Deng Youmin (Guizhou)
Auntie Man liked me mainly because I was her "super fan," or rather her most loyal listener. She was uneducated but extremely talkative, and everything she talked about was from forty or fifty years ago. These stale, trivial stories of hers — other people didn't like listening to them, or were tired of hearing them. Only I always listened to her with a smile, attentively.
Auntie Man's maternal grandfather had been a famous private school teacher in the area. Perhaps because of this, she had excellent eloquence — vivid and animated, with expressive eyebrows and lively gestures. Sometimes she would involuntarily stand up, imitating the voices of characters, shouting loudly, laughing loudly, raging loudly, or weeping loudly, or beating her chest and stamping her feet, wailing to heaven and earth, jumping and pointing — it was just like storytelling, or even stand-up comedy. I was often infected by her emotions and played along with her "performance," laughing or angering, grieving or rejoicing, startling or delighting, worrying or fearing. To outsiders, the two of us even looked a bit like mental patients. But the Wen family had long grown accustomed to it and thought nothing of it. I often thought that if Auntie Man were educated and could write these stories down, she would surely become a famous author.
● "Professor Guan" | Zhou Yadong (Jiangsu)
Although Old Guan taught mathematics, he wasn't the least bit rigid. He was passionate as fire, youthful and sunny. At graduation ceremonies, he often sang songs. "Through many storms, through many autumns, braving wind, frost, snow, and rain in the torrent, enduring countless hardships with unwavering devotion..." Years later, students may have forgotten the math problem-solving techniques Old Guan taught, but this song, "Youthful Ambition Knows No Sorrow," they would surely remember vividly, lingering in their hearts.
Old Guan also wrote poetry. I once saw a poem he published in the Taizhou Evening News. I've forgotten the specific content, but in short, it was the kind that makes you think of distant places.
(The above are excerpts from the works)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尚凯元
Highlights
Carrying backpacks, treading ancient roads, crossing the Gobi, passing through the Silk Road... destination — China. Spanning 518 days, French youths Loïc and Benjamin walked across 16 Eurasian countries, following the ancient Silk Road all the way to the Shanghai Bund. This "slowest yet most direct" journey pieced together, step by step, a real and three-dimensional picture of Sino-foreign exchange, every step seemingly treading on the lingering echoes of camel bells from a thousand years ago. In their view, the ancient Silk Road has not disappeared; only its form has changed. And the distance between China and France has also grown closer through walking and experiencing.
"This is the destination of our journey — walking to Shanghai, China. We made it!" French youth Loïc's voice was hoarse with excitement. Earlier this year, Loïc and his friend Benjamin arrived at the Shanghai Bund, and seeing the brilliantly lit Oriental Pearl Tower across the river, their excitement 溢于言表 (yì yú yán biǎo - "overflow from words and expression," feelings too intense to be contained in words).
From the foothills of the French Alps to the banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, spanning 518 days, the two walked across 16 countries of the Eurasian continent, heading east along the ancient Silk Road, using the slowest yet most direct means to complete a deep dialogue with an ancient civilization and contemporary China, and building a bridge of friendship connecting the peoples of Europe and Asia.
With lofty aspirations in their hearts, they bravely set out — Step by step, one can also reach the other end of the continent
Before launching this remarkable journey, Loïc and Benjamin lived stable, routine urban lives in Paris: Loïc worked in a corporate sustainable development department, while Benjamin was a software product manager. Having grown up at the foot of the Alps, the two had loved nature and hiking since childhood.
Previously, their understanding of China came only from textbooks, news reports, and limited cultural symbols. "We knew China was important and interesting, but we knew very little about it," Loïc said. "As curiosity kept growing in our hearts, we very much wanted to see what China looked like up close."
"Why can't we walk to China step by step?" One day, Benjamin suddenly asked. This seemingly crazy idea, once sprouted, quietly took root in both their hearts. "Walking is an excellent way to spend time deeply immersing oneself in local culture and making new friends." The two 一拍即合 (yī pāi jí hé - "one clap and they come together," to hit it off immediately): if we're going, let's go! There will never be a more suitable time in life than now.
Three months before departure, they quit their jobs and devoted themselves fully to preparation. They researched visa policies, climate conditions, and 风土人情 (fēng tǔ rén qíng - "wind, earth, human feelings," local customs and conditions), designing as continuous an overland route as possible; they repeatedly tested tents, sleeping bags, and backpacks, precisely controlling their load. Relying on personal savings and sponsorship support such as the "Youth Adventure Fund" of their hometown Annecy, the road of dreams seemed already spread out before them.
In September 2024, the two began the adventure of their dreams.
"Day ×× of walking to China!" — this was the first sentence at the start of every video on the social media account the two ran together. China was both a clear geographical destination and a spiritual lighthouse guiding this long journey.
The hardship of the long trek was unimaginable. Shortly after setting out, more than 20 consecutive days of overcast rain gave the two a 下马威 (xià mǎ wēi - "prestige shown on dismounting from a horse," a warning or show of force at the outset). Loïc, who feared the cold, had to keep rubbing his frozen hands during the journey; Benjamin feared heat, and when they walked into Central Asia, the scorching sun and the endless Gobi made him 叫苦不迭 (jiào kǔ bù dié - "cry out in suffering without cease," to complain endlessly). According to plan, the two walked an average of 45 kilometers per day, equivalent to completing a marathon in a single day. At night, their feet were often in excruciating pain, barely able to stand.
"But we never truly thought of giving up, because we are realizing our dream, and the road beneath our feet leads to China!" the two said 异口同声 (yì kǒu tóng shēng - "different mouths, same voice," speaking in unison).
As they passed through various Eurasian countries, residents along the way, upon hearing that two French youths were walking to China, would often first be shocked, then repeatedly confirm: "Really walking there? Amazing!" These simple and warm exchanges gave the two tremendous spiritual support, accompanying them through more than 300 days and nights before they reached China.
Questioning history, the echoes are long — The ancient Silk Road was a network connecting all things
One year and one week after setting out, they finally arrived at the Khorgos port (霍尔果斯口岸) in Xinjiang, officially stepping into the China that had 魂牵梦萦 (hún qiān mèng yíng - "soul pulled, dreams entwined," to be haunted by longing for), beginning more than four months of walking within China.
"The moment before, before us was still a vast and quiet desert; the moment after passing through the border port, high-rise buildings seemed to 拔地而起 (bá dì ér qǐ - "rise up from the ground," to spring up suddenly), streets were 车水马龙 (chē shuǐ mǎ lóng - "carriages like water, horses like dragons," heavy traffic), and smart robots bustled about in hotels..." The stark visual contrast left a deep impression on the two.
What changed was not just the urban landscape, but an entire unfamiliar digital lifestyle. Under the guidance of local people, they quickly downloaded WeChat, Alipay, and map applications, figured out QR code payments, navigation, and hotel booking, and also concentrated on practicing a few most practical Chinese phrases: "I am French," "We are walking to Shanghai," "Excuse me, where can we eat?" These simple sentences became keys to opening an unfamiliar world. At first, many passersby were somewhat surprised to see two foreigners carrying huge backpacks, but upon hearing that they had walked all the way from France, they immediately gave thumbs up in admiration.
Today, people crossing the Eurasian continent in various ways are not uncommon. Near the Khorgos port, one might encounter three or four European cyclists preparing to enter China in a single day, and some choose to travel by train or bus. But those who can truly complete such a long journey on foot are truly rare.
While modern transportation has greatly compressed spatial distance, walking deliberately "re-expands" that distance. During their journey, the two often experienced a strange sense of interweaving time and space: while crossing the Eurasian continent, they seemed also to be stepping, step by step, into the long history of the ancient Silk Road. Passing through Venice, Italy, they visited the former residence of Marco Polo; upon reaching Zhangye, Gansu, they went to the Marco Polo statue on European Street to pay tribute to this "pioneer" who promoted exchange between Eastern and Western civilizations; after arriving in Xi'an, Shaanxi, they made a special trip to the South Square of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, pausing before the statue of Xuanzang. The two "eastbound" youths seemed to achieve a dialogue across time and space with the westward seeker of the Dharma from a thousand years ago.
From Georgia and Turkey to Central Asia, many of the places they passed through were important nodes in the ancient Eurasian transportation and trade network. When crossing the desert in Uzbekistan, the endless yellow sand seemed to have no end in sight. "After walking for a long time, a city suddenly appeared in the distance. That excitement is hard to describe," Loïc recalled. "We seemed to instantly understand the ancient caravans' anticipation of oases."
After entering China, the Hexi Corridor made this feeling more concrete. The terrain here is long and narrow, bordering the Gobi desert to the north and highlands and mountains to the south. For thousands of years, it has been an important passage connecting the Central Plains and the Western Regions. Standing within it, the two began to think about why the ancient Silk Road extended along such a route.
"I realized that the ancient Silk Road was never a straight road, but a vast network formed by countless trade routes, cities, oases, and relay stations connected together." Loïc said with emotion. Now, the two rely on their feet to string together these geographical coordinates, every step seemingly treading on the lingering echoes of camel bells from a thousand years ago.
The traces of cultural exchange are often reflected in food. A common stuffed pasta in Turkey is called "manti dumplings"; in Kazakhstan, there is a larger version called "manti"; Georgia's "khinkali" is a pasta stuffed with meat filling and broth, which reminded them of Chinese xiaolongbao. Although they did not understand the chain of transmission among these foods, the similar dietary customs in different regions made them clearly feel that the marks of cultural exchange along the ancient Silk Road exist not only in museums and historical sites, but also settle in daily diets and hide in the details of life.
"The ancient Silk Road has not disappeared; only its form has changed," Benjamin said. "Camel caravans are long gone, but we see trucks 川流不息 (chuān liú bù xī - "flowing like a river without ceasing," continuous flow) on the highways, and large numbers of freight trains rushing past in dense succession. The flow of goods and regional connections have never ceased; on the contrary, they are increasingly active and close."
Majestic mountains and rivers, warm human hearts — Every step is a piece of the puzzle for understanding China
Walking from Xinjiang to Shanghai, the two experienced firsthand the enormous span of China's geography and culture. From vast snow-capped mountains and grasslands, to the surging Yellow River and stone forests standing like formations, to the densely scattered villages and towns and open plains of the east, the landscapes, climates, and rhythms of life along the way kept changing constantly.
The one-step-at-a-time mode of travel also brought them to places ordinary foreign tourists never reach. "We passed through village after village and town after town, saw farmers working in the fields, grain drying in courtyards, and cooking smoke rising from roadside stalls, and also saw smooth roads in remote areas, complete lighting, and large stretches of solar photovoltaic panels spread out." Traditional rural life and modern infrastructure interweaving formed, in their eyes, vivid and concrete pictures of China.
More unforgettable than the scenery were the people they met along the way.
Some villages may not have seen foreign tourists pass through for years. Children would curiously gather around when they saw the two, and both sides would chatter away happily, using halting English and broken Chinese. Along the way, villagers often took the initiative to bring them drinking water and snacks, asking again and again whether they needed help. When they had difficulty finding accommodation, local police and shopkeepers would enthusiastically help them contact places to stay, sometimes making multiple phone calls in a row to confirm a suitable place.
Being invited to meals was even more common, which gave the two a deep experience of the "sweet burden" brought by cultural differences.
"In France, finishing the food on your plate is a sign of respect to the host. But here, every time we finished eating, the host would think we hadn't eaten enough and bring out more. Only later did we gradually understand that we needed to clearly tell the host that we were truly full." Benjamin said with a smile.
The two also shared their travel experiences along the way through platforms such as Xiaohongshu and Douyin. Their courageous and adventurous long journey quickly attracted a large number of followers. More and more netizens provided route, weather, and supply suggestions in the comment sections; at every new destination, people left messages recommending accommodation and food; some even made special trips to meet them along the way. In Jiayuguan, Gansu, a netizen even contacted a restaurant in advance and paid for their meal.
On the last day of the journey, this friendship connected by the internet converged into a moving scene: about 70 Chinese and foreign netizens spontaneously came to accompany the two in completing the final 10 kilometers. Among these people, there was no shortage of participants who had made special trips to Shanghai from other cities.
"The scene of completing the journey together with everyone is something we will never forget. We walked and talked along the way, and the atmosphere was especially warm. This is something we have never experienced in other countries." the two said.
"This trip changed our one-dimensional impression of China," Benjamin said. "China is too vast. There is so much beauty on this land waiting for us to discover."
When truly walking through China's cities and countryside on foot, looking up at the vast wind turbines in the Gobi, holding up the golden crops spread across village threshing grounds, and admiring the brilliant city nightscape by the Yellow River, a real, three-dimensional China full of the warmth of everyday life also slowly unfolded before their eyes. "For us, every step is a piece of the puzzle for understanding China," Loïc said with a smile.
For the two, arriving in Shanghai was not the end point, but more like opening a new door. "On the map, China and France are far apart," Benjamin said, "but in our hearts, the spatial distance between China and France has already shortened, and our hearts are closer to the hearts of the Chinese people."
Return to TopBy: 古亚什·安奈特
My bond with China began in my youth. I grew up in the Hungarian countryside. As a child, I had no mobile phone or internet; the evening news and documentaries on television were my only window onto the world. On that small screen, the distinctive Chinese culture and a society brimming with developmental vitality filled me with boundless longing. I quietly set myself a goal: I must set foot on Chinese soil myself and come to understand what it truly looks like.
This longing became an inexhaustible driving force on my path of study. In university, I majored in sociology, and I read every book related to China in the library, one by one. Because I came from a rural background, I paid particular attention to the development of China's countryside. From those texts, I could read of China's rapidly changing transformation, and I could also understand the simplicity and kindness of the Chinese people.
At that time, very few people in Europe paid attention to distant China, so my research direction seemed especially unusual. I resolved then to become a narrator between Hungary and China, telling more people the true story of China's development.
In 1998, I received a quota for an exchange program at Renmin University of China. The first time I set foot on Chinese soil, a wonderful sense of belonging welled up in my heart, as if I had returned home after a long separation. At that time, my Chinese was still very halting, but no one laughed at me. My classmates all listened patiently, initiated conversations, and often encouraged me with smiles, filling me with warmth. This unvarnished tolerance and goodwill made my affection for China deepen day by day.
After returning home, I continued to pursue a doctorate in Sinology. It happened that Hungary's first Confucius Institute was being established, and I was finally able to put my years of learning into practice: conducting Chinese-language teaching, planning Chinese cultural events, proactively connecting with the local Chinese community, and building platforms for people-to-people exchange. Since then, I have been engaged in Chinese-language education and have devoted myself to advancing exchanges and cooperation between Hungary and China in all fields. It can be said that the first half of my life has been closely tied to China.
Witnessing Hungary-China people-to-people and cultural exchanges gradually flourish has been the greatest happiness I have felt over the years. Looking back on my youth, when learning Chinese and traveling to China were both fraught with inconvenience, today educational, tourism, and commercial cooperation between the two countries has blossomed everywhere, with results that can truly be called exemplary — Hungary has established seven Confucius Institutes, and the Hungarian-Chinese Bilingual School has been successfully set up; Chinese has become an elective foreign-language course in many secondary schools and has been incorporated into the Hungarian high school graduation examination; three top Hungarian universities have opened Chinese-language programs; the number of tourists traveling between the two countries has multiplied; visa-free policies and direct flights have opened a channel for two-way travel, and any Hungarian who loves China now has ample opportunity to draw closer to it. Seeing the passion I once steadfastly cherished now bearing abundant fruit, I am filled with emotion and gratification.
I have witnessed with my own eyes China's astonishing pace of development: in earlier years, I rode green-skinned trains, spending days traveling from north to south across China, tasting local specialties along the way and slowly savoring the everyday vitality of life; today, I board high-speed trains traveling at 350 kilometers per hour and cross a thousand li in an instant. Between that slowness and this speed lies the earth-shaking transformation China has undergone over several decades.
Over the years, countless warm moments have been deeply etched in my heart. I remember when I first arrived in Beijing, I bought a red bicycle and rode through the alleys of the old city, arriving beneath the red walls of the Forbidden City — this had been my wish since middle school, and in that moment it was finally fulfilled — a group of tourists took the initiative to invite me to join them and treated me with great warmth; in Qinhuangdao, Hebei, I was invited to a village wedding, where people enthusiastically pulled me into dancing and joined together in blessing the newlyweds, and pure joy enveloped me tightly; on another trip, there was an elderly man among my fellow travelers who, because of poor hearing, spoke very loudly, yet no one showed disdain or cast sidelong glances the entire time — everyone extended full tolerance.
These fragmentary moments of daily life have crystallized in my heart into four keywords that describe China: development, friendliness, tolerance, and cooperation. I have witnessed with my own eyes China's rapid advance, yet the Chinese people's simplicity, hospitality, and respect for others have never changed. The Chinese people cherish their cultural heritage stretching back millennia, face difficulties with resilience and composure, and forever strive toward a better life. In my long association with them, what has moved me most is the spirit of collaboration ingrained in the Chinese character — whether in work or in daily life, everything is approached with an emphasis on unity of purpose and harmonious coexistence.
The perseverance and courage I have learned from Chinese culture are the source of strength that has carried me through all difficulties. I also want to say a few words from the heart to young Chinese people: cherish the history and culture that belong uniquely to you — this is the most precious foundation of the Chinese nation. No matter how distant your dreams may be, as long as you identify the right direction and persist with your feet firmly on the ground, all your efforts will eventually be rewarded.
I am full of confidence in the future of Hungary-China people-to-people and cultural exchanges. I believe that as exchanges between the two countries continue to deepen, the two peoples, especially the younger generation, will have more opportunities for mutual learning and shared growth. I am willing to serve as a "bridge" connecting the Danube and the Yangtze, carrying the mutual understanding and warmth between Hungary and China forward, always.
(The author is an associate professor in the Chinese Department at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Hungary; this article was compiled from an interview by our reporter Yu Limin.)
Return to TopBy: 麦克·霍伊曼
My name is Mike Hoyman, and I come from Louisiana in the United States. In 2012, I came to China as an exchange student, and afterward I successively studied and worked in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Yunnan, and many other places. In 2016, I settled down in Dalian, Liaoning. This city has sea breezes on one side and mountains and wilderness hidden on the other; beneath blue skies and white clouds, green hills and verdant trees spread out before one's eyes — comfortable and pleasant, love at first sight.
When I first came to Dalian, I worked as a foreign English teacher at a school. In 2017, students invited me to Yingshishi Village, Dongjiagou Subdistrict, Jinpu New District to pick cherries — that was the first time I entered Li Dandan's (李丹丹) orchard. The orchard covered roughly 20-plus mu of land with more than 1,000 fruit trees. Sea breezes turned over the hilltops and blew into the orchard; the cherries on the trees were red and translucent all over. Bite into one, and the juice bursts open — refreshing and sweet. At that time, Li Dandan and I added each other's contact information. Later, as we had more contact, we discovered that the two of us really had no shortage of common topics. After repeated interactions, two people who had originally been separated by the Pacific Ocean eventually came together and started a family.
As a "foreign son-in-law," I naturally felt it my unshirkable duty (义不容辞, yì bù róng cí - "righteousness permits no refusal," to be duty-bound) to help with orchard matters, and I wanted to contribute effort to every task. When I was in the United States, I had always lived in the city and knew nothing at all about farm work. In order to be able to help, I steadily learned from scratch. When the harvest season arrived, I would get up at four or five in the morning, put on a straw hat, and head up into the mountains. As time went on, I also summed up quite a few insights: to pick cherries, you cannot yank hard; you have to pinch the stem and gently break it downward, otherwise if the fruit gets bruised it won't sell for a good price. There are many cherry varieties, each with its own characteristics — Meizao cherries have crisp flesh, and their size can even rival a ping-pong ball; Samidou cherries are heart-shaped with a sweet flavor; fully ripe Hongdeng cherries have purplish skin, at which point the taste is at its best, but they are also more afraid of bruising and are not easy to transport... The villagers all joke that I now count as half a "cherry expert."
After finishing work in the fields, I return to the bright and spacious farmhouse courtyard, where there is still sorting and packing to do. Riding the "Internet Plus" wave, we also opened a small e-commerce shop to sell cherries online. I often marvel at the efficiency of China's cold-chain logistics — goods shipped the first day can reach the customer's hands the second day. We have received orders from all corners of the country, and there are rarely cases of spoiled fruit.
Living in Dalian, I always want to do something for this place. With a phone and a selfie stick, I became a "new farmer," on the one hand promoting the local specialty cherries in an entertaining way, and on the other hand showcasing the happiness of rural life. "The cherries are red and dripping sweet, one bite and you're better than an immortal..." Behind a foreign face is the black soil, and Dalian-dialect rap accompanied by local rustic charm — perhaps it was this strong contrast that made this video of less than 90 seconds suddenly go viral, and it even won first prize in the self-media category of last year's local "Cherries Are Red" themed short-video competition. "Your Dalian dialect is authentic," "A genuine sea-oyster flavor," "So talented"... The enthusiastic replies from netizens under the video deeply encouraged me.
I have made many good friends here. Now I can not only speak fluent Dalian dialect, but I have also learned quite a few Northeastern home-style dishes — iron-pot stew, baozi, and jiaozi are all easy for me now. The longer I live here, the more I can feel the warmth this land brings. In the future, I will continue to hold up my camera to record the bits and pieces of daily life, telling friends on the other side of the ocean about the sweetness and tartness of the fruit, the cooking smoke of farmhouse life, and the warmth of human connection in Dalian.
(The author is an American self-media blogger; this article was compiled from an interview by People's Daily reporter Liu Jiahua.)
Return to TopBy: 王 政
As the release of automotive semi-annual reports unfolds, a data comparison has sparked heated market discussion: in the first half of the year, the operating revenue profit margin of the automobile manufacturing industry stood at 3.8%, while CATL's net profit attributable to the parent company in the first half reached 43.284 billion yuan, with a net profit margin of 16.9%.
Why is CATL's net profit margin so high? First, this is an inevitable reflection of the underlying restructuring of the automotive industry value chain. In the era of intelligent connected new energy vehicles, the value chain has undergone a fundamental shift. Batteries, chips, and autonomous driving solutions have replaced the traditional "three major components" of engines, transmissions, and chassis, becoming the core that determines a vehicle's premium pricing capability. Taking a pure electric vehicle equipped with a battery pack of more than 70 kilowatt-hours as an example, the battery cost already accounts for as much as 30% to 40% of the vehicle's total BOM (bill of materials) cost, and its share of the selling price also approaches one-third.
The shift in the value chain is not a sudden phenomenon unique to this year, but rather a structural change that has been accelerating in recent years. The contrast appears particularly striking this year because, under the dual pressure of "involution-style" competition and rising raw material prices, vehicle manufacturers have seen their profit margins decline further.
Second, CATL's high profits stem from the "moat" built by technology. According to its 2025 annual report, CATL's annual R&D expenditure reached as high as 22.147 billion yuan, with cumulative investment of over 90 billion yuan in the past decade, and it holds more than 54,000 domestic and international patents. This high-intensity investment has brought technological advantages that competitors will find difficult to catch up with in the short term: continuous technological iteration leading the world, with the Kirin condensed matter battery setting the global record for the highest energy density among mass-produced battery cells, and the Xiaoyao lithium iron phosphate battery setting a new global record for the charging rate of power batteries. In addition, CATL's capacity utilization rate is as high as 94.86%, roughly twice that of its peers, which not only enables efficient delivery but also greatly dilutes unit costs, allowing it to maintain a relatively high profit margin while pricing its products only 5% to 10% higher than those of other peers.
Third, CATL has demonstrated the responsibility and commitment of a leading enterprise. Against the backdrop of lithium resources being constrained by overseas factors, it took the lead in mass-producing sodium-ion batteries, freeing itself from resource dependence at the source; when solid-state batteries were difficult to mass-produce in the short term, it launched condensed matter batteries, with the battery pack weight controlled within 650 kilograms, enabling a sedan to achieve a driving range of 1,500 kilometers. This forward-looking technological layout not only safeguards the security of its own supply chain, but also secures the initiative for China's entire new energy industry in international competition.
Fourth, as a leader, CATL's business scope covers automobiles, energy storage, aircraft, electric vessels, zero-carbon, and more. As can be seen from the various data in its financial reports, CATL's profits come not only from China's automotive market; its overseas market share has risen year by year from 21.1% in 2021 to 30% in 2025, and in the first half of this year it increased by another 3.7 percentage points to reach 33.7%. In the power battery track where market competition is increasingly fierce, CATL has not seized market share by cutting prices. The company has ranked first in the industry in patent application growth for six consecutive years. What it pursues is not short-term profitability, but long-term competitiveness that can traverse business cycles — this is the code by which the enterprise avoids price involution and maintains relatively high profits.
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes accelerating the development of strategic emerging industries such as "intelligent connected new energy vehicles." This anchors a clear path for China's leap from a major manufacturing country to a manufacturing powerhouse. Leading enterprises in China's new energy vehicle industry chain, represented by CATL, obtain reasonable commercial returns through technological premiums and ecological value, and then continue to increase investment in technological innovation and industrialization. This not only lays a solid foundation for Chinese enterprises to continue leading the global race in solid-state battery mass production, but also delivers a qualified answer sheet for promoting high-quality development of the industry.
Return to TopBy: 证券时报记者 阮润生
"We are both growing up—AI (artificial intelligence) and us." Ms. Lin, a merchant in Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen, Guangdong, sold two AI translation devices to a French business customer with the help of her own AI translation machine. She told reporters that the number of foreign business customers she received this year has increased substantially, many of them from South American and African countries, and the shipment volume of AI translation devices in her shop has grown threefold compared with last year.
The AI "gold rush" among overseas consumers is precisely evidence of Huaqiangbei's commercial district ecosystem and industrial upgrading. Relying on flexible business models such as the "front shop, back factory" model, the "1-kilometer industrial chain" that Huaqiangbei has formed over many years is now closely interlinking with the trillion-yuan-scale electronic information industry cluster in Shenzhen and surrounding areas, precisely capturing the youthful and internationalized consumption wave, and achieving explosive growth on the new track of AI hardware exports.
Nearly 8,000 foreign business customers come to Huaqiangbei for procurement every day on average
In Shenzhen in August, the high heat has not deterred the flow of people in Huaqiangbei; many foreigners can be seen moving through the electronics malls and merchant stalls. From floor directories to the merchandise displayed at merchant stalls, basically everything has been updated with bilingual signage.
Some translations are very down-to-earth: "暴力筋膜枪" (violent fascia gun) has been literally translated as "violent massage gun"; merchants' greeting phrases have changed from "What are you looking at?" to "Hello, buy something."
According to survey statistics from the Huaqiangbei Subdistrict Office, since the beginning of this year, nearly 8,000 foreign business customers have come to Huaqiangbei for procurement on a daily average. Wang Chengzhu, deputy general manager of Shenzhen Huaqiang Electronics World Management Co., Ltd., told reporters that the combined single-day foot traffic at the three stores of Huaqiang Electronics World has exceeded 150,000 person-times at its peak. Based on actual market operations observation, the actual foreign customer flow may far exceed the officially counted figure.
"During the Canton Fair period, quite a number of overseas business customers will specifically reserve 3 days of their itinerary to browse Huaqiangbei," Wang Chengzhu introduced. Within the 1.45 square kilometers of Huaqiangbei's core commercial district, 35 electronics-related specialized markets are concentrated, bringing together millions of electronic components and offering a rich selection across the entire electronics industry chain. On ordinary days, tourists from Hong Kong, China are the majority; during holidays, the proportion of Hong Kong customer flow can reach over 30 percent. With the continuous optimization of the visa-free policy, coupled with overseas bloggers' on-site visits and their spread of information, more foreign business customers are being attracted to come to Huaqiangbei.
"Their procurement types are diverse—there is both impulse consumption and purposeful cross-border procurement, and some foreign merchants even take up residence in Huaqiangbei to engage in cross-border trade," Wang Chengzhu said. At the Huaqiang Plaza Hotel, located in Huaqiangbei's core commercial district, over 50 percent of the guests are foreign visitors.
At the same time, the Huaqiangbei commercial district is upgrading its overall supporting service facilities. In Huaqiang Electronics World, the merchant stalls on some floors have broken away from the traditional "田"-shaped (grid) layout, optimizing customer flow lines, increasing storefront exposure, widening pedestrian passages, setting up rest areas, and providing charging services. To better respond to the needs of foreign tourists, each floor of the mall also has "orange vest" volunteers equipped with translation pens, and fixed service posts are also equipped with AI translation devices.
Tax refund services for overseas business customers are also being improved. Starting July 1, the state launched convenience measures including small-amount spot checks, cross-province mutual recognition of "buy now, refund now," and paperless processing. Business customers handling "buy now, refund now" can choose any of five provinces—Hunan, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan—as their port of departure when leaving the country.
In Huaqiangbei, many storefronts have "buy now, refund now" tax refund signs hanging at their doors, or have traditional-character signs set up inside the store reading "instant tax deduction of 9%." Some stores have also prepared bilingual business cards for nearby tax refund points for foreign customers, reminding them not to open product packaging before departure, in case of customs spot checks.
At a street-front location in Huaqiangbei, the Shenzhen Branch of ICBC (Industrial and Commercial Bank of China) has created the country's first "three-in-one" centralized refund and payment point combining "departure tax refund, currency exchange, and payment convenience." One side of the counter handles departure tax refunds, the other side handles currency exchange, and an electronic screen on the wall displays exchange rates of multiple foreign currencies against the renminbi. It is understood that overseas travelers can complete departure tax refunds in one stop here, achieving buy-now-refund-now, currency exchange, and payment consultation in a single visit, eliminating the need to run around to multiple places and improving the travel consumption experience. Merchants have also been relieved of operational pressure and have revitalized their operating capital as a result.
AI translation devices and AI glasses have become standard equipment for many foreign customers
As foreign customers increase day by day, almost every merchant in Huaqiangbei has an AI translation device in hand: at one end, they speak product details into the translation device, and with a stretch of the arm, they bring the real-time translated content to the customer's ear. Foreign tourists also "do as the Romans do," picking apart products while speaking into the boss's AI translation device, or directly calling out "cheaper, cheaper."
A young boy accompanying a French customer rode a newly purchased electric luggage suitcase, excitedly demonstrating forward, backward, and turning movements to reporters, saying that in France they had never encountered a store selling this kind of suitcase. They had bargained and gotten several hundred yuan off. The French customer also lingered in Ms. Lin's shop for half a day, ultimately buying two AI translation devices.
The French customer told reporters that he works at a multinational company with a branch in Japan, and needs to communicate with Japanese clients on a daily basis, but some Japanese clients do not speak French or English, so AI translation devices have become a rigid necessity. Ms. Lin, who works in a specialty AI translation device store, told reporters that last year, the majority of customers coming to the store to purchase AI translation devices were C-end (consumer) foreign customers; this year, there are more B-end (business) customers, and the customer base has increased by 30 percent compared with last year.
In her view, the level of intelligence in AI products is improving significantly. In the past, products needed to rely on cloud-based AI; this year, on-device AI deployment has accelerated its rollout. AI translation devices can now operate independently offline, and the algorithms are more stable and more advanced, greatly expanding the application scenarios.
AI translation devices are just one microcosm of the rich AI hardware ecosystem in Huaqiangbei and even in Shenzhen as a whole. Data from Shenzhen Customs shows that in the first half of 2026, Shenzhen's imports and exports of high-tech products reached 1.7 trillion yuan, ranking first in the country. Among these, imports and exports of AI-related products exceeded the one-trillion-yuan mark. Huaqiangbei's AI product sales data is equally impressive. According to statistics from the Huaqiangbei Subdistrict Office, from January to July this year, sales of all categories of AI products in Huaqiangbei grew by more than 55 percent year-on-year, among which AI glasses sales doubled, and sales of drones and robots also increased substantially.
According to reporters' interviews, AI translation devices and AI glasses have become standard procurement items for many foreign merchants coming to Huaqiangbei. Huaqiangbei AI glasses manufacturers are not only launching more cost-effective alternatives to big brands, but are also continuously expanding personalized functions.
"Our AI glasses shipped one to two thousand units per month last year; this year we are already selling four to five thousand units per month, with 95 percent exported," Peng Zhitao, a sales representative of Shenzhen Youyu Technology Co., Ltd., told reporters. Offline channels are an important channel for the company to test products and acquire customers. Currently, India is the company's largest main market by shipment volume, and the Russian and Spanish markets have also started to ramp up this year.
Peng Zhitao explained that overseas users pay high attention to the instant photo-taking and video-recording functions of the glasses, and also value the AI assistant function. Compared with big-brand AI glasses priced at several thousand yuan, the company's products are positioned at 200–500 yuan, with pixel counts already reaching 13 million, close to the level of big brands. Moreover, the company's AI glasses also support personalized designs such as interchangeable prescription lenses and photochromic lenses. The new model has been reduced in weight by nearly half, significantly improving wearing comfort, and the company plans to launch AI glasses with display screen functionality by the end of this year.
Looking at the global picture, 2026 marks the node of explosive growth for the AI glasses market. Data from Omdia, a global technology market research and consulting firm, shows that global AI glasses shipments reached 8.7 million pairs in 2025, with the Chinese mainland market shipping nearly 1 million pairs, the fastest-growing market. In 2026, global AI glasses shipments will exceed 15 million pairs.
AI glasses merchants report that privacy protection for AI glasses is also a key concern for foreign business customers. The "first-person perspective" information collection mode of AI glasses is more intrusive, and the information collection method is more covert. The common practice in the market is for AI glasses to force a light to turn on as an indicator when shooting or recording.
Huaqiangbei and Shenzhen developers are keenly exploring new AI glasses shooting solutions that balance privacy protection. Some teams are designing detachable magnetic-attachment cameras; some teams are exploring on-device local storage, where data can only be viewed on one's own phone, home computer, or server.
Exploring frontier technologies such as brain-computer interfaces
The innovation of Huaqiangbei merchants is not limited to following the leaders. During this year's Spring Festival holiday, the "Huaqiangbei AI Eight Steeds" (华强北AI八骏), including AI glasses, sold briskly and became a sensation. Now it has been updated to the third edition, with products covering new technology items such as AI dual-screen translation devices, AI exoskeleton wearable devices, lobster boxes, AI 3D printers, and AI brain-computer interfaces.
In a brain-computer interface store in Huaqiangbei, a set of simulated racing tracks is on display, with toy racing cars running on them whose speed is controlled by a brain-computer device training instrument. The more focused the user is, the faster the racing cars run. Combined with professional application software courses, this equipment can be used to assess and improve children's concentration and self-control, and is also suitable for rehabilitation training for children with autism. An overseas version is currently being developed in parallel.
"We use non-invasive brain-computer interfaces, collecting human brain waves through electrode pads, and then conducting professional training based on the characteristics of the brain waves," Yang Jinlin, head of Pengnao Technology, told reporters. Most people's understanding of brain-computer interfaces is stuck on "invasive" devices, but the "non-invasive" brain-computer technology the company has developed is already at a leading position in the industry. Among these, the brain-computer sleep device is particularly favored by foreign business customers. This product collects the "sleepiness value" of the brain's prefrontal lobe, establishes a personalized sleep-aid model for users within 7 days, and matches specific frequency sounds, shortening the time it takes people with difficulty falling asleep to fall asleep by 20–50 percent.
"Currently, the brain-computer sleep device sells about 5,000 units per month, and it is expected to reach 30,000 units per month in the later stage, with the increment mainly coming from overseas markets such as the United States and Japan," Yang Jinlin introduced. The company plans to expand the application fields of brain-computer interfaces to pet emotion translation devices in the next step. According to the introduction, this device conducts dual-modal analysis through cat and dog vocalizations and video behavior, with emotion recognition accuracy exceeding 90 percent—this is a rigid demand reflected by overseas market feedback.
Huaqiangbei merchants are like vast capillaries, precisely pushing cutting-edge new AI products to the global market for testing and exploration, while actively absorbing first-hand market feedback to optimize and iterate product technology. Xie Tingfang, sales manager of Shenzhen Weiming Technology Co., Ltd., which has been deeply rooted in Huaqiangbei for over 20 years, told reporters that Huaqiangbei is a very precise and important customer acquisition channel for the company, and the company has long been the original manufacturer's "sales champion." "Last year I met a customer who has transacted over 900,000 yuan with me to date, and it is expected that we can reach 1.5 million yuan in transaction volume this year." Based on comprehensive market feedback, the company eliminates 5 percent of old model products and adds 10 percent of new products each year.
Behind all this lies Huaqiangbei's complete electronic supply chain capability, as well as the trillion-yuan-scale electronic information industry cluster in Shenzhen and surrounding areas.
Yang Jinlin told reporters that the company's R&D team is located in Bao'an District, Shenzhen, focusing on core algorithm research and technical breakthroughs, while the supply chain relies heavily on Huaqiangbei's strong supporting capabilities. The cycle from design to sample production can be shortened to 20 days, greatly improving iteration efficiency. Without relying on the Huaqiangbei market, the entire process might take half a year.
Ms. Lin told reporters that the company adopts the "front shop, back factory" model, with design and production concentrated in the areas around Huaqiangbei and in Bao'an District and Longgang District of Shenzhen, forming an integrated model of research, production, and sales. "Huaqiangbei's own speed is also iterating. Some customized parts used to take two months to produce samples; now samples can be given to customers for testing within a week. Foreign customers all exclaim, 'Shenzhen Amazing, Shenzhen Fast.'"
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王云杉
On August 6, in the waters of the Pearl River Mouth Basin, 200 kilometers southeast of Shenzhen, Guangdong, the world's first 16-megawatt tension-leg floating wind power platform — the "Haiyou Anlan" — was successfully connected to the Lufeng Oilfield power grid, directly supplying green electricity to the offshore oilfield. This is China's first tension-leg floating wind power platform, and also the world's tension-leg floating wind power platform with the deepest application water depth, the farthest offshore distance, and the largest single-unit capacity, marking that China's deep-sea floating wind power equipment technology has advanced to the world's forefront, and successfully exploring a new technical route for China's offshore wind power development.
What is the difference between a tension-leg floating wind power platform and a traditional offshore wind turbine? "Most traditional offshore wind turbines are fixed-bottom type, for example, driving huge pile foundations into the seabed to support the turbine. This approach is relatively mature in shallow sea areas, but when offshore wind power moves toward deep sea, the pile foundations become longer and heavier, steel usage surges, and construction difficulty and costs rise simultaneously, greatly reducing economic benefits." Yu Yingping, project leader of the "Haiyou Anlan," said that when water depth exceeds 60 meters, the economic efficiency of fixed-bottom turbines drops significantly, while floating wind power platforms become a more advantageous technical choice, and the tension-leg type is an important technical route among floating wind power platforms.
A tension-leg floating wind power platform consists of a floating body, a subsea anchoring foundation, and a mooring system. Taking the "Haiyou Anlan" as an example, the platform base is a triangular floating body structure with a side length of about 100 meters. The upper floating body provides enormous buoyancy pushing upward, while at the same time, 9 vertically taut steel cables beneath the platform, namely the "tension legs," are tightly connected to the anchoring foundation on the seabed, pulling the floating body downward. The two forces of "one push up, one pull down" firmly "pin" the platform to the sea surface.
Yu Yingping said that the tension-leg floating wind power platform has outstanding advantages in stability and steel usage per megawatt, and also occupies a smaller sea area, greatly alleviating the contradiction between offshore wind power development and traditional marine utilization activities, and will be more conducive to the efficient and intensive use of marine space.
Behind the technical advantages lie challenges. The tension-leg floating wind power platform is also internationally recognized as the floating wind power solution with the highest technical difficulty, and there was previously no application precedent in China. The "Haiyou Anlan" has an overall height equivalent to nearly 110 stories of a building, with a total weight of 7,800 tons. The sea area where it is located faces complex sea conditions such as frequent typhoons, the steel cables must withstand severe tests such as enormous tension over the long term, and the rigidity of the main structure and construction precision requirements are extremely high. Every step from equipment design to construction and transportation faces enormous tests.
Feng Dong, engineer of the "Haiyou Anlan" project, said that the successful implementation of the "Haiyou Anlan" lies in fully leveraging the advantages of the new nationwide system for mobilizing resources, with central state-owned enterprises, private enterprises collaborating on innovation and jointly tackling key problems. Multiple leading domestic manufacturing and processing enterprises jointly participated in research, development, and manufacturing, breaking through technical bottlenecks, and a large number of components are world firsts.
It is understood that the "Haiyou Anlan" is equipped with a 16-megawatt typhoon-resistant wind turbine, with a swept area of 53,000 square meters, equivalent to 7.5 standard football fields. After being put into production, it is expected to provide 54 million kilowatt-hours of green electricity to the oilfield each year, capable of meeting the annual electricity demand of 70,000 people, equivalent to saving 15,000 cubic meters of fuel oil and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 35,000 tons.
According to assessments by the National Climate Center, deep-sea offshore wind energy resources are the key source of future growth space for offshore wind power. The 15th Five-Year Plan outline clearly states that offshore wind power bases will be built in the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea, with standardized and orderly advancement of deep-sea offshore wind power development, and the cumulative grid-connected installed capacity of offshore wind power will reach more than 100 million kilowatts.
"China's deep-sea offshore wind energy resources are abundant. To better develop these resources, we must transform wind turbines from 'inserted into the seabed' to 'floating on the sea surface.'" Feng Dong believes that the tension-leg floating wind power platform has broad development space in the future and is expected to become a "new growth curve" for deep-sea offshore wind power development.
Return to TopBy: 王 珂
The consumption market scorecard for the first seven months has recently been released. Data show that since the start of this year, China's consumer market has maintained a development trend of moving toward the new and toward excellence, with steady expansion in scale and continuous improvement in quality. From January to July, total retail sales of consumer goods and services grew by 2.6 percent year on year, of which retail sales of services grew by 5.0 percent, continuing to outpace the growth rate of retail sales of goods. Beyond the data, the full "welfare content" (福祉含量) revealed in China's consumption deserves even greater attention.
This "welfare content" is reflected in the expansion of service consumption, adding color to a better life. From the bustling crowds traveling during holidays to the high popularity of community fitness venues; from the endless stream of visitors to museums and art galleries to inclusive childcare and home-based elderly care services entering ordinary households, service consumption has presented a wealth of highlights, reflecting that people's needs are extending from material satisfaction toward spiritual enjoyment. From January to July, the retail sales growth rates of tourism consulting and rental services and of cultural, sports and leisure services both exceeded 10 percent, and July box office revenue grew by more than 20 percent year on year. More and more families are paying for leisure, health, culture, and education.
This "welfare content" is reflected in the upgrading of goods and the enhancement of the texture of life. An energy-saving refrigerator reduces a household's electricity bills, a smart home appliance frees up housework time, and a new energy vehicle makes travel more economical and environmentally friendly — driven by the policy of trade-ins for consumer goods, more green and intelligent products have entered thousands of households. In July, retail sales of communication equipment and of cultural and office supplies by units above the designated size grew by 20.4 percent and 7.4 percent respectively, and the retail penetration rate of new energy passenger vehicles reached 65.1 percent, setting another record high. This type of upgrading consumption is not an unimportant extra expense, but rather livelihood expenditure that directly optimizes daily scenarios such as home life and travel. High-quality goods are entering ordinary households at more affordable prices, transforming into tangible and perceptible welfare in people's lives.
This "welfare content" is also reflected in the optimization of the urban-rural structure and the broader coverage of high-quality supply. With the advancement of the county-level commercial system, county residents have broken through geographical restrictions and simultaneously enjoy rich, high-quality supply. From January to July, retail sales of consumer goods in rural areas grew by 2.4 percent year on year, with the growth rate 1.3 percentage points higher than that in urban areas. From the two-way smooth flow of agricultural products moving upward and industrial products moving downward on e-commerce platforms, to the renewed vitality of township commercial centers and distinctive markets, the growth of the lower-tier market is not merely an increase in numbers, but also a continuous narrowing of the consumption experience gap between urban and rural areas — a vivid portrayal of development achievements being shared more extensively and more equitably among all the people.
Viewed on a longer time dimension, the steady improvement of the "welfare content" of China's consumption is an irreversible long-term trend. The connotation of consumption is continuously expanding — from "whether it exists" to "whether it is good," from "as long as it works" to "green and intelligent." This transformation both reflects the livelihood-oriented foundation of China's development and is highly consistent with the policy orientation of closely combining the improvement of people's wellbeing with the promotion of consumption. Consumption promotion policies have moved beyond the simplistic approach of expanding scale, adhered to a people-centered philosophy, and closely integrated expanding domestic demand and promoting consumption with improving the quality of life. From trade-in policies that deliver real monetary benefits directly to the people and bring green and intelligent products into people's daily lives, to building 15-minute convenient living circles and developing inclusive childcare and elderly care services, to improving social security and medical insurance, advancing the equalization of public services, and alleviating people's worries about the future... policy practice has repeatedly confirmed that improving people's wellbeing is the premise and foundation for promoting consumption, and promoting consumption is an important pathway to improving people's wellbeing. The virtuous cycle between the two makes growth warmer and more sustainable.
The ultimate significance of consumption is not the numbers on statistical reports, but the people's tangible better life. At present, the fundamentals of the consumer market — strong resilience, great potential, and abundant vitality — have not changed. As the series of consumption promotion policies continue to take effect and be implemented, and as the supply of goods and services is continuously optimized, the "welfare content" of consumption will surely be further enhanced, carrying more people's aspirations for a better life and injecting deeper and more enduring momentum into high-quality economic development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨颜菲
In Luxi County, Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province, objects of this shape can often be seen: they resemble a string of small white bowls stacked upside down, and also a pile of porcelain dishes of varying sizes. These are insulators — they erect a barrier for electrical safety, isolating transmission conductors from utility poles and towers, while steadily supporting line operation and safeguarding the safety of power transmission. In Luxi, piles of porcelain clay raw materials undergo multiple fine processes such as forming, glazing, and sintering, ultimately transforming into key components that protect countless power grids. And Luxi, a small city in western Jiangxi, relying on a century of accumulated electric porcelain industry heritage, has delved deep into the small insulator, creating a specialty industry renowned both at home and abroad, and has forged the industry reputation that "for world electric porcelain, look to China; for China's electric porcelain, look to Luxi." In 2025, Luxi's 100 above-scale electric porcelain and electrical enterprises achieved an output value of 9.81 billion yuan.
Today, the medium and low voltage line porcelain insulators produced here occupy 75% of the domestic market share and 20% of the international market share, with products selling well in more than 40 countries and regions. Insulators have also transformed from mere industrial products into a component of local culture. How does one insulator support the backbone of a regional economy? A reporter conducted a visit and investigation.
The Transformation of Technology —
The Turn from "Following" to "Leading"
Luxi's kiln fires were ignited as early as a thousand years ago. Historical records show that the porcelain-making history of Nankang Kiln in Luxi can be traced back to the Song and Yuan dynasties, and among the people there has long been the saying, "First there was Yaoxia, then there was Raozhou."
As one of the birthplaces of China's electric porcelain industry, Luxi has a history of industrialized porcelain-making spanning more than 120 years. Entering the new era, Luxi's electric porcelain and electrical industry has accelerated its iteration, developing into a specialty industry cluster of considerable scale.
"In the past, our insulator products were relatively single in variety, mainly low-voltage products," said Xie Xiqun, head of Pingxiang Qiangsheng Electric Porcelain Manufacturing Co., Ltd. The enterprise had long used semi-automated production lines, with production processing and quality verification highly dependent on the experiential judgment of veteran craftsmen, resulting in low efficiency, relatively high production costs, and insufficiently stable product quality.
This was not a problem unique to Qiangsheng Electric Porcelain. For a long period, although Luxi's industrial scale was continuously expanding, hidden concerns followed as well.
"The establishment of the research institute is mainly to solve a large number of common technical problems in the industry and promote industrial technology upgrading," said Zhang Xueri, head of the Science and Technology Management Department of the Luxi High-Voltage Electric Porcelain and Electrical Research Institute. Although a local industry cluster had formed with a large number of enterprises, in terms of product structure, medium and low-end products accounted for 60%–70%, many key technical problems remained effectively unsolved for a long time, and most traditional electric porcelain enterprises faced problems such as outdated equipment, backward processes, and insufficient R&D.
Luxi took the lead in establishing the Luxi High-Voltage Electric Porcelain and Electrical Research Institute, helping enterprises build research teams and providing full-process services in technical breakthroughs, patent applications, and talent cultivation; at the same time, it actively sought special technical transformation funds to effectively alleviate the funding pressure on enterprises during transformation.
"In 2025, we jointly carried out a technical breakthrough for ultra-high-voltage complete-set production with Pingxiang Haikelasi Electric Porcelain Co., Ltd. After continuous R&D and iteration, we achieved a major breakthrough in March this year, comprehensively overcoming core technical difficulties, successfully mass-producing ultra-high-voltage porcelain insulators with stable and reliable quality, and completing the industrialization of the technical achievements," Zhang Xueri said. At the research institute, key technologies are being overcome one by one.
In the past, ultra-high-voltage electric porcelain suffered from insufficient performance stability and great difficulty in process control; today, the research institute has successfully overcome 4 key preparation technologies, strictly controlling the strength standard deviation of porcelain components from 25% to within 10%, with comprehensive performance reaching the internationally advanced level. In 2025, the institute's "Advanced Electric Porcelain Materials Pilot-Scale Platform" was selected for the first batch of key cultivated pilot-scale platforms by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. As of now, the platform has applied for 15 invention patents and participated in the formulation of 10 standards.
To promote the overall leap of the industry, Luxi has also built a 5,000-mu core agglomeration area and comprehensive agglomeration area for the electric porcelain industry — the Luxi Electric Porcelain Industrial Park. Leading enterprises with "China" prefixes and "state-owned" designations, such as Sinoma Electric Porcelain, Dalian Electric Porcelain, and Fushun Electric Porcelain, have successively settled in.
"Luxi not only has a complete industrial chain locally, but also skilled technical workers, providing a good environment for enterprise growth," said Chen Zhipeng, deputy director of the Technology Center of Sinoma Jiangxi Electric Porcelain and Electrical Co., Ltd., explaining the reason for choosing Luxi.
The industrial park is the industrial chain; the upstairs and downstairs are the upstream and downstream. At present, Luxi has formed the only insulator industry cluster in the country covering glass, composite, and porcelain insulators. The county's electric porcelain and electrical industry chain has 178 enterprises, including 106 above-scale electric porcelain enterprises, employing nearly 30,000 people.
Walking into Qiangsheng Electric Porcelain's production workshop, one can see the brand-new AI (artificial intelligence) + electric porcelain intelligent forming production line running at full speed, with precise and agile mechanical arms efficiently completing the entire process of forming, processing, and other steps, with intelligent control and precise manageability throughout.
"With the full implementation of intelligent algorithm control and AI intelligent inspection systems, the enterprise's product qualification rate has now risen to 98%–99%, and daily production capacity has increased from the original 300 units to 1,500–1,600 units," Xie Xiqun said. "Now, our production capacity has multiplied, and product quality is precisely controllable."
Today, Luxi electric porcelain has formed a product matrix covering all voltage levels from 10 kV to ±1100 kV, with more than 40 series and over 600 varieties. From the initial low-voltage line porcelain to today's ultra-high-voltage insulators, Luxi electric porcelain has completed a magnificent turn from "following" to "leading."
The Transformation of the Market —
From "Made in Luxi" to "World Brand"
"Welcome to our insulator manufacturing factory." In January this year, Jiangxi Qiaosen Electric Co., Ltd. released a 10-second bilingual Chinese-English short video of its workshop. Once released, the video quickly attracted widespread attention, with a single video's views exceeding 130,000, and it also received multiple overseas order inquiries.
Qiaosen Electric's short video works clearly display the entire process from product production and processing to finished product performance testing. Overseas customers do not need to visit the factory in person; through online footage alone, they can complete product selection in one stop and quickly establish initial cooperative trust.
"We are not fighting alone, but carrying the industrial heritage of 'Luxi Electric Porcelain,' going to sea together to explore the global market," introduced Wu Zhe, general manager of Qiaosen Electric. This short-video customer acquisition model reduces customer acquisition costs by more than 90% compared to traditional exhibition participation models, and the coordination cycle from initial customer inquiry to sample dispatch has also been greatly compressed. At present, the company's overseas market coverage has expanded to Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and other regions, with high-quality overseas inquiries brought by short-video traffic continuing to increase in effectiveness, and multiple projects under coordination have successively entered the stages of sample testing and in-depth business negotiations.
"The quality requirements for power grid infrastructure products in our country are the highest in the world. If you can produce products that meet domestic requirements, you can certainly produce qualified products for export. This can be called a 'dimensional reduction strike,'" said Wu Di, deputy sales manager of Pingxiang Huaci Insulator Co., Ltd.
At Huaci Insulator Company, a batch of 40 tons of high-voltage glass insulators is about to be shipped to Cambodia, already the twelfth batch sent there this year. Since the beginning of this year, affected by extreme high temperatures globally, overseas power grid renovation demand has been released intensively, and Luxi electric porcelain exports have grown by nearly 30% year-on-year. Many insulator production enterprises have production plans scheduled into 2027, and busy scenes of full-capacity operation can be seen everywhere.
"Since June, we have frequently received urgent replenishment orders from overseas, with stable single-shipment volumes and continuous incremental ordering. Market demand is very strong," Wu Di said. High temperatures have raised regional electricity loads, and insulator wear and tear has increased significantly. The power grids of Southeast Asian and South Asian countries have weak foundations, and existing power components cannot withstand high-temperature, high-load conditions. The concentrated outbreak of equipment replacement and grid renovation demand during the hot season has directly driven a surge in export demand for Luxi electric porcelain.
Different countries' power grid standards and climatic environments differ greatly; tropical products must resist humidity, heat, and salt spray, while desert products must withstand wind, sand, and temperature differences. Luxi has built a national-level R&D pilot-scale platform to conduct various weatherability tests and product verification in one stop. "In the past, sending samples overseas for testing took a month; now the local platform can issue a test report in one week, quickly meeting the market access requirements of various countries," said Pan Zhijian, production manager of Huaci Insulator Company.
At present, Luxi electric porcelain products are sold to more than 40 countries and regions worldwide, with over 600 customized products developed cumulatively and more than 20 international certifications obtained. In addition, Luxi County has also implemented the Electric Porcelain Going-to-Sea Project, building a one-stop comprehensive foreign trade service platform for electric porcelain, integrating services such as inquiry matching, qualification certification, customs declaration, and legal consulting. It has assisted enterprises in obtaining 7 international product certifications and 13 international mutual recognition qualifications, enabling them to connect with overseas orders from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa without leaving home.
From selling products to selling technology and selling standards, Luxi electric porcelain is relying on its hard-core strength to expand its territory in the markets of countries jointly building the "Belt and Road Initiative."
In 2025, Luxi electric porcelain exports reached 381 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 79.16%; from January to June this year, electric porcelain exports reached 226 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 52.15%. Luxi electric porcelain is empowering the global energy system with the "China Solution," making "Made in China" a reliable choice for the world's power grids.
The Transformation of Crossover —
From "Industrial Heavyweight" to "New Consumer Favorite"
"This is our county's cultural and creative IP (intellectual property) 'Electric Baby Zizi,'" said Liu Jingjing, deputy general manager of Luxi Xinlv Tourism Development and Investment Company. "Zizi is the sound of electric current."
In Luxi's Zizi cultural and creative store, small and exquisite "Zizi" image insulator ornaments, polo shirts printed with the Zizi pattern, and keychains modeled after insulators are quite popular.
"Centering on 'Electric Baby Zizi,' we have developed a complete set of cultural and creative blind boxes, integrating electric porcelain industry elements with intangible cultural heritage folk patterns to create the core IP, and creating plush toys, refrigerator magnets, car number plate holders, stationery, and other products. Multiple distinctive products have been selected for the national-level cultural and creative recommendation list and have won provincial-level cultural and museum creative awards. Among them, the car number plate holder cultural and creative product won the 'China Good Gift' honor award in 2024, was also exhibited in Africa, and has now become a best-selling product," Liu Jingjing said. As of now, Luxi has cumulatively launched more than 130 cultural and creative product categories; as of June 2026, revenue through supermarket and mall channels alone has exceeded 17 million yuan.
"We have linked up with scenic areas, launching a model where purchasing a package ticket gives away Zizi cultural and creative products, and we have also independently developed the zizi Zizi-themed coffee, which has entered scenic areas, hospitals, and offline multi-brand stores," Liu Jingjing said.
At the same time, industrial tourism is becoming a new calling card for Luxi. The collision of ancient kiln fires and modern wisdom means those mottled old factory buildings, ancient dragon kiln sites, and precious industrial archives are no longer dusty memories but valuable resources for revitalization and utilization.
Luxi has built a distinctive cultural town for electric porcelain, carefully polishing cultural tourism routes centered on exploring ancient kiln sites, observing modern electric porcelain production, and experiencing craftsman skills, and developing study tourism so that visitors can, amid the "zizi" sound of electric current and the warmth of kiln fires, personally experience the transformation from clay to product and feel the weight of industrial civilization and the vitality of innovation.
"I only knew that Luxi electric porcelain was impressive before, but I never imagined the production process would be so stunning!" said Zhang Wei, a tourist from downtown Pingxiang, after visiting and observing how pieces of porcelain clay are transformed into insulators through processes such as clay pressing, forming, body trimming, and glazing. Now, Luxi is planning to build an electric porcelain industrial tourism route so that more people can understand the story behind insulators.
Study tours are equally popular. The Luxi Nankang Ancient Kiln Culture Study Center is open to primary and secondary school students, where children can learn about the "past and present lives" of electric porcelain and personally experience porcelain-making techniques. "So the electricity we use has so many 'guardian spirits' behind it!" one primary school student wrote in their study notes. This immersive experience not only popularizes electrical knowledge but also plants the seed of serving the country through science and technology in children's hearts.
From a small insulator as an "industrial heavyweight" to a "new consumer favorite," Luxi electric porcelain is breaking boundaries, achieving diversified integration, and cross-border attempts have expanded the added value of the electric porcelain industry while also making the "Capital of China's Electric Porcelain" brand deeply rooted in people's hearts.
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During this summer at Shanghai Disneyland, as the float parade passed by, what was raised in the crowd was not just smartphones — all kinds of gimbal cameras and telephoto lenses also frequently "made their appearance." Lin Xiao, a post-95s white-collar worker in Beijing, was one of them. Before going to Disneyland, she had hesitated over whether to buy a DJI Pocket 4, but since she did not travel much on ordinary days, she was afraid it would sit idle after purchase. On a recommendation, she rented one on the Renrenzu platform without a deposit; it arrived the next day with complete accessories, and two days cost less than 100 yuan. "The experience was great, and I gained a new understanding of rental consumption," Lin Xiao said.
Lin Xiao's experience is a vivid footnote to rental consumption entering public life. From telephoto lenses at concerts to camping equipment, from game cartridges to intelligent robots, from renting cars for self-driving trips to Hanfu formal wear, a new consumption model of "valuing use, de-emphasizing ownership" is becoming a new color in the consumer market.
In recent years, driven by the dual engines of policy and market, China's consumer rental industry has risen rapidly. In January this year, the Ministry of Commerce and eight other departments jointly issued the Notice on Implementing the Green Consumption Promotion Action, which explicitly proposed "vigorously developing green rental services, innovating green consumption models, and encouraging mobility sharing, space sharing, and goods sharing"; in July, the National Development and Reform Commission released the "15th Five-Year Plan" for Circular Economy Development, listing the regulation of second-hand goods circulation and the promotion of green consumption as key tasks. The White Paper on the Healthy Development of the Consumer Rental Industry in the Context of the Circular Economy published by the Development Research Center of the State Administration for Market Regulation shows that in 2024, China's rental economy transaction scale exceeded 4.2 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 32%, serving over 750 million users, with digital-intelligent platforms accounting for 65% of transaction value.
You can "enjoy" without buying — the "rental life" is winning over young people.
Since the summer, rental consumption has heated up across the board. On the mobility side,神州租车 (CAR Inc.) order volume grew over 30% year-on-year, and the scale of car-rental users grew by about 30% simultaneously; Didi Chuxing's car rental order volume continued to climb, with average daily orders up over 50% year-on-year. On the digital products side, data from the Renrenzu platform shows that short-term rental demand saw an explosion, with related orders up 66.8% year-on-year; by category, concert equipment and gaming gear were even hotter, growing 388.5% and 488.7% year-on-year respectively.
Young people have become the absolute mainstay, with post-95s and post-00s contributing over 66.5% of orders in related categories. "I used to feel constrained when renting things, afraid that a bump or scratch would mean paying compensation," said Chen Xi, a post-00s cycling enthusiast who rented a Canon R50 camera and lens for just over 200 yuan for 7 days. "The platform inspected the device before sending it out, and minor scratches on return did not require compensation — the whole process felt very secure." For items that are "high unit price, low frequency" such as digital products and outdoor gear, renting eliminates the worries of depreciation from purchase and idle dust-collecting; rent as you use, with both cost-effectiveness and experience on point.
Deposit-free plus device inspection — "daring to rent" now has solid support.
The popularization of rental consumption cannot be separated from the establishment of a trust mechanism. The credit-based deposit-free model has greatly lowered the consumption threshold, waiving deposits for a large number of users. The Notice on Implementing the Green Consumption Promotion Action proposes "promoting 'AI + green consumption,' innovating smart products and smart scenarios, using advanced technology to strengthen resource matching and intelligent scheduling, improving intelligent service levels, and promoting efficient resource utilization." Relying on the empowerment of advanced digital technology, relevant business entities are accelerating their exploration and practice. The Renrenzu platform has deployed 12 standardized warehousing and fulfillment centers nationwide, and through intelligently scheduled equipment, has extended "next-day delivery" service to more than 200 cities, improving fulfillment efficiency by about 50%; at the same time, relying on AI large models, it has built a standardized, traceable device-inspection quality control system, and has so far intercepted more than 400,000 substandard devices from entering the rental market, effectively safeguarding users' "worry-free rental" experience.
Standard construction is also accelerating. In May last year, the national standard GB/T 45828—2025 Quality Information Description for Shared Idle Goods was officially promulgated, filling the standard gap in quality information description in the shared rental field; in January this year, the group standard Physical Rental — Operating Management Specification for Online Rental of Consumer Goods was implemented, further improving whole-process service guidelines. From "groping in the early stages" to "having standards to rely on," the quality bottom line of rental consumption is being continuously consolidated. At the same time, e-commerce platforms such as Dewu APP have successively launched rental services, covering more than 100 categories including digital products, clothing accessories, and luxury bags, and the industry ecosystem is becoming increasingly diversified.
One item used multiple times — idle resources "turn" out a green ledger.
A camera circulates through the hands of different consumers, a phone completes multiple "tours of duty" — the rental model makes idle items "busy" and also brings resource consumption "down." According to calculations by industry platforms, scaled circular rental has cumulatively facilitated more than 30 million cycles of equipment reuse, reducing about 80,000 tons of electronic waste; the individual consignment rental model can increase equipment utilization rates by more than 10 times and extend life cycles by 3 to 5 years. Looking at the industry as a whole, second-hand trading, shared rental, and trade-in programs are forming a combined force, injecting market-driven momentum into the green circular economy.
"Rental consumption is essentially the separation of ownership and use rights — it both lowers the consumption threshold and improves resource utilization efficiency, making it an important practice of the green circular economy," said Zhu Di, a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. As the standards system improves and services upgrade, rental consumption will move from a "niche choice" to a "mass norm," injecting dual momentum into expanding domestic demand and green development.
Return to TopBy: 谢 冕
Fuzhou is covered by banyan shade all year round, hence its other name, the City of Banyans, with the fragrance of flowers and fruit floating everywhere. The Min River flows slowly through the city center, and at the famous Mawei Harbor, the waves of the East China Sea surge. Fuzhou is indeed a land of blessing, blessed by heaven, yet I was somewhat born at an inauspicious time. In January 1932, I was born in this city known as the "City of Blessings." Age five should be the age when memory begins; from that time on, what accompanied my growing up was the sound of gunfire and cries of wailing from the distant north, the elegiac songs of lost territory, and the famine victims and wounded soldiers visible everywhere on the streets. Hardship and anxiety hastened my early maturity. Suffering adorned my childhood.
Although I did not catch up with the May Fourth Movement, I was fortunate to live for a long time at Peking University, the "cradle of May Fourth," and I received the spiritual "inheritance" of that generation: strengthening the nation and renewing the people, saving the country from subjugation and ensuring its survival. Among my teachers were figures such as Mr. Yang Hui, who had charged forward bravely in those days, as well as poets, writers, and scholars. And everything that happened after May Fourth, I experienced either from near or far, deeply or shallowly. I possessed the hardships and suffering of the era, and I also possessed its colorfulness and new birth. I am rich, and I am fortunate.
My Life Ideal
My childhood and youth were neighbors to suffering. Poverty, hunger, and the ever-present crisis of having to drop out of school made my young heart hold a vision of resisting darkness and pursuing light. In times of hesitation and anguish, from books and from hearsay, I heard the song "There Is a Good Place Beyond the Mountain," which was the realm of freedom and equality I yearned for. At age 17, I joined the majestic ranks that welcomed the new society, devoting my life to the struggle for light and ideals. I left the difficult years behind me. In recent years, I have had the opportunity to return to my alma mater, Trinity School (now Fuzhou Foreign Language School), and the school found an old registration form of mine. One question on the form was: Your life ideal? I filled in five characters: to serve society.
In old age, having seen more of the world, one often asks oneself calmly: we toil all our lives, enduring every hardship — for what? The East believes in reincarnation, the West believes in heaven; I believe in neither. I know that wealth, status, and titles are all empty in the end. Lu You said, "At death I know all things are empty" — he had his own thorough awakening, but he still bore the sorrow of family and country, and this I identify with. Human life is very short — learning life, learning knowledge, learning one's career, for the sake of posterity, struggling hard, enduring a thousand hardships. I often sigh over the passing of those scholars and great figures, grieving for them — a lifetime of accumulated learning, and how swiftly they come and go!
I often reflect on myself: ordinary, even insignificant, hardly worth mentioning. What is the meaning of living? I remember back then, when I read Popular Philosophy, read the history of social development, and also read Reform Our Study, I gained the consciousness of "serving the people." This answer remotely continues what I wrote on that junior high school registration form: for society, for the people, do good deeds, help others by every possible means. I once made a vow in the third person: "In order to be a true person, he struggled bitterly all his life."
Life Enriched by Poetry
As soon as I learned to read characters, I began reading May Fourth new literature. Bing Xin taught me to love, Ba Jin taught me to resist, Lu Xun taught me to shout in silence. The great master's essays were profound and hard to understand, but gradually I came to understand them, and I gained a new awakening. Later, at Peking University, I had the opportunity to come into contact with the great academic masters of that era. Peking University taught me the essentials of scholarship, and I began to understand the history of human civilization, especially systematically studying the classics of Chinese literature. Literature miraculously soothed my once-wounded heart.
It was at this time that poetry entered my life. Willows swaying gently, rain and snow falling thick and fast, lone smoke over the desert, spring river and flower moon. I was moved by those exquisite sentiments of antiquity. In those poor and sorrowful days, poetry brought me abundance and joy. On elementary school spring outings, I could not afford the fee; to forget my grief, I shut myself in my room and read poetry. At that time, half-understanding, I recited from memory "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" and "Song of the Pipa Player." Poetry soothed my soul, and I began to form a bond with poetry. The years were harsh, my heart was mournful — "Sleepless, worrying over war and battle, powerless to right the world" — when I was trapped in peril, poetry gave me the courage to live. In the cold nights I secretly wrote poetry. I began to love poetry — modern and ancient, Eastern and Western — and I was enchanted by this miraculous literary form.
Only One Thing in a Lifetime
When one is young, one is prone to arrogance, believing one has boundless strength and can do many things — but in fact, not necessarily. I was a soldier, I went to school, I also went to the countryside — youthful ambition, high aspirations. I admired Wang Guowei, and I also admired Wen Yiduo; their lives were short, yet they created and ascended the peaks of scholarship! But I could only be an ordinary person doing ordinary things. I remember back then, Zang Kejia, editor-in-chief of Poetry Journal, had a whimsical idea: to have university students compile a history of Chinese new poetry. Xu Chi, Sha Ou, and Ding Li personally visited my dormitory at Peking University. I invited five classmates — Sun Yushi, Sun Shaozhen, Yin Jinpei, Hong Zicheng, and Liu Denghan — to respond to Mr. Kejia's weighty commission. We spent what was then a fashionable "revolutionized" Spring Festival and produced what was later named An Overview of the Development of New Poetry. We were young and ignorant, of low level, with biased views — not worth mentioning. The six of us each completed a draft, seven pieces in total, but only four were published. The Poetry Journal office gave no explanation, and we did not feel we could ask. Perhaps the political atmosphere of that time was somewhat tense, and the matter simply had to be dropped.
But this nonetheless pushed the six of us into the field of poetry research. Six people, one small group. The Poetry Journal office lent us an empty family apartment in Hepingli. We lit our own stove, ate two meals a day, read separately, and discussed collectively. A minibus brought all the new poetry materials from the Peking University library, and together with the holdings of the Poetry Journal office and the Beijing Library, we spent one winter vacation reading voraciously almost all the canonical texts of Chinese new poetry since May Fourth. What we gained was knowledge that the classroom could not teach. This kind of collective reading and discussion hastened our maturity and nourished us for a lifetime.
Schoolmates in our youth, like fish in water, we were unstoppable. Of the six, the youngest, Yin Jinpei, unfortunately died young; the other five, from then on, without prior agreement, were all obsessed with poetry research and each made achievements in their own right — but that is a later story. Here I must solemnly thank Mr. Kejia and Mr. Xu Chi; it was because of their trust back then that we achieved our progress and maturity. Mr. Kejia had objections to my support of Misty Poetry; he criticized my "fickleness." I did not argue. I knew the old gentleman had his own convictions.
Being a Poetry Volunteer
My work at the university was literary research — more specifically, research on contemporary Chinese literature. Lecturing, supervising students, writing books, editing journals, holding academic conferences, and so on. In my busy teaching career, the work on which I expended the most effort and to which I devoted the most care was contemporary poetry. Compared with those classmates of mine back then, who produced towering volumes of work and became great scholars, I was the least diligent. But I had my strengths: enthusiasm, and focus in handling affairs and pursuing scholarship. I encouraged myself, and also told my younger students: do not speak of what you do not know, do not issue empty theories. I recognized that I was no genius, but I was diligent.
In the field of Chinese new poetry, because I had read widely and broadly, and my accumulation was deep, I gained a certain right to speak. I was confident only in this area; in everything else — for example, foreign literature, Chinese classics — wherever I had not put in the effort, I would never speak lightly. In the Chinese poetry world, I cultivated good relationships everywhere, was kind to others, edited books, published, attended conferences, wrote prefaces, and did my utmost to promote new talents. A "Critic's Weekend," I ran for ten years, until I retired; for a series called "General Series of Twentieth-Century Literature," I took the lead in writing the first volume, 1898: A Century of Anxiety; this series is still being reprinted today. A journal called Poetry Exploration, the "number one journal" of Chinese new poetry theory and criticism — no issue number, no funding, no remuneration; all the staff paid out of their own pockets, and it has persisted to this day. When I retired, I handed the burden to Wu Sijing and Lin Mang and others, but I remain a lifelong poetry volunteer.
I said I have done only one thing in my life. Mr. Yan Jiayan disagreed; he said I had actually done quite a few things. But I know myself: what I devoted the most attention to was still poetry — Chinese poetry, foreign poetry — and within the field of Chinese poetry, I did only modern new poetry. I take pride in being able to labor for poetry without compensation. At Peking University, I participated in establishing the Institute of Chinese New Poetry; later, with the support of President Zhou Qifeng and others, the Peking University Academy of Chinese Poetry was established, and the Caiwei Pavilion was founded — that signboard still hangs on the outer wall of a courtyard house in Langrun Garden. In the name of the Academy of Poetry, I convened at Peking University a grand commemoration of the centenary of new poetry and published the related commemorative documents. My research on new poetry has not stopped; the "century-long reconciliation" between the old and new forms of Chinese poetry is something I proposed in recent years, and it has gained recognition in the field.
Poetry, Wine, and Years Still Flowing
All my life I have studied Lu Xun, honoring him as my mentor in life and scholarship. But Lu Xun's "no forgiveness" I did not learn. My attitude toward life is to keep away from people one cannot associate with — "not being vexed when others do not know you." I am not good at arguing, nor do I enjoy arguing. In understanding people and judging the times, I like to put myself in others' shoes.
Before I knew it, I have been retired for a long time. A few years ago, at age 90, I slipped on snow, underwent hip replacement surgery, and afterward stood up again, learned to walk again, climbed stairs again, joking that I had "lost my footing." During recovery, I wrote by hand; friends in Chengdu converted my manuscripts to electronic versions and sent them on; only later did I return to writing on the computer at home. My "Three Records of Losing My Footing" came out, and the literary world spoke of it approvingly. Yet I am still ashamed: because of my own carelessness, I made my family and friends worry and take fright — I am sorry. When I fell that year, the surgery was timely, the doctors were skilled, and my recovery was good. At the time of the surgery, the flames of the Russia-Ukraine war had just begun; now I have recovered, but the smoke of war has not ceased to this day.
I thank the doctors, family, friends, and students who have accompanied and helped me along the way. Although I am already over ninety, my morning exercise continues, my social life continues, my poetry and wine years continue, and my prayers for world peace and human fraternity continue.
Return to TopBy: 杨黎光
Closing the last page of Giving One's Life to the Nation, Repaying the Prime Years: A Biography of Du Xiangwan (以身许国酬华年：杜祥琬传), I look out the window to find dusk already settling in all around.
Before my eyes once again appears the scene of that afternoon of May 17, 2025, when I interviewed Mr. Du Xiangwan in Beijing. Du Lao was already 87 years old at the time, but he was vigorous and spirited, his thinking sharp and agile, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes holding the gentleness that the years have沉淀ed. We talked for an entire afternoon; his heart held countless stories and wisdom, and he also made me deeply feel the force of character of a great scientist.
Now this biography of 300,000 characters has been published by China Science and Technology Press. It distills the magnificent and wave-tossed life of this strategic scientist. As the author of this biography, I too feel as though I have just undergone a long and profound spiritual baptism. Mr. Du Xiangwan is like a piece of uncarved jade polished by the passage of time, quietly radiating a warm and tenacious light. This light illuminates the fundamental character of his life as an intellectual, and it also illuminates the most precious cultural inheritance of our era.
The Zuozhuan (左传) says: "The highest attainment is to establish virtue; next is to establish achievement; next is to establish words." The ancients regarded these "three establishments" as the immortality of a human life. In Du Xiangwan, what I see is precisely this cultural resonance spanning a thousand years. He was born amid the displacement and hardship of the War of Resistance, and grew up under the nurturing influence of a family of revolutionary intellectuals. His father, for the sake of the Party's cause, long concealed his identity, holding fast on the covert front in the guise of a democratic personage; his mother died under unjust accusation during the Cultural Revolution, but he buried his grief deep in his heart and transformed it into an even purer loyalty to the nation. This magnanimity and self-discipline, tempered in suffering, constitutes his most profound "establishment of virtue." He does not pride himself on being an academician; he is a modest gentleman, warm and smooth as jade.
If "establishing virtue" is the trunk of the tree, then "establishing achievement" is the fruit of the era he bore. Countless times I have savored between the lines his plain and unadorned words: "Our generation — whatever the nation needed, that is what we studied, that is what we did. In the end we became people the nation needed." What a thoroughly clear-sighted understanding this is!
While sorting through the threads of his life, one detail moved me deeply. In 1956, when 18-year-old Du Xiangwan graduated from high school, his original dream was to apply to the astronomy department of Nanjing University, to explore the mysteries of the vast universe. However, fate gave him another choice — he was selected as a preparatory student for study in the Soviet Union, and the nation needed him to study nuclear physics. On one side was the sea of stars his heart yearned for; on the other, the microscopic world of the atomic nucleus that the nation urgently needed. Du Xiangwan did not hesitate for a moment. He set aside his astronomy dream and chose nuclear physics. He did it, and he became a renowned nuclear physics scientist.
After graduating from his studies in the Soviet Union and returning to China, he participated in the development of the hydrogen bomb under the command of Wang Ganchang and Deng Jiaxian, becoming an authority in China's nuclear weapons neutron physics and nuclear test diagnostic theory. By conventional reasoning, having achieved fame and success in this field, enjoying his later years in comfort would have been the natural course. However, Du Xiangwan did not rest on his laurels. At the age of seventy, he turned instead to research on energy strategy and climate change. From "nuclear" to "energy," from the cutting edge of national defense to the great matters of the people's livelihood — this was not merely a leap across specialties, but a leap of commitment and energy. In order to understand the energy transition, he started learning from scratch like an elementary school student, and his research足迹 covered the length and breadth of the country. He served as deputy director of the National Energy Advisory Expert Committee, campaigning for the sustainable development of China's energy; as a climate advocacy ambassador, he raised China's voice on the global stage. This posture of never setting limits for oneself, of always being on the road, is the best response to the "lying flat" mentality in today's society and to the phenomenon of those afraid to step out of their comfort zones. He tells us through his actions: a true scientist is forever young, forever with tears in his eyes, forever on the road.
While writing this biography, the figure of Zhu Guangya — the protagonist of another biography I wrote — would always surface in my mind. Zhu Guangya was older than Du Xiangwan and had been his superior and mentor. In Zhu Guangya, too, flowed this same bloodline of the traditional Chinese intellectual. Whether it was the bearing of the "commander of commanders" who coordinates the overall situation with low-key restraint, or the resoluteness of "doing earth-shaking deeds while living as a nameless person," Du Xiangwan shares the same lineage with him. Both of them, with the purest force of character, wrote the weightiest annotation of the two characters "patriotism" (爱国).
The great wheel of the times rolls ever forward. To look up to the spirit, to pursue the inheritance of traditional Chinese culture — this is the significance of the China Association for Science and Technology's "Scientists' Spirit and Scientific Culture Publishing Project," and it is also the motivation that made me extremely willing to spend several years writing biographies for scientists. Because society will always need spiritual coordinates like Du Xiangwan and Zhu Guangya.
When we today call for the inheritance of the scientists' spirit, what we inherit is not merely the breakthrough of a certain technology, but this cultural foundation of "establishing virtue, establishing achievement, establishing words" — this realm of the greater self that sets personal honor and disgrace aside and carries the family, the nation, and the world on one's shoulders. May we, on our journey of chasing the sea of stars, not forget to look back at the road we have traveled. For only when the faint lights of countless individuals converge into a torch can a nation's spiritual backbone stand forever tall and straight.
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In Huining, Gansu, the sky remembers that the red flags of the Red Army once flew past here; the mountains remember that the straw sandals of the Red Army once trod here.
Today, there stands here a Memorial Hall of the Victory of the Red Army's Long March, like a weighty book, recording those storm-tossed, stirring years. Stepping inside, the myriad mountains and rivers of the Chinese revolution unfold before our eyes.
This is a Red Army Party member registration form, left behind in the Zhou family courtyard in the county town during the Red Army's Huining rendezvous. Though Old Aunt Zhou was illiterate, she believed that paper with writing on it must be very important, so she cut it into the shape of a pillow and kept it inside an embroidered pillowcase, until 1996, when her son handed it over to the memorial hall. On this brittle hemp paper, I see this record: Party member Li Daocun, age nineteen, native of Huang'an County, five people in the household to feed, no self-owned paddy fields, four sheng of self-owned dry land, four dou of rented paddy land, one and a half rooms of self-owned housing, debts of one hundred twenty strings of cash, voluntarily joined the Red Army in Xinji in 1930...
This is a sacrificial table from a Confucian temple dating to the Ming and Qing dynasties. At the Red Army rendezvous celebration rally, Commander-in-Chief Zhu De stood before this table in the Dacheng Hall of the Confucian temple in Huining county town and delivered a speech to the Red Army officers and men; it was also before this table that the congratulations telegram sent by the Party Central Committee for the rendezvous of the three main forces of the Red Army was read aloud.
Among these revolutionary relics, a well-preserved small bugle tells the story of "Red Army Li" and the "small bugle." "Red Army Li" was Li Keyu, a 17-year-old Red Army bugler. When the Red Army left Huining, he was arranged to recuperate from his wounds in the home of an elderly childless couple in Zhongchuan Township, and every night when he slept, he held the bugle close to his chest. In the 1960s, "Red Army Li" became a production team leader, and every day before going to work he would sound this bugle. Today, everyone who approaches it can hear, in their own blood, the charge bugle sounding.
This is a kerosene lamp. Wiping the dust from the lampshade again and again is like wiping away the darkness of those years, and the lamp lights up again and again. I seem to see those people hurrying along carrying lamps, gathering beneath a kerosene lamp, setting out once more.
This is a field cooking pot. I want to ask: how many roads was this pot carried along on someone's back? I want to ask: in so many days, did an empty pot also feel hunger? I want to ask: can a pot cook wild vegetables amid the gunfire? Is fiery-red blood also called fire? I want to ask: do the people who face this pot today remember their own three daily meals?
This is a sheepskin coat. Worn with the fur inward, it blends into a snowy mountain; worn with the fur outward, it is the same color as the earth; and a sheepskin coat stripped of its wool is armor, and the one who wore it walked through a hail of bullets.
Facing a sheepskin water bag, I think of that column with throats parched and smoking, their lips cracked and bleeding in those years. It was kind-hearted people who gave them water to drink. Today, whoever walks in Huining, if they feel thirsty, gently shakes this water bag, and it seems they can still hear the sound of water inside.
Here, I also saw an IOU. It is proof, and it is also a promise. The old man who lent several dou of grain to the Red Army kept this IOU. The grain was repaid long ago, but the IOU remains. His descendants handed it over to the memorial hall. It is still proof, still a promise.
This is a pistol. Yes, the one who held the gun is looking at us from a photograph on the memorial hall wall, and we look at the gun. Every flash and whistle it made in those years has merged into the brilliant light of dawn.
This is a pair of straw sandals, which walked over snowy mountains, grasslands, thorns, and mud, walked through blood and fire. Turning around, I seem to hear the sound of straw sandals still walking upon the earth.
This is an old map covered with cracks, some places already torn. To mend it, several red threads shuttle stitch by stitch across mountains and rivers. Every red thread is the bloodline of the nation, every red arrow is irresistible, all pointing toward battle. On this map, I found Zhaxi, Zunyi, Maogong, Lianghekou, Mao'ergai, E'jie, Bangluo; I found the Xiang River, the Wujiang River, the Chishui River, the Jinsha River, the Dadu River, Lazikou, Zhiluo Town; I found the snowy mountains, the grasslands; I found Huining...
I grew up in an era that worshipped heroes, raised on the stories of heroes. "The Long March ended with our victory and the enemy's defeat." "The Long March is a declaration, the Long March is a propaganda team, the Long March is a seeder..." These words have echoed in my ears for decades. Whenever I sing the "Long March Suite," my heart surges with emotion. In my heart, the hot blood of the martyrs still burns in the soil; above my head, the red flag has always fluttered loudly in the wind.
When I came out of the memorial hall, I thought: if I had been born in that era, I would certainly have joined the Red Army, joined the Long March, climbed snowy mountains and crossed grasslands for the revolution.
A person who comes out of a memorial hall must have gained an extra stretch of experience in their emotions. Looking at the lofty sky, looking at the road beneath their feet, there is more resolve in their gaze.
The Chinese painting Palm Tree and Little Bird, by Jiang Hanting, in the collection of the National Art Museum of China.
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Reaching middle age, nothing weighs more heavily on one's heart than the health and well-being of the elderly at home. Working and striving away from home year-round, I always secretly counted myself fortunate that my parents were hale and hearty, free of illness and disaster, and believed this plain and stable life to be a rare happiness. Until an urgent phone call came — my father, past eighty, had suddenly fallen ill and needed to be hospitalized for surgery immediately. At that time I was a thousand li away, separated by mountains and rivers, unable to rush back to his bedside at the first moment, my heart full of anxiety and unease.
In a helpless and bewildered situation, one is inevitably swept along by the ingrained perceptions of the secular world. Over the years I had heard too many fragmentary sayings about worldly wisdom, and in my heart I had come to accept the common folk belief: when seeking medical treatment in a hospital, handing over a red envelope before surgery is not a violation of rules, but merely a gesture of seeking security. I stubbornly believed that if the doctor accepted this gesture, he would be a bit more attentive, a bit more careful, and my father lying on the operating table would have an extra layer of assurance.
On the phone, I repeatedly urged my younger brother, who was accompanying our father at the hospital: before the surgery, be sure to find the lead surgeon and quietly deliver the gesture. It was not that I distrusted physicians; it was simply that I, a thousand li away, was powerless, unable to find any way to ease the panic in my heart, and could only pin my hopes on this set of "courtesies" that everyone talked about, using this clumsy and vulgar method to buy myself a moment of peace of mind.
But for two consecutive days, my brother reported that the prepared red envelope had been gently declined by the doctor time and again. This plunged me into even deeper unease, and I repeatedly speculated whether it was because my family's etiquette was lacking, the approach was improper, or the sincerity had not been conveyed, that the other party had reservations? Unable to set my mind at ease, I immediately set aside my work at hand, took the high-speed rail, and hurried to the hospital the day before the surgery, determined to express the gesture in person.
The moment I stepped into the ward, looking at my aged father curled up on the hospital bed, his face pale, his speech weak and breathless, my nose tingled with sourness, and the worry and anxiety in my heart grew heavier by another measure. At night the ward area quieted down, and only sporadic footsteps remained in the corridor. Dr. Yang, the lead surgeon, who had just finished a full day of high-intensity consultations, came specially to the ward to make his rounds and examine the patient. He was a middle-aged man with gentle features, his white coat neat and clean, and though his face could not hide his exhaustion, he was patient and composed in his dealings with others. He bent down to carefully examine my father's pre-operative condition, softly reassured the old man's nervousness, and then clearly explained the surgical procedure and risk contingency plans, smoothing away my tense emotions bit by bit. When he finished his instructions and was about to turn and leave, I saw that there were no outsiders in the ward, so I took out the envelope I had prepared in advance, stepped forward quickly to stop him, bowed and said earnestly: "Dr. Yang, my father is old, and the surgery carries high risk. I'm sorry to trouble you to give it extra care. This is a small token of our appreciation; I earnestly beg you to accept it."
I thought this was the steady and proper courtesy between adults, but Dr. Yang did not hesitate in the slightest. He gently raised his hand and firmly pushed back the envelope I had offered. His gaze was clear and candid, his tone gentle and sincere: "救死扶伤 (jiù sǐ fú shāng - "rescue the dying, support the wounded," to heal the wounded and rescue the dying) is my duty. Rest assured, I will 全力以赴 (quán lì yǐ fù - "with all one's strength to go forward," to spare no effort) to complete this surgery." As his words fell, he patted me on the shoulder, gently closed the door, and left.
The next day, my father's surgery went very smoothly. After he entered the recovery period, Dr. Yang made his rounds on time every day, meticulously instructing on dietary regulation, turning-over care, wound dressing changes, and all kinds of nursing details — conscientious in every matter, attentive in every aspect.
We live in a complex society of personal connections, gradually assimilated by secular rules, accustomed to measuring goodwill by utility and speculating about people's hearts with worldliness — yet this 不期而遇 (bù qī ér yù - "not expecting, yet meeting," to encounter unexpectedly) in the ward overturned my ingrained perceptions.
The night deepened, the hospital shed its daytime clamor, and the ward lights were soft and tranquil. My father, relieved of the torment of illness, had relaxed brows and even breathing, already peacefully asleep. The years are quiet and good, warming the heart.
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Wind-power windmills, like palms growing out of the mountain ranges,
guide those who have come from afar.
Sheep pass through the poplar trees and break into the Tengger Desert,
searching for a river that has gone missing.
On the Ningxia Plain, people whose faces were once veiled by wind and sand
recognize each other with me. The mountains and snow leopards are silent.
The endurance and stillness of the earth command awe.
The setting sun, drawing water from every direction, plunges headlong into the Yellow River.
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