Summary: Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent a reply letter to all faculty and students of Sichuan University, congratulating them on the 130th anniversary of the university's founding. He emphasized that having a sense of responsibility toward one's country, taking root in the western region, and promoting education and cultivating talent are the university's fine traditions, urging them to carry forward the red lineage and leverage the advantages of interdisciplinary integration across the humanities, sciences, engineering, and medicine. He called on them to strive to act as a pioneer and set an example in serving the national strategies of the new era, contributing to building a strong education nation, a strong science and technology nation, and a strong talent nation. The reply letter followed a letter from the university's faculty and students reporting on its development history and educational achievements.
Summary: General Secretary Xi Jinping recently issued important instructions on building a higher-level Peaceful China, affirming achievements since the 18th Party Congress and setting clear requirements. Officials and cadres quoted in the article, including He Jia of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, Dazhou Party Secretary Tong Meng, and others, pledged to implement his directives by strengthening Party leadership, rule-of-law thinking, and grassroots governance. The piece highlights local examples of public security, judicial, and procuratorial work across provinces, emphasizing technological empowerment and the Fengqiao model for dispute resolution. It concludes that Peaceful China construction is a shared responsibility, with cadres vowing to advance it into the 15th Five-Year Plan period. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A symposium commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Zou Jiahua was held in Beijing on the 29th, attended by Zhao Leji, who met with relatives beforehand. Zou Jiahua was an outstanding CPC member, a proletarian revolutionary, a member of the Political Bureau of the 14th CPC Central Committee, former vice premier of the State Council, and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress. Zhang Guoqing recalled Zou's glorious life, urging attendees to learn from his political integrity, pragmatic work style, reformist fighting spirit, and plain, self-disciplined conduct. He called for new contributions to advancing the building of a strong country and national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization. Ding Zhongli presided over the symposium.
Summary: Ding Xuexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Premier of the State Council, and Chairman of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, attended and addressed the 2026 Annual General Meeting of the Council in Beijing. He stated that under the guidance of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization, China's ecological civilization construction has achieved tremendous accomplishments, and during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China will accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development. He put forward three suggestions: promoting green and low-carbon development through pragmatic actions, fostering green productive forces through scientific and technological innovation, and improving global environmental and climate governance through openness and cooperation. Ding noted that the Chinese government has formally approved the establishment of the Eighth China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development and will continue to support its development. The meeting's theme was "Pragmatic Innovation and Cooperation, Joining Hands for a Green Future," with more than 400 Chinese and foreign members, experts, and observers in attendance.
Summary: The General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council have issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Inheritance of Cultural Heritage," requiring all regions and departments to implement it in light of actual conditions. The Plan sets main objectives for 2030, including fully ascertaining cultural heritage resources, streamlining the regulatory system, and forming a major pattern of cultural heritage protection. It outlines tasks across areas such as immovable and movable cultural relics, museums, famous historical and cultural cities, intangible cultural heritage, national cultural parks, and governance capacity. The Plan also emphasizes deepening international exchange and cooperation on cultural heritage, including Sino-foreign joint archaeology and participation in global governance with organizations like UNESCO. Organizational safeguards include strengthening Party leadership, investment, publicity, and implementation evaluations by the Central Cultural Heritage Protection Committee.
Summary: The Ministry of Finance, the State Taxation Administration, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly announced that starting next year, the halved vehicle and vessel tax on energy-saving vehicles will be cancelled, and the exemption for pure electric commercial vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles, and fuel cell commercial vehicles will be withdrawn. The adjustment is attributed to the industry's maturation, with new energy vehicle sales reaching 7.446 million units in the first half of the year and a penetration rate of 49.6 percent, making the universal tax preference eligible for timely exit. The article argues the change will not lower market acceptance, as the annual tax burden is small, and will instead push automakers to reduce cutthroat competition between identical products and compete on product strength. It notes that pure electric and fuel cell passenger vehicles remain untaxed because they lack engine displacement and thus fall outside the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law's scope. The piece frames the shift from universal concessions to targeted incentives as a way to balance tax fairness with industrial growth, while state support continues through policies like trade-in subsidies.
Summary: General Secretary Xi Jinping sent a reply letter to all faculty and students of Sichuan University on the occasion of its 130th anniversary, encouraging them to "strive to take the lead and set an example in serving the national strategy of the new era, and make positive contributions to building a strong education nation, a strong science and technology nation, and a strong talent nation." The article highlights that China's higher education has adhered to serving the national strategy, cultivating character and educating people, and advancing scientific research and innovation. It cites examples such as Sichuan University's ultra-high-nickel all-solid-state battery achievement, Xidian University's chip heat dissipation breakthrough, and Tianjin University's brain-computer interface rehabilitation products. The piece concludes that institutions of higher learning and young students will write more splendid chapters in the grand practice of building a strong nation and achieving national rejuvenation.
Summary: On September 29, the first batch of Units No. 1 and No. 2 of the Dashi Gorge Water Conservancy Hub in Xinjiang were connected to the grid and began generating electricity. As one of the nation's 172 major water conservancy projects for water conservation and supply, the project can achieve an average annual power generation of 1.893 billion kilowatt-hours once fully operational. The photo shows the rushing water flow at the hub on that day. The photo was taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ma Kai.
Summary: The article is the ninth edition of a theoretical series offering a complete reading of *Xi Jinping: The Governance of China*, Volumes I–V, focusing on the internal logic and practical path of empowering economic and social development with culture. It reflects on a long journey in pursuit of the light of faith, as part of the seventh edition's thematic framing. The piece presents a theoretical analysis rather than reporting on specific official statements or events.
Summary: At a September 29 State Council Information Office press conference, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Zhang Zhu stated that agricultural and rural development has maintained a trend of stability with improvement, providing strong support for the national economy. Zhang Zhu said China's food security has full safeguards, but grain supply and demand remain in a tight balance, and efforts will be intensified to implement the new round of the action to enhance grain production capacity by 100 billion jin. Chen Bangxun, Director of the Department of Development and Planning, said efforts will be accelerated to improve high-standard farmland construction, operation, and management-and-protection mechanisms. Zhang Zhu also introduced that a new stage of routine assistance has begun, with the "1+23+N" policy system basically taking shape, and Vice Minister Maierdan·Mugaiti discussed guiding localities to build a modern rural industrial system. Chen Bangxun stated that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the main line of rural reform remains handling the relationship between farmers and land, including extending rural land contracts by another 30 years.
Summary: At a State Council Information Office press conference on September 29, Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun outlined plans for the 15th Five-Year Plan period, focusing on strengthening foundations, tackling key problems, shaping industries, benefiting livelihoods, strengthening systems, and promoting cooperation to build a strong science and technology nation. Vice Minister Long Teng said basic research has entered a stage of comprehensive improvement and breakthroughs in key areas, with efforts on strategic orientation, supporting young talent, diversifying investment, and improving support systems. Vice Minister Qiu Yong pledged a "zero tolerance" attitude toward academic misconduct, including special rectification of retracted papers and a database for joint disciplinary action. Vice Minister Zhang Guangjun stressed strengthening the application orientation of scientific and technological innovation, promoting enterprise-led integration of industry, academia, and research, and opening the channel from a strong science and technology sector to a strong industry, economy, and nation. The conference also covered international cooperation, world-class scientific journals, and the role of the three international science and technology innovation centers of Beijing, Shanghai, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Summary: The People's Bank of China has decided to further adjust and improve several monetary policy tools to create an appropriate monetary and financial environment for steady economic growth, high-quality development, and the stable operation of financial markets. The interest rate on pledged supplementary lending (PSL) is lowered by 0.25 percentage points, and its support scope is expanded to include the construction of the "six networks." The quota for re-lending for technological innovation and technological transformation is increased by 200 billion yuan, with the support ratio uniformly raised from60% to100%, while the quota for re-lending to support agriculture and small enterprises is increased by500 billion yuan, includinga300 billion yuan increase for re-lending to private enterprises.
Summary: The Ministry of Natural Resources' China Geological Survey announced on the 28th that the ocean drilling vessel *Mengxiang* ("Dream") recently completed its trial drilling mission in the South China Sea, completing coring operations at two wells in waters 4,100 meters deep in China's South China Sea, and successfully recovered basalt samples from the South China Sea oceanic crust. During this voyage, the *Mengxiang*'s maximum final drilling depth reached 4,929.17 meters, setting a new record for the deepest operational water depth independently implemented by China. The photo shows the *Mengxiang* conducting coring operations. Photo by Zhang Fatao ( Xinhua dispatch).
Summary: The Ministry of Finance, together with the People's Bank of China and the National Financial Regulatory Administration, issued a notice on September 29 implementing an interest subsidy policy for residential purchase loans nationwide starting October 1. The policy targets first-home rigid demand, supporting ordinary families buying new small- and medium-sized, lower-priced housing that meets conditions including a floor area no larger than 120 square meters and a price no higher than 1.5 million yuan. Eligible loans of up to 1 million yuan receive an annualized interest subsidy of 1 percentage point, equivalent to a one-third discount on current first-home rates, for up to 5 years, with the policy period tentatively set at 1 year. All banks handling commercial personal housing loans may process the subsidy, with borrowers authorizing the bank at loan signing to automatically calculate and deduct the subsidy monthly.
Summary: A villager in Henan Province highlighted that a single 200-horsepower machine can now harvest one mu of land in 10 minutes, replacing the past need for an entire family to work the field. The district uniformly dispatches harvesters and provides integrated services including machine harvesting, transport, drying, and storage. YTO Group has launched tractors suitable for hilly areas, and Henan has basically achieved full mechanization across the entire process for major grain and oil crops, with data at the National Agricultural Machinery Equipment Innovation Center enabling effective dispatch. Subsidies are now issued according to the total volume of agricultural machinery operations in pilot areas, rather than solely by the number of machines purchased. The article notes that with the rapid development of artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, and new energy, agricultural machinery is becoming the data entry point, decision-making carrier, and execution terminal of agricultural production.
Summary: The State Taxation Administration reported that in the first year since the implementation of the new policy on VAT end-of-period retained input tax credits refunds, the country cumulatively processed refunds totaling 281.8 billion yuan. Manufacturing, scientific research, software, and ecological protection—four key industries—received 212 billion yuan in refunds, an increase of 10.4 percent over the same period before the policy, with their share rising to 75.2 percent. On August 22, 2025, the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration issued an announcement to further improve the policy. Since September last year, China has implemented a monthly full refund for these four industries, adjusting refund ratios and conditions for some industries to precisely empower key fields.
Summary: The article traces the 14-year relationship between People's Daily reporters and Abbas, an Egyptian youth who first appeared in the paper in 2012 while working at the China Cultural Center in Cairo and was later profiled again in 2023 for his work as a Chinese-speaking tour guide under the Belt and Road Initiative. In 2026, marking the 70th anniversary of China-Egypt diplomatic relations, reporter Huan Xiang interviewed Abbas twice in Egypt, where Abbas had just provided on-site interpretation for the Chinese and Egyptian heads of state and their spouses. Abbas repeatedly marveled that everything "was like a dream," and the article highlights his role in bridging the two civilizations, comparing Egyptian artifacts to Chinese counterparts like the terracotta warriors. The piece underscores how the Belt and Road Initiative transformed Abbas's life, with him stating he was "extremely fortunate to have this encounter" and crediting the initiative for his career opportunities amid high youth unemployment in Egypt. The story is framed as a testament to Sino-Egyptian cultural exchange and mutual learning, with Abbas's journey from the "China House" to the center stage of head-of-state diplomacy.
Summary: The Fifth Global Digital Trade Expo in Hangzhou brought together enterprises from 163 countries and regions, with guests agreeing it built a platform for discussing cooperation and sharing achievements. China aims to bridge the digital divide and jointly build a fair, beneficial, safe, and inclusive global digital trade order. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar praised China's open spirit of sharing development achievements, while Kyrgyz Prime Minister Kasymaliev expressed hope to work with China on AI serving development and bridging the digital divide. The expo released the "Global Digital Trade Development Report 2026," showing global digital trade export value reached $7.75 trillion in 2025, a 7.1% year-on-year increase. WTO Deputy Director-General Zhang Xiangchen noted that if AI is widely adopted, global trade volume could increase by 34% to 37% by 2040, emphasizing that international cooperation is indispensable to unleash this potential.
Summary: He Lifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, met on September ert at the Great Hall of the People with a delegation of the Japan Association for the Promotion of International Trade visiting China. He Lifeng stated that China and Japan are close neighbors and important economic and trade partners, welcoming Japanese enterprises to develop in China and share market opportunities, and expressed the hope that the Association will grasp the correct historical direction, continue to carry forward the tradition of friendship toward China, and play a greater role in promoting China-Japan economic and trade cooperation. Takeshi Iwaya, the new chairman of the Association, stated that the Japanese business community is willing to continue expanding exchanges with the Chinese side and to contribute to the continued development of bilateral economic and trade relations and the deepening of mutually beneficial cooperation.
Summary: On September 29, the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Embassy of Papua New Guinea in China jointly hosted a reception in Beijing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Papua New Guinea. Su Hui, Vice Chairperson of the CPPCC National Committee, attended the event alongside over 100 representatives from various sectors of China and Papua New Guinea and some foreign ambassadors accredited to China.
Summary: The "World Dialogue on China Studies·Special Session for Arab Countries" was held in Cairo, Egypt, with around 140 attendees including Chinese and Arab officials, experts, and scholars. Participants said China-Arab relations have developed vigorously, and that President Xi Jinping's recent state visit to Egypt with President Sisi drew a new blueprint for deepening the China-Egypt comprehensive strategic partnership. They urged Chinese and Arab academic circles to deepen cultural and people-to-people exchanges, build knowledge systems with modern forms, support modernization processes, and focus on high-quality Belt and Road joint construction. They also called for practicing the Global Civilization Initiative, protecting cultural heritage, and strengthening research on global governance issues like artificial intelligence, food security, and climate change. The event, guided by the State Council Information Office of China, released a recommended bibliography of research works by young Chinese and Arab scholars.
Summary: Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK Wang Yajun led over 60 representatives to Huaiyang County and Pyonggang County in Kangwon Province from September ̈27 to ̈28, paying respects at cemeteries of Chinese People's Volunteers martyrs. On the 28th, a memorial ceremony was held at Sangga-ri Martyrs' Cemetery, where Wang Yajun read aloud the memorial oration anda representative of the Military Attaché's Office read a letter from the "Huang Jiguang Squad" monitor. Wang Yajun stated that Shangganling symbolizes the great spirit of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and that the blood-forged China-DPRK friendship is a precious shared asset, expressing confidence that under strategic guidance of both parties' supreme leaders, this friendship will strengthen, contributing to regional peace and stability. On the 27th, all personnel also held a ceremony at the Martyrs' Cemetery in Huaiyang County.
Summary: On September 29, marking the 54th anniversary of the China-Japan Joint Statement, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun urged Japan's leaders to return through concrete actions to the original aspiration and starting point of the four China-Japan political documents. He stated that these documents laid the political and legal foundation for bilateral relations and established rules on major principled issues such as history and Taiwan, which must not be distorted or destroyed. Guo criticized Japan's incumbent leaders for failing to reflect on historical aggression and for framing a Taiwan contingency as a "national existential crisis situation," challenging China's sovereignty. He also accused Japan of hyping the "external threat" to accelerate "re-militarization," threatening regional stability. Guo concluded that only by adhering to the spirit of the four documents can bilateral relations avoid going off course.
Summary: The 8th China-Europe Film Festival closed on September 29 in Brussels, Belgium, with multiple Chinese films and video works screened and exchanges held between filmmakers and cultural representatives from China and several European countries. The festival opened on the 23rd with "The Sun at Midday" by Chinese director Cai Shangjun, followed by screenings of films including "A Stranger Guest," "Accompany You Until Dawn," and others. On the 26th, the "Encounter China" international communication unit event was held, collecting 936 works across categories such as documentary video, short videos, and micro-dramas, and presenting the "China-Europe Light and Shadow Communication Award" and the "China-Europe People-to-People and Cultural Exchange Contribution Award." Award-winning representatives from People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, and CGTN of China Media Group attended the event. The 12th China-Europe Youth Film Festival award ceremony was also held during the festival.
Summary: The China-Laos Railway launched its inaugural Boten–Vientiane intercity train on September 28, with train C95 departing Boten Station at 8:00 a.m. and arriving in Vientiane at 11:47, while train C96 made the return trip later that day. The trains stop at six stations, enabling residents of northern provinces to complete a round trip to Vientiane in a single day for commuting, business, or family visits. The Laos-China Railway Company said the new service will improve the passenger transport network, enrich travel options for Lao residents, and boost cultural and tourism development along the route. It also aims to provide stronger transportation support for the China-Laos Economic Corridor and the high-quality joint development of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Summary: The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences held a theoretical seminar in Beijing on Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, emphasizing its distinctive theoretical character of practicality and clarity in theory and application. The seminar stated that this thought provides scientific guidance for forging the world's most powerful Marxist governing party and makes major original contributions to developing the Marxist theory of Party building. It called on philosophy and social science workers to deepen political, ideological, theoretical, and emotional identification with the Party's innovative theories. They should conduct systematic research on Xi Jinping's thought on Party building and accelerate the construction of basic disciplinary theories guided by it. The seminar also urged intensified multilingual translation and overseas publication of high-quality research results on the Party's innovative theories.
Summary: Themed activity "Welcoming the National Day · I Act in Civilized Practice" was held on September 29 in Tangshan City, Hebei Province, where industrial workers, school teachers and students, members of new employment groups, and grassroots cultural backbone figures shared reflections on integrating personal aspirations into national development. Programs including the collective recitation of "Youth," the themed lecture "Glimmers of Light," and the situational sharing "A Heroic City, a Heroic People" expressed love and blessings for the motherland. Concurrent publicity and services featured traditional culture exhibition areas with intangible cultural heritage skills like shadow puppetry, paper-cutting, and dough sculpture, plus a new era neighborhood festival in Xiangfuli Community, Lubei District, with a people's stage, civilized market, and neighborhood harmony games. Hosted by the Central Office of Spiritual Civilization Development, the activity is part of nationwide National Day efforts relying on new era civilized practice centers to carry out patriotic education, theoretical and policy lectures, transformation of outdated customs, literary performances, red-themed study tours, cultural heritage protection, and care for people in difficulty.
Summary: The article outlines China's progress in coordinating development and security since the 14th Five-Year Plan period, emphasizing achievements in food, energy, and industrial supply chain security under Xi Jinping Thought. It highlights stable grain output, energy self-sufficiency above 80%, and global leadership in renewable energy and manufacturing. Risks in real estate, local debt, and financial institutions have been managed, with urban employment exceeding 60 million and social systems expanded. Looking ahead, it calls for enhancing economic resilience, securing emerging fields like cybersecurity and AI, and improving risk prevention systems, including overseas interest protection. The piece frames these efforts as injecting certainty into world economic development amid global volatility.
Summary: Two major exhibitions commemorating the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army opened on September 29 at the Exhibition Hall of the History of the Communist Party of China. The "Great Expedition" exhibition, jointly hosted by the Central Archives and the Exhibition Hall, displays over 230 archival documents, including the first public showing of the 1937 clean-copy draft manuscript of *Records of the Red Army's Long March*. The "Snowy Mountains and Grasslands" exhibition, jointly hosted by the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Heritage Administration and the Exhibition Hall, features 273 items (sets) of relics, such as Red Army nail-studded cloth shoes and a half leather belt, with several artifacts exhibited publicly for the first time. Both exhibitions were selected for the recommended thematic exhibition list published by the Central Propaganda Department, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs, and the National Cultural Heritage Administration. They reproduce the magnificent and heroic epic of the Red Army's Long March through archival documents and revolutionary cultural relics.
Summary: The 2026 on-site promotion meeting for the "Youth Legal Popularization Volunteers Rule-of-Law Culture Grassroots Tour" activity was held in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, co-sponsored by the China Law Society, the Ministry of Justice, and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. Since its launch in May 2008, the activity has cumulatively organized over 12 million legal popularization volunteers, carried out more than 11 million online and offline activities, and reached 400 million person-times. Wang Hongxiang, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Executive Vice President of the China Law Society, stated that the activity has become an important platform for legal publicity and education and a legal popularization brand pleasing to the public eye and ear. The meeting emphasized the need to innovate legal popularization methods, strengthen overall coordination, and build a strong legal popularization team. It also called for creating a sound rule-of-law environment for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization.
Summary: The article reports on the development of Jinrui Community in Luquan County, Yunnan, a relocation site for villagers from Jiaoping Village who moved to support the Wudongde Hydropower Station construction. It highlights Mao Hongyin, a former village Party secretary and descendant of boatmen who helped the Red Army cross the Jinsha River in 1935, who now serves as a volunteer docent telling that story. The piece describes how the community has developed industries like honey pumpkin, lemons, and "small millet chili peppers," alongside broader plateau-specific industries in Luquan County including mint, vegetables, and Chinese medicinal herbs. Mao Hongyin is quoted emphasizing the need to follow the Party, as the old boatmen did, and to pass on the great spirit of the Long March through his nearly 200 lectures.
Summary: The State Council announced appointments and removals of state personnel. Huang Min was appointed Deputy Director of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration, and Deng Chao was appointed Deputy Director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration. Removals included Guo Weiping from the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, Mou Haisong from the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration, Shen Changyu from the China National Intellectual Property Administration, and Zhao Shitong from the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.
Summary: Wu Xiaojun was elected chairman of the Standing Committee of the Gansu Provincial People's Congress, and Kong Shaoxun was elected governor of the Gansu Provincial People's Government at the fifth session of the 14th People's Congress of Gansu Province, held on September ͅ29 in Lanzhou. The session was reported by Xu Hongmei and Song Chaojun of People's Daily.
Summary: The Central Meteorological Observatory expects favorable weather across most of China during the National Day holiday from October ̈1 to ̈7, with sunny skies in the north and cloudy, rainy conditions in the south before the ̈4th. Light to moderate rain is forecast for parts of the southwest, Jianghan, Jiangnan, and southern China, with locally heavy rain in places such as Guizhou and locally heavy snow in eastern parts of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. A cold air process will affect the central and eastern regions from the ̈3rd to the ̈4th, dropping temperatures by ̈4 to ̈6 degrees Celsius, but no large-scale sand, dust, fog, or haze weather, and no typhoon will affect China. From the ̈6th to the ̈7th, a new round of cold air will bring significant strong wind and cooling weather to northern Xinjiang.
Summary: The Ministry of Finance, the State Taxation Administration, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly announced that starting next year, the halved vehicle and vessel tax on energy-saving vehicles will be cancelled, and the exemption for pure electric commercial vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles, and fuel cell commercial vehicles will be withdrawn. The adjustment is attributed to the industry's maturation, with new energy vehicle sales reaching 7.446 million units in the first half of the year and a penetration rate of 49.6 percent, making the universal tax preference eligible for timely exit. The article argues the change will not lower market acceptance, as the annual tax burden is small, and will instead push automakers to reduce cutthroat competition between identical products and compete on product strength. It notes that pure electric and fuel cell passenger vehicles remain untaxed because they lack engine displacement and thus fall outside the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law's scope. The piece frames the shift from universal concessions to targeted incentives as a way to balance tax fairness with industrial growth, while state support continues through policies like trade-in subsidies.
Summary: Comrade Shen Rengan, former full-time deputy director of the National Copyright Administration and member of the Party Group of the former General Administration of Press and Publication (at the vice-ministerial level), passed away due to illness in Beijing on September 1, 2026, at the age of 83. Relevant leading comrades of the Central Committee expressed their condolences and extended sympathies to his family. Born in February 1943 in Liuyang, Hunan, he began work in August 1965 and joined the Communist Party of China in April of the same year, serving in various roles across the Central Party School, the National Publishing Administration, and the Ministry of Culture. He held successive positions including director of the Copyright Department of the National Press and Publication Administration (National Copyright Administration) and deputy director of the National Copyright Administration. He was also a member of the Tenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and its Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Health and Sports.
Summary: Comrade Qiu Zhongjian, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and former Vice President and Member of the Party Group of the former China National Petroleum Corporation, passed away in Beijing on September 17, 2026, at the age of 93. Leading comrades of the relevant central authorities expressed condolences and extended sympathies to his family. Born in June 1933 in Guang'an, Sichuan, he began working in September 1953 and joined the Communist Party of China in March 1979, holding various geological and leadership positions in the petroleum industry. He served as Vice President of the China National Petroleum Corporation and concurrently Commander of the Tarim Petroleum Exploration and Development Headquarters, among other roles, and was elected an academician in December 1999. He was also a member of the Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Summary: In a People's Daily commentary dialogue, Lu Ruquan of CNPC's Economics and Technology Research Institute said China's energy transition and reduced crude oil imports have acted as a "buffer" for global oil prices, with green energy exports and chemical output helping stabilize global supply chains. He cited President Xi Jinping on "working together on the same planet" and framed China's actions as embodying a community with a shared future for mankind. Lu noted that while petroleum consumption will peak and decline, oil remains irreplaceable in aviation, maritime transport, and emergency backup, and is shifting from fuel to high-value industrial raw materials. He argued that clean energy's decentralized distribution can break the geopolitical "curse" of oil and gas concentration, referencing U.S.-Israel-Iran conflicts as a driver for countries to pursue clean energy. Lu concluded that new-type energy storage and artificial intelligence are disruptive technologies that will enhance China's energy security and economic resilience.
Summary: The article, a People's Commentary, uses recent viral videos from Tibet, Yunnan, and Guizhou to illustrate the traditional Chinese virtue of "benevolence" (仁), framing acts of kindness as expressions of mutual assistance and treating others as oneself. It argues that this benevolent heart, rooted in family and country sentiments, extends from individual deeds to a collective social resonance, exemplified by rescue workers and volunteers aiding disaster relief. The piece contends that China is expanding the radius of this "benevolence" globally through initiatives like the Belt and Road and visa-free policies, which have boosted its international trust rating. It concludes that by internalizing these values and embodying them in daily actions, China will unleash momentum to create a better life together.
Summary: The People's Commentary criticizes rural environmental governance malpractices, citing cases in Anhui and Jiangsu where excessive biogas slurry application and sewage backflow created new pollution, warning that sloppy management turns pollution control into "pollution creation." It notes China's rural sewage treatment rate has exceeded 55 percent but stresses that rural areas remain weak, requiring respect for reality, targeted solutions, and systematic approaches across all links. The commentary advocates pragmatism, better use of assessment as a "baton" focused on actual results and public satisfaction, to prevent formalism and ensure measures take root.
Summary: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the *National Fisheries Development Plan for the 15th Five-Year Plan Period*, outlining arrangements for high-quality aquaculture, a safe and sustainable capture fishery, and aquatic biological resource conservation. The plan sets a target for China's fisheries output value to reach 2 trillion yuan by 2030. The article includes a poem celebrating fishing life and the wise cultivation of rivers and seas.
Summary: The article discusses the service boundary of China's 12345 convenience hotline, arguing that grassroots governance must both "hold everything within its scope" and "manage with precision" in allocating limited public resources. It criticizes phenomena like false reports and abuse of hotline resources, and emphasizes the need for precise assessment indicators, clear boundaries of powers and responsibilities, and a triage-and-connection mechanism to resolve diverse demands efficiently. The piece also highlights Beijing's "immediate response to complaints" reform, which uses hotline data for proactive governance, as a higher level of precision. The author, an associate professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, concludes that the dialectical unity of these two principles tests the wisdom of "how to manage" in grassroots governance.
Summary: At Southwest University of Political Science and Law's 2026 freshman enrollment ceremony, President Lin Wei affirmed that a county-town grid worker could indeed be an elite, citing alumnus Gong Baodong, who died evacuating residents from a landslide in Pengshui, Chongqing. The commentary argues that elites should not be defined by income or glory but by bearing values and leading social trends, praising those who work diligently and put others before themselves. It cites universities honoring grassroots graduates, such as Nanjing University's "Outstanding Alumnus" award and Tsinghua University's "Qihang Award," as models of education instilling dedication to family and country. The piece concludes that ordinary posts can involve extraordinary dedication, and Gong Baodong fully deserves the title of elite, with his alma mater honoring him through memorials and a scholarship.
Summary: At a symposium commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Zou Jiahua, speakers from the Central Institute of Party History and Literature, the General Office of the NPC Standing Committee, the General Office of the State Council, and the Shanghai Municipal Committee recalled his life and achievements. Zou Jiahua was an outstanding Communist Party member, a tested loyal communist fighter, and a distinguished leader in China's economic construction, national defense industry, and socialist legal system, serving as a member of the Political Bureau of the 14th Central Committee, former Vice Premier of the State Council, and Vice Chairman of the Ninth NPC Standing Committee. The speech detailed his career from joining the New Fourth Army in 1944, studying in the Soviet Union, and working in machinery and defense industries, to his roles in the State Planning Commission and the Three Gorges Project, and his later legislative work. The address emphasized learning from his political loyalty, pragmatic work style, reformist spirit, and personal integrity, citing General Secretary Xi Jinping's guidance on upholding the Party's leadership and advancing Chinese modernization.
Summary: The General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council have issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Inheritance of Cultural Heritage," requiring all regions and departments to implement it in light of actual conditions. The Plan sets main objectives for 2030, including fully ascertaining cultural heritage resources, streamlining the regulatory system, and forming a major pattern of cultural heritage protection. It outlines tasks across areas such as immovable and movable cultural relics, museums, famous historical and cultural cities, intangible cultural heritage, national cultural parks, and governance capacity. The Plan also emphasizes deepening international exchange and cooperation on cultural heritage, including Sino-foreign joint archaeology and participation in global governance with organizations like UNESCO. Organizational safeguards include strengthening Party leadership, investment, publicity, and implementation evaluations by the Central Cultural Heritage Protection Committee.
Summary: The article commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Red Army's Long March, highlighting efforts to preserve its legacy through national defense education and red heritage initiatives. It describes a school event in Zigong City, Sichuan Province, where a deputy party school principal recounted the story of Red Army martyr Deng Ping to students. The piece emphasizes the importance of passing down the Long March spirit to younger generations through commemorative activities and educational programs.
Summary: An academic symposium on Sun Yat-sen and Overseas Chinese, hosted by the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, opened in Beijing on September 29 to commemorate the 160th anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's birth. Zheng Jianbang, Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee and Chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, attended and delivered a speech. He called on overseas Chinese compatriots to continue as always to inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of Sun Yat-sen and the overseas Chinese, to commit to promoting the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, and to work together for the reunification of the motherland and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. He also urged the entire Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang to deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and to strengthen contact with the overseas Chinese community. Experts and scholars at the meeting discussed topics such as Sun Yat-sen's overseas activity trajectories and the dissemination of his revolutionary thought.
Summary: Lanzhou New Area in Gansu has implemented reforms such as "integration of acceptance and registration" and "land delivery with immediate certificate issuance," reducing project approval to one day and optimizing its business environment. The area leads the province with measures including "no-sensation certificate renewal" for 43 license categories, a "three documents delivered simultaneously" mechanism for credit repair, and dedicated 12345 hotline seats. Gansu Hailiang New Energy Materials, the province's first "invisible unicorn," built a 90,000-ton copper foil base, with chairman Wang Shuguang crediting the area's industrial support, green electricity, and customs facilitation. The area's rule-of-law environment features 657 penalty-exempt items, "no penalty for first violation" for 83 violations, comprehensive single inspection in 41 fields, anda "supervision + legal aid + arbitration" dispute resolution system. As a Belt and Road node, it cut customs clearance time via "one ticket for multiple vehicles" and"advance declaration," contributing 16% to the province's foreign trade increment in 2025, with plans for a first-class business environment action.
Summary: The article profiles the Zhejiang Kayou Animation & Creative Pen Future Factory in Yiwu, which produces 30 million pens monthly and was selected in 2025 as a pilot future factory enterprise. It details the company's precision manufacturing, including a 0.013-millimeter pen tip gap standard, 24-process production for its "Zero Series" gel pens, and AI-driven quality inspections. Kayou integrates traditional cultural elements like the Four Great Classical Novels into product design and has expanded globally, appearing at the Paris Olympic Games and the New York International Comic Con in September 2025, with products entering U.S. retail chains such as Walmart and Target. The factory has achieved domestic substitution for many machines and independent control of pen tip steel supply, while its digital transformation has improved efficiency and yield rates. The piece concludes that Kayou exemplifies how small commodities can become a major industry through craftsmanship, intelligent manufacturing, and cultural revitalization.
Summary: The article reports on China's second National Science Popularization Month, highlighting new trends in science outreach. It describes science popularization study tours, such as students visiting Sinomach Heavy Equipment in Deyang, and grassroots initiatives like "field classrooms" for corn farmers and community-based safety education in Zibo. The piece also discusses artificial intelligence's role in creating science content and addressing pseudo-science, citing experts like Li Honglin. Data shows Chinese citizens' scientific literacy reached 16.74% in 2025, with efforts to expand resources to underserved areas.
Summary: The 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit will be held from November ̈2 to ̈5 in Wuzhen, Zhejiang, under the theme "Open Source, Openness Co-building, Co-sharing — Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace." Ren Xianliang, Secretary-General of the World Internet Conference, introduced highlights including focusing on open source and openness, promoting co-building and co-sharing, with activities to help developing countries draw on the experience of building open-source ecosystems. Li Yanyi, member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and head of the Propaganda Department, stated that the summit will for the first time launch the "Wuzhen Lecture Hall" and "Wuzhen Talk·Open Source Youth Forum" activities, build the country's first open-source-themed ecological experience pavilion, and add special competitions on open source and OPC. Wang Jian, Secretary of the Tongxiang Municipal Party Committee, stated that Tongxiang has established an Internet Conference and Exhibition Bureau, holding more than 700 activities every year.
Summary: The 2026 (7th) China Internet Infrastructure Resources Conference, co-hosted by the China Internet Network Information Center, the Internet Society of China, and the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was held in Beijing on the 29th. Participants exchanged views around the theme of "innovating through collective intelligence, building the future through the network." Three achievements were released: the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) service platform, the "Beijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Agent Identification and Security Assurance Technology," and the Intelligent Agent Trusted Infrastructure Platform (ATI). The conference comprised one main forum and seven sub-forums, releasing multiple research reports and industry standards.
Summary: The article highlights Liuhe District's efforts to promote cultural-tourism integration, building on its heritage as the birthplace of the folk song "Jasmine Flower" and its ecological resources. It describes initiatives such as folk song performances, cultural spaces, and events like the Jinniu Lake Jasmine Flower Music Festival to enrich cultural experiences. The district also leverages its wetlands, forests, and geological sites for eco-tourism and sports events, including cycling, sailing, and open-water swimming. Agricultural and cultural tourism are combined through offerings like Longpao crab roe soup dumplings, tea-picking study tours, and rural homestays. The piece concludes by inviting tourists to visit Liuhe during the National Day holiday to enjoy its scenery, cuisine, and cultural charm.
Summary: The article discusses General Secretary Xi Jinping's major proposition of "empowering economic and social development with culture," which he explicitly put forward in 2025 during a deliberation with the Jiangsu delegation at the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress. It traces the evolution of this thinking from Xi's local work in Zhengding, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Shanghai, through its incorporation into the 15th Five-Year Plan outline, and into strategic deployments. The piece elaborates on culture's role in leading high-quality development, cultivating core socialist values, nourishing the new development philosophy, and injecting momentum through innovation and creation. It also emphasizes developing the cultural industry, integrating culture with economy and technology, and deepening cultural system reforms, citing 2025 data showing cultural industries' operating revenue reached 15.2135 trillion yuan. The author is identified as Executive Director of the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Summary: The article argues that deep integration of culture and tourism is essential for high-quality development, citing General Secretary Xi Jinping's call to build the sector into a pillar, livelihood, and happiness industry. It identifies current problems such as project homogenization and insufficient cultural connotations, advocating for culture to shape tourism and tourism to showcase culture. The piece recommends thickening cultural content, creating demonstration zones and benchmark scenic areas, linking primary, secondary, and tertiary industries through "culture and tourism +" models, and strengthening talent cultivation. The author, President of the China Tourism Academy, emphasizes replicable experiences and differentiated advantages to meet diversified consumption needs.
Summary: On September 27, giant pandas "Ping Ping" and "Fu Shuang" from Chengdu arrived at Zoo Atlanta in the United States, beginning a 10-year sojourn, with China and the U.S. set to deepen cooperation on panda breeding, disease prevention, research, and habitat conservation. The article highlights the history of Sino-US panda cooperation, from the 1972 state gifts "Ling Ling" and "Xing Xing" to later pairs at San Diego, Atlanta, and the Smithsonian, noting their role as a bond of friendship. A Chengdu Research Base official said the U.S. side upgraded enclosures with Chinese technical guidance on facilities, feeding, and health care standards. Since 1994, China has conducted cooperative research with dozens of countries, including the U.S., South Korea, Germany, and Singapore, with a China Wildlife Conservation Association official emphasizing a "mutually beneficial win-win situation" in the research model. As of now, China has partnerships with 26 zoos in 20 countries, with 69 pandas sent overseas and 73 cubs bred, while the IUCN's 2016 downgrade of the panda's status to "vulnerable" reflects international recognition of China's conservation achievements.
Summary: In Gongshu District, Hangzhou, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has achieved stable Class III water quality across all 20 monitoring sections in 2025, while the district has preserved industrial heritage at sites like the "Silk Union 166 Cultural and Creative Park," attracting over 80 enterprises. Gongshu has cultivated 23 cultural and creative parks gathering 281 cultural enterprises above designated size, and built 46 Grand Canal Happy Homes serving more than 11,000 person-times daily to address elderly and childcare needs. The district has linked 151 intangible cultural heritage items, 23 industrial heritage sites, and 30 museums into 12 cultural tourism routes, with total tourism visits reaching 45.75 million last year, up 8.2 percent year on year. Ao Yuxin, Secretary of the Gongshu District Party Committee, said the district is polishing the 'Come to Hangzhou, Walk the Grand Canal' brand to build a 'people's canal' shared by all.
Summary: The China Meteorological Administration reported that a super El Niño event is expected to form around November, with the sea temperature index peaking at 3.2 to 3.5 degrees Celsius, marking the strongest such event on record. The National Climate Center noted that since September the equatorial centraland eastern Pacific sea surface temperature has continued to warm, with the index exceeding 3 degrees Celsius for the first time at the pentad and ten-day scale. The rapid development of El Niño has already impacted China's climate this flood season, with precipitation showing a pattern of "more in the north and south, less in the middle," and flooding outweighing drought. For this year's autumn and winter, precipitation is expected to be above normal in most of centraland eastern China, with high risks of extreme precipitation, mountain torrents, landslides, mudslides, meteorological drought, and forestand grassland fire, while winter temperatures will generally be higher than normal with a slightly higher frequency of cold waves. In spring and summer 2027, El Niño will rapidly decay, but its impact on China's climate will remain significant, with an increase in extreme weather events, significantly higher temperatures, and stronger and more extensive summer heat waves.
Summary: The 2026 Sichuan Provincial Culture and Tourism Development Conference and the 12th China (Sichuan) International Tourism Investment Conference were held in Chengdu, presenting the "Beautiful Sichuan, Comfortable Sichuan" brand and releasing an investment guide with 334 high-quality culture and tourism investment projects totaling over 180 billion yuan across all 21 cities (prefectures) and 11 categories. Since 2019, the conference has been held for 7 years as an important platform for Sichuan's culture and tourism industry to expand opening-up, deepen cooperation and exchange. Sichuan has implemented the action to build the culture and tourism industry into a chain and strengthen the cluster, promoting the achieving practical results and effectiveness of 100 key tasks including brand building and diversified supply. The province has continuously deepened "culture and tourism + all industries" and "all industries + culture and tourism," expanding space for industrial investment and development.
Summary: The Wunü Islet Scenic Area in Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province, has promoted the deep integration of culture and tourism through model innovation, product quality upgrading, and digital empowerment, revitalizing intangible-heritage resources and building immersive nighttime-tourism formats. The scenic area has launched collaborations with classic PC and martial-arts online games, creating digital IP cross-boundary experiences that bring traditional culture closer to young people. It has implemented smart services, integrity-based operations, and a clearly-priced mechanism to optimize the tourism experience and ensure a worry-free consumption environment. The scenic area has driven local employment and county-district tourism growth, with Wuyuan County receiving 3.822 million visitors during the 2026 Spring Festival holiday, a year-on-year increase of 213.9%. Wuyuan County is now supporting the scenic area's application to create a national-level tourist resort while its phase-II renovation and expansion project advances.
Summary: At the 20th Asian Games, the women's doubles badminton final saw the world's top-ranked Chinese pair Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning suffer a disappointing defeat 1:2 to Korean pair Lee So-hee/Baek Ha-na after a 111-minute, three-game contest, failing to defend a championship title. The Chinese pair saved five game points to win the first game 28:26 before losing the match. The article notes that nearly all of the top five players in the five individual events come from Asia, with every match being a contest among world-class players. It concludes that the quadrennial Asian Games are driving the sustained development of world badminton.
Summary: The author, a weightlifter on the Chinese sports delegation to the 20th Asian Games, recounts finally winning the Asian Games gold medal after previous Olympic successes and a painful withdrawal from the Hangzhou Games due to injury. She describes overcoming a four-month recovery period to triumph at the Paris Olympics, emphasizing that her victory came from relentless daily training rather than ease. After securing the gold, she shouted "I am the best!" as a tribute to her perseverance. She states that completing the Grand Slam is not the finish line, and as captain of the Chinese women's weightlifting team, she aims to pass on the lesson of self-belief. Preparing for the Los Angeles Olympics, she vows to compete seriously in every qualifying event, noting that her stubborn refusal to yield outweighs the barbell's weight.
Summary: The Chinese delegation won 11 gold medals on September 29, bringing their total to 143 gold, 62 silver, and 49 bronze medals. Chen Yuxi won the women's 10-meter platform, while Wang Zongyuan claimed his third Asian Games gold in the men's 3-meter springboard. In badminton, Jiang Zhenbang and Wei Yaxin took mixed doubles gold, with Chinese pairs earning silver in women's and men's doubles. The Chinese weightlifting team finished with 5 gold, 2 silver, and 3 bronze medals, with all 10 athletes medaling. On the final day of athletics, the Chinese delegation secured 17 gold, 14 silver, and 8 bronze medals overall, including a gold in the mixed 4×100-meter relay.
Summary: China Construction Bank Hunan Branch is channeling financial resources into advanced manufacturing, scientific and technological innovation, and opening up to the outside world to support Hunan Province's "Three Highlands and Four New Missions" blueprint. The branch reported a manufacturing loan balance of 162.02 billion yuan as of the end of June 2026, up 13.9% year-on-year, and has served 23,000 technology-based enterprises. It has supported firms like SANY Heavy Industry with equipment renewal loans, photovoltaic green projects, and Hong Kong listing proceeds repatriation. The branch also launched products such as "Technology Flow" and "Starlight STAR" for digital evaluation, and built a "1+3+8" mechanism for free trade zone services. It facilitated Hong Kong IPO capital repatriation for three Hunan enterprises and handled cross-border financing for Zoomlion Group members.
Summary: Xiamen International Bank reported deepening its retail business transformation under the service philosophy of "Excellent Service, Warm Company for You," advancing party-business integration and a full-channel service matrix across mobile banking, remote banking, enterprise WeChat, and offline branches. The bank stated it has built a wealth product matrix covering deposits, wealth management products, funds, insurance, precious metals, and trusts, establishing a closed-loop wealth service ecosystem with tiered rights rewards and full-cycle companionship. It highlighted customer-group-specific cards including "Youran Card" for the elderly, "Yanran Card" for women, "Youbei Card" for parent-child families, a co-branded card for returned overseas scholars, "Qiaoxin Card" for overseas Chinese, a "Car Owner Card," and "Luyuan Card" for aviation-tourism cross-border travelers. The bank said it will continue deepening retail strategic upgrading, strengthening professional wealth management capabilities, and optimizing the customer-group-featured card ecosystem to practice the concept of finance serving the people.
Summary: The 2026 China Private Enterprise Investment and Financing Fair, jointly hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Tianjin Municipal People's Government, was held in Tianjin from September 22 to 23, themed "Scenario Innovation & Sci-Tech Finance Synergy — Promoting High-Quality Development of the Private Economy." Tianjin has used the fair as a bond to solidify services for private enterprises, promoting the deep integration of innovation, industrial, and capital chains through scenario opening, financial support, and service guarantees. Financial institutions released the "Scenario Loan" solution with a 10 billion yuan credit line, and the Tianjin Municipal Development and Reform Commission held activities like "Jinxin Assisting Enterprises" to facilitate precise matchmaking between enterprises and financial institutions. Various districts and departments have built normalized communication mechanisms, resolving 9,612 appeals from private enterprises face-to-face, with examples including compressed approval times for radiopharmaceutical transport and office expansion support for a shipping enterprise. Looking ahead, Tianjin will continue to deepen scenario innovation, strengthen financial support, and solidify precise services to enable private enterprises to dare to venture and act decisively.
Summary: The article reports on financial services in Tianjin supporting private enterprises through innovation and tailored loan products. The Agricultural Bank of China Tianjin Branch and Postal Savings Bank of China Tianjin Branch provided funding for enterprise transformation, including a syndicated loan for Jiangtian Data Technology's cloud data center project and an 8 million yuan "Technology e-Loan" for Deshengyuan Animal Husbandry's circular agriculture expansion. The Postal Savings Bank also launched a small-enterprise construction loan for Gerui New Metal Materials and a 15 million yuan intellectual property-backed loan for Hanyang Heavy Industry to support key technology development. These efforts aim to ease financing difficulties during construction and growth periods, helping convert intellectual capital into capital. The article concludes that such financial support will further unleash the innovation vitality of the private economy and contribute to Tianjin's high-quality development.
Summary: Officials from Shuangkou Town's Urban Construction Office coordinated the opening of a road access point at Tianjin Wantailida Plastic Products Co., Ltd.'s new factory site, helping the company save at least three months of construction time through the town's full-process agency and assistance mechanism. Li Yue, Party Secretary of Shuangkou Town, said the town focuses on characteristic industries, the business environment, and scientific and technological innovation, improving the collaborative mechanism of 'enterprises posing problems, universities solving them, and the government assisting.' Yu Miao, Director of the Beichen District Development and Reform Commission, said the private economy is the main force driving Beichen District's development, and that the district adheres to the principle of "responding to every request and not disturbing enterprises when there is no need" to convert service warmth into development momentum.
Summary: The article highlights Tianjin's Hexi District efforts to support private enterprises, exemplified by Tianjin Xiaocheng Group's AI-driven elderly care platform. Hexi District has added 2,642 private enterprises this year, with private economy added value reaching 19.999 billion yuan in the first half, a 13.2% year-on-year increase. The district issued a three-year action plan with 18 measures to guide firms toward high-precision, advanced industries, and has attracted firms like embodied-intelligence enterprise PaxiNi, whose valuation grew from 1 billion to over 10 billion yuan. It has also customized services for commercial aerospace firms, opened approval green channels, and launched talent policies, while building industrial carriers that drew over 2.5 billion yuan in private investment.
Summary: In Tianjin's Xiqing District, cadre Song Fukang helped Daqiao Welding Wire resolve a cash-flow crisis by guiding it through the application for ultra-long-term special treasury bonds, allowing its new production line to proceed. The district has implemented the "'Qing' Vanguard Elite Training Camp" economic cadre cultivation program, selecting 72 cadres for six months of research and training to serve as "long-distance running partners" for private enterprises. The program includes general knowledge training on topics such as economic management and finance, as well as practical training where cadres choose topics, select projects, and work alongside enterprises, having so far visited 45 enterprises and collected 120 demands. The Organization Department has established a full-chain mechanism of "selection, cultivation, management, and use" with an all-scenario observation and evaluation system to assess cadres' performance. As a result, private enterprises in Xiqing District have grown from 118,000 at the end of 2024 to125,100 by the end of June this year, with the private economy's added value reaching24.091 billion yuan in the first half of this year.
Summary: The article, authored by a professor at Tsinghua University's School of Aerospace Engineering and State Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology, surveys the frontier field of flexible electronics, which integrates electronic performance with deformable materials to enable applications from foldable screens to electronic skin. It outlines two main technical paths—enhancing flexible organic semiconductors and flexibilizing rigid inorganic materials—alongside a third direction of system integration led by Tsinghua's lab, which has built a pilot-scale platform in Jiaxing with manufacturing yield exceeding 95%. The piece details applications across flexible displays, medical monitoring, brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence, and aerospace, citing work by teams in the United States, China, Japan, and elsewhere, including Neuralink's flexible brain-computer interface and a satellite-borne flexible chip microsystem tested on the space station via Tianzhou-6. It identifies persistent challenges such as mechanical-electrical trade-offs, material limitations, and energy supply, while projecting trends toward hybrid integration, on-device AI, biodegradable devices, and interdisciplinary coupling. The article concludes that flexible electronics represent a revolution in electronic form, expanding human sensing, health restoration, and space exploration capabilities.
Summary: The article explains why typhoon forecasting is difficult, highlighting a new fully coupled atmosphere-ocean-wave third-generation typhoon forecasting model developed by a team from China, the United States, and Europe, which reduced three-day maximum intensity forecast error by 82 percent. It attributes forecasting challenges to typhoons as chaotic systems, complex atmospheric circulation games, sudden intensity changes, and the underestimated role of ocean waves. Chinese scholars achieved three theoretical breakthroughs on wave effects, leading to the new model that precisely solves rapid intensification forecasting. The piece concludes that no single country can independently cope with typhoon threats, calling for strengthened international cooperation and sharing of achievements.
Summary: Researchers from Delft University of Technology and other institutions published a paper in *Nature* proposing a bee-inspired robot navigation strategy, showing that small drones with a very small neural network and simple sensors can find their way home after longer-distance flights without building a large three-dimensional map. Guido de Croon, one of the paper's authors, told this reporter that the new strategy reduces the cost of installing expensive navigation equipment and improves the economic feasibility of applications. Duan Haibin, a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor at Beihang University, told this reporter that this research, by imitating and following the laws of nature, has drones simulate bees by first completing a short-range learning flight around the starting point, establishing a lightweight visual homing memory, and achieving autonomous return, providing a new navigation path with low cost, low computing power, and low storage requirements. The researchers said that in the future, more stable direction-sensing methods such as magnetometers or solar azimuth perception could be introduced to improve navigation accuracy.
Summary: The People's Daily "International Frontiers of Science and Technology" page is soliciting topic proposals from readers. Submissions are welcome regarding new international scientific and technological developments, hot phenomena, and popular-science topics. Proposals can be sent via email to gjbjkz@peopledaily.cn.
Summary: In Qufu, Shandong, the 2026 China International Confucius Cultural Festival and the 2026 Nishan Forum on World Civilizations were held in succession, drawing hundreds of guests from dozens of countries and regions. The festival featured the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy award ceremony, a memorial ceremony for Confucius, and cultural tourism activities, with the theme "Benevolence and Ritual Under Heaven, Harmony and Great Unity." The Nishan Forum, themed "Civilization, Order, and Justice," included keynote speeches and parallel sessions, with speakers such as Jin Minqing of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences discussing global governance deficits and Thomas Bach drawing parallels between Confucian thought and the Olympic ideal. Other speakers addressed civilizational dialogue, translation as a bridge between civilizations, and the role of Chinese values in global governance. The events were framed as a tribute to ancient sages and a reflection on humanity's common future, offering Confucian wisdom as a distinctive Eastern perspective to the international community.
Summary: At the 2026 Nishan World Civilization Forum, scholars discussed the theme "Civilization · Order · Justice," with Mu Fengling of Russia's St. Petersburg State University of Economics saying Confucian thought is a spiritual resource for responding to crises of international order, values, and relations. Participants held that civilization, order, and justice constitute a progressive and dialectical unity, with Confucianism providing a philosophy of order of "one and many not divided, coexistence and co-prosperity." On global governance, scholars held that governance cannot have rules set by a single country but should be jointly participated in by different civilizations, and that AI must be embedded with the ethics of "benevolence, ritual, righteousness." Dongfang Ruide of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, United States, held that contemporary Western ethics is unconsciously drawing closer to Chinese philosophy. The forum formed and passed the "2026 Nishan World Civilization Forum Consensus," advocating the transcendence of civilizational estrangement through exchange, conflict through mutual learning, and superiority through inclusiveness.
Summary: The 2026 China International Confucius Culture Festival opened in Qufu, Shandong, with a public memorial ceremony for Confucius held before the Dacheng Hall and a temple fair on Wuma Ci Street. The memorial ceremony featured four chapters and a global "cloud memorial" with new AI dialogue and interactive modules. The temple fair included 46 stalls across intangible heritage, food, and fine products markets, alongside folk performances and activities for international students and foreign friends. The festival upheld the theme "Starting from Confucius, Arriving at Chinese Culture," aiming to let culture and tourism benefit the people and Chinese civilization reach the world.
Summary: Huishang Bank, rooted in Anhui's Jianghuai region, is aligning with the province's "Three Bases and One Zone" strategy to channel financial resources into emerging industries like new energy vehicles, integrated circuits, and new displays, as well as future sectors such as quantum information. The bank reported manufacturing loan balances exceeding 159 billion yuan and strategic emerging industry loans over 193.9 billion yuan as of end-June 2026, with specialized sub-branches and supply chain finance supporting 2,470 enterprises in the new energy vehicle chain. It has upgraded its "1+21+N" sci-tech innovation operation model, launched products like "Zhi e-Dai" for patent-based lending, and boosted technology loan balances to over 260 billion yuan, serving more than 15,000 technology customers. The bank is also using digital tools and an industry-finance linkage platform to support start-ups, with investment-loan linkage services driving over 20 billion yuan in equity investment. Additionally, it is empowering service industries and logistics through credit issuance and fiscal-financial synergy, supporting projects like the Hefei International Air Cargo Transit Hub and the China-Europe Railway Express assembly centers.
Summary: Bo Hanzheng, a Moroccan-French mathematics PhD and founder of Shanghai Yunsuan Technology Co., Ltd., has spent ten years in China, teaching at the Paris Elite Institute of Technology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University while developing AI-driven energy-saving solutions. He learned Chinese in his spare time and now speaks fluently, crediting China's entrepreneurial environment and efficiency for enabling his startup's rapid growth. In April 2025, he met General Secretary Xi Jinping during an inspection of Shanghai's "Modell Space" large-model innovation ecosystem, describing the exchange as warm and unforgettable. Bo Hanzheng, who received a Foreign Permanent Resident ID Card in 2024, encourages foreigners to deeply integrate into China to understand its development, and he sees his choices to come to Shanghai and Jiao Tong University as correct. Shen Guilong of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences notes that more young foreigners are deeply engaging with China's economic, livelihood, and technological progress.
Summary: The author, a retired Luxembourg police officer turned volunteer, recounts his eight years assisting in the poverty alleviation of Zhadong Village in Guangxi, where he worked alongside first secretary Xie Wanju. He attributes China's rural transformation to the persistence of "not leaving a single person behind" and the spirit of unity in striving toward a common goal, with government investment, grassroots implementation, and social support working in concert. He notes that after the village shook off poverty in 2020, the focus shifted to sustainable development, including industry sustainability, youth return, and rural tourism. He describes receiving the Chinese name "Xie Wanke" from Xie Wanju as a symbol of his acceptance and transformation from observer to co-participant in village life. He concludes by inviting foreign friends to witness China's rural revitalization firsthand, emphasizing that the country's progress is visible in its mountain roads, orchards, and villagers' smiles.
Summary: A Pakistani international student at Northwestern Polytechnical University describes learning Qinqiang opera in Xi'an through a university aesthetic education course. The student, writing under the Chinese name Mu Ruobai, recounts studying the classic excerpt "Three Drops of Blood" under master Hui Minli and performing at the century-old Yisushe. The article emphasizes how the course provided a deeper understanding of Chinese culture and cultural resonance. The student expresses hope to contribute to people-to-people exchanges and mutual learning between Pakistani and Chinese civilizations.
Summary: A Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development official stated that China's real estate market has entered the stock phase, with second-hand housing transactions surpassing new homes to become the main force in the market. The article argues this shift is an inevitable result of economic development, as per capita urban floor area exceeds 40 square meters and urbanization has reached 67%. It emphasizes that real estate must return to its livelihood attribute of "housing," with policy priorities being securing bottom lines and improving housing quality through the new *Residential Project Code*. The piece notes that while new home sales fell 12.1% year-on-year in the first eight months, second-hand transaction area rose 10.6%, reflecting a demand structure shift away from speculation. The author is the Dean of the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University.
Summary: The article discusses China's new "15th Five-Year Plan" for intelligent connected new-energy vehicles, which aims for China to enter the ranks of world automobile powers by 2030 through intelligence, green development, and integration. It outlines targets including new-energy passenger cars reaching 70 percent of domestic sales and highlights innovation in AI, autonomous driving, and cross-border integration of vehicles, energy, roads, and cloud systems. The plan addresses challenges such as automotive chip shortcomings, safety governance, and rising trade protectionism in international markets. Officials including Guo Shougang of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Cao Wen of the Ministry of Commerce are quoted on consolidating advantages and supporting enterprises going overseas. The article emphasizes moving from product export to brand, technology, and standard export, while also supporting foreign-funded enterprises deepening development in China.
Summary: The article describes how Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia has transformed from a traditionally agriculture- and animal husbandry-dominated region into a hub of intelligent computing, leveraging the national "East Data, West Computing" strategy. It highlights how the region's geographic disadvantages—such as cold climate, abundant wind and solar resources, and proximity to Beijing—have become advantages for data centers, offering green electricity, natural cold sources, and ultra-low latency connectivity. The piece notes that Ulanqab has signed over 100 computing projects, with contracted standard racks exceeding 7 million, attracting leading enterprises in artificial intelligence and intelligent vehicles. The author is a researcher at the Institute of Marxism Studies of the Inner Mongolia Academy of Social Sciences, with the article compiled by People's Daily reporter Zhao Jingfeng.
Summary: The article argues that expanding domestic demand is crucial for China's economic growth, yet bottlenecks and obstacles hinder its potential, necessitating pragmatic actions. It emphasizes the need to address weak income growth, conservative consumer sentiment, investment constraints, and supply-side inadequacies to achieve a dynamic balance between supply and demand. The piece advocates for precise investment in key areas, relaxing market access for private investment, and deepening reform guided by demand to form a virtuous cycle. It stresses acting in accordance with economic laws, combining short-term supportive policies with long-term institutional construction to stabilize employment, increase residents' income, and unleash market vitality. The author is a researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission.
Summary: Chinese service consumption is outpacing goods consumption, with retail sales of services growing 4.9 percent year on year from January to August, reflecting a shift toward experiences, companionship, and emotional value. Per capita service consumption expenditure reached 46.1 percent of household spending in 2025, driven by income growth, demographic changes, and technological progress. Experts like Dong Chao and Tian Xuan attribute this trend to rising GDP per capita above US$13,000 and generational preferences, while noting supply-demand gaps remain in areas like elderly care and childcare. The "15th Five-Year Plan for Expanding Consumption" prioritizes service consumption quality, with fiscal and financial policies, such as consumer loan subsidies, lowering costs and releasing potential. Improving supply systems, expanding leisure time, and strengthening consumer protections are seen as key to sustaining this growth.
Summary: The Inner Mongolia Museum has turned its 2,000-year-old eagle-shaped gold crown ornament, discovered in 1972 in Aluchaideng, Hanggin Banner, into a jingling refrigerator magnet that has become a popular cultural and creative product. A researcher from the museum's Collection Department noted the crown, possibly worn by a Warring States-period nomadic chieftain, showcases northern nomadic craftsmanship and reflects the fusion of Central Plains agrarian and northern nomadic cultures. The artifact features movable eagle head and tail, turquoise inlays, and a "four wolves biting four sheep" pattern, with techniques like hammering and chasing rooted in Central Plains traditions. Designer Yun Jinchen explained the added bell symbolizes "the mighty eagle guards the household gate, the golden bell draws in good fortune," while store manager Sun Jinjin reported sales of over 4,200 metal-version magnets in August alone. The museum releases new designs monthly, aiming to share the relic's story and meaning through everyday goods.
Summary: The article reflects on the Red Army's Long March through Ya'an, Sichuan, focusing on the arduous crossing of Paotong Ridge and Mount Jiajin, as recounted in diaries and memoirs of participants like Zhang Aiping, Chen Yun, and Edgar Snow. It details the soldiers' suffering—mud, cliffs, cold, and snow ponds—and the local support, including grain and supplies, before the Central Red Army joined forces at Maogong on June 18, 1935. The piece contrasts the historical hardships with the modern Mount Jiajin Tunnel, which began trial operation on October 1, 2025, easing travel and boosting local economies. It also recounts writer Wei Wei's 1983 retracing of the route, his injury in Tianquan, and his correspondence with Dr. Chen Huaijiong, who treated him. The narrative concludes that while natural barriers have become thoroughfares, the Red Army's courage and conviction endure.
Summary: The article argues that "when life goes well, one must be cautious," contrasting Li Bai's famous line about enjoying oneself to the fullest with historical and modern lessons where incaution led to ruin. It cites figures like Li Si, Han Xin, Nian Gengyao, and Li Zicheng, noting Chairman Mao Zedong's admonition to maintain "a style of modesty, prudence, freedom from arrogance, and freedom from impetuosity." The piece warns that contemporary officials, businesspeople, and retirees have fallen from grace due to complacency and self-inflation, emphasizing that true caution means not becoming inflated in favorable circumstances and holding fast to a humble, self-examining heart. It clarifies that caution is not hesitation or irresponsibility but a form of cultivation and virtue, as well as a warning against extreme greed that damages the interests of the Party and the people.
Summary: The article is a personal narrative about the author's lifelong struggle with ingrown toenails, from self-treatment with a porcelain shard and razor blade to eventually visiting a professional pedicurist. The pedicurist, a migrant from a Jiangxi mountain village supporting his family, reassures the author about sterilization and performs the procedure skillfully. The author reflects on the pedicurist's philosophy that small, careful work done well becomes a livelihood and a means of self-reliance.
Summary: The article describes a visit to the Wu Jingzi Memorial Hall in Quanjiao County, where the author and a friend discover a stall selling "hu pai," a flaky pastry named after the hu tablet held by ancient court officials. The stall owner explains the intricate craftsmanship involved, from kneading oil skin to layering over 20 flaky crusts and slow baking. The author recalls childhood memories of buying hu pai at market fairs and emphasizes the proper way to eat it—slowly, with small bites, paired with Chuzhou tribute chrysanthemum tea. The piece highlights the pastry's cultural and nostalgic significance in the Chuzhou area.
Summary: The article is a reflective essay on the author's personal experience of growing dendrobium flowers, which bloom slowly and steadily, making every day a day with flowers. The author notes that the flowers bring a different atmosphere to the home, like a silent family member who does not rank people by seniority or status. The author concludes that the flowers that truly belong to oneself are not bought or given, but grown by oneself, and that flowers and people remember each other, with a garden in the heart.
Summary: The article is a photo report featuring the oil painting *A Small Scene in the Park* by Han Jingsheng, which is in the collection of the National Art Museum of China. No further details or statements are provided.
Summary: The article describes a journey to Luochi Village in Tibet, where the author rides a horse to Xincuo Lake and converses with a young groom named Pema Dondrup. The youth explains that the village, once "idle," now thrives through a government-guided cooperative that uses 93 sand buggies and horses for tourism, distributing 4.3 million yuan in dividends to all 93 households in 2025. Pema Dondrup, whose family owns over 50 horses and 60 yaks, expresses a wish to pass exams for a high school in Chongqing or Chengdu and later enlist in the military, while studying daily. The author realizes that belief, like the wind, is invisible yet powerful, reinforced by a slogan urging following the Communist Party for happiness. Pema Dondrup is later admitted to a local high school in Nyingchi, and the author sends him a message: "Please believe in the wind."
Reply Letter
To All Faculty and Students of Sichuan University:
Greetings! Your letter has been received. On the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the founding of Sichuan University, I extend my congratulations to all faculty, staff, students, and alumni!
Having a sense of responsibility toward one's country (胸怀家国, xiong huai jia gu - "bosom, hold, family, country"), taking root in the western region, and promoting education and cultivating talent (兴学育才, xing xue yu cai - "prosper, school; nurture, talent") are the fine traditions of Sichuan University. At this new starting point, I hope you will carry forward the red lineage, leverage the advantages of interdisciplinary integration across the humanities, sciences, engineering, and medicine, strive to act as a pioneer and set an example (当先锋作表率, dang xian feng zuo biao lv - "act as, pioneer; make, model") in serving the national strategies of the new era, and make positive contributions to building a strong education nation, a strong science and technology nation, and a strong talent nation.
Xi Jinping
September 28, 2026
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 29)
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 29 — Recently, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, sent a reply letter to all faculty and students of Sichuan University, extending congratulations to all faculty, staff, students, and alumni on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the founding of Sichuan University.
Xi Jinping emphasized that having a sense of responsibility toward one's country, taking root in the western region, and promoting education and cultivating talent are the fine traditions of Sichuan University. At this new starting point, he expressed hope that they will carry forward the red lineage, leverage the advantages of interdisciplinary integration across the humanities, sciences, engineering, and medicine, strive to act as a pioneer and set an example in serving the national strategies of the new era, and make positive contributions to building a strong education nation, a strong science and technology nation, and a strong talent nation. (Full text of the reply letter issued separately)
The predecessor of Sichuan University was the Sichuan Chinese-Western School, established in 1896, which was the earliest institution of higher education established in the southwestern region of China. Recently, all faculty and students of Sichuan University wrote to General Secretary Xi Jinping, reporting on the university's development history and educational achievements, and expressing their determination to take root in the motherland's western region and vow to promote education and serve the country (矢志兴教报国, shi zhi xing jiao bao guo - "arrow, will; prosper, education; repay, country").
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 徐 隽 亓玉昆
Recently, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions on building a higher-level Peaceful China, fully affirming the remarkable achievements made in Peaceful China construction since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and putting forward clear requirements for building a higher-level Peaceful China.
General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions have drawn the blueprint and pointed the direction for Peaceful China construction. Cadres and the masses have expressed that they must strengthen confidence and determination, maintain strategic resolve, meet challenges with a more tenacious fighting spirit, solidly advance the construction of a higher-level Peaceful China, and continuously open up new realms of "China's governance."
Since the new era, the sound situation in which the people are living and working in peace and contentment (安居乐业, an ju le ye - "peaceful, live, happy, work") and society is stable and orderly has been further consolidated, and China has become one of the safest countries in the world.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions are inspiring and uplifting (鼓舞人心, gu wu ren xin - "encourage, drum, person, heart") and spur us forward. We deeply feel the glorious mission and bearing a heavy responsibility (重任在肩, zhong ren zai jian - "heavy, task, at, shoulder")." He Jia, Deputy Director of the General Office of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, said that it is necessary to coordinate development and security, further strengthen the Party's leadership, strengthen comprehensive governance, strengthen rule-of-law thinking, and strengthen the grassroots foundation, striving to advance the construction of a higher-level Peaceful China.
Dazhou City, Sichuan Province, an old revolutionary base area, has been awarded the title of "Demonstration City for Peaceful China Construction." "Peace and prosperity for the country and its people (国泰民安, guo tai min an - "country, prosperous, people, peaceful") is the most basic and universal aspiration of the people, and it is also an important goal for which our Party strives." Tong Meng, Secretary of the Dazhou Municipal Party Committee, said that it is necessary to thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, and with a sense of responsibility that is always vigilant and an execution capacity that implements everything to the letter, continue to advance the construction of a higher-level Peaceful China.
"Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the General Secretary has creatively proposed the holistic approach to national security, improved the national security leadership system, and national security work has been comprehensively strengthened." Wang Shuai, a police officer of a bureau under the Ministry of State Security, said that he will bear in mind the instructions, thoroughly implement the holistic approach to national security, strictly guard against and severely crack down on activities endangering national security in accordance with the law, and make unremitting efforts to safeguard national security, social stability, and the people's peace.
Longhua District, Haikou City, Hainan Province, has repeatedly won the title of "Demonstration County for Peaceful China Construction." "The key to peace lies in the foundation, and the root of the rule of law lies in the people." Chen Fang, Secretary of the Longhua District Party Committee, said that the district will cherish the honor, continue to make persistent efforts (再接再厉, zai jie zai li - "again, connect, again, exert"), always adhere to using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to consolidate the soul and guide the people, continuously consolidate and deepen the achievements, and contribute to the construction of a higher-level Peaceful China.
The key to doing a good job in comprehensive social security governance lies in combining punishment and prevention (惩防并举, cheng fang bing ju - "punish, prevent, and, lift"), treating both the symptoms and the root causes (标本兼治, biao ben jian zhi - "symptom, root, both, treat"), and working together in a coordinated manner (齐抓共管, qi zhua gong guan - "together, grasp, jointly, manage") to form a joint force.
"The smoother the people's morale, the greater the harmony in society, and the more stable the foundation of peace." After earnestly studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, Wang Ruoxi, member of the Standing Committee of the Lixia District Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission in Jinan City, Shandong Province, said that he will faithfully perform his duties, take on responsibilities and act, solidly implement all the deployments and requirements, continuously deepen comprehensive social security governance, and continue to advance the construction of comprehensive governance centers.
Through meticulous analysis and careful deployment, the New-Type Case Investigation Brigade of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Dalian Municipal Public Security Bureau in Liaoning Province successfully intercepted telecom fraud "cash withdrawal drivers" who were preparing to flee to other places, recovering more than 2 million yuan in losses for the masses. "The people's expectation for peace is the driving force for us to overcome tough problems and difficulties (攻坚克难, gong jian ke nan - "attack, stronghold, overcome, difficulty"). We must do solid work in early warning and dissuasion in anti-fraud efforts, do meticulous work in recovering stolen goods and losses, investigate thoroughly and deeply (深挖彻查, shen wa che cha - "deep, dig, thoroughly, investigate") for clues in deepening the special campaign against organized crime and vice, severely punish new types of gang-related crimes in accordance with the law, handle every case well, and protect every trust." Police officer Ma Yanqiao said.
"The General Secretary emphasized 'improving the social governance system and preventing and defusing various risks.' Over the years, we have upheld and developed the Fengqiao model in the new era, actively explored paths and methods for doing mass work well in the new era, and built a 'one-stop' mediation workstation for conflicts and disputes." Cai Yuguang, Director of the Duolu Judicial Office of the Luopu County Judicial Bureau in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, introduced that the locality is based on prevention, mediation, the rule of law, and the grassroots level, enhancing source governance and preventing the escalation of conflicts, reducing the incidence of conflicts and shortening the cycle for resolving disputes.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized "strengthening rule-of-law support and technological empowerment." Under the conditions of informatization and big data, it is necessary to be adept at using modern technological means to empower frontline practice and help build a higher-level Peaceful China.
"Only with 'fairness' can there be 'peace.' Without fairness and justice, there can be no security and stability." Jin Xuejun, Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Executive Vice President in charge of daily work of the Beijing Higher People's Court, said that he will thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, always bear in mind that "to view Beijing, one must first view it from a political perspective," regard the utmost maintenance of the capital's political security and social stability as a major responsibility and mission, more fully give play to the functions of trial work in punishing crime, protecting the people, settling disputes, and upholding justice, and firmly guard the last line of defense for maintaining social fairness and justice.
In recent years, procuratorial organs have vigorously advanced the digital procuratorate strategy, strengthened data empowerment for legal supervision, actively practiced the legal supervision path of "individual case handling—category case supervision—systematic governance," and shifted from passive response to active prevention. He Xiaohua, Chief Procurator of the Ningbo Municipal People's Procuratorate in Zhejiang Province, said that technological empowerment will be better integrated into daily case handling, so that fairness and justice can be realized more quickly and more precisely, and higher-level legal supervision will help build a higher-level Peaceful China.
"Without the determination of legal relationships, there can be no social stability." Zhou Xianwei, Deputy Director of the Petition Office of Yongchuan District, Chongqing, said that it is necessary to solidly advance the rule-of-law-based handling of petitions, smooth and regulate the channels for expressing the masses' demands, coordinating interests, and safeguarding rights and interests, handle various incidents in accordance with legal provisions and procedures, and contribute to the construction of a higher-level Peaceful China.
Peaceful China construction is the common responsibility of the entire Party and the whole society. Cadres and the masses have expressed that, as they strive forward into the 15th Five-Year Plan, they must bear in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest instructions, make sustained efforts to make the country safer, society more orderly, governance more effective, and the people more satisfied, and ensure that Chinese modernization advances steadily and far through the construction of a higher-level Peaceful China.
(People's Daily reporters Zhang Tianpei, Zhang Cong, Wei Zhezhe, Ni Yi, and Jin Xin participated in the writing)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 29) A symposium commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Zou Jiahua was held in Beijing on the 29th. Zhao Leji, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, attended the symposium and met with relatives of Comrade Zou Jiahua before the event.
Comrade Zou Jiahua was an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a loyal communist fighter who had withstood long trials, a proletarian revolutionary, a member of the Political Bureau of the 14th CPC Central Committee, former vice premier of the State Council, and vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress.
Zhang Guoqing, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, recalled Comrade Zou Jiahua's glorious life at the symposium, saying that we should learn from his political integrity of firm conviction and loyalty to the Party, his work style of seeking truth from facts and being pragmatic and seeking truth (求真务实, qiu zhen wu shi - "seek truth, be practical"), his fighting spirit of bold reform and daring to act, and his fine conduct of being plain and unadorned (朴实无华, pu shi wu hua - "simple, no, flower/ornament") and strict in self-discipline (严于律己, yan yu lv ji - "strict, towards, law/discipline, self"), so as to continuously make new and greater contributions to comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization.
Ding Zhongli, vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, presided over the symposium.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 29) On the afternoon of the 29th, Ding Xuexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Premier of the State Council, and Chairman of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, attended the 2026 Annual General Meeting of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development in Beijing and delivered a speech.
Ding Xuexiang stated that, under the guidance of Xi Jinping's Thought on Ecological Civilization, China's ecological civilization construction has achieved tremendous accomplishments, receiving broad recognition and high praise from the international community. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China will accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, with more ambitious green and low-carbon development goals, more forceful task and measure arrangements, and more rigorous institutional systems, and the construction of a Beautiful China will surely be able to ascend to a new and greater level.
Ding Xuexiang emphasized that achieving sustainable development requires all parties to join hands and advance greenly. He put forward three suggestions: First, promote green and low-carbon development through pragmatic actions, firmly uphold the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Paris Agreement, comprehensively implement the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" implementation initiative, and inject more certainty and positive energy into global climate governance and biodiversity protection. Second, foster green productive forces through scientific and technological innovation, accelerate the improvement of the green technology innovation system, jointly carry out green and low-carbon scientific and technological research, promote the transformation and application of technologies, and advance the deep integration of industrial digitalization, intelligence, and greening. Third, improve global environmental and climate governance through openness and cooperation, advance the high-quality joint construction of a green Belt and Road Initiative, deepen South-South cooperation on climate change, promote the free flow of high-quality green technologies and products, and enable the fruits of green development to better benefit the people of all countries.
Ding Xuexiang stated that, over the past five years, the members and experts of the Seventh China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development have actively offered suggestions and advice (建言献策, jian yan xian ce - "build, speech, offer, advice"), promoted exchanges and cooperation between China and foreign countries, and made important contributions to the construction of ecological civilization in China and the world. The Chinese government has formally approved the establishment of the Eighth China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, and will as always; continuing as before (一如既往, yi ru ji wang - "one, like, already, go") vigorously support the development of the Council, hoping that all members and experts will continue to contribute their wisdom and strength to the construction of a Beautiful China and global sustainable development.
The theme of this Annual General Meeting of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development is "Pragmatic Innovation and Cooperation, Joining Hands for a Green Future." More than 400 people, including Chinese and foreign members, experts, and observers of the Council, attended the meeting.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 29) Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council printed and issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Inheritance of Cultural Heritage" and issued a notice, requiring all regions and all departments to earnestly implement it in light of actual conditions.
The full text of the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Inheritance of Cultural Heritage" is as follows.
Cultural heritage carries splendid civilization, inherits historical culture, and sustains the national spirit; it is a precious resource that is non-renewable and irreplaceable. In order to strengthen the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage and promote high-quality development of the cultural heritage cause, this Plan is formulated pursuant to the "Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China".
I. Overall Requirements
We must adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guide, thoroughly implement the guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and all plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, conscientiously implement the arrangements of the Fourth Plenary Session, fully implement Xi Jinping's thought on culture, especially Xi Jinping's important discourses on the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage, uphold the Party's overall leadership, adhere to a people-centered approach, adhere to creative transformation and innovative development, adhere to the principles of protection first, rational utilization, and minimal intervention, strengthen overall coordination, deepen reform and innovation, and promote systematic protection and unified supervision of cultural heritage.
The main objectives are: by 2030, cultural heritage resources shall be fully ascertained, the regulatory system shall be basically streamlined, laws and regulations shall be further improved, the talent team shall continue to grow, protection inspection shall be effective and forceful, a major pattern of cultural heritage protection shall be basically formed, and the important role of cultural heritage in building a socialist cultural power shall be fully demonstrated.
II. Building a Major Pattern of Cultural Heritage Protection
1. Conduct thorough surveys and investigations. Consolidate the results of the fourth national cultural relics census, carry out the second national survey of movable cultural relics and the second national survey of intangible cultural heritage. Promptly announce national key cultural relics protection units, national famous historical and cultural cities, national representative items of intangible cultural heritage, and national cultural ecological protection zones. Establish a general catalogue of national cultural heritage resources, and on the basis of the China Cultural Relics Cloud, the intangible cultural heritage database, and other platforms, integrate them to form a major national database of cultural heritage resources.
2. Promote overall coordinated protection. Deeply implement the project for the inheritance and development of fine traditional Chinese culture. Build a system of symbols of Chinese civilization. Promote coordinated protection of tangible cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage, strengthen the construction and management of cultural ecological protection zones, improve the lists of national-level and provincial-level cultural ecological protection zones. Promote coordinated protection of cultural heritage and natural heritage, intensify efforts to protect cultural landscapes, ancient trees, and famous trees.
3. Improve laws, regulations, and institutional systems. Promote the formulation of a law on the protection of cultural heritage. Implement the Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics, promote the revision of the implementing regulations of the Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics, the Museum Regulations, the Regulations on the Protection of Famous Historical and Cultural Cities, Towns, and Villages, and strengthen legal safeguards for the protection of historical and cultural blocks. Improve systems related to red resources, traditional villages, and ancient books protection. Promote the revision of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Law. (See Box 1)
III. Improving the Level of Protection of Immovable Cultural Relics
4. Strengthen protection management. Improve the lists of immovable cultural relics and historical buildings, intensify efforts to announce cultural relics protection units at all levels. Improve the supervision and management system for cultural relics protection units at the level of cities divided into districts, at the county level, and for immovable cultural relics not yet designated. Protect the physical body of cultural relics and their original historical appearance, improve the quality of cultural relics protection projects, and strictly prohibit the practice of faking antiquities under the pretext of protection. Strengthen management of cultural relics protection and restoration, coordinate efforts to advance rescue-oriented, preventive, and research-oriented protection. Promote the combination of cultural relics restoration with intangible cultural heritage techniques.
5. Implement protection prerequisite requirements.In urban and rural construction, implement the cultural relics protection prerequisite requirements of "investigation first, construction later" and "archaeology first, land transfer later," refine policy measures, and carry out surveys of cultural heritage resources.Promptly incorporate objects with preservation value into the lists of immovable cultural relics or historical buildings, dynamically add historical and cultural blocks and underground cultural relics burial areas. Protect holistically the physical bodies of cultural relics and their historical environments, strengthen protection management of the protection zones of cultural relics protection units and their construction control zones.
6. Strengthen classified protection. Implement the "China Construction" key plan. Protect holistically linear heritage and cultural routes such as the Great Wall, the Grand Canal, the Silk Road, the Shu Road, the Qin Straight Road, the Tea-Horse Ancient Road, and the Hexi Corridor. Strengthen overall and systematic protection of ancient capitals, prefectural cities, prefectural seats, county seats, and other ancient cities in history. Strengthen protection of red cultural heritage, deeply implement the project for the protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics. Promote classified protection of industrial heritage, agricultural cultural heritage, water conservancy heritage, and other cultural heritage, ensure proper connection with the cultural relics protection system. Build cultural relics-themed tourist routes in light of local conditions. (See Box 2)(See Box 3)
IV. Advancing Archaeological Work and Research on the History of Civilization
7. Deepen archaeological research and research on the history of civilization. Advance the project for tracing the origins of Chinese civilization, the major project "Archaeology China," and the research project on Xia, Shang, and Zhou civilization. Promote proactive archaeological excavation projects with controlled quantity and improved quality. Carry out major regional and thematic archaeological projects. Strengthen management of archaeological data archives and publication of key archaeological reports, promote research and interpretation. Advance construction of archaeological specimen repository facilities in key regions and important fields, update equipment and facilities, and raise the level of standardization of archaeological technical equipment.
8. Optimize capital construction archaeology. Strengthen management and support for capital construction archaeology, orderly carry out archaeological work for major national projects and urban and rural construction, forming a "one map" of archaeological resources. Strengthen designation and management of underground cultural relics burial areas and underwater cultural relics protection zones. Strengthen urban archaeology work, and within the old city areas of historical cities where ancient and modern layers overlap, implement overall coordinated protection of above-ground cultural relics, historic sites, and underground archaeological sites.
9. Improve the level of site protection. Implement the project for the protection and enhancement of national archaeological site parks, strengthen protection management of archaeological site parks. Intensify protection efforts for early capital sites, capital sites of successive dynasties, and other sites. Advance archaeological research in border regions, strengthen overall protection and display of heritage and cultural relics in land border areas and maritime border areas. Strengthen protection and utilization of important new archaeological discoveries at their original sites, cultivate new types of public cultural spaces based on sites. (See Box 4)(See Box 5
V. Strengthening Protection of Movable Cultural Relics and Museum Management
10. Advance protection of movable cultural relics. Strengthen inventory checking, archive building, and grading designation of collections in state-owned museums, strengthen protection of the physical bodies of cultural relics in collections. Strengthen protection, collation, and publication of ancient books, carry out grading designation of ancient books and cultural relics. Advance protection, collation, and publication of bamboo and wooden slips documents, Dunhuang documents, the Yongle Encyclopedia, and other materials, carry out research on Chinese classical documents. Deeply implement the project for enhancing the influence of archival documentary heritage, strengthen protection, translation, and research of archival materials in ancient scripts of ethnic minorities such as Manchu, Tibetan, and Mongolian. Optimize management of the cultural relics circulation field, improve cross-departmental coordinated supervision mechanisms for cultural relics entering and exiting the country, build a standardized and unified national cultural relics appraisal service system.
11. Comprehensively strengthen museum management. Improve museum management systems, strengthen professional ethics education for practitioners, encourage public participation in supervision. Improve museum construction standards, registration and filing procedures, and exit management mechanisms. Implement the plan for upgrading small and medium-sized museums. Encourage the use of qualified cultural relics buildings and industrial heritage to establish museums. Strengthen demonstration and approval of new museum construction projects, effectively prevent indiscriminate construction and redundant duplication.
12. Improve the quality and efficiency of museum services. Improve the level of public cultural services of museums, make full and good use of existing policies, increase effective supply, provide funding support in accordance with regulations, research and improve policies on free admission. Optimize resource allocation, revitalize cultural relics in collections, promote high-quality cultural resources to reach grassroots levels directly. Encourage museums to open special exhibitions on urban history and folk customs in light of actual conditions, and to display exhibits in conjunction with intangible cultural heritage. Strengthen sharing of collection resources and inter-museum exchanges, carry out overseas exhibitions of cultural relics and joint exhibitions in accordance with regulations. (See Box 6
VI. Strengthening Effective Protection and Living Inheritance of Famous Historical and Cultural Cities, Blocks, Towns, and Villages
13. Improve the protection system. On the basis of the results of national cultural relics surveys, special surveys of old city areas and their historical blocks, strengthen verification and announcement of famous historical and cultural cities, blocks, towns, and villages. Strengthen investigation and protection of old blocks and old towns that have not yet been included in protection lists. Improve tiered protection management systems, establish a reserve list of national famous historical and cultural cities. Strengthen protection assessment, implement the exit mechanism for protection lists.
14. Strengthen overall protection. Implement the project for the protection and enhancement of famous historical and cultural cities, blocks, towns, and villages. Intensify protection efforts for ancient buildings, ancient sites, representative modern buildings, and other cultural relics and historic sites within famous historical and cultural cities, blocks, towns, and villages. Protect holistically traditional patterns, spatial textures, historical features, street systems, architectural remains, cultural ecology, landscape environments, authentically preserving urban and rural historical context
15. Promote living inheritance. Adopt micro-renovation methods, carry out small-scale, incremental restoration, establish protection implementation mechanisms with residents as the main body. Strengthen innovation in protection and utilization mechanisms and exploration of experience, promote rational utilization of cultural relics buildings and historical buildings within historical and cultural blocks. Advance construction of characteristic protection zones in traditional villages, give play to the role of village rules and conventions, promote activation and utilization in light of local conditions. (See Box 7
VII. Solidly Doing Well the Protection and Inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage
16. Improve the protection and inheritance system. Continue to implement the intangible cultural heritage recording project, improve archival systems. Improve dynamic adjustment mechanisms for representative item lists of intangible cultural heritage. Strengthen support and inheritance for intangible cultural heritage items in urgent need of protection. Improve the list system for representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, strengthen tiered team building of representative inheritors, enhance the inheritance vitality of representative items
17. Raise the level of protection and inheritance. Deeply implement the project for the inheritance and development of intangible cultural heritage, strengthen classified protection. Advance inheritance and revitalization of traditional festivals and traditional crafts, research protection measures for categories such as folk literature and folk customs. Carry out revival rehearsals of traditional operas, strengthen excavation and collation of quyi folk art resources, enrich practical forms of intangible cultural heritage in traditional music, traditional dance, traditional sports, and other categories. Promote inheritance of traditional medicine, support the development of traditional Chinese medicine. Raise the level of copyright protection and institutional safeguards for folk literature and art. Promote quality and efficiency improvement of intangible cultural heritage workshops, deepen empowerment of intangible cultural heritage for upgrading historical classic industries
18. Strengthen overall protection of cultural ecology. Protect cultural spaces such as villages, streets, stages, ancestral halls, gardens, and other cultural spaces on which intangible cultural heritage relies. Inherit historical culture of administrative divisions, protect cultural heritage of place names. Explore new ways of contemporary expression of intangible cultural heritage, new forms of rational utilization, cultivate new scenarios for inheritance and experience. Improve inheritance and experience facilities, support rational utilization of cultural relics buildings to arrange spaces for intangible cultural heritage inheritance and display. (See Box 8
VIII. Advancing Construction and Protection of National Cultural Parks
19. Optimize the management system of national cultural parks. Strengthen effective protection and rational utilization of important cultural heritage sites and cultural ecosystems within national cultural parks. Improve construction and management systems, strengthen cross-regional coordination, coordinate efforts to advance construction and protection of national cultural parks of the Great Wall, the Grand Canal, the Long March, the Yellow River, and the Yangtze River
20. Implement listing-based protection of national cultural parks. Relying on cultural heritage resources that manifest prominent characteristics of Chinese civilization, establish listing-based protection lists by batch and by category. Relying on the listing-based protection mechanism, support eligible major tasks and key projects, raise the level of protection. On the premise of strengthening protection, configure necessary auxiliary facilities to provide support for education, research, tourism, and other purposes. (See Box 9
IX. Improving Governance Capacity and Level of Cultural Heritage
21. Strengthen spatial planning control. Coordinate protection requirements of cultural relics protection units, immovable cultural relics not yet designated, historical buildings, improve compilation standards for protection plans of immovable cultural relics, famous historical and cultural cities, etc. Strengthen protection of cultural heritage resources in the implementation of the strategy of functional zones. Coordinate designation of historical and cultural protection lines, incorporate them into the "one map" of territorial spatial planning, establish data security sharing and dynamic maintenance mechanisms, strictly implement territorial spatial use controls and planning permit systems
22. Safeguard the security of cultural heritage. Establish a national monitoring, early warning, command, and disposal system for cultural heritage security, enhance emergency management capacity for cultural heritage. Improve work systems for disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief of cultural relics, effectively respond to risks of climate change and earthquake disasters. Severely crack down on cultural relics crimes, rectify security hazards. Standardize and guide rational and moderate utilization of cultural heritage, prevent emphasizing utilization over protection, emphasizing tourism over culture, and excessive commercial development. Carry out nationwide actions for cultural heritage protection, give play to the role of social organizations and volunteer teams, continuously promote cultural heritage protection in the creation of civilized cities
23. Implement protection supervision responsibilities. Establish a supervision and inspection system for cultural heritage protection, firmly compact responsibilities for cultural heritage protection. Promote inclusion of cultural heritage protection in cadre education and training systems. Strengthen audit supervision over economic responsibility of leading cadres in fulfilling cultural heritage protection work. Carry out procuratorial public interest litigation for cultural heritage protection in accordance with law. For units and individuals that illegally cause serious damage or loss of cultural relics, seriously pursue responsibility. For units and individuals achieving outstanding results in cultural heritage protection and inheritance work, give commendations and rewards in accordance with relevant state regulations. (See Box 10
X. Strengthening Support of Education, Science and Technology, and Talents for Cultural Heritage Protection
24. Advance construction of an independent knowledge system for cultural heritage. Advance discipline construction of cultural heritage studies, optimize professional settings, cultivate interdisciplinary compound talents, encourage qualified universities to establish schools of cultural heritage. Make good use of various funds such as the National Social Science Fund, the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Arts Fund, the National Publication Fund, raise the level of basic research and applied research. Strengthen and improve local chronicles work. Promote integration of cultural heritage protection into national education, promote cultural heritage and local culture to enter campuses and enter textbooks. Launch cultural heritage study tour routes in light of actual conditions, give play to the aesthetic education role of cultural heritage
25. Strengthen scientific and technological innovation in the field of cultural heritage. Build national-level scientific and technological innovation platforms and bases in the field of cultural heritage protection. Promote research, development, and upgrading of cultural relics protection equipment, accelerate informatization and standardization construction. Strengthen technical support for protection of cultural relics buildings, cave temples, ancient murals, rock paintings, earthen sites, ancient books, archives, and other fields. Promote application of technologies such as artificial intelligence, satellite remote sensing, unmanned aerial vehicles, real-scene 3D, virtual reality, raise the level of digital-intelligent protection, strengthen management of digital archives and digital assets of cultural heritage
26. Optimize talent development mechanisms for cultural heritage. Strengthen cultivation of talents for cultural heritage protection. Improve evaluation systems for professional and technical personnel in cultural heritage protection, establish stable talent cultivation mechanisms, ensure funding support. Implement the national archaeological talent revitalization plan, the action to support outstanding young cultural relics talents, and the action to cultivate young intangible cultural heritage inheritors. Carry out training and cultivation of cultural relics restorers, archaeological excavation workers, local architectural craftsmen, archival heritage talents. Expand the grassroots cultural heritage protection talent team. (See Box 11
XI. Deepening International Exchange and Cooperation on Cultural Heritage
27. Strengthen cultural heritage exchange and cooperation. Strengthen bilateral cooperation on cultural heritage protection, advance Sino-foreign joint archaeology. Deepen museum exchanges, hold high-level international touring exhibitions on the theme of Chinese civilization. Strengthen international development cooperation on cultural heritage. Strengthen investigation of Chinese cultural relics lost overseas, carry out research on provenance and circulation history, advance international cooperation on repatriation and restitution of lost cultural relics
28. Participate in global governance of cultural heritage. Give play to the important role of cultural heritage in practicing the Global Civilization Initiative, deepen pragmatic cooperation with international organizations such as UNESCO and multilateral mechanisms. Implement the global partnership plan for cultural heritage, support the Asian Alliance for the Protection of Cultural Heritage to give full play to its role, promote cultural heritage protection of the Global South
29. Fulfill international conventions in the field of cultural heritage. Actively participate in nomination and protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, Memory of the World Programme, Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, and other programs, strengthen overall coordination and guidance for nominations. Implement the special action for protection and enhancement of China's World Cultural Heritage. Abide by protection and management requirements of international conventions, actively participate in formulation of international rules and standards. (See Box 12
XII. Organizational Safeguards
30. Strengthen organization and implementation. In cultural heritage protection and inheritance work, establish and practice a correct view of political achievements. Improve institutional mechanisms for cultural heritage protection and inheritance work, with the Central Cultural Heritage Protection Committee playing the role of overall coordination, overall advancement, and supervision of implementation, and the Office of the Central Cultural Heritage Protection Committee specifically promoting and organizing implementation. Strengthen the work pattern of cultural heritage protection with unified leadership of Party committees, overall coordination of publicity departments, and performance of duties by relevant departments. Local Party committees and governments determine annual goals and key tasks for cultural heritage protection in light of local conditions. When compiling relevant plans, all regions and all departments should ensure coordination with this Plan
31. Strengthen investment safeguards. Focus on protection of physical entities, rescue endangered heritage, give play to the effectiveness of funds, optimize joint application mechanisms for key projects, coordinate the use of existing funds, expand investment channels, ensure implementation of key projects. Support protection of cultural relics and historic sites through central special lottery public welfare funds. Explore introduction of insurance mechanisms. Where conditions permit, on the premise of compliance with laws and regulations and controllable risks, local governments may explore support measures such as interest subsidies on loans for cultural relics protection
32. Emphasize publicity and guidance. Deepen research, promotion, and dissemination of cultural heritage, effectively give play to its role in advancing the construction of spiritual civilization, carrying out patriotic education, and forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation. Establish correct protection concepts, strengthen interpretation of laws, regulations, and policies, summarize and promote advanced experience and innovative achievements. Strengthen publicity and guidance, raise the awareness of the whole society for protection, support media to carry out supervision by public opinion
33. Strengthen implementation evaluation. The Office of the Central Cultural Heritage Protection Committee shall organize evaluations around the goals, tasks, and progress of major projects of this Plan, promote implementation of various tasks. Conduct mid-term evaluation and final evaluation of the implementation of this Plan at the end of 2028 and the end of 2030 respectively, with evaluation reports reported to the Central Cultural Heritage Protection Committee. Major matters shall be reported to the Party Central Committee and the State Council for instructions in a timely manner in accordance with procedures.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曲哲涵
Not long ago, the Ministry of Finance, the State Taxation Administration, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued an announcement that has drawn consumers' attention: starting next year, the policy of halving the vehicle and vessel tax on energy-saving vehicles will be cancelled, and the vehicle and vessel tax exemption for pure electric commercial vehicles, plug-in hybrid (including range-extended) vehicles, and fuel cell commercial vehicles will also be withdrawn. What is the reason for this policy adjustment? Will the development of the new energy vehicle industry "slow down" as a result?
With the industry maturing, the conditions are in place for the universal tax preference policy to exit in a timely manner
Readers' concern: Why cancel the vehicle and vessel tax reduction and exemption for certain types of vehicles?
In accordance with the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law of the People's Republic of China and its implementing regulations, the Ministry of Finance, the State Taxation Administration, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a document in 2012 clarifying that: a halved vehicle and vessel tax would apply to eligible energy-saving vehicles; and an exemption from vehicle and vessel tax would apply to eligible pure electric commercial vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles, and fuel cell commercial vehicles.
When this reduction and exemption policy was introduced, the industry's key core technologies were still being tackled, the foundation of the upstream and downstream industrial chain was weak, and market acceptance was limited. The tax preference measures effectively lowered vehicle use costs and boosted consumer demand, and over more than a decade have continuously driven the green transformation and upgrading of China's automobile industry.
The reason for this policy adjustment is that the fundamentals of the development of China's new energy vehicle industry have undergone a fundamental shift. In the first half of this year, domestic sales of new energy vehicles reached 7.446 million units, with the overall penetration rate rising to 49.6 percent; in July, the share of new energy vehicles in monthly new vehicle sales exceeded 60 percent for the first time, and their cumulative share exceeded 50 percent for the first time. The universal tax preference policy has the basis for exiting in a timely manner.
The approach of "support first, exit later" in policy is a conventional line of thinking in macroeconomic governance. For example, the termination of the home appliance energy-saving benefit project upon its expiration, and the periodic revision and dynamic adjustment of the duty-free import catalogue for major technical equipment, are all measures that dynamically optimize policy tools according to the industry development cycle and flexibly regulate in line with market conditions.
Targeted incentives can better unleash the momentum for improving quality and enhancing competitiveness (提质培优, ti zhi pei you - "raise quality, cultivate excellence") in the industry
Readers' concern: How to assess the impact of this policy adjustment on the new energy vehicle industry?
From the perspective of market demand, taking common freight vehicles as an example, the annual vehicle and vessel tax on a truck with a curb weight of 5 tons is several hundred yuan; for various types of passenger vehicles taxed on a per-vehicle basis, the annual tax amount ranges from 480 yuan to 1,440 yuan. This annual expenditure accounts for a relatively small share of the total cost of vehicle use and will not lower the market's overall acceptance of new energy vehicles.
From the perspective of industry development, after the policy adjustment, vehicle-using enterprises will be more inclined toward products with higher environmental performance, stronger durability, and lower comprehensive use costs, which will force automakers to reduce cutthroat competition between identical products (同质化竞争, tong zhi hua jing zheng - "same quality, competition") and win orders by relying on product strength.
From the perspective of market cultivation, if the tax reduction and exemption policy were to be continued indefinitely, it would create an imbalance in tax burden between fuel vehicles and new energy vehicles, which would be detrimental to the construction of the unified national market; resuming taxation helps foster a healthier consumption environment for the development of the entire automobile industry.
Seeking the "combination point" and "optimal solution" across the above three dimensions is ultimately reflected in a comprehensive grasp of the timing of this policy adjustment, the degree of tax burden, and the objects of taxation. It should also be noted that state support for the new energy vehicle industry continues, with policies such as trade-in subsidies being extended. Shifting the form of support from universal concessions to targeted incentives can better unleash the momentum for improving quality and enhancing competitiveness in the industry.
Passenger vehicles of the relevant types do not fall within the scope of taxation stipulated by the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law
Readers' concern: Why do pure electric and fuel cell passenger vehicles remain untaxed in this adjustment?
Under the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law, passenger vehicles are classified into tax brackets based on engine displacement. Pure electric and fuel cell passenger vehicles have no internal combustion engine and thus no displacement, so they do not fall within the objects of vehicle and vessel tax.
Optimizing tax preference measures in a timely manner does not mean weakening the intensity of industrial support policies, but rather balancing tax fairness with industrial growth. This can both regulate market order and consolidate the foundation of the tax system, while continuously releasing the internal vitality of the industry, thereby promoting achieving long-term, steady development (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk steadily, reach far") of China's new energy vehicle industry.
Return to TopBy: 成 森
On the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the founding of Sichuan University, General Secretary Xi Jinping sent a reply letter to all faculty and students, encouraging everyone to "strive to take the lead and set an example in serving the national strategy of the new era, and make positive contributions to building a strong education nation, a strong science and technology nation, and a strong talent nation."
Bearing the country and the people in mind is a fine tradition of China's institutions of higher learning. Since the advent of the new era, China's higher education has adhered to serving the national strategy, cultivating character and educating people (立德树人, li de shu ren - "establish virtue, cultivate people") and advancing scientific research and innovation. Wherever the country needs, there they go; wherever development challenges lie, there they tackle them.
"Higher education is an important indicator of a country's level of development and development potential." Today, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating. From basic research to the coordinated linkage of industry, academia, and research, institutions of higher learning have much to accomplish and also bear an inescapable responsibility. Sichuan University's ultra-high-nickel all-solid-state battery achievement has been put into practice in Meishan, Sichuan; the team at Xidian University has overcome a world-class challenge in chip heat dissipation; Tianjin University's "Shen Gong" series of brain-computer interface rehabilitation products have entered clinical use... The pace of endeavor beats in sync with the pulse of the times and resonates with the needs of the people.
Anchored to the national strategy and bravely standing at the forefront of the times, institutions of higher learning and young students will surely write even more splendid chapters in the grand practice of building a strong nation and achieving national rejuvenation.
Return to TopOn September 29, the first batch of Units No. 1 and No. 2 of the Dashi Gorge Water Conservancy Hub in Xinjiang were connected to the grid and began generating electricity. As one of the nation's 172 major water conservancy projects for water conservation and supply, this project, standing deep in the Tianshan Mountains, can achieve an average annual power generation of 1.893 billion kilowatt-hours once fully operational. The photo shows the rushing water flow (水流奔涌, shui liu ben yong - "water, flow, surge, rush") at the Dashi Gorge Water Conservancy Hub on that day.
Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ma Kai
Return to TopTheory · A Complete Reading of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, Volumes I–V
The Internal Logic and Practical Path of Empowering Economic and Social Development with Culture
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Looking back on a long journey (回望万里征程, hui wang wan li zheng cheng - "look back, ten thousand, mile, journey") in pursuit of the light of faith
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 朱 隽
On September 29, the State Council Information Office held a press conference under the series theme "Getting Off to a Good Start for the 15th Five-Year Plan," briefing on the situation regarding accelerating agricultural and rural modernization and solidly advancing comprehensive rural revitalization. Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Zhang Zhu stated that agricultural and rural development has maintained maintaining stability while making steady progress (稳中有进, wen zhong you jin - "stable, with progress") and a trend of stability with improvement, providing strong support for the national economy's continued overall stability and its shift toward innovation and quality.
Improving the construction, operation, and management-and-protection mechanisms for high-standard farmland
This year, China's grain production has continued to maintain a good momentum of stable output and increased production, with summer grain output breaking through 300 billion jin for the first time, and early rice output remaining stable at over 56 billion jin for six consecutive years.
Autumn grain is the bulk of annual grain production, accounting for approximately three-quarters of total output. This year's autumn grain area is expected to remain stable with slight increases, with corn, a high-yield crop, seeing a relatively large increase in particular. At present, the harvested area of autumn grain has exceeded 20 percent, and a bumper harvest for the year's grain is within sight. Zhang Zhu stated, "Going all out to secure the grain harvest in hand."
Regarding the current and 15th Five-Year Plan period grain supply-and-demand situation, Zhang Zhu believes that China's food security has full safeguards, but grain supply and demand remain in a tight balance, and the grain supply structure still needs optimization.
The "Accelerating Agricultural and Rural Modernization 15th Five-Year Plan" has designated comprehensive grain production capacity as a binding indicator, clearly stating that by 2030 comprehensive grain production capacity should reach approximately 1.45 trillion jin. Zhang Zhu stated that efforts will be intensified to implement the new round of the action to enhance grain production capacity by 100 billion jin, adhering to the two-pronged approach of stabilizing area and increasing per-unit yield. It is necessary to firmly tighten and consolidate party and government joint responsibility for food security, strictly guard the farmland red line, and ensure grain area remains stable at approximately 1.75 billion mu. Greater efforts will be made to promote the integrated and efficient application of good farmland, good seeds, good machinery, and good methods, so as to comprehensively and evenly raise per-unit yields on a large scale.
Regarding how to gradually optimize the grain supply structure, Zhang Zhu introduced that, in terms of regional structure, it is necessary to adapt to changes in resource endowments and supply-and-demand conditions, rationally optimize the regional layout of grain, better leverage the functions of advantageous regions, research and launch a new round of agricultural resource zoning, and promote greater compatibility between agricultural production and water and land resources. In terms of variety structure, stabilize rations, increase production of corn, soybeans, and others, and expand edible oil supply through multiple channels. In terms of quality structure, guide farmers to grow good grain and raise the rate of high quality.
Farmland is the lifeline of grain production. In recent years, despite the frequent occurrence of extreme weather, the proportion of crop area affected by disasters to sown area has dropped from 27.7 percent during the 11th Five-Year Plan period to approximately 7 percent during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, achieving reduced output reduction under severe disasters, stable output under light disasters, and increased output under no disasters. "Without these 1 billion mu of high-standard farmland, it would be very difficult to reach the new threshold of 1.4 trillion jin in grain output." Chen Bangxun, Director of the Department of Development and Planning under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, efforts will be accelerated to improve construction, operation, and management-and-protection mechanisms, place ensuring the quality of high-standard farmland first, and promote the implementation of construction tasks.
To enable 1.4 billion people to eat their fill, eat well, and eat nutritiously and healthily, during the 15th Five-Year Plan period efforts will also focus on building a diversified food supply system, seeking food from facility agriculture, seeking food from rivers, lakes, seas, and oceans, seeking food from forests and grasslands, and seeking food from bio-agriculture.
Routine assistance with "entry and exit" dynamic management
"After five years of unremitting efforts during the transition period, the endogenous development momentum of regions that have shaken off poverty and people that have shaken off poverty has continued to strengthen, effectively consolidating and expanding the results of the battle against poverty." Zhang Zhu introduced that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, a new stage of routine assistance has begun, with the Party Central Committee and the State Council issuing a document on establishing a coordinated routine mechanism for preventing return to poverty, relevant departments issuing 23 supporting policy documents, and all localities refining and improving measures in light of their actual conditions, with the routine assistance policy system of"1+23+N" basically taking shape. This year, central finance has arranged 177 billion yuan in routine assistance funds, with key support for industrial assistance, employment assistance, and development-oriented assistance for underdeveloped regions.
Routine assistance will be incorporated into the overall implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. Monitoring regions and targets now achieve full coverage of all provinces and the entire rural population. Assistance methods and approaches emphasize the combination of online and offline channels, optimizing farmers' voluntary self-declaration, departmental big-data early warning, and grassroots cadres' routine inspection, so as to achieve early detection, early intervention, and early assistance, ensuring that all who should be included are included and all who should be assisted are assisted. In management, dynamic management with"entry and exit" is implemented, channeling limited assistance resources toward those targets most in need of assistance.
At present, 160 national key counties for rural revitalization assistance and 390 provincial-level key counties for rural revitalization assistance have been identified in the central and western regions, and mechanisms for statistical monitoring, periodic assessment, and dynamic adjustment will be further improved, with tilted support provided from fiscal, financial, land, talent, and other aspects.
Industrial revitalization is the top priority of rural revitalization, and also its foundation. Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Maierdan·Mugaiti stated that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs will guide all localities to rely on distinctive local resources, expand the multiple functions of agriculture, tap the diverse value of rural areas, and accelerate the construction of a modern rural industrial system.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, rural industries have improved in quality and efficiency, with new industries and new business forms such as rural e-commerce and rural leisure tourism experiencing flourishing development (蓬勃发展, peng bo fa zhan - "flourishing, development"). In 2025, there were over 100,000 agricultural product processing enterprises above designated size nationwide, with operating revenue approaching 18 trillion yuan, leisure agriculture operating revenue reaching 950 billion yuan, and online retail sales of agricultural products reaching 783.3 billion yuan. "Continuously broaden the channels and methods for farmers to participate in rural industrial development, improve mechanisms for linking farmers with enterprises, leave more employment posts in rural areas, and leave more of the value-added benefits of the industrial chain to farmers." Maierdan·Mugaiti said.
The main line of rural reform remains handling the relationship between farmers and land
In recent years, rural reform has continued to deepen, with achievements such as the"three rights separation" of rural contracted land and the reform of the rural collective property rights system benefiting the broad masses of farmers. Chen Bangxun introduced that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the main line of rural reform remains handling the relationship between farmers and land.
Regarding contracted land, during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the second round of land contracts for the vast majority of rural households will expire, and it is necessary to solidly advance the pilot program for extending rural land contracts by another 30 years after the second round expires. At present, this work is being carried out as province-wide pilots in 29 provinces, with over 30 million rural households having smoothly signed contract extension agreements.
Regarding homestead land, continued focus will be placed on"guaranteeing housing needs, curbing unauthorized construction, and revitalizing idle homesteads," promoting the guarantee of reasonable land use for rural villagers' housing construction, guiding all localities to strengthen approval and management of homestead land, strictly investigating and preventing violations of laws and discipline, and strictly guarding the bottom lines and red lines of laws and policies. All localities will be guided to, on the basis of fully respecting farmers' wishes, revitalize and utilize idle rural houses in accordance with laws and regulations through methods such as leasing, equity participation, and cooperation, so that farmers can gain an additional source of property income.
Regarding the reform of the rural collective property rights system, the focus is on confirming rights, empowering rights, and activating rights. There are approximately 930 million members of rural collective economic organizations nationwide, with collective land resources of 6.58 billion mu. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, all localities will be guided to accelerate the construction of rural collective economic organization operating mechanisms with clearly defined property rights and reasonable distribution, promote the standardized construction of rural property rights trading markets, revitalize collective assets and resources, and, in light of local conditions, steadily develop the new rural collective economy in a sound manner.
Regarding the construction of the management system, there will be coordinated development of appropriately scaled management entities and support for ordinary smallholder farmers. China still has approximately 200 million smallholder farmers; at the same time, new-type agricultural management entities continue to grow, with approximately 6 million family farms and farmers' cooperatives in total, approximately 1.08 million commercialized socialized service entities, serving approximately 89 million smallholder farmer households. "'During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, we will continue to adhere to the principle of'large where large is appropriate, small where small is appropriate,' cultivate and strengthen new-type agricultural management entities, improve the convenient and efficient agricultural socialized service system, establish and improve a modern agricultural management system that supports industrial development and drives farmers' income growth, and promote the organic integration of smallholder farmers with modern agricultural development." Chen Bangxun stated.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李君强
"The 15th Five-Year Plan period is a critical period of tackling hard problems in building a strong science and technology nation." On September 29, the State Council Information Office held a series of themed press conferences on "Getting Off to a Good Start in the 15th Five-Year Plan." Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun stated that efforts will focus on strengthening foundations, tackling key problems, shaping industries, benefiting people's livelihoods, strengthening systems, and promoting cooperation, so as to continuously push the building of a strong science and technology nation to new heights.
Basic research has entered a new stage of comprehensive improvement and breakthroughs in key areas
The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan makes arrangements for scientific and technological innovation. Yin Hejun stated that we will closely follow the plan's arrangements and systematically lay out a number of major national science and technology tasks.
In strengthening basic research, arrangements have been made to carry out basic theoretical research in areas such as mathematical theory and its applications, and the regulation of states of matter; in leading scientific and technological breakthroughs, we will promote whole-chain efforts to tackle key core technologies; in enhancing people's well-being, tasks such as environmental pollution prevention and control and innovative drug development have been deployed; in safeguarding security in key areas, tasks such as disaster monitoring and early warning and production safety have been deployed.
"In recent years, China's basic research strength has increased significantly, and a number of major original achievements have been made in fields such as basic mathematics, quantum science and technology, materials science, and space science. Basic research has entered a new stage of comprehensive improvement and breakthroughs in key areas." Long Teng, Vice Minister of Science and Technology, introduced that efforts will focus on advancing work in four areas: first, strengthening the strategic orientation and original orientation of basic research; second, vigorously supporting outstanding young scientific and technological talents; third, improving the pattern of diversified investment; fourth, improving the support and guarantee system for basic research. "Proceeding from the country's urgent needs and long-term requirements, we will further clarify the main directions and key areas of basic research, and coordinate efforts to advance original innovation and tackling of key core technologies." Long Teng said.
"Adhering to a 'zero tolerance' attitude, we will severely punish academic misconduct and continue to foster a clean and wholesome environment (风清气正, feng qing qi zheng - "wind, clear; air, righteous") for scientific research." Qiu Yong, Vice Minister of Science and Technology, stated that we will severely punish acts of scientific research dishonesty, continue to release the signal of being "strict," take the lead in carrying out special rectification of retracted papers involving academic misconduct, promote relevant departments to establish and improve normalized mechanisms for reviewing and handling retracted papers within their own systems, and work with relevant departments to continuously crack down on violations such as the buying and selling of papers.
In addition, a database of serious acts of dishonesty in scientific research will be established to support relevant parties in carrying out scientific research integrity reviews in work such as the approval of science and technology projects, the selection of academicians, and science and technology awards, and to implement joint disciplinary action against individuals and units with identified problems in accordance with regulations.
Open up the channel from a strong science and technology sector to a strong industry, a strong economy, and a strong nation
Promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation is the key to leading the development of new quality productive forces with high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology. Zhang Guangjun, Vice Minister of Science and Technology, stated that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, we will coordinate the supply of science and technology with demand-driven forces, break the inertial thinking of "only considering transformation after results are achieved, and transforming whatever there is," and strengthen institutional arrangements of "wherever there is demand, there we tackle problems; whatever we can tackle successfully, that can be put to use."
We will strengthen the application orientation of scientific and technological innovation, promote the participation of multiple parties including the scientific and technological community, industry, and users, and assess technology by application and products by the market; strengthen enterprise-led integration of industry, academia, and research for collaborative innovation, and support enterprises in participating in national scientific and technological innovation decision-making on a regular basis; increase efforts for the efficient transformation and application of major scientific and technological achievements, improve the national technology transfer system, and accelerate technology maturation and iterative upgrading.
"We will promote the formation of a new pattern in which scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation are planned as a whole and mutually integrated and promoted, and open up the channel from a strong science and technology sector to a strong industry, a strong economy, and a strong nation." Zhang Guangjun said.
In the first half of this year, the scale of newly raised funds in the equity investment market exceeded 1 trillion yuan; as of the end of June, the number of technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises that received loan support reached 306,000, with a loan balance exceeding 4 trillion yuan and a loan access rate exceeding 50%. Qiu Yong introduced that science and technology finance plays an important role in promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. At present, venture capital is picking up and improving, and investing early, investing small, investing long-term, and investing in hard technology have become the industry's bellwethers.
"We will continue to work closely with financial regulatory authorities and financial institutions, focusing efforts on policy implementation, strengthening services, pilot demonstrations, and optimizing the ecosystem, so as to promote the smooth circulation of science and technology, industry, and finance." Qiu Yong said.
Development depends on science and technology, science and technology depend on talent, and talent depends on education. China has built the world's largest education system, possesses the most complete talent resources in terms of academic disciplines, and has the largest research and development workforce in the world.
We have deepened the reform of engineering master's and doctoral programs, with more than 60 universities and more than 100 enterprises jointly recruiting more than 20,000 engineering master's and doctoral students; pilot reforms for evaluating scientific and technological talent have been carried out in 123 universities and research institutes across 12 departments and localities. "At the same time, all localities, focusing on the needs of scientific and technological innovation and industrial development, have piloted new models such as 'order-based training' and 'joint recruitment and shared use' of talent, and are actively exploring new paths for integrated advancement." Yin Hejun stated that we will take the integration of science and education and the integration of industry and education as the starting point, and effectively give play to the multiplier effect of the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent.
Create an open pattern for science and technology that is all-dimensional, in-depth, and broad in scope
At present, China has established scientific and technological cooperation relations with more than 160 countries and regions, signed 120 intergovernmental science and technology cooperation agreements, and has proactively initiated international science and technology cooperation initiatives toward the world. Zhang Guangjun stated, "During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, we will continue to uphold the international science and technology cooperation philosophy of openness, inclusiveness, mutual benefit, and sharing, and create an open pattern for science and technology that is all-dimensional, in-depth, and broad in scope."
We will accelerate the building of mutually beneficial science and technology partnership relations, organize and implement international big science programs and big science projects such as "Deep-time Digital Earth," "Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions," and "Human Proteome Navigation"; hold the third Belt and Road Science and Technology Exchange Conference next year, and actively promote the high-quality development of the Innovation Silk Road; around topics such as the application of emerging technologies, biosafety, and ethical governance, promote the international community to jointly formulate regulatory frameworks, technical standards, and norms; deeply implement the global-facing scientific research fund, welcome more overseas scientific and technological talents to come to China for innovation and entrepreneurship, and strive to create an open innovation ecosystem with global competitiveness.
The construction of China's world-class scientific and technological journals has made positive progress and shown a good development trend. According to the "2025 World-Class Scientific and Technological Journal Catalog" released by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, China has a total of 353 such journals. Long Teng introduced that the number of Chinese scientific and technological journals entering the world's first-class ranks has been continuously increasing, effectively promoting the local first publication of major scientific research achievements. A more open and scientific evaluation system for scientific and technological journals has been preliminarily established, and a world scientific citation database covering about 31,000 domestic and foreign scientific and technological journals has been built.
"The Ministry of Science and Technology will work with relevant departments and units to further improve the evaluation indicators for world-class scientific and technological journals, guide and encourage researchers to publish more scientific research achievements in China's scientific and technological journals and platforms, and support more scientific and technological journals in entering the world's first-class ranks." Long Teng said.
We will actively support the three international science and technology innovation centers of Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei), Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta), and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in giving play to their advantages in concentrating scientific and technological resources, organizing scientific research and tackling key problems, and supporting them in carrying out pilot policies such as science and technology financial innovation and convenient customs clearance for scientific research materials. "The R&D expenditure of the three international science and technology innovation centers accounts for 58.8% of the national total, and their PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) international patent applications account for 81.1% of the national total, effectively radiating and driving the scientific and technological innovation development of surrounding provinces, cities, and the whole country." Yin Hejun said.
The construction of the three international science and technology innovation centers has presented a new situation, with a more optimized spatial pattern, rapidly improved original innovation capability, and significantly enhanced industrial innovation strength. Yin Hejun stated that we will strengthen central-local coordination and inter-departmental linkage, jointly promote the construction of the international science and technology innovation centers, enhance the three centers' capability to originate scientific and technological innovation, to lead high-end industries, and to gather top talent, and accelerate the building of important strategic pillars for a strong science and technology nation.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 29) (Reporter Wu Qiuyu) On the basis of fully leveraging the effectiveness of existing stock policies, the People's Bank of China has decided to further adjust and improve several monetary policy tools, so as to create an appropriate monetary and financial environment for steady economic growth, high-quality development, and the stable operation of financial markets.
First, the interest rate on pledged supplementary lending (PSL) is lowered by 0.25 percentage points. The one-year pledged supplementary lending rate drops from 1.75% to 1.5%, better incentivizing policy banks to support the real economy and serve national strategies.
Second, the support scope of pledged supplementary lending is expanded. The construction of the "six networks" — namely, the water network, the new-type power grid, the computing-power network, the new-generation communications network, the urban underground pipeline network, and the logistics network — is incorporated into the support scope of pledged supplementary lending, guiding policy banks to increase financial support for the construction of the "six networks," helping to expand effective investment and deeply tap the potential of domestic demand.
Third, the quota for re-lending for technological innovation and technological transformation is increased by 200 billion yuan, and the support ratio for this re-lending is uniformly raised from 60% to100%. After the adjustment, the quota for re-lending for technological innovation and technological transformation increases from 1.2 trillion yuan to1.4 trillion yuan, and with a higher support ratio, this helps guide banks to increase loan disbursement to small-and-medium-sized technology enterprises, better supporting enterprises in expanding investment in equipment renewal in key areas.
Fourth, the quota for re-lending to support agriculture and small enterprises is increased by 500 billion yuan, of which the quota for re-lending to private enterprises is increased by 300 billion yuan. After the adjustment, the combined quota for re-lending and rediscounting to support agriculture and small enterprises increases from 4.35 trillion yuan to4.85 trillion yuan, of which the quota for re-lending to private enterprises increases from 1 trillion yuan to1.3 trillion yuan, which will further incentivize local corporate legal-person banks to increase credit support for agriculture-related sectors, small-and-micro enterprises, and especially small-, medium-, and micro-sized private enterprises.
Return to TopThe Ministry of Natural Resources' China Geological Survey announced on the 28th that the ocean drilling vessel Mengxiang ("Dream") recently completed its trial drilling mission in the South China Sea, completing coring operations at two wells in waters 4,100 meters deep in China's South China Sea, and successfully recovered basalt samples from the South China Sea oceanic crust.
During this voyage, the Mengxiang's maximum final drilling depth reached 4,929.17 meters, setting a new record for the deepest operational water depth independently implemented by China.
The photo shows the Mengxiang conducting coring operations.
Photo by Zhang Fatao (Xinhua dispatch)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 29) (Reporter Qu Zhehan) On the 29th, the Ministry of Finance, together with the People's Bank of China and the National Financial Regulatory Administration, issued the "Notice on Implementing an Interest Subsidy Policy for Residential Purchase Loans," to be implemented nationwide starting October 1 this year.
The policy focuses on first-home rigid demand, with key support for ordinary families purchasing new small- and medium-sized, lower-priced housing. Interest subsidy support is given to resident families that simultaneously meet the following conditions: first, using a newly issued commercial personal housing loan to purchase a first home, excluding replacement of existing loans. Among these, the determination of "first home" follows current policy implementation, covering both new homes and second-hand homes. Second, the floor area of the purchased housing does not exceed 120 square meters. Third, the price of the purchased housing does not exceed 1.5 million yuan.
The loan scale eligible for the interest subsidy is at most 1 million yuan. The financial department provides an annualized interest subsidy of 1 percentage point. Based on the current first-home commercial personal housing loan interest rate level, this is equivalent to a discount of one-third of the interest rate, with the subsidy period lasting up to 5 years. The policy implementation period is tentatively set at 1 year.
To make it convenient for resident families to borrow and benefit nearby, all banks that conduct commercial personal housing loan business may handle the residential purchase loan interest subsidy business for residents in accordance with regulations. Homebuyers apply for loans at banks through the normal credit process, and only need to authorize the bank, at the time of signing the loan contract, to handle the interest subsidy on their behalf. The bank automatically identifies eligible borrowers and, when collecting interest on a monthly basis, automatically calculates and deducts the corresponding subsidy amount.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王乐文 刘 烨 朱佩娴
“To harvest one mu of land, in the past the whole family, old and young, all went up to the battle array together; now one 200-horsepower agricultural machine can finish it in 10 minutes.” Zhang Guibing, a villager of Shixiaozhuang Village, Zhuji Township, Huaiyang District, Zhoukou City, Henan Province, said as he watched the harvester drive through his own corn field —“swallowing” in the emerald-green corn stalks and “spitting” out golden corn kernels.
“Agricultural machines are highly efficient, so we rush to rent them from the township.” What made Zhang Guibing even happier was that the company contacted by the agricultural affairs service center not only came to the doorstep to crush and recycle the corn stalks, but also waived the rotary tillage operation fee.
During the autumn harvest season, the 850,000 mu of corn in Huaiyang District have successively entered the mature harvesting period. The district, according to field distribution and maturity conditions, uniformly dispatches harvesters, achieving the principle of harvesting one plot as soon as it is mature, harvesting plot by plot. Mai Dengke, a staff member of the Agricultural Affairs Office of Zhuji Township, said that the township, relying on the district-level agricultural affairs service center, agricultural machinery cooperatives, and large grain growers, provides villagers with integrated “machine harvesting, transport, drying, and storage” services right at their doorstep.
From flat land to hillsides, the applicable scope of agricultural machinery has broadened. In the hills of western Henan, YTO Group’s hilly-and-mountainous-area tractors are operating while carrying implements.
“Ordinary tractors are light in the front and heavy in the rear, requiring reversing uphill to complete operations on steep slopes. This tractor can drive normally, with flexible turning and U-turns, suitable for operations on small plots in hilly and mountainous areas.” Zhao Mengying, a staff member of the Materials Procurement Department of YTO Group, introduced.
In recent years, under the traction of chain-leading enterprises such as YTO Group, multiple new types of agricultural machinery and equipment have been launched—high-horsepower intelligent tractors and high-performance combine harvesters have undergone iterative upgrades; intelligent straw balers have performance comparable to imported products; corn intelligent top-dressing and weeding equipment achieves multiple operations in a single pass into the field, with pesticide reduction exceeding 20%…
At present, Henan Province’s total agricultural machinery power and the stock of tractors and matching implements both rank among the forefront nationally, and wheat, corn, peanuts, rice, and other major grain and oil crops have basically achieved full mechanization across the entire process. There are currently 173 agricultural machinery and equipment manufacturing enterprises above designated size, forming an industrial layout centered on Luoyang, with Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Xuchang, Xinxiang, and Nanyang providing multi-point support.
On the big screen at the National Agricultural Machinery Equipment Innovation Center in Luoyang City, various data are updated in real time.“These data not only allow us to comprehensively understand the province’s autumn harvest progress, but also enable effective dispatch of agricultural machinery. If some areas are falling behind in progress, we can coordinate machines to go help; if some areas are nearing completion, we can arrange for machines to operate outside the province.” Li Baozhong, assistant to the General Manager of the National Agricultural Machinery Equipment Innovation Center, said.
Data have also become an important basis for Henan Province’s issuance of agricultural subsidies.“Previously, subsidies were mainly issued according to the number of agricultural machines purchased; now, in pilot areas, they are issued according to the total volume of agricultural machinery operations.” Li Baozhong introduced. Subsidies include subsidies for deep loosening (deep plowing) soil preparation operations, intelligent agricultural machinery operation subsidies, agricultural socialized service subsidies, etc., and through“service first, subsidy later” support cooperatives and other service entities in carrying out operations in such links as plowing, sowing, management, and harvesting.
“With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, and new energy, agricultural machinery is becoming the data entry point, decision-making carrier, and execution terminal of agricultural production.” Cui Tao, associate professor at China Agricultural University, said. In recent years, Henan Province has promoted the integration of Beidou navigation, 5G, and intelligent sensing technologies with agricultural machinery and equipment. Multiple types of unmanned agricultural machines have carried out field trials and demonstrations on large plots, and smart agricultural machinery is gradually moving toward large-scale application, while new agricultural machine products such as hydrogen-powered and pure-electric models continue to emerge.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 29) (Reporter Wang Guan) The latest data from the State Taxation Administration shows: in the year since the implementation of the new policy on VAT end-of-period retained input tax credits refunds, the country has cumulatively processed refunds of retained input tax credits totaling 281.8 billion yuan. Looking at the flow of refund funds, four key industries — manufacturing, scientific research, software, and ecological protection — have benefited significantly, cumulatively receiving 212 billion yuan in retained tax credit refunds, an increase of 10.4 percent over the same period before the implementation of the new policy; their share of the national total of retained tax credit refunds rose to 75.2 percent, an increase of 21.4 percentage points over the same period before the implementation of the new policy, fully releasing the policy's targeted support effect.
On August 22, 2025, the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration issued an announcement to further improve the policy on VAT end-of-period retained input tax credits refunds. Since September last year, China has implemented a monthly full refund of end-of-period retained input tax credits for four industries — manufacturing, scientific research and technical services, software and information technology services, and ecological protection and environmental governance — and adjusted the refund ratios and conditions for some industries, continuously refining policy details and precisely empowering key fields.
Return to TopBy: 《环球人物》记者 陈佳莉 冯群星
In early September 2026, Abbas, a young Egyptian, opened a Chinese-language social media account. In his personal profile, he deliberately noted that he had appeared in People's Daily three times. The first post on his account was the most recent report about him in People's Daily.
Abbas's connection with People's Daily reporters has, in the blink of an eye, spanned 14 years. Wen Hongyan, the first reporter to interview him, described it this way: "Small lights eventually forming a torch (微光终成炬, wei guang zhong cheng ju - "tiny light, eventually, become, torch"). An ordinary passion gave rise to this dialogue of civilizations that crossed mountains and seas."
What kind of story is it, exactly, that led an Egyptian youth to be recorded by People's Daily three times? And what kind of passion is it that brought him, as seen through the reporter's lens, from the "China House" in Cairo to the scene of a meeting between heads of state?
Pushing open the door of the "China House"
In 2012, Wen Hongyan, then deputy director of the Political and Cultural Department of People's Daily, accompanied a delegation from the Chinese Culture Ministry's overseas China Cultural Centers to Germany, Mauritius, and Egypt to interview the construction and development of overseas China Cultural Centers. The China Cultural Center in Cairo was a very important stop on this trip.
The person who received them was Abbas, then 28 years old. Wen Hongyan still remembers him vividly: "He was sunny and modest, and spoke fluent, idiomatic Chinese." As assistant to the center's director, Abbas warmly greeted everyone, led the group upstairs, and pushed open the door of the "China House."
The room was small, yet full of ingenious touches. On the walls hung ornaments of the twelve zodiac animals; on the desk sat the four treasures of the study; Peking opera masks, red lanterns, and paper kites were scattered among them; rows of illustrated panels detailed China's traditional festivals and famous mountains and rivers. Amid this feast for the eyes (琳琅满目, lin lang man mu - "jade, luster, full, eyes"), the distant Eastern culture seemed almost within reach.
After hearing Abbas's self-introduction, Wen Hongyan remarked with emotion: "He genuinely loves Chinese culture and genuinely wants to be a bridge for Sino-Egyptian cultural exchange. The sincerity and passion that shone through from his eyes were deeply moving."
That day, the China interview delegation was not the only group of guests in the small house. More than ten elementary school students from Cairo's Fadl School arrived almost at the same time, having come specially to hear Abbas talk about Chinese culture. The children were drawn in the moment they entered by the "treasures" filling the room, chattering away yet also cautious.
As soon as Abbas began to speak, the children immediately gathered around him, eyes shining, listening intently. The reporters raised their cameras one after another, and Wen Hongyan also pressed the shutter. But with the lenses crowded together and the background cluttered, she felt she had not captured the moment she most wanted. When the interview ended, her colleagues began heading downstairs, but Wen Hongyan thought for a moment, then turned back into the small house.
The moment she pushed open the door, she stopped in her tracks.
The clamor had receded, and the afternoon sunlight fell quietly into the small house. Abbas, facing the children, was telling the stories behind the Chinese exhibits word by word in Arabic. There were no cameras, no interviews — just a young man earnestly speaking, and a group of children attentively listening.
Wen Hongyan suddenly understood: "Cultural dissemination, perhaps, has never been about how much we go out and tell, but about having a local person who, out of heartfelt identification, is willing to use his own mother tongue and the most natural way to tell China's story to more people." She raised her camera and gently pressed the shutter.
This photograph, together with the impressions she and her colleagues gathered at China Cultural Centers in Germany, Mauritius, France, Malta, Benin, and elsewhere, was published on page 19 of People's Daily on June 8, 2012, under the title "Perceiving China Here."
Abbas soon saw the report. "One day, the cultural counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Egypt suddenly came to my office, holding a newspaper. When I looked, it actually had a photo of me telling the children about the twelve zodiac animals!" He still remembers that surprise. "That was the first time I was interviewed by Chinese media, and it was People's Daily — so precious."
The moment frozen in that photograph would, many years later, produce further echoes. Seven or eight years on, colleagues from the Culture Ministry's overseas China Cultural Centers contacted Wen Hongyan, saying they were preparing a photo exhibition on Sino-foreign cultural exchange and hoped to find the original photograph from back then.
One encounter, one photograph, became the beginning of the bond between People's Daily reporters and Abbas.
Extremely fortunate to have this encounter (三生有幸, san sheng you xing - "three, lives, have, luck"), to meet the Belt and Road Initiative
Eleven years passed, and the story by the banks of the Nile opened a new chapter.
2023 marked the tenth anniversary of the proposal of the Belt and Road Initiative. Riding this tailwind, Huang Peizhao, then a reporter for People's Daily's Egypt bureau, planned People's Daily's second interview with Abbas.
This time, the interview spanned more than a month, chiefly because Abbas was too busy.
He had become a senior Chinese-speaking tour guide in Egypt, receiving two to three Chinese delegations each month, with each itinerary ranging from a week to more than twenty days. The dense reception schedule cut his time into fragments, and several scheduled interviews had to be postponed at short notice.
After several rounds of communication and coordination, Huang Peizhao finally met Abbas at his home.
On the bookshelf, Huang Peizhao saw the Analects, along with numerous books on Chinese philosophy and the history of the Silk Road. Huang Peizhao had long heard that, while working at the China Cultural Center in Cairo, Abbas had given lectures on the theme of "Confucius and Chinese Wisdom," sharing with Egyptian students such Chinese wisdom as "gaining new insights by reviewing the old (温故而知新, wen gu er zhi xin - "review, old, then, know, new")" and "learning from everyone one encounters (三人行必有我师, san ren xing bi you wo shi - "three, people, walk, certainly, have, my, teacher")." In his daily life, Abbas would post updates on his Chinese-learning reflections on WeChat Moments almost every day.
During their conversation, Huang Peizhao noticed that Abbas repeatedly mentioned one word — "linkage." He said: "The Belt and Road Initiative is linkage. Countries must link, nations must link, cultures must link." He also expressed his hope for closer linkage with China.
Huang Peizhao had deliberately brought a box of Chinese tea leaves as a gift for Abbas. Abbas opened it, smelled it, and said: "This is Longjing, isn't it? I used to drink it often at the China Cultural Center in Cairo." That one simple sentence made Huang Peizhao truly feel that Abbas's "linkage" with China had permeated the very fabric of his life.
To gain an intuitive sense of Abbas's working state, Huang Peizhao followed him through an entire tour. The itinerary that time was extremely tight; within a single day, they successively visited the Giza pyramid complex, the Sphinx, a museum, and the Khan el-Khalili market. When his phone showed he had walked nearly 20,000 steps, Huang Peizhao wanted to sit down and rest his feet, but when he looked up, he saw Abbas still standing straight-backed and full of energy, attending to every member of the group.
At that moment, beneath the bustling pyramids, Huang Peizhao was filled with boundless emotion.
Nearly twenty years earlier, when Huang Peizhao had just been posted to Egypt, fewer than 20,000 Chinese tourists visited Egypt each year, and he could hardly hear any Chinese spoken; now, looking around, several Chinese tour groups were touring at the same time, with Mandarin in various accents rising and falling around him.
Not only that — Chinese had formally entered Egypt's national education system. Unlike Abbas's "fighting alone" when he was in university, the new generation of young Egyptians learning Chinese now have clear career directions and high social recognition.
Abbas said sincerely to Huang Peizhao: "To be able to live under the Belt and Road Initiative — I am extremely fortunate to have this encounter."
Huang Peizhao immediately followed up: "If you had not learned Chinese back then, and if the Belt and Road Initiative had not taken root in Egypt, how do you think your life would be?"
Abbas was silent for a moment, then continued: "The unemployment rate among young Egyptians is high, and many cannot afford to marry or support a family. If I had not learned Chinese, and had not caught up with the Belt and Road Initiative, I could not have imagined any of this."
Huang Peizhao felt that Abbas's trajectory of fate happened to fit the process of Sino-Egyptian relations evolving from "exchanges among a few people" to "comprehensive, in-depth integration." Therefore, the report was titled "'My Life Is Wonderful Because of the Belt and Road Initiative,'" published on page 18 of People's Daily on December 25, 2023. This warm-hearted report won a second prize in the China News Awards.
Everything "was like a dream"
In 2026, the bond between People's Daily reporters and Abbas entered a brand-new chapter.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Egypt, and bilateral exchanges have grown ever closer. In late August, Huan Xiang, a reporter from the International Department of People's Daily, and his colleagues traveled to Egypt, joining the China-Egypt joint press corps for high-quality Belt and Road cooperation in media, to produce advance coverage of the upcoming meeting between the two heads of state.
Before departure, Huan Xiang contacted Abbas at the first opportunity to schedule an interview. After the previous two reports, Abbas had long formed a deep friendship with People's Daily. Upon receiving the invitation, he readily agreed, but said he was "very busy lately" and could not immediately fix an interview time, so they would have to play it by ear.
What Huan Xiang did not know was that Abbas at that time was fully devoted to preparations for a supreme honor — providing on-site interpretation for the heads of state of China and Egypt and their spouses.
After arriving in Egypt, Huan Xiang and his colleagues interviewed Abbas twice, on August 24 and August 31 respectively. Abbas led the interview team through the ancient sites along the Nile, from the towering pyramids to museums, telling a story in a captivating manner (娓娓讲述, wei wei jiang shu - "flowing, flowing, tell, speak") all the way about the civilization of ancient Egypt.
While explaining, he always found the gentlest points of commonality, drawing the two great civilizations closer. Introducing the ancient Egyptian sculptures of human-shaped burial soldiers, he naturally called them the "Egyptian version of the terracotta warriors"; speaking of the ancient capital Luxor, he said that this city, whose name means "city of a hundred gates," was like China's ancient city of Xi'an — both immortal cities bearing the memory of civilization.
On September 3, the day after successfully completing his task of explaining to the two heads of state and their spouses, Abbas once again sat before the lens of People's Daily reporters, repeatedly marveling that everything "was like a dream." He told Huan Xiang that on the night he completed the task, he could not sleep at all, his heart full of pride and awe.
Abbas was exceptionally busy that day, his phone ringing without stop. Not only Chinese media, but numerous mainstream Middle Eastern media outlets were also queuing up for exclusive interviews with Abbas. This Egyptian youth, who had come from the "China House," had truly stepped onto the center stage of exchanges and mutual learning between the two civilizations.
During this assignment in Egypt, Huan Xiang and his colleagues filmed three videos of interviews with Abbas and also wrote a print report, which was published on page 3 of People's Daily on September 9, 2026. These reports interwove the high-profile moments of head-of-state diplomacy with the life experiences of an ordinary individual, reflecting through the story of a representative figure the mutual learning, empathy, and resonance between Chinese and Egyptian civilizations.
Fourteen years, three People's Daily reporters, three encounters across mountains and seas, recording the growth of an ordinary Egyptian who loves Chinese culture, and also witnessing the intersection and fusion of Chinese and Egyptian civilizations and the deep friendship between the Chinese and Egyptian peoples.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 于景浩 刘军国
The Fifth Global Digital Trade Expo was recently held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. This year's expo, themed "Encounter the AI Future at the Digital Trade Expo," brought together enterprises from 163 countries and regions and over 50,000 professional trade visitors. Participating guests and trade visitors from various countries generally believe that the expo has built a platform for all countries to jointly discuss cooperation, jointly promote development, and jointly share achievements. China shares its development achievements with all countries, works with all parties to bridge the digital divide, jointly build a fair, beneficial, safe, and inclusive global digital trade order, and contribute to global sustainable development.
Building a platform to deepen global digital economy cooperation
This year's expo set up a digital trade theme pavilion, a digital trade innovation and integration exhibition area, and special industry exhibition areas including artificial intelligence (AI), Silk Road e-commerce, digital-intelligent mobility, digital-intelligent culture and entertainment, and digital-intelligent healthcare, presenting in a panoramic manner the infrastructure, core technologies, and implementation scenarios through which artificial intelligence empowers digital trade. During the event, it also hosted the opening ceremonies of the Malaysia and Hungary national pavilions, the China-Arab AI International Cooperation and Arab Digital Economy Alliance First China-Arab Digital Dialogue, the 2026 "Digital Trade Africa Day — Digital-Intelligent China-Africa · Park Opens Digital Trade" matchmaking event, the 2026 BRICS Special Economic Zones Hangzhou Dialogue, and other activities.
Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation CEO Abu Bakar Yusof stated that Malaysia participated in the Digital Trade Expo as a guest country of honor for the first time this year, bringing 11 digital and technology enterprises to exhibit. The space and potential for cooperation between Malaysian and Chinese high-tech enterprises in the digital field are enormous, and both sides look forward to further deepening cooperation.
At the opening ceremony of the Hungary national pavilion, Hungarian Export Promotion Agency Deputy CEO Attila Gábor Péter stated that China is one of the most dynamic digital economies in the world, and this year's Digital Trade Expo brings digital technology, e-commerce, and numerous global commercial enterprises together in Hangzhou, which is an important opportunity for Hungarian enterprises to expand cooperation.
Deep in the vast ocean, touching a huge humpback whale with one's hands; interacting with wild animals in the Amazon rainforest; encountering the ancient Inca civilization at Machu Picchu, a World Cultural and Natural Heritage site… At the Peru national pavilion, visitors, wearing AR (augmented reality) glasses, immersively experience Peru's magnificent natural scenery and ancient civilization, embarking ona "Peru journey" spanning ten thousand miles. José Alfonso, chairman of the National Tourism Association of Peru, stated that the Peru national pavilion, together with Chinese enterprises, explores the "AI + cultural tourism" model, hoping to attract more tourists to embark ona journey of discovery in Peru.
Jiang Tao, vice president of Leqi, the company providing smart glasses for the Peru national pavilion, introduced: "The company uses AR technology to integrate Peru's jungles, mountains and seas, alpacas, humpback whales, and other natural scenery with the Inca civilization, allowing visitors to be immersed in a realistic environment (身临其境, shen lin qi jing - "body, arrive, enter, scene"). Currently, we have reached strategic cooperation with relevant parties in Peru's cultural tourism sector, hoping to empower the cultural tourism of developing countries with digital technology, letting more visitors enter Peru, and also helping Peru's culture go global."
Alhaji Bah, representative of the African Union to China, said: "Relying on fair, predictable, mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation arrangements, combining China's capital, technology, and platforms with Africa's markets, talent, and other factors, can further consolidate the Africa-China partnership and promote the building of a more inclusive and just global digital trade order."
Enhancing well-being, artificial intelligence empowers hundreds of industries
From AI agents to smart wearables, from quantum computing to space computing power, a batch of new technologies, new products, and new solutions making their domestic or global debut, first showing, or first exhibition at the expo were unveiled collectively, showcasing the rich implementation scenarios of artificial intelligence empowering hundreds of industries, and also making the enhancement of people's well-being through digital economy and artificial intelligence visible, tangible, and accessible.
During the Digital Trade Expo, journalists from multiple countries covering the event visited the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, observing the vivid practice of "AI + healthcare" in China's medical and health field. "Here, I saw what the hospital of the future looks like." Saleem Al-Zubaidi, anchor and producer at Saudi Arabia's Al Arabiya radio station, said, "From drug sorting and intra-hospital logistics, to disease diagnosis and intensive care, the widespread application of artificial intelligence allows people to enjoy more precise and efficient medical services."
At the Jiaxing Global Aviation Logistics Hub — Oriental Sky and Earth Port, Bekzhan ZakiyeV, chairman of the board of Kazakhstan's national postal group, summarized his feelings with the words "potential" and "opportunity"."Here, aviation, sorting, warehousing, customs, and other processes are efficiently integrated with digital technology. Kazakhstan is committed to becoming an important transit hub for international e-commerce, and China's practice provides us with experience we can learn from." ZakiyeV said.
"Hungary and China have close cooperation in the economic field, with Chinese enterprises such as CATL and BYD investing and building factories in Hungary."Yvonne Szeverényi, person responsible for a relevant project at the Hungarian Innovation Agency's SME department, introduced, "China's rapid digital economy development provides broad opportunities for Hungarian technology enterprises."
Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD, visited Hangzhou in August this year, and the city's vibrant innovation ecosystem left a deep impression on him. He stated that this vitality is not only reflected in people's exchanges, but also in the city's development speed and the ambitions shown by its people. "UNCTAD values cooperation with China, hopes that the Digital Trade Expo will play a positive role, promoting all parties to strengthen dialogue, deepen partnerships, and explore practical solutions."
Joining hands and working together to promote global sustainable development
In today's world, digital technology is increasingly integrated into all fields and the entire process of economic and social development, profoundly changing production methods, lifestyles, and social governance methods. Where will global trade in the digital wave head? How should the international community adapt to this trend? What role can China play in this process? These topics sparked heated discussion among participating guests.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar stated that seeing the latest achievements of China's vigorous digital economy development at the Digital Trade Expo site was awe-inspiring. "True prosperity comes from diversity rather than a single entity" (一花独放不是春，百花齐放春满园, yi hua du fang bu shi chun, bai hua qi fang chun man yuan - "one, flower, alone, bloom, not, is, spring; hundred, flower, together, bloom, spring, full, garden"). He used this to praise China's open spirit of sharing development achievements with the world. "China has achieved extraordinary results in this field. China also has the will to share development achievements with everyone. Cooperating with China has greatly enhanced our ability to apply new technologies."
Kyrgyz Prime Minister Kasymaliev stated that currently, artificial intelligence is applied in fields such as industry, trade, healthcare, education, and national governance, profoundly changing people's methods of production, sales, and decision-making. Kyrgyzstan "hopes to work together with countries such as China, committed to the cause of AI serving development and bridging the digital divide".
Gerd Müller, Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, stated that the Digital Trade Expo focuses on e-commerce, intelligent mobility, smart healthcare, and space intelligence. These fields fully demonstrate an important trend — digital technology is becoming increasingly deeply integrated into the real economy. UNIDO is willing to join hands with countries including China, ensuring that AI empowers global trade, empowers global industrial development, and promotes global sustainable development.
During the Digital Trade Expo, the Organizing Committee of the Global Digital Trade Expo released the《Global Digital Trade Development Report 2026》. The report shows that in 2025, global digital trade export value reached $7.75 trillion, a year-on-year increase of 7.1%, accounting for 22.2% of total global goods and services exports, an increase of 2.6 percentage points compared to 2021, outpacing the overall growth rate of global trade for many consecutive years, demonstrating resilience under multiple external pressures.
"The digital transformation of the global economy is entering a brand-new phase. Digitally deliverable services are one of the fastest-growing segments in international trade, and artificial intelligence is adding new and powerful momentum to this."Zhang Xiangchen, Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organization, stated that the WTO's《World Trade Report 2025》estimates that if artificial intelligence can be widely adopted and deployed, by 2040, global trade volume is expected to increase by 34% to 37%, and global economic output is expected to increase by 12% to 13%. This means that the development potential brought by artificial intelligence is enormous. To truly unleash this potential, international cooperation is indispensable.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 29) He Lifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, met on September 29 at the Great Hall of the People with a delegation of the Japan Association for the Promotion of International Trade visiting China.
He Lifeng stated that China and Japan are close neighbors having close geographical proximity (一衣带水, yi yi dai shui - "one, clothing, belt, water") and are important economic and trade partners to each other. China has always welcomed Japanese enterprises to develop in China and share market opportunities. He expressed the hope that the Japan Association for the Promotion of International Trade will grasp the correct historical direction, continue to carry forward the tradition of friendship toward China, and play a greater role in promoting China-Japan economic and trade cooperation.
Takeshi Iwaya, the new chairman of the Japan Association for the Promotion of International Trade, stated that the Japanese business community is willing to continue expanding exchanges with the Chinese side and to contribute to the continued development of bilateral economic and trade relations and the deepening of mutually beneficial cooperation.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 29) On September 29, the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and the Embassy of Papua New Guinea in China jointly hosted a reception in Beijing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Papua New Guinea. Su Hui, Vice Chairperson of the CPPCC National Committee, along with over 100 representatives from various sectors of China and Papua New Guinea and some foreign ambassadors accredited to China, attended the event.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Cairo, September 29) (Reporters Jiao Xiang, Shen Xiaoxiao) On September 29, the "World Dialogue on China Studies · Special Session for Arab Countries" event was held in Cairo, Egypt. Approximately 140 people, including heads of relevant departments from the Chinese and Arab sides, experts, scholars, and representatives from all walks of life, attended the event.
Participating guests believed that in recent years, relations between China and Arab countries have developed vigorously, setting a model for solidarity and cooperation among developing countries. Not long ago, President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to Egypt and, together with President Sisi, drew up a new blueprint for deepening the China-Egypt comprehensive strategic partnership. Chinese and Arab academic circles should deepen exchanges and cooperation in the cultural and people-to-people fields, contributing cultural strength to building a higher-level China-Arab community with a shared future.
Participating guests stated that the Chinese civilization and the Arab civilization have a long and continuous history (源远流长, yuan yuan liu chang - "source, far, flow, long") and shine brightly in each other's light (交相辉映, jiao xiang hui ying - "interchange, mutually, shine, reflect"). Chinese and Arab academic circles should deepen research and exchanges on governance experience, strive to build knowledge systems and discourse systems with rich modern forms, and provide theoretical guidance and academic support for their respective modernization processes. They should focus on high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, accurately interpret the convergence of interests and policy intersections between China and Arab countries, and help deepen the alignment of development strategies between China and Arab countries. They should earnestly practice the Global Civilization Initiative, jointly advance the protection and research of cultural heritage, and, in learning from each other and drawing lessons from one another (互学互鉴, hu xue hu jian - "mutually, learn, mutually, examine"), carry forward cultural lineages and continue civilizations. They should strengthen research capacity on global governance issues such as artificial intelligence, food security, and climate change, helping to enhance the representation and voice of developing countries.
This event was an overseas exchange activity of the World Conference on China Studies, guided and supported by the State Council Information Office of China, hosted by the Information Office of Shanghai Municipal People's Government and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and co-organized by Shanghai International Studies University, the Center for Arab and African Studies of Shanghai International Studies University, Cairo University, the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, and the Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies. The event released a recommended bibliography of research works by young Chinese and Arab scholars.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Pyongyang, September 29) (Reporter Liu Rong) From September 27 to 28, Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK Wang Yajun led more than 60 representatives, including diplomats of the Chinese Embassy and Consulate in the DPRK and their family members, personnel of the Representative Office for Commending the Martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers in the DPRK, Chinese media stationed there, overseas Chinese residing in the DPRK, and Chinese students studying there, to Huaiyang County and Pyonggang County in Kangwon Province, where they paid respects at the cemeteries of the martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers.
On the 28th, all personnel held a memorial ceremony at the Martyrs' Cemetery of the Chinese People's Volunteers at Sangga-ri, Pyonggang County, to mourn the volunteer martyrs who fell in the Battle of Shangganling. Wang Yajun, on behalf of all personnel, read aloud the memorial oration, and a representative of the Military Attaché's Office of the Embassy read aloud a letter from the current monitor of the "Huang Jiguang Squad" to the martyr Huang Jiguang.
Wang Yajun stated that Shangganling is a symbol of the great spirit of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. The traditional friendship between China and the DPRK, forged with blood, is a precious asset shared by both sides. He expressed confidence that, under the strategic guidance of the supreme leaders of both parties and both countries, the China-DPRK traditional friendship will certainly continue to be strengthened and developed, making greater contributions to safeguarding regional peace and stability and benefiting the peoples of both countries.
On the 27th, all personnel also held a memorial ceremony at the Martyrs' Cemetery of the Chinese People's Volunteers in Huaiyang County, Kangwon Province.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 29) (Reporter Chu Jun) September 29 marks the 54th anniversary of the issuance of the China-Japan Joint Statement. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun, responding to a question at the regular press conference on the 29th, said that the four political documents, including the Joint Statement, have laid the political and legal foundation for China-Japan relations and established political rules for properly handling major principled issues such as history and Taiwan. On this day of important historical significance, China once again urges those in power in Japan to return, through concrete actions, to the original aspiration and starting point of the four China-Japan political documents.
Guo Jiakun said that 54 years ago today, the elder statesmen of the two countries, with extraordinary political foresight and courage, signed and issued the Joint Statement, achieving the normalization of China-Japan diplomatic relations. In the Joint Statement, the Japanese side clearly stated that it deeply reflects on its responsibility for the war, recognized the Government of the People's Republic of China as the sole legal government of China, and fully understood and respected the position of the Chinese Government that Taiwan is an inseparable (不可分割, bu ke fen ge - "not, can, divide, part") part of the territory of the People's Republic of China. The four political documents, including the Joint Statement, have laid the political and legal foundation for China-Japan relations and established political rules for properly handling major principled issues such as history and Taiwan; they must not be distorted, must not regress, and still less may they be destroyed.
"More than half a century later, China-Japan relations are once again facing a grave situation, and the root cause lies in the fact that the political foundation of bilateral relations has been severely damaged." Guo Jiakun said that Japan's incumbent leaders not only fail to reflect on the crimes of their history of aggression, but instead claim that a contingency in Taiwan constitutes a Japan "national existential crisis situation," openly challenging China's national sovereignty and betraying the original aspiration of the normalization of China-Japan diplomatic relations and Japan's political commitments made to China. The Japanese side has also stirred up hype about the so-called "external threat," using this as a pretext to accelerate "re-militarization," challenging the post-war international order and threatening regional peace and stability.
"History has repeatedly proven that only by truly adhering to the spirit of the four China-Japan political documents can bilateral relations avoid going off course and derailing." Guo Jiakun said, "On this day of important historical significance, we once again urge those in power in Japan to earnestly reflect and correct their errors, and to return, through concrete actions, to the original aspiration and starting point of the four political documents."
Return to Top(People's Daily, Brussels, September 29) (Reporter Niu Ruifei) The 8th China-Europe Film Festival closed on September 29 in Brussels, Belgium. During the festival, multiple Chinese films and video works were screened in concentrated sessions, and filmmakers, representatives of cultural institutions, and young creators from China and several European countries exchanged views on film creation, video communication, and cross-cultural exchange.
The festival opened in Brussels on the evening of the 23rd, with "The Sun at Midday," directed by Chinese director Cai Shangjun, screened as the opening film. Multiple Chinese films, including "A Stranger Guest," "Accompany You Until Dawn," "One Night and Three Summers," "Women's World," "Twenty-Four Flavors," and "Chasing Shadows," were also shown to Belgian audiences in succession.
On the 26th, the festival's "Encounter China" international communication unit event was held. This year's unit collected a total of 936 works, covering multiple categories including documentary video, short videos, micro-dramas, animation and digital art, city image and corporate international communication, and the annual theme of "Symbiosis and Sustainable Development." The event released the "Encounter China" 2026 annual results and presented the "China-Europe Light and Shadow Communication Award" and the "China-Europe People-to-People and Cultural Exchange Contribution Award." Award-winning representatives from People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, and CGTN of China Media Group attended the event.
During the festival, the award ceremony for the 12th China-Europe Youth Film Festival was also held.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Bangkok, September 29) (Reporters Zhang Jinjue) Boten, Laos dispatch: At 8:00 a.m. local time on the 28th, train C95 departed smoothly from Boten Station in Laos, marking the successful inaugural run of the intercity train from Boten to Vientiane on the Laos section of the China-Laos Railway.
According to the Laos-China Railway Company, which is responsible for the operation of the Laos section of the China-Laos Railway, the newly launched C95/C96 intercity trains establish an efficient and convenient commuting route between Boten and Vientiane. Of these, train C95 departed from Boten Station at 8:00 that day and arrived at Vientiane Station at 11:47; train C96 departed from Vientiane Station at 14:05 that day and returned to Boten Station at 18:32. The trains stop at six stations: Boten Station, Natheuy Station, Muang Xay Station, Luang Prabang Station, Vang Vieng Station, and Vientiane Station. Residents of northern provinces traveling to Vientiane for commuting, business, or family visits can complete the round trip in a single day.
The Laos-China Railway Company stated that the launch of this intercity train will further improve the passenger transport network on the Laos section of the China-Laos Railway, enrich the travel options of Lao residents, help boost the development of the cultural and tourism industry along the route, and provide stronger transportation support for the construction of the China-Laos Economic Corridor and the high-quality joint development of the Belt and Road Initiative.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 29) (Reporter Shi Yiqi) On September 29, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences held a theoretical seminar in Beijing on Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. The seminar emphasized that Xi Jinping's thought on Party building possesses the distinctive theoretical character of practicality and clarity in theory and application (明体达用, ming ti da yong - "clear structure, practical application"), with the two being integrated throughout. It provides scientific guidance for forging the world's most powerful Marxist governing party, makes major original contributions to developing the Marxist theory of Party building, provides solid political guarantees for inheriting the fine traditional Chinese culture, and contributes Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to creating a new form of human political civilization.
The seminar pointed out that philosophy and social science workers should thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, continuously deepening political, ideological, theoretical, and emotional identification with the Party's innovative theories. They should carry out in-depth systematic and theoretical research and interpretation of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, and accelerate the construction of basic disciplinary theories guided by Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. They should deepen organized scientific research, closely focus on the major issues and frontier questions of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, and produce representative achievements of a strategic, forward-looking, and policy-oriented nature. They should intensify the multilingual translation and overseas publication of high-quality research results on the Party's innovative theories, and continue to advance overseas dissemination.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Shijiazhuang, September 29) (Reporter Liu Taoxiong) On September 29, the themed activity "Welcoming the National Day · I Act in Civilized Practice" was held in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. At the event site, industrial workers, school teachers and students, members of new employment groups, and grassroots cultural backbone figures shared their reflections and experiences from participating in civilized practice, telling stories of integrating personal aspirations into the overall development of the country, which evoked strong resonance. Programs including the collective recitation of "Youth," the themed lecture "Glimmers of Light," and the situational sharing "A Heroic City, a Heroic People" expressed the love and blessings of the sons and daughters of China for the motherland, presenting a vivid picture of people from all walks of life actively engaging in civilized practice and serving the country with concrete actions.
During the event, publicity and services for citizens' civilized practice were also carried out simultaneously. At Nanhu Park and other locations, traditional culture exhibition and experience areas were set up, where intangible cultural heritage skills such as shadow puppetry, paper-cutting, and dough sculpture were displayed and created, allowing people to experience the charm of traditional culture up close. In Xiangfuli Community, Lubei District, a new era neighborhood festival was held, featuring civilized practice activities such as a people's stage, a civilized market, and neighborhood harmony games, welcoming the National Day, extolling the new era, and praising the new life in forms popular and well-received by the masses (喜闻乐见, xi wen le jian - "happy, hear, enjoy, see"), attracting the participation of a large number of citizens.
This activity was hosted by the Central Office of Spiritual Civilization Development. During the National Day period, localities across the country, relying on the new era civilized practice centers (stations, sites) spread throughout urban and rural areas, extensively carried out patriotic education, organized mass publicity and education activities such as theoretical and policy lectures, the transformation of outdated customs, and literary and artistic performances, and implemented a series of services and activities including red-themed study tours, cultural heritage protection, and care for people in difficulty, enriching the spiritual and cultural life of the masses.
Return to TopBy: 金 轩
Coordinating development and security, strengthening awareness of potential dangers, and staying vigilant during times of peace (居安思危, ju an si wei - "live, peace, think, danger") is a major principle of our Party's governance. Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan period, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, all regions and departments have adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implemented the holistic approach to national security, coordinated high-quality development with high-level security, continuously advanced the modernization of the national security system and capacity, innovatively implemented measures such as security capacity building in key areas and the construction of a national reserve system, effectively responded to a series of major risks and challenges, written a new chapter in the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and injected certainty and positive energy into world economic development.
The foundation of food security has become more solid. We have deeply implemented the national food security strategy of "self-reliance as the priority, based on domestic production, ensuring production capacity, moderate imports, and scientific and technological support," adhered to storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology, firmly grasped the two key points of arable land and seeds, continuously improved comprehensive grain production capacity, and China's grain production has developed steadily with ample market supply. We have firmly held the red line of 1.8 billion mu of arable land, built high-standard farmland exceeding 1 billion mu, and the national irrigated area of arable land exceeds 1.09 billion mu. The contribution rate of agricultural scientific and technological progress, the coverage rate of improved crop varieties, and the comprehensive mechanization rate of crop cultivation, sowing, and harvesting have exceeded 64%, 96%, and 76%, respectively. Through the research, development, and promotion of salt-alkali-tolerant rice (seawater rice), hundreds of millions of mu of dormant saline-alkali wasteland are expected to be transformed into fertile farmland. China, with 9% of the world's arable land and 6% of its freshwater resources, feeds nearly one-fifth of the global population. Total grain output has remained above 1.4 trillion jin for two consecutive years, and per capita grain possession exceeds 500 kilograms, higher than the internationally recognized food security line. We have achieved basic self-sufficiency in grains and absolute security in staple food, and the Chinese people's rice bowl is firmly held in their own hands. In the face of severe volatility in the global grain market caused by geopolitical conflicts and extreme weather, China's grain production has maintained bumper harvests year after year, and domestic grain prices have remained stable, forming a sharp contrast with grain shortages and soaring grain prices in some countries.
The capacity to ensure energy and resource security has been continuously strengthened. We have firmly implemented the new energy security strategy of "four revolutions and one cooperation," accelerated the construction of a new energy system, and China's energy security has been effectively guaranteed. Total primary energy production has exceeded 5 billion tons of standard coal, and the energy self-sufficiency rate has remained above 80%. We have adhered to giving play to the role of coal as a "ballast stone" in ensuring supply, vigorously promoted the clean and efficient utilization of coal power, maintained crude oil production at a stable level above 200 million tons, and natural gas production has increased by more than 10 billion cubic meters for nine consecutive years, continuously enhancing the capacity for independent energy security and self-sufficiency. We have built the world's largest and fastest-growing renewable energy system, with installed capacity of hydropower, wind power, and solar power all ranking first in the world. By the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the share of non-fossil energy consumption reached 21.7%, and nearly 4 out of every 10 kilowatt-hours of electricity consumed nationwide was green electricity. We have built the world's largest and most technologically advanced AC/DC hybrid interconnected power grid, promoting the optimal allocation of power resources nationwide. Since the beginning of this year, volatility in the global energy market has intensified. As the world's largest energy consumer, China has leveraged its advantages in diversified energy supply, responded calmly and adjusted effectively, ensuring the overall stable and orderly energy supply, and also promoting stability in the global energy market. The system for coordinating and linking exploration, production, supply, storage, and sales of strategic mineral resources has been continuously improved, and new breakthroughs have been continuously achieved in increasing reserves and production.
The security and resilience of industrial and supply chains have continued to strengthen. We have deeply implemented the innovation-driven development strategy, focused on stabilizing and strengthening chains, filling gaps and extending chains, and continuously improved the development quality and security level of key industries and key areas. We have built the world's largest high-speed railway network and expressway network, and the construction of the "six networks" including water networks, computing power networks, and logistics networks has been advanced with high quality. The completion rate of the main framework of the "6 axes, 7 corridors, 8 channels" national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network has exceeded 90%. The capacity for independent innovation and research and development has been continuously improved. In 2025, China's R&D investment intensity reached 2.8%, for the first time exceeding the average level of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries. The comprehensive ranking of the national innovation index has risen to ninth in the world. Breakthroughs have been continuously achieved in key core technologies of integrated circuits, and the scale of application of domestically produced equipment and materials has grown steadily. The manufacturing system is complete, with all categories covered and significant supporting advantages. The scale of manufacturing value added accounts for nearly 30% of the global total, maintaining the world's first place for 16 consecutive years. Supported by the complete industrial system and strong scientific and technological innovation capabilities, China's trade advantages have become prominent, and its role as the "world's factory" has been further demonstrated.
Risks in key areas have been effectively prevented and controlled. We have fully practiced the principle of putting people's safety first, firmly held the bottom line of people's livelihood, and continuously enhanced the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security. We have built a full-chain policy system including unemployment insurance premium refunds for job stabilization and employment and entrepreneurship subsidies. Since the start of the 14th Five-Year Plan period, urban new employment has cumulatively exceeded 60 million people, per capita disposable income of residents has grown at an average annual rate of 5.4%, and the income ratio between urban and rural residents has narrowed to 2.31. We have built the world's largest education system, social security system, and medical and health system. The average years of education of the working-age population has increased to 11.3 years, the national pooling of basic old-age insurance has been steadily implemented, and the average life expectancy has increased to 79.25 years. We have promoted the effective connection between consolidating and expanding the achievements of the battle against poverty and comprehensive rural revitalization, and the scale of employment of people lifted out of poverty has remained stable at over 30 million people. We have continued to make efforts to stabilize the real estate market, and the task of "ensuring the delivery of housing" has been fully completed. We have orderly disposed of hidden debts of local governments, and the number of financing platforms has continued to decrease. The reform, risk resolution, reduction in number, and quality improvement of small and medium-sized financial institutions have been steadily advanced. We have effectively responded to natural disasters such as typhoons and floods.
At present, the major changes unseen in a century are accelerating, and the evolution of the international situation profoundly affects domestic development and security. China's development has entered a period in which strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors increase. Adhering to coordinating development and security is one of the important principles that must be followed in China's development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. We must strengthen our confidence and brave difficulties to move forward (迎难而上, ying nan er shang - "face, difficulty, and, go up"), consolidate security in development, seek development in security, strengthen bottom-line thinking, effectively prevent and resolve various risks, enhance economic and social resilience, and safeguard the new development pattern with a new security pattern.
Enhance economic security resilience and impact resistance capacity. Coordinate efforts to improve security guarantee capacity in key areas such as food, energy resources, and water, and intensify the implementation of strategic actions such as a new round of increasing grain production capacity by 100 billion jin, medium- and long-term oil and gas reserve and production increases, and a new round of breakthroughs in mineral exploration. Accelerate the construction of a national reserve system and continuously enrich the national reserve assets. Build a modern infrastructure system and systematically advance the planning and construction of the "six networks." Accelerate high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology, and strengthen original innovation and tackling of key core technologies. Improve the capacity to prevent and resolve risks in key areas, and coordinate the orderly resolution of risks in real estate, local government debt, and small and medium-sized financial institutions. Implement the employment-first policy well, ensure stable employment for key groups, promote sustained income growth for residents, improve the tiered and classified social assistance system, and promote social stability.
Strengthen security governance in emerging fields. Improve the cybersecurity strategy, deepen comprehensive governance of cyberspace, and protect critical information infrastructure from attacks, intrusion, interference, and destruction. Strengthen classified and graded protection of data, and promote and regulate cross-border data flows. Promote the safe and healthy development of the low-altitude economy in light of local conditions, improve the biosecurity risk prevention and control system, improve laws, regulations, policies, application standards, and ethical guidelines related to artificial intelligence, comprehensively respond to the impact of new technology development on employment and social governance, and promote the construction of security capabilities in model algorithms, data resources, infrastructure, application systems, and other areas.
Improve the economic security risk prevention and control system. Strengthen macroeconomic monitoring, forecasting, and early warning, enhance the capacity and level of dynamic monitoring and real-time early warning, and promptly study and handle emerging, trending, and potential problems. Strengthen trade risk prevention and control, and protect the rights and interests of foreign investors in accordance with the law. Continuously strengthen the protection of overseas interests and risk prevention and control, establish and improve coordination mechanisms for security work in the surrounding areas, improve the security guarantee system for the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, and effectively safeguard the security and legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens, organizations, and institutions overseas.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 29) (Reporter He Zhaoyu) To commemorate the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, on September 29, the "Great Expedition — Exhibition of Archives of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" and the "Snowy Mountains and Grasslands — Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" were officially opened to the public at the Exhibition Hall of the History of the Communist Party of China.
The "Great Expedition" exhibition is jointly hosted by the Central Archives and the Exhibition Hall of the History of the Communist Party of China, and is divided into 5 sections, centrally displaying more than 230 precious Long March archival documents, mainly from the collections of the Central Archives. In the special sections "25,000 Li," "How Did the World Learn of the Long March?" and "The Long March in Editions," the 1937 clean-copy draft manuscript of Records of the Red Army's Long March is shown to the audience for the first time.
The "Snowy Mountains and Grasslands" exhibition is jointly hosted by the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Heritage Administration and the Exhibition Hall of the History of the Communist Party of China, and is divided into 3 sections: "Climbing Snowy Mountains," "Crossing Grasslands," and "Forging Monuments." It brings together 273 items (sets) of exhibits, including Red Army nail-studded cloth shoes, a half leather belt, a pocket-sized party flag, and wheat-cutting certificates. A batch of the latest research achievements in cultural relics, such as remains from Jiajin Mountain, survey specimens from the Baozuo Battle site, and the certificate of a fallen Red Army soldier issued to female Red Army soldier Wang Quanying, are exhibited publicly for the first time.
It is reported that both the "Great Expedition" and "Snowy Mountains and Grasslands" exhibitions have been selected for the list of recommended thematic exhibitions commemorating the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, published by the Central Propaganda Department, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Veterans Affairs, and the National Cultural Heritage Administration. Taking archival documents and revolutionary cultural relics respectively as their core carriers, they reproduce the magnificent and heroic (气壮山河, qi zhuang shan he - "breath, strong, mountain, river") heroic epic of the Red Army's Long March.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Harbin, September 29) (Reporter Wang He) On the 29th, the 2026 on-site promotion meeting for the "Youth Legal Popularization Volunteers Rule-of-Law Culture Grassroots Tour" activity was held in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. This activity is jointly sponsored by the China Law Society, the Ministry of Justice, and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League. Since its launch in May 2008, according to incomplete statistics, it has cumulatively organized more than 12 million legal popularization volunteers to participate, carried out more than 11 million online and offline legal popularization activities, and reached a total audience of 400 million person-times.
According to reports, the Youth Legal Popularization Volunteers Rule-of-Law Culture Grassroots Tour activity continuously organizes and mobilizes young legal popularization volunteers to go deep into the grassroots front line, spreading legal knowledge, promoting the spirit of the rule of law, and cultivating faith in the rule of law, playing an important role in advancing the construction of a rule-of-law society.
Wang Hongxiang, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Executive Vice President of the China Law Society, stated that with the active participation of the vast number of legal popularization volunteers, the Youth Legal Popularization Volunteers Rule-of-Law Culture Grassroots Tour activity has, through sustained, long-term effort, built up strength to create a powerful trend (积厚成势, ji hou cheng shi - "accumulate, thick, become, momentum"), and has already become an important platform for legal publicity and education and a legal popularization brand pleasing to the public eye and ear (喜闻乐见, xi wen le jian - "happy, hear, enjoy, see").
The meeting emphasized that it is necessary to innovate legal popularization methods and approaches, strengthen overall coordination, and build a strong legal popularization team, so that the forms of legal popularization are more welcomed by the masses, the content of legal popularization better fits the needs of the masses, and the brand better highlights regional characteristics, thereby creating a sound rule-of-law environment for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 驰
From the entrance of Jinrui Community in Wudongde Township, Luquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County, Kunming, Yunnan, one can see the autumn Jinsha River with its undulating green waves (碧波荡漾, bi bo dang yang - "green waves, surging"), stretching into the distance together with the smooth, open highways.
Roads connect the fields, and the fields yield livelihoods. On the hillsides, the fiery-red "small millet chili peppers" have just finished being harvested, and the next crop of seeds has already been sown into the soil."This plot grows melons, that plot grows fruit. The land and the people — neither is idle."said Mao Hongyin, a resident of Jinrui Community.
Mao Hongyin was the former Party branch secretary of Jiaoping Village, Jiaopingdu Township, and moved to Jinrui Community in 2019. In the past, Jiaoping Village thrived by the ferry crossing, and Mao Hongyin's family lived right by the water. At seven or eight years old, he followed the old boatmen of the village to learn ferrymanship, rowing the boat while listening to stories. His master was one of the old boatmen who helped the Red Army "skillfully cross the Jinsha River."
In May 1935, the Red Army arrived at Jiaoping Ferry. The wind howled through the canyon, and the Jinsha River was full of surging waves (波涛汹涌, bo tao xiong yong - "waves, surging, violent"). Ahead lay a natural moat, behind came pursuing troops, and the task of crossing the river was extremely urgent (十万火急, shi wan huo ji -"ten thousand, fire, urgent"). Fortunately, the Red Army's advance crossing party learned that some boats by the riverbank had not yet been destroyed by the enemy, and with the help of the boatmen, they found the vessels. A host of boatmen lent their strength, military and civilians united as one (军民团结一心, jun min tuan jie yi xin -"military, civilians, unite, one, heart"), and the Red Army troops finally succeeded in crossing the river.
More than 80 years later, to support the construction of the Wudongde Hydropower Station, all 310 households and 1,096 people of Jiaoping Village embarked on the road of relocation. When the relocation work was launched, Mao Hongyin took the lead in signing the consent agreement.
"Back then, the old boatmen helped the Red Army cross the river; now, we of the younger generation must also follow the Party."said Mao Hongyin."Besides, our new home is a brick-and-tile house, with running water, electricity, and roads — a better life. Why wouldn't we come?"
The warmth of the Jinsha River valley has aided the development of the ancient ferry's new village. Today, in Jinrui Community, honey pumpkin is interplanted with lemons, growing promisingly; the "small millet chili peppers," leveraging the temperature advantage, have gained competitiveness by entering the market at a staggered time.
Mountainous areas account for 98% of Luquan County's territory, with the county's highest elevation at 4,247 meters and its lowest at 746 meters. Beyond the river valley, multiple plateau-specific industries are flourishing, and the red mountain township has broad prospects: in Shuzha Village, Jiulong Township, the terrain is flat and water sources are abundant, with an average of 30 tons of mint flowing from here to domestic and international markets each day; at the Yunling Xiansheng Organic Vegetable Planting Base in Jiaopingdu Township, lettuce, baby cabbage, celery, and other plateau vegetables reach more than 2,000 supermarkets across various regions within 48 hours; in the high, cold mountain areas of Malutang Township, over ten thousand mu of characteristic Chinese medicinal herbs such as angelica, aconite, and Gentiana macrophylla take root and grow amid the forest...
Mao Hongyin, who has lived by the river for most of his life, has once again become a"ferryman." In 2022, under the leadership of the Party branch of the Second Community of Jinrui Community, the descendants of the old boatmen of Jiaoping Village built 10"Old Boatmen's Homes" in the Second Community, providing services such as commentary, accommodation, and meals for training and research groups. Mao Hongyin became a volunteer docent of the Red Army's river-crossing story, having given nearly 200 lectures over the years and served as a"guide" for more than 16,000 person-times.
"As long as people want to listen, I will keep telling the story, passing on the great spirit of the Long March."said Mao Hongyin.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 29) The State Council appointed and removed state personnel.
Appointed Huang Min as Deputy Director of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration; appointed Deng Chao as Deputy Director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration.
Removed Guo Weiping from the post of Deputy Director of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission; removed Mou Haisong from the post of Deputy Director of the National Public Complaints and Proposals Administration; removed Shen Changyu from the post of Director of the China National Intellectual Property Administration; removed Zhao Shitong from the post of Deputy Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Lanzhou, September 29) (Reporters Xu Hongmei and Song Chaojun) The 14th People's Congress of Gansu Province held its fifth session on September 29 and elected Wu Xiaojun as chairman of the Standing Committee of the Gansu Provincial People's Congress, and elected Kong Shaoxun as governor of the Gansu Provincial People's Government.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 29) (Reporter Li Hongmei) The reporter learned from the Central Meteorological Observatory: It is expected that during the National Day holiday from October 1 to 7, meteorological conditions in most parts of the country will be relatively favorable and suitable for travel. Most of the northern regions will see sunny to cloudy skies; the southern regions will see more cloudy and rainy weather before the 4th, mainly light to moderate rain, with locally heavy to torrential rain in parts of the southwest; from the 3rd to the 4th, there will be a cold air process in the central and eastern regions, but its intensity will not be strong, and temperatures in most parts of the country will be relatively suitable; there will be no large-scale sand, dust, fog, or haze weather; and no typhoon will affect China.
The southern regions will see more cloudy and rainy weather, while the northern regions will be mainly sunny. From the 1st to the 4th, eastern parts of the southwest, the Jianghan region, Jiangnan, and most of southern China will see light to moderate rain, with heavy rain in some areas, locally torrential rain in places such as Guizhou, and locally heavy snow in eastern parts of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau; after the 5th, most of the southern regions will turn to sunny weather. From the 2nd to the 3rd, central Inner Mongolia, northern North China, and southern parts of Northeast China will see light to moderate rain or thundershowers, with locally heavy rain.
Temperatures in most parts of the country will be relatively suitable. Affected by cold air, from the 3rd to the 4th, temperatures in the central and eastern regions will drop successively by 4 to 6 degrees Celsius, with winds of force 4 to 5 north of the Jianghuai region, and winds of force 5 to 7 over eastern sea areas from the 4th to the 7th; from the 6th to the 7th, affected by a new round of cold air, northern Xinjiang will see significant strong wind and cooling weather.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曲哲涵
Not long ago, the Ministry of Finance, the State Taxation Administration, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued an announcement that has drawn consumers' attention: starting next year, the policy of halving the vehicle and vessel tax on energy-saving vehicles will be cancelled, and the vehicle and vessel tax exemption for pure electric commercial vehicles, plug-in hybrid (including range-extended) vehicles, and fuel cell commercial vehicles will also be withdrawn. What is the reason for this policy adjustment? Will the development of the new energy vehicle industry "slow down" as a result?
With the industry maturing, the conditions are in place for the universal tax preference policy to exit in a timely manner
Readers' concern: Why cancel the vehicle and vessel tax reduction and exemption for certain types of vehicles?
In accordance with the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law of the People's Republic of China and its implementing regulations, the Ministry of Finance, the State Taxation Administration, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a document in 2012 clarifying that: a halved vehicle and vessel tax would apply to eligible energy-saving vehicles; and an exemption from vehicle and vessel tax would apply to eligible pure electric commercial vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles, and fuel cell commercial vehicles.
When this reduction and exemption policy was introduced, the industry's key core technologies were still being tackled, the foundation of the upstream and downstream industrial chain was weak, and market acceptance was limited. The tax preference measures effectively lowered vehicle use costs and boosted consumer demand, and over more than a decade have continuously driven the green transformation and upgrading of China's automobile industry.
The reason for this policy adjustment is that the fundamentals of the development of China's new energy vehicle industry have undergone a fundamental shift. In the first half of this year, domestic sales of new energy vehicles reached 7.446 million units, with the overall penetration rate rising to 49.6 percent; in July, the share of new energy vehicles in monthly new vehicle sales exceeded 60 percent for the first time, and their cumulative share exceeded 50 percent for the first time. The universal tax preference policy has the basis for exiting in a timely manner.
The approach of "support first, exit later" in policy is a conventional line of thinking in macroeconomic governance. For example, the termination of the home appliance energy-saving benefit project upon its expiration, and the periodic revision and dynamic adjustment of the duty-free import catalogue for major technical equipment, are all measures that dynamically optimize policy tools according to the industry development cycle and flexibly regulate in line with market conditions.
Targeted incentives can better unleash the momentum for improving quality and enhancing competitiveness (提质培优, ti zhi pei you - "raise quality, cultivate excellence") in the industry
Readers' concern: How to assess the impact of this policy adjustment on the new energy vehicle industry?
From the perspective of market demand, taking common freight vehicles as an example, the annual vehicle and vessel tax on a truck with a curb weight of 5 tons is several hundred yuan; for various types of passenger vehicles taxed on a per-vehicle basis, the annual tax amount ranges from 480 yuan to 1,440 yuan. This annual expenditure accounts for a relatively small share of the total cost of vehicle use and will not lower the market's overall acceptance of new energy vehicles.
From the perspective of industry development, after the policy adjustment, vehicle-using enterprises will be more inclined toward products with higher environmental performance, stronger durability, and lower comprehensive use costs, which will force automakers to reduce cutthroat competition between identical products (同质化竞争, tong zhi hua jing zheng - "same quality, competition") and win orders by relying on product strength.
From the perspective of market cultivation, if the tax reduction and exemption policy were to be continued indefinitely, it would create an imbalance in tax burden between fuel vehicles and new energy vehicles, which would be detrimental to the construction of the unified national market; resuming taxation helps foster a healthier consumption environment for the development of the entire automobile industry.
Seeking the "combination point" and "optimal solution" across the above three dimensions is ultimately reflected in a comprehensive grasp of the timing of this policy adjustment, the degree of tax burden, and the objects of taxation. It should also be noted that state support for the new energy vehicle industry continues, with policies such as trade-in subsidies being extended. Shifting the form of support from universal concessions to targeted incentives can better unleash the momentum for improving quality and enhancing competitiveness in the industry.
Passenger vehicles of the relevant types do not fall within the scope of taxation stipulated by the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law
Readers' concern: Why do pure electric and fuel cell passenger vehicles remain untaxed in this adjustment?
Under the Vehicle and Vessel Tax Law, passenger vehicles are classified into tax brackets based on engine displacement. Pure electric and fuel cell passenger vehicles have no internal combustion engine and thus no displacement, so they do not fall within the objects of vehicle and vessel tax.
Optimizing tax preference measures in a timely manner does not mean weakening the intensity of industrial support policies, but rather balancing tax fairness with industrial growth. This can both regulate market order and consolidate the foundation of the tax system, while continuously releasing the internal vitality of the industry, thereby promoting achieving long-term, steady development (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk steadily, reach far") of China's new energy vehicle industry.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 21) Comrade Shen Rengan (沈仁干), former full-time deputy director of the National Copyright Administration and member of the Party Group of the former General Administration of Press and Publication (at the vice-ministerial level), passed away due to illness in Beijing on September 1, 2026, at the age of 83.
After Comrade Shen Rengan's passing, relevant leading comrades of the Central Committee expressed their condolences in various ways and extended their sympathies to his family members.
Shen Rengan was born in February 1943 in Liuyang, Hunan. He began his work in August 1965 and joined the Communist Party of China in April of the same year. From August 1965 to August 1982, he worked successively in the Basic Theory of Marxism Teaching and Research Office of the Central Party School and the Copyright Division of the National Publishing Administration. From August 1982 to October 1987, he served successively as deputy director of the Copyright Division of the Publishing Bureau of the Ministry of Culture and director of the Legal Affairs Division of the National Publishing Administration. From October 1987 to May 1995, he served as director of the Copyright Department of the National Press and Publication Administration (National Copyright Administration). From May 1995 to March 2001, he served as a member of the Party Group of the National Press and Publication Administration and deputy director of the National Copyright Administration. From March 2001 to January 2003, he served as a member of the Party Group of the General Administration of Press and Publication. From January 2003 to May 2004, he served as full-time deputy director of the National Copyright Administration and member of the Party Group of the General Administration of Press and Publication (at the vice-ministerial level).
Shen Rengan was a member of the Tenth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of its Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Health and Sports.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 28) Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, former Vice President and Member of the Party Group of the former China National Petroleum Corporation, Comrade Qiu Zhongjian, passed away in Beijing on September 17, 2026, due to illness, at the age of 93.
After Comrade Qiu Zhongjian's passing, leading comrades of the relevant central authorities expressed their condolences in various ways and extended their sympathies to his family members.
Qiu Zhongjian, born in June 1933, was a native of Guang'an, Sichuan. He began working in September 1953 and joined the Communist Party of China in March 1979. From September 1958 to May 1969, he successively served as Deputy Chief Geologist of the Southern Sichuan Mining Area of the Sichuan Gas Field Geological Command, and Geologist of the Geological Second-Line Exploration Office of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry, among other positions. Starting in May 1969, he was sent down to labor at a "May 7th" cadre school. From December 1972 to July 1987, he successively served as Chief Geologist of the Exploration Office of the Petroleum Exploration and Development Planning Research Institute of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry, and Chief Geologist of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, among other positions. Starting in July 1987, he successively served as Director of the Exploration Department of the Ministry of Petroleum Industry, Director of the Exploration Department of the China National Petroleum Corporation, and Deputy Commander and Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Tarim Petroleum Exploration and Development Headquarters. From August 1990 to December 1996, he successively served as Vice President, Member of the Party Group, and concurrently Commander of the Tarim Petroleum Exploration and Development Headquarters and Secretary of its Party Working Committee; Vice President, Member of the Party Group, and concurrently President of the Petroleum Exploration and Development Research Institute, among other positions. In December 1999, he was elected Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Qiu Zhongjian was a member of the Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Return to TopDialogue participants:
Peng Fei, People's Daily commentator
Lu Ruquan, Executive Director and President of the Economics and Technology Research Institute of China National Petroleum Corporation
Peng Fei: Not long ago, multiple foreign media outlets reported that against the backdrop of tight international crude oil supply caused by the conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran, China, relying on its strategic reserves and energy transition, not only safeguarded its own energy security but also, by proactively reducing crude oil imports, served as a "buffer" for global oil prices. Some foreign media even remarked that "China saved the world." What is your view on this?
Lu Ruquan: In fact, China's "saving" is reflected not only on the demand side through reduced crude oil imports, but also on the supply side, where it has played the role of a stabilizer and ballast stone.
On the one hand, China's green energy products, represented by photovoltaics and electric vehicles, are sold overseas, helping local areas alleviate energy pressure. On the other hand, China's refining and chemical industry, relying on its complete industrial system and full-chain supporting capabilities, has promptly "reduced oil and increased chemicals," rapidly absorbing spillover demand and providing solid support for the stability of the industrial chains of plastics, textiles, packaging, and electronics in Asia and even globally. Data show that in the first half of 2026, China's exports of basic organic chemicals grew by 25.1% year-on-year, and exports of primary-shaped plastics grew by 35%. In the first four months, PetroChina's chemical product exports reached 218,000 tons, an increase of more than 130%.
President Xi Jinping emphasized: "The ancient Chinese spoke of 'working together through adversity' (同舟共济, tong zhou gong ji - "same, boat, together, assist"); now the international community needs to 'work together on the same planet.'" As a major country with a population of more than 1.4 billion, China can keep itself steady amid storms and can also help stabilize global supply chains. The concept of a community with a shared future for mankind has become more concrete in the face of crisis.
Peng Fei: The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes "promoting the peaking of coal and petroleum consumption." As the share of clean energy consumption rises, what role will petroleum play in China's future energy and economic development landscape?
Lu Ruquan: Peaking is the goal, and a declining share is the trend, but this does not mean fossil energy is no longer important. From the perspective of bottom-line safeguards, petroleum as a fuel remains difficult to replace in the short term in areas such as aviation and maritime transport, and still occupies a dominant position in emergency response and rescue. Moreover, the backup power for most data centers and key public infrastructure consists of diesel generators. Fossil energy is stable, easy to store, and highly efficient, making it a reliable safeguard against risks.
From the perspective of industrial support, petroleum is accelerating its transformation from "fuel" to "raw material." As a non-renewable energy source, burning petroleum directly is in fact somewhat wasteful. Promoting "electricity replacing oil" across various fields is conducive to converting more of the saved oil into high-value-added industrial materials, such as photovoltaic encapsulation films, carbon fiber for wind turbine blades, and anode materials for lithium batteries. In the future, petroleum's strategic value at the high end of the industrial chain will not be weakened but rather strengthened.
From the perspective of energy security, the ability to independently control petroleum bears on a country's strategic initiative. Although the share of petroleum consumption is declining, it remains an important strategic resource. China has built a strong and complete petroleum industrial system, continuously improved its diversified oil and gas supply system, and possesses the world's largest refining and chemical production capacity. Such advantages must not be lost.
Peng Fei: The scarcity and non-renewability of oil and gas make them a focal point of international competition. How will the increased development and utilization of clean energy affect the future geopolitical landscape and international relations?
Lu Ruquan: Compared with oil and gas resources, which are highly concentrated in geographic distribution, clean energy sources such as hydropower, wind power, and photovoltaics exhibit a "decentralized" pattern of geographic distribution, which can precisely break the "curse" of imbalance and depletion of oil and gas resources. The conflicts between the United States, Israel, and Iran since the beginning of this year have made more countries realize that developing clean energy is not only an important lever for addressing climate change but also an important path for safeguarding national energy security. China has set an example on this path, showing all countries that developing clean energy is feasible, reliable, and replicable.
Looking at a deeper level, the different characteristics of different energy sources profoundly influence people's ways of thinking and logic of action. There is a metaphor in the industry: the oil and gas industry is a "treasure hunt game," where the size of the treasure determines everything; while the power industry that converts clean energy is a "symphony orchestra," where the entire orchestra must work in close coordination to produce a moving melody. This means that oil and gas resource development more often follows project-based thinking, which can easily give rise to trade between countries but may also lead to preemption and control. Clean energy development, by contrast, more often follows systems thinking and requires greater openness, cooperation, sharing, and connectivity.
China has technological accumulation and systemic advantages in the development and utilization of clean energy. More importantly, it has always upheld the principle of openness, inclusiveness, and a mutually beneficial outcome (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual, benefit, together, win"), and teaching someone how to fish rather than just giving them fish (授之以鱼更授之以渔, shou zhi yi yu geng shou zhi yi yu - "give, to, fish, more, give, to, fish, method"). Through more inclusive global energy cooperation, China will help all countries escape the vicious cycle of zero-sum games and win-lose competition.
Peng Fei: How will the rapid advancement of technologies such as new-type energy storage and artificial intelligence affect China's development and utilization of energy?
Lu Ruquan: Both of these technologies are disruptive. Once new-type energy storage matures, it will resolve the contradiction between the randomness, intermittency, and volatility of clean energy power generation and the "real-time balance" requirements of the power system, forming "electricity oil fields" and enabling clean energy utilization to no longer depend on the weather.
The impact of artificial intelligence is broader and more far-reaching. It can not only play a key role in the new-type power system but will also be fully applied to the exploration, development, and production of oil, gas, and coal. By building "smart oil fields" and "digital mines" to reduce costs and increase efficiency, data and algorithms are becoming core factors of production in the energy sector.
In the energy transition, China has incomparable advantages in technology, application scenarios, and industrial systems. This is the source of confidence in safeguarding China's energy security and the foundation of the strong resilience that China's economy has always maintained.
Return to TopBy: 陈艺娴
Recently, several short videos have been widely shared, warming hearts and prompting reflection.
In Gyirong, Tibet, a hardware store owner kept his doors open 24 hours a day, providing supplies free of charge and offering accommodation to rescue workers. His words, "Any Chinese person would do the same," reflect the simple sentiment of mutual assistance in times of need (守望相助, shou wang xiang zhu - "guard, watch; help, assist") in the face of danger.
In Shangri-La, Yunnan, a young Chinese man picked up a phone and shouted, "Whose phone is this?" and over a hundred tourists immediately joined in the search, with a French tourist stepping forward to discover it was his own. The immediate and widespread response to a call (一呼百应, yi hu bai ying - "one, call; hundred, respond") to find the phone's owner added a vivid footnote to the "Chinese-style sense of security."
In Rongjiang, Guizhou, two passersby taking shelter from the rain noticed that rice laid out to dry in a courtyard was being soaked, and with the owner absent, they took the initiative to help gather it up and cover it. This scene, captured on surveillance camera, was labeled "kindness in passing" as a testament to local bonds.
A sincere heart, however small, is full of compassion. Whether lending a hand at a critical moment or performing ordinary, effortless acts in daily life, one can see the benevolent heart of treating others as one would treat oneself (推己及人, tui ji ji ren - "push, self; reach, others") and valuing goodness and righteousness.
"The benevolent love others," realized in the relationships between people. Where does "benevolence" begin? As the saying goes, "Compassion is the beginning of benevolence." In daily practice, this means putting oneself in another's shoes (设身处地, she shen chu di - "set, body; place, ground"), empathizing and considering things from the other's perspective, thinking what others think and being anxious about what others are anxious about. The hardware store owner thought of rescue workers having nowhere to rest at night; the tourist thought of the phone's owner being extremely anxious or in a state of great urgency (心急如焚, xin ji ru fen - "heart, urgent; like, burning"); the passersby thought of the grain being wasted one's hard work or efforts (心血白费, xin xue bai fei - "heart, blood; white, waste") once soaked... These are all cases of "treating others' difficulties as one's own."
From another perspective, the benevolent heart also has a radius: expanding outward from the individual as the origin, accelerating and amplifying through the resonance of the collective, and ultimately permeating the broader social life.
A sincere heart has always been tied to family and country. From countless ordinary moments, people can feel the strong resonance between oneself and others, between the individual and the nation, inspiring benevolence and good deeds. At the Gyirong Port in Tibet, rescue teams continue to fight on the front lines of disaster relief; rushing to aid Guangxi, young volunteers answered the "flood" call and marched against the current... At every moment of crisis and danger, the Chinese people are always sharing the same heart for family and country (家国同心, jia guo tong xin - "family, nation; same, heart") and advancing hand in hand.
More "benevolence" lies hidden in the details of daily life. In Shanghai, "Master Xiao Yang" uses his spare time to help neighbors with small repairs free of charge, and has kept at it for over 30 years; in Pingdu, Shandong, Ren Bingkai, a young man born in the 1990s, asks for nothing in return and insists on delivering free love dinners to patients' families at the hospital... Benevolent and righteous deeds are not just flashes at special moments, but also silent perseverance and the foundation of civilization.
Benevolent and righteous deeds are not a solo monologue; once ignited, they trigger a collective response. "The foundation of the world lies in the state, the foundation of the state lies in the family, and the foundation of the family lies in the individual." In the eyes of the Chinese people, the family is the smallest state, and the state is a family of ten thousand households. The fine traditional Chinese culture is passed down and continues, exerting a gentle, silent, and pervasive influence (润物无声, run wu wu sheng - "moisten, things; without, sound"), and "always harboring a benevolent heart" has long been etched into the nation's bloodline. The rich feelings for family and country, the profound responsibility for family and country, and the strong sense of duty for family and country flow endlessly, inspiring all the people to write the story of family unity and national cohesion on the new journey, advancing unyielding in the face of numerous setbacks (百折不挠, bai zhe bu nao - "hundred, break; not, bend").
Broadening our horizons, today's China is stretching the radius of "benevolence" even further. Building a community with a shared future for mankind, pursuing high-quality Belt and Road Initiative cooperation, and proposing and practicing the four major global initiatives... "Taking the people's hearts as our own heart and the world's interests as our own interest," upholding the common values of all humanity, and contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to addressing global challenges—this is the contemporary global expression of "benevolence."
International polls show that China's global trust rating continues to rise, with it being seen as a "trustworthy country" and a "reliable partner"; the visa-free policy continues to expand, and now 7 out of every 10 foreigners entering China come visa-free; from "seeing China" to "experiencing China," "Chinamaxxing" (extreme Sinicization) is booming on overseas social media. China's benevolent heart is constantly "expanding its circle," with ever-deepening influence.
Today's China is no longer what it was yesterday, but its true character remains unchanged. Expanding the radius of "benevolence," internalizing values within one's heart (内化于心, nei hua yu xin - "inner, transform; at, heart") and externalizing them in action, and embodying them in every small deed will surely unleash the surging momentum to create a better life together, undaunted by wind and rain.
Return to TopBy: 且听风
Recently, media reports on various malpractices in rural environmental pollution control have drawn public attention.
In one place in Anhui, workers applying biogas slurry to farmland did not understand the application standards and poured more than 3,300 tons of biogas slurry onto more than 10 mu of farmland in two days, far exceeding the normal application rate. In one place in Jiangsu, equipment at sewage treatment stations in some villages ran idle, and in others, due to unreasonable pipe network design, domestic sewage flowed back and flooded into households, creating new pollution.
These cases are a wake-up call: if management is sloppy and formalism prevails, the greater the intensity of control efforts, the more they will produce acting in a way that produces the opposite of the intended result (南辕北辙, nan yuan bei che - "south, coach, north, chariot").
In recent years, China's rural environmental improvement has achieved remarkable results that the public can see and feel. According to information disclosed by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部), the treatment rate of rural domestic sewage in China has exceeded 55 percent, doubling compared with the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan period. Black and malodorous water bodies in relatively large areas of rural areas have been basically eliminated, and the level of resource utilization of agricultural waste has been continuously improved.
However, rural areas remain a weak link in environmental governance. Specifically, regional differences are large, pollutant sources are complex and dispersed, and control cannot rely on relying on a single method to solve all problems (一招鲜、吃遍天, yi zhao xian, chi bian tian - "one, trick, fresh; eat, everywhere, sky"); financial resources are not so abundant that equipment and machinery can be deployed in every corner; and some people's environmental awareness is relatively weak, requiring greater efforts to win understanding and support.
For rural environmental pollution control, it is especially necessary to respect reality, adapt to circumstances, and solve problems in a targeted manner.
In some places with small populations, where per capita sewage generation is small and centralized collection and disposal are difficult, large sums of money are nonetheless spent on centrally building sewage treatment facilities, which sit idle after completion, wasting resources and costing the public money. In similar environments, some places have adopted methods of collection by area, simple treatment, and nearby utilization, converting domestic sewage into fertilizer water, spending little money to accomplish real things. It is clear that proceeding from reality in everything is the starting point of pollution control work.
Pollution control is a process of dancing with risk. If one ignores reality and acts recklessly, with sloppy management and no regard for quality and effectiveness, one will suffer the consequences and commit the act of "causing pollution" in the name of pollution control. Experience shows that measures that can take firm root and become well-established (落地生根, luo di sheng gen - "fall, ground, grow, root") often take into account pollution prevention, cost control, and the interests of the public. For example, vigorously promoting the resource utilization of agricultural waste, turning straw, livestock and poultry manure, and other wastes into turning waste into valuable resources (变废为宝, bian fei wei bao - "change, waste, become, treasure") for nearby use by farmers, both reduces pollution and increases farmers' enthusiasm for participating in the circular economy and promoting environmental protection. Achieving such an effect is no easy task, and pragmatism is the most scientific attitude.
Pollution control involves all aspects and all links, and a systematic approach must be upheld. The case of biogas slurry application to farmland is a typical example. From pasture to farmland, the harmless treatment, sealed transportation, and precise application of biogas slurry are each part is absolutely essential (缺一不可, que yi bu ke - "lack, one, not, can"). Some places exercise strict control over the harmless treatment inside livestock farms, but once the biogas slurry is transported out of the gate, management fails to keep up. Insufficient supervision of its whereabouts and inadequate guidance for field application workers have led to application amounts exceeding the carrying capacity of farmland. Grasping only one point while ignoring the rest, the "resource" so painstakingly converted may revert to a previous state (变回, bian hui - "change, return") as a "source of pollution."
Better playing the role of the "baton" can guide pollution control to be more scientific. If the assessment points to how many facilities were built and how much equipment was installed, cadres will easily focus their efforts on "visible" projects; if the assessment precisely points to actual results, looking at how pollutants are treated and whether the public is satisfied, cadres will pay more attention to unglamorous achievements and truly implement work.
In undertaking work, what matters most is valuing truth and seeking truth. If the word "truth" is firmly grasped, phenomena such as pollution control turning into "pollution causation" will become fewer and fewer.
(Excerpted from the "People's Commentary" WeChat public account)
Return to TopFisheries are an important component of the agricultural and rural economy and the marine economy. Not long ago, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the National Fisheries Development Plan for the 15th Five-Year Plan Period, making specific arrangements around developing high-quality aquaculture, building a safe, standardized, and sustainable capture fishery, and systematically advancing the conservation of aquatic biological resources. According to the plan, by 2030, the output value of China's fisheries is expected to reach 2 trillion yuan.
Here is a poem:
A light boat rocks on the waves, bathed in the glow of dawn,
Silver scales leap above the water, the hold filled with cargo.
Wisely cultivating rivers and seas, planning far and deep,
Fishermen's songs drift far and wide, spreading in all directions.
Xu Zhiwen
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Recently, the 12345 hotline has become a focus of public opinion: at a certain place, when a concert was held, the hotline became a tool for fan circles to "attack each other"; some localities have found through statistics that quite a few of the demands are private-life requests in which public services cannot intervene; there are also unreasonable issues such as "the moonlight is too bright and affects sleep" that occupy hotline resources… These phenomena have triggered public discussion on the service boundary of the convenience hotline. The deeper problem behind such phenomena lies in: the already limited grassroots governance resources — how exactly should they be allocated, and how should their quality and efficiency be improved?
Social interests are pluralistic and the demands of the masses are diverse, so grassroots governance must be able to "hold everything within its scope". Environmental improvement of urban streets and alleys, mediation of neighborhood disputes, assistance and support for special groups… every single matter or detail is borne on the shoulders of grassroots cadres. This is not "overstepping one's role", but rather the sentiment and duty of Party members and cadres. "When in trouble, turn to the police"; "when something happens, turn to the government"; "when you have opinions, call 12345" — these precisely reflect the heartfelt trust of the masses, and are also a notable feature of China's grassroots governance.
"Holding everything within its scope" does not mean there is no boundary. Public resources cannot withstand arbitrary overdraft and reckless consumption. In reality, phenomena such as fabricating false information about gas fires to call the police, causing emergency forces to make empty runs, or turning on a residential community's fire hydrant for one's own convenience to irrigate green spaces, occur from time to time. Every false report, every instance of abuse, is an encroachment on public resources and will create obstacles for those who truly need them. Resources are limited, so allocation must be precise.
How to "manage with precision"? First of all, it lies in assessment indicators being precise and practical. Some localities set abnormally high satisfaction-rate indicators for the convenience service hotline, and some grassroots cadres, in order to complete the indicators, fabricate false work orders and reply "satisfied" across the board after closing each case. When serving the masses becomes a numbers game, what is wasted is not only governance resources, but even more so the trust of the masses. Fewer paper indicators and more examination of actual results — only then can public resources precisely benefit the masses in need.
For grassroots governance to "manage with precision", it is also necessary to clarify the boundaries of powers and responsibilities. The effectiveness of China's grassroots governance lies in having formed a diversified problem-solving mechanism. For example, for livelihood demands in the public sphere, one can call 12345; when encountering civil disputes, one can rely on litigation and mediation mechanisms to resolve them; and as for some family trivialities, one can also find channels for mediation and resolution in communities and villages. From this perspective, forming a triage-and-connection mechanism can help the masses resolve all kinds of urgent and pressing problems facing the people more efficiently.
A higher level of "managing with precision" lies in moving the threshold forward and handling matters before complaints are filed. In the "immediate response to complaints" reform, Beijing's urban management and law enforcement departments have relied on hotline data to aggregate and analyze high-frequency common problems, pushing the governance model toward deeper proactive governance. From "waiting for demands" to "seeking out problems", investing governance resources before hidden dangers take shape — this is not only a manifestation of the initiative of grassroots governance, but also a beneficial exploration in optimizing resource allocation.
"Holding everything within its scope" and "managing with precision" are dialectically unified. If one fails to "hold everything within its scope", it means governance has lost its position; if one cannot achieve "managing with precision", governance may lose focus. In this sense, the allocation of grassroots governance resources tests not only the decisiveness of "what to manage", but even more so the wisdom of "how to manage". By devoting painstaking effort to the task, taking into account warmth, breadth, and precision alike, can governance quality and efficiency be improved, better resolving concerns for the people and bringing well-being to the people.
(The author is an associate professor at the School of Marxism, Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Return to TopBy: 陈炳旭
Profile Gong Baodong
Event "Can a community grid worker from a county town also be an elite cultivated by Southwest University of Political Science and Law?" "Yes!" At the 2026 freshman enrollment ceremony of Southwest University of Political Science and Law, President Lin Wei responded thus to a netizen's question. The alumnus referred to in the president's message was Gong Baodong, who tragically died while organizing the evacuation of the masses; his deeds served as an unforgettable "first lesson of the school year" for the new students.
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Rocks and gravel tumbled down, crashing loudly. In July this year, in Pengshui, Chongqing, just as the mountainside was about to collapse, the post-2000s grid worker Gong Baodong and his colleagues rushed about shouting, knocking on door after door, evacuating and relocating more than 60 members of the masses from the core collapse zone—yet he himself unfortunately perished. "I think we should all be doers, with no need for those beautiful words to adorn us"—this was Gong Baodong's self-encouragement while studying, and it was also what made him make such a choice at the critical moment.
Acting decisively without any hesitation (义无反顾, yi wu fan gu - "righteousness, no, reverse, go") and stepping forward to take responsibility (挺身而出, ting shen chu er - "straighten, body, emerge, out")—what extraordinary sense of responsibility and courage this was. Why then were there still voices of doubt? Perhaps some people's understanding of the word "elite" has gone astray. The original meaning of "elite" refers to the essence, the finest of things. But if understood narrowly and utilitariantly, one cannot help but develop illusions such as "superiority" or "acting in a superior or aloof manner" (高高在上, gao gao zai shang - "high, high, exist, on top"). For example, some believe that elites represent high income and a glamorous and brilliant (光鲜亮丽, guang xian liang li - "light, shine, bright, beautiful") life; others feel that elites are great honors, the focus of being the center of public attention (万众瞩目, wan zhong zhu mu - "ten thousand, masses, gaze, look"). But in the final analysis, these are nothing more than external labels. True self-realization should be an inward exploration.
An elite should be able to bear the weight of values and lead the vanguard of social trends, not indulging in one's own halo, but using what one has learned, what one understands, and what one believes, to merge one's personal destiny with the great currents of the era, holding up light and blazing the trail for the boundless distances and countless multitudes. What we always praise are those who work hard with great dedication (埋头苦干, mai tou ku gan - "bury, head, bitter, work"), those who sing the song of struggle, those who are putting others before oneself (先人后己, xian ren hou ji - "first, people, after, self") and willing to strive and sacrifice for the public interest.
Everyone has their own field and flowering season; every profession has its own value and significance. Whether it be the border-defending soldiers with the boundary marker before them and the people behind them, or the "field scholars" and "rural innovators" growing in the fields and rooted in the yellow earth, or the scientific researchers who can endure loneliness and withstand obscurity… As long as one has the boldness to dare and the tenacity to do solid work, taking one's own duties to the utmost, "climbing ridge after ridge," one can realize one's own life value and expand the boundaries of life.
Nanjing University has rated Wang Tongge, who held fast for decades at the seaside meteorological station in Guanyun County, Lianyungang, Jiangsu, as an "Outstanding Alumnus"; Tsinghua University has established the "Qihang Award" to encourage graduates to make achievements and contributions in key regions, at the grassroots level, in key units of arduous industries, and at key posts… Setting up models to guard original aspirations, consolidating foundations to ignite ideals—this carries the true essence of education.
What universities teach is knowledge, but even more so a worldview, a philosophy of life, and values. Education should hold high the torch of devotion to family and country and sense of mission, enabling young people in their prime years to find the coordinates of their beliefs, take up the historical "relay baton," and write their personal stories into the chapters of the era.
The official website turned to black-and-white color scheme, "letters from new students" offered in remembrance, photos hung on the wall of martyrs, and the alumni association initiated the establishment of a scholarship… These are the tributes and honors from Gong Baodong's alma mater. Ordinary posts can also involve extraordinary dedication; such a passionate young man fully deserves to be called an elite. We look forward to more people taking him as their model and propping up the backbone of the development of the times.
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Comrades and friends,
Today, with feelings of profound reverence, we gather here to hold a symposium to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Comrade Zou Jiahua, to deeply cherish the memory of his life's achievements, and to recall and learn from his revolutionary spirit, lofty moral character,and fine work style.
Just now, responsible comrades from the Central Institute of Party History and Literature, the General Office of the NPC Standing Committee, the General Office of the State Council,and the Shanghai Municipal Committee respectively delivered speeches, recalling Comrade Zou Jiahua's glorious life,and expressing sincere feelings of remembrance.
Comrade Zou Jiahua was an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China,a tested and loyal communist fighter,a proletarian revolutionary,a distinguished leader on the fronts of China's economic construction, national defense industry construction,and socialist legal system construction,a member of the Political Bureau of the 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China,former Vice Premier of the State Council,and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress.In his long revolutionary career,he devoted all his energy to the Party and the people,and made important contributions to China's great cause of revolution,construction,and reform.
Comrade Zou Jiahua was born in Shanghai in October 1926,and was the eldest son of Zou Taofen,China's outstanding publisher and journalist.Under the influence of his father,he established firm patriotic feelings from an early age,and resolved to devote himself to the revolutionary cause.In December 1944,he joined the New Fourth Army in Huainan,and in June 1945 he joined the Communist Party of China.From January 1946 to May 1948,he successively served as secretary of the Secretariat of the Hadong Prefectural Committee of the Songjiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China,and deputy secretary,and then secretary of the Chang'an District Committee of Bin County.
From May 1948 to January 1955,Comrade Zou Jiahua successively studied in the Department of Mechanical Manufacturing at Harbin Institute of Technology and at Bauman Moscow State Technical University in the Soviet Union.After returning to China in 1955,he entered the Shenyang No.2 Machine Tool Plant,starting as a process engineer in the Technology Section,and through successive positions at multiple posts,grew step by step until he served as factory director.From November 1964 to December 1966,he served as director and Party Committee Secretary of the Machine Tool Research Institute of the First Ministry of Machine Building Industry.He united and led the cadres and workers to raise technical standards,and advance management reform,gradually growing into a backbone talent in the industrial field.From December 1966 to April 1972,during the"Cultural Revolution,"he was subjected to impact,and was later sent down to perform manual labor.From April 1972 to November 1973,he served as deputy Party Committee Secretary and deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee of the Machinery Research Institute of the First Ministry of Machine Building Industry.
From November 1973 to December 1986,Comrade Zou Jiahua successively served as deputy director and deputy Party Group Secretary of the Office of the National Defense Industry Office of the State Council,deputy director and deputy Party Group Secretary of the Commission of Science,Technology,and Industry for National Defense,and minister and Party Group Secretary of the Ministry of Ordnance Industry.During his work in the national defense industry system,he thoroughly implemented the policy of"combining military and civilian,combining peacetime and wartime,giving priority to military products,and supporting the military with civilian production,"and pushed important steps and achieved important progress in the reform of the national defense industry system and its innovative development.In December 1986,Comrade Zou Jiahua served as director and Party Group Secretary of the State Commission of Machinery Industry.Under his leadership,the State Commission of Machinery Industry smoothly completed the handover between old and new institutions and the transformation of management functions,and a new management system for unified planning and coordinated development of the entire machinery industry was gradually established.
In April 1988,Comrade Zou Jiahua served as State Councilor and concurrently Minister and Party Group Secretary of the Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry,assisting in overseeing industrial and transportation work.In response to the frequent occurrence of major traffic accidents at that time,he comprehensively carried out work such as safety inspections and rectification,raising the level of transportation safety,while actively promoting energy conservation and reduced energy consumption in petrochemical enterprises,and promoting the electronics industry to establish an export-oriented economy concept and introduce competition mechanisms.In December 1989,Comrade Zou Jiahua served as State Councilor and concurrently Director and Party Group Secretary of the State Planning Commission.In April 1991,he served as Vice Premier of the State Council and concurrently Director and Party Group Secretary of the State Planning Commission.In October 1992,he served as member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee,Vice Premier of the State Council,and Director and Party Group Secretary of the State Planning Commission,and also concurrently served as deputy director of the Three Gorges Project Construction Committee of the State Council,director of the National Mineral Resources Commission,and head of the Leading Group for Informatization Work of the State Council.He participated in promoting the implementation of the Ten-Year Program for National Economic and Social Development and the Eighth Five-Year Plan,and,under the leadership of the Party Central Committee,presided over the formulation of the Ninth Five-Year Plan and the Outline of the Long-Term Goals for the Year 2010.In accordance with the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council,he vigorously promoted economic system reform,and actively advanced reforms of the planning,investment,fiscal,financial,labor and wage,commerce,material supply,and social security systems.He devoted immense effort to the Three Gorges Project,presiding over the review of the feasibility study report for the Three Gorges Project,and doing solid work on the organization and implementation of resettlement,project construction,and other aspects,making important contributions to the project's approval and implementation.He vigorously promoted the construction of infrastructure such as railways,highways,and postal and telecommunications communications,concentrating forces to complete a number of key projects such as the Beijing-Kowloon Railway and the Nanning-Kunming Railway.He presided over the formulation of economic development plans for the"Yangtze River Delta"and the regions along the Yangtze River,supporting the northwest,southwest,and other regions to leverage their advantages and characteristics,and improve economic efficiency.He actively advanced national informatization construction,requiring that the development and utilization of information resources be regarded as the core content of informatization.
In March 1998,Comrade Zou Jiahua was elected Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress,and in the same month served as member of the Party Group of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress,with a division of responsibilities liaising with the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Environment and Resources Protection Committee.He actively participated in the legislative work of the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee,participating in the deliberation of the draft amendment to the Constitution and in the formulation and revision of laws such as the Law on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution,the Cleaner Production Promotion Law,and the Environmental Impact Assessment Law,making positive contributions to the initial formation of a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution at its core.He led teams on multiple occasions to local areas to inspect the implementation of laws,promoting strict law enforcement and supervision.He actively participated in the foreign exchanges of the National People's Congress,promoting the international community to increase its understanding of,trust in,and support for China.In March 2003,Comrade Zou Jiahua no longer served as Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.After retiring from his leadership positions,he continued to care about the development of the Party and the country's cause,and to hold the lives of the people dear to his heart.
Comrades and friends!
Comrade Zou Jiahua's life was a life of revolution,a glorious life,a life of unremitting struggle for the communist ideal,and for the cause of the Party and the country.His glorious achievements will forever be worthy of our remembrance,and his revolutionary spirit,lofty moral character,and fine work style will forever be worthy of our study.
—In commemorating Comrade Zou Jiahua,we must learn from his political character of firm conviction and loyalty to the Party.Comrade Zou Jiahua came from a revolutionary family,and from an early age was nurtured by patriotic and progressive ideas,cherished deep feelings for the Party,adhered to communist convictions throughout his life,and resolutely submitted to the needs of the state and organizational arrangements.After completing his studies and returning from the Soviet Union,he did not choose to go to Beijing or to work in government organs,but responded to the Party's call and threw himself into the front line of industrial construction,working at the Shenyang No.2 Machine Tool Plant for nearly ten years.Thereafter,regardless of what post he held or what position he assumed,he did his utmost to complete the tasks assigned by the Party.In the face of major issues of right and wrong,Comrade Zou Jiahua took a clear-cut stand and held a firm position.Since the 18th National Congress of the Party,he firmly supported and upheld the leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core,earnestly studied Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era,and firmly supported Party discipline enforcement,and the fight against corruption.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized that loyalty to the Party is the primary political quality of Communists.On the new journey,we must take Comrade Zou Jiahua as our example,bear in mind our original aspiration and founding mission,persist in listening to the Party,following the Party,and preserving the true character of Communists.We must consciously use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to consolidate souls and strengthen conviction,deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the"Two Establishments,"resolutely achieve the"Two Upholds,"continuously improve political judgment,political understanding,and political execution,and always maintain high consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in thought,politics,and action.
—In commemorating Comrade Zou Jiahua,we must learn from his work style of seeking truth from facts and being pragmatic.Comrade Zou Jiahua always upheld democracy and scientific decision-making in his work,placed great emphasis on investigation and research,and placed great emphasis on integrating theory with practice.When presiding over the review of the feasibility study report for the Three Gorges Project,this"project of the century,"he led his team again and again into the nine bends and eighteen turns of the Yangtze River coast to conduct on-site surveys,extensively listened to voices from all sides,organized experts in energy,water conservancy,geology,environmental protection,and other fields to conduct repeated demonstrations,mastered a large amount of first-hand materials and scientific,detailed data,and at the Second Session of the Seventh National People's Congress made an explanation on the proposal submitted for deliberation on the construction of the Three Gorges Project on the Yangtze River,effectively dispelling doubts from all walks of life.During his participation in promoting the implementation of the Eighth Five-Year Plan,he addressed the problem that some localities once blindly launched projects and one-sidedly pursued rapid economic growth,emphasizing that"speed that does not consider conditions and possibilities is blind speed,"and requiring localities to act according to their capability when undertaking construction,carefully screen projects,and distinguish priorities and urgency.After moving to work at the National People's Congress,he focused on issues such as the rational development and utilization of resources and the protection of the ecological environment,repeatedly went deep into grassroots levels for inspections,and put forward many constructive opinions and suggestions.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized that adhering to proceeding from reality in everything is the starting point and foothold for us in thinking about problems,making decisions,and handling affairs.At present,China's development conditions and environment have undergone profound and complex changes compared with the past.In the process of building the new development pattern,developing new quality productive forces,and promoting high-quality development,we must take Comrade Zou Jiahua as our example,persist in respecting practice,and following objective laws,and effectively achieve observing actual conditions,devising practical measures,and seeking practical results.We must consolidate and expand the educational achievements of establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements,and strive to create practical achievements that can withstand the test of practice,the people,and history.
—In commemorating Comrade Zou Jiahua,we must learn from his fighting spirit of being keen on reform and daring to act.Comrade Zou Jiahua resolutely supported and implemented the line,principles,and policies adopted since the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Party,unswervingly advanced reform and opening up,persisted in advancing work with a spirit of reform and innovation,and dared to take responsibility and never flinched in the face of difficulties and challenges.During his work in the national defense industry system,he addressed the actual situation that military enterprises at that time faced reduced military orders,and vigorously promoted the establishment of a new industrial system combining military and civilian production,extensively mobilized relevant units in the national defense science,technology,and industry to vigorously develop civilian products while ensuring military production,striving to serve the revitalization of the national economy,the satisfaction of the people's living needs,and the expansion of foreign trade exports.When Comrade Zou Jiahua concurrently served as director of the State Planning Commission,China was in a critical period of transition from the planned economic system to the socialist market economic system.He emphasized focusing on deepening enterprise reform,and transforming enterprise operating mechanisms,accelerating the reform of the circulation system,cultivating and developing the market system,and better playing the positive role of market regulation,and did a great deal of pioneering and highly effective work in this regard.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized that reform and opening up have only a progressive tense,and no perfect tense.Advancing Chinese modernization is an entirely new undertaking,and on the road forward we will inevitably encounter various contradictions and risks and challenges.We must take Comrade Zou Jiahua as our example,forever maintain a pioneering and enterprising posture,summon the courage to dare to gnaw hard bones and dare to wade through dangerous shoals,and pay attention to using reform methods to solve development problems.We must adhere to combining an effective market with a capable government,and,with the spirit of driving nails,do solid work on implementing the tasks of further deepening reform comprehensively,and use improved institutions to stimulate greater development momentum and vitality.
—In commemorating Comrade Zou Jiahua,we must learn from his fine demeanor of being unadorned and simple,and strict with himself.Comrade Zou Jiahua was open and aboveboard,selfless and fearless,modest and eager to learn,and approachable throughout his life.During his work at the Shenyang No.2 Machine Tool Plant,he often went deep into workshops and mixed with the workers and masters,winning the respect of all cadres and workers in the factory,and everyone was willing to frankly report the real situation to him.During his work at the State Commission of Machinery Industry,he took the lead in wearing a name badge,actively advocated that organ staff"provide services with name badges displayed,"improve work style,and raise service quality.After serving as Vice Premier,when accepting an interview with reporters,he modestly said,"I am not any kind of expert; I still need to study hard,I need to learn from everyone,and learn from practice."Comrade Zou Jiahua was strict with himself,honest and upright,strict in his demands on his family members and the staff around him,and always maintained the political character and noble sentiments of a Communist.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized that all comrades in the Party must understand great virtues,observe public virtues,and be strict in private virtues,living plainly and honestly,and doing things cleanly and properly.The Party's work style bears on whether the people support or oppose the Party,and bears on the life or death of the Party.We must take Comrade Zou Jiahua as our example,thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building,bear in mind that"two musts always be on the way,"thoroughly implement the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation and its implementation rules,persist in using the standards of a Communist to strictly require ourselves,and always achieve using power impartially,using power according to law,using power for the people,and using power with integrity.
Comrades and friends!
Let us unite even more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core,inherit and carry forward the spirit and demeanor of revolutionary predecessors,continue the struggle and forge ahead through hardships,and continuously make new and greater contributions to comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization!
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 29) Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council printed and issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Inheritance of Cultural Heritage" and issued a notice, requiring all regions and all departments to earnestly implement it in light of actual conditions.
The full text of the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Inheritance of Cultural Heritage" is as follows.
Cultural heritage carries splendid civilization, inherits historical culture, and sustains the national spirit; it is a precious resource that is non-renewable and irreplaceable. In order to strengthen the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage and promote high-quality development of the cultural heritage cause, this Plan is formulated pursuant to the "Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China".
I. Overall Requirements
We must adhere to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the guide, thoroughly implement the guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and all plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, conscientiously implement the arrangements of the Fourth Plenary Session, fully implement Xi Jinping's thought on culture, especially Xi Jinping's important discourses on the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage, uphold the Party's overall leadership, adhere to a people-centered approach, adhere to creative transformation and innovative development, adhere to the principles of protection first, rational utilization, and minimal intervention, strengthen overall coordination, deepen reform and innovation, and promote systematic protection and unified supervision of cultural heritage.
The main objectives are: by 2030, cultural heritage resources shall be fully ascertained, the regulatory system shall be basically streamlined, laws and regulations shall be further improved, the talent team shall continue to grow, protection inspection shall be effective and forceful, a major pattern of cultural heritage protection shall be basically formed, and the important role of cultural heritage in building a socialist cultural power shall be fully demonstrated.
II. Building a Major Pattern of Cultural Heritage Protection
1. Conduct thorough surveys and investigations. Consolidate the results of the fourth national cultural relics census, carry out the second national survey of movable cultural relics and the second national survey of intangible cultural heritage. Promptly announce national key cultural relics protection units, national famous historical and cultural cities, national representative items of intangible cultural heritage, and national cultural ecological protection zones. Establish a general catalogue of national cultural heritage resources, and on the basis of the China Cultural Relics Cloud, the intangible cultural heritage database, and other platforms, integrate them to form a major national database of cultural heritage resources.
2. Promote overall coordinated protection. Deeply implement the project for the inheritance and development of fine traditional Chinese culture. Build a system of symbols of Chinese civilization. Promote coordinated protection of tangible cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage, strengthen the construction and management of cultural ecological protection zones, improve the lists of national-level and provincial-level cultural ecological protection zones. Promote coordinated protection of cultural heritage and natural heritage, intensify efforts to protect cultural landscapes, ancient trees, and famous trees.
3. Improve laws, regulations, and institutional systems. Promote the formulation of a law on the protection of cultural heritage. Implement the Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics, promote the revision of the implementing regulations of the Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics, the Museum Regulations, the Regulations on the Protection of Famous Historical and Cultural Cities, Towns, and Villages, and strengthen legal safeguards for the protection of historical and cultural blocks. Improve systems related to red resources, traditional villages, and ancient books protection. Promote the revision of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Law. (See Box 1)
III. Improving the Level of Protection of Immovable Cultural Relics
4. Strengthen protection management. Improve the lists of immovable cultural relics and historical buildings, intensify efforts to announce cultural relics protection units at all levels. Improve the supervision and management system for cultural relics protection units at the level of cities divided into districts, at the county level, and for immovable cultural relics not yet designated. Protect the physical body of cultural relics and their original historical appearance, improve the quality of cultural relics protection projects, and strictly prohibit the practice of faking antiquities under the pretext of protection. Strengthen management of cultural relics protection and restoration, coordinate efforts to advance rescue-oriented, preventive, and research-oriented protection. Promote the combination of cultural relics restoration with intangible cultural heritage techniques.
5. Implement protection prerequisite requirements.In urban and rural construction, implement the cultural relics protection prerequisite requirements of "investigation first, construction later" and "archaeology first, land transfer later," refine policy measures, and carry out surveys of cultural heritage resources.Promptly incorporate objects with preservation value into the lists of immovable cultural relics or historical buildings, dynamically add historical and cultural blocks and underground cultural relics burial areas. Protect holistically the physical bodies of cultural relics and their historical environments, strengthen protection management of the protection zones of cultural relics protection units and their construction control zones.
6. Strengthen classified protection. Implement the "China Construction" key plan. Protect holistically linear heritage and cultural routes such as the Great Wall, the Grand Canal, the Silk Road, the Shu Road, the Qin Straight Road, the Tea-Horse Ancient Road, and the Hexi Corridor. Strengthen overall and systematic protection of ancient capitals, prefectural cities, prefectural seats, county seats, and other ancient cities in history. Strengthen protection of red cultural heritage, deeply implement the project for the protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics. Promote classified protection of industrial heritage, agricultural cultural heritage, water conservancy heritage, and other cultural heritage, ensure proper connection with the cultural relics protection system. Build cultural relics-themed tourist routes in light of local conditions. (See Box 2)(See Box 3)
IV. Advancing Archaeological Work and Research on the History of Civilization
7. Deepen archaeological research and research on the history of civilization. Advance the project for tracing the origins of Chinese civilization, the major project "Archaeology China," and the research project on Xia, Shang, and Zhou civilization. Promote proactive archaeological excavation projects with controlled quantity and improved quality. Carry out major regional and thematic archaeological projects. Strengthen management of archaeological data archives and publication of key archaeological reports, promote research and interpretation. Advance construction of archaeological specimen repository facilities in key regions and important fields, update equipment and facilities, and raise the level of standardization of archaeological technical equipment.
8. Optimize capital construction archaeology. Strengthen management and support for capital construction archaeology, orderly carry out archaeological work for major national projects and urban and rural construction, forming a "one map" of archaeological resources. Strengthen designation and management of underground cultural relics burial areas and underwater cultural relics protection zones. Strengthen urban archaeology work, and within the old city areas of historical cities where ancient and modern layers overlap, implement overall coordinated protection of above-ground cultural relics, historic sites, and underground archaeological sites.
9. Improve the level of site protection. Implement the project for the protection and enhancement of national archaeological site parks, strengthen protection management of archaeological site parks. Intensify protection efforts for early capital sites, capital sites of successive dynasties, and other sites. Advance archaeological research in border regions, strengthen overall protection and display of heritage and cultural relics in land border areas and maritime border areas. Strengthen protection and utilization of important new archaeological discoveries at their original sites, cultivate new types of public cultural spaces based on sites. (See Box 4)(See Box 5
V. Strengthening Protection of Movable Cultural Relics and Museum Management
10. Advance protection of movable cultural relics. Strengthen inventory checking, archive building, and grading designation of collections in state-owned museums, strengthen protection of the physical bodies of cultural relics in collections. Strengthen protection, collation, and publication of ancient books, carry out grading designation of ancient books and cultural relics. Advance protection, collation, and publication of bamboo and wooden slips documents, Dunhuang documents, the Yongle Encyclopedia, and other materials, carry out research on Chinese classical documents. Deeply implement the project for enhancing the influence of archival documentary heritage, strengthen protection, translation, and research of archival materials in ancient scripts of ethnic minorities such as Manchu, Tibetan, and Mongolian. Optimize management of the cultural relics circulation field, improve cross-departmental coordinated supervision mechanisms for cultural relics entering and exiting the country, build a standardized and unified national cultural relics appraisal service system.
11. Comprehensively strengthen museum management. Improve museum management systems, strengthen professional ethics education for practitioners, encourage public participation in supervision. Improve museum construction standards, registration and filing procedures, and exit management mechanisms. Implement the plan for upgrading small and medium-sized museums. Encourage the use of qualified cultural relics buildings and industrial heritage to establish museums. Strengthen demonstration and approval of new museum construction projects, effectively prevent indiscriminate construction and redundant duplication.
12. Improve the quality and efficiency of museum services. Improve the level of public cultural services of museums, make full and good use of existing policies, increase effective supply, provide funding support in accordance with regulations, research and improve policies on free admission. Optimize resource allocation, revitalize cultural relics in collections, promote high-quality cultural resources to reach grassroots levels directly. Encourage museums to open special exhibitions on urban history and folk customs in light of actual conditions, and to display exhibits in conjunction with intangible cultural heritage. Strengthen sharing of collection resources and inter-museum exchanges, carry out overseas exhibitions of cultural relics and joint exhibitions in accordance with regulations. (See Box 6
VI. Strengthening Effective Protection and Living Inheritance of Famous Historical and Cultural Cities, Blocks, Towns, and Villages
13. Improve the protection system. On the basis of the results of national cultural relics surveys, special surveys of old city areas and their historical blocks, strengthen verification and announcement of famous historical and cultural cities, blocks, towns, and villages. Strengthen investigation and protection of old blocks and old towns that have not yet been included in protection lists. Improve tiered protection management systems, establish a reserve list of national famous historical and cultural cities. Strengthen protection assessment, implement the exit mechanism for protection lists.
14. Strengthen overall protection. Implement the project for the protection and enhancement of famous historical and cultural cities, blocks, towns, and villages. Intensify protection efforts for ancient buildings, ancient sites, representative modern buildings, and other cultural relics and historic sites within famous historical and cultural cities, blocks, towns, and villages. Protect holistically traditional patterns, spatial textures, historical features, street systems, architectural remains, cultural ecology, landscape environments, authentically preserving urban and rural historical context
15. Promote living inheritance. Adopt micro-renovation methods, carry out small-scale, incremental restoration, establish protection implementation mechanisms with residents as the main body. Strengthen innovation in protection and utilization mechanisms and exploration of experience, promote rational utilization of cultural relics buildings and historical buildings within historical and cultural blocks. Advance construction of characteristic protection zones in traditional villages, give play to the role of village rules and conventions, promote activation and utilization in light of local conditions. (See Box 7
VII. Solidly Doing Well the Protection and Inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage
16. Improve the protection and inheritance system. Continue to implement the intangible cultural heritage recording project, improve archival systems. Improve dynamic adjustment mechanisms for representative item lists of intangible cultural heritage. Strengthen support and inheritance for intangible cultural heritage items in urgent need of protection. Improve the list system for representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, strengthen tiered team building of representative inheritors, enhance the inheritance vitality of representative items
17. Raise the level of protection and inheritance. Deeply implement the project for the inheritance and development of intangible cultural heritage, strengthen classified protection. Advance inheritance and revitalization of traditional festivals and traditional crafts, research protection measures for categories such as folk literature and folk customs. Carry out revival rehearsals of traditional operas, strengthen excavation and collation of quyi folk art resources, enrich practical forms of intangible cultural heritage in traditional music, traditional dance, traditional sports, and other categories. Promote inheritance of traditional medicine, support the development of traditional Chinese medicine. Raise the level of copyright protection and institutional safeguards for folk literature and art. Promote quality and efficiency improvement of intangible cultural heritage workshops, deepen empowerment of intangible cultural heritage for upgrading historical classic industries
18. Strengthen overall protection of cultural ecology. Protect cultural spaces such as villages, streets, stages, ancestral halls, gardens, and other cultural spaces on which intangible cultural heritage relies. Inherit historical culture of administrative divisions, protect cultural heritage of place names. Explore new ways of contemporary expression of intangible cultural heritage, new forms of rational utilization, cultivate new scenarios for inheritance and experience. Improve inheritance and experience facilities, support rational utilization of cultural relics buildings to arrange spaces for intangible cultural heritage inheritance and display. (See Box 8
VIII. Advancing Construction and Protection of National Cultural Parks
19. Optimize the management system of national cultural parks. Strengthen effective protection and rational utilization of important cultural heritage sites and cultural ecosystems within national cultural parks. Improve construction and management systems, strengthen cross-regional coordination, coordinate efforts to advance construction and protection of national cultural parks of the Great Wall, the Grand Canal, the Long March, the Yellow River, and the Yangtze River
20. Implement listing-based protection of national cultural parks. Relying on cultural heritage resources that manifest prominent characteristics of Chinese civilization, establish listing-based protection lists by batch and by category. Relying on the listing-based protection mechanism, support eligible major tasks and key projects, raise the level of protection. On the premise of strengthening protection, configure necessary auxiliary facilities to provide support for education, research, tourism, and other purposes. (See Box 9
IX. Improving Governance Capacity and Level of Cultural Heritage
21. Strengthen spatial planning control. Coordinate protection requirements of cultural relics protection units, immovable cultural relics not yet designated, historical buildings, improve compilation standards for protection plans of immovable cultural relics, famous historical and cultural cities, etc. Strengthen protection of cultural heritage resources in the implementation of the strategy of functional zones. Coordinate designation of historical and cultural protection lines, incorporate them into the "one map" of territorial spatial planning, establish data security sharing and dynamic maintenance mechanisms, strictly implement territorial spatial use controls and planning permit systems
22. Safeguard the security of cultural heritage. Establish a national monitoring, early warning, command, and disposal system for cultural heritage security, enhance emergency management capacity for cultural heritage. Improve work systems for disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief of cultural relics, effectively respond to risks of climate change and earthquake disasters. Severely crack down on cultural relics crimes, rectify security hazards. Standardize and guide rational and moderate utilization of cultural heritage, prevent emphasizing utilization over protection, emphasizing tourism over culture, and excessive commercial development. Carry out nationwide actions for cultural heritage protection, give play to the role of social organizations and volunteer teams, continuously promote cultural heritage protection in the creation of civilized cities
23. Implement protection supervision responsibilities. Establish a supervision and inspection system for cultural heritage protection, firmly compact responsibilities for cultural heritage protection. Promote inclusion of cultural heritage protection in cadre education and training systems. Strengthen audit supervision over economic responsibility of leading cadres in fulfilling cultural heritage protection work. Carry out procuratorial public interest litigation for cultural heritage protection in accordance with law. For units and individuals that illegally cause serious damage or loss of cultural relics, seriously pursue responsibility. For units and individuals achieving outstanding results in cultural heritage protection and inheritance work, give commendations and rewards in accordance with relevant state regulations. (See Box 10
X. Strengthening Support of Education, Science and Technology, and Talents for Cultural Heritage Protection
24. Advance construction of an independent knowledge system for cultural heritage. Advance discipline construction of cultural heritage studies, optimize professional settings, cultivate interdisciplinary compound talents, encourage qualified universities to establish schools of cultural heritage. Make good use of various funds such as the National Social Science Fund, the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Arts Fund, the National Publication Fund, raise the level of basic research and applied research. Strengthen and improve local chronicles work. Promote integration of cultural heritage protection into national education, promote cultural heritage and local culture to enter campuses and enter textbooks. Launch cultural heritage study tour routes in light of actual conditions, give play to the aesthetic education role of cultural heritage
25. Strengthen scientific and technological innovation in the field of cultural heritage. Build national-level scientific and technological innovation platforms and bases in the field of cultural heritage protection. Promote research, development, and upgrading of cultural relics protection equipment, accelerate informatization and standardization construction. Strengthen technical support for protection of cultural relics buildings, cave temples, ancient murals, rock paintings, earthen sites, ancient books, archives, and other fields. Promote application of technologies such as artificial intelligence, satellite remote sensing, unmanned aerial vehicles, real-scene 3D, virtual reality, raise the level of digital-intelligent protection, strengthen management of digital archives and digital assets of cultural heritage
26. Optimize talent development mechanisms for cultural heritage. Strengthen cultivation of talents for cultural heritage protection. Improve evaluation systems for professional and technical personnel in cultural heritage protection, establish stable talent cultivation mechanisms, ensure funding support. Implement the national archaeological talent revitalization plan, the action to support outstanding young cultural relics talents, and the action to cultivate young intangible cultural heritage inheritors. Carry out training and cultivation of cultural relics restorers, archaeological excavation workers, local architectural craftsmen, archival heritage talents. Expand the grassroots cultural heritage protection talent team. (See Box 11
XI. Deepening International Exchange and Cooperation on Cultural Heritage
27. Strengthen cultural heritage exchange and cooperation. Strengthen bilateral cooperation on cultural heritage protection, advance Sino-foreign joint archaeology. Deepen museum exchanges, hold high-level international touring exhibitions on the theme of Chinese civilization. Strengthen international development cooperation on cultural heritage. Strengthen investigation of Chinese cultural relics lost overseas, carry out research on provenance and circulation history, advance international cooperation on repatriation and restitution of lost cultural relics
28. Participate in global governance of cultural heritage. Give play to the important role of cultural heritage in practicing the Global Civilization Initiative, deepen pragmatic cooperation with international organizations such as UNESCO and multilateral mechanisms. Implement the global partnership plan for cultural heritage, support the Asian Alliance for the Protection of Cultural Heritage to give full play to its role, promote cultural heritage protection of the Global South
29. Fulfill international conventions in the field of cultural heritage. Actively participate in nomination and protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage, Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, Memory of the World Programme, Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, and other programs, strengthen overall coordination and guidance for nominations. Implement the special action for protection and enhancement of China's World Cultural Heritage. Abide by protection and management requirements of international conventions, actively participate in formulation of international rules and standards. (See Box 12
XII. Organizational Safeguards
30. Strengthen organization and implementation. In cultural heritage protection and inheritance work, establish and practice a correct view of political achievements. Improve institutional mechanisms for cultural heritage protection and inheritance work, with the Central Cultural Heritage Protection Committee playing the role of overall coordination, overall advancement, and supervision of implementation, and the Office of the Central Cultural Heritage Protection Committee specifically promoting and organizing implementation. Strengthen the work pattern of cultural heritage protection with unified leadership of Party committees, overall coordination of publicity departments, and performance of duties by relevant departments. Local Party committees and governments determine annual goals and key tasks for cultural heritage protection in light of local conditions. When compiling relevant plans, all regions and all departments should ensure coordination with this Plan
31. Strengthen investment safeguards. Focus on protection of physical entities, rescue endangered heritage, give play to the effectiveness of funds, optimize joint application mechanisms for key projects, coordinate the use of existing funds, expand investment channels, ensure implementation of key projects. Support protection of cultural relics and historic sites through central special lottery public welfare funds. Explore introduction of insurance mechanisms. Where conditions permit, on the premise of compliance with laws and regulations and controllable risks, local governments may explore support measures such as interest subsidies on loans for cultural relics protection
32. Emphasize publicity and guidance. Deepen research, promotion, and dissemination of cultural heritage, effectively give play to its role in advancing the construction of spiritual civilization, carrying out patriotic education, and forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation. Establish correct protection concepts, strengthen interpretation of laws, regulations, and policies, summarize and promote advanced experience and innovative achievements. Strengthen publicity and guidance, raise the awareness of the whole society for protection, support media to carry out supervision by public opinion
33. Strengthen implementation evaluation. The Office of the Central Cultural Heritage Protection Committee shall organize evaluations around the goals, tasks, and progress of major projects of this Plan, promote implementation of various tasks. Conduct mid-term evaluation and final evaluation of the implementation of this Plan at the end of 2028 and the end of 2030 respectively, with evaluation reports reported to the Central Cultural Heritage Protection Committee. Major matters shall be reported to the Party Central Committee and the State Council for instructions in a timely manner in accordance with procedures.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 游 仪 杨 迅 杨颜菲
Editor's note: This year marks the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army's Long March. The great spirit of the Long March is an immortal monument that transcends time and space, and it is moreover a vivid teaching material for national defense education for the entire people. In order to pass the great spirit of the Long March down from generation to generation, various localities have deeply excavated red resources, extensively carried out educational practice, and in looking back at history have deeply cultivated feelings of family and country, and in commemorating martyrs have continued the great spirit of the Long March. On the occasion of the approach of Martyrs' Day, reporters from this newspaper visited the hometowns of three heroic martyrs who sacrificed their lives during the Long March, treading in the footsteps of their forebears, inheriting red genes, and drawing forth the strength to strive forward.
Zigong City, Sichuan Province
Firming up convictions in the "walking ideological and political course"
On the stage, Jiang Jingshu, deputy principal of the Party School of the Da'an District Committee of Zigong City, Sichuan Province, her voice slightly trembling, recounted the deeds of Red Army martyr Deng Ping; beneath the stage, students of Jiefang Road Middle School, concentrating with bated breath (屏息凝神, bing xi ning shen - "screen, breath, concentrate, spirit"), their thoughts drifting back to that period of violent and bloody struggle (血雨腥风, xue yu xing feng - "blood, rain, pungent, wind").
This was a scene from the "First Lesson of the School Term" held by Zigong with the main theme of commemorating the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March.
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Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 29) To commemorate the 160th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the academic symposium on Sun Yat-sen and Overseas Chinese, hosted by the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, opened in Beijing on the 29th. Zheng Jianbang, Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee and Chairman of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.
Zheng Jianbang called on overseas Chinese compatriots to continue as always (一如既往, yi ru ji wang - "one, like, already, go") to inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of Sun Yat-sen and the overseas Chinese, to commit to promoting the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, to actively promote world peace and Sino-foreign friendship, to actively promote Sino-foreign exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, and to work together to create a bright future for the reunification of the motherland and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. He called on the entire Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang to deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches, inherit fine traditions, leverage distinctive advantages, continuously strengthen contact and interaction with the broad community of overseas Chinese, constantly improve the quality and effectiveness of work promoting the reunification of the motherland, and strive to open up a new situation for the work of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang in the new era.
Experts and scholars at the meeting conducted discussions on topics such as Sun Yat-sen's overseas activity trajectories and the dissemination of his revolutionary thought.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 宋朝军
In Lanzhou New Area, Gansu, how long does it take for a project to go from land delivery to obtaining the certificate? The answer is one day. This is the development momentum released by Lanzhou New Area's implementation of reform measures such as "integration of acceptance and registration," "land delivery with immediate certificate issuance," "completion with immediate certificate issuance," and "house delivery with immediate certificate issuance."
In recent years, Lanzhou New Area has vigorously strengthened the construction of its business environment, benchmarking against first-class standards, and exploring and implementing a number of pioneering, leading, and distinctive reform measures: taking the lead in the province in implementing "no-sensation certificate renewal" for 43 categories of high-frequency licenses and certificates; taking the lead in implementing the "three documents delivered simultaneously" mechanism for credit repair; taking the lead in establishing dedicated seats for livelihood services and business environment on the 12345 hotline...
As the first "invisible unicorn" enterprise in Gansu, Gansu Hailiang New Energy Materials Co., Ltd., after four years of meticulous and painstaking work (精耕细作, jing geng xi zuo - "carefully plow, finely cultivate"), has built one of the world's largest single production bases for lithium battery copper foil, with an annual output of 90,000 tons of high-end copper foil now fully up to capacity. "This report card is the result of Lanzhou New Area's optimization of the business environment," said Wang Shuguang, the company's chairman. From obtaining a temporary construction permit four days after groundbreaking to the follow-up services provided by departments at all levels, Lanzhou New Area's complete industrial supporting facilities, abundant green electricity resources, and convenient customs clearance and trade have installed a development "accelerator" for the enterprise.
In Lanzhou New Area, "one-stop online processing, completion within 30 minutes, zero cost" for enterprise establishment has become the standard configuration, individual business registration has been implemented with "instant approval," the "one license for one industry" reform covers 8 fields, and approval time has been compressed by more than 50%.
The rule of law is the best business environment. Lanzhou New Area adheres to the philosophy of "law-based regulation, inclusive regulation, service when needed, and no interference when not needed," creating a fair and transparent rule-of-law environment.
657 items exempt from penalties, 83 types of first-time minor violations subject to "no penalty for first violation," and "comprehensive single inspection" implemented in 41 fields... Behind these figures is the vivid practice of "lenient, light, and exempt" flexible law enforcement. In addition, Lanzhou New Area took the lead in implementing the "three documents delivered simultaneously" mechanism for credit repair, achieving simultaneous delivery to enterprises of administrative penalty decision documents, administrative compliance recommendation documents, and credit repair notification documents, building a full-chain regulatory closed loop of "penalty—guidance—repair"; innovatively establishing a "supervision + legal aid + arbitration" linkage mechanism, building a dispute resolution system of "higher education institutions + industry associations + law firms + grassroots organizations," with more than 40% of administrative reconsideration cases resolved through mediation, and the success rate of pre-mediation reaching as high as 94.9%. As an important node of the Belt and Road Initiative, Lanzhou New Area has built international platforms and simplified customs clearance procedures, comprehensively improving the level of the business environment for opening up to the outside world. Through innovative promotion of facilitation measures such as "one ticket for multiple vehicles" and "advance declaration," overall customs clearance time has been greatly reduced, enterprise customs clearance efficiency has been significantly improved, and institutional costs have been substantially reduced. Vigorously developing multimodal transport and promoting the "bonded + port" model, the movement of goods in and out has been as smooth and effortless progress (行云流水, xing yun liu shui - "moving clouds, flowing water"). In 2025, Lanzhou New Area's contribution rate to the province's total foreign trade increment reached 16%, making it in one leap a new growth pole for the province's export-oriented economy.
The business environment is the "soft power" of local economic development and a necessary condition for promoting high-quality development. Today's Lanzhou New Area has seen continuous optimization of its business environment, full release of development vitality, an average annual growth rate of more than 20% in market entities, a cumulative total exceeding 50,000, and 16 enterprises shortlisted among Gansu's top 100 private enterprises.
According to reports, Lanzhou New Area will carry out in depth an action to create a first-class business environment, continue to polish the "new matters handled with heart" business brand, deepen reform and innovation with higher standards, greater efforts, and more practical measures, make every effort to create a first-class business environment, and make greater contributions to the high-quality development of the economy and society of the northwestern region.
Return to TopIn Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, known as the "world's capital of small commodities," production lines run in orderly fashion inside a modern factory building in the city center: robotic arms rise and fall with precision, AGVs (automated guided vehicles) shuttle back and forth, and an industrial internet platform dispatches and coordinates hundreds of machines in real time. Every month, 30 million pens are shipped from here to all parts of the country and sold overseas.
This is the Zhejiang Kayou Animation & Creative Pen Future Factory (abbreviated as "Kayou Pen-Making Future Factory"), which was selected in 2025 for the list of pilot future factory enterprises in Zhejiang Province, and whose annual production capacity can reach 1.5 billion pens at full capacity. As a cultural and creative enterprise that started out with trading cards, Kayou has pressed forward with transformation through tenacious efforts to compete on quality and compete on technology, making pens finer and more refined, and writing a new answer sheet for domestic products with a small pen tip.
Craftsmanship is seen in minute differences
To ensure that the pen tip remains stable without wobbling during writing, Kayou has set the standard for the gap between the pen tip and the pen body at 0.014 millimeters, and controls it according to a process yield rate of five standard deviations. Today it is already able to stably achieve continuous mass production of products with a gap of approximately 0.013 millimeters. A single "Zero Series" gel pen must go through 24 processes to be made, uses more than 1,000 high-precision parts and 5 to 6 sets of molds, and a single mold set contains more than 1,000 parts, effectively ensuring smooth pressing action and smooth writing.
The refinement of the "Zero Series" gel pen goes beyond the pen tip: the gap between the pen tip and the pen body is only one-fifth the diameter of a human hair; the curved pen barrel achieves full-circumference printing; and before each gel pen model goes on the market, it must undergo durability tests such as high-intensity pressing and repeated line-drawing.
In the refill workshop of the Kayou Pen-Making Future Factory, automatic appearance inspection machines scan every refill in three-dimensional space, and line-drawing full inspection machines use AI vision to photograph and judge all refills. In pursuit of better texture, engineers tune the pressing sound from four dimensions—sound intensity, pitch, duration, and timbre—and from writing smoothness and ink stability to hand fatigue during gripping, Kayou breaks a single pen down into more than 100 characteristics and studies each one thoroughly.
Adhering to craftsmanship as the foundation, Kayou upholds the quality commitment that "every pen is a good pen," meticulously polishing products and strictly holding the quality bottom line. In 2022, the Kayou Testing Center obtained the CNAS (China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment) laboratory accreditation certificate, and its testing results are mutually recognized with more than 100 countries and regions; before each batch of products leaves the factory, it must undergo sampling inspections for mechanical and physical properties, flammability, chemical performance, and other items.
Smart workshops improve efficiency
In 1.2 seconds, a pen completes the full assembly process. In the Kayou Pen-Making Future Factory, the material handling and freight elevator delivery work that was previously done manually is now completed automatically by AGVs and vertical lifts, and workers only need to issue commands on tablet computers, with production tasks uniformly dispatched and executed by the backend system. Workers on the production line devote more energy to understanding equipment principles, conducting daily inspections, and judging operating conditions based on data, transforming themselves into a new type of industrial worker.
Kayou is actively advancing the digital transformation of its pen-making factory. In the injection molding workshop, more than a hundred machines operate day and night, and a considerable proportion of them have already achieved domestic substitution. The results of digital transformation are becoming increasingly evident: production efficiency and product yield rates are steadily improving; in the 45-meter-high intelligent three-dimensional warehouse, stacker cranes move precisely among the shelves, achieving full-process digital management from raw material warehousing to finished product outbound; the steel used for pen tips has achieved independent and controllable supply after multiple rounds of testing and tackling key problems; and "industry going upstairs" has built three-dimensional factories, multiplying output value per unit area.
A very small space carries the cultural lineage
Putting national-trend IP on pen bodies is another exploration by Kayou. Kayou integrates traditional cultural elements such as the Four Great Classical Novels and Nezha into product design, allowing Eastern aesthetics to be attached to a very small space.
Going beyond pens, Kayou is committed to using lightweight cultural and creative designs to carry a profound cultural lineage and integrate Eastern aesthetics into everyday good products. The quality of a cultural carrier is proven by craftsmanship. Kayou has specially established a sample-making department to accurately reproduce designers' creativity on the production line: the front of a single card must go through multiple processes including paper selection, hot and cold foil stamping, four-color printing, and UV screen printing; a self-developed color calibration system applies nanoscale lithography technology from the semiconductor field and ink technology from the certificate and anti-counterfeiting field across disciplines, making images precise down to the single-pixel level. The original battle card game "Yijue: Three Kingdoms Battle Card Game" transforms the traits of Three Kingdoms characters into deck tactical logic,巡回赛事落地国内多个城市，爱好者在线下对局中以牌会友，在对弈中读懂历史。
The pace of cultural going global is equally solid. During the Paris Olympic Games, Kayou's ancient Chinese sports culture cards appeared in Paris; national-style products such as "Kayou Three Kingdoms" entered the Paris International Fair in France, allowing overseas players to understand Chinese stories through collecting and playing; in September 2025, Kayou products appeared at the New York International Comic Con and made their first launch into the U.S. market; Kayou entered mainstream retail channels such as Walmart and Target, and also opened a flagship store in Bangkok, Thailand; in 2026, Kayou stationery won the German iF Design Award. Overseas consumers understand Chinese stories and learn about Chinese culture through one card after another.
Small commodities can be made into a big industry, and a small pen tip can also write a big article. Establishing quality through craftsmanship, breaking through bottlenecks through intelligent manufacturing, and revitalizing the industry through culture, Kayou is striving to write a new answer sheet for the high-quality development of domestic cultural and creative products.
Data source: Kayou Pen-Making Laboratory
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This September marks the second National Science Popularization Month following the implementation of the newly revised Science Popularization Law. From frontier technology lectures and aerospace exhibitions to science-themed stage plays by master scientists, over recent days, a series of rich and varied science popularization activities have spread scientific knowledge, aided production and daily life, and stimulated the pursuit of knowledge and exploration, allowing more people to feel the charm of innovation.
The increasingly powerful wings of science popularization are an important driving force behind the sustained and rapid improvement of our citizens' scientific literacy. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that in 2025, the proportion of Chinese citizens possessing scientific literacy reached 16.74%. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the level of scientific literacy among Chinese citizens has risen substantially, and the social atmosphere of advocating innovation has grown increasingly strong. As technology upgrades, the channels through which people obtain information and their demands are changing, and science popularization content and dissemination forms are also continuously developing. In recent years, what new highlights have emerged in science popularization, and how should we expand the depth and breadth of science popularization?
Knowledge vividly appearing before one's eyes, science popularization study tour scenarios continuously take on new forms
"Seeing this large hydraulic press on site is truly awe-inspiring." During a science popularization study tour activity, Zhang Zixuan, a first-year senior high school student at Deyang No. 5 Middle School in Sichuan Province, came with classmates to Sinomach Heavy Equipment Group Co., Ltd.. Under the guidance of engineers, they entered the workshop and observed up close the 16,000-ton hydraulic press independently designed and manufactured by our country.
The engineers' detailed explanations allowed everyone to understand the important role of the hydraulic press in forging key components of heavy equipment, and also to see directly the practical application in industry of Pascal's law from their textbooks. "Book knowledge vividly appearing before one's eyes, this feeling is quite wonderful," Zhang Zixuan said.
During the activity, Mu Chuanxiang, president of the Deyang Senior Scientists and Technicians Association Second Heavy Industry Branch, exchanged ideas with the students and shared his experience in tackling key problems for major national heavy equipment. Hearing about Deyang's glorious history of serving the nation's equipment manufacturing development, Zhang Zixuan was deeply moved: "I hope to devote myself to scientific research work in the future."
In Deyang, enterprises such as Sinomach Heavy Equipment, Dongfang Turbine, and Dongfang Electric are promoting the popularization of scientific and technological resources, displaying high-end equipment manufacturing achievements to the public, which is becoming an important feature of science popularization study tours. In the first eight months of this year, Deyang carried out a total of 358 science popularization study tour activities of various kinds, serving over 67,800 young people cumulatively.
In recent years, industrial bases, nature reserves, and enterprise science and technology innovation exhibition halls across various regions have been successively opened, enriching the scenarios for science popularization study tours. Science popularization study tours not only allow people to come into contact with science and technology while traveling, but also have become an important extension of science education.
"Observing, questioning, and doing hands-on work in real scenarios can better ignite children's interest in science, and also reflect the shift from 'knowledge transmission' to 'competency cultivation'." Zheng Nian, chairman of the Science Education Special Committee of the Chinese Science Writers Association, said that our country's major scientific installations, high-end manufacturing factories, and other potential science popularization resources are abundant; fully mobilizing the enthusiasm of all parties to participate in science popularization study tours, revitalizing existing resources, and continuously expanding science popularization positions can enable the development of richer and higher-quality study tour courses.
"In practice, we have found that many enterprise engineers understand technology but are not good at giving lectures to the public, ordinary tour guides can provide service but cannot explain scientific principles thoroughly, and the shortage of compound-type science popularization study tour mentor talent has, to a certain extent, constrained the normalized development of high-quality science popularization study tours." Wang Lijuan, head of the Science Popularization Department of the Deyang Association for Science and Technology, said that further strengthening the cultivation of professional science popularization study tour talent teams can improve the quality of science popularization study tours.
Resources sink to the grassroots level, opening up the "last mile" of science popularization
In mid-August, corn in Bayannur City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was at the milk-ripe stage after silking and pollination, precisely the critical period for rapid grain weight increase. How to promote technologies such as efficient drip irrigation with water and fertilizer, and pest and disease prevention and control? The team of Li Shaokun from the Institute of Crop Sciences at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences rushed to various banners and counties in the local area to hold "field classrooms," using the large fields as"teaching aids" and imparting key points on site.
Sowing times vary considerably across the nation's corn-producing areas, and the technical key points at different stages also differ. Li Shaokun's team travels year-round to different production areas, conducting training through forms such as"field classrooms." Their short videos explaining technical key points have been widely disseminated on online platforms, with many exceeding one million views. The researchers have also turned management technical key points into operation wall calendars, explaining key operational precautions, operational requirements, and the like in a clear, categorized, and accessible manner, and distributing them to farmers. With tangible yield-increasing results and expert Q&A sessions, the"field classroom" has gained recognition among farmers. The"precise regulation technology for high-density, high-yield corn" developed by Li Shaokun's team has been promoted cumulatively across the country on 240 million mu, increasing grain output by over 27.12 million tons and driving farmer income increases of nearly 30 billion yuan.
In recent years, diverse explorations to push science popularization resources down to the grassroots level have opened up the"last mile" of science popularization, making science popularization services more balanced and inclusive.
In Tongji Garden Community, Zhangdian District, Zibo City, Shandong Province, science popularization content on unit building bulletin boards regarding the Heimlich first aid method and carbon monoxide poisoning prevention is very conspicuous. Given the characteristic that the elderly population accounts for a relatively high proportion, the community focuses on carrying out science popularization publicity on life health and first aid knowledge, and is equipped with science popularization volunteers and community grid workers who hold first responder certificates.
Science popularization is also an assistant to grassroots governance. In response to safety hazards such as flying-wire charging of electric bicycles in high-rise residential buildings and taking them upstairs to charge, Sangyang Community in Linzi District, Zibo City, integrates science popularization with experience, and through immersive fire drills, allows community residents to intuitively feel the dangers of electric bicycle fires, effectively enhancing fire safety awareness.
How can science popularization activate the capillaries of communities?"Promoting the deep integration of science popularization into grassroots governance is the key." Chen Xiaoyan, head of the Science Popularization Department of the Shandong Provincial Association for Science and Technology, introduced that locally, they have built the work brand"Science into Communities · Science Popularization Benefiting Ten Thousand Households," explored and implemented service models such as residents placing orders, communities dispatching orders, science and technology associations organizing orders, and science popularization volunteer service teams accepting orders, making community science popularization a"flexible grip" for grassroots governance.
At present, there are gaps in science popularization services among regions, urban and rural areas, and different groups in our country. Experts say that efforts should be made to unclog bottlenecks and deliver more high-quality science popularization resources into urban communities, field edges, and rural schools.
Artificial intelligence empowers, meeting diversified and multi-form science popularization demands
Not long ago, the science popularization micro-documentary "Science Accidentally Taken in Hand" gained considerable popularity. It takes a series of"achieving something unexpectedly through chance" discoveries in the history of science as its entry point, using relaxed, interesting, and youth-oriented expression to tell the accidental stories behind scientific discoveries. In this documentary, artificial intelligence was deeply involved in aspects such as visuals, motion effects, and dialogue.
At present, the integration of artificial intelligence and science popularization not only improves the efficiency of content creation but also enriches the forms of works, opening new imaginative space for science popularization work. Science popularization videos, science popularization micro-short dramas, and science fiction micro-films using generative artificial intelligence technology are constantly emerging and attracting attention.
"Artificial intelligence can provide assistance in inspiring ideas, organizing materials, content review and optimization, and also enables more and more people to participate in science popularization creation." Li Honglin, a researcher at the China Research Institute for Science Popularization, saidthat audiences are increasingly convenient in obtaining science popularization content, while science popularization demands can also be dynamically and precisely captured, making personalized content customization based on audience interests, interactive experiences, and precise push notification possible.
It is worth noting that some institutions and individuals regard producing and spreading pseudo-science popularization as a"traffic password" or"money-making tool," and have even formed a complete gray industry chain of"building accounts, driving traffic, selling goods, and then monetizing." How can real knowledge outrun pseudo-science popularization? Li Honglin suggested that a scientific knowledge base should be built based on authoritative scientific and technological journals, databases, textbooks, and science popularization content resources reviewed by experts. At the same time, review of science popularization content should be strengthened through technical means and expert verification.
Experts interviewed saidthat meeting the public's diversified and multi-form science popularization demands and promoting the integration of artificial intelligence with science popularization is the general trend. Relevant government departments, online platforms, and content creators should work hand in hand to jointly create a good ecosystem for artificial intelligence empowering science popularization work, which will push science popularization work to a new level.
(Jiang Ziyu participated in the reporting)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 金 歆
The 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit will be held from November 2 to 5 in Wuzhen, Zhejiang, under the theme "Open Source, Openness Co-building, Co-sharing — Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace." On September 29, the International Organization for World Internet Conference held a press conference in Beijing, introducing the basic situation, highlights and characteristics, and preparation progress of this Wuzhen Summit.
Ren Xianliang, Secretary-General of the World Internet Conference, introduced that this summit has the following highlights and characteristics: Focusing on open source and openness, promoting co-building and co-sharing. This summit will invite representatives from all walks of life globally, conducting in-depth exchanges around the concepts and practices of open-source, open development of artificial intelligence. During the summit, a series of activities will be held to help developing countries draw on the experience of building open-source ecosystems. Keeping close to frontier hot topics, innovating topic design. The main forum of this summit will set up a "Wuzhen Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence" session, with the number of sub-forums reaching a new high in recent years, keeping close to frontier hot topics in the development of the digital-intelligence era and the universal concerns of the international community regarding the development and governance of artificial intelligence. The brand matrix is renewed, and global participation leaps upward. The brand activity matrix formed over the years by the Wuzhen Summit, including the Leading Science and Technology Award, the "Jointly Building a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace" practice cases, the Outstanding Contribution Award, etc., this year will see continued improvement in participation and internationality.
Li Yanyi, member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and head of the Propaganda Department, stated that, keeping close to the theme of open source and openness, the summit will for the first time launch the "Wuzhen Lecture Hall" and "Wuzhen Talk·Open Source Youth Forum" activities for the general public; build the country's first open-source-themed ecological experience pavilion, hold the "Exhibition of Major Scientific and Technological Achievements in Artificial Intelligence Open Source and Openness," set up an artificial intelligence carnival-themed street, presenting the beautiful prospect of artificial intelligence empowering all walks of life (千行百业, qian hang bai ye - "thousand, industry, hundred, industry") and entering every household (千家万户, qian jia wan hu - "thousand, family, ten thousand, household"); add the "Direct to Wuzhen" Global Internet Competition's two special competitions on open source and OPC (one-person company),, hold the Digital Economy Industry Cooperation Conference, the Digital Yangtze River Delta Development Conference, the Digital Empowerment Common Prosperity Demonstration Zone Construction Exhibition Activity, etc.
Wuzhen, Tongxiang, Zhejiang, is the permanent venue of the summit. Wang Jian, Secretary of the Tongxiang Municipal Party Committee, stated that Tongxiang, centering on building a "365-day never-ending conference," has established an Internet Conference and Exhibition Bureau, holding more than 700 activities of various "conferences, exhibitions, competitions, and shows" every year, and has built up a number of distinctive conference and exhibition brands such as the Wuzhen Theatre Festival and the Puyuan Fashion Week.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 29) (Reporter Jin Xin) On the 29th, the 2026 (7th) China Internet Infrastructure Resources Conference, co-hosted by the China Internet Network Information Center together with the Internet Society of China and the Computer Network Information Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was held in Beijing. Participating guests conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions around the theme of "innovating through collective intelligence (聚智向新, ju zhi xiang xin - "gather wisdom, head toward newness"), building the future through the network."
Three important scientific research achievements were released at the conference. The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) service platform achievement was officially released, fully demonstrating China's practical results in the field of RPKI system construction and its international influence in the field of internet routing security. The "Beijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Agent Identification and Security Assurance Technology" was officially inaugurated, with key focus on directions such as intelligent agent identity identification and trusted authentication, systematically carrying out full-chain innovation in basic theory, key technologies, system platforms, standards and specifications, and industrial application. The Intelligent Agent Trusted Infrastructure Platform (ATI) was officially launched, building capabilities such as registration management, compliance certification, transparent logging, and trusted discovery based on mature network infrastructure.
This conference held a total of 1 main forum as well as 7 sub-forums, including domain name application and development, internet routing security and innovative development, domain name infrastructure intelligence and security, full-identifier integrated application, and intelligent agent identification and security, collectively releasing multiple research reports and industry standards.
Return to TopClassic folk songs are passed down through singing, and mountains, waters, and pastoral landscapes set each other off. In recent years, Liuhe District of Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, has built on its cultural heritage and ecological resources, enriched the cultural-tourism supply and consumption scenarios of ecological sightseeing, cultural experience, and rural leisure, promoted the integrated development of culture, tourism, agriculture, and sports, broadened the channels for converting ecological product value, built itself into an urban pastoral leisure and vacation destination, and continuously burnished the "Jasmine Painting Township, Complete Food and Stone Beauty" cultural-tourism brand.
Enriching forms of expression, promoting the inheritance and innovation of "Jasmine Flower" culture
This summer, a folk song stepped out of Liuhe and resounded all over the country (大江南北, da jiang nan bei - "great, river, south, north"). The "Jasmine Blossoms, Happiness Comes" (《茉莉花开幸福来》), created and compiled by the Liuhe District Jasmine Flower Art Troupe, successively appeared at the "Jasmine Fragrance, Classic Echoes" 2026 Jiangsu Folk Song Conference and "Village Songs Resounding" (村歌嘹亮) performance event, and the "Village Songs Resounding" 2026 National Centralized Performance Event.
Beyond the singing of folk songs, Liuhe District has continuously enriched the forms of expression of "Jasmine Flower" culture. It has held the "Jasmine Flower Folk Song Culture Month" activity, building a cultural stage for mass participation and whole-people singing; the original drama "The Masses' Troupe — The People's 'Jasmine Flower'" (《大众的团——人民的"茉莉花"》) was selected for the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles' 2025 Youth Literary and Artistic Creation Support Plan; it has continuously released the "Folk Songs of Liuhe" (《民歌六合》) series of short video works, revitalizing traditional folk song resources through youthful and visual modes of communication; and it has deeply activated public cultural venue resources, meticulously creating "Jasmine Flower"-themed public cultural spaces in the district museum, cultural center, and library, allowing "Jasmine Flower" culture to blend into daily life and permeate people's hearts.
As the birthplace of the classic folk song "Jasmine Flower" (《茉莉花》), Liuhe District has continuously built platforms for work display, artistic exchange, and mass participation, combining folk song inheritance with public cultural services, and allowing "Jasmine Flower" culture to integrate into contemporary life. Activities such as the Nanjing Jinniu Lake Jasmine Flower Music Festival, the Jinniu Lake Jasmine Flower Fireworks Carnival, and the Jinniu Lake Jasmine Flower Summer Cultural-Tourism Season link music performances with lakeside sightseeing and leisure consumption, promoting the integration of "Jasmine Flower" culture into the whole-region landscape and tourism scenes. By building a wild jasmine planting base and developing "Jasmine Flower"-themed cultural-creative products and specialty catering products, Liuhe District continuously enriches the connotation of "Jasmine Flower" culture through observable and participatory cultural experiences.
Improving the quality of the whole-region ecology, exploring the conversion of ecological value
In golden autumn September, the water is clear and the banks are green, and migratory birds flit about. Liuhe District possesses both wetland rivers and lakes, hilly forests, and unique geological relics, and the whole-region ecological corridor links together scenic spots such as Chishan Lake, Jinniu Lake, Daquan Lake, and Pingshan Forest Park, with natural endowments possessing unique natural advantages (得天独厚, de tian du hou - "get, heaven, unique, thick"). This summer, projects such as the First Jiangsu Province Water Lily Variety Exhibition and 2026 Chishan Lake Wetland Lotus Exhibition, the Jinniu Lake Wildlife Kingdom parent-child themed study tour, and the Pingshan Forest Park "Seeing Cedar Creek Valley" (见杉溪谷) stream tracing successively landed in Liuhe District. Relying on its forest and wetland ecological foundation, Liuhe District combines flower appreciation, bird watching, and photography with ecological science popularization, continuously enriching four-season eco-tourism products.
Backed by hills and facing the Yangtze River, Liuhe District is like a natural geological museum. At the Jiangsu Liuhe National Geopark, one can view the geological wonder of the Guizishan stone pillar forest; at the Nanjing Yuhua Stone Geopark, one can visit the Nanjing Yuhua Stone Fine Works Exhibition, observe the Yuhuatai Formation conglomerate layer section, browse the outdoor Yuhua stone trading market, and participate in geological science study tours.
Mountain and water resources also provide broad space for the integration of sports and tourism in Liuhe District. Since the beginning of this year, Liuhe District has held mass sporting events such as the 2026 Colorful Zhuzhen Ring Nanjing Metropolitan Circle Cycling Race and Grand Canal Cycling Series (Nanjing Liuhe Stop), the 2026 World Orienteering Day Jiangsu Division Mass Orienteering Race Liuhe-Pingshan Stop (10th Anniversary), the 2026 Grand Canal Sailing Series (Nanjing Jinniu Lake Stop) and Nanjing Sailing Open, and the 2026 "Great Rivers and Great Lakes" National Mass Open Water Swimming Series (Nanjing Jinniu Lake Stop). From Jinniu Lake water sports and Pingshan cross-country to Zhuzhen cycling, Liuhe District drives sightseeing through leisure sports, expands eco-tourism consumption scenarios, and promotes the conversion of mountain and water resources into tourism products.
Promoting the integration of agriculture, culture, and tourism, enjoying the beautiful life of urban pastoral areas
Setting out from the main urban area of Nanjing and crossing the Xinshengwei Yangtze River Bridge, one can arrive at Longpao Subdistrict in Liuhe District to taste specialty cuisine and enjoy wetland pastoral scenery.
Relying on the provincial intangible cultural heritage of Longpao crab roe soup dumpling making techniques, and leveraging platforms such as soup dumpling-themed cultural-tourism activities and the national "Four Seasons Village Evening" (四季村晚), Longpao Subdistrict combines specialty cuisine and agricultural product exhibitions with Yangtze River wetland sightseeing and four-season pastoral leisure, enriching the rural tourism experience.
To the north, the Nanjing Jinniu Lake Tourism and Vacation Zone combines "Jasmine Flower" cultural experience, grape picking, and winter fishing folk activities with lakeside water sports, enriching daytime sightseeing and nighttime leisure products. Relying on the construction advantages of the Liuhe District Jinniu Lake "Ecological Island" (生态岛) pilot zone, the local area coordinates ecological governance with cultural-tourism industry development, promoting mutual reinforcement between ecological environment improvement and the enhancement of leisure and vacation quality.
To the northwest, by Daquan Lake in Zhuzhen Town, continuous tea gardens spread across the mountainsides, and rural homestays blend into the pastoral scenery. Relying on resources such as the Daquan small watershed, the Yuhua tea garden, and Zhimaling, Zhuzhen Town combines red study tours with farming experience, develops tea-picking and tea-making study tours, tea garden sightseeing, and homestay vacations, improves supporting facilities such as the Daquan Renjia homestay cluster and the Zhuzhen Living Room, promotes the landing of the province's first green credit for soil and water conservation, and explores a long-term mechanism for mutual reinforcement among ecological protection, industrial development, and enriching the people and increasing income.
The four directions of heaven and earth are called "Liu" (6), and harmony and convergence are called "He" (合). Come to Liuhe, and all things come together. The National Day holiday is approaching. Come to Liuhe District of Nanjing City to see the brilliant night scenery of Jinniu Lake, with water fireworks reflecting light across the lake; the hundred-mu sunflower fields of Qiancang Sunflower Garden stretching in the wind, the market smoke rising by Chishan Lake, the continuous flower seas of Longpao, and evening breeze music accompanied by the aroma of crab roe soup dumplings. We welcome the vast number of tourists to meet in beautiful Liuhe, to appreciate folk songs and peasant paintings, to taste local cuisine, to view spectacular rock formations, to move toward the beautiful life at hand, and to immersively experience the charm of "Jasmine Painting Township, Complete Food and Stone Beauty."
Data source: Liuhe District Culture and Tourism Bureau, Nanjing City
Return to TopBy: 崔唯航
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has engaged in profound reflection and scientific planning regarding the key role of culture in economic and social development, put forward a series of major innovative viewpoints, and made comprehensive strategic deployments. In 2025, when participating in the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation at the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping explicitly put forward the major proposition of "empowering economic and social development with culture." The proposal of this major proposition is a forward-looking arrangement and strategic choice made by General Secretary Xi Jinping on the basis of profoundly grasping the laws of development of human society, the laws of socialist construction, and the laws of cultural development, profoundly revealing the internal mechanism by which culture leads and drives high-quality economic and social development, scientifically elucidating the important role of culture in the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation. Reading through Volumes Ito V of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, the thinking of"empowering economic and social development with culture"has been consistent from beginning to end (一以贯之, yi yi guan zhi - "one, throughout, consistent from beginning to end") and deepened layer by layer, demonstrating powerful ideological leadership and practical transformative force from theoretical gestation and development, practical exploration,to strategic deployment. We must deeply grasp the theoretical origins, practical orientation, and pathways of action of this major proposition, better leveraging culture's functions of guiding trends, educating the people, serving society, and promoting development.
The proposal and enrichment and development of"empowering economic and social development with culture"reflects the deepening understanding of our Party of the laws governing the relationship between culture and economic and social development.
"Empowering economic and social development with culture"has undergone an evolutionary process from ideological gestation to the budding of concepts, from formal proposal to sustained deepening. This major proposition is rooted in Comrade Xi Jinping's practical exploration and theoretical reflection during his work in local positions, took shape in the vivid practice of our Party's governance and administration since the new era, developed through the strategic planning and overall deployment of Chinese modernization, and constitutes an epochal sublimation of Marxist cultural theory, an enrichment and development of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, providing important theoretical guidance for supporting high-quality development with cultural soft power.
Always regarding culture as an important force for promoting regional development. During his work in local positions, Comrade Xi Jinping consistently attached importance to the important role of culture in economic and social development. In Zhengding, he put forward the governance approach of"prospering the county through culture."In Fujian, he attached great importance to the coordinated development of culture and economy and society, proposing that only by vigorously developing socialist culture could the social and cultural life of the broad masses of the people be developed, the people's growing cultural needs be met, and coordinated economic and social development be ensured. In Zhejiang, he proposed"further promoting the prosperity of cultural undertakings, further expanding the cultural industry,"systematically planned and comprehensively advanced the"Eight Projects"of cultural construction, promoting the deep integration of culture with economic and social development. In Shanghai, he emphasized that"cultural soft power is the foundation of strength,""the economy is flesh and blood, culture is the soul,""integrate the power of culture into economic development, advance cultural development in the course of economic development,"profoundly revealing the inseparable, mutually reinforcing internal relationship between economy and culture, reflecting both a high degree of theoretical foresight and distinct practical guiding significance. During his work in local positions, Comrade Xi Jinping regarded culture as an important force for promoting regional development, proposing and implementing a series of forward-looking, systematic, and feasible cultural and economic development strategies. These valuable explorations laid the ideological foundation and accumulated practical experience for putting forward"empowering economic and social development with culture"in the new era.
Placing cultural construction in a prominent position in governance and administration. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has elevated cultural construction to a strategic height concerning the future of the country, the destiny of the nation, and the well-being of the people. In Volume I, in the article"Closely Centering on Upholding and Developing Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Studying, Publicizing, and Implementing the Spirit of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,"General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out:"On the basis of continuous economic development, coordinately advance political construction, cultural construction, social construction, ecological civilization construction, and construction in other aspects."This reflects that cultural construction occupies an important strategic position in the overall layout of socialism with Chinese characteristics. In Volume IV, in the article"Place Cultural Construction in a More Prominent Position,"General Secretary Xi Jinping conducted a comprehensive and systematic profound elaboration of culture's strategic position, pointing out:"Socialism with Chinese characteristics is a great cause of comprehensive development and comprehensive progress; without the prosperity and development of socialist culture, there can be no socialist modernization.""In coordinately advancing the Five-Sphere Integrated Plan (五位一体) overall layout and coordinately advancing the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy (四个全面) strategic layout, culture is an important component; in promoting high-quality development, culture is an important fulcrum; in meeting the people's growing needs for a better life, culture is an important factor; in overcoming various risks and challenges on the road ahead, culture is an important source of strength."
The theory and practice of empowering economic and social development with culture have continued to deepen and advance. In 2025, when participating in the deliberation of the Jiangsu delegation at the Third Session of the 14th National People's Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out:"We must deepen the construction of spiritual civilization in urban and rural areas, optimize the supply of cultural products and services, and empower economic and social development with culture."The core of this important proposition is to deeply integrate culture into all aspects of economic and social development, letting culture not only meet spiritual needs but also become an important fulcrum for promoting high-quality development, both prospering and developing cultural undertakings and the cultural industry, and releasing growth potential through the integration of culture and economy, thereby advancing our Party's understanding of the laws governing the relationship between culture and economic and social development one step further. The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan has incorporated this proposition, explicitly proposing"empowering economic and social development with culture,"and making deployments on"implementing the strategy of driving development through major cultural industry projects,""promoting the integration of culture and technology,"and"developing new cultural business formats such as digital animation, immersive exhibitions, online performances, short videos, and micro-dramas.""Empowering economic and social development with culture"has been transformed from a theoretical proposition into practical deployment, achieving a leap from theory to practice and a two-way interaction between them.
General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly grasps the internal logic of two-way empowerment, synergy, and mutual advancement between culture and economic and social development, having made a series of important expositions on the relationship between culture and economic and social development, profoundly revealing the new pathways, new methods, and new strategies for empowering economic and social development with culture, providing fundamental guidance and strategic planning for comprehensively advancing the construction of a culturally strong country and empowering high-quality development with culture.
Culture is a deep-level spiritual force capable of leading the direction of high-quality economic and social development
In Zhijiang Xinyu, Comrade Xi Jinping pointed out that the power of culture"always integrates subtly, silently, and pervasively (润物细无声, run wu xi wu sheng - "moisten, things, fine, no, sound") into economic forces, political forces, and social forces, becoming the 'booster' of economic development, the 'navigation light' of political civilization, and the 'adhesive' of social harmony."This profoundly demonstrates that culture, with its deep and enduring spiritual force, shapes the spiritual state and value orientation of society, optimizes the social ecology in which the economy operates, and thereby leads and drives high-quality economic and social development.
Cultivating a common value foundation, defining the value orientation for high-quality development. In Volume I, in the article"Young People Should Consciously Practice Core Socialist Values,"General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out:"Core values carry the spiritual pursuit of a nation and a country, embodying the value standards by which a society judges right and wrong.""If a nation or a country lacks common core values, is unable to reach a consensus (莫衷一是, mo zhong yi shi - "not, decide, one, is"), and has no basis for action, then that nation or country cannot advance."This means that high-quality economic and social development cannot be separated from the guidance of core values. Empowering economic and social development with culture, its core is to adhere to the guidance of Marxism, take core socialist values as the guide, and run the people-centered thinking through the entire process of economic and social development. Under socialist conditions, the ultimate purpose of economic development is not the unlimited proliferation of capital, but the comprehensive development of human beings and the overall progress of society. The wisdom of"the people are the foundation of the state"and"balancing righteousness and profit (义利兼顾, yi li jian gu - "righteousness, profit, both, consider")"in fine traditional Chinese culture, and the concepts of people-first and common prosperity in socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, jointly constitute the value core of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Through the infiltration and nourishment of culture, internalizing these value concepts into the basic principles of economic and social policy-making, the codes of conduct of market entities, and the common consensus of members of society, can ensure that economic development always serves national prosperity, national rejuvenation, and the happiness of the people
Nourishing the new development philosophy, providing scientific methodological guidance for high-quality development. In Volume II, in the article"Deeply Understand the New Development Philosophy,"General Secretary Xi Jinping systematically elucidated the new development philosophy of innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing. High-quality economic and social development is not only a transformation and upgrading of economic structure and growth mode, but also a profound transformation of development philosophy. Culture, as the accumulation and sublimation of subjects' practical experience, forms specific value concepts and ways of thinking, influencing the basic ways in which people understand and transform the world, and shaping people's development philosophy at a deep level. The creative integration of the development practice of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the new era and the holistic thinking, harmony concepts, and people-oriented thought contained in fine traditional Chinese culture has provided the new development philosophy with profound humanistic nourishment. The new development philosophy of innovation, coordination, green, openness, and sharing has broken the traditional linear growth mindset, reshaped people's understanding of the laws of economic and social development with a holistic logic, achieving a leap from single-dimensional growth to comprehensive development
Elevating the level of social civility and governance effectiveness, creating a favorable social environment for high-quality development. In the opening piece of Volume V, "Hold High the Great Banner of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and Strive in Unity to Build a Modern Socialist Country in All Respects,"General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized:"Coordinate efforts to advance the cultivation of civility, the practice of civility, and the creation of civility, promote the integrated development of spiritual civilization construction in urban and rural areas, promote the spirit of labor, the spirit of struggle, the spirit of dedication, the spirit of creativity, and the spirit of diligence and thrift throughout society, and cultivate new trends and new looks of the times."In April 2022, when inspecting Hainan, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out:"Carry out extensive mass activities for the creation of spiritual civilization, continuously enhance the civility of the people and the level of social civility. We must strengthen the construction of credibility, advocate a social trend of abiding by laws and regulations, honesty and trustworthiness."The high-quality operation of the economy cannot be separated from a good social order and an efficient governance system. Culture plays a subtle, silent, and pervasive bonding and lubricating role in this process. The cultivation and practice of core socialist values can effectively integrate social consciousness, regulate social behavior, and enhance the moral standards and civility of the whole society. When honesty and trustworthiness, dedication to work, mutual assistance and friendliness become social trends, transaction costs will significantly decrease, cooperation efficiency will greatly improve, and the soft environment for economic development will be optimized. The governance wisdom contained in culture helps to innovate social governance methods. The innovative development of the Fengqiao model (枫桥经验) in the new era has incorporated the wisdom of using grassroots cultural resources to resolve conflicts and disputes, achieving an organic combination of self-governance, rule of law, and rule of virtue. Empowering social governance with culture helps to promote the transformation of institutions from"external constraints"to"internal identification,"thereby reducing governance costs, improving governance effectiveness, and providing stable and reliable social support for sustained and healthy economic development
Culture is the spiritual source of innovation and creation, capable of injecting momentum into high-quality economic and social development
In Volume V, in the article"Accelerate the Construction of a Culturally Strong Country,"General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized:"The vitality of culture lies in innovation and creation.""Make stimulating the vitality of innovation and creation the central link in deepening the reform of cultural systems and mechanisms, accelerate improving cultural management systems and production and operation mechanisms."Culture is both the crystallization of human innovation and creation activities and the source of stimulating new innovation and creation. Empowering economic and social development with culture, one of its core essences is to provide inexhaustible momentum for high-quality economic and social development by activating culture's genes of innovation and creation
Culture cultivates the innovative consciousness of social subjects, activating and releasing creative potential. Through long-term value guidance, spiritual nourishment, and behavioral shaping, culture cultivates, in a subtle and imperceptible way, theroactive consciousness of social members to actively explore the unknown and dare to break conventions, internalizing innovation from an external requirement into a conscious action of the subject, thereby injecting an inexhaustible internal driving force into high-quality economic and social development. The bloodline of the Chinese nation contains profound innovative spirit: the reformist concept of"if one can be new each day, be new each day, and be new again each day"in fine traditional Chinese culture, the transformative wisdom of"although Zhou was an old state, its mission was renewal"; the heroic spirit of"daring to change the sun and the moon for a new sky"manifested in revolutionary culture; the spirit of pioneering and innovation promoted by advanced socialist culture; and so on. These precious spiritual resources have jointly forged a profound cultural foundation that inspires contemporary Chinese people to bravely stand at the forefront of the times and vigorously innovate and create. When innovation becomes a value consensus, a way of life, anda social trend, people's innovative potential will be stimulated to the greatest extent, thereby transforming into the most active, most enduring, and most resilient powerful force driving high-quality development
Culture contains abundant innovative resources, injecting creative vitality into high-quality development. In Volume IV, in the article"Show the New Atmosphere of Chinese Literature and Art, Forge New Splendor of Chinese Culture,"General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized:"Innovation is the life of literature and art."Culture is not only the carrier of the national spirit, but also an indispensable resource for innovation and creation, containing enormous innovative potential and creative value. In the process of promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture, cultural resources are continuously activated, reorganized, and recreated, transformed into cultural advantages that promote high-quality economic and social development, continuously releasing innovative and creative momentum. The modern transformation of fine traditional Chinese culture is not only related to the continuation of its own vitality, but also, with its systematic and holistic innovation and creation, drives the coordinated development of multiple fields such as science and technology, design, and communication. Currently, science and technology are profoundly changing the presentation forms, dissemination pathways, and transformation mechanisms of cultural resources, giving birth to new business formats such as smart cultural tourism, immersive theaters, digital museums, and AI cultural and creative products, which powerfully promote the deep integration and high-quality development of culture and economy. The creative transformation of cultural resources and the empowerment of science and technology work in synergy, constructing a new path of high-quality development that connects tradition and modernity, integrates humanities and technology, and links creativity and industry, injecting strong and sustained driving force into Chinese modernization
Culture creates an innovation ecosystem, providing a creative environment for high-quality development. In Volume V, in the article"Turn the Strategic Goal of Building a Strong Science and Technology Country into Reality Step by Step,"General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out:"Coordinate the implementation of the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, the strategy of strengthening the country through talent, and the innovation-driven development strategy, advance education development, scientific and technological innovation, and talent cultivation as an integrated whole. Persist in cultivating an innovation culture, inherit the innovative genes of fine traditional Chinese culture, create a favorable environment that encourages exploration and tolerates failure, so that advocating science and pursuing innovation becomes a widespread and prevailing trend (蔚然成风, wei ran cheng feng - "grand, naturally, become, wind") throughout society."A favorable ecosystem for innovation is essentially an external environment jointly constituted by value concepts, institutional arrangements, social psychology, and behavioral norms, anda social ecology that supports the long-term vitality and efficient development of innovation activities. Culture, by shaping society's overall attitude toward knowledge, talent, and innovation, establishes the value orientation of respecting labor, respecting knowledge, respecting talent, and respecting creation, and by creating a social mentality that encourages exploration and tolerates failure, stimulates individuals' courage and determination to challenge the unknown and blaze new trails. Only by making advocating innovation a social trend and integrating respect for creation into daily practice can we ignite the innovative enthusiasm of hundreds of millions of people and converge the mighty force advancing creation
Prosper and develop cultural undertakings and the cultural industry, contributing strength to high-quality economic and social development
In Volume V, in the article"Hold High the Great Banner of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and Strive in Unity to Build a Modern Socialist Country in All Respects,"General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized:"Persist in placing social benefits first, unifying social benefits and economic benefits, deepen the reform of the cultural system, improve cultural and economic policies.Implement the national cultural digitalization strategy, improve the modern public cultural service system, innovatively implement cultural benefit projects for the people. Improve the modern cultural industry system and market system, implement the strategy of driving development through major cultural industry projects."We must not only let culture safeguard the development direction with its spiritual leadership, activate development momentum with its endogenous innovation force, but also transform it into real productive forces through industrialization, making it a tangible force promoting high-quality development
Vigorously develop the cultural industry, optimize the structure of the national economy. The high-quality development of the cultural industry has become an indispensable and important component of China's high-quality economic and social development. Volume III, in the article"Consciously Undertake the Mission of Propaganda and Ideological Work under the New Situation,"records the key points of General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech at the National Conference on Propaganda and Ideological Work in 2018. In that article, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized:"We must promote the high-quality development of the cultural industry, improve the modern cultural industry system and market system, promote the development and growth of various cultural market entities, cultivate new cultural business formats and cultural consumption models, and enhance people's sense of cultural gain and happiness with high-quality cultural supply."Compared with traditional industry, the cultural industry mainly relies on intellectual and creative resources, has relatively low material and energy consumption, relatively small environmental pollution, and conforms to the new development philosophy. As China's resident consumption structure upgrades from being dominated by material consumption to placing equal emphasis on material and spiritual and cultural consumption, the cultural industry has gained broader market space. Promoting the high-quality development of the cultural industry helps to make economic growth more driven by soft factors such as creativity, design, and brands, thereby reducing dependence on traditional resource factors and promoting the transformation of the economic structure. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics show that in 2025, cultural and related industries above designated size nationwide achieved operating revenue of 15.2135 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.4%, and the core cultural sector achieved operating revenue of 10.3181 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.5%. Currently, the added value of China's cultural and related industries continues to grow rapidly, having become a new engine of economic growth anda important field for stabilizing employment and benefiting people's livelihoods
Promote the deep integration of culture with economy and science and technology, driving the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. In Volume V, in the article"Developing New Quality Productive Forces Is the Internal Requirement and Important Focus of Promoting High-Quality Development,"General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out:"We must deepen reforms in the economic system, scientific and technological system, and other areas, focus on removing the bottlenecks and obstacles constraining the development of new quality productive forces, establish a high-standard market system, innovate the ways of allocating factors of production, and let all types of advanced and high-quality factors of production flow smoothly toward the development of new quality productive forces."Cultural factors are the core factors of comprehensive competitiveness, cultural resources are important resources for economic and social development, and culture has a powerful empowering effect. Promoting the deep integration of culture with economy and science and technology, deeply embedding cultural factors into the fabric of various industries, helps to enhance the cultural added value of products and services and promote high-quality economic and social development. In the integration of culture and tourism, many places have shifted from the previous shallow linkage of"culture sets the stage, economy sings the opera"to promoting the deep integration of culture and tourism, creating immersive and interactive new cultural tourism scenarios based on the deep excavation of regional culture; in the manufacturing sector, integrating industrial design, brand narratives, and cultural IP (intellectual property), promoting enterprises to move from"contract manufacturing"to"intelligent creation";in the agricultural sector, giving birth to leisure agriculture, cultural and creative agricultural products, and rural aesthetic economy that integrate production, life, and ecology. This kind of cross-border integration, with culture as the bond, creativity as the driver, and science and technology as the support, reconstructs the logic of the industrial ecosystem, expands new space for economic growth, and opens a new dimension of high-quality development led by humanistic connotation
Deepen the reform of cultural systems and mechanisms, optimize the development ecosystem of the cultural industry. In Volume III, in the article"Secure a Decisive Victory in Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects and Strive for the Great Success of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era,"General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out:"We must deepen the reform of the cultural system, improve cultural management systems, and accelerate the construction of systems and mechanisms that place social benefits first and unify social benefits and economic benefits.""Improve the modern cultural industry system and market system, innovate production and operation mechanisms, improve cultural and economic policies, and cultivate new cultural business formats."The prosperity of the cultural industry depends not only on high-quality content and advanced technology, but is more deeply rooted in vibrant market entities anda fair and efficient institutional environment.Deepening the reform of cultural systems and mechanisms can remove the bottlenecks constraining cultural innovation and creation and release the endogenous momentum of the development of the cultural industry. We must better leverage the role of the government, fully respect market laws, and stimulate the enthusiasm of social forces to participate in cultural construction. To stimulate the innovation and creation vitality of various cultural entities, we must promote the deepening reform of state-owned cultural enterprises, vigorously support the healthy development of private cultural enterprises, accelerate the improvement of the modern cultural industry system, and promote the iterative upgrading of cultural production methods, dissemination models, and consumption forms. At the same time, improve the system of cultural and economic policies, innovate cultural financial service mechanisms, guide more financial capital, social capital, and long-term capital to invest in high-quality cultural projects and emerging cultural business formats, providing solid support for cultural innovation
Deeply empower cultural undertakings and the cultural industry with digital and intelligent technologies. Volume IV, in the article"Continuously Strengthen, Optimize, and Expand China's Digital Economy,"includes the main part of General Secretary Xi Jinping's speech when presiding over the 34th group study session of the Political Bureau of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In that article, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out:"Promote the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy, empower the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, give birth to new industries, new business formats, and new models, and continuously strengthen, optimize, and expand China's digital economy."Digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and blockchain are reconstructing the entire chain of creation, production, and consumption in the cultural industry. Vigorously developing the digital cultural industry is an internal requirement for promoting the iterative upgrading of the cultural industry itself andor its march toward high-quality development. Digital cultural products, with their advantages of rapid dissemination, strong interactivity, and customizability, can more accurately and efficiently meet the growing diverse and personalized spiritual and cultural needs of the people. Accelerating the development of new quality productive forces driven by digital technology will surely open broader strategic space for building a modern cultural industry system and promoting high-quality economic and social development
(The author is Executive Director of the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Return to TopBy: 戴 斌
The integration of culture and tourism is an inevitable choice for satisfying the people's aspirations for a better life and enhancing their well-being, and also a powerful support for perfecting the modern tourism system and building a strong tourism country. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The prospects for culture-tourism integration are broad; we must promote the high-quality development of the culture and tourism industry, truly building it into a pillar industry, a livelihood industry, and a happiness industry." The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes "deepening the use of culture to shape tourism and tourism to showcase culture, advancing the building of a strong tourism country," and both the "15th Five-Year Plan for Building a Strong Tourism Country" and the "15th Five-Year Plan for Cultural and Tourism Development" make further arrangements for promoting the deep integration of culture and tourism.
At present, the tourism industry has entered a new cycle of prosperity and development anda new stage of high-quality development, with broad prospects for culture-tourism integration, while problems still exist such as homogenization of tourism projects, insufficient public service guarantees, inadequate cultural connotations, and the international influence needing further enhancement. We must adhere to using culture to shape tourism and tourism to showcase culture, advance the deep integration of culture and tourism, so that the people can better appreciate the beauty of nature, comprehend the beauty of culture, and cultivate the beauty of the soul through tourism, continuously raising tourist satisfaction and enhancing the people's sense of happiness.
Thicken cultural connotations. Culture is the soul of tourism, and tourism is the carrier of culture. The deep integration of culture and tourism is not a simple superimposition of culture and tourism, but rather a deep blending of the two types of resources. The potential of tourism depends to a large extent on the appeal of culture. Tourism development must pay greater attention to cultural development, enhance the cultural connotations of tourism, and create products with greater cultural substance. Firmly uphold cultural confidence, uphold fundamental principles and break new ground, and promote the deep integration of advanced socialist culture, revolutionary culture, and fine traditional Chinese culture into tourism resource development, tourism destination construction, and tourism market promotion. Deeply excavate and sort out cultural resources with distinctive features and strong market appeal, organically combine folk customs, intangible cultural heritage, and other distinctive cultural carriers with tourism projects, and promote the integration of more cultural resources into the layout of tourism routes and the construction of scenic spots and attractions.
Adhere to demonstration and leadership. Create a batch of demonstration zones for the deep integration of culture and tourism, boutique routes, and benchmark scenic areas, and by giving play to the leading and radiating role of demonstration projects, first try and accumulate replicable and extendable experience, which helps set benchmarks and establish models, promoting the deep integration of culture and tourism to improve quality and increase efficiency. We may build a number of tourism hub cities, key tourism cities, and distinctive tourism cities with profound cultural heritage, creating first-stop cities for inbound tourism and international rural tourism destinations. Relying on the Great Wall, Grand Canal, Long March, Yellow River, Yangtze River National Cultural Parks and cultural corridors such as the Silk Road and the Ten-Thousand-Mile Tea Route, build a number of new national tourism routes with distinctive cultural features. Cultivate a batch of brands for cultural festivals and exhibitions, theatrical performances, and sports events, allowing the vast number of tourists to enrich their experiences during travel. Cultivate a batch of integrated and innovative tourist attractions and resorts, theme parks, urban greenways, and suburban parks, upgrade and renovate existing historical and cultural blocks and tourism-leisure commercial districts, achieving a deep binding of cultural connotations and tourism resources. Cultivate a batch of new cultural experience spaces and new tourism consumption scenarios that are "small yet refined, small yet beautiful," such as distinctive exhibition halls, intangible cultural heritage workshops, immersive small theaters, etc., deeply excavate distinctive features, engage in meticulous and painstaking cultivation (精耕细作, jing geng xi zuo - "fine, plow, detailed, work"), form differentiated competitive advantages, and better satisfy the people's diversified, quality-oriented cultural and tourism consumption needs.
Link the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries. Using culture and tourism as a medium, link the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries, actively explore the "culture and tourism +" model, which helps empower with culture and prosper industries with culture, satisfying people's increasingly diversified tourism needs. It may deeply integrate with modern agriculture, cultivate new business forms of "agriculture-culture-tourism" integration, develop sightseeing agriculture, rural homestays, agricultural festivals, powerfully boosting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. For example, some places explore agriculture-culture-tourism integrated projects, through the creation of culture-tourism IP (intellectual property), activating the four major module functions of food, accommodation, travel, and shopping, expanding diversified consumption formats. Deeply integrate with advanced manufacturing, develop industrial tourism, intelligent manufacturing sightseeing, aviation and maritime science popularization experiences. For example, some places transform old grain depots into new landmarks for cultural and tourism consumption, use digital interactive technology to revitalize industrial heritage, turning factory buildings into creative design spaces and science popularization education bases. Deeply integrate with modern service industries, promote the linked development of culture and tourism with health and wellness, sports, education, exhibitions, and other business forms, forming an industrial ecosystem of mutual empowerment. Outdoor sports, forest wellness, study tours, and others have become emerging consumption hotspots, which can not only extend the value chain and industrial chain of culture and tourism, but also help enhance the multiplier effect and radiating and driving role of the cultural industry and tourism industry.
Strengthen talent cultivation. Talent is the first resource. Promoting culture-tourism integration from resource integration toward value sublimation, from business-form superimposition toward deep empowerment, urgently requires a team of culture-and-tourism professionals with high competence and reasonable structure, laying a solid intellectual foundation for the high-quality development of culture and tourism. We must adhere to simultaneous introduction and cultivation, industry-education integration, and build a multi-level, whole-chain talent cultivation system. Oriented by industrial demand, actively construct across-disciplinary, across-specialty composite talent cultivation models, raising the professional knowledge and skill levels of personnel engaged in culture-and-tourism-related work. We may promote universities, vocational colleges, and culture-and-tourism market entities to jointly build practical training platforms, focusing on key fields such as cultural heritage protection, culture-tourism planning and operation, digital culture-tourism application, and cultivate application-oriented talents with both cultural depth and market thinking in a targeted manner. Revitalize local talent resources in various places, increase support and cultivation efforts for intangible cultural heritage inheritors, local cultural talents, rural culture-and-tourism leaders, so that local forces become the vital new force for activating regional culture and driving cultural-and-tourism development. Use major culture-and-tourism projects and integrated development demonstration zones as practical carriers, temper talents and gather talents on the front line, promoting the deep docking and synchronized resonance of the talent chain with the industrial chain and innovation chain. Appropriately open up relevant positions in the cultural and tourism fields, provide more flexible job options and mobility paths, promote scientific and technological innovation talents in culture-and-tourism enterprises to actively carry out domestic cooperation and international exchanges, enriching experience and increasing capability.
(The author is the President of the China Tourism Academy)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 董丝雨
At 8:55 a.m. local time on September 27 in the United States (8:55 p.m. Beijing time on September 27), giant pandas "Ping Ping" and "Fu Shuang" from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan arrived safely at Zoo Atlanta in the United States, beginning a 10-year sojourn. China and the United States will further deepen exchanges and cooperation in areas such as giant panda breeding and reproduction, disease prevention and control, scientific research, public education, and wild population and habitat conservation.
The giant panda is a species unique to China and is also a rare, flagship, and iconic species in global biodiversity conservation. Since 1994, China has steadily and continuously carried out international cooperation on long-term giant panda conservation research, enhancing the capacity and level of giant panda conservation research, promoting understanding and exchanges between Chinese and foreign peoples, and providing Chinese solutions for promoting international cooperation on endangered species conservation and biodiversity conservation.
Sino-US giant panda conservation cooperation is one of the international wildlife conservation cooperation projects with the longest duration, the largest number of partner institutions, and the broadest and most far-reaching influence that China has undertaken.
In 1972, after then-US President Nixon visited China, giant pandas "Ling Ling" and "Xing Xing" went to the United States as state gifts. On the day of their arrival, more than 8,000 American visitors braved the rain to welcome them, and in the first month after the exhibit opened to the public, visits exceeded 1 million. From then on, giant pandas became an important bond connecting the friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.
On September 10, 1996, giant pandas "Bai Yun" and "Shi Shi" arrived at the San Diego Zoo in the United States, officially launching international scientific research and breeding cooperation. Subsequently, giant pandas "Lun Lun" and "Yang Yang" went to Zoo Atlanta in 1999, and another pair, "Tian Tian" and "Mei Xiang," took up residence at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in 2000. They were not only deeply loved by the American public but also important witnesses to Sino-US giant panda conservation cooperation.
In 2024, when the previous round of cooperation agreements expired, "Lun Lun" and "Yang Yang" returned to China. Now, "Ping Ping" and "Fu Shuang" have crossed the Pacific, writing a new chapter in giant panda conservation cooperation.
A relevant official from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding said that to ensure the giant pandas live healthily in the United States, the American side actively carried out preparations such as renovation and upgrading of the enclosures, creating a more comfortable and safe living environment for the giant pandas participating in the new round of cooperation. Chinese experts simultaneously provided technical guidance to the American side on enclosure renovation, specifying standards and requirements for giant panda enclosure facilities, feeding management, food supply, and health care.
In 1994, two giant pandas from Chengdu traveled to Adventure World in Wakayama, Japan, for the first time as "scientific research exchange ambassadors," opening the prelude to long-term cooperative research on giant panda conservation. Since then, China has carried out cooperative research on giant pandas with dozens of countries, including the United States, South Korea, Germany, and Singapore.
"Carrying out cooperative research is mainly to more effectively conduct cooperation in scientific research, publicity, and education, to popularize giant panda knowledge, to enhance the public's awareness of and conscious participation in protecting wildlife and the ecological environment, to better promote endangered species conservation, and to form a mutually beneficial win-win situation (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual, benefit; together, win") in the cooperative research model," said a relevant official from the China Wildlife Conservation Association.
A relevant official from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding said that before giant pandas go abroad, they complete a set of exclusive "preparatory courses," including transport adaptation, physical examination cooperation, and environmental adaptation. Before formal departure, they also undergo a one-month period of separate quarantine and inspection, and sufficient food is prepared for consumption during the flight or during stopovers. The giant panda breeding experts and veterinary teams dispatched by China also accompany them to the foreign country, responsible for daily observation and blood collection, and return to China only after the giant pandas have adapted to life in the foreign zoo.
As of now, China has established scientific research cooperation relationships with 26 zoos in 20 countries. The total number of giant pandas sent overseas for international cooperation has reached 69. Since the cooperation began, 45 litters and 73 cubs have been successfully bred and raised, making important contributions to integrating scientific research resources, raising the level of scientific research, promoting species conservation, and facilitating people-to-people and cultural exchanges.
In 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature downgraded the giant panda's endangered status from "endangered" to "vulnerable," reflecting the positive results achieved in China's giant panda conservation efforts and demonstrating the international community's recognition of China's achievements in giant panda conservation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦 皓
In Gongshu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal runs through the city. In the clear river water, schools of fish swim about, and occasionally egrets startle up from the grass.
Data show that in 2025, all 20 monitoring sections of the main channel of the canal (Hangzhou section) stably reached Class III water quality.
Red brick walls, old-fashioned silk reeling machines, giant exhaust fans... At the former site of the Hangzhou Silk Printing and Dyeing United Factory on the riverbank, the steel beam framework of the old workshop has been preserved. While retaining the industrial heritage, Gongshu District has built the "Silk Union 166 Cultural and Creative Park," attracting numerous cultural and creative enterprises in advertising, photography, fashion design, and other fields to settle in. As of 2025, more than 80 enterprises have moved in.
Cultural and creative worker Zhou Yi said that from rent subsidies to incubation platforms, the local government has substantive support policies for cultural and creative enterprises. Today, Gongshu District has cultivated 23 cultural and creative parks (blocks), gathering 281 cultural enterprises above designated size and 42 "new three types" cultural enterprises above designated size.
In response to livelihood challenges such as uneven public service provision in the central urban area and insufficient supply for the "elderly and young," Gongshu District, based on the "15-minute public service circle," has built the Grand Canal Happy Homes. Streets and communities coordinate and link up, integrate social resources, and bring together services for elderly care, childcare, housekeeping convenience, and cultural leisure. At present, Gongshu District has completed 46 Grand Canal Happy Homes, serving more than 11,000 person-times per day on average.
On weekends, the Grand Canal Hanggang Park amusement area sees crowds of tourists constantly arriving (游人如织, you ren ru zhi - "traveler, person, like, weave"), with special activities such as intangible cultural heritage molten iron flower throwing, art exhibitions, and music performances happening one after another (轮番上演, lun fan shang yan - "turn, sequence, stage, perform"). Gongshu District has also linked individual elements into a cohesive whole (串珠成链, chuan zhu cheng lian - "string, bead, become, chain") of 151 intangible cultural heritage items, 23 industrial heritage sites, and 30 museums at various levels and other cultural tourism resources, creating 12 cultural tourism routes and cultivating a one-stop cultural tourism consumption scene covering "food, lodging, transport, sightseeing, shopping, and entertainment." Last year, total tourism visits reached 45.75 million, up 8.2 percent year on year.
"Gongshu is renewed by the river and thrives by the river. In recent years, Gongshu District has made every effort to polish the 'Come to Hangzhou, Walk the Grand Canal' cultural tourism brand, continuously build the beautiful southern gateway of the China Grand Canal scenic area, and earnestly build a 'people's canal' and 'tourists' canal' shared by all and suitable for both hosts and guests," said Ao Yuxin, Secretary of the Gongshu District Party Committee.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, September 29) (Reporter Li Hongmei) On the 29th, a press conference held by the China Meteorological Administration released the latest monitoring situation of El Niño: according to monitoring by the National Climate Center, since September the sea surface temperature of the equatorial central and eastern Pacific has continued to warm, marking the first time on record that the sea temperature index at the pentad and ten-day scale has exceeded 3 degrees Celsius. The peak of the sea temperature index is expected to occur around November, forming the strongest super El Niño event on record.
According to monitoring by the National Climate Center, the equatorial central and eastern Pacific entered an El Niño state as early as May this year. Thereafter, the sea temperature index continued to rise rapidly. Since September, the sea surface temperature of the equatorial central and eastern Pacific has continued to warm, with the sea temperature index in the monitoring area for the 1st to 5th pentads being 2.70 degrees Celsius, 2.94 degrees Celsius, 3.01 degrees Celsius, 3.01 degrees Celsius, and 3.02 degrees Celsius respectively, marking the first time on record that the sea temperature index at the pentad and ten-day scale has exceeded 3 degrees Celsius.
According to predictions by the National Climate Center, the sea surface temperature of the equatorial central and eastern Pacific will continue to show a fluctuating upward trend. The peak of the sea temperature index is expected to occur around November, at 3.2 to 3.5 degrees Celsius, which will be significantly higher than the historical maximum (2.8 degrees Celsius, the peak of the 2014–2016 super El Niño event), forming the strongest super El Niño event on record. Since monitoring records began, there have been only three previous super El Niño events, occurring in 1982–1983, 1997–1998, and 2014–2016 respectively. The current sea temperature monitoring index and its warming rate are both significantly higher than the levels of the same period in the above three events.
The rapid development of El Niño has had a notable impact on China's climate during this year's flood season, with precipitation in the central and eastern regions generally showing a pattern of "more in the north and south, less in the middle," and flooding outweighing drought. At present, El Niño will continue to develop and will have an impact on the climate of both the globe and China in this year's autumn and winter and next year's spring and summer.
It is expected that in this year's autumn (October–November), precipitation will be above normal in most of central and eastern China, with parts of the majority of Jiangnan and the eastern part of the southwestern region seeing 50 to 80 percent more precipitation, and high risks of extreme precipitation as well as mountain torrents, landslides, and mudslides; autumn rain in West China will generally be above normal, with a spatial distribution of "more in the south, less in the north"; precipitation in southwestern Inner Mongolia, the northeastern part of the northwestern region, and other areas will be 20 to 50 percent or more below normal, with relatively high risks of meteorological drought and forest and grassland fire.
It is expected that in winter (December 2026 to February 2027), temperatures in China will be generally higher than normal, with a slightly higher frequency of cold waves and large fluctuations between cold and warm temperatures; precipitation will generally be above normal, and attention should be focused on preventing the impacts of periodic strong cold waves and low-temperature, rain, snow, and freezing conditions in the south. It is expected that in spring and summer 2027, El Niño will rapidly decay to its end, but its impact on China's climate will remain significant, with an increase in extreme weather and climate events, significantly higher temperatures, and stronger and more extensive summer heat waves.
China uses the sea surface temperature indicator of the key sea area in the central and eastern Pacific as the basis for determining El Niño. When the sea surface temperature anomaly index (the difference between the average temperature over a certain period and the climate baseline value for the same period) reaches or exceeds 0.5 degrees Celsius for three consecutive months, it indicates that an El Niño state has been entered. If this state lasts for five months or more, it is determined to be an El Niño event.
The intensity of El Niño events can be divided into four grades: weak events (peak ≥0.5 degrees Celsius and <1.3 degrees Celsius), moderate events (≥1.3 degrees Celsius and <2.0 degrees Celsius), strong events (≥2.0 degrees Celsius and <2.5 degrees Celsius), and super events (≥2.5 degrees Celsius).
Return to Top(People's Daily, Chengdu, September 29) (Zhang Fan, Xue Yujian) On the 28th, the 2026 Sichuan Provincial Culture and Tourism Development Conference and the 12th China (Sichuan) International Tourism Investment Conference were held in Chengdu. The conference made a scenario-based presentation of the "Beautiful Sichuan, Comfortable Sichuan" culture and tourism brand, released the "2026 Sichuan Province Culture and Tourism Key Projects Investment Guide," and put forward 334 high-quality culture and tourism investment projects, with a total investment of over 180 billion yuan, covering all 21 cities (prefectures) of the province and 11 categories.
Since 2019, the Sichuan Provincial Culture and Tourism Development Conference has been held for 7 years, and is an important platform for Sichuan's culture and tourism industry to expand opening-up to the outside world, deepen cooperation and exchange. Sichuan has implemented the action to build the culture and tourism industry into a chain and strengthen the cluster, promoted the achieving practical results and effectiveness (落地见效, luo di jian xiao - "land, ground; see, effect") of 100 key tasks including brand building and diversified supply, and continuously deepened "culture and tourism + all industries" and "all industries + culture and tourism," expanding space for industrial investment and development.
Return to TopGaze at the white walls and dark-tiled eaves spreading out like an ink-wash painting, listen to street-corner folk arts telling a thousand-year cultural lineage, admire the intangible-heritage iron-flower performance staging an art of light and shadow… In recent years, the Wunü Islet Scenic Area (婺女洲景区) in Wuyuan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province has, through model innovation, product quality upgrading, and digital empowerment, continuously promoted the deep integrated development of culture and tourism. The scenic area revitalizes high-quality intangible-heritage resources, builds a full-time-slot immersive nighttime-tourism format, links popular IPs to achieve the cross-circle dissemination of traditional culture, optimizes the tourism experience with smart services and integrity-based operations, effectively drives local people's on-site employment, activates the county-district cultural-tourism economy, and has blazed a new path of high-quality development in which traditional culture is livingly inherited, cultural-tourism industry is upgraded in quality and efficiency, and scenic area and city grow together to enrich the people and prosper the county.
Culture as the core Revitalizing intangible heritage
By day, in the Wunü Islet Scenic Area, a Huizhou-style cultural scroll is unfolding gradually (徐徐展开, xu xu zhan kai - "slowly, expand"). Strolling through the Huizhou-style street of white walls and dark-tiled eaves, visitors interact playfully with NPCs (non-player characters); completing tasks earns them special "silver notes"; shadow-puppet plays, face-changing, opera, and other folk performances take turns on stage. Visitors may take a sculled boat out on the Xingjiang River, visit distinctive venues such as the Wenchang Bookhouse and the Martial-Arts Culture Hall to check in, and immersively experience the charm of a Huizhou waterside town.
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At nightfall, the scenic area's nighttime-tourism system opens fully. Lantern-lit streets cast flowing light across the lake surface; intangible-heritage iron-flower forging, fire-pot performances, and other shows stage spectacularly; the large-scale live-action performance Encounter · Wuyuan (《遇见·婺源》), a fireworks show, anda drone performance follow in succession. Visitors may check into Huizhou-themed guesthouses, shifting from the traditional "one-day tour" to a deeper micro-vacation, breaking the old model of"seeing sights by day".
The scenic area gathers 7 national-level intangible-heritage items and 3 provincial-level intangible-heritage resources, covering folk performances such as fish lanterns, Nuo dance, iron-flower forging, as well as traditional handicrafts such as Jialu paper umbrellas and ceramic making, building a living-inheritance platform for intangible heritage that integrates viewing, interaction, and consumption. Visitors may enjoy folk performances on street corners, or personally experience traditional crafts in intangible-heritage workshops. The scenic area deeply converts intangible-heritage culture into cultural-tourism products that visitors can perceive, experience, and consume.
Digital cross-boundary Breaking circles to draw traffic
In its cultural-tourism integration practice, Wunü Islet Scenic Area has explored a new cross-boundary development model of"digital IP + intangible-heritage craftsmanship", opening the boundary between virtual and real, and bringing intangible-heritage culture closer to more young people.
Early this year, the scenic area launched a collaboration with a classic PC game: online, it created an"Wunü Islet Activity Map," incorporating landmark sights such as the Golden Pavilion and the Jade-Embracing Pagoda, along with Jialu paper umbrellas and Nuo-dance masks, into digital space; offline, it recreated game scenes such as the"Seria Inn," with performers in game-themed costumes interpreting Nuo dance, achieving a same-stage collision between game IP and traditional intangible heritage.
Meanwhile, the scenic area linked up with a classic martial-arts online game to build an immersive"Eight Divisions of the Heavenly Dragon" (《天龙八部》) themed martial-arts live-action interactive experience zone. Martial-arts characters parade through Huizhou-style street and around the Jade-Embracing Pagoda; the scenic area specially built a Martial-Arts Culture Hall displaying martial-arts literary works and film-television materials. Newly added"Eight Divisions of the Heavenly Dragon" NPC parades bring classic characters such as Qiao Feng, Xu Zhu, Duan Yu into interaction with visitors. There is also a"Tianlong Haute Couture · Only for the Return" drone-and-fireworks show staged at the Jade-Embracing Pagoda.
Quality upgrading and foundation strengthening Service as escort
In product development, Wunü Islet Scenic Area adheres to a dual-wheel drive of"stock quality upgrading + incremental innovation". It carries out immersive upgrades on formats such as live-action performances and intangible-heritage experiences, strengthening visitors' sense of participation; closely following local culture and the needs of young customer groups, it continuously incubates new experience projects carrying both cultural connotation and emotional value, building a tourism product matrix covering all time slots and all age groups.
Rooted in the legend of"Wunü Flying to Heaven," the large-scale live-action performance Encounter · Wuyuan integrates a light-and-shadow matrix, water-curtain projection, and special-effects performance; the theater can accommodate more than 3,000 spectators, with nearly a hundred performers on stage together, making it the scenic area's signature project. The Starry-Sky Flower-Sea Art Museum and the Children's Fun Hall have been put into use one after another; new formats such as cultural-and-creative coffee and specialty taverns attract young visitors. Centering on the six dimensions of"night tours, night performances, night banquets, night shopping, night entertainment, night lodging," the scenic area builds a one-stop nighttime consumption scene, fully releasing the nighttime cultural-tourism consumption potential.
In service guarantee, the scenic area adheres to technological empowerment and integrity-based operation. Relying on the"Xinbang Travel" mini-program, visitors can complete ticket booking, hotel check-in, performance seat selection, and guide inquiries in one stop, achieving"one phone to tour Wunü Islet". A back-end passenger-flow monitoring and early-warning system can, during holidays, direct passenger flow in real time and dynamically adjust performance sessions, and relies on big-data analysis to continuously optimize product supply.
In the consumption environment, the scenic area implements a clearly-priced mechanism, strictly enforces admission-and-assessment standards for dining and cultural-creative merchants, resolutely puts an end to"dual-menu" practices and cheating-and-overcharging customers, creating a worry-free consumption scene.
Scenic area and city growing together Culture and tourism enriching the people
One scenic area drives development across a whole region. Old boatmen have taken up their former trade again and are rowing tour boats; young people have returned to their hometowns to become extras in Encounter · Wuyuan; Wunü Islet Scenic Area has provided local people with a large number of jobs.
Market heat continues to climb; during peak season the scenic area's single-day highest visitor reception has exceeded 40,000 people, and in summer 2025 it received more than 300,000 visitors. During the 2026 Spring Festival holiday, Wuyuan County received a total of 3.822 million visitors, a year-on-year increase of 213.9%, with Wunü Islet Scenic Area becoming the main engine of county-district tourism growth. At present, Wuyuan County is supporting Wunü Islet Scenic Area's application to create a national-level tourist resort, while the scenic area's phase-II renovation and expansion project advances in tandem.
From intangible heritage taking root in the smoke-and-fire of everyday life, to culture melting into immersive experiences, to digital IP and a thousand-year-old craftsmanship moving toward each other in both directions, Wunü Islet Scenic Area uses fine traditional Chinese culture to empower the high-quality development of the cultural-tourism industry, genuinely converting cultural-tourism traffic into development increment. Beneath the night sky, with brilliant lights, Wunü Islet Scenic Area sincerely invites guests from all directions to come and enjoy themselves here.
Data source: Jiangxi Xinbang Cultural Tourism Investment and Development Co., Ltd
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈晨曦 孙龙飞 刘硕阳
On September 29, the finals of the five individual events of the badminton competition at the 20th Asian Games were held. Among them, the women's doubles final was contested between the world's top-two-ranked Chinese pair Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning and the Korean pair Lee So-hee/Baek Ha-na. The two sides fought through three games, consuming 111 minutes, jointly delivering a world-class contest of badminton doubles. In the first game, Liu Shengshu/Tan Ning saved five game points to win a hard-fought victory, producing the rare score of 28:26. In the end, the Chinese pair suffered a disappointing defeat (遗憾告负, yi han gao fu - "regret, report defeat") 1:2, failing to defend a championship title (无缘卫冕, wu yuan wei dian -"no connection, defend title").
Opening the world badminton rankings, nearly all of the top five players in the five individual events come from Asia; every match is a contest among world-class players, and the quadrennial Asian Games are driving the sustained development of world badminton.
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Return to TopBy: 李雯雯
The moment the gold medal was secured, tears welling up and flowing out (夺眶而出, duo kuang er chu - "seize, eye socket, emerge") streamed down my face. Only I know how difficult the road to the top podium of the Asian Games has been.
Two Olympic Games, two times atop the podium, yet the Asian Games gold medal had always remained elusive. Three years ago in Hangzhou, I was supposed to fulfill my dream at home and complete the Grand Slam, but I had to withdraw due to injury at the last moment. That regret, like a thorn, pierced deep in my heart.
After the elbow injury, for more than four full months, I could not train normally, and I even dared not watch the footage of my injury, fearing that fear itself would defeat me. Recovering bit by bit, regaining my form bit by bit, I ultimately stood on the highest podium at the Paris Olympics.
The Asian Games gold medal has always been on my wish list. Before stepping onto the competition platform, I told myself: there is no easily attainable (唾手可得, tuo shou ke dei - "spit, hand, can, obtain") champion; a gold medal must be fought for kilogram by kilogram. Five attempts, all five successful — to outsiders it looked like an easy win, but every weight lifted on the platform had already been repeatedly honed day after day (日复一日, ri fu yi ri - "day, repeat, one, day") in training; it was the result of resolve after wind and rain and of striving to persevere.
After securing this gold medal, I stood on the lifting platform and could not help but shout aloud: "I am the best!" This shout was for myself, who had endured so many ups and downs.
Completing the Grand Slam is not the finish line for me. As the captain of the Chinese women's weightlifting team, I hope to pass on the experience of success: never deny yourself, believe that you are the best.
The Los Angeles Olympics is the third Olympic cycle I am preparing for. At the beginning of the cycle, I cannot afford to slack off; I must compete seriously in every qualifying event, work hard to accumulate points, and continue to push beyond my limits. The barbell is certainly heavy, but heavier than the barbell is the stubborn refusal to admit defeat, and the love for weightlifting that I can never let go of.
(The author is a weightlifter of the Chinese sports delegation to the 20th Asian Games; compiled and edited by People's Daily reporter Li Shuo)
Return to TopOn September 29, athletes of the Chinese team won 11 gold medals. As of the conclusion of competition on the 29th, the Chinese delegation had won a total of 143 gold, 62 silver, and 49 bronze medals.
In the women's 10-meter platform final, Chinese team athlete Chen Yuxi won the title with 432.65 points, while Lu Wei took the silver medal. In the men's 3-meter springboard event, Chinese team athlete Wang Zongyuan claimed his third gold medal at this Asian Games, with Zheng Jiuyuan taking silver.
The badminton competition featured finals in five individual events. The Chinese pair of Jiang Zhenbang and Wei Yaxin won the gold medal in mixed doubles, while Liu Shengshu and Tan Ning, and Liang Weikeng and Wang Chang, took silver medals in women's doubles and men's doubles respectively.
In track cycling, the Chinese team won two gold medals in the women's and men's team sprint events, and successively set new Asian Games and Asian records.
The weightlifting competition came to a close, with Chinese team athlete Wu Yan winning the gold medal in the women's 86 kg category. Li Wenwen claimed gold in the women's over-86 kg competition. Liu Huanhua fought hard to secure a bronze medal in the men's 110 kg category. The Chinese weightlifting team concluded its Asian Games campaign with 5 gold, 2 silver, and 3 bronze medals, with all 10 participating athletes winning medals.
On the final day of athletics competition, in the women's 800-meter final, Wu Hongjiao won the title with a time of 2 minutes 04.49 seconds. In the women's hammer throw event, Zhang Jiale won gold with a performance that set a new Asian Games record, while Zhao Jie took silver. In the mixed 4×100-meter relay final, the Chinese team composed of Chen Jinfeng, Liu Guoyi, Shi Junhao, and Chen Yujie won the championship with a time of 40.78 seconds. In addition, Yao Jie and Li Chenyang won silver and bronze medals respectively in the men's pole vault, and the Chinese team took third place in the women's 4×400-meter relay final. The Chinese delegation won a total of 17 gold, 14 silver, and 8 bronze medals in athletics at this Asian Games.
At the shooting venue, the Chinese team composed of Sun Yurong, Liu Shanshan, and Zhu Jingyu won the gold medal in the women's trap team event, while Sun Yurong also won a silver medal in the individual event. In the men's trap individual competition, Chinese team athlete Qi Ying won a bronze medal.
(People's Daily reporters Gao Ji, Sun Longfei, Li Shuo, Liu Shuoyang, Sun Yahui, Wang Meihua, and People's Daily Online reporter Hu Xuerong)
Return to TopAs a financial main force serving local economic development, China Construction Bank Hunan Branch (hereinafter referred to as "CCB Hunan Branch") anchors itself to Hunan Province's "Three Highlands and Four New Missions" beautiful blueprint, focuses on serving the real economy, and builds a financial service pattern with credit extension as the main channel, bank-government coordination as the focal point, and product innovation as the booster, channeling financial resources with providing targeted and precise financial support (精准滴灌, jing zhun di guan - "precise, drip, irrigate") to key areas of advanced manufacturing, scientific and technological innovation, and opening up to the outside world, serving Hunan's construction of the "Three Highlands" of "building a national important advanced manufacturing highland, a scientific and technological innovation highland with core competitiveness, and an inland region highland for reform and opening up."
Precise Efforts, Nurturing the Fertile Soil of Advanced Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the foundation of Hunan Province's real economy. CCB Hunan Branch closely follows the needs of the province's landmark projects and modern industrial system construction, deepens bank-government-enterprise coordination, implements differentiated credit policies, and strives to fully complete regulatory targets. As of the end of June 2026, the manufacturing loan balance stood at 162.02 billion yuan, an increase of 24.46 billion yuan from the beginning of the year, a year-on-year growth of 13.9%.
As a member of the special working group for Hunan Province's key industry doubling plan, CCB Hunan Branch implements the mechanism of "one policy per chain, one special working group per chain," focusing on scenarios such as long-term financing for industrial chain enterprises, scientific and technological innovation, transformation and upgrading, and industrial clusters, and strengthening integrated commercial and investment banking services, integrated domestic and overseas services, and "equity, loan, bond, insurance, and leasing" financial services. Around on-chain transaction scenarios, it has launched products such as "e Credit Link," "e Bill Link," and "de-guaranteed chain loans."
In the process of SANY Heavy Industry advancing intelligent manufacturing and green project construction and accelerating its global layout, CCB Hunan Branch precisely matches the enterprise's transformation needs, providing equipment renewal loans and cost consulting services, supporting photovoltaic green projects and equipment iteration and renewal, receiving the proceeds from the enterprise's Hong Kong stock listing through domestic and foreign currency linkage, and providing financial solutions for the enterprise's expansion of overseas business.
Upholding Fundamental Principles and Breaking New Ground, Activating the Momentum of Scientific and Technological Innovation
Scientific and technological innovation is the core element of developing new quality productive forces. CCB Hunan Branch adheres to "investing early, investing small, investing long-term, and investing in hard technology," clearing the financial bottlenecks in the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements. As of the end of June 2026, it has served 23,000 technology-based enterprises across the province and has been awarded the "Outstanding Unit for Hunan Province Science and Technology Financial Services" for four consecutive years.
CCB Hunan Branch leverages the synergy advantage of the CCB Group's full license of "equity, loan, bond, insurance, and leasing" to build a comprehensive financial toolbox. Cumulative debt-to-equity swap asset deployment reached 9.267 billion yuan; in 2025, it completed the 300 million yuan "green + sci-tech innovation" debt-to-equity swap project for Liansteel Electromagnetic Materials; over the past three years, it has cumulatively underwritten and subscribed to 3.335 billion yuan of sci-tech innovation bonds, launched the nation's first renewable structured asset-backed sci-tech innovation commercial paper, and underwritten the nation's first 10-year "green + sci-tech innovation" dual-labeled bond. It has cooperated with CCB Property & Casualty Insurance to carry out special insurance services for sci-tech innovation enterprises, and relied on CCB Financial Leasing to deploy leasing loans for leading engineering machinery sci-tech innovation enterprises.
Reshaping the value of intellectual property, opening up the channel for converting "rights on paper" into "development capital." CCB Hunan Branch has innovatively launched digital evaluation tools such as "Technology Flow" and "Starlight STAR," converting "soft strengths" such as enterprise R&D investment, patent quality, and talent teams into credit granting basis. Beiyun Technology once faced financing difficulties due to its asset-light characteristics; CCB Hunan Branch approved a 60 million yuan credit line for the enterprise through the "Technology Flow" evaluation system and customized a comprehensive financial service plan. CCB Hunan Branch has also jointly built a knowledge value credit loan risk compensation platform with the Hunan Provincial Department of Science and Technology, achieving full coverage of risk compensation agreement signing across all 14 cities and prefectures in the province.
CCB Hunan Branch provides enterprises with "finance + incubation + industry + guidance" services, nurturing a vibrant innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. It has innovatively launched "Xiangchuang Loan," providing credit support through investment-loan linkage to enterprises invested in by the Hunan Provincial College Student Entrepreneurship Investment Fund. It has so far connected with more than 200 college student entrepreneurship projects, served and supported 145 of them, and achieved full coverage of services for enterprises invested in by the Hunan Provincial College Student Entrepreneurship Investment Fund. CCB Hunan Branch has also built a three-tier professional network of "provincial branch innovation center—city direct operation center—park characteristic sub-branch," carrying out direct science and technology finance operations in six key advanced manufacturing cluster cities including Changsha, and strengthening the construction of science and technology characteristic sub-branches.
Internal and External Linkage, Consolidating Support for Reform and Opening Up
CCB Hunan Branch deeply advances the integrated operation of domestic and foreign currency and domestic and overseas business, achieving multiple breakthroughs in free trade zone services, global fund operations, and cross-border investment and financing. It has built a "1+3+8" long-term mechanism for serving the development of the free trade zone, with the provincial branch as the overall coordination center, the Changsha, Yueyang, and Chenzhou sub-branches as the implementation entities, and has built eight free trade zone characteristic ecological smart outlets, providing financial services to nearly 8,000 enterprises in the zone.
Deepening cross-border linkage, achieving dual breakthroughs in IPO capital repatriation and global cash management. CCB Hunan Branch, together with CCB International, won the bid as the lead sponsor and main underwriter for Hongxing Cold Chain's Hong Kong IPO, facilitated the repatriation of Hong Kong listing proceeds for three Hunan enterprises—SANY Heavy Industry, Mingming Henmang, and Hongxing Cold Chain; and built a three-dimensional service model of "domestic commercial bank + overseas branch + investment banking subsidiary," opening up the full-chain service from listing sponsorship to capital repatriation.
Innovating cross-border financing services to solve enterprises' pain points in going global. CCB Hunan Branch customizes structural financing plans for enterprises, helping them reduce financing costs and hedge exchange rate risks; it has handled cross-border supply chain export commercial invoice financing business for member enterprises of Zoomlion Group.
The tide surges on the Xiangjiang River, and all strive to take the lead in a competitive environment (奋楫争先, fen ji zheng xian - "row hard, strive for the lead"). In the future, CCB Hunan Branch will, with more professional financial services and deeper commitment to serving the people, continue to deeply cultivate the fertile industrial soil of Hunan, and with financial responsibility, promote the deepening and solidification of Hunan's "Three Highlands" construction.
Data source: China Construction Bank Hunan Branch
Return to TopIn order to deeply practice the concept of finance serving the people, Xiamen International Bank upholds the service philosophy of "Excellent Service, Warm Company for You," and through "Party-business integration, one linkage with three advances, public-private coordination," has deeply cultivated retail business for over a decade, with the scale of retail customers continuing to grow and retail business continuously reaching new heights.
Xiamen International Bank adheres to a customer-centered approach, increases the digital empowerment of retail business, opens up the full-channel service matrix of mobile banking, remote banking, enterprise WeChat, and offline branches, continuously optimizes the full-process experience of account opening, settlement, consumption, credit, wealth allocation, and other businesses, continuously enriches inclusive finance, consumer finance, and livelihood service scenarios, making financial services easily accessible (触手可及, chu shou ke ji - "touch, hand, can, reach") and intimately accompany customers wherever they go.
Xiamen International Bank has comprehensively upgraded its professionalized and digitalized wealth management system, built a wealth product matrix covering deposits, wealth management products, funds, insurance, precious metals, and trusts, and relying on the digital wealth system and investment-research decision-making mechanism, established a service system of customer risk matching, asset diagnosis, and intelligent allocation, forming a closed-loop wealth service ecosystem of "professional investment-research support, intelligent system empowerment, tiered rights rewards, full-cycle companionship and growth," while vigorously enhancing the professional service capability of customer managers in asset allocation, precisely focusing on customer groups such as the elderly, women, parent-child families, car owners, aviation-tourism cross-border travelers, and others, creating a distinctive service system of "one customer group, one card; one demographic, one set of rights."
"Youran Card"
Deeply cultivating warm services suited to the elderly, with supporting fee reductions, new-customer instant cash discounts, and the exclusive "Leling Scratch-and-Win" activity, while simultaneously implementing convenience measures such as a senior-friendly zone in mobile banking, dialect services, and door-to-door agency services, safeguarding the silver-haired demographic's peaceful later years.
"Yanran Card"
Featuring an elegant and poetic card design, with the supporting "Yanran Ladies' Gathering" themed activity, providing exclusive discounts on quality goods and wealth planning services, balancing self-pleasing consumption and wealth management, empowering refined and independent living for women in the new era.
"Youbei Card"
Favored by family users for its cute IP "Duo Ke'ai" card design, with supporting gifts of new-customer instant cash discounts, parent-child quality goods, and children's smart devices, while simultaneously implementing youth financial-literacy enlightenment and family education savings guidance plans, accompanying children's growth with warm financial services.
"Fujian Western Returned Scholars Association Co-Branded Card"
Focusing on the needs of returned overseas talents, integrating exclusive rights for overseas Chinese and cross-border finance, covering diverse consumption scenarios. The card adopts Xiamen International Bank's signature blue background, paired with a quill-pen element, symbolizing returned students returning to Fujian after completing their studies abroad and building the Eight Min region, serving returned students' aspiration to serve the country with financial strength after their studies.
"Qiaoxin Card"
Targeting the overseas Chinese community, focusing on cross-border financial businessand exclusive services for overseas Chinese compatriots, with supporting exclusive rights such as fee reductions on cross-border remittancesand preferential exchange-rate spreads on foreign-exchange settlement and sale, precisely matching the actual needs of overseas Chinese customers such as daily consumption.
"Car Owner Card"
Building a one-stop travel life circle, regularly launching instant discounts on fuel charging, car washing, and maintenance discounts, opening a Tuesday-exclusive activity day for car owners, comprehensively covering all scenarios of car use, car maintenance, and travel.
"Luyuan Card"
Innovatively integrating the dual scenarios of aviation-tourism and cross-border services, stacking aviation-tourism rights such as airport VIP lounges, airline baggage vouchers, hotel and travel courtesies, creating a regional benchmark for aviation-tourism cross-border financial services.
Next, Xiamen International Bank will continue to deepen the strategic upgrading of its retail business, strengthen professional wealth management capabilities, optimize the ecosystem of customer-group-featured cardsand rights, provide customers with more refined, warmer, and more professional financial services, and practice the concept of finance serving the people.
Data source: Xiamen International Bank
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 龚相娟
The 2026 China Private Enterprise Investment and Financing Fair (hereinafter referred to as the "Private Enterprise Fair"), jointly hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Tianjin Municipal People's Government, was held in Tianjin from September 22 to 23. Anchored in the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, this year's Private Enterprise Fair took "Scenario Innovation & Sci-Tech Finance Synergy — Promoting High-Quality Development of the Private Economy" as its theme. Central state-owned enterprises, representative enterprises from the top 500 private enterprises, new sci-tech force enterprises, universities and research institutes, and financial investment institutions gathered together in one place (会聚一堂, hui ju yi tang - "meet, gather; one, hall"), promoting the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, and capital chain.
In recent years, Tianjin has used the Private Enterprise Fair as a bond to continuously solidify services for private enterprises. It seeks application scenarios for enterprise innovation, funding for projects, and partners for industries, improving the full-chain mechanism of scenario opening, financial support, and service guarantees, promoting the accelerated transformation of more innovation achievements, the taking firm root and flourishing (落地生根, luo di sheng gen - "land, fall; ground, root, grow") of quality projects, and the growth and expansion of private enterprises, stimulating the vitality of private economic development with precise services and injecting lasting momentum into high-quality development.
Deepening application scenarios to promote the transformation and implementation of innovation achievements
This year's Private Enterprise Fair adopted a "1+4+N" activity system, including 1 main event, 4 brand events, and multiple special events. The 4 brand events were the Scenario Innovation Application and Development Conference, the Sci-Tech Finance Empowering the Development of New Quality Productive Forces Matchmaking Meeting, the China Nezha Enterprise Development Conference, and Fund Night.
At the Scenario Innovation Application and Development Conference, the Tianjin Scenario Innovation Promotion Center was officially inaugurated, the Tianjin Scenario Innovation Service Platform was simultaneously launched online, and multiple achievements were released, including the Tianjin Top Ten Scenario Innovation Typical Cases and the Tianjin Top Ten Scenario Innovation Opportunity Project List, centrally showcasing the practical achievements of local scenario construction and key cooperation opportunities, releasing scenario projects in fields such as frontier sci-tech innovation, industrial upgrading and transformation, efficient governance of urban and rural areas, and smart livelihood services, providing clear guidance for enterprises to participate in urban scenario construction. The Tianjin Scenario Innovation Promotion Center and scenario institutions from multiple domestic regions jointly signed the "Interregional Scenario Innovation Express" strategic cooperation agreement, promoting the interconnection and sharing of cross-regional scenario resources and facilitating the broader application of advanced technologies and innovative solutions.
To promote the implementation of more innovation achievements, the Tianjin Municipal Development and Reform Commission took the lead, using the "Tianjin Scenario" brand building as a lever, organizing scenario opportunity releases, supply-demand matchmaking, special training, and "one-on-one" scenario polishing services around 5 scenario types and 24 key fields, connecting technology supply with application demand.
A batch of scenario cooperation projects is accelerating implementation and delivering results. In the field of industrial robotics, Tianjin Langyu Robot Co., Ltd. invested 100 million yuan in the Wald Industrial Robot (Phase II) new plant and supporting facilities project in Zhangjiawo Town, Xiqing District, which officially broke ground in June this year. Once the project reaches full production capacity, it will promote the batch production and implementation of heavy-duty mobile robots and drive the transformation of heavy-duty mobile robots toward artificial intelligence-driven autonomous intelligence. In the field of underwater inspection and repair, the scenario project of Tianjin Entrepreneurial Environmental Protection Group Co., Ltd. and Tianjin Tianxing Technology Development Co., Ltd. has completed matchmaking and entered the verification stage. In the hazardous chemicals industry, products such as explosion-proof inspection robots developed by Tianjin Zhongke Anchuang Technology Co., Ltd. have been applied at Bohua Group and Jinye Chemical. The specific needs of the production frontline provide space for private sci-tech enterprises to verify technology and improve products.
In the first half of this year, the Tianjin Municipal Development and Reform Commission established a scenario special task force, building the Tianjin Scenario Innovation Service Platform with a full-process working mechanism, assisting scenario enterprises in project implementation and transformation through various forms such as supply-demand matchmaking, capability roadshows, special salons, and scenario competitions. A relevant leading comrade from the Private Economy Division of the Tianjin Municipal Development and Reform Commission introduced that the Tianjin Scenario Innovation Service Platform mini-program provides scenario list inquiry services, supports all parties in online matchmaking, and opens up the "last mile" connecting opportunities with capabilities.
This year's Private Enterprise Fair also carried out multiple special events, directly confronting industry issues and discussing solutions. Activities such as the National Venture Capital Guidance Fund Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Fund Roadshow and Matchmaking, the China Top 500 Private Enterprises Investment Dialogue, Industry-Academia-Research on Brain-Computer Interaction and Human-Machine Integration, Government-Enterprise Cooperation in the Green Low-Carbon Circular Industry, Collaborative Development of Industry and Finance for Robot Enterprises, Assisting Private Enterprises in High-Quality Going Global, and Off-Site Matchmaking and Coordination provided a full platform for exchange for industry insiders.
After more than a decade of deep cultivation, the Private Enterprise Fair has cumulatively attracted tens of thousands of enterprises and institutions to participate, with a total financing scale of approximately 400 billion yuan, becoming an effective vehicle for promoting the development of the private economy and industrial upgrading. It has effectively promoted the innovative integration of finance, technology, and private enterprises, continuously building a solid bridge for government-enterprise and industry-finance matchmaking.
Strengthening financial support to continuously assist enterprise growth
During this year's Private Enterprise Fair, financial institutions released the "Scenario Loan" comprehensive financial solution, with an overall credit line of 10 billion yuan, providing special financial support to scenario-based enterprises, and completed credit agreement signings with multiple key scenario enterprises.
A major highlight of Tianjin's empowerment of private enterprise development is channeling the living water of finance to nourish the private economy.
In August this year, the Tianjin Municipal Development and Reform Commission held the 15th "Jinxin Assisting Enterprises" enterprise service activity under the theme "Financial Empowerment Assists Private Enterprises, Industry-Finance Win-Win Promotes Development," with multiple financial institutions and nearly 50 private manufacturing and sci-tech enterprises with financing needs participating. At the event, financial institutions and participating enterprises were grouped and matched by industry field and financing type, conducting in-depth "face-to-face" negotiations and promoting the achievement of preliminary cooperation intentions of over 50 million yuan between banks and enterprises, assisting enterprises in capacity expansion and efficiency improvement, technological transformation, innovation and R&D, and market expansion. This measure targets the financing pain points of enterprise transformation and upgrading and R&D investment, promoting precise matchmaking between enterprises and financial institutions.
On August 11, the first roadshow activity of this year's Private Enterprise Fair was held, focusing on the brain-computer interface field, with 7 enterprises, 8 investment institutions, and 4 expert judges participating. Enterprises presented their products, financing needs, and development plans, investment institutions learned about market prospects, and expert judges offered suggestions. This roadshow was part of the precise pre-fair matchmaking of the Private Enterprise Fair, promoting full negotiation of projects before they entered the main venue. From technical solutions to market prospects, from capital needs to investment judgments, the more sufficient the preliminary communication between the two sides, the more solid the foundation for subsequent cooperation.
Financial services cover the daily operations of enterprises. Jinxiang (Tianjin) Technology Co., Ltd., which has deployed stores at transportation hubs such as airports and railway stations, has extended its services to car rental for arriving passengers and university service points. Purchasing new vehicles and building stores both require capital support. The enterprise connected with financial resources through the "Jinxin Assisting Enterprises" enterprise service activity, seeking paths for business expansion. Around needs such as financing, cross-border going global, and scenario application, the Tianjin Municipal Development and Reform Commission continues to hold the "Jinxin Assisting Enterprises" enterprise service activity, assisting enterprise development with normalized services.
Focusing on precise services to cultivate fertile soil for the development of the private economy
From the centralized contract signings at the Private Enterprise Fair to the normalized services of "Jinxin Assisting Enterprises," from the broad track of scenario innovation to the precise drip irrigation of financial living water, Tianjin has built a comprehensive service matrix supporting the development of the private economy.
To do a good job in enterprise services, the key is to accurately identify the needs and pain points in enterprise development, grasp common industry problems and individual enterprise difficulties, precisely match resources, implement assistance measures, and solve problems in a practical manner.
Since the beginning of this year, various districts and departments in Tianjin have built normalized communication and exchange working mechanisms such as government-enterprise interaction, policy interpretation, and solving difficulties and alleviating hardships (解难纾困, jie nan shu kun - "solve, difficulty, relieve, hardship") through forms such as visits and research, policy promotion, special symposiums, and precise matchmaking, achieving precise delivery of enterprise-benefiting policies, closed-loop resolution of enterprise appeals, and efficient matching of development factors. Through this working mechanism, 9,612 appeals from private enterprises have been resolved face-to-face.
During communication and exchange with Tianjin Hengrui Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., the Binhai Branch of the Tianjin Municipal Public Security Bureau learned that the enterprise had encountered difficulties in expanding its business scope and adding new production lines — the approval time for "road transport of radioactive materials" sometimes could not match the extremely short activity shelf life of radiopharmaceuticals. After the issue was reported, the Tianjin Municipal Public Security Bureau, in light of local conditions (因地制宜, in light of local conditions), adopted differentiated measures and made precise efforts, significantly compressing the approval time limit and effectively resolving the enterprise's operational pain point.
As the lead department in the public security system for serving and safeguarding the private economy, the Government Service Corps of the Tianjin Municipal Public Security Bureau integrates the concepts of safeguarding private enterprises' fair participation in market competition and optimizing government services into the entire process of law enforcement and approval. From promoting the analysis of one problem to solving a class of problems, the Government Service Corps of the Tianjin Municipal Public Security Bureau guided the subordinate Binhai Branch to innovatively launch the "Three Specials, One Second" approval mechanism targeting the common practical problems faced by biomedical enterprises. "'Three Specials' refers to setting up a special window for acceptance, establishing a special group, and issuing special policies; 'One Second' refers to accelerating processing speed to achieve 'second-level' response," introduced Zhang Chi, captain of the Business Environment Optimization Detachment of the Government Service Corps of the Tianjin Municipal Public Security Bureau.
Government services assist enterprises in accelerating digital transformation. Tianjin Heping District is home to many shipping enterprises, and Tianjin Rongyida Information Technology Co., Ltd. is one of them. In 2025, as the company's business scale continued to grow and its "shipping + artificial intelligence" strategy advanced rapidly, the enterprise's office space needed expansion, but relocation would increase time costs and operating costs. After learning of the enterprise's appeal, the Heping District Development and Reform Commission communicated and coordinated with the property management company of the building where the enterprise is located, helping the enterprise achieve office area expansion and upgrading nearby, providing timely support for enterprise development and innovation capability improvement. In the first half of 2026, the company's operating revenue increased by 114.4% year-on-year.
Building communication channels in peacetime and solving problems in a practical manner — the development confidence of private enterprises accumulates through each response to their appeals.
Looking ahead, Tianjin will continue to make good use of the Private Enterprise Fair as a platform and vehicle, deepening scenario innovation, strengthening financial support, and solidifying precise services, continuously removing development bottlenecks and cultivating fertile soil for development, enabling private enterprises to dare to venture and act decisively (敢闯敢干, gan chuang gan gan - "dare, rush; dare, do") and gather strength for growth, accumulating surging momentum for high-quality development.
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From the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, to the development of green circular agriculture, and then to research and tackling of key technologies... In Tianjin, financial services closely align with the development needs of private enterprises, providing support for enterprise innovation, development, capacity expansion, and efficiency improvement, helping to boost the growth and expansion of the private economy.
In response to the financing difficulties faced by enterprises during the transition, construction, and growth periods, the Agricultural Bank of China Tianjin Branch and the Postal Savings Bank of China Tianjin Branch have continuously innovated financial products and optimized service models, channeling financial resources toward the front lines of production and the frontiers of innovation.
Tianjin Jiangtian Data Technology Co., Ltd., located in Xiditou Town, Beichen District, is an important IDC (Internet Data Center) service provider in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region under the Jiangtian Group, and was formerly the Tianjin Heavy Machinery Plant. The Beichen Sub-branch of the Agricultural Bank of China has maintained long-term cooperation with the enterprise since 2001. During the enterprise's transformation from heavy industry to the data industry, the sub-branch quickly formed a dedicated service team, completed the formation of six banking syndicates and loan approvals, and ensured the successful delivery of the enterprise's cloud data center project.
Also benefiting is Tianjin Deshengyuan Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd. As a leading enterprise in Tianjin's municipal-level agricultural industrialization, Deshengyuan has independently developed 16 patents, introduced Huaxi cattle breeding, and built a green circular model of "grain—feed—manure—organic fertilizer." However, due to the long breeding cycle and large investment, the funding gap for capacity expansion once stalled the plan. In March this year, after learning of the situation during a visit, the Agricultural Bank of China Tianjin Branch verified the patents and supply and sales contracts on site, and quickly disbursed 8 million yuan in "Technology e-Loans," helping the enterprise resolve its financing difficulties and accelerating the implementation of circular agriculture.
When real-economy enterprises expand and build factories, they often face the funding dilemma of "only investing, no returns" during the construction period. Tianjin Gerui New Metal Materials Co., Ltd., which is deeply engaged in the field of special alloys, faces an extremely urgent or imminent (迫在眉睫, po zai mei jie - "press, at, eyebrow, close") need for investment in new plant construction and equipment, but its own funds must be reserved for daily production turnover, and the traditional working capital loan model of monthly principal and interest repayment mismatches the enterprise's cash flow during the construction period. The Postal Savings Bank of China Tianjin Branch conducted in-depth calculations of the project cycle and capital rhythm, innovatively launched a small-enterprise construction loan, effectively alleviating the enterprise's repayment pressure during the construction period, successfully revitalizing this key real-economy project, and opening a new path for serving fixed-asset investment by small and micro enterprises, accelerating the transformation of expansion plans from blueprints into reality.
Holding key technologies and converting "intellectual capital" into "capital" is a common aspiration of many sci-tech innovation enterprises. During a visit to Huangtai Industrial Park, the Dagang Sub-branch of the Postal Savings Bank of China in Tianjin learned that the petrochemical enterprise Hanyang Heavy Industry has been continuously tackling key domestic technologies and has accumulated a batch of high-value core patents, but intangible assets are difficult to fully reflect their value through traditional channels. The Dagang Sub-branch of the Postal Savings Bank of China in Tianjin broke through traditional collateral thinking and disbursed a 15 million yuan loan to the enterprise through substantive credit enhancement using intellectual property rights. The dormant patent assets were effectively activated, injecting strong momentum into the enterprise's continued efforts to tackle key technologies that are being bottlenecked (卡脖子, ka bo zi - "strangle, neck, child's thing") and to take root in high-end manufacturing.
The value of financial "living water" lies in precision, and serving private enterprises lies in pragmatism. As financial support measures continue to be implemented and service quality and efficiency continue to improve, the innovation vitality and development potential of the private economy will be further unleashed, adding momentum to Tianjin's high-quality development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李家鼎
Recently, staff from the Urban Construction Office of Shuangkou Town, Beichen District, Tianjin, arrived at the new factory site of Tianjin Wantailida Plastic Products Co., Ltd., located in the Beichen District Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industrial Park, to coordinate the opening of a road access point for equipment entering and exiting the site.
Wantailida's main business is the manufacture of plastic boards, pipes, and profiles. With continuous growth in orders, its original production capacity has neared saturation, and the need to expand production is urgent. However, building a new factory involves steps such as land listing and bidding, planning approval, drawing review, and construction permits. The company must liaise with multiple departments, and without familiarity with the procedures, the process can take a considerable amount of time.
On August 21 this year, Wantailida won the right to use 50 mu of industrial land in the Beichen District Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industrial Park, planning to invest 150 million yuan to build a new factory and expand production capacity. On the very day the land was secured, the town immediately activated its full-process agency and assistance mechanism. A dedicated team sorted out the approval matters and coordinated with the Beichen Branch of the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources, the Beichen District Government Services Office, the Beichen District Housing and Urban-Rural Development Commission, and other departments to implement parallel approval and acceptance of applications with missing materials. At present, the real estate ownership certificate, the construction land planning permit, and the construction engineering planning permit have all been issued, and once the design plan is finalized, the construction permit and quality supervision filing can be obtained in succession.
Geng Xibin, the person in charge of the company, calculated the time savings: "Compared with handling the procedures ourselves in the past, the agency and assistance mechanism has gained us at least three months of construction time, allowing us to seize the market ahead of competitors."
In Shuangkou Town, this is not an isolated case. In Shuanghe Village, on the banks of the Ziya River, a plot of about 450 mu of land had lain idle for years. By ascertaining the baseline situation, applying differentiated measures, and carrying out targeted investment attraction, the town brought in the Jim International Adventure World project. Coordinating with district-level departments, all approvals were completed within two months, and from contract signing to completion and operation took only a little over half a year. Within two years of opening, total revenue has exceeded 40 million yuan.
"We focus on three dimensions — characteristic industries, the business environment, and scientific and technological innovation — and continuously improve the collaborative mechanism of 'enterprises posing problems, universities solving them, and the government assisting,' so that services have standards and can be tracked," said Li Yue, Party Secretary of Shuangkou Town. Members of the town's party leadership team take the lead in pairing up with enterprises, conducting regular visits and participating in on-site coordination. Together with Hebei University of Technology, they have built a "Science and Technology Achievement Supermarket" and an "Enterprise Reception Hall," promoting the implementation of multiple industry-university-research collaborations and gathering 32 national high-tech enterprises and 80 national science-and-technology small and medium-sized enterprises.
The story of Shuangkou Town is a microcosm of Beichen District's continuous efforts to optimize the business environment and promote the high-quality development of private enterprises. In recent years, the Beichen District Development and Reform Commission has persisted in combining an effective market with a well-functioning government, precisely delivering a "combined package" of measures to support enterprise development, and providing all-round assistance to enterprises in resolving difficulties and overcoming hardships (纾困解难, shu kun jie nan - "relieve hardship, solve difficulties") and upgrading their operations. In the first half of this year, leading cadres at all levels across the district made more than 3,000 visits to enterprises, resolving more than 500 issues, effectively helping enterprises "meet standards and upgrade" and growing larger and stronger (做大做强, zuo da zuo qiang - "do big, do strong").
Yu Miao, Director of the Beichen District Development and Reform Commission, said that the private economy is the main force driving Beichen District's development. Beichen District adheres to the principle of "responding to every request and not disturbing enterprises when there is no need," focuses on the actual needs of enterprise development, and ensures that policies are delivered proactively and services reach enterprises precisely and directly. In the next step, it will continue to optimize full-life-cycle services, converting the warmth of services into investment enthusiasm and development momentum, so that private enterprises can produce with peace of mind and develop with confidence.
(Liu Hengrui contributed to this report)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 靳 博
Tianjin Xiaocheng Group Co., Ltd., headquartered in Hexi District, Tianjin, is applying artificial intelligence technology to elderly care services. "We continuously iterate on the company's developed Xiaocheng AI medical-care and health-nursing platform, converting digital-intelligence capabilities into inclusive care supply." said Liu Feng, the company's board chairman.
Xiaocheng Group's innovative breakthrough is a vivid microcosm (生动缩影, sheng dong suo ying - "vivid, miniature") of the development of the private economy in Hexi District. Since the beginning of this year, Hexi District has added 2,642 private enterprises, accounting for 97.4% of the total number of newly added enterprises; in the first half of the year, the added value of the private economy reached 19.999 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.2%.
In July this year, Hexi District formulated and issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for Promoting High-quality Development of the Private Economy in Hexi District (2026-2028)," specifying 18 specific measures across 5 aspects, centering on industrial quality improvement, service supply, and factor guarantees, guiding private enterprises toward transformation and upgrading to "high-precision, advanced, and cutting-edge" industries.
With the assistance of the Hexi District Investment Promotion Bureau, embodied-intelligence enterprise PaxiNi settled in the 764 Embodied Intelligence Industrial Theme Park in 2025, and the enterprise's overall valuation has grown from approximately 1 billion yuan at the time of settlement to over 10 billion yuan today, while also driving chain enterprises such as Shiyun Technology and Shutu Technology to settle in the 764 Embodied Intelligence Industrial Theme Park.
Hexi District has drawn up industrial chain and investment attraction maps, built a quality enterprise database and a key project database, and guided private enterprises to cluster toward leading industries and expand into emerging industries. It has introduced 6 industrial chain enterprises including Shiyun Technology and Huoyan Positioning. Relying on exhibition platforms such as the 2026 Smart Expo, the Intelligent Robot Carnival, and the Diyang · 2026 Tianjin Fashion Week, it has strengthened project matchmaking, attracting a cumulative total of 46 quality private enterprises to settle since the beginning of this year.
In response to the development needs of commercial aerospace enterprises such as Huoyan Positioning and Sutai Kailing in terms of policy, talent, and application scenarios, the Chentang Management Committee of Hexi District has customized financial empowerment and scenario matchmaking plans, and through business-to-business investment attraction has drawn enterprises such as Galaxy Aerospace, Guoyu Xingkong, and Qishang Aerospace to cluster, leveraging regional transportation, port, water conservancy, and energy resources to give play to the advantages of commercial aerospace enterprises in the district, further carrying out industrial services such as survey and mapping, gas monitoring, meteorological remote sensing, and smart navigation, and building a commercial aerospace industry cluster zone.
Serving enterprises hinges on precision. Hexi District adheres to "customized services, full-cycle escort," and over the past two years has visited more than 50,000 business entities in total, helping enterprises resolve financing issues. The Hexi District Government Service Office has opened a "green channel" for approval, tailoring special approval plans for projects such as the BD Medical (Tianjin) Life and Health Innovation Center. The Hexi District Development and Reform Commission has advanced the "two documents delivered simultaneously" mechanism, delivering the administrative penalty decision and the credit repair notification at the same time, so that business entities can promptly learn the procedures for credit repair. A cumulative total of more than 200 credit repair notifications has been issued, providing guidance for enterprises to repair credit in accordance with laws and regulations.
For enterprises to develop in new directions, talent is an important pillar. In July this year, Hexi District launched the "18 Talent Policy Measures," using policy support to attract talent aggregation. In addition, Hexi District has held the "Hexi Talent Festival" series of brand activities for 4 consecutive years, continuously building a talent development ecosystem where "those near are delighted and those far come," creating conditions for private enterprises to attract and gather talent.
Centering on the layout of key industries, Hexi District is making every effort to build industrial carriers such as Chentang Science and Technology Innovation Park, the 764 Embodied Intelligence Industrial Theme Park, the Taihuli Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park, and the "Digital Island" of the New Badali Digital Economy. In the first half of this year, Hexi District revitalized a cumulative stock area of 306,800 square meters, and through the construction of industrial carriers has promoted the concentrated settlement and layout of private enterprises, attracting a cumulative total of more than 2.5 billion yuan in private capital investment in the first half of the year.
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In the intelligent production workshop of Tianjin Daqiao Welding Wire Co., Ltd., the new production line was running at full speed, with robotic arms flexibly flipping and precisely welding.
A few months ago, this production line had nearly ground to a halt due to the enterprise's cash-flow difficulties. Song Fukang, director of the Economic Development Office of Dasi Town, Xiqing District, Tianjin, discovered this bottleneck during a visit to the enterprise. He proactively reached out to the enterprise to explain the policy on applying for ultra-long-term special treasury bonds, providing end-to-end follow-up service from document preparation to submission of the application, repeatedly answering questions. It was precisely this timely injection of funds that allowed the enterprise to seize the opportunity during the critical window for intelligent transformation, and the new production line went into operation on schedule. "The cadres understand the policies and provide thorough service, helping us clear this hurdle," said the person in charge of Daqiao Welding Wire.
Song Fukang's ability to keenly identify bottlenecks and efficiently resolve problems benefits from Xiqing District's systematic cadre cultivation mechanism. "We treat the industrial battlefield as the 'main examination hall' for tempering cadres' ability to solve practical problems, and turn cadres' sense of responsibility into the 'transmission shaft' for industrial advancement, going all out to serve the development of the private economy," introduced Gong Lulu, member of the Standing Committee of the Xiqing District Party Committee and head of its Organization Department. Since the beginning of this year, focusing on the needs of private enterprises to improve quality and increase efficiency, Xiqing District has implemented the "'Qing' Vanguard Elite Training Camp" economic cadre cultivation program, carrying out six months of research, training, and capacity-building, allowing cadres to hone their skills and serve as "long-distance running partners" accompanying enterprises in their development.
The "'Qing' Vanguard Elite Training Camp" requires no unit recommendation; any cadre with an interest in economic work may apply. The organization department, after comprehensively assessing factors such as individual strengths and specialties, willingness to participate, and urgency of cultivation, ultimately selected 72 cadres to join the camp. The first phase is general knowledge training, focusing on "what private enterprises need, what services should do," determining 14 special topics including economic management, fiscal, taxation, and finance, with leading cadres from municipal and district development-reform, industry-and-information-technology, investment-promotion, and other economic departments lecturing on experience and practices; at the same time, centering on areas such as algorithm, computing power, big data, and large models, cadres are organized to enter Nankai University, Tianda High-Tech Education and Innovation Park, and other venues for immersive research and study, enhancing their capabilities.
The second phase is practical training, where topic research, industrial offering advice and suggestions (建言献策, jian yan xian ce - "build, suggest, offer, advice"), project investment attraction — all are substantive tasks. "Pathways for undertaking integrated circuits," "Advice on strengths and weaknesses of industry-service investment attraction," "Suggestions for attracting investment in producer services"... Cadres themselves choose topics, select projects, and formulate plans, rooting themselves at the front line of industry and working alongside private enterprises to solve problems together. To date, cadres in training have visited 45 enterprises including Daqiao Welding Wire, collected 120 demands, and provided precise services to private enterprises in areas such as financing matchmaking, compliance building, and market expansion
Judge performance by solid work, and use cadres based on solid performance. In recent years, the Organization Department of the Xiqing District Party Committee has explored and established a full-chain mechanism of "selection, cultivation, management, and use" along with a cadre all-scenario observation and evaluation system, assessing cadres' ability to learn and apply knowledge through dimensions such as classroom performance, research findings, enterprise service, and results in tackling tough problems. More and more cadres are shouldering heavy responsibilities at the front line of advanced manufacturing cluster development and industrial transformation and upgrading. With the support of this cadre team that understands industry, knows the market, and can provide services, private enterprises in Xiqing District have grown from 118,000 at the end of 2024 to 125,100 by the end of June this year, accounting for 98.35% of all market entities. In the first half of this year, the added value of the private economy reached 24.091 billion yuan, and the total output value of private enterprises above designated size reached 37.505 billion yuan
(Li Rui participated in the reporting and writing)
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In the neonatal intensive care unit, flexible sensors as extremely thin and delicate (薄如蝉翼, bo ru chan yi - "thin, like, cicada, wings") as cicada wings are affixed to a child's chest, "imperceptibly" collecting heart rate, blood oxygen, and even chemical signals in sweat; robot fingertips covered in "electronic skin" can steadily pick up a piece of tofu; on the exterior of a human space station, flexible chips cling to the surface like "space band-aids," transmitting structural data in real time amid extreme temperature differences and micrometeorite impacts... These scenes are not distant science fiction but vivid examples of flexible electronics technology currently in application or under development.
As a frontier technology born from the intersection of materials, mechanics, microelectronics, and biomedicine, flexible electronics are breaking the rigid, fixed form boundaries of traditional electronic devices. With their thin, lightweight, bendable, and stretchable properties, they conform to the human body, organs, and various irregular surfaces, achieving the integration of sensing, computing, communication, and energy supply. They are regarded as one of the key directions for the next generation of technological transformation.
The "Metamorphosis" of Electronic Devices from Hard to Soft
The electronic devices around us—from phones to computers, from chips to circuit boards—are almost all built on a default premise: electronic components must be solid. This is because traditional electronic devices use silicon as their core material: silicon has high electron mobility and stable performance, making it the cornerstone of modern information technology. However, silicon has an "innate limitation": it is brittle and hard. Once bent, it fractures and fails, restricting its application scenarios.
The core approach of flexible electronics technology is to integrate high-performance electronic components with flexible polymer materials through material innovation and mechanical structural design, so that when electronic devices are stretched, bent, or twisted, the circuits continue to operate stably and efficiently, achieving a natural fusion of high performance and deformability. Simply put, it makes electronic devices as soft as skin while retaining the information-processing capability of semiconductor devices.
Currently, global flexible electronics technology is in the stage of industrialization takeoff and rapid development, with the United States, China, South Korea, Europe, and other countries and regions forming multiple tiers of innovation. Flexible electronics technology is primarily advancing along the following paths:
First, "electronification of flexible materials," which integrates electronic performance into organic materials that inherently possess flexible properties—that is, the high-performance enhancement of flexible organic semiconductors. Scientists start from molecular design and material synthesis, focusing on improving key performance metrics such as the electron mobility of flexible organic semiconductors. Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are a typical representative: they use organic materials instead of traditional inorganic materials to emit light, and can be made as thin as paper and as flexible as a film.
Second, "flexibilization of electronic devices," which achieves flexible forms for rigid electronic materials through structural design—that is, the flexibilization of high-performance inorganic semiconductors. Scholars at Northwestern University in the United States, through ingenious structural design, have composited and integrated traditional inorganic electronic materials with flexible substrates, giving devices and systems overall stretchable flexibility. To use an analogy: a straight iron wire snaps when pulled, but if you bend it into a spring, it can be stretched a long way without breaking.
At the same time, flexible electronics technology is advancing from single materials and single devices toward system integration. Research teams represented by the State Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology at Tsinghua University (hereinafter referred to as "Flexible Electronics State Key Lab") are focusing on flexible integrated devices and flexible circuits, concentrating on solving the problem of how sensing, computing, signal transmission, and other functions can be integrated on flexible substrates. Compared with the previous two paths, the advantage of this direction lies in advancing flexible technology from "material performance" to "system integration," and from "laboratory samples" to "mass-producible products," bringing it closer to the engineering application of flexible microsystems. Relying on original innovative technology with a manufacturing yield exceeding 95%, the team has built an internationally leading pilot-scale platform in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, providing full-chain manufacturing services from sensors to circuits and promoting the large-scale application of flexible electronics technology.
Applied Across Multiple Scenarios Including Flexible Displays, Life and Health, and Human-Machine Interaction
Leveraging the technical advantages of being "light, thin, flexible, and small," flexible electronics have moved from concept to engineering validation, covering multiple frontier tracks including flexible displays, life and health, human-machine interaction, and aerospace equipment.
Flexible Displays: From "Glass Screens" to "Foldable Screens"—
In recent years, foldable-screen phones have become increasingly common, and their core technology is precisely flexible displays. Traditional screens sandwiched in rigid glass are prone to shattering; flexible screens replace the glass substrate with heat-resistant, bendable polyimide film, paired with light-emitting materials and flexible transistors, opening up space for innovation in screen form. The research team at South China University of Technology has proposed the "hot exciton" mechanism and new design principles for hybrid charge-transfer state materials, balancing the color purity and efficiency of light-emitting materials. The research team at Tianjin University, leveraging the "absorb light—emit light" mechanism of material molecules, has developed the world's thinnest flexible transparent display, with a thickness of approximately 0.01 millimeters and a transmittance exceeding 90%. The research team at Tsinghua University has developed new electron injection and transport materials to improve luminous efficiency and stability.
Medical and Health: Imperceptible Monitoring and Diagnosis and Treatment—
Traditional medical monitoring equipment is bulky, and the hardness of implanted devices does not match human soft tissue, making long-term placement prone to causing inflammation and rejection reactions. Flexible medical devices, by contrast, conform to the human body like "electronic skin," "imperceptibly" monitoring physiological signals and greatly reducing implantation risks. The research team at Northwestern University in the United States has made pioneering contributions in the field of flexible bioelectronics, developing wireless physiological monitoring systems that seamlessly integrate with the skin, capable of precisely collecting ECG, EMG, body temperature, blood oxygen, and sweat biochemical indicators, with applications in premature infant care, postoperative rehabilitation, and other scenarios. The research team at City University of Hong Kong in China has combined electrical stimulation with vibration feedback to develop a skin-attached multimodal tactile feedback interface that restores the sense of touch to prosthetic users. The team at the University of California, San Diego in the United States has used ultrasound technology to break through the limitation of traditional flexible electronics that can only collect surface signals; the wearable ultrasound patch they developed can penetrate the skin to continuously monitor blood pressure, blood flow, and other deep physiological signals. The Flexible Electronics State Key Lab, meanwhile, is making sustained efforts in flexible wearable electronics and implantable and interventional medical electronics, developing skin-like blood glucose monitoring, blood pressure/blood oxygen monitoring, sleep regulation, and wearable ultrasound systems that are comfortable and imperceptible to wear, enabling long-term health management; it has also developed machine-washable, repeatedly crumpled fabric-based flexible wearable electronic products suitable for sports and health scenarios.
Brain-Computer Interfaces: Flexible Channels Between Brain and Machine—
Rigid brain-computer interfaces easily damage brain tissue, and long-term implantation leads to severe signal attenuation—a common challenge in the global brain-computer field. Flexible electronics offer a new solution: ultra-thin, low-modulus flexible electrodes can conform to the cerebral cortex, following the brain tissue's slight deformations, reducing foreign-body reactions and stably collecting neural signals over extended periods. Multiple top international laboratories are developing ultra-thin cortical electrode arrays for decoding motor signals in paralyzed patients and localizing epileptic foci. The flexible brain-computer interface developed by Neuralink in the United States contains 1,024 flexible electrode threads, each only 4–6 micrometers in diameter, precisely implanted into the cerebral cortex by a "sewing machine" surgical robot, capable of wirelessly transmitting neural signals, and human subjects have already received implants. The Flexible Electronics State Key Lab has developed a series of flexible neural electronic devices; for example, intra-auricular/peri-auricular neural electronic devices have been applied to visual and auditory brain-computer interfaces, and can be used for brain monitoring, diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases, and human-machine intelligent systems.
Embodied Intelligence: Robots Gaining "Electronic Skin"—
The mechanical arms and sensors of traditional robots can only execute fixed programmed actions; they cannot perceive pressure, temperature, or texture like human skin, let alone adjust their movements based on tactile feedback. The breakthrough in flexible electronics technology has precisely enabled robots to be fitted with electronic skin that can "perceive the world." The high-density flexible sensor array developed by the research team at the University of Tokyo in Japan can cover large areas of skin on humans and robots, achieving simultaneous multi-point sensing of touch, temperature, and pressure. The team at Stanford University in the United States has developed a flexible skin synthesized from multiple layers of materials, with each layer possessing different sensing capabilities—respectively sensing pressure, temperature, and tension—and capable of automatically realigning when damage causes material layer misalignment, exhibiting self-healing abilities similar to human skin. The Zhejiang Tsinghua Flexible Electronics Technology Research Institute has extended flexible sensing to the robotics field, developing electronic skin that can sense pressure, temperature, and texture, endowing robotic hands with fine grasping capabilities, building multimodal tactile datasets for embodied intelligence, and creating industrial embodied intelligence.
Aerospace: Adapting to Extreme Space Environments—
Space features intense radiation, severe temperature differences, and vibration and impact, under which ordinary electronic devices easily fail. Multiple international aerospace agencies are exploring flexible thin-film solar cells and curved flexible sensing antennas for weight reduction on satellites and deep-space probes. The satellite-borne flexible chip microsystem developed by the Flexible Electronics State Key Lab, after three years of ground-based assessment and radiation testing, entered the space station aboard Tianzhou-6 and completed 15 months of extravehicular on-orbit testing with stable operation. Such chips are foldable and can conformally adhere to surfaces; in the future they can be used in lightweight electronic systems for spacecraft and physiological monitoring in spacesuits, reducing payload and providing lightweight hardware support for deep-space exploration.
How Far Are We from "Everything Flexible"?
Despite the broad application prospects, the global flexible electronics industry still faces common challenges. First, the contradiction between mechanics and electronics: a flexible device is like a piece of paper folded repeatedly—fold it enough times and the internal circuit layers may delaminate and fracture like a thousand-layer cake, causing performance degradation or even failure. Second, material shortcomings: the materials we need must conduct electricity well, stretch, remain stable long-term, and also not trigger rejection after implantation in the human body—such an "all-rounder" is currently still scarce. Third, the energy supply challenge: thin, light, flexible devices have extremely limited space and battery capacity, requiring further exploration of miniature, stretchable, long-endurance flexible batteries or wireless power supply solutions.
Looking ahead, flexible electronics technology will exhibit several clear trends. First, hybrid integration will continue to deepen, combining high-performance rigid silicon chips as the "brain" with flexible substrates, retaining computing power while gaining deformability. Second, sensing, computing, and energy supply will become integrated—devices will no longer be mere sensors but will integrate on-device AI, wireless communication, and energy harvesting to achieve autonomous sensing and local computing. Third, biocompatible, degradable devices will continue to develop, naturally degrading after completing their mission inside the body, sparing patients the pain of a second surgery for removal. Fourth, interdisciplinary integration will see flexible electronics deeply coupled with healthcare, embodied intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and aerospace technology, giving rise to entirely new application scenarios.
Flexible electronics technology is a revolution in electronic form. It breaks out of the inherent framework of traditional electronic devices being "rigid and non-deformable," allowing intelligent sensing and computing capabilities to attach to curved surfaces, the human body, and equipment, continuously expanding the boundaries of human perception of the world, restoration of health, and exploration of space. As fundamental theories continue to improve and pilot-scale manufacturing capabilities continue to mature, flexible electronics technology will continue to profoundly transform intelligent technology in the future, truly integrating into human life with subtle and silent influence (润物细无声, run wu xi wu sheng - "moisten, things, fine, subtle, no, sound").
(The author is a professor at the School of Aerospace Engineering and the State Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics Technology at Tsinghua University)
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Recently, Communications Earth & Environment, a journal under Nature, published an important achievement in typhoon forecasting completed by a collaborative team from China, the United States, and Europe. The core of this research is the creation of the first fully coupled atmosphere-ocean-wave third-generation typhoon forecasting model. Results from five years of forecast verification show that the model's error in forecasting maximum typhoon intensity three days in advance is, on average, 82 percent lower than that of multi-national operational forecasting systems over the same period, with the forecast error dropping from 18.8 meters per second to 3.3 meters per second. This breakthrough is exciting, yet it also highlights a reality: typhoon forecasting has long been an extremely difficult fortress to conquer in the global meteorological field.
Typhoons originate in the ocean and manifest as strong winds and heavy rainfall in the atmosphere. They are also accompanied by huge waves in the ocean and coastal storm surges, making them among the most destructive natural phenomena in the world. Typhoon forecasting includes two core indicators: track and intensity. The track determines the specific areas affected by the typhoon, while the intensity determines the magnitude of its destructive power. Over the past nearly 40 years, the accuracy of global typhoon track forecasting has improved by 50 to 60 percent, but progress in intensity forecasting has been relatively slow. Why are typhoons so difficult to predict?
First, a typhoon is a typical "chaotic system." Sea surface temperature, humidity, upper-level wind fields, the subtropical high, monsoons, ocean currents, and even topography and friction at the ocean surface—any subtle change in any one of these factors can be continuously amplified in subsequent evolution, ultimately affecting the typhoon's movement track and intensity. This is what people commonly call the "butterfly effect." Therefore, the closer to the current moment, the more accurate short-term nowcasting within a few hours tends to be; but for the three-to-five-day forecasts that are more important for disaster prevention and mitigation, meteorological agencies can often only provide possible movement trends and intensity estimates, then continuously revise them based on new observational data, with forecast errors increasing as the forecast lead time lengthens.
Second, the "uncertainty" in typhoon tracks comes from the game of complex atmospheric circulation systems. The direction and speed of a typhoon's movement depend on steering flow, and the subtropical high, the East Asian monsoon, the westerly trough, and others can affect the steering flow at any time and place. When these "pushers" each exert force in different directions, the typhoon may suddenly turn, slow down, or even stall and spin in place. When two or more typhoons approach each other, a "Fujiwhara effect" can also occur, with mutual restraint causing their respective tracks to swing substantially.
Third, typhoon intensity can undergo sudden changes under the influence of multiple factors. The typhoon's inner core is like the "heart" of the storm, and changes in external energy supply and sudden changes in internal structure can cause its intensity to surge or plummet within hours. At the same time, the typhoon's inner core is in an environment of strong convection, heavy precipitation, strong winds, and huge waves, and existing observational means such as satellites, aircraft, and radar still find it difficult to continuously, completely, and accurately obtain the fine internal structure of a typhoon.
Fourth, the ocean's influence on typhoons has long been underestimated. Typhoons occur over the ocean, and the ocean is the "engine" of typhoon development. In the late 1950s, Europe, the United States, and the Soviet Union began to establish first-generation typhoon forecasting models, but these considered only the atmosphere, with ocean temperature artificially set as fixed and unchanging, resulting in forecasts of weak typhoons being too strong and strong typhoons being too weak. At the beginning of this century, developed countries began to incorporate second-generation typhoon forecasting models coupling the ocean and atmosphere into their operational model systems, taking ocean feedback into account; intensity forecasts for weak typhoons improved somewhat, but forecast errors for strong typhoons became even larger.
Why does this contrast occur? One important factor is ocean waves. In 1991, Klaus Hasselmann, a German physical oceanographer and Nobel Prize laureate in physics, proposed the conjecture that "ocean waves may play an important role in ocean-atmosphere exchange." Around this conjecture, scholars from multiple countries have continued to tackle the problem. Chinese scholars have achieved three original theoretical breakthroughs: first, they discovered that ocean waves can generate very strong turbulence, and the mixing and stirring effect of this turbulence rolls cooler water from the ocean's subsurface layer up to the ocean surface; the cooling of the sea surface temperature reduces the heat exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere; second, they discovered that ocean waves and the spray produced by their breaking allow the atmosphere to move more smoothly over the sea surface, and by reducing frictional resistance, typhoons become stronger; third, wave spray carries the temperature of seawater into the atmosphere, increasing the heat transport from the ocean to the atmosphere, making typhoons stronger.
Based on these theoretical breakthroughs, Chinese scholars took the lead internationally in constructing a third-generation typhoon forecasting model that fully considers the feedback effect of ocean waves on typhoons, and assembled an international collaborative team from China, the United States, and Europe to verify all 37 strong typhoons that underwent rapid intensification in the western North Pacific from 2020 to 2024. The results show that the new model precisely solves the international challenge of forecasting rapid typhoon intensification and has a foundation for operational deployment.
From the breakthrough in wave theory, to the iteration of three generations of typhoon forecasting models, to the addition of artificial intelligence, humanity's understanding of typhoons is moving from understanding how something is rather than why (知其然, zhi qi ran - "know its, how") toward understanding the underlying reasons for something (知其所以然, zhi qi suo yi ran - "know its, reason, why"). In the era of artificial intelligence, the ultimate challenge of typhoon forecasting is not just a competition of computing power and algorithms, but also a contest of the depth of understanding of natural laws, and breakthroughs in basic research play an irreplaceable role. In today's world of global warming and frequent extreme weather, no single country can independently cope with the threat of typhoons. Only by strengthening international cooperation and the sharing of achievements can we weave an even finer and more reliable global meteorological early warning network.
(The author is a researcher at the First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 牛瑞飞
Near a beehive, a small bee takes flight for the first time. It does not rush toward the distant flowers, but instead circles round and round near the hive, carefully "sizing up" its doorstep. Trees, grass, ground conditions, changes in light—these visual cues are remembered by the bee. After a brief "learning flight," it can fly hundreds of meters or even several kilometers away to forage, and on the return trip accurately find its way home.
This navigational ability of bees is bringing new inspiration to robotics research. Recently, researchers from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and other institutions published a paper in Nature proposing a bee-inspired robot navigation strategy. The study shows that, with a very small neural network and simple sensors, small drones can find their way home after completing longer-distance flights without building a large three-dimensional map. Guido de Croon, one of the paper's authors and a professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology, told this reporter that the new navigation strategy reduces the cost of installing expensive navigation equipment and improves the economic feasibility of applications.
For small robots, "finding the way" is no easy task. Large robots can carry complex navigation equipment, but small drones are limited by weight, energy consumption, and computing power, making it difficult for them to carry such systems. "Bee navigation" is a new approach proposed precisely to solve this problem. According to the researchers, bees rely mainly on two abilities for navigation: one is "path integration," that is, continuously estimating during flight how far they have flown and in which direction, thereby calculating the position of the starting point relative to themselves; the other is "visual memory," that is, remembering the scenery near the starting point and using these visual cues to correct direction when approaching. The core idea of "bee navigation" is precisely to have robots imitate this process.
Specifically, the drone first performs a short learning flight near its "home." During the flight, it uses optical flow sensors, altitude sensors, and gyroscopes to estimate its own trajectory, while using a panoramic camera to photograph the surrounding environment. Subsequently, a small neural network maps these panoramic images to a "home vector." The so-called "home vector" can be understood as the direction and distance the robot should fly to return to the starting point when it sees a certain image at its current position. This is equivalent to establishing a lightweight "visual home memory" for the drone. The researchers call the area covered by this learning the "learned homing area." As long as the drone, after a long-distance flight, relies on path integration to roughly return to this area, it can then use visual memory to further pinpoint its position and ultimately find the starting point.
A prominent feature of this method is that it is "economical." Simulation experiments show that the robot only needs to learn a very small portion of the total flight area to be expected to complete its return. Real flight experiments further verified this approach: in various environments ranging from 30 meters to 110 meters, the robot's return success rate reached 100 percent; in outdoor environments ranging from 200 meters to 600 meters with wind interference, the return success rate declined somewhat, but still showed strong adaptability.
Duan Haibin, a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor at Beihang University, told this reporter that this research, by imitating and following the laws of nature (师法自然, shi fa zi ran - "learn from, follow, nature"), has drones simulate bees by first completing a short-range learning flight around the starting point, establishing a lightweight visual homing memory, and achieving autonomous return. It does not require high-precision three-dimensional maps or large-scale computing equipment, providing a new navigation path with low cost, low computing power, and low storage requirements. In multi-task complex operational scenarios such as greenhouse inspection, crop detection, warehouse inventory, industrial facility inspection, and offshore wind power equipment maintenance, it is expected to enable more small robots to shed their dependence on large computing equipment, high-precision maps, and external navigation facilities.
Of course, the bee's "homing" ability has not yet been fully learned by robots. At present, "bee navigation" mainly serves round-trip navigation from a single starting point and cannot yet plan optimal routes between any two points like complex map systems. Changes in lighting, dynamic objects, and missing landmarks in outdoor environments may also affect the visual homing effect. The researchers said that in the future, more stable direction-sensing methods such as magnetometers or solar azimuth perception could be introduced to improve navigation accuracy.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 波 肖家鑫
On September 28, in Qufu, Shandong, the 2026 China International Confucius Cultural Festival and the 2026 Nishan Forum on World Civilizations were held in succession. The China International Confucius Cultural Festival invited approximately 300 guests from 42 countries and regions, while the Nishan Forum on World Civilizations brought together approximately 340 guests from 44 countries and regions, jointly answering a call to a rendezvous of civilizations that spans mountains and seas.
At the opening ceremony of the China International Confucius Cultural Festival, the award ceremony for the 21st "UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy" was held, with three education projects from Lebanon, Mexico, and Thailand receiving the honor. The prize was established in 2005 and continues to promote worldwide the Confucian educational philosophy of educating all regardless of their social status (有教无类, you jiao wu lei - "have, teaching, no, categories"). At the same venue, the launch of the "Study Tours Following Confucius" and the "Canal No. 1" was showcased, and the cultural tourism carnival was inaugurated. After the opening ceremony, the Memorial Ceremony for Confucius was held at the Confucius Temple, with the proceedings retaining such segments as opening the city gates, opening the temple, opening the doors, music and dance offerings, and the reverent reading of the eulogy, while also linking up with Confucian temples and academies, allowing ritual and music culture to be appreciated across regions and online.
This year's China International Confucius Cultural Festival, themed "Benevolence and Ritual Under Heaven, Harmony and Great Unity," is hosted by the People's Government of Shandong Province, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO, and runs through October 7. Before the opening ceremony, mass-participation activities had already been rolled out in advance: 13 outstanding folk music ensembles from cities along the Grand Canal gathered for performances at the Liaohe Grand Theater in Jining, Shandong, and staged flash-mob tours at the extremely high and imposing walls (万仞宫墙, wan ren gong qiang - "ten thousand, measure, palace, wall") of the Ming Dynasty Old City in Qufu and at Nishan Sacred Land; at the Confucius Cultural Temple Fair on Wuma Ci Street in the Ming Dynasty Old City of Qufu, the Confucian-style market and lion dances and stilt walking opened simultaneously. Last year, the China International Confucius Cultural Festival launched five themed study-tour products, receiving a cumulative total of over 10 million visitor trips. This year's event offers immersive courses such as the Nishan Teacher-Respect Ceremony and the Six Arts practicum, making the Confucian experience tangible and perceptible.
On the afternoon of September 28, the opening ceremony of the 2026 Nishan Forum on World Civilizations was held. The forum was founded in 2010 and has been successfully held for 11 sessions. This year's forum is co-hosted by the People's Government of Shandong Province, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the International Confucian Association. The theme of this session is "Civilization, Order, and Justice," with four sub-topics: the contemporary value and world significance of Confucianism, civilizational resilience and global governance, dialogue of thought and civilizational integration, and artificial intelligence and great harmony under heaven.
Jin Minqing, member of the Leading Party Members' Group of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and director of the Institute of Contemporary China Studies, elaborated on the three keywords of civilization, order, and justice: "The essence of 'ritual' is the norm of order. The world today faces a peace deficit, a development deficit, a security deficit, and a governance deficit. We should uphold the global governance concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, so that civilizational order becomes a solid guarantee for maintaining world peace and stability."
Thomas Bach, Honorary President for Life of the International Olympic Committee, spoke in a video address about the common ground between Confucian thought and the Olympic ideal: "Confucius placed great importance on the comprehensive development of the human body and mind. The ancient Romans also expressed a similar proposition — a sound mind in a sound body. This very idea is precisely the core of the Olympics."
In the subsequent keynote speeches, Chen Lai, Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Tsinghua University, analyzed the narrow and broad senses of civilizational dialogue and proposed promoting the common flourishing of civilizations through civilizational dialogue; Professor Dipankar of Jawaharlal Nehru University in India pointed out that translation is not only a bridge between civilizations but also a process of joint creation by civilizations, and that the translation of Buddhist scriptures between ancient India and China was precisely an ongoing project of knowledge production. Edmund Moukala, UNESCO representative in Ghana, proposed that global governance should be improved under the guidance of the Chinese civilizational values of "benevolence, righteousness, and harmony," that global governance should shift from "global control" to "global orchestration," and that "cultural identity is not an obstacle to development but precisely a driving force for sustainable development."
On the morning of September 29, the forum also held 8 parallel group dialogues and 2 high-end interviews, and concurrently held 3 parallel forums: the Cultural China · Nishan Overseas Chinese Forum, the Sports Culture Forum, and the Confucian Business Culture Forum; in the afternoon, the second keynote speech session and the closing ceremony were held, and the "2026 Nishan Forum on World Civilizations Consensus" was released.
From the exchange of ideas at the China International Confucius Cultural Festival to the clash of viewpoints at the Nishan Forum on World Civilizations, this rendezvous of civilizations spanning mountains and seas is not only a tribute to the sages of antiquity but also a reflection on the common future of humanity. The wisdom of Confucianism, such as "the benevolent love others" and "not imposing on others what one does not desire oneself" (己所不欲，勿施于人, ji suo bu yu, wu shi yu ren - "self, what, not, desire, do not, inflict, at, others"), offers the international community a distinctive Eastern perspective.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 肖家鑫
"The theme we are discussing — 'Civilization · Order · Justice' — these three concepts are like the deep foundation of common human life." On the afternoon of September 29, at the second keynote speech of the 2026 Nishan World Civilization Forum, Mu Fengling, a scholar from St. Petersburg State University of Economics, Russia, said. In her view, Confucian thought is a spiritual resource for responding to the crisis of international order, the crisis of values, and the crisis of relations.
Forum guests and scholars conducted dialogue around four sub-topics: the contemporary value of Confucianism and its world significance, civilizational resilience and global governance, ideological dialogue and civilizational integration, and artificial intelligence and great harmony in the world. The forum received more than 600 papers from home and abroad in total, and at closing formed and passed the "2026 Nishan World Civilization Forum Consensus."
Participating scholars held that the three keywords of civilization, order, and justice constitute a progressive, step-by-step advancement (层层递进, ceng ceng di jin - "layer, layer, advance, advance") and dialectical unity (辩证统一, bian zheng tong yi - "dialectical, unify") of the propositions of the era: civilization is the basic fact and value source of human coexistence, and the foundation upon which order comes into being; order is the external form through which civilizations coexist in diversity, and the carrier through which justice takes effect on the ground; justice is the inner soul by which order obtains legitimacy, and also the common spiritual core of civilization and order. The three empower each other, circulate through each other, and jointly respond to the practical reflection of where human society is headed amid the once-in-a-century transformation.
The four sub-topics unfolded from different dimensions. On the contemporary value of Confucianism, participating scholars held that Confucianism has never been an exhibit in a museum, but rather a living river of civilization still in the making; with "benevolence" (仁) as its spiritual core and "ritual" (礼) as its practical framework, it provides a philosophy of order of "one and many not divided, coexistence and co-prosperity."
On civilizational resilience and global governance, participating scholars held that resilience is the deep capacity of civilization to reconnect at points of rupture and to transform amid impact; governance cannot be built solely on balance of power and calculation of interests — it needs ethical support; governance cannot have rules set by a single country — it should be jointly participated in and deliberated by different civilizations.
At the forum, AI (artificial intelligence) was repeatedly discussed. Participating scholars held that artificial intelligence is redefining the boundaries of "the human" and "the subject of civilization"; global AI governance faces structural contradictions such as fragmentation of mechanisms and rising risk of bloc confrontation, and algorithms must be embedded with the ethics of "benevolence, ritual, righteousness." AI should be used to assist humans in eliminating estrangement and promoting the sharing of resources.
The keynote speeches landed on the topic of "how the wisdom of the ancients responds to the questions of today's people." Dongfang Ruide, former academic vice-chancellor of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, United States, began from Western philosophy, holding that contemporary Western ethics is unconsciously drawing closer to Chinese philosophy, and that by introducing the perspective of Chinese culture, Western ethics can obtain the ethical strength it deserves.
Three parallel forums extended the dialogue. At the Sports Culture Forum, Gianni Merlo, president of the International Sports Press Association, said that sport is a universal language transcending borders and cultures, and that Confucianism's "seeking harmony while respecting diversity" (和而不同, he er bu tong - "harmony, yet, not, same") resonates with the Olympic values of friendship and solidarity. At the Cultural China · Nishan World Overseas Chinese Forum, overseas Chinese representatives from 21 countries and regions conducted discussion around the topic of "civilizational mutual learning · joint construction of order · common upholding of justice." The Confucian Business Culture Forum focused discussion on Confucian business culture and the humanistic economics of the new era.
The "2026 Nishan World Civilization Forum Consensus" released at the forum's closing issued initiatives from four aspects: inheriting the light of civilization, upholding the foundation of order, holding fast to the way of justice, and jointly seeking the path of harmony: advocating the transcendence of civilizational estrangement through civilizational exchange, the transcendence of civilizational conflict through civilizational mutual learning, and the transcendence of civilizational superiority through civilizational inclusiveness; advocating the world belongs to all (天下为公, tian xia wei gong - "heaven, under, for, public"), practicing trustworthiness and cultivating harmony (讲信修睦, jiang xin xiu mu - "speak, trust, cultivate, harmony"), and carrying forward the global governance concept of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits; placing justice above power and interests, insisting that justice takes precedence over might and that morality stands higher than private gain.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 侯琳良
On September 28, the 2026 China International Confucius Culture Festival opened in Qufu, Shandong. That morning, the public memorial ceremony for Confucius in the year of Bingwu was solemnly held before the Dacheng Hall of the Confucius Temple, commemorating the 2,577th anniversary of Confucius's birth; at the same time, on Wuma Ci Street in the Ming Dynasty Old City, the "Siwen Hui Wanjia" Confucius Culture Temple Fair opened with lively bustle. The two scenes together sketched out the festival's distinctive character — the wisdom of sages and the hustle and bustle of everyday life shining together or reflecting one another, with traditional culture and daily life deeply interwoven.
As an important event of the Confucius Culture Festival, the public memorial ceremony for Confucius has been continuously improved and elevated through inheritance, forming four chapters — "Rites Welcome the World, Rites Open the Sage's Gate, Rites Honor the Supreme Sage, Rites Move Toward Great Harmony" — which thread together the procedures of opening the city gate, opening the temple, opening the doors, and the public memorial ceremony itself, while a global "cloud memorial for Confucius" is held simultaneously. This year's global "cloud memorial" presented live footage of memorial ceremonies at Confucius temples, literary temples, academies, Confucius schools, and cultural institutions at home and abroad; the online memorial platform, on the basis of existing functions such as cloud worship, added new modules including AI (artificial intelligence) Confucian dialogue, generation of certificates for participation in the memorial, and knowledge quiz challenges, making the cloud memorial visible, tangible, and interactive. Ancient ritual and digital technology merge, allowing more people to cross mountains and seas and feel the charm of Chinese culture.
Before the Dacheng Hall, all was solemn and majestic; on Wuma Ci Street, the temple fair was a scene of bustling vitality. At the fair, 46 exhibition and sales stalls lined the street, divided into three major sections: the intangible cultural heritage market, the food market, and the fine products market. Intangible cultural heritage items such as Qufu's kai wood carving, Nishan inkstone making, riveting craft, and colored glaze firing made concentrated appearances, local agricultural specialty products and distinctive cultural creations formed a profusion of beautiful things (琳琅满目, lin lang man mu - "gem, bright, fill, eye"), and specialty snacks gave off a strong, pleasant smell (香气扑鼻, xiang qi pu bi - "fragrance, hit, nose"). Intangible heritage artisans displayed their virtuoso skills right on the street, and visitors gathered to stop and watch, admiring the craftsmanship, selecting fine goods, and savoring the flavors, experiencing up close the charm of the living transmission of intangible cultural heritage. A single market is both a display and sales window and a living classroom.
Folk performances took the stage in turn. Lion dances and stilt walking paraded along the streets amid the clamor of gongs and drums; hanfu parades and NPC (non-player character) interactions drew young people eager to check in and take photos. Multiple cultural performances for the public and special folk art shows were staged in succession, with stages set up right at the people's doorstep, and applause and laughter merged into one. Using the temple fair as a window, the activities also organized international students and other foreign friends to come to the scene, participate in character interactions, experience moxibustion, taste pancakes and Kong Mansion pastries, and learn about intangible heritage techniques. Foreign friends came to the stage and cooperated with local performers to complete a drum performance, with each drumbeat answered by rounds of applause.
A single temple fair reflects the endless vitality or continuous growth (生生不息, sheng sheng bu xi - "birth, birth, not, cease") that the Confucius Culture Festival has sustained for decades. During this year's Confucius Culture Festival, regular immersive activities were held simultaneously, including the live-action checkpoint challenge in Luyuan Village, the ancient ritual experience at Nishan Sacred Land, the VR (virtual reality) study tour at the Confucius Museum, the family tradition study tour at the Three Confucius Sites, and the Analects chain game on the streets of the Ming Dynasty Old City, allowing citizens and tourists to experience the charm of Confucian culture and feel the cultural lineage in all dimensions.
This year's Confucius Culture Festival upholds the theme "Starting from Confucius, Arriving at Chinese Culture," letting culture and tourism benefit the people and letting Chinese civilization reach the world.
(Zhang Yan participated in the writing and reporting)
Return to TopStanding at the new starting point of the 15th Five-Year Plan, Anhui Province closely adheres to the strategic positioning of the "Three Bases and One Zone," concentrating efforts on developing emerging industry clusters such as new energy vehicles, integrated circuits, and new displays, while future industries including quantum information and controllable nuclear fusion are building momentum for breakthroughs. Huishang Bank, rooted in the Jianghuai region, fully leverages its advantages as a local legal-person bank, proactively aligns with local development strategies, and spares no effort in injecting financial momentum into the construction of Anhui Province's modern industrial system.
Deepening Engagement in the Real Economy, Consolidating the Foundation for Industrial Development
Closely aligning with Anhui Province's strategic layout, Huishang Bank has matched it with differentiated credit access standards and a green approval channel for projects, established a rapid response mechanism featuring "head office-branch linkage and front-middle-back office coordination," and comprehensively utilized tools such as project loans, medium- and long-term working capital loans, and supply chain financing to channel financial resources toward advanced manufacturing and high-end equipment sectors. As of the end of June 2026, Huishang Bank's manufacturing loan balance exceeded 159 billion yuan, an increase of 85.8 billion yuan compared to the end of 2022; the loan balance for strategic emerging industries exceeded 193.9 billion yuan, an increase of 107.9 billion yuan compared to the end of 2022.
New energy vehicles are a benchmark emerging industry in Anhui Province. Huishang Bank has established two specialized sub-branches for the new energy vehicle industry, constructing an integrated service model of "professional teams + specialized sub-branches + industry chain lists + comprehensive products," covering the entire upstream, midstream, and downstream chain of the industry. As of the end of June 2026, it has provided credit exceeding 178 billion yuan to 2,470 enterprises in the new energy vehicle industry chain.
At the same time, Huishang Bank deeply empowers leading enterprises such as BOE, Visionox, ChangXin Memory, and Nexchip, providing protection and support (保驾护航, bao jia hu hang - "protect, guard, escort") for key provincial industries including new displays and integrated circuits.
Focusing on core enterprises in the province's leading industries, Huishang Bank implements customized supply chain finance solutions under a "one chain, one policy" approach, alleviating pain points such as the occupation of accounts receivable for upstream suppliers and tight ordering funds for downstream distributors, thereby reducing the comprehensive financing costs for small, medium, and micro enterprises along the chain. Taking the automotive industry chain as an example, Huishang Bank connects with a manufacturer's industry-finance platform, comprehensively utilizing tools such as electronic voucher financing and supply chain bills to cover all transaction scenarios of procurement, production, and distribution. In the first half of 2026, centered around this manufacturer, Huishang Bank provided supply chain financing services of nearly 2.5 billion yuan to more than 1,000 upstream and downstream small, medium, and micro enterprises.
Focusing on Sci-Tech Innovation Entities, Activating Endogenous Momentum for Innovation
Huishang Bank places serving sci-tech innovation enterprises in a strategically prioritized position, continuously optimizing financial supply to help Anhui accelerate its development into a source of scientific and technological innovation with significant influence. It has upgraded the "1+21+N" specialized operation model, with 21 branches establishing sci-tech innovation finance centers, and the number of "Sci-Tech Innovation Home" sub-branches in key parks expanding to 34. Breaking away from traditional credit models, it has built an internal evaluation system for patent value, launched the "Zhi e-Dai" online pledge product, achieving "self-evaluation, zero fees, fully online" operations. It has implemented distinctive products such as "Keda Silicon Valley Start-up Loan," "High-tech Qihang Loan," "Start-up e-Dai," and "Yumiao Loan," issued a special financial plan for quantum technology, and jointly carried out the "Innovation Points Entering Parks to Benefit Enterprises" activity with the Anhui Provincial Department of Science and Technology.
In response to the financing difficulties of sci-tech innovation entities, Huishang Bank continues to deepen its engagement in segmented frontier tracks. Anhui Jin Guoyuan Traditional Chinese Medicine Co., Ltd., located in Bozhou, holds multiple core patents but faced financing difficulties due to insufficient collateral, which constrained its production line upgrades. Through the "Zhi e-Dai" online pledge model, Huishang Bank issued a 5 million yuan loan to the enterprise within 3 working days, helping it complete the renovation and upgrade of 7 automated production lines. As of the end of June 2026, Huishang Bank's technology loan balance exceeded 260 billion yuan, an increase of 144 billion yuan compared to the end of 2022; the number of technology loan customers exceeded 15,000, doubling compared to the end of 2022. It has successively received honors including the single champion in the technology finance category of the 2025 Anhui Province Financial "Five Major Articles" Business Competition and first place in the Anhui Province Financial Institutions' Technology Finance Service Quality and Efficiency Evaluation.
Adhering to Digital and Intelligent Leadership, Building an Industry-Finance Linkage Platform
Huishang Bank uses digital means to build a bridge connecting industry and finance, promoting the deep integration of technology, industry, and capital. It has innovatively created a series of digital tools under the "e-Check—e-Reach—e-Loan" framework, constructed an exclusive evaluation system for start-up enterprises, comprehensively assessing R&D strength, talent reserves, and patent output to achieve differentiated profiling of innovation entities. It has launched industry chain map views for key industries such as artificial intelligence and quantum technology, enabling panoramic visibility and online query of enterprises within the chain; and built intelligent customer acquisition and whitelist screening models. Relying on the investment-loan linkage information platform, it has implemented the "loan + external direct investment" model, providing linked services to over 800 sci-tech enterprises and driving equity investment exceeding 20 billion yuan.
Huishang Bank incorporates innovation points, intellectual property, and park operation profiles into credit evaluation, enriching the data sources for the "technology flow" approach; it uses blockchain and big data to build a supply chain finance platform and intelligent risk control system, strengthening transaction background verification and fund flow monitoring. On the basis of data credibility and controllable risk, it streamlines application and verification procedures and shortens approval cycles, promoting the faster conversion of intangible innovation value into credit supply. In response to the situation of "having data but lacking collateral" among enterprises in the digital information sector, it proactively explores innovative products such as data asset pledge. It deeply links with innovation carriers such as high-tech zones and economic development zones, implementing an integrated plan of "park credit + batch access + exclusive products + comprehensive settlement + digital risk control," running financial services through the entire cycle of enterprise incubation, growth, and expansion.
Empowering Service Industries, Releasing Momentum for Domestic Demand Growth
Huishang Bank coordinates the use of credit issuance and fiscal-financial synergy policy tools, making multi-point efforts to empower the vast number of service industry business entities. It has established a dedicated special work team and built a full-process business system integrating data capture, tiered review, and automatic disbursement to ensure the efficient implementation of service industry interest subsidy policies. As of the end of August 2026, the loan balance for eligible service industry entities at Huishang Bank stood at 61.935 billion yuan, with a cumulative 33.294 billion yuan in service industry loans issued this year, benefiting 23,000 service industry entities.
Centering on the requirements for deep integration of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries, Huishang Bank proactively increases resource allocation toward producer services such as industrial design and inspection, testing, and certification, and allocates special credit resources to demonstration parks and demonstration enterprises for the integration of the two industries. Relying on core enterprises in the industry chain, it flexibly utilizes products such as order financing and accounts receivable pledge to provide weak-collateral, pure-credit financing to small and medium-sized business entities providing supporting services such as industrial design, warehousing and logistics, and supply chain management, helping producer services extend toward specialization and the high end of the value chain.
Closely following Anhui's deployment for building a modern comprehensive logistics system, Huishang Bank makes tiered efforts around logistics hubs, logistics enterprises, and logistics networks. On the infrastructure front, it focuses on supporting major projects such as the Hefei International Air Cargo Transit Hub, the combined port rail-water intermodal transport system of the Hefei-Wuhu-Ma'anshan port cluster, provincial-level logistics parks, and cold chain bases; on the business entity front, it serves 5A-level logistics enterprises, online freight platforms, cold chain leaders, and quality small, medium, and micro logistics enterprises in a tiered and categorized manner, optimizing credit evaluation based on multi-dimensional data such as freight transaction flows and platform transactions; on the service network front, it actively meets the financing needs of new business formats such as smart logistics and multimodal transport, and strengthens financial support for the county-village-township three-tier express delivery logistics system, China-Europe Railway Express assembly centers, and shipping logistics.
Striving forward in the 15th Five-Year Plan, the Jianghuai region embarks on a new journey. Looking ahead, Huishang Bank will always remain rooted in its positioning as a local legal-person bank, adhere to the fundamental purpose of serving the real economy, strengthen real economy manufacturing finance, optimize sci-tech innovation empowerment services, deepen digital-intelligent industry-finance linkage, and solidify support for expanding domestic demand, guiding financial resources toward strategic emerging industries and key areas, and helping Anhui Province build its modern industrial system with precise financial services, serving the high-quality development of integrated Yangtze River Delta development.
Data Source: Huishang Bank
Sci-Tech Innovation Enterprises Cooperating with Huishang Bank (Partial)
China StarMap Measurement & Control Technology Co., Ltd.
Established cooperation with Huishang Bank in 2022
China StarMap Measurement & Control Technology Co., Ltd. is a national-level specialized and sophisticated "Little Giant" enterprise primarily engaged in the operation and management of aerospace infrastructure, and the R&D and industrialization of digital space products.
Hefei Visionox Technology Co., Ltd.
Established cooperation with Huishang Bank in 2019
Hefei Visionox Technology Co., Ltd., as the operating entity of "Anhui's first fully flexible AMOLED production line," focuses on the production and processing of small and medium-sized flexible displays, with products mainly applied to consumer electronics terminals such as smartphones, tablet computers, and automotive displays.
Hefei Aiko Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
Established cooperation with Huishang Bank in 2018
Hefei Aiko Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., located in Hefei High-tech Zone, is primarily engaged in the design, R&D, production, and sales of industrial machine vision imaging component products, and is a leading enterprise in China's industrial machine vision imaging component field.
ChangXin Technology Group Co., Ltd.
Established cooperation with Huishang Bank in 2016
ChangXin Technology Group Co., Ltd. focuses on the R&D, production, and sales of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), and is a leading Chinese enterprise integrating DRAM R&D, design, and manufacturing.
Hefei Wanhao Energy Equipment Co., Ltd.
Established cooperation with Huishang Bank in 2016
Hefei Wanhao Energy Equipment Co., Ltd. is a national-level specialized and sophisticated "Little Giant" enterprise focusing on the integration of natural gas equipment design, manufacturing, and technical services.
Wuhu Bokang Electromechanical Co., Ltd.
Established cooperation with Huishang Bank in 2015
Wuhu Bokang Electromechanical Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise and national-level specialized and sophisticated "Little Giant" enterprise professionally producing automotive wiring harnesses, electronic wiring harnesses, automotive air conditioning pressure switches, and automotive air conditioning cables.
BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
Established cooperation with Huishang Bank in 2008
BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. is a leading enterprise in the global display industry. Its business covers four major areas: IoT innovation, sensors and solutions, MLED, and smart medical engineering, forming a "1+4+N+ecosystem chain" architecture. Its LCD displays have ranked among the top globally for many years in terms of shipment volume across five major application areas: smartphones, tablet computers, laptops, monitors, and televisions.
Anhui Wanyi Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
Established cooperation with Huishang Bank in 2006
Anhui Wanyi Science and Technology Co., Ltd. was established in 2003 and listed on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2020, making it the first enterprise in Anhui Province to be listed on the STAR Market. As a professional global supplier of precision scientific instruments, the company's business mainly covers four major areas: industrial testing instruments, online monitoring instruments, laboratory analytical instruments, and medical instruments, with business covering more than 30 countries.
Wanshen Technology Co., Ltd.
Established cooperation with Huishang Bank in 2005
Wanshen Technology Co., Ltd. is a national-level high-tech enterprise and a specialized and sophisticated "Little Giant" enterprise.
Ma'anshan Zhongqiao Metal Materials Co., Ltd.
Established cooperation with Huishang Bank in 2005
Ma'anshan Zhongqiao Metal Materials Co., Ltd.'s main business is the production and sales of acid-resistant and corrosion-resistant stainless steel and high-alloy steel, and it was rated as a high-tech enterprise in 2024.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曹玲娟
Highlights
A foreign mathematics PhD, out of love for China, used his spare time to learn Chinese, and now speaks Chinese so fluently it "flies." He is both a university mathematics teacher and the founder of a tech company. Bo Hanzheng's colorful life reflects the charm of cross-cultural exchange and the gravitational pull of China's entrepreneurial environment. Unwilling to miss this high-speed train bound for the future that is China, he chose to put down roots here, transforming from an onlooker into a participant, feeling the pulse of China's development through hard work, and courageously pursuing his own ideals.
At first meeting, people always wonder: is Hamza Boukili really a foreigner? At a glance, tall and thin, his features do indeed look foreign. But the moment he opens his mouth, he sounds unmistakably Chinese. During the interview, he communicated with the reporter entirely in Chinese; the only obstacle came with a recent internet meme, and he immediately pulled out his phone to search for it, adding that "learning Chinese is a lifelong endeavor."
Hamza's Chinese name is Bo Hanzheng, and this year marks his tenth year of connection with China. Now, this post-90s young man is experiencing a new life in China; his work, career, and life have become deeply woven into the fiery daily rhythm of Shanghai, this megacity.
The independent variable —
The "high-energy person" on the university lectern
As the bell rang ending class, Bo Hanzheng slung on his backpack and took a taxi straight to Shanghai Caohejing New Technology Development Zone. Getting out, he grabbed a bowl of noodles near the company. Skilled at scanning the QR code to order, he also ordered a cup of "san pao tai" tea. After downing the lidded-bowl tea, Bo Hanzheng said with a smile, "Starting a business keeps me so busy, I just grab a quick bite."
Born in 1991, Bo Hanzheng holds dual Moroccan and French nationality, and in China he also has a "dual identity" — his main job is as a mathematics teacher at the Paris Elite Institute of Technology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University; outside of work, he is also the founder of Shanghai Yunsuan Technology Co., Ltd., exploring the combined application of artificial intelligence and energy conservation and emission reduction.
In 2016, Bo Hanzheng came to China for the first time. At the time he was pursuing a master's degree in France and came to Tongji University to exchange through an inter-university cooperation program. When this five-month stay in Shanghai came to an end, he made two decisions: first, to learn Chinese well, and second, to develop in Shanghai after completing his PhD. Learning Chinese was not easy for him; Chinese and French belong to two different language families, and everything had to start from zero. After returning to France, he was busy in the lab during the day, and spent his evenings and weekends learning Chinese. Bo Hanzheng found joy in it — "Truly valuable things generally cannot be obtained easily; effort itself is the definition of value."
In 2020, after obtaining his PhD in applied mathematics, Bo Hanzheng came to China as he had wished, joining Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Although he could teach in Chinese, English, and French, Bo Hanzheng still believes that fluent Chinese has brought him more possibilities: "Communicating with students in Chinese has greatly narrowed the distance between us; cultural differences are no longer an obstacle but have instead become precious opportunities for intellectual exchange."
He is a conscientious teacher. In class, he uses cafeteria queues to explain scheduling problems and shared-bike distribution to explain clustering algorithms, bringing familiar scenes from daily life into mathematical concepts and algorithmic principles. After class, he sets aside informal "tea-break Q&A time" for students, listening to their confusions like a research partner, encouraging them to express their views freely, and respecting the cultural logic behind every mode of expression. "Being a teacher these days isn't easy, especially having to watch your facial expressions in class, or before you know it you'll be turned into a meme." Bo Hanzheng's answer drew a knowing smile.
Bo Hanzheng's work at Shanghai Jiao Tong University is performing with great ease and success (如鱼得水, ru yu de shui - "like, fish, obtain, water"): deeply cultivating the integration of AI algorithms and optimization technology, guiding students to participate in energy-sector research, and winning multiple university-level teaching achievement awards. In addition to teaching more than 400 classes a year, he has also taken part in speech contests, long-distance running races, performed in a red-themed drama, and been nominated for the Top Ten Teachers award... In the words of his colleagues, Teacher Bo is a textbook "high-energy person."
The dependent variable —
The "wall-breaker" in the AI wave
"China's entrepreneurial environment is fantastic. With resources this good, it would be a shame not to use them." In 2024, Bo Hanzheng and his partners founded Shanghai Yunsuan Technology Co., Ltd. The company's core product can be seen as installing a "smart brain" in buildings or factories, using algorithm-driven control so that air-conditioning systems respond precisely to changes in temperature, occupancy, weather, and equipment status, thereby saving operating costs and reducing carbon emissions.
Bo Hanzheng often says that had he not come to China, he might never have taken the path of entrepreneurship. In China, he realized that artificial intelligence is unleashing a true technological revolution, and being in Shanghai has given him a vast space for innovation: "China is comprehensively advancing AI technological innovation, industrial development, and enabling applications. For entrepreneurs, this is reflected in many encouraging policies, including financing, incubator support, and other aspects."
Bo Hanzheng gave an example: a friend of his overseas wanted to set up a company and spent half a year just on paperwork. In China, from submitting materials via WeChat to successful registration, it took him only a few days. "This kind of efficiency is almost a 'ceiling'-level experience." Another example: for AI startups, computing power is a major cost. But the office building where his company is located has servers that provide computing power, and enterprises in the acceleration stage of entrepreneurship can also enjoy some free treatment. "My friends are all amazed that in Shanghai, a startup still in the incubation stage is treated so seriously." Bo Hanzheng said.
After starting the company, Bo Hanzheng began shuttling between the school and the company. "Entrepreneurship is hard; I wish a week had ten days. But investing in a lofty goal is entirely worth it." He said that his teaching, research, and entrepreneurship share the same mission — "Artificial intelligence is one of the most cutting-edge technologies of our time; we should actively promote its development so that technological progress truly benefits society."
"Some people might say, with large models this advanced now, can a teacher know more than AI?" On this question, Bo Hanzheng also has his own understanding — "The purpose of education is not to memorize a theory, but to train one's thinking ability, to learn to find the internal logic within a complex theoretical system."
Bo Hanzheng explained that he does not deliberately "balance" teaching, research, and entrepreneurship, but rather lets them support one another. In the classroom, he uses real problems from energy systems such as load forecasting and carbon-flow optimization as case studies, guiding students to build models and solve them with optimization theory. In the lab, students directly use desensitized real data from his company's projects to train lightweight neural networks or reinforcement learning agents, completing tasks such as virtual power plant dispatch and energy-efficiency diagnosis.
The closed loop of "problem — modeling — algorithm — verification — deployment" makes artificial intelligence a genuine tool for energy research, and has also let Bo Hanzheng find his own rhythm and joy.
The optimal solution —
The "new Shanghainese" by the banks of the Huangpu River
In April 2025, Bo Hanzheng welcomed a precious moment in his life — when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Shanghai, he came to the Shanghai "Modell Space" large-model innovation ecosystem community in Xuhui District for research, and Bo Hanzheng was the only foreign face on site. In fluent Chinese, he introduced to General Secretary Xi Jinping the story of his entrepreneurship in China. "He was warm, natural, and without any sense of distance," Bo Hanzheng said. "I felt incredibly fortunate and proud; this exchange and sharing was pleasant and unforgettable."
"I often feel very lucky to have started this entrepreneurial journey in Shanghai." Bo Hanzheng particularly likes Shanghai. He believes that Shanghai's degree of internationalization is constantly rising, and the happy foundation of the "people's city" is being continuously burnished; living and building a career here is full of a sense of security and belonging.
Bo Hanzheng remarked that Shanghai has a good AI ecosystem — just the AI Alumni Center in the Caohejing Development Zone where his company is located alone turns the gears of the "full chain" from research to industry. Positioned as a high-quality incubator oriented toward AI computing-power aggregation, the center began operations in November 2023 and is one of Shanghai's first seven high-quality incubators. The model of "source innovation + incubation + investment + industrialization" provides startups with multi-link sci-tech innovation ecosystem services including business registration, financial trusteeship, and industry matching. In Shanghai, there are many more practices like this, and they are becoming an important source driving China's AI industry surging forward, attracting attention from around the world.
Bo Hanzheng encourages foreign friends to "spend some time updating their understanding of China; this place changes too fast." He believes that "observing the direction of China's development allows one to see many possibilities for the world's future development." He explained, "If you only come to China as a tourist, what you see may be limited to conveniences in daily life and transportation, such as mobile payments, food delivery, and high-speed rail. But to truly understand China, you need to put down roots long-term, integrate deeply, and find the space for development that suits you."
"The important choices in my life — coming to China, coming to Shanghai, coming to Jiao Tong University — all seem to me to have been correct." Bo Hanzheng has bound his life deeply to China and is full of confidence in future development. In 2024, on his birthday, Bo Hanzheng received a precious gift — a Foreign Permanent Resident ID Card. He officially became a "new Shanghainese."
In Shanghai, there are many foreigners like Bo Hanzheng who have integrated deeply. Shen Guilong, director of the Institute of World China Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, has observed that foreigners coming to Shanghai are showing the characteristics of increasing numbers, broadening fields, and deeper engagement. "More and more young foreigners are beginning to view China from a brand-new perspective: how the economy develops, on what basis people's livelihoods improve, how technology advances... They integrate deeply into China and draw inspiration from China's vivid cases."
Return to TopBy: 汉森·尼克·勒内
In March 2018, a friend sent me a volunteer recruitment notice saying that a village was planting passion fruit and needed hands. At that time, I had already retired from the Luxembourg police force and become a backpacker traveling through mountains and rivers, and I was staying in Hechi City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Out of curiosity, I packed my camera, took a bumpy bus ride deep into the mountains, and arrived at Zhadong Village.
When I first arrived in Zhadong Village, what was striking to the eye (映入眼帘, ying ru yan lian - "enter, into, eye, view") was the mud-walled houses made of yellow clay, and households without access to water or electricity — the degree of poverty exceeded my imagination. It was here that I met Xie Wanju, then first secretary of Zhadong Village, and became his "foreign assistant." From building fruit sheds and connecting water and electricity, to planting passion fruit and watermelons, to surveying mountain roads and raising funds, I did almost everything. Over more than eight years, not only was the battle against poverty completed on schedule, but the village's industrial development also got on track, and the villagers' lives have been getting better and better. Amid my delight, I could not help but wonder: why can China's countryside undergo such unprecedented or earth-shaking changes (翻天覆地, fan tian fu di - "turn, heaven, overturn, earth")?
First, there is the persistence of "not leaving a single person behind." I remember that I once joined a group of village cadres in rebuilding a rugged mountain road for three households. At the time, some people said that investing so much time and energy for just three households was not worth it. But the village cadres believed the road had to be built; if funds were insufficient, they sought sponsors, and if manpower was insufficient, they carried steel bars and hauled stones up the mountain themselves. On the day the road was opened, the three households held our hands and kept saying "thank you," and I remembered that moment deeply. An important feature of China's battle against poverty is that it cares for each and every specific individual. Poverty alleviation is not a simple increase or decrease in numbers, but rather giving every person the opportunity to change their life.
In addition, there is the spirit of unity in striving toward a common goal. The government invests funds to improve infrastructure, grassroots cadres work day and night in the fields, enterprises and social forces provide financial, technical, and sales support, and ordinary villagers become the main agents of development through hard work. I believe that this ability to be united as one with a common purpose (万众一心, wan zhong yi xin - "ten thousand, masses, one, heart") and to transform grand goals into concrete actions one by one is an important reason for China's achievements in the battle against poverty. The government sets the direction and invests resources, grassroots cadres implement conscientiously, and social forces provide support, ultimately allowing good policies to benefit the masses or countless households (千家万户, qian jia wan hu - "thousand, family, ten thousand, household").
In 2020, Zhadong Village successfully shook off poverty, and I received a silk banner reading "Deep affection for Zhadong, selfless dedication." The focus of development here has taken on new changes: in the past, the problems to be solved were the lack of electricity, water, or roads; today, people are more concerned about whether industries can be sustained, whether young people are willing to return to their hometowns, and how rural tourism can attract visitors. In Guangxi, I have witnessed returning young people opening guesthouses, doing livestreaming, and running farms, and I have also seen mountain products and specialty goods reach larger markets through the internet. China does not regard poverty alleviation as an end point, but rather as a starting point for sustainable development.
Objectively speaking, China still has much work to do in consolidating and expanding the achievements of the battle against poverty, but I am delighted to see that China is not only developing industries and improving the environment, but is also simultaneously building the capacity for sustainable rural development. Here, comprehensive rural revitalization is not a "task list" to be completed, but rather a long-term process of constantly identifying problems and solving them, and countless cadres and masses are working together toward this end.
People often ask me, Nico, why are you willing to stay here? I think it is because of the people here. Last year, Xie Wanju gave me a Chinese name: "Xie Wanke." "Xie" is the same surname as his, meaning that we are family; "Wan" comes from his family's generational ranking; "Ke" is both a homophone of my name and carries the meanings of lovable and humorous. A Chinese name, for me, is not just a form of address, but also represents acceptance, meaning that I have transformed from someone observing China into someone who lives, works, and solves problems together with the villagers.
Over more than eight years, I have gone from being a foreign backpacker entering the mountains of Guangxi to a volunteer here, and I have also become "Xie Wanke." I have witnessed China's victory in the battle against poverty, and I am also witnessing China's countryside moving toward comprehensive revitalization. I sincerely invite foreign friends to come to China, to go to villagers' homes for a farmhouse meal, to go to the orchards and taste passion fruit, and to see the asphalt roads leading out of the mountains. Because the China I see is on a mountain road, in an orchard, and in the increasingly assured smiles of the villagers.
(The author is a Luxembourg-based volunteer; compiled and edited by People's Daily reporter Li Weijun)
Return to TopBy: 穆罕默德·阿里布
My Chinese name is Mu Ruobai. I come from Pakistan and am an international student at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University. In 2025, I came to Xi'an, Shaanxi, to pursue my studies, and was fortunate to encounter this famous historical and cultural city on the ancient Silk Road.
One winter night, I was strolling near the ancient city wall of Xi'an when I suddenly heard a burst of sonorous singing. Following the sound, I saw several locals performing together. The singer's voice was deep and broad, each cry high-pitched and impassioned, accompanied by the "dong dong dong" of drumbeats, full of vitality and utterly stirring. That scene struck my heart in an instant, and I immediately took out my phone to search, only then discovering that what they were singing was none other than the highly famous and well-known (大名鼎鼎, da ming ding ding - "great name, great name") Qinqiang opera.
With the Guanzhong dialect as its bone and blood, fully displaying the bearing of the Qin people and the Qin land, that night the idea of "learning Qinqiang" crept into my mind. This spring, the university offered an aesthetic education course titled "Stage Art Presentation of Qinqiang Opera." The moment I saw the elective course list, I was overjoyed and signed up without a moment's hesitation. In the end, this class brought together more than a dozen international students from Pakistan, Nigeria, Cameroon, and other countries and regions, and together we embarked on a half-semester journey of learning Qinqiang.
The very first class was full of pleasant surprises. The renowned Qinqiang master and president of Xi'an Yisushe, Teacher Hui Minli, taught us in person. Being able to take such a "master class" filled everyone with anticipation. The process of learning Qinqiang had both hardships and joys. What is "bitter-tone slow tempo"? How do you sing "happy-tone erliu"? For a Qinqiang "novice" like me, role categories, melodic modes, and stylized movements all had to be learned from scratch. Qinqiang contains a great many complex modes, and I often went off-key the moment I opened my mouth, causing no small number of laughs; the use of props such as swords and cloud whisks was also extremely challenging, almost like retraining my own limbs.
"My ancestral home is Hancheng County in Shaanxi, and in Apricot Blossom Village there is my home... To seek my kin, how can I fear the long road ahead; crossing mountains and wading rivers, I arrive at Puguan." In class, we studied the classic Qinqiang excerpt "Three Drops of Blood." Whenever I recited these lyrics, boundless emotion welled up in my heart. In Qinqiang performance, every turn, every raising of the hand, every glance tells of a character's emotions and fate. Through it, I touched the way Chinese people express family affection, responsibility, and loyalty. Crying and laughing along with the characters, I felt as if I had tasted every aspect of human life. I think what this course gave me goes far beyond learning a few movements or passages of lyrics; it granted me a precious opportunity to understand Chinese culture, and for the first time I truly experienced the charm of cultural resonance.
The time of study was vanishing in an instant (转瞬即逝, zhuan shun ji shi - "turn, instant, immediately, pass"), and soon the day of the final performance arrived. That day, I painted on facial makeup, donned a helmet, and draped myself in a purple robe with gold patterns, costumed as a martial male role. Standing on the stage of the century-old Yisushe, my classmates and I, though our movements were clumsy, were full of sincerity, and in the end we completed the performance smoothly. After the show, Teacher Hui Minli gave each of us a big hug. I sent the performance video to my family in Pakistan, and they were all proud of me. I also posted videos of my Qinqiang studies on social media platforms and received many likes and words of support from netizens.
Learning Qinqiang, I feel the breadth of the Qin people's spirit; visiting historical sites, I touch the depth of the Qin land; eating pita bread soaked in mutton soup, I savor the warmth of everyday life... My life as a student in Xi'an is rich and colorful. In the future, I hope to gain a deeper understanding of Chinese culture, starting with every sincere exchange around me, and contribute to people-to-people exchanges and mutual learning between our two civilizations.
(The author is a Pakistani international student at Northwestern Polytechnical University; compiled from an interview by People's Daily reporter Wu Xuecong)
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Recently, a relevant official from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development stated at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office that China's real estate market has entered the stock phase. The share of second-hand housing transactions rose from 27% in 2020 to 46% in 2025, and in the first eight months of this year it has already reached 52%, surpassing new homes to become the main force in the housing transaction market — this is precisely the most direct market evidence of the transition in the stage of real estate development.
This shift did not happen unexpectedly (突如其来, tu ru qi lai - "suddenly, as if, arrive"), but is an inevitable result consistent with the laws of economic development. From the supply side, the per capita floor area of urban housing in China has exceeded 40 square meters, and the average household owns more than 1.1 housing units, meaning the people's problem of "having a place to live" has been basically solved. From the demand side, China's urbanization rate of the permanent resident population has reached 67%, and urban development is shifting from large-scale incremental expansion to stock improvement and efficiency enhancement as the main focus, with residents' improvement-oriented replacement demand of "selling the old to buy the new" and "trading up from small to large" becoming the mainstream of transactions.
From "increment" to "stock," behind the transition in the stage of real estate development lies a return to the purpose of industrial development. For a long period in the past, the investment attribute of real estate was continuously amplified; now that the stock phase has been entered, the core contradiction of the industry has shifted from insufficient total volume to insufficient structural supply, and residents' demand has shifted from "whether there is housing" to "whether the housing is good," with increasingly prominent requirements for refined housing quality, community environment, and property services. The value of real estate development must ultimately return to the fundamental of its livelihood attribute — "housing."
For real estate to return to people's livelihoods, the first priority is to secure the bottom line. In the stock phase, policy should coordinate the multiple goals of preventing risks, promoting transformation, and benefiting people's livelihoods; for the industry, the construction of a new model for real estate development should be accelerated to form a more sustainable development model; for economic development, real estate's contribution to the macroeconomy will shift from being increment-driven to stock-improvement-driven, and the renovation and upgrading of urban villages, dilapidated and old housing, and old residential communities in urban renewal will become an important force for stabilizing investment; for ordinary residents, this means a substantive improvement in living experience, and means that more people striving in cities can all have a secure place to live.
For real estate to return to people's livelihoods, the key is to improve quality. In recent years, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has vigorously promoted the construction of "good houses," and the new edition of the Residential Project Code has put forward multiple requirements for improving housing quality. The new code will not only guide the development of newly built housing, but will also provide a clear basis for the renovation and upgrading of existing housing stock.
For real estate to return to people's livelihoods, it must ultimately be realized in tangible improvements to the living experience. In the first eight months of this year, the sales area of newly built commercial housing in China fell by 12.1% year-on-year, while the contracted area of second-hand housing transactions rose by 10.6% year-on-year. This decline on one side and increase on the other does not mean market demand is shrinking, but rather that the demand structure is "shifting gears": more and more people are no longer staring at housing prices and speculating by buying when prices rise and selling when they fall (追涨杀跌, zhui zhang sha die - "chase, rise; kill, fall"), but are instead, through rational replacement, switching the meaning of a house from an investment product to a more suitable living space. Behind this lies the choice of the people — everyone cares more about whether a home can be lived in more comfortably and with greater peace of mind.
When the value anchor of a house shifts from "whether it will rise in price" to "whether it is good," the real estate industry can truly resonate in sync with the people's aspirations for a better life (同频共振, tong pin gong zhen - "same, frequency; together, vibrate"), and blaze a more solid, more long-term, and higher-quality path of development.
(The author is Dean of the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University and Boya Distinguished Professor at Peking University.)
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In an industrial park, a passenger car equipped with high-level assisted driving smoothly merges into the morning rush-hour traffic; on the expressway, new-energy heavy trucks speed along a zero-carbon transport corridor toward a logistics hub; at an urban street corner, 5G/5G-A (enhanced 5G) and C-V2X (cellular vehicle-to-everything technology) roadside perception equipment silently collects traffic signals, building a solid digital foundation for vehicle-road-cloud integration... Unconsciously or before one realizes it (不知不觉, bu zhi bu jue - "not, know, not"), intelligent connected new-energy vehicles have become an everyday scene in production and life.
Not long ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and eight other departments jointly issued the "15th Five-Year Plan" for the Development of the Intelligent Connected New-Energy Vehicle Industry (hereinafter referred to as the Plan), anchoring the goal of "entering the ranks of world automobile powers" by 2030, taking intelligence, green development, and integration as the development directions, and deploying 17 key tasks, 4 major projects, and 3 key actions, drawing a clear roadmap for China's automobile industry to move from scale expansion toward high-quality development. This top-level design grounded in the wave of industrial transformation is both a continuation and inheritance of decades of industrial accumulation and a clarion call sounded for the new track of global competition.
Consolidating Advantages
Anchoring the Coordinates of a Great Power at the Window of Transformation
Developing new-energy vehicles is the only way for China to move from a major automobile country to an automobile power.
Looking back on the road traveled, through the successive layout of multiple five-year plans, China's automobile industry has traversed an extraordinary journey from following, to running alongside, and then to leading in some fields. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China built a complete and efficient industrial chain connecting upstream and downstream, with new-energy vehicles, power batteries, and key materials accounting for more than 70 percent of global production; from 2020 to 2025, annual sales of new-energy vehicles achieved leapfrog growth from 1.367 million units to 16.49 million units, and the installation rate of combined driving assistance functions in domestic passenger cars rose from 16.2 percent to 64.9 percent.
The achievements are remarkable, but challenges also exist. Key basic software and automotive chips still have shortcomings; homogeneous competition and irrational price wars in some fields disrupt market order; the safety governance, data compliance, and business models of high-level autonomous driving are not yet mature; trade protectionism is rising in the international market, and enterprises going overseas face multiple tests including compliance and brand building.
Entering the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China's new-energy vehicle industry has reached a critical turning point where the first half of electrification is concluding and the second half of intelligence is beginning. "The promulgation of the Plan is conducive to further consolidating and expanding the development advantages of China's intelligent connected new-energy vehicle industry," said Guo Shougang, Director of the First Department of Equipment Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. He introduced that the Plan adopts a "1+4" framework to build a target system oriented toward 2030.
"One overall goal" is to consolidate the advantages of the entire industrial chain and enter the ranks of world automobile powers. The "four sub-goals" cover the four dimensions of technological level, industrial structure, international development, and economic and social benefits, specifying a series of quantifiable and assessable indicators. By 2030, new-energy passenger cars and commercial vehicles in the domestic market will account for 70 percent and 40 percent respectively of total new vehicle sales in their respective fields, and vehicles with autonomous driving functions will achieve large-scale application; the average fuel consumption of passenger cars and the average electricity consumption of pure electric passenger cars will reach approximately 3.3 liters per 100 kilometers and 11.5 kilowatt-hours per 100 kilometers respectively; and total labor productivity will increase by 15 percent compared with 2025.
Automobile safety expert Zhu Xichan believes that this is not a simple numerical constraint; it will force vehicle manufacturers to deepen their work in lightweighting, thermal management, and vehicle integration, guide the industry to abandon the extensive path of simply competing on size and configuration, and make energy conservation and efficiency the core competitiveness of products.
"A 70 percent market share for domestic new-energy passenger cars is a prudent target; in reality it is likely to reach more than 85 percent," said Ji Xuehong, Director of the Automotive Industry Innovation Research Center at North China University of Technology. He said that leaving sufficient flexibility in the indicators can provide the industry with buffer space to respond to changes in the consumption environment and policy variables. The focus is not on a numbers race, but on using targets to drive a leap in the industry's comprehensive strength.
Moving from a major automobile country to an automobile power, the competition is no longer merely about sales volume, but also about the technological foundation, industrial ecology, standard-setting discourse power, and global brand influence.
Innovation Breakthrough
Grasping the "Golden Key" to High-Quality Industrial Development
Inside the Geely Automobile Research Institute, AI (artificial intelligence) "digital employees" are deeply involved in whole-vehicle R&D, assisting engineers in completing code writing and simulation testing, significantly improving R&D collaboration efficiency; in the Sunwoda Power R&D laboratory, researchers are continuously tackling ultra-fast charging, solid-state batteries, and intelligent battery management systems (BMS)... Visiting several new-energy vehicle R&D centers, many enterprise technical teams are charging toward all-solid-state batteries, steer-by-wire chassis, and vehicle operating systems.
The Plan places improving technological innovation capability at the top of the five key tasks and lists the key technology tackling project as the first of the four major projects, releasing a strong signal of adhering to innovation-driven development.
The competition in the automobile industry is, ultimately (归根结底, gui gen jie di - "return, root, knot, end"), a competition in core technology. At present, China's power batteries, vehicle integration, and intelligent cockpits have entered the global first tier, but automotive chips, basic software, and industrial software remain weak links. In this regard, the Plan specifies the need to overcome short-board technologies such as key basic materials, operating systems, industrial software, automotive chips, and components, support the formation of cross-field innovation consortia led by leading enterprises with participation from various types of enterprises, accelerate the layout of pilot-scale testing and innovation public service platforms, and promote the movement of new technologies from the laboratory to mass production lines.
Unlike the past single focus on hardware breakthroughs, this plan elevates "AI + automobile" to a special development action. "Automobiles are no longer just a means of transportation, but also an important carrier for AI to enter the physical world," said a relevant person in charge of iFlytek. On-device large models, automotive-specific AI models, and intelligent agent technologies are reshaping cockpit interaction, whole-vehicle energy management, fault prediction, and even the entire process of vehicle R&D and manufacturing, promoting "software-defined vehicles" from concept to reality.
Innovation is not only a breakthrough in the laboratory; it also cannot be separated from the providing protection and support (保驾护航, bao jia hu hang - "protect, carriage, guard, escort") of the governance system. The rapid popularization of intelligent driving has made safety issues a focus of concern for the whole society. Not long ago, two mandatory national standards, Safety Requirements for Intelligent Connected Vehicles - Autonomous Driving Systems and Safety Requirements for Intelligent Connected Vehicles - Combined Driving Assistance Systems, were officially released, for the first time using national mandatory standards to define the safety bottom line for assisted driving and autonomous driving, clarifying functional boundaries, human-machine interaction, and manufacturer responsibilities, and correcting chaos in the market such as exaggerated publicity and conceptual confusion.
Zhu Meina, Deputy Director of the Department of Technical Management of Standards of the State Administration for Market Regulation, said that next, the formulation of mandatory national standards for automatic parking and automotive data security will be accelerated, and coordination on international standards will continue to be deepened.
It is worth noting that capacity early warning and regulation has been written into this top-level industrial plan for the first time, strictly setting conditions for the establishment of new independent new-energy vehicle enterprises, and promoting the orderly exit of backward and low-efficiency capacity through market-based and law-based means. This set of combined measures to "control the increment and ease the stock" is intended to guide the industry away from irrational competition, concentrate resources on advantageous enterprises with technological innovation capabilities, cultivate several global top-ten vehicle manufacturers and global top-100 parts enterprises, and promote the industry's shift from "competing on price" to "competing on technology, quality, and service."
Cross-Border Integration
Building a New Industrial Ecology of Symbiosis Among "Vehicle, Energy, Road, and Cloud"
A new-energy vehicle is no longer an isolated mechanical product. It can be an intelligent terminal on the road, a mobile energy storage unit for the home, or a node in the perception network of a smart city. The Plan takes cross-border integrated development as a core task, promoting automobiles to break out of the single category of manufacturing, deeply linking with communications, transportation, cities, and energy, and building a brand-new industrial ecology of "vehicle-energy-road-cloud" coordination.
In the field of information and communications, accelerate the large-scale deployment of 5G/5G-A and C-V2X, promote the installation of BeiDou and direct-connection satellite systems in vehicles, and enable two-way empowerment between vehicles and networks; in the dimensions of transportation and cities, a batch of "vehicle-road-cloud integration" pilot cities such as Beijing, Chongqing, and Guangzhou are accelerating the digital transformation of traffic lights and roadside perception equipment, promoting the implementation of autonomous driving in scenarios such as urban logistics and public transit; in the energy field, localities are continuously improving urban and rural charging and battery-swapping networks, exploring sustainable business models for vehicle-to-grid (V2G) interaction, and enabling tens of millions of new-energy vehicles to become flexible and adjustable mobile energy storage units for the power grid.
A relevant person in charge of Yutong Bus introduced that at present, the company's intelligent connected buses have been put into operation in more than 20 cities across the country, and in the future will be replicated and promoted to more smart city and public transportation projects.
Integration also means higher requirements for the coordination capability of the industrial chain. The Plan proposes actions for the ecological construction of key components and the cultivation of leading enterprises, accelerating the formulation of interface specifications for key component systems and basic software and hardware, and standards for data interaction, breaking down product and data "islands," while supporting key enterprises to become stronger and better and grow into leading parts enterprises with global influence.
Along with cockpit-driving integration, central computing, and AI software evolution, parts enterprises are no longer limited to simple supply; they are beginning to participate deeply in the early-stage R&D and definition of whole vehicles, working together with OEMs to refine next-generation automotive products. A batch of parts enterprises mastering core technologies will usher in new opportunities to grow into leading parts enterprises with global influence.
Setting Sail Overseas
Toward a New Pattern of Higher-Level Opening Up
In the first half of this year, exports of new-energy vehicles accounted for more than 40 percent of China's total automobile exports. To date, Chinese automobiles have been sold to more than 200 countries and regions around the world, and Chinese enterprises have invested in vehicle and parts manufacturing in more than 80 countries and regions overseas. Chinese automobiles going overseas are bidding farewell to simple product export and moving toward a new stage of brand export, technology export, and standard export.
The 15th Five-Year Plan period is a key window for the internationalization of China's automobile industry. Cao Wen, Deputy Director of the Department of Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce, said that the top-level design and policy guidance for the international development of the automobile industry will be further strengthened, the construction of overseas comprehensive service systems will be continuously advanced, the "one port, one station, one platform" will be well built, and compliance building for enterprises "going overseas" will be strengthened.
Going overseas today is no longer simply selling domestic models abroad. Voyah Automobile is deepening its presence in Europe, laying out the Middle East, and advancing the development of right-hand-drive models and improving localized service systems; Momenta has obtained an L4-level urban road testing permit issued by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority, bringing China's autonomous driving technology practice to the European market; iFlytek's multilingual AI system accompanies Chinese whole vehicles going overseas, serving users in more than 60 countries worldwide. More and more enterprises recognize that true globalization means "going in" rather than merely "going out," requiring the layout of local R&D, the building of local supply chains, the construction of local service capabilities, and full respect for local regulations and market culture.
Opening up is two-way. The Plan proposes creating a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized, and supporting foreign-funded enterprises in deepening their development in China. It encourages deep cooperation between Chinese and foreign enterprises in R&D investment in whole vehicles and key components, accelerating product transformation and upgrading, and radiating to explore global markets.
Fu Yuwu, Honorary Chairman of the China Society of Automotive Engineers, pointed out that in the face of industry "involution" and various risks accompanying industrial going overseas, while consolidating hard power, the automobile industry also needs to continuously temper its soft power. Breaking through core technologies, deepening cross-border coordination, rectifying the industry ecology, and tempering industrial soft power will be key levers for industrial advancement during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
The road is long and difficult, but with action, it will be reached. Adhering to innovation-driven development, holding the safety bottom line, deepening cross-border integration, and expanding high-level opening up, China's automobile industry will surely transform the planning blueprint into vivid reality and help China enter the ranks of world automobile powers.
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The Yinshan Mountains stretch across central Inner Mongolia, serving as the natural dividing line between agriculture and animal husbandry, and between monsoon and non-monsoon regions, in the northern part of China. On the southern foothills, hills, basins, and farmland intermingle; to the north, crossing the low hills, the Inner Mongolia Plateau extends deep into the hinterland. Ulanqab lies precisely in this transitional zone.
Here, winters are cold and long, and the natural conditions of a chilly climate, scant precipitation, and a short frost-free period make it difficult to form large-scale urban settlements. For a considerable period, Ulanqab was dominated by agriculture and animal husbandry, with some areas relying entirely on natural conditions for survival (靠天吃饭, kao tian chi fan - "rely on, heaven, eat, rice") for a long time, and it was once even a key recipient of national assistance. The Capital of China's Potatoes, the Capital of Oats, the Capital of Wind Power... the epithets Ulanqab has developed over decades all showcase its geographic and economic characteristics.
As the tide of the times surges forward, relying on the national "East Data, West Computing" strategic opportunity, this once desolate land is breaking free from the shackles of traditional development, completing a leapfrog transformation from "Grassland Cloud Valley" and "City of Intelligent Computing" to the "Capital of Tokens." Behind this lies a reconstruction of resource endowments.
The operation of computing systems depends on extremely vast physical infrastructure. With servers running day and night, two things must be addressed: first, where the electricity comes from, and second, how the generated heat is dissipated. This means that the computing industry follows a different logic of location selection than traditional manufacturing. It does not necessarily need to be close to large, densely populated cities; instead, it places greater emphasis on energy prices, climatic conditions, and land space. Under this new dimension, the geographic disadvantages of Ulanqab's traditional economy are becoming development advantages in the digital age.
Consider first the "wind." The windy geographic location, with as many as 60 days of strong winds in spring alone, combined with an average annual total solar radiation of 5,500–6,200 megajoules per square meter, endows Ulanqab with abundant wind and solar energy resources. The annual utilization hours of wind and photovoltaic power rank among the highest in the country, with the installed capacity of new energy reaching 20.67 million kilowatts. The computing industry is precisely a sector with high electricity consumption; the more servers there are and the larger the computing scale, the stronger the demand for stable power. Thus, wind and solar resources that were of limited help to traditional production have now formed a new matching relationship with the large-scale electricity demand of data centers.
Consider next the "cold." For traditional agriculture and animal husbandry, low average annual temperatures and a short frost-free period mean a restricted growing season; for data centers, however, this is also a natural cold source. Ulanqab's average summer temperature is only 18.8 degrees Celsius, providing nearly 10 months of natural cold source each year. Here, cooling equipment in large computer rooms can allow outdoor cold air to help dissipate heat. According to estimates, this climatic condition can reduce data center energy consumption by about 30%. Cold has shifted from a constraint on agricultural production to an economic resource that can directly lower costs for the computing industry.
And there is also "proximity." "One step west of Beijing is Ulanqab." A distance of over 300 kilometers from Beijing means long transport times and logistics costs for traditional commodity shipping; but for data, thanks to a dedicated 144-core point-to-point dual-circuit optical cable directly connecting to Beijing, ultra-low latency data transmission in the information age is achieved.
Ulanqab's computing power, supported by green electricity, natural cold sources, and ultra-low latency, precisely meets the spillover computing demands of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region for artificial intelligence training, autonomous driving R&D, and big data processing, transforming natural geographic resource advantages into digital hub advantages and growing into a computing powerhouse advancing green development. To date, Ulanqab has signed over 100 computing projects, with contracted standard racks exceeding 7 million, and a host of leading enterprises in artificial intelligence and intelligent vehicles have successively established a presence, forming a full industry chain covering computing infrastructure, hardware manufacturing, network security, data services, and talent training, and joining the core nodes of the national integrated computing network.
The land is silent, but change is resounding. Ulanqab is moving from a transportation node to a computing node, opening up new space for development in the digital economy landscape.
(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Marxism Studies of the Inner Mongolia Academy of Social Sciences; compiled by People's Daily reporter Zhao Jingfeng)
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Domestic demand is the fundamental driving force behind China's economic growth and a key support for the smooth circulation of the domestic economic cycle. Since the beginning of this year, policies to expand domestic demand have continued to intensify, with new highlights and bright spots emerging in consumption and investment. In the first half of the year, domestic demand contributed over 80 percent to economic growth, serving as a strong backbone for stable growth. However, it must also be clearly recognized that there are still many bottlenecks and obstacles hindering the sustained release of domestic demand potential, which constrain the smooth circulation of the national economy, making it necessary to accelerate their resolution through pragmatic actions and forceful measures.
The importance of removing the bottlenecks and obstacles that hinder the expansion of domestic demand is self-evident (不言而喻, bu yan er yu - "not, speak, yet, clearly"). Expanding domestic demand is a strategic move, and the Central Economic Work Conference explicitly designated "adhering to domestic demand-led development and building a strong domestic market" as the primary task for this year's economic work. At present, the pattern of strong supply and weak demand continues domestically, and the necessity and urgency of further intensifying efforts to expand domestic demand are increasingly prominent. From an international perspective, geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East continue to drag on, risks along key shipping routes such as the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea are rising, and coupled with monetary policy adjustments by major economies, the uncertainty of external demand has increased significantly. Once a gap emerges in external demand, it must be filled by domestic demand. From a domestic perspective, weak domestic demand has become the principal contradiction in economic operations. Expanding domestic demand is an inevitable choice for stabilizing the overall economic landscape in response to changes in both the domestic and international environment.
To remove the bottlenecks and obstacles hindering the expansion of domestic demand, it is necessary to identify the root causes and prescribe the right remedies. From the perspective of consumption, consumption is first and foremost a function of income. Insufficient momentum in income growth constrains the improvement of consumption capacity, and pressure on employment and income growth is directly reflected in consumption. Consumption is also a function of expectations regarding income and expenditure. Affected by the relatively large downward pressure in some industries, the income expectations of related employees are weak, the motive for precautionary saving has strengthened, and consumer sentiment has tilted toward conservatism. In recent years, tourist flows at scenic spots in cultural and tourism markets across many regions have recovered significantly, but the recovery of per-capita spending and average transaction value per customer has been relatively slow. Bottlenecks in the consumption environment cannot be ignored either; market order in some sectors remains insufficiently standardized, making it difficult for consumers to spend with confidence.
From the perspective of investment, factor constraints on the implementation of investment projects have intensified, and the problem of overdue payments on accounts has not yet been eradicated. For private enterprises, although the threshold for market access has been continuously lowered, there are still relatively few high-quality projects that match the capabilities of the vast number of small and medium-sized private enterprises and align risks with returns.
Expanding domestic demand and optimizing supply are two sides of the same coin in the economy, and constraints on the supply side cannot be ignored either. Some constraints are reflected in insufficient supply capacity. For example, the continued popularity of tourist trains launched in many places during the summer vacation reflects the enormous potential of demand, but on some routes, tickets are so hard to obtain that this potential is constrained from being released. Others are reflected in inadequate rules and standards. For instance, demand for service consumption such as housekeeping is strong, but due to a lack of industry standards or inadequate implementation, the market is a mix of good and bad, and many consumers report that they still have to queue up to find a reliable housekeeper.
The key to removing the bottlenecks and obstacles hindering the expansion of domestic demand is to achieve a dynamic balance between supply and demand at a higher level. On the consumption front, it is necessary to stabilize residents' employment and income expectations so that the people can spend and dare to spend. Vigorously innovate scenarios and models for service consumption, green consumption, and smart consumption so that consumption upgrading has support and can be implemented. Continuously optimize the consumption environment so that consumers can spend with peace of mind and confidence. On the investment front, it is necessary to focus on precise investment in key areas such as new infrastructure, shoring up weaknesses in people's livelihoods, and industrial technological transformation, and better leverage the catalytic role of government investment. Relax market access for private investment, promote more high-quality projects, and stabilize expectations for private investment. At the same time, attention should be paid to coordinating efforts to expand consumption and benefit people's livelihoods, and to invest in physical assets and invest in people, jointly consolidating the foundation of domestic demand. On the supply optimization front, it is necessary to deepen reform guided by demand, remove barriers to industry access, promote the upgrading of manufacturing toward high-end development and the quality improvement of the service industry, shore up shortcomings in public service supply, and use high-quality supply to match, lead, and create new demand. Through two-way adaptation and synchronized upgrading of supply and demand, a virtuous cycle will be formed in which demand drives supply and supply creates demand.
To remove the bottlenecks and obstacles hindering the expansion of domestic demand, it is necessary to act in accordance with economic laws. It is essential to make good use of reform as the key move; wherever bottlenecks and obstacles exist, reform should follow. In terms of policy measures, it is necessary to adhere to a combination of short-term and long-term approaches, giving full play to the short-term driving role of supportive policies while placing greater emphasis on long-term institutional construction and the improvement of systems and mechanisms. Start by stabilizing employment positions and broadening channels for increasing residents' income to consolidate consumption capacity and strengthen the endogenous foundation for sustained consumption growth. Starting from removing barriers to private investment access and optimizing the market-oriented and law-based business environment, unleash the investment potential of industrial upgrading and market vitality. Only by implementing precise policies in accordance with economic laws can the expansion of domestic demand continuously activate endogenous momentum and achieve the unity of short-term stable growth and long-term quality improvement.
(The author is a researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 齐志明 《中国经济周刊》记者 谢 玮
As soon as work ended on Friday, Liu Lingrong, a post-90s white-collar worker in Beijing, pulled her suitcase straight to the high-speed rail station to attend a concert more than a thousand miles away. One ticket brought two nights of lodging, several meals, and a city stroll. From traveling to a city for a single performance, to taking trips to check in at sporting events and intangible cultural heritage sites, more and more people are willing to pay for experiences, companionship, and emotional value.
From January to August this year, total retail sales of consumer goods and services grew 2.5 percent year on year, of which service retail sales grew 4.9 percent, 3.9 percentage points faster than goods retail sales. Service consumption in categories such as communications and information services, tourism, consulting and rental services, and cultural, sports and leisure services showed particularly strong growth.
Service consumption "running faster" reflects the major trend of consumption "switching tracks" — household consumption is shifting from being dominated by goods consumption to giving equal weight to goods and services consumption; consumer demands are expanding from meeting basic functions to pursuing quality, experience, and emotional value; and the consumer market is entering a new stage in which both goods and services expand together, rather than pursuing ever more physical goods.
The consumption ledger is being upgraded
Intangible services enter daily life
Opening the order page on one's phone, besides clothes, home appliances, and daily necessities, more and more services that are "invisible and intangible" are being put into the shopping cart: a performance, a trip, or a care arrangement for the elderly and children. They cannot be packed into a delivery box, yet they genuinely enter residents' lives and are also written into the consumption ledger.
The data trace a clear trajectory: from 2020 to 2025, per capita service consumption expenditure of Chinese residents grew at an average annual rate of 8.5 percent, and its share of per capita consumption expenditure rose by 3.5 percentage points, reaching 46.1 percent in 2025 — already approaching "half the territory" of household consumption.
"Service consumption leading consumption growth has become a stable and clear trend," said Dong Chao, director of the Institute of Circulation and Consumption under the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce. This trend is driven by income factors and is also closely related to demographic structure, lifestyle, and technological progress. On the one hand, durable consumer goods such as home appliances and mobile phones are already fairly widespread, and demand is shifting more toward replacement and quality upgrading; on the other hand, demand for cultural entertainment, leisure tourism, elderly care and childcare, and housekeeping and care services is being released at a faster pace.
The changes in housekeeping services offer a vivid snapshot. Data from the 58.com platform show that in July this year, orders for air-conditioner cleaning on the platform grew 107 percent month on month, demand for hourly cooking workers grew 23 percent month on month, and demand for daytime nannies grew 37 percent month on month. Demand for elderly care was even stronger: demand for in-home companionship care grew 69 percent year on year, and demand for geriatric rehabilitation grew 36 percent year on year. The "2026 58 Daojia Housekeeping Practitioner Career Development Report" shows that in the past, hiring a housekeeper meant "as long as someone does the work," whereas now more people first ask whether the worker is "professional." Taking confinement nannies as an example, a top-tier confinement nanny can earn a monthly salary of 28,000 yuan, three times the level at the start of one's career.
In the local life services sector, "buying services and valuing experience" is reshaping the consumption structure. Walking into a barbershop with a reference photo, just to find a stylist who understands one's needs; spending dozens of yuan on a rock-climbing trial class, first turning "I'm interested" into "let me try it" — Meituan data show that in 2025, searches related to "trial classes" grew 69.7 percent year on year, and the supply of trial classes priced under 10 yuan grew 152 percent year on year. Projects with "high thresholds and heavy decision-making," such as rock climbing, equestrian sports, and handicraft making, are reaching more consumers through small-amount, short-cycle experience products, and the average playtime at "one-stop fun" venues grew 40 percent year on year.
The cultural tourism sector performed similarly. During this year's Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday, people's travel radius expanded significantly. Meituan data show that during the double holiday, long-haul flight bookings on the platform grew 55 percent year on year, and the number of users booking flights to two or more destinations grew 70 percent year on year, with long-haul travel and "city-hopping via transit" becoming popular. What was once a tedious layover has become a unique travel experience — a specialty meal or an overnight stay during a layover is turning passing passenger flow into incremental consumption for cities along the route.
Tian Xuan, dean of Peking University's Guanghua School of Management and Boya Distinguished Professor at Peking University, analyzed that China's per capita gross domestic product has exceeded US$13,000 for several consecutive years and is now in the period of accelerated consumption-structure transformation revealed by international experience. "Residents' needs are shifting from 'whether it exists' to 'whether it is good,' and this shift is pushing the center of gravity of consumption to migrate at an accelerated pace from physical goods toward services such as cultural tourism, health, and elderly care. Generation Z places greater emphasis on emotional value and the sense of experience, and this generational transition is accelerating the rise of service consumption."
The expenditure structure is being reshaped
From material satisfaction to diverse experiences
In the past, consumption revolved mainly around "whether it exists": whether the home had a television, whether one had a car to go out in, whether one had a mobile phone for communication. Today, as basic material needs are fairly well met, people pay more attention to "whether it is good," "whether it suits me," and "whether it can make life more fulfilling." This does not mean goods consumption is no longer important; rather, consumption choices are shifting from pursuing function to valuing experience and feeling.
"Consumers are willing to pay for products and services that touch emotions and bring spiritual enjoyment — aesthetics, interests, companionship, and a sense of ritual — which reflects people's pursuit of quality of life and affirmation of their own value," Dong Chao said.
A cup of coffee is not only for staying alert; it can also be warm companionship on the commute. In the underground passage connected to Shanghai's Zhenbei Road Metro Station, commuters place orders on their phones in advance and can pick up their drinks as they pass the Nowwa Coffee Zhenbei Road store. This year, Nowwa Coffee cut the price of its dark-roast Americano and freshly made iced lemon tea to 3.9 yuan, and its coconut latte and orange C Americano to 5.9 yuan; this affordable menu has now been rolled out on a regular basis at stores nationwide.
"By improving supply-chain efficiency, advancing digital operations, and optimizing the store model, we have brought the price of freshly ground coffee down to a range close to bottled beverages, so consumers can 'buy it at hand, get it anywhere, and repurchase it frequently,'" said Guo Xingjun, founder of Nowwa Coffee. After the affordable menu was launched, daily sales at the Zhenbei Road store rose from over a hundred cups to more than 300 cups, and the weekly repurchase rate doubled. The company is working to increase the supply of affordable, high-quality products, turning freshly made coffee from a "discretionary consumption" into "daily consumption" and stimulating vitality in mass-market food and beverage consumption.
Also willing to pay for experience and companionship are the silver-haired generation. Zhou Huilan, a 62-year-old resident of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, opens the "Lihua Voice Research Institute" app on her phone on time after dinner every day. The Lihua AI agent first listens to her read a passage from "Moonlight over the Lotus Pond" and gives an assessment across dimensions such as tone, breath, and emotion; the class teacher reminds students in the group to submit homework, and a live instructor gives line-by-line comments on reading rhythm. Zhou Huilan said: "After retiring, I used to feel that my days were empty, but now every day there are people to practice with and people listening to me read, and I've also made a group of older sisters."
This kind of companionship-based learning is becoming a new scenario for silver-haired service consumption. Wang Dexiang, vice president of Lihua Culture, said that as of June this year, Lihua Culture had accumulated more than 26 million users, with users aged 50 and above accounting for over 60 percent. The AI voice practice coach is supported by 75 AI assessment algorithms and 28,000 expert-annotated data samples, and users currently interact an average of 260,000 times per day. The platform has also launched offline study-tour products integrating travel, study, practice, exhibition, and performance, having served more than 10,000 happy-age users cumulatively, with a repurchase rate of 45 percent.
Industry insiders point out that service consumption and goods consumption are not a process of one side gaining at the expense of the other (此消彼长, ci xiao bi chang - "this, diminish; that, grow"), but rather drive each other forward. Concerts drive lodging, transportation, dining, and sales of cultural and creative products; ice and snow tourism promotes consumption of ski suits, protective gear, and sports equipment; the popularity of digital cultural products may increase consumers' willingness to upgrade computers, graphics cards, and peripherals. Data from the China Association of Performing Arts show that large-scale performances have an average driving coefficient of 1:6.85 on other consumption.
Promoting the fit between supply and demand
Consolidating the foundation for service consumption development
Service consumption is currently improving overall, but the fit between supply and demand still needs to be raised. In popular cultural tourism and performance markets, tickets are hard to come by, while some offline physical businesses are under operating pressure; some groups are willing to "spend a fortune" on experience-based consumption, while some households remain cautious about rigid service expenditures such as elderly care and childcare. These situations are both objective phenomena in the process of consumption upgrading and signs that enormous development potential remains to be released.
The "15th Five-Year Plan for Expanding Consumption," issued in July 2026, lists "promoting service consumption quality improvement and benefits for the people" as a key task, making systematic arrangements across areas such as life services, elderly care and childcare, cultural tourism and health, and sports and education, and charting a path for expanding the scale and improving the quality of service consumption. It also calls for "intensifying efforts to improve the institutional mechanisms for promoting consumption," requiring efforts in areas such as "cleaning up and optimizing unreasonable restrictive measures" and "improving fiscal and financial support mechanisms."
Embedding financial services into real consumption scenarios is an effective path to activating consumption vitality. Before this year's National Day holiday, Chen Jia, a resident of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, planned to take her family to the Kaisa Senbo Resort. After learning about the cultural tourism consumption discounts and consumer-loan fiscal interest subsidies launched by the Hangzhou branch of the Postal Savings Bank of China, she used Alipay linked to her Postal Savings Bank credit card to pay for the hotel booking, enjoying tiered discounts with an immediate 100-yuan reduction on the single transaction. "I was going to book the room anyway; I didn't expect to save some money too. That's really nice," Chen Jia said. Focusing on holiday cultural tourism, lodging, and other consumption areas, the Hangzhou branch of the Postal Savings Bank of China has launched measures such as tiered hotel discounts and fiscal interest subsidies on personal consumer loans. Users can obtain consumer loans of up to 1 million yuan, and eligible loans can enjoy a 1-percentage-point annual interest subsidy in accordance with regulations, covering diverse consumption scenarios such as tourism, travel, and home renovation. Fiscal and financial policies lower residents' consumption costs and release the potential of service consumption.
How can fuel be continuously added to the fire of service consumption?
Dong Chao believes that improving the service consumption supply system should adhere to the principle of "filling shortcomings, improving quality, and promoting balance." In response to supply gaps in elderly care, childcare, and housekeeping, efforts should be intensified to increase government procurement of services, guide social capital to provide inclusive services, and improve community-embedded facilities and the 15-minute convenience living circle. Innovation in business formats and scenarios in areas such as cultural tourism, sports, and health management should be promoted, branded and chain enterprises should be cultivated, and regional supply differences should be bridged through digital means such as telemedicine and online education.
Releasing the potential of service consumption also requires continuous expansion in both time and space. Service consumption cannot be stored; people need not only "money" but also "leisure." Further implementing paid annual leave and optimizing staggered leave arrangements will help release consumption demand in areas such as cultural tourism, sports, and health and wellness. Tian Xuan said that stabilizing employment, increasing income, strengthening safeguards, and improving supply should be combined to enhance residents' consumption capacity and willingness, turning potential demand into actual purchasing power. "For example, promoting the implementation of the spring and autumn holiday system, increasing residents' disposable leisure time, and expanding the scope of visa-free entry for inbound travelers can fully release the potential consumption vitality of scenarios such as cultural tourism and health and wellness."
A sound consumption environment is an important support for expanding service consumption. Service consumption involves intangible products and relies more heavily on sound market rules. Problems such as prepaid consumption disputes, ticketing chaos, and merchant breaches of contract can directly undermine consumer confidence. Experts suggest improving industry-specific standards, strengthening credit supervision and consumer rights protection mechanisms, and improving diversified channels for dispute resolution to safeguard service consumption.
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In the cultural and creative products area on the third floor of the Inner Mongolia Museum, a crisp "jingle" sound catches the eye. Following the sound, a visitor is gently shaking a refrigerator magnet — an eagle stands atop a golden crown, wings spread as if about to take flight, with a small bell creatively added beneath the crown. The prototype of this eagle-crown golden-bell refrigerator magnet is precisely the eagle-shaped gold crown ornament known as the museum's "treasure of the hall."
In 1972, in Aluchaideng, Hanggin Banner, located on the Ordos Plateau of Inner Mongolia, villagers discovered more than 200 extremely precious gold and silver artifacts in the sea of sand, among them this eagle-shaped gold crown ornament. "The eagle-shaped gold crown ornament is the only complete 'barbarian crown' ever discovered in China to date, and it may have been the crown of a chieftain of a northern nomadic tribe active in this area during the Warring States period, with a history of more than 2,000 years," introduced a researcher from the Collection Department of the Inner Mongolia Museum.
This crown ornament stands 6.7 centimeters in total height and consists of an eagle-shaped crown top and a gold crown band, with craftsmanship showing care in every detail. The eagle's head and neck on the crown top are inlaid with turquoise, its body is hammered from gold sheet, flower-patterned gold pieces connect the head and neck, and the entire body is decorated with feather-like patterns; what is exquisite is that the eagle's head and tail can both move, and when moved, it is like an eagle spreading its wings. Beneath the eagle's feet is a hemispherical crown top, on which is carved the pattern of "four wolves biting four sheep." The crown band is formed by three semicircular rope-style gold bands joined by mortise-and-tenon fitting, with the ends respectively decorated with a recumbent tiger, a recumbent sheep, and a recumbent horse; when joined together, the diameter is 16.5 to 16.8 centimeters — just enough to wear the "crown" on a person's head.
"This artifact not only displays the superb precious-metal craftsmanship of the northern nomadic tribes of that time, but also reflects the fusion of the Central Plains agrarian culture and the northern nomadic culture," said the researcher from the Collection Department of the Inner Mongolia Museum.
Techniques such as round carving, relief carving, hammering, chasing and engraving, wire drawing, rope plaiting, and inlaying are traditional Central Plains methods for making gold and silver artifacts, yet the images appearing on the gold crown are all depictions of grassland life: the eagle symbolizes strength, courage, and ferocity; the pursuit between wolf and sheep originates from the hunting memories of the nomadic tribes.
A close look at the "four wolves biting four sheep" pattern on the crown top reveals: the four wolves lie facing each other in pairs, with their four limbs bent and stretched forward; the four argali sheep also lie facing each other in pairs, with their horns curling backward, the curled parts hollowed out, their forelegs bent forward, and their hindquarters bitten by the wolves, assuming a reversed posture so that their hind legs point upward, resting on the wolves' necks. The vividly lifelike (栩栩如生, hu hu ru sheng - "lifelike, like, become, live") scene delicately reproduces the ecological laws and survival wisdom of all things on the grassland coexisting and depending on one another, conforming to nature, and reproducing endlessly.
On the eagle-crown golden-bell refrigerator magnet, the "four wolves biting four sheep" pattern has been faithfully reproduced. Mr. Wang, who came from Nanjing, Jiangsu, and works in the design industry, picked up the refrigerator magnet and examined it carefully, exclaiming: "Only someone who is especially familiar with the living creatures of the grassland could carve it so vividly."
In the view of Ms. Bao, a tourist from Guangdong, the golden bell beneath the gold crown makes the entire cultural and creative product more lively: "I feel it instantly breaks through the heaviness of the cultural relic, giving the static artifact a dynamic vitality as well."
"The eagle spreading its wings and looking down over the grassland has always been a symbol of protection and strength. Adding this bell means 'the mighty eagle guards the household gate, the golden bell draws in good fortune,' and the intention is to bring this protection to everyone," explained Yun Jinchen, the designer of the eagle-crown golden-bell refrigerator magnet.
The small bell has successfully "drawn in" popularity. "Since the resin-version refrigerator magnet was put on the shelves in September 2025, at most more than 600 have been sold in a single day," introduced Sun Jinjin, manager of the Bowu Lizan cultural and creative products store. "This year we launched a metal version with carved patterns on the bell, and in August alone more than 4,200 pieces were sold."
In addition, hand towels, coin purses, and other cultural and creative products featuring the eagle-shaped gold crown ornament have also been put on the shelves one after another, and the top-view pattern of the gold crown has even been made into a separate refrigerator magnet. "Basically every month we release new designs and new products," Sun Jinjin said. "The main purpose is still to let more people know about the cultural relic, so that what people take home is not just a cultural and creative product, but also the story and meaning behind the cultural relic."
The bell rings softly, and the weighty history stretching back more than 2,000 years is transformed into everyday fine goods that everyone can own, perceive, and collect, while the story of the fusion of nomadic and agrarian cultures continues to be passed down through time.
Return to TopBy: 王 军
On the map of China, some roads are walked with the feet, and some roads are walked with one's life.
Ya'an in Sichuan is rainy, and is known as the "Rain City." During the two years I was seconded to work in Ya'an, I often experienced the truth of this saying: the rain in Ya'an is like a leak in the sky. Yet it is precisely this rainwater that makes every inch of the mountains and rivers on this land steeped in a heavy, clinging dampness. The Dadu River, the Qingyi River, and the Tianwan River—I often patrolled these rivers along their banks. More than 90 years ago, the road the Red Army walked on this land was measured out with their lives.
The main force of the Central Red Army fought and moved through Ya'an's territory for 27 days. From entering Ya'an on May 23, 1935, and subsequently forcing the crossing of the Dadu River, to crossing the first great snow mountain of the Long March and leaving on June 18, this land left behind too much tragedy and legend. But there is another stretch of road that appears again and again in the recollections of those who experienced it. It has none of the roaring waves of the Dadu River, none of the cold gleam of the iron chains of the Luding Bridge, none of the towering majesty of Mount Jiajin. It is hidden in a primeval forest, hidden in yellowed diaries, hidden in the tales passed down through generations. This is Paotong Ridge. In the diaries or reminiscence articles of the Red Army officers and men, some write it as "Paotong Ridge," some as "Paotong Ridge," and some say it is "Ganzhu Mountain." The confusion over the name itself shows: that place was simply too remote, so remote that even its name has no unified spelling.
Paotong Ridge is a place that even Sima Xiangru and Sima Qian never walked. More than 2,000 years ago, Sima Xiangru, on the orders of Emperor Wu of Han, went as an envoy to the southwest and opened the Lingguan Road. More than 20 years later, Sima Qian also walked the Lingguan Road that Sima Xiangru had opened. Within Yingjing County in Ya'an City, the Lingguan Road crosses the natural barrier of Jiuzhe Slope. Paotong Ridge, also in Yingjing County, is not far from Jiuzhe Slope. Jiuzhe Slope at least has a road that can be followed, but Paotong Ridge is a primeval old forest where no one goes, with no road at all.
Zhang Aiping recalled: Paotong Ridge was the hardest road of the Red Army's Long March. On his deathbed he could not forget it, and instructed his daughter to find this place. When I searched through historical materials, I was pulled back again and again by the accounts of those who experienced it into that damp mountain forest where despair and hope were interwoven. Xie Juezai wrote: "It turned out there was no road at all, only traces of climbing vines and grasping creepers." Chen Bojun wrote in his diary entry of June 5, 1935: "Cliffs several zhang high, sheer precipices appearing at every turn, stone steps uneven, mud too deep, climbing vines and grasping creepers, one could not dare to lift a foot forward." Wu Yunfu's diary entry of June 7 wrote: "The difficulty of that road has never been seen before." Chen Yun wrote in Notes on the Westward March with the Army: "We set out from Shuizitian, crossed a high mountain, where there was almost no road and no stone steps either. Bamboo and trees grew thickly on both sides, blocking out the sky, and the mud and water on the mountain were extremely deep; both legs were crawling through mud ditches." He specially recorded one detail: "Zhou Enlai also stood for a whole night in a mud ditch on the mountaintop. The next morning I saw that although he was still in good spirits, he was covered in mud from head to foot." Edgar Snow recorded in Red Star Over China: "Mao Zedong told me: 'On this peak, one army corps lost two-thirds of its pack animals. Hundreds upon hundreds of soldiers fell and never rose again.'" I have read these passages over and over. Every time I read them, I feel those soldiers are right before my eyes. The heroic Red Army officers and men carved out a road forward from this desolate primeval forest.
Before crossing Paotong Ridge, the Red Army had just undergone a test of physical limits. From Shipingyue to the Luding Bridge was 120 kilometers. In today's terms, that is the distance of three marathons. The Fourth Regiment of the Red Army covered it in one day and one night. A torrential rain fell, and it was so dark one could not see one's hand in front of one's face. Some soldiers dozed off standing up and nearly fell into the river. Later they simply untied their leggings, joined them one after another, and pulled each other along front and back. Along the way they also had to fight. What kind of a force was that—using leggings tied together into ropes, condensing the very soul of an army. Shipingyue in Shimian County, Ya'an City, as the staging point before the capture of the Luding Bridge, was thus recorded in the annals of history.
After crossing Paotong Ridge, the Red Army passed through Tianquan and Lushan and entered Baoxing County. It was precisely here that the Red Army encountered the first great snow mountain of the Long March—Mount Jiajin. Mount Jiajin is also called "Jiajin Mountain," and in Tibetan it is called "Jiaji," meaning very high and very steep. Mount Jiajin straddles the border between Baoxing County in Ya'an City and Xiaojin County in the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, and was the first great snow mountain crossed by the Central Red Army on the Long March.
On June 12, 1935, the Red Army's vanguard troops climbed Mount Jiajin. The soldiers who had come from the south had already taken off their winter clothes in Yunnan, and many comrades were wearing only thin clothing. Xiao Feng wrote in his Long March Diary: Looking at the tall white snow mountain before us, and thinking that there was still so much snow in June, this would have been a joke in our Jiangxi. Many soldiers were so cold they had no choice but to drape their quilts and blankets over themselves for warmth. Xie Zhenhua recalled that a dozen or so stragglers sat motionless around a pile of burned-out charcoal. Someone went over and shouted at them to hurry up, but one by one they were like sculptures, with no reaction at all. They had already sacrificed their lives. Wang Liusheng wrote the poem "A Comrade-in-Arms Fell": "Little chili pepper, flashing red light, marching pot, clanging and ringing. Precipices stretch across overhead, deep ravines lie beneath the feet, at times wild winds roll flying snow, at times hail comes falling from the sky. The temperature is low, piercingly cold, the oxygen is thin, suffocatingly tight. A comrade-in-arms fell, his eyes half closed and half open—comrades, do not grieve, step on my shoulders and continue upward!"
During the Red Army's brief rest period, the local masses gave their full support, raising about 100,000 kilograms of grain in Tianquan County and more than 200,000 kilograms in Lushan County, as well as large quantities of pork, salt, ginger, liquor, and cold-weather supplies for crossing the snow mountain.
The most terrifying thing on Mount Jiajin was the mountain hollows the locals called "snow ponds." These hollows are covered in snow year-round, and once a person steps on them, they sink into the snow pits. This required a guide familiar with the road to lead the way, advancing along the "watch poles" built of piled stones to mark the snow ponds. Each person also had to cut a "trail-probing stick" to test the way. One elderly Tibetan man, after leading the Red Army across the mountain back then, was given a kerosene lamp by the Red Army, which addressed him as "Lamp Red." The elderly Tibetan man then took "Madeng Hong" as his name. I heard this story told by Madeng Hong's granddaughter at the Mount Jiajin Cadre Academy.
By June 18, 1935, the Central Red Army had crossed Mount Jiajin, and the two main forces of the Red Army triumphantly joined forces at Maogong (present-day Xiaojin County). Zhang Aiping wrote a poem: "Wild with joy, the two armies skillfully joined forces, cheers thundered and shook heaven and earth," and Ouyang Wen wrote "Hand in hand we crossed the watershed, drinking clear spring water beneath trees and by cliffs," brimming with the joy of crossing Mount Jiajin. The heroic Red Army officers and men, keeping warm with chili peppers and ginger, relying on their powerful will and firm conviction, rewrote the legend that "to cross Mount Jiajin, one must be an immortal descended to the mortal world."
On December 26, 2021, construction officially began on the Mount Jiajin Tunnel, starting at Qiaoqi Tibetan Township in Baoxing County, Ya'an City, and ending at Dawei Town in Xiaojin County. Trial operation began on October 1, 2025. I have entered the mountains along the Qiaoqi line many times. The old road winds and twists, clouds and mist press down from above, and white snow fills the view. Local cadres said that in winter, Mount Jiajin was a barrier. Now that the road is open, the mountain's Chinese medicinal herbs and yak meat can come out of the mountains faster, and red-resource study tours and Tibetan-village homestays have also heated up. The young people of Qiaoqi have come back, and the folks on both sides of the mountain come and go, making it convenient for visiting relatives, attending school, and seeing a doctor. The tunnel builders advanced bit by bit through high-altitude cold, oxygen deprivation, and fractured rock, like the Red Army of those days, drilling through the impossible. On the Long March road, new stories are growing.
Wei Wei, in the preface to The Red Ribbon of the Earth, compared the Long March of China's heroes to "a bright and dazzling red ribbon hung on this planet." This year marks the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March. In the central atrium of Building A of the National Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, a torch-shaped red silk rises into the air from the great hall and gathers into a ribbon beneath the dome. Sunlight pours through the glass roof and falls on the sculpture of the Red Army bugler.
Just beneath this hanging red silk, two letters are displayed. The sender is Wei Wei, and the recipient is the same person: Dr. Chen Huaijiong of the Tianquan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Sichuan Province. In 1983, at the age of 63, Wei Wei retraced the Long March road for the first time. One of the key points of his journey was precisely this stretch of road where the Red Army had crossed Paotong Ridge from Yingjing and entered Tianquan. When he reached Tianquan territory, he sprained his fibula on a muddy rice-paddy ridge and was carried on someone's back into the Tianquan County Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Chen Huaijiong, known locally as "Great Master," diagnosed, applied medicine, and bandaged him on the spot. After returning to Beijing, Wei Wei sent a copy of The East, which had just won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, with a letter saying: "Looking back on the eighteen days in Tianquan, I not only received your superb medical treatment, but was also moved by your spirit of warm-hearted service." After The Red Ribbon of the Earth was published, he sent another book and wrote: "Whenever I think of the way you treated my leg in Tianquan, I hold deep gratitude in my heart." During my secondment in Ya'an, I once fractured my foot, and someone recommended that I go to Tianquan to see Chen Huaijiong. The Great Master's hands were still as steady as ever.
From Paotong Ridge to the Mount Jiajin Tunnel, more than 90 years have flowed across this land. Some things have changed: natural barriers have become thoroughfares, snow mountains now have tunnels, and muddy paths have become smooth highways. But some things have not changed: the courage to keep moving forward even in desperate straits, the kindness of still protecting others in hardship, and the conviction that turns the impossible into the possible.
Paotong Ridge is still there, its primeval forest blocking out the sky and the sun. Today, when we speed through the Mount Jiajin Tunnel, we should not forget that more than 90 years ago, there was a group of people who, with their own two feet, walked out a road for China through a forest that had been desolate since time immemorial.
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"When life goes well, one must enjoy oneself to the fullest" — this is a famous line by Li Bai in his poem Qiang Jin Jiu (Invitation to Wine).. Li Bai's "enjoy to the fullest" is expressed in "Do not let the golden goblet sit empty facing the moon." But the "when life goes well, one must be cautious" that I wish to speak of is prompted by feelings aroused by many lessons in history and in real life.
What does "life going well" mean? It refers to all things in life proceeding smoothly, extremely satisfied and complacent (志得意满, zhi de yi man - "will, reach, intention, full"). As the saying goes, "Of the things in life that do not go as one wishes, the vast majority (十之八九, shi zhi ba jiu - "ten, of, eight, nine") are nine or ten out of ten." Precisely because the "one or two out of ten" things that do go well are so hard to come by, some people lose themselves in self-importance (忘乎所以, wang hu suo yi - "forget, about, that which"), becoming incautious, and as a result turn what was originally a rather good life into a complete mess (一地鸡毛, yi di ji mao - "one, ground, chicken, feathers").
Tragedies in which incaution led to ruined reputation and social standing (身败名裂, shen bai ming lie - "body, fail, name, split") have been numerous in history. Li Si, Prime Minister of the Qin Dynasty; Han Xin, the famed general of the Western Han Dynasty; and Nian Gengyao, the great general of the Qing Dynasty — all of them, at times when they were riding high on the road of life, whether because of their merits and talents or because of arrogance and indiscipline, ultimately came to no good end. Li Zicheng, leader of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, once personally leading his "Eighteen Riders," barely fought his way out of the Shangluo Mountains and established the Dashun regime — yet he was carried away by victory and failed at the final hurdle (功亏一篑, gong kui yi kui - "achievement, lack, one, basketful"). For this reason, Chairman Mao Zedong admonished the entire Party to take this as a warning, and must "maintain a style of modesty, prudence, freedom from arrogance, and freedom from impetuosity."
Lessons in which incaution led to falling from power and overturning — these are not rare in today's real life either. Some people, occupying high positions and enjoying great renown, have fallen into the mire of violating discipline and law because they failed to hold fast to their original aspiration. Some people, having struggled half a lifetime in the business world with outstanding achievements, have seen their careers collapse because of blind arrogance. Some, having achieved success and fame and being able to live a carefree and without worries (无忧无虑, wu you wu lü - "not, worry, not, care") old age, have instead, through self-inflation, failed to preserve their integrity in their later years. Cases of this kind are many different kinds (不一而足, bu yi er zu - "not, one, and, sufficient") — they cannot be enumerated one by one.
The word "caution" means prudence and care. As a way of self-cultivation, caution is indeed necessary. Generally speaking, when people are at a low point in life, most are able to be fairly cautious. Du Xunhe of the Tang Dynasty once wrote in a poem: "The rocks of the Jingxi River are dangerous, and people tread carefully; all year long, one hears of no one overturning. Yet it is on the level, rock-free stretches that from time to time one hears tell of people sinking." When one is in adversity, everyone becomes alert, and every step is taken with care. What truly tests a person is precisely the moment when things are going well and smoothly. Through the ages, many people have not been defeated by desperate straits or adversity, but have been defeated by favorable circumstances.
Caution is certainly not shrinking back and doing nothing, nor is it being hesitant and indecisive (瞻前顾后, zhan qian gu hou - "look, front, look, back") when matters arise, daring not to take responsibility. True caution means not becoming inflated when things go well, not becoming complacent in favorable circumstances, being able to hold the bottom line in the face of temptation, being able to recognize oneself clearly amid a chorus of praise, and, when all things are proceeding smoothly, still being able to hold fast to a humble, self-examining heart.
In former times, what Li Bai called "enjoy to the fullest" merely advocated drinking a bit more wine; what some people today call"enjoy to the fullest," however, is manifested in extreme greed and indulgence — the result is not only that they have harshly "destroyed to the fullest" their own lives, but more seriously, they have severely damaged the interests of the Party and the people. In this sense, caution is both a form of cultivation and a virtue, and even more so, a warning.
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I have ingrown toenails. The curvature of my toenails is too shallow to cover the big toes properly, so they grow into the flesh on either side. It looks like a trivial matter, but when it hurts, it cuts to the bone.
When I was a child, I had never heard of pedicure services; I always dealt with it myself. Every spring, when feet that had been wrapped up all winter were freed from their shoes and it was time to go to the fields for farm work, the ingrown toenails would flare up once the feet were soaked in water. Both big toes would swell up like carrots, and walking hurt so much I would grimace with every step.
My mother found a broken piece of porcelain bowl, knocked off a shard to expose a gleaming white cutting edge, and helped me shave down the toenails on both toes. That porcelain shard was extremely sharp. With each scrape, a white streak appeared on the brownish-yellow nail, and the more she shaved, the thinner it got—until it was thin enough that pressing a finger on it would make the nail dent inward, and releasing it would let it spring back. Mother said that shaving it thin would let it breathe, and then it wouldn't hurt. That method worked a little, but it never lasted long.
It flared up several times a year, and when I grew truly fed up, I always wanted to find a permanent solution to the problem (一劳永逸, yi lao yong yi - "one, labor, forever, one"). Watching my elder brother shave his beard one day, I suddenly had an idea. I took a razor blade, cut a slit along the edge of the toenail, pried it outward until it could be gripped with pliers, then yanked it out with a sudden pull—amid everyone's startled cries, a small piece of nail with bits of flesh attached came out. Working both sides in turn, doing this twice, I could guarantee no flare-up for one spring. It hurt, truly hurt, but accepting short-term pain to avoid long-term suffering (长痛不如短痛, chang tong bu ru duan tong - "long, pain, not, as, short, pain") was the better choice.
Over the years, I found a decent pedicure shop. The owner was thin and small, with a simple, honest look. The shop was small—a single storefront facing the street, two pedicure chairs, and a few wooden basins for soaking feet. The first time I walked in, the owner went inside, brought out a basin of hot water, and had me put my feet in to soak. After a while, he carried a small case over and sat down in front of me, took out a brownish-yellow cloth bundle from it, picked out a knife, and prepared to work on my feet.
Looking at that brownish-yellow cloth, I grew uneasy. The knife in his hand had pared calluses, trimmed ingrown nails, and scraped dead skin off countless people—how much bacteria must be on it?
"Hey, master, hold on." I called out. He looked a bit taken aback. "Was this knife sterilized?" "It was," he said with certainty. "We're a dedicated pedicure place; we strictly sterilize everything every time." With that, he took a bottle from the case and sprayed it over the knife in his hand and my feet with a few hisses. "Don't worry, we're afraid of bacteria too. Being responsible to the customer is also being responsible to myself."
He was very professional at his work. A single squeeze of my toes told him I had ingrown toenails. His handiwork was even better. When digging out the ingrown nail, he gripped my toe tightly and worked inward with fine, careful strokes. I could feel the knife moving, but there was no strong pain. After he finished, he held up a small piece of nail with blood on it and said, "It's this thing—only when it's dug out is the job done." I, of course, knew full well how "vicious" that little piece was, and I agreed with him from the bottom of my heart.
After several visits, I learned from the shop owner's fragmentary remarks that he came from a small mountain village in Jiangxi. At home he had an ailing elderly mother and two children still in school; his wife stayed home to care for the old and the young, and he earned money outside to support the family with his pedicure skill.
I said with genuine feeling, "Pedicure is a very fine craft." He smiled. "This doesn't count as a craft. The work is small, but it takes care. Everyone who comes in is a repeat customer; if I'm careless, I'll lose my livelihood." He said it lightly, but I found it very sensible and also very profound. Thinking about it, most people in this world do small things. Some are willing to spend a lifetime at them, and once they've done them until they're familiar and fine, it becomes a livelihood—a way to make a living and to stand on one's own feet.
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On the weekend, I accompanied a friend to visit the Wu Jingzi Memorial Hall in Quanjiao County, Chuzhou, Anhui, my hometown. We arrived too early, and the memorial hall had not yet opened, so we stood at the door waiting. Suddenly, a rich aroma drifted into our nostrils. Following the scent, we stepped forward and found a stall selling baked flatbreads. We immediately bought two to try. My friend picked one up and bit into it — a crisp "crack" sounded, and fine, flaky crumbs fell like snowflakes. He exclaimed repeatedly in admiration: "Fragrant, crispy, and sweet, crumbling into bits at the slightest touch — what kind of divine baked flatbread is this?"
The stall owner smiled at this and said: "This is called 'huo pai'!" My friend, his mouth stuffed with flatbread, mumbled: "Huo pai? Huo as in 'to burn fire,' pai as in 'to play cards'?" I explained with a smile: "In the eastern Anhui dialect it sounds like 'huo pai,' but the written form is 'hu pai.' Look at its shape — it is a perfect replica of the hu tablet held by ancient court officials when attending the imperial court. This is an old-style pastry from the Chuzhou area."
When I was a child, I would always pester my parents to take me to the market fair, mostly for the sake of this crispy hu pai. The impression that remains deepest is the time I accompanied a classmate to Zhoujiagang, more than 20 li away, to make a phone call. After finishing, my classmate clutched two mao in his hand and slapped them boldly on the stall table: "Four hu pai!" We stood in front of the stall and impatiently or eagerly (迫不及待, po bu ji dai - "not, can, not, wait") each ate one, then carefully tucked the remaining two into a coarse cloth pocket, gently pressing them with our palms, afraid that the jostling of the walk would shatter the layers of flaky crust.
The stall owner, while deftly kneading dough, explained the finer points to us in detail: "A seemingly simple piece of hu pai is all fine craftsmanship — if a single step is not done right, you cannot bake out the distinctly layered flaky crust. You need to prepare warm water, rapeseed oil, white sugar, and white sesame seeds in advance." As he spoke, he picked up the dough on the cutting board and made one on the spot. First, he kneaded the oil skin: flour mixed with warm water and a little rapeseed oil, kneaded repeatedly until the dough was smooth, non-sticky, and free of cracks — only then was it qualified. Then he prepared the oil pastry: rapeseed oil mixed with flour and stirred into a paste-like oil pastry, the consistency of which had to be just right. Next came layering the flaky crust: the oil skin was rolled out, wrapped around the prepared oil pastry, and folded and rolled flat repeatedly like folding a folding fan, ultimately forming more than 20 layers of flaky crust as thin as cicada wings. Then came shaping and decorating, and finally the oven for slow baking. When baked to the right degree, the oil fully permeated the flaky layers, and the sesame seeds turned golden and fragrant — only then was it finished. Then, using the residual heat of the oven, it was left to simmer for a long while, and the crispness was taken to another level. This is the secret of hu pai's crisp, crumbly texture.
Eating hu pai also has its proper way. A freshly baked hu pai has fragrant toasted sesame, a loose and crisp crust, and the wheat aroma, oil fragrance, and sweetness blend together in the mouth — crisp yet not falling apart, crunchy yet not hard on the teeth. One should take small, gentle bites and chew slowly and carefully. If one wolfes it down, not only will one fail to appreciate its merits, but one will also end up with crumbs all over one's face. After finishing the hu pai, drinking a cup of Chuzhou tribute chrysanthemum tea is a perfect match.
The morning breeze carried the unique toasted aroma of hu pai as it drifted slowly away, and another wave of customers gathered around, drawn by the scent.
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The dendrobium has bloomed,
opening one flower every two or three days,
perhaps one every three or four days.
It blooms in a calm and unhurried manner (不慌不忙, bu huang bu mang - "not panic, not hurried"),
it blooms at a leisurely and steady pace (不紧不慢, bu jin bu man - "not tight, not slow"),
blooming slowly, and fading slowly too,
so every day is a day with flowers.
On days with flowers,
the atmosphere at home is different,
as if there is one more family member.
This family member cannot speak,
nor does it rank people by seniority or status (论资排辈, lun zi pai bei - "discuss seniority, arrange generation"),
but it brings beautiful days.
Flower lovers say,
if no one sends you flowers,
buy some for yourself.
I thought about it for a long time,
the flowers that truly belong to oneself
are not bought, not given,
but grown by oneself.
I love the flowers I grow myself,
we grow together.
Flowers remember people, people remember flowers,
and in the heart there is a garden.
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The Limit of Heat had arrived, but Pema Dondrup had not.
White Dew had arrived, but Pema Dondrup still had not.
That morning, the morning breeze blew in along the valley, a small stream flowed down from the mountainside, and the grand scenery of blue sky, white clouds, forest, pasture, yaks, and horses flipped past the window frame by frame.
"Ah, Zala Village!" "Ah, Cuojiu Village!" "Ah, Jieba Village!" The distinctive village names along the way triggered a collective chorus of "much ado about nothing." Amid the cries of surprise all along the route, we arrived at a stretch of open meadow. The green mountains on both banks seemed like arms sheltering the meadow, and a river of clear water seemed like the umbilical cord nourishing it. Kobresia grass, cinquefoil, and chrysanthemum-leaved groundsel spread out into a colorful carpet. Our task on this trip was to ride horses from this end of the meadow to see Xincuo Lake at the other end.
"Welcome to Luochi Village!" Only after seeing me sit steadily on the horse's back did the "groom" timidly offer his first greeting. He was a youth; the wind, rain, and blazing sun of the plateau had carved clear marks on his cheeks, yet his face still showed a hint of unweathered childishness.
"The villages along the way all have impressive names. Why is your village called Luochi?"
"Our village is not ordinary either." He said "luo" means crops, and "chi" means throne. Legend has it that this is a land of treasure, and so every year the five grains ripen in abundance.
But I only saw the meadow, not the crops. Seeing my puzzlement, he pointed his finger diagonally toward the right front. Sure enough, there was a patch of gold there. It was highland barley. The bright sunlight made the barley shine.
"Look at that wind!" I was suddenly startled, then understood. The August plateau wind, carrying the breath of the Yarlung Tsangpo River, rushed along the river valley into this field of barley. The barley at the edge knew of the wind's arrival first, unable to resist dancing with joy, setting off a stretch of barley swaying in succession, instantly igniting a full-field spectacle of wind stirring the grain waves.
Amid our walking and talking, sand buggies occasionally sped past us. "Vroom—" On the bumpy gravel road rose waves of shouts and laughter, one after another. "Vroom—" Tossing back waves of flying hair or fluttering skirts. "These vehicles, and the horse you're riding, are both quite extraordinary." By the time he said this, we were already sitting by the shore of Xincuo Lake.
The lake surface was fresh and vast. Clouds drifted across the lake, and wind blew in from the sea of forest. The wind at this moment was the gentlest wisp. A red dragonfly on a lousewort, caressed by the wind, its thin wings trembling slightly, and its slender tail tip could not help but give a little tap. The swarm of bees in the purple gentian stamens, all brushed by the wind, their fuzz slightly fluffed, and the continuous hum sang out along the wind's trajectory.
He said that Luochi Village used to be an "idle" village—the mountains idle, the water idle, the people idle. Later, the government renovated the road from Jieba Village to Luochi Village, guided all 93 households in the village to pool funds to purchase 93 sand buggies and 93 horses, established a village shareholding economic cooperative, and uniformly developed various tourism projects for Xincuo Lake. In 2025, a collective economic income dividend distribution meeting was held, issuing annual dividend funds of 4.3 million yuan to all villagers. As he spoke, he again pointed his finger diagonally toward the right front.
He reminded me once more: "Look at that wind!" So I saw the wind again. It was making a rustling sound rise with the wind, scattering blessings to all things on the plateau.
After his two hints, I finally understood that what he wanted me to realize was that some forces are like the wind—seemingly invisible, yet never absent.
During our conversation, I learned that his family of five had more than 50 horses and over 60 yaks; together with the village dividends, they were entirely a well-off family. I asked him: "If the wind were to know, what is your wish?" He said this year's wish was to pass the exam, in accordance with policy, to be admitted to a high school in Chongqing or Chengdu, and his more distant ideal was to enlist in the military. For this reason, even while helping his parents tend the horses during the summer vacation, he insisted on studying foreign languages and watching the news every day. I was very curious as to why he had such wishes.
"Look again." Following his finger, what I saw was a slogan. Pure red large characters, set amid the green mountains and clear waters of the plateau: Follow the North Star and you will not lose your way; follow the Communist Party and you will find happiness. I understood in an instant that belief is a kind of strength. Although it is always invisible, it will catch all the expectations you never voiced aloud.
I added him on WeChat, learned his name was "Pema Dondrup," and agreed that if he got into a school in Chongqing, I would treat him to hotpot. Later, he was admitted to a local high school in Nyingchi. I believe this is just the wind turning a corner; it does not mean it will not arrive.
So, I sent him a text message: "Please believe in the wind."
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