Summary: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov in Bishkek on August 31, with Peng Liyuan accompanying him and Japarov and his wife hosting a welcoming ceremony. Xi congratulated Kyrgyzstan on its Independence Day and called for deepening strategic alignment, signing a treaty on permanent good-neighborliness and friendly cooperation and a joint declaration on elevating the comprehensive strategic partnership. He urged practical cooperation including the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, trade, digital economy, green energy, and joint efforts against the "three forces" of terrorism, separatism, and extremism. Japarov hailed the visit as a milestone, praised China's development under Xi, reaffirmed Kyrgyzstan's commitment to the one-China principle, and expressed condolences over a mudslide disaster in Tibet's Gyirong. Cai Qi and Wang Yi also attended the events.
Summary: Chinese President Xi Jinping published a signed article in Egyptian newspapers ahead of his state visit to Cairo, marking the 70th anniversary of China-Egypt diplomatic relations. He recalled the long-standing friendship between the two ancient civilizations and their mutual support in historical struggles, including Egypt's support for China's UN seat restoration. Xi highlighted cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, such as the Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone and infrastructure projects benefiting both sides. He called for deepening the comprehensive strategic partnership, promoting a China-Egypt community with a shared future, and advancing modernization together. The article also emphasized stronger China-Arab and China-Africa cooperation, with Egypt playing a key bridging role.
Summary: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek on August 31. Xi noted that Putin’s state visit to China in May had produced consensus on deepening bilateral cooperation, with many results already achieved and momentum continuing to grow. He stressed that amid global turbulence, the SCO should contribute to regional stability and a more equal and orderly multipolar world. Putin said Russia-China ties had become a model of state-to-state relations, and voiced support for cooperation in trade, energy, industry, transport, technology, and multilateral forums, including backing China’s hosting of APEC. Cai Qi and Wang Yi attended the meeting.
Summary: President Xi Jinping met with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the sidelines of the 2026 SCO summit in Bishkek. Xi noted the 10th anniversary of the comprehensive strategic partnership and called for a new "golden decade" of bilateral ties, including advancing the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway and cooperation on AI, desertification, security, and cultural exchanges. Mirziyoyev praised China's development achievements under Xi's leadership and expressed confidence in Chinese modernization. He reaffirmed Uzbekistan's firm commitment to the one-China principle and support for Xi's four global initiatives. Cai Qi and Wang Yi accompanied Xi at the meeting.
Summary: Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh on August 31 on the sidelines of the 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek. Xi said China will continue to prioritize ties with Mongolia in its neighborhood diplomacy, and called for strengthening strategic mutual trust, deepening cooperation in trade, connectivity, energy, and minerals, while exploring new areas such as green mining, artificial intelligence, and the digital economy. He also stressed mutual respect for sovereignty, territorial integrity, and core interests, and urged Mongolia to protect the legitimate rights of Chinese enterprises. Khurelsukh replied that deepening friendly cooperation with China is Mongolia’s primary foreign policy, reaffirmed the one-China principle and that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China, and described issues related to Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong as China’s internal affairs. Cai Qi and Wang Yi attended the meeting.
Summary: A Xinhua article reports that the September 1 issue of *Qiushi* journal will publish an important essay by Xi Jinping titled "Persist in Implementing the Political Responsibility of Party Governance," compiled from his remarks between June 2013 and July 2026. The essay stresses that the Party must govern itself strictly and that this requires clearly defining, implementing, and enforcing responsibilities. It calls for a complete responsibility chain, including primary responsibilities, supervisory duties, and "one post, dual responsibilities" for party committees and discipline inspection commissions. The piece emphasizes holding leading officials, especially "top leaders," accountable and making party-building effectiveness a key criterion in their evaluations. No accompanying officials were mentioned in the report.
Summary: President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to Kyrgyzstan from August 30 to September 1, 2026, at the invitation of Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov, and attended the 26th SCO Council of Heads of State meeting. The two leaders held talks in Bishkek and pledged to advance a high-quality comprehensive strategic partnership, supporting each other on sovereignty, territorial integrity, and core interests. Kyrgyzstan reaffirmed its commitment to the one-China principle, stating that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China and opposing any form of "Taiwan independence." The two sides agreed to deepen cooperation in security, trade, infrastructure—including the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway—energy, agriculture, and cultural exchanges. They also called for upholding multilateralism and the UN-centered international system, while supporting SCO institutional development.
Summary: The treaty, signed in Bishkek on August 31, 2026, replaces the 2002 agreement and elevates bilateral ties to a new era of comprehensive strategic partnership, establishing permanent good-neighborly relations. Kyrgyzstan reaffirmed its adherence to the One-China principle, recognizing Taiwan as an inalienable part of China and opposing any form of "Taiwan independence." Both parties commit to refraining from alliances harming the other's sovereignty and to jointly combatting terrorism, including the "East Turkestan" forces. They pledge to deepen high-quality Belt and Road cooperation while opposing unilateralism and protectionism, supporting a WTO-centered multilateral trading system. The treaty is long-term and explicitly not directed against any third country.
Summary: Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, visited the National Historical Museum of the Kyrgyz Republic in Bishkek on August 31, accompanied by Aigul Japarova, wife of Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov. They watched a welcoming performance and toured an exhibition of Kyrgyz traditional culture. Peng said the displayed crafts reflected Kyrgyzstan’s long handicraft traditions and unique customs, and noted that both China and Kyrgyzstan value cultural heritage preservation and should expand people-to-people exchanges. The two first ladies also visited a jointly organized exhibition on ancient Chinese civilization and watched a Kyrgyz ethnic clothing show. Both expressed support for promoting cultural exchanges and mutual learning between China and Kyrgyzstan.
Summary: President Xi Jinping published a signed article in three major Egyptian newspapers ahead of his state visit to Egypt, which he is undertaking at the invitation of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Marking the 70th anniversary of diplomatic ties, Xi emphasized the historical bonds between the two ancient civilizations and their mutual support on core interests, highlighting successful cooperation projects like the Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone. He called for deepening the comprehensive strategic partnership by enhancing mutual trust, promoting win-win cooperation, and advancing civilization dialogue. Xi also stressed the importance of upholding multilateralism and international fairness, positioning Egypt as a key leader in China-Arab and China-Africa collective cooperation. The article underscores the shared goals of modernization and development for both nations as members of the Global South.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang chaired a State Council executive meeting on August 31, where participants studied President Xi Jinping’s instructions on landslide rescue efforts in Gyirong County, Xigaze, Tibet, vowing to prioritize life safety, intensify search and rescue, prevent secondary disasters, and ensure proper handling of victims’ families. The meeting also discussed accelerating urban underground pipeline networks to eliminate safety hazards and improve city functions. On investment promotion, it called for regulating local government incentives, focusing on optimizing the business environment and supporting enterprises. The cabinet approved a draft revision of the Tax Collection Administration Law for submission to the NPC Standing Committee, and adopted a revised Audit Law Implementation Regulation. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations topics were addressed.
Summary: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi authored an article marking the 70th anniversary of Egypt-China diplomatic relations, recalling Egypt as the first Arab and African state to recognize the People's Republic of China. He highlighted the two civilizations' historic ties and the bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership established in 2014, emphasizing growing Chinese investment in Egypt, including the Suez Canal Economic Zone and major infrastructure projects. The article praises China's development experience and the two countries' shared commitment to enhancing the Global South's voice in international institutions. Egypt stresses its independent foreign policy and strategic balance amid escalating global confrontations, and aligns with China on peaceful conflict resolution in the Middle East. It also expresses appreciation for China's recognition of the Nile as Egypt's lifeline and calls for cooperation over unilateral measures.
Summary: China’s top legislator Zhao Leji met Austrian National Council President Walter Rosenkranz in Beijing, with He Wei also attending. Zhao stressed the 55th anniversary of bilateral ties and called for deepening cooperation in trade, AI, digital economy, green development, and people-to-people exchanges. He expressed hope that China and the EU would resolve trade disputes through dialogue. Rosenkranz affirmed Austria’s adherence to the one-China policy and said his delegation included members from five Austrian parties. He voiced support for stronger Austria-China cooperation and closer EU-China ties.
Summary: Wang Huning, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, met with Austrian National Council President Rosenkranz in Beijing. Wang said that the 2018 establishment of the China-Austria friendly strategic partnership had opened a new chapter, and urged using the 55th anniversary of diplomatic ties to enhance exchanges and cooperation. Rosenkranz said Austria adheres to the one-China policy and wants stronger bilateral cooperation. Wang Dongfeng also attended the meeting.
Summary: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on August 31 that Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang will visit Russia from September 2 to 4 at the invitation of the Russian government. During the visit, he will attend the 11th Eastern Economic Forum. He will also hold the 13th meeting of the China-Russia Investment Cooperation Committee and the 23rd meeting of the Energy Cooperation Committee, as well as the 8th China-Russia Energy Business Forum.
Summary: A symposium on studying *Xi Jinping's Selected Works on Party Construction* and the inauguration of the Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building Research Center were held in Beijing on August 31. Shi Taifeng, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Central Organization Department, attended and delivered a speech. He stressed the need to thoroughly study the selected works and grasp the historical, theoretical, and practical logic of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. He also emphasized upholding the Party's overall leadership and the "Two Establishments," advancing full and rigorous Party self-governance, and strengthening Party building in a more scientific and effective manner. The Central Organization Department established the research center with the approval of the CPC Central Committee to serve as a major platform for studying and interpreting Xi's thought.
Summary: NPC Vice Chairman Zhang Qingwei met with Micronesian Federal Congress Speaker Moses in Beijing on August 31. They exchanged in-depth views on bilateral relations between China and Micronesia, exchanges between their legislative bodies, and issues of mutual concern. Zhang hosted the meeting in his capacity as vice chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee. The discussion focused on strengthening ties and parliamentary cooperation. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Liu Haixing, head of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, met in Beijing with Austrian National Council President Rosenkranz on August 31. They exchanged views on jointly implementing the important consensus of the two countries' heads of state. The two sides discussed strengthening inter-party exchanges and cooperation. They also addressed promoting the healthy and stable development of China-Austria and China-EU relations. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization人文 exchange event was held in Bishkek on August 30, co-hosted by China Media Group and Kyrgyzstan’s national television and radio company. Over 100 political, economic, cultural, and media figures from SCO countries attended. At the event, the feature film “Our Day,” co-produced by Chinese, Kyrgyz, and Uzbek film institutions under the guidance of China’s National Film Administration, began production. The event also released a series of China-Kyrgyzstan achievements in people-to-people cooperation. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Writing from Gyirong Port in Tibet after an August 26 mudslide, a journalist described accompanying firefighters, soldiers, and police in rescue and search efforts. Local cadres and residents moved supplies through the night, and evacuees were relocated to Gyirong town as a barrier lake posed further risk. Gyirong County deputy Party secretary Cidan Dorji said, “We are always here; no matter how difficult, we won’t give up,” while a public security official said frontline teams went nearly sleepless for three days. A villager praised the party and government for completing evacuation within 40 minutes. The article contains no reference to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A landslide triggered by debris flow in Nepal caused significant casualties and missing persons at Gyirong Port in Shigatse, Tibet. Chinese national fire and rescue teams mobilized for search-and-rescue operations amid ongoing secondary risks. Commander Wang Haitao described a multi-directional strategy using land, water, and air teams to expand coverage. Rescuers like Xu Hui, Bianba Ciren, Wang Yongming, and Zou Mingqi were reported carrying out arduous searches with drones, boats, and foot patrols. The article did not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese rescue crews were the first professional responders to reach the disaster-hit Gyirong port area, with firefighter Guo Xiqing and more than 20 teammates enduring an eight-hour trek through difficult terrain to arrive. They were joined by a Lhasa fire rescue mobile land search team led by Deputy Commander Yao Xueqin, carrying equipment and search dogs. After arriving, they found the port largely flattened by mudslides, with buildings reduced to twisted metal frames. The teams conducted repeated searches under dangerous conditions, including overnight exposure to cold and rain due to the risk of an upstream barrier lake breaching. On August 30, they withdrew from the area for safety after warnings of possible dam failure, but planned to resume search efforts after regrouping.
Summary: The Ministry of Emergency Management dispatched China Aneng rescue forces to continue clearing the damaged section of National Highway 216 in Gyirong County, Tibet, advancing the work to within 1.1 kilometers of the border port as of August 31. The ministry, together with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, also deployed three Wing Loong drones for communication support and disaster reconnaissance, logging over 130 flight hours and 3,900 calls. The Ministry of Water Resources convened a meeting to assess the full-chain risks of the mudslide, noting that the water body area of Nepal's Cuojian River impact crater had shrunk to about 83,000 square meters, but that surrounding glaciers still posed a major risk of collapse. Tibet's meteorological department issued dozens of specialized forecasts and satellite remote sensing products to support rescue operations and spatial information analysis.
Summary: Rescue workers repaired a road on National Highway 216 leading to Gyirong Port on the evening of August 31. The photo was taken by reporter Zhang Wujun.
Summary: The article reproduces the full text of a new Treaty on Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation signed in Bishkek on August 31, 2026, between China and Kyrgyzstan, which replaces the 2002 treaty. Kyrgyzstan reaffirms the One-China principle, recognizes Taiwan as an inalienable part of China, opposes any form of “Taiwan independence,” and supports UN General Assembly Resolution 2758. The treaty pledges deepened strategic coordination, high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, and joint efforts against terrorism, separatism, and extremism, including “East Turkestan” forces. Both sides also agree to strengthen defense and security trust, oppose unilateralism and protectionism, and support WTO-centered multilateral trade rules. The treaty is long-term, enters into force after both parties complete domestic procedures, and can be terminated with 12 months’ written notice.
Summary: China’s official broadcaster announced that the 2026 "First Lesson of School" public welfare program, jointly organized by the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Education, and China Media Group, will air on September 1. Titled "Our Long March Road," the program marks the 105th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party and the 90th anniversary of the Red Army’s Long March. It will use poetry recitals and choral performances to tell stories of the Red Army’s arduous journey and explain the spirit of the Long March. The show aims to guide young people toward a correct view of history and reinforce that the red regime and socialism with Chinese characteristics were hard-won. It encourages youth to carry on the legacy of revolutionary forebears on the new Long March road.
Summary: The article reports that China’s Cyberspace Administration and Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs jointly released the “China Digital Rural Development Report (2019–2025).” The report states that 2025 marked the completion of the second-stage goals of the Digital Rural Development Strategy Outline. It highlights progress over seven years in policy mechanisms, infrastructure, smart agriculture, rural digital economy, cultural development, and governance. Looking ahead to the “15th Five-Year Plan” period, the report calls for advancing integrated digitalization of rural industry, information technology in rural construction, and smart rural governance. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article compiles key quotes from Chinese President Xi Jinping at Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summits from 2014 to 2025, emphasizing the SCO’s role in safeguarding regional security, promoting economic cooperation, and upholding global governance. Xi highlights achievements such as the mutual trust mechanism in border areas, counterterrorism cooperation, and the expansion of Belt and Road projects, including over 110,000 China-Europe freight trains. He advocates for common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security, opposing protectionism, unilateral sanctions, and decoupling. The quotes stress civilizational dialogue, multilateralism, and a fairer global governance system. No direct reference is made to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article compiles commentaries from senior Chinese officials on the publication of "Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building," praising it as the authoritative textbook for studying Xi Jinping’s party-building thought. Officials including Huang Yibing, Guo Wenqi, Wang Jiang, Xiong Sihao, Tan Zuojun, Li Chenglin, Zhang Wei, and Wang Jinxi emphasize implementing the "ten adherences" and using high-quality party building to drive high-quality development in their respective sectors. They stress upholding the Party's leadership, advancing full and rigorous Party self-governance, and integrating party building with concrete work in finance, education, state-owned enterprises, regional governance, and railways.
Summary: China’s construction machinery exports grew 21.7% year-on-year to $34.373 billion in the first half of the year, with compact equipment like electric tricycles, small tractors, and micro excavators gaining popularity overseas. Xuzhou industry official Sun Qi said the city is implementing a “hundred enterprises going overseas together” initiative and an industry development plan to support export upgrades. Zhejiang Sifang Group chairman Yu Feng said success abroad requires “adapting to local conditions,” citing product modifications tailored to Indonesia, Suriname, and Vietnam. Jining High-tech Zone deputy director Zhang Rui said the zone’s new cross-border e-commerce distribution center offers a one-stop platform connecting local manufacturers with global markets.
Summary: The article explains that China’s small-sized equipment exports are thriving thanks to strong product adaptability, cost-effectiveness, and full-chain industrial advantages, including complete component supply systems, technical capabilities, flexible production, and e-commerce platforms. These industrial clusters provide a solid foundation for production, sales, and services, helping exporters handle diverse and fragmented global demand. It highlights this as evidence of China’s manufacturing strength, citing first-half data showing equipment manufacturing value-added grew 9.3% and high-tech manufacturing grew 13.3%, outpacing overall industrial growth. Numerous small manufacturers are turning niche products into major industries.
Summary: President Xi Jinping visited Kyrgyzstan from August 30 to September 1, 2026, at the invitation of President Sadyr Japarov, and attended the 26th SCO Council of Heads of State meeting in Bishkek. The two leaders held talks in a warm and friendly atmosphere, pledging to deepen their comprehensive strategic partnership and jointly build a China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future. The joint statement reaffirmed Kyrgyz support for the One-China principle, opposition to any form of "Taiwan independence," and backing for China's efforts at national reunification. Both sides agreed to expand cooperation in trade, infrastructure, energy, security, and people-to-people exchanges, including advancing the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway and border port projects. No reference was made to the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The article compiles statements from senior Chinese officials—including deputy heads of the Central Academy of History and Literature, the Central Party and State Organs Work Commission, the Central Financial Office, the Ministry of Education, SASAC, Beijing and Shaanxi organization departments, and China State Railway Group—hailing the publication of *Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building* as an authoritative textbook. Officials emphasize the need to thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's Party building thought, particularly the "fourteen persistences," to strengthen the Party comprehensively. Each official outlines how their respective institution will apply this thought to advance high-quality Party building, linking it to priorities such as financial stability, education, state-owned enterprise reform, and railway development. The pieces uniformly stress loyalty to the Party Central Committee and the "two establishments." No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The "China Good Person List" ceremony was held on August 31 in Jingning County, Gansu Province, unveiling the second batch of 150 honorees for 2026. The list recognizes individuals for deeds such as altruism, bravery, honesty, dedication, and filial piety. Notable honorees include a rescue team deputy captain who died on duty, a retired worker who saved seven people from the sea, and a grassroots official who died while serving farmers. During the event, several honorees shared their stories and interacted with national moral models. The ceremony was hosted by the Central Civilization Office and organized by local and national publicity departments.
Summary: The 30th Shandong-Taiwan Economic and Trade Fair opened in Weifang, co-hosted by the Shandong provincial government and the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office. Song Tao, head of the Taiwan Affairs Office, cited Xi Jinping’s call for better lives for compatriots on both sides, citing the “15th Five-Year Plan” as a major opportunity for Taiwanese businesses and pledging equal treatment and support. He urged Taiwanese compatriots to uphold the One-China principle and the 1992 Consensus, and to oppose “Taiwan independence” and external interference. Shandong Party Secretary Lin Wu expressed willingness to deepen industrial, agricultural, and cultural cooperation with Taiwan, while Kuomintang Vice Chairman Hsiao Hsu-tsen offered condolences for Tibet landslide victims and called for stronger cross-strait ties in technology, agriculture, and youth exchanges. The fair drew about 800 participants from both sides.
Summary: An official from China’s National Bureau of Statistics said intellectual property product investment—covering software, databases, R&D, mineral exploration, and original entertainment, literary, and artistic works—is growing rapidly. From January to July this year, such investment rose 9.1% and accounted for 14.8% of total fixed-asset investment, pulling overall investment growth up by 1.2 percentage points. The official attributed the growth to China’s innovation-driven development strategy, new quality productive forces, and policies like tax incentives and “AI + software” initiatives. The investment is seen as a key force driving industrial upgrading and high-quality economic development.
Summary: Intellectual property product investment in China grew 9.1% year-on-year in the first seven months, accounting for 14.8% of total investment and contributing 1.2 percentage points to overall investment growth. This growth is driven by traditional industry upgrades toward smart manufacturing and by emerging and future industries such as AI, integrated circuits, and biopharmaceuticals. The share of IP product investment now approaches that of real estate investment, signaling an optimization of China's investment structure. The article frames this trend as evidence of rising "intellectual content" and the accelerated integration of technological and industrial innovation. It concludes that such investment will strengthen economic stability and inject new momentum into China's development.
Summary: S&P Global Ratings maintained China’s sovereign credit rating at “A+” with a stable outlook, which the article calls an objective affirmation of China’s economic resilience, fiscal strength, and risk-management capacity. The rating is framed as a global-market vote of confidence in China’s high-quality development, especially in the opening year of the “15th Five-Year Plan.” The piece cites steady industrial output, service-sector growth, and foreign trade exceeding 30 trillion yuan from January to July as evidence of the economy’s ability to withstand domestic and external pressures. It also highlights ongoing implementation of 109 major projects and new national plans as reinforcing confidence among both domestic firms and overseas investors. Finally, the article argues the rating benefits not only China but the world, through expanded imports, opening-up, Belt and Road cooperation, and stable supply of key goods.
Summary: China’s August 2026 manufacturing PMI rose 0.6 points to 49.8%, indicating stabilizing activity, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics’ Service Industry Survey Center and the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing. Domestic demand recovered, with the new orders index rising 2.1 points to 50.6%, while new export orders improved to 50.1%. Production returned to expansion at 50.4%, and purchasing activity also expanded. Equipment manufacturing held steady at 51.4%, high-tech manufacturing reached 52.9%, and consumer goods manufacturing improved to 49%. Overall, 16 of 21 surveyed industries saw higher PMI readings month-on-month.
Summary: China's Ministry of Commerce, together with six other government agencies including the National Development and Reform Commission, issued an implementation opinion on expanding and upgrading commodity consumption. The document sets a national target for total retail sales of consumer goods to reach approximately 60 trillion yuan by 2030, while cultivating major markets in green, smart, and health consumption. It outlines four key tasks: boosting bulk durable goods such as automobiles and smart home appliances, raising the quality of daily consumer goods, supporting specialty products for the elderly and children, and expanding upgraded categories. It also proposes five supporting measures covering infrastructure, standards, brand building, fiscal and financial support, and market regulation. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce stated that relevant departments will implement the policies to boost consumption and expand domestic demand.
Summary: In Yichang, Hubei, drones delivered supplies to ships waiting at the Linjiangping anchorage on August 30. The anchorage serves vessels passing the Gezhouba and Three Gorges dams, creating high demand for daily goods. The drone delivery service lets crew members receive parcels without going ashore. The photo was taken by Wang Geng.
Summary: The article reports that the world’s tallest dam hydropower station, the National Energy Group’s Shuangjiangkou station on the Dadu River, achieved full operation of its first-phase three generating units on August 31. The 315-meter-high dam has a total installed capacity of 2,000 MW across four 500 MW units, with average annual generation of about 7.7 billion kWh and a reservoir capacity of 2.9 billion cubic meters. The project is expected to improve water resource utilization across the Dadu River basin and add 6.6 billion kWh annually to downstream cascade stations. Since its first unit started in June, the station accelerated commissioning to support energy supply for the Chengdu-Chongqing economic zone amid high summer demand. In two months, it delivered 500 million kWh of clean hydropower.
Summary: The article highlights Ganzhou, Jiangxi, as a model for revolutionary heritage and modern development, where locals like Red Army descendant Zhong Min connect the past Long March with today’s "new era long march." It details Ganzhou’s efforts to build a high-quality demonstration zone, including expanding transport links, deepening cooperation with Guangdong’s Greater Bay Area, and constructing modern industries such as lithium batteries, selenium-rich agriculture, and sports tourism. The piece also emphasizes tangible benefits for residents, such as pocket parks for seniors and rent-free startup spaces for young entrepreneurs modeled on Shenzhen. Overall, it portrays Ganzhou as accelerating toward its "15th Five-Year Plan" goals with improved infrastructure, industrial vitality, and shared prosperity. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Gansu Provincial Department of Transportation, together with the provincial culture and tourism department and sports bureau, issued a plan to integrate transportation with cultural tourism and sports development. The plan aims to leverage Gansu’s transport location advantages and its cultural, tourism, and sports resources. It calls for deep integration of these sectors under principles of regional coordination, resource sharing, and green development. The initiative will build nine “integration corridors” across the province, organized around natural and cultural landmarks. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article is an editorial celebrating the "ordinary" comforts of daily life in China—fast delivery, high-speed rail, abundant food, and green spaces—as evidence of national strength, institutional advantages, and people-centered governance. It traces progress from past material scarcity to current abundance, crediting successive five-year plans and cumulative infrastructure investment, citing examples like cliff elevators in Yunnan's Nizhu River Canyon that now serve as "school buses" for children. The piece argues that such stability and prosperity are underpinned by systematic governance, coordinated policy implementation, and centralized-local collaboration in the face of market fluctuations, disasters, and external challenges. It emphasizes the durability and sustainability of China's development model as a source of future potential. The article concludes by urging continued effort to turn more extraordinary achievements into everyday realities for the people.
Summary: The article covers rescue and relocation efforts after a mudslide in Gyirong County, Shigatse, Tibet. Xi Jinping was reported to have instructed that the priority be searching for missing people, relocating threatened residents, treating the injured, and minimizing casualties. Local party members and cadres, including a young member named Gongga, persuaded a 73-year-old villager to evacuate by promising to care for her cattle, and helped move all threatened residents to shelters. Party members patrolled through the night to guard against secondary disasters, accompanied vulnerable residents during further transfers, and distributed food before eating themselves. The piece emphasizes that putting people first is realized through concrete actions and trust-building by party members.
Summary: The article uses two business controversies—Nongfu Spring founder Zhong Shanshan criticizing e-commerce platforms as "middlemen," and Pangdonglai closing a profitable store due to landlord rent hikes—to illustrate how imbalanced business relations damage the entire commercial ecosystem. It argues that zero-sum thinking and "involutionary" competition lead to mutual losses, urging instead a healthy market culture rooted in rule of law, cooperation, and long-term interests. The piece cites China's revised anti-unfair competition law and private economy promotion regulations as institutional supports for fair competition. It also highlights Huawei's R&D spending and Fuyao's global success as examples of entrepreneurial spirit driving innovation. Finally, it quotes President Xi Jinping's call to resolutely break local protectionism, market segmentation, and "involutionary" competition to foster a stable and transparent environment for entrepreneurship.
Summary: The article reports on the second World Humanoid Robot Games, held at the National Speed Skating Hall "Ice Ribbon." The event attracted 666 teams and 2,056 robots from 16 countries, with team numbers up 138% and robots quadrupled from the first edition. This year's scenario competitions extended into real-world settings, covering industry, hotels, homes, and logistics. The piece concludes with a short poem praising the robots' practical capabilities in competition. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations are discussed.
Summary: The article highlights the revitalization of China’s industrial heritage, using Shenyang’s Hongmei Creative Park, a former MSG factory turned cultural hub, as a key example. It argues that preserving industrial sites means balancing historical value with modern needs, not freezing or demolishing them. Other cases, such as Beijing’s Shougang ski jump and Xi’an’s film studio, show how old industrial spaces can become venues for sports, culture, and community life. The piece emphasizes that successful renewal depends on attracting people and fostering emotional and cultural connections, not just creating trendy spots. Ultimately, it frames these transformations as a way to sustain urban vitality and pass on a city’s enterprising spirit.
Summary: The first commentary highlights a recent joint guideline from China’s Ministry of Commerce and eight other departments calling for rural and county consumers to enjoy the same-quality products and services as urban buyers; it argues that county-level demand is expanding and upgrading, so businesses must avoid “degraded” offerings and build suitable sales, after-sales, and service systems. The second commentary argues that elder-care services should begin with truly understanding each older person’s habits, preferences, and needs, citing assessors who created personalized care plans from small observations such as a resident’s fondness for gardening or chess, and concludes that warm, individualized care requires empathy rather than standardized routines.
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Summary: The article profiles Wang Kehao, Party secretary of the “Little Bull Brother” volunteer service team in Chengdu’s Jinjiang District, who transitioned from a veteran and food-delivery rider to a nationally recognized Party affairs worker. He described how a 2020 “mobile Party member call-up” poster led him and fellow couriers to form the team, growing from three initial Party members to 13 Party members, 52 mobile Party members, and over 700 gig workers. Under guidance from district Party and social-work departments, Wang helped build 41 “Little Bull Brother” service stations, including a 24-hour hub, to turn riders’ waiting time into fragmented learning and organizational life. He established mechanisms linking each Party member to 10–15 riders, paired riders with 50 needy households, and encouraged “mobile grid workers” to report urban-management and safety issues in exchange for points and welfare benefits. The report highlights how previously scattered delivery workers, ride-hailing drivers, and other new employment groups were organized into a force for grassroots governance.
Summary: The article discusses the misuse of Chinese government service hotlines, citing absurd complaints such as “the moon is too bright” and requests to re-administer a college entrance exam. It notes that similar non-emergency calls also burden the 110 police hotline, diverting limited public resources away from genuine needs. The piece highlights national and local regulations that define hotline boundaries and protect officials from unfair assessments when rejecting unreasonable demands. It argues that setting clear limits does not weaken service but instead ensures resources are used efficiently. The article concludes by urging rational public expression and institutional safeguards to maintain hotlines as effective channels for public service and governance.
Summary: An exhibition on the history of the Chinese people's war of resistance against Japanese aggression opened in Macao on August 31. Foreign Ministry Commissioner in Macao Bian Lixin and Macao SAR Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Ke Lan attended and delivered remarks, alongside other officials including Macao liaison office deputy director Yang Weiqun and PLA Macao garrison deputy commander Dai Jinsong. Bian said the exhibition recounts the epic struggle of Chinese people and the stories of international aviation heroes fighting alongside them, noting that the Flying Tigers spirit embodied Sino-U.S. wartime friendship and would inspire patriotism and international vision among Macao compatriots, especially youth. Ke said the SAR should be guided by the great anti-Japanese spirit to steadily write a new chapter in Macao's high-quality development under "one country, two systems." The exhibition, organized by multiple bodies and open free until September 7, also featured remarks from a descendant of a Chinese nurse who served with the Flying Tigers.
Summary: The article reports that Guangxi has handled 683,300 requests from business entities since establishing a response team this year, with 95% benefiting small and medium-sized enterprises and individual businesses. Under a special campaign targeting "new officials refusing to settle old accounts," Guangxi has cleared 742 million yuan in debts owed to businesses, resolving over 80% of cases and eliminating all small non-disputed debts under 100,000 yuan. The campaign focuses on three issues: government arrears to enterprises, unfulfilled policy commitments, and unenforced court judgments, using a unified ledger of 1,880 cases from the 12345 hotline. Each case is addressed with tailored measures, and large historical cases are assigned dedicated teams to promote substantive resolution. The initiative aims to reduce business burdens and improve the investment environment.
Summary: Guizhou’s provincial civil affairs and finance departments jointly issued a notice to strengthen temporary assistance and implement “small-amount quick relief” for urgent hardship cases. The notice specifies five qualifying situations, including sudden serious illness, major property loss from disasters, accidental injuries with unclear or uncompensated liability, severe basic-living difficulties among low-income and vulnerable groups, and other emergencies requiring immediate intervention. Under the streamlined procedure, township or county civil affairs authorities verify the applicant’s materials and situation, then directly register and disburse aid without household economic-status checks or public notice. For particularly complex or severe cases, collective consultation mechanisms such as “one case one discussion” may raise assistance amounts, with a cap of 50,000 yuan per household per incident.
Summary: The article reports on a training session for national accessibility supervisors held at the Beijing Disabled Persons' Service Demonstration Center on August 28, ahead of the third anniversary of the Accessibility Environment Construction Law. Supervisors, including Beijing-based Du Peng, shared their experiences in inspecting public facilities and noted improved accessibility standards in places like government halls, banks, and subways. As of end-2025, China has 1,754 supervision teams and 24,454 supervisors, over 10,000 of whom are disabled; a China Disabled Persons' Federation official stressed that training aims to make construction more user-oriented. The article also highlights home modification efforts, citing a disabled resident in Henan who benefited from smart appliances, with local officials explaining the "one household, one policy" approach. Nationwide, 1.47 million households with severely disabled members have completed accessibility renovations, improving daily living conditions.
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Summary: China's 2026 summer box office surpassed 12.4 billion yuan by August 31, with 339 million admissions and 38.5 million screenings, all exceeding last year's figures. Domestic films led the market, occupying three of the top five slots, with titles like *Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant* and *Kung Fu Women's Football* driving strong word-of-mouth. Analysts and scholars cited in the article credited diverse genres, low average ticket prices of about 36.7 yuan, and new-generation directors for the market's vitality. The report also highlighted the "film+" effect, linking movies to tourism, dining, and merchandise, with industry-wide value exceeding 410 billion yuan.
Summary: Sanya has launched its first batch of seven "intangible cultural heritage mini-museums" in community spaces across the city, repurposing idle rooms and corners to display local crafts such as Li brocade and pottery. Xu Yongman, deputy curator of the Sanya Cultural Center, said the initiative followed a 2025 suggestion from the intangible cultural heritage division of Hainan's tourism and culture department to bring heritage into everyday community life. The mini-museums were developed with existing community infrastructure and a total cost of 350,000 yuan for all seven sites, with no fees or reservations required. Xu and colleagues plan a cheaper "2.0" version using community bulletin boards and walls to further expand access. The effort aims to shift from one-off cultural events to sustainable, low-cost community heritage spaces.
Summary: In Guangxi's Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, compulsory education schools reopened on August 31, with cafeterias serving the first nutritious lunch of the new semester under the nutrition improvement plan. The county has been advancing this rural program, optimizing meal structures and improving food quality for students' health. The photo shows first-grade students picking up their meals. The image is credited to Long Tao.
Summary: China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism has published the revised “Measures for the Management of Museum Collections,” effective November 1, 2026. The rules require museums to set acquisition standards, verify authenticity and value before accepting items, and follow strict procedures for deaccessioning, especially for state-owned museums. The revision updates a 1986 regulation to align with the latest Cultural Relics Protection Law and improve standardization. It specifically targets problems in donation management, collection inventory mechanisms, and exit procedures, including clearer donation agreements and legal responsibilities for museum directors and custodians.
Summary: The article reports that Yunnan Province will implement its new Public Library Regulations on September 1, as announced at a provincial people's congress press conference. The 43-article regulation establishes a publication deposit system, requiring publishers to submit books to provincial libraries within 30 days and expand digital collections. It mandates a central-branch library system led by county-level libraries, with town, village, and border-area branches to improve rural access. The rules also encourage innovative reading spaces in commercial, tourist, and cultural settings, integrating libraries with tourism, technology, and intangible cultural heritage.
Summary: The article reports on the UN Development Programme’s “Sustainable Wellness Tourism Conference” held August 19-21 in Jiangjin District, Chongqing, where global representatives discussed sustainable health-and-wellness tourism development. During the event, the UNDP project team released the “Jiangjin Case” framework for sustainable wellness tourism, along with local guidelines and a white paper, while 13 wellness projects were signed totaling over 4.1 billion yuan. Jiangjin is highlighted as China’s only large-city suburban natural selenium-rich zone, with 97% forest coverage in Simian Mountain and 251 centenarians, making it a natural wellness destination. The article notes that in 2025 the area received 2.907 million visitors, and that a “selenium homestay” brand has boosted revenues of renovated farmstays by over 110% on average. It concludes by outlining Jiangjin’s broader strategy to build a district-wide wellness network centered on Siping Town and supported by surrounding towns.
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Summary: 教育部党组书记、部长怀进鹏撰文阐述基础教育高质量发展，强调落实习近平总书记重要指示，充分认识基础教育的战略地位，并部署立德树人、教育公平、资源配置、教师队伍建设和生态构建等改革任务。文章指出中国基础教育已取得历史性成就，总体达到世界高收入国家平均水平，同时需应对人口结构变化、科技革命和群众期盼等新挑战。作者提出系统谋划未来5至10年的政策措施，包括深化课程改革、推进数字化战略、规范办学行为及有序推进中考改革等，以支撑教育强国建设与中国式现代化。
Summary: The article argues that ideological guidance is a core governing capability of the Chinese Communist Party, essential for unity and navigating global change. It cites Xi Jinping's call at the Party's 105th anniversary celebration to enhance political leadership and ideological guidance. The author stresses the need for theoretical study to consolidate faith, stronger grassroots party organizations to win public认同, and practical transformation of ideology into development outcomes. It emphasizes using Xi Jinping Thought as a "golden key" for solving problems and improving governance. No mention is made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article, authored by Tang Junfeng in *China Discipline Inspection Daily*, examines Xi Jinping’s thought on party building as fundamentally tied to national rejuvenation and strengthening the country. It stresses that the Party’s leadership is crucial for modernization and comprehensively building a socialist modernized country. Xi’s framework calls for strengthening the Party across political, theoretical, organizational, cadre, and disciplinary dimensions to ensure its governing role. The piece highlights the Party’s historical initiative in self-reform and self-improvement to lead the national cause. It concludes that the goal of national rejuvenation sets the direction and standard for party building.
Summary: China's President Xi Jinping promulgated the Land Cultivation Protection and Quality Improvement Law, which was passed by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on August 28, 2026, and will take effect on January 1, 2027. The law aims to safeguard national food security and promote agricultural modernization by strengthening cultivated land protection and quality enhancement. It establishes strict permanent basic farmland protection, controls conversion of farmland to other uses, and mandates a "balance system" requiring equivalent replacement for occupied farmland. The legislation also sets up accountability mechanisms, including joint party-government responsibility for farmland protection and food security, as well as ecological protection and quality improvement measures for cultivated land.
Summary: The article reports that Chongqing’s Tongliang District has introduced a “Three Musts, Three Disclosures” oversight mechanism for nursing home canteens, following inspections that found food safety risks such as untraceable ingredients and spoiled meat. Civil Affairs Bureau Director Zhu Huayou said the biggest hidden danger was unclear sourcing, and that the goal is to ensure elderly residents eat nutritiously, safely, and satisfactorily. The mechanism mandates verification of purchases, supervision of food processing, quality evaluation, and public disclosure of kitchen operations, accounts, and problem rectification. It has reportedly achieved over 95% meal satisfaction and raised public nursing home occupancy from about 30% to 63%. Chongqing’s municipal civil affairs department is now promoting the model across the city.
Summary: Seven Chinese government departments, including the Ministry of Education, jointly issued the "15th Five-Year Plan" Action Plan for Special Education Development, which the Ministry of Education's Basic Education Department head said aims to address persistent shortcomings such as insufficient resources, uneven quality, and inadequate digital support. The official noted that since the 18th Party Congress, China's special education had achieved historic progress, with 2,464 special education schools, 927,000 students, and a 97% enrollment rate for school-age disabled children in 2025. The plan sets a 2030 target of maintaining that enrollment rate above 97% while advancing digitalization and intelligentization. It outlines five priorities: expanding resource supply, improving education quality, accelerating digital transformation, strengthening inclusive safeguards, and promoting exchanges. The plan also emphasizes reforms in curriculum teaching, boosting education for autistic children, integrating vocational training with employment, and mandating special education coursework for all teacher-training students.
Summary: The Guangxi Federation of Trade Unions launched its first province-wide work-study program in July for students from registered impoverished families, with the initial 155 participants completing their summer placements. The program targets 2026-registered students, including incoming college freshmen, current undergraduates and graduate students, and unemployed recent graduates. Local unions assign suitable positions, while the federation coordinates with unions in other regions for students studying away from home, ensuring “support continues away from home.” Participants receive a subsidy of 2,200 yuan per month or 100 yuan per day for partial months, along with accident insurance and proof of service for their résumés.
Summary: In Tonglu County, Zhejiang, elderly resident Sun Guoqing, over 80, escorts his blind neighbor Zhang Youyi across a busy road to the Tonglu Rehabilitation Center every workday, a task previously performed for over two years by another elderly neighbor, Yu Hongxiu. Sun knows Zhang’s shift schedule by heart and also helps with errands like shopping, haircuts, and bank visits, while Zhang expresses gratitude by giving Yu massages at her nursing home. Zhang says many neighbors quietly watch out for him, such as calling to remind him when his light is left on. Sun dismisses the help as an ordinary matter, saying he will ask someone else to take over when he can no longer do it.
Summary: The Hainan Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development announced the launch of a special campaign to further improve property management service quality. The initiative will focus on five foundational tasks: problem investigation and rectification, formation of property management committees, implementation of a credit evaluation system for enterprises, launch of a digital management platform, and regular industry training. Property companies are encouraged to expand services with differentiated offerings such as housekeeping, childcare, and meal delivery tailored to different residential communities. Local authorities are also required to conduct early safety inspections of gas, water, and electricity facilities and carry out comprehensive environmental sanitation improvements. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: President Xi Jinping has promulgated the new Law on Cultivated Land Protection and Quality Improvement, passed by the 24th session of the 14th NPC Standing Committee on August 28, 2026. The law will take effect on January 1, 2027. It codifies the strictest farmland protection regime, enshrining the "dual responsibility" of Party and government for food security and establishing mechanisms for permanent basic farmland delineation, arable land occupation compensation, and high-standard farmland construction. The legislation also mandates comprehensive measures for soil quality improvement, ecological protection, and degraded land reclamation, alongside stringent legal liabilities for local governments and individuals who fail to meet targets or violate regulations.
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Summary: The article highlights the 2026 Chongli 168 Ultra Trail Race in Hebei, where 12,000 runners from 26 countries competed across nine categories, making it Asia’s largest event of its kind. It traces the race’s decade-long growth from a modest 2,000-participant local event to nearly 30,000 applicants, reflecting China’s broader trail-running boom. The race has helped transform Chongli from a winter-only ski town into a year-round destination, with summer visitors surpassing winter numbers and 2025 tourist arrivals exceeding 10 million. Local businesses, equipment stores, and residents have benefited, while event organizer Zhang Chaohui stresses that the race is designed to integrate with the region’s unique mountains and culture. The piece also notes elite performances, including Zhao Jiaju setting a course record in the 168km men’s race.
Summary: Ma Yinglong, a 2005-born triple jumper, had been training in Shanghai for over a month ahead of the Asian Games. After a disappointing 2025 winter training period marked by injury and self-doubt, he was encouraged by his coach Xie Lei to keep training without injury. He regained form in May, winning with 16.51 meters, then broke 17 meters for the first time with 17.04 at the national U23 championships. After finishing second with 17.00 at the national championships, he qualified for the Nagoya Asian Games and later won the Asian U23 title with 17.11. Now more stable, Ma aims to surpass 17.20 meters and reach the podium alongside Su Wen at his Asian Games debut.
Summary: China narrowly defeated Lebanon 89–87 in the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 Asian qualifiers in Zhuji on August 31, improving to a 5–3 record and third place in their group. The win followed a 83–57 away victory over Qatar in the second stage. In the closing moments, Zhao Jiwei's inbound pass set up Yang Hansen's decisive basket after Lebanon had tied the game at 87–87. With four games remaining, China remains in a direct qualification spot under FIBA rules. The result left China better positioned for World Cup qualification than in the first stage.
Summary: The article profiles young female football players from Xinjiang, including 12-year-old captain Saypujamal Kasim and goalkeeper Esma Eskar, highlighting their training, challenges, and growing ambitions to join the national team and play in the World Cup. It notes how school facilities and professional coaches helped more girls take up the sport despite family skepticism and initial fears. A representative of the Xinjiang Women’s Federation says the “Pomegranate Flower · Dream-Chasing Girls” brand is making girls’ football more regular and systematic, strengthening competition, cross-regional exchanges, cultural study, and public welfare. Over the past two years, Xinjiang girls’ football teams grew from 268 to 822, with registered players rising from 4,177 to 12,958. The story reflects broader official efforts to promote ethnic unity and youth sports participation in Xinjiang.
Summary: China wrapped up the 2026 World Canoe Sprint Championships in Poznań, Poland, on August 30 with 2 golds, 1 silver, and 2 bronzes. The women’s K4 500m team of Yu Shimeng, Yin Mengdie, Wang Nan, and Shen Siyu won China’s first title in that event, while Jiang Xina, Teng Anshuo, Sun Mengya, and Ma Yanan took gold in the women’s C4 500m. Yin Mengdie and Yu Shimeng earned silver in the women’s K2 500m, setting China’s best world championships result in that discipline. Ji Bowen secured bronze in the men’s C1 500m. Shuai Changwen and Lin Wenjun added another bronze in the women’s C2 200m.
Summary: PICC Property and Casualty reported steady growth for the first half of 2026, with original insurance premium income of 327.529 billion yuan (up 1.3% year-on-year) and a 33.3% share of China’s property insurance market. Net profit rose 32.0% to 32.284 billion yuan, while the comprehensive cost ratio improved to 94.0% and total investment income surged 58.5%. The company highlighted accelerated transition to new growth drivers, expanding services for technology firms, green insurance, sports events, health and long-term care, agriculture, and overseas interests. It also emphasized risk-reduction services, including 3.35 million services for corporate clients and disaster prevention efforts across vehicle, agricultural, and property lines. Looking ahead, PICC P&C said it would implement central party policies, accelerate momentum conversion, and pursue higher-quality, sustainable performance.
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Summary: A joint media interview on high-quality Belt and Road cooperation between China and Egypt was held from August 23 to 27, featuring People's Daily alongside multiple Egyptian media outlets. The team of nearly 30 journalists, experts, and bloggers visited Cairo and other sites, including the TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone and the new administrative capital CBD project. They covered cooperative projects such as Geely's Egypt plant, Haier's Egypt eco-park, and a Confucius Institute. Reports were published across both countries in text, video, and images, with nearly 50 pieces by August 31.
Summary: The article, written by an Egyptian China expert, highlights the significance of joint interviews between Egyptian and Chinese media on the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations. It argues that this approach shifts reporting from “stories about each other” to a “co-constructed narrative,” reducing bias and enhancing balance by using direct sources. The joint interviews are seen as a way to deepen mutual understanding of the comprehensive strategic partnership, including projects under the Belt and Road Initiative. They also promote people-to-people dialogue on daily life, youth, culture, and innovation. The author suggests that institutionalizing this practice could create a strategic dialogue platform and set a benchmark for public diplomacy between the two countries.
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Summary: The article reports on Foshan's initiative to cultivate "excellent engineers" through a university-enterprise joint training model, led by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Foshan) National Excellence Engineer Innovation Research Institute. It highlights how graduate students like Xu Zhiyuan and Liu Jiale work in companies on real technical challenges, with enterprises proposing projects and the institute matching them with university supervisors. Officials and executives, including institute executive director Huang Xinyu, company deputy general manager Shang Guangjian, and enterprise mentor Ye Beifai, describe the model as bridging academic and industrial needs, with students writing theses on product development. The program has trained 3,597 engineering graduate students, solved over 3,500 technical problems, and developed 140 high-tech products, with Foshan officials like Lu Wenyong supporting its expansion. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes Xi Jinping's principle of "building a connected and efficient organizational system" as a core component of his "Ten Persists" framework for party building, arguing it ensures the Party Central Committee's unified leadership. Xi is quoted as stating that a rigorous party organizational system hinges on upholding the authority of the Central Committee and achieving the "Two Upholds." In June, Xi visited the Xiyujia Village Party-Mass Service Center in Dezhou, Shandong, where he inquired about village party building and便民 services, urging the village party branch to strengthen its leadership role. The article contends that this vertically and horizontally integrated system, oriented toward grassroots strength, has converted institutional advantages into driving force for major achievements such as poverty alleviation and major infrastructure projects. It concludes that the tightly-knit organizational system remains the CPC's key to maintaining vitality and governing effectively amid long-term rule.
Summary: In China’s Longyao County, Hebei, community party branch secretary Wu Peng chaired a meeting on managing public revenues and maintenance funds, with property managers, homeowner committee representatives, and residents in attendance. The article highlights party-led governance innovations, including party committees overseeing homeowner committee elections—with党员 making up over 90% of members and all chairs—and a “four-party deliberation” mechanism among the party branch, homeowner committee, property company, and residents. Funding approaches vary: commercial properties use a fee-based system with transparent accounts, while unmanaged old buildings are served by a shared “Linxiangjia” property brand pooling revenues into a fund for public space upkeep. The community also organizes volunteer services for seniors, after-school “4:30 classes,” and support for delivery riders as “mobile sentinels” of governance. The piece reports that party groups now cover 155 residential communities and 12 townships, with 975 grid party groups and 22,280 party members active at the grassroots level.
Summary: The article reports on the reform of Daqing Drilling Engineering Company, a historic Chinese oil-drilling enterprise, which launched a restructuring in July 2024 under a new party committee that vowed to use the "Iron Man Spirit" and party building to overcome development difficulties. Party Secretary and Chairman Zhang He said the goal was to thoroughly reverse outdated mindsets and eradicate the "root causes" of stagnant thinking that constrained development. The piece highlights how ideological transformation, such as the 80013 drilling team's "face-saving well" turnaround in the Tarim oilfield, and party branch leadership, exemplified by 1202 team branch secretary Wang Song's assertion that "wherever projects go and wells are drilled, party branches are built," drove performance improvements. It also cites party-member researcher Pei Fei leading technological breakthroughs on MWD (measurement-while-drilling) tools, which generated over 100 million yuan in benefits. The reform reportedly delivered 2.26 billion yuan in efficiency gains in 2025, with net profit, return on equity, and economic value added each growing by over 60 percent.
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Summary: The article discusses the concept of "cultural energy" (文化体力), the limited time, attention, and patience people have for cultural activities amid digital abundance and work fatigue. It argues that this limitation should not excuse low-quality content, and warns against algorithms that reinforce "short, fast, and shallow" consumption while overlooking deeper audience needs. It cites works like *Taiping Nian* and *The D一要*? (need correct: 《我与地坛》) as examples of audiences embracing complex content. The piece calls on platforms and public cultural institutions to expand offerings and reduce barriers, while urging viewers to resist compulsive consumption and make deliberate choices. Ultimately, cultural energy is both consumable and renewable, sustained by quality works that sharpen perception and agency.
Summary: The contemporary Peking Opera *I Owe You a Little Red Star* has won over young audiences, with over 70% of viewers under 35 and massive online buzz. It blends traditional forms like Peking Opera's "four skills and five methods" with modern elements such as rock, rap, and contemporary staging. Director Li Zhengkuan and lead actor Lu Su, a disciple of the Qi school, emphasize that innovation stays rooted in orthodox opera rather than superficial fusion. Lu Su openly embraced the aim of appealing to young people, saying they are the future of any art form. The article argues the opera's success shows the crisis in traditional theater is not that youth "don't understand," but that the art form fails to understand them.
Summary: 《空枪》被认为为中国电影商业化表达提供了新样本，通过塑造一个疯狂悍匪和一位不拘一格的刑警，展现正反对决中的智商角力与人性镜像。影片以香港回归和警方更换警徽为叙事分野，暗示新秩序下罪恶终受审判，并折叠两个时间段以唤起港片怀旧风格。它融合港片元素与内地特质，在商业与艺术之间寻求平衡，为国产电影商业化提供可借鉴的语言系统，但结尾略显冗长。
Summary: The article reviews the documentary *Full of Emotion over Qianxia Lake*, which chronicles the ecological transformation of Zhejiang's Qianxia Lake reservoir area over the past two decades since the construction of the Tankeng Hydropower Station. The film illustrates the practical implementation of the "Two Mountains" concept—valuing green waters and lush mountains as assets—through vivid personal stories, contrasting past hardships like the 1992 flood with current prosperity. Notable elements include the relocation of a thousand-year-old camphor tree as a "special migrant," highlighting shifting ecological awareness among locals and officials. The documentary employs aerial and macro cinematography to showcase the landscape and intimate natural details, accompanied by plain yet heartfelt narration. The review positions the film as a fresh contribution to ecological documentary-making, emphasizing its localized perspective and concrete experiences in promoting the "Two Mountains" theory.
Summary: The article reviews the simultaneous premieres of the third seasons of two Chinese stand-up comedy shows, “脱口秀和Ta的朋友们” and “喜剧之王单口季.” It notes the first is more introspective, focusing on everyday personal experiences, while the second is faster-paced and more confrontational, with performers like lawyers and finance workers turning professional and family life into material. Some acts in the latter show are criticized for prioritizing viewpoints over lived experience. The piece concludes that good stand-up comedy reshapes ordinary life into something familiar yet newly illuminating. It does not discuss U.S.-China relations.
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Bishkek, August 31 (Reporters Wang Fang (王芳), Gong Han (巩晗)) — On the morning of August 31 local time, Kyrgyz President Japarov held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Harmony Palace in Bishkek.
Bishkek's autumn was 秋高气爽 (qiū gāo qì shuǎng - "the sky is high and the air is crisp," clear and crisp autumn weather). When Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan arrived at the Harmony Palace by car, Japarov and his wife Japarova warmly welcomed them.
Japarov held a welcome ceremony for Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping and Japarov ascended the reviewing stand. The military band played the national anthems of China and Kyrgyzstan. The two heads of state reviewed the honor guard. Xi Jinping walked to the center of the honor guard and greeted the honor guard members in the Kyrgyz language, and the honor guard members answered: Forward! Forward! The two heads of state respectively shook hands and exchanged greetings with each other's accompanying personnel. Xi Jinping and Japarov watched the march-past. The two heads of state and their spouses entered the Harmony Palace hall and took a group photo in front of the two national flags.
After the welcome ceremony, the two heads of state held talks.
Xi Jinping first, on behalf of the Chinese government and the Chinese people, extended festive congratulations on Kyrgyzstan's Independence Day.
Xi Jinping noted that in recent years, under our joint leadership, China-Kyrgyzstan relations have achieved leapfrog development, cooperation in various fields has blossomed in an all-round way, effectively assisting the development of both countries, benefiting the broad masses of the people, and also promoting regional peace, stability, and prosperity. This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and is also the opening year of China's 15th Five-Year Plan. China is comprehensively advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization. The Kyrgyz side is also making every effort to implement the "National Development Program through 2030." China is willing to work hand in hand with Kyrgyzstan, strengthen the alignment of development strategies, deepen exchanges of governance experience, create more tangible and perceptible practical cooperation results, and promote the building of a China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future to go deeper and be more substantive.
Xi Jinping emphasized that high-level political mutual trust and firm mutual support are important guarantees for the stable and long-term development of China-Kyrgyzstan relations. China firmly supports Kyrgyzstan in safeguarding national sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity, supports the Kyrgyz side in following a development path that suits its own national conditions, and is willing to continue to firmly support each other with the Kyrgyz side on issues involving each other's core interests. The signing of the China-Kyrgyzstan Treaty on Permanent Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation will provide an important legal foundation for the two countries' generational friendship and firm mutual support.
Xi Jinping pointed out that the two sides should deepen practical cooperation between the two countries, implement well the intergovernmental economic and trade cooperation plan, enrich trade categories, and expand new growth points such as digital trade and cross-border e-commerce; build the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, this "major transportation artery" carrying the development hopes of the people of the region, with high quality, implement port modernization and renovation, and deepen "soft connectivity" in systems, standards, and rules; implement more landmark projects in renewable energy, resource recycling and other fields, implement well the green minerals cooperation document, and carry out whole-industry-chain cooperation; jointly build the Belt and Road joint laboratory, strengthen cooperation in artificial intelligence and other fields, and empower and enhance bilateral cooperation with scientific and technological innovation; further promote personnel exchanges between the two countries, strengthen cooperation in youth, media, tourism, sports, medical care, and local governments, and continuously consolidate the social and public opinion foundation of China-Kyrgyzstan friendship.
Xi Jinping pointed out that the two sides should expand law enforcement and security cooperation, jointly combat the "three forces" (三股势力), drug trafficking, and transnational crime, and jointly safeguard regional peace and stability. China supports the Kyrgyz side in playing a greater role in international and regional affairs, and is willing to further strengthen coordination with the Kyrgyz side within the United Nations framework, jointly practice the four global initiatives (四大全球倡议), oppose hegemonism and power politics, adhere to true multilateralism, safeguard international fairness and justice, and promote the building of a more just and reasonable global governance system. As founding member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, China and Kyrgyzstan should promote the implementation of the outcomes of the Tianjin Summit, promote the common development of the region, and push the development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to a new level.
Japarov stated that he is very honored to receive President Xi Jinping's visit on the 35th anniversary of Kyrgyzstan's independence. This visit further demonstrates the profound friendship and high-level political mutual trust between Kyrgyzstan and China, and is an important milestone in the history of the development of bilateral relations. The signing of the Kyrgyzstan-China Treaty on Permanent Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation will open broader prospects for bilateral relations. Kyrgyzstan and China are neighbors living in close proximity, and the ancient Silk Road closely connects the two countries. In recent years, with the rapid development of the Kyrgyzstan-China comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era, bilateral relations have entered a golden period and are at the highest level in history. The Kyrgyz side thanks the Chinese side for its selfless support and help at every critical moment of Kyrgyzstan's development. The Kyrgyz side warmly congratulates the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the start of the implementation process of the 15th Five-Year Plan, admires the brilliant development achievements made under the leadership of President Xi Jinping, and is willing to learn from China's governance experience, especially President Xi Jinping's sentiment of "I will have no self, and live up to the people." China has always been a priority direction of Kyrgyzstan's foreign policy and is Kyrgyzstan's closest friend and most reliable partner. The Kyrgyz side firmly adheres to the one-China principle and is willing to develop good-neighborly and friendly relations with China in depth on the basis of mutual respect, equality, and mutual benefit. The Kyrgyz side is willing to closely cooperate with the Chinese side in trade and investment, connectivity, scientific and technological innovation, energy, minerals, green economy and other fields, closely conduct exchanges in education, health, culture, youth and other fields, jointly combat the "three forces," and safeguard regional security. The Kyrgyz side is willing to actively promote the construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, making it a "Steel Silk Road" of the new era and a new bond of Kyrgyzstan-China friendly relations. The four global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping help all countries jointly respond to common challenges and build a more just and stable international order. The Kyrgyz side is willing to closely coordinate with the Chinese side on multilateral platforms such as the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the China-Central Asia mechanism, and the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (世界人工智能合作组织), and jointly safeguard world peace and stability.
On behalf of the Kyrgyz government and people, Japarov expressed deep condolences over the mudslide disaster in Gyirong (吉隆), Tibet, China. Xi Jinping expressed gratitude for this, pointing out that the Chinese Party and government are making every effort to do a good job in the search and rescue of missing persons at home and abroad, the transfer and resettlement of affected people, the treatment of the injured, and the prevention of secondary disasters, and have also provided emergency assistance to Nepal. China has the ability and confidence to overcome the disaster and rebuild homes.
After the talks, the two heads of state jointly signed the "Joint Declaration of the People's Republic of China and the Kyrgyz Republic on High-Quality Development of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in the New Era" and the "Treaty of the People's Republic of China and the Kyrgyz Republic on Permanent Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation," and witnessed the exchange of bilateral cooperation texts in investment, transportation, customs, sister cities and other fields. During the visit, the two sides also signed more than 20 cooperation documents in science and technology, education, humanities, media and other fields.
At noon that day, Japarov and Japarova held a welcome banquet for Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan at the Harmony Palace.
Cai Qi, Wang Yi and others attended the above activities.
Return to TopCairo, September 1 (People's Daily) — On September 1, ahead of his state visit to Egypt, President Xi Jinping published a signed article titled "Seventy Years of 风雨同舟 (fēng yǔ tóng zhōu - "wind and rain, same boat," to stand together through thick and thin), Forging Ahead with Vigor on a New Journey" in Egypt's Al-Ahram, Al-Akhbar, and Al-Gomhuria newspapers. The full text of the article follows:
At the invitation of President Sisi, I will soon pay a state visit to Egypt. This will be my second time setting foot on this fertile land nourished by the Nile since I assumed the presidency of the People's Republic of China. There is an Egyptian saying: "Once you have drunk from the Nile, you will surely return." When I visited Egypt ten years ago, I was deeply impressed by Egypt's ancient and profound civilization and its vigorous, upward-looking atmosphere. As I prepare to return, I look forward to renewing friendship and discussing cooperation with President Sisi, and to charting a new blueprint for deepening the China-Egypt comprehensive strategic partnership.
"When friendship is built on the right path, even a thousand li apart, kindred spirits unite." China and Egypt are both ancient civilizations that have contributed invaluable spiritual wealth and resplendent cultural treasures to the development of human society. The Yangtze, the Yellow River, and the Nile gave rise to the Chinese civilization and the ancient Egyptian civilization respectively. Porcelain and silk sailed across the seas; brocade and embroidery traversed the shifting sands. Though the two great civilizations of China and Egypt are far apart, they have appreciated each other. The ancient Silk Road stretched for a thousand years, and the footsteps of friendly exchanges never ceased. China's silk, porcelain, papermaking, and smelting techniques traveled westward, while Egypt's spices, glass, astronomy, and calendar traveled eastward over ten thousand li. The Chinese heirloom artifacts unearthed at the Fustat site in Egypt bear witness to the close ties and profound friendship between the Chinese and Egyptian peoples since ancient times.
Seventy years ago, China and Egypt formally established diplomatic relations, opening the door to friendly cooperation between New China and Arab and African countries. Over the seventy years of 栉风沐雨 (zhì fēng mù yǔ - "combed by wind, bathed by rain," to endure hardships and toil), China-Egypt relations have withstood the tests of changing international circumstances, never veering off course, never losing their quality, and never diminishing in momentum. They have become a model for China-Arab and China-Africa collective cooperation and a paradigm of friendly coexistence, solidarity, and collaboration among developing countries.
— China and Egypt have always been close brothers practicing 和衷共济 (hé zhōng gòng jì - "of one heart, crossing the river together," to unite in a common cause). In the struggle for national independence and against imperialism and colonialism, the two peoples forged a profound friendship. In Egypt's struggle to recover sovereignty over the Suez Canal, China voiced strong support. In the struggle to restore New China's lawful seat in the United Nations, Egypt, together with many Asian, African, and Latin American countries, firmly cast its vote in favor. Today, China and Egypt firmly support each other in following development paths suited to their respective national conditions, and firmly support each other's core interests and major concerns, laying a solid foundation for the development of the bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership.
— China and Egypt have always been reliable partners for win-win cooperation. Egypt is an important trade and investment partner of China in the Arab world and Africa, and one of the first countries to participate in the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. Ten years ago, the China-Egypt Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone, inaugurated jointly by President Sisi and me, brought substantial investment and employment to the local area, helping Egypt accelerate its modernization process. Chinese enterprises have built in Egypt Africa's tallest building and Africa's first intercity electrified light rail. Egyptian fresh oranges became the first African products to enter the Chinese market after China implemented zero tariffs on products from African countries having diplomatic relations with China. The fruits of mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields have benefited countless households in both countries.
— China and Egypt have always been a successful example of friendship and mutual learning. Egypt was the first Arab and African country to sign a cultural cooperation agreement with New China, and the people-to-people and cultural exchanges between the two countries have been rich and colorful. The Grand Egyptian Museum and other sites have attracted large numbers of Chinese tourists to "check in." Last year, the "Great Exhibition of Ancient Egyptian Civilization" held at the Shanghai Museum was so popular that tickets were hard to come by. Chinese language teaching has been introduced in more than 40 middle schools in Egypt, and vocational education cooperation has benefited countless Egyptians. The two great civilizations have been engaging in a sustained two-way pursuit across time and space, continuously writing new chapters of enduring friendship between the Chinese and Egyptian peoples.
— China and Egypt have always been sincere friends of equality and mutual trust. At the Bandung Conference held in 1955, China and Egypt actively supported the struggle against imperialism and colonialism and jointly promoted Asian-African solidarity. Today, China and Egypt share common goals and pursuits in upholding the international order, advocating fairness and justice, and practicing multilateralism. Both sides firmly support the just cause of the Palestinian people to restore their legitimate national rights, and both are committed to promoting the political settlement of hotspot issues and achieving regional peace and stability. This demonstrates the responsibility and commitment of Global South countries to unite and strengthen themselves and to uphold fairness and justice.
Both China and Egypt are at a critical stage of development and revitalization. China's 15th Five-Year Plan has gotten off to a good start, and China is striving to open up new prospects for Chinese modernization. Egypt's construction of the "New Republic" is advancing vigorously — 如火如荼 (rú huǒ rú tú - "like fire and like the flowering reed," to develop vigorously and intensely) — and Egypt is striding toward "Vision 2030." China is willing to work with Egypt to deepen the comprehensive strategic partnership, advance the building of a China-Egypt community with a shared future, and jointly realize modernization.
We should enhance mutual trust and serve as role models in carrying forward friendship. The China-Egypt friendship was forged personally by the older generation of leaders of both countries. To preserve, develop, and promote this friendship is the glorious responsibility of our generation. We should continue to support each other's core interests and major concerns, strengthen exchanges and cooperation in all fields and at all levels, and pass the baton of China-Egypt friendship from generation to generation.
We should pursue mutual benefit and win-win outcomes and serve as a benchmark for joint development. China has the world's most complete and largest industrial system, with advantages in capital, technology, and equipment. Egypt has a large population, abundant resources, and a vast market. The two sides should deepen the alignment of development strategies, jointly build the Belt and Road with high quality, actively tap cooperation potential, expand space for practical cooperation, and inject inexhaustible impetus into China-Egypt mutually beneficial cooperation.
We should each appreciate our own beauty and serve as an example of inter-civilization exchange. The two ancient civilizations of China and Egypt should promote the values of equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness among civilizations, practice the Global Civilization Initiative, actively safeguard humanity's cultural heritage, and jointly promote the harmonious coexistence of different civilizations. We should deepen exchanges and cooperation in education, tourism, science and technology, health, sports, and archaeology, strengthen the bonds of mutual understanding and affinity between the two peoples, continuously inject new momentum into the development of the China-Egypt comprehensive strategic partnership, and pool more civilizational strength for building a community with a shared future for mankind.
We should march forward side by side and serve as pioneers in upholding fairness and justice. At present, the world is undergoing accelerated transformation unseen in a century, and the international situation is marked by intertwined changes and turbulence. China and Egypt, both major developing countries and important members of the Global South, should practice true multilateralism, strengthen multilateral coordination, jointly implement the four global initiatives, actively safeguard world peace and stability, and defend international fairness and justice.
We should work hand in hand with one heart and serve as leaders in China-Arab and China-Africa cooperation. As a major Arab and African country, Egypt plays an important role in promoting China-Arab and China-Africa collective cooperation. China is willing to work with Egypt to expand the demonstration effect of mature China-Egypt cooperation, leverage Egypt's unique geographical advantage of connecting the Arab world and radiating across the African continent, and thoroughly implement the "five cooperation frameworks" for China-Arab cooperation and the ten partnership actions for China and Africa to jointly advance modernization, so as to promote China-Arab and China-Africa cooperation to advance with the times — 与时俱进 (yǔ shí jù jìn - "advance together with the times," to keep pace with the times) — and achieve steady and sustained progress — 行稳致远 (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "walk steadily, reach far," to make steady and sustained progress).
We have shared the same boat through wind and rain for seventy years, and now we forge ahead with vigor on a new journey. China is willing to work with Egypt to remain true to our original aspiration, carry forward the past and open up the future — 继往开来 (jì wǎng kāi lái - "carry on the past, open up the future," to build on the past and chart the future) — support each other and press forward with determination on the path of prosperity and rejuvenation, and jointly create an even brighter future for the development of our respective countries and for bilateral relations.
Return to TopBishkek, August 31 (Reporters Huang Chao (黄超), Chen Shihan (陈世涵)) — On the afternoon of August 31 local time, during his attendance at the 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit in Bishkek, President Xi Jinping met with Russian President Putin.
Xi Jinping pointed out that in May this year, President Putin successfully paid a state visit to China, and that from a strategic height and long-term perspective, they made arrangements for leading the bilateral relations toward higher quality and higher level development, and reached consensus on deepening China-Russia cooperation in various fields under the new circumstances. The competent departments of the two countries are actively implementing these agreements and have already achieved many results, and the exchanges and cooperation between the two sides maintain a vigorous momentum of development. He expressed confidence that under their strategic guidance and the joint efforts of both sides, the foundation for the development of China-Russia relations will be even more solid, the pace will be even more steadfast, and the prospects will be even brighter.
Xi Jinping emphasized that at present, the world's major changes unseen in a century are accelerating, and uncertain and unpredictable factors in the international situation have increased markedly, but the pursuit of the people of all countries for peace, development, cooperation, and win-win outcomes has not changed. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization shoulders the important mission of maintaining regional stability and promoting regional development. China is willing to work with all parties, including the Russian side, to jointly discuss major plans for the Organization's development, help the Organization 行稳致远 (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "walk steadily, reach far," to make steady progress toward long-term goals), and strengthen the forces leading the reform of global governance and promoting an equal and orderly multipolar world.
Putin said that in the face of the turbulent and complex international situation, Russia and China continue to deepen comprehensive strategic coordination, adhere to equality, mutual trust, and mutual support, and cooperation in various fields is developing rapidly. The Russia-China relationship has become a model for relations between countries. The Russian side is willing to maintain high-level exchanges with the Chinese side, strengthen cooperation in trade, energy, industry, transportation, science and technology, and other fields, and close people-to-people and cultural exchanges, so as to continuously achieve new results in bilateral relations. With the joint efforts of all parties, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has become an active and efficient regional cooperation platform with important international influence. Russia and China should continuously strengthen unity and cooperation within the Organization and play a leading role. The Russian side is willing to strengthen coordination and cooperation with the Chinese side within multilateral mechanisms such as the United Nations, the BRICS mechanism, and the Group of Twenty, support the Chinese side in successfully hosting the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, and jointly safeguard world peace, stability, and prosperity.
The two heads of state also exchanged views on international and regional issues of common concern.
Cai Qi, Wang Yi, and others attended the meeting.
Return to TopBishkek, August 31 (People's Daily reporters Bai Yang (白阳), Xing Xue (邢雪)). On the afternoon of August 31 local time, President Xi Jinping met with President Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan in Bishkek during the 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit.
Xi Jinping pointed out that this year marks the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the China-Uzbekistan comprehensive strategic partnership. Under our joint leadership, the bilateral relationship has continued to improve and upgrade, cooperation in various fields has yielded 硕果累累 (shuò guǒ léi léi - "large fruits in clusters," abundant achievements), and the building of a China-Uzbekistan community with a shared future has achieved remarkable results. China is willing to work with the Uzbek side to consolidate strategic mutual trust, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, and jointly create a new "golden 10 years" for China-Uzbekistan relations.
Xi Jinping emphasized that no matter how the international situation changes, China's position of being committed to deepening China-Uzbekistan friendship will not waver, and it will, as always, support the Uzbek side in following a development path that suits its own national conditions. The two sides should join hands and work hard to write the great article of bilateral cooperation well. We should promote the high-quality construction of the China–Kyrgyzstan–Uzbekistan railway, expand cooperation in artificial intelligence, desertification control, and other fields, and adhere to mutual benefit and win-win. We should continue the momentum of active local exchanges between the two countries, accelerate the mutual establishment of cultural centers, expand cooperation in education, poverty reduction, and other fields, and promote people-to-people connectivity. We should make good use of the law-enforcement and security cooperation mechanisms between the two sides, jointly combat the "three forces" (三股势力), and build a solid security defense line. As founding members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, China and Uzbekistan should jointly promote the implementation of the outcomes of the Tianjin Summit and promote regional development and prosperity.
Mirziyoyev stated that he warmly congratulates China on continuously achieving major development achievements under President Xi Jinping's leadership and responding to global challenges with firm confidence, and that the Uzbek side is full of confidence in the bright prospects of Chinese-style modernization. Uzbekistan and China share a profound friendship and have always understood and supported each other. President Xi Jinping's 远见卓识 (yuǎn jiàn zhuó shí - "far sight and outstanding insight," farsightedness and penetrating insight) has opened broad space for Uzbekistan-China relations and led the comprehensive development of cooperation between the two sides in various fields. The Uzbek side is 坚定不移 (jiān dìng bù yí - "firm and unswerving," resolute and steadfast) in developing relations with China, and this will not change in any way due to changes in the international situation. It is willing to work with the Chinese side to deepen political mutual trust, expand trade and investment, deepen cooperation in agriculture, transportation, energy, minerals, science and technology, and other fields, promote people-to-people and cultural exchanges, jointly combat the "three forces," and promote greater development of bilateral relations. The Uzbek side firmly adheres to the one-China principle, highly identifies with the four global initiatives (四大全球倡议) proposed by President Xi Jinping, and is willing to join hands with China to promote the development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and jointly safeguard international fairness and justice.
Cai Qi and Wang Yi attended the meeting.
Return to TopBishkek, August 31 (Reporters Zhu Xiaoxi (朱笑熺), Wang Zi (王梓)) — On the afternoon of August 31 local time, President Xi Jinping met with Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khürelsükh in Bishkek during the 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit.
Xi Jinping noted that China and Mongolia are connected by mountains and rivers and live in close proximity, and that peaceful coexistence, 守望相助 (shǒu wàng xiāng zhù - "keep watch and aid each other," to support one another in times of trouble), and win-win cooperation have always been the mainstream and underlying tone of bilateral relations. China will continue to place China-Mongolia relations in an important position in its neighborhood diplomacy and, together with the Mongolian side, consolidate strategic mutual trust, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, promote people-to-people connectivity, inject more vitality into the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries, and promote the building of a China-Mongolia community with a shared future.
Xi Jinping emphasized that the two sides should consolidate the political foundation for the development of China-Mongolia relations, respect each other's national independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, and respect each other's core interests and major concerns. China is willing to strengthen development strategy alignment with Mongolia, advance traditional cooperation in trade, connectivity, energy, and minerals, tap the potential for cooperation in emerging fields such as green minerals, artificial intelligence, and the digital economy, create more growth points for mutually beneficial cooperation, and forge ahead hand in hand on the path to realizing respective modernization. It is hoped that the Mongolian side will effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese-invested enterprises. The two sides should also strengthen multilateral coordination and cooperation to jointly address global challenges.
Khürelsükh stated that Mongolia and China are friendly neighbors, and no matter how the international situation changes, the two countries have always respected and trusted each other and maintained good-neighborly friendship. China's development provides major opportunities for neighboring countries and leads the development of Asia and the world. Deepening friendly cooperation with China is the primary policy of Mongolia's foreign policy. The Mongolian side is willing to continuously consolidate political mutual trust with China, enhance cooperation in trade, investment, industry, agriculture, mining, green economy, and other fields, and push bilateral relations to continuously reach new levels. The Mongolian side firmly adheres to the One-China principle; Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, and issues related to Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong are all China's internal affairs. The four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping and the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind are of great significance to safeguarding world peace and security, promoting sustainable development, and addressing global challenges. The Mongolian side is willing to jointly practice them with the Chinese side.
Cai Qi, Wang Yi, and others attended the meeting.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 31 — The 17th issue of Qiushi Journal (《求是》), to be published on September 1, will carry an important article by Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, titled "Persist in Fulfilling the Political Responsibility for Managing and Governing the Party" (《坚持落实管党治党政治责任》). This is a compilation of excerpts from General Secretary Xi Jinping's important relevant expositions during the period from June 2013 to July 2026.
The article emphasizes that only when the Party manages the Party can it manage the Party well; only when the Party governs the Party strictly can it govern the Party well. Without clarifying responsibility, without implementing responsibility, without investigating responsibility, strict Party governance cannot be achieved. To govern the Party strictly, it is necessary to strengthen the awareness of managing and governing the Party and fulfill the responsibility for managing and governing the Party. Party organizations at all levels and all Party members and cadres must earnestly strengthen their sense of responsibility and mission for managing and governing the Party, truly regard the fulfillment of the political responsibility for managing and governing the Party as the most fundamental political commitment, know responsibility, shoulder responsibility, and fulfill responsibility, and consolidate and develop the sound situation in which the whole Party takes action and works together.
The article points out that it is necessary to improve the responsibility system with clearly defined subjects and clearly specified requirements. Comprehensively governing the Party strictly is the common responsibility of the whole Party; no Party organization or leading cadre can 置身事外 (zhì shēn shì wài - "place oneself outside the matter," to stand aloof from something). The responsibility for managing and governing the Party includes primary responsibility, supervisory responsibility, the responsibility of the first responsible person, and "one post, dual responsibilities" (一岗双责), among others. These constitute a complete chain of responsibility. Every kind of responsibility is important, and all must be strictly implemented; none may be dealt with perfunctorily. It is necessary to clarify the primary responsibility of Party committees (Party leadership groups) for comprehensively governing the Party strictly, centering on strengthening leadership over managing and governing the Party, selecting and using cadres well, strengthening supervision and restraint over the exercise of power, and safeguarding the interests of the masses; to clarify the supervisory responsibility of discipline inspection commissions at all levels, centering on efficient supervision, strict enforcement of discipline, and precise accountability; to clarify the responsibility of the first responsible person of secretaries of Party committees (Party leadership groups), centering on managing the leadership team well, leading the contingent well, and promoting implementation; to clarify the responsibility for managing and governing the Party of other members of leading bodies in light of the division of duties and tasks and in accordance with the requirement of "one post, dual responsibilities"; and to clarify the specific responsibilities of Party members and cadres, centering on strict self-discipline and mutual supervision, mutual reminding and assistance, in light of the characteristics of Party members' and cadres' posts and their actual work.
The article points out that it is necessary to firmly bite onto the word "responsibility," grasp the vital point of "accountability," and ensure that power and responsibility are commensurate and that dereliction of responsibility is invariably held to account. It is necessary to optimize the assessment and evaluation mechanism for the implementation of responsibility. In the assessment of persons in charge of Party organizations at all levels and in all departments, especially secretaries of Party committees (Party leadership groups), the first thing to examine is the actual effectiveness of Party building; in assessing the work of other Party member leading cadres, the weight of this aspect should also be increased. It is necessary to improve the precise and scientific accountability mechanism, and with responsible subjects in place, responsibility requirements in place, and assessment and accountability in place, promote the implementation of the responsibility for managing and governing the Party to be fully in place.
The article emphasizes that how the situation of comprehensively governing the Party strictly in a locality or department turns out depends crucially on whether Party organizations and leading cadres, especially "top leaders," have fulfilled their responsibility. Party committees (Party leadership groups) at all levels must strengthen leadership over Party building, shoulder the primary responsibility, grasp the main business, and play the leading role, and grasp Party building work on every front, in every field, and in every link concretely and deeply. Party committee secretaries must be secretaries who manage and govern the Party, be responsible to the Party, be responsible for the political ecology of their own region and unit, and be responsible for the healthy growth of cadres, and regard doing Party building work well as a matter within their duty and a responsibility they must undertake. The concept that "doing Party building well is one's duty, not doing Party building is dereliction of duty, and doing Party building poorly is incompetence" should be firmly established, and the layer-by-layer implementation and landing of Party building responsibility should be promoted. Leading cadres at all levels, as the "key minority" (关键少数), must, with the political loyalty of loving the Party, worrying about the Party, protecting the Party, and invigorating the Party, 严于律己 (yán yú lǜ jǐ - "be strict in disciplining oneself," to hold oneself to strict standards), strictly bear their responsibilities, strictly manage what is under their jurisdiction, transmit pressure layer by layer, and effectively foster a strict atmosphere and establish an upright ethos.
Return to TopAt the invitation of President Sadyr Japarov of the Kyrgyz Republic, President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China paid a state visit to the Kyrgyz Republic from August 30 to September 1, 2026, and attended the 26th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
The two heads of state held talks in a warm, friendly and pragmatic atmosphere, spoke highly of the achievements in the development of China-Kyrgyzstan relations, and had in-depth exchanges of views on deepening all-round cooperation as well as international and regional hotspot issues of common concern, reaching broad consensus.
China and Kyrgyzstan are good neighbors, good friends and good partners, and deepening bilateral relations is of great significance and has bright prospects. Facing the major changes unseen in a century in the world, the China-Kyrgyzstan relationship has weathered international 风云变幻 (fēng yún biàn huàn - "wind and clouds shift and change," turbulent changes) and demonstrated strong stability, continuity and internal driving force.
The two sides are willing to continue to firmly support each other in safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity and ensuring social security and stability, strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields, promote sustainable economic and social development, advance the high-quality development of the China-Kyrgyzstan comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era, and reaffirm their willingness to work together to build a China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future featuring good-neighborly friendship and shared prosperity.
I. The two sides noted that the principles of the UN Charter and norms of international law, including mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-use of force or threat of force, non-interference in internal affairs, peaceful coexistence, and equality and mutual benefit, are a solid foundation of China-Kyrgyzstan relations.
The two sides stressed that the current China-Kyrgyzstan relations are at their best period in history. The two countries' continuous consolidation of traditional friendship and mutual trust and their promotion of the deepening of the comprehensive strategic partnership will not only promote the common development and prosperity of China and Kyrgyzstan, but also be conducive to regional and world peace, stability and development.
The two sides stressed that they will continue to firmly support each other on issues involving each other's core interests.
The Kyrgyz side supports China in building a great modern socialist country in all respects, congratulates the Chinese side on successfully accomplishing all the goals of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and firmly believes that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese side will surely succeed in achieving the goals and tasks of the 15th Five-Year Plan.
The Kyrgyz side reaffirms its support for the One-China principle, recognizes that there is only one China in the world, that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, and that the Government of the People's Republic of China is the only legitimate government representing the whole of China. The Kyrgyz side opposes any form of "Taiwan independence," reaffirms that it will not conduct any form of official exchanges with Taiwan, supports all efforts by China to achieve national reunification, and holds that the authority of UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 is beyond doubt and challenge. The Kyrgyz side firmly supports the Chinese side on issues related to Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Tibet.
The Chinese side firmly supports the Kyrgyz side in following a development path suited to its national conditions, and firmly supports the efforts of the Kyrgyz leaders to ensure national security and stability, safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and promote economic and social development. The Chinese side firmly believes that the Kyrgyz side will accomplish on schedule the development goals set in the National Development Program until 2030, including sustainable growth, improvement of people's living standards and enhancement of social welfare.
The two sides will be guided by head-of-state diplomacy, firmly implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state, and promote the all-round, high-quality development of China-Kyrgyzstan relations.
The two sides will further intensify high-level exchanges, ensure the smooth operation of existing cooperation mechanisms and platforms at the governmental, legislative and local levels, and actively study the establishment of new cooperation mechanisms and the creation of new growth drivers.
The two sides stressed that the establishment of a strategic dialogue mechanism between the foreign ministers of the two countries is of great significance, and expressed readiness to give play to the role of this mechanism to promote bilateral cooperation.
II. The two sides stressed their readiness to jointly safeguard regional security and stability, deepen law enforcement and security cooperation on the basis of strict compliance with the laws of the two countries and international obligations, and strengthen exchanges and mutual visits between competent authorities.
The two sides share the same position on combating terrorism, separatism and extremism, and are willing to continue to coordinate responses to traditional and non-traditional security threats and challenges, and join hands to combat the "three forces" (三股势力) as well as organized crime, drug trafficking, online fraud, illegal immigration and smuggling activities.
The two sides will continue to deepen defense cooperation within bilateral and multilateral frameworks, strengthen practical exchanges in such areas as group visits, personnel training and joint counter-terrorism exercises, and safeguard the common interests of both sides and regional security.
The two sides noted that against the backdrop of the global technological revolution, it is necessary to strengthen cooperation in such fields as cybersecurity, information security and artificial intelligence.
The two sides will make active efforts to ensure the safe implementation of strategic cooperation projects.
The two sides will continue to strengthen coordination in such areas as emergency response, rescue of disaster victims, work safety, and joint training and exercises for search and rescue personnel.
III. The two sides are willing to strengthen practical cooperation in trade, investment, innovation and development, promote the comprehensive and high-quality development of China-Kyrgyzstan relations, and promote the common prosperity of the two countries and the well-being of the two peoples:
— Speak highly of the fruitful achievements of China-Kyrgyzstan high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, and will continue to promote the synergy between the Belt and Road Initiative and Kyrgyzstan's National Development Program until 2030, and ensure the smooth progress of practical cooperation projects between the two countries in various fields;
— To advance bilateral economic and trade cooperation in an all-round way, give full play to the role of the China-Kyrgyzstan Intergovernmental Commission on Economic and Trade Cooperation and its subordinate mechanisms, including the Working Group on Economic and Trade Cooperation between China's Xinjiang and Kyrgyzstan's Adjacent Regions and the China-Kyrgyzstan Working Group on Investment and Industrial Cooperation;
— Expand the scale of bilateral trade, optimize the trade structure, raise the level of trade liberalization and facilitation, and strengthen cooperation in e-commerce and the digital economy;
— Support exchanges between the trade and investment promotion agencies and business associations of the two countries, and encourage official and business delegations of the two countries to participate in major forums and exhibitions held by each side;
— Strengthen investment cooperation in such fields as processing and manufacturing, agriculture, logistics, infrastructure construction, industry, new-generation information technology, automobiles, heavy machinery and minerals; strictly abide by the laws of the two countries and the principles of sustainable development, promote the high-quality development of mutual investment, safeguard strategic and priority projects, hold investment forums, organize business inspections and other activities, promote efficient collaboration between investors and state institutions, and expand the "one-stop service" mechanism;
— Support the Ministry of Economy and Commerce of Kyrgyzstan, the China Development Bank and the Silk Road Fund in continuing to strengthen cooperation and jointly expand investment in Kyrgyzstan within the framework of existing investment and financing cooperation platforms;
— Actively advance cooperation in the financial sector, support eligible Kyrgyz banks in joining the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS), study the possibility of Chinese banks opening branches in Kyrgyzstan, open correspondent accounts between the banks of the two countries, and expand local currency settlement of bilateral trade and investment;
— The two sides will continue to advance the negotiation process of the Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic on Trade in Services and Investment;
— Actively implement the Agreement between the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China and the State Customs Service of the Kyrgyz Republic on the Establishment of the China-Kyrgyzstan Port Management Cooperation Committee, jointly improve the efficiency of port inspection and work coordination, ensure the smooth operation of China-Kyrgyzstan border ports, and create favorable conditions for the trade growth of the two countries and the region. The two sides will dynamically adjust the working hours of the Irkeshtam (伊尔克什坦) and Torugart (吐尔尕特) ports in light of the actual cargo throughput and customs clearance at the ports;
— Promote customs cooperation between the two countries. Advance the interconnection of "single window" mechanisms, introduce modern customs supervision and automated customs management mechanisms, strengthen cooperation in animal and plant inspection and quarantine, promote mutual trade, enhance the transparency of import and export operations, and raise the level of customs supervision;
— Tap the potential of agricultural cooperation and expand market access for high-quality Kyrgyz agricultural products to China. Support the export of Kyrgyz grain to China through existing ports and promote China-Kyrgyzstan trade in agricultural products;
— Strengthen cooperation in transportation and logistics, build stable and smooth transportation corridors, and create favorable conditions for opening new direct and transit routes. Support the two countries in opening new air routes;
— Agreed to accelerate the study of the Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic on International Road Transport;
— Ensure the smooth and timely implementation of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project, and create favorable mutually beneficial conditions for ensuring the project's freight volume and efficiency;
— Accelerate the infrastructure construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan Bedel Port (别迭里口岸) and the construction of the Barskoon-Bedel-Wushi-Aksu highway, and strive for the early official opening and operation of the passenger and cargo functions of the Bedel Port;
— Strengthen cooperation in the energy sector and ensure the stability of the production and supply chain of the fuel and energy complex. Strengthen cooperation in the joint extraction of oil, gas and coal, deepen cooperation in wind power, solar power and hydropower, and ensure the stable operation of corresponding infrastructure and the smooth transportation of energy resources. Support the joint development of joint projects in the field of renewable energy by enterprises of the two countries;
— Expand cooperation in addressing climate change and preventing natural disasters.
IV. The two sides firmly believe that people-to-people and cultural cooperation is an important long-term foundation for enhancing mutual understanding and good-neighborly friendship between the peoples of China and Kyrgyzstan, and are willing to further strengthen cooperation in culture, healthcare, poverty reduction, sports, media, film production and youth, and promote exchanges and cooperation between the research institutions and archival institutions of the two countries.
The two sides will continue to deepen cooperation in education, and strengthen cooperation in higher education, vocational education, language teaching, teacher education, teacher-student exchanges, and the joint training of outstanding engineers and other experts. They welcome the establishment of the China-Kyrgyzstan Academy of Outstanding Engineers.
The two sides will continue to strengthen cooperation in science and technology, give full play to the role of the China-Kyrgyzstan Science and Technology Cooperation Committee, implement joint scientific research projects, build cooperation platforms such as joint laboratories, and support exchanges and mutual visits between young scientists of the two sides.
The two sides are willing to deepen cooperation between the research institutions of the two countries, support expert exchanges, regular consultations and other activities, and conduct joint analytical research on cooperation priorities such as regional security, sustainable development, green growth and digital transformation.
The Chinese side speaks highly of the anniversary session of the Issyk-Kul Forum named after Aitmatov held in Cholpon-Ata, which carried forward the ideas of Kyrgyz writer and thinker Aitmatov on humanism, mutual understanding and solidarity.
The two sides are willing to further strengthen healthcare cooperation, give full play to the role of the Lifeline Express China-Kyrgyzstan Blindness Prevention Cooperation Center (健康快车中吉防盲合作中心), and promote cooperation projects to benefit more people on the Kyrgyz side.
The Chinese side welcomes the holding of the 6th World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan. The Kyrgyz side thanks the Chinese delegation for its active participation in the event and looks forward to China's continued participation. The Chinese side supports the Kyrgyz side's initiative to promote nomadic civilization and traditional culture as an important part of global cultural diversity.
The two sides believe that respecting the history, culture and traditions of the two peoples is of great significance. The two sides will carry out academic exchanges and joint historical research, actively interpret historical truths, prevent the distortion of history, and protect the historical and cultural heritage of the two peoples.
The two sides will further deepen cooperation in the field of radio, television and audio-visual services, including policy dialogue, program production and broadcasting, application of new technologies, talent cultivation, and major bilateral and multilateral events, and jointly tell the story of China-Kyrgyzstan friendship well.
The two sides are willing to expand subnational cooperation and deepen cooperation and exchanges between provinces, cities and prefectures of the two countries in various fields.
The two sides will strengthen tourism cooperation, orderly expand the number of tourists traveling between the two countries, and are willing to continue to create safe and favorable conditions for the travel of citizens of the two countries.
The two sides will continue to facilitate visa policies.
The two sides will continue the good momentum of cooperation within the framework of the China-Kyrgyzstan Treaty on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons.
V. In the face of current global challenges, the two sides will firmly uphold the international system with the United Nations at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. The two sides are committed to promoting an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, oppose all forms of unilateralism and protectionism, call for practicing true multilateralism, advance the democratization of international relations, and jointly safeguard international fairness and justice. The two sides will strengthen coordination and cooperation within the framework of the United Nations, maintain cooperation on matters of common concern in multilateral settings, and promote the building of a more just and equitable global governance system.
The Kyrgyz side highly appreciates and supports the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind proposed by the Chinese side, as well as the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative and the Global Governance Initiative. The above concepts and initiatives are of great significance to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals and safeguarding world security and development.
The Chinese side congratulates Kyrgyzstan on its election as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for 2027-2028, and will support the Kyrgyz side's efforts during its tenure to consolidate world peace and security, promote the practice of multilateralism and uphold the international rule of law.
The Chinese side welcomes the Kyrgyz side's accession to the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, so as to jointly advance global artificial intelligence cooperation and the development of practical cooperation between the two countries.
The Chinese side welcomes the Kyrgyz side's accession to the International Organization for Mediation. The two sides are willing to strengthen cooperation in the field of mediation and jointly promote the International Organization for Mediation to play a positive role in peacefully resolving international disputes and promoting friendly cooperation among member states.
The two sides noted that the two countries have made important contributions to the creation of the "Shanghai Five" mechanism and the establishment and development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and reaffirmed their willingness to consolidate the role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as the most important platform for safeguarding regional security and stability and sustainable development.
The Kyrgyz side speaks highly of the significance of the SCO Tianjin Summit in promoting the high-quality development of the organization, and is willing to work with the Chinese side to continue implementing the consensus reached.
The Chinese side speaks highly of the work done by the Kyrgyz side during its presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization from 2025 to 2026 under the slogan "25th Anniversary of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Working Together Toward Sustainable Peace, Development and Prosperity." It noted the great significance of the Bishkek Declaration and stressed that the Kyrgyz side, as president, has played a notable coordinating role in continuously advancing common initiatives, pooling the joint efforts of the organization's member states, and deepening solidarity and practical cooperation among member states.
The two sides noted with satisfaction the important progress made in the establishment of the SCO Development Bank, stressed the need to accelerate the process of preparing for the SCO Development Bank, ensure the bank's early operation, help deepen economic cooperation, expand project financing support, promote regional development, prosperity and solidarity, and consolidate regional security and stability. The two sides will continue to actively advance the above work.
The two sides reaffirmed the great significance of establishing as soon as possible in Bishkek the Center for Combating Transnational Organized Crime under the SCO Comprehensive Center for Responding to Security Threats and Challenges. The two sides believe that the establishment of the center will enhance the efficiency of cooperation in responding to transnational organized crime, separatism and extremism, and ensure regional security and stability.
The two sides spoke highly of the important role played by the China-Central Asia mechanism in strengthening coordination between China and Central Asian countries, expressed readiness to strengthen cooperation within the framework of the China-Central Asia mechanism, continue to hold relevant activities within the framework of the "China-Central Asia Year of High-Quality Cooperation and Development 2025-2026," and will strive to ensure the complete success of the Third China-Central Asia Summit to be held in China in 2027.
The two sides are willing to deepen cooperation in such fields as environmental protection, addressing climate change and the promotion of the mountain agenda.
The Chinese side positively evaluates the resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly at the initiative of the Kyrgyz side, including the declaration of the implementation of the Five-Year Outline for Mountain Area Development (山区发展五年纲要) from 2023 to 2027 and the establishment of World Snow Leopard Day, and supports the Kyrgyz side in hosting the "Bishkek+25" Second Global Mountain Summit in 2027.
VI. The two sides believe that the meeting between the two heads of state is of great significance to promoting the high-quality development of the China-Kyrgyzstan comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era. The two heads of state will maintain regular communication to provide strategic guidance for the high-quality development of the China-Kyrgyzstan comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era.
VII. President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China expressed sincere gratitude to President Japarov of the Kyrgyz Republic and the people of Kyrgyzstan for the warm and friendly reception accorded to the Chinese delegation, and invited President Japarov to visit China at a convenient time.
People's Republic of China Kyrgyz Republic
President President
Bishkek, August 31, 2026
(Xinhua News Agency, Bishkek, August 31)
Return to TopThe People's Republic of China and the Kyrgyz Republic (hereinafter referred to as "the Contracting Parties"),
Based on the historical tradition of good-neighborliness and friendship between the two peoples and the vigorous momentum of bilateral relations since the establishment of diplomatic ties,
Considering that the Treaty on Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation between the People's Republic of China and the Kyrgyz Republic signed on June 24, 2002 has played an important role in China–Kyrgyzstan relations,
Firmly believing that further strengthening good-neighborliness, friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation conforms to the fundamental interests of the two countries and the two peoples and helps safeguard peace and stability in the region and even the world,
Reaffirming their commitment to the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Committed to raising the level of cooperation between the two countries in various fields,
Continuously deepening the China–Kyrgyzstan comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era, reaffirming their willingness to join hands in building a China–Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future featuring good-neighborliness, friendship and shared prosperity,
Have agreed as follows:
Article 1. The Contracting Parties, in accordance with universally recognized principles and norms of international law, including the Five Principles of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence, shall comprehensively develop a long-term and stable strategic partnership on the basis of permanent good-neighborliness and friendly cooperation.
Article 2. The Contracting Parties shall comprehensively strengthen mutual trust and strategic coordination, support each other in choosing the development path and development model suited to their respective national conditions, support each other's positions on issues of core interests, and support the economic development strategies implemented by each other.
The Kyrgyz Republic reaffirms its support for the One-China Principle, recognizes that there is only one China in the world, that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, and that the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China. The Kyrgyz Republic opposes any form of "Taiwan independence," reaffirms that it will not conduct any form of official exchanges with Taiwan, supports all efforts made by China to achieve national reunification, and considers that the authority of United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758 is not open to doubt or challenge.
The People's Republic of China supports the efforts made by the Kyrgyz Republic to defend national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, promote national economic and social development, advance national reform, and maintain domestic stability.
Article 3. The Contracting Parties shall strictly abide by the provisions of the relevant boundary agreements signed between the two countries, accommodate each other's concerns, and work to build the boundary between the two countries into a boundary of permanent peace, good-neighborliness and friendship.
Article 4. The Contracting Parties shall not participate in any alliance or grouping that damages the sovereignty, security or territorial integrity of the other Contracting Party, shall not take any such action, including not concluding treaties of this kind with third countries, and shall not support any action unfriendly to the other Contracting Party.
Neither Contracting Party shall allow a third country to use its territory to engage in any activity detrimental to the interests of the other Contracting Party, including activities detrimental to the national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of the other Contracting Party.
Neither Contracting Party shall allow the establishment on its own territory of organizations and gangs detrimental to the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of the other Contracting Party, and shall prohibit their activities.
Article 5. The Contracting Parties shall make use of meeting mechanisms at various levels, including high-level exchanges, give full play to the role of the China–Kyrgyzstan Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue mechanism, promote the implementation of the consensus of the heads of state of the two countries, and promptly exchange views and coordinate positions on bilateral relations and international and regional issues of common concern.
The Contracting Parties will promote the deepening of exchanges and cooperation between the legislative bodies of the two countries and consolidate the social and public-opinion foundation of China–Kyrgyzstan people-to-people friendship.
Article 6. The Contracting Parties are willing to follow the principle of extensive consultation, joint contribution and shared benefits and continue to strengthen high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.
Within the framework of existing mechanisms such as the China–Kyrgyzstan Intergovernmental Commission on Economic and Trade Cooperation and the Commission on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, the Contracting Parties will continue to deepen cooperation in economy and trade, investment, energy, connectivity, minerals, agriculture, processing industry, ecology, science and technology, digital economy, green development, transportation, logistics and other related fields.
The Contracting Parties will work to implement the consensus of the heads of state of the two countries and, in accordance with the national laws of the Contracting Parties, take necessary measures to jointly ensure the smooth implementation of cooperation projects.
The Contracting Parties will support each other's development and provide mutual assistance when necessary.
Article 7. The Contracting Parties believe that close people-to-people and cultural exchanges are of great significance to enhancing mutual understanding and friendship between the peoples of the two countries. The Contracting Parties will strengthen exchanges of governance experience and promote cooperation in culture, education, health and medical care, tourism, sports, media, research institutions and other fields of common interest.
The Contracting Parties will continue to strengthen cooperation in the field of emergency response and are willing to provide mutual assistance in major disaster management.
The Contracting Parties support the deepening of subnational cooperation and encourage the establishment of cooperative and friendly province/state–city relationships between the localities of the two countries.
Article 8. In accordance with their national laws and their respective international obligations, the Contracting Parties will closely cooperate within bilateral and multilateral mechanisms to jointly combat all forms of terrorism, separatism and extremism, including the "East Turkestan" (东突) terrorist forces, as well as organized crime, illegal migration, illicit trafficking in drugs and weapons, and other various transnational criminal activities.
Article 9. The Contracting Parties will continue to deepen mutual trust in the fields of defense and security, carry out military and military-technical cooperation not directed against third parties, strengthen military exchanges at various levels, expand mutually beneficial cooperation in the training of military personnel, and safeguard the common interests of the Contracting Parties and regional security.
Article 10. The Contracting Parties will strengthen communication and coordination within the framework of the United Nations and its specialized agencies, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the China–Central Asia mechanism, and other regional and multilateral organizations and mechanisms in which both Parties participate, and will jointly work to promote peace, security and sustainable development at the global and regional levels and to promote the building of a more just and equitable global governance system.
The Contracting Parties will jointly and actively practice the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind as well as the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative and the Global Governance Initiative, and believe that the above concepts and initiatives are of great significance to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and safeguarding world peace and security.
The Contracting Parties jointly oppose unilateralism and protectionism, and support and uphold the rules-based multilateral trading system with the WTO at its core. The Contracting Parties support placing development at the core of the WTO, jointly promote WTO reform, and promote the WTO to play a greater role in global economic governance.
Article 11. This Treaty is not directed against any third country and does not affect the rights and obligations of the Contracting Parties as parties to other international treaties.
Article 12. Should any disputes or differences arise in the interpretation and implementation of this Treaty, the Contracting Parties shall resolve them through friendly negotiation and consultation.
Article 13. Upon consensus through consultation, the Contracting Parties may supplement and amend this Treaty separately in the form of protocols, which shall be an integral part of this Treaty and shall enter into force in accordance with the procedures stipulated in Article 14 of this Treaty.
Article 14. The Contracting Parties shall notify each other in writing through diplomatic channels that the domestic legal procedures required for the entry into force of this Treaty have been completed. This Treaty shall enter into force on the date of receipt of the latter notification.
This Treaty shall remain in force for a long term.
Either Contracting Party may notify the other Contracting Party in writing through diplomatic channels of the termination of this Treaty. This Treaty shall cease to be in force 12 months after the date of issuance of the above notification.
The Treaty on Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation between the People's Republic of China and the Kyrgyz Republic signed in Beijing on June 24, 2002 shall cease to be in force on the date this Treaty enters into force.
Signed in Bishkek on August 31, 2026, in two originals, each in the Chinese, Kyrgyz and Russian languages, all texts being equally authentic.
People's Republic of China — Kyrgyz Republic
Representative — Representative
(Xinhua News Agency, Bishkek, August 31)
Return to TopBishkek, August 31 (People's Daily — reporters Wang Rong (王嵘), Cui Qi (崔琦)). On the morning of August 31 local time, Peng Liyuan, wife of President Xi Jinping, visited the State Historical Museum of the Kyrgyz Republic in Bishkek together with Zaparova, wife of Kyrgyz President Japarov.
Peng Liyuan, together with Zaparova, enjoyed a warm and friendly welcome performance. Afterwards, the wives of the two heads of state jointly visited the exhibition of Kyrgyzstan's traditional culture. Peng Liyuan said that the costumes, woven carpets, and other items on display in the museum are exquisitely crafted and rich in color, showcasing the Kyrgyz people's long-standing handicraft traditions and distinctive living customs. Both China and Kyrgyzstan attach importance to the protection and inheritance of traditional culture, and she expressed the hope that China and Kyrgyzstan will continuously expand people-to-people and cultural exchanges and enhance people-to-people connectivity (民心相通).
The wives of the two heads of state also visited the "Harmony and Unity Achieving Beauty — Art Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Civilization" (和合致美) jointly organized by the Chinese and Kyrgyz sides, and watched a display of clothing featuring Kyrgyz ethnic characteristics. Both expressed that they would actively promote cultural exchange and mutual learning between China and Kyrgyzstan.
The State Historical Museum of the Kyrgyz Republic is the highest-level national museum in Kyrgyzstan, and the cultural relics in its collection record the development process of the Kyrgyz nation.
Return to TopPeople's Daily, Cairo, September 1. On September 1, on the occasion of his state visit to Cairo, Egypt, President Xi Jinping published a signed article titled "风雨同舟 (fēng yǔ tóng zhōu - "wind and rain in the same boat," to stand together through adversity) for Seventy Years, 踔厉奋发 (chuō lì fèn fā - "stride vigorously and rouse to action," to forge ahead with vigor) on a New Journey" in Egypt's Al-Ahram, Al-Akhbar, and Al-Gomhuria newspapers. The full text of the article follows:
At the invitation of President Sisi, I will soon pay a state visit to Egypt. This will be my second time setting foot on this fertile land nourished by the Nile since I assumed the presidency of the People's Republic of China. An Egyptian proverb says: "He who has drunk the water of the Nile will surely return." When I visited Egypt ten years ago, I was deeply impressed by Egypt's ancient and profound civilization and its vibrant and upward-looking atmosphere. As I go there again, I look forward to renewing friendship and discussing cooperation with President Sisi, and to charting a new blueprint for deepening the China-Egypt comprehensive strategic partnership.
"When one finds the right way to build friendship, even a thousand li apart, kindred spirits unite." China and Egypt are both ancient civilizations, and both have contributed precious spiritual wealth and brilliant cultural treasures to the development of human society. The Yangtze, the Yellow River, and the Nile gave rise to the Chinese civilization and the ancient Egyptian civilization respectively. Porcelain and silk sailed across the seas; brocade and embroidery traversed the drifting sands. Although the two great civilizations of China and Egypt are far apart, they have appreciated each other. The ancient Silk Road stretched for thousands of years, and the footsteps of friendly exchanges never ceased. China's silk, porcelain, papermaking, and smelting and casting techniques traveled westward, while Egypt's spices, colored glaze, and astronomical and calendrical knowledge came eastward over ten thousand li. The heirloom artifacts from China unearthed at the Fustat site in Egypt bear witness to the close ties and profound friendship between the Chinese and Egyptian peoples since ancient times.
Seventy years ago, China and Egypt formally established diplomatic relations, opening the door of friendly cooperation between New China and Arab and African countries. Over the past seventy years of 栉风沐雨 (zhì fēng mù yǔ - "combing wind and bathing in rain," enduring hardships and toil), the China-Egypt relationship has withstood the tests of changing international circumstances, never deviating in course, never changing in quality, and never diminishing in momentum, becoming a model for China-Arab and China-Africa collective cooperation and a paradigm of friendly coexistence, solidarity, and collaboration among developing countries.
—China and Egypt have always been close brothers of 和衷共济 (hé zhōng gòng jì - "of one mind, crossing the river together," uniting in a common cause). In the struggle for national independence and against imperialism and colonialism, the two peoples forged a profound friendship. In Egypt's struggle to recover sovereignty over the Suez Canal, China voiced strong support. In New China's struggle to restore its lawful seat in the United Nations, Egypt, together with many Asian, African, and Latin American countries, firmly cast its vote in favor. At present, the two sides firmly support each other in following development paths suited to their respective national conditions, firmly support each other's core interests and major concerns, and lay a solid foundation for the development of the bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership.
—China and Egypt have always been reliable partners of win-win cooperation. Egypt is an important trade and investment partner of China in the Arab world and Africa, and one of the first countries to participate in the joint construction of the Belt and Road. Ten years ago, the China-Egypt Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone, which President Sisi and I jointly inaugurated, has brought substantial investment and employment to the local area, helping Egypt accelerate its modernization process. Chinese enterprises have built in Egypt Africa's tallest building and Africa's first intercity electrified light rail. Egyptian fresh oranges became the first batch of African products to enter the Chinese market after China implemented zero tariffs on African countries with which it has diplomatic relations. The mutually beneficial cooperation between the two sides in various fields has benefited countless households in both countries.
—China and Egypt have always been a successful example of friendship and mutual learning. Egypt was the first Arab and African country to sign a cultural cooperation agreement with New China, and the people-to-people and cultural exchanges between the two countries are rich and colorful. The Grand Egyptian Museum and other sites have attracted large numbers of Chinese tourists to "check in." Last year, the "Great Exhibition of Ancient Egyptian Civilization" held at the Shanghai Museum was so popular that tickets were extremely hard to come by. Chinese language teaching has been introduced in more than 40 middle schools in Egypt, and vocational education cooperation has benefited countless Egyptian people. The two great civilizations have sustained a two-way endeavor across time and space, continuously writing new chapters of friendship between the Chinese and Egyptian peoples for generations to come.
—China and Egypt have always been sincere friends of equality and mutual trust. At the Bandung Conference held in 1955, China and Egypt actively supported the struggle against imperialism and colonialism and jointly promoted Asian-African solidarity. At present, China and Egypt share common goals and pursuits in upholding the international order, advocating fairness and justice, and practicing multilateralism. Both sides firmly support the just cause of the Palestinian people to restore their legitimate national rights, and both are committed to promoting the political settlement of hotspot issues and achieving regional peace and stability, demonstrating the responsibility and commitment of Global South countries to unite for self-strengthening and uphold fairness and justice.
Both China and Egypt are at a critical stage of development and revitalization. China's "15th Five-Year Plan" has gotten off to a good start, and China is striving to open up new prospects for Chinese modernization. Egypt's "New Republic" construction is 如火如荼 (rú huǒ rú tú - "like fire and like the white flower of reeds," developing vigorously and in full swing), and Egypt is striding forward toward "Vision 2030." China is willing to work with Egypt to deepen the comprehensive strategic partnership, advance the building of a China-Egypt community with a shared future, and jointly realize modernization.
We should enhance mutual trust and serve as a model of passing on friendship. The China-Egypt friendship was forged personally by the older generation of leaders of both countries. To inherit, develop, and promote the China-Egypt friendship is the glorious responsibility of our generation. We should continue to support each other's core interests and major concerns, strengthen exchanges and cooperation in various fields and at various levels, and pass the baton of China-Egypt friendship from generation to generation.
We should pursue mutual benefit and win-win outcomes and serve as a benchmark for joint development. China has the world's most complete and largest industrial system, with advantages in capital, technology, and equipment. Egypt has a large population, abundant resources, and a vast market. The two sides should deepen the alignment of development strategies, jointly build the Belt and Road with high quality, actively tap cooperation potential, expand space for practical cooperation, and inject inexhaustible impetus into China-Egypt mutually beneficial cooperation.
We should each appreciate our own beauty and serve as an example of inter-civilization exchange. The two ancient civilizations of China and Egypt should promote the values of equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness among civilizations, practice the Global Civilization Initiative (全球文明倡议), actively safeguard humanity's cultural heritage, and jointly promote the harmonious coexistence of different civilizations. We should deepen exchanges and cooperation in education, tourism, science and technology, health, sports, and archaeology, strengthen the bonds of mutual understanding and affinity between the two peoples, continuously inject new momentum into the development of the China-Egypt comprehensive strategic partnership, and pool more civilizational strength for building a community with a shared future for mankind.
We should march forward shoulder to shoulder and serve as pioneers in upholding fairness and justice. At present, the world is undergoing accelerated transformation unseen in a century, and the international situation is marked by turbulence and interwoven changes. China and Egypt, both major developing countries and important members of the Global South, should practice true multilateralism, strengthen multilateral coordination, jointly implement the four Global Initiatives (四大全球倡议), actively safeguard world peace and stability, and defend international fairness and justice.
We should work hand in hand with one heart and serve as leaders in China-Arab and China-Africa cooperation. As a major Arab and African country, Egypt plays an important role in promoting China-Arab and China-Africa collective cooperation. China is willing to work with Egypt to expand the demonstration effect of mature China-Egypt cooperation, leverage Egypt's unique geographical advantage of connecting the Arab world and radiating across the African continent, and thoroughly implement the building of the "five cooperation frameworks" for China-Arab cooperation (五大合作格局) and the ten partnership actions for China and Africa to jointly advance modernization (十大伙伴行动), so as to promote China-Arab and China-Africa cooperation to keep pace with the times and achieve 行稳致远 (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "walk steadily to reach far," to achieve lasting success through steady progress).
Sharing wind and rain in the same boat for seventy years, striding vigorously and rousing to action on a new journey. China is willing to work with Egypt to remain true to our original aspiration, 继往开来 (jì wǎng kāi lái - "carry on the past and open up the future," to continue the legacy and chart the way forward), support each other and forge ahead with determination on the road to prosperity and rejuvenation, and jointly create an even better future for the development of our respective countries and for bilateral relations.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 31 — Premier Li Qiang of the State Council chaired a State Council executive meeting on August 31 to study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech delivered at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee that studied and deployed rescue and relief work for the mudslide disaster in Gyirong County (吉隆县), Xigaze City (日喀则市), Tibet. The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to adhere to putting the people first and life first, consolidate responsibilities and take the initiative, strengthen coordination and pool joint strength, and ensure the implementation of all key tasks such as rescue and relief and emergency response. It is necessary to continue to make every effort to search for and rescue missing persons, scientifically and dynamically optimize search and rescue plans, and coordinate and make good use of all types of rescue forces. Strictly prevent secondary disasters, strengthen monitoring and early warning, and ensure rescue safety. Carefully handle the aftermath, strengthen humanistic care for the families of the deceased and missing persons, and implement measures such as pensions and relief. Actively carry out international coordination and cooperation, promptly release authoritative information, and respond to social concerns. It is necessary to 举一反三 (jǔ yī fǎn sān - "raise one corner and infer the other three," to draw inferences from one instance), adhere to extreme thinking and bottom-line thinking, strengthen the screening and rectification of various risks and hidden dangers, further enhance emergency management capacity, resolutely prevent the occurrence of major and extraordinarily serious disasters and accidents, and effectively safeguard the safety of the people's lives and property and the overall stability of society.
The meeting heard a report on the construction of urban underground pipeline networks. The meeting pointed out that underground pipeline networks are an important component of the modern infrastructure network system. It is necessary to accelerate construction with systematic thinking, eliminate safety hazards at the source, and improve urban functions and quality. It is necessary to emphasize unified planning, improve systems and mechanisms, and, in conjunction with implementing the urban renewal initiative (城市更新行动), strengthen the interconnection between pipeline networks for gas, water supply, drainage, sewage, heating, and other utilities and integrated utility tunnels, so as to enhance overall efficiency. It is necessary to highlight equal emphasis on construction and management, actively innovate and explore, and achieve sustainable construction and operation. It is necessary to carry quality and safety through the entire process of construction and operation, and build safe and reliable projects that win the people's hearts.
The meeting studied work related to promoting the high-quality development of investment attraction. The meeting pointed out that regulating investment attraction is an important part of building a national unified large market (全国统一大市场). It is necessary to continue to exert sustained efforts and 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "persist long and achieve merit," to achieve success through sustained effort), clarify the specific behaviors encouraged and prohibited by the government in investment attraction, and do all work meticulously and well on the basis of summarizing practical experience. It is necessary to further regulate local governments' economic promotion behaviors, strengthen positive guidance and rigid constraints, and shift the focus of investment attraction work more toward optimizing the business environment, cultivating the industrial ecosystem, and providing high-level government services. It is necessary to improve the mechanism for communication and exchange with enterprises, proactively help enterprises solve practical difficulties and problems, and create fairer and more vibrant market conditions for enterprise development.
The meeting discussed and approved in principle the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Administration of Tax Collection (Revised Draft), and decided to submit the draft to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) for deliberation. The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to organize tax collection and administration in accordance with the law, regulate tax law enforcement behavior, strive to optimize tax payment services, strengthen the protection of taxpayers' lawful rights and interests, continuously promote fairness of tax burden, and improve fiscal and tax governance.
The meeting reviewed and approved the Implementing Regulations of the Audit Law of the People's Republic of China (Revised Draft). The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to take this revision of the regulations as an opportunity to further deepen audit reform, consolidate responsibilities for audit rectification, strengthen supervision and inspection of fiscal revenues and expenditures, improve policy implementation mechanisms, and continuously enhance the effectiveness of audit oversight.
The meeting also studied other matters.
Return to TopBy: 阿卜杜勒·法塔赫·塞西
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This year, we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the People's Republic of China. As early as 1956, Egypt became the first Arab and African country to establish diplomatic relations with New China, a vivid reflection of the continuation of the 源远流长 (yuán yuǎn liú cháng - "source distant, flow long," long-standing and enduring) civilizational and historical bonds between the two great nations of Egypt and China. At this special moment of jointly celebrating the 70th anniversary of Egypt-China diplomatic relations, we also warmly welcome the visit of President Xi Jinping of China to Egypt as a guest of honor.
Throughout continuous historical periods, Egypt and China have been connected to each other through a bridge of friendship, closely linking the Nile, the source that nurtured Egyptian civilization and the lifeline of the Egyptian people, with the Yangtze River, the cradle of Chinese civilization and the wellspring of Chinese wisdom and philosophy. Through the scientific achievements and knowledge they contributed, the two great civilizations of Egypt and China have made important contributions to the development of all countries and the progress of human society. A road connecting the pyramids and the Great Wall was formed between the two great civilizations of Egypt and China. This includes the outstanding contributions made by ancient Egyptian civilization in fields such as medicine, engineering, and astronomy, as well as the many advanced inventions and creations made by Chinese civilization that were ahead of their time, which have been drawn upon by modern scientists in recent centuries, propelling humanity toward the industrial revolution and the technological revolution and achieving 前所未有 (qián suǒ wèi yǒu - "never before had," unprecedented) accomplishments. Therefore, without the accumulated knowledge and achievements of these two great civilizations, human society could not have developed to its current advanced stage, nor could it have achieved such tremendous development in various fields. This fully demonstrates that Egypt and China have the right to fairly share the fruits of modern science and technology, so as to realize the comprehensive development of the two peoples and even all countries of the world, and to contribute to the progress of human civilization.
Egypt and China were once closely connected through a time-honored trade route that facilitated the movement of people and goods, extending from China's Silk Road to the Red Sea and Egypt's Suez Canal, the lifeline of global trade. Along this route, missions and caravans from China and the coastal regions of Asia continuously traveled to Egypt's Red Sea and Mediterranean ports. These two ports have sustained their historically important role and remain irreplaceable vital links connecting East and West.
Egyptian ports have long been the largest trading centers for the exchange of goods among Asia, Europe, and Africa. The culture and ideas of the two peoples spread to each other through this important channel, further consolidating the historical bonds between the Egyptian and Chinese peoples and forming the prototype of the common ground between the two countries. On this basis, the people-to-people, economic, trade, and cultural exchanges between the two peoples continued for several centuries, and ushered in the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries seventy years ago — a moment of historic significance that became an important turning point in the process of development and prosperity of bilateral relations.
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Egypt, as the first Arab and African country to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China, expressed at that historic turning point its support for the right of all peoples to freely choose their own political and economic systems, opening the way for Arab and African countries to establish relations with China. Since then, the relations between Arab and African countries and China have continuously developed, deepened, and prospered, leading to the establishment of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum and the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. Egypt has always adhered to the One-China principle, opposed interference in China's internal affairs, and supported the restoration of China's seat as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. At the same time, China has also supported the legitimate rights of Arab countries and the right of the Palestinian people to establish an independent state. These historic positions are memorable and will forever remain in the collective memory of the two peoples. At the time when the two countries jointly celebrate this precious anniversary, the two peoples once again review the shining moments of their history, making them the foundation of the unity of the two peoples and providing momentum for further strengthening mutual support between the two sides.
Over the past 70 years, Egypt-China relations have achieved remarkable development. In 2014, during my first official visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries announced the establishment of a comprehensive strategic partnership. At this important stage, Egypt is committed to promoting broad and deep relations with countries around the world, further expanding and diversifying its foreign policy, extending the hand of friendship to all friendly countries, and establishing broader and deeper partnerships with countries around the world. Egypt has always attached importance to cooperation with countries that wish to strengthen their relations with Egypt, and on the basis of mutual respect, solidarity and mutual assistance, and mutual benefit and win-win, has promoted common development in areas such as infrastructure construction, investment, trade, manufacturing, and technology transfer. China is one of the first countries to clearly express its willingness to strengthen its relations with Egypt on the basis of the above-mentioned solid principles. These principles also constitute a solid foundation for the long-term and sustained development of the two countries, enabling Egypt-China relations to continue to yield results, bring tangible benefits to the two peoples, and safeguard the common interests of the two countries.
Based on the above achievements, the comprehensive strategic partnership established by the two countries has promoted leapfrog development in bilateral relations. China has become a major trading and economic cooperation partner of Egypt, and the scale of China's direct investment in Egypt continues to expand, including investment in the Suez Canal Economic Zone. This economic zone has created broad opportunities for profitability and development for Chinese investors, enabling them to fully utilize the many advantages that the region offers to foreign investors. The Suez Canal Economic Zone has multiple industrial parks, bringing together international factories from countries around the world that wish to seize this development opportunity. At the same time, Egypt, with its location at the center of the world and its important strategic geographical position connecting East and West, provides unique advantages to investors. In addition, Chinese enterprises have participated in many major national projects in Egypt, such as the construction of the Central Business District (CBD) of the New Administrative Capital, the construction of the electrified railway in the Tenth of Ramadan City, the construction of renewable energy power stations, and port development. These projects are all important components of Egypt's overall national plan for improving infrastructure. Egypt has cooperated with many countries, including China, in this process. This cooperation has helped elevate Egypt's infrastructure construction to a relatively high level in the world, becoming an important foundation for building a modern, complete, and comprehensive industrial system, and helping to make Egypt a global industrial, trade, and service logistics center.
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Egypt's tremendous progress in strengthening its infrastructure has made it an important destination for large-scale industrial investment from countries around the world. China is also one of the countries actively promoting the development of industries in Egypt and fully utilizing the many important advantages Egypt offers in this field. Egypt and China agree that the synergy between Egypt's national industrial localization strategy and China's high-quality development strategy should be fully leveraged, so as to attract more Chinese enterprises and industries to settle in Egypt, including in the fields of electric vehicles, energy storage batteries, renewable energy, electronic equipment, seawater desalination equipment and their components, and shipbuilding. In addition, the two sides will further strengthen technology transfer in fields such as communications, artificial intelligence, and space science, making these fields the focus of Egypt-China economic and technological development in the next stage, as well as important directions for Egypt-China cooperation.
China's development experience and its ability to achieve economic growth and eliminate extreme poverty provide important inspiration and encouragement for developing countries striving to achieve modernization and development. Egypt positively evaluates China's development experience and believes that developing countries have enormous development opportunities and can move toward higher stages of development and achieve economic revitalization by adopting development models that conform to their own realities and are compatible with their own history and cultural conditions. In this regard, it is worth pointing out that a favorable environment should be created at the international level to create the necessary conditions for these countries to achieve the above goals.
Based on the above, over the past decades, Egypt has actively fulfilled its regional and international responsibilities, always adhering to the Charter of the United Nations and international law as well as the rules-based international order, and actively supporting international organizations in fulfilling their fundamental responsibility of maintaining international peace and security. Egypt has played a tangible role in peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations. Egypt has also worked with all parties in the international community to actively promote the strengthening of the role of global economic organizations, achieve inclusive global development, and promote the implementation of the United Nations development goals. Egypt also insists on supporting the enhancement of the voice of the Global South and the improvement of its representation in international institutions, ensuring that these countries enjoy the right to express their will and safeguard their concerns. Egypt has actively joined multiple emerging international mechanisms. In 2024, it joined the BRICS cooperation mechanism (BRICS) and its New Development Bank, as well as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and became a dialogue partner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. This reflects its firm commitment to strengthening South-South dialogue and conducting broad and diversified partnerships with countries around the world. Taking this opportunity, I would like to congratulate China on assuming the BRICS presidency next year, and we also look forward to further strengthening coordination and consultation with the Chinese side within this framework.
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Against the backdrop of intensifying camp confrontation and competition, Egypt has always adhered to the strategic balance approach as the orientation of its foreign policy, emphasizing its independent foreign policy and calling on the international community to make coordinated efforts to address global challenges that threaten the whole world. Egypt and China have become important partners, jointly committed to enhancing the role of Global South countries in the international system and enabling developing countries to obtain more fairness and justice.
From the same perspective, Egypt has actively carried out diplomatic efforts, committed to de-escalating the situation in the Middle East and preventing the escalation and spread of conflict. At present, the Middle East is experiencing a dangerous stage of conflict. The current conflict not only threatens regional security and stability, but also poses a threat to international peace and security. In this context, both Egypt and China believe that conflicts should be resolved through peaceful means, taking into account the security concerns of all parties, respecting national sovereignty, and taking this as the basis for achieving peaceful resolution of conflicts. The two sides believe that the expansion of the scope of conflict and the further intensification of armed conflict are not in the interests of any regional or international actor.
Similarly, the Nile has always been the foundation of Egyptian civilization and the source of life driving Egypt's prosperity and development. For thousands of years, Egypt and other Nile Basin countries have jointly utilized the Nile. The water resources of the Nile are both a shared resource and the foundation of human survival, development, and well-being. Historically, Egypt has always been committed to supporting the development process of Nile Basin countries, especially in water resources development and dam construction, including in Sudan and Uganda; recently, Egypt has also participated in the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Project, Tanzania's largest hydropower project.
Egypt will continue to firmly advocate cross-border cooperation in accordance with the principles and rules of international law, rather than taking unilateral measures that harm the interests of downstream countries. Egypt firmly believes that the sustainable management of shared water resources can only be achieved through prior notification, consultation, and consensus among riparian countries.
In this regard, Egypt highly appreciates China's position, which emphasizes China's recognition of the importance of the Nile as Egypt's main lifeline. Egypt reiterates that unilateral measures should be avoided and cooperation should be strengthened in good faith to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results for all parties concerned.
Just as we have jointly written the chapter of friendly cooperation between the two countries over the years, we look forward to jointly writing a new chapter of Egypt-China friendship that has continued for thousands of years. We look forward to the continuous development and 繁荣昌盛 (fán róng chāng shèng - "prosperous and flourishing," thriving and prosperous) of the relations between the friendly peoples of the two countries in the coming decades, and wish the world greater stability, security, and development.
(The author is the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 31 — Zhao Leji, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, held talks with Walter Rosenkranz, President of the Austrian National Council, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on August 31.
Zhao Leji stated that in 2018, President Xi Jinping and President Alexander Van der Bellen jointly established the China-Austria friendly strategic partnership, opening a new stage in the development of bilateral relations, and the two countries have achieved fruitful results in practical cooperation across various fields. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Austria. China is willing to work with Austria to implement the important consensus of the two countries' leaders, consolidate traditional friendship, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, and continuously enrich the connotation of the China-Austria friendly strategic partnership.
Zhao Leji pointed out that the two sides should consolidate political mutual trust, maintain the good momentum of high-level exchanges, strengthen policy communication, and accommodate each other's core interests and major concerns. They should expand economic and trade cooperation, strengthen cooperation in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, digital economy, and green development, and promote the two countries' industries to develop toward innovation, green growth, and improvement. They should strengthen people-to-people and cultural exchanges, introduce more practical measures to facilitate the frequent coming and going of the peoples of the two countries, and consolidate the public support foundation of bilateral relations. They should deepen multilateral coordination, strengthen coordination and cooperation in international affairs, jointly uphold the authority and status of the United Nations, safeguard free trade and the multilateral trading system, and promote the building of a more just and reasonable global governance system. China is willing to properly resolve contradictions and differences in economic and trade cooperation with the European Union through dialogue and consultation, and achieve dynamic balance in the course of development.
Zhao Leji emphasized that China's National People's Congress is willing to deepen multi-level and multi-field dialogue and exchanges with the Austrian National Council, candidly exchange views on topics of common concern, enhance mutual understanding, and provide legal safeguards for practical cooperation between the two countries. Zhao Leji also introduced the relevant situation of China's artificial intelligence development and governance, stating that China is willing to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation and exchanges of legislative experience with Austria, and jointly grasp and respond to the opportunities and challenges presented by the development of artificial intelligence.
Rosenkranz stated that over the 55 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Austria and China, bilateral relations have developed in depth, high-level exchanges between the two sides have been close, and mutually beneficial cooperation has been continuously strengthened. Austria adheres to the One-China policy. The members of the delegation visiting China this time come from the five major political parties of the Austrian National Council, and deepening cooperation with China is the consensus of all political parties in Austria. The Austrian National Council is willing to strengthen friendly exchanges with China's National People's Congress and promote cooperation between Austria and China in such fields as economy, trade, science and technology, enterprises, people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and tourism. In international affairs, China is a stable cooperative partner. Austria is willing to make active efforts to advance the development of Europe-China relations and strengthen cooperation with China on multilateral platforms such as the United Nations.
He Wei attended the talks.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 31 - Wang Huning, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), met with Rosenkranz, president of the Austrian National Council, in Beijing on August 31.
Wang Huning said that in 2018, President Xi Jinping and Austrian President Van der Bellen, who was visiting China, jointly established the China-Austria friendly strategic partnership (中奥友好战略伙伴关系), opening a new chapter in bilateral relations. The two sides should take the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations as an opportunity to implement the important consensus of the two leaders, maintain close high-level exchanges, consolidate political mutual trust, deepen practical cooperation, strengthen people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and better benefit the peoples of the two countries. The National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference is willing to strengthen friendly exchanges with the Austrian side and 添砖加瓦 (tiān zhuān jiā wǎ - "add bricks and add tiles," to do one's bit) for deepening China-Austria relations.
Rosenkranz said that both Austria and China have long histories and cultures. Over the 55 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the two sides have adhered to mutual equality, and the friendship between the two countries has continued to deepen. In recent years, Austria and China have maintained close high-level exchanges, which is a positive signal of the in-depth development of bilateral relations. Austria adheres to the One-China policy and is willing to strengthen practical cooperation between the two sides and promote the Austria-China friendly strategic partnership to achieve new development.
Wang Dongfeng (王东峰) and others attended the meeting.
Return to TopBeijing, August 31 (People's Daily) — A Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on August 31: At the invitation of the Government of the Russian Federation, Ding Xuexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, will travel to Russia from September 2 to 4 to attend the 11th Eastern Economic Forum and hold the 13th meeting of the China-Russia Investment Cooperation Committee, the 23rd meeting of the Energy Cooperation Committee, and the 8th China-Russia Energy Business Forum.
Return to TopBeijing, August 31 (Reporter Zhang Yang (张洋)) — The symposium on studying the Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building and the founding meeting of the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想研究中心) were held in Beijing on the 31st. Shi Taifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee (中央组织部), attended the meeting and delivered a speech, emphasizing the need to study and use the Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building well, adhere to reading the original works, studying the original texts, and comprehending the original principles, deeply comprehend the historical logic, theoretical logic, and practical logic of Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, and consciously use it to guide and advance Party building, continuously building the Party to be even stronger and more powerful.
Shi Taifeng stated that the Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building vividly records the great practice of running and governing the Party and rejuvenating and strengthening the Party in the new era, fully reflects the rich connotations, scientific system, theoretical character, and major original contributions of Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, and is an authoritative textbook for studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building. It is necessary to deeply understand and grasp the highest principle of Party building in the new era, uphold the Party's overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments" (两个确立), and resolutely achieve the "Two Upholds" (两个维护). It is necessary to deeply understand and grasp the strategic policy of Party building in the new era, 持之以恒 (chí zhī yǐ héng - "persist in it with constancy," to keep at something unremittingly) advance full and rigorous Party self-governance. It is necessary to deeply understand and grasp the value pursuit of Party building in the new era, consciously practice the people-centered development philosophy and the correct view of political achievements. It is necessary to deeply understand and grasp the work layout of Party building in the new era, comprehensively advance all aspects of Party building with the Party's political building as the guide. It is necessary to deeply understand and grasp the methods and paths of Party building in the new era, making Party building more scientific, more rigorous, and more effective.
With the approval of the Party Central Committee, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee established the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, striving to build an important platform for studying, publicizing, and implementing, as well as researching and interpreting, Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 31 — On August 31, Zhang Qingwei, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, met in Beijing with Moses, Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia. The two sides had an in-depth exchange of views on China-Micronesia relations, exchanges between the two countries' legislative bodies, and issues of common concern.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 31 — On August 31, Liu Haixing (刘海星), Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央对外联络部), met in Beijing with Rosenkranz, President of the Austrian National Council. The two sides exchanged views on jointly implementing the important consensus of the two heads of state, strengthening inter-party exchanges and cooperation, and promoting the healthy and stable development of China-Austria and China-Europe relations.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Bishkek, August 31 — The 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Countries People-to-People and Cultural Exchange Event, co-hosted by China Media Group (中央广播电视总台) and Kyrgyzstan National Television and Radio Company, was held in Bishkek on the 30th. More than 100 guests, including well-known figures from political, economic, cultural, media and other circles of Shanghai Cooperation Organization countries, attended the event.
At the event, the theatrical film Our Day, under the guidance of the National Film Administration (国家电影局), with the China Film Producers Association (中国电影制片人协会) taking the lead in undertaking production, and co-produced by China together with Kyrgyz and Uzbek film and television institutions, began shooting. The event also released a series of cooperation achievements between China and Kyrgyzstan in the people-to-people and cultural field.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 琼达卓嘎
August 26, Heavy Rain
Late at night, local cadres and the masses braved the rain to carry supplies
At 8:30 in the morning, after finishing two days of interviews in Gyirong Town (吉隆镇), Gyirong County (吉隆县), Shigatse, I was preparing to return to Lhasa.
The day before, I had casually asked: "Are we going to the port this time?" The staff member replied, "It's not on the itinerary." Thinking about it afterward, I felt a lingering fear.
Gyirong Town is about 560 kilometers from the Shigatse urban area, a drive of more than 7 hours. At around 2:30 in the afternoon, as the vehicle reached the border section between Dingri County (定日县) and Sakya County (萨迦县), I suddenly received a call: a mudslide disaster had occurred at Gyirong Port (吉隆口岸).
I immediately turned around and rushed to the scene.
On the way back, the rain never stopped. It was not until after 10 p.m. that I finally arrived in Gyirong Town, one of the first journalists to arrive apart from the local Gyirong media.
The rain continued unabated, the streetlights were dim yellow, and the air was thick with tension. Late at night, local cadres and the masses kept carrying tents, food, drinking water, and other supplies through the rain. They were soaked through, yet no one stopped.
Because the road to Gyirong Port was destroyed, I could only stay temporarily in Gyirong Town, spending the first night after the disaster struck.
August 27, Sunny
Unforgettable: the firefighters who pulled me by the hand and the grassroots cadres who rushed about
I did not sleep all night. At 5:50, the phone rang: at 8 a.m., I could follow the fire rescue team to the front line.
A little after 8, I got into a fire truck and followed the team as it set out. The road was extremely bumpy, everyone wore grave expressions, and no one spoke. More than two hours later, we finally arrived at the barrier lake monitoring point.
I was looking at the images transmitted back by the drone when I suddenly heard a "bang" — a sound like a fracture coming from deep within the mountain. A young firefighter yanked me by the arm and ran with me up the mountain for a distance before letting go. "There was just a small-scale landslide; I was afraid the barrier lake might discharge."
I turned to look back. The firefighter operating the drone was still at the original spot continuing his survey, and the firefighter who had pulled me also quickly turned and ran back to the monitoring point. At that moment, I understood what it means to "go against the current."
In the afternoon, I followed a grassroots cadre to learn about the situation in Sale Township (萨勒乡), which was threatened by the barrier lake. Passing a resettlement site, some residents stopped him to report difficulties. After listening, he immediately made phone calls to coordinate. After hanging up, he said to the residents: "Don't worry. It will be solved for you today."
August 28, Sunny
Listening to frontline auxiliary police officers describe the moment the mudslide struck
Early in the morning, I headed toward Sale Township again and met several police officers and auxiliary police officers at a border guard post. They had barely closed their eyes in the past two days, continuously monitoring the danger of the barrier lake.
One auxiliary police officer said that on the 26th he had been on duty when he heard a loud crash, followed by the earth shaking and mountains trembling. His position was very close in a straight line to the port. Without time to think, he ran while making phone calls. "My mind went blank at the time. The mudslide passed right in front of my eyes in an instant."
After hearing his account, I felt deeply unsettled. Before the disaster struck, those at the front had tried to sound the alarm, but the power of this disaster far exceeded imagination. From onset to impact on the port, there were only six or seven minutes — there was simply no time to react.
Today, the residents who had been temporarily resettled in Sale Township were transferred to the resettlement site in Gyirong Town, but the township and village cadres still had much to do. In Guoba Village (郭巴村), I saw police officers still helping residents feed their livestock.
There was also an unexpected development in the afternoon — at a little past 4, I received a call: the front line had observed that the barrier lake was again at risk of breaching, and personnel nearby were ordered to evacuate urgently.
August 29, Drizzle
By the river, soldiers searched carefully through the mud
Early in the morning, I set out with the rescue troops of the Shigatse Military Sub-command (日喀则军分区), Tibet, heading for the front line where the road to Gyirong Port was being reopened. Upon arriving at the scene, I saw that large numbers of machinery and rescue personnel were already in place, with search operations being carried out simultaneously.
After the disaster, soldier Lin Jingyi (林敬义) and his comrades rushed to the very front line at the first moment. The road was cut off, so they could only try to wade across the river, but the current was too swift to make progress.
Since the water route would not work, they thought of crossing the mountain instead, but the cliffs were too steep, and after several attempts they still could not make it. "At the time, I only wanted to get in faster," Lin Jingyi said calmly, but his words were wrenching to hear.
The soldiers lined up in a row by the river, using tools to carefully search every stretch of water and mud. Their trouser legs were caked with mud, yet no one stopped.
On the road back to Gyirong Town, I saw offerings placed by the roadside for the deceased. I could no longer hold back and wept bitterly.
August 30, Sunny
The red vests that reassure the people; the rescue personnel who break one's heart
In the morning, I went to the resettlement site in Jipu Village (吉普村). Some villagers were basking in the sun, some were chatting, and children were running around. A villager looked at the staff members in red vests and said: "With them here, we feel at ease."
"Safe evacuation was completed in less than 40 minutes after the disaster struck. I believe the Party and the government will arrange everything well," said Puqiong (普琼), a villager from Labi Village (拉比村).
At the Party member pioneer service point in Jipu Village, a banner reading "If you have difficulties, turn to the organization" was especially conspicuous. I had wanted to interview several Party members, but some had gone to the resettlement sites for the people, and others were accompanying residents to seek medical treatment — none of them had a free moment.
At around 11 a.m., hearing that the fire rescue personnel who had been the first to enter the Gyirong Port national gate area for search and rescue had returned to Gyirong Town to rest, I immediately rushed to their quarters. They had advanced on foot into the national gate area, climbing over mountains and ridges all the way, fighting continuously for more than 40 hours. When they took off their boots, their feet were swollen, and the soles were covered in blisters. When I asked their ages, almost none were over 30.
August 31, Drizzle
A long line like a dragon, hearts turned toward the front line
At 7:40 in the morning, in a light drizzle, I set out from Gyirong Town once again, heading for the front line of road reopening.
On the road that had already been reopened, heavy trucks loaded with rocks were lined up in a long queue, waiting to enter the work area. "Do what I can to help out," one driver said.
The water level of the Gyirong Tsangpo (吉隆藏布) had risen somewhat more, and gravel occasionally rolled down from the mountain.
While waiting, I encountered a team of 28 people — the on-site rescue team from the Gyirong County Public Security Bureau (吉隆县公安局) and the Gyirong Port Branch Bureau (吉隆口岸分局). "Starting from the first day after the disaster, we advanced step by step as the road repairs progressed, carrying out search and rescue," said Dai Shenglin (戴胜林), political instructor of the Intelligence and Command Center of the Gyirong County Public Security Bureau. "In the first three days, we barely closed our eyes."
"We are always here. No matter how hard it gets, we will not give up!" said Cidan Duoji (次旦多吉), deputy secretary of the Gyirong County Party Committee.
A long line like a dragon, hearts turned toward the front line. Everyone, in their own way, was striving toward the same direction.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 亓玉昆 沈童睿
At approximately 10:30 a.m. 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 (吉隆县), Shigatse City, Tibet.
The river valley roared, and boulders lay strewn about. The main road leading to the core disaster area was buried by the mudslide, with multiple secondary risks—falling rocks, landslides, and barrier-lake overflow—stacked upon one another.
The disaster is the command. The national comprehensive fire and rescue teams (国家综合性消防救援队伍) quickly assembled and threw themselves into the search-and-rescue work for the missing, giving up on no clue and leaving no area unchecked.
"The highway is completely cut off. We have no established search-and-rescue route, so we can only advance on multiple routes at once," said Wang Haitao (汪海涛), chief commander of the on-site fire rescue command headquarters. The headquarters broke through the institutional barriers between units, scientifically divided the forces into three specialized search-and-rescue teams—land, water, and air—and innovatively adopted a three-dimensional search-and-rescue tactic of "land forces penetrating on foot, water forces advancing by boat, and air forces conducting reconnaissance and delivery with equipment," expanding the search-and-rescue coverage to the greatest extent.
—Land: the "firefighting orange" trekked through dense forests and mountain ridges.
Rescuers, carrying life detectors, satellite communication equipment, and other search-and-rescue gear, trekked on foot through mountain forests with slopes approaching 60 degrees.
With slippery mud underfoot and falling rocks overhead from time to time, many stretches had no formed path. The team members climbed with hands and feet together, grasping at rock faces and shrubs as they advanced with difficulty. On some dangerous cliff sections, they could only rely on ropes, rappelling down to approach the target area.
"The thought that there are still missing persons awaiting search makes no one dare to stop," said rescuer Xu Hui (许辉). After he and his teammates arrived at the core disaster area, they immediately launched a dragnet-style search without taking time to rest.
—Water: rubber boats cut through the waves in the torrent.
The river was swift, the channel densely strewn with boulders, with mud, sand, and undercurrents interwoven. The boats faced the risk of striking rocks and confronting the torrent at any moment.
"Conditions in the water are 瞬息万变 (shùn xī wàn biàn - "a blink and a breath, ten thousand changes," changing in an instant). We must dare to charge, but even more, we must charge with caution, carefully assessing risks on every stretch of the channel," said Bianba Ciren (边巴次仁), the leading cadre of the water search-and-rescue team. Due to riverbed siltation, the boats could not travel the entire distance directly, and team members often had to abandon the boats and go ashore to conduct carpet-style searches of the riverbank shoals and backwater bays.
The high altitude drained physical strength, and localized rainfall continuously intensified geological risks. Every step forward in the search-and-rescue operation required enormous effort.
—Air: drones conducted reconnaissance and delivery among the mountains.
Due to the blocking of the mountains, ground personnel had many blind spots in sight lines and communications. Air power became the key to eliminating information blind zones.
On site, multiple drones took off in rotation for uninterrupted reconnaissance; thermal imaging payloads captured weak heat-source signals in the buried areas; mapping modules rapidly generated three-dimensional real-scene models of the disaster area, visually presenting to the command headquarters the terrain and burial traces invisible to the naked eye...
"We transmit aerial images and three-dimensional models back simultaneously, so the command headquarters can directly see the full picture of the entire river valley and avoid blindly committing manpower," said commander Wang Yongming (王永明). The weather in the plateau canyon is changeable, and drone operators had to overcome difficulties such as strong winds and signal attenuation, repeatedly adjusting flight altitude and routes.
"Risk prediction—task grouping—on-site operation—review and assessment": the fire and rescue teams established a closed-loop technical and tactical process.
Charging to the front in hardship and danger; true character is revealed in times of crisis.
A temporary Party organization was established at the rescue site, with backbone Party members assigned by area into each search-and-rescue team, fully giving play to the vanguard and exemplary role of Party members.
"Though dangerous situations continue without end, as long as there is a thread of hope, we will absolutely not stop the pace of the search," said Zou Mingqi (邹明奇), a member of the Party member commando team (党员突击队), his whole body wrapped in mud, his tone resolute.
Night fell, the wind in the valley still howled, and the lights of the rescue did not go out. The fire and rescue teams used their actions to fulfill their ringing vows.
(Yang Pan (杨盼) contributed to this report.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 宋豪新 琼达卓嘎
Advance toward Gyirong Port (吉隆口岸)!
Pushing through shrub forests, crossing mountain ridges, crawling close to the ground... At around 16:30 on August 28, after more than eight hours of arduous advance, Guo Xiqing (郭习青) and more than 20 team members arrived at the border gate area of Gyirong Port. He is a firefighter with the Sichuan Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps (四川省消防救援总队) of the national comprehensive fire and rescue team (国家综合性消防救援队伍), and one of the first professional rescuers to reach the core disaster area.
"I have been engaged in fire rescue work for nearly 20 years and have never encountered such a complex and volatile disaster situation." On the 31st, Guo Xiqing recalled the past few days of rescue experience to reporters.
This was a "road" without a road. On one side were cliffs that could slide at any moment; on the other side was a steep ravine. At an average altitude of 3,000 meters, the air was thin, and the team members had to gasp for breath after every stretch of walking. As their feet stepped on the muddy, slippery steep slopes, gravel kept rolling down. Along the way there were often vertical cliffs as high as two to three hundred meters, and much of the time, advancing required rappelling with ropes. "If there is no road, we tread out a road," Guo Xiqing said.
Not far from the rescuers of the Sichuan Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps were the members of the land search and rescue team of the Lhasa Fire Rescue Mobile Detachment (拉萨消防救援机动支队). Led by Deputy Detachment Commander Yao Xueqin (姚学勤), they carried Beidou navigation terminals, drones, life detectors and other equipment, brought search and rescue dogs, and were also advancing with difficulty.
Advancing was not easy, and the scene after entering the border gate area made everyone's hearts sink even more. The original buildings within the impact range of the mudslide had basically been 夷为平地 (yí wéi píng dì - "level into flat ground," to raze to the ground), with no outline of any building visible. The ground was covered by thick mud and gravel, with great depth and wide extent of deposition. The Gyirong Port building was left with only its steel reinforcement skeleton, severely twisted and deformed.
The rescuers picked up their equipment and quickly launched search and rescue operations. The river channel and floodplain were strewn with huge boulders, and the mud was up to waist or abdomen deep at its deepest points. Every step would sink deep into the mud, and they had to rely on rope pulling to move forward in coordination. "During search and rescue, more than two people must act together, pulling and dragging each other, to ensure safety," Guo Xiqing said.
"Everyone evacuate! Move to higher ground!" Not long after arriving at the border gate port, the team received the order for emergency evacuation. "There was no time to think too much; I hurriedly gathered all team members and ran toward the mountain slope." Recalling the scene, Guo Xiqing still felt 心有余悸 (xīn yǒu yú jì - "the heart still harbors residual fear," to remain shaken by a past event).
Because the upstream barrier lake posed a risk of dam breach, the team members could not spend the night in the low-lying areas of the river valley; they could only go down into the valley for search and rescue during the day and return to the mountainside to camp at night. With continuous rainfall and no flat open space on the mountain to pitch tents, everyone rested in the open. At night the temperature dropped sharply, and because they feared hypothermia, no one dared to close their eyes for long. And so, Yao Xueqin and the team members endured sleepless nights in the low temperature and heavy rain.
They searched the border gate area of Gyirong Port twice in succession, but the rescuers showed not the slightest slackening. "What came before was all surface-level search; afterward, deeper-level search will still be carried out," Yao Xueqin said.
At 11:00 on August 30, because monitoring predicted that the barrier lake had a risk of dam breach, and to ensure safety, the rescuers who had first entered the core disaster area withdrew from the border gate area of Gyirong Port. After a brief rest and regrouping, they will throw themselves into search and rescue work again.
(Zheng Long (郑龙) and Xia Mingyong (夏明勇) contributed to the reporting.)
Return to TopOn August 31, the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) dispatched professional rescue forces from China Anneng (中国安能) to continue rush-repair operations on the damaged section of National Highway 216 in Gyirong County (吉隆县). As of 16:00 on the 31st, the rush-repair working face had advanced to a point 1.1 kilometers from the port. That day, China Anneng deployed 158 rescue personnel and 28 units (sets) of equipment including excavators and loaders.
After the mudslide disaster occurred, the Ministry of Emergency Management, together with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), dispatched 3 Wing Loong drones to the disaster area to continuously carry out tasks such as communications support and disaster situation reconnaissance. As of 12:00 on the 31st, the Wing Loong drones had flown a cumulative total of more than 130 hours, ensuring more than 3,900 communications calls.
On the morning of August 31, the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) held a consultation meeting to conduct rolling assessment of the full-chain risks of the Gyirong mudslide disaster in Tibet and to arrange and deploy water-resource-related support work for rescue and relief. According to image analysis on the 31st, the outer boundary area of the water body in the impact crater on Nepal's Cuojian River (错坚河) was approximately 83,000 square meters (a decrease of 25,000 square meters compared with 11:00 on the 30th, and a decrease of 14,000 square meters compared with 19:00 on the 30th). Within 2.5 kilometers downstream of it, there are 3 small water accumulation areas, all connected to water flow channels and in a flowing state. Glaciers around the impact crater on Nepal's Cuojian River may still collapse, posing major risks and hidden dangers.
As of the 31st, the meteorological departments of the Tibet Autonomous Region had cumulatively produced and released more than 20 issues of meteorological service special reports, 13 issues of rescue flight meteorological condition impact forecasts, 8 issues of Tingri Airport (定日机场) meteorological service special reports, 11 issues of comprehensive satellite remote sensing monitoring analysis reports, and more than 20 issues of on-site satellite remote sensing imagery products. The meteorological technology team continues to provide satellite monitoring products, providing reference for the assessment and judgment of port damage conditions, landslide paths, barrier lakes, and other matters, and providing spatial information support for rescue and relief operations.
(Our reporters Liu Wenxin (刘温馨), Deng Jianyang (邓剑洋), Jiang Xuehong (蒋雪鸿))
Return to TopOn the evening of August 31, rescue workers rushed to repair the road on National Highway 216 leading to Gyirong Port (吉隆口岸).
Photo by Zhang Wujun, staff reporter of this newspaper.
The People's Republic of China and the Kyrgyz Republic (hereinafter referred to as the "Contracting Parties"),
Based on the historical tradition of good-neighborliness and friendship between the two peoples and the vigorous momentum of the development of bilateral relations since the establishment of diplomatic relations,
Considering that the "Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Cooperation between the People's Republic of China and the Kyrgyz Republic" signed on June 24, 2002, plays an important role in China-Kyrgyzstan relations,
Firmly believing that further strengthening good-neighborliness, friendship, and mutually beneficial cooperation conforms to the fundamental interests of both countries and both peoples, and contributes to the maintenance of peace and stability in the region and even the world,
Reaffirming the adherence to the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter,
Committing to elevating the level of cooperation between the two countries in various fields,
Continuously deepening the China-Kyrgyzstan new era comprehensive strategic partnership, and reaffirming the wish to work together to build a China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future characterized by good-neighborliness, friendship, and shared prosperity,
Have hereby reached the following agreement:
Article 1
The Contracting Parties, in accordance with recognized principles and norms of international law, including the five principles of mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, mutual non-interference in internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit, and peaceful coexistence, shall comprehensively develop a long-term and stable strategic partnership on the basis of permanent good-neighborliness and friendly cooperation.
Article 2
The Contracting Parties shall comprehensively strengthen mutual trust and strategic coordination, support the development paths and development models chosen by the other party according to its own national conditions, support the other party's positions on issues of core interests, and support the economic development strategies implemented by the other party.
The Kyrgyz Republic reaffirms its support for the One-China principle, recognizes that there is only one China in the world, that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, and that the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China. The Kyrgyz Republic opposes any form of "Taiwan independence," reaffirms that it does not conduct any form of official exchanges with Taiwan, supports all efforts made by China to achieve national reunification, and considers the authority of United Nations General Assembly Resolution No. 2758 to be unquestionable and beyond challenge.
The People's Republic of China supports the efforts made by the Kyrgyz Republic to defend national independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, promote national economic and social development, advance national reform, and maintain domestic stability.
Article 3
The Contracting Parties shall strictly abide by the provisions of the relevant boundary agreements signed between the two countries, take each other's concerns into account, and commit to building the boundaries between the two countries into boundaries of permanent peace and good-neighborliness.
Article 4
The Contracting Parties shall not participate in any alliance or group that harms the sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity of the other party, shall not take any such actions, including concluding such treaties with a third country, and shall not support any actions that are unfriendly to the other Contracting Party.
Neither Contracting Party shall allow a third country to use its territory to engage in any activities that harm the interests of the other Contracting Party, including harming the national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity of the other Contracting Party.
Neither Contracting Party shall allow the establishment of organizations and gangs on its territory that harm the sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity of the other Contracting Party, and shall prohibit their activities.
Article 5
The Contracting Parties shall utilize meeting mechanisms at all levels, including high-level exchanges, to fully play the role of the China-Kyrgyzstan Foreign Ministers' Strategic Dialogue mechanism, promote the implementation of the consensus reached by the two heads of state, exchange views in a timely manner on bilateral relations as well as international and regional issues of common concern, and coordinate positions.
The Contracting Parties shall promote the deepening of exchanges and cooperation between the legislative bodies of the two countries, and consolidate the social and public opinion foundation of friendship between the peoples of China and Kyrgyzstan.
Article 6
The Contracting Parties are willing to follow the principles of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits to continue strengthening high-quality cooperation in jointly building the "Belt and Road" Initiative.
Within the framework of existing mechanisms such as the China-Kyrgyzstan Intergovernmental Economic and Trade Cooperation Committee and the Science and Technology Cooperation Committee, the Contracting Parties shall continue to deepen cooperation in economic and trade, investment, energy, connectivity, minerals, agriculture, processing industries, ecology, science and technology, digital economy, green development, transportation, logistics, and other related fields.
The Contracting Parties shall strive to implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state and, in accordance with the national laws of the Contracting Parties, take necessary measures to jointly guarantee the smooth implementation of cooperation projects.
The Contracting Parties shall support each other's development and provide mutual assistance when necessary.
Article 7
The Contracting Parties consider that close people-to-people exchanges are of great significance for enhancing mutual understanding and friendship between the two peoples. The Contracting Parties shall strengthen exchanges in experience in state governance and promote cooperation in culture, education, health and medical care, tourism, sports, media, research institutions, and other fields of common interest.
The Contracting Parties shall continue to strengthen cooperation in the field of emergency response and are willing to provide mutual assistance in major disaster management.
The Contracting Parties support the deepening of local cooperation and encourage the establishment of cooperation and friendly province-to-province, city-to-city, and prefecture-to-prefecture relationships between the two countries.
Article 8
The Contracting Parties, in accordance with their respective national laws and international obligations assumed by them, shall cooperate closely within bilateral and multilateral mechanisms to jointly combat all forms of terrorism, separatism, and extremism, including "East Turkestan" terrorist forces, as well as organized crime, illegal immigration, illegal trafficking of drugs and weapons, and various other transnational criminal activities.
Article 9
The Contracting Parties shall continue to deepen mutual trust in the fields of defense and security, carry out military and military-technical cooperation that does not target any third party, strengthen military exchanges at all levels, expand mutually beneficial cooperation in the training of military personnel, and maintain the common interests of the Contracting Parties and regional security.
Article 10
The Contracting Parties shall strengthen communication and coordination within the frameworks of regional and multilateral organizations and mechanisms in which both parties participate, such as the United Nations and its specialized agencies, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the China-Central Asia mechanism, and shall jointly commit to advancing global and regional peace, security, and sustainable development, and promoting the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system.
The Contracting Parties shall jointly and actively practice the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, as well as the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, and consider that the aforementioned concepts and initiatives are of great significance for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and maintaining world peace and security.
The Contracting Parties jointly oppose unilateralism and protectionism, and support and maintain a multilateral trading system with the World Trade Organization at its core and based on rules. The Contracting Parties support placing development at the core position of the World Trade Organization, jointly promoting the reform of the World Trade Organization, and promoting the World Trade Organization to play a greater role in global economic governance.
Article 11
This Treaty is not directed against any third country and does not affect the rights and obligations of the Contracting Parties as parties to other international treaties.
Article 12
Should any dispute or disagreement arise in the process of interpreting and implementing this Treaty, the Contracting Parties shall resolve it through friendly negotiations and consultations.
Article 13
Upon consensus through consultation, the Contracting Parties may supplement or amend this Treaty in the form of a separate protocol; such protocol shall constitute an integral part of this Treaty and shall enter into force in accordance with the procedures provided for in Article 14 of this Treaty.
Article 14
The Contracting Parties shall notify the other party in writing through diplomatic channels that the domestic legal procedures for the entry into force of this Treaty have been completed. This Treaty shall enter into force on the date of receipt of the latter notification.
This Treaty shall remain in force for a long period.
Either Contracting Party may notify the other party in writing through diplomatic channels to terminate this Treaty. This Treaty shall expire 12 months after the date of issuance of the aforementioned notification.
The "Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Cooperation between the People's Republic of China and the Kyrgyz Republic" signed in Beijing on June 24, 2002, shall expire on the date this Treaty enters into force.
Done in Bishkek on August 31, 2026, in duplicate, each text being equally authentic in the Chinese, Kyrgyz, and Russian languages.
For the People's Republic of China For the Kyrgyz Republic
Representative Representative
(Xinhua News Agency, Bishkek, August 31)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 31 (Reporter Bai Ying (白瀛)) The public welfare program 2026 "First Lesson of the School Year" (开学第一课), jointly hosted by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee (中央宣传部), the Ministry of Education (教育部), and China Media Group (中央广播电视总台), will be broadcast on the evening of September 1 on CCTV Comprehensive Channel.
This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. With the theme "Our Long March Road" (我们的长征路), the program comprehensively uses forms such as recitation of classic poems and choral singing to tell the story of the arduous and extraordinary 艰苦卓绝 (jiān kǔ zhuó jué - "arduous and extraordinary," extremely hard and tenacious) Long March carried out by the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army led by the Communist Party of China, elucidate the great Long March spirit, educate and guide the broad masses of young people to establish a correct view of history, deeply understand that the red political power has not come easily, that New China has not come easily, and that socialism with Chinese characteristics has not come easily, and encourage young people to continue to advance along the footprints of revolutionary predecessors and walk the Long March road of the new era well.
Return to TopBeijing, August 31 — People's Daily reporter Jin Xin (金歆) learned from the Cyberspace Administration of China (国家网信办) on the 31st that the Cyberspace Administration of China and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) recently released the China Digital Village Development Report (2019–2025).
The report points out that 2025 is the year in which the second-stage goals proposed in the Digital Village Development Strategy Outline (数字乡村发展战略纲要) are achieved. Over the past seven years, digital village policy mechanisms have been continuously improved, the foundation for digital village development has become more solid, smart agriculture construction has made important progress, new forms of the rural digital economy have accelerated their development, rural digital culture has continued to flourish and develop, and the level of rural digital governance has been continuously raised, pushing digital village construction to make important progress.
The report points out that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary to strive to promote the integrated development of rural industry digitalization, rural construction informatization, and rural governance intellectualization, strive to stimulate the endogenous driving force of digital village development, and push digital village development to a new level.
Return to TopContributing "SCO Strength" to Maintaining World Peace and Stability
We took the lead in establishing a confidence-building mechanism in the military field in border areas, turning the border stretching thousands of miles into a bond of friendship, mutual trust, and cooperation. We were the first to take multilateral actions to combat the "three forces" of terrorism, extremism, and separatism (三股势力), steadily advanced law-enforcement and security cooperation, properly managed and handled contradictions and differences, and took a 旗帜鲜明 (qí zhì xiān míng - "bright banners and clear flags," clear-cut and unequivocal) stance against external interference, safeguarding regional peace and tranquility.
— September 1, 2025, speech at the 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The member states, focusing on common security, concluded the Treaty on Long-Term Good-Neighborliness, Friendship, and Cooperation, carried out security cooperation efficiently, and maintained the overall stability of the region. We must continue to uphold the principle of non-alignment, non-confrontation, and not targeting any third party, jointly respond to various threats and challenges, give full play to the role of the newly established Comprehensive Center for Responding to Security Threats and Challenges and the Anti-Drug Center, build a regional security community, and firmly serve as a stabilizing force in a turbulent world.
— September 1, 2025, speech at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus" Meeting
Security is the prerequisite for national development, and safety is the lifeline of people's happiness. No matter how the international situation changes, this Organization must hold the bottom line of common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security. Only when all countries are secure can there be genuine security.
— July 4, 2024, speech at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus" Astana Summit
Unity or division? Peace or conflict? Cooperation or confrontation? These have once again become the questions of our times. My answer is that the aspiration of the people of all countries for a better life is our pursuit, and the trend of the times toward peace, development, cooperation, and win-win outcomes is unstoppable.
— July 4, 2023, speech at the 23rd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
There is a proverb in Uzbekistan: "With peace, a country can prosper; with rain and dew, the land can flourish." To make up for the peace deficit and resolve the global security dilemma, China has put forward the Global Security Initiative, advocating that all countries uphold the vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security and work to build a balanced, effective, and sustainable security architecture.
— September 16, 2022, speech at the 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is the crystallization of the collective wisdom and painstaking efforts of its member states and a positive contribution to the cause of world peace and development. China is willing to work hand in hand with all parties to enable this Organization to take firm root in the soil of solidarity and mutual trust, continue to grow stronger, and become even more 枝繁叶茂 (zhī fán yè mào - "branches dense and leaves lush," thriving and flourishing)!
— June 24, 2016, speech at the 16th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Demonstrating "SCO Responsibility" in Promoting Global Open Cooperation
We took the lead in launching Belt and Road cooperation, and a large number of landmark projects and "small yet beautiful" livelihood projects have 落地生根 (luò dì shēng gēn - "fall to the ground and take root," to become established and gain a firm foothold). Industrial and investment cooperation has been actively advanced, and the momentum for regional development and prosperity has been further strengthened. The goal I proposed of cumulative trade volume between China and other Shanghai Cooperation Organization countries exceeding US$2.3 trillion was achieved ahead of schedule. The multidimensional connectivity network has been further improved, with nearly 14,000 kilometers of international road transport routes opened among member states and over 110,000 China-Europe Railway Express trips operated in total.
— September 1, 2025, speech at the 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The member states are rich in energy resources, have huge market scale and strong internal driving forces, and their contribution rate to world economic growth continues to rise. We must continue to uphold the principle of tearing down walls rather than building walls, integration rather than decoupling, advance high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, and promote economic globalization toward a more universally beneficial and inclusive direction.
— September 1, 2025, speech at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus" Meeting
The reason why the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has been able to withstand the test of the 风云变幻 (fēng yún biàn huàn - "winds and clouds shift and change," volatile and changing circumstances) of the international situation lies in the fact that we have always adhered to the fine tradition of solidarity and coordination, the way of cooperation based on equality and mutual benefit, the value pursuit of fairness and justice, and the broad-mindedness of inclusiveness and mutual learning.
— July 4, 2024, attending the 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Promoting economic growth is the common task of regional countries. China is willing to work with all parties to implement the Global Development Initiative, uphold the correct direction of economic globalization, oppose protectionism, unilateral sanctions, and the overstretching of the concept of national security, oppose "building walls and barriers" and "decoupling and severing supply chains," and strive to make the "cake" of mutually beneficial cooperation bigger so that the fruits of development benefit the people of all countries more and more fairly.
— July 4, 2023, speech at the 23rd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Expand practical cooperation and broaden the path of this Organization's development. To promote the overall economic development of the region, China has vigorously promoted the alignment of Belt and Road construction with the development strategies of various countries, and hopes that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will play an active role in this regard and create more cooperation opportunities.
— June 24, 2016, speech at the 16th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
"For one who governs a state, enriching the people is the foundation." At a time when uncertainty in the world economic outlook is increasing and trade protectionism is rising in some countries, this Organization should, on the basis of mutual benefit and win-win outcomes, deeply tap the potential of regional cooperation, jointly create cooperation opportunities, and enhance the internal driving force of member states' economic development and their ability to resist risks.
— September 12, 2014, speech at the 14th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Setting an "SCO Example" in Promoting the Common Values of All Humanity
The Eurasian continent has nurtured ancient civilizations, led the exchange between East and West, and driven human progress. The people of all countries have since ancient times 互通有无 (hù tōng yǒu wú - "exchange what one has for what one lacks," mutual exchange of goods) and 取长补短 (qǔ cháng bǔ duǎn - "take the strengths of others to make up for one's weaknesses," learn from each other's strengths). The member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization should come to know and cherish each other through people-to-people and cultural exchanges, support each other wholeheartedly in economic cooperation, and work together to build a garden of civilizations featuring helping others while establishing oneself (立己达人), the beauty of all being shared (美美与共), and harmonious coexistence (和合共生).
— September 1, 2025, speech at the 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The member states have seen a splendid array of highlights in people-to-people and cultural exchanges, close and vibrant non-governmental interactions, and diverse civilizations blooming in competition. We must continue to promote exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations and write a brilliant chapter of peaceful, amicable, and harmonious coexistence among countries with different histories, cultures, social systems, and development stages.
— September 1, 2025, speech at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus" Meeting
We carry forward the spirit of good-neighborliness and friendship, uphold equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness among civilizations, advocate the peaceful coexistence and harmonious symbiosis of different civilizations, expand people-to-people and cultural cooperation, and consolidate the public foundation for the development of relations among countries.
— July 4, 2023, speech at the 23rd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The most solid foundation for the development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization lies in mutual learning among civilizations, and the most profound strength lies in the connectivity of people's hearts. We should advocate exchanges, dialogue, and harmonious coexistence among different civilizations.
— September 17, 2021, speech at the 21st Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
We should build the Shanghai Cooperation Organization into a model of inclusiveness and mutual learning. The SCO region has nurtured many ancient civilizations, where different ethnic groups, cultures, and religions converge and 相得益彰 (xiāng dé yì zhāng - "each benefits from the other and both shine," complement each other to better effect). We should cherish the diversity of civilizations in the region as a valuable asset, reject the clash of civilizations, uphold openness, inclusiveness, mutual learning, and mutual appreciation, and inject lasting impetus into the enduring friendship and common development and progress of the people of all countries.
— June 14, 2019, speech at the 19th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
We should foster a view of civilizations characterized by equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness, transcend civilizational estrangement through civilizational exchange, transcend civilizational conflict through civilizational mutual learning, and transcend civilizational superiority through civilizational coexistence.
— June 10, 2018, speech at the 18th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
The ancient Silk Road witnessed the profound traditional friendship forged among the people of various countries. We should continue to carry forward the Silk Road spirit, consolidate the public foundation for friendly exchanges among the countries in the region, and enable the people of all countries to trust and respect each other and jointly build a harmonious, tranquil, and prosperous homeland.
— July 10, 2015, speech at the 15th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Taking "SCO Action" to Defend International Fairness and Justice
We took the lead in proposing the global governance concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefit, and practiced true multilateralism. We have deepened cooperation with the United Nations and other international organizations, participated constructively in international and regional affairs, always stood on the side of international fairness and justice, advocated inclusiveness and mutual learning among civilizations, opposed hegemonism and power politics, and played a positive role in promoting world peace and development.
— September 1, 2025, speech at the 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
History tells us that the more difficult the times, the more we must uphold the original aspiration of peaceful coexistence, strengthen our confidence in win-win cooperation, and persist in advancing in the logic of historical progress and developing in the trend of the times.
To this end, I would like to put forward a Global Governance Initiative, working with all countries to promote the building of a more just and equitable global governance system and jointly march toward a community with a shared future for mankind.
— September 1, 2025, speech at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus" Meeting
We should jointly advocate an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, practice true multilateralism, promote the development of global governance in a more just and equitable direction, and contribute "SCO strength" to eliminating the peace deficit, development deficit, security deficit, and governance deficit.
— July 4, 2024, speech at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus" Astana Summit
Fairness and justice are the common pursuit of regional countries. We should promote the common values of all humanity, firmly uphold the international system centered on the United Nations and the international order based on international law, oppose hegemonism and power politics, promote the development of global governance in a more just and equitable direction, and advance the modernization of human society through joint efforts to continuously promote fairness in rights, opportunities, and rules.
— July 4, 2023, speech at the 23rd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
"For a moment, victory and defeat depend on strength; for a thousand years, victory and defeat depend on reason." In handling international affairs, one must not proceed from the so-called "position of strength" to practice hegemonism, high-handedness, and bullying. Instead, one should follow the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and uphold extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefit. We should practice true multilateralism and oppose acts that undermine the international order and create confrontation and division under the banner of so-called "rules."
— September 17, 2021, speech at the 21st Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
In the face of increasing global challenges, we should demonstrate due international responsibility, uphold the global governance concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefit, maintain close coordination and cooperation, safeguard the international system centered on the United Nations, promote multilateralism and free trade, and push the international order toward a more just and equitable direction.
— June 14, 2019, speech at the 19th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
Return to TopAn Authoritative Textbook for Deeply Studying and Implementinging Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building
Huang Yibing, Vice President of the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee
In June of this year, under the unified deployment of the CPC Central Committee, the first and second volumes of Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building (hereinafter referred to as the Selected Works) were officially published. This is a major event in the political life of the Party and the state, and is also a significant measure for deeply advancing the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. This thematic selection of works is a masterpiece of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxist theories on Party building, providing an authoritative textbook for the in-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building.
The Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee feels extremely honored to undertake the editorial and publishing tasks for this work. In the editorial process, we firmly grasped the fundamental principles of editing the works of the leader, and combined them with the theoretical characteristics of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building to 守正创新 (shǒu zhèng chuàng xīn - "uphold integrity and innovate," to maintain principles while seeking innovation) in terms of the overall layout and editorial approach of the entire book, striving to create a scientific theoretical work that integrates seriousness and authority, comprehensiveness and systematicity, and originality and ideality.
First, we focused on grasping the high degree of unity between historical logic and theoretical logic, presenting a panoramic view of the historical development trajectory of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. Opening this weighty Selected Works, we can touch the historical pulse of the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in the new era through the lines of text, and deeply perceive the magnificent process of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building from its creation to its continuous enrichment amidst the turbulent fusion of theory and practice. The opening chapters of this work begin with the 18th National Congress of the CPC, kicking off with General Secretary Xi Jinping's solemn commitment that "to forge iron, one must be strong oneself." Subsequently, "comprehensive and strict governance of the Party" was incorporated into the "Four-Comprehensives" strategic layout, and at the 19th National Congress, it was declared that "to forge iron, one must be strong oneself," promoting a profound transformation in Party governance and management from being "loose, soft, and weak" to being "strict, tight, and hard." The 46 works included in the first volume of the Selected Works systematically outline the clear trajectory formed during this period as Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building responded to the challenges of the times and solved practical problems. The 56 works included in the second volume, especially the important discourses since the 20th National Congress, vividly reflect the continued enrichment and sublimation of this thought. From proposing the major proposition of the unique problems faced by a large Party, to deploying major measures to improve the system of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, to emphasizing the persistence of governing the Party with a spirit of reform and strict standards, and advancing comprehensive and strict governance of the Party with higher standards and more practical measures, it marks that our Party's understanding of the laws of Marxist ruling party construction has reached an unprecedented new height. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building profoundly summarizes the long-term historical experience of our Party's governance and the fresh experience of governing and managing the Party in the new era; it is the theoretical crystallization for accurately grasping the general trend of history and winning the historical initiative in governing and managing the Party.
Second, we focused on grasping the high degree of unity between epistemology and methodology, systematically reflecting the scientific theoretical system of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. The Selected Works comprehensively and systematically presents the scientific connotation of the "Fourteen Persistences." The collected manuscripts contain both profound theoretical expositions and clear practical requirements, profoundly answering the dialectical unity of "how to view it" and "how to do it," and painting a "theoretical panoramic map" that is systematic, complete, and integrates knowledge with action. At the epistemological level, the Selected Works not only demonstrates that Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building takes the "Two Combinations" as its fundamental path and adheres to the epistemological essence of seeking truth from facts, but also systematically presents the series of original viewpoints and principled achievements formed by deeply integrating Marxist theories of Party building with China's specific realities and fine traditional Chinese culture. At the methodological level, the Selected Works centrally reflects that Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building both deploys the tasks of "crossing the river" for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and guides the methodological issues of the "bridge or boat" for how to govern and manage the Party, containing the leadership methods, ideological methods, and work methods for transforming scientific theory into practical guides. This organic unity of epistemology and methodology, which is clear in expression and integrated in application, both reveals the internal laws of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and provides a systematic and complete program of action, establishing the fundamental following for the new era of advancing the new great undertaking of Party building.
Third, we focused on grasping the high degree of unity between the power of truth and the power of personality, fully manifesting the distinct theoretical character of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. Editing the Selected Works is not only a theoretical tempering to perceive the great power of Marxist thought, but also a spiritual baptism to deeply experience General Secretary Xi Jinping's political wisdom, ideological brilliance, and personal charisma as a leader of a large Party and a large country. In the editorial work, we focused on grasping the unique and distinct theoretical character of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, fully demonstrating its firm ideals and beliefs, high historical initiative, clear problem orientation, strong sense of mission, profound people-centered sentiment, and scientific ideological methods, striving to comprehensively present the theoretical depth and spiritual height of this thought. At the same time, writing style reflects conduct and carries thought. We insisted on the fusion of "text" and "the Way," and in the refinement of titles and the selection of content, we remained faithful to the General Secretary's simple and powerful writing style, making good use of heart-striking famous quotes and golden sentences, and excavating down-to-earth, vivid discourses and touching details, putting all our efforts into constructing a work of a new-era leader that is rich in political leadership, ideological inspiration, and spiritual influence.
Studying and Using the Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building Well to Open a New Situation for the High-Quality Development of Organ Party Building
Guo Wenqi, Deputy Secretary in charge of daily work of the Work Committee of the Central and State Organs
Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building is a major achievement of our Party in advancing theoretical innovation by adhering to the "Two Combinations," and it holds great practical significance and long-term guiding significance for strengthening the Party and the country. In his important "July 1" speech, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward clear requirements for the comprehensive implementation of Party building thought in the new era. The Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building provides an authoritative textbook to help a wide range of Party members, cadres, and the masses deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. The establishment of the "Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building Research Center" by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee will play a powerful promoting role in deepening the study, publicity, implementation, research, and interpretation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building.
The central and state organs are the first echelon in practicing the "Two Upholds" and the "first kilometer" in implementing the decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee. Comrade Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Work Committee of the Central and State Organs, emphasized and made deployments regarding the study and implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building in the central and state organs at the commendation conference for "Two Excellences and One Precedence" of the central and state organs. Recently, through holding symposiums on studying and implementing Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building in the central and state organs and organizing "attending the same class," the Work Committee of the Central and State Organs has promoted Party members and cadres in the central and state organs to take the lead in studying and using the Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building well, embodying and implementing the "Fourteen Persistences" in all aspects and throughout the entire process of organ Party building, and promoting high-quality development through high-quality Party building.
First, adhere to the highest principles. Closely revolve around adhering to and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party, especially the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, to plan and advance various aspects of Party building in organs. Deepen the construction of model organs that "speak politics, abide by discipline, take responsibility, and be efficient," continuously strengthen political organ consciousness education, deepen the application of the "study, inspect, and reform" work mechanism, promote the improvement of the implementation mechanism for major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee and the important instructions and comments of General Secretary Xi Jinping, and guide Party members and cadres to firmly support the "Two Establishes" and resolutely achieve the "Two Upholds" with actual actions, serving as "three models" and walking well in the first echelon.
Second, grasp mission and tasks. Firmly grasp the functional positioning of revolving around the center, building teams, and serving the masses, considering organ Party building within the temporal coordinate system of Chinese-style modernization, focusing on economic construction as the central work and high-quality development as the primary task to advance it, promoting the deep integration of Party building and business, and effectively transforming the Party's political advantages and organizational advantages into development advantages and governance effectiveness.
Third, focus on systematic advancement. Firmly establish a global perspective and systematic thinking, and consciously use the scientific methods contained in Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, putting effort into forward-looking thinking, global planning, and holistic advancement. Implement the requirements proposed by the General Secretary to take the lead in achieving the "Two Upholds," take the lead in deepening theoretical armament, take the lead in consolidating the grassroots foundation, and take the lead in rectifying conduct, discipline, and corruption, and carry out various aspects of organ Party building with higher standards, stricter requirements, and more practical measures. Strengthen the Party Building Research Institute of the Work Committee, play the role of the specialized committee of the National Association of Party Building Research, and use high-quality research results to help comprehensively improve the quality and efficiency of organ Party building.
Fourth, press solid the responsibility chain. Firmly grasp the "ox nose" (niú bí zi - "the nose of the ox," the most important link) of the responsibility system, continuously carry out the study and implementation of opinions on the primary responsibility of organ Party building by departmental Party leadership groups (Party committees), improve mechanisms for regular communication, work consultation, and research visits, promote the refinement and solidification of responsibility lists, coordinate the training of "one post, two responsibilities" for newly appointed members of departmental Party leadership groups (Party committees) and training for Party committee secretaries and deputy secretaries in charge of daily work, implement special inspections, debriefings, and assessments, improve a responsibility system with clear responsibilities, adequate performance, powerful supervision, and precise accountability, and construct a work pattern of joint grasping and joint management.
Comprehensively Implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building to Advance the Construction of a Strong Financial Nation through High-Quality Party Building
Wang Jiang, Deputy Director in charge of daily work of the Central Financial Office and Deputy Secretary in charge of daily work of the Central Financial Work Committee
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that whether the Party building is done well concerns the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the financial system and determines the success or failure of financial undertakings. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building is the Party building chapter of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, providing the fundamental following and action guide for solidly and vigorously advancing the Party building work of the financial system. We must deeply study and implement this thought, continuously promoting the deep integration of Party building work with financial risk prevention, strong regulation, and the promotion of high-quality development, to advance the construction of a strong financial nation through high-quality Party building.
First, raise political standing and continuously enhance political consciousness, ideological consciousness, and action consciousness in studying and implementing Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building centrally embodies our Party's political will, political stance, political propositions, and political wisdom in governing and managing the Party and prospering and strengthening the Party, and points out the correct political direction for Party building in the new era. We deeply realize that we must firmly grasp the political nature and people-centered nature of financial work, unswervingly adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee over financial work, resolutely stand on the people's standpoint, safeguard the people's interests, and ensure that financial undertakings always move forward in the correct direction. The Central Financial Office and the Central Financial Work Committee insist on treating the study and implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building as an important political task for the current and future period, deeply studying the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important "July 1" speech, studying and comprehending the Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building deeply and minutely, researching and formulating work plans, and earnestly carrying out implementation. The meeting on Party building work in the financial system made specific deployments for studying and implementing Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building; we will further promote the financial system to profoundly comprehend the decisive significance of the "Two Establishes" through deep study and thorough understanding, enhance the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthen the "Four Confidences," and achieve the "Two Upholds."
Second, do a good job in study and publicity, and continuously deepen the innovation of theoretical armament of the Party in the financial system. We insist on using the first and second volumes of the Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building as important content for the study of theoretical learning centers and the "three meetings and one lesson" of Party branches, organizing Party members and cadres to read the original works, study the original texts, and comprehend the principles, deeply understanding the connotation and essence of the "Fourteen Persistences," comprehensively and accurately grasping their true meaning, essence, and ideological精华 (jīng huá - "essence"), and continuously promoting study to go deeper, go more practically, and go into the heart. We will treat Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building as a compulsory course for the education and training of Party members and cadres, hold high-quality seminar classes on high-quality Party building leading high-quality financial development at the Central Party School, and educate and guide Party members and cadres in the financial system to consciously transform ideological power into a strong driving force for promoting high-quality development. We will closely follow the actual situation of financial work, organize layered, classified, phased, and batched full-coverage study and training, timely summarize and promote good experiences and practices, and explain Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building clearly, vividly, and thoroughly in ways that Party members and cadres like, promoting the entry of the Party's innovative theory into minds and hearts and its manifestation in actions.
Third, based on work functions, solidly promote the implementation of Party building work in the financial system. We will take Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building as guidance, continuously strengthen the political construction of the Party, improve and perfect the Party building management systems and mechanisms of the financial system, straighten out the Party building management systems of local financial institutions, and continuously promote the transformation of the Party's political advantages and organizational advantages into financial governance effectiveness. Press and solidify the political responsibility of governing and managing the Party, deepen the rectification of central inspections and audit rectifications, and advance the rectification of conduct, discipline, and corruption in depth. Adhere to empowering the construction of a strong financial nation with Party building, coordinate various tasks of financial risk prevention, strong regulation, and promoting high-quality development, and provide strong financial support for high-quality economic and social development.
Study and Use the Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building Well to Continuously Promote the Entry of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building into Textbooks, Classrooms, and Minds
Xiong Sihao, Vice Minister of Education and Member of the Party Leadership Group
The Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building is an authoritative textbook for deeply studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, which is conducive to guiding the whole Party and all of society to deepen political identity, ideological identity, theoretical identity, and emotional identity. The education system insists on being at the forefront and acting as a model in studying, publicizing, and implementing the Party's innovative theories, further profoundly comprehending the decisive significance of the "Two Establishes" in deeply studying and minutely comprehending Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, resolutely achieving the "Two Upholds," and supporting and leading the construction of a strong education nation through high-quality Party building.
First, insist on using study to forge the soul, and continuously promote the entry of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building into minds and hearts. We will treat studying and using the Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building well as an important political task, with members of the Ministry's Party leadership group taking the lead in studying the original texts in their entirety, following up promptly, and studying in connection with reality, promoting a surge of enthusiasm for studying and implementing it among Party members, cadres, teachers, and students in the education system. We will incorporate Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building into the theoretical study of Party organizations at all levels of the education system and the compulsory courses for the basic training of cadres and Party members, hold special seminar classes for the main persons in charge of Party and government in universities subordinate to the Ministry, and further deepen the comprehension, accurate grasping, and implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. We will insist on advancing the construction of ideological and political courses and the theoretical armament of the Party's innovative theories simultaneously, develop high-quality major courses and typical cases, deepen the "Xi Jinping Together with College Students" learning and sharing, and solidly promote the entry of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building into textbooks, classrooms, and minds, effectively guiding a wide range of students to consciously listen to the Party and follow the Party.
Second, insist on using research to promote study, and continuously deepen the research and interpretation of the Party's innovative theories. We will effectively utilize the advantages of the concentration of talents and resources in the education system, fully utilize the role of the research center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in the education system, coordinate and integrate the research forces of Marxist colleges in universities and key research bases for the humanities and social sciences, actively support the relevant work of the Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building Research Center, focus on the major significance, scientific connotation, theoretical character, practical foundation, and theoretical origins of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, focus on the glorious journey, great achievements, and incomparable excellent qualities of the Communist Party of China, and carry out organized, systematic, and theoretical research and interpretation, striving to produce a batch of weighty and influential theoretical results. We will treat Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building as the fundamental following and the first priority for the discipline construction of the history and Party building of the CPC, accelerate the construction of an independent knowledge system of Chinese philosophy and social sciences, and contribute educational strength to enriching and developing the theory of Party building in the new era.
Third, insist on using action to seek reality, and focus on promoting the implementation and effectiveness of study, publicity, and implementation. Using Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building to guide the practice of Party building in the education system, we will guide Party members and cadres in the education system to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, resolutely implement the major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, enhance the political functions and organizational functions of grassroots Party organizations, strengthen the education and management of Party members, promote the quality and efficiency of the demonstration creation and quality excellence work of university Party building in the new era, and unswervingly advance the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, effectively transforming the advantages of Party building into development advantages and governance effectiveness. We will insist on the deep integration of Party building and business, combining the study and implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building with the implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discourses on education, focusing on the key tasks of the construction of a strong education nation, deeply implementing the new-era project of fostering virtue through education, further promoting the quality of scientific and technological independent innovation and the independent cultivation of top-notch innovative talents in universities, and promoting the detailed implementation of the "15th Five-Year Plan for Education Development."
Deeply Study, Minutely Comprehend, and Actively Practice Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building to Continuously Open a New Situation for the Party Building of State-owned Assets and Central Enterprises on the New Journey
Tan Zuojun, Deputy Director of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and Member of the Party Committee
The Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building presents a panoramic view of the entire process of the formation, enrichment, and development of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building; the more deeply one studies and connects it, the more profoundly one feels the powerful truth and practical strength of this thought. State-owned enterprises and central enterprises should deeply study the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important "July 1" speech and Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, implement it into all aspects and the entire process of the reform and development of state-owned assets and central enterprises, and continuously promote the improvement of the quality and efficiency of Party building work.
First, use study to forge the soul and set the direction, building a solid political foundation for practicing the "Two Upholds." Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building states from the very beginning that adhering to the Party's leadership is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics, profoundly explaining the essential determinacy of the Party's leadership for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and profoundly revealing the key code of "why the Communist Party of China can succeed." We understand that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discourses such as adhering to the Party's leadership and strengthening the Party's building being the "root" and "soul" of state-owned enterprises are in the same vein, clearly pointing out the fundamental political guarantee for the development and growth of state-owned enterprises. State-owned enterprises and central enterprises should take the good study and use of the Selected Works as an opportunity to deepen the implementation of the "first topic" and "political requirement" systems, turn major projects and major engineering works inspected by or receiving important instructions and comments from General Secretary Xi Jinping into demonstration points, innovatively explore and comprehensively promote basic training mechanisms, quickly trigger a surge in the study and publicity of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, and unswervingly listen to the Party and follow the Party.
Second, use study to increase intelligence and grasp research, and continuously promote theoretical innovation based on practice. The 102 works included in the Selected Works provide an authoritative textbook for researching Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. We understand that General Secretary Xi Jinping has consistently cared about and valued the Party building of state-owned enterprises, leaving behind a rich "mine" of theory and practice during his work in local areas. State-owned enterprises and central enterprises should take the good study and use of the Selected Works as an opportunity to carry out theoretical research on General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discourses on the reform and development of state-owned enterprises and Party building, trace the source of the thought, and effectively explain the thought vividly and the theory thoroughly, to more profoundly understand and grasp the essence and key points of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building and guide new practices of reform and development.
Third, use study to rectify conduct and press responsibility, and unswervingly advance the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. Many important manuscripts included in the Selected Works clearly point out the scientific connotation and basic paths of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. We understand that the heavier the tasks of reform and development and the greater the challenges of transformation and upgrading, the more we must long-term adhere to a strict atmosphere and a practical style. State-owned enterprises and central enterprises should take the good study and use of the Selected Works as an opportunity to consolidate and expand the achievements of study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, continuously and deeply rectify prominent problems such as "new officials not taking responsibility for old debts," carry out a "look back" on the implementation of the spirit of the national state-owned enterprise Party building work conference, and promote filling in shortcomings and overall improvement. Strictly implement the assessment of the Party building responsibility system, Party building debriefings, and accountability interviews for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, pressing responsibility at every level, and promoting the integrated advancement of "not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt."
Fourth, use study to promote action and strengthen empowerment, and use high-quality Party building to lead and guarantee high-quality development. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building is clear in expression and integrated in application, originating from practice and guiding practice. We understand that to enhance the "two functions" and play the advantages of Party building, it is necessary to build strong fighting fortresses and cultivate key forces of innovation. State-owned enterprises and central enterprises should take the good study and use of the Selected Works as an opportunity to promote talent work with high quality, implement talent cultivation projects by category, establish and improve extraordinary mechanisms for discovering, cultivating, and using outstanding talents, and continuously build talent highlands for central enterprises. Focusing on the bottlenecks and blockages in industrial and supply chain innovation, summarize and promote effective ways of establishing joint Party organizations and carrying out Party building joint construction in major engineering projects, deeply implement special actions for improving the quality and efficiency of Party building in engineering construction-type central enterprises, continuously explore new mechanisms, new ways, and new carriers for Party building work, and lead and guarantee the high-quality development of enterprises.
Deeply Study and Implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building to Promote the Improvement of Quality and Efficiency of Party Building Work with the Highest Standards of Excellence
Li Chenglin, Member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee and Head of the Organization Department of the Beijing Municipal Committee
Currently, the whole Party is deeply studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important "July 1" speech and studying and implementing Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. The publication and distribution of the first and second volumes of the Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, and the establishment of the Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building Research Center, have provided an authoritative textbook and built an authoritative platform for us to better study, think, practice, and realize, and to research and interpret Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. As the capital, Beijing is an important site of practice for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. We keep in mind that "to look at Beijing, one must first look at it from a political perspective," and insist on treating the study and implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building as an important political task, quickly triggering a surge in the study, publicity, and implementation throughout the city through forms such as the "first topic" and Party classes given by secretaries at all levels.
First, focus on the original works and original texts, and profoundly comprehend the power of truth. Original works and original texts are the most authoritative carriers of the Party's innovative theories; only by comprehensively and deeply studying the original texts and understanding the principles in connection with reality can one accurately grasp the true meaning, essence, and core of the theory. Beijing insists on using the Party's innovative theories to consolidate the soul and strengthen the mind, compiling the Selected Excerpts of Xi Jinping's Discourses on Work in Beijing every year and distributing it to every grassroots Party organization, guiding the entire city to study and comprehend deeply, and drawing wisdom and strength from the original texts. The carefully crafted Jinghua Practice themed classrooms have already held 1,400 classes, training more than 48,000 Party members and cadres. With the theme "Socialism is achieved through doing, and the new era is achieved through striving," we organized scientific and technological talents from the industrial frontline to enter universities and master craftsmen to enter workshops to give lectures, and built two "mobile classrooms" facing university students and industrial workers, promoting the concrete interpretation of the Party's innovative theories. We will list the Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building as a required reading list for Party members and cadres, incorporate this thought into basic training and themed classroom teaching content, and organize and guide Party members and cadres throughout the city to study the original texts word by word and understand the principles in connection with practice, building a solid ideological foundation for firmly supporting the "Two Establishes" and resolutely achieving the "Two Upholds."
Second, strengthen political leadership, and focus on forging political capabilities that match the "area of first excellence." Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building creatively proposes "adhering to taking the Party's political construction as the lead," clarifying the fundamental requirement for Party building in the new era. Before the Spring Festival this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Beijing and delivered an important speech, emphasizing "to prominently grasp the Party's political construction and forge tough political capabilities." We keep in mind the General Secretary's instructions, insist on placing the Party's political construction in the first position, and in combination with study and education, closely follow "the people's heart as the greatest politics," carrying out intensive actions to solve historical legacy problems and special work such as "going to the grassroots, running for work orders, walking through processes, and staying at posts," strengthening the practical experience of Party members and cadres in serving the people, and continuously improving political judgment, political comprehension, and political execution. We will resolutely implement the political responsibility of governing and managing the Party, ensuring that personnel selection and appointment emphasize political vetting, education and training emphasize political training, cadre management emphasizes political supervision, grassroots Party building emphasizes political functions, and talent work emphasizes political leadership, to better fulfill the responsibilities and missions of the capital with tough political skills.
Third, emphasize the combination of study and use, and promote the formation of vivid practice of scientific theory in the land of Beijing. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building is a science that grows from the earth; it must be applied to practice to manifest its practical power. We will closely connect with the actual situation of the capital, consciously use this thought to plan and promote work, continuously deepen the reform of "responding to requests immediately" led by Party building, and focus on creating a "capital model" for megacity governance; carry out work regarding leadership changes with high standards and high quality, focusing on the needs of the capital's modernization, and focus on forging a high-quality cadre team that is political, capable, and possesses sentiment; leverage the capital's advantages in education, science, technology, and talent, advance the construction of high-level talent highlands in depth, and strive to build a world-class talent gathering place; consolidate and expand the achievements of study and education, and strive to create more achievements that the masses can feel and reach, truly transforming study results into development advantages and governance effectiveness for the capital.
Study, Think, Practice, and Realize Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building to Push the Party's Building and Organizational Work to a New Level
Zhang Wei, Member of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee and Head of the Organization Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee
Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building is a major achievement of advancing theoretical innovation by adhering to the "Two Combinations," and it is the inheritance and development of our Party's historical experience in its own construction. Shaanxi is a fertile red land; when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Shaanxi, he emphasized that the Yan'an Spirit is a precious spiritual wealth of our Party, and that comprehensive and strict governance of the Party must continue to draw strength from the Yan'an Spirit. Shaanxi will vigorously carry forward the Party's glorious traditions and excellent styles, and with firm belief, profound emotion, and a strong sense of mission, deeply study, minutely comprehend, and actively practice Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, continuously promoting the improvement of the quality and efficiency of the Party's building and organizational work, and providing a strong guarantee for high-quality development and modernization construction.
First, firmly grasp the highest principle of adhering to the Party's leadership, and always firmly support the "Two Establishes" and resolutely achieve the "Two Upholds." Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building states from the very beginning that "adhering to the Party's leadership is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "adhering to the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee," which are the root and soul of our doing organizational work well. We will treat adhering to and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party, especially the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, as the primary political task, unswervingly use the Party's innovative theories to consolidate the soul and strengthen the mind, deeply study and minutely comprehend the Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, connect the study and implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building with General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and important instructions during his inspection of Shaanxi, continuously carry out education and training in a layered and classified manner, play the role of research institutions and think tanks to strengthen publicity and interpretation, deepen the practical study and research of "seeing changes and understanding thought while following the General Secretary's footsteps," carry forward the Yan'an Spirit to strengthen political loyalty education and Party spirit education, and guide all levels to continuously enhance the firm and resolute consciousness of belief and practice, always maintaining high consistency with the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core.
Second, firmly grasp the distinct theme of strengthening the Party's building in the new era, and consciously shoulder the political responsibility of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building systematically answers a series of major questions such as how to govern and manage the Party, how to prosper and strengthen the Party, and how to strengthen the nation in the new era, proposing that the system of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party should be improved, and that the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere should be long-term adhered to. We will insist on advancing comprehensive and strict governance of the Party with a spirit of reform and strict standards, deepen and solidify the political quality assessment of leading cadres, highlight key indicators of high-quality development to improve the target responsibility assessment system, effectively prevent and timely discover and correct deviations in the view of political achievements, earnestly implement the central government's regulations on the ability of leading cadres to move up or down and the specific measures of our province, improve the institutional norms for all-round management and regular supervision of cadres, and use the "classified guidance and striving for advanced positions" action as a grip to weave a dense and solid grassroots organizational system, strengthen the management of Party members on and off duty, both online and offline, and construct a closed-loop mechanism of clear responsibility, performance of responsibility, supervision of responsibility, and accountability, using powerful measures to promote the continuous deepening of governing and managing the Party.
Third, firmly grasp the mission and tasks of advancing the Party's cause, and earnestly practice the organizational line to serve the political line. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building profoundly clarifies the internal connection between governing and managing the Party, prospering and strengthening the Party, and the nation's strength and rejuvenation, giving us a sense of mission to have firm confidence and continue the struggle. In the new era and on the new journey, we will insist on focusing on the center and gathering strength for the overall situation, anchoring the strategic mission of "striving to write the Shaanxi chapter of Chinese-style modernization" endowed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, finding the entry points and focus points for serving the "15th Five-Year Plan" development, using the leadership changes at the city, county, and township levels as an opportunity to strengthen the leadership teams at all levels, continuously deepen the "Cadre Style and Capability Improvement Year Activity," actively explore effective paths for grasping Party building to promote rural revitalization and Party building leading grassroots governance, and build a talent gathering platform revolving around promoting the construction of the Xi'an regional science and technology innovation center, continuously transforming organizational advantages into development momentum and development advantages.
Adhere to Using Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building as a Guide to Transform the Advantages of Party Building into Practical Results of High-Quality Railway Development
Wang Jin, Director of China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group
Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building enriches and develops the Party's innovative theories, providing the fundamental following for deeply advancing the new great undertaking of Party building in the new era. The Party leadership group of China State Railway Group earnestly implements the central deployments, coordinates the arrangement of training for General Secretary Xi Jinping's important "July 1" speech and the Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, and solidly carries out the study, publicity, and implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, using high-quality Party building to lead the high-quality development of railways.
First, strengthen the Party's overall leadership over state railway enterprises, and grasp the correct direction of accelerating the construction of world-class railway enterprises. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building clearly proposes that adhering to the Party's leadership is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and adhering to the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee is the highest principle of the Party's leadership. Since the new era, the fundamental reason for China's railways achieving the transition from catching up to leading the world lies in the navigation and steering of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and in the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. We will adhere to the strategic positioning of national railways and people's railways, insist on placing political construction in the first position, earnestly implement the "first topic" system, refine specific measures for implementing the important instructions and comments of General Secretary Xi Jinping on railway work, improve the implementation mechanism for major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, better fulfill the political, economic, and social responsibilities of state railway enterprises, and support the "Two Establishes" and practice the "Two Upholds" with actual actions; we will adhere to the "two continuousities," improve the institutional system of the Party's overall leadership over state railway enterprises, improve the modern enterprise system of China's state railways with Chinese characteristics, and fully play the leadership role of the Party leadership group in setting the direction, managing the overall situation, and ensuring implementation, ensuring that the construction of world-class railway enterprises always moves forward in the correct direction.
Second, implement the "Party Building Strengthens the Railway" project, and effectively transform the advantages of Party building into development results. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building clearly proposes that "to govern a country, one must first govern the Party; only when the Party prospers can the country be strong," scientifically revealing the internal connection between governing and managing the Party, prospering and strengthening the Party, and the nation's strength and rejuvenation. We will always insist on Party building leadership, establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, and organize and implement the "Party Building Strengthens the Railway" project well, focusing on strengthening direction with politics, strengthening the soul with thought, strengthening the foundation with organization, strengthening implementation with style, promoting integrity with discipline, cultivating new people with culture, building systems with institutions, and assisting development with collective strength, promoting the effective connection between governing and managing the Party and governing and prospering the enterprise, making Party building work a visible productivity; we will deeply promote the deep integration of Party building with production and operations, exerting effort from four aspects: thought, responsibility, mechanism, and capability, and in key tasks such as production safety, transportation operations, railway construction, and scientific and technological innovation, fully play the fighting fortress and vanguard role of the 54,000 grassroots Party organizations and 630,000 Party members of the railway, uniting and leading the cadres and workers of the whole railway to take the construction of a strong transportation nation as their own responsibility, and bravely shoulder the mission of being the pioneers of Chinese-style modernization.
Third, implement the political responsibility of governing and managing the Party, and promote the consistent implementation of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in state railway enterprises. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building clearly proposes that comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is the great practice of the Party's self-revolution in the new era, and is the distinct theme of the Party's building in the new era. We will deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, implement the general requirements for Party building in the new era, based on the characteristics of the railway transportation industry and the need to accelerate the construction of world-class railway enterprises, insist on using the Party's innovative theories to consolidate the soul and strengthen the mind, focus on forging a leadership team and cadre and talent team that are loyal to the Party and capable of undertaking the heavy responsibilities of the times; we will firmly establish the clear orientation of focusing on the grassroots, empowering the grassroots, and strengthening the grassroots, solidly promote the strengthening of the foundation and quality of grassroots Party organizations on the transportation frontline, comprehensively strengthen the Party building work of railway joint ventures, border areas, and overseas institutions, promote the tangible and effective coverage of the Party's organization and Party work in state railway enterprises; we will emphasize comprehensive strictness, normalization, and long-term effectiveness, improve the implementation of the responsibility system for governing and managing the Party in state railway enterprises, improve the integrity risk prevention and control mechanism, effectively promote the integration and synergy of various supervision methods, and continuously create a political ecology that is clean, upright, and conducive to entrepreneurship, providing strong political guarantees for promoting the high-quality development of railways.
Deeply Study and Implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building to Promote the Transformation of the Advantages of Party Building into Practical Results of High-Quality Railway Development
Wang Jin, Director of China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group
Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building enriches and develops the Party's innovative theories, providing the fundamental following for deeply advancing the new great undertaking of Party building in the new era. The Party leadership group of China State Railway Group earnestly implements the central deployments, coordinates the arrangement of training for General Secretary Xi Jinping's important "July 1" speech and the Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, and solidly carries out the study, publicity, and implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, using high-quality Party building to lead the high-quality development of railways.
First, strengthen the Party's overall leadership over state railway enterprises, and grasp the correct direction of accelerating the construction of world-class railway enterprises. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building clearly proposes that adhering to the Party's leadership is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and adhering to the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee is the highest principle of the Party's leadership. Since the new era, the fundamental reason for China's railways achieving the transition from catching up to leading the world lies in the navigation and steering of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and in the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. We will adhere to the strategic positioning of national railways and people's railways, insist on placing political construction in the first position, earnestly implement the "first topic" system, refine specific measures for implementing the important instructions and comments of General Secretary Xi Jinping on railway work, improve the implementation mechanism for major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, better fulfill the political, economic, and social responsibilities of state railway enterprises, and support the "Two Establishes" and practice the "Two Upholds" with actual actions; we will adhere to the "two continuousities," improve the institutional system of the Party's overall leadership over state railway enterprises, improve the modern enterprise system of China's state railways with Chinese characteristics, and fully play the leadership role of the Party leadership group in setting the direction, managing the overall situation, and ensuring implementation, ensuring that the construction of world-class railway enterprises always moves forward in the correct direction.
Second, implement the "Party Building Strengthens the Railway" project, and effectively transform the advantages of Party building into development results. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building clearly proposes that "to govern a country, one must first govern the Party; only when the Party prospers can the country be strong," scientifically revealing the internal connection between governing and managing the Party, prospering and strengthening the Party, and the nation's strength and rejuvenation. We will always insist on Party building leadership, establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, and organize and implement the "Party Building Strengthens the Railway" project well, focusing on strengthening direction with politics, strengthening the soul with thought, strengthening the foundation with organization, strengthening implementation with style, promoting integrity with discipline, cultivating new people with culture, building systems with institutions, and assisting development with collective strength, promoting the effective connection between governing and managing the Party and governing and prospering the enterprise, making Party building work a visible productivity; we will deeply promote the deep integration of Party building with production and operations, exerting effort from four aspects: thought, responsibility, mechanism, and capability, and in key tasks such as production safety, transportation operations, railway construction, and scientific and technological innovation, fully play the fighting fortress and vanguard role of the 54,000 grassroots Party organizations and 630,000 Party members of the railway, uniting and leading the cadres and workers of the whole railway to take the construction of a strong transportation nation as their own responsibility, and bravely shoulder the mission of being the pioneers of Chinese-style modernization.
Third, implement the political responsibility of governing and managing the Party, and promote the consistent implementation of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in state railway enterprises. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building clearly proposes that comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is the great practice of the Party's self-revolution in the new era, and is the distinct theme of the Party's building in the new era. We will deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, implement the general requirements for Party building in the new era, based on the characteristics of the railway transportation industry and the need to accelerate the construction of world-class railway enterprises, insist on using the Party's innovative theories to consolidate the soul and strengthen the mind, focus on forging a leadership team and cadre and talent team that are loyal to the Party and capable of undertaking the heavy responsibilities of the times; we will firmly establish the clear orientation of focusing on the grassroots, empowering the grassroots, and strengthening the grassroots, solidly promote the strengthening of the foundation and quality of grassroots Party organizations on the transportation frontline, comprehensively strengthen the Party building work of railway joint ventures, border areas, and overseas institutions, promote the tangible and effective coverage of the Party's organization and Party work in state railway enterprises; we will emphasize comprehensive strictness, normalization, and long-term effectiveness, improve the implementation of the responsibility system for governing and managing the Party in state railway enterprises, improve the integrity risk prevention and control mechanism, effectively promote the integration and synergy of various supervision methods, and continuously create a political ecology that is clean, upright, and conducive to entrepreneurship, providing strong political guarantees for promoting the high-quality development of railways.
Study, Think, Practice, and Realize Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building to Push the Party's Building and Organizational Work to a New Level
Zhang Wei, Member of the Standing Committee of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee and Head of the Organization Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee
Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building is a major achievement of advancing theoretical innovation by adhering to the "Two Combinations," and it is the inheritance and development of our Party's historical experience in its own construction. Shaanxi is a fertile red land; when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Shaanxi, he emphasized that the Yan'an Spirit is a precious spiritual wealth of our Party, and that comprehensive and strict governance of the Party must continue to draw strength from the Yan'an Spirit. Shaanxi will vigorously carry forward the Party's glorious traditions and excellent styles, and with firm belief, profound emotion, and a strong sense of mission, deeply study, minutely comprehend, and actively practice Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, continuously promoting the improvement of the quality and efficiency of the Party's building and organizational work, and providing a strong guarantee for high-quality development and modernization construction.
First, firmly grasp the highest principle of adhering to the Party's leadership, and always firmly support the "Two Establishes" and resolutely achieve the "Two Upholds." Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building states from the very beginning that "adhering to the Party's leadership is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "adhering to the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee," which are the root and soul of our doing organizational work well. We will treat adhering to and strengthening the overall leadership of the Party, especially the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, as the primary political task, unswervingly use the Party's innovative theories to consolidate the soul and strengthen the mind, deeply study and minutely comprehend the Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, connect the study and implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building with General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and important instructions during his inspection of Shaanxi, continuously carry out education and training in a layered and classified manner, play the role of research institutions and think tanks to strengthen publicity and interpretation, deepen the practical study and research of "seeing changes and understanding thought while following the General Secretary's footsteps," carry forward the Yan'an Spirit to strengthen political loyalty education and Party spirit education, and guide all levels to continuously enhance the firm and resolute consciousness of belief and practice, always maintaining high consistency with the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core.
Second, firmly grasp the distinct theme of strengthening the Party's building in the new era, and consciously shoulder the political responsibility of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building systematically answers a series of major questions such as how to govern and manage the Party, how to prosper and strengthen the Party, and how to strengthen the nation in the new era, proposing that the system of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party should be improved, and that the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere should be long-term adhered to. We will insist on advancing comprehensive and strict governance of the Party with a spirit of reform and strict standards, deepen and solidify the political quality assessment of leading cadres, highlight key indicators of high-quality development to improve the target responsibility assessment system, effectively prevent and timely discover and correct deviations in the view of political achievements, earnestly implement the central government's regulations on the ability of leading cadres to move up or down and the specific measures of our province, improve the institutional norms for all-round management and regular supervision of cadres, and use the "classified guidance and striving for advanced positions" action as a grip to weave a dense and solid grassroots organizational system, strengthen the management of Party members on and off duty, both online and offline, and construct a closed-loop mechanism of clear responsibility, performance of responsibility, supervision of responsibility, and accountability, using powerful measures to promote the continuous deepening of governing and managing the Party.
Third, firmly grasp the mission and tasks of advancing the Party's cause, and earnestly practice the organizational line to serve the political line. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building profoundly clarifies the internal connection between governing and managing the Party, prospering and strengthening the Party, and the nation's strength and rejuvenation, giving us a sense of mission to have firm confidence and continue the struggle. In the new era and on the new journey, we will insist on focusing on the center and gathering strength for the overall situation, anchoring the strategic mission of "striving to write the Shaanxi chapter of Chinese-style modernization" endowed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, finding the entry points and focus points for serving the "15th Five-Year Plan" development, using the leadership changes at the city, county, and township levels as an opportunity to strengthen the leadership teams at all levels, continuously deepen the "Cadre Style and Capability Improvement Year Activity," actively explore effective paths for grasping Party building to promote rural revitalization and Party building leading grassroots governance, around promoting the construction of the Xi'an regional science and technology innovation center to build a talent gathering platform, and continuously transforming organizational advantages into development momentum and development advantages.
Adhere to Using Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building as a Guide to Transform the Advantages of Party Building into Practical Results of High-Quality Railway Development
Wang Jin, Director of China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group
Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building enriches and develops the Party's innovative theories, providing the fundamental following for deeply advancing the new great undertaking of Party building in the new era. The Party leadership group of China State Railway Group earnestly implements the central deployments, coordinates the arrangement of training for General Secretary Xi Jinping's important "July 1" speech and the Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, and solidly carries out the study, publicity, and implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, using high-quality Party building to lead the high-quality development of railways.
First, strengthen the Party's overall leadership over state railway enterprises, and grasp the correct direction of accelerating the construction of world-class railway enterprises. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building clearly proposes that adhering to the Party's leadership is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and adhering to the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee is the highest principle of the Party's leadership. Since the new era, the fundamental reason for China's railways achieving the transition from catching up to leading the world lies in the navigation and steering of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and in the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. We will adhere to the strategic positioning of national railways and people's railways, insist on placing political construction in the first position, earnestly implement the "first topic" system, refine specific measures for implementing the important instructions and comments of General Secretary Xi Jinping on railway work, improve the implementation mechanism for major decisions and deployments of the CPC Central Committee, better fulfill the political, economic, and social responsibilities of state railway enterprises, and support the "Two Establishes" and practice the "Two Upholds" with actual actions; we will adhere to the "two continuousities," improve the institutional system of the Party's overall leadership over state railway enterprises, improve the modern enterprise system of China's state railways with Chinese characteristics, and fully play the leadership role of the Party leadership group in setting the direction, managing the overall situation, and ensuring implementation, ensuring that the construction of world-class railway enterprises always moves forward in the correct direction.
Second, implement the "Party Building Strengthens the Railway" project, and effectively transform the advantages of Party building into development results. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building clearly proposes that "to govern a country, one must first govern the Party; only when the Party prospers can the country be strong," scientifically revealing the internal connection between governing and managing the Party, prospering and strengthening the Party, and the nation's strength and rejuvenation. We will always insist on Party building leadership, establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, and organize and implement the "Party Building Strengthens the Railway" project well, focusing on strengthening direction with politics, strengthening the soul with thought, strengthening the foundation with organization, strengthening implementation with style, promoting integrity with discipline, cultivating new people with culture, building systems with institutions, and assisting development with collective strength, promoting the effective connection between governing and managing the Party and governing and prospering the enterprise, making Party building work a visible productivity; we will deeply promote the deep integration of Party building with production and operations, exerting effort from four aspects: thought, responsibility, mechanism, and capability, and in key tasks such as production safety, transportation operations, railway construction, and scientific and technological innovation, fully play the fighting fortress and vanguard role of the 54,000 grassroots Party organizations and 630,000 Party members of the railway, uniting and leading the cadres and workers of the whole railway to take the construction of a strong transportation nation as their own responsibility, and bravely shoulder the mission of being the pioneers of Chinese-style modernization.
Third, implement the political responsibility of governing and managing the Party, and promote the consistent implementation of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in state railway enterprises. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building clearly proposes that comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is the great practice of the Party's self-revolution in the new era, and is the distinct theme of the Party's building in the new era. We will deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, implement the general requirements for Party building in the new era, based on the characteristics of the railway transportation industry and the need to accelerate the construction of world-class railway enterprises, insist on using the Party's innovative theories to consolidate the soul and strengthen the mind, focus on forging a leadership team and cadre and talent team that are loyal to the Party and capable of undertaking the heavy responsibilities of the times; we will firmly establish the clear orientation of focusing on the grassroots, empowering the grassroots, and strengthening the grassroots, solidly promote the strengthening of the foundation and quality of grassroots Party organizations on the transportation frontline, comprehensively strengthen the Party building work of railway joint ventures, border areas, and overseas institutions, promote the tangible and effective coverage of the Party's organization and Party work in state railway enterprises; we will emphasize comprehensive strictness, normalization, and long-term effectiveness, improve the implementation of the responsibility system for governing and managing the Party in state railway enterprises, improve the integrity risk prevention and control mechanism, effectively promote the integration and synergy of various supervision methods, and continuously create a political ecology that is clean, upright, and conducive to entrepreneurship, providing strong political guarantees for promoting the high-quality development of railways.
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In recent years, the pace of internationalization of China's construction machinery industry has continued to accelerate. Data show that China has become the world's largest producer and seller of construction machinery. From 2020 to 2025, the export scale of the construction machinery industry achieved nearly threefold growth. In the first half of this year, China's construction machinery export value reached US$34.373 billion, a year-on-year increase of 21.7 percent. Among them, a batch of small-sized domestically produced machinery and equipment have gained considerable popularity in overseas markets.
Electric tricycles, small tractors, mini excavators... These "small-sized" equipment target the actual needs of overseas users. Technological innovation, supply chain coordination, and market services 齐头并进 (qí tóu bìng jìn - "advance shoulder to shoulder," to progress together), becoming a vivid microcosm of Chinese manufacturing competing in speed, price, and quality in segmented tracks.
Electric tricycle enterprises "group together to go to sea"
User demand takes priority, driving export growth
In a rural area of Zimbabwe, 31-year-old Anna Popoho began driving a Chinese-made cargo electric tricycle. Local road conditions are poor, and large trucks find it difficult to enter the village. Anna uses the cargo electric tricycle to purchase agricultural products and then sell them at the market, and she has also led women in the village to join the transport team.
This story of an overseas user left a deep impression on Zhao Shuai (赵帅), director of the Global Business Development Center of Jiangsu Zongshen Group (江苏宗申集团). "In many overseas markets, electric tricycles are not only a means of transportation but also a production tool," Zhao Shuai said. The enterprise found in its research that rural Africa, orchards in Southeast Asia, and farms in Latin America all share similar characteristics: narrow roads, poor road conditions, high vehicle usage costs, and strong demand for short-distance transport, while pickup trucks and trucks cannot enter or are too expensive to use, and two-wheeled vehicles cannot carry goods. "The applications of tricycles in many scenarios cannot be replaced by four-wheeled vehicles, nor can they be solved by two-wheeled vehicles," Zhao Shuai said.
In response to Africa's high temperatures, dust, and poor road conditions, the company equips vehicles with reinforced chassis and structures that are easier to maintain; in response to the narrow spacing between trees in Southeast Asian orchards, the enterprise developed models with small bodies, narrow cargo buckets, and lifting functions; in some Latin American markets, users place more emphasis on cargo space and battery range, so the enterprise adjusts the carriage, power, and battery configurations around scenarios such as agricultural cargo transshipment and small vendor operations.
"In the past, we mainly sold vehicles; now we must first ask customers where they will use them, how they will use them, and what problems they will use them to solve," Zhao Shuai said. User demand taking priority has driven exports. In 2025, Jiangsu Zongshen Group exported more than 300,000 tricycles, and in the first half of this year alone, exports have already approached 200,000 vehicles.
Xuzhou, Jiangsu, has 49 key enterprises producing complete electric tricycles, with an output of 6.25 million vehicles in 2025 and 4.05 million vehicles in the first half of this year. Sun Qi (孙祺), chief of the Equipment Industry Division of the Xuzhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology (徐州市工信局), said that in recent years, Xuzhou has continuously implemented the "Hundred Enterprises Grouping Together to Go to Sea" action (百企抱团出海) and carried out a series of activities under the theme "Electric Tricycles Go to Sea, Selling Well Worldwide" (电三出海，畅销全球); at the same time, it issued the "Xuzhou Electric Motorcycle Industry High-Quality Development Action Plan (2026-2028)" (徐州市电动摩托车产业高质量发展行动方案（2026—2028年）), supporting leading enterprises in increasing R&D and building better brands, driving small and scattered enterprises to transform toward parts supporting and specialized collaboration, integrate into the industrial and supply chain system, and continuously promote industrial upgrading.
Small tractors focus on "one machine, multiple uses"
Complete industrial chain supports product R&D
At the warehouse entrance of Zhejiang Sifang Group Co., Ltd. (浙江四方集团有限公司) in Yongkang, Jinhua, Zhejiang, rows of small tractors are neatly arranged, about to be shipped overseas. Not far away, an ongoing livestream broadcast through overseas social media platforms has attracted many African and Southeast Asian buyers.
"Don't judge it by its small size — it works really well." A walking tractor introduced in the livestream can achieve "one machine, multiple uses": its rear section can be fitted, like building blocks, with dozens of agricultural implements for rotary tillage, seeding, harvesting, and more, making it especially suitable for multiple operations on small plots in hilly and mountainous areas. Today, exports of this tractor account for more than 60 percent of the national total in the same segmented category.
Sifang Group focuses on small tractors ranging from 12 to 40 horsepower, currently producing about 25,000 small tractors per year, exported to Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and other regions. In 2025, the company's agricultural machinery export value reached 540 million yuan, with walking tractor exports leading the country.
"To do a good job of taking products overseas, one must 入乡随俗 (rù xiāng suí sú - "enter the village, follow its customs," to adapt to local conditions)," said Yu Feng (俞丰), chairman of Zhejiang Sifang Group. For example, in Indonesia, where the soil is soft, the company widened tractor tracks; in Suriname, where operation intensity is high, it upgraded the water circulation system; in Vietnam, where the climate is hot and diesel engine water circulation systems easily "boil over," the R&D team improved and launched a small crawler rotary tiller, solving the heat dissipation pain point, and the product is 供不应求 (gōng bù yìng qiú - "supply does not respond to demand," supply falls short of demand).
In Yongkang, scenes of small agricultural machinery enterprises busy going global are very common.
Xingyue Group (星月集团) developed the "Xingyue Shen" (星月神) high-speed hilly rice transplanter, with a machine width of only 1.2 meters and a weight of about 200 kilograms, designed specifically for narrow terraced fields and suited to agricultural terrain in Southeast Asia and elsewhere. Hu Dingkun (胡定坤), executive president of Xingyue Group, said that in 2025, the company's tractor product foreign trade sales reached 5,000 units, with more than half sold to European markets.
Yongkang currently has more than 1,600 agricultural machinery and parts production enterprises, including 157 industrial enterprises above designated size. As a nationally renowned hardware industry base, nearly 90 percent of parts can be supported locally, enabling rapid response to overseas buyers' order demands for "small batches, multiple batches, and customization." Yongkang has also built a pilot testing platform for agricultural machinery equipment in hilly and mountainous areas for Zhejiang Province, providing enterprises with full-chain services from conceptual design to small-batch production, and greatly shortening product development cycles by combining digital simulation with physical verification. The Jinhua-Taizhou hilly and mountainous agricultural machinery equipment cluster, with Yongkang as its focus, was selected for the fourth batch of national advanced manufacturing clusters, with cluster agricultural machinery equipment exports exceeding 30 billion yuan.
Mini excavators tackle the challenge of "refining and miniaturizing"
One-stop platform for going global connects to global markets
At the Global Construction Machinery Cross-Border E-Commerce Distribution Center (全球工程机械跨境电商集散中心) in Jining High-tech Zone (济宁高新区), Shandong, foreign buyers gather around rows of brand-new, gleaming mini excavators, inquiring about performance and comparing prices.
"In the first half of this year, our enterprise's total sales of mini excavators reached 25,800 units, with more than 80 percent coming from overseas orders," said Gao Shengtao (高升涛), deputy general manager of Shandong Lipai Machinery Group Co., Ltd. (山东立派机械集团有限公司). The company has established four self-operated overseas warehouses in Europe and elsewhere; customers can receive goods in as little as 3 days and at most 7 days, saving 15 to 20 days in logistics lead time compared with the past.
As of now, Jining High-tech Zone has more than 70 small construction machinery enterprises, and export value has maintained relatively rapid growth in recent years. In the first half of this year, the export value of small construction machinery from Jining High-tech Zone reached 2.77 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 45 percent.
"European and American users purchase mini excavators mostly for courtyard maintenance and small farm operations; a compact body and convenient operation are the core requirements," Gao Shengtao said. The company closely follows the differentiated scenario needs of overseas markets, continuously tackling the challenge of "refining and miniaturizing," deeply cultivating the lightweight technology track, and continuously enriching its product matrix. It is currently able to produce mini excavator products in more than 10 series and over 1,000 specifications and models.
To break through technical bottlenecks, multiple local factories have collaborated on tackling key problems. The multi-way valve, as the "heart" of the excavator hydraulic system, is too large in conventional models to fit mini equipment. Through the joint efforts of multiple main engine manufacturers, a multi-way valve with reduced size and stable quality was successfully developed. "The multi-way valves we produce currently have a local supporting procurement rate of over 90 percent in Jining for complete machines, and the local supporting rate for mainstream small and mini models from 1 to 8 tons is close to 100 percent," said Yang Mao (杨毛), deputy general manager of Shandong Taifeng Intelligent Control Co., Ltd. (山东泰丰智能控制股份有限公司).
At the end of 2025, Jining High-tech Zone invested 35 million yuan to build the Global Construction Machinery Cross-Border E-Commerce Distribution Center, attracting more than 120 upstream and downstream construction machinery enterprises from the surrounding area to settle in. "We are focusing on building a one-stop platform for going global, connecting the entire chain of offline physical exhibitions, online cloud promotion, and precise global customer acquisition, so that domestic and foreign buyers can 'select products in one venue and connect to the global market in one stop,' comprehensively enhancing the brand influence and market competitiveness of Jining's construction machinery industry," said Zhang Rui (张睿), member of the Party Working Committee and deputy director of the Management Committee of Jining High-tech Zone.
Return to TopBy: 张伟昊
The overseas popularity of “small-sized” equipment stems not only from strong product adaptability and outstanding cost-effectiveness, but also, more importantly, from the full-chain industrial advantages behind hit products. A highly complete parts supply system, mature technical problem-solving capabilities, flexible production models, and increasingly developed e-commerce platforms for going overseas... Industrial clusters one after another have built a complete system of upstream-downstream collaborative symbiosis, laying a solid foundation for the production, sales, and supporting services of “small-sized” equipment, and also serving as the confidence for export enterprises to calmly respond to the diverse, fragmented, and differentiated demands of the international market.
The brisk sales of “small-sized” equipment reflect the strength of China's manufacturing. In the first half of the year, the value added of China's equipment manufacturing industry increased by 9.3% year-on-year, and the value added of high-tech manufacturing increased by 13.3%, respectively 3.9 and 7.9 percentage points faster than the value added of all industrial enterprises above designated size. Numerous small and micro manufacturing enterprises deeply cultivate specialized segments, turning “small products” into “big industries.”
Return to TopAt the invitation of President Sadyr Japarov of the Kyrgyz Republic, Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China, paid a state visit to the Kyrgyz Republic from August 30 to September 1, 2026, and attended the 26th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
The two heads of state held talks in a warm, friendly, and pragmatic atmosphere. They spoke highly of the achievements in the development of China-Kyrgyzstan relations, had an in-depth exchange of views on deepening all-round cooperation and on international and regional hotspot issues of common concern, and reached broad consensus.
China and Kyrgyzstan are good neighbors, good friends, and good partners. Deepening bilateral relations is of great significance and has bright prospects. Facing the major changes unseen in a century in the world, China-Kyrgyzstan relations, having weathered the 风云变幻 (fēng yún biàn huàn - "winds and clouds shift and change," turbulent and unpredictable changes) of the international landscape, have demonstrated strong stability, continuity, and internal driving force.
The two sides are willing to continue to firmly support each other in safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity and ensuring social security and stability, strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields, promote sustainable economic and social development, and promote the high-quality development of the China-Kyrgyzstan comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era. They reaffirmed their willingness to jointly build a China-Kyrgyzstan community with a shared future featuring good-neighborly friendship and shared prosperity.
First, the two sides pointed out that the principles of the UN Charter and the norms of international law, including mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity, mutual non-aggression, non-use of force or threat of force, non-interference in internal affairs, peaceful coexistence, and equality and mutual benefit, constitute the solid foundation of China-Kyrgyzstan relations.
The two sides emphasized that China-Kyrgyzstan relations are currently at their best period in history. The two countries, by continuously consolidating their traditional friendship and mutual trust and promoting the deepening of their comprehensive strategic partnership, will not only promote the common development and prosperity of China and Kyrgyzstan but also be conducive to peace, stability, and development in the region and the world.
The two sides emphasized that they will continue to firmly support each other on issues involving each other's core interests.
The Kyrgyz side supports China in building a great modern socialist country in all respects, congratulates China on successfully accomplishing all the goals of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and firmly believes that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, China will surely succeed in achieving the goals and tasks of the 15th Five-Year Plan.
The Kyrgyz side reaffirms its support for the One-China Principle, recognizes that there is only one China in the world, that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China's territory, and that the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government representing the whole of China. The Kyrgyz side opposes any form of "Taiwan independence," reaffirms that it will not conduct any form of official exchanges with Taiwan, supports all efforts made by China to achieve national reunification, and believes that the authority of UN General Assembly Resolution 2758 is not open to doubt or challenge. The Kyrgyz side firmly supports China on issues related to Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Tibet.
The Chinese side firmly supports the Kyrgyz side in following a development path suited to its national conditions and firmly supports the efforts made by the leaders of the Kyrgyz side to ensure national security and stability, safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and promote economic and social development. The Chinese side firmly believes that the Kyrgyz side will complete on schedule the development goals set in the National Development Program through 2030 (2030年前国家发展纲要), including sustainable growth, improvement of people's living standards, and enhancement of social welfare.
The two sides will be guided by head-of-state diplomacy, firmly implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state, and promote the all-round, high-quality development of China-Kyrgyzstan relations.
The two sides will further intensify high-level exchanges, ensure the smooth operation of existing cooperation mechanisms and platforms at the governmental, legislative, and local levels, and actively study the establishment of new cooperation mechanisms and the creation of new growth points.
The two sides emphasized that the establishment of a strategic dialogue mechanism between the two foreign ministers is of great significance and expressed their willingness to give play to the role of this mechanism to promote bilateral cooperation.
Second, the two sides emphasized their willingness to jointly safeguard regional security and stability, deepen law enforcement and security cooperation on the basis of strictly abiding by the laws of both countries and international obligations, and maintain close exchanges and mutual visits between competent authorities.
The two sides share the same position on combating terrorism, separatism, and extremism and are willing to continue to make coordinated responses to traditional and non-traditional security threats and challenges, and jointly combat the "three forces" (三股势力) as well as organized crime, drug trafficking, cyber fraud, illegal immigration, and smuggling activities.
The two sides will continue to deepen defense cooperation within bilateral and multilateral frameworks, strengthen practical exchanges in group visits, personnel training, and joint counter-terrorism exercises, and safeguard the common interests of both sides and regional security.
The two sides pointed out that against the backdrop of the global technological revolution, it is necessary to strengthen cooperation in cybersecurity, information security, and artificial intelligence.
The two sides will make active efforts to ensure the safe implementation of strategic cooperation projects.
The two sides will continue to strengthen coordination in emergency response, rescue of disaster victims, work safety, and joint exercises and training of search and rescue personnel.
Third, the two sides are willing to strengthen practical cooperation in trade, investment, innovation, development, and other fields, promote the comprehensive, high-quality development of China-Kyrgyzstan relations, promote the common prosperity of the two countries, and enhance the well-being of the two peoples:
— The two sides spoke highly of the fruitful outcomes of China-Kyrgyzstan high-quality Belt and Road cooperation and will continue to promote the alignment of the Belt and Road Initiative with Kyrgyzstan's National Development Program through 2030, ensuring the smooth progress of practical cooperation projects between the two countries in various fields;
— To advance bilateral economic and trade cooperation in an all-round way, the two sides will give full play to the role of the China-Kyrgyzstan Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation and its subordinate mechanisms, including the Working Group on Trade and Economic Cooperation between China's Xinjiang and Kyrgyzstan's Adjacent Areas and the China-Kyrgyzstan Working Group on Investment and Industrial Cooperation;
— The two sides will expand the scale of bilateral trade, optimize the trade structure, raise the level of trade liberalization and facilitation, and strengthen cooperation in e-commerce and the digital economy;
— The two sides will support exchanges between the two countries' trade and investment promotion agencies and business associations, and encourage official and business delegations of the two countries to participate in major forums and exhibitions held by each other;
— The two sides will strengthen investment cooperation in processing and manufacturing, agriculture, logistics, infrastructure construction, industry, new-generation information technology, automobiles, heavy machinery, and minerals; strictly abide by the laws of both countries and the principles of sustainable development; promote the high-quality development of mutual investment; ensure strategic and priority projects; hold investment forums, organize business inspections, and carry out other activities; promote efficient collaboration between investors and state institutions; and expand the "one-stop service" mechanism;
— The two sides will support the Ministry of Economy and Commerce of Kyrgyzstan, China Development Bank, and the Silk Road Fund in continuing to strengthen cooperation, and jointly expand investment in Kyrgyzstan within the framework of existing investment and financing cooperation platforms;
— The two sides will actively advance cooperation in the financial sector, support eligible Kyrgyz banks in joining the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS), study the possibility of Chinese banks opening branches in Kyrgyzstan, establish correspondent accounts between the banks of the two countries, and expand local currency settlement in bilateral trade and investment;
— The two sides will continue to advance the negotiation process of the Agreement on Trade in Services and Investment between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic;
— The two sides will actively implement the Agreement between the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China and the Customs Service of the Kyrgyz Republic on the Establishment of the China-Kyrgyzstan Port Management Cooperation Committee, jointly improve port inspection efficiency and work coordination, ensure the smooth operation of China-Kyrgyzstan border ports, and create favorable conditions for the trade growth of the two countries and the region. The two sides will dynamically adjust the working hours of the Irkeshtam (伊尔克什坦) and Torugart (吐尔尕特) ports in light of actual cargo throughput and clearance conditions;
— The two sides will promote cooperation in the customs field, advance the interconnection and interoperability of "single window" mechanisms, introduce modern customs supervision and automated customs management mechanisms, strengthen cooperation in animal and plant inspection and quarantine, promote mutual trade, enhance the transparency of import and export operations, and raise the level of customs supervision;
— The two sides will tap the potential of agricultural cooperation and expand market access for high-quality Kyrgyz agricultural products to China. The two sides support the export of Kyrgyz grain to China through existing ports and promote China-Kyrgyzstan trade in agricultural products;
— The two sides will strengthen cooperation in transportation and logistics, build stable and smooth transportation corridors, and create favorable conditions for opening new direct and transit routes. The two sides support the opening of new air routes between the two countries;
— The two sides agreed to accelerate the study of the Agreement between the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic on International Road Transport;
— The two sides will ensure the smooth and timely implementation of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway project and create favorable and mutually beneficial conditions for ensuring the project's freight volume and efficiency;
— The two sides will accelerate the infrastructure construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan Bedel (别迭里) port and the construction of the Barskoon (巴尔斯科恩)-Bedel-Ush (乌什)-Aksu (阿克苏) highway, and strive to realize the official opening and operation of the Bedel port for passenger and cargo functions at an early date;
— The two sides will strengthen cooperation in the energy sector, ensure the stability of the production and supply chain of the fuel and energy complex, strengthen cooperation in the joint extraction of oil, gas, and coal, deepen cooperation in wind power, solar power, and hydropower, and ensure the smooth operation of corresponding infrastructure and the unimpeded transportation of energy resources. The two sides support enterprises of the two countries in jointly developing joint projects in the field of renewable energy;
— The two sides will expand cooperation in addressing climate change and preventing natural disasters.
Fourth, the two sides firmly believe that people-to-people and cultural cooperation is an important long-term foundation for enhancing mutual understanding and good-neighborly friendship between the peoples of China and Kyrgyzstan, and are willing to further strengthen cooperation in culture, healthcare, poverty reduction, sports, media, film production, and youth, and promote exchanges and cooperation between the two countries' research institutions and archival institutions.
The two sides will continue to deepen cooperation in education and strengthen cooperation in higher education, vocational education, language teaching, teacher education, teacher-student exchanges, and the joint training of outstanding engineers and other experts. The two sides welcome the establishment of the China-Kyrgyzstan Academy of Outstanding Engineers.
The two sides will continue to strengthen cooperation in science and technology, give full play to the role of the China-Kyrgyzstan Science and Technology Cooperation Committee, implement joint scientific research projects, build cooperation platforms such as joint laboratories, and support exchanges and mutual visits between young scientists of the two sides.
The two sides are willing to deepen cooperation between the two countries' research institutions, support expert exchanges, regular consultations, and other activities, and conduct joint analytical research on cooperation priority directions such as regional security, sustainable development, green growth, and digital transformation.
The Chinese side speaks highly of the anniversary meeting of the Issyk-Kul Forum named after Aitmatov held in Cholpon-Ata (乔蓬阿塔), which carried forward the ideas of Kyrgyz writer and thinker Aitmatov on humanism and mutual understanding and solidarity.
The two sides are willing to further strengthen healthcare cooperation, give full play to the role of the Health Express (健康快车) China-Kyrgyzstan Blindness Prevention Cooperation Center, and ensure that cooperation projects benefit the Kyrgyz people to a greater extent.
The Chinese side welcomes the holding of the 6th World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan. The Kyrgyz side thanks the Chinese delegation for its active participation in this event and looks forward to China's continued participation. The Chinese side supports the Kyrgyz side's initiative to promote nomadic civilization and traditional culture as an important part of global cultural diversity.
The two sides believe that it is of great significance to respect the history, culture, and traditions of the two peoples. The two sides will carry out academic exchanges and joint historical research, actively interpret historical truths, prevent the distortion of history, and protect the historical and cultural heritage of the two peoples.
The two sides will further deepen cooperation in radio, television, and audiovisual fields, including policy dialogue, program production and broadcasting, application of new technologies, talent cultivation, and bilateral and multilateral major events, and jointly tell the story of China-Kyrgyzstan friendship well.
The two sides are willing to expand local cooperation and deepen cooperation and exchanges between provinces, states, and cities of the two countries in various fields.
The two sides will strengthen tourism cooperation, expand the number of tourists traveling between the two countries in an orderly manner, and are willing to continue to create safe and favorable conditions for the travel of citizens of the two countries.
The two sides will continue to facilitate visa policies.
The two sides will continue the good momentum of cooperation within the framework of the Treaty between China and Kyrgyzstan on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons.
Fifth, facing current global challenges, the two sides will firmly uphold the international system with the United Nations at its core, the international order based on international law, and the basic norms of international relations based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter. The two sides are committed to promoting an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, oppose unilateralism and protectionism in all forms, call for practicing true multilateralism, promote the democratization of international relations, and jointly safeguard international fairness and justice. The two sides will strengthen coordination and cooperation within the framework of the United Nations, maintain cooperation on matters of common concern in multilateral settings, and promote the building of a more just and equitable global governance system.
The Kyrgyz side highly appreciates and supports the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind proposed by China, as well as the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative. The above concepts and initiatives are of great significance for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals and safeguarding world security and development.
The Chinese side congratulates Kyrgyzstan on its election as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for 2027-2028 and will support the efforts made by the Kyrgyz side during its tenure to consolidate world peace and security, promote the practice of multilateralism, and uphold the international rule of law.
The Chinese side welcomes Kyrgyzstan's accession to the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (世界人工智能合作组织) to jointly advance global artificial intelligence cooperation and the development of practical cooperation between the two countries.
The Chinese side welcomes Kyrgyzstan's accession to the International Organization for Mediation (国际调解院). The two sides are willing to strengthen cooperation in the field of mediation and jointly promote the International Organization for Mediation to play a positive role in peacefully resolving international disputes and promoting friendly cooperation among member states.
The two sides pointed out that the two countries have made important contributions to the creation of the "Shanghai Five" mechanism and the establishment and development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and reaffirmed their willingness to consolidate the role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as the most important platform for maintaining regional security and stability and sustainable development.
The Kyrgyz side speaks highly of the significance of the SCO Tianjin Summit in promoting the high-quality development of the organization and is willing to work with China to continue implementing the consensus reached.
The Chinese side speaks highly of the work done by the Kyrgyz side during its presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization from 2025 to 2026 under the slogan "The 25th Anniversary of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Working Together toward Sustainable Peace, Development and Prosperity," and points out that the Bishkek Declaration is of great significance. The Chinese side emphasizes that the Kyrgyz side, as the presidency, has played a notable coordinating role in continuously advancing common initiatives, pooling the joint efforts of the member states of the organization, and deepening solidarity and practical cooperation among member states.
The two sides note with satisfaction that important progress has been made in the establishment of the SCO Development Bank, and emphasize accelerating the preparatory process for the SCO Development Bank to ensure that the bank is put into operation as soon as possible, so as to help deepen economic cooperation, expand project financing support, promote regional development, prosperity, and solidarity, and consolidate regional security and stability. The two sides will continue to actively advance the above work.
The two sides reaffirm the great significance of establishing as soon as possible in Bishkek the Center for Combating Transnational Organized Crime under the SCO Comprehensive Center for Responding to Security Threats and Challenges. The two sides believe that the establishment of the center will enhance the efficiency of cooperation in responding to transnational organized crime, separatism, and extremism, and ensure regional security and stability.
The two sides speak highly of the important role played by the China-Central Asia mechanism (中国—中亚机制) in strengthening coordination between China and Central Asian countries, are willing to strengthen cooperation within the framework of the China-Central Asia mechanism, continue to hold relevant activities within the framework of the "China-Central Asia Year of High-Quality Development Cooperation" (中国—中亚合作高质量发展年) in 2025-2026, and will strive to ensure the complete success of the third China-Central Asia Summit to be held in China in 2027.
The two sides are willing to deepen cooperation in environmental protection, addressing climate change, and the promotion of the mountain agenda.
The Chinese side positively evaluates the resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly at the initiative of the Kyrgyz side, including the declaration of the implementation of the Five-Year Program for Mountain Development (山区发展五年纲要) from 2023 to 2027 and the establishment of World Snow Leopard Day, and supports the Kyrgyz side in hosting the "Bishkek+25" Second Global Mountain Summit in 2027.
Sixth, the two sides believe that this meeting between the two heads of state is of great significance for promoting the high-quality development of the China-Kyrgyzstan comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era. The two heads of state will maintain regular communication to provide strategic guidance for the high-quality development of the China-Kyrgyzstan comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era.
Seventh, Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China, expressed sincere gratitude to President Japarov of the Kyrgyz Republic and the people of Kyrgyzstan for the warm and friendly reception accorded to the Chinese delegation, and invited President Japarov to visit China at a convenient time.
People's Republic of China Kyrgyz Republic
Chairman President
Bishkek, August 31, 2026
(Xinhua News Agency, Bishkek, August 31)
Return to TopAn Authoritative Textbook for Studying and Implementing Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building in Depth
Vice President of the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee Huang Yibing (黄一兵)
In June this year, under the unified deployment of the Party Central Committee, Volume I and Volume II of the Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building (《习近平党建文选》) (hereinafter referred to as the Selected Works) were officially published. This is a major event in the political life of the Party and the state, and also a major measure for deeply advancing full and rigorous Party self-governance (全面从严治党). This special-topic selected works is a comprehensive work of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxist party-building theory, providing an authoritative textbook for studying and implementing Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building (习近平党建思想) in depth.
The Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee feels greatly honored to have undertaken the editing and publication of this work. In the editing work, we firmly grasped the fundamental principles of editing the works of a leader, combined them with the theoretical characteristics of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, upheld integrity and innovated in the overall planning and editorial approach of the book, and strove to create a scientific theoretical work integrating seriousness and authority, comprehensiveness and systematicity, and originality and ideological depth.
First, we focused on grasping the high unity of historical logic and theoretical logic, presenting a panoramic view of the historical development trajectory of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. Opening this weighty Selected Works, we can feel from 字里行间 (zì lǐ háng jiān - "between the lines of text," in the words between the lines) the historical pulse of full and rigorous Party self-governance in the new era, and in the surging intermingling of theory and practice, deeply appreciate the magnificent course of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building from its founding to its continuous enrichment. The opening piece of this work begins with the Party's 18th National Congress, starting with General Secretary Xi Jinping's solemn commitment that "to forge iron, one must be strong oneself" (打铁还需自身硬). Thereafter, "full and rigorous Party self-governance" was incorporated into the "Four Comprehensives" (四个全面) strategic layout, and at the Party's 19th National Congress, the declaration was made that "to forge iron, one must be strong oneself," promoting the profound transformation of Party management and governance from "loose, soft, and lax" to "strict, tight, and hard." The 46 works collected in Volume I of the Selected Works systematically outline the clear trajectory of the initial formation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building during this period in responding to the challenges of the times and solving practical problems. The 56 works collected in Volume II, especially the important expositions since the Party's 20th National Congress, vividly reflect the continued enrichment and elevation of this thought. From putting forward the major proposition of the unique challenges of a major party (大党独有难题), deploying the major measure of improving the system for full and rigorous Party self-governance, to emphasizing adherence to managing and governing the Party with the spirit of reform and strict standards, and advancing full and rigorous Party self-governance with higher standards and more concrete measures, this marks that our Party's understanding of the laws of building a Marxist governing party has reached an 前所未有 (qián suǒ wèi yǒu - "never before existed," unprecedented) new height. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building profoundly summarizes our Party's historical experience of long-term governance and the fresh experience of managing and governing the Party in the new era, and is the theoretical crystallization of accurately grasping the general trend of history and winning the historical initiative in managing and governing the Party.
Second, we focused on grasping the high unity of epistemology and methodology, systematically reflecting the scientific theoretical system of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. The Selected Works comprehensively and systematically presents the scientific connotation of the "Fourteen Perseverances" (十四个坚持). The collected texts contain both profound theoretical elaboration and clear practical requirements, profoundly answering the dialectical unity of "how to view" and "how to do," and painting a "theoretical panorama" that is complete in system and unified in knowledge and action, 知行合一 (zhī xíng hé yī - "knowledge and action are one," the unity of knowledge and action). At the epistemological level, the Selected Works not only demonstrates the epistemological essence of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, which takes the "Two Combinations" (两个结合) as its fundamental path and adheres to 实事求是 (shí shì qiú shì - "seek truth from actual facts," to seek truth from facts), but also systematically presents a series of original viewpoints and principle-level achievements formed by deeply integrating Marxist party-building theory with China's concrete realities and fine traditional Chinese culture. At the methodological level, the Selected Works centrally reflects that Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building both deploys the task of "crossing the river" in full and rigorous Party self-governance and guides the solution of the methodological problem of "bridges or boats" in how to manage and govern the Party, containing leadership methods, thinking methods, and working methods that transform scientific theory into practical guides. This organic unity of epistemology and methodology, 明体达用 (míng tǐ dá yòng - "illuminate the substance and reach its application," to understand principles and apply them in practice) and 体用贯通 (tǐ yòng guàn tōng - "substance and application interpenetrate," the thorough integration of theory and practice), both reveals the intrinsic laws of full and rigorous Party self-governance and provides a complete and systematic program of action, establishing the fundamental guide for advancing the great new project of Party building (党的建设新的伟大工程) in the new era.
Third, we focused on grasping the high unity of the power of truth and the power of personality, fully demonstrating the distinct theoretical character of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. Editing the Selected Works was not only a theoretical tempering in appreciating the mighty power of Marxist thought, but also a spiritual baptism in deeply experiencing the political wisdom, radiance of thought, and personal charisma of General Secretary Xi Jinping as the leader of a major party and a major country. In the editing work, we focused on grasping the unique and distinct theoretical character of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, fully displaying its firm ideals and convictions, high degree of historical initiative, distinct problem orientation, strong sense of mission and responsibility, deep feelings for the people, and scientific thinking methods, striving to comprehensively present the theoretical depth and spiritual height of this thought. At the same time, writing style reflects work style and carries thought. We adhere to the integration of "literary form" and "substance," and in title refinement and content selection, we remain faithful to the General Secretary's plain and powerful writing style, make good use of famous quotes and golden sentences that strike straight at the heart, and excavate down-to-earth vivid expositions and moving details, striving to build a new-era work of a leader that is rich in political leading power, ideological inspirational power, and spiritual appeal.
Study and Use the Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building Well, Open Up New Prospects for High-Quality Development of Party Building in Party and State Organs
Guo Wenqi (郭文奇), Deputy Secretary in Charge of Day-to-Day Work of the Central and State Organs Work Commission (中央和国家机关工委)
Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building is a major achievement of our Party in advancing theoretical innovation by adhering to the "Two Combinations," and has major practical significance and long-term guiding significance for strengthening the Party and the country. General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward clear requirements for comprehensively implementing the Thought on Party Building for the new era in his important "July 1" speech. The Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building provides an authoritative textbook for helping the broad masses of Party members, cadres, and the people to study and implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building in depth. The establishment of the "Research Center for Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building" (习近平党建思想研究中心) by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee will play a powerful role in promoting the deepening of study, publicity, implementation, research, and interpretation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building.
The Central and State Organs are the first phalanx in practicing the "Two Upholds" (两个维护) and the "first kilometer" in implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee. Comrade Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central and State Organs Work Commission, emphasized and made deployments on the study and implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building by the Central and State Organs at the commendation conference for "Two Excellences and One Advanced" (两优一先) in the Central and State Organs. Recently, the Central and State Organs Work Commission, by convening a symposium on studying and implementing Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building in the Central and State Organs, organizing "attending the same class together," and other means, has promoted Party members and cadres of the Central and State Organs to take the lead in studying and using the Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building well, embodying and implementing the "Fourteen Perseverances" in the entire process and all aspects of Party building in the organs, and promoting high-quality development with high-quality Party building.
First, adhere to the highest principle. Closely focus on upholding and strengthening the Party's overall leadership, especially the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, in planning and advancing all Party building work in the organs. Deepen the building of model organs that "stress politics, observe discipline, take responsibility, and are efficient," continuously strengthen education on the awareness of being political organs, deepen the application of the "study, examination, and rectification" (学查改) working mechanism, promote the improvement of mechanisms for implementing the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments and General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and directives, and guide Party members and cadres to firmly support the "Two Establishments" (两个确立) and resolutely achieve the "Two Upholds" with practical actions, to serve well as the "three examples" (三个表率) and march well in the first phalanx.
Second, grasp the mission and tasks. Firmly grasp the functional positioning of centering on the central tasks, building the ranks, and serving the masses, place Party building in the organs in the coordinate system of the era of Chinese modernization, focus on advancing economic construction as the central task and high-quality development as the primary task, promote the deep integration of Party building and professional work, and effectively transform the Party's political and organizational advantages into developmental advantages and governance effectiveness.
Third, emphasize systematic advancement. Firmly establish an overall perspective and systematic thinking, consciously apply the scientific methods contained in Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, and make efforts in forward-looking thinking, overall planning, and holistic advancement. Implement the requirements put forward by the General Secretary to take the lead in achieving the "Two Upholds," take the lead in deepening theoretical armed, take the lead in consolidating the grassroots foundation, and take the lead in rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and combating corruption, and do a good job in all Party building work in the organs with higher standards, stricter requirements, and more concrete measures. Build a strong Institute of Party Building for Party and State Organs (机关党建研究所) under the Commission, give play to the role of the Special Committee on Party and State Organs of the National Party Building Research Association (全国党建研究会机关专委会), and use high-quality research results to help comprehensively improve the quality and effectiveness of Party building in the organs.
Fourth, compact the chain of responsibility. Firmly grasp the "ox nose" — the key lever — of the responsibility system, continuously do a good job in studying and implementing the opinions on department Party groups (Party committees) implementing the main responsibility for Party building in the organs, improve the mechanisms for regular communication, work consultation, and research visits, promote the refinement and substantiation of responsibility lists, coordinate training for new members of department Party group (Party committee) leading bodies on implementing "one post, dual responsibilities" (一岗双责) and responsibility-fulfillment training for secretaries of organ Party committees and deputy secretaries in charge of day-to-day work, do solid work in special supervision, work report and evaluation by review, improve the responsibility system with clear responsibility assignment, adequate responsibility fulfillment, strong responsibility supervision, and precise responsibility assessment, and build a work pattern of joint management.
Comprehensively Implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, Advance the Building of a Strong Financial Country with High-Quality Party Building
Wang Jiang (王江), Deputy Director in Charge of Day-to-Day Work of the Central Financial Office (中央金融办) and Deputy Secretary in Charge of Day-to-Day Work of the Central Financial Work Commission (中央金融工委)
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that whether Party building is done well concerns the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the financial system and determines the success or failure of the financial cause. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building is the chapter on Party building in Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, providing the fundamental guide and action guide for solidly and forcefully advancing Party building work in the financial system. We must study and implement this thought in depth, continuously promote the deep integration of Party building work with financial risk prevention, stronger regulation, and promotion of high-quality development, and advance the building of a strong financial country with high-quality Party building.
First, raise the political position and continuously enhance the political consciousness, ideological consciousness, and action consciousness of studying and implementing Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building centrally embodies our Party's political will, political stance, political propositions, and political wisdom in managing and governing the Party and prospering and strengthening the Party, and points out the correct political direction for Party building in the new era. We deeply recognize that we must firmly grasp the political nature and people's nature of financial work, unswervingly uphold the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over financial work, resolutely stand firm on the people's standpoint, safeguard the people's interests, and ensure that the financial cause always advances in the correct direction. The Central Financial Office and the Central Financial Work Commission adhere to taking the study and implementation of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building as an important political task for the current and future period, deeply study the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important "July 1" speech, study and comprehend the Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building carefully, research and formulate work plans, and conscientiously do a good job in implementation. The conference on Party building work in the financial system made specific deployments for studying and implementing Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building. We will further promote the financial system to deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments" in studying deeply and comprehending thoroughly, strengthen the "Four Consciousnesses" (四个意识), firm up the "Four Confidences" (四个自信), and achieve the "Two Upholds."
Second, do a good job in study and publicity, and continuously deepen the arming of the financial system with the Party's innovative theory. We adhere to taking Volume I and Volume II of the Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building as important content for the study of theoretical study center groups and the "Three Meetings and One Lecture" (三会一课) of Party branches, organize Party members and cadres to read the original works, study the original texts, and comprehend the principles, deeply understand the connotation and essential meaning of the "Fourteen Perseverances," comprehensively and accurately grasp their true meaning and ideological essence, and continuously promote study to go deeper, more practical, and more into the heart. Take Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building as a required course in the education and training of Party members and cadres, hold a special seminar on high-quality Party building leading high-quality financial development at the Central Party School, and educate and guide Party members and cadres in the financial system to consciously transform the mighty power of thought into a powerful driving force for promoting high-quality development. We will closely focus on the actual work of the financial system, organize full-coverage study and training by level and category, by phase and batch, promptly summarize and promote good experiences and good practices, explain Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building clearly, vividly, and thoroughly in ways that Party members and cadres are 喜闻乐见 (xǐ wén lè jiàn - "glad to hear and eager to see," loved and welcomed), and promote the Party's innovative theory to enter the mind and heart and show results in action and effect.
Third, based on work functions, solidly promote the implementation and carrying out of Party building work in the financial system. We will take Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building as the guide, continuously strengthen the Party's political building, improve and perfect the Party building management systems and mechanisms of the financial system, straighten out the Party building management system of local financial institutions, and continuously promote the transformation of the Party's political and organizational advantages into financial governance effectiveness. Compact and consolidate the political responsibility for managing and governing the Party, deepen the rectification of central inspections and audit rectification, and advance in depth the rectification of conduct, enforcement of discipline, and combating of corruption. Adhere to empowering the building of a strong financial country with Party building, coordinate and advance all work of financial risk prevention, stronger regulation, and promotion of high-quality development, and provide strong financial support for high-quality economic and social development.
Study and Use the Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building Well, Continuously Promote Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building to Enter Textbooks, Classrooms, and Minds
Xiong Sihao (熊四皓), Vice Minister of Education and Member of the Party Leadership Group
The Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building is an authoritative textbook for studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in depth, especially Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, and is conducive to guiding the whole Party and the whole society to deepen political identity, ideological identity, theoretical identity, and emotional identity. The education system adheres to walking in the forefront and setting an example in studying, publicizing, and implementing the Party's innovative theory, and in deeply studying and carefully comprehending Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, further deeply comprehends the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," resolutely achieves the "Two Upholds," and supports and leads the building of a strong education country with high-quality Party building.
First, adhere to casting the soul through study, and continuously promote Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building to enter the mind and heart. Take studying and using the Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building well as an important political task. Members of the Ministry's Party Leadership Group take the lead in studying the original text, studying in a timely manner, and studying in connection with reality, promoting Party members, cadres, teachers, and students in the education system to rapidly set off an upsurge of study and implementation. Incorporate Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building into the theoretical study of Party organizations at all levels in the education system and the required courses of basic training for cadres and Party members, hold special seminars for the main responsible comrades of Party and government leadership in universities directly under the Ministry, and further comprehend Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building deeply, grasp it accurately, and implement it in place. Adhere to the synchronous advancement of ideological and political course construction and the arming of the Party's innovative theory, develop fine-quality major courses and typical cases, deepen the learning and sharing of "General Secretary Xi Jinping Together with College Students" (习近平总书记与大学生在一起), solidly promote Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building to enter textbooks, classrooms, and minds, and effectively guide the broad masses of students to consciously listen to the Party's words and follow the Party.
Second, adhere to promoting study through research, and continuously deepen the research and interpretation of the Party's innovative theory. Effectively give play to the advantages of the education system in gathering talent and resources, fully give play to the role of the Research Centers for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in the education system, coordinate and integrate the research forces of Marxist schools in universities and key research bases for humanities and social sciences, actively support the related work of the Research Center for Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, focus on the major significance, scientific connotation, theoretical character, practical foundation, and theoretical origins of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, focus on the glorious course traversed by the Communist Party of China, the great achievements attained, and the incomparable excellent qualities it possesses, organize systematic and theoretical research and interpretation, and strive to produce a batch of weighty and influential theoretical achievements. Take Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building as the fundamental guide and first priority for the discipline development of CPC history and Party building studies, accelerate the construction of an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences, and contribute educational strength to enriching and developing the theory of Party building in the new era.
Third, adhere to seeking practical results through action, and strive to promote the implementation and
Return to TopReported from Beijing, August 31 (Reporters He Siqi (何思琦), Song Chaojun (宋朝军)). The release ceremony of the "China Good Person List" (中国好人榜) was held on August 31 at Chengji Cultural Square (成纪文化广场) in Jingning County (静宁县), Pingliang City (平凉市), Gansu Province, where the second batch of the 2026 "China Good Person List" was unveiled at the scene. Through such procedures as recommendations from various localities, online public appraisal, and expert review, a total of 150 good people around us—助人为乐 (zhù rén wéi lè - "help others, regard it as joy," to delight in helping others), 见义勇为 (jiàn yì yǒng wéi - "see righteousness, act bravely," to courageously do what is right), honest and trustworthy, dedicated and devoted, and filial to elders and loving to kin—were honorably named to the list.
Among those listed were Chen Yanshou (陈延寿), deputy captain of the Blue Sky Rescue Team (蓝天救援队), who unfortunately sacrificed his life while carrying out a mission and practiced the Lei Feng Spirit (雷锋精神) with his life; Zhong Gengping (钟耿平), a sanitation worker aged over sixty who jumped into the sea 11 times over 11 years to save 7 people; Jiang Shilin (蒋石林), whose five generations of one family over 92 years have successively kept watch over the graves of Red Army martyrs; He Jiaolong (贺娇龙), a grassroots cadre rooted in border areas who helped farmers and practiced the mission of serving the people with her life; and Dong Haixiu (董海秀), a retired teacher who cared for her family without complaint or regret, guarding with her frail shoulders the health and well-being of three generations of her family. They were born ordinary, yet with 惊天动地 (jīng tiān dòng dì - "startle heaven, shake earth," earth-shattering) good deeds they created the extraordinary, fostering in the whole society a trend of the times that is upward and toward goodness. At the event, China Good Persons Mao Guowei (冒国伟), Zhang Zhiyong (张智勇), Gu Yanling (顾艳玲), Wei Huaiyin (韦怀银), and Peng Ziwen (彭子文) shared their moving stories, and National Moral Models (全国道德模范) Guo Wangang (郭万刚), Zhang Yunxia (张云霞), Wang Dongmei (王冬梅), Leng Mu (冷木), and Liang Qianjuan (梁倩娟) exchanged views with them.
This release ceremony was hosted by the Central Office for Building Spiritual Civilization (中央精神文明建设办公室); undertaken by China Spiritual Civilization Web (中国精神文明网), the Film Channel Program Center (电影频道节目中心), and the Publicity Department of the CPC Gansu Provincial Committee (Gansu Provincial Office for Building Spiritual Civilization) (中共甘肃省委宣传部、甘肃省精神文明建设办公室); and co-organized by the Publicity Department of the CPC Pingliang Municipal Committee (Pingliang Municipal Office for Building Spiritual Civilization) (中共平凉市委宣传部、平凉市精神文明建设办公室).
Return to TopJinan, August 31 (Reporter Hou Linliang (侯琳良)) — The 30th Shandong-Taiwan Economic and Trade Fair, co-hosted by the Shandong Provincial People's Government and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council (国务院台办), opened on August 31 in Weifang, Shandong.
Song Tao (宋涛), director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the CPC Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said in his speech that General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that the goal of developing cross-strait relations is to enable compatriots on both sides of the strait to live better lives. The 15th Five-Year Plan (十五五) has drawn a grand blueprint for the country's economic and social development and provides tremendous opportunities for Taiwanese businessmen and enterprises to deepen their development on the mainland. We will fully leverage the ten policy measures for promoting cross-strait exchanges and cooperation, as well as the effectiveness of various policies, implement equal treatment, support transformation and upgrading, and improve service guarantees, so as to help Taiwanese businessmen and enterprises better share in the development opportunities and achievements of the mainland. We hope that our Taiwanese compatriots will adhere to the One-China Principle and the 1992 Consensus (九二共识), resolutely oppose "Taiwan independence" separatist activities and foreign interference, and unite their hearts and pool their strength to promote the peaceful development of cross-strait relations and advance the process of national reunification.
Lin Wu (林武), secretary of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee, said that in recent years, we have deeply studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on work related to Taiwan, promoted the continuous deepening of exchanges and cooperation between Shandong and Taiwan, and achieved positive results. Looking to the future, we are willing to work together with our Taiwanese compatriots to deepen industrial cooperation, jointly expand broad markets, deeply cultivate the fertile soil of agriculture, and jointly promote cultural and people-to-people exchanges, continuously opening up new prospects for Shandong-Taiwan cooperation. We will conscientiously implement the relevant policies and measures, so that Taiwanese businessmen and compatriots can invest with confidence, develop with peace of mind, and live comfortably in Shandong.
Xiao Xucen (萧旭岑), vice chairman of the Kuomintang, on behalf of the Kuomintang, expressed deep condolences and sympathy to the compatriots who lost their lives and those affected by the mudslide disaster in Gyirong, Tibet (吉隆). He said that the blood, cultural, and historical ties between the two sides of the strait are profound, and exchanges and cooperation on the basis of adhering to the 1992 Consensus and opposing "Taiwan independence" have yielded fruitful results. It is hoped that the two sides will strengthen exchanges and cooperation in science and technology, agriculture, youth, and other fields, join hands for common development, and work with one heart toward the future.
This year's Shandong-Taiwan Economic and Trade Fair was held in Weifang, known as the "World Kite Capital" and "International Power City," under the theme "Seize the Momentum to Forge Ahead in the '15th Five-Year Plan' Period, Shandong and Taiwan Jointly Paint a New Picture," and included a series of exchange activities covering industrial integration, modern agriculture, green chemicals, marine economy, intelligent manufacturing, youth entrepreneurship, and vocational education. About 800 people from all walks of life on both sides of the strait attended the fair.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘志强
This year, the rapid growth of investment in intellectual property products has become a highlight in the investment field. What is investment in intellectual property products, what is its growth trend, and what does it mean? On related questions, a reporter conducted an exclusive interview with the relevant leading official of the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局).
Reporter: What content does investment in intellectual property products include?
Answer: Investment in intellectual property products is the investment in the production and purchase of intellectual property products completed during the reporting period. It mainly includes investment in computer software and databases, investment in research and development, investment in mineral exploration and evaluation, and investment in original works of entertainment, literature, and art. From 2021 to 2025, investment in computer software and databases and investment in research and development together accounted for more than 95 percent. As the process of domestic substitution continues to accelerate, market demand for chips continues to rise, and the scale of Internet data services expands, investment in computer software and databases has grown rapidly. From January to July this year, investment in computer software and databases grew by 10.7 percent, driving the growth of total investment in intellectual property products by 5.2 percentage points.
The 2008 System of National Accounts first introduced the concept of intellectual property products. In accordance with internationally accepted national economic accounting standards, China incorporated intellectual property products into national economic accounting in the China National Economic Accounting System (2016) (中国国民经济核算体系（2016）). To meet the needs of national economic accounting, reflect enterprises' investment in research and development, software, databases, and other fields, and monitor new progress and new achievements in developing new quality productive forces (新质生产力) and pursuing high-quality development, the National Bureau of Statistics, with reference to international practice and in light of China's actual conditions, established a statistical monitoring system for investment in intellectual property products and began statistical monitoring of investment in intellectual property products in 2021.
Reporter: What has been the growth trend of China's investment in intellectual property products in recent years?
Answer: China has vigorously implemented the innovation-driven development strategy and developed new quality productive forces in light of local conditions (因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "act according to local conditions," to adapt measures to local conditions)). Investment in intellectual property products has overall shown a rapid growth trend.
From 2023 to 2025, investment in intellectual property products grew by 11.7 percent, 8.0 percent, and 8.1 percent respectively; from January to July this year, investment in intellectual property products grew by 9.1 percent. From 2022 to 2025, the scale of investment in intellectual property products continued to expand, and its share in total fixed-asset investment of the whole society continued to rise, at 11.0 percent, 12.0 percent, 12.6 percent, and 14.1 percent respectively. From January to July this year, investment in intellectual property products accounted for 14.8 percent of total investment, up 2.1 percentage points from the same period last year, driving total investment growth by 1.2 percentage points, and is an important force driving the growth of total investment.
Reporter: What does the rapid growth of investment in intellectual property products mean?
Answer: The rapid growth of investment in intellectual property products has become a powerful lever for innovation-driven development, cultivating new quality productive forces, and expanding effective investment.
At the national level, the state has vigorously implemented the innovation-driven development strategy, improved supporting policies such as research and development incentives, transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and financial empowerment. For example, it has introduced tax incentive policies such as preferential tax rates for high-tech enterprises and additional deduction of research and development expenses, carried out the "AI + Software" special action (人工智能+软件), and deeply implemented the Industrial Internet Innovation and Development Project (工业互联网创新发展工程). It guides social capital to increase investment in intellectual property products, continuously activates investment vitality, fully releases the driving effect of innovation on economic growth, and lays a solid policy foundation for industrial upgrading and high-quality economic development.
At the enterprise level, enterprises continue to increase research and development efforts, invest more resources in intellectual property products such as software and databases, and, relying on policy dividends, accelerate the transformation and implementation of achievements in digitalization, intelligence, and informatization. On the one hand, relying on carriers such as industrial software and industrial Internet platforms, they empower the digital transformation of traditional industries and effectively enhance the competitiveness of traditional industries; on the other hand, they deeply cultivate tracks such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and big data, cultivate strategic emerging industries and future industries, empower industrial development with technological innovation, and help the economy move toward the high-quality development stage led by innovation.
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From January to July, it grew 9.1% year-on-year; its share of total investment was 14.8%, up 2.1 percentage points from the same period last year; it drove overall investment growth by 1.2 percentage points — since the beginning of this year, intellectual property product investment has grown rapidly, becoming a bright spot in the investment field worthy of attention.
Intellectual property product investment is dominated by intellectual activities, and its output results are mainly intangible assets such as technological achievements, software, and data. Unlike infrastructure investment such as railways, highways, and airports, which is "visible and tangible," it can nurture innovation and promote development. Its rapid growth is a vivid portrayal of the Chinese economy developing toward the new, the excellent, and the good.
From this, one can see the continuous rise of the "intelligence content" (含智量) of development. The improvement of "intelligence content" stems from the leveraging effect of traditional industries. From textiles, steel, petroleum and petrochemicals to automobiles, ships, and mechanical equipment, enterprises one after another advancing "intelligent transformation and digital transformation" (智改数转) and building intelligent factories all depend on the support of industrial software, industrial internet, and databases, and on the construction of intelligent manufacturing systems. From "competing with sweat" to "competing with wisdom," industrial upgrading and transformation, 源源不断 (yuán yuán bù duàn - "stream after stream without end," ceaselessly), generates increments in intellectual property product investment.
The improvement of "intelligence content" stems from the strong pull of emerging industries and future industries. In the past two years, as computing power demand continues to expand, investment in the entire computing power industry chain, covering basic materials, hardware manufacturing, and terminal applications, has increased substantially. Not only the computing power industry — artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, industrial software, biomedicine, high-end materials... many emerging industries and future industries have higher technological content and higher innovation density, and place higher demands on enterprise technology research and development. Their robust growth effectively drives increasingly active R&D activities and pushes intellectual property product investment to 水涨船高 (shuǐ zhǎng chuán gāo - "water rises, boat rises," to rise in tandem with the tide).
In today's China, whole-society R&D expenditure intensity has reached 2.8%, exceeding the average level of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. The world's largest "innovation field," which actively embraces the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, provides a broad stage for intellectual property product investment and nurtures massive opportunities.
From this, one can see the optimization and upgrading of the investment structure. In recent years, affected by the deep adjustment of the real estate market, the activity of real estate development investment, which had grown rapidly for many years, has declined. This is the result of the laws of economic and social development, and it should be viewed objectively and rationally. At the same time, it must be noted that the "new engine" in the investment field is gathering momentum. At present, the conversion of old and new growth drivers is accelerating; enterprise investment is increasingly tilting toward innovation links such as R&D and design; funds from all sides are accelerating their concentration in fields such as advanced manufacturing, digital economy, and green low-carbon.
To view the investment situation, one must look at the growth rate and total scale, and also at the structure and quality. In terms of structure, among all investment, the share of intellectual property product investment has approached that of real estate development investment, becoming a 举足轻重 (jǔ zú qīng zhòng - "a foot's move affects the balance," pivotal) link in stabilizing investment. In terms of quality, the successive implementation of intellectual property product investment means that technological innovation and industrial innovation are accelerating their deep integration, heralding the promising prospect of the vigorous development of new quality productive forces (新质生产力). Looking at the total volume again, in the first half of the year, the total scale of national fixed asset investment reached 22.6 trillion yuan; the scale remains huge and the foundation remains solid. By giving play to the guiding and driving role of government investment and focusing on stimulating the vitality of private investment, the potential of investment is expected to be continuously released.
Today's investment is tomorrow's output. Investment in new growth driver fields, including intellectual property product investment, is both current demand and will form high-quality supply in the future, further enhancing the sustainability of economic development. At present, China's intellectual property product investment has excellent quality, great potential, and high market enthusiasm. As sums of 真金白银 (zhēn jīn bái yín - "real gold and white silver," genuine money) are successively put in place, it will surely form a strong impetus for stabilizing investment and pursuing innovation, injecting stronger momentum into the Chinese economy.
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This is both an objective affirmation of the resilience of the Chinese economy, its fiscal strength, and risk governance capacity, and a vote of confidence handed by global markets to China's high-quality development.
On August 28, S&P Global Ratings issued a report, deciding to maintain China's sovereign credit rating at "A+" with a "stable" outlook. How should one read the "A+" rating given by an internationally authoritative institution? This is both an objective affirmation of the resilience of the Chinese economy, its fiscal strength, and risk governance capacity, and a vote of confidence handed by global markets to China's high-quality development. A rating does not merely give a score; the signal conveyed behind it deserves more attention: the Chinese economy can hold steady, and the beneficiaries are not only China itself; the benefit is further transmitted to global industrial and supply chains, injecting precious certainty into a turbulent world.
Behind this "A+" is reflected precisely the 稳扎稳打 (wěn zhā wěn dǎ - "steady pitch, steady strike," to advance steadily and surely) development confidence of the Chinese economy in the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan. Since the beginning of this year, internal and external challenges such as geopolitical conflicts and extreme weather have 接踵而至 (jiē zhǒng ér zhì - "heel to heel they arrive," to come in rapid succession); multiple pressures have interwoven and compounded. China's economy has withstood wave after wave of disturbance, with overall operations stable and improving, and quality and efficiency rising in tandem. From January to July, the added value of industries above designated size grew 5.3 percent year on year, the services production index grew 4.7 percent, and the scale of foreign trade imports and exports exceeded 30 trillion yuan, fully demonstrating the strong risk-resistance capability and ample room for maneuver of a super-large-scale economy.
In the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, 109 major engineering projects are advancing 蹄疾步稳 (tí jí bù wěn - "hooves fast, steps steady," swift yet steady progress), transforming the national plan into visible, tangible development increments and fully unleashing industrial vitality. A batch of national-level special plans have been issued and implemented one after another, covering many fields such as urban renewal, consumption expansion, education development, national health, and the building of a new energy system. Seeing the direction clearly and grasping the path accurately, both domestic business entities and overseas investors have swallowed a full "reassurance pill."
This "A+" is given to China and benefits the world. China continues to expand imports, opening its doors wide to absorb global goods and services, opening up vast incremental markets for enterprises of all countries; high-standard opening up continues to deepen and be implemented in earnest; high-quality Belt and Road cooperation is being solidly advanced; the complete manufacturing system ensures the smooth supply of key goods at times of global supply-demand fluctuation. China insists on making the cake of common interests bigger, using its own growth to underpin the world economy.
The tide rises, the wind is strong; 笃行致远 (dǔ xíng zhì yuǎn - "earnestly act, reach far," to achieve long-term goals through sincere and solid effort). The grand blueprint of the 15th Five-Year Plan is gradually unfolding, and the dividends of reform, innovation, and opening up continue to be released. By solidly walking the path of high-quality development, China will not only achieve 行稳致远 (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "walk steadily, reach far," steady progress enables one to go far) in its own development, but will also 源源不断 (yuán yuán bù duàn - "continuous as a flowing spring," unceasingly) deliver 弥足珍贵 (mí zú zhēn guì - "fully worthy of being treasured," extremely precious) stabilizing force to the world economy, allowing development opportunities to benefit more countries and peoples.
Return to TopReport from our newspaper, Beijing, August 31 (Reporter Ouyang Jie (欧阳洁)): The August 2026 China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), released on August 31 by the Service Industry Survey Center of the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局服务业调查中心) and the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing (中国物流与采购联合会), was 49.8 percent, up 0.6 percentage points from the previous month, indicating that manufacturing operations have returned to stability.
Domestic demand rebounded markedly. In August, the New Orders Index was 50.6 percent, up 2.1 percentage points from the previous month, returning to the expansion range. Demand in overseas markets also improved to some extent. The New Export Orders Index was 50.1 percent, up 0.5 percentage points from the previous month.
Enterprise production increased steadily. In August, the Manufacturing Production Index was 50.4 percent, up 0.5 percentage points from the previous month, returning to the expansion range after briefly falling below 50 percent in the previous month. Raw material purchasing activities also expanded correspondingly. The Purchasing Volume Index was 50.5 percent, up 1.1 percentage points month on month.
In August, the prominent highlight of manufacturing's return to stability was the linked improvement in the operation of industries. New growth drivers maintained stable expansion. The equipment manufacturing PMI was 51.4 percent, unchanged from the previous month, with both the Production Index and the New Orders Index running above 52 percent; the high-tech manufacturing PMI was 52.9 percent, with both the Production Index and the New Orders Index running above 53 percent.
The operation of traditional production capacity also returned to stability, with improvements at both the supply and demand ends. Among them, the consumer goods manufacturing PMI was 49 percent, up 1.2 percentage points from the previous month, and the Production Index and the New Orders Index both rose relatively markedly from the previous month, both rising to above 49 percent. In addition, looking at the 21 sub-sectors, in August, 16 sub-sectors saw their PMI rise from the previous month.
Return to TopBeijing, August 31 (Reporter Wang Ke (王珂)) — The Ministry of Commerce (商务部), together with the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), the Ministry of Finance (财政部), the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部), the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部), the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局), and other departments, issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Expansion and Upgrading of Commodity Consumption" (关于推动商品消费扩容升级的实施意见).
The Implementation Opinions clarify the guiding ideology, basic principles, and overall goals for promoting commodity consumption during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. By 2030, the total retail sales of consumer goods will reach approximately 60 trillion yuan, with ten-trillion-yuan-level markets cultivated and formed in green consumption, smart consumption, health consumption, and other areas, promoting the sustained development and growth of consumption in related fields; retail sales of trillion-yuan-level categories such as automobiles, home appliances, communications equipment, and textiles and apparel will continue to grow, with the market scale maintaining a globally leading position.
The Implementation Opinions put forward four key tasks for promoting commodity consumption. First, promote consumption of bulk durable goods, deeply advance pilot reforms in automobile circulation and consumption, and expand automobile consumption across the entire chain; accelerate the application and promotion of smart home products. Second, steadily improve consumption of daily necessities, promoting quality improvement in the consumption of food, beverages, textiles and apparel, and cultural, sports, and entertainment goods. Third, support consumption of specialty products, focusing on "one old, one young" (the elderly and children), supporting consumption of silver-haired (elderly) and infant-child products; promote consumption of domestic "trendy products," quality foreign trade goods, and international premium products. Fourth, cultivate and expand consumption of upgraded commodities, responding to consumption upgrade demands and promoting consumption of green, smart, and health products.
The Implementation Opinions put forward five supporting safeguard measures: improving urban and rural consumption carriers, perfecting the consumer goods standards system, strengthening consumer brand development, reinforcing fiscal and financial support, and regulating the order of the commodity consumption market.
An official from the Department of Consumption Promotion (消费促进司) of the Ministry of Commerce stated that in the next step, the Ministry of Commerce will work together with relevant departments to implement and refine various policy measures, promote the continued expansion and upgrading of commodity consumption, and provide strong support for boosting consumption, expanding domestic demand, and building a strong domestic market.
Return to TopOn August 30, at the Linjiangping Anchorage (临江坪锚地) in Yichang, Hubei, drones provided material delivery services for ships awaiting lockage. At the Linjiangping Anchorage, ships transiting the Gezhouba and Three Gorges Dams are relatively concentrated, and the demand for living and production materials of crew members and ships is large. Yichang has timely launched a drone low-altitude flash-delivery service, allowing crew members to enjoy courier services without going ashore.
Photo by Wang Geng (王耿) (Image China) (影像中国)
Return to TopBeijing, August 31 (Our reporter Wang Yunshan (王云杉)) — On August 31, as the last generating unit smoothly passed its 72-hour trial operation, the world's tallest-dam hydropower station — the Shuangjiangkou Hydropower Station (双江口水电站) on the Dadu River under China Energy Investment Corporation (国家能源集团) — smoothly realized the goal of putting all three Phase I units into full operation.
The Shuangjiangkou Hydropower Station is a key national energy project. The station's dam is 315 meters high, with a total installed capacity of 2 million kilowatts. It is equipped with four Francis turbine-generator units, each with a single-unit capacity of 500,000 kilowatts. Its average annual power generation is about 7.7 billion kilowatt-hours, and the reservoir's total storage capacity is 2.9 billion cubic meters. It can significantly improve the comprehensive utilization efficiency of water resources across the entire Dadu River basin, adding 6.6 billion kilowatt-hours of power generation gain each year to the downstream cascade power station cluster. It is a control reservoir and leading station in the upper reaches of the Dadu River, combining the functions of flood control, power generation, and water resource regulation.
Since the first unit was put into operation in June this year, the Shuangjiangkou Hydropower Station has actively undertaken the task of ensuring energy supply for the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin-City Economic Circle (成渝地区双城经济圈). In response to the social electricity demand during high-temperature weather, it accelerated the realization of the goal of commissioning the Phase I units for power generation, efficiently completing the successive commissioning of units within two months and delivering 500 million kilowatt-hours of clean hydropower.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨颜菲
At the Long March ferry crossing on the bank of the Yudu River (于都河) in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, a hundred tourists quietly listened to Zhong Min (钟敏), a descendant of Red Army soldiers, as she recounted with deep feeling: "Back then, the Central Red Army gathered and set out from here, beginning a great expedition whose spirit was 气壮山河 (qì zhuàng shān hé - "spirit that emboldens mountains and rivers," majestic and stirring); today, the sons and daughters of the red soil advance with gratitude and striving on the Long March of the new era, and the lives of the common people are like sesame flowers blooming — each joint higher than the last."
Ganzhou is accelerating the construction of a demonstration zone for high-quality development of old revolutionary base areas, striving to open a new situation in the construction of a modernized Ganzhou.
Integrating into the Greater Bay Area, stimulating new vitality. On May 21, the 2026 Ganzhou City Guangdong-Jiangxi Key Industry Cooperation and Shenzhen-Ganzhou Co-built Industrial Park Investment Promotion Symposium was held in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Ganzhou, a land of "eight parts mountains, one part water, one part farmland," is achieving acceleration in its transformation from an inland hinterland to an open highland. Nine hundred twenty-three kilometers of railways and 1,842 kilometers of expressways crisscross the region, 纵横交错 (zòng héng jiāo cuò - "vertical and horizontal interweaving," crisscrossing); flights from Ruijin (瑞金) Airport and Huangjin (黄金) Airport — the "twin airports" — soar into the clouds; thousand-ton-class cargo ships from Wuyun Wharf (五云码头) of Ganzhou Port connect rivers to the sea, 通江达海 (tōng jiāng dá hǎi - "connecting rivers and reaching the sea," to have waterway access to the sea); a "three-horizontal, three-vertical" expressway network structure has taken shape; and Ganzhou International Land Port (赣州国际陆港) has operated more than 1,700 China-Europe Railway Express trains in total. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Ganzhou will continuously strengthen its position as a national comprehensive transportation hub, improve the modern comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network, and turn the location advantage of being a thoroughfare connecting the four provinces of Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, and Hunan into a developmental advantage.
The industrial backbone stands tall, modern agriculture is thriving, and cultural tourism traffic is like a tide — a modern industrial system with Ganzhou characteristics and advantages is being accelerated in its construction.
In Dayu (大余), the "World Tungsten Capital," the lithium battery new energy industry was created from nothing, 无中生有 (wú zhōng shēng yǒu - "from nothing, bring forth something," to create something from nothing). A relatively complete industrial chain of "lithium ore — lithium salt — solvent — lithium battery — lithium resource recycling and reuse" has taken shape; the new energy and new materials pilot-scale testing base provides solid support for the transformation and landing of scientific and technological innovation achievements; and the "weekend engineer" (周末工程师) and "talent enclave" (人才飞地) mechanisms continue to attract innovative talent.
In Huichang (会昌), the "Hometown of Chinese Rice Noodles," the selenium-rich industry has created something new from what exists. Empowered and led by the "Huichang Stands Unique" Rural Digital Brain (会昌独好乡村数字大脑), 1.28 million mu of selenium-rich soil has been infused with the living water of technology; selenium-rich navel oranges, selenium-rich rice noodles, selenium-rich purple yam and other agricultural specialty products sell well in the market; and the masses are eating an "ecological meal" among green waters and green mountains.
In Longnan (龙南), the "World Capital of Enclosed Houses (围屋)," the cultural, sports, and tourism industries have created something distinctive from something new. Events such as the National Cheerleading League Finals and the Jiangxi Province Badminton Super League take turns on stage; competitive arenas are moved into scenic areas; intangible cultural heritage is integrated into the event experience; "one competition, travel throughout" (一赛通游) has triggered a consumption boom; and "watching competitions by day, staying overnight in enclosed houses" has become a new trend for check-ins.
Sharing the fruits of development, sharing the dividends of reform — the sense of gain is real and tangible.
For Wang Yuxuan (王裕宣), a student at the Ganzhou Senior Citizens' University, happiness means "leaving the school gate, entering the park." In 2026, Ganzhou plans to build 49 pocket sports parks using urban micro-spaces, and 22 have already been completed, effectively solving the problems of insufficient fitness venues and inconvenient nearby exercise. For Wei Yonghao (韦永豪), an entrepreneur at the Ganzhou University Students' Youth Entrepreneurship Park, happiness means "only collecting dreams, not collecting rent." Ganzhou, benchmarking against Shenzhen, has established a "rent-free entrepreneurship" mechanism for start-up groups, providing up to 12 months of free entrepreneurial space and full-chain support.
Scene after vivid scene, face after happy face, reflects the sonorous steps of Ganzhou's striving in the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
Return to TopLanzhou, August 31 (Reporter Zeng Yichen (曾亦辰)) — The Gansu Provincial Department of Transportation (甘肃省交通运输厅), the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism (省文化和旅游厅), and the Provincial Sports Bureau (省体育局) jointly issued the Implementation Plan for the Integrated Development of Transportation, Culture, Tourism, and Sports in Gansu Province (《甘肃省交通运输与文化旅游体育融合发展实施方案》), which, based on Gansu's transportation location advantages and cultural-tourism-sports resource advantages, promotes the deep integration of the transportation, culture-tourism, and sports industries. The plan proposes that, in accordance with the principles of "whole-region linkage, resource sharing; functional connectivity, business-format integration; ecological green, value symbiosis; integrated coordination, collaborative progress" (全域联动、资源共享，功能衔接、业态共融，生态绿色、价值共生，一体统筹、协同共进), and focusing on the province's transportation network layout and natural and cultural resource endowments, it will lay out and build 9 transportation-culture-tourism-sports integration corridors — "one mountain, one desert, one corridor; one river, one river, one journey; one forest, one grassland, one root" (一山一沙一走廊、一江一河一征程、一林一草一根脉) — in a "four horizontal, five vertical" (四横五纵) pattern.
Return to TopBy: 李洪兴
Behind the sweet picture of life lies a deep fusion of great-power strength, institutional advantages, and the warmth of people's livelihood
This summer, as inbound tourism continued to boom, "China is worth exploring again and again" and "China, I will come again" became the heartfelt words of many foreign friends. Feeling "China speed" while traveling, packing "China's fine goods" in suitcases, and experiencing "Eastern aesthetics" amid mountains, rivers, and pastoral landscapes... From natural scenery to cultural landmarks, from technical support to policy services, a three-dimensional, vibrant China draws admiration from first-time visitors and surprises repeat visitors. For many Chinese people, however, these bits and pieces are merely daily life.
Let us take a look at a slice of Chinese people's lives. Fresh food ordered in the early morning can be delivered within a short time; when staying home in the scorching summer, one can fully enjoy a room of coolness; on weekends, one can take a high-speed train and shuttle between two cities in half a day; parks at one's doorstep are lush with greenery; fruits and vegetables of all four seasons are 琳琅满目 (lín láng mǎn mù - "beautiful jade fills the eye," a dazzling array of fine things)... In today's China, the warm bustle of daily life, filled with happiness, has become an ordinary sight everywhere. In fact, the 波澜不惊 (bō lán bù jīng - "waves and billows unruffled," calm and undisturbed) ordinary is by no means ordinary. Behind the sweet picture of life lies a deep fusion of great-power strength, institutional advantages, and the warmth of people's livelihood.
All the ease and constancy of the world come from silent exertion and 厚积薄发 (hòu jī bó fā - "accumulate thickly, release thinly," to achieve great results through long, quiet preparation). Looking back decades ago: in winter there was a shortage of fresh vegetables, in summer it was hard to escape the heat, long-distance travel was time-consuming and laborious, logistics and transport were inefficient, commodity circulation was restricted, and supply and demand between urban and rural areas were imbalanced. With one "five-year plan" after another implemented with vigor, China achieved the leap from material scarcity to abundant production, from difficult travel to 四通八达 (sì tōng bā dá - "through in four directions, reaching in eight," well-connected in all directions), from a dual urban-rural structure to more inclusive and balanced development. These 翻天覆地 (fān tiān fù dì - "overturn heaven and cover earth," earth-shaking) changes are the fruit of successive generations' unremitting struggle, a qualitative leap driven by accumulated quantitative change.
The extraordinary within the ordinary rests upon an infrastructure foundation that has been comprehensively consolidated. The improvement of people's well-being and the enhancement of quality of life have never been separable from the support of hard-core infrastructure.
In the Nizhu River Grand Canyon in Xuanwei, Yunnan (云南宣威尼珠河大峡谷), children at the bottom of the valley who wanted to go to school at the top used to climb with hands and feet, grasping ropes. In recent years, the cliff elevators "Azure Cloud Ladder" (青云梯) and "Soaring Ladder" (扶摇梯) have been put into use one after another, and the ascent takes only about a minute. The elevators standing side by side on the sheer cliff have become a unique "school bus in the sky." Today, the pace of advancing the construction of a modern infrastructure system represented by the "six networks" (六张网), which empowers production and daily life in an integrated manner, is steady and forceful.
Whether it is "visible" investment or "invisible" services, both play an important role in boosting effective demand, promoting industrial upgrading, and advancing regional coordination. It is the continuously optimized, systematically constructed, and orderly operating infrastructure network that upholds the stability of people's livelihoods and the security of development, turning former extravagant hopes into today's ordinary reality.
The confidence within the extraordinary benefits from meticulous governance and systematic planning. Grand infrastructure projects support the skeleton of development, while a scientific governance system activates the lifeblood of development.
Take the people's dining table, abundant in all four seasons, as an example: high-quality, stable supply relies on the coordinated efforts of the modern agricultural system, the mechanism for ensuring supply and stabilizing prices, and livelihood security policies. From facility agriculture and cold-chain logistics to breakthroughs in seed industry technology and precise alignment of production and sales, agricultural modernization and the high-quality development of the service sector advance hand in hand, bidding farewell to "living at the mercy of the weather" and safeguarding steady happiness. Take "seeing green when opening the window" as another example: the people's ecological well-being is the result of a series of "combined punches" by various localities — continuously advancing urban renewal and ecological restoration, as well as revitalizing idle vacant land and renovating old neighborhoods.
The subtle beauties integrated into daily life, without 惊天动地 (jīng tiān dòng dì - "startle heaven and move earth," earth-shattering) fanfare, nonetheless manifest the precision of governance and the warmth of development. By resolving the problem of development imbalance through scientific layout, holding fast to the bottom line of people's livelihoods through meticulous management and protection, and empowering long-term development through forward-looking planning, the stable daily life of hundreds of millions of people and the vigorous improvement of the mountains and rivers of the land gain more enduring safeguards.
Looking further, the constancy of year after year manifests the institutional advantages and developmental resolve of a nation united as one. The benefits to people's livelihoods concern individuals' sense of gain; behind them lies a grand chessboard of coordinated development and systematic policy implementation. For infrastructure delivery, abundant products, and livable ecology, a breakthrough in a single field is already not easy; what is even harder is broad coverage, universal accessibility, and 驰而不息 (chí ér bù xī - "gallop without stopping," to persevere unremittingly) commitment and continuous improvement.
What is commendable is that amid the waves of the times and risks and challenges, this resilience and resolve have become even more solid. Whether encountering market fluctuations, disaster impacts, or changes in the external environment, as good policies are gradually implemented and new policies continuously take effect, with the central authorities skilled at overall coordination and localities daring to explore, ordinary life has been kept free from disturbance and people's well-being has continued to upgrade. Is not this ability to maintain stability and sustain development precisely accumulating the potential to walk well and walk far in the future?
Standing at a new starting point, we should naturally cherish the 来之不易 (lái zhī bù yì - "its coming is not easy," hard-won) beautiful life, see the struggle behind the ordinary, cultivate deeply without ceasing, and continue to strive, so that more extraordinary achievements settle into the normal state of people's livelihoods, making the background color of the people's happiness more substantial and the pace of the era's development more resounding.
Return to TopBy: 琼达卓嘎
In recent days, the emergency rescue and relief work for the mudslide disaster in Gyirong County (吉隆县), Shigatse City, Tibet, has been tugging at people's hearts. How is the rescue progressing? How are the affected people being resettled? How can the impact of secondary disasters be reduced? While reporting at the rescue front line, there was a story that was deeply moving.
In Goba Village (郭巴村), Sale Township (萨勒乡), Gyirong County, 73-year-old Danzeng Sangmu (旦增桑姆) was unwilling to be evacuated. The door was bolted from the inside; she was worried that the several cattle she raised would have no one to look after them. Gongga (贡嘎), a young Party member, walked to the door and said softly: "Ama-la, we will look after the cattle, but you must be safe too. Just bring your essential belongings and come with us." After a moment, the door opened. "Will someone really look after the cattle?" "We have set up a duty roster; we will not withdraw until everyone has left, and we will take care of the livestock." The old woman nodded, went back inside to get her bag, and followed them.
The old woman trusted a promise, but she trusted the comrade beside her even more. Party member Gongga had been in Goba Village for six years. Danzeng Sangmu said: "I know that this young man keeps his word and works in a solid, down-to-earth manner." When the people have concerns, Party members and cadres resolve them one by one; when the people are uneasy, Party members and cadres implement things item by item.
After the disaster occurred, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions at the first opportunity, emphasizing: "The most urgent task (当务之急 (dāng wù zhī jí - "the urgent task of the moment," the most pressing matter)) is to search for and rescue the missing by every possible means (千方百计 (qiān fāng bǎi jì - "a thousand methods, a hundred schemes," by every possible means)), evacuate and resettle the threatened people, promptly treat the wounded, and minimize casualties to the greatest extent possible." More than 80 grassroots Party members in Sale Township acted immediately upon hearing the order, forming several work groups and going door to door to do their work. Some helped carry belongings; some carried elderly people with limited mobility on their backs. Someone asked a member of the village work team: "What about your own things?" He waved his hand and said: "Once people are safe, belongings don't matter." When the people have needs, Party members charge to the front. Every time they set out to meet difficulties, it is a vivid display of the Party member's true character; every time they rescue in the face of danger, they are practicing the Party's purpose and mission.
Through continuous hard fighting, people in threatened areas such as Seqiong Village (色琼村) and Labi Village (拉比村) in Sale Township were all safely evacuated to the township resettlement site at the first opportunity. That evening, the township's Party members did not rest; they patrolled outside the resettlement site to guard against secondary disasters and also urged villagers not to turn back. Behind that sleepless night were Party members and cadres running trip after trip and handling matters one by one. The danger had not yet been lifted, and the people said with deep emotion: "With them here, we feel at ease."
To guard against unforeseen circumstances, the people who had already been evacuated to the Sale Township resettlement site needed to be moved again to the safer Gyirong Town (吉隆镇). In the procession, Party members and cadres walked at the very front and the very back. An elderly person felt unwell from carsickness and was unwilling to be moved again. A Party member accompanied them patiently, holding the old person's hand and saying, "Take it easy; I will stay with you all along." Party members and cadres must step up precisely when the people need them most. The more the people trust them, the more Party members and cadres need to work with dedication and provide good service, especially by viewing problems and seeking solutions from the people's perspective.
From the moment the old woman Danzeng Sangmu stepped out of that door to the safe evacuation of group after group of people, what made it possible was not bold words and grand phrases (豪言壮语 (háo yán zhuàng yǔ - "bold words and grand phrases," lofty rhetoric)), but trust built step by step and reassurance earned item by item. The people see it with their own eyes and remember it in their hearts.
In the evening, the aroma of food wafted through the resettlement site. "The food is here!" A young Party member handed a boxed meal to 49-year-old Gasang Baimu (嘎桑白姆) of Labi Village. "A-jia" (Tibetan for "elder sister") took the meal, held his hand, said nothing, and only gave it a firm squeeze. This writer asked a comrade: "Aren't you hungry?" He smiled: "Only after the people have eaten can we eat with peace of mind." This was not empty politeness; it was the real logic of the disaster front line — in the face of danger, oneself first and others after; in the face of relief, the people first and oneself after.
At the Jipu Village (吉普村) Party Member Vanguard Service Point, the banner reading "If you have difficulties, turn to the organization" was highly conspicuous. In emergency rescue and relief, this sentence was embodied in a door patiently knocked open, a pair of hands helping an elderly person into a vehicle, a hot meal handed to the people, and even more in the sleepless figures outside the resettlement site in the dead of night. Whoever places the people in the highest position, the people will place the greatest weight on that person. What is reliance? It is when you cannot take another step, someone reaches out an arm to support you; it is turning the deepest feeling for the people into the most concrete measures and the greatest efforts.
Putting the people first and life first has never been an abstract concept; it is the concrete choice of every Party member and cadre. It is precisely these pairs of lifting hands that hold up the sky above the heads of the disaster-affected people.
(The author is a reporter with this newspaper's Tibet Branch.)
Return to TopBy: 孟繁哲
Recently, two pieces of business news have drawn widespread attention. Zhong Shanshan, founder of Nongfu Spring, appeared as a guest on CCTV Finance's "Dialogue" (《对话》) program and criticized e-commerce platforms as "板上钉钉 (bǎn shàng dìng dīng - "nailed to the board," a settled matter) middlemen." Yu Donglai (于东来), founder of Pang Donglai (胖东来), announced that the Xuchang (许昌) Life Plaza store, which had operated for 24 years with annual profits exceeding 100 million yuan, would be completely closed at the end of the year because an individual landlord, taking advantage of the store's booming business, had raised rent sky-high and demanded exorbitant prices.
Looking beyond the individual cases, the two events point to the same proposition: in a market economy, once interest relationships fall out of balance, the party that suffers is by no means only one side; what is ultimately damaged is the entire business ecosystem.
Such lessons have been repeated time and again in many fields. Some tourist attractions "fleece customers" as soon as the peak season arrives; their reputation has collapsed, their customer base has scattered, and their former "gold-letter signboard" has been smashed by their own hands. Some platforms wage "money-burning wars" in the community group-buying field, forcing some vegetable market vendors and street-side fruit and vegetable shops to close down, while the quality of goods consumers buy also seriously declines. The new-energy vehicle industry once fell into a price melee, with profit margins on complete vehicles under sustained pressure and enterprises "increasing revenue without increasing profit." Whether it is the short-sighted pursuit of profit through 坐地起价 (zuò dì qǐ jià - "raise the price on the spot," to take advantage of a situation to demand a higher price), or the "involution-style" competition of money-burning melees, the result is 多败俱伤 (duō bài jù shāng - "many lose, all are hurt," a situation in which all parties end up harmed), causing a huge waste of social resources.
Why has it come to this? Market participants have understood commercial relations as a zero-sum game. The Lüshi Chunqiu (吕氏春秋) has a saying: "竭泽而渔 (jié zé ér yú - "drain the pond to catch fish," to pursue short-term gain at the expense of long-term benefit) — is it not a catch? But next year there will be no fish." A healthy market ecosystem is the product of different entities 各安其位 (gè ān qí wèi - "each is content in its position," each party stays in its proper place) and 各展所长 (gè zhǎn suǒ cháng - "each displays its strengths," each party gives full play to its advantages). Platforms and merchants, operators and property owners, upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, have always been 唇齿相依 (chún chǐ xiāng yī - "lips and teeth depend on each other," mutually dependent). Only by transcending the fixed mindset of "you win, I lose" can the "prisoner's dilemma" be avoided and a better solution that benefits all parties be found.
The market economy is in essence a rule-of-law economy. The competition that the market economy advocates is healthy competition, whose foundation lies in respect for rules, cherishing of cooperation, and consideration of long-term interests. The newly revised Anti-Unfair Competition Law (反不正当竞争法) explicitly prohibits platform operators from forcing or covertly forcing merchants to sell goods below cost price; around the implementation of the Private Economy Promotion Law (民营经济促进法), relevant departments have completed 38 tasks on the supporting institutional list for key areas such as equal access. Good institutional arrangements and policy measures clarify what business entities can do and cannot do, providing stable expectations for fair competition and healthy cooperation.
To shift business entities from "not daring to act recklessly" to "unwilling to be short-sighted," it is even more necessary to cultivate a healthy and positive business culture. The Chinese people advocate balancing righteousness and profit and acquiring wealth by proper means, and the wisdom of the way of commerce has existed since ancient times. Lord Tao Zhu (陶朱公) used small profits to benefit the world; Hu Qingyutang (胡庆余堂) hung a "admonish against deception" (戒欺) plaque to proclaim its true intention; the Shanxi merchants upheld good faith and righteousness and sought long-lasting foundations for their enterprises. This ancient wisdom still provides rich cultural nourishment for modern commerce.
Last year, many automakers collectively committed to compressing supplier payment cycles to within 60 days, maintaining the lasting prosperity of the industrial chain with practical actions. This year, the China Photovoltaic Industry Association (中国光伏行业协会) took the lead in compiling the "General Rules for Cost Accounting Models in the Photovoltaic Industry" (《光伏行业成本核算模型通则》), guiding enterprises to shift from price involution to value-driven development. The collective rise of domestic brands in the past two years also shows that consumers are increasingly willing to pay for quality and innovation. The shift from 各自为战 (gè zì wéi zhàn - "each fights on its own," acting independently without coordination) to jointly protecting the ecosystem depends on re-recognizing the simple truth that "united we are strong, isolated we are weak."
Entrepreneurs are the most active factor in the market economy and the most important builders of the business ecosystem. From self-developed chips to the launch of the HarmonyOS system to the release of the "Tao's Law" (韬定律), Huawei invests more than 190 billion yuan in R&D every year, unswervingly advancing high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening. Cao Dewang has been deeply engaged in automotive glass manufacturing for more than 40 years, leading Fuyao from a small township factory to a global leading enterprise with the world's largest market share. Vigorously promote the entrepreneurial spirit, encourage more business entities to open up new development space through innovation and creation, and the business ecosystem of symbiosis and common prosperity will surely be 根深叶茂 (gēn shēn yè mào - "deep roots and lush leaves," thriving and flourishing).
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Resolutely break down local protectionism, market segmentation, and 'involution-style' competition, and create a stable, fair, transparent, and predictable environment for entrepreneurship and innovation across the whole society." At present, nearly 200 million business entities in our country are active in a super-large-scale market. Balancing efficiency and fairness, vitality and order, and making this large market more efficient and standardized, China's high-quality economic development will rest on a more solid foundation.
Return to TopThe Second World Humanoid Robot Games were held recently at the National Speed Skating Oval, the "Ice Ribbon", attracting 666 teams from 16 countries and 2056 robots to compete on the same stage. The number of participating teams increased by 138% compared with the first edition, and the number of robots quadrupled. This edition's scenario competitions also extended the competition events to real environments, covering fields such as industry, hotels, homes, and logistics.
This is exactly:
Iron arms and steel bodies mount the arena, each displaying its abilities, vying in sharpness.
Do not say 花拳与绣腿 (huā quán yǔ xiù tuǐ - "flower fist and embroidered leg," showy but impractical skill), a hundred trials reveal the true substance.
Cheng Senwen (成森文)
Return to TopBy: 郝迎灿
Viewing exhibitions, strolling through markets, watching performances... As the evening lights come on, the Red Plum Cultural and Creative Park (红梅文创园) in Tiexi District (铁西区), Shenyang, Liaoning, begins to bustle. The red-brick walls retain the mottled traces of years of weathering; the old factory district where machines once roared now flows with a musical atmosphere, and the exhibitions and markets are 游人如织 (yóu rén rú zhī - "visitors like weaving," crowded with visitors).
The predecessor of the Red Plum Cultural and Creative Park was the Shenyang Red Plum MSG Factory (沈阳红梅味精厂). After the enterprise was restructured, the factory site sat vacant for a time. Through revitalization and adaptive reuse, the cultural and creative park opened to the public in 2019. This trendy consumption cluster has become a new cultural landmark of the city.
Industrial heritage is the growth ring of urban development, recording the footprints of struggle and carrying deep emotions. From the roar of machines to the surge of crowds, the "Red Plum" bearing the city's industrial memory has blossomed anew, integrating into modern life with a fresh posture, becoming a vivid window for observing industrial heritage radiating new life.
Protection does not mean freezing and sealing away, and renewal does not mean tearing down and starting over. The key lies in finding the meeting point between historical value and contemporary needs, allowing old factory buildings to regain vitality through functional reshaping. This reshaping is first reflected in the respect for and transformation of industrial aesthetics. The tall workshops, rugged steel frames, and mottled brick walls themselves constitute a unique spatial language.
The Shougang Ski Jump in Shijingshan District (石景山区), Beijing, was created based on the original cooling towers, old factory buildings, and the industrial landscape layout of Qunming Lake (群明湖), forming a visual dialogue between the heavy texture of the steel industry and the dynamism of snow sports, and setting a precedent for combining Winter Olympic venues with large-scale industrial heritage.
The renewal of industrial heritage relies on the return of people and the rebuilding of communities. Revitalizing old factory buildings and industrial heritage is not simply repairing buildings or creating internet-famous check-in spots; rather, it means making a theme of people's needs. Only by satisfying both material living needs and spiritual and cultural needs, making "scenery at the window and delight around the corner" an everyday occurrence, can a city add the humanistic warmth that attracts people to stop and stay.
What is valuable about the Red Plum Cultural and Creative Park is precisely that it is not only a consumption venue but also the cultural living room of the community: on weekends there are markets, on weekdays there are reading clubs; elderly people can sit idly in the shade of trees, young people can create in workshops, and children can play freely. When people of different ages and occupations meet and interweave here, the old factory building transforms from a declining space into an emotional community.
Going a step further, for industrial heritage to achieve spatial reuse, value transformation and spiritual inheritance are the necessary path. The sweat on the production lines, the perseverance in tackling technical problems, and the warmth of collective collaboration once shaped the spiritual undertone of a city. How can the struggle memories of the past be converted into the potential energy of striving in the present? The key lies in building a bridge of dialogue between history and reality.
For example, the Xi'an Film Studio (西影厂) in Xi'an, Shaanxi, preserved the most complete and still-operational full production line for film developing, printing, and restoration in China during the renovation of its old factory buildings, and turned it into the Film Industry Museum, which combines the functions of industrial heritage exhibition and cultural relic restoration research, blazing a renewal path for cultural industrial heritage of "promoting protection through use and self-hematopoiesis."
Through oral history recording, display of old objects, and the inheritance of the craftsmanship spirit, the striving history of the past can be made tangible and perceptible, enabling the younger generation to understand where this city came from and where it is going while enjoying the new spaces. This continuation of cultural identity is far more precious than the renovation of the buildings themselves.
The story of struggle never closes its curtain. What we must retain is not only bricks, tiles, and steel beams, but also a city's 生生不息 (shēng shēng bù xī - "born born without cease," to grow and thrive endlessly) spiritual character. From the industrial workers of the past to the young makers of today, what continues is not only a flourishing cause, but also the spiritual undertone of self-confidence and self-improvement. New business forms grow out of old brick walls, and new dreams are nurtured in old spaces — this itself is the best inheritance of a city's spirit.
"All things have their origin, yet only [the sage] knows to guard the root." Looking across the country, more and more industrial heritage sites are "awakening," some transforming into art museums and libraries, others into science and innovation parks and cultural-sports parks, promoting the improvement of urban functions and filling shortcomings in people's livelihoods. They differ in form, but share the same inner core: urban renewal radiates vitality, and the continuous cultural lineage strengthens the root and soul.
Return to TopCounty-level consumption should achieve "same quality, same enjoyment"
Zhao Xiaoxin
Not long ago, the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) and eight other departments jointly issued the Opinions on Further Stimulating the Vitality of Sinking Markets and Activating County-level Consumption, in which the requirement to promote "same quality, same enjoyment" (同质同享) for identical products of the same brand and model between urban and rural areas deserves attention.
For a long time, county-level markets have been labeled with tags such as low price, low configuration, and lagging behind. Many merchants mistakenly believe that consumers in sinking markets (下沉市场) do not have such high demands for brand, quality, and service, giving rise to malpractices such as "AB goods" (AB货), which seriously damage consumers' rights, interests, and trust.
Today's county-level consumption is both expanding in scale and improving in quality. A large number of agricultural transfer populations have 安家落户 (ān jiā luò hù - "settle home, establish household," to settle down) in county towns, giving rise to demand for large-ticket consumption such as housing purchases, renovation, household appliances, and automobiles, while also continuously pushing up demand for service consumption such as elderly care, childcare, medical health, culture, entertainment, and tourism. The consumption psychology and consumption habits of county residents are shifting toward development-oriented and enjoyment-oriented types.
This year's Government Work Report states: "Stimulate the consumption vitality of sinking markets." Promoting "same quality, same enjoyment" is both a correction of the supply side's misunderstanding of county-level markets and a means to stimulate consumption vitality.
On the one hand, county-level consumption requires not only being able to "buy" but also being able to "buy well." This requires enterprises and platforms to build sales channels, after-sales guarantees, and service systems suited to county-level scenarios, and to strictly prevent the act of "reducing quality" under the guise of "sinking."
On the other hand, county-level consumption requires not only "same quality" goods but also "shared" services. In recent years, the "first-store economy" (首店经济) has been heating up in county-level markets, with chain supermarkets and catering brands entering one after another — precisely a manifestation of the supply side's proactive response.
By continuously satisfying the people's growing needs for a better life through "same quality, same enjoyment," this vast blue ocean of the sinking market will surely release more "upward" potential.
(Excerpted and adapted from Dazhong Daily (大众日报), originally titled "'Same Quality, Same Enjoyment,' Taking County-level Consumption One Step 'Upward'")
To help and serve the elderly, one must first understand the elderly
Xu Xiaojing
Understanding the elderly is the starting point of all services for the elderly. When services shift from "what I can provide" to "what you need," helping and serving the elderly truly has warmth.
Several recent practical cases of elderly capacity assessors are 耐人寻味 (nài rén xún wèi - "worth savoring," thought-provoking).
In Shenyang, Liaoning, an assessor, while conducting a capacity assessment for an octogenarian, captured a detail — when the elderly person looked at the flower beds outside the window, a trace of delight always flickered in their eyes. The assessor accordingly suggested that, in addition to doing routine care well, the elderly person should also be allowed to do some watering and soil-loosening work 力所能及 (lì suǒ néng jí - "within the reach of one's strength," within one's power), and rediscover a connection with life among 一草一木 (yī cǎo yī mù - "one blade of grass, one tree," every little thing).
In addition, there was an assessor who heard an elderly person express the disappointment of "can't walk to the chess stall anymore," and refined the generalized rehabilitation goal of "restoring walking" into "being able to walk to the neighborhood chess stall." There was also an assessment nurse who "dug out" that an elderly person had a habit of keeping a diary, and added a warm "prescription" to the care plan: dictated diary.
A closer look at these practices shows that they all tailor plans based on the individual differences of the elderly, bringing profound inspiration for optimizing elderly-care services and doing the work of helping the elderly well.
Personalized "prescriptions" full of warmth originate from heartfelt observation and empathy. Only by truly understanding the preferences, regrets, and longings of the elderly can elderly-care services break free from routinization and warm people's hearts. For example, meal assistance stations are set up because many elderly people can no longer cook, and also because many elderly people living alone have no one to talk to all day long, feeling empty inside. Meal assistance stations are good not only because they provide hot meals, but also because they bring people together.
Similarly, elderly-friendly renovation should also start from the inconveniences in the elderly's daily lives, such as floors being too slippery and having nothing to hold onto when bathing.
总而言之 (zǒng ér yán zhī - "in sum and speaking of it," in short), to help and serve the elderly, please first understand the elderly.
(Excerpted and adapted from Liaoning Daily (辽宁日报))
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Reporting governance leads, supervising food safety, taking on "loving errands" (爱心跑腿)... In the streets and lanes of Jinjiang District (锦江区), Chengdu, Sichuan, one can often see such a volunteer service team. Most of them come from new employment groups (新就业群体) such as couriers, food delivery riders, and ride-hailing drivers. Because the volunteer service team was initiated in Niushikou Subdistrict (牛市口街道), Jinjiang District, and because they carry the ox-like spirit of 吃苦耐劳 (chī kǔ nài láo - "eat bitterness, endure labor," bear hardships and work hard) and selfless dedication, they are affectionately called "Little Bull Brothers" by everyone.
As party branch secretary of the "Little Bull Brother · Vanguard Riders" (小牛哥·先锋车手) volunteer service team, Wang Kehao (王柯皓) has undergone identity transformations from retired soldier to food delivery rider, and then to national outstanding party affairs worker, using five years to "find, gather, manage, and put to use" the rider party members scattered across the city's streets and lanes, making them a new force in grassroots governance.
Organizing mobile party members.
At 2 p.m., in Lianhua Community (莲花社区), Niushikou Subdistrict, the aroma of food wafts from the "Little Bull Brother · Brake for a Moment" (小牛哥·刹一脚) Loving Smart Station. Just past the delivery peak, the station has become a place for nearby riders to grab a bite. The air conditioner blows cool air, the microwave oven is running, cold water is kept in the freezer, some people are charging their phones, and some are resting on chairs.
In the corner of the station, a dark-skinned young man is counting heat-relief supplies. He is Wang Kehao, who has witnessed the entire process of the station growing from nothing, from a "resting place" to a "warm home."
Born in 1992, Wang Kehao is a retired military serviceman and a Communist Party member with 13 years of party standing. After retiring, he did food delivery, achieving "zero negative reviews" for three consecutive years. It was this experience that let him understand riders' work pain points: thirsty but unable to find water to drink, bike broken but not knowing whom to ask to repair it, party organizational ties like "a kite with a broken string" — "having an identity but no organization, feeling empty inside."
The turning point came in 2020. "Seeing the 'Mobile Party Member Call-up Order' (流动党员召集令) poster posted in the community, after scanning the code to register, someone from the subdistrict contacted me the same day," Wang Kehao said. Mobilized by the Party Working Committee of Niushikou Subdistrict, he and the couriers, food delivery riders, and ride-hailing drivers he knew well 一拍即合 (yī pāi jí hé - "one clap and they come together," hit it off immediately), and the "Little Bull Brother · Vanguard Riders" volunteer service team 应运而生 (yìng yùn ér shēng - "arise in response to the times," emerge as the times require).
"At the beginning there were only 3 party members, but we still had to raise the banner," Wang Kehao said. In 2021, the party branch of the "Little Bull Brother · Vanguard Riders" volunteer service team was established, and Wang Kehao was elected party branch secretary.
One poster called back the mobile party members scattered in every corner of the city. Today, the party branch of the "Little Bull Brother · Vanguard Riders" volunteer service team has 13 party members and 52 mobile party members, with the new employment groups united and gathered totaling more than 700 people.
Breaking down "barriers" to build the organization. Jinjiang District has incorporated party building for new employment groups into the district-wide grassroots party building work, establishing a four-level work system of "macro guidance by organization departments, centralized guidance by social work departments, concrete promotion by competent industry departments, and bottom-line guarantee by local subdistricts." At present, the district has established 11 party branches for new employment groups and 10 party branches for mobile party members, developed 13 party members from the "two drivers, two delivery personnel, and one livestreamer" (两司两员一主播) groups, and attracted more than 300 mobile party members from new employment groups.
Building the party branch "on wheels."
When the party branch was first established, party member riders were highly enthusiastic about participating in organizational life, even pausing order acceptance to come. But riders also faced practical difficulties such as scattered scheduling, many orders to run, and high pressure. After several consecutive centralized activities, attendance dropped sharply. "The party member riders attending grew fewer each time, and I was anxious and worried," Wang Kehao admitted frankly.
How to solve it? The branch had to be built "on wheels."
Under the guidance of the subdistrict and community party organizations, Wang Kehao keenly seized on the fragmented time of riders "waiting for orders," building the "Little Bull Brother · Brake for a Moment" Loving Smart Station in places where riders gather, turning it into a comprehensive venue integrating rest services and red education. Although the place is not large, about 90 square meters, it is the country's first 24-hour "never closing" service station for new employment groups.
From initially only having hot water and simple meals, to now providing multiple services such as heat relief and warmth, rest and charging, reading and study, there are 41 such stations in Jinjiang District. "因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "according to the place, formulate what is appropriate," adapt measures to local conditions), the stations rely on subdistricts, communities, social organizations and others for operation and support, and are open to all outdoor workers," Wang Kehao said. In Wang Kehao's view, a position on wheels can also organize everyone to study and exchange.
Without fixed workstations, they rely on WeChat groups for contact and regularly push study materials; without fixed meeting times, they use fragmented time to study, 15 minutes each session, explaining the latest policies and telling stories from around them; opening a "Riders' Lecture Hall," regularly carrying out micro party lectures by outstanding party members and micro lectures on themes such as safe travel, individual income tax filing, and anti-fraud and anti-deception.
To better manage and serve riders, the party branch also established a "party members contact riders" mechanism, with each party member fixedly contacting 10-15 riders. Whatever needs everyone has, Wang Kehao records them one by one and actively reflects them. Relevant departments, subdistricts, and enterprises respond quickly: legal service stations have been opened, and training on delivery skills, traffic safety, emergency rescue and others is held regularly. "Every small matter is a major matter in riders' hearts," Wang Kehao said with a smile.
Passing warmth on to more people.
Niushikou Subdistrict mostly has old residential compounds. Grandpa Yuan, an 80-year-old elderly man living alone, is Wang Kehao's paired assistance target. The elderly man has difficulty moving around, and Wang Kehao visits him at home every month. If he lacks medicine, he helps the grandpa run errands for urgent needs.
"I also know clearly that one person's strength is ultimately limited," Wang Kehao said. Under the guidance of the Organization Department and Social Work Department of the Jinjiang District Party Committee, he and the subdistrict and community established a "two-way service list" (双向服务清单) for grassroots governance by new employment groups. Riders have formed long-term assistance pairs with 50 families in difficulty in the jurisdiction, visiting and consoling them regularly, also providing "loving errand" services such as purchasing supplies on behalf of and accompanying disabled and elderly people living alone to medical visits.
This warmth is continuously being passed on. Party member delivery rider Zhao Mingyang (赵明阳) discovered a residential building on fire while delivering food, went back and forth into the fire scene 5 times to help rescue residents, and finally collapsed on the ground; party member ride-hailing driver Zhang Guirong (张桂容) has for many years given free rides to college entrance examination candidates, raised donations for "free tickets" for children in remote rural areas, and often participates in environmental public welfare trips; for delivery rider Li Bo (李波), solving neighbors' life difficulties in passing has become his habit...
One person drives a group of people. The party branch and Wang Kehao have gradually become the "backbone" of riders in the area. Delivery riders, couriers, ride-hailing drivers... more and more people are joining in, becoming "mobile grid workers" (流动网格员), casually reporting governance leads on urban management, work safety, and others, participating in volunteer projects such as environmental protection and "casual photo-taking" of hidden dangers.
At the same time, the volunteer service team established a two-way mechanism of "services for points, points for services." "Everyone participating in volunteer services such as loving delivery and lead reporting can earn points, which can be used to exchange for benefits such as vehicle repair, shopping discounts, and community work meals," introduced Wang Wei (王薇), deputy head of the Social Work Department of the Jinjiang District Party Committee. The district is actively advancing a pilot program for universal deposit and exchange of points, so that every good deed can be rewarded on a larger scale.
From a "Mobile Party Member Call-up Order" poster to the country's first 24-hour "never closing" station; from 3 party members to more than 700 "mobile grid workers" — under Wang Kehao's promotion, an originally loose new employment group has gradually coalesced into a grassroots governance force with organization, positions, and achievements.
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Only by persisting in exerting effort in the same direction and safeguarding from both sides — with the masses rationally expressing their demands and institutions providing precise, standardized bottom-line guarantees — can limited government resources be guaranteed to be used on the blade's edge.
With 此起彼伏 (cǐ qǐ bǐ fú - "here rising, there falling," rising and falling in succession) ringing sounds and rapidly jumping work order systems, 12345 government service convenience hotline (12345政务服务便民热线) call halls across the country are the most vivid windows into grassroots government services.
However, not long ago, an absurd piece of news left people 哭笑不得 (kū xiào bù dé - "not know whether to laugh or cry," to be at a loss whether to laugh or cry) — a citizen in some locality called the 12345 hotline to complain that "the moon is too bright and affects sleep." This is neither a livelihood matter, nor does it have operability, and it has no connection whatsoever to the hotline's public service nature.
Reviewing public cases, it is not difficult to find that such invalid and "outrageous" demands are not isolated instances: a child's unsatisfactory college entrance examination results leading to a hope of reorganizing the exam, asking 12345 to help check a husband's salary... "Bizarre" calls of 五花八门 (wǔ huā bā mén - "five flowers, eight gates," of every description) reflect some people's lack of awareness of the boundaries of public services.
Not only the 12345 hotline — the 110 police emergency number is also often abused. After visiting the public security authorities in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, a reporter learned that the 110 alarm service desk often receives demands such as housing repairs and family disputes that do not fall within the scope of public security handling. Grassroots police officers often can only patiently persuade and mediate, and a large amount of police resources is consequently occupied by non-police matters.
One phone call, one complaint, seemingly 无伤大雅 (wú shāng dà yǎ - "does not harm the great elegance," not detracting from the overall quality), but behind it — from call answering, registration and filing, dispatch and transfer, to departmental verification, reply and return visit — a complete set of work procedures must be completed, occupying call-answering manpower and grassroots service strength, and squeezing the help-seeking channels of people who truly encounter urgent, difficult, worried, and longed-for problems.
The "Opinions of the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) on Further Regulating and Improving 12345 Hotline Services" issued last June clarified the hotline's acceptance boundaries at the national level, explicitly requiring explanation and guidance for demands that violate 公序良俗 (gōng xù liáng sú - "public order and good customs," public order and good morals) or lack factual basis, and explicitly establishing the working path of transferring leads and handling according to law for acts of malicious harassment and disruption of hotline order, providing a basis for all localities to regulate hotline operations.
Many localities across the country have also issued institutional norms to "set rules and draw boundaries" for government hotlines. Ningbo, Zhejiang has made "excessively high expectations of the person making the demand" an explicit circumstance for exemption from liability, allowing grassroots cadres to dare to truthfully tell the masses "it cannot be done"; Xiamen, Fujian has drawn a "liability exemption line" in assessment — if a demand is clearly unreasonable, even if the masses rate it unsatisfactory, the undertaking unit's assessment score will not be deducted.
Drawing boundaries is by no means weakening service or shirking responsibility, but rather promoting precise drip irrigation of public resources and efficient benefit to the people. While regulating strictly, all localities must also continuously improve channels for diverting non-urgent demands, diverting and resolving various non-urgent, non-government demands through online government platforms, community mediation, and other means, and building a layered, categorized, precise, and efficient service system.
The government service hotline is connected to the government on one end and to the people on the other. Only by persisting in exerting effort in the same direction and safeguarding from both sides — with the masses rationally expressing their demands and institutions providing precise, standardized bottom-line guarantees — can limited government resources be guaranteed to be used on the blade's edge, enabling the government service convenience hotline to always remain a bond that unblocks public opinion, serves people's livelihoods, and assists grassroots governance.
(The author is a reporter of this newspaper's Zhejiang branch.)
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Return to TopMacao, August 31 (Reporter Fu Zimei (富子梅)) — "Loyal Blood in the Vast Sky Casts Heroic Spirits — Exhibition of Historical Facts of the Anti-Japanese Aviation War" opened in Macao on August 31. Bian Lixin (卞立新), Commissioner of the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Macao Special Administrative Region (外交部驻澳门特派员公署), and Ke Lan (柯岚), Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao SAR Government (澳门特区政府社会文化司), attended and delivered speeches. Yang Weiqun (杨伟群), Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Macao (澳门中联办), Dai Jinsong (戴劲松), Deputy Commander of the People's Liberation Army Macao Garrison (解放军驻澳部队), and more than one hundred representatives from the SAR's education and cultural circles and secondary school teachers and students attended the opening ceremony.
Bian Lixin stated that this exhibition reproduces the magnificent epic of the 浴血奋战 (yù xuè fèn zhàn - "bathed in blood, fighting hard," to fight desperately) of the sons and daughters of the Chinese nation, and affectionately reviews the moving stories of aviation heroes from various countries 并肩作战 (bìng jiān zuò zhàn - "shoulder to shoulder in battle," to fight side by side) with the Chinese military and civilians. Whether it is the Flying Tigers spirit that carries the Sino-American friendship in the War of Resistance, or the glorious history of Macao, a small city with great righteousness, both will help compatriots in the SAR, especially young people, to arouse patriotic fervor, broaden international horizons, and forge ahead with tempered determination and move forward bravely and resolutely on the journey of building a strong motherland and a beautiful Macao.
Ke Lan stated that all sectors of society in the SAR should, inspired by the great spirit of the War of Resistance, remain 坚定不移 (jiān dìng bù yí - "firm and unshakable," unswerving), work pragmatically and take on responsibilities, and continuously write new chapters in the high-quality development of Macao's "one country, two systems" (一国两制) undertaking.
Xue Lian (薛莲), curator of the Nanjing Anti-Japanese Aviation Martyrs Memorial Hall (南京抗日航空烈士纪念馆), introduced the main contents of the exhibition via video. Gao Demin (高德敏), son of Huang Huanxiao (黄欢笑), a Chinese nurse at the Flying Tigers hospital, shared his mother's moving deeds. A student representative spoke, expressing that they will strive to transform their reverence for the heroic martyrs into concrete actions of studying hard, serving the motherland, and embracing the world.
The exhibition is jointly organized by the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Macao, the Nanjing Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum Administration (南京市中山陵园管理局), the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum for Economic and Trade Co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (Macao) (中国—葡语国家经贸合作论坛（澳门）常设秘书处), and the Macao Historical Society (澳门历史学会). The exhibition runs until September 7 and is open to the public free of charge during this period.
Return to TopNanning, August 31 (This newspaper's reporter Pang Geping (庞革平)). The reporter learned from the Market Supervision Administration of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区市场监督管理局): Since Guangxi established the special work team for responding to and handling problems reported by business entities this year, it has cumulatively accepted 683,300 requests, of which 95% benefited small, medium, and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households. As of now, Guangxi's special governance of "new officials not settling old accounts" (新官不理旧账) has cumulatively cleared 742 million yuan of arrears owed to business entities, with the case closure rate exceeding 80%, and all small-amount undisputed arrears below 100,000 yuan have been cleared to zero.
The problem of "new officials not settling old accounts" not only harms the legitimate rights and interests of business entities, but also affects the government's credibility and the business environment. This special governance in Guangxi focuses on three types of prominent problems: government arrears to enterprises, failure to honor policy commitments, and failure to perform effective court judgments. Through the 12345 hotline ledger, 1,880 work orders were collected, a unified special governance ledger was established, and a "one ledger, one policy" (一账一策) approach was implemented for precise resolution.
Guangxi will keep a close eye on large-amount historical backlog cases, implement "one case, one special team" (一案一专班), promote the substantive resolution of historical leftover account problems, and establish and improve the accountability mechanism, effectively reduce the burden on enterprise operations, and further optimize the business environment.
Return to TopOur newspaper, Guiyang, August 31 — (Reporter Cheng Huan) In order to further strengthen and improve the temporary assistance system and to fully exert the role of temporary assistance as the "bottom line of the bottom line" (兜底的再兜底 - dōu dǐ de zài dōu dǐ, the final safety net for those who have already exhausted other protections), the Guizhou Provincial Department of Civil Affairs (贵州省民政厅) and the Provincial Department of Finance (省财政厅) recently jointly issued the "Notice on Strengthening and Improving Temporary Assistance Work" to comprehensively carry out "small-amount, rapid assistance" (小额快救) for urgent and difficult matters.
The Notice clarifies that when the following five types of difficult circumstances occur and urgent assistance is required, "small-amount, rapid assistance" may be implemented according to regulations: individuals or families who find it difficult to guarantee basic living standards due to the occurrence of sudden major illnesses; individuals or family members whose clothing, food, housing, and other basic living needs cannot be guaranteed due to major losses of family property caused by fires or other incidents; cases of serious injury or death caused by personal accidental injuries such as fires, car accidents, drowning, or mining accidents, where the responsible party is not yet clearly identified, the responsible party has no capacity for compensation, and the individual or family finds it difficult to guarantee basic living standards; individuals among minimum living security recipients, persons in extreme poverty, orphans and de facto unattended children, members of households on the margin of minimum living security, and members of households facing difficulties with rigid expenditures, whose basic living standards encounter serious difficulties; and other instances where the occurrence of urgent and difficult situations results in the inability to guarantee the basic living standards of an individual or family, and immediate measures must be taken to prevent the occurrence of irrecoverable losses or unchangeable serious consequences.
The Notice stipulates the procedures for implementing "small-amount, rapid assistance." After the township people's government (subdistrict office) or the county-level people's government civil affairs department accepts an application for "small-amount, rapid assistance" and confirms that the relevant materials provided by the applicant and the urgent and difficult circumstances encountered are true, they shall no longer conduct verification of family economic status or public notice, but shall directly register information such as the assistance recipient, the reason, and the amount, and provide the assistance.
Regarding the connection of temporary assistance policies, the Notice clarifies that for special circumstances such as complex difficult situations or cases where the assistance amount has reached the upper limit but still cannot alleviate basic living difficulties, on the basis of comprehensively utilizing various assistance and support policies, collective consultation methods such as "discussing each case individually" (一事一议 - yī shì yī yì, discussing matters on a case-by-case basis) and individual case consultations may be adopted to study and determine an appropriate increase in the assistance amount. For cases where the difficult situation is particularly complex and the living difficulties are particularly severe, temporary assistance of no more than 50,000 yuan per household per time may be provided according to regulations.
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Near the South Square of Beijing West Railway Station stands a building that has received one of the first batch of national three-star certifications for accessibility environment — the Beijing Disability Service Demonstration Center (北京市残疾人服务示范中心; Hui'ai Building, 汇爱大厦). On August 28, the meeting room on the third floor of the Hui'ai Building was filled with warmth, as more than 40 people with disabilities from across the country gathered as promised to attend the 2026 National Training Course for Accessibility Environment Construction Promotion Supervisors.
"Accessible restrooms must have enough space for a wheelchair to turn around" "If the dimensions of accessible facility construction are off by a little, our friends with disabilities will find them uncomfortable to use"... Everyone, one after another, offered 建言献策 (jiàn yán xiàn cè - "offer words, present strategies," to offer suggestions and advice) for accessibility environment construction.
This September 1 marks the third year of implementation of the Law on the Construction of an Accessible Environment (无障碍环境建设法). From "spontaneous experience" to "organized supervision," over these three years, China's accessibility supervision mechanism has been improving day by day. A large number of accessibility supervisors from the grassroots have been 走街串巷 (zǒu jiē chuàn xiàng - "walk the streets, thread the alleys," to go around neighborhoods), finding problems and, in the process, filling gaps and clearing bottlenecks in accessibility environment construction.
"Accessibility environment construction is a task of fine detail. When we carry out daily experience and supervision work, we focus closely on all kinds of details, then form reports and submit them to the relevant departments. Overall, my impression is that in Beijing, the construction of accessible facilities and supporting services in public places such as government service halls, banks, and subways has improved markedly, and the degree of standardization is getting higher and higher," said Du Peng (杜鹏), a Beijing accessibility supervisor.
As of the end of 2025, the country had established 1,754 accessibility environment construction promotion and supervision teams, with 24,454 accessibility supervisors, of whom 10,968 were accessibility supervisors with disabilities. "The China Disabled Persons' Federation (中国残联) has for many consecutive years strengthened training for accessibility supervisors and organized representatives of people with disabilities to participate in activities such as facility experience, opinion solicitation, and supervision and evaluation. The purpose is precisely to hope that accessibility construction better fits needs and better matches reality," said a relevant official from the Rights Protection Department of the China Disabled Persons' Federation.
Article 19 of the Law on the Construction of an Accessible Environment stipulates that people's governments at or above the county level shall support and guide the renovation of household accessibility facilities. In recent years, disabled persons' federations at all levels have actively sought the support of Party committees, governments, and relevant departments, promoting the inclusion of household accessibility facility renovation projects for families of people with disabilities in the implementation of practical livelihood projects of Party committees and governments or in performance target assessment management, and establishing a working mechanism of "government leadership, disabled persons' federation coordination, departmental collaboration, social participation, and family cooperation" (政府主导、残联牵头、部门协作、社会参与、家庭配合).
"In the past, when cooking, to turn on the range hood, I had to take a stick to press the start button. Now an intelligent range hood has been installed, and it is directly voice-controlled — much more convenient." Zhang Dongtang (张东堂), a person with a physical disability from Gengyuan Village (耿园村), Chengguan Subdistrict (城关街道), Hua County (滑县), Anyang City, Henan Province, looked at the accessible facilities in his home, his eyes full of warmth. Having been accompanied by a wheelchair all year round, Zhang Dongtang has special needs regarding the height and dimensions of various facilities. If facilities are too high, he cannot touch them even with his hand stretched out; if facilities are too low, it is unsafe for him to bend down and lean forward. The working group for the accessibility renovation of households of people with severe disabilities in difficulty (困难重度残疾人家庭无障碍改造) in Hua County went to Zhang Dongtang's home three times, recording in detail the various barriers he encounters in his home life. "'One household, one policy; renovating according to need' (一户一策、因需施改) is the basic principle for implementing the accessibility renovation work for households of people with severe disabilities in difficulty," said a relevant official of the Anyang City Disabled Persons' Federation. In order to truly improve the lives of people with disabilities, after the renovation is completed, a joint acceptance inspection team will conduct the acceptance, including third-party professional evaluation institutions, technical personnel, township and town cadres, village (residential) representatives, and family members of people with disabilities, with multi-party participation and cross-verification.
As of the end of 2025, the country had cumulatively completed accessibility renovation for 1.47 million households of people with severe disabilities in difficulty, effectively solving practical difficulties for people with disabilities in moving about at home, using the toilet, and bathing, and significantly enhancing people with disabilities' sense of gain, happiness, and security.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郑 娜 徐嘉伟
On a weekend afternoon, at the ticket checkpoint of a cinema in Haidian District, Beijing, audiences waiting to enter to watch Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant (欢迎来龙餐馆) had already formed a long queue, including both young people arriving in groups and family "parent-child groups." The dense crowd of moviegoers reflected the heat of this year's summer season films.
Data from online platforms show that as of 16:00 on August 31, the total box office of the 2026 summer season exceeded 12.4 billion yuan, with admissions reaching 339 million and screenings reaching 38.5 million, all surpassing last year's summer season, with the number of screenings setting a new summer season historical high. The film market continues to burst with vitality, reflecting the public's vigorous demand for high-quality spiritual and cultural products, and demonstrating the resilience and potential of the high-quality development of Chinese cinema.
Diverse high-quality supply combined with people-benefiting ticket prices inject momentum into the market
This year's summer season saw over a hundred Chinese and foreign films released, covering revolutionary history themes, action, suspense, animation, youth romance, and other genres.
"The summer season has a rich number of films with diverse themes and genres, and both domestic and imported films have performed relatively well," said Lai Li (赖力), market analyst at Maoyan Entertainment (猫眼娱乐).
Domestic films strongly led the way, propping up the fundamental base of the summer season box office. Among the top five films of the season — Kung Fu Women's Football (功夫女足), Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant, The Eight Immortals! (八仙！), Spider-Man: Brand New Day, and The Odyssey — domestic films occupied three slots.
"Multiple films have gained good word-of-mouth through superior quality, driving a wave of moviegoing and achieving a positive cycle between reputation and box office. This once again confirms that, in the face of diversion by short videos, short dramas, and the like, theatrical films still possess strong market appeal, and good content is always the driving force of box office," said Sun Jiashan (孙佳山), researcher at the Chinese Culture Teaching and Research Department of the Central Institute of Socialism (中央社会主义学院).
Diverse high-quality supply combined with people-benefiting ticket prices injected strong momentum into the summer season.
This year is the "Film Economy Promotion Year" (电影经济促进年). The China Film Administration (国家电影局), together with relevant departments and many localities, launched various forms of people-benefiting moviegoing measures and distributed movie consumption vouchers. This year's summer season average ticket price was approximately 36.7 yuan, the lowest for a summer season in the past five years.
The audiences entering cinemas have not only increased in number, but their composition has also continued to optimize, with the existing market and incremental market expanding simultaneously. Data show that audiences aged 40 and above accounted for 26.2 percent, up 3.5 percentage points year-on-year; the 30-34 age group accounted for 20.8 percent, maintaining steady growth. Chen Jin (陈晋), data analyst at Lighthouse Professional Edition (灯塔专业版), analyzed: "This change reflects that the broadening of film content and themes has effectively reached the moviegoing needs of mature audience groups."
"The steady growth of the summer season has injected confidence into the film market for the second half of the year," Lai Li said.
Domestic films achieve multiple breakthroughs, new-generation creative forces rise
As the longest season in the annual cycle of Chinese cinema, the summer season is an important window for displaying the creative landscape of Chinese film.
"This year's summer season film themes and genres basically cover the moviegoing needs of all age groups, taking into account many scenarios such as youth socializing and parent-child viewing," said Fan Zhizhong (范志忠), dean of the International Institute of Film and Television Development at Zhejiang University (浙江大学国际影视发展研究院).
From the revolutionary history film Four Crossings (四渡) to realistic works such as Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant, from comedies Kung Fu Women's Football and The Annual Meeting Can't Stop! 2 (年会不能停！2) to animated films such as The Eight Immortals!, domestic film themes and genres have seen 百花齐放 (bǎi huā qí fàng - "a hundred flowers bloom together," diverse things flourishing side by side), with multiple high-quality works emerging that are both critically acclaimed and commercially successful.
Behind the steadily rising box office are multiple breakthroughs by domestic films in thematic expansion and artistic expression, as well as the rise of new-generation creative forces.
"Looking at this year's domestic films, the creative ranks include a group of directors such as Lan Hongchun (蓝鸿春) and Mou Zhengyang (牟正洋). With their vivid individual experiences and keen perception of the times, they bring new perspectives and a new atmosphere," said Xie Xin (谢辛), professor at the Beijing Film Academy.
Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant uses Chinese cuisine culture as its entry point, transforming the simple concepts of "Great Unity under Heaven" (天下大同) and "harmony is most precious" (和为贵) into vivid expression. The Eight Immortals! draws inspiration from traditional mythological stories and innovates its narrative perspective. A Love Letter to Grandma (给阿嬷的情书) is rooted in the regional culture of Chaoshan, telling a moving story of 守望相助 (shǒu wàng xiāng zhù - "watch and aid one another," mutual assistance and support).
"Several films have chosen to make the fates and emotions of ordinary people the narrative focus, achieving a resonance between artistic expression and public emotion at the same frequency," Xie Xin believes. This reflects a creative direction of great practical significance at present: the great era is not a suspended abstract background; it needs to be seen and perceived through concrete individuals one by one; only when narrative methods stay close to life and focus on individuals, allowing grand narratives to 落地生根 (luò dì shēng gēn - "fall to the ground and take root," to become firmly established), can works be endowed with lasting power that reaches straight into people's hearts.
The consumption chain continues to extend, and the multiplier effect of "film+" (电影+) emerges
The summer season moviegoing boom has also driven growth in diverse business forms such as cultural-tourism integration and cultural-creative derivatives, further amplifying the multiplier effect of "film+" related consumption.
"A large number of exterior scenes for Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant were shot at the Shitanjing Industrial Culture and Tourism Town (石炭井工业文旅小镇)," introduced Wang Peng (王鹏), Party Working Committee Secretary of Shitanjing Subdistrict (石炭井街道), Dawukou District (大武口区), Shizuishan City (石嘴山市), Ningxia. After the film's release, the town's average daily visitor flow doubled, with around 8,000 visitors per day during peak periods.
The high popularity drove rising customer traffic for surrounding merchants. Ge Yihong (葛义红), operator of the Shitanjing Old Mining Area Time Restaurant, said: "The number of tourists coming to the store increases day by day, and income has grown considerably."
The linkage value of "film + cultural tourism" has emerged in many places. Kung Fu Women's Football made Xiyong Resort (溪涌度假村) in Shenzhen, Guangdong popular, with tourist volume growing by more than 50 percent; The Eight Immortals! drove surging popularity in places such as Penglai (蓬莱), Shandong; Mount Qingcheng, Sichuan; and Yongle Palace, Shanxi; A Love Letter to Grandma drove the development of cultural tourism in the hometown of overseas Chinese, with ancient villages and specialty food stores welcoming large numbers of film fans.
The moviegoing dividend has further radiated to urban consumption scenarios, leveraging the "ticket stub economy" (票根经济). Beijing held a Midsummer Film Carnival (仲夏电影嘉年华), distributed people-benefiting moviegoing subsidies, and carried out open-air screenings; audiences could enjoy multiple discounts in dining, cultural and museum venues, and shopping by presenting their ticket stubs. Harbin, Heilongjiang, relying on the "Film Fortnight" (电影双周) activity, arranged dozens of outdoor screening points and linked commercial districts and scenic areas to launch exclusive ticket stub benefits.
Along with the films' hot screenings, IP (intellectual property) derivatives such as figurines, blind boxes, and stationery sold well and broke out of the circle. The Eight Immortals! launched refrigerator magnets, badges, collectible cards, and other cultural-creative products, incorporating intangible cultural heritage techniques such as Shu brocade, bamboo weaving, and woodblock New Year prints into cultural-creative development, which were sought after by the market. There were also restaurants that launched more than a dozen co-branded meal sets around Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant, which were well received.
"The vigorous development of the summer season's diverse 'film+' business forms once again proves that the economic value of film goes far beyond a single movie ticket; it can also connect with consumption scenarios such as tourism, dining, shopping, transportation, and cultural creativity," Fan Zhizhong said.
According to estimates, since the beginning of this year, cinemas across various localities, through diverse operational transformations and rich "film+" activities, have driven the continuous extension of the consumption chain, boosting the output value of the entire film industry chain to exceed 410 billion yuan.
"In the future, 'film+' should deepen cross-field integration, extend the lifecycle of works, and transform single moviegoing experiences into more lasting cultural experiences and consumption behaviors. And the premise of all this is that the films themselves must be good enough; only works that truly enter the audience's memory and touch the audience's emotions can break the boundaries of the screen, integrate into the daily life of the public, and extend toward the direction of the full industry chain, long cycles, and multiple scenarios," Xie Xin said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孙海天
How small can an intangible cultural heritage museum be?
A reporter walked into the first floor of the cultural activity center of Dong'an Community (东岸社区), Jiyang District (吉阳区), Sanya, Hainan Province. In a space of a few square meters, bookshelves were arranged in an arc, and people in the reading area were absorbed in their books; on the wooden lattice shelves, pot-bellied Li pottery jars (黎陶) and Li brocade (黎锦) hanging panels were placed at intervals, and a bamboo circular plaque beside them read "Small Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum (非遗小馆)."
In March this year, Sanya's first batch of seven small intangible cultural heritage museums debuted, scattered along the streets and alleys of Jiyang, Tianya (天涯区), Yazhou (崖州区) and other districts, open to the public free of charge with no reservation required. These small museums were all created by revitalizing and renovating existing community spaces, one museum, one distinctive feature: the old Cai family residence (蔡家老宅) in Yazhou Ancient City (崖州古城) displays Huang Daopo's (黄道婆) textile culture and Yazhou folk songs (崖州民歌); the "4:30 Classroom" (四点半课堂) in Maling Big Community (马岭大社区) displays glutinous rice wine-making techniques...
Using idle space to create cultural space — the change in scene stems from a change in thinking.
Xu Yongman (徐永曼), deputy curator of Sanya Cultural Center (三亚市文化馆), introduced that Sanya has 45 intangible cultural heritage items on its register, but many people only know of Li brocade, the firewood-chopping dance (打柴舞), and Yazhou folk songs. How can intangible cultural heritage enter residents' daily lives?
"We can try to build 'intangible cultural heritage in the community (非遗在社区).'" In 2025, a suggestion from the Intangible Cultural Heritage Division (非遗处) of the Hainan Provincial Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports (海南省旅游和文化广电体育厅) opened up Xu Yongman's thinking. After repeated deliberation, Xu Yongman and her colleagues decided to borrow the idea of micro-museums: embedding display points of a few square meters in idle community spaces, concentrating physical objects, maps, and popular science materials in one place. "Bring intangible cultural heritage to the 'doorstep of the people,'" Xu Yongman said.
Where would the venues come from? Previously, Sanya Cultural Center had signed a co-construction agreement with the Sanya Party-Masses Service Center (三亚市党群服务中心), and more than 200 Party-masses service stations citywide were listed as branch venues of the cultural center. Once the need for building museums was posted in the work group, communities voluntarily signed up one after another, and Sanya Cultural Center then surveyed and screened each site one by one.
"For us, we gained space for free use; for the communities, they didn't need to spend extra money and gained a cultural display front," said Mai Jun (麦君), head of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Department (非遗部) of Sanya Cultural Center. The renovation cost for a single small museum is tens of thousands of yuan; a third party was commissioned for construction with an agreed quality guarantee; the project received special funding support, and the opening and operation of the seven small museums cost 350,000 yuan in total.
"Before, if you wanted to see Li brocade being made, you had to make a special trip to a scenic area or the cultural center. Now you can see it just a few steps downstairs," said a resident living near the small intangible cultural heritage museum.
Not long ago, the small intangible cultural heritage museum in Hongtukan Community (红土坎社区) welcomed 20 families, as parents and children together experienced the charm of Hainan's local patterns. Gao Chao (高超), a staff member of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Department of Sanya Cultural Center, introduced that the museum is responsible for content planning, exhibit arrangement, and activity organization, and regularly visits communities to inspect and rectify displays. "Some communities proactively approach the museum asking for activities — mutual help and support."
"In the past, the biggest problem was having the skill but no place to teach it," said Huang Liqiong (黄丽琼), a provincial-level representative inheritor of the traditional Li spinning, dyeing, weaving, and embroidery technique. Now that the small museum has opened in the community, she brings the craft to young people, letting more people understand this ancient intangible cultural heritage.
Sanya Cultural Center also plans to launch a 2.0 version, the "Small Intangible Cultural Heritage Corner (非遗小角)," using community bulletin boards and idle walls to create micro display points, with the cost of a single display point reduced to several thousand yuan. "We can first try making small corners; when conditions are better, make small museums, and adjust at any time," Xu Yongman said.
"Cultural activities cannot be satisfied with a one-time bustle that leaves behind a gust of wind." Xu Yongman told reporters that the current approach is lightweight investment, leveraging more idle resources to create rich and unique cultural memories.
Return to TopOn August 31, compulsory education schools in Rongshui Miao Autonomous County (融水苗族自治县), Liuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, opened for the new semester, and school cafeterias began serving meals under the nutrition improvement plan (营养改善计划), letting the children eat their first nutritious lunch of the new semester. In recent years, Rongshui County has advanced the implementation of the Rural Compulsory Education Student Nutrition Improvement Plan (农村义务教育学生营养改善计划), continuously optimizing the dietary structure and improving the quality of meals served, so that students eat nutritiously and healthily. The photo shows first-grade students picking up their meals.
Long Tao (龙涛) / Image China (影像中国)
Beijing, August 31 (Reporter Wang Jue (王珏)) — The Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) recently published the "Measures for the Management of Museum Collections" (博物馆藏品管理办法), which will take effect on November 1, 2026. The measures stipulate that museums shall formulate accession standards for collections based on their own nature and tasks, and before acquiring collections, shall organize professional personnel to appraise and evaluate the authenticity and value of the collections to determine whether they meet the museum's accession standards. State-owned museums shall strictly fulfill the prescribed procedures for the exit of collections from museum holdings.
To further strengthen the management of museum collections, adapt to the needs of high-quality development of museums, and enhance the level of standardization and refinement in collection management, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, in accordance with the latest requirements of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Cultural Relics (中华人民共和国文物保护法) and in light of actual work, revised the "Measures for the Management of Museum Collections" originally promulgated by the Ministry of Culture (文化部) in 1986.
In response to problems in recent years such as non-standard management of donated collections in some museums and imperfect collection inventory mechanisms, the measures focus on improving the requirements for collection exit, management of donated collections, and collection inventory. Regarding collection exit, the circumstances for exit and the handling methods after exit are strictly limited, the procedures for expert evaluation and approval by cultural relics administrative departments are standardized, and collection exit is carried out strictly and prudently. Regarding the management of donated collections, the provisions on donation acceptance procedures and the basic content of donation agreements are further refined, the disposal methods of donated collections are restricted, and the legitimate rights and interests of donors are safeguarded. Regarding collection inventory, the methods and requirements for collection inventory are clarified, the responsibility of museum legal representatives and custodial personnel for handover upon leaving their posts is consolidated, and the establishment of a long-term mechanism for museum collection inventory and counting is promoted.
Return to TopOur newspaper Kunming, August 31 (Reporter Zhang Chi (张驰)) The reporter learned from a press conference of the Standing Committee of the Yunnan Provincial People's Congress (云南省人大常委会) that the Regulations on Public Libraries of Yunnan Province (云南省公共图书馆条例) will be officially implemented on September 1. The Regulations consist of 6 chapters and 43 articles, systematically regulating the establishment, operation, and service of public libraries.
The Regulations use legal means to make up for shortcomings in collection resources. They establish a publication deposit system, stipulating that publishing units shall, within 30 days from the date of publication of formal publications, deposit books with the provincial public library, and requiring an increase in the variety and quantity of digital documents such as e-books and electronic audio books.
The Regulations advance the construction of the central-branch library system (总分馆制), stipulating that county-level people's governments shall coordinate the advancement of the construction of a central-branch library system with the county-level public library as the central library, and township and village comprehensive cultural service institutions, as well as border-gate book clubs (houses) (国门书社（屋）), farmers' book houses (农家书屋), etc., as branch libraries, striving to open up the "last kilometer" of reading services. At the same time, it clarifies that the county-level central library is responsible for duties such as professional guidance to its subordinate branch libraries, resource allocation, document cataloging and distribution, joint borrowing and returning, regular updating of document information, and personnel training.
The Regulations also encourage public libraries to innovate and expand urban and rural public reading spaces, relying on venues such as commercial complexes, tourist attractions, and characteristic cultural blocks, to plan and construct compound new-type reading spaces such as city study rooms, sojourn libraries, smart reading stations, ethnic culture-themed study rooms, and border-gate book clubs (houses), promote the integrated development of public library services with tourism, technology, intangible cultural heritage, and other business forms, innovate service methods, and expand new business forms and new products of cultural-tourism integration.
Return to TopFrom August 19 to 21, the United Nations Development Programme's "Conference on Sustainable Development of Wellness Sojourn" and the first Jiangjin (Simian Mountain) High-Quality Development Conference on the Wellness Sojourn Industry were held at the Siping Tourism Resort in Jiangjin District (江津区), Chongqing. Representatives from global think tanks, industry associations, wellness enterprises, and medical and cultural tourism institutions gathered together to jointly discuss the sustainable development path of wellness sojourn.
During the conference, the United Nations Development Programme project team released the framework of China Wellness Sojourn Sustainable Development — Jiangjin Case (《中国康养旅居可持续发展——江津案例》), systematically summarizing the integrated development path of "culture-led, ecology-based, whole-region layout, community co-construction, and technology empowerment"; the framework of the Guidance Opinions on the Development of Wellness Sojourn in Simian Mountain, Jiangjin District, Chongqing (《重庆市江津区四面山康养旅居发展指导意见》) and the white paper framework of the Simian Mountain Consensus on Wellness Sojourn (《四面山康养旅居共识》) were released, and the "Wellness Jiangjin" (康养江津) global communication plan was launched; 13 wellness projects were signed in a centralized signing, with a total amount exceeding 4.1 billion yuan; and the Jiangjin Branch of Chongqing Silver Economy and Smart Wellness College (重庆银发经济与智慧康养学院江津分院) was officially licensed and established.
Jiangjin District is currently the only natural selenium-rich area of the large-city suburban type in the country; 90.2% of its soil is at a medium-to-high selenium level. Simian Mountain has a forest coverage rate of 97%, with a negative oxygen ion concentration as high as 29,000 per cubic centimeter. The district is a "Hometown of Longevity in China" (中国长寿之乡), with 251 centenarians residing here, the number ranking first in Chongqing. The triple overlay of selenium-rich resources, ecological foundation, and longevity culture makes Jiangjin District a natural wellness destination.
In 2025, the Greater Simian Mountain area received 2.9071 million tourist visits and achieved comprehensive tourism revenue of 1.743 billion yuan. The area's core carrier, Siping Tourism Resort, received 829,700 tourist visits and achieved revenue of 493 million yuan. The wellness route centered on Siping Town (四屏镇) has been selected as a recommended route for the 2026 Western Region Silver Consumption Season (银发消费季).
The combination of "sightseeing" and "wellness" forms the core competitiveness of the Simian Mountain wellness industry. On the "sightseeing" side, the Simian Mountain Scenic Area is a national 5A-level tourist attraction. This summer it launched new business formats such as waterfall coffee, via ferrata climbing, and red-cliff walking, turning "watching mountains and waters" into "playing in mountains and waters". On the "wellness" side, Siping Tourism Resort focuses on wellness functions, having opened a wellness complex of nearly 5,000 square meters, forming a full-chain wellness guarantee.
In July 2025, at the first Chongqing Homestay Industry Expo, the Simian Mountain "Selenium Stay" (硒宿) brand was officially released, and the Simian Mountain Selenium-Rich Wellness Homestay Management Regulations (《四面山富硒康养民宿管理规范》) were simultaneously launched, focusing on four dimensions: selenium-rich ingredient support, wellness facilities, guest room standards, and service procedures, and formulating a star-rating standard from "selenium wellness three-star to five-star". Over the past year or more, the Greater Simian Mountain area has gathered more than 300 homestays and agritainment establishments, with more than 30 high-quality business entities incorporated into the "Selenium Stay" brand system. After renovation, agritainment establishments' revenue increased by an average of over 110%.
Currently, Jiangjin District is building a whole-region wellness pattern with one core driving and multiple points supporting: Siping Town is the core engine and is creating a national-level tourist resort; Simianshan Town (四面山镇) is deepening the "integration of scenic area and town" (景镇一体) and building a homestay wellness industry cluster; Zhongshan Town (中山镇) relies on the "Love Ladder" (爱情天梯) cultural IP to enrich cultural tourism experiences; Bailin Town (柏林镇) has held the "Hi Summer Bailin" (嗨夏柏林) event for seven consecutive years. Each sector has complementary functions and mutual passenger flow, jointly forming the whole-region wellness network of Greater Simian Mountain.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Jiangjin District Committee, Chongqing (中共重庆市江津区委宣传部).
Return to TopBy: 怀进鹏
In July this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions on basic education work, fully affirming the notable achievements made in the development of China's basic education, further clarifying the strategic, overall, and directional issues in the reform and development of basic education, and issuing a call and putting forward requirements for the whole Party and the whole society to jointly support and run basic education well. We must deeply study and comprehend the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, earnestly shoulder the political responsibility for the high-quality development of basic education, unswervingly grasp implementation, make basic education strong and excellent, and lay a solid foundation for accelerating the building of an education powerhouse and effectively supporting Chinese modernization.
Fully understand the important strategic position of basic education
Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has attached great importance to the reform and development of basic education. General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been 念兹在兹 (niàn zī zài zī - "think of this, be mindful of this," to be constantly concerned about something) about basic education, making a series of important instructions and directives, drawing the grand blueprint for the high-quality development of basic education, and pointing out the direction and providing fundamental guidance for running basic education well.
Basic education is a soul-forging project for implementing the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education and cultivating new generations of the era capable of shouldering the great mission of national rejuvenation. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Basic education is the cause of fostering virtue through education" and "we must cultivate socialist builders and successors who are well-developed morally, intellectually, physically, aesthetically, and in labor." The basic education stage is a critical period for shaping young people's worldview, outlook on life, and values. It most needs careful guidance and cultivation to help young people fasten the first button of life. Fostering virtue through education bears on whether the Party's cause has successors and bears on the future and destiny of the country. We must persist in educating people for the Party and cultivating talent for the country, adhere to the socialist direction in running schools, fully implement the Party's education policy, and cultivate generation after generation of useful talent who support the Party's leadership and China's socialist system and are determined to strive all their lives for socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Basic education is a livelihood project that adheres to the people-centered approach and safeguards the bottom line of social fairness. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Adhere to developing education with a people-centered approach, accelerate the building of a high-quality education system, develop competence-oriented education, and promote educational equity." Educational equity is an important foundation of social fairness, and basic education is an important starting point of educational equity. Safeguarding fairness at the starting point of education means safeguarding the hope of equal development for every child and safeguarding the vital interests of hundreds of millions of families. We must adhere to the fundamental stance of putting the people first, integrate fairness into all aspects and all links of the reform and development of basic education, strive to narrow the gaps between urban and rural areas, between regions, between schools, and between groups in education, create conditions and provide guarantees for every child to receive education equally, and let the fruits of education reform and development benefit all the people more and more fairly.
Basic education is a foundational project for improving the quality of the nation and serving Chinese modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must focus on improving the overall quality of the population and support Chinese modernization with high-quality population development." Contemporary Chinese children are the main force for achieving the Second Centenary Goal and building a modern socialist country. The quality of today's basic education directly determines the quality of tomorrow's working population. In particular, the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, putting entirely new demands on students' innovative thinking and practical abilities. We must follow the laws of education and the laws of talent development, always place basic education in a strategic position of priority development and priority guarantee, establish a scientific concept of education, deepen the reform of education and teaching, solidly cultivate students' comprehensive qualities needed for future development, cultivate fertile soil for the growth of innovative talent, and accumulate strength for the great cause of national rejuvenation.
Basic education is a foundational project for accelerating the transformation of education from large to strong and building an education powerhouse. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "The more solidly basic education is done, the steadier the pace and the stronger the momentum of building an education powerhouse will be." Basic education holds a foundational and leading position in the national education system and is the fountainhead of talent cultivation. Basic education is education that lays foundations, laying the foundation for students' comprehensive and lifelong development. Only when basic education is run well can high-quality students come 源源不断 (yuán yuán bù duàn - "in a continuous stream," ceaselessly), and can the transformation and upgrading of vocational education and the innovative development of higher education have potential and momentum. We must adhere to the unity of problem orientation, goal orientation, and effect orientation, coordinately advance reforms in education methods, school-running models, management systems, and guarantee mechanisms, resolutely break all ideological constraints and institutional shortcomings that restrict high-quality development, use basic education reform and innovation to boost the transformation of the entire education system, and consolidate the foundation for building an education powerhouse.
Accurately grasp the new situation and new requirements for making basic education strong and excellent
Since the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has upheld and strengthened the Party's overall leadership over education work, accelerated the modernization of education and the building of an education powerhouse, promoted historic achievements and structural changes in the cause of basic education, made the socialist character of education with Chinese characteristics more distinct, and overall reached the average level of high-income countries in the world. First, adhering to using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to forge souls and educate people. The fundamental task of fostering virtue through education was comprehensively and deeply implemented, and the principal responsibility system under the leadership of Party organizations in public primary and secondary schools achieved full coverage. The project of fostering virtue through education in the new era (新时代立德树人工程) was deployed and implemented, and the mechanism for the Party's innovative theory to enter textbooks, enter classrooms, and enter minds was improved. Second, the level of popularization was comprehensively improved. The world's largest and quality basic education system was built, with the gross enrollment rate in preschool education reaching 92.9%, the consolidation rate of compulsory education reaching 96.1%, the gross enrollment rate in senior high school education reaching 92%, the enrollment rate of school-age disabled children in compulsory education reaching 97%, and the average years of education of the new labor force reaching 14.3 years. Third, historic progress was made in educational equity. Examination-free enrollment in nearby schools for compulsory education was fully implemented, the proportion of children of migrant workers studying in public schools and enjoying government-purchased school places exceeded 97%, and all districts and counties nationwide achieved basic balance in compulsory education. The student financial aid policy system achieved "three full coverages" of all education stages, all schools, and all students from families with economic difficulties, with financial aid provided to students a cumulative total of 1.1 billion person-times since the 18th National Congress of the Party. Fourth, priority development and priority guarantee were effectively implemented. Per-student public funding standards were issued for all education stages, and basic education's share in fiscal education expenditure has remained above 60% for a long time. The action plan for expanding quality and improving quality of basic education (基础教育扩优提质行动计划) was implemented, effectively guaranteeing the needs of the gradual peaking of school-age population in various education stages. Fifth, significant results were achieved in the reform of education methods. The 15-minute break between classes and 2 hours of comprehensive physical activity per day were fully implemented, aesthetic education immersion actions, labor habit cultivation plans, and reading actions were continuously advanced, science education and artificial intelligence education developed rapidly, forming a good education situation of "simultaneous development of five educations" (五育并举) of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education.
Facing the new journey of building an education powerhouse, the domestic and international environment of China's basic education is undergoing profound changes, facing a major transformation in history. We must base ourselves on the overall national strategic situation, accurately recognize changes, scientifically respond to changes, and actively seek changes.
Chinese modernization has entrusted new missions. Currently, China's development has entered a critical period of consolidating the foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. Basic education is where the country's long-term development competitiveness lies, bearing on the overall situation and the long term. Making basic education strong and excellent and accelerating the building of an education powerhouse means investing in the country's future and laying the foundation for national rejuvenation. We must base ourselves on the overall national development, cultivate new generations of the era capable of undertaking the great task of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, and fully release and demonstrate the strategic value of basic education.
Changes in population structure bring new challenges. The population variable is the most important influencing factor in basic education. Currently, China's population development presents obvious trend characteristics such as fewer children, aging, and differentiation in population increase and decrease among regions. The wave-like changes in school-age population not only pose challenges to the allocation of basic education resources, but also provide historical opportunities for the proactive adjustment and optimization of basic education. We must strengthen forward-looking planning and systematic response, improve the resource allocation mechanism adapted to changes in school-age population, and accelerate the construction of a fair and high-quality basic education system.
Rapid technological development drives new changes. Emerging technologies represented by artificial intelligence are accelerating iteration, and both the speed of knowledge updating and the way of acquiring knowledge are undergoing profound changes. Basic education must not only enable students to increase knowledge, but also stimulate students' interest in advocating science and exploring the unknown, and cultivate their exploratory and creative thinking qualities. We must respond to the development and changes of the times, deepen the transformation of education and teaching models and governance methods, and focus on cultivating students' scientific interest, innovative awareness, and practical ability.
The people have put forward new expectations. The problem of unbalanced and insufficient development of China's basic education is still relatively prominent, especially the relatively large shortcomings in the central and western regions and rural areas. The people's expectations for educational equity and quality are getting higher and higher. They expect their children to enjoy high-quality educational resources and have strong demands for diversified, personalized, and selectable education. We must make greater efforts to shore up shortcomings and strengthen weak areas, accelerate the expansion of quality and improvement of quality, and strive to provide fairer and higher-quality basic education for every child to grow and become successful.
Fully implement the strategic deployment for the high-quality development of basic education
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must earnestly shoulder political responsibility, optimize the allocation of school-running resources, deepen comprehensive education reform, promote schools, families, and society to work in the same direction, and continuously open up new prospects for the high-quality development of basic education." We must anchor to the goals and tasks of building an education powerhouse and making basic education strong and excellent, systematically plan policy measures for deeply advancing the high-quality development of basic education in the next 5-10 years, and demonstrate new responsibility and new achievements on the new journey.
Adhere to fostering virtue through education as the foundation. Implement the project of fostering virtue through education in the new era, educate and guide young students to always be loyal to the Party, loyal to the country, loyal to the people, and loyal to socialism, and be determined to devote themselves to the cause of Chinese modernization. We must highlight the guidance of the "three entries" (三进) and forge souls and educate people. Coordinately advance the main classroom of the Party's innovative theory, the big classroom of practical education, and the new classroom of online education. Fully leverage the main channel role of ideological and political courses, and integrally manage core elements such as textbooks and readers, teaching materials, case resources, and teaching staff. Emphasize practical education, make good use of the great practices and achievements of the new era, and let students feel the power of truth in scenes such as cultural and museum venues, revolutionary relics, and major national equipment. Continuously purify the online space environment for young people, prevent internet addiction, and provide more excellent online cultural products and resource supply. We must highlight student characteristics and be perceptible and effective. Respect students' cognitive laws and educational laws, deepen the integrated reform and innovation of ideological and political courses in universities, secondary schools, and primary schools, coordinate the connection between education stages, and enhance the effect of the Party's innovative theory entering the mind and heart. Actively explore new expressions and innovations of mainstream content, launch more perceptible and participatory "small scenes," and effectively enhance the pertinence and attractiveness of ideological and political education. We must highlight the integration of five educations and comprehensive development. Deeply implement the education concept of "health first," led by the construction of healthy schools, carry out student physical fitness strengthening actions, campus football activities, school aesthetic education immersion actions, and labor habit cultivation plans, implement a new round of student mental health promotion actions, and ensure that "one physical education class every day," "comprehensive physical activity time of no less than 2 hours every day," and "15-minute breaks between classes" are solidly implemented in every school and benefit every student.
Safeguard the bottom line of educational equity. Adhere to the public welfare attribute of basic education, continuously expand the coverage of high-quality educational resources, and provide fair and quality education for every school-age child. We must deeply implement the action of expanding quality and improving quality (扩优提质行动). Preschool education should increase the supply of places in public kindergartens, compulsory education should adapt to the needs of building a strong country and raise construction standards, and senior high school education should deeply implement the action plan for revitalizing county high schools (县中振兴行动计划), focusing on solving problems such as the loss of excellent teachers and students in county high schools and weak school-running conditions. We must continuously regulate the order of enrollment and school admission. Carry out "sunshine enrollment" (阳光招生) work in primary and secondary schools on a regular basis, further improve the long-term mechanism for fair enrollment, resolutely eliminate "cream-skimming enrollment," black-box operations, and illegal class division in compulsory education, standardize enrollment work in regular senior high schools, strictly implement local enrollment and "simultaneous enrollment of public and private schools" (公民同招), and form institutional arrangements that are fair, open, standardized, transparent, and with strong supervision. We must care for and love disadvantaged groups. Improve the care system for rural left-behind children, improve the normalized mechanism for controlling dropout and ensuring school attendance (控辍保学), guarantee the right to school enrollment for children of migrant workers, promote school-age children of migrant workers who meet the conditions to enjoy the same rights in compulsory education as the registered population of the place of inflow, 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "adapt measures to local conditions," to act according to circumstances) relax the registration conditions for the high school entrance examination in the place of inflow, strengthen education guarantees for disabled children, expand educational resources for autism, further improve the quality of integrated education and door-to-door teaching, smooth the channels for disabled children to receive higher education, promote the high-quality and standardized development of specialized education, scientifically plan construction, strictly standardize management, emphasize educational care, and improve the effect of educational correction.
Optimize the allocation of educational resources. The phased and structural changes in school-age population are both challenges and historical opportunities for the reconstruction of the education system, reorganization of resources, optimization of layout, and improvement of quality. We must adapt measures to local conditions and implement policies by category. Accurately predict and scientifically assess changes in school-age population, improve the layout planning of basic education, strengthen the dynamic adjustment of teacher resources and other resources in primary and secondary schools across regions, across schools, and across education stages, orderly promote small-class teaching based on actual conditions, and better realize 因材施教 (yīn cái shī jiào - "teach according to aptitude," to tailor teaching to the student's ability) and pay attention to individual growth. We must guarantee the smooth passage of the peak at the senior high school stage. In county towns and central urban areas where population continues to flow in net and the gap in school places continues to increase, encourage and support all localities to revitalize various resources and increase the supply of school places. Adhere to the combination of normal and emergency and balance short-term and long-term, leave room for the future decline of school-age population, and avoid large-scale idleness. We must shore up the shortcomings of rural education. Steadily promote the adjustment of rural school layout, run boarding schools and necessary small-scale rural schools well through methods such as group-based school running and urban-rural education communities, coordinately use surplus assets, and improve the efficiency of educational resource use. We must improve the management system of basic education. Establish and improve the management system of "provincial-level coordination, county-based, city-county combination," coordinate funding guarantees, school layout, school place supply, teacher allocation, etc. at a higher level and in a larger scope, and improve the efficiency of resource allocation and the ability to guarantee fairness.
Shape new advantages for development. Grasp the core of enlightening wisdom and increasing intelligence in the intelligent era and the key to innovation potential, let students have internal drive, curiosity, and desire for exploration, and enhance their ability to adapt to changes of the times. We must deepen the curriculum reform of basic education in the new era. Strengthen the integrated reform design of twelve years, increase the proportion of courses such as physical education, art, and labor, strengthen the setting of comprehensive courses in primary and junior high school stages, carry out project-based, inquiry-based, and team cooperative learning, and effectively promote the transformation from knowledge transmission to the cultivation of core competencies and key abilities. We must implement the digitalization strategy of basic education. Deeply advance the integration, intelligence, and internationalization of the national smart education platform for primary and secondary schools, expand the beneficiary scope of high-quality educational resources, deepen the coordination of science and technology education and humanities education, coordinate the integrated implementation of science and technology education in universities, secondary schools, and primary schools, continuously implement the reading action for young students, steadily and prudently promote the application of artificial intelligence, promote artificial intelligence to empower teaching, learning, management, evaluation, and research, strictly control algorithm recommendation for minors, and prevent digital security and ethical risks. We must steadily implement the action of international exchange and cooperation in basic education. Adhere to standards first and brand leadership, deepen cooperation with international organizations and multilateral mechanisms, promote high-level opening up to the outside world, and establish and improve Chinese standards for basic education in curriculum and textbooks, science and technology education, teacher education, artificial intelligence education, education quality monitoring, etc.
Forge a high-level teaching force. Guided by the spirit of educators, implement the national action for teacher development, and integrally advance reforms in teacher cultivation, training, management, and guarantee construction. We must pay more attention to improving teachers' core competencies. Reform the curriculum system of teacher education, strengthen teachers' ideological and moral cultivation, strengthen the cultivation of teachers' digital intelligence and scientific literacy, humanistic literacy, innovative thinking, interdisciplinary comprehensive literacy, etc., pay attention to the growth of young teachers, establish a probationary training system for newly recruited teachers in schools with relatively high school-running levels, adhere to the first standard of teacher ethics and conduct, and strictly implement "zero tolerance" for teacher ethics misconduct. We must pay more attention to the construction of a high-quality teacher development system. Coordinate the advantages of comprehensive universities with strong scientific research innovation, normal universities with strong educational foundations, primary and secondary schools with strong teaching practice, and local governments with strong guarantees, comprehensively improve the quality of teacher cultivation, improve the school-running level of normal education, maintain the normal education orientation, promote more high-level universities to participate in the "National Excellent Plan" (国优计划), build national excellent teacher colleges, promote the reform of excellent teacher cultivation, and let excellent people cultivate more excellent people. We must pay more attention to the guarantee of teachers' treatment and rights. Continue to increase the intensity of guaranteeing teachers' salary and treatment, reduce the non-education and non-teaching burden on primary and secondary school teachers, improve the system for guaranteeing teachers' development rights, form a good atmosphere of government guidance, school support, parent coordination, and social understanding, and let teachers devote themselves to teaching and educating with peace of mind.
Build a good development ecosystem. With reform and innovation as the driving force, actively promote reforms in education methods, school-running models, management systems, guarantee mechanisms, etc., and better stimulate the vitality of school running. Coordinately implement the "double reduction" (双减) policy and improve education and teaching quality, strengthen the role of schools as the main front for education, and continuously improve the governance level of off-campus training. We must orderly advance the reform of the high school entrance examination. Adhere to setting questions according to standards and highlight the competency orientation, optimize examination methods and improve scoring subjects, link enrollment and examination and increase enrollment plans of regular senior high schools, explore multiple admission methods such as registration-based admission, balanced placement, and district-based enrollment, promote the characteristic development of senior high schools, let children choose suitable growth paths, and alleviate education involution and social anxiety. Guide the establishment of scientific views on talent, success, and education, and reverse the examination-oriented orientation that only values scores. We must regulate school-running behavior. Increase the governance intensity on behaviors such as overtime study, illegal tutoring, and frequent examinations, and reduce students' excessive academic burden. Strictly prohibit local Party committees and governments from issuing enrollment targets to education administrative departments and schools, and strictly prohibit evaluating and rewarding schools, teachers, and students based on "top scorers" in the high school and college entrance examinations, prestigious school rates, enrollment rates, etc. Strengthen the regulation and guidance of school-running behavior of private primary and secondary schools and international schools. We must give play to the role of supervision. While promoting the high-quality and balanced development of county compulsory education, extend to preschool and senior high school, promote the overall balanced development of basic education, and encourage qualified localities to explore effective paths for balanced development within cities. We must strengthen social coordination. Accelerate the realization of full coverage of "education consortium" (教联体) construction at the county level, link responsibilities, link resources, link spaces, and coordinately integrate educational resources inside and outside schools. Use education legislation to clarify the boundaries of rights and responsibilities of the government, schools, families, and society, and form a strong joint force of the whole society caring for and supporting basic education.
(The author is the Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Education (教育部))
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Ideological leadership is one of the core governing capabilities of the Communist Party of China, and a powerful force for uniting the Party's will and the people's hearts, advancing the development of the cause, and resisting risks and challenges. At the conference celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping summarized the Party's six outstanding qualities, the first of which is "persistently pursuing truth and always keeping a firm grasp on the direction of advance," and demanded "continuously strengthening the Party's political leadership, ideological leadership, mass organizing capability, and social appeal." Our Party, as the world's largest governing party with significant global influence, must continue to win the initiative amid changes in the world and win the future at the critical stage of national rejuvenation; it must rely on ideological unity, theoretical clarity, and political firmness. To continuously strengthen the Party's ideological leadership, the key is to make sustained efforts in uniting hearts and forging the soul, building strong grassroots positions, and promoting practical transformation.
Strengthen uniting hearts and forging the soul, and consolidate the foundation of faith through theoretical arming. Every step forward in theoretical innovation must be followed by a step forward in theoretical arming. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "In studying theory, cadres must be willing to devote energy, study comprehensively and systematically, study in a timely and follow-up manner, study with deep thinking, and study in connection with practice." Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the "golden key" for Party members and cadres to advance their work and solve problems. To strengthen the Party's ideological leadership, we must take uniting hearts and forging the soul with the Party's innovative theory as the fundamental task, consolidate the foundation of faith, and enable Party members and cadres to forge an "indestructible vajra body." Grasp the "key minority," strictly implement the "first agenda item" and the study system of the theoretical study center group, promote leading cadres to learn one step earlier and one level deeper, achieve the integration of learning, thinking, and application and the unity of knowledge, faith, and action, and promote theoretical study to go deeper, more practical, and more into the heart. Adhere to teaching by category: for leading cadres, focus on enhancing strategic thinking, dialectical thinking, bottom-line thinking, and so on; for grassroots Party members, use vivid language and examples around them to explain theory vividly and thoroughly; for young Party members, use networked and visualized means, arm them with scientific theory, inspire them with the original aspiration and mission, and guide them to strengthen the "Four Confidences" (四个自信) through comparison between China and foreign countries and between the past and the present. Improve the long-term mechanism for theoretical study, consolidate and expand the achievements of centralized Party education and learning, promote the integration of theoretical study into daily life and regular practice, and enable Party members and cadres to gain more confidence and more strength the more they study.
Build strong grassroots positions and enhance the masses' identification with the Party's innovative theory. "One who wishes to build a house must first lay its foundation." The Party's grassroots organizations are the "nerve endings" of the Party's body, and the most solid force supporting the Party's work lies at the grassroots. Ideological leadership cannot remain "high-altitude work"; it must sink to the grassroots. Only by integrating ideological leadership into all aspects of grassroots governance and building grassroots Party organizations into strong fighting fortresses can the Party's innovative theory enter the masses and grasp the masses, and can ideological leadership have a solid support and deep foundation. We must improve the Party's grassroots organizational system, highlight political functions, strictly implement systems such as the "Three Meetings and One Class" (三会一课), themed Party Day activities, and organizational life meetings, build a strong grassroots governance team, and make ideological tempering and theoretical improvement required courses for grassroots cadres in performing their duties. Further improve the quality and effectiveness of grassroots theoretical propaganda, base on the cognitive characteristics and production and life realities of grassroots masses, interpret policies and explain principles around hot issues of concern to the masses such as livelihood security, public services, and safe construction, speak in everyday language, plain language, and honest language, so that the masses can understand, remember, and apply. Ideological leadership comes from the power of truth and also from the power of personality; the good work style and demeanor of Party members and cadres are also a powerful guide. Adhere unwaveringly to the strict tone, 锲而不舍 (qiè ér bù shě - "carve without ceasing," to persevere unremittingly) implement the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation, resolutely rectify formalism, bureaucratism, privileged thinking, and privileged behavior, rectify unhealthy tendencies and corruption around the masses, and win the masses' trust with a clean and upright atmosphere. Ideological leadership is not 居高临下 (jū gāo lín xià - "occupy a height and look down," condescending) preaching, but 将心比心 (jiāng xīn bǐ xīn - "put heart against heart," to empathize) communication. Regularly carry out work such as Party members going down to the grid, visiting households, and holding sincere talks on people's conditions, actively listen to the masses' demands, and collect public sentiment and opinion. "Solving" is often more persuasive than "explaining." Party members and cadres must go deep into the grassroots and the masses, measure people's conditions with their steps, warm people's hearts with their actions, precisely solve the masses' urgent, difficult, anxious, and longed-for problems in employment, elderly care, education, improvement of the living environment, and other aspects, let the masses feel the practical power of the Party's innovative theory from the changes, and voluntarily identify with the Party's innovative theory. We must also improve the working mechanism for deep integration of ideological leadership and grassroots governance, incorporate ideological construction into the key content of grassroots Party building and grassroots governance assessment, clarify responsibility division, compact work tasks, activate the endogenous driving force of grassroots governance with ideological cohesion, and make the Party's innovative theory take deep root in the fertile soil of the grassroots.
Promote practical transformation and demonstrate the great power of thought with solid work and tangible achievements. "The essence of learning lies in practice." General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Ideals and convictions are not for talking about or singing about, still less for decorating the facade; only when they are manifested in action do they have persuasive power." Strengthening the Party's ideological leadership must ultimately be implemented in advancing the development of the cause and enhancing the people's well-being. We must focus on the central task and transform ideological leadership into vivid practice of high-quality development. The new development philosophy, the new development pattern, high-quality development, and new quality productive forces were all produced in the 波澜壮阔 (bō lán zhuàng kuò - "waves surge, vast and magnificent," grand and sweeping) practice of the new era, and are also important thoughts, concepts, and strategies that have led the new era to achieve historic achievements and undergo historic changes. Party members and cadres must deeply grasp the theoretical lineage, theoretical connotation, and practical path of high-quality development and so on, view the development situation dialectically, strengthen confidence in development, find a path of high-quality development suited to the reality of their own region and unit, and demonstrate ideological leadership with development achievements. Improve governance efficiency and transform ideological leadership into tangible results of good grassroots governance. Adhere to and develop the "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) in the new era, improve the grassroots governance system combining self-governance, rule of law, and rule of virtue under the leadership of Party organizations, promote the sinking of resources and extension of services; in resolving conflicts, do a good job of ideological guidance and emotional guidance, combine legal principles with human considerations, both untie ideological knots and clarify solutions, and let the masses enhance their sense of gain, happiness, and security in joint contribution, joint governance, and shared benefits. Gather the strength for endeavor and transform ideological leadership into consensus action of the whole society.
(The author is the deputy secretary of the Party Committee and secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Poly International Holding Co., Ltd. (保利国际控股有限公司))
Return to TopFrom the perspective of the Party's original aspiration and mission, seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation necessarily requires achieving national strength and rejuvenation. Xi Jinping's thought on Party building is grounded in the grand framework of national strength and rejuvenation, deeply grasps the laws of historical development and the general trend of the times, and plans the overall layout and arrays forces in such aspects as the strong leadership force, rigorous organizational system, capable cadre contingent, and sound discipline and work style required for national strength and rejuvenation, providing strategic support of a long-term, fundamental, and foundational nature for Party building. From the internal logic of governance, the key to comprehensively building a modern socialist country and comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation lies in the Party. Xi Jinping's thought on Party building focuses on grasping the political guarantee role of governing and managing the Party and prospering and strengthening the Party for national strength and rejuvenation, emphatically stresses the extreme importance of strengthening Party leadership, and, from such aspects as the Party's political building, theoretical arming, Party spirit tempering, organizational system, cadre contingent, work style and discipline, strengthens Party building across all elements, continuously advances governing and managing the Party and prospering and strengthening the Party, and strengthens the foundation and consolidates the base of Party leadership through full and rigorous Party self-governance. From the historical initiative of long-term governance, in leading and advancing the Party's cause by focusing on strengthening the Party itself, governing and managing the Party and prospering and strengthening the Party possess a high degree of historical consciousness in national strength and rejuvenation. Xi Jinping's thought on Party building deeply grasps the historical consciousness and historical initiative of governing and managing the Party and prospering and strengthening the Party in national strength and rejuvenation, runs the practical logic of leading and advancing the Party's cause by strengthening the Party itself throughout the entire ideological system, profoundly reveals the dialectical relationship in which the two accompany each other and mutually promote and advance, and fully embodies the historical initiative spirit of Chinese Communists who, while transforming the objective world, consciously transform the subjective world and, through the progress of the subjective world, better transform the objective world. From the practice of the Party's cause development, the new requirements and new achievements of the great cause of national strength and rejuvenation are used to promote and test Party building. National strength and rejuvenation is not something external to Party building, but rather the internal yardstick that defines the direction of Party building and tests the effectiveness of Party building. Xi Jinping's thought on Party building deeply grasps the new requirements and new tasks that national strength and rejuvenation places on governing and managing the Party and prospering and strengthening the Party, and makes a scientific layout of an overall, forward-looking, and leading nature for the new great project of Party building.
——Excerpted from the China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Daily (中国纪检监察报), July 30, 2026, author: Tang Junfeng (汤俊峰), original title: "Deeply Grasping the Internal Connection between Governing and Managing the Party, Prospering and Strengthening the Party, and National Strength and Rejuvenation — Deeply Studying and Implementing Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building."
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No. 81
The Law of the People's Republic of China on Cultivated Land Protection and Quality Improvement was adopted at the 24th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on August 28, 2026, and is hereby promulgated, to come into force on January 1, 2027.
Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China
August 28, 2026
Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Cultivated Land Protection Objectives and Layout
Chapter III Control over Occupation of Cultivated Land
Chapter IV Cultivated Land Quality Improvement
Chapter V Ecological Protection of Cultivated Land
Chapter VI Safeguards and Supervision
Chapter VII Legal Liability
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is enacted in accordance with the Constitution for the purposes of strengthening cultivated land protection, improving cultivated land quality, ensuring national food security and the effective supply of important agricultural products, advancing the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, accelerating the building of a strong agricultural country, and promoting high-quality economic and social development.
Article 2 This Law applies to activities such as cultivated land protection and quality improvement and the supervision and management thereof.
Cultivated land shall be mainly used for the production of grain and agricultural products such as cotton, oil, sugar, and vegetables, as well as forage grass and feed.
Article 3 Cultivated land is China's most precious resource. Cherishing and rationally utilizing land and effectively protecting cultivated land is China's basic national policy.
The State adheres to implementing the strictest cultivated land protection system and the strictest economical and intensive land use system, and strictly guards the red line for cultivated land protection (耕地保护红线).
Article 4 Cultivated land protection and quality improvement work upholds the leadership of the Communist Party of China, implements the Party's and the State's lines, principles, policies, and decisions and arrangements, follows the principles of equal emphasis on quantity and quality, strict law enforcement, systematic advancement, and sustainable use, and implements integrated protection of cultivated land quantity, quality, and ecology.
Article 5 The State establishes a responsibility system for cultivated land protection and food security, and implements the shared responsibility of the Party and government for cultivated land protection and food security (党政同责).
Provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government bear overall responsibility for cultivated land protection and food security within their respective administrative regions; their principal responsible persons are the first responsible persons for cultivated land protection and food security in their administrative regions and are responsible for the cultivated land protection and food security objectives within their administrative regions.
Article 6 The competent department of natural resources under the State Council (自然资源部) and the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs under the State Council (农业农村部) are responsible, according to their respective division of duties, for the supervision and management of national cultivated land protection and quality improvement. The relevant departments of the State Council for ecology and environment (生态环境部), water administration (水利部), and others are responsible, according to their respective division of duties, for the relevant supervision and management of national cultivated land protection and quality improvement.
The competent departments of natural resources and the competent departments of agriculture and rural affairs of local people's governments at or above the county level are responsible, according to their respective division of duties, for cultivated land protection and quality improvement and their supervision and management within their respective administrative regions. The relevant departments of ecology and environment, water administration, and others of local people's governments at or above the county level are responsible, according to their respective division of duties, for the relevant supervision and management of cultivated land protection and quality improvement within their respective administrative regions.
Article 7 The competent department of natural resources of a people's government at or above the county level may, together with the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs and other relevant departments at the same level, compile special plans related to cultivated land protection and quality improvement on the basis of territorial spatial plans and other plans, in light of actual conditions, and submit them for approval and implementation according to procedures.
Article 8 People's governments at or above the county level shall incorporate cultivated land protection and quality improvement work into national economic and social development plans and annual plans, and include the required funds in their budgets at the corresponding level.
Article 9 People's governments at all levels and their relevant departments shall strengthen publicity and education on cultivated land protection and quality improvement, and raise the awareness of the whole society regarding cultivated land protection and quality improvement; they shall encourage villagers' committees, rural collective economic organizations, agricultural production and operation entities, social organizations, volunteers, and others to carry out publicity and education on the laws, regulations, and related knowledge of cultivated land protection and quality improvement.
The competent education departments and schools shall, in educational and teaching activities, pay attention to cultivating students' awareness of cultivated land protection and quality improvement.
News media shall carry out public-interest publicity on the laws, regulations, and related knowledge of cultivated land protection and quality improvement, and conduct public opinion supervision over illegal acts such as the destruction of cultivated land.
Article 10 The State encourages and supports scientific research and the promotion and application of research achievements in cultivated land protection and quality improvement and economical and intensive land use, such as land consolidation, soil improvement, fertility cultivation, water and soil conservation, and ecological protection; it encourages institutions of higher learning, scientific research institutes, agricultural technology extension agencies, enterprises, and others to carry out industry-university-research cooperation and to jointly conduct scientific and technological research and talent cultivation.
Article 11 The State adopts measures to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of agricultural production and operation entities in cultivated land protection and quality improvement, and to protect their lawful rights and interests.
Article 12 The State supports international cooperation and exchange on cultivated land protection and quality improvement.
Article 13 Units and individuals that make notable achievements in cultivated land protection and quality improvement, economical and intensive land use, and related scientific research shall be commended and rewarded in accordance with relevant State regulations.
Chapter II Cultivated Land Protection Objectives and Layout
Article 14 In compiling territorial spatial plans, the strategy of major functional zones shall be implemented; functional spaces such as agriculture, ecology, and urban areas shall be planned in a coordinated manner; the protection red lines for cultivated land and permanent basic farmland (永久基本农田), ecological protection red lines, and urban development boundaries shall be delimited and implemented; cultivated land protection priority shall be upheld; cultivated land protection objectives such as the amount of cultivated land to be maintained and the protected area of permanent basic farmland shall be specified; and the scale of new construction land shall be strictly controlled.
Territorial spatial plans at the next lower level shall implement the cultivated land protection objectives determined in territorial spatial plans at the next higher level.
Local people's governments at all levels shall strictly implement the cultivated land protection objectives specified in territorial spatial plans, strictly guard the protection red lines for cultivated land and permanent basic farmland, and ensure the effective use of cultivated land resources; they shall strictly control the occupation of cultivated land, especially permanent basic farmland, by various types of new construction, and give priority to protecting permanent basic farmland and high-quality cultivated land around cities.
Article 15 People's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall ensure that the total amount of cultivated land within their administrative regions as determined in territorial spatial plans does not decrease, quality improves, and ecological functions remain stable; where the total amount of cultivated land decreases, the State Council shall order that, within a prescribed period, supplementary cultivated land equivalent in quantity and quality to the reduced cultivated land be organized; where cultivated land quality declines or ecological functions are damaged, the State Council shall order that, within a prescribed period, remediation be organized. The newly supplemented and remediated cultivated land shall be inspected and accepted by the competent department of natural resources under the State Council together with the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs under the State Council.
Where, in an individual province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government, due to a severe shortage of cultivated land reserve resources, the quantity of newly supplemented cultivated land within its administrative region is insufficient to compensate for the quantity of cultivated land occupied after the addition of construction land for major national construction projects, it may apply to the State Council for national coordination; after approval by the State Council, cultivated land of equivalent quantity and quality shall be supplemented in other places as prescribed.
The State may, in light of the situation of cultivated land reserve resources, organize centralized supplementary cultivated land within the areas suitable for supplementary cultivated land determined in territorial spatial plans.
Article 16 Local people's governments at all levels shall, in accordance with territorial spatial plans, coordinate the protection of cultivated land and other agricultural land such as forest land, grassland, and garden land; in areas where conditions permit, they shall promote the planting of fruit trees and trees on ecologically suitable barren hills and slopes, and, in accordance with State regulations, orderly restore other agricultural land that is relatively flat and suitable for restoration to high-quality cultivated land to cultivated land, gradually optimizing the spatial layout of cultivated land and other agricultural land such as forest land, grassland, and garden land.
Local people's governments at all levels shall, in accordance with territorial spatial plans, optimize the spatial layout of rural production, living, and ecological spaces, take townships as the basic units, carry out land consolidation and farmland infrastructure construction in light of local conditions, promote the relative concentration of the layout of cultivated land and permanent basic farmland, increase the effective area of cultivated land, improve cultivated land quality, and improve agricultural production conditions and the ecological environment.
Article 17 The competent department of natural resources of a people's government at or above the county level shall incorporate the amount of cultivated land to be maintained, the protected area and layout arrangements of permanent basic farmland, and areas suitable for supplementary cultivated land into the territorial spatial plan implementation supervision system and update them in a timely manner, and conduct dynamic supervision, assessment, and early warning of changes in cultivated land and permanent basic farmland.
On the basis of the results of monitoring and evaluation of territorial spatial plan implementation, the layout of cultivated land and permanent basic farmland may be dynamically adjusted and improved in accordance with statutory procedures; where it is truly necessary to adjust the cultivated land protection objectives determined in territorial spatial plans, approval shall be reported according to procedures to the original organ that approved the plans.
Article 18 The State implements a permanent basic farmland protection system. The following cultivated land shall, in accordance with territorial spatial plans, be delimited as permanent basic farmland and subject to strict protection:
(1) cultivated land within production bases for important agricultural products such as grain, cotton, oil, and sugar that have been determined with the approval of the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs under the State Council or local people's governments at or above the county level;
(2) cultivated land with good water resources and water and soil conservation conditions, and completed high-standard farmland (高标准农田);
(3) cultivated land within vegetable production bases;
(4) cultivated land within agricultural scientific research and teaching experiment fields;
(5) black soil land (黑土地) with deep black soil layers and good soil properties;
(6) cultivated land within superior seed breeding bases;
(7) other cultivated land that laws, administrative regulations, or the State Council provide shall be delimited as permanent basic farmland.
The permanent basic farmland delimited by each province, autonomous region, and municipality directly under the Central Government shall generally account for more than 80 percent of the cultivated land within its administrative region; the specific proportion shall be prescribed by the State Council in light of the actual conditions of cultivated land in each province, autonomous region, and municipality directly under the Central Government.
Article 19 The following cultivated land shall not be delimited as permanent basic farmland; where it has already been delimited as permanent basic farmland, it shall be gradually optimized and adjusted on the basis of the results of monitoring and evaluation of territorial spatial plan implementation:
(1) cultivated land that, in accordance with State regulations, needs to be returned to forest, grassland, lakes, and pasture;
(2) cultivated land with a slope greater than 25 degrees on which water and soil conservation measures have not been taken;
(3) cultivated land severely damaged by production and construction or natural disasters and unable to be restored to cultivation, cultivated land within the management scope of rivers and lakes that is unsuitable for stable use, and cultivated land with severe desertification, sandification, or rocky desertification;
(4) agricultural land that has been included in the strictly controlled category of agricultural land due to severe pollution and cannot be restored and remediated;
(5) other cultivated land that laws, administrative regulations, or the State Council provide shall not be delimited as permanent basic farmland.
Article 20 The delimitation of permanent basic farmland shall be carried out with townships as units, and shall be organized and implemented by the competent department of natural resources of the county people's government together with the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs at the same level.
After the delimitation of permanent basic farmland, the people's government of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government shall organize the competent department of natural resources and the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs at the corresponding level to inspect, accept, and confirm it.
The specific locations of permanent basic farmland shall be indicated in county-level and township-level territorial spatial plans, implemented down to specific plots, and incorporated into the national permanent basic farmland database for strict management. Township people's governments shall announce to the public the locations and scope of permanent basic farmland by means such as setting up protection signs.
Where it is truly necessary to optimize and adjust a small amount of scattered permanent basic farmland due to land consolidation, agricultural facility construction, or other reasons, the county people's government shall implement the adjustment plan in accordance with the principles of no reduction in quantity, no decline in quality, and stable layout.
The specific measures for the delimitation and optimized adjustment of permanent basic farmland shall be formulated by the competent department of natural resources under the State Council together with the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs under the State Council.
Article 21 The competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, and other competent departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall, according to their respective division of duties, lawfully organize regular surveys, monitoring, and evaluation of cultivated land resources and cultivated land quality, and carry out soil censuses and surveys of cultivated land reserve resources at appropriate times. The relevant standards and procedures shall be formulated by the competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, and other competent departments under the State Council according to their respective division of duties. The competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, and others shall strengthen information sharing.
Chapter III Control over Occupation of Cultivated Land
Article 22 The State implements total amount and intensity control of construction land, upholds the principle of "determining occupation by compensation" (以补定占), and strengthens the management of occupation of cultivated land by construction.
People's governments at all levels shall strengthen the management of land use plans, coordinate the arrangement of new and existing construction land, give priority to the use of inefficient existing construction land, and effectively reduce the occupation of cultivated land by new construction. Construction projects shall strictly implement construction land standards.
The competent department of natural resources under the State Council shall establish a land use system linking the scale of new construction occupying agricultural land with the use efficiency of existing construction land. The use of existing construction land shall serve as an important basis for arranging new construction land indicators and funds for cultivated land ecological protection and restoration.
Article 23 Non-agricultural construction shall use land economically; where wasteland can be used, cultivated land shall not be occupied; where inferior land can be used, good land shall not be occupied; where land truly needs to be occupied and cultivated land is to be converted into construction land, the examination and approval procedures for the conversion of agricultural land shall be handled lawfully.
Where cultivated land for which the examination and approval procedures for conversion of agricultural land have been completed is not used within one year but can still be cultivated and harvested, the collective or individual that originally cultivated the cultivated land shall restore cultivation, or the county people's government or the land-using unit may organize cultivation; it shall not be left idle or abandoned; where construction has not started for more than one year, the relevant provisions of the Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China shall apply.
Article 24 Once permanent basic farmland has been lawfully delimited, no organization or individual may occupy it or change its use without authorization. Where the site selection of key construction projects for national energy, transportation, water conservancy, military facilities, and other such projects is truly difficult to avoid permanent basic farmland, and involves the conversion of agricultural land or land expropriation, approval by the State Council shall be required.
Article 25 It is prohibited to occupy cultivated land to excavate lakes or create landscapes, or to carry out, without authorization, on cultivated land activities such as greening and afforestation, planting turf, piling solid waste, landfilling garbage, and engaging in other activities that laws and administrative regulations prohibit as occupying cultivated land.
Article 26 Where a construction project truly needs to occupy cultivated land, an analysis and demonstration of the necessity, rationality, and land use scale of occupying the cultivated land shall be conducted, and a comprehensive demonstration report on the land use of the construction project shall be compiled in accordance with relevant regulations. The comprehensive demonstration report shall be submitted for review as part of the application materials for land use pre-examination; after the review is passed, it shall be incorporated into the project feasibility study report or project application report in accordance with relevant regulations.
The relevant competent industry departments shall urge and guide relevant construction entities to use land lawfully, economically, intensively, and in accordance with regulations, and not to occupy cultivated land or to occupy as little cultivated land as possible. Where the examination and approval procedures have not been lawfully completed, construction shall not commence.
Article 27 The State strictly controls the conversion of cultivated land into other agricultural land such as forest land, grassland, and garden land. Except as otherwise provided by laws and administrative regulations, it is prohibited to convert permanent basic farmland into other agricultural land; where cultivated land other than permanent basic farmland truly needs to be converted into other agricultural land, cultivated land of lower quality, scattered distribution, and difficult to use stably over the long term shall be selected as far as possible.
Article 28 The State implements a compensation system for occupation of cultivated land, and uniformly incorporates all types of cultivated land occupation into the management of the balance of cultivated land occupation and compensation (耕地占补平衡); where cultivated land truly needs to be occupied, cultivated land equivalent in quantity and quality to the occupied cultivated land shall be supplemented, and it shall not be permitted to occupy more and supplement less, occupy superior and supplement inferior, or occupy contiguous land and supplement scattered land.
Where non-agricultural construction occupies cultivated land, the unit occupying the cultivated land shall be responsible for supplementing cultivated land. Where it has no conditions to supplement, or the supplemented cultivated land does not meet the requirements, cultivated land reclamation fees shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government, and the fees shall be used exclusively for supplementing new cultivated land; where permanent basic farmland is occupied, the fee shall be paid at twice the highest standard for local cultivated land reclamation fees. The required fees shall be included in the land use cost of the construction project. Rural villagers building residential houses shall use, as far as possible, existing homesteads and idle land within villages, and shall not occupy permanent basic farmland; where cultivated land other than permanent basic farmland truly needs to be occupied, the county people's government shall arrange for supplementary cultivated land, and shall not collect cultivated land reclamation fees from rural villagers.
Where cultivated land is occupied by means other than non-agricultural construction, the county people's government shall make overall arrangements for supplementary cultivated land in accordance with relevant State regulations.
Article 29 When supplementing cultivated land, local people's governments at or above the county level shall adhere to the principle of giving priority to restoring high-quality cultivated land and supplementing with newly reclaimed cultivated land as a secondary means, comprehensively consider factors such as ecological protection and water resources, and implement supplementary cultivated land in a classified and steady manner within the areas suitable for supplementary cultivated land determined in territorial spatial plans.
For supplementary cultivated land, other agricultural land such as forest land, grassland, and garden land suitable for restoration to high-quality cultivated land, as well as unused land such as saline-alkali land and scattered idle land, shall be comprehensively taken as sources.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall lawfully organize the consolidation of scattered idle land and abandoned land, the reclamation of damaged cultivated land, and the organized reclamation of cultivated land in a planned manner. The implementation of land development, consolidation, and reclamation shall conform to the requirements of territorial spatial plans and ecological environment protection.
Article 30 New reclamation of cultivated land is prohibited within natural protected areas and ecological protection red lines.
The following land shall in principle not serve as a source for supplementary cultivated land:
(1) severely sandified land, severely rocky desertified land, and slopes above 25 degrees;
(2) land within the management scope of rivers and lakes;
(3) forest land, grassland, and land within the management scope of wetlands in key State-owned forest areas and State-owned forest farms;
(4) other land that laws and administrative regulations provide shall not serve as supplementary cultivated land.
Article 31 Newly increased cultivated land from land development, consolidation, reclamation, and other such activities that conforms to the regulations may be lawfully used as supplementary cultivated land; where quality does not meet the standards, it shall not be used as supplementary cultivated land.
People's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall organize the competent department of natural resources and the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs at the corresponding level to confirm and accept supplementary cultivated land, and strengthen follow-up evaluation of the productivity of supplementary cultivated land. The competent department of natural resources under the State Council, together with the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs under the State Council, shall formulate specific measures for the acceptance of supplementary cultivated land, and conduct supervision and inspection of the supplementary cultivated land situation of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall publish to the public the situation of supplementary cultivated land for occupied cultivated land, and accept social supervision.
Article 32 Where temporary land use is needed for construction project construction and geological survey, cultivated land shall be avoided or occupied as little as possible, permanent basic farmland shall be avoided, and permanent buildings shall not be constructed.
Where temporary land use truly needs to occupy cultivated land, approval by the competent department of natural resources of a people's government at or above the city divided into districts level shall be required, and land reclamation shall be completed within one year from the expiration of the temporary land use period to restore cultivation conditions.
Article 33 Where a construction project occupies cultivated land, the construction entity shall, in accordance with the provisions of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government, use the soil from the cultivated layer of the occupied cultivated land for soil improvement of newly reclaimed cultivated land, inferior land, or other cultivated land, as well as for the remediation of polluted cultivated land, high-standard farmland construction, land reclamation, and other purposes.
Local people's governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall strengthen guidance on the stripping and reuse of the cultivated layer soil, and provide necessary support.
Chapter IV Cultivated Land Quality Improvement
Article 34 The State establishes a strict cultivated land quality construction and protection system, improves and perfects a diversified input guarantee mechanism for cultivated land quality improvement, strengthens high-standard farmland construction and the treatment of degraded cultivated land, promotes cultivated land quality improvement, and gradually builds all permanent basic farmland with suitable conditions into high-standard farmland.
Article 35 The State improves the cultivated land quality survey and evaluation system, establishes unified cultivated land quality evaluation methods, standards, and indicators, and establishes and improves a cultivated land quality monitoring network system.
The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs under the State Council organizes the construction of a national cultivated land quality monitoring network and information platform.
The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of a local people's government at or above the county level shall, together with the departments of natural resources, ecology and environment, and others, establish long-term positioning monitoring sites for cultivated land quality covering its administrative region, and regularly submit to the people's government at the corresponding level reports on the status of cultivated land quality changes and corresponding recommendations for soil fertility protection measures.
Article 36 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall adopt comprehensive measures to improve the quality of cultivated land in their administrative regions and protect cultivated land fertility.
County people's governments shall organize the establishment of a quality improvement mechanism for newly increased cultivated land, carry out follow-up fertilization and management and protection, continuously mature the soil, and ensure the stable use of cultivated land.
Agricultural production and operation entities shall rationally apply organic fertilizer and other fertilizers to maintain and enhance soil fertility.
The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of a local people's government at or above the county level shall strengthen technical guidance for agricultural production and operation entities in protecting soil fertility.
Article 37 People's governments at all levels shall organize the improvement of farmland infrastructure such as field roads, irrigation and drainage systems, agricultural power facilities, shelterbelt networks, and farmland meteorological facilities, and improve cultivated land planting conditions.
The State improves the water conservancy infrastructure system, encourages and supports the construction of farmland water conservancy facilities in light of local conditions, and promotes the application of irrigation and drainage technologies and measures conducive to improving cultivated land quality. The water administration department and the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of a people's government at or above the county level shall, according to their respective division of duties, strengthen supervision and guidance over farmland irrigation and drainage, and provide technical services.
Article 38 The State improves the mechanisms and relevant standards for the project initiation, construction, acceptance, and management and protection of high-standard farmland, strictly manages quality throughout the entire life cycle, and establishes and improves a mechanism for retroactive investigation of responsibility throughout the entire life cycle of high-standard farmland construction projects and lifelong accountability.
The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs under the State Council shall, in accordance with national development plans, the national territorial spatial plan, and relevant national special plans, compile special construction plans specifying the tasks and layout of high-standard farmland construction. The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of a local people's government at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the national tasks and layout for high-standard farmland construction, organize the compilation of implementation plans for high-standard farmland construction in its administrative region, and decompose and implement the high-standard farmland construction tasks level by level.
Article 39 High-standard farmland construction shall adhere to the principles of government leadership, social participation, overall planning, adaptation to local conditions, step-by-step implementation, combination of use and maintenance, equal emphasis on quantity and quality, and equal emphasis on construction and management, fully consider the basic conditions of local cultivated land such as quantity, quality, distribution, and use, give priority to selecting permanent basic farmland and other cultivated land with good construction conditions, and listen to the opinions of rural collective economic organizations, new-type agricultural operation entities, farm households, and others, and protect their lawful rights and interests.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall adopt measures to encourage rural collective economic organizations, new-type agricultural operation entities, farm households, and others to directly participate in the construction, management, and protection of high-standard farmland.
Article 40 High-standard farmland construction shall strictly carry out surveying and mapping, investigation, design, construction, and supervision in accordance with relevant State regulations to ensure project quality. Specific measures shall be formulated by the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs under the State Council.
Article 41 High-standard farmland construction shall undergo completion acceptance in accordance with relevant State regulations. Rural collective economic organizations, new-type agricultural operation entities, farm households, and others shall be invited to participate in the acceptance.
Article 42 The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of a people's government at or above the county level shall lawfully strengthen supervision and management over high-standard farmland construction, establish and improve a quality supervision and inspection system for high-standard farmland construction, strengthen supervision and inspection over the project quality of high-standard farmland, carry out credit evaluation of institutions engaged in high-standard farmland construction together with relevant departments, and promptly publicize relevant information to accept social supervision.
The relevant departments of a people's government at or above the county level shall, according to their respective division of duties, strengthen supervision and management over the use of funds for high-standard farmland construction. No organization or individual may intercept, misappropriate, or divert funds for high-standard farmland construction.
The State establishes a national high-standard farmland database. The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of a local people's government at or above the county level shall incorporate the location, scope, and project initiation, implementation, acceptance, management and protection, and other information of high-standard farmland construction into the national high-standard farmland database simultaneously.
Article 43 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the management and protection of high-standard farmland, establish management and protection mechanisms, clarify the entities responsible for management and protection, implement management and protection responsibilities, reasonably guarantee management and protection funds, and improve management and protection measures.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall organize inspections, repairs, and maintenance of high-standard farmland within their administrative regions to ensure the normal operation of high-standard farmland engineering facilities.
No organization or individual may encroach upon or damage high-standard farmland engineering facilities or endanger the safety of high-standard farmland engineering facilities.
Where high-standard farmland is lawfully occupied, it shall be rebuilt to compensate; where high-standard farmland is damaged due to natural disasters, engineering construction, or other reasons, it shall be promptly restored or rebuilt to compensate, ensuring that completed high-standard farmland does not decrease.
Article 44 The State encourages and supports the comprehensive improvement and utilization of saline-alkali land in light of local conditions, and encourages scientific and technological innovation in the breeding and planting of salt-tolerant crops.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall organize relevant departments to strengthen the survey and monitoring of saline-alkali land, and adopt measures to tap the potential for the development and utilization of saline-alkali land, effectively curb the trend of cultivated land salinization, implement treatment projects for saline-alkali cultivated land, and carry out classified and zoned treatment and improvement.
Article 45 The State encourages the exploration, development, and utilization of non-traditional cultivated land resources such as deserts and gobi for agricultural production in areas with water resource conditions.
Article 46 The State strengthens the treatment of degraded cultivated land and promotes the sustainable use of cultivated land.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall carry out treatment of degraded cultivated land such as acidified and gleyed cultivated land by improving farmland infrastructure, improving irrigation and drainage conditions, improving farming systems, fertilizing the cultivated layer, applying soil conditioner materials, and other means; carry out comprehensive treatment of sandified, wind-eroded, and water-eroded cultivated land, and prevent and control water and soil loss.
The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of a local people's government at or above the county level shall support the research and development, promotion, and application of scientific and efficient treatment technologies for degraded cultivated land.
Article 47 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall support the adoption of measures such as applying organic fertilizer, returning manure to fields, returning straw to fields, planting green manure crops, grain-legume rotation, and formula fertilization by soil testing to enhance the supply capacity of soil organic matter and nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in cultivated land.
Article 48 The State supports the application of modern farming techniques, promotes conservation tillage models in suitable areas, and promotes the combination of use and maintenance of cultivated land.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in light of local natural conditions such as soil and water resources, promote scientific farming systems, implement rotation and other planting systems combining use and maintenance of cultivated land in light of local conditions, promote appropriate fallow farming in accordance with State regulations, and protect and improve cultivated land quality.
Article 49 The State establishes a black soil land protection system, lawfully strengthens the protection, utilization, treatment, and restoration of black soil land, steadily restores and improves the basic fertility of black soil land, protects the excellent production capacity of black soil land, and ensures that the total amount of black soil land does not decrease, functions do not degrade, quality improves, and production capacity is sustainable.
Chapter V Ecological Protection of Cultivated Land
Article 50 The State establishes a cultivated land ecological protection and restoration system, encourages the adoption of restoration measures such as agronomic, biological, chemical, and engineering measures, restores and improves the ecological functions of cultivated land, maintains the overall stability of the ecosystem, and promotes green agricultural development.
Article 51 People's governments at or above the county level shall adhere to the integrated protection of mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, grasslands, and deserts (山水林田湖草沙一体化保护), strengthen the ecological protection and restoration of cultivated land and the systematic treatment of forest land, grassland, wetland, sandy land, and other land surrounding cultivated land, strengthen the construction of farmland shelterbelt systems, strengthen the protection and effective utilization of traditional terraces, enhance the ecological functions of natural ecosystems such as water conservation, water and soil retention, windbreak and sand fixation, and biodiversity maintenance, and maintain an ecological environment conducive to cultivated land protection.
Article 52 The State encourages the development of ecological agriculture, and promotes environmentally friendly planting technologies such as soilless cultivation, precision fertilization, and green prevention and control of pests and diseases.
The relevant departments of local people's governments at or above the county level shall, according to their respective division of duties, guide agricultural production and operation entities to plant scientifically and rationally use agricultural inputs such as pesticides, fertilizers, and agricultural films; lawfully promote the recycling and disposal of packaging waste of agricultural inputs and waste agricultural films, and strengthen supervision and management.
Article 53 Local people's governments at or above the county level and their competent departments of agriculture and rural affairs shall strengthen the protection of biological species resources related to agricultural production, select and promote crops conducive to protecting the environment and stabilizing the ecology, protect biodiversity, and maintain the ecological functions of cultivated land.
Article 54 People's governments at or above the county level shall encourage the development of ecological circular agriculture, accelerate the construction of an ecological circular agricultural industry system, promote the application of green and efficient agricultural machinery and tools, strengthen the comprehensive utilization of straw and other remaining materials after the harvesting of agricultural products, scientifically carry out the harmless treatment and resource utilization of livestock and poultry manure, and promote the development of green planting-breeding circular agriculture.
Article 55 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall adopt measures to prevent and control the pollution of cultivated land by wastewater, waste gas, and solid waste. It is prohibited to discharge into cultivated land sewage and sludge containing heavy metals or other toxic and harmful substances exceeding standards, as well as dredged sediment, tailings, slag, and other substances that may cause soil pollution.
The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of a local people's government at or above the county level shall, lawfully and together with the competent departments of ecology and environment, natural resources, and others, monitor and evaluate cultivated land with soil pollution risks within its administrative region. In county-level administrative regions where polluted cultivated land is concentrated, the county people's government shall organize the departments of ecology and environment, agriculture and rural affairs, and others to carry out source tracing and source prevention and control of cultivated land pollution.
Water used for irrigating cultivated land shall conform to corresponding water quality standards to prevent soil pollution.
Article 56 Where sudden incidents cause or may cause cultivated land pollution, the parties concerned shall immediately adopt measures to eliminate or mitigate the pollution hazard to cultivated land, and report to the local people's government at or above the county level or the competent departments of ecology and environment, agriculture and rural affairs, and others. The relevant people's governments and their relevant departments shall handle the matter lawfully.
Chapter VI Safeguards and Supervision
Article 57 The State establishes and improves an input guarantee mechanism for cultivated land protection and quality improvement in accordance with the principle of government leadership and multi-party participation. People's governments at or above the county level shall lawfully guarantee input for cultivated land protection and quality improvement, and, in accordance with the principle of "whoever invests benefits" (谁投资、谁受益), encourage and guide social funds to participate in cultivated land protection and quality improvement, and protect the lawful rights and interests of social investors.
The State encourages and guides financial institutions to develop financial products and services such as credit, bonds, and insurance to provide support for cultivated land protection and quality improvement.
Article 58 The State establishes a compensation system for cultivated land protection and quality improvement, and provides compensation or rewards to areas with heavy cultivated land protection tasks such as permanent basic farmland, great efforts in high-standard farmland construction, good completion of cultivated land protection target responsibilities, and high grain output and high grain commodity rates, as well as to rural collective economic organizations, agricultural production and operation entities, and others that undertake cultivated land protection tasks. Specific measures shall be formulated by the competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, finance, and other competent departments under the State Council.
The State improves the interest compensation mechanism for major grain-producing areas, improves the fiscal transfer payment system for major grain-producing areas and major grain-producing counties, and improves the inter-provincial horizontal interest compensation mechanism between grain-producing and grain-marketing areas.
Local people's governments at or above the county level may, in light of actual conditions, establish local compensation systems for cultivated land protection and quality improvement.
Article 59 Land contractual management rights and other rights lawfully established on cultivated land are protected by law, and no organization or individual may infringe upon them.
Villagers' committees, rural collective economic organizations, State-owned farms, and others shall organize the maintenance of farmland infrastructure, improve cultivation conditions, and ensure the sustainable use of cultivated land resources.
Land contract contracts and land management rights transfer contracts shall specify the obligations of agricultural production and operation entities to rationally use and protect cultivated land. The party that issues the contract has the right to supervise the contracting party's rational use and protection of cultivated land in accordance with the uses specified in the contract; where cultivated land is abandoned and left idle, the contracting party shall be urged to restore cultivation; where cultivated land has been abandoned and left idle for more than two consecutive years, after notifying the contracting party and making a public announcement, various methods such as organizing others to cultivate and plant on their behalf may be adopted to restore cultivation, with specific measures to be prescribed by provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government. Where the holder of land management rights abandons and leaves cultivated land idle for more than two consecutive years, and the contracting party does not terminate the land management rights transfer contract within a reasonable period, the party that issued the contract has the right to demand termination of the land management rights transfer contract.
Villagers' committees, rural collective economic organizations, State-owned farms, and others that discover acts damaging cultivated land and other such acts have the right to stop them and to report to the competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, ecology and environment, and others of the county people's government.
Article 60 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the target responsibilities for cultivated land protection and food security and in light of the actual conditions of their administrative regions, consolidate the cultivated land protection and food security responsibilities of the people's governments at the next lower level.
The State organizes assessment of the responsibility system for cultivated land protection and food security.
The situation of cultivated land protection and quality improvement shall be incorporated into the off-office audit of natural resource assets of leading cadres.
Article 61 The national natural resources supervision and inspection institution carries out supervision and inspection of cultivated land protection in accordance with the authorization of the State Council. The localities under supervision and inspection shall implement the main responsibility for rectification, seriously organize rectification, and promptly report the rectification situation. The relevant competent departments of the State Council shall provide guidance and supervision over the rectification of the localities. Where a locality under supervision and inspection fails to implement the supervision and inspection opinions on cultivated land protection with due diligence, and the national natural resources supervision and inspection institution orders rectification within a time limit, during the rectification period, the acceptance and approval of conversion of agricultural land and land expropriation in that area shall be suspended.
Article 62 The competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, and other relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen supervision and inspection over cultivated land protection and quality improvement activities. When performing supervision and inspection duties, the relevant departments may lawfully adopt the following measures:
(1) require the organizations and individuals under inspection to provide relevant documents and materials, and to review or copy them;
(2) require the organizations and individuals under inspection to make explanations on relevant issues;
(3) enter the scenes of the organizations and individuals under inspection suspected of illegal acts to conduct surveys and collect evidence;
(4) seal up documents and materials that may be transferred, destroyed, concealed, or altered;
(5) seal up or seize places, facilities, equipment, or property involved in suspected illegal activities;
(6) suspend, during the investigation period, the handling of land approval, registration, and other procedures related to the illegal case for the organizations and individuals suspected of illegal acts;
(7) other measures provided by laws and administrative regulations.
Where measures provided in items (4), (5), and (6) of the preceding paragraph are adopted, the provisions of laws and administrative regulations such as the Administrative Compulsion Law of the People's Republic of China shall be complied with, and handling decisions shall be made promptly; where the relevant measures are no longer needed, they shall be promptly lifted.
Article 63 The State uses modern information technologies and means such as satellite remote sensing, the Internet, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence to raise the level of cultivated land protection and quality improvement work, and to strengthen supervision over cultivated land protection and quality improvement in a scientific and precise manner.
Article 64 The competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, ecology and environment, water administration, and other relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall establish and improve law enforcement coordination mechanisms and information sharing mechanisms, strengthen supervision and management capacity building, and lawfully share information on cultivated land protection and quality improvement and management and law enforcement. Multiple inspection matters targeting the same inspected object shall be merged or incorporated into the scope of cross-department joint random inspections.
Article 65 When the competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, ecology and environment, water administration, and other competent departments of people's governments at or above the county level perform supervision and inspection duties lawfully and find that illegal acts are suspected of constituting crimes, they shall promptly transfer the cases to the relevant organs. Where the relevant organs handling cases lawfully need the assistance of the competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, ecology and environment, water administration, and other competent departments in providing inspection conclusions, appraisal opinions, and other assistance, the relevant departments shall provide assistance.
The standards for determining the destruction of cultivated land planting conditions shall be formulated by the competent department of natural resources and the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs under the State Council together with the public security department, the competent department of ecology and environment, and others under the State Council.
Chapter VII Legal Liability
Article 66 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, local people's governments at all levels and their relevant departments and units fall under any of the following circumstances, the leading personnel and directly responsible personnel bearing responsibility shall be given warnings, demerits, or serious demerits; where the circumstances are relatively serious, they shall be given demotion or dismissal from office; where the circumstances are serious, they shall be given expulsion:
(1) the amount of cultivated land to be maintained or the protected area of permanent basic farmland within their administrative region is lower than the cultivated land protection objectives specified in territorial spatial plans;
(2) engaging in fraud in the work of the balance of cultivated land occupation and compensation, high-standard farmland construction, cultivated land quality monitoring and evaluation, and cultivated land ecological protection and restoration;
(3) serious problems of illegal occupation of cultivated land within the year;
(4) intercepting, misappropriating, or diverting funds for high-standard farmland construction;
(5) other acts of abusing power, dereliction of duty, or engaging in malpractice for personal gain.
Article 67 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, cultivated land is occupied to excavate lakes or create landscapes, or greening and afforestation, planting turf, piling solid waste, landfilling garbage, or other such activities are carried out on cultivated land without authorization, destroying planting conditions, the competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, ecology and environment, and other competent departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall, according to their respective division of duties, order rectification within a time limit or treatment, and may impose a fine of not less than five times but not more than ten times the local cultivated land reclamation fee based on the occupied area.
Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, permanent basic farmland is converted into other agricultural land, the competent department of natural resources of a people's government at or above the county level shall order rectification within a time limit; where rectification is not made within the time limit, a fine of not less than two times but not more than five times the local cultivated land reclamation fee may be imposed based on the occupied area, and the competent department of natural resources of the people's government at or above the county level shall restore the original planting conditions on behalf of the violator, with the required costs borne by the violator; where planting conditions are destroyed, punishment shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
Article 68 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, high-standard farmland engineering facilities are encroached upon or damaged, or the safety of the facilities is endangered, the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of a people's government at or above the county level shall order cessation of the illegal act and restoration to the original state within a time limit; where restoration is not made within the time limit, the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs, the water administration department, and others of the people's government at or above the county level may, according to their respective division of duties, restore on behalf of the violator, with the required costs borne by the violator, and a fine of not less than one time but not more than three times the restoration costs shall also be imposed.
Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, surveying and mapping, investigation, design, construction, supervision, and acceptance of high-standard farmland construction are not carried out in accordance with relevant State regulations, punishment shall be imposed in accordance with laws, regulations, and the relevant provisions of the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs under the State Council.
Article 69 Where, in accordance with the provisions of this Law, an order is issued to demolish within a time limit buildings and other structures newly constructed on illegally occupied cultivated land and to restore the original planting conditions of the cultivated land, the construction entity or individual must immediately stop construction, demolish the structures on its or his own, and restore the original planting conditions; where construction continues, the organ that made the decision may seal up the construction site and seize construction equipment, tools, building materials, and other items directly related to the suspected illegal occupation of cultivated land; where the entity or individual refuses to demolish on its or his own, the organ that made the decision may lawfully apply to the people's court for compulsory enforcement.
Article 70 For acts violating the provisions of this Law for which no administrative punishment is provided in this Law, the provisions of relevant laws and administrative regulations such as the Ecological Environment Code of the People's Republic of China and the Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China shall apply.
Article 71 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, harm is caused to others, civil liability shall be borne in accordance with law; where a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with law.
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions
Article 72 This Law shall come into force on January 1, 2027.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 28)
By: 本报记者 沈靖然
Whether the canteen of an elderly care institution is good or not, the elderly have the final say. But how can the elderly be willing to speak up, and how can their words be effective?
At the canteen of the Qinglong Town (庆隆镇) Elderly Care Home in Tongliang District (铜梁区), Chongqing, the ledgers are neat and orderly, the back kitchen is bright and clean, and the public notice board beside the suggestion box clearly records the daily menu and account details. How ingredients come in, where the money goes, how the dishes are made — every single link is fully open to the elderly, who can supervise at any time.
Ensuring "safety on the tip of the tongue" for the elderly is not only a bottom-line issue, but also a yardstick for measuring the warmth of grassroots governance. Facing problems commonly found in elderly care institutions such as extensive canteen management and frequent safety hazards, Tongliang District, Chongqing, confronts the problems head-on and takes the initiative, exploring a new path of sunshine-transparent food safety governance for elderly care institutions by implementing the "Three Musts and Three Disclosures" (三必三亮晒) canteen supervision mechanism of "procurement must be inspected, processing must be supervised, quality must be evaluated" and "back kitchen disclosed, accounts disclosed, problems disclosed."
Confronting problems head-on: building a food safety system for elderly care institutions
Tongliang District has 28 towns and subdistricts, with 62 elderly care institutions in total. Many of those living there are destitute elderly and subsistence-allowance elderly. The canteen is their main channel for three meals a day — whatever the canteen makes, the elderly eat.
In March 2024, through special inspections by the procuratorate's public interest litigation, routine industry inspections, and normalized supervision and inspection, Tongliang District discovered that some elderly care institutions' canteens had shortcomings in food safety management. Some institutions had irregular ingredient storage management, with expired condiments and overdue dried goods; some institutions had weak ingredient traceability management, with incomplete pork quarantine certificates, and procurement of grain, oil, flour, and condiments that overemphasized low prices while neglecting quality control; a few operation rooms lacked basic hardware facilities such as fly and insect prevention, ingredient procurement ledger records were incomplete, raw material purchase channels could not be fully traced, and there were loopholes in source control. "Many institutions cannot even say which store their ingredients came from," said Zhu Huayou (朱华友), director of the Tongliang District Civil Affairs Bureau. "This is the biggest hidden danger. If the source is unclear, once something happens, you cannot even trace it."
During the 2025 Spring Festival, a privately-run elderly care institution in Damiao Town (大庙镇) slaughtered a pig. The remaining fresh meat deteriorated after being stored for several days, and the staff did not notice in time. Fortunately, market supervision personnel in the town discovered the abnormality during an inspection and handled it promptly, averting a food safety accident.
"If food safety in elderly care institutions fails, and a mass food poisoning occurs, the consequences would be very serious," Zhu Huayou said.
Facing the procuratorate's procuratorial suggestions, the audit department's audit findings, and higher authorities' circulars and work requirements on rectifying prominent problems in the elderly care sector, the Tongliang District Civil Affairs Bureau decided to make elderly food safety an important task in the people's livelihood field and launched a reform of canteen supervision in elderly care institutions.
In April 2025, the Tongliang District Civil Affairs Bureau launched the pilot of the "Three Musts and Three Disclosures" mechanism for elderly care institutions, and in October of that year formally rolled it out across the entire district. The "Three Musts" govern the process, and the "Three Disclosures" govern the results. From procurement to the dining table, from source to end, every link is brought into the institutional framework.
Establishing the mechanism: every link is "disclosed" in the sunshine
At 6:30 in the morning, as soon as the ingredient delivery truck arrived at the Qinglong Town Elderly Care Home, Director Yu Shangli (喻尚利), canteen manager Hu Renfang (胡仁芳), and elderly resident representative Zhou Longqing (周龙清) stepped forward to meet it. This was the home's procurement inspection team. Are the cabbages fresh? Has the pork quarantine certificate been brought? Which manufacturer is the rice from? The three people flipped through each bag and checked each item one by one, signing the acceptance ledger after confirming everything was correct.
"Now we implement designated-point procurement and the collection of vouchers and certificates. Even a pack of salt or a handful of Sichuan pepper must have a clear source and three-party signatures," Yu Shangli said. This is the first checkpoint in the "Three Musts" — "procurement must be inspected."
Once ingredients enter the warehouse, they enter the "processing must be supervised" process. Offline, the supervision team is stationed in the kitchen to conduct a second verification of ingredients, watching over washing, cutting, and cooking throughout the process. Online, the district's 1,157 intelligent monitoring device terminals have been simultaneously connected to the "Yuyue Elderly Care" (渝悦养老) smart supervision platform and the "Yushian Catering Safety Online" (渝食安餐饮安全在线) platform. On the large screen of the District Civil Affairs Bureau's smart elderly care service center, the ingredient storage, processing, and washing/disinfection scenes of each institution are 一览无余 (yī lǎn wú yú - "take in everything at a glance," to see everything clearly), realizing three-level real-time supervision at the district, town/subdistrict, and institution levels.
At mealtime, Tongliang District draws on the experience of "teachers and students eating the same meal" in primary and secondary schools, and implements the "four same" accompanying meal system (四同陪餐制) — directors and management personnel eat at the same time as the elderly, take the same dishes, pay at the same standard, and evaluate on the same dimensions. "Scooping food from the same pot, everyone knows in their hearts whether it tastes good and whether it is safe," Zhu Huayou said. Every Monday, no fewer than 10 elderly people at the institution participate in dietary quality evaluation, rotating among residents, and the evaluation results are directly linked to the institution's quarterly performance assessment.
Supporting the "Three Musts" is the "Three Disclosures" that makes the entire canteen operation transparent. Real-time video of back kitchen operations is projected onto the institution's monitoring screen, and the elderly can see the situation in the kitchen at any time. The three-meal menu is posted every Monday, and monthly food expense income and expenditure details are made public — the amount of special hardship support funds allocated, ingredient procurement costs, and the amount management personnel pay out of pocket for accompanying meals are all posted on the wall. Food safety problems found in daily inspections and higher-level inspections are publicized item by item with rectification progress. The civil affairs, discipline inspection and supervision, public security, and market supervision departments have established an information sharing and coordinated law enforcement mechanism.
The institutional design is meticulous, but implementation was not 一帆风顺 (yī fān fēng shùn - "one sail, smooth wind," to go smoothly without a hitch). At first, some elderly home directors resisted: "Public elderly homes have been run for so many years and never had a safety accident. Making such a fuss over details is 小题大做 (xiǎo tí dà zuò - "make a big fuss over a small matter"). Is it necessary to break down the procurement list to every single ingredient and every signature?"
Deeper resistance came from mindsets. Under the traditional model, the elderly home director was 说一不二 (shuō yī bù èr - "say one, never two," to have absolute authority). Now the elderly were to join the supervision group and raise opinions on the spot. Some directors were upset: "How can the managed turn around and manage me?"
Getting the elderly to participate in supervision was equally difficult. The supervision group needed elderly representatives, but at first almost no one was willing to do it. The elderly at the scene spoke of their initial worries — fearing both "being said to be in league with the director and being poked in the spine" (criticized behind their backs) and "being given small shoes to wear" (being deliberately targeted) after raising opinions. The comrades of the town/subdistrict people's livelihood service teams visited all elderly care institutions in the district, held repeated meetings, and mobilized people one by one, explaining the institutional logic clearly and thoroughly. "To put it plainly, we had to get the staff of elderly care institutions to change their mindset, from so-called managers into servers," Yu Shangli said.
The mechanism went from a few pilot sites to full rollout in 28 public elderly homes, and then to full coverage of 62 institutions, going through a transition period of nearly half a year. "It's like making a person who never runs get up at 6 a.m. every day to exercise," Zhu Huayou used an analogy. "The first week or two are the most uncomfortable, but after persisting for a month or two, it becomes a habit."
Now, the habit has been formed. At the Qinglong Town Elderly Care Home, chef Chen Bing (陈兵) has the deepest feelings about this: "In the past, cooking was all by feel — no one said anything whether it was too salty or too bland. Now every dish has someone watching and evaluating, and even the retained samples must be precise to 125 grams and refrigerated for 48 hours. At first I felt 束手束脚 (shù shǒu shù jiǎo - "hands bound, feet bound," to feel constrained), but later I found that dishes made according to the rules satisfy the elderly, and we feel more at ease too."
Planning for the long term: making the mechanism effective and sustainable
For an institution to last, balancing income and expenditure is key. In Tongliang, destitute elderly in public elderly homes receive a monthly special hardship support of 1,014 yuan per person, of which 65% is used for meals, equivalent to about 20 yuan per day. Under this standard, how can ingredient quality be guaranteed without increasing the burden on the elderly, while also keeping the canteens of elderly care institutions operating sustainably?
At the district level, Tongliang District has invested more than 1 million yuan in total to install hardware equipment such as cameras, smoke sensors, gas alarms, and automatic shut-off devices for all elderly care institutions in the district, and allocates about 200,000 yuan annually for special operation and maintenance. "This funding is a special civil affairs expenditure," Zhu Huayou said.
At the daily operation level, elderly care institutions have found a path of self-hematopoiesis. At the Xiaolin Town (小林镇) Elderly Care Home, the vacant land inside and outside the walls is planted with vegetables. The home raises 8 pigs and a flock of chickens and ducks year-round, and has also contracted the village fish pond. Elderly people who are still fit divide into groups to work — feeding pigs, cutting grass, planting vegetables, and feeding fish — earning points according to their labor, with each point equivalent to 5 yuan of pocket money. This measure guarantees the supply of ingredients, and also gives the elderly money in their pockets and things to do in daily life, extending their sense of gain from the dining table into their lives. At present, 16 public elderly homes in the district have carried out planting and breeding 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "adapt measures to local conditions," to act according to actual circumstances), which not only feeds back into the canteen meals but also significantly increases the income of caregivers.
At the Qinglong Town Elderly Care Home, 5:30 p.m. is dinner time. That day's menu was tomato and pork slice soup and garlic cowpea, light and soft, just right for the elderly's tastes. "At a dinner several months ago, the elderly raised opinions that the vegetables were too spicy and suggested using less chili pepper. The kitchen adjusted the very same day," Yu Shangli said. "Now, as soon as the delivery truck arrives every morning, the elderly take the initiative to gather around to inspect the goods. If they find the dishes are not fresh, they demand an on-the-spot return and redelivery."
Zhou Longqing, 62, shared his experience as a "supervisor": "Now, when it's my turn to be on duty each month, I check the procurement, I watch the processing, and I verify the accounts. Someone manages our meals, and listens to our opinions and changes immediately. Living here is comfortable."
The data better shows the change. According to third-party assessments, dietary satisfaction in elderly care institutions across Tongliang District has reached over 95%, and the coverage rate of food safety ledgers and the coverage rate of dual online-offline supervision have both reached 100%. A more intuitive change is that the occupancy rate of public elderly homes in the district has risen from about 30% at its lowest to about 63%. The reputation of elderly care services has spread beyond the walls of the institutions, and more and more elderly people who previously had concerns about elderly care institutions have chosen to move in after visiting.
At present, the Chongqing Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau has printed and distributed the Tongliang District "Three Musts and Three Disclosures" mechanism to the whole city in the form of a special publication, and has designated Tongliang District as one of the first batch of pilot promotion units, forming replicable and promotable practices and experience for comprehensive promotion throughout the city.
"Our starting point and ultimate goal are one and the same — to let every elderly person eat nutritiously, eat with peace of mind, and eat with satisfaction," Zhu Huayou said.
Return to TopOur Beijing, August 31, electric (Reporter Wu Yue) — Reporters have learned from the Ministry of Education (教育部) that: With the approval of the State Council, seven departments, including the Ministry of Education, 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), the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委), and the China Disabled Persons' Federation (中国残联), recently jointly issued the "15th Five-Year Plan" Action Plan for Special Education Development and Improvement (《特殊教育发展提升“十五五”行动计划》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Action Plan"), making deployments for promoting the high-quality integrated development of special education during the "15th Five-Year" period and further improving the high-quality special education system.
The person in charge of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education introduced that, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the state has organized and implemented three phases of special education improvement plans, promoting the high-quality development of special education. In 2025, there were a total of 2,464 special education schools nationwide, 927,000 students in school, and 85,100 full-time teachers; the compulsory education enrollment rate for children with disabilities of school age reached 97%, and China's special education has achieved 跨越式发展 (kuày yuè shì fā zhǎn - "leapfrog development," development characterized by rapid and significant progress) and attained historic achievements.
"The development of special education still faces shortcomings and weaknesses; problems such as insufficient resource supply, generally not high educational quality, insufficient empowerment through digitalization, and an insufficiently sound inclusive guarantee mechanism still need to be solved," the person in charge stated. The "Action Plan" aims to focus on prominent problems to implement precise measures, further strengthening the strong and weak points, supplementing the shortcomings, and promoting equity, to promote the high-quality, integrated, and inclusive development of special education.
The "Action Plan" proposes that by 2030, the compulsory education enrollment rate for children with disabilities of school age will be consolidated at above 97%, the special education guarantee mechanism will be continuously improved, the level of digitalization and intelligence in special education will gradually increase, and a pattern of high-quality, integrated, and inclusive development of special education will be basically formed. It clarified five major key tasks: expanding resources, improving quality, digitalization, strengthening inclusivity, and promoting exchange.
Centering on fully guaranteeing the educational opportunities of children and adolescents with disabilities, the "Action Plan" proposes expanding the supply of special education resources, optimizing the educational placement of children with disabilities, and smoothing the channels for students with disabilities to pursue further education.
Centering on making efforts to improve the quality of special education, it requires continuously deepening the reform of special education curriculum and teaching, accelerating the improvement of the education level for children with autism, continuously strengthening professional support for special education, and integrally promoting the integrated development of vocational education and employment衔接 (xián jiē - "connection/linkage") for students with disabilities.
Centering on strengthening the inclusive development of special education, it requires consolidating and improving the special education funding input mechanism, continuously improving the school-running conditions of special education, and strengthening the construction of the special education teaching force. It promotes the opening of special education curriculum content in teacher-training majors and incorporates special education into the compulsory courses for teacher-training students.
Return to TopNanning, August 31 (Reporter Zhang Yunhe (张云河)) — The reporter learned from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Federation of Trade Unions (广西壮族自治区总工会) that, since July this year, the regional federation of trade unions has fully launched the 2026 work-study program for families of registered workers in difficulty. As the summer vacation comes to an end, the first batch of 155 students has basically completed their summer work-study practice. This is the first time Guangxi has uniformly carried out a work-study program for children of workers in difficulty across the entire region.
The program targets children of registered workers in difficulty for 2026, covering three groups: newly admitted college freshmen of the 2026 cohort (aged 18 or above), current college students and graduate students, and college graduates of the current year who have not yet found employment. The municipal trade unions of each city coordinate the job resources within their jurisdictions and provide suitable positions. For students studying in other places, the regional federation of trade unions coordinates with the trade unions at the places of study to link up and implement the arrangements, ensuring that "leaving one's hometown does not mean leaving assistance behind" (离乡不离帮扶) and that everyone has a position to take up. The subsidy standard for the program is 2,200 yuan per month; periods shorter than a full month are settled at 100 yuan per day, and the subsidies are uniformly verified and issued by the trade union arranging the position. After the service period ends, proof of practice is issued, accumulating "resume points" for job seeking and employment. The trade unions uniformly purchase accidental injury insurance for students on the job, building a solid safety defense line.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦瀚洋
Before 7 a.m., downstairs at Building 23 of the Xinxin Residential Community (鑫鑫小区) in Tongjun Subdistrict (桐君街道), Tonglu County (桐庐县), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Sun Guoqing (孙国庆), who is over eighty years old, was already waiting here for his neighbor Zhang Youyi (张有义). Zhang Youyi is blind in both eyes and works at the Tonglu Rehabilitation Center (桐庐康复中心) across the road. The distance of just over 150 meters is not far — for an ordinary person, it is a two-minute walk — but for Zhang Youyi, this stretch of road is not easy to walk.
"When I first started working at the rehabilitation center, I dared not cross when I heard the sound of traffic; I only crossed when the sound faded. When there were many cars, I would often stand by the roadside for more than ten minutes at a time," Zhang Youyi said. Walking this stretch of road 小心翼翼 (xiǎo xīn yì yì - "small heart, cautious wings," with great care) took more than 20 minutes, and several times he wanted to give up this job.
In 2021, Yu Hongxiu (余洪秀), a neighbor who was then already over ninety, happened to see Zhang Youyi's predicament when going out, and took the initiative to take on the task of escorting him, doing so for more than two years. "Later, Auntie Yu entered a nursing home for health reasons, and Brother Sun took over the baton," Zhang Youyi said, deeply moved.
Now, Sun Guoqing and Zhang Youyi cooperate with tacit understanding. When crossing the road, Sun Guoqing extends his arm, and Zhang Youyi holds it firmly. Passing a breakfast shop, Sun Guoqing also buys food for Zhang Youyi. Only after escorting him safely into the rehabilitation center does Sun Guoqing leave with peace of mind. Ten minutes before Zhang Youyi gets off work, Sun Guoqing has already appeared punctually at the rehabilitation center. "He works the early shift on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, getting off at 5:30 p.m.; the rest are late shifts, working until 8 p.m." Sun Guoqing has long known Zhang Youyi's work schedule by heart.
"There is not much I can do to repay them — I just often go to the nursing home to give Auntie Yu a massage. Sometimes I bring some local specialties from my hometown for Brother Sun, but no matter what, he won't take them," Zhang Youyi said.
Going to the supermarket once every half month, getting a haircut once a month, buying clothes when the season changes, going to the bank to get a certificate... Whenever he needs to go out, Zhang Youyi makes one phone call, and Sun Guoqing has never said the word "no." "At night, if I accidentally bump the switch and the light turns on without my knowing, Brother Sun and other neighbors will call to remind me when they see it," Zhang Youyi said. There are too many such small matters in which everyone keeps him in mind and cares for him.
In response, Sun Guoqing always waves his hand: "It is just an ordinary small matter. Cars come and go on the road, and it is unsafe for him to cross by himself, so I just escort him along the way." He said that when the day comes when he truly can no longer escort him, he will entrust others to continue helping.
Return to TopHaikou, August 31 (Our reporter Dong Zeyang (董泽扬)). The reporter learned from the Hainan Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (海南省住房和城乡建设厅) that Hainan’s “Property Service Quality Further Improvement” special action (物业服务质量再提升) was recently launched, and property management regulatory departments and service enterprises will continue to enhance the quality of property services.
Centering on institutional construction and management norms, advance the five foundational tasks of problem investigation and rectification, formation of property management committees, implementation of the enterprise credit evaluation system, launch and operation of the digital management platform, and normalized industry training, and accelerate the formation of a long-term mechanism for managing people with systems and handling affairs according to rules. Encourage property enterprises to proactively expand service boundaries and, in light of the owner structures of different residential communities, 因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - “according to the land, formulate what is suitable,” to act according to actual circumstances), launch differentiated value-added services such as housekeeping and cleaning, childcare and trusteeship, and meal assistance and food delivery. Require all localities to initiate ahead of schedule the safety hazard investigation of facilities and equipment such as gas, water, and electricity, and to solidly carry out comprehensive environmental sanitation improvement.
Return to TopOrder of the President of the People's Republic of China
No. 81
The Law of the People's Republic of China on Cultivated Land Protection and Quality Improvement was adopted at the 24th session of the Standing Committee of the Fourteenth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on August 28, 2026, and is hereby promulgated, to come into force as of January 1, 2027.
Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China
August 28, 2026
Table of Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Cultivated Land Protection Objectives and Layout
Chapter III Control over Occupation of Cultivated Land
Chapter IV Cultivated Land Quality Improvement
Chapter V Ecological Protection of Cultivated Land
Chapter VI Safeguards and Supervision
Chapter VII Legal Liability
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is enacted in accordance with the Constitution for the purposes of strengthening cultivated land protection, improving cultivated land quality, ensuring national food security and the effective supply of important agricultural products, advancing the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, accelerating the building of a strong agricultural country, and promoting high-quality economic and social development.
Article 2 This Law applies to cultivated land protection and quality improvement and activities such as their supervision and management.
Cultivated land shall be mainly used for the production of grain and agricultural products such as cotton, oil, sugar, and vegetables, as well as forage and feed.
Article 3 Cultivated land is China's most precious resource. Cherishing and rationally utilizing land and earnestly protecting cultivated land is China's basic national policy.
The State adheres to implementing the strictest cultivated land protection system and the strictest economical and intensive land use system, and strictly guards the red line for cultivated land protection.
Article 4 The work of cultivated land protection and quality improvement upholds the leadership of the Communist Party of China, implements the lines, principles, policies, and decisions and arrangements of the Party and the State, follows the principles of equal emphasis on quantity and quality, strict law enforcement, systematic advancement, and sustainable utilization, and implements integrated protection of the quantity, quality, and ecology of cultivated land.
Article 5 The State establishes a responsibility system for cultivated land protection and food security, and implements the shared responsibility of the Party and government for cultivated land protection and food security (党政同责).
Provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government bear overall responsibility for cultivated land protection and food security within their respective administrative regions; their principal responsible persons are the first responsible persons for cultivated land protection and food security in their respective administrative regions and are responsible for the cultivated land protection and food security objectives within their respective administrative regions.
Article 6 The competent department of natural resources and the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of the State Council are responsible, in accordance with their respective duties, for the supervision and management of cultivated land protection and quality improvement nationwide. The competent departments of ecology and environment, water administration, and other relevant departments of the State Council are responsible, in accordance with their respective duties, for the relevant supervision and management of cultivated land protection and quality improvement nationwide.
The competent departments of natural resources and the competent departments of agriculture and rural affairs of local people's governments at or above the county level are responsible, in accordance with their respective duties, for cultivated land protection and quality improvement and their supervision and management within their respective administrative regions. The competent departments of ecology and environment, water administration, and other relevant departments of local people's governments at or above the county level are responsible, in accordance with their respective duties, for the relevant supervision and management of cultivated land protection and quality improvement within their respective administrative regions.
Article 7 The competent department of natural resources of a people's government at or above the county level may, together with the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs and other relevant departments at the same level, compile special plans related to cultivated land protection and quality improvement on the basis of territorial spatial plans and other plans, in light of actual conditions, and submit them for approval and implementation according to procedures.
Article 8 People's governments at or above the county level shall incorporate the work of cultivated land protection and quality improvement into national economic and social development plans and annual plans, and include the required funds in their budgets at the corresponding level.
Article 9 People's governments at all levels and their relevant departments shall strengthen publicity and education on cultivated land protection and quality improvement, and raise the awareness of the whole society regarding cultivated land protection and quality improvement; they shall encourage villagers' committees, rural collective economic organizations, agricultural producers and operators, social organizations, volunteers, and others to carry out publicity and education on the laws, regulations, and related knowledge of cultivated land protection and quality improvement.
The competent education departments and schools shall, in educational and teaching activities, pay attention to cultivating students' awareness of cultivated land protection and quality improvement.
News media shall carry out public-interest publicity on the laws, regulations, and related knowledge of cultivated land protection and quality improvement, and conduct public opinion supervision over illegal acts such as the destruction of cultivated land.
Article 10 The State encourages and supports scientific research and the promotion and application of research achievements in cultivated land protection and quality improvement and economical and intensive land use, such as land consolidation, soil improvement, fertility cultivation, water and soil conservation, and ecological protection; it encourages institutions of higher learning, scientific research institutes, agricultural technology extension institutions, enterprises, and others to carry out industry-university-research cooperation and jointly conduct scientific and technological research and talent cultivation.
Article 11 The State adopts measures to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of agricultural producers and operators in cultivated land protection and quality improvement, and protects their lawful rights and interests.
Article 12 The State supports international cooperation and exchange on cultivated land protection and quality improvement.
Article 13 Units and individuals that make notable achievements in cultivated land protection and quality improvement, economical and intensive land use, and related scientific research shall be commended and rewarded in accordance with relevant State regulations.
Chapter II Cultivated Land Protection Objectives and Layout
Article 14 The compilation of territorial spatial plans shall implement the strategy of functional zones, make overall arrangements for functional spaces such as agriculture, ecology, and urban areas, delimit and implement the protection red lines for cultivated land and permanent basic farmland, ecological protection red lines, and urban development boundaries, adhere to giving priority to cultivated land protection, specify cultivated land protection objectives such as the amount of cultivated land to be maintained and the area of permanent basic farmland protection, and strictly control the scale of newly added construction land.
Territorial spatial plans at the next lower level shall implement the cultivated land protection objectives determined in territorial spatial plans at the next higher level.
Local people's governments at all levels shall strictly implement the cultivated land protection objectives specified in territorial spatial plans, strictly guard the protection red lines for cultivated land and permanent basic farmland, and ensure the effective utilization of cultivated land resources; they shall strictly control the occupation of cultivated land, especially permanent basic farmland, by various types of newly added construction, and give priority to protecting permanent basic farmland and high-quality cultivated land around cities.
Article 15 People's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall ensure that the total amount of cultivated land within their respective administrative regions as determined in territorial spatial plans does not decrease, quality improves, and ecological functions remain stable; where the total amount of cultivated land decreases, the State Council shall order the organization, within a prescribed period, of supplementation of cultivated land equivalent in quantity and quality to the decreased cultivated land; where cultivated land quality declines or ecological functions are damaged, the State Council shall order the organization of remediation within a prescribed period. Newly supplemented and remediated cultivated land shall be accepted by the competent department of natural resources of the State Council together with the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of the State Council.
Where an individual province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government, truly due to a severe shortage of cultivated land reserve resources, after adding new construction land for the implementation of major national construction projects, the amount of newly supplemented cultivated land within its administrative region is insufficient to compensate for the amount of cultivated land occupied, it may apply to the State Council for national coordination; after approval by the State Council, cultivated land of equivalent quantity and quality shall be supplemented in other places as prescribed.
The State may, in light of the situation of cultivated land reserve resources, concentrate the implementation of cultivated land supplementation in areas suitable for supplementing cultivated land as determined in territorial spatial plans.
Article 16 Local people's governments at all levels shall, in accordance with territorial spatial plans, make overall plans for the protection of cultivated land and other agricultural land such as forest land, grassland, and garden land; in areas where conditions permit, they shall promote the planting of fruit trees and trees on ecologically suitable barren mountains and slopes, and, in accordance with State regulations, orderly restore other agricultural land that is relatively flat and suitable for restoration to high-quality cultivated land to cultivated land, gradually optimizing the spatial layout of cultivated land and other agricultural land such as forest land, grassland, and garden land.
Local people's governments at all levels shall, in accordance with territorial spatial plans, optimize the spatial layout of rural production, living, and ecological spaces, take townships and towns as the basic units, carry out land consolidation and farmland infrastructure construction in light of local conditions (因地制宜 (yīn dì zhì yí - "according to the land, set appropriate measures," to adapt measures to local conditions)), promote the relative concentration of the layout of cultivated land and permanent basic farmland, increase the area of effective cultivated land, improve cultivated land quality, and improve agricultural production conditions and the ecological environment.
Article 17 The competent department of natural resources of a people's government at or above the county level shall incorporate the amount of cultivated land to be maintained, the area and layout arrangements of permanent basic farmland protection, and areas suitable for supplementing cultivated land into the territorial spatial plan implementation supervision system and update them in a timely manner, and conduct dynamic supervision, assessment, and early warning of changes in cultivated land and permanent basic farmland.
Based on the results of monitoring and evaluation of territorial spatial plan implementation, the layout of cultivated land and permanent basic farmland may be dynamically adjusted and improved in accordance with statutory procedures; where it is truly necessary to adjust the cultivated land protection objectives determined in territorial spatial plans, approval shall be reported to the original plan approval authority according to procedures.
Article 18 The State implements a permanent basic farmland protection system. The following cultivated land shall be delimited as permanent basic farmland in accordance with territorial spatial plans and subject to strict protection: (1) cultivated land within production bases for important agricultural products such as grain, cotton, oil, and sugar that have been determined with the approval of the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of the State Council or local people's governments at or above the county level; (2) cultivated land with good water resources and water and soil conservation conditions and completed high-standard farmland; (3) cultivated land within vegetable production bases; (4) cultivated land within agricultural scientific research and teaching experiment fields; (5) black soil with a deep black soil layer and good soil properties; (6) cultivated land within superior seed breeding bases; (7) other cultivated land that laws, administrative regulations, or the State Council provide shall be delimited as permanent basic farmland.
The permanent basic farmland delimited by each province, autonomous region, and municipality directly under the Central Government shall generally account for more than 80 percent of the cultivated land within its respective administrative region; the specific proportion shall be prescribed by the State Council in light of the actual conditions of cultivated land in each province, autonomous region, and municipality directly under the Central Government.
Article 19 The following cultivated land shall not be delimited as permanent basic farmland; where it has already been delimited as permanent basic farmland, it shall be gradually optimized and adjusted based on the results of monitoring and evaluation of territorial spatial plan implementation: (1) cultivated land that needs to be returned to forest, grassland, lakes, and pasture according to State regulations; (2) cultivated land with a slope greater than 25 degrees on which water and soil conservation measures have not been taken; (3) cultivated land severely damaged by production and construction or natural disasters and unable to be restored to cultivation, cultivated land within the management scope of rivers and lakes that is not suitable for stable utilization, and cultivated land with severe desertification, sandification, or rocky desertification; (4) cultivated land that has been included in agricultural land under strict control and management due to severe pollution and cannot be restored and remediated; (5) other cultivated land that laws, administrative regulations, or the State Council provide shall not be delimited as permanent basic farmland.
Article 20 The delimitation of permanent basic farmland shall be carried out with townships and towns as units, and organized and implemented by the competent department of natural resources of the county people's government together with the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs at the same level.
After the delimitation of permanent basic farmland, the people's government of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government shall organize the competent department of natural resources and the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs at the corresponding level to conduct acceptance and confirmation.
The specific locations of permanent basic farmland shall be indicated in county-level and township-level territorial spatial plans, implemented to specific plots, and incorporated into the national permanent basic farmland database for strict management. Township people's governments shall announce to the public the locations and scope of permanent basic farmland by means such as setting up protection signs.
Where it is truly necessary to optimize and adjust a small amount of scattered permanent basic farmland due to land consolidation, agricultural facility construction, or other reasons, the county people's government shall implement the adjustment plan in accordance with the principles of no reduction in quantity, no decline in quality, and stable layout.
The specific measures for the delimitation and optimized adjustment of permanent basic farmland shall be formulated by the competent department of natural resources of the State Council together with the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of the State Council.
Article 21 The competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, and other competent departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with their respective duties, lawfully organize regular surveys, monitoring, and evaluation of cultivated land resources and cultivated land quality, and timely carry out soil surveys and surveys of cultivated land reserve resources. The relevant standards and procedures shall be formulated by the competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, and others of the State Council in accordance with their respective duties. The competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, and others shall strengthen information sharing.
Chapter III Control over Occupation of Cultivated Land
Article 22 The State implements total amount and intensity control of construction land, adheres to "determining occupation by supplementation" (以补定占), and strengthens the management of construction occupation of cultivated land.
People's governments at all levels shall strengthen the management of land use plans, make overall arrangements for newly added and existing construction land, give priority to the use of inefficient existing construction land, and effectively reduce the occupation of cultivated land by newly added construction. Construction projects shall strictly implement construction land standards.
The competent department of natural resources of the State Council shall establish a land use system linking the scale of newly added construction occupation of agricultural land with the use efficiency of existing construction land. The use of existing construction land shall serve as an important basis for arranging newly added construction land indicators and funds for cultivated land ecological protection and restoration.
Article 23 Non-agricultural construction shall use land economically; where wasteland can be used, cultivated land shall not be occupied; where inferior land can be used, good land shall not be occupied; where land truly needs to be occupied and cultivated land is to be converted into construction land, the approval procedures for the conversion of agricultural land shall be handled according to law.
Where cultivated land for which the approval procedures for the conversion of agricultural land have been completed is not used within one year but can still be cultivated and harvested, the collective or individual that originally cultivated the cultivated land shall resume cultivation, or the county people's government or the land-using unit may organize cultivation; it shall not be left idle or abandoned. Where construction has not started for more than one year, the relevant provisions of the Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China shall apply.
Article 24 After permanent basic farmland has been delimited according to law, no organization or individual may occupy it or change its use without authorization. Where the site selection of key construction projects such as national energy, transportation, water conservancy, and military facilities truly cannot avoid permanent basic farmland, and involves the conversion of agricultural land or land expropriation, approval by the State Council shall be required.
Article 25 It is prohibited to dig lakes and build landscapes on cultivated land, or to carry out afforestation, turf planting, solid waste piling, garbage landfill, or other activities prohibited by laws and administrative regulations on cultivated land without authorization.
Article 26 Where a construction project truly needs to occupy cultivated land, it shall analyze and demonstrate the necessity, rationality, and land use scale of occupying the cultivated land, and compile a comprehensive demonstration report on land use for the construction project in accordance with relevant regulations. The comprehensive demonstration report shall be submitted for review as a pre-application material for land use; after the review is passed, it shall be incorporated into the project feasibility study report or project application report in accordance with relevant regulations.
The relevant industry competent departments shall urge and guide relevant construction units to use land according to law and regulations, economically and intensively, and not to occupy or to occupy as little cultivated land as possible. Where approval procedures have not been completed according to law, construction shall not commence.
Article 27 The State strictly controls the conversion of cultivated land into other agricultural land such as forest land, grassland, and garden land. Except as otherwise provided by laws and administrative regulations, it is prohibited to convert permanent basic farmland into other agricultural land; where cultivated land other than permanent basic farmland truly needs to be converted into other agricultural land, cultivated land of lower quality, scattered distribution, and difficulty in long-term stable utilization shall be selected as far as possible.
Article 28 The State implements a compensation system for occupation of cultivated land, and uniformly incorporates various types of cultivated land occupation into the management of the balance of cultivated land occupation and supplementation (占补平衡); where cultivated land truly needs to be occupied, cultivated land equivalent in quantity and quality to the occupied cultivated land shall be supplemented, and it shall not be permitted to occupy more and supplement less, occupy superior and supplement inferior, or occupy contiguous and supplement scattered.
Where non-agricultural construction occupies cultivated land, the unit occupying the cultivated land shall be responsible for supplementing cultivated land. Where it has no conditions to supplement, or the supplemented cultivated land does not meet the requirements, it shall pay a cultivated land reclamation fee in accordance with the provisions of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government, which shall be used exclusively for supplementing new cultivated land; where permanent basic farmland is occupied, the fee shall be paid at twice the highest standard of the local cultivated land reclamation fee. The required expenses shall be included in the land use cost of the construction project. Rural villagers building houses shall use existing homesteads and idle land within villages as far as possible, and shall not occupy permanent basic farmland; where cultivated land other than permanent basic farmland truly needs to be occupied, the county people's government shall arrange for the supplementation of cultivated land, and shall not collect cultivated land reclamation fees from rural villagers.
Where cultivated land is occupied for purposes other than non-agricultural construction, the county people's government shall make overall arrangements for the supplementation of cultivated land in accordance with relevant State regulations.
Article 29 When supplementing cultivated land, local people's governments at or above the county level shall adhere to the principle of giving priority to restoring high-quality cultivated land and supplementing with newly reclaimed cultivated land, make overall considerations of factors such as ecological protection and water resources, and implement cultivated land supplementation in a classified and steady manner within areas suitable for supplementing cultivated land as determined in territorial spatial plans.
For supplementing cultivated land, other agricultural land such as forest land, grassland, and garden land suitable for restoration to high-quality cultivated land, as well as unused land such as saline-alkali land and scattered idle land, shall be comprehensively used as sources.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall lawfully organize the consolidation of scattered idle land and abandoned land, the reclamation of damaged cultivated land, and the organized reclamation of cultivated land in a planned manner. The implementation of land development, consolidation, and reclamation shall conform to the requirements of territorial spatial plans and ecological environment protection.
Article 30 It is prohibited to newly reclaim cultivated land within natural protected areas and ecological protection red lines.
The following land shall in principle not be used as sources for supplementing cultivated land: (1) severely sandified land, severely rocky desertified land, and slopes above 25 degrees; (2) land within the management scope of rivers and lakes; (3) land within the management scope of forest land, grassland, and wetlands of key state-owned forest areas and state-owned forest farms; (4) other land that laws and administrative regulations provide shall not be used as sources for supplementing cultivated land.
Article 31 Newly increased cultivated land from the implementation of land development, consolidation, and reclamation that conforms to regulations may be lawfully used as supplemented cultivated land; where quality does not meet the standards, it shall not be used for supplementing cultivated land.
People's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall organize the competent department of natural resources and the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs at the corresponding level to conduct confirmation and acceptance of supplemented cultivated land, and strengthen follow-up evaluation of the production capacity of supplemented cultivated land. The competent department of natural resources of the State Council, together with the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of the State Council, shall formulate specific measures for the acceptance of supplemented cultivated land, and conduct supervision and inspection of the supplementation of cultivated land in provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall publish the situation of cultivated land occupation and supplementation to the public and accept social supervision.
Article 32 Where temporary land use is needed for construction project construction and geological survey, cultivated land shall be avoided or occupied as little as possible, permanent basic farmland shall be avoided, and permanent buildings shall not be constructed.
Where temporary land use truly needs to occupy cultivated land, approval by the competent department of natural resources of a people's government at or above the level of a city divided into districts shall be required, and land reclamation shall be completed within one year from the expiration of the temporary land use period to restore cultivation conditions.
Article 33 Where a construction project occupies cultivated land, the construction unit shall, in accordance with the provisions of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government, use the soil of the cultivated layer of the occupied cultivated land for soil improvement of newly reclaimed cultivated land, inferior land, or other cultivated land, as well as for the treatment of polluted cultivated land, high-standard farmland construction, land reclamation, and so on.
Local people's governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall strengthen guidance on the stripping and reuse of the soil of the cultivated layer, and provide necessary support.
Chapter IV Cultivated Land Quality Improvement
Article 34 The State establishes a strict cultivated land quality construction and protection system, improves and perfects the multi-input safeguard mechanism for cultivated land quality improvement, strengthens high-standard farmland construction and the treatment of degraded cultivated land, promotes the improvement of cultivated land quality, and gradually builds all permanent basic farmland with suitable conditions into high-standard farmland.
Article 35 The State improves the cultivated land quality survey and evaluation system, establishes unified cultivated land quality evaluation methods, standards, and indicators, and establishes and improves the cultivated land quality monitoring network system.
The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of the State Council organizes the construction of a national cultivated land quality monitoring network and information platform.
The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of local people's governments at or above the county level, together with the departments of natural resources, ecology and environment, and others, shall establish long-term positioning monitoring points for cultivated land quality covering their respective administrative regions, and regularly submit reports on cultivated land quality change conditions and corresponding recommendations for soil fertility protection measures to the people's government at the corresponding level.
Article 36 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall adopt comprehensive measures to improve the quality of cultivated land in their respective administrative regions and protect cultivated land fertility.
County people's governments shall organize the establishment of a quality improvement mechanism for newly increased cultivated land, carry out follow-up fertilization and management and protection, continuously mature the soil, and ensure the stable utilization of cultivated land.
Agricultural producers and operators shall rationally apply organic fertilizers and other fertilizers to maintain and improve soil fertility.
The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of local people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen technical guidance for agricultural producers and operators in protecting soil fertility.
Article 37 People's governments at all levels shall organize the improvement of farmland infrastructure such as field roads, irrigation and drainage systems, agricultural power facilities, shelterbelt networks, and farmland meteorological facilities, and improve the cultivation conditions of cultivated land.
The State improves the water conservancy infrastructure system, encourages and supports the construction of farmland water conservancy facilities in light of local conditions, and promotes the promotion and application of irrigation and drainage technologies and measures conducive to improving cultivated land quality. The competent water administration department and the competent agriculture and rural affairs department of people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with their respective duties, strengthen supervision and guidance over farmland irrigation and drainage and provide technical services.
Article 38 The State improves the mechanisms and relevant standards for the project initiation, construction, acceptance, and management and protection of high-standard farmland, strictly manages quality throughout the entire life cycle, and establishes and improves a mechanism for retroactive investigation of responsibility throughout the entire life cycle of high-standard farmland construction projects and lifelong accountability.
The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of the State Council shall, in accordance with national development plans, the national territorial spatial plan, and relevant national special plans, compile special construction plans to specify the tasks and layout of high-standard farmland construction. The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the national tasks and layout of high-standard farmland construction, organize the compilation of implementation plans for high-standard farmland construction in their respective administrative regions, and decompose and implement the tasks of high-standard farmland construction level by level.
Article 39 High-standard farmland construction shall adhere to the principles of government leadership, social participation, overall planning, adaptation to local conditions, step-by-step implementation, combination of use and maintenance, equal emphasis on quantity and quality, and simultaneous construction and management, fully consider the basic conditions such as the quantity, quality, distribution, and utilization of local cultivated land, give priority to selecting permanent basic farmland and other cultivated land with good construction conditions, and listen to the opinions of rural collective economic organizations, new-type agricultural business entities, rural households, and others, and protect their lawful rights and interests.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall adopt measures to encourage rural collective economic organizations, new-type agricultural business entities, rural households, and others to directly participate in the construction, management, and protection of high-standard farmland.
Article 40 High-standard farmland construction shall strictly carry out surveying, mapping, investigation, design, construction, and supervision in accordance with relevant State regulations to ensure project quality. Specific measures shall be formulated by the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of the State Council.
Article 41 High-standard farmland construction shall undergo completion acceptance in accordance with relevant State regulations. Rural collective economic organizations, new-type agricultural business entities, rural households, and others shall be invited to participate in the acceptance.
Article 42 The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of people's governments at or above the county level shall lawfully strengthen supervision and management over high-standard farmland construction, establish and improve the quality supervision and inspection system for high-standard farmland construction, strengthen supervision and inspection over the project quality of high-standard farmland, carry out credit evaluation of institutions engaged in high-standard farmland construction together with relevant departments, and promptly publicize relevant information to accept social supervision.
The relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with their respective duties, strengthen supervision and management over the use of funds for high-standard farmland construction. It is prohibited for any organization or individual to intercept, misappropriate, or divert funds for high-standard farmland construction.
The State establishes a national high-standard farmland database. The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of local people's governments at or above the county level shall incorporate the location, scope, and project initiation, implementation, acceptance, management and protection, and other information of high-standard farmland construction into the national high-standard farmland database simultaneously.
Article 43 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the management and protection of high-standard farmland, establish management and protection mechanisms, specify the subjects of management and protection, implement management and protection responsibilities, reasonably guarantee management and protection funds, and improve management and protection measures.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall organize inspections, repairs, and maintenance of high-standard farmland within their respective administrative regions to ensure the normal operation of high-standard farmland engineering facilities.
No organization or individual may encroach upon, damage, or endanger the safety of high-standard farmland engineering facilities.
Where high-standard farmland is lawfully occupied, it shall be supplemented by construction; where high-standard farmland is damaged due to natural disasters, engineering construction, or other reasons, it shall be promptly restored or supplemented by construction, to ensure that completed high-standard farmland does not decrease.
Article 44 The State encourages and supports the comprehensive improvement and utilization of saline-alkali land in light of local conditions, and encourages scientific and technological innovation in the breeding and planting of salt-tolerant crops.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall organize relevant departments to strengthen the investigation and monitoring of saline-alkali land, and adopt measures to tap the potential for the development and utilization of saline-alkali land, effectively curb the trend of cultivated land salinization, implement treatment projects for saline-alkali cultivated land, and carry out classified and zoned treatment and improvement.
Article 45 The State encourages the exploration, development, and utilization of non-traditional cultivated land resources such as deserts and gobi for agricultural production in areas with water resource conditions.
Article 46 The State strengthens the treatment of degraded cultivated land and promotes the sustainable utilization of cultivated land.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall carry out treatment of degraded cultivated land such as acidified and gleyed cultivated land by improving farmland infrastructure, improving irrigation and drainage conditions, improving farming systems, fertilizing the cultivated layer, applying soil conditioning materials, and other means; carry out comprehensive treatment of sandified, wind-eroded, and water-eroded cultivated land, and prevent and control water and soil loss.
The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of local people's governments at or above the county level shall support the research and development, promotion, and application of scientific and efficient treatment technologies for degraded cultivated land.
Article 47 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall support the adoption of measures such as applying organic fertilizers, returning manure to fields, returning straw to fields, planting green manure crops, grain-legume rotation, and formula fertilization by soil testing, to enhance the supply capacity of soil organic matter and nutrient elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in cultivated land.
Article 48 The State supports the application of modern farming techniques, promotes conservation tillage models in suitable areas, and promotes the combination of use and maintenance of cultivated land.
Local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in light of local natural conditions such as soil and water resources, promote scientific farming systems, implement planting systems combining use and maintenance of cultivated land such as crop rotation in light of local conditions, promote appropriate fallow farming in accordance with relevant State regulations, and protect and improve cultivated land quality.
Article 49 The State establishes a black soil protection system, lawfully strengthens the protection, utilization, treatment, and restoration of black soil, steadily restores and improves the basic fertility of black soil, protects the excellent production capacity of black soil, and ensures that the total amount of black soil does not decrease, functions do not degrade, quality improves, and production capacity is sustainable.
Chapter V Ecological Protection of Cultivated Land
Article 50 The State establishes a system for ecological protection and restoration of cultivated land, encourages the adoption of restoration measures such as agronomic, biological, chemical, and engineering measures, restores and improves the ecological functions of cultivated land, maintains the overall stability of the ecosystem, and promotes the green development of agriculture.
Article 51 People's governments at or above the county level shall adhere to the integrated protection of mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, grasslands, and deserts (山水林田湖草沙), strengthen the ecological protection and restoration of cultivated land and the systematic treatment of forest land, grassland, wetlands, sandy land, and other land surrounding cultivated land, strengthen the construction of farmland shelterbelt network systems, strengthen the protection and effective utilization of traditional terraces, enhance the ecological functions of the natural ecosystem such as water conservation, water and soil conservation, wind prevention and sand fixation, and maintenance of biodiversity, and maintain an ecological environment conducive to cultivated land protection.
Article 52 The State encourages the development of ecological agriculture, and promotes environmentally friendly planting technologies such as soilless cultivation, precision fertilization, and green prevention and control of diseases and pests.
The relevant departments of local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with their respective duties, guide agricultural producers and operators to cultivate scientifically and rationally use agricultural inputs such as pesticides, fertilizers, and agricultural films; lawfully promote the recycling and disposal of packaging waste of agricultural inputs and waste agricultural films, and strengthen supervision and management.
Article 53 Local people's governments at or above the county level and their competent departments of agriculture and rural affairs shall strengthen the protection of biological species resources related to agricultural production, select and promote crops conducive to protecting the environment and stabilizing the ecology, protect biodiversity, and maintain the ecological functions of cultivated land.
Article 54 People's governments at or above the county level shall encourage the development of ecological circular agriculture, accelerate the construction of an ecological circular agricultural industry system, promote the application of green and efficient agricultural machinery and tools, strengthen the comprehensive utilization of straw and other remaining materials after the harvest of agricultural products, scientifically carry out the harmless treatment and resource utilization of livestock and poultry manure, and promote the development of green planting and breeding circular agriculture.
Article 55 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall adopt measures to prevent and control the pollution of cultivated land by wastewater, waste gas, and solid waste. It is prohibited to discharge into cultivated land sewage and sludge with heavy metal or other toxic and harmful substance content exceeding standards, as well as dredged sediment, tailings, slag, and other materials that may cause soil pollution.
The competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of local people's governments at or above the county level shall, according to law, together with the competent departments of ecology and environment, natural resources, and others, monitor and evaluate cultivated land with soil pollution risks within their respective administrative regions. In county-level administrative regions where polluted cultivated land is concentrated, the county people's government shall organize the departments of ecology and environment, agriculture and rural affairs, and others to carry out source tracing and source prevention and control of cultivated land pollution.
Water used for irrigating cultivated land shall conform to corresponding water quality standards to prevent soil pollution.
Article 56 Where sudden events cause or may cause cultivated land pollution, the parties concerned shall immediately take measures to eliminate or mitigate the pollution hazard to cultivated land, and report to the local people's government at or above the county level or the competent departments of ecology and environment, agriculture and rural affairs, and others. The relevant people's governments and their relevant departments shall handle the matter according to law.
Chapter VI Safeguards and Supervision
Article 57 The State establishes and improves the input safeguard mechanism for cultivated land protection and quality improvement in accordance with the principle of government leadership and multi-party participation. People's governments at or above the county level shall lawfully guarantee input into cultivated land protection and quality improvement, and, in accordance with the principle of "who invests, who benefits," encourage and guide social funds to participate in cultivated land protection and quality improvement, and protect the lawful rights and interests of social investors.
The State encourages and guides financial institutions to develop financial products and services such as credit, bonds, and insurance to provide support for cultivated land protection and quality improvement.
Article 58 The State establishes a compensation system for cultivated land protection and quality improvement, and provides compensation or rewards to areas with heavy cultivated land protection tasks such as permanent basic farmland, great efforts in high-standard farmland construction, good completion of cultivated land protection target responsibilities, and high grain output and high grain commodity rates, as well as rural collective economic organizations, agricultural producers and operators, and others that undertake cultivated land protection tasks. Specific measures shall be formulated by the competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, finance, and others of the State Council.
The State improves the interest compensation mechanism for major grain-producing areas, improves the fiscal transfer payment system for major grain-producing areas and major grain-producing counties, and improves the inter-provincial horizontal interest compensation mechanism between grain-producing and grain-marketing areas.
Local people's governments at or above the county level may, in light of actual conditions, establish local compensation systems for cultivated land protection and quality improvement.
Article 59 Land contractual management rights and other rights lawfully established on cultivated land are protected by law, and no organization or individual may infringe upon them.
Villagers' committees, rural collective economic organizations, state-owned farms, and others shall organize the maintenance of farmland infrastructure, improve cultivation conditions, and ensure the sustainable utilization of cultivated land resources.
Land contracts and land management rights transfer contracts shall specify the obligations of agricultural producers and operators to rationally utilize and protect cultivated land. The party issuing the contract has the right to supervise the contracted party's rational utilization and protection of cultivated land in accordance with the uses specified in the contract; where cultivation is abandoned and land left idle, the contracted party shall be urged to resume cultivation; where cultivation has been abandoned and land left idle for more than two consecutive years, after notifying the contracted party and making a public announcement, various methods such as organizing substitute cultivation and planting may be adopted to resume cultivation, and the specific measures shall be prescribed by the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government. Where the holder of land management rights abandons cultivation and leaves land idle for more than two consecutive years, and the contracted party does not terminate the land management rights transfer contract within a reasonable period, the party issuing the contract has the right to request termination of the land management rights transfer contract.
Villagers' committees, rural collective economic organizations, state-owned farms, and others that discover acts damaging cultivated land and other acts have the right to stop them and report to the competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, ecology and environment, and others of the county people's government.
Article 60 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the target responsibilities for cultivated land protection and food security, and in light of the actual conditions of their respective administrative regions, consolidate the cultivated land protection and food security responsibilities of the people's governments at the next lower level.
The State organizes assessment of the responsibility system for cultivated land protection and food security.
The situation of cultivated land protection and quality improvement shall be included in the audit of leading cadres' natural resource assets upon departure from office.
Article 61 The national natural resources supervision and inspection institutions carry out cultivated land protection supervision and inspection in accordance with the authorization of the State Council. The localities under supervision and inspection shall implement the main responsibility for rectification, seriously organize rectification, and promptly report the rectification situation. The relevant competent departments of the State Council shall provide guidance and supervision over the rectification of the localities. Where a locality under supervision and inspection fails to implement the supervision and inspection opinions on cultivated land protection, and the national natural resources supervision and inspection institution orders rectification within a time limit, during the rectification period, the acceptance and approval of conversion of agricultural land and land expropriation in that area shall be suspended.
Article 62 The competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, and other relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen supervision and inspection over cultivated land protection and quality improvement activities. When performing supervision and inspection duties, the relevant departments may, according to law, take the following measures: (1) require the organizations and individuals under inspection to provide relevant documents and materials, and to review or copy them; (2) require the organizations and individuals under inspection to make explanations on relevant issues; (3) enter the scenes of the organizations and individuals under inspection suspected of illegal acts to conduct survey, measurement, investigation, and evidence collection; (4) seal up documents and materials that may be transferred, destroyed, concealed, or altered; (5) seal up, seize, or detain places, facilities, equipment, or property involved in suspected illegal activities; (6) suspend the handling of land approval, registration, and other procedures related to the illegal case for organizations and individuals suspected of illegal acts during the investigation period; (7) other measures provided by laws and administrative regulations.
Where measures provided in items (4), (5), and (6) of the preceding paragraph are taken, the provisions of laws and administrative regulations such as the Administrative Compulsion Law of the People's Republic of China shall be complied with, and handling decisions shall be made promptly; where the relevant measures are no longer needed, they shall be lifted promptly.
Article 63 The State uses modern information technologies and means such as satellite remote sensing, the Internet, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence to improve the level of cultivated land protection and quality improvement work, and strengthen scientific and precise supervision over cultivated land protection and quality improvement work.
Article 64 The competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, ecology and environment, water administration, and other relevant departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall establish and improve law enforcement coordination mechanisms and information sharing mechanisms, strengthen supervision and management capacity building, and lawfully share information on cultivated land protection and quality improvement and management and law enforcement. Multiple inspection matters targeting the same inspected object shall be merged or included in the scope of cross-department joint random inspections.
Article 65 When the competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, ecology and environment, water administration, and other competent departments of people's governments at or above the county level perform supervision and inspection duties according to law and find that illegal acts are suspected of constituting crimes, they shall promptly transfer the cases to the relevant authorities. Where the relevant authorities handling cases according to law need the competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, ecology and environment, water administration, and others to provide assistance such as inspection conclusions and identification opinions, the relevant departments shall provide assistance.
The standards for determining the destruction of cultivated land cultivation conditions shall be formulated by the competent departments of natural resources and agriculture and rural affairs of the State Council together with the public security department, the competent department of ecology and environment, and others of the State Council.
Chapter VII Legal Liability
Article 66 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, local people's governments at all levels and their relevant departments and units fall under any of the following circumstances, the leading personnel and directly responsible personnel with responsibility shall be given warnings, demerits, or serious demerits; where the circumstances are relatively serious, demotion or dismissal from office shall be given; where the circumstances are serious, expulsion shall be given: (1) the amount of cultivated land to be maintained or the area of permanent basic farmland protection within their respective administrative regions is lower than the cultivated land protection objectives specified in territorial spatial plans; (2) engaging in fraud (弄虚作假 (nòng xū zuò jiǎ - "engage in falsehood and deceit," to commit fraud)) in the work of the balance of cultivated land occupation and supplementation, high-standard farmland construction, cultivated land quality monitoring and evaluation, and cultivated land ecological protection and restoration; (3) serious problems of illegal occupation of cultivated land within the year; (4) intercepting, misappropriating, or diverting funds for high-standard farmland construction; (5) other acts of abusing power, neglecting duties, or engaging in malpractice for personal gain (徇私舞弊 (xùn sī wǔ bì - "pursue private gain and engage in fraud," to engage in malpractice for personal gain)).
Article 67 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, cultivated land is occupied to dig lakes and build landscapes, or afforestation, turf planting, solid waste piling, garbage landfill, or other acts are carried out on cultivated land without authorization, destroying cultivation conditions, the competent departments of natural resources, agriculture and rural affairs, ecology and environment, and others of people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with their respective duties, order rectification or treatment within a time limit, and may impose a fine of not less than five times but not more than ten times the local cultivated land reclamation fee based on the occupied area.
Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, permanent basic farmland is converted into other agricultural land, the competent department of natural resources of the people's government at or above the county level shall order rectification within a time limit; where rectification is not made within the time limit, a fine of not less than two times but not more than five times the local cultivated land reclamation fee may be imposed based on the occupied area, and the competent department of natural resources of the people's government at or above the county level shall restore the original cultivation conditions on behalf of the violator, with the costs borne by the violator; where cultivation conditions are destroyed, punishment shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
Article 68 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, high-standard farmland engineering facilities are encroached upon, damaged, or their safety is endangered, the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of the people's government at or above the county level shall order cessation of the illegal act and restoration to the original state within a time limit; where restoration is not made within the time limit, the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs, the competent water administration department, and others of the people's government at or above the county level may, in accordance with their respective duties, restore on behalf of the violator, with the costs borne by the violator, and a fine of not less than one time but not more than three times the restoration costs shall be imposed.
Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, surveying, mapping, investigation, design, construction, supervision, and acceptance of high-standard farmland construction are not carried out in accordance with relevant State regulations, punishment shall be imposed in accordance with laws, regulations, and the relevant provisions of the competent department of agriculture and rural affairs of the State Council.
Article 69 Where, in accordance with the provisions of this Law, an order is issued to demolish within a time limit buildings and other facilities newly constructed on illegally occupied cultivated land and to restore the original cultivation conditions of the cultivated land, the construction unit or individual must immediately stop construction, demolish the structures on its or his own, and restore the original cultivation conditions; where construction continues, the organ that made the decision may seal up the construction site and seize construction equipment, tools, and building materials directly related to the suspected illegal occupation of cultivated land; where the violator refuses to demolish on its or his own, the organ that made the decision may, according to law, apply to the people's court for compulsory enforcement.
Article 70 For acts violating the provisions of this Law for which no administrative punishment is provided in this Law, the provisions of relevant laws and administrative regulations such as the Ecological Environment Code of the People's Republic of China and the Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China shall apply.
Article 71 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, harm is caused to others, civil liability shall be borne according to law; where a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be pursued according to law.
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions
Article 72 This Law shall come into force as of January 1, 2027.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 28)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曾华锋 张腾扬
In Hebei’s Chongli (崇礼), autumn is gradually deepening, and the slightly cool morning light spreads across the mountains and fields.
On August 29, the Trailblazer 2026 Chongli Genting Autumn Trail Running Race was held, with a thousand runners racing through the forests and mountains, using their footsteps to unlock autumn’s charm; the steep mountain paths tested their endurance and willpower.
Not long before that, in the very same place, 12,000 runners plunged into the rolling ridges and pine forests, accompanied by the fresh mountain scenery, enjoying nature’s gift while running. This is the tenth year of the Chongli 168 Ultra Trail Race (崇礼168超级越野赛). This year’s race had participants from 26 countries and regions, with multiple categories set up; among them, the 168-kilometer category course is 170.7 kilometers long in total, with a cumulative elevation gain of 8,292 meters.
What does it feel like to run through the mountains? Why do so many runners feel 心向往之 (xīn xiàng wǎng zhī - “the heart yearns toward it,” to admire and long for something) toward Chongli? Perhaps we can understand runners’ preference for this land from the growth of the Chongli 168 Ultra Trail Race.
What does a local race leave for a mountain town?
Chongli prospered because of snow, but was once trapped in “one season supporting three seasons.” From November to March each year, visitor traffic is concentrated; the rest of the time, ski resorts and hotels sit largely idle.
In 2017, in order to create an atmosphere for hosting the Winter Olympics, Zhangjiakou’s Chongli District decided to hold a mountain trail race. At that time, Zhang Chaohui (章超慧), general manager of Beijing Sanfo Outdoor Sports Management Co., Ltd. (北京三夫户外运动管理有限公司), came here with 20 slides. “Many people were curious about what kind of report card this independently cultivated local race could ultimately deliver.” The first Chongli 168 Ultra Trail Race set up three categories: 168 kilometers, 88 kilometers, and 50 kilometers. The race was so simple that it is hard to imagine what it looks like now.
In recent years, the course has expanded from 3 routes to 9, linking up 7 ski towns including Wanlong (万龙), Genting (云顶), and Taiwu (太舞); the race has received points certification from the International Trail Running Association, with its professionalism aligned with international standards; in 2026, the number of applicants approached 30,000, and a spot in the 100-kilometer category was hard to come by. Race organizing committees from Australia, France, South Korea, and other countries and regions made special trips to observe.
The Chongli 168 Ultra Trail Race adopts a “multi-ski-resort linkage” route design, setting major ski resorts such as Wanlong, Genting, and Taiwu as start/finish points and aid stations. Runners and their companions generally stay for 3 to 4 days, creating a long consumption chain and high per-customer spending. In the week the 2025 race was held, the occupancy rate of hotels and homestays across the district exceeded 95%, and the occupancy rate around major ski resorts reached 100%, attracting over 170,000 visitor trips and generating tourism revenue of over 168 million yuan.
Guan Xiwen (关惜文), owner of the Chongli Manda Hand-Grabbed Meat Restaurant, said: “When I first opened the restaurant in 2022, the snow season was packed with customers, but summer customer traffic was insufficient. These past two years have seen particularly big changes. The Chongli 168 Ultra Trail Race is like a festival, attracting large numbers of runners and tourists to come here.”
Not only that, a large number of trail running equipment stores and runner service centers have opened one after another in Chongli’s urban area. Many ski instructors have transitioned into summer trail running guides, and local villagers have gained stable income through course aid stations and volunteer services. In 2024, Chongli’s summer visitor volume surpassed winter for the first time; in 2025, total visitors exceeded 10 million trips, and the Winter Olympic venues achieved revenue of 169 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24%.
How does a small town and a race reshape each other and achieve mutual success?
At the 2026 Chongli 168 Ultra Trail Race, 12,000 runners competed across the mountains, making the race the largest of its kind in Asia.
“Chongli is where I set out from; thank you, Chongli, for accepting me once again.” After returning from training abroad, runner Chen Lin (陈霖) participated in the Chongli 168 Ultra Trail Race and won the women’s 168-kilometer category championship.
Entering its tenth year, the Chongli 168 Ultra Trail Race has become increasingly lively: at the first race in 2017, only a little over 2,000 people signed up to compete; at the tenth race in 2026, 9 categories were set up, with nearly 30,000 applicants, and participation required winning a lottery draw.
These 10 years have also been the period in which China’s trail running has gone from “wild growth” to “orderly development.” In 2025, there were 258 mountain trail running races over 25 kilometers filed with the Chinese Mountaineering Association (中国登山协会) and organized with government participation, covering 29 provinces; adding short-distance training races and community races, the number exceeded 800. Well-known races include, besides the Chongli 168 Ultra Trail Race, the Beijing Trail Running Challenge, the Hong Kong 100 Ultra Trail Race, the Dalian 100 Ultra Trail Race, and the Chaigutangsi Kuocang Trail Race (柴古唐斯括苍越野赛), among others. Most leading races have more than 3,000 participants, and race entries are often hard to obtain through the lottery.
“Trail running can take me to farther places and show me a broader world,” said runner Xiang Fuzhao (向付召). As of now, the International Trail Running Association has recorded 228,300 trail runners from China.
Why do so many people spend money, take leave from work, and throw themselves into the mountains to run until they collapse? Runner Wang Han (王晗) answered: “We are not trying to conquer the mountain, but to find ourselves again. Every time we set out again after wanting to give up is a ‘rebirth.’”
In order to cover runners of different age groups and different levels, many trail races have set up multiple categories, balancing professional extreme competition and beginner experiences.
“The rain came pouring down, and even the course markers were hard to see, but I am used to running in such wind and rain,” said runner Zhao Jiaju (赵家驹). This year’s Chongli 168 Ultra Trail Race brought together 204 elite runners and 183 foreign runners. In the men’s 168-kilometer category, Zhao Jiaju used his advantage on the downhills to shake off the defending champion, Romanian runner Ionel Cristian Manole, and set a new course record with a time of 19 hours, 1 minute, and 32 seconds, becoming the “four-time champion” of the “Chongli 168.”
“China’s ultra-distance trail runners have gone from being beginners to now becoming a participant group that cannot be ignored on the world trail running stage, achieving gratifying breakthrough accomplishments,” said Zhang Chaohui, who founded the Chongli 168 Ultra Trail Race and the Xiongguan 330 (Chicheng) Great Wall Trail Race (雄关330（赤城）长城越野赛). “Every place has its own mountain resources and culture; races cannot be copy-pasted. We prefer to do Chongli well, so that the race is truly integrated with this city and this mountain land.”
Entering its tenth year, a race and a city have thus reshaped each other and achieved mutual success.
In the mountains, the running continues.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘硕阳 陶相安
When I met Ma Yinglong (马英龙) at the end of August, he had already been in Shanghai for over a month preparing for the Asian Games.
As a young male triple jump athlete, Ma Yinglong, born in 2005, has shown promise — 崭露头角 (zhǎn lù tóu jiǎo - "show one's horns," to distinguish oneself and show promise) — in domestic and international competitions in recent years. In 2023, he won the championship at the inaugural National Student (Youth) Games (学青会); in 2024, he was selected for the national team and took bronze at the World Athletics U20 Championships held in Lima, Peru; in 2025, he again won bronze at the National Athletics Championships, stepping onto the National Championships podium for the first time.
Even though he had reaped many good results, during winter training at the beginning of this year, Ma Yinglong experienced a period of confusion: he had clearly done a lot of speed training, so why was he still running slowly? After his defeat at last year's 15th National Games, his winter training was ineffective because of injury. "During that period I was really confused; every night I would think about many things," Ma Yinglong said. In response, coach Xie Lei (解雷) carefully counseled his protégé: "Winter training is about to end, and your capacity reserve has been mostly consumed. It is normal to feel confused at this time; you just need to keep training without getting injured."
Ma Yinglong knew clearly in his heart that, rather than being trapped by confusion, it was better to stand in the present and complete every jump in training with feet planted on solid ground — 脚踏实地 (jiǎo tà shí dì - "tread on solid ground," to be down-to-earth and pragmatic). As his injury gradually healed and he worked in close coordination with his coach, in early May, at the first outdoor competition of the new season in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, he won the championship with a jump of 16.51 meters, setting a new personal best under legal wind speed. Having regained his confidence, he ran more and more smoothly. At the National U23 Athletics Championships in late May, he won the title with a jump of 17.04 meters, breaking the 17-meter barrier for the first time in his career. A month later, at the National Athletics Champions Tournament held in Rizhao, Shandong, Su Wen (粟文) won the championship with a personal best of 17.40 meters, while Ma Yinglong jumped 17.00 meters to take second place and obtain qualification for the Nagoya Asian Games. After that came the Asian U23 Athletics Championships in early July, where Ma Yinglong won the championship with a jump of 17.11 meters...
Now, Ma Yinglong's competitive form is increasingly stable. Recalling his earlier confusion, Ma Yinglong said: "If it had not been for this period of tempering, I might not have been able to shape the better self I am now."
With less than a month until the Asian Games open, Ma Yinglong, who is about to step onto the Asian Games stage for the first time, has many wishes he wants to fulfill: breaking the 17.20-meter barrier, joining hands with Su Wen to step onto the podium... But he is also prepared to face difficulties. For him, who is young, everything is a new beginning.
Return to TopOur newspaper, Zhuji (诸暨), Zhejiang, August 31 (Reporter Fan Jiayuan (范佳元)) On August 31, the fourth window match of the second stage of the 2027 FIBA Basketball World Cup Asian Qualifiers was held in Zhuji, Zhejiang. The Chinese team narrowly defeated the Lebanese team 89:87. At the end of the fourth window, the Chinese team had 5 wins and 3 losses, accumulating 13 points, temporarily ranking third in the group.
In the first match of the second stage, the Chinese team defeated the Qatari team 83:57 away, achieving an opening victory. The second match was against the Lebanese team, a key match affecting the ownership of the initiative in the Chinese team's qualification from the group. In this match, the Chinese team struck first and led by 4 points at halftime. In the second half, the two sides were locked in a tight score in the final quarter; the Chinese team once led by 6 points but was tied by the opponent at 87:87. At the final moment, Chinese team guard Zhao Jiwei (赵继伟) took the frontcourt sideline throw-in, and Yang Hansen (杨瀚森) hit a key shot under the basket, helping the team secure the victory.
According to FIBA rules, the top three teams in each group of the second stage of the World Cup qualifiers directly advance to the main tournament of the 2027 World Cup. With two windows and 4 matches remaining, the Chinese team ranks third in the group with a record of 5 wins and 3 losses, and its qualification situation is better than in the first stage.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尚嵘峥
"Go! Go!" At the scene of the 2026 "Pomegranate Blossoms, Youth Bloom" (石榴花开 青春绽放) National Youth Women's Football Ethnic Unity Friendship Tournament, a group of young Xinjiang players aged 12 to 14, wearing red jerseys, formed a circle and shouted in unison. With a burst of drive, they took to the field.
Saypijamal Kasim (萨依普加玛丽·卡斯木), 12, comes from Akto County (阿克陶县), Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture (克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州). At age 9, she fell in love with football. At that time, the school had no professional football field, so her playmates made two simple goals on the dirt playground. Seeing her playmates play 酣畅淋漓 (hān chàng lín lí - "heartily and thoroughly," to one's heart's content), Saypijamal was infected by their enthusiasm.
"I also wanted to learn to play football, but there were almost no girls playing football at school, so I could only watch the boys play in silence," Saypijamal said. Later, the school built a professional football field and professional football coaches came. The coach planned to form a women's football team, and more than 30 girls, including Saypijamal, hurriedly signed up.
The girls started by learning basic movements and theory such as passing, receiving, and shooting. The arduous training made many children 打退堂鼓 (dǎ tuì táng gǔ - "beat the retreat drum," to back out). "Playing football can kick worries away," the coach encouraged the girls.
The coach arranged a physical fitness test for the girls; after this test, Saypijamal was selected as team captain. "The coach is very strict, but his 一丝不苟 (yī sī bù gǒu - "not the slightest carelessness," meticulousness) made us improve quickly," Saypijamal said. Her father did not support her playing football, believing that a girl could not achieve anything in football. "In my heart, I was secretly competing with my father; I want to prove myself."
The "Tianshan Cup" primary and secondary school student football competition, the "Pomegranate Seed Cup" (石榴籽杯) youth campus football league... From county-level competitions to autonomous-region-level competitions, Saypijamal has achieved good rankings many times. One wall of her home is covered with her medals and certificates. The little girl has sprouted a big dream: "I hope that one day I can join the national team and make it to the World Cup."
On the field, goalkeeper Asma Askar (艾斯玛·艾司卡尔), 173 cm tall, appeared especially prominent. The 12-year-old only began to come into contact with football at the beginning of last year. "At first I wanted to play forward, because I like movements with strong explosive power. Based on my characteristics, the coach suggested I become a goalkeeper," Asma said.
The transition started with breaking through psychological barriers. At first, as soon as the ball flew toward her, Asma would dodge instinctively; when the ball approached the goal, she could only close her eyes and pounce, her movements very flustered. The coach put Asma through high-intensity training until she could bravely save the balls one by one.
Asma has very high demands on herself; she hopes to stop every goal. "Whenever the opponent scores, I feel very disappointed, complain about why I made a mistake, and also feel guilty for the team losing points because of me."
"Relax, don't be nervous; a goalkeeper must have a big heart." The coach encouraged her: if you fail to keep the goal, don't 垂头丧气 (chuí tóu sàng qì - "hang head, lose spirit," be dejected) first; instead, think about how to improve and how to defend next time. In subsequent training and matches, Asma often silently recited the coach's words in her heart, quickly adjusted her mindset, and became more seasoned each time.
At the 2026 "Pomegranate Blossoms, Youth Bloom" National Youth Women's Football Ethnic Unity Friendship Tournament, Asma was named an outstanding athlete. Holding the trophy, she smiled happily.
Today, more and more Xinjiang girls like Saypijamal and Asma are coming into contact with football and falling in love with it. A relevant official of the Women's Federation of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区妇女联合会) said that by building the "Pomegranate Blossom · Dream-Chasing Girls" (石榴花·追梦女孩) brand, the Women's Federation is promoting the shift of women's football events toward normalization and systematization, gradually strengthening the four major functions of competitive play, cross-regional exchange, cultural study, and public welfare care.
Over the past two years, Xinjiang women's football teams have increased from 268 to 822, and registered women's football players in training have increased from 4,177 to 12,958. The enthusiasm of girls of all ethnic groups for participating in football continues to rise, and the reserve talent pool is being continuously consolidated.
Return to TopBeijing, August 31 (People's Daily) — By reporter Zheng Yi (郑轶). On August 30 local time, the 2026 World Canoe Sprint Championships concluded in Poznan, Poland, with the Chinese team collecting 2 golds, 1 silver, and 2 bronzes.
In the women's K4 500m final, the Chinese team composed of Yu Shimeng (俞诗梦), Yin Mengdie (殷梦蝶), Wang Nan (王楠), and Shen Siyu (沈思宇) performed excellently, winning the event title for the first time. In the women's C4 500m final, the Chinese combination of Jiang Xina (蒋希娜), Teng Anshuo (滕安硕), Sun Mengya (孙梦雅), and Ma Yanan (马亚男) crossed the finish line first with a steady rhythm and strong sprinting ability, winning another gold medal.
In the women's K2 500m final, the Chinese combination of Yin Mengdie and Yu Shimeng started quickly and showed strong explosive power, but in the final 100 meters could not hold off the Australian team's charge, winning silver and setting the Chinese team's best-ever world championship result in this event.
In the men's C1 500m final, Chinese paddler Ji Bowen (季博文) claimed bronze. In the women's C2 200m final, the long-time pairing of Shuai Changwen (帅常文) and Lin Wenjun (林文君) added another bronze medal for the Chinese team.
Return to TopIn the first half of 2026, PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as "PICC P&C") resolutely implemented the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, closely adhered to the strategic requirements of the People's Insurance Company of China Group, upheld the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, accelerated the conversion of old and new growth drivers, maintained steady business growth, continued to lead in profitability, further enhanced its ability to serve the overall situation, and achieved new results in promoting the company's high-quality development.
Business scale grew steadily, and operational quality and efficiency improved steadily
In the first half of 2026, PICC P&C's overall business scale maintained steady growth, with original insurance premium income reaching 327.529 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.3%, and a market share of 33.3% in China's property insurance market; insurance service revenue reached 254.617 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.2%, continuing to maintain an industry-leading position.
In the first half of the year, PICC P&C achieved underwriting profit of 15.376 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.1%; the combined ratio was 94.0%, down 0.8 percentage points year on year; total investment income reached 27.359 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 58.5%; net profit was 32.284 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 32.0%; and the return on net assets (non-annualized) was 10.9%, up 1.9 percentage points year on year. As of June 30, 2026, PICC P&C's total assets were 884.859 billion yuan, an increase of 2.8% from the beginning of the year, and net assets were 306.361 billion yuan, an increase of 6.1% from the beginning of the year.
The conversion of old and new growth drivers accelerated, and the ability to serve the overall situation continued to strengthen
PICC P&C promoted the functioning of insurance through the conversion of old and new growth drivers, and in the first half of the year assumed insurance liability amounting to 1,928.4 trillion yuan. Serving the growth of new quality productive forces, it continuously improved the technology insurance product and service system covering the entire chain and the full life cycle; premiums for science and technology activity insurance grew 18.5% year on year, serving over 261,000 technology enterprises. Serving the expansion of domestic demand and the boosting of consumption, it created a "vehicle + person + family" full-life-cycle operation and integrated sales model, provided full-journey protection for sports events such as the Xiong'an Marathon, the Lanzhou Marathon, the Jiangsu Super League, and the Fujian Super League, and achieved relatively rapid growth in personal commercial health insurance, service-oriented home property insurance, and comprehensive cultural-tourism insurance. Serving the building of a Beautiful China, it enriched the supply of green insurance products and services; green insurance provided risk protection of 125.6 trillion yuan, and it underwrote 8.061 million new energy vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 30.9%. It provided risk protection of 12.7 trillion yuan for clean energy industries such as solar, wind, hydroelectric, and nuclear power; its MSCI ESG rating was AAA, the highest globally. Serving the improvement of people's livelihood and well-being, it helped build a multi-tiered medical security system, with policy-based health insurance projects covering 850 million person-times; it strategically developed long-term care insurance, with a participation rate of 73.5% in national pilot projects; and it promoted the integration and upgrading of existing dispersed business toward the "comprehensive catastrophe risk protection" model, with local catastrophe insurance protection covering 169 prefecture-level cities in 23 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government), protecting a population of nearly 500 million people. Serving the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas and the building of an agricultural power, it advanced the expansion of coverage, addition of products, and raising of standards for agricultural insurance; insurance for the three major grain crops has basically transitioned from materialized-cost insurance to full-cost and income insurance; it actively expanded local agricultural insurance business and made every effort to promote the rollout of county-level specialty variety business. Serving high-level opening up, it improved the protection model for the "three types of trade" — goods, services, and digital — and accelerated the promotion of products and services such as export credit insurance, cross-border e-commerce insurance, logistics cargo insurance, and container international multimodal transport insurance; shipping insurance provided risk protection of over 25.4 trillion yuan. It improved its overseas service network, and the China overseas interests business provided risk protection of 1.5 trillion yuan.
Proactively exercising the risk management function of insurance to promote the enhancement of society's resilience against risks
PICC P&C strove to build a value chain for risk reduction services, strengthened the empowerment of the "Wanxiang Cloud" (万象云) platform and tools, and advanced the transformation of risk reduction services toward being concrete, scenario-based, practical, and scaled. In the corporate segment, it improved risk survey standards for key industries such as warehousing, photovoltaics, and flammable and explosive materials, distilled and promoted service models for work safety, flood and fire prevention, catastrophe risk, technological innovation, housing safety, and construction engineering, and provided risk reduction services 3.3531 million times to 1.6285 million corporate clients, identifying 2.2291 million hidden hazards and estimating loss reduction of 1.65 billion yuan. In the agricultural insurance segment, it built 51 risk reduction service centers and 57 service demonstration parks, deployed 674,000 units of materials, and estimated loss reduction of 251 million yuan. In the auto insurance segment, it issued 1.6229 million disaster alert notifications and provided 4.2121 million risk-reduction-type value-added services. PICC P&C released the service brands "PICC Five Brights · Worry-Free Claims" (人保五亮·理赔无忧) and "PICC Premium Selection · Making Car Repair More Reassuring" (人保优选·让修车更放心), protected customers' claims service rights and interests across the entire chain, and strove to establish a benchmark for the coordinated development of the insurance industry and the repair industry.
Looking ahead, PICC P&C will actively seize strategic opportunities, take the lead in implementing the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, accelerate the conversion of old and new growth drivers, enhance core competitiveness, and achieve more balanced, higher-quality, and more sustainable operating results.
Data source: PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited
Return to TopFrom August 23 to 27, the China-Egypt media joint interview on high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road was held in Egypt. A joint interview team composed of nearly 30 journalists, experts and scholars, and self-media bloggers from People's Daily and multiple Egyptian media outlets including Al-Ahram, Akhbar Al-Youm, Al-Gomhuria, Middle East News Agency, Nile TV, Al-Masaa, Youm7, National Echo Network, Diplomatic News Network, and Rose al-Yusuf magazine visited Cairo, Ain Sokhna, Ismailia and other places, went deep into the China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone (中埃·泰达苏伊士经贸合作区), the Egypt New Administrative Capital Central Business District project, the Geely Auto Egypt factory, the Haier Egypt Ecological Park, the Confucius Institute at Suez Canal University, Egypt, and other China-Egypt cooperation projects, and presented from multiple angles the vivid picture of China-Egypt high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road cooperation. Reports related to this joint interview were widely disseminated on the media and social platforms of both countries in various forms such as text, video, and pictures, with nearly 50 reports of various types published as of August 31.
(This page's text was compiled by our reporters Zhou Zhuan (周輖), Yang Yi (杨一), and Shen Xiaoxiao (沈小晓).)
By: 艾哈迈德·阿卜杜·德拉比克
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Egypt and China, the joint interviews conducted by the two countries' media are quite innovative. Their core value lies in this: this is no longer "reporting about the other side," but rather a "narrative completed together" with the other side.
For a long time, when one country's media reports on another country, it is often constrained by a single source of information, or influenced by third-party media, easily producing information bias and stereotypes. Joint interviews have broken this limitation — journalists from both countries ask questions in the same venue, and around the same topic, 各抒己见 (gè shū jǐ jiàn - "each expresses their own views," everyone freely offers their opinion). This "multi-voice" reporting method gives the news a stronger sense of balance and depth, and also enables the reporting to be presented through direct sources, rather than refracted through a third party's "filter."
The significance of joint interviews goes far beyond journalism itself. They make reporting closer to people's hearts and more appealing, opening a flexible channel for the two countries to explain their common positions and common interests to their respective publics. At present, the Egypt-China comprehensive strategic partnership is achieving leapfrog development, and this new form precisely responds to the internal need for upgraded communication methods arising from the deepening of bilateral relations.
What is particularly crucial is that joint interviews help build a "common narrative" of Egypt-China relations. The foundation of relations between countries lies not only in agreements and projects, but is also deeply rooted in "how to explain this relationship to ordinary people." From the seventy-year journey of Egypt-China exchanges, to the current political and strategic mutual trust between the two countries, to the specific projects of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, joint interviews weave these topics into a more complete and three-dimensional story, helping to deepen the outside world's understanding of the development of Egypt-China bilateral relations.
Joint interviews also promote direct dialogue at the societal level between the two countries. The Egyptian public needs to understand the true face of contemporary China, and the Chinese public likewise needs to more directly touch the social fabric, cultural heritage, and future vision of contemporary Egypt. Only when interview topics extend to areas such as daily life, youth, education, tourism, culture, sports, and innovation and entrepreneurship can the Egypt-China relationship truly enter the daily lives of the two countries' peoples.
The deeper innovative value of joint interviews may lie in the fact that, in the process of deepening their understanding of common topics, they enable journalists from both countries to transform the media from carriers of information into co-builders of understanding. If this practice is institutionalized, it is expected to develop into an Egypt-China strategic dialogue platform covering the media and academia, consolidating a deeper social foundation for the long-term development of bilateral relations.
This Egypt-China media joint interview has redefined the role of the media in state-to-state exchanges. At this historical juncture of the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations, this model is expected to become a benchmark practice of Egypt-China public diplomacy, providing genuine media support for the bilateral relationship to move from "knowing each other" to "understanding each other."
(The author is an Egyptian expert on China affairs.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王云娜
In Nanhai District (南海区), Foshan, Guangdong, at Guangdong Origin Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (广东原点智能技术有限公司), a new generation of five-axis linkage laser CNC machine tools is being intensively researched and developed.
Through a high-magnification visual camera, Xu Zhiyuan (许致远), a 2024-cohort master's student in Optoelectronic Information Engineering from the School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering at South China Normal University (华南师范大学), is capturing in real time the spot morphology of laser cutting while simultaneously extracting features from the data noise caused by the machine tool's operation. "In my one year of enterprise practice, I have been following the research and development of the laser cutting online monitoring system, striving to overcome frontline technical difficulties!" Xu Zhiyuan said.
To accelerate scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening and consolidate the foundation of a manufacturing powerhouse, there is an urgent need for a contingent of engineers who love the Party and serve the country, are dedicated and committed, possess outstanding technological innovation capabilities, and are adept at solving complex engineering problems. Deepening the reform of excellent engineer cultivation has become a topic of the times that must be answered in doing talent work well.
In recent years, moving the classroom to the front line of industry has been Foshan's distinctive exploration in cultivating excellent engineers for the new era. As one of the first four National Innovation Institutes for Excellent Engineers in China, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Foshan) National Innovation Institute for Excellent Engineers in Advanced Manufacturing (粤港澳大湾区（佛山）先进制造业国家卓越工程师创新研究院, hereinafter referred to as the "Foshan National Innovation Institute") has proceeded from the entire process of enrollment, cultivation, curriculum, and evaluation, exploring a university-enterprise joint cultivation mechanism for engineering master's and doctoral students, deepening the integration of industry and education, cultivating excellent engineers, and opening a fast track for talent growth.
How is the model innovative?
Keeping pace with industry, carrying out special enrollment
In the spring of 2023, during the postgraduate entrance examination interview, the examiner introduced in detail the university-enterprise joint cultivation model and asked Xu Zhiyuan whether he would be willing to go to the enterprise for practice in his second year of graduate study. Born in 2001, he had originally hoped to improve his practical skills and enhance his employment competitiveness, so he readily agreed.
Why explore university-enterprise joint cultivation?
This stems from the practical demands of Foshan's industrial development. Foshan is a major manufacturing city. Whether in product research and development or technological breakthroughs, there is an urgent need everywhere for hands-on, problem-solving practical engineering and technical talent. However, local high-level universities and research institutes have limited resources, and the teaching content of traditional master's and doctoral student cultivation sometimes lags behind industrial application scenarios. Some degree thesis topics deviate from production practice, resulting in a mismatch between talent supply and industrial demand.
Thus, a reform of the talent cultivation mechanism was launched in due course. In 2022, using the Foshan National Innovation Institute as a platform, Foshan focused on building an innovation consortium and, based on local industrial development needs, explored the university-enterprise joint cultivation model.
What is new about the model?
"Unlike traditional university enrollment, the new model keeps pace with industry and carries out special enrollment, ensuring that the talent recruited meets the current scientific and technological innovation needs of enterprises," introduced Huang Xinyu (黄新雨), executive dean of the Foshan National Innovation Institute. Specifically, enterprises sort out technical difficulties and apply, and the Foshan National Innovation Institute carefully sorts and screens them to form a list of scientific and technological tackling projects, which is made public. Thereafter, university supervisors can independently connect with enterprises around the topics and discuss technical cooperation. When the university and enterprise reach a cooperation intention, the Foshan National Innovation Institute arranges a special enrollment plan for the university supervisor, and the enterprise's technical needs also become the direction of engineering practice and degree thesis for students under the special plan.
The Guangdong Provincial Department of Education (广东省教育厅) gives the Foshan National Innovation Institute more than 500 special enrollment quotas for engineering master's and doctoral students each year, and there are more than 300 local enterprises that have joined the innovation consortium and over 800 university supervisors. To simplify the docking process, the Foshan National Innovation Institute has built an online integrated supply-demand docking service system, realizing the entire process online for enterprise application for cooperation qualifications, topic collection, information release, and two-way selection between universities and enterprises, greatly reducing communication costs. "Before the annual postgraduate entrance examination registration begins, we apply for special enrollment plans based on university-enterprise matching, making every quota clear to a specific university supervisor," Huang Xinyu added.
To ensure that the Foshan National Innovation Institute delivers practical results, Foshan has established it as a new type of public institution. At the same time, it implements a dean responsibility system under the leadership of a council, bringing 15 units including the Organization Department of the Foshan Municipal Party Committee (佛山市委组织部) and the Foshan Municipal Education Bureau (佛山市教育局) into the council member units.
This new model of industry-education integration that cultivates talent on demand has won praise from enterprises. "Universities and enterprises sometimes have different discourse systems and thinking logic, and communication between the two sides was once not smooth. The Foshan National Innovation Institute is like a professional 'translator' of industry-education supply and demand, connecting the two sides and opening up more possibilities for talent cultivation and technical cooperation," said Shang Guangjian (尚光剑), deputy general manager of Origin Intelligent.
How to cultivate talent precisely?
Moving the classroom into the workshop, tempering innovation capability
Last July, when Xu Zhiyuan walked into Origin Intelligent for the first time, he felt "a bit dazed." The workshop was full of galvanometer mirrors flipping up and down and precision components of various materials. The equipment was 琳琅满目 (lín láng mǎn mù - "beautiful jade fills the eyes," a dazzling array of fine things), and for a moment he could not figure out where to start his research.
Origin Intelligent already had four years of experience in university-enterprise joint cultivation and immediately arranged for the company's chief technology officer to serve as the enterprise supervisor. Following the enterprise supervisor and immersing himself in the production line, Xu Zhiyuan came to understand the underlying operating logic of the five-axis linkage laser CNC machine tool. He ate, lived, and worked together with the working engineers, throwing himself into the research topic of domestic substitution for the five-axis galvanometer, specializing in online monitoring of laser processing.
Solid theoretical foundation is the source of confidence. Xu Zhiyuan dissected the real technical bottlenecks in the workshop, delved into the mechanical and optical principles behind the components, and used professional theory to solve problems in production processes. "Practice in the enterprise forced me to supplement new knowledge in connection with product technology, aligning academic research with industrial demand," Xu Zhiyuan said.
Another kind of growth brought by the workshop was breaking down the disciplinary barriers of a single field. He told reporters: "Enterprise research and development emphasizes multidisciplinary intersection. The development of one piece of equipment requires engineers from multiple fields such as electromechanics, optics, and materials to work together to tackle difficulties. Participating in the weekly scientific and technological tackling project meetings, I have learned a lot of cross-disciplinary knowledge and am able to view technical problems with systematic thinking."
While the enterprise supervisor provided guidance, the on-campus supervisor was never absent. Xu Zhiyuan's on-campus supervisor, Guo Liang (郭亮), continuously followed up on the project online and offline, guiding him to sort out the research framework, find the right data collection path, and avoid detours.
Shang Guangjian introduced that two other university students were also receiving joint cultivation at the same time. When the one-year practice period ends, the three of them will begin writing their graduation theses with their tackling topics. "Research rooted in the enterprise truly realizes science that stays close to industry and technology that empowers manufacturing."
"Foshan's manufacturing industry has complete categories, providing fertile soil for cultivating excellent engineers." In Huang Xinyu's view, deep integration of industry and education is a key measure for forging practical engineering and technical talent. The Foshan National Innovation Institute upholds the philosophy of "writing theses on products, doing research in engineering, and transforming achievements in enterprises," gives play to the driving role of enterprise scientific and technological tackling projects in industry-education integration, moves the school classroom into the workshop, tempers students' practical innovation ability, and promotes seamless connection among industry, academia, research, and application.
How to ensure the effect of joint cultivation?
Strictly controlling the enterprise admission gate is key. The Foshan National Innovation Institute has established a screening mechanism to review enterprises' qualifications, including operating financial statements, research and development investment, and supervisor allocation. Only enterprises with a certain level of scientific and technological strength, real technical difficulties at hand, and complete supporting cultivation conditions can join the innovation consortium.
Regular follow-up supervision is also indispensable. Staff of the Foshan National Innovation Institute regularly go down to enterprises for visits and research to understand the progress of enterprise cultivation, and require students to submit weekly engineering practice reports. "We require enterprises to implement the student cultivation plan well, guide students to actively participate in research and development work, and even take on the role of main force in project research, continuously improving their capability levels," Huang Xinyu said.
How to make good use of talent?
Broadening development space, encouraging retention of talent
At Foshan Huashu Robot Co., Ltd. (佛山华数机器人有限公司), machinery roars and trucks shuttle back and forth. A batch of large-load intelligent industrial robots comes off the production line. This star equipment, launched in 2024, is mainly used in scenarios such as automobile assembly and home appliance assembly and handling, with a maximum load capacity of 500 kilograms.
Liu Jiale (刘嘉乐), a 28-year-old company engineer, is very proud of this. It turns out that the large-load computing model and supporting industrial software carried by the robot embody his painstaking efforts. And his connection with Huashu Company was exactly the bridge built by Foshan's university-enterprise joint cultivation.
Huashu Company is a national high-tech enterprise that researches, develops, and produces industrial robots, deeply cultivating diverse application scenarios. Liu Jiale studied electrical engineering and its automation at Foshan University (佛山大学) for his bachelor's and master's degrees. In July 2022, he came to Huashu Company to receive joint cultivation.
Enterprise practice was not 一帆风顺 (yī fān fēng shùn - "one sail with a fair wind," smooth sailing without setbacks). At first, Liu Jiale built an algorithm model for robots and quickly completed concept verification. But when this algorithm was transplanted into the robot control system, it completely failed.
"The computing speed could not keep up." Liu Jiale recalled that just as he was feeling frustrated, his enterprise supervisor Ye Beifa (叶北发) proactively came to him, affirmed his solid modeling skills, and guided him to change his thinking and develop modeling for high-precision, large-load robots. "Every time the load increases a little, the structure may change. The power technology of light-load robots cannot simply be transferred over." He continued to polish along the new direction, and three months later, a dynamics model with higher precision, stronger collision protection, and better structural adaptability was successfully completed, directly helping the new large-load product successfully reach the market.
This key technological breakthrough also earned Liu Jiale recognition from the company. When he graduated with his master's degree, the company proactively extended an invitation. Liu Jiale felt the company's atmosphere of respecting talent and encouraging innovation and immediately chose to stay. Now, he is tackling the more difficult topic of rigid-flexible coupling dynamics modeling.
"Joint cultivation helped me find the right track for growth, and my development space suddenly opened up." Looking back on the journey from practice to employment, Liu Jiale feels he was very lucky.
Liu Jiale is not an exception. After joining the innovation consortium in 2018, Huashu Company, in conjunction with multiple universities including Guangdong University of Technology (广东工业大学), South China Normal University, and Foshan University, has cumulatively jointly cultivated 39 engineering master's and doctoral students, some of whom have already joined the company.
"Joint cultivation allows enterprises to identify people in advance and cultivate people in a targeted manner. The company and talent understand and adapt to each other, which also reduces the risk of talent loss. In addition, they can independently undertake research and development tasks as soon as they take up their posts, shortening the enterprise's new-hire cultivation cycle and accelerating the speed of new product research, development, and launch," Ye Beifa said.
Cultivating talent ultimately comes down to using talent. In recent years, the Foshan National Innovation Institute has broadened development space for talent, encouraged enterprises to retain talent, and combined talent cultivation with talent utilization.
To this end, the Foshan National Innovation Institute has optimized assessment and evaluation indicators. Among them, the assessment of graduate students focuses on patent output and employment retention; the evaluation of university and enterprise supervisors emphasizes the effectiveness of industry-academia-research cooperation such as the transformation and application of scientific research achievements, as well as talent cultivation and retention; and for enterprises, a dynamic adjustment mechanism is implemented, with annual qualification review, and those that fail the review lose their joint cultivation qualification for the following year.
"Under the new model, enterprises and talent achieve win-win outcomes," said Lu Wenyong (陆文勇), deputy director of the Organization Department of the Foshan Municipal Party Committee. Enterprises can not only leverage universities' intellectual resources to solve technical problems, but also participate in talent cultivation, reducing the cost of talent introduction and cultivation. For students, rooting themselves at the front line of industry during their school years and facing real research and development topics, their practical skills and employment competitiveness improve simultaneously. Now, the Organization Department of the Foshan Municipal Party Committee has incorporated the construction of the Foshan National Innovation Institute into the city's key tasks for building a talent highland, providing support and guarantees.
Abundant fruits bear witness to the effectiveness of talent cultivation. Up to now, this new model of university-enterprise joint cultivation has cumulatively cultivated 3,597 engineering master's and doctoral students, solved more than 3,500 various industrial technical difficulties, and collaboratively developed 140 high-tech products.
Return to TopBy: 史一棋
Organizational building is an important foundation of Party building. Among the "fourteen persists" (十四个坚持) of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, one important aspect is "persisting in improving the organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and strong in execution." As a Marxist political party, a rigorous organizational system is not only our Party's glorious tradition, but also where its advantage lies and where its strength lies.
Improving the organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and strong in execution effectively guarantees the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "In tightening the Party's organizational system, the key is to uphold the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized and unified leadership, and the foundation lies in achieving the 'two upholds' (两个维护)."
A prominent feature of the superiority of the socialist political system with Chinese characteristics is the Party's role as the leadership core that commands the overall situation and coordinates all parties. The Party Central Committee is the brain and the pivot. On major policy issues concerning the whole Party and the whole country, the Party Central Committee must have the authority of 定于一尊 (dìng yú yī zūn - "fixed in a single honored position," to have supreme authority vested in one) and 一锤定音 (yī chuí dìng yīn - "one hammer stroke sets the tone," to have the final say). Relying on the organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and strong in execution, the Party Central Committee's various major strategic deployments can be precisely transmitted to the grassroots nerve endings, and the Party's leadership can be 如身使臂、如臂使指 (rú shēn shǐ bì, rú bì shǐ zhǐ - "as the body commands the arm, as the arm commands the finger," to command with perfect unity and ease).
Improving the Party's organizational system means planning the Party's central organizations, local organizations, and grassroots organizations as a whole. Central and state organs, local Party committees, and grassroots Party organizations must 不折不扣 (bù zhé bù kòu - "not fold, not deduct," to the letter, without fail) implement the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments, enhance political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal, and closely unite the broad masses of the people around the Party.
Improving the organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and strong in execution requires taking the great emphasis on grassroots work as a clear orientation.
In June this year, in Dezhou, Shandong, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the Party-Mass Service Center (党群服务中心) of Xiyujia Village (西于架村), carefully inquiring about the village Party organization's building and the provision of convenience services for the people, expressing the hope that the village Party organization would further give play to the leading role of Party building.
One who wants to build a house must first lay its foundation. Grassroots Party organizations are the foundation of the edifice of the Party's governance, and the grassroots level is the "last kilometer" for implementing the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments.
Since the beginning of the new era, the Party Central Committee has adhered to the clear orientation of greatly strengthening grassroots work, continuously rectified weak and lax grassroots Party organizations, constantly strengthened Party building in various fields such as enterprises, rural areas, government organs, public institutions, and communities, and promoted grassroots Party organizations to make comprehensive progress and become comprehensively strong.
Improving the organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and strong in execution transforms institutional advantages into a powerful driving force for promoting development.
Winning the largest battle against poverty in human history, continuously fighting the battles to defend blue skies, clear waters, and clean soil, and the construction of many super projects from blueprint planning to completion... At every critical stage, at every major challenge, Party organizations at all levels respond swiftly and build strong fortresses, and the vast number of Party members and cadres charge ahead and shoulder responsibilities. This rigorous organizational system effectively coordinates and integrates various resources and forces, bursting forth with strong cohesion and combat effectiveness.
"Connected from top to bottom" emphasizes unity of direction and through-connection of the system; "strong in execution" emphasizes moving upon hearing the order and grasping implementation firmly. When the two are combined, Party organizations at all levels can grasp service, grasp governance, grasp development in peacetime, and can be pulled out, can charge forward, can win in critical moments, and our Party can always maintain vigorous vitality and exuberant energy under long-term governance.
A rigorous organizational system has always been the winning code for our Party to unite and lead the people to storm fortresses, overcome difficulties, and forge brilliance. On the new journey, we must firmly grasp the foundation of the Party's advantage and the source of its strength, fully give play to the political functions and organizational functions of Party organizations at all levels, and use the through-connection and strength of the organizational system to vigorously promote the flourishing development of the Party and the country's cause.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 何昭宇
"How should public proceeds be managed, and how should maintenance funds be used? Today we will go through each item one by one." Recently, in the Party building meeting room of Longping Community (隆平社区), Longyao Town (隆尧镇), Longyao County (隆尧县), Hebei, Wu Peng (武鹏), secretary of the community Party branch, presided over a community council meeting, with the property management head, owners' committee (业委会) representatives, and resident representatives seated in a circle. Spread out on the table were the public-area account ledgers of the old work-unit family buildings, every entry clear, every item open.
This council meeting is precisely a daily microcosm of Longyao County's advancement of community governance. Benefiting from Party building empowerment, multiple innovative mechanisms have 落地生根 (luò dì shēng gēn - "fall to the ground and grow roots," to take root and become established) at the grassroots frontline. The community implements a system of cadres responsible for designated zones and Party members linked to households; the community Party branch exercises full oversight of owners' committee elections. The owners' committees of 12 old residential communities have been established wherever they should be established, with Party members accounting for over 90 percent, and all owners' committee directors are Party members. On this basis, the community implements a "four-party deliberation" (四方议事) mechanism involving the Party branch, the owners' committee, property management, and resident representatives. What is deliberated must be acted upon, and what is acted upon must have feedback. In terms of funding, the community applies category-based measures: communities with property management implement a remuneration system, whereby after the property company draws its remuneration, the remaining funds are earmarked for public maintenance, with accounts disclosed regularly; for unmanaged old work-unit family buildings, the "Neighbor Enjoy Home" (邻享家) shared property brand is created, integrating four property companies to take turns on duty, with public proceeds injected into the "Neighbor Enjoy Fund" (邻享基金) to feed back into the renovation and maintenance of public spaces.
To promote the long-term sustainability of governance effectiveness, Longyao County insists on uniting people's hearts through services and promoting co-building, co-governance, and co-sharing. The Party branch of Longping Community took the lead in forming the "Five-Color Glimmer" (五彩微光) volunteer service team, which regularly visits elderly people at home to provide health services; it has opened a "4:30 Classroom" (四点半课堂) to fill the gap in after-school care for children. The community also provides delivery riders with rest points, hot water, and other warm-hearted safeguards, making new employment groups also "mobile sentinels" of community governance.
Organizations take root, and governance becomes more effective. Since the beginning of this year, the reach of Party organizations has further extended. Across the county, 155 residential communities and 12 townships have achieved Party group (党小组) coverage; 975 grid Party groups and 22,280 Party members are active at the grassroots frontline, and the network of Party building-led grassroots governance has been further woven denser and stronger.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 崔 佳 祝大伟
In Daqing, Heilongjiang, the wind of the Songliao Plain sweeps across the well sites; the great arms of the pumping units rise and fall, like a never-stopping steel formation. This is the team once led by Iron Man Wang Jinxi — Daqing Drilling Engineering Co., Ltd. (大庆钻探工程有限公司; hereinafter "Daqing Drilling") — and it is also an important birthplace of the Iron Man spirit (铁人精神). Over the decades, this team has cumulatively drilled more than 184,000 wells, with footage exceeding 247 million meters. However, in previous years, aging equipment, lagging technology, and market squeeze once put this long-established enterprise in a development predicament.
The turning point began in July 2024. The preparatory group for Daqing Drilling's reform and restructuring was established, and the new Party committee 旗帜鲜明 (qí zhì xiān míng - "banners and flags bright and clear," clear-cut and unequivocal) proposed: forge the soul with the Iron Man spirit, and empower the breakthrough with Party building.
Reform has 千头万绪 (qiān tóu wàn xù - "a thousand heads and ten thousand threads," a complex tangle of many matters); its first priority lies in "people," and the key to people lies in their "hearts."
Reform, first of all, means changing mindsets.
In the vast Gobi of the Tarim Oilfield, Well HA601-H24 is called the "well that proves itself" (争气井) by Daqing Drilling's Drilling Team 80013. The current "well that proves itself" grew out of the former "failure to prove itself." In the Tarim Oilfield, well locations are allocated according to strength rankings; because Drilling Team 80013 ranked near the bottom, it could not obtain well locations for a long time. Facing safety risks and the complex challenges of geological conditions, some team members were once accustomed to having "wait for the experts' opinions" and "see what the company policy says" constantly on their lips.
"We have lost the Iron Man's spirit of striving and forging ahead!" In the "Change Mindsets, Learn from the Iron Man, Break Through Bravely, and Forge Glory" thematic practice activity (转观念、学铁人、勇突破、塑荣光), technician Zhang Haitao (张海涛) spoke 直言不讳 (zhí yán bù huì - "speak frankly without taboo," to speak one's mind directly without reserve).
Today, the Daqing Drilling Party Committee has carried out this thematic practice activity for two consecutive years. "We must thoroughly reverse outdated mindsets and eradicate the ideological 'root cause of the disease' that constrains development," said Zhang He (张赫), Party Committee Secretary and Chairman of Daqing Drilling. The new Party Committee has conducted examination and rectification of employee morale, management conditions, marketing status, and value-creation capability, to inspire the fighting spirit of cadres and employees.
"What are difficulties? As long as our thinking does not slide, methods will always be more numerous than difficulties!" The Party members of Drilling Team 80013 took the lead in self-reflection; everyone pooled consensus, changed their work style, upgraded technology, and optimized management, fighting a turnaround battle with a single well. Equipment unchanged, personnel unchanged — but once thinking changed, Well HA601-H24 set a record of 2,003 meters of daily footage, and the drilling team's ranking also leaped from the bottom to the upper-middle of the work area. This "well that proves itself" contends not only for footage, but for the revival of spirit.
When thinking breaks the ice, organizational strength must also keep up. Since the reform and restructuring, the Daqing Drilling Party Committee has deepened the Party building work for the Iron Man contingent in the new era (新时代铁人队伍党建工作), promoted the deep integration of grassroots Party building with production and operation, explored project-based and region-based Party organization working models, built Party organizations on production teams, and further strengthened management, production, and safety.
At the beginning of this year, during the construction of key exploration Well Xushen 27-H1, extreme cold, wind, and snow combined with complex strata, and Drilling Team 1202 faced a hard battle. Late at night, the temperature approached minus 30 degrees Celsius. Facing dangers such as stuck drill bits and large-scale spalling of the wellbore wall, Party members of the branch took the lead in staying outdoors, measuring and adjusting the performance of the drilling fluid again and again.
"Wherever project construction goes, wherever oil wells are drilled, there a Party branch is established," said Wang Song (王松), Party Branch Secretary of Drilling Team 1202. All team members fought on without rest, ultimately setting a block record of 160 meters of footage in a single drilling run and proving the productivity of the underground gas reservoir.
The measurement-while-drilling (MWD) instrument is hailed as the "X-ray eye" of the drill bit. "As Party-member scientific researchers, striving for advancement and excellence (创先争优) means doing technological innovation well," said Pei Fei (裴斐), director of the Instrument Research Institute of the Drilling Engineering Technology Research Institute (钻井工程技术研究院), who led Party members of the branch in unremitting efforts to tackle key problems in the MWD instrument.
In one test, a "small explosion" occurred on the circuit board of the MWD instrument, and a large number of components were burned out. "Similar experiments need to be repeated hundreds and thousands of times." Pei Fei has long been accustomed to such accidents. Leading the team to 攻坚克难 (gōng jiān kè nán - "storm fortresses and overcome difficulties," to tackle hard problems and surmount difficulties), from 2024 to the present they have broken through more than ten key technologies, cumulatively creating benefits of more than 100 million yuan.
The Party branch is a strong fortress; Party members strive to be vanguards; the Iron Man spirit is continuously inherited and carried forward. Since the reform and restructuring, especially in 2025, the first full calendar year of independent operation, Daqing Drilling has improved quality and increased efficiency by 2.26 billion yuan, with net profit, return on net assets, and economic value added all increasing by more than 60%. The Party's political advantages and organizational advantages are continuously being transformed into powerful momentum for high-quality development.
Return to TopBy: 李 静
The more limited cultural energy is, the less it can withstand repeated depletion and overdraft by low-level content. The recovery of cultural energy depends on the audience's self-discipline and effort, and also requires the nurturing and support of the cultural system.
"My cultural energy can't keep up" — this one phrase captures many people's situation: there are many books they want to read and many films they want to watch, yet after work they no longer have the strength to follow through. The so-called "cultural energy" refers precisely to the time, attention, and patience required for cultural activities such as reading, film-watching, and art appreciation. The popularity of this term is no accident. On the one hand, digital media has made cultural content unprecedentedly abundant and accessible, with cultural activities deeply embedded in commutes, pre-sleep moments, and various fragments of spare time; on the other hand, high-intensity work, social interaction, and information processing constantly deplete people's energy, leaving them with a heart that is willing but strength that falls short when it comes to cultural life. It is precisely in the gap between unlimited supply and limited energy that people have become increasingly accustomed to describing their state as "low battery" or "exhausted," and what was originally a relatively pure aesthetic experience has also been incorporated into energy accounting.
The finiteness of energy at the individual level is a realistic premise that current literary and artistic production must confront. However, insufficient cultural energy is not an excuse for lowering artistic standards and the quality of cultural supply. If, because attention is scarce, one regards strong stimulation, frequent reversals, and constantly setting "hooks" as the 不二法门 (bù èr fǎ mén - "the one and only dharma gate," the sole proper method) for attracting audiences; because audiences need relaxation, one regards instant gratification and emotional value as the standard for creation; because a certain subject matter has been validated by traffic, one rapidly replicates similar character settings, plots, and narratives — over time, using "insufficient cultural energy" as a pretext will bring mediocrity and opportunism to creative production.
Beyond creators, internet platforms also influence people's cultural life to a great extent. Platforms are not just distribution channels; they apply users' behavioral data to algorithmic recommendation and traffic allocation, further influencing works' commercial returns and even subsequent production. Data supremacy has indeed improved the efficiency of supply-demand matching, but it also has obvious limitations. When a person scrolls through "short, flat, and fast" content on a night when their cultural energy is insufficient, the platform will accordingly recommend more similar content — but this is not necessarily the full extent of the user's real needs. The seemingly massive and personalized supply is, in many cases, nothing more than a 海市蜃楼 (hǎi shì shèn lóu - "sea market, mirage tower," an illusory scene) jointly constructed by information cocoons and path dependence.
All these phenomena remind us that we must be able to see through cultural energy to perceive the audience's real and complex cultural needs, and to see the profound connections between literary and artistic creation, cultural production, and the audience's daily life.
In fact, the more limited cultural energy is, the less it can withstand repeated depletion and overdraft by low-level content. While lamenting "insufficient cultural energy," audiences will more consciously weigh whether a cultural investment is worthwhile, and become increasingly sensitive to the returns a work can provide. From The Peaceful Years (《太平年》) leading audiences to actively learn about the "obscure" Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms history, to Me and the Temple of Earth (《我与地坛》) striking young readers' life experience across eras and media, to the voluminous and intricately constructed Lord of the Mysteries (《诡秘之主》) evoking stable and enduring reader participation, the dissemination of many fine literary and artistic works proves that people today are not only suited to "short, flat, and fast" content, nor do they simply reject complexity and profundity. In recent years, the popularity of long-form podcasts and in-depth interviews also shows that long content does not necessarily mean a high threshold; what truly determines whether people are willing to stay is still whether the energy invested can be exchanged for sufficient rewards.
Cultural energy is not only a consumable; it is also a renewable resource. Many people have had this experience: the process of appreciating a quality work is not necessarily easy, because it often forces the audience to confront those indigestible experiences of reality and to face the deep questions of life. This is precisely where quality works transcend shallow pleasure: they can awaken blunted perception, sort out chaotic experience, rekindle the audience's enthusiasm for observing reality, understanding history, and caring for others, and enhance people's cognitive abilities and capacity to accept reality. The growth of cultural energy originates precisely from this. There is no need to rush to numb oneself with sensory stimulation; rather, one should spend some effort immersed in the nourishment of quality content and feel the unique resilience of culture. A truly beneficial cultural life is the sustained activation of curiosity, vitality, and judgment.
In the face of insufficient cultural energy, cultural supply needs all the more to break path dependence and achieve genuine expansion. For example, platforms should not stop at precise feeding; they should also guide users to encounter unexpected excellent works, allowing mature genres to find their audiences while leaving room for artistic innovation to grow. For another example, building more convenient and accessible public cultural spaces and service systems, reducing the real cost of entering quality cultural life, so that culture is not merely the "leftover life" after exhaustion but a "here and now" that can be started at any time. Whether the opening hours of libraries and cultural centers suit office workers, whether quality performances and exhibitions are easy to obtain, and whether there are cultural spaces in communities and cities where people can stay and communicate — all of these directly affect people's willingness and persistence in participating in cultural life, and also affect the cultivation of cultural energy.
For the audience themselves, they must dare to take the initiative over cultural energy. The more scarce cultural energy is, the more one needs to be wary of the trap of compensatory consumption: over-relying on strong stimulation and instant feedback when tired may bring relaxation, but after the brief pleasure one often sinks into deeper exhaustion and emptiness, forming a vicious cycle of "the more tired, the more one scrolls; the more one scrolls, the more tired one becomes." In an era of content oversupply, recognizing one's true interests and choosing appropriate cultural content for different states is itself an important ability. Especially when audiences' behaviors such as payment, discussion, evaluation, and recommendation deeply influence the dissemination of works and market feedback, if one can give one's limited attention and time to quality works one truly identifies with, that is building an ideal content ecosystem through concrete action.
Cultural energy is the ability to deeply connect with literary and artistic works, the ability to understand and accept complex and delicate experience, and also the steadfastness to resist being swept along by algorithms and maintain autonomous choice in the digital environment. The growth of cultural energy ultimately points to the expansion of spiritual capacity and the preservation of cultural subjectivity. The cultivation of these abilities may seem like a personal matter, but in reality it depends on the overall quality of the cultural ecosystem. The recovery of cultural energy depends on the audience's self-discipline and effort, and also requires the nurturing and support of the cultural system.
(Author's affiliation: Chinese National Academy of Arts (中国艺术研究院))
Return to TopBy: 黄 哲
The crisis of traditional opera is not that "young people do not understand," but that "it does not understand young people." Faced with innovative opera works that "understand me," young audiences are willing to accept their imperfections, as long as they see that the other side is still growing, holds infinite possibilities, and is willing to share them.
After three years of touring, with a Douban (豆瓣) score of 9.8 and a Damai (大麦) score of 9.7, clip dissemination across the entire internet surpassing ten billion views, and audiences under 35 accounting for more than 70 percent... Recently, the contemporary Peking opera Owe You a Little Red Star (欠你一枚小红星), written, directed, and composed by post-95s and with post-85s in the leading roles, returned to Beijing for a run of performances packed to capacity every night. How did a main-melody Peking opera work (主旋律京剧作品) win the hearts of young people?
Little Red Star tells the story of a "lying flat" (躺平) young man, Hong Xing (洪星), who meets Tiezi (铁子), a member of the Children's Corps (儿童团) who died 80 years ago, across time and space. At first glance it seems somewhat 离经叛道 (lí jīng pàn dào - "depart from the classics and rebel against the Way," to be heretical and unconventional) — pajamas, tracksuits, and fashionable outfits replace the draped python robes, while rock, rap, and Peking-opera-accented folk ballads are mixed on the same stage with Xipi and Erhuang (西皮二黄). Yet it is precisely this different Little Red Star that has made many young people who never set foot in a theater to watch opera sit still and shout their approval.
Director Li Zhengkuan blends the narrative rhythm of the musical, the temporal-spatial cutting of film, and the psychological characterization of spoken drama into the banqiang structure (板腔体) of Peking opera, while in its bones it remains the "four skills and five methods" (四功五法). Hong Xing, played by the Qi-school (麒派) heir Lu Su (鲁肃), switches freely between two states — the "strictly orthodox Qi-school laosheng" and the "吊儿郎当 (diào ér láng dāng - "slovenly and shiftless," sloppy and unserious) comic guy." In impassioned passages, he uses the high, sonorous natural voice of the Qi-school laosheng; when he cuts back to a modern young office worker, [his performance] is full of the warm, smoky vitality of everyday street life. That this contrast does not fall apart is owing to skills trained from childhood. The play also brings a 会心一笑 (huì xīn yī xiào - "knowing smile," a smile of shared understanding) through its innovation in stylized conventions (程式). Take the "airport farewell" scene as an example: the situational design in which "driving a car" gives way to "riding a bicycle" borrows and transforms the classic conventions of Xu Ce Races Through the City (徐策跑城), makes innovative attempts in the movement design, and incorporates lighting and electronic effects, giving the performance a stronger contemporary feel. In this way, a celebrated Qi-school passage is watered into a contemporary story.
Rather than 削足适履 (xuē zú shì lǚ - "cut the feet to fit the shoes," to force something into an ill-fitting mold) to cater to the rhythm of short videos, it allows traditional conventions to continue growing within a new narrative. Little Red Star has set a template for the rejuvenation of Peking opera.
Behind Little Red Star's breakout beyond its circle (破圈) stand a group of opera practitioners with "solid traditional foundations and a contemporary aesthetic language." Li Zhengkuan (李政宽), a fourth-generation inheritor of the Qi school and an indoor disciple (入室弟子) of Chen Shaoyun (陈少云), has another identity as the video blogger "Longmeng Temple Width" (龙猛寺宽度). His Peking-opera-accented folk ballad Wujia Slope 2021 (武家坡2021) has surpassed 30 million plays. He once articulated his creative philosophy in these terms: "I am not adding a bit of opera vocal style to a song; I am making pop music from the standpoint of Peking opera." This self-consciousness of a "Peking-opera-centered standpoint" is the key to Little Red Star not having degenerated into "opera pastiche." With Xipi and Erhuang as the foundation, classic forms such as liushui (flowing water), kuaiban (fast beat), qinge (zither song), chuigiang (blown tune), and gaobozi take turns on stage — solid and ample — guaranteeing the recognizability of "this is Peking opera." The lead actor, Lu Su, is a member of the Shanghai Peking Opera Theatre (上海京剧院), who once became popular on social media for his cross-gender portrayal of "Matchmaker Liu" (刘媒婆) in Picking Up the Jade Bracelet (拾玉镯). Facing the question "Is this catering to young people?" he answered with candor: "I am catering to them. If not to them, then who? They are the tomorrow and hope of every art form." At the curtain call, Lu Su led the entire cast in singing the celebrated passage "The vast blue heavens cannot be deceived" (湛湛青天不可欺) from Xu Ce Races Through the City, and then said with deep feeling: "Traditional opera faces great difficulties. If we unite, we are being responsible to the people and to history."
Zhang Xiyun (张曦匀), who plays opposite Lu Su and switches at any moment between the two vocal registers of opera actor and guofeng (Chinese-style) singer, graduated from the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts (中国戏曲学院). This gold-medal winner in the professional division of the "China Children's Opera Little Plum Blossom Gathering" (中国少儿戏曲小梅花荟萃) competition is known to young people online as a guofeng singer. Her Watching from the Ramparts (壁上观), Clear Diction and Full Tones (字正腔圆), and Peerless Dancing Beauty (绝世舞姬) bridge the ancient resonance of the pear garden (梨园) with modern rhythms, each one breaking out of its circle. Zhou Jiexu (周洁旭), who plays the teacher, is a post-00s leading huadan (vivacious young female role) of the Beijing Quju Opera Troupe (北京市曲剧团), equally proficient in both Peking opera and Quju, and has also played the female lead in the guofeng musical Golden Wind and Jade Dew (金风玉露). Luo Siyi (罗思忆), who plays Tiezi, was originally a xiaodan (young female role) of Hunan Flower Drum Opera (湖南花鼓戏), bringing to Peking opera the collision and mutual learning of another opera system... A group of young people "unite" on a single stage the Qi school and laodan (old female role) of Peking opera, the body movements of Quju, and the vocal styles of guofeng pop, binding a main-melody Peking opera into a "wooden barrel" in which every plank is long, and also displaying the ample family reserves that allow Chinese opera to 源源不断 (yuán yuán bù duàn - "flowing continuously without end," in an endless stream) ladle out "a bowl of water" for different audiences.
What is worth learning from Little Red Star is not how many modern elements it used, but the stance it takes in handling the relationship between the main melody and young audiences. Extolling revolutionary heroes, Little Red Star can be called brave in its handling of the plot: a "lying flat" young man, Hong Xing, is awakened by Little Tiezi, who lived 80 years ago, with the simplest logic — there is no 居高临下 (jū gāo lín xià - "occupy the heights and look down," condescendingly, from a superior position) indoctrination, only a "flick on the forehead" (弹脑崩儿) style of prompting. The play sharply deconstructs the absurd narrative of anti-Japanese "god shows" (抗日神剧), exposing the harm of historical nihilism (历史虚无主义). This vivid combativeness is precisely a continuation of the Qi school's philosophy of facing the era's problems head-on.
Of course, as a newly composed opera work still undergoing iteration, Little Red Star is not perfect. The density of popular elements does bring a sense of freshness, but from the actors' mobilization of emotion, it is easy to see that every aria tries to "prick" the audience, which instead weakens the memorability of the key arias; in the grafting of main-melody narrative with magical realism, certain plot passages still appear somewhat "raw" and "awkward."
In the renewal of Peking opera and traditional opera, Little Red Star is only one of many paths, but it proves that traditional conventions can continue to grow in contemporary narratives, and that young people are willing to pay for and applaud an opera that "understands them." The crisis of traditional opera is not that "young people do not understand," but that "it does not understand young people." Faced with innovative opera works that "understand me," young audiences are willing to accept their imperfections, as long as they see that the other side is still growing, holds infinite possibilities, and is willing to share them.
Return to TopBy: 黄海坤
The recently released Empty Gun (空枪) may provide a new sample for the commercialized expression of Chinese cinema.
In character development, the creators go to great lengths to amplify a certain trait of the protagonist, making it sufficiently eye-catching. Wan Ziqiang (万梓强) came to Hong Kong to pan for gold; what he delusionally seeks is the imagined "golden house" of which he can only glimpse one corner. To gain entry into it, he 无所不用其极 (wú suǒ bù yòng qí jí - "there is no extreme to which one will not go," to stop at nothing), ready at any moment to ignite that madness of 孤注一掷 (gū zhù yī zhì - "stake everything on a single throw," to risk all on one venture) for the sake of one possibility. When he is finally executed by law, this 无法无天 (wú fǎ wú tiān - "without law, without heaven," utterly lawless and defiant) villain reveals a trace of panic, bewilderment, and incomprehension—utterly different from how he looked when gazing up at wealth—demonstrating the film's theme of urging people to walk the straight and correct path.
The work portrays a ferocious bandit laden with many familiar signifiers, and also contributes a police image unconstrained by rigid rules and regulations. The suspect Wan Ziqiang and the criminal investigator Qi Honggang (亓宏刚) are at once binary opposites and mirror images of each other. In the latter half of the film, Qi Honggang's investigative approach is: if he is crazy, we must be "crazier" than him. Their tug-of-war over transporting one ton of seafood and one ton of explosives across the border 此起彼伏 (cǐ qǐ bǐ fú - "rising here, falling there," in succession, one after another), 扣人心弦 (kòu rén xīn xián - "plucking the heartstrings," deeply gripping and thrilling).
In terms of event exposition, as a film whose genre marker is the punishment of crime, Empty Gun rarely shows gunfire. The opposing sides are not engaged in a cat-and-mouse game of chase, but rather a head-on contest of wits—such as the extreme time-squeezing operation in the airport cash-transport truck robbery, or the counterintuitive psychological gamble of hiding a hostage inside the very building where the hostage works. Wan Ziqiang's repeated early successes do not stem from superior intelligence, but from his 穷凶极恶 (qióng xiōng jí è - "utterly fierce and supremely evil," extremely vicious and wicked) in leaving himself no escape route. In the middle-to-later part of the story, Hong Kong returns to the motherland, and the Hong Kong police change their insignia, signaling the establishment of a new order—evil will ultimately face judgment. Taking this moment as the dividing line, Wan Ziqiang, 执迷不悟 (zhí mí bù wù - "cling to delusion, refuse to awaken," stubbornly persisting in error), acts again and meets an outcome utterly different from before.
In terms of expressive method, Empty Gun folds together two time periods. Among audience reviews, the most frequent phrase is "paying tribute to Hong Kong film style," and the film indeed features a host of iconic faces such as Tony Leung Ka-fai, Cecilia Yip, and Danny Lee. These actors and their past screen personas surface within a soundtrack laden with period atmosphere; the present and the past interweave, and the film's atmosphere forms a curious intertextuality with audiences' existing viewing experience.
In the screening hall, audiences see this character, and also see other roles played by this actor; they see this film, and also see shadows of other films from the same period. Across a not-too-distant stretch of time, both creators and viewers are simultaneously captivated by this scene and this moment, and yet also develop a clarity that steps back from it all. This subtle dual perception makes Empty Gun no longer a mere genre "thrill ride," but an image-bearing vehicle deeply bound to each viewer and to every segment of generational memory, allowing people to observe from the sidelines a real stretch of the era's past and the subtleties of human nature.
Empty Gun is a product of the creators deliberately selecting a part of Hong Kong cinema and a part of mainland cinema, then reweaving them together. Its surface bears the traces of time's oxidation; its interior is a very present-tense expression. It provides precise service to current audiences while preserving the conceptualized, even ritualized, stylistic presentation of art cinema.
In a mature film market, commercial production is an important load-bearing structure. One criterion for judging whether a market is healthy may not be the curve produced by art films' counterattack, but rather the probability that big-budget productions will meet their box-office expectations. Just like Love Letter to Grandma (给阿嬷的情书), its commercial success contains an element of chance, but at the production level, it is an inevitability of Chinese cinema's insistence on industrialization. Empty Gun, between commerce and art, Hong Kong style and mainland character, genre formulas and the rhythms of local narrative, is at once flamboyant and restrained, at once extravagant and realistic, at once pointed in its reference and transcendent of itself. Setting aside the lengthy last quarter of the ending, this creative approach may provide a language system that can serve as reference for the commercialized development of domestic Chinese cinema.
Return to TopBy: 戴 清
The humanistic documentary Affection Fills the Thousand-Gorge Lake tells of the new great changes in mountain villages brought by the reservoir area's practice of the "Two Mountains" concept (两山理念) over the 20 years since the completion of the Tankeng Hydropower Station (滩坑水电站) in Zhejiang, and has received a very good response on satellite TV and the internet after broadcast.
Within a mere three-episode length, the work renders its grand theme vivid and palpable. On the one hand, the contrast between past and present creates a sense of historical depth; on the other hand, within the cross-section of the Thousand-Gorge Lake's ecological development, it structures and maps out, combining point and surface to display one by one the different levels, angles, and bright spots of ecological change and the development of the times. In the past, the planned construction of the hydropower station did not come to fruition, and in 1992 a catastrophic flood once trapped 300,000 people. With the completion of the Tankeng Hydropower Station dam, the reservoir area ushered in a new stage of ecological development and progress toward common prosperity. As one vivid case after another is presented, viewers truly feel the local development and transformation from point to surface.
The rich and dense concrete examples make the work's interpretation of theory quite vivid, and also demonstrate the creative team's research efforts. These true stories full of the flavor of everyday life make "clear waters and green mountains" and "gold and silver mountains" concrete in the form of real, visible people and stories. Among them are the sincerity of resettlement cadres who exchange heart for heart, and the perseverance of township cadres in creating wealth opportunities for local villagers... Flowing through it all are the fervent feelings, wisdom, and arduous dedication of the cadres and masses of the Thousand-Gorge Lake reservoir area.
What is relatively innovative is that the protagonists of the story are not only people, but also ancient trees and ancient organisms, bringing viewers an intimate experience of "harmonious coexistence between humans and nature." In particular, a "special migrant" — a thousand-year-old camphor tree weighing fifty to sixty tons — migrated a hundred li, was transplanted across regions, with professionals 殚精竭虑 (dān jīng jié lǜ - "exhaust one's essence and drain one's thoughts," to devote every ounce of energy and thought), villagers seeing it off with blessings, and tree-loving volunteers, traffic police, and road administration personnel escorting it throughout the journey... Every link bears witness to the change and elevation of ecological concepts among local people and the competent authorities, and, 见微知著 (jiàn wēi zhī zhù - "see the minute, know the manifest," to discern the whole from a small sign), highlights the guiding significance of scientific theory for ecological practice.
The aerial footage, which accounts for a fairly high proportion, fully displays the charming scenery of Thousand-Gorge Lake and constructs the work's broad and grand visual style. Overlooking the reservoir area, a thousand gorges conceal emerald green, one lake mirrors the sky — now with shimmering waves, now with dense mist — 美不胜收 (měi bù shèng shōu - "so beautiful one cannot take it all in," too many beautiful sights to absorb). The "Sky City on the Cliff," converted from the industrial remains of an iron mine, forms a strong visual impact with its steep and rugged terrain, making viewers involuntarily applaud the designer's 奇思妙想 (qí sī miào xiǎng - "wondrous thoughts and marvelous ideas," ingenious and fanciful ideas). If the aerial footage achieves the effect of "reaching the vast," the close-up shots display the skill of "exhausting the minute." In macro photography, the heart-shaped wonder stone "root-wrapped stone" inside the thousand-year-old camphor tree fully reveals the wonders of nature; carefully placed heating rods in the growth environment help baby giant soft-shelled turtles break out of their shells, full of vigorous vitality... These rarely seen details bring viewers closer to nature.
Accurate and brilliant narration has always been an essential element of excellent documentaries. In this regard, Affection Fills the Thousand-Gorge Lake does not win with florid rhetoric, but excels with plain and sincere emotion. The scenic beauty, cuisine, local customs, and cultural tourism projects of the Thousand-Gorge Lake reservoir area are narrated by the voiceover, 娓娓道来 (wěi wěi dào lái - "speak gently and continuously," to narrate unhurriedly and vividly), reaching viewers in a dual symphony of vision and hearing, and are expected to achieve the cultural-tourism integration effect of "moving people to set out."
Showing conceptual changes and the changes of the times from the perspective of ecological protection has increasingly become a popular choice in documentary creation. Compared with representative works such as Beautiful China in Motion and Glimpsing Mountains and Waters: Clear Waters and Green Mountains, Ecology Flourishes, Affection Fills the Thousand-Gorge Lake displays new characteristics in the locality of its expressive perspective and the concreteness of its practical experience. On the road of spreading the ideological power of the "Two Mountains" concept, more creative exploration is needed.
(The author is a professor at the School of Drama, Film and Television (戏剧影视学院) of Communication University of China.)
Return to TopRecently, the third season of Stand-up Comedy and Its Friends and the third season of King of Comedy Stand-up Season have premiered one after another, each with its own emphasis in artistic expression.
The former is more restrained, focusing on the small, scattered points of light in daily life. The contestants abandon the stance of "representing whom" and instead tell of "what I have experienced." Some share their 精打细算 (jīng dǎ xì suàn - "fine calculation, careful budgeting," to be meticulous in financial planning) ride-hailing experiences, defining "save what should be saved, spend what should be spent" as a life philosophy; some say their mothers toiled bitterly all their lives and finally "let themselves fly free" after retirement. These routines, with a humorous stance, retrieve those moments eroded by life, giving daily experience a brand-new luster of meaning.
The latter has a faster rhythm and is more confrontational, mostly converting professional identity, life circumstances, and family experience into unique material. A practicing lawyer steps onto the stage, using the logic of life to dissolve serious topics and refresh the audience's perceptions; a finance professional deconstructs consumerism, performing the "鸡同鸭讲" (jī tóng yā jiǎng - 'chicken talks to duck,' mutual incomprehension) between two generations—himself and his father—on this topic. The contestants refuse to repeat already-validated joke templates, but some performances reveal a tendency for viewpoint output to precede the laying-out of experience.
Good stand-up comedy all does the same thing: re-mixing raw materials such as body, accent, and profession, and serving up dishes that are 似曾相识 (sì céng xiāng shí - "seemingly once acquainted," feeling familiar as if seen before) yet have never been seen before. We laugh not only because it is funny, but more because in that instant, familiar life is re-unfolded before us—the originally flat everyday suddenly gains depth, gains reflection, gains a 别开生面 (bié kāi shēng miàn - "opening a new face," breaking fresh ground) angle. It reminds us that the world has never become dull; what has become dull is only the way we look at the world. And a good stand-up comedian is the one who fishes out the shining points of life and then hands them back into our hands.
(Gou Yanshu (勾彦殳), Nanjing, Jiangsu Province)
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