People's Daily - September 12, 2026

A Record of Cultural Continuity

We must strengthen archaeological work and historical research, so that the cultural relics collected in museums, the heritage displayed on the vast land, and the characters written in ancient books are all brought to life, enriching the historical and cultural nourishment of the whole society.

— Xi Jinping

A Record of "Root-Seeking" at Liangzhu

People's Daily reporters He Cong, Gu Chun

"Hello!"

"What is this?"

"This is the King of Cong jade tubes..."

On September 6, Zhou Xian, a Hangzhou citizen of Zhejiang, brought her daughter, who is in elementary school, to the Liangzhu Museum and chose AI (artificial intelligence) glasses as her "tour guide."

A light tap on the temple of the glasses, recognition of the cultural relic, answering questions fluently (对答如流, dui da ru liu - "respond, like, flow"), "A civilization from more than 5,000 years ago — how cool!"

On December 3, 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in a congratulatory letter to the first "Liangzhu Forum": "The Liangzhu ruins are the empirical evidence of China's 5,000-year civilization history and a treasure of world civilization."

How can a site museum enable visitors to better perceive the vast and profound (博大精深, bo da jing shen - "wide, big, exquisite, deep") nature of Chinese civilization?

"Technology empowers; AI glasses realize intelligent guided tours across the entire museum." Luo Xiaohong, a research librarian at the Liangzhu Museum ( Liangzhu Research Institute), said.

In the ancient city's VR(virtual reality) space, putting on the glasses, scenes from more than 5,000 years ago unfold before one's eyes: the ancestors crafted jade, made pottery, tamed beasts, and controlled floods; from erecting thatched huts one by one, to building the majestic Mojiaoshan palace — everything seems vividly before one's eyes (历历在目, li li zai mu - "clearly, clearly, at, eye").

Visitors seek their roots in the exhibition halls, while archaeologists continually pursue deeper into the depths of history.

"Every sentence output by the AI glasses and every frame of the VR films have been combed and distilled by researchers on the basis of the museum's massive collection of documents and archaeological reports." Luo Xiaohong introduced.

In recent years, excavation and research have frequently yielded new achievements. The inventory of remains across the site complex and the complete structure of the Liangzhu water conservancy system, among others, have been ascertained, further clarifying the processes and patterns of ancient Liangzhu population migration and material circulation. Ma Dongfeng, executive dean of the Liangzhu Museum( Liangzhu Research Institute),, said:"This has greatly deepened our understanding of Liangzhu society."

Seeking roots in the depths of history also means protecting the roots in reality.

Across the 162-square-kilometer site area, 1,006 cameras, 5 drone stations, and ground sensors that monitor soil moisture content in real time are all connected to the "Liangzhu Site 5000+" digital-intelligence application platform.

Staff use the platform to build digital twin scenarios, simulate meteorological disasters, and formulate disposal plans in advance, achieving a shift from "post-disaster emergency repair" to "pre-disaster preventive protection."

New shoots sprout from the roots; ancient China and modern China converge at Liangzhu.

In the Liangzhu 5000+ Art and Innovation Park, the King of Cong jade tube "leaps" onto teacups, becoming exquisite cultural products; the Liangzhu Living Room construction project, covering 114,900 square meters, is moving from blueprints to reality; the Liangzhu Cultural Grand Corridor is accelerating construction... "Liangzhu, this cultural IP, vividly demonstrates the charm of Chinese culture." Ma Dongfeng said.

In recent years, through civilizational dialogues conducted with Britain's Stonehenge, Greece's Acropolis of Athens, Spain's ancient city of Toledo, and others, the Liangzhu ancient city has built a new bridge for international people-to-people and cultural exchanges, becoming a new window for telling China's story well.

Outside the museum, the daughter described to Zhou Xian the story the AI glasses had told her. At this moment, the empirical evidence of China's 5,000-year civilization history took root in a child's heart.

A Record of "Reading Characters" at Yinxu

People's Daily reporter Zhang Wenhao

Opening the "Amazing Oracle Bone Script" mini-program on a mobile phone, a "Character of the Day" pops up.

"Guess, what character is this?" Ma Xin, a citizen of Anyang, Henan, said with a smile,"From oracle bone script to bronze inscriptions, seal script, clerical script... In a few dozen seconds, you can see the full story of a character's past and present lives."

Characters carved onto turtle shells and animal bones more than 3,000 years ago, with the help of modern technology, now appear in the palms of ordinary people.

In November 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in a congratulatory letter marking the 120th anniversary of the discovery and research of oracle bone script:"Oracle bone script is the earliest mature writing system discovered in China to date, the source of Chinese characters and the root of China's excellent traditional culture, deserving to be treasured all the more and better inherited and developed."

A rubbing of a turtle shell, its inscribed text blurred. Song Zhenhao, a 77-year-old member of the Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, lightly clicked the mouse and uploaded it to the Oracle Bone Script Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Platform.

In the blink of an eye, character recognition, character meaning explanations, related literature, and digital reproductions are generated one by one on the platform.

"In earlier years, to recognize a single character, one often had to bury one's head in voluminous classics, flipping through page by page, comparing piece by piece." Song Zhenhao sighed. Now, with new assistants, efficiency has greatly improved.

Anyang is the hometown of oracle bone script. In the Key Laboratory of Oracle Bone Script Information Processing of the Ministry of Education at Anyang Normal University, fragments of inscribed oracle bones awaiting rejoining are rapidly matched across tens of thousands of rubbings with the help of new technologies.

Technology and talent, advancing toward each other, empower research on the oracle bone script of Yinxu.

In October 2019, the "Yinqi Wenyuan" big-data platform, containing hundreds of oracle bone works and more than 200,000 oracle bone images, was established and opened free of charge to the public.

In October last year, the laboratory, jointly with universities and enterprises, developed the world's first oracle bone script intelligent agent,"Yinqi Xingshi":it serves both scientific researchers, deployed on the Oracle Bone Script Artificial Intelligence Collaborative Platform, and is shared with the general public, embedded in the mobile phone mini-program.

Vitalize and utilize, inherit without cease.

As dusk falls, the"Lighting Up Yinxu" night tour event begins; amid flowing light and shadow, stories of oracle bone characters are performed again and again. Giant screen projections cast the outlines of turtle shells, with inscribed texts flying and flowing; the live-action performance "Reproducing·Great City Shang," drawn from real oracle bone divination records, leads visitors to step into the long river of history.

At the National Museum of Chinese Writing and the Yinxu Museum, innovative oracle bone digital exhibition halls, fun interactive spaces, and oracle bone study tours, among others, allow audiences to appreciate the beauty of the characters and also feel the vast and profound nature of Chinese culture.

Passing the torch from generation to generation (薪火相传, xin huo xiang chuan - "薪, fire, 相, mutually, 相, pass, 传, transmit"), guarding it generation after generation. More than 3,000 years ago, the ancestors held engraving knives and carved characters into turtle shells;;more than 3,000 years later, people today use keyboards to type characters into computers. Li Bang, a young researcher at Anyang Normal University, said:"The ancients used engraving knives, I use a keyboard — what we both write are Chinese characters."

A Record of "Guarding the Caves" at Dunhuang

People's Daily reporters Xu Hongmei, Wang Jintao, Zeng Yichen

Temperature: minus 20 degrees Celsius;;humidity: 30%;;light snow, wind force 4.

In the multi-field coupled environmental simulation laboratory of the Dunhuang Academy, a rammed-earth test specimen made from native soil from Dunhuang, Gansu, is experiencing a"Gobi winter" in the experimental chamber.

"Adjusting the weather,'accelerating' time, simulating a one-year cycle takes only 45 days." Guo Qinglin, dean of the Dunhuang Academy, said,"'Previewing' the aging process of cultural relics in natural environments can provide a reference for making scientific decisions."

On August 19, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during a symposium at the Dunhuang Academy:"Protecting the Mogao Caves well and passing on Dunhuang culture well are the responsibilities that the Chinese nation should bear for the progress of world civilization."

Guarding the Mogao Caves is a race against time. Apart from victory, the"cave guardians" have no other choice.

Inside the caves, more than 600 sensors stand guard around the clock, with subtle changes in cliff deformation and environmental fluctuations being captured in real time and dynamically alerted.

On top of the caves, straw checkerboard barriers, gravel sand-pressure belts, sand-tolerant plants, and other tiered defenses, layer by layer block drifting sand from invading the grottoes.

"Treating the disease before it arises" — in the past, this relied on the naked eye; now it relies on the"intelligent" eye.

The murals are the "soul" of the Mogao Caves;;airborne voids are the fatal disease of the murals. Once airborne voids intensify, they can easily lead to mural detachment and the murals being"crushed to pieces."

"Artificial intelligence deeply learns from tens of thousands of high-definition mural negatives, achieving pixel-level precise identification and capable of capturing subtle hidden dangers of airborne voids in advance." Wang Wanfu, deputy director of the Protection Research Department of the Dunhuang Academy, said.

To achieve"permanent preservation and sustainable utilization," the Dunhuang Academy has established digital archives for every cave, every mural, and every painted sculpture.

In Cave 130 of the Mogao Caves, the ceiling is inverted-bucket-shaped, with wall curvature changes reaching 2 meters;;to collect information, scaffolding alone was erected in 8 layers.

Xiong Yeteng, 31 years old, is responsible for on-site data inspection and post-processing splicing of wall image mosaics. "Drinking less water before work and going to the restroom less often means I can work a little longer."

With this spirit of determination, "nailing" oneself to the scaffolding, the cultural relic digitalization protection team of the Dunhuang Academy has completed data collection for 323 caves, three-dimensional reconstruction of 16 major heritage sites, and panoramic roaming production for 227 caves, forming cultural relic digital resources exceeding 600 TB(terabytes).

The"cave guardians" of Dunhuang make history no longer distant.

The"Three Hares Sharing Ears" aromatherapy gift box, the"Nine-Colored Deer" blind box... At the Cultural and Creative Store of the Dunhuang Academy, people can"take" the Mogao Caves home.

At the"Seeking Dunhuang — Digital Dunhuang Immersive Exhibition" in Ottawa, Canada, local audiences, donning virtual reality devices,"fly" into Cave 285 of the Mogao Caves, thousands of miles away, immersively experiencing Dunhuang culture.

Holding fast in the great desert, the"cave guardians" devote themselves to protecting the treasures. Because,"our culture is here! It is a very civilized, progressive, and advanced one. In the future, it will be passed down — and it will be passed down for another five thousand years, and even more than five thousand years."

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Carrying On the Legacy Lies in Artifacts, and Even More in the Heart (Editor's Notes)

By: 刘 学

"The fate of culture is bound up with the fate of the nation; the thread of culture is linked with the thread of the nation." At Liangzhu in Hangzhou, Zhejiang; at Yinxu in Anyang, Henan; at the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu... Mountains and rivers carry history; artifacts convey feeling — listen: cultural relics are speaking, history is speaking, culture is speaking.

General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed: "Strive to continue the thread of Chinese civilization." "When the source is deep, the stream runs long; when the roots are deep, the leaves flourish." Chinese civilization has a long and continuous history, becoming more fresh and new over time, because its cultural thread has been passed down from generation to generation, and its spirit has been in endless and continuous development. Cultural relics and cultural heritage carry the genes and bloodline of the Chinese nation, and are non-renewable, irreplaceable fine resources of Chinese civilization. To protect cultural relics and continue the cultural thread is an inevitable act of holding reverence for history and a heart that cherishes culture, and even more so a responsibility and commitment that does not fail the times or fail the people.

The continuation of the cultural thread is a dialectical unity of material inheritance and spiritual inheritance — externally, it guards its form; internally, it transmits its soul. Five thousand years of civilization have soaked the mountains and rivers of the land, accumulating a cultural marker uniquely belonging to China — this is an important spiritual resource for strengthening cultural confidence and coalescing the national spirit. On the new journey, we must deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, deeply excavate the contemporary value of cultural relics and cultural heritage, enhance the level of research, interpretation, and dissemination empowerment, and pass down fine traditional Chinese culture from generation to generation.

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Xi Jinping to Attend 18th BRICS Leaders' Meeting in India

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 11) (Reporter Li Xinyi) At the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Modi, President Xi Jinping will travel to New Delhi, India, from September 12 to 13 to attend the 18th BRICS Leaders' Meeting. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning introduced the relevant arrangements and China's expectations at a regular press conference on the 11th.

Mao Ning said that BRICS is the most important platform for unity and cooperation among emerging markets and developing countries in today's world. Since its inception, BRICS countries have upheld the BRICS spirit of openness, inclusiveness, and win-win cooperation, and are committed to defending multilateralism, upholding fairness and justice, and seeking common development. BRICS has become worthy of the name (名副其实, ming fu qi shi - "name, matches, actual, reality") the first echelon of the Global South.

She said that China attaches great importance to and actively participates in BRICS cooperation. At this meeting, President Xi Jinping will attend the meeting and deliver an important speech, conducting in-depth exchanges with leaders of various countries on major issues such as the current international situation, the development of the BRICS mechanism, and deepening practical cooperation, and putting forward China's important initiatives and propositions to set the direction for the high-quality development of "Greater BRICS cooperation." China is willing to work with all BRICS parties to help "Greater BRICS cooperation" make steady progress toward long-term goals, and make BRICS contributions to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

In response to relevant questions, Mao Ning stated that China and India are arranging a bilateral meeting between President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Modi. This will be the third consecutive year that the two leaders have met, following their meetings in Kazan and Tianjin. China is willing to work with India, following the strategic guidance of the two leaders, to grasp China-India relations from a strategic height and long-term perspective, strengthen communication, enhance cooperation, properly handle differences, and be good-neighborly and friendly friends and partners that achieve mutual success.

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Deeply Cultivating the Red Fertile Soil, Drawing Strength for Endeavor (Carrying Forward the Spirit of the Long March, Advancing on the Journey of Rejuvenation)

By: 本报记者 付 文

In September, Zhongfu Village, Changting County, Longyan City, Fujian Province, is cloaked in lush mountains and verdant scenery (山峦叠翠, shan luan die cui - "mountain, range, overlap, green").

At the end of September 1934, after the Red Ninth Army Corps withdrew from the Songmaoling battle, it held a mass farewell meeting with the masses in Zhongfu Village, after which the troops split into two routes and began their strategic shift, thereby setting foot on the Long March of ten thousand li.

In October 2024, during an inspection tour of Fujian, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Carry forward and promote the red culture, build well the Changting, Ninghua Long March National Cultural Park, deepen the research and interpretation of revolutionary historical materials and revolutionary cultural relics."

To thoroughly implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping, Fujian has concentrated its efforts on advancing the construction and management of the Long March National Cultural Park (Fujian Section),, with a cumulative investment of 5.525 billion yuan completed, and with the thematic positioning of "Long March departure, withdrawal from the Soviet Area", it has formed a pattern of "one axis, two zones" with the route of the Central Red Army's Long March as the main axis, the Long March departure sites of Changting and Ninghua as the main construction zones, and the areas associated with Long March events as the extended and expanded zones.

Protect the Long March relics, guard the "red family assets"——

Entering Fenghuangshan Village, Ninghua County, Sanming City, one sees that Red Army Street, over 400 meters in length, is paved with blue flagstones, flanked on both sides by Hakka ancient dwellings, and on the gate towers the four large characters "Long Live the Red Army" remain clearly discernible (清晰可辨, qing xi ke bian - "clear, distinct, can, distinguish")."Back then, my grandfather set out from this very street," said villager Huang Yongchang.

As one of the main departure sites of the Central Main Red Army's Long March, Ninghua implements systematic protection of revolutionary cultural relics at all levels and categories across the entire county, implements management and inspection patrol systems, follows the principle of "restoring the old as it was old", protects well the old streets and former sites, and retains the red imprints.

""With the promulgation of the "Fujian Province Regulations on the Protection of Red Cultural Relics" and the "Fujian Province Implementation Plan for the Protection and Utilization Project of Revolutionary Cultural Relics", the system of normative documents for red cultural protection has been continuously improved." Huang Yiqun, Deputy Director of the Publicity Department of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, introduced that Fujian has established a three-tier cultural relics protection linkage mechanism of "province—city—county", the repair and protection rate of red cultural relics in Longyan City has risen year by year, Sanming City has achieved full coverage of dynamic supervision over 227 Long March cultural relics, and has completed the construction of red venues such as the new site of the Ninghua County Revolutionary Memorial Hall.

Tap red resources, inherit the red bloodline——

""A total of 6 people from our family joined the Red Army, and all of them later sacrificed their lives along the Long March." On the Red Army Bridge in Zhongfu Village, villager Zhong Ming told visitors about those years,"26,000 sons and daughters of western Fujian joined the Long March, and only over 2,000 arrived in northern Shaanxi."

Zhong Ming, now 63 years old, began collecting Long March historical materials and giving free explanations over 40 years ago, and was appointed as a docent for red traditional education in 2015. Zhong Ming has repeatedly visited old Red Army soldiers and their descendants, and has also repeatedly traveled to the former site of the Xiangjiang River Battle to search for the whereabouts of martyrs. Through his mobilization, his son Zhong Zhenhua also returned to his hometown to engage in explanation work, and the father and son have jointly excavated and compiled a batch of moving stories.

Fujian strengthens the excavation and research of Long March cultural relics and historical materials, creating distinctive experience sites integrating red education, folk custom experiences, and other elements."In recent years, thanks to the construction of the Long March National Cultural Park, we have actively promoted the integration of culture and tourism, successively carrying out facade renovation along the streets, environmental improvement, and tourism route upgrades." Zhong Chunyuan, Deputy Director of the Villagers' Committee of Zhongfu Village, said that last year the village received over 300,000 tourist visits, with total tourism revenue exceeding 10 million yuan.

Advance activation and utilization, gather the strength to move forward——

On the Red Army Cultural Square in Zhongfu Village, footprints go from sparse to dense, all converging at the "zero kilometer point".

""Some of these footprints are barefoot, some are very small; one can imagine the scene of children from poor families eagerly joining the army at that time." Zhou Ziqiang, a tourist from Anhui, said,"The docent introduced that the village's Memorial Hall of the Departure Site of the Red Ninth Army Corps' Long March was transformed from 7 Hakka enclosed houses where the Red Army had once recuperated from injuries, which makes one even more deeply feel the military-civilian bond of fish and water that transcends time and space."

Inside the immersive performance hall of "The Love of Songmaoling" in Zhongfu Village, the story of newlywed wife A Mei seeing off her newlywed husband A Gen as he joins the Red Army is being performed. With the aid of modern sound, light, and electrical effects, people seem to return to that era of burning passion. The "Red Army Well" in Fenghuangshan Village, expanded with the help of Red Army soldiers, is still in use by villagers today. The Party School of the Ninghua County Party Committee has listed the cluster of former sites of the Central Red Army's Long March departure in Fenghuangshan, including this well, as on-site teaching points, and the attractiveness and influence of red culture continue to strengthen.

To carry forward the great Long March spirit, Fujian, relying on the resources of the Long March National Cultural Park, has created the "Seeing Fujian" grand ideological-and-political course research and study practice circle, building 191 research and study practice education bases at or above the municipal level for primary and secondary school students, and over 200 on-site teaching points. Since 2022, it has cumulatively trained 330,000 trainees, organized students to carry out red research and study practice activities for over 1.68 million person-times, continuously deepening young people's cognition and identification with revolutionary history.

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Li Qiang Chairs State Council Executive Meeting

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 11)   Premier of the State Council Li Qiang presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on September ​11, which made further arrangements for strengthening work safety, studied work related to the construction of a computing-power network, studied work related to comprehensively and systematically advancing the renovation and upgrading of old reservoirs, heard a report on implementing the spirit of the National Education Conference and accelerating the building of a strong education country, and deliberated and approved the "Regulations on the Administration of Foundations (Revised Draft)."

The meeting pointed out that in recent times, production safety accidents have occurred frequently in some localities, and the lessons are extremely profound. General Secretary Xi Jinping has made important instructions and directives on multiple occasions; we must conscientiously study and comprehend them, and resolutely implement them. It is necessary to conduct an in-depth analysis of the causes of accidents, learning from one instance to grasp others (举一反三, ju yi fan san - "lift one, reflect three"), and, targeting problems such as lax implementation of rules and regulations, project subcontracting through multiple layers, and inadequate safety supervision, adopt forceful measures to effectively resolve them. It is necessary to strictly implement territorial management, implement the requirements of the "three musts" — must be in charge of the industry, must be in charge of safety; must be in charge of business, must be in charge of safety; must be in charge of production, must be in charge of safety — further tighten and consolidate responsibility for work safety, closely focus on key industries and fields to carry out in-depth investigation, rectification, and elimination of risks and hidden dangers, strengthen routine supervision and law enforcement, seriously pursue accountability and hold people to account, resolutely punish violations of laws and regulations in work safety, firmly hold the bottom line of work safety, effectively curb the occurrence of major and extraordinarily serious accidents, and earnestly safeguard the safety of people's lives and property.

The meeting pointed out that the computing-power network is the foundational support for the development of artificial intelligence. It is necessary to adhere to rational layout, standardized and orderly development, further improve computing-power infrastructure, actively advance the research, development, and application of key technologies and equipment, and build a multi-level, networked computing-power system. It is necessary to promote the coordination of computing power and electricity, and the integration of computing power and networks, strengthen the monitoring, dispatching, and regulation of computing-power resources and the construction of backbone optical fiber networks, strengthen the planning and coordination of computing-power and electricity facilities, and accelerate the implementation of projects such as direct connection of green electricity and source-grid-load-storage integration. It is necessary to better leverage the role of market mechanisms, support enterprises in carrying out scientific and technological innovation, resource integration, and application promotion, and promote better matching of supply and demand.

The meeting pointed out that reservoir safety bears on the overall situation of flood prevention and resistance, river governance, and economic and social development. It is necessary to adhere to the combination of short-term and long-term measures, address both symptoms and root causes, implement differentiated policies by category, strictly implement responsibilities at all levels, and comprehensively improve the safety capacity of old reservoirs. It is necessary to enhance the targeting and effectiveness of the renovation and upgrading of old reservoirs, scientifically optimize renovation standards, formulate renovation plans on a "one reservoir, one policy" basis, strictly control project quality, simultaneously improve the level of dispatching management and routine maintenance and care, and build a solid defense line for reservoir safety. It is necessary to strengthen inter-departmental coordination and the guarantee of production factors, and attract more social capital to participate.

The meeting pointed out that over the past year, all regions and departments have conscientiously implemented the spirit of the National Education Conference, continuously achieving new results in advancing the building of a strong education country. It is necessary to focus on changes in the school-age population and rationally allocate educational resources, make overall arrangements for work such as the supply of school places, the allocation of teachers, and the guarantee of funding, to better meet the needs of each school segment during the peak transition period. It is necessary to focus on the strategic needs of the country to cultivate outstanding innovative talents, continuously optimize the layout of academic disciplines and specialties, the construction of the textbook system, and talent cultivation models, and improve the quality of independent cultivation of talents. It is necessary to implement the educational philosophy of health first, adhere to the simultaneous promotion and integration of the five aspects of education — moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education — and promote the physical and mental health, growth, and success of all students.

The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to effectively strengthen the construction of the credibility of foundations, further standardize management, improve systems, perfect internal governance mechanisms, strengthen information disclosure in key areas, give play to the role of comprehensive supervision by multiple departments, and promote the healthy and orderly development of our country's public welfare and charitable undertakings.

The meeting also studied other matters.

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Zhao Leji holds talks with Carolina Cerqueira, president of the National Assembly of Angola

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 11) Zhao Leji, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, held talks with Carolina Cerqueira, president of the National Assembly of Angola, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 11.

Zhao Leji stated that in recent years, under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and President João Lourenço, China-Angola relations have been elevated to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, with cooperation in various fields continuing to deepen and yield fruitful results. China is willing to work with Angola, following the important consensus of the two heads of state, to carry forward the traditional friendship, strengthen solidarity and cooperation, promote the implementation of the outcomes of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, advance the continuous development of China-Angola relations, and make greater contributions to jointly building a China-Africa community with a shared future in the new era.

Zhao Leji pointed out that both sides should consolidate political mutual trust. China appreciates Angola's long-term adherence to the one-China principle and will continue to firmly support Angola in safeguarding its national sovereignty, security, and development interests. The two sides should expand practical cooperation, deepen cooperation in agriculture, fisheries, industry, energy, mining, and other fields, and create new highlights of cooperation in clean energy, digital technology, artificial intelligence, and other areas. Taking this year's "China-Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges" as an opportunity, the two sides should strengthen cooperation in education, culture, tourism, and local exchanges, so that China-Angola and China-Africa friendship becomes deeply held by the people (深入人心, shen ru ren xin - "deep, enter, people, heart"). The two sides should strengthen international coordination, jointly practice true multilateralism, implement the four major global initiatives, and advance an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization.

Zhao Leji emphasized that cooperation between the legislative bodies of China and Angola plays an important role in enhancing the friendship between the two peoples and enriching the connotation of bilateral relations. The NPC of China is willing to work with the National Assembly of Angola to strengthen dialogue and exchanges at all levels and in multiple fields, providing legal safeguards for mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries. China welcomes Angola to send personnel to participate in the seminar for parliamentarians from African countries hosted by the NPC of China. Zhao Leji also introduced the legislative work of the NPC of China, stating that the two sides can conduct exchanges on legislative experience in areas such as green development, social governance, and livelihood security.

De Almeida stated that Angola sincerely thanks China for its valuable support for Angola's national reconstruction and economic and social development. While developing itself, China also assists global partners in achieving common development. Angola is willing to strengthen cooperation with China in energy, economy and trade, investment, and other fields, deepen cooperation in jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, jointly uphold multilateralism, and promote world peace and stability. The National Assembly of Angola is willing to strengthen exchanges with the NPC of China and actively play the role of legislative bodies in providing legal safeguards for the implementation of cooperation agreements between the two countries.

After the talks, Zhao Leji and De Almeida jointly signed a memorandum of understanding between the NPC of China and the National Assembly of Angola.

Cai Dafeng participated in the above activities.

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Wang Huning Meets President of Angola's National Assembly Carolina Cerqueira

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 11) Wang Huning, chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, met in Beijing on the 11th with Carolina Cerqueira, president of the National Assembly of Angola.

Wang Huning said that in 2024, President Xi Jinping and President João Lourenço, who was visiting China, jointly announced the elevation of China-Angola relations to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, providing strategic guidance for the development of bilateral relations. China is willing to work with Angola to implement the important consensus of the two heads of state, carry forward the traditional friendship, deepen practical cooperation, strengthen multilateral coordination, and push China-Angola relations to a higher level. The CPPCC National Committee of China is willing to make positive contributions to promoting the respective modernization of China and Angola.

Cerqueira said that Angola attaches great importance to developing Angola-China relations, the heads of state of the two countries maintain close exchanges, and cooperation in various fields has yielded fruitful results (成果丰硕, cheng guo feng shuo - "result, fruit; abundant, plentiful"). Angola supports the series of global initiatives proposed by China, thanks China for its support for Angola's economic and social development, and is willing to deepen cooperation in fields such as energy, economy and trade, and transportation, strengthen international coordination, and promote fair and reasonable global governance.

Hu Chunhua and others attended the meeting.

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Build a Strong Modern Logistics Support System

By: 本报记者 金正波 李龙伊

This was a historic and solemn moment—

On September 13, 2016, in Beijing, the founding ceremony of the Joint Logistics Support Force of the Central Military Commission was held. President Xi Jinping presented military flags to the Wuhan Joint Logistics Support Base and the Wuxi, Guilin, Xining, Shenyang, and Zhengzhou Joint Logistics Support Centers and delivered an instruction address, extending warm congratulations on behalf of the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission to all officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force. A brand-new force took its place in the combat sequence of the People's Army.

A profound transformation concerning joint operations and joint support rippled through military camps across the land. From "regional dispersal" to "integration of the three services," from "fixed-point support" to "full-domain linkage," from "manpower-intensive" to "technology-empowered"……

Ten years, in the vast river of history, is but a single instant. Yet for this new-type support force born amid the tide of reform, ten years have been enough to write a magnificent chapter from nothing to existence, from existence to strength.

To strengthen the country and strengthen the military, logistics must be strengthened.

Forging ahead on the new journey, under the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on strengthening the military, the officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force, in accordance with the requirements of "resolutely obeying Party command, focusing on winning battles, daring to reform and innovate, and providing high-quality and efficient support," continue to strengthen overall development, accelerate transformation and remodeling, and intensify capability enhancement, striding forward toward building a powerful, modernized joint logistics support force.

Unwavering original aspiration (初心如磐, chuxin rupan - "initial heart, like, rock"), with loyalty flowing in their bloodlines

In June 2019, at a theoretical training rotation class for military-division-level leading cadres of the Joint Logistics Support Force, Li Jieshou, a 95-year-old academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former vice president of the General Hospital of the Eastern Theater Command, made a heartfelt declaration: "Once my faith in the Party was established, it has never wavered!"

These words, imbued with the sincere original aspiration of an old Party member, also spoke to the loyal faith of the officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force.

Looking back at the arduous years of our military's logistics front, on the battlefields of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Volunteer Army officers and soldiers used blood and life to build an "indestructible, unbreakable steel transportation line." Under the frenzied bombing of enemy aircraft, the transportation line was cut and repaired, repaired and cut, cut and repaired again; what sustained the officers and soldiers advancing wave upon wave was a single conviction: wherever the Party leads the People's Army to fight, there support must be provided.

Generation after generation of "quartermaster officials" carved loyalty deep into their bones, rooted themselves at the front lines, oriented toward combat and toward war, shouldering the extremely heavy responsibility (千钧重担, qianjun zhongdan - "thousand, jin, heavy, burden") of supporting victory in warfare. "Everything for the front, everything for victory" has always been their distinct spiritual underpinning.

Loyalty transcends time and space, becoming more vibrant with the passage of time (历久弥新, lijiu mixin - "long time, more, new") through the inheritance of bloodlines—

The People's Army's logistics glorious traditions are passing on the torch from generation to generation (薪火相传, xinhuo xiangchuan - "fire, wood, mutually, pass"), with profound heritage; the Bethune spirit and others transcend time and space, always serving as the spiritual root that nourishes the officers' and soldiers' original aspiration and guides the direction forward.

The Joint Logistics Support Force deeply cultivates red-character education and battle-position soul-forging, promotes the deep integration of fine traditions into joint operations and joint support practice, transforms red genes into concrete actions of fulfilling duties at combat positions, and inspires officers and soldiers to manifest their true colors of loyalty and dedication on the front lines of joint logistics support in the new era.

Since the reform and remodeling, the Joint Logistics Support Force has deeply mined red resources, continued its spiritual bloodline, organized dedicated personnel to systematically sort out logistics fine traditions and spiritual characteristics, compiled story collections of our military's logistics glorious traditions and heroic models, guided the broad body of officers and soldiers to closely combine carrying forward fine traditions with fulfilling the mission of joint operations and joint support, continuously endowing traditional spirit with new contemporary connotations in the practice of supporting victory, and inscribing loyalty and mission on the motherland's land.

Loyalty is integrated into practice, continuing forward in undertaking missions—

Able to deploy, able to go up, able to support well.

On international peacekeeping battlefields, peacekeeping medical teams traveled far to Lebanon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, and South Sudan, fulfilling peacekeeping missions and contributing joint logistics strength to local peace and stability; during the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic in early 2020, the Joint Logistics Support Force rapidly formed medical teams, procured epidemic-prevention materials, organized transportation support, fully demonstrating our military's integrated support capability after the remodeling of the logistics system……

Unwavering original aspiration, passing the torch from generation to generation. No matter which "battlefield," as long as the motherland and the people need it, there is the figure of officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force.

Loyalty is carved into combat positions, growing ever more steadfast through revolutionary forging—

"Salute to the combat vehicle!" In front of a heavy transport vehicle, young soldiers uniformly raised their right hands, saluting solemnly to the combat vehicle, formally "reporting for duty" to the support equipment that would accompany them into battle.

At a certain automobile transport regiment of the Zhengzhou Joint Logistics Support Center, soldiers who had just arrived at their companies were conducting the "first lesson" of company-entry education. Behind the officers and soldiers, the slogan "absolutely loyal, absolutely pure, absolutely reliable" was especially conspicuous and eye-catching.

Solemn military salutes, sonorous vows. Joint logistics officers and soldiers always bear in mind the instructions, uphold the rock-like conviction of joint logistics for combat and iron-hearted loyalty to the Party, willingly endure silent dedication, forging a reputation for victorious combat.

"Guarding the great mountains is guarding the rivers and mountains; guarding the depot gate is guarding the national gate!" Deep in the remote mountains, depot officers and soldiers treat the depot as home and willingly endure solitude; on the snow-covered plateau sky roads, automobile soldiers' wheels never stop and their conviction is as firm as rock, breaking through forbidden zones of life amid high altitude and oxygen deficiency; under the scorching sun on the barren wilderness, pipeline soldiers carry the "oil dragon" on iron shoulders and safeguard unimpeded flow with hot blood…… Looking across the military camps of the Joint Logistics Support Force, the broad body of officers and soldiers is rooted at combat positions, shouldering the extremely heavy responsibility of supporting victory.

Over the past 10 years, the Joint Logistics Support Force has always upheld the Party's absolute leadership over the military, comprehensively and deeply implemented the Chairman of the Central Military Commission responsibility system, continuously advanced political building of the military, deepened rectification and forging, and earnestly transformed the Party's political and organizational advantages into victory advantages. The broad body of officers and soldiers has continuously tempered political loyalty, always upheld the correct political direction, and firmly established the orientation of supporting victory.

Moving toward combat, the picture of all-domain support is unfolding—

In a sense, fighting a war is fighting logistics. Logistics support is an important component of combat effectiveness, directly affecting the course and outcome of war.

In the central plains hinterland, inside the combat-readiness duty room of a certain automobile transport regiment, an operational situation map covered the large screen, and duty personnel of various elements had fingers flying over keyboards; in the vehicle yard in front of the building, heavy transport vehicles loaded with supplies stood in formation awaiting orders, engines ready to start.

"Upon receiving the order, move out and provide accompanying support to a certain combined arms brigade!"

At the command, combat vehicles roared. Heavy transport transfers through complex road sections, emergency handling of unexpected situations…… On the training ground, smoke filled the air, anda steel transportation line stretched straight to the forward edge of combat.

Transforming from single-mode transportation to system-of-systems support, upgrading from "able to deploy" to "able to win battles," this regiment's trail of military training is a vivid epitome of the new-type joint logistics support system underpinning joint operations.

Logistics is born for war and built for combat; supporting combat is the fundamental orientation, and supporting victory is the first priority.

Since the new era, the Joint Logistics Support Force has insisted that all work focus on supporting victory, with resource allocation tilted toward real-combat needs, support layouts optimized toward strategic directions, and information construction advancing toward building for combat.

Real-combat training, accelerating the march toward joint operations—

From the snow-covered plateau to the dense forests of the south, from the shore of the East China Sea to the western border, looking across the joint logistics training grounds, a "picture of all-domain support" is unfolding across the length and breadth of the land.

"Doo-doo-doo!" A piercing whistle suddenly sounded. At a certain storage and supply base, an emergency support training exercise unfolded in full.

"Pipeline leak!" The unexpected situation struck suddenly, and the emergency repair team swiftly moved forward. "Fuel team attacked with personnel injured," "warehouse power supply system interrupted"…… The exercise directing group superimposed unexpected situations on the spot, with multiple tests simultaneously examining comprehensive support capability. The maintenance team conducted on-site emergency repairs, the medical service team rapidly transported the"wounded," and various support elements coordinated efficiently with seamless linkage.

The base leader hit the nail on the head: "On the modern battlefield, every support element is a key link in the chain of joint operations."

Officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force have always maintained the combat-readiness state of "arriving first, withdrawing last, used throughout." From red-blue confrontation exercises to the series of training exercises "Joint Logistics Mission" and"Elite Joint Logistics," from the neatly arrayed formations at military parades to accompanying support in joint training exercises, from plateau stationing training to overseas peacekeeping…… Over the past 10 years, officers and soldiers have continuously broken down peacetime malpractice and territorial-support inertial thinking, honing solid support skills and enhancing victory capabilities in the smoke of real-combat training.

"Digital-intelligent joint logistics," fused and embedded into the combat system—

On a certain unit's medical service training ground, aerial drones circled overhead searching for"wounded," ground"robot wolves" delivered emergency medical supplies forward, and tracked unmanned ambulances relayed evacuation…… This is not a movie, but the daily combat-readiness routine of officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force.

In recent years, the Joint Logistics Support Force has closely tracked the changes in technology, changes in warfare, and changes in adversaries, promoted the comprehensive integration of support and technology, and expanded new-quality support forces. Drone swarms conducting plateau airdrop delivery, unmanned vehicles providing accompanying support, smart logistics, telemedicine—new-quality support forces are developing on a large scale, in a combat-oriented manner, and as a system.

Over these 10 years, joint logistics support coverage, response speed, and support quality and efficiency have achieved new breakthroughs. All-domain direct reach, three-dimensional projection, support at any time…… Every command of"support in place" has become a distinctive combat marker of joint logistics positions.

System remodeling, the interconnection of three chains releasing the momentum of transformation—

Over the past 10 years, two historical moments have frozen the growth trajectory of a new-type force—

On October 1, 2019, at the military parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the formation of the Joint Logistics Support Force marched through Tiananmen Square for the first time. This new-type force born of reform stepped from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, accepting the review of the motherland and the people with a brand-new posture.

On September 3, 2025, at the military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, the Joint Logistics Support Force carried the military flag of its branch of arms for the first time in review, fully demonstrating the contemporary appearance of the new-type support force after reform and remodeling.

Military flags fluttering, footsteps sonorous. From taking its place in formation to carrying the flag in review, the growth trajectory of this force is clearly visible.

Transformation relies on the coordinated exertion of system remodeling, technology empowerment, and talent support.

Inside an intelligent three-dimensional warehouse of a certain joint logistics support center, an automated sorting system operates at high speed, with hundreds of tons of combat-readiness materials achieving"one-key outbound, precise distribution"; a certain heavy transport battalion maneuvers a thousand miles, with highway, railway, air, and sea multimodal transport seamlessly linked, delivering main battle equipment as a complete unit to the designated area on time; field medical teams are equipped with telemedicine diagnostic and treatment systems, successfully performing war-trauma damage-control surgery in real-combat training exercises.

The military logistics chain, the joint projection chain, and the battlefield treatment chain—the three chains are interconnected, fused, and linked as one, and the effectiveness of the new-type joint logistics support system is accelerating its release.

What supports this"chain" is talent. One shining name after another, like points of starlight scattered across the motherland's land, together illuminating the path of endeavor for joint logistics support—

Shen Chuan'an, director of the Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery at the Fourth Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital. He led his team to persistently tackle the core difficult problems of war burn treatment, developing multiple original achievements suitable for battlefield application, such as the"tenfold method fluid replacement formula,""drinking-water intraperitoneal fluid resuscitation," and"autologous skin cyclic reconstruction technology," effectively reducing the mortality rate of critical burns. Even more valuable, the team sinks its achievements down to the training front lines, having cumulatively trained thousands of grassroots medical service backbone personnel.

Jiang Xinsheng, a professor at the Engineering University of the Joint Logistics Support Force. The oil-gas storage and transportation system high-speed explosion-suppression and fire-extinguishing system he led the research and development of won the first prize of the Military Science and Technology Progress Award. He said:"Scientific research topics come from the front lines, and technological achievements go to winning battles." These plain words speak to the fundamental logic of academy scientific research staying close to the military and serving victory.

Zhang Junkai, a first-class master sergeant of a certain automobile transport brigade. Having deeply cultivated decades in the field of field equipment maintenance support, this old squad leader regards the wrench as more important than anything else."Don't look down on the small wrench—it connects to the big foundation of supporting victory." This is his insight, and also the common voice of grassroots joint logistics officers and soldiers.

There are also Zhang Ying, the first female military doctor in the entire military to reach a mission point at an altitude of 5,681 meters; Wu Yong, a pipeline elite who has participated in major training exercises 16 times; and Li Jixu, a"soldier expert" who has been rooted in the deep mountains for 27 years, keeping company with missiles……

The broad body of officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force bears its mission deep in its heart, silently paving the steel support line, jointly lifting the road to victory in joint operations.

Ten years is an important marker of time, and even more a brand-new starting point.

Looking back at these 10 years, under the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on strengthening the military, in the tide of reform to strengthen the military, the Joint Logistics Support Force has completed the leap from"logistics" to"joint logistics," from"support team" to"combat team." System remodeling, force restructuring, capability rebirth—they are striding forward toward the strategic goal of"building a powerful, modernized joint logistics support force."

Looking ahead to the new journey, the war drums for the final assault on the centenary goal of building the military have already been sounded. The broad body of officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force inscribes loyalty at combat positions, fuses mission into support, and turns the sonorous vow of"everything for the front, everything for victory" into an unceasing iron torrent across the length and breadth of the land.

The journey ahead is like a rainbow; only through struggle can progress be made.

Standing at a new historical starting point, this new-type force born of reform is, with even more vigorous fighting spirit and even more solid capabilities, striving to write a brand-new chapter of joint logistics support on the new journey of strengthening the military and rejuvenating the armed forces, building an unbreakable support pillar for combat readiness and war fighting, national security, and the interests of the people.

The iron torrent surges onward—coming for victory, charging toward triumph!

(Yu Zhengxing participated in the reporting and writing)

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Vitality Seen in Express Delivery Profit Growth (Today's Commentary)

By: 余 璇

Recently, major listed express-delivery companies successively released their "semi-annual reports," and one highlight has drawn attention: profit growth has generally "outpaced" volume growth. This indicates that the express-delivery industry is shaking off the situation of "volume rising while profits stagnate," and displaying even more abundant vitality.

Where does this vitality come from?

New quality productive forces have taken firm root and flourishing. The "sweat-driven express delivery" is transforming into "smart express delivery," and the dividends of digital-intelligence transformation are being released. Intelligent devices at one's side and intelligent applications in enterprises are becoming ever more common; artificial intelligence is empowering all walks of life and various industries, and new growth points in the real economy are continuously emerging.

The economic order is both "kept flexible" and "managed well." Not only the express-delivery industry, but from steel, photovoltaics to automobiles and food delivery, the effective market and the proactive government are exerting effort in the same direction, and the results of in-depth rectification of "involution-style" competition are continuously becoming apparent.

Development vitality is consolidating confidence. The growing number of parcels reflects that the resilience of China's economy is continuously strengthening, and the potential of domestic demand is being steadily unleashed. Relying on the super-large-scale market, responding to changes in consumer demand, optimizing the matching of supply and demand, the development momentum of business entities is becoming ever more robust.

With firm confidence, facing difficulties head-on, making good use of various opportunities and advantages, on the road of high-quality development, vitality is boundless and the future is promising.

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How Does "Greater BRICS Cooperation" Achieve Its Greatness?

By: 本报记者 李建广

In the golden autumn season, China's head-of-state diplomacy has once again entered a busy period. Shortly after the successful conclusion of the Central Asia and Middle East visits, President Xi Jinping, at the invitation of Indian Prime Minister Modi, traveled to New Delhi, India, from September 12 to 13 to attend the 18th BRICS Leaders' Meeting.

On the turbulent world stage, BRICS holds particular weight. From an economic concept in research reports to an important force shaping the international landscape, BRICS cooperation "may seem accidental, but is in fact a historical necessity."

The tide of history surges forward. Over an extraordinary 20-year journey, how has BRICS grown to its current stature? As it enters the next 20 years, what new chapter will it write?

Amid the mighty trend of the times, there are two dimensions for observation.

One is the historical process of world development and the evolution of the international landscape; the other is the historical process of the respective and common development of BRICS countries. These two dimensions illuminate the historical depth and contemporary positioning of BRICS cooperation.

Placed on the scales of the international landscape, the weight of emerging market economies and developing countries represented by BRICS continues to increase. Data confirms this weight and quality: BRICS countries account for nearly half of the world's population, approximately 30 percent of global economic output, and one-fifth of world trade.

Viewed within the process of modernization, on the path of independently chosen modernization, shared development aspirations, shared opportunities and challenges consolidate the endogenous driving force of BRICS cooperation, inspiring and encouraging the vast Global South countries.

The tide rises in the South. The grand momentum of BRICS cooperation mirrors the historical process of the collective rise of the Global South and demonstrates the resolute determination of Global South countries to jointly advance toward modernization. As President Xi Jinping quoted from a poem: "The green mountains cannot block it; after all, the river flows eastward."

In forging ahead hand in hand, there is such a way of cooperation.

In New Delhi, India, the BRICS family has come together across mountains and seas. With different national conditions and endowments, why have BRICS countries been able to come together?

"When one finds the right way to build friendships, even a thousand li apart, the bond is as firm as glue and lacquer, as solid as metal and stone." At the 2017 Xiamen Summit, President Xi Jinping used this ancient Chinese saying to underscore the key point: "The reason BRICS cooperation has developed rapidly is that we have found the right way of cooperation."

In the coordinate system of the development of the times, a new way of cooperation is being explored. "Treating each other as equals and seeking common ground while reserving differences (求同存异, qiu tong cun yi - "seek same, preserve difference")," "being pragmatic and innovative (务实创新, wu shi chuang xin - "matter, reality, create, new") and win-win cooperation," "having a broad global vision (胸怀天下, xiong huai tian xia - "chest, hold, all under heaven") and seeking one's own success while helping others succeed" — these embody the common value pursuits of BRICS countries.

Where the way lies, there the hearts of the people turn.

It is worth recalling that during the 2017 Xiamen Summit, President Xi Jinping creatively proposed the "BRICS Plus" concept, expanding BRICS partnership outreach to the global scope for the first time. When "Greater BRICS Cooperation" was inaugurated in 2023, BRICS countries gathered with more than 50 countries in South Africa. President Xi Jinping's words were forceful and resonant (掷地有声, zhi di you sheng - "throw, ground, have, sound"): "This is not about asking anyone to take sides, nor about bloc confrontation, but about building a grand pattern of peaceful development."

A grand pattern, a broad vision. On the road of BRICS and the Global South advancing hand in hand, China has always been a promoter and a leader.

Thirteen years ago, President Xi Jinping made his debut on the international multilateral stage as China's head of state precisely at BRICS. Since then, President Xi Jinping has chaired or attended multiple BRICS Leaders' Meetings. From proposing the "four major goals" of BRICS cooperation to advocating the BRICS spirit, from initiating the "BRICS Plus" cooperation model to proposing the "five BRICS pillars" to empower "Greater BRICS Cooperation"... Along the journey of braving wind and rain to press on (风雨兼程, feng yu jian cheng - "wind, rain, simultaneously, journey"), every key juncture in the development of BRICS cooperation bears a distinct Chinese imprint.

Amid turbulence and transformation, there is such a force of unity.

As human society once again stands at a historic crossroads, will we allow the world to remain in turmoil, or will we push it back onto the right track of peace and development?

Facing a critical choice, President Xi Jinping said the following at the 2024 Kazan Summit: "I am reminded of the work 'What Is to Be Done?' by the Russian writer Chernyshevsky. The strong will and fighting passion of the protagonist in the book are precisely the spiritual strength we need at present."

The more difficult and turbulent the times, the more evident the sense of responsibility.

Jointly pursuing development. The New Development Bank of BRICS has cumulatively approved loans totaling over 42 billion US dollars, growing into an emerging force in the international financial system and a golden brand of Global South cooperation; the BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution deepens practical cooperation in industrialization, digitalization, and innovation.

Jointly building security. The Extraordinary Joint Meeting of BRICS Leaders and Leaders of Invited BRICS Members on the Situation in the Middle East with Particular Reference to Gaza coordinated positions and upheld justice; the "six-point consensus" between China and Brazil on the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis has received positive responses from more than 110 countries.

Jointly promoting civilization. China took the lead in establishing the "Global South" Think Tanks Cooperation Alliance; the BRICS Digital Education Cooperation Initiative and the BRICS Digital Education Capacity-Building Plan, among others, help deepen and solidify BRICS people-to-people and cultural exchanges.

Jointly advancing governance. The "BRICS Plus" model continues to deepen and expand, building a cooperation network covering major regions of the world, and "Greater BRICS Cooperation" has become an important force in promoting an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization.

Testing one's mettle in adversity (疾风知劲草, ji feng zhi jin cao - "fast, wind, know, strong, grass") and testing one's character through trials (烈火见真金, lie huo jian zhen jin - "fierce, fire, see, true, gold"). At a time of world turmoil and transformation, one BRICS proposition and one BRICS action after another have injected precious stability and positive energy into the world.

"Build BRICS into a main channel for promoting solidarity and cooperation of the Global South and a vanguard force for advancing the reform of global governance" and "advance Greater BRICS Cooperation and jointly build a community with a shared future for mankind." Amid the winds and waves of the times, a commitment stands as firm as a rock, and a choice demonstrates even greater breadth of vision.

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Contributing the Strength of “Greater BRICS” to Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind (Ambassador’s Notes)

By: 徐飞洪

At the invitation of Prime Minister Modi of the Republic of India, President Xi Jinping will travel to New Delhi, India, from September 12 to 13 to attend the 18th BRICS Leaders' Meeting. This summit coincides with the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the BRICS cooperation mechanism. China will work together with BRICS member states and partner countries to review the glorious journey of BRICS cooperation and jointly draw a new blueprint for the high-quality development of "Greater BRICS" cooperation.

The BRICS cooperation mechanism was born in the great historical tide of the collective rise of emerging markets and developing countries. Over the past 20 years, the global landscape has undergone profound adjustments; the BRICS mechanism has stayed true to its founding mission, advancing with the times (与时俱进, yu shi ju jin - "with, time, follow, advance"), developing amid changes and growing stronger through cooperation. Today, BRICS countries span four continents, account for nearly half of the world's population, and their combined economic output accounts for about 30% of the world total, contributing more than 50% to global economic growth, becoming the "golden signboard" of Global South solidarity and cooperation.

Twenty years of BRICS have gathered the momentum of development. BRICS countries bring together "great treasure troves," "great factories," and "great markets," with diverse resource endowments and complementary industrial advantages. Over the past 20 years, BRICS countries have continuously expanded cooperation in economy, trade, finance, science, technology, innovation, and green development, established and improved cooperation mechanisms such as the New Development Bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement, deepened the New Industrial Revolution Partnership, and transformed the advantages of all parties into a joint force for development. To date, the New Development Bank has approved more than 140 projects with cumulative financing exceeding $40 billion. The BRICS Innovation Base has signed a total of 138 cooperation projects with investment exceeding $9 billion. "Greater BRICS cooperation" has continued to deepen and solidify, providing important support for Southern countries to achieve modernization hand in hand, and contributing important strength to promoting a more inclusive and universally beneficial economic globalization.

Twenty years of BRICS have opened up a new landscape of governance. Facing the contest between multilateralism and unilateralism, justice and hegemony, BRICS countries have always held high the banner of multilateralism, firmly upheld the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, unequivocally opposed hegemonism, unilateralism, and protectionism, promoted reform of the international monetary and financial system, and worked to build a more just and reasonable international order. Facing the global governance deficit, BRICS countries have coordinated their voices on issues such as climate change, AI governance, food and energy security, and public health. Facing geopolitical flashpoints, BRICS countries have strengthened communication and coordination, advocating the settlement of disputes and the achievement of peace through political and diplomatic means. Under the leadership of BRICS, the Global South is no longer the "silent majority" but is increasingly becoming an important force driving the transformation of the global governance system.

Twenty years of BRICS have demonstrated the path of inclusiveness. From the original "BRIC" to the expanded BRICS family, the BRICS mechanism has always upheld the BRICS spirit of openness, inclusiveness, cooperation, and win-win results, and its path of cooperation has grown ever wider. Since the launch of the expansion process, six new members have joined and ten countries have become partner countries, with more and more countries eager to knock on the door of BRICS. BRICS countries differ in national conditions and systems, yet they have always treated each other as equals, seeking common ground while reserving differences (求同存异, qiu tong cun yi - "seek, same, preserve, difference"), respecting each other's independently chosen development paths, and enhancing understanding and building consensus through exchange and mutual learning. Over the years, countries have continuously deepened exchanges in youth, education, culture, think tanks, and other fields, with the bond of people-to-people connectivity growing ever stronger, building bridges of friendship that span mountains and seas.

Over the past 20 years, China has always been an important participant, builder, and promoter of BRICS. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi Jinping has grasped the trend of development with a global vision, put forward a series of important concepts and initiatives at multiple key junctures of BRICS cooperation, and injected unique Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions into the growth and strengthening of BRICS. From creatively proposing the "BRICS+" cooperation model, to promoting BRICS expansion; from putting forward the important concept of "high-quality development of Greater BRICS cooperation," to building the cooperation layout of "five major BRICS" covering peace, innovation, green development, justice, and people-to-people exchanges, President Xi Jinping has been doing everything personally and with great care (亲力亲为, qin li qin wei - "personally, exert, personally, do"), endowing "Greater BRICS" with a clearer direction for development. Next year, China will again serve as the rotating chair of BRICS. At this historic juncture when major changes unseen in a century are accelerating and global challenges are intertwining and mounting, the international community expects China to play a leading role, push "Greater BRICS cooperation" to a new level, and inject more certainty and positive energy into a world full of uncertainties.

The steady and enduring progress of BRICS cooperation cannot be separated from the joint participation and sustained efforts of all parties. Since India assumed the rotating BRICS chairmanship this year, it has organized more than 300 events around the theme of "Building Resilient, Innovative, Cooperative and Sustainable Development." India and China, as the rotating BRICS chairs for this year and next year respectively, have maintained good coordination, which is conducive to the in-depth development of "Greater BRICS cooperation," conducive to promoting world multipolarity and greater democracy in international relations, and conducive to better safeguarding the common interests of the vast number of developing countries.

Walking the same great path together, the future holds bright promise. Standing at the starting point of the third "Golden Decade," China is willing to work hand in hand with all parties, forging ahead through hardships (砥砺前行, di li qian xing - "grind, whet, forward, walk"), continuously opening up new prospects for the high-quality development of "Greater BRICS cooperation," and contributing the strength of "Greater BRICS" to building a community with a shared future for mankind!

(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to India)

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Build a Strong Modern Logistics Support System

By: 本报记者 金正波 李龙伊

This was a historic and solemn moment—

On September 13, 2016, in Beijing, the founding ceremony of the Joint Logistics Support Force of the Central Military Commission was held. President Xi Jinping presented military flags to the Wuhan Joint Logistics Support Base and the Wuxi, Guilin, Xining, Shenyang, and Zhengzhou Joint Logistics Support Centers and delivered an instruction address, extending warm congratulations on behalf of the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission to all officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force. A brand-new force took its place in the combat sequence of the People's Army.

A profound transformation concerning joint operations and joint support rippled through military camps across the land. From "regional dispersal" to "integration of the three services," from "fixed-point support" to "full-domain linkage," from "manpower-intensive" to "technology-empowered"……

Ten years, in the vast river of history, is but a single instant. Yet for this new-type support force born amid the tide of reform, ten years have been enough to write a magnificent chapter from nothing to existence, from existence to strength.

To strengthen the country and strengthen the military, logistics must be strengthened.

Forging ahead on the new journey, under the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on strengthening the military, the officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force, in accordance with the requirements of "resolutely obeying Party command, focusing on winning battles, daring to reform and innovate, and providing high-quality and efficient support," continue to strengthen overall development, accelerate transformation and remodeling, and intensify capability enhancement, striding forward toward building a powerful, modernized joint logistics support force.

Unwavering original aspiration (初心如磐, chuxin rupan - "initial heart, like, rock"), with loyalty flowing in their bloodlines

In June 2019, at a theoretical training rotation class for military-division-level leading cadres of the Joint Logistics Support Force, Li Jieshou, a 95-year-old academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former vice president of the General Hospital of the Eastern Theater Command, made a heartfelt declaration: "Once my faith in the Party was established, it has never wavered!"

These words, imbued with the sincere original aspiration of an old Party member, also spoke to the loyal faith of the officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force.

Looking back at the arduous years of our military's logistics front, on the battlefields of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Volunteer Army officers and soldiers used blood and life to build an "indestructible, unbreakable steel transportation line." Under the frenzied bombing of enemy aircraft, the transportation line was cut and repaired, repaired and cut, cut and repaired again; what sustained the officers and soldiers advancing wave upon wave was a single conviction: wherever the Party leads the People's Army to fight, there support must be provided.

Generation after generation of "quartermaster officials" carved loyalty deep into their bones, rooted themselves at the front lines, oriented toward combat and toward war, shouldering the extremely heavy responsibility (千钧重担, qianjun zhongdan - "thousand, jin, heavy, burden") of supporting victory in warfare. "Everything for the front, everything for victory" has always been their distinct spiritual underpinning.

Loyalty transcends time and space, becoming more vibrant with the passage of time (历久弥新, lijiu mixin - "long time, more, new") through the inheritance of bloodlines—

The People's Army's logistics glorious traditions are passing on the torch from generation to generation (薪火相传, xinhuo xiangchuan - "fire, wood, mutually, pass"), with profound heritage; the Bethune spirit and others transcend time and space, always serving as the spiritual root that nourishes the officers' and soldiers' original aspiration and guides the direction forward.

The Joint Logistics Support Force deeply cultivates red-character education and battle-position soul-forging, promotes the deep integration of fine traditions into joint operations and joint support practice, transforms red genes into concrete actions of fulfilling duties at combat positions, and inspires officers and soldiers to manifest their true colors of loyalty and dedication on the front lines of joint logistics support in the new era.

Since the reform and remodeling, the Joint Logistics Support Force has deeply mined red resources, continued its spiritual bloodline, organized dedicated personnel to systematically sort out logistics fine traditions and spiritual characteristics, compiled story collections of our military's logistics glorious traditions and heroic models, guided the broad body of officers and soldiers to closely combine carrying forward fine traditions with fulfilling the mission of joint operations and joint support, continuously endowing traditional spirit with new contemporary connotations in the practice of supporting victory, and inscribing loyalty and mission on the motherland's land.

Loyalty is integrated into practice, continuing forward in undertaking missions—

Able to deploy, able to go up, able to support well.

On international peacekeeping battlefields, peacekeeping medical teams traveled far to Lebanon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, and South Sudan, fulfilling peacekeeping missions and contributing joint logistics strength to local peace and stability; during the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic in early 2020, the Joint Logistics Support Force rapidly formed medical teams, procured epidemic-prevention materials, organized transportation support, fully demonstrating our military's integrated support capability after the remodeling of the logistics system……

Unwavering original aspiration, passing the torch from generation to generation. No matter which "battlefield," as long as the motherland and the people need it, there is the figure of officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force.

Loyalty is carved into combat positions, growing ever more steadfast through revolutionary forging—

"Salute to the combat vehicle!" In front of a heavy transport vehicle, young soldiers uniformly raised their right hands, saluting solemnly to the combat vehicle, formally "reporting for duty" to the support equipment that would accompany them into battle.

At a certain automobile transport regiment of the Zhengzhou Joint Logistics Support Center, soldiers who had just arrived at their companies were conducting the "first lesson" of company-entry education. Behind the officers and soldiers, the slogan "absolutely loyal, absolutely pure, absolutely reliable" was especially conspicuous and eye-catching.

Solemn military salutes, sonorous vows. Joint logistics officers and soldiers always bear in mind the instructions, uphold the rock-like conviction of joint logistics for combat and iron-hearted loyalty to the Party, willingly endure silent dedication, forging a reputation for victorious combat.

"Guarding the great mountains is guarding the rivers and mountains; guarding the depot gate is guarding the national gate!" Deep in the remote mountains, depot officers and soldiers treat the depot as home and willingly endure solitude; on the snow-covered plateau sky roads, automobile soldiers' wheels never stop and their conviction is as firm as rock, breaking through forbidden zones of life amid high altitude and oxygen deficiency; under the scorching sun on the barren wilderness, pipeline soldiers carry the "oil dragon" on iron shoulders and safeguard unimpeded flow with hot blood…… Looking across the military camps of the Joint Logistics Support Force, the broad body of officers and soldiers is rooted at combat positions, shouldering the extremely heavy responsibility of supporting victory.

Over the past 10 years, the Joint Logistics Support Force has always upheld the Party's absolute leadership over the military, comprehensively and deeply implemented the Chairman of the Central Military Commission responsibility system, continuously advanced political building of the military, deepened rectification and forging, and earnestly transformed the Party's political and organizational advantages into victory advantages. The broad body of officers and soldiers has continuously tempered political loyalty, always upheld the correct political direction, and firmly established the orientation of supporting victory.

Moving toward combat, the picture of all-domain support is unfolding—

In a sense, fighting a war is fighting logistics. Logistics support is an important component of combat effectiveness, directly affecting the course and outcome of war.

In the central plains hinterland, inside the combat-readiness duty room of a certain automobile transport regiment, an operational situation map covered the large screen, and duty personnel of various elements had fingers flying over keyboards; in the vehicle yard in front of the building, heavy transport vehicles loaded with supplies stood in formation awaiting orders, engines ready to start.

"Upon receiving the order, move out and provide accompanying support to a certain combined arms brigade!"

At the command, combat vehicles roared. Heavy transport transfers through complex road sections, emergency handling of unexpected situations…… On the training ground, smoke filled the air, anda steel transportation line stretched straight to the forward edge of combat.

Transforming from single-mode transportation to system-of-systems support, upgrading from "able to deploy" to "able to win battles," this regiment's trail of military training is a vivid epitome of the new-type joint logistics support system underpinning joint operations.

Logistics is born for war and built for combat; supporting combat is the fundamental orientation, and supporting victory is the first priority.

Since the new era, the Joint Logistics Support Force has insisted that all work focus on supporting victory, with resource allocation tilted toward real-combat needs, support layouts optimized toward strategic directions, and information construction advancing toward building for combat.

Real-combat training, accelerating the march toward joint operations—

From the snow-covered plateau to the dense forests of the south, from the shore of the East China Sea to the western border, looking across the joint logistics training grounds, a "picture of all-domain support" is unfolding across the length and breadth of the land.

"Doo-doo-doo!" A piercing whistle suddenly sounded. At a certain storage and supply base, an emergency support training exercise unfolded in full.

"Pipeline leak!" The unexpected situation struck suddenly, and the emergency repair team swiftly moved forward. "Fuel team attacked with personnel injured," "warehouse power supply system interrupted"…… The exercise directing group superimposed unexpected situations on the spot, with multiple tests simultaneously examining comprehensive support capability. The maintenance team conducted on-site emergency repairs, the medical service team rapidly transported the"wounded," and various support elements coordinated efficiently with seamless linkage.

The base leader hit the nail on the head: "On the modern battlefield, every support element is a key link in the chain of joint operations."

Officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force have always maintained the combat-readiness state of "arriving first, withdrawing last, used throughout." From red-blue confrontation exercises to the series of training exercises "Joint Logistics Mission" and"Elite Joint Logistics," from the neatly arrayed formations at military parades to accompanying support in joint training exercises, from plateau stationing training to overseas peacekeeping…… Over the past 10 years, officers and soldiers have continuously broken down peacetime malpractice and territorial-support inertial thinking, honing solid support skills and enhancing victory capabilities in the smoke of real-combat training.

"Digital-intelligent joint logistics," fused and embedded into the combat system—

On a certain unit's medical service training ground, aerial drones circled overhead searching for"wounded," ground"robot wolves" delivered emergency medical supplies forward, and tracked unmanned ambulances relayed evacuation…… This is not a movie, but the daily combat-readiness routine of officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force.

In recent years, the Joint Logistics Support Force has closely tracked the changes in technology, changes in warfare, and changes in adversaries, promoted the comprehensive integration of support and technology, and expanded new-quality support forces. Drone swarms conducting plateau airdrop delivery, unmanned vehicles providing accompanying support, smart logistics, telemedicine—new-quality support forces are developing on a large scale, in a combat-oriented manner, and as a system.

Over these 10 years, joint logistics support coverage, response speed, and support quality and efficiency have achieved new breakthroughs. All-domain direct reach, three-dimensional projection, support at any time…… Every command of"support in place" has become a distinctive combat marker of joint logistics positions.

System remodeling, the interconnection of three chains releasing the momentum of transformation—

Over the past 10 years, two historical moments have frozen the growth trajectory of a new-type force—

On October 1, 2019, at the military parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the formation of the Joint Logistics Support Force marched through Tiananmen Square for the first time. This new-type force born of reform stepped from behind the scenes to the front of the stage, accepting the review of the motherland and the people with a brand-new posture.

On September 3, 2025, at the military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, the Joint Logistics Support Force carried the military flag of its branch of arms for the first time in review, fully demonstrating the contemporary appearance of the new-type support force after reform and remodeling.

Military flags fluttering, footsteps sonorous. From taking its place in formation to carrying the flag in review, the growth trajectory of this force is clearly visible.

Transformation relies on the coordinated exertion of system remodeling, technology empowerment, and talent support.

Inside an intelligent three-dimensional warehouse of a certain joint logistics support center, an automated sorting system operates at high speed, with hundreds of tons of combat-readiness materials achieving"one-key outbound, precise distribution"; a certain heavy transport battalion maneuvers a thousand miles, with highway, railway, air, and sea multimodal transport seamlessly linked, delivering main battle equipment as a complete unit to the designated area on time; field medical teams are equipped with telemedicine diagnostic and treatment systems, successfully performing war-trauma damage-control surgery in real-combat training exercises.

The military logistics chain, the joint projection chain, and the battlefield treatment chain—the three chains are interconnected, fused, and linked as one, and the effectiveness of the new-type joint logistics support system is accelerating its release.

What supports this"chain" is talent. One shining name after another, like points of starlight scattered across the motherland's land, together illuminating the path of endeavor for joint logistics support—

Shen Chuan'an, director of the Department of Burn and Plastic Surgery at the Fourth Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital. He led his team to persistently tackle the core difficult problems of war burn treatment, developing multiple original achievements suitable for battlefield application, such as the"tenfold method fluid replacement formula,""drinking-water intraperitoneal fluid resuscitation," and"autologous skin cyclic reconstruction technology," effectively reducing the mortality rate of critical burns. Even more valuable, the team sinks its achievements down to the training front lines, having cumulatively trained thousands of grassroots medical service backbone personnel.

Jiang Xinsheng, a professor at the Engineering University of the Joint Logistics Support Force. The oil-gas storage and transportation system high-speed explosion-suppression and fire-extinguishing system he led the research and development of won the first prize of the Military Science and Technology Progress Award. He said:"Scientific research topics come from the front lines, and technological achievements go to winning battles." These plain words speak to the fundamental logic of academy scientific research staying close to the military and serving victory.

Zhang Junkai, a first-class master sergeant of a certain automobile transport brigade. Having deeply cultivated decades in the field of field equipment maintenance support, this old squad leader regards the wrench as more important than anything else."Don't look down on the small wrench—it connects to the big foundation of supporting victory." This is his insight, and also the common voice of grassroots joint logistics officers and soldiers.

There are also Zhang Ying, the first female military doctor in the entire military to reach a mission point at an altitude of 5,681 meters; Wu Yong, a pipeline elite who has participated in major training exercises 16 times; and Li Jixu, a"soldier expert" who has been rooted in the deep mountains for 27 years, keeping company with missiles……

The broad body of officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force bears its mission deep in its heart, silently paving the steel support line, jointly lifting the road to victory in joint operations.

Ten years is an important marker of time, and even more a brand-new starting point.

Looking back at these 10 years, under the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on strengthening the military, in the tide of reform to strengthen the military, the Joint Logistics Support Force has completed the leap from"logistics" to"joint logistics," from"support team" to"combat team." System remodeling, force restructuring, capability rebirth—they are striding forward toward the strategic goal of"building a powerful, modernized joint logistics support force."

Looking ahead to the new journey, the war drums for the final assault on the centenary goal of building the military have already been sounded. The broad body of officers and soldiers of the Joint Logistics Support Force inscribes loyalty at combat positions, fuses mission into support, and turns the sonorous vow of"everything for the front, everything for victory" into an unceasing iron torrent across the length and breadth of the land.

The journey ahead is like a rainbow; only through struggle can progress be made.

Standing at a new historical starting point, this new-type force born of reform is, with even more vigorous fighting spirit and even more solid capabilities, striving to write a brand-new chapter of joint logistics support on the new journey of strengthening the military and rejuvenating the armed forces, building an unbreakable support pillar for combat readiness and war fighting, national security, and the interests of the people.

The iron torrent surges onward—coming for victory, charging toward triumph!

(Yu Zhengxing participated in the reporting and writing)

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Hand in Hand to Advance High-Quality Development of "Greater BRICS Cooperation"

By: 本报记者 车 斌 苑基荣

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the BRICS cooperation mechanism. Over the past 20 years, from promoting trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, to gradually deepening cooperation in new fields such as the digital economy, green and low-carbon development, and artificial intelligence, BRICS countries and partner countries have adhered to openness and win-win cooperation, leveraged their respective advantages, deepened practical cooperation, and the "Greater BRICS Cooperation" has been flourishing and prosperous (枝繁叶茂, zhi fan ye mao - "branch, luxuriant, leaf, lush"), continuously achieving fruitful results and bringing more and greater benefits to the people of all countries.

"Emerging market and developing countries have expanded their space for trade and investment"

On February 9 this year, at China's Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport, as a flight carrying 89 tons of export cross-border e-commerce parcels, mechanical equipment, and postal items slowly departed, China's first BRICS city cross-border e-commerce air freight special route (BRICS Special Route) celebrated three years of successful operation. Since its inauguration on February 10, 2023, this "golden corridor in the sky" connecting Xiamen, China, with Sao Paulo, Brazil, has drawn the economic and trade cooperation ties between China and Brazil, and indeed South America, ever tighter

The BRICS Special Route is a microcosm of the strengthening economic and trade exchanges among BRICS countries. According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development's report "Two Decades of Intra-BRICS Trade: Trends, Patterns, and Policies," calculated by export value, the intra-BRICS goods trade volume rose from $84.2 billion in 2003 to $1.17 trillion in 2024, an increase of more than 13 times, with an average annual growth rate of 13.3%, clearly faster than the growth level of global trade over the same period

BRICS countries are highly complementary in resource endowments, industrial structures, and development needs. Chromium ore from South Africa, after alloy smelting in Chinese factories, becomes high-end stainless steel sheets, appearing in precision instrument workshops in Bengaluru, India; modern harvesters made in China race across the farmland of Brazil, while soybeans produced in Brazil are sold globally... Relying on multi-level cooperation mechanisms and implementing agreement documents such as the "BRICS Economic and Trade Cooperation Action Program" and the "BRICS Investment Facilitation Cooperation Framework," the stories of mutual benefit and win-win outcomes under the "Greater BRICS Cooperation" are growing ever more numerous

"BRICS cooperation helps improve trade relations among members. By expanding market linkages among members, emerging market and developing countries have expanded their space for trade and investment." said Fajar Hirawan, senior researcher at the Institute for Economic and Business Research of Indonesia

"Better helping countries achieve their sustainable development goals"

In February this year, a rapid rail corridor with a total length of 82.15 kilometers in India was fully put into operation. The corridor connects the National Capital Territory of Delhi with the two cities of Ghaziabad and Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. In the past, due to poor road conditions and traffic congestion, driving from Delhi to Meerut during peak hours took 3 to 4 hours. Now, the travel time for this journey has been reduced to about 1 hour. One of the funding sources for this project is the BRICS New Development Bank

"By establishing broad global partnerships with other multilateral development institutions and national development banks of various countries, the New Development Bank can better help countries achieve their sustainable development goals and play an important role in promoting inclusive and sustainable development." said Arpita Mukherjee, professor at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations

Supporting the Shanxi Taiyuan Wusu Zero-Carbon Airport project in China, helping it achieve net-zero carbon dioxide emissions; investing in the expansion project of Russia's toll road network, helping improve local transportation; participating in the expansion and modernization project of South Africa's Durban container terminal... Item by item, these tangible results effectively promote the modernization development of Global South countries and global economic growth

The New Development Bank has become an important emerging force in the international financial governance system. Dilma Rousseff, President of the New Development Bank, stated that the New Development Bank is continuously expanding its "circle of friends," strengthening its function as a genuine cooperation platform among Global South countries, and helping build an international financial architecture characterized by multilateralism and multipolarity

"Looking forward to the BRICS cooperation mechanism playing an even greater role"

At a durian planting base in Johor, Malaysia, ainspection system utilizing computed tomography scanning and artificial intelligence image recognition technology is sorting durians of varieties such as "Musang King." This system, developed by a Chinese enterprise, has raised the accuracy of fruit quality grading to 98%, a 40-fold improvement over manual inspection, promoting the standardization and modernization of the local durian industry

In recent years, through establishing the BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution Innovation Center (BRICS Innovation Center), establishing the China-BRICS Artificial Intelligence Development and Cooperation Center, establishing the BRICS Industrial Competence China Center, launching the China-BRICS Research Center for New Quality Productive Forces, and other initiatives, BRICS countries and partner countries have continuously expanded the breadth and depth of cooperation in fields such as artificial intelligence, digital development, technological innovation, industrial upgrading, and green transformation

Fajar Hirawan stated that BRICS cooperation promotes members to strengthen industrial chain collaboration, and promotes industrial upgrading through means such as investment cooperation and technology transfer

Since its operation for more than five years, the BRICS Innovation Center has facilitated the implementation of more than 130 cooperation projects, with investments exceeding 62 billion yuan. Sauro, head of the Xiamen representative office of the Strategic Investment Promotion Agency of Piaui State, Brazil, said: "The BRICS Innovation Center has opened the door for us to China's innovation ecosystem."

Sizo Nkala, researcher at the Africa-China Research Center at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, said that the technological and industrial cooperation promoted by China under the BRICS framework is creating tangible development opportunities for Global South countries. Intelligent manufacturing and the digital economy provide new growth drivers for industrial chain cooperation, artificial intelligence technology sharing is of great significance for empowering developing countries, and agricultural technology training and meteorological satellite assistance contribute to Africa's green development. "We look forward to the BRICS cooperation mechanism playing an even greater role, injecting momentum into the common development of BRICS members."

At the 16th BRICS Trade Ministers Meeting held in August this year, the Chinese representative stated that China is willing to deepen cooperation with all members in fields such as trade and investment liberalization and facilitation, digital economy, services trade, green minerals, artificial intelligence, and special economic zones, explore the promotion of institutionalized economic and trade arrangements and economic integration construction, promote the high-quality development of the "Greater BRICS Cooperation," and safeguard the common interests of the Global South

(People's Daily reporters Cao Shiyun, Li Mo, and Zheng Xiang participated in the writing of this article)

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Third China–East Africa Ministerial Dialogue on Law Enforcement and Security Held

(People's Daily, Nanjing, September 11) The Third China–East Africa Ministerial Dialogue on Law Enforcement and Security was held on the 10th in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province. State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong and Rwandan Minister of Internal Affairs Biruta served as co-chairs.

In his keynote speech, Wang Xiaohong pointed out that since the establishment of the China–East Africa Ministerial Dialogue mechanism on law enforcement and security, strategic mutual trust between the law enforcement departments of China and East African countries has steadily increased, practical cooperation has continued to deepen, law enforcement capacity building has achieved notable results, and a series of gratifying outcomes have been attained.

Wang Xiaohong stated that China is willing to work together with East African countries to actively implement the four major global initiatives, and, centering on the theme of "United in Addressing Common Challenges, Working Together to Achieve Common Security," uphold the principles of joint consultation on cooperation, shared responsibility, and shared benefits, jointly consolidate and improve the dialogue and cooperation mechanism, continuously enhance law enforcement capacity and standards, join forces to combat transnational crimes such as terrorism, kidnapping and illegal detention, and telecommunications and cyber fraud, create a new chapter in China–East Africa law enforcement and security cooperation, and inject new development momentum into jointly building a new era community with a shared future for China and Africa that is all-weather.

In their remarks, representatives of the member states of the Eastern Africa Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization and the Executive Director of the African Union Mechanism for Police Cooperation, Cherba, expressed gratitude for China's long-term support and assistance to Africa, and expressed willingness to work hand in hand with the Chinese side, deepen practical cooperation in law enforcement and security, and better promote regional security and stability.

In Lianyungang, Wang Xiaohong also met separately with Diallo, Minister of Security and Civil Protection of Guinea, and Amarsaikhan, Minister of Justice and Internal Affairs of Mongolia, who had come to China to attend the 2026 Conference of the Global Public Security Cooperation Forum (Lianyungang).

During the meeting with Diallo, Wang Xiaohong stated that China is willing to work with the Guinean side to implement the important consensus of the two heads of state and the outcomes of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation, deepen practical cooperation in the field of law enforcement and security, and continuously enrich the connotation of the China–Guinea comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. Diallo expressed willingness to learn from China's successful experience and continuously improve Guinea's law enforcement capacity and standards.

During the meeting with Amarsaikhan, Wang Xiaohong stated that China has always attached importance to developing China–Mongolia relations, and is willing to maintain close personnel exchanges and interactions with the Mongolian side, strengthen practical cooperation in areas such as combating transnational crime, and jointly promote China–Mongolia law enforcement and security cooperation to a new level. Amarsaikhan expressed willingness to maintain close communication and coordination with the Chinese side and take strong measures to ensure the safety of Chinese personnel, institutions, and projects in Mongolia.

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State Council Publishes Regulations on Market Supervision and Administration Offices

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 11)   Premier of the State Council Li Qiang recently signed a State Council decree, promulgating the "Regulations on Market Supervision and Administration Offices" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"), to take effect on November 1, 2026.

The "Regulations" aim to strengthen the construction and management of market supervision and administration offices, better give play to the functional role of market supervision and administration, and serve the high-quality development of the economy and society. The "Regulations" contain a total of 19 articles, mainly stipulating the following contents.

First, clarifying the basic principles of work. It is stipulated that the work of market supervision and administration offices upholds the leadership of the Communist Party of China, upholds a people-centered approach, upholds law-based administration, ensuring safety, and serving development.

Second, straightening out the management system and mechanisms, optimizing the allocation of institutional personnel. It is clarified that market supervision and administration offices are dispatched agencies of the market supervision departments of county-level people's governments, performing duties such as the registration of individual industrial and commercial households within their jurisdiction, the daily supervision of food production and operation, the handling of complaints and reports in the field of market supervision, and the investigation and punishment of illegal acts. It is stipulated that market supervision and administration offices are established in accordance with economic regions, and that the staffing of personnel should adapt to the economic and social development of the jurisdiction and the needs of performing duties. It is stipulated that county-level people's governments establish and improve a working mechanism whereby market supervision and administration offices are incorporated into the unified command and coordination of townships and subdistricts, strengthening communication and coordination with township people's governments and subdistrict offices in areas such as joint supervision and the handling of complaints and reports.

Third, standardizing supervision, strengthening services, and optimizing the business environment. It is required that market supervision and administration offices carry out supervision activities in accordance with the law, strictly standardize, be fair, and enforce the law in a civilized manner, avoid or minimize as much as possible the impact on the normal production and operation activities of business entities, and accept social supervision. It is stipulated that market supervision and administration offices should enhance their service awareness, strengthen communication with business entities and consumers within their jurisdiction, make public the work procedures for handling matters, and provide standardized, convenient, and efficient government services.

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Regulations on Market Supervision and Administration Offices

Order of the State Council of the People's Republic of China

No. 846

The "Regulations on Market Supervision and Administration Offices" were adopted at the 94th executive meeting of the State Council on August 21, 2026, and are hereby promulgated, effective from November 1, 2026.

Premier  Li Qiang

September 6, 2026

Article 1  These Regulations are formulated to strengthen the construction and management of market supervision and administration offices, better give play to the functions and role of market supervision and administration, and serve high-quality development of the economy and society.

Article 2  The work of market supervision and administration offices upholds the Party's leadership, adheres to a people-centered approach, and persists in law-based administration, safeguarding safety, and serving development.

Article 3  Market supervision and administration offices are dispatched agencies of the market supervision and administration departments of county-level people's governments, and administrative acts are taken in the name of the market supervision and administration departments of county-level people's governments. The market supervision and administration departments of county-level people's governments shall strengthen leadership and management over market supervision and administration offices.

Article 4  Market supervision and administration offices are established according to economic regions. Plans for the establishment and adjustment of market supervision and administration offices shall be proposed by the market supervision and administration departments of county-level people's governments and handled in accordance with the prescribed authority and procedures.

Article 5  Within the scope of duties of the market supervision and administration departments of county-level people's governments, market supervision and administration offices carry out market supervision and administration work within their jurisdictions and perform the following duties:

(1) Handling matters related to the registration of individual industrial and commercial households, farmers' professional cooperatives (federations) and their branch institutions;

(2) Undertaking routine supervision and administration of food production and operation, the operation of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and cosmetics, the use of special equipment, and product quality;

(3) Undertaking routine supervision and administration in the fields of anti-unfair competition, advertising, prices, and metrology;

(4) Handling complaints and reports in the field of market supervision and administration, and protecting the lawful rights and interests of consumers, business entities, and others;

(5) Investigating and punishing, or assisting in investigating and punishing, acts that violate relevant laws, administrative regulations, and rules on market supervision and administration;

(6) Publicizing relevant laws, administrative regulations, and rules on market supervision and administration;

(7) Other duties such as comprehensive administrative law enforcement for market supervision and administration.

The determination and adjustment of the specific duties of market supervision and administration offices shall be proposed by the market supervision and administration departments of county-level people's governments within the scope of duties prescribed in the preceding paragraph, based on actual circumstances, handled in accordance with the prescribed authority and procedures, and announced to the public.

Article 6  Market supervision and administration offices shall establish and improve work systems, carry out market supervision and administration activities in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws, administrative regulations, and rules, enforce the law strictly, normatively, fairly, and in a civilized manner, avoid or minimize as far as possible impacts on the normal production and operation activities of business entities, and accept social supervision.

Article 7  Market supervision and administration offices shall enhance service awareness, strengthen communication with business entities and consumers within their jurisdictions, make work procedures public, and provide standardized, convenient, and efficient government services.

Article 8  Relevant departments of county-level people's governments shall, within the scope of their duties, support market supervision and administration offices in carrying out their work.

Article 9  County-level people's governments shall establish and improve a work mechanism that incorporates market supervision and administration offices into the unified command and coordination of townships and sub-districts.

Market supervision and administration offices shall strengthen communication and coordination with the people's governments of townships and the offices of sub-districts in areas such as joint supervision and administration and the handling of complaints and reports.

Article 10  The staffing of market supervision and administration offices shall adapt to the needs of economic and social development within their jurisdictions and the performance of their duties.

Article 11  Staff members of market supervision and administration offices shall perform their duties in accordance with the prescribed authority and procedures, achieving being honest and incorruptible (清正廉洁, qing zheng lian jie - "clear, upright, pure, honest") and enforcing the law impartially (秉公执法, bing gong zhi fa - "hold, public, enforce, law").

Article 12  The market supervision and administration departments of county-level people's governments shall, according to work needs, organize staff members of market supervision and administration offices to participate in training to enhance their ability to perform their duties.

Article 13  The market supervision and administration departments of county-level people's governments shall establish and improve a post responsibility system for staff members of market supervision and administration offices and conduct regular assessments of staff members.

Article 14  Market supervision and administration departments shall strengthen the standardization, normalization, and professionalization of market supervision and administration offices. Specific measures shall be prescribed by the market supervision and administration department of the State Council.

Article 15  County-level people's governments shall, in accordance with relevant provisions, provide safeguards for market supervision and administration offices to carry out their work, and enhance the level of informatization and intelligence in supervision and administration.

Article 16  Market supervision and administration offices shall use unified and standardized signs, and staff members shall dress in a standardized manner in accordance with relevant provisions when performing administrative law enforcement duties.

Article 17  Where staff members of market supervision and administration offices abuse their authority, neglect their duties, engage in malpractice for personal gain, or commit other acts that violate the provisions of these Regulations, they shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law; where a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with the law.

Article 18  Other dispatched agencies of market supervision and administration departments, such as specialized offices, teams, and stations, shall implement these Regulations mutatis mutandis.

Article 19  These Regulations take effect from November 1, 2026. The "Regulations on Industrial and Commercial Administration Offices" are simultaneously repealed.

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 11)

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Thoroughly Implement the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, Advance Law-Based Governance of Religious Affairs, and Further Improve the Party's Ethnic and Religious Work in the New Era

(People's Daily, Yinchuan, September 11) From September 9 to 11, Li Ganjie, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, stressed during his research trip in Ningxia that it is necessary to adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, take fostering a sense of community for the Chinese nation as the main line, implement and enforce the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, raise the level of law-based governance of religious affairs, and do solid work on the Party's ethnic and religious work in the new era.

Li Ganjie went to Zhongwei City, Wuzhong City, and Yinchuan City, visiting the exhibition hall on fostering a sense of community for the Chinese nation and rural villages, where he had in-depth exchanges with ethnic minority cadres and the masses to learn about the study, publicity, implementation, and enforcement of the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress and the development of initiatives for ethnic unity and progress; he went deep into grape-growing bases and e-commerce assistance workshops to learn about how east-west regional cooperation supports the development of distinctive industries in ethnic regions and how people of all ethnic groups are working together to start a business (携手创业, xie shou chuang ye - "hold hands, start business") and working together to achieve prosperity (团结致富, tuan jie zhi fu - "unite, become wealthy"); he inspected North Minzu University to learn about education, teaching, and talent cultivation; and he visited religious activity sites to learn about the systematic advancement of the Sinicization of religion in China and the strengthening of law-based governance of religious affairs.

During the research trip, Li Ganjie presided over a symposium to hear opinions and suggestions on further doing well the Party's ethnic and religious work in the new era. Li Ganjie stated that the formulation and promulgation of the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress is a major legal measure for fostering a sense of community for the Chinese nation and advancing the building of the Chinese nation community, providing legal safeguards for promoting Chinese modernization through the great unity of the Chinese nation. It is necessary to intensify efforts in studying, publicizing, implementing, and enforcing the law, combine it with major activities such as the Publicity Week for Ethnic Unity and Progress, do thorough work on law popularization, advance relevant work in accordance with the principles of enhancing commonalities and respecting and accommodating differences, and ensure that the spirit of the law is implemented throughout the entire process and in all aspects of ethnic work. It is necessary to focus on implementing and delivering key tasks such as building a shared spiritual home, promoting interaction, exchange, and integration, and advancing common prosperity and development, and effectively translate institutional and legal advantages into governance effectiveness.

Li Ganjie stated that religious work is a major task that our Party must do well in governing the country. It is necessary to uphold the Party's overall leadership, uphold the direction of the Sinicization of religion in China, uphold the principles of protecting the lawful, stopping the illegal, curbing extremism, resisting infiltration, and combating crime, give play to the advantages of the grand united front work framework, consolidate work responsibilities, strengthen the grassroots foundation, do thorough and meticulous work with religious figures and religious believers, resolve key and difficult issues in the religious field in accordance with laws and regulations, enhance the ability and level of self-education, self-management, and self-restraint of religious circles, actively guide religion to adapt to socialist society, and effectively safeguard harmony and stability in the religious field.

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CIFTIS explores new momentum for enterprises going global (Inside CIFTIS)

By: 人民网记者 方经纶

Stepping into the exhibition area for enterprises providing overseas-expansion services, established for the first time at the 2026 CIFTIS, exhibiting enterprises from multiple fields such as accounting and auditing, human resources, and digital marketing all showcased their new services, new technologies, and new solutions.

Dun & Bradstreet of the United States participated in CIFTIS for the first time, bringing its newly launched cross-border investment and trade database; digital-intelligence integrated service provider Changhong Jiawa focused on showcasing digital solutions for going global and digital-intelligent marketing services, premiering the practical results of its "AI video advertising solution"…

How to better help enterprises "go global"? Exhibitors are each showing their respective abilities (各展所能, ge zhan suo neng - "each, display, what one, can").

"Since the second quarter of this year, consulting business for going global among science-and-technology-oriented enterprises has increased notably." Li Ying, marketing general manager of Yande International Consulting Co., Ltd., introduced that, centering on new business forms such as large-model going global and computing-power going global, the company has refined a full-cycle compliance consulting service that can help enterprises going global complete compliance filing and the landing and advancement of business related to the investment destination.

"At present, the logistics difficulties faced by enterprises going global are no longer merely whether goods can be shipped out, but rather whether, amid demand fluctuations and differences in multi-country contract performance, cost control can be achieved and timeliness and experience can be made predictable." Li Feng, director of public affairs at Cainiao Group, statedthat, in response to enterprise needs, Cainiao has upgraded single-mode transportation into "tiered timeliness, full-chain coordination, contract-performance backstopping," turning logistics from a vague process-based service into a selectable, trackable certainty service.

"This year we independently developed an AI product that can aggregate the traffic of more small-and-medium media outlets, helping enterprises going global better carry out overseas marketing." Kong Jing, vice president of Beijing BlueFocus Digital Technology Group Co., Ltd., statedthat the company will deepen the integration of AI technology with marketing scenarios, helping enterprises going global obtain tangible returns.

Adjacent to the exhibition area for enterprises providing overseas-expansion services is the roadshow area for overseas-expansion service promotion, built for the first time at this year's CIFTIS. On the afternoon of September 10, after the "Southeast Asia Special Session" roundtable forum concluded, guests and audience members were still exchanging and interacting.

"This year at CIFTIS I have felt many positive changes." Huang Shiying, a representative of the DPR Group and one of the guests at this roundtable forum, believedthat professionals from commercial consulting institutions were mostly situated in the back-end links of services in the past, and now, through CIFTIS, they can further understand the needs of enterprises going global, which helps provide more precise services.

Through the two areas established for the first time at this year's CIFTIS, the full-chain, professional service capabilities of enterprises providing overseas-expansion services were presented in a concentrated manner. During this period, professional institutions providing overseas-expansion services from multiple fields such as finance, law, and intellectual property held more than 40 promotional roadshows, sharing the latest industry observations and providing "one-stop" professional services for enterprises going global.

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Li Qiang Chairs State Council Executive Meeting

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 11)   Premier of the State Council Li Qiang presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on September ​11, which made further arrangements for strengthening work safety, studied work related to the construction of a computing-power network, studied work related to comprehensively and systematically advancing the renovation and upgrading of old reservoirs, heard a report on implementing the spirit of the National Education Conference and accelerating the building of a strong education country, and deliberated and approved the "Regulations on the Administration of Foundations (Revised Draft)."

The meeting pointed out that in recent times, production safety accidents have occurred frequently in some localities, and the lessons are extremely profound. General Secretary Xi Jinping has made important instructions and directives on multiple occasions; we must conscientiously study and comprehend them, and resolutely implement them. It is necessary to conduct an in-depth analysis of the causes of accidents, learning from one instance to grasp others (举一反三, ju yi fan san - "lift one, reflect three"), and, targeting problems such as lax implementation of rules and regulations, project subcontracting through multiple layers, and inadequate safety supervision, adopt forceful measures to effectively resolve them. It is necessary to strictly implement territorial management, implement the requirements of the "three musts" — must be in charge of the industry, must be in charge of safety; must be in charge of business, must be in charge of safety; must be in charge of production, must be in charge of safety — further tighten and consolidate responsibility for work safety, closely focus on key industries and fields to carry out in-depth investigation, rectification, and elimination of risks and hidden dangers, strengthen routine supervision and law enforcement, seriously pursue accountability and hold people to account, resolutely punish violations of laws and regulations in work safety, firmly hold the bottom line of work safety, effectively curb the occurrence of major and extraordinarily serious accidents, and earnestly safeguard the safety of people's lives and property.

The meeting pointed out that the computing-power network is the foundational support for the development of artificial intelligence. It is necessary to adhere to rational layout, standardized and orderly development, further improve computing-power infrastructure, actively advance the research, development, and application of key technologies and equipment, and build a multi-level, networked computing-power system. It is necessary to promote the coordination of computing power and electricity, and the integration of computing power and networks, strengthen the monitoring, dispatching, and regulation of computing-power resources and the construction of backbone optical fiber networks, strengthen the planning and coordination of computing-power and electricity facilities, and accelerate the implementation of projects such as direct connection of green electricity and source-grid-load-storage integration. It is necessary to better leverage the role of market mechanisms, support enterprises in carrying out scientific and technological innovation, resource integration, and application promotion, and promote better matching of supply and demand.

The meeting pointed out that reservoir safety bears on the overall situation of flood prevention and resistance, river governance, and economic and social development. It is necessary to adhere to the combination of short-term and long-term measures, address both symptoms and root causes, implement differentiated policies by category, strictly implement responsibilities at all levels, and comprehensively improve the safety capacity of old reservoirs. It is necessary to enhance the targeting and effectiveness of the renovation and upgrading of old reservoirs, scientifically optimize renovation standards, formulate renovation plans on a "one reservoir, one policy" basis, strictly control project quality, simultaneously improve the level of dispatching management and routine maintenance and care, and build a solid defense line for reservoir safety. It is necessary to strengthen inter-departmental coordination and the guarantee of production factors, and attract more social capital to participate.

The meeting pointed out that over the past year, all regions and departments have conscientiously implemented the spirit of the National Education Conference, continuously achieving new results in advancing the building of a strong education country. It is necessary to focus on changes in the school-age population and rationally allocate educational resources, make overall arrangements for work such as the supply of school places, the allocation of teachers, and the guarantee of funding, to better meet the needs of each school segment during the peak transition period. It is necessary to focus on the strategic needs of the country to cultivate outstanding innovative talents, continuously optimize the layout of academic disciplines and specialties, the construction of the textbook system, and talent cultivation models, and improve the quality of independent cultivation of talents. It is necessary to implement the educational philosophy of health first, adhere to the simultaneous promotion and integration of the five aspects of education — moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor education — and promote the physical and mental health, growth, and success of all students.

The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to effectively strengthen the construction of the credibility of foundations, further standardize management, improve systems, perfect internal governance mechanisms, strengthen information disclosure in key areas, give play to the role of comprehensive supervision by multiple departments, and promote the healthy and orderly development of our country's public welfare and charitable undertakings.

The meeting also studied other matters.

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Zhao Leji holds talks with Carolina Cerqueira, president of the National Assembly of Angola

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 11) Zhao Leji, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, held talks with Carolina Cerqueira, president of the National Assembly of Angola, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 11.

Zhao Leji stated that in recent years, under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and President João Lourenço, China-Angola relations have been elevated to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, with cooperation in various fields continuing to deepen and yield fruitful results. China is willing to work with Angola, following the important consensus of the two heads of state, to carry forward the traditional friendship, strengthen solidarity and cooperation, promote the implementation of the outcomes of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, advance the continuous development of China-Angola relations, and make greater contributions to jointly building a China-Africa community with a shared future in the new era.

Zhao Leji pointed out that both sides should consolidate political mutual trust. China appreciates Angola's long-term adherence to the one-China principle and will continue to firmly support Angola in safeguarding its national sovereignty, security, and development interests. The two sides should expand practical cooperation, deepen cooperation in agriculture, fisheries, industry, energy, mining, and other fields, and create new highlights of cooperation in clean energy, digital technology, artificial intelligence, and other areas. Taking this year's "China-Africa Year of People-to-People Exchanges" as an opportunity, the two sides should strengthen cooperation in education, culture, tourism, and local exchanges, so that China-Angola and China-Africa friendship becomes deeply held by the people (深入人心, shen ru ren xin - "deep, enter, people, heart"). The two sides should strengthen international coordination, jointly practice true multilateralism, implement the four major global initiatives, and advance an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization.

Zhao Leji emphasized that cooperation between the legislative bodies of China and Angola plays an important role in enhancing the friendship between the two peoples and enriching the connotation of bilateral relations. The NPC of China is willing to work with the National Assembly of Angola to strengthen dialogue and exchanges at all levels and in multiple fields, providing legal safeguards for mutually beneficial cooperation between the two countries. China welcomes Angola to send personnel to participate in the seminar for parliamentarians from African countries hosted by the NPC of China. Zhao Leji also introduced the legislative work of the NPC of China, stating that the two sides can conduct exchanges on legislative experience in areas such as green development, social governance, and livelihood security.

De Almeida stated that Angola sincerely thanks China for its valuable support for Angola's national reconstruction and economic and social development. While developing itself, China also assists global partners in achieving common development. Angola is willing to strengthen cooperation with China in energy, economy and trade, investment, and other fields, deepen cooperation in jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, jointly uphold multilateralism, and promote world peace and stability. The National Assembly of Angola is willing to strengthen exchanges with the NPC of China and actively play the role of legislative bodies in providing legal safeguards for the implementation of cooperation agreements between the two countries.

After the talks, Zhao Leji and De Almeida jointly signed a memorandum of understanding between the NPC of China and the National Assembly of Angola.

Cai Dafeng participated in the above activities.

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Deeply Cultivating the Red Fertile Soil, Drawing Strength for Endeavor (Carrying Forward the Spirit of the Long March, Advancing on the Journey of Rejuvenation)

By: 本报记者 付 文

In September, Zhongfu Village, Changting County, Longyan City, Fujian Province, is cloaked in lush mountains and verdant scenery (山峦叠翠, shan luan die cui - "mountain, range, overlap, green").

At the end of September 1934, after the Red Ninth Army Corps withdrew from the Songmaoling battle, it held a mass farewell meeting with the masses in Zhongfu Village, after which the troops split into two routes and began their strategic shift, thereby setting foot on the Long March of ten thousand li.

In October 2024, during an inspection tour of Fujian, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Carry forward and promote the red culture, build well the Changting, Ninghua Long March National Cultural Park, deepen the research and interpretation of revolutionary historical materials and revolutionary cultural relics."

To thoroughly implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping, Fujian has concentrated its efforts on advancing the construction and management of the Long March National Cultural Park (Fujian Section),, with a cumulative investment of 5.525 billion yuan completed, and with the thematic positioning of "Long March departure, withdrawal from the Soviet Area", it has formed a pattern of "one axis, two zones" with the route of the Central Red Army's Long March as the main axis, the Long March departure sites of Changting and Ninghua as the main construction zones, and the areas associated with Long March events as the extended and expanded zones.

Protect the Long March relics, guard the "red family assets"——

Entering Fenghuangshan Village, Ninghua County, Sanming City, one sees that Red Army Street, over 400 meters in length, is paved with blue flagstones, flanked on both sides by Hakka ancient dwellings, and on the gate towers the four large characters "Long Live the Red Army" remain clearly discernible (清晰可辨, qing xi ke bian - "clear, distinct, can, distinguish")."Back then, my grandfather set out from this very street," said villager Huang Yongchang.

As one of the main departure sites of the Central Main Red Army's Long March, Ninghua implements systematic protection of revolutionary cultural relics at all levels and categories across the entire county, implements management and inspection patrol systems, follows the principle of "restoring the old as it was old", protects well the old streets and former sites, and retains the red imprints.

""With the promulgation of the "Fujian Province Regulations on the Protection of Red Cultural Relics" and the "Fujian Province Implementation Plan for the Protection and Utilization Project of Revolutionary Cultural Relics", the system of normative documents for red cultural protection has been continuously improved." Huang Yiqun, Deputy Director of the Publicity Department of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, introduced that Fujian has established a three-tier cultural relics protection linkage mechanism of "province—city—county", the repair and protection rate of red cultural relics in Longyan City has risen year by year, Sanming City has achieved full coverage of dynamic supervision over 227 Long March cultural relics, and has completed the construction of red venues such as the new site of the Ninghua County Revolutionary Memorial Hall.

Tap red resources, inherit the red bloodline——

""A total of 6 people from our family joined the Red Army, and all of them later sacrificed their lives along the Long March." On the Red Army Bridge in Zhongfu Village, villager Zhong Ming told visitors about those years,"26,000 sons and daughters of western Fujian joined the Long March, and only over 2,000 arrived in northern Shaanxi."

Zhong Ming, now 63 years old, began collecting Long March historical materials and giving free explanations over 40 years ago, and was appointed as a docent for red traditional education in 2015. Zhong Ming has repeatedly visited old Red Army soldiers and their descendants, and has also repeatedly traveled to the former site of the Xiangjiang River Battle to search for the whereabouts of martyrs. Through his mobilization, his son Zhong Zhenhua also returned to his hometown to engage in explanation work, and the father and son have jointly excavated and compiled a batch of moving stories.

Fujian strengthens the excavation and research of Long March cultural relics and historical materials, creating distinctive experience sites integrating red education, folk custom experiences, and other elements."In recent years, thanks to the construction of the Long March National Cultural Park, we have actively promoted the integration of culture and tourism, successively carrying out facade renovation along the streets, environmental improvement, and tourism route upgrades." Zhong Chunyuan, Deputy Director of the Villagers' Committee of Zhongfu Village, said that last year the village received over 300,000 tourist visits, with total tourism revenue exceeding 10 million yuan.

Advance activation and utilization, gather the strength to move forward——

On the Red Army Cultural Square in Zhongfu Village, footprints go from sparse to dense, all converging at the "zero kilometer point".

""Some of these footprints are barefoot, some are very small; one can imagine the scene of children from poor families eagerly joining the army at that time." Zhou Ziqiang, a tourist from Anhui, said,"The docent introduced that the village's Memorial Hall of the Departure Site of the Red Ninth Army Corps' Long March was transformed from 7 Hakka enclosed houses where the Red Army had once recuperated from injuries, which makes one even more deeply feel the military-civilian bond of fish and water that transcends time and space."

Inside the immersive performance hall of "The Love of Songmaoling" in Zhongfu Village, the story of newlywed wife A Mei seeing off her newlywed husband A Gen as he joins the Red Army is being performed. With the aid of modern sound, light, and electrical effects, people seem to return to that era of burning passion. The "Red Army Well" in Fenghuangshan Village, expanded with the help of Red Army soldiers, is still in use by villagers today. The Party School of the Ninghua County Party Committee has listed the cluster of former sites of the Central Red Army's Long March departure in Fenghuangshan, including this well, as on-site teaching points, and the attractiveness and influence of red culture continue to strengthen.

To carry forward the great Long March spirit, Fujian, relying on the resources of the Long March National Cultural Park, has created the "Seeing Fujian" grand ideological-and-political course research and study practice circle, building 191 research and study practice education bases at or above the municipal level for primary and secondary school students, and over 200 on-site teaching points. Since 2022, it has cumulatively trained 330,000 trainees, organized students to carry out red research and study practice activities for over 1.68 million person-times, continuously deepening young people's cognition and identification with revolutionary history.

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Special meeting on advancing construction of Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin held in Hengqin

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 11) A special meeting on advancing the construction of the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin was held in Hengqin on the 10th. The meeting thoroughly studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions and directives on Hengqin's construction, accelerated the implementation of the "package of policies and measures for deeply advancing the construction of the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin," supported Macao in proactively aligning with the nation's 15th Five-Year Plan and implementing the SAR's new five-year plan, advanced Hengqin's construction toward reaching a new level of development (再上新台阶, zai shang xin tai jie - "again, go up, new, terrace, step"), and made new contributions to the appropriately diversified development of Macao's economy. Xia Baolong, director of the Central Hong Kong and Macao Work Office and director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.

Before the meeting, relevant central ministries and commissions, together with the Executive Committee of the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin and the Macao SAR Government, signed relevant agreements on supporting Hengqin's construction. Participants also conducted on-site research on key projects in Hengqin.

Sam Hou Fai, chief executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region and director of the Management Committee of the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin; Meng Fanli, governor of Guangdong Province and director of the Management Committee of the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin; and a responsible comrade from the National Development and Reform Commission, among others, spoke at the meeting.

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22nd High-Level Meeting of Asian Coast Guard Agencies Convened

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 11) (Li Longyi, Liu Zhixu) A reporter learned from the China Coast Guard: Recently, the 22nd High-Level Meeting of the Asian Coast Guard Agencies Meeting, hosted by the China Coast Guard, was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.

During the meeting, all parties conducted thorough and practical discussions (深入务实, shen ru wu shi - "deep, enter; practical, real") on key topics including the regional maritime security situation, prevention of and combat against transnational maritime crime, maritime search and rescue cooperation, marine ecological environment protection, law enforcement information sharing mechanisms, and law enforcement capacity building. Initial consensus was reached on the cooperation plan for the next phase, and topics such as the candidate country for hosting the next meeting were reviewed. A Joint Statement of the 22nd Asian Coast Guard Agencies Meeting was formed, which recognized the concept of "marine carbon sink law enforcement" and related positive practices promoted by the China Coast Guard, and encouraged all parties to jointly build a maritime law enforcement cooperation community, a maritime security community, and a comprehensive maritime governance community, so as to advance the sustainable development of the oceans.

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2026 China-Sri Lanka Media Cooperation and Exchange Seminar Held in Colombo

(People's Daily, Colombo, September 11) (Reporters Sun Guangyong, Zhao Yipu) The 2026 China-Sri Lanka Media Cooperation and Exchange Seminar, themed "Trust and Win-Win: The Media's Role in Building a China-Sri Lanka Community with a Shared Future," was held on the 11th in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. More than 80 guests from Chinese and Sri Lankan government departments, media, think tanks, and universities engaged in discussions on topics including building a China-Sri Lanka community with a shared future, deepening the China-Sri Lanka strategic cooperative partnership, deepening media exchange and cooperation, and people-to-people connectivity (民心相通, min xin xiang tong - "people's heart, mutually connect") between China and Sri Lanka.

During the roundtable discussion segment of the seminar, participating guests engaged in dialogue and sharing around the two major themes of "The Practice and Significance of Jointly Building a China-Sri Lanka Community with a Shared Future" and "Deepening Media Exchange and Cooperation and People-to-People Connectivity between China and Sri Lanka."

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Building a Warm Haven for Special Children

By: 本报记者 丁雅诵

In the early morning, in the corridor of Qizhi School in Baita District, Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province, a child clutched the hem of his clothes with both hands, afraid to enter the classroom. Principal Liu Xueya walked over quickly, gently patted the child on the back, took the child's little hand into her own palm, and said softly, "Don't be afraid, teacher is here."

Such mornings have appeared frequently throughout her 35-year career. Liu Xueya has devoted her best years to a group of special children, interpreting a special-education teacher's selflessness and great love through her every action.

In 1991, Liu Xueya graduated from Liaoning Provincial Special Education Normal School. When she stepped onto the podium, however, she discovered that the difficulties in reality were far greater than she had imagined. Some people advised her: "Teaching these children brings no achievements, no reputation — you should change jobs while you still can."

Liu Xueya felt wronged, and she wavered. But the words of the former principal she has remembered to this day: "These children need love even more; they need education even more. If we give up, then they truly have no hope."

Looking at the children's dependent eyes and the parents' expectant gazes, she vowed to build a warm harbor with love and to protect these children for the rest of her life.

Qizhi School has more than 70 students, most of whom have moderate to severe intellectual disabilities, cannot take care of themselves, cannot speak clearly, and often lose control of their emotions and behavior. Liu Xueya being shoved and scratched is a common occurrence, but she does not blame or disdain them; like a mother, she catches all of the children's helplessness and clumsiness.

One summer, a student named Xiao Jiao (pseudonym) accidentally soiled her pants. As the odor spread and the other children shrank away, Liu Xueya saw Xiao Jiao's flushed face and tear-filled eyes and felt heartbroken. Without a second thought (二话不说, er hua bu shuo - "two, words, not, say"), Liu Xueya picked up the child, cleaned her body, and changed her clothes. Xiao Jiao hugged her and said tearfully, "Teacher, you are just like my mother!"

"A childish sentence that the children blurt out inadvertently can always make my eyes redden in an instant, and all the hardship and grievance are worth it," Liu Xueya said.

For special education, love alone is not enough; professionalism is also required. After moving into a management position, Liu Xueya delved into theory, led her team in conducting research, promoted individualized, tiered, and structured teaching, and assembled a team of rehabilitation therapists, psychological counselors, and backbone teachers, integrating sensory integration training, speech therapy, and applied behavior analysis into daily teaching.

A student named Xiao Sheng (pseudonym) was 14 years old upon enrollment, with regressed language ability, and had never once called out "Mom." After assessment, Liu Xueya discovered that the child had weak hearing but had simply lacked training for a long time, leaving the muscles around the mouth stiff. She immediately formulated a plan, taking the child through tongue muscle training every day, starting from "b, p, m," teaching sound by sound. After countless rounds of guidance and repetition, Liu Xueya never gave up. Finally, Xiao Sheng clearly called out "Mom," and at that moment, all the adults present were deeply moved.

Where can the children go after graduation, and what can they do? This is a question of great concern to the parents, and it is also something Liu Xueya has always been preoccupied with. "They are merely late-blooming flowers; they equally have the right to enjoy the sunshine and embrace society." Liu Xueya understands that teaching the children survival skills is the best protection for them.

Liu Xueya made great efforts to travel around and established the "Snail Handicraft Workshop," a self-help and mutual-aid base for persons with disabilities, building an order-based vocational education model of "skills training — product production — market conversion."

From handmade soap making to polishing handicrafts, from identifying materials to packing finished products, Liu Xueya meticulously breaks down every simple action and guides the children through repeated practice hand in hand. She also took the lead in filming short videos and conducting livestreams to expand sales channels for the handicrafts.

"Through this approach, 2 entrepreneurship projects for persons with disabilities were successfully incubated; 12 students mastered survival skills and are able to earn income through their own labor. In addition, of the 235 graduates, 127 were placed in employment at welfare enterprises, and 22 students chose their own careers, becoming workers who support themselves." Speaking of these achievements, Liu Xueya's eyes were full of pride.

"Not letting a single child with disabilities be forgotten or abandoned" — this is her lifelong commitment. In the future, Liu Xueya will continue to hold these children's hands, facing the light, and walk slowly forward.

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Public Notification of Six Typical Cases of Accountability and Punishment for Local Government Implicit Debt

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 11) (Reporter: Qu Zhehan) In order to give full play to the role of warning education, resolutely curb the addition of new implicit local government debt (hereinafter referred to as "implicit debt"), and further tighten fiscal and disciplinary discipline, the General Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the General Office of the Ministry of Finance jointly selected a batch of typical cases of accountability and punishment for implicit debt for public exposure, making an example of someone to warn others (以儆效尤, yi jing xiao you - "use, warn, effect, evil").

First, Wu Shenghua, former member of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee and former Secretary of the Bijie Municipal Party Committee, had a severely deviated view of political achievements, ignored old accounts left by predecessors, and failed to implement the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments on preventing and defusing local debt risks. Wu Shenghua also had other serious violations of discipline and law; he was expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office, and his suspected criminal issues were transferred to procuratorial organs for review and prosecution according to law. Second, Lan Hongbin, former member of the Party Leadership Group of the Yibin Municipal People's Government of Sichuan Province and former Vice Mayor, failed to correctly perform his duties and made illegal decisions to add new implicit debt. Lan Hongbin also had other serious violations of discipline and law; he was expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office, and his suspected criminal issues were transferred to procuratorial organs for review and prosecution according to law. Third, the Linwei District of Weinan City, Shaanxi Province, added 100 million yuan of implicit debt by using public hospitals to borrow funds for public welfare projects; Cao Jie, then Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Director of the Health Bureau of Linwei District, Weinan City, and other responsible persons were held accountable. Fourth, Jieshou City, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, failed to genuinely defuse 140 million yuan of implicit debt; Li Pan, then Chairman of the Board of Jieshou Urban-Rural Construction Development Group Co., Ltd., and other responsible persons were held accountable. Fifth, the Jiujiang Economic and Technological Development Zone, Jiangxi Province, failed to genuinely defuse 1 billion yuan of implicit debt; You Xi, then Director of the Financial Comprehensive Service Center of the Jiujiang Economic and Technological Development Zone, and other responsible persons were held accountable. Sixth, Yinchuan City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, failed to genuinely defuse 1.8 billion yuan of implicit debt; Wang Rongya, then legal representative and General Manager of Yinchuan Binhe Yellow River Bridge Management Co., Ltd., and other responsible persons were held accountable.

The Central Economic Work Conference emphasized that local government debt risks must be actively and orderly defused, all localities urged to proactively resolve debt, and no new implicit debt may be added in violation of regulations. All localities and units must effectively strengthen the Four Consciousnesses (四个意识), firm up the Four Confidences (四个自信), and achieve the Two Upholds (两个维护), implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council completely and without compromise, consolidate and expand the educational achievements of establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, continuously strengthen government debt management, improve the effectiveness of government debt governance, and continuously build a solid line of defense for debt security.

In the next step, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Ministry of Finance will continue to strengthen the investigation and handling of implicit debt problems, firmly grasp accountability and punishment, and for illegal violations such as adding new implicit debt and failing to genuinely defuse debt, discover one, investigate one, hold accountable one, effectively tighten fiscal and disciplinary discipline, and promote the effective prevention and defusing of local government debt risks.

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Above the Clouds, Answering with Victory (Most Beautiful Revolutionary Soldier of the New Era)

By: 本报记者 任彤彤

The roar of engines approached from a distance, and several fighter jets howled in. At an Air Force assessment site, the fighter jets landed steadily on the runway one after another.

The first to return by plane was Bu Jiawen, captain of the flight brigade of a certain aviation unit of the Air Force. Over his 18 years of service, Bu Jiawen has successfully completed dozens of major exercise and training missions, was commended by the Central Military Commission as a "Model of Combat Readiness," received the title of "Most Beautiful Revolutionary Soldier of the New Era," and has been awarded 1 second-class merit and 2 third-class merits.

"The growth of a pilot knows no bounds." Bu Jiawen said firmly, "Only by repeatedly breaking through limits and reshaping oneself can one win the opportunity for victory."

"One must temper oneself in harsh environments during peacetime"

In the camp, the Air Iron Fist Square is a place Bu Jiawen often visits. At the center of the square, a bronze iron fist sculpture stands tall and imposing.

More than 70 years ago, the predecessor unit of this unit rushed to the battlefield of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, shooting down and damaging 68 enemy aircraft, forging the highly famous and renowned "Air Iron Fist Spirit."

Practice is the best inheritance. Every time he sits in the cockpit of a fighter jet, Bu Jiawen encourages himself: "As an inheritor of the 'Air Iron Fist Spirit,' one must, like the air combat heroes of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, possess capability and courage!"

One year, Bu Jiawen received orders to fly his fighter jet abroad to execute a joint training mission.

With aircraft from multiple countries competing on the same field, how could one gain the upper hand? When outnumbered, how could one win victory? Faced with many difficulties, Bu Jiawen calmed his mind, and together with his comrades carried out item-by-item simulations and deductions, thoroughly studied platform performance, and sought the opportunity for victory.

Under conditions with no situational support and no command guidance, Bu Jiawen remained calm and collected, detected and intercepted the target from a long distance, hit with the first shot, delivering a"iron fist" to the"enemy." Subsequently, he swiftly directed his wingman to adjust formation, successfully"shooting down" a second"enemy aircraft."

"War will not specially choose to occur on a day with gentle breeze and clear skies." Bu Jiawen often tells young pilots, ""One must temper oneself in harsh environments during peacetime, so that one can remain calm in the face of changing circumstances during wartime." Over these years, he and his comrades have time and again ascended the plateau, flown across the desert, and crossed island chains; their flight routes have grown ever longer, and their confidence in winning battles has grown ever stronger.

"Maintain a vigorous momentum and keep pace with the iterative upgrading of equipment"

The JL-8, the J-7, the J-10... In Bu Jiawen's dormitory bookshelf, a row of aircraft models stands neatly arranged. These are all the aircraft types he has flown, and they also mark his growth trajectory from student pilot to combatant, and then to commander.

Among pilots of the same cohort, Bu Jiawen once set multiple records: the first to fly solo, the first to complete the conversion training to third-generation aircraft, the first to assume combat readiness duty, the first to fly a single aircraft across thousands of kilometers to land at a plateau airfield, becoming the youngest flight brigade captain in his unit...

More than 10 years ago, when he first entered the Air Force Aviation University, Bu Jiawen began systematically studying over a hundred professional courses including aviation theory, navigation calculation, aerial tactics, meteorological knowledge, and others. His classmates from the same cohort recall that in their spare time, they would often see Bu Jiawen staying behind in the self-study room organizing knowledge points, with his textbooks densely covered in notes. In order to master a complex maneuvering maneuver, Bu Jiawen once "flew" continuously for several hours on the simulator; when the instructor urged him to rest, he said:"If I don't practice the maneuver to perfection, I can't sleep soundly."

This tenacity accompanied him into the combat unit.

"In recent years, weapons, equipment, and operational concepts have been iterating and upgrading at an ever faster pace; if one is not careful, one will fall behind." Bu Jiawen said, "The motivation for learning actually comes from pressure; I often spur myself on to maintain a vigorous momentum and keep pace with the iterative upgrading of equipment."

Once, when his unit's equipment system was being updated, he happened to be away executing a mission. When he returned to the unit and participated in confrontation training again, his original"having a certain victory in hand" turned into being"crushed" unilaterally by the opponent. The gap was right before his eyes, anda sense of urgency pressed directly upon his heart.

"To become an outstanding pilot, one must always maintain an assault posture and continuously enrich oneself." During those days, Bu Jiawen worked overtime, pulling his comrades along to study and seek advice, repeatedly drilling, and finally, in the phased training, he once again delivered a"full house" performance.

His comrades around him have witnessed Bu Jiawen's growth. The brigade's political commissar Xu Junwei said that over these years, young pilots, driven by Bu Jiawen's example, have successively taken their positions at the combat posts and pursued their dreams in the skies; their bearing also carries the same temperament: being meticulous, being eager to learn, and refusing to admit defeat.

"On the road to a strong military, there will always be people walking alongside you"

"Why did you choose this moment to turn?""If the warning sounds, do you have a backup plan?" During flight debriefings, Bu Jiawen continuously posed questions to the young pilots.

"In the past, pilots may have been more accustomed to thinking about air combat from an individual perspective." Bu Jiawen said,,"Now, one must place oneself into the 'big chessboard' of joint victory."

Every time a flight ends, another"battle" begins in the debriefing room. Bu Jiawen and his comrades analyze data aircraft by aircraft, reconstruct the decision-making chain of tactical actions, and then conduct cross-validation and confrontation deduction.

During training breaks, Bu Jiawen leads the research topic group into the simulator and data interpretation rooms, deeply studying the technical boundaries of existing equipment, and distilling the experience and methods accumulated in exercises into verifiable, reusable tactical doctrine.

When instructing, Bu Jiawen hands the front cockpit to the young pilot, while he himself sits in the rear cockpit. Pilot Guo Jingyuan said that, unlike his usual acting with great energy and haste, in the cockpit Bu Jiawen speaks with a gentle tone and explains technical essentials with clear logic,"With him behind us, we feel especially at ease."

Receiving the title of"Most Beautiful Revolutionary Soldier of the New Era" has deeply inspired both Bu Jiawen and his comrades. "This honor does not belong only to an individual, but even more to the group that has long stood guard at the frontline of air defense, that silently dedicates itself in military training and combat readiness, and that dares to be the first to do something in tactical and operational innovation." Bu Jiawen said,,"On the road to a strong military, there will always be people walking alongside you. A large number of outstanding young pilots are growing into the backbone of future air command."

Not long ago, Bu Jiawen returned to his alma mater, Jiujiang No. 1 Middle School in Jiangxi Province. Facing more than a thousand junior and senior schoolmates, he shared his growth story:"The most valuable struggle of youth has never been merely about pursuing personal excellence, but even more about integrating one's ideals into the era and dedicating one's youth to the motherland."

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Photo Report

In recent years, Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County in Guilin City, Guangxi, has been relying on ecological advantages (立足生态优势, li zu sheng tai you shi - "stand on, ecology, advantage") to develop the bamboo shoot specialty industry, building dried bamboo shoot processing production lines and expanding online and offline sales channels, thereby driving income growth for the people of the Yao township. The photo shows villagers arranging sun-dried yellow bamboo shoots in Xinan Village, Jiahui Town, Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County, on September 11.

Photo by Liu Jiaoqing (People's Vision)

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Sixth "Join Hands to Realize the Dream — Cross-Strait Compatriots Exchange and Discussion Activity" Held in Xinjiang

(People's Daily, Urumqi, September 11) (Reporter: Han Liqun) The sixth "Join Hands to Realize the Dream — Cross-Strait Compatriots Exchange and Discussion Activity," themed "Peaceful Development, Guarding Our Homeland, United Struggle, Jointly Seeking Rejuvenation," opened on September 11 in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. More than 120 people, including responsible persons and representatives of relevant parties, groups, and organizations from both sides of the Strait, experts and scholars, and representatives of Taiwan compatriots and young Taiwanese, participated in the event.

Song Tao, director of the Taiwan Work Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, stated in his speech at the opening ceremony that General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out that a strong and unified country is always the fate to which all Chinese sons and daughters, including Taiwan compatriots, are bound. Compatriots on both sides of the Strait must forge a sense of community for the Chinese nation (中华民族共同体意识), uphold the one-China principle and the 1992 Consensus, resolutely oppose "Taiwan independence" separatist activities and foreign interference, firmly grasp the future and destiny of the country and nation in the hands of the Chinese people themselves, and work together with one heart to create a bright future of national rejuvenation. Patriotic unification forces on the island, with their hearts tied to the motherland and holding fast to the greater good, are contributing to a cause (添砖加瓦, tian zhuan jia wa - "add brick, add tile") to guarding our common homeland and contributing strength to realizing national unification; the great motherland will always be the strong backing of patriotic unification forces on the island.

Chen Xiaojiang, secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional Party Committee, stated in his speech that, under the leadership and promotion of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, exchanges and cooperation between Xinjiang and Taiwan have continuously advanced toward higher levels, broader fields, and deeper levels. Xinjiang will thoroughly implement the Party's overall strategy for resolving the Taiwan question in the new era and the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements on Taiwan work, uphold the concept that "both sides of the Strait are one family," implement policies and measures that benefit Taiwan compatriots and promote their well-being, deepen practical cooperation in various fields, promote exchanges, interactions, and integration among Taiwan compatriots and people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang, and make greater contributions to deepening cross-Strait integrated development and advancing the great cause of national reunification.

Hong Xiuzhu, former chairman of the Chinese Kuomintang and chairman of the China Youth Qingyan Peace Education Foundation, Wu Rongyuan, chairman of the Taiwan Labor Party, and representatives of young people from both sides of the Strait stated in their speeches that both sides of the Strait belong to one China, the divine land of China is the common homeland of compatriots on both sides of the Strait, and peaceful reunification is the wide and easy path to success (康庄大道, kang zhuang da dao - "broad, wide, great road") for long-term peace and stability in Taiwan. It is necessary to guard the common historical culture and blood ties of compatriots on both sides of the Strait, firmly uphold the identity recognition that "Taiwanese are Chinese," oppose "Taiwan independence" and"de-Sinicization," oppose the instigation and exploitation by external forces, and promote cross-Strait consultation and peaceful reunification. It is necessary to take root among the people, go deep into the masses, and gather strength to guard our common homeland and jointly seek national rejuvenation.

This activity was jointly hosted by the Cross-Strait Relations Research Center and patriotic unification organizations in Taiwan.

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172nd Session of "Hundred-Session Forum on Core Values" Held in Ruijin, Jiangxi

(People's Daily, Ruijin, September 11) (Reporter Yang Yanfei) The 172nd event of the "Hundred-Session Forum on Core Values," co-hosted by the Publicity and Education Bureau of the Central Propaganda Department and the Guangming Daily, was held on the 11th in Ruijin, Jiangxi. This event took as its theme "The Glorious Course and Great Significance of the Red Army's Long March under the Leadership of the Communist Party of China," and Yang Fengcheng, Dean of the Institute of CPC History and Party Building at Renmin University of China, delivered the keynote report.

During the lecture, Yang Fengcheng reviewed the great course of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army carrying out the Long March under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and, in light of major events and heroic feats such as the bloody battle at the Xiang River, the Zunyi Conference, crossing the Chishui River four times, seizing the Luding Bridge by flight, and climbing snow mountains and crossing grasslands, interpreted the rich connotation and contemporary value of the great Long March spirit, and expounded that the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the most fundamental guarantee for the continuous victories of China's revolution, construction, and reform.

Yang Fengcheng stated that the great Long March spirit is an important component of the spiritual pedigree of Chinese Communists, a rich nourishment for core socialist values, has already become deeply fused into the blood and soul of the Chinese nation, and has become a powerful spiritual driving force that constantly inspires the Chinese people to overcoming all kinds of difficulties (攻坚克难, gong jian ke nan - "attack hard, overcome difficulty") and march from victory to victory. The new journey is a new Long March; we must vigorously carry forward the great Long March spirit, walk well the new Long March road with firm conviction, faith, and confidence, and, through practical actions, continue to push forward the great cause pioneered by our revolutionary forebears.

This event was undertaken by the Publicity Department of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and Guangming Online, and co-organized by the Publicity Department of the Ganzhou Municipal Party Committee, the Ruijin Municipal Party Committee, and the Ruijin Municipal People's Government. The Guangming Daily client and Guangming Online conducted a live broadcast of the event.

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Lei Siwei, former Standing Committee member of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and former Vice Governor, expelled from Party and public office for serious disciplinary and legal violations

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 11) (Reporter Shi Yiqi) Upon approval of the CPC Central Committee, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission conducted an investigation and review into the serious disciplinary and legal violations of Lei Siwei, former member of the Standing Committee of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and former Vice Governor of the Provincial People's Government.

The investigation found that Lei Siwei lost his ideals and convictions, forgot his original aspiration and founding mission, was disloyal and dishonest toward the organization, and resisted organizational review; violated the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation by accepting banquets that might affect the fair execution of official duties; violated organizational principles by failing to truthfully explain issues during organizational written inquiries, and by seeking benefits for others in the selection and appointment of cadres and the recruitment of employees; lost the bottom line of integrity, illegally accepted gifts of money, used his authority or the influence of his position to seek benefits for specific related persons, and engaged in power-for-sex transactions; showed no regard for law and discipline, engaged in power-for-money transactions, used his position to seek benefits for others in resource exploration, mining rights approval, environmental monitoring, and job adjustments, and illegally accepted huge amounts of property.

Lei Siwei seriously violated the Party's political discipline, organizational discipline, and integrity discipline, constituted serious duty-related violations and was suspected of the crime of bribery, and after the 18th National Congress of the Party, failing to show any remorse or stop wrongdoing (不收敛、不收手, bu shou lian, bu shou shou - "not restrain, not stop hand"), with a serious nature and adverse impact, and should be dealt with seriously. In accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Regulations of the Communist Party of China on Disciplinary Actions," the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China," and the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Administrative Discipline for Public Officials," and after study by the Standing Committee meeting of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and reporting to the CPC Central Committee for approval, it was decided to expel Lei Siwei from the Party; the National Supervisory Commission was to dismiss him from public office; terminate his qualification as a delegate to the 14th Gansu Provincial Party Congress; confiscate his disciplinary and illegal gains; and transfer the issues suspected of criminal offenses to the procuratorial authorities for review and prosecution in accordance with the law, with the involved property transferred together.

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Li Xu, former Standing Committee member of the Party Committee and Deputy Commander of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, expelled from the Party and dismissed from public office for serious disciplinary and legal violations

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 11) (Reporter: Shi Yiqi) Upon approval of the CPC Central Committee, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission conducted an investigation and review into the serious disciplinary and legal violations of Li Xu, former member of the Party Committee Standing Committee and deputy commander of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.

The investigation found that Li Xu lost his ideals and convictions, betrayed his original aspiration and founding mission, engaged in political speculation, cultivated ties with political swindlers, and long engaged in superstitious activities; disregarded the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation, accepted banquets that might affect the impartial execution of official duties, accepted vehicles and driver services provided free of charge by private business owners, and had expenses that should have been paid by himself paid by others; violated organizational principles, failed to report personal matters as required, sought benefits for others in cadre promotions and staff recruitment, and failed to truthfully explain matters during organizational written inquiries; lost the bottom line of integrity, illegally accepted gifts and cash gifts; showed no regard for law or discipline, was extremely greedy and insatiable (贪婪无度, tan lan wu du - "greedy, without limit"), turned public power into a tool for seeking personal gain, used his position to seek benefits for others in equipment procurement, engineering project contracting, land use nature changes, and other matters, and illegally accepted huge amounts of property.

Li Xu seriously violated the Party's political discipline, organizational discipline, integrity discipline, and life discipline, constituted serious duty-related violations and is suspected of bribery crimes, and moreover, after the 18th National Congress of the Party, he did not restrain himself or stop his wrongdoing; the nature is serious, the impact is adverse, and he should be dealt with severely. In accordance with the "Regulations on Disciplinary Actions of the Communist Party of China," the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China," the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Administrative Discipline for Public Officials," and other relevant provisions, upon deliberation at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and with approval of the CPC Central Committee, it was decided to expel Li Xu from the Party; the National Supervisory Commission gave him the sanction of dismissal from public office; terminated his qualifications as delegate to the 10th Party Congress of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, delegate to the 8th Party Congress of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, and delegate to the 8th Party Congress of the 9th Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps; confiscated his disciplinary and illegal gains; and transferred the suspected criminal matters to procuratorial organs for review and prosecution according to law, with the involved property transferred together.

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Xi Jinping’s Key Quotes on Advancing BRICS Cooperation

Practicing multilateralism, defending fairness and justice

History has shown us that multilateralism is what the people aspire to and where the general trend is headed, and that it is an important pillar for world peace and development.

— Speech at the virtual summit of BRICS leaders, September 8, 2025

We must be a stabilizing force for safeguarding peace, strengthen global security governance, and explore solutions to hotspot issues that address both symptoms and root causes (标本兼治, biaoben jianzhi -"mark, sample, treat, cure"). I have proposed the Global Security Initiative, which has received positive responses from all parties and has already achieved important results in multiple areas such as maintaining regional stability.

— Speech at the "BRICS Plus" leaders' dialogue, October 24, 2024

History tells us that peace is the common cause of humanity and requires the joint striving and safeguarding of all parties. Only when everyone cherishes peace and upholds peace, only when everyone remembers the painful lessons of war, can there be hope for peace. Facing a turbulent and unstable world, we must not forget the original aspiration of the UN Charter and bear in mind the mission of safeguarding peace.

— Keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the BRICS Business Forum, June 22, 2022

Facing the contest between multilateralism and unilateralism, between justice and hegemony, BRICS countries must firmly uphold international fairness and justice, hold high the banner of multilateralism, defend the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, uphold the international system with the United Nations at its core, and uphold the international order based on international law.

— Speech at the 12th meeting of BRICS leaders, November 17, 2020

The ancient Chinese said: "When one finds the right way in friendship, even a thousand li apart, they share the same aspirations, as firmly bonded as glue and lacquer, as solid as metal and stone." The reason BRICS cooperation has developed rapidly lies precisely in finding the right way of cooperation. This means: mutual respect and mutual assistance, jointly following development paths suited to each country's national conditions; upholding the spirit of openness, inclusiveness, cooperation and win-win, persistently advancing economic, political, and cultural cooperation; advocating international fairness and justice, working together with one heart for mutual benefit (和衷共济, he zhong gong ji -"harmony, heart, together, help") with other emerging market countries and developing countries to jointly create a favorable external environment.

— Speech at the plenary session of the BRICS leaders' Xiamen meeting, September 4, 2017

The in-depth development of world multipolarization, economic globalization, cultural diversification, and social informatization has made the law of the jungle (弱肉强食, ruo rou qiang shi -"weak, meat, strong, eat") of the survival of the fittest and the zero-sum game of "you lose, I win" no longer conform to the logic of the times; peace, development, cooperation, and win-win have become the common call of the people of all countries.

— Speech at the opening ceremony of the BRICS Business Forum, September 3, 2017

Upholding openness and win-win, pooling strength for development

Economic globalization is an unstoppable historical trend. The development of all countries cannot be separated from an international environment of openness and cooperation; no one can retreat back into the isolated island of self-seclusion. No matter how the international situation changes, we must unswerving and persistently (坚定不移, jian ding bu yi -"firm, steadfast, not, move") promote the building of an open world economy, sharing opportunities and achieving win-win outcomes through openness.

— Speech at the virtual summit of BRICS leaders, September ️8, 2025

The "Global South" arose for development and has prospered because of development. We must be a backbone force for common development, actively participate in and lead the reform of the global economic governance system, and promote placing development at the center of the international economic and trade agenda.

— Speech at the "BRICS Plus" leaders' dialogue, October 24, 2024

BRICS countries must be fellow travelers on the road to development and revitalization, opposing "decoupling and severing supply chains" and economic coercion. We must focus on practical cooperation, especially in areas such as the digital economy, green development, and supply chains, promoting exchanges and interactions in economic, trade, financial, and fiscal fields.

— Speech at the 15th meeting of BRICS leaders, August 23, 2023

"**Mount Tai does not refuse soil, therefore it can become great; "rivers and seas do not reject small streams, therefore they can become deep" (Mount Tai does not reject even a handful of soil, therefore it can become great; rivers and seas do not select even small streams, therefore they can achieve their depth)Inclusiveness, universal benefit, mutual benefit, and win-win are the true path of the world. We must uphold openness and inclusiveness, remove all barriers hindering the development of productive forces, guide and promote the healthy development of globalization, let capital and technology flow freely, let innovation and wisdom fully emerge, and pool the collective forces for world economic growth.

— Keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the BRICS Business Forum, June ️22, 2022

Open cooperation is the inevitable logic of scientific and technological progress and the development of productive forces. Trade wars are inadvisable, because there will be no winners. Economic hegemonism is even more unacceptable, because it will harm the common interests of the international community and, in the end, will lift a rock only to drop it on one's own feet.

— Speech at the BRICS Business Forum, July ️25, ️2018

The development of emerging market countries and developing countries is not about moving someone else's cheese, but about striving to make the cake of the world economy bigger. We must jointly guide the direction of economic globalization, provide more advanced concepts and public goods, promote the establishment of a more balanced and inclusive governance model and rules, and promote the optimization and reshaping of the international division of labor system and global value chains.

— Speech at the opening ceremony of the BRICS Business Forum, September ️3, ️2017

Deepening people-to-people and cultural exchanges, promoting mutual learning among civilizations

Diverse civilizations are the true colors of the world. We must be a force promoting mutual learning among civilizations, enhance communication and dialogue, and support each other in following modernization paths suited to each country's national conditions. I have proposed the Global Civilization Initiative, precisely to promote the building of a world garden of civilizations where achieving common prosperity through mutual appreciation (美美与共, mei mei yu gong -"beautiful, beautiful,with, share") prevails.

— Speech at the"BRICS Plus" leaders' dialogue, October ️24, ️2024

BRICS countries bring together profound histories and splendid cultures. We must actively advocate the coexistence of different civilizations through inclusiveness, strengthen exchanges of governance experience, tap the cooperation potential in fields such as education, sports, and the arts, let different civilizations complement each other's brilliance, illuminating the path forward for BRICS.

— Speech at the 16th meeting of BRICS leaders, October ️23, ️2024

Civilizations are colorful and diverse, development paths are pluralistic and varied — this is how the world should be. Human history will not end with a single civilization or a single system. BRICS countries must carry forward the spirit of greatness through broad-mindedness and inclusivity (海纳百川, hai na bai chuan -"sea, accept, hundred, rivers"), advocate the peaceful coexistence and harmonious integration of different civilizations, and respect each country's independently chosen path to modernization.

— Speech at the 15th meeting of BRICS leaders, August ️23, ️2023

A single flower cannot adorn a beautiful spring; only when a flourishing state of diverse development (百花齐放, bai hua qi fang -"hundred, flowers, all, bloom") prevails can the world be filled with spring's splendor. Diversity is the true nature of human civilization. Precisely because countries differ in history, culture, and systems, is it necessary to engage in exchange, mutual learning, drawing on each other's strengths, and jointly progress. Deliberately clamoring for the binary opposition of so-called"democracy versus authoritarianism"and"freedom versus autocracy"can only cause division in the world and conflict among civilizations.

— Address at the closing ceremony of the 2023 BRICS Business Forum, August ️22, ️2023

The history of human social development is a history of diverse civilizations coexisting and advancing together. Different countries, regions, nations, histories, religions, and customs, complementing each other's brilliance and mutually reinforcing each other, jointly delineate this splendid and diverse (精彩纷呈, jing cai fen cheng -"brilliant, colorful, profusely, present") world.

— Speech at the open session of the BRICS leaders' Brasilia meeting, November ️14, ️2019

We should give play to the bonding role of people-to-people and cultural exchanges, bring together people from all walks of life in the cause of BRICS cooperation, create more down-to-earth and practical (接地气, jie di qi -"connect, earth, air") activities that benefit people's livelihoods, such as cultural festivals, film festivals, and sports meets, let BRICS stories spread through every street and alley, let the exchanges and friendships among the people of our five countries converge into mighty rivers, injecting an inexhaustible source of momentum into BRICS cooperation.

— Speech at the opening ceremony of the BRICS Business Forum, September ️3, ️2017

Strengthening solidarity and cooperation, improving global governance

BRICS countries account for nearly half of the world's population, approximately 30 percent of global economic output, and one-fifth of world trade, bringing together a"great treasure trove,"a"great factory,"anda"great market." The closer BRICS cooperation becomes, the greater the confidence, the more the methods, and the better the results in responding to external risks and challenges.

— Speech at the virtual summit of BRICS leaders, September ️8, ️2025

No matter how the international situation changes, China always has the"Global South" at heart, takes root in the"Global South,"and supports more"Global South" countries in joining the BRICS cause as full members, partner countries, or through"BRICS Plus" formats, pooling the mighty strength of the"Global South"to jointly promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

— Speech at the"BRICS Plus" leaders' dialogue, October ️24, ️2024

The greater the storms of the times, the more we must bravely ride the tide, with unyielding determination, pioneering courage, and wisdom to discern change and respond to it, turning BRICS into a major channel promoting solidarity and cooperation among the"Global South"anda vanguard force advancing the transformation of global governance.

— Speech at the 16th meeting of BRICS leaders, October ️23, ️2024

Strengthening global governance is the correct choice for the international community to share development opportunities and respond to global challenges. International rules must be jointly written and jointly upheld by all, in accordance with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter; it cannot be that whoever has the thickest arms or the loudest voice gets to call the shots. Still less can anyone gang up to package their own"family rules and gang regulations"as international rules.

— Speech at the 15th meeting of BRICS leaders, August ️23, ️2023

One arrow is easy to break, but ten arrows are hard to snap. We should leverage our respective advantages and influence, promote South-South cooperation and North-South dialogue, pool the collective strength of all countries, and join hands to respond to risks and challenges. We should expand the radiating and beneficiary scope of BRICS cooperation, promote the"BRICS Plus" cooperation model, build an open and diverse network of development partners, and let more emerging market countries and developing countries participate in the cause of solidarity, cooperation, mutual benefit, and win-win.

— Speech at the opening ceremony of the BRICS Business Forum, September ️3,, ️2017

True gold does not fear the fire of trial. The meaning and value of partnership lie not only in jointly celebrating success during favorable times, but even more in walking forward hand-in-hand during adversity. As long as we strengthen confidence and enhance coordination, our cooperation will surely ride the wind and waves, pierce through clouds and mist, letting the world gain a new understanding of the quality of BRICS countries.

— Remarks at the informal meeting of BRICS leaders, November ️15,, ️2015

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Runze Technology Deepens Intelligent Computing Power, Empowering All Industries

Runze Technology is a leading domestic provider of computing power infrastructure and intelligent computing power services, focusing on providing large-scale, green, and intelligent advanced computing power infrastructure and intelligent computing power services for China's artificial intelligence industry. It has successfully deployed 9 AIDC (Artificial Intelligence Computing Center) industrial clusters, deeply empowering the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of all walks of life (千行百业, qian hang bai ye - "thousand, industry, hundred, business").

Data source: Runze Intelligent Computing Technology Group Co., Ltd.

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Lanqin Throat Lozenges: Refreshingly Effective!

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At 53 Degrees North Latitude, the Hottest Land in the Coldest North (My City and I)

By: 马元春

53 is a number, but for Mohe it carries a special significance. Here lies China's northernmost geographic extreme at 53 degrees north latitude, and here too is preserved the extreme record of minus 53 degrees Celsius. The longest snow season, the coolest summer, and the northernmost location — these are the unique endowments of this land.

The bond with a city begins with a naive encounter, matures through half a lifetime of companionship, and returns to a lifetime of deep affection. For me, Mohe, this border city standing at the northernmost tip of the motherland's territory, has gathered a full 50 years of my life's time. My path of growth has always resonated at the same frequency with the transformation, rebirth, and development of this extreme-north small city.

Mohe's wind, Mohe's snow, Mohe's sea of forests and river of stars — these nourished my childhood, tempered my character, and forged my original aspiration. My story with Mohe is a story of a person and a land embracing each other with deep feeling, and moreover a microcosm of the era in which this forest-sea border city emerged from a trial or catastrophe with renewed vigor (浴火重生, yu huo zhong sheng - "bathe, fire, reborn") and pursued light toward revitalization.

When I was young, I followed my elders to the northern frontier forest region to reclaim land and build, and my bond with the northern frontier originated in that era of forest-sea land reclamation. I settled with my father, who devoted himself to forest-region construction, in what was then called Gulian District. When I first arrived, I set foot on the primary school campus and spent my days wandering among a stretch of ancient pines and old trees that were then called the "scenic forest." The breeze among the trees brushed my face, the pine shadows stayed green through all four seasons, and the eyes were filled with tranquility and seclusion; there were also various wild mountain fruits and mountain flowers of many colors in the forest. However, young and naive as I was, I only knew that I was in a sea of forests, enjoying the days, utterly unaware that this land accompanying me day and night was precisely the solemnly marked northernmost extreme of the motherland on the geography textbook.

The sound of childhood reading aloud still lingers in my ears: how vast our motherland is, from Zengmu Ansha in the south to Mohe on the Heilongjiang in the north. The land's magnificent contours and vast territory were deeply engraved on my heart. But back then, I could never connect the tranquil forest-sea small city before my eyes with the extraordinary northernmost coordinate in the textbook. In 1981, upon formal approval by the State Council, Mohe County was established. The place name was fixed and the territory was registered on the map, but young as I was, I was utterly unaware that the place where I dwelled was precisely the Divine Land's North Pole. It was only when I truly came to understand this land in later years that this understanding came through the sedimentation of years — and moreover was the result of suffering tempered by ordeal

In 1987, an extraordinarily large forest fire swept through the sea of forests. At that time I was still studying, and like tens of thousands of fellow townsfolk, I witnessed the homeland suffering severe devastation and the forest sea enduring catastrophe. However, Mohe, surviving the disaster, did not sink into despair, nor did it halt its steps. The entire city's people united with one heart and strength, rebuilt their homes, and upon the scorched earth once again created a forest sea and rebuilt a new city. This resilient and unyielding city completed a soul-stirring emerging from a trial or catastrophe with renewed vigor. And it was precisely from this city's wounds and rise that I began to face the land beneath my feet squarely and understand the weight of the northern frontier's mountains and rivers.

As years grew, so did my aspirations. I started from youth work, and then delved deeply into the propaganda, culture, and media front. Looking back at my childhood naivety, I suddenly realized: this land where I lived, grew, and loved was precisely the sacred territory at the northernmost tip of the motherland. Half a lifetime of immersion, day-and-night companionship, made me increasingly understand the poet Ai Qing's heartfelt confession in "I Love This Land": ""Why do my eyes always hold tears? Because I love this land so deeply……"" I often ask my heart: has this deep love long ago entered my bones? The answer lies in every heartfelt telling. Over the years, I have told visitors from all directions Mohe's stories of land reclamation, rebirth, and natural scenery. Many guests from afar first came to know Mohe precisely through these sincere introductions and explanations. The listeners' heartfelt exclamations, one after another, made me feel even more deeply: Mohe's beauty deserves to be seen, to be heard, and to be treasured.

Half a lifetime passes in the blink of an eye (弹指一挥间, tan zhi yi hui jian - "flick, finger, one, wave, interval"). Over the past decades, I have witnessed a small border town's magnificent butterfly-like transformation. In my childhood memory, Mohe was remote and vast, with slow horse-and-cart traffic, and only one green-skinned train connecting it to the outside world; now the mountains and rivers have taken on a new look. Direct trains from the provincial capital run back and forth multiple times daily, and forest-sea transportation now extends in all directions (四通八达, si tong ba da - "four, connect, eight, reach"). In 2008, Mohe Airport was successfully opened to traffic, thoroughly opening up a brand-new pattern of opening-up for this northern frontier city. Scenes I dared not imagine in my youth have now all been realized on the ground.

The small city's revitalization bears abundant fruits. The possessing unique natural advantages (得天独厚, de tian du hou - "obtain, heaven, unique, generous") cold-region black soil and primeval forests have nurtured unique forest treasures. Mohe ice-blue blueberries and Arctic ice wine, relying on their superior quality, have become ecological calling cards of the northern frontier renowned across the country. High-quality polar cold-spring resources have brought natural spring water from deep in the forest sea to all parts of the country. Based on its unique natural extreme-cold endowment, the "dual cold industries" have been developed here: on one hand, strengthening the cold-region testing industry, providing extreme-cold testing scenarios for automobiles, electronics, and new materials; on the other hand, developing northern medicine cultivation, nurturing cold-region dragon-medicine authentic herbs such as red peony and golden lotus flower. The extreme-cold natural endowment has been transformed into development momentum that enriches the people and revitalizes the city.

Mohe, having weathered storms of wind and rain, is firmly committed to the path of ecological development, having become a vivid site of practice for the concepts that"lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets"and"ice and snow are also invaluable assets."A renowned border city, standing quietly in the forest sea, with the ice-and-snow spectacle of water splashing into ice — what was once a bitter-cold frontier has now become the poetry and distant places that people yearn for and rush toward. Visitors from all directions come here, chasing light and meeting the river of stars, watching the stars to purify their hearts, playing in the snow to delight in the passing years, and in the ultimate pure polar scenery, they settle their souls and encounter beauty.

Half a lifetime dwelling at the North Pole, a bosom full of deep affection devoted to the border city. I and this city have long been fused in blood and shared a common destiny. I have seen its poverty during pioneering land reclamation, its wounds after enduring catastrophe, and I have personally experienced its soaring spirit of nirvana-like rebirth and its vigorous, surging present day.

Years are silent, but mountains and rivers carry their message. Mohe — though the city is not large, it has given me nourishment, fulfillment, and ten thousand kinds of warmth. Though located at the northernmost frontier, it is the passionately cherished land of my heart, lingering in my dreams. For the rest of my life, I am willing to take root in this fertile soil at the northernmost tip of the motherland, to keep watch over the extreme-north mountains and rivers, and to tell well Mohe's stories of ecology, of development, and of revitalization.

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Geography and the Literary Mind (Reflections on Writing)

By: 刘大先

The clear and refined elegance of Jiangdong, the steadfast and unyielding fortitude of Heshuo, the fine horses and west wind of the northern frontier beyond the passes, the apricot blossoms and misty rain of the Jiangnan water towns — the learning of northerners is profound, comprehensive, and broad, while that of southerners is clear, penetrating, concise, and essential... When regional cultural differences are mentioned, these highly condensed phrases and sentences involuntarily leap into one's mind. They have become the imagistic externalizations that describe the cultural differences between north and south.

Mountain forests and highlands, marshes and great rivers, wildernesses and northern deserts, gobi deserts and snowy plains — these give birth to different geographical aesthetics, and people, relying on their instinctive apprehension of the differences in water, soil, climate, and customs, produce different ways of expressing feelings and meaning. "Each season has its own things, and each thing has its own appearance; feelings move with the things, and words issue forth from the feelings" — aided by the climate, products, and scenery of nature, people thus produce aesthetic concepts of rich and varied appearance, and thereby also give rise to such different northern and southern literary traditions as the Book of Songs and the Li Sao.

However, nature does not act directly upon literature, but rather functions through the intermediary of different human customs and mores. The Book of Rites says, "Because of the cold, heat, dampness, and dryness of heaven and earth, the broad valleys and great rivers produce different patterns. The people who live among them have different customs." As for what is called "customs and mores," the ancients' view was: "The land, water, and springs, the qi being slow or urgent, the sounds being high or low — this is called 'feng' (customs); people dwelling in this land, practicing until it becomes their nature — this is called 'su' (mores)." When the ancients collected poems, it was also to observe circumstances and gauge customs, to understand popular sentiment, folkways, and the hearts of the people.

The main body of customs and mores is the people — that is to say, no matter how magnificent the mountains and rivers or how fashionable the trends onto which the roots of culture and the foundations of literature externally project themselves, internally they are all the expression of the people's hearts. They constitute the emotional anchor, the foundation of identity, and the cohesion of spirit. The people are forever a endlessly renewing or growing (生生不息, sheng sheng bu xi - "birth, birth, not, stop") existence, filled with inexhaustible potential, and therefore the people's literature also becomes an infinite landscape.

In the pre-modern period, the heaven-man-unity-style analogizing about nature and literary writing, in the slow agricultural era, formed a stable accumulation of collective memory, so much so that whenever people mention literary style, they often have the above intuitive impression. However, all of this has also been influencing someone or something imperceptibly (潜移默化, qian yi mo hua - "subtly, move, silently, transform") through travel for study, taking up official posts, doing business, trade, war, and migration — a powerful writer, even if he grows out of a certain natural and social environment, has never been confined by that piece of land. Since modern times, the speed of social change and the flow of population and information have both accelerated, and it has already become difficult to bind a certain folkway or temperament to a certain region; in fact, regional culture itself has been continuously discarding the old to embrace the new (吐故纳新, tu gu na xin - "spit, old, take, new"), giving rise to characteristics corresponding to the times.

I once heard a scholar who studies the Western Regions lecture on the characteristics of Chinese historical geography, saying it is "east-west communication, north-south confrontation." Roughly speaking, from the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties through the Qin, the main thrust was east-west integration, with the core region being the Guanzhong and North China Plain area centered on Luoyang; from the Han through the Ming and Qing dynasties, the main thrust was north-south competition. However, the so-called east, west, south, and north geographical divisions are also relative and shifting, continuously evolving as history moves forward.

Beyond the north-south differences, viewed over the long duration, the overall trend of Chinese culture has been a movement eastward and a migration southward. The Southern Song can serve as the dividing line in the changes of ancient Chinese capital cities: before it was the Central Plains period, when the political center was basically in the Guanzhong Plain through the Zhongzhou Plain area; after it was the near-sea period, when it moved from Kaifeng to Hangzhou, and in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties the capitals moved along the Nanjing-Beijing line — this is a north-south fluctuation against the background of an eastward movement. Both sides of the Great Wall, the East China Sea, and the Western Regions have all become homelands of the Chinese people.

Culturally, long-accumulated habits, having persisted to this day, have already become a kind of unconscious existence — especially in literature, the difference between northern and southern styles is directly and intuitively presented in imagistic form. In the contemporary literary trend of "local writing," two extremely conspicuous ones are the "New South" and the "New Northeast" — even under circumstances where transportation is so convenient and the exchange of people and information is so frequent and close, they still display possessing outstanding elegance or style (风采卓异, feng cai zhuo yi - "wind, color, outstanding, different") aesthetics, and those memories and legacies left by the past still, in a nostalgic manner, become effective resources for constructing local cultural images and identities. There are also the "New Frontier," the "New Beijing," the "New Zhejiang School," and the "New Native Soil" — all of these are cases of upholding fundamental principles and break new ground based on the tradition of the literary vein.

The late-Qing ci poet Kuang Zhouyi said in his Huifeng Cihua: "I listen to the wind and rain, I gaze upon the rivers and mountains, and I often feel that beyond the wind, rain, rivers, and mountains there is something that cannot be helped." I believe that "something that cannot be helped" is the "literary heart." Nature, customs, and the people are interwoven within the "literary heart," causing people to continue to hold confidence in literature, which appears to have diminished influence in this era — it shifts form and changes shape, old trees putting forth new sprouts, appearing in a different guise within the context of the internet, constituting the infinite landscape of the new era's literature and art.

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Mother and Infant

By: 杨建仁

When I touch you

The thumping pulse of your sandstone body

The entire river is flowing through my fingers

Winding into a magnificent and grand in scale (波澜壮阔, bo lan zhuang kuo - "waves, surge; grand, vast") scroll

The deeply moving or soul-stirring (荡气回肠, dang qi hui chang - "shake the spirit, return the intestines") bends of nine turns and eighteen curves

Flooding over the Bronze Age

You bend down in a posture of sedimentation

Making every whirlpool a cradle

Silt crystallizes into constellations in your blood vessels

Beginning to shine and glow

Fetal movement arches up from the depths of the riverbed

The first vivid ray of dawn

I was once a small fish swimming between your ribs

Breathing in azure reveries through my gills

And now from the granite

The steaming hot milk that overflows

Is the purest rice broth

That nourishes the entire mountains and rivers

Mother, you are tranquil as a mountain

Holding vastness in your bosom, your gaze full of kindness

Always accustomed to the reclining posture of nursing

Causing the entire plateau to incline toward the sea

When migratory birds time and again carry back

The salty and bitter tidings of the river mouth

New tributaries are rushing from your shoulder blades

Toward a horizon that is no longer distant

Tonight, riding the long wind of ten thousand li

I hear waves crashing against the sky on the stones

I see that in every inch of skin

There shines the moonlight

As ancient as the Yellow River itself

The ebb and flow of events or time (潮起潮落, chao qi chao luo - "tide, rise; tide, fall") of five thousand years

The image of a mother carved out

In the disk of body temperature

Forever stored

Is the scalding first cry of an infant

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The Magnet

By: 朱宜尧

Old Shi was working underneath the car. I crouched down and watched him. He craned his neck, his gaze roaming between the side frame and the underside of the car, scanning the bogies, the brake beams, and every component bit by bit. The sound of the hammer fell, and his ears took in the sounds of the hammer striking each part. The inspection work was carried out with extremely conscientious and thorough care (一丝不苟, yi si bu gou - "one, thread, not, meticulous").

I had heard Old Shi give an introduction of his experience before. That time, he was wearing a dark blue work uniform, looking like he had just come back from the field, and hurried onto the stage. He did not know what to say, and the director beside him helped him out of the fix: "Just talk about how you work!"

Old Shi opened up the floodgates of talk, starting with the work uniform. "Do any of you know, when a newcomer comes to train inspection, which part of the work uniform wears out the fastest?" Among the newly hired people in the audience, some said "the cuffs," some said "the collar" or "the front placket." None of the answers were right. I gathered my courage and said: "The back of the work uniform." Old Shi said: "Right!" That year I was doing practical inspection training in the passenger-car depot, and when I crawled under the car, the back of my uniform got accidentally scraped open in a triangular tear. The next day at roll call before work, the tear was still not sewn up, and the trainees in the back row were laughing uncontrollably (大笑不止, da xiao bu zhi - "great, laugh, not, stop"). Old Shi, who never acts in an unconventional or unpredictable manner (不按套路出牌, bu an tao lu chu pai - "not, follow, routine, play, cards"), talked about his own working method — the "three methods" of train inspection, the "scanning eye," the "listening ear," and the "ape-like body." I remembered him at once.

Old Shi's nickname was "Magnet Stone." In the summer, the temperature in the freight-train practice yard reached as high as fifty to sixty degrees Celsius. While others took breaks in between, he seemed wound up like a spring, from on top of the car to under the car including the underside, as if he were stuck to the car. Sweat beads crawled down his face, and the back of his clothes was soaked through a large patch. His fellow workers gave him this nickname. On the day of the skills competition, he was the only inspector who found all 10 faults, and some of the faults were especially well hidden. Old Shi's reputation thus grew greatly.

I had also heard another thing. The leadership made Old Shi the workshop technician, using the "master-apprentice" method to hold the technical pass on freight-car maintenance, but he was unwilling to go. This was a chance to transfer to a cadre position. Later the leadership again wanted him to take charge of the whole section's vocational education work, and he still would not go. Opportunities seeking out a person — such cushy assignments — Old Shi gave up both of these times. No one could understand this "stubborn piece of wood and stone."

On the day I interviewed Old Shi, it was raining, so there was no way to watch him work. When the weather cleared, Old Shi went home to see his mother. I had met his mother once before. That year I lived in the railway dormitory, and I saw a woman coming to see her child, whose left leg had been amputated below the knee. She had come by bicycle, and on the right pedal of the bicycle there was a hemp rope, used to fasten her right foot, so as to make pedaling easier. When she pedaled, her shoulders lurched left and right, very laboriously. I heard people say that was Old Shi's mother.

Later, I finally went with Old Shi to the work team, and followed him on his rounds. After working for a while, someone called out: "Master, the shift chief on duty is calling you." Old Shi left, and I chatted with his apprentice, the person before me being Old Shi's thirty-second apprentice to have signed a master-apprentice contract. As the saying goes, "Teach the apprentice and starve the master," but Old Shi, however, taught everything he knew with great generosity (倾囊相授, qing nang xiang shou - "empty, bag, towards, teach"). Among his apprentices, some had become deputy section chiefs, some had become full-time technical staff, some had become full-time education staff, and even more had become technicians and team leaders.

After Old Shi came back, I asked him about the matter of his promotion back then. Old Shi sighed with emotion. That year his family had a car accident, his father passed away, his mother lay in the hospital, anda large part of the family's expenses fell on his shoulders. It happened to be right at the critical juncture of the winter transport season, and finding faults came with rewards from the section — one month's reward equaled two months' wages, which was more than being a technician.

Over the years, with technological improvements, the working model had also changed, and some train inspectors had gone to the track maintenance section or the train crew section, but Old Shi, relying on his skills, had held onto his post. Now, his child had been admitted to a fairly good university, his wife had newly started a housekeeping services company, his mother's health was still fairly sturdy, and life was improving in every way. Speaking of all this, Old Shi was beaming with high spirits and animation (神采飞扬, shen cai fei yang - "spirit, color, fly, soar").

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Photo Report

Chinese painting Autumn Wild Ducks, by Lin Fengmian, in the collection of the National Art Museum of China.

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The Expressions of Small Shops

By: 肖复兴

There are many small shops near my home. Though called small shops, they really are not large at all, selling fruits, vegetables, or cold drinks and bread, and there are also a few barbershops and laundries, making daily life convenient for the people living in the residential compound.

Over the past few years, some of these small shops have closed, some have persisted, and some have newly opened, rising and falling without pause. Looking at the small shops, one can see the economic situation and the ups and downs of people's moods. This is not only reflected through the shops themselves, but can also be sensed from the shopping baskets and faces of the people entering and leaving the shops, as well as from the few words exchanged among them. It can be said that the small shops are the living room of the residential compound's residents, and also their emoji pack.

Among these small shops, I often go to two. Both are inside the residential compound. One is a vegetable shop, the other a bakery, and both have been open for quite a few years now.

The vegetable shop has been around even longer, run by a brother and sister from Hebei. The sister's husband works in Hubei, and the sister deliberately stayed in Beijing to help her brother open the shop. The small shop has always had strong foot traffic; the produce selection is complete and fresh. Southern seasonal vegetables rarely found in ordinary small shops, such as water caltrops, fox nuts, and fish mint, are also stocked. This sets it apart from the supermarkets around it.

The bakery operates with the shop in front and the workshop in back; though called a workshop, it is really just a small room for baking bread. The small shop is run by a young woman, who has hired a master baker responsible for baking. The small shop does not have many varieties of bread, but the quality is decent and suits my taste. In particular, a kind of highland barley bread has a distinctive flavor. There is also an orange-flavored cookie that the young woman specifically recommended to me, saying that a small tin of cookies requires four oranges to make. The small shop offers a discount every day after 5 p.m. I often go there to buy bread, and gradually became familiar with the young woman.

In the spring of a few years ago, the bakery closed. This made me somewhat disappointed. After the bakery closed, that spot remained empty for a long time. Not long ago, someone took it over and opened a beauty salon, but it is far less thriving than the bakery was.

The vegetable shop has kept persisting in staying open. Only now, it has changed its rules: it no longer sells vegetables, only fruits and seafood. The fruits are mainly southern fruits such as durian, mangosteen, and pineapple; the seafood is mainly crabs, large shrimp, and oysters. Moreover, everything is group-buy: the small shop and the people in the residential compound all communicate through WeChat; the shop first posts pictures and short videos of the goods it intends to stock on Moments, orders goods according to the quantities everyone orders on WeChat, and after the goods arrive, notifies everyone to pick them up, leaving no backlog. The small shop, which used to be bustling with people coming and going, now has only the younger brother busy with everything from front to back. Though called busy, ordering, stocking, and selling are all accomplished through a single mobile phone, far simpler and lighter than selling vegetables used to be—even the cash register has been dispensed with. The younger brother told me that his sister's daughter is now in high school and will take the college entrance exam next year, so his sister has returned to Hubei to reunite with her family.

The small shops around me open and close just like this: quite a few have closed, more remain open, and new ones keep opening—successive waves of people stepping forward (前赴后继, qian fu hou ji - "front, advance; back, follow"). At the edge of the residential compound, a small shop has newly opened. Where previously, like a revolving lantern, there had been a clothing store, a food store, a prepared fish-and-meat products store, a housing agency, anda children's painting class. The old sign in front of the door has been removed, and no new sign has been hung; the door stands wide open, like Jiang Taigong fishing—waiting for those willing to take the bait.

I was somewhat curious and went into the shop to see what was going on. Inside the shop there was only a young girl, with shelves above and below the counter stocked with some daily necessities like oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and bottled water. Only then did I learn that a few young people run a small farm—that is, they rent a plot of land in the countryside, grow their own vegetables, and sell what they produce themselves. The small shop had been newly rented not long ago; every Thursday orders are placed online, and on Saturday the farm drives the goods over in fixed quantities, with everyone coming to the shop to pay and pick up their goods. The girl took out a few tomatoes, a cucumber, and two pointed peppers from the basket, letting me taste them for free. They grow only these three kinds of vegetables and sell only these three kinds of vegetables.

I tasted all three kinds of vegetables. The flavor was good, especially the tomatoes, which had more of a tomato taste than the fruit tomatoes and Provence tomatoes sold in supermarkets. Though the price is somewhat higher than at the supermarket, quite a few people buy them.

Every Saturday, the small shop is full of vitality, like a fine play being staged. When picking up goods, people come and go in the small shop, all praising how capable they are and how good these three kinds of vegetables are. If someone happens to arrive late, the young girl will also keep waiting. The small shop keeps its lights on, with the orange-yellow lamplight flickering, very warm.

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Pea He-le Noodles

By: 马毅杰

"Boss lady, add a portion of noodles!" "Coming right up!"

"Boss lady, give me another serving too." "It'll be ready in a moment!"

This restaurant, which specializes in pea he-le noodles, is not large in size and is run by a middle-aged couple. The wife is warm and capable, the husband is simple and steady, and together they keep the small shop clean and tidy.

Shanxi is the hometown of noodles, and noodle shops are ubiquitous or very common (比比皆是, bi bi jie shi - "compare, compare, all, are"), yet restaurants specializing in pea noodles are rarely seen. Back when I was sent to the countryside as an educated youth in the Lüliang Mountains, I ate pea noodles at a local family's home. Peas are a traditional minor coarse grain of the Loess Plateau; ground pea flour is dense in texture, slightly yellow in color, and has a somewhat rough feel. It is rich in dietary fiber and contains a variety of minerals, but pea flour lacks stickiness and is difficult to make into thin, long noodles. For this reason, the cooks varied their methods, making it into shorter forms of noodles such as "min jian" or "ca jian," or baking it on an iron griddle into "thick flatbreads" to take along as dry rations when going out. Decades have passed, and I can still recall the taste of pea noodles.

The boss lady greeted us warmly, saying there were versions with braised sauce, dry-mixed, stir-fried with meat, and stewed with vegetables, and that all of them were delicious. My wife and I both chose the signature braised-meat-sauce noodles, which were not expensive, at 13 yuan for a large bowl.

Before long, the braised-meat-sauce noodles arrived. In the bowl, the fine, round, golden noodles, each strand distinct, were soaked in a dark red sauce, topped with pieces of pork with alternating fat and lean, and garnished with a few slices of green vegetables. This bowl of pea he-le noodles was chewy and smooth; I had intended to eat slowly and chew carefully, but I could not help eating in big mouthfuls, and a large bowl of noodles was gone before I knew it.

At this point, the boss lady came over and asked, "Would you two like to add more noodles?" I said no, that we were full. She then went around to ask the other customers at each table. Adding noodles costs no extra money.

At her shop, this bowl of pea he-le noodles insists on the noodles being kneaded and pressed on the spot, and the toppings being stir-fried and simmered on the spot. Slowly simmered over a low flame, one bowl at a time. After eating there once, the flavor lingers long. And so, every few days, I find myself thinking of that bowl of pea he-le noodles. Every time I come, I also see familiar faces among the repeat customers.

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Call for Submissions

In the golden autumn season, the mountains and rivers are beautiful scenery and landscape (山河锦绣, shan he jin xiu - "mountain, river, brocade, beautiful"). During the National Day holiday, the "Dadi" supplement of People's Daily plans to launch a special section titled "Our National Day Stories" within its "Dadi Splendor" series, cordially inviting our broad readership to use prose, essays, or poetry and other forms to depict the new scenery, new life, and new experiences across the land of China during the National Day period.

Submissions should feature authentic and moving characters and stories, possess literary merit and interest, with no restriction on subject matter, and a preferred length of no more than 1,200 characters. Please send submissions to this section's email address dadi@peopledaily.cn, and indicate "National Day Story Submission" in the subject line.

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