Summary: Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent a congratulatory letter on the 16th to mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of Jilin University, extending congratulations to all faculty, staff, students, and alumni. In his letter, Xi stressed that at this new starting point, he hopes Jilin University will take the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the new era as its guide, carry forward its red genes, leverage its comprehensive strengths, focus on the nation's strategic needs, continuously optimize its disciplinary and program layout, enhance its teaching and research capabilities, strive to cultivate more high-caliber talent, and make greater contributions to promoting the full revitalization of Northeast China in the new era and advancing Chinese modernization. The article notes that Jilin University was founded in 1946 and has cultivated and supplied a large number of talented individuals to all sectors of the country over the past 80 years.
Summary: General Secretary Xi Jinping recently replied to a letter from all members of the "Zhangzhou 110" in Fujian Province, offering warm encouragement and expressing earnest expectations, prompting public security officers and police nationwide to vow to remain loyal guardians of the Party and the people. The article highlights the "Zhangzhou 110" Detachment's history since 1990 in innovating rapid-response mechanisms for 110 alarm and service calls, and features responses from officials including Hong Sen, commander of the detachment, and Wang Xizhang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Deputy Director-General of the Fujian Provincial Public Security Department. Other officers, such as Ma Yupu in Henan, Cai Wenjun in Jiangsu, Li Huarui in Liaoning, Yang Fan of Urumqi Customs, Zhao Xin in Zhejiang, and Niu Haifeng of the Ministry of Public Security, emphasize integrating the reply letter's spirit into grassroots policing, conflict resolution, and safeguarding national security. The reply letter is framed as affirming the contingent's work and guiding the modernization of grassroots governance and the building of a higher-level Safe China.
Summary: Ding Xuexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the opening ceremony for navigation of the Pinglu Canal in Qinzhou, Guangxi, on September 16. The ceremony was held at the Madao Junction, where Ding announced the canal's opening to navigation at 10:25. Ding stated that General Secretary Xi Jinping has issued important instructions requiring the canal to be built to high standards as a quality, green, and incorruptible project, and emphasized leveraging its completion to build the Beibu Gulf International Gateway Port and promote the western region's further opening up. He also inspected the canal waterway and ecological protection, calling for strong operation and management to ensure the safe and efficient functioning of this golden waterway. The canal connects Nanning with the Beibu Gulf, supporting Guangxi's maritime development and enhancing connectivity between China and ASEAN under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Summary: On September 16 at noon, the four-and-a-half-month summer fishing moratorium ended in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea waters between 35 degrees north latitude and 26 degrees 30 minutes north latitude, marking the full conclusion of the 2026 national summer fishing moratorium on marine waters. Fishermen are welcoming the start of the fishing season. The photo shows fishing boats setting sail from Shipu Fishing Port in Xiangshan County, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, heading to the East China Sea to carry out fishing operations that day. The photo report is by Dou Hanyang and Hu Xuejun.
Summary: The article reports on the cultural flourishing of Minning Town in Ningxia, born from the "Minning cooperation" initiated in 1997 when Comrade Xi Jinping, then Deputy Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, led a delegation to Ningxia and launched the "migrant resettlement" project. Zhao Hong, a relocated migrant and performing arts operations consultant for the "See Minning · Drama Village," leads more than 30 farmer-actors in singing stories of the relocated migrants, having revised his lyrics to reflect the change from Gobi desert to a land of grain. The piece details how villagers' hobbies now include Qinqiang opera, basketball, and calligraphy, with cultural funding exceeding 7 million yuan invested and a "15-minute fitness circle" established. It concludes that the migrants, once narrated and aided, now stand at the center of the stage, performing hardships of the past and telling of the sweetness of today, with the dry sandy beach having become a golden beach bearing the fruit of culture.
Summary: The National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration reported that cumulative purchases of wheat and early indica rice have reached 100 million tons and 12 million tons, respectively, with the pace slightly faster than last year, as summer grain procurement nears completion. Localities have implemented joint Party-government responsibility for food security, coordinating market-based purchasing with policy-based procurement to ensure orderly operations. Autumn grain procurement will run from late September to the end of April next year, with growing conditions favorable in major production areas such as Northeast and North China. Storage capacity, funds, personnel, and equipment are in place, and the peak-season purchase volume of autumn grain is estimated at around 350 million tons.
Summary: The article reports on Shenyang's efforts to renovate old residential communities, guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions during his 2022 and 2025 inspection tours, with a focus on "convenience, benefit, and security for the people." It highlights examples such as the transformation of an abandoned boiler house into a community service center in Dadong District and the comprehensive upgrades in Shenhe and Heping districts. Shenyang has adopted a people-oriented approach, soliciting resident input before, during, and after renovation, with communities failing to meet a 90 percent satisfaction threshold not being accepted. The city also combines construction with management, using joint governance mechanisms led by community Party organizations. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Shenyang will renovate no fewer than 400 old residential communities and promote the construction of complete communities.
Summary: This is a table of contents for the ninth edition of a theoretical section, featuring an article titled "Persist in Governing the Entire Party with Strict Discipline." The sixth edition covers agricultural science and technology experts going down to the frontline, with new technologies entering the fields for a good harvest. The seventh edition presents a big data observation on how the "green content" of the mining industry enhances the "gold content" of development.
Summary: Ding Xuexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, will attend and address the opening ceremony of the 23rd China-ASEAN Expo and the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit in Nanning, Guangxi, on September 17, as announced by a Foreign Ministry spokesperson on September 16. Foreign leaders and senior officials, including Myanmar Vice President Nyan Tun, Vietnam's Politburo member and Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Tuc, Laos' Politburo member and Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone, and ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn, will also attend the ceremony.
Summary: The Pinglu Canal officially opened to navigation on September 16 at the Madou Junction in Lingshan County, Qinzhou, Guangxi, with the first vessel passing through the lock amid applause. Resident engineer Zhong Linbin, who spent years at the site, expressed that witnessing the completion made it all worth it, noting his child had grown up alongside the junction. Captain Liu Shuiqing of the "Guigang Hangtai 058" piloted the maiden voyage, carrying auto parts for Cambodia and dolomite powder for Hainan, and highlighted the new route south to the Beibu Gulf. Nanning Port deputy manager You Tong coordinated cargo loading and route launches, with the "Nanning—Can Tho, Vietnam" foreign trade route and "Nanning—Yangpu, Hainan" domestic trade route inaugurated, as 14 vessels headed to sea and 16 entered the Xijiang River basin. Local resident Lu Kun praised the canal's scale and economic benefits, noting increased tourism and night market activity in the nearby town.
Summary: Shi Taifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and deputy head of the Central Leading Group for Party Building Work, attended the meeting and delivered a speech, with Liu Jinguo presiding. The meeting summarized the work of the study and education guidance groups and the working task force on establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements. It noted that under the Party Central Committee's leadership, notable results were achieved through integrated study, examination, and rectification. The meeting emphasized that this is a long-term task requiring unity around the Party Central Committee and contributions to Chinese modernization.
Summary: Zhang Yichao, an entrepreneur in digital manufacturing based in Beijing’s "Youth Innovation Village," discussed his work on robotic-arm 3D printing, which layers materials into physical objects to reduce mold costs and shorten R&D cycles. He recounted joining the park in 2017 as an undergraduate and later crossing fields from environmental art design to found Tuomei DreamWorks in 2025, developing a large-size printing system for clay and thermoplastic materials. The technology was tested in a Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei industrial coordination project with Hebei Shikan Technology Co., Ltd., settled in the Xiong'an New Area, where Zhang led his team to overcome deformation and stability challenges, greatly shortening the enterprise's trial-and-error cycle. The partner sent a letter of thanks, stating the collaboration refreshed its understanding of 3D printing applications and that young people's new technologies can empower the physical industry and energy equipment field. Zhang concluded, "To bring creativity to reality, I will keep exploring."
Summary: The Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, and Bank of Jiangsu have launched computing power-related financial products such as "Token Loan" and "Computing Power Loan," using token call volume and computing power resources as credit-granting considerations to ease financing bottlenecks for AI enterprises. The article argues that incorporating assessments of new production factors like algorithmic efficiency and data assets into bank credit logic better adapts financial services to the AI era and supports a positive feedback loop among "technology, industry, and finance." The launch of these products confirms the development of China's digital economy and shows financial services keeping pace with technological innovation and new quality productive forces. It cites statistics showing loans to technology-based SMEs reached 4.15 trillion yuan at the end of the second quarter, up 20.1% year on year, as finance and technology accelerate a mutual effort from both sides. The article cautions that financial institutions must also manage risks by combining multiple dimensions—such as real orders, accounts receivable, and intellectual property—with dynamic monitoring and early warning mechanisms.
Summary: The first digitalized EMU maintenance depot in Anhui Province, the Hefei EMU Maintenance Depot, was officially put into operation on September 16. It includes one inspection building and 35 stabling tracks, with 10 maintenance lines capable of servicing 20 standard EMU trains simultaneously. The depot functions as a comprehensive base integrating inspection, maintenance, and dispatching. The photo shows staff conducting trial maintenance on trains at the depot on that day.
Summary: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission jointly issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Electronic Information Manufacturing Industry," proposing that by 2030, the operating revenue of enterprises above designated size will exceed 30 trillion yuan. In 2025, the industry's operating revenue reached 17.4 trillion yuan, up 7.4% year-on-year, ranking first among 41 industrial categories for 13 consecutive years. The plan sets goals including significantly improved industry chain security, R&D investment intensity reaching 3.5%, and rapid breakthroughs in key core technologies. It deploys 17 key tasks around four aspects: "building foundations, improving quality, cultivating new growth drivers, and governance."
Summary: China cultivated 613,600 high-caliber farmers in 2025, according to the Eighth National Forum on the Development of Farmer Education and Training. The average age of this workforce is 44.7 years, with the share holding a high school education or above rising 3.15 percentage points year on year. New forces, including graduates of junior college or above and returning migrant workers, now account for 53.2 percent of the total, up 3.27 percentage points.
Summary: The first aircraft assembled on Airbus's second A320 final assembly line in Tianjin was delivered on September 16 and has been received by China Eastern Airlines. Benoît de Saint-Exupéry, Executive Vice President of Programs and Services for Airbus Commercial Aircraft, said the delivery reflects Airbus's long-term commitment to its Chinese partners and confidence in the flourishing development of China's civil aviation market. He added that the second Tianjin final assembly line is crucial to increasing global production capacity of the A320 family and provides flexibility and capacity assurance in responding to market demand.
Summary: President Xi Jinping attended the 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit and paid state visits to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt, with media in both countries hailing the trip as consolidating cooperation consensus and promoting regional common security. Kyrgyz media highlighted the Shanghai Spirit's growing international value amid global turmoil, the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway's economic opportunities, and Xi's visit charting a course for deepening bilateral ties. Egyptian media underscored the first state visit in 10 years coinciding with the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations, praising Xi's four-point initiative on promoting common security in the Middle East as "a voice of peace from the East" that respects regional countries' strategic autonomy. Commentaries emphasized that development and security are interdependent, that no country can enjoy security alone, and that the Middle East's future should be held in the hands of its own people. The visit was seen as opening a new page in Egypt-China relations, adding a stabilizing force to a turbulent Middle East.
Summary: The International Department of the CPC Central Committee and the CPC Shaanxi Provincial Committee co-hosted a promotional briefing in Shaanxi, where over 200 political party leaders, scholars, business representatives, and media delegates from more than 50 countries toured Xi'an and Yan'an. Delegates visited revolutionary heritage sites, cultural landmarks, grassroots communities, and industrial parks, observing China's development achievements and governance practices. Foreign participants praised China's cultural preservation, grassroots governance, and industrial upgrading, with several citing the apple industry and new energy vehicles as examples of high-quality development. The article highlights the Yan'an Spirit and the CPC's legacy, with delegates expressing that the Party's victory was forged through faith, the people, and struggle. The piece does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article, written by the Secretary-General of the India-China Economic and Cultural Promotion Association, argues that BRICS countries should act as "pioneers in promoting mutual learning among civilizations" to consolidate the public foundation for cooperation. It highlights the evolution of people-to-people exchanges into a key pillar of BRICS institutional building since the 2017 Xiamen Summit, culminating in the strategic positioning at the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi. The author asserts that deepening such exchanges requires a correct view of civilization, contrasting China's Global Civilization Initiative with certain countries' adherence to "clash of civilizations" theories. The piece emphasizes that BRICS cooperation helps the Global South share governance experience and explore diverse modernization paths suited to their own realities. It concludes that the summit marks a new starting point for enhancing dialogue mechanisms and youth exchanges to gather positive energy for stable inter-state relations.
Summary: Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi in Beijing on September 16. Wang Yi stated that China is willing to play a constructive role in resolving international disputes and to strengthen dialogue and cooperation with Iran to safeguard Iran's legitimate rights and interests. He encouraged Iran and the United States to remain rational and restrained, return to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding, and conduct substantive consultations, while supporting dialogue between Iran and Gulf states and urging measures to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Wang Yi highlighted President Xi Jinping's four-point initiative on building a new security architecture for the Middle East, and expressed willingness to strengthen communication with Iran to promote China-Iran relations. Araghchi briefed on the latest regional situation, affirmed the validity of the Iran-U.S. Memorandum of Understanding, welcomed Xi's proposals, and emphasized Iran's commitment to deepening bilateral ties with China.
Summary: Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, met in Beijing on September 16 with Amorim, Chief Special Advisor to the President of Brazil. Wang Yi conveyed President Xi Jinping's cordial greetings to President Lula, stating that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China-Brazil relations have achieved leapfrog development from a comprehensive strategic partnership to a community with a shared future. He added that China and Brazil should continue to deepen cooperation and strengthen strategic coordination on major international and regional issues. Amorim conveyed President Lula's sincere greetings to President Xi Jinping, stating that the Brazilian side is willing to work with the Chinese side to implement the consensus of the two heads of state and continuously inject new substance into the China-Brazil community with a shared future for a more just world and a more sustainable planet.
Summary: Zhang Shengmin, Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, met in Beijing with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Phan Van Giang, who was attending the 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum. Zhang stated that the Chinese and Vietnamese militaries should implement the consensus of the top leaders of the two parties and countries, advance practical military cooperation from a strategic and developmental perspective, share military building experience, coordinate on security issues, and jointly respond to global challenges. Phan Van Giang expressed Vietnam's willingness to conduct more practical and effective defense and security cooperation with China under the strategic guidance of the top leaders.
Summary: Wu Weihua, Vice Chairperson of the NPC Standing Committee, met at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with a delegation of the Egyptian Nation's Protector Party led by Abbas, Chairman of the party and Chairman of the Defense and National Security Committee of the House of Representatives. The two sides exchanged views on China-Egypt relations, exchanges between legislative bodies, and other issues of common concern.
Summary: Wang Dongfeng, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the CPPCC National Committee and Chairman of the China Economic and Social Council, met separately in Hangzhou with Farid, Speaker of the Egyptian Senate; Luhut, Chairman of the Indonesian National Economic Council; Amara, Chairman of the African Union of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions and President of the Moroccan Economic, Social and Environmental Council; and Pedas, President of the International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions. He briefed them on China's economic and social development and the situation of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He exchanged views on deepening exchanges and interactions, strengthening practical cooperation, promoting the building of a more just and equitable global governance system, and jointly building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Summary: The 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum opened on September 16 at the Beijing International Convention Center, with Minister of National Defense Dong Jun attending and delivering a keynote speech. Dong Jun said that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the forum's founding, and that major changes unseen in a century are accelerating, with international security at a fragile moment. He emphasized adhering to a new security concept, multilateralism, historical sobriety, dialogue and consultation, common development, and action-oriented cooperation to promote lasting peace and universal security. He stated that the Chinese military is willing to work with militaries of all countries to jointly implement the Global Security Initiative and contribute to building a community with a shared future for mankind. The forum's theme is "Consolidating Consensus for Stability, Jointly Promoting Security Governance," with approximately 2,000 guests from more than 100 countries, regions, and international organizations in attendance.
Summary: Minister of National Defense Dong Jun held talks in Beijing on the 16th with Thai Defense Minister Adun, Mongolian Defense Minister Batlut, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Teah Seiha, and Singapore Defense Minister Chan Chun Sing, who were attending the 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum. Dong Jun stated that global governance has reached a critical juncture where it must advance or retreat, and that the Beijing Xiangshan Forum has upheld its original aspiration of equality, openness, inclusiveness, and mutual learning, treating all countries as equals. He expressed that the Chinese military is willing to work with all parties to jointly safeguard international and regional stability and foster a sound security environment. Adun spoke highly of the forum's significance and expressed willingness to strengthen defense cooperation with China in joint exercises, training, and humanitarian rescue. Batlut noted that long-term good-neighborly friendship with China is a priority of Mongolia's foreign policy, while Teah Seiha affirmed Cambodia's commitment to deepening practical military cooperation with China. Chan Chun Sing emphasized Singapore's firm adherence to the One-China policy and willingness to deepen practical cooperation with China.
Summary: China formally presented the first batch of lunar far-side soil samples collected by "Chang'e-6" to the United Nations at a handover ceremony in Vienna, attended by over 400 guests including heads of international organizations and permanent representatives. Shan Zhongde, Administrator of the China National Space Administration, jointly unveiled the samples with Ghada Waly, Aarti Holla-Maini, and Li Song, and the samples will be permanently exhibited at the UN headquarters in Vienna. In his address, Shan stated that exploring the vast cosmos is a shared dream of mankind's unremitting pursuit, and China is willing to share the fruits of its aerospace development with all countries. He emphasized sharing opportunities and creating prosperity together so that aerospace achievements better benefit all peoples. He called for jointly advancing the cause of mankind's peaceful exploration of outer space and empowering the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Summary: The "Opportunities in China · Creating and Sharing the Future" series of Chinese cultural promotion activities was launched at the WTO headquarters on September 15, coinciding with the opening of the three-day WTO 2026 Public Forum in Geneva. The event was hosted by the State Council Information Office of China and the Permanent Mission of China to the WTO, and organized by the China Intercontinental Communication Center. Li Yongzha, China's Permanent Representative to the WTO, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the WTO, attended and delivered remarks. A cultural performance and reception themed "Sounds of Harmony" was held that evening, integrating Peking opera, folk instrumental music, local opera, the Grand Song of the Dong people, and folk song and dance to showcase Chinese culture and convey the significance of mutual learning among civilizations and harmonious coexistence. A "New Life of Craftsmanship" national trend cultural and creative exhibition was held concurrently.
Summary: Australian House Speaker Dick will lead a delegation to visit China from September 18 to 22 at the invitation of Zhao Leji, Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee.
Summary: The State Council Information Office held a press conference on September 16 to introduce the implementation of tasks for advancing comprehensive law-based governance and judicial administrative work during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. Li Mingzheng, Vice Minister of Justice, stated that the study and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law will be deepened, and tasks from the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee and the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan will be advanced. Jiang Shan, Director of the Second Bureau of Legislation, said the Ministry of Justice and the National Development and Reform Commission are drafting regulations on the unified national market to remove obstacles like local protectionism and market segmentation. Wu Yanjun, Vice Minister of Justice, outlined efforts to improve foreign-related laws, establish a national foreign-related legal service platform, and deepen international rule-of-law exchanges with 77 Belt and Road countries. The Ministry of Justice also reported correcting over 90,000 cases of enterprise-related administrative law enforcement problems and providing 24-hour public legal services through integrated platforms.
Summary: The article, from a "People's Forum" series, argues that Chinese Communist governance prioritizes a "livelihood account" and "account of the people's hearts" over mere economic profit, citing Shanghai's costly toilet renovations as an example. It references General Secretary Xi Jinping's 2017 visit to a villager's home in Hebei to review household accounts, framing this as a model for calculating the "big accounts" of national governance. The piece highlights projects like the Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, the Xi'an-Yan'an High-Speed Railway, and the Sichuan-Tibet Railway as investments deemed "not worth it" by immediate input-output formulas but justified by long-term strategic and people-centered goals. It also credits China's "dual carbon" goals and insistence on high-level opening up as "win-win accounts" addressing global challenges like climate governance and industrial chain disruption. Ultimately, the article concludes that this approach, encompassing both financial and temporal accounts, builds confidence to weather storms and secure development initiative.
Summary: The article describes the revitalization of Red Army Street in Chengkou Town, Renhua County, Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province, where the Central Red Army passed in November 1934 after breaking through the Kuomintang's second blockade line. It highlights how local authorities, following General Secretary Xi Jinping's October 2020 inspection tour in Guangdong, restored revolutionary sites and integrated red memories into everyday life, such as through the "Victory Coffee" shop opened by returnee Liu Qiuping. The old granary has been transformed into a digital experience base for Long March culture, while Fengyuan Hot Spring, where Red Army soldiers once treated wounds, now anchors "red memories + hot spring wellness" tourism, receiving 125,500 visits in 2025 and providing 110 jobs. The piece emphasizes that the "fashion" of the street stems from revitalizing dormant historical resources rather than internet-celebrity packaging, preserving the red memory and struggle ethos of the land.
Summary: Sihong County in Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, is actively promoting contract farming to safeguard growers' incomes and drive rural revitalization through its distinctive seed-production industry. Recently, the seed-production rice base in Shiji Township welcomed a bountiful harvest, with local farmers turning and drying rice seeds on the drying ground. The photo was taken by Zhang Lianhua(People's Visual).
Summary: Hong Kong SAR Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu announced the "First Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (2026–2030)" at the SAR Legislative Council and delivered the 2026 Policy Address, describing the plan as a blueprint for Hong Kong's transition from social stability to economic prosperity. The plan comprises 7 parts and 28 chapters, with 105 indicators, upholding principles such as "One Country, Two Systems" and executive-led governance, and setting objectives including economic breakthroughs and Northern Metropolis development. Lee stated that the SAR government formulated the plan in less than one year with Central Government support, marking a major measure to enhance governance effectiveness and align with the nation's development. He emphasized that the plan and Policy Address are closely related, with the latter serving as the annual implementation report, and expressed confidence that Hong Kong will build a more open, inclusive, and prosperous metropolis connecting the nation with the world.
Summary: The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security reported that from September 14 to 20, the "Hundred-Day, Ten-Thousand-Position" recruitment initiative launched four online special sessions for artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, automotive, and retail industries, with over 12,000 employers and a recruitment demand of 178,000 person-times. The AI session, hosted by Jiuye Online, included employers such as Tencent, Huawei, DeepSeek, Toutiao, and SenseTime, offering roles like robot embedded system test engineer and AI algorithm engineer, with demand exceeding 13,000 person-times. The advanced manufacturing session, hosted by 51job, featured nearly 10,000 employers including SAIC Motor, China Baowu, and RIGOL Technologies, with demand of 146,000 person-times. The automotive session, co-hosted by Jiuye Online and the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, included China FAW, Dongfeng Motor, and Changan Automobile, offering roles like solid-state battery development engineer, with demand over 18,000 person-times. The retail session, hosted by BOSS Zhipin, included Easyhome and Genki Forest, with demand of nearly 1,000 person-times.
Summary: The article argues that developing literature or industry requires strategic resolve and a slow, patient approach, citing Xiji County's transformation into a "hometown of literature" and Hefei's rise as a city of scientific and technological innovation. It emphasizes the importance of investing in "places unseen"—such as atmosphere, mechanisms, networks, and patience—to build a sound innovation ecosystem driven by endogenous forces. The piece highlights how Xiji supports farmer-writers through cultural infrastructure, while Hefei uses a "fund forest" exceeding 300 billion yuan and tolerant risk rates to cover the full life cycle of tech enterprises. It concludes by citing General Secretary Xi Jinping on achieving both visible and behind-the-scenes achievements, urging leaders to draw one blueprint to the end rather than rush short-term results.
Summary: The article argues that high-quality public services are measured by ordinary people's daily experiences, citing Nanjing's "air-conditioned vests" and mobile "cooling buses" for outdoor workers as innovative scenario-based care. It emphasizes that governance precision emerges from specific scenarios, where supply and demand align dynamically, as seen in a Chongqing nursing home's transparent canteen operations. Services must adapt to changing circumstances, such as Tianjin moving marriage registration into bank branches and Shandong offering pre-retirement guidance. The piece concludes that public services have no unified template and must continuously follow population changes and needs, resonating with people's aspirations for a better life.
Summary: The article argues that basic education is an art of patience, where teachers should guide and awaken students rather than indoctrinate them, acting as a "catalyst" in children's growth. It cites General Secretary Xi Jinping's statement that "Teachers are the backbone of educational work. Only with high-quality teachers can there be high-quality education." The piece highlights examples such as the High School Affiliated to Peking University's college and academy systems and Chongqing Yucai Middle School's "Xingzhi Growth Points" evaluation reform to illustrate tailored approaches. It warns against chasing scores and enrollment rates, which leads to "pursuing quick results and immediate benefits," and emphasizes the need for a scientific evaluation system. The article concludes by quoting teacher Yu Yi that education is "not a 100-meter sprint, but a 10,000-meter race," urging long-term commitment to nurturing every child.
Summary: The article highlights September as "National Defense Education Month for All the People," with this year's theme being "Carry Forward the Great Spirit of the Long March, Join Hearts and Hands to Build a Strong National Defense." It states that localities will guide the public and young students to strengthen their concept of national defense and striving forward with determination through rich and varied activities. The piece frames national defense education as a foundational project for building a solid national defense and a strong people's military, as well as a way to carry forward the spirit of patriotism. It concludes with a poetic tribute to China's defense resolve, referencing the BeiDou and Dongfeng systems. No specific officials or accompanying figures are mentioned.
Summary: The article highlights Sanya's first batch of seven "intangible cultural heritage mini-halls," including one at Dong'an Community, which are open free of charge and require no reservation. It argues that these lightweight, refined spaces address the dilemma of intangible cultural heritage protection being "easy to archive, hard to implement; easy to protect, hard to pass on." The mini-halls revitalize existing spaces like Party-masses service stations and community cultural centers at low cost, with dedicated staff and weekly teaching by representative inheritors. By embedding heritage in community life, they foster neighborly exchange and turn community spaces into "cultural living rooms" with warmth, depth, and vitality. The piece concludes by calling for more such down-to-earth cultural "micro-venues" across urban and rural areas.
Summary: The article highlights the story of Sun Guoqing, a resident of Xinxin Residential Community in Tonglu County, Hangzhou, who has voluntarily escorted blind neighbor Zhang Youyi across the road to work daily for over two years, refusing any compensation. The commentary praises Sun's kindness as a natural habit, emphasizing the purity of his refusal to accept gifts, which exemplifies traditional virtue of helping without seeking reward. It notes that many other neighbors, including Yu Hongxiu and local workers, have also assisted Zhang, portraying kindness as a collective, community-wide effort. The piece contrasts this with modern "atomized relationships" and "society of strangers," arguing that neighborhood warmth and mutual care persist despite societal changes. It concludes by linking such harmony to China's traditional culture, citing the Analects and Mencius, and expresses optimism that such warm stories will multiply.
Summary: The article comments on a Shanxi environmental testing institution that fabricated groundwater monitoring data, staging sampling for cameras and producing false "qualified" reports. It argues that safeguarding source data authenticity requires establishing correct values to end formalism, ensuring sampling is not merely going through the motions. It also calls for high-efficiency governance, including mechanisms for re-verification, spot-checking, source tracing, and rewards and penalties, to prevent source-level fraud. The piece concludes that false data cannot support real safety, and that true, credible data are essential for the country's good governance, society's long-term stability and peace, and the people's living and working in peace and contentment.
Summary: The article profiles four agricultural science and technology experts ahead of the ninth "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival," highlighting their contributions to food security and rural revitalization. Ma Wendong, a rice researcher in Heilongjiang, has bred 69 new rice varieties over 20 years, emphasizing cold tolerance and long-term dedication. Zhang Congzhi of the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed a woody peat-based formula to restore fertility in Zhejiang's degraded yellow soils, raising yields to 1,300 jin per mu. Bi Wenping, a Hebei agricultural machinery expert, advanced intelligent equipment like a square baler-wrapper and a BeiDou-guided precision seeder to reduce farmer labor. Xu Hongru, an Inner Mongolia agricultural technology promoter, focuses on practical field guidance, such as nitrogen topdressing advice and demonstration fields to win farmer trust.
Summary: The article is an editor's note celebrating the role of agricultural science and technology talent in modernizing Chinese farming, citing examples from Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, and Sanhe, Hebei. It describes how breeding, soil, and agritech experts translate research into practical gains, with China's agricultural science and technology contribution rate exceeding 64%, high-standard farmland surpassing 1 billion mu, and improved crop variety coverage above 96%. The piece frames these efforts as consolidating the "ballast stone" of China's food security, emphasizing persistent innovation from "one seed" to "one algorithm." It concludes that continued talent-driven innovation will keep China's rice bowl "filled fuller and held more firmly." The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2026 Yangtze River Civilization Forum, themed "Spanning Rivers and Seas, Mutual Learning Among Civilizations," opened in Chongqing on the 15th, with guests contributing to inheriting Yangtze River culture, advancing high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and promoting exchanging and learning from each other among the world's great river civilizations. Co-hosted by the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the forum focused on dialogue between the Yangtze River civilization and global river civilizations, inviting guests from Egypt, Brazil, India, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany, along with consular officials and foreign media representatives. At the opening ceremony, the "Yangtze River Civilization Book Series · Upper Reaches of Great Rivers Series (First Volume)" and the "Yangtze River Invitation · Civilization Dialogue" international communication theme activity were released. The forum will also hold events such as the 2026 World Great Rivers Poetry Gathering and the 10th Baidicheng International Poetry Festival, showcasing Yangtze River culture's heritage and promoting its creative transformation and innovative development.
Summary: The "Overseas Perspectives on China · Global Development Initiative" themed exchange event was held in Beijing on September 16, hosted by Global Times and co-organized by the Academic Working Committee of the China Public Relations Association. Guo Weimin, President of the China Public Relations Association; Jia Wenjian, President of Beijing Foreign Studies University; Djauhari Oratmangun, Indonesian Ambassador to China; and Mario Alzugaray, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Cuban Embassy in China, attended and delivered keynote speeches. The event marked the fifth anniversary of President Xi Jinping's proposal of the Global Development Initiative, reviewing its implementation practices and outcomes over the past five years. It included the launch of the "Overseas Perspectives on China" cooperative communication program, two roundtable dialogues, and a photo exhibition titled "Walking with the World — Global Development Cooperation." Trainees of the "Belt and Road" Initiative Artificial Intelligence and Media Development Seminar also visited the exhibition.
Summary: The 2026 Intelligent Economy Forum, co-hosted by People's Daily Culture and Technology Co., Ltd. and Baidu Inc., was held in Beijing on September 16, with responsible comrades from central and state organs, enterprise leaders, and experts and scholars in attendance. Themed "Intelligent Economy | Upward Toward Good Toward the Future," the forum shared practical achievements and conducted in-depth exchanges of experience to inject momentum into the intelligent economy and Digital China. Guests stated that artificial intelligence is moving from "being able to answer" toward "being able to deliver," serving real-world scenarios and empowering productive transformation. They urged persistence in promoting the deep integration of AI with the real economy, guiding the industrialized and standardized development of intelligent agents, and exploring implementation paths across multiple chains and industries. They also called for jointly building a safe, controllable, openness and mutual benefit industrial ecosystem.
Summary: China's National Medical Products Administration has approved and released the country's third brain-computer interface medical device standard, which is also the first product standard for such devices using artificial intelligence to process EEG data. The Haihe Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interface at Tianjin University, as the core drafting team, participated in the standard's research and compilation, promoting standardization of non-invasive dataset construction and quality evaluation. The new standard regulates technical requirements and testing methods for data collection, processing, annotation, storage, and access, helping enterprises address inconsistent quality control and non-standardized construction processes. It will be officially implemented on September 1 next year. The brain-computer interface is described as both a "medical bridge" for repairing life functions and a "technological revolution" in human-computer interaction, with national and industry standards serving as key support for its standardized development and safety assurance.
Summary: The "15th Five-Year Plan Period Zhongguancun World-Leading Science and Technology Park Construction Plan" was officially released, clarifying overall requirements, development goals, and 9 key tasks for the period. The plan deploys tasks including strengthening industrial and technological source innovation, opening new fields and tracks, building world-class industrial clusters, and deepening open, coordinated development. It proposes strengthening market-oriented basic research and focusing on areas like "artificial intelligence+" to support key new tracks. The plan also aims to strengthen leading industries in next-generation information technology and medicine and health, expand emerging pillars in artificial intelligence and green low-carbon development, and bolster six industries including integrated circuits and robotics. Additionally, it calls for clustering cultivation of unicorn enterprises and deepening municipal mechanisms such as "service packages" and "service stewards."
Summary: The article reports on the green transformation of China's mining industry, highlighting technological innovations that boost resource recovery and ecological restoration. It cites examples like the Shizhuyuan polymetallic ore deposit, where tungsten recovery rose from 26.8% to over 70%, and notes over 5,600 provincial-level green mines have been built. The piece details green exploration techniques, such as topsoil preservation and small-angle drilling, alongside improvements in mining recovery rates and the utilization of waste rock and tailings. It also covers the restoration of 3.35 million mu of legacy mines during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, with enterprises like Kunyang Phosphate Mine achieving high land reclamation rates. The article concludes that enhancing the "green content" of mining raises the "gold content" of development, broadening the path of high-quality growth for the industry.
Summary: The article argues that China is accelerating high-quality development of the mining industry through greening, technological advancement, and intelligent transformation, citing over 5,600 provincial-level green mines and intelligent production capacity exceeding 65 percent of coal mine output by end-2025. It notes challenges including high external procurement rates for some bulk and critical minerals, declining resource grades, and rising security risks as critical minerals become a focal point of major-power competition. The piece calls for adhering to empowerment through technology, building a green foundation, and deepening reform of mineral resource management under the newly revised Mineral Resources Law. The author is Director of the Department of Mineral Resources Protection and Supervision of the Ministry of Natural Resources.
Summary: In Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, a couple held a relaxed and romantic destination wedding on the shore of Erhai Lake, with bride Liu Xiaofei from Gansu and groom Wang Yu from Hebei emphasizing the blend of wedding and travel. Yu Xiaoli, head of a wedding planning company in Dali Prefecture, reported that from January to July this year, 90 percent of its 150 weddings came from clients outside the province. Yang Libin, a Yunnan wedding planning company head with over 10 years of experience, shifted toward customized services, holding more than 280 destination weddings in the year of transformation. Dali Prefecture has created more than 30 differentiated wedding scenes and cultivated more than 100 mature wedding business operators, while Lijiang City launched traditional Naxi ethnic wedding customs experience, receiving over 140,000 couples in 2025 with market size exceeding 1.1 billion yuan. Long Xiaoyi, deputy dean of the School of Management at West Yunnan University of Applied Sciences, suggested standardizing industry norms to avoid "involution-style" competition, and Dali Prefecture has established a destination wedding industry association to guide orderly market development.
Summary: The Fujian Provincial Government issued an "Implementation Plan for the Construction of the Fujian Province Pilot Zone for a Beautiful China," outlining a roadmap for building the pilot zone and exploring a coordinated pathway for high-quality development and high-level protection. By the end of 2027, the province aims to maintain leading national ecological quality, with fine particulate matter staying below 15 micrograms per cubic meter, Class I-III water quality at 100% in major river basins, and excellent offshore water quality above 95%. By 2030, the plan targets efficient coordination in reducing carbon emissions, cutting pollution, expanding green development, and promoting growth, alongside peaking total carbon emissions and fundamentally improving the ecological environment. The plan also envisions the basic completion of the pilot zone and the formation of a protection and governance pattern from mountaintops to the sea.
Summary: Anhui has released a work plan for 2026–2028 to accelerate the transformation and implementation of scenario projects, aiming to cultivate 100 high-quality provincial-level scenario projects by 2028. The plan encourages industry authorities to open public scenario resources in areas such as government services, urban operations, and emergency support, while leveraging state-owned enterprises and chain-leading enterprises to open their own scenarios. A provincial-level cultivation pool will be established, with a full-chain closed-loop management mechanism of "list entry into the pool—evaluation and project approval—transformation and implementation." For projects with clear technical requirements and application scenarios, support will be given to appoint leaders based on merit through open competition to determine the implementing entity.
Summary: At a sub-forum of the 2026 National Cybersecurity Awareness Week in Jinan, three high-quality datasets—the Chinese Internet Basic Corpus 4.0, the Cybersecurity Dataset 1.0, and the AIGC Detection Dataset—were officially released. Under the guidance of the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Cyber Security Association of China and other units pooled new trusted data to form the Chinese Internet Basic Corpus 4.0, with a data volume of 120GB, to support large model training. The National Internet Emergency Center, jointly with several institutions, released the Cybersecurity Dataset 1.0, which includes five sub-datasets covering evaluation benchmarks, APT attack-defense, alerts, abnormal traffic, and vulnerability analysis. The same center, with the Institute of Information Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, released the AIGC Detection Dataset containing 100,000 text and 100,000 image data items. All datasets are now available on the "Chinese Internet Corpus Resource Platform."
Summary: Wuyuan in Jiangxi has entered its autumn-drying season, with households in Huangling Village laying out red chili peppers, corn, and golden chrysanthemums to dry. The vividly colored drying trays complement the white walls and dark-tiled roofs of the ancient village, drawing many visitors. The photo, taken on September 15, shows the autumn-drying scene in Huangling Village. The image was captured by Xinhua News Agency reporter Hu Chenhuan.
Summary: The 20th Yulin International Coal and High-End Energy Chemical Industry Expo and the 4th Western Hydrogen Energy Expo were held from September 13 to 15 in Yulin, Shaanxi Province. The conference, themed "Low-Carbon Energy and Chemical Industry, Hydrogen Creates the Future," featured exhibition areas for high-end energy and chemical enterprises, regional coordinated development, intelligent digital technology, the full hydrogen energy industry chain, green and low-carbon international cooperation, and advanced energy and chemical equipment. A total of 14 events were held, covering topics such as low-carbon development of the coal chemical industry and breakthroughs in the hydrogen energy industry, with 856 leading energy enterprises and overseas companies showcasing their achievements. A relevant official from Yulin City stated that the city will adhere to the main line of multi-energy integration of coal, oil, gas, and chemical industries, as well as wind, solar, and hydrogen power, and take energy "stabilization, control, and transformation" as the key focus. The official added that the city will promote the construction of a strategic hinterland for national energy security, a strategic base for coal-to-oil and coal-to-gas, and the Yulin-Ordos-Ningxia modern coal chemical industry cluster.
Summary: The article highlights the "Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er" in Yunnan, which was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2023 as the world's first tea-themed World Cultural Heritage site. It describes the thousand-year-old "understory tea" cultivation technique developed by the Blang and Dai peoples, and the ecological wisdom of the three-tiered forest community. Since the inscription, Pu'er City has enforced protective rules, while tourism and the tea industry have grown significantly, with 324 homestays and over 974,600 cumulative tourist visits by August 2025. The piece also details local tea customs, such as Blang sour tea and insect tea, and broader Yunnan tea culture, including Bai, Hani, and De'ang traditions. It concludes by noting the enduring vitality of Yunnan's tea heritage and its global reach.
Summary: The article argues that strict discipline is central to Xi Jinping's thought on Party building and the fundamental solution for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It details how, since the 18th National Congress, the Party Central Committee has advanced discipline building through theoretical, practical, and institutional innovation, including revising regulations and deepening inspection tours. The piece emphasizes that strict discipline must cover every Party member, cadre, and organization, and requires coordinating the "two rulers" of discipline and law. It concludes that persisting in strict discipline will preserve the Party's advanced nature and purity, improve its governing capacity, and safeguard Chinese modernization. The author is a researcher at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.
Summary: The article discusses the importance of high-quality Sino-foreign joint archaeological endeavors, citing President Xi Jinping's 2023 congratulatory letter and the 15th Five-Year Plan's call to expand cultural exchanges. It emphasizes adhering to academic leadership, focusing on major topics like the origins and interactions of civilizations, and expanding cooperation to regions such as Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Silk Road. The piece highlights examples like joint projects with Uzbekistan and Chinese teams in Egypt and Honduras, while stressing the need for advanced technology and innovative talent cultivation, including training foreign personnel. It also calls for deepening the transformation of results, such as the Shanghai Museum's exhibition on ancient Egyptian civilization, to promote heritage conservation and people-to-people connectivity. The author is affiliated with the School of Humanities, Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Summary: President Xi Jinping's statement at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference emphasized using AI to enhance understanding among civilizations and promote exchanges and mutual learning, guided by humanity's common values. The article argues that AI expands space for civilizational exchange through technologies like large language models and intelligent translation, but also raises governance demands regarding data bias, algorithmic amplification of stereotypes, and disinformation. It calls for calibrating AI development with common values, building open and diverse data foundations, and establishing secure governance mechanisms to prevent cultural misreading and erosion of trust. The piece highlights China's announced measures, including providing 5,000 AI training opportunities for developing countries and building international AI application cooperation centers with various regional organizations. The author is a research fellow at the Institute for Global Communication Studies, Shenzhen University.
Summary: The article highlights the rise of "county-chasing travel" as a key driver of China's cultural-tourism market, with counties improving facilities and services to attract tourists seeking immersive experiences. It features Hengdian, where tourists can shoot their own short dramas on real sets for 200-300 yuan, a project that has drawn over 2,000 participants in its first month and supports broader local consumption. In Dehua, known for its thousand-year porcelain heritage, visitors can explore ancient kiln sites, craft white porcelain, and engage with cultural-creativity shops, contributing to 14.2 million tourist visits and 14 billion yuan in tourism revenue in 2025. The Ministry of Commerce and eight other departments recently issued a joint document to further stimulate county-level consumption, underscoring the market's potential. The report showcases how these distinctive small towns blend tradition with innovation to attract travelers.
Summary: The article discusses regulatory actions against illegal blind box business operations, citing six typical cases released by the State Administration for Market Regulation. It highlights deceptive practices such as false advertising, gambling-related violations, and undisclosed hidden styles, which exploit information asymmetry to turn consumption into a regulatory "blind spot." The piece emphasizes that blind boxes can be "blind," but business operations cannot, and calls for transparency in probability disclosure and rule-setting. It notes regulatory authorities are using digital tools and cross-platform collaboration to precisely strike at illegal acts. The article urges operators, platforms, and consumers to form a joint force to ensure blind box consumption develops on a standardized track.
Summary: The article discusses a fabricated rumor about workers spitting into flower cakes at a Yunnan company, for which the rumor-monger, Du, was administratively detained. The rumor gained traction because it tapped into public concerns around Mid-Autumn Festival gift choices, food safety, and workers' rights. The piece argues that such rumors should be curbed not only by public wisdom but by the rule of law, requiring a joint effort from online platforms, regulatory authorities, and enterprises. Platforms must strengthen review, regulators must increase punishment and accountability, and companies should use legal means to defend their rights. The article concludes by calling for all parties to work together to create a better market environment.
Summary: The second "Village Tug-of-War" tournament in Gangcheng District, Jinan City, Shandong Province, concluded with the Chenjiazhuang Community Team winning the championship 2:0. The event attracted 191 teams and over 4,000 participants, with more than 300,000 in-person spectators. Participants included farmers, workers, self-employed individuals, and college students returning to their hometowns. The Lixin Village Team invited professional tug-of-war team member Li Xuwei to coach them, and he noted that the team members' spirit from competition is now being transformed into cohesive force for rural governance. The article states that local sports events serve as a stage for cultivating civilized rural customs and empowering grassroots governance.
Summary: The "Couple Police Post" where Xu Naichao and Li Wenna serve is located 15 kilometers from the China-Mongolia border, covering 3,145 square kilometers, with the couple jointly handling patrol and prevention-and-control tasks. In February 2022, the Alxa Border Management Detachment established the post, with Xu volunteering after returning from peacekeeping duty in Liberia and Li, an auxiliary police officer, also applying to garrison the border. Initially lacking water, stable electricity, and cellphone signal, the post has since gained running water, 4G coverage, an asphalt road, and upgraded facilities, aided by intelligent surveillance, drones, and mobile terminals. The couple has received multiple honors, including the "Inner Mongolia Good Person Honor Roll" in 2022, Xu's "China Youth May Fourth Medal" in 2023 and "Beijiang Model" title in 2024, and Li's "March 8th Red Banner Pacesetter" title and the family's "Most Beautiful Family" selection in 2025.
Summary: The Yangtze River Shipping Data Alliance was established in Wuhan, initiated by the Changjiang River Administration of Navigational Affairs under the Ministry of Transport and transportation authorities of 14 provinces and cities along the Yangtze River basin. Anhui's Wuhu saw its automobile exports from January to August break one million vehicles for the first time, with self-owned brand exports accounting for 87 percent of the total. Chongqing's "Deputy Chief Technology Officer" program completed its first year, helping enterprises add 209 million yuan in economic benefits. Heilongjiang established four science and technology backyard clusters across rice, soybeans, edible fungi, and sugar beet industries. Shaanxi has cultivated more than 760,000 "Red Scarf Docents," and Hainan published its first batch of property management "Red and Black List" names.
Summary: The article highlights how Guangxi's karst caves are being transformed into cultural-tourism attractions, with the Yinziyan scenic area in Lipu City, Guilin, completing a light-and-shadow renovation that uses projections like "Flying Apsaras of Dunhuang" and lighting contrasts to dramatize stalactite formations. Wang Hua, head of the Blue Cave Coffee scenic area by the Guichun River, describes visitors enjoying coffee and leisure amid the landscape without a planned itinerary. Gao Chang, a high school student from Chengdu, Sichuan, remarks that seeing a stalactite cross-section makes textbook content feel tangible. The piece concludes that caves are becoming a new stage for tourism upgrading, with the experience now shaped by the visitor.
Summary: Zhang Yu, owner of the Muxiangxing Lamian Noodle Shop in Daxing District, Beijing, offers beef lamian noodles for 9 yuan to people over 60, sanitation workers, food delivery riders, and couriers. Zhang set the price after witnessing the hardship of his parents and elders who worked in sanitation and often ate cold meals. The shop, co-operated with classmate Xiao Yang since 2023, also provides free noodle refills and a rule allowing anyone facing financial difficulty to receive a free bowl without explanation. After relocating last year, the shop kept the same discount poster and rules. The article describes the shop as a community eatery warming the hearts of ordinary people.
Summary: The Jiangxi stir-fry market opened at the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services on September 10, featuring over 20 restaurants, snack vendors, tea drink sellers, and cultural-creative enterprises arranged in a single line under the signboard "The flavor of the human world, the freshness of Jiangxi stir-fry." Visitors queued to taste authentic Jiangxi dishes, including Xiushui shaozhi, Gannan Hakka baoyuan, Linchuan beef offal, handmade fish balls, and spicy milk tea. Xiong Huanhuan, president of the Jiangxi Stir-Fry Industry Promotion Association, said this is the second year the market has been held at CIFTIS, with enriched snack categories, added cultural-creative merchants, and new NPC situational interaction segments. Jiangxi has actively explored a "market+" model, integrating Jiangxi stir-fry with cultural tourism and sports to bring specialty foods into more consumption scenarios.
Summary: Nanchang, Jiangxi, is accelerating the building of a modern industrial system by focusing on manufacturing, innovation, and digital-intelligent transformation, with first-half growth in high-tech and equipment manufacturing outpacing the overall industrial average. The city promotes chain-based cluster development across emerging and characteristic industries, fostering upstream-downstream coordination and enterprise echelons. It integrates industry, academia, and research, with achievements moving from laboratories to production lines, supported by platforms like the Tongji University-affiliated research institute. Digital-intelligent transformation is guiding enterprises from single-point upgrades to full-process integration, with AI applications and cloud adoption expanding. A new action plan aims to deepen this transformation through 2027, targeting over 1,000 enterprises using the industrial internet.
Summary: The article reports on practical measures to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China, following the 15th Five-Year Plan's arrangements to develop the private economy. In Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, the "Project Steward" mechanism was launched to streamline approval processes, compressing time for projects like the livestock big-model data annotation project by Wofu Network Technology. In Ningbo, Zhejiang, the "Science and Technology Big Market" platform connected Tiangong Fluid Technology with NingboTech University's laboratory to overcome R&D bottlenecks, transforming "blind searching" into "precise matching." In Chengdu, Sichuan, supply-demand matching platforms and full-process services helped Datong Road and Bridge Machinery secure overseas orders totaling 150 million yuan in Algeria and other markets. The article concludes with netizen suggestions on standardizing market supervision, fostering industrial ecosystems, and optimizing financial support for SMEs.
Summary: Small and medium merchants' business vitality continues to improve, with the activity index of small-commodity wholesale markets growing 8.1% year-on-year in the first eight months of this year. The Shouqianba physical-commerce business vitality index reached 83.3 in August, up 1.7% from the previous month and hitting the year's highest level. The offline-consumer vitality index grew 2.9% year-on-year, while consumer-spending and consumer-frequency growth indices rose 4.8% and 2.6%, respectively, achieving a simultaneous increase in both volume and price. The author, deputy director of the Big Data Analysis Division of the Big Data Development Department of the National Information Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, attributes this to continued recovery in merchant business vitality, predominantly private enterprises, with business conditions improving.
Summary: A photovoltaic power station project in Yibin District, Luoyang City, Henan Province, is installing solar panels on factory rooftops, with workers and a drone hoisting modules simultaneously. All clean electricity generated will be used for enterprise production, aiming to reduce production and operation costs, decrease traditional energy consumption, and promote green and low-carbon development. The photo was taken by Zhang Yixi (Image China).
Summary: China's express delivery development index reached 431.7 in August, up 1.5 percent year on year, according to a report from the State Post Bureau. The development scale index rose 4.2 percent to 591.1, driven by express delivery enterprises boosting transport capacity and service resources around consumption time points like the fishing season opening festival and harvest season. The service quality index was 605.6, basically flat year on year, with public satisfaction at 85.3 points, up 0.5 points.
Summary: Anta Group is custom-making competition gear for athletes at the upcoming 20th Asian Games, using 3D scanning and iterative design to produce domestically made equipment tailored to individual athletes' physical conditions. For hurdler Liu Junqi, the shoe last underwent eight iterations and features a reinforced carbon plate, while the "Speed Dragon" spiked shoes for Wu Hongjiao weigh 122 grams and mimic the plantar fascia for energy efficiency. The "Dragon Roar Wind Armor" cycling suit, developed over eight months with wind tunnel testing, addresses fit issues from overseas white-label suits and offers differentiated patterns for track, road, mountain, and BMX events. Other sports, including wrestling, taekwondo, gymnastics, trampoline, and archery, will also use these custom suits, with gymnastics incorporating Eastern aesthetic elements and archery gear featuring sun protection. Anta has invested 20 billion yuan in innovation over the past decade and plans another 20 billion yuan in R&D over the next five years, supported by a team of over 1,100 international experts.
Summary: The 2026 Jiangsu Industry-University-Research Cooperation and Docking Conference was recently held in Nanjing, Jiangsu. At the venue, over 130 research institutes released more than 6,600 latest scientific and technological achievements, and over 2,800 enterprises released more than 3,800 technical demands. Enterprise representatives conducted technical docking with experts and technology managers, reaching over 1,300 intended cooperation projects with a total cooperation amount exceeding 3.9 billion yuan. During the conference, the organizers also held activities such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences' "Fusion Point" action for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and docking activities for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the marine industry.
Summary: The People's Bank of China and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange jointly issued a notice extending nationwide, starting from the 14th, the pilot policy for the centralized operation of cross-border funds in both RMB and foreign currency by multinational companies, previously carried out in Beijing and Guangdong. The extended policy features a lowered entry threshold, simplified business handling procedures, and convenience for multinational companies to pool and allocate cross-border funds in both RMB and foreign currency.
Summary: Huawei introduced HarmonyOS 7 at a September 7 product launch event, integrating AI into the system architecture to evolve from human-computer interaction toward proactive intelligent services and building an "Agent-friendly system architecture." The system-level intelligent agent "Xiaoyi" can invoke more than 2,100 system capabilities and connect to over 2,000 HarmonyOS intelligent agents, shifting AI from "answering questions" to "completing tasks," while the "Star Shield" security system uses AI for risk perception and full-process anti-fraud protection. Performance improvements include a 15% overall performance gain and 36 minutes of added battery life, with connectivity features like Galaxy Connectivity breaking down device boundaries. Huawei aims to jointly build an open ecosystem, with OpenHarmony entering sectors such as finance, transportation, energy, education, and healthcare, positioning HarmonyOS as an intelligent infrastructure connecting models, applications, devices, and industries.
Summary: The Supreme People's Court released four typical cases of online rule of law on September 16, addressing issues such as impersonating celebrities in livestream sales, cyber violence injunctions, and search engine tort liability. In one case, the Beijing Internet Court found a cultural company jointly liable for infringement after a livestream host used Li Moujin's portrait and AI-synthesized voice without authorization, ordering an apology and 120,000 yuan in compensation. The court emphasized that the ruling regulates illegal promotional conduct and promotes e-commerce operators' review obligations. In another case, the People's Court of Changchun New Area granted a six-month injunction against self-media bloggers Zhang Mou and Hu Mou for inciting cyber violence against Li Mou, citing irreparable harm and the urgency standard. The Supreme People's Court noted that courts should comprehensively consider factors like conduct manner and information dissemination speed when reviewing such injunctions, while avoiding exceeding necessary limits.
Summary: The article highlights Jincheng City’s primary-level governance practices, using examples like a villager’s road repair request at a "public-opinion bench meeting" and a homestay operator’s income boost through coordinated resource integration. Jincheng employs a "three-level screening + three-party assessment" mechanism to classify livelihood matters, adopting 9,063 opinions and forming 479 landmark ones. To address parking difficulties, the city introduced minute-based billing, opened 1,059 free staggered parking spaces from government agencies, and raised public parking utilization from 35% to 62%. Officials emphasized institutional mechanisms to prevent shirking responsibility, as seen in the swift cable cleanup in Chunpeng Lane. Xue Mingyao, Secretary of the Jincheng Municipal Party Committee, stated that party members and cadres will normalize public opinion collection and precisely resolve urgent concerns.
Summary: At a regular press conference on September 16, Taiwan Affairs Office spokesperson Zhu Fenglian responded to questions about the Pinglu Canal's official opening to navigation, calling it a key backbone project of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor and welcoming Taiwan businessmen and businesses to share its opportunities. Regarding the cross-Strait espionage drama *Confrontation*, Zhu stated it reflects the dedication of unsung heroes on the covert front and that safeguarding national security is every citizen's duty. She emphasized that Taiwan's future and the well-being of Taiwan compatriots lie in peaceful cross-Strait relations and national reunification, and that opposing "Taiwan independence" serves the fundamental interests of both sides. Zhu urged Taiwan compatriots to guard against sabotage by "Taiwan independence" separatist forces and external hostile forces interfering with reunification.
Summary: The article highlights grassroots legislative contact points in Renmin Square Subdistrict, Dalian, where delivery riders and ride-hailing drivers serve as legislative information officers, feeding public concerns into lawmaking. The subdistrict integrates "legislative contact points + trade unions," collecting opinions around the clock and turning frontline suggestions into practical legislative proposals, such as raising the employment age limit for drivers. Since the initiative began, it has gathered 111 opinions and provided 789 legal consultations, including helping a sanitation worker secure work-related injury recognition. Gao Nan, Secretary of the Party Working Committee, stressed that contact points should let the masses understand the law and defend their rights. A Liaoning Provincial People's Congress official called for advancing grassroots legislative contact points to make people's concerns the focus of legislation.
Summary: The State Administration for Market Regulation, together with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, convened an administrative guidance meeting for the online hotel booking platform service industry, issuing compliance reminders to major platforms to enforce their primary responsibility and prevent industry competition risks. The guidance targets "involution" problems and risks such as exclusive cooperation and "lowest price across the entire network," aiming to break platforms' lock on quality hotel resources and return pricing power to hotel operators. Platforms are also barred from using punitive measures like traffic restrictions or deduction of order reserves to force hotel operators into unreasonable transaction conditions, safeguarding their right to fair transactions.
Summary: China's FAST telescope has enabled the discovery of pulsar J1856—0039, a double neutron star system with the shortest orbital period and lightest total mass known to date, according to the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The team, led by researcher Han Jinlin, found the system has an orbital period of just 2.36 hours and a total mass of 2.488 solar masses, with the companion neutron star approaching the theoretical lower mass limit. Multiple observations precisely verified general relativity, with the measured orbital period decay ratio matching predictions at 1.009±0.014. The system is expected to merge in about 82 million years, potentially forming a more massive neutron star and offering insights into supernova mechanisms and heavy element origins. Han noted that the system's compact orbit may enable future detection of the frame-dragging effect, potentially allowing precise measurement of neutron star moment of inertia.
Summary: The article reports on Xuzhou's efforts to integrate Chu and Han culture into daily urban life, featuring Han-culture-themed buses, Hanfu-making classes, and school curricula. It highlights the "See Han Culture in Xuzhou" IP, with officials like Wang Ying and Liu Yuxuan explaining how heritage is made visible, spread, tasted, worn, and taken away. The piece describes the "Pengcheng Qili" cultural axis, which includes over 200 historical sites and more than 30 youthful intangible cultural heritage shops, drawing over 30 million visits from January to July. It also covers museum revitalization efforts, including restored scenes and AI-driven digital preservation of Han stone reliefs, with curator Yuan Feng noting annual cultural creative revenue exceeding 20 million yuan. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on the 36th episode of Xinhua's "China Economic Roundtable," which discussed strengthening service and management for the new employment group, following a central document released in April. Participants included Huang Kun of the Chinese Academy of Labor and Social Security Sciences, Wang Xiaojun of Dashilan Subdistrict, Zhao Lei of Meituan Research Institute, and Li Yan, a JD.com rider. They addressed efforts to protect workers' rights through social insurance, occupational injury protection pilots, and optimized algorithm rules, as well as care services like rider apartments and mediation mechanisms. Wang Xiaojun highlighted local initiatives in Dashilan, including friendly stations and mobile Party branches, to integrate riders into grassroots governance. The discussion emphasized enhancing the group's sense of fulfillment, happiness, and security through coordinated governance and vocational training.
Summary: The Third Shanghai-Yunnan Health Collaboration Exchange Conference was held in Kunming on September 15, drawing over 200 experts, scholars, and medical personnel from both regions. Attendees exchanged views on medical collaboration outcomes and future cooperation directions, with the health departments and relevant medical institutions of Shanghai and Yunnan signing four cooperation agreements. Among these, the "Agreement on Paired Assistance and Collaboration between the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission and the Yunnan Provincial Health Commission (2026-2030)" clarified the next-stage direction of health collaboration. The two sides will further cooperate in medical assistance, hospital management, discipline development, and talent cultivation to extend high-quality medical resources to the grassroots. Since launching collaboration in 1996, assisting experts have carried out over 8,200 new technologies and trained more than 10,000 medical personnel, helping recipient hospitals build key specialties and improve service capacity.
Summary: Chinese competitor Zhao Jiaju won the Tor des Géants trail running championship in Italy, finishing in 65 hours, 55 minutes, and 22 seconds to become the first Chinese champion in the race's history and break the previous course record. The race covered 336.1 kilometers across Italy, France, and Switzerland, with over 24,000 meters of cumulative ascent and a 150-hour cutoff. Swiss competitor Jonathan Schindler was the men's runner-up, German competitor Kathrin Hartmuth placed third overall and first among women, and Chinese competitor Zhang Weiqiang finished fourth overall and third among men.
Summary: Chongqing has implemented a three-year urban renewal action plan, coordinating upgrades in "form, industry, culture, and vitality," with six projects selected for the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's typical case list and over 20 practices promoted nationwide. The city has delivered a "combined punch" of platforms, funds, digitalization, and policies, including a 2 billion yuan revolving fund pool and an "AI + integrated planning, construction, operation, and governance" platform that cut average approval time by more than two-thirds. Renewal advances from "points, lines, to areas," covering community renovations, riverside corridors, and ten urban landscape areas such as Jiefangbei–Chaotianmen. The city has built 51 cultural tourism consumption clusters, 65 "Shancheng Houtang" alleys, and innovation centers like MSG Huixing, driving over 200,000 young people into employment or entrepreneurship. Data source: Chongqing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development.
Summary: Leapmotor, founded in 2015, attributes its growth to full-domain self-research and deep self-manufacturing, with global deliveries exceeding 100,000 vehicles in both July and August 2026. At the 2026 Leapmotor Tech Day in Huzhou, the company unveiled the LEAP5.0 architecture, world model-assisted driving, the MM-i multi-mode hybrid electric drive, and the CTC3.0 high- and low-voltage integrated battery, with all technologies to be equipped on products in 2027. Leapmotor also announced it will open-source patents related to the CTC battery to the entire industry. The company is expanding overseas through its partnership with Stellantis Group, having established over 1,000 sales and service outlets across 45 markets. Leapmotor reiterated its commitment to its "good yet affordable" positioning and its goal of becoming a respectable world-class intelligent electric vehicle enterprise.
Summary: The 2026 China-Sri Lanka Media Cooperation and Exchange Seminar, themed "Trust and Win-Win: The Role of Media in the Context of the China-Sri Lanka Community with a Shared Future," was held in Colombo, releasing the "Colombo Initiative on China-Sri Lanka Media Cooperation" and the "Action Plan for China-Sri Lanka Media Cooperation." Participants called for carrying forward the traditional friendship, promoting people-to-people connectivity, and telling well the stories of jointly building the China-Sri Lanka community with a shared future. Sri Lankan officials and media figures, including Deputy Minister of Mass Media Kaushalya Ariyaratne and National Television Director General Gihan Silva, highlighted deepening media cooperation as vital to mutual understanding, with 2027 marking the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations. Academics and journalists urged media to enhance civilizational mutual learning and jointly speak on global issues like climate change and poverty reduction, reflecting the rising voice of the Global South. Chinese Ambassador Wei Huaxiang stated the outcomes implement the consensus of the two countries' leaders and chart a new path for media exchange and cooperation.
Summary: The article reflects on the cultural significance of Chinese restaurants in the Middle East, drawing on the film *Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant* and the author's years of reporting in the region. It highlights how dishes like Kung Pao Chicken and Beggar's Chicken serve as windows for Arab people to understand China, and notes the emotional role of restaurants during crises, such as a Zhejiang owner delivering noodles to compatriots under NATO airstrikes in Tripoli in 2011. The piece also cites examples of China's development reaching the region, including fresh produce from Saudi desert farms, Meituan's Keeta delivery in Dubai, and Baidu's Apollo Go self-driving vehicles. It concludes that Chinese cuisine's global journey reflects China's development trajectory, with cultural affinity and shared growth manifesting in everyday life.
Summary: The Russian Foreign Ministry reported that Deputy Foreign Minister Rudenko told Japanese Ambassador Muto Akira that Japan's anti-Russia course, including its "hysterical" reaction to President Putin's visit to the Southern Kuril Islands and military aid to Ukraine, makes normalization of Russia-Japan dialogue very slim. Russia also warned that Japan's "remilitarization," including military training with the United States and Western allies near Russia's Far East and deployment of medium-range missiles, threatens Russian security and Northeast Asian stability. Presidential Press Secretary Peskov said the tightening of relations stems from Japan's unfriendly policy and sanctions, making relaxation of visa measures unlikely. Separately, the UN Refugee Agency reported that escalating hostilities in Yemen's western coast have displaced over 100,000 people, with thousands fleeing to Djibouti. In the Netherlands, Utrecht University announced the discovery of a 4th-century fragment of Homer's "The Odyssey" in its library.
Summary: Mexico City is addressing severe land subsidence, with maximum annual rates reaching 42 centimeters in some areas, by coordinating drainage, water storage, groundwater protection, and risk monitoring efforts. Manuel Perló, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, explained that the city's construction on ancient lake beds and long-term groundwater extraction have accelerated subsidence, damaging pipelines and increasing waterlogging risks. The city announced a 7 billion Mexican peso investment in February to upgrade water infrastructure, including new drainage pipes and expanded dredging. In June 2025, Mayor Clara Brugada launched the "Water Acupuncture" plan to retain rainwater through infiltration wells and green space transformations, replenishing aquifers and reducing drainage pressure. Municipal departments are also using satellite remote sensing and automatic monitoring equipment to build a subsidence risk monitoring system.
Summary: The article analyzes Germany's economic recovery, noting GDP growth for three consecutive quarters since late 2025 and upgraded forecasts of 1.2–1.4 percent growth this year, driven by improved external demand, countercyclical fiscal stimulus, and a weaker-than-feared energy shock. It cautions that the recovery is cyclical, with exports benefiting from European demand and the AI investment boom, while Germany's lost global market share has not been regained. Structural challenges persist, including sluggish digitalization, high energy and labor costs, administrative burdens, population aging, and automotive industry adjustment. The author argues that maintaining open and stable economic and trade relations with external economies such as China is conducive to expanding markets and reducing supply chain risks. The piece concludes that converting short-term repair into sustainable endogenous growth will determine the recovery's durability.
Summary: CPPCC National Committee members, including Xu Xiaolan, Cheng Kai, Zhang Yunquan, Xu Lijin, and Zhou Hongyi, discussed AI development and governance, emphasizing innovation-driven progress across technology, data, ecosystem, and application. They stressed balancing innovation with risk prevention through tiered supervision, safety R&D, standards, and ethics review, ensuring AI serves humanity. Cheng Kai highlighted AI assistive products for persons with disabilities and the need to bridge the digital-intelligence divide, while Zhang Yunquan noted China's plans to offer 5,000 AI training opportunities for developing countries and promote international cooperation. The discussion framed AI as a force for inclusive, people-centered development amid global technological transformation.
Summary: The article, an opinion piece by a CPPCC National Committee member and council member of the China Disabled Persons' Federation, argues that ear and hearing health is a key component of national health, noting that approximately 220 million people in China suffer from hearing loss. It calls for implementing early screening, diagnosis, and rehabilitation across all age groups, and for improving public awareness and hearing health literacy. The author recommends further including hearing aids and cochlear implants in medical insurance reimbursement or subsidies, and improving training for hearing health professionals. It also urges the construction of hearing barrier-free environments in public places, such as equipping transportation hubs and cinemas with text-based assistive technologies. The piece concludes that protecting hearing is a shared societal responsibility essential to building a Healthy China.
Summary: The Central Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Democratic Party proposed developing the "Bamboo as a Substitute for Plastic" industry, citing bamboo's environmental benefits and China's status as a major bamboo producer. The proposal notes the industry is nascent, facing small scale, low product value, and weak innovation. Recommendations include strengthening planning and guidance, establishing demonstration bases, and supporting bamboo industry clusters. It also urges industrial policy support, including special funds, loan subsidies, and cracking down on counterfeit goods. Finally, it calls for enhanced R&D on key technologies and infrastructure like bamboo forest roads and harvesting equipment.
Summary: Yan Jianbing, a CPPCC National Committee member and president of Huazhong Agricultural University, is leading his team at Hubei's Hongshan Laboratory in molecular identification of corn germplasm, focusing on breeding high-yield, high-protein, machine-harvestable corn varieties. At the 2025 National Two Sessions, he submitted proposals on accelerating feed-use alternative protein development and forming new quality productive forces, noting that high-protein corn has been planted on a demonstration basis in 17 prefecture-level cities across 6 provinces, exceeding 1 million mu this year. He identified three hurdles for high-protein corn's transition from demonstration to market: inadequate dedicated planting, harvesting, storage, and transport systems; insufficient large-scale supply; and unclear benefit distribution mechanisms. He recommended improving standards, creating demonstration models, and cultivating chain-leading enterprises to strengthen the entire industry chain. Yan pledged to remain rooted in scientific research, respond to people's expectations through advice and suggestions, and fortify the foundation of "China's granary."
Summary: Guangdong Province has launched a "Roadside Micro-Renovation" campaign to address traffic congestion and safety issues, particularly involving electric bicycles, by making small-scale adjustments to road infrastructure. The article highlights examples such as Shenzhen's Longgang District, where a busy intersection was redesigned to separate pedestrians, non-motorized vehicles, and motor vehicles, increasing traffic efficiency by 60%. Guangzhou has implemented "shared lanes" on 85 road sections, leading to a 50% increase in non-motorized vehicles using designated lanes and a 20% reduction in accidents on some sections. The campaign, which includes public solicitation of opinions, has completed rectifications at 47 intersections across 17 cities, with a second round planned. Guangdong is also exploring AI technology for automatic inspection of key intersections to further improve traffic governance.
Summary: The Supreme People's Court issued the *Opinions on Adjudicating Cases Involving Artificial Intelligence Disputes in Accordance with Law*, drawing legal "red lines" for AI-related cases, including supporting punitive damages for AI-enabled fraud and protecting personality rights in "AI face-swapping and voice-cloning" scenarios. The article highlights that illegal acts such as "AI face-swapping" and "AI voice-cloning" infringe on privacy and disturb lives, and the courts are regulating these acts within the existing legal framework since China has not yet enacted a dedicated AI law. It emphasizes that "AI-generated" is not a shield for exemption from liability, citing a case where an AI face-swapped micro-drama infringed on an actor's rights and the court ruled against the defendants. The *Opinions* reaffirm balancing personal information protection with promoting AI industry development, giving businesses stable institutional expectations. The article concludes that rule of law must guide AI innovation to ensure safe, healthy, and orderly development benefiting society.
Summary: The 2026 National Cybersecurity Awareness Week was held uniformly across the country from September 14 to 20. During the week, various localities used easy to understand and accessible and popular forms to publicize cybersecurity knowledge and protection skills to the public.
Summary: A man who fell from his electric bicycle on a public road sued Company A, Company B, and a sanitation center for over 220,000 yuan, claiming slippery water marks caused his injury. The Beijing Yanqing District People's Court ruled against him, finding the water marks were a minor, common risk and that he failed to exercise necessary care. The judge said the evidence was insufficient to prove the entities breached their safety guarantee obligations. The court emphasized that such obligations have reasonable limits and are not an unlimited catch-all, with civil subjects bearing a duty of prudent care as the "first person responsible" for their own safety.
Summary: The article reports on how the 2019 Regulations on the Protection of Hakka Wei Houses in Southern Ganzhou have driven the legal protection and revitalization of wei houses in Longnan, Jiangxi, transforming the "old enclosure" into a provincial-level base for legal education. It details a mediation of three Tang brothers' dispute over forest land compensation at the Red Consultative Discussion Hall, highlighting the rule of law's role in resolving conflicts. Liu Yimin, director of the Longnan City Judicial Bureau, is quoted explaining past difficulties in administrative intervention and outlining future plans to strictly investigate damage and publicize the Regulations via Hakka folk arts. The article emphasizes law-based revitalization models such as "wei house + homestay" and "wei house + intangible cultural heritage," citing a rise in tourist visits and spending from January to August this year.
Summary: General Secretary Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter on the 70th anniversary of China Media Group's "Little Trumpet" program, encouraging workers in children's literature and art to create more excellent works that spread truth, goodness, and beauty. The article features contributions from practitioners in broadcasting, literature, animation, illustration, puppetry, music, and calligraphy, who share their insights on studying the letter's spirit. Dai Ying, a "Little Trumpet" host, emphasizes keeping children in mind and inheriting the program's original aspiration of "telling children good stories." Cao Wenxuan discusses the craft of telling "good stories" well, while Shang Linlin of Fantawild Animation highlights the success of the *Boonie Bears* series in spreading values to children. Other contributors, including illustrator Cai Gao, puppet theater president Zhao Yongzhuang, music creator Li Kaichou, and calligraphy educator Kou Xuechen, reflect on using their respective arts to nurture children's growth and cultural confidence.
Congratulatory Letter
On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the founding of Jilin University, I extend my congratulations to all faculty, staff, students, and alumni!
At this new starting point, I hope Jilin University will take the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the new era as its guide, carry forward its red genes, leverage its comprehensive strengths, focus on the nation's strategic needs, continuously optimize its disciplinary and program layout, enhance its teaching and research capabilities, strive to cultivate more high-caliber talent, and make greater contributions to promoting the full revitalization of Northeast China in the new era and advancing Chinese modernization.
Xi Jinping
September 16, 2026
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 16)
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 16 — Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent a congratulatory letter on the 16th to mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of Jilin University, extending congratulations to all faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
In his congratulatory letter, Xi Jinping stressed that at this new starting point, he hopes Jilin University will take the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the new era as its guide, carry forward its red genes, leverage its comprehensive strengths, focus on the nation's strategic needs, continuously optimize its disciplinary and program layout, enhance its teaching and research capabilities, strive to cultivate more high-caliber talent, and make greater contributions to promoting the full revitalization of Northeast China in the new era and advancing Chinese modernization. (Full text of the congratulatory letter issued separately)
Jilin University was founded in 1946. Over the past 80 years, the university has carried forward its fine traditions, upheld reform and innovation, and cultivated and supplied a large number of talented individuals to all sectors of the country.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张天培
Recently, General Secretary Xi Jinping replied to a letter from all members of the "Zhangzhou 110" in Fujian Province, offering them warm encouragement and expressing earnest expectations.
General Secretary Xi Jinping's reply letter is inspiring and encouraging (鼓舞人心, gu wu ren xin - "drum, encourage, person, heart") and spurs people forward. Public security officers and police across the country have unanimously stated that they will remain true to their original aspiration of serving the people, carry forward fine traditions, resolutely commit to responsibilities (矢志担当, shi zhi dan dang - "arrow, will, undertake, bear") and dedication, and be loyal guardians of the Party and the people.
"Zhangzhou 110" is a shining calling card of the public security system. "Zhangzhou 110," now officially named the Zhangzhou 110 Detachment of the Zhangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau, Fujian Province, has since 1990 innovated and continuously optimized the rapid-response mechanism for 110 alarm and service calls, playing an important role in combating crime, maintaining public order, and serving the masses. It is a representative of outstanding grassroots units across the national public security system.
In deeply studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important reply letter, public security officers and police across the country have consciously shouldered the heavy trust of "safeguarding the people's happiness and protecting the peace of the nation," striving to write the answer sheet of "the people's police serve the people" in the new era.
In the autumn sunshine, golden light spills over branches and leaves. Stepping into the Zhangzhou 110 Exhibition Hall (Hall of Loyalty), the two lines of large characters — "The people's difficulties are our difficulties; the people's satisfaction is our greatest wish" — appear solemn yet warm, every stroke carved with the original aspiration.
Upon receiving General Secretary Xi Jinping's reply letter, all members of "Zhangzhou 110" studied and absorbed its spirit at the first opportunity, feeling greatly inspired and deeply encouraged. "As the eighth captain of 'Zhangzhou 110,' I have an even greater responsibility to lead all members in forging an iron public security force that can be 'deployed at any moment, charge forward at any moment, and win at any moment.'" said Hong Sen, commander of the Zhangzhou 110 Detachment of the Zhangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping's reply letter is an affirmation of the hard work of 'Zhangzhou 110' and, even more, an earnest entrustment to the public security contingent." said Wang Xizhang, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Executive Deputy Director-General of the Fujian Provincial Public Security Department. "We must vigorously carry forward the fine traditions and exemplary work style of 'Zhangzhou 110,' and make every effort to maintain social stability and ensure the people's peace and security."
After earnestly studying and comprehending the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important reply letter, Ma Yupu, a community police officer at the Longhu Police Station of the Xinzheng Municipal Public Security Bureau in Henan Province, felt a surge of intense emotion (心潮澎湃, xin chao peng pai - "heart, tide, surge, surge"): "General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about grassroots public security officers and police, and has also set clear requirements for us. Community police officers are at the very frontline of serving the masses. We must integrate a people-centered approach into our very being, treat the masses as our own family and police matters as our own household affairs, show a bit more empathy by considering one's own feelings (将心比心, jiang xin bi xin - "take, heart, compare, heart") when mediating disputes, show a bit more initiative and warmth when serving the masses, and be a bit more extremely meticulous and thorough (细致入微, xi zhi ru wei - "fine, detailed, enter, tiny") in patrols and prevention, striving to be 'one second faster' in safeguarding the safety of the masses."
"Resolve the people's difficulties and worries with heart and feeling, and guard the lights of ten thousand households with utmost diligence and conscientiousness (兢兢业业, jing jing ye ye - "fearfully, cautiously, work, work")." General Secretary Xi Jinping's reply letter has pointed the way forward and provided the fundamental guideline for doing public security work well in the new era.
Cai Wenjun, a second-class national model hero in the public security system and political instructor of the Zhongyangmen Police Station of the Gulou Branch of the Nanjing Municipal Public Security Bureau in Jiangsu Province, works in a jurisdiction with dense commercial districts and many old residential communities, where the demands of the masses are diverse.
As a political instructor at a grassroots police station, Cai Wenjun strives to embody the solemn oath of "the people's police serve the people" in every call handled, every dispute mediated, and every effort to relieve the people's difficulties. "Between the lines of General Secretary Xi Jinping's reply letter is deep affection and earnest and sincere advice (语重心长, yu zhong xin chang - "words, heavy, heart, long"). We must use concrete actions to fulfill our duties and mission, be good guardians of peace, and continuously enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security." said Cai Wenjun.
At the Comprehensive Social Governance Center of Qianshan District, Anshan City, Liaoning Province, Li Huarui, political instructor of the Tanggangzi Police Station of the Qianshan Branch of the Anshan Municipal Public Security Bureau, successfully mediated a neighborhood dispute.
"We must integrate the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important reply letter into concrete practice, always uphold the original aspiration of serving the people, take the people's satisfaction as the highest standard for measuring public security work, and through efficient handling of each case and warm assistance in each instance, promote the on-the-spot resolution of conflicts and proactive prevention of risks, striving to ensure that small matters do not leave the community and major matters do not leave the jurisdiction." said Li Huarui.
The national gateway is the first line of defense for national security and bears on the people's well-being and peace. Yang Fan, a police officer of the Anti-Smuggling Bureau of Urumqi Customs, said: "In earnestly studying and comprehending the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important reply letter, we must empower and enhance our practical anti-smuggling capabilities with science and technology, build a solid national gateway defense line through coordinated joint governance, and uphold our original aspiration of performing our duties through concrete action and responsibility, resolutely safeguarding national gateway security, the interests of the masses, and the long-term social stability and peace (长治久安, chang zhi jiu an - "long, govern, long, peace") of border areas."
Standing at a new starting point, we will build a higher-level Safe China and a rule-of-law China. Public security officers and police across the country have stated that they will continue to explore innovative practices in grassroots governance in the new era and contribute more strength to the modernization of the grassroots governance system and governance capacity.
At the foot of Ziwu Mountain, Fengxi Stream winds and flows. Zhuji, Zhejiang, the birthplace of the Fengqiao model, carries the ever-evolving and developing wisdom of grassroots governance.
"After earnestly studying General Secretary Xi Jinping's important reply letter and the exemplary deeds of 'Zhangzhou 110,' I was deeply moved." said Zhao Xin, deputy director of the Fengqiao Police Station of the Zhuji Municipal Public Security Bureau. "We must integrate the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important reply letter into daily community policing, uphold and develop the Fengqiao model in the new era, create more good forms and methods for resolving conflicts and serving the masses in light of actual conditions, and do every small matter steadily and complete every service well."
"General Secretary Xi Jinping's special reply letter to all members of 'Zhangzhou 110' fully reflects the General Secretary's high regard for public security work and his care and affection for the public security contingent." said Niu Haifeng, director of the Intelligence and Command Center of the Ministry of Public Security. "General Secretary Xi Jinping's reply letter is not only a tremendous encouragement to all members of 'Zhangzhou 110,' but also an inspiration and spur to public security intelligence and command police officers nationwide. Public security intelligence and command departments across the country must bear in mind the entrustment, move forward with gratitude, and continuously advance the high-quality development of 110 and public security intelligence and command work."
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Nanning, September 16) (Reporters Qi Zhongxi, Xiang Zhiqiang) On the morning of September 16, Ding Xuexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the opening ceremony for navigation of the Pinglu Canal in Qinzhou, Guangxi.
The opening ceremony was held at the Madao Junction of the Pinglu Canal, where the principal responsible comrades of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Ministry of Transport, along with representatives of the project builders, delivered speeches on site. At 10:25, Ding Xuexiang announced the opening of the Pinglu Canal to navigation, and ships sounded their whistles and set sail.
While inspecting the canal construction on site, Ding Xuexiang stated that General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the construction of the Pinglu Canal and has issued important instructions and directives on multiple occasions, requiring the canal to be built to high standards and high quality, and to be made into a quality project, a green project, and an incorruptible project. After four years of striving hard through difficulties (艰苦奋战, jian ku fen zhan - "hardship, struggle, fight"), the Pinglu Canal has been successfully completed and opened to navigation. It carries the earnest expectations of the Party Central Committee, has benefited from the strong support of all relevant parties and the people, and embodies the hard work and sweat of the vast number of builders. Taking the completion and opening of the canal as an opportunity, we should build the Beibu Gulf International Gateway Port to a high level, promote the further opening up of the western region, and make greater contributions to building the new development pattern.
Ding Xuexiang also boarded a vessel to cruise and inspect the operation of the canal waterway and the protection of the ecological environment along its banks. He pointed out that the Pinglu Canal, as a major infrastructure for river-rail-sea multimodal transport, is a backbone project of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in the western region. It is necessary to do a good job in operation and management, strengthen transport capacity guarantees and cargo source organization, fully leverage the advantages of land-sea coordination and internal-external linkage, ensure the safe and efficient operation of this golden waterway connecting rivers to the sea, and achieve the organic unity of economic, social, and ecological benefits.
The Pinglu Canal connects Nanning, Guangxi, with the Beibu Gulf, strongly supporting Guangxi's striving for strength through maritime development (向海图强, xiang hai tu qiang - "towards, sea, seek, strength") and open development, and injecting new momentum into the enhancement of connectivity between China and ASEAN and the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Return to TopAt 12:00 noon on September 16, the four-and-a-half-month summer fishing moratorium ended in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea waters between 35 degrees north latitude and 26 degrees 30 minutes north latitude. With this, the 2026 national summer fishing moratorium on marine waters has fully concluded, and fishermen are welcoming the start of the fishing season (喜迎开渔, xi ying kai yu - "joyfully, welcome, start, fishing").
The photo shows fishing boats setting sail from Shipu Fishing Port in Xiangshan County, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, heading to the East China Sea to carry out fishing operations on that day.
Photo report by Dou Hanyang and Hu Xuejun
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 秦瑞杰
With refreshing autumn weather (秋高气爽, qiu gao qi shuang - "autumn, high, air, refreshing"), nightfall gathers beneath the Helan Mountains. Inside the "See Minning · Drama Village," the sounds of the banhu, erhu, and bangzi twist into a wave of heat, and Zhao Hong once again steps into his role.
In 1997, Zhao Hong moved from Zhenhu Township, Xiji County, Ningxia, into this stretch of Gobi desert; today, as the performing arts operations consultant for the drama village, he leads more than 30 farmer-actors in singing the stories of the relocated migrants to guests from all over the country (天南海北, tian nan hai bei - "heaven, south, sea, north").
"When we moved here it was Gobi desert; now we live in a land of grain. In the past we only sang of the poverty of our old home; today everyone says the new home is good." Zhao Hong's lyrics have been revised again and again.
Minning Town, located in Yongning County, Yinchuan City, Ningxia, was born out of the Minning cooperation. In 1997, Comrade Xi Jinping, then Deputy Secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, led a delegation to Ningxia for in-depth research and launched a fundamental project, the "migrant resettlement" (yimin diaozhuang), enabling the people of the Xihaigu region, who lived in a place where the local environment is unsuitable for the local people (一方水土养活不了一方人, yi fang shui tu yang huo bu yi fang ren - "one kind of water and soil, cannot nourish one kind of people"), to relocate here. He personally named it "Minning Village": "Minning Village is now a dry sandy beach; in the future it will become a golden beach." Nearly 30 years have passed, and it has grown from a small village of 8,000 people into a town of more than 60,000.
Over the years, Minning Town's development and changes have been visible to the eye, and the spiritual enrichment of the villagers is even more tangible.
Qinqiang opera, Hua'er folk songs, shehuo folk performances, and yangge dances were the "family assets" carried in the migrants' luggage. When they first moved, they were busy making a living and had no time to sing. In 2002, once his income had stabilized, Zhao Hong quietly took family money to set up the town's first Qinqiang self-entertainment troupe and cultural reading room.
"At that time everyone had just started to have enough to eat; putting on opera was a major undertaking and hard to get off the ground." At first the troupe had only 3 members, too sparse to fill a stage. As the gongs and drums sounded, villagers gradually gathered. Later, Zhao Hong assembled a troupe of more than 30 members, and even built a theater; the more they sang, the more prosperous it became.
Wang Furong, former deputy mayor of Minning Town, founded the magazine Funing Road at the very beginning of the relocation: with no computers or printers, he would run to Yinchuan to buy paper and pens, publishing 4 issues a year, inviting teachers, cadres, and farmers to write about the changes "from earthen burrows to rammed-earth houses and brick-tile houses." "Every migrant is a seed; having moved out of the mountains to the plains, the golden seed, meeting the Yellow River's water, must muster all its strength to grow its own life." Wang Furong's words carry a poetic quality.
For the "golden seeds" to sprout and take root, they cannot do without the irrigation of living water. Over the years, a cumulative total of more than 7 million yuan in cultural and sports funding has been invested in Minning Town; the town's per capita sports venue area is 4.6 square meters, 1.5 times the national average; a "15-minute fitness circle" has been "woven" to the village edge, and the Minning branch of the cultural center offers 20 sessions of free arts training per year.
The masses love to belt out Qinqiang, so the town added Qinqiang equipment; the masses wanted to sing, so an adult choir of more than 60 members was formed, with training twice a week. Zhang Xianjiao, curator of the Yongning County Cultural Center, recalls that when square dancing was first organized, "we had to call out to people and pull them in by the arm"; there were more onlookers than participants. Today, the masses rush to take the stage and compete to form teams, "turning from spectators into participants and organizers."
Today in Minning Town, the common folk have three great hobbies — Qinqiang opera, basketball, and calligraphy.
How popular is Qinqiang? The town held "Thirty Years of Relocation · Grand Opera Performances," 8 performances over 4 days, and the townspeople packed the small square, joining in the singing together. The "Bellowing Qinqiang Beneath the Helan Mountains" amateur opera competition was held in the town, with strong enthusiasm among local residents to compete; the youngest registrant was only 16.
How hot is basketball? A single town match drew 100,000 participants online and offline. During the slack farming season, the courts are never empty from morning to night, and self-organized basketball invitational tournaments are held every month without fail.
How flourishing is calligraphy? Ma Hongxing, who runs a mounting shop in town, has the most authority to speak on this: "These days, when visiting relatives and friends, it's fashionable to present inscribed plaques and seek calligraphic works." His shop now takes 500 to 600 orders a year, and supply cannot keep up with demand.
In Minning Town, the power of culture exerts a silent, subtle influence (润物无声, run wu wu sheng - "moisten, things, without, sound"). In the past, in Yuanlong Village, once night fell, the villagers' leisure life was rather monotonous. "Since the opera self-entertainment troupe was established, people have gradually been drawn together, and their minds have found a new place to go," Zhang Xianjiao said. Gathering together to join the choir and dance square dances, neighbors have become familiar with one another, and their spirits have become smoother.
In July this year, the "See Minning · Drama Village," covering 74 mu, opened its gates to visitors, condensing the history of mountain-sea cooperation into a single village; the moment visitors enter the village, they step into the drama.
The migrants who were once narrated and aided now stand at the center of the stage. After performing Yellow Earth · Cave Dwelling, migrant Song Shuqin could not stop wiping her tears with both hands: "It's both heartbreaking and heartwarming." "Now we stand on stage, performing the hardships of the past and telling of the sweetness of today; the more we tell it, the straighter our backs stand," Zhao Hong said.
The dry sandy beach has become a golden beach, and the golden beach has borne the fruit of culture. Within this fruit is packed 30 years of mountain-sea affection, and it also condenses the spiritual strength of an era.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Wang Donghui) The latest data released by the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration show that nationwide, a cumulative total of 100 million tons of wheat and 12 million tons of early indica rice have been purchased so far, with the pace slightly faster than the previous year. The peak-season purchase of summer grain is nearing its end, and all preparatory work for the purchase of autumn grain is basically in place.
Since the start of the peak-season purchase of summer grain, all localities have earnestly implemented the joint responsibility of both Party and government for food security, coordinated market-based purchasing with policy-based procurement and storage, organized grain production-marketing collaboration and farmer-enterprise pairing in light of local conditions, effectively invigorated market vitality, and ensured that summer grain purchase work has proceeded in an orderly manner with stable market operations.
Autumn grain involves many varieties, large output, and a wide scope, and the peak-season purchase will begin in late September and continue until the end of April next year. At present, autumn grain is growing well, and in major production areas such as Northeast China and North China, the area sown to corn has increased and the crop condition is good. At present, granary storage capacity, purchase funds, personnel, and equipment are all in place, and it is estimated that the peak-season purchase volume of autumn grain this year will be around 350 million tons.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘成友 郝迎灿
In September, in Shenyang, Liaoning, the autumn breeze brings a refreshing coolness. Strolling through Chang'an Community, Chang'an Residential Quarter, Dadong District, Shenyang, the towering old chimney catches the eye.
"This used to be a boiler house, abandoned for many years. Now it is the community Party-masses service center, which also houses a happy elders' canteen, a community library, and a calligraphy and painting classroom." Jiang Shuqin, a 62-year-old resident, said while carrying a warm lunchbox, "I just got my lunch — two meat dishes and two vegetable dishes, nutritious and affordable."
In August 2022, during an inspection tour in Shenyang, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "The renovation of old residential communities is an important task for enhancing the people's sense of gain." In January 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Shenyang again for an inspection and pointed out: "Urban renewal should be carried out in light of local conditions, integrated with community building, with everything oriented toward convenience, benefit, and security for the people, and with particular attention to better caring for and protecting 'the elderly and the young.'"
Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest instructions, Shenyang has made the renovation of old residential communities an important lever for deepening urban renewal efforts and modernizing grassroots governance, focusing on "convenience, benefit, and security for the people" and striving to create high-quality living spaces for the public.
"Now the old chimney is wrapped with silver light strips and has become a landscape feature of the community." Cao Xue, Party secretary of Chang'an Community, said. The transformation of the old chimney is a vivid portrayal of Shenyang's solid implementation of old residential community renovation and its meticulous refinement of community service functions.
As an old industrial base, Shenyang underwent urbanization early. Among the city's more than 6,500 residential communities, old residential communities number more than 3,500, accounting for over 50 percent.
Adhering to comprehensive upgrading, polishing the "facade" and solidifying the "substance" —
Shenzhou Garden Residential Quarter, Xingfeng Community, Shenhe District, built in 1999, once suffered from aging infrastructure and poor management.
"Now the illegal structures have been demolished, green space has increased, roads have been leveled, and even neighborhood disputes have decreased. The 'Garden Quarter' is now a name that truly matches the reality (名副其实, ming fu qi shi - "name, fits; reality, is")!" Zhang Liang, a resident of the quarter, said with emotion, "Quite a few old residents have moved back."
Demolishing illegal structures, renovating old pipe networks and roads, adding green space, putting cables underground, and adding cultural, sports, and safety facilities... Shi Guoqi, director of the Shenyang Municipal Bureau of Urban and Rural Development, introduced that Shenyang, using "one demolition, five renovations, three additions" as its starting point, has vigorously promoted the renovation of old residential communities.
Adhering to a people-oriented approach, fully mobilizing residents' initiative, enthusiasm, and creativity —
In Wanshou Residential Quarter, Baita Community, Dadong District, a large comprehensive activity center was originally planned for construction. After soliciting residents' opinions, the designer revised the drawings and instead built three residents' activity rooms in a dispersed layout, supplemented by a fitness square and a leisure corridor.
Throughout the renovation of old residential communities, Shenyang has consistently adhered to asking the people about their needs, seeking advice from the people, and evaluating results by the people: before renovation, fully soliciting residents' opinions and formulating precise renovation plans with "one policy per district" and "one policy per building"; during renovation, establishing resident supervision groups to monitor renovation progress and quality in real time; after renovation, conducting both "public opinion acceptance" and professional engineering acceptance simultaneously, with communities where resident satisfaction falls below 90 percent not being accepted.
Adhering to the combination of construction and management, ensuring both visible results from renovation and long-term effectiveness in management —
Entering Heping New Village Community, Heping District, where the average building age exceeds 30 years, the roads are flat and clean, and vehicles are parked in an orderly manner. "After the renovation of the old residential community, we coordinated grid workers, building chiefs, resident volunteers, and others to form a joint management team." Zhang Mingwei, Party secretary of Heping New Village Community, introduced.
For old residential communities to be renewed, "three-tenths depends on construction, seven-tenths on management." "We deepen the joint meeting mechanism led by community Party organizations, with multi-party coordination among neighborhood committees, owners' committees, and property service enterprises, guiding residents to independently negotiate and determine the community's management and maintenance model, self-governance conventions, and deliberation rules, so as to jointly safeguard the achievements of old residential community renovation." A relevant official of the Organization Department of the Shenyang Municipal Party Committee said.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Shenyang will renovate no fewer than 400 old residential communities, promote the construction of complete communities in a coordinated manner, and make the city more "convenient, beneficial, and secure for the people."
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Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 16) A Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on the 16th that Ding Xuexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, will attend and address the opening ceremony of the 23rd China-ASEAN Expo and the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit, to be held in Nanning, Guangxi, on September 17.
Foreign leaders and senior officials, including Myanmar Vice President Nyan Tun, Politburo member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Tuc, Politburo member of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone, as well as ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn, will attend the opening ceremony.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张云河 祝佳祺
On September 16, at the Madou Junction in Lingshan County, Qinzhou, Guangxi, the viewing platform was crowded with people.
Countless eyes were fixed on the majestic herringbone-shaped lock gates, as people awaited this historic moment.
At 10:25 a.m., a long blast of the steam whistle pierced the air, applause suddenly broke out, and the first vessel slowly sailed out of the lock chamber—
The Pinglu Canal was officially opened to navigation!
In the crowd, resident engineer Zhong Linbin's gaze never left the vessel. He could hardly contain his excitement, his throat slightly moving: "It was all worth it."
From pouring the first batch of concrete to the capping of the main structure, Zhong Linbin has spent most of his time at the Madou Junction over the past few years. He remembers that in the year he first arrived, his eldest child was born, and in the blink of an eye, more than a thousand days and nights have passed.
"Having witnessed with my own eyes the clearing of mountains and opening of ridges here, my child has grown up together with the Madou Junction," Zhong Linbin said.
The largest water-saving ship lock on an inland waterway in the world, the greatest head difference of a water-saving ship lock in the world, and the ability for a single lock to pass six 5,000-tonne large vessels at one time... The completion of the Madou Junction embodies top-tier engineering strength and is inscribed with the perseverance of its builders.
"In the past, I wore a safety helmet all day long; today, I've finally changed into formal attire." Zhong Linbin turned to greet his fellow workers who had fought alongside him, and said with a smile, "It's a rare chance to take a good photo."
After passing through the lock, Liu Shuiqing, captain of the "Guigang Hangtai 058," let his gaze sweep across the banks of the canal, the corners of his mouth slightly lifting.
This was the most special voyage of his life.
"To pilot the first vessel of today heading for the sea, I feel especially honored," Liu Shuiqing said. "Upon receiving the maiden voyage mission, I led the crew overnight to inspect the vessel, checking every piece of equipment one by one."
The cargo on this vessel came from Liuzhou and Laibin in Guangxi. Among them, 11 containers carried auto parts, to be transshipped via Qinzhou Port to Cambodia; 49 containers carried dolomite powder, to be supplied to glass manufacturing enterprises in Hainan.
"For many years before, I sailed on inland rivers, and the routes were long. Now cargo ships head south along the Pinglu Canal, sailing toward the Beibu Gulf," Liu Shuiqing said.
At the same time, Nanning Port was equally busy. You Tong, deputy manager of the Production Business Center of Nanning Port Development and Investment Co., Ltd., stood on the bank, watching containers being steadily hoisted onto vessels.
"Starting at 1 a.m., I was shuttling back and forth at the wharf, coordinating cargo loading, verifying route information, and handling customs clearance procedures." You Tong spoke at a slightly quick pace.
The opening of the Nanning Port waterway port, the construction of the dedicated railway line, the application for the supplementary certificate for dangerous goods operations... You Tong has followed up on these matters one by one, and has witnessed the port becoming increasingly bustling.
To welcome the opening of the canal to navigation, You Tong had made countless preparations. When this moment truly arrived, he found that there was still much to be done.
"We must actively organize cargo sources, weave a denser route network, and let more enterprises enjoy the convenience of the Pinglu Canal." Watching the vessel fade from sight, You Tong picked up the phone again to coordinate work.
On the day of the opening, the "Nanning—Can Tho, Vietnam" foreign trade route and the "Nanning—Yangpu, Hainan" domestic trade route were both inaugurated in both directions. Fourteen cargo vessels loaded with sugar, building materials, minerals, steel, and other goods passed through the locks smoothly and set sail on their maiden voyages to the sea, while 16 vessels carrying coal, iron ore, bauxite, fertilizer, high-calcium stone, and other goods sailed in an orderly manner into the Xijiang River basin. The three major junctions—Madou, Qishi, and Qingnian—operated in coordination, and the scheduling of vessels through the locks was safe and smooth.
Near the Madou Junction, people gathered from all directions. There were nearby residents, as well as tourists who had driven specially from other places. Many held up their phones to take photos as souvenirs, and some even started live-streaming.
"An investment of over 70 billion yuan, and more than 130 kilometers long!" Pointing at the tall lock, 65-year-old Lu Kun explained to the onlookers around him, "It's as tall as a 10-story building!"
Lu Kun's home is in Jiuzhou Town, Lingshan County, nearby. Having heard that the canal was opening to navigation, he came early to the junction to see it for himself.
On the day of the opening, four passenger waterway routes were launched simultaneously. The loop route from the Xinfu Water Comprehensive Service Area to the Madou Junction was one of them.
"With more boats, there's more bustle and energy." Pointing at the platform in the distance, Lu Kun said, "I can see the canal right from my doorstep. There's a walking path beside it, and after dinner we often go for a stroll, enjoying the river breeze—it's so comfortable! With more people coming, the night market gets especially lively in the evening. I have a relative who sets up a stall selling sweet soups, and the income is pretty good. Once passenger traffic grows even more and more tourists come, the town will see even greater development."
Setting sail, toward the sea. Countless eyes and hopes, following this canal, rush toward a brand-new future.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 16) The summary meeting of the Central Guidance Group and the Central-Level Working Task Force for the Study and Education on Establishing and Practicing a Correct View of Political Achievements was held in Beijing on the 16th. Shi Taifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and deputy head of the Central Leading Group for Party Building Work, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Liu Jinguo, member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, presided over the meeting.
The meeting thoroughly studied and implemented Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, studied and implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, implemented the requirements of the meeting of the Central Leading Group for Party Building Work, and summarized the work of the study and education guidance groups and the working task force.
The meeting pointed out that under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, Party organizations at all levels fully implemented the general requirements of "acting in the interest of the public (立党为公, li dang wei gong - "establish party, for public"), benefiting the people, making scientific decisions, and working with earnestness and practical effort (真抓实干, zhen zhua shi gan - "truly grasp, solidly work")" and the important requirements of "three earnest and solid efforts," advancing study, examination, and rectification as an integrated whole, focusing on identifying gaps, tracing root causes, and strengthening self-cultivation from the perspective of Party spirit, carefully organizing and implementing, adhering to strict supervision and solid guidance, and addressing difficult problems head-on (动真碰硬, dong zhen peng ying - "move truth, hit hardness") to solve problems. The study and education achieved notable results, and the broad ranks of Party members and cadres received a profound ideological tempering, Party spirit refinement, and practical exercise.
The meeting emphasized that establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements is a long-term task. It is necessary to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, consolidate and expand the achievements of the study and education, firmly establish the awareness of serving the people, enhance Party spirit consciousness, adhere to making political achievements for the people and through practical work, and make new and greater contributions to comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization.
Return to TopBy: 人民网记者 鲍聪颖
"Please have a seat — this chair just came 'out of the oven' — five hours ago it was still a pile of plastic pellets." Inside the "Youth Innovation Village" (青创村), a youth entrepreneurship community in Fengtai District, Beijing, Zhang Yichao said to reporters. The chair's surface shows the fine texture unique to 3D printing, and beside it an industrial robotic arm is precisely extruding thermoplastic material, layering materials one on top of another (层层堆叠, ceng ceng dui die - "layer, layer, pile, stack") to build up the prototype of a custom piece of furniture.
Zhang Yichao is an entrepreneur in the field of digital manufacturing. The robotic-arm 3D printing he works on belongs to the advanced direction of additive manufacturing moving toward intelligent construction, relying mainly on digital three-dimensional models to layer materials into physical objects. This technology can eliminate the high cost of mold making, rapidly complete sample trial production, and shorten the research and development cycle. Industrial robotic arms possess multi-dimensional flexible movement capabilities and can print large-size, irregularly curved components, making them one of the core technologies in intelligent construction today.
Zhang Yichao's connection with the "Youth Innovation Village" began nine years ago. In 2017, when Zhang Yichao was still an undergraduate, he participated in the design work of a model room in the park. "The park built the model room at a 1:1 scale according to our drawings, which made me feel the respect shown for young people's creativity," Zhang Yichao said. Later, he chose to start his business here.
Having worked in spatial design for a long time, Zhang Yichao is accustomed to thinking about problems from a three-dimensional perspective. In the process of repeatedly refining physical models, he discovered that traditional manual prototyping has a long cycle, is difficult to modify, and complex shapes are hard to realize. To solve this problem, he began learning 3D printing technology.
After gaining a deeper understanding, Zhang Yichao was captivated by the appeal of this technology, and subsequently crossed fields to devote himself to the track of robotic-arm 3D printing equipment research and development.
At that time, the domestic 3D printing industry was entering a period of rapid development. Zhang Yichao keenly observed that small-size 3D printing technology was becoming increasingly mature (日趋成熟, ri qu cheng shu - "day, tend to, mature"), while large-size robotic-arm 3D printing still had a large market gap. To this end, he formed a team to tackle technical challenges. Targeting problems such as deformation and poor stability that easily occur in large-size 3D printing, the team focused on improving and adapting new glass-fiber composite materials to overcome the deformation defects of large-size 3D printing. Relying on collaborative innovation and industry-university-research linked experimentation, Zhang Yichao gradually overcame cross-field technical difficulties and completed the transformation of his identity from environmental art designer to digital manufacturing entrepreneur.
In 2025, Zhang Yichao formally founded Tuomei DreamWorks. Relying on policy support, the enterprise developed into a digital manufacturing space with a site of more than one thousand square meters. The team developed a large-size robotic-arm 3D printing system, achieving dual-head switching printing of clay and thermoplastic materials, with its main business focused on the research and development of robotic-arm 3D printing intelligent construction equipment and overall solutions. At present, the equipment has entered the market, and multiple university laboratories have completed purchases for use in teaching, training, and scientific research related to intelligent construction and digital design. The team also carries out supporting training in intelligent construction processes and robotic-arm 3D printing applications, helping design institutions complete the capability upgrade from drawing design to digital intelligent manufacturing implementation.
The related technology has been tested in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei industrial coordination project. In 2025, the "Youth Innovation Village" cooperated with Hebei Shikan Technology Co., Ltd., which has settled in the Xiong'an New Area. This enterprise focuses on the development of deep natural gas and complex oil and gas reservoirs, and encountered a bottleneck in component research and development during the development stage of downhole turbine power generation devices: the components have complex structures and high requirements for adaptability to the operating environment. If traditional mechanical processing were adopted, the cost would be high, the time consumption long, and iterative modification of the design very inconvenient.
"Sometimes we continuously printed more than a dozen samples and still failed to meet expectations, so we stayed close to the front-line operations team, communicated at any time, and promptly improved and optimized the printing path," Zhang Yichao said. Considering the material and process constraints in real scenarios, he self-studied a large amount of related knowledge such as drilling, led the team to overcome difficulties such as deformation caused by material cooling and shrinkage and the stability deviation of the robotic arm's long-stroke movement, gave full play to the advantages of 3D modeling and rapid prototyping, completed digital modeling of components, trial prototype printing, and multiple rounds of parameter optimization, and greatly shortened the enterprise's cycle of research and development trial and error.
"After the cooperation was successfully completed, the other party sent us a letter of thanks. The letter mentioned that this collaboration refreshed the enterprise's understanding of 3D printing applications, and that the new technologies mastered by young people can fully empower the physical industry and the field of energy equipment," Zhang Yichao said. "This is recognition of our work."
The entrepreneurial stories in the "Youth Innovation Village" are being written one by one by young people rushing here. "To bring creativity to reality, I will keep exploring," Zhang Yichao said.
Return to TopBy: 赵展慧
The Agricultural Bank of China has rolled out a dedicated "Token Loan" financing program in Shanghai, Zhejiang, and other places; the Bank of China has launched a dedicated "Computing Power Token Loan" service program, which, in addition to general credit-granting criteria, also incorporates enterprise characteristics, using the enterprise's computing power token settlement situation and the value of computing power service contracts as credit references; the Bank of Jiangsu has launched a "Computing Power Loan," scoring and granting credit to enterprises across multiple dimensions such as computing power and computing efficiency, team configuration, R&D investment, and intellectual property... Recently, multiple banks have launched computing power-related financial products, using token call volume, computing power resources, and the like as credit-granting considerations, clearing the financing bottlenecks for AI enterprises such as light assets and limited collateral, and helping enterprises turn computing power into "financial strength."
Financial services for the real economy are valuable precisely for their precise adaptation. In the era of artificial intelligence, computing power is a core factor of production. For AI enterprises, chips and servers are the "infrastructure," while computing power and token call volume are the "cash flow." Incorporating assessments of new factors of production such as algorithmic efficiency, data assets, and computing power consumption into banks' credit logic can better adapt to the financial services needed in the era of artificial intelligence. The launch of related products such as the "Token Loan" can also effectively support a positive feedback loop (良性循环, liang xing xun huan - "good, nature, cycle") among "technology, industry, and finance," help AI enterprises lower financing thresholds and costs, help financial institutions open up new tracks with enormous potential beyond the traditional credit business with limited growth, and at the same time help drive AI technology from R&D toward large-scale commercial deployment.
The launch of the "Token Loan" on the one hand confirms the vigorous development of China's digital economy and intelligent economy, and on the other hand shows that financial services are keeping pace with the steps of technological innovation and more precisely matching the development needs of new quality productive forces. Since the beginning of this year, whether it is banks successively laying out related products such as the "Token Loan," or the capital market actively supporting AI enterprises in going public, these are all manifestations of financial services responding promptly to market demand and optimizing supply. According to statistics, at the end of the second quarter, the balance of loans to technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises in local and foreign currencies stood at 4.15 trillion yuan, up 20.1% year on year, with the growth rate 15 percentage points higher than that of all loans, as finance and technology accelerate a mutual effort or convergence from both sides (双向奔赴, shuang xiang ben fu - "two, directions, rush toward").
Of course, financial services for new quality productive forces require not only that "funds can be lent out," but also that "risks can be managed." Token call volume is not equivalent to the innovation content of an enterprise, and computing power can serve as a supplementary dimension for credit granting rather than a substitute. When launching related products, financial institutions should also combine multiple dimensions such as the enterprise's real orders, accounts receivable, operating revenue, intellectual property, and credit records to comprehensively determine the credit line, and establish corresponding dynamic monitoring and early warning mechanisms. Only by closely centering on the needs of the real economy and operating steadily on a safe track can finance continuously improve quality and efficiency and serve high-quality development.
Return to TopOn September 16, the first digitalized EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) maintenance depot in Anhui Province — the Hefei EMU Maintenance Depot — was officially put into operation. The depot has newly built one inspection building and 35 stabling tracks. The inspection building is equipped with 10 maintenance lines, capable of servicing 20 standard EMU trains simultaneously, making it a comprehensive EMU maintenance and repair base integrating inspection, maintenance, and dispatching functions.
The photo shows staff conducting trial maintenance on trains at the Hefei EMU Maintenance Depot on September 16.
Photo by Fang Dongxu (Image China)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Wang Zheng) The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Commission recently jointly issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Electronic Information Manufacturing Industry," proposing that by 2030, the operating revenue of enterprises above designated size will exceed 30 trillion yuan.
The electronic information manufacturing industry is large in scale, long in its chain, and vibrant in innovation. It is highly market-oriented and internationalized, with a significant enabling and leading role. It is a pillar industry of the national economy and an important force in achieving new industrialization. In 2025, the operating revenue of China's electronic information manufacturing industry above designated size reached 17.4 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.4%, ranking first among 41 industrial categories for 13 consecutive years.
The plan proposes that by 2030, the security level of the electronic information manufacturing industry chain will be significantly improved. In fields such as integrated circuits, advanced computing, consumer electronics, basic electronics, and energy electronics, a sudden appearance of many new things (涌现一批, yong xian yi pi - "emerge, a group of") of long-board technologies and products will emerge, forming competitive world-class enterprises. The efficiency of industrial innovation will be markedly enhanced, with R&D investment intensity reaching 3.5%. Key core technologies in key fields will achieve rapid breakthroughs, with a notable increase in fields where China leads or runs alongside global leaders. Computing power supply capacity will grow substantially, and the penetration rate of new-generation intelligent terminals will rise significantly. The industrial ecosystem will become more complete, with new progress in the coordination of hardware, software, standards, and patents, and new achievements in regional layout and international cooperation. The level of intelligent, green, and integrated development will improve.
The plan mainly deploys 17 key tasks around four aspects: "building foundations, improving quality, cultivating new growth drivers, and governance," including consolidating the foundational capabilities of the industry, enhancing the competitiveness of electronic complete machines and systems, cultivating new growth points for industrial development, and strengthening the industry's capacity for sustainable development.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Yu Jingxian) The reporter learned from the Eighth National Forum on the Development of Farmer Education and Training, held recently, that China's farmer education and training has been advancing steadily, with 613,600 high-caliber farmers cultivated in 2025.
The quality and structure of the high-caliber farmer workforce continue to improve, and the momentum of industrial development remains stable. Survey data show that the average age of the high-caliber farmer workforce is 44.7 years, the proportion with a high school education or above has increased by 3.15 percentage points compared with the previous year, and new forces such as graduates of junior college or above and migrant workers returning to their hometowns for employment account for 53.2 percent, up 3.27 percentage points year on year.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Tianjin, September 16) (Reporter Jin Bo) The first aircraft to complete final assembly on the second final assembly line for Airbus A320 series aircraft in Tianjin was successfully delivered on the 16th. This A320neo aircraft has been received and put into operation by China Eastern Airlines.
"This delivery reflects Airbus's long-term commitment to its Chinese partners and also demonstrates our confidence in the flourishing development (蓬勃发展, peng bo fa zhan - "flourishing, develop") of China's civil aviation market," said Benoît de Saint-Exupéry, Executive Vice President of Programs and Services for Airbus Commercial Aircraft. "The second Airbus final assembly line in Tianjin is crucial to achieving our goals for increasing global production capacity of the A320 family, and it also provides us with valuable flexibility and solid capacity assurance in actively responding to market demand."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 黄培昭 谢亚宏 李 琰
Recently, President Xi Jinping attended the 2026 Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit and paid state visits to Kyrgyzstan and Egypt. President Xi Jinping's trip to Central Asia and the Middle East was full of highlights (亮点纷呈, liang dian fen cheng - "bright spot, each distinct") and achieved complete success. In recent days, media in both Kyrgyzstan and Egypt have continuously reported on the outcomes of this visit, believing that it holds important practical and far-reaching significance for consolidating consensus on cooperation among all parties and promoting common security in the region.
An article on the website of Kyrgyzstan's Aki Press said that over the past 25 years, the SCO has continued to grow and strengthen. The Shanghai Spirit has united countries that differ in political systems, levels of development, and cultural traditions. At present, the international situation is marked by intertwined turbulence and change, with conflicts showing signs of escalation and spread, but this does not mean that international cooperation will disappear. On the contrary, the more differences there are among countries, the more valuable platforms for dialogue become. Against the backdrop of intensifying global turmoil, the international value of the Shanghai Spirit will only grow higher.
A report by Kyrgyzstan's Kabar National News Agency held that President Xi Jinping's visit has charted the course for deepening cooperation between Kyrgyzstan and China. The heads of state of Kyrgyzstan and China meet frequently, and the mutual trust and friendship established between the two sides have promoted the rapid development of bilateral relations. China has become Kyrgyzstan's main trade and investment partner. The construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway provides an important opportunity for optimizing Kyrgyzstan's economic landscape.
Elena Zholobova, editor-in-chief of Kyrgyzstan's Slovo Kyrgyzstana newspaper, said that President Xi Jinping's visit is very important for the high-quality development of the Kyrgyz-China comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era, and that the two sides signed a series of practical cooperation documents and reached much important consensus. China's development achievements in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence have attracted worldwide attention, and she looks forward to cooperation between the two countries in related industries after this visit bringing more opportunities for Kyrgyzstan's economic and social development.
A commentary in Egypt's Al-Ahram newspaper held that President Xi Jinping's state visit to Egypt, the first in 10 years, coincides with the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, and can be described as "looking back at the past on the threshold of history, and looking forward to the future on a new road," drawing a new blueprint for further deepening bilateral relations. The article held that the great tree of Egypt-China relations, having weathered 70 years of storms, is now flourishing and vigorous (枝繁叶茂, zhi fan ye mao - "branch, luxuriant; leaf, lush"), with cooperation having extended from infrastructure to digital economy, science and technology, education, and other fields, and that the bilateral relationship's "course has always remained clear, and its friendship has always remained unchanged."
A report in Egypt's Al-Akhbar newspaper said that President Xi Jinping successfully concluded his visit to Egypt, and "the hands of the Egyptian and Chinese peoples are clasped more tightly, and the road of cooperation has been traveled even farther." The report called the four-point initiative President Xi Jinping put forward on promoting common security in the Middle East "a voice of peace from the East." The report stressed that the Middle East should not become a chessboard for great-power rivalry. True security is not about making one country stronger and another weaker, but about enabling the people of all countries to live and work in peace and contentment (安居乐业, an ju le ye - "peaceful residence, happy occupation"), and "no country can enjoy security alone, and no country should be excluded from security."
A commentary in Egypt's Al-Gomhuria newspaper said that China's four-point initiative on promoting common security in the Middle East is occurring at exactly the right moment (正当其时, zheng dang qi shi - "exactly, right, its, time"). Development and security are like the two wings of a bird and the two wheels of a chariot — neither can be dispensed with. The article held that China has not issued an "external prescription" for the Middle East, but rather respects the paths chosen by regional countries themselves, "leaving the keys in the hands of the owners of the house," which conforms to the strategic autonomy long pursued by the Arab world.
An article in Egypt's Rose al-Yusuf magazine said that President Xi Jinping's visit "opens a new page in Egypt-China relations." At the special juncture of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, the heads of state of the two countries met again, which is both a review of 70 years of friendship and a joint planning for the future. The article praised the contributions of the two great civilizations of China and Egypt to the world, holding that against the current backdrop of intertwined global chaos and turbulent circumstances, strengthening exchanging and learning from each other's civilizations (文明交流互鉴, wen ming jiao liu hu jian - "civilization, exchange, mutual, learn from") between the two sides has even more important practical significance.
Another report in Rose al-Yusuf magazine positively evaluated China's four-point initiative on promoting common security in the Middle East, holding that the four-point initiative offers an alternative line of thinking for a Middle East long mired in conflict and crisis — "the region's problems should be solved jointly by the region's countries; the Middle East's future should be held in the hands of the Middle East's own people." The report stressed that President Xi Jinping's visit not only injects new impetus into the development of Egypt-China relations, but also adds a stabilizing force to a Middle East in turmoil.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 贾丰丰
The towering Pagoda Mountain is engraved with red memories, and the surging Wei River waters reflect the new look of the era.
The special promotional briefing on "The Story of the Communist Party of China — The Practice of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in Shaanxi," co-hosted by the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the CPC Shaanxi Provincial Committee, was recently held in Shaanxi. During the event, more than 200 leaders of political parties, think tank scholars, business representatives, and media delegates from over 50 countries visited Shaanxi, touring the ancient capital Xi'an, the revolutionary sacred site Yan'an, and other places. They conducted immersive visits to revolutionary heritage sites, frontline villages, cultural landmarks, grassroots communities, and modern industrial parks, gaining an understanding of China's development achievements and governance wisdom in the new era, and experiencing the vivid practice and profound heritage of Chinese modernization.
Witnessing the Vibrant Vitality of Civilized China at the Intersection of Ancient and Modern
Entering Xi'an and passing through historical relics and city streets, the delegates touched the roots of Chinese civilization among cultural treasures, experienced the vivid practice of protecting, inheriting, and innovating China's excellent traditional culture in the new era at the intersection of ancient and modern, and deciphered the code of Chinese civilization's unbroken continuity and endless and continuous (生生不息, sheng sheng bu xi - "birth, birth, not, stop") vitality.
The terracotta warriors at the Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum are magnificent and imposing (气势恢宏, qishi huihong - "air, force, grand, magnificent"), with diverse and unique appearances (千人千面, qianren qianmian - "thousand, person, thousand, face") and lifelike and vivid (栩栩如生, xuxu rusheng - "very, very, like, live") clay figurines, fully demonstrating the superb craftsmanship of ancient Chinese artisans. The delegates walked slowly through the exhibition halls, listening attentively to detailed introductions on archaeological excavation, cultural relic restoration, and heritage protection. "The many famous historical sites we visited in Shaanxi these days have left a deep impression on me. We saw how China, through the joint efforts of the government and the people, protects these cultural relics and passes on its excellent traditional culture from generation to generation," said Alaksan Ahmed, head of the Gender Promotion Division of Djibouti's Ministry of Women and Family.
As night fell, the lights of Xi'an's Great Tang All Day Mall were bright and dazzling (灯火璀璨, donghuo cuican - "lamp, fire, bright, brilliant"), with poetry lantern signs spreading out in sequence and intangible cultural heritage performances taking turns on stage. The delegates strolled through the streets, experiencing the classical elegance and fashionable vitality of the area. "This is a very unique cultural journey, allowing us to experience up close Xi'an's long history and culture," said Ane Sanchez, a member of the leadership committee and head of communications for United Left of Navarra in Spain.
"While promoting high-quality development, China has always attached great importance to its excellent traditional culture. Respecting and protecting traditional culture is crucial for any country and nation. This is the point I most want to bring back home and share with more people," said Nicolae Ţveatcov, a member of the Political Executive Committee and head of the Central Analysis Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova.
Understanding the Winning Code of the Century-Old Party Through the Inheritance of Original Aspirations
Arriving in Yan'an, with Pagoda Mountain standing tall and the Yan River flowing gently, every revolutionary heritage site courtyard and every precious cultural relic quietly tells of the eventful years and the power of faith. The delegates embarked on a journey to trace the roots of the red revolution here.
At the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall, the delegation followed the thread of history, systematically reviewing the CPC's glorious struggle in northern Shaanxi. Black-and-white images recorded extremely difficult and arduous (艰苦卓绝, jianku zhuojue - "hard, bitter, extraordinary, extreme") scenes of struggle, mottled artifacts carried the unswerving commitment to a goal (矢志不渝, shizhi buyu - "arrow, will, not, change") of revolutionary faith, and vivid historical scenes deeply moved everyone.
At the Yangjialing Revolutionary Heritage Site, every table and chair, every brick and tile, bears witness to history. China's older generation of proletarian revolutionaries, under conditions of extreme material scarcity, extremely harsh environments, and extremely severe struggles, cherished the lofty ideal of saving the country and the people, formulated strategies in a command center (运筹帷幄, yunchou weiwuo - "operate, strategy, curtain, tent") and won victories from a thousand miles away, leading the Chinese people to break through numerous obstacles and march toward a bright future. "It is hard to imagine that it was precisely in such simple cave dwellings that Mao Zedong and other older-generation Chinese revolutionaries ate, lived, and worked alongside the masses, leading the Chinese revolution to victory," said Viban Jude, editor and reporter for Action newspaper of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement, who was deeply moved and took a group photo in front of the cave dwellings after visiting Mao Zedong's former residence.
"History does not disappear. This land of passion witnessed the key course in which the CPC led the Chinese revolution from a low ebb to a high tide and achieved a historic turning point, nurturing and forming the Yan'an Spirit, a precious spiritual asset of Chinese Communists. Here, the CPC wrote the purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly into its Party Constitution, winning the heartfelt support of the people through tangible development results," said Francis Michel, principal of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi Party School in Tanzania and faculty member of the Nyerere Leadership Institute. "The victory of the CPC has never been accidental, but an inevitable result forged jointly by faith, the people, and struggle."
During the autumn harvest season, sunlight fell on the fields by the roadside, with golden grain and red fruit reflecting the busy, smiling faces of the villagers.
"Now we have established a smart orchard weather station that monitors temperature, humidity, and other data in real time, along with integrated water-fertilizer drip irrigation facilities. We are also equipped with intelligent apple sorting devices and fresh-keeping storage warehouses. With the support of policies and technology, the per-mu yield of Liangjiahe apples has increased from 3,500 jin to 5,000 jin. We have also registered the Liangjiahe apple brand, selling through livestreaming and online platforms, and exporting as far as Canada and Australia. Apple cultivation has driven the rapid development of rural tourism and other industries, and the villagers now use the internet and have moved into new buildings," said Hui Yide, first secretary of the Liangjiahe Village Party branch in Wen'anyi Town, Yanchuan County, telling the story of himself and his fellow villagers in a measured tone.
"We have seen the responsibility of a grassroots government. Grassroots Party members and cadres have led the villagers in transforming the face of this village, and the apple industry is thriving. From this, one can see how a capable government is accountable to its people," said Francis Michel.
Appreciating Remarkable Achievements in Governance Innovation and Industrial Upgrading
Shaanxi is an important base for China's opening up to the West and a key node in the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. From the meticulous governance of urban communities to the industrial innovation of energy bases, the delegates experienced firsthand the vibrant vitality of China's high-quality development in the new era.
Grassroots governance is the "last kilometer" of national governance. At Taibai Community in Xi'an's Beilin District, the delegates gained an in-depth understanding of innovative grassroots governance practices, with a focus on observing the achievements of the community women's federation's distinctive work. Based on the community's reality of a dense population, diverse structure, and varied needs, Taibai Community takes the work of the women's federation as its starting point, focusing on women's and children's development, family civility building, assistance for special groups, and harmonious neighborhood co-construction, building a refined, warm, and localized grassroots governance service system. "Taibai Community demonstrates the distinctive advantages of China's grassroots governance: refined, efficient, warm, and close to the people. Djibouti's women's federation also has a dedicated family support center that provides women with relevant assistance and family support programs. This visit has brought new inspiration for our work in related fields," said Alaksan Ahmed.
In Xi'an, the delegates visited the R&D base exhibition hall of an electric vehicle company. From power batteries to intelligent chassis, from driving range to safety performance, the delegates looked and asked questions, experienced and took notes, learning in detail about the current status and application of China's automotive electrification and intelligent technology.
Galina Krumova, editor and reporter for the Bulgarian Socialist Party's newspaper Zemia, said while photographing different vehicle models, "By developing the new energy vehicle industry, China has promoted industrial upgrading and employment transformation, providing systematic solutions to problems commonly faced by all countries."
"During our visit, we learned that the northern Shaanxi region previously relied mainly on traditional resource exports as its development model. Now, based on the new development philosophy, it has shed the extensive development path, taken scientific and technological innovation as its core driving force, and made every effort to promote the green transformation, high-end upgrading, and chain extension of the energy industry, achieving a leap from 'resource dependence' to 'innovation-driven' and from 'raw coal export' to 'high-end manufacturing,'" said Liwaming Libobang, deputy director of the Department of Land Management and Development under Laos' Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and senior researcher of the Party Central Committee's Theoretical Committee. "The northern Shaanxi region has blazed a new path of sustainable, high-quality development for resource-based regions, giving us a full understanding of China's firm determination and remarkable achievements in promoting industrial transformation and upgrading and practicing the concept of green development."
The inheritance of original aspirations on this red land, the endless vitality of a thousand-year cultural lineage, the warmth and pragmatism of grassroots governance, and the vigorous upward momentum of industrial development... The magnificent picture of Shaanxi's high-quality development in the new era left a deep impression on the delegates. "This trip has allowed me to feel the brilliant achievements made by the CPC in leading the Chinese people on the road to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, demonstrating the important theoretical value and practical significance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. I believe that Belarus-China friendship, economic and people-to-people ties will continue to strengthen, and cooperation will continue to expand," said Irina Starovoitova, second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus and first deputy rector of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Belarus.
Return to TopBy: 穆罕默德·萨奇夫
As a force for promoting mutual learning among civilizations, the BRICS countries will enable different civilizations to radiate new brilliance through mutual appreciation and mutual learning, contributing more BRICS wisdom to the unity and self-strengthening of the Global South and the progress of human civilization.
Recently, the 18th BRICS Summit was held in New Delhi, India. At this summit, the Chinese side proposed that BRICS countries play the role of "four pioneers," charting the course for BRICS cooperation. As a scholar who has long been engaged in cultural exchanges between India and China, I pay close attention to the strategic positioning of "BRICS countries as pioneers in promoting mutual learning among civilizations." BRICS countries inherit ancient civilizations and nurture diverse cultures, and should become a garden where different civilizations coexist inclusively. Promoting exchanges, mutual learning, living in harmony and coexistence (和合共生, he he gong sheng - "harmony, together, live, grow") among different civilizations, and encouraging frequent people-to-people exchanges and mutual understanding, will help enhance mutual understanding and trust among BRICS countries and promote making steady progress toward long-term goals (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk, steady, reach, far") in "Greater BRICS Cooperation."
Over the past 20 years, the BRICS cooperation mechanism has continued to grow and expand, achieving historic enlargement and demonstrating vigorous vitality. As the BRICS family continues to expand, people-to-people exchanges have gradually developed from an important area of cooperation into a key pillar of institutional building. From the 2017 BRICS Summit in Xiamen, which proposed making people-to-people exchanges the third pillar of the BRICS cooperation mechanism, to the 2024 Kazan Summit, which articulated the important vision of building "People-Centered BRICS," and to this summit's strategic positioning of "BRICS countries as pioneers in promoting mutual learning among civilizations," people-to-people exchanges among BRICS countries have entered a new stage of normalized and institutionalized development. Activities such as the BRICS Cultural Festival, Film Festival, Games, and Youth Summit are varied and colorful (丰富多彩, feng fu duo cai - "rich, abundant, many, colorful"), cooperation networks among cultural institutions such as museums, libraries, and art galleries continue to improve, and exchanges in education, media, academia, and youth affairs are becoming increasingly diverse. People of all countries are drawing closer to one another through exchanges, continuously consolidating the popular foundation for practical BRICS cooperation.
Deepening people-to-people exchanges among BRICS countries cannot be separated from the value guidance of a correct view of civilization. In today's world, multiple challenges and crises are intertwined and overlapping, and the underlying cause is that certain countries cling to the "clash of civilizations" and "superiority of civilizations" theories, equating civilizational differences with civilizational confrontation, which has severely impacted the global governance system. China has proposed the Global Civilization Initiative, advocating respect for the diversity of world civilizations, transcending civilizational estrangement through civilizational exchanges, transcending civilizational conflicts through civilizational mutual learning, and transcending civilizational superiority through civilizational inclusiveness, charting the course for BRICS people-to-people exchanges and cooperation. The 18th BRICS Summit held in New Delhi, India, under the theme "Building Resilient, Innovative, Cooperative and Sustainable Development," highlights a people-centered philosophy and embodies the vision of a shared future for all. Proceeding from different civilizational traditions, India and China jointly emphasize inclusiveness of differences, deepening exchanges, and cooperation, providing broader space for BRICS countries to bridge civilizational estrangement and expand people-to-people interactions.
As the leading echelon of the Global South, BRICS countries' promotion of people-to-people exchanges has built a platform for emerging markets and developing countries to learn from one another's governance experience, helping advance the modernization process of the Global South. In recent years, from establishing the BRICS Youth AI Education Alliance to build a systematic AI education system, to holding the BRICS Seminar on Governance and Forum on People-to-People Exchanges to share governance experience, BRICS cooperation has helped member states and partner countries enhance the endogenous driving force for modernization through knowledge sharing, talent cultivation, and capacity building. BRICS countries differ in national conditions, systems, and stages of development, and their modernization paths cannot be monotonous and unvarying (千篇一律, qian pian yi lü - "thousand, pieces, one, pattern"). By sharing development experience through mutual learning, countries are continuously enhancing their capacity and confidence for independent development and more firmly exploring modernization paths that suit their own realities.
Although BRICS countries have different histories and cultures, they share a common pursuit of development and progress. Taking this summit as a new starting point, all parties will further improve the normalized dialogue mechanism among civilizations, strengthen youth exchanges, and deepen cooperation in culture, tourism, and education, which will gather positive energy for the stable development of inter-state relations. As a force for promoting mutual learning among civilizations, BRICS countries will enable different civilizations to radiate new brilliance through mutual appreciation and mutual learning, contributing more BRICS wisdom to the unity and self-strengthening of the Global South and the progress of human civilization.
(The author is Secretary-General of the India-China Economic and Cultural Promotion Association)
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Wu Yue) Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi in Beijing on the 16th.
Wang Yi stated that China is willing to play a constructive role in resolving international disputes and is also willing to strengthen dialogue and cooperation with Iran to safeguard Iran's legitimate rights and interests. We encourage Iran and the United States to remain rational and restrained, return to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding as soon as possible, and conduct substantive consultations on issues of respective concern; we support dialogue between Iran and the Gulf states, with respect for each other's territorial sovereignty and national security; we urge all parties to take effective measures to reopen the Strait of Hormuz at an early date; we do not wish to see regional tensions further spill over toward Yemen and the Red Sea. We call for resolving issues through dialogue and negotiation.
Wang Yi pointed out that President Xi Jinping put forward a four-point initiative during his visit to Egypt, supporting regional countries in upholding a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept and building a new security architecture for the Middle East. We welcome the useful explorations conducted by regional countries in this regard. China is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with the Iranian side to promote new progress in China-Iran relations.
Araghchi briefed on the latest situation in the Middle East and the Gulf region and the Iranian side's next-step considerations, stating that the Iranian side believes the Iran-U.S. Memorandum of Understanding remains valid, that Iran has reached a plan with Oman to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and that the U.S. side should earnestly fulfill the various commitments it has made. The Iranian side welcomes and supports the four-point proposition put forward by President Xi Jinping on safeguarding peace and stability in the Middle East as well as the four-point initiative on promoting common regional security. Iran attaches great importance to its relations with China and is willing to promote the sustained and in-depth development of bilateral relations.
The two sides also exchanged views on international and regional hotspot issues of common concern.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Wu Yue) Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, met in Beijing on September 16 with Amorim, Chief Special Advisor to the President of Brazil.
Wang Yi conveyed President Xi Jinping's cordial greetings to President Lula, stating that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China-Brazil relations have in recent years achieved leapfrog development from a comprehensive strategic partnership to a community with a shared future. China and Brazil should continue to deepen cooperation and should also strengthen strategic coordination on major international and regional issues.
Amorim conveyed President Lula's sincere greetings to President Xi Jinping, stating that the Brazilian side is willing to work with the Chinese side to implement the consensus of the two heads of state and continuously inject new substance into the China-Brazil community with a shared future for a more just world and a more sustainable planet.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Ren Tongtong) Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission Zhang Shengmin met in Beijing on the 16th with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Phan Van Giang, who was attending the 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum.
Zhang Shengmin said that the Chinese and Vietnamese militaries should focus on implementing the important consensus of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, persist in planning and advancing practical military cooperation between the two sides from a strategic height and with a developmental perspective, share experience in military building and development, promptly coordinate positions and cooperate on important security issues, jointly respond to global challenges, and push bilateral cooperation to continuously reach a new level (迈上新台阶, mai shang xin tai jie - "step up, new, platform, level").
Phan Van Giang said that the Vietnamese side is willing, in accordance with the strategic guidance of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, to carry out more practical and more effective defense and security cooperation with the Chinese side.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 16) On September 16, Wu Weihua, Vice Chairperson of the NPC Standing Committee, met at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with a delegation of the Egyptian Nation's Protector Party led by Abbas, Chairman of the party and Chairman of the Defense and National Security Committee of the House of Representatives. The two sides exchanged views on China-Egypt relations, exchanges between legislative bodies, and other issues of common concern.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, September 16) (Reporter Duan Jingjing) Wang Dongfeng, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the CPPCC National Committee and Chairman of the China Economic and Social Council, met separately in Hangzhou on the 16th with Farid, Speaker of the Egyptian Senate; Luhut, Chairman of the Indonesian National Economic Council; Amara, Chairman of the African Union of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions and President of the Moroccan Economic, Social and Environmental Council; and Pedas, President of the International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions. He briefed them on China's economic and social development and the situation of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and exchanged views on deepening exchanges and interactions, strengthening practical cooperation, promoting the building of a more just and equitable global governance system, and jointly building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Ren Tongtong) The 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum opened on September 16 at the Beijing International Convention Center. Minister of National Defense Dong Jun attended the forum and delivered a keynote speech.
Dong Jun said that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Beijing Xiangshan Forum. At present, the major changes unseen in a century (百年变局, bai nian bian ju - "hundred, year, change, situation") are accelerating, and international security is at a fragile moment. The vision of a community with a shared future for mankind and the four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping are increasingly demonstrating their value in guiding the course of history. We should adhere to building consensus with a new security concept, maintaining stability through multilateralism, preventing risks with historical sobriety, resolving problems through dialogue and consultation, consolidating the foundation with common development, and deepening cooperation with an action-oriented approach, so as to promote lasting peace and universal security in the world.
Dong Jun stated that the key to global security governance lies in action, and its fundamental measure lies in results. The Chinese military is willing to work hand in hand with the militaries of all countries to jointly implement the Global Security Initiative, continuously consolidate security mutual trust, enhance international coordination for common security, improve the capability for jointly safeguarding security, strengthen security governance in emerging fields, increase the supply of public security goods, and make greater contributions to building a community with a shared future for mankind.
The theme of this forum is "Consolidating Consensus for Stability, Jointly Promoting Security Governance." Approximately 2,000 guests, including official representatives, experts, scholars, and observers from more than 100 countries, regions, and international organizations, attended.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Ren Tongtong) Minister of National Defense Dong Jun held talks in Beijing on the 16th with Thai Defense Minister Adun, Mongolian Defense Minister Batlut, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Teah Seiha, and Singapore Defense Minister Chan Chun Sing, who were attending the 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum.
Dong Jun said that global governance has reached a critical juncture where it must advance or retreat, and seeking peace, pursuing development, promoting cooperation, and upholding justice are our common aspirations. The Beijing Xiangshan Forum has always upheld its original aspiration of equality, openness, inclusiveness, and mutual learning, opening wide the door to dialogue and listening to different voices. All countries are treated as equals here, being open and sincere (开诚布公, kai cheng bu gong - "open, sincere, not, concealment") in seeking major plans, seeking common ground while reserving differences (求同存异, qiu tong cun yi - "seek, same, preserve, different") to build consensus, and pursuing peace and cooperation through focusing on pooling wisdom and suggestions to solve problems. The Chinese military is willing to work with all parties to jointly safeguard international and regional stability, foster a sound security environment, and escort peaceful development.
Adun spoke highly of the important significance of the Beijing Xiangshan Forum and expressed willingness to further strengthen defense cooperation with the Chinese side in such fields as joint exercises and training and humanitarian rescue, enhancing mutual trust, achieving mutual benefit and win-win outcomes, safeguarding common interests, and jointly responding to various risks and challenges.
Batlut said that long-term good-neighborly friendship with China has always been a priority direction of Mongolia's foreign policy. He expressed the hope to further consolidate political mutual trust with China, deepen exchanges and cooperation in various fields, and inject more vitality into the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.
Teah Seiha said that Cambodia will continue to carry forward the traditional friendship between Cambodia and China, work hand in hand with China to implement the important consensus of the two countries' leaders, continue to deepen practical cooperation between the two militaries, and push the Cambodia-China community with a shared future in the new era toward a higher level.
Chan Chun Sing said that the relationship between Singapore and China is profound and long-lasting. Singapore firmly adheres to the One-China policy. The two militaries have achieved fruitful results in cooperation in joint exercises and training, talent cultivation, and other areas. Singapore is willing to further strengthen high-level exchanges with China, deepen practical cooperation, and promote greater development of the bilateral military relations.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Vienna, September 16) (Reporter Xu Xin) The China National Space Administration, the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Vienna, and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs recently held a handover ceremony at the United Nations headquarters in Vienna, at which China formally presented to the United Nations the first batch of lunar far-side soil samples collected by "Chang'e-6." More than 400 guests, including heads of various international organizations in Vienna, permanent representatives of various countries, and representatives from all sectors of Viennese society, attended the ceremony.
Shan Zhongde, Administrator of the China National Space Administration, together with Ghada Waly, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna, Aarti Holla-Maini, Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, and Li Song, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations Office at Vienna and Other International Organizations, jointly unveiled the lunar soil samples. The samples will be permanently exhibited at the United Nations headquarters in Vienna.
In his address, Shan Zhongde stated that exploring the vast cosmos is a shared dream of mankind's unremitting pursuit (不懈追求, bu xie zhui qiu - "not slack, pursue"). China is willing to share the fruits of its aerospace development with all countries, share opportunities, and create prosperity together, so that the achievements of aerospace science and technology can better benefit the people of all countries, jointly advance the cause of mankind's peaceful exploration of outer space, and better empower the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Geneva, September 16) (Reporter Liu He) The three-day World Trade Organization 2026 Public Forum opened in Geneva, Switzerland, on the 15th. On the same day, the "Opportunities in China · Creating and Sharing the Future" series of Chinese cultural promotion activities was launched at the WTO headquarters.
The event was hosted by the State Council Information Office of China and the Permanent Mission of China to the WTO, and organized by the China Intercontinental Communication Center. It aims to organically integrate people-to-people and cultural exchanges into discussions on global economic and trade governance, and to promote Chinese cultural concepts to WTO member representatives and more than 4,000 guests from the global political, business, and academic communities. Li Yongzha, China's Permanent Representative to the WTO, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the WTO, attended the event and delivered remarks.
As an important component of the event, a cultural performance and reception themed "Sounds of Harmony" was held that evening on the WTO's lakeside terrace. With China's culture of "harmony" as its spiritual thread, the performance integrated artistic forms including Peking opera, folk instrumental music, local opera, the Grand Song of the Dong people, and folk song and dance, showcasing the diverse charm of Chinese culture and conveying the cultural significance of mutual learning among civilizations (文明互鉴, wen ming hu jian - "civilization, mutually, learn from each other") and harmonious coexistence (和合共生, he he gong sheng - "harmony, harmony, together, live"). The "New Life of Craftsmanship" national trend cultural and creative exhibition was held concurrently.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 16) At the invitation of Zhao Leji, Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, Dick, Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, will lead a delegation to visit China from September 18 to 22.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 璁
On September 16, the State Council Information Office held a series of themed press conferences on "Getting Off to a Good Start in the 15th Five-Year Plan" period, introducing the implementation of tasks for advancing comprehensive law-based governance and judicial administrative work during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, and the situation regarding serving and safeguarding high-quality economic and social development.
According to the introduction, the Central Commission for Comprehensive Law-Based Governance is located within the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Justice undertakes the responsibilities of coordinating the implementation of comprehensive law-based governance work, advancing government legislation, law-based administration, criminal enforcement, public legal services, and foreign-related rule of law, running through the entire chain of legislation, law enforcement, judiciary, and law-abiding.
Li Mingzheng, Vice Minister of Justice, stated that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the implementation of tasks for advancing comprehensive law-based governance will be coordinated in a well-ordered manner. The study, publicity, research, interpretation, and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law will be continuously deepened, the tasks in the rule of law field deployed by the Third and Fourth Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan will be comprehensively advanced and implemented, the "Plan for Building a Law-Based China (2026-2030)" will be implemented in a coordinated manner, and the socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics will be advanced to become more complete, with the construction of a socialist country under the rule of law reaching a higher level.
Promoting the continuous optimization of the business environment through high-quality and high-efficiency legislation
According to the introduction, in recent years the Ministry of Justice has coordinated and planned relevant legislation, promoting the continuous optimization of the business environment and serving and safeguarding high-quality development through high-quality and high-efficiency legislation.
"We are taking the lead in drafting the regulations on the construction of the unified national market, providing solid rule-of-law safeguards for deepening the construction of the unified national market." Jiang Shan, Director of the Second Bureau of Legislation of the Ministry of Justice, stated that the Ministry of Justice and the National Development and Reform Commission are currently taking the lead in researching and drafting the regulations, which will fully implement the basic requirements of "five unifications and one opening," and, targeting prominent problems such as local protectionism, market segmentation, and "involution-style" competition, will resolutely remove the obstacles and bottlenecks impeding the construction of the unified national market through the rigidity of laws and regulations, strengthening the domestic economic cycle and smoothing the dual circulation at home and abroad. At present, the initial draft has been completed, and the next step will be to solicit public opinions in accordance with procedures.
In addition, after the promulgation of the Private Economy Promotion Law, the Ministry of Justice and the National Development and Reform Commission have actively promoted and guided various regions and departments to accelerate the introduction of supporting institutional measures for the law. Up to now, various regions have successively issued more than 30 regulations and rules, and various departments have issued more than 100 supporting institutional measures.
Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Justice has completed the review of 37 legislative projects. Important legal bills such as the Financial Law and the Road Traffic Safety Law have been submitted to the NPC Standing Committee for deliberation. Important regulations such as the Regulations on the Protection of Integrated Circuit Layout Designs, the Regulations on the Administration of Housing Provident Funds, and the Implementing Regulations of the Mineral Resources Law have been promulgated and implemented. The precision and effectiveness of government legislation in serving and safeguarding the overall situation have been further enhanced.
"Legislation includes not only the formulation of new laws and regulations, but also the revision, cleanup, and interpretation of currently effective laws and regulations." Ren Yong, Director of the Bureau of Rule of Law Research of the Ministry of Justice, stated that this year, two batches of 26 administrative regulations have been revised through "package" modifications.
Accelerating the advancement of the construction of the foreign-related rule of law system and capacity
The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan has made special arrangements for accelerating the construction of the foreign-related rule of law system and capacity. Wu Yanjun, Vice Minister of Justice, introduced the work in relevant aspects.
Further improving the foreign-related laws and regulations system. Since the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Justice, together with relevant departments, has promoted the promulgation of urgently needed foreign-related legislation such as the Regulations on Countering Unjustified Extraterritorial Application of Foreign Laws, the Provisions of the State Council on the Security of Industrial and Supply Chains, and the Provisions of the State Council on Foreign Investment, providing strong institutional safeguards for high-quality development and high-level opening up. In the next step, legislative projects such as international civil and commercial judicial assistance, foreign labor service cooperation, and foreign contracted projects will be advanced in a coordinated manner, accelerating the enrichment of the foreign-related legal "toolbox."
Striving to provide high-quality foreign-related legal services. Since the beginning of this year, the first national foreign-related legal service platform has been initially established, striving to provide high-quality and efficient foreign-related legal services for Chinese enterprises and citizens going abroad. In the next step, the platform will be accelerated to be officially launched and put into operation, the construction of international commercial arbitration centers will be deepened, and more law firms and arbitration institutions will be supported to "go global."
Deeply advancing international exchanges and cooperation in the rule of law field. In recent years, the Ministry of Justice has carried out bilateral exchanges with the counterpart judicial and legal departments of 77 countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, continuously deepening learning from each other through exchange (交流互鉴, jiaoliu hujian - "exchange, mutual learn") in the rule of law. In the next step, international cooperation such as criminal judicial assistance and the transfer of sentenced persons will be deepened, the relevant work of reviewing evidence exiting the country will be done well, and active participation will be made in combating transnational crimes such as telecom fraud and money laundering.
Strengthening the support of foreign-related rule of law talent. This year, six training classes for foreign-related lawyer talent have been held, training more than 500 people in total; in April this year, the first training class for legal affairs heads of foreign-related enterprises was held, with more than 10,000 legal affairs heads participating in training online and offline. In the next step, the 51 collaborative training platforms for foreign-related rule of law talent and the 16 foreign-related rule of law research platforms will be built well and used well, strengthening "order-based" training.
Continuing to rectify arbitrary law enforcement and abusive law enforcement, while also resolutely rectifying inaction in law enforcement and selective law enforcement
The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan has made clear arrangements for strengthening the construction of a law-based government. This year, the Regulations on Administrative Law Enforcement Supervision and the newly revised Implementing Regulations of the Administrative Reconsideration Law have been promulgated and implemented successively; from January to August this year, administrative reconsideration organs at all levels across the country handled 772,000 administrative reconsideration cases, of which 624,000 were newly accepted, a year-on-year increase of 19.1%, further demonstrating the role of administrative reconsideration as the main channel for resolving administrative disputes.
Ren Yong stated that since last year, the Ministry of Justice has taken the lead in organizing the special action to regulate enterprise-related administrative law enforcement, achieving notable results. Up to now, more than 90,000 cases of prominent problems in enterprise-related administrative law enforcement have been investigated and corrected nationwide, recovering nearly 31 billion yuan in economic losses for enterprises. The frequency of administrative inspections has dropped significantly, while the precision and effectiveness of inspections have markedly improved.
At present, regulating enterprise-related administrative law enforcement has entered the stage of normalized advancement. On the one hand, arbitrary law enforcement and abusive law enforcement will continue to be rectified; on the other hand, inaction in law enforcement and selective law enforcement must also be resolutely rectified, creating a market environment for sound development.
At the same time, the Ministry of Justice continues to focus on areas with a high incidence of administrative reconsideration cases, guiding administrative reconsideration organs at all levels to strengthen case-specific supervision and regulation of similar cases in accordance with the law. From January to August this year, 40,000 illegal and improper administrative acts were corrected through administrative reconsideration, 718 administrative reconsideration opinions and suggestions were issued targeting common problems, and 6,650 regulatory documents were reviewed incidentally.
"Filing and review is of great significance for improving the system of law-based administration and promoting the enhancement of the level of construction of a law-based government." Ren Yong introduced that since the beginning of this year, a total of 1,463 regulations and rules have been reviewed, and 74 problematic regulations and rules have been handled in accordance with the law. In the next step, with the deepening of the construction of the unified national market as the focus, efforts will be intensified in review and supervision, targeting prominent problems such as illegally setting market access barriers and restricting competition.
Providing public legal services that are available 24 hours a day, "never closing"
Li Mingzheng introduced that the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes improving inclusive public legal services. This year, the Ministry of Justice will issue the national "15th Five-Year Plan" for the construction of the public legal service system, promoting the upgrading of the construction of the public legal service system from "whether it exists" to "whether it is good." The integration project of the three major platforms of public legal services — physical entities, hotlines, and the internet — will be accelerated, the substantive handling of service matters online will be advanced, new technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and big data will be better utilized, the level of intelligence in legal consultation and business handling will be enhanced, and public legal services that are available 24 hours a day, "never closing," will be provided to the people.
At present, the coverage rate of rule of law cultural venues in villages and communities nationwide has reached 95.7%. More than 150,000 legal education lecturers, 2.22 million legal education volunteers, 4.4 million "persons who understand the law," as well as university student rule of law lecture groups and other grassroots backbone forces, have long been rooted in the grassroots frontline carrying out rule of law lectures; legal service workers across the country handle more than 56 million various types of business matters each year.
According to the introduction, in recent years, judicial administrative organs at all levels have adhered to and developed the Fengqiao model in the new era. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, more than 86 million various types of conflicts and disputes were resolved through mediation, arbitration, and administrative reconsideration, resolving a large number of hidden dangers and signs of trouble before they occurred and before they became lawsuits.
"Since the beginning of the year, we have guided various regions to organize special actions for the investigation and resolution of conflicts and disputes, conducting 4.712 million dispute investigations, discovering clues and promptly handling 1.363 million cases, effectively preventing disputes from intensifying and escalating." Wu Yanjun stated that in the next step, the approach of "grasping the front end and treating diseases before they occur" will be adhered to, opinions on strengthening the construction of judicial offices in the new era will be formulated and issued, a joint investigation system will be established, and hidden dangers and signs of disputes will be promptly discovered through routine investigations, key investigations, and investigations by sector and region. At the same time, a series of activities to "improve the quality of mediation" will be deployed and carried out, and the building of the team of full-time mediators will be strengthened.
Return to TopBy: 张 凡
"I never imagined the government would spend so much money, all for the sake of a single toilet issue." During Shanghai's "carrying-the-chamber-pot" renovation, the remark of a grassroots cadre left a deep impression.
To bite through the last "hard bones," Shanghai explored multiple approaches, including adding outdoor shared facilities and installing units after relocating households, at considerable expense. Was it worth it? Local cadres said they would rather take an economic loss than fail to improve the people's quality of life. This is not an economic account; it is a livelihood account of socialism.
"Settling accounts" is a problem often encountered in national governance. How to calculate, and for whom to calculate — there is a great essay to be written here.
In January 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping, treading through pristine white snow, came to Desheng Village, Xiao'ertai Town, Zhangbei County, Hebei Province. At the home of villager Xu Haicheng, the General Secretary, together with the villagers, went over the household's income and expenditure accounts for the year. From the "small accounts" of the people's households to the "big accounts" of national governance, on the account books of Chinese Communists there is both meticulous calculation and cost-be-damned commitment, but there has always been a clear value orientation.
Do not calculate the gains and losses of the moment; calculate instead where the people's hearts turn.
Opening the "great-power account book" of the new era, such "methods of calculation" are commonplace and everywhere (比比皆是, bi bi jie shi - "compare, compare, all, are").
From poverty-alleviation relocation in the depths of the mountains, to pocket parks in the corners of cities, to remote mountain villages where every village is connected by roads, electricity, and networks... Every single account, if measured solely by the formula of input and output, seems hardly "worth it." But when Chinese Communists "settle accounts," it has never been simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Intangible assets such as fairness and happiness must be factored in, and long-term considerations such as where the people's hearts turn must be included, because "the Communist Party exists to work for the people."
It is precisely because of adhering to calculating the "account of the people's hearts" that there came the engineering miracle of the Tianshan Shengli Tunnel boring through more than 20 kilometers of mountain belly, simply because "there are people on the other side of the Tianshan Mountains," and the resolute choice of the Xi'an-Yan'an High-Speed Railway to invest an additional 1.8 billion yuan, simply to let the people of the old revolutionary base areas ride high-speed trains... Such accounts can only be settled line by line to the very end by a ruling party that upholds "the people above all else."
Do not be bound by the book profit and loss; calculate instead the long-term and the fundamental.
On many occasions, those choices that seem "not worth it" at the moment precisely manifest the wisdom of focusing on the overall situation (着眼全局, zhe yan ju quan - "aim, eye; whole, entire, scale") and planning with a long-term perspective (谋定长远, mou ding chang yuan - "plan, decide; long, far").
The Sichuan-Tibet Railway now under construction will hardly yield returns in the short term, yet it is a strategic corridor for consolidating border stability and promoting coordinated development; the ecological protection of the Sanjiangyuan region, by forgoing revenue from local mineral development, is deeply nurturing the ecological foundation for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation; the nationwide layout of a new generation of information infrastructure, with 5G base stations and computing-power networks taking root in cities and villages, is paving the runway for the digital economy to take off...
These projects, laying a solid foundation (夯基垒台, hang ji lei tai - "strike, foundation; pile, platform") and building the structural framework (立柱架梁, li zhu jia liang - "set, pillar; frame, beam") for the development of a great power, manifest a grand vision that transcends the gains and losses of the present.
On the account books of Chinese Communists, there is the faith of "the people above all else," and likewise the sentiment of acting for the benefit of the entire world (计利天下, ji li tian xia - "calculate, benefit, world, under").
Facing the challenges of global climate governance, China took the initiative to propose the "dual carbon" goals, safeguarding the lucid waters and lush mountains for future generations; facing the risk of global industrial chain disruption, China insists on high-level opening up, settling a good "win-win account" for world economic recovery...
"We must consider what we are doing and why we are doing it from the overall situation and from lofty ideals," "be adept at calculating the big account, the comprehensive account, and the long-term account"... The General Secretary's words reveal the great vision, great breadth of mind, and great sense of responsibility behind "settling accounts."
Besides the "account of money," there is also the "account of time."
Facing navigation technology controlled by others, years of relayed struggle finally made "China's BeiDou" shine across the globe; patient capital supports "slow, meticulous work," the evaluation system tolerates remaining unrecognized or inactive for a long time (十年不鸣, shi nian bu ming - "ten, years, not, cry"), and industries such as new-energy vehicles and artificial intelligence are pushed to accumulate strength over time to achieve a sudden breakthrough (厚积薄发, hou ji bo fa - "accumulate, thickly; release, thinly")... Persisting in doing what is difficult but right, not seeking the profit of the moment, we are writing the answer sheet of self-reliance and self-strengthening.
From money to time, from domestic to international, every account is linked to the next, and every entry weighs a thousand jun. Calculate the "development account" accurately and the "account of the people's hearts" truly, and we will surely build up the confidence to ride out the storms and win the initiative for development and progress.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 刚 洪秋婷
The Five Ridges wind and twist, with towering, overlapping mountain ranges.
In Chengkou Town, Renhua County, Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province, starting from the Northern Guangdong Memorial Hall of the Red Army's Long March, crossing the Jinjiang River, the bluestone-paved road underfoot leads to Red Army Street.
In early November 1934, the Central Red Army broke through the second blockade line of the Kuomintang army and arrived at Chengkou. Guangdong was the first province the Red Army entered after leaving the Central Soviet Area, and also the first stop for rest and resupply after the breakout. After 10 days of marching and fighting, the Red Army gathered grain, camped, and mobilized the masses here, leaving their footprints on old street houses and beside rural hot springs.
In October 2020, during an inspection tour in Guangdong, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized the need to protect old urban areas with historical and cultural value, highlight urban characteristics, enhance cultural and tourism connotations, and allow people to receive more education.
On this red hot land, history is being re-read.
Walking along Red Army Street, the bluestone slabs are laid flat and even, and the signboard of "Victory Coffee" comes into view. Pushing open the door, one is greeted by the aroma of coffee and old blue-brick walls; looking around the room, bookshelves hold red-education study manuals, cultural and creative menus, and red-story display cards; looking out the window, one sees the places where the Red Army once marched and rested... More than 90 years ago, Red Army soldiers arrived in Chengkou under the stars, spread straw mats on the ground to sleep here, and after a brief rest, set out again on their journey.
In 2017, construction of the Northern Guangdong Memorial Hall of the Red Army's Long March began, and later Red Army Street was incorporated into the core area of the Long March National Cultural Park (Guangdong Section), with 9 revolutionary sites receiving systematic restoration. The local government revitalized idle residential houses and carried out unified restoration.
On the blue-brick white walls are shining red stars, Red Army slogans, and big red lanterns... Today, on Red Army Street, there is a constant stream of tourists. Liu Qiuping, born in the 1980s, returned from Guangzhou to her hometown to start a business, opening "Victory Coffee" here. "After visiting the memorial hall, tourists like to come here for a cup of coffee and read the stories of the Long March."
Will opening a coffee shop at a revolutionary site dilute the weight of history?
Walking along the old street, the answer gradually becomes clear: the "fashion" here does not come from internet-celebrity packaging, but from revitalizing dormant historical resources and integrating red memories into the everyday life of the common people.
Walking further along the old street, a round granary catches the eye.
When the Red Army passed through Chengkou back then, using this place as a center, they went deep into various villages to gather grain and distribute it to the poor common people.
Today, the old granary has been repaired and reinforced, preserving its original architectural texture, and transformed into a digital experience base for Long March culture. Stepping inside the granary, the simulated images are vividly lifelike and realistic, as if one has stepped into the scene of the Red Army marching, fighting, and requisitioning grain and fodder in northern Guangdong back then.
The reporter then came to Fengyuan Hot Spring. More than 90 years ago, Red Army soldiers who had traveled a long distance on foot treated their wounds and relieved their fatigue in the open-air hot spring with only a half-meter-low wall.
Today, "red memories + hot spring wellness" has unlocked new momentum for cultural tourism. In 2025, Fengyuan Hot Spring received 125,500 tourist visits and provided 110 jobs. Many migrant workers have returned to their hometowns for employment and opened farmhouse restaurants around the hot spring. Fragrant rice, bamboo shoots, and litsea cubeba tea produced locally are served on tourists' tables, and homestays converted from old houses hang old photographs, telling the red stories of this land...
Time is like a river; what has changed is the appearance of the old street, and what has not changed is the red memory and the underlying tone of struggle engraved on this land.
(Wan Zecheng participated in the writing)
Return to TopSihong County, Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, is actively promoting contract farming, opening up production and sales channels, and effectively safeguarding the income of growers, using the distinctive seed-production industry to help drive the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. Recently, the seed-production rice base in Shiji Township, Sihong County, welcomed a bountiful harvest, with local farmers turning and drying rice seeds on the drying ground.
Photo by Zhang Lianhua (People's Visual)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Hong Kong, September 16) (Reporters Wang Yao, Li Xia) Hong Kong SAR Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu on the 16th announced the "First Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (2026–2030)" at the SAR Legislative Council, and delivered the 2026 Policy Address. Lee said that the first five-year plan is a blueprint for Hong Kong's economic and social development,and a reform and important milestone as Hong Kong embarks on a new stage of transition from social stability to economic prosperity (由治及兴, you zhi ji xing - "from, govern; to, prosperity").
The first five-year plan comprises 7 parts and 28 chapters, totaling approximately 60,000 characters. The themes of the 7 parts are respectively: "Breaking New Ground, Opening a New Chapter"; "Strengthening the Four Major Centers and the Building of a Talent Aggregation Highland, Consolidating and Elevating International Competitive Advantages"; "Accelerating the Development of the Northern Metropolis, Leading the Optimization of the Spatial Pattern"; "Deepening the Construction of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, Building a Global Cooperation Network"; "Effectively Improving People's Livelihood and Well-being, Perfecting the Livelihood Security System"; "Coordinating Development and Security, Enhancing the Effectiveness of Public Governance"; "Strengthening the Implementation Guarantee Mechanisms for the Five-Year Plan".
The first five-year plan upholds 7 principles: adhering to the "One Country, Two Systems" policy, adhering to putting people's livelihood first, adhering to executive-led governance, adhering to reform and innovation, adhering to the combination of an "effective market" and a "proactive government", adhering to coordinating development and security, and adhering to a pragmatic and effective plan. The plan sets forth 5 main objectives: achieving new breakthroughs in economic development, continuously enhancing international competitiveness and influence, accelerating and improving the efficiency of Northern Metropolis construction, significantly improving people's livelihood and well-being, and achieving major progress in integrating into and serving the nation's overall development. The plan formulates a total of 105 indicators, covering different scopes, including 22 key indicators contained in Part I.
Lee said that, in the inaugural year of the nation's 15th Five-Year Plan, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has for the first time formulated a five-year plan. This is a major measure by the SAR government to uphold and improve executive-led governance and enhance governance effectiveness, a strategic need to proactively align with the nation's development, better integrate into and serve the nation's overall development, and also an action program to pool social consensus, unite forces from all sectors, promote Hong Kong's transition from governance to prosperity, and achieve high-quality development.
He stated that, through the five-year plan, the direction of development will become clearer, resource allocation more effective, social expectations more stable, and the well-being of citizens and the interests of investors from all places will be more fully safeguarded, building a more open, more inclusive, more free, more prosperous, and safer Hong Kong, making it a corridor and bridge connecting the nation with the world, and an international metropolis that is more attractive, more dynamic, and fuller of opportunities, continuously making unique and greater contributions to advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization
"With the support of the Central Government, the SAR government has, in less than one year, formulated Hong Kong's first five-year plan." Lee said that the five-year plan is of great significance; it is not only an action program for Hong Kong to better integrate into and serve the nation's overall development, but also an action deployment for Hong Kong to better grasp the dual superimposed advantages of national opportunities and international opportunities, and moreover a sustained path to enhancing the well-being of citizens
Lee subsequently delivered the 2026 Policy Address, with the theme "Planning the Overall Situation with a Long-term Vision, Opening a New Chapter through Reform, Promoting Development to Create Opportunities, Benefiting People's Livelihood toward the Future", taking the first five-year plan as the blueprint, proposing a series of measures to create development opportunities and enhance people's livelihood and well-being. He said that the five-year plan is the blueprint for Hong Kong's economicand social development, a forward-looking, strategic, and directional guiding document; the Policy Address is the annual report for implementing the five-year plan and the Chief Executive's annual governance priorities in light of actual circumstances, and the two are continuing a tradition or lineage without interruption (一脉相承, yi mai xiang cheng - "one, vein; mutually, inherit") and closely related
"Today's Hong Kong stands at a critical juncture of transition from governance to prosperity." Lee said that long-term development cannot be separated from overall planning, and the SAR government adheres to planning the overall situation with a long-term vision and promoting development through reform. Governance is about enabling economic development to benefit the people, with the purpose of satisfying the people's ever-growing needs for a better life. Standing at a new starting point, relying on the nation's strong backing, Hong Kong people's wisdom and hard work, we will surely enable the fruits of development to better benefit every family, and make Hong Kong better and more prosperous.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Qiu Chaoyi) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security: From September 14 to 20, the "Hundred-Day, Ten-Thousand-Position" recruitment special initiative launched four online recruitment special sessions for the artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, automotive, and retail industries, organized by relevant industry associations and human resources service institutions, with more than 12,000 employers participating and a recruitment demand of 178,000 person-times.
According to the introduction, the artificial intelligence industry special session is hosted by Jiuye Online (Employment Online), organizing more than 1,700 employers including Tencent, Huawei, DeepSeek, Toutiao (Today's Headlines), and SenseTime, offering positions such as robot embedded system test engineer, artificial intelligence algorithm engineer, digital chip designer, artificial intelligence application development engineer, and data analyst, with a recruitment demand of more than 13,000 person-times.
The advanced manufacturing industry special session is hosted by 51job (Qiancheng Wuyou), organizing nearly 10,000 employers including SAIC Motor, China Baowu, and RIGOL Technologies, offering positions such as materials engineer, machine vision engineer, and component reliability engineer, with a recruitment demand of 146,000 person-times.
The automotive industry special session is co-hosted by Jiuye Online and the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, organizing more than 600 employers including China FAW, Dongfeng Motor, and Changan Automobile, offering positions such as solid-state battery development engineer, automotive digital application engineer, and cockpit system engineer, with a recruitment demand of more than 18,000 person-times.
The retail industry special session is hosted by BOSS Zhipin, organizing more than 50 employers including Easyhome and Genki Forest, offering positions such as procurement supervisor, inspection engineer, and merchandise planning specialist, with a recruitment demand of nearly 1,000 person-times.
Return to TopBy: 常 晋
Ten thousand trees make a forest, but that is never the work of a single day. Whether it is developing literature or nurturing industry, or fostering a sound ecosystem, all require maintaining strategic resolve and taking the slow, patient approach.
In recent times, pondering the development of two places has stirred deep reflections.
Xiji County in Ningxia, once designated by the United Nations as one of the "most unsuitable areas for human habitation," has now cultivated itself into a"hometown of literature." With a population of fewer than 500,000, yet more than 1,600 people are engaged in long-term literary creation, and over 300 farmer-writers have emerged.
Hefei in Anhui, once ridiculed as the"largest county town," has now transformed into a city of scientific and technological innovation, ranking twelfth among global scientific research cities, and in the first half of this year, its GDP growth rate led the"trillion-yuan cities" of the Yangtze River Delta.
One grows literature, the other nurtures scientific innovation—the tracks differ, but the logic is similar—all parties coordinate tacitly, thicken the innovative ecosystem, cultivate a creative atmosphere, and blaze a new development path driven by endogenous forces.
Looking at Xiji, what is valuable is not merely how many writers have emerged, but that literature has already become part of daily life, taken root in the soil, and become a"mass crop" of this land. Nearly 300 villages—every village has a cultural reading room; county-wide, there are over 20 campus literary societies, with over 20 types of school journals founded; various folk literary associations, rural"literary gatherings," and literary creation bases have sprung up... Farmers,"after eating the five grains, crave the six grains," holding a hoe in one hand and a pen in the other—by day they till the fields, by night they lie on the kang and write. Poetry extends into a collective lyricism of the yellow earth.
Looking at Hefei, with investment driving guidance, a"fund forest" with a total scale exceeding 300 billion yuan covers the entire life cycle of technology-based enterprises; science and technology parks, maker spaces, and the like are flourishing in many places (遍地开花, bian di kai hua -"every place opens flowers"), and in the past three years, municipal-level and above incubators have increased by an average of 30 per year; leveraging research institutions such as the University of Science and Technology of China and Hefei University of Technology, bridges have been built from laboratories to production lines... With capital support, platform bearing, talent backing, and institutional safeguards, the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain are interlocking one after another (环环相扣, huan huan xiang kou -"ring ring mutually buckle"), and the momentum of innovation is continuously converted into development drive.
A thriving forest requires highly skilled forest rangers. The skill of a forest ranger lies not in pruning branches and leaves, but in nourishing the roots. Similarly, fostering a sound innovation ecosystem cannot rely solely on piling up policies and stacking resources, but requires focusing on stimulating endogenous momentum.
Xiji actively connects with universities and literary organizations, implementing not only a campus literature seedling cultivation plan, but also frequently holding lectures and reading sessions, and inviting writers to enter villages and form literary"partners" with farmers. With someone to show the way, someone to build the stage, and someone to walk alongside, the saplings of literature grow tall. Since 2016, Hefei has focused on major projects, continuously strengthening the chain in manufacturing, packaging and testing, equipment and materials, design, applications, and other areas, making every new project a node on the industrial network, with nodes supporting and supplying each other, ultimately forming a mutually nourishing industrial ecosystem. Ecosystem building cannot be done piecemeal; it requires a holistic vision. Only by breeding seeds, protecting seedlings, and cultivating soil alike can one create a three-dimensional landscape where"tall trees" tower,"shrubs" thrive, and"saplings" flourish.
Ten thousand trees make a forest, but that is never the work of a single day. Whether it is developing literature or nurturing industry, or fostering a sound ecosystem, all require maintaining strategic resolve and taking the slow, patient approach.
Xiji's finances are not ample, but the annual allocation of 120,000 yuan to the county-run literary journal"Hulu River" has never been interrupted. Each and every investment that is providing timely assistance in times of need (雪中送炭, xue zhong song tan -"sending charcoal in the snow") upholds the dreams of a group of people to become writers. Hefei's angel and seed funds have risk tolerance rates of 40% and 50%, respectively. Introducing BOE, which had incurred losses exceeding 10 billion yuan, was to resolve the"no-screen" predicament; injecting capital into NIO, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, was to strengthen the momentum of the"leading industry"... Every move was not a"gamble," but rather patiently completing the puzzle of an independent and controllable industrial chain.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized:"We must both achieve visible achievements and accomplish behind-the-scenes achievements, not caring about personal fame, but pursuing the good reputation of the people and the true judgment after the sedimentation of history." Draw one blueprint to the end, sink the heart down, put in the effort of laying foundations, and one will naturally welcome the splendid scene of"thousands of pear trees blooming." If one merely relishes in"uprooting big trees" and"plucking peaches," relying on individual projects to rush short-term results, without root-system support and lacking ecosystem coordination, it may look dazzling but could lack staying power, failing to gain momentum or become significant (难成气候, nan cheng qi hou -"difficult to become climate"). The inspiration from Xiji and Hefei lies precisely in that development must be willing to put in effort in"places unseen." Atmosphere, mechanisms, networks, patience—these intangible elements are often the substantial, enduring competitiveness.
Those who carefully cultivate the soil will ultimately be rewarded with lush greenery; those who nurture an ecosystem will naturally possess a myriad of vibrant prospects.
Return to TopBy: 李嘉璐
Whether high-quality public services can be provided is an important indicator for measuring the level of livability and the degree of civilization. Whether public services are of high quality, the most intuitive yardstick is the daily experience of ordinary people.
Looking back on this summer, many places experienced sustained high temperatures, posing challenges to outdoor workers. In Nanjing, Jiangsu, sanitation workers were issued "air-conditioned vests" equipped with small fans, and mobile "cooling buses" were driven to near work sites, which was well received.
There have already been many ways of caring for outdoor workers, such as issuing high-temperature subsidies and delivering mung bean soup and heatstroke-prevention medicines. What is innovative about the "air-conditioned vests" and "cooling buses" is that they not only provide some services and care for heat prevention and cooling, but also precisely direct the focus of support to the street corners where people persist in working while drenched in sweat, allowing workers to feel a cool breeze when bending down, to have water within reach when thirsty, and to have a seat to rest on at any time when tired.
In many cases, whether a service is good or not, once tested in a specific scenario, becomes perfectly clear and easy to understand (一清二楚, yi qing er chu - "one, clear, two, distinct"). Some services, viewed from written regulations, conform to procedures and have no problems; viewed from the scenario of handling affairs, shortcomings and points of incompatibility can often be discovered.
In other words, the precision of governance is often reflected in specific scenarios. Facilities have been built, mechanisms have been established, and services are available, but it still remains to be seen whether they run smoothly in operation and are convenient to use.
The value of scenarios lies in making the connection between supply and demand concrete. Each scenario depicts the real state of the masses handling affairs at a certain moment and under certain circumstances. The process of embedding public services into specific scenarios is also a process of dynamically and precisely aligning with differentiated demands.
At the nursing home in Qinglong Town, Tongliang District, Chongqing, the canteen ledgers are neatly organized, the kitchen is bright and clean, and the bulletin board next to the suggestion box clearly records the daily menu and detailed accounts. Every link is "displayed" in the sunlight, even food samples must be precisely 125 grams and refrigerated for 48 hours, and suggestions are acted upon immediately. The need to eat safely and healthily is implemented in every meal of every elderly person. The warmth of policy and the goodwill of institutions grow precisely from such concrete life scenarios.
For the same matter, as age changes, identity shifts, technology iterates, and society transforms, people's needs will all differ. Changing with the scenario, responding to needs, and seeking the optimal solution—this is precisely the inherent requirement for promoting public services to follow the people. Services seeking out people not only means enabling public resources and services to reach specific individuals, but also means making supply more suited to the masses' specific circumstances, real pain points, and potential needs.
In recent years, from lanes to markets to government service windows, more and more "tidal" public facilities and services have emerged in response to the needs of the times (应运而生, ying yun er sheng - "respond, luck/opportunity, arrive, produce"). Only by making dynamic adjustments based on changes in scenarios can we respond well to the masses' urgent difficulties and concerns, and handle good deeds and practical matters to the satisfaction of the masses.
In specific scenarios, one can not only see the masses' current needs and emotions, but also touch the new changes quietly taking place. By promptly perceiving new situations and calibrating service methods, breakthroughs for governance upgrading can be found.
Tianjin, adapting to young people's life rhythm of "busy on weekdays and preferring convenience," has moved marriage registration into bank branches; Shandong and other places have proactively provided pre-retirement guidance, early acceptance of applications, and other services to insured persons approaching retirement age, taking a step ahead to resolve the troubles of complicated retirement procedures and crowded service windows for the elderly. By closely following real scenarios, understanding the voices of the masses, taking one step forward and thinking one level deeper, we can better meet the masses' potential needs and safeguard their long-term interests.
Public services have no unified template, and livelihood care knows no end. On the new journey with more abundant resources and continuous technological progress, by listening attentively and sincerely to the voices of the masses, reading the footsteps of the times, identifying our bearings from the daily hustle and bustle of life, and responding to expectations with the goodwill of institutions, public services can not only follow population changes and needs, but will also always resonate with the people's aspirations for a better life.
Return to TopBy: 马玉国
What role do teachers play in the growth of young people? Through what methods should they foster virtue and nurture talent?
What teachers face every day is not cold indicators, not abstract scores, but living, breathing individuals, the entrustment of countless families, and the pillars who will one day support the edifice of the nation. It is precisely for this reason that cultivating one's character through morality (以德润心, yi de run xin - "use, virtue, moisten, heart") and enlightening people with wisdom cannot rely on indoctrination but must rely on guidance; cannot rely on commands but must rely on awakening. Only by moving students can one guide students. Not urging flowers to bloom allows their blossoming to be more unhurried; not flying in place of the birds allows their wings to grow stronger. The true essence of education lies in empowering according to the natural course of things.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: "Teachers are the backbone of educational work. Only with high-quality teachers can there be high-quality education." The role of teachers in the system of nurturing people is like a "catalyst" on a child's path of growth. The significance of a catalyst lies in influencing the course of a reaction, providing a smoother pathway, and making the reaction easier to proceed. For teachers, this catalyst uses the benevolent heart of loving teaching, cherishing students, and willingly dedicating oneself as its "solvent," and uses the educational wisdom of enlightening the mind, nourishing the heart, and teaching students in accordance with their individual aptitudes (因材施教, yin cai shi jiao - "according to, talent, implement, teach") as its "formula," with the goal of activating the curiosity and strength within children and safeguarding each unique journey of growth. Good education is precisely about clearing obstacles for children, igniting their interests, and providing conditions, so that their inner potential can emerge vigorously like spring bamboo shoots (春笋破土, chun sun po tu - "spring, bamboo shoot, break, earth") and surge forth like rivers.
A catalyst does not enter the product; once the reaction is complete, it retires gracefully after accomplishing its mission (功成身退, gong cheng shen tui - "achievement, complete, body, withdraw"). True growth occurs within the child; teachers themselves are not "reactants" and must not overstep their authority or meddle in others' affairs (越俎代庖, yue zu dai pao - "surpass, sacrificial vessel, substitute, cook"). Successful education achieves independent and vibrant individuals, and therein lies the credit of teachers.
There is no universal catalyst; different reactions require different catalysts. Today's schools should patiently seek the most suitable "reaction conditions" for different students. The High School Affiliated to Peking University implements a college system and academy system of management, provides mentor supervision, and adopts a course-selection and class-mobility teaching model, striving to offer students rich course options and broad space for growth. Several high schools in Shanghai have jointly built advanced placement academies with universities, allowing secondary school students to touch the stars of science early alongside university teachers. By accepting differences and embracing diversity, and by creating suitable cultivation pathways for children of different endowments and different paces, can every child be seen, supported, and illuminated.
If a catalyst is used improperly, it can also produce adverse reactions. Once a teacher's pursuit goes astray and blindly chases indicators such as scores and enrollment rates, it is easy to fall into the trap of pursuing quick results and immediate benefits (急功近利, ji gong jin li - "urgent, merit, near, profit"). From this perspective, establishing a scientific and reasonable educational evaluation system is particularly important. For example, Chongqing Yucai Middle School uses evaluation reform to provide safeguards for the integration of "five educations," launching a "Xingzhi Growth Points" system covering dimensions such as science and innovation competitions, labor practice, and artistic performances. Only when every child builds a solid foundation of character cultivation, psychological growth, and habit formation can they reap a splendid life and walk further on the road to distinction.
Yu Yi, a special-grade Chinese language teacher, once said, "Running education and running schools is not a 100-meter sprint, but a 10,000-meter race." Basic education is an art of slowness, a long-term commitment, an undertaking that lays the foundation for a person's entire life. It may not show immediate and visible results (立竿见影, li gan jian ying - "erect, pole, see, shadow"), and it requires maintaining a calm and composed state of mind (沉心静气, chen xin jing qi - "sink, heart, quiet, breath") and sustained, long-term effort.
By establishing a long-chain mindset for nurturing talent, cultivating the breadth of mind to willingly do "behind-the-scenes achievements," protecting individuality through diversity, and safeguarding growth through quality and effectiveness, we can surely enable every tender sapling to stretch its branches and leaves, rise upward through its joints, and grow toward the sun in suitable soil.
Return to TopNational defense education for all the people is a foundational project for building a solid national defense and a strong people's military, and it is an effective way to carry forward the spirit of patriotism and enhance the whole nation's awareness of national defense. September is "National Defense Education Month for All the People," and this year's theme is "Carry Forward the Great Spirit of the Long March, Join Hearts and Hands to Build a Strong National Defense." During the campaign, localities will guide the public and young students to strengthen their concept of national defense and striving forward with determination (砥砺奋进, di li fen jin - "grind and polish, strive and advance") by carrying out rich and varied national defense education activities.
This is precisely:
The BeiDou guides the way, the torch of heritage is passed on,
The Dongfeng tempers its blades to guard the mountains and rivers.
Joining hands to build a shield of steel,
The vast land of China stands extremely stable and secure (安如磐, an ru pan - "safe, like, rock").
Yang Yuwen
Return to TopBy: 周荣光
What can fit into a space of a few square meters? At the cultural activity center of Dong'an Community in Sanya, Hainan, bookshelves are arranged in an arc, with Li pottery jars and Li brocade hanging panels arranged in a staggered or uneven pattern (错落摆放, cuo luo bai fang - "scattered, arranged"). This is one of Sanya's first batch of seven "intangible cultural heritage mini-halls," open to the public free of charge with no reservation required.
For a long time, the protection of intangible cultural heritage has faced the dilemma of "easy to archive, hard to implement; easy to protect, hard to pass on." For ordinary people, intangible cultural heritage is a distant cultural label rather than part of daily life; for representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, the lack of venues for teaching, learning, and dissemination means traditional skills face the problem of a fractured audience.
The value of the "intangible cultural heritage mini-halls" lies in their lightweight, refined approach to deepening grassroots cultural development. The project precisely revitalizes existing spaces such as Party-masses service stations and community cultural centers, building dedicated cultural exhibition platforms at relatively low cost.
The other side of "small" is "lively." Dedicated staff are responsible for content planning and activity organization, and representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage are invited each week to teach at the halls... The vitality of intangible cultural heritage lies in seeing people, seeing objects, and seeing life; when it is embedded in the everyday bustle of the community, inheritance gains deep soil.
The "intangible cultural heritage mini-halls" take root in the community and also nurture the community's cultural character. Routine intangible cultural heritage experience activities build a warm bond for neighborly exchange, and community spaces become "cultural living rooms" with warmth, depth, and vitality.
The vitality of culture ultimately lies in taking root in life and serving the people. We look forward to more lightweight, down-to-earth cultural "micro-venues" spreading across urban and rural streets and alleys, allowing culture to better integrate into daily life.
(Excerpted from Hebei Daily, original title: "There Should Be More Community 'Intangible Cultural Heritage Mini-Halls'")
Return to TopBy: 王 博
Keywords Neighborhood Affection
Event In Xinxin Residential Community, Tonglu County, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Zhang Youyi, who is blind in both eyes, needs to cross the road every day to go to work. Nearby resident Sun Guoqing voluntarily escorts him, never missing a day, regardless of weather conditions (风雨无阻, feng yu wu zu - "wind, rain, no, stop"), and has persisted for more than two years. For the reciprocation Zhang Youyi offered, Sun Guoqing accepted not a cent. It is not just Sun Guoqing — many residents in the community have extended a helping hand to Zhang Youyi, and an unending stream of warmth has illuminated Zhang Youyi's life.
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More than 150 meters is the one-way distance Sun Guoqing accompanies Zhang Youyi every day; more than two years is the length of time Sun Guoqing has persisted regardless of weather conditions. This stretch of road is not long, but step by step, what it has walked out is neighborhood warmth; this matter is not big, but day by day, what it has accumulated is friendship and trust.
Giving is not easy — what sustains such persistence? Sun Guoqing answered with more than two years of support and guardianship — helping Zhang Youyi, in his eyes, is "just like getting up, eating, and buying groceries every day — a perfectly natural part of life." Turning kindness into habit, integrating the joy of helping others into daily life, an unremarkable-seeming small, effortless favor (举手之劳, ju shou zhi lao - "raise, hand, particle, labor"), accumulated day after day, can likewise carry heavy weight. It is not a momentary impulse, but a loyalty of staying loyal and never abandoning someone (不离不弃, bu li bu qi - "not, leave, not, abandon") through the long years — such persistence itself radiates brilliance.
There is another detail that is deeply moving — over the past two years, Zhang Youyi has always wanted to give some local specialties to express his gratitude, and Sun Guoqing has consistently declined. "My elder brother hasn't even eaten a single melon seed of mine. Our relationship is not built on any interest — it is just a blank sheet of paper." A small gift of courtesy would not constitute a burden, and is often seen as something that is only natural or expected (理所应当, li suo dang ying - "reason, that, should, ought") in interpersonal relations, but it is precisely the firm refusal that makes this neighborhood affection exceptionally simple and pure, and also lets us clearly see that the traditional view of righteousness and benefit remains vibrant today. Helping others without seeking reward, assisting others without seeking recompense — Sun Guoqing's acting without regard for personal profit or loss (不计得失, bu ji de shi - "not, calculate, gain, loss") is pure virtue.
Kindness is not an isolated case, but a collective portrait. From Yu Hongxiu, the neighbor who first escorted Zhang Youyi, to Sun Guoqing's relay of guardianship, to the auntie who collects garbage and the older sister who does cleaning who usually help him... Although he cannot see the road, he can feel the warmth of people's hearts. Zhang Youyi remembers those who have helped him and is grateful. In this story, kindness is like a torch, passed from person to person. The warmth among neighbors illuminates Zhang Youyi's life, makes him feel accepted by a big family, supports his confidence in facing life, and makes this corner of the world more humane and more cohesive.
In recent years, "atomized relationships" and "society of strangers" are often mentioned in public discussion. Indeed, as times change, fast-paced life and cyberspace seem to be making "proximity" gradually disappear; however, there are always genuine feelings that cannot be replaced. The story of Xinxin Residential Community lets us see the soft undertone of neighborhood warmth. Today, the traditional neighborhood relationships in which several generations lived together and knew each other well have changed, but society has not become cold and indifferent. When others are in a hurry, lend a hand; when others are in difficulty, contribute your effort — the mutual care and the sentiment of looking out for and helping one another (守望相助, shou wang xiang zhu - "guard, watch, mutually, help") in people's hearts have not changed.
The Analects says "To dwell in benevolence is beautiful"; Mencius writes "going out and coming in as friends, looking out for and helping one another, supporting one another in illness"... Looking at the origins, neighborhood harmony has always been an important part of China's excellent traditional culture. For thousands of years, culture has influenced people subtly and imperceptibly (润物无声, run wu wu sheng - "moisten, things, without, sound"), and such concepts have long left a deep imprint on the bones of the Chinese people. From the small scale of daily life among neighbors to the large scale of interaction between countries, the principle is the same — to coexist in harmony, exchanging sincerity for sincerity, rather than blaming others for one's own troubles (以邻为壑, yi lin wei he - "take, neighbor, as, ravine"), creating estrangement, and turning hostile out of selfish motives.
Today, Sun Guoqing is still walking that stretch of more than 150 meters. "A close neighbor is better than a distant relative" — drawing people's hearts together, we have reason to believe that such warm stories will become more and more numerous.
Return to TopBy: 湖北省武汉市 周 磊
Drinking water was passed off as groundwater, the entire sampling process was staged for the camera, and the data were entirely fabricated... According to reports, an environmental testing institution in Shanxi undertook groundwater monitoring tasks for enterprises under key environmental supervision. At seven water sampling points, not a single drop of real groundwater was collected, yet in the end it produced a false report in which everything was "qualified."
The sampling stage was entirely an act. Even if the subsequent experimental analysis and report issuance were fully standardized, they would still be futile labor built on false samples. How to safeguard the authenticity of source data is something worth our reflection.
It is necessary to establish a correct value orientation and put an end to formalism. In the statistical compilation of economic and social development data, we must not only keep a close watch on problems such as inflated data, but also ensure the authenticity of data at the source; in food safety testing, we must not only build a whole-chain regulatory system, but also ensure at the source that sampling surveys do not become going through the motions (走过场, zou guo chang - "walk, pass, field") and that practical results are achieved... Only by collecting source data with an attitude of seeking truth from facts can we provide correct reference for scientific decision-making and optimized governance, and only then can we anticipate risks and apply the right remedy to a specific problem (对症下药, dui zheng xia yao - "against, syndrome, administer, medicine").
It is also necessary to provide protection and support (保驾护航, bao jia hu hang - "protect, carriage, guard, 航") through high-efficiency governance. For source data collection, it is necessary to establish mechanisms for re-verification, spot-checking, source tracing, and rewards and penalties, and to truly consolidate responsibility at the front line of sampling. Only by weaving a tight web of institutions and making good use of technical means can staged performances, impersonation, and other forms of source-level fraud have nowhere to hide.
False data cannot support real safety, and staged performances will ultimately be exposed. Guided by a correct view of political achievements and safeguarded by high-efficiency governance, ensuring that data are true, credible, and reliable can lay a solid foundation for the country's good governance and sound administration, for society's long-term stability and peace (长治久安, chang zhi jiu an - "long, govern, long, peace"), and for the people's living and working in peace and contentment (安居乐业, an ju le ye - "peaceful, live, happy, work").
Return to TopGeneral Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "Adhere to giving priority to the development of agriculture and rural areas, improve policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit farmers, and enrich rural areas, strengthen support for agricultural science and technology and equipment, focus on enhancing comprehensive agricultural production capacity, take multiple measures simultaneously to promote farmers' employment and income growth, and solidly advance the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas."
Rice and millet are golden, melons and fruits are fragrant. Across the vast fertile fields, the picture of a bountiful harvest is unfolding gradually. Behind this, seed breeding experts are vowing to tackle key technical problems and devoting themselves to seed breeding, safeguarding food security with science and technology; agricultural machinery experts develop intelligent agricultural machinery that gallops across the fields, helping to achieve a "fast track" for the harvest; agricultural technicians work directly at the grassroots level to guide production, providing precise measures to serve farmers... On the occasion of the upcoming ninth "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival," reporters from this newspaper interviewed four agricultural science and technology experts, telling the stories of how they introduced new technologies and new concepts in the fields and at the farm sites, serving agricultural production and helping increase yields and incomes.
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Ma Wendong, researcher at the Rice Research Institute of the Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, selects and breeds improved varieties—
"Constantly putting new clothes on the rice paddies"
Reporter of People's Daily, Zhu Dawei
A gentle breeze blows, rice waves roll, and rice leaves rustle. Ma Wendong, researcher at the Rice Research Institute of the Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, walked into the experimental field in Jiamusi City, bending down to carefully examine each rice plant. In this 80-mu experimental field, more than 10,000 copies of variety resources and breeding progeny materials are cultivated, all of which represent the painstaking efforts of Ma Wendong's team over many years.
With the sun beating down during the day and water vapor rising from underfoot, Ma Wendong is busy in the field, sometimes pinching open the husk to check the rice endosperm, sometimes turning sideways to compare the growth of different strains, recording subtle changes one by one, accumulating first-hand field data for subsequent variety screening.
Growing up in a farmhouse in Jiamusi, Ma Wendong knows well the hardships of farmers' cultivation. After graduating in 2003, he returned to his hometown and has been engaged in the selection and breeding of new rice varieties and the promotion of related technologies. To this day, he remains rooted in the black soil.
"I spend most of the year in the fields." Ma Wendong said that every stage of rice growth requires continuous observation. During the seedling stage, he goes into the field to observe about once every five days, and in the middle and later stages, he basically needs to check the field every other day.
At present, a small portion of the well-performing materials in the experimental field has been harvested, ready for threshing and drying. After entering the laboratory for testing and analysis, they will be taken to Hainan for accelerated-generation breeding. For this reason, Ma Wendong has been busy for many years shuttling between southern breeding in Hainan and northern breeding in Heilongjiang.
"When I first started working, most of the rice in the province was of imported varieties, which were not suitable for local cultivation. There was an urgent need to breed self-developed rice varieties adapted to the cold-region environment." Ma Wendong felt great pressure. "As a breeder, if I can't produce decent varieties, I can't account for myself."
To breed rice varieties adapted to the cold-region environment, cold tolerance is an important indicator. During the booting stage of rice, in order to accurately identify the cold tolerance of materials, Ma Wendong led the team to treat the materials with cold water during the booting stage, cultivating them in cold water for 10 days, then planting them again to test the seed-setting rate. Temperature control of the water is a key link in this process. Ma Wendong often stands in the field for most of the day, under the scorching sun, enduring the biting cold water and the uncomfortable feeling.
From cross-breeding experiments to generation after generation of cultivation, the cycle from approval and promotion of a rice variety to its popularization takes at least about 10 years. "What is most agonizing is not the fatigue, but the waiting." Ma Wendong said that breeding not only takes a long time, but also faces many unknown situations. "For example, if the male parent and female parent have many advantages, the hybrid variety may develop new defects." Having spent half his life engaged in rice breeding work, Ma Wendong understands, "To do breeding, one must endure loneliness; time will make every grain of rice plump."
Over the years, Ma Wendong has led the breeding team to cultivate 69 new rice varieties, with a cumulative promotion area of more than 45 million mu. "The ideal of a breeder is to constantly put new clothes on the rice paddies and ensure that the granary is always full." Ma Wendong said.
Zhang Congzhi, expert at the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院南京土壤研究所)—
"Soil is my companion, and the fields are my hometown"
Reporter of People's Daily, Yao Xueqing
In the autumn hills of western Zhejiang, continuous golden fields spread out at the foot of the mountains. In Huanglong Village, Datong Town, Jiande City, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, in an experimental field of more than 200 mu, rice ears bend down with weight, extending ridge by ridge along the terrain. "The expected yield per mu is 1,300 jin." said Luo Meili, the local person in charge of promoting soil fertility technology. But a few years ago, this place presented a different scene.
Zhejiang has many yellow soils with poor fertility. In addition, the hilly terrain is uneven and the plots are fragmented, so the land cannot retain water or preserve fertilizer, and much of the land had been abandoned for a long time. To solve the problem of local food being self-sufficient, the local government decided to improve the land before returning it to the people for cultivation.
In September 2020, the team of Zhang Congzhi, deputy director of the National Engineering Research Center for Soil Nutrient Management and Pollution Remediation (土壤养分管理与污染修复国家工程研究中心) at the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, came here. "Low soil fertility and extensive cultivation management have led to deterioration of soil structure, reduced microbial activity, and decreased organic matter content." Zhang Congzhi said.
Zhang Congzhi is from Huanggang, Hubei. Having grown up in the countryside, he has a natural familiarity with and love for soil and crops. To understand the mysteries of soil, he majored in biology as an undergraduate, then came to the Institute of Soil Science in Nanjing for his master's and doctoral studies on soil improvement. After receiving his doctorate in 2009, he stayed at the institute to work.
The conventional way to increase soil organic matter and improve fertility is to apply organic fertilizer or plant green manure. However, these materials decompose easily, and only a small portion can be converted into organic matter that remains, requiring 10 to 20 years to gradually improve the soil. This pace cannot attract farmers to cultivate the land.
If the old path doesn't work, a new one must be found.
Back in the laboratory in Nanjing, the team repeatedly comparing and selecting among more than a dozen organic materials, finally chose a woody peat rich in stable humus. The team compared the elemental composition of fertile soil, testing, screening, and formulating key components of organic matter one by one, ultimately forming an adjustable formula system. Returning to Huanglong Village, they planted rice with different formulas in small plots, and the next year saw which one worked best. In 2021, the best plot yielded 1,200 jin per mu in a yield test. The farmers saw hope.
Every planting season, Zhang Congzhi brings his team here to observe crop growth and verify the feasibility of the formulas and technologies. He often works in the fields and at the farm sites, sometimes even driving a tractor to work in the fields, eating, living, and working together with students and farmers. In recent years, the new materials and technologies have been promoted in nearly 1,000 mu of rice fields across the town, and many villagers who had gone to work in cities have returned.
Zhang Congzhi introduced that this scheme is being applied to different types of soil. "As a soil researcher, soil is my companion, and the fields are my hometown." Zhang Congzhi said.
Bi Wenping, expert at the Langfang Agricultural Machinery Technology Extension Station in Hebei—
"We must make farmers bend less"
Reporter of People's Daily, Shao Yuzi
Feeding, compacting, bundling, wrapping... In a just-harvested corn field in Sanhe City, Langfang, Hebei, an intelligent square baler-wrapper integrated machine was operating, requiring only one person to operate the entire process. A 22-kilowatt motor runs steadily, and in 65 seconds, a 1,000-kilogram bale of corn straw is bundled. After sealed wrapping, the storage period can reach 36 months.
"Compared with similar high-end international equipment, this machine's energy efficiency has improved by more than 50%." At the edge of the field, Bi Wenping, 61 years old this year, said. Bi Wenping is an expert at the Langfang Agricultural Machinery Technology Extension Station and has never left agricultural machinery in his life.
Born and raised in the countryside, a labor experience during middle school left a deep impression on Bi Wenping. At that time, during the busy farming season, he returned to the village to help transplant rice seedlings. Each person had a washbasin containing a bundle of seedlings. People bent over, planting the seedlings one by one into the mud. "It was not only exhausting, but also carried the risk of being 'entangled' by leeches." Bi Wenping recalled, "Strive to improve agricultural production methods, and we must make farmers bend less!"
That's what he said, and that's what he did. In the 1990s, Bi Wenping participated in a key scientific research project—"Research on the Expert Consultation System for Agricultural Mechanization Microcomputer Management and Application Software." "At that time, computer development languages were constantly being updated, and the developed system had to keep pace with the application frontier and be continuously adjusted." He couldn't let his professional work lag, and he couldn't let research and development fall behind either. Bi Wenping could only find time for research and development, learning while using, often working around the clock. In the end, this achievement filled a gap in the relevant domestic field.
"Giving agricultural machinery the wings of science and technology is not empty talk." Bi Wenping said. Leading and primarily researching 21 national, ministerial, provincial, and municipal scientific research projects, and winning 14 science and technology awards... Continuous learning is one of the sources of strength for Bi Wenping's persistent tackling of key problems. In recent years, with the rapid development of artificial intelligence, Bi Wenping has been keeping pace with technological progress trends and has begun to think about how to combine intelligence with agricultural machinery, installing a "smart brain" on the "iron lump."
"Taking corn sowing as an example, with traditional sowing, if the ground is uneven, the sowing depth will be inconsistent. Now with intelligent assistance, the machine can calculate and adjust autonomously." In 2024, the Deyibo electric-drive, electronically-controlled high-speed precision seeder for corn and soybeans, which Bi Wenping participated in developing, was put into use. It uses BeiDou navigation to collect travel speed and matches the seed metering motor speed in real time, greatly improving sowing accuracy while operating at high speed.
Participating in the research and development of an intelligent driving bionic subsoiler, and guiding the development of an intelligent garlic planter... "The integration of agricultural machinery and intelligence is not about following trends, but about solving real problems." Bi Wenping said.
Xu Hongru, director of the Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Development Center of Horqin Right Front Banner, Inner Mongolia—
"Solving farmers' urgent difficulties and concerns brings a great sense of achievement"
Reporter of People's Daily, Zhao Jingfeng
In early autumn, in Guiluhe Town, Horqin Right Front Banner, Hinggan League, Inner Mongolia, vast farmland rolls with green waves, and ears of corn hang heavy on the stalks, brewing a year's harvest.
"Your field is a bit deficient in fertilizer." Walking into a corn field, Xu Hongru, director of the Agricultural and Animal Husbandry Science and Technology Development Center of Horqin Right Front Banner, reached out and parted the corn stalks, her eyes falling on some yellowing, withered leaves. "Hurry up and add some nitrogen fertilizer, three or four jin per mu is enough."
"Now that the corn ears have formed, is it still necessary to spend money on topdressing?" Chen Lixin, a farmer nearby, hesitated.
"The corn is in the dough stage. If nutrients can't be delivered, it will definitely affect the quality. Why don't you set aside a small plot without topdressing, and topdress the rest, then compare the results at the autumn harvest." After this explanation, Chen Lixin felt more confident.
Guiding farming and promoting agricultural technology are Xu Hongru's daily work. In 1995, after graduating from Zhalantun Agricultural and Animal Husbandry School, Xu Hongru returned to her hometown of Horqin Right Front Banner to engage in agricultural technology promotion work. During her studies, Xu Hongru accumulated a lot of theoretical knowledge; after entering the profession, she quickly discovered that understanding theory and being able to practice are two different things. Therefore, before every trip to the countryside, she prepared thoroughly in advance, and when she encountered something she didn't understand, she would "get to the bottom of it."
"Taking rice tillering as an example, variety descriptions generally only state 'strong or weak tillering ability,' but exactly how many tillers a variety can produce, and what differences exist under different soil and field management conditions, the books don't provide answers." Xu Hongru said that to figure out this problem, she set aside a plot of crops for experimentation—using ropes to mark fixed seedling hills, recording the basic seedling number, and then after rice tillering, checking, recording, and comparing the seedlings again and again. After accumulating first-hand data, when introducing it to farmers, she could give more specific suggestions such as "how many plants should be planted per hill" and "how the basic seedlings should be retained."
"Understanding the principles is only the first step in agricultural technology promotion; what's more important is getting farmers to accept new technologies." Xu Hongru said that when promoting the precise regulation technology for dense corn planting, she suggested increasing planting density based on the actual conditions of agricultural facilities in high-standard farmland, but many farmers found it hard to accept. Planting fewer might mean a slightly smaller harvest; planting denser, if management couldn't keep up, the loss would be even greater. She didn't rush to persuade them, but instead began building demonstration fields, dispelling farmers' doubts with data.
During the interview, Xu Hongru's phone rang several times. "Agricultural technology promotion work has no fixed schedule. When farmers have problems, they need timely responses." Xu Hongru said that over the years, she has developed the habit of keeping her phone on 24 hours a day. "Although it's a bit busy, solving farmers' urgent difficulties and concerns brings a great sense of achievement."
Return to TopBy: 刘涓溪
In the experimental fields of Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, newly cultivated rice varieties hang with full grains, quietly awaiting harvest; in a cornfield in Sanhe, Hebei, an intelligent square baler-wrapper integrated machine operates efficiently... From "watching the sky and the land, relying on experience" to "reading data and networks, following standards," technology efficiently empowers agricultural production to improve quality and efficiency, and agricultural science and technology talent is precisely the key to driving technology to the ground and opening up the "last mile."
From "calculators" that reduce costs and increase yields to "think tanks" at the field edge, agricultural science and technology talent truly makes technology grow in the farmland and land in the harvest. Breeding experts take root in the fields, cultivating one after another good seeds that are high-yielding and stress-resistant; soil experts conduct solid experiments and scientific analysis, making the land more fertile the more it is farmed; agricultural technology experts provide field management guidance and package Beidou navigation and artificial intelligence technology into services that smallholder farmers can "call up whenever they need"... They plant wisdom into the soil, using the fields as their canvas and technology as their brush, writing the era's answer sheet for efficient, high-yield agriculture.
When the roots of talent are deeply embedded in the fertile soil, China's rice bowl is held steadily and firmly. China's agricultural science and technology contribution rate exceeds 64%, high-standard farmland exceeds 1 billion mu, and the coverage rate of improved crop varieties exceeds 96%... From "one seed" to "one algorithm," from "depending on the weather for food" to "knowing the weather and working accordingly," persistent effort over many years to achieve mastery (数十年磨一剑, shu shi nian mo yi jian - "ten, years, grind, one, sword"), agricultural science and technology talent takes root in the countryside, is committed to innovation, and displays their skills prominently in agricultural production, consolidating the ballast stone of China's food security.
In the future, as more agricultural science and technology talent uses innovation as their plow and continues to write the poem of technology safeguarding the granary of a great power on the vast fields, China's rice bowl can be filled fuller and held more firmly.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Chongqing, September 16) (Reporter Jiang Feng) The 2026 Yangtze River Civilization Forum, themed "Spanning Rivers and Seas, Mutual Learning Among Civilizations," opened in Chongqing on the 15th. Guests attending the forum contributed their wisdom to inheriting and promoting the Yangtze River culture, advancing high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and promoting exchanging and learning from each other (交流互鉴, jiaoliu hujian - "exchange, mutual learn") among the world's great river civilizations.
This year's forum is co-hosted by the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and jointly organized by the Publicity Department of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee, the Chongqing Municipal Commission of Culture and Tourism Development, the Foreign Affairs Office of the Chongqing Municipal People's Government, and the Chongqing Academy of Social Sciences. The forum focuses on "Exchanging and Learning from Each Other Between the Yangtze River Civilization and the World's Great River Civilizations," continuously deepening international dialogue. Guests from countries including Egypt, Brazil, India, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany, along with relevant heads of consular offices and representatives of foreign media, were invited to attend the forum's opening ceremony and engage in in-depth dialogue on global topics such as sustainable river basin development, cooperation in transnational river basin governance, and the contemporary value of great river civilizations.
At the opening ceremony, the "Yangtze River Civilization Book Series · Upper Reaches of Great Rivers Series (First Volume)" and the "Yangtze River Invitation · Civilization Dialogue" international communication theme activity were released. This year's forum will also concurrently hold the 2026 World Great Rivers Poetry Gathering, Yangtze River culture exploration and exchange activities, Sichuan-Chongqing writers' Yangtze River ecological culture field trip, Three Gorges Reservoir Area Yangtze River Civilization Corridor construction exchange activities, Yangtze River Civilization photography exhibition, and the 10th Baidicheng International Poetry Festival, among other events, comprehensively showcasing the profound heritage of Yangtze River culture and promoting the creative transformation (创造性转化, chuangzaoxing zhuanhua - "creative, transformation") and innovative development (创新性发展, chuangxinxing fazhan - "innovative, development") of Yangtze River culture.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Chu Jun) On September 16, the "Overseas Perspectives on China · Global Development Initiative" themed exchange event, hosted by Global Times and co-organized by the Academic Working Committee of the China Public Relations Association, was held in Beijing. Guo Weimin, President of the China Public Relations Association; Jia Wenjian, President of Beijing Foreign Studies University; Djauhari Oratmangun, Indonesian Ambassador to China; and Mario Alzugaray, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Cuban Embassy in China, among others, attended the event and delivered keynote speeches.
The year 2026 marks the fifth anniversary of President Xi Jinping's proposal of the Global Development Initiative. This event aimed to review and summarize the implementation practices and positive outcomes of the Global Development Initiative over the past five years, jointly build a high-end exchange platform, conduct in-depth discussions on the construction of the global development narrative and innovative paths for international communication, strengthen exchanges and collaboration among different countries, different fields, and different actors, and explore opportunities and prospects for global development cooperation.
During the event, the launch ceremony of the "Overseas Perspectives on China" cooperative communication program and two roundtable dialogues were held, and a photo exhibition titled "Walking with the World — Global Development Cooperation" was on display. Trainees of the "Belt and Road" Initiative Artificial Intelligence and Media Development Seminar visited the exhibition for exchange and observation.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporters Gu Yekai and Ge Mengchao) On September 16, the 2026 Intelligent Economy Forum, co-hosted by People's Daily Culture and Technology Co., Ltd. and Baidu Inc., was held in Beijing. Responsible comrades from central and state organs, enterprise leaders, and experts and scholars attended the forum.
The forum, themed "Intelligent Economy | Upward Toward Good Toward the Future," shared practical achievements and conducted in-depth exchanges of experience, injecting surging momentum into the development of the intelligent economy and the building of Digital China. Attending guests stated that artificial intelligence is moving from "being able to answer" toward "being able to deliver," serving real-world scenarios and empowering productive transformation. One must persist in promoting the deep integration of artificial intelligence with the real economy, guide the industrialized and standardized development of intelligent agents, explore paths for implementation across multiple chains and industries, and jointly build a safe, controllable, openness and mutual benefit (开放共赢, kai fang gong ying - "open, share; together, win") industrial ecosystem.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporters Shen Shaotie, Gong Xiangjuan) Recently, the National Medical Products Administration approved and released China's third brain-computer interface medical device standard, which is also the first product standard for brain-computer interface medical devices that uses artificial intelligence technology to process electroencephalogram (EEG) data. The Haihe Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interface at Tianjin University, as the core drafting team, deeply participated in the research and compilation of this standard, promoting the standardization and normalization of non-invasive brain-computer interface dataset construction and quality evaluation, enhancing the consistency, traceability, and usability of EEG data, and laying a high-quality data foundation for the research and evaluation of artificial intelligence algorithms and the innovative application of brain-computer interface medical devices.
The new standard systematically regulates the technical requirements and testing methods for the entire process of data collection, processing, annotation, storage, and access for brain-computer interface medical devices, helping enterprises solve common problems such as inconsistent quality control criteria for datasets and non-standardized construction processes in brain-computer interface medical devices. The new standard will be officially implemented on September 1 next year. The brain-computer interface is both a "medical bridge" for repairing life functions and a "technological revolution" that breaks through the boundaries of human-computer interaction. As a frontier technology, it is currently in a stage of rapid development. National and industry standards are the key support for its standardized development and safety assurance.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Wang Haonan) Recently, the "15th Five-Year Plan Period Zhongguancun World-Leading Science and Technology Park Construction Plan" was officially released to the public. The plan, based on Zhongguancun's positioning as the main battleground of Beijing's (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei's) international science and technology innovation center, focuses on continuously polishing Zhongguancun's "golden signboard," and clarifies the overall requirements, development goals, and 9 key tasks for Zhongguancun's construction of a world-leading science and technology park during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
The plan systematically deploys 9 key tasks, including: strengthening industrial and technological source innovation, establishing benchmarks for the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements; opening up new fields and new tracks, creating new highlands for future industries; promoting industrial development and growth, building world-class industrial clusters; strengthening the principal position of innovation entities, expanding the phalanx of world-class enterprises; promoting the upgrading and quality improvement of the park, forming a new form of future parks; cultivating fertile soil for talent development, attracting and nurturing world-class talent teams; strengthening the enabling role of science, technology, and finance, building the world's preferred destination for investment; deepening open, coordinated development, building a key hub in the global innovation network; and concentrating efforts on pioneering and testing new policies or methods (先行先试, xian xing xian shi - "first go, first try") reform, creating an innovation ecosystem with global competitiveness.
The plan clearly proposes strengthening market-oriented basic research, focusing on industrial development needs to condense scientific questions, supporting enterprises to increase investment in basic research, and continuously expanding the scale of enterprise joint funds; focusing on "artificial intelligence+" and other areas, supporting a batch of key new tracks. It aims to strengthen the two advantageous leading industries of next-generation information technology and medicineand health, expand the two emerging pillar industries of artificial intelligenceand green low-carbon development, and strengthen the six industries poised for capability leaps, including integrated circuits, robotics, intelligent manufacturing, and others. It also aims to strengthen the clustering cultivation of unicorn enterprises, deepen municipal-level mechanisms such as "service packages" and "service stewards," and increase support in financing, going global, market expansion, and other areas.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 常 钦 李晓晴
The meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held on July 30 proposed continuing to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. From steel blast furnaces to the depths of mines, from logistics parks to textile workshops, traditional industries are empowering development through scientific and technological innovation, transforming toward high-end, intelligent, and green development, bursting with new vitality and injecting strong momentum into high-quality development. This column launches a series of reports from today, focusing on traditional industries shifting gears, accelerating, and driving toward a broader track.
— Editor
How can a mine harvest more resources from the same ore?
In Chenzhou, Hunan, the Shizhuyuan polymetallic ore deposit contains 143 kinds of minerals. The resources are abundant, but exploiting them is not easy: different minerals are closely intergrown, some with fine particles, some with low content, making separation and recovery difficult.
Sustained technical research has given previously difficult-to-utilize low-grade ores mining and utilization value — the tungsten ore dressing recovery rate at Shizhuyuan has increased from 26.8% to over 70%, the fluorite recovery rate has increased from below 30% to over 65%, and the cumulative revitalized ore volume has reached 150 million tons.
The mining industry is connected on one end to national energy and resource security, and on the other to lucid waters and lush mountains. At present, China has built more than 5,600 green mines at or above the provincial level. A green transformation covering the entire life cycle of exploration, development, and restoration is unfolding across mines one after another.
135 items of prospecting equipment in 6 categories included on the list
Innovative technology supports green exploration
Ore is underground, fields are above ground. How can resources be found while also protecting farmland?
The Qihe–Yucheng rich iron ore exploration area in Shandong has developed a set of methods running through before and after construction — before the drilling rig enters the site, surface topsoil with a thickness of more than 30 centimeters at the operation site is stripped in layers and properly stored. During construction, mud slurry circulates within dedicated facilities, and mud pits are no longer directly excavated. After construction is completed, the previously stored topsoil is backfilled in layers, followed by deep plowing, fertilization, and management and protection.
Whether protection is adequate must also be verified with data. Before and after construction, the project conducts soil sampling tests for comparison; after temporary land is reclaimed, attention continues to be paid to the recovery of the land's agricultural functions.
Materials provided by the Ministry of Natural Resources show that during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the exploration area added 142 million tons of rich iron ore resources, and the rate of reclamation and recultivation of temporary land used for exploration reached 100%. By optimizing point layout and improving drilling technology, the temporary land area occupied by a single project was reduced by more than 10%, and the overall drilling construction time across the entire area was shortened by more than 20%.
In forest-covered areas, the technological changes are equally intuitive.
In the past, to see shallow strata clearly and obtain samples, geological team members often had to dig long trenches. The Heilongjiang Provincial Institute of Geological Sciences has developed small-angle drilling technology, replacing trench excavation with borehole sampling. A dedicated base can adjust the drilling direction, and multiple boreholes can be drilled from the same platform, reducing equipment relocation and new land occupation. Since 2019, Heilongjiang has completed more than 50,000 meters of small-angle drilling, involving more than 50 projects, protecting more than 600,000 square meters of forest land and saving more than 50 million yuan in forest land compensation fees. Moreover, this drilling technology can obtain fresh rock cores from greater depths, reducing the interference of surface weathering on the judgment of mineralization conditions and making prospecting clues clearer.
In 2025, the Ministry of Natural Resources issued the first list of prospecting equipment upgrades, research and development, promotion, and replacement, covering 135 items of equipment in 6 categories. This year, the "15th Five-Year Plan Equipment Construction Plan for the New Round of Prospecting Breakthrough Strategic Action" was introduced; in April, the green exploration specification for solid minerals completed national standard project initiation; in July, the "Budget Standard for Green Exploration of Mineral Resources" was issued; in September, the "Green Exploration Specification for Solid Minerals" was released... From local exploration to industry promotion, equipment, standards, and funding guarantees are advancing in a coordinated manner. In the prospecting stage, targeting different geological conditions and ecological characteristics, the requirements of minimal disturbance and restorability run through every procedure, promoting the implementation of green transformation.
Mining recovery rate, ore dressing recovery rate, and comprehensive utilization rate continuously improving
"Dead ores" become "live ores," "small mines" become "large mines"
Once ore is found, the questions of how to mine and how to use it must also be answered.
First is the mining stage. Take Shizhuyuan Company as an example: with the iteration of mining methods and upgrading of equipment, the mining recovery rate has increased from 45% to over 95%, and annual mining capacity has been raised to 3.5 million tons.
The recovery rate can be understood as the proportion of ore that can be extracted relative to the corresponding ore reserves; the ore dressing recovery rate reflects how much of the useful components entering the ore dressing process is recovered. One focuses on leaving fewer resources underground, the other on letting fewer useful components be lost in the ore dressing process. Only when both stages improve in efficiency can the resource advantage be more fully converted into supply capacity.
To solve the ore dressing challenges, Shizhuyuan Company has cooperated with research institutes, continuously improving ore dressing technology, and then enhancing separation results through process combinations and automated control. At present, the recoverable useful minerals have been expanded to 11 types, with the annual recovery of fluorite concentrate alone reaching 350,000 tons.
Waste rock extracted from mining and tailings left from ore dressing are also being utilized. Henan Songxian Shanjin Mining Co., Ltd. uses ore dressing tailings and tunneling waste rock as backfill materials, filling underground mined-out areas, reducing surface stockpiling while enhancing the stability of mined-out areas.
Command management and technological transformation are continuously improving efficiency at production sites. At the Huibaoling Iron Mine in Linyi, Shandong, the intelligent control center integrates 15 subsystems, allowing centralized monitoring of the operating status of ventilation, air compression, hoisting, and other equipment, enabling dispatchers to grasp production status and detect anomalies more promptly. By analyzing blasting data and conducting experiments, Huibaoling Iron Mine has reduced the proportion of large ore rock blocks after blasting from 25% to 7%; combined with ore dressing automation upgrades, the unit production cost of iron concentrate powder has been reduced by 5.88 yuan.
From "mining rich and discarding poor" to extracting every last bit of value (吃干榨净, chi gan zha jing - "eat, dry, squeeze, clean"), materials provided by the Ministry of Natural Resources show that mining enterprises are taking the "three rates" standards of mining recovery rate, ore dressing recovery rate, and comprehensive utilization rate as binding indicators, carrying out re-evaluation of low-grade and associated-paragenetic minerals, and promoting advanced applicable technologies. Through the re-evaluation of low-grade and associated-paragenetic minerals, a batch of "dead ores" have been turned into "live ores" and "small mines" into "large mines."
Today, "mining without seeing ore" and "unmanned mining" are becoming reality at more and more mines, and the efficiency of resource development and utilization has improved significantly. Beyond output, efficiency and quality have become more important yardsticks for measuring the effectiveness of mining development.
3.35 million mu of legacy mines restored and treated during the 14th Five-Year Plan period
"Ecological burdens" become "green banks"
South of Huangsi Village, Xindu District, Xingtai City, Hebei, Desheng Mine Park has become a good place for nearby villagers to relax.
"Five years ago, this was still a 'bare hill' in the abandoned mining area," said Wan Minghua, general manager of Xingtai Shenghe Huajian Building Materials Co., Ltd. The enterprise incorporated the restoration of the abandoned mining area into its overall plan, mining, treating, and restoring simultaneously. Making up for the ecological debt, the park is embedded in the mine area, and the living environment of surrounding residents has improved.
Zhao Weijie, deputy director of the Xindu Branch of the Xingtai Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning, introduced that Xindu District has many mines, and the focus of ecological restoration is on mountain greening and water conservation, while also cultivating industries such as ecotourism and specialty forestry. Surrounding farmers have gained new development opportunities from the environmental improvement through animal husbandry, tourism services, and other means.
While mine areas are being greened, land functions are continuously being restored, consolidating the foundation for sustained use.
The Kunyang Phosphate Mine in Yunnan once faced problems such as land damaged by mining and soil erosion. During restoration, targeting difficulties such as the lack of irrigation facilities and few suitable plants in mined-out areas, the mine carried out soil-covering and vegetation experiments, built elevated water tanks, laid irrigation pipe networks, screened drought-tolerant tree species, and strengthened management and protection. The mine has invested a cumulative total of more than 500 million yuan in ecological restoration funds for continuous treatment, with a land reclamation rate of 77.53% and a vegetation recovery rate of 95.32%. On this basis, the mine has also developed flower, vegetable, and other planting industries.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the country restored and treated 3.35 million mu of legacy mines, exceeding the planning target by 19.6%. The Ministry of Natural Resources, together with the Ministry of Finance, deployed and implemented 68 demonstration projects for ecological restoration of legacy mines, using central fiscal funds to drive local treatment. At present, the Ministry of Natural Resources is studying and formulating institutional documents to strengthen supervision of ecological restoration at production mines, strengthening management of restoration plans and costs, consolidating enterprises' primary responsibility, and promoting the implementation of "mining while restoring."
Green mine construction is not a one-time effort that ends once the designation is obtained. The Ministry of Natural Resources has made clear that it will strictly implement dynamic management of the green mine list, promptly remove mines that do not meet standard requirements, and promote new mines to be built and operated according to standards and production mines to accelerate green transformation.
Mine pits become parks, subsidence areas become granaries, water surfaces become power stations... "Ecological burdens" are becoming "green banks."
Making the same ore yield more resources, restoring the functions of mined land, and letting the people share in development gains — the transformation and upgrading of the mining industry counts not only the immediate production account but also the long-term resource and ecological accounts. By enhancing the "green content" of mining to raise the "gold content" of development, the path of high-quality development for China's mining industry is growing ever broader.
Return to TopBy: 黄学雄
General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized that mineral resources are an important material foundation for economic and social development, and that mineral resource exploration and development bear on the national economy, people's livelihoods, and national security. At present, China is in a critical period of accelerating the high-quality development of the mining industry. Through greening, technological advancement, and intelligent transformation, we are driving changes in the quality, efficiency, and drivers of the mining industry, laying a solid resource foundation for Chinese modernization.
Greening reshapes development boundaries — China has built more than 5,600 green mines at or above the provincial level, and ecological restoration of mining areas has shifted from end-of-pipe treatment to whole-process management. Technological advancement reshapes the view of resources — mining development has moved from focusing only on high-grade ores while ignoring low-grade ones (采富弃贫, cai fu qi pin - "mine the rich, abandon the poor") to extracting every possible bit of value from resources (吃干榨净, chi gan zha jing - "eat dry, squeeze clean"), with accelerated efforts in re-evaluation of low-grade and associated or co-existing mineral resources and in tackling key technologies for mineral processing and smelting, achieving unprecedented depth and breadth in resource utilization. Intelligent transformation reshapes production methods — new-generation information technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and 5G are deeply integrated with the mining industry. By the end of 2025, intelligent production capacity in coal mines accounted for more than 65 percent of the total, more than 4,000 unmanned mining trucks were in operation, and over ten thousand positions had achieved unattended operation.
At the same time, the high-quality development of China's mining industry also faces challenges. In terms of resource endowment, some bulk mineral and critical mineral resources have a relatively high rate of external procurement, resource grades are declining, and the difficulty of increasing reserves and production is growing. In terms of the security situation, critical minerals have become a focal point of major-power competition, security risks in the mineral resource supply chain are rising, and the urgency of firmly holding the resource rice bowl in our own hands is becoming more pronounced. In terms of development quality, some mines are small in scale, scattered in layout, and weak in innovation capacity, historical ecological debts have not yet been fully settled, and the "dual carbon" goals have set new and higher requirements for the green and low-carbon transformation of the mining industry.
To coordinate development and security with a systemic approach, we must adhere to empowering through technology, strengthen research on key core technologies such as intelligent mining and green mineral processing and smelting, and accelerate the construction of intelligent mines; adhere to building a green foundation, comprehensively advance the construction of green mines, and raise the level of comprehensive resource utilization; deepen reform of mineral resource management, implement the newly revised Mineral Resources Law, optimize mineral resource management, and advance the high-quality development of the mining industry.
(The author is Director of the Department of Mineral Resources Protection and Supervision of the Ministry of Natural Resources; compiled and edited by People's Daily reporter Chang Qin)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 叶传增
In the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan, with lush green mountainsides (苍山叠翠, cang shan die cui - "Cangshan mountain, layered, emerald"), a wedding is being held on the shore of Erhai Lake.
On a lawn covered with flowers, a couple are standing side by side (并肩而立, bing jian er li - "side by side, stand"), pledging their vows of love under the witness of Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake. "This fulfilled all my imaginings of a beautiful wedding," said Liu Xiaofei, a bride from Gansu, still immersed in the moment after the ceremony.
This was a relaxed and romantic destination wedding. Compared with traditional weddings, destination weddings combine travel with the ceremony, emphasizing immersion and a sense of experience. Lightweight, small-but-beautiful weddings are becoming the "new trend" for young people getting married.
"No getting up early to fetch the bride, no cumbersome rituals — we invited only a dozen or so relatives and friends to attend the ceremony. We were doing two things at once without neglecting either (两不误, liang bu wu - "two, not miss") — getting married and traveling — and everyone had a great experience," said Wang Yu, the groom from Hebei. The young couple held their wedding at noon and were taking wedding photos near Erhai Lake in the afternoon, while their relatives and friends could take the opportunity to visit scenic spots such as Dali Old Town.
Yu Xiaoli, head of a wedding planning company in Dali Prefecture, told reporters that from January to July this year, the company undertook 150 weddings in total, of which 90 percent of clients came from outside the province. According to statistics, the number of weddings held in Dali has grown substantially in recent years.
Rich cultural and tourism resources and the romantic imagery of "poetry and the distant place" have made Yunnan a popular choice for destination weddings. All parts of Yunnan are leveraging their abundant natural and cultural resources to build an increasingly complete wedding services system, deepen the integration of culture and tourism, and cultivate new forms of service consumption.
Yang Libin is the head of a wedding planning company in Yunnan and has been in the industry for more than 10 years. Starting last year, he identified the market trend and shifted toward customized, personalized wedding services. In the early stage, he communicates with couples through questionnaires, drawing out their love stories and aesthetic preferences, and on that basis selects venues, designs ceremony segments, and arranges and sets up the site — "using professional services to enhance couples' experience and make every wedding unique and incomparable (独一无二, du yi wu er - "only one, not two")." Yang Libin said that in the very year of the company's transformation, it held more than 280 destination weddings.
Relying on the "Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake" IP, Dali Prefecture has created more than 30 differentiated wedding scenes, including seaside lawns and Bai-ethnic-style courtyards, cultivated more than 100 mature wedding business operators, and driven the growth of several hundred related business operators in wedding hosting, photography and videography, and homestays and hotels. Lijiang City, for its part, has integrated its old-town culture and snow-mountain resources, launched a traditional Naxi ethnic wedding customs experience, and improved the full-chain service system of "wedding photography — ceremony — honeymoon." In 2025 it received more than 140,000 couples, with the market size exceeding 1.1 billion yuan.
After several years of rapid development, the destination wedding industry is transitioning from scale expansion to quality improvement. "Good creativity ultimately has to be supported by quality. Only with coordinated efforts from multiple parties can we drive the industry's high-quality development." Long Xiaoyi, deputy dean of the School of Management at West Yunnan University of Applied Sciences, suggested standardizing industry norms to avoid "involution-style" competition. To guide orderly market development, Dali Prefecture has established a destination wedding industry association and issued a proposal to jointly build industry standards.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Fuzhou, September 16) (Reporter Fu Wen) Recently, the Fujian Provincial Government issued the "Implementation Plan for the Construction of the Fujian Province Pilot Zone for a Beautiful China," scientifically planning the roadmap and construction blueprint for building the pilot zone for a Beautiful China, actively exploring a coordinated pathway and model for high-quality development and high-level protection, and accelerating the construction of a Beautiful China featuring living in harmony between humanity and nature (人与自然和谐共生, ren yu zi ran he xie gong sheng - "person, and, nature, harmoniously, coexist").
According to the implementation plan, Fujian strives to achieve by the end of 2027 a steady improvement in the province's total economic output and development quality and efficiency, with the quality of the ecological environment continuing to lead the nation. The annual average concentration of fine particulate matter will remain stably below 15 micrograms per cubic meter across the entire region, the proportion of Class I-III water quality at national-controlled sections of major river basins will remain at 100%, the proportion of excellent water bodies will continue to rise, the proportion of excellent water quality in offshore waters will reach above 95%, and the diversity, stability, and sustainability of ecosystems will steadily improve, forming a batch of landmark achievements in practical innovation and institutional innovation in the construction of the pilot zone. Striving to achieve by the end of 2030, efficient coordination in reducing carbon emissions, cutting pollution, expanding green development, and promoting growth, the widespread formation of green production and lifestyle patterns, the peaking of total carbon emissions, a fundamental improvement in the ecological environment, the basic formation of a grand pattern of protection and governance from mountaintops to the sea, and the basic completion of the pilot zone for a Beautiful China.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Hefei, September 16) (Reporter Li Junjie) Scenarios are the bridge connecting technology and industry, and opening up R&D and the market. The "Work Plan of Anhui Province on Accelerating the Transformation and Implementation of Scenario Projects and Expanding Effective Investment (2026–2028)" was recently released. Through measures such as opening up public scenario resources, establishing a full-chain closed-loop management mechanism, and shortening the transformation cycle, it plans to cultivate 100 high-quality provincial-level scenario projects by 2028.
To promote the opening and development of scenario resources, Anhui encourages industry authorities to open up public scenario resources in areas such as government services, urban operations, and emergency support; gives play to the exemplary and leading role of state-owned enterprises in taking the lead in opening up their own scenarios in production and manufacturing, supply chains, and other areas; and guides chain-leading enterprises to open up application scenarios to upstream and downstream small and medium-sized enterprises, forming a scenario ecosystem featuring government-enterprise linkage and the integration of large, medium, and small enterprises.
At the same time, a provincial-level cultivation pool for key scenario projects will be established, forming a full-chain closed-loop management mechanism of "list entry into the pool—evaluation and project approval—transformation and implementation." For projects with clear technical requirements and clear application scenarios, support will be given to appoint leaders based on merit through open competition (揭榜挂帅, jie bang gua shuai - "remove the list, take command") to determine the implementing entity, using competition to improve project quality.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Jinan, September 16) (Reporter Jin Xin) On the afternoon of September 15, at the sub-forum on artificial intelligence security governance of the 2026 National Cybersecurity Awareness Week held in Jinan, Shandong, three categories of high-quality datasets — the Chinese Internet Basic Corpus 4.0, the Cybersecurity Dataset 1.0, and the AIGC Detection Dataset — were officially released to the public.
Under the guidance of the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Cyber Security Association of China, together with the National Internet Emergency Center and other units, building on the previously released Chinese Internet Basic Corpus 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, and relying on the corpus co-construction and sharing mechanism established by the association's Special Committee on AI Security Governance, pooled a batch of new high-quality trusted data. After a series of strict and meticulous data processing and management measures, it formed and released to the public the Chinese Internet Basic Corpus 4.0, with a data volume of 120GB, providing trusted data support for large model training and artificial intelligence development.
In order to promote the improvement of large models' cybersecurity capabilities, the National Internet Emergency Center, jointly with Zhongguancun Laboratory, the University of Science and Technology of China, the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, NSFOCUS Technologies Group Co., Ltd., and Beijing Chaitin Technology Co., Ltd., officially released the Cybersecurity Dataset 1.0. The dataset includes five sub-datasets: a cybersecurity capability evaluation benchmark set, an APT attack-defense dataset, a cybersecurity alert dataset, an abnormal traffic dataset, and a vulnerability analysis dataset.
To support research on detection and traceability of content generated by large models, the National Internet Emergency Center, jointly with the Institute of Information Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, officially released the AIGC Detection Dataset. The dataset contains 100,000 text data items and 100,000 image data items.
All of the above datasets have been launched on the "Chinese Internet Corpus Resource Platform."
Return to TopRecently, Wuyuan in Jiangxi has entered its autumn-drying season. In Huangling Village, every household lays out red chili peppers, corn, golden chrysanthemums, and more to dry. The vividly colored drying trays complementing each other in a charming way (相映成趣, xiang ying cheng qu - "mutually, reflect, become, interest") with the white walls and dark-tiled roofs of the ancient village have drawn many visitors. The photo shows the autumn-drying scene in Huangling Village on September 15.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Hu Chenhuan
Return to Top(People's Daily, Xi'an, September 16) (Reporter Gao Bing) The 20th Yulin International Coal and High-End Energy Chemical Industry Expo and the 4th Western Hydrogen Energy Expo were held from September 13 to 15 in Yulin, Shaanxi Province.
The conference, themed "Low-Carbon Energy and Chemical Industry, Hydrogen Creates the Future," featured exhibition areas for high-end energy and chemical enterprises, regional coordinated development, intelligent digital technology, the full hydrogen energy industry chain, green and low-carbon international cooperation, and advanced energy and chemical equipment. A total of 14 events were held during the conference, covering hot topics such as low-carbon development of the coal chemical industry and breakthroughs in the hydrogen energy industry. A total of 856 leading energy enterprises and overseas companies showcased low-carbon technologies and cutting-edge hydrogen energy achievements.
A relevant official from Yulin City stated that the city will adhere to the main line of multi-energy integration of coal, oil, gas, and chemical industries, as well as wind, solar, and hydrogen power, take energy "stabilization, control, and transformation" as the key focus, and take comprehensive energy security, clean and efficient utilization of coal, and the coupling of new energy with traditional energy as the main directions, to promote the construction of a strategic hinterland for national energy security, a strategic base for coal-to-oil and coal-to-gas, and the Yulin-Ordos-Ningxia modern coal chemical industry cluster.
Return to TopThe Tropic of Cancer passes through southern Yunnan. Between the Lancang River and the Nu River lies a stretch of mist-soaked mountain forest — Jingmai Mountain. Here stand ancient tea trees over a thousand years old, and villages that have lived alongside tea for generations, forming a unique cultural landscape that has remained brilliant and glowing (熠熠生辉, yiyi sheng hui - "shining, bright") for a thousand years. In the 10th century, the ancestors of the Blang people migrated to Jingmai Mountain, discovered and recognized wild tea trees, made use of the forest ecosystem, and together with the Dai and other ethnic groups who arrived later, worked out the "understory tea" cultivation technique, leaving behind the ancient tableau of "mountains embracing forests, forests growing tea, and tea encircling villages."
On September 17, 2023, at the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the "Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er" was officially inscribed on the World Heritage List, becoming the world's first tea-themed World Cultural Heritage site.
Three years have passed, and the thousand-year-old tea forests have grown ever more full of vitality (生机勃勃, sheng ji bo bo - "life, energy, abundant").
Thousand-Year-Old Tea Forests — What Makes Jingmai
The "Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er" is located in Huimin Township, Lancang Lahu Autonomous County, Pu'er City, Yunnan Province. The heritage area covers 7,167.89 hectares and is composed of five old tea forests, nine villages, and three separating protective forest belts. It is a typical representative of artificially cultivated old tea forests that is well preserved and rich in content.
Walking into Jingmai Mountain, the first thing that meets the eye is green — trees in the upper layer, tea trees in the middle, and herbaceous plants below. The three-tiered vertical community grows in layers, organically integrated. The rich plant and animal diversity of the old tea forests, on the one hand, creates mutually constraining relationships among species that effectively suppress the occurrence of pests and diseases; on the other hand, the fallen leaves of the upper canopy trees provide rich organic nutrients for the growth of tea trees, effectively maintaining the stability of the tea forest ecosystem. This "understory tea" cultivation method has continued for a thousand years and remains an everyday sight on Jingmai Mountain to this day.
In Mangjing Shangzhai, on a tall banyan tree about 800 years old, more than 70 beehives hang layered and stacked (层层叠叠, ceng ceng die die - "layer, layer, overlap") at staggered heights. The locals call it the "Bee King Tree." Bees dart through the tea forests collecting nectar and completing pollination; tea trees thrive because of the bees, and bees brew a unique honey fragrance from tea flowers. This is a vivid microcosm of the coexistence of all things on Jingmai Mountain over the past thousand years, and a moving interpretation of this land as "a work jointly created by humanity and nature."
On Jingmai Mountain, tea is not just a crop — it is a cultural carrier. Every April, the Blang people hold the "Shankang Tea Ancestor Festival," where clan members gather to offer mountain spring water, rice, and new tea to the tea ancestor "Pa Aileng"; the Dai people pay homage to the tea god before the spring tea harvest, praying for the vigorous sprouting of new buds. These rituals have been seen and respected by more people thanks to the successful World Heritage inscription.
Over the past three years, Pu'er City has never relaxed its protection of the old tea forests of Jingmai Mountain. Rules have been established in eight areas, including old tea forest management and vegetation management. For traditional villages and traditional dwellings, the principle of holistic protection has been followed, preserving both the village landscape and the architectural features of the dwellings while improving living comfort. The mountain remains the same mountain, and the villages remain the same villages.
Three Years Since World Heritage Inscription — A New Outlook
The changes are reflected in the data, and even more so in the daily lives of every Jingmai Mountain resident.
On the first anniversary of the successful World Heritage inscription, Jingmai Mountain received 402,000 tourist visits, a year-on-year increase of 33.52%; tourism revenue reached 338 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 184%. By the end of 2024, Jingmai Mountain had received a cumulative total of 552,000 tourist visits. By August 2025, the cumulative total had reached 974,600 tourist visits. Searches for "Jingmai Mountain" on mainstream travel platforms have grown substantially. Behind these figures lies the profound transformation of a World Heritage site.
The tea industry has been upgraded in tandem. Following the approach of "strict protection on the mountain, moderate development at the foot of the mountain, and integrated development of tea and tourism," Jingmai Mountain has promoted deep integration of the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries. The primary industry stabilizes the tea source, adhering to the thousand-year-old precept of "picking in spring and autumn, resting in summer"; the secondary industry improves quality, with all 138 tea cooperatives achieving clean, standardized production; the tertiary industry expands business formats, with homestays, study tours, cultural and creative products, wellness tourism, and other formats taking root one after another.
At present, Jingmai Mountain has cultivated 324 homestays, driving direct employment of more than 1,100 people. Tea farmers are no longer just tea growers — they are also narrators of tea culture and providers of tourism services. Their income channels have widened, and their lives have become more prosperous.
More and more young people are returning to the villages. Some walk into the old tea gardens to livestream and explain tea-picking techniques, with netizens from all corners of the country (天南海北, tian nan hai bei - "sky, south, sea, north") following their cameras to see the morning mist and evening glow of Jingmai Mountain; others, while selling tea, also run restaurants and organize local reception teams, leading tourists on immersive experiences of Jingmai Mountain's local customs and culture.
Today, walking into Jingmai Mountain, many households in the villages have set aside a tea room. Push open the door, and the host will naturally offer a pot of clear tea. In intangible cultural heritage workshops, visitors can pick, fix, and roll tea leaves with their own hands, pressing the flavor of Pu'er tea into a cake of tea they have made themselves. Jingmai Mountain has launched multiple immersive experience routes, including tea forest photography, old village tea hunting, and intangible heritage study tours. It has also successfully organized a Lancang special event at the International Tourism Fair, inviting more than 120 overseas travel agencies to go deep into Jingmai Mountain to experience the old tea forest culture tour, and has successively trained more than 100 Jingmai Mountain promotion ambassadors to tell the story of Jingmai Mountain at various tea expos.
A Cup of Clear Tea — Savoring Yunnan
Drinking tea in Yunnan is about more than just the taste.
Deep in Jingmai Mountain, the Blang people have guarded a unique tea drink for generations — sour tea. Following the rhythm of their ancestors, the tea makers gather fresh tea leaves, fix and roll them, pack them layer by layer into earthenware jars, seal them with ant-hill clay, and wait quietly for two to three months. After the jars are opened, the sour tea is brewed with boiling water, and the fragrance of tea spreads everywhere (茶香四溢, cha xiang si yi - "tea, fragrance, four, overflow"). Take a light sip — the first taste is a gentle mild sourness, then sweetness slowly wells up on the tip of the tongue, with a lingering aftertaste. Before the successful World Heritage inscription, sour tea was merely a daily drink in the lives of the Blang people; now, it has moved from the deep mountains to the general public and become a popular specialty tea drink. Jingmai Mountain also harbors another wild mountain treasure — insect tea, a dried product of the metabolic excretions of tea silkworms after they feed on fresh leaves. When brewed, its liquor is a rich, bright red, and it tastes thick and mellow-sweet on the palate — a vivid testament to the biodiversity of Jingmai Mountain.
Jingmai Mountain embodies the ecological wisdom of harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature, and carries the love of the Jingmai Mountain people for their homeland and their lives.
Beyond Jingmai Mountain, looking across Yunnan, tea culture radiates different brilliance in the lives of the 26 ethnic groups that have lived there for generations. The Bai people's three-course tea — first bitter, second sweet, third with an aftertaste — blends the life philosophy of "bitterness first, sweetness later" into cup after cup of tea. The Hani people's roasted tea is uniquely distinctive: a bonfire is lit on the spot, a fresh section of bamboo tube is cut and filled with mountain spring water and set over the fire to boil, fresh tea leaves are placed beside the charcoal to roast until fragrant, and when the water boils, the roasted tea is crumbled into the bamboo tube and boiled for a moment before drinking — the fresh bamboo fragrance interweaving with the aroma of the tea leaves. The De'ang people's sour tea comes in dry and wet varieties, each with its own flavor; the Dai people's bamboo tube tea and the Jino people's cold-mixed tea each have their own distinctive character... In Yunnan, every way of drinking tea is a vivid footnote to the harmonious dialogue between humanity and nature.
In Yunnan, tea culture is not confined to the tea customs of the mountains — it also lives in the bustling everyday life of the cities.
Old Kunming residents called going to a teahouse to drink tea "sitting in the teahouse" — upon arriving at the teahouse, the first thing to do is sit, and only then drink tea. During the War of Resistance, students of the National Southwestern Associated University brought the Beijing expression "soaking" (pao) and combined it with the local "sitting in the teahouse" to create a new term — "soaking in the teahouse." Today, in the new-style teahouses on Nanqiang Street, some people sit idly with friends, others read quietly alone, each finding their own comfort. From "sitting in the teahouse" to "soaking in the teahouse," and on to today's "new-style Chinese tea drinks," the way Yunnan people drink tea is changing, but the ease of settling one's life into the fragrance of tea has never changed.
In western Yunnan, the tea mountains of Lincang City are equally captivating. The Bingdao old tea garden is one of the birthplaces of the Yunnan large-leaf tea variety. The ancient tea tree "Jinxiu Tea Venerable" in Xiangzhuqing, Fengqing County, is over 3,200 years old and is the oldest and most massive artificially cultivated ancient tea tree yet discovered in the world. The Baiyingshan old tea garden in Yun County is hailed as a "natural museum of tea tree evolution" and is the only place in the world where the entire process of tea trees evolving from wild to cultivated can be observed. Along both banks of the Lancang River are distributed numerous tea mountains. Setting out from Jingmai Mountain, every tea mountain has its own story, and every tea leaf has its own flavor.
The thousand-year-old tea forests are endless and continuous in life or growth (生生不息, sheng sheng bu xi - "life, life, not, stop"). The fragrance of Yunnan tea wafts across the world.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Yunnan Provincial Committee
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The Communist Party of China is a Marxist political party organized on the basis of revolutionary ideals and iron discipline, and strict discipline is the Party's glorious tradition and unique advantage. In the first volume of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building, in the article "Strictly Enforce the Party's Organizational Discipline and Strengthen Organizational Discipline," General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The Party must govern the Party and govern it strictly — by what means does it govern, and on what basis does it govern? It must rely on strict discipline." Persisting in using strict discipline to govern the entire Party is an important component of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building and is the fundamental solution for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Persisting in using strict discipline to govern the entire Party has powerfully advanced Party discipline building in the new era
Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has incorporated discipline building into the overall layout of Party building, vigorously promoted theoretical innovation, practical innovation, and institutional innovation in discipline building, and forged a stronger and more capable Party. Xi Jinping's thought on Party building is rich in content and complete in system, covering all areas of Party building. Among the Fourteen Commitments, every single "commitment" is inseparable from strict discipline as its guarantee. Persisting in using strict discipline to govern the entire Party is embodied in all aspects of the Party's political building, ideological building, organizational building, conduct building, discipline building, institutional building, and the fight against corruption. In the first volume of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building, in the article "Strengthening Discipline Building Is the Fundamental Solution for Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party," General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Our Party is a Marxist political party organized on the basis of revolutionary ideals and iron discipline; strict organization and strict discipline are the Party's fine traditions and political advantages, and they are also the source of our strength." Entering the new era, precisely because of the high importance attached to discipline building and the persistence in using strict discipline to govern the entire Party, our Party has been able to drive all aspects of discipline to be comprehensively strict and strict to the end, completely and clearly establishing and tightening the Party's discipline and rules, and fundamentally reversing the previous state of lax and loose Party governance.
At the theoretical level, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Party discipline is multifaceted, but political discipline is the most important, most fundamental, and most critical discipline, and observing the Party's political discipline is the important foundation for observing all of the Party's discipline." The 19th National Congress of the Party incorporated discipline building into the overall layout of Party building in the new era, and the 20th National Congress of the Party proposed persisting in strengthening conduct and discipline with a strict tone, emphasizing comprehensively strengthening the Party's discipline building, insisting on grasping Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline together, consolidating the foundation and nourishing the source ideologically, raising Party spirit awareness, enhancing the ability to resist corruption and prevent degeneration, and cultivating the noble and upright spirit of not being corrupted by wealth (富贵不能淫, fù guì bù néng yín - "wealth, cannot, not, indulge"), not being swayed by poverty or low status (贫贱不能移, pín jiàn bù néng yí - "poverty, lowliness, cannot, shift"), and not yielding to force or authority (威武不能屈, wēi wǔ bù néng qū - "power, might, cannot, bend"). These important judgments and strategic arrangements systematically construct the complete theoretical logic of Party discipline building in the new era, profoundly answer the important propositions of why a Marxist governing party must strengthen discipline building and how to advance discipline building, and provide theoretical guidance and fundamental principles for persisting in using strict discipline to govern the entire Party.
At the practical level, since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has vigorously worked on building the system of intra-Party regulations, emphasized the important position of discipline in the system building, and issued and revised a series of intra-Party regulations and institutions including the Code of Integrity and Self-Discipline of the Communist Party of China, the Regulations on Disciplinary Action of the Communist Party of China, the Several Guidelines on Intra-Party Political Life Under the New Situation, and the Regulations on Intra-Party Supervision of the Communist Party of China, constructing a systematic and complete institutional system and providing a strong institutional guarantee for strengthening the Party's discipline building. Our Party has continuously deepened political inspection tours, and the sharp edge of the inspection tour sword has been further demonstrated. Beginning with the formulation and implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation as the opening move, the Party has driven a completely new look in Party conduct and government conduct, with social conduct and civic morality continuously improving. From weaving a dense and tight cage of institutions to strictly enforcing supervision, accountability, and discipline, from deepening the simultaneous investigation and governance of misconduct and corruption to insisting on grasping Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline together and linking the rectification of conduct, the enforcement of discipline, and the fight against corruption, a series of solid measures for Party governance have made our Party stronger and more capable through revolutionary tempering, providing a strong disciplinary guarantee for the development of the Party and the nation's cause.
The achievements in both theory and practice fully demonstrate the high degree of unity between the theoretical logic and practical logic of Party discipline building in the new era. Theoretical innovation based on the vivid practice of Party governance points the direction and charts the path for the deepening advancement of discipline building; the continuously enriched and deepened practice of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in turn further tests, improves, and develops the theory of Party discipline building. The two complement each other (相辅相成, xiāng fǔ xiāng chéng - "mutually, assist, mutually, complete") and empower each other in both directions, jointly driving Party discipline building in the new era to go deeper and be more solid, and laying a solid foundation for the Party's long-term governance and the nation's maintaining long-term peace and stability (长治久安, cháng zhì jiǔ ān - "long, govern, long, peace").
Persisting in using strict discipline to govern the entire Party, forever preserving the Party's advanced nature and purity, and continuously improving the Party's governing capacity and leadership level
Entering the new era, on the new journey of advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, the mission our Party bears is more glorious, the challenges it faces are more severe, and the tasks it undertakes are more arduous. In the first volume of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building, in the article "Unswervingly Advance Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party and Continuously Improve the Party's Governing Capacity and Leadership Level," General Secretary Xi Jinping cautioned the entire Party: "We must deeply understand the long-term nature and complexity of the tests of governance, reform and opening up, the market economy, and the external environment facing the Party, deeply understand the sharpness and severity of the dangers of mental slackness, insufficient capability, detachment from the masses, and passive corruption facing the Party, adhere to a problem-oriented approach, maintain strategic resolve, and promote the deepening development of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party." To effectively respond to the "four tests" and "four dangers" facing the Party, it is necessary to maintain a clear head and persist in using strict discipline to govern the entire Party. Only with strict discipline, and by persisting in the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere over the long term, can we ensure that the Party never changes its nature, never changes its color, and never changes its character, forever preserve its advanced nature and purity, and always remain a vibrant Marxist governing party that walks at the forefront of the times, enjoys the heartfelt support of the people, and can withstand all kinds of trials of wind and waves, and always remain the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
As a Marxist governing party, our Party is the vanguard of the Chinese working class and at the same time the vanguard of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. Only by forever preserving its advanced nature and purity and possessing governing capacity and leadership level suited to the needs of the development of the times can it forever preserve its vanguard character. As of the end of 2025, our Party has developed into the world's largest governing party with significant global influence, with 101.286 million Party members and 5.431 million primary-level Party organizations, enjoying the heartfelt support and endorsement of the people and serving as the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Only by persisting in using strict discipline to govern the entire Party can the Party forever preserve its advanced nature and purity and continuously improve its governing capacity and leadership level. In the first volume of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building, in the article "Ensuring the Party Always Remains the Strong Leading Core of the Cause of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics," General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Compared with the development and changes in the domestic and international situation, and compared with the historical tasks undertaken by the Party, there is still a considerable gap in the Party's leadership level and governing level, the state of Party organization building, and the quality, capability, and conduct of Party members and cadres." In "Unswervingly Advance Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party and Continuously Improve the Party's Governing Capacity and Leadership Level," General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Our Party must be both politically strong and highly capable." At present, the changes unseen in a century in the world are accelerating. Facing a complex environment, only by using strict discipline to govern the entire Party can our Party possess the confidence and resolve to remain calm amidst turbulent changes (乱云飞渡仍从容, luàn yún fēi dù réng cóng róng - "chaotic, clouds, fly, cross, still, calm"), seize opportunities amidst crises, and open new prospects amidst changes. China's development is in a period in which strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist and uncertain and unpredictable factors increase. It is necessary to be prepared at all times to withstand major tests of fierce winds and high waves (风高浪急, fēng gāo làng jí - "wind, high, waves, urgent") and even towering waves. The more uncertain and unpredictable the situation, the more fierce the winds and high the waves, the more the Party needs to fully play its role as the "pillar that stabilizes the sea," the more strict discipline and rules are needed to safeguard the Party's unity and solidarity, continuously enhance the Party's cohesion and combat effectiveness, leadership and execution, and ensure that the Party always remains the most reliable backbone of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation when storms come.
Strict discipline and responsible action are intrinsically unified and mutually complementary. Strict discipline is the "protective talisman" for Party members and cadres to act responsibly, and it can stimulate the internal motivation of Party members and cadres to work and start undertakings. With strict discipline and rules, a clean and upright political ecosystem can be cultivated, Party members and cadres will establish bottom-line thinking, clarify the boundaries of behavior, and proceed without heavy burdens or baggage (轻装上阵, qīng zhuāng shàng zhèn - "light, equipment, go, battle") and work boldly. The new journey of Chinese modernization has already set sail. Only by persisting in using strict discipline to govern the entire Party can the broad ranks of Party members and cadres, under the rigid constraints of discipline and the encouragement and support it provides, shed their ideological burdens and proceed without heavy burdens or baggage, act boldly and start undertakings with free rein, devote themselves with the spirit of daring to try and dare to break through to the fiery practice of Chinese modernization, strive on the new journey to create new achievements that stand up to the test of practice, the people, and history, and continuously write new chapters of the Chinese miracle.
Extend the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere to cover every Party member, every Party cadre, and every Party organization
In the first volume of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building, in the article "Exploring the Characteristics and Laws of Strict Party Governance Under the New Situation," General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "All are equal before discipline, and no special Party members who are not bound by discipline are allowed within the Party." In "Strictly Enforce the Party's Organizational Discipline and Strengthen Organizational Discipline," General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "The Party's rules must be followed and implemented by Party organizations and Party members and cadres; no one may be treated specially or be an exception."
The Party exercises leadership over everything — over Party, government, military, civilian, and academic affairs, and over all regions, east, west, south, north, and center. The Party's leadership is multifaceted and all-encompassing. Wherever the Party's leadership extends, strict discipline should regulate there. Persisting in using strict discipline to govern the entire Party targets all Party members, all Party cadres, and all Party organizations. In Party governance, no dead corners or blank spaces are left. Here "all" means everyone, means everything, means not a single one may be left out. Every Party member, regardless of position or length of Party standing, must consciously accept the education, management, and supervision of Party organizations.
Strict discipline is multifaceted and all-encompassing, and discipline coverage is full-chain and full-cycle. Persisting in using strict discipline to govern the entire Party requires sustained effort across the full chain, full cycle, and full coverage. Any Party member, any Party leading cadre, and any Party organization is equal before Party discipline. Acts that violate Party discipline, regardless of identity or position, must be seriously investigated and dealt with, and never tolerated. Through establishing a normalized and long-term discipline education mechanism, all Party members are educated and guided to study discipline, understand discipline, be clear about discipline, and observe discipline, continuously consolidating the ideological consciousness, political consciousness, and action consciousness of being loyal to the Party, sharing the Party's concerns, bearing the Party's responsibilities, and fulfilling the Party's duties.
Persisting in using strict discipline to govern the entire Party requires the coordinated application of the "two rulers" of discipline and law
In the first volume of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building, in the article "Strictly Enforce the Party's Organizational Discipline and Strengthen Organizational Discipline," General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "When cadres have problems, it is always because of a breach of discipline. The Party's discipline must be strictly enforced, and all of the Party's disciplines must be strict." Party discipline is the code of conduct that all Party organizations at all levels and all Party members must observe. Discipline that is enforced without strictness or enforced without substance is equivalent to not being enforced at all. To strictly advance discipline building, it is necessary to use the thinking of the rule of law to coordinate the application of the "two rulers" of discipline and law, effectively improve the enforcement and seriousness of discipline and law, and achieve true management and true strictness, daring management and daring strictness, and long-term management and long-term strictness.
In the first volume of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building, in the article "Strengthening Discipline Building Is the Fundamental Solution for Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party," General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Hold up and establish discipline and rules, strictly act in accordance with the yardsticks of discipline and law, link law enforcement and discipline enforcement together, and truly implement the tasks of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party." Discipline is multifaceted and exists mainly in the form of institutional rules. Persisting in using strict discipline to govern the entire Party requires adhering to governing the Party with institutions and governing the Party in accordance with regulations, adhering to the organic unity of law-based governance and governance of the Party in accordance with regulations, and continuously enhancing the binding force of discipline and the execution of institutions. The Regulations on Disciplinary Action of the Communist Party of China revised in 2015 clearly embodied the requirement that discipline is stricter than law and discipline precedes law, more prominently highlighted placing discipline and rules at the forefront, and more prominently demonstrated the characteristics of Party discipline. Along with the deepening advancement of the reform of the Party's discipline inspection system and the national supervision system, the Regulations on Disciplinary Action of the Communist Party of China were revised successively in 2018 and 2023, further reflecting the adherence to placing discipline at the forefront, adhering to discipline being stricter than law, discipline preceding law, and the integration of discipline enforcement and law enforcement.
In coordinating the application of the "two rulers" of discipline and law to advance discipline building, discipline inspection and supervision organs bear great responsibility and a glorious mission. In the second volume of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building, in the article "Deepening the Reform of the National Supervision System at a New Starting Point," General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Deepening the reform of the Party's discipline inspection system and the national supervision system at a new starting point provides an important institutional guarantee for improving and developing the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era and advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party." The reform of the Party's discipline inspection system and the national supervision system in the new era has deeply integrated the originally scattered supervisory forces, established supervisory commissions at the national and all local levels that work in the same office as the discipline inspection commissions at the same level. Under the system of working in the same office, the discipline inspection commissions and supervisory commissions each have their own focus and coordinate and cooperate with each other, promoting the realization of the integration of discipline and law and the linkage between law and law, constructing a unified decision-making, integrated operation mechanism for discipline enforcement and law enforcement, realizing full coverage of intra-Party supervision and full coverage of supervision over public officials, powerfully promoting the full coverage, systematization, and high efficiency of supervision and discipline enforcement, and providing a solid organizational foundation and institutional guarantee for the enforcement of discipline.
When discipline prospers, the Party prospers; when discipline is strong, the Party is strong. Strict discipline is the inherent political character of a Marxist political party and the precious historical experience of our Party's continuous development and growth. By persisting in using strict discipline to govern the entire Party, uniting hearts and souls with iron discipline, and fulfilling the mission with iron responsibility, we can make observing rules and being clear about bottom lines the ideological consciousness and action consciousness of all Party members, forever preserve the Party's advanced nature and purity through revolutionary tempering, safeguard Chinese modernization with strict discipline so that it moves steadily to achieve long-term success (行稳致远, xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "walk, steady, reach, far"), and continuously hand in excellent answer sheets worthy of history and the people on the new road of the examination.
(The author is a researcher at the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National Academy of Governance))
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On April 25, 2023, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the Conference of the Asian Alliance for Cultural Heritage Conservation, pointing out: "In 2019, at the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations, I proposed launching an action for the conservation of Asian cultural heritage. Over the past four years, all parties have responded actively and worked together, carrying out practical cooperation in the study of ancient civilizations, joint archaeological excavations, restoration of historic sites, and museum exchanges, making new Asian contributions to protecting the essence of human civilization." The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan, in its dedicated chapter on "High-Quality Belt and Road Cooperation," proposes "expanding channels for people-to-people and cultural exchanges with partner countries in culture, education, archaeology, sports, and other fields." In July this year, the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the National Cultural Heritage Undertakings" was issued, proposing: "Implement a special plan for Sino-foreign joint archaeological work and coordinate the advancement of joint archaeological projects." Sino-foreign joint archaeology, in the process of tracing humanity's shared historical memory and safeguarding humanity's shared cultural heritage, deepens exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations and makes positive contributions to practicing the Global Civilization Initiative. We must thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions, implement the deployments of the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan and the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the National Cultural Heritage Undertakings," and, from the height of better practicing the Global Civilization Initiative and promoting exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, carry out Sino-foreign joint archaeology with high quality.
Steady the direction of cooperation and focus on major topics in the field of civilization. To carry out Sino-foreign joint archaeology with high quality, we must adhere to academic leadership, actively participate in world archaeological research, conduct joint research with partner countries on major topics in the field of civilization such as the origins of civilization, the evolution of civilization, and interactions among civilizations, and continue to exert important influence on frontier international academic issues. Improve top-level design and cultivate key cooperation projects. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China carried out 49 Sino-foreign joint archaeological projects, involving 28 countries and regions. On this basis, we must push Sino-foreign joint archaeology to go deeper and be implemented more solidly. In terms of coverage, expand cooperation with more countries and regions, explore research models for large transnational regions such as Central Asia, Northeast Asia, and Southeast Asia, and carry out joint archaeology in the main distribution areas of Austronesian-speaking peoples, the circum-Himalayan region, and areas along the Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road; in terms of content, go beyond mere field excavation and continue to advance toward multidimensional cooperation directions such as conservation and sharing. Give full play to the role of international platforms such as the Belt and Road International Alliance for Cultural Heritage Cooperation and the Asian Alliance for Cultural Heritage Conservation. Carry out joint archaeological projects abroad and deepen archaeological cooperation with neighboring countries and countries that historically had direct exchanges with China. Through the investigation and excavation of relevant material cultural remains, restore the historical facts of ancient Sino-foreign overland and maritime exchanges. For example, China and Uzbekistan, relying on joint archaeological projects, have carried out multilevel cooperation from talent cultivation to joint platform building in fields such as field archaeology and scientific archaeology, jointly protecting and inheriting Silk Road cultural heritage. Enter the core regions of other major civilizations of the world to carry out excavations and research, and deeply participate in researching and interpreting the world civilization system and the shared narrative of human civilization. For example, Chinese archaeological teams have gone to Egypt, Honduras, and other countries to carry out joint archaeology, exploring and deciphering ancient Egyptian civilization and Maya civilization, contributing Chinese strength to a deeper understanding of the world's ancient civilizations.
Raise the level of technology and innovate in talent cultivation. To carry out Sino-foreign joint archaeology with high quality, it is necessary to implement a batch of high-level academic projects and promote the building of a technological support system and a talent cultivation system that are both cutting-edge and applicable. In terms of frontier science and technology, China's mature technological paradigms in fields such as regional survey, digital documentation, remote sensing and mapping, mobile laboratories, archaeological excavation shelters, and cultural heritage conservation and restoration are being widely practiced and tested around the world. At the same time, attention must be paid to proceeding in light of local conditions, fully understanding and integrating into local archaeological traditions in overseas work, jointly creating field archaeology cooperation norms with foreign partners, and promoting interoperability of field methods. Widely apply scientific archaeology and multidisciplinary integration methods, give play to the positive role of artificial intelligence, and participate in building a new global archaeological technology system. In terms of talent cultivation, improve a two-way, mutually advancing talent cultivation model, establish a normalized mechanism for talent exchange, and support academic exchange through talent exchange. To this end, it is necessary to strengthen the internationalization of Chinese archaeological talent cultivation and cultivate archaeological talent with both a global vision and a Chinese standpoint. Promote the building of a talent echelon for archaeology in partner countries, and in joint archaeological field work, pay attention to technical training for foreign personnel, achieving an organic combination of high-quality professional practice and talent cultivation. For example, foreign students from the United States, Canada, and other countries have participated in field archaeology practice and academic research activities at the International Field Archaeology School at the Liulihe Site in Fangshan, Beijing, learning about new concepts and new methods in Chinese archaeology.
Deepen the transformation of results and highlight the value of heritage conservation. In terms of the presentation of results, Sino-foreign joint archaeology has already broken through the single form of academic treatises, and through multiple forms of interpretation, it has brought the results of archaeological excavation and heritage conservation to society and benefited the people, promoting the transformation of archaeological resources into a driving force for sustainable development and a bridge for exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations. For example, the "Top of the Pyramids: The Exhibition of Ancient Egyptian Civilization" held at the Shanghai Museum comprehensively displayed ancient Egyptian civilization and its latest archaeological discoveries, reflecting the important results of Sino-Egyptian joint archaeology in recent years. We should further promote the multidimensional upgrading of Sino-foreign joint archaeological work from the academic level to the inheritance of civilization, regional development, and people-to-people connectivity, and, through empowerment by science and technology, break through the constraints of time and space, explore innovative development paths for ancient cultural heritage in the digital age, and generate richer application scenarios.
(Author's affiliation: School of Humanities, Central Academy of Fine Arts)
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President Xi Jinping pointed out at the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance: "We should use the common values of all humanity to shape the values of artificial intelligence, make good use of AI technology to enhance understanding and inclusiveness among different civilizations, promote exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, and carefully cultivate a garden of civilizations where seeking harmony in diversity and shared beauty (各美其美、美美与共, ge mei qi mei, mei mei yu gong - "each, beautiful, its own; beautiful, beautiful, with, together") thrives." This important statement profoundly reveals the intrinsic connection between the development of artificial intelligence and the progress of human civilization, and points the way forward for promoting exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations in the digital intelligence era. Facing the new situation of the accelerated evolution of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, it is necessary to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important statements, both giving play to the technological advantages of artificial intelligence and firmly grasping the value direction of striving for goodness and benefiting humanity, so that artificial intelligence becomes an important force for enhancing cross-cultural understanding among people of all countries and promoting the common progress of human civilization.
Artificial intelligence has opened up broader space for exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations. Exchanges among civilizations require overcoming barriers of language, knowledge, time and space, and technologies such as generative large language models, intelligent translation, knowledge graphs, and virtual reality play a prominent role in promoting the instant conversion of multilingual content and advancing the digital preservation and innovative presentation of cultural heritage, enabling the historical traditions, intellectual wisdom, and ways of life of different countries and nations to enter people's cognitive horizons more conveniently and extensively. Empowered by artificial intelligence technology, cultural resources that were previously constrained by circulation costs and professional thresholds can now reach ordinary members of the public through intelligent retrieval, immersive experiences, and interactive narratives; one-way displays that once relied on traditional media channels have also gained the potential to transform into in-depth exchanges and dialogues. Making good use of artificial intelligence technology is conducive to expanding the participating subjects of cultural exchanges, enriching the content forms of mutual learning among civilizations, and enhancing the coverage and accessibility of digital people-to-people and cultural exchanges.
Artificial intelligence places higher demands on value choices and governance capabilities. The development of technology does not necessarily enhance understanding and identification among different cultures. If the distribution of training data for large models is uneven, some civilizational traditions, local knowledge, and cultures may fall into a state of "low visibility"; if algorithmic recommendations blindly follow the logic of "traffic first," they may amplify sensationalist and stereotyped expressions and reinforce cultural stereotypes; if intelligent translation lacks the supply of historical and cultural contextual information, it will cause loss of meaning or even misreading of values; deepfakes, disinformation, and algorithmic manipulation will seriously erode social trust. Therefore, the more deeply artificial intelligence participates in cultural production and dissemination, the more necessary it is to firmly grasp the fundamental yardstick of "goodness." It is necessary to adhere to guiding technology with common values, enriching technology with diverse data, regulating technology with effective governance, and benefiting technology with open cooperation, so as to better give play to the positive efficacy of artificial intelligence in promoting exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations and inject lasting momentum into building a garden of civilizations where seeking harmony in diversity and shared beauty thrives.
Calibrate the direction of technological development with the common values of all humanity. Value pursuits such as peace, development, fairness, justice, democracy, and freedom should become the value foundation from which technological innovation must not deviate. Principles such as respecting the diversity of civilizations, safeguarding cultural subjectivity, and promoting equal dialogue should be carried through the entire process of AI research and development, training, deployment, and application, so that artificial intelligence truly serves a view of civilization characterized by equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness. In the model design stage, strengthen multicultural evaluation and promptly identify and correct discriminatory and biased outputs; in the product application stage, fully respect the historical traditions, cultural customs, and social norms of different countries and nations, and avoid measuring and interpreting the rich and colorful world with a single yardstick; in the effectiveness evaluation stage, take enhancing genuine understanding, promoting rational dialogue, and fostering people-to-people bonds as important criteria, forming a virtuous loop of people-centeredness and AI for good.
Consolidate an open, diverse, accurate, and reliable data foundation. The structure of data profoundly affects the way the intelligent information ecosystem presents the world. It is necessary to systematically advance the digital construction of historical classics, cultural relics, oral histories, folk arts, and local knowledge, and build authoritative, complete, and continuously updated multilingual cultural resource repositories; at the same time, strengthen the organization and development of cultural data of minority languages, low-resource languages, and countries of the Global South, enhancing the visibility and expressive capacity of different civilizations in intelligent systems. For example, the "Digital Dunhuang" project promotes the open sharing of cultural resources through high-precision collection, virtual restoration, knowledge graphs, and intelligent interaction, which both demonstrates the positive role of intelligent technology in protecting civilizational heritage and confirms the important significance of trustworthy data forms for promoting equal exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.
Build a secure, trustworthy, standardized, and orderly governance defense line. Exchanges among civilizations need to be built on the foundation of truth and trust. It is necessary to improve mechanisms for labeling AI-generated content, source tracing, fact-checking, and error correction, to prevent disinformation, deepfakes, and malicious manipulation of public opinion from disrupting the order of cross-cultural exchanges. Strengthen ethical review and risk assessment of culture-related AI applications, with a focus on preventing issues such as historical nihilism, cultural discrimination, copyright infringement, and improper appropriation. Improve algorithm transparency and explainability, and refine mechanisms for user choice, appeal, and feedback. Adhere to the combination of machine assistance and manual review, and strengthen professional review of content such as historical interpretation, translation of classics, religious culture, and major public issues. High-tech enterprises, universities, and AI and journalism and communication research institutions should strengthen coordination, innovate educational mechanisms, enhance public AI literacy, guide users to accurately identify generated content, rationally understand the limitations of algorithms, and actively participate in cross-cultural exchanges, jointly maintaining a clean and healthy digital cultural space.
Adhere to the governance principles of open cooperation, inclusiveness, and shared benefits. Currently, the development of artificial intelligence globally is uneven, and gaps in models, data, and computing power may exacerbate technological inequality, making it difficult for some countries and regions to fully enjoy the fruits of knowledge production and civilizational exchange in the intelligent era. In his keynote speech, President Xi Jinping announced that in the next five years, China will provide 5,000 AI training and research opportunities for developing countries; build international AI application cooperation centers with ASEAN, the Arab League, the African Union, CELAC, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and BRICS countries; and promote the application of the "Mazu" intelligent meteorological early warning solution in 30 countries. These measures provide Chinese solutions for bridging the global digital intelligence divide and jointly building a fair and equitable global AI governance system. Strengthen policy coordination, technological cooperation, and standards alignment under multilateral frameworks, and support developing countries in improving digital infrastructure, cultivating AI talent, and developing local language models and public cultural applications. Adhere to extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, open up more inclusive technological tools and high-quality cultural resources, so that people of all countries can become participants, contributors, and beneficiaries of AI development, and avoid the formation of a digital intelligence divide.
(The author is a research fellow at the Institute for Global Communication Studies, Shenzhen University)
Return to TopFor the sake of an experience, a landscape, or a cuisine, people rush to a city. In the first half of the year, county-level tourism became an important growth pole of the cultural-tourism market, and the term "county-chasing travel" remained hot on social media.
The popularity of "county-chasing travel" is the result of a two-way effort. On the one hand, as tourism consumption concepts diversify, tourists place greater value on on-the-ground experiences, slowing down to feel the unique local customs and everyday vitality of county towns; on the other hand, counties are continuously improving supporting facilities, upgrading business formats, and enhancing services to better meet tourist needs.
The Ministry of Commerce and eight other departments recently issued a joint document to further stimulate the vitality of the lower-tier market and invigorate county-level consumption. The vast county-level market holds great potential. This edition launches the series report "County-Chasing Travel: What to See," sharing the unique experiences of distinctive small towns and the active explorations of innovative business formats across various regions.
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Go to Hengdian, Shoot a Short Drama
Jinhua Daily reporters Cai Wenjie Wang Lei
Changing into costumes and stepping onto the set. The lights come on, the director calls out "action," and the short drama begins shooting — this is the holiday routine of some tourists in Hengdian.
Not long ago, the Hengdian World Studios in Dongyang City, Jinhua, Zhejiang, launched a "short drama shooting experience" project, where tourists can shoot their own vertical short drama on a real set for a per-capita cost of 200 to 300 yuan and about one hour of time.
On August 29, at Hengdian World Studios. After changing into ancient costumes, Shanghai tourists Fu Yue, Zou Qiong, and Hu Nan transformed into characters in the drama, preparing to perform an ancient-style "family recognition" scene.
Not long ago, after seeing experience videos on social media platforms, they made a special trip to "play the lead role." All three were first-time actors and felt a bit stiff after changing into costumes. Xu Liangqiao, the on-site director with years of crew filming experience, repeatedly encouraged them: "Pay attention to your eyes; that last take had particularly good emotion." He went through the lines sentence by sentence and adjusted their state frame by frame, and with two supporting actors building the emotional atmosphere and carrying the scenes, the three gradually improving and becoming more proficient or enjoyable (渐入佳境, jian ru jia jing - "gradually enter a good state"). After filming, the three remarked, "So many people accompanying us to enjoy the acting thrill — it's fun and stress-relieving."
The Hengdian "short drama shooting experience" project offers more than 40 scripts, with the most popular being "power fantasy" short dramas and classic scene reenactments. Finished films are generally delivered the same day, or within two days when orders are heavy. Since the short drama experience product went online, young consumers account for 70 percent.
In the view of Wu Yizhuo, director of the "short drama shooting experience" at Hengdian World Studios, the popularity of the project is the result of more than a decade of iterative upgrades. In 2011, Hengdian World Studios launched the "Star Dream Workshop," focusing on team micro-film business. In 2016, the locality promoted immersive tourism, with tourists holding up phones to film and edit themselves visible everywhere, which gave rise to the idea of providing professional filming services for ordinary people; that year, Hengdian Micro-Film Company was established, moving toward standardized, corporatized operations. In 2024, following the development trend of vertical short dramas, the project further streamlined the filming process and optimized equipment configuration, shortening the original half-day shoot to about one hour, and lowering the consumption threshold from the thousand-yuan level to the hundred-yuan range.
Today, this model is increasingly mature. In the nearly one month since the "short drama shooting experience" project went online, more than 2,000 people have participated.
Looking at individual tourist short dramas alone, the profit margin is limited. "But it plays the role of a 'hook' in the overall cultural-tourism consumption of Hengdian," said Wu Xiao, head of the short drama experience business at Hengdian World Studios. Immersive experiences can retain tourists and lengthen the consumption chain, with the number of overnight visitors growing, activating comprehensive county-level consumption in accommodation, dining, performing arts, and cultural creativity.
Today, transforming professional film and television production capabilities into cultural-tourism experience products for the general public has become an important direction for Hengdian's development. Hengdian has selected more than 500 people from grassroots film and television practitioners to form a professional interactive performing arts team, providing scene-partner services for tourists. Wu Xiao said that during this year's National Day holiday, Hengdian plans to upgrade some NPC (non-player character) sets into short drama experience sets, with the first batch of 19 planned to open.
In Dehua, Making White Porcelain
Quanzhou Evening News reporters Lin Lübo Song Yao
Gauze as thin as cicada wings, hair strands clearly defined, the "Princess Yishu" with her robes gently fluttering — were it not for the display case, it would be hard to believe this was fired from porcelain clay. At the "CHINA White" special exhibition at the World Skills Museum in Shanghai, the white porcelain sculpture Myth from Dehua County, Quanzhou, Fujian, has become a sensation. Its creator is Lian Deli, a representative inheritor of Dehua porcelain firing techniques.
Before the start of the school term, Ms. Chen, a Shanghai resident, "chased" her way to Dehua with her son. "After seeing the exhibition, the child asked every day: can gauze this thin really be made from mud?" This "star-chasing" trip was in pursuit of the fingertip craftsmanship of the intangible cultural heritage master, and even more so of the thousand-year maritime Silk Road cultural code hidden in the porcelain clay.
Dehua is a living thousand-year porcelain capital — for more than 3,700 years, the kiln fire has never gone out. In 2021, the Dehua kiln sites (Weilin–Neiban kiln site and Qudougong kiln site) were inscribed on the World Heritage List along with "Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China." Four kilns from the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties are stacked in sequence, known as "a thousand years in one glance." Similar ancient kiln sites, 239 in total, have been discovered across the county, spread throughout 18 townships.
The weighty history is being placed into new settings one by one. At the Yueji Kiln, tourists can personally add a piece of firewood to the kiln mouth, and when the kiln is opened, "white with a hint of green, falling ash condensing into glaze, each piece unique," a burst of exclamation rises from the crowd. Amid the clay, smoke, and landscape, tourists savor the story of "China White."
On weekends at Hongqi Fang, red-brick factory buildings and old chimneys complement each other. The workshops that hummed with machinery in the 1950s have now been transformed into craft studios, exhibition halls, and cultural-creativity shops; deep in the factory complex, the live-action role-playing game Porcelain · Craftsman is sold out for every session, with tourists dressing as artisans to retrace the journey of an export porcelain piece from clay to overseas. Tourist Ms. Lin sat with her daughter in front of a pottery wheel, watching the porcelain clay slowly "grow" between their fingers. "Before, I saw white porcelain in museums; this time the child made one with her own hands, and only then did we discover that ceramics actually have warmth."
In the park, the "Thirty-Second Generation" cultural-creativity shop always has young people gathered around it. The shop owner, Yan Jinduan, comes from a family that has made porcelain for generations, and now turns white porcelain into earrings, bracelets, and small ornaments. "Old craftsmanship also needs to get closer to young people's aesthetics." Old kiln workers have returned to the park to teach their skills, young makers have moved in to start businesses, and the industrial heritage has become a living cultural space that can be experienced, consumed, and co-created.
In Dehua, "one city, a hundred museums" is spreading such new settings across the entire city: "utensil coffee" blends white porcelain with rural coffee, the porcelain-light night market brightens the nighttime economy, and a thousand ceramic enterprises, a hundred master exhibition halls, and sightseeing factories are strung together like beads on a chain — the city is a museum, and within the museum lies a city. In 2025, the county received 14.2 million tourist visits, with tourism revenue of 14 billion yuan, up 14 percent and 14.6 percent year-on-year respectively.
In the future, Dehua will link up a thousand enterprises and a hundred exhibition halls, implement the "cultural tourism + all industries" integration project, and promote the multi-point flourishing of industrial tourism, event tourism, wellness tourism, nighttime tourism, and film-location tourism.
The kiln fire never goes out, and the stories are always renewed. When tourists leave with white porcelain they made with their own hands and share their memories of Dehua, the story of "China White" is carried to even farther places.
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At present, unboxing blind boxes has become a consumption craze — some people unbox surprises, while others unbox tricks. Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation released six typical cases of illegal blind box business operations, shedding light on the chaos behind blind box consumption and also clarifying the regulatory red line: blind boxes can be "blind," but business operations cannot be "blind."
Looking at the cases, the tricks are not new, yet they repeatedly succeed. From false advertising, collecting payments and then blocking customers, to gambling-related violations, failing to disclose hidden styles, and then "three-no" blind bags entering schools, counterfeit card blind box sales... The illegal forms in the six cases appear to be constantly changing in style or form (花样翻新, hua yang fan xin - "flower, pattern, flip, new"), but in reality the tricks share the same logic: exploiting information asymmetry, attempting to turn the "unknown" of consumption into a regulatory "blind spot," infringing on consumer rights and interests, and disrupting fair market order. When regulation bares its sword, what it establishes is the rule: blind boxes are not a regulatory blind spot, and any illegal operation must bear legal responsibility.
The charm of blind boxes lies in the unknown, and the risk also lies in the unknown. There can be probability, but there cannot be a lack of transparency; there can be fun, but there cannot be a loss of integrity. When probability is not transparent, consumers become "lambs waiting to be slaughtered"; when rules are not disclosed, the right to know is hidden by "hidden styles." Private transactions evade regulation, and rights protection often ends up "unable to find anyone"; counterfeit and infringing products mixed in harm the enthusiasm for innovation.
In rectifying blind box chaos, regulatory authorities have continued to exert effort with notable results. From fixing evidence through electronic data, cross-platform collaborative investigations, to tracing through the capital chain and then penalties, regulatory authorities use digital means combined with strict law enforcement to precisely strike at illegal acts, both recovering losses for consumers and forming a powerful deterrent. For operators, blind boxes can sell "surprises" but cannot sell "tricks"; disclosing probability, clearly stating rules, ensuring quality, and honest publicity are the basic homework. For consumers, there should also be more rationality and less impulsiveness — trade through formal platforms, and don't let "guaranteed win" or "picking up bargains" become confusing or lose one's judgment (冲昏头脑, chong hun tou nao - "rush, dizzy, head, brain").
To let blind boxes return to their original meaning of "little surprises" rather than becoming consumption traps, regulatory authorities, platforms, merchants, and consumers need to form a joint force. Only then can blind box consumption develop on a standardized track, allowing consumers to unbox with joy and peace of mind.
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"We were sent by the school to a company in Yunnan to make flower cakes, 12 hours a day for 50 yuan, and we all spat into the flower cakes." Recently, in order to attract traffic, Du, who fabricated false information online, has been administratively detained according to law.
The reason such a rumor attracted attention is that it precisely stepped on the "traffic password." First, as the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, flower cakes, being one of the gift choices, are themselves highly popular; second, consumers pay more attention to information related to food safety; third, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of workers has always been a focus of public concern. Now that the truth has been clarified, but the negative impact on the corporate image has still not been completely eliminated.
The "flower cake rumor" stops at the wise person (止于智者, zhi yu zhi zhe - "stop at, wise person"), but it must even more stop at the rule of law. This requires all relevant parties to form a joint force for prevention. Online platforms must maintain a vigilant attitude and strengthen review and gatekeeping; regulatory authorities must both urge relevant platforms to strengthen content review and gatekeeping, and moreover increase the intensity of punishment and accountability, handling rumor-mongers according to law; relevant enterprises should even more pick up the legal weapon to defend their rights, pursuing the relevant responsibilities of the rumor-mongers. All parties together, contributing to creating a better market environment.
(Excerpted from the Yunnan Daily)
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 陈国峰 张昕怡
"One-two! One-two!" Not long ago, in the Dawen River National Wetland Park in Gangcheng District, Jinan City, Shandong Province, the championship match of the second "Village Tug-of-War" (村拔) tournament in Gangcheng District was in full swing.
The eight teams that advanced to the finals faced off in pairs, vying for the championship of this village-level tug-of-war competition. In the end, the Chenjiazhuang Community Team and the Lixin Village Team advanced to the final.
As soon as the whistle blew, the hemp rope instantly tightened, and the two teams alternated between attack and defense, pulling back and forth. Amid perfectly uniform and orderly (整齐划一, zheng qi hua yi - "neat, orderly, one, uniform") chants, the red line in the middle of the rope moved back and forth, and every inch of progress or retreat gripped the hearts of the entire audience. After a fierce contest, the Chenjiazhuang Community Team won the championship 2:0.
Last summer, Gangcheng District created the "Village Tug-of-War" series of events covering all communities (villages) under its jurisdiction. This year marked the second time it was held, attracting a total of 191 teams and more than 4,000 participants, with over 300,000 in-person spectators. The participants in the "Village Tug-of-War" include farmers, workers, self-employed individuals, and college students returning to their hometowns. A single long rope "twists" the people of the same village into a collective fighting side by side.
The Lixin Village Team invited Li Xuwei, a member of a professional tug-of-war team, to coach them. In the early stages of team formation, the members' pulling techniques were a collection of varying qualities or levels (参差不齐, can ci bu qi - "uneven, not level, not equal"). Li Xuwei taught patiently, demonstrating tug-of-war movements item by item and meticulously breaking down the key points of exerting force, managing to turn a group of villagers with zero foundation into a formidable team. Li Xuwei said that the team members had to work during the day and train at night, and through competition they tempered their willpower and character. This spirit is now being transformed into a cohesive force for rural governance. Today, when it comes to road construction and environmental improvement in the village, the team members take the lead, and the villagers actively follow.
Local sports events are not only an arena for athletic competition, but also a vivid stage for cultivating civilized rural customs and empowering grassroots governance. Through striving side by side, the participants enhance mutual understanding and practice mutual understanding and mutual assistance (互谅互助, hu liang hu zhu - "mutual, understanding, mutual, help"), making families and neighborhoods the micro-units of good rural governance.
(Xinhua News Agency dispatch)
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 连 振
The "Couple Police Post" where Xu Naichao and Li Wenna, a married couple, serve is located 15 kilometers from the China-Mongolia border, with a jurisdiction covering 3,145 square kilometers. The two of them, husband and wife, jointly shoulder the patrol and prevention-and-control tasks for this border area.
In February 2022, the Alxa Border Management Detachment of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region decided to establish a border-proximity police post in the border area of Alxa Left Banner. At that time, Xu Naichao had already returned from peacekeeping duty in Liberia and was serving as a police officer with the Alxa Border Management Detachment. He volunteered to go to the frontline border area. After learning of her husband's decision, Li Wenna, who was serving as an auxiliary police officer at the Command Center of the Alxa Left Banner Public Security Bureau, also voluntarily applied to garrison the border, and thus the "Couple Police Post" was established.
When the police post was first established, drinking water had to be fetched from more than 10 kilometers away, electricity relied on a few solar panels, barely enough to run the refrigerator and charge phones, and there was no stable cellphone signal either.
Over the past four years, running water has been connected to the police post and its surroundings, 4G network coverage has been achieved, the newly paved asphalt road has made travel convenient for everyone, and the police post has also been upgraded with insulated walls and a sunroom... Thanks to technological means such as intelligent surveillance, drones, and mobile policing terminals, the working environment of the police post has undergone tremendous changes.
Holding fast at the border, the story of the "Couple Police Post" has gradually spread. In 2022, Xu Naichao and Li Wenna were selected for the "Inner Mongolia Good Person Honor Roll"; in 2023, Xu Naichao received the 27th "China Youth May Fourth Medal"; in 2024, Xu Naichao was conferred the title of "Beijiang Model" (北疆楷模); in 2025, Li Wenna received the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region "March 8th Red Banner Pacesetter" title, and the family of Xu Naichao and Li Wenna was selected for the 2025 "Most Beautiful Family" list.
Return to TopYangtze River Shipping Data Alliance Established
(People's Daily, Wuhan, September 16) (Correspondent Li Lu) On September 9, the Yangtze River Shipping Data Alliance was established in Wuhan, Hubei. The alliance was initiated by the Changjiang River Administration of Navigational Affairs under the Ministry of Transport, together with transportation authorities of 14 provinces and cities along the Yangtze River basin. By improving the digital infrastructure of shipping in the basin, establishing data circulation and sharing mechanisms, and unifying indicator systems, it empowers the development of smart shipping.
Anhui Wuhu's Annual Automobile Exports Break One Million Vehicles for the First Time
(Anhui Daily, Wuhu, September 16) (Reporter Fan Kelong) The reporter learned from Wuhu Customs: from January to August this year, Wuhu exported 1.0958 million automobiles (including chassis), with annual automobile exports breaking the one-million-vehicle mark for the first time, valued at 111.306 billion yuan, both growing by 1.1 times year-on-year and both setting new historical records. Among them, Wuhu's self-owned brand automobile exports grew by 1 time year-on-year, accounting for 87 percent of total automobile exports during the same period.
Chongqing's "Deputy Chief Technology Officer" Program Helps Enterprises Add Over 200 Million Yuan in Economic Benefits
(Chongqing Daily, Chongqing, September 16) (Reporter Xia Yuan) Recently, Chongqing's "Deputy Chief Technology Officer" program completed its first full year of implementation. The first batch of 59 dispatched personnel have taken root at the front lines of enterprises. To date, they have promoted the establishment and upgrading of more than 30 innovation platforms of various types; facilitated 84 industry-university-research collaboration projects, jointly built innovation laboratories and talent training bases, and carried out joint technical research, cumulatively helping enterprises add 209 million yuan in economic benefits.
Heilongjiang Establishes Specialized Industry Science and Technology Backyard Clusters
(Heilongjiang Daily, Harbin, September 16) (Reporter Peng Yi) Recently, at the launching ceremony of the main event of Heilongjiang Province's 2026 National Science Popularization Month, Heilongjiang established 4 science and technology backyard clusters. These clusters were formed by integrating 23 science and technology backyards across four major industries — rice, soybeans, edible fungi, and sugar beet — to help promote the comprehensive revitalization of local rural areas.
Shaanxi Has Cultivated More Than 760,000 "Red Scarf Docents"
(Shaanxi Daily, Xi'an, September 16) (Reporter Li Chang) In recent years, Shaanxi has solidly advanced the cultivation and construction of the "Red Scarf Docents" education brand, cumulatively cultivating more than 760,000 "Red Scarf Docents," coordinating various red resources, and building more than 5,000 "Red Scarf" practice sites.
Hainan Publishes First Batch of Property Management "Red and Black List" Names
(Hainan Daily, Haikou, September 16) (Reporter Sun Hui) Recently, the Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of Hainan Province published the first batch of the "Red and Black List" of property service enterprises for residential communities in Hainan Province for 2026. 57 property service projects were placed on the red list and 57 projects were placed on the black list, open to public supervision.
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 吴思思 刘樱涵 覃广华
Where do underground rivers flow? How can dripping water "grow" stone? What secrets of life lie hidden deep in the earth's core? Hundreds of millions of years of geological change have carved out Guangxi's vast karst landscape, and have also made the wonder of its caves one of the most striking cultural-tourism calling cards of the land of Bagui.
In Lipu City, Guilin, the Yinziyan scenic area has been operating for more than two decades, relying on local cave resources. Earlier this year, this long-established scenic spot completed a transformation of light and shadow.
Using the natural undulations of the rock walls, projections such as "Flying Apsaras of Dunhuang" are extremely lifelike (栩栩如生, xu xu ru sheng - "lifelike, as if living"); native stalactites are given contrasts of light and shade through warm and cool lighting, giving the story of hundreds of millions of years of growth a more textured expression — as light and shadow shift, stone curtains hang like stacked Zhuang brocade, spreading down along the cave walls; "the great changes of time and nature" (沧海桑田, cang hai sang tian - "blue sea, mulberry fields") tells a story in a charming and engaging way (娓娓道来, wei wei dao lai - "softly, tell out") of ancient memories, carrying the viewer's gaze from the depths of the sea to the transformation of the earth's crust.
By the side of the Guichun River, a small cave hides among the mountains. Here, taking a cup of coffee, setting out following the sound of water, passing through a narrow boardwalk shaded by bamboo groves, the green karst peaks and flowing river suddenly become clear (豁然开朗, huo ran kai lang - "suddenly, open, bright") and spread out before one's eyes. Wang Hua, head of the Blue Cave Coffee scenic area, says that visitors here need not deliberately plan an itinerary; they need only sit quietly in a landscape painting of mountains and waters, drinking coffee and daydreaming, enjoying a pure stretch of leisure time.
From passing by to sitting down, from checking in to lingering, the cave — this ancient geological symbol — is becoming a brand-new stage for tourism upgrading. "Here you can see the cross-section of a stalactite; it feels like the content from the textbook is right before your eyes." Standing before a broken stalactite, Gao Chang, a high school student from Chengdu, Sichuan, stopped and said.
The cave is being reopened in a completely different way. How this "journey to the center of the earth" is painted — the brush has been handed to the visitor.
(Xinhua News Agency dispatch)
Return to TopBy: 北京日报记者 袁 京
At the Muxiangxing Lamian Noodle Shop on Kangzhuang Road, Huangcun Town, Daxing District, Beijing, people over 60 years old, sanitation workers, food delivery riders, and couriers can eat a steaming bowl of beef lamian noodles for just 9 yuan.
At a little past 1 p.m., after the lunch rush, a row of electric bikes pulls up outside the noodle shop. Food delivery riders push the door open, and some call out as soon as they enter: "One bowl of beef noodles!" A staff member answers and drops the noodles into the pot. After the rider finishes eating, he scans the QR code and pays 9 yuan.
The person who set this price is the shop owner, Zhang Yu. Zhang Yu's parents and many of his elders once worked in sanitation posts, and by the time they got to eat, the meals they brought were often cold. Their hardship, Zhang Yu has seen with his own eyes and kept in his heart.
In 2023, the first lamian noodle shop that Zhang Yu co-operated with his classmate Xiao Yang opened its doors, and a conspicuous notice was posted at the entrance. It is a convenience discount poster: people over 60 years old, as well as sanitation workers, food delivery riders, couriers, and designated-driving attendants, get a bowl of beef lamian noodles for 9 yuan, and if it is not enough, they can get a free refill of noodles.
Zhang Yu also set a heartwarming shop rule: should anyone encounter difficulties while out and about and find themselves having very little money (囊中羞涩, nang zhong xiu se - "bag, inside, scanty, embarrassed"), there is no need for much explanation, nor any need to feel embarrassed — just say the word to a staff member, and they can get a free bowl of beef noodles.
Last year, the noodle shop moved to a new location. "The shop is new, but the rules are still the old rules." The discount poster was still put up prominently at the entrance early on. This community noodle shop, with a steaming bowl of lamian noodles, warms the hearts of ordinary people rushing about for a living.
Return to TopBy: 江西日报记者 殷琪惠 卢 勇 肖立宇
"Is this spicy?" On September 10, the Jiangxi stir-fry market at the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services opened with a lively bustle. More than 20 Jiangxi cuisine restaurants, specialty snacks, tea drinks, and cultural-creative enterprises were arranged in a single straight line (一字排开, yi zi pai kai - "one, character, line, spread"), with the signboard "The flavor of the human world, the freshness of Jiangxi stir-fry" prominently displayed. Passing visitors formed long queues to taste an authentic Jiangxi flavor.
At the Xiushui shaozhi (stuffed dumpling) booth, quite a few visitors gathered. The vendor made shaozhi on the spot, with the translucent and soft wrappers made from taro and sweet potato attracting visitors to take photos and taste.
Not far away, Gannan Hakka baoyuan (stuffed rice balls), Linchuan beef offal, handmade fish balls, white sweet potato chips, spicy milk tea, and other specialty foods took turns appearing, presenting a concentrated display of flavors from various parts of Jiangxi.
"This is the second year the Jiangxi stir-fry market has been held at the CIFTIS. This year, we not only enriched the categories of Jiangxi specialty snacks but also added cultural-creative merchants and introduced NPC (non-player character) situational interaction segments," said Xiong Huanhuan, president of the Jiangxi Stir-Fry Industry Promotion Association. In recent years, Jiangxi has actively explored the "market+" model, integrating Jiangxi stir-fry with cultural tourism, sports, and other activities, allowing specialty foods to enter more consumption scenarios.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨 义 周 欢
In recent years, Nanchang, Jiangxi, has adhered to building the city's economy on manufacturing, deepened innovation leadership, strengthened chain extension and chain supplementation, and continuously advanced digital-intelligent transformation, striving to build a modern industrial system. In the first half of this year, the added value of industries above designated size in Nanchang increased by 6.5% year-on-year; the added value of high-tech manufacturing industries increased by 11.3% year-on-year, and the added value of equipment manufacturing industries increased by 11.8% year-on-year, respectively 4.8 and 5.3 percentage points higher than the average level of industries above designated size. In Nanchang, a number of industrial clusters are accelerating their formation.
Chain-Based Cluster Development
Upstream and downstream coordination and supporting along the industrial chain, integrated development of large, medium, and small enterprises
In the Nanchang National High-Tech Industrial Development Zone, inside the production area of Jiangxi Zhaochi Semiconductor Co., Ltd., LED epitaxial chip manufacturing equipment is neatly arranged and operating at high speed.
"The company's development is inseparable from the industrial cluster advantages of the park," said Shang Pengfei, product manager of the company's marketing department. Nanchang Zhongwei Semiconductor Equipment Co., Ltd., which works in deep coordination with the company, is a key supplier of a chip manufacturing equipment for Zhaochi. The two sides have efficient linkage in production supporting and operation and maintenance guarantees, and have established a normalized joint research mechanism, achieving technological interoperability, complementing each other's strengths (优势互补, youshi mubu - "advantage, complement"), and jointly solving difficult problems. "Calculated comprehensively, production costs are 10%-30% lower than those of peers, and market competitiveness continues to stand out."
One company is deeply engaged in optical chip manufacturing, the other focuses on important equipment. The joining forces between powerful entities (强强联手, qiang qiang lian shou - "strong, strong, join hands") of chain enterprises is precisely a microcosm of the development of Nanchang's electronic information industry chain and industrial clusters.
With the approach of chain-based cluster development, Nanchang is striving to build an industrial development system centered on four emerging industries—electronic information, aviation, automobiles and equipment, and new energy—and four characteristic industries—new materials, medicine and health, green food, and light industry and textiles—promoting upstream and downstream coordination and supporting along the industrial chain, integrated development of large, medium, and small enterprises, continuously forging industrial resilience and enhancing core competitiveness.
Nanchang has deeply implemented the "chain chief system" for industrial chains, gathering enterprises through chains and strengthening chains through enterprises. Enterprises on the chain are growing in echelons, with a number of enterprises growing along the chain and expanding in tiers. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Nanchang cultivated 17 provincial-level manufacturing single champion enterprises, 1,092 provincial-level specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative enterprises, and 1,632 innovative small and medium-sized enterprises.
To develop future industries, Nanchang is focusing on forward-looking layout in fields such as AI (artificial intelligence), advanced materials, and future energy, relying on technological breakthroughs, achievement transformation, and enterprise attraction to accelerate the landing of frontier technologies.
Integration of Industry, Academia, and Research
Scientific and technological achievements in laboratories are accelerating their way to production workshops
In the Jiangxi Anyi High-Tech Industrial Park, in the production workshop of Jiangxi Jinde Lithium New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., fully automated production lines are operating at high speed, with multiple steps such as recrystallization and fine purification being closely linked and interconnected (环环相扣, huan huan xiang kou - "ring, ring, interlock").
"The company took three years to break through the recrystallization technology and achieve the extraction of high-purity rubidium salts and cesium salts from waste residue," said Zhang Qifa, chairman of the company. "The commissioning of this production line filled the domestic gap in large-scale production of high-purity rubidium salts and cesium salts."
Enterprises are the main body of scientific and technological innovation. In 2025, Nanchang's research and experimental development funding reached 15.814 billion yuan, with R&D investment intensity reaching 2.03%. More and more enterprises are achieving fundamental breakthroughs from nothing to something (从0到1, cong ling dao yi - "from, zero, to, one") in segmented fields through independent innovation.
Promoting deep integration of industry, academia, and research, scientific and technological achievements in laboratories are accelerating their way to production workshops.
At the vehicle dispatch center of Jiangling Motors' Fushan Plant in Nanchang County, Jiangling E Fushun new energy light buses are being transferred to the dispatch yard. "In the first half of this year, sales of the E Fushun new energy light bus increased by 185.4% year-on-year," said Wang Gang, head of the light bus team at the Market Management Center of Jiangling Motors Sales Company.
"Previously, the electronic and electrical architecture carried by the E Fushun was managed separately for each part, and every time a new function was added, a major overhaul was needed," Wang Gang said. Jiangling, together with the (Tongji University) Nanchang Intelligent New Energy Vehicle Research Institute, jointly tackled key problems and developed an intelligent vehicle-cloud integrated electronic and electrical architecture. "The new architecture achieves unified command of vehicle components and plug-and-play functionality (即插即用, ji cha ji yong - "plug, insert, immediately, use"), making function upgrades or software upgrades as convenient as updating a phone system, greatly shortening the vehicle model iteration cycle."
"The research institute and the factory collaborate, forming an industry-academia-research integration model of research at the factory side and transformation on site. Over 70% of the research institute's scientific research achievements directly serve the industrial needs of the Jiangling Group, involving key fields such as new energy vehicle development, intelligent connected vehicles, and intelligent driving," introduced Wan Chuan, director of the institute's Intelligent Driving and Connected Vehicle Institute. In the eight years since its establishment, this research institution, jointly built by Nanchang City, Tongji University, Jiangling Group, and other parties, has undertaken a total of 118 enterprise-commissioned projects and incubated 3 automotive supporting companies, with an annual total output value of nearly 5 billion yuan.
The Jiangxi Innovation Center of Taihang National Laboratory has been established and is operating, and 5 national key laboratories have completed restructuring; a number of high-end research institutions such as the Jiangxi Research Institute of Beihang University have gathered; the coverage rate of R&D institutions in industrial enterprises above designated size continues to rise... From single-point breakthroughs to systematic efforts, Nanchang has formed 24 national-level innovation platforms and over 500 provincial-level innovation platforms.
Continuously improving the system for the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, in the past five years, Nanchang has accumulated the discovery of more than 3,000 transformable achievements, published nearly 1,000 enterprise technology demands, and facilitated the landing of nearly 200 high-quality projects. "From achievement screening, pilot testing and maturation, to industrial landing, Nanchang is striving to open up the entire chain channel from laboratory to production line, accelerating the realization of innovation value," said Weng Xianjie, director of the Nanchang Municipal Science and Technology Innovation Bureau.
Digital-Intelligent Transformation
Guiding enterprises to leap from single-point transformation to full-process integration and intelligence
Entering the intelligent control center of Fangda Special Steel Technology Co., Ltd., located in Qingshanhu District, Nanchang, a curved electronic screen comes into view, with production process data from blast furnace smelting, steel rolling, and finished product warehousing jumping in real time, and a digital twin system completely replicating the factory's production scenarios.
Chen Jingcheng, director of the company's Automation Department Information Center, introduced that in the operation and management segment, Fangda Special Steel has launched digital systems such as intelligent metering, logistics control, and cost control. Information from business segments including procurement, warehousing, logistics, and finance achieves online circulation and real-time sharing, with metering efficiency improved by 42.5%.
Focusing on national-level and provincial-level industrial clusters, Nanchang is accelerating the implementation of systematic intelligent transformation of manufacturing units, production lines, and workshops, and guiding enterprises to leap from single-point transformation to integrated and intelligent transformation across the entire process of R&D and design, production and manufacturing, and operation and management.
In digital-intelligent transformation, small and medium-sized enterprises are both the focus and the difficulty.
Unlike large enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises have limited funds and many transformation concerns. Nanchang guides small and medium-sized enterprises to advance digital-intelligent transformation in echelons by classification and grading, carries out free digital-intelligent diagnosis, promotes "small, fast, light, and accurate" digital-intelligent products, and precisely resolves transformation pain points. In the past two years, Nanchang has promoted more than 400 pilot small and medium-sized enterprises to complete digital-intelligent transformation.
"Beep beep—" Inside the production workshop of Nanchang Zhongtuo Garment Manufacturing Co., Ltd., multiple high-precision industrial cameras "blink" at white grey cloth moving rapidly on the assembly line. Suddenly, a red mark pops up on the detection system interface, accompanied by a slight prompt sound. "Since the AI quality inspection equipment was put into use, it can reduce multiple costs such as fabric loss, rework, and labor management for the enterprise by about 80% each year, and increase production capacity by more than 30%," said Qin Jiajun, deputy general manager of the company.
Nanchang has issued an "AI+" action work plan, promoting the penetration of AI technology into the entire process of digital marketing, production and manufacturing, and quality control, planning and building 17 application scenarios, with 4 enterprise scenarios selected as provincial-level manufacturing AI-type applications, and laying out 27 computing power centers.
A number of industrial enterprises above designated size in Nanchang have carried out digital-intelligent transformation, with 5 national-level 5G factories, 4 provincial-level digital leading enterprises, and a total of more than 100,000 enterprises on the cloud.
In July this year, the "Nanchang Action Plan for Deepening Digital-Intelligent Transformation of Manufacturing (2026-2027)" was issued, proposing that by 2027, efforts will be made to promote more than 1,000 enterprises to deeply utilize the industrial internet ecosystem for improvement, and to create about 3 provincial-level pilot zones for industrial digital transformation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵景锋 窦瀚洋 李凯旋
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan makes specific arrangements for "developing and strengthening the private economy," explicitly supporting the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and self-employed industrial and commercial households, and promoting the coordinated and integrated development of large, medium, and small enterprises.
As the "capillaries" of economic operation, small and medium-sized enterprises are connected to countless households and are an important force for promoting innovation, boosting employment, and improving people's livelihoods. What difficulties do small and medium-sized enterprises face in their development? How can their better and faster development be promoted? Reporters from our newspaper conducted interviews in multiple locations.
—Editor
Project approval requires running between departments, which is too cumbersome
Launching the "Project Steward" mechanism and customizing approval plans
At 10 a.m., in the meeting room on the second floor of the Government Service Center of Xincheng District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, a project joint meeting was underway. On one side of the long table sat business backbone personnel from the district's human resources and social security, taxation, banking, and other departments; on the other side sat Du Xiaohui, a staff member of the Xincheng District Administrative Approval, Government Service, and Data Management Bureau. On the table, paper materials such as project briefs and policy lists were laid out in a row.
"Today, let's go through the entire approval process for the livestock big-model data annotation project from start to finish, running in parallel whatever can be run in parallel, and pre-reviewing whatever can be pre-reviewed, to see how we can compress the time to the shortest." Du Xiaohui got straight to the point (开门见山, kai men jian shan - "open, door, see, mountain").
The livestock big-model data annotation project is a key science-and-technology innovation industrial project built by Inner Mongolia Wofu Network Technology Co., Ltd. As a small and medium-sized enterprise, the company is targeting the smart livestock farming market, planning to build a complete intelligent data annotation technology system and establish an annotation base in Xincheng District to improve the recognition quality and certification efficiency of livestock identity information. However, project approval involves multiple departments, and relevant policies are dynamically adjusted every year. Under the traditional mode of handling affairs, enterprises need to run separately to various departments and repeatedly revise application materials.
After learning of the enterprise's demand for faster processing and early production and operation, the Xincheng District Administrative Approval, Government Service, and Data Management Bureau immediately activated the "Project Steward" service mechanism and assigned Du Xiaohui as the dedicated steward for the project. Energy conservation review, application for preferential enterprise policies, big-model filing... In response to the difficulties and bottlenecks in the project approval process, each department answered questions one by one, discussed and optimized solutions, and clarified the processing standards for each link, the committed processing time limits, and dedicated communication channels.
While carefully recording the opinions of all parties, Du Xiaohui sorted out the process nodes on his computer. More than an hour later, a project approval plan tailored to the enterprise was officially generated, with information such as handling procedures, flow charts, and time nodes clear at a glance.
"The materials almost all passed on the first try, and the speed was several times faster than expected!" After obtaining the construction approval, Wang Hao, the relevant person in charge of Wofu Company, beamed with joy. "We can put more energy into improving project quality."
Hohhot has issued an action plan for optimizing and improving the quality of the business environment. Focusing on project approval assistance and agency services, it has formed 12 project steward teams totaling 36 people, built a government service model of "full-process agency, free service, convenience and efficiency," held cross-departmental joint meetings, tailored approval profile forms for enterprises, achieved full coverage of approval matters across the entire project life cycle, and greatly improved approval efficiency. Since the beginning of this year, the city has provided agency and assistance services for more than 120 projects and conducted timely follow-up visits on 50 agency projects through the 12345 hotline.
Independent R&D encounters technical bottlenecks
Connecting industry, academia, research, and application, transforming "blind searching" into "precise matching"
In Yinzhou District, Ningbo, Zhejiang, at the production plant of Ningbo Tiangong Fluid Technology Co., Ltd., automated assembly lines are operating in an orderly manner, and metal bellows sealing components are formed and shipped off the line after fine processes such as stamping and precision machining. As an enterprise mainly engaged in mechanical sealing-related products, in recent years, Tiangong Fluid's service areas have gradually expanded from civilian water pumps and conventional chemical applications to aerospace technology and other fields.
Cross-field development poses greater challenges to an enterprise's R&D capabilities. When Tiangong Fluid was developing aerospace-grade turbine pump bellows seal assemblies, it encountered technical bottlenecks. "As a small and medium-sized enterprise, the scientific research forces we can connect with are limited." Wu Leibo, the company's technical department manager, recalled that the team visited multiple colleges and universities in the province to find suitable sealing laboratories, but due to various factors, there was never any progress, and independent R&D once came to a standstill.
"Thanks to the Ningbo 'Science and Technology Big Market' platform for technology achievement trading and transformation, which resolved the enterprise's urgent need." Wu Leibo said that after learning of the enterprise's demands, platform staff such as Liu Tao took the initiative to visit the enterprise, acted as a bridge, and enabled the enterprise to carry out joint research with the Extreme Sealing Laboratory of NingboTech University.
Deep linkage between industry, academia, research, and application has established a long-term cooperation mechanism. This year, the Ningbo major science and technology task research project jointly declared by both parties has been successfully approved. "What we need to do is to make up for the shortcomings of productive service industries such as science and technology services, transforming 'blind searching' into 'precise matching' and connecting industry, academia, research, and application." Liu Tao said.
Since 2023, Zhejiang has annually issued the "Together to Benefit Enterprises · Hello, Small and Micro" service action plan. Relying on provincial, municipal, and county-level small and medium-sized enterprise development promotion (service) centers and public service platforms, it has established public service teams and carried out public welfare services on a regular basis. To date, it has dispatched more than 30,000 enterprise service personnel, organized 27,000 public welfare service activities of various types, and served more than 1.311 million enterprise visits.
"Going global" lacks resources and channels
Building supply-demand matching platforms and providing full-process services
In the Xinjin Economic Development Zone of Chengdu, Sichuan, inside the production workshop of the new base of Chengdu Datong Road and Bridge Machinery Co., Ltd., workers are working intensely around precision equipment and thick steel plates, rushing to complete overseas orders from Algeria.
As a key enterprise in the regional rail transit industry chain, Datong Road and Bridge is deeply engaged in the R&D and manufacturing of bridge bearings, intelligent damping components, and other products; the new base put into use last year not only serves major infrastructure projects but is also actively expanding into overseas markets.
Before the completion of the new base, the enterprise had faced development bottlenecks: although it was deeply engaged in technology and manufacturing, it lacked overseas industry information, international customer resources, and cross-border communication channels.
How can enterprises be helped to expand markets and venture overseas? The Xinjin District Economy and Information Technology Bureau, together with relevant departments, made good use of major domestic and international exhibition platforms and economic and trade activities, built supply-demand matching platforms, organized enterprises to participate in international exhibitions in Vietnam, Uzbekistan, and other places, and helped enterprises connect with key customers, link up with partners, and expand international markets. Administrative approval, market supervision, and other departments provided full-process services for enterprises before "going global" such as policy briefings and risk assessments, during "going global" such as approval and reporting and coordination, and after "going global" such as legal follow-up and dispute resolution.
Relying on the "Rongyijian · Government-Business Symposium" normalized government-enterprise communication platform, relevant department staff visit enterprises monthly to collect business demands, accurately identify bottlenecks in market expansion, and successively organized multiple industry chain supply-demand matching and domestic and international industry exchange and negotiation activities. At a special industry chain supply-demand matching meeting organized by the Xinjin Economic Development Zone, Datong Road and Bridge and Chengdu Xinzhu Traffic Technology Co., Ltd. integrated their respective advantages in technology, production capacity, and channels, jointly bid for overseas infrastructure projects, and successfully won overseas orders totaling 150 million yuan.
"Enterprise demands have shifted from seeking relief from difficulties to market expansion, so we should put more effort into empowerment." The relevant person in charge of the Chengdu Municipal Economy and Information Technology Bureau introduced that Chengdu has launched a precise matching model for key industry chains: with one chain-leading enterprise as the driver, precisely connecting customers, supporting enterprises, and service institutions; at the same time, focusing on 13 key industry chains including artificial intelligence, intelligent connected vehicles, and biomedicine, it has tailored special supply-demand matching activities.
Message Board
It is suggested to standardize market supervision mechanisms, build collaborative development platforms, and improve infrastructure support, using more pragmatic measures to promote high-quality development of enterprises.
—Netizen from Beijing
It is suggested to actively cultivate the industrial ecosystem and promote the deep integration of traditional industries with artificial intelligence, digital technology, and other fields.
—Netizen from Shanxi
It is suggested to cultivate professional industry associations and chambers of commerce that serve new quality productive forces, and improve the capacity to serve new industries, new business forms, and new models.
—Netizen from Shandong
It is suggested to optimize financial support policies for small, medium, and micro enterprises, while introducing supporting policies to ensure that measures benefiting enterprises are implemented and effective.
—Netizen from Henan
It is suggested to improve the normalized government-enterprise communication and coordination mechanism, and smooth the channels for collecting, handling, and feeding back enterprise demands.
—Netizen from Hubei
It is suggested to integrate and build a smart service platform that brings together policy, technology, market, and data to provide precise empowerment for enterprises.
—Netizen from Tibet
(The above messages are excerpted from the "People's Suggestions" section of People's Daily Online, compiled by our reporter Wu Kai)
Return to TopBy: 耿德伟
In the first eight months of this year, the activity index of small-commodity wholesale markets, where small and medium merchants gather, grew by 8.1% year-on-year, maintaining a positive growth trend since the beginning of the year, with business operations continuing to improve.
The Shouqianba physical-commerce business vitality index, which reflects the vitality of small and medium merchants, stood at 83.3 in August, up 1.7% from the previous month, also reaching the highest level of the year, with merchant business vitality continuing to recover. Looking at the specifics, the offline-consumer vitality index grew by 2.9% year-on-year, with the improvement in consumer willingness being relatively prominent; the consumer-spending year-on-year growth index and the consumer-frequency year-on-year growth index also rose by 4.8% and 2.6%, respectively, achieving a simultaneous increase in both volume and price (量价同升, liang jia tong sheng - "quantity, price, same, rise")..
The improvement in the data shows that the business vitality of small and medium merchants, predominantly private enterprises, has continued to recover, and their business conditions have continued to improve..
(The author is the deputy director of the Big Data Analysis Division of the Big Data Development Department of the National Information Center of the National Development and Reform Commission.)
Return to TopRecently, at a photovoltaic power station project in Yibin District, Luoyang City, Henan Province, a drone was hoisting photovoltaic modules while workers installed them simultaneously. The project utilizes factory rooftops to install solar photovoltaic modules, and all of the clean electricity generated will be used for enterprise production, which can reduce production and operation costs, decrease traditional energy consumption, and promote green and low-carbon development.
Photo by Zhang Yixi (Image China)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Han Xin) The express delivery development index report recently released by the State Post Bureau shows that in August, China's express delivery development index was 431.7, up 1.5 percent year on year.
The market scale continued to grow. In August, the development scale index was 591.1, up 4.2 percent year on year. During the month, express delivery enterprises, focusing on consumption time points such as the fishing season opening festival and the harvest season of specialty agricultural products, increased investment in transport capacity and service resources, helping quality agricultural products leave villages for cities and cross mountains and seas, and continuously activating the potential of urban and rural consumer markets.
Service quality and efficiency improved steadily. In August, the service quality index was 605.6, basically flat compared with the same period last year. Among them, the public satisfaction with express delivery services was 85.3 points, up 0.5 points year on year.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘晓宇
When the starting gun fires, feet pound the track; racing down the course, cyclists lean low and tuck their bodies; accelerating on the run-up, javelin throwers complete their rotation and hurl with all their might. On the field of competition, victory and defeat are often decided by the narrowest of margins. Beyond the athletes' day after day (日复一日, ri fu yi ri - "day, repeat, one, day") of training and hard work, the spiked shoes on their feet and the competition suits on their bodies also affect athletic performance to varying degrees.
At the upcoming 20th Asian Games, many athletes' competition equipment will be custom-made by the Anta Group. R&D personnel use 3D scanning equipment to collect data on athletes' foot shapes and body types, record their force-generation habits and pain points from old injuries, and revise patterns and adjust materials again and again, polishing out a batch of exclusively customized domestically produced competition equipment.
On the track and field circuit, during preliminary research the R&D team discovered that hurdlers' two feet bear different forces, with the lead leg absorbing greater impact at the moment of landing after clearing the hurdle. To suit the physical condition of men's 110-meter hurdler Liu Junqi, the shoe last went through eight iterations, and the sole is fitted with a full-length reinforced carbon plate to enhance explosive push-off power. In response to the enormous impact of hurdle landings, the shoe strengthens the wrap around the midfoot to cushion landing shock. The "Speed Dragon" spiked shoes on mid- and long-distance runner Wu Hongjiao are specifically developed for the competitive characteristics of long-distance running's repeated pushing off and sustained continuous running. The bionic carbon plate mimics the form of the human plantar fascia, making the athlete's running motion more energy-efficient. The shoes weigh only 122 grams and, paired with patented ankle-locking technology, hold the feet firmly in place.
On the cycling track, a difference of a few thousandths of a second can decide medal placement, and the aerodynamic drag loss caused by clothing is not to be underestimated. For a long period in the past, most domestic cycling teams used overseas white-label racing suits, whose patterns were designed according to the body shapes of European and American athletes; when Chinese team members wore them, they often encountered practical problems such as chafing on the inner thigh and aerodynamic performance falling short of expectations. Yang Meiqing, director of Anta's apparel and accessories professional equipment division, said that the "Dragon Roar Wind Armor" cycling suit set to debut at the Asian Games took eight months to complete its full R&D cycle. After extensive computer airflow simulation and repeated wind tunnel testing, differentiated patterns were developed for the different competition scenarios of track, road, mountain, and BMX. The fabric conforms to the body, reducing energy expenditure caused by muscle vibration during riding, while zone-based temperature-control moisture-wicking fabric keeps the body surface dry and comfortable even during prolonged high-intensity riding.
It is not only track and field and cycling events — wrestling, taekwondo, gymnastics, trampoline, archery, and other events will also use this batch of domestically produced custom competition suits. The competition suits for gymnastics and trampoline events incorporate Eastern aesthetic elements such as dragons and phoenixes and blue-green landscape painting into the tailoring; archers' competition tops feature high-performance sun protection and instant cooling functions, suited to the outdoor competition environment.
Behind each piece of custom competition equipment lies the enterprise's long-term scientific research accumulation. Over the past 10 years, the Anta Group has invested a cumulative total of 20 billion yuan in innovation-related fields, and plans to invest another 20 billion yuan in independent R&D over the next five years. The group currently operates multiple global design and R&D centers, has built an open innovation network linking 96 universities and research institutes, has filed more than 8,200 national innovation patents, and has assembled a scientific research team of more than 1,100 international experts covering multiple fields including materials science, sports biomechanics, and intelligent manufacturing.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Nanjing, September 16) (Reporter Wang Weijian) The 2026 Jiangsu Industry-University-Research Cooperation and Docking Conference was recently held in Nanjing, Jiangsu.
At the venue, over 130 research institutes released more than 6,600 latest scientific and technological achievements, and over 2,800 enterprises released more than 3,800 technical demands. Enterprise representatives conducted technical docking with experts and technology managers, reaching over 1,300 intended cooperation projects with a total cooperation amount exceeding 3.9 billion yuan.
During the conference, the organizers also held activities such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences' "Fusion Point" action for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and docking activities for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the marine industry.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Ge Mengchao) According to the "Notice on Matters Concerning the Centralized Operation of Cross-Border Funds in Both RMB and Foreign Currency by Multinational Companies" jointly issued earlier by the People's Bank of China and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the pilot policy for the centralized operation of cross-border funds in both RMB and foreign currency by multinational companies, previously carried out in Beijing and Guangdong, was extended to the whole country starting from the 14th.
The policy for the centralized operation of cross-border funds in both RMB and foreign currency by multinational companies extended nationwide this time features a lowered entry threshold, simplified business handling procedures, and convenience for multinational companies to pool and allocate cross-border funds in both RMB and foreign currency.
Return to TopIn recent years, artificial intelligence has accelerated its evolution, computing power and energy supply have continued to improve, the open-source ecosystem has flourished, and large models have undergone iterative upgrades and become deeply integrated with industrial applications. Driven by multiple factors in combination, intelligent agents have risen rapidly and gradually become an important carrier for AI to enter real-world scenarios. How to build an efficient, scalable, and composable intelligent agent ecosystem, and how to enable different intelligent agents to collaborate and be invoked across applications and devices, have become important topics for operating systems facing the future.
On September 7, Huawei held a new product launch event and officially introduced the new-generation HarmonyOS operating system — HarmonyOS 7. HarmonyOS 7 further integrates AI capabilities into the underlying system architecture, driving the operating system to evolve from traditional human-computer interaction toward proactive intelligent services, and building an "Agent-friendly system architecture."
Making the operating system a key foundation for the deployment of intelligent agents
For users, the value of artificial intelligence lies not in models or parameters, but in truly understanding needs, solving problems, and naturally integrating into work and daily life. This requires AI capabilities to go deeper from individual applications into the underlying operating system. On the one hand, the operating system connects devices, applications, and services, and is the center for dispatching the capabilities of intelligent terminals; on the other hand, only by entering the system's underlying layer can AI, with user authorization, understand different scenarios, invoke cross-application and cross-device capabilities, and drive multiple links to collaborate in completing tasks.
Huawei's consumer business has long adhered to the all-scenario smart life strategy, using the HarmonyOS operating system as its foundation and, based on a unified intelligent agent, building a smart all-scenario experience around five major scenarios: HarmonyOS Smart Mobility, HarmonyOS Office, Sports and Health, Audio-Visual Entertainment, and HarmonyOS Smart Home. With the release of HarmonyOS 7, the all-scenario smart life strategy has further advanced to a new stage of system-level intelligence, making the operating system a key foundation for the deployment of intelligent agents.
As of September 7, the number of terminal devices running HarmonyOS 6 and HarmonyOS 7 has exceeded 85 million, the number of registered developers has surpassed 11 million, and the HarmonyOS ecosystem offers more than 400,000 available applications and services, covering 18 vertical fields including convenient daily life, cultural tourism and travel, finance and wealth management, social networking and information, government services and people's livelihoods, productivity tools, audio-visual entertainment, and enterprise office work. Through continuous iteration, the HarmonyOS application experience is entering a new stage of maturity and usability.
System-level intelligent agents: enabling AI to shift from "answering questions" to "completing tasks"
Based on HarmonyOS 7, the AI intelligent assistant "Xiaoyi" has been further upgraded into a system-level intelligent agent, becoming the "smart brain" that connects system capabilities, application services, and different devices.
Compared with AI intelligent assistants, the improvement of the system-level intelligent agent lies not only in being able to answer more questions, but also in being able to understand user intent, break down complex tasks, and dispatch corresponding capabilities to execute task completion. According to information already released by Huawei, "Xiaoyi" can currently invoke more than 2,100 system capabilities, perceive more than 200 items of system-level user data with user authorization, and is also connected to more than 2,000 HarmonyOS intelligent agents as well as more than 500 carefully selected partner skills.
Together, these capabilities form a closed loop of perception, understanding, decision-making, and execution. For example, users only need to state their needs, and "Xiaoyi" can collaboratively complete tasks such as device management, schedule arrangement, and travel planning; when users copy a flight number, express tracking number, address, or command link, the "Xiaoyi" navigation bar can recognize the relevant information and proactively offer the next step of service; and customer service "Xiaoyi" further links together links such as knowledge Q&A, device diagnostics, self-service repair reporting, and human service.
The changes in specific functions essentially reflect a new logic of human-computer interaction: in the past, users needed to understand the functional entry points of applications and search and operate among different interfaces; the system-level intelligent agent begins to understand what goals users hope to achieve, and then coordinates different capabilities and applications to work together collaboratively.
In addition, the deeper integration of AI capabilities into the operating system brings users a more convenient experience. HarmonyOS 7's smart SMS can proactively identify important text messages and strengthen reminders through the live window; smart notification aggregation can automatically merge similar notifications such as income and expenses and logistics, making information more focused; the voice recorder can intelligently name files, provide real-time translation, automatically summarize content based on the scenario, and can also automatically generate mind maps; and the text-to-call feature, through real-time conversion between voice and text, helps users with hearing impairments and speech impairments communicate more conveniently. AI is gradually transforming from an independent function into a foundational capability running through the system experience.
Making intelligent services both "understand users" and "be secure enough"
The more capabilities an intelligent agent invokes, and the closer its connection to users' lives, the higher the requirements for security and privacy. Sustainable intelligent services must not only "understand users," but also let users clearly know how data is used, and always retain choice and control.
HarmonyOS 7 further upgrades the HarmonyOS "Star Shield" security system, using AI for risk perception and proactive warning, and building a protection mechanism covering links such as scam call prevention, scam app prevention, and scam link prevention. The system can not only identify new types of risks such as AI voice changing and overseas call forwarding, but can also determine scam paths in combination with interaction behavior, advancing anti-fraud from single-point reminders to full-process protection.
At the same time, HarmonyOS adheres to the principle of "using AI to safeguard security, and using security to safeguard AI." In response to data security issues in the device-cloud collaboration process, the personal intelligent computing system HPIC adheres to principles such as local-first, data minimization, and user controllability. When cloud computing power needs to be invoked, mechanisms such as data isolation, encrypted transmission, and deletion after task completion are used to reduce the risk of data misuse or leakage.
Security in the intelligent agent era is not just about adding a line of defense to the operating system; it also requires re-handling the relationship among intelligence, data, and permissions from the underlying layer of the operating system. Only by making AI behavior knowable and data usage controllable can proactive intelligent services establish long-term trust.
Evolution of underlying capabilities to improve users' daily experience
The technological evolution of an operating system must ultimately return to the user experience that users can perceive. HarmonyOS 7's upgrades across dimensions such as intelligence, spatial aesthetics, performance, security, and connectivity are aimed not at simply adding functions, but at making the system better to use and easier to use.
In terms of performance, the Ark Engine further connects software, hardware, chips, cloud, and the ecosystem, and introduces a performance large model that performs intelligent scheduling based on factors such as user usage habits, application associations, and time and location. According to Huawei laboratory data, after upgrading to HarmonyOS 7, the overall performance of the relevant test devices improved by 15%, and battery life increased by 36 minutes; the Ultra Space Storage technology frees up available space through deduplication and compression, allowing 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB phones to save up to 22GB, 51GB, and 109GB of storage space respectively.
In terms of connectivity, HarmonyOS Galaxy Connectivity technology further breaks down device boundaries. One-tap encrypted sharing, one-tap multi-sharing, Huawei Share remote direct transfer, and file transfer between devices of other brands enable data and services to flow more naturally among different devices. The "Close Circle" feature integrates information such as anniversaries, photo albums, health data, and shared schedules, so that all-scenario connectivity not only connects devices, but also serves companionship between people.
From system-level intelligent agents to performance scheduling, from security protection to cross-device collaboration, HarmonyOS 7 makes the operating system no longer just a platform for managing hardware and running applications, but gradually an intelligent infrastructure that understands users, organizes services, and connects scenarios.
Jointly building an open ecosystem to serve the digital development of all walks of life
The formation of an intelligent agent ecosystem cannot rely solely on a single enterprise or a single model. How many tasks an intelligent agent can complete depends on whether system capabilities are fully opened, and also on whether applications, services, devices, and industry partners can participate together.
The HarmonyOS Intelligent Agent Framework is a core technical framework released by Huawei on June 20, 2025, at HUAWEI DEVELOPER CONFERENCE 2025 (HDC2025), aimed at establishing an AI ecosystem with autonomous decision-making and group collaboration capabilities. The system-level intelligent agent "Xiaoyi" is deeply integrated with application intelligent agents, and different intelligent agents can collaborate with one another, enabling user needs to be smoothly fulfilled across devices and applications. The "Xiaoyi" open platform provides a unified entry point for intelligent agent development and intent framework integration, promoting the sharing of intelligent agent assets and the aggregation of ecosystem capabilities.
As a result, phones, tablets, computers, watches, and other intelligent terminals are no longer isolated devices, but rather scenario entry points that work collaboratively under a unified system and intelligent agent framework. The objects that the operating system connects will also expand from people and devices to people and services, and people and industries.
From a broader industrial perspective, OpenHarmony is entering all walks of life (千行百业, qian hang bai ye - "thousand, industry, hundred, industry") such as finance, transportation, energy, education, and healthcare, providing an open digital foundation for different types of devices and industry scenarios. HarmonyOS, applied to various consumer terminals, continues to enrich the all-scenario experience, while OpenHarmony gathers ecosystem strength for broader industrial needs. Together, the two constitute HarmonyOS's unique value facing the future: from its very inception it has focused on multi-device, all-scenario, and distributed collaboration, and in the intelligent agent era it further possesses the foundational conditions for connecting models, applications, devices, and industries.
From executing given instructions to understanding user intent, from providing single-point functions to collaboratively completing tasks, from connecting a few devices to serving all walks of life, HarmonyOS is committed to driving a profound change in the role of the operating system.
HarmonyOS 7 is an answer sheet for the future, expanding the criteria for measuring an operating system to include whether it can carry an open ecosystem, whether it can enable different intelligent agents to collaborate efficiently, and whether it can safeguard user security while providing proactive services. HarmonyOS will continue to explore in this direction, taking the self-innovated operating system as the root, the openly co-built ecosystem as the soil, and all-scenario intelligence as the path, to provide users and industries with more possibilities for the intelligent agent era.
Data source: Huawei
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 魏哲哲
How should liability be borne for "impersonating celebrities in livestream sales"? When encountering cyber violence, how can the infringement be promptly stopped? Where is the boundary of tort liability for search engine service providers... Focusing on hot topics of social concern, the Supreme People's Court on September 16 released 4 typical cases of online rule of law adjudicated by people's courts. The typical cases involve the application of injunctions against personality rights infringement when cyber violence occurs, the determination of liability for livestream hosts infringing on others' personality rights, the determination of tort liability for search engine service providers, and the conviction and sentencing for providing network technical support services for cross-border gambling.
At present, the commercial promotion practice of livestream hosts "impersonating celebrities in livestream sales" is occurring from time to time (时有发生, shi you fa sheng - "time, have, occur"), infringing on others' personality rights and interests and damaging the online ecological environment, and should be regulated in accordance with the law. In one case, a certain cultural company, in order to promote and sell family parenting books, entered into an agreement with a certain livestream host, entrusting the livestream host to promote its store. The agreement stipulated that if videos published by the livestream host infringed on the lawful rights and interests of a third party, the cultural company should bear liability.
Subsequently, the livestream host published multiple promotional videos on his personal account on a certain online platform, using video clips of Li Moujin's public speeches and lectures, accompanied by artificial intelligence-synthesized audio highly similar to Li Moujin's voice. Users who clicked a button beside the promotional videos could be directly redirected to the cultural company's online store to purchase the relevant books. Li Moujin subsequently filed a lawsuit.
The Beijing Internet Court, upon trial, held that the videos involved in the case, without Li Moujin's authorization, used Li Moujin's portrait without permission and combined it with artificial intelligence-synthesized voice highly consistent with her voiceprint characteristics, and that the conduct involved in the case constituted infringement of Li Moujin's right to portrait and voice rights and interests. The cultural company was at fault and constituted joint infringement. The Beijing Internet Court ruled that the cultural company should apologize to Li Moujin and compensate for economic losses and reasonable expenses for rights protection totaling 120,000 yuan.
The Supreme People's Court stated that the handling of this case effectively regulates the illegal conduct of "impersonating celebrities in livestream sales," protects personality rights and interests in cyberspace in accordance with the law, and promotes e-commerce operators to earnestly fulfill their review obligations with respect to promotional and publicity content.
Cyber violence spreads quickly and causes irreversible harm, affecting the public's sense of security. Li Mou and Zhang Mou and Hu Mou were all self-media bloggers on short-video platforms, and the online accounts of Zhang Mou and Hu Mou had a combined total of over 20 million followers. Starting in July 2023, Zhang Mou, on the grounds that Li Mou had "intervened" in her relationship with her boyfriend, publicly published insulting and defamatory remarks targeting Li Mou on online platforms, and, in conjunction with Hu Mou, hyped up the topic and incited fans to abuse, attack, and report Li Mou.
After the incident occurred, some of Li Mou's commercial partners terminated their cooperation agreements with Li Mou. Li Mou filed a lawsuit for infringement of the right to reputation. During the trial of the case, Zhang Mou and Hu Mou continued to incite fans to carry out the above-mentioned cyber violence. Li Mou applied to the people's court for an injunction against personality rights infringement, requesting an order that Zhang Mou and Hu Mou immediately cease publishing and disseminating content infringing on her right to reputation on social media across all platforms.
The People's Court of Changchun New Area, Jilin Province, upon review, held that the conduct of Zhang Mou and Hu Mou had already caused mental harm and economic losses to Li Mou, and that failure to promptly stop it would lead to irreparable damage to Li Mou's lawful rights and interests, meeting the conditions for the application of an injunction against personality rights infringement. The court ruled in accordance with the law that Zhang Mou and Hu Mou immediately cease the infringing conduct, with the injunction valid for a period of 6 months. The Supreme People's Court stated that, for the review of the application of injunctions against personality rights infringement in the context of cyber violence, factors such as the manner of the infringing conduct, the speed and scope of information dissemination should be comprehensively considered to determine whether the urgency standard requiring prompt cessation is met. When ruling to adopt corresponding injunction measures, care should also be taken to prevent exceeding the necessary limits.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 周人杰 本报通讯员 裴囡囡
After a heavy rainstorm, the road surface in front of villager Guo Hefu's home in Nanma Village, Fucheng Town, Lingchuan County, Jincheng City, Shanxi Province, was washed into a potholed mess. At a "public-opinion bench meeting," Guo Hefu mentioned it on a whim, and the village committee sent people to survey the site the very same day. Not only was the damaged road surface re-hardened and smoothed over, but an extra rainwater drainage outlet was deliberately added.
"In the past, I kept problems to myself; now I can reflect my problems just by chatting at a 'public-opinion bench meeting.'" The "public-opinion bench meeting" Guo Hefu speaks of now covers all 659 households in the village, has collected 15 items of various opinions and suggestions from villagers, and has achieved a completion rate of 87%.
In doing practical work, which livelihood pain points should be the focus? How can we avoid going through the motions (走过场, zou guo chang - "walk, pass through, field") and ensure real, tangible results on the ground? Jincheng focuses on the common demands of the masses and responds to their urgent, difficult, worried, and anxious concerns.
In Guoyu Village, Beiliu Town, Yangcheng County, Jincheng City, relying on the resources of its ancient city, the cultural tourism industry has seen its popularity rise year by year. "Tourists increase every year, but the occupancy rate of my own guest rooms just won't go up." The confusion of homestay operator Wang Shuangqing is also the common problem faced by all 160 individual homestay operators in the village. County and town cadres went door-to-door to analyze the situation and solve the problem on the spot, guiding the whole village to uniformly integrate homestay resources, optimize room configurations, build an online operation platform, and concentrate on attracting traffic and expanding customers. With the help of the County Culture and Tourism Bureau, Wang Shuangqing focused his renovation efforts on room layout, optimizing guest room corners and corridor space, adding independent water supply and drainage, water heaters, odor-proof floor drains, and other facilities, equipped with shower partitions and ventilation fans, achieving independence and comfort for the bathroom of each guest room. This summer, the income of the homestay operated by Wang Shuangqing exceeded 40,000 yuan.
In responding to the demands of the masses, especially around "small but beautiful" livelihood demands, Jincheng relies on the "three-level screening + three-party assessment" mechanism, classifying matters according to "small but beautiful" practical livelihood matters, "excellent but new" quality-improvement priorities, and "large and strong" development major matters. It has adopted 9,063 effective opinions and formed 479 landmark opinions.
Difficulty in parking is one of the livelihood difficulties strongly reflected by the masses. Since July, Jincheng Guotou Smart Parking Co., Ltd. has implemented precise billing by the minute. On 11 road sections with 900 parking spaces, the first 30 minutes are free, overtime is accumulated at 0.01 yuan per minute, and the daily cap is 9 yuan. "Pay for however long you park, not a penny wasted — convenient and affordable!" After parking for 1 hour and 30 minutes on Zezhou Road and paying 0.6 yuan by scanning a code, citizen Li Zhihui praised it repeatedly.
Jincheng has also coordinated the revitalization of idle community land, idle parking spaces at supermarkets and shopping malls, and other resources, promoted 44 government agencies and public institutions to open 1,059 free parking spaces to the public at staggered times, and connected 11,984 road parking spaces to the city-wide smart parking platform, taking multiple measures to make parking space resources "flow." "At present, the utilization rate of public parking spaces in Jincheng has risen from 35% to 62%, effectively alleviating the parking difficulty." said Chen Yuewu, Deputy Secretary-General of the Jincheng Municipal Government and Deputy Head of the Special Work Team for Solving the "Parking Difficulty" Problem.
Whether the handling of public opinion achieves good results and whether practical matters can be implemented depends heavily on the work style of cadres. To this end, Jincheng has established and improved institutional mechanisms, tracked and supervised implementation, and broken through the problem of shirking responsibility and bickering (推诿扯皮, tui wei che pi - "push away, pull skin") among departments.
In March this year, residents of Chunpeng Lane in the urban district reported messy cables. The next day, staff from the urban district housing and construction department and the Dongjie Subdistrict Office arrived at the scene. In the following month, the urban district housing and construction department took the lead in coordinating with the power, telecommunications, and heating companies and other units, implementing the principle of "whoever owns the cables, collects them." "On-site claiming, separate construction, synchronized advancement — it was done in one month." said Yang Ke, Director of the Urban District Housing and Construction Bureau.
"Whether the masses are satisfied is an important criterion for testing the effectiveness of our work." said Xue Mingyao, Secretary of the Jincheng Municipal Party Committee. "Party members and cadres throughout the city will normalize the work of collecting public opinion, precisely respond to and resolve urgent, difficult, worried, and anxious concerns, and solidly handle practical livelihood matters."
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Zhang Shuo) On the 16th, the Pinglu Canal was officially opened to navigation. At the regular press conference that day, Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office, responded to a question, saying that the Pinglu Canal is a key backbone project of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, and that its opening to navigation has drawn widespread attention from industrial and commercial circles on both sides of the Strait. We welcome the broad community of Taiwan businessmen and Taiwan businesses to share the opportunities of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, take root on the mainland, and achieve better development.
Recently, the cross-Strait espionage drama Confrontation aired, attracting attention and discussion from viewers on both sides of the Strait. In response, Zhu Fenglian stated that this TV series reflects the steadfastness and dedication of unsung heroes (无名英雄, wu ming ying xiong - "no name, hero") on the covert front, and demonstrates that safeguarding national security is the responsibility and duty of every citizen. The future of Taiwan, the security safeguards and interests and well-being of Taiwan compatriots, lie in the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations and national reunification. Opposing "Taiwan independence" conforms to the fundamental interests and immediate well-being of compatriots on both sides of the Strait. We hope that the broad community of Taiwan compatriots will, together with us, resolutely guard against the sabotage by "Taiwan independence" separatist forces and external hostile forces of the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations and their interference with the process of national reunification.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘成友 刘佳华
On Renmin Square Subdistrict, Xigang District, Dalian, Liaoning, delivery rider Sun Zhiqiang finishes an order, taps his phone lightly, and uploads photos of problems he spotted while delivering — such as missing non-motorized vehicle lanes — along with voice notes explaining the location and reason... Sun Zhiqiang is a legislative information officer from a new employment group, and his daily hustle and the urgent needs and difficulties of the people (急难愁盼, ji nan chou pan - "urgent, difficult, anxious, longing") are becoming the most direct source of public opinion for grassroots legislation.
As a grassroots legislative contact point of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee, Renmin Square Subdistrict cooperates with 22 trade union organizations to promote the integrated development of "legislative contact points + trade unions." By setting up "mobile legislative liaison points," recruiting delivery riders and ride-hailing drivers as legislative information officers, and establishing online liaison groups, public opinion collection operates "24 hours a day without closing." Sun Zhiqiang is one of them, and he frankly admits: "I hope to contribute to legislation with my own thinking and practice."
"Many older drivers are still in good physical condition, yet they are stuck at the age threshold and cannot accept orders," in the meeting room, Liu Baoquan, a ride-hailing driver with 12 years of experience, mentioned practical difficulties such as the upper age limit for employment; young driver Rong Zhuo also added: "Penalties for illegal operations are still not systematic"... In April this year, during the public comment period for the "Implementation Rules for the Administration of Online Ride-Hailing Operations and Services in Dalian City," the legislative contact point organized a symposium with ride-hailing drivers, platform companies, and lawyer representatives. The subdistrict carefully sorted and itemized the opinions one by one, forming practical suggestions such as raising the upper age limit for employment, unifying licensing management, and increasing penalties for illegal operations. Good suggestions from the front line become "golden ideas" that legislative organs can reference.
Since the beginning of this year, Renmin Square Subdistrict has designated the first batch of "trade union legislative liaison stations" at 3 community joint trade unions and 3 enterprise trade unions, and has since continued to expand, with multiple enterprises and industry trade unions joining one after another. Gao Nan, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Renmin Square Subdistrict, said: "Grassroots legislative contact points should not only listen to opinions, but also let the masses understand the law, dare to speak up, and be able to defend their rights." The integrated development of "legislative contact points + trade unions" has made frontline workers the beneficiaries. Chen Lijuan, a sanitation worker, was injured in a traffic accident while sweeping the road, and afterward negotiations with the responsible party reached a deadlock. In a one-on-one consultation organized by the subdistrict, a lawyer helped her sort out the chain of evidence, guided her to apply for access to road surveillance footage, and apply for work-related injury recognition.
Since the integrated development of "legislative contact points + trade unions" began, Renmin Square Subdistrict has collected 111 opinions and suggestions on laws and regulations and provided 789 legal consultations. A relevant official of the Standing Committee of the Liaoning Provincial People's Congress said: "We must continuously advance the standardized, normalized, and effective development of grassroots legislative contact points, turn matters of concern to the masses into the focus of legislation, and give full play to the role of grassroots legislative contact points."
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Lin Lili) The State Administration for Market Regulation, together with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, recently convened an administrative guidance meeting for the online hotel booking platform service industry, issuing unified compliance reminders to major online hotel booking platforms, guiding platform enterprises in the industry to strictly implement their compliance primary responsibility, prevent and resolve industry competition risks, and maintain a healthy and orderly tourism market environment.
In the long run, low-price competition will continue to squeeze merchants' profit margins, ultimately leading to a decline in service quality and harming consumers' long-term and overall interests. This administrative guidance is mainly aimed at preventing and resolving "involution" problems and competition risks such as exclusive cooperation and "lowest price across the entire network," breaking platforms' lock on quality hotel resources, safeguarding hotel operators' right to independently operate across platforms, terminating platforms' use of technical tools to automatically match prices and interfere with merchants' pricing, and returning pricing power to hotel operators. In addition, platforms must not use punitive measures such as traffic restrictions or deduction of order reserves to force hotel operators to accept unreasonable transaction conditions, and must safeguard operators' right to fair transactions.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Wu Yuehui) The National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences released news on September 16: Relying on the ultra-high detection sensitivity of China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the FAST Galactic Plane Pulsar Survey team led by researcher Han Jinlin of the National Astronomical Observatories has made an important discovery, capturing a double neutron star system pulsar J1856—0039 in a compact orbit, which is a double neutron star system with an extremely short orbital period and the lightest known total mass to date.
Multiple observational results from this important astronomical discovery have precisely verified general relativity, providing key new targets for exploring extreme astrophysics, the nature of gravity, and the origin of cosmic elements. The relevant research results were recently published in Physical Review Letters.
Neutron stars are extremely dense celestial remnants formed after the death and collapse of massive stars. Their operating laws are precise and stable, earning them the reputation of "cosmic precision clocks." A double neutron star system consists of two neutron stars orbiting each other and is an extremely rare special celestial system in the universe. Such celestial systems are formed after two supernova explosions and will eventually merge through gravitational wave radiation, serving as an important birthplace for heavy elements such as gold and platinum in the universe, as well as a natural ideal laboratory for studying extreme high-density states of matter, testing general relativity, and analyzing supernova explosion mechanisms.
"Among them, short-period double neutron stars have stronger relativistic effects and shorter merger times, making their scientific value particularly prominent. They have always been an important scientific target for pulsar surveys by large international radio telescopes," Han Jinlin said.
As the single-aperture radio telescope with the highest sensitivity in the world, China's FAST is equipped with a high-performance L-band 19-beam cooled receiver and possesses extremely strong pulsar detection capability. Relying on a self-developed snapshot observation mode, the team has carried out systematic searches of pulsars across the Galactic plane on a large scale and has so far successfully discovered about 900 new pulsars. Through continuous follow-up precise observations, the team has identified multiple special celestial systems, of which pulsar J1856—0039 is one.
Observational data show that the orbital period of this double neutron star system is only 2.36 hours, ranking second shortest among all known double neutron star systems. The extremely short orbital period means that the distance between the two neutron stars is extremely small and the compactness of the mutual orbital revolution is extremely high, making it one of the double neutron star systems with the most significant known relativistic effects. At the same time, this system has broken the lower limit of known double neutron star mass, with a total mass of only 2.488 times the solar mass, making it the lightest double neutron star combination discovered to date. Among them, the visible pulsar has a mass of about 1.30 times the solar mass, and the companion neutron star has a mass of about 1.19 times the solar mass. This companion star ranks among the lightest known neutron stars in the world, approaching the theoretical lower mass limit of neutron stars, which will help precisely analyze the physical mechanisms of supernova explosions.
Han Jinlin said that thanks to the extremely compact orbit, this double neutron star system possesses an extreme strong-gravity environment, and the research team successfully observed multiple clear relativistic effects. They precisely detected the periastron advance of the elliptical orbit, the redshift of photon frequency caused by strong gravitational fields, the time dilation effect produced by high-speed motion, and major features such as the system's gradual orbital period decay due to continuous energy loss through gravitational wave radiation. Data calculations show that the ratio of the measured orbital period decay value to the value predicted by general relativity is 1.009±0.014, confirming the correctness of general relativity.
According to the team's model projections, the two neutron stars in this system will merge in about 82 million years, ultimately most likely forming a more massive neutron star. This special evolutionary path plays an important role in solving the puzzle of the equation of state of matter inside neutron stars and exploring the mysteries of the origin of heavy elements such as gold and platinum in the universe.
This system also possesses the capacity for subsequent scientific breakthroughs. "Its extremely small orbital inclination and extremely short orbital period create excellent conditions for detecting the frame-dragging effect generated by the pulsar's rotation," Han Jinlin said. Currently, only one or two double neutron star systems have the potential to detect this effect. The frame-dragging effect is directly related to the moment of inertia of neutron stars. With subsequent continuous high-precision observations relying on FAST, it is expected to precisely measure the moment of inertia of neutron stars.
Han Jinlin said that combined with the precisely determined neutron star mass data, long-term observation and research of pulsar binary systems can provide key constraints for revealing the internal material state of neutron stars, exploring the basic properties of spacetime gravity, and other frontier scientific questions.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 邓建胜 姚雪青
At Pengcheng Square Station in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, a red bus has caught the attention of many residents and tourists. The bus body is painted with images of historical figures, the handrails inside are shaped like bronze bells, and the tour guide, dressed in Hanfu (traditional Han Chinese clothing), narrates historical stories while announcing stops.
Li Zezheng, a Xuzhou resident, often takes his children on this bus to their painting classes. "You encounter Han culture the moment you step out the door." Today, Xuzhou has multiple such Han-culture-themed bus routes across the city.
Xuzhou is home to more than 3,000 Han dynasty tombs and tens of thousands of Han dynasty cultural relics. "Xuzhou is committed to building the 'See Han Culture in Xuzhou' IP (intellectual property), so that the millennia-old charm of Chu and Han culture can be 'seen,' 'spread,' 'tasted,' 'worn,' and 'taken away,' becoming part of everyday urban life," said Wang Ying, section chief of the Promotion Division of the Xuzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism.
Innovative forms bring cultural heritage into daily urban life
Cui Hongyan, a resident of Cuipingshan Subdistrict in Xuzhou's Yunlong District, recently learned a new skill: making Hanfu. "A while ago, I attended a public welfare class in the community and was drawn to the Hanfu-making course taught by Li Xin, a representative inheritor of intangible cultural heritage," Cui Hongyan said.
Drawing patterns on template paper, cutting out the paper patterns, cutting the fabric into a single-piece garment according to the templates, then sewing, attaching the collar, and finishing the hem — a piece of Hanfu is complete. Lesson by lesson, stitch by stitch, Cui Hongyan gradually mastered Hanfu making. "I still remember the day I finished my first Hanfu. I wore it home, and many people turned to look." Since then, Cui Hongyan has not only made Hanfu for herself but also for family and friends.
"Hanfu is Han culture you can wear," Li Xin said. Wherever her students go wearing Hanfu, they spread Han culture there.
Han culture from the two Han dynasties has also entered school classrooms. In a fifth-grade art class at Yunlong Primary School, teacher Luo Xuan asked: "When we mention terracotta warriors, what comes to mind first?" The children answered speaking in unison (异口同声, yì kǒu tóng shēng - "different, mouth, same, voice"): "The Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum." Luo Xuan told the children that the Han Culture Scenic Area, just a 10-minute drive from the school, houses Han dynasty terracotta warriors.
Luo Xuan then compared the Han terracotta warriors with the Qin terracotta warriors: the Qin warriors are tall, majestic, and realistic; the Han warriors are small, simple, and impressionistic. "These differences are related to the sculptural styles, production techniques, and historical backgrounds of the respective periods..." Luo Xuan said, speaking readily and with confidence (侃侃而谈, kǎn kǎn ér tán - "talk, talk, and, talk").
The children summarized the characteristics of the Han terracotta warriors into keywords, then used artificial intelligence to generate images. Through modeling and 3D printing, more than 200 "Han terracotta warriors" of various shapes and identities were created. These "Han terracotta warriors" were first exhibited at the school, then moved to the Han Terracotta Warriors Museum in the Han Culture Scenic Area, and some students even became junior docents at the museum.
Yunlong Primary School has designed a series of courses around Han culture: Han terracotta warriors, Han stone reliefs of dragons, Han clay seals... The school's Han-culture-themed curriculum began in 2023 and has gradually developed into a full course system, appearing on provincial platforms such as Jiangsu Province's Famous Teachers' Online Classroom.
Liu Yuxuan, section chief of the Literature, Arts and Cultural Heritage Development Division of the Xuzhou Municipal Committee's Publicity Department, explained that the inheritance of Han culture in Xuzhou is a process of "moving from form to meaning" — starting from a piece of Hanfu, a pottery figurine, or a single lesson, gradually nurturing students' feelings for their country and home and their cultural confidence. At present, research-study courses co-built by museums and schools in Xuzhou cover all counties and districts; the "Dancing with Han Style" cultural benefit brand includes Han music and dance, calligraphy and painting, with more than 6,000 events held each year.
Linking resources to create a "experience venue" for Han culture
In front of an electronic screen, the armies of Chu and Han face off, with Mr. Wang and his child each on one side, beating drums and waving flags; in the cinema, "Liu Bang" and "Xiang Yu" take the stage one after another, and the naked-eye 3D virtual reality scenes captivate the children; at the costume-changing area, children put on Hanfu and take photos.
This was the "Qie Xuxing" experience for Mr. Wang's family, tourists from Shandong. Not long ago, "Pengcheng Qili" launched the "Qie Xuxing · Seven-Color Route," featuring parent-child tours, food check-ins, and cultural heritage experiences. Starting from the digital experience hall, Mr. Wang's family headed north, "touring" through more than 2,000 years of Xuzhou's urban history.
As the cultural axis of Xuzhou's main urban area, "Pengcheng Qili" contains more than 200 historical and cultural sites. The archaeologically restored street layout and trendy shops complement each other in an interesting way (相映成趣, xiāng yìng chéng qù - "mutually, reflect, become, interest"), with Han dynasty culture and modern urban vitality blended into one.
On Xima Terrace, a large chessboard depicting the Chu-Han boundary attracts children playing games; at the Guochao Hanfeng Hall, Han music and dance are being performed; at the Han-style Lotus Market, tourists queue up to experience intangible cultural heritage; the liveliest spot is the Food Museum, where "Han stone relief" lamb skewers sizzle on the grill. One tourist remarked that this is "a lively atmosphere with cultural flavor."
Hubu Mountain is an important stop along "Pengcheng Qili." In a small courtyard within the ancient building complex, a shop of just over ten square meters is packed with more than a hundred dough sculpture works. Li Ziye, a young woman born after 2000, sits at her table, as balls of glutinous rice flour in various colors gradually take shape through kneading, pinching, rolling, flattening, pressing, and shaping.
Dough sculpture took its rudimentary form in the Han dynasty, used in folk rituals and ceremonies. Li Ziye is the fifth-generation inheritor of Xuzhou dough sculpture, an intangible cultural heritage project. Her works use exaggerated forms and painted embellishments to make traditional dough sculpture more "youthful." Sometimes late into the night, tourists are still reluctant to leave the small shop, and the cartoon dough sculpture blind boxes often sell out.
"The government provided subsidized space and encouraged us to participate in cultural tourism promotion conferences and the Han Culture Tourism Festival, helping intangible cultural heritage reach a wider audience," Li Ziye said.
"Cultural resources are connected point by point into a continuous line (连点成线, lián diǎn chéng xiàn - "connect, dot, become, line") and strung together like beads into a chain (串珠成链, chuàn zhū chéng liàn - "string, bead, become, chain"), transformed into tangible and enjoyable cultural tourism experiences," said Xie Yong, curator of the Xuzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum. Along the "Pengcheng Qili" route, there are more than 30 such youthful intangible cultural heritage shops, featuring mortise-and-tenon joinery, lacquerware, rubbing, shadow puppetry, and more.
Within this experience venue for Han culture, amid the bustling everyday life, more participatory and consumable living scenes are taking shape. From January to July this year, "Pengcheng Qili" received more than 30 million visits in total.
Revitalizing cultural relics to make history tangible and "conversational"
At the Xuzhou Museum, the collection exceeds 30,000 artifacts, nearly half of which are Han dynasty remains. "Through combined and restored displays, excavated artifacts can help visitors understand the charm of Chu and Han culture more intuitively," said Lü Jian, director of the Research Center for Han Dynasty History and Culture at Jiangsu Normal University.
In the pottery figurine exhibition hall on the third floor of the museum, 14 musician and dancer figurines are displayed together in a case. As the tracking lights come on one by one, some appear to be playing instruments, others dancing, presenting the audience with a performance across time and space. The museum has nine such restored scenes, including banquets, bathing, and music performances, reflecting the lifestyles and social conditions of the time, allowing visitors to experience the vivid daily life of the Han dynasty through the artifacts.
Earlier, two pottery figurines in the "Majestic Spirit of the Han" exhibition hall went viral for their relaxed postures, drawing many young visitors to take photos. This showed the museum new possibilities: bringing out the "personality" of cultural relics. The museum has successively turned its collection into cultural and creative products: a leopard-shaped stone paperweight transformed into a plush toy, a dragon-shaped jade pendant printed onto card holders... "The cultural and creative shop has expanded from the museum to commercial districts, with annual revenue exceeding 20 million yuan," said Yuan Feng, curator of the Xuzhou Museum.
Cultural relics must not only be seen, but also understood.
The team of Zhao Difei, a teacher at the School of Computer Science and Technology at China University of Mining and Technology, has in recent years been engaged in the "translation" of Han stone reliefs. Combining Han dynasty carving and painting, Han stone reliefs are known as the "Han dynasty encyclopedia on stone." However, stone is prone to weathering, which causes loss of information, so digital preservation is needed as early as possible. The content of the images is also difficult for ordinary viewers to understand, so it too requires "translation."
In 2019, the team collaborated with the Xuzhou Museum to carry out digital preservation of Han stone reliefs through 3D scanning and refined cloud rubbing techniques. In 2024, they began attempting to use artificial intelligence to bring the static images to life, "translating" the stories on the stone into forms favored by young people, integrated into digital exhibitions and immersive experiences. Zhao Difei said that enabling cultural relics to "speak" can better bridge the distance with the present.
Return to TopThe new employment group is an important component of socialist workers and an indispensable and vital force in economic and social development.
General Secretary Xi Jinping cares deeply about the new employment group, pointing out that "management and services must keep pace and fill this gap. There must be both management and service" and that "the laws, regulations, policies, and measures supporting the 'new employment forms' must not arrive late or be delayed (姗姗来迟, shanshan laichi - "slow, slow; come, late")."
In April this year, China's first central document specifically focused on service and management for the new employment group was publicly released, putting forward clear requirements around strengthening political and ideological guidance, safeguarding legitimate rights and interests in accordance with the law, increasing care and support, and promoting social integration. To implement the requirements of the document, various localities and departments have continued to advance the building of friendly scenarios, strengthen mediation of labor disputes in new employment forms, warm the employment path of the city's "runners," and further safeguard the labor rights and interests of the new employment group.
On September 16, Xinhua News Agency launched the 36th episode of the "China Economic Roundtable" large-scale all-media interview program, inviting Huang Kun, researcher at the Chinese Academy of Labor and Social Security Sciences; Wang Xiaojun, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Dashilan Subdistrict, Xicheng District, Beijing; Zhao Lei, senior researcher at Meituan Research Institute; and Li Yan, full-time rider at JD.com, to discuss strengthening service and management for the new employment group.
Weaving a Dense "Safety Net" for Rights and Interests Protection
Online delivery riders travel through streets and alleys to deliver goods, ride-hailing drivers work day and night to safeguard mobility, online home-service workers visit households to take care of countless homes...
"On the front lines of economic development, urban operations, and livelihood services, the new employment group has become an indispensable force," Wang Xiaojun said. Taking Dashilan as an example, the area has more than a thousand people in the new employment group, including food delivery riders and couriers, with nearly 20,000 parcels flowing through daily.
Huang Kun said that China's new employment forms involve a large number of people and diverse employment patterns, and continuously raising the level of rights and interests protection for this group is a common expectation and also tests governance wisdom.
In recent years, relevant departments and various localities have accelerated exploration, striving to weave a dense "safety net" for rights and interests protection for the new employment group: issuing a series of guidelines and guides on rest and labor remuneration rights protection, labor rules disclosure, and rights protection services for workers in new employment forms; introducing industry employment norms targeting key groups such as ride-hailing drivers and truck drivers; and enacting local regulations to protect workers' rights and interests...
"These have carried out important exploration for reasonably defining enterprises' labor protection responsibilities and clarifying the basic labor rights and interests of workers in new employment forms," Huang Kun said.
At present, measures for protecting the rights and interests of workers in new employment forms are being formulated. Huang Kun believes this is an important step in further improving the system for protecting the rights and interests of workers in new employment forms and will help more effectively implement relevant policy requirements.
Optimizing and adjusting algorithm rules is something that is an inherent or obvious part of the matter (题中应有之义, ti zhong ying you zhi yi - "topic, inside; should, have, that, meaning") in strengthening the protection of the rights and interests of the new employment group. "The platform's core capability is algorithmic dispatch, but algorithms cannot only calculate efficiency and not humanity," Zhao Lei said. Enterprises have added many designs to their systems, using technical means to "give time" to food delivery riders. For example, waiting time at red lights is not counted toward delivery time limits, easing riders' time anxiety; overtime penalties are waived under abnormal weather and abnormal road conditions; and so on. "Only when riders can stay and work with peace of mind can the platform achieve sustainable development."
Social insurance is an important component of workers' rights and interests. Since last year, several food delivery platforms have explored providing social insurance for riders.
"I signed a labor contract directly with JD.com, and the enterprise pays the full five insurances and one housing fund for us full-time riders, resolving our worries about being away from home," Li Yan said.
Zhao Lei introduced that Meituan provides subsidies to all riders on a "pay first, reimburse later" basis. Whether full-time or part-time, dedicated delivery or crowdsourced, as long as riders pay urban employee basic pension insurance as flexibly employed persons and meet the income threshold, the platform will issue subsidies to riders at half of the lower limit of the local pension insurance contribution base. Last November, Meituan's pension insurance subsidies achieved nationwide coverage.
To provide more bottom-line protection for the new employment group, within the framework of the work-related injury insurance system, China has combined the characteristics of new employment forms to launch an occupational injury protection model of "daily enrollment, per-order billing, monthly payment, overall participation and overall protection." Since July 1 this year, the occupational injury protection pilot has been rolled out nationwide, with the number of pilot platform enterprises increasing to 25. On this basis, all provinces, following the principle of "include in batches as conditions mature," will bring small and medium-sized platform enterprises registered in their province in the three pilot industries of mobility, instant delivery, and intra-city freight into the pilot scope within the year. As of the end of July, the cumulative number of insured persons in the pilot had reached 34.588 million.
Huang Kun suggested starting from strengthening coordinated governance, intensifying supervision, and optimizing insurance contribution and payment methods to further safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the new employment group.
Building a "Warm Harbor" of Care and Service
In Dashilan Subdistrict, 2 24-hour city stations, 16 friendly stations, and 44 "one square meter of riders working together" service points give the new employment group places to rest; the addition of affordable smart charging facilities and the optimization of non-motor vehicle parking spaces help solve charging and parking difficulties; time-honored brand merchants have launched dining and other discounts, ensuring three meals a day.
"We have built new employment group friendly blocks and themed Party and mass service centers, so that the new employment group can rest, eat, charge, drink water, and use restrooms nearby," Wang Xiaojun said.
To create a harmonious and friendly employment environment for the new employment group, "warm 'new' stations" are being accelerated in business districts, markets, and other locations, providing "energy supply stations" for the new employment group; the coverage of "driver homes" continues to expand, allowing more drivers to eat hot meals, drink hot water, and take hot showers in a timely manner; the "warm bee action" caring for couriers is being deepened, solving practical problems such as couriers entering buildings and delivering parcels.
Enterprises are also accelerating exploration in strengthening care and support for the new employment group.
"We have built rider apartments to solve the problems of expensive rents and poor living conditions for riders in big cities, launched rider work meals to provide riders with cost-effective food and reduce their living costs, and are also trying to solve problems such as after-school tutoring for riders' children, so that riders can take orders with peace of mind," Zhao Lei said. The platform continues to optimize riders' working environment, making improved working conditions part of the platform's competitiveness.
Raising the level of care services adds warmth to the journey; smoothing channels for expressing demands makes striving more comfortable.
China has strengthened one-stop mediation of labor disputes in new employment forms, continuously explored a diversified mediation working mechanism linking labor dispute mediation with people's mediation and judicial mediation, established more than 3,000 one-stop mediation organizations nationwide, and built a nationwide diversified joint mediation working network.
"We make good use of the 'riders' deliberation hall,' regularly collect demands, consult on solving difficulties, and provide legal consultation and other services for the new employment group," Wang Xiaojun said.
Zhao Lei introduced that with the guidance and help of relevant departments, Meituan is actively exploring consultation and coordination mechanisms suitable for the new employment group, including rider communities, rider consultation meetings, and product experience officers, to safeguard riders' right to speak. Taking rider consultation meetings as an example, riders' urgent difficulties and concerns in taking orders, as well as products and rules that the platform is about to launch that affect riders' rights and interests, are all topics for the consultation meetings. Rider representatives and platform representatives meet face to face, explaining problems in great detail and clarity (掰开揉碎, bai kai rou sui - "break, open; rub, crush, broken") and discussing how to solve them, so that platform products and rules better conform to riders' needs and interests.
"In the future, we will also expand the scope of subjects in consultation and deliberation, inviting merchants, property management, and others to participate in consultation meetings," Zhao Lei said.
Huang Kun suggested further strengthening employment guidance for enterprises, smoothing complaint and reporting channels, guiding workers to protect their rights in accordance with the law and rationally, and building harmonious and stable labor relations.
"From material security to spiritual care and cultural nourishment, in recent years I have truly felt that the Party and the state's care for our new employment group is becoming more and more meticulous and warmer. This care makes us love the places where we work even more, and we will turn this warmth and care into concrete actions and keep passing it on," Li Yan said.
Pooling "New" Forces for Social Governance
Li Yan's journey of striving is not only about taking orders. This year, he has repeatedly helped people who fell on the road and assisted in handling multiple sudden road traffic situations.
"I am a rider, and also a volunteer service worker and a social supervisor of food safety," Li Yan said. Riders are rooted in streets and alleys every day. Besides working in a steady, reliable, and down-to-earth manner (踏踏实实, ta ta shi shi - "step, step; solid, solid") at delivery work, they can also promptly report hidden dangers in store food safety, damaged road manhole covers, and other issues, actively participate in grassroots governance, and actively serve society.
The new employment group is an important force that social governance can rely on. In Chengdu, Sichuan, the "Little Bull Brother · Pioneer Riders" volunteer service team, composed of couriers, food delivery riders, and others, has cumulatively reported more than 1,000 pieces of information on grassroots social governance, undertaken more than 850 volunteer service projects such as "love errands," and assisted special and difficult groups more than 2,000 person-times; in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the Huang Feihua Love Fleet, which brings together ride-hailing drivers and other volunteers, continues to refine its public welfare services in escorting patients to medical care, emergency rescue, community convenience services, and ecological assistance...
"The new employment group shoulders responsibility in their posts and demonstrates commitment in mobility, becoming the 'outposts' of refined urban governance and helping various services reach the very end of people's livelihoods," Wang Xiaojun said.
Pooling and making good use of the "new" forces for social governance, enhancing the new employment group's sense of participation and belonging in grassroots governance, and doing a good job of ideological guidance and cohesion services are of vital importance.
Wang Xiaojun introduced that Dashilan Subdistrict has established a mobile Party member branch for the express delivery industry, continuously strengthening political and ideological guidance for the new employment group; promoted "snap and report, convenient public welfare," guiding the new employment group to participate in street and alley patrols, hidden danger reporting, and order maintenance; and upgraded the "service for service" points mechanism, allowing the new employment group to exchange governance contributions for services and incentives. More and more food delivery riders and couriers are transforming from "city passers-by" into urban "governance forces," realizing the value of life in serving society.
Enabling the new employment group to have prospects in employment and more comprehensive development cannot be separated from smooth career development channels and strengthened vocational skills training. Relevant departments have formulated and published a guidance catalog for vocational skills training needs, accelerated exploration of vocational training models for new employment forms, and improved policies for vocational skill level certification and professional title evaluation. Some localities have also explored new paths for high-level skilled riders to transition positions and advance professionally through government-enterprise-school cooperation models.
Huang Kun believes that promoting the comprehensive development of every worker in new employment forms is not only an important foundation for enabling them to play a greater role in economic and social development, but also one of the directions and goals of policies for new employment forms.
"The new employment group is not only a connector of a better life, but also a transmitter of urban warmth, and will play a greater role in promoting consumption, safeguarding people's livelihoods, and stabilizing expectations in the future," Zhao Lei said.
Li Yan stated that he will continue to fulfill his duties and responsibilities, being down-to-earth and practical (脚踏实地, jiao ta shi di - "foot, step, solid, earth"), drive more peers to take on responsibility proactively, do what is within their ability, help grassroots governance, and serve urban development.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 16, reporters Zhao Chao, Zhang Xiaojie, Zou Yuqin, Dai Jinrong)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Kunming, September 16) (Reporter Ye Chuanzeng) On September 15, the Third Shanghai-Yunnan Health Collaboration Exchange Conference was held in Kunming, Yunnan. More than 200 experts and scholars from the medical and health systems of both Shanghai and Yunnan, medical personnel assisting Yunnan, and heads of recipient hospitals attended the conference, exchanging views on the outcomes of medical collaboration and the direction of cooperation in the next stage.
On the same day, the health departments and relevant medical institutions of Shanghai and Yunnan signed four cooperation agreements. Among them, the "Agreement on Paired Assistance and Collaboration between the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission and the Yunnan Provincial Health Commission (2026-2030)" clarified the direction of health collaboration between the two regions in the next stage; medical institutions from both regions signed relevant strategic cooperation agreements. Under the agreements, the two sides will further cooperate in medical assistance, hospital management, discipline development, and talent cultivation, promoting the extension of high-quality medical resources to the grassroots level.
The conference was jointly hosted by the Yunnan Provincial Health Commission and the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission. Shanghai and Yunnan launched medical and health collaboration in 1996. Over the past 30 years, the two sides have continuously cooperated in medical assistance, talent cultivation, and discipline development. In terms of medical technology, assisting experts have cumulatively carried out more than 8,200 new technologies and new services, helping recipient hospitals achieve breakthroughs in multiple disciplines; in terms of talent cultivation, they have cumulatively trained more than 10,000 medical personnel. In response to the characteristics of the local disease spectrum, recipient hospitals have gradually built key specialties and distinctive specialties, and their medical service capacity has continued to improve.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 16) (Reporter Zeng Huafeng) 65 hours, 55 minutes, and 22 seconds! In the early hours of September 16 local time in Italy, Chinese competitor Zhao Jiaju crossed the finish line at the end of the long streets of Courmayeur, becoming the first of over a thousand competitors to complete the 330-kilometer Tor des Géants, claiming the first-ever Chinese championship since the race's inception and breaking the previous course record of 66 hours, 8 minutes, and 22 seconds.
The Tor des Géants is a world-renowned trail running race. This year's edition featured a course distance of 336.1 kilometers, traversing three countries—Italy, France, and Switzerland—crossing 25 peaks and passes above 2,000 meters in elevation, with a cumulative ascent exceeding 24,000 meters and a cutoff time of 150 hours.
It is reported that in this year's race, Swiss competitor Jonathan Schindler finished as men's runner-up with a time of 66 hours, 55 minutes, and 6 seconds; German competitor Kathrin Hartmuth placed third overall and first among women with a time of 67 hours, 10 minutes, and 9 seconds; and Chinese competitor Zhang Weiqiang finished fourth overall and third among men with a time of 71 hours, 53 minutes, and 56 seconds.
Return to TopUrban renewal is, on the one hand, tied to the transformation of urban development momentum, and on the other, bound up with the livelihood and well-being of countless households. In recent years, Chongqing, based on its own realities and adhering to a problem-oriented approach, has deeply implemented a three-year action plan for urban renewal, coordinated the synergistic upgrading of "form, industry, culture, and vitality," and carved out a path of urban renewal with distinct Chongqing characteristics. At present, a total of 6 projects in the city have been selected for the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's list of typical cases of urban renewal, and more than 20 practices and experiences, including "contiguous renewal," have been promoted nationwide.
Breaking New Ground Through Reform, Delivering a "Combined Punch" for Renewal
Urban renewal involves a huge number of complex matters (千头万绪, qian tou wan xu - "thousand, head, ten thousand, thread"), and it is necessary to identify the focal points amid reform and innovation. In this regard, Chongqing has actively planned and taken the initiative, breaking new ground through reform and delivering a "combined punch" of platforms, funds, digitalization, and policies.
"Physical examination" comes first; only with a clear baseline can the direction be clear. Chongqing has always adhered to the principle of "no examination, no renewal," comprehensively sorting out problems, shortcomings, and idle spaces. All 27.03 million square meters of idle commercial office space, old factory buildings, and scattered plots in the central urban area have been mapped and placed under management, forming a "single ledger" of problems and a "single map" of resources, ensuring that every urban renewal project has a basis to rely on.
Policies follow up, with practical measures packed in the toolbox. Chongqing has released a policy toolbox for urban renewal, focusing on the revitalization of five categories of existing assets, including old factory buildings and existing commercial office buildings, and integrating support measures in terms of land, planning, and finance, so that urban renewal has rules to follow.
Financial support leverages the participation of social forces. Chongqing has established a 2 billion yuan municipal revolving fund pool for urban renewal, concentrating investment in projects that benefit people's livelihoods, shore up shortcomings, and improve quality. At the same time, it has formulated enterprise-benefiting policies such as the separation of ownership and operation rights and fiscal, tax, and financial support, precisely attracting in-depth participation from social capital. In the first half of this year, social capital accounted for over 60% of investment in the urban renewal sector.
In addition, to help urban renewal achieve "accelerated speed," Chongqing has innovatively built an "AI + integrated planning, construction, operation, and governance" comprehensive scenario empowering urban renewal, aggregating 20.42 million pieces of data across 2,042 categories, while simultaneously creating intelligent agents for urban physical examination and smart construction management, promoting parallel approval of 89 approval items across 17 departments, with the average approval time reduced by more than two-thirds. A digital platform for urban renewal resources has been launched, providing enterprises with one-stop services such as finding projects and inquiring about policies, making project matching more efficient.
Reshaping Space, Advancing Layer by Layer from "Points, Lines, to Areas"
Urban renewal is not "putting on makeup" but rather systematic reshaping. Chongqing adheres to the combination of "points, lines, and areas," advancing layer by layer from residential communities to street blocks and then to larger areas, promoting an overall leap in spatial value.
At the "point" level, Chongqing uses meticulous "embroidery" efforts to shore up shortcomings in facilities such as parking and public toilets around urban scenic spots, improving the accessibility, convenience, and comfort of scenic areas. In conjunction with the renovation of old residential communities, it has steadily advanced special rectification of exterior walls and overhead cables, and added rest facilities such as small gardens, small trails, and small service stations, enabling old communities such as Minzhu Village and Beicangli to transform into new popular check-in destinations.
At the "line" level, Chongqing takes the overall improvement of the hundred-kilometer banks of the two rivers and four shores as its main axis, comprehensively building ten beautiful corridors including the Inner Ring Expressway and Yuhang Avenue, and systematically advancing the construction of beautiful scenic lines in the megacity. At present, 80 kilometers of beautiful riverside shoreline and 22 high-quality riverside public spaces have been completed, and 479 kilometers of mountain city trails, including the Banshan Cliff Trail, have been put into use.
At the "area" level, Chongqing is comprehensively advancing the renewal and quality improvement of ten urban landscape areas, including Jiefangbei–Chaotianmen, Guanyinqiao–Jiangbeizui, and Danzishi–Nanbin Road, continuously building 30 distinctive landscape cards for district and county towns, creating diversified and integrated scenarios that combine living, consumption, cultural tourism, and entrepreneurship, polishing the modern window image of the megacity, and fully showcasing the charm of Bayu's landscapes and humanity.
Renewing Scenarios, Activating a "New Engine" for Development
Old spaces radiate new vitality, and new scenarios give birth to new possibilities. Taking the revitalization of existing idle resources as a starting point, Chongqing has vigorously carried out the "three innovations" initiative of innovation, entrepreneurship, and creativity, focusing on cultivating embedded innovation spaces and micro-innovation vitality units, and building more new scenarios for life, consumption, cultural tourism, and entrepreneurship that are popular among young people.
Cultural tourism empowerment turns scenarios into scenery. Chongqing has deeply explored the imagery of ancient Bayu landscapes such as "Longmen Haoyue" and the connotations of old place names, and through modern techniques such as material texture and style restoration, has built 51 high-quality cultural tourism consumption clusters, including Longmenhao and Luzu Temple. At the same time, it continues to polish the "Shancheng Houtang" (Back Alleys of the Mountain City) brand, improving the quality of back streets and alleys with a "one street, one policy" approach, deeply exploring the cultural lineage of the mountain city, and has built 65 "Shancheng Houtang" alleys, including the Twelve Alleys of Ciqikou Ancient Town, Luohan Temple Miao Street, and Super 80s Street.
Consumption upgrading turns traffic into retention. Chongqing uses urban renewal to revitalize idle spaces, strengthens the renovation and utilization of old factory buildings and air-raid shelters, and focuses on creating youthful, immersive new consumption scenarios. At present, a number of landmark projects, including the Firefly Harbor Cat-themed Park, the Jiangling Teahouse in Liangjiang New Area, and the Huaxi Wedding Celebration Industry Park in Banan District, have been completed and put into operation, achieving two-way empowerment between urban renewal and consumption upgrading.
Innovation and entrepreneurship turn spaces into platforms. Chongqing has built a number of city-leading innovation vitality centers, including MSG Huixing, Sanlang Enterprise Park, and Shiguangge, guiding asset-light, high-creativity business formats such as designer studios, intangible cultural heritage handicraft workshops, independent bookstores, and digital cultural and creative teams to enter renewal areas, promoting the formation of a vertical ecosystem of "entrepreneurship upstairs, consumption downstairs, and street-level experience," and driving more than 200,000 young people to find employment or start businesses.
Data source: Chongqing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development
Return to TopSince its founding in 2015, Leapmotor has consistently anchored itself to full-domain self-research and deep self-manufacturing, empowering products with technology and supporting growth with innovation. From 2020 to the present, Leapmotor has maintained steady growth, with global deliveries exceeding 100,000 vehicles in both July and August 2026 for two consecutive months, ranking among the leading global new-energy passenger vehicle brands. Technology and innovation are the underlying answers to Leapmotor's past achievements and the important engine for Leapmotor's "accelerated march toward becoming a respectable world-class intelligent electric vehicle enterprise."
Full-domain self-research and deep self-manufacturing are Leapmotor's core technology route and an important source of product competitiveness. Leapmotor has achieved independent control over 65% of vehicle costs, built 18 parts factories, reached a platform commonality rate of 90%, and independently developed and manufactured all core components and high-value-added components.
Relying on its platform capabilities, Leapmotor releases new technology every year, equipping its entire product lineup with cutting-edge configurations to create products with higher specifications, better quality, and a better experience. In 2025, Leapmotor delivered 596,600 new vehicles for the full year, a year-on-year increase of 103.1%, doubling sales for two consecutive years; from January to August 2026, Leapmotor's global sales exceeded 560,000 vehicles, up 70% year-on-year, with sales scale maintaining steady growth.
Leapmotor is not only a vehicle manufacturer but also provides technical support to multiple automakers. Vehicle-level technology has empowered partners such as FAW and Stellantis Group, core components are supplied to more than 10 domestic and international automakers, and the "complete vehicle + Tier 1" dual-wheel-drive model has taken shape. Relying on its cooperation with Stellantis Group, Leapmotor is accelerating its expansion into overseas markets: in the first half of 2026, it exported approximately 96,300 vehicles, exceeding its total exports for all of 2025; Leapmotor International has established more than 1,000 sales and service outlets across 45 overseas markets, holds a market share of over 25% in Italy's pure electric vehicle market, and ranks among the top sellers in the German market.
On September 16, the 2026 Leapmotor Tech Day was held in Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province. At the event, Leapmotor released the LEAP5.0 architecture for an entirely new product category, as well as three core system technologies — world model-assisted driving, the MM-i multi-mode hybrid electric drive, and the CTC3.0 high- and low-voltage integrated battery — and simultaneously announced its embodied intelligent robot layout, with all related technologies to be equipped on products in 2027. From underlying architecture to core systems, from automotive technology to embodied intelligence, Leapmotor showcased in a concentrated manner the systematic innovation capability accumulated through 11 years of full-domain self-research. Technology and innovation constitute Leapmotor's core competitiveness.
LEAP5.0 Architecture: Creating Greater Space and a Smarter Experience for New-Category Products
As intelligence drives automobiles to evolve into super mobile terminals, users' demands for space, energy consumption, and intelligent experience continue to rise. To better meet users' expectations for space and intelligent experience, Leapmotor has launched the LEAP5.0 architecture, encompassing two levels — the 5.0 New Mobile Space physical architecture and the 5.0 Central Domain Control electronic architecture — which will be applied to new-category products under Leapmotor's second brand. The all-new products of Leapmotor's second brand will debut in 2027, delivering a brand-new vehicle experience to users through functional combination innovation, ecosystem innovation, and product innovation.
The 5.0 New Mobile Space physical architecture will enable new-category products to expand in three dimensions — length, width, and height: through the integration of the super air-conditioning all-in-one unit and the rear-mounted powertrain, cabin length space increases by 19%; through the upright layout of shock absorbers and miniaturized shock absorber towers, front-row legroom width space increases by 37.5%; through the native integrated intelligent pop-up roof and the pure flat low floor, cabin height increases by 63.7%, ultimately achieving greater space and a better layout.
The 5.0 Central Domain Control electronic architecture adopts full-vehicle 48V power supply, full-vehicle Ethernet, and vehicle-cloud AgentOS, achieving central integrated control with a total vehicle wiring harness length of only 500 meters. On the basis of ultra-large space, it brings high-level cockpit and driving functions, high-power intelligent function experiences, and the evolution of vehicle-cloud collaborative services, making the automobile a fully functional mobile space with high intelligence across all scenarios.
World Model-Assisted Driving: Algorithm Innovation Achieving Fleet-Level Collaborative Evolution
In the application of world models, Leapmotor places greater emphasis on algorithm innovation and is making efforts to enable world model-assisted driving to be equipped on models priced under 100,000 yuan.
Leapmotor's world model-assisted driving adopts a cloud-based foundational world model to perform inference and simulation, continuously evolving; the vehicle-side real-time world model combines multimodal information to achieve human-like decision-making across all scenarios. Leapmotor has restructured the model architecture, preserving image-view representation, eliminating BEV (bird's-eye view) conversion, reducing code volume by 90%, and designing a memory storage module to achieve stronger assisted driving capability with a more efficient architecture. At present, Leapmotor has developed world model-assisted driving at different computing power levels, including 200TOPS (trillions of operations per second), 640TOPS, and 1280TOPS, and has achieved fleet-level collaborative evolution in which "what one vehicle encounters, all vehicles learn."
At the same time, for existing users, Leapmotor has committed to providing free upgrades to world model-assisted driving for all users of LiDAR-equipped vehicles, with lifetime free use, allowing more users to enjoy the convenience brought by technology.
MM-i Multi-Mode Hybrid Electric Drive: Entering the Plug-In Hybrid Track, Combining the Advantages of Both Plug-In Hybrid and Extended-Range
In response to the real needs of domestic and international users for plug-in hybrid and extended-range hybrid solutions, Leapmotor, based on years of hybrid experience and self-developed electric drive capabilities, has launched the MM-i multi-mode hybrid electric drive, formally entering the plug-in hybrid market.
Since the mass production of extended-range models in 2022, Leapmotor has launched seven extended-range models, accumulating deep experience in hybrid matching and calibration; with full-domain self-research in electric drives, from motors to controllers, everything is independently controlled. The MM-i multi-mode hybrid electric drive adopts full-time reuse of the generator and a coaxial dual-clutch structure, making it lighter in weight, stronger in power, and smaller in size. This multi-mode hybrid structure is an internal co-creation result based on Leapmotor's years of hybrid experience and self-developed electric drive capabilities, integrating the advantages of both plug-in hybrid and extended-range into one.
CTC3.0 High- and Low-Voltage Integrated Battery: Low-Voltage Battery Integrated into the Battery Pack, Patents Open-Sourced to the Entire Industry
In response to users' needs for battery safety and peace of mind, Leapmotor, based on three generations of continuously iterated CTC (cell-to-chassis) technology and the practice of one million vehicles equipped with it, has launched the CTC3.0 high- and low-voltage integrated battery, integrating part of the low-voltage battery into the battery pack and eliminating the separate low-voltage storage battery. The low-voltage battery capacity has increased sevenfold, achieving lifetime maintenance-free operation.
Leapmotor is the first domestic automaker to achieve mass production of CTC technology and has mastered all key links of CTC technology. At the event, Leapmotor announced that it will open-source the patents related to the CTC high- and low-voltage integrated battery to the entire industry, committed to reducing the amount of discarded storage batteries and contributing to reducing the environmental impact of new-energy vehicles across their full life cycle.
Facing the real needs of mass-market users, Leapmotor has always adhered to the product positioning of "good yet affordable," and with the being bold and proactive in thinking and acting (敢想敢干, gan xiang gan gan - "dare, think; dare, do") of engineers, it continues to launch smarter, more efficient, and more worry-free technology solutions. On the occasion of its 10th anniversary in 2025, Leapmotor released its new 10-year strategic plan, proposing to "accelerate the march toward becoming a respectable world-class intelligent electric vehicle enterprise." In the new decade, Leapmotor will continue to adhere to full-domain self-research and deep self-manufacturing, build core competitiveness with technology and innovation, strive to make good technology accessible to everyone, and achieve greater accomplishments in the global market.
Data source: Leapmotor
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In September, in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, sea breezes gently blew and green foliage spread beneath drifting clouds. The 2026 China-Sri Lanka Media Cooperation and Exchange Seminar, themed "Trust and Win-Win: The Role of Media in the Context of the China-Sri Lanka Community with a Shared Future," was recently held in Colombo, with guests from government departments, media organizations, think tanks, and universities of both China and Sri Lanka attending. The two sides jointly released two outcomes: the "Colombo Initiative on China-Sri Lanka Media Cooperation" and the "Action Plan for China-Sri Lanka Media Cooperation." Participants stated that the China-Sri Lanka friendship has remained fresh after a long time (历久弥新, li jiu mi xin - "pass, long, time, new"), and that media are witnesses, recorders, and promoters of the friendship between the two countries. They called for further carrying forward the traditional friendship, promoting people-to-people connectivity, and telling well the splendid stories of jointly building the China-Sri Lanka community with a shared future.
"The continuous deepening of Sri Lanka-China relations has been vividly reflected in the field of media cooperation"
Sri Lanka is one of the first countries to respond to the joint building of the Belt and Road Initiative. In recent years, the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative between China and Sri Lanka has yielded fruitful results in practical cooperation: from the Colombo Port City rising by the sea to the Hambantota Port thriving with the ocean, from the China-Sri Lanka Water Center project safeguarding people's livelihoods to the assistance of school uniform fabric benefiting local students, from the increasing number of Chinese-made electric vehicles on Colombo's streets to exploratory cooperation in emerging fields such as green development, agricultural technology, and artificial intelligence, a series of practical cooperation projects have effectively promoted Sri Lanka's economic and social development and continuously enhanced the well-being of the people. These vivid cases of China-Sri Lanka cooperation provide rich reporting content for the media of both countries.
Kaushalya Ariyaratne, Deputy Minister of Mass Media of Sri Lanka, stated at the seminar that in recent years, Sri Lanka-China relations have continued to develop, with both countries moving toward building a closer Sri Lanka-China community with a shared future. "The continuous deepening of Sri Lanka-China relations has been vividly reflected in the field of media cooperation," Ariyaratne said. The increasingly close media cooperation between Sri Lanka and China demonstrates that media are no longer merely channels for transmitting information, but have become important tools for promoting mutual understanding between the peoples of the two countries and enhancing people-to-people and cultural exchanges.
In recent years, media exchanges between China and Sri Lanka have been frequent, and cooperation projects have been implemented and delivered results. In January 2025, witnessed by the heads of state of the two countries, China Media Group signed memorandums of understanding in Beijing with Sri Lanka's National Television, the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau, and the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, covering multiple areas including content exchange, program production, technical exchanges, joint events, and personnel exchanges. In June 2026, journalist representatives from more than 10 Sri Lankan media organizations traveled to Yunnan Province for a study and research program, with their itinerary covering Kunming, Pu'er, Yuxi, and other places, recording China's development stories through on-site interviews. The "China Theater" program on Sri Lanka's National Television has successively broadcast Sinhala-dubbed versions of multiple Chinese TV dramas, including "Journey to the West," "Water Margin," "Ode to Joy," and "The Three-Body Problem," which have been widely welcomed by local audiences. Sri Lankan media representatives have also made multiple visits to China for exchange activities such as audiovisual weeks, media seminars, and joint interviews.
Gihan Silva, Director General of Sri Lanka's National Television, told People's Daily reporters that the National Television has always attached importance to Sri Lanka-China media cooperation, actively participated in exchanges in various fields between the two countries, and carried out rich cooperation with Chinese media. 2027 marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Sri Lanka and China. As a national mainstream media outlet of Sri Lanka, it hopes to further strengthen media technology sharing and program content exchanges with Chinese partners, and promote more fruitful results in Sri Lanka-China media cooperation.
"Promoting enhanced mutual learning among civilizations between Sri Lanka and China in the new era"
Both China and Sri Lanka have long histories of civilization and splendid cultures. The two countries share not only the thousand-year Buddhist bond initiated by the eminent monk Faxian and the historical ties of Zheng He's seven voyages across the seas, but also the "Rubber-Rice Pact," which demonstrated true feelings revealed in times of trouble (患难见真情, huan nan jian zhen qing - "misfortune, hardship, see, true, emotion"), and the touching stories of the two peoples helping each other in times of need (守望相助, shou wang xiang zhu - "guard, watch, mutually, help"). Sri Lankan guests attending the seminar stated that the media of Sri Lanka and China should further deepen cooperation, broaden exchange platforms, pass on the traditional friendship between the two countries to the younger generation, and enable the mutual learning of civilizations between Sri Lanka and China to burst forth with new vitality in the new era.
Manoj Jinadasa, Head of the Department of Mass Communication at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka, stated that the continuation of Sri Lanka-China friendship cannot be separated from the joint efforts of the media of both countries. "In addition to telling the stories of cooperation between the two countries, the media of Sri Lanka and China need to convey each other's voices to the peoples of the other side, enhance mutual understanding, and build a solid foundation of public opinion for Sri Lanka-China friendship." Drawing on his experience of participating in a study and research program in Yunnan, China, in June this year, Jinadasa stated that artificial intelligence is widely applied throughout China, and in the future it will also empower Sri Lanka-China media cooperation and promote people-to-people and cultural exchanges between the two countries.
Tea culture is a natural bond connecting the friendship between the peoples of China and Sri Lanka: Ceylon black tea produced in Sri Lanka is world-famous (举世闻名, ju shi wen ming - "lift, world, hear, name"), while Yunnan in China is the place of origin of the world's tea trees. Outside the seminar venue, the Yunnan South and Southeast Asia Regional International Communication Center and the Sri Lanka-China Social and Cultural Cooperation Association invited tea merchants from both countries to promote quality tea products. Sri Lankan tea merchant Rasni told reporters that she formed a bond with China through tea, having made multiple visits to Yunnan to participate in tea industry exhibitions, introducing tea products to and from Chinese partners, and helping tea merchants and tea farmers of both countries achieve win-win outcomes.
Dumindu Wickramasinghe, a senior Sri Lankan journalist and television host, stated at the seminar that Sri Lanka and China share a history of Maritime Silk Road and tea culture exchanges spanning more than a thousand years. "The media should serve as a bridge and bond for Sri Lanka-China relations, promoting mutual understanding and affinity between the peoples of the two countries through truthful, warm, and in-depth news reporting, and promoting enhanced mutual learning among civilizations between Sri Lanka and China in the new era," Wickramasinghe said.
"The joint development of Sri Lanka and China cannot be separated from the media of both countries advancing side by side"
At present, the voice of Global South countries in global governance is continuously rising. Sri Lankan guests attending the seminar stated that the media of Sri Lanka and China have the responsibility to strengthen coordination and cooperation on international communication issues, to speak with a common voice on topics such as climate change, poverty reduction and development, and global governance, and to jointly promote the development of the global governance system in a more just and reasonable direction with the wisdom and solutions of the Global South.
Apukutty Sriyananda, senior journalist of Sri Lanka's Daily Financial Times, stated that the media of Sri Lanka and China should deepen practical cooperation, promote the institutionalization and normalization of news sharing and cross-cultural content creation, jointly speak out on international issues such as poverty reduction, climate change, and scientific and technological innovation, and jointly create quality media products.
"Telling well the splendid stories of jointly building the China-Sri Lanka community with a shared future is the responsibility of the media of both countries," said Tissa Ravinda Perera, Professor at the Faculty of Management and Finance of the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka. "The joint development of Sri Lanka and China cannot be separated from the media of both countries advancing side by side."
Chinese media representatives from People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, China Media Group, China Daily, and others, in the roundtable discussion session of the seminar, engaged in dialogue and sharing with Sri Lankan representatives on two major themes: "The Practice and Significance of Jointly Building the China-Sri Lanka Community with a Shared Future" and "Deepening Media Exchange and Cooperation and People-to-People Connectivity between China and Sri Lanka."
Chinese media representatives stated that as China and Sri Lanka continue to deepen their friendship through economic cooperation, regional connectivity, infrastructure construction, and cultural and scientific exchanges, the role of media organizations is becoming increasingly prominent. Media should responsibly report on development achievements, clearly explain the connotation of cooperation, promote mutual respect, and jointly advance the building of the China-Sri Lanka community with a shared future in a deeper and more practical manner.
Wei Huaxiang, Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, stated that the two outcomes released at this seminar, the "Colombo Initiative on China-Sri Lanka Media Cooperation" and the "Action Plan for China-Sri Lanka Media Cooperation," are important measures to implement the important consensus of the leaders of the two countries and promote practical media cooperation between China and Sri Lanka. They embody the common expectations of both sides for deepening media exchange and cooperation, and chart a new path for media exchange and cooperation between the two countries.
(Hannan Jillani of People's Daily Pakistan Branch contributed to this article)
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Recently, the film Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant has remained a box-office hit, and the stories of everyday life in overseas Chinese restaurants have struck a chord with audiences both at home and abroad. Having lived and worked in the Middle East for many years, I have seen many Chinese restaurants, some of which have taken root locally for decades. Through their everyday Chinese cuisine, they continuously enrich the cultural connotation of the "Chinese flavor."
The popularity of Chinese restaurants stems from the power of exchange and mutual learning among civilizations. Stepping into the "Golden Dragon Restaurant" in Dubai, which has been in business since 1976, one sees elaborately decorated buildings (雕梁画栋, diao liang hua dong - "carve beam, paint pillar") and antique furnishings, fully displaying traditional Chinese style, yet the restaurant's chefs and service staff come from many countries. Some learned from Chinese chefs, while others chose to work there out of their passion for Chinese culture. From the regional culinary origins carried by "Kung Pao Chicken," to the folk-life wisdom behind "Beggar's Chicken," to the optimistic ingenuity hidden in "Ants Climbing a Tree," one home-style Chinese dish after another has become a window through which Arab people come to understand China. In the Chinese noodle shop of Dubai food blogger Hadi, chopsticks of various styles form a display wall, conveying to visiting diners the aesthetics and life wisdom of Eastern cuisine.
The Middle East and China are both cradles of the world's ancient civilizations, and the tradition of mutual appreciation and mutual learning has continued to this day. An Arab proverb says, "Seek knowledge, even if it means going as far as China," fully expressing a cultural resonance that spans mountains and seas. Chinese restaurants are like cultural way stations in the marketplaces of the Middle East, transforming profound traditional culture into tangible, tasteable daily experiences, allowing cultural identity to quietly grow amid every meal.
The warmth of Chinese restaurants lies in their emotional cohesion during special moments. In 2011, when the situation in West Asia and North Africa was in violent turmoil, I was reporting in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, under NATO airstrikes. Amid the smoke of gunfire, a Chinese restaurant named "Manyide" kept its doors open as usual, providing food for fewer than 20 Chinese nationals who remained behind. The female owner from Zhejiang, with her two young children in tow, braved the artillery fire to deliver steaming hot beef stir-fried noodles to her compatriots. The taste of home amid the chaos of war became an unforgettable memory for many overseas personnel.
For Chinese people venturing overseas, the significance of Chinese restaurants goes far beyond being mere places to eat. They may not be upscale or luxurious, but they are a home for the taste buds, a support for homesickness, and a fulcrum of life for generations of Chinese people striving to take root abroad, reflecting the unyielding and persistent (坚韧不拔, jian ren bu ba - "firm, resilient, not pull out") and supporting and helping one another in times of need (守望相助, shou wang xiang zhu - "watch, hope, help each other") spirit of the Chinese people.
Chinese cuisine's journey to the world reflects the trajectory of China's development. In 2024, the Wenchao Gourmet City opened in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, reshaping local perceptions of freshness. According to the operator, fresh fruits and vegetables from China can reach Saudi tables in as little as one day. With water-saving irrigation and cold-chain technology, the local 350-mu desert farm has produced vegetables that basically meet local market demand. From seed to plate, from field to overseas, China's agricultural technology and supply chain capabilities provide reliable assurance for the "freshness" of Chinese cuisine.
The overseas expansion of Chinese cuisine is just one example. In today's Dubai, Keeta, the international food-delivery brand under Meituan, now covers restaurants across the city, with punctual and efficient delivery services; AliExpress, the cross-border e-commerce platform under Alibaba, offers delivery services that can arrive in as little as three days; and Baidu's Apollo Go self-driving vehicles have been launched on local ride-hailing platforms, offering the public a safe and efficient new travel option. More Chinese services are entering the daily life of the Middle East, and the fruits of development are being shared on a broader scale.
From the aroma of cooking wafting through Middle Eastern streets, to the kitchen flames that never went out in times of peril, to the green leafy vegetables growing on desert farms, these are all micro-level footnotes to the affinity, appeal, and vitality of Chinese culture. From "delicacies on the tip of the tongue" to conveniences in daily life, China's development achievements are benefiting the world in tangible, perceptible ways, writing a vivid chapter of mutual understanding among civilizations and shared development amid the everyday rhythms of life.
Return to TopRussian Foreign Ministry: Japan's Anti-Russia Course Hinders Resumption of Russia-Japan Dialogue
(Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, September 16) (Reporters Hou Ming, Wang Zuokui) A statement published on the Russian Foreign Ministry website on the 16th said that when Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Rudenko met with Japanese Ambassador to Russia Muto Akira that day, he stated that Japan's persistently pursued anti-Russia course, including its recent "hysterical" reaction to Russian President Putin's visit to the Southern Kuril Islands (called the Northern Territories by Japan), as well as its expansion of military aid to Ukraine, has made the prospects for normalizing Russia-Japan dialogue very slim or unlikely (渺茫, miao mang - "dim, obscure").
The statement said that the Russian side also emphasized the danger of Japan's advancement of "remilitarization," including its increasingly frequent military training activities with the United States and its Western allies near Russia's Far East, as well as the deployment of medium-range missile systems on Japanese territory. These measures pose a direct threat to Russia's national security and to peace and stability in Northeast Asia. If such activities continue, Russia will take necessary measures.
Regarding the Japanese Embassy in Russia's recent expression of hope to resume the visa-free policy for Japanese citizens traveling to the Southern Kuril Islands, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Peskov said at a press conference on the 16th that the responsibility for the tightening of Russia-Japan relations does not lie with the Russian side, but is due to Japan's extremely unfriendly policy toward Russia, its participation in all sanctions measures against Russia, and its inclusion on the list of unfriendly countries toward Russia. "Under such circumstances, the hope of relaxing visa measures is very slim."
UNHCR: Escalation of Conflict in Yemen Displaces More Than 100,000 People
(Xinhua News Agency, Geneva, September 16) (Reporter Wang Yanan) The UN Refugee Agency said on the 15th that "rapidly escalating hostilities" in Yemen's western coastal areas have displaced more than 100,000 people within the country, with thousands forced to cross the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to seek refuge in Djibouti.
In a statement, the UN Refugee Agency pointed out that if hostilities intensify, more displaced persons will appear within Yemen, and the refugee wave will spread further. Over the past four days, more than 2,400 people have arrived in Djibouti by boat from Yemen, of whom over 60 percent are women, children, and the elderly.
Recently, the Houthi armed forces have stepped up their offensive against government forces and announced a maritime embargo on Saudi Arabia, which supports the Yemeni government. Yemeni government forces and the Houthi armed forces separately confirmed on the 10th that the Houthi armed forces had captured the strategically important Red Sea port city of Mokha that day. On the 11th, the Houthi armed forces said that since launching their offensive on September 3, they had captured approximately 5,400 square kilometers of land in western Yemen. The Yemeni government side said the same day that the Houthi armed forces had taken control of the country's entire western coast and continued to advance southward.
Fragment of a Manuscript of Homer's Epic "The Odyssey" Discovered in the Netherlands
(Xinhua News Agency, The Hague, September 15) (Reporters Shao Haijun, Li Hong) Utrecht University in the Netherlands issued a press release on the 14th saying that a fragment of a double-sided parchment manuscript of Homer's epic "The Odyssey," dating from around the 4th century AD, had been discovered in the university's library.
According to the press release, this irregularly shaped fragment was discovered by Mark de Kreij, a scholar of ancient Greek from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, while he was researching ancient manuscripts in the collection of the Utrecht University library. The fragment is approximately 6.6 centimeters wide and 7.7 centimeters long, and bears verses from Book XII of "The Odyssey." The press release also stated that only about 30 similar fragments are known to exist worldwide.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 程是颉
Recently, a report released by the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico pointed out that in some areas of the Mexico City metropolitan area, the capital of Mexico, the maximum annual land subsidence rate can reach 42 centimeters. The accelerating subsidence is continuously damaging municipal water supply and drainage facilities, and urban waterlogging is becoming increasingly frequent. To address the problem of land subsidence, Mexico City is coordinating efforts in drainage, water storage, groundwater protection, and risk monitoring, exploring a systematic governance path.
Manuel Perló, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, introduced that large parts of Mexico City are built on ancient lake beds, with highly water-absorbent, easily compressible clay and ancient lakebed sedimentary soil layers widely distributed underground. As the city continues to expand, surface loads from buildings, roads, and other structures keep increasing. Combined with long-term large-scale extraction of groundwater causing soil layers to lose water and compact, this has further accelerated land subsidence. Due to uneven subsidence rates in different areas, underground municipal pipelines are prone to bending, displacement, and joint cracking. The original design slopes of some drainage pipes have been disrupted, reducing gravity drainage efficiency and increasing sediment accumulation. In some low-lying areas, the risk of waterlogging during the rainy season has risen significantly.
To address the drainage challenges caused by subsidence, Mexico City is focusing on enhancing the carrying capacity of its drainage system. In February this year, the city announced an investment of 7 billion Mexican pesos (approximately 2.775 billion yuan) to upgrade water supply, drainage, and sewage treatment facilities. The relevant plans include building about 10 kilometers of new main drainage pipes, upgrading pumping stations and pumping and drainage equipment, and increasing the annual length of pipeline dredging from 300 kilometers to 1,200 kilometers. By expanding pipeline network capacity, clearing blockages, and strengthening pumping and drainage capacity, the city's drainage efficiency during heavy rainfall will be significantly improved, effectively alleviating water accumulation problems in low-lying areas.
In June 2025, Mexico City launched the "Water Acupuncture" governance plan, exploring ways to "retain" more rainwater. Clara Brugada, the mayor of Mexico City, introduced that "acupuncture" involves inserting needles at specific points on the human body where imbalance occurs. Similarly, the city's water cycle also has imbalances. The plan selects a number of key locations for intervention, allowing rainwater to infiltrate the ground and replenish aquifers. Specific projects include building infiltration wells, restoring natural ponds, transforming urban green spaces into infiltration points, and constructing water source regulation and storage facilities, so that rainwater is retained on site and gradually seeps into the ground. This model not only reduces the drainage pressure on the pipeline network during heavy rainfall but also replenishes groundwater through natural infiltration. The city also plans to enhance water purification and reclaimed water reuse capabilities, reducing dependence on groundwater extraction and slowing subsidence at the source.
Mexico City is also actively leveraging technological means to build a subsidence risk monitoring system. Municipal departments, in collaboration with scientific research institutions, use satellite remote sensing technology to investigate terrain changes around main drainage pipes and identify hidden risks of pipe deformation, damage, and collapse that subsidence may cause. Some water supply and drainage facilities have also piloted the installation of automatic monitoring equipment to grasp water volume, water pressure, and operating status in real time, detect problems such as pipe leakage and abnormal drainage in advance, and identify and address risks through routine monitoring, avoiding local failures that could trigger larger-scale waterlogging and infrastructure damage.
(People's Daily, Mexico City, September 16)
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Recently, the German economy has shown a stronger-than-expected recovery. Data from Germany's Federal Statistical Office show that since the fourth quarter of 2025, Germany's gross domestic product (GDP) has grown quarter-on-quarter for three consecutive quarters, shaking off the previous state of lingering in an uncertain state (徘徊, pai huai - "wander, loiter") on the edge of stagnation and recession. In early September, Germany's major economic research institutions successively raised their growth forecasts for this year, generally expecting growth of between 1.2 percent and 1.4 percent, markedly better than their assessments a few months earlier. This change has sent a positive signal, indicating that the German economy is repairing itself from its earlier trough. But it must also be noted that the current recovery is closer to a cyclical rebound, and Germany's economic development still needs to resolve a series of structural difficulties.
This round of German economic recovery first benefits from improved external demand. Germany is a highly export-oriented economy, with exports accounting for more than 40 percent of GDP. In the first half of this year, German exports resumed growth, with particularly strong performance in exports to the EU market. Demand recovery in chemicals, electrical equipment, data processing and optical equipment and other fields has become an important support. The recovery of European economic activity and the expansion of infrastructure and defense investment have brought order recovery to German manufacturing. At the same time, the global artificial intelligence investment boom has driven growth in demand for data centers and related equipment, also benefiting some German enterprises.
Second, countercyclical fiscal policy stimulus has become a new supporting force. Compared with the past emphasis on fiscal balance, Germany's macro-policy orientation has shown a clear shift. In 2025, Germany adjusted its "debt brake" system, giving the green light to using fiscal stimulus measures to boost the economy, in particular opening greater fiscal space for some defense and security spending, and also including the establishment of a special fund of 500 billion euros for infrastructure and climate neutrality. Spending in railways, roads, digital infrastructure, energy transition, and defense and security has accordingly expanded. Public investment and government consumption have propped up demand in the short term and have also directly benefited construction, machinery and equipment, and the defense industry and other fields.
In addition, the energy shock has been weaker than previously feared, also providing room for the economic recovery. The US-Israel-Iran conflict and the Gulf situation once triggered market concerns that Germany would again suffer an energy shock similar to that of 2022. However, after adjusting import sources, building LNG receiving facilities, and improving cross-border pipeline networks in recent years, Germany's natural gas supply channels have become more diversified than in the early stage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. At present and for some time to come, energy prices remain an important risk point for the German economy, but the short-term shock has not yet reached the level of the most pessimistic earlier forecasts.
At present, the sustainability of Germany's economic recovery still needs to be observed with caution. On the one hand, the improvement in exports is, to a large extent, affected by the recovery of European demand, the AI investment cycle, and supply chain changes brought about by geopolitical conflicts, and is therefore somewhat stage-specific. The Kiel Institute for the World Economy believes that Germany's merchandise exports have now broadly recovered to their 2019 level, but global merchandise trade has expanded markedly over the same period, which means that the global market share Germany has lost in recent years has not truly been recovered. On the other hand, fiscal expansion can expand short-term demand, but it is difficult for it to replace corporate investment and productivity improvement over the long term.
At a deeper level, Germany's structural economic problems remain. Sluggish digitalization and industrial transformation, relatively high energy and labor costs, cumbersome administrative approval procedures, population aging, and other factors are still affecting corporate investment willingness and economic recovery, and some traditional industries such as the automotive industry remain in the process of structural adjustment.
From an international perspective, Germany's long-term economic development cannot be separated from an open and stable external environment. For Germany, which is highly dependent on global trade and industrial exports, while improving the domestic business environment and promoting technological innovation and industrial transformation, continuing to maintain open and stable economic and trade relations with external economies such as China is conducive to expanding markets, reducing supply chain risks, and creating new growth space for enterprises.
Overall, Germany's stronger-than-expected economic recovery is an important signal of emerging from the cyclical trough. But short-term repair does not equal long-term strengthening. The German economy still faces deep-seated difficulties such as energy costs, labor constraints, administrative efficiency, industrial transformation, and the reshaping of global competitiveness. Whether the window-period dividends created by export improvement and fiscal expansion can be converted into sustainable endogenous growth momentum will determine how far this round of German economic recovery can go.
(The author is director of the Center for European Studies at Fudan University)
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At present, the once-in-a-century transformation of the world is accelerating, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is making accelerated breakthroughs, and global artificial intelligence technological innovation has entered an unprecedented period of vitality. How can we enable artificial intelligence to become a powerful positive force for enhancing the well-being of all humanity?
This edition launches the "Political Consultation · Committee Members on AI" series of reports, inviting members of the CPPCC National Committee in relevant fields to offer suggestions and contribute wisdom and solutions on the hot topics and pain points in the development and governance of artificial intelligence.
—Editor
Dialogue guests:
Xu Xiaolan, member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, full-time Vice Chairperson of the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party
Cheng Kai, member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, Chairperson of the China Disabled Persons' Federation
Zhang Yunquan, member of the CPPCC National Committee, researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xu Lijin, member of the CPPCC National Committee, Chairman of Wuhu Robot Industry Development Group Co., Ltd.
Zhou Hongyi, member of the CPPCC National Committee, founder of 360 Group
Persist in innovation-driven development, making coordinated efforts on the four fronts of technology, data, ecosystem, and application
Reporter: The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes fully implementing the "AI+" action. How can we coordinate scientific and technological innovation, industrial implementation, and scenario application to truly enable artificial intelligence to empower all industries and sectors?
Xu Xiaolan: The new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation centered on artificial intelligence is a key force in reshaping the industrial system, cultivating new quality productive forces, and developing the intelligent economy. Through policy guidance, technological innovation, and deep industrial cultivation, artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from laboratories to application scenarios such as manufacturing production lines, fields and farmland, city streets, and home services, becoming a powerful engine driving high-quality economic and social development.
We can take humanoid robots and embodied intelligence as a breakthrough point, making coordinated efforts on the four fronts of technology, data, ecosystem, and application to push the "AI+" initiative to a higher level. First, accelerate breakthroughs in core technologies. Focus on key links such as intelligent chips, multimodal perception, and world models, accelerate the achievement of independent and controllable core technologies, and consolidate the industrial foundation. Second, build high-level training grounds at scale and aggregate high-quality datasets. Through the standardized and orderly construction of a training ground system, avoid low-level redundant construction, aggregate high-quality datasets, and promote faster growth and better implementation of humanoid robots. Third, build a sound open-source innovation ecosystem. Only by forming a cycle of open-source innovation, industrial promotion, and feedback iteration can humanoid robots truly move from prototype demonstration to large-scale application. Fourth, promote applications to go deeper and deliver practical results. Start from structured scenarios such as advanced manufacturing and warehousing and logistics, and gradually extend to complex scenarios such as emergency rescue and family services, so that humanoid robots can truly land and create value.
Xu Lijin: At present, the development trend of China's intelligent robot industry is positive, but compared with the strategic deployment of the "AI+" initiative and the requirements of high-quality development, there are still some shortcomings. There are bottlenecks in core technology fields, and the level of independent and controllable key software and hardware is insufficient; scenario development and market demand are not well connected, constraining the process of scaling and industrialization; the industrial collaborative ecosystem is not yet sound, and homogeneous competition within the industry is prominent, constraining the overall improvement of the industry's capability level.
To resolve the pain points and difficulties in industrial development, we must take the "AI+" action as the overall guide and overall lever, implement targeted measures, and make breakthroughs at precise points. Persist in self-reliance and strength in science and technology, focus on concentrated research in core fields such as robot perception and cognition, operating systems, and high-computing-power chips, and clear the bottlenecks throughout the entire chain from technological R&D to achievement transformation. Improve the quality industrial ecosystem, unify data-sharing standards, improve the industry standards system, open data exchange interfaces, and promote coordinated linkage and clustered development across the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, putting an end to low-end homogeneous competition.
Only by persisting in breaking new ground through innovation, improving quality through application, and gathering strength through the ecosystem can we continuously release new momentum for the industry, effectively support the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the cultivation and growth of emerging industries, and the forward-looking layout of future industries, and promote the deep integration and high-quality development of the digital economy and the real economy.
Strengthen risk awareness to ensure that artificial intelligence always serves humanity
Reporter: How can we balance the innovative development of artificial intelligence with risk prevention, build a solid safety bottom line, and prevent the abuse and malicious use of technology?
Xu Xiaolan: At present, artificial intelligence technology is iterating rapidly and its applications are penetrating widely. But at the same time, endogenous risks such as algorithmic black boxes, model bias, and ethical misconduct are intertwined and superimposed with derivative risks such as deepfakes, technology abuse, and intelligent manipulation, posing entirely new challenges to privacy security, public governance, and social order. Only by acting proactively and implementing systematic measures can we avoid harm and seek benefit (趋利避害, qu li bi hai - "seek, profit; avoid, harm") and achieve long-term steady progress (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk, steady; go, far").
Grip the "steering wheel" of application. Guided by benefiting the people, precisely delineate the red lines and development boundaries of artificial intelligence applications. Implement tiered and categorized supervision for different fields such as industry, people's livelihoods, and governance, strictly control the implementation of technology in high-risk scenarios, resolutely prevent technology abuse and non-compliant applications, and ensure that artificial intelligence always serves humanity.
Forge the "hard armor" of safety. Accelerate the R&D of safety technologies and enhance the safety, reliability, and controllability of artificial intelligence systems. Build risk monitoring and early warning platforms, accurately identify hidden dangers such as algorithm loss of control, data tampering, and malicious generation, and achieve early detection, early warning, and early handling, firmly grasping the initiative in development.
Set up the "weights and measures" of the industry. Adhere to standards first, covering the entire life cycle of artificial intelligence system R&D, training, deployment, and iteration, and improve the industry standards system. For emerging fields such as large models and embodied intelligence, clarify market access, evaluation, operation, and exit standards, curb "disorder" with "standardization," and establish rules and draw the boundaries for artificial intelligence development.
Light up the "signal light" of ethics. Establish a forward-looking and routine artificial intelligence ethics review mechanism, making ethical assessment the "first checkpoint" of R&D, and prevent problems such as algorithmic discrimination, deepfakes, and malicious inducement at the source. Consolidate the primary responsibility of enterprises and scientific research institutions, strengthen ethics literacy education, smooth channels for social supervision, and ensure that artificial intelligence always follows the core principles of fairness and justice, safety and controllability, and human dominance.
Zhou Hongyi: Safety is not the opposite of development, but the prerequisite for development. Only by building a solid safety bottom line can we ensure that artificial intelligence always remains under human control and becomes a trustworthy tool for humanity.
In the past, we prevented models from "saying the wrong things"; today, we must also prevent intelligent agents from "doing the wrong things." For models, we should establish a governance system around access, content generation, and business applications, proactively fixing vulnerabilities and filtering risky content. For intelligent agents, we should move from "being able to act" to "being controllable," delineating boundaries for permissions, data, and tools, requiring manual confirmation for key actions, and ensuring the entire process is auditable, intervenable, and blockable.
Use the capabilities of artificial intelligence to govern the risks of artificial intelligence. Security large models solve the problem of "understanding security," enabling models to comprehend attack samples and vulnerability characteristics; intelligent agents solve the problem of "being able to complete security work," intelligently encapsulating expert experience and handling processes, forming an artificial intelligence "expert team" with division of labor and collaboration, creating a closed loop of "combat—verification—evolution."
Bridge the digital-intelligence divide so that new technologies benefit more regions and groups
Reporter: How can we promote the beneficial and inclusive development of artificial intelligence to benefit more regions and groups?
Cheng Kai: In recent years, artificial intelligence assistive products for persons with disabilities have accelerated their implementation. A range of technological products such as guide robot dogs, intelligent bionic hands, and wheelchair robots have stepped out of science fiction scenarios and into real life, providing strong support for persons with disabilities to better integrate into social life and break through their life potential, vividly demonstrating the warm power of technology in benefiting special groups. Technology-assisted disability services are becoming an important direction for the beneficial and inclusive development of artificial intelligence.
However, to promote the long-term steady progress of technology-assisted disability services and fully unleash the inclusive power of artificial intelligence, there are still many shortcomings and weaknesses to be addressed and many development thresholds to be crossed.
Adhere to a demand-oriented approach and deepen "user-participatory R&D." Continuously improve the mechanism for the deep participation of persons with disabilities in the entire product process, from needs research and prototype development to testing and iteration, treating disabled users as core participants and scenario testers, rather than passive product recipients.
Open up the industrial closed loop and improve policy and supporting infrastructure. Continue to implement plans and policies related to technology-assisted disability services, include effective inclusive intelligent assistive devices in the government subsidy catalog, lower the threshold for using intelligent assistive devices, and benefit more persons with disabilities.
Bridge the digital-intelligence divide, taking into account both hardware and software accessibility. In addition to the iteration of intelligent hardware, promote the accessibility renovation of government service platforms and internet applications, and make up for shortcomings in the construction of an accessible environment. Take into account elderly persons with disabilities and persons with disabilities in rural areas, avoid intelligent assistive devices becoming a welfare for a minority, and prevent new technologies from creating a new digital-intelligence divide.
Zhang Yunquan: In March this year, China's daily token call volume exceeded 140 trillion, and artificial intelligence is integrating into the economy and society at an unprecedented scale. When technology has evolved to this point, the real question is no longer whether machines can think, but how humans can control them and how to make them benefit the majority rather than the minority.
Artificial intelligence embodies the collective wisdom of humanity and should benefit all of humanity. It should not be monopolized by a few countries, nor should it create new historical injustices. In the next five years, China will provide 5,000 special training and research opportunities on artificial intelligence for developing countries; build international artificial intelligence application cooperation centers for ASEAN, the Arab League, the African Union, CELAC, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the BRICS countries; and promote the implementation of the "Mazu" meteorological intelligent early warning solution in 30 countries. From technology and rules to public goods, China is transforming the vision of inclusiveness into concrete measures.
Putting people first, striving for goodness, and jointly creating the future — we look forward to the development of artificial intelligence becoming a symphony of global cooperation.
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Ear and hearing health is an important component of national health. Deafness and hearing loss are among the major problems affecting the physical and mental health and quality of life of the people. According to estimates, approximately 220 million people in China suffer from hearing loss. Hearing loss brings not only auditory impairment, but may also lead to a gradual weakening of social connections, causing individuals to feel isolated in daily life. The urgency and practical significance of popularizing hearing health services and building a solid nationwide hearing protection network are becoming increasingly prominent.
In recent years, with the promulgation and implementation of policies such as the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting Ear and Hearing Health Work," top-level design and people-benefiting measures covering the full life cycle are ensuring that more people enjoy the "audible happiness" of being able to "hear and hear clearly." However, judging from our field research and exchanges with hearing-impaired groups both online and offline, there is still a gap between the effectiveness of current policy implementation and the actual needs of the groups. For example, some remote areas lack outlets for hearing aid fitting and cochlear implant adjustment, public awareness of hearing protection still needs to be raised, and barrier-free information facilities for hearing-impaired groups in public environments are not yet fully developed. To fill these shortcomings, it is necessary to adhere to the concept of full-life-cycle health management, coordinate efforts across dimensions such as science popularization and prevention, environmental construction, and safeguard investment, and build a hearing health service system with broader coverage, more practical services, and more comprehensive safeguards.
Implement early screening, early diagnosis, and early rehabilitation across all age groups to improve the hearing health literacy of the whole population. Strengthen hearing health publicity and education for children and adolescents, incorporate hearing protection content into health courses in primary and secondary schools, and guide young people to use earphones scientifically and safely. Guide the elderly to undergo regular hearing tests, promote a change in the traditional perception among the elderly that "hearing loss is a natural part of aging," and popularize rehabilitation intervention methods such as hearing aids and cochlear implants. It is also possible to strengthen the publicity and popularization of knowledge on the prevention of harm from recreational and occupational noise, enhance the self-protection awareness of at-risk groups, and reduce irreversible hearing damage at the source.
Improve funding and talent support safeguards so that rehabilitation services and assistive devices no longer become an unaffordable economic burden for ordinary hearing-impaired groups, and truly achieve services and devices that the people can afford and use for a long time. At present, cochlear implant surgery is an effective means of treating severe, profound, and even total deafness. Thanks to the centralized volume-based procurement of drugs and medical consumables, the price of cochlear implants has dropped significantly, and many patients are going to hospitals to consult about cochlear implant surgery, eager to regain their "new sound." It is recommended to further include the costs of hearing aids, cochlear implants, and equipment upgrades in the scope of medical insurance reimbursement or subsidies, further reducing the actual economic pressure borne by hearing-impaired patients. Improve the training mechanism for hearing health professionals, carry out business training related to hearing rehabilitation for medical staff, improve the systems for professional assessment and title promotion for audiologists, and stabilize the team of hearing health professionals. At the same time, promote the sinking of service resources to the grassroots, fill the gaps in hearing screening and diagnostic equipment in townships and counties, uniformly standardize the service standards for hearing aid fitting and cochlear implant adjustment, and deliver professional hearing health services to the doorsteps of the people.
Improve the construction of hearing barrier-free environments in public places. Station broadcasts, window conversations, supermarket announcements, and scenic spot explanations—these sound messages that ordinary people take for granted and do not need to strain to catch are often vague and difficult to distinguish for hearing-impaired people in noisy environments. An ordinary trip always requires repeated confirmation, adding a sense of awkwardness. It is recommended that public areas such as transportation hubs, supermarkets, and conference venues be equipped with FM wireless frequency modulation equipment and speech-to-text equipment, so that broadcasts and communications have clear text references; museums and exhibition halls be equipped with subtitle guide devices or QR codes for text explanations, with online mini-programs simultaneously offering text commentary; and cinema films be equipped with synchronized subtitles, with subtitle markers clearly indicated on ticket-purchasing pages.
Comprehensively popularizing hearing health publicity and improving the full-chain hearing service can strongly support the building of a Healthy China and help achieve high-quality development of the population. Protecting every ear and every sound is not only a task in the field of medical and health care, but also a shared responsibility of the whole society. From early screening and intervention to reduce the risk of disease, to reducing burdens and fees to make assistive devices and rehabilitation accessible, to filling in the details of hearing barrier-free access in public spaces, only when all measures are interlinked can hearing-impaired groups no longer be trapped in silent corners, and can more people embrace "audible happiness."
(The author is a member of the CPPCC National Committee and a council member of the China Disabled Persons' Federation; compiled and organized by People's Daily reporter Yi Shuran)
Return to TopProposer: Central Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party
Reason for the proposal: Pollution from waste plastics that are difficult to degrade naturally has long been a global challenge. Bamboo, as an environmentally friendly, renewable, and degradable biomass material, grows rapidly, is widely distributed, and possesses good mechanical properties and carbon sequestration capacity, making it an ideal substitute for plastic. China is the world's major bamboo-producing country. At the same time, China has made significant breakthroughs in technologies such as bamboo-based fiber composite materials and bamboo microfilament composite packaging materials, and "substituting bamboo for plastic" has enormous room for development. However, at present, the development of the "substituting bamboo for plastic" industry is still in its infancy, and problems such as small scale, low added value of products, and weak innovation capacity urgently need to be solved.
Recommendations: Strengthen planning and guidance. Based on the distribution of bamboo resources in China and the foundation of the bamboo industry's development, scientifically plan and lay out bamboo industry clusters, and give priority support to the development of bamboo industry enterprises and parks. Accelerate the creation of national "substituting bamboo for plastic" application and promotion demonstration bases, promote the construction of a number of demonstration counties and demonstration parks for high-quality development of the bamboo industry, and set benchmarks for the development of the "substituting bamboo for plastic" industry in various regions.
Strengthen industrial policy support. Encourage and support regions with the appropriate conditions to establish special project funds for "substituting bamboo for plastic," innovate financial products, and focus support on the cultivation of high-value bamboo varieties, scientific and technological innovation in bamboo processing, and the cultivation of new types of bamboo industry business entities. At the same time, provide interest subsidies and grants for loans to leading enterprises, farmer cooperatives, and other new types of bamboo industry business entities, expand the scale of credit disbursement benefiting agriculture, and solve the problem of difficult financing in the development of the bamboo industry. Accelerate the improvement of the standard system for relevant bamboo products, and severely crack down on illegal acts such as the production and sale of counterfeit goods and trademark infringement.
Strengthen research and development of bamboo industry technology. Adhere to the orientation of industrial development demand, and strengthen joint research on key common technologies and frontier leading technologies of the bamboo industry. Support research on key technologies such as bamboo harvesting machinery and intelligent production equipment, raise the level of mechanization in bamboo harvesting and processing, and strengthen the application and development of new materials and new products such as bamboo fiber, bamboo winding materials, and bamboo-based high-performance composite materials.
Strengthen the construction of supporting infrastructure for the bamboo industry. Focus on the resource supply of leading enterprises, support local governments in building bamboo forest roads in light of local conditions, and open up the "last mile" from bamboo forests to townships and county roads. Strengthen the research, development, and application of harvesting and transportation equipment, include it in the catalog of products eligible for agricultural machinery purchase subsidies, develop small-scale mechanized operations in bamboo forests in hilly and mountainous areas, improve operational efficiency, and reduce production costs from the source.
(Compiled by Wen Yi)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 君
At the Hongshan Laboratory in Hubei, white, yellow, purple, and other corn germplasm resources of varying traits are neatly displayed. Nearby, Yan Jianbing, a member of the CPPCC National Committee and president of Huazhong Agricultural University, is leading his team in conducting molecular identification on newly harvested corn.
From initially exploring traits related to corn yield, to later focusing on genetic improvement of corn nutritional quality, and now to deepening research on high-yield, high-protein, machine-harvestable corn, Yan Jianbing has been engaged in corn research for more than 20 years. He leads his team deep into the fields and on the land (田间地头, tian jian di tou - "field, space, ground, head"), screening superior germplasm from tens of thousands of corn materials, analyzing the genes that control important agronomic traits in corn, and devoting himself to breeding new corn varieties with better yields, higher protein content, and greater suitability for mechanical harvesting.
To obtain first-hand data, Yan Jianbing has gone deep into various agricultural research institutes, seed enterprises, and major corn-producing regions, sorting out the pain points in the development of high-protein corn in China and the bottlenecks in scientific research. "The deeper the research goes, the more I can feel the weight of responsibility on my shoulders," Yan Jianbing said. "Farmers' desire for high-yield varieties and enterprises' expectations for policy are the most vivid material for my performance of duties and delivery of proposals."
At the 2025 National Two Sessions, Yan Jianbing submitted proposals on accelerating the development of feed-use alternative protein to safeguard national food security and on accelerating the formation of new quality productive forces and new economic growth points.
"Constrained by China's basic agricultural conditions, it is difficult to fundamentally change the situation in which China's feed protein is being at the mercy of others (受制于人, shou zhi yu ren - "receive, control, by, person") by such means as expanding soybean acreage, so the planting of high-protein corn needs to be accelerated," Yan Jianbing said. "With the promotion of relevant departments, high-protein corn has been planted on a demonstration basis in 17 prefecture-level cities across 6 provinces, and this year the planting area has exceeded 1 million mu."
With proposals receiving responses and implementation achieving tangible results, Yan Jianbing feels that all the hard work of rushing around for research has been worthwhile. "Every time one speaks out, it may become a force that drives social progress. This sense of participation, of integrating personal wisdom into the overall development of the country, cannot be replaced by any academic honor," Yan Jianbing said.
In the process of promoting high-protein corn, Yan Jianbing found that for high-protein corn to move from the "demonstration field" to the "big market," it must cross three hurdles. "First, the system of 'dedicated planting, dedicated harvesting, dedicated storage, and dedicated transport' is not yet well established, and mixing in circulation channels can easily dilute value; second, large-scale supply is seriously insufficient, making it difficult to meet the procurement needs of large enterprises; third, the mechanism for distributing benefits between upstream and downstream has not yet been straightened out, and there is a lack of reasonable risk-sharing and benefit-sharing mechanisms, leading to a heavy wait-and-see mentality among all parties and making it difficult to form industrial synergy," Yan Jianbing said.
In response, Yan Jianbing submitted a proposal on strengthening the entire high-protein corn industry chain to form new economic growth points, recommending that by improving standards and regulatory systems, concentrating resources to create demonstration models, and cultivating chain-leading enterprises, the entire high-protein corn industry chain be strengthened.
Today, Yan Jianbing is leading his team in deepening scientific research and innovation and empowering industrial upgrading, further improving corn yield and quality through genetic improvement, and solving the future problem of "who will farm the land" through digital and intelligent empowerment. "I will remain rooted in my scientific research duties, respond to the people's expectations by offering advice and suggestions (建言献策, jian yan xian ce - "offer, speech, offer, strategy"), write my performance report in the fields and on the land, translate research findings into tangible benefits for the people, and continue to build a solid foundation of security for 'China's granary,'" Yan Jianbing said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 贺林平
Ye Mao, who lives in Longgang District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, has to pick up and drop off his children on the way to and from work. Every morning and evening rush hour, at the intersection of Longxiang Avenue and Jixiang Road, vehicles are crowded and people are packed together; not only is traffic slow, but the safety situation from time to time makes people break out in a cold sweat.
“The traffic flows of two schools converge at this intersection. Every day during rush hour, turning right means queuing for half an hour, and electric bicycles keep passing by.” In May this year, Guangdong traffic police, together with platforms such as “Guangdong Release,” launched a “Roadside Micro-Renovation” solicitation campaign, and Ye Mao casually wrote two lines of comments and posted them in the comment section. At the same time, a silent fine-tuning, micro-adjustment, and detailed patching-up also rapidly unfolded at this busy intersection.
“Micro-incision surgery” cracks travel pain points, “embroidery skill” unclogs the city's veins. Longgang District's action is but one microcosm of Guangdong's various localities actively tapping road traffic resources and, in light of local conditions, carrying out “micro-renovations” and “micro-governance.”
Since the start of this year, Guangdong has already promoted the construction and planning of 4,200 kilometers of non-motorized vehicle lanes, and implemented “micro-renovations” at 320 key intersections. The “micro-circulation” has come alive, the roads' “main arteries” are unclogged, and the shared feeling of the broad mass of vehicle owners and pedestrians is that the roads are easier to travel and hearts are more at ease.
In light of local conditions, “small cut-ins” bring about big improvements
Zhongshan Avenue, a main urban artery in Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, connects multiple large urban villages. On the far right side of the road, a 1-meter-high separation barrier fences off a special lane. On The small yellow post at the entrance, the words “shared lane” are clearly written. Citizen Mr. Tu rides his electric bicycle through it, his hands steady and his heart at ease.
“Before, I was mixed in with cars, and could only try to hug the curb, but this road has heavy traffic, and occasionally large vehicles pass by, so my heart always felt uneasy.” Mr. Tu's experience is a true portrayal of the prominent problems in Guangdong's road traffic in recent years.
Driven by the development of the courier and food-delivery industries and the masses' demand for slow travel, the number of urban electric bicycles has continued to climb in recent years. Guangdong Province's total number of electric bicycles and motorcycles in use has exceeded 45 million, but the vast majority of cities did not set aside dedicated non-motorized vehicle lanes when their plans were first drawn up. Objectively, the supply-demand balance of road resources has been thrown off, with motor vehicles and non-motorized vehicles, non-motorized vehicles and pedestrians mixed together; subjectively, some citizens have weak rule awareness, and violations such as grabbing lanes, running red lights, and riding against traffic often make the road surface full of unexpected dangers (险象环生, xian xiang huan sheng - “dangerous, phenomenon, surround, life”).
Wang Jian, deputy captain of the Order Detachment of the Traffic Management Corps of the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department, candidly admitted that with electric bicycles as the focus, special rectification campaigns have also been carried out in various cities for several years, but practice has proven that if the root problem of “having no road to ride on” and “roads being hard to ride on” is not solved, relying solely on end-of-line enforcement yields very little result.
The road planning is already a fait accompli—what to do when large-scale demolition and reconstruction cannot be undertaken? After repeated practice and exploration, Guangdong's various local public security traffic management departments have gradually formed a consensus: urban governance often does not mean choosing among optimal solutions, but rather finding ways under limited conditions, achieving big improvements through small cut-ins. Take the “motorized/non-motorized shared lane” innovatively launched by Guangzhou traffic police—it has currently been set up on 85 road sections, with a total length exceeding 80 kilometers.
“Without adding extra road resources, improvements in three aspects have been achieved.” Tao Weichao, a police officer at the Command Center of the Guangzhou Public Security Traffic Management Detachment, enumerated them one by one: physically separated from the central motorized lanes, riding electric bicycles has become safer; the legal travel space has increased, improving the riding experience; prolonged stopping of motor vehicles on the right side has been eliminated, making traffic efficiency higher. Statistics show that after the pilot, the proportion of non-motorized vehicles in Guangzhou riding in their designated lanes has increased by more than 50%, and at some road sections traffic accidents have decreased by more than 20%.
This year, Guangdong's public security traffic management departments launched a one-year special rectification campaign for electric bicycles and motorcycles, and such “micro-renovations” have been placed in a foundational position: Qingyuan has piloted the “blue lane crossing” model, Zhanjiang has set up “reservoir”-style waiting areas, Jieyang has marked out “red pond, green lane”… Various localities, in light of local conditions, each tap their own potential, and one ingenious idea after another eases blockages, ensures smoothness, and promotes unimpeded flow.
Police and public build together: “treating minor ailments” cracks major hidden dangers
Today, the intersection of Longxiang Avenue and Jixiang Road in Longgang District has long since changed its appearance: pedestrians and non-motorized vehicles now cross the street separately, and the overall space has been widened by more than double; the non-motorized vehicle crossing passage is now connected in one line with the non-motorized vehicle lane on the main road, with clear markings in both directions and each side keeping to its own lane on the return trip, reducing collisions and congestion; the green belt on the safety island has been rearranged, leaving more space for pedestrians and non-motorized vehicles to wait for the light…
Combing through the backend records of the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department Traffic Management Corps' solicitation of public opinions, a clear handling process presents itself: after receiving the clue submitted by netizen “Running Snail” (Ye Mao's screen name); the local detachment and brigade were notified to dispatch police to verify the situation on site; after confirmation, the specific problem was refined; in accordance with the requirements of “expanding nodes, connecting flow lines,” a renovation plan was designed; after a series of construction work such as expansion, backward relocation, and slope reduction, the renovation was completed. A reporter saw on site that pedestrians, non-motorized vehicles, and motor vehicles now travel in a “three-way separation,” with no mutual crowding or disturbance, in perfect order.
“Actually, before the netizen left the comment, we were already seeking advice from the public during our daily visits, and discovered this intersection and a batch of other typical ‘traffic conflict points,’ and with the support of communities, enterprises, and social organizations, we also did a lot of preliminary preparation work, ensuring that the subsequent renovation construction advanced rapidly.” Cheng Jian, deputy captain of the Longgang Detachment of the Shenzhen Public Security Traffic Management Detachment, said with emotion that after the renovation, traffic efficiency at the node has increased by 60%, and traffic accident alerts have dropped significantly.
After the solicitation campaign ended, targeting the golden ideas contributed by enthusiastic netizens in the comments, Guangdong's various local public security traffic management departments, together with relevant departments, conducted on-site surveys of 58 points and sections, and then carried out feasibility assessments based on actual conditions and traffic safety standards, ultimately locking in 47 intersection points and sections, covering 17 prefecture-level cities across the province, and tailoring a “micro-renovation” plan for each one.
At present, all 47 intersections from the first batch of the solicitation campaign have completed rectification. The second round of solicitation has just concluded, collecting clues on 30 problematic intersections involving 9 cities: no electric bicycle overpasses, safety islands that are too small and still have steps… Guangdong traffic police have made clear that after on-site verification, various localities are expected to organize the implementation of a new round of “micro-renovations” in early October.
“Starting from the inch of road under citizens' feet, the lamp before their eyes, and the intersection beside them, write ‘the people's city is built by the people, the people's city serves the people’ into every visible, tangible change.” Liu Feng, deputy captain of the Traffic Management Corps of the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department, said.
Tapping potential and empowering: “micro-governance” releases great effectiveness
At the intersection of Zhongshan Avenue and Keyun Road in Guangzhou, a left-turn lane specially marked out for non-motorized vehicles is often mentioned by food-delivery riders: “Make one turn, and you're directly at the diagonal opposite corner—no need to wait for two red lights, saving a lot of time.”
This is the result of Tianhe traffic police tapping the spatial potential between the two opposing left-turn lanes for motor vehicles, based on the intersection's characteristic of being wide east-west and narrow north-south. “Take another look at this traffic light specially set for left-turning non-motorized vehicles—there's a bit of subtlety to it.” Wu Xuechang, a police officer at the Facilities Detachment of the Guangzhou Public Security Traffic Management Detachment, further explained, “Although motor vehicles and electric bicycles can turn left at the same time, the rhythm of the traffic light control has been carefully calculated, with the non-motorized vehicle lane's green light deliberately coming on 5 seconds earlier and its red light coming on 5 seconds later, which both increases the dispersal rate of electric bicycles, reduces crowding in the waiting area, and reduces interweaving with motor vehicles when starting off, improving the safety factor.”
On the basis of “micro-renovations,” achieving normalized safe and smooth operation, and driving “micro-governance” in traffic order.
At the Guangming Street Station subway entrance on Guangming Avenue, Shenzhen's Guangming District, the entire sidewalk is clean and tidy; the non-motorized vehicle parking lines formerly painted there are still visible, yet not a single vehicle is parked on the road surface. Just as one is wondering at this, Xia Xukun, a second-level senior police inspector at the Guangming Detachment of the Shenzhen Public Security Traffic Management Detachment, led the reporter a few steps forward to look: one lane of Hexi South Road, where motor vehicles are relatively few, has been marked off as a parking area, neatly filled with electric bicycles; the other lane has been converted into a one-way street, forming a small “micro-circulation” with Hexi North Road. “Subway entrances have heavy pedestrian flow and many hidden dangers. When we first said people couldn't park there, there was a lot of objection at the beginning.” Xia Xukun said, “We worked on people while also adopting citizens' suggestions to make small adjustments, guiding everyone to form the civilized habit of parking in fixed spots.”
Over the past half year or more, Guangdong's various local public security traffic management departments have, by building mechanisms, pressing responsibilities, and pooling joint efforts, coordinated the advancement of the special rectification campaign to go deeper and more solid. Various localities have also formed cross-disciplinary expert teams covering transportation, planning, law, and other fields, scientifically guiding the implementation of “micro-renovations” and“micro-governance,” forming long-term mechanisms.
As of the end of June this year, the number of deaths in traffic accidents involving electric bicycles and motorcycles across Guangdong Province has decreased by 27.2% year-on-year, and the problems of “having no road to ride on,” “roads being hard to ride on,” and mixed motorized/non-motorized traffic that the masses have strongly reflected have been effectively alleviated, with the travel experience visibly improved. “In the future, besides continuing to optimize the various measures of publicity, education, management, and control, we must also strengthen technological empowerment.” Wang Jian revealed that the Traffic Management Corps of the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Department is currently exploring the introduction of artificial intelligence technology to carry out automatic inspection of key intersections, guiding grassroots units to carry out more precise and targeted governance, and continuously raising the level of civilized traffic and civilized travel.
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Where AI (artificial intelligence) is used to "impersonate celebrities to promote goods" and constitutes fraud, the people's courts support punitive damages; for acts such as "AI face-swapping and voice-cloning" and "AI resurrecting the deceased," the requirement is to protect the personality rights and interests of natural persons in accordance with law, and to extend this protection to the personality interests of the deceased; the Civil Code's injunction system for infringement of personality rights is introduced into AI scenarios... Recently, the Supreme People's Court issued the Opinions on Adjudicating Cases Involving Artificial Intelligence Disputes in Accordance with Law (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions), focusing on prominent issues of broad public concern in AI-related adjudication, drawing clear legal "red lines" and bottom lines, and promoting the upward and good development of artificial intelligence (向善, xiang shan - "towards, good").
For some time now, illegal acts such as "AI face-swapping" and "AI voice-cloning" have occurred from time to time, drawing high public attention. In the past, cyber-violence such as "doxxing" and "human flesh search" not only infringed on victims' right to privacy and seriously disturbed the tranquility of victims' lives, but also affected the public's sense of security and polluted the online ecosystem. At present, some lawless elements use AI technology to track and analyze publicly available information about specific natural persons, such as telephone numbers, online accounts, and social media, obtaining private information or leaking and disclosing the private information obtained — a phenomenon that makes people feel intense hatred and resentment (深恶痛绝, shen e tong jue - "deeply hate, intensely detest").
As new technologies surge forward, the rule of law keeps pace in a timely manner. At present, legal issues involving artificial intelligence are still new problems, and China has not yet enacted a dedicated artificial intelligence law. The people's courts seek fulcrums within the existing legal framework, resolutely regulating in accordance with law acts that use AI to infringe on the lawful rights and interests of others or disrupt social order, strengthening the protection of rights and interests, and promoting the good of technology. This time, the Supreme People's Court issued adjudication rules for AI-related cases, taking decisive action against wrongdoing (亮剑, liang jian - "light, sword") against the chaos of AI-enabled infringement, further weaving a tighter protection net for people's livelihood rights and interests, and demonstrating the judiciary's clear stance of acting promptly and responding to public concerns.
The judiciary plays an important role in guiding values. "AI-generated" is not a shield for exemption from liability. Previously, an AI face-swapped micro-drama that bore a "striking resemblance" to a well-known actor sparked heated online discussion, and the actor himself sued the micro-drama's producer and broadcaster. Was it a coincidental "lookalike" or deliberate infringement? In its trial, the court held that practitioners in emerging sectors such as micro-dramas, when using new technologies for content creation, should enjoy the dividends of technology within the bounds of law-abiding conduct, and must not, in the name of "technical coincidence," commit acts that infringe on the rights of others; the court ruled that the defendants issue a written apology to the plaintiff and pay compensation for economic losses. The just judgment in this individual case sends a clear judicial signal: technological development must strictly observe the boundaries of rights, and those who infringe on the rights and interests of others under the pretext of technology will ultimately face legal sanction. From determining liability in typical individual cases to rule-based guidance, the judiciary, through one act of taking decisive action against wrongdoing after another, continues to tighten the fence of digital rule of law, building a solid line of defense for the protection of every person's rights.
For the AI industry, only by innovating and developing on the track of the rule of law can it run fast and run steadily. In cases involving artificial intelligence, the people's courts accurately grasp the "fault-tolerance" space for scientific and technological innovation. The Opinions issued this time once again reaffirm the judicial attitude of balancing the protection of personal information rights and interests with the promotion of AI industry development, giving business entities stable and clear institutional expectations — regulating AI infringement while also stimulating innovation vitality.
In the future, new scenarios and new challenges will continue to emerge, and governance challenges will exist over the long term. Only by taking the rule of law as the foundation, responding in a timely manner through improving legislation and clarifying adjudication rules, and making rules the "weather vane" leading the industry, can we ensure the safe, healthy, and orderly development of artificial intelligence on the track of the rule of law, and better enable the dividends of technology to benefit the whole of society.
Return to TopFrom September 14 to 20, the 2026 National Cybersecurity Awareness Week was carried out uniformly across the country. During the week, various localities used easy to understand and accessible (通俗易懂, tong su yi dong - "common, easy, understand") and popular forms to publicize cybersecurity knowledge and protection skills to the public.
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Lin, riding an electric bicycle on a public road, unexpectedly fell and, after being injured, immediately sought medical treatment on his own. There was no surveillance video at the scene of the incident. Photos taken by traffic police when handling the accident at the scene showed that there were water marks on the non-motorized lane near the scene after the incident. Because the basic facts of the road traffic accident could not be ascertained, the traffic management department was unable to determine the cause.
Lin believed that a video he took about one hour after the incident showed water near the location where he fell, and that his fall was entirely caused by the slippery road surface. The area of the incident was under the cleaning and sweeping responsibility of Company B, while a vehicle of Company A, actually leased by Company B, carried out water spraying and dust reduction work, and a certain sanitation center was responsible for the sweeping work of roads throughout the jurisdiction. However, none of these three entities had set up warning signs on the roads near the scene of the incident in advance, failing to fulfill the corresponding safety guarantee obligations.
Lin filed a lawsuit with the Beijing Yanqing District People's Court against Company A, Company B, and a certain sanitation center on the grounds of a dispute over the right to health, demanding that the three entities compensate him for medical expenses, compensation for mental damages, and other costs totaling more than 220,000 yuan.
Company A, Company B, and the certain sanitation center all argued in defense that they had not sprayed water in the area of the incident and that the area of the incident was not within their respective sweeping work scopes. Company B also submitted that, as could be seen from the video provided by Lin, there was no standing water at the scene of the incident, only a small amount of water marks on part of the road surface, and that a passerby riding an electric bicycle passed normally over the water marks, indicating that water marks of this degree are a minor risk commonly seen in daily life, and that riders could pass safely by means such as slowing down and moving cautiously (减速慢行, jian su man xing - "reduce, speed, slow, walk"). The direct or primary cause of Lin's fall and injury may have been his own major negligence, such as excessive speed, lack of attention, and improper handling.
After trial, the court held that, in light of the photos taken by the traffic police at the scene after the incident, the remaining water marks basically conformed to the general degree and common situation of water marks left after normal road water spraying and sweeping, did not exceed the general understanding of ordinary people, and should not impose on the relevant water spraying and sweeping entities a safety guarantee obligation exceeding reasonable limits. As an adult riding an electric bicycle, Lin should have had full awareness of the potential risks on the road section with water marks and should have adopted necessary measures such as cautious driving and reducing speed in advance to lower his own risk. Because he failed to fulfill the necessary duty of care, resulting in his own injury, he should bear the corresponding responsibility himself.
"The evidence on record is insufficient to prove that the accident in question was caused by Company A, Company B, or the certain sanitation center failing to fulfill their corresponding safety guarantee obligations," said the judge handling the case. Regarding all of Lin's claims for compensation from Company A, Company B, and the certain sanitation center jointly for his losses, there was a lack of corresponding basis, and the court did not support them.
The judge stated that the specific content of the safety guarantee obligation under the Civil Code must be comprehensively determined based on actual circumstances, and this determination is made from the perspective of a general rational person, without imposing undue blame on the relevant entities. The safety guarantee obligation of managers of public places has reasonable limits and is not an unlimited catch-all. Civil subjects bear a duty of prudent care for their own conduct and should act as the "first person responsible" for their own safety.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 周 欢
"If it weren't for me managing it on a daily basis, could the forest have grown this well? At least half of it should go to me." "Just because you managed it? On what grounds — split it evenly." ...
"You three brothers, first calm down, don't argue, speak slowly." ...
A few days ago, the three Tang brothers of Hongyan Village, Longnan Town, Longnan City, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, were in a fierce or irreconcilable dispute (不可开交, bu ke kai jiao - "not, can, open, interlock") over issues such as compensation for the expropriation of forest land left by their parents. For this reason, they came to the Red Consultative Discussion Hall at Yanyuanwei in the village. After a patient mediation by staff of the town's judicial office, the knot in the brothers' hearts gradually began to loosen. In this Yanyuanwei, local Hakka people once lived for more than 200 years, and it has now been transformed into a provincial-level base for legal education and publicity.
Wei houses, that is, the enclosed residential dwellings built by the Hakka people, serve the multiple functions of residence, ancestral worship, and security. For thousands of years, people from the Central Plains migrated south to southern Ganzhou, building wei houses one after another here, living together by clan and passing down farming and scholarship through the generations. Longnan has 376 surviving wei houses, accounting for 70 percent of the Hakka wei houses in southern Ganzhou, and is hailed as the "Hometown of Chinese Wei Houses."
"Wei houses generally belong to the villagers, but the villagers' awareness of protection is weak, and destructive behaviors such as unauthorized construction and arbitrary alteration of the original appearance are widespread. In the past, there was no basis for administrative intervention, so we could only patiently give lectures and offer persuasion." Liu Yimin, director of the Longnan City Judicial Bureau, said that a 2018 survey found that more than half of the city's wei houses had problems such as tilting walls, leaking roofs, and man-made damage.
In March 2019, the Regulations on the Protection of Hakka Wei Houses in Southern Ganzhou (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations) were formally implemented, clarifying the policy of prioritizing protection, rescue first, rational utilization, and strengthened management, establishing a classified protection list for wei houses, clearly defining the protection scope of wei houses and the controlled construction zones, and delineating the management and protection rights and responsibilities of the government, owners, and society.
To promote the implementation and effectiveness of the Regulations, Longnan issued the Implementation Plan for the Protection, Repair, and Utilization of Hakka Wei Houses in Longnan City and the Detailed Rules for the Repair and Protection of Hakka Wei Houses, forming a full-process, standardized repair and management system covering everything from the material ratios and construction procedures for wei house repair to daily supervision and revitalization and utilization.
How can the requirements of the Regulations for the restoration of wei houses be properly implemented? The key lies in restoring the old as it was, with minimal intervention, preserving to the greatest extent the original appearance of the wei houses and the ancient charm of the Hakka.
Inside Yanyuanwei, many repaired wall sections are almost forming a seamless whole (浑然一体, hun ran yi ti - "completely, as, one, body") with the old walls that have weathered a hundred years of wind and rain. Li Minghua, repair consultant for Yanyuanwei, introduced that repairing ancient buildings is far more difficult than building new houses — from foundation reinforcement and mortise-and-tenon restoration to wall color matching, every procedure must balance structural safety with historical authenticity.
The Red Army once stationed in the village, and on the walls of the local wei buildings more than 30 Red Army slogans remain to this day, each word and phrase carrying the revolutionary ideals of the predecessors. "When repairing the walls, we avoided the slogans. We selected a special restoration adhesive for cultural relics to finely fill the cracks, and also had transparent covers custom-made and installed on the outside of the slogans to block erosion from moisture and dust." Li Minghua said.
Law-based revitalization and utilization can produce even more outstanding results.
In the locality, Yanyuanwei has been developed into a base for legal education and publicity, having held more than 80 law-popularization activities and more than 30 special training sessions for "persons who understand the law"; Guanxi Xinwei has been built into a national 4A-level tourist attraction, featuring special venues such as a Hakka folk customs museum; Yangcun Yanyiwei has established an intangible cultural heritage performance site, where craftsmen of ribbon weaving, tin work, and bamboo weaving are stationed year-round, and traditional handicrafts are being passed on in a living manner within the ancient wei houses...
Guided by the Regulations, Longnan has acted in light of local conditions, adopting one policy for each wei house, promoting diversified integrated models such as "wei house + homestay," "wei house + intangible cultural heritage," and "wei house + cultural tourism," and developing cultural tourism products centered on wei houses. From January to August this year, Longnan City received a cumulative total of 7.7465 million tourist visits, with total tourist spending of 7.126 billion yuan, up 10.65 percent and 12.11 percent year-on-year respectively.
The transformation of Longnan's Hakka wei houses over these years cannot be separated from the escort of the rule of law. "Next, on the one hand, we will work with law enforcement departments to strictly investigate and punish acts such as damaging and illegally renovating wei houses; on the other hand, relying on the wei house positions, we will use Hakka folk arts, short videos, and other forms to regularly publicize the Regulations, so that the concept of protecting 'wei' houses according to law takes deeper root in people's hearts." Liu Yimin said.
Return to TopRecently, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the launch of the "Little Trumpet" (Xiaolaba) program of China Media Group, General Secretary Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter encouraging the vast number of workers in children's literature and art to "closely follow the pulse of the times, deeply cultivate the fertile soil of children's culture, and create with heart and feeling more excellent works that spread truth, goodness, and beauty and are loved by children." This page invites practitioners from children's literature, film and television, drama, music, calligraphy, and other fields to share, based on their own practical experience, their insights on studying the spirit of General Secretary Xi's congratulatory letter and using good works to accompany children's growth.
—Editor
Always Keep Children in Your Heart
Dai Ying
After reading General Secretary Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter, my heart is filled with warmth and emotion. As a host of the "Little Trumpet" program, I feel both deeply honored and keenly aware of the mission on my shoulders.
Seventy years have passed, and generations of broadcasting predecessors have upheld the original aspiration of "telling children good stories." The familiar melody of "da-di-da" has traversed the years, accompanying several generations of children through their innocent and beautiful childhoods. The cause of "serving children" embodies the perseverance and dedication of generation after generation. Now this baton has been passed into the hands of our generation of "Little Trumpet" workers.
Sitting in the recording studio facing the microphone, I often think of my predecessors' admonition: "When making children's programs, you must keep children in your heart. On the other end of the airwaves are individual children, who are listening attentively to your stories." Facing young and innocent hearts, the microphone may be small, but it carries the important mission of forging souls and nurturing people. My predecessors devoted their entire lives to the children's literature and art front, working quietly and pouring all their efforts into children. This sincere perseverance is the precious spiritual wealth we must inherit.
Only by truly getting close to children, with heart and feeling, can we make good programs. I know well that every episode and every story influences children's growth imperceptibly (潜移默化, qian yi mo hua - "subtle, imperceptible"). We cannot just imagine what children are like from the recording studio; we must bend down and go to the children's side to listen to their true voices. Only by incorporating children's observations and expressions into program creation can stories be more contemporary and can children understand and be willing to listen.
In recent years, "Little Trumpet" has carried out activities such as "Meeting the Voice of Childhood," "Little Trumpet Audiovisual Workshop," and "Little Trumpet Sound Campus Tour," striving to tell the stories of China and the development of the new era in ways children love and enjoy, allowing red genes and cultural confidence to permeate the hearts and minds of children in the new era. We are also actively expanding integrated communication, exploring creative models of audience participation and multi-party co-creation, innovating discourse expression, enriching presentation forms, and continuously polishing the golden brand of "Little Trumpet." Adhering to "doing radio well without being limited to radio," we are deepening the construction of an all-media communication pattern, letting the "Little Trumpet" emit a "big volume" and continuously attracting children of the new era.
The times are developing and the communication landscape is changing, but our original intention of serving children has never changed. We must take General Secretary Xi's earnest instructions as the "golden key" for future program creation, carry forward the original aspiration of "telling children good stories," and always keep children in our hearts. I will cherish the microphone in my hand even more, hold this cause in awe, be a "Sister Spring" worthy of children's trust, and use a warm voice to guard children's hearts and accompany their growth.
(The author is the host of the "Little Trumpet" program of the Sports, Youth and Children Center of China Media Group)
Cultivating the Craft of "Telling Stories Well"
Cao Wenxuan
In his congratulatory letter, General Secretary Xi Jinping highly praised the "Little Trumpet" program for adhering to "telling children good stories." As a writer who often writes stories for children, I would like to share my understanding of "telling stories well" from the perspective of creation, in two senses. One is telling "good stories," and the other is "telling" stories "well."
In the 24 hours of a day, as long as the world is in motion, stories are bound to happen. But not all stories are worth telling. We should make choices—choosing those unique stories with spiritual depth that can be called wonderful good stories. These stories have an influencing others imperceptibly effect on elevating children's spiritual realm, purifying their souls, and enhancing their wisdom. Such stories generally have the following dimensions: they can help children establish a correct sense of morality; they can enhance children's aesthetic ability; they can cultivate children's compassionate feelings. From a broader perspective, these stories have the function of shaping children into high-quality citizens and can help children lay a good foundation of human nature.
For a writer, obtaining good stories is only a prerequisite; he must also consider how to "tell" these good stories "well." This brings us back to the topic of artistry. When these stories are told, great attention must be paid to language, action, plot, detail, rhythm, beauty, and many other aspects. Ultimately, these good stories must be elevated into works of art. Only stories that can be called "works of art" can transcend time and space, live from today into tomorrow, and go from here to the infinitely vast world. A writer must cultivate his artistic craft of "telling stories well."
Stories came into being before writing. Creating stories is a spiritual desire of humanity, and listening to stories is also a spiritual desire of humanity. From the spirited expression of the famous Eastern Han Dynasty storytelling figurine, we can imagine the rapt expressions of those listening to storytellers. In One Thousand and One Nights, the clever and brave Scheherazade used the charm of stories to save one innocent life after another from the tyrant's sword. When a small child can barely use the simplest language to listen to the simplest story, we see this desire. The story becomes a precious gift from adults to him. A father about to go on a long journey will say to his three-year-old son: "Stay home and complete the tasks assigned to you. When Dad comes back, I will definitely tell you a story."
The success of "Little Trumpet" is precisely in responding to the strong desire of all children to listen to stories. For 70 years, the program has told countless stories that calm children's minds, inspire them to improve, enhance their imagination, and encourage them to be people of noble character. I hope such stories will continue to be told.
(The author is a children's literature writer)
Back Then, I Also Sat Quietly by the Radio
Shang Linlin
"Little Trumpet begins broadcasting!" When I was a child, whenever this well-known and familiar (耳熟能详, er shu neng xiang - "ear, familiar, can, know") opening line sounded, I would always sit quietly by the radio. The seeds of kindness, courage, and great love in those stories were thus quietly sown in my heart. As time passed, I was fortunate enough to become an animation worker, transforming from a child who quietly listened to stories back then into a creator who tells stories to children, striving to pass on the warmth and emotion I gained in childhood to every child of today.
General Secretary Xi Jinping sent a letter congratulating the 70th anniversary of the launch of the "Little Trumpet" program, and every word is full of earnest instructions. "Creating more excellent works that spread truth, goodness, and beauty and are loved by children"—this is precisely our creative original aspiration.
Since the debut of Boonie Bears in 2012, Fantawild Animation has adhered to the creative philosophy of "nature, environmental protection, health, and happiness," producing 12 theatrical films and more than 40 outstanding animated works. The total box office of the Boonie Bears film series has exceeded 9.6 billion yuan, accompanying more than 200 million viewers, both young and old, through countless warm family moments. The stories of Briar, Bramble, and Vick guarding their homeland pass on the fine qualities of unity, friendship, kindness, and responsibility to the children and young people on screen, silently and without fanfare. The animated series Zhao Lin's Adventure Diary hopes to tell young viewers that growing up is an adventure, and bravery is not about never being afraid, but about being kind-hearted, facing difficulties head-on, and gaining growth through experience. This is precisely the truth, goodness, and beauty we want to convey to children and young people. Our works have been translated into more than 100 languages and distributed to more than 130 countries and regions, spreading the truth, goodness, and beauty carried by Chinese animation to the wider world.
"Closely following the pulse of the times" requires animation creation to resonate with the times. As the motherland's aerospace industry is flourishing and developing rapidly (蒸蒸日上, zheng zheng ri shang - "steam, steam, sun, up"), we drew inspiration from it and created Boonie Bears: Back to Earth, leading children to look up at the brilliant starry sky. Boonie Bears: Guardian Code is grounded in the era of artificial intelligence, telling the truth that under the wave of technology, love and companionship never fade. For the Spring Festival of 2026, we will release Boonie Bears: Year of the Bear, exploring new expressions of fine traditional Chinese culture, allowing children to understand the meaning of reunion and togetherness amid a rich festive atmosphere. We strive to transform grand themes of the times into stories that children can understand, are willing to watch, and can empathize with, accompanying them as they get to know the vast world and boldly imagine a better future.
The values in our works will influence children's growth imperceptibly. We continuously polish our scripts, repeatedly verify plots, avoid negative orientations, uphold value bottom lines, and ensure that every story conveys warmth, justice, and hope, guiding children to establish a correct worldview, outlook on life, and sense of values. In the blink of an eye, the children who once watched Boonie Bears in front of the screen have now grown up and are shining in their own ways in all walks of life. I often read audience comments. A child once said, "No matter how big the difficulties I encounter in the future, I must be like Xiao Liang and not give up easily." A parent also shared with us, "I grew up watching Boonie Bears, and now I watch it with my own child. It has become a bridge connecting the childhoods of our two generations." This love that transcends time and flows in both directions is the most powerful motivation for me to keep moving forward and give my all.
(The author is an animation producer and producer)
I Love Drawing, I Love Children
Cai Gao
In my life, I have probably been like the thread my grandmother used to sew soles on her lap—one pull, one tug, pulling out nursery rhymes and also pulling out the paintings I would later create.
When I was little, there were no picture books. My book was my grandmother. She would sew soles while telling stories. Those stories carried the fragrance of gardenias, the tune of "Moon Cake," and the simplest truths. She would tell "Plant lotus seeds, bloom lotus flowers," and I would repeat after her. As I chanted, the vague shadows in my heart began to take on color and shape. Later, I painted Moon Cake, and the child in the painting is actually myself—it depicts where I came from. Art, when it comes down to it, is nothing more than taking the softest things in life, slowly warming them with sincerity, and then offering them to children.
At the age of 20, I was assigned to a rural primary school in the mountains of Zhuzhou, Hunan. After getting off the train, I had to walk more than 20 li. But it was during those years that I learned to observe the cooking smoke rising from the ridges between fields and to watch fireflies drawing invisible lines on summer nights. I taught classes and also produced blackboard newspapers. In those years, there were no fine art tools; I used whatever was at hand to draw. What I drew on blackboards and on the backs of waste paper was life itself. Thinking back now, those hardships contained a kind of truth. It is this truth that later gave the Peach Blossom Spring under my brush the flavor of cooking smoke and gave the moment when Mulan pushes open the door upon returning home a tangible warmth.
At the age of 36, I was transferred to Hunan Children's Publishing House, and only then did I formally step through this door. At that time, picture books in China were still a wasteland, and no one told me how to make picture books. I worked as an editor while exploring how to draw. In 1993, Bao'er (originally titled The Fox Spirit of the Wasteland) won the Golden Apple Award at the Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava. For the first time, I learned that the red and black colors I painted for Chinese children could also be seen by the world.
To paint The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring, I made several trips to Changde, Hunan, and stood by the stream for a long time. The fisherman in Tao Yuanming's writing walked along the stream because he loved the peach blossoms along the way. What I wanted to paint was precisely this kind of joy and pursuit of ordinary people. A picture book is a bridge—people from this side walk over, people from that side walk over. No need for many words; colors and lines will speak for themselves.
Some people ask me what matters most when painting for children. I say, sincerity. Whatever you hold in your heart will flow out from under your brush. When painting Fire City 1938, my daughter and I visited people who had experienced the great fire of Changsha and listened to them tell heavy, unsettling stories of the past. Some say children should not be shown such bitter things, but I feel that the vague fears of childhood, if not seen and not understood, will forever remain a blurry shadow. Once painted, they take shape and can be spoken of and set at rest. I simply paint, stroke by stroke, what I have felt in my own life. Truth, goodness, and beauty are contained in every day a person lives with earnestness.
This year I turn 80. Next, I want to paint for even younger children. Picture books for children aged 0 to 3 are very difficult to make, but someone has to try. I have no other skills—I just love drawing and I love children. When I open a picture book and see the colors lying quietly on the paper, waiting for a small child's hand to turn the pages, I feel there is no happier thing in the world than this.
(The author is a picture book illustrator; compiled by People's Daily reporter Yang Xun)
The Puppet Is Light, Yet It Bears a Heavy Responsibility
Zhao Yongzhuang
The China Puppet Art Theater has already walked 71 years. Puppet art is a treasure of traditional Chinese culture and also a vehicle for aesthetic education that has accompanied generations of children as they grow. Having been on the front line of children's literature and art for more than two decades, I have led the theater in adhering to the original aspiration of "performing for children, nurturing people for the times," using the small puppet as a medium to inherit the Chinese cultural lineage and nourish innocent young hearts.
We adhere to a child-centered approach, upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground to polish fine works. The puppet show Havoc in Heaven revitalizes the thousand-year-old intangible cultural heritage of puppet craftsmanship, interpreting a classic national treasure with Eastern aesthetics and deeply cultivating children's cultural confidence. The ecological-themed puppet show The Elephants Are Coming is based on real stories of animal protection, integrating the concept of harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature into a stage full of childlike charm. The red-themed puppet shows I Love Tiananmen Square and The Red Army's War Horse tell red stories and carry forward the red lineage.
Puppet images are vivid and lively, their narratives are accessible and concrete, and they carry an innate childlike appeal. This unique artistic quality gives puppetry an irreplaceable advantage in children's aesthetic education. Last year, I led a team to bring The Red Army's War Horse to Zhaojue County in the Daliang Mountains of Sichuan. Not long ago, we also went to Zhaojin Beiliang Red Army Primary School in Tongchuan, Shaanxi, for a charity performance. In the rural classroom, on the small stage, the story of the puppet war horse "One Red Spot" and the Red Army soldier, bound together in life and death, moved the entire audience. The children below sat quietly, staring intently; the originally noisy classroom fell completely silent, and many children clenched their small fists with reddened eyes. When the performance ended, Principal Zheng of the Red Army Primary School said: "This is both a vivid red-education ideological and political lesson and an extremely moving and wonderful artistic feast." The lively puppet traveled a thousand miles, allowing children in the old revolutionary base areas to touch the story of the Long March up close, to feel the Long March spirit of "firm conviction, undaunted by setbacks" (百折不挠, bai zhe bu nao - "hundred, bend, not, yield"), and to sow the burning red seed deep in children's hearts.
The stage may be small, but the world is vast; the puppet may be light, but it bears a heavy responsibility. Every performance is warm companionship, and every play is silent nourishment. In the future, we will continue to deeply cultivate the creation of fine children's works and polish more works with warmth, feeling, and strength. Using puppets as a bridge and love to nurture people, we will guard innocent childhoods.
(The author is the president of the China Puppet Art Theater)
Listening to Children's Innocence with Heart
Li Kaichou
Seventy years have passed swiftly, and the small airwaves have traversed the years, accompanying generation after generation of children as they grow with gentle stories.
Those classic children's songs passed down and sung by generation after generation are the crystallization of creators listening to children's innocence with heart. With light melodies and simple words, they preserve the light in children's eyes and quietly plant gentleness and kindness in their hearts. Music nurtures people, moistening things silently, and only then can it achieve steady and continuous progress (细水长流, xi shui chang liu - "fine, water, long, flow").
What kind of children's songs can actually be loved by children and sung by the public? The answer is actually simple: all moving melodies originate from the most real life. When creating Your Smile Is So Beautiful, I did not deliberately craft ornate lyrics or set a profound theme. I just happened to see the innocent and carefree (天真烂漫, tianzhen lanman - "heaven, true, unrestrained, bloom") appearance of a child who, after crying, immediately showed a smiling face, with clear, bright eyes like spring flowers in full bloom—clean and healing. So I used a light and gentle tune to simply depict the beauty of a smile. This song contains no grand principles, only the purest joy hidden in life. It is precisely this unadorned innocence and beauty that allowed a song to cross mountains and seas, enter countless households (千家万户, qian jia wan hu - "thousand, family, ten thousand, house"), and accompany many children through a carefree and without worries (无忧无虑, wu you wu li - "no, worry, no, care") childhood.
Let Me Say Thank You plants a seed of gratitude and gentleness for childhood. On the road of growth, the teachings of mentors, the companionship of family, and the kindness of strangers—these fragments of warmth piece together the sunshine of a child's growth. I have always believed that gratitude need not be forced and virtue need not be instilled. A simple line like "Because of you, the four seasons are warm" is gentle yet powerful. Through day after day (日复一日, ri fu yi ri - "sun, repeat, one, sun") of singing, children can gradually learn to perceive warmth, cherish it, and hold kindness in their hearts. I believe this is the most precious educational value of children's music.
As creators of children's music, we are also recorders and guardians of childhood. In the future, I will continue to hold fast to my original aspiration, settle down and take root in the soil of children's literature and art, write with a childlike heart, and compose with gentleness. I hope that in the future, every one of my works can shed ostentation, retain purity, spread truth, goodness, and beauty with light singing, and accompany countless young people as they grow toward the sun.
(The author is a music creator)
Conducting Oneself and Handling Affairs, Written Between Every Stroke
Kou Xuechen
Having been engaged in calligraphy education for more than 30 years, I have increasingly come to realize that the weight of a writing brush is far heavier than one might imagine.
In his congratulatory letter, General Secretary Xi Jinping encouraged us to spread truth, goodness, and beauty. I believe calligraphy education is precisely such an aesthetic education that reaches directly into children's hearts. Between every stroke, children learn not only technique but also the attitude of conducting themselves uprightly and handling affairs earnestly. Whenever I see children smoothing out their copybooks and practicing again and again, I know that seeds are breaking through the soil and sprouting.
Over the years, I have visited many remote rural schools. In some classrooms, calligraphy class schedules are quietly posted on the wall, but due to a shortage of teachers and teaching materials, the calligraphy classes exist in name only. Some children have never even seen a real writing brush or rice paper. Those schedules that exist in name only are like silent "question marks" piercing my heart. I became firmly convinced of one thing: calligraphy should not become an unattainable luxury for rural children.
In 2013, I initiated the "Candlelight Plan," aiming to leverage the strengths of university calligraphy programs and, through forms such as "voluntary donation, voluntary training, voluntary lectures, and voluntary evaluation," deliver quality calligraphy education to the places that need it most. Over the past 13 years, the "Candlelight Plan" has entered 68 counties and districts in Hebei Province and radiated to 21 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, training more than 5,000 teachers and benefiting more than 600,000 teachers and students.
In Nyingchi, Tibet, some Tibetan children picked up a writing brush for the first time, their eyes full of curiosity and expectation. In Korla, Xinjiang, schools such as Lixiang Primary School have expanded calligraphy aesthetic education into a large classroom of home-school co-education. In Bijie, Guizhou, we have carried out "region + field" group-based targeted assistance. These scenes have made me deeply feel that calligraphy is not just writing characters; it is sowing a seed of cultural inheritance in children's hearts.
These years of hands-on practice have also led me to realize that true assistance is about stimulating rural schools' own "self-hematopoietic capacity." So we pioneered the "seed teacher" training model, providing rural teachers with a systematic path for growth. Teacher Zhang Yan from Jinsha County, Guizhou, said: "Professor Kou not only taught us how to write, but also taught us how to teach." Now there are 819 "seed teachers" like Zhang Yan, who, like lamps, continue to shine in their respective schools.
In 2022, the "Candlelight Plan: Touring Exhibition of Works by Teachers and Students from 100 Rural Schools" was selected for the China National Arts Fund Communication, Exchange, and Promotion Project and was exhibited successively in Xinjiang, Tibet, Guizhou, and other places. We framed the children's works in green, representing "infinite hope." Seeing their own works solemnly hung in the exhibition hall, some children hurriedly took photos with their phones, while others grabbed their parents' hands and shouted excitedly: "My work is in the exhibition!" At that moment, I suddenly understood that this was a dream once blocked by mountains and now finally seen.
When children pick up a writing brush, what they hold is not just a brush but also a sense of spiritual belonging—from the sinewy strength of Yan Zhenqing and the sinewy strength of Liu Gongquan to poetry and song, conversing with the sages and walking with the classics. When thousands upon thousands of such dreams converge, they become the deepest foundation of confidence for a culturally strong nation.
(The author is a calligraphy educator; compiled by People's Daily reporter Zhang Tengyang)
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