People's Daily - August 27, 2026

Leave no stone unturned in searching for and rescuing missing persons, and strengthen investigation and rectification of various risk hazards to ensure the safety of people's lives and property.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 26 — At approximately 10:30 on August 26, a mudslide disaster on the Nepalese side caused heavy casualties and missing persons at Gyirong Port (吉隆口岸) in Gyirong County, Shigatse City, Tibet.

After the disaster occurred, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission Xi Jinping attached great importance to the matter and made important instructions, pointing out that the most urgent task at present is to make every possible effort to search for and rescue the missing persons, relocate and resettle the threatened masses, promptly treat the injured, and minimize casualties to the greatest extent. It is necessary to strengthen monitoring and early warning, emphasize scientific rescue, and prevent secondary disasters.

Xi Jinping emphasized that the current period is a critical phase for flood prevention. All regions and relevant departments should adhere to extreme thinking and bottom-line thinking, conscientiously implement various flood prevention and typhoon prevention measures, strengthen the investigation and rectification of various risk hazards, resolutely prevent the occurrence of major and severe disaster accidents, and ensure the safety of people's lives and property.

Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, made instructions pointing out that it is necessary to promptly verify and clarify the number of missing and disaster-affected persons, organize forces to fully carry out rescue and emergency response operations, promptly and orderly relocate the threatened masses, while also paying attention to scientific rescue and strictly preventing secondary disasters. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs should strengthen communication and coordination with relevant countries, promptly report the situation, and jointly properly handle the rescue and response work. The current period is still the main flood season. The National Flood Control Office and the Disaster Prevention, Mitigation and Relief Office should guide all localities to conduct in-depth investigation of disaster risk hazards, strengthen danger monitoring and early warning, and carry out danger elimination and disaster avoidance, ensuring the safety of people's lives.

In accordance with Xi Jinping's important instructions and Li Qiang's requirements, Zhang Guoqing, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, led responsible comrades from relevant departments to rush to the scene to guide rescue and response work. Tibet has organized forces to fully carry out on-site search and rescue and other work. At present, the relevant work is ongoing.

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Xi Jinping to Attend 2026 SCO Summit and Pay State Visits to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt

This newspaper, Beijing, August 26 (Reporter Li Anqi) — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson announced on the 26th: From August 30 to September 3, President Xi Jinping will attend the 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit held in Bishkek, and will make state visits to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt at the invitation of Kyrgyz President Japarov and Egyptian President Sisi.

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 26 (Reporters Wan Qianyi, Ma Zhuoyan) — From August 30 to September 3, President Xi Jinping will attend the 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit held in Bishkek, and will make state visits to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt at the invitation of Kyrgyz President Japarov and Egyptian President Sisi. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian introduced the relevant arrangements and China's expectations at the regular press conference on the 26th.

Regarding President Xi Jinping's attendance at the 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, Lin Jian stated that this year marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Over the past 25 years, member states have upheld the "Shanghai Spirit," adhered to solidarity and coordination, comprehensively deepened cooperation, and promoted the SCO's development into a comprehensive regional cooperation organization with the largest territory, the largest population, and enormous development potential in the world, successfully exploring a new path of regional cooperation and establishing a model for a new type of international relations.

Lin Jian said that last year's Tianjin Summit made a strategic plan for the SCO's development over the next 10 years, opening a new stage of high-quality development for the SCO. During this year's Bishkek Summit, President Xi Jinping will, together with leaders of participating countries, conduct in-depth exchanges of views on deepening SCO cooperation in various fields under the new circumstances, as well as on major current international and regional issues, and will make plans and arrangements for leading the SCO's high-quality development and participating in the reform and building of the global governance system. China is willing to work with all parties to help the Bishkek Summit further build consensus, jointly write a new chapter of cooperation, and make positive contributions to promoting security, stability, development, and revitalization of countries in the region and to advancing the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

Regarding President Xi Jinping's state visit to Kyrgyzstan, Lin Jian stated that China and Kyrgyzstan are good neighbors connected by mountains and rivers, good friends who trust each other, and good partners who share the same aspirations. Over the 34 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the two countries have always interacted with mutual trust and treated each other with sincerity, setting a model of mutual support and mutual achievement between neighboring countries.

Lin Jian said that in recent years, China-Kyrgyzstan relations have achieved leapfrog development, with continuously consolidated political mutual trust between the two countries, fruitful results in high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, splendid highlights in people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and close and strong international coordination. Last year, President Xi Jinping met with President Japarov three times, leading China-Kyrgyzstan cooperation into a "golden period" of rapid development. During the visit, President Xi Jinping will hold talks with President Japarov, conduct in-depth exchanges of views on bilateral relations, cooperation in key areas, and the international and regional situation, and attend various state activities. China looks forward to working with Kyrgyzstan, taking this visit as an opportunity, to promote the high-quality development of all-round mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries, further enrich the connotation of the China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future, and benefit the peoples of both countries.

Regarding President Xi Jinping's state visit to Egypt, Lin Jian stated that Egypt was the first Arab and African country to establish diplomatic relations with New China. In recent years, under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and President Sisi, the two countries have continuously deepened political mutual trust, achieved fruitful results in cooperation across various fields, witnessed increasingly frequent people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and maintained close and effective multilateral coordination. The China-Egypt comprehensive strategic partnership has achieved leapfrog development, entered its best period in history, and become a model of solidarity, coordination, mutual benefit, and win-win cooperation among developing countries.

Lin Jian stated that this visit is President Xi Jinping's second state visit to Egypt after 10 years, coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the establishment of China-Egypt diplomatic relations, and holds special and important significance of building on the past and opening up the future for the development of bilateral relations. During the visit, President Xi Jinping will hold talks with President Sisi, conducting in-depth exchanges of views on China-Egypt relations and international and regional issues of common concern. China looks forward to, through this visit, continuing the traditional friendship with Egypt, firmly supporting each other, expanding mutually beneficial cooperation, assisting each other's modernization process, jointly writing a new chapter in China-Egypt relations, and making positive contributions to safeguarding regional and world peace and stability.

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Consolidate solidarity and mutual trust, deepen practical cooperation

By: 本报记者 白 阳 宦 翔 屈 佩

In the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, a major diplomatic action by China toward the Asia-Europe-Africa region is about to begin.
From August 30 to September 3, President Xi Jinping will attend the 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Bishkek, and will pay state visits to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt at the invitation of Kyrgyz President Japarov and Egyptian President Sisi.
From Bishkek to Cairo, from the foot of the Tianshan Mountains to the banks of the Nile, the camel bells of the ancient Silk Road echo across millennia, and the surging tide of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation flows without cease. At a time when the international situation is marked by turbulence and intertwined changes, the international community generally expects the SCO to further carry forward the Shanghai Spirit, join hands in building an even closer community with a shared future, promote the implementation of the Global Governance Initiative, and reform and improve global governance. China-Kyrgyzstan and China-Egypt relations are at their best period in history. This visit will surely further consolidate political mutual trust, deepen practical cooperation, and cultivate traditional friendship, injecting new and strong momentum into peace and development in the region and the world at large.

With a more spirited posture and more pragmatic measures, promote the steady and far-reaching development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Over twenty-five years, a long river has surged forward. The SCO set sail from the banks of the Huangpu River and has charted an era-defining course that connects all directions and shares weal and woe.
志同道合 (zhì tóng dào hé - "shared aspirations, common path," like-minded people united by common goals) is strength. From 6 founding member states to a "big family" spanning 27 countries across Asia, Europe, and Africa, it carries the hope for peace, the longing for development, and the aspiration for prosperity of nearly half of the world's population. From focusing on security cooperation to now flourishing across political, economic, cultural, and other fields, the SCO has withstood the tests of international vicissitudes, tempered its resilience, and demonstrated its vitality.
求同存异 (qiú tóng cún yì - "seek common ground while shelving differences," to pursue consensus while setting aside disagreements) demonstrates broad-mindedness. In 2017, the first expansion admitted India and Pakistan; in 2023, Iran became a member state; in 2024, the "SCO+" model was inaugurated and Belarus was admitted as a member state... Despite differences in history, culture, social systems, and development stages, SCO countries have jointly blazed a path of regional cooperation that conforms to the trends of the times and meets the needs of all parties, sharing opportunities and pursuing common development, setting a model for a new type of international relations.
"Despite the turbulent clouds flying past, we have achieved success by practicing the Shanghai Spirit." President Xi Jinping's important assertion profoundly reveals the core reason why the SCO has continued to mature and grow, with its international influence and appeal increasing day by day.
All things have their origins, yet only those who know how to guard their roots endure. The Shanghai Spirit is the "root" and "soul" of the SCO. With "mutual trust and mutual benefit" as the foundation of cooperation, with "equality and consultation" as the way of interaction, with "respect for diverse civilizations" promoting harmony and inclusiveness, and with "pursuit of common development" achieving win-win prosperity. The Shanghai Spirit guides the giant ship "SCO" to 乘风破浪 (chéng fēng pò làng - "ride the wind and break the waves," to advance boldly against difficulties).
As a founding member state of the SCO, China has always made promoting the development of the SCO a diplomatic priority. Since 2013, President Xi Jinping has attended every SCO summit, putting forward a series of important initiatives and propositions, including building an SCO community with a shared future and building the "five common homes" of the SCO — unity and mutual trust, peace and tranquility, prosperity and development, good-neighborliness and friendship, and fairness and justice — which have powerfully guided the organization's development. China has provided multiple public goods benefiting all parties in areas such as law enforcement and security, economic and trade investment, people-to-people and cultural exchanges, finance, and poverty reduction. China's propositions and China's actions have injected a steady stream of momentum into anchoring the SCO's development course and enriching the connotation of cooperation.
From August 31 to September 1, 2025, President Xi Jinping chaired the SCO Tianjin Summit, jointly charting with leaders of member states the blueprint for the organization's development over the next 10 years, leading the organization into a new stage of high-quality development that is more united, more collaborative, more dynamic, and more productive. President Xi Jinping put forward important propositions and a series of action initiatives — adhering to seeking common ground while shelving differences, adhering to mutual benefit and win-win, adhering to openness and inclusiveness, adhering to fairness and justice, and adhering to pragmatism and efficiency — which were highly praised and actively responded to by the leaders present.
Over the past year, China's initiatives have been effectively implemented, empowering regional development. Seven application platforms — green industry, digital economy, scientific and technological innovation, energy, higher education, vocational and technical education, and artificial intelligence — have all been launched, forming more than 160 projects. The action plan for high-quality development of economic and trade cooperation has been continuously implemented, and the scale of trade between China and member states has steadily risen. Nearly three-quarters of the newly added "ten-million-kilowatt photovoltaic" and "ten-million-kilowatt wind power" projects have been implemented, and more than two-thirds of the 100 "small and beautiful" livelihood projects have been approved.
At the "SCO+" meeting of the Tianjin Summit, President Xi Jinping solemnly put forward the Global Governance Initiative, emphasizing the five core concepts of upholding sovereign equality, abiding by international rule of law, practicing multilateralism, advocating a people-centered approach, and emphasizing action orientation. The Initiative provides important methods and pathways for the SCO to actively participate in reforming and improving the global governance system and promoting the development of the international order in a more just and reasonable direction.
When one follows the right path, one gains many companions. The Global Governance Initiative has received support and response from nearly 160 countries and international organizations, and more than 60 countries have enthusiastically joined the "Group of Friends of Global Governance." SCO Secretary-General Yermekbayev stated that the Initiative is highly compatible with the Shanghai Spirit and reflects the common aspiration of SCO member states to build a more representative, more just and democratic multipolar world.
"Let us bear in mind our original aspiration and mission, actively take on responsibility, and with a more spirited posture and more pragmatic measures, promote the steady and far-reaching development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and march forward firmly toward the bright future of building a community with a shared future for mankind!" Upholding the Shanghai Spirit, SCO countries stand firmly on the correct side of history, stand on the side of the progress of human civilization, practice true multilateralism, and inject strong "SCO strength" into reforming and improving global governance and building a community with a shared future for mankind.

Promote the continuous deepening and solidification of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation between China and Kyrgyzstan
For thousands of years, the towering Tianshan Mountains have witnessed the development and prosperity of the ancient Silk Road, and have also witnessed the friendship between the Chinese and Kyrgyz peoples that is as clear and enduring as mountain snowmelt.
The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway (中吉乌铁路), connecting the three countries of China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, is advancing steadily. On August 5, the Kosh-Tebe North No. 2 tunnel in Kyrgyzstan was successfully holed through, and control projects such as the Naryn No. 1 tunnel achieved phased results. From conception to implementation, this strategic corridor, focused on regional connectivity and promoting regional prosperity and stability, carries the beautiful aspirations of the people of the regional countries. President Xi Jinping has paid close attention to the project's progress, hoping that the relevant departments and enterprises of the three countries will work in full cooperation, advance the project construction with high standards and high quality, and strive to make the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway a new demonstration project of Belt and Road cooperation.
Kyrgyzstan, a landlocked "mountainous country," has 90 percent of its territory at an altitude exceeding 1,500 meters. The lofty mountains are scenery, but also barriers to development; roads are "as important as air and water." Kyrgyzstan was one of the first countries to support and actively participate in the Belt and Road Initiative. China has actively helped Kyrgyzstan break through road and transportation bottlenecks: the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan highway has become a transportation artery in Central Asia, the New North-South Highway facilitates the flow of people and goods, the Bishkek municipal road network renovation project has significantly improved the capital's transportation landscape, and the Barskoon-Bedel highway will become a brand-new transport corridor connecting China and Kyrgyzstan... The continuous upgrading of connectivity has provided strong support for the smooth circulation of the economy.
As the Belt and Road Initiative is deeply aligned with Kyrgyzstan's "National Development Program through 2030," major landmark projects have been solidly advanced, and "small and beautiful" livelihood projects have taken root. The Datka-Kemin power transmission line project ended Kyrgyzstan's uneven distribution of electricity; the irrigation system renovation project has benefited 4 oblasts; and the Osh Hospital, the largest modern surgical hospital in Central Asia, and Bishkek No. 95 Secondary School, the largest and best-equipped school in Kyrgyzstan, have all brought tangible benefits to local people. Kyrgyz President Japarov sincerely stated that Kyrgyzstan's most precious advantage is being neighbors with China.
Good neighbors, good friends, good partners, and good brothers — this is a vivid portrayal of current China-Kyrgyzstan relations. In recent years, President Xi Jinping and President Japarov have met 7 times, providing top-level design and strategic guarantees for the development of bilateral relations. In May 2023, President Xi Jinping and President Japarov met in Xi'an, elevating China-Kyrgyzstan relations to a new height of comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era and announcing the building of a China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future of good-neighborliness and friendship and shared prosperity.
The important consensus of the heads of state is being transformed into rich fruits of bilateral cooperation —
Trade momentum is strong, and the structure continues to optimize. China has maintained its position as Kyrgyzstan's largest trading partner, largest source of imports, and largest source of investment for many consecutive years. In 2025, bilateral goods trade reached 27.2 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 20 percent, setting a new historical record. In 2025, Kyrgyzstan set up a national pavilion at the China International Import Expo for the first time, and specialty products such as honey and wool products were favored by Chinese consumers.
Cooperation fields are expanding, continuously moving toward innovation and green development. At the end of 2025, Kyrgyzstan's first photovoltaic power generation project invested by a Chinese enterprise — the 100-megawatt photovoltaic power station in Chuy Region — was officially connected to the grid, helping diversify Kyrgyzstan's energy structure; the first phase of the Bishkek waste-to-energy project was put into operation, and the story of Chinese enterprises helping "turn waste into treasure" is widely discussed with relish by local media. In 2025, China and Kyrgyzstan signed the Joint Statement on Deepening the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in the New Era, listing green trade and green energy as directions for expanding cooperation, and executable and replicable projects continue to emerge.
Cultural exchanges are vibrant, and the peoples know each other and grow closer. The first Chinese Cultural Center in Central Asia was established in Bishkek, the Luban Workshop was completed and put into operation, four Confucius Institutes have 桃李盈门 (táo lǐ yíng mén - "peaches and plums fill the gate," having many students or disciples), and the "Chinese language fever" and "study in China fever" continue to heat up in Kyrgyzstan. China carried out the "Health Express Brightness Journey" (健康快车光明行) activity, providing free cataract restoration surgery for more than 800 Kyrgyz patients. Joint archaeological projects between China and Kyrgyzstan, such as the Fergana-Syr Darya corridor ruins and the Honghe ruins (红河遗址), have continuously achieved new breakthroughs.
Today's China-Kyrgyzstan relations carry the common dreams of the two peoples. China's 15th Five-Year Plan unfolds broad opportunities, while Kyrgyzstan's economy grows rapidly and the country's appearance changes with each passing day. China and Kyrgyzstan have broad resonance in development concepts, and the social and popular foundation for building a China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future is increasingly solid.
Today's China-Kyrgyzstan cooperation has a broader vision and greater responsibility. The two sides maintain close coordination and cooperation under multilateral frameworks such as the United Nations, the SCO, and the China-Central Asia mechanism. China supports Kyrgyzstan in hosting the SCO Bishkek Summit well, supports Kyrgyzstan's election as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, and supports it in playing a greater role in international and regional affairs.

Promote China-Egypt relations with stronger strategic leadership, development cohesion, and international influence
"In the past 10 years, President Sisi and I have jointly led the vigorous development of bilateral relations. China-Egypt relations have become a vivid portrayal of solidarity, cooperation, mutual benefit, and win-win between China and Arab, African, Islamic, and developing countries." In May 2024, President Xi Jinping pointed this out during talks with Egyptian President Sisi, who was in China for a state visit, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
In December 2014, only half a year after Sisi took office as Egyptian President, he visited China, and the heads of state of the two countries elevated China-Egypt relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership. In January 2016, President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to Egypt, and the two sides issued a five-year implementation outline on strengthening the comprehensive strategic partnership. From cordial conversations at multilateral occasions such as the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum, and the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, to warmly exchanging congratulatory messages on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations... President Xi Jinping and President Sisi have maintained close communication, continuously injecting new strategic guidance and development momentum into bilateral relations. The historic, comprehensive, strategic, exemplary, and leading nature of China-Egypt relations has become more prominent, and practical cooperation between the two countries in various fields has achieved leapfrog development in both breadth and depth.
China and Egypt are brotherly partners to each other. The ancient Silk Road stretching across millennia, the road of national independence pursued in the struggle for freedom, and the road of development and prosperity aspiring for rejuvenation closely bind together the two major developing countries of China and Egypt. Egypt was the first Arab and African country to establish diplomatic relations with New China, the first Arab country to write the goal of building a community with a shared future into a joint statement on bilateral relations, and the first developing country to establish strategic relations with China. Over the 70 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, bilateral relations have developed healthily and steadily, becoming a model of friendly coexistence, solidarity, and cooperation among developing countries and a paradigm of collective cooperation between China and Arab states and between China and Africa.
At present, China-Egypt strategic mutual trust is solid, the two sides firmly support each other's core interests and major concerns, and bilateral relations are at the best period in history, striding forward toward the goal of building a community with a shared future for the new era.
On the road of development and revitalization, the two sides 守望相助 (shǒu wàng xiāng zhù - "keep watch and help each other," to support one another in times of need). The Belt and Road Initiative is deeply aligned with Egypt's "2030 Sustainable Development Vision," yielding abundant fruits. The 385.8-meter-tall "Africa's tallest building" marks a new height of China-Egypt friendship and is hailed by the Egyptian people as the "New Pyramid"; the China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone (中埃·泰达苏伊士经贸合作区) has attracted more than 200 enterprises, directly creating over 10,000 local jobs; China's aid of Egypt's second satellite helped Egypt become the first African country with complete satellite assembly, integration, and testing capabilities. On May 1 this year, 516 tons of Egyptian fresh oranges were quickly cleared through customs in Shanghai, China, becoming the first batch of Egyptian goods to enter the Chinese market after China's zero-tariff measures for Africa took effect. One cooperation project after another has turned from blueprint to reality, and one story after another is filled with the warmth of people's livelihoods, continuously empowering each other's modernization process.
Two great ancient civilizations are moving toward each other. Cooperation between China and Egypt in the field of archaeology is deepening day by day, with joint archaeological projects at sites such as the Montu Temple and the Saqqara pyramids achieving important discoveries; Chinese has officially entered Egypt's national education system, and more than 30 Egyptian universities currently offer Chinese language departments or courses. More and more young Egyptians are going to China for further study, becoming inheritors and disseminators of China-Egypt friendship; the two Luban Workshops jointly built by China and Egypt have trained more than 3,000 local students in total; the Shanghai Museum's exhibition "On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" attracted nearly 3 million visitors; projects such as the China-Arab Classics Translation and Publishing Project and the "Silk Road Book Publishing Project" continue to advance; and new progress has been made in the joint application of China's Baiheliang inscriptions (白鹤梁题刻) and Egypt's Nilometer for World Cultural Heritage status... The ancient civilizations radiate new brilliance in mutual reflection, and cultural exchanges are integrated into the daily lives of the people, bringing the peoples of the two countries, separated by vast distances, ever closer.
The current international situation is marked by turbulence and intertwined changes, and the war in the Middle East drags on. China and Egypt have always maintained strategic communication and played a constructive role in striving for peace. China and Egypt oppose unilateralism and power politics, safeguard the international system with the United Nations at its core and the international order based on international law, and unite and cooperate under multilateral frameworks such as the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, the BRICS cooperation mechanism, and the SCO, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries and promoting the building of a more just and reasonable global governance system. Since August 15 this year, the monument to the Cairo Declaration established by China at the Mena House Hotel in Egypt has been opened to the public, sending a strong signal to the world that China and Egypt jointly uphold the victorious fruits of World War II and the postwar international order.
After 70 years of baptism by the passage of time and the test of wind and rain, the China-Egypt friendship surges forward like the waters of the Nile. Standing at the historical juncture of 继往开来 (jì wǎng kāi lái - "carry forward the past and open up the future," to inherit the past and usher in the future), China and Egypt will continue to practice the original aspiration of establishing diplomatic relations and forge ahead hand in hand, which will surely open a new chapter in bilateral relations.

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Multiple Measures to Stabilize and Increase Production, Strive for a Bumper Autumn Grain Harvest, and Continuously Enhance Comprehensive Agricultural Production Capacity to Ensure Food Security

Xinhua News Agency, Changchun, August 26 (Reporter Zou Wei) — Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, conducted an inspection tour in Heilongjiang and Jilin from August 24 to 26. He emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on the work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers and the important instructions on safeguarding national food security, take the development of modern large-scale agriculture as the main direction of attack, adhere to grasping output and capacity, production and ecology, and increased yield and income together, build on the summer grain harvest with 再接再厉 (zài jiē zài lì - "renew efforts, sharpen again," to continue with redoubled efforts), adopt multiple measures in parallel and make every effort to win a bumper autumn grain harvest, continuously enhance comprehensive agricultural production capacity, and ensure stable and secure supply of grain and other important agricultural products.

In Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, Li Qiang came to Qixing Farm of Beihuang Group, walked into dry-farming fields and ten-thousand-mu large field rice paddies, and inspected the growth of soybeans, corn, and rice. He emphasized that food security is a matter of great importance to the state, and the Chinese people's rice bowl must at all times be firmly held in their own hands. Autumn grain is the major part of annual grain production; currently it is in the critical period of yield formation. It is necessary to strengthen field management, ensure the supply and price stability of agricultural materials, strengthen various policy supports, and ensure a bumper harvest of autumn grain and the year's total grain output. At the Jiansanjiang National Agricultural Science and Technology Park and the Rice Research Institute of the Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (黑龙江省农业科学院水稻研究所), Li Qiang inquired in detail about seed industry innovation and black soil protection. He pointed out that the way to increase grain output lies in science and technology. It is necessary to deeply advance improved seed breeding, implement cross-disciplinary research, strengthen the development and promotion of high-end agricultural machinery and equipment, and accelerate the application of artificial intelligence and the development of smart agriculture. It is necessary to actively adopt engineering, agronomic, and biological measures to protect and utilize the black soil well, promote the construction of high-standard farmland with high quality, and promote the integrated efficiency enhancement of good farmland, good seeds, good machinery, and good methods. At the construction site of the major water conservancy project for enhancing grain production capacity in Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省粮食产能提升重大水利工程项目), Li Qiang inspected the construction progress and learned about water network construction. He said that it is necessary to accelerate project construction on the premise of ensuring quality, better give play to comprehensive functions such as flood control, irrigation, and ecology, strengthen the construction and renovation of modern irrigation districts, enhance agricultural disaster prevention and reduction capabilities, and strive to achieve guaranteed harvests regardless of drought or flood and high and stable yields.

In Songyuan, Jilin, Li Qiang came to the Dezhi Agricultural Professional Cooperative in Ningjiang District (宁江区), and carefully inquired about the cooperative's business model, agricultural services, and other matters. He pointed out that it is necessary to develop various forms of appropriately scaled agricultural operations, improve the development quality of new-type agricultural business entities, improve the convenient and efficient agricultural socialized service system, actively expand channels for linking and driving farmers, and promote the organic connection between smallholder farmers and modern agricultural development. At Jilin Xuxin Oils Co., Ltd., Li Qiang inspected the corn oil production line and learned about production processes and product sales. He emphasized that it is necessary to vigorously develop deep and fine processing of agricultural products, do well the work of transformation and value addition of "grain head, food tail" and "agriculture head, industry tail," build distinctive brands, extend the industrial chain, enhance the value chain, strengthen employment absorption capacity, and continuously raise the level of agricultural industrialization and comprehensive benefits. It is necessary to strictly guard the gate of food quality and safety, closely watch key links such as production, procurement, processing, and circulation, strengthen whole-chain supervision from farmland to dining table, and let the people eat with peace of mind and health. Li Qiang came to Chagan Lake and listened to introductions about ecological fishery and other matters. He pointed out that it is necessary to practice the big food concept, actively develop modern ecological aquaculture, promote the simultaneous development of multiple industries including agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery, and promote the development of multiple business forms such as eco-tourism.

Wu Zhenglong accompanied the inspection tour.

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Stay Close to the People, Fulfill the Duties of Deputies, and Make New Contributions to Steadily Advancing Comprehensive Rural Revitalization

Beijing, August 26 (Reporter Peng Bo) — Zhao Leji, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, held a symposium and exchange with National People's Congress deputies attending the 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress on the morning of the 26th. He emphasized that they must earnestly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农) and the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements, maintain close ties with the masses, give play to professional expertise, fulfill deputy duties, and make new contributions to continuously consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and solidly advancing comprehensive rural revitalization.

At the symposium, the deputies, centering on this session of the Standing Committee's deliberation of the report on the work of continuously consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and solidly advancing comprehensive rural revitalization, made speeches in light of their actual performance of duties. Zhao Leji listened attentively and had in-depth exchanges with the deputies. He said that since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has united and led the people to win the battle against poverty, eliminate absolute poverty, complete the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects on schedule, and create a poverty-reduction miracle that has attracted worldwide attention (举世瞩目 (jǔ shì zhǔ mù - "the whole world fixes its eyes on," attracting worldwide attention)). From 2021 to 2025, a five-year transition period was established to promote the effective connection between consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, making the foundation for poverty alleviation more solid and the results more sustainable. NPC deputies at all levels have performed their duties according to law, shouldered responsibilities, and contributed wisdom and strength.

Zhao Leji pointed out that NPC deputies should, centering on the implementation of the important agriculture-related measures determined in the outline of the "15th Five-Year Plan," combine them with the Standing Committee's legislative and supervisory work arrangements, conduct in-depth research and thinking, actively offer suggestions and advice, and, targeting the prominent shortcomings restricting agricultural and rural development and the prominent problems affecting the vital interests of farmers, pay attention to putting forward opinions and suggestions from the legal and institutional levels.

Zhao Leji pointed out that NPC deputies should, based on their own posts, work with responsibility and pragmatism, and 建功立业 (jiàn gōng lì yè - "establish merit and set up enterprises," achieve accomplishments). Deputies from the front line of agriculture and rural areas should conscientiously do their own work well, and lead farmers to develop production and increase income and become prosperous by adapting measures to local conditions (因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "formulate appropriate measures according to local conditions," act according to circumstances)). Deputies from other industries and fields should also care about and support agricultural and rural development, each doing their best (各尽其能 (gè jìn qí néng - "each exhausts one's own ability," each doing their utmost)) and each displaying their strengths (各展其长 (gè zhǎn qí cháng - "each displays one's own strengths")), actively participate in normalized and precise assistance, and jointly promote prosperous farmers, strong agriculture, and beautiful rural areas.

Zhao Leji emphasized that NPC deputies should consciously serve as a bridge between the Party and the state and the masses, promptly understand and reflect the urgent, difficult, worried, and hoped-for problems (急难愁盼) of farmers, and better stay grounded, understand people's conditions, gather people's wisdom, and benefit people's livelihoods. They should model compliance with the Constitution and laws, actively participate in rural rule-of-law publicity and education, and guide farmers to handle affairs according to law, seek solutions through law when encountering problems, use law to solve problems, and rely on law to resolve conflicts. They should take the lead in practicing the core socialist values, lead by example (以身作则 (yǐ shēn zuò zé - "set an example by one's own conduct")), advocate virtue and goodness (崇德向善 (chóng dé xiàng shàn - "advocate virtue and incline toward goodness," promoting virtue and goodness)), and promote good rural customs and folkways.

Li Hongzhong, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, presided over the symposium.

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NPC Standing Committee concludes 18th session of 14th CPPCC National Committee.

Beijing, August 26 (Reporter Jiang Jie) — The 18th Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) concluded in Beijing on the afternoon of the 26th. The session conducted consultations and deliberations on the topic of "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, presided over the closing meeting and delivered a speech. He stated that since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has adhered to the people-centered development philosophy, deployed and won the largest-scale battle against poverty in human history, built the world's largest education system, social security system, healthcare system, and urban housing security system, comprehensively and continuously improved the quality of people's lives, enhanced the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security, achieved historic accomplishments in the development of livelihood undertakings, and taken solid steps toward common prosperity for all the people. We must deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments" (两个确立) and resolutely achieve the "Two Upholds" (两个维护), uphold the principle that the people's political consultative conference serves the people, assist the Party and the government in enhancing the people's well-being, steadily promote common prosperity for all the people, and extensively gather people's hearts, consensus, wisdom, and strength for accelerating the advancement of Chinese-style modernization.
Wang Huning stated that common prosperity is an important goal of socialist modernization, and in Chinese-style modernization, people's livelihoods are of paramount importance. The CPPCC must deeply study and understand 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, focus on the relevant task deployments in the "Proposal" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan, closely center on issues such as strengthening livelihood construction during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, promoting high-quality and full employment, improving the income distribution system, running education that satisfies the people, improving the social security system, and accelerating the building of a Healthy China, organize CPPCC members to offer more words that benefit the people and do more deeds that benefit the people, boost the implementation and effectiveness of the Party and the state's decisions and deployments, and let the fruits of modernization benefit all the people more and more fairly. It is necessary to complete the CPPCC National Committee's annual work tasks with high quality, continue to do a solid job in consultation and deliberation work, and carefully organize important commemorative and unity and friendship activities.
After a vote, the session decided to add Fu Kui as a member of the 14th CPPCC National Committee and Deputy Director of the Culture, History and Learning Committee; adopted the decision to remove Zhao Zongqi from the post of Standing Committee member of the 14th CPPCC National Committee and Deputy Director of the Ethnic and Religious Committee and revoke his membership qualification; adopted the decision to remove Zhang Zhuohua from the post of Standing Committee member of the 14th CPPCC National Committee and revoke his membership qualification; adopted the decision to accept Zhang Li's resignation as a member of the 14th CPPCC National Committee. The session ratified the decisions to revoke the membership qualifications of Gu Xueming, Hao Rong, Xin Bao'an, and Li Heyue as members of the 14th CPPCC National Committee.
After the closing meeting, Tan Tianwei, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and President of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, was invited to deliver a study lecture titled "Development and Challenges of China's Biomanufacturing Industry."
Shi Taifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, and CPPCC National Committee Vice Chairmen Hu Chunhua, Shen Yueyue, Wang Yong, Zhou Qiang, Ho Hau Wah, Leung Chun-ying, Batel, Su Hui, Shao Hong, Gao Yunlong, Mu Hong, Xian Hui, Wang Dongfeng, Jiang Xinzhi, Jiang Zuojun, He Baoxiang, Wang Guangqian, Qin Boyong, Zhu Yongxin, and Yang Zhen attended the meeting.

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Implement fiscal stewardship responsibilities, improve fiscal work standards, and better serve and safeguard Chinese-style modernization.

Xinhua News Agency, Hefei, August 26 (Reporter Qi Zhongxi) — From August 25 to 26, Ding Xuexiang, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the Symposium on Fiscal Scientific Management Pilot Work in Hefei, Anhui Province, and conducted research. He emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements, elevate political standing, focus on the overall development situation, continuously improve the level of fiscal work, and better serve and safeguard the construction of Chinese-style modernization.

At the symposium, Ding Xuexiang pointed out that the Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to fiscal work. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that fiscal affairs are the foundation and important pillar of national governance, and required leading Party and government officials to firmly establish an awareness of managing the household's finances. All regions and relevant departments should earnestly study and understand, and grasp implementation. It is necessary to properly handle the relationship between fiscal affairs and the economy, implement a more proactive fiscal policy, and strive to promote stable economic growth and structural optimization, advancing high-quality development steadily and far. Maintain a reasonable macro tax burden level, research and improve a tax system compatible with new business forms, and revitalize existing resources and assets. Improve the fiscal relationship between the central and local governments, scientifically divide fiscal authority and expenditure responsibility, appropriately strengthen central fiscal authority, increase the proportion of central fiscal expenditure, and increase local autonomous fiscal capacity. Vigorously optimize the structure of fiscal expenditure, strengthen fiscal guarantees for major national strategic tasks and basic livelihood, deepen zero-based budgeting reform, strengthen budget performance management, and comprehensively improve the efficiency of fiscal resource allocation. Resolutely resolve the hidden debt risks of local governments, strictly investigate and punish violations that add new hidden debt, promote the reform and transformation of local government financing platforms, and firmly hold the bottom line of fiscal security and sustainable development. Seriously enforce fiscal and economic discipline, strengthen financial and accounting supervision, and ensure the standardized and efficient use of fiscal funds.

Ding Xuexiang emphasized that it is necessary to solidly carry out fiscal work for the second half of the year, accelerate the progress of relevant fund usage, strengthen the coordination and cooperation of fiscal and monetary policies, strongly and effectively support the construction of the "two major" initiatives (两重) and the work of the "two new" (两新), promptly advance the construction of the "six networks" (六张网), firmly hold the bottom line of grassroots "three guarantees" (三保), promote the sustained development of the economy toward innovation, excellence, and improvement, and make greater contributions to achieving a good start to the 15th Five-Year Plan period. During his stay in Anhui, Ding Xuexiang also visited the Finance Bureau of Feixi County (肥西县) to research fiscal scientific management pilot work and grassroots fiscal operations; he went to the Center for Scientific Intelligence and Material Creation (科学智能物质创制中心) at the University of Science and Technology of China to learn about the empowerment of scientific research by artificial intelligence. Ding Xuexiang expressed the hope that Anhui will bear in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions, leverage the overlapping advantages of multiple national development strategies, deeply integrate into the new development pattern, solidly promote high-quality development, and strive to write the Anhui chapter of Chinese-style modernization.

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Brand-wide evolution creates a new model for the automotive industry.

By: 本报调研组

40.3% and 77.4% — these are, respectively, the market shares of Chinese-brand passenger vehicles in the domestic market for the full year of 2013 and for July 2026.
The automobile has changed, and the automobile industry has changed too!
Standing at the center of the stage, more and more, are Chinese automobile brands!
From SAIC, BYD, Geely, Chery, and Changan, to Leapmotor, Li Auto, NIO, Xpeng, Seres, and Xiaomi, Chinese self-owned brands racing on the new energy vehicle track shine like a galaxy of stars.
The collective rise of Chinese automobile brands and the new model created by China's automobile industry are mutually reinforcing — one is the outward manifestation, the other the inner substance.
The new model is new in the systematic innovation of the "full chain" —
In the exhibition hall of the Seres Super Factory in Chongqing, Zhang Zhengping, chairman of Seres Automobile, pointed to the seven groups of core components on display, including various domain controllers and telematics modules, and said: "In the past, automobiles relied on the engine, transmission, and chassis to lead iteration. Now, what determines the advanced level of a vehicle is seven 'boxes.'"
These seven "boxes" are precisely the key to the new energy vehicle industry — the "three-electric" system of battery, motor, and electronic control, plus chip computing power, integrated perception, algorithms, and intelligent systems. Whoever masters these technological capabilities masters the initiative in the industry. And these capabilities are now firmly in the hands of Chinese enterprises.
At every key link in the new energy vehicle industry chain, Chinese enterprises are charging to the forefront:
BYD took the lead in integrating the "three-electric" capabilities, making "charging as fast as refueling" a reality with flash charging;
CATL's latest battery technology raises the charging rate to a peak of 15C, charging from 10% to 80% in just over three minutes;
Huawei's Qiankun intelligent driving system continues to evolve, from relying on high-precision maps to developing map-free, all-terrain navigation;
Hongqi's Jiuzhang intelligent platform is the first in China to launch urban navigation assistance technology based on inertial navigation with a three-camera vision system, with a success rate of over 90% for intersection passage;
Changan has launched the Tianshu generative large model, one of the very few large models in China to pass the "generative artificial intelligence service" filing and approval;
GAC Group has launched the Aion GT Climbing Edition, in which all 1,004 chips used are designed domestically in China;
Leapmotor explores "full-domain self-research," achieving self-research and self-manufacturing of components accounting for 65% of the vehicle cost, bringing intelligent driving "into the homes of ordinary people";
…
This is the innovation matrix of China's automobiles. It is not the solo dance of a single enterprise, but the charge of a group of enterprises.
China's new energy vehicles have become an "innovation platform for industrial integration," connecting semiconductors, software, materials, processing and manufacturing, battery chemistry, artificial intelligence, and other related industries all together.
The new model is new in the production method of the "super factory" —
Walking into the Seres Super Factory in Chongqing, there is none of the deafening noise and flying sparks of a traditional factory. The key processes of stamping, welding, and painting are 100% automated. More than 3,000 industrial robots work in precise coordination. Automated guided vehicles shuttle quietly. Digital screens update in real time. A 9,800-ton integrated die-casting machine casts the rear body structure, composed of 87 components, in a single press. Artificial intelligence visual inspection systems work without interruption, and even "hair-thin" defects imperceptible to the human eye are not let through.
At the same time, a digital twin system "replicates" the real production line in real time. Assembly precision, quality traceability, and even floor flatness — every detail is presented through data. One vehicle, one file; one part, one file. Even the torque and angle of every bolt tightened are recorded, and production data is permanently retrievable.
This is the benchmark of intelligent manufacturing in the global automotive industry, the new scene of China's intelligent manufacturing represented by the "Excellent-Level Intelligent Factory" of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
"The five AITO high-end SUV series are 100% produced on a make-to-order basis with zero inventory, which places extremely high demands on production line flexibility," Zhang Zhengping told reporters. The same production line can mixed-weld and mixed-assemble multiple models. From the launch of its first vehicle, AITO took only 46 months to reach the 1,000,000th vehicle rolling off the line, setting the fastest record globally for a luxury new energy vehicle brand to reach one million units.
The rapid response to market orders relies on the "industrial brain," the decision-making hub of intelligent manufacturing. With the deep participation of artificial intelligence, Seres' "industrial brain" integrates an industrial ecosystem of more than 300 partner enterprises collaborating in development, with direct connectivity throughout the chain to more than 50 core suppliers. R&D efficiency has increased by 20%, and the on-time order delivery rate has improved by 13%. The supply chain that used to transmit information layer by layer has become a "factory within a factory" resonating at the same frequency: CATL's battery lines and Yanfeng's seat lines are directly embedded into the vehicle production process, reaching the final assembly stations directly.
A large number of such super factories form the brilliant star map of China's new energy vehicle industry.
The BYD Super Factory at Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone is the world's largest single new energy vehicle base, with the capacity to produce one vehicle in less than a minute and one battery cell in about three seconds; at NIO's Hefei Xinqiao Second Factory, 80% of manufacturing scenarios are supported by AI-assisted decision-making, and the side-frame outer assembly station in the body shop achieves an error precision of 0.05 millimeters; at Xpeng's Guangzhou Knowledge City Super Factory, "pure electric + flying car" production lines run in parallel; at Xiaomi's Beijing Yizhuang Super Factory, the key processes of six core workshops achieve 100% unmanned "lights-out" production…
Ten-thousand-ton-class giant integrated die-casting, highly flexible production lines, and fully digital traceability are becoming the important manufacturing advantages of China's new energy vehicle super factories, bringing visual shock and spiritual resonance to visitors from all directions.
More than 100 years ago, Henry Ford created the industrial assembly line; in the 1950s and 1960s, Toyota created the lean production method; today, what the "industrial brain + future factory" manufacturing model of China's automobiles brings is far more than slightly faster speed and slightly lower cost — it is the reconstruction of the entire chain of R&D, manufacturing, supply, and service, and an all-round leap in total factor productivity.
The new model is new in the industrial ecology of "four-chain integration" —
A new energy vehicle is composed of tens of thousands of components. Behind every vehicle brand is a vast supply chain system.
"China has the world's most complete 'three-electric' supply chain and intelligent connected vehicle industrial ecosystem." This is the consensus of nearly everyone in the research.
In the Yangtze River Delta, a "4-hour industrial circle" renowned in the industry has formed: Shanghai's chips and software form the vehicle's "brain," Jiangsu provides power batteries, Zhejiang provides integrated die-casting machines, and Anhui completes vehicle assembly. All the supporting components for a new energy vehicle can be found within a 4-hour drive.
In Zhengzhou, more than 100 upstream and downstream enterprises have gathered around BYD, the "chain leader" enterprise, forming a complete chain of "raw materials — core components — complete vehicles — intelligent connected vehicles."
The chain has become an innovation network; suppliers have become innovation partners; manufacturing has become collaborative innovation.
"In the past, OEMs had to send people to supplier factories to inspect and guard goods. Now, data from key equipment is visible in real time, and supply chain efficiency and security have greatly improved. Based on data accumulated from the supply chain, banks can offer 'data loans' to small and medium-sized enterprises. The innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain are fully connected within the system, and 'four-chain integration' is releasing new momentum." Wang Zhijie, director of the Chongqing Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, described this change in such terms.
The new model has broadened the boundaries of enterprises. The walls are being torn down.
At Chery's Kaiyang Laboratory, reporters saw a cutting-edge technology — a chip thermal management system based on white graphene heat dissipation technology, which uses the high thermal conductivity of two-dimensional materials to reduce the operating temperature of intelligent driving chips by 15 degrees Celsius. This technology has entered the real-vehicle verification stage. The Feiyu digital-intelligent chassis incubated by the laboratory, equipped on Chery's high-end models, achieves full software definition of the chassis system. These are typical achievements of "four-chain integration."
This laboratory, known as a "laboratory without walls," is supported by the governments of Anhui Province and Wuhu City. Relying on Chery's "chain leader" platform, it focuses on key common technologies for intelligent connected new energy vehicles, collaborates with more than 100 top universities worldwide, and carries out more than 4,000 frontier research projects and project incubation and implementation, promoting the flow and aggregation of global innovation resources on this platform.
"It is not just the vehicle enterprises that are advancing, but the entire industrial chain and supply chain advancing together. Batteries, motors, electronic control, as well as chips, software, and AI — everyone is running forward together," said Zhao Fei, general manager of Changan Automobile.
Running forward together, running toward quality transformation, efficiency transformation, and momentum transformation.
Quality transformation — refinement of quality. The first integrated carbon fiber cockpit of BYD's Yangwang U9 reduces weight by 420 kilograms compared to traditional steel-aluminum structures, yet its strength is equivalent to 5 to 6 times that of steel. Xiaomi's SU7 uses its self-developed "Titan Alloy" material, achieving a torsional stiffness of 51,000 Nm/degree, about twice that of traditional fuel vehicles. The quality upgrade of China's new energy vehicles is not only a surpassing of manufacturing process parameters, but also a comprehensive elevation of brand quality.
Efficiency transformation — efficient collaboration. BYD took six years to launch the second-generation blade battery and flash charging technology, completing multiple technological leaps from battery to electric drive to vehicle control. CATL's technological progress continues to refresh industry understanding, and the pain points of electric vehicle use that once troubled users — driving range, charging speed, winter energy consumption — are being resolved one by one at a pace faster than expected. Deeper division of labor, tighter collaboration, faster iteration. This is the efficiency code of China's new energy vehicles.
Momentum transformation — cross-border integration. Xiaomi's HyperOS operating system, previously released on its phones, has become the technical foundation of its intelligent cockpit. Hongqi's "Lingxi Cockpit" cooperates with Alibaba Cloud and AutoNavi, integrating the Qwen intelligent agent to form an architecture of "cloud large-model decision-making + on-device execution." Traditional automakers, technology companies, platform companies, software companies, and energy companies each display their strengths on the same innovation network. The automobile has become the most active application carrier of new quality productive forces.
Strictly speaking, in the automobile industry, Huawei is only a supplier, just like CATL, Horizon Robotics, iFlytek, Momenta, and Black Sesame Technologies. But its identity is multifaceted: in its cooperation with Seres, BAIC, Chery, and JAC, Harmony Intelligent Mobility provides deep empowerment, offering full-stack solutions from chips and operating systems to assisted driving.
In June of this year, ByteDance also entered the automotive industry in depth as a supplier, jointly building Saidou Technology and the AIVA brand with Seres, empowering intelligent cockpits with the Doubao large model, opening a new cross-border attempt.
These new forces in the supply chain, with their powerful product innovation and technological leadership, are both redefining their own roles and redefining the automobile industry.
This is a complete, living, rapidly evolving new model of industrial development — a systematic overall leap, an open cross-border integration, a symbiotic collective rise!
There is no doubt that it is precisely the collective vitality generated by this new model that has transformed China's self-owned automobile brands from industry "chasers" into industry "definers."
(Research team members: Xu Lijing, Xie Rongbin, Du Haitao, Gui Junsong, Wang Zheng, Shen Qian, Ge Mengchao, Feng Yingjie)

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Using the assessment baton well (Today's Talk)

By: 成 森

How can we continuously consolidate and expand the achievements of the education on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements? Deeply studying and implementing General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, "making good use of the assessment baton" is an important measure.

During the education period, all regions, departments, and units continuously improved the differentiated assessment and evaluation system, strengthening institutional safeguards for implementing the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements in detail and ensuring that high-quality development achieves new results.

Continuously enhancing the ideological consciousness and action consciousness of establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements — assessment is the foundation, and the selection of cadres is the key.

The ability to move up and down reflects the orientation. Only by "giving important positions to cadres who dare to take responsibility, dare to shoulder burdens, are good at taking action, and have outstanding actual achievements" can we inspire a large number of people, better stimulate the motivation for undertaking work, and shape a sound mentality for holding office.

Strict management and caring treatment demonstrate concern. For cadres who encounter setbacks because they dare to venture and try, or who face criticism because they dare to manage and supervise, political achievement assessment should not only evaluate them objectively without demanding perfection, but also grasp the mainstream and essence, point out shortcomings to promote improvement, and foster a favorable atmosphere of letting go and working boldly, taking responsibility and striving forward.

Judging heroes by actual achievements, selecting cadres by actual achievements, and determining rewards and punishments by actual achievements will surely gather the mighty force of those who want to do things, can do things, and accomplish things.

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Deepening Solidarity and Cooperation, Charting a Blueprint for Collaboration

From August 30 to September 3, President Xi Jinping will attend the 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit held in Bishkek, and, at the invitation of Kyrgyz President Japarov and Egyptian President Sisi, will pay state visits to the two countries.

People from SCO member states interviewed by our reporter believe that China has always linked its own development with the development of the SCO, and believe that President Xi Jinping's attendance at the Bishkek Summit will make positive contributions to promoting security, stability, development and revitalization of countries in the region and to advancing the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. Interviewees from various sectors in Kyrgyzstan and Egypt believe that President Xi Jinping's state visits will draw a new blueprint for mutually beneficial cooperation between Kyrgyzstan and China and between Egypt and China in various fields.

"Facing the intertwined and turbulent international situation, the contemporary value of the 'Shanghai Spirit' has become even more prominent"

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of the SCO. Over the past 25 years, member states have upheld the "Shanghai Spirit," adhered to solidarity and coordination, comprehensively deepened cooperation, and promoted the development of the SCO into a comprehensive regional cooperation organization with the widest territory, the largest population, and enormous development potential in today's world. People from SCO member states expressed their expectation that President Xi Jinping will put forward China's proposals for leading the high-quality development of the SCO and for participating in the reform and building of the global governance system, and believe that the Bishkek Summit will further consolidate consensus and contribute more "SCO strength" to regional and world peace and development.

Sergey Sanakoev, director of the Russian Center for Asia-Pacific Region Studies, said that one year ago in Tianjin, President Xi Jinping put forward the Global Governance Initiative, providing valuable China's proposals for the cause of global peace and development. The joint implementation of the Global Governance Initiative by SCO member states helps enhance the influence of the Global South on the international stage and contributes more constructive strength to improving global governance. "We look forward to President Xi Jinping putting forward more new propositions to further promote close unity, mutually beneficial cooperation, development and prosperity among member states, and to promote the high-quality development of the SCO to proceed steadily and far."

Alibek Tajibayev, director of the "Eurasian Monitoring" Analytical Research Center in Kazakhstan, said that SCO member states have successfully explored a new path of regional cooperation and set a model for a new type of international relations. "Facing the intertwined and turbulent international situation, the contemporary value of the 'Shanghai Spirit' has become even more prominent. We look forward to President Xi Jinping's attendance at the Bishkek Summit bringing more China's proposals and adding more momentum to the future development of the SCO."

"China has always played an important leading role in the development of the SCO." Khalid Taimur Akram, executive director of the Pakistan Research Center for a Community with Shared Future for Mankind, said that President Xi Jinping has continuously contributed Chinese wisdom to the growth and strengthening of the SCO. Since officially becoming an SCO member state in 2017, Pakistan has always actively participated in the building of the SCO. As the next rotating presidency, Pakistan looks forward to President Xi Jinping charting a new direction for the high-quality development of the SCO.

"President Xi Jinping has on multiple occasions put forward important propositions at SCO summits on promoting the improvement of the global governance system, advancing global governance toward a more just and reasonable direction." Abdul Aziz Al-Shabbani, researcher at the Riyadh Political and Strategic Studies Center in Saudi Arabia, noted that the influence and attractiveness of the SCO have been continuously rising. As the strength of the Global South continues to grow, the international community's call for an equal and orderly global governance participation mechanism has become stronger. We look forward to China's proposals gathering more consensus and jointly advancing the reform and building of the global governance system.

Andrei Rusakovich, professor in the Department of Eurasian Studies at Belarusian State University, said that taking the Bishkek Summit as an opportunity, China, joining hands with other SCO member states, will surely open up broader prospects for regional and world peace, prosperity, and sustainable development.

"Promoting Kyrgyzstan-China relations to further deepen and solidify"

In recent years, under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China and Kyrgyzstan, in the spirit of 同舟共济 (tóng zhōu gòng jì - "sharing the same boat and helping each other across the river," to stand together in times of difficulty) and mutual benefit and win-win cooperation, have forged a comprehensive strategic partnership for a new era and are jointly building a China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future featuring good-neighborly friendship and shared prosperity. Various sectors in Kyrgyzstan expect President Xi Jinping's visit to further promote the high-quality development of all-round mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries and better benefit the two peoples.

"The arrival of President Xi Jinping will promote Kyrgyzstan-China relations to further deepen and solidify." Kanaiym Baktygulova, former Kyrgyz ambassador to China, believes that in recent years, Kyrgyzstan-China relations have achieved leapfrog development, with continuously consolidated political mutual trust between the two countries, fruitful results in high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, brilliant highlights in people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and close and strong international coordination. She believes that this meeting between the two heads of state will inject new momentum into the implementation of existing consensus and create opportunities for opening up new directions of cooperation.

Abdrakhman Matraimov, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Kyrgyzstan, once studied in Gansu and has lived in Guangzhou for nearly two years, personally experiencing the continuous development of Kyrgyzstan-China relations. "The scale of trade between the two countries has grown significantly, and the fields of economic and trade cooperation have continued to expand." Matraimov said that more and more young people in Kyrgyzstan are choosing to learn Chinese to lay a foundation for future participation in Kyrgyzstan-China cooperation. He firmly believes that President Xi Jinping's visit will promote the two countries to tap the potential of practical cooperation and open up new prospects for cooperation.

Aibek Aidossov, assistant director of the "Belt and Road" Research Center at Kyrgyz National University, believes that in recent years, the two countries have actively advanced various cooperation projects under the framework of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. In particular, the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, as a strategic project for China's connectivity with Central Asia, will, once completed, help Kyrgyzstan break through its transportation bottleneck and gain more new development opportunities.

Gulzat Isamatova, Minister of Science, Higher Education and Innovation of Kyrgyzstan, said that scientific and technological cooperation between Kyrgyzstan and China is flourishing, and she looks forward to the two sides expanding academic personnel exchanges, implementing joint education projects, carrying out scientific research and tackling key problems, and jointly cultivating professional talents.

Salken Sarnogoeva, Deputy Minister of Culture, Information and Youth Policy of Kyrgyzstan, said that she believes President Xi Jinping's visit will further promote the development of bilateral relations. Kyrgyzstan-China cooperation has broad prospects, and the projects jointly implemented will surely increase year by year.

"Jointly writing a new chapter in the development of Egypt-China relations"

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Egypt, and it is also President Xi Jinping's second state visit to Egypt after 10 years. Various sectors in Egypt expect President Xi Jinping's visit to become another milestone in promoting the continuous forward development of the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.

Sami Kamhawy, deputy editor-in-chief of Egypt's Al-Ahram newspaper, said that he sincerely welcomes President Xi Jinping's visit to Egypt again. Egypt-China friendly relations have a long history, and the two countries have always supported each other since the establishment of diplomatic relations. Facing the current complex international and regional situation, Egypt and China will continue to join hands to contribute to regional stability and development.

"Ten years ago, President Xi Jinping and Egyptian President Sisi jointly unveiled the second phase of the China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone. Today, the cooperation zone has gradually grown into a modern industrial park with concentrated industries and complete functions." Egyptian China affairs expert Sawy said that China's investment in Egypt has effectively enhanced Egypt's industrial production capacity and industrial development level. He looks forward to President Xi Jinping's visit promoting the two sides to expand new space in industrial manufacturing, scientific and technological innovation, green energy and other fields, so that more cooperation achievements can benefit the people of both sides.

"The construction of the Central Business District in the New Administrative Capital has gradually turned the blueprint of modern urban development into reality, and the Ramadan 10th of Ramadan City light rail has brought convenience to people's travel." Gaballah, member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, said that the high-quality Belt and Road cooperation between Egypt and China has continued to deepen and solidify, and a number of major projects benefiting people's livelihood and promoting development have been implemented one after another. At the same time, economic and trade cooperation between the two countries has continued to deepen, and measures such as zero-tariff policies have helped more high-quality Egyptian products enter the Chinese market, making the people of the two countries beneficiaries of the mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries. He looks forward to taking President Xi Jinping's visit as an opportunity for the two sides to further transform the achievements of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation into development dividends, and to promote Egypt-China friendly relations to proceed steadily, far, and deeply into people's hearts.

"Egypt has incorporated Chinese language teaching into its national education system, Egypt-China joint archaeological work has continuously made new progress, direct flights between the two countries have been increasing, and tourism cooperation has continued to deepen... Egypt-China people-to-people and cultural exchanges are flourishing." Hassan Ragab, Egyptian director of the Confucius Institute at Suez Canal University, said that Egypt and China actively practice the Global Civilization Initiative, and the increasingly active and extensive cultural exchanges are building bridges of mutual understanding and affinity between the two peoples.

The China-Egypt media joint interview on high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, hosted by People's Daily, is currently being held in Egypt. Mohamed, deputy editor-in-chief of Egypt's Al-Messa newspaper, has deeply felt the vigorous vitality of cooperation between the two countries through days of visits. He said that from jointly building economic and trade cooperation zones to implementing measures such as tariff reduction, the two countries have continuously broadened cooperation fields and tapped growth potential, truly achieving mutual benefit, win-win, and common development. "I believe President Xi Jinping's visit will promote the two sides to carry out practical cooperation in more fields, continuously consolidate the friendship between the two countries, and jointly write a new chapter in the development of Egypt-China relations."

(People's Daily, Beijing, Bishkek, Cairo, Moscow, August 26 — reporters Chen Shangwen, Qu Song, Qu Pei, Li Qiang, Zhao Yipu, Xie Yahong, Zhou Zhuan, Huang Peizhao, Shen Xiaoxiao, Yang Yi, Ren Haoyu, Xiao Xinxin)

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Writing a New Chapter of Cooperation and Promoting Development and Revitalization Together (Voice)

This major head-of-state diplomatic action will surely gather more consensus for peace, development, cooperation, and justice, inject more certainty into a world of turbulence and transformation, and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

From August 30 to September 3, President Xi Jinping will attend the 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit to be held in Bishkek, and will pay state visits to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt at the invitation of Kyrgyz President Japarov and Egyptian President Sisi. This major head-of-state diplomatic action will gather more consensus for the high-quality development of the SCO and the reform and construction of the global governance system, further enrich the connotation of the China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future, promote the continuous development of the China-Egypt comprehensive strategic partnership, and contribute greater strength to international and regional peace and development through more development synergy and cooperative influence.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Over the past 25 years, member states have upheld the "Shanghai Spirit," adhered to solidarity and coordination, comprehensively deepened cooperation, and promoted the SCO's development into a comprehensive regional cooperation organization with the largest territory, the largest population, and enormous development potential in the world, successfully blazing a new path of regional cooperation and setting a model for a new type of international relations. Last year's Tianjin Summit made a strategic plan for the SCO's development over the next 10 years, opening a new stage of high-quality development for the SCO. During this year's Bishkek Summit, President Xi Jinping will have in-depth exchanges of views with leaders of participating countries on deepening cooperation in various fields of the SCO under the new circumstances and on major current international and regional issues, further building consensus and writing a new chapter of cooperation, and making positive contributions to promoting security, stability, development, and revitalization of countries in the region and to building a community with a shared future for mankind.

China and Kyrgyzstan are good neighbors connected by mountains and rivers, good friends who trust each other, and good partners who share the same aspirations. Last year, President Xi Jinping met with President Japarov three times, leading China-Kyrgyzstan cooperation into a "golden period" of rapid development. This visit is President Xi Jinping's second state visit to Kyrgyzstan after seven years. During the visit, the leaders of the two countries will hold talks, have in-depth exchanges of views on bilateral relations, cooperation in key areas, and the international and regional situation, and attend various state activities. At present, China is striving forward in the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and Kyrgyzstan is actively implementing its "National Development Strategy to 2030." President Xi Jinping's visit this time will further promote the high-quality development of all-round mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries, further enrich the connotation of the China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future, and benefit the peoples of the two countries.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Egypt. Over the past 70 years, no matter how the international and regional situation has changed, the two countries have always respected each other, treated each other as equals, trusted each other, and supported each other in times of need. The China-Egypt relationship has become a model of solidarity, coordination, and mutual benefit among developing countries. In recent years, under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and President Sisi, the two countries have continuously deepened political mutual trust, achieved fruitful results in cooperation in various fields, witnessed increasingly frequent people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and maintained close and effective multilateral coordination. The China-Egypt comprehensive strategic partnership has achieved leapfrog development and ushered in its best period in history. This visit is President Xi Jinping's second state visit to Egypt after ten years, and is of special and important significance of building on the past and opening up the future for the development of bilateral relations. Taking this visit as an opportunity, China and Egypt will carry forward traditional friendship, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, assist each other's modernization process, jointly write a new chapter in China-Egypt relations, and promote peace and stability in the region and the world.

As a force of stability, constructiveness, and progress that carries significant weight in today's world, the SCO can play a greater and better role in promoting world peace, development, cooperation, and win-win outcomes by further gathering consensus among all parties and taking efficient actions. Strengthened cooperation between China and Kyrgyzstan and between China and Egypt can inject more positive energy into maintaining regional peace and stability and promoting common development. This major head-of-state diplomatic action will surely gather more consensus for peace, development, cooperation, and justice, inject more certainty into a world of turbulence and transformation, and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

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Consolidate solidarity and mutual trust, deepen practical cooperation

By: 本报记者 白 阳 宦 翔 屈 佩

In the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," a major diplomatic action by China toward the Asia-Europe-Africa region is about to begin.

From August 30 to September 3, President Xi Jinping will attend the 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Bishkek, and will pay state visits to the two countries at the invitation of Kyrgyz President Japarov and Egyptian President Sisi.

From Bishkek to Cairo, from the foot of the Tianshan Mountains to the banks of the Nile, the sound of camel bells on the ancient Silk Road has echoed across millennia, and the surging tide of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation flows on without cease. At a time when the international situation is fraught with turbulence and change, the international community generally expects the SCO to further carry forward the "Shanghai Spirit," join hands in building an even closer community with a shared future, promote the implementation of the Global Governance Initiative, and reform and improve global governance. China-Kyrgyzstan and China-Egypt relations are at their best period in history. This visit will surely further consolidate political mutual trust, deepen practical cooperation, and cultivate traditional friendship, injecting new and strong momentum into peace and development in the region and the world at large.

With a more spirited posture and more pragmatic measures, promote the steady and enduring progress of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Over a river of twenty-five years surging onward, the SCO set sail from the banks of the Huangpu River and has charted a course of the times that connects all directions and shares weal and woe.

Shared aspirations are strength. From 6 founding member states to a "big family" spanning 27 countries across Asia, Europe, and Africa, it carries the hopes of nearly half the world's population for peace, their longing for development, and their aspirations for prosperity. From focusing on security cooperation to now flourishing across politics, economy, culture, and other fields, the SCO has withstood the tests of international vicissitudes, tempered its resilience, and demonstrated its vitality.

Seeking common ground while shelving differences reveals broad-mindedness. In 2017, the first expansion admitted India and Pakistan; in 2023, Iran became a member state; in 2024, the "SCO Plus" model was inaugurated and Belarus was admitted as a member state... Despite differences in history, culture, social systems, and development stages, SCO countries have jointly blazed a path of regional cooperation that conforms to the trends of the times and meets the needs of all parties, sharing opportunities and pursuing common development, setting a model for a new type of international relations.

"Despite the swirling clouds and flying mist, we have achieved success by practicing the 'Shanghai Spirit.'" President Xi Jinping's important assertion profoundly reveals the core reason why the SCO has continued to mature and grow, with its international influence and appeal increasing day by day.

All things have their origins, yet only those who know can guard their roots. The "Shanghai Spirit" is the "root" and "soul" of the SCO. With "mutual trust and mutual benefit" as the foundation of cooperation, with "equality and consultation" as the way of getting along, with "respect for diverse civilizations" to promote harmony and inclusiveness, and with "pursuit of common development" to achieve win-win prosperity. The "Shanghai Spirit" guides the giant ship of the "SCO" to ride the wind and waves.

As a founding member state of the SCO, China has always made promoting the development of the SCO a priority direction of its diplomacy. Since 2013, President Xi Jinping has attended every SCO summit, put forward a series of important initiatives and propositions such as building an SCO community with a shared future and building the "five common homes" of the SCO — unity and mutual trust, peace and tranquility, prosperity and development, good-neighborliness and friendship, and fairness and justice — powerfully guiding the organization's development. China has provided multiple public goods benefiting all parties in areas such as law enforcement and security, economic and trade investment, people-to-people and cultural exchanges, finance, and poverty reduction. China's propositions and China's actions have injected a steady stream of momentum into anchoring the SCO's development course and enriching the connotation of cooperation.

From August 31 to September 1, 2025, President Xi Jinping chaired the SCO Tianjin Summit, jointly charting with leaders of member states the blueprint for the organization's development over the next 10 years, leading the organization into a new stage of high-quality development that is more united, more collaborative, more dynamic, and more productive. The important propositions and series of action initiatives put forward by President Xi Jinping — adhering to seeking common ground while shelving differences, adhering to mutual benefit and win-win, adhering to openness and inclusiveness, adhering to fairness and justice, and adhering to pragmatism and efficiency — were highly praised and actively responded to by the leaders present.

Over the past year, China's initiatives have been effectively implemented, empowering regional development. Seven application platforms — green industry, digital economy, scientific and technological innovation, energy, higher education, vocational and technical education, and artificial intelligence — have all been launched, forming more than 160 projects. The action plan for high-quality development of economic and trade cooperation has been continuously implemented, and the scale of trade between China and member states has steadily risen. Nearly three-quarters of the newly added "ten-million-kilowatt photovoltaic" and "ten-million-kilowatt wind power" projects have been implemented, and more than two-thirds of the 100 "small and beautiful" livelihood projects have been approved.

At the "SCO Plus" meeting of the Tianjin Summit, President Xi Jinping solemnly put forward the Global Governance Initiative, emphasizing the five core concepts of upholding sovereign equality, abiding by international rule of law, practicing multilateralism, advocating a people-centered approach, and emphasizing action orientation. The Initiative provides important methods and pathways for the SCO to actively participate in reforming and improving the global governance system and promoting the development of the international order in a more just and reasonable direction.

Follow the right path, and many will walk with you. The Global Governance Initiative has received support and response from nearly 160 countries and international organizations, and more than 60 countries have enthusiastically joined the "Group of Friends for Global Governance." SCO Secretary-General Yermekbayev stated that the Initiative is highly consistent with the "Shanghai Spirit" and reflects the common aspiration of SCO member states to build a more representative, more just and democratic multipolar world.

"Let us keep in mind our original aspiration and mission, actively take on responsibility, and with a more spirited posture and more pragmatic measures, promote the steady and enduring progress of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and march forward firmly toward the bright future of building a community with a shared future for mankind!" Upholding the "Shanghai Spirit," SCO countries stand firmly on the correct side of history, on the side of human civilization's progress, practice true multilateralism, and inject strong "SCO strength" into reforming and improving global governance and building a community with a shared future for mankind.

Promote the continuous deepening and solidification of China-Kyrgyzstan high-quality Belt and Road cooperation

For thousands of years, the towering Tianshan Mountains have witnessed the development and prosperity of the ancient Silk Road, and have also witnessed the clear and enduring friendship between the peoples of China and Kyrgyzstan, like mountain snowmelt.

The China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, connecting the three countries of China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan, is advancing steadily. On August 5, the No. 2 tunnel north of Kosh-Tebe in Kyrgyzstan was successfully completed, and control projects such as the Naryn No. 1 tunnel achieved phased results. From conception to implementation, this strategic corridor, focused on regional connectivity and promoting regional prosperity and stability, carries the beautiful aspirations of the people of the regional countries. President Xi Jinping has paid close attention to the project's progress, hoping that the relevant departments and enterprises of the three countries will work in full cooperation, advance the project construction with high standards and high quality, and strive to make the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway a new demonstration project for Belt and Road cooperation.

Kyrgyzstan, a landlocked "mountainous country," has 90 percent of its territory above 1,500 meters in altitude. The lofty mountains are scenery, but also a barrier to development, and roads are "as important as air and water." Kyrgyzstan was one of the first countries to support and actively participate in the Belt and Road Initiative. China has actively helped Kyrgyzstan break through road and traffic bottlenecks: the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan highway has become a major transport artery in Central Asia, the new north-south highway facilitates the flow of people and goods, the Bishkek municipal road network renovation project has significantly improved the capital's traffic appearance, and the Barskoon-Bedel highway will become a brand-new transport corridor connecting China and Kyrgyzstan... The continuous upgrading of connectivity provides strong support for the smooth flow of economic circulation.

As the Belt and Road Initiative is deeply aligned with Kyrgyzstan's "National Development Program until 2030," major landmark projects are being solidly advanced one after another, and "small and beautiful" livelihood projects are taking root. The Datka-Kemin power transmission line project ended Kyrgyzstan's uneven power distribution, the irrigation system renovation project benefits 4 oblasts, and the Osh Hospital, the largest modern surgical hospital in Central Asia, as well as Bishkek Secondary School No. 95, the largest and best-equipped school in Kyrgyzstan, all bring tangible benefits to local people. Kyrgyz President Japarov sincerely stated that Kyrgyzstan's most precious advantage is being neighbors with China.

Good neighbors, good friends, good partners, and good brothers — this is a vivid portrayal of current China-Kyrgyzstan relations. In recent years, President Xi Jinping and President Japarov have met 7 times, providing top-level design and strategic guarantees for the development of bilateral relations. In May 2023, President Xi Jinping and President Japarov met in Xi'an, elevating China-Kyrgyzstan relations to a new height of comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era and announcing the building of a China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future featuring good-neighborliness and shared prosperity.

The important consensus of the heads of state is being transformed into rich fruits of bilateral cooperation —

Trade momentum is strong, and the structure continues to optimize. China has maintained its position as Kyrgyzstan's largest trading partner, largest source of imports, and largest source of investment for many consecutive years. In 2025, bilateral goods trade reached 27.2 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 20 percent, setting a new historical record. In 2025, Kyrgyzstan set up a national pavilion at the China International Import Expo for the first time, and specialty products such as honey and wool products were favored by Chinese consumers.

Areas of cooperation are expanding, continuously moving toward innovation and green development. At the end of 2025, Kyrgyzstan's first photovoltaic power generation project invested by a Chinese enterprise — the 100 MW photovoltaic power station in Chuy Oblast — was officially connected to the grid, helping diversify Kyrgyzstan's energy structure; the first phase of the Bishkek waste-to-energy project was put into operation, and the story of Chinese enterprises helping "turn waste into treasure" is widely discussed with relish by local media. In 2025, China and Kyrgyzstan signed the Joint Statement on Deepening the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in the New Era, listing green trade and green energy as directions for expanding cooperation, and executable and replicable projects continue to emerge.

Cultural exchanges are vibrant, and the peoples know each other and grow closer. The first Chinese Cultural Center in Central Asia was established in Bishkek, the Luban Workshop was completed and put into operation, four Confucius Institutes are thriving with students, and the "Chinese language fever" and "study in China fever" continue to heat up in Kyrgyzstan. China carried out the "Lianghui Guangming Xing" (Health Express Brightness Trip) activity, providing free cataract surgery to more than 800 Kyrgyz patients. Joint archaeological projects between China and Kyrgyzstan, such as the Fergana-Syr Darya corridor sites and the Red River site, continue to achieve new breakthroughs.

Today's China-Kyrgyzstan relations carry the common dreams of the two peoples. China's "15th Five-Year Plan" spreads broad opportunities, and Kyrgyzstan's economy is growing rapidly with its national appearance changing with each passing day. China and Kyrgyzstan have broad resonance in development concepts, and the social and public opinion foundation for building a China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future is increasingly solid.

Today's China-Kyrgyzstan cooperation has a broader vision and greater responsibility. The two sides maintain close coordination and cooperation under multilateral frameworks such as the United Nations, the SCO, and the China-Central Asia mechanism. China supports Kyrgyzstan in hosting the SCO Bishkek Summit well, supports Kyrgyzstan's election as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, and supports it in playing a greater role in international and regional affairs.

Promote China-Egypt relations with stronger strategic leadership, development cohesion, and international influence

"Over the past 10 years, President Sisi and I have jointly led the vigorous development of bilateral relations. China-Egypt relations have become a vivid portrayal of solidarity, cooperation, and mutual benefit between China and Arab, African, Islamic, and developing countries." In May 2024, President Xi Jinping pointed this out during talks with Egyptian President Sisi, who was in China for a state visit, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

In December 2014, only half a year after Sisi took office as Egyptian President, he visited China, and the heads of state of the two countries elevated China-Egypt relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership. In January 2016, President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to Egypt, and the two sides issued a five-year implementation outline on strengthening the comprehensive strategic partnership. From cordial conversations at multilateral occasions such as the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum, and the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, to warmly exchanging congratulatory messages on the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations... President Xi Jinping and President Sisi have maintained close communication, continuously injecting new strategic leadership and development momentum into bilateral relations. The historic, comprehensive, strategic, exemplary, and leading nature of China-Egypt relations has become more prominent, and practical cooperation between the two countries in various fields has achieved leapfrog development in both breadth and depth.

China and Egypt are brotherly partners to each other. The ancient Silk Road stretching for millennia, the road of national independence pursued in the quest for freedom, and the road of development and prosperity in the longing for rejuvenation closely bind together the two major developing countries of China and Egypt. Egypt was the first Arab and African country to establish diplomatic relations with New China, the first Arab country to write the goal of building a community with a shared future into a joint statement on bilateral relations, and also the first developing country to establish strategic relations with China. Over the 70 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, bilateral relations have developed healthily and steadily, becoming a model of friendly coexistence, solidarity, and cooperation among developing countries and a paradigm of collective cooperation between China and Arab states and between China and Africa.

At present, China-Egypt strategic mutual trust is solid, the two sides firmly support each other's core interests and major concerns, bilateral relations are at their best period in history, and are striding forward toward the goal of building a community with a shared future for the new era.

Supporting each other on the road of development and revitalization. The Belt and Road Initiative and Egypt's "Vision 2030" for sustainable development are deeply aligned, yielding abundant fruits. The 385.8-meter-high "tallest building in Africa" marks a new height of China-Egypt friendship and is hailed by the Egyptian people as the "New Pyramid"; the China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone has attracted more than 200 enterprises, directly creating over 10,000 local jobs; China's aid to Egypt for the EgyptSat-2 satellite helped Egypt become the first African country with complete satellite assembly, integration, and testing capabilities. On May 1 this year, 516 tons of Egyptian fresh oranges were quickly cleared through customs in Shanghai, China, becoming the first batch of Egyptian goods to enter the Chinese market after China's zero-tariff measures for Africa took effect. One cooperation project after another has turned from blueprint to reality, and one story after another is filled with the warmth of people's livelihoods, continuously empowering each other's modernization processes.

Two ancient civilizations moving toward each other. Cooperation between China and Egypt in the field of archaeology is deepening day by day, with joint archaeological projects at sites such as the Mut Temple and the Saqqara pyramids achieving important discoveries; Chinese has officially entered Egypt's national education system, and more than 30 Egyptian universities currently offer Chinese language departments or courses. More and more young Egyptians are going to China for further study, becoming inheritors and disseminators of China-Egypt friendship; the two Luban Workshops jointly built by China and Egypt have trained more than 3,000 local students in total; the "On Top of the Pyramid: The Civilization of Ancient Egypt" exhibition at the Shanghai Museum in China attracted nearly 3 million visitors; projects such as the China-Arab Classic Translation and Publishing Project and the "Silk Road Book Publishing Project" continue to advance; new progress has been made in the joint application of China's Baiheliang Inscription and Egypt's Nilometer for World Cultural Heritage status... The ancient civilizations radiate new brilliance in mutual reflection, and cultural exchanges are integrated into people's daily lives, bringing the peoples of the two countries, separated by vast distances, ever closer.

The current international situation is fraught with turbulence and change, and the war in the Middle East drags on. China and Egypt have always maintained strategic communication and played a constructive role in striving for peace. China and Egypt oppose unilateralism and power politics, safeguard the international system with the United Nations at its core and the international order based on international law, and unite and cooperate under multilateral frameworks such as the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum, the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, the BRICS cooperation mechanism, and the SCO, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries and promoting the building of a more just and reasonable global governance system. Since August 15 this year, the monument to the Cairo Declaration established by the Chinese side at the Mena House Hotel in Egypt has been opened to the public, sending a strong signal to the world that China and Egypt jointly uphold the victorious fruits of World War II and the postwar international order.

After 70 years of baptism by the passage of time and trials of wind and rain, the China-Egypt friendship surges onward like the waters of the Nile. Standing at the historical juncture of carrying forward the past and opening up the future, China and Egypt will continue to practice the original aspiration of establishing diplomatic relations, join hands and forge ahead together, and will surely open a new chapter in bilateral relations.

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Special Representatives Meeting on China-India Boundary Issues Reaches Eight-Point Consensus

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 26 — On August 25, the 25th Meeting of the Special Representatives on the China-India Boundary Question was held in Beijing. 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 the Special Representative of the Indian side, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, had a candid and in-depth exchange of views on the China-India boundary question, and reached a consensus on the following eight outcomes:

First, the two sides reaffirmed their commitment to being guided by the consensus of the leaders of the two countries, maintaining peace and tranquility in the border areas, and creating a suitable atmosphere for the sound and stable development of bilateral relations.

Second, the two sides stressed that they will, in accordance with the 2005 Agreement on the Political Parameters and Guiding Principles for the Settlement of the China-India Boundary Question and the consensus reached at subsequent Special Representatives meetings, advance consultations on the framework for the resolution of the boundary question and seek a fair, reasonable, and mutually acceptable solution.

Third, the two sides agreed to establish, under the framework of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on China-India Border Affairs (WMCC), an expert group on boundary delimitation and a working group on border control, to respectively advance discussions on early and substantive progress in boundary delimitation and on border control work. The two groups will first clarify their respective terms of reference.

Fourth, the two sides agreed to address in a timely manner any situation in the border areas through existing diplomatic and military channels, including the WMCC, meetings between local commanders, and other mechanisms agreed upon by both sides, and to work on resolving outstanding issues and avoiding misunderstanding and misjudgment by either side in the areas along the Line of Actual Control. The two sides discussed ways to enhance understanding of the Line of Actual Control in the respective areas so as to better manage the border.

Fifth, with a view to improving border control measures, the two sides agreed to add two meeting points for talks at the level of Director General of Military Operations, and to add two new military liaison hotlines in the eastern and middle sectors of the border.

Sixth, the two sides positively evaluated the progress made in cross-border cooperation. The Indian side appreciated the efforts made by the Chinese side to expand the scale of official Indian pilgrims visiting Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The two sides appreciated the resumption of the opening of the three border trade markets between China and India. The two sides agreed to strengthen exchanges and cooperation in border trade, pilgrimage, and other fields, and jointly foster an atmosphere of dialogue, peace, consultation, and cooperation in the border areas.

Seventh, the two sides agreed to hold a new round of the Expert Level Mechanism meeting on trans-border rivers in September, and to maintain communication on issues such as hydrological data and information sharing and the renewal of the Memorandum of Understanding.

Eighth, the two sides agreed to hold the 26th Meeting of the Special Representatives in India in 2027.

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Wang Yi Meets with Uzbek President's Chief of Staff Mirziyoyeva

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 26 (Reporter Shao Yibo) — Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with Mirziyoyeva, head of the Presidential Administration of Uzbekistan, in Beijing on the 26th.
Wang Yi conveyed President Xi Jinping's cordial greetings to President Mirziyoyev, stating that under the strategic guidance of the two countries' leaders, China-Uzbekistan relations have achieved leapfrog development. China has always been a trustworthy and reliable sincere partner of Uzbekistan, and believes that the Uzbek side will continue to render firm support on issues involving China's core interests. China is willing to work with the Uzbek side to write a new chapter of China-Uzbekistan friendly cooperation.
Mirziyoyeva conveyed President Mirziyoyev's sincere greetings to President Xi Jinping, stating that the Uzbek side looks forward to maintaining high-level exchanges with China and deepening pragmatic cooperation in various fields.

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The 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress holds a joint group meeting

Beijing, August 26 (Reporters Peng Bo, Ni Yi) — The 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress held a joint group meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the afternoon of the 26th to deliberate the State Council's report on continuously consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and solidly advancing comprehensive rural revitalization, and to conduct a special inquiry. Chairman Zhao Leji attended the meeting.

Vice Chairperson Wu Weihua presided over the meeting. Ten members of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, members of special committees, and deputies to the National People's Congress and other participating comrades raised inquiries on issues including the current situation of village-level collective economies and measures to promote their development, improving the basic old-age insurance system for urban and rural residents, optimizing comprehensive medical insurance assistance policies, measures to advance the sustained development of key counties supported for rural revitalization, promoting the sustainable development of support industries and increasing the income of people lifted out of poverty, improving east-west collaboration, measures to address the aging of the rural population, doing well the follow-up support work for relocated households from inhospitable areas, improving agricultural policy-based insurance measures, and accelerating the establishment of a diversified investment pattern for rural revitalization.

Vice Premier Liu Guozhong of the State Council, along with responsible comrades from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部), the Ministry of Finance (财政部), the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部), and the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局), attended the meeting to hear opinions and answer inquiries.

Liu Guozhong stated that under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and through the joint efforts of all parties, the achievements of poverty alleviation have been continuously consolidated and expanded. The State Council and relevant departments will thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on the work of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, incorporate normalized assistance into the overall implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, carry out precise monitoring and assistance, provide tiered and categorized assistance to underdeveloped regions, and firmly hold the bottom line of preventing large-scale relapse into poverty or destitution over the long term. They will deeply study and apply the experience of the "Thousand-Village Demonstration, Ten-Thousand-Village Improvement" project (千万工程), promote the construction of livable, workable, and beautiful villages in accordance with local conditions, and continuously raise the level of rural industrial development, rural construction, and rural governance.

Wu Weihua stated that General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized the need to continuously consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, incorporate normalized assistance into the overall implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, and firmly hold the bottom line of preventing large-scale relapse into poverty or destitution. This year marks the opening year in which the transition period for effectively linking the consolidation and expansion of poverty alleviation achievements with rural revitalization has ended and the shift to normalized assistance has begun. This special inquiry focused on key issues and reflected the concerns and attention of the people. The State Council and relevant departments should seriously study and handle the opinions and suggestions raised in the deliberation and special inquiry, and submit a report on the research and handling situation to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress in accordance with the law. The Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress should strengthen follow-up supervision.

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, Tie Ning, Peng Qinghua, Zhang Qingwei, Losang Jamcan, and Shohrat Zakir, and Secretary-General Liu Qi attended the meeting.

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Zhao Leji meets with Uzbek Presidential Chief of Staff Mirziyoyeva

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 26 — Zhao Leji, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, met in Beijing on the morning of the 26th with Mirziyoyeva, Head of the Presidential Administration of Uzbekistan.

Zhao Leji stated that under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and President Mirziyoyev, China-Uzbekistan strategic mutual trust has become more consolidated, practical cooperation has yielded fruitful results, and bilateral relations have been elevated to a new era all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership. China is willing to work with Uzbekistan to implement the important consensus of the two heads of state, consolidate political mutual trust, deepen all-round mutually beneficial cooperation, and jointly build a China-Uzbekistan community with a shared future that is rich in substance and more dynamic. The National People's Congress of China is willing to strengthen friendly exchanges with the Uzbek legislative body, deepen exchanges of experience in legislation and oversight work, and contribute to the development and revitalization of both countries.

Mirziyoyeva congratulated the Communist Party of China on the 105th anniversary of its founding, stated that Uzbekistan adheres to the One-China principle, supports the four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping, and looks forward to strengthening friendly exchanges between the legislative bodies of the two countries and deepening cooperation in the fields of economy, transportation, education, and counter-terrorism.

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CPPCC 14th National Committee Standing Committee holds 18th session plenary meeting

Beijing, August 26 (Our newspaper reporter Jiang Jie) — The 18th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) held its plenary meeting on the morning of the 26th. Fourteen members of the CPPCC National Committee Standing Committee delivered speeches at the plenary session on the theme of "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 meeting.

Standing Committee member Xu Lingyi (徐令义) suggested taking high-quality development as the focus of advancing common prosperity, and making focused efforts to achieve tangible results in narrowing regional gaps, urban-rural gaps, and income gaps. Standing Committee member Fang Guanghua (方光华), speaking on behalf of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (全国工商联), said that the role of private enterprises should be better leveraged to promote high-quality development of the private economy and high-quality full employment. Standing Committee member Sun Dongsheng (孙东生), speaking on behalf of the Central Committee of the China Democratic National Construction Association (民建中央), proposed promoting the transformation of workers' rights and interests protection from post-hoc rights defense to source governance, and making focused efforts to build harmonious labor relations. Standing Committee member Chen Xingying (陈星莺) stated that on the basis of primary distribution, the redistribution mechanism should be improved so that the fruits of modernization benefit all the people more and more equitably. Standing Committee member Tang Chengpei (唐承沛) proposed better leveraging the role of the third distribution, smoothing channels for charity to participate in social assistance, and assisting common prosperity. Standing Committee member Chen Guiyun (陈贵云) suggested thoroughly implementing the national education digitalization strategy and promoting artificial intelligence to assist the high-quality development of basic education. Standing Committee member Zhang Xueqiao (张雪樵) proposed strengthening online protection for minors, raising the level of standardization and professionalization in cyberspace governance for young people, and shaping a cyberspace conducive to the healthy growth of young people. Standing Committee member Cheng Kai (程凯) suggested enhancing the protection and development capacity for persons with disabilities, improving the care service system, and continuously improving the livelihood and well-being of persons with disabilities. Standing Committee member Liu Xiaomei (刘晓梅), speaking on behalf of the Central Committee of the Jiusan Society (九三学社中央), suggested improving the rural social security system and building a solid livelihood support for comprehensive rural revitalization. Standing Committee member Wang Lu (王路), speaking on behalf of the Central Committee of the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party (农工党中央), proposed advocating healthy and civilized lifestyles, weaving a dense health protection network for key populations, and advancing the construction of a Healthy China. Standing Committee member Gao Xiaomei (高小玫) suggested improving support and safeguards for the upbringing of school-age children, expanding the supply of socialized services, and improving service quality. Standing Committee member Ma Junsheng (马军胜) proposed actively responding to population aging, strengthening age-friendly and barrier-free renovation of public facilities, and jointly building an age-friendly society. Standing Committee member Cai Xiujun (蔡秀军) suggested continuing to promote the equalization of basic public health services and channeling high-quality medical and health resources toward rural areas and the grassroots level. Standing Committee member Xi Nanhua (席南华), speaking on behalf of the non-party personages sector (无党派人士界), suggested improving the allocation of educational resources in accordance with demographic changes, coordinating and optimizing the regional and structural layout of educational resources, and running education that satisfies the people.

Yang Zhen, vice chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, presided over the meeting. Vice chairpersons 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, Wang Dongfeng, Jiang Xinzhi, Jiang Zuojun, He Baoxiang, Wang Guangqian, Qin Boyong, and Zhu Yongxin attended the meeting.

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Creating a fair and orderly market competition environment

By: 本报记者 林丽鹂 刘温馨

On July 30, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. The meeting emphasized that "we must create a fair and orderly market competition environment."
　　There is no best business environment, only a better one. What is a fair and orderly market competition environment?
　　"For enterprises, fairness means being able to win market opportunities through product quality, technological innovation, and quality service," said an operator in the internet industry. Since the beginning of this year, regulatory authorities have standardized platform subsidy behavior in the food delivery sector, carried out antitrust compliance rectification in the intra-city freight sector, and investigated major monopoly cases in the online travel sector — all in the service of maintaining fair competition.
　　"If a merchant runs away, the money can be recovered. An orderly market gives people confidence to consume." said a consumer in Chaoyang District, Beijing. Since June of this year, the local market regulatory department has, through a prepaid fund trust supervision model, locked every prepaid transaction on the supervision platform into a dedicated trust account, transferring funds only as each transaction is consumed.
　　"Fair competition is the cornerstone of market vitality. A fair and orderly market competition environment can lift the burden of low-price involution from enterprises and allow them to focus on tackling technology; it can keep consumers away from traps and allow them to choose quality goods with peace of mind; and it can clear the bottlenecks in the domestic economic cycle, stabilize investment confidence, and lay a solid institutional foundation for high-quality development," said Zhang Lianqi, president of the China Enterprise Financial Management Association. How will efforts to create a fair and orderly market competition environment continue in the second half of the year?
　　
Deepen the construction of a unified national market
　　"Bidding and tendering should by rights look at products, services, and quotations, but the results also depend on bonus points for local commendations, honorary titles, and the like — this is very disadvantageous to enterprises from other regions." For some time, the State Administration for Market Regulation has continuously received reports from market entities reflecting that credit evaluations in some regions are unreasonable, making it difficult to fairly enter cross-regional engineering construction and engineering supervision markets through bidding and tendering.
　　The bidding and tendering market is an important component of the unified national market. On July 23, the State Administration for Market Regulation published the phased results of the special action to remove bottlenecks and obstacles impeding the unified market and fair competition, and, together with the market regulatory departments of Jilin, Tibet, Henan, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Ningxia and other provinces (regions), investigated and handled the problem of six provincial (regional) departments of housing and urban-rural development implementing unreasonable credit evaluations that excluded or restricted outside operators from participating in bidding and tendering. The investigated units have been advancing rectification of the problems in an orderly manner.
　　A batch of prominent problems impeding the unified market and fair competition has been corrected; the flow of goods, services, and resource factors has become smoother; the basic systems and rules of the market have been continuously improved; and market infrastructure connectivity has been significantly strengthened... At present, the construction of a unified national market has achieved phased results, and in the second half of the year, efforts will focus on advancing in depth on key and difficult issues.
　　"The construction of a unified national market is both a tough battle and a protracted war," said Jiang Yi, director of the Policy Research Office and spokesperson of the National Development and Reform Commission, adding that the commission will keep a close eye on problem rectification and eliminate a number of deep-rooted problems.
　　"We will accelerate the revision of the Implementing Measures for the Fair Competition Review Regulations, carry out three special actions — removing bottlenecks and obstacles impeding the unified market and fair competition, antitrust enforcement to protect enterprises, and enhancing the efficiency of antitrust supervision over concentration of business operators — and advance in depth the construction of a unified national market," said the relevant person in charge of the State Administration for Market Regulation.
　　Tan Tianxing, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and deputy director of the NPC Social Development Affairs Committee, suggested that regulations on the construction of a unified national market be issued as soon as possible, and that a law promoting the construction of a unified national market be formulated at an appropriate time. In the process of revising laws such as the Bidding and Tendering Law, the Government Procurement Law, and the Standardization Law, relevant provisions should be further improved. The list of matters impeding the construction of a unified national market should be implemented, the progress of the construction of a unified national market should be incorporated into the government assessment and supervision system, and all regions should be urged to formulate and implement policy measures for the construction of a unified national market.
　　
Continue comprehensive rectification of "involution-style" competition
　　"In June of this year, we released our fourth-generation new product. Through a series of technological innovations on the cell side and module side, we successfully raised the efficiency of ABC (all-back-contact) modules to a maximum of 26%, with power output up to 690 watts," said Xu Xinfeng, senior vice president of Aiko Solar.
　　"The products are in short supply, and the key lies in technological research, development, and innovation," Xu Xinfeng said. The company has developed a nanoscale insulating coating material that shortens the creepage distance at the module edge by 28% and reduces the non-power-generating area by 20%.
　　From homogeneous competition that "trades price for volume" to technology-led "efficiency improvement and cost reduction," the photovoltaic industry is using innovation to break free from the "involution" predicament.
　　On July 27, the General Rules for Cost Accounting Models in the Photovoltaic Industry were officially released. "'How to determine a sale below cost and by what standard costs should be calculated' has been a long-unresolved question in industry governance," said Jiang Hua, deputy secretary-general of the China Photovoltaic Industry Association. From now on, enterprises will have standards for self-inspection, and regulatory authorities will also have a basis for law enforcement. The industry association will continuously strengthen the publicity and implementation of the standards, guide enterprises to strengthen self-discipline, and promote the healthy and orderly development of the industry.
　　In recent years, whether in traditional industries such as steel and cement, or in emerging industries such as new energy vehicles, photovoltaics, and power batteries, the problem of "involution-style" competition has emerged. This not only causes a massive waste of resources, but also affects the efficiency of resource allocation, disrupts the order of fair competition, and suppresses the vitality of market innovation. In the second half of the year, comprehensive rectification of "involution-style" competition will continue in terms of building the institutional system and improving supporting rules.
　　The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said: "In the next step, we will make good use of multiple means such as rules, policies, and standards, strengthen market-oriented thinking and law-based concepts, build a complete, scientific, standardized, and effective institutional system, and, with the goal of fostering a sound industrial ecosystem, continue to deepen the rectification of 'involution-style' competition."
　　The relevant person in charge of the State Administration for Market Regulation said that in the next phase, the administration will accelerate the revision of the Price Law, improve supporting rules such as industry cost investigations and curbs on below-cost dumping, and intensify efforts to rectify behaviors that create the illusion of low prices and mislead consumers through tactics such as "one-price" and "flash-sale price" promotions.
　　
Optimize the development environment for the private economy
　　"Our meat and poultry feed production and construction project received full-process service from government departments from start to landing. The Private Economy Promotion Law has loosened the bonds and reduced the burdens on enterprises, allowing us to focus single-mindedly on development," said the general manager of administration of a food company in Shaanxi.
　　On July 1 of this year, the Measures of Shaanxi Province for Implementing the Private Economy Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China was officially promulgated and put into effect, rigidly implementing the negative list for market access and breaking down various hidden barriers; establishing a long-term mechanism to strictly prevent governments and state-owned enterprises from defaulting on accounts, with no permission to delay payment on the grounds of changes in legal representatives or awaiting completion of final settlement audits; and promoting "scan-code entry into enterprises" and "one comprehensive inspection" to regulate law enforcement involving enterprises.
　　The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes "implementing the Private Economy Promotion Law and improving the supporting regulations, policies, and institutional systems." In the more than one year since the Private Economy Promotion Law came into effect, relevant departments have issued more than one hundred supporting institutional measures, and more than ten provinces have issued regulations or implementing measures focused on the Private Economy Promotion Law. In the second half of the year, all regions and departments will continue to focus on implementation regarding the issues enterprises care about.
　　Helping enterprises achieve compliance. The State Administration for Market Regulation has continued to make efforts in guiding enterprises to address overseas antitrust risks, launching special actions, revising the Guidelines for Overseas Antitrust Compliance of Enterprises, building an overseas antitrust compliance service platform, regularly conducting cross-departmental risk consultations, and rapidly responding to antitrust lawsuits and investigations enterprises encounter overseas.
　　Continuing to reduce burdens. The Anhui Provincial Market Supervision Administration, together with the Provincial Development and Reform Commission and other departments, is focusing on seven key areas including administrative power intermediary services, and from July to the end of December will carry out the 2026 fee inspection work involving enterprises. It has already deployed cross-city mutual inspections in six cities: Huaibei, Fuyang, Chuzhou, Wuhu, Xuancheng, and Anqing.
　　Optimizing services. Shanghai has upgraded the full-process service for enterprise-benefiting policies, promoting the expansion and enhancement of "enjoyment without application" and "direct and fast enjoyment." It is deepening the "three simultaneous" reform in decision-making on enterprise-benefiting policy documents, striving to ensure that the moment an enterprise-benefiting policy is issued is the moment "enjoyment without application" takes effect.
　　Precise assistance. The Qingdao Individual and Private Economy Association in Shandong, together with banks, has launched the "individual benefit loan" scenario-based financing service, which has already created precise profiles of 79,000 individual industrial and commercial households and provided customized loan services to 929 such households. It will continue to provide classified and typed precise assistance to individual industrial and commercial households.
　　Striving forward in the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, creating a fair and orderly market competition environment will continuously stimulate the vitality and creativity of all types of market entities and promote sustained development of the economy toward the new, the high-quality, and the good.

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Implement plans effectively and accelerate the advancement of a new type of industrialization (Authoritative Release · Getting Off to a Strong Start in the 15th Five-Year Plan)

By: 本报记者 王 政 刘温馨

On August 26, the State Council Information Office held a series of press conferences under the theme "A Good Start for the 15th Five-Year Plan," introducing the situation regarding "making every effort to implement the 15th Five-Year Plan and accelerate the advancement of new industrialization."

Accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone
The 15th Five-Year Plan period is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. To accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as the backbone, efforts should focus on "six key areas."
Focus on optimizing the industrial structure, coordinating the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the cultivation and strengthening of emerging industries, and the forward-looking layout of future industries, while maintaining and developing a complete industrial system. Accelerate the building of integrated circuits, aerospace, biomedicine, low-altitude economy, new-type energy storage, intelligent robots, and other emerging pillar industries, and promote quantum technology, biological manufacturing, hydrogen energy and nuclear fusion energy, brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence, sixth-generation mobile communications (6G), and other future industries to become new economic growth points.
Focus on strengthening industrial innovation, strengthening original innovation and tackling key core technologies, building and making good use of platforms such as national manufacturing innovation centers and manufacturing pilot-scale testing platforms, guiding innovation resources to gather toward enterprises, improving an enterprise-led industrial innovation ecosystem, enhancing the overall effectiveness of the manufacturing innovation system, and continuously fostering new quality productive forces.
Focus on enhancing advanced manufacturing capabilities, accelerating the development of a new generation of intelligent manufacturing, promoting the "intelligent transformation, digital transformation, networked connectivity" of manufacturing, and building intelligent factories and high-standard digital parks. Promote the green and low-carbon transformation of industry, and actively, steadily advance and realize carbon peaking in the industrial sector. Promote the deep integration of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries, accelerate the cultivation of new models and new business forms such as platform-based design and personalized customization, and innovatively develop service-oriented manufacturing.
Focus on cultivating high-quality enterprises, improving the gradient cultivation system for high-quality enterprises, cultivating and strengthening specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, and creating more specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative "little giant" enterprises and manufacturing single-champion enterprises. Deepen the integrated development of large, medium, and small enterprises, and promote collaborative innovation across the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.
Focus on promoting the high-quality development of the information and communication industry, accelerating the planning and construction of a new generation of communication networks and computing power networks, promoting the large-scale popularization and application of 5G and the industrial internet in key industries, strengthening 6G technology research and development, enhancing network and data security assurance capabilities, and consolidating and enhancing the competitive advantages and leading position of the information and communication industry.
Focus on improving the level of industrial governance capacity, adhering to reform-oriented thinking and methods, improving the legal and regulatory system, and promoting legislation in key areas such as telecommunications and road motor vehicles. Work with relevant departments to deepen the prevention and governance of telecommunications and network fraud.

Accelerating the development of advanced manufacturing and maintaining a reasonable proportion of manufacturing
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes "adhering to focusing the efforts of economic development on the real economy" and "accelerating the building of a manufacturing powerhouse." Xin Guobin, Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology, stated that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, efforts will be made to accelerate the development of advanced manufacturing, maintain a reasonable proportion of manufacturing, and further improve development quality and efficiency, with efforts to be made in four aspects.
Make sufficient efforts in expanding value space. Adhere to competing with excellence and winning with quality, advancing the ascent of process technology and the leap in product quality, and strengthening the building of quality brands. Promote the innovative allocation of production factors, facilitate the extension of manufacturing toward both ends of the "smiling curve," and improve total factor productivity.
Make sufficient efforts in cultivating growth momentum. Promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and develop new quality productive forces according to local conditions. Adhere to the principle of "industry poses the questions, science and technology provide the answers," strengthen the construction of platforms such as public technology service platforms and pilot-scale testing platforms, and promote original technologies to move faster toward pilot-scale testing and achieve large-scale application.
Make sufficient efforts in accelerating industrial upgrading. Vigorously develop advanced manufacturing, continuously promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and build new advantages for industrial development. Traditional industries are both the foundation of manufacturing and fertile soil for nurturing new quality productive forces. Strive to do the major task of transforming and upgrading traditional industries thoroughly and well. Deepen the implementation of the "artificial intelligence + manufacturing" special action, accelerate the comprehensive, full-chain popularization and application of new-generation information technology, fully implement the green and low-carbon development action for manufacturing, promote the comprehensive utilization of industrial solid waste, and facilitate the digital-intelligent and green low-carbon transformation of manufacturing.
Make sufficient efforts in creating a sound ecosystem. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology should act as the "family member" of enterprises, implement key tasks of deepening reform, and create a sound industrial ecosystem. Strengthen legislative research in emerging fields such as the digital economy and artificial intelligence. Improve the mandatory standards system in the industrial and information technology fields, and use standards enhancement to support high-quality industry development. Intensify efforts to clear overdue payments owed to enterprises, and continue to implement special actions to reduce the burden on enterprises.

Creating a number of emerging pillar industries
Yao Jun, Director of the Planning Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated that an action to develop and strengthen emerging industries in industry and create new momentum will be implemented, with multiple measures to accelerate the large-scale development of emerging industries, enhance the global competitiveness of industries, and create a number of emerging pillar industries.
Focus on technological breakthroughs and promote accelerated breakthroughs in innovation achievements in emerging fields. Deeply advance the implementation of major technical equipment tackling and industrial foundation reengineering projects, focus on strategic fields and weak links in the industrial chain and supply chain, shore up shortcomings, strengthen strengths, and consolidate foundations, adopt extraordinary measures, and promote decisive breakthroughs in key core technologies in key areas such as integrated circuits, industrial machine tools, high-end instruments and meters, basic software and industrial software, advanced materials, and biological manufacturing across the entire chain.
Focus on platform construction and promote the accelerated growth of key parks and enterprises in emerging industries. Create national demonstration bases for the development of emerging industries, focus on key areas of emerging industries such as new-generation information technology, new energy, new materials, intelligent connected new-energy vehicles, robotics, biomedicine, high-end equipment, and aerospace, and create a number of benchmarks leading the development of emerging industries. By 2035, strive to cultivate about 100 demonstration parks that play a radiating and driving role in industrial cluster development, collaborative innovation, ecological optimization, and governance improvement.
Focus on scenario cultivation and promote the accelerated large-scale application of new technologies, new products, and new scenarios. Carry out large-scale application demonstrations of new technologies, new products, and new scenarios in manufacturing, accelerate the cultivation of major application scenarios such as "5G+," "artificial intelligence+," "robot+," "industrial internet+," and "BeiDou+," and improve mechanisms such as the selection of landmark projects, the release of lists of new technologies, new products, and new scenarios, and the matching of supply and demand.
Focus on ecological optimization and promote the accelerated gathering of factor resources toward emerging industries. Deeply advance the new industry standardization pilot project, implement the special program for "integration of science and technology, industry, and finance," build national bases for the practice of outstanding engineers, innovatively develop service-oriented manufacturing and producer services, and accelerate the improvement of standards, finance, talent, and other service guarantee systems that are compatible with the development of emerging industries.

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Multiple Measures to Stabilize and Increase Production, Strive for a Bumper Autumn Grain Harvest, and Continuously Enhance Comprehensive Agricultural Production Capacity to Ensure Food Security

Xinhua Changchun, August 26 (Reporter Zou Wei) — From August 24 to 26, Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, conducted research in Heilongjiang and Jilin. He emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on the work of "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" (三农) and the important instructions on ensuring national food security, take the development of modern large-scale agriculture as the main direction, adhere to simultaneously grasping output and production capacity, production and ecology, and increasing output and income, build on the summer grain harvest and 再接再厉 (zài jiē zài lì - "continue again, sharpen again," to keep striving with renewed vigor), take multiple measures to strive for a bumper autumn grain harvest, continuously enhance comprehensive agricultural production capacity, and ensure stable and safe supply of grain and other important agricultural products.

In Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, Li Qiang came to Qixing Farm (七星农场) of Beidahuang Group (北大荒集团), walked into dry farmland and the ten-thousand-mu large field plot rice paddies, and inspected the growth of soybeans, corn, and rice. He emphasized that food security is "the great affairs of the state" (国之大者), and the Chinese people's rice bowl must at all times be firmly held in their own hands. The autumn grain is the bulk of annual grain production, and the current period is the critical period for yield formation. It is necessary to strengthen field management, do a good job in ensuring supply and stabilizing prices of agricultural materials, strengthen various policy supports, and ensure a bumper autumn grain harvest and a bumper annual grain harvest. At the Jiansanjiang National Agricultural Science and Technology Park (建三江国家农业科技园区) and the Rice Research Institute of the Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (黑龙江省农业科学院水稻研究所), Li Qiang inquired in detail about seed industry innovation and black soil protection. He pointed out that the way to increase grain output lies in science and technology. It is necessary to deepen the cultivation of improved varieties, implement interdisciplinary research, strengthen the development and promotion of high-end agricultural machinery and equipment, and accelerate the application of artificial intelligence and the development of smart agriculture. It is necessary to actively adopt engineering, agronomic, and biological measures to protect and utilize the black soil well, promote the construction of high-standard farmland with high quality, and promote the integrated efficiency enhancement of good fields, good seeds, good machinery, and good methods. At the site of the major water conservancy project for enhancing grain production capacity in Heilongjiang Province, Li Qiang inspected the construction progress and learned about water network construction. He said that it is necessary to accelerate project construction on the premise of ensuring quality, better play the comprehensive functions of flood control, irrigation, and ecology, strengthen the construction and renovation of modern irrigation districts, enhance the capacity for agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation, and strive to achieve guaranteed harvests regardless of drought or flood and high and stable yields.

In Songyuan, Jilin, Li Qiang came to the Dezhi Agricultural Professional Cooperative (德智农业专业合作社) in Ningjiang District (宁江区), and inquired in detail about the cooperative's business model and agricultural service situation. He pointed out that it is necessary to develop various forms of appropriately scaled agricultural operations, improve the development quality of new-type agricultural business entities, improve the convenient and efficient agricultural socialized service system, actively expand channels for linking and driving farmers, and promote the organic connection between smallholder farmers and modern agricultural development. At Jilin Xuxin Oils Co., Ltd. (吉林旭鑫油脂有限公司), Li Qiang inspected the corn oil production line and learned about the production process and product sales. He emphasized that it is necessary to vigorously develop deep processing of agricultural products, do a good job in the transformation and value-added article of "grain head, food tail" (粮头食尾) and "agriculture head, industry tail" (农头工尾), create distinctive brands, extend the industrial chain, enhance the value chain, strengthen the capacity for employment absorption, and continuously improve the level of agricultural industrialization and comprehensive benefits. It is necessary to strictly guard the food quality and safety gate, closely monitor key links such as production, acquisition, processing, and circulation, strengthen whole-chain supervision from farmland to dining table, and let the masses eat with confidence and health. Li Qiang came to Chagan Lake (查干湖) and listened to introductions on ecological fishery and other matters. He pointed out that it is necessary to practice the big food concept (大食物观), actively develop modern ecological aquaculture, promote the simultaneous development of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery, and promote the development of multiple business formats such as ecotourism.

Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) accompanied the research.

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Stay Close to the People, Fulfill the Duties of a Deputy, and Make New Contributions to Solidly Advancing Comprehensive Rural Revitalization

BEIJING, August 26 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Peng Bo) Zhao Leji, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), met and held discussions with NPC deputies attending the 24th session of the 14th NPC Standing Committee as non-voting delegates on the morning of the 26th. He emphasized that it is necessary to earnestly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on the work concerning agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, as well as the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, closely connect with the masses, give full play to professional expertise, and fulfill the duties of deputies, so as to make new contributions to continuously consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and solidly advancing comprehensive rural revitalization.

At the symposium, deputies spoke around the report on the work of continuously consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and solidly advancing comprehensive rural revitalization, which was deliberated at this session of the Standing Committee meeting, and combined with their actual performance of duties in making remarks. Zhao Leji listened attentively and had in-depth exchanges with the deputies. He said that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has united and led the people to win the battle against poverty, eliminate absolute poverty, complete the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects on schedule, and create a poverty reduction miracle that has attracted worldwide attention. From 2021 to 2025, a five-year transition period was established to promote the effective connection between consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, making the foundation for poverty alleviation more solid and the results more sustainable. NPC deputies at all levels have performed their duties according to law, shouldered their responsibilities with dedication, and contributed their wisdom and strength.

Zhao Leji pointed out that NPC deputies should focus on implementing the important measures concerning agriculture, rural areas, and farmers set forth in the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan, combine them with the Standing Committee's legislative and supervisory work arrangements, conduct in-depth research and thinking, actively offer suggestions and proposals, and, in view of the prominent shortcomings restricting agricultural and rural development and the prominent problems affecting the vital interests of farmers, pay attention to putting forward opinions and suggestions from the legal and institutional levels.

Zhao Leji pointed out that NPC deputies should take responsibility and take practical action based on their own posts, making contributions and achievements. Deputies from the front line of agriculture and rural areas should conscientiously do their own work well, lead farmers to develop production according to local conditions, increase income, and become prosperous. Deputies from other industries and fields should also care about and support agricultural and rural development, each contributing their abilities and giving full play to their strengths, actively participating in normalized and precise assistance, and jointly promoting the prosperity of farmers, the strength of agriculture, and the beauty of rural areas.

Zhao Leji emphasized that NPC deputies should consciously serve as a bridge between the Party and the state and the masses, promptly understand and reflect the urgent, difficult, and anxious problems of farmers, and better stay grounded, understand people's conditions, gather people's wisdom, and benefit people's livelihoods. They should model compliance with the Constitution and laws, actively participate in rural rule-of-law publicity and education, and guide farmers to handle affairs according to law, seek solutions through law when encountering problems, use law to solve problems, and rely on law to resolve conflicts. They should take the lead in practicing the core socialist values, set an example by themselves, advocate virtue and goodness, and promote good rural customs and folkways.

Li Hongzhong, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, presided over the symposium.

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NPC Standing Committee concludes 18th session

Beijing, August 26 (Reporter Jiang Jie (姜洁)) — The 18th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) concluded in Beijing on the afternoon of the 26th. The session conducted consultations and deliberations on the theme of "increasing efforts to safeguard and improve people's livelihoods, and solidly advancing common prosperity for all people." Wang Huning, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, presided over the closing meeting and delivered a speech. He stated that since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has adhered to the people-centered development philosophy, deployed and won the largest-scale battle against poverty in human history, built the world's largest education system, social security system, medical and health system, and urban housing security system, comprehensively and continuously improved the quality of people's lives, enhanced the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security, achieved historic accomplishments in the development of livelihood undertakings, and taken solid steps toward common prosperity for all people. We must deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments" (两个确立) and resolutely achieve the "Two Upholds" (两个维护), uphold the principle that the People's CPPCC serves the people, assist the Party and government in enhancing the people's well-being, steadily promote common prosperity for all people, and extensively gather people's hearts, consensus, wisdom, and strength for accelerating Chinese-style modernization.

Wang Huning stated that common prosperity is an important goal of socialist modernization, and in Chinese-style modernization, people's livelihoods come first. The CPPCC must deeply study and understand General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on increasing efforts to safeguard and improve people's livelihoods and solidly advancing common prosperity for all people, focus on the relevant task deployments in the Proposal of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五), closely center on issues such as strengthening livelihood construction during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, promoting high-quality and full employment, improving the income distribution system, running education that satisfies the people, perfecting the social security system, and accelerating the construction of a Healthy China (健康中国), organize CPPCC members to offer more words that benefit the people and do more deeds that benefit the people, promote the implementation and effectiveness of the Party and government's decisions and deployments, and let the fruits of modernization benefit all the people more and more fairly. It is necessary to complete the CPPCC National Committee's annual work tasks with high quality, continue to do a good job in consultation and deliberation work, and carefully organize important commemorative and unity and friendship activities.

After voting, the meeting decided to add Fu Kui (傅奎) as a member of the 14th CPPCC National Committee and deputy director of the Culture, History and Learning Committee; adopted the decision to remove Zhao Zongqi (赵宗岐) from the position of standing committee member of the 14th CPPCC National Committee and deputy director of the Ethnic and Religious Committee and revoke his membership qualification; adopted the decision to remove Zhang Zhuohua (张灼华) from the position of standing committee member of the 14th CPPCC National Committee and revoke his membership qualification; adopted the decision to accept Zhang Li's (张莉) resignation from the 14th CPPCC National Committee. The meeting ratified the decisions to revoke the membership qualifications of Gu Xueming (顾学明), Hao Rong (郝戎), Xin Bao'an (辛保安), and Li Heyue (李和跃).

After the closing meeting, Tan Tianwei (谭天伟), academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and president of Beijing University of Chemical Technology, was invited to deliver a study lecture titled "Development and Challenges of China's Biomanufacturing Industry."

Shi Taifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, and CPPCC National Committee vice chairmen 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, Wang Dongfeng, Jiang Xinzhi, Jiang Zuojun, He Baoxiang, Wang Guangqian, Qin Boyong, Zhu Yongxin, and Yang Zhen attended the meeting.

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Implementing Fiscal Stewardship Responsibilities and Enhancing Financial Work to Better Serve and Support Chinese-Style Modernization

HEFEI, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- (Reporter Qi Zhongxi) From August 25 to 26, Ding Xuexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended a symposium on fiscal management pilot work and conducted research in Hefei, Anhui. He emphasized the need to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, elevate political standing, focus on the overall development situation, continuously improve the level of fiscal work, and better serve and safeguard the construction of Chinese modernization.

At the symposium, Ding Xuexiang pointed out that the Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to fiscal work. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that fiscal affairs are the foundation and important pillar of national governance, and required leading Party and government officials to firmly establish an awareness of managing the household and managing finances. All regions and relevant departments should earnestly study and understand this, and grasp implementation. It is necessary to properly handle the relationship between fiscal affairs and the economy, implement a more proactive fiscal policy, and make every effort to promote stable economic growth and structural optimization, advancing high-quality development steadily and far. Maintain a reasonable macro tax burden level, research and improve a tax system compatible with new business forms, and revitalize existing resources and assets. Improve the fiscal relationship between the central and local governments, scientifically divide administrative powers and expenditure responsibilities, appropriately strengthen central fiscal administrative powers, raise the proportion of central fiscal expenditure, and increase local autonomous financial resources. Vigorously optimize the structure of fiscal expenditure, strengthen financial guarantees for major national strategic tasks and basic livelihood needs, deepen zero-based budget reform, strengthen budget performance management, and comprehensively improve the efficiency of fiscal resource allocation. Resolutely resolve risks of hidden local government debt, strictly investigate and punish illegal increases in hidden debt, promote the reform and transformation of local government financing platforms, and firmly hold the bottom line of fiscal security and sustainable development. Strictly enforce fiscal discipline, strengthen accounting and financial supervision, and ensure the standardized and efficient use of fiscal funds.

Ding Xuexiang emphasized that solid work must be done in the second half of the year's fiscal work, accelerating the progress of relevant fund utilization, strengthening coordination between fiscal and monetary policies, effectively and efficiently supporting the construction of "two major" projects and the "two new" work, promptly advancing the construction of the "six networks," firmly holding the bottom line of the "three guarantees" at the grassroots level, promoting the sustained development of the economy toward innovation, optimization, and improvement, and making greater contributions to achieving a good start for the "15th Five-Year Plan."

During his stay in Anhui, Ding Xuexiang also visited the Finance Bureau of Feixi County (肥西县) to research fiscal scientific management pilot work and grassroots fiscal operations; he went to the Scientific Intelligence Material Creation Center of the University of Science and Technology of China to learn about the application of artificial intelligence empowering scientific research and other situations. Ding Xuexiang expressed the hope that Anhui would bear in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions, leverage the advantages of multiple national development strategies overlapping, deeply integrate into the new development pattern, solidly promote high-quality development, and strive to write the Anhui chapter of Chinese modernization.

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Multi-party joint rescue efforts, full emergency response

At approximately 10:30 on August 26, a mudslide disaster on the Nepalese side caused heavy casualties and missing persons at the Gyirong Port in Gyirong County, Shigatse City, Tibet.

After the disaster occurred, General Secretary Xi Jinping made an important instruction, emphasizing the need to make every effort to search for and rescue the missing persons, strengthen the investigation and rectification of various risk hazards, and ensure the safety of people's lives and property. Relevant regions and departments resolutely implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instruction, swiftly took action, and earnestly implemented various measures for emergency rescue and disaster relief.

The Ministry of Emergency Management dispatched and deployed rescue and disposal work, sent a working group to the scene to assist in handling, and dispatched national comprehensive fire and rescue teams as well as various engineering rescue forces including China Anneng and PowerChina, carrying equipment to the scene for rescue; it also dispatched "Xinglitong" communication support and "Citan Jingling" aeromagnetic detection equipment to the disaster area to provide technical support for on-site communication support and emergency rescue. In accordance with the National Emergency Plan for Geological Disasters and relevant regulations, the Ministry of Emergency Management activated the National Level II Emergency Response for Geological Disasters.

The National Commission for Disaster Reduction, the Ministry of Emergency Management activated the National Level II Disaster Relief Emergency Response, and together with the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration, allocated 30,000 pieces of central disaster relief materials including tents, heating stoves, clothing and bedding, folding beds, and moisture-proof pads, to support the transfer and resettlement of affected people and disaster relief and assistance work.

After the disaster occurred, the Ministry of Natural Resources activated the Level II Response for Geological Disaster Defense and the Emergency Surveying and Mapping Response, and sent an expert working group to rush to the scene to assist in emergency rescue and the prevention of secondary geological disasters.

The Ministry of Natural Resources held two consultation and dispatch meetings to deploy emergency response work. The meeting required that the natural resources system make every effort to strengthen risk assessment, prevention of secondary disasters, and investigation of surrounding risk hazards, and support on-site emergency rescue. Additional geological and emergency surveying and mapping experts were dispatched, relevant units were organized to immediately carry out emergency surveying and mapping data collection in the affected area, and dedicated personnel were arranged to urgently compile pre-disaster and post-disaster remote sensing image planar comparison maps, real-scene 3D comparison maps, and disaster area maps for use by the front-line rescue command.

At 14:30 on the 26th, the Ministry of Water Resources activated the dispatch and command mechanism for major flood and drought disaster events, and urgently convened consultations to deploy the emergency response work for the mudslide disaster in Gyirong County, Tibet. The Ministry of Water Resources organized special consultations to analyze the rainfall and water conditions, and changes in glacier and glacial lake areas in Gyirong County, Tibet and surrounding regions, conducted analysis of the causes of the mudslide disaster, assessed the population distribution downstream of the disaster and potential risk hazards in relevant areas, and promptly shared the analysis and assessment results with the Water Resources Department of the Tibet Autonomous Region, providing full guidance for disaster emergency response work.

At 18:10 on the 26th, the China Meteorological Administration upgraded the Level III Emergency Response for Major Meteorological Disasters (typhoon, rainstorm, severe convection) to Level II. The meteorological departments will continue to strengthen coordination across national, provincial, municipal, and county levels, comprehensively apply high-resolution satellite remote sensing and meteorological monitoring data, investigate secondary disaster risk hazards around the areas affected by the mudslide, continuously update weather forecasts on a rolling basis, and make every effort to serve emergency rescue.

The National Development and Reform Commission urgently arranged 100 million yuan of central budget investment to support post-disaster emergency recovery and reconstruction of infrastructure in the disaster area of Gyirong County, Shigatse City, Tibet.

The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management urgently pre-allocated 120 million yuan of central natural disaster relief funds to support Tibet in carrying out emergency rescue and relief work for affected people, with a focus on personnel search and rescue, transfer and resettlement of affected people, emergency response measures such as hazard removal and risk elimination, and repair of damaged and collapsed houses, so as to minimize disaster losses and casualties to the greatest extent.

Under the guidance of the Ministry of Emergency Management and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the China Charity Federation urgently allocated 5 million yuan of disaster relief funds for emergency rescue and other work in the disaster area.

(Staff reporters of this newspaper: Qu Zhehan, Liu Wenxin, Wang Donghui, Chang Qin, Liu Zhiqiang, Deng Jianyang, Li Hongmei, Liu Botong)

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Chinese Embassy in Nepal Activates Emergency Response Mechanism

People's Daily, Kathmandu, August 26 (Reporter Li Mo) On August 26, a large-scale flood suddenly struck the mountainous region of northern Nepal, causing severe casualties and property damage. After the disaster occurred, the Chinese Embassy in Nepal immediately activated its emergency mechanism to ascertain the situation of Chinese citizens and enterprises at risk in the affected areas.
　　The Nepalese government declared the three districts of Rasuwa, Nuwakot, and Dhading as "disaster-affected areas" for a period of three months.

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Rescue operations proceed in an orderly manner despite adverse conditions

After the mudslide disaster in Gyirong County, Shigatse City, Tibet, a reporter learned from the frontline command headquarters: As of 20:00 on the 26th, according to preliminary verification and statistics, this mudslide disaster has caused 3 deaths and 265 people missing. The specific casualty figures are still under further verification, and various rescue efforts are being carried out in an orderly manner.

After the disaster occurred, the local government immediately activated the emergency response. According to on-site investigation, the section of National Highway 216 leading toward Gyirong Port has been severely damaged, with water backing up in some areas and mud accumulation reaching depths of 50 to 80 centimeters. Gyirong Town, located 20 kilometers from the disaster area, has been experiencing continuous rain, bringing certain difficulties to rescue and transport operations. However, rescue forces and material support teams from all sides are overcoming the adverse weather conditions and advancing to the disaster frontline in an orderly manner.

The Tibet Military District immediately dispatched a frontline command group to the scene and urgently mobilized emergency rescue forces. At around 16:00 on the 26th, rescue troops from a unit of the Shigatse Military Sub-District moved forward as ordered, followed by a second batch of rescue forces dispatching 15 command and transport vehicles, 4 engineering machines, 1 field kitchen vehicle, and 1 ambulance. The remaining follow-up disaster relief forces and materials have been prepared and will arrive at the disaster area successively.

After the disaster occurred, roads and communications leading toward Gyirong Port were interrupted, and some buildings were buried. Upon receiving rescue orders, the Shigatse Detachment of the Tibet Armed Police Corps rapidly dispatched more than 140 officers and soldiers, carrying more than 200 sets of life detection, wrecking, and obstacle-clearing rescue equipment to the disaster frontline. When the rescue team advanced to a mountain road section approximately 7 kilometers from the affected area, they found that due to continuous rainfall, the rock and soil along the mountainside had become loose, posing risks of landslides and secondary mudslides, and that the main force and heavy equipment did not yet have safe conditions to continue advancing. The troops immediately selected elite personnel to form small teams and, in coordination with local transportation departments, carried out mud clearing and slope reinforcement operations in safe sections, racing against time to open up the lifeline passage.

As of 20:00 on the 26th, the national comprehensive fire and rescue teams had dispatched a total of 113 vehicles and 601 fire and rescue personnel, mainly from the Tibet Fire and Rescue Corps and the Sichuan Fire and Rescue Mobile Corps, carrying search and rescue dogs, life detectors, assault boats, and other rescue equipment to the scene for rescue and disposal operations.

The Tibet General Station of Immigration Inspection has assembled and dispatched 346 police officers from Lhasa and Shigatse directions to form an emergency reinforcement group, of which 163 rescue personnel from the Shigatse Border Management Detachment have already rushed to Gyirong Town to cooperate with the local Party committee and government in carrying out rescue work.

The National Energy Administration has coordinated and guided relevant power enterprises to make every effort to carry out emergency repair, power restoration, and power supply guarantee work. Local power enterprises have prepared emergency lighting equipment, giving priority to ensuring lighting for the temporary command headquarters, and have dispatched 1 medium-voltage mobile power vehicle and 2 low-voltage mobile power vehicles to the disaster area. At the same time, 24 sets of emergency lighting equipment, 53 sets of power supply equipment, as well as tent power connection materials and repair materials have been transferred from surrounding areas and are being rushed to the scene to carry out emergency repair, power restoration, and power supply guarantee work.

(Compiled from reports by our correspondents Qiongda Zhuoga, Li Longyi, Qi Yukun, Zhang Tianpei, and Wang Yunshan; Li Guotao and Han Rui participated in the writing.)

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Rescue efforts race against time, prevention must never relax (short commentary)

By: 高世林

The mudslide disaster in Gyirong County, Shigatse City, Tibet, has touched the hearts of people across the nation. The most urgent task is to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, "spare no effort in searching for and rescuing missing persons, relocating and settling threatened residents, promptly treating the injured, and minimizing casualties to the greatest extent possible."

"Rescue whenever disaster strikes, rush whenever danger appears" tests the emergency management system and its capabilities. After the disaster occurred, central government disaster relief funds were urgently pre-allocated and central relief supplies were dispatched; technical experts and emergency response personnel from multiple regions rushed to the affected areas at the first opportunity, united in purpose and carrying out scientific rescue operations.

Disaster governance places its emphasis on prevention beforehand. We are currently in the critical period of flood season, and we must not be caught off guard in the slightest. We must adhere to extreme thinking and bottom-line thinking, proactively assess where risks may lie, how they should be prevented, and how they should be rescued, and continuously improve emergency response plans. We must strengthen the investigation and rectification of various risk hazards, resolving problems while they are still in the bud and before they become disasters.

To do disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief work well, we must achieve full awareness, full responsibility, and full execution, guarding against the slightest risk with the most comprehensive of strategies, and making every effort to protect the well-being and safety of every household.

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Use Red Resources Well to Inspire Striving Strength (Stay True to the Original Aspiration and Mission, Forge Ahead on the Road to Rejuvenation)

By: 本报记者 董泽扬

By the banks of the Wanquan River, coconut shadows sway gently. Accompanied by the strains of "I weave a bamboo hat to see off the Red Army…," visitors from 天南海北 (tiān nán hǎi běi - "heaven south, sea north," from all over the country) walk into the Red Detachment of Women Memorial Park in Qionghai City, Hainan.

In April 2022, during his inspection tour of Hainan, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "Make good use of red resources such as the Hainan Qiongya Column memorial sites and the Red Detachment of Women Memorial Park, guide the broad ranks of Party members and cadres to firmly establish ideals and convictions, pass on the red gene, and continue the red bloodline."

These earnest instructions are engraved in the heart. Qionghai City makes good use of its red resources, stimulating the internal driving force for undertaking work and starting businesses, turning the red hot land into fertile ground for development.

"The spirited Qionghua is back!" On the plaza of the Red Detachment of Women Memorial Park, performers from the National Ballet of China and students from the dance troupe of Qionghai Jiaji Middle School are dancing together on stage, drawing rounds of applause. Over the past 60-plus years, the National Ballet of China's classic ballet The Red Detachment of Women has been performed more than 4,000 times in total.

Walking into the corridor, many visitors pause before two facing walls of photographs. "This is a photo of my grandmother taking her Party oath at the age of 102, and across from it are photos of her old comrades-in-arms — they all dared to fight and were able to win battles." Ma Shiju, granddaughter of Red Detachment of Women soldier Wang Yunmei, recounted with tears in her eyes, "My grandmother was illiterate, but she always listened to the Party and followed the Party."

Outside the exhibition hall, the ballet is captivating and the story it tells is deeply moving; inside the exhibition hall, the carefully displayed weapons, ammunition, and daily-use objects carry visitors' thoughts back to those years of beacon-fire warfare. In the first half of this year, the Red Detachment of Women Memorial Park received more than 280,000 visitors, and more and more people come here to learn about history and feel history.

Red stories, told anew each time they are told, permeate people's hearts and inspire cadres and the masses to write new chapters of struggle.

Located on Dongyu Island at the mouth of the Wanquan River, the Boao Forum for Asia Permanent Site stands. Every time the annual conference is held, the Red Detachment of Women Militia Company serves as a support and security force guarding the site.

Two years ago, the moment the notice of reorganizing the Red Detachment of Women Militia Company was released, several hundred outstanding young women signed up within just a few days. Doctors, teachers, docents, diving coaches… the members normally perform their duties at their respective posts, and assemble for action during major events and emergency support missions.

"What has changed is the equipment and the tasks; what has not changed is the courage and confidence to 'march forward.'" said team member Wu Dandan.

Shamei Village (沙美村) is only a few kilometers from the Boao Forum for Asia Permanent Site. What was once a small fishing village is now full of international flair. Villagers study foreign languages, run homestays, connect with health-and-wellness enterprises, and negotiate cooperation with international cultural tourism institutions.

"The Red Detachment of Women's quality of 敢为人先 (gǎn wéi rén xiān - "dare to be first among others," to have the courage to lead) inspires us to do practical things and take practical measures. Now the villagers' enthusiasm for undertaking work and starting businesses is very high," said Feng Jinfeng, Party branch secretary of Shamei Village.

Nestled amid greenery, rows of clinic buildings are neatly arranged. In the Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone (博鳌乐城国际医疗旅游先行区), Canadian tourist Arthur is experiencing distinctive traditional Chinese medicine therapies. "The diagnostic and treatment methods and services here make one feel relaxed in both body and mind."

Relying on its policy advantages, the Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone has basically achieved "three synchronizations" of medical technology, equipment, and pharmaceuticals with internationally advanced levels. From January to July this year, the Pilot Zone received 721,000 medical tourism visits, a year-on-year increase of 107.85 percent; among them, overseas medical tourism visits reached 8,680, a 5.4-fold year-on-year increase.

The old revolutionary base area is young again. Bearing the new mission of "turning the Hainan Free Trade Port into a beautiful calling card showcasing China's style and manner," Qionghai, with a confident and spirited posture, is sounding a new movement in the tide of opening up.

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Learning and Promoting the Advanced Deeds of Yunnan Dulongjiang Border Police Station

Beijing, August 26 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Qi Yukun) Recently, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission issued a notice, calling on political and legal organs nationwide and all political and legal police officers to earnestly study and publicize the advanced deeds and spiritual qualities of the Dulongjiang Border Police Station of the Yunnan General Station of Exit-Entry Border Inspection, to remain loyal to their mission, to take responsibility and dedicate themselves, to resolutely safeguard national security and social stability, to strive to forge a new-era political and legal iron army that is loyal, clean, and responsible, and to vigorously advance the modernization of political and legal work.

The Dulongjiang Border Police Station is stationed in Dulongjiang Township, Gongshan Dulong and Nu Autonomous County, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. It undertakes the tasks of controlling the 115-kilometer China-Myanmar border line and managing and preventing public security in a jurisdiction of 1,997 square kilometers. It has been awarded multiple national-level and provincial-ministerial honors including "National Advanced Primary Party Organization" and "National Model Public Security Unit," and has been credited with 1 collective first-class merit, 4 second-class merits, and 9 third-class merits. The station's advanced deeds vividly interpret the profound connotation of the general requirements of loyalty to the Party, serving the people, impartial law enforcement, and strict discipline, and fully demonstrate the spiritual outlook of the new-era political and legal contingent that is loyal, clean, and responsible. They are model practitioners of the new-era "Fengqiao Experience," a strong fighting fortress for maintaining harmony and stability in border ethnic regions, an outstanding example of establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements and dedicating oneself wholeheartedly to the people, and an excellent model for promoting ethnic unity and progress, safeguarding border ecological security, and forging a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation.

The notice requires learning from the Dulongjiang Border Police Station's political character of being loyal to the Party with a heart as firm as a rock, and always building a solid ideological foundation of absolute loyalty to the Party; learning from the Dulongjiang Border Police Station's public servant sentiment of keeping the masses in mind and serving the people with utmost sincerity, and consciously practicing the fundamental purpose of law enforcement and justice for the people; learning from the Dulongjiang Border Police Station's sense of responsibility for deep cultivation of good governance and pragmatic and steadfast action, and continuously raising the level of modernization of political and legal work; learning from the Dulongjiang Border Police Station's fighting spirit of fearing no hardship and carrying on the legacy, and resolutely shouldering the duties and missions of the political and legal front in the new era.

The notice requires that political and legal organs at all levels strengthen organizational leadership, make careful arrangements and deployments, innovate forms and carriers, and encourage and guide political and legal police officers nationwide to take the Dulongjiang Border Police Station as an example, establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, bravely undertake the heavy responsibilities of the times, faithfully perform their duties, forge ahead with keen enterprise, march on the new journey and make contributions in the new era, strive to build a higher-level Peaceful China and Rule-of-Law China, and make new and greater contributions to comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.

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Brand-wide evolution creates a new model for the automotive industry.

By: 本报调研组

40.3% and 77.4% — these are, respectively, the market share of Chinese-brand passenger vehicles in the domestic market for the full year of 2013 and for July 2026.
The automobile has changed, and the automobile industry has changed too!
Standing at the center of the stage, more and more, are Chinese automobile brands!
From SAIC, BYD, Geely, Chery, and Changan, to Leapmotor, Li Auto, NIO, XPeng, Seres, and Xiaomi, Chinese self-owned brands racing on the new energy vehicle track shine like a galaxy of stars.
The collective rise of Chinese automobile brands and the new model created by China's automobile industry are mutually reinforcing — each is the outward expression of the other.
The new model is new in the systematic innovation of the "full chain" —
In the exhibition hall of the Seres Super Factory in Chongqing, Zhang Zhengping, Chairman of Seres Automobile, pointed to seven groups of core components arranged on display, including various domain controllers and telematics modules, and said: "In the past, automobiles relied on the engine, transmission, and chassis to lead iteration. Now, what determines the advanced level of a vehicle is seven 'boxes.'"
These seven "boxes" are precisely the key to the new energy vehicle industry — the "three-electric" system of battery, motor, and electronic control, along with chip computing power, integrated perception, algorithms, and intelligent systems. Whoever masters these technological capabilities masters the initiative in the industry. And these capabilities are now firmly in the hands of Chinese enterprises.
At every key link in the new energy vehicle industry chain, Chinese enterprises are charging to the forefront:
BYD took the lead in integrating the "three-electric" capabilities, making "charging as fast as refueling" a reality with its flash charging;
CATL's latest battery technology raises the charging rate to a peak of 15C, charging from 10% to 80% in just over three minutes;
Huawei's Qiankun intelligent driving system continues to evolve, from relying on high-definition maps to achieving map-free navigation across all regions;
Hongqi's Jiuzhang intelligent platform is the first in China to launch urban navigation assistance technology based on inertial navigation with a tri-camera vision system, with a success rate of over 90% for intersection passage;
Changan has launched the Tianshu generative large model, one of the very few large models in China to pass the "generative artificial intelligence service" filing and approval;
GAC Group has launched the Aion Hyper GT Climbing Edition, with all 1,004 chips used achieving domestic design;
Leapmotor explores "full-domain self-research," achieving self-research and self-manufacturing of components accounting for 65% of the vehicle cost, bringing intelligent driving "into the homes of ordinary people";
…………
This is the innovation matrix of China's automobile industry. It is not the solo dance of a single enterprise, but the charge of a group of enterprises.
China's new energy vehicles have become an "innovation platform for industrial integration," connecting semiconductors, software, materials, manufacturing, battery chemistry, artificial intelligence, and other related industries.
The new model is new in the production methods of the "super factory" —
Walking into the Seres Super Factory in Chongqing, there is none of the deafening noise and flying sparks of a traditional factory. The key processes of stamping, welding, and painting are 100% automated. Over 3,000 industrial robots work in precise coordination. Automated guided vehicles shuttle quietly. Digital screens update in real time. A 9,800-ton integrated die-casting machine casts the rear body structure, composed of 87 components, in a single press. Artificial intelligence visual inspection systems work without interruption, and even "hair-thin" defects imperceptible to the human eye are not let through.
At the same time, a digital twin system "replicates" the real production line in real time. Assembly precision, quality traceability, and even floor flatness — every detail is presented through data. One vehicle, one file; one part, one file. Even the torque and angle of every bolt tightened are recorded, and production data is permanently retrievable.
This is the benchmark of intelligent manufacturing in the global automotive industry, the new scene of Chinese intelligent manufacturing represented by the "Excellent-Level Intelligent Factory" of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
"The five AITO high-end SUV series adopt 100% order-based production with zero inventory, which places extremely high demands on production line flexibility," Zhang Zhengping told reporters. The same production line can mixed-weld and mixed-assemble multiple models. From the launch of its first vehicle, AITO took only 46 months to reach the 1-millionth vehicle off the line, setting the fastest record globally for a luxury new energy vehicle brand to reach one million units.
Rapid response to market orders relies on the "industrial brain," the decision-making hub of intelligent manufacturing. With the deep participation of artificial intelligence, Seres' "industrial brain" integrates an industrial ecosystem of over 300 partner enterprises collaborating in development, with direct connectivity throughout the chain to more than 50 core suppliers. R&D efficiency has increased by 20%, and on-time order delivery has improved by 13%. The supply chain that once passed information layer by layer has become a "factory within a factory" resonating at the same frequency: CATL's battery lines and Yanfeng's seat lines are directly embedded into the vehicle production process, reaching the final assembly stations directly.
A large number of such super factories form the brilliant star map of China's new energy vehicle industry.
The BYD Super Factory at Zhengzhou Airport Economy Zone, the world's largest single new energy vehicle base, has the capacity to produce one vehicle in under a minute and one battery cell in about three seconds; at NIO's Hefei Xinqiao Second Factory, 80% of manufacturing scenarios are supported by AI-assisted decision-making, and the side-frame outer total assembly station in the body shop achieves an error precision of 0.05 millimeters; XPeng's Guangzhou Knowledge City Super Factory runs "pure electric + flying car" dual production lines in parallel; Xiaomi's Beijing Yizhuang Super Factory achieves 100% unmanned "lights-out" production in the key processes of its six core workshops…
Ten-thousand-ton-scale giant integrated die-casting, highly flexible production lines, and fully digital traceability are becoming the important manufacturing advantages of China's new energy vehicle super factories, delivering visual shock and spiritual resonance to visitors from all directions.
More than 100 years ago, Henry Ford created the industrial assembly line; in the 1950s and 1960s, Toyota created lean production; today, what the "industrial brain + future factory" manufacturing model of China's automobile industry brings is far more than slightly faster speed and slightly lower cost — it is the restructuring of the entire chain of R&D, manufacturing, supply, and service, and an all-round leap in total factor productivity.
The new model is new in the industrial ecosystem of "four-chain integration" —
A new energy vehicle is composed of tens of thousands of components. Behind every vehicle brand is a vast supply chain system.
"China has the world's most complete 'three-electric' supply chain and intelligent connected vehicle industrial ecosystem." This is the consensus of nearly everyone surveyed in this research.
In the Yangtze River Delta, a "4-hour industrial circle" renowned in the industry has taken shape: Shanghai's chips and software form the vehicle's "brain," Jiangsu provides power batteries, Zhejiang provides integrated die-casting machines, and Anhui completes vehicle assembly. All the supporting components for a new energy vehicle can be found within a 4-hour drive.
In Zhengzhou, more than 100 upstream and downstream enterprises have clustered around BYD, the "chain leader" enterprise, forming a complete chain of "raw materials — core components — complete vehicles — intelligent connected vehicles."
The chain has become an innovation network; suppliers have become innovation partners; manufacturing has become collaborative innovation.
"In the past, OEMs had to send people to supplier factories to inspect and guard goods. Now, data from key equipment is visible in real time, and supply chain efficiency and security have greatly improved. Based on data accumulated from the supply chain, banks can offer 'data loans' to small and medium-sized enterprises. The innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain are fully connected within the system, and 'four-chain integration' is releasing new momentum," said Wang Zhijie, Director of the Chongqing Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, describing this change.
The new model has broadened the boundaries of enterprises. The walls are being torn down.
At Chery's Kaiyang Laboratory, reporters saw a cutting-edge technology — a chip thermal management system based on white graphene heat dissipation technology. Through the high thermal conductivity of two-dimensional materials, it reduces the operating temperature of intelligent driving chips by 15 degrees Celsius. This technology has entered the real-vehicle verification stage. The Feiyu digital intelligent chassis incubated by the laboratory, equipped on Chery's high-end models, achieves full software-defined chassis systems. These are typical achievements of "four-chain integration."
This laboratory, known as a "laboratory without walls," with support from both Anhui Province and Wuhu City governments, relies on Chery's "chain leader" platform, focuses on key common technologies for intelligent connected new energy vehicles, collaborates with more than 100 top universities worldwide, and carries out over 4,000 frontier research projects and project incubation and implementation, driving the flow and aggregation of global innovation resources on this platform.
"It is not just the vehicle enterprises that are advancing, but the entire industrial chain and supply chain advancing together. Batteries, motors, electronic control, as well as chips, software, and AI — everyone is running forward together," said Zhao Fei, General Manager of Changan Automobile.
Running forward together, running toward quality transformation, efficiency transformation, and momentum transformation.
Quality transformation — refinement of quality. The first integrated carbon fiber cockpit of BYD's Yangwang U9 reduces weight by 420 kilograms compared to traditional steel-aluminum structures, yet its strength is equivalent to 5 to 6 times that of steel. Xiaomi's SU7 uses its self-developed "Titan Alloy" material, achieving a torsional stiffness of 51,000 Nm/degree, about twice that of traditional fuel vehicles. The quality upgrade of China's new energy vehicles is not merely the surpassing of manufacturing process parameters, but a comprehensive elevation of brand quality.
Efficiency transformation — efficient collaboration. BYD took six years to launch the second-generation blade battery and flash charging technology, completing multiple technological leaps from battery to electric drive to complete vehicle control. CATL's technological progress continuously refreshes industry understanding, and the pain points of electric vehicle use that once troubled users — driving range, charging speed, and winter energy consumption — are being resolved one by one at a pace exceeding expectations. Deeper division of labor, tighter collaboration, faster iteration. This is the efficiency code of China's new energy vehicles.
Momentum transformation — cross-border integration. Xiaomi's HyperOS operating system, previously released on its phones, has become the technological foundation of its intelligent cockpit. Hongqi's "Lingxi Cockpit" cooperates with Alibaba Cloud and AutoNavi, integrating the Qwen intelligent agent to form an architecture of "cloud large-model decision-making + on-device execution." Traditional automakers, technology companies, platform companies, software companies, and energy companies each contribute their strengths within the same innovation network. The automobile has become the most active application carrier of new quality productive forces.
Strictly speaking, in the automobile industry, Huawei is only a supplier, just like CATL, Horizon Robotics, iFlytek, Momenta, and Black Sesame Technologies. But its identity is multi-faceted: in its cooperation with Seres, BAIC, Chery, and JAC, Harmony Intelligent Mobility provides deep empowerment, offering full-stack solutions from chips and operating systems to assisted driving.
In June of this year, ByteDance also entered the automotive industry in depth as a supplier, jointly building Saidou Technology and the AIVA brand with Seres, empowering intelligent cockpits with the Doubao large model, embarking on a new cross-border experiment.
These new forces in the supply chain, with their powerful product innovation and technological leadership, are both redefining their own roles and redefining the automobile industry.
This is a complete, living, rapidly evolving new model of industrial development — a systematic overall leap, an open cross-border integration, a symbiotic collective rise!
There is no doubt that it is precisely the collective vitality generated by this new model that has transformed China's self-owned automobile brands from industry "chasers" into industry "definers."
(Research team members: Xu Lijing, Xie Rongbin, Du Haitao, Gui Junsong, Wang Zheng, Shen Qian, Ge Mengchao, Feng Yingjie)

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First Edition Editors: Xu Nuo, Zhao Zheng, Zhang Yujie | Second Edition Editors: Wu Gang, Li Xinyi, Xie Jianing | Third Edition Editors: Jiang Xuejie, Qi Jiarun, Zhang Anyu | Fourth Edition Editors: Bai Zhiyu, Liu Jingwen, Yu Xuan

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How a Touch of Verdant Green Captivates the Audience (On-Site Commentary)

By: 程 焕

Bright green in color, with a slight bitterness on entry that gives way to sweetness, and a clean, lingering throat feel... matcha is highly favored by consumers. As healthy eating gains traction, China's matcha industry has broken out strongly over the past five years with a compound annual growth rate of 28.67%. Among its dazzling achievements, one standout comes from Tongren in Guizhou, nestled in the Wuling Mountains. Stepping into the matcha workshop of Guizhou Tongren Guicha Tea Industry Co., Ltd. (铜仁贵茶茶业股份有限公司), one sees emerald-green ground tea transformed into a fine, grease-like powder. Since introducing its first production line in 2017, Tongren has continued to build momentum in this niche track, with annual matcha production and sales reaching 2,500 tons, comprehensive output value exceeding 1.3 billion yuan, and export scale leading the country for many consecutive years. From having nothing to begin with, to its fragrance spreading across the world — how did Tongren matcha manage to "emerge from the mountains and break into the spotlight"? The answer lies in three dialectical relationships.

Properly balancing "breaking" and "establishing" — what is broken is path dependence; what is established is distinctive advantage. Tongren's tea industry started early and its tea gardens are extensive, with one million mu of ecological tea gardens scattered like stars across the chessboard, yet for a long time it was "making wedding clothes for others" (为他人作嫁衣 - "sewing bridal gowns for others," working for the benefit of others): high-quality fresh leaves were bought up at low prices by large factories from other provinces, leaving the region with weak brands and low added value. A person in charge of Guicha Company remarked with emotion, "Following the old path makes it hard to break through. What we need to do is reshape the value of a single leaf." How to reshape it? Building on its ecological endowment and industrial foundation, Tongren, with Guicha Company as the leading player, launched a journey of tea "upgrading." From tea garden management, shade netting coverage, and picking timeliness, to medical-grade clean workshops, 596 pesticide residue tests, and intelligent production lines, a matcha industry chain rose from the ground. In this way, a single leaf shed its "raw material" identity, and the production area transformed into a core global premium matcha production zone. It can be said that breaking the old and establishing the new lies in pushing toward making advantages even stronger and climbing toward higher quality; only by cultivating distinctive industries suited to local conditions can the development path of leveraging strengths and building advantages be broadened.

Properly grasping "preserving" and "changing" — what is preserved is lucid waters and lush mountains; what is changed is gold and silver mountains. Tongren once prospered because of mining and was trapped by mining, at one point bearing the pressure of resource depletion and ecological damage. With a firm hand in pollution control and shutting down outdated production capacity, it protected its lucid waters and lush mountains. Both holding the "resource line" and extending the "asset line" is the new required question. Located at the foot of Fanjingshan, a World Natural Heritage site, Luoxiang Village in Nuxi Town, Jiangkou County, has exceptionally favorable ecological conditions, yet its old tea gardens had been abandoned due to low returns. Villager Yang Maohua (杨茂华) sensed a business opportunity, took the lead in renovating the tea gardens and introducing ground tea production lines, allowing the faint fragrance of tea to once again permeate the mountain village. Today, Luoxiang Village's collective income exceeds 2.6 million yuan. The ecological protection red line delineates a conservation boundary, and it also burnishes the "gold-lettered signboard" of the matcha industry. Recognizing change, seeking change, acting effectively and doing well — good mountains and waters can nourish good lives. Going further, correctly understanding and treating the opportunities and challenges in development, conforming to the general trend of development, and being adept at seizing the initiative — only then can one grasp the initiative in innovative development.

Properly handling the relationship between the "two hands" — the hand of the market invigorates, the hand of the government optimizes the ecosystem. Tongren's development of the matcha industry was by no means accidental. Leading enterprises took the lead in forming an industry alliance, managing production, establishing standards, building brands, and expanding channels; local government, meanwhile, systematically planned base scale and industrial layout, supplementing, extending, and strengthening the chain. In the Zhongnanmen Historical and Cultural District in Tongren's urban area, amid green tiles and horse-head walls, nearly 40 matcha experience shops have opened in succession. Matcha lattes carry the aroma of coffee, matcha qingtuan are wrapped with sweet red bean paste, and cultural and creative tea ware, immersive tasting sessions — matcha-related products and experience programs are diverse and varied. "In the past we sold loose tea; now we sell experiences, culture, and a lifestyle," said Deng Yinghong (邓应红), who has run a tea shop for 16 years and two years ago joined forces with his son to create a new brand, integrating matcha into beverages, pastries, and cultural creative products, attracting tourists to visit and experience — last year's turnover exceeded one million yuan. In the income increase ledger is Deng Yinghong's confidence: "The confidence for transformation comes from the support of the entire industry chain — upstream there are bases, midstream there are standards, downstream there are channels, and the government also builds platforms, creates scenarios, and promotes going overseas." Today, Tongren has built 77 Fanjing matcha experience shops and multiple online and offline consumption scenarios, with matcha products sold to 38 domestic cities and exported to 54 countries and regions. An effective market and a proactive government resonate at the same frequency, and the path of integrated development spanning tea planting, tea processing, tea trading, and tea appreciation grows ever broader. From a touch of green at the foot of Fanjingshan to a "new national product" whose fragrance spreads at home and abroad, Tongren has painted a new picture of development on a single leaf — thriving industry and prosperous people. Breaking the old and establishing the new, preserving and advancing in tandem, government and enterprise working in coordination — the answer to high-quality development lies in the taste of a touch of green, and still more in the exploration of leaping toward the new. (The author is a reporter for this newspaper's Guizhou branch.)

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Protect Every Spark of Innovation (People's Commentary)

By: 朱浙萍

The fields of innovation differ as widely as heaven and earth, yet the core driving force has always remained the same — that is, humanity's impulse to create, pursuit of efficiency, and perseverance in dreams.

Recently, the topic of "hardware-store DIY figurines" has continued to ferment on social platforms: many young people walk into hardware stores and, using screws, nuts, and spring washers costing a few yuan, assemble robots that can pour water and creative ornaments of various shapes.

Why have small hardware shops quietly become a "new playground" for young people? This is not merely a pursuit of cost-effectiveness and emotional value in shopping, but also a longing for "creation" itself. Compared with LEGO, where one builds preset models according to blueprints, the charm of hardware parts lies in having no ready-made blueprint — the shape is entirely up to one's imagination. Offline stores further provide scene value that e-commerce is hard to replace: the shopkeeper's experience and the instant comparison of parts constitute tangible innovation support, allowing inspiration to land and be verified at any moment.

What appears to be a niche burst of creativity in fact reflects the strong pulse of Chinese innovation. Shifting our gaze from street-corner shops to a broader horizon, such a landscape of innovation can be seen everywhere in today's China.

In Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, at agricultural robot 4S stores, robots with different functions move with ease and operate with precision in various real-world scenarios, coordinating with the planting environment, agronomic processes, and production management. What the stores sell is not merely equipment, but an entire set of intelligent solutions.

In Minqin County, Gansu Province, the first stage of the Zhuque-3 Y2 carrier rocket successfully landed and was recovered at the designated position of the recovery site. China achieved its first land recovery of a rocket, marking a major breakthrough in China's reusable rocket technology and further enriching the technological reserves for the development of commercial aerospace.

The screwdrivers in hardware stores, the robots in greenhouses, the rockets at recovery sites — these richly varied scenes sketch the vivid contours of Chinese innovation and bring profound inspiration.

The source of innovation is always people themselves. From the ingenuity in a tiny nut to the safe recovery of a high-thrust rocket, the fields of innovation differ as widely as heaven and earth, yet the core driving force has always remained the same — that is, humanity's impulse to create, pursuit of efficiency, and perseverance in dreams. It is precisely the light of countless individuals who refuse to be mediocre and dare to try that converges into a river of stars propelling social progress.

When a society can provide conditions and create space for all kinds of innovative attempts, the source of innovation will flow fully. Today, the common trait of China's innovation scenes is taking root in real needs, and continuously testing, iterating, and maturing through practice. This empowerment does not require a preset "script," but is based on respect for and nurturing of market vitality, and on the full release of people's creative power.

The thousand sails racing on the innovation track vividly demonstrates the unique advantages of China's innovation ecosystem. This advantage lies not only in the complete industrial system and the super-large-scale market, but also in its differentiated and diversified levels of demand, which are sufficient to accommodate a full spectrum of innovation experiments: it encourages both looking up at the stars and honoring down-to-earth effort; it can support the research and development of national heavy equipment, and can also provide soil for tiny seeds of innovation to grow.

Today's China is relying on this advantage to build more innovation scenes, achieve lower innovation costs and higher innovation returns, and promote sustainable innovation at scale. And what makes all this possible is people who have never been willing to be defined, who always dare to try, and who always believe that "it can be even better." Across all industries and in fields large and small, countless such innovators are advancing side by side, taking up the pen to write the movement of innovation belonging to this era.

Make good use of the advantages of the super-large-scale market, respect spontaneous exploration, cultivate a thick innovation ecosystem, and let every passion for creation be seen, be caught, and be fulfilled. When the ingenuity of "turning screws" and the ambition of "going to space" grow and rise on the same hot soil, the innovative vitality of the whole society will surge like rivers and torrents, unstoppable.

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Pomegranate Blossoms Share One Root (Warm News, Hot Commentary)

By: 崔 妍

【Event】Why did a wedding attract more than 300 strangers? The groom's mother posted an invitation on social media, originally meant to be passed to relatives and friends. A netizen happened to see it and left a comment: "Adaxi (Uyghur: friend), can I come?" "Yes." A single affirmative reply drew netizens from all over the country to rush to Shache County, Kashgar, Xinjiang.

Once you come, you are a friend. Compressing the seats for relatives and friends, reserving viewing positions, doubling the purchase of ingredients... Warmth and blessings met at the wedding, and "clinging tightly together like pomegranate seeds" became concrete and vivid.

【Commentary】

The origin of everything was a single "Adaxi." The netizens treated the newlyweds as friends, wanting to join in the fun and send blessings; the newlyweds and their family treated the netizens as relatives and friends, so they added banquet tables and welcomed them joyfully. The happy event of a small family became a joyful occasion for all four seas, becoming a true portrayal of the harmonious and happy atmosphere of the great family of the Chinese nation.

In ordinary understanding, a wedding is supposed to be a banquet for relatives and friends. This wedding clearly broke the "sense of boundaries" that many people value today. Why did neither hosts nor guests find it bothersome, but instead delight in it? Rejoicing for a good match — this simple emotion became the code for mutual resonance. In addition, there was sincerity — the netizens came from afar to offer congratulations, and the newlyweds carefully organized the reception, with full sincerity steadily catching the intense enthusiasm, so the scene was not cold and the emotions warmed. Shared emotions are like seeds, and watered with sincerity, pomegranate trees symbolizing hearts connected and peoples close to each other sprout one by one.

In the past, "a single letter" made pen pals into confidants; today, "a bond formed through one line" turns netizens into friends. Times change, carriers change, but the bond of affection that crosses regions and unites all ethnic groups as one family remains unchanged. Taking airplanes, taking high-speed trains, delivering blessings with "express speed"; forming caravans for self-driving trips, driving a thousand li, taking in the fine scenery of the borderlands; overseas netizens also leave comments and watch the excitement, though in foreign lands their feelings do not diminish... More open roads, railways, and the internet give emotions the power to cross mountains and seas, allowing the bloodline of the nation to condense into deeper bonds through each contact. In picture after picture of steaming vitality, one can better understand the meaning of the "super projects": modernization is not only steel and concrete, but also flying bridges and laying roads between hearts, turning every thoroughfare into a "heart road" of the Chinese nation as one family.

Step beyond one wedding and look at a stretch of beach. People of different ethnic groups are settled in an "interplanted" arrangement; whoever makes something delicious sends a bowl to the neighbors. "Fujian and Ningxia as one family" turned the Gobi desert into a "golden beach." Then look at a lamp. A young man from Sichuan left his hometown and went to Niewu Township, Jiali County, Naqu, Tibet, participating in the construction of a hydropower station and lighting a lamp for the villagers. Now the area is connected to the State Grid's power supply, and happiness no longer suffers "power outages"... "Clinging tightly together like pomegranate seeds" is not an abstract grand narrative, but a vivid practice integrated into the daily life of ordinary people. It is precisely because it is rooted in life that ethnic unity has deep roots and lush leaves, gathering a powerful force of mutual assistance and joint progress.

The pomegranate tree blossoms and bears fruit because of its developed root system. The "small blessings" of people of all ethnic groups all contain a "big article." Fish-skin paintings and Tibetan sheep — ordinary things in the eyes of ethnic minority people — how have they now become "golden nuggets"? Expanding the paths for realizing the value of ecological products, empowering "earthen nuggets"; promoting the living utilization of ethnic minority culture, creating "golden brands"; stimulating endogenous momentum through joint construction and shared benefits, enriching both pockets and minds... This "big article" is both realistic and expressive: writing densely on small matters, while also mapping out a happy future, inspiring people of all ethnic groups to work together with one heart and move forward together. Seeking unity through the pursuit of happiness, and adding happiness through unity, life thrives day by day.

I think of my experience teaching as a volunteer in the summer of 2018. At that time, the mountain village in Yunnan had not yet escaped poverty, and the summer heat was scorching. In the classroom, there was always a little Lisu "little bean" who tagged along to audit her sister's class, timid yet lively. That day, he ran all the way from home, rushed into the teaching building dripping with sweat, held the soda bottle that he had kept steady against his chest high above his head, and solemnly stuffed it into my arms. He looked up, grinning wide, his clear eyes outshining the brightest star in the Tengchong summer night. Although I was the teacher, I deeply felt that it was not I who helped him, but he who healed me. In contact and interaction after interaction that could be felt and experienced, we built a shared bond of emotion, firmly imprinted in our hearts — whenever we think of it, we feel happiness, and it accompanies us forever on our journey forward.

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Photo Report

Data show that in 2025, the national PM2.5 concentration dropped to 28 micrograms per cubic meter, a decrease of 59% compared with 2013, and the proportion of heavily polluted days fell to 0.9%, the best level since monitoring began. At present, China is urgently drafting a new round of action plan for continuous air quality improvement, which is also the fourth "Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan" (大气十条), and will focus on making it "higher in standards, more targeted, and more scientific."
This is precisely:
No more dust and haze to disturb,
Only white clouds drifting at ease.
Riding the momentum, passing the baton once more,
A clear breeze sweeps across the nine provinces.
Xu Zhiwen

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A Panorama of China and the World

Micro-documentaries should be "micro" without being "shallow"
Yao Zongbin

In the first half of this year, national satellite television channels cumulatively broadcast 159 micro-documentaries, with a viewing scale of 2.73 billion person-times, a year-on-year increase of 71.4%. These documentaries, with individual episodes mostly under 10 minutes in length, have won audience affection through lightweight expression.

Micro-documentaries are not simple slices of long documentaries; the more limited the duration, the more they test the creator's ability to discover stories, distill themes, and organize materials. For example, National Treasure Moments (国宝时刻) focuses on individual cultural relics, allowing viewers to understand an artifact's origins and the ritual system behind it within minutes, improving expressive efficiency. "Small entry points, deep insight, broad resonance" — micro-documentaries also give major themes a more approachable form of expression. For instance, The View of Political Achievements in Footprints (足迹里的政绩观) starts from tangible objects such as wells, bicycles, and ancient houses, transforming major themes into real stories that can be felt, known, touched, and accessed, with total online dissemination exceeding 300 million views.

Currently, documentaries are forming a communication pattern in which large screens and small screens empower each other, and long and short videos coordinate with one another. While upholding humanistic warmth and historical profundity, continuously expanding the expressive boundaries of documentary culture will make the new era's cultural landscape even more colorful.

(Excerpted from Guangming Daily, original title: "Micro-documentaries should be 'micro' without being 'shallow'")

Scenic area NPCs "should have culture"
Pan Runan

During the summer vacation, non-player characters (NPCs) in the cultural tourism market continued to boom, with some even prompting people to "travel to a city for one person." Behind the craze, a few individual projects have also sparked controversy due to inappropriate interactions. With the same role-playing, some make people "immersed in the drama," while others make people "taken out of the drama." Where lies the difference? It lies in cultural connotation.

Scenic area NPCs build an emotional bridge through role-playing, bringing static landscapes "to life." Pingyao Ancient City in Shanxi launched the "Shanxi National Treasure Troupe" NPC parade, with figures from the Chart of the Star Gods (朝元图) of Yongle Palace, Jinci Temple maidservants, and Shanxi merchant escorts "walking" to visitors' sides; at Hetou Old Street in Tangshan, Hebei, a post-2000s "Li Bai" is full of Tang poetry, and countless tourists make special trips to seek him out. By endowing characters with a cultural soul, cultural scenic areas become more attractive.

Cultivating scenic area culture requires joint efforts from multiple parties. Scenic areas can systematically sort out local historical allusions, myths and legends, intangible cultural heritage skills, and folk customs, deeply embedding them into character design, which can make NPCs' cultural dissemination more infectious. Relevant departments also need to improve governance for new business formats, resolutely correct undesirable tendencies such as vulgarity and parody, and may also organize training to cultivate a group of professional talents who identify with the industry's value and are proficient in cultural interpretation, making NPCs truly become vivid business cards for spreading local culture.

(Excerpted from Economic Daily, original title: "Give scenic area NPCs a cultural lesson")

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China’s Smart Approach to Centralized Cooling (New Insights)

By: 陈艺娴

[Phenomenon] This summer, a cooling method in a residential complex in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, drew attention: when the maximum temperature exceeded 35 degrees Celsius, indoor temperatures could be maintained at around 25 degrees Celsius without turning on air conditioning. The secret lay underfoot: China University of Mining and Technology, together with local enterprises, sent the "natural cold source" water from surrounding abandoned mines, which is maintained at 19 degrees Celsius year-round, into residents' homes through the original heating pipes, relying on floor radiation to "deliver coolness." The "15th Five-Year Plan" Carbon Peak Action Plan (《"十五五"碳达峰行动方案》) proposes accelerating the green and low-carbon transformation of heating and cooling systems, and many cities have taken exploratory steps in district cooling.

[Commentary]
To understand district cooling, one can draw an analogy with district heating, except that the pipes carry cool water for cooling instead. Some district cooling stations work by sending prepared cold water through underground pipe networks to building interiors, then blowing cold air indoors through terminal fan coil units.

Compared with traditional air conditioning cooling, district cooling has prominent "strengths": not only is cooling efficiency higher and cost lower, it also saves building space. Without the noise generated by outdoor air conditioning units, some can also avoid the discomfort of direct cold air blowing, making them user-friendly. Some people may wonder: can this cooling method be popularized more quickly, bringing it into more households?

This matter truly cannot be rushed, nor can it be handled with a one-size-fits-all approach. Whether district cooling can be promoted and applied in more places hinges on grasping one key word: 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "act according to local conditions," to adapt measures to local circumstances).

In the Xuzhou case, mine water is a ready-made cold source, eliminating the need for extra electricity to prepare cold water, and the "one pipe, two uses" approach requires no renovation or rewiring, saving effort, labor, and money. Such natural cold sources are not available everywhere, and if the volume is relatively small, they cannot meet huge cooling demands. In Wuhan, Hubei, and Nanjing, Jiangsu, there are also two district cooling projects that reduce carbon emissions and benefit the people. Their ingenuity also lies in making good use of the geographical advantage of Yangtze River water as a "natural air conditioner."

Of course, the concept of "resources" is not static. In Hangzhou, Zhejiang, reclaimed water from the Xiaoshan Qianjiang Wastewater Treatment Plant (萧山钱江污水处理厂) continuously cools approximately 300,000 square meters of buildings in the Transfar Science and Technology City (传化科技城). This also reminds us that improving technology and changing mindsets can awaken more dormant resources.

Beyond resource availability, balancing environmental friendliness and economic viability is also an important consideration for district cooling.

Delivering cold is much harder than delivering heat. District heating can cover a radius of more than 20 kilometers, while the cooling radius usually does not exceed 1.5 kilometers; otherwise, energy loss increases sharply. Currently, the world's largest regional cooling system is located in Qianhai, Shenzhen, Guangdong, with 6 cooling stations already in operation. Once fully operational, it can reduce refrigerant usage by 13.74 tons, with contracted cooling area exceeding 5.78 million square meters. Why Qianhai? The average annual temperature here exceeds 23 degrees Celsius, and office buildings, large commercial complexes, and hotels in and around the area stand in clusters—all stable "major customers" for cooling.

Relying on economies of scale, district cooling has obvious driving effects and enormous potential in energy conservation and carbon reduction. However, if equipment sits idle and "encounters cold" after construction, it will cause massive waste. This determines that related projects must be prudently considered and scientifically decided, with overall planning and coordination at the planning stage as much as possible.

"Adapting measures to local conditions is essentially 实事求是 (shí shì qiú shì - "seek truth from facts," to be practical and realistic)." This scientific methodology is not abstract but concrete and practical. There is another piece of news related to "coolness": in the first half of this year, China's air conditioner exports to the European Union increased by 43.2 percent year-on-year, setting a historical record. In response to local conditions such as numerous historic buildings and complex installation requirements, Chinese enterprises have developed energy-efficient, noise-controlled, portable split-type plug-and-use air conditioners that are highly sought after. The localization hidden in products and services embodies the wisdom of respecting laws and respecting users—isn't this also a form of adapting measures to local conditions?

The "dual carbon" goals (双碳) are our solemn commitment to the international community. Why is it that "what China says and promises will certainly be done and fulfilled"? Based on reality, 稳中求进 (wěn zhōng qiú jìn - "seek progress amid stability," to advance steadily while maintaining stability), and acting with ingenuity—the answer lies in piecing together the "puzzle pieces" of green buildings, low-carbon energy, and more.

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NPC Standing Committee reviews multiple draft laws and reports at 24th session

Establishing a road traffic safety system for autonomous vehicles
By our staff reporter Zhang Cong
On August 25, the draft revision of the Road Traffic Safety Law was submitted to the 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress for deliberation. Minister of Justice He Rong, entrusted by the State Council, gave an explanation of the draft revision. This revision focuses on prominent issues such as the governance of "drunk driving," "zombie cars," and "over-standard vehicles," as well as the management of electric bicycles and "speed-walking groups," and improves institutional measures in a targeted manner. In addition, the draft revision coordinates development and safety, properly handling the relationship between road traffic safety and the development of the autonomous vehicle and electric bicycle industries, as well as the improvement of traffic efficiency.
He Rong introduced that the draft revision consolidates the safety responsibilities of all parties, stipulating the management duties of the government and its relevant departments, and the road traffic safety responsibilities of state organs, enterprises, public institutions, social organizations, and others; internet platform enterprises may not use algorithms or other means to coerce, condone, or tacitly permit practitioners to violate traffic laws. The draft revision also strengthens vehicle management, prohibiting the production, import, and sale of vehicles that do not conform to mandatory national standards, prohibiting individuals from registering large passenger vehicles and other such vehicles, and prohibiting the parking of abandoned motor vehicles on roads, and requiring heavy-duty trucks and other such vehicles to install and use satellite positioning and other devices in accordance with regulations.
In order to strengthen the regulation of road traffic safety behavior, the draft revision makes a series of provisions. For example, it regulates motor vehicle driving behavior, prohibiting "drunk driving," "drug driving," "street racing," and "blind driving" (using handheld phones to make or answer calls, watching videos, etc. while driving). It regulates non-motor vehicle driving behavior, prohibiting driving non-motor vehicles that should be registered by law but have not been registered on roads; requiring electric bicycles to have a maximum speed not exceeding 20 kilometers per hour, to wear safety helmets in accordance with regulations, and not to speed, drive in reverse, or run red lights. It regulates the behavior of passengers and pedestrians, preventing "door-opening kills," requiring that when opening or closing car doors, passengers pay attention to observation and drivers remind them to pay attention to safety; it regulates "speed-walking groups," requiring that roads may not be occupied for non-traffic activities such as sports and fitness without permission, and that relevant units strengthen daily inspections and dissuasion and stopping.
In establishing the road traffic safety system for autonomous vehicles, the draft revision clarifies that autonomous vehicles may only drive on roads after passing road traffic rules compliance testing and being registered in accordance with the law. At the same time, it clarifies the principles for handling violations, with relevant traffic violations to be handled by the production enterprises and import enterprises, with specific measures to be formulated under the leadership of the public security department of the State Council. The draft revision also strengthens enterprise responsibility, requiring production enterprises and import enterprises to ensure the safety of autonomous vehicles on roads, cybersecurity, and data security, and not to make false or exaggerated publicity about autonomous driving functions.
The draft revision emphasizes convenience for the people and benefits to the people. While maintaining road traffic safety, it promotes convenience measures to facilitate public travel. For example, it stipulates that motor vehicle registration that can be verified through electronic data is exempt from submitting certificates and vouchers, that those who have already applied for electronic driving licenses do not need to carry physical documents with the vehicle, and that safety technical inspection institutions should publicly disclose inspection items and fee standards to society. It appropriately expands the applicable circumstances of the road traffic accident rescue fund and the scope of advance payment costs, ensuring that victims receive timely assistance.
At the same time, in order to regulate road traffic safety law enforcement, the draft revision stipulates that electronic law enforcement should undergo legal and technical review, that the locations where fixed equipment is set up should be publicly announced to society, and that parties concerned enjoy rights such as statements and defenses. In addition, the draft revision stipulates that administrative penalties should be recorded throughout the entire process, that parties concerned have the right to request hearings, and that on-the-spot penalties should meet statutory conditions and be recorded with audio and video, and filed in a timely manner.

Clarifying the working mechanisms and responsibilities for combating cross-border corruption
By our staff reporter Peng Bo
On August 25, the 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress deliberated the draft Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law. The draft consists of six chapters and forty-seven articles, with main contents including: clarifying the principles, scope, and positions of China's anti-cross-border corruption work; clarifying the working mechanisms and responsibilities for anti-cross-border corruption; strengthening case handling and international cooperation; clarifying the integrity and compliance obligations of enterprises; and clarifying legal responsibilities.
Since the beginning of the new era, China has continuously deepened international cooperation against corruption, deeply participated in global anti-corruption governance, and continuously achieved new results in anti-cross-border corruption work, providing a solid foundation for the construction of the system of foreign-related laws and regulations against corruption. Formulating the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law is of great significance for filling the gap in China's special legislation on anti-cross-border corruption, improving China's foreign-related legal system against corruption, and promoting the governance of cross-border corruption with legal thinking and legal methods. At the same time, it is also conducive to safeguarding China's national sovereignty, security, and development interests, consolidating international anti-corruption consensus, and contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to global anti-corruption governance.
As more and more enterprises go global, creating a clean business environment has great practical significance. Formulating the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law, clarifying the integrity and compliance obligations of cross-border operating enterprises, continuously improving the integrity and compliance system, and strengthening the supervisory responsibilities of relevant competent departments is conducive to guiding enterprises going global to operate in accordance with the law, in compliance, and with integrity, and to creating a fair and just international business environment.
At present, China's relevant institutional provisions in the field of anti-cross-border corruption are relatively scattered, and there is still a lack of relatively systematic provisions on the transfer of leads, reporting, international law enforcement and judicial cooperation, cooperation of relevant units in investigations, and the pursuit of fugitives and recovery of stolen assets. Formulating the Anti-Cross-Border Corruption Law will elevate the experience, practices, and practical achievements of China's anti-cross-border corruption work since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China into national law, which is conducive to enriching the legal measures and means of anti-cross-border corruption and providing strong legal guarantees for investigating and handling cross-border corruption cases.

Improving rules and giving full play to the function of the bankruptcy system
By our staff reporter Zhang Cong
On August 25, the second draft of the revision of the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law was submitted to the 24th session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress for deliberation.
The draft revision makes provisions on the bankruptcy of natural person shareholders who bear joint liability for the debts of a bankrupt enterprise and thus experience bankruptcy circumstances, that is, jointly liable individual debtors. Some members of the Standing Committee, local authorities, and experts suggested further refining and improving relevant systems, effectively preventing the use of individual bankruptcy to evade and escape debt repayment, giving full play to the function of the bankruptcy system, and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of creditors and debtors. In this regard, the second draft of the revision enriches the provisions restricting the behavior of jointly liable individual debtors, clarifying that jointly liable individual debtors should cooperate with the work of the people's court and the administrator, report to the people's court in a timely manner when leaving their place of residence, may not leave the country without the permission of the people's court, and should comply with other obligations prescribed by the people's court. At the same time, provisions on exempt property have been added, and the provisions on supervision and inspection of jointly liable individual debtors have been improved.
The draft revision stipulates that after a bankruptcy application is filed but before the people's court accepts it, if there are emergency circumstances such as the debtor's property depreciating or being maliciously transferred, the parties concerned may apply to the people's court to take measures to suspend execution or take preservation measures; when necessary, the people's court may require the parties concerned to provide a guarantee. Some local authorities, units, and experts suggested drawing on the practices of some countries to clarify that during the review period of a bankruptcy application, the people's court may decide to grant temporary protection to the debtor's property, so as to ensure the orderly conduct of the bankruptcy proceedings. In this regard, the second draft of the revision amends the above provisions to: after the applicant files a bankruptcy application but before the people's court makes a ruling, the debtor or creditors may apply to the people's court to temporarily suspend the execution procedures concerning the debtor's property; during the period of temporary suspension of execution, without the consent of the people's court, the debtor may not make repayments to individual creditors, nor may it carry out major property disposition acts.
Some local authorities, units, and experts suggested that the arrangement of the order of satisfaction of bankruptcy property should fully reflect the principle that personal rights take precedence over property rights. In this regard, the second draft of the revision deletes the provision excluding punitive damages claims for personal injury from the scope of claims, and at the same time adds maintenance fees, support fees, and alimony owed by jointly liable individual debtors.

Cultural product supply optimized, service quality continuously improved
By our staff reporter 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 Improving the Quality of Cultural Products and Services" delivered by Minister of Culture and Tourism Sun Yeli.
The report shows that under the leadership of the Central Leading Group for Propaganda, Ideological and Cultural Work, various coordination mechanisms are operating in an orderly manner. Requirements for promoting the optimization of cultural product and service supply have been written into newly revised laws and regulations such as the Copyright Law and the Cultural Relics Protection Law. The guiding role of the central cultural industry development special funds and funds in the fields of art, publishing, and film has been brought into play, the cultural and artistic awards evaluation mechanism has been improved, and the creation and production of excellent works and high-quality products have been encouraged. Institutional mechanisms have been improved, and an evaluation system that conforms to the characteristics of cultural and artistic talents has been established.
Efforts have been intensified to introduce pragmatic policy measures. Policy documents such as the "Opinions of the State Council on Promoting High-Quality Development of Service Consumption," "Several Economic Policies on Promoting High-Quality Development of Culture," and "Several Measures on Further Cultivating New Growth Points and Prospering Cultural and Tourism Consumption" have been issued, and contents such as expanding the supply of high-quality cultural products and improving the level of public cultural services have been incorporated into the outline of the "15th Five-Year Plan," with special plans such as the "15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Strong Tourism Country" issued to make specific arrangements.
Efforts have been made to give full play to the enabling role of science and technology. The national cultural digitalization strategy has been implemented, targeted measures such as promoting the integrated development of culture and science and technology have been implemented, and a number of demonstration bases, key laboratories, and technology innovation centers have been built to promote technological research and development and the transformation of achievements. Smart museums, smart libraries, and public cultural clouds have been built to enrich the supply of high-quality digital cultural resources.
Great efforts have been made to do a good job in the article of integrated development. Adhering to shaping tourism with culture and promoting culture through tourism, the depth and breadth of cultural and tourism integration have been expanded, cultural relic-themed tourist routes have been built, fine tourism performing arts products have been cultivated, and the China New Cultural and Creative Market and the China Fashion Industry Gala have been held, promoting the dual improvement of cultural communication effects and tourism quality.
The cultivation and supervision of the cultural market have been strengthened. Government services have been continuously optimized, the application of electronic licenses and certificates has been promoted, and approval service matters have achieved "one-stop online processing." The healthy development of cultural enterprises has been supported and guided. As of the end of 2025, 97 "little giant" enterprises with specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative characteristics in the cultural field and 5,633 high-tech enterprises in the field of cultural industry supporting technologies have been cultivated.
International cultural exchange and cooperation have been deepened. A global network for dialogue and cooperation among civilizations has been actively built, cultural cooperation agreements have been signed with more than 150 countries, and a multi-level intergovernmental consultation mechanism for cultural industry policy coordination has been established.
The report shows that the above policy measures have formed a synergy, and the quality of cultural products and services has improved significantly. Product supply has been continuously optimized. Study materials such as "Selected Readings from the Works of Xi Jinping" and "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" have been edited and published; outstanding works such as the theoretical program "The Power of Culture," the theatrical performances "The Great Journey" and "Justice Will Prevail," and the film "The Battle at Lake Changjin" have continued to emerge.
Service quality has been continuously improved. The network of public cultural facilities covering urban and rural areas has become more complete. As of the end of 2025, the country has a total of 3,253 public libraries, 7,188 museums, and 44,000 mass cultural institutions. In 2025, the per capita education, culture, and entertainment consumption expenditure of national residents increased by 9.4%, accounting for 11.8% of per capita consumption expenditure.
The effectiveness of cultural empowerment has been remarkable. The scale of the cultural industry has continued to expand, effectively driving domestic demand, promoting employment, and boosting confidence. In 2025, the cultural and related industries achieved operating revenue of 20.83 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.8%, and achieved total profits of 1.90 trillion yuan.
Exchange achievements have been effectively expanded. Traditional cultures such as martial arts, folk music, and traditional Chinese medicine have been widely disseminated, and cultural products and services such as online literature, online games, online dramas, and trendy toys have accelerated their overseas expansion. In 2025, China's total import and export of cultural products reached 143.4 billion US dollars; inbound tourism reached 154 million person-times with expenditures of 131.135 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 17.1% and 39.2% respectively.
Sun Yeli introduced that in the next step, efforts will be made 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, promote Chinese culture to better go global, continuously advance the implementation and effectiveness of various policies and measures, continuously optimize the supply of cultural products and services, and inject cultural vitality into high-quality economic and social development.

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Writing a New Chapter of "People's Public Security for the People" (Authoritative Release)

By: 本报记者 张天培

In recent years, public security organs nationwide have faithfully practiced the general requirements of "loyalty to the Party, service to the people, impartial law enforcement, and strict discipline," and in the practice of safeguarding national security, social stability, and the people's peace, have written a new chapter of "the people's public security serves the people." On August 26, the State Council Information Office held a press conference with Chinese and foreign journalists on "Strivers on the New Journey," inviting five representative models of advanced public security personnel to exchange views.

Forensic examination and appraisal bear on the dignity of the deceased and the rights and interests of the living.

"Some say that forensic medicine is a 'tough job,' facing life and death head-on, bearing pressure and trials far beyond the ordinary." But Zhao Jian, deputy captain of the Police Technology Detachment of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau in Guangdong Province, feels that forensic doctors must have a "diamond drill," able to lock onto evidence with hard-core technology, able to part the layers of fog and restore the truth of the facts, leaving criminals nowhere to hide.

One on-site investigation experience left a particularly deep impression on Zhao Jian. At that time, the situation was urgent. Without the slightest hesitation, Zhao Jian jumped directly into the turbid river water, repeatedly groping and searching through the mud with his hands, and ultimately found the key physical evidence sunk at the bottom of the water, successfully solving the case.

In 14 years of police service, how many moments of tackling hard cases and solving crimes have settled deep in his heart, becoming Zhao Jian's most precious and unforgettable memories. He has continuously trained his outstanding skills, tackled cutting-edge technology, and striven to use science and technology to decipher truths that cannot speak, firmly building the last line of defense protecting the people's right to life.

There is a group of people who turn ordinary intersections into watchtowers for urban safety, ensuring the city's safety and smooth flow with standard gestures and patient guidance. Lian Jie, political instructor of the Dongfengli Brigade of the Hexi Traffic Management Detachment of the Tianjin Municipal Public Security Bureau Traffic Management Corps, is one of them.

"Rooted at the intersection, holding the front line, our work does not have too many heart-stopping moments, but we always take the post as home and the road as responsibility, and amid the endless flow of traffic and the rotation of the four seasons, strive to guard the safety of the city's passage," Lian Jie said.

Youyi Binshui Post is the first female police demonstration post in Tianjin. While on duty, every summer during high temperatures, the metal edges of sunglasses could burn red marks onto the cheeks of Lian Jie and her colleagues, and their necks and wrists would be sunburned and peeling; in winter, the biting cold wind would frostbite their ears, yet they never slackened in the slightest. Wearing more than 10 jin of equipment, they hold their posts on the platform, and regardless of severe cold or scorching heat, always guard the city's safety and smooth traffic.

"Every standard gesture, every patient persuasion, demonstrates the professionalism and warmth of public security traffic police in the new era. In the days ahead, we will, as always, stand every shift well and guard the safety of citizens' travel," Lian Jie said.

The battlefield of cybersecurity police has no warning lines and no spotlight. They rarely face the masses directly, but every task they do is for the safety of the masses. From the protection of citizens' personal information to the protection of enterprises' core data, from the guardianship of minors' online rights and interests to the maintenance of order in cyberspace, all are positions that cybersecurity police must hold firm.

During the investigation of a major case, the two masterminds behind the scenes fled overseas. After more than a year of effort, the repatriation procedure for the case was finally initiated. As the lead investigator of the case, Jia Xiaoliang, deputy director of the Cyber Police Sub-bureau of the Daqing Municipal Public Security Bureau in Heilongjiang Province, participated in this repatriation mission.

Facing numerous difficulties such as the suspects possibly fleeing to other regions at any time, Jia Xiaoliang and his colleagues raced against time every moment. Finally, through multi-party communication and coordination, overnight stakeouts, and reconnaissance, they successfully repatriated the two criminal suspects.

On the return flight, one suspect said to Jia Xiaoliang: "We really did not expect that even though we hid so far away, you could still chase us down."

"We must use practical action to prove that under the net of the law there are no exceptions, and any fluke is futile. As long as they are people who have harmed the interests of the masses, whether hiding behind a screen or hiding a thousand miles away, we will never give up," Jia Xiaoliang said.

Song Tao, police station chief of the Zunyi Conference Site Police Station of the Honghuagang Sub-bureau of the Zunyi Municipal Public Security Bureau in Guizhou Province, is the eighteenth chief of the station.

"In 1949, when the police station was first established, the older generation relied on an oil lamp, a pair of iron soles, and a paper ledger. Hidden dangers were investigated on foot, and information was collected by writing. With the development of the times, smart policing has been continuously deepened. Relying on the 'Guizhou Police 110' system, the station's primary prevention work has become more powerful and more precise," Song Tao introduced.

Last year, a resident in the station's jurisdiction reported that a child had run away from home and had not returned all day. Police officers responded quickly and safely brought the child back within two hours. When 20,000 yuan was stolen from a resident in the jurisdiction, the station activated the rapid case-solving mechanism and arrested the criminal suspect in less than a day, recovering all the losses.

"Our predecessors used 'iron soles' to walk out police-citizen unity; now we use new-quality combat effectiveness to guard the lights of ten thousand homes," Song Tao said.

The intelligence command post where Chen Shaojun, captain of the Intelligence Synthesis Brigade of the Intelligence Command Center of the Haidong Municipal Public Security Bureau in Qinghai Province, serves is the "nerve center" and "technological brain" guarding the safety of the jurisdiction.

Today, the public security organs' intelligence command center is no longer a traditional single dispatch desk, but has developed into a combat entity integrating command and dispatch, intelligence analysis, smart empowerment, and synthetic operations. Over the years, Chen Shaojun and his comrades have been committed to deeply integrating new technologies into the entire process of 110 call reception and disposal, providing frontline comrades with real-time disposal guidance and back-end technical support.

Through technology empowerment, disposal becomes more stable and efficient, and the moment the masses pick up the phone, dial 110, and see the police, they feel secure and safe. "I will continue to take root on the plateau, using technology as a pen and technology as a shield, and with technical responsibility, practice the original aspiration and mission of the people's police in the new era," Chen Shaojun said.

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Creating a fair and orderly market competition environment

By: 本报记者 林丽鹂 刘温馨

On July 30, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. The meeting emphasized that "we must create a fair and orderly market competition environment."

There is no best business environment, only a better one. What is a fair and orderly market competition environment?

"For enterprises, fairness means being able to win market opportunities through product quality, technological innovation, and quality service," said an operator in the internet industry. Since the beginning of this year, regulatory authorities have standardized platform subsidy behavior in the food delivery sector, carried out antitrust compliance rectification in the intra-city freight sector, and investigated major monopoly cases in the online travel sector—all in the service of maintaining fair competition.

"If a merchant runs away, the money can be recovered. An orderly market gives people confidence to consume." said a consumer in Chaoyang District, Beijing. Since June of this year, the local market regulatory department has, through a prepaid fund trust supervision model, locked every prepaid transaction on the supervision platform into a dedicated trust account—one transaction, one transfer.

"Fair competition is the cornerstone of market vitality. A fair and orderly market competition environment can let enterprises shed the burden of low-price involution and focus on tackling technology; can keep consumers away from traps and allow them to choose quality goods with peace of mind; and can further unblock bottlenecks in the domestic economic cycle, stabilize investment confidence, and lay a solid institutional foundation for high-quality development," said Zhang Lianqi (张连起), president of the China Enterprise Financial Management Association (中国企业财务管理协会). How will efforts to create a fair and orderly market competition environment continue in the second half of the year?

Deepening the construction of the national unified large market

"Bidding and tendering should by rights look at products, services, and quotations, but the results also depend on bonus points for local commendations, honorary titles, and the like—this is very disadvantageous to enterprises from outside the region." For some time, the State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监督管理总局) has continuously received reports from business entities reflecting that credit evaluations in some regions are unreasonable, making it difficult to fairly enter cross-regional engineering construction and engineering supervision markets through bidding and tendering.

The bidding and tendering market is an important component of the national unified large market. On July 23, the State Administration for Market Regulation announced the phased results of the special action to remove card-point and bottleneck obstacles impeding the unified market and fair competition, and, together with the market regulatory departments of Jilin, Tibet, Henan, Guangxi, Zhejiang, Ningxia and other provinces (autonomous regions), investigated and handled the problem of the housing and urban-rural development departments of six provinces (autonomous regions) implementing unreasonable credit evaluations that excluded and restricted outside operators from participating in bidding and tendering. The investigated units have been advancing rectification of the problems in an orderly manner.

A batch of prominent problems impeding the unified market and fair competition has been corrected; the flow of goods, services, and resource factors has become smoother; basic market system rules have been continuously improved; market facility connectivity has been significantly strengthened... At present, the construction of the national unified large market has achieved phased results. In the second half of the year, efforts will focus on key and difficult problems to advance it in depth.

"The construction of the national unified large market is both a tough battle and a protracted war," said Jiang Yi (蒋毅), director of the Policy Research Office and spokesperson of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委). He stated that the commission will keep a close eye on problem rectification and eliminate a number of deep-rooted problems.

"We will accelerate the revision of the Implementing Measures for the Fair Competition Review Regulations, carry out three special actions—removing card-point and bottleneck obstacles impeding the unified market and fair competition, antitrust enforcement to protect enterprises, and enhancing the efficiency of concentration-of-operators antitrust supervision—and advance the construction of the national unified large market in depth," said the relevant person in charge of the State Administration for Market Regulation.

Tan Tianxing (谭天星), member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and deputy director of the NPC Social Development Affairs Committee, suggested promptly issuing regulations on the construction of the national unified large market and, at an appropriate time, formulating a law to promote the construction of the national unified large market. In the process of revising laws such as the Bidding and Tendering Law, the Government Procurement Law, and the Standardization Law, relevant provisions should be further improved. The list of matters impeding the construction of the national unified large market should be implemented, the progress of advancing the construction of the national unified large market should be incorporated into the government assessment and supervision system, and all regions should be driven to formulate policies and measures for implementing the construction of the national unified large market.

Continuing comprehensive rectification of "involution-style" competition

"In June this year, we released our fourth-generation new product. Through a series of technological innovations on the cell side and module side, we successfully raised the efficiency of ABC (all-back-contact) modules to a maximum of 26%, with power output up to 690 watts," said Xu Xinfeng (徐新峰), senior vice president of Aiko Solar (爱旭股份).

"Our products cannot meet demand—the key lies in technological research, development, and innovation," Xu Xinfeng said. The company has developed a nanoscale insulating coating material that shortens the creepage distance at the module edge by 28% and reduces the non-power-generating area by 20%.

From homogeneous competition that "exchanges price for volume" to technology-led "efficiency improvement and cost reduction," the photovoltaic industry is using innovation to break through the "involution" predicament.

On July 27, the General Rules for the Cost Accounting Model of the Photovoltaic Industry was officially released. "'How to determine a sale below cost and by what standard costs should be calculated' is a problem that has long remained unresolved in industry governance," said Jiang Hua (江华), deputy secretary-general of the China Photovoltaic Industry Association (中国光伏行业协会). From now on, enterprises will have standards for self-inspection, and regulatory authorities will also have a basis for law enforcement. The industry association will continuously strengthen the publicity and implementation of the standards, guide enterprises to strengthen self-discipline, and promote the healthy and orderly development of the industry.

In recent years, whether in traditional industries such as steel and cement, or in emerging industries such as new-energy vehicles, photovoltaics, and power batteries, the problem of "involution-style" competition has emerged. This not only causes a large amount of resource waste, but also affects the efficiency of resource allocation, disrupts the order of fair competition, and suppresses the vitality of market innovation. In the second half of the year, comprehensive rectification of "involution-style" competition will continue in areas such as the construction of the institutional system and the improvement of supporting rules.

The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) stated: "In the next step, we will make good use of multiple means such as rules, policies, and standards, strengthen market-oriented thinking and rule-of-law concepts, build a complete, scientific, standardized, and effective institutional system, and, with the goal of building a sound industrial ecology, continue to deeply rectify 'involution-style' competition."

The relevant person in charge of the State Administration for Market Regulation stated that in the coming period, it will accelerate the revision of the Price Law, improve supporting rules such as industry cost investigations and curbing below-cost dumping, and intensify efforts to rectify behaviors that create false impressions of low prices and mislead consumers through tactics such as "one-price" and "flash-sale price."

Optimizing the development environment for the private economy

"Our meat and poultry feed production and construction project, from initiation to landing, received full-process service from government departments. The Private Economy Promotion Law has loosened the bonds and reduced the burdens on enterprises, allowing us to focus single-mindedly on development," said the general administration manager of a food company in Shaanxi.

On July 1 this year, the Measures of Shaanxi Province for Implementing the Private Economy Promotion Law of the People's Republic of China was officially promulgated and put into effect, rigidly implementing the negative list for market access and breaking down various hidden barriers; establishing a long-term mechanism to strictly prevent governments and state-owned enterprises from defaulting on accounts, with no permission to delay payment on the grounds of changes in legal representatives or awaiting completion and final settlement audits; and promoting "scan-code entry into enterprises" and "one comprehensive inspection" to regulate law enforcement involving enterprises.

The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes "implementing the Private Economy Promotion Law and improving the supporting laws, regulations, policies, and institutional systems." In the more than one year since the Private Economy Promotion Law came into effect, relevant departments have issued more than one hundred supporting institutional measures, and more than ten provinces have focused on the Private Economy Promotion Law by issuing regulations or implementing measures. In the second half of the year, all regions and departments will continue to firmly implement and follow through on the issues enterprises care about.

Assisting enterprises with compliance. The State Administration for Market Regulation has continued to make efforts in guiding enterprises to address overseas antitrust risks, launching special actions, revising the Guidelines for Enterprise Overseas Antitrust Compliance, building an overseas antitrust compliance service platform, regularly carrying out cross-departmental risk consultations, and rapidly responding to antitrust lawsuits and investigations enterprises encounter overseas.

Continuing burden reduction. The Anhui Provincial Market Supervision Administration, together with the Provincial Development and Reform Commission and other departments, has focused on seven key areas including administrative-power intermediary services, and from July to the end of December is carrying out the 2026 enterprise-related fee inspection work. It has already deployed cross-city mutual inspections in six cities: Huaibei, Fuyang, Chuzhou, Wuhu, Xuancheng, and Anqing.

Optimizing services. Shanghai has upgraded the full-process services for enterprise-benefiting policies, advancing the expansion and enhancement of "enjoyment without application" and "direct access and fast enjoyment." It is deepening the "three simultaneous" reform in decision-making on enterprise-benefiting policy documents, striving to achieve the goal that the moment an enterprise-benefiting policy is issued is the day "enjoyment without application" is implemented.

Precise assistance. The Qingdao Individual and Private Economy Association in Shandong, together with banks, has launched the "individual benefit loan" scenario-based financing service, which has already created precise profiles of 79,000 individual industrial and commercial households and provided customized loan services to 929 such households. It will continue to provide classified and typed precise assistance to individual industrial and commercial households.

Striving forward in the 15th Five-Year Plan, creating a fair and orderly market competition environment will continuously stimulate the vitality and creativity of all types of business entities and drive the economy to continue developing toward the new, the high-quality, and the good.

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Hammer and chisel in skilled hands bring metal to life (Mastercraft)

By: 本报记者 马睿姗

“Ding-ding, dang-dang……” Stepping into the Tianyichang workshop on the commercial street west of Shanhua Temple in the ancient city of Datong, Shanxi, crisp metallic hammering sounds rise one after another. The craftsman grips a chisel tightly in his left hand, wields a hammer in his right, the chisel tip steadily pressed against the copper surface, and as each hammer blow falls, raised and recessed patterns gradually emerge on the copper wall. Before long, an auspicious cloud motif comes to life under the chiseling. In the neighboring shop, copper hot pots, copper ornaments, and all manner of copperware are displayed in a dazzling array, their warm metallic luster drawing many tourists to stop and admire. Li Anmin (李安民), 85, national-level representative inheritor of the Datong copperware making technique and an intangible cultural heritage bearer (see photo, taken by Wang Fan), carefully inspects the copperware pieces completed by his apprentices.

“Datong copperware is hammered out one blow and one chisel at a time; every ring of the hammer carries the wisdom of old craftsmen,” Li Anmin says. Over the years, Datong copperware has held fast to the core techniques of full handcrafting and fine carving, selecting high-quality raw materials such as red copper, brass, and nickel silver, and passing through more than a dozen procedures — material selection and proportioning, copper smelting and blank casting, forging and shaping, welding and assembly — before a piece is completed. An ordinary piece of copperware must undergo repeated polishing over several days, while a fine piece can take months to finish.

Having been with Datong copperware for more than sixty years, Li Anmin’s life is tightly bound to this craft. At 17, he came from his hometown of Shunping County (顺平县), Hebei, to Datong as an apprentice, first learning foundry work at a mining machinery plant and working as a lathe operator and fitter, before being transferred to the Datong Metal Crafts Factory.

In 1973, Datong copper craftsmanship enjoyed its “moment of glory.” The “Nine Dragons Soaring to the Moon” copper hot pot carved and chiseled by Li Anmin became a representative work of Datong copperware. The patterns on this copper hot pot draw on the Nine-Dragon Wall of Prince Dai’s Mansion in Datong, integrating traditional techniques such as inlay, relief carving, and line engraving. The nine dragons on the pot’s body each assume a different posture, breathing clouds and mist, executed with exquisite craftsmanship and lifelike vigor, fully displaying the masterly standard of Datong copperware.

In the 1990s, as raw copper material prices rose, Datong copperware once encountered a harsh winter. The Datong Metal Crafts Factory where Li Anmin had worked ceased production and closed, and many workers were forced to change trades. At that time, Li Anmin, already retired and at home, was 心急如焚 (xīn jí rú fén - “heart anxious as if burning,” extremely worried). “The factory has fallen, but the craft must not be lost!” Unwilling to let the Datong copperware making technique die out, Li Anmin raised 80,000 yuan of his own funds, joined with five or six old craftsmen, and stubbornly kept the copperware technique alive in his own small courtyard. “Preserve tradition, but also stay grounded; let intangible cultural heritage products fly into ordinary people’s homes,” Li Anmin says.

A copper hot pot carries the warm memories of Shanxi families gathering in reunion and joy. For this reason, Li Anmin led his apprentices in focusing on improving the copper hot pot technique, incorporating modern technical concepts on the basis of inheriting traditional techniques, and refining the traditional 7 procedures into more than 10 — proportioning, forging, welding, chiseling and engraving, tin coating, and others — making the craftsmanship even finer. At the same time, breaking through the limits of traditional copper products such as hot pots and the four treasures of the study, they developed new categories such as induction-cooker hot pots to suit modern living needs; in ornamental design, they incorporated cultural elements such as the Yungang Flying Apsaras and local folk customs, giving the copperware both traditional charm and a contemporary flavor.

“We also draw on classic patterns from Shang and Zhou dynasty bronzes to design and create copper hot pots featuring Yungang Flying Apsaras characteristics, giving the intangible heritage craft both an artistic air and the warmth of everyday life,” Li Anmin says.

Now 85 years old, Li Anmin still worries about the future of this craft, and he has shifted the focus of his work to training inheritors of the technique. “For the Datong copperware making technique to continue, the key is cultivating successor talent.” Of the more than ten apprentices Li Anmin has trained, two have already become provincial-level masters of arts and crafts in Shanxi, and five are municipal-level masters of arts and crafts. He has also brought the copperware technique into schools, enabling more young people to join the ranks of those carrying forward intangible cultural heritage.

To this day, a scene from more than thirty years ago still appears before Li Anmin’s eyes: pushing open the wooden door of a small courtyard, a furnace piled in the center of the yard, its fire burning fiercely, two craftsmen holding fire tongs, roasting several pieces of dark yellow copperware. At that time, Li Anmin was keeping the last coppersmith’s shop in Datong city; now, the craftsman’s heart he has held for so many years makes cold metal, after a thousand hammerings and a hundred chiselings, come alive.

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Meeting Held in Ganzhou, Jiangxi to Exchange Experience on Comprehensive Rectification of High Bride Prices in Rural Areas of Some Provinces

Our newspaper Ganzhou, August 26 (Reporter Deng Jianyang) On the 26th, the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group and the Office of the Central Spiritual Civilization Development convened an experience exchange meeting on comprehensive rectification of the problem of high bride prices in rural areas in some provinces, held in Ganzhou, Jiangxi. The meeting conducted an in-depth summary of the progress and results of the comprehensive rectification work on the problem of high bride prices in rural areas, exchanged experiences and practices, deployed key tasks, and further raised the level of rectification work.

The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to proceed from the height of firmly establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, to deeply understand and grasp the importance, urgency, and long-term nature of the comprehensive rectification work on the problem of high bride prices in rural areas, to vigorously implement it with the spirit of hammering nails, and to push the rectification work to go deeper and land more solidly. It is necessary to deepen understanding of the underlying patterns, improve the work system, perfect the rectification measures, effectively respond to new situations and new problems, continuously consolidate and expand the results of the rectification work, continuously reduce the burden of marriage on the masses, and continuously enhance the masses' sense of gain, happiness, and security.

The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to focus on key regions, key groups, and prominent problems, innovate ideas and measures, and ensure that all rectification tasks are implemented thoroughly and achieve visible results. It is necessary to effectively give play to the role of mass self-governance organizations, revise and improve village rules and civil agreements, and determine advocacy-oriented standards for bride prices and other matters in light of actual conditions. It is necessary to do a good job in publishing typical cases involving bride price disputes, handle cases involving bride price disputes in accordance with the law, and promptly discover and effectively resolve contradictions and disputes involving bride prices. It is necessary to advance the construction of civilized rural customs, carry out publicity and guidance through multiple channels, in multiple forms, and in an all-round manner, and widely disseminate the concept of civilized marriage customs. It is necessary to summarize and promote innovative practices and effective measures in marriage custom reform, actively build rural marriage and dating service platforms, and guide young people to rationally view marriage and family issues. It is necessary to strengthen cross-regional work coordination and promote joint governance in inter-provincial adjacent areas. It is necessary to encourage grassroots exploration and innovation, mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers and the masses to participate, and use the deeds of people around them to educate and guide the broad masses.

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Editor: Kang Yan, Liu Juanxi, Wang Bo

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Industrial design opens new horizons for manufacturing (Big Data Watch)

By: 本报记者 王伟健 姜晓丹 王 者

Inputting parameters into a large model can generate design proposals, flexible fiber pressure sensors weave robot skin, vertical ice makers sell briskly in overseas markets... As a "bridge" connecting innovation and the market, industrial design is deeply embedded throughout the entire chain of R&D, production, and marketing, opening new space for the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry.

The "Opinions on Promoting the Expansion, Capacity Enhancement, and Quality Improvement of the Service Industry" (关于推进服务业扩能提质的意见) issued by the State Council proposes cultivating leading enterprises in industrial design and raising their level of professionalism and internationalization. As the starting point of the innovation chain and the source of the value chain, how can industrial design "move a thousand catties with four ounces of force" (四两拨千斤) and leverage the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry? Reporters conducted visits in multiple localities.

Deep integration with the manufacturing industry — "welding" robot design onto the industrial chain

Walking into Qingtai International Industrial Design Village (青苔国际工业设计村) on Huangqiao Street, Xiangcheng District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, one finds more than 30 enterprises in the field of industrial design gathered here.

By inputting parameters into a large model, in just one minute a set of exoskeleton robot appearance proposals is generated on the screen. Inside the design village, Yang Kaizheng (杨开正), a 24-year-old industrial designer at Zhonggong Design (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (中工设计（苏州）有限公司), is using a vertical-domain intelligent design large model independently developed by Qingtai Intelligent Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (青苔智能科技（苏州）有限公司) to carry out his work.

Earlier this year, Maibao Intelligent Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (迈宝智能科技（苏州）有限公司) launched a lightweight exoskeleton robot weighing approximately 1.3 kilograms with a four-hour battery life, attracting industry attention. Yang Kaizheng participated in the design of this product. "We hand over the foundational work such as market analysis and conceptual design to the Qingtai intelligent design vertical-domain large model, so the team can focus on component adaptation and verification, saving a great deal of time and effort," Yang Kaizheng said.

In the testing laboratory of Suzhou Hege Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (苏州赫格智能科技有限公司) in Wuzhong District, design department manager Jiang Yinqi (蒋胤其) is performing "slimming and reshaping" on a humanoid robot, with disassembled precision components such as servo motors and sensors neatly arranged.

From material selection to component manufacturing and electronic integration, every link of robot industrial design contains profound knowledge. "Without the support of a strong industrial chain, no matter how good the design concept, it would be a castle in the air (空中楼阁)," said Feng Weicheng (冯炜程), general manager of Hege Company.

Picking up a white grid-shaped component, Feng Weicheng introduced it to reporters: "This is the robot's 'muscle' — light and elastic, it can play a buffering role when the robot's joints move." In the past, robot "muscles" used hard plastic shells, which made movements very stiff. The company's design team tried dozens of alternative materials and finally found a TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane) material with a 3D-printed lattice structure.

Once the material hurdle was cleared, process difficulties followed one after another. The process initially adopted by the supplier not only had low production efficiency, but the product surface was also rough and uneven, failing to meet design requirements. At the critical moment, the advantage of the "at the doorstep" industrial chain came into play. Feng Weicheng led the technical backbone and worked together with the supplier's engineers in the workshop, ultimately finding a new process solution. The printed "muscles" had smooth and fine surfaces, and their flexibility and strength also met design standards.

"More than 90 percent of the robot's components can find supporting suppliers locally in Suzhou. This 'zero-distance' collaborative advantage greatly accelerates the design speed," Feng Weicheng said.

"Industrial design is deeply rooted in the soil of the manufacturing industry. Only by 'welding' design onto the industrial chain can good designs be quickly turned into good products," said a relevant person in charge of the Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology.

Guided by user demand — innovative design boosts small home appliances going overseas

At Guangdong Industrial Design City (广东工业设计城) in Shunde District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, Yu Yanglin (俞杨林), head of Zhongyi Industrial Design Co., Ltd. (众意工业设计有限公司), received several groups of overseas merchants who came to him on their own initiative. For the vertical ice maker product alone, several prospective clients together finalized orders for 70,000 units.

"I didn't expect the newly launched revised model to receive such a fervent response," Yu Yanglin introduced. The first-generation horizontal ice maker was mainly aimed at the North American and Middle Eastern markets, with an overseas retail price of US$70 to US$90 per unit. The cumulative shipments of the cooperating manufacturer across all channels have reached 500,000 units, and a large amount of feedback from overseas users has followed. "The horizontal model is relatively bulky, difficult to clean, prone to leakage from the material barrel, and has high overall noise, making it difficult to meet the needs of consumers in different countries." Relying on big data from overseas platforms such as Amazon, Yu Yanglin's team conducted in-depth analysis of the pain points in user reviews and ultimately determined the vertical improvement plan.

The new ice maker adopts a modular structure with an upright cup body, and the inner liner can be pulled out as a whole, solving the leakage problem. While reducing the size of the compressor, the motor torque was increased, an additional hard ice cream making function was added, and the packaging size was reduced. Yu Yanglin calculated the cost account: "After switching to the vertical format, the product's external selling price remains basically unchanged, but the overall production cost has dropped by nearly 20 percent. The gains from cost savings have already covered the earlier design investment, and the saved expenditures have all turned into net profit."

In Guangdong Industrial Design City, Zhongyi is not the only enterprise relying on design to achieve hot sales of products overseas. The kitchen waste processor created by Ruituo Industrial Design Co., Ltd. (睿拓工业设计有限公司) is likewise a bestseller overseas. "In many parts of Europe and America, garbage is collected only once a week; Japan's waste sorting standards are stringent; and the Middle East often encounters suspension of garbage collection and transport. This product precisely fits the rigid demand for overseas kitchen waste processing," said Zhao Pengyu (赵鹏宇), the company's design director. The new product developed by the company uses a purely physical structure of "crushing + drying + deodorizing," which can process kitchen waste, and the dried residue can also be used as garden fertilizer. Today, one to two million units are exported annually. The company has also launched multiple products such as portable hot water cups and pet portion-controlled feeders, which are not only sold far overseas but have also opened up the domestic consumer market in reverse.

Feng Jianing (冯家宁), head of Guangdong Industrial Design City, introduced that the park now has more than 8,000 design and R&D personnel within its planned area, more than 300 domestic and foreign design enterprises, and 60 percent of original products are mainly for overseas orders. Complete industrial supporting facilities and policy support continue to empower industrial design, helping Chinese manufacturing better reach the global market.

Enabling innovative achievements to land precisely — "cutting the garment according to the figure" to weave "electronic skin"

Fine conductive fibers and elastic pressure-sensing fibers weave back and forth between warp and weft, gradually forming pieces of "fabric"... Walking into the Weihai Lingang Economic and Technological Development Zone (威海临港经济技术开发区) in Shandong Province, rows of textile equipment are running at high speed on the production line of Weihai Juqiao Industrial Technology Co., Ltd. (威海矩侨工业科技有限公司).

"This is the fourth-generation flexible fiber pressure sensor, namely the humanoid robot 'electronic skin' that is widely favored in the market," said He Haipeng (何海鹏), vice president of the company, holding up a finished product for display — it feels soft, elastic, can be kneaded, and can detect subtle changes such as pressure, touch, and deformation in real time. "It can even be washed in water, breaking the limitations of traditional sensors in flexible application scenarios."

Traditional thin-film pressure sensors have poor breathability, cannot be washed with water, cannot be bent, and cannot be "worn" on robots. The company's research team spent six years solving the problems of fiberization and mass production of pressure sensors by modifying equipment and upgrading formulas.

"To design skin for robots, one must first switch design language," said designer Li Yani (李亚妮). It is necessary to pay more attention to properties such as fit and flexibility, so that it can be "cut according to the figure" and worn on the robot.

To this end, the company's research team developed a programmable three-dimensional weaving process that thoroughly "fiberizes" the conductive coating, piezoresistive coating, and coating substrate. After precision weaving, the sensor can still maintain real-time response when joints bend and the torso twists. Gently touching the robot skin with a hand, even a force of only 0.01 newtons can be accurately sensed by the sensor. "With this skin on, the robot can not only perceive touching, patting, and stroking, but can also walk steadily on complex terrain," He Haipeng said.

On the robots of Unitree Robotics Co., Ltd. (宇树科技股份有限公司), the dexterous hand gloves, torso skin garment, and sole skin three-piece set tailored by Juqiao Industrial are equipped. Today, Juqiao Industrial's five customized production lines are running stably, with a production yield rate of over 95 percent, and this technology is applied in more than 80 percent of humanoid robot tactile solutions nationwide.

"'Electronic skin' is not only used for intelligent robots, but can also be applied to fields such as elderly care, intelligent automotive perception, and aerospace," He Haipeng introduced. During the R&D process, the Science and Technology Innovation Bureau of the Lingang District Management Committee proactively helped connect with university R&D resources, boosting the precise landing of technical needs and the transformation and application of scientific research achievements.

In recent years, Shandong has continuously treated industrial design as a key factor in empowering the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, actively promoting the integrated development of industrial design with emerging technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. As of now, Shandong Province has cultivated 54 national-level industrial design centers, 718 provincial-level centers, and nearly 2,000 municipal-level centers.

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Shaping a Distinctive Chinese Industrial Aesthetics (Expert Commentary)

By: 欧 爽

Industrial design is an important strategic fulcrum for manufacturing to achieve high-quality development. Documents such as the Opinions on Promoting the Expansion of Capacity and Quality Improvement of the Service Industry and the Green Design Guidelines for Industrial Products (2026 Edition) have set clear development directions for industrial design to empower manufacturing, in terms of internationalized professional standards, green and sustainable development, and the integration of industry and culture.
The starting point of industrial design is deep understanding of the user. Adhering to a user-centered design philosophy enables manufacturing to gradually shift from a production orientation to a demand orientation, thereby empowering the creation of new consumption scenarios and the development of service-oriented manufacturing.
In the product research and development process, industrial design can integrate interdisciplinary, cross-domain, and cross-industry resources, achieving a leap from single-point design to systematic collaborative innovation, from cost center to value center, and from industry following to value leadership, driving manufacturing to advance from making products to creating experiences.
Data show that 80 percent of the resource consumption and environmental impact over a product's life cycle is determined by the product's design. Placing the carbon footprint at the front end of product design, reducing the use of raw materials through structural optimization and the application of new materials, embedding the principles of easy disassembly, easy sorting, and easy recycling into design schemes, and reserving remanufacturing interfaces for remanufacturable products will promote the improvement of industrial green quality and efficiency.
Promoting the high-quality development of industrial design, effectively facilitating the organic integration of cultural creativity with all links of product production, and integrating traditional cultural genes into the manufacturing and production process will continuously enhance the cultural recognizability and brand value of Made in China, shape a distinctive Chinese industrial aesthetics, and better satisfy the people's growing needs for a better life.
(The author is an associate researcher at the Industrial Culture Development Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部工业文化发展中心); this article was compiled from an interview by our reporter Liu Wenxin (刘温馨).)

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Major project in Qinzhou-Macau integration takes solid step forward

Xinhua Guangzhou, August 26 (Reporters Zhao Bo, Zhao Ziyu) — Locking, dispatching, clearing customs... On the 26th, the "first order, first flight" of the air cargo palletization business at the Macau International Airport Hengqin Pre-loading Cargo Station was officially launched. With this, a major project of the Hengqin-Macau integration initiative has taken a solid step forward.

Located approximately 13 kilometers from Macau International Airport, the Hengqin Pre-loading Cargo Station sits on the northwest side of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macau In-Depth Cooperation Zone. It is a major project written into the outline of the national "15th Five-Year Plan," a landmark project for deepening Hengqin-Macau integrated development, and an important measure of Macau's "Third Five-Year Plan" to build the Pearl River West Bank international air transport hub (port).

"Macau Airport's cargo handling capacity is currently about 100,000 tons per year, while the pre-loading cargo station's designed logistics processing capacity can reach 300,000 tons per year, providing strong support and synergy for the development of Macau Airport," said Wu Chuangwei, director of the Industry Development Bureau of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macau In-Depth Cooperation Zone.

In October 2025, the Macau International Airport Hengqin Pre-loading Cargo Station held its groundbreaking ceremony. The project plans a total building area of approximately 97,600 square meters, with a designed annual logistics processing capacity of 300,000 tons. At the current stage, the project relies on the Nam Kwong (Hengqin) Logistics Center to carry out pilot operations, launching businesses such as cargo consolidation and pre-positioned palletization. It is planned to be basically completed by the end of 2026 and officially put into operation in the first half of 2027.

Sam Hou Fai, chief executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region, Zhang Guozhi, vice governor of Guangdong Province, and the head of the Macau Liaison Office of the Central People's Government, along with other guests, attended the "first order, first flight" launch ceremony on the afternoon of the 26th. Witnessed jointly by representatives from Guangdong and Macau, trucks loaded with more than 10,000 pieces of cross-border e-commerce retail export goods, including toys and watches, slowly departed.

At the Hengqin port, Hengqin Customs and Macau Customs jointly recognize a single security smart lock. The trucks passed through customs quickly via the "Guangdong-Macau joint one-stop" lane. By evening, the goods arrived at Macau International Airport, were unlocked, and were loaded onto aircraft that night, to be flown in batches to Malaysia and the Philippines.

"The brand-new cross-border road-air intermodal transport model makes enterprise exports more efficient and worry-free," said Luo Rui, a relevant person in charge of Hengqin Youkua Supply Chain Co., Ltd.

The "hard connectivity" of air logistics cannot be separated from the "soft connectivity" of rules and mechanisms. Zhang Lifen, deputy director of Hengqin Customs, introduced that Customs has innovated the cross-border road-air intermodal transport supervision model, scientifically designed a "dual pre-positioning" supervision flow, and, relying on the "Guangdong-Macau joint one-stop" vehicle clearance model, combined with the Guangdong-Macau Customs "cross-border one-lock" facilitation measure, achieved "one vehicle all the way through" direct access to Macau Airport.

"The smooth implementation of the 'first order, first flight' marks an important phased achievement of the project and also embodies the innovation and breakthroughs of Guangdong-Macau cooperation in multiple key links," said Wu Huixian, director of the Executive Committee of the Hengqin Guangdong-Macau In-Depth Cooperation Zone and secretary for economy and finance of the Macau SAR government. She said that Macau and Hengqin will take this as an opportunity to further improve the commercial logistics industry ecosystem, contributing the strength of Hengqin and Macau to promoting the moderately diversified development of Macau's economy, supporting the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, and serving the country's overall pattern of opening up to the outside world.

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HICOOL 2026 Global Entrepreneur Summit opens

Beijing, August 26 (Reporter Wang Haonan) — On the evening of the 26th, the HICOOL 2026 Global Entrepreneur Summit opened at the China International Exhibition Center (Shunyi Hall) in Beijing. With the theme "From the Source of Innovation, to the Forefront of Industry," this year's summit has extended its duration to four days for the first time, and is expected to bring together more than 50,000 innovators from around the world.

The opening ceremony brought together four major highlights: the release of the 2026 Global Entrepreneur Insight Report, the establishment of the Global Entrepreneurship Service Alliance and the release of the Global OPC Support Plan, the initiation of preparations for the Panoramic Digital Life International Grand Science Program, and the pre-launch of the Robot Autonomous Evolution Academy. In addition, at the HICOOL Global Entrepreneurship Competition award ceremony, 200 hardcore projects received awards.

It is understood that this year's competition attracted a total of 10,209 entrepreneurial projects and 13,472 entrepreneurs from around the world, with registration numbers reaching a new historical high and maintaining growth for seven consecutive years.

This year's summit continues the deeply integrated "exhibition + conference" format, setting up four major thematic forums — "Source of Innovation, Technological Inflection Point, AI Implementation, and Breaking Through Overseas Markets" — covering the entire chain of entrepreneurial development. The 23,000-square-meter exhibition space features five carefully arranged exhibition zones, bringing together more than 600 exhibitors, over 300 entrepreneurial projects, and more than 300 investment institutions. It is understood that this year's summit has also established an international talent recruitment fair for the first time, inviting 32 well-known enterprises to recruit on site, while simultaneously hosting special events including the AI Hardware Showcase and the Embodied Intelligence Community session.

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Symposium Held in Beijing to Mark 35th Anniversary of the Promulgation and Implementation of the Code of Professional Ethics for Chinese Journalists

Beijing, August 26 (Reporter Zhang He) — The All-China Journalists Association convened a symposium in Beijing on the 26th to mark the 35th anniversary of the promulgation and implementation of the Code of Professional Ethics for Chinese Journalists (hereinafter referred to as the Code), conducting discussion and exchange around earnestly studying, implementing, and applying General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important expositions on journalism and public opinion work, and further strengthening the construction of journalistic professional ethics in the new era and promoting the high-quality and healthy development of journalism.

Participants held that since the Code was promulgated and implemented in 1991, it has undergone four revisions. Over the past 35 years, the journalistic front has innovated management systems, established journalistic ethics committees, instituted a social responsibility reporting system, and strengthened professional ethics education, consolidating the governance of the journalism industry. It has strengthened industry construction, brought professional institutions into play, carried out journalistic review and appraisal, issued initiatives and guidance, and accepted reports and complaints. It has reinforced the responsibility brand, improved the media reporting system, with more media outlets voluntarily publishing reports and accepting social supervision. In response to real-world hot topics, it has carried out special-topic review and appraisal around thematic publicity, hot-topic guidance, and oversight by public opinion, promoting the resolution of prominent problems in the journalism community. In response to the topics of the times, it has issued initiatives such as "Bear in Mind the Mission and Responsibility, Lead Social Mores" and "Strive to Be Great Reporters and Great Editors of the New Era," guiding editors and reporters to become journalists trusted by the Party and the people.

Participants proposed that the construction of journalistic professional ethics over the past 35 years has accumulated valuable experience, mainly: upholding the principle of Party spirit is the primary task, taking the people as the center is the fundamental stance, the Marxist view of journalism is the core theme, raising the level of news reporting is the basic goal, promoting the all-round development of journalists is an important task, and strengthening awareness of discipline and the rule of law is the foundational project. This experience is an inheritance and development of the Party's fine traditions in journalism and public opinion work, fully embodying the Party's new requirements for the construction of the journalistic workforce in the new era, and must be upheld for the long term and vigorously carried forward.

Participants expressed that on the new journey of the new era, it is necessary to always adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and on the basis of systematically summarizing the experience of the promulgation and implementation of the Code, focus on deepening the systematic reform of mainstream media and cultivating great reporters and great editors of the new era, promoting greater progress in the construction of journalistic professional ethics. It is necessary to discern development trends and promote innovation in concepts, answering new questions, resolving new confusions, and meeting new needs from the perspective of values and concepts. It is necessary to grasp changes in the workforce and promote innovation in methods, deepening education in the Marxist view of journalism and professional ethics and professional spirit. It is necessary to strengthen unity and collaboration and promote innovation in means, improving the social responsibility reporting system and intensifying the intensity of review and appraisal of prominent problems. It is necessary to improve laws and regulations and promote institutional innovation, using the means of the rule of law to safeguard the professional faith of journalism.

The principal responsible comrade of the Party Leadership Group of the All-China Journalists Association and the responsible comrades concerned of the central news management departments, representatives of the members of the Journalistic Ethics Committee of the All-China Journalists Association, and responsible comrades and expert representatives from central news units, key news websites, journalists' association organizations, journalism academies, and research institutions, totaling more than 60 people, attended the symposium.

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Subway Station Hosts Employment Service Center

Haitang Subdistrict, Luyang District, Hefei City, Anhui Province, has extended the concept of "employment at the doorstep" to commuting routes, setting up a "three-kilometer" employment circle service station (三公里就业圈服务站) inside a metro station. The station features five functional modules: an employment service refueling station, a vocational skills charging station, an employment policy publicity station, a flexible labor matching station, and a job-seeking and recruitment activity station, and is equipped with smart employment self-service terminals, large recruitment information screens, and other facilities.

The photo shows that on August 26, inside the "three-kilometer" employment circle service station at Haitang Station of Hefei Rail Transit, staff members were introducing job positions to citizens who came to inquire.

Photo by Zhao Ming (China Images)

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China's first satellite data cross-border processing trade zone inaugurated

Reported from Wenchang, August 26 (Reporter Dong Zeyang) — Recently, at the opening ceremony of the 2026 Wenchang International Aerospace Forum, the Hainan Aerospace Data Cross-border Processing Trade Zone (海南航天数据跨境加工贸易区) was inaugurated. This is China's first trade zone focused on cross-border processing of satellite data. Relying on the policy advantages of the Hainan Free Trade Port and Wenchang's aerospace launch resources, it plans to build an international aerospace data hub covering the entire chain of data collection, storage, processing, and trading.

It is understood that the Hainan Aerospace Data Cross-border Processing Trade Zone is located in the Wenchang International Aerospace City (文昌国际航天城). Leveraging inherent advantages such as low latitude, safe landing zones, and convenient maritime transport, Wenchang City has made key arrangements in the rocket chain, satellite chain, data chain, aerospace tourism, and diversified "aerospace+" industries, and has already developed capabilities and related business formats in rocket launching, spacecraft assembly and testing, and satellite data reception.

Hainan aerospace data products have been exported to 29 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia. In May this year, Hainan completed the nation's first security assessment for the outbound transfer of remote sensing satellite data, paving the way for large-scale export of data products. The cross-border data channel of the Hainan Free Trade Port will provide unique advantages for Wenchang to carry out international commercial launch services and cross-border flow of satellite data, and will promote the construction of a digital processing trade zone oriented toward the EU and ASEAN, carrying out cross-border data services for commercial, cultural, industrial, and geographic information sectors.

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"Our Solar Term Memories" Online Interactive Museum to Launch Soon

Our Solar Terms Memories Online Interactive Museum to Launch on August 28

Beijing, August 26 (Reporter Yu Jingxian) — This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms project being inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. To promote the living transmission of solar terms culture and achieve innovative digital development of intangible cultural heritage, the "Our Solar Terms Memories" (我们的节气记忆) online interactive museum — a cultural platform jointly built by the public and created by the China Agricultural Museum (中国农业博物馆) — will officially go online and begin operation on August 28.

It is reported that, unlike traditional online digital museums' one-way display model, this initiative uses an online co-construction and co-sharing interactive approach to present the vibrant appearance of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms in contemporary life, creating a collective memory platform with rich content, diverse forms, and both heritage and interactive qualities, so that traditional solar terms culture can be better protected, disseminated, and continued in the digital age. At the same time, the online interactive museum encourages the public to upload original content related to the Twenty-Four Solar Terms, including life imagery, folk custom photographs, solar terms essays, records of traditional customs, and agricultural experience, bringing together the shared cultural emotions and life memories of the general public.

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Editor: Ji Yalin, Lu Tao, Zhai Qinqi

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Competing on the Field Reflects Industrial Strength (Economic Focus)

By: 本报记者 王昊男

On the evening of August 26, at the National Speed Skating Oval "Ice Ribbon" in Beijing, the Second World Humanoid Robot Games came to a close. Over a five-day schedule, more than 2,000 robots competed on the same field, and multiple games records were successively broken.

A single games event bore witness to technology and sport competing on the same stage, and also became an excellent window for observing the "evolution" of humanoid robots. Hardware iteration pushed the limits of athletic performance to new heights; fully autonomous decision-making replaced remote operation to become the mainstream; scenario competitions and dexterous hands closely linked the arena with real-world needs in factories, homes, hotels, and elsewhere. Humanoid robots are moving from "able to run and jump" into "able to think and do," and the track is growing ever wider.

Good at movement — the upper limit of athletic capability depends on the upper limit of hardware

On the evening of August 26, the highly anticipated 100-meter sprint final took place at the "Ice Ribbon." As the starting gun sounded, five robots sprinted with full force amid the cheers of the audience. 8.64 seconds! The Tiangong Ultra robot claimed the championship and once again set a new games record.

Standing long jump of 3.4 meters, 400 meters in 38.15 seconds, 1500 meters in 2 minutes 21.64 seconds... What enables this humanoid robot to continually surpass limits?

"The upper limit of a robot's athletic capability actually depends on the upper limit of its hardware." The words of Han Gang, motion control algorithm expert at the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, revealed the hard support behind the results. "Take the joints as an example. Last year, 300 N·m joint modules were used; this year, the industry has generally adopted higher-torque joints, which pushes robots to run faster and faster."

Stronger joints, batteries with higher discharge rates, lighter and stronger materials, more advanced motion control... "The achievement of these results is not just a breakthrough in a single component, but a collective upgrade in algorithms, the body itself, and control technology." Han Gang revealed that in the field of motion control, there remains a transfer gap from simulation to reality. "If this aspect is mastered well, robots will run faster and faster and jump higher and higher."

As the champion of the 2026 Beijing Yizhuang Humanoid Robot Half Marathon, the Honor robot "Lightning" participated in three speed events in the large-size group: the 100-meter, 400-meter, and 1500-meter.

"For robots, the arena is more like an extreme capability test." Zhou Yingjun, Vice President of the New Industry Incubation Division of Honor Terminal Co., Ltd., introduced that as a robot team established only a little over a year ago, Honor has brought technologies accumulated in the mobile phone industry to the robot arena. "For example, the high-performance heat dissipation system used in mobile phones has been integrated into the robot's overall heat dissipation solution, so that robots do not experience overheating anomalies due to prolonged high-load operation."

"Energy supply, thermal management, multimodal perception, precision manufacturing... a large number of homologous and interoperable technologies are accelerating their migration from mobile phones to robots." Zhou Yingjun said, "We will gradually consolidate the technologies verified under extreme scenarios and, in the future, apply them to various everyday scenarios such as factory inspection, storefront customer service, and home human-robot interaction."

Able to think — from remote operation to autonomous decision-making

Observing this games event, the most profound change lies hidden in the "brain."

Forehand, backhand, positioning, retrieving shots... At the opening ceremony, the rally between tennis star Zheng Jie and Galaxy General's robot "Xingzai" spread across the globe through the internet. Facing the tennis ball flying at high speed, "Xingzai" made fully autonomous judgments, and even if it fell unexpectedly, it could quickly get up and continue the match.

"The robot must both understand the match, make decisions, and also enable its body to execute precisely during high-speed confrontation." Zhao Yuli, Chief Strategy Officer of Galaxy General, introduced that their independently developed embodied intelligence large model, the "Galaxy Star Brain," integrates the "big brain," "little brain," and "neural control" into one. Through millions of practice sessions in the virtual world, it has accumulated "tennis experience" equivalent to decades for a human. "'The big brain' is responsible for understanding and decision-making; 'the little brain' turns those decisions into body movements."

What matters more than "looking like a human" is "understanding tennis." Zhao Yuli said that based on the opponent's shots, "Xingzai" continuously adjusts its actions and thinks about how to create scoring opportunities. "In doubles matches, it can also collaborate in real time with human teammates, completing tactical coordination based on teammates' positions and opponents' changes."

On the football field, multi-robot coordination and autonomous thinking; in the table tennis competition, accurate judgment and precise returns... In the 400-meter small-size group final, the Tiangong Omni robot crossed the finish line with a distinctive posture, and the phrase "face-covering run" quickly shot to the top of social media hot searches. Han Gang revealed that this posture was chosen by the robot itself during simulation training. "It may have felt that 'running while covering its face' was more comfortable."

In the tweezers-picking-beans competition, there was a thought-provoking scene: in the remote-operation group, the operator held their breath and raised their arm, and the robot "copied the example"; meanwhile, the fully autonomous group's robot beside them, holding a curved-tweezer tool, independently identified the number of soybeans, and picked up, turned, and placed them, with all movements and force decided autonomously in real time. In the end, the Chengdu Zhiyuan team from the fully autonomous group won the championship. The transition from "being controlled" to "being able to think" was frozen in that moment.

According to the competition rules, at this games event, apart from the 100-meter hurdles and 400-meter hurdles, all track events and other competitive events had to be completed fully autonomously by robots. "The score weight for scenario competitions using fully autonomous methods is 1.0, while the remote-operation method is only 0.5." Gong Xiao, Deputy Director of the China Software Testing Center, introduced, "We hope that robots can truly become good helpers that autonomously collaborate and coordinate with humans."

Able to work — the finish line of the competition is the new starting point of industrial progress

Able to run, able to think, and also able to work. This games event set up 21 scenario competitions, covering multiple fields including industry, hotels, homes, and logistics, and also specially set up a dexterous hand competition category to comprehensively test robots' "working ability."

The industrial scenario "assembly and material feeding post" simulated the real processes of an engine cylinder head assembly line; the commercial supermarket scenario "retail service post" simulated work such as supermarket restocking and takeout order picking; the new energy charging scenario "smart charging service post" required robots to complete charging or unplugging-and-resetting operations for three vehicles in sequence within 30 minutes...

The dexterous hand special competition specifically tested robots' "craftsmanship." Powder weighing, bottle opening and lid prying, tweezers picking beans... Across the 8 special competitions, the Zhiyuan dexterous hand won 7 gold medals.

"As an important terminal for humanoid robots to interact with the real physical world, the dexterous hand determines the upper limit of a robot's fine-operation capability, scenario adaptability, and real-world deployment capability." Qiao Tianjie, Chief Executive Officer of Zhiyuan Critical Point, said that the OmniHand dexterous hand has 16 degrees of freedom, covering commonly used gestures and a complete grasping spectrum. "Cumulative shipments have exceeded 20,000 units, with more than 50,000 hours of real-world data accumulated."

"Robots must learn to work on their own in the future." Zuo Jiaping, co-founder of Lingxin Qiaoshou (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd., said. In the power tool assembly competition, the Lingxin Qiaoshou team relied on fully autonomous operation without human intervention to complete the assembly of 18 screws within 5 minutes, winning the gold medal with a score of 17 out of a possible 18.

Screw assembly is the most basic process in industrial manufacturing. "As manufacturing currently accelerates its upgrade, replacing humans in high-risk scenarios, automating precision processes, and iterating flexible production lines have become rigid industry demands." Zuo Jiaping introduced that the hardware support for this gold medal came from Lingxin Qiaoshou's self-developed high-performance dexterous hand, which weighs only 370 grams in total while achieving an ultra-high load capacity of 50 kilograms. "We have already achieved breakthroughs in dexterous hands assembling robotic arms and dexterous hands assembling dexterous hands, and we are continuously developing the industrial closed loop of 'robots building robots themselves.'"

The games event concluded successfully, but scientific and technological innovation never stops. At the closing ceremony site, the full dataset of the Humanoid Robot Games was released and opened to the entire society. The dataset brings together massive amounts of real-scenario operation data collected by multiple institutions during training, preparation, and the official competition, totaling more than 2,500 hours.

"We hope that through this open-source data, the inspirations of the academic community will all have data to verify them, and the attempts of industry will all have scenarios in which to land." Jiang Guangzhi, Director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, said, "Let the finish line of the competition become the new starting point of industrial progress; let the data generated on the field truly enter laboratories, enter enterprises, and enter thousands of industries and trades."

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Giant "claw machine" makes cross-border shopping smoother

By: 人民网记者 申佳平

Many people who buy overseas goods online hope that after their packages travel across the seas, they can clear customs a little faster and arrive a little sooner. A silky-smooth "overseas shopping" experience depends on the efficient operation of ports and docks.

At the Meishan port area of Ningbo Zhoushan Port in Zhejiang, rows of remote-controlled automated bridge cranes and 116 remote-controlled gantry cranes operate like giant "claw machines." Many of the good purchases made by mobile phone orders are precisely grabbed and transferred from among tens of thousands of containers by these steel giant arms. The Meishan port area handles more than 40,000 standard containers every day. With such a massive volume of cargo flow, how do these giant "claw machines" manage to grip steadily, aim accurately, and move quickly?

Steadiness comes from the iterative upgrading of operating methods.

Walking into the gantry crane remote control room, one sees rows of remote-control equipment neatly arranged, with operators concentrating intently, steadily controlling the lifting, lowering, and transfer of "colored blocks." "In the past, we had to climb up to a height of 18 meters every day and work all day long bending over and looking down in a driver's cab of 2 square meters, where eating and using the restroom were very inconvenient," said Li Li, a gantry crane driver. With the deployment and application of remote-control equipment in the port area, the drivers' workstations have moved into spacious and comfortable indoor spaces, and operating efficiency has also improved. "Previously, one person could only look after one piece of equipment. Now, 30 people can manage and control over a hundred machines," Li Li said.

Precision relies on the deep integration of advanced technology.

This year, the first gantry crane at the Meishan port area of Ningbo Zhoushan Port, retrofitted with a new generation of highly adaptive automated tire crane transformation scheme, was officially put into operation. The new scheme adds AI (artificial intelligence) vision technology, inclinometers, and other equipment to the remote-controlled gantry cranes, greatly enhancing the equipment's environmental perception capability. When facing difficult container zone operations of higher complexity, the "jump rate" (i.e., the manual intervention rate) of the retrofitted gantry cranes has dropped by more than 10 percent, and operational continuity has been significantly improved. Through centralized computing power deployment and algorithmic plug-in deployment, the retrofitted gantry cranes can learn from the operating experience of excellent drivers, further increasing the proportion of automated operations. In the future, remote-controlled gantry cranes are expected to achieve one person overseeing more than 8 pieces of equipment, taking manpower allocation efficiency to a new level.

Speed benefits from the self-developed and independently controllable "smart brain."

Xing Zhecong, a staff member at the Scientific Research Center of Ningbo Meidong Container Terminal Co., Ltd., introduced that the port area has independently developed a "dual-core brain" dispatch system, building a "seeable, hearable, commandable, and predictable" panoramic visualization dispatch platform that can predict equipment failures and yard congestion, with recognition accuracy for equipment failures and operational congestion reaching over 98 percent.

Green and low-carbon development is the foundational color of the Meishan port area. The port area promotes full-chain carbon reduction centered on "clean energy sources, electrified terminals, and intelligent regulation." Five wind turbines combined with full-area rooftop photovoltaic supporting energy storage facilities form an integrated "wind-solar-storage" green electricity system, with cumulative green electricity generation exceeding 80 million kilowatt-hours. Approximately one-third of the entire Meishan port area's annual electricity consumption comes from this self-built green electricity system.

Digital and intelligent upgrading has taken logistics efficiency to a higher level. The port area has opened 56 international container shipping routes, reaching six continents. In 2025, the port area's container throughput reached 13.197 million standard containers, maintaining its position for two consecutive years as a single terminal with an annual throughput exceeding 10 million standard containers.

The "15th Five-Year Plan" for Port Modernization proposes "advancing smart port construction" and "advancing green port construction." More ports in China will achieve smart and green upgrading, both building a more efficient and reliable hub support for the global supply chain and making the "overseas shopping" delivery experience for ordinary consumers even more silky-smooth.

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"Spring Rain Nourishes Seedlings" campaign boosts small and micro business entities

Beijing, August 26 (Reporter Wang Guan) — In March this year, the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局) and eight other departments jointly issued a notice to carry out the 2026 "Spring Rain Moistens Seedlings" action (春雨润苗) to assist the development of small and micro business entities, launching service measures in four areas to support the high-quality development of small and micro business entities. The nine departments deepened and expanded the normalized government-enterprise communication mechanism, promoted demand matching, information exchange, and data sharing among departments, and provided support for small and micro business entities to "efficiently accomplish one matter" (高效办成一件事). As of the end of July, the multiple departments had cumulatively established 127 collaboration mechanisms and shared 974 million items of data.

Since the launch of the special action, the nine departments have focused on the needs of small and micro business entities in expanding markets, upgrading brands, and pursuing cross-border development, integrated the policy resources of all departments, formed a synergistic effect, and helped small and micro business entities accelerate their growth on the track of compliance.

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Photo Report

On August 25, in Zhoutang Town, Sui County, Shangqiu City, Henan Province, plant protection drones carried out green pest prevention and control operations in the fields. The locality relies on smart agriculture to empower refined management and care in modern agriculture, effectively reducing the risk of crop pest and disease damage, and scientifically building a barrier for stable autumn grain production, quality improvement, abundant harvest, and bumper yields.
　　Photo by Xu Zeyuan (Image China)

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One "Red Tassel" Seed, A Promising Harvest

By: 本报记者 程 焕

In early autumn, the land of northern Guizhou quietly changes its colors. In Ronghua Village (荣华村), Huoshi Town (火石镇), Renhuai City (仁怀市), Guizhou Province, crimson sorghum spreads across the hillsides, ears hanging low.

Just as dawn breaks, villager Li Guangneng (李光能) and his wife are already busy in the fields. Sickles swing, "snap" sounds ring crisp, and the air carries a fresh sweetness blending soil and grain. Approaching noon, a tricycle rumbles over the field ridges, its bed piled with layers of red ears. Without pausing for rest, Li Guangneng hurriedly transports the harvested sorghum back to the courtyard and, taking advantage of the good weather, threshes and spreads it out to dry.

"Harvests get better year after year, and grain prices are rising too — farming this land is truly satisfying." Li Guangneng has been back in the village for more than 20 years, and the same fields have yielded a completely different scene. "In the past, farming could only keep us fed; supporting the family still required going out to work as migrant laborers. Now farming is a livelihood, and life is getting better and better."

The change began with a single seed.

Northern Guizhou has many gravelly slopes, and its special soil and water conditions are natural fertile ground for glutinous sorghum. With firm grains, thick skins that withstand steaming and boiling, and high amylopectin content, the sorghum produced here is excellent raw material for brewing high-quality sauce-aroma baijiu. However, the traditional sorghum varieties of several decades ago had low yields, weak resistance, and inconsistent quality, with a per-mu yield of only 75 kilograms. Farmers found it hard to earn good returns, and liquor enterprises often worried about unstable seed sources and uneven quality.

Breaking the impasse had to start with high-quality seed sources. In 1986, Moutai Group launched sorghum breeding research, with chief breeding expert Tu Youneng (涂佑能) leading a team to carry out trial planting and cultivation experiments. High yield, high quality, stress resistance — in 2008, the new variety "Hongyingzi" (红缨子) passed variety approval. Starting in 2001, the enterprise joined with cooperatives and farmers to begin construction of standardized, large-scale, organic sorghum bases.

During the spring sowing season, seeds and organic fertilizer are distributed free of charge. On the field ridges, technicians teach disease and pest prevention and scientific top-dressing techniques hands-on. At autumn harvest time, purchasing vehicles drive into the village, inspecting quality on the spot and settling payments on the spot... Over 25 years, the purchase price has risen steadily from 2 yuan per kilogram to 11.2 yuan per kilogram, and Ronghua Village's sorghum planting area has expanded to more than 2,000 mu.

"Farmers carefully manage the crops according to standards, and the enterprise stabilizes expectations through technical services and contract purchasing," said Zhou Hui (周辉), general manager of Moutai Group's Hongyingzi Agricultural Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. The organic sorghum bases now cover five counties (cities, districts) including Renhuai and Xishui (习水), with a certified area of 1 million mu and more than 600,000 mu under regular cultivation, driving 200,000 farming households to steadily increase their incomes.

In 2025, the seventh generation of the "Hongyingzi" variety was released: the growth period shortened to 118 days, the plant type short and sturdy with lodging resistance, amylopectin content as high as 99 percent, and per-mu yield raised to 367.55 kilograms. Demands are changing, and scientific research does not stop. At present, Tu Youneng's team has set its sights on mechanization adaptation for mountainous areas, and a new round of technological iteration is already on the way.

As of now, the "Hongyingzi" series varieties have cumulatively created agricultural output value exceeding 75 billion yuan, driving 8.5 million farming households to increase their incomes.

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Inner Mongolia's 5G network coverage rate reaches 99.6%

Our newspaper Hohhot, August 26 (Reporter Zhang Cheng (张枨)): The reporter learned from the Communications Administration of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区通信管理局) that as of the end of June this year, the number of 5G base stations across Inner Mongolia reached 100,900, with a 5G network coverage rate of 99.6%, and a 5G network coverage rate of 100% in industrial parks.

In terms of computing infrastructure and network layout, the computing power scale of Inner Mongolia's basic telecommunications enterprises reached 42,000 PFLOPS (quadrillions of floating-point operations per second), of which intelligent computing accounted for 91%. A 400G high-speed backbone optical cable network has been built between Inner Mongolia and other hub nodes, and high-speed direct links have been established with 30 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities.

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How to Set Rules for AI Payments (Q&A)

By: 本报记者 吴秋余

"Let AI order milk tea for me," "Let AI hail a taxi for me," "Let AI complete shopping orders"... From scanning QR codes, facial recognition, and tap-to-pay, to intelligent-agent-assisted payment, the impact of AI (artificial intelligence) on the payment industry has already begun to take shape.

On August 24, the Payment & Clearing Association of China issued the Self-Regulatory Convention on Intelligent Agent Payment Applications, effective from the date of publication. What is the current state of intelligent agent payment development? What changes will the Convention bring to the development of the industry?

The so-called intelligent agent refers to a software system that perceives its environment and proactively takes actions to achieve specific goals. The intelligent agent payment applications referred to in the Convention mean that member units, using large models and other artificial intelligence technologies, and on the premise of user authorization, use intelligent agents to interact with e-commerce and other digital services according to the user's true expression of intent, initiating and executing payment instructions.

In July this year, China UnionPay announced that it had successively launched AI intelligent agent bank card products together with 15 commercial banks, among which Ping An Bank, SPD Bank, Bank of Communications, and other banks had already taken the lead in issuing cards. In April, WeChat Pay officially released a complete set of AI-oriented payment integration Skills (skill packages), requiring only "summoning AI—loading the Skill—stating the need" to quickly complete WeChat Pay integration. In May, Alipay announced that "AI payment" had completed 300 million AI intelligent agent payments, supporting 95% of general-purpose intelligent agent frameworks.

At present, artificial intelligence technology is accelerating its iterative evolution, and some institutions have already carried out exploratory practices in intelligent agent payment, but the industry lacks unified, referenceable standard rules.

A relevant person in charge of the Payment & Clearing Association of China stated that the Convention places prominent emphasis on strengthening safety management, preventing and defusing risks, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of users, better coordinating development and security.

In terms of intelligent agent management, member units are required to further explore the establishment of a "Know Your Agent (KYA)" mechanism on the basis of "Know Your Customer (KYC)." At the same time, risk control over cooperation with external intelligent agent developers and service providers should be strengthened. In terms of authorization management, member units are required to clarify the authorization boundaries of intelligent agent payment applications and sign authorization agreements with users. In terms of risk prevention, member units are required to establish a tiered and categorized management mechanism and strengthen fund safety management. In terms of consumer rights protection, member units are required to actively carry out consumer education and effectively safeguard consumers' legitimate rights and interests by establishing complaint acceptance mechanisms. Convenient channels for consumers to close intelligent agent payment applications and inquire about information should be provided, ensuring their right to independent choice.

What principles must be followed in carrying out intelligent agent payment applications?

The Convention proposes that technology abuse, algorithmic discrimination, and excessive inducement of consumption should be prevented, that differences in digital technology capabilities among different groups should be taken into account, and that necessary human services and alternative payment channels should be retained. In safeguarding payment security, the principle of "whoever provides the payment service bears the responsibility" should be followed, with primary responsibility assumed for users' account and transaction security, fund security, information security, and other matters.

"The Convention strictly implements regulations on cybersecurity, data security, and personal privacy protection, and runs the concept of lawfulness and compliance throughout the entire process of intelligent agent payment applications. This is conducive to setting rules for AI payment, allowing consumers to use it with greater confidence, peace of mind, and convenience," said Dong Ximiao, chief economist of Zhaolian.

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Gathering the mighty forces to build a strong science and technology nation (People's Forum)

By: 中国科学技术协会

The National Science and Technology Award Conference, the Academician Conferences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and the Eleventh National Congress of the China Association for Science and Technology were a grand gathering in the field of science and technology held during the critical period of tackling key challenges in building a strong science and technology nation. General Secretary Xi Jinping attended the conference and delivered an important speech, fully demonstrating the Party Central Committee's high regard for the cause of science and technology and its warm concern for science and technology workers, greatly inspiring and motivating the broad community of science and technology workers to march firmly toward the goal of building a strong science and technology nation by 2035. To thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, we must accurately grasp the new achievements made in China's scientific and technological development and the new opportunities and challenges it faces, and make innovative contributions to comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization.

Historic achievements have been made in the development of China's science and technology sector

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "China is accelerating its transformation from a global participant and contributor in science and technology to a pioneer and leader, becoming one of the countries with the fastest rising innovation capacity." Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has insisted on placing scientific and technological innovation in a prominent position in modernization efforts, systematically mapped out the blueprint for building a strong science and technology nation, deeply promoted the implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, and comprehensively deepened the reform of the science and technology system. In June 2024, the National Science and Technology Conference, the National Science and Technology Award Conference, and the Academician Conferences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering sounded the charge for building a strong science and technology nation. The broad community of science and technology workers conscientiously implemented the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments, working with full vigor and determination to innovate, achieving a series of new accomplishments, and accelerating the advancement of high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology.

Scientific and technological innovation capacity has been steadily improved. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's total social R&D expenditure grew at an average annual rate of 10%, and the intensity of R&D expenditure increased by 0.44 percentage points. In 2025, China's total social R&D expenditure intensity reached 2.8%, for the first time exceeding the average level of OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries. Among this, basic research funding reached 277.8 billion yuan, an increase of 11.1% over the previous year, accounting for 7.08% of total social R&D expenditure. Total social R&D expenditure is an important component of a country's or region's scientific and technological investment and a key indicator of its emphasis on innovation. Driven by this, China's ranking in the Global Innovation Index has risen to tenth place, major original achievements have continued to emerge in fields such as artificial intelligence, quantum technology, life sciences, and physical sciences, the "Chang'e-6" mission achieved the first-ever sample return from the far side of the Moon by humanity, and the area of independently bred crop varieties exceeds 95%. Not long ago, a Chinese mathematician won the Fields Medal for the first time, which reflects from one perspective China's consistent emphasis on basic research and mirrors the steady pace of building a strong science and technology nation.

Scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation are accelerating their integration. Promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation is the channel through which science and technology rapidly transform into real productive forces. China adheres to combining an effective market with a proactive government, emphasizes the role of enterprises as the main body of innovation, and promotes the precise alignment of the innovation chain and the industrial chain. In recent years, R&D investment by Chinese enterprises has continued to increase. Among the global top 2000 enterprises in industrial R&D investment, 525 are from mainland China, accounting for 26.3%. Driven by enterprise-led integration of industry, academia, and research, China's major scientific and technological achievements have emerged at an accelerated pace. Intelligent robots, drones, and other scientific and technological breakthroughs and industrial developments have shown brilliant highlights; innovative drugs have achieved a leap from imitation and follow-on development to first-in-class creation; the growth engine role of high-tech industries continues to manifest, with the added value of the "three new" economy (new industries, new business forms, and new business models) accounting for more than 18% of GDP, and frontier fields such as artificial intelligence and biotechnology are forming new economic growth points. Not long ago, China's new-generation model Kimi K3 was released, with a parameter scale of 2.8 trillion. This is currently the world's largest open-source model by parameter count, marking a new step forward in the development of Chinese artificial intelligence models.

International scientific and technological cooperation is extensive and deep. At present, the degree of interconnection in global scientific and technological innovation is unprecedented, and "group warfare" and joint efforts to tackle key problems across disciplines and national borders are increasingly becoming the mainstream and necessity of innovation. China continues to expand all-round, multi-level scientific and technological cooperation, deeply implements the "Belt and Road" Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation Action Plan, takes the lead in launching and steadily advancing international big science programs such as the "Deep-time Digital Earth" and "Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions," and actively participates in more than 60 international big science programs and big science projects including the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) program. At present, China has established scientific and technological cooperation relationships with more than 160 countries and regions, signed 120 intergovernmental science and technology cooperation agreements, and joined more than 200 international organizations and multilateral mechanisms, with an open innovation ecosystem with global competitiveness being accelerated in its construction.

The remarkable achievements made in China's science and technology sector are fundamentally attributable to the leadership and navigation of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core and to the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. These scientific and technological achievements strongly support economic and social development and the improvement of people's livelihoods and well-being, laying a more solid scientific and technological foundation for comprehensively building a modern socialist country.

Accurately grasp the new situation and new requirements for building a strong science and technology nation

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is profoundly changing human production and lifestyle and the world's development landscape, and scientific and technological strength and innovation capacity are increasingly becoming a country's core competitiveness." The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for tackling key challenges in building a strong science and technology nation, and China's scientific and technological innovation faces new historical opportunities and practical challenges. On the one hand, as a strategic technology leading the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, artificial intelligence is accelerating its iteration, and through continuous interaction with real scenarios, open environments, and complex systems, it is achieving autonomous learning and progress, accelerating its advance from perceptual intelligence to cognitive intelligence, leaping from individual intelligence to collective intelligence, and penetrating from digital space to physical space, presenting notable features such as data-driven, Internet of Everything, human-machine collaboration, and cross-domain integration. China has formed a full-stack layout of the artificial intelligence industry chain, with its comprehensive industrial strength firmly in the world's first tier. On the other hand, scientific and technological competition and major-power games are intertwined, systematically expanding into new frontiers of global governance such as the deep sea, polar regions, outer space, cyberspace and digital domains, and artificial intelligence. The focus of competition is shifting forward to scientific frontiers of extreme macro-scale, extreme micro-scale, extreme conditions, and extreme comprehensive intersection, and the competition paradigm is comprehensively transforming toward a contest of the overall effectiveness of national innovation systems that emphasizes synergy among innovation entities, resource integration, mechanism coordination, and environmental adaptation.

We must clearly recognize that the time window for scientific and technological and industrial transformation is fleeting and admits no slackening whatsoever; the international competitive situation is pressing and the mission calls us forward, allowing no retreat whatsoever. Only by grasping the historical positioning and theme of the times for scientific and technological innovation, extensively mobilizing participation from all parties, and pooling a powerful synergy for building a strong science and technology nation can we accelerate the advancement of high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology, march firmly toward the goal of building a strong science and technology nation by 2035, and solidly support and lead Chinese-style modernization through scientific and technological innovation.

Strengthen coordination across all aspects and enhance the capability for systematic tackling of key problems in scientific and technological innovation. Scientific and technological innovation involves many fields, entities, and factors and is a vast system. At a time when global scientific and technological competition is becoming increasingly fierce and the tackling of key core technologies has entered the deep-water zone, only by fully leveraging the advantages of the new system for mobilizing resources nationwide can we raise the level of organization of scientific and technological tackling and enhance the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system. The new system for mobilizing resources nationwide aims to integrate various innovation factors into a winning synergy, win strategic initiative through systematic layout, and embodies the unity of national strategy, market mechanisms, and the laws of science. It should be recognized that with changes in the situation and tasks, there are still many contradictions, bottlenecks, and obstacles in the work of integrating national strategic scientific and technological forces, business entities, and social resources, coordinating the allocation of research tasks, platform bases, and key talent, advancing integrated, cross-disciplinary, multi-field collaborative tackling as a whole, and achieving maximum resource allocation benefits and optimal efficiency. We must give play to the greatest political advantage of the Party's leadership, adhere to the strategic orientation of the "Four Orientations" (面向世界科技前沿、面向经济主战场、面向国家重大需求、面向人民生命健康 - facing the world's scientific and technological frontiers, facing the main economic battlefield, facing the nation's major needs, and facing the people's life and health), further strengthen coordination across all aspects, and integrate resources and forces.

Strengthen synergy across all links and lead the development of new quality productive forces through deep integration. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. This is the key to leading the development of new quality productive forces through high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology." At present, the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating its evolution. Scientific discoveries and technological inventions often advance simultaneously, technological iteration and industrial application are interwoven, and the content covered by science, technology, and engineering deeply intersects. The signs that industrial technology supply and demand are mutually causal are increasingly evident, with industrial demand in turn defining scientific problems and prompting breakthroughs in underlying technologies. The new quality productive forces we are cultivating and developing are spawned by revolutionary technological breakthroughs, innovative allocation of production factors, and deep industrial transformation and upgrading. This requires further highlighting the supply of scientific and technological innovation and the traction of industrial demand, empowering industrial innovation with high-quality scientific and technological supply, and driving scientific and technological innovation with the demand for high-end, green, and intelligent industries. Only by adhering to integrated development and promoting mutual coordination in technological innovation decision-making, R&D investment, research organization, and achievement transformation can we effectively stimulate innovation momentum.

Effectively leverage the role of scientific and technological evaluation and pool the wisdom and strength of science and technology workers. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Scientific and technological evaluation should focus on acting in accordance with the laws of scientific research." Scientific and technological evaluation is the judgment and assessment of scientific and technological activities and their output effects and impacts. Looking at both domestic and international practice, mechanisms such as peer review, academic norms, and industry self-discipline play an important role in maintaining academic standards, identifying innovative value, and guiding the construction of academic conduct. They are not only a yardstick for measuring scientific and technological achievements but also a baton for improving resource allocation efficiency, enhancing the vitality of talent innovation, and cultivating a good innovation ecosystem. The broad community of science and technology workers, especially young scientific and technological talent, is an important force in building a strong science and technology nation. Only by deepening the reform of scientific and technological evaluation in accordance with the laws of innovation and development, the laws of science and technology management, and the laws of talent growth, and strengthening the orientation toward innovation capability, quality, practical effectiveness, and contribution, can we better guide science and technology workers to demonstrate their respective strengths on different tracks. Only by vigorously promoting the spirit of scientists, strengthening the construction of research integrity, creating a clean and upright research ecosystem, and optimizing the environment conducive to original and disruptive innovation can we better unite the broad community of science and technology workers.

Strengthen the construction of the science and technology governance system and capacity, and pool the forces of science and technology for good. Science and technology is a "double-edged sword." With the rapid development of science and technology, ethical challenges brought by technologies such as gene editing and artificial intelligence are becoming increasingly prominent, and the task of coordinating high-quality development and high-level security in the field of scientific and technological innovation is becoming more arduous. Only by improving the institutional mechanisms for multi-party participation and collaborative governance, and enhancing the voice and influence in the formulation of international rules, can we better promote science and technology to move upward and toward good, be safe and controllable, and benefit the people. We must carry the concept of scientific and technological ethics and security governance throughout the entire process of innovation and development, adhere to the unity of promoting innovation and preventing risks, and the combination of institutional norms and self-discipline, continuously calibrate the direction of innovation, strengthen risk early warning, firmly uphold the security bottom line, optimize governance rules, and continuously promote the healthy development of China's science and technology sector.

Explore and innovate, devote every effort, and provide solid guarantees for better playing the role of a bridge and bond

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "As the bridge and bond linking the Party and government with science and technology workers, the China Association for Science and Technology should insist on exploring and innovating, and devote every effort to serving science and technology workers, serving innovation-driven development, serving the improvement of the scientific literacy of the whole people, and serving the scientific decision-making of the Party and government." This important exposition further clarifies the work responsibilities and positioning of the association for science and technology and entrusts the association organization with a glorious and arduous mission.

People are the most active factor in the productive forces, and innovation-driven development is essentially talent-driven. Since the beginning of the new era, our Party has always paid attention to mobilizing the subjective initiative of science and technology workers, and through ideological and political guidance, unity, solidarity and service, deployment of tackling tasks, guarantee of resources and conditions, and creation of a development environment, has fully brought into play their role as pioneers of advanced productive forces and disseminators of advanced culture. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee, the broad community of science and technology workers have strived vigorously and persevered unremittingly, creating remarkable scientific and technological achievements and nurturing the fine tradition of serving the country and benefiting the people. On the new journey, association organizations for science and technology must comprehensively implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech and the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments, highlight ideological and political guidance and unity, solidarity and service, highlight centering on the overall work and serving the overall situation, lead the high-quality development of the association's undertakings with a correct view of performance, and better support the building of a strong science and technology nation.

Deepen unity and guidance, and serve talent growth. Persist in using the Party's innovative theories to consolidate the soul and cast the spirit, vigorously promote the spirit of scientists, guide science and technology workers to strengthen their confidence and determination to strive for high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology, and consciously find the focal point in the overall national development situation. Young talent is the source of living water for the national strategic talent force and the most dynamic new force in scientific and technological innovation. We must make the cultivation of young scientific and technological talent a top priority, strengthen classified policies, echelon cultivation, and long-chain support, highlight the combination of political training, professional exercise, and social tempering, and help young scientific and technological talent strengthen their ideals and convictions, broaden their research horizons, and enhance their innovation capabilities.

Leverage organizational advantages and integrate into the overall development situation. Enhance the innovation service capacity of scientific and technological societies, cultivate a cluster of world-class scientific and technological journals, improve the quality of academic exchanges, build a number of national-level industry-education integration innovation platforms, and give birth to new quality productive forces in promoting industry-university-research cooperation. Proactively play the role of the main social force in science popularization work, strengthen systematic science popularization mobilization, enhance the supply of high-quality science popularization, and increase efforts to benefit the people through science popularization. Organize and pool the wisdom of science and technology workers in a structured manner, give play to the guiding role of evaluation, enhance strategic consulting capabilities, and serve scientific decision-making with scientific consulting services. Make every effort to advance the construction of international scientific and technological organizations in China, enhance the internationalization level of China's scientific and technological societies, deeply carry out international scientific and technological and people-to-people exchanges, and proactively expand new space for openness, trust, and cooperation in the international scientific and technological community.

Continuously deepen reform and enhance development momentum. Reform the organizational and activity methods of the association, and promote organizational flattening, socialized survival, refined activities, and networked mobilization. With the spirit of reform and innovation, fully leverage the open, hub-type, and platform-type organizational advantages of the association for science and technology, accelerate the cultivation of first-class societies, build a diversified, open, and vibrant system of scientific and technological societies, expand the tangible coverage of organizations and effective coverage of work in emerging fields, and build a warm and trustworthy home for science and technology workers.

Comprehensively govern the association with strict discipline and rectify work style and academic conduct. Comprehensively strengthen Party building and persistently advance the comprehensive governance of the Party with strict discipline. Study and apply the association's constitution well, and promote the organic unity of strengthening Party leadership and carrying out work in accordance with the constitution and regulations. Adhere to the comprehensive governance of the association with strict discipline, unswervingly implement the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation and its implementation rules, and rectify prominent problems in work style and academic conduct with stricter standards and more solid measures. Comprehensively implement the responsibility system for ideological work, and manage all channels well, including societies and journals, academic conferences, science popularization positions, and foreign exchanges.

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Building the "Four Beams and Eight Pillars" of an Independent Knowledge System for China's Criminal Procedure Law (Accelerating the Construction of an Independent Knowledge System for Chinese Philosophy and Social Sciences)

By: 高 通

Criminal procedure law is an important discipline within legal science, having given rise to such major concepts and theories as the presumption of innocence, fair trial, and procedural justice, which have profoundly influenced the development of human legal civilization. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized: "Advance the reform of the litigation system centered on adjudication. Giving full play to the role of adjudication, and especially of courtroom trials, is an important link in ensuring the quality of case handling and judicial justice." To construct an independent knowledge system for Chinese criminal procedure law, we must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, deepen research on signature concepts and original theories, take signature concepts and original theories as the "four beams and eight pillars" of the independent knowledge system for Chinese criminal procedure law, and make greater academic contributions to improving a criminal procedure system that better accords with China's actual conditions.

Making signature concepts more distinctly Chinese in character

The most important concept in criminal procedure law is justice. Justice is the eternal value pursuit of human society, and criminal procedure law, in a certain sense, is the study of how to bring justice to litigation participants in criminal trials. How justice is understood and realized is profoundly influenced by a country's and a society's history, culture, and actual national conditions. In many fields such as economics, political science, and sociology, as well as in various legal disciplines, many specific and diverse theories of justice have emerged. To construct an independent knowledge system for Chinese criminal procedure law, we must place justice within the specific institutional context and social environment of China's criminal procedure for research and interpretation, so that this important concept of justice better reflects Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese bearing.

Since the beginning of the new era, Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, proceeding from China's national conditions and actual circumstances, has put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies concerning judicial justice and social fairness and justice, pointing out that "fairness and justice is a very lofty value pursued by our Party, and the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly determines that we must pursue fairness and justice, protect people's rights and interests, and uphold justice" and that "judicial justice plays an important leading role in social justice, while judicial injustice has a fatally destructive effect on social justice." These important expositions understand the role of judicial justice from the height of realizing social fairness and justice, enrich and expand the theoretical connotation of justice, and provide scientific guidance for refining a concept of justice with Chinese characteristics.

The concept of justice in criminal procedure law is a kind of judicial justice, and substantive justice and procedural justice are the basic connotations of judicial justice. Judicial justice is also a key link in social justice and is very important for realizing social justice. If judicial injustice occurs, causing judicial decisions to fail to gain social recognition, this will not only reduce judicial credibility but also bring about conflicts in social values. Proceeding from China's actual conditions, the concept of justice in criminal procedure law must both reflect the universal requirements of judicial justice and reflect Chinese society's unique understanding of and practical needs for social justice.

This means that the concept of justice in Chinese criminal procedure law should be an organic unity of substantive justice, procedural justice, and social justice. To construct an independent knowledge system for Chinese criminal procedure law, we should focus on researching and refining the concept of criminal procedure justice that organically unifies substantive justice, procedural justice, and social justice, and continuously enrich and develop the connotation of the concept of justice in the historical process of building a higher-level socialist country governed by the rule of law, guiding the improvement of China's criminal procedure system and practically meeting the era's demands for greater emphasis on safeguarding and promoting social fairness and justice. Research can begin from these two aspects so that justice, as a signature concept of criminal procedure law, becomes more distinctly Chinese in character.

Putting forward original theories of criminal procedure

Original theories are an important component of an independent knowledge system, supporting its "four beams and eight pillars." To construct an independent knowledge system for Chinese criminal procedure law, we must, based on the unique concept of justice in Chinese criminal procedure law, put forward original theories that can embody this concept of justice, make it concrete, and institutionalize it. In the three aspects of the theory of the purpose of criminal procedure, the theory of value, and the theory of procedure, original theories of criminal procedure with Chinese characteristics have already initially taken shape. Further research on these original theories directly promotes the interpretation of the unique concept of justice in Chinese criminal procedure law and plays a foundational role in erecting beams and pillars in constructing the independent knowledge system for Chinese criminal procedure law.

The theory of the purpose of criminal procedure that unifies punishing crime and protecting human rights. The purpose of criminal procedure is the ideological foundation of the knowledge system of criminal procedure law, and different theories of purpose give rise to different procedural structures, procedural values, and procedural rules. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, China, proceeding from its own national conditions, adheres to the unity of punishing crime and protecting human rights in criminal procedure. To construct an independent knowledge system for Chinese criminal procedure law, we must conduct in-depth research on the theory of the purpose of criminal procedure that unifies punishing crime and protecting human rights, and explain that this theory of purpose does not simply oppose punishing crime to protecting human rights, but rather holds that the relationship between punishing crime and protecting human rights is one of dynamic balance. This can avoid a series of problems caused by Western criminal procedure theories that overemphasize the protection of human rights and neglect the punishment of crime, and better demonstrate the autonomy of Chinese criminal procedure theory.

The theory of the value of criminal procedure that prioritizes justice while giving due consideration to efficiency. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: "Fairness and justice are the soul and life of the judiciary" and "One ten-thousandth of error in law enforcement and judicial work is one hundred percent harm to the parties concerned." In recent years, as the contradiction of "many cases, few personnel" in the judicial systems of some Western countries has become more prominent, simplified criminal procedure processes oriented toward efficiency first have emerged. China's criminal procedure law adheres to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law and puts forward the theory of the value of criminal procedure that prioritizes justice while giving due consideration to efficiency, maintaining that justice is the primary and bottom-line value of criminal procedure and that efficiency must not be pursued at the expense of justice; at the same time, justice must not only be realized, but must be realized efficiently. This opens up new space for constructing an independent knowledge system for Chinese criminal procedure law from the perspective of the relationship between justice and efficiency in criminal procedure.

The theory of criminal procedure that realizes substantive justice through procedural justice. Western criminal procedure theory places greater emphasis on the independent value of procedural justice, and when substantive justice conflicts with procedural justice, it advocates the priority of procedural justice while neglecting the constraining effect of substantive justice on procedural justice. This has led to increasingly cumbersome criminal procedure processes and an increasingly alienated and fragmented relationship between procedural justice and substantive justice. China's criminal procedure law puts forward the theory of criminal procedure that realizes substantive justice through procedural justice, holding that procedural justice divorced from substantive justice is like water without a source, and that procedural justice should aim at realizing substantive justice; at the same time, substantive justice must be realized through procedural justice, denying the legitimacy and fairness of substantive results obtained through unfair procedures. This both draws on and transcends the reasonable elements of Western criminal procedure theory, and has become an important direction for promoting the construction of an independent knowledge system for Chinese criminal procedure law.

Focusing on legal implementation to explore theoretical growth points

The vitality of law lies in its implementation. Constructing an independent knowledge system for Chinese criminal procedure law with research on signature concepts and original theories as the focus cannot be separated from legal practice. We must discover problems and answer questions in the process of implementing the Criminal Procedure Law, and achieve new academic creation. We must aim at promoting the effective implementation of the Criminal Procedure Law, and in the process of in-depth research on the development and improvement of the criminal procedure system, explore theoretical growth points that can enrich the independent knowledge system.

Balancing the relationship between power and rights—ensuring both the effective operation of law enforcement and judicial power and the effective protection of citizens' rights—is a key issue in the construction and implementation of the criminal procedure system. The Criminal Procedure Law first of all needs to authorize state organs, but such authorization should be premised on necessity and legality, ensuring that all links and the entire process of law enforcement and judicial power are under effective restraint and supervision, and practically safeguarding the lawful rights and interests of defendants, victims, and other litigation participants. We must conduct in-depth research on the difficulties and challenges in achieving a balance in the relationship between power and rights in the process of implementing the Criminal Procedure Law, and promote the construction of an independent knowledge system for Chinese criminal procedure law in the course of solving problems.

At present, the digital age has arrived. Digital technology can fully empower the implementation of the Criminal Procedure Law and better realize the purpose of criminal procedure. How to improve and implement the criminal procedure system so that criminal procedure better accords with the development requirements of the digital age has become a new knowledge growth point for Chinese criminal procedure law. To this end, we can focus on the effective integration of digital technology and criminal procedure, conducting in-depth research on new topics such as how criminal procedure can be developed and improved to realize digital empowerment, how criminal procedure can ensure that the use of digital technology does not lower or diminish the level of protection of citizens' rights, and how the application of digital technology in criminal procedure can satisfy the requirements of procedural justice, forming Chinese theories based on Chinese experience and better demonstrating the originality of the independent knowledge system for Chinese criminal procedure law.

(The author is a professor at the Law School of Nankai University)

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Advancing Integrated Development of Ports, Shipping, and Trade under the Silk Road Maritime Initiative (Special Analysis)

By: 张景全

General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized: “Advance the construction of the international port alliance for the Belt and Road Initiative, and improve the cooperation mechanisms with countries along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.” The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes: “Deepen cooperation on important economic corridors and hub ports, and smooth the multi-dimensional channels of land, sea, air, and cyberspace” and “advance the integrated development of ports, shipping, and trade under the ‘Silk Road Maritime’ initiative.” Ports connect maritime shipping routes with land-based industrial hinterlands and are a key link in the international logistics system. At present, uncertainty in the operation of important maritime channels is rising, and extreme weather and regional hotspot issues continue to affect the international shipping order. Deepening international port cooperation and advancing the integrated development of ports, shipping, and trade under the “Silk Road Maritime” initiative is precisely about promoting better alignment between key ports, backbone shipping routes, logistics services, and trade demand, making maritime connectivity smoother and more stable, and laying a solid foundation for the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative and the high-quality development of the marine economy.

Smooth the maritime transport channels and consolidate the foundation for the integrated development of ports, shipping, and trade. Ports are important fulcrums for the stable operation of maritime channels and industrial and supply chains, and they bear on the entry and exit of goods, order delivery, and unimpeded trade. In recent years, geopolitical factors have affected expectations regarding the security of important channels, and uncertainty in transport time, logistics costs, and shipping route arrangements has risen. Therefore, advancing the integrated development of ports, shipping, and trade under the “Silk Road Maritime” initiative requires not only improving efficiency but also enhancing resilience. Efforts should focus on the key ports, important shipping routes, and critical channels along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, strengthening port services, customs clearance facilitation, logistics connectivity, and emergency coordination, and carrying out in a timely manner work such as alternative route and channel arrangements, port and shipping resource dispatch, and supply chain risk alerts. In particular, when shipping routes are diverted, ports are congested, transit costs change, or customs clearance is obstructed, ports should share information promptly, adjust transport capacity, and make good arrangements for warehousing connectivity and transport transfer, so as to reduce the impact of fluctuations in a single link on the entire supply chain. By linking the node advantages of ports, the organizational capacity of shipping routes, and the service demands of trade, the “Silk Road Maritime” initiative can better serve the stable operation of industrial and supply chains under complex circumstances.

Strengthen the support of cooperation platforms and promote the smooth alignment of port, shipping, and trade resources. “Silk Road Maritime” is China’s first international comprehensive logistics service brand and platform under the Belt and Road Initiative with shipping as its theme. After years of development, “Silk Road Maritime” has grown into an important platform for opening up to the outside world, forming a combined force in shipping route organization, port coordination, logistics services, and digital empowerment. The “Silk Road Maritime” alliance formed around this brand and platform brings together resources from the fields of ports, shipping, logistics, trade, finance, and technology, providing organizational support for the integrated development of ports, shipping, and trade. In addition, the Maritime Silk Road Port Cooperation Forum continues to promote exchanges and cooperation among port cities, port and shipping enterprises, and relevant institutions, and bilateral mechanisms such as the China–Malaysia Port Alliance have also formed useful explorations in port planning, operations management, shipping logistics, and industrial linkage. These platforms and mechanisms jointly connect port enterprises, shipping enterprises, logistics service providers, and trade entities, helping to achieve more precise matching of cargo sources, shipping routes, shipping space, and logistics services. In the next step, efforts should focus on the urgent needs of bulk commodities, cross-border e-commerce, cold-chain logistics, and green shipping, and improve the alignment of shipping route organization, port operations, warehousing and customs clearance, and information services, so that the comprehensive service functions of “Silk Road Maritime” can be better translated into tangible results in unimpeded trade and industrial coordination.

Promote the division of labor and collaboration among port clusters and enhance green, digital, and intelligent service capabilities. Given that different ports differ in location conditions, industrial hinterlands, cargo source structures, and service capabilities, deepening international port cooperation requires promoting stronger alignment among trunk-line ports, feeder ports, and inland logistics nodes, so as to form a port service network with complementary advantages and division of labor and collaboration. This not only helps reduce low-level redundant construction but also facilitates different regions in sharing more of the development opportunities brought by maritime connectivity. To enhance the service capabilities of port clusters, it is necessary to improve infrastructure such as berths and warehousing while promoting the green and low-carbon transition and the upgrading of smart operations, and strengthening modern shipping services, logistics information sharing, and professional talent support. In keeping with the trend of green, digital, and intelligent transformation of ports, ports should be promoted to upgrade from traditional loading and unloading nodes to comprehensive service platforms, making cargo flows, vessel movements, and port operations more transparent. At the same time, exchanges of talent in green ports, smart ports, operations and maintenance, and safety and security should be strengthened, and more localized professional talent should be cultivated for partner countries. By driving port cluster collaboration through rule alignment, joint standard building, and service improvement, the “Silk Road Maritime” initiative can better serve unimpeded trade, the coordinated development of production, supply, and marketing, and blue economy cooperation, further enhancing the tangible results of the integrated development of ports, shipping, and trade.

(The author is a professor at the School of International Relations, Jinan University.)

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Small Stationery, Big Industry (Snapshots of China · Exploring Development Through Small Objects)

Zhejiang Qingyuan: Annual Production of 10 Billion Pencils, Over 600 Registered Brands

As the school season approaches, at a stationery company in Zhukou Wayashan Industrial Park, Qingyuan County, Lishui, Zhejiang, automated production lines are running at full speed, and pencils of different styles are shipped to various places after being packaged.

"Pencils can be made in many varieties!" Lu Hui, a worker at the cutting process post, has worked here for over a decade and has witnessed the company's continuous extension and supplementation of the chain in traditional pencil production, expanding from single pencil manufacturing to a full-category product iteration and upgrading path covering stationery, art materials, and more.

Qingyuan is one of China's largest pencil production bases. It is home to more than 50 pencil and supporting processing enterprises, producing 10 billion pencils annually, accounting for over 40% of the national total output, with more than 85% of products exported to over 100 countries and regions including Europe, America, and Southeast Asia.

From the establishment in November 1978 of Zhenan Pencil Factory, the first township enterprise in Qingyuan's pencil industry, to the completion of a national-level export pencil quality and safety demonstration zone, after more than 40 years, Qingyuan has now built a complete industrial chain covering pencils, pencil leads, eraser heads, softened boards, printing and packaging, with products expanded from ordinary pencils to craft pencils, art pencils, charcoal pencils, creative hole-punched pencils, and eyebrow pencils, cosmetics, and other diversified categories. The county's registered pencil brands have reached over 600.

"We started from a small workshop and, through hard work, have continuously climbed toward the mid-to-high end of the global value chain," said Shen Congren, general manager of a local brush company. The 2B pencils produced by the company have become the first specially designated examination pencil product in Zhejiang Province; the charcoal pencils produced are sold to Japan, South Korea, Russia, and many other countries and regions, with registered trademarks approved in 16 countries and regions, and an international market share as high as 30%.

Anhui Lai'an: Annual Production of Approximately 600 Million Erasers, Annual Output Value of 230 Million Yuan

In Lai'an County, Chuzhou, Anhui, in the production workshop of a local stationery enterprise, automated assembly lines are running at a steady pace. An Indian customer repeatedly praised the company's environmentally friendly materials, innovative styles, and multifunctional eraser products, and on the spot finalized an order for 8 container loads of erasers.

This enterprise was formerly just an OEM factory. After more than 10 years of development, it now has over 2,500 product models, has deeply participated in the formulation and revision of multiple national industry standards, and exports products to over 100 countries and regions.

That an eraser can break into a big market — the answer lies in continuous innovation. Zhao Qiang, the head of the enterprise, picked up a magnetic debris-collecting eraser for a demonstration: after using the eraser end to clean writing marks, turn the other end close to the paper, and the debris automatically attaches to the eraser; flick it gently over the trash bin, and the debris falls into the bin, with the eraser remaining clean. This product not only won a gold award in the China Cultural and Educational Office Supplies Innovation Award selection, but also set a record of annual sales exceeding 10 million units for a single model.

There are many more products like this: targeting the problem of traditional erasers not thoroughly removing marks, they developed a nano eraser with a word-elimination rate of 95%; based on the needs of handicraft enthusiasts, they developed an eraser that can remove adhesive residue; to meet the demand for removing ballpoint pen and pen marks, they produce frosted erasers. The enterprise launches dozens of new products on average every month, promoting the deep integration of eraser production with cultural creativity.

Behind the innovation is a young design team. "In the past, people only thought an eraser needed to erase writing; now consumers want it to be functional, good-looking, and fun," Zhao Qiang explained. The enterprise has absorbed design and other professional talent and assembled a young R&D and design team of more than 30 people. Relying on these young people, the enterprise holds 3 invention patents, more than 30 utility model patents, and over 100 appearance design patents, refining more than 2,500 differentiated eraser products.

With an annual production of approximately 600 million erasers and an annual output value of 230 million yuan, the growth of the industry is inseparable from local targeted cultivation. "In 2011, Lai'an County selected eraser, pen-making, and other stationery enterprises as a breakthrough point to lay out a stationery specialty industry, built a stationery industry demonstration zone, and promoted the industry's upgrading toward high-end intelligent manufacturing," introduced Cao Xiuyu, head of the Lai'an County Cultural Development and Reform Office. At present, the demonstration zone has gathered 24 enterprises in the stationery and gift industrial chain, of which 18 are above-scale enterprises.

Shandong Gaotang: Complete Industrial Chain, Annual Production Capacity of Exercise Books Exceeding 600 Million Volumes

In the automated production workshop of a paper company in Gaotang County, Liaocheng City, Shandong, production lines are running at full load. "This is the peak season for exercise book production and stocking, with millions of exercise books shipped from here to various places every day," introduced Li Wei, the workshop director.

Over the past decades, Gaotang's exercise book production has moved from manual to automated, developing into a specialty industry integrating product R&D, production and distribution, and brand operations, with a complete industrial chain, an annual production capacity exceeding 600 million volumes, a total output value exceeding 200 million yuan, and products exported to more than 10 countries and regions.

In 2018, this company proposed the concept of "fluorescent-free" exercise books. Wang Xiuhuan, the company's executive deputy general manager, said, "From the founding of the factory, we established a standard inspection laboratory. Raw materials entering the factory must pass multiple inspections including basis weight, smoothness, thickness, brightness and whiteness, fluorescence brightness, and sizing degree, with closed-loop control throughout the entire production process."

In recent years, Gaotang's exercise books have obtained dual certification of the China Environmental Labeling Product and China Health and Safety Product, helping Gaotang's exercise book production break free from low-price, homogeneous competition and continue to innovate.

The Shandong edition incorporates Qilu cultural symbols, while the Gansu edition skillfully uses Dunhuang elements... More than a thousand original-design exercise book models integrate cultural elements from different regions, with diversification and customization providing more possibilities for accelerating transformation.

In recent years, Gaotang's exercise book industry has adhered to the integration of online and offline channels and the simultaneous development of domestic and foreign trade. While achieving full coverage of mainstream e-commerce platforms, it also relies on instant retail — consumers can place orders on an app just like ordering takeout, and exercise books are quickly delivered by nearby stores. In addition, Gaotang's exercise book industry has leveraged exhibition platforms such as the Canton Fair and the Shanghai Stationery Fair to accelerate its "going global."

(Compiled from reports by Zhong Genqing of Lishui Daily, Yu Song of Chuzhou Daily, and Wang Peiyuan, correspondent of this newspaper)

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From Visiting to Participating: Intangible Cultural Heritage Gains New Vitality (Echoes from Around the World)

By: 杨 霜

In the colorful clouds of Yunnan, dance a traditional dance; on the land of Shanxi, make a woodblock print... This summer, intangible cultural heritage-themed travel has continued to grow in popularity, and "traveling to a city for a craft" has become a new trend in outings. Platform data shows that this summer, booking demand for intangible cultural heritage-themed travel products rose 48% year-on-year. Nowadays, tourists, especially young people, are no longer satisfied with merely viewing intangible cultural heritage exhibits; they place greater emphasis on participating in them, perceiving the beauty of intangible cultural heritage through immersive experiences and interaction.

Through the participation of more people, intangible cultural heritage radiates traditional charm. Combined with local traditions and characteristics, intangible cultural heritage has become increasingly vibrant. In Eshan Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan, the Torch Festival is integrated with intangible cultural heritage flower-drum dance performances and traditional recreational competitions; multiple places in Anhui have launched diverse forms of intangible cultural heritage tours, linking Huizhou Ancient City and ancient villages in southern Anhui with intangible cultural heritage skills experience activities... One after another, distinctive intangible cultural heritage interactive experiences attract more and more tourists who come drawn by reputation and return fully satisfied.

Through the participation of more people, intangible cultural heritage demonstrates the tension of the times. The coupling of intangible cultural heritage with technology has made the space for expression increasingly broad. At the night tour project "Zhuozheng Wenya" in Suzhou's Humble Administrator's Garden, Jiangsu, digital light and shadow technology empowers live Kunqu opera performances; in Jingkou Community, Guangming District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, the intangible cultural heritage classroom has introduced the "Jingkou Qilin Dance AI Heritage Master" system, which uses computer vision algorithms and an artificial intelligence database to precisely correct trainees' movement trajectories... With the integration of traditional skills and high technology, people have the opportunity to actively step into a new space of cultural expression built by both, participating in the contemporary innovative interpretation of China's excellent traditional culture.

Through the participation of more people, intangible cultural heritage gains enhanced vitality for inheritance. In Jiaxing, Zhejiang, Wufangzhai not only establishes itself through traditional zongzi-making skills but also actively seeks innovation and change, launching multigrain zongzi and other new products that meet contemporary consumer needs; in Ledong Li Autonomous County, Hainan, Yinggehai Salt Field continuously introduces new ways to eat and use salt, launching fruit teas, seasoning packets, and themed cultural and creative products... Intangible cultural heritage is not a suspended "cultural specimen"; when integrated into daily life and steeped in everyday existence, a single intangible cultural heritage item can "grow" into an industry, making development more sustainable.

From viewing to participating, from one-way display to two-way co-creation, every participant can enjoy the pleasure brought by intangible cultural heritage, and every participant is also continuously injecting vitality into it. In such a two-way endeavor, intangible cultural heritage remains ever fresh through the ages, becomes even more popular, and is better inherited.

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Rural bookstores are more than just books

By: 黄仕琼

During the summer vacation, farmers' book houses (农家书屋) in many places have entered their "peak season." In Guangchang (广昌), Jiangxi, local authorities are exploring the integration of "farmers' book houses + safety education" to let children spend a safe and fulfilling vacation.

Today, farmers' book houses are becoming rural "cultural living rooms" that integrate reading, exchange, and deliberation in one. Some areas have converted idle spaces such as old houses into book houses, enabling villagers to resolve village affairs through consultation, achieving the integration of cultural space and grassroots governance.

In terms of content supply, many places have convened booklist selection meetings to extensively listen to public opinions. While fully stocking policy reading materials, they also focus on supplementing agricultural technical materials that fit actual production needs, and actively expand digital reading, audiobooks, and other forms, so as to better serve agricultural production and daily life.

The transformation of farmers' book houses is precisely a vivid epitome of rural cultural development moving from "whether there is or not" to "whether it is good or not." When the roots of culture are planted deep in the soil, comprehensive rural revitalization will have more solid spiritual support.

(Excerpted and adapted from Jiangxi Daily (江西日报))

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Shanghai promotes opening of sports venues at government and state-owned enterprises

By: 新华社记者 胡洁菲

During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Shanghai will build a higher-level public fitness service system for all citizens and actively promote the opening of sports venues in government agencies and enterprises and public institutions to the public.

Xu Bin (徐彬), director of the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, introduced that in the first seven months of this year, Shanghai has completed the construction and renovation of 336 citizen intelligence-building fitness points, 42 citizen (worker) fitness stations, 131 citizen sports courts, and 23 senior exercise and health homes. In addition to promoting the opening of school sports venues, Shanghai is also promoting the opening of sports venues in government agencies and enterprises and public institutions to society.

Shanghai fully practices the people's city concept, and in response to the characteristics of high population density and small geographical area, it fits in sports facilities wherever space allows, 见缝插针 (jiàn féng chā zhēn - "insert a needle into any gap," to make use of every bit of space).

In terms of sports green spaces, Shanghai plans to, during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, through measures such as renovation of old parks, adjustment of park green spaces, and designation of flexible sports zones, on the premise of minimizing reduction of trees and avoiding damage to ecological community structures, appropriately add more than 300 sports green spaces that can accommodate sports such as football, rugby, and frisbee. Among them, park green spaces will add 100 basketball courts and 100 table tennis tables, build or upgrade 5 standard football fields, build or update 500 pieces (sets) of fitness equipment, and also create more than 120 outdoor children's play spaces.

Shanghai will make every effort to promote the comprehensive integration of sports undertakings into the overall urban development landscape, and actively bid to add 1 to 2 new world-class top-tier events. In 2025, Shanghai's total sports consumption scale reached 109.3 billion yuan. Zhou Yaming (周亚明), deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Municipal Government, introduced that as the only city in the country whose total sports consumption scale exceeds 100 billion yuan, Shanghai will, during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, further focus on the deep integration of culture, commerce, tourism, sports, and exhibitions, break out of the traditional venue model, expand sports service scenarios, unleash the empowering role of major events, urban spaces, and industrial integration, and integrate diverse and inclusive sports supply into citizens' daily lives.

(According to Xinhua News Agency)

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Youth Power in the Fields

Today, more and more young people are choosing to take root in the fields, dedicating their youthful strength on the front line of comprehensive rural revitalization (乡村全面振兴).

"To do agricultural technical work, one must remain calm and patient, and endure loneliness." Wang Jin (王金), born after 2000, is an agricultural technology special-post trainee (农技特岗生) cultivated through targeted programs by grassroots agricultural technology extension institutions (基层农技推广机构). After graduating in 2023, she returned to her hometown of Zhujiapu Town (朱家铺镇), Hanshou County (汉寿县), Changde City, Hunan Province. Facing the rice field disease problems encountered by farmers, she conducted on-site assessment and judgment, connected with experts, and tracked follow-up management and care, helping farmers resolve related issues.

The fox nuts produced in Chahe Town (岔河镇), Hongze District (洪泽区), Huai'an City, Jiangsu Province are of excellent quality. Chen Ken (陈恳), born after 1995, returned to his hometown after graduating from university to continue his father's fox nut cultivation and farming enterprise. He upgraded the planting model, operated the fox nut base with standardized management, introduced modern equipment, achieving integrated operations of fox nut screening, shelling, and cleaning, and simultaneously launched multi-specification packaging to suit diverse markets. In 2025, relying on livestream e-commerce, he achieved online retail sales of over 50,000 jin.

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Rapid Dispatch from All Directions

Domestically Produced New Energy Vehicles "Take a Flight" Overseas from Fujian

Fujian Daily, Fuzhou, August 26 (Reporter Zhang Wenkui) — A few days ago, three domestically produced new energy vehicles departed in batches from Fuzhou Changle International Airport in Fujian for East Midlands Airport in the United Kingdom. The domestically produced new energy vehicles "taking a flight" overseas marks the successful opening of a new air transport channel for lithium-battery special cargo and high-value-added goods at the Fuzhou airport port.

The 12th Hubei Province Huangmei Opera Art Festival Opens

Hubei Daily, Huanggang, August 26 (Reporter Liu Yi) — Recently, the 12th Hubei Province Huangmei Opera Art Festival opened in Huanggang, Hubei. This year's art festival includes segments such as "Listening Freely" to Huangmei Opera, "Decoding" Huangmei Opera, "Enjoying" Huangmei Opera, and opera-driven consumption promotion, and will centrally showcase the latest achievements in the creation, inheritance, and development of Hubei Huangmei Opera in the new era.

Liaoning Compiles the Nation's First National Standard for Winter Highway Maintenance

Liaoning Daily, Shenyang, August 26 (Reporter Tang Jiali) — A few days ago, the "Technical Specifications for Winter Highway Maintenance" (《公路冬季养护技术规范》) was approved and will be implemented nationwide from September 1. This is the first comprehensive industry standard in the field of highway maintenance in China, led by Liaoning Provincial Transportation Science Research Institute Co., Ltd. in its compilation, building a full-cycle technical chain for winter highway maintenance.

Guangxi Museum Cultural and Creative Alliance Launches Substantive Operations

Guangxi Daily, Nanning, August 26 (Reporter Qin Wen) — The flagship store of the Guangxi Museum Cultural and Creative Alliance (广西博物馆文创联盟) recently began formal operations, marking the first concrete landing vehicle for the substantive operations of the Guangxi Museum Cultural and Creative Alliance. The alliance was established in May this year, with its first batch of members bringing together 34 cultural and heritage institutions from across the region.

Baoji, Shaanxi Establishes 134 Model Worker and Craftsman Innovation Studios

Our Newspaper, Baoji, August 26 (Correspondent Huang Tao) — Baoji City in Shaanxi has established 134 model worker and craftsman innovation studios (劳模工匠创新工作室), including 8 national demonstration studios, 14 provincial-level studios, and 112 municipal-level studios, and has set up 5 model worker and craftsman talent innovation studio alliances in high-end equipment manufacturing, automotive and parts industries, and other sectors, consolidating the talent support for local development.

Shidian, Yunnan Establishes Coffee Farmers' Field School

Yunnan Daily, Baoshan, August 26 (Reporter Yang Yanpeng) — Recently, the first coffee farmers' field school in Shidian County (施甸县), Baoshan City, Yunnan, was officially inaugurated. Centering on practical training in coffee field management and protection, green prevention and control of pests and diseases, and primary processing of fresh fruit, the school will standardize and regulate coffee planting and processing standards, cultivate local technical talent, and enhance farmers' standardized production capacity.

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Beware of telecom fraud targeting minors

By: 新华社记者 王 成 周 义

Since the summer vacation began, fraud cases involving minors have been concentrated, with fraud gangs seeking "targets" on social platforms, using "free" and "high returns" as bait, and even impersonating police to intimidate — many primary and secondary school students have been deceived.

Cao Qinzhong, deputy captain of the New-Type Crime Investigation and Strike Brigade under the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Fuzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau in Fujian Province, said that telecommunications and internet fraud involving minors is mainly concentrated in categories such as fraudulent transactions in virtual game equipment, click-farming rebate fraud, fraudulent shopping services, and impersonation of police, procuratorial, and judicial authorities. Looking at the groups deceived, primary school students account for the highest proportion, followed by junior high school students. Looking at the amounts defrauded, most cases range from several hundred yuan to several thousand yuan. Case-handling police officers stated that while the amounts defrauded in most fraud cases involving minors are not large, such cases often take only one or two days or even just a few hours from initial contact to money transfer, making early warning, payment freezing, and stolen funds recovery prominently difficult.

Grassroots anti-fraud police officers call on parents to practice the "three managements," namely managing devices, managing passwords, and managing communication — of which the most critical is managing devices. If minors use mobile devices such as phones, the youth mode must be enabled, payment limits and usage permissions must be set, and the password-free payment function must be turned off. Minors should firmly remember the anti-fraud "four don'ts," namely don't scan, don't download, don't share, and don't conceal. QR codes and external links in short video comments or private messages from strangers must never be clicked or scanned; refuse to download unfamiliar third-party meeting or transaction apps sent by online acquaintances; do not enable screen sharing or remote video calls, to prevent payment passwords and verification codes from being secretly viewed remotely; and once encountering demands such as intimidation or money transfers, inform parents immediately and do not operate alone.

(According to Xinhua News Agency)

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Waste tires turned into road guardrails

By: 贵州日报记者 蒋洪飞

In Anzu Group, Gaoshan Village, Sancha Town, Bozhou District, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, along the main village road, "orange, blue, and green" three-color tire guardrails wind along the river, forming a striking safety defense line amid the mountain fields. In July this year, the Fourth Urban Brigade of the Traffic Management Detachment of the Zunyi City Public Security Bureau, together with relevant enterprises, launched the public welfare project of "waste tire resource utilization + rural road hazard remediation."

Seizing the summer construction window period, the project completed guardrail installation on rural road sections with prominent hazards and dense pedestrian traffic in Yaxi Town, Sancha Town, and other areas. The first phase consumed more than 2,000 waste tires in total and completed protection for 4 rural roads and 4 high-risk points.

"The construction cost is only half that of traditional corrugated steel guardrails, yet the protective utility is very strong," introduced Ran Maoqiao, deputy director of the Peace and Rule of Law Office of Sancha Town. The rubber material possesses good cushioning performance and can effectively reduce collision damage; the bright colored coating combined with nighttime reflective paint can form a visual warning for drivers, guiding them to slow down and improving the safety factor of nighttime travel. "With the guardrails installed, riding a motorcycle feels much more secure," said Jiao Yuanfa, a resident of Dongsheng Community, Yaxi Town.

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Yurt liaison stations connect signals deep in the mountains

By: 新疆日报记者 宋卫国

In the summer pasture of Bugula Gully (布谷拉沟), Kalatobai Township (喀拉托别乡), Nilka County (尼勒克县), Ili (伊犁), Xinjiang, herdsman Abudumajiti·Abusaiti (阿布都马吉提·阿布赛提) checked the weather conditions of the summer pasture on his mobile phone. "Before, there was no signal in this place — to make a phone call you had to climb over several mountain ridges. It was the yurt deputies' liaison station (毡房人大代表联络站) in the pastoral area that changed this situation."

Bugula Gully lies deep in the Tianshan Mountains, 53 kilometers from the nearest village living area. Every year from May to October, herdsmen drive their cattle and sheep here to spend the summer and autumn seasons. This area is a blind zone for network signals; after the seasonal migration, herdsmen found it very inconvenient to contact elderly family members at home and children studying at school down the mountain.

In 2025, more than 20 herdsman households in the area submitted their request to build a mobile base station to the yurt deputies' liaison station in the pastoral area. As Nilka County's first yurt deputies' liaison station in a pastoral area, it has become a "heart-connecting bridge" for herdsmen to express their demands and report difficulties. Altenbai·Worehebai (阿勒腾拜·沃热合拜), the township people's congress deputy stationed at the station, recorded and reported the request promptly upon receiving it, took the lead in coordinating with the township party committee and the township government, and made multiple on-site surveys of the valley terrain together with mobile company staff to assess the conditions for building the station. In June 2025, construction of the base station officially began, and it was completed and put into use in September. Now, the entire valley has full network signal coverage, and herdsmen can make smooth phone calls without leaving their yurts.

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Love for "New" Restaurants Warms Both Stomach and Heart

By: 本报通讯员 杨 雯

In Hengshui, Hebei, delivery riders and couriers who rush about outside now have heartwarming rest stops one after another.

Recently, the Hengshui Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团衡水市委), together with the Hengshui Operations Center of Taobao Flash Purchase, launched the "Love 'New' Restaurant" plan, and 146 catering establishments across the city have become heartwarming stations, delivering thoughtful care to new employment groups such as delivery riders, couriers, and ride-hailing drivers.

In the afternoon, delivery rider Liu Yang (刘阳), having finished his midday delivery shift, walked into a dumpling restaurant in the Hengshui urban area, where he ordered a rider special meal, filled a jug with drinking water, and took a short rest. "In the past, after the noon rush, most restaurants had closed, and sometimes I could only squat by the roadside and grab a quick bite," Liu Yang said with feeling. Now, at the "Love 'New'" restaurants, he can get a hot meal, and much of his fatigue melts away.

These "Love 'New'" restaurants have uniformly set up eye-catching signs facing the street and offer special meal packages, among other services. The plan also simultaneously releases a map marking the "Love 'New'" restaurants, making it convenient for riders to find these service stations nearby, using concrete actions to show care for new employment groups.

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Chen Juan, Zhang Yifu, Dong Wenxin

Layout design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)
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Less anxiety, more confidence in action

By: 本报记者 贺林平 姜晓丹

Upon receiving the handling opinion from the Huangpu District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission (黄埔区纪委监委) in Guangzhou, Guangdong, to apply “tolerance for mistakes with reduced responsibility,” Lin Zexin (林泽新) finally felt the heavy stone suspended in his heart fall to the ground. Not long ago, he had been 寝食难安 (qǐn shí nán ān - “unable to eat or sleep in peace,” deeply anxious) over a fund transfer made ahead of schedule.

In 2021, the sci-tech investment boom was at its peak. As an investment manager at Guangzhou Development District Holdings Group Co., Ltd. (广州开发区控股集团有限公司), Lin Zexin’s team focused its layout on emerging industries such as commercial aerospace. “The project window period waits for no one!” Before the investment decision committee’s resolution was issued, the team transferred several hundred million yuan into the fund account in batches.

Unexpectedly, at the end of 2025, audit teams and inspection teams successively entered the company, and these transfer records whose timelines “did not match up” drew attention. “Funds were disbursed without strictly following the agreement procedures, suspected of violating regulations.” The issue became a case lead and was referred to the Huangpu District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission. Talks, inquiries, verification… Lin Zexin and his team colleagues felt anxious.

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: “We must combine strict management with genuine care, place equal emphasis on encouragement and restraint, uphold the ‘Three Distinctions’ (三个区分开来), better stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of Party members and cadres, and form a strong atmosphere and vivid situation of striving on the new journey and making contributions in the new era.”

After deeply studying and carefully comprehending General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech, the Huangpu District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission, upon receiving the lead, made clear that accountability would not adopt a “one-size-fits-all” approach. Through discussion after discussion, peeling the bamboo shoot layer by layer: “Huangpu District combines a national-level economic development zone and a national high-tech zone in one; reform, innovation, daring to venture and daring to experiment are its foundation” “In sci-tech investment and financing, ‘invest early, invest small’ (投早投小) — no matter what mistake is made, there is accountability; that makes people even less willing to invest and less daring to invest”…

Comparing with the Guangzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission’s relevant work requirements on the “Three Distinctions,” as well as Huangpu District’s tolerance for mistakes and error correction mechanism and the district-owned enterprise equity investment due diligence exemption from liability measures, everyone’s views gradually converged. “The state-owned enterprise’s early fund disbursement was to seize sci-tech innovation opportunities; after collective research, no personal interests were sought; subsequently, the fund landed benchmark projects such as CAS Space (中科宇航) and XPeng AeroHT (小鹏汇天), with returns already covering costs and also leveraging external industrial funds; the overall operation did not cause substantive losses…” analyzed Xiao Dandan (肖丹丹), director of the Party Conduct Office of the Huangpu District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission.

Combining the specific facts and circumstances, the District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission studied and decided to apply tolerance for mistakes with reduced responsibility to the relevant responsible persons of the state-owned enterprise, handling the matter respectively with orders to submit written self-examinations, reminder talks, and other measures.

“Tolerance for mistakes and error correction gives everyone more confidence to do solid work!” Lin Zexin, who had just returned from a business trip to Chongqing, again hurried 马不停蹄 (mǎ bù tíng tí - “horse’s hooves do not stop,” without pause or rest) to Beijing to connect with another sci-tech innovation team.

Tolerance for mistakes is not “indulgence of mistakes.” Guangzhou has successively issued two batches of the “Guidelines and Q&A on Behavioral Scenarios for Government-Business Interaction in Guangzhou” (广州市政商交往若干场景行为指引及答疑). Under the guidance and deployment of the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission, Huangpu District has continuously improved its tolerance for mistakes and error correction mechanism, insisting on combining tolerance and correction, and treating both symptoms and root causes — 标本兼治 (biāo běn jiān zhì - “treat both symptoms and root causes”).

“A few years ago, the factory lease for the Dashan area (大沙片区) under the company expired, and the area was included in the old-area renovation scope. Surrounding foot traffic declined, and re-leasing became difficult,” recalled Yang Gaohuan (杨高欢), chairman of Guangzhou High-tech Zone Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. (广州高新区投资控股有限公司). “Following normal procedures for appraisal and listing would take two to three months; during this period, the factory would sit vacant, rental income would suffer, and old tenants might have to move out…” Therefore, the leadership team collectively decided to directly sign a one-year short-term lease with the original tenants, saving the two procedures of appraisal and online listing.

In March 2025, the District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission carried out special supervision of state-owned assets and identified procedural shortcomings. The enterprise submitted a tolerance application. After verification, the District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission determined that the state-owned enterprise’s decision to break convention in order to revitalize idle property stemmed from the original intention of working for the public and ensuring the preservation and appreciation of state-owned assets, and that after collective research and judgment, no interest transfer occurred, no loss of state-owned assets or adverse consequences were caused, and tolerance for mistakes was applied to 7 responsible persons.

At the same time, the District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission promoted the District State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Bureau (区国有资产监督管理局) to issue special documents on revitalizing property and standardizing leasing, delegating flexible decision-making authority and promoting market-based pricing. In 2025, the district-owned enterprise property rental income for the full year reached 3.04 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.29%.

From relying on cadres to proactively apply, to discipline inspection and supervision cadres proactively identifying “unintentional mistakes in reform” during case handling, the dual channels of “ex officio + upon application” operate in parallel… As of now, Huangpu District has applied the tolerance for mistakes and error correction mechanism to properly handle 45 cases, removing burdens from cadres and boosting their morale.

“We will continue to promote the improvement of the tolerance for mistakes and error correction mechanism, and support and encourage cadres who dare to take responsibility, work pragmatically, and seek no personal gain,” said a relevant person in charge of the Guangzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervisory Commission, adding that they will further wield the “baton” of disciplinary supervision, break the misconception that “the more you do, the more mistakes you make; do nothing and make no mistakes,” guide cadres to firmly establish a correct view of political achievements that seeks long-term planning and practical results, and contribute to promoting high-quality development.

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The trusted friend of residents in 45 residential communities (New observations on officials' performance · Party members on the front line)

By: 本报记者 祝佳祺

“Han Yang, honored with accolades, serves the people with real work.” On July 1, in the WeChat group of Donghaiwan Community residents in Shatanjiang Subdistrict, Gangkou District, Fangchenggang City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, residents congratulated Han Yang, Secretary of the Community Party General Branch and Director of the Residents' Committee, on being named a "National Outstanding Party Worker," and one resident wrote these words.

At that moment, Han Yang's eyes grew slightly moist. In five years, Donghaiwan Community, which has 45 residential compounds, transformed from a "patchwork community" with frequent conflicts into a "warm home" where residents look out for one another, with a completely renewed appearance. Over these years, together with community cadres, she used the "golden key" of party-building leadership to unlock one governance challenge after another.

Five years ago, Donghaiwan Community had just been separated from Jinhaiwan Community, governing 45 residential compounds and 18,000 residents, with diverse demands and frequent conflicts. Community cadres faced a large number of resident complaints every day, under great pressure.

"At the time, many residents urgently hoped to establish owners' committees," Han Yang said. According to regulations, more than two-thirds of owners must vote in favor before an owners' committee can be elected and established. But the occupancy rate in the compounds was generally low, and many owners were "sojourning migratory birds," difficult to contact on ordinary days, failing to meet the voter turnout requirement.

The difficulties objectively existed, but community work could not stall because of them. Han Yang, who had previously served as full-time deputy secretary of the Jinhaiwan Community Party Branch, knew well that the key to solving problems was to strengthen primary-level party organizations as the "mainstay."

The first thing she did was to find party members. "I just like chatting with people; I can chat with anyone." Han Yang, together with community cadres, went compound by compound, talked with party member after party member, "finding and gathering" the party members scattered across various compounds, and successively established nine joint party branches for property-managed compounds, achieving full party organization coverage.

Han Yang took the lead in innovatively constructing a "party-building grid + three-tier management" system, dividing the community into 27 grids, with each grid equipped with a three-tier management team of "grid chief (community staff) + grid officer (property staff) + building chief (party member/volunteer)." At the same time, she insisted on party building leading group building, promoting all forces to coordinate efforts and jointly manage. "As soon as a problem is posted in the grid group, the grid officer replies immediately, and the property management handles it promptly. People feel the community is genuinely working for residents, and trust gradually builds up," Han Yang said.

To motivate party members to act proactively, last year the community launched a "party member points system." On the community's party affairs public bulletin board, the points earned by each party member for attending meetings and participating in volunteer services are recorded in detail. "Although there is no actual reward, with this chart, one's work can be seen, and it feels like recognition," said Ling Qinyun, deputy secretary of the Donghaiwan Community Party General Branch. Party members went from "staying invisible" to "showing their identity," from "being told to do" to "wanting to do," and the community's work atmosphere quietly changed.

Walking into Han Yang's office, all kinds of professional books fill the desk. "To do community work well, enthusiasm alone is not enough; you also need to keep 'recharging' and drive everyone to raise their professional level," Han Yang said. Today, eight of the nine members of the community's two committees have obtained social worker certification.

In her work, Han Yang practiced while reflecting, and summarized the six-step mediation method of "listen, ask, soothe, deliberate, resolve, follow up," which also became the basic working method of the community's "Red Pomegranate Dispute Mediation Studio" (红石榴纠纷调解工作室), playing an important role in mediating community conflicts and disputes. Since its establishment in 2021, the "Red Pomegranate Dispute Mediation Studio" has successfully resolved more than 300 neighborhood disputes, property conflicts, and other cases.

In Han Yang's view, the ultimate purpose of party affairs work is still to serve residents.

Walking into the Donghaiwan Community Party-Mass Service Center, one can hear crisp, cheerful laughter from time to time. Twenty children sit together, folding paper and drawing under the guidance of volunteers.

The "Binhai Red Harbor" (滨海红港湾) public summer care class has been held for four consecutive years, and many children are already "return customers." The volunteers come from "dual reporting" enterprises and university party organizations, and the curriculum covers family traditions and education, science popularization, singing and dancing, and drowning-prevention swimming lessons. "Sometimes the community also organizes children to visit nuclear power plants, fire stations, and so on. The classes are free, and the children all feel they gain a lot," said the mother of student Xiao Jingxi. With the children looked after here, parents can go to work with peace of mind.

Today's Donghaiwan Community has increasingly complete infrastructure: the "dead-end road" on Bailong Street has been opened through, the surrounding park has set up an "Aimin Pavilion" for square-dance enthusiasts, and the community has established an "Aixin Station" providing water, charging, rest, and other warm services for couriers and food-delivery riders.

Community work involves a thousand threads and ten thousand lines, and Han Yang and her team always patiently help residents resolve trivial demands. The people have a scale in their hearts. When Han Yang was misunderstood, there were always enthusiastic residents who stepped forward to support her. "Residents always give me so much warmth that I dare not slack off." Community work is complicated, and no matter how tiring, Han Yang always keeps a smile on her face. "We plan to carry out regular nighttime visits, dropping by residents' homes after dinner to listen in depth to their opinions and suggestions, and build the community into an increasingly warm and happy big family."

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Lighting the Lamp of Comity in Neighborhood Relations (People's Livelihood View)

By: 闵方正

A little more perspective-taking, a little more mutual consideration — our society will gain a bit more harmony and a bit more warmth.

How should neighbors get along with one another? Recently, a "bizarre" neighborly dispute in a residential community in a certain place has drawn attention.

One homeowner aimed a desk lamp toward the window, and was complained about by a neighbor in the building across, on the grounds that "the desk lamp's light affects the normal life of family members." Property management mediation failed, and ultimately police intervened. Now, one side is preparing to install a light-blocking curtain, proactively resolving the impact from their own home; the other side has agreed to adjust the lamp's direction, showing consideration for the neighbor's needs. Both sides each stepped back one pace, finally drawing the curtain on this neighborly disturbance.

Turning on a light at home is a legitimate right; letting one's family live normally is also a reasonable demand. As neighbors, how should one get along?

The ancients had their own answer. Zhang Ying, a Grand Secretary of the Qing Dynasty, upon receiving a letter from home sent over a thousand li reporting a homestead dispute, replied with a poem: "A single letter arrives only because of a wall; let him have three chi, what harm is there?" The family, upon reading the letter, voluntarily yielded three chi, and the neighbor also yielded three chi, thus forming the Six-Foot Lane. More than 300 years have passed, and the two characters "courtesy and yielding" (礼让) are both the answer to resolving disputes and a model for neighborly coexistence.

In the modern city, neighborly demands are diverse and complex. The piano music from next door, the playfulness of children — any of these can become the trigger point for neighborly conflict. These are not confrontations over major principles of right and wrong; they are more collisions of different life habits and different rhythms of daily routine. When disputes arise over such matters, each side has their own reasoning, and perhaps neither holds "complete right" nor is "completely wrong" — this is precisely the epitome of many conflicts in modern urban life.

Resorting to the courts seems difficult to fundamentally resolve such problems. Law can delineate the boundaries of rights, but it is hard-pressed to measure the warmth of the human heart. For example, the Civil Code stipulates that civil subjects must not abuse their civil rights, but whether the light of a desk lamp specifically constitutes "harm" is often difficult to measure with precise data. From another level, in the face of neighborly disputes, we cannot rely solely on law to settle disputes and end conflicts. A close neighbor is better than a distant relative; law is the bottom line, but a harmonious neighborly relationship requires mutual understanding and consideration above that bottom line.

Speak well when there is something to say; discuss well when there is something to settle. Discussion is not one side suppressing the other, but each side thinking from the other's standpoint. Putting oneself in another's shoes, who would resent a considerate and yielding good neighbor?

A little more perspective-taking, a little more mutual consideration — our society will gain a bit more harmony and a bit more warmth. Yield a little, and you have the Six-Foot Lane; wait a moment, and all things have room. Reading the wisdom of the ancients will surely bring more reflection to people today.

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Photo Report

On August 24, the medical team of the Baiyin Detachment of the Gansu Armed Police Corps (武警甘肃总队白银支队) carried out a free health clinic activity under the theme "Carry Forward the Long March Spirit, Free Clinic Warms the People's Hearts" (赓续长征情 义诊暖民心) in Yueyabao Community (月牙堡社区), Huishi Town (会师镇), Huining County (会宁县), putting their original aspiration and mission into practice through concrete action and continuing the deep bond between the military and the people, as close as fish and water. The photo shows medical staff of the medical team providing health consultation services to the public. Photo by Xu Wei (徐伟) (Image China).

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Hunan implements "apply-and-receive" credit repair mechanism

Our newspaper Changsha, August 26 (Reporter Yang Xun) — The Hunan Provincial Market Supervision Administration recently issued a notice, deciding to implement the "apply immediately, enjoy immediately" (即申即享) credit repair working mechanism throughout the province, in order to optimize the business environment with greater intensity and to enhance the level of credit repair services with higher efficiency, assisting all types of business entities in traveling light and developing healthily.

The notice clarifies that all types of business entities lawfully registered with market supervision departments at all levels in Hunan Province, or with administrative approval departments exercising the function of business entity registration, that have been included in the list of abnormal business operations due to failure to submit annual reports within the prescribed time limit, failure to publicize relevant enterprise information within the time limit ordered by market supervision departments, inability to be contacted through the registered address (business premises), or failure to lawfully handle enterprise name change registration, may enjoy the "apply immediately, enjoy immediately" service when they meet the relevant circumstances stipulated in the notice.

After the notice takes effect, the processing time limit for credit repair on the list of abnormal business operations will be shortened from 4 working days to "apply immediately, enjoy immediately," and it is expected to benefit more than 2 million business entities in Hunan Province that have already been included in the list of abnormal business operations.

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Strengthening cross-strait youth exchanges is a "project of hope" that benefits the present and pays dividends for generations to come.

Our newspaper, Beijing, August 26 (Reporter Zhang Shuo). Zhang Han (张晗), spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council (国务院台办), pointed out at the routine press conference on the 26th that the strengthening of cooperation and exchanges between compatriots on both sides of the strait is an unstoppable historical trend and also conforms to mainstream public opinion on the island. In particular, young people on both sides of the strait bear the hope of the nation and the future of the Chinese nation; enabling them to strengthen exchanges and enhance mutual understanding is a "project of hope" that benefits the present and achieves merit for a thousand years for the nation's prosperity and national rejuvenation. We advise the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities to listen more to the voices of mainstream public opinion on the island, do more things that benefit cross-strait exchanges and cooperation, and do fewer things that undermine and obstruct cross-strait exchanges and cooperation.

At the press conference, Zhang Han, in response to a question, introduced the situation of the "One Heart, One Journey" (同心同行) — Shanghai Stop of the Cross-Strait Youth Exchange Season event, which opened on the 25th. She stated that through the institutionalized platform for two-way exchanges between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, more delegations will be invited to the mainland for exchanges and visits, with rich and varied content. We sincerely invite our young Taiwanese friends to come to the mainland and take a look around. We hope that young people on both sides of the strait will walk together with one heart, continuously gathering youthful strength to promote the peaceful development and integrated development of cross-strait relations.

Recently, the website of the General Administration of Customs (海关总署) published the registration matters for a new batch of Taiwanese pomelo packaging plants and orchards. Zhang Han stated in response that we have always upheld the concept of "the two sides of the strait are one family" (两岸一家亲), doing our utmost to handle practical matters, do good deeds, and resolve difficulties for our Taiwanese compatriots. Since the Taiwan Work Office of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央台办) was authorized to release ten policy measures to promote cross-strait exchanges and cooperation in April this year, the relevant parties on both sides of the strait, on the political basis of adhering to the "1992 Consensus" (九二共识) and opposing "Taiwan independence" (台独), have promoted the implementation and refinement of various measures, achieving positive results. On the premise of complying with the relevant mainland inspection and quarantine regulations, we welcome more high-quality Taiwanese products to be sold to the mainland, allowing compatriots on both sides of the strait to share the dividends of the peaceful development and integrated development of cross-strait relations.

Recently, Taiwan's education department stated that it has cooperated with the Mainland Affairs Council (陆委会) to establish a "registration platform," and schools on the island going to the mainland for exchanges must fill in information on this platform; if the information is found to be untrue, consideration will be given to reducing future school applications for exchange subsidies or activity equipment. This move has once again caused some schools on the island to have concerns about participating in cross-strait educational exchanges. Zhang Han pointed out in response that the DPP authorities have stopped at nothing in undermining normal exchanges between the two sides in education and among young students, fully exposing their sinister intentions to obstruct cross-strait personnel exchanges and various exchanges and cooperation, and to escalate cross-strait confrontation and antagonism. Facts have repeatedly proven that the DPP authorities are the biggest obstacle to cross-strait exchanges and interactions, and the biggest threat to peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. The desire for peace, development, exchange, and cooperation is the mainstream public opinion in island society; the wish of compatriots on both sides of the strait to visit each other and grow closer, and the general trend of cross-strait exchanges and cooperation, cannot be stopped. Any act that turns back the wheel of history or defies the will of the people will ultimately be spurned by public opinion.

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Liaoning receives over 15,000 new administrative reconsideration cases in first half of year

Our newspaper Shenyang, August 26 (reporter Liu Jiahua (刘佳华)) The reporter learned on the 25th from a press conference held by the Liaoning Provincial Government Information Office (辽宁省政府新闻办): Liaoning fully leverages the main channel role of administrative reconsideration in resolving administrative disputes. From January 1, 2024, when the newly revised Administrative Reconsideration Law took effect, to the end of June this year, the province cumulatively received more than 72,000 new administrative reconsideration cases, of which more than 15,000 were newly received in the first half of this year, 2.2 times the same period in 2023.

Liaoning's administrative reconsideration bodies at all levels serve the overall development situation and help optimize the business environment. Since 2024, the province has newly received 3,240 enterprise-related administrative reconsideration cases, cumulatively recovering approximately 2.6 billion yuan in economic losses for enterprises. Since 2024, Liaoning's administrative reconsideration bodies have legally reviewed 6,221 cases in key livelihood sectors including social security, medical care, food safety, and ecological environment, directly correcting errors in 1,951 cases, effectively safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the masses, and promoting the improvement of law-based administration in livelihood sectors.

At the same time, focusing on convenience for the people and benefit for enterprises, Liaoning has implemented online and offline application channels, established administrative reconsideration reception windows, set up 416 administrative reconsideration agency points relying on grassroots judicial offices, opened a "green channel" for enterprise-related administrative reconsideration cases, and established 294 enterprise-related administrative reconsideration service points (stations) in areas with dense business entities; focusing on improving quality and increasing efficiency, Liaoning has legally organized hearings for 880 cases and consulted expert opinions of the Administrative Reconsideration Committee for nearly 500 cases, achieving a transformation from "written review" to "open-door case handling." In addition, Liaoning has strengthened administrative reconsideration mediation efforts, and on the basis of ascertaining facts and clarifying responsibilities, has promoted full-process mediation before, during, and after cases, substantively resolving administrative disputes. Since 2024, a cumulative total of 15,032 cases have been mediated and settled through conciliation, with a mediation and withdrawal rate of 26.4%.

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Guo Hongwei, former chairman of Hongtong County Rural Commercial Bank in Shanxi Province, repatriated to China

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 26 — Recently, under the overall coordination of the Office of the Central Anti-Corruption Coordination Group for International Fugitive Repatriation and Asset Recovery, and through close cooperation between Shanxi Province's supervisory organs, public security organs, and the law enforcement organs of relevant countries, fugitive criminal suspect Guo Hongwei surrendered himself abroad and was repatriated to China.

Guo Hongwei, male, born May 1981, former Party Secretary and Chairman of the Board of Hongtong County Rural Commercial Bank in Shanxi Province, is suspected of the crime of bribery and the crime of illegally granting loans. He fled abroad in January 2025. In April 2026, Interpol issued a Red Notice for Guo. The case-handling organs solidly carried out fugitive repatriation and asset recovery work and international law enforcement cooperation, prompting Guo to voluntarily surrender himself abroad and be repatriated.

A responsible person from the Central Fugitive Repatriation Office stated that Guo Hongwei's return to face justice is an important achievement in implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and carrying out the "Sky Net 2026" (天网2026) operation. We will adhere to the principle that every fugitive must be pursued and the pursuit must be carried through to the end, deepen anti-corruption law enforcement and judicial cooperation, intensify efforts to pursue key individuals, and always maintain a powerful offensive in fugitive repatriation and asset recovery, never allowing any corrupt element to escape the reach of the law.

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Understanding the Ordinary People in the History of the Canal (Perceiving China Through Culture · Spotlight on Niche Scholarship)

By: 本报记者 李 蕊

A stone stele — what can it tell us?

In the Canal Cultural Relics and Documents Exhibition Hall of the Canal Studies Institute at Liaocheng University in Shandong, a rubbing of a stele inscription titled Record of the Restoration of the Tea Shed (重修茶棚记) is preserved. The inscription records that in the twentieth year of the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty (1755), Shi Deyu, a native of Shijiazhuang Village in Nangong County, Zhili, was conducting business in Linqing. He raised funds to build three tea sheds, offering free tea to passing merchants and travelers, and won the praise of the local people. More than seventy years later, the tea sheds had fallen into severe disrepair from years of neglect. Shi Deyu's descendants, together with villagers from the surrounding area, raised funds to restore the tea sheds, allowing this act of kindness to be carried on.

The good deeds carved on the stone stele reflect both the simple tradition of the ordinary people of the canal region in upholding virtue, doing good, and热心公益 (being enthusiastic about public welfare), and the social character of people from different localities helping one another and living together in harmony. These folk memories inscribed on stone, on the one hand, fill the gaps left by official histories in recording grassroots society; on the other hand, they allow later generations to touch the living threads of ordinary people's lives in canal history, enabling the good deeds and righteous acts buried in the passage of time to be rediscovered by the world.

"Through this stele, it is not difficult to see that the history of the Grand Canal records not only the past of emperors, generals, ministers, and literati, but also the lives of many ordinary people," said Zheng Minde, dean and professor of the Canal Studies Institute at Liaocheng University.

In 2007, Zheng Minde entered Liaocheng University and studied for his master's degree under Professor Wang Yun, a canal research specialist, thereby embarking on the path of Grand Canal cultural research. He later went to Nankai University for his doctorate, where his supervisor, Professor Xu Tan, was a scholar of Ming-Qing economic history.

At that time, the relevant achievements in canal research were mainly concentrated in the fields of political history, institutional history, and water conservancy history. "There was relatively little attention paid to groups and the lives of ordinary people in regional society; research emphasized the macro and the holistic, while research at the micro and individual level needed to be strengthened," Zheng Minde recalled.

Through sorting through historical materials day after day and organizing rare canal documents, Zheng Minde's focus of attention in canal research quietly changed.

In the Record of the Restoration of the Pontoon Bridge at Jintan Town (重修金滩镇浮桥碑记), Zheng Minde saw the grand undertaking during the Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty in which officials and commoners of Yuancheng County and Jintan Town donated funds to build a pontoon bridge to facilitate the passage of grain tribute boats and the travel of merchants. In The Pleasure Boats of Yangzhou (扬州画舫录), he found extensive records of the good deeds of Wang Yinggeng, an Anhui merchant of the Qing Dynasty, who, while doing business in Yangzhou, repaired the Confucian temple, funded poor students, built bridges and boats, and assisted travelers. And more steles similar to the Record of the Restoration of the Tea Shed recorded the interactive relationship between the canal and the people of the societies along its banks.

"Looking back, my research shifted from institutional history to social history not by deliberate design, but as a natural transition and a matter of course in the research process." Zheng Minde's research revolves around grain tribute storage and regional society, encompassing both institutional history content and attention to the interactions of different groups. "Focusing from a social history perspective on the people involved in river works and grain tribute operations better reveals the connections between different groups and regional society."

When Zheng Minde first entered the field, canal research was a truly obscure discipline. "In the early years, only a few teachers at Liaocheng University — Wang Yun, Li Quan, Wu Xin, Li Denan, and others — were engaged in canal research, and both funding and talent were extremely scarce." Even so, the research team continued to work diligently in depth, publishing important works such as Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Canal Documents (中国运河文献书目提要) and Compendium of Historical Documents on the Grand Canal of China (中国大运河历史文献集成).

The turning point came in 2014. The Grand Canal of China was successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List, and thereafter the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt and the Grand Canal National Cultural Park were successively implemented. The Canal Studies Institute at Liaocheng University, established as early as 2012 as a substantive research institution devoted to canal studies, thereby entered the fast track of development. To date, the institute has 22 full-time research personnel, has cumulatively secured 34 National Social Science Fund projects, and has published more than 80 books.

Rare canal documents that had not received sufficient attention in the past — archives, stele inscriptions, contracts, and maps — are now being systematically studied. "The scope of research continues to expand, the content grows ever richer, and objectivity and authenticity have improved significantly," Zheng Minde said. As interdisciplinary and integrated research across history, sociology, architecture, geography, and other disciplines has become the norm, the institute has in recent years produced a steady stream of results in fields such as the protection, inheritance, and utilization of cultural heritage and the integration of culture and tourism, and its role in serving society has become increasingly prominent.

In nearly twenty years of canal research, Zheng Minde has spent most of his time organizing materials, going through archives, or visiting various places for field investigations. "There is hardship in it, but also joy," Zheng Minde said. "Whenever I see papers published, books released, and research results translated into practical application, my heart is filled with gratification, and it is all worth it."

At present, the number of students choosing canal studies as their research direction remains limited, and considerable difficulties persist in the sorting of folk canal documents, the protection of ancient sites, and research on ancient architecture along the canal. But Zheng Minde also sees hope — with the offering of canal culture courses and the conduct of field surveys, more and more students are beginning to develop a strong interest.

"To young people who aspire to pursue obscure disciplines, I want to say: hold fast to confidence, persevere with constancy, and keep your original aspiration," Zheng Minde said.

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Measuring Villages and Fields on Foot (Reflections)

By: 郑民德

Having engaged in canal research since 2007, nearly two decades have now passed. Throughout this journey, I have not only consulted documents, sorted through historical materials, and written scholarly works in the study, but also taught courses on canal culture to students, and conducted field investigations along the canal, measuring the towns, villages, and fields along its banks on foot. Over the past 20 years, canal research has evolved from a "niche field" of partial inquiry and attention from only a few individual scholars into a field where "the niche is no longer cold" — the scope of research has expanded enormously, its depth has continuously deepened, the number of participating scholars has kept growing, and its cross-disciplinary, comprehensive, practical, and service-oriented character has become increasingly prominent.

As a scholar who has long been engaged in canal research, I have always been committed to protecting, inheriting, and utilizing canal culture, and to continuously excavating the historical value and contemporary significance of canal culture. At the same time, I have also come to recognize that, compared with other mature disciplines, the systematic construction of canal studies has not yet been completed, the number of high-quality research outputs remains relatively small, the frequency of exchange among scholars is not high, and some research areas remain relatively niche — in particular, a large body of rare documentary materials such as canal archives, steles and inscriptions, contracts, and genealogies still awaits systematic excavation and effective utilization. Therefore, further exploring the "niche" directions and fields within canal research requires a greater investment of time, stronger team building, and stronger research collaboration.

My many years of canal research have allowed me to witness the entire process of this field's development from obscurity to growth, and I have also personally experienced the transformation of the discipline and changes in research paradigms. I believe that canal research has never been a matter of solitary self-appreciation in the study; it should take root in the life practices of residents along the canal and serve the development needs of contemporary society. In the future, I will continue to walk along the canal, dig deeper into more valuable research content, and contribute my own strength to the protection and inheritance of canal culture.

(The author is the dean and professor of the Canal Studies Institute of Liaocheng University.)

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Old school building transformed into village history museum

By: 人民网记者 李 洋

In the heart of the Songliao Plain, Beixiajia Village, Lishu Town, Lishu County, Jilin Province, is embraced by cornfields. Deep within the village, a campus that has carried over 50 years of educational memory stands quietly.

In 2020, to optimize the rural education layout, the Chengdong Central School in Lishu Town, which had superior conditions, opened its doors to the children of Beixiajia Village. From that point on, the Beixiajia Village school ceased operations. The once-resounding sounds of reading could no longer be heard, and the school buildings fell idle.

"These buildings hold the memories of several generations. Even if the school buildings are idle, they must not be allowed to fall into disrepair." In 2025, Shao Sheng, a village cadre nearing retirement, conceived the idea of revitalizing the idle school buildings. "But the prerequisite was low-cost renovation," Shao Sheng said.

This idea quickly received an enthusiastic response from the villagers. After repeated discussions, everyone decided to establish the Beixiajia Village History Museum.

This renovation involved no large-scale demolition or construction—only meticulous care for the old buildings through "repairing the old as it was old" (修旧如旧 - xiū jiù rú jiù, "repair the old to appear old," to restore while preserving original character). The renovation model of "light intervention, deep embedding" not only saved construction costs but also transformed villagers from "bystanders" into "co-builders." Everyone spontaneously participated, and many donated treasured old objects they had kept for years. More than a hundred old farm tools and daily necessities—including vintage wooden cabinets from the 1950s and 1960s, hand-operated spinning wheels, farming plows and harrows, traditional hoes, and old kitchen utensils—have transformed this place into a garden of rural history and a continuation of local cultural heritage.

Today, more than ten idle school rooms have been transformed into the Beixiajia Village History Museum. The exhibition hall authentically recreates the production and living scenes of Northeast China's rural past, becoming an important link connecting past and present, preserving nostalgic memories, and passing on local civilization. The farming culture exhibition area systematically displays various traditional farming implements, vividly recreating the production scenes of spring plowing and summer weeding, autumn harvest and winter storage, showcasing the ancestors' years of toil rooted in the black soil and their industrious wisdom. The assistance achievement exhibition area systematically presents the pragmatic measures and fruitful results of the village-based work teams in infrastructure upgrading and specialty industry cultivation since the poverty alleviation campaign (脱贫攻坚 - tuōpín gōngjiān, "poverty alleviation assault," the campaign to eliminate absolute poverty), serving as a vivid window witnessing the development of the era and recording rural transformation.

The renewal of the old school buildings extends beyond spatial appearance to cultural value. Building on local resources, Beixiajia Village continues to deepen its study-tourism brand, creating a farming study and practice base with distinctive rural characteristics.

"Students, do you know what the five grains in 'five grains and miscellaneous grains' are? The rice paddy in front of you is one category of the five grains." "This is wumi (sorghum smut). Today, let's get to know it together." ... Under the teachers' guidance, children participating in the study program planted rice seedlings and worked the fields in the farming experience area, learning agricultural knowledge, appreciating the difficulty of labor through close contact with nature, and inheriting farming culture.

The renewed old school buildings also carry a touch of everyday life. Last autumn, during the golden harvest season, the village held a consumption-based poverty alleviation (消费扶贫 - xiāofèi fúpín, "consumption poverty alleviation," purchasing products from poor regions) market-gathering event here. The scene was crowded and warm, with activities such as specialty agricultural product promotions and targeted, precise procurement carried out in an orderly manner, broadening channels for villagers to increase their income.

Since the beginning of this year, Beixiajia Village has also actively explored a new model of integrated "culture + e-commerce" development, creating a livestream room for specialty agricultural products.

"Family members, today's good products we bring include local sweet corn, miscellaneous grains, free-range eggs, and other high-quality agricultural specialty products—all tastes from childhood." Plain words, vivid scenes, and excellent quality have won recognition from netizens. The livestream has effectively expanded online sales channels for agricultural products, allowing the good products from the black soil to reach beyond the village.

Village-based cadres have also used the village history museum and old school buildings as filming locations to produce short videos featuring rural daily anecdotes, distinctive folk customs, traditional farming scenes, and interpretations of benefit-the-people policies. Down-to-earth language and life-like imagery have brought rural culture "to life" and helped benefit-the-people policies "sink down" to the grassroots.

The idle campus is not "idle." A micro-renovation that "demolished no wall and built no house" has activated the cultural source of Beixiajia Village. In front of the old school gate, a parent remarked with emotion: "Here you can discover what Northeast China's countryside looks like—with the fragrance of the soil, the roots of culture, and the warmth of everyday life."

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Shanghai Literary Museum opens to the public

This newspaper, Shanghai, August 26 (Reporter Cao Lingjuan) On August 27, the Shanghai Museum of Literature, located in Hongkou District, Shanghai, will officially open to the public. After ten years of planning, site selection, construction, and exhibition arrangement, the Shanghai Museum of Literature, composed of one main hall and three historic buildings, will face citizens and literary enthusiasts at home and abroad, presenting the development history and glorious achievements of Shanghai literature through rich literary historical materials.

Shanghai is a city continuously written about by literature. Writers such as Lu Xun, Guo Moruo, Mao Dun, Ye Shengtao, Ba Jin, Ding Ling, Zheng Zhenduo, and Shi Zhecun all left literary footprints in Shanghai. The Shanghai Museum of Literature presents the distinctive features of Shanghai literature through five permanent exhibition areas: "Time·Shanghai," "Left-Wing·Shanghai," "Metropolitan·Shanghai," "Light and Shadow·Shanghai," and "World·Shanghai." For example, the "Qiejie Pavilion" unit in the "Left-Wing·Shanghai" exhibition area focuses on Lu Xun's traces in Shanghai, displaying his complete collections of essays, translated works, and self-compiled woodcut prints; the "Forest of Translators" in the "World·Shanghai" exhibition area centrally displays first editions and collected editions of translations by master translators such as Lin Shu, Lu Xun, Geng Jizhi, Ba Jin, Fu Lei, and Zhu Shenghao.

To promote intimate contact between readers and literature, the Shanghai Museum of Literature has set up multiple literary reading spaces, including the Ba Jin Library, the Maritime Study, the multifunctional hall reading space, the Malanhua Picture Book Hall, and the Starry Hall digital exhibition hall, creating a literary museum where one can both view exhibitions and read. Among these, the Ba Jin Library, as a museum within the museum and a pioneer hall, opened to the public on November 25, 2024.

This year, the Lu Xun Literature Prize award ceremony landed in Shanghai for the first time. The Shanghai Museum of Literature's opening features a special "Lu Xun and Left-Wing Literature Series Exhibition," including units such as the Lu Xun and Left-Wing Literature in Newspapers and Periodicals Exhibition, the Lu Xun Literature Prize Winning Works Exhibition, and the New Era Shanghai Literary Achievements Exhibition.

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Anhui issues implementation rules for science and technology award measures.

Our newspaper Hefei, August 26 (Reporter Tian Xianjin) — The Department of Science and Technology of Anhui Province recently issued the "Implementation Rules for the Measures of Anhui Province for Science and Technology Awards," further refining and clarifying the award scope, nomination conditions, review standards, organizational procedures, objection handling, and other contents of the Anhui Provincial Science and Technology Award, so as to enhance the scientificity, standardization, and impartiality of the award work. The implementation rules take effect from August 30 of this year.

The implementation rules further optimize the review working mechanism. In terms of nomination and acceptance, the original recommendation system has been changed to a nomination system, with detailed enumeration of the conditions and standards that nominating entities must meet, and clarification of nomination restrictions and the expert nomination process. In terms of review experts, it is clearly established that an expert review database will be built, with an appropriate increase in the proportion of experts from outside the province and from enterprises, and detailed provisions are made for the selection, recusal, performance supervision, and reputation management of review experts.

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Photo Report

As the museum craze continues to heat up, cultural heritage venues have become popular destinations for family trips. From January to July this year, more than 1.1 million visitors made reservations to tour Xuzhou Museum in Jiangsu. The photo shows visitors pausing to view a dragon-shaped jade artifact at Xuzhou Museum.
　　Photo by our reporter Deng Jiansheng

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Fostering an innovation ecosystem to accelerate the "smart" transformation of the Auto Valley

By: 本报记者 吴 君

In August, in Turpan, Xinjiang, the surface temperature reached 70 degrees Celsius. A smart connected vehicle equipped with a DF30 chip slowly started, drove a full lap at speed, and stopped steadily. "This chip is expected to enter mass production next year," said Zhang Fanwu (张凡武), chief engineer of intelligent technology at the Intelligent Electronic and Electrical Development Center of the Dongfeng Motor R&D Institute (东风汽车研发总院).

The DF30 is an automotive-grade MCU chip with a fully domestic industrial chain, born in the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone (武汉经开区). Facing the wave of industrial transformation, this hot land known as "China's Auto Valley" (中国车谷) is accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system led by new energy and intelligent connected vehicles through the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation.

In Junshan New City (军山新城) of the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, universities and research institutes, new R&D institutions, vehicle manufacturers, and parts suppliers are located side by side. Relying on the Huazhong University of Science and Technology Junshan Campus (华中科技大学军山校区) and the Wuhan University of Technology Junshan Campus (武汉理工大学军山校区), the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone has planned a 23-square-kilometer university innovation belt, focusing on frontier fields such as intelligent connected vehicles and artificial intelligence, to build an industry-university-research collaborative innovation hub.

In June this year, the headquarters R&D and production base of Hubei Mairuida Supply Chain Co., Ltd. (湖北迈睿达供应链股份有限公司) was put into use in Junshan New City, just one street away from the Wuhan University of Technology Junshan Campus. Deng Xiaohuai (邓孝怀), deputy general manager of the company, introduced that the enterprise has carried out in-depth cooperation with the university's School of Automotive Engineering, successfully jointly developing a distributed chassis system, allowing the industry-university-research integration model of "enterprises pose the questions, universities solve the problems" to take root and grow (落地生根, luò dì shēng gēn - "fall to the ground, grow roots," to take root and develop).

Through school-enterprise cooperation, the soil for innovation transformation continues to be enriched. Four years ago, the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone and Huazhong University of Science and Technology jointly built the Future Technology Innovation Research Institute (未来技术创新研究院), constructing a full-chain service system of "R&D - pilot testing - industrialization," selecting 36 projects from Huazhong University of Science and Technology for the pipeline, and building 14 production lines for pilot maturation and industrial incubation. "After we moved in, in just one year, the efficiency of high-power laser processing technology increased threefold and costs decreased by 60%, breaking the international monopoly." Qin Yingxiong (秦应雄), professor at the Laser Processing National Engineering Research Center of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, introduced that last year his team established a company, and enterprise revenue leaped from the million-yuan level to the ten-million-yuan level.

At present, the total number of pilot testing platforms in the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone has exceeded 34, accounting for about one-eighth of the city's total. "In the past, some places provided at most a few buildings of space for pilot testing, but the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone provided 30,000 square meters of standardized factory buildings for the pilot maturation of scientific and technological achievements." Li Jianghua (李江华), dean of the Future Technology Innovation Research Institute of the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, said that the institute has extensively introduced social capital and successfully incubated 10 industrialization companies.

The thermal efficiency of the Dongfeng Mach 1.5T hybrid engine has broken through 48%, the 16,000-ton integrated die-casting production line has been completed and put into operation, and Voyah Automobile has built a technical architecture of "hardcore skeleton + intelligent neurons + full-scenario performance integrated agent"... A series of breakthrough achievements have emerged one after another in the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, continuously refreshing the innovation height of "China's Auto Valley."

In February this year, at the Wuhan Science and Technology Innovation Conference, the "Auto Valley Industrial Innovation Corridor Construction Action Plan (2026-2030)" (《车谷产业创新大走廊建设行动方案（2026—2030年）》) was released, and a trillion-yuan-level automobile industry corridor will "drive" from blueprint to reality. Sun Zhibo (孙智波), deputy director of the Management Committee of the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, introduced that the Auto Valley Industrial Innovation Corridor will take the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone as its carrying area, link up with Caidian (蔡甸), Jiangxia (江夏), Hanyang (汉阳), and Hongshan (洪山) areas of Wuhan, and connect with the Optics Valley Science and Technology Innovation Corridor (光谷科创大走廊), extending to Honghu (洪湖) in Jingzhou and Hanchuan (汉川) in Xiaogan.

From building cars to building "chips," from laboratories to production lines, in the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, a "smart" transformation driven by the deep integration of education, science and technology, talent, and industry is gathering the mighty force of innovation breakthroughs.

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Step up efforts to safeguard and improve people's livelihoods, and solidly advance common prosperity for all.

Ensuring and improving people's livelihood through development
Xu Lingyi, Member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has placed the advancement of common prosperity for all the people in a more prominent position, and has driven solid steps forward in promoting common prosperity for all the people. To promote the implementation of the CPC Central Committee's decisions and arrangements, the following recommendations are proposed:

Adhere to making high-quality development the focus of advancing common prosperity. Adhere to taking economic construction as the central task, forming dual driving forces through macro-policy guidance and innovation by market entities, and making the "cake" of primary distribution bigger. On this basis, further improve the coordinated and matched systems of primary distribution, redistribution, and tertiary distribution, so that all the people share in the fruits of development.

Make solid efforts and achieve practical results in narrowing regional gaps, urban-rural gaps, and income gaps. Revitalize rural stock assets, promote the integration of culture and tourism, increase support for industries with distinctive agricultural features, and broaden channels for farmers' property income. Promote the high-quality sharing of basic public services, and gradually raise the level of pension benefits for rural residents. Improve mechanisms for coordinated regional development and east-west collaboration, increase paired assistance and support efforts, and strengthen the talent support for development in underdeveloped regions.

Expand the connotation of common prosperity. Shift the connotation of common prosperity from being mostly measured by material wealth to a more comprehensive and holistic evaluation. Respect the principal position of the people, stimulate the people's sense of being masters of the country, and safeguard and promote social fairness and justice; resolve the urgent and difficult problems of the people, prevent and defuse contradictions and risks; and promote a healthy and uplifting social atmosphere.

Better leveraging the role of private enterprises as the main arena for employment
Fang Guanghua, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee (representing the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce)

At present, the number of private enterprises in China has exceeded 61 million, contributing more than 80% of urban labor employment. Better leveraging the role of private enterprises as the main arena for employment is an inevitable requirement for promoting the high-quality development of the private economy and promoting high-quality and full employment. The following recommendations are proposed:

Promote win-win development between enterprises and workers in new forms of employment. In recent years, the platform economy has developed rapidly, and the number of workers in new forms of employment has increased significantly. The legislative protection of the rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment should be accelerated, enhancing workers' sense of gain, happiness, and security, promoting honesty and trustworthiness and dedication to work among workers in new forms of employment, and achieving win-win development between enterprises and workers.

Activate the potential of private enterprises in assisting college graduates' employment from both the supply and demand sides. Make efforts to break down institutional barriers for private enterprises in professional title evaluation, talent recognition, and archives management, and guide private enterprises to provide clear career development paths for talents such as college graduates. Establish an industry-education integration collaborative mechanism of "enterprises posing problems, government establishing projects, and universities solving problems," and organize universities to conduct targeted training of talents in short supply for enterprises through a project-based approach.

Support private enterprises in promoting rural labor employment through industrial revitalization. For projects with large employment capacity that rely on county-specific characteristic resources, such as deep processing of agricultural products and rural cultural tourism, financial institutions should provide "job stabilization and expansion" financial products and services according to the scale of employment. Promote the "training equals employment" model, and support private enterprises in conducting skills training for rural leaders in prosperity through government purchase of services, skills training subsidies, and other means.

Striving to build harmonious labor relations
Sun Dongsheng, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee (representing the Central Committee of the China Democratic National Construction Association)

Fully safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the broad masses of workers is key to optimizing the income distribution pattern and consolidating the foundation of common prosperity. In recent years, China's employment situation has remained generally stable, and systems such as wage payment, labor inspection, governance of wage arrears for migrant workers, and protection of rights and interests of new forms of employment have been accelerated and improved. However, there is still a gap between institutional provisions and implementation, and it is necessary to promote the forward shift of the governance threshold, shifting from rights protection at the end to source governance. To this end, the following recommendations are proposed:

Implement a "penetrating compliance" demonstration action for labor rights in state-owned enterprises and government-invested projects. Relying on existing central enterprise compliance management, government-invested project supervision, and state-owned enterprise procurement systems, extend labor rights compliance from within enterprises to the supply chain, take the lead in implementing labor rights compliance lists, and form replicable and inspectable demonstration standards. Make solid efforts in all tasks of guarding the bottom line, pressing responsibilities, and setting benchmarks, to prevent rights protection work from deviating or going astray.

Use digital means to strengthen the protection of labor rights. On the basis of the existing migrant worker wage payment monitoring platform, integrate core data from taxation, social security, housing and urban-rural development, market supervision, and other departments, and pilot in key areas such as engineering construction, express logistics, and platform employment. Around leading indicators such as abnormal wage payments, social security payment interruptions, and overtime exceeding limits, implement graded warnings and classified handling for enterprises, promoting the governance of labor rights from passive acceptance to active prevention.

Optimize the rights protection process and consolidate the responsibility of employers for rights protection. Use the 12333 hotline and government service platform as the unified front-end entry point, integrate functions such as human resources and social security complaints, wage arrears clue reporting, and trade union rights protection consultation, to help workers achieve "one-time registration, rapid response."

Improving the overall effectiveness of redistribution
Chen Xingying, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee

The distribution system is the foundational system for promoting common prosperity. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, on the basis of making the "cake" bigger and better, it is necessary to cut and divide the "cake" well through reasonable institutional arrangements, and improve the coordinated and matched institutional system of primary distribution, redistribution, and tertiary distribution. At present, redistribution faces some new challenges, and the overall effectiveness of redistribution needs to be improved. To this end, the following recommendations are proposed:

Optimize tax policies. Coordinate the use of regulatory tools such as individual income tax, consumption tax, and property tax, and regulate the order of income distribution. Optimize the rate structure of individual income tax, scientifically adjust special additional deduction policies, and effectively reduce the comprehensive burden on families for elderly care, childbirth, serious illness medical treatment, housing, and other aspects.

Consolidate the bottom-line function of social security. Deepen the national pooling of pension insurance, improve the multi-level and multi-pillar old-age security system, and narrow the security gaps between regions and between urban and rural areas. Promote provincial-level pooling of medical insurance and the normalization of direct settlement of cross-regional medical treatment, reducing the rigid medical expenditure burden on the people. Strengthen guidance and services for workers in new forms of employment and flexible employment, and increase the coverage of social insurance.

Improve the transfer payment system. Promote the continued tilt of fiscal expenditure toward ensuring people's livelihood, and innovate cross-regional transfer payment settlement mechanisms. Increase financial support for underdeveloped regions, old revolutionary base areas, major grain-producing areas, and ecological function areas, and improve horizontal ecological compensation and inter-provincial benefit compensation mechanisms. Increase support for families with children, effectively reduce the cost of childbirth and child-rearing for families, and continuously enhance residents' willingness to have children.

Raise the level of rule of law in social assistance. Improve the social assistance system that is tiered and classified and coordinated between urban and rural areas, and improve the coordination mechanism of subsistence allowances, extreme poverty assistance, temporary assistance, and special assistance. Build a big data platform to achieve full-process management of timely identification and precise confirmation of disadvantaged groups, and firmly hold the bottom line of people's livelihood.

Giving full play to the positive role of charity in safeguarding people's livelihood
Tang Chengpei, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee

Charity is an important means of tertiary distribution and has special significance for enhancing people's well-being and helping achieve common prosperity. At present, the charity sector still faces problems such as insufficient role in playing its function, irregular management in some organizations, unbalanced resource allocation, and weakened industry credibility. To this end, the following recommendations are proposed:

Give full play to the positive role of charity in safeguarding people's livelihood. Promote the tilt of charitable resources toward disadvantaged regions and disadvantaged groups, and guide charitable organizations to focus on the urgent and difficult needs of the people in livelihood security, education, medical care, and other aspects. Strengthen the connection and coordination between charitable assistance and government assistance, smooth the channels for charity to participate in social assistance, innovate diversified forms of realization, and effectively play a supplementary role.

Promote precise and efficient connection of charitable resources. Promote the connection and sharing of government department assistance information with charitable supply capacity, and improve the efficiency of assistance and support. Encourage multiple charitable forces to exchange and cooperate in project operation, assistance information, and other aspects, promoting complementary advantages. Increase the application of artificial intelligence technology in the charity sector, empower charitable activities to improve quality and efficiency, lower the threshold for charitable participation, and expand the coverage of charitable activities.

Deeply advance the standardized construction of charitable organizations. Strengthen party building work in charitable organizations, press the responsibilities of registration management authorities, business supervisory units, industry management departments, and other parties, and strengthen guidance for standardized construction. Guide charitable institutions to improve and perfect their institutional systems, and optimize institutional norms in key areas such as projects, funds, and personnel. Guide charitable organizations to strengthen information disclosure, ensuring that charitable activities are carried out in accordance with laws and regulations.

Actively create a good environment for broad social participation. Make good use of important platforms and carriers such as "China Charity Day" and the "China Charity Award," extensively discover and publicize touching charity stories among the people, promote the public's better understanding of charity operation mechanisms, and advocate the concept of helping others, being happy oneself, and giving back to society.

Promoting artificial intelligence to empower the high-quality development of basic education
Chen Guiyun, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee

The "15th Five-Year Plan for Education Development" requires the in-depth implementation of the national education digitalization strategy and the launch of the "artificial intelligence + education" action, marking the entry of artificial intelligence-assisted high-quality development of basic education into a new stage of systematic advancement. However, many challenges remain in specific implementation. To this end, the following recommendations are proposed:

Consolidate digital infrastructure and break down data barriers. Build a national-level educational intelligent computing platform and standardized teaching corpus, and lay out pilot bases for artificial intelligence (education) applications. Unify smart campus construction standards and data interfaces, integrate various resources such as computing power, teaching, and academic affairs, and build an interconnected digital education foundation. Popularize intelligent teaching terminals and digital textbooks, and create teaching scenarios integrating virtual and real environments.

Coordinate the sinking of resources to narrow the digital divide in education. Focus on the balanced development of education between urban and rural areas and between regions, with emphasis on filling the gaps in network equipment, intelligent terminals, and operation and maintenance support in central and western regions and rural schools. Promote the cloud sharing of high-quality urban intelligent teaching resources, effectively opening up the channel for high-quality educational resources to reach the grassroots.

Improve the cultivation system and comprehensively enhance teachers' digital education capabilities. Build an integrated teacher digital literacy cultivation system covering pre-service training and in-service training, and integrate artificial intelligence education into the entire process of normal education. Implement a tiered and classified artificial intelligence capability improvement project for in-service teachers, rely on intelligent assessment to fill teachers' capability gaps, and promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence with classroom teaching.

Improve regulatory standards and build a solid safety and ethical defense line for intelligent education. Improve industry norms for artificial intelligence applications in education and student data collection, draw red lines for technology application, and strictly control excessive collection of students' private data. In light of the characteristics of different school stages, carry out age-segmented artificial intelligence ethics and safety education, strengthen supervision of platform entities and punishment for violations, and safeguard the digital safety of minors.

Shaping a cyberspace conducive to the healthy growth of young people
Zhang Xueqiao, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee

At present, the number of underage internet users in China is approximately 200 million, and the governance of cyberspace for young people urgently needs the empowerment and guarantee of the rule of law. It is necessary to strengthen systematic thinking, coordinate the full chain of legislation, law enforcement, and judiciary, and effectively improve the standardization and professionalization of cyberspace governance for young people. To this end, the following recommendations are proposed:

Improve the supply of laws and regulations and fill the gaps in regulating new types of online infringement. Accelerate the revision of special legislation on the protection of minors online, clarify the responsibilities and boundaries of various regulatory departments, and refine the applicable circumstances and standards for criminal crackdowns and administrative penalties.

Improve the coordinated supervision mechanism and press the primary responsibility of online platforms. With the cyberspace administration department taking the lead, build an information sharing and clue transfer platform with relevant departments, construct a working system of "horizontal coordination, vertical linkage, and social participation," and form a joint governance force. Adhere to source governance, implement tiered protection of online platforms and risk-based classified supervision, refine the list of primary responsibilities of online platforms, mandatorily improve protection mechanisms such as the "youth mode," minimum necessary information collection, and information leakage early warning and handling, and increase accountability for platforms that are out of control or mismanaged.

Innovate online technical means and strengthen the combination of prevention and punishment. Focus on researching and developing technical solutions such as identity verification, real-time monitoring of harmful information, intelligent early warning of addictive behavior, and precise intervention. Rely on digital law enforcement and judicial platforms to empower electronic data fixation, artificial intelligence content identification, and information leakage tracing and evidence collection, and precisely crack down on artificial intelligence-derived online gray and black industry chains. Give full play to the function of procuratorial public interest litigation, and promote the construction of a rule-of-law system for young people's cyberspace in an integrated manner.

Improving the protection and development capacity of persons with disabilities
Cheng Kai, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee

Improving the protection and development capacity of persons with disabilities concerns the well-being of 85 million persons with disabilities and the overall situation of common prosperity for all the people. The following recommendations are proposed:

Improve working mechanisms and increase fiscal investment. Fully implement the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Development of Persons with Disabilities," and improve the working mechanism of party committee leadership, government responsibility, social participation, and the functioning of disabled persons' organizations. Include funding for the cause of persons with disabilities in fiscal budgets at all levels, and increase the proportion of the employment security fund for persons with disabilities used for training and employment services.

Raise subsidy standards and increase employment opportunities. Gradually raise the standards of the two subsidies for persons with disabilities, improve the subsidy system for assistive devices adaptation, and narrow regional gaps. Improve the proportional employment system, establish a system of public disclosure and credit evaluation of proportional employment by employers, scientifically set up positions for persons with disabilities in civil servant recruitment and public institution recruitment, and vigorously develop employment positions in the digital economy sector suitable for persons with disabilities.

Improve care services and fill shortcomings and weaknesses. Accelerate the construction of care and nursing service facilities, and improve policies such as "co-support for the elderly and disabled" and entrusted placement. Accelerate the establishment of a service system covering the full life cycle of autism. Improve the guarantee mechanism for special education, strengthen the construction of rehabilitation departments in grassroots medical and health institutions, and increase the application of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces in the rehabilitation field.

Optimize the development environment and strengthen legislative guarantees. Carry out democratic supervision around the implementation of the Law on the Construction of a Barrier-Free Environment, and accelerate the barrier-free transformation of public service platforms and government affairs applications. Promote the revision of the Law on the Protection of Persons with Disabilities and legislation on special education, and strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of persons with disabilities.

Improving the rural social security system
Liu Xiaomei, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee (representing the Central Committee of the Jiusan Society)

At present, rural social security is a prominent shortcoming in the construction of China's social security system. From the perspective of grassroots operation, rural basic old-age insurance, basic medical insurance, and long-term care security still face problems such as low protection levels, poor institutional connectivity, and weak effectiveness of policy implementation. To this end, the following recommendations are proposed:

Systematically improve the resident pension insurance system. Optimize the rules for allocating funds to the pooled account for migrant workers and flexible employment personnel, implement tiered contribution subsidies for low-income insured groups, and effectively reduce the burden of participation. Build a unified social security personal account covering old-age, medical, and unemployment insurance, break down barriers to the transfer of rights and interests between insurance types and across regions for mobile populations, and stabilize farmers' long-term security expectations.

Improve the medical insurance reimbursement and social assistance mechanisms. Stabilize the individual contribution standard for medical insurance for a period, and gradually increase the amount of fiscal subsidies. Reasonably raise the reimbursement ratio and annual limits for outpatient and inpatient services at township health centers, with emphasis on tilting toward low-income groups. In line with the actual situation of rural major illness expenditures, raise the amount of temporary medical assistance, implement a rapid response mechanism of assistance first and approval later, and hold the bottom line of preventing return to poverty.

Consolidate the foundation for the development of rural long-term care insurance. Build a diversified financing model with the participation of medical insurance pooling, collective subsidies, and social funds, and revitalize land transfer income and village collective operating income to supplement long-term care insurance funds. Integrate medical and elderly care resources in towns and villages, lay out grassroots care service stations, unify the rural care service catalog, and cultivate a localized and stable care service workforce. Use down-to-earth forms such as door-to-door explanations and dialect lectures to expand policy publicity and enhance the willingness of the masses to participate.

Advocating a healthy and civilized lifestyle
Wang Lu, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee (representing the Central Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party)

At present, the cultivation of a healthy and civilized lifestyle has achieved phased results, but there are still problems such as difficulty in implementing the concept of health priority, low quality and effectiveness of health science popularization, unbalanced health literacy levels, and insufficient depth of technology empowerment. To this end, the following recommendations are proposed:

Institutional guidance to promote the deep integration of a healthy and civilized lifestyle into grassroots governance. Improve the health impact assessment mechanism for major policies, accelerate the formulation of national standards for a healthy and civilized lifestyle, and promote the introduction of patriotic health regulations, tobacco control regulations, and chronic disease intervention guidelines.

Precise communication to improve the differentiated science popularization supply system. Strengthen the communication matrix, optimize the national-level health science popularization resource library, and strengthen the "sports + health" campus scenario for young people. Embed "workplace health micro-classes during breaks" and develop a medication safety knowledge base for elderly patients with chronic diseases. For rural and ethnic minority areas, use dialects, ethnic languages, and other forms to break through the "last kilometer" of science popularization.

Classified measures to weave a dense protection network for key regions and populations. Fill the shortcomings at the grassroots level, and strengthen the improvement of the rural living environment and health education services in the western region. Promote the integration of "ethnic characteristics + health and civilization" in ethnic minority areas, and inherit and promote ethnic medicine. For children and adolescents, highlight five major health promotion actions: weight, vision, psychology, oral health, and bones. For the elderly and chronic disease populations, build a three-in-one prevention and control system of chronic disease management, cognitive training, and psychological intervention.

Behavior formation to cultivate a proactive health trend of integrating knowledge and action. Strengthen education and guidance, deepen the rational diet action and the national fitness action, strengthen the supply of venues and facilities, use "golden corners and silver edges" to build pocket parks and micro fitness venues, and create a "10-minute fitness circle." Deepen the mental health promotion action, regularly carry out psychological assessment and counseling for young people, and pay attention to the mental health of elderly people living alone.

Improving support and guarantees for the care of school-age children
Gao Xiaomei, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee

Accelerating the construction of a comprehensive childbirth support system is an important support for promoting high-quality population development and optimizing the population development strategy. At present, the supply of systematic care support policies for school-age children aged 6-12 is relatively weak, and it is necessary to rely on socialized care service support, requiring policy support and departmental collaboration. To this end, the following recommendations are proposed:

Based on communities, cultivate a nearby and accessible socialized care service market. Communities are the key carrier connecting families with socialized services. Relying on grassroots organizations, coordinate the allocation of community public resources and reduce service operation costs. Guide communities to coordinate with care institutions, provide free or low-rent venues and facilities, focus on undertaking after-school delay services and winter and summer vacation care services for primary school students, and achieve "home-doorstep supply" of child care. Activate the community housekeeping service market, and uniformly incorporate care and childcare housekeeping services into the community comprehensive service information platform.

Improve support policies for socialized care services. Vigorously develop after-school care-type education services, support the development of social care institutions through policies such as tax reductions and rebates and special subsidies; guide institutional teachers to receive regular professional training, and improve the professional quality of care teachers. Build a multi-level social care service system, advocate public institutions to provide holiday care services, open various thematic and characteristic care programs and enrich students' practical education, increase service supply, and improve service quality.

Build reliable grassroots children's medical services. Reduce the time cost of family medical treatment for child-rearing, and make community hospitals and family doctors reliable medical support for families. Increase the training of pediatricians, strengthen the overall capacity building of community hospitals, accelerate the construction of community pediatrics, and continuously improve the level of community pediatric outpatient services. At the same time, improve the family doctor contract service system and promote the substantive service of family doctors.

Strengthening the age-friendly and barrier-free renovation of public facilities
Ma Junsheng, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee

Strengthening the age-friendly and barrier-free renovation of public facilities is a foundational livelihood project of the national strategy for actively responding to population aging. However, there are still some shortcomings and weaknesses in the age-friendly and barrier-free renovation of public facilities. To this end, the following recommendations are proposed:

Adhere to systematic deployment and press responsibilities, and build a working system that connects the upper and lower levels. Improve the multi-departmental coordination and linkage mechanism, and incorporate the age-friendly and barrier-free renovation of public facilities into the key task lists and livelihood fact ledgers of party committees and governments at all levels. Strengthen the leading role of fiscal investment at all levels, and improve a stable, sustainable, and diversified funding mechanism.

Adhere to overall planning across the entire region to improve quality and efficiency, and expand the construction pattern of full scenarios and full chains. On the basis of consolidating and deepening the achievements of old residential area renovation, expand the coverage of construction, incorporate public scenarios such as urban main and secondary roads, pedestrian stairways, public transportation, and medical institutions into overall planning, integrated renovation, and integrated standard compliance, and fill the shortcomings of age-friendly travel.

Adhere to coordinated and balanced development between urban and rural areas, with emphasis on filling the weak shortcomings at the grassroots level. Promote the tilt of policies, funds, and projects toward counties, townships, and villages. Focus on weak links such as township government service centers, village-level party and mass service centers, township health centers, rural roads, and rural bus stops, increase the intensity of standardized renovation, and continuously narrow the urban-rural gap.

Adhere to equal emphasis on construction and management and the integration of digital and physical, and improve the long-term governance system. Establish a routine inspection mechanism for public age-friendly and barrier-free facilities, clarify the management and maintenance responsibilities of all parties, implement special operation and maintenance funds, and carry out routine standardized rectification. Build an all-age-friendly public service system with improved hardware facilities, adapted digital services, and effective long-term management and maintenance.

Improving the grassroots health service system
Cai Xiujun, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee

China has achieved certain results in promoting the downward shift of the focus of medical and health work and promoting the equalization of basic public services between urban and rural areas, but there are still problems such as insufficiently balanced health services, diagnostic and treatment coverage blind spots in remote areas, and lack of innovative technical support for grassroots doctors. It is necessary to further improve the grassroots health service system. To this end, the following recommendations are proposed:

Improve systems and mechanisms and perfect the health service supply model. Build a new rural medical and health service system, explore the implementation of a "fixed institutions + mobile rounds" service model, accelerate the establishment of touring diagnosis and treatment systems at all levels, set up standardized touring diagnosis and treatment points in remote areas, and promote the more equitable and accessible availability of high-quality medical and health services.

Adhere to the integration of medical care and prevention and accelerate the construction of a health community. Implement a universal benefit action for basic public health services, deeply advance comprehensive health management for the people, strengthen health education for grassroots people and early intervention for chronic diseases, encourage qualified township health centers (community health service centers) to explore the provision of health intervention services, and guide residents to develop healthy lifestyles.

Strengthen artificial intelligence empowerment and cultivate new quality productive forces in health. Accelerate the construction of an interconnected national health information platform, comprehensively promote innovative applications such as artificial intelligence-assisted diagnosis, intelligent prescription review, remote consultation, and intelligent follow-up, give play to the role of artificial intelligence in outpatient management, and promote the comprehensive empowerment of artificial intelligence in the health cause.

Deepen reform and innovation and promote the integrated management of grassroots medical and health talents. Comprehensively advance the "county-township-village integration" management reform of medical and health talents, on the basis of pilot projects, accelerate the introduction of guiding opinions on the integrated reform of grassroots medical and health talents, and systematically advance the "five integrations" reform of staffing management, talent recruitment, post utilization, funding guarantees, and medical insurance payment, so that talents can "go down, stay, and work well."

Improving the mechanism for allocating educational resources
Xi Nanhua, Member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee (representing the sector of non-party personages)

Under the condition of a super-large population, China has coordinated the coordinated development of education planning and population changes, achieving positive results and effectively ensuring and improving people's livelihood. At present, the significant changes in the structure of the school-age population have brought new challenges to running education that satisfies the people. To implement the deployment requirements of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline to "improve the mechanism for allocating educational resources adapted to population changes," the following recommendations are proposed:

Strengthen the overall leadership of the Party and establish and improve the mechanism for allocating educational resources adapted to population changes. Give full play to the role of the education work leading groups of party committees in all localities in overall coordination, overall promotion, and supervision and implementation, with relevant departments regularly studying and resolving important issues in the allocation of educational resources and introducing relevant institutional measures. Improve the education big data model covering all school stages and the full cycle, providing data support for the dynamic adjustment of resources.

Gradually expand the scale of high school education and ensure that high schools scientifically cope with the peak. Increase the number of public ordinary high school places through multiple measures, building a batch of new ones, expanding and renovating a batch, and coordinating a batch at the municipal level.

Coordinate the optimization of the regional and structural layout of educational resources and promote the coordinated, diversified, and balanced development of basic education. Adapt to the process of urbanization, promote the co-construction and sharing of basic education resources within regions and between urban and rural areas, optimize vocational education, and promote the transformation of professional teachers into "industry engineers + teaching designers."

Strengthen digital empowerment and promote the high-quality development of education in the new era. Continue to promote the development of "Internet + education," share courses from prestigious schools, implement the "artificial intelligence +" basic education improvement project, offer general artificial intelligence courses, and comprehensively improve students' information literacy and scientific and technological innovation capabilities.

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Xiong'an charts new blueprint for high-quality public services

By: 本报记者 祁嘉润 苑基荣 中国城市报记者 张永超

One cultural and sports venue carries the vitality of a region and displays the character of a city; one service window meets residents' needs and is rooted in a commitment to the people; one set of resettlement housing builds a solid foundation for happiness and is bound up with the well-being of people's livelihoods.
Cultural landmarks and community life circles give equal consideration to spiritual enrichment and peaceful, contented living and working. Xiong'an New Area in Hebei persists in closely combining investment in things with investment in people, building a high-quality public service system, and writing the happiness of the City of the Future with a warm touch.
"New Landmarks" Create a New Life
In a fine drizzle, strolling through the Central Green Valley Park of Xiong'an New Area, amid the green trees a new Chinese-style building with white walls and gray tiles comes into view. This is the CITIC Books Xiong'an Central Green Valley Store, a bookstore built inside a park.
"Building the bookstore in the park, you see scenery the moment you look up." In front of the huge glass curtain wall of the reading area, a citizen surnamed Kong is preparing for an upcoming examination. "I previously brought my child to attend lectures held by the bookstore. The environment here is good, and when I get tired of studying I can go out for a walk and refresh my mind and body," said Ms. Kong.
As a "new cultural landmark" of Xiong'an New Area, the bookstore uses exquisite design and a transparent glass curtain wall to effectively connect the indoor reading space with the outdoor park scenery, creating for citizens and visitors a composite cultural life scene that both embraces nature and allows immersive reading.
"Reading in such a beautiful environment lets readers experience the reading atmosphere of 'people in the books, books in the scenery.'" Song Yao, store manager of CITIC Books Xiong'an Central Green Valley Store, introduced that during the summer, hundreds of citizens and visitors come each day to read and visit.
Moving to the northern part of the Xiong'an New Area Start-up Zone, one encounters a cluster of buildings composed of geometric imagery of circles and squares. Viewed from above, they resemble three landscape seals. These are the stadium, gymnasium, and natatorium of the Xiong'an Sports Center.
Not long ago, the 2026 China City Youth Cheerleading Open (Xiong'an New Area Station) opened at the Xiong'an Sports Center. Song Helin, head of Xiong'an Jinyue Sports, who led trainees in training, said: "The support of this floor is especially good and can very well help athletes generate force."
"Since officially entering operation on March 30, 2025, the Xiong'an Sports Center has hosted more than 120 events of various sizes, including cultural, sports, and public welfare activities, with a visitor flow exceeding 1.1 million person-times," introduced Li Cheng, general manager of the Xiong'an Sports Center.
"Quality Services" Accelerate the Pace
Early in the morning, the Xiong'an New Area Government Service Center is busy yet orderly. Citizen Wang Jinduo plans to establish an agricultural science and technology company, and Guo Yutong, a service assistant at the Government Service Center, is introducing the relevant business procedures for company registration.
With Guo Yutong's assistance, in about an hour Wang Jinduo smoothly obtained his business license and filed official seal.
"Many years ago I also started a business. At that time there were many procedures and it was very troublesome." Wang Jinduo repeatedly praised the efficiency of Xiong'an New Area: "High efficiency, simple process, no need to make many trips."
At present, in enterprise registration, Xiong'an New Area implements convenience measures such as proactive assistance and agency handling, "one-window processing" with parallel approval, on-the-spot completion with immediate pickup, and free seal engraving for newly established enterprises. "These measures have gained high recognition from the public," said Guo Yutong.
In addition, to better undertake relocation and serve innovation, the Xiong'an New Area Business Environment Bureau has launched "one-click migration" for cross-provincial enterprise relocation. Beijing enterprises relocating to Xiong'an only need to apply online without making trips; original names are retained, original qualifications are preserved, and relocated enterprises take root quickly and operate smoothly. It has launched 11 characteristic "one thing" service items including "one thing for relocated universities," greatly improving approval efficiency. Beijing's comprehensive acceptance terminals have been extended to Xiong'an, and relocated personnel can handle 625 high-frequency Beijing municipal-level items at the Xiong'an government affairs hall. These series of measures allow enterprises to develop with peace of mind.
Persisting in "efficiently handling one thing at a time" and persisting in "quality services" with heart and feeling, the convenience measures continuously introduced by the Xiong'an New Area Business Environment Bureau also let the masses truly feel that convenient and high-quality public services are right by their side.
"Elderly people go out early, so we arrange staff to be on duty half an hour earlier every morning. Young people find it inconvenient to handle matters on workdays, so we are 'never closed' on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. For groups with mobility difficulties, we also provide door-to-door services," said Wang Xuhang, a staff member of the Xiong'an New Area Business Environment Bureau.
"Good Housing" Supports the Dream of Settling Down
"Conditions like these would be 'top configuration' anywhere." Standing before his panoramic floor-to-ceiling window, Mr. Li, an owner of a relocated-worker indemnificatory housing unit in the Zhonglvli Community of Xiong'an New Area, had a smile all over his face. The housing is high-standard finely decorated, and the community gym and yoga room are all available. "The living facilities are far more mature and abundant than I imagined," said Mr. Li.
What allows Mr. Li to settle down with peace of mind is the Zhonglvli Project, located in the Start-up Zone of Xiong'an New Area. As a demonstration project for the housing of relocated industrial workers and staff, built to high standards by China Green Development Investment Group Co., Ltd., the project creates safe, comfortable, green, and smart homes for the builders rushing to Xiong'an.
"Relocation — the key is people. Making people able to come, able to stay, and able to develop well begins with creating a model of good housing in Xiong'an." Guo Chao, director of the Party and Mass Work Department of Zhonglv Xiong'an Investment Co., Ltd., introduced that the Zhonglvli Project has a total construction area of 886,400 square meters, and 97 residential buildings can accommodate 10,300 relocated workers, staff, and their families. Commercial housing, institutionally leased housing, and shared-ownership housing are scientifically proportioned. Schools, supermarkets, and parks are built around the residential areas, and the "15-minute living circle" is gradually being perfected.
Behind good housing are good institutions. In recent years, Xiong'an New Area has continuously deepened housing system reform and established a new housing system of "multi-subject supply, multi-channel guarantee, and simultaneous renting and purchasing." Sale of completed existing homes lets buyers "get what they see"; cost-based pricing ensures reasonable profit margins and avoids inflated housing prices. Each innovative measure explores a new path for housing development.
Today, a total construction area of 59.25 million square meters and a skyline of 5,403 buildings stretching and growing hold up a modern new city with balanced work-residence relations and concentrated factors of production. From Beijing to Xiong'an, relocated workers and staff are starting a new life full of hope. Here, one home settles the present; one city carries the future.

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Finding the beauty of life in the space of joyful reading

By: 《国家人文历史》 权嘉欣 环球时报记者 倪洪章

Morning sunlight spills across the outer facade of the Xiong'an Library with its imagery of bamboo slips and wooden tablets; the curling arc at the building's base resembles a giant book spread open by the wind, standing quietly beside the Beijing–Xiong'an Expressway exit. At the entrance, readers arrive one after another up the steps, the beeping sounds of entry checks rising and falling, merging into the daily pulse of this cultural landmark of the new city.

As of June this year, the cumulative number of visits to the Xiong'an Library has surpassed one million.

This is the true measure of the humanistic character of Xiong'an New Area in Hebei. In the time of a million appointments with readers, the scroll of a life-oriented aesthetic is slowly unfolding.

This is a spiritual home friendly to all ages.

The Xiong'an Library is the first city-level public cultural service venue in Xiong'an New Area, with seven floors above ground and two below, a designed collection capacity of approximately 1.5 million volumes, and approximately 3,500 reading seats. Since its official opening in September 2025, it has rapidly grown into the city card and cultural landmark of Xiong'an New Area. Oriented toward young children, adolescents, adults, and special groups, the library is organized by floor and zone, tailored to age, creating an all-ages-friendly reading service system and fostering a friendly reading space that supports lifelong education.

This is a city living room where movement and stillness complement each other.

Adhering to the concept of "separating movement from stillness, low floors for activity and high floors for quiet," the Xiong'an Library integrates collection reading, smart services, academic exchange, and cultural display into one, creating a diversified service space that unifies reading, creation, and rest, and manifesting the city's cultural heritage. The first floor houses a comprehensive service hall, children's and early-childhood reading areas, a caring reading room, and other multifunctional spaces; the second floor encompasses a new development concept themed area, a comprehensive reading area, and a leisure reading area; the third through sixth floors focus mainly on comprehensive reading, creating a quiet study atmosphere; the seventh floor features a scholarly reading reception hall, a sky garden, and other spaces for exhibitions, academic exchange, and cultural salons, fully supporting diversified, high-quality cultural needs.

This is a future library full of wisdom.

The "intelligent librarian" robot, relying on massive data resources and large-model technology, provides multimodal interactive consultation and book interpretation; the AI book recommendation system can accurately recommend titles based on readers' descriptions, making book selection more convenient; the library's fully unmanned "one-stop intelligent book return" uses a high-speed silent sorting system to precisely deliver books to designated floors, improving circulation efficiency; unmanned book delivery carts can also achieve "remote borrowing, unmanned delivery" — readers only need to reserve on their mobile phones and can then go to a designated station to borrow or return books.

At the Xiong'an Library, what people touch is not only the pages of books, but also their longing for a beautiful future of a city. The Xiong'an Library, with brushstrokes interweaving the fragrance of books and wisdom, is painting a warm picture of life for a city of the future.

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Xiong'an children get "Beijing elite schools" at their doorstep

By: 本报记者 张腾扬

Sunlight spilled across the playground of Xiong'an Shijia Hutong Primary School. Elementary student Shen Yourong (沈宥融) had just finished basketball club training; he wiped off his sweat and hurried off to the activity classroom where the broadcasting and hosting club meets. He said, "Basketball fills me with energy, and broadcasting teaches me to express myself better." At Xiong'an Shijia Hutong Primary School, children who are "able in both letters and martial arts" (能文能武) like Shen Yourong are by no means rare.

"Every day at 7 a.m., the school gate opens wide to welcome children who come voluntarily for morning exercise. At the end of each semester, the school issues certificates of merit to children who have persisted in exercise with 'perfect attendance.'" This was the introduction given by Wang Ying (王映), assistant to the principal of Xiong'an Shijia Hutong Primary School.

It is precisely this atmosphere that has shaped the students' sunny, confident bearing. Not only can they strengthen their bodies through sports, they can also find their interests in the rich array of club activities. This school, which shares the same lineage (一脉相承) as the main campus of Beijing Shijia Hutong Primary School, is precisely using its holistic-education philosophy to pave a healthy, multifaceted path of growth for the children.

In August 2017, Beijing and Hebei signed an agreement, making clear that Beijing would support Xiong'an in building high-level kindergartens, primary schools, complete secondary schools, and a general hospital through the "key-handover" (交钥匙) method. Today, the "three schools and one hospital" (三校一院) have all been completed and put into use, and high-quality educational and medical resources are steadily underpinning the sense of fulfillment of families relocated from Beijing.

Across one road from Xiong'an Shijia Hutong Primary School, the senior high school division of the Xiong'an campus of Beijing No. 4 Middle School will open for enrollment in autumn 2026, bringing students an even higher quality of education.

How are high-quality resources "transplanted together with the soil" (带土移植)? The answer lies hidden in the details. At the junior high school division of the Xiong'an campus of Beijing No. 4 Middle School, every teacher has a mentor from the main campus and can consult and exchange ideas at any time. Daily lesson preparation, instruction, and evaluation proceed in the same rhythm at both locations.

The curriculum design is even more distinctive in its craftsmanship (别具匠心). The Xiong'an campus of Beijing No. 4 Middle School has made drama a required course for all students, with two class periods per week and a full-class stage performance at the end of each semester. Students may freely choose from 47 elective courses, and one physical education class per day safeguards students' healthy growth.

Benchmarked against the main campus of Beijing No. 4 Middle School's "18 Things for Student Growth" — reading, writing, research... each item is concrete and tangible: reading must be of the classics, writing must be practiced persistently, and research must be carried out with scientific spirit. These items are not merely slogans hung on the wall; they are an action checklist running through three years of growth.

On the wall of Classroom 2 of Grade 7, the "18 Things" display board shines with stars. "The homeroom teacher records every bit of progress each child makes, encouraging everyone to start from small matters and strive to become outstanding people," said Li Tianyu (李田雨), a teacher at the school's Cultural and Creative Center.

The school does not rush after momentary test scores; it places greater value on long-term growth and the seeds of interest. "Before coming here, my greatest worry was my child's education. After arriving, I discovered that the child is progressing very quickly and goes to school happily every day. Now I am completely reassured and can devote myself to building a career in Xiong'an with peace of mind," one student's parent said with emotion.

From Beijing to Xiong'an, the cross-regional sharing of high-quality education is becoming a reality in every class period, in every run, and in every child's smile.

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Gathering the Liveliness of Home

By: 本报记者 李 贞

A livable city should allow residents to enjoy a convenient life. In the startup zone of Xiong'an New Area in Hebei, the Yian Neighborhood Center, which opened on May 1 this year, has built a "15-minute convenient living circle" for surrounding residents. Here, convenience services, dining and retail, and entertainment and leisure are all available (一应俱全 - yī yìng jù quán - "everything needed is all present," complete with all necessities).

Located on the first floor, the Yian Community Party-Masses Service Center provides both convenience services and spacious public activity space.

"The staff are very enthusiastic, and whatever business you need to handle gets done quickly!" At the community convenience service window, 64-year-old resident Xing Mingqiao took only a few minutes to get her bus card reissued.

"Little kids love playing here! We came in the morning, and in the afternoon she wanted to come again." In the children's play area, Aunt Miao watched her two-year-old granddaughter run around, sliding down the slide and playing with toys.

"What I like most is the Yian Community Branch Library, run jointly with the Xiong'an Library. The books are updated promptly and are very suitable for residents to read." Community resident Ms. Guo said that she often brings a cup of tea and reads for an entire afternoon — it is both relaxing and fulfilling.

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Yian Community is one of the first batch of key communities in the Xiong'an New Area startup zone to be completed and put into use, and it is also the first community whose main function is to serve personnel relocated from Beijing. At present, more than 2,600 households and over 4,600 residents have moved into the community's 17 residential quarters.

"These residents are mainly employees of units relocated from Beijing, along with their family members. In order to ensure that they can come, stay, and develop well, we adhere to party building leadership, promote the integration of convenience services, government services, and commercial services, and build a community comprehensive service complex with Xiong'an characteristics that features functional integration, institutional innovation, comfort and convenience, and smart efficiency." said Liu Xingyi, deputy secretary of the Yian Community Party Branch.

Most community residents are young and middle-aged people. In early June this year, the Party-Masses Service Center specially opened a youth night school. "The night school offers different courses every day — yoga, dance, fine arts, AI (artificial intelligence) training, and so on. The first session alone attracted more than 150 students, basically all relocated personnel coming after work to 'recharge their batteries.'" Teacher Song, head of the Yian Community Youth Night School, introduced that the night school operates on a semi-public-welfare basis, with each class costing around several dozen yuan.

Next to the Party-Masses Service Center are a newly opened supermarket and a community canteen.

"Where to buy groceries, eat, and shop are the practical issues that relocated personnel care about. To this end, we have built an all-age-friendly community commercial complex." Pu Xuefeng, project manager of the Yian Neighborhood Center, introduced that the first phase of the project has opened more than 7,000 square meters of space, and has so far brought in brands such as KFC, Xiaomi, and Shanghai Hualian Supermarket.

"With a large supermarket here, buying groceries and fruit is much more convenient." Mr. Liu, who was shopping, said that a year ago, he and his family had just arrived in Xiong'an for work and life. "I was worried before that life here might not suit us, but after arriving I found that everything is available right at our doorstep. With public services like this, we have more confidence to take root in Xiong'an!"

In the future, the Yian Neighborhood Center will continue to open more spaces, building a community cultural center, activity center, and more, so that community residents can enjoy even greater convenience.

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Uplifting vibrant community life across the district

By: 《民生周刊》记者 畅婉洁

The Zangang Comprehensive Sports and Cultural Center (昝岗综合文体中心), located in Xiong'an New Area, Hebei Province, was officially put into use recently. After seeing recommendations online, Wang Ji, a citizen of Baoding, drove specially with his 6-year-old daughter to experience it. The girl excitedly shared her experience of being a "little chef": "Today I was the 'head chef' and cooked for guests in the 'little kitchen.'"

The Zangang Comprehensive Sports and Cultural Center is positioned as a vibrant and fun youth activity center, with a total construction area of approximately 36,000 square meters, located only 400 meters from Xiong'an High-Speed Railway Station. It recently won the Gold Award in the "Future Projects · Leisure Architecture" category of the 2026 UK WAN World Architecture News Awards. According to Zou Mingyuan, the center's director, the facade line design is inspired by the high-speed rail network, echoing the hub's character; the space adopts a vertical three-dimensional layout with seven floors above ground, with functional zones for water play, sports, reading, performing arts, and entertainment clearly layered floor by floor, and green and smart standards applied throughout.

The venue adopts a vertically stacked composite layout, integrating a water park, children's playground, theater, library, sports ground, and game spaces into one, creating a one-stop leisure experience space that meets diverse needs such as family leisure, parent-child companionship, and quality development. "The facilities far exceeded expectations. Next time I'll bring friends and come again," Wang Ji said.

Han Dezhi, from Tianjin, accompanied his 5-year-old daughter down the parent-child slide, and both the adult and child were very happy. "I just saw that the venue also has a theater and a perler bead space. Next time I come, I must experience them all," Han Dezhi said.

The theater Han Dezhi mentioned is the Tongmeng Xinghe Art Center (童梦星河艺术中心), located on the fourth floor of the Zangang Comprehensive Sports and Cultural Center. It can accommodate 450 spectators, with a 1,300-square-meter performing arts space where productions rotate in succession. Next door, Qinghe Library (青禾图书馆), serving as the Zangang branch of Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆), holds a collection of more than 10,000 books covering 22 major categories, with a children's themed space, a family education zone, and a cultural tourism book zone, and supports inter-library borrowing and return with the main Xiong'an Library.

Cultural and sports activities are rich and varied. In June this year, the "Tide Gathering Zangang · Joyful Growth" (潮聚昝岗·乐享成长) one-stop pass checkpoint challenge stamp-collecting activity was launched, with various fine children's productions staged in succession. According to Zhang Ziyang, a staff member of Xiong'an Sports and Culture Industry Development Company (雄安文体产业发展有限公司), Mahua FunAge brought the immersive park children's play Andersen's Gala and the English original IP stage play Peppa Pig; the officially licensed troupe of Shanghai Animation Film Studio performed the classic IPs Calabash Brothers and Snow Child; Hebei Provincial Acrobatic Troupe and Hebei Provincial Drama Theater successively presented benefit performances including Snow White, Magic Acrobatics Show, The Ugly Duckling, and The Fox and the Gun; the "ON Burning Xiong'an City Combat Power Ranking" team badminton points competition and the 2026 Four-Wheel Drive Car World Cup Qualification Tournament (Xiong'an Station) also kicked off here with great fervor.

In Xiong'an New Area, the "15-minute sports and culture life circle" is being woven ever denser step by step — Xiongdong Comprehensive Sports and Cultural Center, Xiong'an Workers' Cultural Palace, and Zangang Comprehensive Sports and Cultural Center, three venues echoing one another, allowing everyday vitality and warmth to grow within the reach of residents' footsteps. Among them, the Zangang Comprehensive Sports and Cultural Center, relying on the high-speed rail hub, extends its service radius to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, becoming a "new living room" facing a broader population.

From neighborhood daily life to regional linkage, people who enter Xiong'an experience not only complete facilities and thoughtful services, but also the vigorous momentum of a future city growing upward.

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Editor: Cheng Chen, He Yuche, Liu Zihe

Layout design: Wang Zheping (汪哲平)

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Traditional sports enter the public spotlight (Sports Arena)

Archery, bar-lifting, playing bulu, horse pacing... As culture, sports, and tourism integrate and develop, the once little-known traditional folk competitive activities of ethnic minorities have gained attention, entered the public eye, and brought people a different kind of experience. Let us go to Heihe in Heilongjiang, Liangshan in Sichuan, and Sunan in Gansu, and keep an appointment with traditional sports.
——Editor

Xinsheng Oroqen Ethnic Township, Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province —
Drawing the Bow and Shooting Arrows, "Hunting" in the Forest Sea
By our reporter Liu Mengdan

The Xinsheng Oroqen Ethnic Township in Aihui District, Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province recently welcomed the Gulunmuta Festival, with various traditional sports activities taking place in succession.

At the command of the referee, the "Forest Sea Hunting Trail" primitive tribe wilderness archery challenge kicked off first. More than 20 contestants, holding traditional bows and arrows made of birch wood, took on six lifelike animal targets. The target models were made to the actual size of wild pheasants, wild boars, deer, and other animals, differing from conventional flat targets and more closely matching the real scene of hunting. The competition followed traditional hunting rules: contestants scored by shooting the vital parts of the animal models more than 10 meters away, and the champion could also receive local specialty products such as characteristic dried meat.

Ge Yanxu, an Oroqen child, is 7 years old this year and has been in contact with archery for only one month, yet he has shown great aptitude and enthusiasm. On the field, his focused and determined appearance as he drew the bow was striking. "The child really likes archery. Since summer vacation began, his father and I often accompany him to train at the archery venue," said Wu Nan, Ge Yanxu's mother.

Zhang Lingang, an Oroqen elder, is 66 years old this year. Over the years, he has devoted himself to the study of bow and arrow making, guarding this cultural treasure with all his heart. "This is the fourth year I have initiated this competition, and it is also the first time the competition has landed in my hometown, Xinsheng Oroqen Ethnic Township, which means a great deal to me," Zhang Lingang said. "Seeing promising young talents like Ge Yanxu, I feel especially gratified. Only through passing down from generation to generation can traditional sports endure and thrive."

In the afternoon, traditional sports such as bar-lifting and bulu throwing were held in succession. Bar-lifting tests strength and endurance: contestants sit facing each other in pairs, soles of their feet pressed together, tightly gripping a wooden bar, competing with all their might, fully displaying the formidable physique required for the hunting of their ancestors. Bulu throwing, meanwhile, is a throwing event derived from ancient hunting skills, demanding extremely high levels of body control, accuracy, and coordination, combining both fun and competitiveness.

As dusk deepened, bonfires were lit, and tourists surged in from all directions. With traditional sports as the bond, the annual Gulunmuta Festival has not only revitalized local cultural and sports resources but also made the traditional sports hidden in the mountains and forests gradually known to the public. From January to June this year, Aihui District received a total of 2.197 million tourists, a year-on-year increase of 8%.

Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province —
Wrestling and Bullfighting, Keeping an Appointment with Folk Customs
By our reporter Wang Mingfeng

The great Liangshan mountains stretch dark and green. The 2026 Torch Festival of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province arrived as scheduled. The Torch Festival, called "Duze" in the Yi language, showcases agility through horse racing and displays courage and resolve through wrestling... The Torch Festival is both an arena of competition and a time for relatives and friends to meet and to pray for a bountiful harvest.

Arriving in Puge County, on the wrestling ground, two sturdy men tied their hemp cloth belts, head against head, shoulder against shoulder, neither willing to yield half a step. Not far away, the bullfighting competition attracted many onlookers. Two bulls locked horns, their hooves digging deep pits, mud splashing. Cheers from the stands were unceasing. Spectator Azhi Biwu had once won first place in a township bullfighting competition and had come specially to watch.

In Butuo County, the highland wind and galloping horses left rolling dust on the track. Zhang Chengyu, who had come all the way from Chengdu to participate in the Torch Festival activities, could not help but exclaim, "The Liangshan men look so handsome galloping on horseback!"

As night fell, Torch Festival activities across Liangshan Prefecture reached their climax. In Butuo County, the grand costumed parade used moonlight as its signal, with people holding torches to illuminate the night sky. On Xichang's Hangtian Avenue, as 86 piles of bonfires were lit, tens of thousands of torches were raised simultaneously — a stunning scene. Tourist Liu Lei from Chongqing was pulled by a Yi elder sister into the dati dance line. "It's so novel — next year I'll bring my family along too!" Liu Lei said.

The Yi Torch Festival is a national-level intangible cultural heritage. A relevant official from the Liangshan Prefecture Culture and Tourism Bureau introduced that the 2026 event, themed "Passionate Torch Festival · Most Dazzling Ethnic Style," pioneered a "music festival +" model, integrating folk sports, intangible cultural heritage performances, trendy music, and other diverse content.

Firelight illuminated the bustling market. By Xingyue Lake in Xichang, a barbecue carnival was in full swing. Stall owner Jike Muga sold more than 20 jin of skewers in one evening, earning more than usual. At a stall in Torch Square, Chen Fen's Yi-embroidery shoulder bags, bracelets, and hairpins sold more than 1,000 yuan worth in a single day. Tourist Chen Xiaoling used her music festival ticket stub to enjoy discounts on hotel room rates, scenic area tickets, and more. "With the ticket stub in hand, touring and eating through Liangshan is truly worth it!"

During the Torch Festival, Liangshan Prefecture rolled out services including additional trains, free shuttle buses, expanded parking, guaranteed accommodation, and a 3D travel map, comprehensively improving the experience of food, lodging, transport, sightseeing, shopping, and entertainment. "Going to Liangshan for the Torch Festival" became a hot topic recently. Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture Party Committee and head of its Publicity Department, introduced that this year's Torch Festival took the six major prefecture-level events as its main line, linking 17 counties and cities to hold nearly a hundred events, extending into a month-long cultural tourism consumption season, with thoughtful services turning "traffic" into "retention."

Sunan Yugur Autonomous County, Gansu Province —
The Horse That Paces on the Same Side, "Running" into the Games
By our reporter Song Chaojun

The Bronze Galloping Horse — the source of the image of China's tourism logo and the treasure of the Gansu Provincial Museum. Have you ever noticed that this horse paces with its legs moving on the same side?

In Wuwei City, Gansu Province, where this cultural relic was unearthed, there is a horse that is naturally same-sided in its gait — the Chakouyi horse, a fine local breed descended from the horses of the Han and Tang dynasties, currently distributed mainly in Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, Wuwei City. When running, the Chakouyi horse exhibits a "lateral gait": the left foreleg and left hind leg move simultaneously, and the right foreleg and right hind leg move simultaneously, alternating on both sides, looking like a person walking with the same-side arm-and-leg swing. Later, racing on such horses developed into a traditional ethnic minority sport — horse pacing.

Not long ago, the 11th Traditional Ethnic Minority Sports Games of Gansu Province were held, with four new competition events added: ethnic equestrianism, firecracker ball, wooden ball, and shuttlecock ball. Horse pacing is a sub-event within the ethnic equestrianism category, and the competition was held in Sunan Yugur Autonomous County. In the end, Li Shengliang, from Shibanwan Village, Shimen Town, Tianzhu County, representing the Wuwei team, won the championship in both the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter horse pacing events.

Why can horse pacing become a sport? "Compared with ordinary horse riding, the gait of a pacing horse makes its body sway left and right to offset the jolting, so the rider sits more stably and comfortably. At the same time, a well-trained lateral-gaited horse is very fast and has good endurance." Li Shengliang, 38, is experienced — he has been around horses since childhood and began competing in horse pacing at 16. This year, he finally stepped onto the provincial-level arena.

How fast can a same-sided horse run? Li Shengliang rode his champion horse over 3,000 meters in 5 minutes 13 seconds, and 5,000 meters in 9 minutes 17 seconds. "Speed cannot be separated from contact and training since childhood." Li Shengliang and his horse have formed a tacit understanding.

Since 2014, Li Shengliang and his father Li Huaizhi have summed up their experience and established a horse pacing breeding base. From just over 20 horses at the start, their breeding scale has now exceeded 80. On this plateau at an altitude of over 2,800 meters, they raise horses, train horses, race horses, and trade horses, gradually embarking on a path of development and prosperity.

Beyond the competition, athletes and local people from other places have also developed an interest in horse pacing. "Quite a few people have come to ask, and I am happy to tell them all about it. Horse pacing is of great value — it is both a sport and an industry!" Li Shengliang said with deep feeling.

The traditional sport that "grew" out of this land now in turn nourishes the people of this land.

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Let more promising talents stand out.

By: 本报记者 贺林平 姜晓丹

On August 22, the 17th Guangdong Provincial Games came to a close. In the pool, 17-year-old rising star Li Wanwei claimed four gold medals in the women's Group A 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke, and two relay events; on the shooting range, "little sister" Xiang Ziqing, born in 2011, broke the Guangdong Province adult record in the individual pistol event; on the athletics track, post-2010 young athletes staged a "sprint showdown"... More than 18,000 young athletes competed in this Provincial Games, and a host of youthful yet resolute teenage athletes left a deep impression.

"The Provincial Games are mainly for selecting and cultivating reserve talent for competitive sports," said Wang Qi, fourth-level researcher of the Youth Sports Division of the Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau. By holding high-level provincial comprehensive games to discover promising prospects and precisely incorporate them into the provincial team's reserve echelon training, this both continuously consolidates the talent foundation of Guangdong's professional sports teams and forms an effective link with the talent echelon layout of the National Youth Games and the National Games.

The first Guangdong Provincial Games, held in 1956, opened a new chapter in Guangdong sports. Over the past 70 years, from Chen Jingkai, who broke the world record in weightlifting, to Rong Guotuan, the first world champion of New China; from Xian Dongmei, two-time Olympic judo champion, to sprint star Su Bingtian; from Fan Zhendong, table tennis Grand Slam winner, to Quan Hongchan, three-time Olympic diving gold medalist... generation after generation of Guangdong athletes started here in their youth and grew into world-class competitors.

All parts of Guangdong have continuously strengthened investment in advantageous sports, focused on the healthy growth of young people and the cultivation of competitive reserve talent, and continuously optimized the youth training layout. Gymnast Luo Rui is a typical representative of reserve talent cultivation through the integration of sports and education. In 2012, 7-year-old Luo Rui was discovered by the Huangpu District Sports School in Guangzhou, which built a dual-track platform for her of "campus study + sports school training": on ordinary days she attended school to complete cultural coursework, received professional gymnastics training after class, and participated in provincial and municipal intensive training during winter and summer vacations. At the 14th Provincial Games in 2015, Luo Rui performed steadily on the balance beam and floor exercise, winning two silver medals; she subsequently joined the national team and won multiple medals in national and international competitions. After retiring in 2024, Luo Rui was admitted to Sun Yat-sen University, forging a full-chain cultivation pathway of "campus talent selection—sports school intensive training—upward transfer—diversified development."

The sustained layout and efforts at the provincial, municipal, and county levels have built for Guangdong a competitive sports landscape of continuous echelons and sound development, promoting steady growth in the number of registered youth athletes across the province. Currently, nearly 50,000 athletes are in training at sports schools at all levels and partner institutions, with the scale of talent reserves at a nationally leading level; during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Guangdong athletes performed outstandingly in major domestic and international competitions, cumulatively winning 162 world championships, 80 Asian championships, and 723 national championships, repeatedly breaking records at events at all levels.

In addition, the Provincial Games have inspired broad enthusiasm among young people for participating in sports, further promoting the improvement of youth physical fitness. In Maoming, the host city of this Provincial Games, watching competitions and keeping fit are becoming a trend, and the seed of sports is taking root in the hearts of more and more young people. At the Maoming Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium, a citizen surnamed Wu deliberately brought her child to the Provincial Games venue to experience the fervent atmosphere. "Watching competitions live lets you better appreciate the charm of competitive sports, and it has also refreshed my understanding of sports," Wu said with emotion. Sports can give children a healthy physique and an uplifting spirit, and in the future she will guide her child to participate in sports more often.

Wang Qi revealed that after the Provincial Games conclude, the coaching teams of the province's various professional teams will follow up on athlete development work, promptly liaising with municipal sports schools at all levels to select outstanding prospects for the provincial professional teams, and strengthening integrated training, science, and medical support for athletes.

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Chinese team advances to quarterfinals.

Beijing, August 26 (Xinhua) — By reporter Zheng Yi (郑轶) The group stage of the 2026 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship concluded in Tianjin on the 26th. The Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the Chinese Taipei team 3:0, securing three consecutive victories and advancing to the quarterfinals with first place in their group.

A total of 12 teams are competing in this year's Asian Championship, divided into three groups, with the top two from each group and the two best third-place finishers advancing to the quarterfinals. In the first two group matches, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the Iraq team and the Iran team, each by a score of 3:0. In the third match against the Chinese Taipei team, the Chinese women's volleyball team sent outside hitter Wu Mengjie (吴梦洁) to start. The team was slightly slow to get into form at the beginning, but quickly adjusted and brought their technical and tactical level into play. In the end, the Chinese women's volleyball team won three consecutive sets at 25:17, 25:16, and 25:7, securing first place in their group.

In the other two groups, the Thailand team and the Japan team both topped their respective groups with three consecutive victories, advancing to the quarterfinals. The Chinese women's volleyball team will face the Vietnam team in the quarterfinals.

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2026 Northeast Four Provinces (Regions) and U.S. Beautiful Countryside Basketball Tournament Held in Inner Mongolia

Our newspaper Hohhot, August 26 (Reporter Zhang Cheng) On the 25th, the "Colorful Earth, Harmonious Journey Together" 2026 Northeast Four Provinces (Regions) Harmonious and Beautiful Countryside Basketball Tournament opened in Linxi County (林西县), Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. Eight rural basketball representative teams from Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, and Inner Mongolia participated, and will compete in 16 matches over a four-day schedule.
The eight teams are divided into Groups A and B for a single round-robin group stage. The top two from each group advance to the semifinals, and the final rankings are determined through crossover semifinals, a third-place match, and a championship final. All participating players are farmers, herders, and grassroots cadres rooted in the rural frontline, fully reflecting the characteristics of the rural basketball tournament as rooted in the local soil, oriented toward the masses, and serving the countryside.

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Facing Level Adjustments, Actively Seeking Breakthroughs (Toward the Asian Games)

By: 李 硕 王怡文

Entering the weightlifting hall of the General Administration of Sport's Training Bureau, the countdown to the opening of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on the big screen is especially eye-catching. The sounds of barbells hitting the floor rise and fall one after another, and sweat drips down the athletes' cheeks.
Accompanied by rhythmic background music, the athletes take turns mounting the competition platform for trial lifts, and some are even asked by the coaches to complete movements facing different directions. This is the scenario-based simulation training recently tried by the national weightlifting team; the coaching staff hopes that through these designs, the young athletes can adapt in advance to the lighting and environment of the competition venue.
This Asian Games is the first comprehensive international competition since the weightlifting event adopted the new weight categories for the Los Angeles Olympic cycle. The Chinese team has sent 5 male and 5 female athletes to compete, led by Olympic champions Li Wenwen and Liu Huanhua, competing respectively in the women's over-86 kg and men's 110 kg categories. Zhao Jinlan, Yang Liuyue, He Renxiu, and Wu Yan will compete respectively in the women's 53, 61, 77, and 86 kg categories; Yang Yang, He Yueji, Chen Shunnan, and Tu Yi will compete respectively in the men's 60, 65, 85, and 95 kg categories. Among the 10 athletes, 8 have never experienced a large-scale comprehensive international competition.
In order to help the young athletes make up for the shortcoming of competition experience, on the 30-day countdown to the Asian Games, the "Seeing Strength" Olympic Champion Salon was held in the training hall. Olympic champions Hou Zhihui, Li Fabin, Shi Zhiyong, Li Wenwen, Luo Shifang, and Liu Huanhua shared their respective stories of striving. "We hope everyone can draw energy from this and accumulate strength during preparation," said head coach Shao Guoqiang.
Recently, the team has been persisting in high-volume training. "There is still a big gap; we must train more." Shao Guoqiang's words carry a sense of urgency. At the Chongqing stop of the National Weightlifting Grand Prix in early August, some athletes' performances did not meet expectations, and Shao Guoqiang did not avoid the problems when reviewing. After returning to Beijing, the athletes settled down to find their gaps, and the quality of training and level of commitment have both shown obvious improvement recently.
Currently, the whole team conducts combined snatch and clean-and-jerk training every Friday. Before each trial lift, the athletes and coaches shout in unison, and the sound waves echo through the training hall, pushing people "upward and upward again."
Shortly after the Asian Games concludes, the Ningbo Weightlifting World Championships will begin, which is the first qualifying event for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. "The Asian Games is a mid-term exam in this cycle and a very good opportunity for training troops," Shao Guoqiang said. "Our goal is very clear: the gold medals that should be won must be won, and for events where there is a gap, we must strive to improve our results. Standing on the international stage, winning glory for the country is our mission."

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Chinese rock climbing: young talent on the rise

By: 本报记者 曾华锋

On August 25, the 2026 Asian Youth Climbing Championship concluded its five-day competition in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province. A total of 213 athletes from 16 Asian countries and regions participated. The Chinese team ranked first on the medal table with 10 gold, 9 silver, and 3 bronze medals.

The championship is divided into two age groups, U17 (ages 15–16) and U19 (ages 17–18), and features four events: bouldering, lead climbing, speed climbing, and speed relay. This edition of the event coincides with the critical preparation period for the Asian Games and the Los Angeles Olympics, and all teams are using competition to drive training, comprehensively honing the competitive strength of their young athletes on the competition stage.

Speed climbing is a traditional strength event for the Chinese team. In the speed climbing finals on August 24, the Chinese team collected a total of 4 gold, 4 silver, and 2 bronze medals. Among them, all 6 medals in the U19 men's and women's events were swept by the Chinese team. Zhao Yicheng (赵一程), the men's speed climbing world record holder, competed in the U19 men's speed climbing event and won the championship with a time of 4.69 seconds. In the U19 women's speed event, Wang Yuting (王宇婷) won the gold medal. In the U17 group, Zhou Mingyi (周明意) and Wang Peilin (王沛林) took the men's championship and runner-up respectively, while Chen Nuo (陈诺) and Yang Zijiao (杨子娇) swept the top two places in the women's event. Chinese speed climbing demonstrated strong competitiveness across all age groups, reflecting the depth of its talent reserve.

This edition of the event also featured the speed relay, which has now been incorporated into the competition sequence of the Climbing World Cup. In the U17 and U19 speed relay finals held on August 25, the Chinese team continued its dominant performance in speed events, sweeping all 4 gold medals in the U17 and U19 men's and women's events.

In bouldering and lead climbing, the Japanese and South Korean teams lead the way, but the gaps between teams are continuously narrowing. In bouldering, the Chinese team achieved a breakthrough in the U17 women's group. Tan Youtian (谭有恬), Li Meini (李美妮), and Lu Yijing (卢一镜) swept the top three places, marking the first time China has achieved a complete medal sweep in bouldering at an international event. This group advantage also extended to the lead climbing events, where all 4 Chinese entrants advanced to the U17 finals, and Lu Yijing and Li Meini performed outstandingly, sweeping the championship and runner-up positions. At the same time, multiple Chinese U19 women's athletes also advanced to the bouldering and lead finals. On the men's side, the Chinese team likewise showed a momentum of catching up. In the U17 bouldering finals, all 4 Chinese athletes advanced, with Mu Zerun (穆泽润) finishing fourth; in the U19 group, Li Siyue (李思樾) secured all scoring holds in the bouldering finals and completed route 4, also finishing fourth.

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Dragon Boat World Cup to kick off in Yuanling, Hunan in September

Our newspaper Changsha, August 26 (Reporter Yang Xun) — The 2026 ICF Dragon Boat World Cup will open with drums beating on September 25–27 on the Yuan River waters of Yuanling County (沅陵县), Huaihua, Hunan. As of now, 26 teams from 18 countries and regions, with nearly 600 athletes, have registered to compete, a scale setting a record for all previous editions. This edition adds, for the first time, a 14-kilometer marathon event, a distance that refreshes the record for the longest competition distance in international dragon boat events. In addition, the event retains the 200-meter and 500-meter straight-course sprint races and the 2,000-meter circuit race. Competing athletes, amid cleaving waves and splitting swells (劈波斩浪 (pī bō zhǎn làng - "cleave waves, split swells," to forge ahead bravely through difficulties), will take in the mountain-and-water scenery of Yuanling's "Hundred-Li Gallery" (百里画廊).

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FIA EcoRally Cup (China) to be held in Anhui

Our Dispatch, Hefei, August 26 (Reporter Tian Xianjin (田先进)) — The 2026 FIA EcoRally Cup (China Leg) and EF1 Anhui New Energy Vehicle Sports and Cultural Activity will be held in Anhui from September 10 to 14. This edition of the event is the eighth of the 11 global rounds of the 2026 FIA EcoRally Cup, and the only Asian round. At that time, drivers from more than 10 countries and regions, including the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Portugal, will compete on the same stage.
According to the introduction, the starting point of the rally is set at Luogang Park in Hefei City, and the finishing point is set in Wuhu City, with a total distance of approximately 1,000 kilometers. This edition of the competition plans to accept 60 crews totaling 120 people for registration, divided into two groups, A and B; Group A is the international group, and Group B is the public group. The final results will be assessed by comprehensively considering factors such as driving technique, vehicle speed stability, driving energy consumption index, and compliance with competition and traffic rules, with awards set for the overall champion, the best driving technique award, the best speed award, the best team award, and awards for each stage.

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Africa Taps Deep into Blue Economy Growth Potential (International Perspective)

By: 本报记者 邹 松

The Lekki Port Logistics and Industrial Park in Nigeria provides round-the-clock support for the outward transport of fishery products, Tanzania's Zanzibar seaweed processing plant continues full-scale production, and Senegal's offshore wind power platform has completed commissioning and been put into operation... The African continent has a long coastline and abundant marine resources. In recent years, many countries in the region have vigorously developed the marine economy, presenting a brand-new picture of development. The new version of the African Blue Economy Strategy, which the African Union is pushing forward with full effort, has elevated the blue economy into an important driving force for Africa's economic growth and industrialization. The development and protection of marine resources, the upgrading of maritime and land infrastructure, the cultivation of new offshore energy sources, and the development of the marine bio-industry have all been listed as key projects. The African Union projects that by 2030, the scale of Africa's blue economy is expected to grow to 405 billion US dollars, creating 57 million jobs.

Upgrading fishing port infrastructure
Clearing bottlenecks in the industry chain

For port worker Oluwaseyi Akinbola, the changes brought by the commissioning of Nigeria's Lekki Deep Sea Port are very obvious. In more than 10 years in the industry, he has witnessed the predicament of the old Lagos Port: without standardized cold-chain facilities, seafood could only be piled in the open air, with loss rates exceeding 40 percent in high-temperature weather. Fishermen often had bountiful harvests but still lost money, and high-quality catches could only be sold off cheaply on the local market, with no ability at all to export. Since the Lekki Deep Sea Port and its supporting 10,000-ton-class cold-chain storage, port-side fishery processing park, and cross-border freight corridors were completed, whole-process freshness preservation, rapid customs clearance, and combined land-sea transport have become the norm.

"I now do more management work, and I have a team specifically responsible for fishery product dispatch," Oluwaseyi said frankly. "The modernization of the port has significantly improved production efficiency, more seafood products can be exported, and workers' incomes have doubled."

As West Africa's largest deep-water port, the Lekki Port has effectively supported the development of the region's marine industry since it began operations more than three years ago. Today, bulk fishery products along the West African coast can be kept fresh through whole-process refrigeration and transported directly by road and rail to landlocked countries such as Niger and Burkina Faso, with losses greatly reduced. The project has cumulatively driven the addition of more than 20,000 stable jobs in the region's fishery, logistics, and processing industries, and a large number of coastal fishing families have escaped the predicament of depending on the weather and unstable incomes.

Paul Frimpong, executive director of the Ghanaian think tank Africa-China Policy Advisory Center, analyzed that in the past, Africa's coastal areas generally faced the dilemma of "having resources but no supporting facilities, having output but no market." Old fishing ports, missing cold chains, and poor land-sea connectivity meant that a large quantity of high-quality marine resources could hardly be converted into benefits for people's livelihoods. "With the completion and operation of a batch of landmark projects, the coastal production and marketing chain has been fully opened up, and the production and lifestyle of ordinary practitioners have undergone a fundamental transformation."

In Mozambique in southeastern Africa, after the Maputo Port upgraded its cold-chain system, the local high-value-added prawns and lobsters completely changed their situation of low-price domestic sales and began to be exported in batches to the international market, and the incomes of fishery trade practitioners have risen noticeably. The continuous iteration of projects such as South Africa's Durban Port and Ghana's James Town Fishing Port is pushing coastal industries to extend from single-dimensional fishing toward a diversified mix of commerce and trade, cultural tourism, and logistics.

East Africa's first modern comprehensive fishing port — Tanzania's Kilwa Masoko Fishing Port project — integrates mooring, trading, intensive processing, and ship repair in one, with an annual fishery product handling capacity of 60,000 tons. The coastal highway connected in tandem links villages along the route, reducing the fishery product loss rate from 30 percent to within 5 percent, and many scattered individual fishermen have been transformed into stable industrial practitioners.

A marine economy special report published not long ago by Britain's The Economist stated that the completion of a number of maritime and land infrastructure projects in African countries is helping to resolve the circulation bottlenecks that have long constrained the region's blue economy development, allowing marine resources to be truly converted into inclusive livelihood dividends — an important foundation for Africa's blue economy to move toward scaled development.

Strengthening maritime rights protection
Building a solid foundation for development

"Ten years ago, large numbers of vessels operating in violation of regulations frequently intruded into offshore waters, indiscriminately catching fish of all sizes," said Senegalese fisherman Ibrahima Diop, who has worked at Saint-Louis Port for nearly 20 years and feels deeply about the changes in offshore resources and the environment. "Many local fishermen had no fish to catch, and many young people were forced to give up fishing and go out to work elsewhere."

Senegal officially implemented the new version of its Marine Fisheries Protection Law last year, tightening quotas for foreign fishing vessels, establishing a vessel dynamic monitoring system, forming a dedicated coastal patrol force, and cracking down on illegal fishing on a regular basis. After more than a year of rectification, the number of vessels operating illegally in offshore waters has dropped sharply, fish stock resources have gradually recovered, and both the catch volume and income of Ibrahima Diop and the fishermen around him have achieved steady recovery.

Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, and other countries are also advancing maritime rights protection reform in parallel, gradually restoring offshore ecological productivity by designating no-fishing zones, implementing closed fishing seasons, and strictly investigating illegal operations. Adiji Salih, an economist at Côte d'Ivoire's Université de San-Pédro, said that the development of Africa's blue economy must emphasize governing the sea according to law. African countries should accelerate marine legislation and reverse the trend of resource overdraw through institutionalized means, building a solid institutional barrier for the sustainable development of the marine industry.

In East African waters, a new model of coastal governance featuring community co-governance and ecological co-cultivation is taking shape. In the past, Tanzania saw disorderly expansion of offshore aquaculture and frequent illegal fishing, with continuous degradation of mangrove and coral reef ecosystems and damage to fishery breeding habitats. In recent years, local authorities, together with the United Nations Environment Programme, have designated core ecological protection zones, completed the restoration of 90 hectares of mangroves, and regulated offshore production operations, allowing degraded sea areas to gradually regain vitality. Coastal fishing villages in Kenya have taken the initiative to abandon destructive practices such as blast fishing and poison fishing, implemented zoned rotational fishing and seasonal closed seasons, and simultaneously developed ecotourism, achieving both "sea protection" and "income growth."

South Africa issued the Climate Change Coastal Adaptation Response Plan in June last year, becoming Africa's first comprehensive governance plan to coordinate coastal management, pollution control, fishery conservation, and climate resilience. The latest statistics from South Africa's Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment show that standardized governance has driven the marine economy to attract more than 200 million US dollars in new foreign investment, and it is expected to contribute nearly 10 billion US dollars in output value to the country by 2035, creating more than 600,000 jobs.

Amadou Sall, an Africa regional analyst at the International Monetary Fund, believes that Africa's blue economy development is gradually moving away from the extensive model of "develop first, govern later," using law-based and systematic governance to hold the bottom line of marine ecology and provide core safeguards for the sustainable development of the industry.

Cultivating new business forms
Tapping growth momentum

In Zanzibar, Tanzania, local woman Amana Said previously could only make a living through scattered offshore fishing, with meager income that was greatly affected by seasons and resources. As the local large-scale seaweed cultivation and intensive processing industry took shape, she joined a local seaweed cooperative and participated in the whole process of cultivation, harvesting, and primary processing. Today, seaweed products are used in food, cosmetics, biodegradable new materials, and other fields, with stable market sales. Her annual income has nearly doubled compared with traditional fishing, and she has also achieved nearby employment while taking care of her family. At present, the seaweed-related industry has driven the employment of 23,000 local people, the vast majority of whom are women on the island.

Hamad Bakari, Permanent Secretary of Zanzibar's Ministry of Blue Economy and Fisheries, analyzed that African countries' blue economy strategies should break out of the single-industry framework of traditional fisheries and shipping, fully leverage the long coastline, high-quality offshore wind resources, and abundant marine biological resources, vigorously cultivate new business forms such as offshore new energy, marine biotechnology, and blue carbon sinks, create differentiated competitive advantages, and continuously expand the total size of the blue economy.

The offshore new energy industry is a key to solving coastal development problems. In the past, Africa's coastal fishing villages, fishing ports, and processing parks were highly dependent on diesel power generation, with high electricity costs, heavy pollution, and poor stability, severely constraining the development of coastal industries. In the waters bordering Mauritania and Senegal, an offshore natural gas project with an annual production capacity of 2.3 million tons has begun delivering gas, providing greater assurance for the energy needs of the two countries. Kenya and Mozambique are simultaneously laying out offshore wind power and tidal energy projects to tap the potential of clean marine energy. According to data from the International Renewable Energy Agency, Africa has a coastline of 47,000 kilometers, and Africa's offshore wind power generation potential reaches hundreds of gigawatts, with resource endowments ranking among the world's foremost — the prospects for offshore new energy development are broad.

Blue carbon sinks are also helping Africa realize the market conversion of ecological value. Seychelles innovatively issued a blue bond in 2018, channeling the raised funds into mangrove restoration, seagrass bed restoration, and marine protected area construction, converting intangible ecological resources into tradable carbon assets and forming a virtuous cycle of ecological protection, industrial income growth, and green development. The African Development Bank analyzes that compared with traditional marine industries, forward-looking business forms such as new energy, biotechnology, and blue carbon sinks are better suited to Africa's resource endowments, environmental carrying capacity, and development needs, and are important levers for improving quality and expanding capacity in Africa's blue economy over the next 10 years.

Harson Nyambe, a relevant official in charge at the African Union's Department of Sustainable Environment and Blue Economy, said that Africa possesses the world's premium marine biological resources, offshore clean energy, and blue carbon sink resources, and with the added advantage of the African Continental Free Trade Area's linkage effects, the blue economy has enormous room for future growth. Africa's vast oceans will continue to serve as the core driving force for Africa's implementation of the AU's Agenda 2063 and for achieving resilient continental economic growth and inclusive development.

(Our newspaper, Johannesburg, August 26)

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China's manufacturing has made the pie of development empowerment bigger (Global View)

By: 崔 琦

Recently, some Western media outlets and think tanks have repeatedly hyped the so-called "China squeeze theory," claiming that the expansion of China's manufacturing sector not only "impacts" the industrial foundations of Western countries, but also "crowds out" the space for industrialization in Global South countries. In response, Adam Tooze, an American historian at Columbia University, wrote frankly that the so-called "China squeeze theory" is not rigorous empirical economic analysis, but rather a rhetoric serving political mobilization, whose purpose is to shift the blame for complex global development issues onto China and deliberately demonize China's industrialization process in the international public opinion arena. This line of argument conceals three layers of "smoke-and-mirror tactics" that confuse and mislead, seriously deviating from the real logic of industrial development.

The first smoke-and-mirror tactic: mistakenly using the size of the labor force as the yardstick for measuring manufacturing competitiveness. This erroneous line of argument holds that a country's share of low-skilled manufacturing exports should match its proportion of low-skilled labor. According to this twisted reasoning, countries with abundant labor should naturally occupy a larger share of manufacturing; if they fail to meet expectations, it must be because China has "crowded them out." However, labor costs are only one of the basic conditions for the start of manufacturing; the comprehensive capacity formed jointly by infrastructure, energy supply, industrial supporting facilities, and the business environment is the key support for the growth and expansion of the manufacturing industry. Ignoring the real differences in development conditions among countries, extrapolating a "due share" solely from labor force size, and then simply attributing the gap to Chinese competition is, in essence, forcibly deriving a predetermined conclusion using a wrong measuring standard.

The second smoke-and-mirror tactic: only counting the superficial account of market share, not the win-win account of industrial division of labor. The notion that "if China takes one more share, other countries must necessarily get one less" fails to see the complementary value of deeply integrated industrial chains in the context of economic globalization. Many of the machinery, equipment, and industrial components that China exports to developing countries are not substitutes for local industries, but rather important production conditions that help local enterprises reduce costs, increase efficiency, expand production capacity, and connect with global markets. The World Bank's 2025 report on Ethiopia's manufacturing development shows that imports of intermediate goods from China have significantly improved the productivity and capacity utilization of local manufacturing enterprises, and are a major factor driving employment growth, with labor-intensive industries benefiting particularly noticeably. The development of China's manufacturing industry and the industrialization process of other developing countries form a symbiotic relationship of mutual empowerment.

The third smoke-and-mirror tactic: concealing the historical roots of the Global South's industrialization difficulties and evading the long-term constraints of the old international economic order. This narrative holds that all countries should climb step by step along the ladder of "agriculture—low-skilled manufacturing—high-end manufacturing," and that high-income countries should take the initiative to yield low-end industries so that latecomers can take over in turn. The implication is that China is standing on the ladder and refusing to move forward, thereby blocking the path of latecomers. In fact, long before the rise of China's manufacturing industry, many African and Latin American countries had already been locked into the international division of labor system dominated by the West. Financing arrangements with attached political conditions, unequal international trade rules, and other factors have fundamentally constrained the industrialization process of developing countries. Ignoring these deep-seated structural obstacles and blaming China for "squeezing" is, in essence, inverting cause and effect and diverting attention.

Not long ago, the author went to Kyrgyzstan for interviews. Amid the towering mountains at an altitude of nearly 4,000 meters, Chinese builders opened roads through mountains and built bridges across waters, helping the local area open up logistics channels connecting the outside world and smoothing internal circulation, greatly reducing cross-border trade costs; contiguous expanses of photovoltaic panels continuously deliver green electricity, which not only resolved the local development bottleneck of long-term power shortages, but also created basic conditions for industrial development. China's industrial advantages are being deeply integrated with local resource endowments, continuously transforming into tangible results of common development.

On the road to jointly realizing modernization, China and Global South countries have always been fellow travelers. Erroneous narratives carrying specific political calculations can neither withstand the test of facts, nor can they win the recognition of the people of Global South countries. Abandoning the old zero-sum game mindset, facing up to the real development demands of Global South countries, and jointly making the "cake" of global development bigger and bigger—this is the responsible attitude toward the cause of global development, and it is also the right path to promoting world economic recovery and achieving shared prosperity.

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Global Scan

Cuba Condemns U.S. Extension of Economic Blockade Against Cuba

Xinhua News Agency, Havana, August 25 (Reporters Wang Zhongyi, Jiang Biao) — Cuban Foreign Minister Rodríguez on the 25th condemned the U.S. government's once again extending the term of the Trading with the Enemy Act, which has been imposed on Cuba since 1962.

Rodríguez said via social media: "Cuba condemns in the strongest terms the U.S. government's extension of the economic, commercial, and financial blockade for another year, a genocidal policy against our people that has lasted more than 60 years." He also said, "Cuba is not the threat; the blockade is."

The U.S. government's Federal Register earlier that day published the presidential order signed by U.S. President Trump on August 20, extending the term of the Trading with the Enemy Act imposed on Cuba for another year, until September 14, 2027. The Trading with the Enemy Act is a law enacted by the United States in 1917, aimed at restricting trade with "enemy countries." Cuba is currently the only country subject to this law.

Canada Announces Imposition of Equivalent Retaliatory Tariffs on the U.S., Involving More Than 700 Types of Goods

Xinhua News Agency, Ottawa, August 25 (Reporter Lin Wei) — The Canadian federal government on the 25th announced it will impose retaliatory tariffs on more than 700 types of U.S. goods worth 27.6 billion Canadian dollars (approximately 20 billion U.S. dollars), while simultaneously launching an assistance program for businesses and workers totaling 7.5 billion Canadian dollars (approximately 5.4 billion U.S. dollars).

Canadian federal officials stated that the total value of U.S. goods affected by this round of retaliatory tariffs is equivalent to the value of goods affected by the 50% tariffs imposed by the U.S. side on Canada, achieving "equal-amount, reciprocal" countermeasures. Canada's tariff countermeasures will officially take effect on September 8. Canadian Finance Minister商鹏飞 (Dominic LeBlanc) stated that Canada's reciprocal tariffs and the comprehensive assistance program worth billions of Canadian dollars will effectively protect domestic workers, farmers, families, and businesses.

According to the retaliatory tariff list published by the Canadian Ministry of Finance, this targeted retaliatory tariff is mainly concentrated in areas such as steel and aluminum, dairy products, home appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, plastics, and electronic products, with tariff rates divided into three tiers: 15%, 25%, and 50%. Among them, tariffs on most steel and aluminum products imported from the United States will be raised from 25% to 50%; tariffs of 25% will be levied on cheese and other dairy products, fish, seafood, and certain steel and aluminum derivative products; other existing retaliatory tariffs, including tariffs on American automobiles, will also continue to be maintained.

Iran Says It Has Reached an Agreement with Oman on the Distribution of Revenues from the Strait of Hormuz

Xinhua News Agency, Tehran, August 26 — According to reports from Iran's Tasnim News Agency on the 26th, Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said that day that Iran and Oman have reached an agreement acceptable to both sides regarding the proportion of their respective controlled waters in the Strait of Hormuz and the distribution of revenues.

Mohebbi introduced that about one month ago, the two countries began negotiations on the proportion of their respective controlled waters in the Strait of Hormuz and related revenue distribution, and reached "results acceptable to both sides."

He pointed out that due to continued U.S. obstruction, the negotiation process had been delayed. He emphasized that if the United States stops obstructing the negotiations and complies with the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, Iran will reopen the Strait of Hormuz within the framework of the memorandum.

Mohebbi said that the Strait of Hormuz is currently under Iranian control, "all enemy warships have withdrawn to at least 400 kilometers away from the strait," and the waterway near the Omani side is also under Iranian control. He also stated that without Iran's permission, no vessel can pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

Iran and Oman issued a joint statement on the 25th, proposing to establish a mutually agreed safe maritime passage in the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Gharibabadi also said on the 25th that according to the new understanding reached between Iran and Oman regarding the shipping routes of the Strait of Hormuz, routes entering the Persian Gulf will pass through Iranian waters, routes leaving the Persian Gulf will pass through Omani and Iranian waters, and no warships may pass through the strait — only commercial vessels are permitted.

Spain Advances Reform of Immigration and Asylum System

Xinhua News Agency, Madrid, August 25 (Reporters Meng Dingbo, Xie Yuzhi) — The Spanish government on the 25th completed the first-round approval of two draft bills involving reform of the immigration and asylum system, proposing to simplify procedures for immigrant repatriation and international asylum applications, in response to the ongoing immigration crisis in Ceuta.

According to the drafts, Spain proposes to implement a screening and classification mechanism for rapid assessment of foreigners entering the country illegally, including health checks, vulnerability assessments, identity confirmation, biometric information collection, and security checks, with transfer to corresponding subsequent procedures based on specific circumstances.

Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said at a press conference after the cabinet meeting that day that EU regulations stipulate the screening procedure may last up to 7 days, and Spain proposes to control the period within 72 hours, with extension only permitted upon approval by judicial authorities, so as to shorten as much as possible the duration of stay of relevant personnel in designated police facilities. In terms of international asylum, the drafts divide the review procedure into an ordinary procedure and an accelerated procedure, of which the accelerated procedure must be completed within 3 months. Those whose asylum applications are rejected will receive departure notices. According to reports, the above reform measures still require further review by the government and submission to parliament for approval.

Syrian Armed Group "Syrian Democratic Forces" Announces Dissolution

Xinhua News Agency, Damascus, August 25 (Reporter Lin Jianjie) — Mazloum Abdi, leader of the Kurdish-led "Syrian Democratic Forces," announced at a press conference held at the Syrian presidential palace on the 25th the dissolution of the "Syrian Democratic Forces" and the autonomous government established by the Syrian Kurdish armed forces, and their full integration into Syrian state institutions.

Abdi said Syria has entered a new phase themed "peace and building a new Syria," and after reaching an agreement with Syrian transitional government President Ahmed al-Sharaa and completing the process of integrating military forces into the Syrian transitional government's army, the mission of the "Syrian Democratic Forces" has ended, and it dissolves as an independent military force.

The "Syrian Democratic Forces" was established in 2015, led by the Kurdish armed group "People's Protection Units," and has long controlled large areas of northern and eastern Syria.

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Building a New Industrial City on the Desert

By: 本报记者 李 潇 戴楷然

On August 25, the China-Egypt joint media interview team on high-quality Belt and Road cooperation entered the China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone (hereinafter referred to as the "Cooperation Zone"), located on the shore of the Red Sea. In this modern industrial park, factory buildings and warehouses stand in neat rows, and the living areas are fully equipped with facilities. "Before the Cooperation Zone was built, there was nothing here but sand," said Amina, a journalist from Egypt's "National Echo Network" who accompanied the team. "Now it has completely changed."

From a barren desert to an industrial cluster zone, the development of the Cooperation Zone is a vivid epitome of the continuously deepening China-Egypt production capacity cooperation. In 2008, construction of the Cooperation Zone began; in January 2016, President Xi Jinping and Egyptian President Sisi jointly unveiled the plaque for the second phase of the Cooperation Zone. Today, it has become a modern park where enterprises gather and industries converge. Cao Hui (曹慧), Executive Director of Egypt TEDA Special Zone Development Company, introduced that as of the end of June 2026, the Cooperation Zone has attracted more than 200 enterprises to settle in, with cumulative investment exceeding 4.7 billion US dollars, cumulative sales exceeding 7.3 billion US dollars, and more than 10,000 direct jobs created.

In the production workshop of Jushi Egypt Fiberglass Co., Ltd. (巨石埃及玻璃纤维股份有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "Jushi Egypt"), workers skillfully operate winding machines, as strands of glass fiber are drawn and wound into neat cylindrical packages of yarn. Since settling in the Cooperation Zone in 2012, Jushi Egypt has promoted the development of Egypt's glass fiber industry from nothing. At present, the company has become the largest glass fiber production base on the African continent, and has also made Egypt the world's fourth-largest glass fiber producer.

"Egypt did not have such an industry before; now not only does it exist, but it has achieved a leading position in Africa." Mohammed Baa, Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at Suez Canal University, carefully examined the production process while taking out his phone to record. In his view, what Jushi Egypt has brought is not merely a new production base — "this project promotes Egypt-China economic and trade exchanges and fills the gap in Egypt's glass fiber industry."

In the quilting workshop of Egypt Panyang Textile Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd. (埃及泛洋纺织印染有限公司), Egyptian employees meticulously operate the equipment and compare products in batches against standardized first samples to ensure they fully meet the requirements of customer orders. The company's head, An Zhengshuang (安政双), told the visiting Chinese and Egyptian journalists: "The quilted blankets we produce are widely popular in the North African market, and orders keep coming in."

Shurat, a journalist from the Middle East News Agency, inquired in detail about the company's training situation with Egyptian staff and remarked with emotion: "Egypt's textile industry has abundant raw materials and a long-standing aesthetic heritage. Chinese enterprises have brought advanced equipment and technology, modern management systems, and a complete logistics chain. This kind of cooperation complements each other perfectly — it can truly be called a model of mutual benefit and win-win."

Amr El-Homosany, an Egyptian self-media blogger participating in the joint interview, said that the on-site visit gave him a more intuitive understanding of Egypt-China cooperation. "I hope that through my lens, I can share the stories I saw in the Cooperation Zone with more people, so that more people can see the story of 'building a new industrial city on the desert.'"

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"One-Stop Dispute Resolution," Guarding Peace Along the Journey (Rule of Law Headline)

By: 本报记者 金 歆

No one wants to be involved in a traffic accident. But being able to receive compensation within half a day is some comfort after the misfortune. Ms. Liu from Jining, Shandong, was recently involved in a traffic accident and suffered minor injuries. At the local road-traffic integrated processing center, she completed liability determination in one morning and, under the guidance of a judge, reached a mediation agreement and received compensation.
For a long time, disputes over liability for road traffic accidents have suffered from problems such as parties having to run between multiple offices, lengthy adjudication cycles, inconsistent compensation standards, and difficulty in insurance claims — a "hard bone" in social governance that is difficult to crack.
To solve this problem, in recent years the Shandong court system has taken multiple measures and gradually built a full-chain resolution system for road-traffic disputes featuring "front-end source prevention, mid-end substantive resolution, and back-end rapid claims."
Fast handling — promoting substantive resolution of disputes
In road traffic accident liability disputes, the role of insurance companies is crucial to whether the public can receive compensation in a timely manner and whether disputes can be resolved promptly.
Ms. Liu from Yiyuan County, Zibo City, was riding an electric bicycle when she collided with a car and was injured. The public security traffic management department determined that both parties bore equal liability.
Because the parties could not agree on the amount of compensation, Ms. Liu filed a lawsuit demanding that the insurance company and the other driver pay more than 1.5 million yuan in compensation.
Ms. Liu was seriously injured and, facing financial hardship, urgently needed compensation for treatment, so the judge suggested both parties conduct mediation. At this point, however, the insurance company argued that the appraisal conclusion unilaterally provided by Ms. Liu was unreliable and requested a re-appraisal.
A re-appraisal or a court judgment could both drag on for a long time, and the insurance company would not agree to immediate mediation. Therefore, the Yiyuan County People's Court activated the "court + insurance association" litigation-mediation linkage mechanism, coordinating the Zibo Insurance Industry Association to intervene in the case in accordance with the law.
The insurance industry association leveraged its professional advantages, inviting authoritative industry experts to conduct analysis and assessment, concluding that the disability appraisal result was reasonable. With this professional endorsement, the insurance company accepted the appraisal result. The compensation amount was also automatically generated through the "self-service compensation calculation table" independently designed by the Yiyuan County People's Court, and both parties were fully convinced. A mediation agreement was thus quickly reached.
Thereafter, the insurance industry association continued to follow up, promptly liaising with the insurance company involved and recommending that it simplify approval procedures and accelerate payment progress. In the end, just one day after mediation was reached, Ms. Liu received 1.34 million yuan in compensation.
"Insurance-related disputes account for a large proportion of road-traffic cases," said Wang Qijiang, chief judge of the Second Adjudication Supervision Division of the Shandong Provincial High People's Court, which handles road-traffic case adjudication. As early as 2023, with the support of relevant departments, the Shandong Provincial High People's Court and the Shandong Insurance Industry Association signed the Memorandum on Cooperation in Resolving Industry Disputes, reaching cooperation on resolving road-traffic insurance disputes and establishing a normalized "court + insurance association" litigation-mediation linkage mechanism to reduce road-traffic insurance disputes at the source.
After a traffic accident occurs, parties often feel lost about how to handle it — should they go to the traffic police, the insurance company, or the court? What materials do they need to bring? What are the procedures? In Shandong, this situation has already changed.
In the first half of this year, a resident surnamed Shang from Donggang District, Rizhao City, unfortunately encountered a traffic accident and suffered multiple fractures.
During hospitalization, at the prompting of hospital staff, Shang scanned the road-traffic dispute resolution QR code at the head of the hospital bed and directly connected to the Donggang District Road-Traffic Integrated Processing Center. Questions about accident determination, claims procedures, and compensation standards were all answered online. Thereafter, relying on the center, the Donggang District People's Court, together with the resident insurance industry association, quickly initiated joint mediation and resolution, and Shang reached a mediation agreement with the insurance company on the spot, with all compensation for various losses paid in full within three days.
Behind this efficiency lies the Shandong courts' unremitting exploration of the "one-stop dispute resolution" mechanism. Targeting the pain point that road-traffic disputes involve many departments and require the public to run back and forth, the Shandong Provincial High People's Court, together with the Provincial Public Security Department, the Provincial Department of Justice, and other departments, convened a provincial road-traffic dispute governance work conference, promoting the establishment of road-traffic integrated processing centers in all 16 cities across the province.
"Through the road-traffic integrated processing center, the courts, together with relevant departments, bring together the administrative mediation of the traffic management department, the people's mediation of judicial administration, financial regulation, the insurance industry, and other forces in one place, improving the 'stationed + joint meeting' working mechanism, achieving seamless connection across the entire process, and minimizing the cost of rights protection for the public," Wang Qijiang stated.
Setting standards — promoting resolution of difficult issues
Mu, from Guan County, Liaocheng City, is the owner of a corn combine harvester. One morning, on a small field path south of the village, while reversing his harvester, Mu collided with Chang's electric bicycle, injuring Chang. Chang subsequently filed a lawsuit claiming medical expenses, disability compensation, and other damages.
During trial, one of the disputed focal points was "whether a combine harvester constitutes a motor vehicle and whether compulsory traffic accident liability insurance should be purchased," and the relevant conclusion affected the extent of Mu's liability and the amount of compensation.
For this professional question, the judge lacked a clear standard for determination. Therefore, the Shandong Provincial High People's Court, relying on the government-court linkage working mechanism, immediately sent an inquiry letter to the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, which quickly clarified that "wheeled tractor transport units and walking tractor transport units constitute motor vehicles and must purchase compulsory traffic accident liability insurance in accordance with the law; other types of tractors and combine harvesters do not fall within the category of motor vehicles and are not required to purchase compulsory traffic accident liability insurance."
In the adjudication of road-traffic cases, some difficult issues often lack clear standards, and assistance from relevant departments in analysis and assessment helps with correct determination.
The Shandong Provincial High People's Court has sorted out disputed issues in road-traffic disputes and established normalized consultation and liaison channels with the Provincial Public Security Department, the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Shandong Regulatory Bureau of the National Financial Regulatory Administration, and the Provincial Insurance Industry Association, promptly clarifying issues and forming unified understanding across the province.
The Road Traffic Accident Social Assistance Fund is "life-saving money" advanced on behalf of traffic accident victims in emergencies. However, in practice, due to the lack of detailed procedural rules and guidance, problems can sometimes arise such as no one pursuing recovery after the fund advances payment, difficulty in recovery, and high risk of loss.
In August 2025, the Shandong Provincial High People's Court, the Provincial Public Security Department, and the Provincial Department of Finance jointly formulated and issued handling opinions on issues concerning recovery litigation cases of the Road Traffic Accident Social Assistance Fund, clearly stipulating matters such as the subjects responsible for recovery of the road-traffic accident social assistance fund and the paths for participating in litigation, and detailing the division of responsibilities among departments.
Teng, a resident of Shandong, unfortunately suffered severe injuries in a traffic accident. After the accident, because relevant compensation had not yet been paid, and in order to enable Teng to receive timely treatment, the local road-traffic accident assistance fund office advanced more than 150,000 yuan in medical expenses for Teng.
Subsequently, when Teng sued the at-fault party and the insurance company, the local road-traffic accident assistance fund office, in accordance with the procedures stipulated in the opinions, participated in the litigation as a third party as the subject responsible for recovery. In the end, the court ruled that an insurance company should pay the local road-traffic accident assistance fund office all the medical expenses it had advanced.
Unifying compensation standards is another difficult problem the Shandong courts have solved.
"With the same injuries and similar liability apportionment, the compensation amounts awarded in different courts can differ by tens of thousands of yuan," Wang Qijiang explained. This is because, in many cases, the calculation of compensation items such as lost wages and nursing fees lacks refined, operable standards.
In November 2025, the Shandong Provincial High People's Court, together with the Provincial Public Security Department and the Provincial Department of Justice, issued calculation standards for road traffic accident damage compensation items (trial), clarifying the specific calculation methods, evidentiary review standards, and applicable circumstances for 17 compensation items including rehabilitation fees, lost wages, nursing fees, disability compensation, and mental distress damages, providing a unified "measure" for mediation, claims, and adjudication.
Clarifying right and wrong — leading good social conduct
Opening the Civil Code, the first article states — "Adapt to the requirements of the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and promote the core socialist values."
Disputes related to road traffic accidents are closely connected to the vital interests of ordinary people, and adjudication results often directly affect the social atmosphere. The Shandong courts, based on their adjudication functions, use the power of the rule of law to lead new social conduct.
In Qufu City, Jining City, a car collided with a motorcycle on the road. Both vehicles were damaged, and Yan, a passenger on the back of the motorcycle, was also injured.
Afterward, the public security traffic management department determined that the car driver Gu and the motorcycle driver Liu bore equal liability for the accident. Yan was also appraised as having a level-10 disability.
Yan then sued in court, requesting that Gu, Liu, and the insurance company compensate for various losses.
"Yan was traveling in the same direction as me, and I acted entirely out of goodwill, carrying Yan free of charge. Even if I bear responsibility for Yan's injuries, my compensation liability should be reduced or exempted," Liu argued in his defense.
Can liability for compensation be reduced for harm caused by "enthusiastic helping of others"?
"The Civil Code stipulates that 'where a non-commercial motor vehicle causes damage to a person riding free of charge in a traffic accident, and the liability is attributable to the vehicle's party, the compensation liability shall be reduced,'" introduced Gong Tongke, deputy chief judge of the First Civil Division of the Qufu City People's Court. In this case, the ordinary two-wheeled motorcycle Liu drove was his means of commuting to and from work, a non-commercial vehicle; Yan rode on Liu's motorcycle free of charge, with Liu collecting no fee whatsoever — an act of friendship for mutual benefit and convenience. At the same time, Liu was also ruled out of having acted with intent or gross negligence.
In the end, the court determined that Liu should have compensated in accordance with the accident liability apportionment, but considering the actual circumstances, Liu's compensation liability was appropriately reduced.
In road traffic cases, disputes between motor vehicles and non-motor vehicles or pedestrians often attract attention. If the liability of pedestrians and non-motor vehicles cannot be reasonably determined, it may trigger doubts such as "whoever is weaker is in the right," harming social fairness and good value conduct.
One night in 2024, on a road in Dezhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, Li was riding an electric bicycle at high speed.
There were few vehicles on the road at the time, and in order to take a shortcut, Li began driving against traffic. Unfortunately, a motorcycle suddenly appeared from ahead. Both parties were traveling at considerable speed, and lighting conditions were poor. The two collided violently, and the motorcycle rider He was unfortunately injured.
Afterward, the public security traffic management department determined that Li bore full responsibility for the accident and He bore no responsibility. When a non-motor vehicle causes damage to a motor vehicle, is there no need to compensate?
"Electric bicycle riders, as important traffic participants, should also strengthen safety awareness, obey traffic rules, and jointly maintain road traffic order," said a relevant person in charge of the Dezhou Intermediate People's Court. Li, through fault, infringed upon another person's right to health and personal safety and should bear compensation liability. In the end, the court ruled that Li compensate He for various losses totaling more than 19,000 yuan.
Wang Qijiang stated, "In this case, the court strictly followed legal provisions in fact-finding and application of law, breaking the erroneous perception of 'whoever is weaker is in the right, whoever is stronger bears responsibility,' which is conducive to cultivating awareness of traffic regulations and rule-of-law thinking, and in the long run is also conducive to protecting pedestrians and non-motor vehicle parties as the relatively 'weaker' side."
"Most road-traffic disputes are not 'major cases' in the traditional sense, but they are closely related to the vital interests of the public," said Sun Ying, member of the Party Leadership Group and vice president of the Shandong Provincial High People's Court. "'Small cases are not small matters; small cases must be handled with care.' Going forward, the Shandong courts will further deepen the government-court linkage mechanism, promote the collaborative progress of judicial adjudication and industry organizations, and with greater effort and more concrete measures, firmly grasp and properly handle the comprehensive governance of road-traffic disputes, providing stronger judicial services and safeguards for building a Safe Shandong and a Shandong under the rule of law."

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"Rights Defense" Must Not Be a Business (Jintai Sharp Review)

By: 亓玉昆

Recently, in Nanchang, Jiangxi, two men were criminally detained for maliciously extorting a beverage store chain. The two men repeatedly tore open the sealing film of takeout orders, placed foreign objects such as hair and flies inside, then resealed them, and invoked the "refund plus tenfold compensation" provision of the Food Safety Law, threatening to file complaints in order to demand compensation from the stores. Even more ironic is that after succeeding, they claimed they had "donated the compensation," attempting to use a "righteous persona" to conceal their true purpose of profiteering.

Such malicious claims are not isolated cases; some have even resorted to new technologies. In Shanghai, a man surnamed Yang used artificial intelligence to generate photos of vomit and fake medical records, falsely claiming he fell ill after dining at a restaurant, and extorted the restaurant. He was sentenced by the court.

Reviewing these cases, it is not difficult to find that the individuals involved were not seeking reasonable compensation based on actual consumer harm, but rather used malicious means to fabricate the illusion that businesses were operating improperly, forcing businesses to "pay to ward off disaster" and "spend money to buy peace," thereby turning the normal channels for consumer rights protection into a "business scheme."

Using rights protection as a pretext, committing extortion or fraudulently obtaining compensation through illegal means such as product switching, forgery, and other unlawful methods — such conduct not only infringes upon the lawful rights and interests of businesses, but also occupies resources meant for legitimate consumer rights protection, and further undermines the order of the market economy.

Between rights protection and extortion, there is a clear legal boundary. The "refund plus triple compensation" under the Consumer Rights Protection Law and the "refund plus tenfold compensation" under the Food Safety Law were originally punitive compensation systems designed to protect consumers who are in a relatively disadvantaged position and to deter illegal business operations. The premise is that the facts are true, the claims are legally grounded, and the channels are legitimate.

The harm caused by malicious claims goes far beyond the loss of money by a single business; it allows the goodwill of legislation to be trampled upon by malice, and through repeated exploitation, it degenerates into a tool for profit-seeking. What is even more worthy of vigilance is that when people engage in "staged accidents" under the guise of "fighting counterfeits," and use illegal means to extort or defraud business operators, if such acts frequently succeed, they will seriously erode society's consensus on the rule of law. When legal provisions are dismantled into extortion scripts, public trust in the market will also be undermined, and ultimately what is destroyed is the very foundation of fair trade in the entire market.

To address the problem of malicious claims, in January of this year, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly released typical cases regulating professional claims and maintaining market order, demonstrating a clear stance on regulating professional claim behavior in accordance with the law. The newly revised "Measures for Handling Complaints and Reports on Market Supervision and Administration" lists "concealing items, switching products, forgery, tampering with product information, fabricating facts" and "extortion" as circumstances for referral to public security authorities, drawing a clear institutional line between "genuine counterfeiting enforcement" and "fake rights protection," and resolutely safeguarding the lawful rights and interests of consumers and business operators alike.

To address malicious claims, a coordinated set of legal measures must be deployed. Administrative law enforcement agencies and judicial organs should strengthen coordination and cooperation, improve the linkage between civil and administrative procedures, civil and criminal procedures, and administrative and criminal procedures, punish illegal claims across the entire chain, and jointly weave a tight legal net for protecting rights and maintaining order.

For businesses, they cannot simply "hope for the best" on their own; they should also abandon the mindset of "spending money to buy peace." When encountering malicious claims or extortion, they should immediately preserve evidence and pursue regulatory handling or litigation procedures. Consumers at large should protect their lawful rights and interests through proper means, and if disputes arise, they should also express their demands and pursue rights protection in accordance with laws and regulations and in a rational manner.

It should also be pointed out that platform enterprises, when dealing with malicious claims, should also fulfill their primary responsibilities. Taking food delivery as an example, platforms can use full-chain data from orders, logistics, and complaints to identify and provide early warning of abnormal behavior. They can also connect data on meal sealing labels and delivery trajectories, so that "foreign objects present despite unopened packaging" cannot escape detection when traceability is applied.

Building a rule-of-law environment that provides equal protection to both consumers and business operators in both directions is of great significance for promoting high-quality development and safeguarding a high quality of life. We must resolutely oppose businesses ignoring the legitimate demands of consumers, and we must also take a clear stand in saying "no" to malicious claims. In practice, how can we balance the protection of consumer rights and the protection of business operator rights? Only through coordinated efforts and promoting governance at the source can we effectively rectify the chaos of illegal claims, jointly safeguard a sound business environment, and maintain market order.

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Police Guardianship Protects Young Sprouts, Nurturing Growth

By: 本报记者 张天培

Deep in the Nujiang Gorge on the Yunnan-Tibet border, on a mist-shrouded frontier line, there is a group of border guards dressed in navy blue — the police officers of the Bingzhongluo Border Inspection Station (丙中洛边境检查站) of the Nujiang Border Management Detachment (怒江边境管理支队) of Yunnan. They are not only guardians of the national gate, but also guardians on the path of growth for the children deep in the gorge.

"I've prepared some school supplies today, brought some candy, and I'm going to visit Yaoyao." "Yaoyao improved again on the midterm exam, and the teacher praised her." Flipping through police officer Ma Defei's (马德飞) "love ledger," line after line of neat records are filled with a police officer's concern for his "daughter."

During one home visit, Ma Defei discovered that Yaoyao had become withdrawn due to family changes, and her grades 一落千丈 (yī luò qiān zhàng - "fall a thousand zhang in one drop," to decline sharply). Ma Defei, himself a father, decided to help this child more in his spare time.

"Whenever he has time, Officer Ma comes to tutor Yaoyao and brings school supplies. The child affectionately calls him 'Police Dad,'" said Yaoyao's grandfather. Yaoyao, who wears her hair in a ponytail, always secretly stuffs walnuts from home into Ma Defei's pockets. Under Ma Defei's care, the once introverted and self-conscious Yaoyao has gradually become cheerful and confident, and her academic performance has steadily improved. Now, she always proudly tells her classmates the story of her "Police Dad."

In the local area, there is more than one such "Police Dad" or "Police Mom."

Bingzhongluo Township (丙中洛镇) in Gongshan Derung and Nu Autonomous County (贡山独龙族怒族自治县), Yunnan Province, is located deep in remote mountains. Many children's parents work away from home, and the children lack parental companionship and emotional guidance. Since August 2021, the Party branch of the Bingzhongluo Border Inspection Station has launched the "Police Hearts Protect Seedlings" campaign (警心护苗行动), formed a "Study Assistance Vanguard Team" (助学先锋队), paired police officers with students in need in "1+1" assistance pairs, and established a "three must-visits" mechanism (三必访) of must-visit at the start of each school term, must-visit on holidays, and must-visit when family circumstances change.

Most adolescents resist preaching and are unwilling to open their hearts. The police officers involved in the assistance program acted as the children's "friends" and "family," closing the distance with the children, step by step knocking open their tightly shut hearts, using companionship to make up for missing family affection, and using understanding to resolve the rebellion of youth.

Xiao Cheng was in adolescence, and his parents worked away from home all year round. He gradually became silent, weary of studying, and rebellious, even deliberately skipping class and talking back to elders. When police officer Tao He (陶贺) first came to his home to provide assistance, Xiao Cheng kept his door tightly shut and 一言不发 (yī yán bù fā - "not utter a single word").

Later, Tao He learned that Xiao Cheng liked basketball, so he brought a basketball on every visit, accompanying him running and shooting hoops on the court, gradually closing the distance between them amid 大汗淋漓 (dà hàn lín lí - "sweat streaming down like rain"). Finally, Xiao Cheng opened his heart to Tao He, crying out all the pent-up pressure in his heart.

From then on, Tao He became the person he trusted most. When he encountered difficulties in his studies, Tao He patiently tutored him; on holidays, Tao He brought stationery and snacks to celebrate with him, accompanying him to make dumplings and do homework. From then on, Xiao Cheng no longer skipped class or disliked studying, and even took the initiative to help his classmates around him, and a smile gradually appeared on his face.

Today, the Bingzhongluo Border Inspection Station has formed assistance pairs with 22 border-area students and carried out more than 200 assistance activities of various kinds. Yin Wenping (尹文平), Party branch secretary of the Bingzhongluo Border Inspection Station, said that those children who were once rebellious, withdrawn, and confused have now become sunny, cheerful, diligent, and progressive, and many children have taken the initiative to join volunteer service teams, passing on the warmth they have felt.

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Does Choosing Another Agent After Viewing a Property Count as "Jumping the Broker"?(Case-Based Explanation)

By: 本报记者 魏哲哲

In daily life, people often compare prices and options across multiple vendors when making consumer transactions. When Company A was purchasing a property, it likewise compared the fees and services of different intermediaries, and after choosing the intermediary with lower fees to close the deal, it was sued by the previously contacted intermediary for "jumping the contract" (跳单, tiào dān - "jumping the order," bypassing an intermediary to avoid paying fees). Is this normal comparison shopping or "jumping the contract"? Not long ago, the Beijing First Intermediate People's Court concluded a related case, serving as a reminder to the public.

It turned out that Company A, due to its operational needs, planned to purchase an office property. Accordingly, it approached intermediary Company B to seek services. Thereafter, an employee of Company B took Company A's person in charge to inspect the property in question on site, and the two parties signed the "Entrusted Property Viewing Confirmation Letter."

In order to obtain more favorable services, Company A also contacted another intermediary, Company C. Through the introduction of Company C's employee, Company A's person in charge also learned of the same property listing information, and Company C's quotation was lower, with its intermediary service plan also better suited to Company A's needs. Ultimately, Company A purchased the property in question through Company C at a price lower than Company B's quotation, and paid the intermediary fee.

"The 'Entrusted Property Viewing Confirmation Letter' stipulated that Company A must not use the information provided by Company B to separately entrust another party to close the transaction; otherwise, it would be liable to pay liquidated damages." Company B argued that it was the first to recommend the property in question to Company A and to arrange the viewing, and that Company A's use of the information it provided to close the transaction through another party constituted "jumping the contract," for which Company A should pay liquidated damages.

Company A, in turn, argued in its defense that the property listing information was not exclusively held by Company B, as it had already entered the open market, and that Company A had the right to choose Company C, which offered a lower price, to close the transaction.

How is it determined whether conduct constitutes "jumping the contract"? The Civil Code provides that where a principal, after accepting the services of an intermediary, uses the transaction opportunities or intermediary services provided by the intermediary to bypass the intermediary and directly conclude a contract, the principal shall pay remuneration to the intermediary.

"According to the provisions of the Civil Code, the finding of 'jumping the contract' must simultaneously satisfy three elements: the principal accepted the substantive services of the intermediary; the principal used the transaction opportunities or intermediary services provided by that intermediary; and the principal bypassed that intermediary to conclude the contract directly or through another party with the counterparty to the transaction." Presiding judge Zhao Lei introduced that the core dispute in this case was whether Company A used the information provided by Company B to bypass it and separately entrust another party to close the transaction.

With respect to the property listing information, Company A submitted WeChat records showing that other intermediaries had recommended the property earlier, demonstrating that the listing information for the property in question had already entered the open market and was not exclusively held by Company B. "Although Company B did indeed recommend this property to the buyer, this does not affect the buyer's ability to obtain the same listing information through other legitimate channels," said Judge Zhao Lei.

Then, did the buyer use the services provided by Company B? The court's adjudication held that the core of "use" lies in whether the listing information was exclusive and whether the buyer's channel for obtaining the information was legitimate. In this case, Company B only provided basic services such as information recommendation and property viewing, and other companies also provided corresponding services; there was a lack of direct causal connection between the services provided by Company B and the final closing of the transaction. Therefore, the buyer did not use the services provided by Company B.

In addition, the finding of breach of contract for "jumping the contract," besides requiring that the principal objectively used the intermediary's information or services, generally also examines whether the principal subjectively had the intent to evade payment of remuneration. "Looking at the actual circumstances of this case, Company A ultimately completed the transaction through Company C and paid a reasonable intermediary service fee, and there was no subjective intent to maliciously evade payment of remuneration." The Beijing First Intermediate People's Court held that when consumers are selecting properties, upon learning of the same listing information, they have the right to independently choose an intermediary institution with a lower price, better services, and more reasonable fees to complete the transaction; therefore, Company A did not constitute "jumping the contract."

The judge reminded the public that if consumers discover that different intermediaries are representing the same property, they should, as far as possible, retain the recommendation records for that property from each agency, such as chat records and property links, to prove the legitimate and diverse channels through which they obtained the information. If they decide to switch intermediaries, they should also do so based on considerations of service quality or price advantage, rather than maliciously evading intermediary fees.

Integrity is the cornerstone of market transactions and is also the principle and requirement of the law. One must not, in order to seek petty gains, privately bypass the intermediary and directly sign a contract with the landlord after accepting the substantive services of the first intermediary. Such "jumping the contract" conduct will ultimately require the supplementary payment of intermediary fees and assumption of liability for breach of contract — the loss outweighs the gain.

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Micro-dramas: Shedding the "hype" to move forward healthily (Arts & Culture Watch)

By: 高 思

AIGC (AI-Generated Content) technology is reshaping the mode of audiovisual content production at an unprecedented pace, substantially lowering the threshold for creation and allowing the creativity of hundreds of millions of people to be fully unleashed. AI (Artificial Intelligence) empowerment runs through the entire creative process, greatly improving production efficiency and expanding the breadth and depth of the content ecosystem. This is the broad prospect of technology empowering literature and art, and also a historic opportunity for the people to participate in cultural creation. We must also clearly recognize that technological dividends will not automatically translate into an explosive growth of high-quality works. Only by treating and using technology with a scientific attitude—embracing opportunities without evading problems, seeking advantages while avoiding disadvantages, and grasping the underlying laws—can creation advance along a healthy path.

The Measures for the Administration of Micro-Drama Development (hereinafter referred to as the Measures) will come into force on September 1, 2026. This is China's first special departmental regulation in the field of micro-dramas, providing timely directional guidance and standardized management for AIGC creation. The new regulation specifically adds restrictive clauses for AI-generated micro-dramas: requiring production and broadcasting institutions to add AI prompt labels in conspicuous positions in each episode, requiring platforms not to use push mechanisms that induce user addiction, and clarifying content review and value-orientation standards. This is both a direct response to problems in the industry's development and an institutional guide for the direction of creation.

Blindly chasing numbers will only deviate from the proper track of creation

The more fervent the tide, the more we must guard against getting carried away. Faced with production volume, output value, and traffic data, it is time to rationally analyze their true meaning.

First, look at production volume. According to industry estimates, in the first half of 2026, more than 360,000 micro-drama works were newly launched or renamed across the entire internet. Do we really need such a large quantity of works? When output far outruns consumption capacity, this "quantity" is no longer a mere symbol of prosperity, but an alarm of "false heat." Since last year, a number of problematic micro-dramas have been taken offline. Some low-quality content will be used for AI training, forming a vicious cycle of "feeding garbage to garbage." As spiritual and cultural products, the bottom line is not merely "not illegal," but "not harmful"—mediocrity itself is squeezing the living space of quality works and diluting the public's aesthetic standards.

Next, look at output value. The market size of the micro-drama industry has exceeded 100 billion yuan. However, surveys show that about 90 percent of projects across the industry are operating at a loss, and overseas distribution is also mostly loss-making, mainly because traffic acquisition costs are too high, with many entities "losing money for applause." If the entire industry is losing money, what is the meaning of the "hundred-billion scale"? Platforms collect service fees, traffic merchants profit without effort, and speculative capital circulates in a vacuum—but where is the true content value? Where is the industry's health and long-term competitiveness?

Finally, look at traffic. We have always opposed the theory of ratings-only and the theory of traffic-only, precisely because excellent works cannot be defined by traffic alone; what matters more is audience reputation and social value. Yet algorithmic push often delivers "high-arousal content"—the more sensational and stimulating, the more likely it is to be recommended, forming a closed loop of "satisfying-drama logic + algorithmic recommendation." Enterprises are alienated from "content companies" into "advertising companies"; once they stop spending on traffic acquisition, their business immediately comes to a halt.

Above computing power there is the power of the heart; beneath algorithms there are principles and laws. Many AI-drama creation institutions or OPCs (one-person companies) are now anxious, closely watching market changes—when one genre becomes popular, thousands of identical stories swarm in overnight, resulting in homogenization and mediocrity. Literary and artistic creation cannot rely on emergency heart pills and all-nighters to rush out a work and seize the lead in broadcast data. Blindly chasing numbers will only deviate from the proper track of creation.

One must not merely be a technology operator, but rather a guardian of values

The Measures propose "putting social benefits first," "encouraging and supporting the creation and broadcast of excellent micro-dramas," and "prioritizing the recommendation of high-quality micro-dramas," drawing bottom lines and indicating directions for AI dramas. The creation side in particular must benchmark its efforts in these areas.

Uphold the core of creation and correct value orientation. The Measures draw 11 content red lines, prohibiting the glorification of violence, the promotion of money worship and extravagance, and the vilification and desecration of heroes and martyrs. This means that output of the "low-intelligence scripts, slaps, and violence" type not only deviates from the original intention of creation, but has also touched the compliance bottom line. The cultural attribute of spiritual and cultural products naturally requires a higher level of self-awareness in value orientation and worldview expression. AI can generate massive amounts of content, but it lacks insight into real human sentiment. No matter how technology iterates, understanding of life, insight into human nature, and mastery of emotion will always remain the core competitiveness of creation. Creators cannot merely be technology operators; they must be guardians of values.

Raise production standards and uphold aesthetic standards. The Measures "encourage innovation in micro-drama artistic expression, communication methods, new technology applications, and business models." But innovation does not mean lowering standards. When AI lowers the threshold to the minimum, aesthetics become the watershed distinguishing mediocrity from excellence. In the AI era, what creators most need to learn is not tool operation, but the grammar of film and television language; in the future, what AI directors will compete on is not technology, but aesthetics. Good works require repeated deliberation on topic selection, in-depth research into life, meticulous polishing of scripts, and fine craftsmanship at every stage. As the industry enters the stage of "a thousand works produced daily," it is precisely the time when someone needs to be willing to spend more time refining a single quality work.

Strengthen responsibility and fulfill social responsibility. The Measures reaffirm that creation and broadcasting must "put social benefits first and unify social benefits with economic benefits." Creators are not piece-rate workers on a traffic assembly line, but participants in the construction of socialist culture. Every work shapes the spiritual world of the audience, and every act of dissemination may affect society's value coordinates. Facing the participation enthusiasm of hundreds of millions of people in the new era of mass literature and art, creators and platforms should lead public aesthetics with quality works, rather than cater to algorithmic preferences with low-quality content. Leading enterprises should take the lead in shifting resources from traffic-acquisition competition to deep content cultivation.

Make good use of opportunities and resources to promote quality creation. The Measures propose "encouraging and supporting the broad masses to participate in micro-drama creation, and stimulating the innovative and creative vitality of micro-dramas as a new form of mass literature and art under internet conditions." AIGC lowers the threshold for creation, and a large number of newcomers are flooding in—this is a great opportunity for prosperity. But the low cost of AI does not mean no cost—the massive creation of millions of people is competing for precious computing power resources.

Establish sound mechanisms so that excellent works can stand out. The Measures propose giving "commendations and rewards" to excellent micro-dramas and those with outstanding contributions, "guiding the formation of a social environment that respects creation and respects creative work," and requiring platforms to "prioritize the recommendation of high-quality micro-dramas and not use algorithmic models that induce user addiction or excessive consumption." This precisely targets the industry's pain points: the evaluation system should be improved to change the traffic-only orientation; recommendation algorithms should be optimized so that quality content gains more exposure; support policies should be improved to provide guarantees for quality creation. Only when creators have prospects and rewards for diligently polishing quality works can a virtuous cycle of quality works emerging in abundance be formed.

AIGC technology is developing at a galloping pace, seizing the crest of the wave. AI-drama creation, however, should not be hasty, and must not abandon the commitment to quality, respect for the laws of creation, or the sense of responsibility toward the people's spiritual and cultural needs.

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Understanding Dance Education Today

By: 姜铁红

The 14th "Taoli Cup" National Youth Dance Education and Teaching Achievement Exhibition has come to a close. Teachers and students from more than 60 institutions across 27 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities completed the presentation of 29 teacher demonstration classes and 277 dance programs across 27 performances in 6 theaters in the capital, collectively presenting the development of Chinese dance education and once again prompting our reflections on dance education.

No dancer has it easy. Every dance work that has been passed down to this day conceals unspoken details and perseverance. Many audience members came to know me through the dance work Galloping (奔腾). In 1989, I was admitted to the Central Institute for Nationalities (now Minzu University of China), and from my very first class, Galloping was with me. Later, I became the lead dancer of Galloping, and today, I pass on the enduring artistic charm of Galloping to my students. My life for many years revolved around practice, rehearsal, competition preparation, and performance. Behind the glamorous stage lay the tempering of years of high-intensity training. I also once suffered a rupture of the calf ligament due to a stage accident, and at one point faced the risk of bidding farewell to the stage. My personal experience is, in fact, a microcosm of the lives of many dance students.

Looking back over decades of professional experience, from a dance performer chasing the spotlight to a university teacher deeply engaged in the classroom, my understanding of dance education has continuously deepened. In the past, dance talent cultivation was mostly dominated by secondary specialized and junior college skill-oriented education, with the training focus leaning toward the output of specialized skills. This model delivered a large number of outstanding dancers with solid fundamentals to the stage. But the stage and the competition arena are by nature selective — those who can remain on the professional stage for the long term and become professional performers have always been the minority. Many students train hard year after year, devote themselves silently, and even endure physical injury, yet ultimately find it difficult to embark on a professional performance path, with narrow employment options. From this it is clear that a training model centered solely on stage competition cannot accommodate the development of the vast majority of dance students. The extensive training approach of relying on overdrawing the body in exchange for stage effect absolutely cannot be transplanted into today's classroom. Today, the academic education system for dance talent is gradually improving, the reform of the art examination (艺考) continues to deepen, and the structure of dance student sources has become more diverse, reshaping the positioning and growth pathways of dance talent cultivation.

Today's society does not only need "dancers who can perform." Basic education, public culture, digital culture and tourism, aesthetic education research, and other fields call for high-quality, highly educated, interdisciplinary dance practitioners. In my research, I have found that many outstanding graduates with impressive stage resumes and outstanding professional expressiveness commonly experience job-fit problems after entering grassroots aesthetic education positions such as primary and secondary schools and cultural centers. They excel at rehearsing finished repertoire and stage performance, but lack the abilities of classroom teaching design, layered decomposition of movements, and application of aesthetic education principles, making it difficult to transform exquisite stage skills into standardized aesthetic education curricula suited to young people.

Industry realities and teaching pain points are forcing the transformation and upgrading of dance education. In daily teaching, we no longer one-sidedly pursue technical difficulty and finished stage works; we place greater emphasis on scientific training and teaching students according to their aptitude. We organize students to go on field collection trips, immersing them in the connotation of ethnic dance culture; we encourage students skilled in performance and creation to deepen their artistic practice and strive for the professional stage; we guide students skilled in teaching and research to consolidate their theoretical foundations and refine their aesthetic education teaching abilities, helping students achieve individualized growth.

In the face of the vigorously developing artificial intelligence, today's dance education is steadily advancing along two main lines: one is the educational main line of aesthetic education permeating the whole people, and the other is the innovative main line of deep empowerment by artificial intelligence. The two main lines are interwoven, pushing dance education to break out of the traditional single skill-training model and better align with the trends of the times, the diverse needs of society, and the laws of student growth. In particular, it must be recognized that artificial intelligence is an efficient educational empowerment tool, but it cannot replace the real interpersonal interaction and artistic transmission in dance education. The physical infectiousness in the classroom, as well as the intellectual exchange, emotional transmission, and aesthetic enlightenment between teachers and students, are the unique values of teaching by precept and example, and are the artistic core that intelligent algorithms cannot replicate.

From this perspective, the "Taoli Cup" has already transcended the category of dance competition and is becoming an important platform for the inheritance of Chinese dance. The "Taoli Cup" fulfills the dreams of many young people who carry dance aspirations. The contestants of this edition of the "Taoli Cup" may well be the choreographers or supervising teachers of the next edition of the "Taoli Cup." Generation after generation of dancers grow up in this way, moving toward broader platforms. Exhibition and performance are but one stop on the artistic road. The experience of competing and exchanging on the same stage with outstanding dancers, and comprehending the true meaning of art through dance — this genuine "two-way flow" will truly become the strength that supports dancers as they move forward.

More than thirty years ago, a work titled Life Is Shimmering (生命在闪烁) earned me a place in the Top Ten at the "Taoli Cup." Today, I wish that young dancers may also experience the shimmer and radiance that dance brings to life — to know beauty, to feel beauty, and to spread beauty.

(The author is the Dean of the School of Dance, Minzu University of China)

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Intangible heritage lanterns illuminate summer nights

By: 郭晓龙

Dusk spread across the north bank of the Songhua River, and the silhouette of Harbin Ice-Snow World in Heilongjiang sank into the night. Across the grasslands and among the trees, thousands of lights came on one after another. When people mention Ice-Snow World, they naturally think of deep winter and biting cold. This summer's intangible cultural heritage lanterns, however, have opened up a whole new world.

The intangible heritage Thousand-Lantern Festival held here features Zigong lanterns as its centerpiece, blending a variety of folk performances and interactive experiences, and has become a popular summer destination for cultural tourism in the Ice City. The lantern displays, covering 120,000 square meters, were all "handcrafted on site" by a team of artisans from Zigong, Sichuan. Cheng Yongpeng, a staff member of the contracting company, told me that a team of nearly a hundred Zigong artisans moved into the park in May and spent 50 days completing the on-site production. Traditional pasting and coloring techniques preserve the unique texture and charm of Zigong lanterns. The adoption of modern materials such as flame-retardant fabrics and high-waterproof-grade light sources suits the outdoor environment of northern summer nights.

A scene at every step, and everything the eye falls upon is a delight. The Flower Goddess lantern display, inspired by Dunhuang's flying apsaras, is grand in scale, its shifting light and shadow revealing the beauty of Eastern aesthetics; the Insect World lantern display is lively in form, with lifelike butterflies and fireflies full of childlike charm; stretches of wheat-ear lanterns sway gently in the breeze, warm light spilling outward... Over a hundred large lantern displays and nearly a thousand small scenes are scattered in an artful arrangement, each step bringing a new view with its own distinctive appeal.

What keeps visitors' eyes busy is not only the static lantern viewing, but also the ever-innovative folk performances. Walking along the path, wave after wave of cheers reached my ears. It was molten iron flower throwing! Scalding liquid iron was hurled into the night sky, bursting into sparks that rained down like stars, each eruption drawing gasps of amazement from the audience. Twelve Flower Goddess flash mobs, ancient-style NPC (non-player character) interactions, and other features were woven into the garden tour route... Walking along, you could encounter something new at any moment.

"We had only ever seen molten iron flower throwing in short videos before; seeing it with our own eyes, only then did we understand how breathtaking it is," said Liu Shuqin, a resident of Daoli District (道里区) in Harbin, who had come specially with her husband to watch the performance. She said she had thought a lantern festival was just about looking at lanterns, and never expected so many intangible heritage performances—the whole visit was "well worth it."

Beyond traditional intangible heritage, there were also humanoid robot interactions favored by young people, all-people parties, and other attractions. Thousand-year-old intangible heritage craftsmanship, Chinese-style immersive performances, and modern technological entertainment connect naturally within the same space. The deep integration of different art forms has freed the traditional lantern festival from the limitation of "one-way viewing," turning it into an immersive experience that visitors can join and interact with. Young people in hanfu stopping to take photos, family visitors accompanying the elderly and children, foreign tourists who came specially to experience Chinese culture... The relaxed pace of the garden tour and the rich array of offerings allow visitors of all ages to find their own enjoyment.

"My child stared at the Insect World lantern display for a long time and kept running around the firefly lanterns," said Zhao Dan, a tourist from Zhejiang who had brought her child to escape the summer heat. She said she had done her research and planned this stop before setting out—Harbin is "not only fun in winter."

In front of the Flower Goddess lantern display, several Russian tourists were stopping to take photos. One tourist, Anna, told me this was her first experience of a traditional Chinese lantern festival, and the lanterns of varied shapes and the lively folk performances had all left a deep impression on her—she could truly feel the charm of Chinese traditional culture.

How can intangible cultural heritage be revitalized? Ice-Snow World has found a new way. This practice of cultural integration spanning north and south has both brought traditional intangible heritage into new settings and added new offerings to the Ice City's summer night-tour market, continuously expanding the imaginative space of nighttime Harbin tourism.

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Online Rendition of Bashu’s Red Legacy

By: 宋豪新

The teahouse is filled with curling smoke and steam, Sichuan opera movements are agile and lively, dance steps are full of vigor and vitality... Open your phone and watch a dance drama. Effort Meal (努力餐), the first work from Chengdu, Sichuan, to win the China Dance Lotus Award for dance drama, stepped off the traditional stage and completed its first group livestream in the form of a vertical-screen broadcast on Douyin, attracting many netizens to watch.

"Effort Meal is drawn from the true story of the martyr Che Yaoxian. Using his identity as a restaurant owner as cover, he both aided the poor and carried out intelligence work." Wei Jiucheng, executive director of the dance drama's tour, introduced that the dance drama blends elements such as hotpot, covered-bowl tea, and Sichuan opera movements into the choreography, conveying delicate emotions in scenes of everyday life.

For a long time, high-quality stage art has been constrained by spatial and temporal conditions such as venues and performance schedules, with audiences largely limited to offline theaters. From physical theaters to small phone screens, traditional stage art is exploring new paths of digital dissemination.

"The group livestream model brings new opportunities and injects new vitality into theater art." In Wei Jiucheng's view, many theater masterpieces polished over the years possess deep artistic accumulation. In shifting from offline performance to online fragmented dissemination, this cross-boundary innovation must both conform to the laws of online communication and preserve the red core and artistic quality. The creative team closely adhered to the work's own distinctive characteristics and carried out a complete set of restructuring and optimization—from stage design and cast lineup to narrative storytelling.

The primary challenge lay in decisions about what content to keep and what to cut. "We reduced the performance cast from 48 people to 12, replaced large props with lightweight equipment, and did our utmost to preserve the core stage imagery." Wei Jiucheng said the team re-edited and rearranged the original content, condensing the nearly 100-minute complete dance drama into a 60-minute livestream-exclusive version. "This is by no means a simple transfer of images, but a secondary creation that follows the logic of vertical-screen dissemination—it must both adapt to audiences' fragmented viewing habits and firmly hold onto the spiritual core of the red story." Changing the cast size and compressing the length is not lowering artistic standards, but rather precise refinement in response to the digital communication landscape, so that classic works better fit cloud-based dissemination and align with public aesthetics.

Beyond adjustments to content and scenes, the team also restructured the camera language and performance system to suit the presentation logic of vertical-screen livestreaming. The creators appropriately de-emphasized the grand group choreography suited to large theaters, shifting the creative focus toward the portrayal of characters' inner worlds and the expression of red revolutionary sentiment, relying on small-screen close-ups to break through the limitations of the frame. In filming, they employed layered imagery and dynamic roving techniques—panoramic shots laying out the street-life atmosphere of an old Chengdu teahouse, fixed focus capturing the breathtaking espionage plot, and classic dance segments full of Bashu regional flavor such as the hotpot dance and the chopstick dance, which both preserve local cultural characteristics and ensure narrative coherence and thematic clarity.

Leaving the familiar theater and facing a camera with no live audience is also a brand-new test for performers accustomed to the offline stage. "Performing in a theater is about the overall atmosphere and presence; vertical-screen livestreaming is different—it especially tests detail and emotional感染力, and every look and every movement must convey the emotion fully." Zhang Guoqiang, the actor playing Che Yaoxian, said the team often gathers to rehearse repeatedly, working through emotional details bit by bit, gradually stepping out of their established stage-performance mindset and finding the rhythm of online performance.

The palm-sized cloud stage breaks through the physical boundaries of the theater, freeing classic works from the constraints of time and space and continuously radiating vigorous artistic vitality. Before the screen, audiences savor the unique bearing and charm of Sichuan-school literature and art, recall the sincere original aspirations of revolutionary martyrs, and in stories steeped in the warmth of everyday life, perceive the enduring power of faith.

"Red literature and art is by no means a display piece shelved on high—only by taking root in the life of the people and drawing close to the masses can it transcend time and space and move audiences of the new era." In Wei Jiucheng's view, the enthusiastic online response from audiences fully demonstrates the timeless value of red literature and art as it thrives and endures. Local red literature and art that is down-to-earth, warm, and rich in cultural depth naturally possesses a spiritual power that crosses regions and spans generations.

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He Chooses to Do "Every Bit of Useful Work" (On Writing)

By: 何 冰

Before receiving the invitation for The Tide of Rivers and Seas (《江海潮生》), I was almost entirely ignorant of Mr. Zhang Jian. When the producer sent the materials to my hands, I opened them and read carefully, and only then did I gain a real sense of just how large a role I had taken on. As my understanding of this worthy figure from a century ago deepened, my heart was filled with an unprecedented shock and admiration. Today, I wish to speak, from the personal experience of an actor, about this extraordinary man who has filled me with both reverence and respect.

To portray Zhang Jian well, one must first place oneself in that era of precarious instability. In 1894, he achieved the highest distinction in the imperial examinations and became a zhuangyuan (top scholar). This should have been the most glorious moment for a man of letters in the feudal age, yet it happened to collide with the devastating defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War. As I repeatedly pondered the script, I seemed to hear the sound of that era's great edifice collapsing—great powers encircling us, the nation on the verge of ruin, the traditional agrarian civilization utterly vulnerable beneath the colossal wheels of industrial civilization. Zhang Jian was not a literatus living in a time of peace and prosperity, but a man living through "the greatest transformation unseen in three thousand years." The fate of the nation hung by a thread. This visceral pain was my starting point for understanding this character.

What first astonished me was that a zhuangyuan educated under the enlightenment of agrarian civilization should possess a vision of industrial and commercial civilization. China is an agrarian society; in the ordering of "scholar, farmer, artisan, merchant," the merchant ranks last. Yet Zhang Jian saw through it all: to save China, one could not simply keep circling within the confines of the field ridges—one had to take the path of industrial and commercial civilization. When he established the Dasheng Cotton Mill, he pioneered the "gentry-led, merchant-run" (绅领商办) model, persuading the court to take a stake in the form of several dozen obsolete spinning machines, receiving only dividends without demanding actual control. This was not merely doing business; it was a traditional scholar-official's profound insight into the shape of civilization—he saw the power of industrialization, he saw the power of the industrial chain. That a man who emerged from the Four Books and Five Classics could possess such vision—every time I think of it, I find it almost inconceivable.

As a zhuangyuan, Zhang Jian was deeply steeped in traditional Chinese educational thought. "To excel in learning is to become an official"—this was the path carved into the very bones of scholars for over two thousand years. When I performed him, I kept thinking: when he took off his official robes and walked into the machine rooms of the cotton mill, what turbulent emotions must have churned within him? That was not a graceful turning away; it was forcing himself, a revered zhuangyuan, to live anew as a founder who met with setbacks at every turn. The rebuffs he faced spreading paper on the streets of Shanghai to raise funds through calligraphy sales, the strenuous arguments he waged against the conservatives—when I performed these scenes, what I felt was not glory but a kind of almost self-mortifying tenacity. He gave up the official rank that came with high office and chose to do "the smallest useful things." This inner struggle and ultimate resolve was the part that cost me the most effort in shaping the character and also moved me the most.

Was the determination to love the country and its people, to change the nation's fate, the driving force behind Zhang Jian's actions? My answer is: this was not merely a driving force—it was his very destiny. He did not act to get rich, still less for personal fame and achievement. According to historical records, after the Dasheng Cotton Mill quickly became profitable, the Zhang family had a total of two villas—his elder brother built his first, and only much later did Zhang Jian build his own. Commercial success came first; personal enjoyment was placed last. He poured all the returns from his industrial undertakings into his hometown, using them to benefit the local people. This is not the logic of a businessman; it is the logic of a patriot. All his entrepreneurship and running about were, at their root, a deep affection for this land and its people.

Zhang Jian's vision and practices hold enormous lessons for today. He made me think: after a person profits, should he buy luxury cars and yachts and shift the problems onto society, or should he actively fulfill social responsibility? Beyond making money, how should one spend money more meaningfully? Zhang Jian, with the strength of one man, constructed in his hometown of Nantong, Jiangsu, the prototype of a self-sufficient "ideal state." He tells us that the entrepreneurial spirit is not merely innovation and profit, but also giving back and shouldering responsibility.

Some assessments say that Zhang Jian was "a very great failed hero in modern Chinese history." When I first read this sentence, my heart was filled with mixed emotions, but the more I came to understand Zhang Jian, the more I understood the weight of that "failure." Living in an era when the feudal dynasty was crumbling day by day, his ideals and attempts were destined to be unable to succeed on the overall scale. He could not change the direction of the entire nation, so he put down roots in Nantong and led the local people in doing their utmost to keep pace with the world's development. Yet it is precisely this "failure" that makes his success all the more dazzling—he could not save the entire Great Qing, but he saved the spirit and vitality of one region; he could not change the fate of all of China, but he left behind a viable path for later generations. This steadfastness in the midst of failure moves me more deeply than any seemingly glorious success.

During this period of portraying Zhang Jian, I often felt that I was not performing, but undergoing a baptism of the soul. The moral fiber of a zhuangyuan, the shrewdness of an industrialist, and the sincerity of a patriot that he embodied made me understand that true greatness lies not in how much you possess, but in how much you give; the true destination of an intellectual is not the heights of the imperial court, but the welfare of the common people.

The television drama has been completed, but the imprint Zhang Jian has left on my heart can probably never be erased. He is like a century-old tree, its roots deeply embedded in the soil of the nation. As an actor, all I can do is strive to make this worthy ancestor step out from the history books, so that more people may see his radiance.

(The author is an actor at the Beijing People's Art Theatre)

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