People's Daily - September 23, 2026

Xi Jinping extends festive congratulations and sincere greetings to farmers nationwide and comrades on the agriculture, rural areas, and farmers front

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 22) On the occasion of the arrival of the ninth "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival," 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, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, extended festive congratulations and sincere greetings to farmers across the country and to comrades working on the agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农) front.

Xi Jinping pointed out that this year, China's summer grain output reached a new record high again, early rice maintained stable production, and autumn grain harvests are promising.

Xi Jinping emphasized that Party committees and governments at all levels must conscientiously implement the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments, solidly advance the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, improve the effectiveness of policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit rural areas, and enrich farmers, strive to enhance the comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality efficiency, broaden channels for farmers to increase income and become prosperous, build livable, workable, and beautiful villages in light of local conditions, and work hard to make the lives of the broad masses of farmers happier and more beautiful.

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Xi Jinping Sends Congratulatory Letter to 48th WorldSkills Competition

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 22) On September 22, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the 48th WorldSkills Competition.

Xi Jinping pointed out that, at present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating and making breakthroughs, bringing profound impact on the development of global skills. The WorldSkills Competition closely aligns with industrial needs and has built a beneficial platform for skilled talents from various countries to refine their techniques and engage in learning from each other and drawing lessons from one another (互学互鉴, hu xue hu jian - "each learn, each refer").

Xi Jinping emphasized that China will take the hosting of this competition as an opportunity to encourage and guide more workers, especially young people, to embark on the path of achieving success through skills. We are willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with all parties, promote the development of the world skills movement, and better serve global economic growth and the improvement of people's livelihoods and well-being.

The 48th WorldSkills Competition opened in Shanghai on that very day, with the theme "Skills Change the World, Skills Illuminate the Future", hosted by WorldSkills International and co-organized by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government. During the competition, the WorldSkills Conference and the WorldSkills Expo will be held.

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True friends always remember and care for each other

By: 本报记者 李志伟

In Muscatine, Iowa, the United States, the Mississippi River flows quietly, bearing witness to a cross-ocean friendship spanning more than four decades.

On the eve of President Xi Jinping's state visit to the United States, reporters from People's Daily walked into Muscatine, a small city etched with the imprint of China-U.S. people-to-people friendship, to seek out American old friends who have maintained a friendship with President Xi Jinping for many years. Full of warmth and enthusiasm, they eagerly look forward to President Xi Jinping's visit to the United States, hoping that this meeting between the Chinese and U.S. heads of state can inject momentum into the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of China-U.S. relations.

"I want to thank President Xi Jinping for proposing the '5 years, 50,000' initiative. This matter is of great significance to the people of Muscatine."

Sarah Lande's home sits on a hillside by the banks of the Mississippi River, and from the window one can see the broad river surface. Lande, now 88 years old, has been deeply engaged in China-U.S. people-to-people exchanges for many years. Learning that President Xi Jinping is about to visit the United States, she is especially delighted.

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Accelerate the cultivation and expansion of emerging and future industries, and continuously strengthen and expand advanced manufacturing

(Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, September 22) (Reporter Zou Wei) Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, conducted a research visit in Shanghai on September 22. He stressed the need to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on developing advanced manufacturing and the spirit of the National Conference on Advanced Manufacturing, adhere to the directions of intelligence, green development, and integration, deeply promote the integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, vigorously develop a new generation of intelligent manufacturing, accelerate the cultivation and expansion of emerging industries and future industries, and continuously strengthen and expand advanced manufacturing.

At the Shanghai Electric National Artificial Intelligence Application Pilot Base, Li Qiang inspected special-purpose robots and industrial robot products and their application demonstrations in complex scenarios, listened to reports on the construction of "AI+" integrated service providers and AI-native factories, and visited the pilot workshop for intelligent robot assembly and debugging. Li Qiang pointed out that emerging industries such as artificial intelligence are changing with each passing day (日新月异, ri xin yue yi - "day, new, month, change"), and the application of related technologies is profoundly reshaping the technological system, production models, and industrial forms of manufacturing, opening up entirely new space for technological innovation and brand enhancement in manufacturing. It is necessary to combine China's advantages in both manufacturing and digital-intelligent technologies, deeply advance "AI + manufacturing," promote AI to better empower the development of advanced manufacturing, facilitate intelligent upgrades across the entire process of R&D, production, and management, further activate the potential of data elements, drive the comprehensive digital-intelligent transformation of more industries, and build smarter industrial and supply chains. It is necessary to target common difficulties in the manufacturing field, focus on key links such as industrial design, pilot testing and validation, and intelligent operation and maintenance, build more manufacturing production service platforms, strengthen the supply of integrated services and diversified solutions, help various enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, carry out intelligent transformation more efficiently and at lower cost, and continuously enhance development momentum and competitive advantages.

Shanghai Future Qidian Community is a science and technology innovation incubation platform focused on the field of future industries. Li Qiang came here to learn in detail about the construction of the community's innovation ecosystem and the operation of the Shanghai Future Industry Fund, inspected technology products in fields such as brain-computer interfaces and quantum computing, and had cordial exchanges with science and technology innovation personnel and community staff. Li Qiang pointed out that future industries are a potential blue ocean for the development of advanced manufacturing. It is necessary to strengthen tracking, analysis, and assessment of future technology development trends, intensify research on key core technologies, consolidate the support of basic research, encourage bold exploration and tolerance of trial and error, and continuously expand the frontiers of industrial innovation. It is necessary to build a first-class innovation ecosystem, promote the deep integration of industry, academia, research, and application, strengthen science and technology services, and actively cultivate and open up application scenarios. In view of the characteristics of future industries, namely long growth cycles and high market risks, it is necessary to vigorously develop venture capital, strengthen patient capital, and establish mechanisms for investment growth and risk sharing in future industries. Li Qiang stressed that talent is the primary resource, and only by possessing talent can we win the future. It is necessary to strengthen the talent aggregation and cultivation functions of research institutions, innovation platforms, enterprises, and science and technology programs, explore new models for cultivating top-notch innovative talent, and strive to cultivate more high-quality talent.

Chen Jining and Wu Zhenglong participated in the research visit.

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"Great Expedition — Thematic Exhibition Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Victory of the Long March of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of China" Opens in Beijing

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 22) The opening ceremony of the "Great Expedition — Thematic Exhibition Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Victory of the Long March of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of China" was held on the morning of September 22 at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution. Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, delivered a speech and declared the exhibition open.

At 10 a.m., the band of the People's Liberation Army of China played the "March of the Volunteers," and all present sang the national anthem of the People's Republic of China. Subsequently, all present stood in silence to mourn the revolutionary martyrs who made heroic sacrifices during the Long March.

In his speech, Cai Qi pointed out that 90 years ago, the Communist Party of China led the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of China in overcoming countless difficulties and perils (千难万险, qian nan wan xian - "thousand, difficult, ten thousand, dangerous"), at tremendous sacrifice, and in victoriously completing the Long March that shook the world and is recorded in the annals of history. The victory of the Long March realized the great turning point of the Communist Party of China and the cause of the Chinese revolution from setbacks to victory, opened a new great advance of the Communist Party of China in fighting for national independence and the liberation of the people, and is a towering monument in the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The great Long March spirit forged by Chinese Communists and Red Army officers and soldiers with their lives and blood has become deeply integrated into the bloodline and soul of the Chinese nation, and has become a powerful spiritual driving force that encourages and inspires the Chinese people to keep overcoming great difficulties and challenges (攻坚克难, gong jian ke nan - "attack, stronghold; overcome, difficulty") and to advance from victory to victory.

Cai Qi said that the thematic exhibition comprehensively presents the glorious course, valuable experience, great significance, and far-reaching influence of the Party leading the Red Army in the Long March, fully displays the magnificent journey of the Party leading the people in inheriting and carrying forward revolutionary traditions and continuously creating new historical glories over a long period, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Party, and provides an important platform for carrying out education in ideals and convictions, education in patriotism, and education in revolutionary traditions. The purpose of holding this exhibition is to guide the broad masses of cadres and the people to deeply understand that the red political power was hard-won, that the new China was hard-won, and that socialism with Chinese characteristics was hard-won, to forever bear in mind the great achievements and contributions of the Party and the Red Army, and to continue to advance the great cause pioneered by the revolutionary forebears. On the new journey, it is necessary to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments (两个确立), resolutely achieve the Two Upholds (两个维护), vigorously carry forward the great Long March spirit, and walk well the Long March road of the new era, making great efforts and showing vigorous spirit (踔厉奋发, chuoli fenfa - "strive, energetic; exert, spirit") and advancing bravely and resolutely, making unremitting efforts to comprehensively advance the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization.

Cai Qi and other leading comrades visited the thematic exhibition together with representatives of the masses from all walks of life.

Yin Li, Li Shulei, Zhang Shengmin, Losang Jamcan, and Wang Yong attended.

Responsible comrades of relevant central Party, government, and military departments and of Beijing Municipality, officers and soldiers of troops stationed in the capital, and representatives of the masses from all walks of life in the capital, totaling about 600 people, participated.

The thematic exhibition is divided into 7 parts in total, displaying 357 photographs and charts and 1,061 items (sets) of cultural relics and documents.

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Ding Xuexiang Meets with Kazakhstan's First Deputy Prime Minister Nalibayev

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 22) Ding Xuexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, met in Beijing on the afternoon of the 22nd with Nurlan Nalibayev, First Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan.

Ding Xuexiang stated that China and Kazakhstan are good neighbors, good friends, and good partners sharing a border and a common destiny (山水相连, shan shui xiang lian - "mountain, water, mutually, connect"). In July this year, President Xi Jinping held a meeting with President Tokayev, which charted the course for developing bilateral relations and deepening practical cooperation. As co-chairs of the China-Kazakhstan Cooperation Committee, we must fully implement the important consensus of the two heads of state, give full play to our coordinating and overall-planning role, and focus on key areas such as trade and investment, artificial intelligence, and green minerals to achieve new results in practical cooperation and better enhance the well-being of the peoples of both countries.

Nalibayev stated that Kazakhstan is willing to work with China, following the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, to further develop close and fruitful cooperation and promote the development of Kazakhstan-China relations to a higher level.

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Han Zheng Meets with Cambodian King Sihamoni and Queen Mother Monineath

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 22) On September 22, Vice President Han Zheng met with Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni and Queen Mother Norodom Monineath in Beijing.

Han Zheng conveyed the cordial greetings and best wishes of President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan, saying that the ironclad friendship between China and Cambodia was jointly forged and carefully cultivated by the older-generation leaders of China and the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk, and has weathered many hardships (历经风雨, li jing feng yu - "pass through, experience, wind, rain") and stands as solid as a rock (坚如磐石, jian ru pan shi -"firm, like, huge rock"). Under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping and King Sihamoni, bilateral relations have entered a new stage of building a China-Cambodia community with a shared future in the new era for all weather. China is willing to work with Cambodia to promote the implementation of the important consensus of the leaders of the two countries, so that the China-Cambodia friendship can deeply touch people's hearts (深入人心, shen ru ren xin -"deep, enter, people, heart") and be passed down from generation to generation.

Sihamoni and Monineath said that China and Cambodia have always been closely united and worked together to consolidate the profound friendship forged by the older-generation leaders. Last year, President Xi Jinping's visit to Cambodia wrote a new chapter for the all-weather Cambodia-China community with a shared future in the new era. Cambodia firmly adheres to the One-China policy and wishes China prosperous and flourishing (繁荣昌盛, fan rong chang sheng -"prosperous, flourishing, prosperous, flourishing") and peaceful country and prosperous people (国泰民安, guo tai min an -"country, peaceful, people, safe").

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Rural Revitalization Thrives in Beautiful and Harmonious Villages

By: 本报记者 常 钦 郁静娴 邓剑洋

September 23 this year marks the ninth "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival."

On the occasion of the festival, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "Party committees and governments at all levels should conscientiously implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, solidly advance comprehensive rural revitalization, improve the effectiveness of policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit farmers, and enrich rural areas, focus on enhancing the comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality and efficiency, broaden channels for farmers to increase income and become prosperous, build livable, workable, and beautiful villages in light of local conditions, and strive to make the lives of the vast number of farmers happier and more beautiful."

Bearing in mind the instructions, we work hard to prosper agriculture through practical action. In the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," China's summer grain output exceeded 300 billion jin for the first time, early rice output has remained stable at over 56 billion jin for six consecutive years, rural industries have improved in quality and efficiency, rural construction has advanced in an orderly manner, the effectiveness of rural governance has steadily improved, and comprehensive rural revitalization is showing good momentum.

The story of the harvest is written in the fields, and also in the lives of the villagers.

From the story of one grain farmer, we see the stability of the "rice bowl"—

A harvest is grown season after season

General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that ensuring the stable supply of grain and other important agricultural products is the top priority of agricultural production, and required "actively promoting advanced and applicable varieties, technologies, and equipment, steadily increasing per-unit yield and efficiency" and "enhancing agricultural disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief capabilities."

A harvest is grown season after season.

In Xierzu Village, Shangcheng Town, Cheng'an County, Hebei Province, corn has entered the critical stage of yield formation. Zhang Shaohua gently peeled back the husk leaves; the kernels were neatly arranged. "This year we planted all high-density varieties. The kernels have filled out well, and the harvest is secure." Looking at the crop's growth, she felt much more at ease.

These more than 1,000 mu of grain fields have given her no small amount of worry this year.

First there was the wheat. Last year's prolonged autumn flooding delayed the sowing period. The county's Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau organized agricultural technicians to go down to the fields, and experts from Hebei Agricultural University delivered a "good prescription": split application of topdressing, compaction to preserve soil moisture, foliar fertilizer spraying... After the New Year, the wheat seedlings gradually recovered.

Just as the wheat was about to ripen, continuous overcast and rainy weather and strong winds made Zhang Shaohua anxious again.

Rush harvesting and drying worked in relay. Cheng'an County set up 11 standardized agricultural machinery repair stations, and 31 drying towers were put into operation. "The agricultural machinery service teams work day and night, harvesting by area—harvest each plot as soon as it matures," said Wang Xing, head of the Agricultural Machinery Section of the county's Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau.

After finishing the wheat harvest, it was straight on to the corn. "This year the seedling stage was on the dry side, and pest damage was also somewhat severe," Zhang Shaohua said. Fortunately, new equipment and new technologies came in handy.

Relying on project support from the county's Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, Zhang Shaohua's more than 1,000 mu of grain fields were all fitted with integrated water and fertilizer facilities. When there was a spell of persistently dry weather, the fine drip irrigation tapes brought water into the fields, preserving moisture and protecting the seedlings. In July, she also used drones to spray pesticides to control corn borers and other pests.

A drip irrigation tape and a drone help farmers cope with weather changes and pests and diseases; agricultural technical guidance and agricultural machinery services give farmers more support. The harvest in the fields depends on hard work, and also on the enhancement of comprehensive agricultural production capacity.

This year, the summer grain and early rice harvests have already been secured. According to the agricultural situation dispatch released recently by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the autumn grain area is expected to increase, crop growth is generally normal, and there is a good foundation for achieving a full-year grain harvest.

The grain has not yet all been stored, so field management cannot be relaxed. Carrying out autumn grain field management by region and category, implementing measures such as "one spray, multiple boosts," making good preparations for the storage and dispatch of emergency agricultural machinery, and improving rush-harvesting and drying capacity... At present, localities across the country are closely tracking key links, striving to turn the harvest in the fields into a harvest in hand.

Looking to the long term, the foundation of the harvest is still being consolidated. As of the end of 2025, the country had cumulatively built more than 1 billion mu of high-standard farmland, improved varieties are being promoted more quickly, large grain combine harvesters and high-speed rice transplanters are being applied more rapidly, and grain drying capacity in the Huang-Huai-Hai region and elsewhere has been greatly enhanced. The matching of good farmland, good seeds, good machinery, and good methods makes agricultural production more resilient.

The outline of the "15th Five-Year Plan" makes clear that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China's comprehensive grain production capacity will reach about 1.45 trillion jin. From safeguarding a single season's harvest to enhancing long-term production capacity, the hard work of hundreds of millions of farmers has an increasingly solid guarantee.

From a farmer's painting, we see the dual improvement of material and spiritual life—

A harvest showcases the fullness of rural life and the confidence of the local soil

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The construction of spiritual civilization in rural areas is very important. The transformation of the material into the spiritual and the spiritual into the material is a viewpoint of dialectics. In implementing the rural revitalization strategy, we must grasp both material civilization and spiritual civilization, and pay particular attention to improving the spiritual outlook of farmers."

A farmer's painting depicts the harvest scene.

In Yudong Village, Kecheng District, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, Zheng Weiliang is creating a harvest-themed work in his studio. On the walls, brightly colored farmer's paintings full of local flavor hang densely.

"By day I carry a hoe, by night I hold a brush. The Harvest Festival is a festival for farmers, and I want to use my brush to paint the most beautiful harvest scenes," Zheng Weiliang said.

Zheng Weiliang, now 69 years old, has loved painting since childhood. In the 1980s, he signed up for the Kecheng District professional training class in farmer's painting and embarked on the path of creation. Over the decades, more than 20 of his works have been selected for national and provincial-level professional farmer's painting exhibitions.

His brush has never left the land. In his youth, Zheng Weiliang tended 4 mu of rice and 5 mu of orange trees at home, squeezing in time to paint after farm work. Now, he still manages more than 200 square meters of vegetable plots and more than one mu of huyou pomelo trees. "This year the rainfall has been abundant, so the huyou quality is better, and I expect to start picking around mid-November." He calculates the harvest in the orchard while also mulling over new works on paper.

In Zheng Weiliang's view, farmer's painting is both freehand and realistic. Rural infrastructure is getting better and better, and the villagers' lives are getting more and more prosperous. These visible, tangible changes are all sources of creative inspiration.

This year, he began creating a series of farmer's paintings on the twenty-four solar terms, and has already completed works on themes such as the Spring Equinox and Grain in Ear. "The twenty-four solar terms contain rich farming wisdom. I want to use a series of paintings to fully present the changes in farm work across the four seasons and the new look of the countryside."

Farmers are not only witnesses to rural change, but also creators of local culture.

Of the more than 800 villagers in Yudong Village, over 300 participate in farmer's painting creation. A single brush enriches spiritual life and also brings development opportunities.

"In recent years, we have continuously activated the 'farmer's painting +' industrial chain, promoting the transformation and upgrading from selling paintings to selling copyrights, cultural and creative products, and tourism products," said Yu Xiaoqin, Party branch secretary of Yudong Village. The annual output value of the village's farmer's painting-related industries has exceeded 25 million yuan, and the village receives more than 200 study tour groups each year, driving villagers to find employment at their doorstep.

Drawing inspiration from farm work, recording life through their works, and then integrating local art into cultural and creative products and study tours—culture here both nourishes people's hearts and connects to the market. Yu Xiaoqin said the village will continue to deepen the "farmer's painting +" industrial chain so that the villagers can share in the fruits of development.

Such explorations are unfolding in more and more villages. As of the end of 2025, there were 14,900 intangible cultural heritage workshops nationwide, driving more than 1.3 million people to increase employment and income; activities such as "Village BA," "village songs," and "village galas" allow the masses to take the stage at their doorstep and gain happiness through participation.

At this year's Harvest Festival, localities across the country organized activities such as folk culture, intangible cultural heritage performances, harvest "village galas," and farmers' story sessions, promoting the flow of quality cultural resources into the countryside. What the villagers are celebrating is not only granaries full of grain and orchards full of fruit, but also the fullness of life and the confidence of the local soil.

From a bowl of "Red Army noodles," we see new space for rural development—

A harvest is written on the villagers' ever-widening road to prosperity

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "To build a strong agricultural country, we must advance agricultural modernization and rural modernization as an integrated whole, achieving a comprehensive improvement of the countryside improving from the outside in (由表及里, you biao ji li - "from, surface, to, inside"), in both form and spirit."

A harvest is found not only in the fields, but also on the villagers' ever-widening road to prosperity.

In Fenglong Village, Yunshishan Township, Ruijin City, Jiangxi Province, 48-year-old Liang Wansheng runs a "Red Army family feast" restaurant. A bowl of "Red Army noodles" and a meal of home-style farm dishes have become a window for tourists to experience red culture and understand rural life.

"Now I'm earning a living from 'red tourism,' and life is very comfortable," Liang Wansheng said. The restaurant plus homestay brings in a good annual income, and during busy times he has to hire a few villagers to help.

In the past, although the village had revolutionary sites, developing tourism was not easy. "The road outside the door was all mud. Tourists couldn't get in, and goods couldn't be sold out," Liang Wansheng recalled. Stuck with a few mu of fields, he had good products but worried about finding a market.

The change began with rural construction. In 2020, Fenglong Village launched the construction of a red beautiful village. Road hardening, streetlight installation, and sewage pipe network laying advanced step by step, garbage was collected and transported in a unified manner, and small recreational gardens were built on vacant land. As the village environment improved, study tour groups gradually increased.

With tourists coming, idle houses also found new uses. In 2022, the village pooled more than 1 million yuan in project funds to convert idle rammed-earth houses into red-themed restaurants in accordance with laws and regulations. Liang Wansheng raised his own funds to lease and operate one, opening its doors to customers in October of that year, bringing more than 40,000 yuan in annual income to the village collective.

One household's business drove more villagers to participate, and some farming households also converted their idle houses into homestays and restaurants. Liang Boqing, secretary of the general Party branch of Fenglong Village, said that tourists coming to the village drove sales of agricultural products such as pear melons, watermelons, and white lotus seeds. In 2025, the village's per capita disposable income exceeded 20,000 yuan.

Building roads, treating sewage, and revitalizing idle houses improve living conditions and also open up development space. Agriculture and tourism drive each other, and village construction and farmers' income growth have become more closely linked.

Nationwide, as of the end of 2025, the penetration rate of sanitary toilets in rural areas reached about 77 percent, and the penetration rate of tap water reached 96 percent. Improved infrastructure makes the countryside more livable and also creates conditions for developing new industries and new business forms.

In the golden autumn season, the development vitality of rural areas is meeting the consumption demand of urban and rural areas. On September 4 this year, the China Farmers' Harvest Festival Golden Autumn Consumption Season was launched in Shanghai. Activities such as brand promotion, production-marketing matching, and rural cuisine promotion help rural products expand their markets and rural tourism attract more visitors.

From urban-rural interaction during the festival to daily development integration, there is still a need to continuously shore up weaknesses and build momentum for the future. This year, the "15th Five-Year Plan" for Accelerating Agricultural and Rural Modernization proposed implementing a project to shore up weaknesses in rural modern living conditions; looking toward the "15th Five-Year Plan," localities across the country are advancing the construction of livable, workable, and beautiful villages in light of local conditions, coordinating infrastructure, public services, and industrial layout, and gradually raising the completeness of rural infrastructure, the convenience of public services, and the comfort of the living environment, so that more villages can share development opportunities.

From growing good crops, to painting a good life, to running good businesses, the farmers in these three stories are all creating new harvests through their own labor.

Turning a good harvest in the fields into a good life at home, making the countryside both livable and workable—the connotation of the harvest is constantly enriched. The vibrant vitality of the vast countryside lies in the villagers' season-after-season cultivation and step-by-step struggle.

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Turning the Earth’s Generous Gifts into a Better Life for Farmers (Today’s Commentary)

By: 常 钦

The rice is gradually turning golden, melons and fruits are fragrant, and it is again the time of year for China's "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival." General Secretary Xi Jinping extended festive congratulations and sincere greetings to farmers across the country and to comrades working on the front lines of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农), emphasizing the need to "strive to make the lives of the vast number of farmers even happier and more beautiful."

Row after row of golden crops are the generous gift the earth bestows upon those who till it. One still recalls the summer harvest season, when overcast rains lingered over Xiangyang, Hubei, and machine operators from many places rushed to help, "snatching grain from the rain's mouth"; in Tieling, Liaoning, rainstorms soaked cornfields, and agricultural technical experts went straight to the scene to guide drainage and field management... It is precisely countless pairs of hands stained with soil that hold up this heavy harvest and keep the "Chinese rice bowl" steady.

Strengthening agriculture, benefiting rural areas, and enriching farmers — the key lies in advancing modernization. In recent years, more good technologies and good services have been delivered to the fields, the comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality-and-efficiency have continued to rise, specialty agricultural industry chains have taken root and shot up, and livable, workable, and beautiful villages have emerged. Facts have proven that, by consolidating the foundation, improving policy effectiveness, and accelerating agricultural and rural modernization, the beautiful life of fellow villagers can improve steadily and continuously.

Let effort be rewarded and sweat yield gains, and the moving tableau of strong agriculture, beautiful countryside, and prosperous farmers will surely continue to unfold across the vast fields.

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New Era Panorama

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Advancing a Constructive and Stable Strategic Relationship for World Peace, Stability, and Prosperity

At the invitation of Trump, President of the United States of America, President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States from September 23 to 25. The international community follows this with great attention. International figures who accepted interviews with our reporter said that China and the United States, as the world's largest developing country and the world's largest developed country, achieving peaceful coexistence and mutually beneficial cooperation on the basis of mutual respect, and finding a correct way of getting along with each other, is what the people of all countries long for. The heads of state of China and the United States realizing mutual visits within half a year will steer the giant ship of China-U.S. relations to continue crossing winds and waves and advancing steadily, promoting world peace, stability, and prosperity.

Keeping the Course of China-U.S. Relations Steady

Head-of-state diplomacy is the "ballast stone" of China-U.S. relations. In May this year, the heads of state of China and the United States held a historic meeting in Beijing, and the two sides agreed to take the "China-U.S. constructive strategic stability relationship" as the new positioning of bilateral relations. The international community expects that this meeting of the two heads of state will continue the positive momentum of the Beijing meeting, using head-of-state diplomacy to steer and chart the course of China-U.S. relations and inject momentum into it.

"The direction of China-U.S. relations concerns not only the two countries, but also affects the whole world." Kofi Kuaku, senior researcher at the Africa-China Research Centre of the University of Johannesburg in South Africa, said that President Xi Jinping's visit to the United States this time, under the new positioning of the China-U.S. constructive strategic stability relationship, is another important arrangement concerning the development of China-U.S. relations, and has milestone significance.

"Face-to-face exchanges and candid dialogue between heads of state play a critical role in enhancing trust and dispelling doubts between countries." Carl F., professor of strategy at BI Norwegian Business School, said that President Xi Jinping and President Trump realizing mutual visits within half a year, under the guidance of head-of-state diplomacy, with China and the United States strengthening dialogue and cooperation and properly managing differences, will create favorable conditions for the further development of bilateral relations.

"The meeting of the Chinese and U.S. heads of state sends a positive signal to the international community." Tang Zhimin, director of the China-ASEAN Research Center at Panyapiwat Institute of Management in Thailand, said that through this head-of-state diplomacy, China and the United States will continue to demonstrate the handling of differences through dialogue and the maintenance of a measured competitive posture, further exploring a more stable, rational, and predictable way of getting along, which is of great significance to world peace, stability, and development.

Mahmood Ul Hassan Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Knowledge and Public Policy Centre, said that over a period of time, China-U.S. relations have generally advanced along the track of the new positioning of constructive strategic stability determined by the two heads of state, striving in the direction of cooperation as the main theme, measured competition, controllable differences, and peace that can be expected. He looks forward to this meeting of the Chinese and U.S. heads of state enhancing mutual trust between the two sides, expanding the convergence of interests, enriching the connotation of the China-U.S. constructive strategic stability relationship, and bringing more positive energy to the cause of global peace and development.

Injecting Momentum into the Global Economy

The combined economic output of China and the United States exceeds one-third of the world's total, their combined population accounts for nearly one-quarter of the world's total, and their merchandise trade accounts for about one-fifth of the world's total. The international community believes that the essence of China-U.S. economic and trade relations is mutually beneficial outcomes (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual benefit, win together"), and that economic and trade cooperation should continue to serve as the ballast stone and propeller of China-U.S. relations.

"China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation is also of great significance to the global economy." Stefan Lubich, a German international affairs expert, said that China and the United States, in the spirit of equality, respect, and mutual benefit, should accelerate the implementation of the important consensus of the two heads of state, continuously lengthening the list of cooperation and compressing the list of problems, which will inject momentum into the global economy.

Tang Zhimin said that China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation has a large volume, and the economic and trade relations between the two countries have long transcended the bilateral sphere. "The international community ardently expects that the Chinese and U.S. sides will move towards each other in a common direction (相向而行, xiang xiang er xing - "towards, towards, walk"), further leveraging the role of the China-U.S. economic and trade consultation mechanism, contributing more stability and certainty to the world economy."

"China and the United States should be partners rather than rivals." Diaa Helmy, a member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, said that in the face of risks and challenges in the world economy, China and the United States should, on the basis of equality, respect, and mutual benefit, promote the healthy, stable, and sustainable development of bilateral economic and trade relations, continuously expanding the fundamental basis of mutually beneficial outcomes.

Shakeel Ramay, chief executive officer of the Pakistan Institute of Asian Eco-Civilization Research and Development, said that China is a trustworthy partner of the international community. China adheres to high-standard opening up, providing convenience for enterprises of all countries, including American enterprises, to develop in China. He looks forward to the two sides, taking the head-of-state meeting as an opportunity, further building bridges of cooperation, expanding the space for win-win outcomes through dialogue and consultation, jointly promoting world development and prosperity.

Marco Cunha, vice president of the Brazilian Confederation of Foreign Trade and Commerce Chambers, said that the stability and predictability of China-U.S. economic and trade relations conform to the common interests of the international community. "China and the United States each have advantages in the global industrial chain; the two sides promoting the healthy and stable development of economic and trade relations through pragmatic cooperation will play an important role in boosting confidence in the global economy and stabilizing expectations in global markets."

Jointly Responding to Global Challenges

The greatness of major countries lies in the greatness of their responsibility and the greatness of their commitment. As the most important bilateral relationship in today's world, China-U.S. relations carry the well-being of more than 1.7 billion people of the two countries and concern the interests of more than 8 billion people around the world.

"The world faces risks and challenges such as protracted geopolitical conflicts and frequent extreme weather, and no country can respond to these alone." Marco Carrasco, a researcher at the Center for Asian Studies of the National University of San Marcos in Peru, said that China and the United States maintaining dialogue and communication in a responsible manner, properly managing differences with a rational attitude, and leading international cooperation through constructive interaction, will contribute important strength to improving the global governance system.

In the view of Herve Azoulay, a professor at the Silk Road Business School in France, the responsibilities borne by China and the United States transcend the bilateral sphere. "China and the United States achieving peaceful coexistence, managing competition, upholding multilateralism, and jointly responding to global challenges will inject more stability into the world."

"The China-U.S. constructive strategic stability relationship making steady progress toward long-term goals (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk, steadily, reach, far") will create a more predictable development environment for the international community." Enrique Dussel, director of the Mexico-China Studies Center at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said that "the international community expects China and the United States to demonstrate the responsibility of major countries, centering on topics such as artificial intelligence, energy, and health, and to carry out more pragmatic cooperation with all parties."

In the view of Carl F., the interests of China and the United States are deeply integrated, and the two sides can further leverage their respective advantages to make the cake of cooperation bigger. As global artificial intelligence technological innovation enters an unprecedented period of vitality, China and the United States can strengthen coordination on the development and governance of artificial intelligence.

Jeon Byeong-seo, director of the Korea Institute of China Economics and Finance, said that China and the United States will respectively host the 2026 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting and the G20 Leaders' Summit, shouldering the important mission of promoting world economic growth and improving global economic governance. The meeting of the Chinese and U.S. heads of state releases a positive signal to the world, further demonstrating the responsibility and commitment of major countries. "China and the United States joining hands in cooperation are carrying more expectations of the world."

(People's Daily, Beijing, Washington, Berlin, Rio de Janeiro, Islamabad, Bangkok, Mexico City, Johannesburg, Cairo, Paris, September 22 — reporters Chen Shangwen, Song Yiran, Liu Zhonghua, Shi Yuanhao, Zhao Yipu, Zhang Jinruo, Wang Xiaobo, Dai Kairan, Shen Xiaoxiao, Shang Kaiyuan)

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Accumulate Deeper Youthful Strength for the Development of U.S.-China Relations

By: 本报记者 张梦旭 刘玲玲 包 晗

Recently, President Xi Jinping replied to the young students from 10 American universities who came to China to participate in the China-U.S. youth themed exchange activities, hoping that they would "continue, together with the vast number of young people of both countries, to strive to become inheritors, defenders, and developers of China-U.S. friendship and cooperation, join hands to promote mutual understanding and affinity between the two peoples and the steady and enduring progress of bilateral relations, and contribute youthful strength to building a better world."

The American youth students who received President Xi Jinping's reply letter felt greatly inspired. In interviews with our reporters, they said that President Xi Jinping's reply letter was encouraging and of extraordinary significance, and would inspire more young people to devote themselves to the cause of U.S.-China friendship, deepen understanding and strengthen bonds through exchanges and interactions, and contribute youthful strength to U.S.-China friendshipand cooperation.

"For us who participated in the youth exchange activities of the two countries, this is of extraordinary significance"

Recently, nearly a hundred young students from 10 American universities including Harvard University wrote to President Xi Jinping, recounting their gains and reflections from coming to China to participate in themed exchange activities such as the "2026 China-U.S. Youth Asia-Pacific Heart-to-Heart Journey," and expressing their willingness to contribute to promoting China-U.S. friendship. In his reply letter, President Xi Jinping pointed out that in your letter you expressed your fondness for Chinese civilization, your expectations for China-U.S. friendshipand cooperation, and your willingness to be envoys of friendship across the Pacific, for which I feel gratified.

"Receiving President Xi Jinping's reply letter, I was deeply moved. This is of extraordinary significance for us who participated in the youth exchange activities of the two countries, and is a tremendous encouragement." Zachary Pappas, a student at the University of Washington in the United States, said that participating in the "2026 China-U.S. Youth Asia-Pacific Heart-to-Heart Journey" was an "unforgettable, pleasant, and feeling that something is not yet fully satisfied" (意犹未尽, yi you wei jin - "still, have, not, end") experience. "I formed deep friendships with Chinese students, and we have stayed in touch, agreeing to meet again in China." Pappas said.

"Receiving President Xi Jinping's reply letter, I feel greatly honored." Akston Berry, a student at Columbia University in the United States, said that President Xi Jinping's attention to U.S.-China youth exchanges left a deep impression on him, "U.S.-China youth should join hands to build the future together""

Rowan Gilderson, a student at American University in the United States, said that in his reply letter President Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of U.S.-China youth exchanges and placed high hopes on the young generation of both countries, which was deeply moving.

Monet Woods, a student at Kentucky State University in the United States, said that she thanked the Chinese side for providing the valuable exchange opportunity, allowing American students to experience Chinese culture firsthand, and even more so building a bridge for the continuation of friendship between the peoples of the United States and China.

"Face-to-face exchange is the most direct and effective way to enhance mutual understanding"

In exchanges and cooperation, understand and grow close; in mutual learning, advance hand in hand. Chinese and American youth jointly serve as envoys of friendship across the Pacific, pooling deeper and more enduring strength for promoting the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of China-U.S. relations.

"Face-to-face exchange is the most direct and effective way to enhance mutual understanding." Berry said that when U.S.-China youth study together and participate in activities together, they will discover that they have so many similarities. During his time in China, he deeply cherished the opportunity to spend time with Chinese peers. People from different cultural backgrounds facing the same matter have both different perspectives and many commonalities, "exchange between people is an important foundation of U.S.-China relations""

Gilderson believes that American students watching more Chinese films, listening to more Chinese music, and learning more about Chinese culture will help broaden their horizons and better understand China. He looks forward to hosting Chinese students at American schools, and hopes to participate in more U.S.-China youth exchange programs in the future.

After returning home, Eamon Doin, a graduate student at American University, often thinks of the delicacies he tasted in Jinan, Shandong and Beijing. He said he looks forward to hosting visiting Chinese students in his hometown of Boston, reciprocating with a bowl of delicious clam chowder. "The similarities between students of the two countries far outweigh the differences, and more exchange activities should be carried out among young people""

Marlon Forrest, a lecturer at Harvard University, believes that President Xi Jinping's reply letter demonstrates his emphasis on and respect for young people. "Through interacting with each other, we gain a deeper understanding of each other's cultures, thereby drawing closer and advancing hand in hand, accumulating deeper youthful strength for the development of U.S.-China relations." Forrest said.

"Continue to participate in international exchanges, actively promote U.S.-China dialogue, understanding, and cooperation"

In his reply letter, President Xi Jinping emphasized that Chinese and American youth live on the same planet and share the mission of the times. This message points the way forward for youth exchanges and cooperation between the two countries, and also inspires more young people to devote themselves to the cause of China-U.S. friendship through concrete actions.

Forrest believes that youth are an important force connecting different cultures and enhancing mutual understanding. Through sharing, exchanging, and carrying out practical cooperation, U.S.-China youth can build deeper trust and friendship, becoming envoys of cross-Pacific exchangeand cooperation. "The young generation of both countries is full of vitality and creativity, and joining hands will bring more understanding, cooperation, and hope to the world""

Tahina Giraud, a faculty leader at American University, said that people-to-people interaction is an important aspect of achieving long-term understanding and cooperation between the U.S. and China. The future of U.S.-China relations depends not only on the two governments, but even more on the interactions and exchanges between ordinary people, especially young people. Through exchanges, youth students gain empathy and cross-cultural understanding abilities, learn to view the world from diverse perspectives, which helps break down stereotypes and promote mutual respect. "I sincerely hope that the students who participated in this activity will continue to participate in international exchanges, actively promote U.S.-China dialogue, understanding, and cooperation." Giraud said.

Berry is full of expectations for U.S.-China youth exchanges. He said that President Xi Jinping proposed the "5 years, 50,000" initiative, creating a valuable opportunity for more American youth to understand the real China. "Young people of the two countries can establish connections through social media and other means, and through studying together, exchanging, and living together, carry forward the friendship between the youth of the two countries." Berry said he hopes such friendship will not only remain at a single visit, but can last longer, "even become a lifelong friendship""

Pappas said that people-to-people exchanges have built a bridge for U.S.-China relations. "Our dialogue has been continuing, and understanding and friendship are constantly deepening." Woods said that U.S.-China exchanges have a good foundation, and both sides have the opportunity to learn from each other and draw on each other's strengths, hoping that more students will participate in them.

The "2026 China-U.S. Youth Asia-Pacific Heart-to-Heart Journey" is an important component of the "Youth Partners International Exchange Program" of the Beijing People's Association for International Exchanges, a civil society organization. The activity was co-hosted by the Beijing People's Association for International Exchanges together with the Tan Chin Tuan Charity Foundation, closely centering on the "China Year" theme of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and invited nearly a hundred youth from 10 American universities including Harvard University, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Washington to visit China, participating in a 7-day exchange activity spanning three locations: Jinan and Qufu in Shandong, and Beijing.

(Our reporters Song Yiran, Li Zhiwei, and Cui Qi participated in the writing of this report)

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Walk Toward Each Other and Follow the Right Path for Major-Country Relations (Zhong Sheng)

When major countries get along, direction is of paramount importance, and action must be especially solid and earnest. This Washington meeting is yet another important opportunity for both sides to implement the consensus of the heads of state and advance the building of a constructive strategic stable relationship.

At the invitation of Trump, President of the United States of America, President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States from September 23 to 25. The fact that the heads of state of China and the United States have achieved mutual state visits within half a year is of great significance and attracts worldwide attention. At this historic juncture in the development of China-U.S. relations, President Xi Jinping's visit will inject critical momentum into promoting the building of a constructive strategic stable China-U.S. relationship, and is of great significance for the two countries to jointly create a new paradigm for major-country relations and jointly respond to global challenges.

The China-U.S. relationship is the most important and most complex bilateral relationship in the world, and head-of-state diplomacy is the "ballast stone" of the bilateral relationship. Over the past year or more, the China-U.S. relationship has shown overall stability after experiencing ups and downs, and head-of-state diplomacy has played an irreplaceable strategic guiding role. President Xi Jinping has held 2 meetings, 5 phone calls, and multiple exchanges of correspondence with President Trump, jointly steering the helm of the great ship of China-U.S. relations, leading it through treacherous rapids and shoals while maintaining the correct course. In May this year, President Xi Jinping held a meeting with President Trump, who was in China on a state visit, and the two heads of state jointly established the new positioning of a constructive strategic stable China-U.S. relationship, providing strategic guidance for the China-U.S. relationship over the next 3 years and even longer, which was welcomed by the peoples of both countries and the international community. Some international scholars have pointed out that the new positioning of a constructive strategic stable China-U.S. relationship outlines a rational, pragmatic, and forward-looking vision for China-U.S. relations, reflecting the way major countries should get along that China has consistently upheld.

Constructive strategic stability should be a positive stability centered on cooperation, a sound stability with measured competition, a normal stability with manageable differences, anda durable stability with attainable peace. In recent years, the tortuous course of China-U.S. relations has clearly shown that the U.S. side's erroneous perception of China and its inability to let go of the so-called "strategic competition" obsession are the root cause of the endless difficulties in China-U.S. relations. The new positioning of a constructive strategic stable China-U.S. relationship has fundamentally answered the fundamental question of "are China and the United States adversaries or partners," and recalibrated the strategic perception of the bilateral relationship. The differences between the two countries existed in the past, exist now, and will continue to exist in the future, but this does not prevent both sides from upholding cooperation as the main thread, continuously enhancing the resilience of China-U.S. relations through seeking common ground while reserving differences (求同存异, qiu tong cun yi - "seek, same, preserve, different") and exchanges and cooperation. Since last year, the China-U.S. economic and trade teams have held multiple rounds of consultations, reaching a series of consensuses and arrangements, giving China, the United States, and the world economy a "reassurance pill." In recent days, the economic and trade teams of the two countries held economic and trade consultations in New York, United States. Guided by the important consensus of the two heads of state, both sides conducted candid, in-depth, and constructive exchanges around implementing the consensuses of previous economic and trade consultations, promoting bilateral trade and investment, and other important economic and trade issues of common concern, and held a dialogue on artificial intelligence-related issues. This fully demonstrates that there are broad common interests between China and the United States, and further confirms that the essence of the China-U.S. relationship is mutually beneficial and win-win (互利共赢, hu li gong ying -"mutual, benefit, together, win"). By upholding mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation, China and the United States can fully achieve mutual success and shared prosperity.

The key to building a constructive strategic stable China-U.S. relationship lies in both sides moving towards each other (相向而行, xiang xiang er xing -"each, toward, each, walk") and jointly taking action to implement the consensus of the two heads of state. Over the past period of time, the China-U.S. relationship has generally advanced along the constructive strategic stability track established by the two heads of state. Both the political-diplomatic and economic-and-trade mechanisms have continued to function, exchanges of legislative bodies, localities, and business delegations have noticeably increased, youth exchanges and interactions have become increasingly frequent, exchanges in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence and biomedicine have risen in intensity, and events such as the 2026 China-U.S. Subnational Cooperation Dialogue and the Third China-U.S. 1.5-Track Dialogue have been highlights... Multiple fields and levels of both countries are taking action, pooling strength for building a constructive strategic stable China-U.S. relationship. Both sides should cherish the current hard-won good momentum, keep the direction correct, and eliminate interference. The U.S. side in particular needs to maintain policy continuity and stability, honor its commitments, and inject certainty into the bilateral relationship and the development of both countries through positive expectations for China-U.S. cooperation.

Building a constructive strategic stable China-U.S. relationship is the need of world peace and development, and also the responsibility of major countries. China and the United States are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and the world's two largest economies, bearing special responsibility for world peace, stability, and development. At present, the international situation is interwoven with turbulence and change, geopolitical conflicts keep arising one after another, and global challenges emerge in an endless stream. Whether it is promoting global economic recovery, resolving regional hotspot issues, or improving governance rules for emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, cyberspace, and outer space, none can be done without China-U.S. coordination and cooperation. The international community generally hopes that the China-U.S. relationship will maintain healthy and stable development, injecting stability, certainty, and constructiveness into a turbulent world through more positive interactions. This year, China and the United States will respectively host the 2026 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting and the G20 Leaders' Summit, and the mutual support and cooperation between the two sides will help promote global economic growth and improve global governance.

When major countries get along, direction is of paramount importance, and action must be especially solid and earnest. This Washington meeting is yet another important opportunity for both sides to implement the consensus of the heads of state and advance the building of a constructive strategic stable relationship. It is hoped that the U.S. side will work with the Chinese side to grasp the overall situation, move towards each other, continuously accumulate mutual trust, deepen cooperation, manage differences, jointly blaze a correct path for major countries to get along in the new era, and better benefit both countries and the world.

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Promoting the Implementation of a Constructive and Strategic Stable China-U.S. Relationship (Ambassador's Notes)

By: 谢 锋

At the invitation of President Trump of the United States, President Xi Jinping will soon pay a state visit to the United States. This is President Xi Jinping's first state visit to the United States in 11 years, and it is also the second time in half a year that the heads of state of China and the United States have exchanged state visits. It is a milestone event in China-U.S. relations and in international relations.

Over the past 11 years, the Communist Party of China has united and led the Chinese people in striving forward with vigor, and Chinese modernization has presented vast and magnificent scenes (气象万千, qi xiang wan qian - "air, appearance, ten thousand, myriad"). The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has become an unstoppable force (势不可挡, shi bu ke dang - "momentum, not, can, block"). Over the past 11 years, China-U.S. relations have gone through vicissitudes and hardships (风风雨雨, feng feng yu yu - "wind, wind, rain, rain"), which fully proves that "decoupling and severing supply chains" cannot be done, that looking down from a position of superiority will not work, and that conflict and confrontation must not be pursued. Over the past 11 years, the once-in-a-century transformation has accelerated, the international situation has been marked by change and turbulence, and the world needs a stable, healthy, and sustainable China-U.S. relationship even more. President Xi Jinping, with a far-sighted and strategic vision (高瞻远瞩, gao zhan yuan zhu - "high, look, far, gaze"), has made overall plans and designs, and has been doing everything personally and hands-on (亲力亲为, qin li qin wei - "personally, exert, personally, do"), pointing out a new direction, injecting new momentum, and writing a new chapter for the development of China-U.S. relations.

In May this year, President Xi Jinping and President Trump held a successful meeting in Beijing, and the most important political consensus they reached was to define the new positioning of a constructive strategic and stable China-U.S. relationship. This not only provides strategic guidance for China-U.S. relations in the next three years and beyond, but also creates a new paradigm for major-power relations and opens up bright prospects for world peace and prosperity. President Xi Jinping pointed out that the "constructive strategic and stable China-U.S. relationship" is not a slogan, but should be action taken by both sides moving toward each other. We should take President Xi Jinping's visit as an opportunity to further keep the direction, enhance consensus, remove interference, and quicken the pace, and promote the continuous forward development of bilateral relations.

Grasp the mainstream and anchor the positive stability with cooperation as the main theme. The common interests of China and the United States far outweigh their differences, and win-win cooperation is the mainstream and, even more so, the general trend. The two sides should implement the important consensus of the two heads of state, give play to the role of the two major mechanisms of political and diplomatic consultation and economic and trade consultation, expand exchanges in such fields as the two militaries, law enforcement, health, agriculture, tourism, science and technology, and people-to-people and cultural exchanges, continuously lengthen the list of cooperation and shorten the list of problems, work together to do more major and good things that benefit both countries and the world, and promote win-win outcomes for China and the United States and shared benefits for the world.

Learn from each other and shape benign stability with healthy competition. China and the United States certainly have competition, but it should be benign. The two sides should make common progress by learning from others' strengths to offset one's own weaknesses (取长补短, qu chang bu duan - "take, strength, supplement, weakness"), and create the future together through healthy rivalry, rather than consuming each other in a zero-sum game (零和博弈, ling he bo yi - "zero, sum, gambling, game"). Artificial intelligence concerns the well-being of all humanity. China and the United States should compete on how to better drive innovative development, ensure safety and controllability, promote mutual learning among civilizations, and improve global governance, and promote the upward and good development of artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity. They should not erect a "Silicon Curtain" again, let alone launch an AI version of "Star Wars."

Respect each other and maintain normal stability with manageable differences. Differences are not frightening; the key lies in constructive management and control. The positive progress made in several rounds of China-U.S. economic and trade consultations shows that as long as the two sides move toward each other with an attitude of equality, respect, and mutual benefit, they can find ways to resolve each other's concerns. Managing differences hinges on good faith. Once an agreement is reached, it must be put into action, and one cannot be saying one thing and doing another (说一套做一套, shuo yi tao zuo yi tao - "speak, one, set, do, one, set"). The U.S. side should stop fabricating pretexts such as "national security," "economic imbalance," and "forced labor" to wantonly contain and suppress China.

Hold the bottom line and safeguard lasting stability with peace to be expected. For China and the United States, there is mutual benefit through cooperation (合则两利, he ze liang li - "unite, then, two, benefit") and mutual harm through conflict (斗则俱伤, dou ze ju shang - "fight, then, both, injured"). The two sides should step over the "Thucydides Trap," avoid the "tragedy of great-power politics," and hold the bottom line of no conflict and no confrontation. China's sovereignty, security, and development interests brook no infringement, and the four red lines of the Taiwan question, democracy and human rights, the path and system, and the right to development brook no challenge. China adheres to the path of peaceful development and hopes that the U.S. side will move toward it in the same direction, so that peaceful coexistence between China and the United States can promote peace and tranquility in the world.

The friendship between the two peoples has always been the source of strength for the development of China-U.S. relations. Recent U.S. polls show that American public opinion toward China is warming up. In the first half of this year, the number of U.S. tourists visiting China ranked first among non-neighboring countries of China. The initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping to "invite 50,000 young Americans to China for exchange and study over five years" achieved its expected goal two and a half years ahead of schedule. The sincere friendship between Chinese and American young people across the Pacific has injected new impetus into the cause of friendship between the two countries. Recently, American friend "Sai Kesi" and Chinese desertification-control hero Yin Yuzhen were reunited across the ocean after 26 years, writing a new page of warmth and beauty in the exchanges between the Chinese and American peoples. I once invited "Sai Kesi" to the Chinese Embassy in the United States to spend the Dragon Boat Festival together and issued him a visa to visit China, thanking him for "a kind heart that helped grow a forest." At the end of his visit to China, "Sai Kesi" said with deep emotion that it was the continuous exchanges between ordinary Americans and Chinese that built the bridge of friendship brick by brick. The bridge is everlasting and the trees are evergreen — this is the deepest and most enduring force for building a constructive strategic and stable China-U.S. relationship.

Head-of-state diplomacy is the "anchor" and "compass" of China-U.S. relations. The year 2026 is a "big year" for China-U.S. relations. President Xi Jinping's state visit to the United States will surely continue to lead the giant ship of China-U.S. relations to break through the waves and sail steadily and far. Looking ahead, we expect that under the helm and navigation of the two heads of state, China and the United States will jointly promote the continuous implementation and realization of the constructive strategic and stable relationship, and blaze a correct path of getting along that features mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation.

(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to the United States)

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True friends always remember and care for each other

By: 本报记者 李志伟

In Muscatine, Iowa, the United States, the Mississippi River flows quietly, bearing witness to a cross-ocean friendship spanning more than four decades.

On the eve of President Xi Jinping's state visit to the United States, reporters from People's Daily walked into Muscatine, a small city etched with the imprint of China-U.S. people-to-people friendship, to seek out American old friends who have maintained a friendship with President Xi Jinping for many years. Full of warmth and enthusiasm, they eagerly look forward to President Xi Jinping's visit to the United States, hoping that this meeting between the Chinese and U.S. heads of state can inject momentum into the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of China-U.S. relations.

"I want to thank President Xi Jinping for proposing the '5 years, 50,000' initiative. This matter is of great significance to the people of Muscatine."

Sarah Lande's home sits on a hillside by the banks of the Mississippi River, and from the window one can see the broad river surface. Lande, now 88 years old, has been deeply engaged in China-U.S. people-to-people exchanges for many years. Learning that President Xi Jinping is about to visit the United States, she is especially delighted.

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Ding Zhongli Visits ROK, Co-Chairs China-ROK Parliamentary Exchange Mechanism Meeting

(People's Daily, Seoul, September 22) (Reporters Mang Jiuchen, Wang Siyuan) At the invitation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, Ding Zhongli, Vice Chairperson of the NPC Standing Committee, led a delegation to visit the ROK from September 21 to 22. He met with National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik and co-chaired the 14th Meeting of the China-ROK Parliamentary Exchange Mechanism with Vice Speaker Nam In-soon.

Ding Zhongli stated that the current international situation is extremely complex and complicated (纷繁复杂, fen fan fu za - "confused, many, complicated"), and that China and the ROK should uphold the original aspiration of establishing diplomatic relations, firmly maintain good-neighborly friendship, adhere to mutual benefit and win-win results (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual, benefit, together, win"), implement the consensus of the two heads of state, and promote more achievements in cooperation across various fields to better benefit the peoples of both countries.

The ROK side stated that the two countries are geographically close and that their friendly exchanges have a long-standing tradition or history (源远流长, yuan yuan liu chang - "source, distant, flow, long"). The ROK side expressed its willingness to work with the Chinese side to advance the bilateral strategic cooperative partnership toward a more mature stage of development.

At the meeting of the exchange mechanism, the two sides exchanged views on topics including bilateral relations, the regional situation, economic and scientific-technological cooperation, and the rights and interests of women and children. The ROK side also reaffirmed its respect for the One-China position.

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Xue Kelaidi Zakel Attends Opening Ceremony of Global Sustainable Transport Forum (2026) and High-Level Meeting on Trans-Caspian International Transport Corridor

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 22) Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee Xue Kelaidi Zakel attended and addressed the opening ceremony of the Global Sustainable Transport Forum (2026) and the High-Level Meeting on the Trans-Caspian International Transport Corridor in Beijing on September 22. He stated that China is willing to work with all parties to implement the important consensus reached through head-of-state diplomacy, continuously advance the sustainable development of global transport, promote the enhancement of quality, capacity, and efficiency of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Corridor, and strive to achieve more mutually beneficial and win-win results (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual benefit, win-win"). Before the opening ceremony, Xue Kelaidi Zakel met with Azerbaijani Deputy Prime Minister Mustafayev and Kyrgyz Deputy Prime Minister Akunbekov, who attended the events.

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Malaysian PM Anwar and other foreign leaders to attend 48th WorldSkills Competition and 5th Global Digital Trade Expo

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 22) (Reporter Chu Jun) A Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on September 22: the 48th WorldSkills Competition will be held in Shanghai from September 22 to 27. The 5th Global Digital Trade Expo will be held in Hangzhou, Zhejiangfrom September 23 to 27. At the invitation of the Chinese side, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar will attend the opening ceremony of the WorldSkills Competition and the launching ceremony of the Global Digital Trade Expo, and Kyrgyz Prime Minister Kasymaliev will attend the launching ceremony of the Global Digital Trade Expo.

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Survey Shows 57% of Americans Support Friendly Cooperation with China

(Xinhua News Agency, Washington, September 21) (Reporter Yan Liang) A survey report released on September 21 by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs shows that 57 percent of the American public believes that the United States should carry out friendly cooperation and contact with China, continuing the trend since 2024 in which the American public has gradually shifted toward supporting engagement with China.

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48th WorldSkills Competition Grandly Opens in Shanghai

(Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, September 22) (Reporters Wang Yongqian, An Bei) The Huangpu River stirs dreams, skills illuminate the world. The 48th WorldSkills Competition opened grandly in Shanghai on the evening of the 22nd. At the opening ceremony, a congratulatory letter from President Xi Jinping was read out. Premier of the State Council Li Qiang attended the opening ceremony and declared the Competition open.

Under the night sky, the Shanghai World Expo Cultural Center was adorned with magnificent and resplendent lights (华灯璀璨, hua deng cui can - "flower lamp, bright") and glistening and colorful (流光溢彩, liu guang yi cai - "flowing light, overflowing color") displays. Before the opening ceremony, young people from Shanghai presented a vibrant and dynamic artistic performance, extending sincere welcomes to guests from afar. Spectators inside and outside the venue shared this unforgettable moment together.

To the sound of lively and stirring music, Li Qiang, together with WorldSkills International President Uhan and others, stepped onto the rostrum and waved to the audience.

The opening short film "Our Hands" paid tribute to the skills movement and the spirit of craftsmanship. As skilled youth from five continents assembled traditional Chinese mortise-and-tenon components into a globe, the emblems of past WorldSkills Competitions lit up one after another.

At around 8 p.m., the opening ceremony of the 48th WorldSkills Competition began. Amid warm applause from the audience, delegations from 68 countries and regions entered one after another along the "Skills Dream Avenue." The host delegation, the Chinese delegation, entered last, and the venue erupted in jubilation.

To the heartfelt melody of "I Love You, China," six Chinese gold medalists of the WorldSkills Competition marched in with firm steps, escorting the national flag of the People's Republic of China into the venue. All rose and sang the national anthem of the People's Republic of China. The five-starred red flag rose slowly and fluttered in the wind.

Subsequently, the artistic performance "Skills Illuminate the Future" was presented splendidly. In the first chapter, "Light of Civilization," following in the footsteps of Chinese skill pioneers such as Lu Ban, Cai Lun, Bi Sheng, and Huang Daopo, the audience experienced a journey of skill civilization across time and space. In the second chapter, "Light of Skills," five skilled youth from five continents shared with heartfelt sincerity their real experiences of realizing dreams through skills. In the third chapter, "Light of the Future," over a hundred human dancers performed on stage together with Chinese humanoid robots, presenting the light of human civilization that will shine even more brightly in the intelligent era.

Competitors from Ethiopia, India, and China, and experts from Ireland, Mexico, and Poland, took the oath on behalf of all competitors and experts respectively.

To the melody of the WorldSkills anthem, the WorldSkills flag rose slowly and, together with the bright five-starred red flag, fluttered over the venue.

Chen Jining, Director of the Organizing Committee of the 48th WorldSkills Competition and Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, Wang Xiaoping, Executive Director of the Organizing Committee of the 48th WorldSkills Competition and Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, and WorldSkills International President Uhan delivered speeches. Valieva, representative of the WorldSkills Champions Trust, spoke.

A mortise-and-tenon piece rose slowly at the center of the stage. Under the gaze of the entire venue, the mortise-and-tenon components were assembled one by one, forming the emblem of the 48th WorldSkills Competition.

At around 9:40 p.m., Li Qiang declared: The 48th WorldSkills Competition is now open!

"Skills change the world, skills illuminate the future, the world shares the stage with youthful vigor, ten million hands gather hope..." Skilled youth from China and abroad jointly sang the theme song of this Competition, "Skills Illuminate the Future," and the applause and cheers of the audience continued for a long time without ceasing (经久不息, jing jiu bu xi - "long time, not stop"). Skilled youth around the globe joined hands and moved forward under the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar attended the opening ceremony. Heads of relevant departments from multiple countries and regions and heads of relevant international organizations attended the opening ceremony.

Wu Zhenglong and Chen Yiqin attended the opening ceremony.

The WorldSkills Competition is hosted by WorldSkills International and is held once every two years. This Competition, themed "Skills Change the World, Skills Illuminate the Future," features 64 competition events in total, with 1,385 competitors from 68 countries and regions participating. The Chinese delegation's 71 competitors will participate in all events. The Competition will close on September 27.

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Li Qiang Meets with WorldSkills International President Chris Humphries and CEO David Hoey

(People's Daily, Shanghai, September 22) (Reporter Cui Yin) On the afternoon of September 22, Li Qiang, Premier of the State Council, met in Shanghai with Chris Humphries, President of WorldSkills International, and David Hoey, Chief Executive Officer, who had come to China to attend the 48th WorldSkills Competition.

Li Qiang stated that over the years, China and WorldSkills International have maintained a close and sound cooperative relationship. Hosting the 48th WorldSkills Competition is something President Xi Jinping personally cared about and personally advanced, reflecting China's high regard for skilled talent and firm support for global skills cooperation. During the preparatory phase, China and WorldSkills International carried out working together with utmost sincerity (精诚协作, jing cheng xie zuo - "sincere, honest, collaborate"). We have confidence in joining hands to present a splendid skills event to the world. China is willing to further deepen cooperation with WorldSkills International, jointly promote the development of the global skills cause, drive steady growth of the world economy, and enhance the well-being of people in all countries.

Li Qiang pointed out that China will continue to strengthen its domestic skills work, improve mechanisms for the cultivation, utilization, evaluation, and incentivization of skilled talent, and at the same time continue to provide beneficial experience and public goods for the global skills cause, allowing the dividends of skills development to benefit more countries. China is willing, as always in the past (一如既往, yi ru ji wang - "one, like, already, go"), to support the transformation and development of WorldSkills International, helping WorldSkills International achieve greater accomplishments in fields such as competitions, education and training, academic research, skills-based poverty reduction, and South-South cooperation. Both sides should make good use of the outcomes of this WorldSkills Competition and operate well platforms such as the WorldSkills Museum. It is hoped that WorldSkills International will share more international experience with China in areas such as talent cultivation and trainer training, and support China in playing a greater role in global governance in the skills field.

Humphries and Hoey highly praised the vigorous development of China's skills cause, and its provision of help and reference for other countries. They believe that China will present to the international community an unprecedented (前所未有, qian suo wei you - "before, ever, not, have") WorldSkills Competition, inspiring people of all countries to continuously blaze new trails, pursue excellence, and strive for excellence. They look forward to jointly advancing with China the WorldSkills 2035 Vision Plan, jointly strengthening the building of a high-caliber talent workforce, and joining hands to contribute to world peace, stability, prosperity, and development.

Chen Jining, Wu Zhenglong, and Qiu Yiqin attended the meeting.

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Han Zheng to Attend General Debate of 81st UN General Assembly

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 22) A Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on September 22 that Vice President Han Zheng will travel to New York from September 24 to 26 to attend the general debate of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. During the meetings, Vice President Han Zheng will also attend the High-Level Dialogue on the Fifth Anniversary of the Global Development Initiative hosted by the Chinese side, and meet with the UN Secretary-General, the President of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, and leaders of relevant countries.

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In August, 29,171 Cases of Violations of the Eight-Point Regulation Were Investigated and Dealt With Nationwide

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 22) (Reporter Shi Yiqi) The CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission on the 22nd released the summary of the nationwide investigation results for August this year regarding violations of the Eight-Point Regulation. The notification shows that in August, a total of 29,171 cases of violations of the Eight-Point Regulation were investigated and dealt with nationwide, with 35,901 people receiving criticism, education, and handling, of whom 24,494 received Party disciplinary or government administrative sanctions.

According to the notification, in August, a total of 15,431 cases of formalism or preoccupation with outward appearance (形式主义, xing shi zhuyi - "form, shape, main, righteousness") and bureaucracy or red tape (官僚主义, guan liao zhuyi - "official, clerk, main, righteousness") problems were investigated and dealt with nationwide, with 19,689 people receiving criticism, education, and handling. Among them, the category with the most problems was "failing to take responsibility, failing to act, acting chaotically, and acting falsely in performing duties and serving economic and social development and ecological environmental protection, seriously affecting high-quality development," with 12,971 cases investigated and dealt with, and 16,602 people receiving criticism, education, and handling. In August, a total of 13,740 cases of hedonism and extravagance problems were investigated and dealt with nationwide, with 16,212 people receiving criticism, education, and handling. Among them, the category with the most problems was "illegally accepting or sending famous and specialty products and gifts and cash," with 8,603 cases investigated and dealt with, and 9,365 people receiving criticism, education, and handling.

In August, nationwide, a total of 117 problems involving leading cadres at the prefecture-and-department level were investigated and dealt with, 1,568 problems involving leading cadresat the county-and-section level, and 27,486 problems involving cadresat the township-and-section level and below.

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Allocate and utilize newly added construction land and other resources well (Authoritative Release: Getting Off to a Good Start for the 15th Five-Year Plan)

By: 本报记者 李晓晴

On September 22, the State Council Information Office held a series of themed press conferences on "Getting Off to a Good Start for the 15th Five-Year Plan," introducing the relevant situation regarding promoting the safe, efficient, and sustainable use of natural resources.

Reserving space for land use for more than 2,800 major projects, serving major construction such as the "six networks"

"We serve high-quality development through the efficient allocation of space and factors." Liu Guohong, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Chief Inspector of Natural Resources of the State, introduced that the Ministry adheres to jointly building and sharing the "one map" of territorial space planning, reserving space for land use for more than 2,800 major projects, and serving major construction such as the "six networks." It promotes the developing vigorously and prosperously (蓬勃发展, peng bo fa zhan - "flourishing, vigorous, develop") of resource industries such as minerals, oceans, forest and grassland, and geographic information. From January to August, the transaction amount of exploration rights transfers nationwide increased by 133.5% year-on-year, and investment in non-oil and gas mineral exploration in the first half of the year increased by 8.1% year-on-year; from January to August, new orders for marine vessels and the amount of new orders for marine engineering equipment increased by 83.7% and 160.8% year-on-year, respectively.

Regarding territorial space planning, Zhuang Shaoqin, Vice Minister of Natural Resources, introduced: "During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the scale guarantee for resources such as newly added construction land is sufficient; the key is how to allocate and use these resources well." He stated that spatial coordination will be promoted from two aspects. First, strengthen the coordination of national strategic spaces, formulate an implementation plan for optimizing main functional zones, and through this plan strengthen the superposition effect of major strategies and strengthen the guidance and constraint of territorial space on various special plans; at the same time, in accordance with the requirement that "projects follow planning, and factors follow projects," improve the spatial access mechanism, open a "green channel" for major projects included in the "one map" of territorial space planning, simplify approvals, and promote early commencement and early implementation of projects.

During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the Ministry of Natural Resources will further adapt to the new situation and new requirements of urban development, shifting from excessive reliance on incremental land in the past to revitalizing existing land stock, from resource transfer in the past to resource operation, and from pursuing current-period returns from land transfer in the past to combining the current-period realization of land resource value with long-term operational value. "Adhere to the leading role of planning, and through planning leadership, implement control over the basic control lines of cities, while firmly safeguarding the public interests of cities." Zhang Wentong, Vice Minister of Natural Resources, said.

Liu Guohong stated that efforts will be made to improve the level of spatial governance and accelerate the construction and application of the "one map" of territorial space planning; at the same time, efforts will be made to improve the efficiency of resource allocation, implement the special reporting system for natural resource assets, and reasonably allocate various resource factors based on the "one ledger" of natural resource assets.

Striving to achieve a national forest coverage rate of 25.8% by 2030

"Promote the successive implementation of the integration and optimization plans for nature reserves, and the populations of flagship species in national parks continue to recover and grow." Liu Guohong said that the population of Hainan gibbons has grown to 44, and wild Siberian tigers have grown to 72. In November last year, footage of a "tiger mother leading five cubs" was captured in the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, fully reflecting the effective improvement of habitat quality. At the same time, a new batch of "mountain-river projects" has been fully launched, and the battle for the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program is making steady and solid progress (扎实推进, zha shi tui jin - "solid, real, push forward"). Over the past three years, a cumulative total of 265 million mu of various construction tasks has been completed, and the quality and stability of ecosystems continue to improve.

The National Forestry and Grassland Administration has compiled the "15th Five-Year Plan" for forestry and grassland protection and utilization, striving to achieve a national forest coverage rate of 25.8%, a forest stock volume of 22.4 billion cubic meters, a comprehensive grassland vegetation coverage rate of 51%, a proportion of nature reserve area to land area stably maintained at 18%, and a total output value of the forestry and grassland industry of 14 trillion yuan by 2030. Actively expand the space for employment and income increase in the forestry and grassland industry. "Build a batch of national reserve forests in the south, build a batch of modern grassland pastures in the north, enhance China's supply capacity of high-quality timber and high-quality forage, actively give play to the role of the forestry and grassland industry in benefiting the people's livelihood, and make good use of public welfare posts for ecological management and protection." Yan Zhen, Deputy Director of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (National Park Administration), said.

To support the sustainable use of natural resources through systematic ecological protection and restoration, the Ministry of Natural Resources will focus on improving the quality of ecosystems, adhere to the integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, grasslands, and deserts, and comprehensively complete the integration and optimization of nature reserves; adhere to the principles of ecology benefiting the people, ecology serving the people, and ecology for the people, promote ecological industrialization and industrial ecologization, and broaden the transformation path of the "two mountains" theory.

The first special legislation in the field of farmland protection will be implemented

The first special legislation in the field of farmland protection in China, the Farmland Protection and Quality Improvement Law, will come into effect on January 1 next year. Food security is a matter of national importance, and farmland is the lifeline of food production. Liu Guohong stated that the Ministry of Natural Resources will, around the implementation of the law, refine supporting policies and measures, focusing on doing a good job in three aspects: stabilizing quantity, optimizing structure, and strengthening supervision.

The new round of mineral exploration breakthroughs has achieved gratifying results. From January to August, newly added recoverable reserves of petroleum nationwide were nearly 70 million tons, newly added recoverable reserves of natural gas were 610 billion cubic meters, and the newly added resource volumes of the Chating copper-gold mine in Anhui and the Zhugongtang lead-zinc mine in Guizhou reached super-large scale. At the same time, strengthen professional monitoring and early warning as well as group monitoring and group prevention. From January to August, the national level launched 38 level-four and above geological disaster defense responses, issued 176 storm surge and wave warnings, and achieved early detection and early disposal of all 69 forest and grassland fires that occurred nationwide.

Zhou Xing, spokesperson and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Natural Resources, stated that focusing on scarce minerals such as petroleum, iron, copper, and aluminum, while taking into account advantageous minerals such as rare earths, a batch of key exploration and mining projects will be deployed, striving to newly discover a batch of large and medium-sized mineral deposits and oil and gas fields. "Strive to significantly improve the self-sufficiency rate of strategic mineral resources and enhance the confidence in safeguarding China's energy and resource security." Zhou Xing said.

Focus on improving security assurance capabilities. "Coordinate the exploration, production, supply, storage, and sales of strategic mineral resources, accelerate the implementation of a new round of strategic action for mineral exploration breakthroughs, and stabilize the security of the industrial chain and supply chain of strategic minerals. Comprehensively carry out investigation and monitoring of geological disaster hidden dangers and risks, improve the accuracy of marine disaster forecasting, do a good job in forest and grassland fire prevention and pest control, and strive to enhance the resilience of national land security under extreme climate conditions." Liu Guohong said.

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China to Boost BeiDou Industry Scale Past 1 Trillion Yuan Within 5 Years

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 22) (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang) The reporter learned from the National Development and Reform Commission: in 2025, the overall output value of China's BeiDou industry will exceed 629 billion yuan, the number of enterprises and institutions in the BeiDou industry will reach more than 30,000, and the number of employees will exceed 2 million. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China will promote the BeiDou industry's scale to exceed 1 trillion yuan within 5 years, achieving new breakthroughs in the market-oriented, industrialized, and internationalized development of large-scale BeiDou application.

In the transportation sector, more than 12 million operating vehicles nationwide are equipped with the BeiDou system, and high-precision lane-level navigation covers more than99% of urban and rural roads. In the agricultural sector, more than3.5 million sets of BeiDou terminal equipment are applied in scenarios such as agricultural machinery assisted driving, agricultural machinery operations, and drone plant protection. In the marine fisheries sector,70,000 fishing vessels are equipped with BeiDou terminals, providing services such as distress alerting, emergency search and rescue, dynamic monitoring of fishing vessels, and maritime short-message communication. In the energy sector, BeiDou provides timing services with accuracy better than20 nanoseconds, widely applied in scenarios such as attitude control of wind farm turbine units, slope monitoring of mines, and inspection of oil and gas pipelines.

Domestically,1.4 billion smartphones, more than50 million electric vehicles, more than14 million shared bicycles, and160 million wearable devices have already been equipped with BeiDou positioning services. BeiDou-related products have been exported to more than140 countries and regions.

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China's Innovative Drug Out-Licensing Deals Surpass $120 Billion This Year

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 22) (Reporter Shen Shaotie) Since the beginning of this year, the pace of Chinese innovative drugs going global has accelerated further, with the total value of out-licensing deals exceeding $120 billion, a year-on-year increase of 36%. Among these, the scale of upfront payments has surpassed $10 billion, and the market simultaneously shows the characteristics of steadily growing average transaction value per deal, both the amount and share of upfront payments rising, and large-value deals occurring frequently and successfully (频频落地, pin pin luo di - "frequently, land").

In 2025, the number of newly registered clinical trials for new drugs nationwide reached over 2,900, a year-on-year increase of 18%, with the scale reaching a new high; research and development activity in frontier fields is notably prominent, with the number of clinical trials for cell and gene therapy drugs growing by approximately 30% annually, and China has become a new high ground for global clinical trials of new drugs.

At the same time, multiple multinational pharmaceutical companies have increased their investment in China, building new or expanding existing R&D centers and production bases.

The National Medical Products Administration will further improve the communication and exchange mechanism for early-stage R&D, implementing "early intervention, one policy per enterprise, whole-process guidance, and coordinated research and review" for key varieties; implement the drug trial data protection system, improve the "three-pronged combination" review system for traditional Chinese medicine, accelerate the market approval process for clinically urgently needed products, smooth the green channel for priority testing, and inject sustained momentum into pharmaceutical innovation and R&D.

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Walk Toward Each Other and Follow the Right Path for Major-Country Relations (Zhong Sheng)

When major countries get along, direction is of paramount importance, and action must be especially solid and earnest. This Washington meeting is yet another important opportunity for both sides to implement the consensus of the heads of state and advance the building of a constructive strategic stable relationship.

At the invitation of Trump, President of the United States of America, President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to the United States from September 23 to 25. The fact that the heads of state of China and the United States have achieved mutual state visits within half a year is of great significance and attracts worldwide attention. At this historic juncture in the development of China-U.S. relations, President Xi Jinping's visit will inject critical momentum into promoting the building of a constructive strategic stable China-U.S. relationship, and is of great significance for the two countries to jointly create a new paradigm for major-country relations and jointly respond to global challenges.

The China-U.S. relationship is the most important and most complex bilateral relationship in the world, and head-of-state diplomacy is the "ballast stone" of the bilateral relationship. Over the past year or more, the China-U.S. relationship has shown overall stability after experiencing ups and downs, and head-of-state diplomacy has played an irreplaceable strategic guiding role. President Xi Jinping has held 2 meetings, 5 phone calls, and multiple exchanges of correspondence with President Trump, jointly steering the helm of the great ship of China-U.S. relations, leading it through treacherous rapids and shoals while maintaining the correct course. In May this year, President Xi Jinping held a meeting with President Trump, who was in China on a state visit, and the two heads of state jointly established the new positioning of a constructive strategic stable China-U.S. relationship, providing strategic guidance for the China-U.S. relationship over the next 3 years and even longer, which was welcomed by the peoples of both countries and the international community. Some international scholars have pointed out that the new positioning of a constructive strategic stable China-U.S. relationship outlines a rational, pragmatic, and forward-looking vision for China-U.S. relations, reflecting the way major countries should get along that China has consistently upheld.

Constructive strategic stability should be a positive stability centered on cooperation, a sound stability with measured competition, a normal stability with manageable differences, anda durable stability with attainable peace. In recent years, the tortuous course of China-U.S. relations has clearly shown that the U.S. side's erroneous perception of China and its inability to let go of the so-called "strategic competition" obsession are the root cause of the endless difficulties in China-U.S. relations. The new positioning of a constructive strategic stable China-U.S. relationship has fundamentally answered the fundamental question of "are China and the United States adversaries or partners," and recalibrated the strategic perception of the bilateral relationship. The differences between the two countries existed in the past, exist now, and will continue to exist in the future, but this does not prevent both sides from upholding cooperation as the main thread, continuously enhancing the resilience of China-U.S. relations through seeking common ground while reserving differences (求同存异, qiu tong cun yi - "seek, same, preserve, different") and exchanges and cooperation. Since last year, the China-U.S. economic and trade teams have held multiple rounds of consultations, reaching a series of consensuses and arrangements, giving China, the United States, and the world economy a "reassurance pill." In recent days, the economic and trade teams of the two countries held economic and trade consultations in New York, United States. Guided by the important consensus of the two heads of state, both sides conducted candid, in-depth, and constructive exchanges around implementing the consensuses of previous economic and trade consultations, promoting bilateral trade and investment, and other important economic and trade issues of common concern, and held a dialogue on artificial intelligence-related issues. This fully demonstrates that there are broad common interests between China and the United States, and further confirms that the essence of the China-U.S. relationship is mutually beneficial and win-win (互利共赢, hu li gong ying -"mutual, benefit, together, win"). By upholding mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation, China and the United States can fully achieve mutual success and shared prosperity.

The key to building a constructive strategic stable China-U.S. relationship lies in both sides moving towards each other (相向而行, xiang xiang er xing -"each, toward, each, walk") and jointly taking action to implement the consensus of the two heads of state. Over the past period of time, the China-U.S. relationship has generally advanced along the constructive strategic stability track established by the two heads of state. Both the political-diplomatic and economic-and-trade mechanisms have continued to function, exchanges of legislative bodies, localities, and business delegations have noticeably increased, youth exchanges and interactions have become increasingly frequent, exchanges in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence and biomedicine have risen in intensity, and events such as the 2026 China-U.S. Subnational Cooperation Dialogue and the Third China-U.S. 1.5-Track Dialogue have been highlights... Multiple fields and levels of both countries are taking action, pooling strength for building a constructive strategic stable China-U.S. relationship. Both sides should cherish the current hard-won good momentum, keep the direction correct, and eliminate interference. The U.S. side in particular needs to maintain policy continuity and stability, honor its commitments, and inject certainty into the bilateral relationship and the development of both countries through positive expectations for China-U.S. cooperation.

Building a constructive strategic stable China-U.S. relationship is the need of world peace and development, and also the responsibility of major countries. China and the United States are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and the world's two largest economies, bearing special responsibility for world peace, stability, and development. At present, the international situation is interwoven with turbulence and change, geopolitical conflicts keep arising one after another, and global challenges emerge in an endless stream. Whether it is promoting global economic recovery, resolving regional hotspot issues, or improving governance rules for emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, cyberspace, and outer space, none can be done without China-U.S. coordination and cooperation. The international community generally hopes that the China-U.S. relationship will maintain healthy and stable development, injecting stability, certainty, and constructiveness into a turbulent world through more positive interactions. This year, China and the United States will respectively host the 2026 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting and the G20 Leaders' Summit, and the mutual support and cooperation between the two sides will help promote global economic growth and improve global governance.

When major countries get along, direction is of paramount importance, and action must be especially solid and earnest. This Washington meeting is yet another important opportunity for both sides to implement the consensus of the heads of state and advance the building of a constructive strategic stable relationship. It is hoped that the U.S. side will work with the Chinese side to grasp the overall situation, move towards each other, continuously accumulate mutual trust, deepen cooperation, manage differences, jointly blaze a correct path for major countries to get along in the new era, and better benefit both countries and the world.

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"Railway Freight Bill" Logistics Financial Product Launched

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 22) (Reporter Li Xinping) The reporter learned from China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. that on September 21, the Group, in cooperation with commercial banks, launched the "Railway Freight Bill" logistics financial product, piloted in 10 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Guangdong, Hunan, Hainan, Yunnan, and Xinjiang.

The "Railway Freight Bill" innovates the settlement method for railway freight charges, enabling customers, on the basis of railway freight shipment data, to apply for bank acceptance bill financing, mainly used to pay freight charges, converting upfront freight expense arrangements into flexible bank deferred settlement, with flexible terms, controllable costs, and convenient handling, helping customers effectively activate operating cash flow.

Since 2024, China State Railway Group has successively cooperated with 14 commercial banks to launch five major categories of logistics financial products: the "Railway Freight Loan," the "Railway Freight Certificate," the "Railway Freight Bill," the"Letter of Credit Settlement of Goods," and the"Railway Document Pledge Financing." Customers may choose them individually according to their own needs, or flexibly combine and match them, so as to optimize fund arrangements, reduce financing costs, and improve operational efficiency. Among them, the"Railway Freight Loan" can help customers, based on historical railway shipment data, to apply to banks for additional credit enhancement limits and preferential interest rates, mainly used to pay freight charges; the"Railway Freight Certificate" can help customers with large freight volumes and long payment recovery cycles to finance by means of domestic letters of credit, mainly used for deferred payment of freight charges; and the"Railway Document Pledge Financing" can help customers, by virtue of railway electronic bills of lading and warehouse receipts, to apply to banks for financing, mainly used to activate assets in transit.

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Photo Report

On September 21, the dragon boat race of the 16th Traditional Sports Games of Ethnic Minorities of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region commenced with the sounding of gongs on the Rong River waters in Rong'an County, Liuzhou City. The photo shows competing contestants paddling with all their might.

Photo by Tan Kexing (Image China)

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Promoting the Implementation of a Constructive and Strategic Stable China-U.S. Relationship (Ambassador's Notes)

By: 谢 锋

At the invitation of President Trump of the United States, President Xi Jinping will soon pay a state visit to the United States. This is President Xi Jinping's first state visit to the United States in 11 years, and it is also the second time in half a year that the heads of state of China and the United States have exchanged state visits. It is a milestone event in China-U.S. relations and in international relations.

Over the past 11 years, the Communist Party of China has united and led the Chinese people in striving forward with vigor, and Chinese modernization has presented vast and magnificent scenes (气象万千, qi xiang wan qian - "air, appearance, ten thousand, myriad"). The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has become an unstoppable force (势不可挡, shi bu ke dang - "momentum, not, can, block"). Over the past 11 years, China-U.S. relations have gone through vicissitudes and hardships (风风雨雨, feng feng yu yu - "wind, wind, rain, rain"), which fully proves that "decoupling and severing supply chains" cannot be done, that looking down from a position of superiority will not work, and that conflict and confrontation must not be pursued. Over the past 11 years, the once-in-a-century transformation has accelerated, the international situation has been marked by change and turbulence, and the world needs a stable, healthy, and sustainable China-U.S. relationship even more. President Xi Jinping, with a far-sighted and strategic vision (高瞻远瞩, gao zhan yuan zhu - "high, look, far, gaze"), has made overall plans and designs, and has been doing everything personally and hands-on (亲力亲为, qin li qin wei - "personally, exert, personally, do"), pointing out a new direction, injecting new momentum, and writing a new chapter for the development of China-U.S. relations.

In May this year, President Xi Jinping and President Trump held a successful meeting in Beijing, and the most important political consensus they reached was to define the new positioning of a constructive strategic and stable China-U.S. relationship. This not only provides strategic guidance for China-U.S. relations in the next three years and beyond, but also creates a new paradigm for major-power relations and opens up bright prospects for world peace and prosperity. President Xi Jinping pointed out that the "constructive strategic and stable China-U.S. relationship" is not a slogan, but should be action taken by both sides moving toward each other. We should take President Xi Jinping's visit as an opportunity to further keep the direction, enhance consensus, remove interference, and quicken the pace, and promote the continuous forward development of bilateral relations.

Grasp the mainstream and anchor the positive stability with cooperation as the main theme. The common interests of China and the United States far outweigh their differences, and win-win cooperation is the mainstream and, even more so, the general trend. The two sides should implement the important consensus of the two heads of state, give play to the role of the two major mechanisms of political and diplomatic consultation and economic and trade consultation, expand exchanges in such fields as the two militaries, law enforcement, health, agriculture, tourism, science and technology, and people-to-people and cultural exchanges, continuously lengthen the list of cooperation and shorten the list of problems, work together to do more major and good things that benefit both countries and the world, and promote win-win outcomes for China and the United States and shared benefits for the world.

Learn from each other and shape benign stability with healthy competition. China and the United States certainly have competition, but it should be benign. The two sides should make common progress by learning from others' strengths to offset one's own weaknesses (取长补短, qu chang bu duan - "take, strength, supplement, weakness"), and create the future together through healthy rivalry, rather than consuming each other in a zero-sum game (零和博弈, ling he bo yi - "zero, sum, gambling, game"). Artificial intelligence concerns the well-being of all humanity. China and the United States should compete on how to better drive innovative development, ensure safety and controllability, promote mutual learning among civilizations, and improve global governance, and promote the upward and good development of artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity. They should not erect a "Silicon Curtain" again, let alone launch an AI version of "Star Wars."

Respect each other and maintain normal stability with manageable differences. Differences are not frightening; the key lies in constructive management and control. The positive progress made in several rounds of China-U.S. economic and trade consultations shows that as long as the two sides move toward each other with an attitude of equality, respect, and mutual benefit, they can find ways to resolve each other's concerns. Managing differences hinges on good faith. Once an agreement is reached, it must be put into action, and one cannot be saying one thing and doing another (说一套做一套, shuo yi tao zuo yi tao - "speak, one, set, do, one, set"). The U.S. side should stop fabricating pretexts such as "national security," "economic imbalance," and "forced labor" to wantonly contain and suppress China.

Hold the bottom line and safeguard lasting stability with peace to be expected. For China and the United States, there is mutual benefit through cooperation (合则两利, he ze liang li - "unite, then, two, benefit") and mutual harm through conflict (斗则俱伤, dou ze ju shang - "fight, then, both, injured"). The two sides should step over the "Thucydides Trap," avoid the "tragedy of great-power politics," and hold the bottom line of no conflict and no confrontation. China's sovereignty, security, and development interests brook no infringement, and the four red lines of the Taiwan question, democracy and human rights, the path and system, and the right to development brook no challenge. China adheres to the path of peaceful development and hopes that the U.S. side will move toward it in the same direction, so that peaceful coexistence between China and the United States can promote peace and tranquility in the world.

The friendship between the two peoples has always been the source of strength for the development of China-U.S. relations. Recent U.S. polls show that American public opinion toward China is warming up. In the first half of this year, the number of U.S. tourists visiting China ranked first among non-neighboring countries of China. The initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping to "invite 50,000 young Americans to China for exchange and study over five years" achieved its expected goal two and a half years ahead of schedule. The sincere friendship between Chinese and American young people across the Pacific has injected new impetus into the cause of friendship between the two countries. Recently, American friend "Sai Kesi" and Chinese desertification-control hero Yin Yuzhen were reunited across the ocean after 26 years, writing a new page of warmth and beauty in the exchanges between the Chinese and American peoples. I once invited "Sai Kesi" to the Chinese Embassy in the United States to spend the Dragon Boat Festival together and issued him a visa to visit China, thanking him for "a kind heart that helped grow a forest." At the end of his visit to China, "Sai Kesi" said with deep emotion that it was the continuous exchanges between ordinary Americans and Chinese that built the bridge of friendship brick by brick. The bridge is everlasting and the trees are evergreen — this is the deepest and most enduring force for building a constructive strategic and stable China-U.S. relationship.

Head-of-state diplomacy is the "anchor" and "compass" of China-U.S. relations. The year 2026 is a "big year" for China-U.S. relations. President Xi Jinping's state visit to the United States will surely continue to lead the giant ship of China-U.S. relations to break through the waves and sail steadily and far. Looking ahead, we expect that under the helm and navigation of the two heads of state, China and the United States will jointly promote the continuous implementation and realization of the constructive strategic and stable relationship, and blaze a correct path of getting along that features mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation.

(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to the United States)

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2026 Beijing Cultural Forum Opens

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 22) The 2026 Beijing Cultural Forum opened in Beijing on the 22nd. Li Shulei, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, attended and delivered a keynote speech. Yin Li, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee, attended and delivered remarks.

Chinese and foreign guests held that President Xi Jinping's proposal of the Global Civilization Initiative, active promotion of international cooperation in the field of cultural heritage, and advancement of the building of a community with a shared future for mankind are of great significance to promoting the cultural heritage cause of China and the world. Cultural heritage is the common wealth of all mankind; protecting, passing down, and utilizing cultural heritage well are requirements for the continuation of human civilization and the sustainable development of the world, and are also our common responsibility.

Chinese and foreign guests expressed that all sides should jointly uphold the firm conviction of safeguarding humanity's cultural heritage, adhere to the principles of protection first, rational utilization, and minimal intervention, and protect cultural heritage as one cherishes one's own life. All sides should jointly strengthen exchanges of experience in cultural heritage protection, sharing experience in cultural heritage surveys and censuses, rule-of-law development, public participation, scientific and technological support, and other areas. All sides should jointly advance international cooperation in cultural heritage protection, promoting cooperation projects such as research on ancient civilizations, joint archaeology, restoration of historic sites, and museum exchanges to cover more countries. All sides should jointly improve global governance of cultural heritage protection, expand protection cooperation under the framework of multilateral mechanisms, promote cultural heritage protection in the Global South, and contribute more Chinese solutions to protecting humanity's cultural heritage.

The 2026 Beijing Cultural Forum, with the theme of "Cultural Heritage and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations (文明互鉴, wenming hujian - "civilization, mutually, learn from each other"), was co-hosted by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Beijing Municipal Committee and the People's Government of Beijing Municipality. More than 600 guests from 44 countries and regions attended the forum.

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Deepen Whole-Chain Oversight of Food Safety to Enhance Regulatory Quality and Effectiveness Through Strict Governance

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 22) The main event of the 2026 National Food Safety Publicity Week was held in Beijing on the 22nd. Zhang Guoqing, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended and delivered a speech. He emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly implement the important instructions and directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping, implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, continuously strengthen the strong will and capability to discover problems in a timely manner and eliminate food safety hazards in a timely manner, continuously deepen whole-chain supervision over food safety, and improve the quality and effectiveness of supervision through strict management and strict governance.

Zhang Guoqing emphasized that it is necessary to strictly implement the requirements of the "four strictest" standards, adhere to maintaining strictness in everyday routine and regular activities (抓在日常、严在平时, zhua zai ri chang, yan zai ping shi - "grasp in daily life, strict in normal times"), and devote greater effort to firmly implement the measures for whole-chain supervision over food safety. It is necessary to comprehensively tighten and firmly press down the responsibilities of all parties, strengthen seamless linkage in supervision over each link such as production, storage, transportation, and sales, urge production and operation entities to strictly guard the entry gate for raw materials, the exit gate for finished products, and the gate for whole-process control over production and operation, urge platform enterprises and testing and certification institutions to strictly fulfill their responsibilities, ensuring that food quality is safe and reliable. It is necessary to strengthen source-side risk control, strictly implement systems such as the commitment-and-compliance certificate for edible agricultural products, strengthen the linkage between origin clearance eligibility and market access, strengthen supervision over the use of food additives, and strictly prevent non-conforming food from flowing to the dining table. It is necessary to closely focus on key areas and weak links in food safety to strengthen inspections and random sampling, regulate the business conduct of new business forms such as online food ordering, livestream sales, and community group buying, consolidate the achievements in rectifying "ghost takeout," strive to advance the same quality and same standards for online and offline, and severely punish illegal and non-compliant production and operation entities. It is necessary to enhance food safety governance capacity, accelerate the construction of"Internet + transparent kitchen" (mingchu liangzao), strengthen the role of industry association self-discipline, news media supervision, and other forces, and build a solid people's line of defense for food safety.

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China International Rule of Law Forum (2026) Opens in Shenzhen

(People's Daily, Shenzhen, September 22) (Reporter Jin Xin) The China International Rule of Law Forum (2026) opened on the 22nd in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province. Chen Wenqing, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, attended and delivered a speech. Huang Kunming, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, attended and delivered remarks.

Participating guests held that the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, advocated by President Xi Jinping, has won increasingly broad recognition from the international community. To build a community with a shared future for mankind, it is necessary to uphold the spirit of the rule of law, build international rule of law, and deepen exchanges of rule-of-law civilizations and exchanging and learning from each other (交流互鉴, jiaoliu hujian - "exchange, mutual learn"). Under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, China has focused on resolving new problems through scientific legislation, resolving practical problems through strict law enforcement, safeguarding social fairness and justice through impartial judicature, consolidating the foundations of the rule of law through law-abiding by all the people, and safeguarding national sovereignty, security, and development interests through foreign-related rule of law; the construction of socialist rule of law has achieved historic accomplishments and undergone historic changes.

Participating guests expressed that it is necessary to carry out pragmatic and efficient international rule-of-law cooperation and exchanges, adhere to using the rule of law to consolidate consensus, promote development, safeguard stability, and achieve good governance, advance the building of a community with a shared future for mankind along the track of the rule of law, and jointly create a more prosperous, stable, fair, and just world.

Before the opening ceremony, Chen Wenqing, together with participating guests, visited an exhibition on the achievements of Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law. After the opening ceremony, Chen Wenqing respectively met with Sharma, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Nepal, Peres, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Samoa, and Valencia, National Prosecutor of Chile.

The forum, themed "Deepening International Rule-of-Law Exchange and Cooperation, Providing Rule-of-Law Safeguards for Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind," was attended by representatives from the legal and law circles of 38 countries and 7 international organizations. The forum was hosted by the China Law Society.

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Thoroughly Study and Implement the Spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s Important Reply Letter, Resolutely Shoulder the Heavy Responsibility of Safeguarding People’s Well-Being and National Security

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 22) (Reporter Zhang Tianpei) A video conference of the national public security organs was held on the 22nd. Wang Xiaohong, Member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Public Security, attended and delivered a speech.

Wang Xiaohong emphasized that it is necessary to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important reply letter to all members of the "Zhangzhou 110" in Fujian Province, firmly support the Two Establishments (两个确立) and resolutely achieve the Two Upholds (两个维护), bear in mind the entrustment, advance with gratitude, and with higher standards, more concrete measures, and a stricter work style, do a solid job in all work of preventing risks, ensuring safety, maintaining stability, and promoting development, accelerate the enhancement of the new-quality combat effectiveness of public security organs, resolutely shoulder the heavy responsibility of guarding the people's happiness and protecting the peace of families and the country, and remain steadfast and unswerving in one's purpose (矢志不渝, shi zhi bu yu - "will, aim, not, change") in being loyal guards of the Party and the people.

Wang Xiaohong demanded that political security risks always be placed first, and deepen the struggle against infiltration, subversion, terrorism, separatism, and cults. Thoroughly carry out investigation, mediation, and resolution of conflicts and disputes, implement tiered-and-categorized key control measures, lawfully and severely crack down on prominent crimes, coordinate efforts in disaster prevention, reduction, and relief work, continuously strengthen public safety supervision, and make every effort to maintain social stability. Strengthen the concept of "efficiently accomplishing one thing", ensure the implementation and landing of existing policies, plan and introduce more incremental policies, and assist the economy in continuing to develop toward the new, the superior, and the good. At present, it is necessary to do a solid job in the security work for the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, ensuring that the people celebrate the holidays in safety.

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Red Memories Never Fade (Carrying Forward the Long March Spirit, Forging Ahead on the New Journey·Reporters Retrace the Long March)

By: 本报记者 李维俊

In the village of Hemu, Xinxu Township, Guanyang County, Guilin City, Guangxi, within the Jiuhai Well Red Army Martyrs Memorial Park (hereinafter referred to as the "Memorial Park") for the Xinxu Blocking Action of the Xiangjiang River Campaign, the Red Army Martyrs Monument stands in solemn silence, as docent Jiang Xingxia tells students about that battle from over 90 years ago.

In November 1934, the Xinxu Blocking Action began. After days of fierce fighting, over 100 Red Army soldiers, wounded and unable to be evacuated in time, were cruelly thrown by the enemy into the Jiuhai Well, dying a heroic death.

In order to commemorate the fallen Red Army soldiers, the local people no longer used the Jiuhai Well as a daily water source. In 2003, Guanyang County raised funds to build a Red Army Martyrs Monument and railing beside the well, explicitly designating the Jiuhai Well as a red commemorative facility. In May 2006, the former site of the Xiangjiang River Campaign was listed among the sixth batch of National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units, and the site where the Red Army martyrs perished at the Jiuhai Well was included in protection as part of the relevant locations.

Jiang Meiying, a villager of Hemu Village, her father had once witnessed the Red Army officers and soldiers strictly observing the discipline of "preferring to dig wild vegetables and sleep on the ground rather than take a single needle or thread from the masses." The Red Army stories her father told made Jiang Meiying unforgettable and deeply etched in one's heart (刻骨铭心, ke gu ming xin - "carve, bone, remember, heart"): "Without the Red Army officers and soldiers fighting bravely in the heat of battle (浴血奋战, yu xue fen zhan - "bathe, blood, struggle, fight"), there would be no happy life we have today."

In August 2017, Guanyang County launched the work of exploration and salvage of the Red Army martyrs' remains from the Jiuhai Well. Local people voluntarily took turns on duty, assisting in the smooth completion of the salvage work. In September of the same year, the salvaged remains of the Red Army martyrs were buried in the Memorial Park.

In 2019, the Xinxu Blocking Action Historical Exhibition Hall, located in the Memorial Park, was officially opened to the public. Three exhibition zones —"Bloody Battle at Xinxu," "Red Army Loyal Souls," and "Passing the Torch" —vividly present that magnificent period of history through rich displays of photographs, cultural relics, and other exhibits.

In the Exhibition Hall, a faded red flag (replica) attracted the attention of many visitors. In 1934, a wounded Red Army soldier was rescued by Huang Helin and his wife of Fengshujiao Village, Paibujiang Village, Guanyang Town, Guanyang County. When parting, the soldier handed the red flag he carried with him to Huang Helin, expressing the expectation: "When the revolution is victorious, I will come back to retrieve it." Huang Helin wrapped the red flag in cloth, placed it in a small wooden box, and before his death entrusted it to his children and grandchildren. In 1944, the Huang family abandoned nearly all their family property to flee from the Japanese invaders, but they always kept the small wooden box by their side.

In 1979, the descendants of the Huang family handed the red flag over to the People's Armed Forces Department of Guanyang County. Now, the original and replica of this red flag are respectively collected in the Museum of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and the Xinxu Blocking Action Historical Exhibition Hall. "The flag has left the marks of time, but the red memory will never fade." Tang Tao, a docent at the Memorial Park, said.

The deep bond between the army and the people (鱼水情深, yu shui qing shen - "fish, water, feeling, deep"), and the original aspiration is always remembered; the red spirit is passed down from generation to generation. In recent years, Guanyang County has organized the training of "Red Scarf Docents," letting children enter the revolutionary sites and tell the Red Army stories to more people. In addition, the Memorial Park has set up distinctive red education and study-themed activities targeting different groups such as Party members, cadres, and young people.

Today, the Memorial Park has been incorporated into the boutique route of the Long March National Cultural Park and has been rated as a National 4A-Level Tourist Attraction. Guanyang County has linked up the red former sites scattered in the countryside, incorporating them into the "Red Original Aspiration·Clean Guanyang" clean-governance education boutique route. The Xinxu Yangliujing Red Fifth Division Battlefield Command Post, the Xinxu Hemu Village Battlefield Rescue Station, and others, welcome batch after batch of visitors, carrying forward the becoming more fresh and enduring over time (历久弥新, li jiu mi xin - "pass, long time, increasingly, new") memory and original aspiration.

(People's Daily Online reporter Guo Zhenqian participated in the reporting.)

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Photo Report

As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, Dongzhangwangtuan Village, Julu County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province, has carried out a photography service, taking free photos for the village's low-income households and veteran Party members, offering holiday greetings.

Photo by Chai Gengli (China Images)

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Party Leadership Adjustments Announced for Three Provincial-Level Party Committees Including Tibet

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 22) Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided:

Comrade Hu Changsheng is appointed member, standing committee member, and secretary of the Party Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region, and no longer holds the posts of secretary, standing committee member, and member of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee; Comrade Wang Junzheng no longer holds the posts of secretary, standing committee member, and member of the Party Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region.

Comrade Wu Xiaojun is appointed member, standing committee member, and secretary of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee, and no longer holds the posts of secretary, standing committee member, and member of the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee.

Comrade Luo Dongchuan is appointed secretary of the Qinghai Provincial Party Committee.

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Rural Revitalization Thrives in Beautiful and Harmonious Villages

By: 本报记者 常 钦 郁静娴 邓剑洋

September 23 this year marks the ninth "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival."

On the occasion of the festival, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "Party committees and governments at all levels should conscientiously implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, solidly advance comprehensive rural revitalization, improve the effectiveness of policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit farmers, and enrich rural areas, focus on enhancing the comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality and efficiency, broaden channels for farmers to increase income and become prosperous, build livable, workable, and beautiful villages in light of local conditions, and strive to make the lives of the vast number of farmers happier and more beautiful."

Bearing in mind the instructions, we work hard to prosper agriculture through practical action. In the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," China's summer grain output exceeded 300 billion jin for the first time, early rice output has remained stable at over 56 billion jin for six consecutive years, rural industries have improved in quality and efficiency, rural construction has advanced in an orderly manner, the effectiveness of rural governance has steadily improved, and comprehensive rural revitalization is showing good momentum.

The story of the harvest is written in the fields, and also in the lives of the villagers.

From the story of one grain farmer, we see the stability of the "rice bowl"—

A harvest is grown season after season

General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that ensuring the stable supply of grain and other important agricultural products is the top priority of agricultural production, and required "actively promoting advanced and applicable varieties, technologies, and equipment, steadily increasing per-unit yield and efficiency" and "enhancing agricultural disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief capabilities."

A harvest is grown season after season.

In Xierzu Village, Shangcheng Town, Cheng'an County, Hebei Province, corn has entered the critical stage of yield formation. Zhang Shaohua gently peeled back the husk leaves; the kernels were neatly arranged. "This year we planted all high-density varieties. The kernels have filled out well, and the harvest is secure." Looking at the crop's growth, she felt much more at ease.

These more than 1,000 mu of grain fields have given her no small amount of worry this year.

First there was the wheat. Last year's prolonged autumn flooding delayed the sowing period. The county's Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau organized agricultural technicians to go down to the fields, and experts from Hebei Agricultural University delivered a "good prescription": split application of topdressing, compaction to preserve soil moisture, foliar fertilizer spraying... After the New Year, the wheat seedlings gradually recovered.

Just as the wheat was about to ripen, continuous overcast and rainy weather and strong winds made Zhang Shaohua anxious again.

Rush harvesting and drying worked in relay. Cheng'an County set up 11 standardized agricultural machinery repair stations, and 31 drying towers were put into operation. "The agricultural machinery service teams work day and night, harvesting by area—harvest each plot as soon as it matures," said Wang Xing, head of the Agricultural Machinery Section of the county's Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau.

After finishing the wheat harvest, it was straight on to the corn. "This year the seedling stage was on the dry side, and pest damage was also somewhat severe," Zhang Shaohua said. Fortunately, new equipment and new technologies came in handy.

Relying on project support from the county's Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, Zhang Shaohua's more than 1,000 mu of grain fields were all fitted with integrated water and fertilizer facilities. When there was a spell of persistently dry weather, the fine drip irrigation tapes brought water into the fields, preserving moisture and protecting the seedlings. In July, she also used drones to spray pesticides to control corn borers and other pests.

A drip irrigation tape and a drone help farmers cope with weather changes and pests and diseases; agricultural technical guidance and agricultural machinery services give farmers more support. The harvest in the fields depends on hard work, and also on the enhancement of comprehensive agricultural production capacity.

This year, the summer grain and early rice harvests have already been secured. According to the agricultural situation dispatch released recently by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, the autumn grain area is expected to increase, crop growth is generally normal, and there is a good foundation for achieving a full-year grain harvest.

The grain has not yet all been stored, so field management cannot be relaxed. Carrying out autumn grain field management by region and category, implementing measures such as "one spray, multiple boosts," making good preparations for the storage and dispatch of emergency agricultural machinery, and improving rush-harvesting and drying capacity... At present, localities across the country are closely tracking key links, striving to turn the harvest in the fields into a harvest in hand.

Looking to the long term, the foundation of the harvest is still being consolidated. As of the end of 2025, the country had cumulatively built more than 1 billion mu of high-standard farmland, improved varieties are being promoted more quickly, large grain combine harvesters and high-speed rice transplanters are being applied more rapidly, and grain drying capacity in the Huang-Huai-Hai region and elsewhere has been greatly enhanced. The matching of good farmland, good seeds, good machinery, and good methods makes agricultural production more resilient.

The outline of the "15th Five-Year Plan" makes clear that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China's comprehensive grain production capacity will reach about 1.45 trillion jin. From safeguarding a single season's harvest to enhancing long-term production capacity, the hard work of hundreds of millions of farmers has an increasingly solid guarantee.

From a farmer's painting, we see the dual improvement of material and spiritual life—

A harvest showcases the fullness of rural life and the confidence of the local soil

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The construction of spiritual civilization in rural areas is very important. The transformation of the material into the spiritual and the spiritual into the material is a viewpoint of dialectics. In implementing the rural revitalization strategy, we must grasp both material civilization and spiritual civilization, and pay particular attention to improving the spiritual outlook of farmers."

A farmer's painting depicts the harvest scene.

In Yudong Village, Kecheng District, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, Zheng Weiliang is creating a harvest-themed work in his studio. On the walls, brightly colored farmer's paintings full of local flavor hang densely.

"By day I carry a hoe, by night I hold a brush. The Harvest Festival is a festival for farmers, and I want to use my brush to paint the most beautiful harvest scenes," Zheng Weiliang said.

Zheng Weiliang, now 69 years old, has loved painting since childhood. In the 1980s, he signed up for the Kecheng District professional training class in farmer's painting and embarked on the path of creation. Over the decades, more than 20 of his works have been selected for national and provincial-level professional farmer's painting exhibitions.

His brush has never left the land. In his youth, Zheng Weiliang tended 4 mu of rice and 5 mu of orange trees at home, squeezing in time to paint after farm work. Now, he still manages more than 200 square meters of vegetable plots and more than one mu of huyou pomelo trees. "This year the rainfall has been abundant, so the huyou quality is better, and I expect to start picking around mid-November." He calculates the harvest in the orchard while also mulling over new works on paper.

In Zheng Weiliang's view, farmer's painting is both freehand and realistic. Rural infrastructure is getting better and better, and the villagers' lives are getting more and more prosperous. These visible, tangible changes are all sources of creative inspiration.

This year, he began creating a series of farmer's paintings on the twenty-four solar terms, and has already completed works on themes such as the Spring Equinox and Grain in Ear. "The twenty-four solar terms contain rich farming wisdom. I want to use a series of paintings to fully present the changes in farm work across the four seasons and the new look of the countryside."

Farmers are not only witnesses to rural change, but also creators of local culture.

Of the more than 800 villagers in Yudong Village, over 300 participate in farmer's painting creation. A single brush enriches spiritual life and also brings development opportunities.

"In recent years, we have continuously activated the 'farmer's painting +' industrial chain, promoting the transformation and upgrading from selling paintings to selling copyrights, cultural and creative products, and tourism products," said Yu Xiaoqin, Party branch secretary of Yudong Village. The annual output value of the village's farmer's painting-related industries has exceeded 25 million yuan, and the village receives more than 200 study tour groups each year, driving villagers to find employment at their doorstep.

Drawing inspiration from farm work, recording life through their works, and then integrating local art into cultural and creative products and study tours—culture here both nourishes people's hearts and connects to the market. Yu Xiaoqin said the village will continue to deepen the "farmer's painting +" industrial chain so that the villagers can share in the fruits of development.

Such explorations are unfolding in more and more villages. As of the end of 2025, there were 14,900 intangible cultural heritage workshops nationwide, driving more than 1.3 million people to increase employment and income; activities such as "Village BA," "village songs," and "village galas" allow the masses to take the stage at their doorstep and gain happiness through participation.

At this year's Harvest Festival, localities across the country organized activities such as folk culture, intangible cultural heritage performances, harvest "village galas," and farmers' story sessions, promoting the flow of quality cultural resources into the countryside. What the villagers are celebrating is not only granaries full of grain and orchards full of fruit, but also the fullness of life and the confidence of the local soil.

From a bowl of "Red Army noodles," we see new space for rural development—

A harvest is written on the villagers' ever-widening road to prosperity

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "To build a strong agricultural country, we must advance agricultural modernization and rural modernization as an integrated whole, achieving a comprehensive improvement of the countryside improving from the outside in (由表及里, you biao ji li - "from, surface, to, inside"), in both form and spirit."

A harvest is found not only in the fields, but also on the villagers' ever-widening road to prosperity.

In Fenglong Village, Yunshishan Township, Ruijin City, Jiangxi Province, 48-year-old Liang Wansheng runs a "Red Army family feast" restaurant. A bowl of "Red Army noodles" and a meal of home-style farm dishes have become a window for tourists to experience red culture and understand rural life.

"Now I'm earning a living from 'red tourism,' and life is very comfortable," Liang Wansheng said. The restaurant plus homestay brings in a good annual income, and during busy times he has to hire a few villagers to help.

In the past, although the village had revolutionary sites, developing tourism was not easy. "The road outside the door was all mud. Tourists couldn't get in, and goods couldn't be sold out," Liang Wansheng recalled. Stuck with a few mu of fields, he had good products but worried about finding a market.

The change began with rural construction. In 2020, Fenglong Village launched the construction of a red beautiful village. Road hardening, streetlight installation, and sewage pipe network laying advanced step by step, garbage was collected and transported in a unified manner, and small recreational gardens were built on vacant land. As the village environment improved, study tour groups gradually increased.

With tourists coming, idle houses also found new uses. In 2022, the village pooled more than 1 million yuan in project funds to convert idle rammed-earth houses into red-themed restaurants in accordance with laws and regulations. Liang Wansheng raised his own funds to lease and operate one, opening its doors to customers in October of that year, bringing more than 40,000 yuan in annual income to the village collective.

One household's business drove more villagers to participate, and some farming households also converted their idle houses into homestays and restaurants. Liang Boqing, secretary of the general Party branch of Fenglong Village, said that tourists coming to the village drove sales of agricultural products such as pear melons, watermelons, and white lotus seeds. In 2025, the village's per capita disposable income exceeded 20,000 yuan.

Building roads, treating sewage, and revitalizing idle houses improve living conditions and also open up development space. Agriculture and tourism drive each other, and village construction and farmers' income growth have become more closely linked.

Nationwide, as of the end of 2025, the penetration rate of sanitary toilets in rural areas reached about 77 percent, and the penetration rate of tap water reached 96 percent. Improved infrastructure makes the countryside more livable and also creates conditions for developing new industries and new business forms.

In the golden autumn season, the development vitality of rural areas is meeting the consumption demand of urban and rural areas. On September 4 this year, the China Farmers' Harvest Festival Golden Autumn Consumption Season was launched in Shanghai. Activities such as brand promotion, production-marketing matching, and rural cuisine promotion help rural products expand their markets and rural tourism attract more visitors.

From urban-rural interaction during the festival to daily development integration, there is still a need to continuously shore up weaknesses and build momentum for the future. This year, the "15th Five-Year Plan" for Accelerating Agricultural and Rural Modernization proposed implementing a project to shore up weaknesses in rural modern living conditions; looking toward the "15th Five-Year Plan," localities across the country are advancing the construction of livable, workable, and beautiful villages in light of local conditions, coordinating infrastructure, public services, and industrial layout, and gradually raising the completeness of rural infrastructure, the convenience of public services, and the comfort of the living environment, so that more villages can share development opportunities.

From growing good crops, to painting a good life, to running good businesses, the farmers in these three stories are all creating new harvests through their own labor.

Turning a good harvest in the fields into a good life at home, making the countryside both livable and workable—the connotation of the harvest is constantly enriched. The vibrant vitality of the vast countryside lies in the villagers' season-after-season cultivation and step-by-step struggle.

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Accelerate the cultivation and expansion of emerging and future industries, and continuously strengthen and expand advanced manufacturing

(Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, September 22) (Reporter Zou Wei) Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, conducted a research visit in Shanghai on September 22. He stressed the need to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on developing advanced manufacturing and the spirit of the National Conference on Advanced Manufacturing, adhere to the directions of intelligence, green development, and integration, deeply promote the integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, vigorously develop a new generation of intelligent manufacturing, accelerate the cultivation and expansion of emerging industries and future industries, and continuously strengthen and expand advanced manufacturing.

At the Shanghai Electric National Artificial Intelligence Application Pilot Base, Li Qiang inspected special-purpose robots and industrial robot products and their application demonstrations in complex scenarios, listened to reports on the construction of "AI+" integrated service providers and AI-native factories, and visited the pilot workshop for intelligent robot assembly and debugging. Li Qiang pointed out that emerging industries such as artificial intelligence are changing with each passing day (日新月异, ri xin yue yi - "day, new, month, change"), and the application of related technologies is profoundly reshaping the technological system, production models, and industrial forms of manufacturing, opening up entirely new space for technological innovation and brand enhancement in manufacturing. It is necessary to combine China's advantages in both manufacturing and digital-intelligent technologies, deeply advance "AI + manufacturing," promote AI to better empower the development of advanced manufacturing, facilitate intelligent upgrades across the entire process of R&D, production, and management, further activate the potential of data elements, drive the comprehensive digital-intelligent transformation of more industries, and build smarter industrial and supply chains. It is necessary to target common difficulties in the manufacturing field, focus on key links such as industrial design, pilot testing and validation, and intelligent operation and maintenance, build more manufacturing production service platforms, strengthen the supply of integrated services and diversified solutions, help various enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, carry out intelligent transformation more efficiently and at lower cost, and continuously enhance development momentum and competitive advantages.

Shanghai Future Qidian Community is a science and technology innovation incubation platform focused on the field of future industries. Li Qiang came here to learn in detail about the construction of the community's innovation ecosystem and the operation of the Shanghai Future Industry Fund, inspected technology products in fields such as brain-computer interfaces and quantum computing, and had cordial exchanges with science and technology innovation personnel and community staff. Li Qiang pointed out that future industries are a potential blue ocean for the development of advanced manufacturing. It is necessary to strengthen tracking, analysis, and assessment of future technology development trends, intensify research on key core technologies, consolidate the support of basic research, encourage bold exploration and tolerance of trial and error, and continuously expand the frontiers of industrial innovation. It is necessary to build a first-class innovation ecosystem, promote the deep integration of industry, academia, research, and application, strengthen science and technology services, and actively cultivate and open up application scenarios. In view of the characteristics of future industries, namely long growth cycles and high market risks, it is necessary to vigorously develop venture capital, strengthen patient capital, and establish mechanisms for investment growth and risk sharing in future industries. Li Qiang stressed that talent is the primary resource, and only by possessing talent can we win the future. It is necessary to strengthen the talent aggregation and cultivation functions of research institutions, innovation platforms, enterprises, and science and technology programs, explore new models for cultivating top-notch innovative talent, and strive to cultivate more high-quality talent.

Chen Jining and Wu Zhenglong participated in the research visit.

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"Great Expedition — Thematic Exhibition Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Victory of the Long March of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of China" Opens in Beijing

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 22) The opening ceremony of the "Great Expedition — Thematic Exhibition Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Victory of the Long March of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of China" was held on the morning of September 22 at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution. Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, delivered a speech and declared the exhibition open.

At 10 a.m., the band of the People's Liberation Army of China played the "March of the Volunteers," and all present sang the national anthem of the People's Republic of China. Subsequently, all present stood in silence to mourn the revolutionary martyrs who made heroic sacrifices during the Long March.

In his speech, Cai Qi pointed out that 90 years ago, the Communist Party of China led the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of China in overcoming countless difficulties and perils (千难万险, qian nan wan xian - "thousand, difficult, ten thousand, dangerous"), at tremendous sacrifice, and in victoriously completing the Long March that shook the world and is recorded in the annals of history. The victory of the Long March realized the great turning point of the Communist Party of China and the cause of the Chinese revolution from setbacks to victory, opened a new great advance of the Communist Party of China in fighting for national independence and the liberation of the people, and is a towering monument in the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The great Long March spirit forged by Chinese Communists and Red Army officers and soldiers with their lives and blood has become deeply integrated into the bloodline and soul of the Chinese nation, and has become a powerful spiritual driving force that encourages and inspires the Chinese people to keep overcoming great difficulties and challenges (攻坚克难, gong jian ke nan - "attack, stronghold; overcome, difficulty") and to advance from victory to victory.

Cai Qi said that the thematic exhibition comprehensively presents the glorious course, valuable experience, great significance, and far-reaching influence of the Party leading the Red Army in the Long March, fully displays the magnificent journey of the Party leading the people in inheriting and carrying forward revolutionary traditions and continuously creating new historical glories over a long period, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Party, and provides an important platform for carrying out education in ideals and convictions, education in patriotism, and education in revolutionary traditions. The purpose of holding this exhibition is to guide the broad masses of cadres and the people to deeply understand that the red political power was hard-won, that the new China was hard-won, and that socialism with Chinese characteristics was hard-won, to forever bear in mind the great achievements and contributions of the Party and the Red Army, and to continue to advance the great cause pioneered by the revolutionary forebears. On the new journey, it is necessary to unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments (两个确立), resolutely achieve the Two Upholds (两个维护), vigorously carry forward the great Long March spirit, and walk well the Long March road of the new era, making great efforts and showing vigorous spirit (踔厉奋发, chuoli fenfa - "strive, energetic; exert, spirit") and advancing bravely and resolutely, making unremitting efforts to comprehensively advance the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization.

Cai Qi and other leading comrades visited the thematic exhibition together with representatives of the masses from all walks of life.

Yin Li, Li Shulei, Zhang Shengmin, Losang Jamcan, and Wang Yong attended.

Responsible comrades of relevant central Party, government, and military departments and of Beijing Municipality, officers and soldiers of troops stationed in the capital, and representatives of the masses from all walks of life in the capital, totaling about 600 people, participated.

The thematic exhibition is divided into 7 parts in total, displaying 357 photographs and charts and 1,061 items (sets) of cultural relics and documents.

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Page 1 editors: Hu Anqi, Zhao Zheng, Zhao Chuanbo; Page 2 editors: Han Xiaoming, Jiang Bo, Guan Haoyu; Page 3 editors: Jiang Xuejie, Lyu Li, Zhang Anyu; Page 4 editors: Liu Nian, Han Chunyao, Liu Jingwen

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Let trade and economic cooperation continue to serve as the ballast and propeller of China-US relations

By: 本报记者 刘玲玲 宋亦然

In May this year, President Xi Jinping met with US President Trump in Beijing, jointly defining the new positioning of building a constructive and stable strategic relationship between China and the United States, and reaching important consensus on maintaining stable economic and trade relations, expanding practical cooperation in various fields, and properly resolving each other's concerns.

"The essence of China-US economic and trade relations is mutually beneficial outcomes (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual, benefit; together, win"),and in the face of differences and frictions,equal consultation is the only correct choice."President Xi Jinping pointed out,"The door of China's opening-up will only open wider and wider;American companies are deeply participating in China's reform and opening-up,and China welcomes the United States to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation with China."

Guided by the consensus of the heads of state,the relevant departments of both China and the United States have maintained communication in multiple fields.Keeping economicand trade relations as the ballast stone and propeller of China-US relations will not only bring more benefits to the peoples of both countries,but also inject more certainty and positive energy into the world.

Tightening the bond of cooperation

"We see broad opportunities rooted in China, facing the global market"

"When US and Chinese companies open the door of cooperation, both sides will benefit""I have met many excellent partners from different industries in the United States""I very much hope that US and Chinese companies can join hands to carry out more cooperation"...At the end of July this year,at the invitation of the US-China Business Council,the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade organized a delegation of Chinese entrepreneurs composed of 22 companies to visit Salt Lake City,Chicago,and Washington in the United States,holding more than 10 business docking events with the US side,and conducting discussions and exchanges with more than 120 American companies and institutions.

At the "one-on-one" negotiation session in Salt Lake City,Sun Yu,Chairman of Zhejiang Rourou Technology Co.,Ltd.,showcased to the person in charge of a local well-known essential oil company a nano-electronic EEG sleep patch weighing only about 4 grams;the other party immediately instructed their senior vice president of R&D to send an email establishing a cooperation intention.With solid product quality,Rourou Technology also reached preliminary consensus with more than 10 institutions,including local life science park operators and professional medical device distributors,on matters such as North American market agency distribution and joint scenario implementation.

The heat of corporate exchanges and cooperation is a reflection of the deep foundation of China-US economicand trade relations.According to statistics from China Customs,in the first half of this year,total China-US trade in goods reached 2 trillion yuan,of which the second quarter saw year-on-year growth of 13.7%.According to the survey results of the US-China Business Council,92% of surveyed American companies achieved profitability in China in 2025,and 95% believe that their business in China concerns their own global competitiveness.Tan Sen,President of the US-China Business Council,stated that American companies recognize the advantages of China's economy and innovation system,and are committed to deeply cultivating the Chinese market and cooperating with Chinese companies,in order to enhance global competitiveness.

Recently,at the China-US Provincial and State Investment and Trade Cooperation Exchange Event held in Xiamen,many American business figures mentioned that China-US economicand trade cooperation has shown strong resilience,and American companies' investment in China continues to land.The latest report from the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai confirms this:nearly 80% of surveyed member companies saw their profitability recover in 2025 to the highest level since 2019,and 58% of surveyed companies hold an optimistic attitude toward China's business prospects over the next five years,up 17 percentage points from the previous year.

SAIC Motor and General Motors formally signed a joint venture renewal agreement,extending the SAIC-GM joint venture term by 20 years to 2047;Tesla connected to Doubao voice large model,China-US technological cooperation"sparking sparks"...Many American companies are casting votes of confidence in China-US economicand trade cooperation through practical actions."We see broad opportunities rooted in China, facing the global market."Rory Xu,Senior Vice President of General Motors and President of General Motors China,stated that in the future,they will develop products and technologies in China,for China,and push them to the global market more quickly.

Allen,Senior Fellow at the China Center of the Asia Society and former President of the US-China Business Council,stated that over the years,China and the United States have continuously carried out trade,investment,and technological exchanges,and achieved common development in this process;further deepening economicand trade cooperation between the two countries will continue to benefit both sides.

Sowing seeds of hope in the fields

"The more opportunities for mutual exchange,there more opportunities for cooperation that benefit both countries can be discovered"

American soybean farmer Gai Sikai still remembers the scene at last year's 8th China International Import Expo (CIIE),where the booth of the US Soybean Export Council was crowded with people (人头攒动, ren tou zan dong - "person, head, crowd, move"):visitors formed long lines,vying to taste dishes cooked with American high-oleic soybean oil.He received orders from Chinese companies at the very beginning of the expo.During the 8th CIIIE,the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and the US Department of Agriculture jointly hosted the"US Food and Agriculture Pavilion,"covering an area of over 350 square meters,with 19 American companies and organizations participating,and the total transaction volume of participating small and medium-sized exhibitors reaching nearly 12 million US dollars,an increase of 5% over the previous edition.

Currently,preparations for the 9th CIIIE are advancing rapidly,and the contracted area of American companies continues to rank first among all countries.Zheng Yi,President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai,introduced that agriculture and food are important components of China-US practical cooperation,and the two countries have natural complementarity in this field;the"US Food and Agriculture Pavilion"at the 9th CIIIE will be even larger in area,and the number of participating companies and institutions will also increase

Agriculture is one of the earliest-starting,most effective,and most promising areas of cooperation between China and the United States.China is the world's second-largest importer of agricultural products,and the United States is the world's largest exporter of agricultural products.Agricultural products imported from the United States not only meet the needs of the Chinese market,but also promote the development of relevant American industries and increase the income of American farmers

"When we clearly have reliable buyers,and at the same time buyers are assured that we are stable suppliers,everyone can benefit,including farmers like me,as well as companies and consumers up and down the Chinese supply chain."Michael McClarny,President of the US Soybean Export Council anda farmer from South Dakota,stated that the US soybean industry has established a cooperative relationship with China spanning over 40 years,"We can build on the foundation of over 40 years of cooperation to continue creating the next 40 years or even longer partnership."

"Nothing can replace sitting down face-to-face,asking questions of each other,listening,and learning from each other."McClarny has received visitors from many countries at his farm,and has also traveled around the world to meet with people who purchase and consume American soybeans.He said that the trust built through interpersonal connections far exceeds any single transaction,"The more opportunities for mutual exchange among farmers,buyers,and industry leaders of both China and the United States,the more opportunities for cooperation that benefit both countries can be discovered."

China-US agricultural science and technology cooperation is also advancing in depth.In 2023,the US Soybean Export Council cooperated with Henan Province to establish the"China-US Soybean Product Application Value Chain Innovation Center,"and Chinese and American agricultural enterprises have respectively established processing plants,R&D centers,and logistics bases in each other's countries.In June this year,at the 2026 China-US Subnational Cooperation Dialogue,Henan Zhoukou National Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone reached a smart agriculture cooperation intention with American company Ruck Manufacturing,to jointly build an international benchmark for intelligent irrigation and smart wheat cultivation on the Huang-Huai Plain

Jim Zimmerman,Chairman of the Board of the American Chamber of Commerce in China,stated that agricultural cooperation is an important pillar of economicand trade cooperation between the two countries,which not only helps address global food security challenges,but also enables both countries to fully leverage their respective advantages and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes

Linking the future of innovation

"When the advantages of the two countries are superimposed and mutually coordinated,they can completely create greater value"

"Partner""Co-innovation"—at the 4th China International Supply Chain Expo held in June this year,these two words became high-frequency words among many American companies when discussing the Chinese market.From the first to the fourth edition,American exhibitors and institutions have consistently ranked first among foreign exhibitors

Data shows that,as of July this year,American companies have cumulatively established over 84,000 foreign-invested enterprises in China;in the first half of this year,American companies'investment in China grew by 7.8% year-on-year.In December last year,the 4 millionth vehicle rolled off the production line at Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory,with 95% of components coming from local Chinese sources,and over 400 Chinese Tier-1 suppliers participating.GE HealthCare's supply chain ecosystem formed in China currently has an annual procurement volume exceeding 10 billion yuan,with over 1,000 supplier partners

The deep cooperation between Chinese and American enterprises continues to extend toward the forefront of the innovation chain.At this year's Supply Chain Expo,Qualcomm,alongside over 20 industry partners,showcased more than 50 innovative cooperation achievements,covering fields such as artificial intelligence and 6G.Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon stated that China's economy is full of vitality,"When the industrial advantages of the United States and China are combined,they will give rise to a large number of development opportunities."

From production and manufacturing to technological innovation,from the Chinese market to the global market,more and more American companies are incorporating China into their global R&D,production,and procurement systems.The American Chamber of Commerce in China's survey this year shows that nearly 60% of surveyed companies plan to increase their investment in China.The survey of the American Chamber of Commerce in South China shows that 45% of surveyed companies rank China as their top global investment destination,and the budget for reinvesting profits in China over the next 3 to 5 years among member companies is approximately 13.79 billion US dollars

From the CIIIE to the Supply Chain Expo,from the China International Fair for Trade in Services to the China International Fair for Investment and Trade,American companies continue to seek markets,partners,and innovation opportunities through China's opening-up platforms."The most irreplaceable value of the Chinese market is not simply the scale of the market,but the ability to continuously drive innovation and amplify innovation."Cheng Dandan,Senior Vice President of Payoneer,stated

From the hundreds of suppliers behind an electric vehicle,to a piece of glass,a chip,a medical device,Chinese and American enterprises have formed a deeply integrated industrial ecosystem across R&D,manufacturing,supply,application,and market links.Lin Chunmei,Vice President of Corning Incorporated,stated that the industrial systems of the United States and China are highly complementary at multiple levels,"When the advantages of the two countries are superimposed and mutually coordinated,they can completely create greater value,which is not only beneficial to both the United States and China,but will also benefit the world."

From business dialogues across the Pacific to collaborative innovation tackling challenges together,from soybean orders in the fields to joint venture renewals on the production line,the story of China-US mutually beneficial cooperation is writing a new chapter.Although there are still differences between the two countries that need to be properly managed,cooperation is the common aspiration of the peoples of both countries,and also an irreversible trend of the times.Walking toward each other along the track defined by the heads-of-state meeting,China and the United States can open a new process of mutually beneficial cooperation,bring more benefits to the peoples of both countries,and inject more positive energy into world peace and development

(People's Daily reporters Li Zhiwei and Bai Ziwei participated in the writing of this article)

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Stability of U.S.-China Economic and Trade Relations Is an Important International Public Good (International Forum)

By: 罗伯特·劳伦斯·库恩

Economic and trade cooperation has always been the ballast stone and propeller of U.S.-China relations, and the stability of U.S.-China economic and trade relations is an important international public good. As the world's two largest economies, the development of bilateral economic and trade relations bears on the common interests of both countries and also affects the overall global economic situation. Face-to-face strategic communication between heads of state plays an irreplaceable role in setting the direction, effectively reducing strategic miscalculation, enhancing political mutual trust, injecting momentum and calibrating the course for deepening economic and trade cooperation and managing differences between the two countries, and pushing U.S.-China relations forward along a healthy, stable, and sustainable track.

The deep foundation of U.S.-China economic and trade cooperation stems from the high complementarity of the two economies and the deep interweaving of their interests. According to the results of the U.S.-China Business Council's 2026 survey, 95% of member companies believe that their business in China bears on their global competitiveness, and 92% of companies turned a profit in China last year, which fully confirms the mutually beneficial nature of bilateral economic and trade relations. The current focus of bilateral economic and trade cooperation is to translate existing cooperation into stable institutional expectations; as long as expectations remain stable, the vitality of cooperation will continue to be released.

Mutual benefit and win-win outcomes are the essential feature of U.S.-China economic and trade relations and the internal driving force for maintaining steady progress toward long-term goals (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk, steady; reach, far") in bilateral relations. Cooperation in the energy sector is a typical example of highly aligned interests between the two sides — China's expanded procurement of U.S. crude oil and liquefied natural gas is both a practical need for optimizing the energy import mix, broadening supply channels, and ensuring energy security, and it also helps the U.S. side expand energy exports and balance trade accounts. Two-way investment is likewise a key bond for the stability of bilateral relations, capable of cultivating a group of business entities with deeply intertwined interests. The political level can open the door for cooperation, while deep participation by enterprises enables cooperation to take firm root and develop steadily (落地生根, luo di sheng gen - "land, fall; root, grow"), forming a long-term mechanism.

The implementation by the United States and China of the consensus on building a constructive and strategically stable relationship and the advancement of practical economic and trade cooperation still face certain real constraints. At present, issues in areas such as semiconductors, artificial intelligence, and supply chains often interweave and superimpose both economic and security considerations, and some issues even show a tendency toward securitization. Affected by factors such as the U.S. domestic political cycle, the pace of implementation of some reached consensuses has slowed. It is precisely under such circumstances that the two heads of state need to coordinate and lead from a strategic height, removing interference and unblocking bottlenecks.

The rhetoric of "decoupling and severing supply chains" both violates economic laws and does not conform to objective reality. In today's deeply developing economic globalization, capital, technology, and all links of production are deeply interwoven, forming an industrial network that is difficult to sever. So-called comprehensive "decoupling" would both substantially raise transaction costs and disrupt global industrial and supply chains, and would also harm the vital interests of enterprises and consumers in both countries — it simply will not work. The industrial advantages China has formed in areas such as green technology and new energy vehicles are an important component of the global supply system. Market logic and practical needs will ultimately prevail over "decoupling" propositions driven by ideological bias, pushing bilateral economic and trade relations toward sustained development.

The field of artificial intelligence presents a distinctive feature of coexistence between competition and cooperation and is a microcosm of the dialectical development of U.S.-China economic and trade relations. Artificial intelligence is a frontier technology with cross-border spillover effects, bringing both benefits and risks and challenges. As the two major economies leading in artificial intelligence technology, the United States and China should distinguish risk management and control from technological competition, focus on common issues to conduct dialogue and collaboration, and build a cooperation framework for safety norms and ethical standards, which both sets a benchmark for global artificial intelligence governance and creates a stable environment for the healthy development of the two countries' industries.

Although a single meeting can hardly eliminate the structural differences between the United States and China, it can set the tone for the development of bilateral economic and trade relations and effectively reduce strategic miscalculation between major powers. When the bilateral relationship advances steadily, global trade, finance, and industrial and supply chains will have stable expectations, and countries around the world will be able to plan their development with composure. By managing differences and deepening cooperation, the United States and China can help the multilateral economic and trade system operate efficiently, jointly address global challenges, practice the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind, and demonstrate that major powers can achieve win-win outcomes — this has far-reaching significance for the stable development of the world.

(The author is chairman of the Kuhn Foundation of the United States)

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Page editors: Hou Lulu, Han Bingchen, Qu Pei, Bai Ziwei

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Cooperating to Meet Challenges, Jointly Building a Homeland of Peace

By: 本报记者 田豆豆

From September 20 to 22, the 2026 International Day of Peace commemoration, themed "Cooperating to Meet Challenges, Jointly Building a Homeland of Peace," was held in Wuhan and Hanchuan, Hubei Province. The commemoration was guided by the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and co-hosted by the Chinese People's Association for Peace and Disarmament and the People's Government of Hubei Province. More than 300 people participated, including party and government leaders, representatives of peace organizations, think tank scholars, non-governmental friendly personages, and diplomatic envoys of some countries accredited to China from 60 countries, as well as representatives of relevant domestic departments.

Participating foreign guests stated that peace is the prerequisite for development and the guarantee of stability, and that building peace means building the future. Facing the complex and grave international situation, President Xi Jinping has put forward the four major global initiatives, providing a path and guidance for the international community to escape the predicament of development and security. They expressed hope that all parties will actively join in implementation actions, strengthen dialogue and cooperation, jointly seek peace and development, and contribute to building a community with a shared future for mankind.

"Peace will not come automatically; it must be actively striven for by human society."

"The world we live in is severely lacking in this precious asset of peace, and the degree of scarcity has reached a dangerous point. Communities are destabilized by violence and division, conflicts are rising in scale, spilling across borders and causing immense suffering." UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in his video address to the event, "Peace will not come automatically; it must be actively striven for by human society. We need to build functional communities where peace can take root, and invest in sustainable development. Every person should enjoy human rights and dignity." He called on world leaders to invest in a peaceful future for all humanity.

Mohamed Ould Bemba Meguett, President of the National Assembly of Mauritania, said: "We live in a world fraught with profound divisions, with ongoing conflicts, with millions of displaced persons, with extremism that is spreading widely and loudly (甚嚣尘上, shen xiao chen shang - "very, noisy, rise, dust"), and with economic crises that continually consume vulnerable groups. But we have always believed that dialogue is the only path that serves the interests of the people of all countries. The whole world gathering together and discussing peace together is itself a magnificent feat of peacemaking. A homeland of peace is not innate; it requires the joint construction of the people of all countries."

At the opening ceremony, participating guests jointly watched the AI (artificial intelligence) video "Laying Down Arms for Martial Arts, the Great Way Walks Together," and listened deeply moved to how multiple foreign youths studying, working, and living in China understand ancient Chinese wisdom of peace. Jack, a young American, said:"Coming from the United States to Wudang Mountain to learn tai chi, valuing harmony and peace above all else (以和为贵, yi he wei gui - "take, peace, as, precious") has had the deepest influence on me. It is not blind retreat, but finding balance within rules. This is not weakness, but profound cultural confidence, and also the Way of peace of Chinese civilization. After practicing for many years, I have realized that true kung fu is not about defeating the opponent, but about upholding tradition and resolving problems through consultation."

"There is no development amid the sound of guns, and no future under the shadow of fear."

Peace and development are the two major themes of our era. Meguett said:"There is no development amid the sound of guns, and no future under the shadow of fear. Peace is not merely the absence of war;it is the prerequisite for development, the guarantee of stability, the cornerstone of fairness, and the highest embodiment of human dignity."

Nur Jazlan Mohamed, Deputy President of the Senate of Malaysia, said:"Robust economic development cannot be separated from a stable world. In today's deeply interconnected world, security is indivisible, and this is particularly evident in the maritime domain. The Malaysian government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Anwar, is building a policy framework that is highly aligned with the vision manifested by the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative put forward by President Xi Jinping."

"Without peace, there is no development." Salah Hammad, Secretary-General of the African Union's African Governance Architecture and the African Peace and Security Architecture, said,"We see that war and poverty are constantly disrupting normal order of life, and the fundamental right of large numbers of vulnerable groups and minority groups worldwide to live in safety cannot be guaranteed, especially in Africa. We must understand that merely talking about solidarity without taking action is all empty talk. We should firmly uphold our common conviction of peace, translate it into tangible development outcomes, work together in close coordination, helping and supporting each other in times of need (守望相助, shou wang xiang zhu - "guard, watch, mutually, help"), and promote the realization of lasting peace."

"Let us remember history, cherish peace, and jointly pass on this bond of friendship from generation to generation."

At the opening ceremony, as the video slowly unfolded, descendants of battlefield nurses from the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and descendants of rescued British soldiers from the "Lisbon Maru" respectively recounted touching stories of transnational friendship. Nurse Huang Huanxiao, who patiently cared for wounded Flying Tigers, was hailed as the "Hump Angel" and regarded by Flying Tigers members as family in a foreign land. When they learned that her mother had passed away, but that due to the war and disrupted transportation she could not return home, Flying Tigers members specially flew a plane to send her to reunite with her family.

"In 1942, the 'Lisbon Maru,' a passenger-cargo ship carrying more than 1,800 British prisoners of war, was hit while passing by Zhoushan, China. Chinese fishermen launched a magnificent life-and-death rescue, and 384 British prisoners of war were saved by fishermen at the risk of their own lives, among whom was my grandfather Thomas Jones. As descendants, we regard the fishermen of Zhoushan as family in a foreign land. Now, I am a music teacher, and I hope to teach children through music what love, kindness, and mutual respect are. Let us remember history, cherish peace, and jointly pass on this bond of friendship from generation to generation, making it an eternal bridge connecting the peoples of the two countries." said Anthony Jones, descendant of a rescued British soldier from the "Lisbon Maru."

"The bonds between peoples are established not only through political relations, but also continuously consolidated through education, culture, economic and trade cooperation, and people-to-people exchanges. Therefore, I believe that dialogue between peoples and between countries is one of the most powerful paths to building a more peaceful world." Meglena Plugchieva, former Deputy Prime Minister of Bulgaria, said,"We all hope that our descendants can live in a world where security is guaranteed, development holds promise, and human dignity is upheld. International cooperation does not mean that we are all identical, but rather that we are able to respect each other's differences and work together despite those differences."

James Manning, President Pro Tempore of the Oregon State Senate of the United States, said:"Facing a complex and ever-changing world, we should actively participate in international cooperation, maintain open channels of communication, prevent misunderstandings, and form a cooperative tradition capable of constructively solving problems. Let people strengthen exchanges, scientists share knowledge, entrepreneurs build trust, and government officials choose dialogue rather than alienation from one another. Promote peace through development;in measuring progress, we should not only pay attention to what has been created, but also consider whether relationships have been strengthened and whether the next generation has ample reason to believe in the power of cooperation."

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2026 China's Top 500 Private Enterprises Released

(People's Daily, Tianjin, September 22) (Reporter Yang Hao) On September 22, the 2026 China's Top 500 Private Enterprises conference, co-hosted by the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and the Tianjin Municipal People's Government, was held in Tianjin. Gao Yunlong, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, attended and delivered a speech.

Gao Yunlong pointed out that under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, China's economy has shown a development trend of new momentum and improved structure, demonstrating strong resilience and vitality. The overall scale of the top 500 private enterprises has continued to expand, their industrial structure has continued to optimize, their innovation vitality has continued to strengthen, and their social contributions have continued to increase. He hoped that the vast number of private enterprises would possess a patriotic ambition (胸怀报国志, xiong huai bao guo zhi - "chest, hold, report, country, ambition"), focus wholeheartedly on development, operate lawfully and with integrity, and promote common prosperity through getting rich first, firmly serving as promoters of Chinese modernization, leaders in accelerating the cultivation and development of new quality productive forces, practitioners of a modern enterprise system with Chinese characteristics, and contributors to solidly advancing common prosperity, making greater contributions to building a strong country and achieving national rejuvenation.

At the meeting, the 2026 China's Top 500 Private Enterprises list and other rankings, along with related research and analysis reports, were released.

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2025 Report on Cultural Exchanges Between China and Foreign Countries Released

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 22) (Reporters Pan Junqiang and Shi Fang) On the evening of the 22nd, at the special event for the release of major outcomes of the 2026 Beijing Cultural Forum, the 2025 Report on Cultural Exchanges Between China and Foreign Countries and the "Top Ten Events of 2025 in the Construction of the National Cultural Center" were released.

The 2025 Report on Cultural Exchanges Between China and Foreign Countries presents new progress, new features, and new trends in cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. It points out that, under the guidance of Xi Jinping's cultural thought, cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries have continued to deepen, the concept of mutual learning among civilizations (文明交流互鉴, wenming jiaoliu hujian - "civilization, exchange, mutual, learn") has become richer, practice fields have continuously expanded, and Chinese cultural symbols have gained broader understanding and recognition from the international community. The international dissemination of Chinese cultural symbols has entered a new stage of comprehensive deepening and quality-and-efficiency improvement, gradually integrating into international exchanges, social life, and daily experiences, injecting profound and enduring cultural strength into deepening mutual learning among civilizations and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

The "Top Ten Events of 2025 in the Construction of the National Cultural Center" released at the event site include: the commemorative activities for the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War being solemnly held in Beijing, the Beijing Practice Research Center of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era creating new classrooms for theoretical study, the "Centennial Guardianship — From the Forbidden City to the Palace Museum" exhibition continuing the Chinese cultural lineage, among others.

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First 10,000-Ton-Class Grain Air-Membrane Silo Completes Membrane Inflation

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 22) (Reporter Wang Donghui) The nation's first 10,000-ton-class grain air-membrane silo, constructed by Sinograin Group, recently completed its membrane inflation operation in Changchun, Jilin. The project plans to build four new grain air-membrane silos, each with a diameter of 30 meters and a height of 29 meters. This is the first practical application of a 10,000-ton-class grain air-membrane silo project in the cold region of Northeast China, setting a new record for the single-unit scale of large-scale air-membrane grain storage facilities in China.

It is understood that the construction project fully considered the climatic characteristics of the Northeast region during the design and construction process, and the silos are better adapted to local grain storage needs in terms of thermal insulation, airtightness, and waterproofing and moisture resistance. The airtightness of the entire silo exceeds the relevant requirements for national high-standard grain warehouse construction, laying a solid foundation for the implementation of controlled-atmosphere grain storage, which helps inhibit pest breeding and reduce grain storage losses.

In addition, the interior of the silo is a space free of beams and columns (无梁无柱, wu liang wu zhu - "no beam, no pillar"), providing a large-span, unobstructed storage space that facilitates grain storage and mechanized automated operations. The grain air-membrane silo adopts an inflation-molding process; after the foundation construction is completed, the silo body erection and internal construction can be completed in about 120 days, with a more streamlined process and less construction waste.

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2026 International Forum on Cave Temple Protection Opens

(People's Daily, Datong, September 22) (Reporter He Siqi) The 2026 International Forum on the Protection of Cave Temples was held from September 21 to 22 in Datong City, Shanxi Province.

The forum systematically reviewed the evolution of international cultural heritage protection in response to climate change, analyzed the new situation and new challenges that climate change has brought to the protection of cave temples, and conducted discussions and exchanges on continuously strengthening the protection of cave temples. The forum summarized the series of achievements made in China's protection of cave temples: the institutional system has been continuously improved, the intensity of protection has been steadily increased, the support of science, technology, and talent has been continuously strengthened, research and interpretation have been continuously deepened, and international exchanges and cooperation have been increasingly expanded, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the protection of cave temples worldwide.

During the forum, Chinese and foreign experts focused on the protection of cave temples against the backdrop of global climate change, centering on topics such as "Protection and Technological Innovation of Cave Temples under Climate Change," "Archaeological Research and Value Interpretation of Cave Temples," and "Protection of Cave Temples and International Exchanges," sharing cutting-edge practices and theoretical achievements, pooling wisdom from multiple sources, and jointly exploring new pathways for cave temples to respond to climate risks.

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China Journalists Association Holds News Tea Gathering

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 22) (Reporter Wang Di) The All-China Journalists Association held a news tea gathering in Beijing on September 22, inviting Zhou Bo, Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Security Studies of Tsinghua University, and Sun Chenghao, Associate Research Fellow at the same center, to exchange views with domestic and foreign journalists around the theme of "High-Level Exchanges and China-U.S. Relations," and to answer questions raised by the journalists.

The experts said that the China-U.S. relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in today's world, bearing on the well-being of the peoples of both countries and the interests of the people of the world. They expressed the hope that, under the strategic guidance of the heads of state of the two countries, both sides will enrich the connotation of the constructive strategic stable relationship between China and the United States, strengthen dialogue and cooperation, properly manage differences, and send a positive message to the world.

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2026 China Manufacturing Publicity Week Launched

(People's Daily, Beijing, September 22) (Reporters Wang Zheng and Liu Wenxin) On the 22nd, the launch event for the 2026 China Manufacturing Publicity Week was held in Beijing. With the theme "Advanced Manufacturing, Striving for Innovation and Progress" (先进制造 奋楫向新), the Publicity Week will run nationwide from September 22 to 28.

According to introductions, "Advanced Manufacturing" reflects the development direction of the manufacturing industry toward intelligence, green development, and integration; "Striving for Innovation and Progress"** (奋楫向新, fen ji xiang xin - "row the oar, toward, new") showcases the enterprising posture of China's manufacturing industry as it moves toward the new, climbs toward the heights, and strides toward strength. This is the first time the China Manufacturing Publicity Week has held an offline launch event, adopting a"1+30" organizational model, namely holding 1 offline launch event in Beijing, while coordinating 30 provinces (autonomous regions, and municipalities) to simultaneously carry out themed publicity, achievement exhibitions, and interactive communication activities.

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Urban-Rural Integration: ICBC Empowers Rural Revitalization

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Page editors: Ji Yalin, Lu Tao, Zhang Weihao

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Everyone must find their own land

By: 吕玉霞

The land nurtured me, and it also opened up the wilderness of my spirit. Working at sunrise and resting at sunset (日出而作，日落而息, ri chu er zuo, ri luo er xi - "sun rises, then work; sun sets, then rest"), the hoe tills the fields, and words settle the heart. Sweat drips into the soil, and what grows is grain and fruit; insights take root in the native soil, and what grows is words and poetry.

As soon as the September wind passes over the mountains and fields of Yimeng, the land begins to sink into the atmosphere of autumn harvest. Corn bends the stalks, pears weigh down the branches, and the sweat we wiped away in the fields through an entire spring and summer has finally turned into real, tangible harvest. For most of my life, I have been treading the soil, facing the sun, and planting "the days." Holding the land in my heart, a feeling stirs: people, cultivated land, and harvest — these three things seem never to be separable. People till the land, and the land repays with harvest; when the land is stable and the harvest is abundant, only then do our days take root.

Harvest is never a surprise that comes from nowhere, but a result accumulated through bit-by-bit effort. When spring sows the seeds, one must weed and fertilize, fight drought and prevent flooding, then endure scorching summer heat, enduring hardships and toil (栉风沐雨, zhi feng mu yu -"comb the wind, bathe in the rain"), and only with such effort can one, come September, see this expanse of golden yellow.

We farmers all say, "No pains, no gains." As those closest to the soil, we have always been redeeming that promise about diligence through hard work. Yet how profound the land is — it always points out the limits of human cognition. Sometimes, one measure of effort brings several measures of harvest; sometimes, several measures of effort bring only one measure of harvest. Excessive toil can also damage soil fertility, especially under the wrong weather conditions. People, land, and harvest do not seem to form a simple linear relationship — the weather is not in our hands. If the weather is bad, excessive effort will only overdraw our vitality and energy, leaving us, when the next opportunity arrives, lacking sufficient stamina to plant more "seeds." Therefore, effort must be measured well, tilling must observe the weather, and diligence must be applied at the right moment. When the time has not yet come, cultivating strength and energy for future use (养精蓄锐, yang jing xu rui -"nourish the essence, store the sharpness"), conserving soil fertility; when the opportunity arrives, one must redouble one's efforts, for at that moment effort is the strongest force we can grasp.

The land is the life of crops, and also the life of us laborers. A handful of soil looks ordinary, yet spring planting, summer tilling, autumn harvest, and winter storage all depend on it to be upheld. Plot after plot of fine farmland upholds the granary of a great nation; grain after grain of rice feeds thousands upon thousands of you and me. The land converts our diligence into harvest, and the fullness of the granary brings us days of adequate food and clothing, of plenty and prosperity.

But the land can also grow weary, and it, too, needs protection. By holding the red line for cultivated land, improving soil fertility, and building high-standard farmland well, we hold firm the confidence in food supply for hundreds of millions. The state has written the protection of fine farmland into legal provisions, setting our hearts at ease as people who till the soil. In the harvest season, standing on the ridge between fields, before my eyes spreads the fertile expanse. With grain in the home, laws to protect the fields, and hope in the heart — this, I suppose, is the most moving visage of people, land, and harvest.

The land, too, is quietly changing what we farmers look like. In the past, when planting, we only hoped the fields could yield a bit more grain; today, the land can grow not only grain, but also spirit, and also stories. With the development of science and technology, we have not only learned many new farming technologies, but also learned to tell rural stories through our phones, using whatever ways each of us is good at to send the voice of our native soil far afield and carry our hometown's products out of the mountains. The land beneath our feet remains the same, yet our horizons and our ways of life are all advancing. The land nourishes a generation's hearth and home, and also fulfills a generation's growth.

The land nurtured me, and it also opened up the wilderness of my spirit. Working at sunrise and resting at sunset, the hoe tills the fields, and words settle the heart. Sweat drips into the soil, and what grows is grain and fruit; insights take root in the native soil, and what grows is words and poetry. What the land gives me is not only food for the mouth and warmth for the body, but also an inexhaustible stream of inspiration. Wind ruffling wheat waves, snow falling to moisten the soil, the natural cycle of growth and harvest (春华秋实, chun hua qiu shi -"spring flowers, autumn fruits"), every blade of grass and every tree in the fields has become a line beneath my pen. My body toils on the land to make a living, and my soul, too, grows rich and stretches wide within the land.

Human development and land development have always resonated at the same frequency (同频共振, tong pin gong zhen -"same frequency, joint vibration"). The more fertile the land, the more secure life is; the deeper the human heart, the vaster the spiritual world. Though the fields before our eyes still have boundaries, the fields in our hearts can no longer see an edge.

Everyone has their own land, and everyone must also find their own land. Land is our foundation for standing in life, and land is also a kind of faith. Whatever kind of land we take root in, that is whatever kind of life we will have.

(The author is a self-media creator, "Yimeng Second Sister.")

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Be Bold in Action, Rise to the Occasion (Everyone's Discussion · Understanding Grassroots, Going Deep into Grassroots, Serving Grassroots ⑧)

Those who do not avoid difficulties advance. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, "In the face of work challenges, one must have the drive of braving danger despite knowing the risks (明知山有虎、偏向虎山行, ming zhi shan you hu, pian xiang hu shan xing - "know mountain has tiger, lean toward tiger mountain travel"), actively seek concrete countermeasures to overcome difficulties, and be willing to step forward and rise to the occasion." In this installment of "Everyone's Discussion," we have selected three contributions to share with our broad readership, inviting everyone to think together about how to better turn hard bones in work into stepping stones for development.

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Being Able to "Shoulder the Load" Is True Responsibility

Chen Fangfang, Changsha City, Hunan Province

Recently, during grassroots research, I heard some members of the public reflect that a few cadres are "polite on the surface, slow-moving when things happen, turning away at the first sign of difficulty, unable to shoulder the load." Though the words are harsh, the phenomenon they reflect deserves vigilance.

Whether one dares to "shoulder the load" reveals one's sense of responsibility. In work, there are such phenomena: when a task involves multiple departments, some cadres "kick the ball around" and pass the buck; when encountering certain historical legacy problems that cannot be resolved in the short term, some cadres ignore them or pretend not to notice (视而不见, shi er bu jian - "look but not see"), avoid discussing them, dragging their feet and setting them aside. Cadres, cadres—doing things is their essence. Refraining from action because the task is small, shrinking back because the task is difficult, shirking responsibility because the task is complex—this is not what cadres should look like. Keeping work in one's heart and shouldering responsibility on one's shoulders—only then can one win the trust of the masses.

Of course, having only the courage to "charge into battle" without sound strategies to "storm city gates and seize strongholds" will ultimately lead to defeat, or even good intentions resulting in bad outcomes. To "shoulder the load" requires both the desire to get things done and, more importantly, the capability to get things done well. Capability does not grow out of thin air; to be able to step up and be relied upon at critical moments, one must put in hard work at ordinary times and cultivate one's "internal skills." Stepping out of one's comfort zone, proactively taking on heavy burdens and difficult tasks—only then can one forge true ability.

Treating "shouldering the load" as a ladder for growth, tempering one's courage, insight, and skill in pressing forward despite facing difficulties (知难而进, zhi nan er jin - "know difficulty and advance") and tackling challenges head-on (迎难而上, ying nan er shang - "meet difficulty and go up"), one can continuously open up new prospects in grassroots work.

Breaking Through with Diligence, Blazing a Path with Diligence

Zhao Jinru, Benxi City, Liaoning Province

In Northeast China, visiting morning markets is a beloved activity for many people. But some morning markets are dirty, messy, and poorly managed, causing surrounding traffic congestion and environmental pollution, and drawing widespread complaints from the public. Before a certain street carried out a morning market quality improvement project, it visited morning market vendors and local residents door-to-door, holding multiple sincere discussion meetings. No difficulty is insurmountable through diligence (一勤无难事, yi qin wu nan shi - "one diligence no difficult matters"). Grassroots cadres, unafraid of trouble, not only won the masses' understanding and support for the improvement project, but also made the direction of improvement more precise.

Diligence means not dragging one's feet. Serving proactively before the masses even speak up, preventing risks before they sprout—being one step earlier, one beat faster, thinking ahead and acting first—only then can the masses feel the warmth and force of service.

Diligence is not blind recklessness, but rather persevering with constancy (持之以恒, chi zhi yi heng - "hold this with constant") after diligent study and reflection. It means both willingly putting in hard, painstaking effort and being good at applying clever, skillful effort—diligently walking, diligently visiting, and on the basis of thoroughly understanding problems, daring to break free from fixed thinking patterns, so as to precisely crack difficult problems.

Diligence also means doing work with greater attention to detail. In the city where I work, the proportion of elderly residents is very high. After the completion of a gas pipeline network renovation project, staff members, worried that elderly people might not be proficient in operating the new equipment, took the initiative to visit their homes, answering questions door-to-door. Such meticulous measures give the masses a sense of security. One elderly person said, "Thank goodness you came—otherwise I really wouldn't have known how to use it." Doing every tiny, trivial matter solidly and thoroughly is both the duty of cadres and the well-being of the masses.

In all matters, diligence leads to success, while indolence leads to ruin. Breaking through with diligence, blazing a path with diligence—this is both wisdom and method.

Daring to Claim Difficult Problems

Liu Shili, Zepu County, Xinjiang

There was an area in the county that fell under the jurisdiction of multiple communities. Due to scarce parking spaces, neighborhood disputes were constant, and complaint volumes had long remained high. The county resolved to solve this problem, but given the complex situation, numerous involved parties, and great difficulty in coordination, many people harbored doubts inwardly. One community party organization secretary, however, did not think this way—"Rather than waiting to receive complaints, better to try to solve the problem"—and so, leading community cadres, proactively claimed the difficult problem.

Daring to claim difficult problems reflects responsibility, and even more so, sober awareness. Grassroots work involves a vast array of complex matters (千头万绪, qian tou wan xu - "thousand heads ten thousand threads"), difficult problems are very common, and cannot be avoided or circumvented. Difficult problems will not dissolve on their own just because no one claims them; instead, they will ferment and escalate amid delay, making subsequent resolution require even greater costs. Not avoiding complex problems, not shirking legacy problems, not fearing habitual problems—only then can one solve difficult problems before contradictions intensify and problems escalate.

Daring to claim is responsibility; being good at solving reveals capability. After returning, that secretary led cadres in door-to-door visits and discovered that the root of the contradiction lay not only in "too many cars, too few spaces," but also in "unequal distribution"—some households occupied multiple parking spaces, while some external vehicles parked long-term. After identifying the crux of the problem, they held multiple resident deliberation meetings, redrew the allocation plan, and coordinated with surrounding units to share parking spaces at staggered times. Within a few months, complaint volumes dropped by 80 percent. By analyzing the problem in minute detail (掰开揉碎, bai kai rou sui - "break open rub crushed"), no matter how complex the "interest equation," a breakthrough can be found.

Grassroots is where problems are most concentrated, and also where solutions are most abundant. Daring to say "I'll claim it," growing one's abilities in solving problems, winning trust in breaking deadlocks—this is the pursuit that grassroots cadres should have.

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How Can True Knowledge Outpace Pseudo-Science Popularization (People's Commentary)

By: 喻思南

A hundred science master dramas blooming across campuses, the "Light and Shadow Science Dream" film and video resources touring national science venues, the "Light of Science Popularization" large-scale online exhibition during National Science Popularization Month... In the golden autumn season, the activities of National Science Popularization Month present a rich and varied spectacle (精彩纷呈, jing cai fen cheng - "splendid, colorful, abundant").

The more effective science popularization is, the less room there is for pseudo-science to survive. Some pseudo-science, cloaked in the guise of science, is highly deceptive. False information such as "using fast charging for new energy vehicles in summer reduces battery lifespan by half with each charge" and "mixing MSG with beer increases both yield and income" is impossible to guard against or defend oneself from (防不胜防, fang bu sheng fang - "prevent, not, succeed, defend").

Pseudo-science habitually packages itself with scientific concepts, and its negative impact is not to be underestimated (不容小觑, bu rong xiao qu - "not, allow, small, look down"). For example, rumors such as "vegetables glowing under ultraviolet light indicate pesticide residue" and "washed carrots have been soaked in chemical solutions" have caused some agricultural products to languish in sales; boasts about "quantum insoles" and the spread of "fortune-telling therapy" have led some elderly people going astray or following a wrong path (误入歧途, wu ru qi tu - "mistakenly, enter, crooked, path"); distortions of frontier technologies such as stem cells and artificial intelligence interfere with the public's understanding of science and technology; and so on.

Behind the production and dissemination of pseudo-science lies profit-driven motivation. Some institutions and individuals treat the creation and spread of online pseudo-science as a "traffic password," forming a gray industry chain of "building accounts, boosting traffic, selling goods, and then monetizing." In particular, pharmaceuticals, health supplements, wellness services, and other areas highly related to health science popularization offer large profit margins and have become "hardest-hit zones" for pseudo-science. Some lawbreakers use artificial intelligence technology to rapidly generate pseudo-science articles, images, and videos in bulk, and use intelligent algorithms to precisely capture user needs and deliver targeted pushes, increasing the difficulty of identifying and governing pseudo-science content.

Governing pseudo-science should involve combining both opening up and blocking methods (疏堵结合, shu du jie he - "dredge, block, combine"), both severely cracking down on related online rumors and false information and continuously optimizing science popularization content and innovating science popularization methods.

Strict regulation and strict governance should cut off the chain of pseudo-science production and dissemination. The Science and Technology Popularization Law, revised in 2024, stipulates: "The science popularization products and services provided and science popularization information released by organizations and individuals shall be lawful and scientific, and shall not contain false or erroneous content." In response to the chaos of pseudo-science in the medical field, in 2025 multiple departments jointly issued the "Notice on Regulating Medical Science Popularization Conduct of 'Self-Media' Accounts," clarifying the qualification requirements for medical science popularization accounts and strictly prohibiting unqualified accounts from producing and publishing professional medical science popularization content or covertly selling goods. The "Qinglang" (Clear and Bright) series of special actions continuously carried out by the state has also effectively curbed the momentum of pseudo-science breeding and spreading. Only by advancing with the times (与时俱进, yu shi ju jin - "with, time, together, advance") in improving institutions and striking a "combined punch" of governance can we achieve treating both the symptoms and the root cause (治标治本, zhi biao zhi ben - "treat, symptoms, treat, root").

Online platforms have a responsibility to strengthen support for high-quality content. Currently, algorithm recommendations tend to favor highly interactive content, and pseudo-science, with its "novelty plus emotion" tactics, more easily obtains traffic. But platforms must not be traffic-only; rather, they should make efforts in both directions: strengthening qualification review of science popularization creators, promptly removing verified pseudo-science content and tracing accountability to its source; and by optimizing algorithm recommendations, establishing reward mechanisms, and other means, helping authoritative institutions and professional science popularization bloggers increase their exposure and promote the dissemination of high-quality content.

Innovate dissemination so that science popularization balances rationality and emotion. Change the phenomenon of "emphasizing indoctrination over connection," bringing science popularization into daily life and closer to people's hearts. For example, ophthalmologist Tao Yong believes that the essence of medical science popularization is "dialogue between people," using language the masses can understand to popularize science. Likewise, "Vegetable Guardian" Li Baoju interacts with netizens on short-video platforms, skillfully teaching vegetable knowledge and clarifying rumors. When the voice of science rings out loud and clear, pseudo-science finds it hard to gain a foothold.

Some have summarized that content containing words such as "radical cure" or "urgent warning" is mostly "fake at first glance." Although some pseudo-science puts on an act of seriousness (煞有介事, sha you jie shi - "acting, have, appearance, matter") by citing scientific journals and inviting "industry insiders," with a little discernment, its flaws are not hard to spot. If everyone starts with themselves and builds an "immune barrier," and all parties join hands to improve the scientific literacy of the whole nation, the foundation for society as a whole to resist pseudo-science will be even more solid.

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Photo Report

Displaying the fruits of a bountiful harvest, showcasing the demeanor of farmers, carrying forward farming culture, promoting the consumption of agricultural products... At the autumn equinox, the ninth Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival, themed "A Bountiful Harvest Opens a New Chapter; Down-to-Earth Effort Promotes Revitalization," arrived as scheduled. The organizing committee member units of the Harvest Festival organized 46 key activities, including the National Large-Scale Free Clinic Activity Week, the National Science Popularization Month Agricultural and Rural Main Venue Activities, and the Golden Autumn Consumption Season. Throughout the entire country (大江南北, da jiang nan bei - "great, river, south, north"), cities and countryside celebrated together, and the harvest tableau inspired the people.

This is precisely:

Wind fresh, dew white, rice golden,

Persimmons red, tangerines ripe, jujubes fragrant.

Year abundant, wine fine, songs long,

Farmers' smiles rival honey's sweetness.

Cheng  Senwen

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"Waking Early" Must Also "Rise Early" (Views)

By: 湖北日报评论员

In pursuing development, once a matter has been clearly identified, one must act boldly and resolutely — never do the thing of "waking early but rising late."

Seeing the opportunity first and anticipating the trend at the level of understanding — this is called "waking early"; acting slowly and, as a result, missing the opportunity — this is called "rising late." "Waking early" is itself a capability, but if one only plans without acting, or plans but acts slowly, then no matter how good the idea, it remains empty talk, and no matter how good the opportunity, it may vanish entirely in the course of "rising late."

For example, some localities saw the potential of certain industries fairly early and had the foundations, held meetings and issued documents, but substantive progress was limited, and they could only watch helplessly as latecomers engaged in overtaking on a curve (弯道超车, wan dao chao che - "curve, bend; overtake, drive; vehicle"). Some departments had long studied the reform direction in a certain field, but simply did not push it forward; only when others had piloted and produced experience did they have a sudden realization (恍然大悟, huang ran da wu - "suddenly, realize; great, understand"), by which time the good opportunity had already passed.

Examining the reasons, they are generally of a few kinds: some fear taking risks, worrying that "the rafters that stick out rot first"; some are driven by a mindset of seeking stability, hesitating and wavering, afraid of making mistakes; some are bound by rules and regulations, accustomed to following established procedures or routines (按部就班, an bu jiu ban - "according to, steps; follow, pattern"); and still others lack capability — they see the direction but cannot find the path, want to act but do not know how, and in the end it all ends without a proper conclusion (不了了之, bu liao liao zhi - "not, finish; finish, that").

One must not only "wake early" but also "rise early" — one must never be a someone with great knowledge but little action (认识上的巨人、行动上的矮子, ren shi shang de ju ren, xing dong shang de ai zi - "knowledge, on; giant; action, on; dwarf"). Whether in promoting reform, advancing innovation, or in advancing the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas and improving grassroots governance, one must all act in accordance with the trend (顺势而为, shun shi er wei - "follow, trend; and, act"), strengthen advantages, go against the trend (逆势而上, ni shi er shang - "against, trend; and, go up"), shore up shortcomings, and firmly grasp the initiative in development. In fields of fierce competition such as future industries and frontier science and technology, one must all the more plan early, act early, and move quickly.

Avoiding "waking early but rising late" does not by any means advocate blind recklessness; rather, it means scientifically assessing the hour and the trend, dialectically grasping crisis and opportunity, not waiting, not watching, not hesitating, and — with the urgency of "cannot afford to wait," the sense of mission of "cannot afford to be slow," and the sense of responsibility of "cannot afford to sit still" — seizing opportunities and making good use of the window period.

(Excerpted from Hubei Daily, original title: "Never Do the Thing of Waking Early but Rising Late")

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Integrating the Spirit of Scientists into the City's Fabric (On-Site Commentary)

By: 邹 翔

Strolling through the bustling commercial district of Mianyang, Sichuan, the eye-catching outdoor screens beside the crossroads do not play commercial advertisements, but rather photos and deeds of scientists such as Qian Xuesen and Yu Min.

This is a city with a foundation of science and technology.

Along the road from the airport to the urban area, signs reading "China Science and Technology City" flash by repeatedly. In the Chinese Scientists Park beneath Fule Mountain, a sculpture named "City of Wisdom" stands tall and majestic, with statues of scientists and stone tablets engraved with scientific maxims scattered throughout the park. In the twilight, a young couple reads the text on them with their child.

"Building the city on science and technology" is not merely a slogan; upholding the city with the spirit of scientists is both the path taken and the scene of today. In the 1960s, pioneers of the "Two Bombs, One Satellite" project such as Deng Jiaxian and Wang Ganchang, along with tens of thousands of scientific researchers, took root on this fertile land, forging the nation's great instruments and safeguarding the peace and security of the homeland. More than half a century later, their deeds and spirit have not been consigned to the dust of exhibition halls, but have been integrated into daily life. This ancient city, over 2,200 years old, is home to 20 national-level research institutes and more than 300 national and provincial innovation platforms, with research and development investment intensity steadily ranking among the forefront of the nation.

This sense of "everydayness" is precisely the fertile soil of an innovative culture. The germination of scientific seeds happens silently and without notice (悄无声息, qiao wu sheng xi - "quiet, no sound, no trace"), and the inheritance of spiritual culture influences people subtly and imperceptibly (润物无声, run wu wu sheng - "moisten, things, no, sound"). Enhancing the influence, appeal, and shaping power of the scientist spirit hinges on raising its "visibility."

From academicians of the two academies appearing to kick off matches in the "Sichuan Super League," to the "screen relay" in cities such as Heze in Shandong and Zhengzhou in Henan, where commercial districts replaced advertisements with posters of meritorious scientists, to the new "Scientist Express" science popularization train on the Nanjing Metro in Jiangsu, practices across various regions continue to reinforce a consensus: scientists who solve problems for the nation and expand boundaries for humanity are the stars most worthy of pursuit, and they deserve to be seen by more people and respected by the whole society.

Integrating the scientist spirit into the fabric of the city is a systematic project that moves from "point" to "plane" and from "surface" to "core." It requires extensive spatial reach, industrial support and bearing, as well as rigid institutional safeguards, subtle cultural infiltration, and strong educational backing. This process cannot be separated from the city's social and cultural soil, and must grasp the principle of "locality."

Shanghai has held more than 2,000 science popularization activities, with national key laboratories open to the public. Zaozhuang in Shandong has hosted the Mozi and Lu Ban Science and Technology Culture Festival for many consecutive years, giving the scientist spirit a regional carrier and temporal depth. In Nanchang, Jiangxi, the profound red culture is organically integrated with the scientist spirit of the new era, with stories of local scientists illuminating the light of science and igniting innovative momentum. Facts have proven that being grounded in reality attracts popularity and vitality, and spiritual inheritance also requires "precise drip irrigation."

Letting scientists "stand" in the "C-position" of the big screens also means letting them "have positions and status" in reality. Respecting science, respecting innovation, and respecting talent ultimately rests on tangible and perceptible details. When doers have a stage and innovators have prospects, talent will arrive in large numbers in quick succession (纷至沓来, fen zhi ta lai - "many, arrive, continuously, come").

The team behind the new-generation "artificial sun," China's HL-3 tokamak, has an average age of 35. What does Chengdu, Sichuan, rely on to attract large numbers of young talent? The answer lies in the increasingly complete industrial ecosystem, service ecosystem, and cultural ecosystem, as well as in details such as the "three exemptions and three halvings" and "accompanying support." What does Zhangjiang in Shanghai rely on to gather a group of high-end talent, including Nobel Prize laureates, academicians of the Chinese academies, and high-level overseas talent? This cannot be separated from the sense of belonging brought by a livable and work-friendly environment.

Treating talent well, igniting enthusiasm, and mobilizing initiative, so that innovation and creation become a widespread social trend or fashion (蔚为风尚, wei wei feng shang - "become, as, fashion, trend"), will enable us to seize the commanding heights of scientific and technological competition and win new advantages for future development.

What holds true for a city also holds true for national development.

(The author is an editor of the commentary department of this newspaper.)

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Page editors: Chen Ling, Sheng Yulei, Cui Yan

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Joy and Sweat Salute the Bountiful Harvest (New Era Panorama)

On the occasion of the arrival of the ninth "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival," General Secretary Xi Jinping, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, extended festive congratulations and sincere greetings to the vast number of farmers across the country and comrades working on the front lines of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农). General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: solidly advance the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, enhance the effectiveness of policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit rural areas, and enrich farmers, strive to raise the comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality efficiency, broaden the channels for increasing farmers' incomes and getting rich, build, in light of local conditions, livable, workable, harmonious, and beautiful villages, and strive to make the lives of the vast number of farmers happier and more beautiful.

The autumn wind sweeps across the land, from the rice paddies of the south to the granaries of the north, golden waves roll across the vast fields, and the simple, honest smiles are the most moving footnote to this bountiful harvest. Hundreds of millions of farmers, cherishing the zeal of cultivation, seize the farming season, toil diligently, reap abundant fruits, and praise the golden autumn with laughter and sweat. A steaming, vibrant, mountains-and-rivers-abundant autumn harvest scroll slowly unfurls across the vast expanse of China.

In the fields, a good harvest is in sight. At present, the late-season double-cropping rice in the south is at the booting and heading stage, entering the critical period for yield formation, while the autumn grain crops in the north are at the grain-filling and maturation stage, with less than half a month until large-scale harvesting begins.

Advance autumn grain production steadily and without interruption. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has organized experts and agricultural technicians to go to key regions to provide guidance and services, implementing key measures such as fertilizer-and-water management and the "one spray, multiple promotions" technique, and promoting the increase of per-unit yield of autumn grain crops by crop type and by growth stage. The national autumn grain sowing area has shown steady growth with stability (稳中有增, wen zhong you zeng - "stable, among, has, increase"), and the growth of most crops is normal, providing a good foundation for securing a bumper grain harvest for the whole year.

Science and technology assist agricultural production. This year, our country has for the first time launched 20 whole-county, large-area per-unit-yield improvement demonstration initiatives, promoting balanced yield increases across a broader scope. All localities comprehensively apply good farmland, good seeds, good machinery, and good methods, deeply integrating a series of new technologies and new equipment into the entire chain of grain production.

(People's Daily reporter  Yu Jingxian)

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Page editors: Kang Yan, Song Yu, Wang Bo

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Support Agricultural Powerhouse Building with Innovation in Agricultural Science and Technology (Deeply Studying and Implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era)

By: 中国农业科学院

September 23 this year is the Autumn Equinox on the lunar calendar, and we usher in the ninth "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival." General Secretary Xi Jinping, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, extended festive congratulations and sincere greetings to farmers across the country and to comrades working on the agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农) front, emphasizing the need to "solidly advance comprehensive rural revitalization." Science and technology are the primary productive force. To solidly advance comprehensive rural revitalization and build a strong agricultural country, the sharp weapon lies in science and technology. In 2022, at the Central Conference on Rural Work, General Secretary Xi Jinping made strategic arrangements for accelerating the building of a strong agricultural country, pointing out that "comprehensively advancing rural revitalization is an important task for building a strong agricultural country in the new era" and that "we must keep a close eye on the frontiers of world agricultural science and technology, vigorously raise the level of China's agricultural science and technology, and accelerate the achievement of high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology in agriculture." The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan sets up a special chapter on "Accelerating Agricultural and Rural Modernization and Solidly Advancing Comprehensive Rural Revitalization," requiring "strengthening support from agricultural science and technology and equipment" and making specific arrangements. To implement the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements, we must anchor on the goal of high-level self-reliance and strength in agricultural science and technology, accelerate the improvement of the overall effectiveness of the agricultural science and technology innovation system, and provide solid support for building a strong agricultural country.

Accelerating the building of a strong agricultural country urgently requires accelerating the advancement of agricultural science and technology innovation

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "In today's world, science and technology are the primary productive force and the primary competitiveness." Looking at the world, the basic features of a strong agricultural country are strong supply security, strong science and technology and equipment, strong management systems, strong industrial resilience, and strong competitiveness. In building a strong agricultural country, China must both follow these basic features and base itself on China's resource endowments and national conditions and agricultural conditions, take into overall consideration the current complex and volatile international situation, and accelerate the advancement of agricultural science and technology innovation.

Judging from China's agricultural development conditions, breaking through the resource constraints of "many people, little land, and scarce water" requires using scientific and technological innovation to promote a comprehensive green transformation of agricultural production. China's population accounts for about 17 percent of the world's total, but its cultivated land resources account for only 9 percent, with per capita cultivated land area less than 40 percent of the world average. Hilly and mountainous areas account for more than one-third of cultivated land, freshwater resources account for only 6 percent, and per capita water resources are only 35 percent of the world average. The pressure on resource and environmental carrying capacity is great, and green development faces multiple challenges. At the same time, China has diverse crop types and complex agronomic practices, making the demand for miniaturized, precise, and integrated agricultural machinery-agronomy intelligent equipment and technologies even more prominent. This determines that we cannot copy the large-farm, large-scale approach of countries such as Canada, nor can we simply imitate the "small but refined" approach of countries such as the Netherlands. We must achieve breakthroughs in fields such as biological breeding, integrated water and fertilizer management, efficient water-saving irrigation, conservation tillage, green pest control technologies, and smart agricultural technologies. Only by relying on scientific and technological innovation can we break through resource and environmental constraints and achieve the coordinated unity of increased production and efficiency with resource conservation and ecological protection.

Judging from China's agricultural development model, to solve the challenge of a "big country with small farmers," we must use scientific and technological innovation to enhance the comprehensive agricultural production capacity and quality and efficiency. China has a population of more than 1.4 billion and a huge demand for agricultural products, but smallholder farmers account for more than 98 percent of agricultural business entities, with an average operating scale of only 7.8 mu per household. The coexistence of ultra-large-scale demand and scattered supply from smallholder farmers over the long term makes the pressure and difficulty of ensuring supply and improving efficiency far beyond what ordinary countries can compare with. By comparison, the average farm size in Canada is more than 4,900 mu, mainly based on large-scale operations; the Netherlands is mainly based on family farm operations, but its population is small, and its total grain consumption is far lower than China's. To solve the challenge of a "big country with small farmers," we must rely on scientific and technological innovation, strengthen the tackling of key and core agricultural technologies, and promote the organic connection between smallholder farmers and modern agricultural development. In this process, we must both attack upward, concentrating on breaking through the "bottleneck" problems of key and core technologies to ensure precise and applicable technology supply, and take root downward, promoting the simplification, integration, and affordability of agricultural technologies to enhance the ability and efficiency of smallholder farmers in developing modern agriculture.

Judging from the development of global agricultural science and technology, to win strategic initiative in fierce international competition, we must use scientific and technological innovation to make good use of both domestic and international markets and both types of resources. In today's world, major changes unseen in a century are accelerating, and the scientific and technological revolution and major-power games are intertwined. Developed countries generally incorporate agricultural science and technology innovation into their overall national security and development strategies. The United States has released "Science Breakthroughs to Advance Food and Agricultural Research by 2030," and the European Union has implemented the "Agricultural Science and Technology 2030" strategy. At the same time, frequent extreme weather and some countries tightening agricultural product exports have caused global food security risks to continue to accumulate. We must focus on strategic priorities, strengthen forward-looking planning, strengthen agricultural science and technology innovation, and at the same time deeply participate in global science and technology governance. Only by firmly grasping the lifeline of agricultural science and technology development can we firmly hold the initiative in food security in our own hands and win strategic initiative in the complex international situation. We must fully leverage the advantage that China's agricultural technologies are better adapted to complex agricultural production conditions, strive to seize the commanding heights of world agricultural science and technology competition, actively promote China's agricultural science and technology to "go global," serve the high-quality joint building of the Belt and Road Initiative, and make positive contributions to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

Accurately grasp the inherent laws and characteristics of the times of agricultural science and technology innovation

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must improve the mode of resource allocation that conforms to the laws of scientific and technological innovation." At present, as a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation accelerates breakthroughs, major scientific and technological achievements in fields such as artificial intelligence, biomanufacturing, new materials, and new energy continue to emerge, penetrating and integrating into all fields of agriculture and rural areas. The overall effectiveness of the agricultural science and technology innovation system has been further improved and is showing stronger momentum. To accelerate the advancement of agricultural science and technology innovation, we must fully understand and follow the laws of agricultural science and technology innovation and accurately grasp the development trends and requirements of the times for agricultural science and technology.

Agricultural science and technology innovation has characteristics such as long research cycles, strong system complexity, and prominent regional differences. Agricultural science and technology innovation takes living organisms such as animals, plants, and microorganisms as its main research objects and is multidisciplinary, cross-integrated research carried out around living organisms. For example, cultivating a new rice variety generally takes about 10 years, and cultivating a new beef cattle variety takes about 40 years. This determines that agricultural science and technology innovation must follow natural laws such as life rhythms, genetic laws, and climate and geography. At the same time, agricultural production is an open and complex system. Crop cultivation involves soil, fertilizer, water, seeds, protection, management, and machinery, while livestock and poultry breeding includes breeding stock, feed, reproduction, housing, disease, and management, among many other links. All aspects and links interact and constrain each other, with strong systematicity. The application of agricultural scientific research achievements is significantly affected by climate types, soil and water conditions, and farming systems. The saying that environmental factors determine the nature of things (橘生淮南则为橘，生于淮北则为枳, ju sheng huai nan ze wei ju, sheng yu huai bei ze wei zhi - "orange, grows, Huai South, then, becomes, orange; grows, at, Huai North, then, becomes, trifoliate orange") is a vivid illustration. Therefore, advancing agricultural science and technology innovation requires both persisting in long-term continuous investment and paying attention to systematic layout across the whole chain and multiple regions.

Agricultural science and technology innovation must effectively ensure the stable and secure supply of grain and important agricultural products. Agricultural science and technology innovation is directly related to the people's "rice bags" and "vegetable baskets" and is an important support for ensuring the people's basic living needs and ensuring national food security. In particular, if chassis technologies, core germplasm resources, and key agricultural machinery and equipment fall under the control of others, it will bring major challenges to national security. Scientific research activities such as agricultural basic research and tackling of key and core technologies require large investment, long cycles, and high risks, with no obvious direct economic benefits. However, a single breakthrough variety may benefit an entire industry, and the promotion of one green technology may improve the ecological environment of an entire region, with enormous social benefits and significant positive externalities and public welfare attributes. Therefore, while fully leveraging the decisive role of the market in allocating innovation resources, we must better play the role of the government to ensure a focus on national strategic needs and provide strong and effective public goods in science and technology.

Agricultural science and technology innovation is rapidly shifting from breakthroughs in individual technologies to systematic, whole-chain collaborative innovation. At present, frontier biotechnologies represented by gene editing and biosynthesis continue to make breakthroughs, and a new generation of information technologies represented by artificial intelligence and blockchain are accelerating their evolution, driving the objects of agricultural science and technology innovation to expand from traditional living organisms to composite systems of "living organisms + data + models," and driving the innovation model to transform toward the integration of data-driven, intelligence-empowered, and scenario-verified approaches. Data elements and intelligent algorithms are being deeply embedded in the entire process of research and development, experimentation, and promotion. At the same time, the need to increase yields over large areas is becoming more urgent, driving agricultural science and technology innovation to accelerate the shift from providing individual products or technologies to providing customized, integrated, and scenario-based systematic solutions in light of local conditions. For example, the major grain-producing areas in the Northeast need integrated technical solutions for increasing production and efficiency that combine improved varieties, dense planting, agricultural machinery, and integrated water and fertilizer management, while the hilly and mountainous areas of the Southwest need technical solutions that are simple and applicable, combine machinery and agronomy, and are disaster-resistant and yield-stabilizing. Therefore, we must strengthen organized scientific research, strengthen tackling of key problems across the entire industrial chain, and accelerate the transformation of agricultural science and technology innovation from "individual soldiers charging ahead" to "systematic operations."

Improve the overall effectiveness of the agricultural science and technology innovation system

At present, China's agricultural science and technology innovation has overall entered the world's first echelon, with the contribution rate of agricultural scientific and technological progress exceeding 64 percent, strongly supporting consecutive bumper grain harvests and effectively promoting the green transformation of agriculture, comprehensive rural revitalization, and farmers' income growth and prosperity. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Agricultural science and technology innovation should focus on improving the overall effectiveness of the innovation system and solving prominent problems such as fighting separately, low-level duplication, and low conversion rates." Building a strong agricultural country places higher demands and more urgent needs on agricultural science and technology innovation.

Give play to the role of innovation entities. As an important source of innovation supply, universities are the concentrated intersection of education, science and technology, and talent. We must deepen the reform of education and teaching in agriculture-related universities, give play to the disciplinary and specialty characteristics of agriculture-related universities, accelerate the construction of new agricultural science with a demand orientation, and promote the targeted cultivation of agriculture-related professionals. We must deepen the reform of agricultural research institutes, face the frontiers of world agricultural science and technology, effectively give play to the supporting role of agricultural research institutes, and provide stronger basic theoretical support and more efficient supply of technological sources for advancing agricultural science and technology innovation. We must cultivate and strengthen leading science and technology enterprises in the agricultural field, deeply implement the "Hundred, Thousand, Ten-Thousand" project for cultivating agricultural science and technology enterprises, build a strong talent team for agricultural science and technology enterprises, further strengthen the principal position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, and strengthen deep integration of industry, academia, and research led by enterprises.

Strengthen coordination among innovation entities. Agricultural science and technology innovation is a systematic project that must connect basic research, technology development, and industrial application, and open up the channel from scientific discovery to technological innovation and then to industrialization. In the original innovation stage, we must coordinate and advance both goal-oriented and free-exploration basic research, target major strategic tasks related to the national economy and people's livelihood and the core competitiveness of the agricultural industry, strive to achieve theoretical breakthroughs on key scientific questions, achieve self-reliance and control over underlying common technologies, strengthen the supply of sources for China's agricultural science and technology innovation, and produce major scientific and technological achievements with international influence. In the technology development stage, we must strengthen central-local coordination and regional linkage, intensify efforts to tackle key and core agricultural technologies, continue to promote collaborative tackling of key problems by agricultural science and technology forces, accelerate innovation in key agricultural biomanufacturing technologies, and conduct verification and iteration in production scenarios. In the industrial application stage, we must accelerate the large-scale promotion and application of agricultural scientific and technological achievements, so that research tasks come from production and from the market, and research achievements return to production and to users.

Improve the support and guarantee system. We must improve systems and mechanisms, accelerate the building of an agricultural science and technology innovation system with clear echelons, division of labor and cooperation, and moderate competition, improve the agricultural science and technology extension system combining public welfare and commercial operations, and build comprehensive innovation platforms for multidisciplinary joint tackling of key problems and the transformation and extension of agricultural technologies. We must strengthen policy support, implement tax policies encouraging scientific and technological innovation, implement first-set and first-batch application policies for agriculture-related equipment, encourage local governments to explore the implementation of first-version application policies for agriculture-related software, and continue to increase financial support focused on agricultural science and technology innovation. We must strengthen the building of the talent team, cultivate and create agricultural strategic scientists, first-class scientific and technological leaders and innovation teams, build a strong team of young agricultural science and technology talents, and strengthen the training and selection of high-skilled talents in agriculture and rural areas. We must improve the evaluation and incentive system, reform the evaluation methods for scientific research achievements, optimize long-cycle innovation scientific research evaluation for enterprises, mobilize the enthusiasm of all types of scientific and technological talents through classified assessment indicators, and stimulate the innovation potential of agricultural scientists.

The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences is China's national strategic scientific and technological force in the field of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers. It undertakes the tasks of national major basic and applied basic research, applied research, and high-tech research in agriculture, and is committed to solving major scientific and technological problems of a public welfare, foundational, overall, strategic, and forward-looking nature in China's agricultural and rural economic development. In his congratulatory letter on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, General Secretary Xi Jinping required the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences to "face the frontiers of world agricultural science and technology, face the major needs of the country, and face the main battlefield of modern agricultural construction, accelerate the building of world-class disciplines and world-class research institutes, scale new heights, take the lead in leaping forward, and promote the overall leap of China's agricultural science and technology." Looking to the future, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences will fully give play to the key role of the national team in agricultural scientific research and accelerate the building of a "one, two, three, four" work system. It will adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the fundamental guide, earnestly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on the work related to agriculture, rural areas, and farmers and on scientific and technological innovation; accelerate the building of world-class disciplines and world-class research institutes, implement the standards for good cadres in the new era, select and strengthen institute leaders and chief scientists of research teams, persist in building Party branches on research teams, create first-class research conditions, cultivate first-class talent teams, foster a first-class academic atmosphere, and build a first-class institutional system; build a three-dimensional organized scientific research system of "academic divisions - whole-industrial-chain scientific research group armies - regional centers," with academic divisions leading the construction of the disciplinary system, scientific research group armies concentrating efforts on whole-industrial-chain scientific and technological innovation, and regional centers strengthening integrated innovation and the promotion and application of achievements; and implement the "four connections" - "connecting to the top" to introduce frontier disciplinary achievements from upstream, "connecting to the ground" to take root in the main battlefield of agriculture and rural areas, "connecting to enterprises" to unblock bottlenecks in the transfer and transformation of technological achievements, and "connecting to the world" to participate in and lead global agricultural science and technology governance, contributing scientific and technological strength to building a strong agricultural country.

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Understanding the Essence of Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building from Its Fundamentals

By: 李洪峰

Xi Jinping's thought on Party building is a major achievement of our Party in advancing theoretical innovation by adhering to the Two Integrations (两个结合). It fundamentally answers the major question of the era — "what kind of long-term governing Marxist party to build, and how to build a long-term governing Marxist party" — and has major practical significance and long-term guiding significance for strengthening the Party and strengthening the country. To thoroughly study and deeply understand Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, one must grasp its theoretical origins, practical foundation, and ideological connotations in an integrated manner, understand the essence and essential meaning of this thought at its core, continuously enhance theoretical confidence and ideological consciousness, and better transform it into the conscious action of advancing Party building in the new era.

Deeply grasp the profound theoretical origins. Only by understanding the theoretical source can one better grasp the logic of ideological evolution. Xi Jinping's thought on Party building was formed and developed in the process of combining the basic principles of Marxist Party-building theory with China's specific realities and with China's fine traditional culture. The classic Marxist writers revealed the nature, program, organizational principles, and other content of proletarian parties, established the logical starting point of the Party's advanced nature and purity, and provided a source of continuous nourishment or inspiration (源头活水, yuan tou huo shui - "source, spring, living, water") for the creation of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. The theoretical achievements formed by the Communist Party of China in more than one hundred years of practice in managing and governing the Party, and the political wisdom in China's fine traditional culture, provided a profound historical accumulation and infused a distinctive cultural foundation for the creation of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. On the basis of upholding the "soul" and the "roots," Xi Jinping's thought on Party building has put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies, fully demonstrating our Party's strong sense of mission in advancing the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism.

Deeply grasp the solid practical foundation. Practice is the source of theory. Xi Jinping's thought on Party building is the theoretical crystallization of our Party's grand exploration in systematically advancing Party management and governance, Party revitalization and Party strengthening in the new era, and is the theoretical elevation of the understanding of the laws of Party building under conditions of long-term governance. Since the beginning of the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has firmly grasped full and rigorous self-governance of the Party as its distinctive theme, began by formulating and implementing the Central Committee's the Eight-Point Regulation (八项规定) to break new ground, and emphatically stressed strictness in thought, strictness in supervision, strictness in discipline enforcement, strictness in official management, strictness in work style, and strictness in anti-corruption efforts, fundamentally reversing the previously lax, weak, and loose situation in Party management and governance. Xi Jinping's thought on Party building originates from practice and in turn guides practice; it has both a realistic perspective and a future orientation, fully embodying the organic unity of practicality and theoretical nature.

Deeply grasp the rich ideological connotations. Xi Jinping's thought on Party building is rich in connotation and rigorous in system, and uses the Fourteen Commitments (十四个坚持) to provide a concentrated summary of the highest principles, strategic guidelines, value pursuits, work layout, and methods and paths of Party building in the new era. "The Fourteen Commitments" display characteristics in three aspects: First, they connect Party management and governance, Party revitalization and Party strengthening with national revitalization and national rejuvenation, profoundly revealing that a strong Party is the prerequisite and guarantee for a strong country, and a strong country is the goal and support of a strong Party, and placing Party building within the overall plan of national revitalization and rejuvenation for planning and advancement. Second, they connect upholding fundamental principles with innovation, both adhering to the core content of Marxist Party-building theory and scientifically answering the major theoretical and practical questions of Party building in the new era, putting forward a series of major original judgments, concepts, and propositions with distinctive identifying features. Third, they connect epistemology and methodology, both deploying the task of "crossing the river" in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and guiding the resolution of the methodological question of "the bridge or the boat" in how to manage and govern the Party, opening up a new realm in the Sinicization and modernization of Marxist Party-building theory.

Within the broad and profound theoretical system, there is always a main thread running through it. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and the greatest advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics is the leadership of the Communist Party of China; the Communist Party of China is the highest political leadership force." We must unwaveringly uphold and strengthen the Party's overall leadership, firmly support the Two Establishments (两个确立), resolutely achieve the Two Upholds (两个维护), deepen full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in all respects, continuously enhance the Party's political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal, ensure that the Party always radiates vigorous vitality, and always remains the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Only by clarifying its origins from theoretical sources, comprehending its formation from the practical foundation, and examining its essential meaning from its ideological connotations can one truly study Xi Jinping's thought on Party building thoroughly and deeply, and enable this important thought to enter the mind and heart and be implemented in practice. We must, under the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, do a good job in all aspects of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party with higher standards and more concrete measures, unite into "a piece of hard steel" under the Party's banner, and, with a more vigorous and enterprising mental state, contribute our strength to comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization.

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Theoretical Innovation of the Important Thesis "Firmly Strengthening Confidence in the Rule of Law" (Selected Arguments)

Uniquely distinctive (独树一帜, du shu yi zhi - "alone, build, one, banner") and bearing a Chinese manner, it constitutes the hallmark of rule-of-law with Chinese characteristics, manifesting the ideological self-awareness of China's rule of law in its transition from passive alignment with external standards to autonomous construction. "Confidence in the rule of law" concisely and vividly embodies the essential attributes of the rule of law under socialism with Chinese characteristics — namely, self-reliance, self-mastery, self-respect, and self-strengthening. It is not only a comprehensive affirmation of China's path, theory, system, and culture of the rule of law, but also a powerful spiritual force that, internally, consolidates consensus on the rule of law and responds to the propositions of the era, and, externally, demonstrates responsibility in the rule of law and participates in global governance, holding major and far-reaching practical value.

——Excerpted from the August 7, 2026 issue of Guangming Daily, author: Zhou Youyong, original title: "Confidence in the Rule of Law" as a Signature Concept and Its Implications for the Era

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Deepen the Integration of Artificial Intelligence with Safeguarding and Improving People's Livelihoods (Thematic Reflection)

By: 刘知远

In July this year, President Xi Jinping proposed at the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance: "Comprehensively promote scientific and technological innovation in artificial intelligence, industrial development, and scenario application." As early as 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must strengthen the integration of artificial intelligence with safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods, proceed from the needs of safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods and creating a better life for the people, and promote the deep application of artificial intelligence in people's daily work, study, and life." These important statements profoundly indicate the important value and application orientation of artificial intelligence development. The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes"comprehensively implement the 'AI+' action" and"fully leverage the role of digital intelligence technologies and data elements in enriching people's lives and improving people's livelihood and well-being." We must adhere to a people-centered approach and the principle of intelligence for good, place the deep application of artificial intelligence within the overall framework of safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods for planning and advancement, so that the development of artificial intelligence always advances in the direction of serving the people and benefiting the people.

In Chinese modernization, people's livelihoods are paramount. Promoting the deep application of artificial intelligence must not stop at technological iteration and industrial expansion, but rather enable it to better empower a high-quality life, enhance people's livelihood and well-being, and promote the comprehensive development of human beings. The unique value of artificial intelligence lies in its ability to simultaneously address"growing demand"and"insufficient supply": it helps both to enhance production and service capacity, creating higher-quality supply, and to break through temporal and spatial limitations, optimize resource allocation, and promote the sharing of high-quality resources on a larger scale. From a technological logic perspective, artificial intelligence can transform knowledge, experience, and service capabilities into computable, callable, and diffusible intelligent capabilities, enabling originally scarce professional services to enter daily life with lower thresholds and higher efficiency. In the past, high-quality services were highly dependent on a small number of experts, specific institutions, and fixed venues, with high replication costs and limited service radii. As model capabilities improve, inference costs decline, and end-cloud collaboration develops, the technical foundation for the inclusive, life-oriented application of artificial intelligence has become more solid.

Empower the cultivation of new quality productive forces with artificial intelligence, transforming it into solid support for a high-quality life. A high-quality life is inevitably built upon a production and supply system of higher efficiency, higher quality, and greater sustainability. To cultivate and strengthen new quality productive forces with artificial intelligence, it is necessary to bring intelligent technologies into real industrial processes, and embody the results of industrial upgrading as more reliable product quality, richer service supply, and higher-level livelihood safeguards. We must focus on key links such as R&D, manufacturing, circulation, and services, promote artificial intelligence to enter the front line of industry and actual scenarios more extensively, shorten innovation cycles in R&D, improve quality stability in manufacturing, enhance the efficiency of supply-demand matching in circulation, and better adapt to changes in the masses' needs in services. As of the first quarter of this year, China's equipment industry has built 197 excellence-level intelligent factories, with the average defective product rate declining by 48.4% and average production efficiency improving by 22.3%, which intuitively reflects the effectiveness of intelligent manufacturing in cultivating new quality productive forces.

Expand the supply of public services with artificial intelligence, promoting the inclusive sharing of high-quality public resources. Education, healthcare, elderly care, employment, and other fields are important scenarios where artificial intelligence serves people's livelihoods. At present, the problem of unbalanced and insufficient supply of high-quality public services still exists, and grassroots areas, rural areas, and underdeveloped regions still have shortcomings in resource reception, service capacity, and response efficiency. Artificial intelligence can provide auxiliary support for grassroots teachers, doctors, and frontline service personnel, precisely match the masses' needs with service resources, and through end-cloud collaboration promote public services to extend toward the grassroots level, making high-quality public services more inclusive, balanced, and sustainable. In the field of education, intelligent classrooms, intelligent teaching assistants, and learning-situation analysis systems can be built to help teachers provide personalized guidance to students, promoting large-scale teaching students in accordance with their natural abilities (因材施教, yin cai shi jiao - "according to, talent, teach"). For example, the MAIC multi-agent education platform built by Tsinghua University has created a multi-agent collaborative classroom and constructed a personalized learning environment, conducting a beneficial exploration of artificial intelligence empowering educational quality improvement. In the field of healthcare, it is necessary to promote the standardized application of artificial intelligence, enrich application scenarios, optimize resource allocation, and innovate full-chain intelligent services for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and health management. For example, building intelligent auxiliary diagnosis-and-treatment applications for grassroots doctors, providing support for grassroots doctors in auxiliary diagnosis, prescription review, follow-up management, and other aspects.

Regulate the application of artificial intelligence, letting artificial intelligence serve the people in a safe, reliable, and controllable manner. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized:"Promote China's artificial intelligence to develop healthily and orderly in a beneficial, safe, and fair direction." This profoundly elucidates the basic direction of the healthy and orderly development of artificial intelligence. The more deeply artificial intelligence enters daily scenarios such as work, study, and life, the more necessary it is to hold firm the bottom line of safety and ethical boundaries. Ensuring that artificial intelligence is safe, reliable, and controllable is an inevitable requirement for artificial intelligence to better serve the people and benefit society. Large models possess generativity, probability, and black-box characteristics; while they can improve work efficiency, they may also introduce risks such as model hallucination, algorithmic bias, information leakage, and unclear responsibility. Particularly in important scenarios involving the rights and interests of the masses, such as educational evaluation, medical diagnosis, social assistance, financial services, and employment recruitment, decisions cannot simply be left to algorithms. We must adhere to law-based and regulation-compliant, classified and graded, authorized-use, safe-and-controllable principles, improve mechanisms for manual review, appeal and correction, and accountability tracing, promote data security, auditable algorithms, verifiable results, traceable processes, and controllable boundaries, so that the application of artificial intelligence in the field of people's livelihoods can achieve making steady progress to achieve long-term success (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk, steady, reach, far").

Calibrate the direction of application with scientific evaluation, promoting artificial intelligence applications to produce more tangible results for people's livelihoods. Artificial intelligence application is not a simple technological project; the key to measuring its effectiveness lies not in the scale of application, but in whether it can be transformed into tangible results for people's livelihoods that the masses can perceive and feel. Building a scientific and complete evaluation system for the effectiveness of artificial intelligence applications helps correct the deviation of one-sidedly pursuing construction scale, and promotes artificial intelligence applications to better empower a high-quality life. We must prevent simply evaluating effectiveness by computing power investment, model quantity, and project quantity, and focus instead on examining the actual effects of artificial intelligence applications in improving the efficiency of the masses in handling affairs, improving the quality of public services, and promoting burden reduction at the grassroots level. Integrate scientific evaluation throughout the entire process of project construction and operation, promote the linkage of evaluation results with application optimization, replication and promotion, and resource allocation, timely adjust projects with low usage rates and poor actual effectiveness, increase the promotion of artificial intelligence applications with outstanding effectiveness and mass recognition, and promote artificial intelligence applications to shift from"building more"to"using well", from"single-point demonstration"to"systematic efficiency enhancement", and from"technology-supply orientation"to"people's-needs orientation".

(The author is a tenured professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University)

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Three-Peat! Chinese Women's Volleyball Team Wins (Live from the Arena)

By: 本报记者 李 硕 王美华 郑 轶

Twelve women's volleyball players stepped onto the podium, stomping their feet in celebration, raising their hands high to receive the ovation of the full arena. On September 22, in the women's volleyball final of the 20th Asian Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the Japanese women's volleyball team 3:0, achieving a three-peat at the Asian Games, which is also the tenth Asian Games gold medal in the history of the Chinese women's volleyball team.

In the final of the Hangzhou Asian Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team had previously defeated the Japanese women's volleyball team 3:0. Facing the old rival again in this final, the Chinese women's volleyball team fielded a starting lineup of Wu Mengjie, Zhuang Yushan, Wang Aoqian, Guo Zhongnan, Tang Xin, Zhang Zixuan, and Wang Mengjie.

From the very start of the match, the players displayed drive and grit, winning the first set 25:19. In the second set, the women's volleyball girls continued their good form, taking a 6:1 lead. Although the Japanese women's volleyball team fought back tenaciously, the Chinese women's volleyball team still won the second set 25:20. In the third set, the Japanese women's volleyball team once took a 10:2 lead, but the girls fought hard to level the score at 19, and ultimately staged a comeback against the tide to win 25:23, taking the gold medal in straight sets.

Recalling the thrilling and breathtaking experience (惊心动魄, jing xin dong po - "frighten, heart, shake, soul") of the third set, Zhuang Yushan said that after falling behind, everyone instead let go of their burdens. "We could only focus on the present. When it was their turn to serve, I would receive the pass well, creating better conditions for my teammates as much as possible; when there was a chance to counterattack, I would come up and smash hard..." It was precisely this spirit of not giving up on any single ball that allowed the Chinese women's volleyball team to complete the reversal. Deeply moved by the fighting spirit of the women's volleyball girls, Chinese fan Zhan Rui remarked with emotion, "This is the reason I have always supported the Chinese women's volleyball team. No matter the score, the conviction remains the same."

On August 30, in the final of the Women's Volleyball Asian Championship held in Tianjin, the Chinese women's volleyball team lost 2:3 to the Thai women's volleyball team, finishing as runners-up. From missing out on a direct Olympic qualification ticket on "home turf" to once again standing atop Asia, the Chinese women's volleyball team reorganized its forces to start anew (重整旗鼓, chong zheng qi gu - "reorganize, drum"), using one victory after another on the Asian Games stage to rebuild confidence.

At this Asian Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team advanced to the quarterfinals as the top team in its group, defeated the Vietnamese team in straight sets in the quarterfinal, and faced the Thai team again in the semifinal. The Chinese women's volleyball team showed growth in both psychological resilience and on-the-spot adaptability — after losing the first set, the Chinese women's volleyball team won two consecutive sets, and after missing set points in the fourth set and being dragged into a deciding set, the whole team did not panic but instead delivered a strong performance, ultimately winning the match 3:2 to advance to the final. Wu Mengjie scored a match-high 29 points, and Wang Aoqian contributed 17 points.

Captain Gong Xiangyu said that after the Asian Championship concluded, the whole team overcame difficulties and adjusted their mindset to devote themselves to Asian Games preparation. Head coach Zhao Yong believes that the key to victory lay in the Chinese women's volleyball team's stronger desire to win and more thorough effort in fighting. In just over 20 days, the women's volleyball girls emerged from setback and, with this gold medal achieved only through great difficulty (来之不易, lai zhi bu yi - "come, from, not, easy"), once again interpreted the women's volleyball spirit of putting the motherland first, unity and cooperation, tenacious struggle, and never giving up.

Youth means being fearless. Of this 12-player team, six were born after 2005. Zhao Yong believes that "the young players withstood the pressure to win the championship, which not only boosted their self-confidence but also laid a foundation for their growth in the next stage."

The 18-year-old Wang Aoqian gained a great deal from this Asian Games journey. "We should have more drive and show the vigor that young people should possess. I am not afraid of mistakes; daring to play is a good ball. This victory is a driving force for me to move forward, giving us more confidence to be more devoted in subsequent competitions and training, and to sprint toward a higher podium." Wang Aoqian said.

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Chinese delegation adds nine more gold medals

On the third competition day after the opening ceremony of this Asian Games, Chinese team athletes performed outstandingly, adding 9 more gold medals. As of the conclusion of competition on September 22, the Chinese delegation had won a total of 32 gold, 13 silver, and 8 bronze medals.

In the 10m air rifle mixed team event held on the morning of September 22, the Chinese team pair of Wang Zifei/Sheng Lihao broke world records in both the qualification and final rounds of the event, claiming the championship.

In the women's individual road cycling race, Chinese team athlete Guo Li and Afghan athlete Hashimi crossed the line almost simultaneously after more than 90 kilometers of racing, with both finishing in 2 hours 50 minutes 05 seconds. In the end, Guo Li won the gold medal by a margin of half a wheel, marking the first time in 32 years that a Chinese team athlete has won the Asian Games gold medal in this event since the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games.

Chinese team athletes continued to surge forward with great momentum (劈波斩浪, pi bo zhan lang - "split waves, cut through waves") at the swimming venue, winning 4 gold, 2 silver, and 2 bronze medals across 6 events. In the women's 200m backstroke final, Peng Xuwei won the title with a time of 2:05.77, breaking the Asian record that had stood for 16 years. Zhang Zhanshuo and Li Bingjie claimed gold in the men's 1500m freestyle and women's 400m freestyle events, respectively. The Chinese team composed of Xu Jiayu, Dong Zhihao, Xu Fang, and Pan Zhanle won the gold medal in the men's 4×100m medley relay, achieving a fourth consecutive Asian Games title in this event. In the men's 400m individual medley final, veteran Wang Shun withstood the pressure to take the bronze medal, concluding his fifth Asian Games journey.

In the men's nanquan and nangun all-around final of wushu taolu, Chinese team athlete Li Jianming won the championship with a total score of 19.563 points. In the women's nanquan and nandao all-around final, Zhang Yaling added another gold medal for the Chinese team.

At the table tennis and badminton venues, the Chinese teams defeated their respective opponents in the men's and women's team quarterfinals, advancing to the semifinals.

In the women's volleyball final held that evening, the Chinese team defeated Japan 3:0 to win the gold medal, achieving a third consecutive Asian Games title.

(People's Daily reporters Liu Shuoyang, Sun Yahui, Sun Longfei, Liu Yao, Chen Chenxi)

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Wang Zifei/Sheng Lihao Break World Record to Claim Gold

By: 本报记者 陶相安 人民网记者 胡雪蓉

On September 22, good news came again from the shooting range at the 20th Asian Games. In the final of the 10m air rifle mixed team event, the Chinese team composed of Wang Zifei and Sheng Lihao claimed the championship and broke the world record.

Sheng Lihao and Wang Zifei currently rank first in the world in the men's and women's 10m air rifle events, respectively. This season, the pair has won consecutively at the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun stages in Granada, Munich, and Hangzhou, achieving a three-peat in the mixed team event. This is their first time competing together in the mixed team event at the Asian Games, and the two worked together with seamless coordination** (配合默契, pei he mo qi - "coordinate, match, tacit understanding")**, performing outstandingly.

In the qualification round held that morning, the Chinese team ranked first and advanced to the final, setting a new qualification world record. A total of four teams competed in the final, and the Chinese team continued their steady performance, always holding the leading position, and ultimately claimed the gold medal with a score of 507.1 rings, simultaneously breaking the world record. The South Korean team and the Japanese team took silver and bronze, respectively.

This is Sheng Lihao's third gold medal at these Asian Games, following his victories in the men's 10m air rifle team event and individual event. "Being able to win the gold medal and achieve such a score makes me very happy; the result far exceeded my expectations."

The 19-year-old Wang Zifei also reaped a rich harvest. On the first competition day, she and her teammates won the gold medal in the women's 10m air rifle team event; adding another gold this time makes her a "double champion" in her first Asian Games appearance.

After concluding their 10m air rifle competitions, Sheng Lihao and Wang Zifei will also compete in the 50m rifle three positions event, respectively.

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Zhejiang University Architectural Design Institute seeks balance, serving the people's city

The core of a city is its people. The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University (hereinafter referred to as "Zhejiang University Architectural Design Institute") upholds the principle of "grounding the heart in the people's foundation," takes "symbiosis with the locality" as its path, and pursues "balanced architecture," writing a vivid answer sheet of "the people's city is built by the people, and the people's city serves the people" in the practice of urban construction and renewal.

Grounding the heart in the people's foundation, returning urban space to the people

The "city" is built for the people, and the "market" thrives because of the people. The Zhejiang University Architectural Design Institute upholds the concept of "designing for the people," enabling the city to prosper together through joint construction.

At the Yiwu Cultural Plaza, the Zhejiang University Architectural Design Institute abandoned enclosing walls, integrating Jiangnan courtyards and the memory of opera stages into contemporary daily life, providing public space for citizens to gather, exercise, and socialize, creating an open "cultural living room." The Yiwu Global Digital Trade Center created by the Zhejiang University Architectural Design Institute breaks the functional boundaries of traditional markets, with commerce, office, and leisure functions coexisting as one, and industrial space and urban life mutually reinforcing each other, becoming a witness to Yiwu's connection with the world and its march toward common prosperity. The 2026 CMG Spring Festival Gala sub-venue is located here, presenting Yiwu's openness and prosperity to the world.

Open spaces and shared achievements stem from the Zhejiang University Architectural Design Institute's adherence to the "people's foundation": both safeguarding civic consciousness and public rights and interests, and leaving room for individualized artistic innovation, achieving the "three-in-one unity" of reason and emotion, technique and artistry, and form and substance.

Symbiosis with the locality, continuing the city's historical context

Facing the era-defining task of preserving and renewing the ancient city of Shaoxing, the Zhejiang University Architectural Design Institute takes "symbiosis with the locality" as its path, allowing architecture to integrate into the city's historical fabric and allowing the cultural context to continue and grow through organic renewal.

Contemporary cultural architecture emphasizes coexistence with mountains and waters. At the foot of Kuaiji Mountain, the Dayu Memorial Hall follows the terrain, using an earth-covering technique to conceal itself within the mountain, coexisting with nature. The suspended building and the mirror-like water pool echo each other, portraying Dayu's achievement of taming the floods by "dredging rather than blocking," with the dome space symbolizing the harmonious resonance of "heaven—earth—man." The Xu Wei Art Museum, adjacent to the Qingteng Study, draws on the essence of the study's garden design, both continuing the compact layout of traditional dwellings and accommodating the large-space requirements of contemporary exhibitions, allowing the new building to grow naturally within the ancient city's fabric.

Promoting the renewal of historic districts in symbiosis with the ancient city. In the organic renewal of Fengqiao Ancient Town in Zhuji City, the design team adopted a "holistic darning-style" strategy, restoring traditional dwellings "to restore the old as old," and repairing and upgrading public facilities, allowing new business formats to emerge on the old streets. Relying on the multi-party co-governance tradition of the Fengqiao model (枫桥经验), the design team went into residents' homes to listen to their demands, allowing the opinions of all parties to reach a balance. In the Bazi Bridge area, following the principle of "micro-renewal, light intervention," 18 ancient bridges were restored and 5 kilometers of waterways were dredged, recreating the Jiangnan elegance of "bridges reflecting each other, every household facing the water," and introducing facilities of the "15-minute living circle" such as community canteens, achieving "retaining nostalgia while seeing development."

Seeking balance, finding the greatest common divisor of diverse demands

The Zhejiang University Architectural Design Institute advocates the concept of "balanced architecture," maintaining that the greatest common divisor of diverse demands should be sought. From the shores of Hangzhou's West Lake to campuses in Ningbo, Jiaxing, and Haining, the Zhejiang University Architectural Design Institute has always balanced development and heritage, function and humanity, the present and the long term.

Building a museum by West Lake requires balancing cultural relic functions, citizen experience, and landscape protection. The Zhejiang University Architectural Design Institute concealed the main building of the Hangzhou West Lake Museum underground, leaving the lake view to the citizens. Beside Xiangji Temple, the Hangzhou Yinglang Center was set back 30 meters to preserve a clear skyline for the ancient building, allowing contemporary commerce and a thousand-year-old historic site to shine brightly together (相映生辉, xiang ying sheng hui - "mutually, reflect; together, produce, brilliance").

In the "demolition, renovation, expansion, and extension" process of the Zhejiang University Ningbo Five-Sphere Integrated Plan (五位一体) campus, the former vocational high school was transformed into a high-level research university, with a "two axes, one ring" structure reshaping the campus order, a 3D-printed pedestrian bridge demonstrating construction innovation, and an ecological, low-carbon international campus created. The West Lake University Yungu Campus uses a ring water system to connect the three rings of nature, academia, and daily life, with scientific research and ecology each in their proper place. The Zhejiang University International Joint College (Haining International Campus) uses "residential colleges" as its skeleton to establish a composite functional model, with neoclassical architecture that is diverse and inclusive, and an international academic community coexisting and integrating with the Jiangnan water town.

Technology and industry give balance a new expression. The ultra-gravity centrifugal simulation and experimental device has high requirements for the experimental environment; the Zhejiang University Architectural Design Institute abandoned redundant decoration and adopted a simple elliptical form, making the building a scientific container suited to precision equipment and complex processes. The Hangyang factory renovation takes protection as its foundation, preserving the industrial details of the old factory while implanting office, commercial, and exhibition functions, giving the old factory new vitality.

Following the "people's foundation" principle, the Zhejiang University Architectural Design Institute's practical projects are accelerating their integration into the daily lives of ordinary people: a batch of Asian Games venues have integrated into citizens' daily life after completing their competition missions across Zhejiang, the Wuhan Library connects to the urban landscape with three "windows of knowledge," and the Yellow River Delta Agricultural Products Trading Service Center has become a "city living room" serving agriculture and shared by citizens... Adhering to "the people's city serves the people," the Zhejiang University Architectural Design Institute will continue to depict an urban vision of "people-oriented, local, and symbiotic" through the way of balance.

Data source: Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University

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Page editors: Gong Yuhua, Shi Zhe, Cao Jiwei

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Advancing Technological Innovation and Strengthening Nuclear Energy Cooperation

By: 本报记者 徐 馨

From September 14 to 18, the 70th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency was held in Vienna, Austria, with nearly 4,000 participants from more than 180 countries, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations attending the conference. The conference called on the international community to actively practice multilateralism and jointly prevent nuclear proliferation. The cause of peaceful uses of atomic energy bears on the common well-being of all humanity, and all parties all the more need to uphold multilateralism and deepen solidarity and cooperation. China adheres to the active, safe, and orderly development of nuclear energy, coordinating innovation-driven development, safe development, and open cooperation, winning praise from all parties.

During the conference, the outlook report "Energy, Electricity and Nuclear Power Estimates for 2060" released by the International Atomic Energy Agency showed that, as more and more countries consider using nuclear power to meet electricity demand and ensure energy security, by 2060 the global installed nuclear power capacity may grow by more than twofold, among which small modular reactors (SMRs) are expected to become an important new source of clean energy. This is the sixth consecutive year that the Agency has revised upward its forecast for nuclear power expansion.

At this conference, the Chinese "Nuclear Creates the Future" exhibition area attracted much attention with its introduction of SMR technology and exquisite interactive designs. The side event hosted by the Chinese side, themed "Pooling Strength for SMR Innovation, Jointly Creating a Nuclear-Beautiful Homeland," introduced the representative achievements of China's SMR technology, while focusing on strengthening international cooperation on SMRs globally, promoting technological innovation, standard coordination, capacity building, and related promotion and application, providing impetus for global climate governance and sustainable development.

Shan Zhongde, director of the China Atomic Energy Authority, stated that China regards nuclear energy as an important option for building a new energy system and achieving the goals of peaking carbon emissions and achieving carbon neutrality, and, relying on its complete nuclear industry innovation chain, industrial chain, and talent chain, has become one of the pioneers and trailblazers in the development and deployment of SMRs. In the future, China will advocate cooperation in scientific and technological innovation, consolidate the industrial foundation for SMR development, while coordinating development and security, strengthen the joint cultivation of specialized SMR talent, fully utilize multilateral cooperation platforms, and extensively carry out international cooperation.

During the side event, the Chinese side launched the Global SMR Innovation Cooperation Initiative. Huang Wei, special representative of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, stated that the IAEA welcomes China's launch of this initiative and is ready at any time to support China and all member states willing to participate in cooperation, jointly promoting technological innovation, standard coordination, capacity building, and practical application in the SMR field. Rungrueng Kitpathi, secretary general of the Thailand Office of Atoms for Peace, stated that this initiative demonstrates China's firm commitment to promoting innovative nuclear technology for peaceful uses globally.

At the side event hosted by the Chinese side, themed "Nuclear Fusion for the Future: Engineering — the Inevitable Path to the Application of Fusion Energy," the Chinese side formally extended a global invitation for cooperation in nuclear fusion engineering, sharing with all parties relevant technological breakthroughs and achievements in Sino-foreign cooperation. Huang Ping, secretary general of the China Atomic Energy Authority, stated that nuclear fusion energy is undergoing a transformation from physical experiments toward engineeringization and industrialization, which poses a huge challenge to humanity's capacity for large-scale scientific engineering construction and complex systems management, and that global coordination is the key to breaking the impasse.

Najat Mokhtar, deputy director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, stated that China has achieved remarkable accomplishments in numerous forward-looking projects and technological fields. The IAEA's cooperation with China in recent years has made notable progress, and it looks forward to continuing to work hand in hand with China and others to help make fusion energy a reality at an early date.

During the conference, the China National Nuclear Corporation released a report on the progress of China's Huanliu-3 (HL-3) tokamak and its joint experiment plan, opening participation applications to international partners, and released the construction progress and phased achievements of the world's first Fusion Energy Research and Training Collaboration Center, introducing the situation of the established controllable nuclear fusion innovation consortium. Vladimir Vityuk, deputy director general of the National Nuclear Center of Kazakhstan, expressed great optimism about the prospects for cooperation with China's controllable nuclear fusion innovation consortium, saying, "We firmly believe that complementary advantages and pragmatic cooperation are the key to success in the field of fusion engineering."

The Chinese Government Atomic Energy Scholarship program, launched in 2017, was jointly established by the China Atomic Energy Authority and the Ministry of Education, targeting developing countries, to fund students majoring in nuclear energy and related fields who come to China to pursue master's or doctoral degrees. Gholaya Amina, a scholarship recipient from Pakistan, said: "This scholarship has helped us bring relevant professional skills and experience back to our countries and devote ourselves to our own nuclear energy endeavors, building a bridge of cooperation between Pakistan, China, and the international nuclear community."

Li Song, China's permanent representative to the United Nations Office at Vienna and other international organizations, stated:""It is better to teach someone how to fish than to simply give them fish."(授人以鱼，不如授人以渔, shou ren yi yu, bu ru shou ren yi yu - "give person fish, not as good as teach person fishing") The Chinese government attaches great importance to the building of a nuclear energy talent team, regarding it as an important field for supporting capacity building in the Global South, deepening South-South cooperation, and advancing global nuclear governance. The Chinese Government Atomic Energy Scholarship program is a flagship initiative in this field."

(People's Daily, Vienna dispatch)

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Promoting a More Open, Inclusive, and Resilient Multilateral Trading System

By: 本报记者 刘 赫

The three-day World Trade Organization 2026 Public Forum recently concluded in Geneva, Switzerland. As the WTO's most important annual public diplomacy event, this year's Public Forum was themed "Empowering the Future," with more than 4,600 guests from the global political, business, and academic communities gathering together in one place (齐聚一堂, qi ju yi tang - "together, gather, one hall") to discuss the role of the services sector in driving global trade. During the forum, the Chinese side hosted multiple thematic seminars and a series of cultural promotion activities, which drew widespread attention. Participants noted that under the current circumstances, it is vital to uphold the rules-based multilateral trading system and implement industrial policies in a manner consistent with WTO rules, and called for using multilateral platforms to jointly discuss the reform and improvement of industrial policy rules.

At the thematic seminar hosted by the Chinese side, themed "Synergy Between Industrial Policy and Global Economic and Trade Governance," Robert Koopman, professor at American University and former WTO Chief Economist and Director of the Economic Research and Statistics Division, said that the spillover effects of industrial policy have become one of the core challenges in current international trade governance, and that economic security is becoming an important influencing factor. The welfare effects of industrial policy depend more on the degree of international coordination; deep cooperation can yield enormous common gains, while unilateral measures will produce the opposite of the desired effect (适得其反, shi de qi fan - "suitably, get, its, opposite").

Director of the Division on International Trade and Commodities at the UN Conference on Trade and Development, Miho Shirotori, argued that the asymmetry of industrial policies has led to rising development risks, especially as many developing members lack the resources and capacity needed to implement industrial policies. Global trade governance should preserve reasonable policy space for industrial policy for developing members, helping them expand productive capacity and achieve sustainable development.

Bai Chong-En, senior liberal arts professor at Tsinghua University and Dean of its School of Economics and Management, said that the role and impact of the same industrial policy differ at different stages, and that industrial policies should be scientifically evaluated and effectively improved. In addition to production capacity, export value, and global market share, factors such as productivity, employment, consumer welfare, and environmental benefits should also be considered.

At the thematic seminar hosted by the Chinese side, themed "Regulatory Practices for Promoting a Better Life Through Trade in Services," participants discussed global experiences in services trade regulatory reform and China's development practices. They held that China's reform and development practices have proven that actively advancing regulatory modernization and market opening helps promote the sustainable growth of services trade and extends development dividends to ordinary households. Ying Pinguang, Dean of the School of International Organizations (School of Trade Negotiations) at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, said that opening up is a catalyst for advancing the modernization of services trade regulation, helping achieve inclusive and sustainable growth in the services sector. In recent years, China has adopted a series of reform measures to streamline approval processes, enhance transparency in rule-making, and facilitate digital trade, providing valuable reference for other members.

During the Public Forum, the "Opportunities in China · Creating the Future Together" Chinese cultural promotion series, hosted by the State Council Information Office of China and the Permanent Mission of China to the WTO, attracted broad participation from attendees, with a lively atmosphere at the venue. The "Sounds of Harmony" cultural performance, blending art forms such as Peking opera, ethnic instrumental music, local opera, the Grand Chorus of the Dong people, and ethnic song and dance, showcased the diverse charm of Chinese culture and conveyed the cultural significance of mutual learning among civilizations and harmonious coexistence. The "New Life of Craftsmanship" national trend cultural and creative exhibition featured products from the Palace Museum, intangible cultural heritage of Tang Xianzu's opera from Fuzhou, Jiangxi, Jingdezhen ceramics, Guizhou silverware and Miao embroidery cultural creations, as well as works by national trend designer brands. The exhibition also featured a virtual reality project on Chinese cultural elements, allowing visitors to experience up close the unique charm of the integration of traditional culture and modern technology.

Li Yongsheng, China's Permanent Representative to the WTO, said that this year marks the 25th anniversary of China's accession to the WTO, and that joining the WTO was an important milestone in China's reform and opening up. Over the past 25 years, China has become more integrated into the global economy, creating broader development opportunities for the world. He expressed the hope that the spirit of seeking harmony while respecting differences (和而不同, he er bu tong - "harmony, yet, not, same") and upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground embodied in this cultural event will inspire people to jointly build a more open, inclusive, and resilient future for the multilateral trading system, and to enable the WTO to better empower the future of all its members.

(People's Daily, Geneva, Switzerland)

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“Continue to Firmly Root in China and Invest Long-Term in China” (Witnessing China’s Opportunities)

By: 本报记者 龚 鸣

"Looking back at Amway's more than 30 years of development in China, I am deeply convinced that lasting success is built on mutual trust, mutual respect, and solid cooperative relationships." As President Xi Jinping is about to pay a state visit to the United States, Michael Nelson, Global President and Chief Executive Officer of Amway, said in an interview with our reporter that U.S.-China enterprises, by focusing on creating social value and building bridges of communication connecting the peoples of the two countries, can enhance mutual understanding and mutual trust between the two countries and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. These achievements benefit not only the enterprises themselves, but also the peoples of the two countries and even the global economy.

Amway, which has been in the Chinese market for over 30 years, has witnessed the rapid development of China's economy and the tremendous changes in its consumer market. Nelson said that over the past more than 30 years, China has developed from an important growth market for Amway into one of the most strategically significant core markets globally. Amway's cooperation with Chinese partners is built on a commitment to long-termism, sustained investment, and creating shared value. "The broad opportunities of the Chinese market and Amway's deep roots in China fill us with great expectations for future development prospects, and also with full confidence. We will continue to firmly take root in China and invest in China for the long term," Nelson said.

Taking root, sharing opportunities, local innovation, long-termism — Nelson used four keywords to describe Amway's development journey in China. He introduced that in 1992, Amway took its first step of investing in China, breaking ground with the first shovel of earth at its factory foundation in the Guangzhou Development Zone, Guangdong. Today, Amway's Guangzhou production base has become Amway's largest globally and the only manufacturing hub capable of producing the full range of products, with its product supply network covering more than 50 markets worldwide, and its output value accounting for 55% of the global total. Up to now, Amway has made a cumulative total of 10 capital increases in China, establishing a localized full chain of R&D, production, sales, experience, and service, laying a solid foundation for localized development. Nelson said: "Amway's series of investments demonstrates confidence in the Chinese market as well as a long-term commitment to supporting the development of China's health industry."

"China's vibrant business environment has nurtured development opportunities for mutually beneficial outcomes." Nelson said that Amway's fruitful achievements in China have been driven by local innovation that keeps pace with the times as a key force. "China possesses strong innovation capacity, resilient market vitality, and a rapidly iterating consumer market — these factors continuously shape Amway's innovation direction, service models, and business forms. We regard China as an important global innovation center and a key pillar of Amway's global strategy." He indicated that the vast array of concepts, market insights, and core capabilities Amway has gained in the Chinese market have shaped Amway's future development path, enabling it to continuously enhance its ability to meet consumers' diverse needs.

Nelson came to China this spring to attend the 2026 Annual Meeting of the China Development Forum, engaging in in-depth exchanges with representatives of the global business community on topics such as China's 15th Five-Year Plan, opening up, and global cooperation. He said that the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan emphasizes "accelerating the building of a Healthy China," and this policy orientation, along with China's emphasis on innovation and continuously upgrading consumer demand, aligns highly with Amway's business direction in China. "This gives us confidence to continue investing in China." Nelson said that Amway will continue to invest steadily in key areas such as the broader health sector, innovative R&D, digital capabilities, and supply chain optimization, deeply cultivate local talent development, partner cooperation, and capacity building, providing solid support for long-term development in China and achieving shared opportunities

As a corporate manager, Nelson particularly values"predictability." "By carrying out long-term planning, China has created a stable and predictable development environment, enabling enterprises to invest with confidence and build a solid foundation for long-term development." He said that Amway China adheres to long-termism, formulating its long-term corporate development roadmap with a clear development vision, stable investment, and an innovation and R&D system. "True success stems from persistent dedication, steady and patient effort, and the courage to continue investing amid transformation." He cited as an example that Amway is currently investing in building an organic farm in Pengzhou, Sichuan, making substantial investments in organic cultivation, plant nutrition research, and vertical supply chains, laying out sustainable growth for the coming decades

His many visits to China have left a deep impression on Nelson. "People are full of enthusiasm and optimism, striving to create a better life for themselves, their families, and society." He said that these shared human emotions give rise to deep connections that transcend borders and cultures. He holds high hopes for the development of U.S.-China relations:"By working together with one heart, extraordinary achievements can be made. Looking ahead, Amway hopes to continuously create opportunities for the peoples of China and the United States to learn from each other, deepen friendship, and move forward hand in hand."

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Karamay Delivers Warm Answers on People's Livelihood Initiatives

In Karamay City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a number of older residential communities have completed exterior wall insulation renovation. Children can enjoy quality education at their doorstep, and residents can access high-quality medical services nearby. Having a secure place to live, having children cared for and educated, and having access to medical care when ill — these are becoming part of residents' daily lives.

Over the past five years, the Karamay Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have adhered to the people-centered development philosophy, focusing on the three major areas of secure housing, education, and medical care, turning the "list of livelihood concerns" into a "ledger of happiness," so that the fruits of development benefit all ethnic groups more extensively and more equitably.

Old lanes, new look, warm the hearts of the people

Secure housing is the foundation of people's livelihood. In response to problems such as aging walls, damaged pipelines, and potholed roads in older residential communities, Karamay City has made the renovation of old residential communities an important lever for filling shortcomings in people's livelihood, implementing a "full-body checkup + functional upgrade."

The urban renewal project is one of Karamay City's "Ten Livelihood Projects" for 2026. This year, the total investment in the city's old residential community renovation projects is 251 million yuan, covering 12 communities, 414 residential buildings, and benefiting 11,628 households. The renovation has implemented roof repairs on 185 buildings, exterior wall insulation on 114 buildings, renewed approximately 40 kilometers of pipelines, renovated approximately 60,000 square meters of roads and grounds, and simultaneously added age-friendly facilities, achieving functional improvement and a completely new look. After renovation, communities such as Yonghong Community have taken on a completely new look, and residents live more comfortably and with greater peace of mind.

Quality education nourishes seedlings and cultivates a new generation

Education is the key to people's livelihood. Over the past five years, Karamay City has pushed education to leap from "basic equilibrium" to "quality equilibrium," striving to ensure that every child enjoys fair and high-quality education.

In teacher development, it has implemented a principal rank system for primary and secondary schools, established a four-tier, nine-grade career development system for principals, launched the"Oil City Famous Teachers" cultivation project, and built a three-tier teacher training echelon of outstanding, backbone, and young elite teachers, with teachers holding bachelor's degrees or above in the city's compulsory education stage accounting for 96.2%. In education and teaching, relying on platforms such as the national experimental zone for compulsory education teaching reform and the Ministry of Education's comprehensive reform experimental zone for basic education, it has cumulatively cultivated 28 typical reform cases and is gradually promoting them; it has deeply advanced the"double reduction" work, deepened classroom teaching reform, implemented tiered and categorized teaching and course selection with class mobility; it has adhered to simultaneous development of five types of education — moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor — integrating special courses such as calligraphy, purple-sand ocarina, pickleball, and scientific and technological innovation into routine teaching, advancing the integration of sports and education, arts and education, and science and technology and education.

Hardware expansion has been advanced in tandem. The Dongcai Primary School project was delivered with quality guaranteed, and Karamay No. 7 Middle School adopted a"divide by zone, divert by flow, swap spaces" model to ensure that construction and teaching proceeded without mutual interference. Over five years, the city has newly built and expanded 12 primary schools, middle schools, and kindergartens, adding 10,860 new student places. In 2024, all four districts under Karamay City passed the Ministry of Education's evaluation and recognition as counties (cities, districts) with high-quality and balanced compulsory education, making it one of the first prefecture-level cities in the country — and the first in Xinjiang — to pass recognition across its entire jurisdiction; in 2025, it passed national evaluation and recognition for universal preschool education access and affordability across its entire jurisdiction. Some 15,000 children of migrant workers have enrolled in public schools at a rate of 100%, and the"good school at the doorstep" has turned from a vision into reality.

Convenient medical access protects health and well-being

Medical care is what people's livelihood requires. Focusing on the urgent, difficult, and anxious concerns of the masses in seeking medical treatment, Karamay City has driven the improvement and upgrading of medical services, gradually making"no need to leave the city for major illnesses" a reality.

Over the past five years, Karamay City, with its tertiary Class A hospitals as the core carriers, has accelerated the construction of a regional medical center at the autonomous-region level, and relying on Shanghai's"intellectual assistance to Karamay," has driven a systematic leap in medical service capacity. Convenient measures such as"clinics open every day without holidays,""extended midday outpatient hours," and"one registration number valid for three days" have been fully rolled out; the efficiency of examinations such as CT and MRI has improved by over 85%, and electronic medical insurance vouchers have achieved full-process application. It has cumulatively carried out more than 150 new technologies and projects, performed 1,807 high-difficulty level-four surgeries, and the rate of patients transferred out of the city for treatment has fallen by 11.28% year-on-year, with the radiating influence of the regional medical center continuously strengthening.

Safety-net safeguards have been continuously consolidated. The city's long-term care insurance covers 277,700 insured persons, establishing a diversified service pattern of"institutional care + home care + institution-provided home care," having served 47,500 person-times cumulatively, with a satisfaction rate exceeding 98%. As the first city in Xinjiang to be listed on the national roster of child-friendly cities, Karamay City is actively advancing the construction of child-friendly hospitals, with child-friendly diagnosis and treatment buildings and family-style delivery rooms having been successively put into use, and child height-promotion specialty outpatient clinics and a full-cycle management model for autism advancing in tandem.

There are no trivial matters in people's livelihood; every leaf and branch stirs concern. Five years of livelihood practice have made the happy undertone of Karamay increasingly distinct.Striving forward into the 15th Five-Year Plan, the oil city of Karamay will continue to handle livelihood matters with heart and effort, so that people of all ethnic groups gain a stronger sense of fulfillment, a more sustainable sense of happiness, anda more assured sense of security.

Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Karamay Municipal Committee

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Page editors: Zou Zhipeng, Zhang Huizhong, Chu Jun

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Guizhou Phosphate Group: Boosting Agriculture with Phosphorus, Safeguarding Harvests Across the Entire Chain

In the golden autumn season, a bountiful harvest is in sight. As a major domestic phosphate fertilizer producer and a mainstay of agricultural materials supply, Guizhou Phosphate Group has always anchored itself to the goals of serving national food security and promoting high-quality development of agriculture, coordinating and advancing such work as ensuring stable supply, empowering quality improvement through science and technology, green circular development, and fulfilling social responsibility, taking practical measures taken to achieve goals (务实举措, wushi juju - "matter, practical, measures") to help agriculture achieve bumper harvests and farmers increase their incomes, and writing the Guizhou Phosphate answer sheet for serving agriculture, rural areas, and farmers with solid work and responsibility.

Fully Ensuring the Supply of Agricultural Materials  Consolidating the Foundation of Food Security

Only when farming is not delayed can there be a foundation for a bumper harvest. Guizhou Phosphate Group has always regarded serving national food security as its primary responsibility, anchoring itself to key nodes in agricultural production for coordinated scheduling, and building a full-cycle agricultural materials supply guarantee system covering "production—storage—distribution."

Since the start of spring plowing and preparation this year, the Group's various production bases have been operating at full capacity, with daily average fertilizer output stable at the ten-thousand-ton level, and about 20,000 tons of fertilizer dispatched daily to major grain-producing areas such as Northeast China, North China, and the Huang-Huai-Hai region. Throughout the entire spring plowing cycle, the Group supplied a cumulative total of over 1.9 million tons of phosphate fertilizer to major grain-producing areas nationwide, fully guaranteeing fertilizer demand for spring sowing and ensuring that agricultural materials are not delayed and reach the fields directly.

To ensure timely supply of agricultural materials, the Group, in light of the fertilizer use characteristics of different agricultural production periods, has relied on the 40 central warehouses deployed nationwide to establish an operating mechanism of "storing in the off-season, supplying in the peak season, and precise scheduling," achieving advance reserve of production capacity in the off-season and rapid response and dispatch in the peak season. Through a digital logistics system, it matches supply and demand information in real time, optimizes trunk transportation and last-mile distribution routes, and opens up the "last kilometer" of agricultural materials supply. At the same time, it has established a rapid response mechanism to promptly dispatch nearby inventory and organize expedited delivery in response to sudden fertilizer gaps in local areas, ensuring the orderly progress of agricultural production.

From production bases deep in the southwest hinterland to the vast fields across the country, Guizhou Phosphate Group has laid a solid foundation for consolidating food security with stable production capacity, a complete network, and efficient scheduling. As of the end of August 2026, the Group had produced a cumulative total of 2.49 million tons of traditional fertilizer, completing supply guarantee tasks ahead of schedule. Since the beginning of the year, sales of various fertilizers have exceeded 4 million tons, with capacity release remaining at a high level, effectively guaranteeing the fertilizer demand of agricultural production nationwide.

Accelerating the Application of Scientific and Technological Achievements  Helping Agriculture Improve Quality and Increase Efficiency

High-quality development of agriculture cannot be separated from technological iteration and upgrading. Guizhou Phosphate Group makes full use of internal and external intellectual resources, and through the "posting challenges and claiming tasks" mechanism, continuously advances technological breakthroughs, product structure optimization, and the sinking of agrochemical services to the grassroots, promoting agricultural production quality and efficiency improvement through technological progress.

Relying on the only national key laboratory of enterprises in the industry, the Group focuses on key core technology fields such as the efficient utilization of medium- and low-grade phosphate rock, the research and development of new fertilizers, and soil improvement, and has developed a number of special-purpose fertilizers for crops. As of now, the Group has obtained a cumulative total of 2,454 authorized patents, maintaining an industry-leading level of technological innovation capability. Since 2026, on the basis of stable production and guaranteed supply, the Group has accelerated the optimization and upgrading of its product structure. In the first half of the year, output of new-type fertilizers reached 642,500 tons, with products covering multiple categories such as water-soluble fertilizers, slow-release fertilizers, and crop-specific fertilizers, which can precisely match the differentiated nutrient needs of different soils and different crops. In April this year, new-type compound fertilizers were put into mass production and launched on the market, further enriching the product matrix and meeting diversified agricultural production needs.

To accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into practical field results, the Group's subordinate agricultural materials company, guided by the "Pioneer Phosphorus·Red Chain Linkage" Party building brand, has organized 23 Party member pioneer teams to go down to the front line, carrying out a cumulative total of more than 500 sessions of various farmer-assistance services such as field guidance and planting training. In the major wheat-producing areas of Hebei and Shandong, the Group promotes wheat-specific fertilizers and implements the "one thing, one prescription" precise fertilization plan to meet the nutrient needs of wheat throughout its entire growth period. Based on the characteristics of Guizhou's mountainous terrain, it has customized and developed special-purpose fertilizer products for characteristic cash crops, which have been demonstrated and promoted in many places, helping mountainous agriculture increase production and improve quality.

Promoting Green Circular Development  Consolidating the Foundation for Sustained Bumper Harvests

Green and low-carbon development is the support for sustainable agricultural development. Guizhou Phosphate Group runs the concept of green circularity through the entire industrial chain, from fertilizer production and soil fertility improvement to cultivated land restoration, helping agricultural sustainable development across the whole chain.

The Group thoroughly implements the action to reduce the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, uses green production processes to improve fertilizer efficiency, relies on the wet-process purified phosphoric acid process to reduce impurity content in fertilizers and increase nutrient purity at the production end, and, in conjunction with new-type fertilizer products such as slow-release fertilizers and water-soluble fertilizers, improves the nutrient utilization rate of fertilizers, achieving better yield-increasing effects under the same fertilizer application rate while also reducing agricultural non-point source pollution.

In response to the difficult problem of treating phosphate chemical by-products, the Group has accelerated technological breakthroughs and industrial application, and has completed construction and put into operation the "1468" device for decomposing phosphogypsum to produce sulfuric acid with co-production of cementitious materials. This device can consume 1.4 million tons of phosphogypsum annually, produce 600,000 tons of sulfuric acid and 800,000 tons of cementitious materials, and achieve resource recycling and regeneration. On this basis, the Group has expanded the ecological utilization path of phosphogypsum, applying it to fields such as land improvement and soil improvement, improving acidic soils and supplementing trace elements in cultivated land. The relevant technologies and products have been tested and promoted in farmland in many places within the province.

Continuously advancing mine ecological restoration to protect cultivated land from the resource end. The Group insists on simultaneously advancing ecological governance and land reclamation during mine development, carrying out terrain reshaping, soil reconstruction, and vegetation restoration on closed mines and waste dumps. Plots that meet the conditions are preferentially reclaimed as cultivated land or land for characteristic planting, which not only restores the mining area ecology but also supplements agricultural production space, consolidating the land foundation for grain harvests from the resource end. After the Chuanyandong mining area in Weng'an County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, completed its intelligent transformation, the ore utilization rate exceeded 90%, reducing waste from the source of resource extraction and achieving efficient resource conversion.

Fulfilling Corporate Responsibility  Serving Comprehensive Rural Revitalization

Enterprises are an important force in promoting comprehensive rural revitalization. Guizhou Phosphate Group deepens paired assistance, implements farmer-benefiting measures, and integrates corporate responsibility into every detail of serving agriculture, rural areas, and farmers.

Deepening the integrated model of "Party building + science and technology + agrochemical services" to help agricultural production and industrial revitalization. The Group takes high-standard Party member demonstration fields as the entry point, supports them with technical training and empowerment, regularly goes down to the front line to carry out field services, promotes scientific planting plans, and helps farmers improve quality and increase efficiency with precise services to guarantee harvests. At present, the Group has built 6 Party building demonstration villages nationwide, with 28 Party member demonstration fields and 10 Party member pioneer stores built in support, and this model is being rapidly replicated and promoted.

Deepening targeted assistance work to help agricultural production increase and people's incomes grow. Since the paired assistance of Rongjiang County began in 2015, the Group has dispatched a cumulative total of more than 200 village-based cadres covering 30 villages, driving the development of local characteristic industries through technical assistance and industrial support, and helping people increase their incomes and become prosperous. Since 2026, the Group has continued to implement farmer-benefiting fertilizer policies in many places within the province, effectively reducing farmers' production costs and passing benefits on to farmers.

Behind the supply guarantee and services are the dedication and efforts of the Group's broad ranks of cadres and employees. During the spring plowing supply guarantee period, front-line production personnel stood guard at full capacity to ensure stable operation of the devices. Quality inspection posts achieved full-process product control through the "one bag, one code" traceability system, strictly controlling the quality of every batch of products. Logistics dispatch personnel coordinated transportation shifts day and night to ensure timely dispatch of agricultural materials. Agrotechnical service personnel work year-round in the fields, carrying out soil testing and diagnosis and technical guidance on site, delivering practical technology into the hands of farmers.

Striving forward into the 15th Five-Year Plan, the Group will continue to uphold its mission of serving agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, continuously strengthen supply guarantee capacity, deepen technological innovation, and advance green development, safeguarding stable grain production and increased yields with more solid measures, promoting high-quality development of agriculture with greater responsibility, and contributing more Guizhou Phosphate strength to ensuring national food security and comprehensive rural revitalization.

Data source: Guizhou Phosphate Group

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Good Days, Good Harvests: Observations on Agriculture, Rural Areas, and Farmers

By: 常 钦

More than 100 kilograms of longan, and most of it was sold in a single morning. Recently, at the harvest festival event held in Fuqing City, Fujian, Old Wang, who has grown longan for decades, went from carrying loads on a shoulder pole to market in the past, to now setting up a booth at his own doorstep — his feeling was especially genuine: "The harvest festival is good! Many people come, and longan has no worries about selling." This plain sentence spoke to the hearts of farmers: a good harvest, but also hoping for good sales; a lively festival, but even more hoping for a prosperous life.

Another year, the autumnal equinox arrives, and we usher in the ninth "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival." This year marks the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and the weight of the harvest feels even heavier. Overcoming adverse impacts such as torrential rain and flooding, severe typhoons, and localized high-temperature drought, the summer grain output reached 301.49 billion jin, breaking through the 300 billion jin mark for the first time; early rice output has remained stably above 56 billion jin for six consecutive years, and autumn grain harvest has a good foundation. Stabilizing the agricultural fundamentals, adding confidence for making a good start and taking good steps. "A bountiful harvest opens a new chapter  Solid work promotes rural revitalization" — this is both the theme of the festival and the direction for continued struggle.

A bountiful harvest, on one end, is linked to the granary of a major country, and on the other end, to the lives of farming households. In the first half of this year, the per capita disposable income of rural residents was 12,699 yuan, a real year-on-year increase of 5.5%. Behind the income growth is the working hard and diligently (辛勤耕耘, xin qin geng yun - "hard, diligent, plow, cultivate") of fellow villagers, and also the continuous expansion of rural development space. To measure the quality of the harvest, one must look both at how much more was harvested in the fields and at how much more farmers earned; one must look both at whether the granary is well stocked and at whether life is more prosperous.

From a good harvest to good income does not automatically draw an equals sign. A piece of fruit — beyond fresh sales, can it be processed to add value? A farm courtyard — after improving living conditions, can it develop into distinctive homestays? This year's national main venue event of the Harvest Festival was held in Dongjiao Village, Zaoyang City, Hubei Province, which develops planting and breeding, and also explores rural tourism, letting tourists be willing to stay overnight and take agricultural products back with them. Such explorations enlighten us that the harvest of rural industry lies not only in growing a few more types of business, but in whether farmers can share in the benefits through employment, management, equity participation, and other means. Where the industrial chain extends one link further, the opportunities for farmers to increase their income should also be a few more.

A harvest also carries the joy in songs and the confidence on stage. In September, Xuan'en County, Hubei, held the Central Region Grand Competition of the Village Song Contest at the Harvest Festival, where fellow villagers sang the changes in their villages and their farming life into their songs; the event made use of an existing stage, and farmers became the protagonists. The vitality of rural culture lies not only in how many performances are sent to farmers, but in giving them a place to display their talents and an opportunity to tell their own life stories. Improvement in material life nourishes the spiritual world; abundance in spiritual life, in turn, adds enthusiasm for building one's hometown. The farmers' festival should, as it should, let farmers have both a sense of gain and a means of expression.

The stage of the harvest is in the countryside, and development opportunities connect cities and countryside. On September 4, this year's Harvest Festival Golden Autumn Consumption Season was launched in Shanghai, bringing fine local products from the countryside closer to urban consumers. City dwellers go to the countryside to experience farming fun, agricultural products enter the cities to seek markets, and the festival acts as a matchmaker between supply and demand, also letting more people see the value of the countryside. To continue this interaction, it is necessary to shore up shortcomings in cold-chain logistics, commercial circulation, and other areas, and improve rural infrastructure and public services. Let good products be able to be shipped out and sold well, let those willing to return to their hometowns to start businesses be able to stay and succeed, and only then can the exchanges between urban and rural areas turn into more stable development opportunities.

The festival will eventually come to an end, but the hopes of the vast number of farmers for a better life will not come to an end. Turning a one-time exhibition into long-term orders, making good use of the facilities left by an event, converting temporary popularity into lasting business — only then can celebrating the harvest and promoting rural revitalization empower each other. Letting fellow villagers not only smile happily during the Harvest Festival, but also live comfortably throughout the four seasons — this is the best cherishing of this festival.

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Yumin Safflower Blooms This Way (Rural Frontline)

By: 本报记者 贺 勇 阿尔达克

In early autumn, on the field ridges of Jilande Village, Jianggesi Township, Yumin County, Xinjiang, bags of safflower seeds are neatly stacked. Villager Zhu Changjun's face beams with the joy of a bountiful harvest. He squats down, grabs a handful, and gently rubs them between his fingers — the seeds are plump and full.

Relying on possessing unique natural advantages (得天独厚, de tian du hou - "obtain, heaven, unique, thick"), steadily advancing variety innovation, and an ever-extending industrial chain, Yumin safflower has carved out a broad market. At present, the annual output value of Yumin safflower's entire industrial chain exceeds 300 million yuan, stably driving more than 5,700 farmers and herders to increase their incomes and grow prosperous. A single small flower has grown into a distinctive pillar industry empowering the county economy's high-quality development.

One flower, grown into the county's leading industry

In Jilande Village, Zhu Changjun is a well-known large-scale safflower grower. This year he planted 400 mu, and from planting to harvest he feels at ease. A few years ago, he was not so confident — the safflower market price fluctuated greatly, and income was not guaranteed. "Back then, the more I planted, the more uncertain I felt."

Today, from planting to harvest, Zhu Changjun is not working alone. Technicians from the Jianggesi Township Agricultural Technology Station frequently visit the fields, providing door-to-door guidance on disease and pest prevention; enterprise technicians follow the entire process from sowing, field management, to harvesting and storage. Starting in 2024, Zhu Changjun has used new varieties supplied by the enterprise: when spring sowing leaves him short of funds, he takes the seeds first without paying, and after autumn harvest repays the seed cost with seeds as agreed. "Higher yield, better filaments, and fuller seeds." What reassures Zhu Changjun even more is the sales channel — now he supplies directly to leading local enterprises under contract; once the seeds are cleaned and moisture standards are met, they are graded by quality and priced accordingly, with purchase prices above market levels most of the time.

Why has Yumin's safflower industry been able to reach scale? The answer lies among the mountains and waters, in the hands of generations of flower growers, and even more in the local government's maintaining the same persistence for decades (数十年如一日, shu shi nian ru yi ri - "number, ten, year, like, one, day") in sustained promotion.

Yumin County is located at the southern edge of the Tacheng-Emin Basin, at the foot of the Barluk Mountains, and possesses unique natural advantages for developing the safflower industry. Here, annual sunshine exceeds 3,000 hours, the diurnal temperature difference often exceeds 15 degrees Celsius, and irrigation relies on snow and ice meltwater from the Barluk Mountains. The planting areas have deep soil layers and fertile soil, with a pristine ecology and little pollution, conducive to the accumulation of medicinal and nutritional components such as hydroxysafflor yellow A and linoleic acid. "Even the same safflower, when grown in Yumin, has higher active ingredient content," said the head of the Yumin County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau.

A good foundation also needs good seeds. The "Yumin Thornless Safflower," systematically bred locally in Yumin, is a dual-use variety for both oil and flower, with large buds, early maturity, and water- and fertilizer-saving properties; moreover, being thornless and easy to harvest, it has broken through the bottleneck of traditional safflower's thorny difficulty in harvesting that constrained expansion, and accounts for 99 percent of the county's safflower planting area.

To ensure good seeds truly take root, Yumin County has promoted a "free seed supply, seed-for-seed repayment" model among leading enterprises: seeds are distributed to farmers in spring, and after the autumn harvest, the seed cost is offset with safflower seeds as agreed.

Yumin County has also established a three-tier agricultural technology extension network at the county, township, and village levels, with technicians assigned by area and household, providing door-to-door guidance throughout the entire process from sowing time and planting density to disease and pest prevention and water-fertilizer management; for common pests and diseases, experts are organized to compile simple technical manuals, teaching farmers scientific cultivation in plain and accessible language.

Scale is the foundation of industrial development. Yumin County has cultivated safflower as the leading industry of the county economy, issued a special development plan, and continued to exert efforts in planting subsidies, land transfer, and infrastructure, guiding farmers to plant in concentrated contiguous plots. Jilande Village is the core area for Yumin thornless safflower; of the village's more than 4,600 mu of cultivated land, 3,700 mu are consistently planted with safflower; villagers also transfer land in surrounding villages and teams, growing safflower beyond the village. From one household to one village, from one village to one county, safflower has truly become Yumin's leading industry.

One chain, the development path growing ever wider

How can good products fetch good prices? In recent years, the overall domestic safflower market has remained persistently sluggish, industry demand has been weak, and growers have generally faced the problems of sales pressure and unstable returns. Yumin safflower faces the same difficulties: growers deal with buyers in a scattered manner, have weak bargaining power, and prices are uneven — "good goods cannot fetch good prices."

Facing this predicament, Yumin County has taken the initiative and built the market at its doorstep. In 2025, Yumin County secured 70 million yuan in project funds to build the China Thornless Safflower Trading Center covering 91 mu, with a 3,200-square-meter R&D and testing center and a 15,000-square-meter warehouse successively put into use. "After the trading center began operation, the county's safflower is traded centrally at the venue, with growers directly connecting with pharmaceutical enterprises and merchants, and unified pricing and unified sales by quality," said Xie Xu, director of the Yumin County Commerce and Industry Informatization Bureau. The past situation of small traders coming to the door to force down prices has been completely reversed; farmers bring their safflower to the venue, where it undergoes testing and grading and open bidding — good quality fetches good prices, and the orientation of premium quality at premium prices has truly been established.

The return of pricing power to the place of origin relies on the trading center providing the platform, and even more on the support of every link in the industrial chain.

On the breeding front, the Yumin Branch of the Shihezi University Safflower Industry Research Institute has been officially established and is operating, jointly with the academician team of Wenzhou Medical University collecting nearly 60 safflower germplasm resources, breeding the local improved variety "Yuhong No. 1," and building a 500-mu improved seed propagation field. The new variety's filament and seed yields are 20 to 30 percent higher than old varieties, ending Yumin's long history of purchasing seeds from outside. "Previously, seeds were transferred from elsewhere, with poor adaptability and unstable yields. Now we have our own improved seed propagation base, seed quality is guaranteed, and farmers can use them with confidence," said the head of the Yumin County Agricultural Technology Extension Station.

On the processing front, the local leading enterprise Xinjiang Tianding Safflower Oil Co., Ltd. has invested 80 million yuan to build an automated safflower seed processing production line with an annual output of 30,000 tons, holds 9 patents, and its products have passed EU organic certification and entered the international high-end market. From primary processing to deep and fine processing, from bulk raw materials to branded products, the added value of safflower has multiplied.

On the sales front, Yumin County regularly holds safflower trading and ordering conferences; the total on-site contract value signed at three consecutive conferences has reached 179 million yuan, and through platforms such as the Eurasia Expo, cumulative intended contracts of approximately 1.55 billion yuan have been reached. The path of "direct supply from the place of origin, order locking, and production-sales linkage" is growing ever wider.

Policy support is also continuously keeping pace. Feng Xinmin, deputy director of the Yumin County Commerce and Industry Informatization Bureau, introduced that since the start of this year, the county has implemented 3 million yuan in interest-subsidized loans to support key enterprises and associations in the safflower industrial chain in reducing financing costs and conducting technological upgrading and R&D. "The interest-subsidized loans have solved enterprises' urgent needs, giving everyone funds to conduct R&D and acquire equipment." Under policy guidance, the safflower industrial chain continues to extend.

A sea of flowers, making the "safflower+" integration article come alive

With the domestic market thriving, Yumin is now contemplating selling safflower abroad. Relying on the China-Europe Railway Express, Yumin's deeply processed products such as safflower seed oil and refined safflower filaments continue to be exported to Central Asian and European markets. With its excellent organic quality and stable product quality, the influence of the "Yumin Thornless Safflower" regional public brand continues to radiate overseas, achieving the leap from "fine product of the place of origin" to "international premium product."

While deepening the foreign trade market, the local government is promoting deep integration of the safflower industry with the cultural tourism industry, activating new rural business forms. Relying on contiguous safflower planting areas, it has built a large-scale safflower sightseeing belt and continuously burnished the "Yumin Mountain Flower Festival" cultural tourism brand.

Every early summer at flowering time, tens of thousands of mu of safflower at the foot of the Barluk Mountains burst into bloom in succession. The sea of flowers and fields has become a popular check-in destination, driving the vigorous development of surrounding agritainment, homestays, and specialty agricultural product sales, forming a three-industry integrated development model of "planting as the foundation, processing for value addition, and cultural tourism for empowerment."

Data is the most persuasive. In 2026, Yumin County's safflower planting area remains stable at 150,000 mu; the cumulative trading volume of the China Thornless Safflower Trading Center continues to climb; the influence of the "Yumin Thornless Safflower" regional public brand continues to expand; deeply processed products such as safflower vinegar, safflower honey, and safflower tea have grown from nothing, with an increasingly rich product matrix; and the annual tourist reception at the 100,000-mu safflower sightseeing belt is growing steadily.

At the end of the interview, Zhu Changjun was bagging and sealing cleaned, standard-meeting safflower seeds, waiting for the enterprise to come and pick up the goods. These seeds will leave Jilande Village, enter the production line, and head to broader markets. The fiery sea of flowers blooms across the mountains and fields year after year, and the villagers' lives, amid the blooming and falling of the flowers, are growing increasingly prosperous day by day.

Reporter's Notes

Let the value of every safflower flower flow fully

In interviewing the development of the safflower industry in Yumin County, the deepest impression is one of "deep cultivation" and "good governance." The development path of Yumin's safflower industry is precisely a vivid microcosm of a border county developing distinctive industries in light of local conditions, with precise policy implementation, and sustained, long-term effort.

Deep cultivation of distinctive features — the core lies in breaking through and breaking out. The traditional safflower industry, constrained by thorny difficulty in harvesting, unstable yields, and uneven quality, has long struggled to grow. The people of Yumin spent decades breeding a thornless variety, turning "difficult to harvest" into "easy to harvest," laying a solid foundation for scaled and standardized development.

To strengthen the industry, the government must exert precise force. Facing shortcomings such as scattered household operations and weak bargaining power, the Yumin county government has proactively filled the gap — without taking over or overstepping — by building a professional trading platform, improving the technical service system, and implementing precise support policies, establishing a development bridge linking government, enterprises, and farmers, enabling quality products to fetch reasonable prices and allowing farmers and herders to share in the industry's dividends.

For long-term income growth, the fundamental lies in value addition across the entire chain. Yumin County has made a whole-chain layout for the safflower industry — conquering seed source technology upstream, extending deep processing downstream, broadening domestic and foreign markets outward, and integrating cultural tourism business forms inward — squeezing every bit of value from one flower, ensuring that industrial value addition runs through the entire process of planting, processing, sales, and tourism, and enabling farmers and herders to benefit continuously at every end of the industrial chain.

From "thorny and difficult to harvest" to "thornless and high-quality production," from "scattered households at low prices" to "premium quality at premium prices," from "single-crop planting" to "whole-region integration," the transformation of Yumin safflower is a vivid sample of high-quality development of the county economy. Rooted in the local area, deeply cultivating distinctive features, implementing precise policies, and making sustained, long-term effort — specialty agricultural products will ultimately grow into pillar industries that enrich the people and strengthen the county, blooming with developmental vitality. Taking one flower to the extreme, even a small industry can produce a big story.

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Bringing the Mining Village Back to Green (First Secretary Stationed in the Village Speaks)

By: 本报记者 李晓晴

The morning mist dispersed from the mountain hollows, and the Confucius River flowed slowly through the tranquil village. Zhao Jiahai, the first secretary stationed in Maocaoping Village, Shuiyuesi Township, Xingshan County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, walked a stretch along the ecological river embankment. The water surface was clear and bright, the ecological dam held back the silt, and the river patroller fished the last bits of fallen leaves onto the bank. "In the past, when it rained, mine tailings mixed with muddy water rushed down the gullies, and the riverbanks were covered in white lime and gravel; now the sewage treatment plant discharges up to standard, the embankment has been given ecological slope protection, the river patroller makes his rounds every day, and the water is so clear you can see the bottom," Zhao Jiahai said.

Maocaoping Village is located in the Shukongping phosphate rock mining area, where phosphate rock resources are abundant. Since the 1980s, more than 70 mine shafts were mined in a disorderly fashion. The village prospered because of the mines, but the ecology buckled under the strain: the mountain slopes were damaged, goaf areas were everywhere, waste slag piled up, the river silted up and the water turned turbid; the villagers lived in rammed-earth houses and even faced water shortages during the dry season. They held resources in their hands, yet could not hold on to their homeland.

It was not until 2007 that the local government consolidated the mining area's resources, with Hubei Xingfa Chemicals Group Co., Ltd. taking charge of coordinated protective development, putting an end to the extensive mining model. Nearly 100 million yuan was invested in rehabilitating the goaf areas, 30 million yuan in treating legacy problems, and 40 million yuan in restoring 2.3 square kilometers of geohazard-affected land. In the production process, "full-seam mining, separate extraction and separate transport" was implemented, achieving "no waste rock leaving the shaft, no tailings piled outside," cutting off new damage at the source.

Now, looking out across the area, the hillsides are a continuous expanse of green. The previously exposed rock and soil have been covered by vegetation, the slopes have been trimmed into neat order, blending into a single whole (融为一体, rong wei yi ti - "melt, become, one, body") with the mountain forest, and one can no longer see how heavily scarred or covered in wounds (伤痕累累, shang hen lei lei - "wound, scar, repeatedly, accumulate") it once was. The Shukongping phosphate mine has also been included in the Ministry of Natural Resources' "National Green Mine List," becoming a model example of mining-area ecological governance.

The mine is still the same mine, but the circumstances of the households below the mountain have already changed beyond recognition.

What changed first were the water, the roads, and the river. Zhao Jiahai is the first secretary dispatched to the village by Xingfa Group, and this is his third term. Zhao Jiahai told reporters that when the village elders talk about the past, they just wave their hands: on the road into the mountains back then, whenever an ore truck passed, a layer of white lime floated up from the road surface, and when the wind blew it covered your face; in the rainy season, the mine tailings ran into black sludge so thick you could not pull your shoes out. "Now all the roads connecting villages and village groups have been paved, and the cement road in the village's resettlement community was upgraded to asphalt two years ago," Zhao Jiahai said. On a broader scale, the small watershed of the Confucius River, where Maocaoping Village is located, has coordinated efforts to treat the mine, clear the waste slag, and repair the river channel — green mining upstream, agro-tourism and hydropower downstream — and the river has gone from carrying "mine drainage" to "nourishing the village."

What changed next were the housing and the people. Starting in 2015, residents of the areas affected by mining were relocated in batches into centralized resettlement communities, and rammed-earth houses and dilapidated old homes were replaced with concrete brick-and-frame houses. Villager Xu Jinlan is one of the resettled households. "Our Maocaoping Village resettlement community was built beautifully. Whether it is the courtyards, the greenery, or the various landscaping, it all blends into one with the surrounding mountain forest, and the houses are very comfortable to live in," Xu Jinlan said.

More importantly, Xu Jinlan and her husband both work at the mine. After moving into the resettlement community, the couple could earn money while staying close to home, with no more need to travel far for work.

"I used to work in Guangzhou. After moving into the resettlement community, I became a central control operator at the ore-dressing plant. My job is to operate the computer to carry out ore sorting," Xu Jinlan said. "The ore coming out of the mine varies in grade. At the ore-dressing plant, it goes through heavy-medium separation, which keeps the useful components and raises the grade, helping to improve resource utilization." Xu Jinlan does ore sorting in the control room, and her husband runs transport in the mining area. Together the two earn about 200,000 yuan a year, and by staying close to the mine they have secured a stable and happy life. And it is not just Xu Jinlan — more than 150 local villagers work in the mining area like her and her husband.

On the industry front, Maocaoping Village has not treated "eating off the mine" as its only way out. In 2009, the village introduced fragrant thin-shell walnuts, and in recent years improved them into amber walnuts with thinner shells, plumper kernels, and higher prices. "Of the village's 216 households, 110 now grow walnuts, with an annual output of about 80,000 jin," Zhao Jiahai said. Villagers tend the trees on their days off from the mine, and mining never gets in the way of orchard care — spring pruning, summer fertilizing, autumn harvest — and one walnut tree after another has become a steady source of income.

Mine restoration has changed not only the mountains and the water, but above all the lives of the farmers. The story of Maocaoping Village is a vivid case of the transformation and development of resource-based villages, and it is also the most tangible picture of a beautiful countryside.

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Planting the Seed of Daring and Innovation in Young Students (In-Depth Focus)

By: 本报记者 吴 月

In early September, in Beijing's Haidian District, a reporter followed newly enrolled students into Beijing Zhongguancun College. The scene before them was somewhat different from traditional universities:

The campus has no walls; it sits within the Zhongguancun Xibeiwang Science and Technology Park, with a connecting corridor linking the school to the entrepreneurial community. It happened to be freshman registration day: more than 300 jointly trained doctoral students came from 31 partner universities and more than 30 different majors. Lively discussion could be heard from the conference rooms—students studying computer science and students studying biology were discussing AI (artificial intelligence) drug development together, while students studying economics and students studying physics were developing a "social simulator"...

Two years ago, this new type of higher education institution was jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the Beijing municipal government. In the same period, Beijing built the Zhongguancun Artificial Intelligence Research Institute as a supporting facility, committed to crossing the boundaries of schools, disciplines, and industry-education integration, to create a "test field" for the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, to cultivate leading AI talent, and to produce top-tier scientific and technological achievements.

Expanding the Boundaries of the Classroom

The important talent of the future is not people who only know how to solve exam problems

In the exhibition space of Beijing Zhongguancun College, a robot played the piano as a welcome exchange evening was underway. The most crowded area was the poster section, resembling a small-scale project roadshow. At the college, the first thing new students care about is not course selection, but project selection.

"Knowledge in the AI field updates and iterates rapidly, and it is extremely practice-oriented. The traditional 'classroom first, research later' model can hardly keep up with the pace of development," said Liu Tieyan, president of Beijing Zhongguancun College. The college requires students to enter research projects and, when they encounter knowledge they do not understand, to go back and study the relevant courses. Projects are not assigned by advisors either, but freely chosen—students can also initiate their own projects and invite teachers to participate in their projects.

"We hope to build an intelligent minimally invasive surgical system for breast tumors, using a 'perspective eye' and a 'smart scalpel' to help doctors see clearly and cut accurately." Zhang Boya, a doctoral student jointly trained by Beijing Zhongguancun College and Nankai University, stood before her project poster, introducing it to the younger students gathered around.

Zhang Boya, who studies medicine, noticed during her standardized residency training in hospitals the pain points of traditional minimally invasive surgery imaging and operation—a lack of imaging methods that can clearly present the three-dimensional structure of the breast and achieve real-time intraoperative navigation, and insufficient flexibility of rigid instruments, which easily leads to imprecise resection of lesions. At the college, she teamed up with doctoral students from Tsinghua University, Beihang University, and other universities—some focusing on three-dimensional imaging, others on robotic arm control—and with the support of the college's funding and computing power, they are working to build a surgical principle prototype. "At the intersection of medicine and artificial intelligence, I have found more points of innovation," Zhang Boya said.

The "New Materials R&D Scientific Intelligent Agent" project that doctoral student Lü Dingyang participates in, by contrast, addresses enterprise needs. Last year, the college and the research institute surveyed more than 30 materials-sector enterprises and sorted out the problems in industrial development. Under his advisor's guidance, he participated in building "MatOS, an autonomous intelligent agent operating system for materials R&D," using AI to accelerate materials R&D, which has already been applied in several enterprises. "One enterprise reported that its R&D process became four times faster, which gives me a strong sense of accomplishment," Lü Dingyang said.

Liu Tieyan, who worked in industry for more than 20 years, believes that "the important talent of the future is not people who only know how to solve exam problems, but people who can solve complex problems and raise new questions."

To this end, the college keeps exploring: when selecting students, it holds "AI Practical Combat Competitions" and "AI Innovation Hackathons" to test the ability to raise and solve problems; it offers cutting-edge short courses that condense the latest developments in the AI field over the past three to six months into four weeks of instruction, encouraging students to follow clues to find what they need (按图索骥, an tu suo ji - "follow the map to seek the horse") according to project needs, learning whatever they lack; and its organizational structure has also changed, with the establishment of an "Education, Science, and Talent Management Center," bringing enrollment, training, and research management under one department for coordinated planning.

In the two years since its founding, Beijing Zhongguancun College has carried out more than 120 organized research projects, of which more than 10 were independently initiated by students, and has released more than 20 major research advances cumulatively. Doctoral students from various fields converge, sparking cross-disciplinary innovation, giving "AI+" infinite possibilities.

"In 2025, Beijing took the lead in integrating and establishing the Municipal Party Committee Education, Science and Technology, and Talent Work Leading Group, systematically planning pilot and pioneering measures. Beijing Zhongguancun College is precisely an active exploration of the capital's integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, and we hope to break the traditional model of talent cultivation on a larger scale," said Zhang Yaotian, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission.

Promoting the Transformation of Achievements

Topics come from industry; solutions return to industry

Setting out from the campus and walking south along the elevated corridor for five minutes, one arrives at Zhongguancun AI North Latitude Community. AI enterprises are densely clustered here, and a single corridor connects not only physical space but also serves as an industry-university-research transformation pathway from real problems to real achievements.

Opening bottle caps, unpacking parcels, stacking building blocks... Walking into the embodied intelligence enterprise Shen Du Ji Zhi, a robot was steadily performing fine operations. Chen Kai, born after 1985, is the company's founder and also a mentor at Beijing Zhongguancun College; looking at the younger post-90s and post-00s around him, at a glance it is hard to tell whether they are enterprise employees or college students.

Chen Kai has been engaged in artificial intelligence research for more than 10 years, and the idea of starting a business had always been buried in his heart—in his view, many major breakthroughs in the AI field have occurred in industry. The college's support for entrepreneurship made him resolve to turn his papers into products. "What impressed me deeply was that one of the college's documents was titled not 'Entrepreneurship Management Measures' but 'Entrepreneurship Encouragement Measures,'" Chen Kai said.

"Beijing Zhongguancun College and the Zhongguancun Artificial Intelligence Research Institute are working to build an integrated platform for industry, academia, research, and venture capital, deeply cultivating frontier technology R&D and industrial transformation," introduced Hong Tao, deputy director of the Zhongguancun Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. The college and the institute have established an AI venture capital fund, founded an AI business school, and jointly built with relevant units the University AI Regional Technology Transfer and Transformation Center (Beijing), promoting the transformation of scientific research achievements and helping young teachers complete the transition from scientist to entrepreneur.

When the boundary between industry and education is broken, what is born at the intersection is not only enterprises and achievements, but also talent.

"When students encounter difficult problems in the company's R&D in the morning, they can return to the college in the afternoon to study theory, do experiments, and exchange ideas," Chen Kai said. "Topics come from industry; solutions return to industry. What students face is not only scientific problems, but also feedback from the market side, and their research philosophy and taste are thereby shaped—not pursuing 'padding' of papers, but solving real problems, truly solving problems, and gnawing through 'hard bones.'"

At Beijing Zhongguancun College, mentors with industry backgrounds account for about 30 percent. The strong entrepreneurial atmosphere drives student growth.

"When I first came to the college, what I thought about was getting a job at a 'big tech company' after graduation," said doctoral student Bai Fengshuo. Recently, a company sent him an invitation, but he turned it down. A few months ago, he had just founded his own company, working with partners to build a self-evolving infrastructure that can continuously train, optimize, and create professional intelligence, hoping to serve fields such as chip design.

His mentor helped revise the business plan, the industry incubation department connected him with investors, and the AI North Latitude Community provided workspace... Bai Fengshuo is full of drive: "The first thing I do when I open my eyes is check the experimental results from yesterday and arrange to meet investors to talk about the project."

At present, the college and the research institute have incubated 40 entrepreneurial projects, of which about half are student projects. "Entrepreneurship is not something that happens after graduation, but a part of the learning process, a natural extension of the transformation of scientific research achievements. Our goal is to give you, during your studies, the possibility of turning ideas into prototypes, prototypes into products, and products into the market," Liu Tieyan wrote in a letter to students.

Connecting Different Stages of Schooling

Building a full-chain cultivation system of "basic education—higher education—industrial practice"

On a weekend at Beijing Zhongguancun College, the reporter saw a group of middle school students in school uniforms. Carrying laptops, they were exchanging ideas with the college's mentors and doctoral students.

Can middle school students also participate in artificial intelligence research?

"What is pleasantly surprising is that younger students are less constrained by fixed ways of thinking. Some middle school students, with the help of AI tools, can already produce quite good results," said Qin Tao, deputy president of Beijing Zhongguancun College, citing an example: at the "Lobster Competition" co-hosted by the college half a year ago, the one who won the title of "Lobster King" was a 14-year-old junior high school student. His project used an open-source AI agent framework that can help entrepreneurs complete the entire process from idea validation to launch and promotion.

Zhang Yaotian introduced that in 2025, under the guidance of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, Beijing Zhongguancun College, together with the Haidian District Education Commission, promoted the establishment of the Beijing Youth Artificial Intelligence College (Haidian), exploring the construction of a full-chain cultivation system of "basic education—higher education—industrial practice," supporting early discovery, early cultivation, and early growth of young people in the AI field, and exploring the through-train cultivation of innovative talent.

Middle school student Shi Zhenghang participated in a generative genome large model project and proposed a new architecture scheme in gene annotation tasks, which greatly surprised his mentor Li Qiuyi; Zhang Zixi, who had previously participated in AI-related competitions, saw the difference between research and competition—"competition problems usually have clear goals, while research often has no standard answers"; with the help of AI technology, Pang Songyang adapted his favorite stories into a web game, found the direction he loves, and even changed his social media signature to the slogan on the college corridor—"Through this bitter journey, to reach the stars."

The innovation ecosystem of Beijing Zhongguancun College is subtly influencing more people. International exchange events are often held here, inviting top scientists to dialogue with teachers and students.

Some time ago, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Michael Levitt came to give a talk, and the open campus drew many off-campus audience members. What impressed Liu Tieyan deeply was that a nine-year-old child ran up to the podium and asked, "How can I become smarter?" Michael Levitt's answer was: ask more questions.

"I think what such a scene changes is not only our students, but also the surrounding community, as well as young people's imagination of science and the future," Liu Tieyan said.

From the classroom to projects, from the laboratory to the front line of industry, from teenagers' AI enlightenment to doctoral students' research breakthroughs, an innovation chain running through the entire cycle of talent cultivation is taking shape at Beijing Zhongguancun College.

At this September's opening ceremony, two numbers were particularly striking: 70 and 2.

Liu Tieyan explained that 70 years ago, at the Dartmouth Conference, a group of young people depicted the future of artificial intelligence. Two years old is the current age of Beijing Zhongguancun College. "Cultivating talent is not something accomplished overnight. We must persist in doing what is difficult but right, and take the slow but long road." He believes that "the seeds of daring to try and daring to act planted today will eventually grow into towering trees that define the future and lead the industry."

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Don’t Get Trapped by “When in Doubt, Ask AI” (Education Commentary)

By: 吴 丹

Recently, Fudan University conducted a survey on the use of AI (artificial intelligence) among all students entering the class of 2026. The results show that nearly all surveyed students have used AI tools, and nearly 80 percent of them have formed a habit of using them.

From polishing text, making group-assignment courseware, to quickly translating foreign-language materials and generating literature reviews, to even treating AI as a search engine or even a chat partner, "when in doubt, ask AI" is increasingly becoming a daily routine for college students. If the "digital natives" are the generation that grew up with internet technology, then today's college students are becoming the "AI-native generation."

One-second search, one-second synthesis, one-second output of answers — AI tools have improved learning efficiency and lowered the threshold for acquiring knowledge. But when answers come so fast and expression becomes ever smoother, how should humans think? When AI generates automatically and knows everything, how exactly should universities be studied and taught?

This back-to-school season, several university presidents have, in unison (不约而同, bu yue er tong - "not agree, but same"), touched on the topic of AI in their commencement addresses.

Peking University President Gao Song reminded students: "AI can integrate existing information, but it cannot replace your heartfelt curiosity about an unknown field; it can provide standardized conclusions, but it cannot replace the independent judgment you form through repeated trial and error."

Westlake University President Shi Yigong cited the saying "a person of great character who is not limited to a single skill" (君子不器, jun zi bu qi - "gentleman, not, vessel") to encourage students: "People can never become tools, and learning is never merely about storing knowledge. True university learning is about building, through the accumulation of vast knowledge, your own logical system, cognitive framework, critical thinking ability, and value judgment."

Fudan University President Jin Li shared a student's answer: "In the AI era, stop obsessing over standard answers; practice three things: first, ask good questions — articulate vague needs clearly before you are qualified to command AI; second, train your judgment — be able to spot AI's mistakes and choose the right answers; third, dare to take responsibility — make decisions amid uncertainty." Asking questions, making judgments, taking responsibility — these are precisely what today's AI is least capable of.

The goal of education is not to produce standardized answers; the process itself educates. AI can output hundreds or thousands of answers, but what truly excites the brain is often the moment you figure something out yourself. Arguing heatedly with classmates, even arguing heatedly or being extremely embarrassed (面红耳赤, mian hong er chi - "face, red, ear, red"), may still not lead you to the answer, but the more you debate, the clearer your thinking becomes, and the broader your cognition grows. Failed experiments and rejected proposals are indeed frustrating, but they also push us to learn judgment, persistence, and starting over. These seemingly "inefficient" moments are precisely when you truly internalize knowledge — and they are the growth and youth that AI can never replicate.

This is not merely the view of the education sector. Recently, 25 Fields Medal laureates, including Terence Tao and Deng Yu, issued a joint statement warning that the rapid application of AI to solving mathematical problems may cause AI's development goals to "seriously diverge" from the goals of mathematical research. AI's rapid mass-generation of mathematical results may compress the time available for verifying results, summarizing methods, academic exchange, and citing previous scholars' work.

An education that only produces standard answers is the most easily replaced. In the AI era, competition is superficially about computing power and data, but at a deeper level about talent, ideas, and culture. Universities must become fertile soil — there is no need to fill every inch of land; leaving appropriate blank space allows curiosity to take root, failure to grow, and ideas to blossom. Teachers must become lighthouses, helping students discern direction while sailing and uphold values amid uncertainty.

For the "AI-native generation," one must be careful not to fall into an information cocoon. The narrower the instructions given to AI, the more its responses conform to your existing cognition; over time, people can easily become trapped in a comfort zone tailored by algorithms, thinking they have seen the whole world when in fact they have only seen themselves.

The author is not denying or opposing technology. On the contrary, using tools well is precisely a human strength. In an era of human-machine collaboration, we must all the more uphold human subjectivity, letting AI serve as a good "companion" and "assistant," handling massive data and completing repetitive work, so that we can have more time and space to inquire into the deeper meanings behind phenomena and to seek out the vivid warmth of different lives.

Technology moves forward; humans must not fall behind. Read more books, meet different people, listen to diverse viewpoints. Let us, while using tools well, become people who can ask questions, dare to make judgments, and take responsibility — people who, beyond algorithms, still believe in hard work and remain down-to-earth and practical (脚踏实地, jiao ta shi di - "foot, step, solid, ground").

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Where welding sparks fall, there lies starlight (Teachers' Voices)

By: 赵孔标

In the past five years, vocational education has provided more than 70 percent of the newly added high-quality, high-skill talent for modern industry. As a vocational education teacher, I truly feel that "vocational education has broad prospects and a having a bright and promising future (大有可为, da you ke wei - "greatly have, can do").

My craft was honed inch by inch in the workshop. After graduating from secondary vocational school, I worked successively as a welder in a boiler factory and a shipyard. My master once told me: "What welding welds is not just steel plates, but also a person's heart and temperament." Along the way, many teachers gave me guidance and help, letting me understand what the spirit of craftsmanship is.

In 2016, I joined Jiangsu Shipping College (江苏航运职业技术学院) and became a welding training teacher. I hope to pass on the spirit of craftsmanship, helping students practice and master a specialized skill or unique talent (一技之长, yi ji zhi chang - "one, skill, particle, length") and light up their own light of skill.

Welding is a physical job that requires repeated practice; if one fears hardship, it is difficult for one's skill to improve. I often tell them, "Although fearing hardship is a common human feeling or normal human nature (人之常情, ren zhi chang qing - "human, particle, constant, feeling"), a single weld seam concerns the safety of all crew members. Whether your welded plate can go on board the ship admits no room for the slightest slack."

Preparing for the National Seafarers' Skills Competition, I brought international competition standards into the training room, simulating the real environment of a shipyard — noise, high temperature, and time limits. Some students welded more than 10 test plates in a row, all unqualified, and sat alone in the workshop crying. I helped them analyze parameters and accompanied them practicing over and over again. On the day of the competition, we won first place nationally, and the children rushed onto the podium and hung the gold medal around my neck. I know that this honor does not belong to me, but to every child, and to every late night in the training building where sparks of welding flickered.

With the school's support, I established a Master Technician Studio (技能大师工作室), leading students to overcome "being stuck at a critical bottleneck or key constraint (卡脖子, ka bo zi - "strangle, neck, particle")" problems such as welding of low-temperature high-strength steel. Over these years, more than20 provincial-and municipal-level technical experts have emerged from the studio, and the students I have taught now strive on slipways, in ports, and along ten-thousand-mile shipping routes. My three-foot podium has always been closely connected with the strategy of building a maritime power.

People often ask me, what is the spirit of educators? For me, it is embodied in concrete work: maintaining stability while welding, continuing to try after training failures, and teaching students hand-in-hand to cultivate a craftsman's heart. I am willing to continue being a person who ignites welding sparks and lights up starlight, holding fast to the original aspiration of educating people where sparks flicker.

(The author is a teacher at Jiangsu Shipping College; this article was compiled by People's Daily reporter Yan Yiqiao(闫伊乔).

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Tempering Teachers’ Original Aspirations Through Practice (On the Front Line)

By: 本报记者 丁雅诵

The drumbeats rang out in waves, and clear singing echoed among the mountains. At Bijie No. 4 Middle School in Guizhou Province, students sang in unison the original song "Art Sets Out for Qian, Hearing the Great Mountains." Below the stage, Pang Wenjin, a master's student at the Capital Normal University School of Music, was deeply moved: "The seed of art has taken root in the great mountains."

This summer, the Capital Normal University "Art Sets Out for Qian" practice group traveled to Qixingguan District, Bijie City. Thirty-six faculty and students from the School of Music, the School of Fine Arts, the Chinese Calligraphy Culture Research Institute, and the university Youth League Committee, stationed themselves in 4 primary and secondary schools, opened 13 special-interest clubs, and brought systematic aesthetic-education training to rural children.

Original literary and artistic choreography, construction of aesthetic-education exhibition halls, introductory soft-tip brush calligraphy…a series of distinctive teaching activities, helped shore up the shortcomings of rural aesthetic education. "The training ignited the children in the mountains' enthusiasm for exploring beyond the mountains, and I hope this kind of assistance can continue." said Liu Ping, principal of Bijie No. 6 Middle School.

This is a vivid vignette of Capital Normal University's summer social practice. During the 2026 summer vacation, the school, based on the characteristics of its bachelor's, master's, and doctoral students, designed practice projects by level, with more than 400 practice teams and more than 4,000 faculty and students across the university heading to all parts of the country, moving ideological-and-political-theory classrooms to revolutionary sites, frontier-region campuses, and science-and-innovation front lines, comprehending the power of truth while walking, and tempering the original aspiration of being a teacher through practice.

This year marks the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's Long March, and the school, relying on its disciplinary strengths in Marxism, organized multiple practice teams to retrace red footprints, innovate forms of disseminating red theory, and guide students to appreciate the contemporary connotation of the Long March spirit.

In Guizhou, the School of Marxism's "Seeking Traces in Northern Qian, Practicing and Researching the Long March" practice team visited the Zunyi Conference Memorial Hall, the Gouba Conference Site, Mount Loushan, and other places, excavating Long March stories from a youth perspective. The practice team also carried out theoretical-propaganda exchanges together with the "Junma" propaganda group of Zunyi Medical University. Team members walked and observed, researched and reflected as they went, producing a series of outcomes including research reports, original theoretical-propaganda plays, micro party lectures, and artificial-intelligence promotional short films.

"It felt like experiencing a spiritual dialogue across time and space." said He Jianing, a master's student at the School of Marxism, adding that she must take up the red baton of relay, temper her comprehensive competence in being able to propagandize and being good at practice, and walk well the Long March road that belongs to young people of the new era.

Over the long term, Capital Normal University has insisted on integrating ideological-and-political education into the entire process of social practice, innovating educational content and activating educational scenarios in forms that faculty and students find enjoyable. A relevant university official introduced that, on the one hand, anchored in the functional construction of the capital's"four centers," the university organizes faculty and students to deeply participate in key practices such as ideological-and-political co-construction in the capital, urban governance, cultural inheritance, and scientific-and-technological innovation development, guiding young people to serve the overall development of the capital; on the other hand, looking across the whole country, it deeply excavates the vivid practice and advanced models of Chinese modernization, opens up the connection between on-campus classrooms and social classrooms, helps students use Marxist standpoints, viewpoints, and methods to analyze and solve real-world problems, and continuously enhances political identification, ideological identification, theoretical identification, and emotional identification with the Party's innovative theory.

Unity of knowledge and action (知行合一, zhi xing he yi - "know, do, combine, one"), actions speak louder than words (行胜于言, xing sheng yu yan - "action, surpass, at, speech"). In Yatou Village, Shilou County, Shanxi Province, the practice team took root in the countryside, expanding short-term cultural-tourism publicity into a 3-to-5-year long-term rural development plan; in Fangshan District, Beijing, the artificial-intelligence college practice team used AI technology to design cultural logos and film promotional short videos for the countryside; in the Kashgar Prefecture of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the university and the locality signed a framework cooperation agreement, normalizing teaching support and the promotion of the national common language and script in tandem, building a multi-level system of educational assistance to Xinjiang…

"The 'greatness' of a great teacher of a major country lies in keeping the national overall situation at heart and cherishing a great love for education; the 'excellence' of a great teacher of a major country lies in excellence of learning, excellence of moral character, and excellence of the ability to educate." said Cao Wenjun, Party Committee Secretary of Capital Normal University, adding that the university must continue to give play to the educational role of practice, guide young people's ideals to move in the same direction as the nation's needs, let the original aspiration of being a teacher resonate on the same frequency as the pulse of the times, and let the seed of the great teacher of a major country take root, sprout, flourish, and grow luxuriantly across the vast land of the motherland.

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A Grain of Rice Opens a New Chapter: Building the "Qulingyuan" Brand and Promoting Qujialing's Fine Agricultural Products

Rooted in the Jianghan Plain, the Q ujialing Management District (屈家岭管理区), which preserves remains of a five-thousand-year-old prehistoric agrarian civilization, aims at high-quality construction of the core zone of the "China Agricultural Valley" (中国农谷), and relying on the accumulation of over 70 years of state-run farm heritage, has created the regional public brand "Qulingyuan" (屈岭源). The brand is grounded in the traceability theme of "Come to Qujialing to seek a rice seed from five thousand years ago," adheres to the development philosophy of "agriculture as the foundation, culture as the core, and tourism as the vehicle," forging the brand's inner core with historical cultural lineage, securing the quality foundation with ecological science and technology, and constructing a "1+5+N" modern agricultural product brand system, driving Qujialing's specialty agricultural products to go out of Jingchu and toward a broader market.

Since its establishment, the "Qulingyuan" brand effect has continued to be released, driving 22 provincial-and municipal-level leading agricultural enterprises in the Management District, along with numerous cooperatives and family farms, to develop in a coordinated manner, cultivating five major sub-brands including "Wusan Deer" (五三鹿) and "Wusan Yellow Peach" (五三黄桃), along with a batch of local self-owned products. Among them, the sika deer and yellow peach series products were included in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs' 2024 second batch of the "Memory Index Directory of Agricultural Farming Products" (农耕农品记忆索引名录),and the thousand-year-old agrarian civilization is being transformed into brand momentum driving regional development.

Historical accumulation, consolidating the brand's cultural core

The Q ujialing site is an important site demonstrating the origin of prehistoric agrarian civilization in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, having unearthed carbonized rice dating back 5,800 years. From the ancestors domesticating rice seeds and reclaiming the crisscrossed fields, to the Wusan State Farm reclaiming wasteland and cultivating, inheriting the reclamation culture, and then to today's "China Agricultural Valley" empowering with science and innovation and upgrading industry, Q ujialing has formed a development lineage of "ancient agriculture—modern state reclamation—contemporary agricultural valley" that is continuing a tradition or lineage without interruption (一脉相承, yi mai xiang cheng - "one, vein, connect; one, vein, inherit"), endowing "Qulingyuan" with a unique cultural undertone.

The "Qulingyuan" brand takes the regional imprint of "Q ujialing," establishes the proposition of "One ridge links past and present, five products feast the world," pursues "one object carries the cultural lineage, one taste identifies Q ujialing," so that every product carries the genetic code of rice culture, converting the cultural value of the archaeological site into the market added value of agricultural products. Relying on the profound historical accumulation, "Qulingyuan" has built a brand matrix of agricultural products, becoming an industrial carrier for Jingchu agrarian culture to enter the market.

Matrix empowerment, polishing the local produce name card

Centering on regional specialty agricultural industries, "Qulingyuan" has built a "1+5+N" three-tier brand matrix, forming a brand ecosystem in which the parent brand leads, sub-brands support, and operating entities collaborate symbiotically.

Q ujialing's thousand-year rice resources are the cultural origin of the "Qulingyuan" brand. Relying on local high-quality rice resources, the brand continuously excavates the cultural value of rice cultivation, develops rice-featured farming products, and pushes Q ujialing's prehistoric rice culture out of the museum display cases, making it known to more people.

The Q ujialing Management District uses "Qulingyuan" as the parent brand, anchoring the positioning of "Core Zone of China Agricultural Valley・Model of High-End Agricultural Products," driving the upgrading and improvement of agricultural products across the entire region. Relying on the natural endowments of mountains and forests and decades of state reclamation accumulation, "Wusan Deer" connects the entire industry chain of ecological breeding, deep processing, and wellness tourism, and "Wusan Farm Sika Deer Antler" and "Wusan Farm Sika Deer Meat" were both included in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs' 2024 second batch of the "Memory Index Directory of Agricultural Farming Products," deriving series products such as deer-based nourishing gifts. The Changtan Office's ten-thousand-mu standardized planting base, relying on the possessing unique natural advantages (得天独厚, de tian du hou - "obtain, heaven, uniquely, thick") of water, soil, and climate at 30 degrees north latitude, plants "Wusan Yellow Peach," and was awarded the Hubei Province high-quality agricultural product (yellow peach) production base, and "Wusan Farm Yellow Peach" also entered the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs' 2024 second batch of the "Memory Index Directory of Agricultural Farming Products," and the base has further extended to develop processed products such as peach gum, forming a full-chain operation model of "appreciate flowers in March, pick peaches in June, process year-round."

Relying on green planting technologies, the Q ujialing Management District develops the "Wusan Fresh Vegetables" substrate cultivation and integrated water-fertilizer models, and the categories of deep-processed products such as pickled vegetables, fruit and vegetable crisps, and pumpkin powder continue to enrich; strictly adhering to planting standards and multiple quality inspections, "Wusan Mushrooms" have passed green food sampling tests, developing fresh mushrooms, dried goods, and prepared dishes, converting the fresh flavor of mountain wilderness into standardized commodities; relying on the smart recirculating aquaculture base, "Wusan Fish" has formed the "Quling Fish Fresh" specialty aquatic product series, pushing fresh aquatic products and prepared dishes to the market simultaneously.

Agricultural-culture-tourism linkage, broadening the brand's market boundaries

The Q ujialing Management District integrates rice culture and state reclamation memory into the entire process of product development, packaging design, and market promotion, breaking down the barriers between culture and industry, and amplifying the "Qulingyuan" brand's voice across multiple scenarios.

Offline exhibitions continue to speak. Since 2025, the Q ujialing Management District has organized leading enterprises in the district to participate in groups in key provincial and provincial-level exhibitions such as the 22nd China International Agricultural Products Trade Fair and the 2025 Hubei Agricultural Expo, centrally displaying series agricultural products and promoting the thousand-year agrarian culture and state reclamation industry achievements. Deeply cultivating local channels, "Qulingyuan" special counters have entered local supermarkets, making it convenient for consumers to purchase nearby.

Activating consumer traffic with festival activities. The Q ujialing Management District runs local specialty cultural tourism activities well, such as "Encounter the Valley Civilization・TAO Drunk Q ujialing" and the"Antler Picking Festival," connecting the three major scenarios of exhibitions, supermarkets, and agricultural-tourism experiences, developing agricultural picking, agrarian study tours, and wellness experience routes, promoting the mutual promotion and common progress of multiple business forms including agricultural products, cultural tourism, study tours, and wellness, and leveraging agricultural-tourism scenarios to drive local agricultural product consumption.

Science-and-technology driven, anchoring the brand's long-term future

Culture casts the core for the brand, science and technology strengthens the sinews for the brand. From variety improvement to deep processing, from quality control to the construction of brand access standards, "Qulingyuan" has achieved the leap from "having a brand" to "a strong brand," obtaining the hard-core support of scientific research carriers.

At present, the construction of the "Two Academies, One Center" project for synthetic biology and functional foods in the Q ujialing Management District is advancing steadily, and provincial-level engineering technology centers and provincial-and ministerial-level key laboratories in the field of food processing are being laid out simultaneously, anda set of a science-and-innovation matrix integrating scientific research tackling, achievement transformation, enterprise incubation, inspection and testing, and talent introduction and cultivation is accelerating its formation.

This science-and-innovation matrix closely follows the main product categories of "Qulingyuan," centering on high-quality rice, yellow peaches, sika deer, edible mushrooms, and ecological aquatic products, carrying out research tackling on topics such as variety improvement, green planting and breeding technology research, deep processing of functional foods, and the construction of quality standard systems, promoting the transformation of laboratory achievements to the fields. With the resource conditions brought by the science-and-innovation matrix, local leading enterprises such as Baoderui, Juhui, and Tianye have jointly built innovation carriers with scientific research institutions such as Huazhong Agricultural University and the Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, continuously enriching the product spectrum, steadily improving added value, and laying a solid technical foundation for the standardization and high-end development of the "Qulingyuan" brand.

Planted in the fertile agrarian soil of Q ujialing, the "Qulingyuan" brand continues to strengthen local specialty agricultural industries, relying on one ancient grain of rice and one fine product, enabling more people to understand the historical lineage that has stretched for thousands of years on this land and its vigorous development vitality. This pearl of Jingchu agrarian civilization is blooming with ever more brilliant luster in the new era.

Data source: Q ujialing Management District, Jingmen City, Hubei Province

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Harvest Opens New Chapter, Solid Work Promotes Revitalization: 2026 Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival Chongqing Main Venue and Third Farmers' Farming and Sports Games Held in Rongchang District

In the golden September of autumn, with a bumper harvest of all crops (五谷丰登, wu gu feng deng - "five grains, abundant harvest"), scrolls of harvest scenes slowly unfold across the fields of the Bayu land. On September 23, the 2026 Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival Chongqing main venue and the Third Farmers' Farming and Sports Games were held on Hezhong Island, Qingjiang Town, Rongchang District. The event featured segments including the opening ceremony, brand gala, industry matchmaking, farming experiences, cultural-tourism integration, and benefit-oriented exhibition and sales. Research experts, large-scale growers and breeders, and enterprise representatives gathered together in a joyful atmosphere (欢聚一堂, huan ju yi tang - "joyfully, gather, one, hall"), jointly discussing the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas in the rice-scented fields.

Fertile Soil Yields Gold: A Solid Family Foundation Brings Full Confidence

Why did the main venue land in Rongchang District? The answer lies in Rongchang District's deep agricultural foundation and its persistent industrial cultivation.

Opening Rongchang District's agricultural ledger, a string of figures is quite impressive: in 2025, the district's total output value of the agricultural and livestock full industry chain exceeded 30 billion yuan, establishing a new development pattern led by the "one pig, one goose, one grain" seed industry with full-chain integration. In 2026, the brand value of Rongchang pigs reached 8.125 billion yuan, and the brand value of Rongchang white geese reached 2.316 billion yuan, with the total value of the two regional public brands exceeding 10 billion yuan. This solid family foundation is precisely the confidence for Rongchang District to host this conference.

What truly moves Rongchang District's agriculture from "large" to "strong" is the "golden key" of science and technology. In recent years, Rongchang District has deeply implemented the strategy of "storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology," actively promoting new varieties, new technologies, and new models in areas such as food security assurance, vegetable production, and cultivation of special cash crops.

Empowered by science and technology, Rongchang District's pig industry development has achieved outstanding results. On the conservation side, Rongchang District relies on the national key regional livestock and poultry gene bank to carry out identification and protection of germplasm resources, using molecular breeding technology to purify and rejuvenate the excellent genes of Rongchang pigs; on the breeding side, the "Shuangchang Smart Pig Farm" uses the Internet of Things and the pig large language model PigGPT to achieve intelligent environmental control and breeding analysis; on the prevention and control side, the electronic chip traceability system connects the chain from farms to specialty stores, making product information across the entire chain queryable; on the deep processing side, SPF (specific pathogen-free) Rongchang pigs provide precious resources for the research and development of biomedicine and new materials for medical aesthetics.

Looking at the vegetable seed industry, at the municipal-level corn seed production base in Shabazi Village, Ronglong Town, digital breeding platforms and agricultural Internet of Things coverage are complete, and the integrated water-fertilizer system has improved both corn yield and quality; researchers have also brought molecular detection and improved seed selection technologies to the fields, breeding excellent varieties suitable for mountainous areas such as "Youdi 899." A family fruit and vegetable farm in Xuxi Community, Changyuan Street, uses modern cultivation and green prevention and control technologies, with the cherry tomatoes it grows having a harvest period lasting nearly 3 months; this variety won the grand prize in the Fourth "Three Gorges Cup" High-Quality Vegetable (Tomato) Selection Activity of Chongqing.

Looking at rice-crayfish integrated farming, Rongchang District promotes ecological circular cultivation technologies throughout the district, equipped with facilities such as visual monitoring of crayfish fields, automated feeding equipment, and semi-automated sorting production lines. Through drone-based unified pest control and the rice-crayfish rotation model, it achieves "crayfish fertilizing the rice fields, rice fields raising crayfish," with one mu of land yielding both rice and crayfish income, and per-mu benefits more than doubled compared to traditional grain farming models. Zhisheng Town vigorously develops modern agriculture such as rice-crayfish symbiosis and high-quality grain and oil, actively introduces and promotes new agricultural technologies, continuously expands sales channels for specialty agricultural products, and effectively implements the revitalization of agriculture through science and technology down to the fields.

Looking at the laying hen industry, entering the Chongqing Zhongxin Agriculture and Animal Husbandry laying hen breeding base, 1.2 million laying hens live in standardized houses with constant temperature and humidity. The intelligent feeding system delivers precise feed according to preset programs, and the entire process of manure removal, temperature control, ventilation, and air composition monitoring is triggered with "one click." One keeper can manage 150,000 laying hens in a single house... From pens to fields, from seed industry to processing, the tentacles of science and technology are extending to more agricultural industries in Rongchang District.

Industry-City Integration: Building a Livestock Science and Technology City

On fertile soil, innovation surges. In recent years, Rongchang District, leveraging its advantages as the nation's first national high-tech zone featuring agriculture and animal husbandry and one of the first batch of national agricultural modernization demonstration zones, uses scientific and technological innovation as the engine, full-chain industrial upgrading as the support, and deep industry-city integration as the foundation, comprehensively advancing the construction of the National Livestock Science and Technology City with improved quality and efficiency.

Today, a source of livestock science and technology facing the whole country, radiating to the world, and with international influence is rapidly rising on the land of Sichuan and Chongqing.

Scientific and technological innovation requires platforms first. Rongchang District continuously integrates research resources, improves innovation carriers, and builds a scientific and technological innovation platform system with clear tiers, complete functions, and full coverage of the region, providing solid support for the high-quality development of the livestock industry. Up to now, the district has built 10 national-level innovation platforms and more than 90 municipal-level scientific and technological innovation platforms, with research strength continuously gathering.

Among them, the National Pig Technology Innovation Center is the first national technology innovation center in the agricultural field nationwide and the first in Chongqing, establishing a development pattern of "1 headquarters + 4 sub-centers" and contributing to the high-quality development of the pig industry; the National Pig Big Data Center, together with Tsinghua University, Peking University and other universities, has built 13 innovation platforms; key facilities such as the Chongqing National Key Regional Livestock and Poultry Gene Bank and the Southwest Veterinary Chinese Medicine Evaluation Center have been put into use successively, jointly building with the Chongqing Academy of Animal Sciences and the Rongchang Campus of Southwest University a full-chain platform system from basic research to industrial services.

The agglomeration effect of platforms is accelerating its release, and research achievements are accelerating their journey from laboratories to fields and pens. A batch of core technologies has been applied on the ground, helping the low-carbon and green transformation of the breeding industry; breakthroughs have been made in the protection of Rongchang pig germplasm resources and the breeding of new strains, with the production performance of local excellent varieties continuously improving; a batch of practical technologies such as rapid detection of livestock and poultry diseases and the development of new traditional Chinese veterinary medicine preparations have left the laboratory, building a disease prevention and control barrier for breeding entities.

At the same time, Rongchang District precisely lays out special industrial parks such as SPF pig-derived biomaterials and the pet economy, continuously tapping value-added space in biomedicine, pet food and supplies; relying on the construction of the "Agricultural Data Valley," it continuously expands digital livestock application scenarios such as "AI + Rongchang Pig" intelligent breeding, digital pig farming, and traceability of livestock and poultry products. In May this year, the "Huaxi Youzhu Net" platform was officially launched, integrating base traceability, competitive trading, and order subscription functions, promoting the deep integration of artificial intelligence, big data, and the traditional livestock industry.

The National Livestock Science and Technology City is not only an industrial highland but also a livable new city. Rongchang District has broken away from the mindset of "building industry alone and doing research one-sidedly," planning and constructing the core carrying area of the National Livestock Science and Technology City in the area around East Lake, laying out four major sections: the source of livestock science and technology innovation, the high-end manufacturing and digital empowerment zone, the exhibition experience and industrial service port, and the green ecology and quality supporting zone, covering the entire chain of the livestock science and technology industry and all scenarios of production and life, promoting the resonating at the same frequency or moving in sync (同频共振, tong pin gong zhen - "same, frequency, together, vibrate") of industrial development, scientific and technological innovation, and urban construction.

Innovation-Driven: A New Look for Revitalizing Agriculture Through Science and Technology

Rongchang District's agricultural development practice is a vivid footnote to Chongqing's vigorous promotion of revitalizing agriculture through science and technology and developing modern agriculture, and also a microcosm of Chongqing using the pen of science and technology to depict the scroll of comprehensive rural revitalization.

The mountain city of Chongqing, with rolling hills and scattered plots, has long seen its agricultural development constrained by its topography and landforms. To compensate for this "innate deficiency," Chongqing seeks answers from science and technology, running scientific and technological innovation through the entire process of agricultural production, industrial development, and brand building, continuously making efforts on good farmland, good seeds, good machinery, and good methods, promoting the Bayu countryside's march from traditional farming to modern agriculture.

Planning and design come first, with a precise "combination punch" of policies. The "Chongqing Action Plan for Accelerating Scenario Cultivation and Opening to Promote Large-Scale Application of New Scenarios" issued in May this year proposes accelerating the construction of smart agriculture scenarios such as "industry brain + future farm"; implementing a three-year action to enhance the overall efficiency of the agricultural science and technology innovation system, ensuring that the contribution rate of agricultural scientific and technological progress in the city achieves a steady annual increase of 1%, and enhancing the innovation efficiency of modern, high-quality, efficient, and ecological agriculture. From strategic planning to implementation on the ground, a systematic and complete policy system has built the "four beams and eight pillars" for revitalizing agriculture through science and technology.

Cultivation of innovation entities lets enterprises "play the leading role" and universities and institutes "shoulder the main responsibility." Chongqing has improved the gradient cultivation mechanism for agricultural science and technology enterprises, building a three-level cultivation pool of "leading type, high-speed growth type, and potential type," and implementing "one enterprise, one policy" classified guidance; at the same time, it highlights the role of the "one university and two institutes" — Southwest University, the Chongqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the Chongqing Academy of Animal Sciences — as the main force of innovation, so that achievements in the laboratory accelerate their way to the fields.

Tackling key problems in germplasm resources keeps the agricultural "chip" firmly in hand. Chongqing systematically promotes the protection and preservation of livestock and poultry, grain and oil, and fruit and vegetable germplasm resources, and accelerates the construction of the Yangtze River upstream aquatic germplasm resource bank; for special categories such as pigs, white geese, citrus, corn, and rapeseed, it continuously carries out improved variety research, continuously producing excellent new varieties adapted to mountainous environments. This year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs released the 2026 national leading agricultural varieties and main promoted technologies, with 5 varieties and 2 technologies from Chongqing selected. Among them, the "Qingyou 8" rapeseed variety bred by the Chongqing Academy of Agricultural Sciences has its oil content increased to 51.54%, and its promotion area nationwide has steadily increased in recent years.

Sichuan and Chongqing work together in synergy to jointly build an innovation ecosystem. The two places break through geographical restrictions, and based on the synergistic advantages of their adjacent locations, jointly build the "Shuangchang Smart Pig Farm," corn seed industry bases, and other projects, creating agricultural, cultural, and tourism integrated demonstration parks. Wujia Town of Rongchang District, together with two towns of Dongxing District, Neijiang City, vigorously develops the local specialty variety of Wujia crisp cabbage, helping the agricultural cooperation between Sichuan and Chongqing making progress in a deep and substantive manner (走深走实, zou shen zou shi - "walk, deep, walk, solid"); the National Pig Big Data Center has built more than 10 sub-centers in Neijiang City, Zigong City and other places in Sichuan Province, gathering in real time data such as national feed raw material prices and consumption trends, providing precise decision-making basis for Sichuan and Chongqing to jointly raise "one pig," promoting germplasm exchange, technology sharing, and market co-construction.

Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Rongchang District Committee, Chongqing

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Do the "addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division" well to boost the competitiveness of "Shopping in China" (Business Watch)

By: 邱 毅 魏 凯

Market resources are a tremendous advantage of our country. Building on our country's advantage of a super-large-scale market to advance high-level opening up of the consumer sector should take international consumption center cities as the key vehicle, creating hub platforms that aggregate global consumption resources and connect domestic and international markets, using opening up to drive the upgrading and improvement of the consumer market and promote domestic and international dual circulation.

The inbound consumption industry chain is long, involves many related business formats, and has a large multiplier effect; it is an important lever for stabilizing growth, expanding employment, promoting opening up, and shaping image. In recent years, our country has made comprehensive efforts from unilateral visa expansion, departure tax refunds, convenient payment, and other aspects, with the openness of the consumer market continuously rising and its appeal to global consumers steadily strengthening. In 2025, national departure tax refund sales grew by nearly 1x year-on-year, with "China Travel" and "China Shopping" becoming new international trends. Key cities, as preferred destinations for international travelers' inbound consumption, play the role of "carrying the main beam" in inbound consumption. In 2025, the five international consumption center cities of Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Tianjin, and Chongqing accounted for one-third of the nation's inbound foreigner visits and two-thirds of the nation's departure tax refund sales.

But at the same time, our country's consumption center cities still have shortcomings in terms of consumption conversion rate, digital adaptation, multilingual environment, international promotion precision, and other aspects. It is necessary to coordinate measures, make systematic efforts, do well the "four arithmetic operations" of consumption upgrading, institutional burden reduction, business format empowerment, and channel smoothing, continuously activate new momentum for inbound consumption, and enhance the competitiveness of "Shopping in China".

Do "addition" in consumption supply. By adding high-quality supply, continuously optimizing services, and in light of local conditions creating high-quality internationalized consumption scenarios, let overseas tourists be "willing to consume" and "happy to consume".

Expand high-quality consumption supply, relying on the five major international consumption center cities, continuously introduce first stores and flagship stores of international brands, support platforms such as the China International Import Expo and the China International Consumer Products Expo in becoming global highlands for new product debuts; cultivate national trend premium products and high-end cultural tourism experience projects, fill the shortcomings of high-end goods and immersive services. Upgrade departure tax refund services, promote the cross-regional mutual recognition and full coverage of the "buy now, refund now" service in major tourism cities and commercial districts across the country, expand payment channels for real-time arrival of refund funds, improve refund efficiency. Create an international consumption atmosphere, launch multilingual intelligent navigation and shopping guide systems in key consumption areas, coordinate with foreign bloggers to carry out livestream promotions of consumption scenarios, enhance the international affinity of consumption scenarios.

Do "subtraction" in institutional optimization. Through process reengineering and rule alignment, cut institutional transaction costs, clear obstacles for tourists' entry and commodity circulation, smooth channels.

Optimize market access, further implement more relaxed trade management measures and more convenient passage measures, especially simplifying approval processes in fields such as high-end consumer goods and fashion services; continuously optimize the refund processing process, improve the refund experience of inbound consumers. Improve port clearance efficiency, iteratively optimize port inspection processes, adapt to the paperless processing requirements of the departure tax refund 2.0 policy, achieve efficient coordination between inspection of refund goods and passenger clearance. Improve supporting safeguard mechanisms, perfect the cross-departmental data sharing mechanism for departure tax refunds, continuously carry out publicity and promotion of refund policies and outlets, accelerate the construction of a unified certification system for domestic and foreign products.

Do "multiplication" in business format empowerment. Through model integration, brand linkage, and guest-bringing-guest, amplify the multiplier effect of the departure tax refund consumption policy.

Create commercial-cultural-tourism integrated scenarios, bind the departure tax refund policy with cultural tourism routes, layout refund storesand national trend experience stores in historical and cultural blocks, key scenic spots, and other places. Carry out smart refund services, develop mini-programs or APPs integrating functions such as refund eligibility inquiry, merchant navigation, online invoicing, after-sales support, and others. Explore first-release duty-free scenarios, encourage international brands to open first stores in China, file for registration as refund stores, attract global fashion enthusiasts to come and "check in" and consume. Build a word-of-mouth communication matrix, guide and incentivize overseas tourists and bloggers to share refund shopping experiences, use authentic word-of-mouth to enhance the global influence of "Shopping in China".

Do "division" in smoothing channels. By breaking down domesticand international market barriers, supply chain bottlenecks, and information asymmetries, reduce the circulation costs of goods, services, and funds, improve circulation efficiency, achieve efficient connectivity between domesticand international markets.

Break circulation bottlenecks, eliminate obstacles to the circulation of "same line, same standard, same quality" products in domesticand international markets, let goods purchased by overseas tourists in China maintain quality consistency with the international market. Reduce supply chain costs, support enterprises in optimizing cross-border warehousing, sorting, and distribution links, reduce the circulation costs of imported goodsand exported domestic products. Optimize foreign-related public services, build a full-chain service system covering "food, accommodation, travel, shopping, entertainment, and sightseeing", set up service centers in key commercial districtsand scenic spots; improve the cross-border payment settlement network, establish efficient mediationand rights protection mechanisms for foreign-related consumption disputes; eliminate differences in rules across regions, adapt to multi-city travel itineraries. Broaden the channel for domestic brands going global, establish a whitelist of domestically produced goods with good overseas reviews, precisely support high-quality domestic goods widely recognized by overseas tourists to accelerate their voyage to global markets.

(The authors' affiliations are respectively the Modern Commerce Research Center of Zhejiang Gongshang University and the School of Business Administration of Zhejiang Gongshang University)

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Traveling by Train: A New Window

By: 本报记者 杨颜菲 王永战 王 沛

Railways are not merely a means of transport connecting all directions; today they have become a new scene for activating the entire chain of consumption in culture and tourism. From the red revolutionary soil to the vast grasslands, and then to the magnificent northwest, one tourist train after another, integrating sightseeing, dining, entertainment and other functions into a single whole, links together the colorful and diverse culture-and-tourism scenes across the country.

The integration of railways and tourism has struck out brilliant sparks, and "traveling by train" has become a new trend in the culture-and-tourism market. According to statistics, during this year's railway summer transport period from July 1 to August 31, a cumulative total of 699 tourist trains were operated, of which 415 were dedicated tourist trains and 284 were dedicated tourist routes.

Multiple special-purpose "15th Five-Year Plan" documents, including the《Tourism Powerhouse Construction"15th Five-Year Plan"》and the《Expanding Consumption"15th Five-Year Plan"》, have made arrangements for promoting the integration of culture and railways and for optimizing the supply of tourist trains. Our reporter recently boarded a train and experienced firsthand the culture-and-tourism heat ignited by railway-tourism integration.

Trains string together red revolutionary scenic areas, and revolutionary old base areas have become popular destinations

"My grandfather died during the Long March back then, and today I want to see the changes of today on his behalf!" On September 6, Liu Yang, a descendant of a Red Army martyr from Ruijin, Jiangxi, boarded the G3998 high-speed train departing from Ruijin on its maiden voyage to Yan'an.

On this "Long March high-speed train," which covers the entire journey in 11 hours and 32 minutes, about 10 descendants of Red Army soldiers were aboard. The train stopped at Yudu Station, where the Yudu County Long March Source Choir sang《The Red Army's Ferry  The Source of the Long March》. Choir member Liu Ying is also a descendant of a Red Army soldier, and this is her second time going to Yan'an."The first time I went to Yan'an I took a coach; now there is a high-speed train, and it feels much more convenient."Liu Ying said.

"In the past, going from Ruijin to Yan'an required two or three transfers; now the high-speed train arrives directly, saving time and worry."Yang Liang, an engineer with the Passenger Transport Department of China Railway Nanchang Group Co., Ltd., said that this route has built a convenient bridge for deepening red culture-and-tourism cooperation between Ruijin and Yan'an and for promoting the revitalization and development of revolutionary old base areas.

"The operation of this train enables Ruijin to explore cooperation with cities along the route in areas such as mutual exchange of tourists and joint brand building, and tourists from the northwest region can reach Ruijin directly without transfers."Dai Juzi, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Ruijin Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, said.

Ruijin, Yudu, Yan'an and other places have simultaneously launched a series of ticket-based benefit policies: passengers, by presenting the train ticket purchase vouchers for their corresponding arrival destinations, can enjoy benefits such as free admission to local scenic areas, discounts on performances, hotel concessions, and consumption discounts on specialty products.

Many culture-and-tourism practitioners have keenly spotted the opportunity, and Yang Fang is one of them. She deliberately purchased a ticket for the maiden voyage train to inspect the red culture-and-tourism market along the high-speed railway."This road was paved with the flesh and blood of countless martyrs; we hope to polish this red tourism route well, so that more people can understand this period of history."

Along the railway line in Jiangxi, red revolutionary sites, ancient village courtyards, and green waters and verdant mountains are scattered widely like stars and chess pieces (星罗棋布, xing luo qi bu - "star, net, chess, pieces"), and the railway strings these resources together like beads into a chain, turning"good scenery"into"good places"for people's leisure. Since this year's summer transport period, the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, jointly with China Railway Nanchang Group Co., Ltd., has taken the opportunity of"commemorating the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's Long March"to name the K571/2 train, which operates on a regular basis, as"the Source of the Long March."This"Source of the Long March"Jiangxi red tourism themed train strings together multiple red landmarks along the route, becoming an important carrier connecting tourists, scenic areas, and culture-and-tourism services.

The K571 train arrives at Xingguo Station along the Beijing-Kowloon Railway. The Beijing-Kowloon Railway and the Nanchang-Ganzhou High-Speed Railway have successively drawn here the widely circulated"Xingguo Bend,"which has kept Xingguo County's red study tours and red tourism steadily heating up.

The Hongxinggu Research and Study Travel Camp, located in Xingguo County, is precisely a microcosm of railways empowering the culture-and-tourism industry. As a national 4A-level tourist scenic area and a Jiangxi Province primary and secondary school students' research and study practice education base, this camp has to date cumulatively received approximately 400,000 research-and-study students and approximately 1.8 million tourists.

"Many parents board the train from Guangzhou on Friday afternoon, bring their children to Xingguo for research-and-study activities over the weekend, and return on Sunday evening. Tourists from Guangdong and Fujian account for nearly half of the station's passenger flow."Liu Qi, Station Master of Xingguo Station, said that, relying on the Beijing-Kowloon Railway, Xingguo's red resources have been transformed into booming"weekend consumption,"and the revolutionary old base area has in one leap become a popular destination for research-and-study travel from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Intangible cultural heritage features adorn themed trains, offering immersive experiences of ethnic customs

Arriving at Chengdu East Station, when tourists approach the C5762 multiple-unit train, the flavor of Tibetan and Qiang culture hits them in the face. From Chengdu East Station to Huangshengguan Station, this Sichuan-Qinghai tourism dedicated route themed train travels through the areas along the route, also bringing intangible cultural heritage features to passengers.

Entering the carriage, look closely: on the headrest covers of the seats, lively little deer patterns with Qiang characteristics appear vivid and lifelike. Behind the small fold-down tables, a tourism map of the areas along the route comes into view. On the map, the transportation transfer plans and scenic spots of stations along the route, such as Sanxingdui Station, Maoxian Station, Songpan Station, and Huanglong Jiuzhai Station, are clear at a single glance (一目了然, yi mu le ran - "one, eye, finish, understand").

The train moves slowly forward, and the journey officially begins. At this moment, a hand-gesture dance quietly kicks off. Before their eyes, the train attendants line up in a row, waving their hands, completing one movement after another. Zhang, a Chongqing resident traveling again to the Huanglong Jiuzhai area, clapped his hands repeatedly:"Compared with before, from the carriage body decoration to the in-car services, now the ethnic characteristics are even stronger!"

Moving along the way, laughter and cheerful voices never cease. As they speak, the train is about to arrive at Gaochuan Station."Land of medicinal herbs, land of health and wellness, ecological blessed land of Longmen Mountain, Gaochuan Station welcomes you."As the customized tourism broadcast sounds, passengers one after another look outward, enjoying the natural scenery on both sides.

"The Sichuan-Qinghai tourism dedicated route themed train officially began operation in August this year, and the train has launched customized services for the dedicated route such as one station, one broadcast; one card, one scenery; and one map to tour the areas along the route."Train Chief Chen Xuli introduced.

As the train passes Maoxian, passengers have just drawn their gaze back inside the carriage, watching the plateau scenery and ethnic customs along the train route played on the onboard video system, when a performance of ethnic intangible cultural heritage joyfully begins.

What comes first before the passengers' eyes is a solo performance on the Qiang flute. The performer, dressed in blue Qiang embroidered clothing and wearing a wrapped headscarf, slowly walks into the carriage. Seeing this scene, some passengers cannot help but recite poetry in response.

A costume show and a medley of folk songs follow in succession. The performers, dressed in red-and-blue ethnic costumes, wearing capes and silver ornaments, are singing and dancing joyfully (载歌载舞, zai ge zai wu - "carry, song, carry, dance"). In the carriage, passengers are beaming with joy (喜笑颜开, xi xiao yan kai - "happy, smile, face, open"), and applause never stops.

"Qiang embroidery is a national-level intangible cultural heritage, which has been passed down for over a thousand years."Chen Xuli said that, since the tourist train began operation, the railway department has cooperated with the Maoxian culture-and-tourism department, by organizing actors to perform intangible cultural heritage performances and other means, displaying the characteristics of ethnic regions and bringing passengers a different visual feast.

Approaching noon, specialty foods of ethnic regions attract many passengers. Yak high-calcium milk tablets, zanba milk tea, hand-torn dried yak meat...Walking into the dining car, many passengers are selecting snacks. Among the many foods, the Tibetan-style dried yak meat set meal has won the favor of many passengers."Our set meal has strong Tibetan characteristics, the beef is tender and delicious, enriching passengers' dining choices during the journey, and is loved by everyone."Chen Xuli introduced.

Having worked on the Sichuan-Qinghai line multiple-unit trains for nearly three years, Chen Xuli, a Qiang ethnic woman, has witnessed this tourism route becoming increasingly popular. Since the tourist train began operation, China Railway Chengdu Group Co., Ltd. has also, jointly with the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan, launched a benefit measure whereby holding a ticket stub of the Sichuan-Qinghai tourism dedicated route themed train entitles one to benefits."Passengers holding a ticket to Maoxian can enjoy a 10% discount on the entrance ticket to Ancient Qiang City; those holding a ticket to Songpan Station can visit the city walls of the ancient town of Songpan for free."Chen Xuli said that more and more passengers choose to take the multiple-unit train to check in the distinctive tourism of ethnic regions.

"Gazing into the distance at the Jade Pool of Huanglong, rushing toward the fairyland of Jiuzhaigou..."As the train's tourism broadcast sounds again, passengers in the carriage stand up one after another to gather their things, waiting to greet the beautiful scenery ahead.

A silver-haired tourism special train helps the elderly enjoy their leisure years

On September 9, laughter and cheerful voices filled the"Hospitable Shandong·Qilu No.1"train. A silver-haired tourism group from Henan departed from Jinan heading for Mount Tai."We came to Shandong this time to travel, specifically to experience the'Qilu No.1'."Passenger Ms. Li said,"The elderly fear falling the most; as soon as I got on the train, I saw that non-slip floor mats had been laid, and I felt much more at ease."

What Ms. Li referred to is precisely the most practical change of the"Qilu No.1."This train was upgraded from a regular-speed green-skinned train, and the entire train has undergone elderly-friendly renovation: the washrooms have non-slip floor mats laid and grab bars installed; the carriages are regularly stocked with convenience items such as reading glasses, sewing kits, and dental floss, easy to access. The entire aisle of the train is carpeted with quiet non-slip soft carpet, which can cushion the train's slight swaying and effectively ensure the walking safety of elderly passengers.

Last year, China Railway Jinan Group Co., Ltd., jointly with the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government, launched the"Qilu No.1"dedicated tourist train featuring railway-tourism integration, railway-enterprise linkage, and shared travel and sightseeing, efficiently linking 11 cities, 22 stations, and over 200 scenic areas in Shandong, building a consumption scenario of traveling by night and sightseeing by day, slow travel and in-depth sightseeing.

The train features a nostalgic dining car, a gourmet dining car, anda leisure dining car, and Shandong cultural and creative products have also boarded the train. Ms. Li picked up a product and was about to examine it closely, when she frowned repeatedly:"Oh dear, oh dear, I forgot my reading glasses. Young lady, do you have reading glasses here?"

The"young lady"Ms. Li referred to is Train Chief Yin Xiaojin. She beamed:"Auntie, please wait a moment, we have them."A pair of reading glasses was handed over, and Ms. Li carefully examined the train's interior arrangements.

Before long, a group of special passengers came into the carriage—they are actors from the Shandong Provincial Peking Opera Troupe, who come to the train every week to give regular performances. As Teachers' Day was approaching, the actors added extra performances, presenting passengers with special programs.

"The island's icy moon begins to turn..."As the voice rang out, passengers in the carriage were immediately drawn by the tune. Before the melodious passage had faded, the huadan female lead again raised her voice with《Selling Water》:"In the early morning, what mirror does one use to look..."Applause in the carriage was layered with cheers.

Approaching noon, walking into the dining car, Shandong delicacies such as braised pork, Zhoucun sesame cakes, and Dezhou braised chicken are a feast for the eyes with many beautiful things (琳琅满目, lin lang man mu - "fine, jade, full, eye"). Yin Xiaojin said:"The'Qilu No.1'catering is very substantial—the braised pork is stewed until tender and soft, the sauce is savory but not salty, Mount Tai tofu meatballs are soft, tender and flavorful, stir-fried seasonal vegetables retain their crispness while removing rawness, millet porridge, multigrain corn buns, and egg custard are always available—we must ensure that'old people can chew it and their stomachs can take it'."

As soon as the wheels stopped, Mount Tai was right outside the door. In the autumn breeze, the silver-haired group, holding small flags, calmly walked out of the station. Behind them, the four characters"Hospitable Shandong"on the body of the"Qilu No.1"train were especially conspicuous under the sun.

On the south side of the station square, a century-old German-style station building with red tiles and arched windows—the old Mount Tai Station building—stands beside the railway; this is the site of the Tai'an Station of the Tianjin-Pukou Railway, built in 1909. After the"Qilu No.1"was launched, the old station building was revitalized into the"Tai'an Culture-and-Tourism Service Station + Tianjin-Pukou Railway Tai'an Museum,"with intangible cultural heritage, cultural and creative products, Tai'an flavors, Xinhua Bookstore, and a coffee and beverage bar on the first floor, and railway history and red memory exhibitions on the second floor, with the front door thronged with tourists checking in.

The elderly people touched the old wooden staircases, looked at old photographs of the Tianjin-Pukou Railway, rested and drank tea under the clock tower, as if moving the journey of the"Qilu No.1"from the wheels into Tai'an's century-old memories. Since its maiden voyage on April 10, 2025, the"Qilu No.1"has cumulatively transported 1.273 million passengers.

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Before buying a water purifier, read these five things first (Consumer Tips)

By: 本报记者 齐志明

Recently, the problem of water purifiers being marketed "to the countryside and into communities" with false advertising and high-price sales targeting elderly consumers has become relatively prominent. According to statistics from the National Consumers Association Smart 315 Platform, complaint volume in the first seven months of 2026 has already exceeded the full-year level of 2024. Among this, complaint volume in July alone increased by 40.17% compared with January, with the full year showing a trend of month-by-month increases.

Some business operators use methods such as giving small gifts to recruit elderly people in villages and communities, and by exaggerating the efficacy of water purifiers, fabricating water quality safety issues, and other means, they create health anxiety and induce consumers to purchase products at high prices. Such sales promotions are highly mobile, mostly collect payment through personal WeChat accounts, do not issue formal invoices, and after-sales service easily becomes unreachable. Rural and elderly consumers generally face problems of difficulty in providing evidence and high costs of rights protection. To protect the legitimate rights and interests of the broad consumer public, especially elderly consumers, the China Consumers Association has issued reminders from five aspects.

Beware of meeting-sales traps; do not believe exaggerated advertising. Some business operators use methods such as village and town gatherings, scenic area venues, and door-to-door sales promotion to sell water purifiers to elderly consumers in concentrated sessions. Common tactics include: attracting elderly people to attend under the guise of "free gift giveaways" and "health science popularization"; using water quality electrolysis experiments to create drinking water panic; claiming that water purifiers have therapeutic effects such as "regulating the body" and "improving chronic diseases"; and marking up products with low costs to high prices of several thousand or even over ten thousand yuan, then inducing purchases with sales pitches such as "benefiting the countryside for the people" and "limited-time discounts."

The China Consumers Association reminds consumers that the core function of a water purifier is to improve drinking water quality and that it does not have any disease-treating efficacy. Any claim that it can "treat illness," "nourish health," or "improve chronic diseases" constitutes false advertising. When faced with publicity such as "free" and "giveaway," consumers must remain rational and must not readily believe it.

Recognize legitimate channels and verify product qualifications. Organizers of mobile meeting sales mostly have no fixed storefronts and no legitimate qualifications; after the event ends, personnel withdraw and after-sales service is difficult to guarantee, making it very easy for situations of losing contact and absconding to occur. For electric water purification products included in the compulsory certification catalog, some products have not posted the national compulsory safety certification CCC mark on the body and outer packaging as required, creating safety hazards such as electric leakage; individual products are "three-no" products, with no Chinese product name, manufacturer name, or manufacturer address.

When purchasing a water purifier, consumers should choose shopping malls, specialty stores, or brand official online channels with complete licenses and certificates. When selecting, verify product qualifications, including whether the product has a health license approval document issued by a health department at or above the provincial level and whether the model matches the information on the approval document; electric water purification products included in the compulsory certification catalog must have the national compulsory safety certification CCC mark; at the same time, consumers should verify the product certificate of conformity and factory inspection report. Consumers can check and verify the authenticity of the product's health license approval document through the official website of the health department.

Understand product performance and choose rationally according to need. Different types of water purifiers have different filtration effects and applicable scenarios. For some products, the actual service life of the filter element does not match the product panel's indication, and consumers only discover after purchase that the cost of use is far higher than expected.

Before purchasing, consumers should understand in detail parameters such as the product's purified water flow rate, rated total purified water volume, and applicable water pressure, and choose the appropriate type based on local water quality conditions and actual household needs. At the same time, they should pay attention to the filter element replacement cycle and price, and comprehensively consider the cost of use. Before purchasing large items, consumers should discuss more with family members and not consume blindly.

Clarify after-sales terms and demand formal vouchers. Some business operators only issue simple receipts after transactions and do not provide formal invoices and complete three-guarantee vouchers; after performance failures occur, they do not fulfill the obligations of repair, replacement, and return of goods according to national three-guarantee regulations; individual operators temporarily add charges for accessories during the installation stage without prior notice; some brand parties and dealers engage in passing the buck to one another (相互推诿, xiang hu tui wei - "each other, push, shove"), and after consumers report for repair, no one handles the matter for a long time.

When purchasing, consumers must demand that merchants issue formal invoices and provide complete warranty cards and three-guarantee vouchers. They should understand in detail subsequent expenses such as installation fees and filter element replacement fees, and require merchants to specify relevant charging standards in writing. For publicity such as "free machine delivery," they should ask clearly whether there are additional conditions attached.

Make good use of legal weapons and protect rights rationally in accordance with the law. After purchasing products, consumers should pay attention to preserving evidence such as shopping invoices, receipts, contracts, warranty cards, promotional materials, communication records, and transfer vouchers. If they encounter illegal situations such as false advertising or consumer fraud, in accordance with the provisions of Article 55 of the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Consumer Rights and Interests, they should require the business operator to refund the purchase price and claim punitive damages of three times the purchase price. If a consumer dispute occurs, they can call the Consumers Association complaint hotline or file a complaint through the National Consumers Association Smart 315 Platform, and can also report to relevant administrative departments. If a relatively large amount of money is involved, they should promptly report the case to the public security organ.

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Page editors: Wang Donghui

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Agricultural Bank of China Deepens Financial Services for Farmers to Boost Common Prosperity in Rural Areas

This year, the State Council issued the "15th Five-Year Plan" for Accelerating Agricultural and Rural Modernization, proposing key tasks such as continuously consolidating and expanding the achievements of the battle against poverty, broadening channels for farmers to increase income and get rich, and improving the effectiveness of policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit rural areas, and enrich farmers. Agricultural Bank of China actively implements the national strategic deployment, focuses on farmers' financial needs, optimizes products and services, strengthens technological empowerment, continuously improves the accessibility, coverage, and convenience of financial services for farmers, and provides strong financial support for the vast number of farmers to increase income, get rich, and promote common prosperity for farmers and rural areas.

As of the end of June 2026, the balance of "Huimin e-Dai", a credit product exclusively created by Agricultural Bank of China for farmers, exceeded 2 trillion yuan, with a net increase of over ̂260 billion yuan from the beginning of the year, achieving a growth rate of 14.2%, marking a good start for the "15th Five-Year Plan". On the occasion of the 2026 Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival, Agricultural Bank of China participated in the Shanghai main venue event of the 2026 Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival Golden Autumn Consumption Season organized by relevant departments, introduced a series of preferential measures, and held a agricultural machinery financial services and "Agricultural Machinery Loan" product promotion conference in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, joyfully welcoming a bountiful harvest and discussing hopes with the vast number of farmers.

Focusing on Key Areas  Deepening Services to Strengthen Agriculture

In the field of food security, Agricultural Bank of China has always placed financial services for farmers to "plant grain well and produce more grain" in a prominent position, closely following key farming seasons such as spring plowing and preparation and the "Three Summers" production, centering on the full-chain capital needs of grain-growing farmers including agricultural materials procurement, agricultural machinery purchase, field management and protection, grain storage and purchasing, increasing the intensity of farmer loan disbursement, and going all out to safeguard a bountiful grain harvest. In Guxian County, Bengbu City, Anhui Province, a large grain-growing household contracted 5,346 mu of land to plant corn, wheat, and other grain crops. This year, during the spring plowing and preparation period, he urgently needed funds to pay for agricultural materials and land contract fees. After the Agricultural Bank of China Anhui Guxian Liuji Sub-branch learned of the situation, it promptly conducted door-to-door coordination, activated a green channel for loans, rapidly completed the survey and credit authorization procedures for a 2 million yuan loan, allowing the farmer to smoothly purchase seeds and agricultural materials and sow in time.

In the field of continuously consolidating and expanding the achievements of the battle against poverty, Agricultural Bank of China has improved the normalized financial assistance working mechanism, continuously optimized financial assistance policies, updated the procedures for small-sum credit loans for poverty alleviation, increased the disbursement of the "Fumin Loan" product jointly launched with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, precisely supported farmers with assistance needs to develop production and increase income, and firmly held the bottom line of preventing large-scale relapse into poverty or return to poverty. In Qingmen Village, Jinding Subdistrict, Lanping Bai and Pumi Autonomous County, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, a household that had emerged from poverty wanted to plant Chinese medicinal herbs to increase income, but lacked start-up funds. An Agricultural Bank of China customer manager, during a door-to-door visit, learned of the relevant situation, recommended suitable financial products to him, rapidly completed pre-loan investigation and credit approval, and disbursed 40,000 yuan in small-sum credit loans for poverty alleviation. The farmer smoothly planted over 10 mu of Chinese medicinal herbs, which can increase sales income by over ̂100,000 yuan each year.

In the field of serving new quality productive forces in agriculture, Agricultural Bank of China proactively connects with agricultural technology frontiers such as smart agricultural machinery, smart agriculture, and digital agriculture, increases financial support for groups such as family farms, returning entrepreneurs, and agricultural science and technology personnel, assisting agricultural modernization. Agricultural Bank of China Shenzhen Branch, jointly with a large private high-tech enterprise in Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, based on drone flight data, researched and launched the "Feishou Loan" pure online loan product, cumulatively supporting over ̂30,000 farmer households to purchase drones, efficiently carrying out production operations such as pesticide spraying and plant protection.

In the field of rural industries that enrich the people, Agricultural Bank of China, centering on local characteristic and advantageous industries, has increased support for wealth-enriching business forms such as characteristic breeding, agricultural product processing, rural commerce and trade, rural cultural tourism, and rural e-commerce, promoting farmers to effectively integrate into the modern agricultural industry chain, activating the endogenous driving force of rural industries, and making characteristic industries become the"field of wealth" for farmers to continuously increase income. In Shengsi County, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, known as the "Hometown of Mussels in China", mussel farming is an important source of income increase for local people. In response to problems such as the lack of traditional collateral for island aquaculture farmers, Agricultural Bank of China Zhejiang Zhoushan Branch has continuously innovated in customer admission, guarantee methods, and other aspects, launching characteristic products such as the"Mussel Loan" and the"Horsepower Loan", bringing financial services to the front line of aquaculture. As of the end of June 2026, Agricultural Bank of China Zhejiang Zhoushan Branch has cumulatively disbursed nearly 1.3 billion yuan in"Mussel Loan" and"Horsepower Loan".

Strengthening Technological Empowerment  Deepening Services to Facilitate Farmers

Promoting technology to reshape processes and improve service efficiency. Agricultural Bank of China deepens technological and data empowerment, promotes the application and landing of artificial intelligence technology in farmer financing scenarios, builds a digital and intelligent loan processing model carried by mobile PAD and driven by AI technology, assisting the expansion of online credit in scale and volume. It increases the intensity of data resource integration, continuously taps the value of agriculture-related data such as Huimin subsidies, agricultural insurance, land transfer, improves the precision of credit authorization, continuously optimizes customer experience, and truly delivers convenient financial services to the doorsteps of farmers. Agricultural Bank of China Xinjiang Branch, relying on local cotton industry and data advantages, innovatively promotes the"Cotton Farmer e-Dai" pure online loan product. As of the end of June 2026, it has cumulatively disbursed 18.9 billion yuan in loans, supporting 53,000 cotton farmer households.

Promoting technology to upgrade tools and integrate online and offline services. Agricultural Bank of China customer managers carry mobile PAD loan processing tools, walk into villages and farmers' markets to handle financial business, providing door-to-door financial services to the vast number of farmers in a"online + offline" manner. It enriches the ways farmers process loans, launches a"on-site + remote" service model, providing farmers with safe and convenient credit services. As of the end of June 2026, Agricultural Bank of China has cumulatively processed 400,000 farmer loans totaling nearly ̂50 billion yuan through the"on-site + remote" method.

Optimizing the Support System  Deepening Services to Benefit Farmers

Strengthening product innovation. According to the actual financing needs of farmers, Agricultural Bank of China continuously enriches the"Huimin e-Dai" product system, creating a series of products such as the"Grain Farmer Loan", "Merchant Loan", "Rural Tourism Loan", and"Professional Large Household Loan". This year, targeting individual farmers, it innovatively launched the"Huimin e-Dai·Agricultural Machinery Loan" product, enhancing product adaptability, precisely meeting farmers' needs for upgrading agricultural machinery and equipment such as multi-purpose agricultural machinery, plant protection drones, and grain dryers. It insists on benefiting the people, granting interest rate concessions to eligible farmers, with the weighted average interest rate on newly disbursed farmer loans falling 17 basis points compared with the beginning of the year, further reducing farmers' financing costs.

Promoting channel penetration.Agricultural Bank of China continuously extends its service reach, continuously improving and perfecting the integrated service system of"physical outlets + self-service equipment + mobile banking + Huimin service stations + mobile service vehicles + remote banking". Up to now, it has built over ̂3,500"Huimin Service Stations", widely publicizing financial policies such as farmer loan processing, assisting in disbursing over ̂30 billion yuan in loans to farmers, effectively improving the service capacity reaching villages and households. Jointly with village two committees, it opens"agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" financial lecture halls, bringing policy publicity and financial knowledge popularization to the fields, cultivating rural"financial savvy people".

Going all out to relieve difficulties. Agricultural Bank of China actively increases relief support for groups such as agricultural business entities and rural inclusive customers, comprehensively applying differentiated financial tools such as refinancing without principal repayment, loan extension, proactively connecting with farmers' capital turnover needs. For farmers affected by natural disasters such as floods, mudslides, as well as those whose operations are affected by fluctuations in agricultural product prices, it proactively provides relief assistance, going all out to help them get through a difficult period. After Gyirong County, Tibet Autonomous Region, was hit by a mudslide disaster, Agricultural Bank of China Tibet Branch investigated one by one the over ̂250 loans in its jurisdiction, and formulated relief plans on a"one household, one policy" basis according to the needs of farming and herding households. Up to now, it has provided repayment grace periods to 33 affected farming and herding households, helping the masses rebuild their homes as soon as possible.

The Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival is a festival belonging to hundreds of millions of farmers, a tribute to agricultural development, anda tribute to hard work and diligence. Letting farmers increase income and get rich is an important yardstick for testing financial services for"agriculture, rural areas, and farmers". When the joy of harvest is transformed into tangible income in farmers' hands, when financial living water continuously moistens the vast countryside, Agricultural Bank of China is injecting lasting momentum into promoting common prosperity for farmers and rural areas and serving the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas with effective practices that benefit farmers.

Data source: Agricultural Bank of China

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Moutai: Strengthening the Brand through Quality, Building the Future on Excellence

From traditional brewing along the banks of the Chishui River to modern quality management running through the entire industrial chain, Moutai has always integrated the philosophy that "quality is the soul of life" into the entire process of production and operation, safeguarding the foundation of quality in adhering to traditional craftsmanship, and continuously elevating Moutai's quality in perfecting modern quality management.

During the national "Quality Month" in September this year, Moutai further deepened its quality construction. From the inheritance of traditional craftsmanship to the optimization of quality management across the entire industrial chain, quality has always been an important bridge connecting Moutai's traditional advantages and its future development, also laying a solid quality guarantee for Moutai's implementation of the consumer-centered"Comprehensively Toward C" strategy.

Upholding the pursuit of quality, building a solid foundation of quality through inheritance with craftsmanship.

At Moutai, quality is both a basic principle that production and operation must strictly observe, and a value pursuit engraved in the blood of corporate development. From "surviving by quality" and "treating quality as life," to establishing the quality philosophy that "quality is the soul of life," Moutai's reverence for quality has remained unchanged for decades (数十年如一日, shu shi nian ru yi ri - "ten, decades, like, one, day"). The quality outlook of "revering the foundation, abiding by craftsmanship, storing ample aged liquor, and not selling new wine" is imbued with Moutai's reverence for the laws of brewing, highlighting the enterprise's long-termist development undertone.

Moutai liquor brewing relies on the unique natural conditions of the Chishui River valley, strictly following the seasonal rhythms of making starter cakes at the Dragon Boat Festival and laying down grain at the Double Ninth Festival. From the input of raw materials to the final product leaving the factory, a bottle of Moutai liquor undergoes at least 5 years of sedimentation of time; in this long cycle, raw materials, microbial flora, and the environment interact, jointly completing the transformation and sublimation of the liquor body. This respect for natural timing and the value of time lays a solid quality foundation for Moutai liquor.

Behind this stands the successive perseverance of generations of brewers. The processes of starter cake making and liquor making are influenced by multiple factors such as temperature, humidity, fermentation microbial flora, and many key junctures cannot be fully determined by machine parameters, relying heavily on the practical experience accumulated by craftsmen over years and months. From mixing ingredients and turning piles, to spreading and cooling accumulation, grading by type and quality, every single procedure requires craftsmen to strictly observe process specifications and keenly capture subtle changes during fermentation, implementing the craftsmanship spirit into every operation and every round of brewing.

Quality depends not only on brewing details, but also on the quality consciousness of all personnel. During this year's national"Quality Month," Moutai explicitly proposed promoting the penetration of the "quality is the soul of life" philosophy into all links of production and operation and the entire process of duty performance at every post, letting the quality philosophy ultimately land on the production front line, permeating rigor and prudence throughout the entire production process, and safeguarding Moutai liquor's quality foundation with the responsibility of all personnel.

Deepening quality management, ensuring excellent quality through systematic construction.

The stable inheritance of traditional experience requires the support of a modern quality management system. Moutai liquor brewing undergoes 5 major process flows—starter cake making, liquor making, storage, blending, packaging—30 procedures, and 165 process links; with numerous procedures, long cycles, and complex influencing factors, quality management must not only control key operational links, but also promote the coordinated operation of responsibility, standards, supervision, and improvement.

Over the years, Moutai has gradually formed a matrix-type quality management model: by advancing the implementation of the chief quality officer system, "vertically" establishing a multi-level quality and safety responsibility system, improving the "all products—all processes—all elements" enterprise standard system and risk management system; "horizontally" building a whole-process quality control system from "fine varieties" to "products," combining scientific process systems, rigorous process management, and exquisite craftsmanship skills to create a matrix-type quality control system. At the same time, Moutai uses "5+2" quality supervision and assessment to strengthen daily operation management, letting quality requirements land on specific posts, procedures, and responsibility links.

On the production end, Moutai precipitates craftsman experience into inheritable and executable process methods and standards. 19 key work principles including manual starter cake making and blending liquor with liquor, and 22 key process formulas including starter selection, grain moistening, liquor selection, and batch blending, provide the basis for key procedures; quality evaluation models for the liquor-making engineering built on machine learning, meanwhile, promote the integrated management of "data + experience," improving the stability of skill inheritance and process control.

Moutai places emphasis on applying scientific methods and experience achievements to promote the optimization and improvement of process standards. The 2026 Moutai liquor production technology analysis meeting pointed out that Moutai liquor's brewing system possesses the characteristics of being multi-variable, highly coupled, and ultra-complex; it is necessary to solidify technical experience through standardization, comprehend essential laws through scientization, enhance industrial chain organizational capability through professionalization, and continue to deeply scientifically analyze the complex mechanisms of brewing. Using methods such as microbiome omics, flavor chemistry, and metabolic analysis to study the relationships among raw materials, environment, microbial flora, processes, and seasons, providing the basis for process standard optimization and product quality stability.

From experience inheritance to standard solidification, from process control to matrix management, from sensory judgment to scientific analysis, Moutai supports traditional craftsmanship with a modern system, letting long-accumulated brewing wisdom be stably inherited and continuously improved.

Deepening quality construction, serving consumers with high-quality products.

The vitality of a quality system lies in continuously identifying problems, responding to needs, and making ongoing improvements. In 2026, Moutai fully launched the consumer-centered"Comprehensively Toward C" strategy, and quality work has further extended from the production process to the entire industrial chain.

During this year's national"Quality Month," Moutai proposed continuously promoting the optimization and upgrading of the quality management system across the entire industrial chain, establishing a consumer-perception-driven mechanism, strictly controlling product design, procurement and supply, production processes, and service quality, improving quality improvement processes, and strengthening the transformation of improvement achievements. The supply chain"Comprehensively Toward C" work further links consumer needs to all links of design, procurement, production, delivery, and service, and through the construction of systems such as scientific research, production, procurement, liquor body design, and anti-counterfeiting traceability, enhances the coordination and response capability of the entire chain.

Over a long period, Moutai has continuously improved its quality management system, with notable results in quality construction. In 2003, 2011, and 2023, Moutai won the National Quality Award 3 times; in June 2024, it received the 2023 EFQM Global Award Seven Diamonds and the"Inspiring Culture" Outstanding Achievement Award. The experience of applying for the National Quality Award and the EFQM Global Award has also driven Moutai to continuously benchmark advanced management concepts and methods, systematically introduce the EFQM Excellence Model, and integrate it into corporate governance, production and operation, and quality management.

Along the new direction of"Comprehensively Toward C," Moutai is using the methods formed during the application process to optimize its quality system and improve products and services: calibrating direction with consumer perception, implementing requirements with whole-industrial-chain coordination, and ensuring closed-loop operation with a responsibility system.

From safeguarding the quality of every glass of liquor to ensuring every consumption experience, Moutai has always treated quality as a solid bond connecting tradition and the future, the enterprise and consumers. Facing the future, Moutai will continue to uphold the philosophy that "quality is the soul of life," safeguard the foundation of quality with the craftsmanship spirit, burnish its quality name card with systematic management, guide quality improvement with consumer needs, letting excellent quality become the solid guarantee of the"Comprehensively Toward C" strategy, and in upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground (守正创新) write a new chapter of high-quality development (高质量发展).

Data source: Guizhou Moutai

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A Wedding on the Pamir Plateau ( Encounter)

By: 田文宪

Not long ago, when I was in Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, I happened upon a grand Tajik wedding.

Xiao Gongni·Longjike was about to be married.

This young Tajik man, this border defense soldier stationed in the Wakhan Corridor, this deputy director of the Paiyike Border Police Station, this fourth generation rooted on the Pamir Plateau guarding the border for the country, had brought a great joyous event to his family.

In the evening, I hurried over together with the photographer. Xiao Gongni·Longjike's home was in Wa'erxidie Village of Tashkurgan County, at the foot of the majestic Kunlun Mountains, a spacious courtyard. When we arrived, Xiao Gongni·Longjike's father Longjike·Kadier was greeting guests at the courtyard gate. He was tall and stalwart, with a gaunt and refined face, and performed the hand-kissing and cheek-pressing rites with every Tajik who arrived here.

The Tajik people are a brave, loyal, and united nation. Whether anyone's family has a happy occasion or a funeral, it is a major event for the village. Because of a wedding, many relatives, friends, and villagers gathered together again. Facing our camera lens, they were not at all shy. Soon, we had made many new Tajik friends.

Longjike·Kadier was very pleased to learn that we had come to observe the wedding, and shook hands with each of us. He proudly introduced his resume: in his early years he joined the army, serving more than 30 years on the Pamir Plateau. After retiring from military service, he became a volunteer border guardian, guarding for another 18 years. In 2021, he was named a national "Most Beautiful Retired Military Personnel," and in 2023, his family was named a "Most Beautiful Family" of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

A straight, wide main path led to the host family's rear garden. Xiao Gongni·Longjike's comrade-in-arms Zhu Baohua accompanied us, telling us the story of this family's four generations guarding the border. This was also a story well-known and familiar (耳熟能详, er shou neng xiang - "ear, can, able, familiar") to the local people.

Before the founding of New China, Tajik herdsmen lived amid upheaval. After the People's Liberation Army arrived, this high plateau gained tranquility. Xiao Gongni·Longjike's great-grandfather Abudukelimu·Aerbike voluntarily served as a "guide" for the People's Liberation Army, helping build sentry posts, becoming the family's first generation of volunteer border guardians.

Xiao Gongni·Longjike's grandfather Kadier·Abudukelimu was even more legendary. He was the prototype for soldier Amir in the film "Visitors on the Icy Mountain." In 1951, he became a People's Liberation Army soldier, was wounded in a border battle, yet still insisted on completing his mission, and was awarded a first-class merit. After retiring, he returned to the Pamir Plateau to continue guarding the border, and carved a family motto on a huge rock at an altitude of 4,700 meters in the Wakhan Corridor.

In the spacious rear garden, we discovered that three "family motto rocks" also stood upright, respectively inscribed in large vermilion characters:"Follow the Party""Guard the Border""Love the Country". Xiao Gongni·Longjike had grown up under such family mottos; today, he and his elder brother Abuduojiami both had taken up the relay baton of border guarding, becoming the family's fourth generation of border guardians.

Music came from the wedding dance ground, and everyone walked toward it, dancing the Tajik eagle dance. As guests entered, everyone danced, the rhythm shifting from slow to fast, emotions surging with excitement. The dancers strove to imitate the movements of the eagle, sometimes circling on one wing, sometimes flying with both wings, all vigorous and free-spirited. Especially the dance posture of shaking both shoulders while leaning forward and backward was brisk and bold, swift and powerful movements like a bird of prey (鹰起隼落, ying qi sun luo -"eagle, rise; falcon, fall"), stunningly beautiful to everyone present (惊艳四座, jing yan si zuo -"startle, beauty, four, seats")。

A woman wearing bright bridal attire walked out of the small courtyard. I thought she was the bride, and followed her filming for a while. After asking a local, I learned that the bride was still at her natal home, more than 10 li away. According to Tajik custom, after getting married, a bride must wear bridal red attire for a full year. No wonder at the scene, we saw multiple women dressed in bridal attire. "A Tajik bride requires 12 sets of bridal gowns as betrothal gifts, and no cash gifts are accepted." A Tajik woman told me.

Xiao Gongni·Longjike came to the dance ground very late. Beneath his ceremonial hat hung a veil; he danced a few tunes, then left, perhaps busy with the subsequent wedding ceremonies. Not having captured the groom's true face was a bit regrettable. Fortunately, the next morning, we rushed to the bride's home, witnessing the entire process of the bride applying makeup, donning ceremonial gowns, and silver jewelry. During the makeup process, we captured a moment when she slightly closed her eyes—that unique beauty of the high plateau, that expression of blissful absorption, was enviable. She said, I am marrying the most lovely person.

Although because we had a bus to catch, we left just before the groom went to fetch the bride, and did not witness the entire wedding ceremony, the wedding on the Pamir Plateau was nonetheless unforgettable.

Blessings to this Tajik couple; may their days of happiness stretch on without end, like the Kunlun Mountain range.

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Reading from the Source (Wensi)

By: 张 炜

Through reading, what exactly do we remember?

When people of our generation look back on our personal reading histories, we can recount with great familiarity and detail (如数家珍, ru shu jia zhen - "as, count, family, treasure") the books that have profoundly influenced our personal lives, positions, and values—especially those that have had a major impact on our professional careers—listing one by one the names of the writers and their works.

Each name signifies an unforgettable reading experience, a deep immersion, and a period of days spent being completely enchanted or intoxicated by something (如痴如醉, ru chi ru zui - "as, crazy, as, drunk").

Happy times are only regretted for being too short, never for being too long. Sometimes when one finds a good book, the greatest worry is not that it is too thick, but that it is too thin; not that one cannot finish it, but that one will finish it. Finishing it means that the strange world within the book will vanish before our eyes, and life will suddenly lose its luster. Seeing that a book has only a few pages left before it is finished—how hard it is to let go. Whether one has had this experience often determines whether one has engaged in true reading.

The appeal of reading stems from intriguing stories, distinctive characters, novel viewpoints, unique reflections, and captivating language. Being intoxicated by a book, that state of being unable to extricate oneself, that being completely enchanted or intoxicated by something enjoyment, can sometimes only be felt and cannot be conveyed. Intoxication and appeal are not the same thing. Reading a good book, being immersed in it, enveloped and entwined by its unique atmosphere—its omnipresent aura, charm, and artistic conception—these things combined can hold a person firmly in their grip.

Looking back on personal life, it can be divided into different periods. Meeting some interesting people, visiting some fascinating places, experiencing some unforgettable events. But those books that have deeply influenced us, changed us, moved us profoundly, and from which we cannot free ourselves—these truly are major events in our memory.

Is passing our days one by one the same as living? The writer García Márquez once said a very interesting thing: "Days that are remembered are the days that are lived." When we look back on the past, many days are forgotten, but there are always some days that can be remembered. The days that can be remembered, added together, constitute the true "life."

Reading is the same. Remembering a few writers and a few books—added together, they constitute a reading life.

What do we remember in reading? Decades later, are there still moments deep in our memory that, strung together, illuminate our past?

Then, how are we to read?

The gems of linguistic art formed in the development of human civilization are like an element with infinite radiating power, projected and extended into our lives, with a radius of boundless distance. This is the power of poetry, preserved in poetic writing.

If one is perceptive, one will notice that the finest literary works of a period, in their choice of words and sentence construction, begin to be widely adopted after three to five years, and after a few more years even appear in official document writing, and their defamiliarizing texture begins to change.

Looking at the evolution of a period's language, the power of "a subtle, pervasive influence that works quietly and effectively" (润物细无声, run wu xi wu sheng - "moisten, things, fine, without, sound") is astonishing. It determines the direction of a nation's linguistic expression; its form and substance, color, and tone form a penetrating force that is omnipresent. In analyzing the process of social language change, the one thing that absolutely cannot be bypassed is literary expression, because it is one of the sources of creation. It belongs to the individual, is born in the soul, and possesses an inherent and powerful capacity for growth.

In seeking individualized linguistic expression, the first choice is of course the classics, such as the Book of Songs, the Songs of Chu, the Hundred Schools of Thought, and the works of Tao Yuanming, Li Bai, and Du Fu. For people today, these read haltingly, with many obstacles to comprehension—that is because they are too far removed from today's digital age, and the entire sentence construction, vocabulary, and even spiritual and emotional states differ enormously. Yet human nature has changed little across time and place; attitudes toward good and evil, toward friendship, and the relationship with natural landscapes—their inner essence is always similar or identical.

Some people think the classics are too slow-paced; that is a misunderstanding. All poetic expression is more elastic, more individual, more textured, and carries the densest information about life. If compared to wine, they are high-proof liquor—the older, the more fragrant, intoxicating to those who drink.

Perhaps our reading should begin at the source.

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At the Autumn Equinox

By: 乔忠延

As the Autumn Equinox arrives, the five grains in the farmland gain more color with each passing day, and the tableau grows more beautiful with each passing day. The millet is ripe, its grain heads, like wolf tails, bent into a bow; the rice is ripe, its grain heads lowered in devout gratitude to the earth; the sorghum is ripe, its color a fiery red, just like a torch that has been lit but has not yet fully blazed; the corn is ripe, each stalk standing straight-backed, with plump, round cobs tucked at its waist...

At the Autumn Equinox, harvest becomes the theme of farm households. At dawn, the men grab the small hoes prepared the night before and dash toward the fields. After digging up a row of corn stalks, they hurriedly crouch down and snap off, ear by ear, the corn on the stalks. And so it goes — dig, snap; snap, dig — until the corn in a plot has all been dug up and snapped off, loaded onto a small flatbed cart and pulled into the courtyard, when already the moon has risen above the tips of the willows. At mealtime they are so tired they nod off while eating, but the moment they set down their bowls they immediately regain their energy. The corn piled in the courtyard must be husked as quickly as possible. After husking, it must still be shelled. All these tasks must be done by hand. Once the kernels are shelled off, they must wait for bright sunshine to spread them out to dry, and only when dried do they go into the big earthen jars and count as grain. After harvesting the corn, they free up the ground that the autumn crops had occupied, and then launch into the tense battle of sowing winter wheat. When the sun is high they fear scorching; when there is no sun they fear rain; and when they have finally endured their way to clear weather, the optimal sowing window has already passed. Hence, every household is anxious to get the wheat seed into the soil at the right time, racing against the sun for every second. No wonder the Tang-dynasty poet Yan Renyu sighed: "Called at midnight, the children rise to plow before dawn; the worn-out ox has no strength, trudging on with growing difficulty."

The Tang-dynasty poet Yan Renyu never lived to see the day farm households finally emerged from hardship — but I have lived to see it. Today, machines for harvesting corn drive into the fields: the corn ears are plucked off, the corn stalks are crushed, mixed into the soil, and left to soak there and turn into fertilizer. Then the seeder arrives, and in the blink of an eye, the green-curtain expanse of corn stalks becomes a flat field of winter wheat. In three to five days, wheat shoots poke up through the soil surface, and after a single meeting with the sun they turn glossy green. As for harvesting sorghum, beans, and those other minor coarse grains, each has its own farm machinery. The corn brought back home no longer needs to be shelled by hand, nor hauled out to dry — shelling machines and drying machines have liberated the farm folk, who now meet one another no longer with worried brows but beaming with joy (喜笑颜开, xi xiao yan kai - "joyful, smile, face, open"), celebrating the Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival.

The villagers celebrate their own festival, assuming it would be a lively bustle like the Lunar New Year — but who would have thought that, upon returning to the village, what they found was a "Village Super League" being held, and a "Village Spring Festival Gala" being staged.

As for that "Village Super League," if the pitch isn't big enough, they just play a half-court match. Even a half-court match is fine — they don't divide by gender, nor by age; they only divide by village resident groups, and as long as one volunteers and is eager to take the field, there is a chance to show one's face. It is all for the sake of having fun, for the sake of jumping around and keeping fit.

As for that "Village Spring Festival Gala," the first night it was still proper and conventional — they invited the local Pu Opera troupe to perform, with professional performers taking the stage in turns, and the applause rising wave upon wave. But the second night, it went "off the rails": those who took the stage were all opera enthusiasts from the village itself. Old Uncle Zhang, his voice hoarse, bellowed out a painted-face role, and the laughter from the audience was even louder than his voice. Granny Wang held the crowd in check — with just one line, she had the audience below the stage utterly silent. After she finished one passage, everyone shouted "Bravo!" and urged her to sing more; after the old lady had sung three passages, she waved her hand and said she was old, her breath couldn't keep up, and if they wanted to hear more, they should come back tomorrow.

These "Village Super League" and "Village Spring Festival Gala" are nothing more than self-entertainment — could they possibly have an audience? Who would have thought that people coming to watch the excitement formed a continuous stream of people or things (络绎不绝, luo yi bu jue - "continuous, not, cease"): villagers from this village all came, people from neighboring villages came running over, and city folk drove over in their small cars.

The machine-harvested autumn grain quickly enters storage, but the villagers have not "swept up every last bit" of the autumn crops. They had long made plans, reserving a splendid display of sun-dried harvest. The moment one enters the village, everywhere one sees multicolored five grains: purplish-red small beans, dark-green mung beans, loose-yellow soybeans, ink-black black beans... some filling a cattail-mat mat, others spread out like a long scroll. The most varied in shape are the corn: the villagers pile them into little mounds, some tall, some low, and some hang them under eaves and between tree branches, drawing people to snap photos and "check in" one after another.

Tasting the flavors of autumn is even more indispensable. From afar, a fresh fragrance already slips into one's nostrils. Freshly picked edamame thrown into boiling water are cooked in no time, and eaten, they are tender and soft in the mouth. As for that tender corn, the moment one's teeth touch it, the mouth fills with fragrance. The most delicious of all are the three-delicacy zongzi. Just-husked ripe rice, green jujubes on the trees that have just turned red, and reed leaves from the Fen River bend that have just been gathered — fresh leaves wrapping fresh rice and fresh jujubes, steamed over the fire, and the fragrance wafts in every direction.

The Autumn Equinox season is also the autumn harvest season, and the fields overflow with the colors and shapes of harvest.

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Photo Report

The oil painting Harvest Season (《丰收季》), by the artist Sun Jun.

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Songhua Cake (A Taste of Many Flavors)

By: 罗芹仙

Songhua cake is a signature snack of my hometown, Sanmen, Zhejiang. It started out on farmhouse stoves, then moved to roadside stalls in the countryside, and from there onto lively banquet tables. Today it has become something of a "star" among local snacks.

The songhua in songhua cake is the pollen of the male flowers of the pine tree. My hometown is mountainous, and Masson pines can be seen everywhere on the hills. Every year around the Qingming Festival, clusters of pine flowers that look like little firecrackers sprout from the tips of the verdant pine branches. When the flower spikes ripen, the pale-yellow pollen drifts through the forest like a light mist, and the fresh scent of pine fills the whole mountain wilderness. The villagers hurry to pick the male cone flowers while the pine flowers have just ripened and the pollen has not yet scattered. They spread them out on bamboo trays to sun-dry for two or three days. When the flower spikes have become loose, they gently rub and tap them, and the pollen falls like golden particles of sunlight, drifting down in profusion. Then they sift out the flower stalks, withered petals, and other impurities with a fine sieve, put the pollen into jars and bottles, and seal it away together with the fresh fragrance of the mountain wilderness and the warmth of the sun.

Pine pollen can only be harvested and dried once a year, and its yield rate is extremely low, so it is quite precious. Besides making songhua cake, it has many other uses. When making mai cake or pounding maci, sprinkling a layer of pine pollen on the dough not only prevents sticking effectively, but also enhances the color and aroma. It is also a natural talcum powder. When I was a child, in the summer, rural children would get heat rash on their bodies. After a bath, the adults would apply pine pollen to the skin, and the itchy, prickly feeling would quickly disappear. Pine pollen is like a gift from the great mountains, adorning the simple, frugal days of farmhouse life with its fine texture and fresh fragrance.

When I was little, whenever my mother made songhua cake, my siblings and I would keep our eyes fixed on the stove, unwilling to leave even a single step. The traditional method of making songhua cake in my hometown has no complicated procedures, but it places the greatest emphasis on proportion, capturing the wild flavors of the mountains perfectly or appropriately (恰到好处, qia dao hao chu - "just, arrive, good, point"). Glutinous rice flour and pine pollen are mixed in a ratio of 5:1, with a little white sugar added, and warm water is poured in in batches, and the dough is kneaded until it is fine, soft, and smooth, feeling neither sticky to the hands nor prone to cracking — then it is about right. Then the dough is cut into oval cake pieces, placed in a pan, and slowly baked over low heat until both sides are golden brown. A songhua cake just out of the pan has an enticing aroma, and when you put it in your mouth, it is chewy but not greasy

This kind of refined, elegant delicacy already formed a bond with literati of the Northern Song Dynasty a thousand years ago. Su Dongpo always loved wild mountain ingredients. During his tenure in Dingzhou, he collected pine resin to brew pine wine, leaving behind an elegant tale associated with pines. And Su Zhe specifically wrote a poem about songhuang cake: "In the second month, cakes mixed with pine pollen; on the plate, pine nuts are tapped, the early frost and cold." From this it can be seen that songhuang cake was a refined, elegant food item popular during the Song Dynasty

In recent years, with the boom in tourism, the small town of Sanmen has also welcomed more and more tourists, and the snack songhua cake, naturally, has gained more opportunities to show itself to the outside world. Songhua cakes made and baked on the spot, emitting the distinctive fresh fragrance of pine flowers — how could anyone resist such a temptation?

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At Lushan Botanical Garden

By: 李元胜

A tilted valley, an entrance

leading to other worlds

The green fritillary butterfly is like a letter of invitation

fluttering, waiting for someone

Schisandra flowers, impatiens flowers

hold aloft passports of different colors

Numerous flight routes unfold around me

With a light leap, one could begin an entirely new journey

All of this makes one feel dazed

"Not me, not me..."

I wave my hand, feeling resentful or dissatisfied (悻悻然, xing xing ran - "resentful, dissatisfied")

You are so beautiful; your realm can well be imagined

But life is too short

How could I ever delve into too many legends

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Peasant Calligrapher

By: 潘 文

The river water flowed over the stone dam, and there appeared a large grove of locust trees and poplars. Walking a bit further, turning a corner, one could see Uncle Chuanhe's house. It was a newly built brick house, with several earthen-walled rooms still remaining beside it. The mud walls were mottled and gray-white, with several strings of chili peppers and corn hanging on them. My father and I went to find Uncle Chuanhe, to look at his recent works.

Pushing open the wooden door, passing through the narrow corridor, the study was around the corner. It was called a study, but it was merely a small room of just over 10 square meters. Several sheets of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy were pasted on the window glass —copied from a calligraphy copybook. A long wooden board was placed on a small square table, with copybooks stacked on the board. Beside the copybooks was a stack of rough-edged paper already written on. The inkstone still held ink, with a writing brush resting on top of it. Rice paper was piled in a corner, pressed down with a piece of wood.

When my father and I walked into the study, Uncle Chuanhe, sitting on a stool, was examining copybooks. On one side was Wang Xizhi, on the other was Yan Zhenqing; he was reading them with great relish (津津有味, jin jin you wei - "extremely, extremely, have, taste"), when he suddenly raised his head and discovered that we were already standing by his side.

Uncle Chuanhe and my father were intimate friends who understand each other perfectly (莫逆之交, mo ni zhi jiao - "not, opposite, of, friendship"), and both of them loved calligraphy. Whenever my father returned to his hometown, Uncle Chuanhe would always set aside his farm work and come over with his own works to "seek advice." I remember once we returned to our hometown to visit relatives; because we were in a hurry, we did not tell Uncle Chuanhe. After eating, just as we were about to get into the car and leave, Uncle Chuanhe came running over holding several sheets of calligraphy. His trouser legs were still rolled up—one could tell at a glance that he had just come up from the fields.

I called him Uncle Chuanhe because of the generation hierarchy, though in fact he was not much older than I. He was a son-in-law who had married into our village, honest and down-to-earth, diligent, able to endure hardship, and especially filial to the two elderly people. Everyone in the village, old and young, big and small, liked him, and so did my father. My father was a teacher; he happened to discover that Uncle Chuanhe liked writing characters and liked studying copybooks, so he encouraged him to practice often. Uncle Chuanhe had therefore kept at it all along, never slacking off.

However, since he had farm work to do, he had no time during the day. At night, after the elderly and children in the household had gone to sleep, he would settle down to practice calligraphy, always writing for two full hours before he would stop. In winter it was cold, in summer it was hot; others would all say: "You've worked hard all day in the daytime, and at night you still don't rest—why bother!" Uncle Chuanhe would only give a faint smile.

His calligraphy really was getting better and better. Every time my father went back, he would marvel, and he would often drag me along to go see it. It gradually spread throughout the village, up and down, as well.

That time, when Aunt Caiyun's family was holding a happy event and came to ask for a "double happiness" character, Uncle Chuanhe spread out red paper, swept his big brush across it, and the character looked just like two red lanterns, very festive. Another time, when Jianping's elderly parent had passed away and he asked him to help write elegiac couplets, he did not say a word of objection and spent a good half day there writing. When farm work was lighter, there would always be people in his little study—children leaning over the table learning to write characters with him, and a few villagers who usually liked reading would also linger there, whether busy or not.

One day, Uncle Chuanhe called my father, saying he had received a letter. The gist of it was that the provincial capital was holding a calligraphy exhibition, his calligraphy had been selected, and he was invited to attend the event. Uncle Chuanhe was so excited that he did not sleep all night. He dug out that set of blue suit he had treasured for a long time—it had been bought when his daughter got married—and then had his wife ask a tailor master to help iron the suit properly.

On the day of the event, he set out before dawn, transferred through several scheduled buses, and finally found the art museum according to the address. Inside the hall hung famous masters' major works, and his calligraphy was also among them. He saw some people pausing before his work—a young woman softly reading aloud the poem written in the calligraphy, and a white-haired elder squinting as he appraised it. An old gentleman wearing glasses looked for a long time, then turned to the people beside him and said: "This calligraphy is good—a peasant calligrapher, truly remarkable!" The people around also clicked their tongues in praise. Uncle Chuanhe stood in a corner, his palms completely sweaty, but hearing everyone's praise, he could not help feeling proud inside.

After returning to the village, he was still the same as before. Then, some media came to interview him, and Uncle Chuanhe early on hid himself away in the fields. Later, when he really could not avoid it, he said to the interviewing reporter: "There really is nothing worth saying. Writing characters is just like digging earth or planting fields—they are all things one must do every day. I don't write well; I'm far off from it." As he spoke, he kept rubbing his hands together.

After dinner, the moonlight was just right, and Uncle Chuanhe plunged into his study once again. Outside the window there were the sounds of insects chirping and dogs barking; inside the room, there was only the sound of writing with vigorous and flowing strokes (笔走龙蛇, bi zou long she - "pen, walk, dragon, snake").

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