Summary: General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a July 30 Political Bureau meeting that stressed actively promoting breakthroughs in frontier technologies and the development of future industries while continuing the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. The article highlights Xi's emphasis on systematic layout and seizing the commanding heights of science, technology, and industry, citing his inspections and group discussions to urge coordinated advancement of traditional, emerging, and future industries. It notes that future industries should complement emerging and traditional industries, with Xi calling for industrial synergy and acting in light of local conditions. The piece cites achievements such as photovoltaic capacity surpassing coal power and new energy vehicle sales ranking first globally for 11 consecutive years. It concludes that new drivers like high-end manufacturing and the digital economy contributed over 40 percent to economic growth in the first half of the year.
Summary: General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the Xiong'an campus of Beijing No. 4 Middle School on March 23, visiting a Chinese language class where students recited "Ode to the Yellow River" from the nationally compiled textbooks. The article details how the three nationally compiled textbooks for primary and secondary schools have achieved full coverage, with revisions launched in 2022 and completed by fall 2025. It emphasizes Xi's directive that textbooks must be managed from the height of safeguarding national ideological security, and highlights the establishment of a curriculum and textbook system with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its core content. The piece also covers the acceleration of China's original philosophy and social science textbooks, including the "China Series" pilot in over 40 universities, and efforts to align textbook development with education, science and technology, and talent cultivation. The article concludes by describing "textbook study tours" and the broader goal of nurturing a new generation capable of advancing Chinese modernization.
Summary: The article highlights how Beijing's nearly 100,000 express delivery workers, including 65,000 frontline couriers, are being integrated into grassroots governance, following General Secretary Xi Jinping's emphasis on ideological guidance and cohesive service for new employment groups. Examples include couriers like SF Express's Liu Kuo, who checks curtains of elderly residents living alone under a "curtain agreement," and JD courier Wei Tuanjie, who shielded a fallen elderly man. Xicheng District has incorporated new employment groups into its "City Responders" team, with over 2,000 couriers registering in 2025 and reporting 17,000 leads on issues like damaged manhole covers. Chaoyang District's "dual station chief system" pairs enterprise outlet station chiefs with community Party cadres, leading to amenities like a dedicated cafeteria and over 8,600 free meals delivered to elderly residents. Beijing Municipal People's Congress representative Gao Feng, a post-90s food delivery rider, brought frontline suggestions to the Municipal Two Sessions, and Chen Xinghua of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee's Social Work Department stressed promoting new employment groups from "floating" to "settling in" for mega-city governance.
Summary: In the mountainous old revolutionary base area of Bazhong, Sichuan, 65-year-old Wang Dashun with chronic conditions now receives county-level medical services at the Tuxing Branch of Pingzhou General Hospital, avoiding arduous trips to county or city hospitals. The article cites General Secretary Xi Jinping's emphasis on guiding medical resources downward to the grassroots and establishing a health "gatekeeper" system. Bazhong has advanced compact county-level medical communities, enabling "grassroots examination, county-level diagnosis, and mutual recognition of results" through information sharing, with county hospital personnel also serving at township branches. In 2025, grassroots medical visits accounted for 68.18% of the total in Bazhong, ranking among the top in Sichuan, and the city plans to further promote resolving "general diseases at the city and county level, and daily diseases at the grassroots level" during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The first direct high-speed train from Ruijin to Yan'an, a Fuxing bullet train, departed on September 6, completing the 1,800-kilometer journey in 11 hours and 32 minutes. This marks the realization of direct high-speed rail service between the starting point and destination of the Central Red Army's Long March. The train operates along seven railway lines, including the Ganzhou–Ruijin–Longyan Railway, the Beijing–Hong Kong High-Speed Railway, and the Xi'an–Yan'an High-Speed Railway. The service enables same-day arrival between the two cities, supporting red-study exchanges, cultural and tourism cooperation, and coordinated development of old revolutionary base areas.
Summary: In August, China's logistics industry prosperity index reached 50.9%, up 0.5 percentage points from the previous month, with logistics demand maintaining expansion, according to data from the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing. The indices for total business volume, new orders, and employed personnel have remained in the expansion range for three consecutive months. Regionally, the total business volume indices for the eastern, central, and western regions rose to 50.3%, 50.7%, and 51.3%, respectively, indicating enhanced regional linkage and improved supply chain coordination. In industrial logistics, demand increased for electrical machinery, pharmaceutical, automobile and parts, and electronic component manufacturing, while bulk energy logistics continued its stabilizing trend.
Summary: The article is a theoretical piece on upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, presented as the ninth edition of an in-depth observation series. It also includes a separate section on brain-computer interfaces, exploring the breadth of their prospects. No specific officials, statements, or accompanying figures are reported. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The State Council issued the "15th Five-Year Plan Carbon Peak Action Plan," setting a target of 2.8 billion kilowatts or more of combined wind and solar installed capacity by 2030, requiring approximately 1 billion kilowatts of new capacity during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. Officials and experts explained that this target supports the "dual carbon" goals and addresses complex international energy security and rigid domestic electricity demand growth. Challenges include insufficient reliable output from wind and solar during peak demand, short-duration energy storage, and the need to improve consumption capacity. The plan emphasizes optimizing development layouts, including centralized bases in the "Three Norths" region and distributed projects in central, eastern, and southern regions, while expanding non-electric utilization channels. The article also notes that new energy development is shifting from "competing on scale" to "competing on quality and efficiency."
Summary: The article discusses the challenges and opportunities in China's wind power industry, emphasizing that growth in quantity must be accompanied by improvements in quality. It highlights technological advancements, such as turbines leaping from 2–3 megawatts to over 10 megawatts, and the shift from a focus on generation to grid integration capacity. The author, President of Envision Energy's Wind Turbine and Equipment Product Platform, calls for building reliability, using artificial intelligence for "smart generation," and expanding scenario-based applications like energy storage and green hydrogen. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, technological innovation is urged to break through "involution-style" competition and drive high-quality development. The piece was compiled by People's Daily reporter Wang Yunshan.
Summary: China's Earth-Moon laser communication test mission achieved a breakthrough after over a year of on-orbit testing, establishing a two-way laser link over approximately 400,000 kilometers and marking the entry of China's space laser communication into cislunar space. Yang Lei, a researcher at the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and head of the test research team, said the team overcame challenges in ultra-long-distance precision pointing, weak signal identification, and transmission speed. The test achieved communication rates of 1.25 Mbps on the uplink and 100 Mbps on the downlink, reducing transmission time for a high-definition 8K lunar image from 4-5 minutes via microwave to about 12 seconds. The test was led by the Technology and Engineering Center, with collaboration from the Zhijiang Laboratory, Yunnan Observatories, and Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology. Yang Lei said the "information superhighway" between Earth and the Moon will support China's crewed lunar landing, lunar research station construction, and deep-space exploration.
Summary: The State Administration for Market Regulation announced the second batch of seven cases in its special action to remove bottlenecks and obstacles hindering the unified market and fair competition, focusing on correcting impediments to fair market access and independent enterprise operation across fields such as medicine, energy, funeral services, and internet access. The cases involved illegally set discriminatory market access conditions, exclusive cooperation agreements restricting trading counterparts, and delays in implementing policy adjustments that obstructed market entry. Such conduct violated the Anti-Monopoly Law's provisions against administrative organs abusing power to exclude or restrict competition, and the relevant organs ceased the illegal conduct and revised problematic policy documents after investigation. The special action has been underway since May, and the administration will intensify case handling to break up local protectionism and administrative monopoly.
Summary: The 2026 "National Defense Education Month" activities were launched on September 6 at the Guangdong Lingnan National Defense Education Base, co-hosted by the Central Publicity Department and the National Defense Mobilization Department of the Central Military Commission. Under the theme "Carrying Forward the Great Long March Spirit, Joining Hearts and Hands to Build a Strong National Defense," the month aims to foster a strong societal atmosphere of caring about, loving, building, and defending national defense, guiding cadres and the public to strengthen their awareness and fulfill their obligations. At the ceremony, advanced typical practical cases of national defense education for all the people were released, showcasing new progress and achievements across regions and departments. The activities are held every September nationwide, serving as an important vehicle for strengthening national defense education for all the people.
Summary: The number of national satellite navigation and positioning reference stations has expanded to 7,569, advancing the large-scale application of BeiDou. These stations include 420 national stations, 3,293 provincial stations, and 3,856 collaborative stations, forming a national "single network" for high-precision spatiotemporal services. The Ministry of Natural Resources has coordinated these resources to build a legally authoritative, uniformly standardized, secure and controllable network now in regular operation. A collaborative operation and maintenance management system for BeiDou applications and reference station services has been established. The network provides the public with nationally unified surveying and mapping reference services across sectors like territorial planning, disaster warning, and urban management.
Summary: In Wenling City, Zhejiang Province, residents queued for meals at a community canteen in Fangcheng Community, Taiping Subdistrict. The subdistrict is advancing urban micro-renewal by revitalizing idle spaces into convenience canteens to ease dining for residents. The photo was taken by Hu Xuejun (Image China).
Summary: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Artificial Intelligence Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Entrepreneurship Support Plan (2026–2028)," aiming to cultivate over 10,000 technology-based and innovative SMEs, 2,000 "little giant" enterprises, and numerous gazelle and unicorn enterprises in key areas like industry applications and intelligent computing power. The plan also sets targets to build 10 science and technology enterprise incubators and 10 national public service demonstration platforms for SMEs, alongside 10 national-level characteristic industrial clusters. It deploys 15 key tasks across four aspects, including inclusive computing power support, agile entrepreneurship for "one-person companies" and super individuals, and accelerating "intelligence-native" enterprise cultivation. Additional measures involve supporting the national AI open-source community (AtomGit) and exploring policies on household registration and medical security based on enterprise self-evaluation results.
Summary: The Asia-Pacific Media High-Level Forum, themed "Building a Shared Path to Prosperity for the Asia-Pacific Community: Consensus and Action of the Media," was held in Shenzhen on September 5 as part of the APEC "China Year" activities, hosted by the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Xinhua News Agency, and the People's Government of Guangdong Province. Over 400 representatives from more than 40 countries and regions, as well as United Nations agencies and international organizations, focused on deepening Asia-Pacific media cooperation, with speakers including Dmitry Gornostaev of Russia Today, Prathaviamida of Cambodia, Félix Paz of Peru's Andina News Agency, and Kostas Ikonómou of CNN. The forum launched the preparatory committee for the Asia-Pacific Media Partnership Program, reached the "Shenzhen Consensus," and initiated a media cooperation initiative, while showcasing China's intelligent manufacturing achievements such as AI simultaneous interpretation and augmented reality. Representatives visited Guangdong cities and infrastructure projects, with figures like Tatyana Kokenova of Kazakhstan and Anish Chand of Fiji Times praising China's technological innovation and its potential benefits for their countries. Participants, including Pakistan's Shezra Haral and Thailand's Surachai Lekjasen, expressed willingness to deepen cooperation with China, with Felipe Cuadra Campos of Chile's La Tercera expecting the upcoming APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting to draw global media attention to Shenzhen.
Summary: In talks with Egyptian President Sisi, President Xi Jinping put forward a four-point initiative for building a new security architecture for the Middle East, encompassing common security's endogenous driving force, comprehensive governance, development foundation, and international coordination. The article argues that Middle Eastern countries must grasp the leading role in regional security affairs, while the Palestinian question remains the core issue requiring implementation of the "two-state solution." It emphasizes that security and development are mutually reinforcing, and calls on the international community, especially major countries outside the region, to abandon double standards and support the UN's role. The piece concludes that China stands on the side of peace and dialogue, offering a feasible path to resolve the Middle East security dilemma.
Summary: The article discusses the August 26 mudslide disaster at Gyirong Port in Tibet, triggered by a glacial fracture on the Nepalese side of the China-Nepal border, which caused heavy casualties and destroyed 27 buildings. It characterizes the event as a typical cascading disaster under climate change, noting the cross-border distribution of disaster sources and an extremely short warning window. The piece highlights the global rise in climate-related disasters, citing examples such as India, Pakistan, Canada, and 2026 heatwaves, and cites UN data showing annual direct losses of approximately 202 billion US dollars. It calls for international cooperation in three areas: building cross-border disaster chain monitoring and early warning systems, deepening information sharing and technology accessibility, and balancing mitigation and adaptation under the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities. The author, a researcher at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, concludes that only shared responsibility and cross-border coordination can safeguard a safer future.
Summary: Wang Xiaohong, Member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Minister of Public Security, met separately in Beijing with Vilay Lakhamfong, Member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and Minister of Public Security, and Bobur Tashpulatov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan. With Lakhamfong, Wang expressed China's willingness to implement the consensus of top leaders, deepen cooperation on combating online gambling and telecom fraud, drug control, fugitive repatriation, and border security, and intensify security cooperation on the China-Laos Railway; the two sides signed relevant cooperation documents. With Tashpulatov, Wang stated China's readiness to practice the four major global initiatives, deepen cooperation against the "three evil forces," ensure security for the Belt and Road Initiative, and jointly promote the China-Central Asia meeting mechanism of public security and internal affairs ministers. Both guests expressed willingness to strengthen bilateral law enforcement and security cooperation.
Summary: The German Cup table tennis tournament and Sino-German Economic Forum were jointly hosted in Nuremberg by the Consulate General of China in Frankfurt, the German Table Tennis Bundesliga, and the German Hidden Champions Academy, themed "Sports Create Trust, Trust Promotes Economic Cooperation." Consul General Huang Yiyang stated that holding the forum alongside the tournament aims to leverage sports as a bond to deepen mutual understanding and create cooperation opportunities. German participants, including Timo Boll, Marcel Fratzscher, and Walter Döring, emphasized trust, openness, and opposition to decoupling, with Fratzscher asserting that "China has always been an important partner of ours." The forum reached consensus against decoupling and protectionism, while automotive cooperation, such as Opel's joint venture with Leapmotor, was a key topic. Several speakers stressed the importance of understanding Chinese culture for successful cooperation.
Summary: Diaa Helmy, secretary-general of the Egyptian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, said in an interview that President Xi Jinping's state visit to Egypt after 10 years is of major historic significance, with Egypt-China relations at their best period in history. He noted that the two countries issued a joint statement agreeing to deepen the synergy between the Belt and Road Initiative and Egypt's "Vision 2030," helping Egypt become a regional center for industry, logistics, clean energy, and the digital economy. Helmy emphasized that the Belt and Road Initiative is a platform for economic cooperation and a bridge for dialogue among civilizations, with Egypt leveraging its gateway advantage for Chinese enterprises. He highlighted that over 70 years of diplomatic relations, the two countries have maintained high-level political mutual trust and strategic coordination, with growing cooperation in education, tourism, and culture. Helmy expressed confidence that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, the Egypt-China comprehensive strategic partnership will contribute to building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Summary: Qatar's Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammed, will visit China from September 7 to 8 at the invitation of the Chinese side, as announced by a Foreign Ministry spokesperson on September 6.
Summary: The Chinese Embassy in Thailand held a reception to bid farewell to Thai government officials departing for Beijing Chinese Language and Culture College to study Chinese. The Chinese language study class program is jointly promoted by the Chinese and Thai governments, and since its launch in 2005, over 1,000 Thai public officials have participated.
Summary: China's first aircraft hospital, the "Five-Sense Health C909 Aircraft Hospital," sent its advance medical team to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on September 6 for a three-week public welfare mission. The hospital was jointly developed by the Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University and the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd., based on the domestically produced C909 aircraft with intelligent diagnostic devices. It provides a full-chain mobile medical platform covering screening, diagnosis, treatment, surgery, and rehabilitation. The model exports domestically produced aircraft, medical equipment, and digital technologies as a package, offering Chinese solutions for developing countries' shortages of specialized medical resources.
Summary: At a briefing for Chinese and foreign media, the Emergency Rescue Command for the "August 26" debris flow disaster in Jilong County reported that as of 18:00 on September 5, the disaster had left 43 dead and 519 missing, with 2 rescued and 993 personal effects recovered. The Tibet Autonomous Region has formed 6 special working groups and 7 search and rescue teams, conducting multiple rounds of carpet-style searches with over 2,500 personnel and more than 1,000 drone flights deployed. Identity verification of missing persons was carried out through entry-exit records and communication positioning, with a service hotline opened for domestic family members, receiving 675 calls and accommodating 640 family members. Among the missing, 261 foreign nationals from 23 countries are involved, with a 24-hour hotline answering 509 calls, and 3,388 foreign nationals diverted, including 365 Nepali border residents organized for exit. The Chinese government dispatched experts to Nepal and provided 320 tons of Bailey bridge components, while the State Council Information Office and Ministry of Foreign Affairs organized overseas media reporters from the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, India, Pakistan, Singapore, and Brazil to visit the disaster site.
Summary: The article reports on recovery efforts in Jilong Town twelve days after the August 26 mudslide disaster in Gyirong County, Tibet Autonomous Region, with shops reopening and search and rescue continuing at the Gyirong Port. It highlights the port's historical role in China-Nepal trade and its recent resumption of customs clearance after flood damage, with over 100,000 personnel entries and exits inspected by June 23. Ma Xueliang, a logistics manager relocated to Rikaze City Lizi Port, praised the government's quick response for minimizing losses, while hotel manager Puzhu provided all 83 rooms free to disaster relief workers, and Nepali employee Bismeiduo expressed hope in the Chinese government's reconstruction plans. Shop owner Hu Yuehui offered goods free to rescue personnel, and village party branch secretary Ciwang Luobu oversaw care for villagers' livestock and property to ease their return. The article concludes with officials like Yixi Duoji of China Mobile vowing to maintain communications support, and notes a September 6 press meeting on restoring the Gyirong Port's functions.
Summary: Rescue teams continued search and rescue operations in the core disaster-affected area on September 6, as shown in a photo by Sun Chengzhong (People's Visual).
Summary: A Chinese reporter visiting Jilong Town twelve days after a disaster met Nepalese residents receiving free supplies at a "Service Point for Nepalese Border Residents." Anzheli, a Nepalese sales clerk, praised the rescue workers and said Chinese people are truly united, while a young Nepalese man said "Here we feel very safe." The Chinese government activated its contingency plan for foreign nationals, providing basic living support, emotional comfort, and livelihood support for 1,720 Nepalese border residents. Sawa, a Nepalese shopkeeper of seven years, said the rescue forces arrived quickly and the Chinese government's care is genuine, and an older Nepalese uncle noted locals treat them like family. The reporter concluded that in this border town, help crosses national borders, conveying warmth in times of need.
Summary: The reporter revisits the Jilong Port border gate area, where the previously damaged section of National Highway 216 has been largely repaired with crushed stone, though reinforcement and upgrades continue. Ten days after the mudslide, rescue personnel had to enter on foot or by helicopter, but the road has since reopened progressively, allowing large rescue vehicles to pass. The reporter reflects on the excavator operators, truck drivers, and fire and rescue personnel who fought meter by meter to reopen the road, reconnecting the disaster-isolated area and enabling large-scale search and rescue. The repair personnel stated the road is still being reinforced with future upgrades planned. The reporter concludes that repairing the road carries the conviction of guarding the territory and protecting the border, asserting that wherever the road reaches is where they stand firm in defense.
Summary: The 2026 "Writing Youth's Splendid Chapter on the Motherland" great ideological and political course online-themed publicity and interactive guidance activity was held on September 6 at the University of Science and Technology of China, hosted by the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Education, People's Daily, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and the Cyberspace Affairs Commission of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee. Guests included Zhuang Rongwen, Liang Yanshun, Yu Shaoliang, Hou Jianguo, and Wang Qingxian. The event centered on youth, patriotism, and striving, featuring academicians, role models of the era, entrepreneurs, young pioneers in scientific and technological innovation, and renowned artists, using keynote speeches, situational performances, opera performances, and interactive sharing to inspire youth to write their own splendid chapter of building a strong country. Participants expressed they would bear in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions, strive to become "six-have" college students, and become strivers taking on responsibilities with courage and determination. The activity was organized by the Publicity Department of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, the Cyberspace Affairs Office of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, the University of Science and Technology of China, the Cyberspace Affairs Commission of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee, People's Daily Online, and the China Youth Daily.
Summary: The 2026 China Farmers' Harvest Festival Golden Autumn Consumption Season was launched in Shanghai, jointly initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, China Media Group, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, and the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives. Themed "Harvest Opens a New Chapter, Solid Work Promotes Rural Revitalization," the season will run until the end of November, featuring e-commerce promotion of agricultural products, consumption promotion for "vegetable basket" products in 36 major cities, and matchmaking events for rural cultural tourism upgrades. Local governments and departments across the country will also organize diverse harvest-celebration and consumption-promotion activities. As a brand activity of the China Farmers' Harvest Festival, the season has cumulatively driven agricultural product sales of over 160 billion yuan.
Summary: The article highlights how Beijing's nearly 100,000 express delivery workers, including 65,000 frontline couriers, are being integrated into grassroots governance, following General Secretary Xi Jinping's emphasis on ideological guidance and cohesive service for new employment groups. Examples include couriers like SF Express's Liu Kuo, who checks curtains of elderly residents living alone under a "curtain agreement," and JD courier Wei Tuanjie, who shielded a fallen elderly man. Xicheng District has incorporated new employment groups into its "City Responders" team, with over 2,000 couriers registering in 2025 and reporting 17,000 leads on issues like damaged manhole covers. Chaoyang District's "dual station chief system" pairs enterprise outlet station chiefs with community Party cadres, leading to amenities like a dedicated cafeteria and over 8,600 free meals delivered to elderly residents. Beijing Municipal People's Congress representative Gao Feng, a post-90s food delivery rider, brought frontline suggestions to the Municipal Two Sessions, and Chen Xinghua of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee's Social Work Department stressed promoting new employment groups from "floating" to "settling in" for mega-city governance.
Summary: General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the Xiong'an campus of Beijing No. 4 Middle School on March 23, visiting a Chinese language class where students recited "Ode to the Yellow River" from the nationally compiled textbooks. The article details how the three nationally compiled textbooks for primary and secondary schools have achieved full coverage, with revisions launched in 2022 and completed by fall 2025. It emphasizes Xi's directive that textbooks must be managed from the height of safeguarding national ideological security, and highlights the establishment of a curriculum and textbook system with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its core content. The piece also covers the acceleration of China's original philosophy and social science textbooks, including the "China Series" pilot in over 40 universities, and efforts to align textbook development with education, science and technology, and talent cultivation. The article concludes by describing "textbook study tours" and the broader goal of nurturing a new generation capable of advancing Chinese modernization.
Summary: The Conservation Agriculture Innovation Team for the Northern Agro-Pastoral Ecotone, led by Lu Zhanyuan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was awarded the 2026 China Youth May Fourth Medal as a collective. The team developed conservation tillage methods to address farmland wind erosion, promoting the technology across over 300 million mu in Inner Mongolia and increasing grain production by more than 20 billion jin. Team member Zhao Xiaoqing focused on developing microbial inoculants to improve soil fertility, contributing to a 2023 National Science and Technology Progress Award for soil-nourishing technologies. Liu Jitao worked on upgrading agricultural machinery, developing reduced-tillage and no-tillage seeding equipment with a qualified seeding rate exceeding 95 percent. The team has trained 125 postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students, and master's students, establishing seven national and provincial-level scientific research platforms.
Summary: The article reflects on the importance of "predecessors" in a research team's over 20 years of fieldwork, emphasizing that progress in controlling wind erosion, improving soil fertility, and upgrading equipment is interlinked and cannot be rushed. It argues that scientific inheritance requires institutional safeguards such as the "mentor-guided teaching system" and "primary and secondary posts," where predecessors teach with passion and newcomers show drive. The piece concludes that inheritance demands predecessors boldly delegate opportunities and the younger generation settle down to shoulder responsibilities, ensuring the research journey holds vast and boundless prospects.
Summary: Wu Weihua, Vice Chairperson of the NPC Standing Committee, led an inspection team on the enforcement of the Food Security Guarantee Law in Jilin Province from September 2 to 6. He emphasized the need to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important statements on national food security and the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee. The team conducted on-site inspections in Changchun, Songyuan, Siping, and other places, affirming Jilin Province's achievements in implementing the law. Wu Weihua called for upholding the Party's overall leadership over food security work and strengthening farmland protection, grain production capacity, reserve and circulation management, and loss reduction in accordance with the law. He stressed the need to further consolidate the legal foundation for ensuring national food security.
Summary: The article reports on the digital and intelligent construction of the T2 terminal building at Kunming Changshui International Airport, highlighting the integration of building information modeling technology across design, construction, and maintenance. Zhang Dinghao, project manager of the northern section, described the terminal as a large integrated transportation hub combining aviation, high-speed rail, subway, and expressway for seamless intermodal transfer. Ren Zhiping, deputy general manager of China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Southwest Company, explained that digital modeling enables collision detection and pre-simulation to resolve spatial conflicts, such as between pile foundations and the high-speed rail tunnel. Huang Hao, general manager of Yunnan Airport Construction and Development Co., Ltd., detailed a dual protection system of seismic isolation and vibration control layers, with 2,003 seismic isolation bearings and intelligent sensors to mitigate earthquake and train-induced vibrations. The article also describes 5G intelligent tower cranes operated remotely by workers like Guan Xiaomei, and QR-code-based three-dimensional models that help workers like Long Yetian, chief engineer, execute precise construction.
Summary: The 2026 Taiyuan Energy Low-Carbon Development Forum was held from September 4 to 5 at the Shanxi Xiaohe International Conference Center, co-hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Energy Administration, and the People's Government of Shanxi Province under the theme "Dual Carbon Leading Energy Transition, Innovation Accelerating a Green Future." The forum showcased China's energy transition achievements over the past decade through its opening ceremony, high-level meeting, five international conferences, seven parallel forums, and six thematic events, with domestic and foreign experts discussing transition trends, technology innovation pathways, and regional cooperation opportunities. Marking the tenth year of the forum, Shanxi has upgraded its low-carbon industrial system and developed wind and solar power bases, geothermal heating, hydrogen energy, and the methanol economy, with its energy industry accelerating toward high-end, intelligent, and green development. In 2025, Shanxi's installed capacity of new energy and clean energy reached 90.484 million kilowatts, accounting for 55.1 percent of total installed power capacity, surpassing coal power for the first time, while green electricity trading volume reached 10 billion kilowatt-hours.
Summary: A photo report highlights the 800-year-old craft of making line noodles in Puqian Village, Minhou County, Fuzhou, Fujian Province. The local area has recently developed this distinctive industry to help villagers find nearby employment and boost rural revitalization. The accompanying photo shows villagers drying line noodles on September 6. The image was captured by Wang Wangwang of Image China.
Summary: The 2026 World Power Battery Conference opened in Yibin, Sichuan, hosted by the People's Government of Sichuan Province and co-organized by the Yibin Municipal People's Government, the Department of Economy and Information Technology of Sichuan Province, and the Equipment Industry Development Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The conference aimed to build consensus for industry development, promote industrial clustering, deepen international exchanges and cooperation, and chart new paths for the high-quality development of the power battery industry. At the opening ceremony, annual achievements in power battery innovation were released, including ultra-fast-charging, high-specific-energy hybrid solid-liquid, and long-life battery-swap technologies. An initiative to build a green supply chain for the battery industry was also launched, focusing on policy research, standards and certification, carbon asset management, pilot demonstrations, and international cooperation. The initiative promotes green and low-carbon practices across the entire battery life cycle, from raw material extraction to recycling and regeneration.
Summary: The Ministry of Finance will issue 300 billion yuan in special treasury bonds to support 8 central financial enterprises in replenishing their core Tier 1 capital, with allocations including 130 billion yuan for the Agricultural Bank of China and 70 billion yuan for the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. Four enterprises plan to raise funds by issuing shares to specific targets, while the remaining four will receive direct capital injections from the Ministry of Finance. Luo Zhiheng, chief economist of Yuankai Securities, stated that the capital injection enhances financial institutions' ability to prevent risks, improve lending capacity, and support the transformation of real estate and local government financing platforms. Liu Qing, Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Bank of China, said the bank will use the capital increase to improve services for agriculture, rural areas, and farmers and the real economy. Industry insiders said the issuance consolidates the safety barrier of the financial system and provides solid support for the stable and healthy development of the national economy.
Summary: Li Shufu, Chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, recently resigned as Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of Geely Automobile Holdings Limited, handing over to An Conghui, and discussed in an exclusive interview his views on navigating industry cycles, corporate succession, and global development. He emphasized that the automobile industry is "a marathon without an end," requiring steady influx of young forces into key positions and adherence to safety as the most fundamental concept in design, manufacturing, and service. Li criticized "short, fast, and quick" car manufacturing and called for a fair, transparent competitive environment, insisting that enterprises must not touch the legal red line or cross moral bottom lines. On global expansion, he advocated sharing production capacity, markets, and results with automobile peers worldwide, citing Geely's cooperation with Ford in Spain as an example. He also highlighted Geely's persistence in green methanol technology and its model of building schools to cultivate talent, while urging the industry to address "chokepoint" core technologies and avoid arrogance, seeking a balance between speed and stability.
Summary: In Angsu Town, Otog Front Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, potatoes planted in sandy farmland in the Mu Us Sandy Land have entered the harvest season. Local farmers are stepping up harvesting and outbound transport to meet market demand in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Ningxia, and other places. The photo shows potato harvesting by agricultural machinery on September 5 in the sandy farmland of Bayan Xili Gacha, Angsu Town. Photo by Wang Zheng (Image China).
Summary: The 23rd China-ASEAN Expo will set up its first tax-refund service point for departing travelers, located in the front hall on the first floor of Area B of the Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center. Overseas business visitors who make purchases at designated merchants in Nanning, Guangxi, can handle tax-refund procedures on site, with multilingual consultation and process guidance provided. The venue will also centrally offer comprehensive services such as cross-border finance, commercial legal affairs, exhibit logistics, and on-site guided tours, covering full-process needs for exhibitor enterprises. These measures aim to refine convenience, improve smart services, and enrich supporting offerings for exhibitor enterprises and business visitors.
Summary: The China-Kazakhstan Grain Trading Platform has been officially launched and put into operation, marking a new digital stage in grain trade cooperation between the two countries. The platform was jointly built by the Grain Trading Coordination Center of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration and Kazakhstan's National Grain Trade Corporation. It will provide enterprises of both countries with a standardized, efficient, and convenient new channel for online grain trade.
Summary: The article highlights the evolving role of lubricating materials in supporting major equipment across industries like mining, wind power, and high-speed rail, emphasizing the need for service model upgrades over single-product supply. Liu Weimin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, calls for deepened industry-university-research collaboration to tackle frontier lubricating technologies as equipment operating conditions grow more complex. PetroChina Lubricant Company (Kunlun Lubricants) has developed ultra-high-voltage transformer oils meeting International Electrotechnical Commission standards, applied to projects like the Changji–Guquan ±1100 kV transmission line, and shifted from product transactions to full-chain, butler-style services. Kunlun Lubricants General Manager Tang Zhongping stated the enterprise aims to help partners reduce costs and increase efficiency while promoting energy conservation and carbon reduction across the industrial chain. Cooperation with Harbin Electric Group, using a "one product, one strategy" approach, cut the latter's comprehensive procurement costs for lubricating oil products by over 23 percent, as noted by Deputy General Manager Yao Yuehong.
Summary: According to Kunming Customs statistics, Yunnan's goods trade imports and exports reached 168.19 billion yuan in the first seven months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 9.3 percent, with exports up 9.2 percent and imports up 9.4 percent. Trade with Belt and Road Initiative trading partners grew 9.6 percent to 144.99 billion yuan, while imports and exports with ASEAN hit a historical high for the period, surpassing 90 billion yuan for the first time at 90.18 billion yuan, up 21.3 percent. Trade volumes with Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos increased by 31.1 percent, 43.3 percent, and 28.1 percent, respectively, and imports and exports with Latin America and Africa rose by 15.8 percent and 41 percent.
Summary: The article reports on an investigation by People's Daily Online into an illegal dock operated by Panfeng Renewable Resources Recycling Co., Ltd. in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, which has continued operating for over four years despite repeated law enforcement. The dock lacks port operation licenses, shoreline approval, and completion acceptance procedures, and is located within the Grand Canal's core monitoring zone, yet vessels load untreated construction waste there, with some shipments later intercepted in other jurisdictions. Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Transport officials, including Deputy Captain Fan Yujie of the Port Administration Brigade, stated the company never had port operation qualifications and that fines are capped at 7,000–8,000 yuan per case, far below the company's reported 110 million yuan annual turnover. The article highlights fragmented oversight among transport, urban management, and other departments, with Gusu District Deputy District Head Wang Jin saying the district lacks transport management authority, while the company claims it applied for licenses but was rejected. The Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection Team No. 9 had earlier flagged that illegal loading and unloading along the Grand Canal continues, and the newspaper says it will follow up on the matter.
Summary: A villager from Dabao Village in Nanchuan District, Chongqing, reported that a privately owned second-class ancient ginkgo tree beside their home, once a popular online check-in spot, was excessively topped and pruned this summer. After the family reported the risk of falling branches, the village committee and town government applied to the district forestry bureau for a 15,000 yuan subsidy for safe pruning. However, the hired workers carried out excessive pruning, leaving only the main trunk and severed side branches, severely damaging the tree's original appearance.
Summary: The article compiles two reader complaints. The first, from Liu Su of Dalian, calls for legal crackdowns on self-media bloggers who lure and disturb wildlife for attention, citing staged filming of protected species like sika deer and red foxes. The second, from a reader in Lishu County, Jilin, urges stronger supervision of insurance sales to rural elderly, describing a case where a 67-year-old was misled into buying an endowment product instead of a deposit. The reader proposes mandatory age-friendly review mechanisms and clearer product distinctions at grassroots bank outlets to prevent such disputes.
Summary: Reporters found that in high-standard farmland projects in Beicheng Township, Shangdang District, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, supporting facilities have been "built but not used," with field roads impassable for machinery and irrigation systems idle. Villagers noted the area is a coal mining subsidence zone, questioning why high-standard farmland was sited there despite unstable geology. A Changzhi Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs official admitted past site selection may have been unscientific, citing poor inter-departmental information sharing on coal mine roadways. Despite rectification measures, including new power facilities and agreements with coal enterprises, the irrigation power supply remained idle, and farmers faced high costs for laying pipelines, leading to drought damage and crop failure. Villagers urged authorities to verify project completion, enforce maintenance responsibilities, and optimize irrigation models to reduce costs.
Summary: This article discusses upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party as a strategic policy for Party building in the new era, emphasizing its role in the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy and its incorporation into the Party Constitution. It highlights General Secretary Xi Jinping's formulations, including that "to govern the country, one must first govern the Party, and to govern the Party, one must be rigorous," and that "full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is always on the road." The piece outlines original theoretical contributions, such as reshaping the layout of Party building and improving the system for full and rigorous self-governance, while positioning this as a landmark innovation in Marxist Party building theory. It also presents the approach as an effective solution to governance problems of political parties worldwide, contrasting it with Western party systems. The article concludes by urging perseverance in advancing this policy, with political building as the guide, stronger institutional constraints on power, and adherence to the path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics.
Summary: The article argues that global AI governance must adapt to technological and geopolitical shifts, with President Xi Jinping calling for "working together in complete harmony" to build a fair and equitable global governance system. It highlights China's role in proposing the Global AI Governance Initiative, establishing the World AI Cooperation Organization, and offering training for developing countries. The piece emphasizes consolidating value consensus, strengthening practical cooperation, and empowering common development, particularly for the Global South. It concludes that China, as a first-tier AI power, should promote people-centered principles and a rules system aligned with a community with a shared future for mankind. The author is Deputy Director of the China Internet Network Information Center.
Summary: The article argues that time-honored brands must uphold fundamental principles while breaking new ground to preserve their economic, social, and cultural value, citing General Secretary Xi Jinping's remarks on stimulating their vitality and the 15th Five-Year Plan's call to strengthen them. It notes that the 1,450 China time-honored brand enterprises are generally developing well, with brands surviving on average over 145 years, but faces challenges from outdated styles and lagging marketing. To tap economic value, the piece urges product, marketing, and business format innovation, including digital transformation and the "time-honored brand+" model. Social value should be tapped by upholding craftsmanship and honesty, while cultural value requires integrating intangible cultural heritage and traditional elements into modern design and consumption. The author is a researcher at the Beijing Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
Summary: The article highlights South China Agricultural University's use of Academician Lu Yonggen's exemplary deeds as ideological and political education resources, moving classrooms into fields and mountain villages through platforms like over 100 Yonggen Science and Technology Stations and the "Ten-Thousand-Students Rural Large-Scale Survey Action." It profiles master's student Wang Zhaoyu, who, inspired by Lu Yonggen, shifted from tea research at a station in Huidong to volunteer teaching in Zhijin County, Guizhou, embodying the "theory + practice" education system. The piece details how students temper abilities and deepen love for family and country through grassroots practice, including stationing at science and technology stations and survey teams, with over 3,300 teams and 44,000 person-times going to the grassroots. Party Secretary Li Fengliang is quoted saying SCAU innovated "root-vein education" to guide youth in integrating personal ideals into comprehensive rural revitalization. The narrative concludes that generations of SCAU youth write their youth answer sheets on the motherland's land, continuing the relay of the scientist spirit.
Summary: China has officially launched the International Lunar-Earth Space CubeSat Large Scientific Program, planning to deploy satellite constellations in cislunar space jointly with multiple countries, with an initial plan to complete all satellite launch and deployment around 2030. The program will deploy 30 12U CubeSats in six batches to 1:3 cislunar resonant large elliptical orbits for space environment monitoring and gamma-ray burst detection. It is jointly initiated by the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory and the International Deep Space Exploration Society, with support from the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization, establishing international cooperation principles including "joint design, free payload accommodation, shared funding responsibilities, and scientific data sharing." During the 2026 International Conference on Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu) in Hefei, the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory established joint laboratories with Thailand and Serbia, and Wu Weiren, Director and Chief Scientist of the laboratory, stated that China upholds "equality and mutual benefit, peaceful use, and win-win cooperation" in advancing cooperation with international partners in the "Chang'e" and "Tianwen" mission series.
Summary: The article reports on Chongqing's "Hope Special Line" buses, which provide safer school commutes for rural students. It follows sixth-grader Kuai Bo and his mother Peng Jinfeng, who previously drove over 20 kilometers daily due to safety concerns, but now use the new bus service. The program, piloted in spring 2026 and expanded in the fall, operates nearly 300 lines with over 440 vehicles serving more than 4,500 rural students across the city. Tongliang District has opened 9 new lines, bringing its total to 18 and serving 568 students, with features like escort staff, facial recognition, and Beidou positioning. Chen Song, head of the Tongliang District Transportation Affairs Center, noted the district selected 26 drivers and equipped 128 escort staff and stop supervisors for "door-to-door" pickup and "hand-to-hand" handover.
Summary: The third Orchid Award final evaluation meeting was held in Beijing on September 6, with 23 judges from 10 countries, including China, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Mali, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States, selecting a recommended list of 10 winners. After the evaluation, Chinese and foreign judges exchanged views on "Polishing the Orchid Award Brand, Promoting Mutual Learning Between Civilizations," agreeing that the process was a deep practice of Sino-foreign exchange and mutual learning between civilizations. The Orchid Award, initiated by the China International Communications Group, recognizes foreign individuals or institutions for their contributions to international cultural exchange and is held annually with three award categories. Since its establishment in 2022, it has honored 19 foreign individuals and 1 institution, and in July 2025 it was included in the Action Plan List of the Ministerial Conference on Global Civilizations Dialogue. The award has become an important calling card for Sino-foreign cultural exchange and a platform for implementing the Global Civilization Initiative.
Summary: The 2026 China Cultural and Tourism Industry Expo closed in Tianjin on September 6 after a four-day run, with the theme "Deepening Cultural-Tourism Integration, Wisely Creating a Better Life." The expo featured ten themed exhibition areas covering 100,000 square meters, held 18 professional events, and attracted 2,540 enterprises and 255,000 visitors. Online and offline transaction volume reached 362 million yuan, with over 300 cooperation intentions exceeding 800 million yuan and cultural-tourism projects centrally signed at 11.5 billion yuan. The event highlighted cross-sector resource linkage by creating five consumer markets and a leisure sports carnival, building immersive experience scenarios to promote collaborative coexistence and mutual growth across multiple business formats.
Summary: The article profiles the artifact restoration team at the Sanxingdui Museum, which preserves hundreds of elephant tusks unearthed from the new sacrificial pits in 2021. Restorer Xie Li and her colleagues work in a sealed repository, carefully monitoring the tusks and sending samples for laboratory testing. The team has grown from four or five members in 2010 to over ten today, with an average age of about 36, according to associate researcher Yu Jian. Young restorers like Xie Li, a post-90s specialist in bronze and ceramic restoration, and Chen Yanxi, a post-2000 chemistry graduate who joined in 2025, bring fresh expertise to the work. By August, the team had completed cleaning and conservation of more than 1,000 artifacts, including elephant tusks, bronzes, and jade objects, with several achievements filling domestic gaps in cultural relic conservation.
Summary: The 2026 Grand Canal Folk Song Choral Concert — the "Canal Light" choral showcase, themed "Connecting a Millennium of Cultural Heritage, Singing a New Era's Voice," was held on September 5 at the Silk Road International Arts Center in Langfang City, Hebei Province. Twelve outstanding choral ensembles took the stage performing one after another, offering a unique cultural performance to both online and offline audiences through folk songs and other artistic forms. As an important component of the concert, segments such as the "Voice of the Canal" choral flash mob and the "Canal Heritage" choral conductor training program were carried out from September 5 to 6. The "Songs Come from the Canal" folk song choral works exhibition will continue until September 25, further strengthening the dissemination of canal culture through the linkage of online and offline channels.
Summary: In Jixiangyuan Community, Jinan, Shandong, a workshop led by 70-year-old Ning Bo, head of the "Craftsmanship Builds Dreams" volunteer service station, repairs and makes furniture for residents for free, turning discarded wood into usable items. Ning Bo, joined by old craftsmen like Zhang Ziqiang and Li Xinli, collects waste wood from the community, and residents can trade old lumber for finished goods, creating a miniature resource recycling loop. The workshop, established in 2017 with community support, expanded to open service in 2024, drawing more participants and hosting "stool classes" for children to learn environmental stewardship through hands-on woodworking. The initiative has also fostered neighborly bonds, even mediating a dispute between two households, and Ning Bo remains committed to the work, with a young man recently expressing interest in apprenticing under him.
Summary: The China Natural Science Museum Society announced the second batch of group standards projects for 2026, and the "Guidelines for Graded Protection of Animal Specimens in Museum Exhibition" passed project approval. The Guidelines aim to move protection requirements to the exhibition plan design stage, controlling risks such as human touching and tearing at the source. First-level protected specimens, such as those of nationally protected first-class wild animals, are recommended for closed display with open display prohibited, while second-level specimens may be displayed openly to a limited extent with isolation barriers and anti-touch facilities. The Guidelines will clarify control conditions for open display, including display stand height, visitor distance, and isolation forms, and prohibit open display of easily damaged specimens. They will also specify handling procedures after specimen damage, such as registration, on-site isolation, and restoration assessment.
Summary: The Central Meteorological Observatory forecasts that from September 6 to 9, cold air will bring an obvious process of rainfall and cooling to northern regions, with strong winds in some areas. Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, most of North China, and the western Sichuan Basin will see light to moderate rain, with locally heavy to torrential rain and convective weather. Temperatures in the eastern Northwest, North China, and Northeast China will drop by 4 to 6 degrees Celsius, with local drops of 8 to 10 degrees, accompanied by winds of force 4 to 5. Chief forecaster Chen Tao stated that the surface cold high-pressure system is relatively strong, and as cold air moves eastward and southward from the Lake Baikal region, its convergence with southerly warm and humid air currents is obvious, urging public alertness to meteorological risks such as mountain torrents and geological disasters. From the 8th to the 9th, most northern cities will see obvious cooling, with Beijing cooling by 5 to 7 degrees and Taiyuan by 8 to 10 degrees, while eastern Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang face impacts from strong winds and first frost on mature crops. Southern precipitation will generally weaken over the next three days, but Chen Tao reminded that areas like Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Hunan, previously affected by Typhoon "Saudel," still need vigilance against disasters such as mountain torrents, landslides, and mudslides.
Summary: The article highlights Gongshu District's efforts to improve education quality, focusing on district-wide quality improvement, teacher workforce development, and the integration of five domains of education. It notes achievements such as a group-based schooling coverage rate exceeding 90 percent, the addition of 61 schools during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, and full coverage of AI courses in 98 schools. The district implements a Canal Famous Teacher tiered cultivation system, with 1,755 teachers rated as first- to fifth-star famous teachers and 76 new studios launched. It also emphasizes "Grand Canal ideological and political education," full coverage of "deputy principals for health," and a "comfortable lying-down nap" project. The article concludes by affirming Gongshu's commitment to "common prosperity in education" and its goal of cultivating new generations for the era.
Summary: At the 2026 National "Village Table Tennis" competition, contestant Xu Yuexia from Lingwu City, Ningxia, was coached by her son Yan Bolin, a Southwest Jiaotong University student and table tennis team member who taught her via video calls and in-person correction. Yan Bolin recalled that his own table tennis journey began when Xu Yuexia enrolled him in a club after seeing a community flyer, and she later supported him through a bottleneck period by accompanying him to practice. Xu Yuexia improved enough to spar with a locally known player in the group stage, and both now treat table tennis as a daily part of life. Yan Bolin expressed gratitude to his mother for fostering his hobby, which helped him integrate into campus life, while Xu Yuexia said persevering brings her great satisfaction. Xie Gang, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Lingwu Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, noted that table tennis entering schools and villages has become the norm, with Lingwu hosting national "village-brand" events to encourage more people to exercise.
Summary: At the 2026 National "Village Table Tennis" event, a mother and son from Lingwu, Ningxia, shared a heartwarming sideline interaction, as the son, Bo Lin, who had learned table tennis from his mother over a decade ago, now taught her how to grip the paddle and corrected her movements. The editor's note highlights that the old paddle symbolizes a steady, long-lasting family affection, with the mother's words "Persisting is a very good thing" carrying great weight. For ordinary people, the value of sports lies not in skill or winning, but in making days full of vigor and life full of interest and flavor.
Summary: Feng Bin and Yan Ziyi both claimed gold at the 2026 World Athletics Diamond League Final in Brussels, Belgium. Feng Bin won the women's discus with a throw of 67.46 meters, defeating American athlete Valarie Allman, who finished as runner-up with 66.92 meters. Yan Ziyi, an 18-year-old, won the women's javelin with a throw of 68.42 meters, becoming the fourth Chinese athlete to win the Diamond League overall title. Feng Bin's victory marked the first time she had defeated Allman in four years.
Summary: Zheng Qinwen advanced to the US Open women's singles round of 16 after staging a comeback from losing the first set and trailing 0-5 in the deciding set, saving a match point to defeat American player Keys 1-6, 7-6 (3), 7-5. Zheng said she told herself to play every point well and not give up, noting it was the first time in her career she had come back from a 0-5 deficit. She has achieved a six-match winning streak since the qualifying rounds. In the next round, she will face former tournament champion, Polish player Swiatek.
Summary: The 2026 40th Mount Tai International Climbing Race and the 31st National Fitness Mount Tai Hiking Activity for All were held in Tai'an City, Shandong Province, with 13,000 professional athletes and mountaineering enthusiasts from home and abroad participating. This year's event, for the first time, added a college student group on the basis of the traditional youth group, middle-aged group, and senior group. The race route continues the classic setup of the past 40 years, with finish lines at Zhongtian Gate, Nantian Gate, and Yuhuang Peak for different groups. Kenyan athlete Peter Kiprop Kosgei won the men's championship in the youth group, while Chinese athlete Tang Hongfang won the women's championship in the youth group.
Summary: The article reviews progress in the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone since the September 2021 issuance of its reform and opening-up plan, noting regional GDP nearly doubled from 175.57 billion yuan in 2021 to 331.81 billion yuan in 2025. It highlights Shenzhen-Hong Kong integration, including over 11,000 Hong Kong enterprises, the "1510" model for youth innovation incubation, and rule alignment allowing 27 categories of Hong Kong and Macao professionals to practice upon filing. The piece details modern service industry growth, with services accounting for 80.2% of regional GDP in the first half of 2026, and reforms such as the "dual-recording signature" pilot and the establishment of the "China Center for Promoting APEC Cross-Border Data Flow Cooperation." It reports that in the first half of 2026, import and export scale reached 564.85 billion yuan (up 57.2% year-on-year) and actual foreign capital use hit 25.01 billion yuan (up 102.9%). The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The State Council has promulgated revised Regulations on Emergency Response, Handling and Investigation of Electric Power Safety Accidents, adopted at its 94th executive meeting on August 21, 2026, and signed by Premier Li Qiang, to take effect on January 1, 2027. The regulations define electric power safety accidents, classify them into four grades, and set out provisions on accident reporting, emergency response, investigation and handling, and legal liability. They require electric power enterprises and grid-connected entities to comply with safety administration, submit to unified dispatch, and implement prevention measures, while empowering electric power dispatching institutions to take measures such as load shedding during emergencies. The regulations specify investigation time limits, reporting requirements, and fines for responsible units and personnel, with the energy administrative department of the State Council overseeing implementation. The document includes an appendix with standards for classifying accident grades.
Summary: The 24th China International Equipment Manufacturing Exposition (CIEME) was held in Shenyang from September 1 to 4, themed "Intelligent New Equipment · New Quality Productive Forces," building an international industrial platform for full-chain display and cooperation. The expo showcased Shenyang's industrial transformation from "manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing," with over 1,000 exhibitors and 65 innovation achievements from frontline workers on display. At a central enterprise procurement matchmaking meeting, more than 20 central enterprises reached 38 preliminary cooperation intents with Liaoning-Shenyang enterprises, with intended transaction amounts of 530 million yuan. Zeng Ming, deputy director of the Shenyang Municipal Development and Reform Commission, promoted new energy industry development opportunities and issued a policy "gift package" for the sector. Shenyang is using the expo as a bridge to build a new hub for manufacturing cooperation in Northeast Asia, accelerating the implementation of innovation achievements and achieving two-way connectivity between domestic and international markets.
Summary: The article reports on Shenyang's push to accelerate the intelligent transformation and digital upgrading of its manufacturing industry, a strategic key for the old industrial base to build itself into a national advanced manufacturing base. It highlights three benchmark enterprises—Shengu Group, Neusoft Medical, and SIASUN Robot—which were among 17 rated as Liaoning Province "intelligent transformation and digital upgrading" benchmark enterprises in May. Shengu Group has completed digital upgrades to its main workshops and achieved breakthroughs such as the domestically produced CAP1000 canned motor reactor coolant pump, breaking a foreign monopoly. Neusoft Medical's photon-counting CT, with radiation dose reduced by more than 90%, has been put into clinical application and showcased internationally. SIASUN Robot, holding dual identity as transformation practitioner and technology supplier, has released humanoid robots and led a digital workshop standard cluster, with Shenyang aiming for full coverage of transformation for industrial enterprises above designated size by year's end.
Summary: Shenyang has made intelligent and digital transformation a key lever for realizing new industrialization, establishing municipal- and district-level special work teams and issuing action plans with 14 supporting policies. The city has assessed industrial enterprises above designated size, dividing them into 5 levels and promoting 2,162 enterprises to undergo basic diagnosis with tailored plans. Shenyang implements three major actions of "popularization, upgrading, and excellence cultivation," with coverage of intelligent and digital transformation among industrial enterprises above designated size exceeding 80 percent as of the end of August. In terms of ecosystem support, the city has introduced national-level think tanks, connected with service providers such as Huawei, cultivated local enterprises such as Neusoft Group, and trained nearly 30,000 skilled personnel. By the end of this year, Shenyang will achieve full coverage of intelligent and digital transformation among industrial enterprises above designated size.
Summary: The article reports on Shenyang's efforts to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into manufacturing as part of its new-type industrialization strategy. The city has issued action plans to achieve full coverage of "intelligent transformation and digital transformation" among industrial enterprises above designated size by 2026, with a goal of over 20 AI demonstration scenarios by 2027. Specific enterprises, including Jinbei Shares, General Shenji, and TBEA Shenyang Transformer Group, are leading key tasks in industries such as automobiles, industrial machine tools, and power equipment. Shenyang has built six large-scale computing power centers with total computing power of 2265 PFLOPS, and has been approved as a national-level data annotation base. The article highlights various successful AI applications, including Siasun industrial robots in automobile production lines and a "5G + AI" project at Shenyang Machine Tool that increased transport efficiency by more than three times.
Summary: The article highlights Shenzhen's role in facilitating trade with other Asia-Pacific economies, showcasing customs clearance operations at Shenzhen Bay Port, Dachan Bay Terminal, and Shekou Container Terminal. It features exports of intelligent mini host computers by Chuangtong Xinke, BYD lithium battery energy storage cabinets, and imports of New Zealand apples, with officials like Yin Yunwei noting a shift from "old three items" to "new three items" exports. Customs measures such as advance declaration and "7×24 hour" appointment inspection have reduced clearance times, with Dachan Bay Customs reporting a 31.71% year-on-year increase in export declarations for "new three items" products. Shenzhen's trade with other APEC economies grew from 267.5 billion yuan in 1996 to 3.13 trillion yuan in 2025, an average annual growth of 8.5%. The piece emphasizes regional industrial chain integration and mutually beneficial outcomes under frameworks like the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.
Summary: The article highlights how APEC-facilitated trade liberalization has lowered prices on imported goods like Thai durian and Chilean cherries in China, with Shenzhen port durian imports surging 40.86 percent year-on-year. It cites a Guangzhou citizen noting durian prices dropped from over 20 yuan to around 13.8–17.8 yuan per jin, and details the "Asia-Pacific cooperation chain" behind Chilean cherry shipments, including tariff cuts and faster logistics. At Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, Singaporean businesswoman Lin Meiling used the APEC Business Travel Card lane, clearing immigration in under a minute, with APEC-economy entries up 36.4 percent year-on-year. Shen Minghao, vice president of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, said APEC's regional cooperation results are now woven into everyday life, also noting "shopping in China" is heating up with drones and AI glasses as new tourist purchases.
Summary: The article highlights Jinan University's role in fostering people-to-people exchanges through overseas Chinese education, featuring stories of alumni like Chen Huizhen, a Chinese Indonesian who founded the Common Hope Institute of Languages in Indonesia, and Wang Delong, who established the Jingxue Academy in Malaysia. The university has trained over 30,000 overseas Chinese-language teachers and distributed nearly 300 textbooks globally, leveraging its alumni network of more than 600,000 people across over 170 countries and regions. Hou Xingquan, dean of the College of Chinese Language and Culture, emphasized that Chinese-language education connects people's hearts and that overseas alumni are vivid envoys of Chinese culture going global. The piece underscores Guangdong's deep overseas Chinese affairs resources, with Jinan University as a benchmark for solidifying cultural exchange.
Summary: A Guangdong cultural and tourism delegation recently brought Yingge, lion dance, and modern dance performances to the United States, building a new bridge for cultural and tourism exchanges between China and the United States. Li Junhao, founder and head coach of the Puning Fumei Youth Yingge Team, said the performances resonated with the Chinese community and drew cheers from foreign audience members. The team also traveled to Moscow, Russia, during the Spring Festival for the "Happy Chinese New Year" celebration, the third consecutive year Guangdong brought Yingge overseas. The dance drama "Wing Chun," a key cultural event for the APEC "China Year" in 2026, performed in South Korea, with tickets selling out and audiences driving hours to attend, according to Yang Jun, Party Secretary of the Shenzhen Opera and Dance Theater. The film "A Letter to Grandma" has boosted tourism in Jieyang City, with daily visitor flow to the ancient city exceeding 20,000, and Xiqi Village building a Qiaopi-themed rest stop to attract domestic and overseas tourists.
Summary: Egypt's Ministry of Industry will launch a large industrial city covering 18 million square meters, supporting the "National Industrial Strategy 2026-2030" to raise non-petroleum exports to $100 billion and industry's GDP contribution to 20 percent by 2030. The plan prioritizes seven sectors, including textiles, pharmaceuticals, and new energy vehicles, backed by a 30 billion Egyptian pound support program and the "Industrial Light" photovoltaic initiative for 7,000 factories. Finance Minister Kouchouk reported foreign direct investment inflows exceeded $13 billion in the first nine months of fiscal year 2025/2026, with manufacturing as the core track. Under high-quality China-Egypt Belt and Road cooperation, Xinfeng Steel (Egypt) invested $1.65 billion in the Suez Canal Economic Zone, expected to create about 8,000 local jobs. Experts say the potential of Egypt's manufacturing will be further released as industrial parks and support policies take effect.
Summary: The article reports on the unveiling of Russia's largest monument commemorating victory over militarist Japan in Khabarovsk, attended by Governor Demeshin, with a 15-meter statue of a Soviet soldier and a broken boundary marker bearing a chrysanthemum motif. Ovsienko, deputy chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society, said the Japanese Consulate General's request to remove the chrysanthemum motif was "extremely inappropriate," calling it a symbol of Japanese militarism that committed heinous crimes. The unveiling is tied to Russia's September 3 "Day of Victory over Militarist Japan and End of World War II." Separately, the DR Congo launched a 180-day Ebola response plan in Kinshasa, supported by WHO and Africa CDC, costing 1.3 billion US dollars. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution encouraging the "Equal Earth" map projection over the Mercator projection, with the United States voting against and six other countries abstaining.
Summary: China and Europe are important forces advancing multipolarity, two major markets defending economic globalization, and two great civilizations respecting the diversity of civilizations, with deeply interwoven interests and rich practical cooperation. Five international affairs experts, including Cui Hongjian, Ding Chun, George Katrougalos, Jens Eskelund, and Bernd Einmeier, were invited to address challenges in China-Europe relations and explore paths beyond "decoupling and severing supply chains." Experts noted that some Europe-China economic and trade frictions are being given an increasingly strong geopolitical and security coloring, with politicians in individual European countries conflating them with extreme "decoupling" from China, though consultation and negotiation have proven positive, as seen in the electric vehicle case. They emphasized that a healthy and stable China-Europe relationship is not one without differences, but one that can maintain communication amid differences and cooperation amid competition, with cooperation areas including green transition, digital economy, and global governance. The experts also stressed that Europe should maintain balanced dialogue with China, the United States, India, and Africa, and enhance its "cognitive capacity" toward China.
Summary: The article explains that scientific fiscal management, piloted in 12 provinces in 2025, is a long-term reform of the fiscal governance system, not a temporary response to revenue-expenditure pressure. It highlights how pilot regions like Chongqing, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, and Zhejiang have cut inefficient spending, revitalized idle funds, and tightened performance constraints, with a 1 percent efficiency gain potentially releasing about 300 billion yuan annually. The reform requires coordinated action across all government levels and departments, breaking down barriers to form a national "single chessboard" governance pattern. It also aims to reshape government conduct and political style, embedding fiscal affordability assessments and integrity checks into budget processes. The article concludes that while progress has been made, further deepening of pilots is needed to solidify reforms into long-term mechanisms for high-quality development and Chinese modernization.
Summary: Rongcheng City in Shandong Province has become China's largest RV production and export base within 15 years, starting from a 2011 tent trailer order placed by an Australian merchant. The industry leveraged local shipbuilding and fiberglass boat-hull technology to develop hard-shell RVs, with output now accounting for about 30% of the national total and export value reaching 1.06 billion yuan in the first half of this year. Enterprises like Mingjun Outdoor and Rongcheng Compass have adopted digital manufacturing and robotics through industry-university-research cooperation, compressing delivery cycles to as little as 10 days. Rongcheng Customs has introduced measures such as "appointment inspection" and "advance declaration" to cut clearance time by over 80%. Deputy Mayor Han Peng said the city will extend the industrial chain, support new-energy and intelligent connected RVs, and strengthen the local supporting ecosystem of 7 production enterprises and over 50 parts suppliers.
Summary: The article reviews a book on "investing in people" as a shift in China's development model amid economic transformation and demographic change. It argues that policies placing people at the center of socioeconomic development are a practical requirement of this approach, addressing structural employment contradictions and "involutionary" competition. The book highlights demographic change as a long-term factor requiring both urgency and historical patience, with a focus on family functions and a new demographic dividend. Artificial intelligence is a central theme, viewed as a double-edged sword whose benefits depend on education, training, and institutional choices. The author, Dean of the School of Labor and Human Resources at Renmin University of China, concludes that coordinating human development with technological progress is a powerful driver of socioeconomic development.
Summary: The article discusses President Xi Jinping's keynote speech at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, where he emphasized China's equal emphasis on development and security in AI governance, ensuring the technology is "safe, reliable, and controllable." It highlights AI's rapid progress, with model parameters reaching trillion-level scale and China's generative AI users surpassing 600 million, while noting the need to balance innovation with risk prevention. The piece underscores that AI lacks autonomous consciousness and requires regulatory governance to prevent misuse, citing China's multi-level governance system including laws like the Cybersecurity Law and Data Security Law. It mentions China's proposals for the Global AI Governance Initiative and the World AI Cooperation Organization as steps toward global governance. The article concludes that the "thousand-mile horse" metaphor captures the dialectical relationship between AI development and security, advocating for open, win-win cooperation to guide AI toward benefiting humanity.
Summary: The article examines the development prospects of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) in China, outlining three technical pathways—non-invasive, semi-invasive, and invasive—that are advancing in parallel from laboratory to clinical application. It highlights recent Chinese achievements, including the "Beinao No. 1" semi-invasive device enabling a spinal cord injury patient to walk independently, and the launch of China's first registered clinical trial for a high-throughput invasive BCI system with over one hundred channels. Experts quoted, including Zhao Guoguang, Luo Minmin, Ni Guangjian, and Song Qi, discuss the technology's expansion beyond medical rehabilitation into areas like aerospace, education, and cognitive enhancement, while acknowledging technical bottlenecks and ethical issues. The article emphasizes the need for strengthened technological research, improved standards and policies, accelerated talent cultivation, and deeper basic research to support the industry's growth. It concludes that China's BCI field is entering a golden period of development, with coordinated efforts from government, industry, academia, research, and medicine expected to yield broad application prospects.
Summary: The article is a first-person account by the chief scientist of Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company, describing their work on developing large-size optical fiber preforms. It details how the team chose independent research and development over importing foreign technology, overcoming challenges in material purity, process control, and equipment precision to achieve domestic substitution and internationally leading technical indicators. The project won the second prize of the 2025 National Science and Technology Progress Award in July. The author emphasizes the goal of making optical fiber an independently controllable and performance-leading information channel, supporting the construction of Digital China. The piece concludes with a vision of ensuring every transmission of information reaches households through domestically manufactured optical fiber.
Summary: The article recounts the story of Red Army soldier Ouyang Hongchang through three family letters he sent to his uncle before the Long March, now preserved in the Memorial Hall of the Departure of the Central Red Army's Long March in Yudu, Jiangxi. Ouyang, an orphan raised by his uncle, joined the Red Army at 18 and repeatedly urged his family to support the "expansion of the Red Army" and smash the enemy's fifth "encirclement and suppression" campaign. His letters concealed the brutality of battles like the Battle of Junmenling Defense, reporting only good news to protect his loved ones, while his uncle's reply urging "Struggle to Victory" never reached him. The article highlights the deep bond between the army and the people, citing the Soviet area's massive contributions of grain, silver dollars, straw sandals, and bridge materials before the Red Army's departure. Ouyang's adopted son, Ouyang Kehui, donated the letters to the memorial hall in 2019 to ensure the Red Army's legacy is remembered.
Summary: The author reflects on how morning reading became a habit only after retirement, sparked by overhearing a man reciting Su Shi's verse in Dongpo Wetland Park. Morning reading calms the mind, as early hours offer few distractions, citing Liu Zongyuan's poem on reading at dawn. It also achieves twice the result with half the effort, since the mind is clearest and memory sharpest in the morning, supported by a physician friend's explanation and Qing Dynasty expert Shi Tianji's words. The benefits ultimately manifest in application, as Confucius in the *Analects* stressed learning's practical use in governance and response. In sum, morning reading is a pursuit of life quality, urging readers to cherish the precious morning hours.
Summary: The article is a personal essay about Fuling pickled mustard tuber, describing the traditional "wind dehydration" method of drying mustard stems on racks along the Yangtze River, which the author contrasts with the later "salt dehydration" method that replaced it in the 1980s. The author recounts childhood memories of helping harvest mustard stems and the labor-intensive process of building drying racks, emphasizing the cultural and emotional significance of the traditional flavor. The piece notes that "wind dehydration" has been restored in recent years, now aided by modern drying machines that produce the same taste. The essay concludes with the author's hope that the traditional product will become widely available to ease homesickness.
Summary: The article describes a visit to Chenxi County, Hunan, where the author observes a potter shaping clay into pottery, a craft rooted in the 7,800-year-old Gaomiao tradition. The potter, Master Alan, returned to Chenxi after her husband's death to continue his earthenware craft, and she explains the dragon kiln's firing process, noting that "one color goes into the kiln, ten thousand colors come out." She also points to a wild gravesite as the burial ground of pottery-making forebears, whose tombstones were shaped by their own hands, and expresses joy that the technique is now provincial intangible cultural heritage. The article highlights the enduring appeal of earthenware, as a clay breakfast bowl sells for 198 yuan, with Alan attributing this to people's love for its plain, unpretentious feel. The piece concludes by likening the pottery to dancers, with artisans like Alan as choreographers and lead dancers.
Summary: Fan Di'an's oil painting *Xiamen Port Area Haixiang Wharf* is featured in a photo report.
Summary: The article is a poem titled "What We Wish For," expressing a longing for calm, vitality, and reunion in a small town and village. It envisions stillness in nature, lively marketplaces, returning villagers, and warm children's clamor. The poem hopes for courtyards to witness reunions and for loneliness at the dinner table to be completely swept away. It also wishes for fragmented moments to be reassembled into order and for the crescent moon and evening breeze to carry clear, neat rhythms.
Summary: Old Mrs. Li's ninetieth birthday celebration in a western Jiangxi village drew hundreds of villagers and featured a free feast, a three-day opera performance, face-changing and fire-spitting acts, fireworks, and a drone show spelling out birthday greetings. She declined her children's red envelopes, asking instead to treat neighbors to the festivities as a gesture of gratitude. Born in 1937 and widowed long ago, she is known for her regular routine, frugality, and kind disposition, and her family gathers annually for her birthday. Her children and grandchildren planned the event to honor her, understanding her wish as an expression of affection for her community and land.
By: 本报记者 韩 鑫
Future industries bear on the overall situation of long-term development.
On July 30, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. The meeting stressed: "Actively promote breakthroughs in frontier technologies and the development of future industries, make every effort to build new pillar industries, and continue to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries."
Since the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping, standing at the strategic height of advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, has profoundly grasped the trend of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, emphasizing that "taking scientific and technological innovation as the guide and the real economy as the foundation, adhere to the simultaneous advancement of the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the active development of emerging industries, and the forward-looking layout of future industries, and accelerate the building of a modern industrial system," guiding China's industries to accelerate toward high-quality development.
Strengthen systematic layout, "firmly grasp the initiative in development."
In today's world, scientific and technological innovation is making rapid progress (一日千里, yi ri qian li - "one, day, thousand, mile"), and scientific and technological competition is becoming increasingly fierce. How can China seize the opportunity and win strategic initiative?
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Cultivating and developing future industries is of great significance for us to seize the commanding heights of science, technology, and industry and firmly grasp the initiative in development; for developing new quality productive forces and building a modern industrial system; and for improving the quality of people's lives and promoting the all-round development of people and the overall progress of society."
Beijing E-Town is a "hot land" for emerging industries and future industries. In February this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping came here to inspect and urged that "we must give full play to the advantage of our country's ability to concentrate resources to accomplish major tasks, and bring together all kinds of high-quality factors to tackle key problems."
In March this year, when General Secretary Xi Jinping joined a group discussion at the two sessions, he stressed "opening up a new situation in optimizing and upgrading traditional industries, cultivating and strengthening emerging industries, and making forward-looking arrangements for future industries."
In the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, from precise research during local inspections to scientific deployment at the two sessions' group discussions, on multiple important occasions, a clear signal of "seizing the commanding heights of science, technology, and industry" has been released, highlighting the strategic initiative of "systematic layout and acting only after careful planning" (谋定而动, mou ding er dong - "plan, decide, then, move").
Playing the "first-move chess piece" and fighting the "initiative battle," the "seeds sown for the future" years ago are now bearing abundant fruit—
Steadily holding the energy "rice bowl," installed photovoltaic power generation capacity has historically surpassed coal power; China's production and sales of new energy vehicles have ranked first in the world for 11 consecutive years; frontier achievements such as artificial intelligence large models and humanoid robots continue to emerge, and more and more fields are achieving "running alongside" and even "leading" the world...
Deeply strengthening the foundation and basic elements (固本培元, gu ben pei yuan - "solidify, foundation, cultivate, origin"), "accelerate the building of a modern industrial system."
The modern industrial system is the material and technological foundation of a modern country, bearing on comprehensive national strength and on the national economy and people's livelihood. Having entered the new stage of development, how can we build a modern industrial system that is independent and controllable, safe and reliable, and highly competitive?
In November 2024, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Hubei, he expressed his earnest hope: "Adhere to the advancing side by side in unison (齐头并进, qi tou bing jin - "same, head, together, advance") of the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and the cultivation and strengthening of emerging industries and future industries."
In January this year, when General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over the 24th group study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, he further pointed out: "When traditional industries have a solid foundation, future industries and emerging industries will have staying power in their development."
Outstanding strategic vision has led all localities to persevering with constancy (持之以恒, chi zhi yi heng - "hold, with, continuously, persistent") in their layout and efforts, resulting in the steady consolidation of the "foundation of the nation and the basis of a strong country":
"Promoting the high-end, intelligent, and green development of industries"—traditional industries such as steel and shipbuilding are increasingly radiating new vitality; "aiming at the commanding heights of future science, technology, and industrial development"—the "new three items" continue to lead globally, and artificial intelligence, robotics, and biomedicine are flourishing.
With integrated deployment and coordinated advancement, as the new replaces the old, new drivers are surging forth: in the first half of this year, new drivers represented by high-end manufacturing, the digital economy, and modern services contributed more than 40 percent to economic growth, and China has "become one of the countries with the fastest rising innovation capacity."
Adhere to seeking progress while maintaining stability, "unify needs and possibilities."
Standing at a new starting point, General Secretary Xi Jinping has shown great foresight: "We must strengthen industrial synergy and promote the mutual complementing each other to enhance brilliance (相得益彰, xiang de yi zhang - "mutually, obtain, increase, brilliance") of future industries with emerging industries and traditional industries."
Industrial development is a multi-level and grand whole; "complementing each other to enhance brilliance" requires acting in light of local conditions.
In Beijing, he encouraged "building a world-class source of scientific and technological innovation"; in Shanghai, he looked forward to "striving to be at the forefront in all aspects of artificial intelligence development and governance"; in Guangdong, he required "building a modern industrial system with international competitiveness"... Earnest instructions have been turned into driving force for practical work, with all localities doing their best and each displaying their own unique strengths (各展所长, ge zhan suo chang - "each, display, own, strength"), complementing each other's advantages and enhancing each other's brilliance, and regional development has strong momentum.
Industrial transformation is a process requiring sustained, long-term effort; "complementing each other to enhance brilliance" requires achieving sustained progress with perseverance.
Regarding artificial intelligence, this "young undertaking," General Secretary Xi Jinping has been deeply concerned and meticulously deployed—
Focusing on industry exploration, he made clear that "places with the right conditions can explore artificial intelligence, but it must be done step by step"; anchoring on regulation and governance, he stressed "making this thousand-mile horse of artificial intelligence run both fast and steadily"; facing technological innovation, he proposed that "breakthroughs must be made in basic theories, methods, tools, and other aspects"...
Seeking progress with pragmatism, industrial growth is becoming increasingly robust: in 2025, the core industry scale of artificial intelligence exceeded 1.2 trillion yuan, and "'Intelligent Manufacturing in China' has become another brilliant calling card of Chinese modernization."
With scientific planning, systematic layout, and solid implementation, "future industries and traditional industries and emerging industries are complementing each other to achieve a whole (相辅相成, xiang fu xiang cheng - "mutually, assist, mutually, complete") and promoting each other," and the giant ship of China will continuously "shape new drivers and new advantages for economic development."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 丹 黄 超 丁雅诵
"Ah, friends! The Yellow River, with its heroic spirit, appears on the plains of Asia; it embodies the spirit of our nation: great and steadfast!"
On March 23, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the Xiong'an New Area in Hebei Province, he visited the Xiong'an campus of Beijing No. 4 Middle School. The General Secretary walked into Class 2, Grade 7, where a Chinese language class was in session. The students were reciting in unison the lesson "Ode to the Yellow River" — the river vast and mighty, the children's voices clear and bright.
This lesson comes from the nationally compiled Chinese language textbooks. At present, the three nationally compiled textbooks for primary and secondary schools — Morality and Rule of Law (Ideological and Political), Chinese Language, and History — have achieved full coverage across all school stages. In 2022, in accordance with the new compulsory education curriculum standards, revision of the three nationally compiled textbooks was launched, and they were put into use in the first year of each school stage in the fall semester of 2024, with replacement completed in the fall semester of this year.
General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to and cares deeply about textbook development, and has pointed out with clarity: "Textbooks are the main vehicle for disseminating knowledge, embodying the value system of a country and a nation, and serving as an important tool for teachers' instruction and students' learning" and "They must be managed well from the height of safeguarding national ideological security and cultivating socialist builders and successors."
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the National Textbook Committee has persistently used Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to nurture and educate people, forming a working framework characterized by unified management, sound institutions, scientific content, and clear orientation. The attribute of textbooks as a national affair has been fully demonstrated, playing an important supporting role in building a strong education nation.
Building a curriculum and textbook system with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its core content
The report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China for the first time proposed "strengthening textbook development and management." Firmly grasping the correct political direction and value orientation is the top priority.
Adhere to advancing the development of ideological and political courses in tandem with the theoretical innovation of the Party, and build a curriculum and textbook system with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its core content.
In a fifth-grade classroom at the Primary School Affiliated with Tsinghua University, the teacher, using artificial intelligence technology, generates on the screen images of what each student will look like when they grow up, based on their dreams.
As the screen lights up, the students' cheers come one after another: one student, wearing a figure skating dress and a medal, stands on the podium of a world-class competition; another student, in military uniform, gazes steadfastly into the distance toward the border; and yet another student gives a thumbs-up in front of the mortise-and-tenon cultural park he built himself...
"All great undertakings begin with dreams" is the theme of this lesson, and it is also the first chapter of the Student Reader on Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (hereinafter referred to as the Reader) for upper primary school grades.
"With dreams, with opportunities, with hard work, all beautiful things can be created." In the classroom, the voices of teachers and students are clear and resolute.
Since the fall semester of 2021, the Reader has been put into use in primary and secondary schools across the country. Through their studies, students have continuously deepened their systematic understanding of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and have gradually developed identification with, confidence in, and consciousness of supporting the Party's leadership and the socialist system, and upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics.
An Introduction to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and related textbooks, special lecture notes, and readers have been continuously published; the work of incorporating General Secretary Xi Jinping's major local practices and important expositions into curricula and textbooks has been comprehensively advanced; teaching materials on Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, a resource bank of teaching cases on the great transformations of the new era, and knowledge maps for ideological and political courses in primary and secondary schools have been developed one after another... Today, an educational framework has been established in which Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is comprehensively and organically integrated into textbooks at all levels and types, running through the entire process of teaching practice.
At the same time, through adjustments to selected texts, major themes such as fine traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture, advanced socialist culture, national security, labor education, national defense, and life safety and health have been fully integrated into curricula and textbooks, with their role in value guidance becoming increasingly prominent.
Opening the compulsory education history textbook, one finds Yang Jingyu, Zuo Quan, the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain... Behind the names of these anti-Japanese war heroes lie stories of bravery and tragedy.
"For the lesson on the victory of the War of Resistance, we added a chapter — 'The Communist Party of China Was the mainstay of strength (中流砥柱, zhong liu di zhu - "middle, current, support, pillar") in the War of Resistance.'" Zhang Haipeng, director of the History Textbook Editorial Committee and a member of the Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said, "Through textbooks, we must guide young people to establish a correct view of history."
As the curriculum and textbook system with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its core content is gradually constructed, the ambition, backbone, and confidence of Chinese youth in the new era are quietly growing page by page in their textbooks.
Accelerating the development of China's original philosophy and social science textbooks
Textbooks must keep pace with the times and resonate with the pulse of social development.
How can we systematically summarize the great practices of the Communist Party of China over more than a century since its founding, and since the founding of New China, especially since the new era, and distill and refine iconic concepts and original theories?
"To cultivate useful talents in philosophy and social sciences, we must have good textbooks." "We must build a sound textbook system, forming a philosophy and social science textbook system that meets the requirements of the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics, is grounded in the forefront of international academia, and covers all disciplines." General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions have pointed the way for textbook development.
Since the spring semester of 2025, two textbooks on Socialist Political Economy with Chinese Characteristics, compiled by Renmin University of China and Nankai University under the organization of the Ministry of Education, have been piloted in more than 40 universities. These are the first batch of achievements of the "China Series" original textbooks.
Opening the table of contents, one finds new quality productive forces, the new development philosophy, supply-side structural reform...
One by one, economic concepts rooted in the Chinese discourse system leap off the page.
From the vivid practice of the battle against poverty, to the strategic planning of building the new development pattern, to the visionary blueprint of proposing the Global Development Initiative, every major exploration in the economic field in the new era has driven the development of economic theory and has also brought great space for innovation and challenges to textbook compilation.
Speaking of the compilation process, Liu Wei, chief editor of Socialist Political Economy with Chinese Characteristics and former president of Renmin University of China, said: "First, we must base ourselves on China's actual conditions and select typical facts; then, on the basis of analyzing typical facts, we summarize practical experience and refine academic categories; finally, taking the interpretation of the historical process of Chinese modernization as the foothold, we generalize the laws of economics."
Chinese theory interprets Chinese practice, Chinese practice enriches Chinese theory, and Chinese discourse expounds China's development. Building a knowledge system with originality and subjectivity is the key to promoting the innovative development of textbooks and demonstrating China's distinctive style to the world.
To implement the overall layout of China's original textbook development, the Ministry of Education has established and implemented the key textbook development project for China's original philosophy and social sciences, focusing on the three major series — the "China Series," the "New Era Series," and the "Classics Series" — as well as cultivation projects for original textbook development in philosophy and social sciences in universities in the new era. Together with relevant departments and units, it is accelerating the launch of a series of textbooks and accelerating the construction of China's independent textbook system.
Textbooks must uphold the guiding position of Marxism, reflect the requirements of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism, and reflect the latest achievements in discipline development and academic research.
"The liberation of the proletariat and of humanity is the theme of Marxist philosophy," "People-centered is the fundamental stance for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era," "The destinies of humanity are closely intertwined"...
The book Marxist Philosophy (Second Edition) is meticulously worded and resounding in tone.
Compiled under the organization of the Central Propaganda Department, this textbook is a revised edition of a key textbook under the "Marxism Project." In 2021, it was awarded the "First Prize for National Excellent Textbooks" in the first National Textbook Development Awards, and it has become an important textbook in philosophy and social science classrooms.
Li Jingyuan, chief expert of the revision research group and a member of the Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said, "Compilers must, based on the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, systematically grasp the path of generalizing contemporary Chinese Marxist philosophy, in order to present the new characteristics, new style, and new boldness of Chinese Marxist philosophy in the new era."
"In 2025, the overall layout for the development of China's original philosophy and social science textbooks has been completed, achieving full coverage of all 29 first-level disciplines." A relevant official from the Textbook Bureau of the Ministry of Education said that, following the approach of achieving phased results by 2027 and building China's independent textbook system by 2030, efforts are devoted to driving innovation in the discipline system, academic system, and discourse system through original textbook development, comprehensively improving the overall quality of philosophy and social science textbook development, and giving full play to the educational role of textbooks.
Textbook development must better adapt to the needs of integrated advancement of education, science and technology, and talent development
Education, science and technology, and talent are the foundational and strategic supports of Chinese modernization. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China further clarified the need to "advance the development of education, science and technology, and talent in an integrated manner."
How can top-notch innovative talents who solve "bottleneck" problems be cultivated? Where should one start in forging highly skilled technical talents who lead industrial upgrading? The answers are written in the textbooks.
Compiling textbooks for the "101 Plan" in biological sciences (the pilot plan for undergraduate education and teaching reform) and promptly incorporating the world's cutting-edge scientific advances into the textbooks is a new task for Shi Yigong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of Westlake University, in recent years.
"The inspiration a scientific discovery gives to students is sometimes more important than the content of the discovery itself," he said. "We have repeatedly required that major scientific discoveries be presented vividly in the form of illustrations or stories — whose discovery was it? What was the background? What level had science reached at that time? Descriptions with this kind of historical depth can produce strong resonance."
The academicians mentioned in the textbooks have become the compilers of the textbooks. To compile the textbooks well, Academician Shi Yigong's team assembled an authoritative lineup of experts in the field, mobilizing more than 500 professors active in scientific research and teaching to participate.
This was a textbook compilation effort of large scale and wide scope: more than 50 academicians, 80 renowned scholars and experts from home and abroad, and a number of the country's leading universities and research institutes all joined. An academician who participated in the compilation said: "This set of textbooks represents a relatively high level of academic and teaching quality in the current field of natural sciences."
Deepening the compilation of "101 Plan" textbooks, with a focus on expanding into frontier fields such as integrated circuits; selecting national planning textbooks for undergraduate programs during the 14th Five-Year Plan period; and building a batch of textbooks oriented toward strategic emerging fields, covering new-generation information technology, high-end equipment manufacturing, future industries, and other directions... Textbook after textbook is injecting a steady stream of momentum into higher education.
The cultivation of talent in vocational education originates from industrial demand and relies on classrooms and textbooks. In recent years, China's new energy vehicle industry has developed rapidly, with new technologies and new standards emerging in an endless stream (层出不穷, ceng chu bu qiong - "layer, emerge, not, exhausted"). "How can we align textbook knowledge with enterprise production and cultivate highly skilled talents who understand processes, can operate, and can solve complex problems?" With this question in mind, Yang Yang, deputy dean of the School of Vehicle Engineering at Chongqing Industrial and Technical Vocational University, and his colleagues decided to join forces with the front line of industry to develop the digital textbook New Energy Vehicle Testing Technology.
"This course is a core course for new energy vehicle-related majors, but for a long time, we struggled to find a systematic and suitable textbook," Yang Yang said. "This time, the school and the enterprise jointly developed it. The enterprise provided a large amount of first-hand declassified technical materials, while the teachers went deep into the front line of the enterprise, shadowing positions to unearth real cases, and then, in accordance with the teaching laws of vocational education, transformed and systematically reconstructed these materials."
Writing textbooks rooted in enterprise workshops and laboratories has become a microcosm of vocational education textbook development. In two batches, more than 10,000 national planning textbooks for vocational education during the 14th Five-Year Plan period were selected, covering all 19 major professional categories; adopting a three-party compilation system involving enterprises, schools, and industry associations, 84 digital textbooks for the high-skilled talent cluster cultivation plan have been planned... A new system of modern vocational education textbooks covers all specialties and runs through all school stages.
Nurturing character and strengthening the soul (培根铸魂, pei gen zhu hun - "cultivate, root, cast, soul"), enlightening wisdom and enhancing intelligence. Today, a large number of textbooks benefit more teachers and students: the compilation and review of national curriculum textbooks for compulsory education in schools for the blind, schools for the deaf, and schools for children with intellectual disabilities has been completed, solving the long-standing problem of having no textbooks specifically suited to special education schools; the "Consolidating Foundations and Cultivating Excellence" action plan (2025–2027) for the use of nationally compiled textbooks (including readers) in primary and secondary schools in ethnic regions has been implemented, helping teachers in ethnic and western regions better grasp textbook content and improve classroom quality; artificial intelligence has been promoted as a public basic course in universities, with course textbooks compiled by discipline and specialty...
The "15th Five-Year Plan" for Educational Development proposes improving the curriculum and textbook system. A relevant official from the Textbook Bureau of the Ministry of Education said that the Party's overall leadership over textbook work will be upheld and strengthened, the Outline of the Plan for Building a Strong Education Nation (2024–2035) and the three-year action plan will be implemented, and actions will be carried out including the construction project for a high-quality textbook system with Chinese characteristics, the development of China's original textbooks, the "Consolidating Foundations and Nourishing the Heart" action for ideological and political course textbooks in primary and secondary schools, the national strategic support of curricula and textbooks, and the optimization of textbook governance, so as to provide strong support for advancing the building of a strong education nation.
Learning through both reading and practical experience (读万卷书，行万里路, du wan juan shu, xing wan li lu - "read, ten thousand, volumes, book; walk, ten thousand, li, road"). In recent years, "textbook study tours" have quietly emerged.
Teachers organize students, and parents bring their children, to visit the red venues and places of historical interest mentioned in the textbooks. By the Red Boat on South Lake in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, one can always see visitors holding textbooks and comparing them with historical scenes; students holding their textbooks pose for photos at the check-in points for the lessons "Strange Stones of Huangshan" and "Climbing Tiandu Peak" in the Huangshan Scenic Area...
Experiencing things firsthand through travel and gaining insights through practice, students move from within the textbook to beyond the classroom, drawing nourishment and growing up healthily in the soil of reality.
Today's textbooks connect to tomorrow's hope, cultivating the new generation capable of shouldering the great task of national rejuvenation. Volume after volume of fine textbooks that nurture character and strengthen the soul and enlighten wisdom and enhance intelligence will surely lead more young people into the fiery practice of the new era, converging into a mighty force for advancing Chinese modernization.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 胡 健 王昊男
Not long ago, on Xinjiekou South Street in Beijing, traffic was heavy and continuous (车流如织, che liu ru zhi - "vehicle, flow, like, weave"). An elderly man on a bicycle suddenly fell. In the emergency, JD courier Wei Tuanjie stepped forward swiftly, shielding the elderly man until the ambulance arrived. Wei Tuanjie, 40, has delivered a total of 400,000 packages with zero complaints. In his view, "couriers are also a part of the city."
As a mega-city, Beijing has nearly 100,000 express delivery workers, including 65,000 frontline couriers.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must pay close attention to the development of new forms of employment, adhere to combining online and offline approaches, and do a good job in ideological guidance and cohesive service work for new employment groups."
To thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, Beijing has started with ideological and political work, exploring ways to better integrate new employment groups into the city and empower grassroots governance.
At the grassroots frontline, observing people's conditions—
During delivery, SF Express courier Liu Kuo has a habit: when passing near the homes of elderly people living alone, he always takes an extra look at the curtains. This is the "curtain agreement" he made with the elderly. If one day the curtains are not opened, he goes over and knocks on the door.
On Stone Hutong in Dashilan Street, Xicheng District, there are many old buildings and many elderly people living alone. Liu Kuo and several couriers took the initiative to serve as "mobile sentinels." Relying on this simple glance, they successfully identified three incidents of elderly people in danger over the past year. "Once, Aunt Li's curtains showed no movement, and no one answered the door. We immediately contacted the community and found she had fainted from low blood sugar. We rushed her to the hospital for treatment," Liu Kuo said.
"Organizing couriers to participate in grassroots governance can both enhance their sense of belonging and better leverage their advantages of traveling from street to street (走街串巷, zou jie chuan xiang - "walk, street, cross, lane") and being familiar with social conditions and public sentiment," said Chen Danhong, head of the Social Work Department of the Xicheng District Party Committee. In recent years, Xicheng District has incorporated 10 categories of groups, including new employment groups such as online ride-hailing delivery workers, into the "City Responders" team, carrying out "snap photos, lend a hand, report anytime, spread the word" activities around six major scenarios including safety guardianship and elderly care services.
In 2025, Xicheng District saw more than 2,000 couriers newly register with communities, and a cumulative total of 17,000 leads on issues such as damaged manhole covers and unsafe electric vehicle charging were reported.
"Nowadays, when the uncles in the hutong call me 'Kuo'er,' my heart feels warm." Liu Kuo also took the lead in forming a Party member volunteer service team. "When the group calls for action, everyone rushes to sign up."
Two-way engagement builds synergy—
At noon, beside the East Fourth Ring Road, the concrete ground of the "Dongfeng Express Courtyard" was scorching hot. Shentong Express courier Zhang Dailei was checking a community safety hazard inspection checklist with Bian Ying, Party secretary of the Dongfeng Jiayuan Community in Chaoyang District—the shirts of this pair of "dual station chiefs" were already soaked with sweat.
This "courtyard," covering 16,000 square meters, brings together 18 express delivery brands and more than 300 couriers. In the past, it long faced problems such as difficulty finding a place to rest, difficulty eating meals, and difficulty taking breaks.
The change began with the implementation of the "dual station chief system." Chaoyang District innovated its working mechanism: enterprise outlet station chiefs manage personnel and gather demands, while community Party members and cadres concurrently serve as outlet territorial station chiefs, doing both ideological work and resource coordination. The two sides maintain regular contact, share information, and exert effort in both directions.
Warm-new stations and "postal route" reading corners have been established one after another, and free health checkups and voluntary haircuts have become routine. The most popular feature is a dedicated cafeteria that can seat 50 people. "The prices are affordable—two meat dishes and one vegetable—and we can still get a hot meal when we come back in the evening," said a post-95s courier dining there.
"With peace of mind, everyone pulls in the same direction," Bian Ying said. "The community keeps the couriers' difficulties in mind; the couriers keep the community's affairs in mind."
Zhang Dailei said that over the past two years, couriers at the outlet have delivered more than 8,600 free meals to elderly people living alone.
To date, more than 690 "dual station chiefs" have been selected and dispatched across more than 400 express delivery and food delivery outlets in Chaoyang District, responding cumulatively to more than 800 various demands.
Offering advice and suggestions (建言献策, jian yan xian ce - "build, speech, offer, strategy") to support development—
The Party member badge on his chest was especially conspicuous against his Meituan work uniform. Speaking of his duties, Gao Feng, a Beijing Municipal People's Congress representative and a post-90s food delivery rider, said with emotion: "I speak up for new employment groups and also offer suggestions for urban governance."
As Party branch secretary of Meituan's 707 Riders, Gao Feng maintains a record of 99.8% on-time delivery and a 100% customer satisfaction rate.
Ahead of this year's Beijing Municipal Two Sessions, Gao Feng specifically held a symposium at his Party branch to collect opinions. Supplementing building numbers in old residential communities, adding accessible ramps at pedestrian overpasses, and strengthening housing guarantees for new employment groups... suggestions from the front line were brought to the Municipal Two Sessions and translated into concrete measures, gradually being implemented and taking effect.
The broad new employment groups are becoming an important force in Beijing's grassroots and social governance. In 2025, Beijing promoted more than 2,300 couriers to participate in the construction of friendly scenarios, and more than 4,000 couriers served as mobile "civilization advocates," participating in volunteer services such as building civilized urban districts, serving residents more than 6,000 times.
Chen Xinghua, deputy head of the Social Work Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, said that strengthening ideological and political guidance and consolidating the synergy of service and management will continuously promote new employment groups in practice from "floating" to "settling in," drawing a concentric circle of grassroots social governance in a mega-city.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王永战
In the hinterland of northeastern Sichuan, at the southern foot of Micang Mountain, mountains stretch beyond mountains.
Wang Dashun, 65, lives in Tuxing Town, Pingchang County, Bazhong City. He suffers from multiple chronic diseases and has undergone heart bypass surgery. A few days ago, Wang Dashun felt some discomfort and planned to go to the hospital for another check-up.
In the past, Wang Dashun had to go to hospitals in Pingchang County or Bazhong City for examinations to feel at ease, and the mountain roads inevitably made the trip arduous. Now, he only needs to visit the Tuxing Branch of Pingzhou General Hospital in the town to enjoy county-level medical institution services.
Bazhong is located in the heart of the old revolutionary base area of Sichuan and Shaanxi, surrounded by mountains. In the past, hospitals below the county level were weak, and people in mountainous areas found it difficult to see a doctor.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "Guiding the focus of medical and health work downward and sinking resources to the grassroots, and establishing the health 'gatekeeper' system, is the fundamental solution to meeting the people's needs for medical treatment."
Thoroughly implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, Bazhong has accelerated the promotion of information sharing, resource interconnection, and service sinking, advancing the quality improvement and upgrading of compact county-level medical communities. Wang Dashun's new medical experience benefits precisely from this.
At the hospital, Wang Dashun lay down on the hospital bed. After connecting the electrocardiogram machine, attending physician Wang Yuanyun began the examination while inquiring about his condition.
"You've been taking your medication on time lately, right?" "Yes, on time." ...
The examination was completed, and the data was transmitted through the information platform to Pingchang County People's Hospital. "Having the county hospital's ECG diagnostic center make the diagnosis yields more accurate results, and patients feel more at ease," Wang Yuanyun said.
Pingzhou General Hospital is a compact county-level medical community led by Pingchang County People's Hospital, comprising 20 former township health centers. The information-sharing platform built by the medical community can achieve "grassroots examination, county-level diagnosis, and mutual recognition of results."
Before long, the analysis report was sent back. After reading it, Wang Yuanyun smiled and said, "Everything is normal; you may just be a bit fatigued lately."
"Don't worry, the doctor has been monitoring your blood pressure, and any abnormality will be detected in time." Wang Yuanyun said to Wang Dashun while clicking on the smart chronic disease management system on the computer to check. Now, nearly 2,000 chronic disease patients under monitoring in Tuxing Town can measure their blood pressure and blood sugar at home, and doctors can monitor them remotely.
"After the medical community was established, personnel with intermediate or higher professional titles from the county people's hospital also go to township branches for resident services, both seeing patients on a daily basis and helping with training," said Li Zhiqiang, vice president of Pingzhou General Hospital. "In the second half of this year, another 10 doctors will go to the branches for services."
Tongjiang County, Nanjiang County, Enyang District, and other places in Bazhong City have also integrated resource management and services through different methods, building county-level medical communities with distinctive features to make it more convenient for grassroots people to seek medical treatment. In 2025, grassroots medical visits accounted for 68.18% of the total in Bazhong City, ranking among the top in Sichuan's cities and prefectures. Xu Juhua, deputy director of the Bazhong Municipal Health Commission, introduced, "During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, we will further promote the resolution of 'general diseases at the city and county level, and daily diseases at the grassroots level.'"
"No more traveling long distances over rugged terrain (翻山越岭, fan shan yue ling - "cross, mountain, leap, ridge") to see a doctor; it saves effort and worry." Walking out of the hospital, with the mountain breeze brushing his face, Wang Dashun walked with a brisk step.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 6) (Reporter Li Xinping) At 11:02 on September 6, the first direct high-speed train G3998, a Fuxing bullet train, departed from Ruijin to Yan'an. The train started from Ruijin Station, stopping along the way at Yudu, Ganxian North, Ji'an West, Xiajiang, Fengcheng East, Nanchang West, Gongqingcheng, Lushan, Ruichang West, Fenglin, Wuhan East, Manchuan Pass, Xi'an East, and other stations, arriving at Yan'an Station at 22:34, with a total running time of 11 hours and 32 minutes and a total distance of more than 1,800 kilometers. This marks the realization of direct high-speed rail service from Ruijin, Jiangxi, the departure point of the Central Red Army's Long March, to Yan'an, Shaanxi, its destination.
More than 90 years ago, the Central Red Army set out from the red revolutionary land of Ruijin and, after more than a year, arrived in northern Shaanxi, completing the great expedition from departure to victory. Today, the high-speed train operates along a combination of seven railway lines, passing in sequence through trunk lines such as the Ganzhou–Ruijin–Longyan Railway, the Beijing–Hong Kong High-Speed Railway, and the Xi'an–Yan'an High-Speed Railway. Over the course of more than a thousand kilometers, bridges are built across chasms and gaps (桥梁飞架, qiao liang fei jia - "bridge,梁, fly, build"), and tunnels pierce through mountains, tightly linking the two places together. The operation of this train enables "same-day arrival" by high-speed rail between Ruijin and Yan'an, providing transportation support for red-study exchanges, in-depth cultural and tourism cooperation, and the coordinated development of old revolutionary base areas.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 6) (Reporter Ouyang Jie) Data released by the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing shows that in August, China's logistics industry prosperity index stood at 50.9%, up 0.5 percentage points from the previous month. Logistics demand maintained expansion, and the prosperity index continued to rise within the expansion range. Among them, the three indices for total business volume, new orders, and employed personnel have remained in the expansion range for three consecutive months.
By region, the recovery of the total business volume index was relatively balanced. The total business volume indices for the eastern, central, and western regions were 50.3%, 50.7%, and 51.3%, respectively, up 0.4, 0.6, and 0.5 percentage points month-on-month, reflecting enhanced regional linkage in logistics activities of the real economy and improved coordination between upstream and downstream supply chains.
In industrial logistics, logistics demand increased for electrical machinery manufacturing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, automobile and parts manufacturing, and electronic component manufacturing, while bulk energy logistics continued the stabilizing trend seen in recent months.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王云杉
Not long ago, the State Council issued the "15th Five-Year Plan Carbon Peak Action Plan," specifying that "by 2030, the total installed capacity of wind power and solar power generation will reach 2.8 billion kilowatts or more."
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China built the world's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system, and new energy achieved a high-quality leap-forward development. As of the end of 2025, China's cumulative grid-connected installed capacity of wind power and solar power generation reached 1.84 billion kilowatts. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the planned new installed capacity for wind and solar is approximately 1 billion kilowatts, with an annual target of approximately 200 million kilowatts of new grid-connected installed capacity. Why was this target set? How will the target be achieved? Reporters conducted interviews.
New circumstances determine new tasks
Simultaneous growth in both quantity and quality (量质齐升, liang zhi qi sheng - "quantity, quality, together, rise"), advancing the "dual carbon" goals
How should the development target of 2.8 billion kilowatts or more of installed capacity be understood?
Looking toward the future, achieving the "dual carbon" goals requires the support of "quantity."
China has specified that by 2030, the share of non-fossil energy consumption will reach 25 percent, and by 2035, it will reach more than 30 percent, striving for the total installed capacity of wind power and solar power generation to reach 3.6 billion kilowatts by 2035. To achieve the strategic "dual carbon" goals, energy is the main battlefield, and new energy such as wind and solar is the main force.
"'The 15th Five-Year Plan period is a critical period for achieving the nationally determined contribution goals,' said Su Xinyi, deputy director of the Clean Energy Research Institute of the General Electric Power Planning and Design Institute. New circumstances and requirements determine that the large-scale, high-quality development of new energy is an important task for the energy industry during the 15th Five-Year Plan period."
On the one hand, the recent international energy security situation has become more complex and severe. Since the beginning of this year, geopolitical conflicts have continued to disrupt the global oil and gas supply chain, uncertainty in the security of energy corridors has risen significantly, and countries have accelerated the process of replacing fossil energy with renewable energy.
On the other hand, China's electricity demand will continue to maintain rigid growth. New drivers of electricity consumption growth, represented by high-tech and equipment manufacturing, computing power facilities, and charging and battery-swapping services, are developing rapidly, and residential electricity consumption will also grow along with the improvement of household electrification levels.
A relevant official of the National Energy Administration stated that it is necessary to comprehensively consider the needs of energy security supply and green low-carbon transformation, maintain a reasonable development scale and pace, and through steady growth in quantity, continuously raise the share of renewable energy supply, laying a solid foundation for the low-carbon transformation to achieve the carbon peak target on schedule.
Looking at the present, completing this development target requires an improvement in "quality."
Since the beginning of the 14th Five-Year Plan, the development speed of new energy represented by wind and solar in China has been unprecedented (前所未有, qian suo wei you - "before, what, not, have"), with cumulative installed capacity reaching 3.4 times the level at the end of 2020.
"With the rapid growth of new energy installed capacity and power generation, problems such as consumption pressure and market returns are becoming increasingly prominent, and the industry is shifting from 'competing on scale' to 'competing on quality and efficiency,'" said Su Xinyi. The target of adding approximately 1 billion kilowatts of wind and solar installed capacity not only leaves room for expectations for industry development but also helps improve the market competitiveness and development benefits of new energy.
Support capacity still has shortcomings
Stand up, be reliable, and gradually achieve safe and reliable substitution of traditional energy
At the 500,000-kilowatt solar-storage integration demonstration base in Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, 16 energy storage technologies are competing on equal footing (同台竞技, tong tai jing ji - "same, stage, compete, contest"). Semi-solid-state batteries, sodium-ion batteries, solid-state batteries, and other different types of energy storage equipment are arranged in rows beside the photovoltaic arrays for comparative testing.
"Unlike ordinary photovoltaic power stations, this place is more like a comprehensive laboratory for energy storage technology, laying the foundation for the large-scale promotion and iteration of subsequent energy storage technologies in high-altitude areas," said Zhang Hao, station manager assistant of the Hengyuan Project Department of the Hainan Branch of SPIC Yellow River Company.
Why test so many energy storage technologies in one base? Behind this lies the gap between the share of new energy installed capacity and support capacity.
Zhang Lin, director of the Planning and Development Department of the China Electricity Council, said that new energy power generation dominated by wind and solar has intermittency, randomness, and volatility, and has not yet formed an effective power substitution for traditional power sources. There is an urgent need to enhance the reliable output, active support, and coordinated regulation capabilities of new energy to support the realization of larger-scale development.
On the power source side, the ability of new energy to provide effective power output during peak moments is still insufficient. For example, during the evening peak of electricity consumption from 18:00 to 22:00, there is no sunlight, and photovoltaic power basically does not generate electricity; wind power also has insufficient guaranteed output capacity during the summer load peak period.
On the energy storage side, the current storage duration of new-type energy storage, especially electrochemical energy storage, is relatively short and difficult to cover the evening peak gap. According to statistics from the China Electricity Council, as of the end of 2025, the average storage duration of electrochemical energy storage was 2.53 hours, and electrochemical energy storage with a duration of less than 2 hours accounted for as much as 70 percent of installed capacity, making it difficult to support the actual need of 4 to 6 hours during the evening peak.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, how can new energy better serve the safe, reliable, economical, and efficient operation of the power system while achieving larger-scale and higher-proportion development? Zhang Lin said that on the incremental side, it is necessary to accelerate the construction of system-friendly new energy power stations; on the existing stock side, it is necessary to combine the upgrading and renovation of old wind and solar power stations, encourage the steady and orderly improvement of grid-connected performance through renovation and capacity expansion, reasonable energy storage configuration, and other means; on the technology side, it is necessary to increase the research, development, and application of advanced technology and equipment and raise the share of long-duration energy storage.
A relevant official of the National Energy Administration stated that it is necessary to adhere to establishing the new before abolishing the old, and to promote both simultaneously, further promoting renewable energy to "stand up" and "be reliable," gradually achieving safe and reliable substitution of traditional energy.
Consumption capacity still needs to be improved
Optimize development layout in light of local conditions, accelerate the development of non-electric utilization
At the Huaneng Kubuqi "desert, Gobi, and barren land" large base, rows upon rows of solar panel arrays spread across the yellow sand, like a shining "blue sea."
How large is this "sea"? "Driving from the south side to the north side takes half an hour. This is only about one-eighth of the total planned installed capacity," said Hao Wenyi, general manager of Huaneng Kubuqi Power Generation Co., Ltd. The project's total planned installed capacity is 15.14 million kilowatts, and it is expected to be completed and put into operation by 2030.
The construction of "desert, Gobi, and barren land" large bases is one of the necessary supports for realizing the large-scale development of wind and solar in the future. A relevant official of the National Energy Administration stated that it will, based on the resource endowments, load distribution, grid conditions, and industrial foundations of different regions, adhere to the simultaneous development of centralized and distributed approaches, and make efforts to optimize the development layout of renewable energy power.
How exactly will the layout be arranged?
On the centralized development side, the "Three Norths" region, as the main battlefield for China's new energy development, will focus on deepening the construction of new energy bases around the "desert, Gobi, and barren land." During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the planned new installed capacity of wind and photovoltaic bases in the "Three Norths" region will be more than 370 million kilowatts.
On the distributed development side, focusing on the central, eastern, and southern regions and other areas, and targeting four key fields of industry and commerce, transportation, construction, and agriculture, it will promote multi-scenario, diversified development and intensive composite utilization of space for distributed new energy. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the planned new installed capacity of distributed new energy nationwide will be more than 300 million kilowatts.
How will consumption be handled?
"By 2030, the share of new energy power generation installed capacity will exceed 50 percent, and it cannot rely solely on the grid as the only channel for consumption," said Li Shaoyan, chief engineer of the New Energy Research Institute of the General Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Planning and Design. When grid consumption is tight, through wind and solar hydrogen production, heating and heat supply, and other means, it can not only reduce the pressure on grid regulation but also provide new scenarios and new tracks for the non-electric utilization of wind and solar.
At present, the non-electric utilization of renewable energy accounts for only about 1 percent of China's energy consumption. Compared with the deep decarbonization needs of fuels, raw materials, and heat in key industries such as industry, transportation, and construction, there is still considerable room for growth. Non-electric utilization is an important breakthrough for renewable energy consumption.
A relevant official of the National Energy Administration stated that while fully leveraging the grid's consumption capacity, it will actively expand the channels for non-electric utilization of renewable energy and enhance the capacity for diversified local conversion and utilization of renewable energy and its development autonomy.
This issue coordinated by: Guo Xueyan
Return to TopBy: 娄益民
Behind "more than 2.8 billion kilowatts" lies a vast market space, and even more so a heavy and serious responsibility (沉甸甸, chen diandian - "heavy, heavy") — the growth in quantity must advance in tandem with the improvement in quality.
At present, China's wind power has entered the "uncharted territory" of technology and supply chains. Five years ago, mainstream onshore wind turbines were only 2–3 megawatts; today they have leapt to over 10 megawatts. Rotor diameters have grown from 110 meters to 230 meters, and mainstream blade lengths have surpassed 100 meters, bringing new tests to technology and quality. Beyond manufacturing, the operational logic is also changing. As new energy enters the market comprehensively, the stage of "generate one more kilowatt-hour, earn one more cent" has come to an end. How to obtain stable returns against the backdrop of dual uncertainty in trading prices and electricity volumes is a common challenge for the industry. Looking further at grid integration, the reverse distribution pattern of China's wind power has shifted wind power development from "whether it can be generated" to "whether it can be integrated," with integration capacity becoming the key determinant of project returns.
These issues are both new challenges and new starting points. We must build the bottom line with "high reliability," embedding quality management throughout the entire life cycle of turbine design, manufacturing, testing, and operation and maintenance. We must create returns with "smart generation," using artificial intelligence technology to convert unpredictable wind and electricity into predictable, dispatchable, and tradable deterministic assets, driving wind power operations toward "proactive prediction." We must expand space with "scenario-based" approaches. In recent years, Envision has advanced the construction of multiple projects, deeply coupling and integrating wind power with emerging industries such as energy storage, green hydrogen, and computing power.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, we must use technological innovation to break through "involution-style" competition, create more value, and drive the industry toward high-quality development.
(The author is President of Envision Energy's Wind Turbine and Equipment Product Platform; compiled by People's Daily reporter Wang Yunshan)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴月辉
After more than a year of on-orbit testing, China's Earth-Moon laser communication test mission recently achieved an important breakthrough. The research team successfully established a two-way laser link over a distance of approximately 400,000 kilometers between Earth and the Moon, achieving two-way high-speed laser communication between Earth and the Moon for the first time. This marks the official entry of China's space laser communication from near-Earth orbit into cislunar space.
Space laser communication is a communication method that uses lasers to transmit information. Compared with traditional microwave communication, it has multiple advantages: large bandwidth, high speed, precise direction, and good confidentiality. At the same time, the equipment is small in size and light in weight; it can achieve two-way high-speed transmission with flexible sending and receiving. However, the greater the distance, the greater the technical challenges.
"Deep-space transmission distances often reach hundreds of thousands of kilometers, placing stringent requirements on beam pointing accuracy; after laser signals are transmitted over long distances to the ground, attenuation is extremely severe, and the signals are so weak that they are difficult to capture; high-speed transmission technology is limited, and transmission speeds have also been unable to increase." Yang Lei, a researcher at the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and head of the laser communication test research team, introduced.
Ultra-long-distance precision pointing was the primary challenge overcome in this test. Communication between Earth and the Moon is like "threading a needle across ten thousand li": it is equivalent to precisely passing an extremely thin beam of light through a high-speed-moving "needle eye" approximately 400,000 kilometers away. Even an extremely tiny angular deviation at the transmitting end would produce a positional error of several kilometers by the time the beam reaches the target. To this end, the research team innovatively proposed a two-way acquisition and tracking scheme suitable for ultra-long-distance, extremely weak signal conditions. Through calculation and systematic calibration of multiple factors such as satellite orbits, telescope installation and deformation errors, atmospheric refraction, and laser flight time, the satellite in the sky and the telescope on the ground remain aligned at all times during motion, ensuring that the laser can accurately illuminate the predetermined position.
After overcoming the pointing challenge, the challenge of identifying extremely weak signals came occurring one after another (接踵而至, jie feng er zhi - "follow, arrive, and come"). By the time the laser crosses approximately 400,000 kilometers and reaches the ground, the signal has attenuated to only a few remaining photons, and the ground telescope can receive very little signal. At the same time, moonlight, starlight, city lights, and other signals also mix in, interfering with the laser signal and making the discrimination of the effective signal becoming increasingly difficult (难上加难, nan shang jia nan - "difficulty, on, increase, difficulty"), just like accurately hearing the sound of a needle falling in a noisy, bustling market thousands of miles away.
To address this challenge, the research team used an "ultra-sensitive detector" capable of detecting single photons and developed a complex signal recognition algorithm to precisely filter through massive noise, extract effective signals, and successfully break through the bottleneck.
Transmission speed also had to keep up. On the basis of achieving stable signal reception, the team continued to tackle difficulties and greatly improved data processing efficiency. This test initially achieved communication rates of 1.25 Mbps (megabits per second) on the uplink and 100 Mbps on the downlink. Yang Lei said: "Taking a high-definition 8K image of the lunar surface as an example, transmitting it down via a traditional 5 Mbps microwave link takes 4 to 5 minutes; after switching to 100 Mbps laser communication, it takes only about 12 seconds."
This test was led by the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with joint collaborative efforts from multiple institutions including the Zhijiang Laboratory, the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
"The 'information superhighway' between Earth and the Moon has been opened, and in the future we will obtain more scientific data of greater original value." Yang Lei said that the lightweight, small-size, low-power, high-rate information transmission capabilities formed by the related technologies will also provide new means of high-speed information transmission for China's crewed lunar landing, lunar research station construction, and deep-space exploration, supporting China's space science and applications in achieving more and better original scientific results.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 6) (Reporter Lin Lili) The State Administration for Market Regulation recently announced the second batch of seven cases in the special action to remove bottlenecks and obstacles hindering the unified market and fair competition, focusing on correcting bottlenecks and obstacles that impede fair market access and independent operation for enterprises, involving multiple fields including medicine and health, energy, funeral services, garbage removal and transport, and internet access services.
Discriminatory market access conditions were illegally set, erecting regional barriers. Some administrative organs, in processes such as tendering and procurement and selection, set local registration or establishment of local branches as preconditions, creating hidden thresholds that restrict operators from other regions from participating in relevant local business activities; some distorted national policies and regulations, arbitrarily formulating product encouragement and application catalogs that favor specific local operators, excluding operators from other regions from participating in relevant local market competition and squeezing out the original market share of operators from other regions.
Restricting trading counterparts or signing exclusive cooperation agreements with operators, resulting in exclusive operations by specific operators. Some administrative organs, by formulating policy documents, restricted enterprises to cooperating only with specific local operators, forcing them to purchase and use their products and services; some, by signing agreements containing exclusive clauses with operators, agreed not to approve new competitors to enter the market, solidifying the market structure and excluding and restricting market competition.
Failing to implement policy adjustment requirements, delaying approvals and obstructing market entry. A small number of administrative organs, after adjustments to higher-level policies, still delayed under various pretexts, rejecting applications for market access from new business entities, hindering enterprises from entering the market on an equal footing.
The above conduct violated the provisions of the Anti-Monopoly Law of the People's Republic of China that administrative organs shall not abuse administrative power to exclude or restrict competition, disrupted the order of fair competition in the market, increased institutional transaction costs for enterprises, and affected the sense of gain of business entities. After investigation by market regulation departments in accordance with the law, the relevant administrative organs immediately ceased the illegal conduct, abolished and revised the problematic policy documents, proactively rectified the issues, and restored the order of fair competition in the relevant markets.
The special action has been organized and carried out since May this year. In the next step, focusing on the pain points and bottlenecks strongly reflected by enterprises and the public, the State Administration for Market Regulation will intensify efforts in investigating and handling cases, resolutely break up local protectionism and administrative monopoly, safeguard the unified market and fair competition, and create a fairer competitive environment and broader market space for all types of business entities to invest and do business.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Guangzhou, September 6) The launching ceremony of the 2026 "National Defense Education Month" activities, jointly hosted by the Central Publicity Department and the National Defense Mobilization Department of the Central Military Commission, was held on September 6 at the Guangdong Lingnan National Defense Education Base.
This "National Defense Education Month" activities, under the theme of "Carrying Forward the Great Long March Spirit, Joining Hearts and Hands to Build a Strong National Defense," through carrying out various forms of mass national defense education activities, fosters a strong atmosphere across society of caring about national defense, loving national defense, building national defense, and defending national defense, and better guides the broad masses of cadres and the people to strengthen their awareness of national defense and fulfill their national defense obligations. At the launching ceremony, advanced typical practical cases of national defense education for all the people were also released, showcasing the new progress and new achievements in the work of various regions and departments.
It is understood that the "National Defense Education Month" activities are carried out every September, with localities across the country organizing rich and varied (丰富多彩, feng fu duo cai - "abundant, many, multiple, colorful") activities in a concentrated manner, and it has become an important vehicle for strengthening national defense education for all the people.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency dispatch) (Reporter Wang Libin) The number of national satellite navigation and positioning reference stations has expanded to 7,569, powerfully advancing the large-scale application of BeiDou.
The reporter learned at a recent work conference on the authorized operation of data services from the national satellite navigation and positioning reference station network that these reference stations include 420 national stations, 3,293 provincial stations, and 3,856 collaborative stations, which together form a national "single network" for satellite navigation and positioning, providing high-precision spatiotemporal service support for territorial spatial planning, ecological protection and restoration, forest and grassland monitoring, natural disaster early warning, energy and communications, engineering construction, and urban management.
Satellite navigation and positioning reference stations are important national spatiotemporal information infrastructure and the ground support for the BeiDou system to achieve high-precision services. The Ministry of Natural Resources has coordinated and integrated national reference station resources, built a legally authoritative, uniformly standardized, precise and reliable, secure and controllable "single network" of reference stations and put it into regular operation, established a collaborative operation and maintenance management system for BeiDou applications and reference station services, and provides the public with nationally unified surveying and mapping reference services.
Return to TopRecently, in Fangcheng Community, Taiping Subdistrict, Wenling City, Zhejiang Province, residents queued up to get their meals at the community canteen. Taiping Subdistrict is advancing urban micro-renewal, revitalizing idle spaces and converting them into convenience canteens to make dining easier for residents.
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Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency dispatch) (Reporter Zhou Yuan) The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently issued the "Artificial Intelligence Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Entrepreneurship Support Plan (2026–2028)." The support plan proposes that over three years, in key areas such as industry applications, data services, and intelligent computing power, it will cultivate and form a large number of AI entrepreneurial enterprises with strong innovation vitality and great growth potential, newly cultivate more than 10,000 technology-based and innovative small and medium-sized enterprises, break through 2,000 "little giant" enterprises that are specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative, and bring forth a number of gazelle enterprises and unicorn enterprises.
The support plan also specifies that, focusing on the field of artificial intelligence, it will build to high standards 10 science and technology enterprise incubators and 10 national public service demonstration platforms (bases) for small and medium-sized enterprises, newly cultivate 10 national-level characteristic industrial clusters of small and medium-sized enterprises, so that the entrepreneurial and innovation vitality of AI small and medium-sized enterprises continues to burst forth, and a pattern in which artificial intelligence empowers the high-quality development of small and medium-sized enterprises is initially formed.
Centering on the actual needs of entrepreneurial enterprises in the field of artificial intelligence, the support plan deploys 15 key tasks in 4 aspects. The main measures include: deeply implementing the special action of inclusive computing power empowering the development of small and medium-sized enterprises; encouraging all localities to give inclusive support to micro entities such as "one-person companies" and super individuals that carry out agile entrepreneurship relying on intelligent tools; accelerating the cultivation of "intelligence-native" enterprises; supporting the development and growth of the national AI open-source community (AtomGit); and exploring the implementation of supporting policies such as household registration and settlement and medical security based on the results of enterprises' self-evaluation, among others.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈尚文 贺林平 褚 君
On September 5, the Asia-Pacific Media High-Level Forum, themed "Building a Shared Path to Prosperity for the Asia-Pacific Community: Consensus and Action of the Media," was held in Shenzhen, Guangdong. As an important part of the series of activities for the "China Year" of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), the forum was hosted by the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Xinhua News Agency, and the People's Government of Guangdong Province, and organized by the People's Government of Shenzhen. More than 400 representatives from over 40 countries and regions, as well as United Nations agencies and international organizations, focused on deepening Asia-Pacific media cooperation, building consensus on development through dialogue, expanding the reach of communication through collaboration, and contributing media strength to promoting Asia-Pacific growth and prosperity.
From Consensus to Action
The APEC "China Year" proposed three priority areas of "openness, innovation, and cooperation," outlining the path forward for Asia-Pacific cooperation and resonating widely among the guests attending the forum.
Currently, global economic growth faces multiple challenges. "Against this backdrop, the role of the Asia-Pacific as an engine of growth has become even more prominent, and deepening cooperation through the APEC mechanism is crucial to regional development." Dmitry Gornostaev, Deputy Director General of the Russia Today Media Group, said that the priority areas identified by China meet the needs of all parties, and this is precisely the mission of media professionals.
"Openness is the necessary path to enhancing mutual understanding between different societies." Prathaviamida, Under-Secretary of State of the Ministry of Information of Cambodia, said that the media bears the important responsibility of promoting constructive dialogue, publishing accurate information, and bringing people closer together. A diverse and responsible media environment will make an important contribution to regional peace, stability, and development.
"Artificial intelligence and digital platforms are profoundly changing the information ecosystem and the way news is consumed." Félix Paz, Director of the Andina News Agency of Peru, believes that technological innovation has greatly enhanced the capacity for information dissemination, and the key lies in how to steadily advance digital transformation while upholding journalistic responsibility. He suggested that Asia-Pacific media actively share experiences in digital transformation, promote professional exchanges, and explore responsible applications of artificial intelligence.
"The Asia-Pacific region surges with vigorous economic vitality, swells with waves of technological innovation, blooms with brilliant and diverse cultures, and connects countries and regions with different historical threads, perspectives, and media traditions." Kostas Ikonómou, Senior Vice President of CNN, said that diversity should not be seen as an obstacle, but rather transformed into a source of strength. This requires Asia-Pacific media to continuously deepen cooperation through stronger industry networks, more sufficient exchange of knowledge and experience, and collaborative approaches that transcend national borders and regions.
At the forum, 16 Chinese and foreign media organizations initiated the establishment of the preparatory committee for the Asia-Pacific Media Partnership Program; participating representatives reached the "Shenzhen Consensus of the Asia-Pacific Media High-Level Forum" on open cooperation, digital, intelligent, and green transformation, and media exchanges; and the media cooperation initiative "Answering Shenzhen's Call, Creating a Better Asia-Pacific Together" was officially launched, focusing on technology sharing, content co-creation, and talent cultivation... One practical achievement after another has built bridges and accumulated momentum for Asia-Pacific media cooperation.
"We bring together the voices of the Asia-Pacific to discuss growth and prosperity and jointly seek solutions to the world's most pressing problems," said Melissa Fleming, UN Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications.
"The Asia-Pacific Media High-Level Forum allows all parties to think together about how to contribute to building an open, vibrant, resilient, and peaceful Asia-Pacific community." Kevakamo Pitakmongkol, Executive Director of the Secretariat of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, said that meaningful dialogue helps all parties listen to diverse voices and gather broader perspectives, thereby reducing misunderstandings, seeking common interests, enhancing the mutual trust needed for cooperation, and meeting challenges together with a longer-term vision.
From Innovation to Application
From full-process intelligent media suites, to embodied intelligence with human-machine collaboration, to smart responses in urban governance, the technological innovation achievements showcased at the Asia-Pacific Media High-Level Forum allowed participating representatives to experience the charm of China's intelligent manufacturing up close.
When cutting-edge technology and media applications collide deeply, what sparks will fly? Both parties in a conversation only need to wear an AI simultaneous interpretation headset each to cross language barriers and communicate face-to-face with ease; wearing augmented reality glasses, high-definition images are quickly generated; a lightweight equipment set allows journalists to independently complete the entire process of news gathering and editing... Seng Son, Director of the Public Relations Department and Policy Analyst at the Royal Academy of Cambodia, said: "Cambodia hopes to introduce relevant technologies."
Guo Kaitian, Senior Vice President of Tencent Group, said that the application of technologies such as artificial intelligence to the media lies in liberating journalists from repetitive and time-consuming labor, allowing them to devote more energy to important work. Tencent is actively participating in this transformation by launching relevant AI agent products.
Before the forum opened, representatives visited Guangzhou, Foshan, Dongguan, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Zhongshan, and other places. A subway that runs fully automatically underground at 160 kilometers per hour, the "project of the century" Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge with alternating sea bridges and deep-sea tunnels, substations that achieve round-the-clock autonomous inspection through AI algorithms, and an unmanned terminal supported by technologies such as BeiDou navigation, 5G communications, artificial intelligence, and autonomous driving... In walking, they perceived the achievements of Chinese modernization; in experiencing, they reflected on the path of coordinated development.
The representatives saw the surging momentum of technological innovation. Tatyana Kokenova, a member of the Council of the Kazakhstan "Belt and Road Initiative" Experts Club, said with emotion: "This visit made me feel that China is paying more and more attention to using technological innovation to improve people's lives. These practices and experiences are worth learning from and drawing on."
The representatives saw the "approach to solving problems" of industrial transformation. Dahlan Dahi, CEO of Indonesia Forum News, said: "Chinese brands not only work hard on technology research and development, but also proactively optimize their products based on the needs of consumers in different countries and regional markets, becoming the trendsetter of choice for many young consumers."
The representatives saw the "key interface" of win-win cooperation. Anish Chand, Digital Editor of the Fiji Times, said frankly: "I am curious and expectant about these new technologies. If they can be introduced, they will definitely greatly help the development of our country's related industries."
The representatives also saw the tangible opportunities that China's efforts to build an Asia-Pacific community together with all parties bring to regional and even world peace and development. As John Wallace, Executive Director of the Australia Asia-Pacific News Center, put it, we need to recognize the positive value China brings and objectively view the reality of China's continuous growth and development.
From Connectivity to Symbiosis
The vast Pacific Ocean contains broad space for cooperation and unlimited development opportunities. Participating representatives expressed their willingness to take the APEC "China Year" as an opportunity to deepen exchanges and cooperation with China in areas such as industrial integration, mutual learning among civilizations, and cooperative communication, jointly promoting mutual benefit and win-win outcomes.
"With the accelerated construction of the '2.0 upgraded version' of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the focus of cooperation between the two countries has expanded from infrastructure construction to industrialization development, as well as technical cooperation, youth employment, and other fields." Shezra Haral, Minister of State for Climate Change and Environmental Coordination of Pakistan, said that the broad masses of the Pakistani people can truly feel the results of relevant cooperation, which deserves to be told by the media from a sustained, objective, and in-depth perspective. "Enduring partnerships are rooted in shared narratives, mutual trust, and mutual understanding."
Virgandi Prayudantoro, Editor-in-Chief of the Antara News Agency of Indonesia, expressed the expectation of further deepening media cooperation with all parties through joint reporting, collaborative learning, and regional knowledge sharing.
"The future of the Asia-Pacific requires the media to play an important role." Ye Tin, Deputy Minister of Information of Myanmar, believes that when publishing reports, the media should strive to enhance mutual understanding among people and promote cooperation. All parties can further exchange professional experience, promote digital transformation, and encourage the production and dissemination of high-quality content.
Individual excellence is not enough for collective prosperity (一花独放不是春, yi hua du fang bu shi chun - "one, flower, alone, bloom, not, is, spring"), and a hundred flowers blooming together (百花齐放, bai hua qi fang - "hundred, flower, all, bloom") bring spring to the garden. Surachai Lekjasen, Director-General of the Department of Public Relations of Thailand, said that the mission of Asia-Pacific media lies in jointly tending this vibrant "garden," weaving more vivid narratives around defending human dignity, enhancing development resilience, and promoting common progress, and further deepening cooperation through mutual learning.
Nguyen Dong Anh, Acting Director of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, said that the Asia-Pacific region is culturally diverse, and media reports play a bridging role. Only by strengthening mutual understanding can stories be truly well told and strikingly moving or touching people's hearts (直击人心, zhi ji ren xin - "straight, hit, people, heart").
Regarding the upcoming APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, Felipe Cuadra Campos, Senior Advisor of the Chilean newspaper group La Tercera, is full of expectation: "Shenzhen is a vivid epitome of openness, innovation, and cooperation. This land of promise will surely draw the attention of global media."
Return to TopChina will always stand firmly on the side of peace, on the side of dialogue, and on the side of the correct side of history, working together with Middle Eastern countries and the international community to jointly build a new security architecture for the Middle East and make unremitting efforts to achieve long-term peace and stability (长治久安, chang zhi jiu an - "long, govern; long, exist; forever, peaceful; forever, stable") in the region.
Recently, during talks with Egyptian President Sisi, President Xi Jinping pointed out that China supports regional countries in developing good-neighborly and friendly relations, upholds a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, and builds a new security architecture for the Middle East. With an eye to peace, stability, and long-term peace and stability in the Middle East, President Xi Jinping put forward a four-point initiative: stimulating the endogenous driving force of regional common security, advancing comprehensive governance of regional common security, consolidating the development foundation of regional common security, and strengthening international coordination for regional common security. This is another set of Chinese solutions that President Xi Jinping has contributed to achieving long-term peace and stability in the overall situation of the Middle East, following his four-point proposition on maintaining and promoting peace and stability in the Middle East and his four-point principle on promoting the resolution of the Palestinian question, demonstrating China's responsibility as a responsible major country in contributing wisdom to the region's long-term peace and stability.
Building a new security architecture for the Middle East requires stimulating the endogenous driving force of regional common security. The people of the Middle East are the masters of the region's future and destiny, and the leading role in Middle East security affairs should be grasped by the Middle Eastern countries themselves. In recent years, from the continuous surge of the Middle East "reconciliation wave" to the institutionalized consultations among Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, and Egypt, the will of regional countries to be independent, self-reliant, and united for strength has grown increasingly strong. China supports Middle Eastern countries in the spirit of independence and self-reliance, strengthening peace and security dialogue, independently building a security architecture that fits regional realities and takes into account the interests of all parties, and firmly grasping their future and destiny in their own hands.
Building a new security architecture for the Middle East requires advancing comprehensive governance of regional common security. The Middle East has many hotspot issues with strong internal interconnections, and the resolution of a single issue often involves one small change affecting the whole situation (牵一发而动全身, qian yi fa er dong quan shen - "pull, one, hair; and, move, entire, body"), so comprehensive solutions should be sought. The Palestinian question has always been the core of the Middle East issue, bearing on international fairness and justice, and should never be ignored or marginalized at any time. Multiple contradictions such as territorial disputes, sectarian differences, and energy games are intertwined, and traditional and non-traditional security challenges are complex and interwoven, making fragmented and piecemeal efforts (零敲碎打, ling qiao sui da - "zero, smash, break, hit") unable to address the root causes. Only by upholding the common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept and taking all reasonable security concerns into account can the security dilemma be gradually resolved.The most urgent task is to promote the implementation of the "two-state solution" and facilitate the just resolution of the Palestinian question, which is the common expectation of the international community.
Building a new security architecture for the Middle East requires consolidating the development foundation of regional common security. Security is the prerequisite for development, development is the guarantee of security, and coordinating balancing development and security is the fundamental way to achieve long-term peace and stability in the Middle East.The Middle East is rich in resources, strategically located, and has enormous development potential, and it should become a positive force for promoting world prosperity and stability. The safety and freedom of passage of international shipping lanes serve the common interests of regional countries and the international community. China is willing to work with countries in the region to safeguard the safety of international shipping lanes, advance development cooperation, promote the integration of interests of regional countries, gradually enhance mutual trust, and eliminate the soil that breeds conflict. Promoting peace through development and seeking security through cooperation can inject a steady stream of endogenous driving force into regional stability.
Building a new security architecture for the Middle East requires strengthening international coordination for regional common security. The UN Charter and international law are the basic norms for handling Middle East affairs, and the international community, especially major countries outside the region, should abandon double standards and earnestly respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of regional countries. It is necessary to support the United Nations in playing its due role in regional affairs, implement the various resolutions of the Security Council on resolving hotspot issues in the Middle East, especially the Palestinian question, and support the UN's mediation efforts. History has repeatedly proven that unilateral sanctions and "long-arm jurisdiction" without UN authorization cannot achieve their intended purposes, and the path of hegemony and bullying will not work. Facing the current difficulties and challenges, the international community should pool consensus and coordinate efforts to add positive energy to regional peace and stability, rather than creating new confrontation and division.
If the Middle East is not stable, the world will find it hard to be at peace. International opinion believes that China does not seek geopolitical self-interest, does not engage in bloc confrontation, but places the fundamental interests of the region's people at the core, balancing security and development, balancing the reasonable security concerns of all countries, providing a feasible path for resolving the Middle East security dilemma, and clarifying the direction of efforts. China will always stand firmly on the side of peace, on the side of dialogue, and on the side of the correct side of history, working together with Middle Eastern countries and the international community to jointly build a new security architecture for the Middle East and make unremitting efforts to achieve long-term peace and stability in the region.
Return to TopBy: 冯朝阳
Climate change is a common challenge for all of humanity. Only by sharing responsibility, coordinating across borders, and ensuring early warning and source-level governance can we join hands to safeguard a safer and more sustainable future for future generations.
On August 26, a mudslide disaster on the Nepalese side caused heavy casualties and missing persons at the Gyirong Port in Gyirong County, Shigatse City, Tibet. The source of the disaster is located on the Nepalese side of the China-Nepal border river basin. A glacial fracture at an altitude of about 5,200 meters on the northern slope of Langtang Lirung Peak triggered an ice-rock avalanche, which carried mountain debris for about 22 kilometers, reaching China's Gyirong Port at an altitude of about 1,800 meters in only 6 to 7 minutes, destroying 27 buildings and ancillary facilities within an area of about 0.7 square kilometers. A natural disaster that struck without warning (猝不及防, cu bu ji fang - "sudden, not able to react in time") caused tragic loss of life and property, deeply mourned by people around the world.
From the perspective of disaster-causing logic, the Gyirong mudslide is a typical cascading disaster under the background of climate change. After the glacial fracture and collapse, a debris flow formed, which, during high-speed movement, carried large amounts of soil and rock and evolved into a mudslide. It rushed into the river valley, blocked the river channel, and formed a barrier lake, with destructive energy escalating level by level. Its prominent characteristics are the cross-border distribution of disaster sources, strong suddenness, high concealment, and an extremely short warning window. Global warming leading to accelerated glacial melting, compounded by complex geological and geomorphological conditions, is an important trigger for this disaster. Long-term anomalies in the climate system are producing profound cascading effects, and global climate risks are rapidly transforming into real disasters.
In recent years, disasters caused by climate change have become increasingly frequent worldwide. In 2021, an ice-rock avalanche debris flow occurred in the mountainous regions of India, killing or leaving missing more than 200 people; in 2022, Pakistan experienced sustained monsoon rainfall, triggering widespread flash floods and landslides; in 2023, Canada experienced a severe wildfire season lasting more than 5 months, with a cumulative burned area of approximately 173,000 square kilometers; in 2026, record-breaking high temperatures frequently occurred in many parts of the world... Climate disasters have long transcended national borders and become a systemic risk faced by all of humanity. The United Nations' "2025 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction" shows that direct losses caused by various disasters worldwide have reached approximately 202 billion US dollars per year, and if broader economic impacts are included, losses are estimated to be as high as 2.3 trillion US dollars.
Faced with extreme weather and climate events, mega-disasters, and cross-border disasters, no country can remain immune. Jointly responding to the climate change crisis is a matter of survival for all humanity, and international cooperation is urgently needed. Given the reality that international disaster reduction cooperation mechanisms and capabilities remain clearly lagging behind the frequency of disasters, all parties urgently need to make coordinated efforts in the following areas.
First, jointly build a cross-border disaster chain monitoring and early warning system. In response to the real threat of increasing glacial lakes and heightened breach risks caused by glacial melting, relevant countries should join hands to carry out integrated space-air-ground three-dimensional monitoring of cross-border distributed glacial risk sources, enhancing early identification and early warning capabilities for glacial dynamic evolution and secondary disasters. At the same time, joint surveys of glacial risk hazards should be conducted to promote the transformation from passive disaster relief to source-level risk governance.
Second, deepen information sharing and technology accessibility. Currently, international assistance is mostly limited to post-disaster bilateral relief, and there is an urgent need to establish a normalized, institutionalized multilateral linkage framework. Cutting-edge technologies such as satellite remote sensing, artificial intelligence forecasting, and digital twins, as well as capacity-building resources such as equipment funding and experience sharing, should benefit developing countries more, enhancing risk monitoring, early warning, and disaster emergency response capabilities in cross-border regions.
Third, balance mitigation and adaptation. All countries should earnestly shoulder the responsibility for climate governance, adhere to the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities, uphold true multilateralism, and take stronger actions to mitigate the trend of global warming. It is also necessary to strengthen disaster adaptation capacity and resilience building in various regions, fully consider the superimposed impact characteristics of cascading disasters, systematically raise the disaster resistance standards and fortification levels of facilities in key areas, and enhance comprehensive resilience against extreme climate and secondary disasters.
Climate change is a common challenge for all of humanity. Only by sharing responsibility, coordinating across borders, and ensuring early warning and source-level governance can we join hands to safeguard a safer and more sustainable future for future generations.
(The author is a researcher at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 6) (Reporter Zhang Tianpei) Wang Xiaohong, Member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Minister of Public Security, met separately in Beijing on the 6th with Vilay Lakhamfong, Member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and Minister of Public Security, and Bobur Tashpulatov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Uzbekistan.
During the meeting with Vilay Lakhamfong, Wang Xiaohong stated that China is willing to work with the Lao side to earnestly implement the important consensus of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, make good plans for bilateral cooperation, deepen cooperation in combating online gambling and telecom fraud crimes, drug control, fugitive repatriation and asset recovery, and safeguarding border security, intensify security cooperation on the China-Laos Railway, and contribute greater strength to jointly building a China-Laos community with a shared future of lasting stability in the new era. Vilay Lakhamfong expressed gratitude for China's long-term support and assistance, and expressed willingness to deepen law enforcement and security cooperation with the Chinese side and promote the continuous advancement of bilateral relations. The two sides signed relevant cooperation documents.
During the meeting with Tashpulatov, Wang Xiaohong stated that China is willing to work with the Uzbek side, guided by the implementation of the important consensus of the two heads of state, to practice the four major global initiatives, deepen cooperation with a focus on combating the "three evil forces," security for the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, law enforcement experience exchange and capacity building, jointly promote the China-Central Asia meeting mechanism of public security and internal affairs ministers to achieve more practical results, and jointly safeguard regional stability and development. Tashpulatov expressed willingness to strengthen law enforcement exchanges and cooperation at all levels and continuously enrich the connotation of bilateral cooperation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 徐 馨
The Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in Frankfurt, the German Table Tennis Bundesliga, and the German Hidden Champions Academy recently jointly hosted the German Cup table tennis tournament and the Sino-German Economic Forum in Nuremberg, Germany. The forum was themed "Sports Create Trust, Trust Promotes Economic Cooperation." Figures from the political, business, academic, and sports communities of both China and Germany attended the forum, engaging in in-depth exchanges on topics such as economic and trade cooperation, the sports economy, and industrial transformation.
"Table tennis can bring people together and cultivate trust. And trust is precisely an important cornerstone of cooperation." Huang Yiyang, Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Frankfurt, stated that holding the Sino-German Economic Forum on the occasion of the start of the new season's German Cup table tennis tournament is precisely intended to take this opportunity to fully leverage the role of sports as a bond connecting people's hearts, building a platform for both sides to deepen mutual understanding and create cooperation opportunities.
"We hope to build bridges between the two countries and jointly face the challenging present." said Nico Stroeher, General Manager of the German Table Tennis Bundesliga. German table tennis player Timo Boll, drawing on his own sports career, said: "I have learned a lot from Chinese athletes, and I believe the reverse is also true. Even in the most intense sports competition, people from different countries can achieve exchange and forge friendships, and this should also provide inspiration for the economic and trade field."
The forum closely followed the current world situation and the realities of Sino-German economic and trade cooperation, reaching consensus on opposing decoupling and severing supply chains and guarding against protectionism. "'We must bring production back, bring production back to Germany, bring it back to Europe' — this idea is a serious mistake." said Marcel Fratzscher, President of the German Institute for Economic Research. "We must remain open, not limited to bilateral relations, but oriented toward the global. China has always been an important partner of ours, and there is no doubt about that."
Walter Döring, President of the German Hidden Champions Academy, led a delegation to visit China in May of this year. "Seventy representatives of German small and medium-sized enterprises participated, with remarkable results." he said. "Decoupling between the world's second- and third-largest economies is absurd; we must cooperate." Christian Sommer, Chief Executive Officer of the German Centre Shanghai, believes that the more difficult the times, the more cooperation is needed, working together to overcome hardships (共克时艰, gong ke shi jian - "together, overcome, difficult, times"). "The German Centre Shanghai will provide services for enterprises from both Germany and China to enter each other's markets, effectively promoting cooperation between the two countries."
Cooperation between Chinese and German enterprises in the automotive sector was an important topic at this forum. Florian Hüttl, Chief Executive Officer of Opel and Managing Director of Stellantis Group Germany, said: "With long-term cooperation as the goal, the group established a joint venture with China's Leapmotor, Leapmotor International, achieving rapid growth in global sales. Opel is now engaged in deep cooperation with Leapmotor, with both teams combining their respective strengths to jointly promote innovation."
Many participants unanimously or coincidentally doing the same thing (不约而同, bu yue er tong - "not agree, yet same") spoke of the importance of understanding Chinese culture. Harald Unkelbach, former Chairman of the Board of the Würth Foundation, was once responsible for establishing a company in China for the German enterprise Würth Group, which has now built a sales and service network covering more than 100 cities in China. He believes that the most important lesson is to integrate into the local culture. "A person's way of thinking, way of behaving, and angle of understanding things are all inseparable from culture. Proactively understanding Chinese culture is the key to successful cooperation." Fabian Hanle, Executive Director of the German "hidden champion" enterprise Festo, also shared a similar experience: "'How to get along with the other party' is both the starting point and the key to cooperation. Learning Chinese helped me find the path to Chinese culture and the hearts of the Chinese people."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 沈小晓
"President Xi Jinping's state visit to Egypt again after 10 years is of major historic significance." Diaa Helmy, secretary-general of the Egyptian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, recently said in an exclusive interview with our reporter that Egypt-China relations are at their best period in history, and the strategic guidance of the two heads of state has injected strong momentum into the continuous deepening of bilateral relations. "Egypt-China cooperation is a model of solidarity and collaboration among developing countries."
Helmy said that during President Xi Jinping's visit to Egypt, the two countries issued a joint statement, agreeing to further deepen the synergy between the Belt and Road Initiative and Egypt's "Vision 2030," helping Egypt become a regional center for industry, logistics, clean energy, and the digital economy connecting Asia, Africa, and Europe. In Helmy's view, the Belt and Road Initiative is not only a platform for economic cooperation but also a bridge for dialogue among civilizations. Egypt can fully leverage its gateway advantage connecting Africa and the Arab world, providing an important platform for Chinese enterprises to enter the region's large market.
Helmy said that over the 70 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, Egypt-China relations have weathered international vicissitudes and maintained sound and steady development. The leaders of the two countries have maintained close communication, showing mutual understanding and mutual support on issues involving each other's core interests and major concerns, which fully reflects the high level of political mutual trust and sustained strategic coordination between the two sides.
"Egypt and China are both ancient civilizations of the world, and their friendly exchanges have a long-standing tradition or history (源远流长, yuan yuan liu chang - "source, far, flow, long")." Helmy said that China has always emphasized respect for and recognition of civilizations, which has laid a profound foundation for the long-term development of Egypt-China relations. "In recent years, cooperation between the two countries in education, tourism, culture, and other fields has continued to deepen, and more and more Egyptian young people are learning Chinese, becoming a new force for carrying forward Egypt-China friendship."
Looking ahead, Helmy is full of confidence in Egypt-China relations. He said that both Egypt and China are important members of the Global South and share broad consensus on many international and regional issues. In the face of changes unseen in a century in the world, it is of great significance for Egypt and China to strengthen solidarity and coordination and jointly safeguard the common interests of developing countries. "I believe that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state and with the joint efforts of the two peoples, the Egypt-China comprehensive strategic partnership will surely embrace an even brighter future and make new and greater contributions to building a community with a shared future for mankind."
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 6) A Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on the 6th that Qatar's Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohammed, will visit China from September 7 to 8 at the invitation of the Chinese side.
Return to TopBangkok, September 6 (People's Daily) — (Reporter Liu Ge) The Chinese Embassy in Thailand recently held a reception to bid farewell to Thai government officials who are about to go to Beijing Chinese Language and Culture College to study Chinese. The Thai government officials' Chinese language study class program has been jointly promoted and developed by the governments of China and Thailand. Since the program was launched in 2005, more than 1,000 Thai public officials have participated.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Bishkek, September 6) (Reporter Li Qiang) On September 6, the advance members of the "Bright Road" medical team, operating from China's first aircraft hospital — the "Five-Sense Health C909 Aircraft Hospital" — as their mobile platform, departed from Shanghai, China, and arrived in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, to carry out a three-week public welfare mission.
The "Five-Sense Health C909 Aircraft Hospital" was jointly developed by the Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University and the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. Based on the domestically produced C909 aircraft and equipped with intelligent diagnostic and treatment devices independently developed by China, it forms a full-chain mobile medical platform covering screening, diagnosis and treatment, surgery, and rehabilitation. This model exports as a whole package domestically produced aircraft, medical equipment, in-cabin operating rooms, and advanced digital technologies, providing Chinese solutions for addressing the shortage of specialized medical resources in developing countries.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Jilong, September 6) (Reporter Xian Gan) On September 6, the reporter learned from a Chinese and foreign media briefing held by the Emergency Rescue Command for the "August 26" debris flow disaster in Jilong County, Tibet Autonomous Region: as of 18:00 on September 5, the disaster had left 43 people dead and 519 missing, with 2 people successfully rescued and 993 items of personal effects recovered.
At the briefing, the relevant leading comrades of the Tibet Autonomous Region introduced the relevant situation and answered reporters' questions. Since the road was reopened at 10:00 on September 2, 6 special working groups were formed and 7 search and rescue teams were established. Adopting the method of "clearing passages first, searching by zones, and coordinating multiple forces," multiple rounds of intensive, carpet-style searches were carried out in the core disaster area, achieving full coverage of search operations and preventive environmental disinfection in the core disaster area. As of 18:00 on September 5, a cumulative total of more than 2,500 rescue personnel, over 500 search vehicle deployments, more than 9,000 sets of search equipment, over 1,000 drone flights, and 5.43 tons of airdropped supplies and equipment had been invested.
Through entry-exit records, communication positioning, and other means, identity information of missing persons was collected through multiple channels, and the identities of missing persons were verified one by one through individual investigation and confirmation. A service hotline for family members of domestic deceased and missing persons was opened, responding promptly to family members' concerns and providing psychological counseling. A cumulative total of 675 calls were received from domestic family members, 791 family members were received, and 640 family members were accommodated.
In this disaster, 261 foreign nationals are missing, involving 23 countries. The Chinese side has promptly notified the relevant embassies of the countries concerned in China through diplomatic channels. A 24-hour dedicated hotline for family members of missing foreign nationals was opened, with a cumulative total of 509 calls answered. Green channels for foreign nationals' entry-exit and material transfer were urgently opened, with a cumulative total of 3,388 foreign nationals organized for diversion, 365 Nepali border residents who wished to return home organized for exit, 279 Nepali vehicles and 103 truckloads of cargo organized for safe transfer out of the country, and proper livelihood support provided to 1,720 Nepali border residents.
Through the China-Nepal disaster prevention information notification mechanism, meteorological, hydrological, glacial lake, and glacier information is reported to Nepal daily. At Nepal's request, the Chinese government dispatched experts in tunnel rescue, DNA testing, and other fields to Nepal, and provided emergency material assistance. The government of the Tibet Autonomous Region provided Nepal with 320 tons of Bailey bridge components and other disaster relief material assistance.
From September 5 to 6, the State Council Information Office, together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, organized overseas media reporters to go deep into the site of the Jilong debris flow disaster in Tibet to learn about the disaster situation and the progress of rescue work. Overseas media reporters from the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, India, Pakistan, Singapore, Brazil, and other countries and regions participated in the interview activity.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 卞民德 徐驭尧 琼达卓嘎 鲜 敢
At 8 a.m. on September 6, the sky was bright and clear, and shops in Jilong Town were opening one after another.
This was the twelfth day after the disaster. There were quite a few vehicles and pedestrians on the streets. More than 20 kilometers away, in the national gateway area of the Gyirong Port, search and rescue work was still proceeding in a tense but orderly manner.
Since ancient times, the Gyirong Port has been a core node of the ancient Tea-Horse Road trade route (茶马古道, chá mǎ gǔ dào - "tea, horse, ancient, path") and the ancient Tubo-Nepal Road, carrying a thousand years of trade and cultural exchange between China and Nepal. In recent years, border residents' mutual trade has flourished, and passenger flows from cross-border business exchanges, self-driving trips, and group tours have grown substantially. Last July, the Resuo Bridge (Friendship Bridge) at the Gyirong Port was washed away by floods, suspending customs clearance until it resumed on January 1 this year. After the resumption of clearance, as of June 23, the Gyirong Port had inspected more than 100,000 entries and exits of personnel, a year-on-year increase of 12.85 percent.
Since August 26, Ma Xueliang has been following the emergency rescue and relief efforts online. He is the manager of the Gyirong Port branch of Tibet Musa International Logistics Co., Ltd., and originally engaged in border trade at the Zhangmu Port. In 2015, affected by Nepal's "4·25" earthquake, the Zhangmu Port was damaged and suspended operations, and he moved to the Gyirong Port to continue his business.
Under the coordination and arrangement of the local government, on September 4, Ma Xueliang was relocated to the Rikaze City Lizi Port. "The government reacted very quickly, which gave us a 'reassurance pill,' and daily operations have basically not been interrupted, with losses reduced as much as possible," Ma Xueliang said.
Some left temporarily, while others stayed on throughout.
Thriving because of the port, the small Jilong Town has dozens of hotels of various sizes and more than a hundred trade, catering, and retail shops. Facing the disaster, the merchants did not just count their own small accounts, but did their best to help with disaster relief.
The South Asia Jinta Hotel, which opened in September last year, is quite conspicuous in Jilong Town. Before the disaster struck, its occupancy rate had been consistently high.
"Starting from August 29, we have provided all 83 guest rooms free of charge to frontline disaster relief workers," said Puzhu, manager of the South Asia Jinta Hotel. "Before the port resumes customs clearance, business may be considerably worse, but we will keep holding on and always stand together with Jilong."
Bismeiduo is one of the hotel's 23 Nepali employees. Having come to Jilong Town more than a year ago, she is already able to handle guest room service work well. A few days ago, the hotel conducted a survey of the disaster situation affecting the families of its Nepali employees, and local government staff also made door-to-door visits to offer comfort.
"I want to continue working here," Bismeiduo said when asked whether she would return to her home country. "The disaster will pass. I believe the Chinese government will soon launch a reconstruction plan to make this place better."
Such beautiful hopes exist in the hearts of many people in Jilong Town.
On the night of August 26, the rain was falling heavily. Hu Yuehui, owner of a building materials shop in Jilong Town, put away all the payment QR codes in his shop and recorded a video to send out: "Our shop will remain open for business at night, and goods are provided free of charge to all emergency rescue personnel!"
He is from Hangzhou, Zhejiang, and had only arrived in Jilong a year and a half ago. Although the time was short, his feelings ran deep. "When the port becomes lively again, I want to fill the shelves and expand the storefront a bit more," Hu Yuehui said.
In Guoba Village, Sale Township, not far from Jilong Town, villagers temporarily left their homes due to secondary disasters that mudslides might trigger, and were settled in homestays in Jilong Town. At present, what the villagers most look forward to is returning to their homes as soon as possible.
Villager Qiangba was especially worried about the cattle at home and could not help but call village party branch secretary Ciwang Luobu.
"Take a look and see if they are all doing fine." Ciwang Luobu specially sent him a video. The party member service team of Guoba Village, while looking after the villagers' cattle, sheep, and property, also helped with the rush harvesting of forage grass.
"We put in our efforts so that the villagers have one less worry and a bit more peace of mind at the resettlement site. When conditions permit, they can quickly return to their familiar life track. This is the responsibility our party branch must shoulder," Ciwang Luobu said.
Disasters are merciless, but people's resolve is firm.
Renqing, who has guarded the road in Jilong for 12 years, saw road damage as severe as this for the first time in his life, yet he still believed: "If the road is gone, it can be rebuilt, and it will be wider, flatter, and smoother than before."
Looking at the damaged Gyirong Port, Yixi Duoji, deputy manager of China Mobile's Gyirong County branch in Shigatse, felt deep pain. The uniting efforts to provide relief and assistance (同心驰援, tóng xīn chí yuán - "same, heart, rush, aid") from all sides filled him with confidence again: "We will continue to ensure communications support and network inspection and optimization, guarding this land with an unblocked network and warm services, so that more people can see a Jilong that has stood up again."
On September 6, the emergency rescue and relief command headquarters for the "8·26" mudslide disaster in Gyirong County, Tibet Autonomous Region, held a press meeting with Chinese and foreign media, reporting on the situation of in-depth research and demonstration on matters such as the restoration of the Gyirong Port's functions.
The disaster will eventually pass, and life will go on.
Walking through Jilong Town, everything seen and heard proves that hope is rising.
Return to TopOn September 6, rescue teams continued search and rescue operations in the core disaster-affected area.
Photo by Sun Chengzhong (People's Visual)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 琼达卓嘎
September 6, overcast
Today is the twelfth day after the disaster struck. At noon, I walked once again along the main street of Jilong Town.
At a shop featuring Nepalese specialties, I met Anzheli, a 24-year-old Nepalese woman. She is a sales clerk here and was busy tidying the shelves. Most of the Nepalese people living in the town can speak Tibetan, so I struck up a conversation with her.
She told me: "I saw the rescue workers working hard and busily (忙前忙后, mang qian mang hou - "busy, front, busy, back"), and I felt that Chinese people are truly united."
A young Nepalese man beside her showed me the instant noodles and milk he had just received: "Food and drink can be collected for free. Here we feel very safe."
After taking leave of them, I walked to another street. Under a red banner reading "Service Point for Nepalese Border Residents," several Nepalese border residents were collecting supplies, with staff registering them while handing out hot water.
After the disaster, the Chinese government immediately activated its contingency plan for accommodating and safeguarding foreign nationals, coordinating efforts to ensure basic living support for stranded Nepalese nationals, provide emotional comfort, and facilitate their orderly departure, and providing livelihood support for 1,720 Nepalese border residents.
Sawa, a Nepalese man who has run a clothing store in Jilong Town for seven years, voiced his heartfelt feelings: "The rescue forces arrived very quickly, and the Chinese government's care for us is very genuine."
On my way back to my lodging, I met several more Nepalese border residents. Some work here, some do business here, and some have even started families and put down roots here. When I asked them how they felt about the place, a somewhat older Nepalese uncle said with a smile: "The people here are very friendly and treat us like their own family. Whenever we have difficulties, everyone does their best to help solve them."
Jilong, in Tibetan, means "Village of Joy." These past days, in this border town, I have witnessed help that crosses national borders, and I feel deeply warmed. In the face of disaster, a word of concern, a box of instant noodles, a bottle of water — all convey the warmth of helping each other in times of need (守望相助, shou wang xiang zhu - "guard, watch, mutually, help").
Return to TopBy: 徐驭尧
These past two days, I once again walked into the Jilong Port border gate area. Most of the previously damaged section of National Highway 216 has now been covered with crushed stone, and the wheels crunch "creak, creak" as they roll over it. On both sides of the road, the freshly repaired slopes still show new earth, and a long row of steel gabion baskets separates the road surface from the river channel.
Just ten days ago, this place presented a completely different scene (另一番景象, ling yi fan jing xiang - "another, one, measure, scene"). After the mudslide, part of the roadbed of National Highway 216 was submerged by the surging current, with nothing but rocks and mud as far as the eye could see, and it took a long time to pull your foot out after stepping in. At that time, rescue personnel could only enter the border gate area on foot over the mountains, or by rappelling from helicopters or drones.
Later, the road was reopened, and it changed with each passing day. First people could walk through, then vehicles could pass. Now, most sections of the road are already quite smooth, and large rescue vehicles can travel on it. I cannot help but think of the excavator operators, truck drivers, and fire and rescue personnel I met at the road-reopening site a few days ago... This road was fought for meter by meter by them, day and night, without fear of danger.
From being cut off, to muddy, and then to smooth, the road conditions have improved steadily. The isolation caused by the disaster has been reconnected, and search and rescue operations have been able to proceed on a large scale. The repair personnel at the site told me that this road is still being reinforced, and there will be further upgrades in the future.
Repairing this road is not only to better carry out search and rescue, but also carries the conviction of guarding the territory and protecting the border. Wherever the road reaches is where we stand firm in our defense.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Hefei, September 6) (Reporters Yan Yiqiao, Tian Xianjin) To thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on the great ideological and political course and his important speech spirit at the National Education Conference, the National Science and Technology Conference, the National Science and Technology Awards Conference, and the Joint Conference of Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the 2026 "Writing Youth's Splendid Chapter on the Motherland" great ideological and political course online-themed publicity and interactive guidance activity, hosted by the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Education, People's Daily, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, and the Cyberspace Affairs Commission of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, was held on the evening of September 6 at the University of Science and Technology of China.
Guests attending the event included Zhuang Rongwen, Deputy Head of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Director of the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, and Director of the National Cyberspace Administration of China; Liang Yanshun, Secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial People's Congress; Yu Shaoliang, President of People's Daily; Hou Jianguo, President and Party Secretary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Wang Qingxian, Deputy Secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and Governor of the Anhui Provincial People's Government.
Closely centering on the theme of youth, patriotism, and striving, and focusing on the emotional inspiration of national pride, the magnificent display of national heavy equipment, the contemporary manifestation of youthful striving, and the inheritance and promotion of excellent culture, this activity invited academicians and experts, role models of the era, renowned entrepreneurs, young pioneers in scientific and technological innovation, and renowned artists, and, in light of the new historic achievements made in scientific and technological innovation in the new era and the accelerated realization of high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology, through various forms such as keynote speeches, situational performances, opera performances, and interactive sharing, joined the broad masses of youth in an online and offline great ideological and political course, inspiring youth to practice the instructions and write their own splendid chapter of building a strong country.
The atmosphere at the event was warm and resonant with emotion. Participants expressed that they would bear in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions, strive to become "six-have" college students, establish great aspirations of serving the country and strengthening the nation, and become strivers taking on responsibilities with courage and determination (挺膺担当, ting ying dan dang - "chest, push forward; bear, responsibility").
This activity was organized by the Publicity Department of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, the Cyberspace Affairs Office of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, the University of Science and Technology of China, the Cyberspace Affairs Commission of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee, People's Daily Online, and the China Youth Daily.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 6) (Reporter Yu Jingxian) Recently, the 2026 China Farmers' Harvest Festival Golden Autumn Consumption Season, jointly initiated by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, China Media Group, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, and the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, was launched in Shanghai.
This year's Golden Autumn Consumption Season, themed "Harvest Opens a New Chapter, Solid Work Promotes Rural Revitalization," will run until the end of November. Key activities will include e-commerce promotion of agricultural products to celebrate the harvest, consumption promotion for "vegetable basket" products in 36 major cities nationwide, and exchange and matchmaking events for upgrading rural "small but beautiful" cultural tourism business formats. Local governments and departments across the country will also organize diverse and varied (丰富多彩, feng fu duo cai - "rich, abundant, many, colors") harvest-celebration and consumption-promotion activities.
It is reported that the Golden Autumn Consumption Season is one of the brand activities of the China Farmers' Harvest Festival. Over the years, the social influence of the Golden Autumn Consumption Season has continued to rise, and its market-driving effect has become increasingly significant, having cumulatively driven agricultural product sales of over 160 billion yuan.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 胡 健 王昊男
Not long ago, on Xinjiekou South Street in Beijing, traffic was heavy and continuous (车流如织, che liu ru zhi - "vehicle, flow, like, weave"). An elderly man on a bicycle suddenly fell. In the emergency, JD courier Wei Tuanjie stepped forward swiftly, shielding the elderly man until the ambulance arrived. Wei Tuanjie, 40, has delivered a total of 400,000 packages with zero complaints. In his view, "couriers are also a part of the city."
As a mega-city, Beijing has nearly 100,000 express delivery workers, including 65,000 frontline couriers.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must pay close attention to the development of new forms of employment, adhere to combining online and offline approaches, and do a good job in ideological guidance and cohesive service work for new employment groups."
To thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, Beijing has started with ideological and political work, exploring ways to better integrate new employment groups into the city and empower grassroots governance.
At the grassroots frontline, observing people's conditions—
During delivery, SF Express courier Liu Kuo has a habit: when passing near the homes of elderly people living alone, he always takes an extra look at the curtains. This is the "curtain agreement" he made with the elderly. If one day the curtains are not opened, he goes over and knocks on the door.
On Stone Hutong in Dashilan Street, Xicheng District, there are many old buildings and many elderly people living alone. Liu Kuo and several couriers took the initiative to serve as "mobile sentinels." Relying on this simple glance, they successfully identified three incidents of elderly people in danger over the past year. "Once, Aunt Li's curtains showed no movement, and no one answered the door. We immediately contacted the community and found she had fainted from low blood sugar. We rushed her to the hospital for treatment," Liu Kuo said.
"Organizing couriers to participate in grassroots governance can both enhance their sense of belonging and better leverage their advantages of traveling from street to street (走街串巷, zou jie chuan xiang - "walk, street, cross, lane") and being familiar with social conditions and public sentiment," said Chen Danhong, head of the Social Work Department of the Xicheng District Party Committee. In recent years, Xicheng District has incorporated 10 categories of groups, including new employment groups such as online ride-hailing delivery workers, into the "City Responders" team, carrying out "snap photos, lend a hand, report anytime, spread the word" activities around six major scenarios including safety guardianship and elderly care services.
In 2025, Xicheng District saw more than 2,000 couriers newly register with communities, and a cumulative total of 17,000 leads on issues such as damaged manhole covers and unsafe electric vehicle charging were reported.
"Nowadays, when the uncles in the hutong call me 'Kuo'er,' my heart feels warm." Liu Kuo also took the lead in forming a Party member volunteer service team. "When the group calls for action, everyone rushes to sign up."
Two-way engagement builds synergy—
At noon, beside the East Fourth Ring Road, the concrete ground of the "Dongfeng Express Courtyard" was scorching hot. Shentong Express courier Zhang Dailei was checking a community safety hazard inspection checklist with Bian Ying, Party secretary of the Dongfeng Jiayuan Community in Chaoyang District—the shirts of this pair of "dual station chiefs" were already soaked with sweat.
This "courtyard," covering 16,000 square meters, brings together 18 express delivery brands and more than 300 couriers. In the past, it long faced problems such as difficulty finding a place to rest, difficulty eating meals, and difficulty taking breaks.
The change began with the implementation of the "dual station chief system." Chaoyang District innovated its working mechanism: enterprise outlet station chiefs manage personnel and gather demands, while community Party members and cadres concurrently serve as outlet territorial station chiefs, doing both ideological work and resource coordination. The two sides maintain regular contact, share information, and exert effort in both directions.
Warm-new stations and "postal route" reading corners have been established one after another, and free health checkups and voluntary haircuts have become routine. The most popular feature is a dedicated cafeteria that can seat 50 people. "The prices are affordable—two meat dishes and one vegetable—and we can still get a hot meal when we come back in the evening," said a post-95s courier dining there.
"With peace of mind, everyone pulls in the same direction," Bian Ying said. "The community keeps the couriers' difficulties in mind; the couriers keep the community's affairs in mind."
Zhang Dailei said that over the past two years, couriers at the outlet have delivered more than 8,600 free meals to elderly people living alone.
To date, more than 690 "dual station chiefs" have been selected and dispatched across more than 400 express delivery and food delivery outlets in Chaoyang District, responding cumulatively to more than 800 various demands.
Offering advice and suggestions (建言献策, jian yan xian ce - "build, speech, offer, strategy") to support development—
The Party member badge on his chest was especially conspicuous against his Meituan work uniform. Speaking of his duties, Gao Feng, a Beijing Municipal People's Congress representative and a post-90s food delivery rider, said with emotion: "I speak up for new employment groups and also offer suggestions for urban governance."
As Party branch secretary of Meituan's 707 Riders, Gao Feng maintains a record of 99.8% on-time delivery and a 100% customer satisfaction rate.
Ahead of this year's Beijing Municipal Two Sessions, Gao Feng specifically held a symposium at his Party branch to collect opinions. Supplementing building numbers in old residential communities, adding accessible ramps at pedestrian overpasses, and strengthening housing guarantees for new employment groups... suggestions from the front line were brought to the Municipal Two Sessions and translated into concrete measures, gradually being implemented and taking effect.
The broad new employment groups are becoming an important force in Beijing's grassroots and social governance. In 2025, Beijing promoted more than 2,300 couriers to participate in the construction of friendly scenarios, and more than 4,000 couriers served as mobile "civilization advocates," participating in volunteer services such as building civilized urban districts, serving residents more than 6,000 times.
Chen Xinghua, deputy head of the Social Work Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, said that strengthening ideological and political guidance and consolidating the synergy of service and management will continuously promote new employment groups in practice from "floating" to "settling in," drawing a concentric circle of grassroots social governance in a mega-city.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 丹 黄 超 丁雅诵
"Ah, friends! The Yellow River, with its heroic spirit, appears on the plains of Asia; it embodies the spirit of our nation: great and steadfast!"
On March 23, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the Xiong'an New Area in Hebei Province, he visited the Xiong'an campus of Beijing No. 4 Middle School. The General Secretary walked into Class 2, Grade 7, where a Chinese language class was in session. The students were reciting in unison the lesson "Ode to the Yellow River" — the river vast and mighty, the children's voices clear and bright.
This lesson comes from the nationally compiled Chinese language textbooks. At present, the three nationally compiled textbooks for primary and secondary schools — Morality and Rule of Law (Ideological and Political), Chinese Language, and History — have achieved full coverage across all school stages. In 2022, in accordance with the new compulsory education curriculum standards, revision of the three nationally compiled textbooks was launched, and they were put into use in the first year of each school stage in the fall semester of 2024, with replacement completed in the fall semester of this year.
General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to and cares deeply about textbook development, and has pointed out with clarity: "Textbooks are the main vehicle for disseminating knowledge, embodying the value system of a country and a nation, and serving as an important tool for teachers' instruction and students' learning" and "They must be managed well from the height of safeguarding national ideological security and cultivating socialist builders and successors."
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the National Textbook Committee has persistently used Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to nurture and educate people, forming a working framework characterized by unified management, sound institutions, scientific content, and clear orientation. The attribute of textbooks as a national affair has been fully demonstrated, playing an important supporting role in building a strong education nation.
Building a curriculum and textbook system with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its core content
The report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China for the first time proposed "strengthening textbook development and management." Firmly grasping the correct political direction and value orientation is the top priority.
Adhere to advancing the development of ideological and political courses in tandem with the theoretical innovation of the Party, and build a curriculum and textbook system with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its core content.
In a fifth-grade classroom at the Primary School Affiliated with Tsinghua University, the teacher, using artificial intelligence technology, generates on the screen images of what each student will look like when they grow up, based on their dreams.
As the screen lights up, the students' cheers come one after another: one student, wearing a figure skating dress and a medal, stands on the podium of a world-class competition; another student, in military uniform, gazes steadfastly into the distance toward the border; and yet another student gives a thumbs-up in front of the mortise-and-tenon cultural park he built himself...
"All great undertakings begin with dreams" is the theme of this lesson, and it is also the first chapter of the Student Reader on Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (hereinafter referred to as the Reader) for upper primary school grades.
"With dreams, with opportunities, with hard work, all beautiful things can be created." In the classroom, the voices of teachers and students are clear and resolute.
Since the fall semester of 2021, the Reader has been put into use in primary and secondary schools across the country. Through their studies, students have continuously deepened their systematic understanding of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and have gradually developed identification with, confidence in, and consciousness of supporting the Party's leadership and the socialist system, and upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics.
An Introduction to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and related textbooks, special lecture notes, and readers have been continuously published; the work of incorporating General Secretary Xi Jinping's major local practices and important expositions into curricula and textbooks has been comprehensively advanced; teaching materials on Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, a resource bank of teaching cases on the great transformations of the new era, and knowledge maps for ideological and political courses in primary and secondary schools have been developed one after another... Today, an educational framework has been established in which Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is comprehensively and organically integrated into textbooks at all levels and types, running through the entire process of teaching practice.
At the same time, through adjustments to selected texts, major themes such as fine traditional Chinese culture, revolutionary culture, advanced socialist culture, national security, labor education, national defense, and life safety and health have been fully integrated into curricula and textbooks, with their role in value guidance becoming increasingly prominent.
Opening the compulsory education history textbook, one finds Yang Jingyu, Zuo Quan, the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain... Behind the names of these anti-Japanese war heroes lie stories of bravery and tragedy.
"For the lesson on the victory of the War of Resistance, we added a chapter — 'The Communist Party of China Was the mainstay of strength (中流砥柱, zhong liu di zhu - "middle, current, support, pillar") in the War of Resistance.'" Zhang Haipeng, director of the History Textbook Editorial Committee and a member of the Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said, "Through textbooks, we must guide young people to establish a correct view of history."
As the curriculum and textbook system with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its core content is gradually constructed, the ambition, backbone, and confidence of Chinese youth in the new era are quietly growing page by page in their textbooks.
Accelerating the development of China's original philosophy and social science textbooks
Textbooks must keep pace with the times and resonate with the pulse of social development.
How can we systematically summarize the great practices of the Communist Party of China over more than a century since its founding, and since the founding of New China, especially since the new era, and distill and refine iconic concepts and original theories?
"To cultivate useful talents in philosophy and social sciences, we must have good textbooks." "We must build a sound textbook system, forming a philosophy and social science textbook system that meets the requirements of the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics, is grounded in the forefront of international academia, and covers all disciplines." General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions have pointed the way for textbook development.
Since the spring semester of 2025, two textbooks on Socialist Political Economy with Chinese Characteristics, compiled by Renmin University of China and Nankai University under the organization of the Ministry of Education, have been piloted in more than 40 universities. These are the first batch of achievements of the "China Series" original textbooks.
Opening the table of contents, one finds new quality productive forces, the new development philosophy, supply-side structural reform...
One by one, economic concepts rooted in the Chinese discourse system leap off the page.
From the vivid practice of the battle against poverty, to the strategic planning of building the new development pattern, to the visionary blueprint of proposing the Global Development Initiative, every major exploration in the economic field in the new era has driven the development of economic theory and has also brought great space for innovation and challenges to textbook compilation.
Speaking of the compilation process, Liu Wei, chief editor of Socialist Political Economy with Chinese Characteristics and former president of Renmin University of China, said: "First, we must base ourselves on China's actual conditions and select typical facts; then, on the basis of analyzing typical facts, we summarize practical experience and refine academic categories; finally, taking the interpretation of the historical process of Chinese modernization as the foothold, we generalize the laws of economics."
Chinese theory interprets Chinese practice, Chinese practice enriches Chinese theory, and Chinese discourse expounds China's development. Building a knowledge system with originality and subjectivity is the key to promoting the innovative development of textbooks and demonstrating China's distinctive style to the world.
To implement the overall layout of China's original textbook development, the Ministry of Education has established and implemented the key textbook development project for China's original philosophy and social sciences, focusing on the three major series — the "China Series," the "New Era Series," and the "Classics Series" — as well as cultivation projects for original textbook development in philosophy and social sciences in universities in the new era. Together with relevant departments and units, it is accelerating the launch of a series of textbooks and accelerating the construction of China's independent textbook system.
Textbooks must uphold the guiding position of Marxism, reflect the requirements of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism, and reflect the latest achievements in discipline development and academic research.
"The liberation of the proletariat and of humanity is the theme of Marxist philosophy," "People-centered is the fundamental stance for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era," "The destinies of humanity are closely intertwined"...
The book Marxist Philosophy (Second Edition) is meticulously worded and resounding in tone.
Compiled under the organization of the Central Propaganda Department, this textbook is a revised edition of a key textbook under the "Marxism Project." In 2021, it was awarded the "First Prize for National Excellent Textbooks" in the first National Textbook Development Awards, and it has become an important textbook in philosophy and social science classrooms.
Li Jingyuan, chief expert of the revision research group and a member of the Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said, "Compilers must, based on the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, systematically grasp the path of generalizing contemporary Chinese Marxist philosophy, in order to present the new characteristics, new style, and new boldness of Chinese Marxist philosophy in the new era."
"In 2025, the overall layout for the development of China's original philosophy and social science textbooks has been completed, achieving full coverage of all 29 first-level disciplines." A relevant official from the Textbook Bureau of the Ministry of Education said that, following the approach of achieving phased results by 2027 and building China's independent textbook system by 2030, efforts are devoted to driving innovation in the discipline system, academic system, and discourse system through original textbook development, comprehensively improving the overall quality of philosophy and social science textbook development, and giving full play to the educational role of textbooks.
Textbook development must better adapt to the needs of integrated advancement of education, science and technology, and talent development
Education, science and technology, and talent are the foundational and strategic supports of Chinese modernization. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China further clarified the need to "advance the development of education, science and technology, and talent in an integrated manner."
How can top-notch innovative talents who solve "bottleneck" problems be cultivated? Where should one start in forging highly skilled technical talents who lead industrial upgrading? The answers are written in the textbooks.
Compiling textbooks for the "101 Plan" in biological sciences (the pilot plan for undergraduate education and teaching reform) and promptly incorporating the world's cutting-edge scientific advances into the textbooks is a new task for Shi Yigong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of Westlake University, in recent years.
"The inspiration a scientific discovery gives to students is sometimes more important than the content of the discovery itself," he said. "We have repeatedly required that major scientific discoveries be presented vividly in the form of illustrations or stories — whose discovery was it? What was the background? What level had science reached at that time? Descriptions with this kind of historical depth can produce strong resonance."
The academicians mentioned in the textbooks have become the compilers of the textbooks. To compile the textbooks well, Academician Shi Yigong's team assembled an authoritative lineup of experts in the field, mobilizing more than 500 professors active in scientific research and teaching to participate.
This was a textbook compilation effort of large scale and wide scope: more than 50 academicians, 80 renowned scholars and experts from home and abroad, and a number of the country's leading universities and research institutes all joined. An academician who participated in the compilation said: "This set of textbooks represents a relatively high level of academic and teaching quality in the current field of natural sciences."
Deepening the compilation of "101 Plan" textbooks, with a focus on expanding into frontier fields such as integrated circuits; selecting national planning textbooks for undergraduate programs during the 14th Five-Year Plan period; and building a batch of textbooks oriented toward strategic emerging fields, covering new-generation information technology, high-end equipment manufacturing, future industries, and other directions... Textbook after textbook is injecting a steady stream of momentum into higher education.
The cultivation of talent in vocational education originates from industrial demand and relies on classrooms and textbooks. In recent years, China's new energy vehicle industry has developed rapidly, with new technologies and new standards emerging in an endless stream (层出不穷, ceng chu bu qiong - "layer, emerge, not, exhausted"). "How can we align textbook knowledge with enterprise production and cultivate highly skilled talents who understand processes, can operate, and can solve complex problems?" With this question in mind, Yang Yang, deputy dean of the School of Vehicle Engineering at Chongqing Industrial and Technical Vocational University, and his colleagues decided to join forces with the front line of industry to develop the digital textbook New Energy Vehicle Testing Technology.
"This course is a core course for new energy vehicle-related majors, but for a long time, we struggled to find a systematic and suitable textbook," Yang Yang said. "This time, the school and the enterprise jointly developed it. The enterprise provided a large amount of first-hand declassified technical materials, while the teachers went deep into the front line of the enterprise, shadowing positions to unearth real cases, and then, in accordance with the teaching laws of vocational education, transformed and systematically reconstructed these materials."
Writing textbooks rooted in enterprise workshops and laboratories has become a microcosm of vocational education textbook development. In two batches, more than 10,000 national planning textbooks for vocational education during the 14th Five-Year Plan period were selected, covering all 19 major professional categories; adopting a three-party compilation system involving enterprises, schools, and industry associations, 84 digital textbooks for the high-skilled talent cluster cultivation plan have been planned... A new system of modern vocational education textbooks covers all specialties and runs through all school stages.
Nurturing character and strengthening the soul (培根铸魂, pei gen zhu hun - "cultivate, root, cast, soul"), enlightening wisdom and enhancing intelligence. Today, a large number of textbooks benefit more teachers and students: the compilation and review of national curriculum textbooks for compulsory education in schools for the blind, schools for the deaf, and schools for children with intellectual disabilities has been completed, solving the long-standing problem of having no textbooks specifically suited to special education schools; the "Consolidating Foundations and Cultivating Excellence" action plan (2025–2027) for the use of nationally compiled textbooks (including readers) in primary and secondary schools in ethnic regions has been implemented, helping teachers in ethnic and western regions better grasp textbook content and improve classroom quality; artificial intelligence has been promoted as a public basic course in universities, with course textbooks compiled by discipline and specialty...
The "15th Five-Year Plan" for Educational Development proposes improving the curriculum and textbook system. A relevant official from the Textbook Bureau of the Ministry of Education said that the Party's overall leadership over textbook work will be upheld and strengthened, the Outline of the Plan for Building a Strong Education Nation (2024–2035) and the three-year action plan will be implemented, and actions will be carried out including the construction project for a high-quality textbook system with Chinese characteristics, the development of China's original textbooks, the "Consolidating Foundations and Nourishing the Heart" action for ideological and political course textbooks in primary and secondary schools, the national strategic support of curricula and textbooks, and the optimization of textbook governance, so as to provide strong support for advancing the building of a strong education nation.
Learning through both reading and practical experience (读万卷书，行万里路, du wan juan shu, xing wan li lu - "read, ten thousand, volumes, book; walk, ten thousand, li, road"). In recent years, "textbook study tours" have quietly emerged.
Teachers organize students, and parents bring their children, to visit the red venues and places of historical interest mentioned in the textbooks. By the Red Boat on South Lake in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, one can always see visitors holding textbooks and comparing them with historical scenes; students holding their textbooks pose for photos at the check-in points for the lessons "Strange Stones of Huangshan" and "Climbing Tiandu Peak" in the Huangshan Scenic Area...
Experiencing things firsthand through travel and gaining insights through practice, students move from within the textbook to beyond the classroom, drawing nourishment and growing up healthily in the soil of reality.
Today's textbooks connect to tomorrow's hope, cultivating the new generation capable of shouldering the great task of national rejuvenation. Volume after volume of fine textbooks that nurture character and strengthen the soul and enlighten wisdom and enhance intelligence will surely lead more young people into the fiery practice of the new era, converging into a mighty force for advancing Chinese modernization.
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Walking into the Conservation Agriculture Laboratory of the Inner Mongolia Academy of Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Sciences, the neatly arranged soil samples are striking. In this small-scale "land hospital," from the black soil of the Greater Khingan Range to the desertified soil of the northwestern deserts, every type of soil in the northern agro-pastoral ecotone has its own dedicated "health record."
In the laboratory, several researchers sit upright at the experimental benches, backs slightly arched, eyes fixed on the microscopes, as if engaged in a silent dialogue with the microscopic world—they are members of the Conservation Agriculture Innovation Team for the Northern Agro-Pastoral Ecotone.
The team is led by Lu Zhanyuan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, with 29 core members, 20 of whom are under the age of 35. They are rooted at the grassroots frontline, directly confronting ecological challenges such as farmland wind erosion and land degradation, and devoting themselves to scientific research. In April this year, the team was awarded the 2026 China Youth May Fourth Medal as a collective.
Researching conservation tillage to solve the problem of farmland wind erosion
The agro-pastoral ecotone is a special ecological belt where farming areas and grassland pastoral areas interweave. The northern agro-pastoral ecotone covers nine provinces including Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Jilin, and Gansu. In the past, land desertification here was severe, sandstorms raged, and cultivated land continued to degrade. To tackle these problems, in 2003, Lu Zhanyuan organized the establishment of the Conservation Agriculture Innovation Team for the Northern Agro-Pastoral Ecotone.
"The key challenge that must be solved is wind erosion control—when strong winds pass through, they strip away topsoil nutrients, leading to a decline in soil fertility. The fierce wind carries soil particles, increasing the frequency of severe weather events such as sandstorms," Lu Zhanyuan explained.
In spring, they work in the fields with farmers against the fierce wind; in summer, they brave the scorching heat to investigate soil and crop growth conditions... Day after day of field research finally led the team members to a breakthrough point—conservation tillage. "Traditional continuous plowing loosens the soil and leaves large areas of topsoil exposed, increasing the risk of wind erosion," Lu Zhanyuan said. Conservation tillage, he explained, uses straw mulching and methods of minimal or no tillage to protect soil structure, allowing the land to recover and flourish (休养生息, xiu yang sheng xi - "rest, nurture, live, grow") without affecting crop yields.
After extensive long-term experimentation, the team members summarized a set of operational guidelines for conservation tillage and developed supporting technical equipment. However, when promoting the method to farmers and herders, they encountered skepticism.
"If you don't plow the land and just plant directly, can the crops survive?" At first, upon hearing about this tillage method, some farmers and herders joked that it was "lazy man's farming."
To get farmers and herders to accept a new concept and new technology, tangible results had to speak for themselves. On the one hand, the team established experimental demonstration fields in more than 50 banners and counties. Experimental data showed that soybeans, corn, and other crops grown with conservation tillage increased yields by an average of 9 to 23 percent. On the other hand, team members went from village to village, using accessible examples and carefully calculated income accounts to explain the benefits of conservation tillage to farmers and herders. They also raised more than 400,000 yuan to compile and print 170,000 copies of popular science brochures, which were distributed free of charge... Gradually, farmers and herders set aside their doubts and became willing to try the new tillage method.
To date, conservation tillage technology has been promoted in Hulunbuir, Hinggan League, Tongliao, and other areas of Inner Mongolia, with a cumulative promotion area exceeding 300 million mu, increasing grain production by more than 20 billion jin, and reducing farmland wind erosion by over 60 percent.
Cultivating soil fertility, "taking the pulse and prescribing a prescription" for the soil
Although the promotion and application of reduced-tillage and no-tillage practices effectively solved the wind erosion problem, soil fertility remained relatively low, affecting the improvement of crop quality and yield.
"Land and crops are like people—they need balanced nutrition, otherwise they easily get sick," said team member Zhao Xiaoqing. "One of our jobs is to regularly collect soil samples, conduct diagnostic examinations, find the root cause of the disease, and prescribe the right remedy."
"The northern agro-pastoral ecotone spans a very wide area, with complex and diverse geographical environments, and soil conditions vary from place to place," Zhao Xiaoqing said. Just as people have different constitutions, the methods of conditioning differ. For example, the northeast faces the problems of black soil erosion and declining organic matter, while the northwest needs to address soil salinization. The team adopts differentiated soil fertility improvement measures based on the inherent "constitution" of the cultivated land.
In 2013, Zhao Xiaoqing, then a student majoring in bioinformatics, spent his days in the laboratory working with various microorganisms. By chance, he attended a presentation and heard that the team had long been working at the frontline, with research results directly related to the land and to farmers and herders. "I was deeply moved and also yearned to be part of it," Zhao Xiaoqing said.
Zhao Xiaoqing tried to contact Lu Zhanyuan. "Teacher Lu said the team still had a shortcoming in soil microorganism research, and my major happened to fit that direction, so he invited me to join."
After joining the team, Zhao Xiaoqing realized that agricultural research involves knowledge from multiple disciplines, and that staying only in the laboratory was not enough to understand the soil conditions of different regions. So he actively went to agricultural production frontlines across various areas, learning farming and field management from "local soil experts." Gradually, his research direction became clearer—developing microbial inoculants.
In the soil microorganism storage room, 12,900 strains of bacteria are preserved in categories in a row of constant-temperature refrigerators. Zhao Xiaoqing said that when beneficial microorganisms multiply and metabolize in the soil, they secrete organic acids, polysaccharides, and other substances that can bind soil particles together, forming loose, porous aggregate structures that improve soil aeration and water and fertilizer retention capacity. Their work is to isolate and screen various microorganisms from the soil, process them into inoculants and microbial fertilizers, and supplement nutrients to the soil in a targeted manner.
"In arid and cold environments, straw that is directly returned to the field is difficult to decompose naturally," Zhao Xiaoqing said. The team repeatedly went deep into the extremely cold areas along the foothills of the Greater Khingan Range and finally found strains that can promote straw degradation. "Straw-decomposing strains that can survive in harsh environments have strong environmental adaptability and can efficiently convert straw into nutrients absorbable by the soil under various severe conditions."
Under the "pulse-taking and consultation" of this group of "soil doctors," the improvement in regional soil fertility has been remarkable. The team explored the processes of farmland ecological degradation and the mechanisms of soil fertility cultivation, invented "soil-nourishing" technologies for in-situ straw decomposition promotion and targeted fertility improvement. Over the past 11 years, organic matter has increased in the demonstration and promotion areas in Inner Mongolia and Gansu, grain production has increased by 8.5 billion jin, and the technology has become the main farming system in the local areas, achieving a transformation from ecological degradation to soil fertility improvement. The related scientific research results won the second prize of the 2023 National Science and Technology Progress Award.
Improving agricultural machinery and equipment to solve production problems for farmers and herders
For the new tillage method to take root, agricultural machinery and equipment are a key link.
On the desk of team member Liu Jitao lies a folder labeled "Feedback Information," whose main contents are farmer feedback collected from agricultural machinery cooperatives across various regions, clearly sorting out the differentiated demands of different land types for seeding machine models.
Liu Jitao is from Inner Mongolia. After obtaining a doctorate in agricultural mechanization engineering, he joined the team, focusing on the iterative upgrading of agricultural machinery and equipment. "I want to develop more practical equipment so that farmers and herders in my hometown can have better harvests," Liu Jitao said.
"Problems with equipment need to be discovered in actual application scenarios," Liu Jitao said. He visited dozens of banners and counties, holding dialogues and exchanges with heads of agricultural machinery cooperatives and farmers and herders, constantly searching for pain points and shortcomings in agricultural machinery and equipment.
In the product brochure in the laboratory, the various types of agricultural machinery and equipment developed by the team are clearly presented. "This is the reduced-tillage and no-tillage seeding equipment, which can efficiently match the needs of conservation tillage," Liu Jitao explained. On some plots with heavy straw mulching, traditional seeders are prone to grass entanglement and clogging during operation, with uneven furrow depth, which also affects the uniformity of seedling emergence.
To address this problem, the team conducted experiments on different plots, repeatedly optimizing components such as stubble clearing, seed metering, and soil covering, and developed reduced-tillage and no-tillage erosion-reducing soil-protecting equipment adaptable to different crops such as corn, wheat, and potatoes. Liu Jitao gave an example: the arc-shaped narrow sliding-knife furrow opener can smoothly break through stubble and open furrows on straw-covered plots; the four-link profiling and soil-covering pressing device can automatically operate close to the ground according to surface undulations, steadily placing seeds at the appropriate depth before completing soil covering and pressing. "In the past, such machines either had incomplete stubble clearing or insufficient seeding precision. Now the operating speed can reach 10 kilometers per hour, and the qualified seeding rate exceeds 95 percent," Liu Jitao said.
The continuous innovative vitality of the young people cannot be separated from the team's support. "The team has established a reward mechanism for scientific research achievements, encouraging everyone to strive to produce high-quality results. We have also set up 'primary and secondary positions,' so that everyone both leads a main project and cooperates with each other," Lu Zhanyuan said. Today, the team has built a high-level scientific research platform and talent cultivation system, establishing seven national and provincial-level scientific research platforms including the Key Laboratory of Black Soil Protection and Utilization, providing broad room for growth for young researchers. The team has cumulatively trained 125 postdoctoral fellows, doctoral students, and master's students, injecting a steady stream of fresh blood into the development of China's conservation agriculture discipline.
From the laboratory to the frontline fields, this group of researchers with diverse backgrounds and full of vitality is writing the answer sheet of youth with hard work and sweat.
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During the interview, the most memorable keyword was "predecessors." Over more than 20 years, generations of team members have been rooted in the fields, enduring harsh weather and exposure (风吹日晒, feng chui ri sha - "wind, blow; sun, shine") and the passing of seasons (寒来暑往, han lai shu wang - "cold, come; heat, go"). The inheritance of experience and the support of predecessors have led to today's breakthroughs and also nurture hope for the future.
Working with the land, one cannot rush. From reducing wind erosion to improving soil fertility, and then to the iterative upgrading of equipment and technology, the team's main tasks at different stages may seem independent, but are in fact interlinked and closely connected (环环相扣, huan huan xiang kou - "ring, ring; mutually, hook")—once wind erosion is controlled, improving soil fertility becomes objectively possible; once soil fertility is enhanced, agricultural machinery and equipment have more a place where one can exercise their skills (用武之地, yong wu zhi di - "use, martial; place, land").
The inheritance of scientific research is supported by dedication, but more importantly requires institutional safeguards. Implementing the "mentor-guided teaching system," setting up "primary and secondary posts," encouraging newcomers to explore new fields... Predecessors are teaching with passion and skill (乐教善教, le jiao shan jiao - "happy, teach; good, teach"), while newcomers are full of drive. Barren land is gradually becoming fertile, and research vitality continues to surge.
Inheritance requires predecessors to boldly let go and give more opportunities, and also requires the younger generation to settle down and shoulder responsibilities. In the partnership of passing on and taking up, the journey of scientific research can then become vast and boundless prospects (海阔天空, hai kuo tian kong - "sea, wide; sky, vast").
Return to Top(People's Daily, Changchun, September 6) (Reporter Ni Yi) From September 2 to 6, Wu Weihua, Vice Chairperson of the NPC Standing Committee, led an inspection team on the enforcement of the Food Security Guarantee Law in Jilin Province to conduct inspections. He emphasized the need to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important statements on national food security and the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, practice the holistic approach to national security, promote the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Food Security Guarantee Law, and provide a solid legal guarantee for national food security.
The inspection team conducted on-site inspections in Changchun, Songyuan, Siping, and other places, and affirmed the achievements made by Jilin Province in implementing the Food Security Guarantee Law. Wu Weihua pointed out that it is necessary to uphold the Party's overall leadership over food security work, strengthen farmland protection and quality improvement in accordance with the law, enhance comprehensive grain production capacity in accordance with the law, strengthen grain reserve and circulation management in accordance with the law, promote high-quality development of the grain processing industry in accordance with the law, promote grain conservation and loss reduction across the entire chain in accordance with the law, improve the capacity to manage and govern grain in accordance with the law, and further consolidate the legal foundation for ensuring national food security.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 叶传增
Walking into the construction site of the T2 terminal building of the Kunming Changshui International Airport renovation and expansion project in Yunnan, tower cranes stand in rows, machinery roars, and workers move swiftly among steel reinforcement frames, focused on their tasks—a bustling scene of construction. As the core project of the Kunming Changshui International Airport renovation and expansion, the T2 terminal construction team is comprehensively advancing the integration of digital technology into the entire lifecycle of design, construction, and operation and maintenance, efficiently driving project progress with the concept of intelligent construction.
"What we are building is not just a terminal building, but a large integrated transportation hub," said Zhang Dinghao, project manager of the northern section of the T2 terminal under the Kunming International Aviation Hub Engineering Construction Headquarters. The T2 terminal is laid out in an integrated manner with the comprehensive transportation center, incorporating aviation, high-speed rail, subway, and expressway modes of transport to achieve integrated intermodal transfer. "The project involves numerous specialties, and the design, construction, and operation and maintenance are all highly challenging." The headquarters has coordinated multiple participating units to establish a "digital integration platform system," using building information modeling technology to construct a three-dimensional digital twin model covering design, construction, and operation and maintenance, implementing digitalized construction throughout the entire process.
Clicking open the three-dimensional model on the computer, the digital design drawings of the entire T2 terminal unfold across the screen. "In the traditional design approach, each unit first drew its own drawings and then integrated them together, making many spatial issues difficult to detect at the design stage," explained Ren Zhiping, deputy general manager of China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Southwest Company and general manager of the T2 terminal project general contracting department. Using building information modeling technology, the 8 design institutes and 22 design groups of the renovation and expansion project collaborate in a unified three-dimensional space, with the system automatically performing "collision detection" to eliminate spatial conflicts before construction; through digital modeling and pre-simulation, potential spatial collision points between pile foundations and the high-speed rail tunnel are identified in advance, optimizing pile foundation layout, avoiding rework caused by positional conflicts, and laying the foundation for smooth later-stage construction.
Kunming is located in a seismically active zone with high seismic fortification intensity; at the same time, after the Chongqing–Kunming high-speed railway is completed, trains will pass through at a speed of 350 kilometers per hour, 12 meters beneath the terminal building. "Train operation generates high-frequency vibrations of 20–80 hertz, which, combined with seismic fortification requirements, imposes extremely high demands on the structural safety of the terminal building," said Huang Hao, general manager of Yunnan Airport Construction and Development Co., Ltd., which is responsible for the terminal's seismic and vibration reduction engineering.
Huang Hao explained that the project construction team has built a dual protection system of "seismic isolation layer + vibration control layer" at the base of the building, like putting "shock-absorbing running shoes" on the building—capable of both isolating seismic energy and filtering out high-frequency vibrations.
The construction team has arranged 2,003 seismic isolation bearings at the base of the terminal building, the largest weighing 16.7 tons with a maximum load-bearing capacity of 1,800 tons. The isolation layer uses lead-core rubber bearings, which absorb seismic energy through rubber shear deformation, reducing horizontal seismic action to one-quarter to one-eighth of that of traditional structures; the vibration control layer uses custom three-dimensional steel spring bearings to filter out high-frequency train vibrations. Each bearing is equipped with intelligent sensing and early-warning sensors that can capture subtle vibrations, buying precious time for emergency response.
On the construction site, tower cranes operate with precision at heights of a hundred meters, yet the operator cabins are empty. In a remote centralized control cockpit several hundred meters away, tower crane operator Guan Xiaomei watched a high-definition screen, gently moving the joystick, and in no time precisely completed a high-altitude steel reinforcement hoisting operation. Guan Xiaomei said that in the past, moving from one tower crane to another required climbing up and down, but now she only needs to click the switch button on the instrument to change tower crane operations. The 5G intelligent tower crane independently developed by the enterprise is equipped with high-definition cameras and anti-collision systems, allowing operators to conduct remote hoisting operations from the ground, improving both safety and efficiency.
At the construction site of the C pier corridor, workers scan the QR code next to structural components with their phones to call up the three-dimensional model, construction steps, and process requirements for that section. "How steel reinforcement should be threaded and how formwork should be erected are difficult to express in two-dimensional drawings. We use building information modeling technology to convert drawings into three-dimensional, visualized digital 'model rooms,' making it immediately obvious and easy to understand (一目了然, yi mu le ran - "one, eye, understand, clearly") for workers to construct with precision," said Long Yetian, chief engineer of the Yunnan Branch of China Construction Third Engineering Bureau Southwest Company. Intelligent construction solves not only the problem of "doing it well and doing it fast," but also the problem of "managing it clearly and controlling it firmly." "It transforms the extensive management that once relied on individual experience into refined, process-based decision-making driven by data, making coordination on ultra-large, complex projects smoother and quality and safety control more transparent and efficient."
Return to Top(People's Daily, Taiyuan, September 6) (Reporter Ma Ruishan) From September 4 to 5, the 2026 Taiyuan Energy Low-Carbon Development Forum was held at the Shanxi Xiaohe International Conference Center. This year's forum was co-hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Energy Administration, and the People's Government of Shanxi Province, under the theme "Dual Carbon Leading Energy Transition, Innovation Accelerating a Green Future."
Through the opening ceremony and high-level meeting, five international conferences, seven parallel forums, six thematic events, and related supporting activities, this year's forum fully showcased the achievements and changes in China's energy transition over the past decade. Authoritative experts from home and abroad jointly discussed energy transition trends, pathways for energy technology innovation, and opportunities for regional cooperation, promoting the gathering and implementation of cutting-edge concepts, advanced technologies, and demonstration projects for the global green and low-carbon energy transition.
The year 2026 marks the tenth year of the Taiyuan Forum. Over the past decade, Shanxi has upgraded its low-carbon industrial system, broadened its transformation and development tracks, and vigorously developed diversified business forms such as wind and solar power bases, geothermal heating, hydrogen energy, and the methanol economy, with the energy industry accelerating toward high-end, intelligent, and green development. In 2025, Shanxi's installed capacity of new energy and clean energy reached 90.484 million kilowatts, accounting for 55.1 percent of total installed power capacity, surpassing coal power for the first time; green electricity trading volume reached 10 billion kilowatt-hours, ranking among the forefront of the country.
Return to TopThe craft of making line noodles (xian mian) in Puqian Village, Minhou County, Fuzhou, Fujian Province, has been passed down for more than 800 years. In recent years, the local area has deeply cultivated its distinctive industry, helping villagers find employment nearby and injecting momentum into the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. The photo shows villagers of Puqian Village, Minhou County, drying line noodles on September 6.
Photo by Wang Wangwang (Image China)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Yibin, September 6) (Reporter Li Kaixuan) On September 3, the 2026 World Power Battery Conference opened in Yibin, Sichuan. With the theme "Powering Everything · Coexistence through Integration," the conference was hosted by the People's Government of Sichuan Province and co-organized by the Yibin Municipal People's Government, the Department of Economy and Information Technology of Sichuan Province, and the Equipment Industry Development Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The conference featured an opening ceremony, plenary sessions, thematic meetings, and multiple parallel events, aiming to build consensus for industry development, promote industrial clustering, deepen international exchanges and cooperation, and jointly chart new paths for the high-quality development of the power battery industry.
At the opening ceremony, the 2025–2026 annual achievements in power battery innovation were released, including ultra-fast-charging power battery technology, high-specific-energy hybrid solid-liquid battery technology, and long-life battery technology for battery-swap passenger vehicles. Meanwhile, an initiative to build a green supply chain for the battery industry was launched at the conference. The initiative focuses on policy research, standards and certification, carbon asset management, pilot demonstrations, and international cooperation in the battery sector, promoting green and low-carbon practices throughout the entire life cycle of batteries, from raw material extraction and manufacturing to use, recycling, and regeneration.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曲哲涵 郁静娴
In accordance with the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the Ministry of Finance will soon issue 300 billion yuan in special treasury bonds to actively support 8 central financial enterprises in replenishing their core Tier 1 capital.
According to the capital increase announcements published by the 8 central financial enterprises on September 6, the Agricultural Bank of China plans to receive 130 billion yuan in special treasury bond funding support as well as 30 billion yuan in capital contributions from other shareholders; the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China plans to receive 70 billion yuan in special treasury bond funding support as well as 30 billion yuan in capital contributions from other shareholders; the Export-Import Bank of China, the China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation, China Life Insurance (Group) Company, and China Taiping Insurance Group Co., Ltd. will respectively receive 30 billion yuan, 10 billion yuan, 35 billion yuan, and 7 billion yuan in special treasury bond funding support; the People's Insurance Company of China Group Co., Ltd. plans to receive no more than 15 billion yuan in special treasury bond funding support; and China Reinsurance (Group) Corporation plans to receive 3 billion yuan in special treasury bond funding support.
In terms of the method of capital replenishment, 4 enterprises — the Agricultural Bank of China, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the People's Insurance Company of China Group Co., Ltd., and China Reinsurance (Group) Corporation — plan to raise funds by issuing shares to specific targets, among which the issuance targets for the Agricultural Bank of China and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China include the Ministry of Finance, the China National Tobacco Corporation, and its relevant subsidiaries; the remaining 4 institutions will receive direct capital injections from the Ministry of Finance.
2026 is the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, and the next five years constitute a critical stage for China's construction of a financial power and the accelerated development of new quality productive forces. Central financial enterprises bear the missions and responsibilities of serving the real economy, promoting economic transformation and upgrading, and achieving their own high-quality development.
"When the Ministry of Finance injects capital into financial institutions, what is directly increased is the owners' equity of the financial institutions, enhancing their ability to prevent risks and improving their lending capacity and risk solvency capacity." Luo Zhiheng, chief economist of Yuankai Securities, stated that China is currently in the stage of accelerating the transition between old and new growth drivers. Replenishing the capital of financial institutions can strengthen their capacity for disposing of non-performing assets and absorbing risks, assist in the transformation of real estate and local government financing platforms; at the same time, it builds a risk buffer cushion, consolidates the foundation for the institutions' sound operations, releases space for credit expansion, supports the development of new quality productive forces with greater intensity, and enhances the effectiveness of financial institutions in serving the transformation and upgrading of the real economy.
"This capital replenishment of 160 billion yuan demonstrates the state's firm support for the long-term development of the Agricultural Bank of China and reflects the high recognition by the capital-increasing shareholders of the Agricultural Bank of China's operational strength and development potential." Liu Qing, Secretary to the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Bank of China, stated that the Agricultural Bank of China will take this capital increase as an opportunity to focus on its main responsibilities and core business, and continuously improve the quality and effectiveness of serving agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农) and the real economy. In particular, it will seize the good opportunities presented by integrated urban-rural development, solidly carry out whole-chain financial services for grain and other important agricultural products, support rural specialty industries in light of local conditions, and continuously promote the balanced and orderly disbursement of loans to farmers.
"In recent years, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's operations and development have achieved steady progress amidst stability (稳中有进, wen you zhong jin - "stable, within, move forward"), and the characteristics of 'large, stable, superior, and strong' have continued to be demonstrated, with its value creation capability, market competitiveness, market influence, and risk control capability continuously improving." A relevant person in charge of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China stated that this planned capital increase of 100 billion yuan will promote the further enhancement of the bank's capital strength while strengthening its risk resistance capability, enabling it to serve as the main force in serving the real economy and the ballast stone for maintaining financial stability.
Industry insiders stated that this issuance of special treasury bonds to support relevant central financial enterprises in replenishing their core Tier 1 capital is conducive to further consolidating and enhancing their sound operational capability, risk resistance capability, and capability to serve the real economy, helping to consolidate the safety barrier of the financial system and providing more solid support for the stable and healthy development of the national economy.
The scope of this capital increase is not limited to state-owned banks, but extends to policy-based financial institutions and state-owned commercial insurance companies.
Luo Zhiheng believes that for the two policy-based financial institutions — the Export-Import Bank of China and the China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation — the capital injection can strengthen their capability to serve major national strategies and support high-level opening up, better support the key areas, weak links, and critical bottlenecks of economic and social development, and promote economic transformation and upgrading and high-quality development; for the four state-owned commercial insurance companies, the capital injection can further enhance their solvency, expand their underwriting capacity, increase the supply of diversified and multi-tiered insurance products, give play to the insurance industry's function as an economic shock absorber and social stabilizer, and assist in the construction of key areas of the national economy and society.
A relevant person in charge of China Life introduced that as of the end of June this year, China Life's insurance funds serving the real economy had a cumulative outstanding investment scale exceeding 6 trillion yuan, and the outstanding investment scale of insurance funds in domestic public market equities exceeded 1.3 trillion yuan. After receiving this 35 billion yuan capital injection, the company's underwriting capacity will be further improved and its risk resistance capability will be stronger. "We will closely follow the main line of financial work, unswervingly strengthen our core business, comprehensively advance digital and intelligent transformation, and accelerate the construction of a world-class financial insurance group with Chinese characteristics," the person in charge stated.
"This planned capital injection of 3 billion yuan will help the company improve its capacity to provide protection against complex risks and emerging risks." A relevant person in charge of China Re stated that the company will further develop catastrophe insurance, technology insurance, shipping insurance, and other businesses to serve the development of the real economy and high-level opening up.
"This capital increase for the 8 central financial enterprises is a proactive action to support the high-quality development of central financial enterprises and assist the long-term steady development (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk, stable, reach, far") of the macroeconomy. It constitutes a forward-looking arrangement of making advance preparations for potential difficulties (未雨绸缪, wei yu chou mou - "not yet, rain, prepare, plan"), and also demonstrates the state's confidence in the future development of the financial industry." Luo Zhiheng stated that the simultaneous implementation of capital replenishment by multiple types of financial institutions reflects the fiscal system's systematic support for the financial system, laying a solid foundation for promoting high-quality development of finance and accelerating the construction of a financial power during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
The funds needed for this capital increase are still raised through the issuance of special treasury bonds. The Ministry of Finance has already made overall arrangements for the issuance of these special treasury bonds. In terms of issuance scale, taking into account factors such as the work arrangements for supporting relevant central financial enterprises in replenishing capital and the actual conditions of the financial market, it plans to publicly issue 300 billion yuan in special treasury bonds. In terms of issuance pace, attention will be paid to roughly matching the timing of capital replenishment by the 8 central financial enterprises, so as to improve the efficiency of fund utilization.
(People's Daily reporters Ge Mengchao and Qu Xinming participated in the writing of this article)
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Recently, Li Shufu, Chairman of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, resigned as Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of Geely Automobile Holdings Limited, handing over the baton of this listed company to a team of professional managers. As one of the earliest private automobile enterprises in China, Geely Automobile has been at the forefront in areas such as independent research and development of core technologies and overseas mergers and acquisitions. A reporter from our newspaper conducted an exclusive interview with Li Shufu in Taizhou, Zhejiang, to hear the reflections of this "long-distance runner" of the private automobile industry on navigating cycles, corporate succession, and global development at the moment of handing over the baton.
— Editor
"For an enterprise to continuously maintain vigorous combat effectiveness and competitiveness, it needs a steady influx of young forces into key positions"
Q: Why has Geely been able to navigate cycles and stay at the forefront of the industry?
A: Geely is a witness to and beneficiary of China's reform and opening up. In the face of major historical opportunities, one must seize the moment. Over the 40 years since its founding, our products have expanded from refrigerator components to refrigerators and building decoration materials, then to motorcycles and automobiles, and now we have become a multinational automobile enterprise with global competitiveness. We have deeply integrated national strategic direction with corporate operations, fully stimulating the enthusiasm and creativity of the enterprise's management and all employees.
Q: Geely has proposed a global sales target of 6 million vehicles by 2030, aiming to rank among the world's top five automakers. What is the basis of your confidence in challenging this goal?
A: This is a highly competitive industry. The automobile industry is a marathon without an end, where every day involves constant, intense competition (你追我赶, ni zhui wo gan - "you chase me, I chase you") and striving forward.
We have been laying foundations and honing our internal capabilities. Through independent innovation, domestic and overseas mergers and acquisitions, and especially in various talent development efforts such as technical worker training, we have made major determinations and invested substantial funds, gradually accumulating talent advantages and technological advantages, and forming a distinctive corporate system and culture. These are all resources and strengths that enable us to turn ideas into reality.
Q: You have just resigned as Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the listed company, handing over to An Conghui, who started the business with you. Why hand over at the moment when Geely Automobile has delivered its best half-year results?
A: Corporate succession and value orientation determine how far an enterprise can go. People are the key to corporate cultural inheritance. For an enterprise to continuously maintain vigorous combat effectiveness and competitiveness, it needs a steady influx of young forces into key positions, continuously driving and leading the enterprise forward.
For Geely to become an international enterprise with a century-long foundation, it must improve its modern governance structure and build a professional management team that is full of vitality, has ideals and aspirations, and can continuously lead the enterprise forward. The most suitable professional management team is one that has grown up internally—they are best able to represent and continuously stimulate the enterprise's "spirit, energy, and drive." Geely Automobile is currently in a relatively good phase. To maintain this good momentum over the long term, correct arrangements need to be made at critical moments.
"The automobile must take safety as the most fundamental concept in design, manufacturing, and service"
Q: The current automobile industry faces irrational competition—for example, some "radical" innovative designs are installed in vehicles without full verification. How do you evaluate this kind of "short, fast, and quick" car manufacturing?
A: Taking shortcuts, cutting corners, and engaging in "short, fast, and quick" car manufacturing—I don't think that will succeed. An automobile is a serious product that concerns the safety of life, not only the safety of the car owner but also the safety of other traffic participants. Therefore, the automobile must take safety as the most fundamental concept in design, manufacturing, and service.
Designing an automobile must follow a strict development process, from planning and design, engineering and manufacturing, supply chain, to production preparation. Skipping any step will plant hidden safety hazards. Based on our experience, if a car is brought to market without three or even five years of research and development, its maturity, durability, and reliability may all harbor hidden problems. This is our reverence for safety.
Q: How should Chinese automakers jointly maintain a fair and clean public opinion environment?
A: The automobile industry is a very serious industry. Creating a fair and transparent competitive atmosphere is crucial to the healthy development of the industry. "Doing well is not as good as talking well"—this indeed hurts the feelings of those who do real work. Geely insists that all business operations must not touch the red line of the law or cross the bottom line of morality, and strictly stipulates that there can be no paid internet trolls and no saying one thing while doing another. This is the enterprise's bottom line.
It has not been easy for China's automobile industry to reach where it is today. How to enable China's automobile industry to avoid involution, develop better, proceed more steadily, and earn greater respect is key to ensuring the industry's sustainable development. While engaging in healthy competition, everyone should also be able to support each other, help each other, remind each other, cooperate with each other, and progress together. This requires that all aspects of automobile company management comply with laws and regulations.
"We must share production capacity, share markets, and share results with automobile peers around the world"
Q: How should Chinese automakers complete the leap from exporting products to building ecosystems together?
A: The total size of the global automobile market is basically fixed, and everyone wants to grab market share. Chinese automobiles have a cost-performance advantage, but how do we make people welcome Chinese automobile companies to build factories and sell there? Different enterprises have different approaches. Geely has taken a path of win-win cooperation and common development. We will not build new factories or create new production capacity; instead, we will share production capacity, share markets, and share results with automobile peers around the world.
Some markets can be served by directly selling products, while others require localized development. We must make countries that have market demand and also wish to develop their own automobile industries feel that our arrival is a form of help and support, truly achieving win-win cooperation. We must communicate very friendly and very honestly with governments, peoples, and automobile peers of all countries—this is the basic philosophy of expanding global business.
Q: Back then, Geely acquired Volvo from Ford, and recently you cooperated with Ford to operate a production base in Spain. From acquisition to sharing production capacity, how have your mindset and the overall industry environment changed?
A: In doing business, one must not only achieve win-win cooperation but also make all cooperating parties feel at ease, becoming business partners and business friends. That's how it was when we acquired Volvo back then.
Ford's factory in Spain had insufficient capacity utilization, and the idle capacity happened to be suitable for producing relatively affordable models like Galaxy. We proposed whether we could share this portion of production capacity, and after discussion, the two sides reached an agreement.
"Find a balance between speed and stability, and open up new horizons one step at a time"
Q: Geely has been cultivating the green methanol track for more than 20 years. What considerations lie behind this persistence?
A: In the development and research of methanol vehicles and green methanol energy, we have invested enormous human, material, and financial resources. Methanol is "liquid hydrogen and electricity"—it has low storage and transportation costs and can fully utilize the wind, solar, and coal resources of the western region. Geely's more than 20 years of deep cultivation is precisely because we hope to use this technology to explore a pragmatic and feasible new path and help achieve energy security.
This is also a need of the enterprise's own development strategy. For an enterprise to achieve long-term sustainable development, it must always have its own advantageous technological route.
Q: Why does Geely like to run schools? What role has this model of building its own talent pool played in improving the enterprise's competitiveness?
A: At that time, it was almost impossible to find automotive engineering and technical personnel in Taizhou, Zhejiang, nor could we find industrial workers with technical skills. It was indeed not easy to produce automobiles in this place. Without talent, we had to cultivate talent ourselves, so we built schools. Later, step by step, in other places, wherever Geely had factories, we did our utmost to build technical and vocational colleges, cultivating talent on the one hand while developing the automobile industry on the other. The schools have provided very strong human resources support for the enterprise's development.
Q: To forge global competitiveness capable of navigating cycles, what is the most urgent problem China's automobile industry needs to solve at present?
A: We must consolidate and expand the hard-won good situation of China's automobile industry, further solve the problem of "chokepoint" core technologies, and further enhance the brand reputation and added value of enterprises. This requires a process. Today, China's automobile industry is already a miracle in the eyes of the West, but we must not become arrogant and self-satisfied (骄傲自满, jiao ao zi man - "proud, self-satisfied"); we should know where our shortcomings and weaknesses lie.
Everyone must work together to make up for these shortcomings. At present, competition in the global automobile industry is even more intense. How do we continue to achieve good results? I think there is no panacea or magic remedy (灵丹妙药, ling dan miao yao - "miracle, wonderful") for solving this problem. We can only discover and solve problems bit by bit, find a balance between speed and stability, and make steady, gradual progress (一步一个脚印, yi bu yi ge jiao yin - "one step, one footprint") in opening up new horizons.
Return to TopIn Angsu Town, Otog Front Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, located in the Mu Us Sandy Land, potatoes planted in sandy farmland have entered the harvest season. Local farmers are stepping up harvesting and outbound transport to meet market demand in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Ningxia, and other places. The photo shows potato harvesting by agricultural machinery on September 5 in the sandy farmland of Bayan Xili Gacha, Angsu Town.
Photo by Wang Zheng (Image China)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Nanning, September 6) (Reporters Pang Geping, Zhang Yunhe) The reporter learned from the Secretariat of the China-ASEAN Expo: The 23rd China-ASEAN Expo will set up a tax-refund service point for departing travelers for the first time. By refining convenience measures, improving smart services, and enriching supporting offerings, it will provide exhibitor enterprises and business visitors with a more convenient experience in exhibiting and attending the expo.
The tax-refund service point for departing travelers, set up for the first time at this session of the China-ASEAN Expo, is located in the front hall on the first floor of Area B of the Nanning International Convention and Exhibition Center. After overseas business visitors make purchases at designated merchants in Nanning, Guangxi, they can handle tax-refund procedures on site at the expo venue, where multilingual consultation and process guidance will be provided simultaneously, further stimulating the enthusiasm of overseas business visitors for entering China to exhibit, attend, and consume.
The expo venue will also centrally provide comprehensive services such as cross-border finance, commercial legal affairs, exhibit logistics, and on-site guided tours, covering the full-process needs of enterprises in exhibiting, helping enterprises reduce cumbersome matters, and making it convenient for business visitors to exhibit with peace of mind and to engage in docking and exchanges.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Changsha, September 6) (Reporters Ouyang Jie, Yang Xun) The reporter learned from the China-Kazakhstan Grain Enterprise Exchange Meeting held on the 5th that the China-Kazakhstan Grain Trading Platform has officially been launched and put into operation, marking a new digital stage in grain trade cooperation between the two countries.
In May this year, China's National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration and Kazakhstan's Ministry of Agriculture signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the grain sector, establishing a long-term cooperation mechanism. Since then, with the joint efforts of both sides, substantial progress has been made in the construction of the China-Kazakhstan Grain Trading Platform, and the online trading pilot has been successfully implemented, creating favorable conditions for the platform's official launch. The China-Kazakhstan Grain Trading Platform, now officially launched, was jointly built by the Grain Trading Coordination Center of the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration and Kazakhstan's National Grain Trade Corporation, and will provide enterprises of both countries with a standardized, efficient, and convenient new channel for online grain trade.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王云杉
Inside heavy-duty mining trucks, it cushions heavy pressure and jolting impacts, preventing severe wear on metal components; in wind turbine units, it resists high-temperature aging, ensuring the units' long-term stable operation; on intercity high-speed railways, it ensures smooth gear meshing, safeguarding the travel safety of millions of passengers... Lubricating materials are not merely "ancillary consumables" for industry; as the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing continues to deepen, they are becoming an important support for whether major equipment can turn, turn for long, and turn steadily, and are a key link in the autonomous and controllable industrial chain.
Lubricating products are closely related to equipment operation, maintenance costs, and supply assurance. As industrial demand continues to change, the supply of a single product can no longer cover the diverse needs of different industrial scenarios. "The standardization development of China's lubricating industry still needs to be continuously advanced. State-owned backbone enterprises and research institutes should deepen industry-university-research collaboration and join forces to tackle frontier key lubricating technologies," said Liu Weimin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. "The more complex the equipment operating conditions, the higher the requirements for the environmental adaptability, performance stability, and service life of lubricating materials."
Take the oil products required for ultra-high-voltage transformers as an example. Ultra-high-voltage transmission covers long distances and has large capacity, and transformers operate under ultra-high-voltage conditions for extended periods, placing higher demands on the insulating and heat-dissipating performance of the oil. How can basic materials keep pace with equipment upgrading needs? To meet the needs of relevant projects, PetroChina Lubricant Company (Kunlun Lubricants) has continuously improved base oil quality and refined additive formulations, developing ultra-high-voltage direct-current transmission supporting oils that meet International Electrotechnical Commission standards, and applying them to projects such as the Changji–Guquan ±1100 kV ultra-high-voltage direct-current transmission project.
It is not only product upgrades; service models are also being continuously innovated. In the past, lubricating oil procurement was often regarded as a simple product transaction; but in actual industrial scenarios, the problems customers need to solve also include how to manage lubrication scientifically, how to improve equipment operating efficiency, and how to reduce supply chain risks.
To meet new challenges, the key lies in upgrading the service model—through on-site surveys, data analysis, oil product optimization, system building, and continuous monitoring, extending services further into links such as equipment operation and supply chain assurance.
Wind turbine gearboxes endure heavy loads and frequent start-stop cycles over the long term. Lubrication solutions must not only suit high-power units but also consider subsequent oil changes and maintenance. From technical exchange and product admission, to initial installation of wind turbine units, and then to the oil change stage, Kunlun Lubricants has carried out one-stop collaborative tackling of challenges around customers' actual needs, reducing the oil change cost for one wind power enterprise's turbines by nearly 30 percent.
Facing actual needs, improving product adaptability. At the Ecological Partner Conference, Kunlun Lubricants General Manager Tang Zhongping stated that the enterprise not only delivers lubricating products but, more importantly, based on the actual needs of different industries, different equipment, and different application scenarios, uses its products, technology, and service capabilities to help partners achieve reducing costs and increasing efficiency (降本增效, jiang ben zeng xiao - "reduce cost, increase efficiency") and promote energy conservation and carbon reduction across the entire industrial chain.
Focusing on the domestic substitution of key materials and applications under complex operating conditions, enterprises in fields such as equipment manufacturing and related enterprises in the lubricating industry have carried out joint tackling of challenges to advance the application of independent products in actual industrial scenarios. Taking the cooperation between Kunlun Lubricants and Harbin Electric Group as an example, after the two sides advanced domestic substitution, Kunlun Lubricants adopted a "one product, one strategy" approach to carry out technical benchmarking, and Harbin Electric Group's comprehensive procurement cost for lubricating oil products fell by more than 23 percent. Yao Yuehong, Deputy General Manager of Harbin Electric Group Materials Co., Ltd., said that this cooperation has provided solid assurance for the on-time delivery of major projects and the long-term reliable operation of equipment.
"Kunlun Lubricants has transformed from delivering products to providing overall lubrication solutions, and from developing lubricating oils to developing lubricating materials, and is now able to provide full-chain, butler-style services," Tang Zhongping said. The enterprise will further strengthen the domestic substitution of key materials and independent research and development of high-end technologies, increase research and development efforts in fields such as green lubrication and intelligent lubrication, and open up technology, channels, and industrial resources to jointly tackle technical difficulties with upstream and downstream enterprises, creating conditions for the continued expansion of the application of independent lubricating materials.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Kunming, September 6) (Reporter Ye Chuanzeng) According to statistics from Kunming Customs: in the first seven months of this year, Yunnan's goods trade imports and exports reached 168.19 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.3 percent. Among them, exports reached 58.18 billion yuan, up 9.2 percent; imports reached 110.01 billion yuan, up 9.4 percent.
In the first seven months of this year, Yunnan's imports and exports with Belt and Road Initiative trading partners reached 144.99 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.6 percent, and trade ties with countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative have become closer. Imports and exports with ASEAN reached a new historical high for the same period, exceeding 90 billion yuan for the first time, reaching 90.18 billion yuan, up 21.3 percent. Among them, trade volumes with Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos increased by 31.1 percent, 43.3 percent, and 28.1 percent, respectively. In addition, imports and exports with Latin America and Africa increased by 15.8 percent and 41 percent, respectively.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵 兵 白光迪 人民网记者 李 阔
Dear Comrade Editor:
A company named Panfeng Renewable Resources Recycling Co., Ltd. has long operated an unauthorized dock at No. 7 Chuyun Road, Gusu District, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, secretly shipping untreated construction waste and recycled stone materials. The Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Transport has conducted on-site law enforcement many times, yet has been unable to remove this illegal dock. Please look into this matter.
A netizen of the People's Daily Online "Message Board for Leaders"
Based on the leads provided by the netizen, a reporter recently went to Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province to conduct an investigation and interview.
The reporter kept watch at the dock for several days. Despite law enforcement by the maritime department, multiple vessels still came ashore to load construction waste and "aggregate."
On the evening of August 27, the reporter kept watch near Baiyang Bay on the ancient Grand Canal in Suzhou. In the darkness, cargo ships continuously shuttled back and forth on the Suzhou section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. At around 9:40 p.m., a cargo ship came ashore guided by flashlight signals from personnel on the bank. Soon, yellow lights lit up on the pitch-black shore, a conveyor belt tilted high toward the ship's hull, and several loaders fed construction spoil through the conveyor belt into the ship's hold. The scene was filled with the roar of machinery...
On August 5, 6, 7, 20, and 27, the reporter kept watch five times and each time saw that from late night until the early hours of the following morning, multiple cargo ships loaded construction sand, gravel, and spoil along this stretch of riverbank before departing. During this period, a maritime patrol boat once arrived at the scene. Law enforcement personnel used a loudspeaker to call out to the cargo ship: "Docking is prohibited here, please leave as soon as possible!" But operations continued as usual on site. More than an hour later, the fully loaded cargo ship headed north and disappeared into the night.
Beside this stretch of riverbank is Panfeng Renewable Resources Recycling Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Panfeng Company"), whose main business includes the collection, disposal, and resource-based reuse of construction waste and renovation waste.
Is loading construction waste onto ships here compliant? A relevant person in charge of Panfeng Company said in an interview that the company has all the necessary qualifications and environmental impact assessment procedures, and that all construction waste has been sorted and disposed of. However, what the reporter saw was not the case.
On the morning of August 6, a spoil truck with a load capacity of 7 tons was filled with a truckload of construction waste at a construction site in Gusu District. The reporter followed this truck to Panfeng Company.
After entering the gate, the truck headed straight for the stockyard beside the dock and dumped the construction waste directly onto the ground. Subsequently, multiple trucks loaded with construction waste, guided by staff, dumped their loads at the same location.
Wang Jun (a pseudonym), the spoil truck driver, told the reporter that he had been delivering construction waste to Panfeng Company for some time. When construction waste enters the plant, a simple distinction is made: "Those mixed with large amounts of household waste go into the assembly line for sorting," while "relatively 'clean' ones are directly unloaded at the stockyard beside the dock and then loaded onto ships." The reporter saw several workers at the edge of the stockyard picking out woven bags and plastic bags from the surface of the pile of waste just dumped. Apart from that, no further processing was observed.
Around noon, a cargo ship numbered "Yuxin Cargo 11661" came alongside and docked. Subsequently, the conveyor machine roared, three loaders ran at full power, and the suspected construction waste just dumped by the spoil truck on the stockyard was fed directly through the conveyor belt into the cargo ship's hold.
On the afternoon of August 7, the reporter saw a cargo ship numbered "Xiangyun 69" docked at Panfeng Company's dock, with its hold suspected to be full of construction waste. Not long afterward, the reporter learned that on the afternoon of August 14, when the "Xiangyun 69" cargo ship reached the waters of Jingjiang, Taizhou, Jiangsu, it was prohibited from going ashore to unload because it could not provide the relevant local transshipment permit.
On the afternoon of August 16, the reporter boarded the ship for inspection together with law enforcement personnel from the Jingjiang Municipal Urban Management Bureau and the Maritime Affairs Office. The shipowner provided a test report issued by Jiangsu Provincial Construction Engineering Quality Testing Center Co., Ltd., claiming that the cargo being transported was "road-use recycled aggregate."
According to the "Guidelines for the Application and Quality Control of Construction Waste Resource Utilization Products" compiled by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and other departments, the "aggregate category" refers to "aggregate obtained from construction waste after processing through processes such as sorting, crushing, and screening." However, the reporter saw on site that the surface of the waste was mixed with a small amount of household waste such as plastic bags. Subsequently, staff members also picked out plastic bags and other garbage and threw them directly into the Yangtze River.
Even more suspicious was that the testing time on the test report was "April 16–April 17," while the product certificate issued by Panfeng Company showed that both the production date and inspection date of the goods were "August 7." The two differed by nearly four months.
Similarly, on August 18, a vessel numbered "Lihang Machine 1662" was caught by local authorities while illegally dumping at a mudflat in Nanxun District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. "The cargo on this vessel came from Suzhou Panfeng Company. The product certificate says it is 'construction aggregate,' with a production date of August 15, but the test report date is August 3," said Wu Yuezhao, head of the Port, Shipping, and Maritime Law Enforcement Section of the Huzhou Municipal Bureau of Transport. He said the vessel had been placed on file for investigation.
How could a third-party test report be obtained in advance before the product had even been produced? In response, the relevant person in charge of Panfeng Company said the test report was taken by mistake and that it was a minor loophole in management.
The dock has no legal procedures, making it difficult to track the cargo transshipped at the dock and the destinations of the vessels.
The netizen's message stated that the dock was an unauthorized dock. Is that the case? The Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Transport clearly stated that Panfeng Company has never obtained a port operation license covering loading and unloading operations, has never passed shoreline approval, has never completed port capital construction completion and acceptance procedures, and has never obtained any other approval or permit from port, waterway, or maritime departments for dock loading and unloading. The dock is an "illegal loading and unloading point."
However, Panfeng Company claimed that from 2018 to 2022, it had been borrowing the port operation license of Suzhou Materials Storage and Transportation Co., Ltd., and that its scope of operations had been included under port operation license management. It was only after the port operation license expired in April 2022 that the relevant qualification was revoked.
The relevant person in charge of Panfeng Company said that in order to obtain legal status for the dock, it had applied to the Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Transport many times for a port operation license for waterborne cargo loading and unloading, but was rejected.
The Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Transport, in turn, said that both of the two required materials for Panfeng Company's application for a "port operation license for waterborne cargo loading and unloading" were missing: first, there was no approval document for the use of port shoreline; second, there was no certificate of completion and acceptance of dock facilities. The application did not meet the conditions for filing.
It is understood that in 2021, the Jiangsu Provincial Government issued the "Interim Measures for Territorial Spatial Control of the Core Monitoring Zone of the Jiangsu Section of the Grand Canal," designating the area within 2 kilometers on both banks of the main channel of the Jiangsu section of the Grand Canal as the "core monitoring zone." Panfeng Company is located precisely within the core monitoring zone. Article 11 of the Interim Measures clearly stipulates: strengthen shoreline management. Strictly protect and rationally utilize shorelines, and maintain the basic stability of shorelines.
Moreover, "port operation qualifications cannot be rented or borrowed." Fan Yujie, deputy captain of the Port Administration Law Enforcement Brigade (hereinafter referred to as the "Port Administration Brigade") of the Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Transport, said that Panfeng Company continuously from start to finish (自始至终, zi shi zhi zhong - "from beginning to end; throughout the whole process") has never had port operation qualifications.
The Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Detachment of the Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Transport (Suzhou Local Maritime Safety Administration) clearly stated in its reply of August 7 that "the land parcel where Panfeng Company is located is owned by the Materials Holding Group. The property owner originally leased the parcel to Shengda Logistics Company, and the lease contract clearly stipulated that the parcel could only be used for warehousing, without including any port or dock operation rights. Later, Shengda Logistics Company subleased it to Panfeng Company without authorization, privately expanding the scope of the lease and changing the purpose of the lease."
Because Panfeng Company uses an "illegal loading and unloading point" (dock), the cargo vessels that come to pick up goods cannot report to port through normal procedures. On the entry and exit port report form of the "Xiangyun 69" vessel, the berthing position was listed as "Berth No. 1 of Suzhou Fulifeng Building Materials Co., Ltd." — the dock of a company next door to Panfeng Company.
For the transport department, it is very difficult to track the destinations of cargo vessels that pick up goods from the "illegal loading and unloading point" and the types of cargo they carry. Taking the "Yuxin Cargo 11661" cargo ship seen by the reporter at noon on August 6 as an example, it was only after a round of investigation by the Port Administration Brigade that it was confirmed that the vessel's final destination was Taizhou City.
A "Statistical Table of Vessel Penalties in Panfeng Waters" provided by the Port Administration Brigade shows that from December 2022 to the present, of the 85 violations for which Panfeng Company was penalized, 67 had final berthing records, of which 47 were within the province and 20 were inter-provincial, while 18 had unknown whereabouts.
However, the table does not record what cargo the vessels were transporting. The Ecological Environment Code of the People's Republic of China contains clear legal liability provisions regarding the transfer of solid waste out of the administrative region of a province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the central government for storage or disposal without approval, as well as the transfer of solid waste out of the administrative region of a province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the central government for utilization without reporting the information.
A relevant staff member of the Bureau of Transport said: "Whether it is construction waste requires determination by the urban management and environmental protection departments; the transport department cannot make that determination."
A person in charge of a construction waste processing enterprise told the reporter: "Some construction waste contains renovation materials, such as polluting waste like paint. If not disposed of, and secretly transported to ponds or buried underground, it will cause serious pollution."
Multiple agencies supervise, responsibilities are divided, on-site law enforcement encounters violent obstruction, and the illegal activities continue.
Over the years, the Port Administration Brigade has conducted on-site law enforcement dozens of times, clearly informing Panfeng Company that its conduct constitutes "illegally engaging in port operation activities on the shoreline."
In August 2024, the Port Administration Brigade set up warning markers (iron posts) in the water 3 meters from Panfeng Company's shoreline. The purpose was twofold: first, to warn vessels that this was not a legal berth; second, the warning markers would prevent vessels from coming ashore. However, this encountered violent obstruction from some employees of Panfeng Company.
"Some people jumped onto our work boat, grabbed the operating machinery, and pulled out the iron posts (warning markers). Others on the shore used long-arm excavators to pull out the posts," Fan Yujie said. The law enforcement scene at the time was in complete chaos.
The relevant person in charge of Panfeng Company admitted that this did happen. "The transport department did not notify us (about setting up the warning markers), and this dock shoreline has always been ours. The authorities say we are illegal, and we have never accepted that. The purpose of setting up (the warning markers) was to stop us from loading and unloading." At the same time, however, this person in charge also admitted that the dock had not obtained legal procedures.
In March of this year, the Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection Team No. 9 reported to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui on the special inspection of ecological and environmental protection of the Grand Canal, pointing out that "the control of the ecological space of the Grand Canal is not in place" and that "some ports and docks have not been completely dismantled and removed, and illegal loading and unloading continues."
But Panfeng Company's business volume has not been affected. "We are currently the largest construction waste processing plant in Suzhou. Last year we processed more than 1 million tons of construction waste, with a turnover of about 110 million yuan, and we paid 12 million yuan in taxes," the relevant person in charge of Panfeng Company revealed. The company's operations continue to improve, processing an average of about 600 truckloads of construction waste per day. Several industry insiders analyzed that, estimating a disposal fee of 600 yuan per truckload, Panfeng Company's average daily revenue is about 360,000 yuan.
The low cost of water transport gives Panfeng Company a competitive advantage. Taking shipments from Suzhou to Jingjiang as an example, a shipowner said that the water transport cost for a thousand-ton-class cargo ship is about 8 yuan per ton. Meanwhile, public quotation information on online freight platforms shows that shipping construction aggregate by truck from Suzhou to Jingjiang City is about 45 yuan per ton. The freight cost difference between water transport and land transport is severalfold.
Relatively speaking, the cost of violating regulations by setting up an unauthorized dock is very low. It is understood that from 2022 to the present, the cumulative fines imposed by the Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Transport for vessel violations in the waters along Panfeng Company's shoreline total more than 300,000 yuan, while Panfeng Company's turnover last year was as high as 110 million yuan. "The average penalty per case is less than 5,000 yuan, and the maximum fine we can impose per case is 7,000 to 8,000 yuan," a law enforcement officer of the Bureau of Transport said helplessly. According to the regulations, this is the maximum fine that can be imposed.
Another reason the illegal dock is difficult to eradicate is multi-agency supervision, which makes it hard to form an effective joint force.
"We are mainly responsible for investigating and punishing violations by vessels entering and leaving inland river ports that fail to report to the maritime management authority as required. The company's (Panfeng Company's) illegal engagement in port operation activities on the shoreline is the root cause of the vessel violations," said the Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Detachment of the Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Transport. They said they have no authority to handle illegal activities on shore, and that the relevant dismantlement work should be the responsibility of the local people's government.
"We are only responsible for the shore. Docks and transportation fall under the functions of the transport department," said a relevant person in charge of the Gusu District Urban Management Committee. The urban management department mainly supervises whether the transportation of construction waste up to the point of entering the plant — that is, the distance from the construction site to the gate of Panfeng Company — is compliant. How construction waste is handled inside Panfeng Company's plant area is not within the jurisdiction of the Urban Management Committee.
The reporter pressed further: is what Panfeng Company loads and ships actually construction waste or aggregate? Who supervises whether the aggregate is qualified? The relevant person in charge of the Gusu District Urban Management Committee said that this is a product produced by the enterprise and should be supervised by the market supervision department.
However, when the reporter consulted a relevant staff member of a provincial department in Jiangsu on this matter, the other party said that the Urban Management Committee should conduct whole-process supervision over the transshipment and processing of construction waste.
Responsibilities for shore-based and water-based law enforcement are divided. The transport department manages vessels but not the shore, other government departments each manage their own segment, and there is a lack of coordinated governance by the local government.
Several local government staff members said that relevant departments in Suzhou City had held meetings and made clear that the Gusu District Government should take the lead in handling this matter. However, Wang Jin, deputy district head of Gusu District, told the reporter that Gusu District has no transport management function, and Suzhou City has not delegated the corresponding authority, so the matter of the illegal dock should be handled through law enforcement and supervision by the Suzhou Municipal Bureau of Transport.
A cadre told the reporter candidly, "Why has such an illegal dock been allowed to exist? In reality, it is because urban development and residents' lives create a need to dispose of construction waste. But whether this particular enterprise has to be the one to do it is not necessarily the case."
Who exactly should be in charge of the illegal transshipment of waste? What will become of the illegal dock? Our newspaper will continue to follow up.
(Xu Chenxi and Wang Jiliang, reporters of People's Daily Online, participated in the reporting and writing)
Return to TopI am a villager of Dabao Village, Dayou Town, Nanchuan District, Chongqing. Beside my house stands a second-class ancient tree with private ownership rights that has been cared for by generations of my family. This ancient ginkgo tree once had luxuriant and flourishing foliage (枝叶繁茂, zhi ye fan mao - "branch, leaf, luxuriant, flourishing") and was a popular online check-in spot.
Last summer, because some of the ancient tree's branches had grown too long, there was a risk of them falling. According to the regulations on the protection of ancient trees, we could not prune it at will. My family reported the situation to the village, requesting safe pruning measures. The village committee reported the situation to the town government, and the town government applied to the district forestry bureau for a subsidy of 15,000 yuan.
This summer, the village hired several workers to the site and carried out excessive pruning of the ancient tree, topping it and cutting off branches. Now the ancient tree has only its main trunk and some severed side branches left, and its original appearance has been severely damaged.
Peng Songtao, Nanchuan District, Chongqing
Return to TopSelf-media luring and disturbing wildlife should be cracked down on according to law
Recently, while browsing short-video platforms online, I noticed that some self-media bloggers, in order to seek attention through sensationalism (博取眼球, bo qu yan qiu - "seek, grab, eye, ball") and attract traffic, use any means possible regardless of morality (不择手段, bu ze shou duan - "not, choose, method, means") when filming wildlife activity videos. Some use processed foods such as roast chicken and roast duck as bait to attract wildlife close for filming; some set up high-intensity cameras at fixed points for long periods, using strong lighting at night, disrupting the habitat patterns of wild populations and easily causing stress in animals; worse still, some set up traps in the wild, placing bait high in trees to deliberately lure various wild animals to climb up and pose for staged shots. In the videos they release, there are sika deer, a national first-class protected wild animal, red foxes, a second-class protected wild animal, and "three-have" protected animals such as badgers, Siberian weasels, and red-billed blue magpies. It is suggested that relevant departments severely crack down on illegal wildlife luring and filming, and that platforms should promptly remove videos suspected of violating laws and regulations.
Liu Su, Dalian City, Liaoning Province
Strengthen supervision over the sale of insurance products to rural elderly
I am an ordinary citizen of Lishu County, Jilin Province. My father is 67 years old, with a low level of education, able to read fewer than a hundred characters, and lives on a meager income. Not long ago, the elderly man went to a local bank branch to conduct routine deposit savings business, wanting to deposit his accumulated retirement savings as a fixed deposit—safe, preserving principal, and accessible at any time. Unexpectedly, under the recommendation and guidance of the branch staff, the elderly man, completely unaware that it was an insurance product, unfamiliar with the long-term lock-up rules, and unaware that early surrender would incur heavy losses, purchased an endowment insurance product. Throughout the entire sales process, the staff did not explain in plain terms the core key information such as risks, payment periods, lock-up cycles, and surrender losses, causing the elderly man to mistakenly believe he was conducting a high-interest deposit business at the bank. As a result, the elderly man's retirement savings were locked up for a long period, and once he urgently needed money, early surrender would face substantial loss of principal.
Such situations are not isolated cases. Some rural elderly, while trusting the credibility of banks, lack financial discernment and are easily misled by the sales pitches of "high returns, principal preservation and appreciation" used by staff at some grassroots financial outlets, treating insurance products as bank deposits. Only when disputes arise later over deductions, maturity, or surrender do they suddenly realize the truth (恍然大悟, huang ran da wu - "suddenly, realize, great, understand"), but it is already too late, and both rights protection and evidence collection face extremely high difficulty.
It is hoped that relevant departments will pay attention to this issue and strengthen supervision over grassroots financial outlets. For example, for elderly people over 60 with low education and rural household registration who purchase long-term insurance or wealth management products, a mandatory age-friendly review mechanism should be established, with dedicated personnel providing "one-on-one" plain-language explanations of risks, and prohibiting procedural, perfunctory dual-recording procedures. Township and county bank outlets must strictly distinguish between deposits, insurance, and wealth management products, must not blur concepts or mix promotions, must clearly mark product attributes, and must not engage in misleading sales to customers. In addition, strengthen supervision and inspection of grassroots financial outlets, smooth the channels for elderly groups to defend their rights, and reduce from the source the livelihood disputes of deposits turning into insurance.
A reader from Lishu County, Jilin Province
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 马睿姗
Recently, reporters conducting field visits in Beicheng Township, Shangdang District, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, found that in some local high-standard farmland projects, rectification of problems has not been carried out in place, and supporting facilities have been "built but not used."
In Xipo Village, Beicheng Township, some high-standard farmland is laid out on a hillside area at an elevation of 1,000 meters southeast of Lidu Park. Reporters saw that the only road leading to the plots is an earthen track paved with coal gangue, pitted with potholes and covered with weeds nearly as tall as a person, making even walking difficult, let alone the entry and operation of large farming machinery.
The public notice board for the Shangdang District 2021 high-standard farmland project stands on the north side of Xifen Village, another village in Beicheng Township. Reporters saw that it lists a total project investment of 18 million yuan, planning the implementation of four major works: soil improvement, irrigation and drainage systems, field roads, and farmland power transmission and distribution.
In November 2024, the General Office of the Shangdang District Government issued the Measures for the Investigation, Rectification, and Remediation of Problems in High-Standard Farmland in Shangdang District, proposing rectification plans for certain problems raised by villagers. However, during their visits, reporters found that in villages such as Xipo Village and Xifen Village, many field roads still do not reach a level passable for farming machinery.
Besides field roads, the problems villagers reported are mostly concentrated in the irrigation and drainage systems and the farmland power transmission and distribution works. Several villagers in Xipo Village reported that as early as 2005, the land in the area had already experienced surface subsidence due to the mining operations of Changzhi Jingfang Coal Industry, making it a typical coal mining subsidence area, and siting high-standard farmland there was truly an inappropriate site selection. In 2025, the No. 1 centralized control station in Xipo Village and more than 10 mu of surrounding farmland were flooded and soaked due to subsidence and water accumulation in the mining area, the power supply to the control station was interrupted, and the outlet could not be used normally.
"Last year, the accumulated water flooded the control station and the farmland (see photo, taken by Zhang Chaoning). If the land continues to subside, even if drip irrigation pipelines are relaid, they may still be damaged by changes in the strata. Whether to repair or not, we are facing a dilemma (左右为难, zuo you wei nan - "left, right, not easy"). Why should high-standard farmland be built in a subsidence area with unstable geology? Are geological conditions not being considered?" a villager raised the question.
"It is possible that there were indeed problems of unscientific and unreasonable site selection in the past," a relevant person in charge of the Changzhi Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs revealed. "The agricultural department does not have specific information on the underground roadways of coal mines, and information sharing between departments is still being continuously improved, such as how to establish a communication mechanism with the land and resources department."
In response to the problem of high-standard farmland being damaged by coal mining subsidence, the Measures for the Investigation, Rectification, and Remediation of Problems in High-Standard Farmland in Shangdang District clearly stipulates that the natural resources department shall carry out research, determination, and definition of subsided plots, clarify the responsible entities between coal mines and local governments, and formulate land restoration plans to advance rectification. Since the beginning of this year, the Beicheng Township Government has signed agreements with the coal enterprises involved, newly built a power transmission and distribution control facility, and carried out emergency repairs through overhead cables. Farmers can register at the village committee to obtain a card and use a card-swiping water intake mode for irrigation. However, when reporters inspected the site, they found that the voltage reading on the instrument of this power distribution facility was zero. Why is the irrigation power supply system after rectification still in an idle state?
Sui Linbing, the management and maintenance worker for high-standard farmland in Xipo Village, introduced that a total of 10 wells have been built across the village, all of which could produce water normally in the early stage of construction. At present, due to geological changes caused by coal mining, one well cannot be used. Sui Linbing said that in the past two years, almost no one has contacted him to irrigate farmland.
In the high-standard farmland area of Xipo Village, Beicheng Township, reporters saw that the gate of the No. 2 irrigation centralized control station was tightly closed, and the surrounding weeds had grown to nearly the height of a person. The outlet that had undergone maintenance and renovation can discharge water without problems, but no water delivery pipelines have been laid in the fields to match it, leaving it in a state of having water but no pipes.
"Last year there was a severe drought, but the completed water conservancy equipment could not be used." Xipo Village villager Li Guangping told reporters that his family's 7 mu of cultivated land had been incorporated into the high-standard farmland area, but after the project was completed, the supporting irrigation system had never been used. In the summer of 2025, the area experienced drought conditions. After corn grew to more than 30 centimeters, its growth stalled, becoming "small, old seedlings" that did not form ears, and many plots saw significant yield reductions or even total crop failure.
"The laying of field water delivery pipelines requires farmers to solve it themselves; the village is not responsible for unified construction," Sui Linbing introduced. But a villager from Xifen Village explained the reason behind this: the electricity cost for irrigating a single mu of farmland is about a dozen yuan, and farmers also need to purchase and lay drip irrigation pipe materials themselves, requiring an additional investment of nearly 300 yuan per mu. Farmers engaged in scattered cultivation find it difficult to bear this cost. Only farmers with contiguous planting through village cooperatives occasionally activate the irrigation facilities.
Local villagers expressed the hope that the local agriculture and rural affairs department will verify one by one the completion and acceptance of high-standard farmland, that each township will implement territorial management and maintenance responsibilities, and that the irrigation supporting model will be optimized simultaneously to reduce usage costs for farmers, so that the supporting facilities of the invested high-standard farmland can truly be put into use.
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As the third of the Fourteen Commitments in Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is a major deployment proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China that is holistic, leading, and far-reaching in significance. It is the strategic policy for Party building in the new era, reflecting our Party's deepened understanding of the laws governing Party management and self-governance, and Party strengthening and invigoration in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Under new historical conditions, to better carry out the great struggle with many new historical features and advance the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, we must promote the great new project of Party building with greater efforts and unswervingly advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party." This fully reveals the close connection between upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and the future and destiny of the Party and the country, the Party's long-term governance, and the country's lasting peace and stability. We must deeply study and grasp the major contemporary value, original theoretical contributions, and practical deepening paths of upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in depth with the consciousness that we are always on the road.
Upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is the strategic policy for Party building in the new era
Since the beginning of the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping, standing at the overall height of the development of the Party and the country's cause, has emphasized that "to govern the country, one must first govern the Party, and to govern the Party, one must be rigorous," proposed full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and incorporated it into the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy. The 19th National Congress of the Party wrote full and rigorous self-governance of the Party into the Party Constitution and made it one of the basic strategies for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The resolution of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee listed "clarifying the strategic policy of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party" as an important part of the "Ten Clarifications" of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Party further proposed "implementing the general requirements for Party building in the new era and improving the system for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party." At the conference celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must persevering and unremittingly (持之以恒, chizhi yihang - "hold fast, persevere") advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party." As a strategic policy, upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party plays a role of overall management and long-term management in Party building in the new era.
Clarifying the goal requirements and realization paths for Party building in the new era. "Strategy" is usually interpreted as planning and guidance for holistic and long-term problems in a certain field; "policy" is usually understood as the guiding principles formulated for developing a certain cause. Upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is a deployment made by our Party in the new era around the theme of Party building, based on the era background in which the Party finds itself, the missions and tasks it bears, and the complex environment it faces, with the nature of holistic planning and systematic persistence. In the speech "Speech at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection" in Volume I of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The core of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is to strengthen the Party's leadership, the foundation lies in comprehensiveness, the key lies in rigor, and the crux lies in governance." "Comprehensive" means full coverage, covering not only all Party members and Party organizations but also all aspects and fields of Party building; "rigorous" is the goal requirement, which is to strengthen Party building always with strict standards based on the Party Constitution and other laws and regulations; "governing the Party" is both the purpose and the path, achieving the comprehensive effect of Party management and self-governance through various measures. Adding "upholding" before "full and rigorous self-governance of the Party" reflects our Party's firm political determination, sober political judgment, long-term political planning, and solemn political commitment to solving this major problem.
Strategic support for continuously invigorating and enhancing the vitality and quality of Party building. In the report of the 19th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping systematically elaborated on the "Four Greats," pointing out that "the great struggle, the great project, the great cause, and the great dream are closely linked, mutually penetrating, and mutually reinforcing, among which the decisive one is the great new project of Party building." This is an important assertion made by our Party on the status of Party building in the new era. From the perspective of internal logic, the fundamental prerequisite for the Communist Party of China to unite and lead the Chinese people in realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is to always uphold the Party's leadership, and only by building the Party well and building it strong can the Party's leadership be better upheld. In order to ensure that the Party itself is always strong, always becoming the vanguard of the times and the backbone of the nation, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, through unremitting theoretical thinking and practical summarization, has clearly proposed "upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party" as an action guide with strategic leading role. Upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party reflects General Secretary Xi Jinping's scientific overall design for Party building in the new era, is the navigation mark that must be adhered to for a long time in advancing Party building, and provides strong strategic support for continuously invigorating and enhancing the vitality and quality of Party building.
Demonstrating the spiritual character of Chinese Communists in the new era of remaining vigilant in times of peace (居安思危, ju an si wei - "live in peace, think of danger"). General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Our Party soberly recognizes that to forge iron, one must be strong oneself, is good at examining itself with the requirements of the development of the times, alerting itself with a strong sense of urgency, and perfecting itself with the spirit of self-revolution, and attaches great importance to its own building." Always thinking long-term and remaining vigilant in times of peace is an important conclusion drawn by our Party from summarizing its own experience in Party building and deeply drawing lessons from the rise and fall of political parties around the world. Upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has a distinct problem orientation and is a vivid manifestation of the vigilance and sense of urgency of Chinese Communists in the new era. When analyzing the situation our Party faced before the 18th National Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "There were many problems in the Party of vague understanding and weak action on upholding the Party's leadership, many problems of weakened, virtualized, and diluted implementation of Party leadership, some Party members and cadres wavered in their political beliefs, formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance in some localities and departments repeatedly prohibited but not stopped, privileged thinking and privileged phenomena were relatively serious, and some corruption problems were shocking." If these problems cannot be effectively solved, they will inevitably have very serious negative effects on the Party's long-term governance, the country's lasting peace and stability, and the people's happiness and well-being. It is against this background that our Party has taken upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party as a strategic policy, continuously strengthened Party building in the new era, promoted the great achievements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, promoted historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the country, and the Party and the people have won the historical initiative of strengthening the Party and the country.
The original theoretical contributions of upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party
Upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party occupies an important position in Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. It is both a landmark innovation in the Marxist theory of Party building and a systematic construction of strict Party management and self-governance, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions of reference value to political parties around the world in solving their own governance problems, improving party operation models, and exploring governance paths.
A landmark innovation in the Marxist theory of Party building. Marx and Engels, as the founders of the Marxist theory of Party building, did not systematically discuss the specific issues of how a proletarian ruling party manages and governs itself, but their expositions on party building principles, party nature, and fundamental purposes already contained the implication of strict Party governance. Lenin conducted in-depth analysis on issues such as the organizational principles and disciplinary foundations of proletarian parties, reflecting the requirements of strict Party management and self-governance. Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has never stopped its theoretical and practical exploration of strict Party management and self-governance. It is precisely this consistent and continuous throughout (一以贯之, yi yi guan zhi - "one, through, connect") consciousness of Party management and self-governance that enables the Party to always maintain a healthy body and vigorous vitality, and to always become the core leadership force that unites and leads the people to continuously achieve victories in various historical periods. On the basis of inheriting the Marxist theory of Party building and systematically summarizing our Party's long-term experience in strengthening its own building, Xi Jinping's thought on Party building proposed upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and clarified it as the strategic policy for Party building, greatly deepening our Party's understanding of the laws of strict Party management and self-governance, and is a significantly landmark innovative development of the Marxist theory of Party building.
A systematic construction of strict Party management and self-governance. Xi Jinping's thought on Party building proposing upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party does not merely remain at the macro level, but has carried out a systematic, scientifically rigorous, precise, and effective systematic construction around this upholding, providing all-round, whole-process theoretical guidance for the practice of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Reshaping the layout of Party building and optimizing the overall structure of Party building. In the report of the 19th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping formally proposed the "general requirements for Party building in the new era" and made "upholding and strengthening the Party's overall leadership, upholding the Party's management of the Party and full and rigorous self-governance of the Party" the primary deployment of these general requirements, clearly proposing to "comprehensively advance the Party's political building, ideological building, organizational building, work style building, and discipline building, with institutional building running through all of them, and deeply advance the fight against corruption," enriching and optimizing the previous overall structure of Party building, pointing out the specific direction and providing a strong grip for advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era.
Proposing to improve the system for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and advancing Party building systematically and systematically. Systematic thinking is an important methodology for our Party in governing the country and managing the Party in the new era. In order to advance Party building more scientifically and effectively and achieve the systematic goals of full coverage of content, full coverage of objects, full chain of responsibilities, and full connection of institutions in Party management and self-governance, General Secretary Xi Jinping, from the overall height of Party building, proposed the goals and tasks of improving the system for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party around five levels: "an organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and effective in execution," "an educational system that consolidates the foundation, gathers the soul, and unites hearts," "a supervision system that is precise, forceful, and addresses both symptoms and root causes," "a institutional system that is scientifically complete, effective, and practical," and "a responsibility system with clear subjects and clear requirements," realizing the leap of strict Party governance from a collection of measures to a scientific institutional system.
Deepening the understanding of the relationship between Party management and self-governance and the people, and consolidating the foundation of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "the country is the people, and the people are the country" and "whatever the people oppose and hate, we must resolutely prevent and correct," requiring "winning the trust of the people with the actual results of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and gathering the mighty force to advance the development of the cause." The task of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is Party management and self-governance, ensuring that our Party always maintains its advanced nature and purity and always becomes the most reliable backbone of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. This profoundly reflects that full and rigorous self-governance of the Party not only carries the subjective requirements of the building of a Marxist ruling party, but also presents the eternal pursuit of the Communist Party of China to win the trust and support of the people through Party management and self-governance and to maintain flesh-and-blood ties with the people.
Establishing the long-termist logic of "always on the road" and promoting the normalization and long-term effectiveness of Party management and self-governance. In the process of the Communist Party of China's long-term governance, Party building has always been a major issue, and full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has always been a necessary move. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized many times that "full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is always on the road," profoundly pointing out the long-term nature and arduousness of Party management and self-governance, effectively breaking erroneous perceptions such as "a gust of wind," "turning point theory," and "resting on one's laurels," reflecting our Party's sober understanding and far-sighted planning of this issue. Party management and self-governance pays more attention to normalization and long-term effectiveness, with sustained, long-term effort, promoting the leap of Party building from the surface to the inside, from the shallow to the deep, and from shaping the form to casting the soul.
An effective solution to the governance problems of political parties around the world. In the article "Pack Up and Set Out Again, Advance Full and Rigorous Self-governance of the Party in Depth with the Persistence of Always Being on the Road" in Volume I of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Self-supervision is a worldwide problem and the Goldbach conjecture of national governance." Facing this problem, the Communist Party of China, adhering to self-confidence and self-reliance, upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, based on China's national conditions, combined with its own characteristics and mission, has given an answer of the times with remarkable applicability and scientificity. The inexhaustible vitality released by the Communist Party of China's upholding of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has allowed the international community to witness our Party's determination and ability in Party management and self-governance, and also shows that the long-term stability of a political party does not have to rely solely on external competitive alternation, and that the Western party system and party governance model are not the only standard answers. Upholding the simultaneous investigation and governance of corruption and work style problems, advancing in an integrated manner the deterrence of bribery, the prevention of bribery, and the cultivation of a culture of integrity, connecting political inspections, supervision by dispatched agencies, national supervision, and mass supervision, the comprehensive anti-corruption governance system that addresses both symptoms and root causes effectively responds to the problems of corruption spread and power rent-seeking commonly faced by political parties around the world. The concept of prioritizing party capacity building inherent in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party enlightens political parties in developing countries to shoulder party responsibilities and lead their people in solving modernization problems and achieving sustained and stable development with their own strength and firmness. Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party provides a completely new and reliable theoretical approach and action plan for political parties in various countries to cope with governance tests and improve governance effectiveness.
Persevering and unremittingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party
Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is always on the road; this is the strategic judgment made by General Secretary Xi Jinping with a view to the Party's long-term governance; upholding full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is the strategic policy established by Chinese Communists in the new era to deeply advance the great new project of Party building in the new era. On the new journey of the new era, we must take Xi Jinping's thought on Party building as the guide, implement the general requirements for Party building in the new era, take full and rigorous self-governance of the Party as the Party's long-term strategy and eternal issue, and promote our Party to become stronger and more powerful and forever full of vitality through revolutionary tempering.
Strengthening all aspects of Party building with political building as the guide. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Emphasizing politics is the fundamental guarantee for our Party to manage the Party and avoid subversive mistakes, and it cannot be ambiguous or shaken at any time." Political building occupies the primary position in Party building and plays a ballast role in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. The achievements in Party building in the new era have been made thanks to the whole Party putting political building first, always safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized, unified leadership, and ensuring that full and rigorous self-governance of the Party always adheres to a distinct political orientation in its in-depth advancement. We must firmly adhere to taking the Party's political building as the guide, comprehensively strengthen the Party's ideological building, organizational building, work style building, discipline building, and institutional building, advance the fight against corruption, run political standards and political requirements through all aspects and links of Party building, cultivate a clean and healthy political atmosphere, promote the in-depth development of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party with the strengthening of politics, demonstrate good political orientation, political influence, and political effects with the achievements of other aspects of Party building, and continuously improve the quality and effectiveness of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
More scientifically and effectively confining power in the cage of institutions. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The Party's self-revolution focuses on governing power, and confining power in the cage of institutions is an important task of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era." Since the beginning of the new era, we have run institutional building through the entire process and all aspects of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. The Regulations of the Communist Party of China on Disciplinary Actions have been continuously improving and becoming more complete after three revisions, Party discipline learning and education has been carried out throughout the Party, and the positive effect of ideological Party building and institutional Party governance working in the same direction has become more evident; the Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China and the Law of the People's Republic of China on Administrative Discipline for Public Officials have been formulated and implemented successively, forming an organic connection and articulation with intra-Party regulations. We must, in accordance with the requirements of "dense but not cumbersome, effective and practical" proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping, further improve the intra-Party regulations system and relevant national laws, both enhancing the rigor of the institutions and highlighting their pertinence and guidance, making the institutions simple and feasible while truly solving problems and preventing risks, and also strive to improve the execution of institutions, enhance rigid constraints, and give full play to the role of institutions in governing power.
Firmly following the path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics. Corruption is the biggest tumor that harms the Party's vitality and combat effectiveness, and solving the prominent problems in Party conduct, clean governance, and the fight against corruption is an important grip for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, our Party has carried out an unprecedented fight against corruption, with deafening war drums and remarkable achievements, successfully blazing a path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics under the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, addressing both symptoms and root causes, and advancing in an integrated manner the deterrence of bribery, the prevention of bribery, and the cultivation of a culture of integrity. Practice has proved that this path conforms to the Party's conditions and the country's conditions and has full autonomy, scientificity, and applicability. We must adhere to the path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics, accurately assess the new situation and new tasks of the fight against corruption, focus on key problems, key areas, and key targets, deeply investigate and dig out new types of corruption and hidden corruption, improve the supervision system with unified Party leadership, full coverage, authority, and efficiency, and promote the continuous achievement of new results in the tough battle, protracted war, and overall war against corruption.
Promoting the implementation of responsibilities for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. In the article "Improving the System for Full and Rigorous Self-governance of the Party" in Volume II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is the common responsibility of the whole Party, and it is necessary to establish and improve the responsibility system by layers and categories, so as to promote Party organizations at all levels and the majority of Party members and cadres to know their responsibilities, bear their responsibilities, and fulfill their responsibilities by clarifying and compacting responsibilities." Building a responsibility system with clear subjects and clear requirements is an important task for improving the system for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and is also an important guarantee for the implementation of all work of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the Party's organizational system. We must promote the practical implementation of the primary responsibility for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, the responsibility of the first responsible person, the "one post with dual responsibilities" of leading team members, and the supervision responsibilities of functional departments, forming an effective responsibility operation system. At the same time, adhere to the principle that dereliction of duty must be questioned and accountability must be strict, carry out precise accountability for behaviors that are not strict or solid in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and promote the effective implementation of the tasks of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party with the implementation of responsibilities.
(The author is a researcher at the Research Institute of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Tsinghua University)
Return to TopBy: 张 晓
At present, artificial intelligence has become a strategic technology in the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and global governance of artificial intelligence is entering a new deep-water zone. How to guide the development of artificial intelligence toward goodness and continue to benefit all of humanity has become a question of the times facing all countries in the world. At the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, President Xi Jinping stressed the need to "make artificial intelligence an important source of power for promoting shared prosperity and safeguarding common security, and work together to build a fair and equitable global governance system for artificial intelligence," and put forward the call to "advocate working together in complete harmony (和衷共济, he zhong gong ji - "harmonious, together, common, help") and improve global governance," charting the course for global governance of artificial intelligence.
The evolution and development direction of global governance of artificial intelligence must conform to the objective laws of artificial intelligence technology iteration and to the development trends of the profound adjustment of the international landscape. At present, the pace of updating artificial intelligence governance rules lags behind the speed of artificial intelligence technology development, and problems such as the fragmentation of global artificial intelligence governance and the widening of the artificial intelligence capacity gap between the global North and South are becoming prominent, calling for strengthened international cooperation and global governance in artificial intelligence. China has fully demonstrated its responsibility as a major country, continuously translating Chinese wisdom, Chinese propositions, and Chinese solutions into global action, and making important contributions to building a fair and equitable global governance system for artificial intelligence, promoting the sound and inclusive development of global artificial intelligence for the benefit of all humanity.
Consolidating consensus on values. Global governance of artificial intelligence has never been a neutral technical proposition, but rather reflects different value concepts. From proposing the Global AI Governance Initiative in 2023, advocating a people-centered approach and the development of artificial intelligence for good, to attending the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance and delivering a keynote speech, comprehensively and systematically elaborating China's policy positions and conceptual propositions on the development and governance of artificial intelligence, President Xi Jinping has, around the major issue of the times of "how artificial intelligence should be developed and governed," put forward a series of new ideas, new viewpoints, and new judgments, providing a Chinese perspective for global governance of artificial intelligence. These conceptual propositions are in line with the realities of global development, take into account the demands of all countries, and offer constructive ideas for resolving the issues of artificial intelligence development and governance of common concern to all parties, breaking the limitations of the single governance logic of some countries and gaining broad recognition and positive response from the international community, especially developing countries.
Strengthening practical cooperation. Faced with the governance challenges brought by technological progress, all countries need to join hands and work together in full cooperation. China has put forward the "AI+" international cooperation initiative, released the Action Plan for AI Cooperation and Development, initiated the establishment of the Group of Friends for International Cooperation on AI Capacity Building, hosted the World Artificial Intelligence Conference for eight consecutive years, and established the Global AI Innovation and Governance Center, continuously promoting the transformation of technological progress into development opportunities for all humanity. In July this year, the World AI Cooperation Organization initiated by China was formally established, the world's first intergovernmental international organization on artificial intelligence, becoming an important milestone in the history of artificial intelligence development. China has responded to the call of the Global South, united the international community in promoting international cooperation on artificial intelligence, and is committed to providing an institutional path for developing countries to secure equal rights to participation and benefit.
Empowering common development. From proposing and implementing the AI Capacity Building Action Plan for Good and for All, to announcing the provision of 5,000 training opportunities on artificial intelligence topics for developing countries over the next five years, China, focusing on the practical concerns of developing countries and in light of their actual needs, has always been committed to serving as a provider of international public goods in the field of artificial intelligence, incorporating capacity building for developing countries into the important agenda of global artificial intelligence governance, and taking the lead in advocating helping the Global South benefit equally in the process of artificial intelligence development. This reflects a logic different from technological closure, technological hegemony, and exclusive alliances, and is of great significance and plays a prominent role in helping Global South countries enhance their comprehensive capabilities in artificial intelligence innovation, application, and governance, share the digital and intelligence dividends, and jointly create a better future.
At present, China's artificial intelligence development is already in the world's first tier. Continuing to leverage this advantage and working together in complete harmony to improve global artificial intelligence governance can transform China's technological advantages into development opportunities shared globally and inclusive global public goods, effectively promoting the inclusive and beneficial development of global artificial intelligence. To this end, it is necessary to promote and advocate core concepts such as a people-centered approach and the pursuit of goodness and progress, and to promote the building of a rules system for global artificial intelligence governance consistent with the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind. Actively build cross-national collaboration platforms, erect bridges for multilateral cooperation, enhance the coordination of global artificial intelligence governance, and promote communication, exchanges, and practical cooperation among countries around the world, working together to advance the development and governance of global artificial intelligence. Promote technology openness, knowledge sharing, and industrial synergy, facilitate the cross-regional flow of high-quality resources, advance global artificial intelligence capacity building, continuously bridge the intelligence divide, and narrow the gap in governance capabilities.
(The author is Deputy Director of the China Internet Network Information Center)
Return to TopBy: 祝合良
Time-honored brands are national brands formed during China's long-term industrial and commercial development, embodying enormous economic, social, and cultural value. At the beginning of this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during an inspection in Beijing: "Some time-honored brands are now facing challenges in inheritance and development. How can vitality be stimulated? This is not simply about making superficial changes without touching the essence; the true substance must be preserved while improving services in all aspects." The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes "promoting time-honored brands and trendy domestic products to become refined and strong." This points the direction and provides the guidance for us to uphold fundamental principles and break new ground in inheriting and developing time-honored brands well.
Time-honored brands are characterized by profound historical heritage, distinctive cultural features, unique craftsmanship and techniques, refined design and manufacturing, high-quality products and services, efficient marketing channels, and broad social recognition. In recent years, driven by a series of policies, the development vitality of China's time-honored brands has continued to strengthen. According to the China Time-Honored Brand Annual Development Report (2025), the 1,450 China time-honored brand enterprises nationwide are generally developing well, with brands surviving on average for more than 145 years, century-old shops accounting for over 60 percent, and more than 1,200 items of intangible cultural heritage. At the same time, as the market develops, product supply is becoming increasingly abundant, and consumer demand is growing more diverse and personalized. Some time-honored brand products have seen their reputation decline due to outdated styles and insufficient functional design, while others have lost customers because of lagging marketing methods. To address these problems, it is necessary to stimulate the potential of time-honored brands, tap into their value in depth, and polish the "gold-lettered signboard" of time-honored brands while upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground.
Stimulate the market potential of time-honored brands and tap into their economic value in depth. Stimulating the market potential of time-honored brands through product innovation, marketing innovation, and business format innovation can not only bring considerable economic returns and appreciation of intangible assets to enterprises, but also help drive industrial upgrading and consumption expansion. To this end, it is necessary to promote time-honored brands in following market trends and continuously replacing the old with the new, creating new products and new services that meet market demand. Promote time-honored brands in opening up online channels and innovating marketing methods, combining traditional business approaches with modern information technologies such as big data and cloud computing. Guide time-honored brands in using new technologies to advance digital transformation and intelligent upgrading, strengthening technological research and development and product innovation on the basis of inheriting traditional skills. It is also possible to innovate and develop the "time-honored brand+" model, integrating with the technology industry to promote intelligent production and digitalized supply chains, giving rise to new industries, new business formats, and new models.
Stimulate the public welfare potential of time-honored brands and tap into their social value in depth. Time-honored brands are rooted in the community and serve the public. Their social value is reflected in their deep participation in social life and their positive guidance of social trends. Looking back, the founders and operators of time-honored brands honed their skills and built their reputations through serving society. Looking at the present, the spiritual connotations embodied by time-honored brands—such as meticulous craftsmanship, honest business practices, building prosperity through hard work, and devotion to the nation and family—have become an important part of their core competitiveness and the "code" for their enduring vitality. To tap into the social value of time-honored brands in depth, it is necessary to encourage them to uphold the spirit of craftsmanship of constantly striving for perfection, adhere to pursuing both social responsibility and economic profit, produce products and improve services with higher aspirations and stricter standards, guide consumers with profound historical and cultural connotations to adopt scientific, rational, green, frugal, positive, and healthy consumption patterns, and cultivate a market atmosphere that values trust and honors commitments. It is also possible to promote time-honored brands entering communities, better fulfilling social responsibility and serving the lives of the people through exploring joint interaction with community party committees and residents to expand public welfare markets and other means.
Stimulate the cultural potential of time-honored brands and tap into their cultural value in depth. The cultural value of time-honored brands is mainly reflected in three aspects. First, time-honored brands carry the fine traditional Chinese culture and are committed to creatively transforming and innovatively developing traditional Chinese commercial ethics and philosophy of life into the business principles of modern enterprises. Second, time-honored brands carry urban culture and folk culture accumulated over a long history, and their traditional crafts, product characteristics, and shop architectural styles are all important components of urban culture and folk culture. Third, the corporate culture of time-honored brands—treating all customers with honesty regardless of age and maintaining utmost sincerity and trustworthiness—plays a positive role in the development of modern commercial culture and advanced socialist culture. Many of China's time-honored brands possess intangible cultural heritage, which contains an important source for enhancing cultural confidence. To tap into the cultural value of time-honored brands in depth, it is necessary to strengthen the linkage between time-honored brands and historical and cultural resources, integrating elements such as intangible cultural heritage skills and traditional festivals into product design and consumption scenarios, and promoting the integration of fine traditional Chinese culture into modern life. Promote time-honored brands in incorporating innovative design elements while maintaining their original characteristics, allowing more time-honored brands carrying the fine traditional Chinese culture and the achievements of modernization to go global. It is also possible to transform the intangible cultural memory of time-honored brands into tangible cultural carriers through building time-honored brand museums and other means, enabling people to directly experience the breadth and profundity of Chinese commercial civilization.
(The author is a researcher at the Beijing Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴齐强 贺林平 姜晓丹
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Relying on more than one hundred Yonggen Science and Technology Stations, advancing the "Ten-Thousand-Students Rural Large-Scale Survey Action"... South China Agricultural University uses the exemplary deeds of Academician Lu Yonggen as ideological and political education resources, explores a comprehensive "theory + practice" ideological and political education system, and moves ideological and political classrooms into the fields and mountain villages. Batch after batch of young students temper their abilities and deepen their love for family and country on the front line of comprehensive rural revitalization, writing their youth answer sheets on the motherland's land.
Traveling through mountains and ridges on the Guiyang-Guangzhou High-Speed Railway, Wang Zhaoyu, a master's student in agricultural seed industry at South China Agricultural University (hereinafter referred to as "SCAU"), once again set out on the road to the mountain villages.
Previously, Wang Zhaoyu was rooted at the Yonggen Science and Technology Station for tea in Huidong, Guangdong, putting laboratory tea-making techniques into practice in the fields; now, she will carry out one year of volunteer teaching in Zhijin County, Bijie, Guizhou, opening a window for children in the mountains to look out at the outside world.
"The deeds of Academician Lu Yonggen made me understand that the ideological and political classroom is not only in the teaching building, but also on the soil of the countryside." Wang Zhaoyu said. Working hard in the fields, volunteer teaching in rural villages—Wang Zhaoyu's choice is a vivid microcosm of SCAU's achievements in ideological and political education. Behind this, the influence of Lu Yonggen, "Role Model of the Times," former president of SCAU, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, cannot be separated.
Fostering Virtue and Nurturing Talent, Transforming Ideological and Political Resources into Spiritual Nourishment
Signing up for the volunteer teaching group meant delaying graduation and adjusting life plans. Regarding this, Wang Zhaoyu had also been torn. But there was one person who made her firm in her resolve to devote her youth to the countryside.
That person was Lu Yonggen. Traversing mountains and wilds to seek out wild rice, safeguarding the foundation of national food security; living a simple life, yet donating all of his more than 8.8 million yuan in life savings to establish an education fund... Lu Yonggen devoted his entire life to deep cultivation in agricultural and forestry research and education, writing a vivid footnote for the "great ideological and political course" of fostering virtue and nurturing talent.
In the former office of Lu Yonggen, simple desks and chairs and yellowed manuscripts tell of his life of dedicated scholarship and education; along the campus red study tour route, teachers and students trace the academician's footsteps in seeking rice in the wilds, understanding his sincerity in rooting himself in agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农) and safeguarding food security; the stage play "Cloth-Gown Academician" vividly portrays the academician's life, making the story of the role model more three-dimensional and vivid... One immersive experience after another, a silent and subtle influence that nourishes all things (润物细无声, run wu xi si wu sheng - "moisten, object, fine, subtle, no, sound"). "I gradually came to understand that the vast fields are also a living ideological and political classroom, and that working hard in practice and rooting oneself at the grassroots are important paths for our growth." Wang Zhaoyu said.
Over the years, SCAU has deeply cultivated the fundamental task of fostering virtue and nurturing talent, explored a comprehensive ideological and political education system of "theory + practice," and transformed excellent ideological and political resources into tangible and perceptible spiritual nourishment. The school has built ideological and political positions such as the academician's former office and an exhibition of his advanced deeds, and relies on platforms such as walking ideological and political courses and training classes for party member backbone cadres to integrate the spirit of scientists and the love for family and country into the entire process of talent cultivation.
"Seeing the school's volunteer teaching declaration, I was deeply moved and decided to postpone my internship plan and join the volunteer teaching group." Wang Zhaoyu said.
It is not only Wang Zhaoyu; many SCAU students have transformed their love for family and country into persistent dedication in rural classrooms, deepening their understanding of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers and strengthening their love for family and country through frontline practice, and firming their ideals and beliefs through the tangible results of technology landing in the countryside.
Rooted at the Grassroots, Brightening the Color of Youth through Practice
Ideological and political education focuses on unity of knowledge and action (知行合一, zhi xing he yi - "know, do, together, one").
Three months of stationing practice at the science and technology station allowed Wang Zhaoyu to truly experience the hardships of grassroots work.
Working in the fields and conducting research visits, team members often encountered sunburn and mosquito and insect bites. "Whenever I felt fear of difficulty and fatigue, I would think of Academician Lu Yonggen's story of traveling long distances through difficult terrain (跋山涉水, ba shan she shui - "climb, mountain, wade, water") to collect wild rice and rooting himself in agriculture, rural areas, and farmers for his entire life to serve the country." Wang Zhaoyu said.
The 105 Yonggen Science and Technology Stations are important positions for the school's practical ideological and political education. Using a model of professors leading teams and students stationed at sites, the school focuses on pain points in rural industries, implementing projects such as Zijin Zen tea in Heyuan, black goats in Huilai, and introduction of Guangdong tea varieties in Motuo, allowing students to temper their abilities through practical work of helping farmers increase income and empowering villages.
"Scientific research service is for increasing farmers' income. Seeing the improvement in tea quality, all the hard work is worth it." Wang Zhaoyu's reflection is a vivid manifestation of SCAU youth brightening the color of their youth in practical ideological and political education.
In addition, SCAU has also advanced the "Ten-Thousand-Students Rural Large-Scale Survey Action," building a normalized practical ideological and political education system; organized assault teams serving the "Hundred, Thousand, Ten-Thousand Project," organizing more than ten thousand teachers and students to go deep into villages and towns for research and service each year, with a cumulative total of more than 3,300 teams and 44,000 person-times of teachers and students going to the grassroots, producing more than 6,000 research reports.
Rooted in the land, serving the grassroots, young students come to understand the national conditions and shoulder responsibility from this. Ge Qi, a doctoral student and volunteer docent at Lu Yonggen's former office, shifted her research approach through normalized ideological and political lectures, focusing on practical problems in industry for her research. "Academician Lu guarded wild rice for decades; we too must have the determination to wait quietly for seeds to mature, hold fast to our original aspiration in research, and shoulder the mission of youth." Ge Qi said.
Continuing the Relay, Better Passing on the Spirit of Scientists
On the campus of the Tenth Primary School in Zhijin County, Guizhou Province, facing children from families relocated for poverty alleviation, Wang Zhaoyu knows well that one year of volunteer teaching is not only the transmission of knowledge and the broadening of horizons, but also a relay of spirit. "I hope to pass on the love for family and country I absorbed at university to the young people in the mountains, so that this conviction can continue." Wang Zhaoyu said.
"Academician Lu Yonggen practiced his oath to serve the country with his entire life, setting up a benchmark for educating people who love the Party and the country and understand and love agriculture." Li Fengliang, Party Secretary of SCAU, said that SCAU has deeply cultivated its century-old heritage of farming and reading, innovated the concept of "root-vein education," guided young people to deepen their feelings for agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, and integrated personal ideals into comprehensive rural revitalization and other endeavors.
The ideological and political course that "grows" in the soil runs the spirit of scientists and the love for family and country through the entire process of education. In the vast mountain villages, some hold chalk to light up the dreams of rural youth, some guard the fields to empower rural development with technology... Generations of SCAU youth write their youth answer sheets on the motherland's land.
Return to TopBeijing, September 6 (Xinhua) — (Reporter Li Junqiang) The reporter learned from the 2026 International Conference on Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu), held recently, that China has officially launched the International Lunar-Earth Space CubeSat Large Scientific Program, planning to deploy satellite constellations in cislunar space jointly with multiple countries, conducting three-dimensional networked observations for space environment monitoring, gamma-ray burst detection, lunar resource exploration, and other work, with an initial plan to complete all satellite launch and deployment around 2030.
Cislunar space extends from low Earth orbit to approximately 2 million kilometers from Earth and is an important activity area for future crewed lunar landings and lunar base construction. For a long time, human understanding of this region has relied primarily on single-point detection, suffering from insufficient spatial and temporal coverage and a lack of data from key regions, making systematic continuous observation an urgent necessity.
This large scientific program will deploy satellite constellations at positions including cislunar resonant large elliptical orbits and lunar orbits. Among them, 30 12U CubeSats weighing no more than 30 kilograms each will be deployed in six batches to 1:3 cislunar resonant large elliptical orbits, forming a constellation for space environment monitoring and gamma-ray burst detection. Multi-satellite, multi-point synchronized observation can more completely capture the evolution of space weather events and improve the localization accuracy of gamma-ray bursts to the sub-arcsecond level.
Once the project is completed, it will drive the transformation of cislunar space exploration from a single-point, intermittent mode to networked continuous observation, fill the global gap in systematic cislunar space observation, and provide data support for crewed lunar landing life-safety assurance and frontier scientific research on the cislunar space environment.
The program is jointly initiated by the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory and the International Deep Space Exploration Society, with support from the Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization, and establishes the international cooperation principles of "joint design, free payload accommodation, shared funding responsibilities, and scientific data sharing." China will uniformly develop three sets of standard payloads—high-energy particle imaging, space magnetometers, and gamma-ray burst detection—and provide them free of charge to partners. The project will also conduct technical training and develop unified interface standards to help more countries participate in deep space exploration.
At present, research institutions from multiple countries have joined the program, the first-phase engineering development has been initiated, and the overall system scheme demonstration for major subsystems including satellites, payloads, and tracking, telemetry, and command is nearing completion.
The 2026 International Conference on Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu) was held from September 3 to 4 in Hefei, Anhui Province, under the theme "Sustainable Deep Space Exploration—Opportunities and Challenges," with approximately 100 guests from more than 40 countries, regions, and international organizations worldwide, as well as approximately 300 experts and scholars from domestic aerospace institutions, research institutes, and universities in attendance.
During the conference, a batch of deep space exploration cooperation projects advanced in parallel. The Deep Space Exploration Laboratory established China-Thailand and China-Serbia joint deep space exploration laboratories with Thailand's National Astronomical Research Institute and Serbia's Belgrade Astronomical Observatory, respectively. A launch ceremony was also held for the inaugural issue of the international journal Deep Space Exploration (English edition), co-sponsored by the International Deep Space Exploration Society, Harbin Institute of Technology, and the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory, aimed at building an academic exchange platform with international influence in the field of deep space exploration.
Participating experts also exchanged views on topics including major scientific questions in planetary exploration, the Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission, sustainable cislunar space exploration, and reusable launch vehicles. "In the current and foreseeable period, the Moon and Mars are the hotspots and priorities of deep space exploration," said Wu Weiren, Director and Chief Scientist of the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, in his report. He stated that China consistently upholds the principles of "equality and mutual benefit, peaceful use, and win-win cooperation," advancing multi-form, multi-level, and deeply coupled exchanges and cooperation with international partners in the "Chang'e" and "Tianwen" mission series.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘新吾
In the early morning, in a farmhouse courtyard in Miaoming Village, Lüfeng Town, Tongliang District, Chongqing, sixth-grade student Kuai Bo stuffed textbooks and homework notebooks into his schoolbag.
"It's 7 o'clock, time to go catch the special bus," his mother Peng Jinfeng urged. "Mom, I'm coming," Kuai Bo responded, slinging his schoolbag over his shoulder and walking 10 minutes with his mother to the new brick factory boarding point at the junction of Miaoming Village and Fengfei Village.
More than a dozen "little schoolbags" gathered at the stop, and the rural school-commute "Hope Special Line" bus slowly pulled up, with escort staff guiding them aboard to their seats.
The bus travels to Lüfeng Primary School, 10 kilometers away. Previously, this journey was a problem. Worried that her child would be unsafe going to school alone, Peng Jinfeng drove more than 20 kilometers round trip every day to take and pick him up. During the busy farming season, parents were often unable to attend to multiple tasks at once (分身乏术, fen shen fa shu - "divide, body, cannot, technique").
To solve the problem of students in remote rural areas having to travel far to school and the difficulty of drop-off and pickup, in the spring 2026 semester, Chongqing piloted the "Hope Special Line," and in this fall semester expanded and upgraded it, with nearly 300 special lines and more than 440 special vehicles launched simultaneously, safeguarding the school-commute routes of more than 4,500 rural primary and secondary school students across the city. On September 1, Tongliang newly opened 9 "Hope Special Lines," bringing the district's total number of routes to 18, serving 568 students.
The new brick factory boarding point serves 23 students in the surrounding area, and together with two other nearby boarding points, solves the school-travel problem for 49 rural children. Peng Jinfeng said: "The 'Hope Special Line' has affordable fares, and there are escort staff on the bus, so we parents feel much more at ease."
Hu Yue, a student on the same bus, is also a beneficiary of the special line. Previously, her grandfather used to take and pick her up from school on an electric tricycle. Now the boarding point is less than 500 meters from her home, and the young girl can walk to the stop by herself. "Now I can sleep an extra hour, and my grandfather can focus on his own affairs with peace of mind," Hu Yue said.
Chen Song, head of the Tongliang District Transportation Affairs Center, introduced that Tongliang has selected 26 special-line drivers and equipped 128 escort staff and stop supervisors, with "door-to-door" pickup and "hand-to-hand" handover. The special vehicles are equipped with facial recognition verification devices and Beidou positioning, providing real-time monitoring and early warning throughout the entire journey.
(Pu Jiahong participated in the reporting and writing)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 6) (Reporter Li Zhuo'er) On September 6, the third Orchid Award final evaluation meeting was held in Beijing. Twenty-three judges from 10 countries including China, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Mali, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States attended the meeting and selected a recommended list of 10 winners, including 1 Lifetime Honor Award, 3 Outstanding Achievement Awards, and 6 Friendship Envoy Awards. The final list of 10 winners will be announced at this year's award ceremony.
After the evaluation, the Chinese and foreign judges in attendance exchanged views around the theme of "Polishing the Orchid Award Brand, Promoting Mutual Learning Between Civilizations." The judges unanimously agreed that the entire evaluation process was itself a deep practice of Sino-foreign exchange and mutual learning between civilizations (文明互鉴, wenming hujian - "civilization, mutually, learn from each other"). It is necessary to continuously summarize and improve, to polish the Orchid Award brand even brighter, so that it can play a more important role and exert greater influence in promoting Sino-foreign friendship and the exchange and mutual learning of human civilizations.
The Orchid Award is an important international cultural award initiated and established by the China International Communications Group, aimed at recognizing foreign individuals or institutions worldwide who devote themselves to the cause of international cultural exchange and are committed to promoting Sino-foreign cultural exchange and mutual learning between civilizations. The Orchid Award takes achievements, contributions, and international influence as its main evaluation criteria, is held once a year, and is divided into three awards: Lifetime Honor Award, Outstanding Achievement Award, and Friendship Envoy Award.
Since the Orchid Award was initiated and established in 2022, over the past two evaluation cycles, it has honored 19 foreign individuals and 1 institution, covering fields such as translation, publishing, education, art, and international cultural exchange, attracting widespread attention both at home and abroad. In July 2025, the Orchid Award evaluation activity was officially included in the Action Plan List of the Ministerial Conference on Global Civilizations Dialogue. In March 2026, carrying out "Orchid Award" brand activities was included in the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan. The Orchid Award has gradually become an important calling card for Sino-foreign cultural exchange and an international cultural platform for implementing the Global Civilization Initiative.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Tianjin, September 6) (Reporter Gong Xiangjuan) On September 6, the four-day 2026 China Cultural and Tourism Industry Expo closed in Tianjin.
With the theme "Deepening Cultural-Tourism Integration, Wisely Creating a Better Life," this year's expo set up ten major themed exhibition areas, including cultural-tourism integration, new digital business formats, cultural-tourism equipment, international cooperation, Tianjin characteristics, and mass consumption, centrally showcasing new achievements in the integrated development of culture, commerce, tourism, and sports. The exhibition area covered 100,000 square meters, with 18 professional events held concurrently, attracting a total of 2,540 enterprises to exhibit and participate, and drawing 255,000 visitors. Online and offline transaction volume reached 362 million yuan; more than 300 cooperation and transaction intentions were reached at the exhibition site, with an amount exceeding 800 million yuan; cultural-tourism projects were centrally signed at 11.5 billion yuan.
This year's expo highlighted cross-sector resource linkage. By creating five consumer markets and holding a leisure sports carnival, it built immersive experience scenarios, promoted collaborative coexistence and mutual growth (协同共生, xie tong gong sheng - "collaborate, together, live/grow") across multiple business formats, and expanded new space for the integrated development of culture and tourism.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 宋豪新
"Temperature and humidity are normal; turn on the ultraviolet lamp." The underground artifact repository of the Sanxingdui Museum is always a cold and humid world, where hundreds of elephant tusks unearthed from the new sacrificial pits at the Sanxingdui site in 2021 are preserved. Xie Li, an artifact restorer at the Sanxingdui Museum, and her colleagues, fully dressed in protective suits, passed through a buffer room with strict disinfection and slowly entered the sealed repository.
They acted with extreme caution (小心翼翼, xiao xin yi yi - "small, careful, one, one") as they lifted the protective film covering the elephant tusks, replaced the special protective moist wipes one by one, bent down to observe the surface condition of each tusk, and checked for subtle changes such as mold growth. Samples of the replaced moist wipes were sent to a professional laboratory for precision testing, providing comprehensive monitoring of the preservation condition of the elephant tusk artifacts.
Since the museum's founding, the Sanxingdui Museum has been carrying out conservation and restoration work on various artifacts unearthed from the Sanxingdui site. In 2010, the Cultural Relics Conservation and Restoration Center of the Sanxingdui Museum was completed and put into use. The artifact restoration and conservation team to which Xie Li belongs has grown from only four or five members at that time to more than ten members today, with division of labor covering the entire chain of work including artifact analysis and testing, academic research, data collection, and restoration plan formulation.
"The average age of our team is only about 36 years old," said Yu Jian, associate researcher at the Sanxingdui Museum. In addition to conservation and restoration, team members also carefully draw artifact disease maps during daily work, accurately recording various problems such as damage, weathering, and corrosion of artifacts, building a solid data foundation for artifact restoration and long-term conservation.
As the years pass, youth takes up the baton. This team dedicated to the conservation of ancient Shu civilization continues to see an influx of young blood. Young restorers have taken up the torch, endowing thousand-year-old artifacts with new life through professional knowledge and youthful enthusiasm.
"We restore artifacts at Sanxingdui. Artifact restoration work not only tests the carefulness of hands-on operation, but also requires the patience to sit still and persevere." Xie Li is the team's first post-90s artifact restorer, specializing in the restoration of bronze and ceramic artifacts, and is a senior young backbone member of the team.
In 2014, the newly graduated Xie Li joined the Sanxingdui Museum with enthusiasm for cultural relic conservation. After seven years of accumulated learning, on-the-job practice, and quietly building restoration experience, it was not until the archaeological excavation of the new sacrificial pits at the Sanxingdui site in 2021 that she had the opportunity to truly engage in the restoration work of Sanxingdui artifacts.
Today, Xie Li has developed a pair of "skillful hands" that precisely control artifact details and delicately handle restoration challenges, able to "sit still and get results" in work such as elephant tusk conservation and bronze artifact restoration.
The addition of Chen Yanxi, born after 2000, has injected fresh cross-disciplinary vitality into the team. She graduated from Sichuan Normal University with a degree in chemistry and joined the Sanxingdui Museum in 2025.
Unlike restorers trained in traditional artifact restoration disciplines, Chen Yanxi, with her solid foundation in chemistry, holds a unique advantage in professional fields such as X-ray imaging analysis of artifacts. "The first time I picked up an artifact fragment for cleaning, my hands were trembling, afraid of causing even the slightest damage, but after completing it step by step under the guidance of my teachers, the sense of accomplishment was beyond words or description (无以言表, wu yi yan biao - "not, have, speech, express")," Chen Yanxi said.
According to statistics, since the archaeological excavation of the new sacrificial pits at the Sanxingdui site, the artifact restoration and conservation team of the Sanxingdui Museum has carried out cleaning and restoration of newly unearthed artifacts including elephant tusks, bronzes, jade objects, and gold artifacts. By August this year, it had completed the cleaning and conservation restoration of more than 1,000 artifacts including elephant tusks, bronzes, and jade objects. Moreover, the team has leveraged its technical advantages to provide external technical support for the conservation and restoration of movable cultural relics, with multiple achievements filling gaps in the domestic cultural relic conservation and restoration field.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Langfang, September 6) (Reporter Shao Yuzi) On September 5, the 2026 Grand Canal Folk Song Choral Concert — the "Canal Light" choral showcase, themed "Connecting a Millennium of Cultural Heritage, Singing a New Era's Voice," was held at the Silk Road International Arts Center in Langfang City, Hebei Province. Twelve outstanding choral ensembles took the stage performing one after another (轮番登台, lun fan deng tai - "turn by turn, ascend stage"), offering a unique cultural performance to both online and offline audiences through folk songs and other artistic forms.
As an important component of the 2026 Grand Canal Folk Song Choral Concert, segments such as the "Voice of the Canal" choral flash mob and the "Canal Heritage" choral conductor training program were carried out from September 5 to 6. Meanwhile, the "Songs Come from the Canal" folk song choral works exhibition will continue until September 25, further strengthening the dissemination of canal culture through the linkage of online and offline channels.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 蕊
In Jixiangyuan Community, Dianliu New Village Subdistrict, Lixia District, Jinan, Shandong, there is a special workshop tucked away.
Climbing the stairs and pushing open the door, one is met with a burst of noise — inside, a long line has formed, and the items in residents' hands are of a wide variety (五花八门, wu hua ba men - "five, flowers, eight, gates"): stools missing legs, cracked panels, toys falling apart, and some people carrying bundles of discarded wooden sticks.
"Zhang the Knife," "Yao the Scissors," "Able Li"... The workstations bear the names of these "masters"; in the crowd, several old craftsmen huddle together, taking turns speaking or chatting animatedly (你一言我一语, ni yi yan wo yi yu - "you, one, word, I, one, word") over how to modify a wooden board, arguing heatedly without end (争得不可开交, zheng de bu ke kai jiao - "struggle, not, can, open, exchange").
What exactly is this place busy with? Why can it gather so many neighbors from the community?
One Person's "Reluctance to Let Go"
In the crowd, an old man in a red apron pokes his head out. His voice is not loud, yet he manages the whole scene; residents call him "Teacher Ning."
His name is Ning Bo, 70 years old, the "backbone" of this workshop and the head of the "Craftsmanship Builds Dreams" volunteer service station. He gathers the old neighbors around who have skills, repairing and making furniture for residents for free, giving discarded wood a new lease on life.
Every morning, Ning Bo arrives here on time. "After retirement, instead of enjoying a life of leisure, you insist on wrestling with these pieces of wood — what's the point?" people often ask Ning Bo.
Since childhood, his parents taught him: if something is broken, repair it rather than throw it away. "When the pots, pans, bowls, and pens at home broke, my father would take me to get them repaired. After they were fixed, we'd pick them up and keep using them." In his view, this habit of diligence and thrift is etched into his bones.
After retiring, Ning Bo took up his old craft and helped neighbors repair furniture. As he repaired, he discovered: wood is truly a good thing. The old furniture and renovation waste discarded in the community every day either ends up in the trash or is burned or landfilled, all of which impacts the environment. But wood, with a little repair or modification, can stay in the community and continue to be used. "This isn't just about saving — it's about putting less burden on the environment," he said.
What truly made Ning Bo determined to keep this going was a bed.
In the community, there was an elderly couple whose bed had collapsed; they propped it up with a few bricks and made do. When Ning Bo heard about it, he brought his tools to their home, picked out a few of the sturdiest pieces from the wood he had collected, and measured, sawed, planed, and nailed for most of the day. The bed was repaired, sturdier than before. The old couple insisted on keeping him for a meal, but Ning Bo left without even taking a sip of water.
Two days later, the old couple chased Ning Bo to his home carrying food. "When someone holds your hand and says thank you, that kind of joy — no amount of money can compare," Ning Bo said.
From then on, he collected wood with even more enthusiasm. That repaired bed, like a cornerstone, firmly anchored his heart — this work is worth doing.
A Group's "Craftsmanship Workshop"
In the finished goods room, a yellowed old photo hangs. Nine elderly people crowd together, smiling brightly; above it is marked: "January 2017"; below the photo are pasted eight large characters: "Original founders of Craftsmanship Builds Dreams."
"Almost 10 years now, some old comrades have already moved away," Ning Bo recalled, his finger stopping on the person in the middle, "His name is Zhang Ziqiang, 77 years old, and he still comes every day."
Ning Bo and Zhang Ziqiang are old neighbors. The two met because they both loved tinkering with woodworking, often getting together to help neighbors repair furniture — you pass the nails, I swing the hammer, hands full of sawdust, beaming with joy. Whoever's stool legs were loose or table was wobbly would bring it over, and in a few moves it was fixed and sent back.
In 2017, the community supported Ning Bo in establishing a service team, vacating this idle room, and nine people became the first batch of "regular workers."
A few years ago, Zhang Ziqiang moved to the other end of the city. Every morning he gets up in the dark at five or six, takes a two-hour bus ride, and pushes open the workshop door before 8 a.m. "Though it's a trek, I feel at ease," he said. Every time he leaves here for home, the corners of his mouth are turned up.
In the workshop, a reporter noticed a stool with a backrest — sturdy and steady, supporting the waist comfortably. The wood is dark in some places and light in others, yet pieced together it looks all the better. "This is the handiwork of 'Able Li,' Li Xinli — being environmentally friendly isn't enough; it also has to look good and work well." Speaking of him, Ning Bo's eyes crinkled with laughter at the corners, "I ran into him on the roadside and 'tricked' him into coming."
That day, Ning Bo was out collecting wood when he ran into Li Xinli sorting a pile of waste lumber. "We struck up a conversation and found he was a master. The chairs he makes fit together perfectly with no gaps (严丝合缝, yan si he feng - "strict, silk, fit, seam"), lasting decades without falling apart." Ning Bo's eyes lit up, he grabbed his hand, and said with a smile, "Come play at our place!"
As soon as he entered the room, Li Xinli was overjoyed — in every corner, there was wood. Ning Bo gave him a tour, and as he got into the swing of it, his eyes sparkled. "A pile of unwanted waste wood becomes 'treasure' the neighbors can use, helping people and the environment at the same time." Li Xinli's heart stirred: isn't this exactly what I want to do? So he chose to join.
The workshop's reputation grew, but problems also came: the space wasn't enough, and since entering the residential compound required registration, it was a hassle for residents to transport materials, and people from other compounds couldn't easily come either.
In 2024, Ning Bo reported this to the community, which quickly coordinated and opened up the workshop's front door. Residents of other compounds no longer had to go around the main gate, and the workshop moved from "community service" to "open service," drawing more and more people.
A Community's "Green Adhesive"
On the display cabinet sit wooden stools, benches, storage boxes, dumpling trays... each one exquisite.
Can residents come and get these things for free? Ning Bo waved his hand: "There's a condition — you have to trade wood for finished goods. We don't take money here, only wood."
Residents have taken the initiative to bring in old lumber — some carry old window frames they've removed, some haul leftover scraps from renovations, and others bring old bed boards dismantled from their hometowns... "Waste wood no longer goes into the trash; it turns into new objects right here. This is like a miniature resource recycling loop, eliminating garbage before it's even produced," Ning Bo said.
Environmental protection and thrift have not only become the consensus of more and more residents, but have also spread beyond the workshop —
A reporter noticed several wooden robots on a lathe, heads tilted, arms swinging, endearingly cute. "These were made by children during their social practice visits. The old craftsmen couldn't bear to throw them away, so they put them there as decorations — very cute," Ning Bo said.
At the workshop's "reception desk" sits a ledger. Flipping through it casually, it is filled with the names of schools that have come here for social practice. Ning Bo has set up a "stool class": children walk into the workshop and listen to him tell stories of turning waste into treasure; the old craftsmen teach them hands-on how to plane wood and chisel mortise holes, and a piece of waste wood becomes a birdcage or a small ornament in the children's hands. "There's no need for deliberate preaching — through working with their hands, children come to understand what it means to care for the environment and what ecological recycling is," Ning Bo said.
Over time, the workshop has also brought an unexpected bonus: because of a piece of old wood, people have become more familiar with each other, chatting about everyday things while working.
Previously, two households had been at odds for half a year over clutter piled in the hallway, ignoring each other. One day they ran into each other at the workshop — one repairing a table leg, the other a stool. Ning Bo handed them both a cup of tea, mediated between them, and while they worked, guided the two to lend each other a hand. "Back and forth, the conversation picked up again, and both of them smiled. Once they smiled, the knot was untied," Ning Bo said.
Comparing with that old photo, the reporter noticed that Ning Bo's hair has turned considerably whiter, and asked: "Have you thought about who will take over the workshop?"
"Let's keep working for now." He didn't give an answer, but his gaze was resolute.
Just as he was speaking, a young man carrying a freshly repaired panel walked over to thank Ning Bo specifically: "The panel is sanded smooth — tonight I'm going home to make dumplings." After a pause, he added, "Master Ning, are you taking apprentices? I studied mechanical engineering, and I'd like to lend a hand too."
"Yes! Of course!" The words had barely left his mouth when the room filled with laughter.
Over the years, the laughter in the workshop has grown more and more.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 6) (Reporter Yu Sinan) Recently, the China Natural Science Museum Society announced the second batch of group standards projects for 2026, and the "Guidelines for Graded Protection of Animal Specimens in Museum Exhibition" (hereinafter referred to as the "Guidelines") passed the project approval. The "Guidelines" aim to clarify the exhibition methods, display equipment configuration, and open-display control conditions for specimens at different risk levels, moving protection requirements forward to the exhibition plan design stage, controlling risks such as human touching, patting, and tearing at the very beginning or source (从源头, cong yuan tou - "from, source, head"), and achieving a balance between science popularization display effects and the physical protection of specimens.
The preliminary consideration for the "Guidelines" project is that first-level protected specimens, such as specimens of nationally protected first-class wild animals, are recommended to be displayed in closed display cases, with open display prohibited; second-level protected specimens that have been assessed as able to control damage risks may be displayed openly to a limited extent, but museums and relevant exhibition organizers must set up isolation barriers, minimum safe distances, and anti-touch facilities; other ordinary specimens may be listed as third-level protected specimens, which in principle may be displayed openly, but exhibitors should configure no-touching signs and clearly mark the difference between real specimens and simulation models.
The "Guidelines" will clarify the control conditions for open display. For example, they will clarify the restrictive conditions for specimens allowed to be displayed openly, including display stand height, the horizontal distance between visitors and specimens, and isolation forms; any specimen that is easily torn or damaged by touching must not be displayed openly. The "Guidelines" will also clarify handling procedures after specimen damage, such as registration, on-site isolation, and restoration assessment, ensuring that damaged specimens are promptly removed from exhibition and receive professional treatment.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 6) (Reporter Jiang Xuehong) The Central Meteorological Observatory forecasts that, affected by cold air, from the 6th to the 9th, there will be an obvious process of rainfall and cooling in the northern regions of our country, with strong winds in some areas, and a noticeable autumn chill after the cooling.
Over the next 3 to 4 days, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, most of North China, and the western part of the Sichuan Basin will successively see light to moderate rain, with locally heavy to torrential rain accompanied by convective weather such as thunder and lightning, short-duration heavy precipitation, or hail. In the eastern part of the Northwest, North China, Northeast China, and other regions, there will be a temperature drop of 4 to 6 degrees Celsius, with local drops of 8 to 10 degrees Celsius, accompanied by winds of force 4 to 5, with gusts of force 6 to 7.
Chen Tao, chief forecaster of the Central Meteorological Observatory, stated that during this process, the surface cold high-pressure system is relatively strong. As the cold air moves eastward and southward from the Lake Baikal region, its convergence with the southerly warm and humid air currents is obvious. The process of precipitation, strong winds, and cooling will unfold from west to east in the eastern part of the Northwest, North China, and Northeast China. The public needs to be alert to meteorological risks such as mountain torrents, geological disasters, and urban waterlogging in mountainous areas and complex terrain river valleys within the arid and semi-arid climate zones of the north during this process.
Under the combined effect of precipitation and cold air, from the 8th to the 9th, most cities in the north will see obvious cooling, with Beijing cooling by 5 to 7 degrees Celsius and Taiyuan cooling by 8 to 10 degrees Celsius. In eastern Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, and other places, attention also needs to be paid to the impact of strong winds and the first frost on mature field crops.
Over the next 3 days, precipitation in the southern regions will generally tend to weaken. Parts of eastern Jiangnan, South China, Yunnan, southern Tibet, and other areas will see light to moderate rain or thundershowers, with locally heavy rain. Chen Tao reminded that geological disasters have a certain lag effect. Areas such as Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Hunan, which were severely affected earlier by Typhoon "Saudel," still need to be vigilant against disasters such as mountain torrents, landslides, and mudslides.
Return to TopEducation is the foundation of a nation and the bedrock of its strength. Along the banks of the thousand-year-old Grand Canal, Gongshu District of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, takes the building of a new-type teaching workforce as its engine, consolidates the foundation for district-wide quality improvement and expansion, strives to write a strong answer on the examination paper of "running education that satisfies the people," and burnishes the golden name card of "learning well in Gongshu."
District-Wide Quality Improvement: Making "Good Schools at the Doorstep of the People" Within Reach
"Attending a good school at one's doorstep" is what the people long for, and it is also the yardstick of "common prosperity in education." Gongshu District cultivates education with a long-termist approach, letting quality resources, like the living water of the canal, nourish ten thousand households.
As a national demonstration zone for the balanced and high-quality development of compulsory education and a national zone for the universal and inclusive development of preschool education, two national-level honors attest to the achievements of Gongshu District's educational work. The coverage rate of group-based schooling exceeds 90 percent, and 29 prestigious school groups have achieved the leap from "grouping of prestigious schools" to "prestigious groups of schools"; during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, 61 schools (kindergartens) were added and 52,665 school places were created, effectively and forcefully resolving the difficulty of school enrollment; 24,885 children of migrant workers enjoy 100 percent inclusive public education, and the province's first inclusive integrated education project — the "Firefly Academy" curriculum — was launched, achieving a 100 percent enrollment rate for students with certified disabilities at every stage of schooling, firmly holding the bottom line of educational equity.
Quality education is not merely a matter of scale; it lies even more in substance. As one of the province's first pilot zones for "artificial intelligence + education," Gongshu District's 98 schools have cumulatively offered more than 170,000 AI courses, and "AI + evidence-based teaching research" is driving the transformation of teaching toward data-driven approaches; the achievements of education evaluation reform were showcased at the 2026 World Digital Education Conference, and 12 cases were included in the Ministry of Education's Center for Educational Technology and Resource Development's 2025 recommended application case list for the "Leading Action for Large-Scale Application of the Intelligent Research and Training Platform"; 59 schools were rated "provincial modern schools," leading the province in number.
From "having a school to attend" to "attending a good school," from "having access to education" to "having access to excellent education," Gongshu District weaves with systematic thinking a picture of high-level balanced educational resources, making "a good school right at the doorstep" an everyday reality.
Teacher Workforce Development: Activating the First Resource of "Beautiful Education" Through Tiered Cultivation
Teachers are the foundation of education and the source of its flourishing. Gongshu innovatively implements the Canal Famous Teacher tiered cultivation system, activating the "spring water of the pool" of the workforce through sound institutions.
Teacher growth is refined into five tiers — "teaching expert, teaching talent, teaching elite, Canal special-grade teacher, and Canal leader" — with the authority to rate the first and second star levels delegated to schools and allocated by proportion, opening a green channel for young teachers in weaker schools, guiding teacher mobility through flexible policies, and promoting district-wide balance.
The tiered cultivation is tightly interlocked: three-year dynamic assessment and a "can rise, can fall" mechanism stimulate teachers' intrinsic motivation. Fourth- and fifth-star famous teachers lead studios, forming a "leader — backbone — youth" chain of mentoring and passing on experience; Canal special-grade teachers serve both as the "heads" of studios and link upward, achieving a connected growth path of "leading one tier below and linking one tier above."
Over the past year, 9 teachers were promoted to senior professional titles, 1,755 teachers were rated first- to fifth-star famous teachers, 76 studios were newly launched, and the "Canal Iron Army" is taking shape at an accelerated pace; the reform of the rank system for school-level cadres and the reform of the rank system for head teachers proceed in parallel, guiding administrators and head teachers to shift from "administrative drive" to "professional self-awareness."
Today, "special-grade teachers take the lead, backbone teachers get moving, and new teachers start running" has become the norm, and a pyramid structure of "a thick base, a solid middle, and a towering apex" has thus taken shape, with the surging momentum of famous teachers emerging in abundance consolidating the solid foundation of "beautiful education."
Integration of Five Domains of Education: Letting "Canal Youth" Grow and Thrive Through Comprehensive Development
Gongshu sets its sights on "the development of students over their entire lives," and around "Grand Canal ideological and political education," systematically builds a new ecosystem integrating the five domains of education.
Fostering virtue through education works as a silent, subtle influence that nourishes all things (润物无声, run wu wu sheng - "moisten, things, no, sound"). The "Grand Canal ideological and political education" brand shines ever brighter. Gongshu District jointly builds practice bases with the Zhejiang Provincial Archives, appoints "Grand Canal ideological and political education masters," and achieves full coverage of "deputy principals for science"; from bringing "knowledge of the Party" into the classroom to the provincial-level quality course "The Flowing Culture, the People's Canal," the canal's cultural lineage and the red gene intermingle inside and outside the classroom, nourishing the spiritual foundation of the youth.
Health first, with rigid safeguards. The district has achieved full coverage of "deputy principals for health," strictly implements "two hours of comprehensive physical activity" every day, fully promotes "15-minute recesses," and holds more than 1,500 sports events annually; the "comfortable lying-down nap" project has deployed 112,000 sets of equipment and is expected to achieve full coverage by the end of this year; the province's first "medical-education-community" collaborative care model was created, with a 100 percent rate of teachers holding mental health C certificates, and the "four-level psychological care + three horizontal and three vertical" mechanism weaves a dense protective net; the district achieved first place in the Hangzhou primary and secondary school students' Sunshine Sports track and field meet (primary school team overall score) and the overall championship of the National Youth Women's Football Invitational Tournament, with hockey and other events leading the city of Hangzhou.
From district-wide quality improvement and famous teacher cultivation to the integration of the five domains of education, Gongshu empowers itself with the spirit of educators and steadfastly pursues "common prosperity in education." On the new journey, Gongshu will persist in practical innovation, continue to burnish the "Gongshu has excellent education" brand, and contribute warm and solid regional strength to cultivating new generations for the era.
Data sources: Publicity Department of the CPC Gongshu District Committee, Hangzhou; Education Bureau of Gongshu District, Hangzhou
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陶相安
At the scene of the 2026 National Rural and Beautiful Village Table Tennis Competition (hereinafter referred to as the National "Village Table Tennis"), contestant Xu Yuexia, from Lingwu City, Ningxia, welcomed her first formal table tennis match.
"Slow down," "Chop one," "Drink some water and adjust"… At the edge of the court, a young figure kept a close watch on Xu Yuexia's performance, occasionally offering a few reminders.
This young coach is Xu Yuexia's son, Yan Bolin. Yan Bolin has practiced table tennis since childhood and has now been admitted to Southwest Jiaotong University, where he is a member of the university table tennis team.
One Phone Call: The Child Becomes the Coach
"Where is the racket you don't use?" One day, Yan Bolin, at school, received a call from his mother, Xu Yuexia. "There are quite a few people playing table tennis at the senior university next to our home. I want to give it a try too." Upon learning that his mother wanted to learn table tennis, Yan Bolin was especially excited.
The four table tennis tables at the senior university became the starting point for Xu Yuexia's practice. Since then, the content of her calls with her child has also gained much table tennis teaching content.
"At the very beginning, I taught her how to grip the racket, how to serve, and how to adjust her mindset during play through video calls." However, the effect of remote teaching was limited. During the first holiday of his freshman year's first semester, Yan Bolin went home to accompany Xu Yuexia in playing table tennis. Seeing his mother's playing movements, her grip was wrong, and her serve was also wrong. Thus, correcting his mother's erroneous movements became an important activity for Yan Bolin during the holiday.
In Xu Yuexia's eyes, Yan Bolin is very strict. "When I practice the shakehand grip style, the way I exert force with my index finger is always wrong. Over time, I unconsciously developed a bad habit." Xu Yuexia said, "My son teaches me very seriously every time, helping me correct my movements hand in hand."
With Yan Bolin's help, Xu Yuexia has improved markedly. "My mother is very competitive. Whenever she has free time, she drags me to practice with her. She really wants to improve herself." Yan Bolin said, "The first time I played with my mother, I used my phone as a racket and beat her. Now I have to take our matches seriously; she can already score quite a few points against me."
In the group stage of this National "Village Table Tennis" competition, Xu Yuexia encountered a player who is somewhat well-known locally in Ningxia. Her several high-quality rallies with her opponent drew cheers from the audience. Although she failed to win, Xu Yuexia was very happy: "I haven't been practicing for long. Being able to spar with a master is also a form of improvement."
One Flyer: The Mother Becomes the Practice Partner
"Now that I've grown up, I can teach my mother to play. When I was little learning to play, it was my mother who acted as my practice partner and dragged me there." Recalling their table tennis story, Yan Bolin said it all started with a flyer in the residential community.
When Yan Bolin was in the first grade of elementary school, Xu Yuexia wanted to cultivate some hobbies and interests for him. Just as she was worrying about it, a flyer for table tennis training in the community caught her attention. With a mindset of giving it a try, Xu Yuexia sent Yan Bolin to a table tennis club.
"It felt very fun." After getting in touch with it, Yan Bolin quickly developed an interest in table tennis, and his skills improved rapidly. Seeing how much her child loved table tennis, Xu Yuexia planned to let him receive better guidance.
In the fourth grade of elementary school, Yan Bolin transferred to Yinchuan City, Ningxia. While getting familiar with the new campus, Yan Bolin also entered a new table tennis club. However, in the new practice environment, Yan Bolin quickly hit a bottleneck. "The players in Yinchuan are all very strong. When I first arrived, I felt like I couldn't beat anyone." Yan Bolin said that at the time, he developed a sense of resistance.
In order to help her child adjust his mindset as quickly as possible and continue practicing, Xu Yuexia put in great effort. She said to her son: "We know practicing is hard, but since you've started learning it, you still have to persevere." After that, every day after work, Xu Yuexia would accompany Yan Bolin to the club, helping pick up balls and communicating with the coach about practice progress, becoming a practice partner by her child's side.
Encouraged by his mother, Yan Bolin worked very hard. In the following year, Yan Bolin would always require himself to practice one extra session more than others, and his skill gradually improved to the level of the top few in the club.
In 2024, Yan Bolin was admitted to Southwest Jiaotong University. Thanks to his excellent performances in several campus table tennis matches, Yan Bolin was successfully selected for the university table tennis team. Talking about his more than ten years of practice experience, Yan Bolin is very grateful to his mother. He said: "Playing table tennis is a happy thing. It not only gives me a healthy body, but after entering university, it has also become an important way to help me integrate into campus life."
Repeated Sparring: Table Tennis Becomes Part of Daily Life
In the eyes of Xu Yuexia and Yan Bolin, table tennis has become a part of their lives. Playing table tennis not only exercises the body but also allows them to make many friends.
After the competition, Xu Yuexia, as usual, arrives on time at the community table tennis table at 2:30 every afternoon to meet up with her fellow players. "My mom goes to play every day now and has her own playing partners." Yan Bolin said, "I sometimes accompany her to play and teach her some techniques."
From accompanying her child to practice in his childhood to now playing herself, the mother and son share a common hobby and also have more topics to talk about. Yan Bolin said: "Last time I represented the school in the Sichuan Province College Student Table Tennis Competition, I didn't get an ideal ranking. I still need to keep working hard and strive for better results." Xu Yuexia's thoughts are relatively simple. She said: "Every time I play, I have a feeling of great satisfaction and uninhibited enjoyment (酣畅淋漓, han chang lin li - "exhilarating, flowing, dripping"). For me, persevering is a very good thing."
"Lingwu's rural sports foundation is very solid. Table tennis entering schools and villages has become the norm and is gradually integrating into the daily lives of the people." said Xie Gang, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Lingwu Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau. Nowadays, in Lingwu, there are more and more sports enthusiasts like Xu Yuexia. From the 2024 National "Village Run" to the 2025 National "Village Dance" and then to the 2026 National "Village Table Tennis," Lingwu continues to polish its "village-brand" calling card, driving more people to participate in physical exercise.
Return to TopBy: 高 佶
At the 2026 National "Village Table Tennis" event site, the sideline interaction between a mother and son from Lingwu, Ningxia, was deeply heartwarming.
What was heartwarming was not the level of skill or the win or loss of the match, but the "reversal" of time: more than a decade ago, the mother sent her first-grade son, Bo Lin, to learn table tennis, accompanying the child as he grew up along the way. More than a decade later, the son, whose skills had improved, in turn taught his mother how to grip the paddle and corrected her movements hand by hand. Once she was the one picking up balls behind him; now he has become the person on the sideline who understands the game best.
An old paddle bears witness to a process that continues steadily over a long period (细水长流, xi shui chang liu - "fine water, long flow") of family affection. It is an inexhaustible topic on the phone, a repeated round of corrections during holidays, and the story of you accompanying me as I grew up, and me teaching you to play table tennis... And the mother's words, "Persisting is a very good thing," sound plain but carry great weight. For ordinary people, what matters in sports may not be how well one plays, but rather the ability to make one's days full of vigor and to make life full of interest and flavor (有滋有味, you zi you wei - "have taste, have flavor").
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 6) (Reporters Liu Shuoyang, Tao Xiang'an) In the early morning of September 6, the two-day 2026 World Athletics Diamond League Final came to the conclusion of an event (落下帷幕, luo xia wei mu - "fall, down, curtain, screen") in Brussels, Belgium. In the women's discus throw competition, which concluded in the early morning of September 5, Feng Bin won the title with a throw of 67.46 meters. In the women's javelin competition on September 6, 18-year-old Yan Ziyi broke the meet record with her fifth throw of 68.42 meters to claim gold, becoming the fourth Chinese athlete to win the Diamond League overall title.
"The beautiful sky over Brussels tonight is a perfect match for my happy smile!" After winning the title, Feng Bin immediately shared her joy on social media. From the very start of the competition, she displayed excellent form, moving to the top of the standings after the first three throws. On her fourth throw, Feng Bin recorded a fine result of 67.46 meters, and ultimately won the title with this mark. Two-time Olympic champion, American athlete Valarie Allman, finished as runner-up with a final throw of 66.92 meters. This was also the first time in four years that Feng Bin had defeated Allman in the same competition since winning the world championship in 2022.
A day later, good news continued to arrive. In the women's javelin events prior to this season's competition, Yan Ziyi had already won four station meet titles, including a throw of 71.74 meters at the Xiamen station, setting the Asian record and the world junior (U20) record. Yan Ziyi got off to a rough start in this competition, but with encouragement from her coach she quickly adjusted, gradually finding her form from the fourth throw onward, moving to the top of the standings with a result of 64.95 meters, and sealing the victory with a throw of 68.42 meters on her fifth attempt.
The World Athletics Diamond League Final brings together the most outstanding athletes from the 14 station meets across four continents this season. Previously, only Gong Lijiao (2017-2019 seasons) and Lü Huihui (2019 season) had won the Diamond League annual overall title. Feng Bin and Yan Ziyi have become the third and fourth Chinese athletes to reach the top.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 6) (Reporter Li Shuo) On the 5th local time, in the third round of the women's singles at the 2026 US Open, Chinese player Zheng Qinwen, who advanced from the qualifying rounds, staged a comeback under the unfavorable situation of losing the first set and trailing 0-5 in the deciding set. She won seven consecutive games, saved a match point, and narrowly defeated the 22nd seed, American player Keys, 1-6, 7-6 (3), 7-5, reaching the women's singles round of 16 at the US Open for the third time in her career.
"I told myself to play every point well, absolutely not give up, and keep going. Unconsciously or imperceptibly (不知不觉, bu zhi bu jue - "not know, not feel"), the situation began to turn around bit by bit," Zheng Qinwen said after the match. "This is the first time in my career that I have staged a comeback from a 0-5 deficit." Since the qualifying rounds, Zheng Qinwen has already achieved a six-match winning streak. In the next round, she will face former tournament champion, Polish player Swiatek.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Tai'an, September 6) (Reporter Zeng Huafeng) On the 6th, the 2026 40th Mount Tai International Climbing Race and the 31st National Fitness Mount Tai Hiking Activity for All were held in Tai'an City, Shandong Province, with 13,000 professional athletes and mountaineering enthusiasts from home and abroad participating.
This year's event, for the first time, added a college student group on the basis of the traditional youth group, middle-aged group, and senior group. The race route continues the classic setup of the past 40 years: the finish line for the senior group is set at Zhongtian Gate, with a total distance of approximately 5.1 kilometers; the finish line for the middle-aged group is located at Nantian Gate, with a total distance of approximately 7.8 kilometers; the youth group and the newly added college student group this year launch an assault on the summit of Mount Tai, Yuhuang Peak, with a total distance of approximately 8.6 kilometers.
Kenyan athlete Peter Kiprop Kosgei was the first to reach Yuhuang Peak with a time of 1 hour, 3 minutes, and 39 seconds, winning the men's championship in the youth group; Chinese athlete Tang Hongfang won the women's championship in the youth group with a time of 1 hour, 18 minutes, and 5 seconds.
Return to TopOn September 6, 2021, the Plan for Comprehensively Deepening the Reform and Opening-Up of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone was issued. Over the past five years, the development space of the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone (hereinafter referred to as the "Qianhai Cooperation Zone") has been greatly expanded, and its driving engine has been comprehensively upgraded, with regional GDP growing from 175.57 billion yuan in 2021 to 331.81 billion yuan in 2025, nearly doubling in scale.
Standing at the new starting point of the opening of the 15th Five-Year Plan, the Qianhai Cooperation Zone is closely adhering to the main responsibility of reform, opening-up, and innovation, the main industry of modern services, and the main line of Shenzhen-Hong Kong cooperation, blazing a trail with "daring," winning with "creativity," and achieving results with "hard work," driving the development of the Cooperation Zone "forward, toward the sea, and toward the future."
Shenzhen and Hong Kong United in Heart, Integration Advancing
On August 28, the Qianhai Hong Kong People and Hong Kong Enterprises Service Center was inaugurated at the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub, providing "one-stop" services for Hong Kong enterprises and young entrepreneurs.
Since its establishment, the Qianhai Cooperation Zone has persisted in moving forward in unity with Hong Kong, accelerating the building of a leading zone for deep and integrated Shenzhen-Hong Kong development, and promoting the alignment of rules, the interconnection of factors, the integration of markets, and the intermingling of people's livelihoods. The Cooperation Zone currently has over 11,000 Hong Kong enterprises and over 13,000 Hong Kong residents.
In 2024, the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub was upgraded to the "1510" model, with "a 1-yuan innovation workshop, 500 million yuan in fund support, and 100,000 square meters of space," having incubated a cumulative total of 1,180 Hong Kong teams. Five universities, including the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, have established technology transfer platforms here, incubating 193 projects over the past two years.
Shenzhen-Hong Kong rule alignment has continued to achieve breakthroughs. 27 categories of Hong Kong and Macao professionals can practice in the Qianhai Cooperation Zone upon filing (registration); the Hong Kong engineering construction management model has been piloted in the Qianhai Cooperation Zone, with 5 projects implemented; and all 5 tertiary hospitals have obtained the "Hong Kong and Macao Drugs and Medical Devices Connect" qualification, benefiting more than 2,500 person-times.
In 2025 and 2026, the Qianhai Cooperation Zone successively issued action plans for building the leading zone for deep and integrated Shenzhen-Hong Kong development, continuously removing barriers to cross-border circulation. Today, Qianhai is deepening the alignment of Shenzhen-Hong Kong rules and the docking of mechanisms, actively creating a working and living environment familiar to Hong Kong residents, and making every effort to serve Hong Kong's integration into the country's overall development.
Cross-border buses reach Hong Kong Island directly in 1.5 hours, the sound of reading aloud clearly and loudly (书声琅琅, shu sheng lang lang - "book, sound, bright, bright") resounds from schools for children of Hong Kong residents, and 72 Hong Kong enterprises have opened new markets in Qianhai's international Hong Kong-style streets... Hard connectivity, soft connectivity, and people-to-people connectivity are working in the same direction, and Shenzhen-Hong Kong integrated development is drawing closer and closer, and becoming more and more intimate through integration.
Main Industry Upgraded in Quality, Industrial Upgrading
Inside the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Financial City, more than 500 financial institutions including HSBC and UBS have gathered into a formidable force. On both banks of the Pearl River Estuary, drones carrying cargo shuttle back and forth, flying across the sea from the Qianhai Cooperation Zone directly to Zhuhai City and Zhongshan City in Guangdong Province.
In recent years, the modern service industry in the Qianhai Cooperation Zone has flourished, with production services deeply empowering and life services being diverse and convenient. In the first half of 2026, the added value of the service industry in the Qianhai Cooperation Zone accounted for 80.2% of regional GDP, and modern services accounted for 86.6% of the service industry, reaching the "double 80%" level of advanced global service industry regions.
After the "expansion of the zone" in 2021, the Qianhai Cooperation Zone has on one hand linked up with the manufacturing base of Bao'an District, Shenzhen, and on the other hand connected with the source of scientific and technological innovation in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, with modern services and advanced manufacturing growing together through mutual integration (相融相长, xiang rong xiang zhang - "mutually, blend, mutually, grow").
Platforms such as the nation's first embodied intelligence industry joint innovation center and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Application Scenario Innovation Center (Qianhai) have been successively put into operation. The nation's first cross-border insurance for ultra-light eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft) has been concluded, creating a new paradigm of "underwritten in Shenzhen, issued in Hong Kong, and reinsured cross-border."
The Qianhai Cooperation Zone cultivates new quality productive forces by opening up application scenarios. Hong Kong's software, artificial intelligence, and embodied intelligence technologies are being applied and implemented in the advanced manufacturing and modern logistics scenarios of the Qianhai Cooperation Zone, with achievements such as 3D printing, autonomous driving, and industrial large models being accelerated in their transformation.
On this land, a cumulative total of 183 Fortune Global 500 enterprises and 44 headquarters-type global service providers have settled in, and 122 national-level specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative "little giant" enterprises and 12 unicorn enterprises have taken root. A modern industrial system that combines Qianhai's characteristics, Shenzhen-Hong Kong features, and comparative advantages is taking shape in echelons and accumulating strength.
Reform and Innovation, Breaking New Ground Through Opening-Up
At the APEC High-Level Forum on Artificial Intelligence held in July, the Chinese side announced that it would establish the "China Center for Promoting APEC Cross-Border Data Flow Cooperation" in the Qianhai Cooperation Zone. In recent years, the Qianhai Cooperation Zone has taken the lead in piloting, with data flows connecting Shenzhen and Hong Kong and linking to the international community, pilot programs being first carried out in the medical and education fields, and the Shenzhen-Singapore cross-border data verification platform being launched for trial operation.
Daring to try, daring to break through, and making independent reforms, the Qianhai Cooperation Zone is making every effort to build a pilot platform for comprehensively deepening reform and innovation and to build a high-level gateway hub for opening up, with 111 institutional innovation achievements spreading from here to the whole country.
Targeting the pain points of business entities, the Qianhai Cooperation Zone has launched a pilot of "dual-recording signature" using audio and video recording for enterprise registration, saving enterprises approximately 38 million yuan in costs each year. It has carried out a pilot of priority examination of invention patents for applicants from Hong Kong and Macao, with the number of cases handled ranking first in the country. "Shenzhen Going Global E-Station," as the only provincial-level enterprise going-global service platform in Guangdong, has extended its services to 14 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government), serving more than 1,800 enterprises cumulatively and promoting the implementation of more than 200 overseas investment projects.
The Qianhai Cooperation Zone is aligning with high-standard international economic and trade rules through high-level opening-up, with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area's first "TIR+Bonded" international road transport business and first GMS international road transport business operating smoothly. More than 90% of the "30 Measures for Financial Support for Qianhai" have been implemented, forming 14 national first-batch pioneering practices. Guangdong's first joint law firm office between Chinese and foreign law firms has been established in the Qianhai Cooperation Zone.
In the first half of 2026, the import and export scale of enterprises located in the Qianhai Cooperation Zone reached 564.85 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 57.2%, and the actual use of foreign capital reached 25.01 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 102.9%. In the first quarter of 2026, the import and export scale of the Qianhai Comprehensive Bonded Zone jumped to first place among comprehensive bonded zones nationwide.
Data source: Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone Administration Bureau of Shenzhen
Return to TopOrder of the State Council of the People's Republic of China
No. 845
The Regulations on Emergency Response, Handling and Investigation of Electric Power Safety Accidents, having been revised and adopted at the 94th executive meeting of the State Council on August 21, 2026, are hereby promulgated and shall come into force as of January 1, 2027.
Premier Li Qiang
August 30, 2026
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated to strengthen the emergency response work for electric power safety accidents, standardize the investigation and handling of electric power safety accidents, control, mitigate and eliminate the damage caused by electric power safety accidents, and ensure the safe and stable operation of the electric power system and the reliable supply of electric power.
Article 2 For the purposes of these Regulations, electric power safety accidents refer to accidents occurring in the course of electric power production or power grid operation that affect the safe and stable operation of the electric power system or affect the normal supply of electric power.
Article 3 According to the extent to which an electric power safety accident (hereinafter referred to as an accident) affects the safe and stable operation of the electric power system or affects the normal supply of electric power, accidents are divided into extraordinarily serious accidents, major accidents, relatively major accidents and ordinary accidents. The standards for classifying the grades of accidents are set out in the appendix to these Regulations. Where some items of the standards for classifying the grades of accidents need to be adjusted, the energy administrative department of the State Council shall put forward a plan and report it to the State Council for approval.
The standards for classifying the grades of accidents in an area supplied with power by a single transmission line or a single substation, where a fault in that single transmission line or single substation causes a reduction in the load supplied by the power grid or causes power supply interruptions to power users, shall be separately formulated by the energy administrative department of the State Council and reported to the State Council for approval.
Article 4 The energy administrative department of the State Council shall strengthen the supervision and administration of electric power safety, establish and improve, in accordance with the law, the various systems for emergency response and investigation and handling of accidents, and organize or participate in the investigation and handling of accidents.
The energy administrative department of the State Council and other relevant departments of the State Council, local people's governments and their relevant departments shall, in accordance with the authority and procedures prescribed by the State, organize, coordinate and participate in the emergency response work for accidents.
Article 5 Electric power enterprises, power users and other entities connected to the power grid for operation (hereinafter referred to as other grid-connected entities) shall comply with the provisions on electric power safety administration, submit to unified dispatch, strictly implement the relevant standards and technical specifications, implement accident prevention measures in the planning, construction, operation and other links of the electric power system, strengthen the investigation and screening of accident hazards, and prevent and avoid the occurrence of accidents.
Electric power dispatching institutions shall carry out power grid operation control strictly in accordance with the relevant laws and administrative regulations and the provisions of the energy administrative department of the State Council.
Important power users determined by the relevant departments of local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with the provisions of the energy administrative department of the State Council, be equipped with self-provided emergency power sources and strengthen the management of their safe use.
Article 6 After an accident occurs, the relevant entities and individuals shall, in accordance with the provisions, report the accident situation promptly and accurately, carry out emergency response work, prevent the expansion of the accident, and mitigate the damage caused by the accident. Electric power enterprises and other grid-connected entities shall restore electric power production, power grid operation and the normal supply of electric power as soon as possible.
The relevant people's governments and their relevant departments shall provide the necessary support and safeguards for the emergency response work for accidents.
Article 7 No entity or individual may obstruct or interfere with the reporting, emergency response, and investigation and handling of accidents in accordance with the law.
Chapter II Accident Reporting
Article 8 After an accident occurs, the relevant personnel at the accident site shall immediately report to the personnel on duty at the power plant, substation (converter station) operation, the personnel on duty at the electric power dispatching institution, or the person in charge at the site of their own unit. After receiving the report, the relevant personnel shall immediately report to the electric power dispatching institution at the next higher level and the person in charge of their own unit. After receiving the report, the person in charge of the unit shall immediately report to the dispatched office established locally by the energy administrative department of the State Council (hereinafter referred to as the dispatched energy regulatory office) and the emergency management department of the local people's government at or above the county level. Where an accident at a thermal power plant affects the normal supply of heat, it shall also be reported to the heat supply administrative department; where an accident involves the safety of the dam of a hydropower plant (station), it shall also be reported at the same time to the water administrative department or river basin management institution with jurisdiction.
Electric power dispatching institutions at the provincial, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government level and above shall immediately report accidents occurring within the scope of their dispatch jurisdiction to the energy administrative department of the State Council or the dispatched energy regulatory office.
The unit where the accident occurred, electric power dispatching institutions and their relevant personnel may not delay reporting, conceal or falsely report the accident situation.
Article 9 After receiving an accident report, the dispatched energy regulatory office shall immediately verify the relevant situation and report to the energy administrative department of the State Council; where the accident causes power supply interruptions to power users, it shall at the same time notify the local people's government at or above the county level in the place where the accident occurred.
With respect to extraordinarily serious accidents and major accidents, after receiving the accident report, the energy administrative department of the State Council shall immediately report to the State Council and notify the emergency management department of the State Council and other relevant departments.
Article 10 An accident report shall include the following contents:
(1) the time, place (area) of the accident, the unit where the accident occurred, and a brief account of the course of the accident;
(2) the known damage to electric power equipment and facilities, the number of generating units out of service, the value of the reduction in load supplied by the power grid or the reduction in output of generating units, and the scope of the power outage;
(3) a preliminary judgment of the cause of the accident;
(4) the measures taken after the accident, the mode of power grid operation, the operating condition of generating units, and the situation of accident control;
(5) other situations that should be reported.
An accident report may first report the known situation and subsequently report the detailed situation. Where new circumstances arise after the accident report, a supplementary report shall be made in a timely manner.
Article 11 After an accident occurs, the relevant entities and personnel shall properly protect the accident site as well as relevant materials such as work logs, work tickets, operation tickets, and promptly preserve relevant data such as fault recorder waveforms, electric power dispatching data, generating unit operating data and transmission and transformation equipment operating data, and after the accident investigation team is established, hand over the relevant materials and data to the accident investigation team.
Where it is necessary to change the accident site or move electric power equipment in order to rescue personnel or take emergency measures such as restoring electric power production, power grid operation and electric power supply, marks shall be made, a simple sketch of the site shall be drawn, important traces and physical evidence shall be properly preserved, and a written record shall be made.
No entity or individual may deliberately destroy the accident site, or forge, conceal or destroy relevant evidence.
Chapter III Emergency Response to Accidents
Article 12 Electric power enterprises shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State, formulate emergency rescue plans for accidents of their own units and organize drills on a regular basis. The emergency rescue plans for accidents shall be filed with the dispatched energy regulatory office for the record and a copy shall be sent to the emergency management department of the local people's government at or above the county level in the place where the unit is located.
The energy administrative department of the State Council and the dispatched energy regulatory office shall guide electric power enterprises in strengthening the construction of the emergency rescue system for accidents and ensure investment in materials, equipment and other resources.
Article 13 After an accident occurs, the relevant electric power enterprises, power users and other grid-connected entities shall immediately take the corresponding emergency handling measures to control the scope of the accident and prevent systemic collapse and disintegration of the power grid; where the accident endangers the safety of personnel and equipment, the relevant personnel on duty at the operation may, in accordance with the relevant provisions, immediately take emergency handling measures such as shutting down generating units and transmission and transformation equipment.
Where the accident causes damage to electric power equipment and facilities, the relevant electric power enterprises and other grid-connected entities shall immediately organize emergency repairs.
Article 14 According to the specific circumstances of the accident, the electric power dispatching institution may issue electric power dispatching orders such as starting up or shutting down generating units, adjusting the active and reactive output of generating units, adjusting the mode of power grid operation, and adjusting the dispatching plan, and electric power enterprises, power users and other grid-connected entities shall execute them.
Where an accident may lead to the destruction of the stability of the electric power system and a large-scale power outage of the power grid, the electric power dispatching institution has the right to decide to take necessary measures such as load shedding, disconnecting the power grid, and disconnecting generating units.
Where an accident causes the complete cessation of operation of the electric power system in a certain area, the electric power dispatching institution shall immediately determine a plan for restoring power supply, and when necessary, start generating units within the system that have the capability of independent starting and isolated grid operation, or dispatch external power sources, to restore the operation of the electric power system as soon as possible.
Article 15 In restoring power grid operation and electric power supply, priority shall be given to ensuring the restoration of the auxiliary power sources of important power plants, important transmission and transformation equipment, and the main power grid framework, and priority shall be given to restoring the electric power supply to important power users, important cities and key areas.
Article 16 The energy administrative department of the State Council shall, in accordance with the Emergency Response Law of the People's Republic of China and the National Overall Emergency Response Plan for Emergencies, organize the formulation of the national emergency response plan for large-scale power outage events and report it to the State Council for approval.
Local people's governments shall, in accordance with the laws, administrative regulations and the national emergency response plan for large-scale power outage events, organize the formulation of emergency response plans for large-scale power outage events in their respective administrative regions.
The emergency response plan for large-scale power outage events shall make specific provisions on the emergency response organization and command system and its duties, the various measures for emergency response, and the emergency safeguards for personnel, funds, materials, technology, communications and other aspects.
Article 17 Where an accident causes a large-scale power outage, the energy administrative department of the State Council and other relevant departments of the State Council, the relevant local people's governments and their relevant departments, electric power enterprises and other grid-connected entities shall, in accordance with the provisions of the emergency response plan for large-scale power outage events and other regulations, activate the emergency response, establish emergency command organizations, restore power grid operation and electric power supply as soon as possible, and prevent the occurrence of various secondary disasters.
Article 18 Where an accident causes a large-scale power outage, local people's governments and the relevant departments shall immediately organize and carry out the following emergency response work:
(1) strengthen the security protection of key units in the power outage area that concern the national economy and the people's livelihood, national security and public safety, guard against acts that disrupt social order, and maintain social stability;
(2) promptly eliminate the various dangerous situations arising from the power outage;
(3) where the accident causes major casualties or it is necessary to urgently transfer and resettle trapped personnel, promptly organize and implement the work of medical treatment, transfer and resettlement;
(4) strengthen the command and diversion of road traffic in the power outage area, and do a good job in the work of railway and civil aviation transportation and communications support;
(5) organize the emergency production and allocation of emergency materials, and ensure the supply of materials needed for the restoration of power grid operation and the basic necessities of life for residents.
Article 19 Where an accident causes an interruption of power supply to important power users, the important power users shall promptly start their self-provided emergency power sources in accordance with the relevant technical requirements; where starting the self-provided emergency power sources is ineffective, power grid enterprises shall provide the necessary support and safeguards.
Where an accident causes a power outage in places of public assembly such as subways, airports, high-rise buildings, shopping malls, cinemas and theaters, and stadiums and gymnasiums, emergency lighting shall be promptly activated and personnel shall be organized to evacuate in an orderly manner.
Article 20 The emergency command organization, the energy administrative department of the State Council or the dispatched energy regulatory office shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions, uniformly, accurately and promptly release information on the scope of the impact of the accident, the progress of the handling work, and the estimated time for restoring power supply.
Chapter IV Investigation and Handling of Accidents
Article 21 Extraordinarily serious accidents shall be investigated by an accident investigation team organized by the State Council or a department authorized by the State Council.
Major accidents shall be investigated by an accident investigation team organized by the energy administrative department of the State Council.
Relatively major accidents and ordinary accidents shall be investigated by an accident investigation team organized by the dispatched energy regulatory office. Where the energy administrative department of the State Council deems it necessary, it may organize an accident investigation team to investigate relatively major accidents.
With respect to ordinary accidents that do not cause power supply interruptions to power users, the dispatched energy regulatory office may also entrust the unit where the accident occurred to investigate and handle them.
Article 22 According to the specific circumstances of the accident, the accident investigation team shall be composed of personnel dispatched by the relevant people's governments and their energy and emergency management departments and other departments with responsibility for the supervision and administration of work safety, and fire and rescue organizations, and shall invite personnel from public security organs, people's procuratorates and other units to participate. The accident investigation team shall promptly notify the supervisory organs of the accident situation and invite the supervisory organs to intervene in the accident investigation.
According to the needs of the accident investigation work, the accident investigation team may engage relevant experts to assist in the investigation.
The head of the accident investigation team shall be designated by the organ that organizes the accident investigation team.
Article 23 The accident investigation team shall carry out the accident investigation in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State and submit an accident investigation report to the organ that organizes the accident investigation team within the following time limits:
(1) the investigation period for extraordinarily serious accidents and major accidents is 60 days; under special circumstances, with the approval of the organ that organizes the accident investigation team, it may be appropriately extended, but the extension period shall not exceed 60 days.
(2) the investigation period for relatively major accidents and ordinary accidents is 45 days; under special circumstances, with the approval of the organ that organizes the accident investigation team, it may be appropriately extended, but the extension period shall not exceed 45 days.
The accident investigation period shall be calculated from the date on which the accident occurs.
Article 24 An accident investigation report shall include the following contents:
(1) the basic situation of the units involved in the accident and the course of the occurrence and handling of the accident;
(2) the direct economic losses caused by the accident and the situation of the impact of the accident on power grid operation and the normal supply of electric power;
(3) the causes of the accident and the nature of the accident;
(4) the situation of the emergency response to the accident and the restoration of electric power production and power grid operation;
(5) the determination of responsibility for the accident, the recommendations for handling the units responsible for the accident, the proposed list of public officials who should be held accountable and subject to accountability, and the recommendations for handling other responsible personnel;
(6) the measures for preventing and rectifying accidents.
The accident investigation report shall be accompanied by the relevant evidentiary materials and technical analysis reports. Members of the accident investigation team shall sign the accident investigation report.
Article 25 Upon the approval of the accident investigation report by the organ that organizes the accident investigation team, the accident investigation work shall be concluded; with respect to ordinary accidents entrusted to the unit where the accident occurred for investigation, the accident investigation report shall be submitted for approval to the dispatched energy regulatory office. The accident investigation report shall be promptly made public to society in accordance with the law.
The relevant organs shall, in accordance with the law, impose penalties on the units responsible for the accident and the relevant responsible personnel, and impose sanctions on public officials who bear responsibility for the accident.
The unit responsible for the accident shall handle the personnel of its own unit who bear responsibility for the accident and promptly report the results of the handling to the organ that organizes the accident investigation team.
Article 26 The units responsible for the accident and the relevant personnel shall earnestly draw lessons from the accident, implement the measures for preventing and rectifying accidents, and prevent the recurrence of accidents.
The energy administrative department of the State Council or the dispatched energy regulatory office shall, within one year after the approval of the accident investigation report, organize an assessment of the implementation of the measures for preventing and rectifying accidents and promptly make the assessment results public to society.
Chapter V Legal Liability
Article 27 Where the principal person in charge of the unit where the accident occurred commits any of the following acts, the energy administrative department of the State Council or the dispatched energy regulatory office shall impose a fine of 60% to 100% of his or her annual income of the previous year; if the person is a public official, a sanction shall also be imposed in accordance with the law; if the act constitutes a crime, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law:
(1) failing to immediately organize the handling of the accident;
(2) delaying the reporting of the accident;
(3) neglecting one's duties (擅离职守, shan li zhi shou - "absent from") during the investigation and handling of the accident.
Article 28 Where the unit where the accident occurred and its relevant personnel commit any of the following acts, the energy administrative department of the State Council or the dispatched energy regulatory office shall impose a fine of not less than 1 million yuan but not more than 5 million yuan on the unit where the accident occurred; impose a fine of 60% to 100% of the annual income of the previous year on the principal person in charge, the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel, and if they are public officials, a sanction shall also be imposed in accordance with the law; if the act constitutes a violation of public security administration, the public security organ shall impose a public security administrative penalty in accordance with the law; if the act constitutes a crime, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law:
(1) falsely reporting or concealing the accident;
(2) forging or deliberately destroying the accident site;
(3) transferring or concealing funds or property, or destroying relevant evidence and materials;
(4) refusing to accept the investigation or refusing to provide the relevant information and materials;
(5) giving false testimony in the accident investigation or instigating others to give false testimony;
(6) absconding after the accident occurs.
Article 29 The units responsible for the accident shall be fined by the energy administrative department of the State Council or the dispatched energy regulatory office in accordance with the following provisions:
(1) where an ordinary accident occurs, a fine of not less than 300,000 yuan but not more than 1 million yuan shall be imposed;
(2) where a relatively major accident occurs, a fine of not less than 1 million yuan but not more than 2 million yuan shall be imposed;
(3) where a major accident occurs, a fine of not less than 2 million yuan but not more than 10 million yuan shall be imposed;
(4) where an extraordinarily serious accident occurs, a fine of not less than 10 million yuan but not more than 20 million yuan shall be imposed.
Where the circumstances of the accident are particularly serious and the impact is particularly bad, the energy administrative department of the State Council or the dispatched energy regulatory office may impose a fine on the unit responsible for the accident of not less than 2 times but not more than 5 times the amount of the fine specified in the preceding paragraph.
Article 30 Where the principal person in charge of the unit responsible for the accident fails to perform the duties of work safety production management in accordance with the law, resulting in the occurrence of the accident, the energy administrative department of the State Council or the dispatched energy regulatory office shall impose a fine in accordance with the following provisions; if the person is a public official, a sanction shall also be imposed in accordance with the law; if the act constitutes a crime, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law:
(1) where an ordinary accident occurs, a fine of 40% of his or her annual income of the previous year shall be imposed;
(2) where a relatively major accident occurs, a fine of 60% of his or her annual income of the previous year shall be imposed;
(3) where a major accident occurs, a fine of 80% of his or her annual income of the previous year shall be imposed;
(4) where an extraordinarily serious accident occurs, a fine of 100% of his or her annual income of the previous year shall be imposed.
Where other persons in charge of the unit responsible for the accident and work safety production management personnel fail to perform the duties of work safety production management in accordance with the law, resulting in the occurrence of the accident, the energy administrative department of the State Council or the dispatched energy regulatory office shall impose a fine of 20% to 50% of their annual income of the previous year.
Article 31 Where the principal person in charge of the unit where the accident occurred is subject to a sanction of removal from office or above or criminal punishment in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations, he or she may not serve as the principal person in charge of any production or business operation unit within 5 years from the date of the sanction or from the date of completion of the execution of the criminal punishment.
Article 32 Where the energy administrative department of the State Council or the dispatched energy regulatory office, the relevant local people's governments and other departments with responsibility for the supervision and administration of work safety commit any of the following acts, the leading personnel and directly responsible personnel who bear responsibility shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law; where the leading personnel and directly responsible personnel who bear responsibility constitute a crime, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law:
(1) failing to immediately organize the handling of the accident;
(2) delaying the reporting, concealing or falsely reporting the accident;
(3) obstructing or interfering with the accident investigation work;
(4) giving false testimony in the accident investigation or instigating others to give false testimony.
Article 33 Where an electric power dispatching institution commits any of the following acts, the leading personnel and directly responsible personnel who bear responsibility shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law; where the leading personnel and directly responsible personnel who bear responsibility constitute a crime, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law:
(1) failing to carry out the handling of the accident in a timely manner, resulting in the expansion of the accident;
(2) failing to take measures to restore power supply in a timely manner;
(3) delaying the reporting, concealing or falsely reporting the accident;
(4) failing to cooperate with the accident investigation, refusing to provide the relevant information and materials, giving false testimony or instigating others to give false testimony, or destroying relevant evidence and materials.
Article 34 Where personnel participating in the accident investigation commit any of the following acts in the accident investigation, they shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law; if the act constitutes a crime, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law:
(1) being irresponsible for the accident investigation work, resulting in major omissions in the accident investigation work;
(2) shielding or covering up for personnel who bear responsibility for the accident, or taking the opportunity to retaliate against others (打击报复, da ji bao fu - "strike, retaliate").
Chapter VI Supplementary Provisions
Article 35 Where an accident specified in these Regulations occurs and simultaneously causes casualties or direct economic losses, and the grade of the accident determined in accordance with these Regulations is different from the grade determined in accordance with the Regulations on the Reporting and Investigation and Handling of Work Safety Accidents, the grade of the accident shall be determined according to the higher grade, and the investigation and handling shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations; where the accident causes casualties and constitutes a major accident or an extraordinarily serious accident as specified in the Regulations on the Reporting and Investigation and Handling of Work Safety Accidents, the investigation and handling shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations on the Reporting and Investigation and Handling of Work Safety Accidents.
Where an accident involving damage to generating units or transmission and transformation equipment occurs in the course of electric power production or power grid operation, causing direct economic losses, but does not affect the safe and stable operation of the electric power system and the normal supply of electric power, the energy administrative department of the State Council or the dispatched energy regulatory office shall, in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations on the Reporting and Investigation and Handling of Work Safety Accidents, organize an accident investigation team to investigate and handle major accidents, relatively major accidents and ordinary accidents.
Article 36 Where these Regulations do not provide for the reporting and investigation and handling of accidents, the provisions of the Regulations on the Reporting and Investigation and Handling of Work Safety Accidents and other relevant laws and administrative regulations shall apply.
Article 37 The emergency response and investigation and handling of nuclear accidents at nuclear power plants shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Regulations on the Emergency Management of Nuclear Accidents at Nuclear Power Plants.
Article 38 These Regulations shall come into force as of January 1, 2027.
Appendix: Standards for Classifying the Grades of Electric Power Safety Accidents
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 4)
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From September 1 to 4, the 24th China International Equipment Manufacturing Exposition (hereinafter referred to as the "CIEME") was held at the Shenyang International Exhibition Center in Liaoning. This year's CIEME, themed "Intelligent New Equipment · New Quality Productive Forces," built an international industrial platform for full-chain display, multi-dimensional exchange, and high-level cooperation.
From the first CIEME held in 2002 to the 24th today, Shenyang has used the expo as a bridge to build a new hub for manufacturing cooperation in Northeast Asia, pushing the expo's function to leap from a "product marketplace" to an "industrial magnet," and transforming the old industrial base from "manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing."
Intelligent Manufacturing Leads, Witnessing Industrial Transformation
Stepping into the CIEME venue, the atmosphere of intelligence greets visitors. Twelve specialized exhibition areas, including the industrial automation/industrial robotics area, new materials area, new-generation information technology area, and innovation achievements area, each have distinct features. The exhibition area covers 100,000 square meters, attracting more than 1,000 exhibitors, including Fortune 500 and multinational companies, internationally renowned machine tool manufacturers, domestic equipment manufacturing enterprises, and research institutes. Exhibits cover industrial mother machines, industrial robots and automation systems, new energy materials, and more, with many new intelligent equipment products with independent intellectual property rights and filling industry gaps making their debut.
At the China Computer Federation exhibition area, Liu Zhaoyuan (刘赵缘), a doctoral student at the Shenyang Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced a portable flexible exoskeleton device to visitors: "Our equipment can help patients with foot drop symptoms or knee arthritis, providing them with assisted exercises to strengthen muscle power and helping them walk better in daily life."
When the first CIEME was held, most exhibits in the halls were "primary equipment" such as heavy machine tools. Twenty-four years later, the exhibit catalog has been updated and iterated. Behind the changes in exhibits lies the transformation and upgrading of Shenyang's manufacturing industry, "from heavy to light" and "from manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing."
Looking at the overall picture, in 2025, the total scale of Shenyang's 10 key industrial clusters exceeded one trillion yuan, with 6 clusters reaching the 100-billion-yuan level. Three clusters — robotics and intelligent manufacturing, Shenda industrial mother machines, and Shenyang aviation — were selected as national advanced manufacturing clusters. Shenyang has gathered nearly 1,400 high-end equipment high-tech enterprises, dozens of national-level specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative "little giant" enterprises, and national-level manufacturing single-champion enterprises, building a complete industrial chain from frontier R&D, core components and complete machine manufacturing to complete sets and integration.
Looking at individual enterprises, General Technology Group Shenyang Machine Tool Co., Ltd. was approved as the only national standard verification point in the CNC machine tool field, and its leading "S specimen" five-axis machine tool testing method became the first international standard in China's metal cutting machine tool professional field; Shengu Group Co., Ltd. promoted the construction of "Digital Shengu," saving 20% in operating costs and shortening R&D cycles by 15%; Shenyang SIASUN Robot & Automation Co., Ltd.'s robot products are being delivered in batches to overseas markets...
The continuous upgrading of the industrial structure has made CIEME no longer just a marketplace for "bringing in" advanced foreign technology and equipment, but also a display platform for "going out" of domestic technology and equipment. The number of exhibitors at this year's expo increased by 11% compared with the previous session, and the online cloud exhibition platform brought together more than 12,000 resident enterprises, achieving round-the-clock supply-demand matching.
Building a Platform, Promoting Economic and Trade Exchange
An important supporting event of this year's CIEME — the central enterprise procurement matchmaking meeting — saw a packed venue with no empty seats (座无虚席, zuo wu xu xi - "sit, not, empty, seat"). Representatives of manufacturing enterprises from Liaoning Province held thick product brochures, conducting extensive exchanges and matchmaking.
In a session of less than three hours, more than 20 central enterprises and their subsidiaries, carrying clear procurement lists, engaged in in-depth negotiations with Liaoning-Shenyang enterprises, reaching 38 preliminary cooperation intents on site, with intended transaction amounts of 530 million yuan.
As an international platform under China North Industries Group Corporation, Norinco International Cooperation Co., Ltd. has expanded its business to the international market. At the matchmaking meeting, Li Chen (李辰), deputy general manager of the company's procurement center, directly showed his "shopping cart," putting forward procurement needs in areas such as wind, solar, storage, transmission, and transformation equipment, and cross-border logistics and transportation services. "We are looking for excellent enterprises with reliable quality, advanced technology, and stable delivery to establish long-term cooperation, and we look forward to Shenyang manufacturing resonating at the same frequency with central enterprises going global," Li Chen issued the invitation.
This year's CIEME was incorporated into the framework of the Third Shenyang Manufacturing Industry Economic and Trade Activity Week, planning a "1+3+4+N" series of key activities — 1 expo, 3 trade matchmaking events, 4 technology and talent exchange events, and N investment attraction events — using the expo as a platform to form a complete industrial service loop of forums, matchmaking, roadshows, inspections, and signings.
The activity structure corresponds to Shenyang's "3+4+3" industrial cluster layout — promoting the transformation and upgrading of 3 traditional industries: automobiles and parts, equipment manufacturing, and food; cultivating and strengthening 4 strategic emerging industries: aerospace, biomedicine and medical equipment, new-generation information technology, and new energy; and forward-looking deployment of 3 future industries: embodied intelligence, future materials, and deep earth, deep sea, deep air, and space equipment — driving the transformation of expo achievements into industrial development momentum.
"Shenyang is driving with the dual wheels of resource development and equipment manufacturing to build the capital of energy storage and the hydrogen capital of the north. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Shenyang will add more than 4 million kilowatts of installed wind power capacity," said Zeng Ming (曾鸣), deputy director of the Shenyang Municipal Development and Reform Commission, while promoting new energy industry development opportunities and issuing a policy "gift package": providing discounted interest on fixed-asset loans for manufacturing projects; fully liberalizing access for private investment in new energy; innovating green electricity direct connection and mixed industrial land supply models...
Investment service stations were set up inside the exhibition halls, with investment promotion specialists from various districts and counties stationed on site to provide one-stop policy interpretation and project consultation; outside the expo, domestic and foreign merchants were organized to visit industrial parks on site... The rich and pragmatic matchmaking and promotion activities fully leveraged the platform effect of CIEME, with overseas merchant participation reaching a record high, and more than 150 overseas delegations visiting the expo.
Cultivating Innovation, Gathering Technology and Talent
At this year's CIEME, 65 innovation achievements from frontline workers were showcased collectively. The exhibits are rich and diverse in form, ranging from tangible physical results to exquisite and realistic technical models.
In the Great Craftsman exhibition area, Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟), a national model worker and welder in the turbine final assembly workshop of Shengu Group Co., Ltd., held a rope-like device and introduced the innovation project to visitors. He compared the device to an "enteroscope": "In the past, to repair defective weld points in compressor pipelines, we had to cut open the 'abdominal cavity' and then sew it up; now this device can directly drill into the pipeline interior to perform precise 'surgery.'"
Shenyang is striving to break down the barriers between industrial workers and scientific researchers, and "micro-reforms" at various posts are becoming the starting point for enterprise innovation and efficiency.
"These high-quality innovation achievements from the production frontline and R&D frontier have broad coverage and rich levels. We hope that through the exhibition, we can lead innovation with typical demonstrations, drive the broad masses of industrial workers to actively participate in technological innovation, technical collaboration, and invention and creation, and continuously stimulate everyone's innovation vitality," said Guo Linlin (郭琳琳), deputy director of the Labor and Economic Work Department of the Shenyang Federation of Trade Unions.
CIEME is not only a stage for product display and trading, but also an important vehicle for technological innovation and talent gathering. Relying on the platform of this year's CIEME, multiple technology and talent exchange activities were carried out simultaneously: the China Manufacturing Industry "Intelligent Transformation and Digital Upgrade" Technology Promotion Conference interpreted policies, shared benchmark cases of transformation, and output digital implementation solutions; the Third China Computer Federation Digital Twin Innovation and Development Promotion Conference invited multiple academicians to participate, showcasing frontier digital twin technologies and commercialization results, and opening up the channel for transforming industry-university-research achievements; the 2026 China CIEME Talent Development Exchange Activity focused on key topics such as deep integration of industry and talent, industry-education collaborative innovation, and government-enterprise-university linkage, supplying talent to the industry; the Shenyang Cross-border E-commerce Vocational (Skills) Entrepreneurship Competition promoted training through competition, cultivating composite going-global talent who understand both manufacturing and foreign trade.
The equipment manufacturing industry is an important pillar of the real economy and also the innate industrial gene (与生俱来, yu sheng ju lai - "with, born, arrive, come") of Shenyang as an old industrial city. Shenyang is continuously amplifying the spillover effect of the expo, making every effort to build a new hub for manufacturing cooperation in Northeast Asia, accelerating the implementation of innovation achievements, achieving two-way connectivity between domestic and international markets, continuously expanding the talent team, and promoting the manufacturing industry to keep advancing toward high-end, intelligent, green, and international development.
(Zhao Jianguang (赵建光) participated in the reporting)
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Intelligent transformation and digital upgrading are the essential path to high-quality development in manufacturing, and also the strategic key for Shenyang, an old industrial base, to reshape its competitive advantages and build itself into a national advanced manufacturing base. In recent years, Shenyang has continuously advanced the intelligent transformation and digital upgrading of its manufacturing industry, promoted key enterprises to achieve breakthroughs first, and cultivated a batch of replicable and promotable transformation benchmarks. In May this year, 17 enterprises including Shengu Group, Neusoft Medical, and SIASUN Robot were rated as 2026 Liaoning Province "intelligent transformation and digital upgrading" benchmark enterprises, ranking first in the province in number. A series of transformation achievements have continued to land, injecting strong momentum into the iterative upgrading of Shenyang's manufacturing industry and the leap in industrial chain capability.
As a backbone enterprise in the field of energy and chemical power equipment, Shengu Group is a typical representative of Shenyang's industrial "intelligent transformation." Relying on "intelligent transformation and digital upgrading," the enterprise has completed the systematic digital upgrading of its main production workshops, realized full-process online management and control of "people, machines, materials, methods, and environment," and promoted the transformation of production management toward intelligent decision-making, intelligent control, and intelligent interconnection. Since the beginning of this year, Shengu Group's heavyweight equipment achievements have landed intensively: it successfully developed a 2000kN ultra-large-thrust reciprocating compressor; after 10 years of research, the domestically produced CAP1000 canned motor reactor coolant pump was successfully shipped, breaking the foreign monopoly on technology and supply chain. At the same time, first-set core equipment such as the fully electric-driven ethylene "three machines," large-flow centrifugal steam compressor, and 40 MPa high-pressure centrifugal gas injection compressor have been put into operation successively. In July, its compressor unit for ultra-large air separation devices passed national-level appraisal, with aerodynamic performance and mechanical performance reaching internationally leading levels. At present, the enterprise has cumulatively won 19 honors at various levels in the intelligent manufacturing field, was selected for the first national batch of intelligent manufacturing standard application pilots, and is making every effort to sprint toward a national leading-level intelligent factory.
On the track of high-end medical equipment, Neusoft Medical has achieved technological surpassing competitors through technological innovation (换道超车, huan dao chao che - "change the path, overtake the car") through "intelligent transformation and digital upgrading." In May this year, the photon-counting CT independently developed by the enterprise was officially put into clinical application, realizing the key leap of domestically produced high-end medical imaging equipment from technological breakthrough to industrialized application. The equipment is equipped with a high-performance cadmium zinc telluride semiconductor detector, realizing direct photon readout imaging, with radiation dose reduced by more than 90%. The equipment has passed clinical verification at multiple top domestic Class III Grade A hospitals, and related achievements have been showcased at international academic platforms such as the European Congress of Radiology. Its R&D team was awarded the National Workers' Pioneer Award this year, and the enterprise's business covers more than 130 countries and regions around the world, continuously demonstrating the international strength of domestically produced high-end medical equipment.
SIASUN Robot holds the dual identity of both transformation practitioner and technology supplier, continuously helping the industry's digital upgrading. The enterprise has overcome key technologies such as digital twin factory construction and 5G industrial robot collaborative production, independently developed multiple industrial software products, and provided technical support for the transformation of the entire industry. Since the beginning of this year, the enterprise's product matrix has continued to expand, releasing wheeled humanoid and bipedal humanoid robots, relying on the "one brain, multiple machines" system to adapt to multi-scenario application deployment. The "digital workshop construction standard cluster" led by the enterprise was selected for the first national batch of intelligent manufacturing standard application pilots, and its industry-leading advantages continue to stand out.
Leading enterprises are breaking through at the forefront, and industrial transformation is accelerating across the board. At present, Shenyang's manufacturing industry is accelerating the leap from "manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing," from following to leading. By the end of this year, Shenyang will achieve full coverage of "intelligent transformation and digital upgrading" for industrial enterprises above designated size. This profound industrial transformation continues to consolidate the foundation of the advanced manufacturing industry, accumulating lasting momentum for the comprehensive revitalization of the old industrial base and Shenyang's construction of a national advanced manufacturing base.
(Li Li participated in reporting)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 胡婧怡
Manufacturing is the foundation of Shenyang's standing as a city. Facing the proposition of transforming and developing traditional manufacturing, Shenyang has made intelligent transformation and digital transformation a key lever for realizing new industrialization, and with pragmatic measures has carved out a path of "intelligent transformation and digital transformation" that fits the reality of an old industrial base.
High-level planning, coordinated advancement. Shenyang has established municipal- and district-level special work teams for "intelligent transformation and digital transformation," issued action plans, and matched them with 14 specific supporting policies, forming a working path of "assessment—diagnosis—transformation—demonstration." Relying on a three-tier responsibility system of "municipality—district—subdistrict," it implements daily scheduling, weekly reporting, and monthly summaries. Municipal and district leaders take responsibility for key enterprises, having cumulatively resolved more than 300 enterprise demands, forming a working pattern with clear powers and responsibilities that moves from "municipal-level overall planning, departmental coordination" to "district and county primary responsibility, enterprise as main body."
Taking stock of the baseline, assessment and diagnosis. Shenyang has carried out digitalization assessments of industrial enterprises above designated size, dividing the city's industrial enterprises into 5 levels according to their digitalization level, establishing a "one enterprise, one file" ledger, and drawing a "single map" of transformation. On this basis, Shenyang has promoted 2,162 industrial enterprises above designated size to carry out basic diagnosis one by one, with professional teams tailoring "one enterprise, one policy" plans; for leading enterprises striving to create benchmarks, it has introduced national-level think tanks such as the China Academy of Industrial Internet to conduct in-depth diagnosis, ensuring the path is scientific and feasible.
Classified implementation, precise transformation. In accordance with enterprises' digitalization levels, Shenyang implements three major actions of "popularization, upgrading, and excellence cultivation," applying policies according to each enterprise's circumstances and making steady, step-by-step progress (循序渐进, xun xu jian jin - "follow sequence, gradually advance"). For small and medium-sized enterprises with weak foundations, it carries out the "popularization action," relying on the municipal "intelligent transformation and digital transformation" public service platform to promote SaaS software and "small, fast, light, and precise" products free of charge, guiding small and medium-sized enterprises to start from basic operations. For enterprises with a certain foundation, it implements the "upgrading action," giving play to the leading role of chain-leading enterprises as the dragon's head, implementing "big hand pulling small hand" coordinated transformation, and forming a virtuous cycle of "the dragon's head blazes the trail, the batch follows up." Focusing on high-quality leading enterprises, it implements the "excellence cultivation action," supporting the integration of frontier technologies such as artificial intelligence to strive to create more national-level and provincial-level benchmark enterprises. As of the end of August this year, the coverage rate of "intelligent transformation and digital transformation" among the city's industrial enterprises above designated size has exceeded 80 percent; 17 provincial-level benchmark enterprises for "intelligent transformation and digital transformation," 26 advanced-level intelligent factories, and 19 digital workshops have been newly awarded, all ranking first in the province; cumulatively, 8 national excellence-level intelligent factories and 111 provincial advanced-level intelligent factories have been awarded.
Cultivating the ecosystem, systematic support. In terms of service supply, Shenyang has introduced national-level think tanks such as the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center, connected with service providers such as Huawei, cultivated local enterprises such as Neusoft Group, and forged full-process service capabilities. In terms of financial support, Shenyang has joined with financial institutions to launch unsecured special credit products, superimposed with interest subsidy policies, to ease financing difficulties. In terms of talent cultivation, Shenyang implements the "digital craftsman" action, strengthens school-enterprise cooperation, and has cumulatively trained nearly 30,000 skilled personnel. In July this year, the case of "Shenyang building a public service platform for manufacturing digital transformation" was selected into the achievements of the construction of a long-term mechanism for pilot cities in the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises nationwide.
By the end of this year, Shenyang will achieve full coverage of "intelligent transformation and digital transformation" among industrial enterprises above designated size, further raising the level of digitalization.
(Li Li participated in the reporting and writing)
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Robotic arms perform precision operations, production parameters flicker in real time on large screens, and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms continuously optimize smelting and assembly processes... Walking into the workshops of many manufacturing enterprises in Shenyang, AI has already become a powerful "digital-intelligent brain" driving industrial upgrading. As an old industrial base, Shenyang has anchored its main direction of attack on new-type industrialization, deeply cultivating the "AI + Manufacturing" integration track, and accumulating surging momentum for the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China.
To empower industrial upgrading, top-level design comes first. Shenyang issued the "Shenyang Artificial Intelligence Industry Innovation and Development Action Plan (2025–2027)," establishing a city-district linkage and a "three lists" work system to pool multi-party efforts. At the end of 2025, the "Shenyang Action Plan for Promoting Intelligent Transformation and Digital Transformation of the Manufacturing Industry (2026–2027)" was printed and distributed, clarifying development tasks: by the end of 2026, achieve full coverage of "intelligent transformation and digital transformation" among industrial enterprises above designated size, accelerate the construction of the Northeast Asia Embodied Intelligence Innovation Center, and create more than 10 AI application demonstration scenarios; by 2027, the total number of demonstration scenarios will reach more than 20. In May of this year, in accordance with the "model-data resonance" action deployment of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Data Administration, Shenyang, based on its industrial foundation, listed automobiles, industrial machine tools, and power equipment as the first batch of key industries to carry out the work, with Jinbei Shares, General Shenji, and TBEA Shenyang Transformer Group each taking the lead in tackling key tasks, establishing an industry expert committee, and promoting the implementation of various reform tasks.
With policy guidance, the effectiveness of industrial empowerment has become prominent. At the beginning of this year, the Shenyang Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology launched the collection of "three lists" of "AI + Manufacturing" scenario capabilities, demands, and typical cases, accumulating 40 capability lists and 40 demand lists, and sorting out 24 typical cases, covering industries such as mining and smelting, equipment manufacturing, electronic information, and biomedicine. Liaoning Digital-Intelligent Mining's "AI Production of Pellets" and the mineral processing process optimization control system of the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, were selected as typical cases by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; Siasun industrial robots have been deployed on a large scale in automobile welding and assembly production lines, breaking the long-term foreign technological monopoly; Shengu Group has built a high-flexibility rotor automated assembly production line for centrifugal compressors; Shenyang Machine Tool's "5G + AI" project has achieved full real-time collection of data from transport vehicle platforms, increasing transport efficiency by more than three times and reducing monthly workshop energy consumption by about 12%; the Liaohe Laboratory, together with enterprises, has built an "AI decision-making brain," increasing the intelligent defect detection rate of products by 70%, and helping to localize components for integrated circuit equipment...
As industry breaks through toward "intelligence," the foundation of computing power, data, and talent is being gradually consolidated. At present, Shenyang has built six large-scale computing power centers, with total computing power of 2265 PFLOPS (quadrillions of floating-point operations per second), and computing power resources have been connected to the national integrated computing power network, with computing power strength ranking among the forefront in Northeast China, planning to increase the computing power scale to 7000 PFLOPS by 2027. Shenyang has been approved as a national-level data annotation base, gathering 74 related enterprises, and the country's first L4-level high-end data annotation base for large models has been put into operation. Relying on national key laboratories, institutions such as Northeastern University have opened AI interdisciplinary programs, innovating a project-based joint training model, and linking with more than 20 universities to cultivate more than 5,000 composite AI talents.
Taking "intelligent transformation and digital transformation" as the starting point, AI is reshaping the industrial fabric of Shenyang. Digital scenarios are landing one after another in factory workshops, and key technologies are achieving breakthroughs one by one. This old industrial base is radiating new vitality by riding the wave of digital intelligence, and is advancing steadily on the path of new-type industrialization.
(Han Dong participated in the writing and reporting)
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Entering the Shenzhen Customs Operation and Control Center, the busy scene of vehicles and vessels coming and going at various ports is clearly visible at a glance (一览无余, yi lan wu yu - "one, look, no, remaining") on the large screen. Opening the day's overall customs clearance operation situation table, one customs declaration after another records the footprints of economic and trade exchanges and industrial collaboration between Shenzhen, Guangdong, and other Asia-Pacific economies.
At 11:00, at Shenzhen Bay Port, as customs officers completed the final verification and release procedures, a batch of export customs declarations was successfully cleared — 144 mini host computers were about to be sold overseas via Hong Kong Airport. These intelligent computing terminals, researched, developed, and produced by Chuangtong Xinke (Shenzhen) Group Co., Ltd., are only the size of a dictionary, yet integrate high-performance computing power configurations, support local deployment of large models, and are compatible with diverse scenarios such as industrial control, smart office, home entertainment, and edge computing, making them very popular in overseas markets.
"In the past, we competed on price; now we compete on computing power and user experience." Company head Dai Yuanjun introduced that with the rapid development of global artificial intelligence applications, other Asia-Pacific economies have strong demand for high-computing-power, portable intelligent terminals. The company's independent brands such as "Chuangyingxin" and "Amaqi" are gradually gaining recognition. Not long ago, it also established a production base in Mexico, becoming a link in the Asia-Pacific artificial intelligence industry chain and supply chain, occupying nearly 20% of the global mini host computer market share.
Many of the materials and components for producing mini host computers come from other Asia-Pacific economies. As a hub for processing trade industries, Shenzhen manufacturing leverages efficient supply chain responses to re-export processed products to other Asia-Pacific economies, achieving deep integration of the regional industrial chain.
In the afternoon, at Shenzhen Dachan Bay Terminal, an ocean-going vessel carrying a batch of BYD lithium battery energy storage cabinets sailed toward Chile. These new energy equipment will serve local photovoltaic power generation projects and help promote the green transformation of local energy.
"Currently, overseas orders in the energy storage industry are growing gratifyingly, and the export model is gradually shifting toward signing long-term supply agreements." Liu Feng, customs affairs manager of BYD Co., Ltd., said that in the overseas wind and photovoltaic power generation fields, energy storage cabinets produced by Chinese enterprises have seen a surge in orders due to their advantages of high cost-effectiveness and high reliability.
"We comprehensively apply facilitation measures such as advance declaration, direct loading upon arrival at port, and '7×24 hour' appointment inspection to significantly reduce cargo clearance time." Yang Nan, a first-level administrative law enforcement officer of the Terminal Supervision Section of Dachan Bay Customs under Shenzhen Customs, introduced that from January to July this year, Dachan Bay Customs supervised the export of 1,674 declarations of "new three items" products with a cargo value of 5.385 billion yuan, up 31.71% and 33.82% year-on-year respectively.
Yin Yunwei, director of the Passenger and Mail Supervision Division of Shenzhen Customs, introduced that from the early years when the "old three items" of clothing, furniture, and home appliances sold well overseas, to today when the "new three items" of new energy vehicles, lithium batteries, and solar cells have become the main export force, Shenzhen's export products to other Asia-Pacific economies are accelerating their transformation toward the "new." In the first half of this year, exports of "new three items" products, as well as AI-empowered products, medical instruments and devices, and other products from Shenzhen to other Asia-Pacific economies accounted for 29.5%.
At 18:00, at Shenzhen Shekou Container Terminal, temperature-controlled containers were slowly hoisted and unloaded, and 36 tons of fresh apples from New Zealand arrived at the port. This "sweet order" that crossed the ocean is operated by Shenzhen Yuanxing Fruit Products Co., Ltd. "Since mid-August, the imported 'fruit basket' has become increasingly abundant: dragon fruit from Vietnam, fresh coconuts from Thailand..." Zheng Jinsen, a relevant person in charge of Yuanxing Fruit Products Co., Ltd., recounted with familiarity and relish (如数家珍, ru shou jia Zhen - "as, count, home, treasure"). "Relying on the tariff reductions and customs clearance facilitation brought by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, high-quality Asia-Pacific fruits have significantly accelerated their entry into the Chinese market." Zheng Jinsen introduced that their company has long-term cooperation with ASEAN countries, as well as Australia, New Zealand, Chile, and other countries, and has already built fruit and vegetable production and processing bases in Vietnam, connecting Asia-Pacific orchards to China's super-large market.
As night falls and lights come on, the overall customs clearance operation situation tables at Shenzhen's various ports continue to update. Data from Shenzhen Customs shows that Shenzhen's import and export value with other Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation economies grew from 267.5 billion yuan in 1996 to 3.13 trillion yuan in 2025, with an average annual growth rate of 8.5%, an increase of more than tenfold. Between exports and imports, buying and selling, China and other Asia-Pacific economies jointly compose a chapter of the times that shares opportunities and achieves mutually beneficial and win-win (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual, benefit, together, win") outcomes.
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At the Shekou Container Terminal in Shenzhen, Guangdong, a cargo ship carrying approximately 300 tons of premium Thai Golden Pillow durian slowly docked, with customs officers already in position. A fruit intelligent inspection robot lightly scanned the label on the outer box, and information such as product name and country of origin was verified in seconds. Samples were sent directly to the laboratory, tested immediately upon arrival, with results quickly fed back. Subsequently, the goods were rapidly distributed to major fruit wholesale markets in the Greater Bay Area and placed on the shelves of major supermarkets and stores.
At a fruit shop on Tiyu East Road in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, the price tag for Golden Pillow durian read "17.8 yuan per jin," with special-offer fruit even as low as 13.8 yuan per jin. A citizen named Zhang Xin casually bought a durian weighing about 3 kilograms and said: "Previously, durian cost at least over 20 yuan per jin, and buying one would cost about 200 yuan. Now it's around 100 yuan — considerably cheaper."
Data from Shenzhen Customs show that from April to July this year, Shenzhen port imported 26,200 tons of fresh durian, worth 797 million yuan, up 40.86 percent and 22.62 percent year-on-year respectively, both setting new records. Thailand, Malaysia, and other APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) economies are the main sources of durian.
Benefiting from the APEC mechanism's continued promotion of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, Chilean cherries, Korean cosmetics, New Zealand milk powder, Australian beef... the prices of these imported goods are getting cheaper and cheaper, enriching consumers' choices.
Late last year and early this year, special-offer cherries at many fruit shops in China were priced at 99 yuan for 5 jin; 10 years ago, the same Chilean imported cherries were priced as high as 500 to 600 yuan per kilogram in some premium supermarkets. In the 2025–2026 production season, Chilean cherry output reached a record 655,000 tons, with over 90 percent shipped to China. Behind this lies a complete "Asia-Pacific cooperation chain": the China-Chile Free Trade Agreement has reduced tariffs on about 98 percent of products to zero; the cherry express shipping service has been increased to 32 voyages, cutting the voyage from 28 days to 23 days; and the fresh produce channel at Guangzhou's Nansha Port can complete unloading and customs clearance in as little as two hours. According to customs statistics, the total value of imports and exports between the nine mainland cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and other APEC economies has grown by 46 percent over the past 10 years.
A little reduction in tariffs, a day faster in logistics, an hour saved in customs clearance — in the end, all of it becomes real money saved on the price tag.
At the international arrivals hall of Terminal 2 at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport, the immigration inspection windows were thronged with a bustling crowd of people (人头攒动, ren tou can dong - "people, head, crowd, move"). Lin Meiling, a Singaporean businesswoman, walked down the gangway and headed straight for the dedicated "APEC Business Travel Card" lane. The police officer on duty took her passport and APEC Business Travel Card, and after inquiry, verification, data entry, and clearance, the entire process took less than a minute. Years ago, she had queued here for over 20 minutes. "Holding an APEC Business Travel Card for entry and exit is equivalent to holding a five-year, multiple-entry business visa covering 16 APEC economies," she said. According to statistics from Baiyun Border Inspection Station, as of the end of August, the number of foreigners from APEC economies entering and exiting through Baiyun Airport port this year exceeded 3.16 million person-times, up 36.4 percent year-on-year, of which about 16,000 person-times entered and exited holding APEC Business Travel Cards.
"The results of regional cooperation promoted by APEC have long been integrated into daily life and benefited countless households, and are now profoundly changing ordinary people's food, clothing, housing, and transportation," said Shen Minghao, vice president of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and dean of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Research Institute. On the one hand, the expansion of the zero-tariff import list, denser cold-chain logistics, and lower costs for cross-border e-commerce; on the other hand, "shopping in China" is also heating up — drones, smartwatches, and AI (artificial intelligence) glasses have become the new "specialty products" in foreign tourists' suitcases, and the immediate tax refund at departure, with refunds paid on the spot, has been promoted nationwide.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 贺林平 姜晓丹
In 2005, Chen Huizhen, a 56-year-old Chinese Indonesian, made an unexpected (出人意料, chu ren yi wai - "exit, person, unexpected") decision — to return to the classroom.
That year, the College of Chinese Language and Culture of Jinan University established a distance education (correspondence) teaching site in Pontianak, Indonesia, and she, then vice chairwoman of the West Kalimantan Chinese Education Coordination Body in Indonesia, became one of its first students. Nurtured by her family, Chen Huizhen had loved the Chinese language deeply since childhood. Over the decades that followed, she has maintained the habit of reading Chinese books. "I love reading Chinese books."
"Jinan University taught me to learn Chinese knowledge systematically, from the simple to the complex, and laid a solid foundation for me to later run a school." Looking back on her studies, Chen Huizhen is full of gratitude toward her alma mater. During her studies, Chinese textbooks compiled by Jinan University were simultaneously delivered to the Pontianak teaching site. This complete set of textbooks later became the core teaching materials for Chen Huizhen's school. Relying on Jinan University's online distance education system, she also mastered the entire set of methods for running overseas Chinese-language education.
In 2015, having completed her studies, Chen Huizhen set a goal: to secure formal academic credentials for local young people learning Chinese and broaden their development prospects. At the age of 66, she founded the Common Hope Institute of Languages, which is also the only institution among Indonesia's more than 4,000 regular colleges and universities that offers only a Chinese-language major. Today, the Common Hope Institute of Languages has produced seven graduating cohorts, training nearly 600 students in total, and many of its graduates have joined local Chinese-invested enterprises.
Jinan University has continued to offer Chinese-language degree programs combining online and offline instruction in multiple locations across the Asia-Pacific region, cultivating large numbers of local backbone Chinese-language teachers like Chen Huizhen.
In the bustling heart of Klang, Malaysia, lies a quiet Jingxue Academy. Inside the courtyard, the fragrance of tea spreads, and the sound of the guqin flows gently. Here, five-year-old children and seventy-year-old elders attend classes together, and both local Malaysian residents and European tourists from afar can walk in and immerse themselves in traditional Chinese culture.
The academy's founder, Wang Delong, is an alumnus of Jinan University's 1995 cohort in the Chinese Language and Literature major. During his studies, Wang Delong was passionate about ancient Chinese classics. After the dormitory lights went out, he would move a small stool and read late into the night by the dim light of the corridor or the bathroom, immersed in the world of words of the Analects and the Book of Songs. The campus's rich atmosphere of traditional culture planted in his heart the seed of spreading Chinese culture. After returning to Malaysia, he founded the Jingxue Academy with his partners. "Jing" is taken from the Confucian concept of reverence, and "Jingxue" represents reverence for learning and cultural inheritance.
The Jingxue Academy teaches not only language and writing but places greater emphasis on spiritual and aesthetic nourishment. Calligraphy, tea art, and guqin classes are offered in turn, and the stories of Confucius, Zhuangzi, and Su Dongpo are told in a charming and engaging way (娓娓道来, wei wei dao lai - "chatter, chatter, arrive"). A member of the public, deeply moved after attending a lecture on Su Dongpo, persisted in studying there for 15 years. Over more than a decade, the academy has offered more than 30 courses in total, becoming a warm cultural harbor in Southeast Asia.
One vivid alumni story after another reflects the mission and responsibility of Jinan University as a 120-year-old overseas Chinese school. Adhering to the school-running policy of "facing overseas and facing Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan," and relying on the complete chain of Chinese-language education integrating "five types of teaching," the university has compiled nearly 300 textbooks including Chinese, with total global distribution exceeding 50 million copies. Leveraging its alumni network of more than 600,000 people spread across over 170 countries and regions, it strives to spread fine traditional Chinese culture to the world. Through coordinated online and offline tracks, the university has trained more than 30,000 overseas Chinese-language teachers in total, and numerous alumni have translated what they learned at their alma mater into cultural practice in their countries of residence.
Guangdong, adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao and facing the vast Asia-Pacific region, has deep overseas Chinese affairs resources. With Jinan University as the benchmark, various institutions in the province are solidifying Chinese-language education and people-to-people cultural exchange. Hou Xingquan, dean of the College of Chinese Language and Culture of Jinan University, said: "Chinese-language education is not only the teaching of language and writing but also the connection of people's hearts. The vast number of overseas Chinese alumni are the most vivid envoys of Chinese culture going global."
(Su Yunsheng participated in the reporting and writing)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王云娜
Stepping to song and dancing, swinging batons and leaping and turning... In Fumei Village, Lihu Town, Puning City, Guangdong Province, a group of young people are rehearsing Puning Yingge, a national-level intangible cultural heritage.
A few days ago, a Guangdong cultural and tourism delegation brought Yingge, lion dance, and modern dance performances to the United States, and a burst of fresh "Lingnan style" built a new bridge for cultural and tourism exchanges between China and the United States, drawing waves of applause. The team members were deeply encouraged and rehearsed with even more vigor after returning home. "Everyone wants to present the unique charm of Puning Yingge and Chaoshan culture to overseas audiences in a real and tangible way," said Li Junhao, founder and head coach of the Puning Fumei Youth Yingge Team.
"The performance resonated with the Chinese community, and there were also many foreign audience members present who cheered from the bottom of their hearts," Li Junhao said.
In recent years, China has actively participated in and promoted the strengthening of people-to-people and cultural exchanges in the Asia-Pacific region. The Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism has repeatedly taken fine performances abroad, showcasing the unique charm of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area from multiple dimensions and continuously raising the international profile of Lingnan culture.
During this year's Spring Festival, under the organization of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, the Fumei Youth Yingge Team also traveled to Moscow, Russia, and other places to participate in the "Happy Chinese New Year" celebration. This was also the third consecutive year that Guangdong brought Yingge dance to the overseas Spring Festival stage. Li Junhao recalled that on the first day of the first lunar month, Moscow was extremely cold (天寒地冻, tian han di dong - "sky, cold, earth, frozen"), with temperatures dropping to more than ten degrees below zero Celsius. At Manezhnaya Square, snow had not yet melted on the stage, but the team members were full of passion, and innovative moves such as "Hero Fights the Tiger" and "Roc Spreads Its Wings" performed with skills that amazed the entire audience (技惊四座, ji jing si zuo - "skill, astonish, four, seats"). Local residents surrounded the stage in layer upon layer, and many people, after watching, wanted to learn the art on the spot.
The dance drama "Wing Chun," originally created by the Shenzhen Opera and Dance Theater, weaves two intangible cultural heritage items, Wing Chun boxing and gambiered Canton gauze, into its narrative, combining strength with flexibility (刚柔并济, gang rou bing ji - "hard, soft, combine, benefit"), telling the story of ordinary people pursuing their ideals. As a key cultural event for the APEC "China Year" in 2026, "Wing Chun" took the stage at the Andong Culture & Arts Center in South Korea from July 31 to August 1, with two consecutive performances.
"Tickets sold out as soon as they went on sale. Some audiences from Seoul drove several hours just to come to Andong to watch," said Yang Jun, Party Secretary of the Shenzhen Opera and Dance Theater. Many audience members were able to understand the pursuit of dreams, struggle, and inheritance portrayed on stage. To date, "Wing Chun" has been performed in 59 countries, with 337 shows and a cumulative audience of 460,000.
The overseas popularity of Lingnan culture has also injected fresh vitality into people-to-people exchanges and practical cooperation between China and foreign countries.
Recently, Jieyang City in eastern Guangdong has become "hot," with domestic and international tourists coming in successive waves (一茬接一茬, yi cha jie yi cha - "one, crop, connect, one, crop") to take photos and check in, largely due to the influence of the film "A Letter to Grandma." This film, which showcases rich Chaoshan culture and feelings of family and country, has been popular from China all the way to Southeast Asia and has appeared at the Cannes Film Festival in France. The Siam Inn and Chinatown scenes in the film were shot in the ancient city of Jieyang, and the stone slab bridge in Xiqi Village, Denggang Town, Rongcheng District, Jieyang City, also appears multiple times in the film. One by one, symbols of nostalgia have been transformed into a stream of visitors drawn by the film's reputation, including tourists from Southeast Asia and other countries.
Leveraging this wave of "nostalgia," Jieyang is exploring a cultural tourism development path of "using overseas Chinese as a bridge and culture to boost industry," and the entrance of Xima Road in the ancient city of Jieyang has restored the old-time scenery from the film. "The average daily visitor flow to the ancient city exceeds 20,000, and on this year's Qixi Festival alone it exceeded 70,000," said Lin Xiaodong, Chairman of Jieyang Ancient City Construction and Investment Development Co., Ltd.
Xiqi Village has acted in accordance with the prevailing trend (顺势而为, shun shi er wei - "follow, trend, and, act"), building a Qiaopi-themed rest stop beside the stone slab bridge and setting up check-in spots so that visitors can "travel" between the two time-spaces of the film and reality. "There are many domestic and overseas tourists; during peak periods such as weekends and holidays, there are four to five thousand visitors a day. Many people come to understand Chaoshan overseas Chinese culture through the film," said Chen Youkun, Party Secretary of Xiqi Village.
Separated by mountains and seas, but not by cultural affinity. As an important part of Chinese civilization, Lingnan culture has become a window for the world to understand China, constantly seeking new forms of expression in connections that span mountains and seas.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 黄培昭
Egypt's Ministry of Industry recently announced that it will officially launch operations in the near future on a large industrial city covering 18 million square meters, further consolidating the foundation for the development of the local manufacturing industry. In accordance with the government's "National Industrial Strategy 2026-2030," Egypt plans to accelerate the development of the manufacturing sector, striving to raise the export value of non-petroleum products to $100 billion by 2030, increase industry's contribution to gross domestic product to 20 percent, and create millions of new jobs. Officials from Egypt's Ministry of Industry stated that Egypt will, through the implementation of this industrial strategy, gradually build a more complete and self-reliant industrial system, activating the full potential of manufacturing growth across all fronts.
Under the plan, Egypt has designated textiles and garments, food processing, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, electrical equipment, engineering machinery, and the electronics industry as seven priority tracks, vigorously laying out new energy vehicle production capacity while simultaneously advancing the localization of heavy industries such as steel. The Egyptian government has also launched a manufacturing support program totaling 30 billion Egyptian pounds (1 yuan is equivalent to approximately 7.6 Egyptian pounds), providing long-term preferential loans to local private enterprises engaged in import substitution and innovative production, with eligible enterprises also able to enjoy additional interest rate concessions.
To secure energy supply for the manufacturing sector, Egypt is implementing the "Industrial Light" plan, which aims to install photovoltaic facilities with a total installed capacity of 1,000 megawatts on the rooftops of 7,000 factories nationwide, relying on clean energy to reduce factory production costs and accelerate the green transformation of industry. In terms of improving the business environment, the large industrial city about to be put into operation will offer nine flexible land leasing and transfer schemes, providing greater convenience for investors. The Egyptian government has simultaneously introduced special incentive policies for supporting supply chain industries, offering investors free industrial feasibility study plans. At the same time, Egypt continues to streamline approval processes, deepen government-enterprise collaboration, increase investment in vocational skills training, advance the digital transformation of industry, and, relying on the "Egypt-Africa Industrial Integration Initiative," is seizing opportunities (抢抓, qiang zhua - "grab, seize") in the African continental market.
A series of policy dividends have effectively strengthened Egypt's appeal to foreign investment. Egyptian Minister of Finance Kouchouk recently stated that during the first nine months of fiscal year 2025/2026 (July 2025 to March 2026), total foreign direct investment inflows exceeded $13 billion, higher than the $9.8 billion recorded in the same period of the previous fiscal year. Among this, manufacturing has become the core track for foreign investment deployment, with foreign investment continuously increasing in areas such as high-end manufacturing, new materials, and new energy, injecting momentum into Egypt's industrial localization and supply chain upgrading.
Under the framework of high-quality China-Egypt Belt and Road Initiative cooperation, an increasing number of Chinese enterprises are taking root in Egypt for development, helping to upgrade Egypt's manufacturing sector. In March 2025, Xinfeng Steel (Egypt) Co., Ltd. invested $1.65 billion in the Suez Canal Economic Zone to build a large manufacturing center, with the project covering 3.75 million square meters, developing high value-added industries such as automobiles, engineering machinery, and home appliances, and planning the construction of nine production plants along with supporting R&D and training centers. Once the project is completed, it is expected to create approximately 8,000 direct jobs locally and drive the development of upstream and downstream supporting industries. Experts believe that as various industrial parks are completed one after another and support policies continue to be implemented, the potential of Egypt's local manufacturing industry is expected to be further released.
(People's Daily, Cairo, September 6)
Return to TopMonument commemorating victory over militarist Japan unveiled in Russia's Far East
(Xinhua News Agency, Vladivostok, September 5) (Reporter Sun Ping) A ceremony was held on the 4th in Khabarovsk, capital of the Khabarovsk Krai in Russia's Far East, to unveil a monument commemorating the victory over militarist Japan, with Khabarovsk Krai Governor Demeshin attending the ceremony.
According to local media reports, the monument is currently Russia's largest monument commemorating the victory over militarist Japan, built jointly by the Russian Military Historical Society and the government of Khabarovsk Krai. At the center of the monument stands a 15-meter-tall statue of a Soviet soldier, representing the Soviet Red Army that defeated the main forces of Japan's Kwantung Army. The soldier holds a long rifle, and beside him a boundary marker bearing a chrysanthemum motif lies broken in two.
Ovsienko, deputy chairman of the Russian Military Historical Society, said the monument is full of symbolic meaning, and that the boundary marker is a replica of one erected on Sakhalin Island during the period of Japanese occupation. One day before the official unveiling of the monument, the Japanese Consulate General in Khabarovsk requested the removal of the chrysanthemum motif representing the Japanese imperial family from the boundary marker. Ovsienko stated that this request was extremely inappropriate, because the chrysanthemum motif on the boundary marker is not only a symbol of the Japanese imperial family, but also a symbol of Japanese militarism, which committed heinous crimes (滔天罪行, tao tian zui xing - "vast, heaven, crime, act").
September 3 is Russia's "Day of Victory over Militarist Japan and End of World War II," and the unveiling of the monument is connected to this commemorative day.
DR Congo launches new phase of Ebola response plan
(Xinhua News Agency, Kinshasa, September 4) (Reporter Shi Yu) The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the 4th launched a 180-day Ebola response plan in the capital Kinshasa, aimed at expanding and coordinating the epidemic response to prevent further spread of the outbreak.
The World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa issued a communiqué the same day stating that the plan has the support of WHO and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, among others, and mainly includes strengthening epidemic surveillance, contact tracing, patient treatment, community mobilization, risk communication, and logistical support, as well as enhancing preparedness and response capacity in areas at risk of disease transmission. The plan is expected to cost 1.3 billion US dollars.
The communiqué noted that most deaths are still occurring in communities, and a considerable number of the deceased are not on the list of close contacts and did not enter medical institutions for treatment. Problems such as cases being detected too late and inadequate contact tracing still make it difficult to cut off transmission chains.
UN General Assembly urges use of more accurate method for drawing world maps
(Xinhua News Agency, United Nations, September 4) (Reporter Shang Xuqian) The UN General Assembly on the 4th adopted a resolution encouraging the use of the "Equal Earth" map projection, which presents the actual area of continents more accurately, in drawing world maps, replacing the Mercator projection with its distorting effects.
The General Assembly adopted the "correcting the map" resolution that day by a vote of 164 in favor, 1 against, and 6 abstentions. The United States voted against. Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova, Serbia, Ukraine, and six other countries abstained.
The resolution notes that the distortion in the size of continents on maps caused over time by the Mercator projection produces cognitive, educational, cultural, geopolitical, and socioeconomic effects and constitutes a historical bias. The resolution holds that, from the perspective of area presentation, the widely used Mercator projection severely distorts the area of landmasses far from the equator, causing regions such as Africa to appear smaller, while the "Equal Earth" map projection presents the area of continental landmasses more accurately. The resolution encourages member states, international organizations, and other relevant entities to adopt the "Equal Earth" map projection and other equal-area map projection methods.
The resolution encourages the development of international standards under relevant UN frameworks to ensure more accurate presentation of the area of continents in both digital and print cartographic tools. The resolution invites all member states to promote the "correcting the map" initiative in order to advance the accurate presentation of the area of continents on a global scale.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张博岚 刘仲华 谢亚宏
China and Europe are important forces advancing multipolarity in the world, two major markets defending economic globalization, and two great civilizations respecting the diversity of civilizations. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two sides, their interests have become deeply interwoven and practical cooperation has yielded rich fruits. They are not only important opportunities for each other's development, but also provide the international community with an extremely precious and rare model of cooperation.
This edition of the authoritative forum invites five international affairs experts to confront the real challenges facing the development of China-Europe relations, explore feasible paths for stepping out of the misconception of "decoupling and severing supply chains" and bridging cognitive differences, look ahead to the potential for cooperation in key areas such as green transition and the digital economy, and contribute profound and insightful opinions to promoting the steady and sustained progress of the China-Europe comprehensive strategic partnership.
Cui Hongjian (Director of the Center for EU and Regional Development Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University)
Ding Chun (Director of the Center for European Studies, Fudan University; Jean Monnet Chair Professor on EU)
George Katrougalos (Director of the European Institute of Chinese Law, Governance and Civilization; former Foreign Minister of Greece)
Jens Eskelund (President of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China)
Bernd Einmeier (President of the German-Chinese Association for Economy, Education and Culture)
Practical cooperation yields rich fruits
Providing the world with a rules-based, highly complementary and sustainable "stabilizer"
Cui Hongjian: Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Europe in 1975, bilateral relations have maintained generally stable development and achieved fruitful results. Through close trade, investment and technological cooperation, China and Europe have become key economic partners with highly aligned markets and deeply interwoven interests. The two sides have extended the experience of practical cooperation to other fields, established a comprehensive strategic partnership, and embodied and implemented it through a series of dialogue and exchange mechanisms covering strategic security, economy and trade, people-to-people and cultural exchanges, green and digital transition, and spanning all levels, multiple fields and all dimensions. This has not only strengthened macro-policy coordination, but also effectively enhanced political mutual trust. The two sides have formed a common position of upholding multilateralism and opposing unilateralism, continuously advanced cooperation in global governance fields such as climate change, WTO reform and digitalization, and become a major constructive force in addressing common global challenges.
George Katrougalos: The most tangible dividend of long-term stable cooperation between Europe and China is that it provides the world with a rules-based, highly complementary and sustainable "stabilizer." At present, the international order centered on the United Nations is being severely eroded by unilateralism and power politics. A healthy and stable Europe-China comprehensive strategic partnership can provide support for a multipolar world and maintain a truly diversified distribution of power in the international order.
As two important poles in a multipolar world, strengthened cooperation between Europe and China helps promote an effective global response to common challenges such as climate change, energy transition and development imbalances, uphold the rules-based multilateral trading system, and prevent the world from returning to the old path of bloc confrontation and zero-sum games.
More importantly, Europe-China cooperation has proven that countries with different political systems can achieve win-win outcomes through negotiation. This both meets Europe's social needs and fits China's development practice, providing a model for developed and developing countries to develop hand in hand. China provides European markets with solar energy, batteries, electric vehicles and other technologies at a scale and cost advantage that no other partner can match, greatly reducing the cost and time of Europe's green transition. The EU opens its market to China and provides investment, driving employment, industrial upgrading and market reform in China. The deep cooperation between Europe and China in science and technology, healthcare, infrastructure construction and other fields directly benefits the industrial development and people's well-being of both sides.
Jens Eskelund: The EU and China share more than 50 years of highly effective and productive cooperation. Over a long period, the investment and technology brought by European enterprises have played a positive role in China's industrial upgrading. On this basis, China today boasts a vibrant business environment and an industrial cluster supporting capacity ranking among the world's foremost, making it an important production and procurement base for many European enterprises. In many fields, Europe and China can still further deepen cooperation, which will allow both sides to continue benefiting from the bilateral relationship in the next half century and beyond.
Adhere to dialogue to manage differences
Some Europe-China economic and trade frictions are being given an increasingly strong geopolitical and security coloring, and politicians in individual European countries conflate them with extreme "decoupling" from China
Ding Chun: At present, China-Europe relations are in a transition cycle of structural adjustment and increasing frictions, with multiple real challenges continuously emerging. The most prominent challenge is that, against the backdrop of China-Europe economic and trade interdependence, intensifying industrial competition and rising security concerns are intertwined.
The China-Europe economic and trade relationship is gradually shifting from a vertical division of labor model that was mainly complementary in the past to horizontal competition in fields such as new energy and high-end manufacturing. Europe feels a sense of crisis or even overreaction in the face of China's rapid industrial upgrading. At the same time, the trend of anti-globalization is rising, and unilateralism and protectionism are clearly on the increase, leading Europe to strengthen its "de-risking" mindset toward China. The EU's supply chain reviews, investment barriers, trade remedy and industrial protection policies toward China continue to multiply. Intra-EU gaming has intensified, with the European Commission, some member states and interest groups amplifying China-Europe economic and trade differences, making normal economic and trade issues such as trade balances, market access and industrial competition increasingly politicized and frequently becoming flashpoints of China-Europe friction.
George Katrougalos: The biggest misconception in the current EU policy toward China lies in the fact that some Europe-China economic and trade frictions are being given an increasingly strong geopolitical and security coloring, and politicians in individual European countries conflate them with extreme "decoupling" from China. The EU should not politicize common commercial issues between European and Chinese enterprises, nor view normal Europe-China economic and trade frictions as evidence that China is a "systemic rival" of the EU. This is not the right attitude for the EU to face China's development, and such an approach will damage Europe-China relations, with losses that European countries will find hard to bear.
Reassuringly, rational reflection on and correction of the above approach have already emerged, and practice has also proven that consultation and negotiation between the EU and China in the economic and trade field are playing a positive role. Taking the electric vehicle case as an example, after the EU decided in October 2024 to impose a five-year definitive countervailing duty on electric vehicles imported from China, the two sides conducted multiple rounds of consultations. In January 2026, the European Commission officially issued guidance allowing Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers to replace the countervailing duty with minimum price sales commitments.
European countries are beginning to realize that competition and even friction with China in the trade field can be properly resolved entirely through negotiations consistent with WTO non-discrimination principles. What Europe truly needs to practice is adhering to strategic autonomy and avoiding interference from external factors. A confident EU should not equate "market openness" with "loss of sovereignty."
Bernd Einmeier: At a time when Europe and China have established a comprehensive strategic partnership for 23 years, bilateral relations present a complex state of deep interweaving, interdependence and accompanying rule-based gaming in economic and trade, industrial chain, geopolitical and other aspects. Despite occasional frictions, the economic and trade bond has always been the cornerstone of the development of the Europe-China comprehensive strategic partnership.
Leaders of individual European countries wish to reduce strategic dependence on China, impose punitive tariffs on China or provoke political confrontation. This will push up their own domestic prices and invite reciprocal countermeasures. Facts have proven that, given the deeply embedded interconnection of industrial and supply chains, European society can hardly operate independently without China's industrial supply.
In the final analysis, the correct path for the EU to enhance its economic resilience to risks lies in optimizing Europe's own business environment. The reconstruction of Europe's economic security cannot rely on excessive government intervention and trade protectionism. Instead, it should use bold structural reforms to reduce bureaucracy, adopt competitive tax policies, and more actively open up entirely new growth tracks.
To address global challenges, Europe needs a strong and stable Chinese partner. Only Europe-China cooperation that abandons ideological prejudice and is built on mutual trust and equal collaboration can promote sustainable growth for both sides and enable European enterprises to truly share in the development opportunities brought by Chinese modernization and the expansion of the Chinese market.
Jens Eskelund: At present, it is more necessary than ever for both Europe and China to seriously assess the enormous value that the deepening Europe-China relationship has brought to both sides over the past half century. In a broader environment of geopolitical turbulence, the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China hopes that when handling trade and investment restrictions, both Europe and China will recognize that their concerns are shared, and on this principle, find ways to manage economic and trade frictions through sustained consultation.
In recent months, bilateral negotiations between Europe and China at the political level have increased. This is a very positive phenomenon, and we hope the two sides can candidly share their respective legitimate concerns.
Pooling consensus and moving toward each other
A healthy and stable China-Europe relationship is not one without differences, but one that can maintain communication amid differences and maintain cooperation amid competition
Cui Hongjian: The challenges currently encountered by China-Europe relations are both an objective manifestation of the changes unseen in a century in the world and an inevitable stage in the development of China-Europe relations. Although the current adjustment of perceptions and policies toward China by some European countries has increased the difficulty of the healthy and stable development of China-Europe relations, returning to pragmatism, strengthening dialogue and maintaining cooperation remain the most favorable and most reasonable way out for China-Europe relations.
The two sides should grasp the historical orientation and development direction, maintain strategic focus, enhance the resilience of cooperation, make good use of existing dialogue and communication mechanisms, establish comprehensive, objective and positive perceptions of each other, continuously enhance mutual understanding, overcome the obstacles of unilateralism and protectionism, consolidate and enhance the role of economic and trade cooperation as a ballast stone, eliminate the negative influence of excessive politicization and excessive securitization, find commonalities from differences, seek consensus amid differences, and elevate the level of cooperation through healthy competition.
Amid the changing situation, China and Europe are fully capable of shouldering their due responsibilities and providing strong energy and a good example for the reform and improvement of the global governance system.
Ding Chun: Against the backdrop of turbulent international situation and rising unilateralism and protectionism, the stable mechanism of China-EU leaders' meetings is itself a form of supply of certainty in international relations. It is conducive to clarifying the basic positioning of the China-EU partnership from a strategic height, effectively hedging against external confrontational narratives, and ensuring that bilateral relations do not veer off course or spiral out of control. A healthy and stable China-Europe relationship is not one without differences, but one that can maintain communication amid differences, maintain cooperation amid competition, and form more common interests in a changing international environment.
Looking ahead, China and Europe should focus on building a comprehensive strategic partnership with greater global influence in the following areas: first, cooperation on green, low-carbon and energy transition, deepening alignment of rules in renewable energy, energy storage technology, circular economy and carbon markets, jointly advancing global climate governance and leading the global low-carbon transition; second, digital economy and artificial intelligence governance, advancing cooperation on industrial digitalization and smart industry technology, and jointly building an inclusive and just global digital governance system; third, global development and third-party market cooperation, focusing on food security, poverty reduction and development, and sustainable infrastructure construction, respecting the will of host countries, carrying out mutually beneficial and win-win third-party cooperation, and helping the development of the Global South; fourth, reform of the multilateral system, jointly promoting the reform and improvement of the WTO and the global economic governance system, resisting unilateralism and protectionism, and safeguarding the international system centered on the United Nations.
Bernd Einmeier: To move forward steadily in an increasingly multipolar world landscape, Europe and China should anchor their bilateral relationship in an inclusive and comprehensive governance framework. European foreign policy should break free from the "either-or" mindset of attachment to a single camp, and maintain balanced dialogue with China, the United States, India and Africa. The prerequisite for achieving this balance is for Europe to comprehensively enhance its "cognitive capacity" toward China.
The Chinese government has introduced a series of measures such as unilateral visa exemption for citizens of many European countries, pragmatically promoting people-to-people exchanges between the two sides. As exchanges in tourism, academia, economy and trade continue to heat up, more and more European entrepreneurs and scholars are coming to China to personally experience China's technological innovation and development vitality. This helps dispel the untrue narratives and cognitive biases formed by some European media under the influence of ideology. At the institutional level, Europe and China can strengthen communication and coordination within the UN framework and jointly advance the implementation of the sustainable development agenda. The EU can also build more regular dialogue channels with emerging markets and Global South countries represented by the BRICS mechanism, ensuring their full representation in multilateral mechanisms such as the United Nations and the G20, and jointly safeguarding multilateralism and the legitimate rights and interests of developing countries.
Peace and development are the common aspirations of all humanity. The two major forces of Europe and China bear an inescapable shared responsibility for safeguarding world peace and development. The two sides should take economic and trade cooperation as the boat, institutional stability as the rudder, and rules-based global trade as the guiding principle, jointly leading the stable development of the world.
Return to TopBy: 曲哲涵
Finance is the foundation and an important pillar of national governance. In 2025, the Ministry of Finance organized 12 provinces to carry out pilot programs in scientific fiscal management, and non-pilot regions proactively followed suit, benchmarked and explored, and voluntarily expanded the scope. Over the past year or more, a series of reform measures have reshaped the logic of fiscal operations, and have also enabled society to further understand the deeper significance of scientific fiscal management and the practice of being extremely thrifty and careful with money (精打细算, jing da xi suan - "meticulous, fine, detailed, calculate").
First, advancing scientific fiscal management is by no means a makeshift or temporary measure (权宜之计, quan yi zhi ji - "expedient, temporary, suitable, plan") to cope with the tight balance between revenue and expenditure, nor is it a patch to local processes; rather, it is about consolidating the essential framework or backbone of a system (四梁八柱, si liang ba zhu - "four, beams, eight, pillars") of the fiscal governance system.
At present, fiscal revenue and expenditure are under pressure, and many people simply equate being thrifty and careful with "cutting back on spending to save money (勒紧腰带, le jin yao dai - "tighten, belt") only because of a lack of funds." In fact, scientific fiscal management is an inherent necessity in the iterative evolution of fiscal governance. From 2012 to 2025, national general public budget revenue grew from 11.73 trillion yuan to 21.60 trillion yuan, and expenditure expanded from 12.60 trillion yuan to 28.74 trillion yuan, with this year's expenditure plan expected to exceed 30 trillion yuan. While the scale of fiscal resources continues to grow, governance shortcomings have gradually emerged: in some areas, funds are fragmented across departments and left idle or dormant; expenditure bases have become rigidified, and budget compilation is disconnected from actual needs; the chain of fund transmission is overly long, and the binding force of performance constraints is insufficient... With a "money bag" on the order of 30 trillion yuan, a little slack here and a little leakage there amounts to a considerable sum. Conversely, a 1 percent improvement in expenditure efficiency could release about 300 billion yuan in fiscal resources in a single year, enough to accomplish a large number of practical and beneficial matters for enterprises and the people.
Chongqing, based on its zero-based budgeting reform, conducted comprehensive evaluations of 895 government investment projects, cutting 13.3 billion yuan in funds, while also implementing full-chain digital supervision over thousands of projects to compress inefficient and ineffective investment at the source; Jiangsu carried out special account cleanups, revitalizing large amounts of stock funds long dormant on the books, "awakening" idle fiscal resources... Pilot regions have focused on key links such as budget compilation, resource coordination, digital supervision, and performance constraints, relying on institutional innovation and technological empowerment to reinforce the institutional framework of fiscal governance and enhance operational efficiency. This is a proactive transformation of fiscal governance with no turning back; even if the revenue and expenditure situation improves in the future, these scientific management tools must not be "put back in the armory."
Second, carrying out scientific fiscal management is not a "one-man show" for fiscal departments, but rather a coordinated chorus that "reaches the edges horizontally and the bottom vertically"; not only must fiscal departments at all levels be twisted into "one rope," but a governance pattern of a national "single chessboard" must also be formed.
The root of problems such as fragmented funds and idle or dormant resources lies in the division of "plates" and the poor flow of "links" across departments and levels, which requires breaking down hierarchical barriers, removing departmental fences, and building a fiscal governance system with vertical linkage and full-region coordination. In the past, much fiscal funding was deeply bound to existing work patterns such as departmental authority and staffing quotas, making it no small task to adjust entrenched interest structures, but reform is imperative. Vertically, the effective implementation of pilot reforms depends on governments at the provincial, municipal, and county levels fulfilling their primary responsibility and exerting effort in the same direction; horizontally, it depends on all competent departments stepping out of department-centric thinking, actively participating in the coordination of fiscal resources, tightening performance constraints throughout the entire process, and pooling the reform force of working together in a coordinated manner to manage something (齐抓共管, qi zhua gong guan - "together, grasp, jointly, manage").
Anhui has implemented a centralized model of "unified procurement, unified contracting, and unified payment" in the government cloud sector, integrating scattered funds and idle resources across departments, saving nearly 90 million yuan in total; the national platform for the exchange and sharing of state-owned assets of administrative institutions and public institutions has completed the transfer of 90,000 units (sets) of assets, saving about 1.6 billion yuan... All levels and all departments are uniting various forces into a single powerful entity (攥指成拳, zuan zhi cheng quan - "clench, fingers, become, fist"), promoting the optimal allocation of fiscal resources across levels and fields, and continuously translating institutional advantages into governance effectiveness.
Third, scientific fiscal management must not only accurately calculate the account of the efficiency of real money or tangible assets (真金白银, zhen jin bai yin - "true, gold, white, silver"), but also carefully calculate the account of government conduct and political style. It not only reshapes the resource allocation process and improves allocation efficiency, but also, at a deeper level, forces the iterative upgrading of government operation methods and accelerates the transformation of government functions.
Hubei has built a comprehensive performance evaluation platform for government investment projects, embedding fiscal affordability assessments into the front-end gate of projects, conducting fiscal matching assessments on more than 10,000 proposed projects, and resolutely curbing the investment impulse to expand one's scope or undertake unnecessary tasks (铺摊子, pu tan zi - "spread, stall, cloth") and blindly launch projects; Zhejiang has advanced the reform of "official meal" management, building a province-wide cross-regional payment platform to achieve interconnection of official dining points at the provincial, municipal, and county levels... Practice has proven that strictly enforcing performance constraints and promoting the precise and efficient use of fiscal funds is a consolidation and tempering of a correct view of political achievements; persistently adhering to living within tight budgets can cultivate a fine work style of practicing thrift and running government frugally; smoothing the flow of fund transmission channels and improving the mechanism for direct fund distribution can effectively accelerate the implementation of policies that benefit enterprises and the people; embedding the bottom line of integrity into the entire chain of budget compilation, execution, and supervision can promote the resonance and integrated improvement of governance effectiveness and the building of government conduct and political style.
The pilot work over the past year or more has fully proven that the value of scientific fiscal management far exceeds cost-cutting and potential-tapping itself. The current reform is still in the stage of deepening pilots, and still faces prominent problems such as insufficient coordination of resources across the entire region, the failure to completely break the pattern of rigidified expenditure, and the need to further improve the performance control system. Going forward, it is necessary to continue deepening reform and tackling tough issues, systematically sort out and distill the results of the pilots, solidify mature experience into normalized and long-term mechanisms, and promote the full-region implementation and systematic integration of reform measures. In this way, we can precisely respond to the core governance proposition of "where money comes from, where it goes, and whether it is spent well," continuously consolidate the foundation of modern fiscal governance, and provide solid fiscal guarantees for high-quality development and the building of Chinese modernization.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 沛
On the production line of Mingjun Outdoor Leisure Products Co., Ltd. in Rongcheng City, Shandong Province, workers are concentrating their full attention on their tasks — cutting sheet metal, welding vehicle bodies, and polishing structures, while bolts "clench their teeth" amid the roar of electric wrenches.From here, recreational vehicles (RVs) with finely crafted interiors head out to markets around the world.
From the export of its first RV to becoming China's largest RV production and export base today, Rongcheng has taken only 15 years. How has this small county-level city captured the global market with RVs? Our reporter went to the scene to find out.
One order planted the seed of transformation — from shipbuilding to RV manufacturing
"Can you produce tent trailers?"
Adding a tent on top of an automobile chassis allows for comfortable camping no matter where you drive. In 2011, tent trailers were almost nonexistent in China. A foreign merchant from Australia presented a rare opportunity to Rongcheng Longhe Vehicle Industry Co., Ltd., and the company's founder agreed without hesitation. Rongcheng is a city that "lives toward the sea." While vigorously developing its marine industry, it has also been seeking new opportunities for breakthroughs in high-end equipment manufacturing.
"At that time, many enterprises produced parts and components for shipyards and had mastered a range of manufacturing technologies, giving them a natural 'shipbuilding gene.' Longhe Vehicle's bold acceptance of the RV order was also based on its shipbuilding foundation," said a relevant official from the Rongcheng Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology.
This seemingly accidental production switch became the first seed of Rongcheng's RV industry.
Having spotted the opportunity, Mingjun Outdoor also began producing tent trailers the following year, and from then on it was unstoppable once started (一发不可收, yi fa bu ke shou - "one, emit, not, can, receive"). Its tent trailers proved quite popular abroad, with order volumes continuing to climb.
"Tent trailers have a low technical threshold and relatively low prices — the cheap ones cost only 30,000 to 50,000 yuan — but they lack comfort," said Qian Dongwen, chairman of Mingjun Outdoor. An overseas inspection trip showed him the market potential of hard-shell RVs.
The main body of this type of RV (roof, side walls, and floor) is made entirely of hard materials such as fiberglass, aluminum alloy, or sandwich composite panels, formed in one piece or assembled from sections, with a fixed shape. It offers good thermal insulation, soundproofing, and waterproofing — truly a "mobile castle."
But the company had never made such an RV, so why did Qian Dongwen dare to accept the order with confidence? This was thanks to Rongcheng's local fiberglass boat-hull technology.
The core advantage of fiberglass in shipbuilding is integral molding and corrosion resistance — the hull can use a streamlined shell to disperse water pressure. Applied to RV shells, this can directly change the way the RV body is constructed, abandoning the "frame + skin" split assembly in favor of a "monocoque" or "sandwich core" integral structure, effectively reducing wind resistance and driving vibration stress.
In 2013, Rongcheng's first towable hard-shell RV was born, once again igniting the overseas market. This time, a single RV sold for around 300,000 yuan — several times the previous price.
After more than 10 years of development, Rongcheng's RV products now cover all major categories — motorhomes, towables, campers, and tent trailers — with RV output accounting for about 30% of the national total.
A relevant official from the Rongcheng Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology said: "Since 2022, market demand for Rongcheng RVs has grown substantially." According to statistics from Rongcheng Customs, in the first half of this year, Rongcheng's RV export value reached 1.06 billion yuan, up 21% year on year, accounting for 87.6% of Shandong Province's total RV export value and more than 55% of the national total — becoming a new force driving foreign trade toward "quality improvement and stable volume growth."
One platform meets customized needs, compressing delivery cycles to as little as 10 days
In Mingjun Outdoor's workshop, welding robots flash with arcs, sparks fly, and molten pools spread along the seams with a sizzling sound. The mechanical arms move steadily, producing uniform welds.
"In the past, welding relied on the feel of veteran craftsmen. Now, with digital quality control, efficiency is higher and standards are unified," said Qian Dongwen. To develop this robot, the company's R&D team carried out joint technical research with Harbin University of Science and Technology, jointly establishing a welding technology research center and designing a welding robot suited to RV production. The company now also conducts industry-university-research cooperation with renowned institutions such as Harbin Institute of Technology and Shandong University, with as many as 80 designers in its industrial design center.
An even more thorough intelligent transformation is underway at Rongcheng Compass New Energy Vehicle Co., Ltd. In the workshop, automated cutting machines precisely slice composite materials, and mechanical arms automatically assemble the vehicle body frame with millimeter-level precision. At the end of the production line, rows of new towable RVs customized to Australian customers' special requirements await shipment.
The company's head explained as he walked: a single small towable RV conceals nearly 3,000 precision components. RVs are mostly individually customized — "a thousand people, a thousand faces." Before the digital upgrade, traditional RV production relied heavily on manual workflow, and a complete towable RV took as long as 35 days to roll off the line. "Especially when facing customers' personalized order changes and requirement adjustments, everything relied on manual verification and layer-by-layer coordination — not only cumbersome processes and high labor costs, but also a high risk of process deviations, delivery delays, and other problems. Customized production efficiency was hard to improve — this is also a pain point of the industry," the head said.
To this end, Compass has relied on the COSMOPlat industrial internet platform to carry out production innovation across the entire chain, thoroughly breaking through traditional manufacturing bottlenecks and achieving a complete transformation from traditional manual production to digital intelligent manufacturing.
"With a 'brain,' from the core vehicle assembly down to every tiny component, production progress, process parameters, quality inspection data, and workflow nodes can all be queried in real time, traced throughout the entire process, and dynamically monitored, compressing the delivery cycle to as little as 10 days," the enterprise head told reporters.
In five years, Compass's revenue has grown severalfold, and its towable RV export volume has ranked among the top in the country for nine consecutive years. Today, Rongcheng RV products are exported to more than 10 countries and regions, including Australia, Sweden, New Zealand, and the United States.
One chain links a hundred enterprises; government services help the industry grow
Driving through the Rongcheng Economic Development Zone, one can see RV production supporting enterprises everywhere, covering everything needed to build an RV — sandwich composite panels, windows, tents, furniture, mattresses, water and electrical systems, and chassis modification.
"Being able to build an RV without leaving Rongcheng is no joke," said Qian Dongwen. Over the past decade or more, Rongcheng has actively promoted the development of the RV industry, forming a cluster effect that has greatly reduced enterprise costs.
Aiming at market demand, Rongcheng City has followed the trend, providing policy support to supporting enterprises in areas such as project approval, land planning, and financing. More and more enterprises have seized the business opportunity and joined the ranks of RV production.
At present, the local supporting rate of Rongcheng's RV industry is about 40%. "The city has gathered 7 RV production enterprises above designated size and more than 50 parts and components supporting enterprises, forming an industrial ecosystem with upstream-downstream synergy, low costs, and high efficiency," said Mao Junxiao, Party Secretary and Director of the Rongcheng Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology. These supporting enterprises can complete the entire chain of collaboration — from parts supply to complete vehicle assembly — within a 50-kilometer radius.
Recently, Mingjun Outdoor had another batch of RVs ready for shipment. "In the past, to export RVs, we had to queue up for customs inspection. Every vehicle had to be driven to a designated inspection area, and customs officers had to check the nameplates, engine numbers, and appearance of each one — inspecting all 30 vehicles could take a day or two. Moreover, RVs are large, making them very inconvenient to move around in the port area," said Qian Dongwen. Now it's different: they only need to make an "inspection appointment" with customs through the system one day in advance, and with the "fast track for export vehicles entering the yard," 30 RVs don't need to be driven to the traditional inspection area — they are inspected directly in the pre-loading berthing area, and the entire process takes only a few hours.
Song Li, Deputy Customs Director of Rongcheng Customs, said that in light of the RV industry's characteristics, Rongcheng Customs, based on the "appointment inspection + rapid release" mechanism, has innovatively layered on convenience measures such as "advance declaration" and "two-step declaration," coordinated with the port to open a fast track for export vehicles entering the yard, guided enterprises in reforming the declaration of consumption quotas before parts declaration, simplified transfer documents, compressed customs clearance time by more than 80%, and improved processing efficiency by 50%.
Han Peng, member of the Standing Committee of the Rongcheng Municipal Party Committee, Deputy Party Secretary of the Municipal Government Party Group, and Deputy Mayor, said that in the next step, the city will coordinate the planning and layout of the RV industry, accelerate the extension, reinforcement, and strengthening of the industrial chain, continuously improve the local supporting system, and speed up the transformation and upgrading of the RV industry toward new-energy RVs, motorhomes, and intelligent connected RVs, with efforts focused on enhancing RV quality, brand influence, and market share. It will steadily advance the construction of RV campsites and related supporting facilities, promote the cross-border integration of RVs with service industries such as culture, tourism, and health and wellness, and continue to solidify the industrial ecosystem of "one RV dream." At the same time, it will further intensify efforts to secure more policy support for the RV industry from higher levels, better empower the growth of leading enterprises and the tiered development of supporting enterprises, and continue to strengthen the RV industry cluster.
Return to TopBy: 赵 忠
At present, the Chinese economy is in a critical period of accelerating the shift between old and new growth drivers and transforming its development model. New growth drivers are continuously growing stronger and gradually assuming the leading role; at the same time, however, it also faces a weakening relationship between economic growth and job creation, prominent structural employment contradictions in which there are jobs with no one to fill them and people with no jobs to fill, and "involutionary" competition characterized by declining returns on physical capital investment and slowing productivity growth. This is precisely the logical starting point of this book's analysis.
Breaking through demand-side constraints through household consumption, converting growth drivers through consumption transformation that transcends the business cycle, empowering total factor productivity improvement with artificial intelligence, promoting labor productivity gains through human capital investment, and ensuring the sharing of the fruits of technological progress through institutional safeguards... Policies further place people at the center of socioeconomic development, which is precisely the practical requirement and something that is naturally required or expected (应有之义, ying you zhi yi - "should have, of necessity") of investing in people, and is also this book's macro-level positioning of investing in people.
Demographic structural change is an important long-term factor affecting China's economic development. It affects economic growth, entrepreneurship, and innovation at the macro level, changes the allocation of household resources and time at the micro level, and also poses challenges to the sustainability of institutional systems such as pension insurance at the institutional level. This book emphasizes the observation that demographic change has long-term and slow-moving characteristics, but that the impact of demographic change may manifest itself in short-term and rapid ways. Therefore, in planning high-quality development of the population, it is necessary to maintain a sense of urgency, focusing on the pressure that negative population growth and population aging place on economic growth; at the same time, it is necessary to maintain historical patience, by implementing the government's responsibility for basic public services across the full life cycle in areas such as child-rearing, education, employment, and elderly care, strengthening the family as the basic unit, consolidating the family foundation and family functions, giving play to the family's principal role in children's growth and the pursuit of quality of life, and fostering a new demographic dividend.
Artificial intelligence is the main thread running through this book, and the combination of empirical research and normative research is one of the book's characteristics: it explores not only what is, but also what ought to be, and the goodness of intelligent technology is one of the book's core viewpoints. Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword (双刃剑, shuang ren jian - "double, edge, sword"): it may replace some workers, or it may form a win-win relationship with workers. The investment in people emphasized by this book, on the one hand, must enhance workers' resilience in the face of technological shocks through distribution systems and employment promotion, and on the other hand, must empower workers with the ability to seize the opportunities brought by artificial intelligence through education and training. More importantly, the development path of artificial intelligence, its application scenarios, its relationship with workers, and the construction of the institutional system surrounding its development can all be independently chosen. The goodness of intelligent technology and investing in people are complementary to each other (相辅相成, xiang fu xiang cheng - "complement, each other, complete") as development approaches, and coordinating human development with technological progress is a powerful force driving socioeconomic development.
This book contains both profound theoretical analysis and rich summaries of historical experience, as well as insightful policy recommendations, making it a work that is beneficial to read (开卷有益, kai juan you yi - "open, book, have, benefit") for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners in related fields. Of course, the theory of investing in people is continuously being improved, and practice is continuously deepening; there are still many issues that require in-depth research and exploration. It is hoped that this book will further promote theoretical research and practical innovation on investing in people, and contribute beneficial strength to driving the transformation of the development model and forming a path for the harmonious development of people and technology.
(The author is Dean of the School of Labor and Human Resources at Renmin University of China and Wu Yuzhang Chair Professor)
Return to TopBy: 谷业凯
In his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance, President Xi Jinping pointed out that "China has always placed equal emphasis on development and security, grasped the development trends and laws of artificial intelligence, and continuously improved relevant laws and regulations, policies and systems, application norms, and ethical guidelines, ensuring that artificial intelligence is safe, reliable, and controllable, so that this 'thousand-mile horse' of artificial intelligence both runs fast and runs steadily."
Artificial intelligence is a strategic technology leading a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. At present, the iteration of large language models is measured in weeks, the scale of model parameters has soared to the trillion level, and the mode of technological evolution has shifted from "passive training" to "autonomous evolution." In dimensions such as data processing, computing power output, token invocation, and agent activity, the pace of development of artificial intelligence technology can be described as extremely rapid progress (一日千里, yi ri qian li - "one, day, thousand, mile"). At the same time, it should be recognized that we must grasp the development trends and laws of artificial intelligence, both activating the development momentum of "running fast" and consolidating the safety bottom line of "running steadily," so that artificial intelligence can provide strong positive energy for enhancing the well-being of all humanity and advancing the progress of human civilization.
At the application level, artificial intelligence is expanding its space across broad scenarios, fully releasing its enormous potential. It has both transformed and upgraded traditional industries and continuously given rise to new business forms, becoming an "accelerator" empowering all walks of life (千行百业, qian hang bai ye - "thousand, industry, hundred, occupation"). From the user perspective, the speed of AI adoption has already surpassed that of early personal computers and the internet. At present, the penetration rate of AI technology application among industrial enterprises above designated size in China exceeds 30 percent, the core industry scale of the intelligent economy exceeds one trillion yuan, and the number of generative AI users has surpassed 600 million, with its supporting role in economic and social development continuing to strengthen.
Artificial intelligence brings unprecedented (前所未有, qian suo wei you - "before, ever, not, have") development opportunities, and it also brings unprecedented risks and challenges. The "thousand-mile horse" itself will not choose its own direction; it needs to be identified and harnessed. Artificial intelligence itself also has no autonomous consciousness; whether it creates value or brings risks depends on the people, means, and goals that use it. Used well, it can benefit society; used wrongly, it will produce problems such as bias, fraud, abuse, and malicious use. A "thousand-mile horse" without reins is very likely to become a "wild horse" beyond human control. Therefore, it is necessary to precisely grasp the balance point between technological breakthroughs and risk prevention and control, both avoiding the "absence" of laissez-faire and preventing the "overstepping" of excessive restraint, and blazing a path of high-quality development where innovation empowers and security escorts.
China adheres to the concept of placing equal emphasis on development and security in AI governance, and has gradually built a multi-level, collaborative governance system. For example, foundational laws such as the Cybersecurity Law, the Data Security Law, and the Personal Information Protection Law, as well as departmental regulations such as the Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services, have clarified governance requirements for artificial intelligence at the level of laws and regulations; documents such as the Implementation Opinions on the Standardized Application and Innovative Development of Intelligent Agents have provided a predictable policy environment for the healthy development of the industry; documents such as the AI Application Ethics and Safety Guidelines 1.0 have built an application norm system with clear rights and responsibilities and coordinated linkage; and documents such as the New Generation AI Ethics Norms have gathered broad social consensus by proposing governance frameworks and action guidelines.
Wherever the "thousand-mile horse" of artificial intelligence runs, regulatory governance should follow. The faster AI technology develops, the more accurately the direction of upward goodness must be anchored, the more precisely the yardstick of regulatory governance must be grasped, and the more promptly measures to prevent loss of control must be improved. It is worth noting that from proposing the Global AI Governance Initiative to proposing the establishment of the World AI Cooperation Organization, China is taking concrete actions to work with all parties to promote the formation of a global AI governance system with broad consensus, making artificial intelligence an international public good that benefits all humanity.
Artificial intelligence is of great significance to future development and should benefit humanity. The "thousand-mile horse metaphor" is not only a vivid depiction of the development trend of AI technology, but also profoundly reveals the internal logic of the two-in-one nature of AI innovative development and security governance. The key to understanding the "thousand-mile horse metaphor" of artificial intelligence lies in grasping the dialectical thinking and governance logic of coordinating development and security that it contains. Adhere to openness and win-win cooperation, strengthen risk awareness, encourage inclusive and all-embracing (包容并蓄, bao rong bing xu - "embrace, tolerate, combine, absorb") approaches, advocate working together in harmony to overcome difficulties (和衷共济, he zhong gong ji - "harmonious, heart, together, cross"), keep the well-being of all humanity in mind, promote the healthy and orderly development of artificial intelligence in a beneficial, safe, and fair direction, and let this "thousand-mile horse" gallop with both speed and stability (蹄疾步稳, ti ji bu wen - "hoof, fast, step, steady") toward the vast world.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵永新
A brain-computer interface is a technological system that establishes a direct information pathway between the brain and external devices. By acquiring and decoding neural activity, it converts the user's motor, speech, or sensory intentions into device control commands; some systems can also deliver electrical stimulation or sensory feedback to the nervous system, forming a bidirectional closed loop.
In recent years, good news about brain-computer interfaces in China has been happening in rapid succession (接二连三, jie er lian san - "receive, two, connect, three"): in specific cases, patients with complete spinal cord injury, one year after implantation of the "Beinao No. 1," have recovered from complete paralysis to incomplete injury and achieved independent walking with brace assistance; the first invasive brain-computer interface with over one hundred channels has launched GCP (Good Clinical Practice) registered clinical trials...
When will brain-computer interfaces benefit more patients? What changes will they bring to human society in the future? In which areas should efforts be focused going forward?
Three technical pathways are being explored in parallel, accelerating the transition from laboratory to clinical application
According to the position and method of electrodes used to acquire brain signals, brain-computer interfaces can be divided into three types: non-invasive (electrodes placed on the scalp), semi-invasive (electrodes placed on or under the dura mater but not penetrating the brain parenchyma), and invasive (electrodes placed inside the brain). In recent years, the three technical pathways in China have been advancing steadily and simultaneously (齐头并进, qi tou bing jin - "shoulder, head, together, advance"), accelerating the transition from laboratory to clinical application.
The Haihe Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interaction and Human-Machine Integration (hereinafter referred to as the "BCI Haihe Laboratory"), located in Tianjin Binhai High-Tech Zone and established under Tianjin University, has developed more than 30 products in the "Shengong" medical device product family through sustained research efforts.
"Non-invasive brain-computer interfaces acquire brain electrical signals directly from the scalp surface through external devices such as EEG caps, offering greater safety guarantees and applicable to a wider range of people and scenarios," Ni Guangjian, executive deputy director of the BCI Haihe Laboratory, told reporters. To date, the "Shengong series" has been deployed in fields including rehabilitation medicine, psychiatry, neurocritical care, and audiovisual diagnosis and treatment, benefiting thousands of patients. For example, the "Shengong-Shen'er" auditory intelligence assessment system can extract the brain's discharge waveforms and directly "read" the brain's response to sound, helping doctors tune cochlear implants and hearing aids to the most suitable "channel," enabling patients to move from "hearing sounds" to "hearing clearly"; the "Shengong-Shen'gao" rapid and accurate hydrocephalus diagnosis system has shortened the diagnosis time for hydrocephalus from 2-3 days to 30 minutes, with a significant reduction in misdiagnosis rates.
In May last year, a neurosurgery expert team led by Zhao Guoguang, president of Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, and chief physician Duan Wanru, implanted the semi-invasive brain-computer interface "Beinao No. 1" and a temporal spinal cord electrical stimulation system simultaneously into Zhiming (pseudonym), who had suffered severe T12-L1 spinal cord injury from trauma and lost lower limb motor function. After one year of rehabilitation training, he can not only walk independently but has also achieved voluntary control of urination and defecation.
"The initial version of 'Beinao No. 1' uses a 128-channel wireless fully implanted flexible electrode, attached to the outer layer of the dura mater, balancing safety and efficacy," said Luo Minmin, director of the Beijing Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Institute. In March 2025, "Beinao No. 1" launched multicenter registered clinical trials, with indications including spinal cord injury, hemiplegia from stroke, limb movement disorders caused by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and speech aphasia. "Patient enrollment for the trial has been completed, and we plan to apply for the medical device registration certificate in 2027."
The invasive brain-computer interface "Beinao No. 2" is also advancing in parallel. Luo Minmin said: "'Beinao No. 2' uses a 512-channel wireless fully implanted flexible intracortical electrode array, benchmarked against international thousand-channel products. It targets severely paralyzed patients seeking extremely fine motor decoding, and we plan to initiate human clinical validation within the year."
In May this year, Beijing Zhiran Medical Technology Co., Ltd. launched the first registered clinical trial in China for an invasive brain-computer interface system with over one hundred channels, marking the entry of high-throughput invasive brain-computer interface technology into a new stage of clinical translation. The 128-channel brain-computer interface system used in the trial consists of flexible electrodes and a signal acquisition unit; the flexible electrodes use ultra-thin biocompatible materials that can effectively reduce post-implantation immune responses, enabling real-time, high-precision decoding of fine brain electrical information; the signal acquisition unit features a fully implanted wireless design with wireless charging support.
"We look forward to using this trial to enable patients with quadriplegia caused by spinal cord injury to achieve brain-controlled mouse operation and partial restoration of hand motor function as a substitute," said Song Qi, CEO of Zhiran Medical. The clinical trial is expected to be completed in 2027.
In addition, clinical trials of brain-computer interfaces at different stages are also being conducted in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shenzhen, Hefei, and other locations. At present, most high-throughput implantable brain-computer interfaces remain in the early clinical validation stage; some functional improvements result from combined intervention of brain-computer interfaces, neural stimulation, and long-term rehabilitation training. The durability of their efficacy, the applicable population, and the independent contributions of different component technologies still require confirmation through larger samples, controlled studies, and long-term follow-up.
As a next-generation human-machine interaction platform, brain-computer interfaces are not limited to medical rehabilitation
"At present, brain-computer interface diagnosis and treatment in China has entered the critical stage of clinical validation and registered clinical trials," Zhao Guoguang said. Compared with foreign countries, China has distinct advantages: large clinical demand, with vast patient populations suffering from spinal cord injury, stroke, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, and other conditions; increasingly close integration of neurosurgery, rehabilitation medicine, engineering technology, and industrial strength; and deep physician involvement in technology development and clinical protocol design, making technical goals more closely aligned with patients' real needs.
"Brain-computer interfaces can only solve some of the problems that traditional medical approaches cannot address, and functional reconstruction cannot be achieved in a single step (一蹴而就, yi cu er jiu - "one, kick, and, achieve"). We must have a rational understanding of this," Zhao Guoguang also pointed out. Their efficacy, safety, and stability still await the test of time and practice.
"China's brain-computer interfaces are expected to enter a period of rapid iteration and volume expansion, and their diagnostic and therapeutic functions will expand accordingly," Luo Minmin believes. Within the next five years, functional substitution, neural rehabilitation and repair, and speech function reconstruction are expected to be achieved, significantly improving patients' self-care ability and quality of life; in the next 5-10 years, brain-computer interfaces are expected to achieve more functions. For example: bidirectional brain-computer integration, upgrading from "reading" neural signals to "writing-in" neural modulation, triggering stimulation of one's own muscles and spinal nerves through algorithmic decoding of intentions; synchronous multi-brain-region decoding, expanding from a single motor cortex to simultaneous acquisition from visual, emotional, and cognitive brain regions, greatly increasing the dimensionality of decoded information; in addition to functional repair and tactile reconstruction, they can also be used for psychiatric disorder intervention, benefiting the large population suffering from depression.
Looking to the future, the value and functions of brain-computer interfaces extend far beyond medical diagnosis and treatment.
"Don't underestimate it," Ni Guangjian believes. As one of the future industries deployed in the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan, brain-computer interfaces will lead and drive China's scientific and technological development and industrial upgrading. "Brain-computer interfaces have already demonstrated considerable application prospects in aerospace, education and entertainment, and transportation, and their application fields will become even broader in the future."
Luo Minmin said that in the foreseeable future, brain-computer interfaces are expected to expand from deep collaboration between the human brain and artificial intelligence and robots to cognitive and sensory enhancement for healthy populations. Of course, these visions still face technical bottlenecks and also involve ethical issues such as neural privacy, personal autonomy, fair access, and risks of non-medical implantation.
How great is the application potential of brain-computer interfaces?
"As a next-generation human-machine interaction platform, the most distinctive feature of brain-computer interfaces is their ability to achieve high-bandwidth bidirectional information transfer between humans and machines," Song Qi said. When people speak or type, the information transmitted per second amounts to only a few dozen bytes, but the information transmission rate between two intelligent agents has already reached several hundred megabytes or several gigabytes per second, or even higher. "With the continuous iteration of brain-computer interface technology and the rapid evolution of new-generation wireless communications, artificial intelligence, and other technologies, brain-computer interfaces are expected to achieve even higher-bandwidth bidirectional information transfer. On this point alone, the changes they will bring to human society offer unlimited room for imagination."
Cultivating the industry requires grounding in the present while looking to the long term, with coordinated efforts from government, industry, academia, research, and medicine
Interviewees stated that developing and cultivating the brain-computer interface industry requires grounding in the present while looking to the long term, with sustained efforts on multiple fronts.
Strengthen technological research. Luo Minmin said that the electrode materials, micro-nano fabrication, dedicated mixed-signal chips, wireless integrated systems, and real-time decoding algorithms involved in brain-computer interfaces all demand "extremes" in every aspect. The upstream and downstream of the industry should carry forward the spirit of craftsmanship, abandon the approach of "purchasing core components and simple assembly," invest substantial effort in underlying technologies and system integration, and strive to achieve self-reliance and controllability with excellent performance.
Establish and improve relevant standards and policies. Zhao Guoguang pointed out that there are still shortcomings in clinical research and application of brain-computer interfaces, and there is an urgent need to establish and improve relevant standards and policies. Unify clinical trial enrollment criteria and evaluation indicators to improve the quality of clinical research; build standardized multimodal neuroelectrophysiological databases, unify clinical data standards, and achieve data sharing; improve mechanisms for product pricing, hospital admission, and medical insurance payment, and promote safe, effective, replicable, and affordable clinical application.
Accelerate talent cultivation. Brain-computer interfaces integrate neuroscience, electronic engineering, materials science, chips, algorithms, and more, and clinical research and application require deep collaboration among medical staff and rehabilitation personnel, with talent gaps in every aspect. Ni Guangjian introduced that Tianjin University was the first in China to establish the undergraduate major "Brain-Computer Science and Technology," recruiting students nationwide. He believes that efforts should persist in advancing educational development, scientific and technological innovation, and talent cultivation as an integrated whole, adopting models such as school-enterprise and school-hospital cooperation to intensify the cultivation of various types of related talent.
Strengthen basic research. "Breakthroughs in disruptive technologies originate from original discoveries in basic research, and the depth of basic research determines the height of scientific and technological innovation," Luo Minmin believes. Although China's basic research in fields such as neuroscience and brain cognitive science is progressing rapidly, there is still a gap in horizontal comparison, and original discoveries remain scarce. Continued investment should be made in biomedical, neuroscience, and brain science fields, encouraging original basic research.
Deep roots produce lush foliage; accumulating extensively to achieve a powerful breakthrough (厚积薄发, hou ji bo fa - "thick, accumulate, thin, emit") comes only after sustained effort. Interviewees stated that China's brain-computer interfaces have entered a golden period of development. With coordinated efforts from government, industry, academia, research, and medicine and a pragmatic approach, brain-computer interfaces have a bright future and promising prospects.
(Intern Lu Zeying participated in the reporting)
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A "glass rod" that is transparent throughout—it looks like glass, but it is actually an optical fiber preform, the core raw material for producing optical fiber. My daily work is to research how to efficiently prepare large-size preforms and then draw them into glass filaments as fine as a human hair.
The optical fiber preform is not merely quartz glass; it also encodes the entire set of technical secrets from material formulation to process parameters. Its preparation technology is the most difficult and technically most barrier-laden link in optical fiber manufacturing, and the difficulty lies in the extreme requirements for material purity, process control, equipment precision, and system integration.
As the construction of Digital China accelerates, communication networks are moving from gigabit to 10-gigabit speeds. How to enable optical fiber to transmit more signals over longer distances, reduce loss to the theoretical limit, and ensure that core materials and equipment are no longer being at the mercy of others (受制于人, shou zhi yu ren - "receive, control, at, people") is a question that must be answered in the information age. Making optical fiber an information channel that is independently controllable and leading in performance is precisely the direction of our research.
The value of developing large-size preforms lies in their ability to greatly improve optical fiber manufacturing efficiency and significantly enhance mass production capacity. But the larger the preform, the more exponentially demanding the requirements for refractive index uniformity, impurity control, and geometric precision become, and the more prone it is to cracking. In the early days, high-end preforms and quartz tubes were entirely dependent on imports, and the core processes and production equipment were also controlled by foreign countries; we had no ready-made experience to draw upon.
In 2011, we embarked on the long journey of independent research and development of large-size optical fiber preforms based on VAD (vapor-phase axial deposition) / OVD (outside vapor deposition) processes. Two paths lay before us: one was to introduce foreign technology, which carried lower R&D risk but meant forever following in others' footsteps; the other was to start from scratch (从零开始, cong ling kai shi - "from, zero, start, begin") and challenge the global leading position.
We chose the latter, because core technology cannot be bought. We assembled an R&D team of over a hundred people covering multiple disciplines including mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, materials science, simulation, and optics. After hundreds and thousands of failures, we gradually solved industry challenges such as precise control of refractive index distribution, low deposition efficiency, susceptibility to cracking, uniform control of the sintering temperature field, deep purification, and precise doping, and developed a brand-new preparation route for large-size optical fiber preforms based on independent VAD for preparing large-size core rods and OVD for preparing cladding.
However, this in turn raised a new challenge: how to achieve the industrialization of large-size optical fiber preforms? Optical fiber products have extremely high requirements for reliability and consistency; any quality fluctuation in any batch could lead to product scrapping. From "being able to make it" in the laboratory to "stable, efficient, low-cost mass production" in the factory, there is still a long road ahead.
So we launched industrialization work at the Qianjiang base. We continuously iterated on the core technologies of deposition, sintering, and splicing, optimized the furnace temperature adaptive control and precision optical inspection systems, and solved problems such as uniformity of large-size blanks and stress control; we implemented multi-phase capacity expansion and intelligent transformation of production lines step by step, and opened up an efficient drawing chain; relying on the supporting advantages of the local salt chemical industry in Qianjiang, we recycled hydrogen and other raw materials to reduce the manufacturing cost of large-size preforms; and in parallel we carried out process validation and stability testing to accelerate the rapid transfer of technological achievements to mass production...
After ten years, we ultimately overcame the key technical challenges of manufacturing large-size optical fiber preforms and high-purity synthetic quartz tubes based on independent VAD/OVD core processes and complete equipment sets, gradually achieved domestic substitution of manufacturing equipment, brought the technical indicators and yield rates of our products to internationally leading levels, and successfully built the world's largest R&D and manufacturing base for optical fiber preforms by single-site production capacity.
In July this year, the project "Key Technologies and Applications for the Preparation of Core Materials for Quartz Optical Fiber," which we led to completion, won the second prize of the 2025 National Science and Technology Progress Award. This is the fourth time that our company has led a project to win this award. For someone engaged in R&D, being able to solidly solve a few key technical problems in one's lifetime and contribute to the country's communications industry—I feel that is very meaningful.
Going forward, we will continue to focus on the development of new types of optical fiber, improve optical fiber transmission performance, and promote the building of a core technology system for optical fiber preforms with independent intellectual property rights. For me, the most ideal future is that every transmission of information reaches millions of households through optical fiber manufactured in China, leaving behind a Chinese precision that is credible, verifiable, and traceable.
(The author is the chief scientist of Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Joint Stock Limited Company; compiled by People's Daily reporter Fan Haotian)
Return to TopBy: 孙现富
The Yudu River flows on and on; the Long March road stretches far and far.
On an afternoon of drizzling autumn rain, as I walked slowly into the Memorial Hall of the Departure of the Central Red Army's Long March, located on the banks of the Yudu River in Jiangxi, I was immediately drawn to three family letters sent by Red Army soldier Ouyang Hongchang to his uncle. One of them was written just one month before the Long March set out. Though the letter was thin, its words carried immense weight (语重千钧, yu zhong qian jun - "words, heavy, thousand, weight"), brimming with family affection and steeped in love for family and country.
"Uncle Yu (Rong)fa: I have been at the front for a long time without writing to you. I do not know whether uncle's health is (good)? I do not know how everything is at home..."
This letter was written by Ouyang Hongchang to his uncle on February 15, 1934. It was the first time he had written to his family in the two years since joining the Red Army. The letter was probably written on his behalf by someone else, which is why his uncle's name, Ouyang Rongfa, was mistakenly written as Ouyang Yufa. The few short sentences in the letter are full of family affection and concern.
Ouyang Hongchang was an orphan who grew up under his uncle's care. At the age of 18, having just been married, he heard about the Soviet area's "expansion of the Red Army," and looking at the propaganda slogans all over the streets, he could no longer sit still.
"If you're going to be a soldier, be a Red Army soldier; hurry and join the Red Army to make revolution; the poor who suffer must rise up..." That folk song circulating in the countryside made Ouyang Hongchang understand that only if the Red Army grew and developed, and thoroughly eliminated all reactionaries, could the suffering common people live good lives.
At first, his family was deeply reluctant to let him go. Ouyang Hongchang had just been married, and his older cousin hoped he would stay and let him join the Red Army instead. But seeing his aged uncle and aunt, and seeing his cousin's several children, Ouyang Hongchang became even more resolute in his choice. He certainly knew the cruelty of revolution and the danger of war, but he knew even better that without the victory of the revolution, the happiness and reunion of his small family would forever remain a vain hope.
He even prepared himself for sacrifice. Before leaving, he discussed with his cousin that if he could not return, the youngest nephew should be adopted into his name. This parting entrustment, I believe, was not simply a continuation of the family line, but a red inheritance of the fighting will, a faith in the victory of the revolution.
In the letter, Ouyang Hongchang also did not forget to ask his family to "mobilize all the young masses to expand the Red Army to the 22nd Division, so that after smashing the enemy's fifth 'encirclement and suppression' campaign, the victory of land distribution after land reform can be guaranteed..." What seems like a simple entrustment actually demonstrates the consciousness and sense of responsibility of a Red Army soldier.
Four months later, Ouyang Hongchang wrote a second family letter to his uncle. This time, again, it was to report that he was safe. "I am doing very well at the front, and there is not the slightest difficulty in my daily life..." Was he truly safe? In fact, no. Just before sending this letter, Ouyang Hongchang had experienced the Battle of Junmenling Defense, yet the letter did not mention it at all.
Consulting relevant materials, one learns that the Battle of Junmenling Defense was a very important battle before the Red Army's Long March, fought under extremely arduous conditions. In April 1934, the enemy launched a fierce attack on Junmenling in Huichang. The Red 22nd Division, in which Ouyang Hongchang served, was the main force on the southern front of the Central Soviet Area, engaging in a life-and-death struggle against an enemy that was well-equipped and several times larger in numbers. To stop the enemy's advance, the entire 6th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Red 64th Regiment fought with all their might; some seriously wounded soldiers, in order not to hold back their comrades' breakout, jumped off the cliffs one after another...
Despite such a brutal battle, Ouyang Hongchang only said in his letter, "We charge bravely at the front to eliminate the enemy." A casual-sounding account actually concealed a weighty love. Reporting good news but concealing bad news (报喜不报忧, bao xi bu bao you - "report, joy, not, report, worry") was the deepest protection a revolutionary soldier could give his loved ones. Perhaps it was precisely because he had experienced the cruelty of battle that Ouyang Hongchang, just stepping off the battlefield, decided to report his safety to his family once more.
In the letter, Ouyang Hongchang again did not forget the matter of "expanding the Red Army," asking his uncle to "do propaganda at home and encourage a group of young Red Guards (troops) to come to the front to smash the enemy's fifth 'encirclement and suppression' campaign." Earlier, he had also urged his family in the letter to save on expenses and support the front. Between the lines, the political consciousness of a revolutionary soldier was reflected, and the lofty realm and spirit of sacrifice of the people of the old revolutionary base area were expressed in a vivid and thorough manner (淋漓尽致, lin li jin zhi - "dripping, dripping, extreme, reach").
On September 9, 1934, Ouyang Hongchang sent his third family letter. The letter was sent from Zhantang in Huichang, at a time when there was only one month left before the Central Red Army set out on the Long March. Again he reported good news but concealed bad news, saying he was very strong in body at the front; again he worried about his family, asking his uncle "how many dan of grain were harvested this year," and did not forget to remind him that if there were difficulties with the land, he should seek out the township Soviet cadres. At the end of the letter, he also hoped his uncle could send four yuan in paper currency and two pairs of cloth straw sandals.
In Ouyang Hongchang's family letters, there is a detail: every letter mentions sending straw sandals and paper currency. For this I inquired with comrades from the relevant departments. First, because the war was cruel and supplies were scarce, the Red Army could not even wear cloth straw sandals; second, because at that time the common people in the Soviet area had received land through land distribution and had a certain foundation for livelihood, so they willingly sent straw sandals, grain, and paper currency, supporting the revolution in the most simple way.
The memorial hall contains a set of detailed data. Before the Central Red Army set out, the people of the Soviet area raised more than 900,000 dan of grain and more than 800,000 silver dollars; hastily made more than 200,000 pairs of straw sandals and 200,000 bamboo hats, as well as large quantities of cotton quilts (clothing); provided large amounts of pig iron, copper, tin, saltpeter, and other ordnance materials, so that Red Army ammunition production increased more than sixfold; and the local folks along the river spontaneously donated more than 100,000 pieces of door planks, bed boards, melon-shed planks, and other materials for building bridges...
Because the troops' whereabouts were uncertain around the time of the Long March, very few letters were left behind. What is especially precious is that the memorial hall also collects the reply letter that Ouyang Hongchang's uncle wrote to him back then, dated August 3, 1934. The uncle's reply was very plain, yet very powerful. In the letter, he urged Ouyang Hongchang to work hard, smash the enemy's fifth "encirclement and suppression" campaign, and strive for the victory of the revolution. At the end of the letter, the four large characters "Struggle to Victory" were especially eye-catching, the brushstrokes drawn out long, writing with great strength and vigor (力透纸背, li tou zhi bei - "strength, penetrate, paper, back"), full of confidence in certain victory.
Regrettably, this letter never reached Ouyang Hongchang's hands, because the troops had moved out and it was returned. The "elimination of the enemy's fifth 'encirclement and suppression' campaign" that his uncle had looked forward to was also not realized. In October 1934, with the help of the people in Yudu and other places, more than 86,000 main forces of the Central Red Army launched a grand strategic shift that would shine brightly in the annals of history (彪炳史册, biao bing shi ce - "resplendent, shine, history, book").
Ouyang Hongchang did not know that on that autumn night when he set out from Yudu, his wife and family were also in the crowd seeing off the troops. His adopted son Ouyang Kehui recalled: "On the night the Red Army set out on the Long March, starting from three or four in the morning, the long column crossed the Yudu River and passed south through the entrance of our village. My mother and aunt held torches and waited anxiously by the roadside, clutching two pairs of cloth straw sandals in their hands and a few yuan of paper money in their pockets, searching for their loved ones without daring to blink. But from midnight until the next morning, they never saw his figure..."
From that day on, Ouyang Hongchang's family kept hoping, hoping for his letters, waiting for his return. What finally came instead was Ouyang Hongchang's revolutionary martyr certificate marked "no news after going north." In accordance with the agreement, Ouyang Rongfa had his eldest son's youngest child, Ouyang Kehui, adopted into Ouyang Hongchang's name, so that the Red Army bloodline would have successors.
For many years, Ouyang Kehui has treasured these family letters, often telling them to his family and to outsiders. Publicizing the Red Army and the Long March became his responsibility. From his youth until his hair turned white, he has lost count of how many times he has told the story.
In June 2019, Ouyang Kehui donated the original letters, which his family had treasured for 85 years, to the Memorial Hall of the Departure of the Central Red Army's Long March. He kept only copies for himself, framed them in glass, and hung them in his living room. He said it was so that more people could read these wartime family letters from the revolutionary era, and so that more people would remember the Red Army and remember the Long March.
"The road stretches far, the autumn wind is cold. The enemy is numerous, military affairs are urgent. The Red Army crosses the Yudu River by night..." As I left Yudu, the long "Long March Suite" still echoed in my ears, and before my eyes kept appearing that "red ribbon of the earth," every inch of it dyed with the blood and lives of Red Army officers and soldiers.
The question I had been pondering before was confirmed once again today. The reason the Red Army won this epic expedition amid hardship and adversity lay in its firm faith in the Party, in its conviction that revolution would surely triumph, and even more in the deep bond between the army and the people (鱼水深情, yu shui shen qing - "fish, water, deep, affection").
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I must admit, somewhat shamefacedly, that the habit of morning reading only gradually took shape in me after I retired.
It was a morning in early spring. The eastern horizon had just begun to show the faintest glimmer of dawn. Having risen early, I went for a run in the nearby Dongpo Wetland Park. As it was still quite early, there were very few people in the park, and all around there was a refreshing stillness and a faint fragrance. After crossing the Yingbin Bridge, I turned right and entered a path among the trees and grass. At that moment, a sound—soft, gentle, and intermittent—drifted into my ears, growing clearer the farther I went. It was the sound of someone reading aloud. Drawing closer, I saw a man about my age sitting on a wooden bench beside a small pond, reading. Though we were not acquainted, I waved a hand by way of greeting. At that moment, the voice drifting into my ears was distinctly clear: "Or is it the east wind that follows you here, blowing away the faint spring furrow between your brows?" At the time, I did not know what book he was reading. When I returned home and looked it up, it turned out to be Su Shi's "Dongxian Ge: Ode to the Willow." I have never forgotten that line of verse since hearing it that morning, and even I find it hard to believe.
This chance encounter drew my attention to the value of morning reading, and later I too joined the ranks of morning readers. After several years of persistence, I have gained some modest insights of my own.
Morning reading is conducive to calming the mind. Reading requires a quiet environment, so that one is not disturbed and can settle the mind and immerse oneself in the book. If, while concentrating with full attention (聚精会神, ju jing hui shen - "gather, spirit, return, god"), one is suddenly interrupted by trivial matters, how does that feel? Anyone who has experienced it knows well that the train of thought is abruptly broken, and it is not easy to regain one's state. The early morning has the fewest distractions—it is precisely the best time for reading. On this point, Liu Zongyuan had deep insight. In his "Morning Visit to Master Chao's Temple to Read the Zen Sutras," he wrote: "Drawing well water to rinse my cold teeth, clearing my mind and dusting off my robes. Leisurely holding the pattra-leaf scriptures, I walk out of the eastern study to read." Setting aside stray thoughts and merging oneself with the book—such is the tranquility of a good life.
Morning reading achieves achieving twice the result with half the effort (事半功倍, shi ban gong bei - "matter, half, achievement, double"). The human mind is at its clearest in the morning, and memory is at its best. This may seem like common sense, but in the past I did not pay it much heed. Later, I consulted a physician friend, who said with a smile: "This is easy to understand. After deep sleep, the body automatically clears away the metabolic waste accumulated during the day. The prefrontal cortex and hippocampus recover their function, synaptic plasticity is enhanced, and the capacity for information encoding and processing is greatly improved." After hearing my friend's words, and combining them with my own experience, I could almost be certain that the morning is the most efficient time of day for reading. No wonder Shi Tianji, a health expert of the Qing Dynasty, said in his Family Treasures: "In the early morning, one's spirit is doubly invigorated. Reading at this time brings great progress and benefit."
The many benefits of morning reading ultimately manifest themselves in application. Most readers do not read for the sake of reading itself, but rather to enrich their learning, improve their qualities, and enhance their ability to handle practical problems. The ancients said that having read extensively (读书破万卷, du shu po wan juan - "read, break, ten thousand, volumes") leads to writing with great fluency and skill (下笔如有神, xia bi ru you shen - "descend, pen, like, have, god"). This seems to speak of scholarship and writing, but in fact it goes far beyond that. In the Analects, chapter "Zilu," Confucius systematically expounded the relationship between learning and application: "One who has recited the three hundred odes, yet when entrusted with governance cannot manage it, and when sent to the four quarters cannot respond on his own—though he has many, of what use are they?" Later generations divided Confucius's notion of "application" into two levels: "earnest practice" and "vigorous practice." The reading done in the morning may find opportunities for "application" in the work and study of the day that follows—why not do it?
In sum, morning reading is not merely a form of time management; it is also a pursuit of the quality of life. If we equally love reading and love life, then there is no harm in beginning by cherishing the precious hours of the morning.
Return to TopBy: 彭 闯
Not long ago, my younger cousin from my hometown of Yong'anchang in Fuling came to Chengdu for a visit and specially brought me two bags of local specialty pickled mustard tuber, explaining repeatedly that it was "wind-dehydrated," not "salt-dehydrated." Rubbing his hands together, my cousin said, "Brother, this taste is still the one from our childhood." Upon opening and tasting it, it was indeed "salty, fresh, fragrant, crisp, and tender." This familiar flavor instantly brought to mind the endless racks of drying mustard stems on the sandy riverbanks of the Yangtze, and the bustling scenes of villagers making pickled mustard tuber.
Fuling is famous for its pickled mustard tuber, and the main winter crop in the local countryside is the mustard stem. As soon as the twelfth lunar month arrives, the sloping fields and sandy flats along both banks of the Yangtze quietly turn green. Rushing to make pickled mustard tuber is actually a race against time and weather; if the season is missed, the stems bolt, flower, and become hollow, turning old. One year, just as it was time to harvest the stems, my mother had urgent business that would delay her by half a day, so she had my younger brother and me, then six or seven years old, go to the field to work first. Following her instructions, we cut down the plants one clump at a time, stripped the leaves one by one, leaving only the plump, full stems. The work was not heavy; it just required nimble hands and careful attention. That day, my brother and I gripped our curved knives, working swiftly among the icy-cold leaves for an entire morning. When Mother returned and saw our wet chests and trouser legs and the row of piled stems, she quietly wiped away a tear.
The traditional method of making pickled mustard tuber is called "wind dehydration," which relies on the natural river breeze to blow and dry the stems for dehydration. One important step is building the drying racks. It is a winter scene visible only along the Yangtze River—a vast undertaking, time-consuming and labor-intensive, but it is the key to making traditional pickled mustard tuber; without the racks, there would be no "wind dehydration." The racks are generally set up on sandy beaches along the river or on ridgelines and hilltops, because these places have stable winds that allow the mustard stems to air-dry slowly while maintaining a crisp, tender texture.
Building the racks begins with setting the poles: two round logs serve as supports, commonly called "mustard purlins," each 7 to 8 meters long, with the tops crossed in an A-shape and bound tightly with thick bamboo-strip rope or hemp rope. The two feet land on the ground, spread apart into a stable form, with the bottom ends sharpened and driven into the sandy ground or padded with stones to prevent collapse. Villagers call this single frame a "cha"; after multiple cha are erected, they are connected with large bamboo strips into a long row. During the drying season in my hometown, every time I took a boat from Chongqing down the Yangtze to go home, as soon as I reached the Yong'anchang stretch of the river in Fuling, I would see those racks stretching for dozens of miles along the riverbank...
The mustard stems placed on the racks must undergo screening and sorting, with old fibers and blemishes removed; the larger ones are split open, then strung together with bamboo strips and hung on the racks. After ten to fifteen days of natural wind drying, the stems become soft and pliable with no hard core, and only then are they taken down and sent to the processing workshop, where they go through more than ten procedures—three rounds of pickling and pressing, trimming and shaping, mixing seasonings and packing into jars—before finally becoming the uniquely flavored Fuling pickled mustard tuber.
Unfortunately, "wind dehydration," which carries the memory of traditional culture, underwent a change during a certain period. In the 1980s, I returned to my hometown one day and was chatting with a distant uncle in the pickled mustard tuber business when suddenly several sturdy men carried several loads of mustard stems into the courtyard. My cousin directed them to weigh the stems, then directly dumped those loads of fresh, tender stems into the pickling pool. This scene gave me a great shock (大吃一惊, da chi yi jing - "greatly, eat, one, startled"), and I hurriedly asked my uncle what was going on. He sighed and said that now everything was "salt dehydration," and no one built drying racks anymore—too much trouble. In that sigh lay the loneliness of how many old crafts. The flavor contained in the river breeze and sunlight diminished and faded in that "too much trouble."
Fortunately, in recent years, some farming households in my hometown have restored "wind dehydration." Moreover, with the intervention of modern technology, "wind dehydration" can now be achieved not only by building racks for natural drying but also by using advanced machines for drying, with no difference in taste. Perhaps before long, those of us who left home young and find it hard to return in old age will be able to buy the "wind-dehydrated" pickled mustard tuber we long for in supermarkets to ease our homesickness.
Return to TopBy: 邓宏顺
A wooden turntable spun, carrying a lump of clay on its top.
I bent down to listen closely; the edge of the turntable rubbed against the air, producing a soft whistling hum. In the mist hanging over the Yuan River on that summer day, the fragrance of clay began to drift.
I fixed my gaze on that lump of clay. It was a lump of clay produced in Chenxi County, Hunan. Seven thousand eight hundred years ago, the Gaomiao people on the banks of the Yuan River began to imbue clay with spiritual vitality, shaping it into beautiful pottery. In solemn sacrificial ceremonies, those vessels became the instruments through which mortals communicated with heaven.
Even while the clay was still a lump of earth, it had been carefully selected by the potter, kneaded and patted again and again. Now, the potter's two hands formed a bracket-like curve, and the clay on the spinning wheel in his embrace began to "dance," slowly at first, then faster. In the midst of this dance of mud, the fine, pliable clay gradually became ethereal. First it formed a sturdy base, then quickly swelled into a full belly, and soon grew a smooth, rounded rim.
A small, gleaming tape measure now played an important role. The diameter of the jar's mouth and the height, plumpness, and slenderness of its body all fell within the precise measurements of the little tape. If the jar came out a size too small, it was immediately stretched larger between the potter's fingers; if it stood a bit too tall, it was just as quickly pressed down by his fingertips... The potter acted according to his own whims (随心所欲, suí xīn suǒ yù - "follow, heart, what, desire"), and performed the task with great skill and ease.
The whirling wheel slowed from fast to slow, and from slow to a stop. A piece of pottery radiating a vibrant and lively spirit now stood before everyone. It was no longer mere mud, but a vessel body that had been endowed with spiritual vitality.
The potter lifted it up and placed it in its proper line. Standing in its own position, it looked every bit a member of the dance troupe. After trimming and glazing, it would be placed into the dragon kiln's fire at 1,300 degrees Celsius.
The person who introduced me to the dragon kiln was a potter named Alan. Master Alan was born on this piece of earthenware territory, nestled against the mountain and bordering the river. Her ancestors were all earthenware artisans. More than ten years ago, she worked in the porcelain industry in Guangdong, and some of her works won awards. Her husband had been a master earthenware craftsman in Chenxi, but later passed away from illness. Alan gave up her stable job, returned to Chenxi, and carried on her husband's earthenware craft.
The dragon kiln was built along the mountainside, and from a distance it resembled a giant dragon crouching on the ridge. Master Alan pointed at the empty, cooled kiln and explained the entire process of loading, firing, and unloading. "One color goes into the kiln, ten thousand colors come out," she said — that, she explained, was the charm of the kiln.
I ran my hand over the glaze clumps on the kiln wall, formed by the fusing of kiln fire and clay, and marveled at how many lives of mud and fire this dragon kiln had nurtured!
Master Alan led us past one dragon kiln, up to a small flat area halfway up the mountain, where we stopped under the blazing sun that stung our scalps. With a solemn expression, she pointed at a stretch of wild graves before her and said, "This is the burial ground of our pottery-making forebears." I followed her finger and looked — it was a patch of wasteland, wind swaying the ten thousand reed plumes, birds flying into the ancient woods, but no proper tombstone was to be seen.
After offering a silent salute, Master Alan said, "The tombstones of our forebears were long ago shaped by their own skillful hands! If they were alive today, seeing that Chenxi's earthenware firing technique has become a representative item of provincial intangible cultural heritage, and seeing how thriving our work has become, they would surely be overjoyed!"
Returning from the dragon kiln to the product display room, Teacher Xie, an enthusiast of earthenware art, had just finished a livestream of the products. He packed up his streaming gear, took out a clay bowl with a handle, and said, "This kind of breakfast bowl just sold for 198 yuan apiece."
I was taken aback. These days, steel bowls, porcelain bowls, plastic bowls, and wooden bowls — is there any material that doesn't have a bowl? And the prices are all quite affordable. Alan said, "Some people love the plain, unpretentious feel of earthenware and its touch of everyday life."
I picked up an earthenware teacup from the tea table, and Alan told us about the history of Chenxi earthenware. The introduction was abstract, but the objects before our eyes were incomparably vivid. I looked down the rows one by one — jars, vats, crocks, pots, bowls, plates, bottles, cups, saucers, basins... each seemed to display its vitality in a dancer's pose.
Perhaps they are dancers made of mud, and the choreographers and lead dancers are the Alans who work with clay day in and day out.
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Let the raindrops grow still, let the restless waves take a rest
Hide the setting sun beneath the river's flow, raise up a new kindling flame
Let the streetlights cast their glow, let the small town regain a bit of life
Let some crowds settle into the marketplace
So it does not seem so empty. Let more of those who returned to the village come
Let the clamor of children grow warm and lively
Fireflies set out along the village road, overturning the darkness along the way
Let the courtyard witness a few more reunions
Let the loneliness at the dinner table be completely swept away (一扫而空, yi sao er kong - "one, sweep, while, empty"). Let those
fragmented moments of time be propped upright, assembled into some order
Let every hook of the crescent moon in the night sky be filled full, let the evening breeze
each have its own echo, and a clear, neat little rhythm
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Old Mrs. Li never imagined that her ninetieth birthday celebration would draw the attention of several hundred people from the entire village, and even villagers from surrounding villages came upon hearing the news to watch the excitement.
Half a month earlier, her children and grandchildren had begun preparing birthday gifts for this venerable elder: not only her sons and daughters, but even her eldest grandson working in another province wanted to give the old lady red envelopes to show filial piety. The old lady, however, stated her position: no birthday gifts needed — you all work hard for your money. If you insist on celebrating, it would be better to invite the neighbors to a free birthday feast and a grand opera performance, so the whole village can enjoy themselves together.
Her children and grandchildren immediately expressed agreement; no one voted against it. In this small courtyard in western Jiangxi, a tall rainbow archway went up, big red lanterns were hung, and a large opera stage specially built for the old lady's birthday was erected. The troupe was invited from out of town by her children and grandchildren. Old Mrs. Li loved watching opera, and this time she was especially delighted because the three days of "grand opera" could be watched not only by her, but by the whole village.
On the evening of the birthday itself, the opera began. After the villagers had eaten the sumptuous banquet at the old lady's home, they surged like a tide toward the large stage beside her building's courtyard. Old Mrs. Li, her hair neatly coiled, accompanied by her daughter and several daughters-in-law, sat upright before the stage, being the center of great attention and admiration (众星捧月, zhong xing peng yue - "many stars, surround, moon"). After several rounds of drumbeats and gong clashes, the actors with flowing sleeves took the stage one after another. At the climax of the performance, a male actor on stage shook his head again and again, magically changing one face mask after another; he could also spit fire, with streams of flames bursting from his mouth. Old Mrs. Li clapped slowly, smiling so wide she could not close her mouth, and the villagers around her laughed along too, bursts of cheers erupting. Watching a face-changing performance at her own doorstep was a first for the old lady, and it also broadened the villagers' horizons.
During the intermission, fireworks were set off outside the venue, crackling and booming without pause, instantly illuminating the night sky. Before long, the airspace near the stage buzzed with sound, and patches of fluorescent light burst forth. The villagers looked up and exclaimed: Look, a drone show! The drones appeared from who knows where, continuously shifting formations in the resplendent night sky. The characters "Happy Birthday" and "wishing someone a very long life" (寿比南山, shou bi nan shan - "longevity, compare to, south, mountain") spelled out by these drones appeared one after another...
Old Mrs. Li, still immersed in the fantastic face-changing on stage, was drawn by the crowd's cheers. She looked up at the strings of characters in the night sky, her lips trembling slightly, and her eyes gradually grew moist. She had not expected that her ninetieth birthday could be celebrated this way.
Old Mrs. Li was born in 1937. Her husband passed away many years ago, yet she has continued to live in good health, rarely setting foot in a hospital. The old lady keeps a regular routine, lives a frugal life, and has a kind and generous disposition. Neighbors, young and old alike, all hold this silver-haired elder in high regard. Her children and grandchildren have always been filial to her as well. Every year, her birthday is a "festival" for the whole family to reunite. No matter how far away or how busy they are, her children and grandchildren all agree to return to their hometown that day, gathering around the old lady to pay their respects and offer blessings for her.
This time, for her ninetieth birthday, her children and grandchildren planned ahead, wanting to make the old lady happy. They had not expected that this old lady, who had lived through more than half a lifetime of hard times, would refuse their birthday red envelopes, wanting only to fulfill a long-cherished wish: to invite the neighbors to a feast and an opera. They understood that this was the old lady expressing her gratitude, expressing her affection for this land...
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