Summary: The article highlights the role of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought in guiding China's efforts to build a culturally strong nation, following the publication of *Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture* and the 2023 National Conference on Publicity, Ideological and Cultural Work. It reports on Xi Jinping's statements emphasizing cultural vitality through innovation, the integration of tradition and modernity, and the need to promote Chinese culture globally. The piece details initiatives such as nationwide reading, cultural heritage protection, and the growth of cultural industries, including film, tourism, and technology-driven crafts. It also notes Xi Jinping's visit to the Grand Egyptian Museum during a trip to Egypt, where he framed China-Egypt ties as a dialogue between civilizations. The article concludes that cultural confidence and innovation are providing spiritual strength for Chinese modernization.
Summary: China marked the 70th anniversary of its space industry, tracing its origins to the Fifth Research Academy established in 1956 and highlighting milestones from Dongfanghong-1 to the Chang'e-6 lunar far-side sample return. The article details advancements in Tianzhou cargo spacecraft capabilities, including "late-loading cargo" innovations, and emphasizes the meticulous engineering behind the Chang'e-6 mission's sampling and sealing processes. It underscores China's commitment to international cooperation, citing the joint development of Pakistan's cubesat, payload hosting on Chang'e-6, and plans for broader collaboration with over 50 countries. The piece concludes by framing China's space achievements as embodying self-reliance, open cooperation, and a shared vision for humanity's exploration of the universe.
Summary: The article reports on Shanxi Province's development of distinctive, high-quality agriculture through organic dry farming, highlighting the use of new technologies and standards. It cites General Secretary Xi Jinping's May 2020 instruction that Shanxi's agricultural future lies in "specialty" and "excellence," which the province has pursued by building an organic dry-farming standards system and pilot zones. Officials and experts, including Wang Juanling, Yao Jiguang, and Sun Jingmin, describe efforts to raise yields, reduce pesticide use, and promote brands like "Qinzhouhuang" millet and "Datong Daylily." The province has created 43 demonstration zones, introduced over 900 drought-resistant varieties, and expanded organic dry-farming bases to 1.6 million mu. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports that demand for two-way freight flows on the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor has been robust this year, with the Sichuan-Chongqing region and Beibu Gulf ports closely linked. As of October 6, container transport volume of China-Europe freight trains on the corridor exceeded 1 million twenty-foot equivalent units, strengthening the corridor's capacity for ensuring smooth and uninterrupted passage. This provides strong transport capacity support for the stable development of the foreign trade economy in the southwest region. The photo shows a Land-Sea Trade Corridor train departing from Tuanjiecun Station of the Chongqing International Logistics Hub Park on October 7. The photo was taken by Guo Jin (Image China).
Summary: The article is a policy Q&A on China's elderly care service consumption vouchers, a fiscal subsidy for disabled elderly people that has benefited over 2.46 million people as of October 7. An official from the Ministry of Civil Affairs explained that eligible seniors with moderate or higher disability levels can apply based on their current place of residence, with no reassessment needed if assessed after July 2024. The vouchers must be used in the month issued and can offset costs for home-based, institutional, or day care services provided by institutions in the official database, including formal caregiver hires. To increase supply, civil affairs departments are encouraging more institutions to join the program, with localities like Shanghai and Shandong optimizing entry processes or issuing policies to attract participants.
Summary: During this year's National Day holiday, the Ministry of Transport reported that the transportation industry operated stably and orderly, with cumulative cross-regional movement of people across society expected to reach 2.144 billion person-trips from October 1 to 7, averaging 306 million daily. Highway travel remained the primary mode, with cumulative highway movement expected at 1.9642 billion person-trips, including commercial passenger volume of 286.76 million, up 6.8% year-on-year. Railway passenger volume is expected to reach 152.36 million person-trips, up 13.1% year-on-year, while waterway volume is expected at 10.99 million, up 7.8%, and civil aviation volume at 16.95 million, essentially flat year-on-year.
Summary: According to the National Energy Administration, power trading institutions across China completed a cumulative trading volume of 5,180 billion kilowatt-hours in the first eight months of this year, up 19.2% year-on-year. In August, trading volume reached 754.8 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 15.2%. Intra-provincial trading volume was 563.8 billion kilowatt-hours, up 16.0%, while inter-provincial and inter-regional trading volume was 191.0 billion kilowatt-hours, up 11.4%. Medium- and long-term trading volume stood at 681.9 billion kilowatt-hours, spot trading at 72.9 billion kilowatt-hours, and green power trading at 26.4 billion kilowatt-hours, up 7.7% year-on-year.
Summary: The article presents the ninth edition of "The Fundamental Guide for Accelerating the Building of a Socialist Cultural Power," a theoretical piece, alongside a seventeenth edition of "In-Depth Observation" featuring a piece titled "'Dream Chasers' in the Depths of the Sand Sea." The content focuses on theoretical guidance for cultural development within a socialist framework. No specific official statements or accompanying figures are reported in the provided text. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Nell Calloway, granddaughter of Flying Tigers commander General Chennault and director of the Chennault Aviation Military Museum in the United States, recounted her admiration for President Xi Jinping's emphasis on American-Chinese friendship and people-to-people exchanges. She recalled President Xi's September 2023 reply letter to Flying Tigers veterans, which stressed that the sound and stable development of Sino-American relations requires the participation of Flying Tigers members of the new era and that the Flying Tigers spirit should be passed down between the two peoples. Calloway said the Flying Tigers remain a bridge connecting the friendship between the American and Chinese peoples, and she has been committed to telling their story and promoting people-to-people and cultural exchanges. She attended the September 2025 Beijing conference commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, where she was deeply moved by the spirit of remembering history and cherishing peace. Calloway praised President Xi Jinping for leading the Chinese people to achieve tremendous development accomplishments and expressed admiration for his four major global initiatives, which she said promote cooperation, improve people's lives, and advance peaceful development.
Summary: The article argues that global artificial intelligence development requires open cooperation, security and controllability, and inclusive governance to benefit all humanity. It highlights President Xi Jinping's calls for maintaining human control over AI, promoting people-centered development, and helping Global South countries bridge the digital and intelligence divide. China announced it will provide 5,000 AI training places for developing countries over five years and build international AI application cooperation centers with ASEAN, the Arab League, the African Union, and other regional organizations. The author, the Executive Dean of the National Security Research Institute of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, concludes that the international community must build consensus to ensure AI develops in an upward, good, and beneficial direction.
Summary: Russian scholar Alexander Lomanov said the Bishkek Summit consolidated consensus, with the SCO's "circle of friends" growing and cooperation foundations solidifying. He praised the "Shanghai Spirit" for uniting diverse countries and guiding non-aligned, non-confrontational cooperation. Lomanov endorsed President Xi Jinping's "four upholdings" as aligned with major global initiatives, boosting cooperation in trade, investment, and AI. He noted Xi's advocacy for an equal and orderly multipolar world at the "Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus" meeting, highlighting China's major-country responsibility amid rising Cold War mentality and governance deficits. Lomanov urged member states to work together with the Global South to advance world peace and development.
Summary: In an interview with People's Daily, Sutindra Kulkarni, founder and chairman of India's "New South Asia Forum," said the BRICS cooperation mechanism has developed into a "Big BRICS" with 11 member states and 10 partner countries, reflecting developing countries' aspirations for a more just international order. He argued that multipolarity is accelerating and that BRICS countries must unite against hegemonic acts such as unilateral sanctions and technological blockades, while emphasizing the mechanism is not a bloc targeting any country. Kulkarni praised China's role in promoting BRICS institutional building, including the New Development Bank and the "BRICS Plus" model, and said President Xi Jinping's "four pioneers" proposal at the New Delhi BRICS Summit boosted the resolve and confidence of BRICS nations. He noted that Xi's bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Modi injected momentum into India-China relations, which are moving from "setting out anew" to "achieving further improvement." Kulkarni expressed hope that the BRICS Summit to be held in China next year will become a new milestone in BRICS cooperation.
Summary: The article reports on the completion of the China-aided Togo Rural Water Supply Project, which drilled 305 wells in the Plateau Region, benefiting over 170,000 residents and ending long treks to fetch water. Project manager Huang Xianzhou described challenges including difficult terrain, high temperatures, and deep bedrock aquifers, which the Chinese technical team addressed using multiple geological detection methods. Local employees like drilling rig operator Yao received training, gaining professional skills, while the project also trained local maintenance personnel for long-term operation. Chinese Ambassador to Togo Wang Min stated the project is a symbol of China-Togo friendship, and Governor Daga Maganawe called it a mutually beneficial win-win situation deepening bilateral relations.
Summary: Russian Presidential Aide and Maritime Board Chairman Patrushev will visit China from October 8 to 13, as announced by a Foreign Ministry spokesperson on October 7. Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, will hold talks and exchanges with him.
Summary: Malaysia hosted the Global Civilization Initiative High-Level Forum and Confucian-Islamic Civilization Cultural Festival in Kuala Lumpur, with over 500 participants from Malaysia, China, and other countries and regions exchanging views on civilizational dialogue and cultural exchange. Malaysian Minister of Higher Education Zambry, representing Prime Minister Anwar, read out a keynote speech in which Anwar said the Global Civilization Initiative has important practical significance amid frequent conflicts and divisions, citing the Confucian concept of seeking harmony despite differences to call for building bridges rather than high walls. Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia Ouyang Yujing said the initiative has become a global consensus and that China is willing to work with Malaysia to promote Confucian-Islamic civilizational dialogue and practice the initiative. Chen Jiaxing, chairman of the Malaysia Strategic Research Institute, said the initiative emphasizes respect for civilizational diversity and provides a broader platform for dialogue and cooperation. The event also featured 12 interactive cultural booths and an international think tank dialogue on the initiative.
Summary: The article highlights General Secretary Xi Jinping's emphasis on the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics, using Yan'an apples as a case study of financial services supporting the real economy and rural revitalization. It details how financial innovations like "Sapling Loans," "Fruit Storage Loans," and apple futures have strengthened, filled gaps in, and extended the apple industry chain, boosting output value and farmer incomes. The piece underscores adherence to deepening financial supply-side structural reform and a people-centered value orientation, citing Xi's directives on inclusive finance and solving loan difficulties for farmers. It notes that one out of every ten apples in the country is produced in Yan'an, with the industry chain's total output value exceeding 60 billion yuan. The article concludes that financial support must ultimately benefit the people, with financial culture with Chinese characteristics taking root in Yan'an.
Summary: The article reports on improved new energy vehicle charging infrastructure in China during the National Day holiday, noting that flash charging and fast charging have entered the minute-level energy replenishment stage and that a single battery swap at mainstream swap stations takes only a few minutes. It cites data showing that in the first three days of the holiday, charging sessions on national expressways totaled 2,968,600, up 48.41% year-on-year, while charging volume reached 71,619,300 kilowatt-hours, up 49.39%. The piece highlights that "range anxiety" has been alleviated, with new energy vehicle traffic up 35% year-on-year but the number of especially busy service areas down 17%, attributing this to improved vehicle performance and accelerated charging network construction. Jian Xiaorong, research director at the China Automotive Strategy and Policy Research Center, is quoted analyzing the tidal supply-demand mismatch during holidays and suggesting measures such as off-peak charging and route planning. The article also notes that by 2030, China's charging infrastructure will exceed 40 million units, with approximately 300,000 high-power charging facilities.
Summary: The article reports on bustling port activity during the National Day holiday as China's foreign trade surges, highlighting strong throughput at major ports including Shanghai's Yangshan Deep-Water Port, Qinzhou Port in Guangxi, and Dalian Container Terminal in Liaoning. It cites official statistics showing China's total import and export value of goods trade increased by 17.6% year on year in the first eight months of this year, with foreign trade throughput up 2.8%. The piece quotes port officials such as Huang Hua, chief remote operator of Shangdong Branch Company of Shanghai International Port Group, and Qiu Li, shift manager of Dalian Container Terminal, on intelligent scheduling and high operating volumes. It also details ongoing port upgrades, including construction at Shanghai Port's third automated terminal and new automated berths at Qinzhou Port, noting that 60 automated terminals are now operational nationwide. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Yiwu, Zhejiang, has reduced work safety accidents and deaths by 97.8% and 93.5% respectively from 2006 to 2025 while GDP grew sixfold, through source governance, smart fire systems, and a four-tier emergency response structure. The city deployed 14 town/street emergency fire general stations, 129 district sub-stations, and 2,565 grid micro-stations, achieving a 100% success rate in initial fire disposal, and has built a citywide "Safety Brain" platform connecting 19 business systems of 10 departments. Gong Shujuan, member of the Standing Committee of the Yiwu Municipal Party Committee and executive vice mayor, said the city has walked a path of rapid economic development, effective risk prevention, and social safety and stability. In June this year, the Ministry of Emergency Management issued Yiwu's experience as a positive typical case for the national emergency management system in establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements.
Summary: The article reports from Hejiachong Village in Luoshan County, Henan Province, where an 800-year-old ginkgo tree known as the "Red Army Tree" marks the departure point of the 25th Red Army's Long March on November 16, 1934. Docent Li Xingjie and new recruit Bao Jinghong are quoted, with Bao vowing to carry on the red bloodline and walk the Long March road of the new era. Local authorities have restored the He Family Ancestral Hall and former hospital site, creating a memorial hall and red education base, while villager He Guiying, great-granddaughter of "Auntie He," recounts her ancestor's story of saving a wounded Red Army soldier. Luoshan County has built the Long March Memorial Square and the Red Dabie No. 1 Tourist Road, linking over 20 red heritage sites and drawing visitors. Guesthouse owner Li Jun describes the village's transformation into a tourism hub with over 120 registered guesthouses, noting the ginkgo tree's miraculous survival and new shoots as a symbol of resilience.
Summary: The article discusses the dialectical relationship between "tough battles" and "protracted battles" in advancing work, drawing on an example of elevator installation in old residential communities. It warns against two tendencies: turning tough battles into "blitz assaults" that lack long-term mechanisms, and dragging protracted battles into "wars of attrition" characterized by indecision. It emphasizes that tough battles require concentrated strength to open up the situation, while protracted battles require consolidating achievements and improving institutions over time, citing Shanghai's decades-long old-housing renovation as an example. The piece concludes that success requires both the sharpness to tackle tough problems and enduring tenacity, testing boldness and steadfastness respectively.
Summary: Chengzi Lake Ecological Island in Longji Town, Sihong County, Jiangsu Province, is one of the first eight "ecological island" pilot test areas in Jiangsu Province. The locality holds fast to the bottom line of ecological protection, continuously enriches cultural tourism formats, and transforms ecological beauty into tourism advantages. The photo shows tourists enjoying a traditional cultural performance on Chengzi Lake Ecological Island, celebrating the National Day holiday. Photo by Liu Ye (People's Vision).
Summary: The article highlights the role of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought in guiding China's efforts to build a culturally strong nation, following the publication of *Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture* and the 2023 National Conference on Publicity, Ideological and Cultural Work. It reports on Xi Jinping's statements emphasizing cultural vitality through innovation, the integration of tradition and modernity, and the need to promote Chinese culture globally. The piece details initiatives such as nationwide reading, cultural heritage protection, and the growth of cultural industries, including film, tourism, and technology-driven crafts. It also notes Xi Jinping's visit to the Grand Egyptian Museum during a trip to Egypt, where he framed China-Egypt ties as a dialogue between civilizations. The article concludes that cultural confidence and innovation are providing spiritual strength for Chinese modernization.
Summary: The article highlights China's growing role in global sports and culture, citing Chinese enterprises and media handling core projects at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games and Chinese suppliers at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. It traces China's transformation from a "producer of goods" to an "enabler of development," with its industrial system stabilizing global supply chains and its cultural values gaining recognition abroad. The piece also notes China's shift from a "participant in rules" to a "leader in concepts," referencing President Xi Jinping's proposal for a global AI governance system. It concludes by emphasizing Xi's call to present a "credible, lovable, and respectable image of China," defined by mutual benefit and sincere cooperation.
Summary: The article argues that the scarcity of the Chinese market stems from its economic "stability," which is a dynamic equilibrium rather than static, evidenced by low inflation and reliable power supply compared to global volatility. It attributes this stability to institutional advantages, citing Chongqing's Dadukou District as a case where government planning and market forces jointly developed a high-end motorcycle industry. The piece emphasizes the combination of an effective market and a proactive government as a key principle for the 15th Five-Year Plan period. It also highlights Hefei's cadre mindset of long-term industrial investment over speculation, rooted in strategic resolve and confidence in the Chinese path. The article concludes that this stability, reinforced by correct strategy, will enable China's economy to proceed steadily and far.
Summary: The article discusses the preservation of Chinese dialects, highlighting the opening of the China Language Resources Protection Project exhibition hall in Changsha, Hunan, which showcases dialects and minority languages through digital and immersive displays. It argues that dialects face extinction due to family education concepts and living environment changes, while emphasizing that promoting the national common language and protecting dialect culture can coexist without conflict, as stated by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council. The commentary advocates for using AI and innovative carriers like games, films, and cultural products to activate dialect vitality, citing examples such as *Black Myth: Wukong* and the TV drama *Protagonist*. It calls for integrating dialects into daily life through family, schools, and communities to safeguard cultural roots, and stresses the importance of retaining regional culture in urbanization to avoid cities all looking identical.
Summary: The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and other departments jointly issued the "Implementation Plan for Adhering to the Priority Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas and Improving the Investment Mechanism for Rural Revitalization," which makes arrangements in six areas, including fiscal and bond measures, around improving the pattern of diversified investment. The plan aims to broaden funding sources in the fields of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, and to improve the pattern in which fiscal funds provide priority guarantees, financial resources are given key support, and society participates actively. This is framed as an important safeguard for enhancing the effectiveness of policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit rural areas, and enrich farmers, and for supporting economic and social development. The article concludes with a poem celebrating agricultural policies and abundant harvests.
Summary: The article, excerpted from *Liaoning Daily*, praises grassroots mediation staff in Liaoning who followed up with a farming household after a pesticide-drift dispute was settled, emphasizing that closing a case does not end the need for care. It argues that while rule-based procedures are essential, post-resolution attention to agreement performance and neighborly relations is crucial to preventing recurrence. The piece advises return visits at key points and early dialogue to address lingering emotions or misunderstandings. It concludes that true conflict mediation is measured by repaired neighborhood relationships, with warmth in grassroots governance shown through attentiveness to "what happened afterward."
Summary: The article uses Chinese ultramarathon runner Zhao Jiaju's victory and earlier withdrawal to illustrate the principle of "knowing when to stop" in sports and life. It argues that exercise requires steady, orderly progress and reading the body's signals, rather than pushing oneself recklessly. The essay extends this philosophy to cultural inheritance, warning against the distortion of classics through "AI-remade" videos, and to governance, criticizing leading cadres who blindly take on debt and launch projects. It concludes that acting after knowing when to stop means knowing reverence for laws, rules, and discipline, especially for Party members and cadres. The piece emphasizes that only by respecting limits can one move steadily and go far.
Summary: The article highlights Inner Mongolia's efforts to cultivate a sense of community for the Chinese nation, following General Secretary Xi Jinping's June 2023 guidance during an inspection tour. It showcases grassroots initiatives like the "Red Satchel" education base and Ulan Muqir performances, which promote ethnic unity and services for all ethnic groups. The piece also recounts the historical "three thousand orphans entering Inner Mongolia" story as a symbol of pluralistic unity, and describes community activities fostering exchanges and integration. Additionally, it covers desertification control and common-prosperity projects, such as the shantung tree base and the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program, which have improved ecology and livelihoods. The article concludes by emphasizing that people of all ethnic groups in Inner Mongolia are uniting to write a new chapter of ethnic unity and shared development.
Summary: Zhang Ping, principal of Yanshan Caiyi Culture and Art Training School in Yunnan, took children from the mountains to win a gold award at a national dance competition at the Central Academy of Drama's Changping campus. A decade ago, she left her job as a dance choreographer in Beijing with her husband Guan Yu, a ballet teacher at the Beijing Dance Academy, to launch the "Caiyun Plan" in Nadu Village, volunteering to teach left-behind children to dance. Over ten years, the couple has helped more than 90 children from the mountains enter professional art institutions, with children calling them "Amei" and "Aba." They also turned to preserving the Zhuang grass horse dance, restoring movements, costumes, and props with help from Zhang Ping's mother, and using coarse hemp to replace brittle straw. The once-endangered intangible cultural heritage dance has become popular among children, and Zhang Ping invited university teachers to teach in the village to carry forward these ancient arts.
Summary: China marked the 70th anniversary of its space industry, tracing its origins to the Fifth Research Academy established in 1956 and highlighting milestones from Dongfanghong-1 to the Chang'e-6 lunar far-side sample return. The article details advancements in Tianzhou cargo spacecraft capabilities, including "late-loading cargo" innovations, and emphasizes the meticulous engineering behind the Chang'e-6 mission's sampling and sealing processes. It underscores China's commitment to international cooperation, citing the joint development of Pakistan's cubesat, payload hosting on Chang'e-6, and plans for broader collaboration with over 50 countries. The piece concludes by framing China's space achievements as embodying self-reliance, open cooperation, and a shared vision for humanity's exploration of the universe.
Summary: The article reports on Shanxi Province's development of distinctive, high-quality agriculture through organic dry farming, highlighting the use of new technologies and standards. It cites General Secretary Xi Jinping's May 2020 instruction that Shanxi's agricultural future lies in "specialty" and "excellence," which the province has pursued by building an organic dry-farming standards system and pilot zones. Officials and experts, including Wang Juanling, Yao Jiguang, and Sun Jingmin, describe efforts to raise yields, reduce pesticide use, and promote brands like "Qinzhouhuang" millet and "Datong Daylily." The province has created 43 demonstration zones, introduced over 900 drought-resistant varieties, and expanded organic dry-farming bases to 1.6 million mu. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Guangdong has issued new measures for cultivating and managing craftsman talent, clarifying five aspects: "who cultivates, whom to cultivate, how to cultivate, how to manage, and how to guarantee." The measures aim to cultivate approximately 1,000 Nanyue craftsmen and approximately 6,000 municipal-level craftsmen by 2035, drawing targets primarily from new quality productive forces and focusing on key, advantageous, and distinctive industries. Cultivation targets will undergo dynamic tracking, assessment, and evaluation, with certificates issued upon passing a comprehensive assessment. The measures also improve the "master-apprentice" mentoring mechanism, requiring craftsman talent to participate in technological innovation and tackle key technical problems, with relevant departments creating favorable conditions for their role.
Summary: Fushun, an old industrial city in Liaoning, has renovated 191 old residential communities, improving living conditions for 100,000 households. Jiang Chen, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Yong'antai Subdistrict, Xinfu District, said the city previously drafted plans before soliciting residents' opinions, but did not fully understand what the people needed most. To address this, thousands of Party members and cadres conducted door-to-door visits to survey needs and devise custom-made renovation plans for each community. Grassroots cadres, including grid workers and first secretaries, remain on the front line to respond to residents' demands and resolve conflicts. Wang Duanli, Secretary of the Dongzhou District Party Committee, emphasized that renovation must also rally public morale and make urban life warmer.
Summary: During the National Day holiday, multiple major projects across China achieved new milestones in energy and transportation. In the energy sector, the Gonghe million-kilowatt photovoltaic and solar thermal project in Qinghai was connected to the grid, marking the debut of China's first three-tower solar thermal base, while the country's first 100-megawatt-class compressed carbon dioxide energy storage project completed its initial grid connection in Xinjiang. The Dongfang 1-1 gas field, China's first offshore carbon injection demonstration project, entered commissioning, and the Hade-Fuman oilfield in the Taklamakan Desert surpassed 26 million tons of oil and gas output from below 6,000 meters. Transportation advances included track-laying on the Chengdu-Dazhou-Wanzhou high-speed railway, completion of shield tunneling for the second Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay subsea tunnel, and the holing-through of the Gaoliang Tunnel on the Yan'an-Yulin high-speed railway. These projects are supported by core technologies and domestically produced equipment, reflecting progress in complex environments and independent development. The article highlights how these breakthroughs contribute to high-quality development momentum.
Summary: The article reports on autumn consumption trends across China, highlighting innovative food and beverage offerings, cultural tourism integration, and short-distance travel. It cites examples such as a Nanjing milk tea shop's seasonal drinks, a Shenzhen restaurant featuring Northeastern ingredients, and a Beijing dairy brand's new yogurt products. In Yunnan's Nujiang Prefecture, rice-field tourism and coffee-related businesses are boosting local incomes, with Yangpo Village's turnover exceeding 5.2 million yuan. In Nanjing, hiking routes and new business formats around Laoshan are driving rural tourism, which received 40 million visitors in 2025 with direct consumption of 15.234 billion yuan. The piece frames these developments as responses to the "15th Five-Year Plan" for Expanding Consumption, promoting service consumption quality and people's benefits.
Summary: The Ministry of Commerce reported that during the National Day holiday, the national consumer market remained stable overall, with ample daily necessities and stable prices. From October 1 to 6, trade-in-for-new programs benefited 6.392 million person-times, driving sales of 33.48 billion yuan, including 68,000 automobiles and 2.848 million home appliances traded in. Key-monitored pedestrian streets saw passenger flow and business turnover rise by 2.5% and 4.7% year-on-year, respectively. Demand for smart, green, and healthy goods was strong, with sales of embodied intelligent robots and smart glasses increasing by 1.3 times and 1 time year-on-year. Wholesale markets had ample inventory, with grain and fruit prices basically flat and egg, vegetable, and pork prices falling slightly.
Summary: Workers at a xiangyunsha drying base in Longxu District, Wuzhou City, Guangxi, took advantage of fine weather on October 6 to dry the fabric. The locality is working hard and deeply in a field on the xiangyunsha industry, extending the industrial chain and driving local people to increase their incomes nearby. This effort turns the ancient craft into a "prosperity gauze" for the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. The photo was taken by He Huawen (Image China).
Summary: According to the latest agricultural situation dispatch from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, as of October 7, the national autumn grain harvest has exceeded 40 percent. Regional progress includes the Huang-Huai-Hai region surpassing half, the Northeast reaching 25 percent, the Southwest exceeding 70 percent, the Northwest approaching 50 percent, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River surpassing half, and the South China region exceeding 20 percent.
Summary: The State Administration for Market Regulation reported that over 2,000 food enterprises have completed deployment of standardized digital food label applications as of the end of August 2026, covering more than 10,000 food varieties with consumer scans exceeding 70,000 person-times in the past 30 days. Consumers can scan commodity QR codes on packaging to view ingredient lists, nutritional content, consumption methods, and production processes, as well as access traceability information and complete payment settlement. The administration organized the China Article Numbering Center to rely on the GS1 global unified identification system, using national standards for commodity barcodes and QR codes to expand food labels from paper to digital applications. Each food product is assigned a globally unique commodity identification code beginning with 69, helping enterprises connect production, circulation, and consumption through standardized digital identities. This initiative opens new space for the food industry's transformation and upgrading and for consumption enhancement and expansion.
Summary: Wangjiang County in Anhui Province has developed a ten-billion-yuan textile and apparel industry centered on children's garments, with over 150,000 people employed and 2025 industry revenue reaching 22.5 billion yuan, up 24% year-on-year. The county, which designated textiles as its pillar industry in 2010, has leveraged coastal industrial relocation and e-commerce growth to transform from an agricultural county into a major production hub. Shenzhou Knitting's deputy party secretary Zhang Cuixia said a new intelligent manufacturing project will boost production efficiency by 40% and annual output by 50 million pieces, while Zhuo Jie, director of the county's Textile and Apparel Industry Development Promotion Center, noted the presence of advanced and basic-level intelligent factories and digital workshops. Deputy county head Liu Zhenghu said the local children's garment cluster was selected for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's first batch of key cultivation targets for specialty industry clusters in central and western China. E-commerce is a major driver, with Zhang Zhitao of Anqing Wanyin E-commerce reporting 120 million yuan in 2025 online sales and 3-day order-to-delivery turnaround, while the county's daily express processing capacity exceeds 800,000 pieces.
Summary: General Secretary Xi Jinping has issued important instructions on normalizing east-west regional cooperation, emphasizing the need to summarize and apply the beneficial experience of the Fujian-Ningxia cooperation. The article reports on the Shanghai-Yunnan cooperation model, focusing on how Shanghai leverages its capital, market, and talent advantages to integrate with Pu'er's ecological resources and coffee industry, transforming Baishapo village into a coffee-themed industrial complex. It details the shift from selling raw beans to a diversified income mechanism, including guaranteed base income, profit dividends, land rent, employment, and entrepreneurship, with villagers becoming baristas, homestay butlers, and business operators. The project has radiated to a 65-square-kilometer production area, driving deep-processing enterprises, standardized estates, and new business forms, with plans for a second-phase expansion to improve the entire industrial chain. The story illustrates how east-west cooperation has empowered rural industrial revitalization, with officials and villagers reporting that coffee now goes from "worrying about sales" to "not enough to sell."
Summary: PetroChina reported record first-half oil and gas equivalent production of 921 million barrels, citing achievements such as a new domestic drilling-cycle record at the Jimsar shale oil demonstration zone and stable output at Huabei Oilfield's Bayan Oilfield. The company emphasized its role as the "main pillar" of energy supply security, detailing efforts to guarantee agricultural fuel supply, support the Pinglu Canal project with nearly 80,000 tons of fuel, and expand natural gas production and storage capacity. PetroChina highlighted growth in gas storage extraction, LNG receiving terminal volumes, and terminal service networks, including coverage of over 180,000 "coal-to-gas" users in Xiong'an New Area. Anchored on "dual carbon" goals, it promoted oil-gas and new energy integration, with wind and solar power generation up 37.3% year-on-year to 5.07 billion kilowatt-hours. The company also accelerated transformation into a comprehensive energy service provider, adding 592 comprehensive energy stations and 18,500 charging guns in the first half.
Summary: Beijing has released a plan to optimize its business environment during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, proposing 29 reform measures across six major environments under the "Beijing Services" goal and "partnership-style" service philosophy. The plan focuses on safeguarding fair market competition, rectifying "involution-style" competition, smoothing market access and exit, and fostering an innovation ecosystem for intelligent-native business formats. It also aims to shape a deeply coordinated Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei business environment, strengthening regional innovation coordination and joint industrial chains. The measures seek to improve cross-regional convenience and promote co-construction and sharing of public services across the three regions.
Summary: Four pension insurance companies launched the Shanghai local-feature commercial pension product "Hu Yang Bao" on September 23, under the guidance of the Office of the Financial Commission of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and the Shanghai Regulatory Bureau of the National Financial Regulatory Administration. PICC Pension Insurance Company Limited incorporated its "Tiexin Suiyue No.9" (three-year rolling)(A-share) commercial pension product into "Hu Yang Bao" for its first issuance, responding to Shanghai's deep aging and policy support for localized pension finance. The product offers enhanced security through superimposed death benefit liability, preferential fees, and flexible withdrawal methods across the accumulation and withdrawal periods. It has attracted Shanghai citizens from various industries, including a retired veteran teacher and an airline staff member, reflecting the product's aim to serve ordinary laborers. PICC Pension will continue to optimize products and services to support Shanghai's pension finance construction and its international financial center goals.
Summary: This article argues that accelerating the building of a strong socialist culture is an inherent requirement of Chinese modernization, an urgent need to meet the people's aspirations for a better life, a requirement for continuing the historical lineage, and a key force for enhancing national cultural soft power. It outlines the goals and basic requirements for building a strong culture, which include forging ideological guiding power, cultivating national spiritual cohesion, enhancing value appeal, and enhancing international influence. The piece provides practical guidelines, emphasizing the need to uphold the Party's leadership, enhance governance capacity in the cultural field under informatization, stimulate cultural innovation and creativity, adhere to people-centered cultural development, continue the Chinese cultural lineage through creative transformation, and enhance national cultural soft power. The author is a researcher at the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.
Summary: The article discusses raising the level of urban opening-up and cooperation, citing General Secretary Xi Jinping's guidance on cities' pivotal role in domestic and international dual circulation. It outlines building platforms for urban opening-up, including hosting major foreign affairs activities and attracting international organizations, with examples like the World Data Organization in Beijing and the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization in Shanghai. It also emphasizes deepening international friendship city exchanges, referencing the "2026 World Mayors' Dialogue · Huangshan" event, and enhancing connectivity efficiency through international gateway hub cities. The piece advocates aligning with high-standard international economic and trade rules, including CPTPP and DEPA, to support institutional opening-up and the Belt and Road Initiative. The author is a researcher at the Zhejiang University City College Base of the Zhejiang Provincial Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.
Summary: The article highlights how matcha and coffee are driving cultural-and-tourism development in two Chinese localities. In Jiangkou County, Guizhou, the Fanjing Matcha Town has attracted over 400,000 tourist visits in three months, with young people forming the majority, and the county has developed 204 matcha food products and 124 matcha beverages, including matcha coffee. In Kunshan, Jiangsu, the coffee industry has generated over 10 billion yuan in revenue in 2025, with more than 1,000 coffee shops and a complete industrial chain, including a roasting capacity set to reach 200,000 tons in 2026. Kunshan received 28.025 million tourist visits in 2025, a 16 percent increase, and has established specialty carriers like a Coffee Industry Creative Center and a Coffee Museum. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article compiles three commentaries from Chinese media. The first discusses how local specialty snacks like Gong'an Guokui and Wa-flavor beef jerky are transforming from "bulk" products into "integrated" industries through standardization, industry associations, and livestreaming, while stressing the need to preserve authentic craftsmanship. The second highlights the viral "China Haul" trend, where overseas travelers shop extensively in China, driven by the quality and innovation of "Made in China" products, which also serves as a cultural window into Chinese life and aesthetics. The third criticizes businesses for abusing "important notices" as marketing disguises, arguing this erodes public trust and must be corrected in favor of genuine quality and service.
Summary: The 2026 "Me and Ditan" Beijing Book Fair concluded at Ditan Park, drawing 836,000 visitors over 11 days with 160 cultural activities and over 500 booths from more than 400 publishers and bookstores. Hainan Province has placed all 117 traditional villages under protective listing with a "one village, one file" registry, covering basic protection work and providing a digital basis for future planning. Guangxi passed regulations against domestic violence, effective December 1, 2026, defining types such as physical assault, psychological abuse, and economic control, and extending protections to non-family members living together. Shaanxi passed revised regulations imposing special protection on ancient and famous trees over 5,000 years old, effective November 1, 2026, with county-level governments establishing dedicated protection teams. Huzhou, Zhejiang issued "ecological ID cards" to 797 inland waterway vessels, grading them from 1 (excellent) to 5 (backward) based on carbon emissions and intensity, while Qinghai's "cold recycling" technology for gravel roads in alpine regions was selected as a 2026 global sustainable transport good practice case.
Summary: In the golden autumn season, farming households in the heritage area of the Yuanyang Hani Rice Terraces in the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, harvest rice amid rippling waves of paddies. The Yuanyang Hani Rice Terraces combine the "three heritages" — World Cultural Heritage, Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, and World Heritage Irrigation Structures — in one. Whereas rice planting once relied entirely on manual labor, **time-consuming and laborious**, modern technology has now been injected into the ancient terraces, with drones precisely sowing, fertilizing,and spraying pesticides. Empowered by technology, the thousand-year-old terraces continue to yield abundant harvests.
Summary: The wine grapes on the eastern slopes of the Helan Mountains have entered the harvest season, with workers harvesting and transporting the ripe grapes to wineries. General Manager Ma Jie of a winery in Minning Town, Yongning County, Yinchuan City, Ningxia, said the winery settled there out of confidence in the region's unique terroir. The Ningxia Helan Mountain Eastern Slopes wine-producing region benefits from the Helan Mountains as a natural barrier, the Yellow River's nourishment, mineral-rich soil, ample sunshine, and significant day-night temperature differences, making it a recognized golden belt for high-end wine production. Ningxia has combined wine industry development with Yellow River floodplain governance and ecological restoration, building a 195-kilometer planting corridor, converting over 400,000 mu of wasteland into green oases, and providing 130,000 jobs annually for relocated residents, with the planting area exceeding 600,000 mu by the end of 2025. As China's first comprehensive pilot zone for grape and wine industry open development, Ningxia has hosted 5 International Wine Culture and Tourism Expos, cultivated 30 wine import and export enterprises, won over 1,800 international awards, and sells products to more than 40 countries and regions.
Summary: Shandong Province is leveraging saline-alkali land to develop distinctive industries, as highlighted by the 2026 "Boxing Prawn" Prawn King Competition in Qiaozhuang Town, where Pacific white shrimp farming has expanded to 35,000 mu with an annual output exceeding 30,000 tons. Farmer Gao Xueqiang credited policy support for enabling shrimp farming by mixing underground brine with Yellow River freshwater to adjust salinity, yielding an annual income of over 250,000 yuan from his 18-mu ponds. The province is promoting high-quality development of the entire industrial chain of saline-alkali land agriculture, strengthening regional public brands, as seen in Zhanhua District's winter jujube cultivation covering 300,000 mu with output value exceeding 7.5 billion yuan in 2025. Wudi County maintains a stable 60,000-mu cotton planting area, forming a complete industrial chain of planting, processing, textile, and cultural tourism with a total output value of 700 million yuan. Shandong continues to deepen comprehensive improvement and utilization of saline-alkali land, turning barren wasteland into fertile ground for increasing incomes.
Summary: Universities in Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, have launched multiple micro-majors this semester, including short-video operations and "AI + brand digitalization" operations, which focus on market-scarce positions with a practical, precise, and cross-disciplinary training model. These micro-majors typically adopt a flexible academic system of 2 to 3 semesters with 5 to 8 courses, and courses such as large-model applications are very popular. The development of micro-majors has driven the upgrading of university talent cultivation models by precisely connecting with the talent demands of emerging industries and scarce positions. A student at Hebei University of Water Resources and Electric Engineering noted that the school invites senior industry experts as external teachers and implements single-grade-sheet management for micro-majors, recording students' skill learning outcomes. This ensures students have verifiable proof or credentials and verifiable evidence or records when seeking employment.
Summary: The article reports that a communication base station was newly built at an environmental protection technology company in Youxi County, Fujian Province, resolving long-standing weak signal and call drop issues caused by the factory's steel-sheet structure. Company general manager Xiao Fangming said that after reporting the problem to the county industry and information technology department and the town government, relevant units quickly built the new base station, fully resolving the issue. Since the beginning of this year, Youxi County has focused on issues such as financing, labor employment, approval, and factor guarantee, proactively conducting research visits at industrial parks and enterprise front lines. The county has shifted from "enterprises coming to the door to seek help" to "services coming to the door to resolve worries," promoting smoother communication channels between government and enterprises.
Summary: The article reports that China's 2026 National Day box office reached 1.138 billion yuan by October 7, with the year-to-date total exceeding 30.7 billion yuan and the industry chain's output value surpassing 480 billion yuan. It highlights how domestic films like *Traces of the Detective* and *Heroes of Dunhuang* met diversified audience needs, with experts such as Zhou Baohua noting a shift from blockbuster competition to diverse thematic offerings. The piece details "film+" initiatives combining cinema with tourism, food, and intangible cultural heritage, including a Long March-themed event in Beijing and a "Film Ticket Stub Benefit Platform" in Zhejiang. It also covers cinema diversification efforts, such as Hangzhou's Wudiwu Cinema with themed halls and parent-child activities at Shanghai Huaxia Jiujin International Cinema, supported by a June policy notice. Zhang Yiwu of Peking University emphasized cinemas' social functions and the need to leverage over 90,000 screens for industry innovation.
Summary: Cai Hong, a 1990s-born creator in Lanzhou, Gansu, makes three-dimensional "paper shadow" art from cut-and-spliced cardboard, inspired by traditional shadow puppetry and using his programming background to decompose images into modules. After posting videos online in 2024, he gained 100,000 followers and devoted himself full-time to the craft in 2025, using artificial intelligence as an assistant for references and compositions. He draws inspiration from traditional skills like shadow puppetry, sugar painting, and paper-cutting, reassembling their "code" with modern tools. He displayed a paper-shadow model of Lanzhou's Zhongshan Bridge beside the real bridge, attracting public interest. Cai Hong hopes his evolving works, reflecting new stories and changes, will bring more young people closer to paper shadow and its charm of light and shadow.
Summary: The article reports on the revival of Yangjiabu woodblock New Year paintings in Weifang, Shandong, which have gained popularity among young tourists through cartoon and zodiac designs. Tourist Liu Yitong from Zibo was drawn to a cultural-creative shop's adorable New Year painting and purchased one, reflecting a shift from ritual New Year customs to daily self-pleasing consumer products. Yang Lei, manager of the New Year painting cultural-creative hall, noted that new editions with cartoon images and zodiac designs have attracted more young people to print them. The scenic area launched an interactive game during the National Day holiday, and since the start of the year, it has received 550,000 visitors, driving consumption of over 30 million yuan. National-level inheritor Yang Naidong emphasized preserving traditional knife strokes and overprint coloring while adapting images to be cuter, and a visitor from Qingdao, He Zhidong, highlighted that the old craft's root and new sprouts both have willing buyers, ensuring its continued transmission.
Summary: The article marks the 70th anniversary of Changsha University of Science and Technology, tracing its evolution from 1956 through mergers in 2003 and highlighting its delivery of over 500,000 talents. It details the university's commitment to ideological and political education, its "world-class discipline" construction in transportation engineering, and its achievements in research and talent recruitment. The piece outlines strategies for scientific innovation and future development, with goals set for 2030, 2035, and mid-century.
Summary: The article discusses how Chinese cities managed the massive passenger flows during the National Day holiday by applying governance experience from "Super Weekends," which integrate sports events, performances, and scenic attractions. In Xi'an, multi-department coordination and a "three-tier circle control model" were used to manage crowds at the Great Tang All Day Mall, which received 3.9 million visitors during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays. In Yichang, technology such as police drones enabled precise command and efficient dispatch, achieving crowd evacuation within one hour after large events ended. In Qingdao, refined management included adding mobile toilets, adjusting male-to-female toilet ratios, and resuming a direct flight to Vancouver, which boosted inbound tourism with over 490,000 foreign visitors inspected by the end of September. The article emphasizes balancing tourist experience with residents' quality of life through measures like traffic control, temporary parking, and grid-based community management.
Summary: The article announces the issuance of the "15th Five-Year Plan for Disease Prevention and Control," the first five-year national special plan in the field of disease control, approved by the State Council and jointly issued by the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration and six other departments. It reviews achievements during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, including systematic institutional reform, expanded monitoring and early warning, and strengthened emergency response capabilities, and outlines key tasks for the upcoming period, such as multi-disease co-prevention, risk prevention for emerging infectious diseases, improving vaccination services, and deepening reforms. The author, a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the National Health Commission, emphasizes implementing the Plan to build a modernized disease control system with Chinese characteristics by 2030.
Summary: A citizen in Yueyang, Hunan, voluntarily lent her electric bicycle to a police officer during a pursuit, helping him apprehend a fugitive from another province. Wang Jian, a police officer from Dongmaoling Police Station of Yueyang Lou District Branch, Yueyang Municipal Public Security Bureau, and his teammate received an instruction to deploy and apprehend the fugitive Xu. During the chase, citizen Liu Xia stopped her vehicle and gave her bicycle to the officer, who then subdued Xu at a street corner. The police returned the bicycle, offered a banner of gratitude, and filed an application for Liu Xia to be named a "Yueyang City Outstanding Individual for Acts of Bravery." Liu Xia declined the praise, saying anyone would help in such a situation, and netizens praised the cooperation as the best police-citizen relationship.
Summary: During the National Day holiday, Qilian County in Qinghai Province received 221,000 tourist visits, a 220 percent year-on-year increase, but heavy snowfall on October 3 caused a housing shortage. The county government opened two school dormitories with 500 beds, coordinated supplies from civil affairs and emergency management departments, and accommodated nearly 500 tourists. Director Feng Lingling of the Qilian County Culture, Sports, Tourism, Radio and Television Bureau led the response, working long hours to prepare dormitories and ensure tourists had new bedding, heating, and hot water. County head Mei Jiancan defended the decision to use schools, noting sports venues lacked heating and posed health risks in high-altitude, sub-zero conditions. County Party Committee Secretary Fu Qiang stressed the need to improve the service system and governance capacity, saying, "From the popularity of one road to the maturity of a complete service system and governance capacity, there is still a long way to go."
Summary: The China Air Transport Association responded to an incident on a China Eastern Airlines flight where a passenger verbally abused and threatened a flight attendant after a meal cart incidentally touched them. The association stated it firmly supports member airlines in lawfully safeguarding employees' rights to perform their duties, and called on airlines to optimize on-site handling procedures for disruptive behavior and strengthen safeguards for frontline personnel. It also urged the public to fly in a civilized manner and protect rights rationally, noting that passengers dissatisfied with service should express demands through lawful channels such as complaints, appeals, and litigation, rather than through verbal abuse or insults to personal dignity. China Eastern Airlines has completed evidence preservation and formally filed a report with the authorities, while providing psychological counseling to the flight attendant involved.
Summary: The "Regulations of Henan Province on Inheriting and Carrying Forward the Spirit of the Red Flag Canal" were published on October 5 and will take effect on January 1, 2027, marking the first provincial-level local regulation in Henan themed on "the spiritual pedigree of Chinese Communists." The Regulations require the People's Government of Henan Province to increase support and safeguards for inheriting the spirit and maintaining the Red Flag Canal project, including formulating special plans, improving working mechanisms, and guaranteeing necessary funding. They also support building a red tourism brand with the Red Flag Canal as an important symbol and developing business forms such as red study tours and green eco-tourism. Additionally, the Regulations encourage the development of cultural and creative products inspired by the spirit of the Red Flag Canal and expanding new forms for its popularization and scenario-based experience.
Summary: A Beijing police officer, Wang Xiaoxuan, on duty at Tiananmen Square during an early October flag-raising ceremony gave her own sweater to a shivering child from a Guangdong study tour group, continuing her post in only a thin uniform. After the ceremony, the child returned the sweater and saluted her, and she returned a standard police salute, a moment captured by onlookers and praised online. The article notes this is her fifth year in public security work, highlighting her grassroots role in mediating disputes and assisting residents, for which she has received one individual third-class merit and two commendations. Wang Xiaoxuan stated she will uphold her original aspiration of serving the people and wholeheartedly resolve difficulties for the masses.
Summary: The article reports that Beijing Zhongke Runyu Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., a listed company under the Chinese Academy of Sciences Holdings, has achieved self-reliance and controllability of core waste-to-energy equipment by acquiring the Swiss Stiefel incinerator brand and all its intellectual property rights. The company has formed a "water-cooled + air-cooled" dual-core technology matrix and built a complete technology system, with its R&D investment increasing by approximately 25% year-on-year in the first half of this year. Its self-developed Automatic Combustion Control system has been recognized as "domestically leading," and the Intelligent Incineration Control System, upgraded with AI technology, has reduced manual intervention in core processes to once per day. The company has transformed from a "technology licensee" into a "technology owner," positioning itself as a "global technology exporter" to promote China's waste-to-energy equipment and technology in international markets. Looking ahead to the "15th Five-Year Plan," the company will continue to emphasize both independent innovation and open cooperation to contribute to building a Beautiful China and promoting green, low-carbon development.
Summary: At a 100-day countdown event in Changchun, officials unveiled the torch "Jixiang" and medal "Jimeng" for the 33rd FISU World University Games Winter, Changchun 2027, alongside promotional songs and official uniforms. FISU President Leonz Eder, in a video address, praised Changchun's "full of youthful vigor" and "warm and hospitable" nature, urging a meeting in the city 100 days hence. The Games, scheduled for January 15-25, 2027, across venues in Changchun and Jilin City, will feature 12 sports and 97 events, drawing athletes from over 60 countries. The torch design draws on Changchun's clivia city flower and film reel elements, while the medal incorporates the "First Jade Bird of China" inlaid with Songhua stone and an embedded chip. On October 8, the flame collection activity will be held in Turin, Italy, ahead of the winter appointment.
Summary: The article reports on Xuhui District, Shanghai's upgraded national physical fitness monitoring services, which provide free tests and personalized "exercise prescriptions" to citizens. Dai Wenwei, deputy director of the Xuhui District Sports Bureau, said the district has conducted monitoring six times since 2000, and has addressed past difficulties in mobilizing participants by integrating monitoring stations with fitness venues and extending hours to 8 p.m. to target office workers, who now account for over 60 percent of participants during that period. Dai noted that unlike ordinary physical examinations, which focus on detecting disease, national physical fitness monitoring focuses on identifying shortcomings, doing prevention, and providing solutions. The article also cites the "Bulletin of the Sixth National Physical Fitness Monitoring," which found positive results in China's fitness program but noted declines in adult muscle strength and unbalanced regional development.
Summary: Djokovic won the 2026 China Open men's singles title after De Minaur retired due to injury in the second set, extending his personal winning streak at the tournament to 34 matches and claiming his seventh title there. The 39-year-old, seeded No. 6, defeated Borges, Bu Yunchaokete, Zverev, and Medvedev en route to the final. Djokovic thanked Chinese fans for their support, saying he feels at home and that the victory "has greatly boosted my confidence." He also praised the retiring De Minaur and expressed interest in Chinese culture, including calligraphy and Baduanjin, having strolled near the Summer Palace before matches. He said he will definitely return to China to continue his bond with Chinese fans.
Summary: Shanghai Electric is accelerating the construction of the National Artificial Intelligence Application Pilot Base (Manufacturing Sector) to drive its shift from traditional manufacturing to intelligent and service-oriented manufacturing, having built 19 intelligent factories, three of which were selected as 2025 Excellence-Level Intelligent Factories. The base, undertaken by Shanghai Electric under the guidance of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, has achieved phased breakthroughs by focusing on common industry problems. The company has launched 51 "Nebula Intelligent Manufacturing" AI models and intelligent agents across R&D, production, and maintenance, compressing R&D cycles, reducing production circulation time by 12%, and cutting wind power maintenance costs by about 10%. Shanghai Electric has also developed seven embodied intelligent robot prototypes, including the bipedal "Su Yuan" and wheeled "Tuo Yuan," now deployed in real industrial scenarios, and released the "AI-Native Factory White Paper." As a "chain leader," it is building an industrial ecosystem by initiating the Shanghai "AI + Manufacturing" Industry Alliance, co-establishing a key laboratory with Fudan University, and signing a strategic cooperation agreement with the Pudong New Area government.
Summary: During the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Chinese side hosted multiple thematic side events, elaborating on human rights concepts with Chinese characteristics and publicizing China's human rights achievements. Representatives from multiple countries and experts engaged in dialogue, unanimously agreeing that all countries should explore human rights development paths based on their own national conditions. At a side event on national human rights action plans, Chinese experts showcased China's latest fifth-phase plan, with international experts praising China's policy consistency and digital human rights leadership. Another side event on AI empowering human rights highlighted China's efforts in disability-assistive technologies and digital inclusion, with calls for bridging the North-South development gap. A third side event on neurodiversity and digital inclusion featured Chinese NGOs launching a joint action initiative and art exhibition, promoting equal participation for neurodivergent groups.
Summary: The film *Letters to Grandma* continues to earn acclaim in Thailand, with audiences moved by its depiction of *qiaopi* (overseas Chinese remittance letters), which were inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2013. The article highlights how qiaopi remain an emotional resonance for Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, preserved in museums, old shops, and library collections across Malaysia and Singapore. This shared cultural memory has driven the film's success, making it a top-grossing Chinese-language film in Malaysia and Singapore, where young audiences have connected with their elders' stories. The article frames the film's journey as a cultural "homecoming voyage," tracing how qiaopi once crossed from the Nanyang to China's southeastern coast and now return as cinematic narratives. It concludes that in a fast-paced era, the enduring value of these letters lies in their expression of family care and cultural roots.
Summary: India's GDP for fiscal year 2025/2026 grew by 7.7 percent year-on-year, driven by infrastructure investment and domestic consumption, with manufacturing expanding at 10.7 percent and a proposed revitalization plan covering 100 product types. The government has raised public capital expenditure to a record 12.2 trillion rupees, while foreign firms, including Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, have invested over 67.5 billion dollars in Indian data centers. Private consumption expenditure growth rose to 7.7 percent, with urban and rural consumption recovering simultaneously, though the agricultural sector slowed to 3.2 percent. Disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz have pushed up energy costs and inflation, prompting the Reserve Bank of India to lower its GDP forecast for fiscal year 2026/2027 to 6.6 percent. Tahir Farooq, editor-in-chief of Pakistan's Daily Ittehad, noted India's resilience but highlighted pressures from uncertain US tariffs and disrupted global energy supply chains.
Summary: Visegrad Group agricultural and food sector representatives met and jointly called on the EU to take immediate unified action to alleviate the impact of severe drought on farmers, as data show Poland's crop output fell by at least 20 percent and the Czech Republic faced its worst harvest failure in nearly 15 years. Europe's major rivers, including the Danube, Po, and Rhine, have hit record-low water levels, reducing shipping capacity, harming agriculture, and impacting energy security, such as Hungary's Paks Nuclear Power Plant reducing output. The European Commission's Joint Research Centre and other institutions attribute the crisis to global warming-driven cycles of high temperatures, insufficient rainfall, and enhanced evaporation. European Commissioner for Environment Roswall said Europe must elevate water security to a position as important as energy security, strengthen transnational river basin management, and improve water resource utilization efficiency.
Summary: The World Bank raised its 2026 economic growth forecast for the East Asia and Pacific region to 4.5 percent, citing strong high-tech investment and exports in countries tied to the artificial intelligence value chain. Growth forecasts for Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand were revised upward, while Pacific island countries saw a downward revision. World Bank Vice President Carlos Felipe Jaramillo said the region's deep integration into global value chains has allowed it to benefit from increased global AI-related activity. Separately, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Russia will take reciprocal countermeasures against Japan's new sanctions, which target vessels in a so-called "shadow fleet." The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education reported that Israeli military operations have killed over 20,000 Palestinian students and more than a thousand teaching staff since October 2023.
Summary: President Xi Jinping, during a state visit to the United States, told the story of American Sikos (Ronald Sakolsky) funding Chinese desertification-control worker Yin Yuzhen to plant trees over 20 years ago, and Sikos later returned to see the desert turned into forest. The article reports that on September 10th, at the Yin Yuzhen Ecological Base in the Mu Us Sandy Land, national master craftsmen and nearly 600 volunteers joined Yin Yuzhen in planting trees, part of the public welfare initiative "Come to Inner Mongolia and Plant a Tree of Friendship." It details how Yin Yuzhen, over more than 40 years with her husband Bai Wanxiang, brought over 70,000 mu under desertification control, and how her story has inspired others, including the "Thirteen Sisters" group and over 240 households with large afforestation operations in Wushen Banner. The piece also highlights technological advances, such as a BeiDou-navigated trench-opening and planting integrated machine developed by Tiemuer Bagen a, and the establishment of a doctoral workstation to link grassroots needs with research. Finally, it notes the economic benefits, with Yin Yuzhen now earning 1 million yuan annually and Wushen Banner's forestry, grass, and sand industry output value exceeding 4.1 billion yuan, while volunteers from more than 20 countries and regions have participated in the region's ecological restoration.
Summary: At a U.S. state banquet hosted by President Trump, President Xi Jinping recounted the story of American Salkauskas funding Chinese desertification fighter Yin Yuzhen's tree-planting efforts over 20 years ago, noting Salkauskas recently returned to see the desert transformed into lush forest. The article details how Salkauskas donated $5,000 in 1999, leading to the planting of over 50,000 saplings in the "Salkauskas Forest," and how the two reunited in late August to plant a "tree of friendship" in the Mu Us Sandy Land. It highlights the achievements of China's "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program, including 265 million mu of construction tasks completed since the tough battle was launched, with phased results in the Horqin Sandy Land, Yellow River sediment reduction, and a "green scarf" around the Taklamakan Desert. The piece frames ecological restoration as an "endurance race," citing Yin Yuzhen's 40 years of greening over 70,000 mu and Kurban Rozi's two decades of building shelterbelt forest in Xinjiang as examples of generational effort. It concludes that the 15th Five-Year Plan period is decisive for the "Three-North" Program's tough battle, urging continued social consensus on tree-planting to write a new chapter in high-quality development.
Summary: The article reports on efforts by local people's congress standing committees to strengthen the filing and review of regulatory documents, described as a "comprehensive physical examination" of "red-header documents." Shandong has abolished 26 and revised nearly 100 local regulations involving the ecological environment code, while Shanghai's Huangpu District has adopted "open-door review" to solicit public and expert feedback. Zhejiang has led in extending filing and review to township and sub-district documents, using digital tools to address capacity shortages, and other regions like Guangdong and Chongqing have followed suit. A "comprehensive bottom-up inventory" in Guangzhou identified and corrected documents that failed to align with updated superior laws, such as those on rewards for acts of bravery. The NPC Standing Committee has opened an online platform for citizen review suggestions, receiving nearly 20,000 submissions, and is researching a special law on filing and review to build a unified institutional system.
Summary: Four NPC deputies discussed strengthening online protection for minors. Chen Lina proposed consolidating platform responsibility, improving age verification, and optimizing algorithm governance. Chen Tianzhu called for expanding high-quality content pools and integrating online literacy into works. Chu Xiaofei urged stricter supervision, coordinated enforcement, and platform accountability to purify the cyberspace. Zhu Xiangxiang emphasized family, school, and societal cooperation in building a comprehensive education system for minors' internet use.
Summary: The article reports on Harbin's adoption of a "Decision on Accelerating the Transformation of Grassroots Social Governance and Advancing the Modernization of the Grassroots Governance System and Governance Capacity" by the Standing Committee of the 16th Harbin Municipal People's Congress on September 16, 2026. The head of the Standing Committee said the Decision's essence is to implement power and responsibility together, provide support for those who do the work, and reduce burdens at the grassroots level, addressing the problem of "an inadequate resource attempting to handle a heavy task." The Decision clarifies duty boundaries between townships (subdistricts) and villages (communities), promotes the Fengqiao model in the new era, and embeds people's congress supervision into grassroots governance. Examples include resolving residents' tree-pruning complaints through joint consultation, recovering a migrant worker's wages in three hours via a comprehensive governance center, and improving elevator conditions through tripartite consultation. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article reports on China's centralized governance campaign for petition issues in the livelihood sector, highlighting how petition departments use rule-of-law methods to resolve long-standing problems such as real estate certificate issuance and wage arrears. It cites examples from Xichang, Puyang, Zunyi, Changsha, Shandong, Zhongwei, and Liuyang, where leading cadres took charge of cases and coordinated multi-departmental efforts to achieve substantive resolutions. A relevant official of the National Petition Bureau stated that the campaign is necessary for resolving livelihood issues, strengthening Party-people ties, and enhancing social governance, and that next steps include deepening the work. The article emphasizes transforming individual case successes into long-term governance mechanisms, such as institutional norms for industry regulation and proactive identification of common problems.
Summary: The article emphasizes that food safety is a fundamental livelihood issue, requiring sustained strict governance and rule-of-law enforcement. It highlights a recent Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission meeting demanding strict punishment of food safety crimes, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate's release of typical public interest litigation cases targeting violations like illegal additives, regulatory loopholes in wholesale markets, and substandard tableware. These cases aim to punish violators, recover public losses, and promote industry rectification and systemic governance. The piece calls for coordinated efforts among political-legal organs, market regulators, and agricultural departments, alongside enterprise self-discipline and social supervision, to build a whole-domain governance pattern. It concludes by urging the most rigorous standards and strictest accountability to safeguard the people's "happiness on the tip of the tongue."
Summary: A Beijing machinery company sought to add former shareholders Zhang Mou and Wen Mou as persons subject to enforcement after a Suzhou machinery company completed deregistration without lawful liquidation despite unsettled debts. The court ruled to add the shareholders, citing their pledge in the shareholders' resolution to bear all debts and the failure to notify known creditors during liquidation. The Beijing Third Intermediate People's Court upheld the ruling. The judge stated the case offers lessons for business operators: sort out claims clearly, conduct liquidation lawfully, and notify known creditors. Creditors can use the enforcement objection procedure to add shareholders who pledged to bear debts, safeguarding lawful rights.
Summary: The article profiles Zhou Zhe, a 90s-generation firefighter in the Hengkou Demonstration Zone of Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, whose mobile number villagers call the "Xiao Zhou hotline." Initially rebuffed by villagers who doubted fire risks in their mountain communities, Zhou Zhe built trust by working in fields, recruiting volunteers, and addressing hazards like aging wiring, eventually winning over a stubborn resident, Old Tang, after a fire. He later installed networked smoke alarms for elderly residents, overcoming resistance through patient explanation and door-to-door inspections. The Shaanxi Provincial Fire Rescue Corps has expanded such efforts, establishing paired assistance with over 58,000 elderly people living alone. A corps official said they will train village cadres and volunteers to spread "Xiao Zhou hotline"-type precise fire services across the region.
Summary: The "Gathering the Finest of the Arts — 2026 National Outstanding Young Opera Talent Performance Exhibition," sponsored by the Literary and Art Bureau of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Domestic Liaison Department of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the Chinese Theatre Association, recently concluded at the Chang'an Grand Theatre in Beijing, featuring 32 young actors and musicians from 29 troupes across 16 provinces and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, covering 20 opera genres and all role types. The event, marking the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and the first year of the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Revitalization of Theatre (2026–2028)," showcased solid foundations in major genres and concentrated appearances of rare local genres, with privately run troupes and new literary and art groups competing on the same stage. The author, Vice Chairman of the Chinese Theatre Association, emphasizes the need to improve the closed-loop mechanism of performance exhibition and talent cultivation, address structural shortcomings in role types in short supply and endangered genres, deepen the integration of schools and troupes, and consolidate talent support measures so that young opera artists can settle down to deepen their professionalism and refine their skills.
Summary: The article discusses the television drama *The Journey*, which focuses on the Red Army's Long March through the Sichuan-Xikang region from June 1935 to August 1936, with support from local Tibetan, Qiang, and other ethnic minority peoples. The drama breaks new ground by depicting the intra-Party struggle against Zhang Guotao's retreatist line and splittist activities, alongside the Red Army's battles against Kuomintang troops. It highlights leaders such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Zhang Wentian adhering to the strategy of marching north to resist Japan, and shows Zhu De and Liu Bocheng persuading Zhang Guotao to rejoin the northward march. The drama also emphasizes ethnic unity, portraying the Red Army's respect for minority customs and the formation of a Tibetan Red Army force, and was filmed on location at Long March sites. The author, a researcher at the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee, concludes that the drama reproduces the Long March's arduous journey and reveals the spirit's ideological connotation.
Summary: The article discusses how folk dances like Anhui Huagudeng and Shandong Guzi Yangge have gone viral on short-video platforms through moves dubbed "flash-step" and "bear-shiver," attracting imitations and secondary creations. It notes that traditional stage performances showcase ethnic culture systematically, while short videos break theater boundaries and draw netizens through distinct expressiveness. Some worry that entertainment-oriented dissemination loses the dances' core essence, as fragmented clips cannot carry complete cultural logic, but guiding the public to explore cultural roots is where professionals and platforms can act. The author argues that folk dance inheritance includes stage creation, teaching materials, and netizens' spontaneous videos, and that short-video dissemination and stage art are not mutually exclusive. The piece concludes that letting folk dance "play" and come alive is fine, as fun is the best cultural guide in the digital age.
Summary: The article is a creation note by the producer and lead performer of the Qinqiang opera *Red River Valley*, adapted from Feng Xiaoning's film, focusing on the dual resonance between the ethnic narrative and Qinqiang's aesthetics. The author details shaping the new protagonist Danzhu, a Tibetan chieftain's daughter, whose journey from innocent maiden to heroic defender of the land embodies a transformation from small love to great love. The performance approach combines Qinqiang's stylized movements with Tibetan dance, adjusting vocal style from clear and bright to high-pitched and tragic as the plot shifts to war. The author emphasizes using Qinqiang's grand aesthetics to merge with the heroic spirit of the snowland people in singing this epic of family and country.
Summary: The 4K restoration of *Spring in a Small Town* resurfaced as the opening film of the Pingyao International Film Festival, marking the 120th anniversary of director Fei Mu's birth. The China Film Archive recovered the complete orchestral score from nitrate film stock sealed for over half a century, overturning the film's long-held "impression of silence." The discovery began with half a line of lost dialogue and was confirmed through archival materials, periodicals, and a 1948 copy whose score nearly covered the entire film. The restored score reveals the original 1948 release had full-bodied music, with every passage precisely corresponding to the characters' emotions. The restoration is framed as a rescue of China's film cultural heritage, with the end point of restoration being the starting point of a film's new life.
By: 本报记者 耿 磊 李卓尔
"When culture thrives, the nation thrives; when culture is strong, the nation is strong." "Building a culturally strong nation bears on the overall situation of Chinese modernization, bears on the great cause of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and bears on enhancing international competitiveness." General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out.
In October 2023, the National Conference on Publicity, Ideological and Cultural Work was held in Beijing, formally putting forward Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought. In August this year, Volumes I and II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture were published and distributed. Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought is the theoretical summary of the Party's practical experience in leading cultural development in the new era, is a major achievement in upholding the Two Integrations (两个结合) and advancing the theoretical innovation of Marxist culture, constitutes the cultural chapter of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and provides a powerful ideological weapon and scientific guide to action for doing well the work of publicity, ideological and cultural work on the new journey of the new era, promoting cultural prosperity, and building a culturally strong nation.
"We nourish the spiritual home with culture." Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought, solid steps have been taken in building a culturally strong nation, the role of culture in nurturing the mind and cultivating character has become more prominent, the vitality of cultural innovation and creation has become more vigorous, and the cultural confidence of the whole nation has become more steadfast, gathering strong spiritual strength for Chinese modernization.
Forging an aspiring and enterprising spiritual outlook
Culture is the soul of a country and a nation.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Continuously develop the culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics for the new era that possesses strong ideological guiding power, spiritual cohesion, value appeal, and international influence."
A clear, well-organized plan that brings everything else into place (秉纲而目自张, bing gang er mu zi zhang - "hold the net, eyes open"). To build a culturally strong nation, it is necessary to deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought.
On an autumn day, readers come and go at the Wangfujing Bookstore in Beijing. In the first-floor hall, Volumes I and II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture are neatly displayed, and readers hold the books in their hands, reading attentively amid the fragrance of ink and books. From time to time, individuals or organizations make purchases.
The publication and distribution of Volumes I and II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture provides authoritative teaching materials for deeply studying and implementing Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought. The broad masses of cadres and the people read the original works, study the original texts, and comprehend the underlying principles, perceiving the power of truth and drawing practical wisdom through deep study and careful understanding.
In May this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions on promoting the high-quality development of philosophy and social sciences, emphasizing: "Deepen the systematic and theoretical research and interpretation of the Party's innovative theories, accelerate the construction of an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences, better answer the questions of China, the questions of the world, the questions of the people, and the questions of the times, and strive to open up a new situation for the high-quality development of philosophy and social sciences."
Keeping the instructions in mind, they strive to be at the forefront. The broad ranks of philosophy and social science workers further deepen the research and interpretation of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought, promote the transformation of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought into core academic elements of relevant disciplines, and lead the construction of an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences.
On the Internet, distinctive theoretical publicity brands such as "Lixiang China" and "Theory Online" are widely disseminated; major central news media have carefully planned and launched converged media columns such as "The General Secretary's Concerns · The Echo of Implementation" and "Picking Up Light and Time," and planned special columns such as "Cultural China Tour" and "Carrying Forward the Historical Context," fully demonstrating the practical fruits of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought... One fine work after another continuously enables the Party's innovative theories to permeate people's hearts.
In Hai'an, Jiangsu, the propaganda backbone of the "Cuckoo Village Voice" theoretical dissemination project pairs with grassroots propaganda speakers to transform theoretical concepts into everyday language; in Linshui County, Sichuan, the "Spring Herald Bird" grassroots theoretical propaganda team compiles the Party's spirit and policies into clapper-talk programs; in Youjiang District, Baise, Guangxi, the Federation of Social Sciences uses a "social sciences + literature and art" integrated approach, using folk songs, skits, and situational dramas to propagate theory.
From the shores of the East China Sea to the snow-covered plateau, the Party's innovative theories "fly into the homes of ordinary people," uniting hearts and casting souls, transforming customs and educating the people.
General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: "The 'strength' of a culturally strong nation must ultimately be reflected in the people's ideological realm, mental state, and cultural cultivation."
When patriotic fervor ignites the will to strive, when models of the era set spiritual benchmarks, when civilized customs permeate cities and villages, revolutionary culture, advanced socialist culture, and fine traditional Chinese culture are fused together in the building of a culturally strong nation, and the spiritual edifice of the Chinese nation stands tall and imposing (巍然耸立, wei ran song li - "towering, stand upright").
The visits of the PLA Navy ships Nanning and Hengyang to Hong Kong triggered a wave of visits, with "Fragrant Harbor warship shadows, family and country with one heart" flooding social media feeds; "It's not that piercing through the Tianshan Mountains is easy, but that there are people on the other side of the Tianshan Mountains." A single sentence from Xinjiang tour guide Dilnur Tursunjan moved countless netizens to tears...
Across the great river, north and south, all corners of the country (五湖四海, wu hu si hai - "five lakes, four seas"), beneath our feet is the land forged by the blood of our forebears, before our eyes is an increasingly prosperous family and country, and this pride turns into tangible warmth that nourishes the spiritual roots of every Chinese person.
A person cannot stand without spirit; a nation cannot be strong without spirit.
General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: "Only when a nation stands firm and steady in spirit can it stand firm and unshakeable (屹立不倒, yi li bu dao - "stand upright, not fall") and ride the tide at the forefront of the torrent of history."
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. On September 25, the "Great Expedition — Thematic Exhibition Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" opened to the public at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution. With 357 photographs and charts and 1,061 items (sets) of cultural relics and documents, it provides a panoramic review of this extremely arduous (艰苦卓绝, jian ku zhuo jue - "hardship, extreme") great journey. During the National Day holiday, when the museum opened at 9 a.m., a long line had already formed at the entrance. A visitor from Liaoning said: "Seeing with my own eyes the cultural relics left by the Red Army soldiers, I feel deeply moved. We must pass on the great Long March spirit from generation to generation and walk our own Long March road."
In recent days, Long March memorial venues across the country have seen a wave of visits. In Guiyang, Guizhou, at an immersive digital experience hall themed on the Long March, visitors from different regions wrote their heartfelt words into a message wall, "Each generation has its own mission, each generation has its own Long March"... These solemn vows demonstrate how the great Long March spirit is renewed through the ages (历久弥新, li jiu mi xin - "endure long time, become new again").
Deeply cultivating humanistic heritage, consolidating the cultural foundation.
In Xiji County, Ningxia, a group of farmer writers carry hoes to the fields to farm during the day and pick up pens to write at night, growing lush "literary crops" on the yellow earth; in Liutao Town, Xiaoxian County, Anhui, villagers engage in literary and artistic creation while preparing for farming, building a "Hometown of Chinese Folk Culture and Art"; by the banks of Baima Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, literary enthusiasts at the China Network Writers Village use online literature to communicate with the world...
Nationwide reading has become a widespread trend (蔚然成风, wei ran cheng feng - "flourish, become a custom"), new mass literature and art are flourishing, and excellent literary and artistic works and cultural products emerge in an endless stream (层出不穷, ceng chu bu qiong - "layer out, not stop emerging"). Nourished by Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought, the cultural cultivation of the whole society continues to improve.
Manifesting the beauty of civilization, cultivating a new trend of the times.
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes to "continuously rectify exorbitant betrothal gifts in rural areas." In Chengdong Village, Kaocheng Town, Lankao County, Henan, when the children of villagers Zhao Bao'an and Wang Weiqiang's families became engaged, only a bouquet of flowers, two sets of books, and three jin of wedding candy were used as engagement tokens, and the money saved on betrothal gifts was used to purchase agricultural machinery, laying a foundation for the young couple's life. Wang Weiqiang said: "Without extravagance and waste, with more hard work, life gets better and better."
In Hubei, various localities have revised village rules and civil agreements and studied and formulated advocacy standards for betrothal gifts; in Shicheng County, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, in the first half of this year, rural marriages with "zero or low betrothal gifts" accounted for 80.6%... One practical measure after another to change customs and habits has made civilized trends become a widespread trend across the vast countryside.
The soul of a nation is cast by culture. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought, the spiritual home of the whole nation has become richer and more fulfilling, the mental state of the whole society has become more aspiring and vigorous, providing powerful spiritual strength for Chinese modernization.
Surging the surging vitality of innovation and creation
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The vitality of culture lies in innovation and creation."
Since the beginning of this year, a batch of new policies has been introduced successively, and a series of new explorations have been continuously implemented, with new prospects for cultural innovation and creation visible everywhere across the land of China.
Returning home after finishing farm work every day and opening a book to read a few pages — this has been the habit of Pei Aimin, known as "Auntie Field Mouse" of Minqin County, Wuwei City, Gansu Province, for more than 30 years.
"We should advocate reading more books and building a bookish society," bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest instructions during his inspection in Gansu, a wave of reading has swept across the Longyuan land.
In the spring of 2026, the first "National Reading Activity Week" arrived as scheduled. At the national reading event in Wuwei City, Pei Aimin frankly said: "Now in the countryside there are also rural libraries, and everyone can read anytime, anywhere."
On February 1 this year, the Regulations on the Promotion of Nationwide Reading officially came into effect, marking the entry of the nationwide reading cause into a new stage of law-based and standardized development, guiding the whole society to form a good atmosphere of loving reading, reading good books, and being good at reading.
With institutions as the foundation, one can go far and long.
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan places cultural development in an important position in the national strategy, with the core goal of "stimulating the innovation and creation vitality of the whole nation's culture and prospering and developing socialist culture"; the "15th Five-Year Plan" for Building a Tourism Powerhouse was released, adhering to shaping tourism with culture and manifesting culture through tourism; a series of targeted policies such as the Three-Year Action Plan for the Revitalization of Drama (2026–2028) were introduced, deeply cultivating the fertile soil for cultural development.
Reform deepens, vitality bursts forth.
Inside the concert hall of the Xing'an League Cultural Center in Inner Mongolia, musicians dressed in ethnic costumes blend long-tune folk songs, horse-head fiddles, four-stringed huqin, and other art forms, with the audience immersed in the performance.
"In the past, there were not many opportunities for such ticketed commercial performances." Bai Weiguang, director of the Creation and Performance Center of the Xing'an League Wulanmuqi, introduced that by introducing market-oriented operational means, existing literary and artistic resources have been revitalized, and while adhering to public welfare services, new market space has been opened up.
Fine works emerge in an endless stream.
From Pegasus 3 in the Spring Festival season, to A Letter to Grandma in the May Day season, Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant in the summer season, and Traces of the Detective in the National Day season... the film market is full of new films with diverse genres. As of 6 p.m. on October 7, the National Day holiday box office (including pre-sales) for 2026 reached 1.138 billion yuan. According to statistics from the National Film Administration, the total box office (including pre-sales) for Chinese films in 2026 has exceeded 30.7 billion yuan.
Excellent TV dramas are also showing a blowout trend, with a batch of works with warmth and backbone such as Tree of Life, The Protagonist, and Years of Peace receiving dual recognition in both reputation and market, painting a cultural picture brimming with vitality (生机盎然, sheng ji ang ran - "life force, overflowing").
"The people need literature and art," "Literature and art need the people," "Literature and art must love the people" — General Secretary Xi Jinping's profound expositions and earnest instructions have inspired immense creative enthusiasm. More and more ordinary workers pick up their pens to write about their own lives, breaths, and heartbeats, converging into the surging wave of new mass literature and art.
On August 28, the China Literary Ceremony · Lu Xun Literature Prize Night was held in Shanghai. "Courier poet" Wang Jibing, geological drill worker poet Zhang Ergun, and other creators from the grassroots stood in the spotlight. A critic said that the literary night sky of the new era is a diverse landscape where the sky is full of stars (繁星满天, fan xing man tian - "stars, fill the sky"), and ordinary people turn words into starlight, jointly enriching the expressive landscape of contemporary literature.
"Now culture and technology are deeply integrated, and the cultural industry is developing rapidly," General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out the direction for technology-empowered cultural development.
In the intangible cultural heritage Miao embroidery characteristic cultural and creative industrial park in Shibing County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, Miao embroidery representative inheritor Long Luying guides colored threads with her fingertips, moving across the embroidery cloth. On the computer screen beside her, artificial intelligence recognizes the traditional patterns she embroiders in real time and instantly generates dozens of innovative patterns integrating modern aesthetics.
"Compared with the repetitive labor of the past, now one can focus more on creativity and cultural expression." A young designer introduced that the application of artificial intelligence promotes the leapfrog development of traditional handicraft skills.
From the proposal of "humanistic economics" to "empowering economic and social development with culture," culture provides a deep foundation and lasting impetus for high-quality development.
On the evening of September 19, the final round of the regular season of the 2026 "Su Super League" kicked off, with the Wuxi team playing away against the Nantong team. At the Nantong Sports and Convention Center, Wuxi's cultural tourism IP "Tao Gua Gua" brought peaches and interacted warmly with fans, taking photos.
In 2025, Jiangsu was boiling over because of the "Su Super League," attracting a cumulative total of more than 2.43 million spectators to matches. Jiangsu successively launched more than 50 cross-regional themed tourism route products, held more than 2,800 supporting special events, and total tourist consumption reached 227.981 billion yuan.
"Make good use of rich cultural resources and promote the integrated development of culture, commerce, tourism, sports, and exhibitions." General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest instructions have been implemented and produced results in the exploration of "culture +" across various localities.
Culture + tourism, culture + technology, culture + sports... new products, new services, new scenarios, and new business forms of cultural consumption continue to emerge, with prominent characteristics of digitalization, integration, and experientiality, achieving a grand scene of "how flourishing is the culture."
Composing the glorious chapter of the times for the continuation of the cultural lineage
In the golden autumn of October, the Longfu Temple neighborhood in Beijing is crowded with tourists, with many time-honored brands gathered here. "Many tourists do one-stop check-ins at multiple shops, buying a little of everything and taking Beijing's traditional snacks home." Shi Huanping, store manager of the Fengnian Guanchang Longfu Temple store, said.
On the morning of February 10, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to inspect the Longfu Temple neighborhood and pointed out: "The historical and cultural accumulation here is very deep, and we must inherit and carry it forward well" and "we must organically integrate tradition and modernity."
Herbal coffee, erba sauce cookies, Central Axis-themed pastries, and other products attract young people to stop and linger, with authentic Beijing-flavored culture adapting to the consumption scenarios of the new era. Longfu Temple is becoming a "golden business card" for the revival of the old city and a new landmark for cultural consumption.
Under the guidance of the concept of "creative transformation and innovative development," the ancient cultural lineage continues to grow and extend through upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground.
Develop through protection, protect through development.
At the end of last year, "Hezhe Yimakan" was successfully transferred from the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. So far, the total number of Chinese projects inscribed on UNESCO intangible cultural heritage lists and registers has increased to 45, ranking first in the world.
For world cultural heritage, protection comes first. China's world heritage nomination and protection work has frequently seen "highlight moments."
On July 25, good news came from the 48th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee: "Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage" was successfully inscribed, becoming China's 61st world heritage site.
For thousands of years, the kiln fires of Jingdezhen have never been extinguished, and the world-famous ceramic culture has never been interrupted, embodying the vitality and confidence of Chinese civilization.
Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "15th Five-Year Plan" for Cultural Heritage Protection and Inheritance, clarifying the "roadmap" and "task book" for the high-quality development of the cultural heritage cause in the next five years.
World cultural and natural heritage is an important achievement of the development of human civilization and natural evolution, and also an important vehicle for promoting exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations.
On the banks of the Nile, inside the Grand Egyptian Museum, the colossal statue of Ramesses II stands majestically. On September 2 local time, President Xi Jinping, who was visiting Egypt, came to the Grand Egyptian Museum for a visit and pointed out: "China-Egypt friendship is not only cooperation between the two countries, but also a dialogue between two great civilizations."
The first China-Egypt joint archaeological team recently discovered a well-preserved "sacred lake" with a clear structure at the Montu Temple site, which is the first "sacred lake" newly discovered through archaeological excavation in the history of ancient Egyptian archaeology.
Mohamed, the Egyptian chief in charge of the China-Egypt Montu Temple joint archaeological project, said: "The China-Egypt joint archaeological work conveys the message of dialogue among civilizations, benefiting Egypt, China, and the whole world."
Using culture to educate people can better unite hearts; using art to connect hearts makes it easier to communicate with the world.
In May this year, the 2026 Cultural Powerhouse Construction Summit Forum with the theme "Inheritance of Cultural Lineage and Fortune and Cultural Innovation and Creation" was held in Shenzhen; in June, the Second World Congress of Classical Studies with the theme "Dialogue Between Ancient and Modern: Modern Enlightenment from Classical Wisdom" was held in Athens, Greece; in September, the 2026 Beijing Cultural Forum with the theme "Cultural Heritage and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations" was successfully held...
Visiting ancient buildings, appreciating traditional opera, tasting Chinese-style pastries... foreign tourists are falling in love with in-depth "China tours." From January to August this year, 23.72 million foreign nationals entered China visa-free, a year-on-year increase of 26.8%, with more and more overseas tourists coming to China to immerse themselves in traditional Chinese culture and experience Eastern aesthetics.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We should better promote Chinese culture going global, carrying the Way through culture, spreading the voice through culture, and educating people through culture." Chinese culture is embracing the world with a more open attitude and contributing to the world with more vibrant civilizational achievements.
The mountains and rivers are magnificent, and the culture is splendid. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought, the pace of building a culturally strong nation is resolute, and the sons and daughters of China are writing a new chapter of Chinese culture and forging new brilliance with pride and enthusiasm!
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李君强 喻思南 刘诗瑶
On September 14, at the United Nations headquarters in Vienna, Austria, a special "gift" from the far side of the Moon made its debut: lunar soil samples collected by China's Chang'e-6 mission, donated to the United Nations, will be on permanent display there. This precious "piece of luggage," brought back to Earth by a Chinese spacecraft, has become a testament to humanity's joint exploration of the universe.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Exploring the vast universe, developing the space industry, and building a space power are the space dream we unremittingly pursue."
October 8 this year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of China's space industry. Looking back to October 8, 1956, in the western suburbs of Beijing, the Fifth Research Academy of the Ministry of National Defense was established, and China's space industry started from there. On April 24, 1970, China's first artificial satellite, "Dongfanghong-1," streaked across the sky, and the melodious strains of "The East Is Red" resounded from space across the land. The passage of time and changing of the seasons (斗转星移, dou zhuan xing yi - "stars, turn; stars, move") have brought us to today, when the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft heads to the China Space Station laden with hundreds of items of supplies, research on the lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6 continues to yield new results, and an increasing number of international payloads ride Chinese spacecraft into deep space... The ever-updating space "luggage" bears witness to the leap in China's capacity for independent innovation in space, and also reflects an open mind that embraces the world and explores the universe hand in hand.
The "parcel" sent to space carries a brand-new weight
On May 10, at the Wenchang Space Launch Site. With 11 hours remaining before the Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft was to ignite and lift off, Wang Ran of the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft team at the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation climbed the towering launch tower. From Tianzhou-1 to Tianzhou-10, he has always fought on the front line at every launch.
At that moment, at the Wenchang Base of the Space Laboratory of the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, a researcher hurried along clutching an experiment box. After a drive of more than ten minutes, he arrived at the tower and solemnly handed the experiment box, filled with cryogenically refrigerated samples, to Wang Ran.
Wang Ran and his colleagues quickly opened the side access hatch of the spacecraft's "late-loading cargo" storage compartment and carefully loaded this special cargo into the space refrigerator.
At 8:14 a.m. on May 11, the Long March-7 carrier rocket lifted the Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft into the sky. A few hours later, the spacecraft docked smoothly with the space station, and the parcels, including the experiment box, were retrieved and put to use by the astronauts.
In April 2017, Tianzhou-1 completed its maiden flight, opening a new chapter in China's space cargo transportation. To this day, the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft has set new records in the number of payloads carried, with an ever-richer variety, and has even achieved "hour-level" express delivery services, with material transport support becoming increasingly refined.
"The research needs of the China Space Station are becoming increasingly diverse, and those biologically refrigerated samples have extremely high requirements for timely delivery," Wang Ran explained. If they were handled like ordinary supplies, going through the processes of spacecraft transfer, arrival at the site, and testing, the freshness of the samples would be greatly compromised, thereby affecting the experimental results.
For this reason, starting from Tianzhou-2, the research team began exploring the installation plan for "late-loading cargo."
The Tianzhou cargo spacecraft adopts a two-module structure: inside the fully sealed cargo module, more than 200 pieces (sets) of cargo parcels are fixed in honeycomb-like cargo cells, arranged fitting together perfectly without any gaps (严丝合缝, yan si he feng - "strict, silk; seam, fit"); the propulsion module carries propellant, providing power support for itself and the space station.
"You see, we opened such a small hatch on the side of the Tianzhou spacecraft, just large enough for one adult to curl up and enter. This cell, which can hold 100 kilograms of cargo, is the storage room for 'late-loading cargo,'" Wang Ran said as he casually sketched a diagram on paper.
However, 100 kilograms was still not enough. How could the space be made larger, to send more fresh supplies into space?
"The team is trying every possible way to achieve something (想方设法, xiang fang she fa - "think, way; seek, method"), hoping that this 'large suitcase' of the Tianzhou spacecraft can achieve more efficient stowage," Wang Ran said.
A new cargo cell was freed up next to the original storage room, doubling the loading volume; slide rails were added so that, with the side opening unchanged in size, supplies could "slide" in like people queuing... Ultimately, through methods such as loading design and interface matching, the team freed up more space for "late-loading cargo" while ensuring safety and keeping the total payload unchanged.
There are many other ingenious ideas of this kind. The tank configuration can be arranged according to propellant refueling needs, and after improvement, the cargo loading space of the sealed module was expanded from 18.1 cubic meters to 22.5 cubic meters; for the extravehicular spacesuits weighing more than 90 kilograms, a dedicated support frame was designed to ensure safe transport...
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "The starry sky is boundless, and exploration has no end. Only through continuous innovation can the Chinese nation better move toward the future."
Ten ships in ten years, with continuous innovation. The iterative upgrading of the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft reflects the leapfrog development of China's space uplink capability. A large number of experimental samples and equipment have entered the national-level space laboratory, and space science achievements continue to emerge; more than 10 types of exercise equipment, hundreds of types of medical equipment, and more than 100 types of food have been fully equipped to support astronauts' work and life in orbit; "space visitors" such as zebrafish and mice have performed well, and plants such as rice and cherry tomatoes are full of vitality and life (生机盎然, sheng ji ang ran - "life, energy; overflowing, overflowing"). The bustling "space home" bears witness to the vigorous vitality of scientific exploration.
China's space "luggage" can hold more, deliver faster, and lift higher, laying a solid foundation for astronauts' long-term residence and continued deep-space exploration.
Bringing the mysteries of the more distant universe back to Earth
The precious "piece of luggage" brought back for the first time in human history from the far side of the Moon underwent a meticulous sampling and sealing process on the lunar far side.
The far side of the Moon cannot communicate directly with Earth, and can only rely on relay satellites to build a signal bridge. Affected by factors such as communication conditions, the effective working time for sampling and sealing on Chang'e-6 could not exceed 17 hours.
With tight time and heavy tasks, to make this "soil-digging" journey smoother, the research team at the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation put their heads together and took multiple measures to shore up technical shortcomings, going all out to safeguard the lunar surface sampling work. Enhancing the probe's autonomous sampling and sealing capability greatly improved work efficiency; adopting a "human-in-the-loop" approach allowed ground personnel to intervene when necessary to handle unexpected situations... The researchers repeatedly deliberated over countless details to ensure that nothing went wrong.
The entire sampling and sealing process consists of about 2,000 actions that are interlinked and closely connected steps (环环相扣, huan huan xiang kou - "ring, ring; link, buckle"). "Every step is a single small change affecting the entire situation (牵一发而动全身, qian yi fa er dong quan shen - "pull, one hair; move, whole body"), and must go through detailed design and full verification," said Deng Xiangjin, an expert at the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. Before the mission, every team member sorted out their post manuals, and work procedures, interpretation criteria, emergency plans, and so on were implemented item by item; his own in-orbit operation records alone filled a full 1,055 lines.
"All we can do is work in a steady and reliable manner (踏踏实实, ta ta shi shi - "step, step; solid, solid") to do every small task well in our hands," Deng Xiangjin said.
From development to testing, and then to actual operation, the team sorted out every procedure and thought through every possible situation. These meticulous preparations, following the commands across approximately 380,000 kilometers, were ultimately transformed into a packaged and packed "piece of luggage," handed over to the next leg.
Subsequently, this hard-won "piece of luggage" had to complete a special "transfer" on its return journey to Earth.
"The ascender's fuel is only enough to support its takeoff from the lunar surface and entry into lunar orbit. The task of escorting the lunar soil samples home had to be handed over to the partner waiting in orbit. Therefore, capture and transfer — every step had to succeed on the first try," said Fu Lijia, an expert at the Eighth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. If any link went wrong, the samples might never make it home. Especially in the capture phase, with both spacecraft moving at high speed, if the capture claws failed to grab hold in time, the ascender could be knocked away.
In lunar orbit, 380,000 kilometers away, the Chang'e-6 ascender completed docking with the orbiter-returner combination. Subsequently, the sealed container carrying humanity's first lunar far-side samples was steadily transferred from the ascender to the returner.
Fu Lijia, staring intently at the big screen, only then let out a long sigh of relief.
On June 25, 2024, the Chang'e-6 returner returned to Earth carrying 1,935.3 grams of lunar far-side samples. Through the diligent research of scientists, this gift from across the stars continues to bring humanity a series of brand-new scientific discoveries: the lunar far-side mantle is "drier" and "colder" than the near side; young magmatic activity exists on the far side; the formation time of the Moon's ancient impact basins has been precisely determined... In July this year, new research further revealed that the energy of solar wind particles received by the Moon's near and far sides differs, with Earth's magnetosphere playing a "speed-regulating" role. This "piece of luggage," carefully guarded all the way, is continuously yielding new answers in the laboratory.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "The achievements of the lunar exploration program embody the wisdom and painstaking efforts of several generations of Chinese space workers, and from one angle demonstrate the remarkable progress we have made in recent years in self-reliance and strength in science and technology, fully displaying the ambition, backbone, and confidence of the Chinese people."
The steps of independent exploration continue to advance through successive tackling of key problems. In 1975, China's first recoverable remote-sensing satellite returned, making China the third country in the world to master satellite recovery technology. After decades of braving all hardships and weather to complete a journey (风雨兼程, feng yu jian cheng - "wind, rain; combine, journey"), since the beginning of the new era, Chang'e-5 achieved China's first lunar sample return, and Chang'e-6 extended this footprint to the far side of the Moon. Today, the answers of the universe are not limited to physical samples; vast amounts of imagery and detection data are continuously transmitted back to Earth. In July this year, Tianwen-2 transmitted real images of an asteroid; Fengyun-4C transmitted data and information on cloud systems, solar flares, and more from an altitude of approximately 36,000 kilometers...
The space "luggage" is connected on one end to the vast stars, and on the other end to the lives of millions of households. China's space industry is continuously bringing the mysteries of the more distant universe back to Earth.
The "luggage" now contains the coordinates of the world
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Outer space is the common domain of humanity, and space exploration is the common cause of humanity." In China's space "luggage," there has always been a place reserved for international partners.
On May 3, 2024, Pakistan's cubesat traveled to the Moon with Chang'e-6, embarking on the first lunar exploration mission in Pakistan's history. For a time, "exploring the Moon" became a hot topic of discussion on the streets and in the alleys of Pakistan.
Taking on the challenge of the world's first automated sampling and return from the far side of the Moon, the Chang'e-6 mission still carried 4 international payloads despite its payload resources being extremely precious, and Pakistan's cubesat was one of them.
In early 2023, China and Pakistan launched the joint development of this satellite. With the many states of international payload equipment, complex interfaces and processes, and the added effects of cultural and time-zone differences, the development schedule was very tight. Rising to the challenge, Wu Shufan, the Chinese team leader and professor at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, led his team in close cooperation with the Pakistani side, overcoming great difficulties and tackling tough problems (攻坚克难, gong jian ke nan - "attack, strong point; overcome, difficulty"), and successfully developed a cubesat with a total satellite mass of 6.5 kilograms and a total payload mass of 9 kilograms.
"Don't let the small size of this satellite fool you — it carries no shortage of technological innovations," Wu Shufan said. The team worked out a communication scheme suitable for a lunar exploration cubesat and conquered the key challenge of Earth-Moon ultra-long-distance tracking, telemetry, and control and data return for a nanosatellite platform.
To promote the smooth implementation of the cooperation, the overall engineering system of the Chang'e-6 mission organized experts on multiple occasions to "take the pulse," clarify plans, formulate specifications, establish a joint working group, and promptly coordinate technical and management difficulties.
At 16:14 on May 8, 2024, Pakistan's cubesat was successfully separated in lunar orbit, and subsequently took a photograph — the dazzling sun and the silvery Moon in the same frame. This photo of the sun and moon shining together brilliantly (日月同辉, ri yue tong hui - "sun, moon; together, shine") was reposted by multiple international institutions and became a vivid footnote to international space cooperation.
According to the mission requirements, the satellite's assessment lifespan was 5 hours, but it actually worked in orbit for 55 days, continuously transmitting images and monitoring data during that time, providing valuable first-hand information for Pakistan's lunar research. "This satellite successfully verified nanosatellite lunar orbit detection technology, and the results far exceeded expectations," Wu Shufan said.
During the development process, Pakistani technical personnel exchanged and learned with their Chinese colleagues, making new progress in areas such as satellite design capability. "Pakistan looks forward to continuing in-depth cooperation with China in the research, development, and manufacturing of various application satellites, and to making more contributions to the development of the space sector of both countries," said Kamal Islam, professor at the Pakistan Institute of Space Technology and chief scientist of the payload.
From a cubesat jointly developed by China and Pakistan to more fellow travelers exploring the universe together, the story of cooperation continues to be written. China's space "circle of friends" is constantly expanding, and the space "luggage" embodies global wisdom.
Shan Zhide, director of the China National Space Administration, stated: "In the future, we will continue to promote international space cooperation in multiple fields such as joint satellite development, space data sharing, and global governance of outer space, and promote innovative development in space science, space technology, and space applications."
Based on global coordinates, China is working hand in hand with other countries to develop the space industry together through open cooperation. China has deepened practical cooperation with more than 50 countries and international organizations through forms such as satellite development, payload hosting, data sharing, talent cultivation, and outer space governance; 9 projects from 17 countries have been selected for the first batch of international cooperative science experiment projects on the China Space Station, and the China Space Station will also welcome its first foreign astronaut.
Based on global coordinates, China is promoting space achievements to better benefit the world. In May this year, the "Smile" satellite, jointly developed by China and Europe, was launched, aiming to reveal the mysteries of the interaction between the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere. In Brazil, the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite guards the tropical rainforest; in Egypt, EgyptSat-2 provides high-resolution images for urban planning and national land resource surveys; in Tajikistan, dam management personnel at Sarez Lake use the BeiDou system for dam deformation monitoring... Planning space development with a global vision and "holding hands" in outer space, China's space "luggage" is increasingly taking on an "international style."
"Building a space power requires the continuous efforts of generation after generation." Each piece of space "luggage" traveling back and forth across the stars embodies the perseverance and hard work of generation after generation of space workers.
Over seventy years of chasing dreams in the sky, China's space industry has written a nation's dream of looking up at the stars into a flight path leading to the vast universe. The ever-enriching space "luggage" carries the strength of independent innovation, the ambition of self-reliance and self-strengthening, and also the responsibility of exploring the universe and benefiting humanity. On the journey to build a space power, we will surely journey to even more distant starry expanses, allowing more exploration achievements to benefit humanity's common home.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 周人杰 刘鑫焱 马睿姗
In early October, Cicun Village, Qinzhouhuang Town, Qin County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province entered the harvest season, with millet ears bending deeply downward, and large-scale grower Chang Qing was harvesting the millet ears.
"In the millet fields we use full-film mulching with hole-sowing technology, paired with biodegradable mulch film, which preserves warmth, retains soil moisture, and can also accumulate rainwater." Chang Qing said that by applying new organic dry-farming varieties and technologies, "Qinzhouhuang" millet has good taste and its reputation has grown ever stronger.
In May 2020, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Shanxi, he emphasized: "Shanxi has many mountains and much land, diverse landforms, and varied climate; this unique resource endowment determines that Shanxi agriculture's way out lies in 'specialty' and 'excellence'. We must deeply advance agricultural supply-side structural reform, raising comprehensive agricultural benefits and competitiveness."
Bearing firmly in mind the General Secretary's earnest instructions, Shanxi takes developing organic dry-farming agriculture as an important starting point, builds "specialty""excellence" agricultural brands, and advances high-quality development of agriculture across the province.
Building a Shanxi-characteristic organic dry-farming standards system——
"In the past, dryland sowing either meant relying solely on rainfall or meant high-cost supplemental irrigation." Zhang Haibei, a villager from Gejiazhuang Village, Yuci District, Jinzhong City, said, "The new technology preserves seedlings and tolerates drought. Corn growth is better than before; now it can shoot up to a person's height."
The new technology originates from the Lifang Experimental Demonstration Base for Organic Dry-Farming Agriculture at Shanxi Agricultural University. In the experimental fields, the corn soil-moisture-probing seeder automatically adjusts the furrow-opening angle and soil-moisture-probing depth, placing seeds directly into the moist soil layer; straw, mushroom residue and other materials are"transformed" into organic fertilizer, greatly raising soil organic matter content and water storage, moisture retention, drought resistance capabilities……
"This integrated agronomy-mechanization technology model system of moisture-probing sowing, drought resistance and seedling preservation, both reduces labor intensity and promotes high yield and quality improvement, with field emergence rate stably reaching above 90%." Wang Juanling, director of the Key Laboratory of Organic Dry-Farming Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, at Shanxi Agricultural University, introduced that this technology model has been applied to multiple crops including corn, millet, sorghum, with per-mu yield increases reaching 11.5%.
Based on the characteristics of drought, little rainfall and diverse landforms, Shanxi focuses on the full chain of "soil, fertilizer, water, seed, technology, machinery, green," and in light of local conditions accelerates technological innovation. The province has built 50 organic dry-farming scientific research bases equipped with improved varieties, improved methods and improved machinery, researched and promoted 51 technology models, released an organic dry-farming standards system composed of more than 400 standards, and initially formed an organic dry-farming technology system covering different ecological regions, water source conditions, irrigation methods and crop types.
Building a province-wide organic dry-farming pilot zone——
"Corn seedling leaves are turning red and not growing tall—what's going on?" During the critical period of corn growth, Hu Pengfei, a villager from Houping Village, Zhangzi County, Changzhi City, called to consult Xu Jing, associate researcher at the Shanxi Organic Dry-Farming Agriculture Research Institute of Shanxi Agricultural University. Xu Jing led a technical service team to investigate on site:"Precipitation has been excessive, and root respiration is impeded. Use machinery to intertill once, lowering the moisture content."
In recent years, Shanxi has promoted organic dry-farming integrated technologies and supporting technologies in contiguous concentrated areas within designated pilot zones, with each base equipped with a technical service team. Sowing, emergence, later-stage management……experts regularly go to the fields every month, providing full-process technical support for production. At the same time, relying on the established demonstration cities, demonstration counties and organic dry-farming production bases, Shanxi regularly organizes training activities to promote organic dry-farming technologies.
"At the year-end acceptance inspection, we must ensure that per-unit yield in the pilot zones increases by 10%, and pesticide and fertilizer usage achieves negative growth." Yao Jiguang, deputy director of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said.
As of now, Shanxi has created 43 organic dry-farming agriculture standardization demonstration zones, selected and introduced more than900 drought-resistant water-saving varieties, implemented high-efficiency water-saving irrigation projects covering 7.09 million mu, and built organic dry-farming production bases covering 1.6 million mu.
Building "specialty""excellence" brands based on resource endowments——
"Datong's volcanic soil is fertile, sunshine hours are long, and day-night temperature difference is large, so the daylily grown here has good quality and is a national geographical indication product." Duan Yaping, head of Wangyou Farm, Yunzhou District, Datong City, said.
In recent years, Shanxi has targeted its efforts, continuously polishing the"specialty""excellence" agricultural golden signboard: accelerating the construction of a brand catalog system with coordinated development of"regional public brands + enterprise product brands," having cumulatively built 12 provincial-level regional public brands, 46 municipal-level regional public brands, and 169 national famous, special, excellent, new agricultural products; released 30 group standards for"Organic Dry-Farming·Shanxi Products," and every year organizes"Organic Dry-Farming·Shanxi Products" to go north to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, south to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, east to the Yangtze River Delta, carrying out exhibition and sales activities.
Wangyou Farm's daylilies have been transformed into daylily functional beverages, probiotics, ice bread……Duan Yaping introduced that the Datong Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has multiple times"acted as a bridge," and Wangyou Farm's products have entered events such as the National Sugar and Wine Commodities Fair and the China International Agricultural Products Trade Fair.
At present,"Datong Daylily" has entered more than150 chain supermarkets in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, with the entire industry chain output value exceeding 4 billion yuan.
"Qinzhouhuang Millet,""Jishan Jujube,""Yuncheng Apple"……Shanxi, in light of local conditions, has laid out organic dry-farming characteristic leading industries, having formed the"specialty""excellence" agricultural pattern of"southern fruits, central grains, northern meat, eastern medicinal herbs, western dried fruits."
"Shanxi will continue to leverage the traditional advantages of organic dry-farming, deeply implement the'quality improvement and efficiency enhancement action for'specialty''excellence'agriculture, and build'specialty''excellence'agricultural and organic dry-farming bases." Sun Jingmin, director of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said.
Return to TopSince the beginning of this year, demand for two-way freight flows on the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor has been robust, with the Sichuan-Chongqing region and Beibu Gulf ports closely linked and transport exchanges frequent. As of October 6, the container transport volume of China-Europe freight trains on the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor has exceeded 1 million twenty-foot equivalent units this year, with the corridor's capacity for ensuring smooth and uninterrupted passage (保通保畅, bao tong bao chang - "ensure, pass, ensure, smooth") continuing to strengthen, providing strong transport capacity support for the stable development of the foreign trade economy in the southwest region.
The photo shows a Land-Sea Trade Corridor train departing from Tuanjiecun Station of the Chongqing International Logistics Hub Park on October 7.
Photo by Guo Jin (Image China)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴储岐
Elderly care service consumption vouchers are a warm "consumption red envelope" issued by the state to disabled elderly people — funded by fiscal subsidies, eligible elderly people purchasing home-based, community, or institutional elderly care services can use the vouchers to offset a proportion of the cost within the quota. As of October 7, this subsidy program targeting elderly people with moderate or higher disability levels has benefited more than 2.46 million people.
How can consumption vouchers be obtained and used well? How can inclusive policies ensure that everyone receives the benefits they are entitled to? A reporter interviewed the relevant official in charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Which elderly people can apply
Reader's concern: My workplace has moved to Shanghai, and I want to bring my father here to care for him. He was assessed as having a moderate disability level in his hometown in Zhejiang. Where should we apply for the elderly care service consumption voucher? Does he need to be reassessed?
The recipients of the vouchers are elderly people who have been assessed through unified evaluation as having moderate, severe, or complete disability levels. The assessment of disability level and the application for consumption vouchers can both be completed through the "Minzheng Tong" mini-program or mobile application. Elderly people can handle the procedures themselves, and children and relatives, village (community) staff, and elderly care service institution staff can also handle them on their behalf. The application depends on the current actual place of residence. As long as the elderly person has undergone a capacity assessment after July 2024 and has been confirmed by the provincial civil affairs department as having a moderate or higher disability level, no reassessment is needed.
It should be noted that elderly people currently receiving subsistence assistance for persons in extreme difficulty, concentrated care service subsidies for economically disadvantaged disabled elderly people, or services under the home and community basic elderly care service improvement action project are not included again in the scope of consumption voucher issuance. As for elderly people who already enjoy long-term care insurance, after deducting the relevant benefits, their compliant out-of-pocket elderly care service expenditures can still be offset with the vouchers.
Which services can be used
Reader's concern: My elderly relative usually lives in a nursing home. Next month he needs to be hospitalized for treatment and we plan to hire a caregiver. Can we use the elderly care service consumption voucher?
A reminder first: the consumption voucher is issued in the current month and must be used in the current month; it automatically becomes invalid the following month.
The scope of use of the consumption voucher covers home-based door-to-door services, institutional elderly care services, day care services, and so on. At present, home-based door-to-door services include life care services such as meal assistance and bathing assistance, basic care services such as rehabilitation assessment, as well as health management services and so on. The specific service list can be queried on the elderly care service consumption subsidy project under "Minzheng Tong."
Whether the voucher can be used for offset depends on whether the service institution has been included in the official database of the elderly care service consumption subsidy project. Household service, property management, and caregiver enterprises that have signed contracts and been included in the database, when they provide relevant services within the prescribed scope, can have the fees offset with the vouchers. Hiring caregivers and nursing assistants through registered institutions in a formal manner also meets the conditions for use. Before using the voucher, everyone can check through "Minzheng Tong."
How can the number of institutions accepting the vouchers increase
Reader's concern: In my area, there are not many institutions that accept the vouchers. Will there be more in the future?
As of the end of June this year, China had 388,000 elderly care institutions and facilities, of which community elderly care service institutions and facilities numbered 350,000, and the construction of the elderly care service system has achieved certain results. But compared with demand, there is still room for improvement in both the quantity and quality of service supply.
At present, civil affairs departments at all levels are working to increase the supply of elderly care services in conjunction with organizing and implementing the subsidy project, encouraging and guiding more elderly care institutions and community elderly care service institutions with the capacity for disabled care to participate in the subsidy project. For example, Shanghai has optimized the database entry process and accelerated fund settlement, attracting more institutions to participate; Shandong has issued policies to household service and property management enterprises, calling on all types of qualified business entities to actively participate in the subsidy project. At the same time, many localities are guiding high-quality elderly care institutions to extend services down to communities, setting up service stations in areas where supply is relatively weak, and increasing door-to-door service items.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 7) (Reporter Han Xin) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Transport: During this year's National Day holiday, the overall operation of the transportation industry was stable and orderly (平稳有序, ping wen you xu - "level, stable; order, sequence"). From October 1 to 7, the cumulative cross-regional movement of people across society is expected to reach 2.144 billion person-trips, with a daily average of 306 million person-trips.
Highway travel remains the primary mode. The cumulative highway movement of people is expected to reach 1.9642 billion person-trips, with a daily average of 280.6 million person-trips. Among this, the cumulative highway commercial passenger volume is expected to reach 286.76 million person-trips, with a daily average of 40.97 million person-trips, a year-on-year increase of 6.8%.
Railway, civil aviation, and waterway passenger volumes all increased year-on-year respectively. The cumulative railway passenger volume is expected to reach 152.36 million person-trips, with a daily average of 21.77 million person-trips, a year-on-year increase of 13.1%. The cumulative waterway passenger volume is expected to reach 10.99 million person-trips, with a daily average of 1.57 million person-trips, a year-on-year increase of 7.8%. The cumulative civil aviation passenger volume is expected to reach 16.95 million person-trips, with a daily average of 2.42 million person-trips, essentially flat year-on-year.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 7) (Reporter Wang Yunshan) The reporter learned from the National Energy Administration: In the first eight months of this year, power trading institutions across the country completed a cumulative trading volume of 5,180 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 19.2%.
In August, power trading institutions across the country completed a trading volume of 754.8 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 15.2%. By trading scope, intra-provincial trading volume was 563.8 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 16.0%; inter-provincial and inter-regional trading volume was 191.0 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 11.4%. By trading type, medium- and long-term trading volume was 681.9 billion kilowatt-hours; spot trading volume was 72.9 billion kilowatt-hours. Green power trading volume was 26.4 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 7.7%.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李志伟
"I have been fortunate enough to listen to President Xi Jinping's important speeches on multiple occasions, and what I admire most is President Xi Jinping's consistent emphasis on the friendship between the American and Chinese peoples and on people-to-people exchanges." Recalling her experience of listening to President Xi Jinping's important speeches, Nell Calloway, granddaughter of General Chennault, commander of the American Flying Tigers, and director of the Chennault Aviation Military Museum in the United States, could hardly contain her excitement.
In 1941, General Chennault formed the "American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force" and fought alongside the Chinese military and civilians against the Japanese aggressors. The Chinese people affectionately called this unit the "Flying Tigers." The Flying Tigers were a microcosm of the United States and China fighting side by side during World War II, and an even more moving chapter in the history of Sino-American friendship and cooperation.
In September 2023, President Xi Jinping replied to a letter from Jeffrey Greene, chairman of the Sino-American Aviation Heritage Foundation, and Flying Tigers veterans Harry Moyer and Melvin McMullen. "Looking back on the past, the Chinese and American peoples, uniting in hatred against a common enemy (同仇敌忾, tong chou di kei - "same, hatred, enemy, resent") in the struggle against Japanese fascism, endured the test of blood and fire and forged a profound friendship." President Xi Jinping emphasized in his reply, "The sound and stable development of Sino-American relations in the new era requires the participation and support of Flying Tigers members of the new era. I hope the Flying Tigers spirit can be passed down from generation to generation between the two peoples."
Upon learning of the content of the reply, Calloway was deeply encouraged. "President Xi Jinping often speaks of the precious value of people-to-people friendship and win-win cooperation, and he especially points out the necessity for the United States and China to deepen mutual understanding." Calloway stated, "President Xi Jinping advocates cherishing peace and creating a future on the basis of remembering history and honoring the martyrs. This also constantly reminds us that the Flying Tigers spirit does not belong only to the past. To this day, the Flying Tigers remain a bridge connecting the friendship between the American and Chinese peoples and enhancing mutual understanding."
This is a profound friendship forged by the two peoples with their lives and blood. To fight against the aggressors, more than 2,000 Flying Tigers members shed their blood in the skies, achieving the proud record of shooting down more than 2,600 Japanese military aircraft. "The story of the Flying Tigers tells us: when people from different countries unite as one for a common goal, what great achievements they can accomplish. We must never forget the cooperation and friendship between the American and Chinese peoples." Calloway said, "This is also the reason why my grandfather held deep respect for the Chinese people and always firmly believed that Sino-American friendship is extremely precious."
In recent years, Calloway has been committed to telling the story of the Flying Tigers and promoting people-to-people and cultural exchanges between the two countries. "Remembering the Flying Tigers is not only about cherishing the past, but also about passing on the spirit of cooperation and mutual respect embodied in that history." She said.
"The Chinese people have never forgotten this history." Calloway noted that from China's continued invitations to Flying Tigers veterans and their families to visit China, to the establishment of memorial halls in places such as Chongqing, "in the hearts of many people, the Flying Tigers are a monument to international friendship and a symbol of fighting side by side in times of crisis." She firmly believes that the story of the Flying Tigers is moving because it demonstrates individual courage and the spirit of working together to overcome difficulties (共渡难关, gong du nan guan - "together, cross, difficult, pass"), and these values have long transcended national borders. The spiritual legacy of the Flying Tigers is becoming more new and vigorous over time (历久弥新, li jiu mi xin - "long time, even more, new") not only because of their achievements on the battlefield, but also because of the life-and-death bond they formed with the Chinese people—they shared hardships and shared life and death together, and even sacrificed their precious lives in the common struggle.
In September 2025, Calloway was invited to attend the conference in Beijing commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War. What deeply moved her was not only the grand-scale commemorative activities and the solemn ceremonies, but also the spirit of remembering history and cherishing peace displayed therein. "This spirit is especially precious in the present day. When the doves of peace flew overhead, I felt a surge of emotion (心潮澎湃, xin chao peng pai - "heart, tide, surging, swelling") and deeply understood the importance of peace." Calloway said, "At present, conflicts still afflict countless people around the world. The tranquility on this land of China reminds us: peace is not only a vision, but also a mission shared by all of humanity."
Over the past 20-plus years, Calloway has visited China many times and witnessed the tremendous changes that have taken place in China. "China's economic development, modern infrastructure construction, and the continuous improvement of the ecological environment are all astonishing. But what impressed me most is the confidence, perseverance, and professionalism of the Chinese people." Calloway stated, "President Xi Jinping has led the Chinese people to achieve tremendous development accomplishments."
"China is becoming a responsible major country with greater international influence, innovation leadership, and moral appeal." Calloway stated that she greatly admires the four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping, whose overall goal is to promote cooperation among countries and advance peaceful development and common prosperity in the world. "Encouraging dialogue, improving people's lives, and promoting closer cooperation between countries—these goals are worth pursuing by all countries together." Calloway said that in today's world, challenges transcend national borders, and countries should think from the perspective of shared responsibility and shared progress. "Efforts to promote cooperation and focus on people's well-being and prosperity have always been an important step toward a more peaceful world."
Return to TopBy: 王晓丽
Promote global artificial intelligence to develop in a direction that is upward and good, that benefits humanity, and let the fruits of development in the intelligent era be shared by the people of all countries more extensively and more fairly.
Artificial intelligence is a strategically important technology that leads a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and it is also a development topic, a governance topic, and an era topic that all countries face together. President Xi Jinping pointed out that we must maintain humanity's control over artificial intelligence technology, uphold the people-centered, upward-and-good philosophy, and let artificial intelligence serve the progress of humanity, fully demonstrating a possessing a broad-minded and global perspective (胸怀天下, xiong huai tian xia - "chest, hold, heaven, below") sense of responsibility befitting a major country and a forward-looking strategic vision.
From the invention of the steam engine ushering in industrial civilization, to the spread of electricity lighting up modern society, to the birth of the internet connecting the entire world, every scientific and technological revolution has profoundly reshaped the way humanity produces and lives. Today, global artificial intelligence technological innovation has entered an unprecedented (前所未有, qian suo wei you -"before, what, not, have") period of vitality, and the intelligent technologies of universal interconnection of things, human-machine collaboration, cross-border integration, and co-creation and sharing are releasing enormous energy in superposition. The more technology surges forward, the more direction is needed; the more applications become widespread, the more governance is needed as escort.
Open cooperation is the necessary path for the healthy development of artificial intelligence. The development of artificial intelligence should not be a solo performance by one country, but rather a symphony of global cooperation. Only by upholding openness and mutual benefit, encouraging open-source, open, cooperative, and shared approaches, can we comprehensively promote artificial intelligence scientific and technological innovation, industrial development, and scenario application, and collaboratively advance the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the cultivation and strengthening of emerging industries, and the forward-looking layout of future industries. Any closed, exclusive, wall-building, barrier-setting approach does not conform to the laws of scientific and technological progress, nor does it conform to the common interests of the people of all countries. China adheres to promoting innovation through openness and development through cooperation, and is willing to work with all parties to seize the historic opportunities of artificial intelligence development, promoting intelligent technology to better empower all walks of life (千行百业, qian hang bai ye -"thousand, industry, hundred, profession") and benefit every household (千家万户, qian jia wan hu -"thousand, family, ten thousand, household").
Security and controllability are an important prerequisite for artificial intelligence to benefit humanity. Artificial intelligence contains both enormous opportunities and governance challenges. When machines begin to think, how should humanity coexist with them? When algorithms participate in decision-making, how can security be guaranteed? When technology challenges ethics, how can governance keep up? When the gap continues to widen, how can universal benefit be achieved? These questions require the international community to answer them together. President Xi Jinping emphasized promoting the construction of laws and regulations, technological monitoring, risk early warning, and emergency response systems, building a solid security bottom line, preventing abuse and malicious use, ensuring that artificial intelligence remains under human control at all times. This important proposition upholds both development and security, embodies a responsible attitude, and provides important guidance for global artificial intelligence governance.
Promoting the Global South to share the opportunities of the intelligent era is an inherent requirement of building a fair and reasonable global artificial intelligence governance system. President Xi Jinping clearly proposed that we must extensively carry out international cooperation, help Global South countries strengthen capacity building, bridge the digital and intelligence divide, promote sustainable development, and avoid creating new historical injustices in the field of artificial intelligence. This clear stance combines technological progress with fairness and justice, combines China's development with the common development of the world, and demonstrates China's consistent unity and cooperation with Global South countries.
Supporting Global South countries to accelerate artificial intelligence development lies in concept guidance and concrete action. China announced that in the next five years, it will provide 5,000 artificial intelligence thematic training and study places for developing countries, build international artificial intelligence application cooperation centers with ASEAN, the Arab League, the African Union, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and BRICS countries, and promote the "Mazu" meteorological intelligent early warning solution to be implemented and applied in 30 countries. These practical measures focus both on talent cultivation and capacity enhancement, and on scenario application and improvement of people's livelihoods; they both serve developing countries in strengthening their capacity for independent development and lay a solid foundation of cooperation for global artificial intelligence governance.
Upholding openness and mutual benefit, ensuring security and controllability, encouraging inclusiveness and pluralism, and advocating working together in complete harmony, the international community will certainly be able to build broader consensus, gather stronger synergy, promote global artificial intelligence to develop in a direction that is upward and good, that benefits humanity, let the fruits of development in the intelligent era be shared by the people of all countries more extensively and more fairly, and jointly create an even better future for human society.
(The author is the Executive Dean of the National Security Research Institute of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 肖新新
"The Bishkek Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization further consolidated consensus among all parties." Alexander Lomanov, Deputy Director of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, recently said in an interview with our reporter, "The 'circle of friends' is growing ever larger, the foundation for cooperation is becoming ever more solid, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is ushering in broader prospects for development." As a new type of regional cooperation organization with the widest territorial expanse, the largest population, and immense development potential in the world, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has injected greater positive energy into upholding international fairness and justice and addressing the current governance deficits facing the world.
The most precious spiritual asset of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is the "Shanghai Spirit" cultivated through mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for diversity of civilizations, and pursuit of common development. Lomanov said that the "Shanghai Spirit" has laid a solid foundation for the steady development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Guided by this spirit, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has united countries with different social systems and development paths, possessing diverse and splendid civilizations and at different stages of development, upholding the path of coexistence featuring non-alignment, non-confrontation, and non-targeting of any third party, promoting open and inclusive development among all parties, and achieving mutual benefit and win-win results (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual benefit, shared win").
At the Bishkek Summit, President Xi Jinping, focusing on the high-quality development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, put forward upholding development as the priority to open up prospects for common prosperity; upholding security as the paramount concern to create an environment of universal security; upholding people-centeredness to cultivate deep roots of friendship between generations; and upholding dialogue and consultation to improve fair and orderly governance. Lomanov believes that these "four upholdings" are highly aligned with the four major global initiatives, providing important guidance for the sustained growth and expansion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and injecting surging momentum into promoting the common prosperity of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization family. The implementation of the "four upholdings" by all parties helps deepen cooperation in traditional and emerging fields such as trade, investment, and artificial intelligence, promote inclusive and beneficial economic globalization, better safeguard regional security and stability, strengthen exchanging and learning from each other (交流互鉴, jiao liu hu jian - "exchange, mutual learn") among different civilizations, and advance the improvement of regional and global governance.
"President Xi Jinping advocated an equal and orderly multipolar world at the 'Shanghai Cooperation Organization Plus' meeting, demonstrating China's sense of responsibility as a major country." Lomanov said that the world today is undergoing profound transformations, with Cold War mentality, the "theory of superiority of civilizations," and hegemonism resurfacing, and deficits in peace, development, security, and governance intensifying. China has always practiced genuine multilateralism, resolutely upheld the international order based on international law, and moved towards each other in a common direction (相向而行, xiang xiang er xing - "facing, facing, walk") with all parties in an equal and inclusive manner. This will further promote the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Global South to seek the "greatest common divisor" of dialogue and cooperation, prompting the reform of the global governance system to develop in a more just and reasonable direction.
Lomanov believes that under the current circumstances, member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization should work together even more to continuously push the development of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to new heights, and join hands with the Global South to make greater contributions to promoting world peace and development and enhancing the well-being of people of all countries.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 任 彦
"The changes unseen in a century are accelerating, and the international balance of power is undergoing profound adjustment. The continued growth and expansion of the BRICS cooperation mechanism is a vivid footnote to this trend of the times." Sutindra Kulkarni, founder and chairman of India's "New South Asia Forum," said in a recent exclusive interview with our reporter that since its founding 20 years ago, the BRICS cooperation mechanism has developed into a "Big BRICS" with 11 member states and 10 partner countries, and more and more countries are eager to join the BRICS family. This fully demonstrates that the BRICS cooperation mechanism conforms to the trend of history and responds to the deep aspirations of developing countries for a more just and equitable international order.
Kulkarni believes that emerging market countries and developing countries, represented by the BRICS countries, are rising as a group. In the international order formed after the end of World War II, the West long dominated the economic, political, and even soft power spheres. Today, multipolarity is accelerating, and new development poles are constantly emerging beyond North America and Europe. China has risen to become the world's second-largest economy, and countries such as India, Russia, Brazil, and South Africa have likewise injected new vitality into the multipolar world.
"In the face of hegemonic acts such as unilateral sanctions, technological blockades, and the weaponization of tariffs, the BRICS countries must unite, jointly raise a loud voice, and uphold the international system with the United Nations at its core and the international order based on international law," Kulkarni said. "The BRICS cooperation mechanism is not a bloc targeting any country, but a platform for developing countries to unite and cooperate. The BRICS spirit emphasizes openness, inclusiveness, and win-win cooperation, and does not engage in exclusive small circles. The door of the BRICS cooperation mechanism has always been open to people sharing the same ambitions and goals (志同道合, zhi tong dao he - "will, same, path, together")."
The theme of this year's New Delhi BRICS Summit is "Building Resilience, Innovation, Cooperation, and Sustainable Development." "The theme of this year's BRICS Summit meets the common needs of the international community," Kulkarni said. At present, unilateralism is bringing turmoil and uncertainty to the global economy, and the BRICS countries must enhance development resilience; scientific and technological innovation should not become the patent of a few countries, and emerging industries such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and big data should benefit all developing countries; in the face of the climate crisis, the BRICS countries should accelerate the transition from fossil fuels to clean and green energy, and deepen cooperation in fields such as solar energy, wind energy, and hydrogen energy. "China has become a major contributor to global green development, and the space for green development cooperation among the BRICS countries is broad and has great potential for success (大有可为, da you ke wei - "great, have, can, do")," Kulkarni said.
Kulkarni said that China actively promotes the BRICS cooperation mechanism to grow bigger and stronger, and is advancing with the times (与时俱进, yu shi ju jin - "with, time, along, advance") in strengthening the institutional building of BRICS. In recent years, China has promoted the establishment of the New Development Bank, initiated the "BRICS Plus" cooperation model, and proposed the establishment of an innovation base for the New Industrial Revolution Partnership. "A series of important propositions and initiatives by the Chinese side have pointed out the way forward for BRICS cooperation."
"At the New Delhi BRICS Summit, President Xi Jinping proposed that the BRICS countries should be pioneers in promoting innovative development, pioneers in maintaining peace and stability, pioneers in promoting mutual learning among civilizations, and pioneers in reforming and improving global governance, once again clarifying the historical mission for BRICS cooperation," Kulkarni said. The "four pioneers" have elevated the strategic positioning of BRICS cooperation and "boosted the determination and confidence of the BRICS countries to unite and strengthen themselves."
"Following the Kazan meeting and the Tianjin meeting, President Xi Jinping held another bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Modi this time, injecting momentum into the continued improvement of India-China relations," Kulkarni said. Under the strategic guidance of the two countries' leaders, India-China relations have gradually emerged from the trough, moving from "setting out anew" to "achieving further improvement." The improvement and development of India-China relations is not only welcomed by the more than 2.8 billion people of the two sides, but is also an inherent requirement for strengthening Global South cooperation.
China will assume the BRICS presidency in 2027. "We look forward to the BRICS Summit to be held in China next year becoming a new milestone in BRICS cooperation," Kulkarni said. "As long as the BRICS countries think with one mind and work with one effort, they will surely be able to promote the building of a more just and equitable international order and make new and greater contributions to the cause of human peace and development."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 戴楷然
At dawn, in the village of Foudjouaye in the Ogu Prefecture of the Plateau Region of Togo, villagers lined up beside a newly completed water well. Villager Ayo Essobanda gently pressed the pump handle, and clear water flowed from the outlet into a bucket. "In the past, every family had to walk several kilometers every day to fetch water from the Anié River, which was time-consuming and laborious. Now, we can get clean drinking water right at our doorstep," Essobanda said with a smile.
For a long time, the drinking water problem has plagued the rural areas of Togo's Plateau Region. Due to weak water supply infrastructure, many villagers could only draw water from ditches and puddles. During the dry season, some water sources dried up, and villagers had to travel farther to find drinking water. Untreated water sources are prone to contamination, leaving hidden health risks for the villagers.
To improve local water access conditions, the China-aided Togo Rural Water Supply Project, undertaken by Jiangxi Zhongmei Engineering Construction Group Co., Ltd., began construction in November 2024 and was delivered in September this year. The project completed the drilling of 305 wells, covering more than 300 villages in the Plateau Region and benefiting over 170,000 local residents.
Huang Xianzhou, the project manager, explained that the villages in the Plateau Region are scattered, road conditions are limited, and many construction sites can only be reached via rural dirt roads. The transport of large machinery and building materials faced difficulties. Challenges such as high temperatures and malaria further increased the difficulty of project implementation. "The greater challenge came from underground," Huang Xianzhou said. The project area is dominated by bedrock formations, with underground aquifers generally deeper than 60 meters. If traditional single-point drilling were used, "dry wells" would easily result. To this end, the Chinese technical team comprehensively applied multiple methods, including the natural field detection method, electrical sounding technology, and transient electromagnetic method, to conduct fine analysis of the underground geological structure in order to locate water-rich areas and thereby precisely determine the optimal well positions.
Sanka Yao, the 70-year-old village chief of Dongwei Village, witnessed the entire project implementation process. He still clearly remembers that when the first gush of well water burst forth, the whole village erupted in celebration, and everyone shouted: "Finally, we no longer have to travel a long distance on foot (长途跋涉, chang tu ba she - "long distance, trudge, trek") to carry water!"
During the engineering construction and equipment installation process, a group of local employees gradually mastered professional skills such as drilling, equipment maintenance, and troubleshooting. Yao, a 38-year-old drilling rig operator, was one of them. When he first joined the project, Yao only had basic equipment operation capabilities. After systematic training from Chinese masters, Yao not only became proficient in operating drilling rig equipment but also able to participate in technical work such as well site selection. "Working at a Chinese enterprise project has not only given me a stable income but also helped me develop a specialized skill or expertise (一技之长, yi ji zhi chang - "one, skill, particle, excellence"). These skills give me more confidence in the future," Yao said. To ensure the project delivers long-term benefits, the Chinese team also trained a group of local operation and maintenance personnel. After the project was officially handed over, local technical personnel will undertake subsequent maintenance work, providing a guarantee for the long-term stable operation of the water supply facilities.
Wang Min, Chinese Ambassador to Togo, stated that the China-aided Togo Rural Water Supply Project is not only a project benefiting people's livelihoods but also a symbol of China-Togo friendship. "The project meets the urgent needs of the local people, and the Chinese team overcame difficulties to advance the construction. Their professional competence is admirable." Daga Maganawe, Governor of the Plateau Region of Togo, said that this cooperation has achieved a mutually beneficial win-win situation (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual, benefit, together, win") and has also genuinely deepened the friendly relations between the two countries.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 7) A Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on the 7th that Patrushev, Assistant to the President of Russia and Chairman of the Maritime Board, will visit China from October 8 to 13. Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, will hold talks and exchanges with him.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Kuala Lumpur, October 7) (Reporters Wang Jiawei, He Guanghai) Malaysia on the 7th held the Global Civilization Initiative High-Level Forum and Confucian-Islamic Civilization Cultural Festival in Kuala Lumpur. More than 500 people from various sectors in Malaysia, China, and other countries and regions gathered together in one place (齐聚一堂, qi ju yi tang - "gather, together, one hall"), exchanging views on topics such as civilizational dialogue, cultural exchange, and shared values.
The forum was themed "Seeking harmony despite differences (和而不同, he er bu tong - "harmony, yet, not, same"): Civilizational Exchange and a Shared Future." Malaysian Minister of Higher Education Zambry, representing Prime Minister Anwar, attended the event and read out the keynote speech. In his speech, Anwar stated that in today's world, conflicts, crises, and confrontations occur frequently, and differences in race, religion, culture, and political beliefs can easily become sources of misunderstanding and division. "Against this backdrop, the Global Civilization Initiative has important practical significance."
Anwar cited the Confucian concept of seeking harmony despite differences, saying that today's world does not need to "build high walls" but rather to "build bridges." People should, while understanding and upholding their own traditions, remain open to other civilizations, enhance mutual learning and respect through civilizational dialogue, and contribute to building a more peaceful and harmonious world.
Chinese Ambassador to Malaysia Ouyang Yujing said in his address that since its proposal three years ago, the Global Civilization Initiative has increasingly become a global consensus and has continuously been translated into vivid explorations and practices, demonstrating strong vitality in real life. China is willing to work with Malaysia and the international community to uphold the view of civilizations featuring equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness, promote Confucian-Islamic civilizational dialogue, practice the Global Civilization Initiative, and turn more outcomes of civilizational exchange into friendship among peoples and momentum for common development.
Chen Jiaxing, chairman of the Malaysia Strategic Research Institute, believes that the Global Civilization Initiative emphasizes respect for the diversity of civilizations, strengthening civilizational exchange and mutual learning, and people-to-people bonds, providing a broader platform for further dialogue and cooperation among different civilizations.
The Confucian-Islamic Civilization Cultural Festival, held concurrently with the forum, featured 12 interactive cultural booths showcasing Chinese civilization and Islamic cultural traditions. On the evening of the forum, an international think tank dialogue on the Global Civilization Initiative was also held, where representatives from multiple countries and regions discussed topics such as civilizational exchange, international cooperation, and shared global challenges.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者
The path of financial development with Chinese characteristics creatively put forward by General Secretary Xi Jinping is both an epistemology and a methodology.
The "Financial Law of the People's Republic of China (Draft)" publicly soliciting opinions on March 20 this year proposes that "the state adheres to the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics, builds a modern financial system with Chinese characteristics, and cultivates and promotes financial culture with Chinese characteristics."
A red, red Yan'an apple reflects a profound affection for the people and embodies the vivid practice of the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has always kept the Yan'an apple in his heart. He attaches great importance to using financial resources to support the high-quality development of the apple industry.
In February 2015, the General Secretary returned to Liangjiahe and specially took an off-road vehicle along rugged mountain roads to inspect the apple orchard high on the mountain ridge.
In October 2022, less than a week after the conclusion of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the General Secretary came to Nangou Village, Ansai District, Yan'an, Shaanxi, and pointed out that northern Shaanxi's "vigorous development of the apple planting industry can be said to enjoy favorable conditions in terms of timing, location, and people (天时地利人和, tian shi di li ren he - "heaven, time; earth, advantage; people, harmony"); this is the best and most suitable industry, with great prospects."
Today, one out of every ten apples in the country is produced in Yan'an. The total output value of the entire apple industry chain in Yan'an has exceeded 60 billion yuan, and the per capita fresh fruit output value of fruit farmers exceeds 30,000 yuan, benefiting as many as 800,000 farmers. Not only that, Yan'an apples have also "walked" out of the country and "flown" into space...
Financial "living water" irrigates agricultural modernization; Yan'an apples string together a road to prosperity and also a road to comprehensive rural revitalization.
A Road of Revitalization
"Adhere to taking financial services serving the real economy as the fundamental purpose"
Walking through Yan'an, on the mountain ridges and plateaus, seas of apple trees have replaced the bare loess; in the orchards, integrated water-fertilizer pipeline drip irrigation nourishes every fruit tree; in the park's intelligent fruit sorting lines, infrared rays precisely identify the sugar content and color of every apple. In overseas supermarkets, fresh fruits bearing the "Yan'an Apple" label are frequently placed into shopping carts.
"Adhere to taking financial services serving the real economy as the fundamental purpose" — "The real economy is the foundation of finance; finance is the lifeblood of the real economy; serving the real economy is finance's bounden duty." The Communist Party of China members' profound understanding of the laws of finance, on this land of Yan'an, guides financial "living water" to continuously nourish the apple industry.
Why apples? Why does financial "living water" surge toward them?
"Northern Shaanxi's climate, sunlight, latitude, altitude, etc. are very suitable for developing apple cultivation, coupled with the continuous development of drip irrigation technology, dwarf cultivation technology, fruit sorting production lines, etc., apples can be sold locally, and there is no worry about sales channels." It can both transform resource endowments into economic advantages and drive farmers to increase income and become prosperous; the apple industry is undoubtedly the pillar industry of Yan'an's comprehensive rural revitalization.
At the same time, rural finance is a shortcoming in China's financial services. To walk well the road of revitalization of Yan'an's apple industry, it is necessary to implement well the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and effectively strengthen high-quality financial services for major strategies, key areas, and weak links.
From resources to industry, the transformation of Yan'an apples has not been easy. From front-end planting, mid-end storage and processing, to end-end sales... Finance, based on a precise profile of the industry chain, aims at strengthening the chain, filling gaps in the chain, and extending the chain, empowering the entire chain systematically.
Strengthening the Chain: Storing Energy for Upgrading and Replacement
"The new varieties and new models are good, but the upfront investment is huge, and I can't come up with the money." Du Minzi, an old fruit farmer in Luochuan County, once sighed as he looked at his old orchard. Du Minzi's hesitation is a common difficulty faced by thousands of fruit farmers in Yan'an during the process of upgrading and replacement, a common pain point in the transformation of traditional agriculture, and also a "blockage point" that finance needs to make efforts to clear.
The "Sapling Loan" of the Agricultural Bank of China Luochuan County Sub-branch came like timely rain; a credit line of 1 million yuan enabled Du Minzi to complete the modernized renovation of a 150-mu orchard. "After the renovation, each mu can harvest nearly twice as much, and I can earn 70,000 to 80,000 yuan more per year." Du Minzi calculates the accounts clearly.
The timely intervention of finance has accelerated the popularization of modern agricultural technologies such as drones and meteorological monitoring in Yan'an's apple orchards. Advanced planting techniques and management models have enhanced the core competitiveness of the industry from its roots. In Ansai District, the application rate of orchard machinery exceeds 70%, the high-quality fruit rate of apples has increased by 6.5 percentage points, and the per-mu yield has increased by 18%, with apple cultivation transforming from traditional models toward standardization and high efficiency.
Data from the Agricultural Bank of China Luochuan Sub-branch shows: as of the end of August this year, net increases in loans to farmers exceeded 200 million yuan, of which about 30% was used to support saplings and variety improvement, turning many old orchards into smart orchards.
Filling Gaps in the Chain: Clearing the Meridians for the Industry Chain
In the past, good apples were "sold right off the tree," with high losses and low prices; now they are available for sale all year round. How is this achieved? It relies on filling the shortcoming of storage and fresh-keeping capacity in the industry chain.
Zhao Hongxia, general manager of Luochuan Hangsheng Fruit Industry Company, had previously resolved to build a modern controlled-atmosphere cold storage, but lacked sufficient self-owned funds. The Agricultural Bank of China Luochuan Sub-branch proactively came to her door, innovatively launching the "Fruit Storage Loan," using the old warehouse and expected returns as collateral, resolving her urgent need.
"Apples can be kept fresh for 18 months; selling at staggered times doubles their value." Now, Zhao Hongxia's cold storage not only "locks in freshness" for her own apples, but also provides storage-and-sales agency services for more than 300 surrounding fruit farmers, driving an average annual income increase of over 30%, achieving a virtuous cycle of "money becomes storage, storage becomes money."
Zeng Jing, customer manager of the Agricultural Bank of China Luochuan Sub-branch, introduced that the "Fruit Storage Loan," by recognizing expected cash flows, revitalizes assets such as the operating rights of fruit storages; it is a grassroots practice of finance precisely filling gaps in the industry chain.
Today, over 70% of cold storage construction in Yan'an has received credit support, and a storage capacity of 1.7 million tons enables apples to be sold fresh in all four seasons, multiplying their value. Finance is not merely lending; it also enhances the resilience of the industry chain.
Extending the Chain: Setting Sail for Brand Going Global
From "selling by the jin" to "selling by the piece," from local sales to selling to more than 30 countries and regions, the growth of a batch of leading enterprises has been inseparable from sustained financial support. Warehouse receipt pledge loans, special foreign trade loans, specialized-and-sophisticated credit loans... This "combined punch" of financial instruments supports enterprises in introducing intelligent fruit sorting lines and expanding international markets, promoting Yan'an apples' leap from "selling products" to "selling brands."
"New Sapling Loan," "Fruit Storage Loan," "Apple Warehouse Receipt Pledge Loan," "Fruit Merchant Loan"... More than 30 types of characteristic financial products have made Yan'an's apple industry chain longer, more resilient, and higher in value. As of the end of December 2025, the city's apple industry loan balance stood at 11.82 billion yuan, up 21.94% year-on-year; the loan balance for the apple and specialty food industry cluster stood at 13.445 billion yuan, up 17.42% year-on-year.
Keeping to the duty of serving the real economy, running through the entire process of strengthening, filling gaps in, and extending the chain, cracking pain points, clearing blockages... The road to revitalization of Yan'an's apple industry shows that promoting regional specialty industries to become bigger, stronger, and better, and achieving high-quality development, cannot be separated from the precise assistance of financial services.
"We must firmly continue to develop the apple industry." Yan'an is actively exploring new models of financial support such as intellectual property pledges and industrial development funds, encouraging enterprises to increase investment in R&D, brands, and markets, and promoting the industry to advance toward the high end of the value chain.
A Road of Innovation
"Adhere to deepening financial supply-side structural reform"
Early in the morning, taking advantage of the fine weather, Bai Jianbing, a fruit farmer in Fu County, was busy in his own orchard, making preparations for the upcoming harvest. This April, after experiencing several spells of low temperatures, fortunately the insulation was timely, the apple blossoms were not damaged by frost, and they passed through the "flowering period hurdle" without mishap, laying the foundation for a bumper harvest.
The large temperature difference between day and night is the "sweet code" of Yan'an apples, but sudden low temperatures are also a test.
Growing apples, farmers fear, first, weather fluctuations, with disasters causing reduced yields; second, market fluctuations, with falling prices — even if the fruit harvest is bountiful, income may not increase but may instead decrease. Bai Jianbing's these "fears" are common problems faced by Yan'an's apple industry.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized the need to study how to properly resolve problems such as production reductions due to disasters, same fruit at different prices, and bountiful harvests but difficult bumper incomes.
Within these instructions lies a new requirement posed by demand-side structural upgrading to the supply side — Yan'an apples must not only be sweet, but also sweeter with peace of mind and more stable to grow.
"Adhere to deepening financial supply-side structural reform."
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Structural imbalance between supply and demand causes poor circulation in the real economy. This is precisely the basic problem that supply-side structural reform needs to solve, and it is also the basic task of finance serving the real economy at present and in the period ahead."
Focusing on the real economy, adhering to finance for the people, the demand side continuously drives the deepening of financial supply-side structural reform, stimulating financial innovation that supports the development of Yan'an's apple industry.
"The key is to solve the problems of whom finance serves and why innovation is undertaken, closely centering on better serving the real economy and facilitating the people to promote innovation; we must not engage in pseudo-innovation or chaotic innovation."
Reform and innovation continue to deepen, following the demands of fruit farmers.
"We must accelerate the pace of rural financial reform and innovation." In Yan'an, rural finance has quite a few "firsts." Apple futures, as the world's first and only fresh fruit futures, are committed to resolving the "same fruit at different prices" problem.
At a temperature of minus 2 degrees Celsius and humidity of 90%, in the cold storage of Luochuan Yangang Economic and Trade Fruit Industry Company, stainless steel fruit boxes are stacked high; inside the boxes are "standardized" apples selected by intelligent fruit sorting lines — Fuji apples with a fruit diameter of about 8 centimeters, regular shape, uniform color, no obvious defects on the fruit surface, and no insect damage inside.
"This is the standard product that can be used for physical delivery of apple futures." Hao Yangang, general manager of Yangang Fruit Industry, introduced that in 2024, Yangang Fruit Industry became a designated apple delivery warehouse of the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange. "If you buy or sell apple futures on the futures board, you can pick up or deliver goods at our location in the agreed month."
The listing of apple futures has promoted standardized production of apples. "High-quality fruit at high prices; apple futures have driven the graded sales of Yan'an apples." Xu Jinghua, senior manager of the Second Department of the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, said, for example, apples of better quality should be priced higher than the futures price, while those with a fruit diameter smaller than 8 centimeters will be priced somewhat lower.
The innovative supply of financial instruments has leveraged the upgrading of the industry. Four apple futures delivery warehouses have been successively established in Yan'an, driving standardized planting and refined sales; dozens of Yan'an fruit industry operators have used apple futures for hedging, resisting the risk of price fluctuations.
Apple futures have also set up a price weathervane for fruit farmers. The futures market, through the centralized bidding of a large number of traders, forms a continuous, open, transparent, and authoritative futures price, which can reflect the forward supply-demand expectations and price trends of apples. In apple trading markets in places such as Yanchang County, large electronic screens broadcast apple futures board prices in real time, providing price references for spot transactions. Bai Jianbing has also learned to "watch the board"; every harvest season, he pays close attention to market conditions and uses futures prices to bargain with fruit merchants.
Looking at the whole country, not only have apple financial innovations "blossomed and borne fruit," but also 50 agricultural futures and options varieties have emerged in response to China's agricultural and rural development realities. Financial products once considered unrelated to the countryside have now truly become a powerful support for comprehensive rural revitalization.
A Road to Prosperity
"Adhere to the people-centered value orientation"
Standing firmly on the people's side has always been the original aspiration of financial development.
"Adhere to the people-centered value orientation" is the essential distinction between the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics and the finance of some countries that serves capital and serves the few wealthy people.
Speaking of rural finance, General Secretary Xi Jinping once asked with concern at a National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference session: "Has the money truly been used on the farmers?" At the Central Financial Work Conference, the General Secretary explicitly proposed doing well the big article of inclusive finance.
"We must place the benefits to the masses in a prominent position and introduce policies from the aspects of industrial support, financial credit, agricultural insurance, etc., to provide strong support for rural economic development." "The specialty agricultural product insurance being developed in some places is welcomed by farmers; this is a direction; we must summarize experience and accelerate promotion." General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out the direction.
In Yan'an, anchored to fruit farmers' needs and development pain points, financial services are targeted and purposeful.
"Mountain apples fear frost the most!" Speaking of the headaches of growing apples, Liu Jianguo, secretary of the Party organization of Liqiao Village, Baibao Town, Wuqi County, blurted out, "When apple flowering period collides with a late spring cold snap, if the flowers are frozen to death, not only will the year's harvest be reduced, but if maintenance is not timely, the next year will also be affected. We worry, first, about the high cost of disaster prevention in terms of effort; second, about the high cost of disaster relief; third, about how much insurance will compensate."
Wherever the people have a call, reform responds.
In 2025, an insurance compensation that arrived "early" helped Zhang Jun, a fruit farmer in Wuqi County whose orchard had been hit by frost, to purchase agricultural supplies and reduce disaster losses.
Where does the "early" come from?
"In previous years, the apple insurance we purchased was surveyed and compensated based on yield measurement during the harvest and sales season. In 2025, we took out an additional 'new insurance' — apple flowering period weather index insurance, which compensated based on flowering period weather as early as early June, allowing farmers to use the compensation to promptly take remedial measures." Liu Jianguo said.
"The 'new insurance' has many benefits!" Yang Fengqi, a villager of Liqiao Village, took out a form. "There are clear compensation standards for the bud stage, flowering stage, and young fruit stage; when the minimum temperature reaches a certain level, compensation is paid according to the corresponding proportion; how much should be compensated is perfectly clear."
Wang Xia, head of the agricultural insurance department of PICC Property and Casualty Company Yan'an City Branch, said that apple flowering period weather index insurance uses meteorological data to speak, effectively solving the cost pain point of survey and loss assessment. "The saved funds and manpower can be used to strengthen disaster risk warning, help farmers prepare for smoking, and support the construction of hail prevention equipment."
At the beginning of 2025, the pilot of apple flowering period weather index insurance selected the two counties of Wuqi and Luochuan. To land before the flowering period, multiple departments worked in close coordination — after the insurance plan was drafted, the approval procedure was efficiently completed in just 16 days; financial departments set aside budget early in the year and increased subsidies; farmers paid only a few yuan per mu in premiums to obtain thousands of yuan in protection; pilot counties stepped up construction of six-element weather stations and two-element micro smart stations... "Chasing" the flowering period, this insurance has added risk protection of 26.9636 million yuan for 20,700 mu of orchards, ultimately determining losses and compensating 920,000 yuan to growers affected by frost.
The continuously woven and tightened "safety net" embodies the people-centered value orientation of financial work.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Across the country, there are widespread reports that developing rural industries still faces many policy blockages and pain points, the most prominent being difficulties in obtaining land and difficulties in obtaining loans."
To solve the loan difficulty problem, it is necessary to solve the problem of evaluating farmers' creditworthiness; the yellow earth has new solutions.
In the past, the process for villagers to apply for loans individually was cumbersome. The Agricultural Bank of China has strengthened its services for whole-village credit granting; through big data analysis, it has assessed Hezhuo Village, Huaibai Town, Luochuan County, as a credit village, issuing "Fumin Loans" to farmers with convenient procedures and preferential interest rates. "Good credit turns into 'real gold and silver,' and the villagers are very proud!" Dang Yong, secretary of the Party branch of Hezhuo Village, said, "Only when every villager is trustworthy can the village be rated a credit village. Everyone supervises each other and takes pride in maintaining the village's credit. Surrounding villages have also come to 'learn from experience,' and trustworthiness has become the prevailing trend. This is of great significance to the long-term development of the countryside."
Through whole-village credit granting, villagers borrow and repay, improving their credit, while banks further increase support, helping fruit farmers increase income and become prosperous, forming a virtuous cycle.
There are also many other ways to bring credit dividends to villagers. Yan'an has built an agriculture-related credit information platform; as of the end of June 2026, it has cumulatively collected information on over 10,000 entities such as apple family farms and fruit industry specialized cooperatives, promoted 9 banks to connect to the platform, and cumulatively disbursed loans totaling 39.2 million yuan to apple industry enterprises.
Financial regulatory authorities have strengthened regulatory guidance, guiding financial resources to better tilt toward agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农); many banks have relaxed age limits for fruit farmers taking out loans... Centered on the people, financial services supporting agriculture and benefiting farmers continue to intensify.
"Financial support is an important engine for the prosperity of the apple industry and comprehensive rural revitalization." A relevant department head of the National Financial Regulatory Administration said that going forward, policy guidance will be strengthened to support banking and insurance industries in continuously enhancing the breadth and depth of financial support for the apple industry from the aspects of model innovation, product design, service upgrading, etc., building financial service models that better match regional economic and social development realities and better fit regional financial characteristics, forming a virtuous cycle of improved financial service quality and efficiency, high-quality industrial development, and increased people's income and prosperity.
"The financial undertaking led by our Party must, in the final analysis, benefit the people."
Being honest and trustworthy, not crossing bottom lines; pursuing profit through righteousness, not being solely profit-driven; being prudent and cautious, not being impatient for quick success; upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, not detaching from the real economy toward the virtual; acting according to law and regulations, not acting recklessly... On the revolutionary holy land of Yan'an, financial culture with Chinese characteristics has taken root, sprouted, been cultivated, and grown stronger, and the background color of the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics has become increasingly distinct. "We must be confident, continue to explore and improve in practice, and make this road broader and broader."
(People's Daily reporters Zhang Tie, Yu Jianbin, Zhao Zhanhui, Zhang Danhua, Chang Qin, Qu Xinming)
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●Flash charging and fast charging have entered the minute-level energy replenishment stage
●A single battery swap at mainstream swap stations takes only a few minutes
●In the first eight months of this year, approximately 11,000 new high-power charging facilities were added in service areas
Chen Lihui, from Shenzhen, Guangdong, spent the National Day holiday in Hunan. Early on the morning of October 7, he drove his new energy vehicle back from Changsha. Around 10 a.m., the vehicle showed less than 30% battery remaining. Chen Lihui promptly drove into the Chenzhou service area, pulled into an ultra-fast charging spot, and skillfully opened a mini-program on his phone — plugging in the gun, scanning the code, and charging. In just 10 minutes, the battery reached 85%. "By the time I finished a trip to the restroom, it was almost fully charged," Chen Lihui said.
During the National Day return peak, traffic on the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway heading into Beijing was continuous. At the Hebi service area in Henan, there are six charging and battery swap stations and 80 charging guns operated by companies including Henan Communications Investment New Energy, State Grid, and NIO. The flash charging station newly added this September has a maximum single-gun power of 1,500 kilowatts. "During the holiday, the service area deployed additional staff for guidance, basically achieving charge-on-arrival and depart-on-charge, with no long queues," said Wang Yulei, manager of the Hebi service area.
As of the end of June this year, China's new energy vehicle fleet had reached 48.97 million units, with new energy vehicles accounting for nearly half of newly registered vehicles in the first half of the year. During the National Day holiday, car owners showed great enthusiasm for traveling in new energy vehicles, which also placed higher demands on the level of charging and energy replenishment services.
In the first three days of the holiday, charging sessions for new energy vehicles on national expressways totaled 2,968,600, with a daily average of 989,500, up 48.41% from the same period last year; charging volume reached 71,619,300 kilowatt-hours, with a daily average of 23,873,100 kilowatt-hours, up 49.39% from the same period last year. Among these, on October 1, charging volume on national expressways reached 28,046,900 kilowatt-hours, up 60.4% from the first day of last year's National Day holiday, setting a new single-day record for holidays.
One major pain point that once troubled new energy vehicle owners was the vehicle's driving range. Judging from the situation during this holiday, "range anxiety" has been somewhat alleviated. The latest data shows: during the National Day holiday, with new energy vehicle traffic up 35% year-on-year, the number of service areas with especially busy daily charging decreased by 17% year-on-year.
This change of one increase and one decrease is closely related to the improvement in new energy vehicle functionality and performance and the acceleration of China's charging network construction.
The performance of China's new energy vehicle products is steadily improving (日趋优化, ri qu you hua - "day, go, increasingly, optimize"), with the average driving range of pure electric passenger vehicles reaching 500 kilometers and fast charging technology being applied on a large scale. Jian Xiaorong, research director of fiscal, taxation, and financial policy at the China Automotive Strategy and Policy Research Center, analyzed that at the technological level, China's rapid energy replenishment technologies such as flash charging, fast charging, and battery swapping have achieved large-scale deployment. Flash charging and fast charging have entered the minute-level energy replenishment stage, with leading companies' flash charging technology able to replenish several hundred kilometers of range in minutes, and mainstream swap stations completing a single battery swap in just a few minutes. It is understood that BYD has built more than 11,500 flash charging stations cumulatively, with deployments in Lhasa, Tibet, and Shangri-La, Yunnan; from October 1 to 5, a cumulative 902,300 person-times charged through the XPeng charging platform; on October 5, NIO's single-day battery swap volume exceeded 183,600 times, setting another new record.
At the same time, charging network construction continues to accelerate. As of the end of August, the total number of electric vehicle charging infrastructure (guns) in China exceeded 24 million, building the world's largest electric vehicle charging network. In the first eight months of this year, approximately 11,000 high-power charging facilities were newly added in service areas, equivalent to the cumulative total of previous years. "We have put 38 all-liquid-cooled ultra-fast charging stations into operation at expressway service areas across the province, with maximum single-gun output power reaching 600 kilowatts, several times the charging efficiency of conventional high-power fast charging interfaces, basically achieving '1 second, 1 kilometer' of charging range," said Hu Wanyong, on-site operations supervisor of Hunan Expressway New Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
Facing the large amount of travel demand released intensively in a short period, the "tidal" challenge of holiday charging remains a real test. During this National Day holiday, some netizens also reported long charging wait times at expressway service areas.
"The essence of the problem is the tidal supply-demand mismatch unique to holidays," Jian Xiaorong said. During the National Day holiday, travel is highly concentrated on a few popular corridors and peak periods, and instantaneous charging demand far exceeds the daily design capacity of stations. At the same time, some charging equipment in service areas built earlier is outdated and cannot output at full power, and some stations still have faulty charging piles, reducing the number of actually available piles.
As charging technology improves, service support should also keep pace. During the National Day holiday, localities deployed in advance and car companies took active action, providing convenience for new energy vehicle owners traveling by upgrading ultra-fast charging piles, adding mobile charging vehicles, and strengthening operation and maintenance inspections.
China Southern Power Grid's "Shunyichong" platform reviews expressway service area traffic simulation data daily, dynamically deploying mobile charging vehicles and mobile energy storage charging devices based on station heat maps to replenish energy for new energy vehicles at service areas along the Da-Guang Expressway, Guang-Lian Expressway, and other routes; Hunan Expressway Group deployed 26 mobile emergency charging vehicles (cabins) and 6 intelligent mobile charging robots, flexibly dispatching them to high-traffic service areas on key sections based on changes in charging traffic; Hebei Province Lufa Group added staff at service areas for on-site traffic guidance and opened underpass passages for traffic diversion.
"Before the holiday, we replenished batteries and dynamically allocated batteries to swap stations on key expressways. At the same time, we used algorithms to predict traffic peaks and transferred fully charged batteries from neighboring stations in advance," said Yuan Zhao, head of NIO Energy's Anhui regional operations. During the holiday, NIO also arranged dedicated personnel on duty and deployed mobile service points in high-traffic areas such as expressway service areas to guide owners in efficiently completing battery swaps.
Jian Xiaorong suggested that in facing the holiday "major examination," relevant departments and units should further strengthen dispatch and monitoring, release information in a timely manner, improve the turnover efficiency of charging piles, and deploy additional operation and maintenance personnel to continue ensuring new energy vehicle travel support; car owners can choose to replenish energy during off-peak periods, flexibly plan routes, and go to areas near expressway entrances and exits or exit the expressway nearby to charge in urban areas.
According to the plan, by 2030, China's charging infrastructure will exceed 40 million units, with approximately 300,000 high-power charging facilities; the performance levels of power battery safety, charging rates, low-temperature applicability, and cycle life will continue to improve. In the medium and long term, it is necessary to promptly upgrade and renovate old charging piles, improve energy replenishment points along scenic areas, national and provincial trunk highways, and county and township routes, and actively explore the application of new technologies such as integrated photovoltaic-storage-charging-swapping comprehensive stations.
(People's Daily reporters Shen Zhilin, Zhang Wenhao, and Luo Yangqi contributed to this report)
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Where waterways meet the sea, port operations are busy. During the National Day holiday, giant vessels come and go at various ports, loading and unloading in a bustle of activity, driving domestic and foreign trade goods to move in and out quickly.
On the shore of the East China Sea, four giant container vessels line up in a row, fully automated gantry cranes rise and fall with precision, and more than a hundred automated guided vehicles shuttle silently back and forth. During the first three days of the National Day holiday, the automated terminal of Phase IV of the Yangshan Deep-Water Port at the Shanghai International Shipping Center handled a cumulative total of over 79,000 TEUs, an increase of 18.7% compared with the same period last year; it is expected that the cumulative throughput over the seven-day holiday will exceed 180,000 TEUs.“Ship berthing and departure, cargo loading and unloading, and route connection are all intelligently scheduled across the entire process, maximizing the release of the port's throughput capacity.” Huang Hua, chief remote operator of Shangdong Branch Company of Shanghai International Port Group, introduced.
As an important hub linking domestic and international dual circulation, ports can be described as a “barometer” of economic development. In the first eight months of this year, China's total import and export value of goods trade increased by 17.6% year on year; the country completed a port cargo throughput of 12.06 billion tons, of which foreign trade throughput increased by 2.8% year on year.
On the shore of the Beibu Gulf, trains shuttle back and forth; at Qinzhou Port, cargo ships line up in rows…During the National Day holiday, the automated container terminal at Qinzhou Port in Guangxi maintained continuous 24-hour operations, and throughput from October 1 to 7 is expected to reach 45,000 TEUs. On September 16, the Pinglu Canal officially opened to navigation, and the “circle of friends” of this sea area subsequently expanded: iron ore and automobile parts from Yunnan and Guizhou are shipped south via rail-water intermodal transport to ASEAN countries; coal and bauxite from Guinea and Laos travel northward along the canal, entering the hinterland of Southwest China.
“The outbound voyage has been greatly shortened. Recently, we have added quite a few new customers from Guigang, Nanning, Baise in Guangxi, as well as from Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan.” Zhang Minghe, deputy manager of the Operations Department of Honggang Wharf Co., Ltd. at Qinzhou Bonded Port Area in Guangxi, said.
Turning our gaze to the Northeast, on the afternoon of October 7, the “OOCL Sweden” vessel on the Ocean Alliance Europe route docked steadily at the Dalian Container Terminal in Liaoning, with seven loading and unloading lines operating simultaneously. Dalian Container Terminal Co., Ltd. undertakes more than 98% of the foreign trade container transport volume of the Northeast region, and has newly opened five new foreign trade routes this year.“Within a berthing time of less than 20 hours, we need to complete the loading and unloading of nearly 4,900 TEUs.” Qiu Li, shift manager of the Operations and Operations Department of Dalian Container Terminal Co.,, Ltd., introduced that during the National Day holiday, the container terminal's operating volume continued to remain at a high level, with total loading and unloading volume expected to increase by about 20% year on year,“including grain shipped to southern provinces, as well as precision instruments, complete vehicles, equipment components, and other goods shipped to Europe.”
During the National Day holiday, port upgrades have not “stopped work.”
At the third automated terminal of Shanghai Port, construction of the North Xiaoyangshan Operation Area project is in full swing (如火如荼, ru huo ru tu - “as, fire, as, torrent”), with all five automated quay cranes already in place. Qin Tao, deputy chief commander of the Engineering Headquarters of Shanghai International Port Group, introduced that this brand-new automated terminal will iteratively upgrade the new-generation automated terminal smart operations management system independently developed by Shanghai Port.
At the automated container terminal of Qinzhou Port, five 5,000-ton-class automated container berths for river-sea intermodal transport are being constructed simultaneously, with large excavation machinery roaring without cease. Before long, river vessels arriving via the Pinglu Canal will be able to berth alongside sea vessels, and cargo will be transferred through gantry cranes, belt conveyors, floating cranes, and other equipment to achieve“water-to-water transshipment, direct unloading and direct loading,” reducing the links of landing and warehousing, greatly increasing efficiency.
Nationwide, 60 automated terminals have been completed and put into operation, of which 30 are automated container terminals, accounting for 27% of the global total; the fastest single-machine operating efficiency at the automated terminals of Shanghai Port and Qingdao Port in Shandong exceeds 60 natural boxes per hour, and the average time spent in port by international container vessels at major coastal ports is 1.7 days.
(People's Daily reporters Shen Wenmin, Hu Jingyi, Li Weijun, Ouyang Jie, Han Xin)
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Yiwu, Zhejiang, while deepening its small-commodity business to "break into a big market and build a big industry," has also, based on the city's resource endowments and actual safety risks, continuously strengthened its grassroots emergency management system, and in light of local conditions explored an effective path for county-level safety governance.
From 2006 to 2025, while total GDP grew by more than sixfold, the number of work safety accidents and deaths in Yiwu city fell by 97.8% and 93.5% respectively, achieving a positive interaction between high-quality development and high-level safety.
Strengthen source governance and shift toward prevention before incidents
More than 100,000 smoke detectors, more than 50,000 heat detectors, more than 530,000 sprinkler heads, 15,000 fire hydrants, 58,000 fire extinguishers, and more than 20,000 surveillance cameras... Stepping into the smart fire command center of the Yiwu International Trade City, water pressure data updates in real time, and on the monitoring wall, crowds are bustling with people.
The Yiwu International Trade City has an operating area of more than 8 million square meters, more than 80,000 commercial booths, and deals in 26 major categories and 2.1 million individual products. Safety risks are numerous and widespread, yet for more than 40 consecutive years no relatively major or above work safety accident has occurred. How was this achieved?
"We incorporate safety work into the core indicators of business management, directly linking it to performance assessment and salary benefits, conduct special inspections every quarter, and use assessment to force implementation." Shou Shengdi, deputy general manager of the Market Group, introduced that cumulative investment in the market's fire protection projects has exceeded 400 million yuan. Only by consolidating responsibility, improving mechanisms, guaranteeing forces, and increasing investment can the safe development and long-term governance of an ultra-large commercial market be achieved.
On Niansanli Street in Yiwu City, high-rise industrial factory buildings are arranged in neat, dense rows, with dozens of enterprises from different industries such as textiles, accessories, and toys gathered in a single building.
Large areas, dense enterprises, and mixed personnel pose formidable fire safety challenges. How is this difficult problem to be solved?
Institutions come first. The Yiwu Emergency Management Bureau took the lead in issuing the "Guidelines for Full Lifecycle Work Safety Management of High-Rise Industrial Factory Building Projects in Yiwu City," clarifying that land-parcel enterprises must regularly conduct "safety physical examinations" and compile "one building, one plan" emergency response plans.
Strengthen the system. The subdistrict, based on the distribution characteristics of factory buildings, optimized the layout of smart emergency fire service stations, coordinated the installation of more than 49,000 smart smoke detection devices, and established a four-tier echelon response system of "enterprise micro-station — district sub-station — town/street general station — fire brigade detachment," achieving "1-minute response, 3-minute arrival, 5-minute disposal" for initial fires.
With the threshold moved forward and systematic measures applied, "industry going upstairs" is safer. Since 2025, no fire has occurred in high-rise industrial factory buildings on Niansanli Street.
In response to the widespread "factory within a factory" and "park within a park" problems in rental-type enterprises, small and micro industrial parks, and e-commerce parks, requirements of "ten musts and ten prohibitions" have been distilled from 10 aspects including management institutions, institutional construction, functional zoning, escape routes, and cargo warehousing, clarifying operational standards and detailed rules; for high-risk areas such as commercial markets, high-rise buildings, "nine small venues," and electric bicycles, industry departments and town/street governments implement "double night inspections" to dynamically screen risks and hidden dangers; innovative "one map, one code" intelligent control applications carry out an average of more than 1,800 grid inspections per day, with hidden dangers rectified within an average of 19 hours... Starting from source governance, grasping details, and making up shortcomings, Yiwu in light of local conditions studies and judges industry risk trends, investigates and resolves budding and tendentious safety hazards in advance, and realizes the transformation from "post-incident handling" to "pre-incident prevention," building a risk prevention and control system with the threshold moved forward.
Improve the force system to precisely match fire safety needs
"A car near the office building is on fire. Please have firefighters immediately go to the scene to handle it." As the alarm bell rang, members of the fire rescue team at the Suxi Town fire rescue micro-station in Yiwu quickly dressed, boarded the vehicle, and set out, with the fire truck driving out of the gate in less than 3 minutes.
Lou Huahai, captain of the Suxi Town full-time fire brigade, introduced that the town, centered on the full-time fire brigade, has radiated outward to build 6 specialized sub-stations and 46 village-level micro-stations, requiring the teams to achieve "1-minute alarm reception, 3-minute dispatch, 5-minute disposal."
"The three-tier emergency rescue structure has effectively solved the shortcomings of the full-time fire brigade's single layout and excessive response radius, allowing each level to play to its strengths and more precisely match the characteristics of local industrial development and the fire safety needs of enterprises." Lou Huahai said that the current fire emergency response time in the jurisdiction has been shortened to within 4 minutes, with a 100% success rate in initial fire disposal.
Emergency teams are the key support for accident emergency rescue. Yiwu has deployed 14 town/street emergency fire general stations, 129 district sub-stations, and 2,565 grid micro-stations across the entire city, with the autonomous collaborative disposal rate of town/street alarms reaching over 95%.
"To fill the gap of the 'last kilometer,' we also give full play to the supporting role of civil rescue associations, uniformly managing 6 social rescue teams covering water, mountain, and high-altitude rescue, with more than 300 backbone rescue personnel." said the relevant person in charge of the Yiwu Emergency Management Bureau.
Rely on technological means to activate new quality productive forces in emergency management
In May this year, an illegal mobile fuel truck in Dachen Town, Yiwu, parked by the roadside to refuel passing trucks with diesel. At the same time, a drone on high-altitude patrol precisely locked onto the target using image recognition technology, and the system sent the lead to the mobile terminal of frontline law enforcement personnel. In less than 5 minutes, law enforcement personnel arrived at the scene and dealt with the case.
In the past, this relied on ground patrols and stakeouts; now "people are in the command room, and intelligence comes from the sky." "We have deployed 37 drone hives across the city's 14 towns and streets, cultivating a total of 58 certified drone pilots, achieving full coverage." said the relevant person in charge of the Yiwu Emergency Management Bureau. In the 2025 campaign to rectify illegal fuel points, relying on multi-dimensional means such as high-altitude patrol, intelligent sensing, and AI analysis, 48 leads of illegal activity were discovered, illegal evidence was fixed in an average of 5 minutes, and disposal efficiency increased by more than 60%.
Driven by digital reform, Yiwu has built a citywide "Safety Brain" platform, connecting 19 business systems of 10 departments including public security and natural resources, aggregating 97,000 video surveillance feeds, managing 18 categories of disaster prevention data such as satellite phones and emergency material warehouses on a single map, dynamically managing 220,000 management targets across the city, activating new quality productive forces in emergency management, and promoting the transformation of safety governance toward smart management.
"The faster the pace of development, the more firmly the safety bottom line must be held; the stronger the vitality of the market, the more capable governance must be." Gong Shujuan, member of the Standing Committee of the Yiwu Municipal Party Committee and executive vice mayor, said that judging from years of development practice, Yiwu has walked a path of rapid economic development, effective risk prevention, and social safety and stability.
In June this year, the Ministry of Emergency Management issued Yiwu's experience as a positive typical case for the national emergency management system in establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, providing reference and demonstration for counties nationwide to improve public safety governance models and advance the modernization of grassroots emergency management systems and capabilities.
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On the northern slopes of the Dabie Mountains, autumn has spread across the peaks. In Hejiachong Village, Luoshan County, Henan Province, an ancient ginkgo tree more than 30 meters tall stands proudly, its broad crown like a canopy. Beneath the tree, a farewell ceremony for newly enlisted soldiers is being held.
"This tree is over 800 years old. It witnessed the Long March of the Red Army, and everyone calls it the 'Red Army Tree,'" said Li Xingjie, a docent born after 1995. On the night of November 16, 1934, the 25th Red Army set out from Hejiachong, fought its way across nearly 10,000 li, and was the first to reach northern Shaanxi, earning the title "Vanguard of the Northward Advance."
To protect the ancient tree, local authorities have installed fencing and signage. On the relief wall nearby, young faces gaze with resolute eyes, and the banner of the "Second Advance Detachment of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Marching North to Resist Japan" stands out vividly under the autumn sun.
"The average age of this Red Army unit was under 18, and they were called the 'Baby Army.' Though the road ahead was fraught with danger, they were resolutely proceeding without looking back (义无反顾, yi wu fan gu - "righteous, no, reverse, go")." New recruit Bao Jinghong said that after enlisting, he will carry on the red bloodline, firmly obey the Party's command, and walk the Long March road of the new era.
Not far from the ancient ginkgo tree, the He Family Ancestral Hall is welcoming another group of visitors. This courtyard house, first built in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, was also the former site of the 25th Red Army headquarters. Local authorities have restored and renovated it, collected cultural relics and old objects, and turned it into a Long March memorial hall and red education base.
Inside the courtyard, villager He Guiying tells the story of "Auntie He" saving a Red Army soldier: "At the time, a wounded Red Army soldier named Yu Zhanhai was captured by the enemy, who asked Auntie He to identify him. After much maneuvering with the enemy, Auntie He ultimately protected this comrade."
He Guiying is the great-granddaughter of "Auntie He" and also a volunteer docent. She speaks to visitors about revolutionary stories in a gentle and engaging manner (娓娓道来, wei wei dao lai - "softly, softly, speak, come"), as if chatting about everyday matters. By inviting veteran Party members and descendants of Red Army soldiers to take the podium, Hejiachong continues to tap its red resources, turning former sites and relics into live-action classrooms.
"To determine exactly where the 25th Red Army set out, the county did a great deal of work," Li Xingjie said. Based on the recollections of veteran Red Army soldiers, the departure point had a hospital, an ancestral hall, and an ancient tree, which ultimately led them to Hejiachong. Today, the ancient ginkgo tree, the He Family Ancestral Hall, and the former hospital site together form the departure point of the 25th Red Army's Long March, designated a nationally protected key cultural relic site.
In recent years, Luoshan County has actively participated in the construction of the Long March National Cultural Park. The Long March Memorial Square has been completed, and projects including the departure point of the "Vanguard of the Northward Advance" 25th Red Army's Long March and the former sites of the 25th Red Army headquarters and hospital have been built and opened to the public. The Luoshan section of the Red Dabie No. 1 Tourist Road, already in use, has linked individual elements into a cohesive whole (串珠成链, chuan zhu cheng lian - "string, pearls, become, chain") for more than 20 red heritage sites in the area, drawing wave after wave of visitors.
Surrounded by green mountains and fragrant rice paddies, Li Jun, who runs a guesthouse, brews a cup of Maojian tea and tells visitors about the changes in Hejiachong. Seeing the red heritage and green resources of his hometown, he and his brother renovated their old house and built a guesthouse named "Youdao Shanfang" (Rice in the Mountain House). Today, more than 120 guesthouses and farm stays in Hejiachong are registered with the village.
"According to the village elders, on the night the Red Army set out on the Long March, the ginkgo tree was struck by lightning and split open. But it miraculously survived, and in recent years it has been putting out new shoots," Li Jun said. "In a little while, when the ginkgo tree is covered in golden leaves, you are all welcome to come back, sit around the stove, and brew tea."
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A friend working at a subdistrict office, speaking of the elevator-installation project for old residential communities he is responsible for, said with deep feeling: "I've worn out my legs and my tongue, and the design plan was torn up and redone four or five times. But this matter can't be delayed — the elderly and children in the buildings can't afford to wait." "Installing the elevator is only the beginning; how it will be managed and maintained afterward is the longer-term test."
Installing elevators is no small challenge: it requires both gnawing through "hard bones" such as interest coordination and fund-raising, and putting in "daily effort" in operation and maintenance, dispute mediation, and mechanism improvement. From this one can draw a lesson: without the sharpness to tackle tough problems, things cannot be accomplished; without enduring tenacity, things cannot be done well.
"For issues that are currently the most concentrated, the most urgent, and require fighting a tough battle, we should seize the moment to reform them; for those requiring sustained, long-term effort and a protracted struggle, we should advance them gradually." General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition points out an important method for undertaking work and building careers. In advancing any work, we must distinguish priorities and sequence, and strive to master the dialectics of fighting both tough battles and protracted battles.
In reality, two tendencies warrant vigilance.
One is turning a tough battle into a "blitz assault." Some localities, when remediating black and odorous water bodies and dredging silt and intercepting sewage, all rush in at once. Although short-term results are achieved, long-term mechanisms such as subsequent pipe-network maintenance and rainwater-sewage separation fail to keep up, and pollution problems rebound and resurface. The results of the tough battle fail to settle into lasting achievements, and instead overdraw public trust. This commits the "illness of rash and impetuous advance."
The other is dragging a protracted battle into a "war of attrition." Some cadres keep "sustained, long-term effort" on their lips, but when faced with matters they engage in discussing something without reaching a decision (议而不决, yi er bu jue - "discuss, but, not, decide"), and after deciding, fail to act; they hesitate when a decision should be made, shrink from difficulties when progress should be made, and turn "advancing gradually" into a shield for "taking it slow." This leads to idle consumption and spinning of wheels.
Tough battles and protracted battles are not an either-or multiple-choice question, but two sides of the same coin, complementing and supporting each other (相辅相成, xiang fu xiang cheng - "mutually, complement, mutually, complete"). Tough battles focus on concentrating strength at key points to open up the situation; protracted battles focus on consolidating achievements and improving institutions over the long cycle. This is like planting and nurturing a tree: the tough battle is digging the hole and planting the seedling, requiring with a single burst of energy (一鼓作气, yi gu zuo qi - "one, drum, act, breath") force; the protracted battle is watering and fertilizing, requiring accumulating bit by bit over a long period (日积月累, ri ji yue lei - "day, accumulate, month, pile up") patience. If the seedling is not planted well, the roots will not be stable; if water and fertilizer are insufficient, the tree will not grow strong.
Such a dialectical relationship is especially evident in many major tasks currently under way. In building the unified national market and breaking down local protection and market segmentation, it is necessary to act with swift and decisive efficiency (雷厉风行, lei li feng xing - "thunder, fierce, wind, act") to dismantle "fences," and to improve basic market institutions such as property-rights protection and fair competition, which requires persevering with constancy (持之以恒, chi zhi yi heng - "hold, that, with, constant") in establishing "rules." The Party's work style is the Party's image, bearing on popular support; prominent problems strongly reflected by the masses must be tackled with concentrated effort and struck at the moment they surface, while also maintaining the sober firmness of being forever on the road, exerting sustained and gentle force in the dimensions of constancy and longevity, strictness and substance, depth and detail.
"Shanghai has advanced old-housing renovation for decades, one term of leadership after another, with sustained, long-term effort. This is the correct view of political achievements." Starting in the 1990s, Shanghai successively promoted and completed the renovation of dilapidated sheds and simple houses, relocation and expropriation, and large-scale old-area redevelopment, resolving the large-scale problem of "carrying chamber pots"; thereafter, it continued to face difficulties head-on and completed the renovation of the final 14,000 scattered points.
Is it not the same for other work: after capturing a "point," one must also hold a "plane"; after winning a "battle," one must all the more win the entire "war." Once a goal is identified, advance it with persisting unremittingly (坚持不懈, jian chi bu xie - "hold, firm, not, slack") effort; when a tough battle is needed, bring out the sharpness for tackling tough problems; when persistence is needed, temper the tenacity for endurance. One must have both the spirit of driving in nails and the skill of "driving them in properly." Only in this way can one overcome all obstacles to achieve a goal (逢山开路、遇水架桥, feng shan kai lu, yu shui jia qiao - "meet, mountain, open, road; meet, water, build, bridge"), enabling work to stand up to scrutiny.
Tough battles test boldness; protracted battles test steadfastness. True ability lies in maintaining steadfastness within boldness and not losing boldness within steadfastness — daring to face difficulties head-on while also being good at sustained, long-term effort.
Return to TopChengzi Lake Ecological Island in Longji Town, Sihong County, Jiangsu Province, is one of the first eight "ecological island" pilot test areas in Jiangsu Province. The locality holds fast to the bottom line of ecological protection, continuously enriches cultural tourism formats, and transforms ecological beauty into tourism advantages. The photo shows tourists enjoying a traditional cultural performance on Chengzi Lake Ecological Island, celebrating the National Day holiday.
Photo by Liu Ye (People's Vision)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 耿 磊 李卓尔
"When culture thrives, the nation thrives; when culture is strong, the nation is strong." "Building a culturally strong nation bears on the overall situation of Chinese modernization, bears on the great cause of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and bears on enhancing international competitiveness." General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out.
In October 2023, the National Conference on Publicity, Ideological and Cultural Work was held in Beijing, formally putting forward Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought. In August this year, Volumes I and II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture were published and distributed. Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought is the theoretical summary of the Party's practical experience in leading cultural development in the new era, is a major achievement in upholding the Two Integrations (两个结合) and advancing the theoretical innovation of Marxist culture, constitutes the cultural chapter of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and provides a powerful ideological weapon and scientific guide to action for doing well the work of publicity, ideological and cultural work on the new journey of the new era, promoting cultural prosperity, and building a culturally strong nation.
"We nourish the spiritual home with culture." Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought, solid steps have been taken in building a culturally strong nation, the role of culture in nurturing the mind and cultivating character has become more prominent, the vitality of cultural innovation and creation has become more vigorous, and the cultural confidence of the whole nation has become more steadfast, gathering strong spiritual strength for Chinese modernization.
Forging an aspiring and enterprising spiritual outlook
Culture is the soul of a country and a nation.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Continuously develop the culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics for the new era that possesses strong ideological guiding power, spiritual cohesion, value appeal, and international influence."
A clear, well-organized plan that brings everything else into place (秉纲而目自张, bing gang er mu zi zhang - "hold the net, eyes open"). To build a culturally strong nation, it is necessary to deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought.
On an autumn day, readers come and go at the Wangfujing Bookstore in Beijing. In the first-floor hall, Volumes I and II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture are neatly displayed, and readers hold the books in their hands, reading attentively amid the fragrance of ink and books. From time to time, individuals or organizations make purchases.
The publication and distribution of Volumes I and II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture provides authoritative teaching materials for deeply studying and implementing Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought. The broad masses of cadres and the people read the original works, study the original texts, and comprehend the underlying principles, perceiving the power of truth and drawing practical wisdom through deep study and careful understanding.
In May this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions on promoting the high-quality development of philosophy and social sciences, emphasizing: "Deepen the systematic and theoretical research and interpretation of the Party's innovative theories, accelerate the construction of an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences, better answer the questions of China, the questions of the world, the questions of the people, and the questions of the times, and strive to open up a new situation for the high-quality development of philosophy and social sciences."
Keeping the instructions in mind, they strive to be at the forefront. The broad ranks of philosophy and social science workers further deepen the research and interpretation of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought, promote the transformation of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought into core academic elements of relevant disciplines, and lead the construction of an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences.
On the Internet, distinctive theoretical publicity brands such as "Lixiang China" and "Theory Online" are widely disseminated; major central news media have carefully planned and launched converged media columns such as "The General Secretary's Concerns · The Echo of Implementation" and "Picking Up Light and Time," and planned special columns such as "Cultural China Tour" and "Carrying Forward the Historical Context," fully demonstrating the practical fruits of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought... One fine work after another continuously enables the Party's innovative theories to permeate people's hearts.
In Hai'an, Jiangsu, the propaganda backbone of the "Cuckoo Village Voice" theoretical dissemination project pairs with grassroots propaganda speakers to transform theoretical concepts into everyday language; in Linshui County, Sichuan, the "Spring Herald Bird" grassroots theoretical propaganda team compiles the Party's spirit and policies into clapper-talk programs; in Youjiang District, Baise, Guangxi, the Federation of Social Sciences uses a "social sciences + literature and art" integrated approach, using folk songs, skits, and situational dramas to propagate theory.
From the shores of the East China Sea to the snow-covered plateau, the Party's innovative theories "fly into the homes of ordinary people," uniting hearts and casting souls, transforming customs and educating the people.
General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: "The 'strength' of a culturally strong nation must ultimately be reflected in the people's ideological realm, mental state, and cultural cultivation."
When patriotic fervor ignites the will to strive, when models of the era set spiritual benchmarks, when civilized customs permeate cities and villages, revolutionary culture, advanced socialist culture, and fine traditional Chinese culture are fused together in the building of a culturally strong nation, and the spiritual edifice of the Chinese nation stands tall and imposing (巍然耸立, wei ran song li - "towering, stand upright").
The visits of the PLA Navy ships Nanning and Hengyang to Hong Kong triggered a wave of visits, with "Fragrant Harbor warship shadows, family and country with one heart" flooding social media feeds; "It's not that piercing through the Tianshan Mountains is easy, but that there are people on the other side of the Tianshan Mountains." A single sentence from Xinjiang tour guide Dilnur Tursunjan moved countless netizens to tears...
Across the great river, north and south, all corners of the country (五湖四海, wu hu si hai - "five lakes, four seas"), beneath our feet is the land forged by the blood of our forebears, before our eyes is an increasingly prosperous family and country, and this pride turns into tangible warmth that nourishes the spiritual roots of every Chinese person.
A person cannot stand without spirit; a nation cannot be strong without spirit.
General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: "Only when a nation stands firm and steady in spirit can it stand firm and unshakeable (屹立不倒, yi li bu dao - "stand upright, not fall") and ride the tide at the forefront of the torrent of history."
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. On September 25, the "Great Expedition — Thematic Exhibition Commemorating the 90th Anniversary of the Victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" opened to the public at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution. With 357 photographs and charts and 1,061 items (sets) of cultural relics and documents, it provides a panoramic review of this extremely arduous (艰苦卓绝, jian ku zhuo jue - "hardship, extreme") great journey. During the National Day holiday, when the museum opened at 9 a.m., a long line had already formed at the entrance. A visitor from Liaoning said: "Seeing with my own eyes the cultural relics left by the Red Army soldiers, I feel deeply moved. We must pass on the great Long March spirit from generation to generation and walk our own Long March road."
In recent days, Long March memorial venues across the country have seen a wave of visits. In Guiyang, Guizhou, at an immersive digital experience hall themed on the Long March, visitors from different regions wrote their heartfelt words into a message wall, "Each generation has its own mission, each generation has its own Long March"... These solemn vows demonstrate how the great Long March spirit is renewed through the ages (历久弥新, li jiu mi xin - "endure long time, become new again").
Deeply cultivating humanistic heritage, consolidating the cultural foundation.
In Xiji County, Ningxia, a group of farmer writers carry hoes to the fields to farm during the day and pick up pens to write at night, growing lush "literary crops" on the yellow earth; in Liutao Town, Xiaoxian County, Anhui, villagers engage in literary and artistic creation while preparing for farming, building a "Hometown of Chinese Folk Culture and Art"; by the banks of Baima Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, literary enthusiasts at the China Network Writers Village use online literature to communicate with the world...
Nationwide reading has become a widespread trend (蔚然成风, wei ran cheng feng - "flourish, become a custom"), new mass literature and art are flourishing, and excellent literary and artistic works and cultural products emerge in an endless stream (层出不穷, ceng chu bu qiong - "layer out, not stop emerging"). Nourished by Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought, the cultural cultivation of the whole society continues to improve.
Manifesting the beauty of civilization, cultivating a new trend of the times.
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes to "continuously rectify exorbitant betrothal gifts in rural areas." In Chengdong Village, Kaocheng Town, Lankao County, Henan, when the children of villagers Zhao Bao'an and Wang Weiqiang's families became engaged, only a bouquet of flowers, two sets of books, and three jin of wedding candy were used as engagement tokens, and the money saved on betrothal gifts was used to purchase agricultural machinery, laying a foundation for the young couple's life. Wang Weiqiang said: "Without extravagance and waste, with more hard work, life gets better and better."
In Hubei, various localities have revised village rules and civil agreements and studied and formulated advocacy standards for betrothal gifts; in Shicheng County, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, in the first half of this year, rural marriages with "zero or low betrothal gifts" accounted for 80.6%... One practical measure after another to change customs and habits has made civilized trends become a widespread trend across the vast countryside.
The soul of a nation is cast by culture. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought, the spiritual home of the whole nation has become richer and more fulfilling, the mental state of the whole society has become more aspiring and vigorous, providing powerful spiritual strength for Chinese modernization.
Surging the surging vitality of innovation and creation
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The vitality of culture lies in innovation and creation."
Since the beginning of this year, a batch of new policies has been introduced successively, and a series of new explorations have been continuously implemented, with new prospects for cultural innovation and creation visible everywhere across the land of China.
Returning home after finishing farm work every day and opening a book to read a few pages — this has been the habit of Pei Aimin, known as "Auntie Field Mouse" of Minqin County, Wuwei City, Gansu Province, for more than 30 years.
"We should advocate reading more books and building a bookish society," bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest instructions during his inspection in Gansu, a wave of reading has swept across the Longyuan land.
In the spring of 2026, the first "National Reading Activity Week" arrived as scheduled. At the national reading event in Wuwei City, Pei Aimin frankly said: "Now in the countryside there are also rural libraries, and everyone can read anytime, anywhere."
On February 1 this year, the Regulations on the Promotion of Nationwide Reading officially came into effect, marking the entry of the nationwide reading cause into a new stage of law-based and standardized development, guiding the whole society to form a good atmosphere of loving reading, reading good books, and being good at reading.
With institutions as the foundation, one can go far and long.
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan places cultural development in an important position in the national strategy, with the core goal of "stimulating the innovation and creation vitality of the whole nation's culture and prospering and developing socialist culture"; the "15th Five-Year Plan" for Building a Tourism Powerhouse was released, adhering to shaping tourism with culture and manifesting culture through tourism; a series of targeted policies such as the Three-Year Action Plan for the Revitalization of Drama (2026–2028) were introduced, deeply cultivating the fertile soil for cultural development.
Reform deepens, vitality bursts forth.
Inside the concert hall of the Xing'an League Cultural Center in Inner Mongolia, musicians dressed in ethnic costumes blend long-tune folk songs, horse-head fiddles, four-stringed huqin, and other art forms, with the audience immersed in the performance.
"In the past, there were not many opportunities for such ticketed commercial performances." Bai Weiguang, director of the Creation and Performance Center of the Xing'an League Wulanmuqi, introduced that by introducing market-oriented operational means, existing literary and artistic resources have been revitalized, and while adhering to public welfare services, new market space has been opened up.
Fine works emerge in an endless stream.
From Pegasus 3 in the Spring Festival season, to A Letter to Grandma in the May Day season, Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant in the summer season, and Traces of the Detective in the National Day season... the film market is full of new films with diverse genres. As of 6 p.m. on October 7, the National Day holiday box office (including pre-sales) for 2026 reached 1.138 billion yuan. According to statistics from the National Film Administration, the total box office (including pre-sales) for Chinese films in 2026 has exceeded 30.7 billion yuan.
Excellent TV dramas are also showing a blowout trend, with a batch of works with warmth and backbone such as Tree of Life, The Protagonist, and Years of Peace receiving dual recognition in both reputation and market, painting a cultural picture brimming with vitality (生机盎然, sheng ji ang ran - "life force, overflowing").
"The people need literature and art," "Literature and art need the people," "Literature and art must love the people" — General Secretary Xi Jinping's profound expositions and earnest instructions have inspired immense creative enthusiasm. More and more ordinary workers pick up their pens to write about their own lives, breaths, and heartbeats, converging into the surging wave of new mass literature and art.
On August 28, the China Literary Ceremony · Lu Xun Literature Prize Night was held in Shanghai. "Courier poet" Wang Jibing, geological drill worker poet Zhang Ergun, and other creators from the grassroots stood in the spotlight. A critic said that the literary night sky of the new era is a diverse landscape where the sky is full of stars (繁星满天, fan xing man tian - "stars, fill the sky"), and ordinary people turn words into starlight, jointly enriching the expressive landscape of contemporary literature.
"Now culture and technology are deeply integrated, and the cultural industry is developing rapidly," General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out the direction for technology-empowered cultural development.
In the intangible cultural heritage Miao embroidery characteristic cultural and creative industrial park in Shibing County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, Miao embroidery representative inheritor Long Luying guides colored threads with her fingertips, moving across the embroidery cloth. On the computer screen beside her, artificial intelligence recognizes the traditional patterns she embroiders in real time and instantly generates dozens of innovative patterns integrating modern aesthetics.
"Compared with the repetitive labor of the past, now one can focus more on creativity and cultural expression." A young designer introduced that the application of artificial intelligence promotes the leapfrog development of traditional handicraft skills.
From the proposal of "humanistic economics" to "empowering economic and social development with culture," culture provides a deep foundation and lasting impetus for high-quality development.
On the evening of September 19, the final round of the regular season of the 2026 "Su Super League" kicked off, with the Wuxi team playing away against the Nantong team. At the Nantong Sports and Convention Center, Wuxi's cultural tourism IP "Tao Gua Gua" brought peaches and interacted warmly with fans, taking photos.
In 2025, Jiangsu was boiling over because of the "Su Super League," attracting a cumulative total of more than 2.43 million spectators to matches. Jiangsu successively launched more than 50 cross-regional themed tourism route products, held more than 2,800 supporting special events, and total tourist consumption reached 227.981 billion yuan.
"Make good use of rich cultural resources and promote the integrated development of culture, commerce, tourism, sports, and exhibitions." General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest instructions have been implemented and produced results in the exploration of "culture +" across various localities.
Culture + tourism, culture + technology, culture + sports... new products, new services, new scenarios, and new business forms of cultural consumption continue to emerge, with prominent characteristics of digitalization, integration, and experientiality, achieving a grand scene of "how flourishing is the culture."
Composing the glorious chapter of the times for the continuation of the cultural lineage
In the golden autumn of October, the Longfu Temple neighborhood in Beijing is crowded with tourists, with many time-honored brands gathered here. "Many tourists do one-stop check-ins at multiple shops, buying a little of everything and taking Beijing's traditional snacks home." Shi Huanping, store manager of the Fengnian Guanchang Longfu Temple store, said.
On the morning of February 10, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to inspect the Longfu Temple neighborhood and pointed out: "The historical and cultural accumulation here is very deep, and we must inherit and carry it forward well" and "we must organically integrate tradition and modernity."
Herbal coffee, erba sauce cookies, Central Axis-themed pastries, and other products attract young people to stop and linger, with authentic Beijing-flavored culture adapting to the consumption scenarios of the new era. Longfu Temple is becoming a "golden business card" for the revival of the old city and a new landmark for cultural consumption.
Under the guidance of the concept of "creative transformation and innovative development," the ancient cultural lineage continues to grow and extend through upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground.
Develop through protection, protect through development.
At the end of last year, "Hezhe Yimakan" was successfully transferred from the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. So far, the total number of Chinese projects inscribed on UNESCO intangible cultural heritage lists and registers has increased to 45, ranking first in the world.
For world cultural heritage, protection comes first. China's world heritage nomination and protection work has frequently seen "highlight moments."
On July 25, good news came from the 48th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee: "Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage" was successfully inscribed, becoming China's 61st world heritage site.
For thousands of years, the kiln fires of Jingdezhen have never been extinguished, and the world-famous ceramic culture has never been interrupted, embodying the vitality and confidence of Chinese civilization.
Recently, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the "15th Five-Year Plan" for Cultural Heritage Protection and Inheritance, clarifying the "roadmap" and "task book" for the high-quality development of the cultural heritage cause in the next five years.
World cultural and natural heritage is an important achievement of the development of human civilization and natural evolution, and also an important vehicle for promoting exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations.
On the banks of the Nile, inside the Grand Egyptian Museum, the colossal statue of Ramesses II stands majestically. On September 2 local time, President Xi Jinping, who was visiting Egypt, came to the Grand Egyptian Museum for a visit and pointed out: "China-Egypt friendship is not only cooperation between the two countries, but also a dialogue between two great civilizations."
The first China-Egypt joint archaeological team recently discovered a well-preserved "sacred lake" with a clear structure at the Montu Temple site, which is the first "sacred lake" newly discovered through archaeological excavation in the history of ancient Egyptian archaeology.
Mohamed, the Egyptian chief in charge of the China-Egypt Montu Temple joint archaeological project, said: "The China-Egypt joint archaeological work conveys the message of dialogue among civilizations, benefiting Egypt, China, and the whole world."
Using culture to educate people can better unite hearts; using art to connect hearts makes it easier to communicate with the world.
In May this year, the 2026 Cultural Powerhouse Construction Summit Forum with the theme "Inheritance of Cultural Lineage and Fortune and Cultural Innovation and Creation" was held in Shenzhen; in June, the Second World Congress of Classical Studies with the theme "Dialogue Between Ancient and Modern: Modern Enlightenment from Classical Wisdom" was held in Athens, Greece; in September, the 2026 Beijing Cultural Forum with the theme "Cultural Heritage and Mutual Learning Among Civilizations" was successfully held...
Visiting ancient buildings, appreciating traditional opera, tasting Chinese-style pastries... foreign tourists are falling in love with in-depth "China tours." From January to August this year, 23.72 million foreign nationals entered China visa-free, a year-on-year increase of 26.8%, with more and more overseas tourists coming to China to immerse themselves in traditional Chinese culture and experience Eastern aesthetics.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We should better promote Chinese culture going global, carrying the Way through culture, spreading the voice through culture, and educating people through culture." Chinese culture is embracing the world with a more open attitude and contributing to the world with more vibrant civilizational achievements.
The mountains and rivers are magnificent, and the culture is splendid. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's Cultural Thought, the pace of building a culturally strong nation is resolute, and the sons and daughters of China are writing a new chapter of Chinese culture and forging new brilliance with pride and enthusiasm!
Return to TopBy: 彭 飞
Chinese civilization possesses a strong power of appeal and shaping influence. Today, the dissemination of Chinese culture is no longer merely a superficial display of its appearance, but rather a fusion of values and concepts, a connection that reaches directly into people's hearts.
At the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, several details left a deep impression.
The blazing main torch tower, from design and research and development, to fine craftsmanship and on-site assembly, was completed by Chinese enterprises; the core projects of the opening and closing ceremonies, including stage construction, digital content production, and special effects presentation, were created by Chinese teams; even the global main broadcast work of this edition of the Games was entirely handled by Chinese media organizations, breaking the convention of previous editions in which the host country undertook the main broadcast.
One cannot help but recall the 2026 FIFA World Cup held in the United States, Canada, and Mexico this year, where Chinese suppliers, Chinese brands, and Chinese referees were also in the spotlight.
Netizens summarized a common characteristic: "the 'China' content is very high."
From Liu Changchun in the past, acting alone without support (单刀赴会, dan dao fu hui - "single, knife, go, meet"), to the 2008 people striking fou drums at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics astonishing the world, to the varying degrees to which Chinese imprints are now carved into various sporting events... International major competitions are arenas of athletic competition, and even more so, a mirror reflecting the profound transformation of China's global role.
From "producer of goods" to "enabler of development."
For a long period in the past, the world's understanding of China was more about understanding "Made in China." China exported large quantities of goods to all parts of the world, primarily participating in the global division of labor as a producer. Today, China's role is more diverse and its influence more far-reaching.
Multinational automakers have set up research and development centers in China, refining new models and new technologies, and feeding back into the global market. The least developed countries have found opportunities in the Chinese market, opening up sales channels for their high-quality specialty agricultural products. Whenever the global industrial chain and supply chain are impacted, China's strong industrial system always plays the role of a stabilizer and ballast stone.
China's development has significant positive externalities. The "empowerment" of an "empowering major country" is not one-way assistance, but genuine mutual benefit and win-win cooperation; it is not based on calculations of interest, but stems from a mindset and sense of responsibility for symbiosis and shared progress.
From "presenter of appearance" to "shaper of values."
In the past, Chinese culture overseas was more often regarded as a cultural symbol; many people liked its form and outward appearance, but few paid attention to its connotations and deeper meaning. Today, many foreigners practice martial arts not only for health and interest, but also because they appreciate the cultural concept of stopping war with force; the reason the topic of "becoming Chinese" has gone viral on foreign websites is that the concepts, tastes, and aesthetics of the Chinese way of life resonate with people...
Even more worthy of attention is that contemporary Chinese cultural and social phenomena such as the "Chinese-style sense of security" and the "vegetable basket project" have won praise overseas. This is essentially a matter of governance thinking and value pursuits gaining greater recognition.
Chinese civilization possesses a strong power of appeal and shaping influence. Today, the dissemination of Chinese culture is no longer merely a superficial display of its appearance, but rather a fusion of values and concepts, a connection that reaches directly into people's hearts.
From "participant in rules" to "leader in concepts."
China's journey to the world has undergone a transformation in posture, which can be clearly seen from three slices of time.
The "Three Questions of the Olympics" at the beginning of the last century were filled with the helplessness and bitterness of a backward country.
At the beginning of this century, China, having successfully joined the WTO, embarked on its "journey of aligning with international standards."
In 2026, President Xi Jinping, from the height of promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, proposed jointly building a fair and reasonable global artificial intelligence governance system, which sparked enthusiastic responses. Foreign media remarked with emotion, "China is defining the future."
Over the course of a century, China, facing the world, has completed a historic transformation from lagging behind and catching up, to actively integrating, and then to actively constructing and leading at the forefront. "Perceiving the general trend of the times and grasping the historical initiative," the Party has united and led hundreds of millions of people to develop themselves while also benefiting the world.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Present a credible, lovable, and respectable image of China." What is "respectable"? It is not about inspiring awe or fear, but about inspiring heartfelt respect, admiration, and recognition from others. Only a major country that benefits all parties with its own development, upholds justice with sincerity and openness, and promotes connectivity through inclusiveness and mutual learning can win the respect and support of the international community and gather more strength from fellow travelers for great causes.
Time does not speak, but takes practical work as its measure. The magnificent future of the Chinese nation and the splendid tomorrow of human society await our joint creation.
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The "stability" of the Chinese economy is not static, but rather a high-level dynamic equilibrium within a forward-moving momentum. Behind this "stability" lies profound strategic resolve and positive historical initiative.
In today's world, the scarcest resource is the market. The Chinese market is often regarded by investors as "the scarcest of the scarce."
Where does this scarcity come from? It may be analyzed by examining the character "stability."
The "stability" of economic operation is precisely manifested in the public's "lack of sensation" — a comparison of these two aspects is relatively intuitive.
The first is a comparison between China and other countries. While inflation levels in major developed economies have risen markedly, and in some countries inflationary "high fever" is still intensifying, causing surging pressure on household spending for daily necessities, we enjoy "fruit freedom" and "data traffic freedom." This is also evident from the indicators, allowing one to see a part of the whole (可见一斑, ke jian yi ban - "can, see, one, speck"): in August, the consumer price index rose 0.8 percent year on year. The moderate data reflects the stability of people's lives.
The second is a comparison between past and present. In the past, people feared most the power outages and production halts in summer; now, rotating power cuts are almost unheard of. In August, total social electricity consumption once again exceeded one trillion kilowatt-hours, with load reaching a record high, yet urban operations remained orderly and the lights of ten thousand households shone as usual. Behind this lies the silent operation of an entire new-type energy system. From ultra-high-voltage transmission projects to urban and rural distribution grids and microgrids, from thermal power to wind, hydro, and photovoltaic power, a three-dimensional power supply network upholds the smooth operation of the economy and society.
This kind of "stability" is all the more precious when placed in today's world. Looking globally, major economies are recovering sluggishly, international geopolitical conflicts persist, and global energy prices fluctuate — yet China's "unique scenery" has become a scarce certainty. The International Monetary Fund's July report lowered its forecast for world economic growth this year by 0.1 percentage points, yet raised its forecast for China's economic growth by 0.2 percentage points. Behind this "one decline and one rise" lies confidence in this scarcity, and it is also the driving force behind "increasing investment in China."
Where does "stability" come from? Institutional advantages are the ballast stone.
Consider one case: Dadukou District in Chongqing was once a highly renowned and famous (赫赫有名, he he you ming - "grand, grand, have, name") "Ten-Li Steel City." After Chongqing Steel relocated, how could new industries be "injected"? The locality, based on its inherent advantages, scientifically laid out the motorcycle industry.
The market and the government work in the same direction. For Qianjiang Motorcycle, from completion of its intelligent manufacturing plant to occupancy, it was "sign and move in immediately"; for Qiutian Gear, one in every five motorcycles produced globally is fitted with its products; for Lide Industry, its motorcycle clutches hold nearly 50 percent of the domestic market share... Scientific industrial planning, precise policy support, and continuous service iteration have enabled a "15-minute industrial ecosystem" to take shape and gain momentum.
Vitality and order are both coordinated. When more than 350 enterprises compete on the same stage, how can there be vitality without chaos? Interlocking industrial chains and differentiated competition — both segmenting tracks and extending and strengthening chains — accelerate the integration of manufacturing and consumption, and industry and culture-tourism. From January to August this year, the output value of above-scale industries in the high-end motorcycle sector in Dadukou District, Chongqing, grew 27 percent year on year. Making motorcycles, riding motorcycles, and watching motorcycles have become the city's calling card, truly achieving both "letting things be released with vitality" and "managing them well."
"Upholding the combination of an effective market and a proactive government" is both a notable advantage of the socialist market economy system and an important principle that must be followed for economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. By continuously improving macroeconomic governance capacity, promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, the accumulation of strength in emerging industries, and the forward-looking layout of future industries, the certainty and scarcity of the Chinese market will become even more prominent.
The "stability" of the Chinese economy is not static, but rather a high-level dynamic equilibrium within a forward-moving momentum. Behind this "stability" lies profound strategic resolve and positive historical initiative.
"It is not 'venture capital' but 'industry investment'; not 'gambling' but 'striving.'" Facing praise from public opinion, the cadres of Hefei, Anhui, remain clear-headed. High-return industrial investment is only the "face"; methodologies at the foundation — such as acting in light of local conditions, scientific decision-making, and long-termism — are the "substance."
Not getting hot-headed over trends, but focusing on innovation in one track; not belittling oneself amid storms, but anchoring on the development goal of new quality productive forces; not single-mindedly chasing visible achievements, but also deeply cultivating latent achievements... This composed mindset that balances strategic stability with tactical flexibility embodies the Communists' view of political achievements and view of development. It is deeply rooted in a governance system that is advancing with the times (与时俱进, yu shi ju jin - "with, time, together, advance"), projected through the forging ahead through hardships (砥砺奋进, di li fen jin - "grind, whet, strive, advance") of hundreds of millions of business entities, and gradually becomes the stable expectation of the people for Chinese modernization. This confidence in the path is precisely the foundation of the Chinese economy's ability to proceed steadily and far.
The improving trend indicates that the strategy is correct. Continue to strengthen confidence, consolidate the foundation of stability, accumulate momentum for progress, maintain a mindset of seeking progress while maintaining stability, and take one step at a time — the giant ship of China will surely break through the waves and sail steadily forward.
Return to TopBy: 曾宇昕
[Phenomenon] Not long ago, the exhibition hall of the China Language Resources Protection Project officially opened in Changsha, Hunan. The exhibition hall brings together a vast corpus of Chinese dialects, minority languages, and language culture from across the country, constructing an immersive exhibition space where cultural relics and physical objects interweave with digital sound, helping the achievements of language resource protection leap from the "database" to the "living exhibition."
[Commentary]
Every time I return to my hometown, I gain a sense of warmth from the familiar Hokkien dialect, and I can also feel the inheritance difficulties it faces. Although traditional operas such as Gezai opera still retain their lingering charm, and urban public transportation still preserves Hokkien announcements, the number of young people who come into contact with, learn, and use dialects proficiently continues to decline, and the intergenerational gap in dialect inheritance cannot be ignored.
Our country has more than 130 languages, and local dialects and sub-dialects are even more numerous, making it one of the countries with the richest language resources in the world. However, many languages and dialects face the danger of extinction. Behind this are the influence of family education concepts and the factor of changes in living environments.
Dialects are precious cultural resources, and the continuation and transmission of culture must always attach itself to the soil of social life. If a person stays away from their native land for a long time, they may not have a single opportunity to speak their hometown dialect for several years. To retain the sounds of home and ancient rhymes and to safeguard language diversity, we must break out of the rut of "emphasizing preservation, neglecting dissemination, and weakening application," so that language heritage does not remain only in recordings, texts, and databases.
Technologies such as AI (artificial intelligence) are important tools for activating the vitality of dialects. The "Language Drop" audio induction device inside the exhibition hall is quite ingenious; when visitors stand at the induction points, directional speakers randomly play local accents from across the country. When speaking into the microphone, the "Listen to the Sound, Identify the Source" system can identify the region to which the dialect belongs. At the "Echo · AI Dialect Art Exhibition" held by the Suzhou Museum, after audiences interact with the exhibits through voice, AI can transform the audible "Suzhou dialect" into tangible "Suzhou paintings." The charm of dialects, empowered by technology, is given visual presentation and immersive perception.
Dialects are carriers of a locality's local customs and flavor, and enhancing the vitality and appeal of dialects and local accents also requires innovation in carriers. The domestic game Black Myth: Wukong has become popular worldwide by virtue of its authentic Chinese culture, and the Northern Shaanxi storytelling (shuoshu) it features uses the local dialect, incorporating Northern Shaanxi characteristic accents and articulation in the singing. The heavy, desolate singing style made players exclaim that they were "hooked." From the dialect film A Letter to Grandma touching people's hearts, to the TV drama Protagonist prompting young netizens to actively study Northwestern dialect folk customs, organically integrating dialects and local accents into games, film and television, cultural creative products, and short videos can inject new momentum into the innovative development of the cultural industry.
I have observed a phenomenon: many parents, when providing language enlightenment to infants and young children, deliberately avoid using their hometown dialect. When asked why, some feel it is unnecessary, and some fear it will interfere with young children learning to speak Mandarin. In fact, promoting the national common language and script and protecting and inheriting dialect culture can coexist without conflict (并行不悖, bing xing bu bei - "parallel, not, oppose"). Previously, the opinions issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council clearly stated, "vigorously promote and standardize the use of the national common language and script, and protect and inherit dialect culture."
Coming from the world of everyday life, and going into the life of the masses. The living inheritance of dialects is a cultural relay that requires a sustained, long-term effort, and taking root in real-life scenarios is the most fundamental foothold. Hold the ground of the family as the front for intergenerational inheritance, promote more schools to incorporate dialect nursery rhymes and local oral literature into interest courses, and encourage communities to carry out dialect oral history and folk custom storytelling activities... Only by letting local accents from all over the country step out of the archives and into daily life can we better safeguard cultural roots and the cultural nostalgia in people's hearts.
To deeply advance people-centered new urbanization, we must calculate the economic account and the livelihood account, and also the cultural account and the emotional account. To avoid cities all looking identical (千城一面, qian cheng yi mian - "thousand, city, one, face"), we must retain the regional culture and historical memory carried by local accents and ancient rhymes, old streets and historic sites, and cultural relics and ancient architecture. Letting ancient languages and scripts continue endlessly and vigorously (生生不息, sheng sheng bu xi - "birth, birth, not, cease") in the digital age is to accumulate spiritual strength for moving toward the future.
Return to TopNot long ago, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and other departments jointly issued the "Implementation Plan for Adhering to the Priority Development of Agriculture and Rural Areas and Improving the Investment Mechanism for Rural Revitalization," which makes arrangements in six areas, including fiscal and bond measures, around improving the pattern of diversified investment. The modernization of agriculture and rural areas bears on the overall situation and the quality of Chinese modernization. Broadening the sources of funds in the fields of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农), and improving the pattern in which fiscal funds provide priority guarantees, financial resources are given key support, and society participates actively, is an important safeguard for enhancing the effectiveness of policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit rural areas, and enrich farmers, and for supporting economic and social development.
This is exactly:
Policies to strengthen agriculture warm the heart,
Living water trickles in to nourish the fields.
Intensity is not reduced, quality and efficiency are improved,
Year after year of abundance brings joy without worry.
Yang Yuwen
Return to TopBy: 胡颢曦
Not long ago, in a village in Liaoning, a dispute arose between neighbors over crop damage caused by pesticide drift. Local staff took the lead in handling the matter and negotiating compensation. The agreement was signed, the compensation was paid, and the case was closed and filed. By all accounts, the work should have ended there. But afterward, the staff still frequently visited the affected farming household to ask how they were doing, and sometimes even brought vegetables grown in their own gardens.
This working method deserves recognition. Filing a case away does not mean drawing a final line under it. After a matter is concluded, one must continue to keep in mind and follow up on whether the farming household has any remaining difficulties, how the agreement is being performed, and how the two families are getting along with each other going forward.
Grassroots mediation must first of all be governed by rules — responsibilities must be clearly assigned, losses clearly calculated, and compensation clearly implemented. Without this precondition, so-called "heartwarming" gestures can easily turn into papering over differences. But once the procedures have been completed, that only means the dispute has been given a resolution; it does not mean the impact has disappeared. This is especially true among neighbors, who see each other every day. Compensation can make up for a temporary loss, but it may not necessarily dissolve the knot in people's hearts.
Therefore, whether in urban or rural areas, resolving neighborhood disputes calls for particular attention to "what happened afterward." Whether compensation has been performed according to the agreement, whether the two sides still face each other in a state of extreme hostility or tension (剑拔弩张, jian ba nu zhang - "sword, draw; bow, tension"), and whether new misunderstandings have arisen — these circumstances to a large extent determine whether the dispute will recur. True conflict mediation must be measured by whether the neighborhood relationship has been effectively repaired.
Different disputes call for different follow-up work after conclusion. In reality, neighbors may have disputes over land boundaries, water use, cultivation, and the like, but since both sides live in the same place, the relationship is hard to sever with a one-size-fits-all approach (一刀切, yi dao qie - "one, knife, cut"). For this type of dispute, it is advisable to conduct return visits at key points in the performance of the agreement. Once it is found that emotions have not settled or misunderstandings have not dissipated, the two sides should be brought together early to sit down and talk things out openly, so as to prevent the dispute from recurring.
The conclusion of a dispute is a node in the work, not a full stop on care. Asking one more question about how things are going, making one more home visit — doing work that reaches into the hearts of the people — the warmth of grassroots governance is embodied precisely in this attentiveness to what comes "afterward."
(Excerpted from Liaoning Daily, original title: "Resolving Disputes Means More Than Just 'Closing the Case'")
Return to TopBy: 邹 翔
When Chinese athlete Zhao Jiaju crossed the finish line on the more than 330-kilometer course of the "Tor des Géants" ultramarathon in Italy, the timer stopped at 65 hours, 55 minutes, and 22 seconds. This young man, who once delivered food by running on the streets, shortened the race record by about 13 minutes, becoming the first Asian runner to win the event since its inception.
The road to the summit was no smooth path. At the same race one year earlier, he had exhausted his physical strength at the 203.8-kilometer aid station and, out of protection for his body, chose to "try again next year." Netizens commented: the true giant is not the one who never withdraws from a race, but the one who knows when to stop and has the courage to stand at the starting line again.
"Stop when it is time to stop, move when it is time to move; if movement and stillness do not miss their proper time, the path will be bright." In sports, one must both know how to act and know when to stop.
For most people, the goal of exercise is to improve health, and reading the body's signals is very important. If during exercise one feels difficulty breathing, dizziness, a soaring heart rate, every movement requiring gritted teeth and forced effort, and one has also not rested well recently, it is best not to "push oneself a little harder." Only by knowing when to stop and then acting can one achieve long-term goals.
Stopping is for the sake of moving forward better. An athlete who climbed all 14 peaks above 8,000 meters without supplemental oxygen has his own "iron rule": if he has not yet reached the summit by 2 p.m., he turns back no matter what. Reaching the summit is an option; descending is a must. Grasping limits and keeping proper measure is for the sake of climbing higher and going farther.
A fellow badminton player shared his experience: when he first learned badminton, he was highly ambitious, wishing he could play 7 days a week. After persisting for a period, he found that the more he played, the worse he got, because his body was in a constant state of fatigue. After making scientific adjustments, his skill level improved by a notch.
"The end of exercise is the rehabilitation department" — this popular internet meme reminds us that exercise requires making steady progress in an orderly fashion (循序渐进, xun xu jian jin - "step by step, advance gradually") and following its laws. Maintaining patience and making steady, long-term progress (细水长流, xi shui chang liu - "fine water, long flow") is more useful than a burst of intense training.
Knowing when to stop is also "knowing oneself" — thinking clearly about what one wants, what suits one, and what one can bear. One can certainly refer to other people's exercise plans, but what matters more is "adapting them to oneself." The Great Learning says, "Only after knowing where to rest can one be settled." In the realm of sports, this "settledness" can be interpreted as one's own rhythm. Once one finds one's own rhythm and has an anchor in one's heart, one will not lose one's composure and act in confusion (自乱阵脚, zi luan zhen jiao - "self, disturb, formation, feet") because of the step counts and paces others post online.
On the track of life, whether in undertaking work and starting enterprises, getting along with others, or exercising power and performing duties, one must in all things know when to act and know when to stop, and act only after knowing when to stop.
As of September this year, a certain platform has consecutively issued 11 announcements on the phased governance of "AI-remade" videos, making great efforts to rectify the problem of content on the platform that subversively alters classic films, TV dramas, and animated works, "wildly" deconstructs them, and vulgarizes their adaptations. "Secondary creation" of classics must not slide into the mire of distortion and desecration. The essence of "knowing when to stop" in cultural inheritance and development is to act but not to act recklessly.
In reality, some leading cadres, disregarding local fiscal realities and resource endowments, blindly take on debt, expand projects, and launch initiatives, leaving behind unfinished and abandoned projects — a profound lesson. Wei Zheng of the Tang Dynasty said, "When about to undertake construction, one should think of knowing when to stop in order to reassure the people," meaning that when one wishes to undertake construction, one must deliberate carefully, restrain selfish desires, and avoid wasting people's labor and resources (劳民伤财, lao min shang cai - "labor, people, harm, wealth"). Communists should have higher aspirations, cast aside selfish thoughts and distractions, act with public interest in all matters, and act when action is due and stop when stopping is due.
Acting after knowing when to stop, in the final analysis, means knowing reverence — daring and being good at acting on the premise of respecting laws and rules and abiding by discipline. "To speak of rules and hold the bottom line, one must first have a reverent heart. Only when one's heart holds reverence can one's words be restrained and one's actions know where to stop." This is the delineation of the boundaries of power, and also an admonition and requirement for Party members and cadres.
"Contentment brings no disgrace; knowing when to stop brings no danger, and one may endure long." Only by knowing when to stop can one gain. Only by revering laws, rules, and regulations can one move steadily and go far, and rush toward a broader horizon.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 枨 刘博通
The vast desert stretches without end. In the Badain Jaran Desert, members of the Women's Border Patrol Team of the Border Management Brigade of Alxa Right Banner, Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, walk together across the sand to patrol the border.
On the long patrol route, everyone divides work and cooperates, supporting each other across difficult sections and filling in for one another. "Guarding the border and protecting the frontier means guarding the common homeland of all ethnic groups."" Team leader Shaorigaoge said.
In June 2023, during an inspection tour of Inner Mongolia, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Cultivating a sense of community for the Chinese nation is the main thread of the Party's ethnic work in the new era, and also the main thread of all work in ethnic regions."
Keeping these instructions firmly in mind, Inner Mongolia takes cultivating a sense of community for the Chinese nation as the main thread of all work in ethnic regions, advances the building of a shared spiritual home for the Chinese nation, promotes exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups, and inspires people of all ethnic groups to unite as one in struggle and jointly prosper and develop.
Advancing the building of a shared spiritual home for the Chinese nation
"One red satchel, one grassland road, one boundless rainbow connecting you and me..." Inside the "Red Satchel" education base for cultivating a sense of community for the Chinese nation in Bayan Ula Gacha, Sangbao Laga Sumu, Sonid Right Banner, Xilingol League, a themed practice activity on ethnic unity, organized by the "Red Satchel" volunteer service team and the Ulan Muqir of Sonid Right Banner, is underway.
The combination of Ulan Muqir and the "Red Satchel" has played a concerto of ethnic unity and services benefiting the people on the grassland. Ulan Muqir, this grassland "red literary and artistic light cavalry," is committed to bringing laughter and joy to people of all ethnic groups. "In 1972, Bayan Ula Gacha created the 'Red Satchel' study-delivery model, packing the Party's policies, science popularization knowledge, and other materials into 'red satchels,' delivering them to the doorsteps of people of all ethnic groups, and explaining them into their hearts." Ma Huibin, Party Secretary of Sangbao Laga Sumu, said.
Over decades of continuous development, Ulan Muqir has grown into a versatile comprehensive service team, and the "Red Satchel" has also developed from a study-delivery mechanism into an important lever for strengthening grassroots Party organizations and cultivating a sense of community for the Chinese nation.
"We have innovated the 'Ulan Muqir + Red Satchel' civilized practice model, telling the stories of people of all ethnic groups helping each other in times of need." Jirgal, deputy captain of the Sonid Right Banner Ulan Muqir, said that in addition to artistic performances, they also carry out policy lectures, livestock-raising science popularization, livestream product sales, and other activities, enabling herders to enrich both their "minds" and their "pockets."
Since the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Inner Mongolia has innovatively carried out Ulan Muqir "study·creation·performance" work, continuously improving its capacity to serve people of all ethnic groups. Over the past five years, the region's 75 Ulan Muqir troupes have performed more than 40,000 times in total, with each Ulan Muqir troupe performing over 100 grassroots benefit performances annually, bringing joy and happiness to people of all ethnic groups.
Like Ulan Muqir, there are many other teams rooted in the grassroots across Inner Mongolia. The Morin Khuur Symphony Orchestra of Uxin Banner, Ordos City, composed of over 60 performers from various ethnic groups, is one such team.
The orchestra performs programs featuring the morin khuur, khoomei, and other forms, and also includes revolutionary repertoire and various classic masterpieces. Teniger, head of the orchestra, introduced, "We perform approximately 80 shows annually, with performers divided into several small teams going down to the grassroots, using music to tell stories of ethnic unity."
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Inner Mongolia has focused on the theme of cultivating a sense of community for the Chinese nation in its publicity efforts, carrying out 173,000 theoretical lectures on "feeling gratitude to the Party, listening to the Party, and following the Party," reaching an audience of 10.423 million person-times.
Promoting exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups
In Sonid Left Banner, Xilingol League, inside the "Children of the Nation" themed exhibition hall, old photographs, worn objects, and sculptural scenes recreate the touching past of the "three thousand orphans entering Inner Mongolia."
"A pair of small embroidered shoes carries the love of two mothers, and is even more a testimony to ethnic unity." Tonggalga, a witness to those events, said with deep emotion standing before the display case. More than 60 years ago, she came to the grassland wearing these embroidered shoes sewn by her biological mother; after the soles wore through, her Eji (mother) specially re-soled them with leather.
More than 60 years ago, orphans from the south traveled north to the grassland, where they were affectionately called "Children of the Nation" by the people of Inner Mongolia. People of all ethnic groups, with meticulous care, enabled the children to thrive and grow up healthy on the grassland.
Today, the story of ethnic unity continues to be written. In 2010, the "Children of the Nation" spontaneously established a love association, sponsoring students in difficulty and carrying out public welfare activities. "We want to use our own experiences to tell the story of the Chinese nation being one family, and do our best to repay this great love and give back to society." Tonggalga said.
Sitsenbaatar, a retired employee of the Maodeng Power Supply Station of Xilingol Power Supply Company, Inner Mongolia Power Group, was once a "Child of the Nation." In 1959, he came to the Xilingol grassland, grew up under the care of his grassland mother, and thereafter spent half a lifetime on the front line of power supply in pastoral areas.
This touching history of the "three thousand orphans entering Inner Mongolia" is a vivid epitome of the great family of the Chinese nation's pluralistic unity.
"Singing of our beloved motherland, from now on marching toward prosperity and strength..." In the Hepan Huayuan Community on Xincheng Street, Tongliao Economic and Technological Development Zone, on the square in front of the "Pomegranate Seed" discussion pavilion, an elderly choir composed of people from all ethnic groups is rehearsing the song "Singing of the Motherland"; in the intangible cultural heritage leather-carving workshop, people are making "little pomegranate" ornaments; in the activity room, residents are learning the guzheng, traditional paper-cutting, and other crafts... The community's shared spaces are becoming a warm bond connecting people of all ethnic groups in mutual companionship.
"We regularly carry out activities such as 'Seed and Seed, Joy Together' speeches, painting, reading, paper-cutting, and more, promoting exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups." Chen Jing, Party Secretary and Director of the Neighborhood Committee of Hepan Huayuan Community, said.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Inner Mongolia has made communities an important front for deepening the mutually embedded development of all ethnic groups, implementing an action to enhance the capacity of mutually embedded communities, and creating social conditions for people of all ethnic groups to live together, study together, build together, share together, work together, and rejoice together.
Inspiring people of all ethnic groups to unite as one in struggle and jointly prosper and develop
At the shantung (Xanthoceras sorbifolium) base in Haolibao Gacha, Horqin Right Wing Middle Banner, Hinggan League, the fruit trees are luxuriant and flourishing, full of vitality. Through comprehensive treatment measures such as enclosure, land preparation, and well drilling, local authorities have enabled more than 300,000 shantung trees to take root and flourishing on 4,600 mu of sandy land.
"In the next step, we will promote deep processing of shantung fruit, allowing more people to benefit from the dividends of green development." Wang Liwei, first secretary stationed in Haolibao Gacha, said. At present, the entire banner has cumulatively treated approximately 1.32 million mu of sandy land, including 59,000 mu of concentrated contiguous exposed sandy land.
Uxin Banner, Ordos City, is located deep in the hinterland of the Mu Us Sandy Land, and was once a severe wind-and-sand disaster area. Today, driving to the Mu Us Sandy Land Life Community Scientific Research Center, along the way one sees no sky-filling yellow sand;instead, Caragana microphylla and Salix psammophila grow in continuous stretches, with lush greenery everywhere.
"For over 70 years, people of all ethnic groups in Uxin Banner have continuously fought desertification, achieving a transformation from vast yellow sand to widespread oases." Chen Ziliang, deputy director of the Ecological Construction Office of the Uxin Banner Forestry and Grassland Bureau, said. Since the implementation of the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program, Uxin Banner has cumulatively completed 10.21 million mu of sandy land treatment across six phases, with the ecological treatment rate of the Mu Us Sandy Land's Uxin section exceeding 85%. At present, the entire banner's forest coverage rate has reached 32.92%, and vegetation coverage has increased to 85%.
People of all ethnic groups, united in heart to combat desertification and increase incomes together, have written a new-era answer sheet of high-quality development.
At the Xilingol League Farmers and Herders Training Center, Ting·Baatar, recipient of the "July 1 Medal" and former Party Branch Secretary of Saruulatugaya Gacha, Abaga Banner, is again welcoming farmers and herders who have come to seek his advice. For more than half a century, Ting·Baatar has led local farmers and herders in desertification control, scientific livestock raising, and cultivating distinctive industries, allowing the fruits of development to benefit people of all ethnic groups.
Ascending the observation deck of the Laoniuwan Yellow River Grand Canyon in Qingshuihe County, Hohhot City, the surging Yellow River and the winding Great Wall converge here, with magnificent scenery. "We deeply explore the cultural heritage of Yellow River culture, Great Wall culture, and ethnic unity, using study-tour experiences and themed activities to support cultural inheritance, leading people of all ethnic groups to join hands in achieving prosperity." Wang Xi, director of the Ethnic Affairs Commission Office of Qingshuihe County, said.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Inner Mongolia has escalated its efforts in accelerating high-quality development and achieving common prosperity, cumulatively allocating 3.539 billion yuan in funds for the development of ethnic minorities' undertakings, implementing 3,640 common-prosperity projects, and promoting all ethnic groups to achieve common prosperity.
Today, people of all ethnic groups in Inner Mongolia, helping each other in times of need and advancing hand in hand, are jointly writing the chapter of the era of ethnic unity, thriving industries, cultural prosperity, beautiful ecology, and people's wellbeing.
(Wang Ruotong, reporter of this newspaper, participated in the reporting.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李茂颖
Stage spotlights fell, and children dressed in traditional ethnic costumes, holding grass horses woven from coarse hemp, danced gracefully and lightly (翩然起舞, pian ran qi wu - "fluttering, rising, start, dance"), while thunderous applause filled the theater at the Central Academy of Drama's Changping campus. At this national dance competition, Zhang Ping, principal of Yanshan Caiyi Culture and Art Training School in Yunnan, took the children from the mountains to win the gold award.
Ten years had passed since Zhang Ping first set foot in Nadu Village, Yanshan County, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. On that summer day a decade ago, with old adobe houses and muddy paths, most of the village's children were left-behind children whose parents had gone out to work. The longing in the children's eyes made Zhang Ping stop in her tracks.
Before 2016, Zhang Ping was a dance choreographer in Beijing, and her husband Guan Yu was a ballet teacher at the Beijing Dance Academy.
But Zhang Ping never expected that a photo sent by a primary school classmate would completely change the course of her life. In the photo, several little girls stood in front of an earthen wall, wearing ethnic minority clothing, with messy hair and very bright eyes. Zhang Ping stared at the screen for a long time and asked her classmate where it was. "Nadu Village, Yanshan County, Yunnan." "Take me to see it during the summer vacation." Zhang Ping's classmate agreed.
The girls in that WeChat Moments photo reminded her of her former self.
In the third year of junior high school, when the Wenshan Prefecture Song and Dance Troupe was recruiting students, Zhang Ping also applied, but because she had no systematic training, she was eliminated in the first round. It was her middle school teacher Song Yinhua who ran to the examination site and said, "Let this child try again; she will definitely make it." "If she hadn't looked out for me, my life might have taken a completely different shape," Zhang Ping said. "I always think about whether I can do something for these children."
So Zhang Ping and Guan Yu launched the "Caiyun Plan" in Nadu Village, volunteering to teach left-behind children to dance, hoping to use dance to find a way out for the children.
In 2019, Zhang Ping completely resigned from her job in Beijing and returned to Yanshan County, beginning to establish the "Yanshan County Caiyun Plan Public Welfare Volunteer Service Center." In 2020, Zhang Ping also founded the Yanshan Caiyi Culture and Art Training School, providing free learning opportunities for children from families in difficulty, and also offering employment opportunities for children after graduation. "Those children need me to catch them," Zhang Ping said.
When the public welfare project first started, conditions were so hard that one could say they had having absolutely nothing (一无所有, yi wu suo you - "one, not, have, anything"): with no professional dance studio, they set up tents in the open space at the village entrance; with no standard ballet barres, they went into the mountains to cut bamboo and polished and crafted them by hand; with no non-slip dance flooring, the children practiced repeatedly on the muddy red earth, barefoot or in dance shoes.
Zhang Ping's gentleness was hidden in the small details of daily life: when the children were tired from training, she would always prepare biscuits, fruit, and drinks; when some children harbored worries, she would talk with them late into the night and gently counsel them. Wayan was an orphan, always thinly dressed and with worn-out bedding. Zhang Ping's heart ached for her, and she often bought her new clothes and thick bedding to make up for the maternal love she lacked. The once timid, introverted little girl who dared not speak gradually opened up through day-after-day companionship, becoming sunny and confident, and successfully completed her studies at the art school.
Over the past ten years, the couple has helped more than 90 children from the mountains enter professional art institutions. The children call Zhang Ping "Amei" and call Guan Yu "Aba"; "Amei" means "Amma," and they are the warmest support in the children's hearts.
As the children of the "Caiyun Plan" walked out of the mountains one by one, Zhang Ping and Guan Yu turned their gaze toward the folk dances deep in the mountains that were on the verge of being lost.
The figures of Zhang Ping and Guan Yu on field-collection trips have left their mark on the fields and ridges of many villages in Yanshan County. What they were looking for was the Zhuang grass horse dance, which was on the verge of being lost.
The elderly artisans were advanced in years, and most could no longer dance, able only to describe the dance details orally. Zhang Ping crouched beside the elders, listening and taking notes while reconstructing the scenes in her mind. "Whatever scenes they described, however the children danced, I listened and pondered as I went," Zhang Ping said.
Besides restoring the movements, the hardest part was restoring the costumes and props. Old-style ethnic costumes had long since disappeared. Zhang Ping pored over museum materials, studying how each piece of cloth was cut and how the headdresses were worn. Zhang Ping's mother, in her 70s, took up the needle to cut and embroider, repeatedly improving the designs, reproducing the costumes and headdresses in their original flavor, and improving the heavy accessories to suit children's dance performances. The Zhuang grass horse dance is mainly made of straw, but straw is too brittle and breaks easily. "So we used coarse hemp instead; the texture is the same as straw, and the grass horses we made turned out very well," Zhang Ping said.
With no professional team, Guan Yu used his own phone to shoot and edit the videos, and after they were posted, they received a great deal of attention. "Letting more people see the charm of ethnic dance — we have achieved that," Zhang Ping said.
After the grass horse dance became popular, the children walked around campus carrying the props, and many classmates said enviously, "We want to dance it too." The intangible cultural heritage dance that was once on the verge of being lost has become something children compete to learn. Zhang Ping also invited university teachers to come to the village to teach, allowing quality art resources to reach down to the countryside. "In the past, the old artisans could only pass it down orally; now with the children joining in, these ancient arts can be better carried forward," Zhang Ping said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李君强 喻思南 刘诗瑶
On September 14, at the United Nations headquarters in Vienna, Austria, a special "gift" from the far side of the Moon made its debut: lunar soil samples collected by China's Chang'e-6 mission, donated to the United Nations, will be on permanent display there. This precious "piece of luggage," brought back to Earth by a Chinese spacecraft, has become a testament to humanity's joint exploration of the universe.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Exploring the vast universe, developing the space industry, and building a space power are the space dream we unremittingly pursue."
October 8 this year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of China's space industry. Looking back to October 8, 1956, in the western suburbs of Beijing, the Fifth Research Academy of the Ministry of National Defense was established, and China's space industry started from there. On April 24, 1970, China's first artificial satellite, "Dongfanghong-1," streaked across the sky, and the melodious strains of "The East Is Red" resounded from space across the land. The passage of time and changing of the seasons (斗转星移, dou zhuan xing yi - "stars, turn; stars, move") have brought us to today, when the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft heads to the China Space Station laden with hundreds of items of supplies, research on the lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6 continues to yield new results, and an increasing number of international payloads ride Chinese spacecraft into deep space... The ever-updating space "luggage" bears witness to the leap in China's capacity for independent innovation in space, and also reflects an open mind that embraces the world and explores the universe hand in hand.
The "parcel" sent to space carries a brand-new weight
On May 10, at the Wenchang Space Launch Site. With 11 hours remaining before the Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft was to ignite and lift off, Wang Ran of the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft team at the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation climbed the towering launch tower. From Tianzhou-1 to Tianzhou-10, he has always fought on the front line at every launch.
At that moment, at the Wenchang Base of the Space Laboratory of the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences, a researcher hurried along clutching an experiment box. After a drive of more than ten minutes, he arrived at the tower and solemnly handed the experiment box, filled with cryogenically refrigerated samples, to Wang Ran.
Wang Ran and his colleagues quickly opened the side access hatch of the spacecraft's "late-loading cargo" storage compartment and carefully loaded this special cargo into the space refrigerator.
At 8:14 a.m. on May 11, the Long March-7 carrier rocket lifted the Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft into the sky. A few hours later, the spacecraft docked smoothly with the space station, and the parcels, including the experiment box, were retrieved and put to use by the astronauts.
In April 2017, Tianzhou-1 completed its maiden flight, opening a new chapter in China's space cargo transportation. To this day, the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft has set new records in the number of payloads carried, with an ever-richer variety, and has even achieved "hour-level" express delivery services, with material transport support becoming increasingly refined.
"The research needs of the China Space Station are becoming increasingly diverse, and those biologically refrigerated samples have extremely high requirements for timely delivery," Wang Ran explained. If they were handled like ordinary supplies, going through the processes of spacecraft transfer, arrival at the site, and testing, the freshness of the samples would be greatly compromised, thereby affecting the experimental results.
For this reason, starting from Tianzhou-2, the research team began exploring the installation plan for "late-loading cargo."
The Tianzhou cargo spacecraft adopts a two-module structure: inside the fully sealed cargo module, more than 200 pieces (sets) of cargo parcels are fixed in honeycomb-like cargo cells, arranged fitting together perfectly without any gaps (严丝合缝, yan si he feng - "strict, silk; seam, fit"); the propulsion module carries propellant, providing power support for itself and the space station.
"You see, we opened such a small hatch on the side of the Tianzhou spacecraft, just large enough for one adult to curl up and enter. This cell, which can hold 100 kilograms of cargo, is the storage room for 'late-loading cargo,'" Wang Ran said as he casually sketched a diagram on paper.
However, 100 kilograms was still not enough. How could the space be made larger, to send more fresh supplies into space?
"The team is trying every possible way to achieve something (想方设法, xiang fang she fa - "think, way; seek, method"), hoping that this 'large suitcase' of the Tianzhou spacecraft can achieve more efficient stowage," Wang Ran said.
A new cargo cell was freed up next to the original storage room, doubling the loading volume; slide rails were added so that, with the side opening unchanged in size, supplies could "slide" in like people queuing... Ultimately, through methods such as loading design and interface matching, the team freed up more space for "late-loading cargo" while ensuring safety and keeping the total payload unchanged.
There are many other ingenious ideas of this kind. The tank configuration can be arranged according to propellant refueling needs, and after improvement, the cargo loading space of the sealed module was expanded from 18.1 cubic meters to 22.5 cubic meters; for the extravehicular spacesuits weighing more than 90 kilograms, a dedicated support frame was designed to ensure safe transport...
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "The starry sky is boundless, and exploration has no end. Only through continuous innovation can the Chinese nation better move toward the future."
Ten ships in ten years, with continuous innovation. The iterative upgrading of the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft reflects the leapfrog development of China's space uplink capability. A large number of experimental samples and equipment have entered the national-level space laboratory, and space science achievements continue to emerge; more than 10 types of exercise equipment, hundreds of types of medical equipment, and more than 100 types of food have been fully equipped to support astronauts' work and life in orbit; "space visitors" such as zebrafish and mice have performed well, and plants such as rice and cherry tomatoes are full of vitality and life (生机盎然, sheng ji ang ran - "life, energy; overflowing, overflowing"). The bustling "space home" bears witness to the vigorous vitality of scientific exploration.
China's space "luggage" can hold more, deliver faster, and lift higher, laying a solid foundation for astronauts' long-term residence and continued deep-space exploration.
Bringing the mysteries of the more distant universe back to Earth
The precious "piece of luggage" brought back for the first time in human history from the far side of the Moon underwent a meticulous sampling and sealing process on the lunar far side.
The far side of the Moon cannot communicate directly with Earth, and can only rely on relay satellites to build a signal bridge. Affected by factors such as communication conditions, the effective working time for sampling and sealing on Chang'e-6 could not exceed 17 hours.
With tight time and heavy tasks, to make this "soil-digging" journey smoother, the research team at the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation put their heads together and took multiple measures to shore up technical shortcomings, going all out to safeguard the lunar surface sampling work. Enhancing the probe's autonomous sampling and sealing capability greatly improved work efficiency; adopting a "human-in-the-loop" approach allowed ground personnel to intervene when necessary to handle unexpected situations... The researchers repeatedly deliberated over countless details to ensure that nothing went wrong.
The entire sampling and sealing process consists of about 2,000 actions that are interlinked and closely connected steps (环环相扣, huan huan xiang kou - "ring, ring; link, buckle"). "Every step is a single small change affecting the entire situation (牵一发而动全身, qian yi fa er dong quan shen - "pull, one hair; move, whole body"), and must go through detailed design and full verification," said Deng Xiangjin, an expert at the Fifth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. Before the mission, every team member sorted out their post manuals, and work procedures, interpretation criteria, emergency plans, and so on were implemented item by item; his own in-orbit operation records alone filled a full 1,055 lines.
"All we can do is work in a steady and reliable manner (踏踏实实, ta ta shi shi - "step, step; solid, solid") to do every small task well in our hands," Deng Xiangjin said.
From development to testing, and then to actual operation, the team sorted out every procedure and thought through every possible situation. These meticulous preparations, following the commands across approximately 380,000 kilometers, were ultimately transformed into a packaged and packed "piece of luggage," handed over to the next leg.
Subsequently, this hard-won "piece of luggage" had to complete a special "transfer" on its return journey to Earth.
"The ascender's fuel is only enough to support its takeoff from the lunar surface and entry into lunar orbit. The task of escorting the lunar soil samples home had to be handed over to the partner waiting in orbit. Therefore, capture and transfer — every step had to succeed on the first try," said Fu Lijia, an expert at the Eighth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. If any link went wrong, the samples might never make it home. Especially in the capture phase, with both spacecraft moving at high speed, if the capture claws failed to grab hold in time, the ascender could be knocked away.
In lunar orbit, 380,000 kilometers away, the Chang'e-6 ascender completed docking with the orbiter-returner combination. Subsequently, the sealed container carrying humanity's first lunar far-side samples was steadily transferred from the ascender to the returner.
Fu Lijia, staring intently at the big screen, only then let out a long sigh of relief.
On June 25, 2024, the Chang'e-6 returner returned to Earth carrying 1,935.3 grams of lunar far-side samples. Through the diligent research of scientists, this gift from across the stars continues to bring humanity a series of brand-new scientific discoveries: the lunar far-side mantle is "drier" and "colder" than the near side; young magmatic activity exists on the far side; the formation time of the Moon's ancient impact basins has been precisely determined... In July this year, new research further revealed that the energy of solar wind particles received by the Moon's near and far sides differs, with Earth's magnetosphere playing a "speed-regulating" role. This "piece of luggage," carefully guarded all the way, is continuously yielding new answers in the laboratory.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "The achievements of the lunar exploration program embody the wisdom and painstaking efforts of several generations of Chinese space workers, and from one angle demonstrate the remarkable progress we have made in recent years in self-reliance and strength in science and technology, fully displaying the ambition, backbone, and confidence of the Chinese people."
The steps of independent exploration continue to advance through successive tackling of key problems. In 1975, China's first recoverable remote-sensing satellite returned, making China the third country in the world to master satellite recovery technology. After decades of braving all hardships and weather to complete a journey (风雨兼程, feng yu jian cheng - "wind, rain; combine, journey"), since the beginning of the new era, Chang'e-5 achieved China's first lunar sample return, and Chang'e-6 extended this footprint to the far side of the Moon. Today, the answers of the universe are not limited to physical samples; vast amounts of imagery and detection data are continuously transmitted back to Earth. In July this year, Tianwen-2 transmitted real images of an asteroid; Fengyun-4C transmitted data and information on cloud systems, solar flares, and more from an altitude of approximately 36,000 kilometers...
The space "luggage" is connected on one end to the vast stars, and on the other end to the lives of millions of households. China's space industry is continuously bringing the mysteries of the more distant universe back to Earth.
The "luggage" now contains the coordinates of the world
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Outer space is the common domain of humanity, and space exploration is the common cause of humanity." In China's space "luggage," there has always been a place reserved for international partners.
On May 3, 2024, Pakistan's cubesat traveled to the Moon with Chang'e-6, embarking on the first lunar exploration mission in Pakistan's history. For a time, "exploring the Moon" became a hot topic of discussion on the streets and in the alleys of Pakistan.
Taking on the challenge of the world's first automated sampling and return from the far side of the Moon, the Chang'e-6 mission still carried 4 international payloads despite its payload resources being extremely precious, and Pakistan's cubesat was one of them.
In early 2023, China and Pakistan launched the joint development of this satellite. With the many states of international payload equipment, complex interfaces and processes, and the added effects of cultural and time-zone differences, the development schedule was very tight. Rising to the challenge, Wu Shufan, the Chinese team leader and professor at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, led his team in close cooperation with the Pakistani side, overcoming great difficulties and tackling tough problems (攻坚克难, gong jian ke nan - "attack, strong point; overcome, difficulty"), and successfully developed a cubesat with a total satellite mass of 6.5 kilograms and a total payload mass of 9 kilograms.
"Don't let the small size of this satellite fool you — it carries no shortage of technological innovations," Wu Shufan said. The team worked out a communication scheme suitable for a lunar exploration cubesat and conquered the key challenge of Earth-Moon ultra-long-distance tracking, telemetry, and control and data return for a nanosatellite platform.
To promote the smooth implementation of the cooperation, the overall engineering system of the Chang'e-6 mission organized experts on multiple occasions to "take the pulse," clarify plans, formulate specifications, establish a joint working group, and promptly coordinate technical and management difficulties.
At 16:14 on May 8, 2024, Pakistan's cubesat was successfully separated in lunar orbit, and subsequently took a photograph — the dazzling sun and the silvery Moon in the same frame. This photo of the sun and moon shining together brilliantly (日月同辉, ri yue tong hui - "sun, moon; together, shine") was reposted by multiple international institutions and became a vivid footnote to international space cooperation.
According to the mission requirements, the satellite's assessment lifespan was 5 hours, but it actually worked in orbit for 55 days, continuously transmitting images and monitoring data during that time, providing valuable first-hand information for Pakistan's lunar research. "This satellite successfully verified nanosatellite lunar orbit detection technology, and the results far exceeded expectations," Wu Shufan said.
During the development process, Pakistani technical personnel exchanged and learned with their Chinese colleagues, making new progress in areas such as satellite design capability. "Pakistan looks forward to continuing in-depth cooperation with China in the research, development, and manufacturing of various application satellites, and to making more contributions to the development of the space sector of both countries," said Kamal Islam, professor at the Pakistan Institute of Space Technology and chief scientist of the payload.
From a cubesat jointly developed by China and Pakistan to more fellow travelers exploring the universe together, the story of cooperation continues to be written. China's space "circle of friends" is constantly expanding, and the space "luggage" embodies global wisdom.
Shan Zhide, director of the China National Space Administration, stated: "In the future, we will continue to promote international space cooperation in multiple fields such as joint satellite development, space data sharing, and global governance of outer space, and promote innovative development in space science, space technology, and space applications."
Based on global coordinates, China is working hand in hand with other countries to develop the space industry together through open cooperation. China has deepened practical cooperation with more than 50 countries and international organizations through forms such as satellite development, payload hosting, data sharing, talent cultivation, and outer space governance; 9 projects from 17 countries have been selected for the first batch of international cooperative science experiment projects on the China Space Station, and the China Space Station will also welcome its first foreign astronaut.
Based on global coordinates, China is promoting space achievements to better benefit the world. In May this year, the "Smile" satellite, jointly developed by China and Europe, was launched, aiming to reveal the mysteries of the interaction between the solar wind and Earth's magnetosphere. In Brazil, the China-Brazil Earth Resources Satellite guards the tropical rainforest; in Egypt, EgyptSat-2 provides high-resolution images for urban planning and national land resource surveys; in Tajikistan, dam management personnel at Sarez Lake use the BeiDou system for dam deformation monitoring... Planning space development with a global vision and "holding hands" in outer space, China's space "luggage" is increasingly taking on an "international style."
"Building a space power requires the continuous efforts of generation after generation." Each piece of space "luggage" traveling back and forth across the stars embodies the perseverance and hard work of generation after generation of space workers.
Over seventy years of chasing dreams in the sky, China's space industry has written a nation's dream of looking up at the stars into a flight path leading to the vast universe. The ever-enriching space "luggage" carries the strength of independent innovation, the ambition of self-reliance and self-strengthening, and also the responsibility of exploring the universe and benefiting humanity. On the journey to build a space power, we will surely journey to even more distant starry expanses, allowing more exploration achievements to benefit humanity's common home.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 周人杰 刘鑫焱 马睿姗
In early October, Cicun Village, Qinzhouhuang Town, Qin County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province entered the harvest season, with millet ears bending deeply downward, and large-scale grower Chang Qing was harvesting the millet ears.
"In the millet fields we use full-film mulching with hole-sowing technology, paired with biodegradable mulch film, which preserves warmth, retains soil moisture, and can also accumulate rainwater." Chang Qing said that by applying new organic dry-farming varieties and technologies, "Qinzhouhuang" millet has good taste and its reputation has grown ever stronger.
In May 2020, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Shanxi, he emphasized: "Shanxi has many mountains and much land, diverse landforms, and varied climate; this unique resource endowment determines that Shanxi agriculture's way out lies in 'specialty' and 'excellence'. We must deeply advance agricultural supply-side structural reform, raising comprehensive agricultural benefits and competitiveness."
Bearing firmly in mind the General Secretary's earnest instructions, Shanxi takes developing organic dry-farming agriculture as an important starting point, builds "specialty""excellence" agricultural brands, and advances high-quality development of agriculture across the province.
Building a Shanxi-characteristic organic dry-farming standards system——
"In the past, dryland sowing either meant relying solely on rainfall or meant high-cost supplemental irrigation." Zhang Haibei, a villager from Gejiazhuang Village, Yuci District, Jinzhong City, said, "The new technology preserves seedlings and tolerates drought. Corn growth is better than before; now it can shoot up to a person's height."
The new technology originates from the Lifang Experimental Demonstration Base for Organic Dry-Farming Agriculture at Shanxi Agricultural University. In the experimental fields, the corn soil-moisture-probing seeder automatically adjusts the furrow-opening angle and soil-moisture-probing depth, placing seeds directly into the moist soil layer; straw, mushroom residue and other materials are"transformed" into organic fertilizer, greatly raising soil organic matter content and water storage, moisture retention, drought resistance capabilities……
"This integrated agronomy-mechanization technology model system of moisture-probing sowing, drought resistance and seedling preservation, both reduces labor intensity and promotes high yield and quality improvement, with field emergence rate stably reaching above 90%." Wang Juanling, director of the Key Laboratory of Organic Dry-Farming Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, at Shanxi Agricultural University, introduced that this technology model has been applied to multiple crops including corn, millet, sorghum, with per-mu yield increases reaching 11.5%.
Based on the characteristics of drought, little rainfall and diverse landforms, Shanxi focuses on the full chain of "soil, fertilizer, water, seed, technology, machinery, green," and in light of local conditions accelerates technological innovation. The province has built 50 organic dry-farming scientific research bases equipped with improved varieties, improved methods and improved machinery, researched and promoted 51 technology models, released an organic dry-farming standards system composed of more than 400 standards, and initially formed an organic dry-farming technology system covering different ecological regions, water source conditions, irrigation methods and crop types.
Building a province-wide organic dry-farming pilot zone——
"Corn seedling leaves are turning red and not growing tall—what's going on?" During the critical period of corn growth, Hu Pengfei, a villager from Houping Village, Zhangzi County, Changzhi City, called to consult Xu Jing, associate researcher at the Shanxi Organic Dry-Farming Agriculture Research Institute of Shanxi Agricultural University. Xu Jing led a technical service team to investigate on site:"Precipitation has been excessive, and root respiration is impeded. Use machinery to intertill once, lowering the moisture content."
In recent years, Shanxi has promoted organic dry-farming integrated technologies and supporting technologies in contiguous concentrated areas within designated pilot zones, with each base equipped with a technical service team. Sowing, emergence, later-stage management……experts regularly go to the fields every month, providing full-process technical support for production. At the same time, relying on the established demonstration cities, demonstration counties and organic dry-farming production bases, Shanxi regularly organizes training activities to promote organic dry-farming technologies.
"At the year-end acceptance inspection, we must ensure that per-unit yield in the pilot zones increases by 10%, and pesticide and fertilizer usage achieves negative growth." Yao Jiguang, deputy director of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said.
As of now, Shanxi has created 43 organic dry-farming agriculture standardization demonstration zones, selected and introduced more than900 drought-resistant water-saving varieties, implemented high-efficiency water-saving irrigation projects covering 7.09 million mu, and built organic dry-farming production bases covering 1.6 million mu.
Building "specialty""excellence" brands based on resource endowments——
"Datong's volcanic soil is fertile, sunshine hours are long, and day-night temperature difference is large, so the daylily grown here has good quality and is a national geographical indication product." Duan Yaping, head of Wangyou Farm, Yunzhou District, Datong City, said.
In recent years, Shanxi has targeted its efforts, continuously polishing the"specialty""excellence" agricultural golden signboard: accelerating the construction of a brand catalog system with coordinated development of"regional public brands + enterprise product brands," having cumulatively built 12 provincial-level regional public brands, 46 municipal-level regional public brands, and 169 national famous, special, excellent, new agricultural products; released 30 group standards for"Organic Dry-Farming·Shanxi Products," and every year organizes"Organic Dry-Farming·Shanxi Products" to go north to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, south to the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, east to the Yangtze River Delta, carrying out exhibition and sales activities.
Wangyou Farm's daylilies have been transformed into daylily functional beverages, probiotics, ice bread……Duan Yaping introduced that the Datong Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has multiple times"acted as a bridge," and Wangyou Farm's products have entered events such as the National Sugar and Wine Commodities Fair and the China International Agricultural Products Trade Fair.
At present,"Datong Daylily" has entered more than150 chain supermarkets in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, with the entire industry chain output value exceeding 4 billion yuan.
"Qinzhouhuang Millet,""Jishan Jujube,""Yuncheng Apple"……Shanxi, in light of local conditions, has laid out organic dry-farming characteristic leading industries, having formed the"specialty""excellence" agricultural pattern of"southern fruits, central grains, northern meat, eastern medicinal herbs, western dried fruits."
"Shanxi will continue to leverage the traditional advantages of organic dry-farming, deeply implement the'quality improvement and efficiency enhancement action for'specialty''excellence'agriculture, and build'specialty''excellence'agricultural and organic dry-farming bases." Sun Jingmin, director of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Guangzhou, October 7) (Reporter Luo Aihua) Recently, the Guangdong Provincial Federation of Trade Unions, together with eight departments including the Guangdong Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security and the Guangdong Provincial Department of Finance, officially issued the "Guangdong Province Craftsman Talent Cultivation and Management Measures," clarifying five aspects of craftsman talent work: "who cultivates, whom to cultivate, how to cultivate, how to manage, and how to guarantee."
The Measures propose that by 2035, approximately 1,000 Nanyue craftsmen and approximately 6,000 municipal-level craftsmen should be cultivated as a priority, driving the building of a first-class industrial skilled worker workforce, and providing strong talent assurance and skills support for Guangdong's accelerated construction of a modern industrial system with international competitiveness.
The Measures require that the targets of Nanyue craftsman cultivation be drawn primarily from the field of new quality productive forces, and must focus on Guangdong's key industries, advantageous industries, and distinctive industries; the targets of municipal-level craftsman cultivation should focus on the direction of local industrial development, giving priority consideration to highly skilled and specialized talent (高精尖缺, gao jing jian que - "high, sophisticated, cutting-edge, lacking") in fields such as strategic emerging industries and future industries. During the period of Nanyue craftsman cultivation, dynamic tracking, assessment, and evaluation shall be conducted on the learning growth and overall performance of the cultivation targets; upon completion of the cultivation period, a comprehensive assessment and evaluation shall be conducted, and corresponding craftsman talent certificates shall be issued upon passing. The Measures also clarify the improvement of the "master-apprentice" mentoring and hand-holding mechanism, the duties of craftsman talent to participate in technological innovation and tackling key technical problems and to provide good technical services, and that relevant departments and employing units should create favorable conditions for craftsman talent to play their role.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Shenyang, October 7) (Reporter Liu Hongchao) "In the past, our community was old and dilapidated. Now not only has the environment improved, but life is also more comfortable, and there are volunteers to help." In Wanquan Community, Shuncheng District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province, an elderly person was resting with a child in a pocket garden.
In recent years, Fushun has carried out renovations on 191 old residential communities, continuously improving the lives of 100,000 households of residents in the old industrial base.
As an old industrial city, Fushun started urbanization construction relatively early, and its old residential communities are large in area and numerous in problems. "In the past, we would first draft a plan and then let residents offer opinions and suggestions, but we did not understand well enough what the common people needed most." said Jiang Chen, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Yong'antai Subdistrict, Xinfu District, Fushun City. In order to ascertain the people's "list of needs," thousands of Party members and cadres across Fushun carried out a door-to-door visitation campaign, knocking on every door to survey and ask about needs, and devising custom-made to suit specific needs (量身定制, liang shen ding zhi - "measure body, tailor") renovation plans for each community.
Hardware renovation is only the first step; providing better services is what truly enables residents of old communities to live more comfortably. Grassroots cadres such as grid workers, agency workers, and first secretaries hold their posts on the front line, promptly responding to residents' demands and resolving conflicts and hidden dangers.
"While renovating old communities, we must also rally the morale of the people and make urban life warmer." said Wang Duanli, Secretary of the Dongzhou District Party Committee of Fushun.
Return to TopBy: 张世悬 王云杉 程 萱
During the National Day holiday, a joyful and peaceful atmosphere (喜庆祥和, xi qing xiang he - "joyous, festive, peaceful, harmonious") prevails across the land, and the front lines of major engineering projects surge with activity. From the plateau and the Gobi Desert to coastal areas, from energy bases to transportation arteries, multiple "first" and "inaugural" achievements have been unveiled one after another. These new advances and breakthroughs continue to refresh the "progress bar" of major projects.
In the energy sector, a batch of new projects and technologies are being implemented at an accelerated pace. On October 1, the Gonghe million-kilowatt photovoltaic and solar thermal project in Qinghai, which integrates photovoltaic power generation, solar thermal energy storage, and electric-thermal conversion, was successfully connected to the grid for power generation, marking the official debut of China's first three-tower solar thermal base.
The installed capacity of new energy continues to expand, while the pace of building energy storage and peak-shaving capacity accelerates in tandem. Recently, the country's first 100-megawatt-class compressed carbon dioxide energy storage project completed its initial grid connection in Mori, Xinjiang, marking an important breakthrough in China's key technologies for gas-liquid phase-change energy storage and their integrated engineering application, and exploring a new pathway for long-duration energy storage. Meanwhile, the successful hoisting of the rotor of the variable-speed unit at the Guangdong Zhaoqing Langjiang pumped-storage hydropower project marked the completion of the main installation of the domestically produced 300-megawatt-class variable-speed pumped-storage unit. Different technological routes are all solving the same problem: enabling wind power, photovoltaic, and other new energy sources to be better stored and utilized, providing more flexible regulation capacity for the power system.
Energy innovation is not limited to energy storage; it is also expanding offshore and advancing into deep earth. On October 4, the main construction of the new central platform of the Dongfang 1-1 gas field, China's first demonstration project for offshore carbon injection and gas enhancement technology, was completed and entered the commissioning stage. After the project goes into operation, it can seal more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide in subsea strata each year. On October 5, good news came from the Taklamakan Desert: the Hade-Fuman oilfield, the largest desert oilfield in China, has produced more than 26 million tons of oil and gas extracted from below 6,000 meters. By seeking resources from deep earth and expanding pathways through low-carbon approaches, the space for energy development continues to broaden.
Transportation infrastructure construction is also accelerating. On October 1, track-laying construction officially commenced on the Chengdu-Dazhou-Wanzhou high-speed railway; on October 2, shield tunneling for the second Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay subsea tunnel was fully completed; on October 4, the Gaoliang Tunnel on the Yan'an-Yulin high-speed railway was successfully holed through. As the projects advance smoothly, in the future the Chengdu-Dazhou-Wanzhou high-speed railway will form a convenient passenger transport corridor directly connecting Chengdu with the Central Plains and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region; the second Jiaozhou Bay subsea tunnel will join with the existing Jiaozhou Bay tunnel, the Jiaozhou Bay cross-sea bridge, and the ring bay expressway to jointly build a multi-tiered comprehensive cross-bay transportation network; and the Yan'an-Yulin high-speed railway will further improve the layout of the railway network in northern Shaanxi. One construction milestone after another is being completed in sequence, and the transportation network is extending and thickening step by step.
Behind the smooth progress of these projects lies the solid support of core technologies and domestically produced equipment. The Gaoliang Tunnel on the Yan'an-Yulin high-speed railway has used intelligent equipment to overcome complex geological challenges; the second Jiaozhou Bay subsea tunnel has optimized shield tunneling construction techniques; the key equipment of the new central platform of the Dongfang 1-1 gas field has achieved domestic localization; and the Zhaoqing Langjiang pumped-storage project has adopted domestically produced variable-speed pumped-storage units... Construction breakthroughs in complex environments and the independent development of key equipment are continuously being transformed into the confidence driving major projects forward.
Advancing toward innovation and pressing forward, more major projects are achieving new breakthroughs and welcoming new progress, converging into the surging momentum of high-quality development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 齐志明 杨文明 白光迪
As the weather turns cool, the consumer market is nonetheless greeted by waves of warmth. From seasonal delicacies in street-corner restaurants to leisurely rambles through mountain villages; from hilltop hikes on the urban periphery to a rich variety of micro-vacation experiences, autumn consumption scenes continue to unfold.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" for Expanding Consumption proposes promoting the quality-enhancing and people-benefiting development of service consumption. Responding to the new consumer demands brought by the changing seasons, markets across the country are also proactively seeking innovation and change, converting autumn scenery, local resources, and cultural connotations into a rich array of products and services. Tasting the flavors of autumn, admiring the views of autumn, and enjoying the pleasures of autumn are both a way of life through which the public perceives the season and a vivid tableau of the consumer market's continuous upgrading.
Autumn flavors on the tip of the tongue—
Innovative supply invigorates food and beverage consumption
In the faint light of dawn, a milk tea shop in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, has already turned on its lights. Staff members are busy preparing ingredients, bracing for the peak order period. "Since autumn began, order volume has clearly picked up, and staffing has been increased to twice the usual level," said franchisee Chen Zhuo. Besides traditional milk tea, newly introduced coffee offerings are also quite popular. A creative autumn beverage named "Tiger-Striped Orange Latte," which blends fresh oranges, dairy products, and coffee, has attracted many customers eager to try something new.
As the city gradually awakens, another relay race over autumn flavors is also getting underway. In Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, a restaurant specializing in refined Northeastern cuisine is filled with fragrant steam. Hazelnut mushrooms from the Greater Khingan Range, hairtail from the Northeastern coast, Wuchang rice... ingredients carrying the breath of mountains, wilds, and seas are brought to dining tables in southern cities. Since autumn began, the restaurant has updated its menu, with more than 80 percent of ingredients supplied directly from their places of origin, presenting the autumn flavors of different production areas in the Northeast and embodying the traditional dietary wisdom of "eating in accordance with the seasons."
Meituan data shows that since the Beginning of Autumn, nationwide search volume for "sticking autumn fat" has increased by 93.5 percent year-on-year. Consumers are more willing to explore ingredient origins and seasonal flavors. Mountain autumn harvests and coastal catches cross mountains and seas thanks to efficient supply chains, and seasonal dish sales have grown markedly.
In Beijing, an enterprise under the time-honored brand Sanyuan Foods has launched a yogurt bowl, pairing mellow honey peach and clear sweet lychee with Greek yogurt, breaking away from the heaviness of traditional desserts and matching the autumn need for "clearing residual summer heat and nourishing the spleen and stomach" through light wellness; the Sanyuan Meiyuan brand has recombined milk skin with milk to launch "milk skin iced milk," allowing traditional flavors to adapt to modern consumption scenarios in new forms.
The expansion of scenarios elevates a cup of tea into a lifestyle.
At 3 p.m. on Shanghai's Fengshengli commercial street, in a newly opened milk tea experiment collection store, tea drinks, Italian gelato, and freshly baked pastries are housed in the same space, with the aroma of butter mingling with the scent of tea. Since the beginning of this year, composite business formats such as "tea drinks + Italian gelato" and "tea drinks + baked goods" have been brought into mainstream stores here, and drinking a cup of tea now extends into a richer experience.
"The first cup of milk tea of autumn" has evolved from a social topic into a consumption node with certainty. On the day of the Beginning of Autumn this year, industry-wide sales in the new tea beverage sector exceeded 56.62 million cups across all channels.
Autumn views in the fields—
Cultural and tourism integration brings rich experiences
At 6 a.m., at the foot of the Gaoligong Mountains, at Dashanpingzi, Binggong Village, Shangjiang Township, Lushui City, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, waves of rice ripple in the morning breeze. Tourist Zou Kai from Guangdong stands on the ridge of a field, raising his phone to capture this picturesque scene.
"In the past, I only passed through Nujiang. This time I deliberately stayed a few extra days—drinking coffee on the cliffside, spending a night in the village. The pace is slower, and the experience is better," Zou Kai said.
In the autumn valley, rice waves surge, coffee fragrance permeates, and cooking smoke rises. In 2022, a research team piloted the planting of 16.9 mu of high-quality upland rice in Shangjiang Township, with a per-mu yield of 436 kilograms; now the township's planting area has reached more than 4,000 mu, with per-mu yield expected to reach 550 kilograms this year.
The rice fields "have something to see," and farmers "have something to earn." Experience activities such as rice-field hikes and field concerts are now held on a regular basis. Visitors have shifted from admiring the scenery to stepping into it. While technology empowers stable grain production and increased income, it has also achieved deep integration of agriculture, culture, and tourism.
On the west bank of the Nujiang River, the treetops of coffee trees reach into the "Nu Xiao Ka" coffee treehouse. Sunlight filters through the branches and leaves onto the bar counter, where visitors hold a cup of hand-brewed coffee, watching the river surge and listening to birds sing in the valley. This cup of coffee comes from Lushui's 60,000-mu coffee plantation.
Along the scenic highway, a "coffee corridor" strings together coffee estates and riverside coffee shops. New business formats such as camping coffee and cultural-creative coffee are emerging in an endless stream (层出不穷, ceng chu bu qiong - "layer, emerge, not, stop"), with coffee fragrance along the entire route and a distinct charm in every village.
Following the mountain road upward, Yangpo Village, just 10 kilometers from the national border, means "the place where the first ray of sunlight arrives" in the Lisu language. This once-neglected small village has now become famous for its unique canyon scenery and ethnic culture. The architecture of the Pioneer Bookstore blends Lisu crossbow and canyon elements, and the Shan Yin Fei cliffside coffee shop is popular among visitors.
In less than two years of operation, farmhouses have become homestays and mountain villages have become scenic areas. Yangpo Village's total turnover has exceeded 5.2 million yuan, village collective economy income has increased by more than 400,000 yuan, and the average per-household income increase among 78 households has exceeded 5,000 yuan. The Nujiang Prefecture is using the "Weekend Nujiang" micro-vacation brand as a driver, striving to break the predicament of tourism characterized by "too much transit, too short stays, and too little spending."
The bustle of the canyon is not limited to a single season. Following the operational rhythm of "themes every season, events every month, and highlights every week," the rice waves at Dashanpingzi have entered their best viewing period and the start of harvest; during the National Day holiday, the Nujiang Premium Coffee Culture Week was held in Lushui, with a series of activities such as artistic performances, coffee fragrance markets, and bonfire gatherings held in succession.
Autumn pleasures in the mountains and forests—
Hiking and gazing into the distance boost short-distance travel
"Dad, why does this fruit look like a little scale weight?" Early on a weekend morning, Chen Li, who lives in the Jianye District of Nanjing, drove with his elementary-school-age daughter Youyou to Laoshan on the north bank of the Yangtze. Father and daughter walked deeper into the mountains along the forest trail. Underfoot were gravel and fallen leaves; around them were woods and stream valleys. Whenever she encountered trees or insects she had never seen before, Youyou would stop to look and pull her father over to ask questions.
Laoshan has a planned area of about 112 square kilometers, with a forest coverage rate exceeding 80 percent. To date, 2,083 species have been recorded there, including several rare species such as the Chinese tiger swallowtail butterfly, the Chinese water deer, and the fairy pitta. For children, mountain climbing has also become a nature class without walls.
Halfway up, Youyou grew a bit tired. Father and daughter went to a coffee shop in the mountains, ordered drinks, and sat down to look at the woods outside the window. Before heading down the mountain, Youyou picked out a souvenir with Laoshan elements. Climbing, sightseeing, drinking beverages, and buying cultural-creative products—a single weekend hike drives considerable consumption.
"It's not far to drive here, and one day is enough. The child has fun, and the adults can relax too," Chen Li said. Compared with packing the itinerary full, the family now prefers this kind of short-distance outing where they can walk and play along the way and stop whenever they like.
Such weekends are becoming increasingly common at Laoshan. The Laoshan area has sorted out 12 hiking routes, including the Hushan Bulao Trail and the Zhenqi Road Forest Trail, and has divided them into parent-child level, beginner level, and advanced level according to different trail conditions and crowd needs, matching the diverse choices of families with children and seasoned outdoor enthusiasts. "Many people now come to Laoshan not just to reach the summit," said Wan Ling, deputy general manager of the Pukou Cultural and Tourism Group in the Jiangbei New Area. Visitors are more willing to stay a while longer in the mountains, have a cup of tea or a meal, or stroll through the surrounding villages.
Following this demand, new business formats are constantly emerging around Laoshan. This year, more than 20 new products, including the Shuimo Danian Laoshan Tea Posthouse and a bakery, are planned to debut one after another. Building on years of mountain biking event experience, Shuimo Danian has created a 47-kilometer cycling route around Laoshan and newly developed four professional tracks, with parent-child and pet-friendly business formats also brought to the areas along the routes.
Since the beginning of this year, Nanjing has targeted the "one-to-three-day" short-distance micro-vacation market, linking together resources such as mountains and forests, villages, homestays, and performing arts, so that visitors shift from "seeing one scenic spot" to "experiencing a way of life." In 2025, Nanjing's rural tourism received 40 million visitors, generating direct total consumption of 15.234 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.9 percent.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 7) (Reporter Wang Ke) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Commerce on the 7th: during the National Day holiday, residents' enthusiasm for travel was high, the overall national consumer market was stable, and daily necessities were in ample supply with stable prices. Ministry of Commerce business big data shows that, from October 1 to 6, consumer goods trade-in-for-new programs benefited 6.392 million person-times, driving sales of 33.48 billion yuan. Among them, automobiles traded in for new ones reached 68,000 vehicles, driving new car sales of 10.92 billion yuan; home appliances traded in for new ones reached 2.848 million units, driving sales of 12.34 billion yuan; digital and smart products purchased as new reached 3.052 million items, driving sales of 8.68 billion yuan. The 78 pedestrian streets (business districts) key-monitored by the Ministry of Commerce saw passenger flow and business turnover increase by 2.5% and 4.7% year-on-year, respectively.
During the National Day holiday, demand for smart, green, and healthy goods was strong. Ministry of Commerce business big data shows that, from October 1 to 6, sales of embodied intelligent robots at key platforms increased by 1.3 times year-on-year, smart glasses sales increased by 1 time year-on-year, water-saving appliances sales increased by 18.1%, exoskeleton assist devices sales increased by 12.8%, outdoor sports equipment sales increased by 10.4%, and first-class energy-efficiency dishwashers sales increased by 8.4%.
During the National Day holiday, the 200 large agricultural and sideline products wholesale markets nationwide had ample inventory, grain and fruit prices were basically flat compared with before the holiday (September 30th), egg, vegetable, and pork prices fell by 1.7%, 0.8%, and 0.4% respectively, while mutton, beef, and cooking oil prices rose by 0.3%, 0.2%,and 0.1% respectively.
Return to TopOn October 6, at a xiangyunsha (gambiered Canton gauze) drying base in Longxu District, Wuzhou City, Guangxi, workers seized the fine weather to dry xiangyunsha fabric.
The locality is working hard and deeply in a field (深耕, shen geng - "deep, plow") on the xiangyunsha industry, extending the industrial chain and driving local people to increase their incomes nearby, turning the ancient craft into a "prosperity gauze" for the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.
Photo by He Huawen (Image China)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 7) (Reporter Yu Jingxian) According to the latest agricultural situation dispatch from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, as of October 7, the national autumn grain harvest has exceeded 40 percent, of which the Huang-Huai-Hai region has surpassed half, the Northeast has reached 25 percent, the Southwest has exceeded 70 percent, the Northwest is approaching 50 percent, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have surpassed half, and the South China region has exceeded 20 percent.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 7) (Reporter Lin Lili) The reporter learned from the State Administration for Market Regulation: As of the end of August 2026, more than 2,000 food enterprises nationwide have completed the deployment of standardized digital food label applications, relying on national standards for commodity barcodes and commodity QR codes, covering more than 10,000 varieties of food products for daily consumer use, with consumer scans exceeding 70,000 person-times in the past 30 days.
By scanning the commodity QR code on food packaging with a mobile phone, consumers can conveniently view label information such as ingredient lists, nutritional content, consumption methods, and production processes, and can further obtain product traceability information and complete payment settlement.
The State Administration for Market Regulation has organized the China Article Numbering Center to rely on the GS1 global unified identification system, fully leveraging the foundational supporting role of national standards for commodity barcodes and commodity QR codes, to promote the expansion of food labels from paper carriers to digital applications. By assigning each food product a globally unique commodity identification code beginning with 69, and displaying label information on food packaging through commodity QR codes, enterprises are helped to connect production, circulation, and consumption through standardized digital identities, opening new space for the transformation and upgrading of the food industry and for the enhancement and expansion of consumption.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 罗阳奇
A county seat with a registered population of over 600,000, where more than 150,000 people are engaged in the textile and apparel industry; over 6,900 textile and apparel production entities produced more than 650 million garments in 2025, with industry revenue reaching 22.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24% — this is Wangjiang County, Anqing City, Anhui Province.
Located along the banks of the Yangtze River, Wangjiang County's cotton planting area exceeded 400,000 mu at its peak, and has long enjoyed the tradition of "every household planting cotton, every household pounding garments." In 2010, Wangjiang established the textile and apparel industry as the county's pillar industry, seizing the opportunities of coastal industrial relocation and e-commerce development, achieving a leap from a traditional agricultural county to a strong textile and apparel industry county, forming a ten-billion-yuan industrial cluster characterized by children's garment processing.
Stepping into the digital printing workshop of Shenzhou Knitting ( Anhui) Co., Ltd., 17 automated printing machine assembly lines come into view (映入眼帘, ying ru yan lian - "reflect, enter, eye, view"). Mechanical arms smooth garments, smart display screens record progress, and "from pattern design to plate-making, the printing plant can achieve production start-up within one hour." Zhang Cuixia, deputy secretary of the company's party committee, said that the company's newly built intelligent manufacturing project introduces fully automated hanging production lines and artificial intelligence visual quality inspection; after production begins at the end of this year, it is expected to increase production efficiency by 40%, reduce energy consumption by 20%, and increase annual output by 50 million pieces.
Intelligent transformation has opened up room for upgrading Wangjiang's textile industry. Zhuo Jie, director of the Wangjiang County Textile and Apparel Industry Development Promotion Center, introduced that Wangjiang currently has 1 advanced-level intelligent factory in the textile and apparel category, 4 basic-level intelligent factories, 8 national-level pilot enterprises for the integration of informatization and industrialization management system compliance, and 8 digital workshops.
At the same time, the locality has actively carried out construction of the "Wangjiang Children's Garments" regional public brand, held children's garment design competitions, participated in formulating national standards such as for infant carriers, taken the lead in formulating multiple children's garment group standards, and built a garment quality inspection center. Today, more than 3,000 children's garment enterprises have gathered in Wangjiang, constituting the most dazzling growth pole of the local textile industry. Liu Zhenghu, deputy county head of Wangjiang, introduced that the local children's garment specialty industry cluster has been selected for the first batch of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's "one county, one policy" list of key cultivation targets for textile and apparel specialty industry clusters (county level) in central and western China and other regions.
At 8 p.m., arriving at the Wangjiang County Economic Development Zone, inside the children's garment livestream room of Anqing Wanyin E-commerce Co., Ltd., the livestream host was enthusiastically explaining the new autumn styles in hand to the audience before the screen. Backend data showed that in less than half an hour, the livestream room had already sold more than 200 pieces of children's clothing.
Zhang Zhitao, head of Wanyin E-commerce, told reporters that the company is not large in scale, with fewer than 20 people, and in 2025 has already achieved online sales of 120 million yuan. "In e-commerce, speed is key; one must seize traffic hits. Relying on Wangjiang's complete textile industry chain, we can achieve efficient operation from order receipt to shipment, taking only 3 days from order to finished product delivery." Zhang Zhitao said.
Wangjiang already has over 5,700 e-commerce business entities of various types, including more than800 livestream e-commerce enterprises. Wang Jie, deputy director of the Wangjiang County Commerce Bureau, introduced that in 2025, Wangjiang County's e-commerce sales reached 13.3 billion yuan, of which textile and apparel e-commerce accounted for over 90%. From January to July this year, the county's children's garment e-commerce express delivery volume exceeded 100 million orders, with an average of about 500,000 orders of children's garment express deliveries shipped from Wangjiang every day.
The explosive growth of e-commerce has placed higher demands on logistics support capacity. Wangjiang has integrated resources of 10 express delivery brands, built a county-level shared logistics public distribution center, and the county's daily processing capacity for mail and express parcels exceeds 800,000 pieces, with the Yangtze River Delta region able to achieve "same-day dispatch, next-day delivery."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李茂颖
General Secretary Xi Jinping has issued important instructions on normalizing east-west regional cooperation, emphasizing that "we should summarize and apply the beneficial experience of the Fujian-Ningxia cooperation and other such efforts, further improve the cooperation mechanism, optimize the cooperation methods, and expand the cooperation fields." Over the 30 years since east-west regional cooperation was launched, it has played an important role in supporting the battle against poverty and promoting coordinated regional development. Recently, reporters from People's Daily visited Yunnan, Gansu, Chongqing, Ningxia, Qinghai and other places to see how the eastern and western regions are working together to promote industrial complementarity, personnel interaction, mutual learning of technology, exchange of ideas, and mutual learning of work styles, achieving mutual benefits and win-win results and common development.
— Editor
Early in the morning, at Baishapo, Nandaohe Village, Simao District, Pu'er, Yunnan, the aroma of coffee already permeates the village lanes.
Villager Wang Chunfang is grinding coffee beans, while her husband Huang Yubing is adjusting an old-fashioned popcorn machine in the courtyard. After modification, the popcorn machine has been transformed into coffee roasting equipment. "Coffee beans roasted with it brew to a richer flavor, so we named this coffee 'Pop Pop Coffee.'" The couple grows 40 mu of coffee and now run a specialty coffee shop right at their doorstep.
In just two years, Baishapo has transformed from a remote village into the "Beautiful Star Village · Windy Coffee Valley." Behind this is the sustained deepening of the Shanghai-Yunnan cooperation model of "joint construction, joint management, joint governance, and shared prosperity." Shanghai leverages its advantages in capital, markets, and talent, deeply integrating with Pu'er's ecological resources and coffee industry, promoting the extension and strengthening of the industrial chain, and building an industrial complex integrating planting, processing, quality control, and cultural tourism.
The project started from a small village and now radiates to a coffee production area of 65 square kilometers. Coffee farmers are accelerating their transformation from "bean growers" into co-builders and co-sharers of the industrial chain. A single coffee bean, starting from the mountains of Pu'er, crosses mountains and seas to reach the cups of consumers in Shanghai and even more cities. Its journey is not only the extension of an industrial chain, but also a vivid example of Shanghai-Yunnan cooperation empowering rural industrial revitalization.
Pu'er, Yunnan — the golden zone for coffee cultivation in China; Shanghai — the city with the most coffee shops in the world. One bean, the bond of two places; mountains and seas are no distance.
Mountains and seas join hands: coffee goes from "worrying about sales" to "not enough to sell"
With 36,000 mu of contiguous coffee plantations, Nandaohe Village is one of the largest coffee-growing villages in China, but despite its coffee plantations, villagers have long been "living at the mercy of the weather." The old model of a short industrial chain and selling only raw beans has left the village with insufficient development vitality. Village cadre Li Kaishun voiced the bitterness: "Coffee prices fluctuate, and in bad years villagers' incomes shrink dramatically, to the point where they nearly lost confidence in growing coffee."
The turning point came in 2022. The governments of Shanghai and Yunnan, together with a public welfare fund, designated the Baishapo villager group as a pilot demonstration village for the integrated "coffee + agriculture, culture and tourism" model. When the news came, Li Kaishun was both delighted and anxious: "No project of this scale had ever been implemented in the entire Nandaohe area. Everyone was excited, but uncertain about the results."
The first hurdle for the project was winning people's trust. Village cadre Wang Zehua recalled: "The villagers worried the project would be left unfinished and the money invested would yield no returns." To break the deadlock, Wang Zehua took the lead in giving up his own land as a demonstration plot, and village cadres went door to door to explain the policies. Seeing party members and cadres take the lead, farmers who had been waiting on the sidelines also took the initiative to apply for renovation, and the village took on a new look.
Once the villagers' enthusiasm was mobilized, all parties quickly followed up. Shanghai's assistance funds were invested in improving residential housing, environmental facilities, and the construction of the operations hall, with simultaneous training of industrial talent; the public welfare fund financed the creation of a coffee-themed cultural experience center; the project also used a mechanism linking agriculture with farmers to guide villagers in contributing some of their own funds and participating deeply in the project.
Relying on the continuous supply of customers from the Shanghai Federation of Trade Unions and the Federation of Industry and Commerce, Shanghai enterprises and institutions were encouraged to fully connect with Pu'er coffee products, broadening sales channels; Anxin Agricultural Insurance tailored a special coffee insurance policy to help coffee farmers withstand production losses caused by pests, natural disasters, and other factors.
In July 2024, the "Beautiful Star Village" officially opened in Baishapo. As of the end of July 2026, it had cumulatively received over 500,000 visitors, directly increasing income for the village collective and farmers by more than 2 million yuan.
Today, coffee farmers are more enthusiastic about growing coffee. Li Kaishun summarized with a smile: "Before, we worried about sales; now we worry about not having enough to sell." From "living at the mercy of the weather" to "not enough to sell," this cup of coffee has given villagers a real taste of the benefits.
Business model innovation: from single-crop cultivation to diversified income generation
After the project was completed, Shanghai-Yunnan cooperation introduced a mature operating model and innovated an income mechanism of "guaranteed base income + profit dividends + land rent + employment + entrepreneurship." The villagers independently chose the operating team of Shanghai Bingbo Industrial Co., Ltd., which has mature operating experience.
In March 2024, operations manager Dai Xiaoyan came to Pu'er. As soon as she got off the plane, Dai Xiaoyan was taken into the village by local township cadres. Through communication, she learned that the villagers' understanding of "operations" was nearly zero.
She immediately recruited 12 villagers on the spot, and organized a training class the next day, starting with practicing Mandarin, then practicing etiquette, smiling, and reception service, and also inviting baristas to teach.
However, the villagers' ideas about getting rich remained simple. "Every household wanted to open a farm stay or a small shop, thinking they could make money just by opening their doors." Dai Xiaoyan said that extensive management led to serious homogenization, with non-standardized services and quality that was hard to guarantee. Once, a tourist ate at a villager's home and was served food with chicken feathers still on it, which led to a complaint. This incident gradually helped villagers clarify their business thinking.
The operating team, based on each household's conditions and resource advantages, implemented "one household, one business model," tailoring differentiated courtyard economies. Wa ethnic brocade, reduction woodblock prints, coffee roasting, wood-fired pizza... these distinctive businesses are flourishing in many places. After participating in training, Wang Chunfang and her husband created a coffee roasting experience point at home, and "Pop Pop Coffee" has even applied for a patent. "Now there's no need to work away from home; we can earn a stable income by running our shop at home," Wang Chunfang said.
More and more villagers have completed the transformation from "traditional coffee farmers" to "employees in various positions and business operators." Shanghai-Yunnan cooperation continues to exert effort: Shanghai sends planning and operations professionals to provide long-term on-site guidance in the village, and uses Shanghai channels to bring in tourists from other places; Yunnan connects with agricultural colleges to carry out industrial training. The joint efforts of the two places have cultivated more than 30 local rural operations managers and more than 50 certified baristas. Homestay butlers, baristas, intangible cultural heritage docents, and business operators have become the new identities of Baishapo villagers.
Radiating outward: strengthening the coffee brand by using points to drive the whole
With Baishapo as the core, the project's cooperation radiates to and drives the development of the surrounding 65-square-kilometer coffee production area.
Machines hum in seven deep-processing enterprises, standardized estates are rising abruptly from the ground, and new business forms such as coffee liqueur and cultural and creative products are emerging in an endless stream. The added value of coffee has multiplied several times. "This year there has been bidding up of prices to buy coffee," Wang Zehua said. "Without Shanghai-Yunnan cooperation, we would still be on the old path."
Online traffic has added further heat to this cup of "Pu'er coffee fragrance." The hit micro-drama "My Journey Home Has Wind 2" made Baishapo quickly go viral; exchange delegations from multiple countries have visited, and regular bonfire parties and intangible cultural heritage handicraft experiences have turned tourists from "checking in" to "staying over," settling into rural life.
The value leap of a single coffee bean reflects a profound shift in industrial thinking. At the end of 2025, with the support of the Shanghai Municipal Cooperation and Exchange Office, Simao District organized coffee farmer representatives to visit the Starbucks roasting plant in Kunshan, Shanghai. Seeing the 450-kilogram roaster and the professional cupping room, an elderly coffee farmer was deeply moved: "In the past I only knew how to bury my head in growing beans. Only today did I see with my own eyes that technology can bring about a huge increase in the value of coffee."
It is not just Baishapo — the effects of Shanghai-Yunnan cooperation have taken root throughout Pu'er. Lancang Lahu Autonomous County is accelerating the construction of a demonstration base for tea and coffee processing, warehousing, and trading, which upon full production is expected to produce 10,000 tons of instant coffee powder and 5,000 tons of coffee liquid annually, benefiting 74 administrative villages; Menglian Dai, Lahu and Wa Autonomous County is using a "front shop, back courtyard" model to promote quality, standardization, and internationalization throughout the entire chain of planting, processing, and sales, forming a cluster of themed estates represented by the "Mangmang Village Coffee Community" within the county; Ning'er Hani and Yi Autonomous County is leveraging Shanghai's market resources to build the "Ning Xiaodou" regional public brand, bringing mountain coffee into first-tier city supermarkets; Jinmo Coffee, a foreign-invested enterprise headquartered in Mojiang, achieved "equipment in place, standard reached" as early as August this year, with an expected annual output value exceeding 100 million yuan, driving the full industrial chain upgrade of Mojiang's coffee industry from planting and fine processing to brand operations and cultural tourism experiences, and continuously expanding new consumption scenarios.
At present, in response to the shortcoming of insufficient carrying capacity in the core area, the second-phase expansion project of the "Windy Coffee Valley" has been launched. By promoting the Baishapo model, it will drive the simultaneous quality improvement of all 10 villager groups in the village; regular training in coffee roasting, e-commerce livestreaming, and other areas will continue to cultivate local entrepreneurial leaders and improve the layout of the entire industrial chain.
A single coffee bean bears witness to the warmth of mountain-sea cooperation. "The coffee track is one that can truly drive village development. We will definitely build up the coffee brand, take it abroad, and let more people know about Chinese coffee," Dai Xiaoyan said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王云杉
The JHW91-13 well in the Jimsar National Continental Shale Oil Demonstration Zone of Xinjiang Oilfield was successfully completed, with a drilling cycle of only 7.75 days, setting a new domestic record for the shortest drilling cycle for continental shale oil wells of the same depth; the Bayan Oilfield of Huabei Oilfield innovatively adopted a development method of injecting gas into the top and middle of the reservoir and injecting water at the edges, with the natural decline rate of production stably controlled at 8%... In the first half of the year, PetroChina's oil and gas equivalent production reached 921 million barrels, the best level in history for the same period. PetroChina resolutely serves as the "main pillar" of energy supply guarantee, making every effort to ensure that China's energy industry chain and supply chain are independent, controllable, safe, reliable, stable, and unimpeded.
From production fronts to fields and construction sites, the supply guarantee chain continues to extend. Harbin Petrochemical strengthens agricultural production supply guarantee, implementing whole-chain tracking management for each batch of diesel fuel leaving the factory; PetroChina Guangdong Sales has opened green channels for agricultural machinery refueling at gas stations in key townships, and launched combined "oil + fertilizer" preferential packages...
Key project supply guarantees are strong. On September 16, the "Project of the Century," the Pinglu Canal, officially opened to navigation. Since the start of construction of the Pinglu Canal in August 2022, Guangxi Sales has provided full-process support for the project's construction, supplying nearly 80,000 tons of fuel cumulatively.
Since the Daji Gas Field's Jishen 12-8 well pad of PetroChina Coalbed Methane Company was put into production, cumulative natural gas production has exceeded 300 million cubic meters, setting a new domestic record for cumulative production from a single deep coalbed methane well pad.
The "basic plate" of production is more stable. From Changqing Oilfield's gas production exceeding 50 billion cubic meters for four consecutive years, to Tarim Oilfield's cumulative natural gas production exceeding 500 billion cubic meters, to Southwest Oil and Gas Field building a large gas zone with annual production of 50 billion cubic meters, and to domestic natural gas production equivalent exceeding 100 million tons in 2020 and historically surpassing crude oil production, PetroChina continues to consolidate the basic plate of natural gas production.
The "regulating pool" of reserves is larger. From the Hutubi Gas Storage of Xinjiang Oilfield, China's largest gas storage facility, whose cumulative gas extraction during the supply guarantee period from last winter to this spring increased by 9% year-on-year, setting a new historical high, to the Jiangsu LNG (liquefied natural gas) receiving terminal whose cumulative unloading volume has exceeded 100 billion cubic meters, PetroChina's gas storage facilities and LNG receiving terminals shoulder the important task of serving as "regulating valves."
The "service network" at the terminal is more solid. Hebei Company of Natural Gas Sales' gas supply pipeline network covers more than 180,000 "coal-to-gas" users in the Xiong'an New Area; Jiangsu Company of Natural Gas Sales supplied more than 750 million cubic meters of natural gas to power plants in the Jiangsu region cumulatively by July this year; Ningxia Sales is accelerating the construction of LNG filling stations, with LNG sales increasing by 63.4% year-on-year from January to July this year.
In the northwestern desert, the 500,000-kilowatt wind power project at Hongliuquan of Yumen Oilfield was officially connected to the grid and successfully delivered power; on the Songnen Plain, the construction of the carbon dioxide pipeline project between Jilin Petrochemical and Jilin Oilfield is in the midst of vigorous construction (建设正酣, jian she zheng han - "build, construct; just, in the middle of")... Anchored on the "dual carbon" goals, PetroChina promotes the integrated development of oil and gas with new energy, accelerating the formation of a new pattern of multi-energy complementarity.
Data shows that PetroChina's wind and solar power generation in the first half of the year reached 5.07 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 37.3% year-on-year; the hydrogen refueling network layout is advancing steadily.
As users' energy needs become increasingly diversified, PetroChina closely follows market demand and actively transforms into a comprehensive energy service provider. Zhejiang Sales promotes the full extension of charging services to townships, scenic areas, and transportation hubs, with cumulative charging volume exceeding 200 million kilowatt-hours in the first seven months of this year, an increase of 144% year-on-year; Yunnan Sales continues to transform traditional gas stations into one-stop comprehensive energy stations. In the first half of this year, PetroChina added 592 comprehensive energy stations and 18,500 charging guns.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 7) (Reporter Wang Haonan) The "Beijing Municipality's Plan for Optimizing the Business Environment During the 15th Five-Year Plan Period" was recently released. Led by the goal of building "Beijing Services," it fully implements the "partnership-style" service philosophy and proposes reform measures in 29 areas across six major environments.
According to the plan, Beijing will safeguard fair market competition, with a focus on improving systems for various types of business entities to participate fairly in market competition, and will rectify and prevent "involution-style" competition; it will smooth market access and exit, helping new business formats and new models take root quickly; and it will foster a vibrant innovation ecosystem, optimizing supporting systems for market access, supervision and management, and service guarantees for intelligent-native new business formats and new models. The plan specifies that it will shape a deeply coordinated Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei business environment, strengthen regional innovation coordination and linkage, jointly build industrial collaborative development chains and clusters, comprehensively improve the convenience of handling affairs across regions, and continue to promote the co-construction and sharing of public services, so that enterprises and the public can enjoy equally convenient services in all three regions.
Return to TopTo implement the relevant measures of the National Financial Regulatory Administration supporting the construction of Shanghai as an international financial center, under the guidance of the Office of the Financial Commission of the CPC Shanghai Municipal Committee and the Shanghai Regulatory Bureau of the National Financial Regulatory Administration, four pension insurance companies launched on September 23 the Shanghai local-feature commercial pension product "Hu Yang Bao" (沪养保). As one of the first batch of national commercial pension pilot institutions, PICC Pension Insurance Company Limited (abbreviated as "PICC Pension") actively participated in business innovation, product development, and implementation; the PICC Pension "Tiexin Suiyue No.9" (three-year rolling)(A-share) commercial pension product was officially incorporated into "Hu Yang Bao" and made its first issuance on September 23.
Based on Shanghai's reality of deep aging, "Hu Yang Bao" arose in response to actual needs (应需而生, ying xu er sheng - "respond to, need, then, arise")
The launch of "Hu Yang Bao" stems from Shanghai's practical need to actively respond to deep aging. According to civil affairs department statistics, as of the end of 2025, the city's registered population aged 60 and above reached 5.8438 million people, accounting for nearly four-tenths of the total population, with the demand for multi-tiered old-age security continuously rising. More and more citizens have begun to use market-based tools to supplement personal pension reserves, raising higher requirements for the safety, security, and convenience of pension products.
At the same time, policy-level support has also been continuously promoting the localized practice of pension finance. In January 2026, the Shanghai Regulatory Bureau of the National Financial Regulatory Administration issued the "Shanghai Banking and Insurance Industry Pension Finance High-Quality Development Action Plan," focusing on building a Shanghai-feature commercial pension finance system; in June, the National Financial Regulatory Administration publicly released multiple measures supporting the construction of Shanghai as an international financial center, clearly supporting Shanghai in developing the local-feature commercial pension product "Hu Yang Bao" to meet the people's differentiated old-age security needs. Against this backdrop, "Hu Yang Bao," based on Shanghai's reality of deep aging, provides Shanghai citizens with commercial pension services of greater safety and suitability. The landing of "Hu Yang Bao" also marks a new breakthrough in Shanghai's localized pension finance supply, and a solid step forward in the construction of the city's third pillar of old-age security.
Incorporated into "Hu Yang Bao," PICC Pension's product actively responds to consumer expectations
As one of the first batch of national commercial pension pilot institutions, since PICC Pension was approved as a pilot institution in 2022, its commercial pension business has covered 10 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the central government), building a diversified product matrix including liquidity management, fixed income, and hybrid categories, with a cumulative issuance of 11 commercial pension products, serving over 700,000 customers, having accumulated mature experience in product development, investment management, risk control, and channel operations, laying a solid professional foundation for the landing of "Hu Yang Bao"
The PICC Pension "Tiexin Suiyue No.9" (three-year rolling)(A-share) commercial pension product incorporated into "Hu Yang Bao" this time closely follows Shanghai citizens' expectations of"seeking safety, wanting a safety net, valuing affordability, and hoping for flexibility," and possesses multiple advantages.
Enhanced security. With the superimposed death benefit liability, if the insured dies before age 60, the death benefit is paid according to the lower of"product equity ×105%" and"product equity +50,000 yuan," achieving both capital accumulation and risk safety-net coverage.
Preferential fees. Relying on preferential fee design, it helps customers reduce the cost pressure of long-term pension reserves. Low enrollment threshold, no initial fees, support for additional contributions at any time, lowering the participation cost for ordinary citizens.
Benefiting citizens. It covers the full cycle of the accumulation period (before age 60) and the withdrawal period (after age 60), with flexible withdrawal methods; relying on Shanghai's"Insurance Code," company direct sales, banks, the Internet, and other multiple channels, it is convenient for citizens to handle business.
Practicing finance for the people, enriching the livelihood security connotation of the third pillar of old-age security
Since the PICC Pension "Tiexin Suiyue No.9"」(three-year rolling)(A-share) commercial pension product was launched, it has already attracted a group of Shanghai citizens from different industries and different age groups to purchase. With the joint efforts of the four pension insurance companies, "Hu Yang Bao" adheres to the orientation of finance for the people, faces workers striving in all walks of life across the city, and promotes the dividends of pension finance to benefit the broad masses of ordinary laborers.
A retired veteran teacher chose to allocate part of her funds to"Hu Yang Bao," making steady, step-by-step progress (循序渐进, xun xu jian jin - "follow, sequence, gradually, advance") in accumulating pension assets according to the contractually agreed cycle, providing supplementary security for retirement life. An airline staff member has a relatively high demand for"stability"; in addition to pension capital accumulation, she also values the arrangement of product principal protection superimposed with death benefit liability, hoping to add another layer of security for her family through this.
The cultivators on the education front line and the strivers in the civil aviation field are a microcosm of Shanghai's millions of ordinary strivers. They work diligently at their respective posts, and also look forward to a safe and secure old-age guarantee. With localized product design and preferential fee policies, "Hu Yang Bao" extends pension finance services to ordinary laborers of different occupations, further enriching the livelihood security connotation of the third pillar of old-age security.
In the future, PICC Pension will firmly practice the concept of finance for the people, actively serve the overall situation of Shanghai's pension finance construction, iteratively optimize products, strengthen investment research capabilities, improve service levels, popularize long-term pension concepts, continuously enrich Shanghai-feature commercial pension finance supply, safeguard the people's pension money, and also contribute strength to Shanghai's international financial center construction and the high-quality development of pension finance.
Data source: PICC Pension Insurance Company Limited
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Since the advent of the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has consistently placed cultural development in a prominent position in governance. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, solid steps have been taken in building a strong socialist culture. In October 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping made the major deployment of "accelerating the building of a strong culture" at the 17th group study session of the Political Bureau of the 20th CPC Central Committee. Volumes I and II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture systematically present General Secretary Xi Jinping's profound thinking and scientific planning on upholding and developing socialist culture and building a strong culture, and deeply answer a series of major questions such as what kind of strong culture to build in the new era and how to build it. Reading through Volumes I and II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, carefully studying the key chapters on building a strong culture, and earnestly learning and grasping the strategic considerations, core essentials, and practical requirements contained therein are of great theoretical and practical significance for accelerating the building of a strong socialist culture.
Deeply Understanding the Major Significance of Accelerating the Building of a Strong Socialist Culture
In Volume II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out: "Building a strong culture bears on the overall situation of Chinese modernization, bears on the great cause of the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and bears on enhancing international competitiveness." This important statement reflects General Secretary Xi Jinping's high regard for building a strong culture and clarifies its major significance, which we must deeply understand and grasp.
An inherent requirement of Chinese modernization. In Volume II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Chinese modernization is a modernization in which material civilization and spiritual civilization are coordinated. Material abundance and spiritual enrichment are the fundamental requirements of socialist modernization." In today's era, social structure is undergoing profound adjustment, social ideas, concepts, and value orientations are becoming increasingly active and diverse, digital-intelligent technologies represented by artificial intelligence are profoundly changing the modes of information production and dissemination and people's production and lifestyle, profoundly reshaping media forms, public opinion ecology, and cultural industry forms, and the struggle in the ideological sphere remains complex. Facing the changes of the times, to uphold the requirement of unifying material abundance and spiritual enrichment in Chinese modernization, it is necessary to use the building of a strong culture to consolidate the ideological cornerstone and ensure that the coordination of material and spiritual civilization runs through the entire process of Chinese modernization.
An urgent need to meet the people's aspirations for a better life. General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the people's sense of gain and happiness in culture, and has put forward important requirements for important work related to the effectiveness of building a strong culture, such as the protection, inheritance, and utilization of cultural and natural heritage and the protection of historical and cultural heritage, including "better meeting the people's needs for a better life" and "fully playing a role in providing public cultural services and meeting the people's spiritual and cultural needs." At present, Chinese residents' demand for high-quality culture is being released at an accelerated pace. This places higher demands on improving the capacity to supply cultural products and better meeting the people's growing spiritual and cultural needs. To build a strong culture, we must adhere to a people-centered approach, closely follow the people's new requirements and new expectations, promote the upgrading of cultural supply in quality and efficiency, and ensure that the achievements of cultural development are more reflected in the enrichment of the people's spiritual world and the enhancement of their sense of happiness in life.
An inherent requirement for continuing the historical lineage and inheriting Chinese civilization. In Volume I of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Only by proceeding from history toward the future and forging ahead by continuing the cultural bloodline of the nation can we accomplish the undertakings of today." Contemporary China is a continuation and development of historical China, and the ideology and culture of contemporary China inherently contain the inheritance and elevation of the fine traditional Chinese culture. The ideals and struggles of the Chinese people, and the values and spiritual world of the Chinese people, have been established and consolidated through long-term cultural inheritance and development and the continuation and progress of civilization. Only by building a strong culture can we better continue the historical lineage, inherit Chinese civilization, carry out cultural creation in practical creation, achieve cultural progress in historical progress, and build a solid cultural foundation for Chinese modernization.
A key force for enhancing national cultural soft power. In Volume I of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Enhancing national cultural soft power is not only related to China's position in the world cultural landscape, but also related to China's international status and international influence, and related to the realization of the Two Centenary Goals and the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." At present, the world is undergoing accelerated changes unseen in a century, the global cultural development landscape and evolutionary trends are undergoing profound adjustment, and the relationship between China and the world is undergoing historic changes. On the one hand, the world influence of Chinese culture is continuously rising, becoming an important driving force for the progress of human civilization; on the other hand, competition for international discourse power and cultural soft power is becoming increasingly fierce. Only by accelerating the building of a strong culture can we enhance the cohesion and vitality of Chinese culture, thereby improving its appeal and influence, and enabling Chinese concepts, Chinese wisdom, and Chinese solutions to better promote the development and progress of human civilization.
Grasping the Goals and Requirements for Accelerating the Building of a Strong Socialist Culture
The report of the 20th Party Congress clearly put forward the grand goal of building a strong culture by 2035 and made clear arrangements for "promoting cultural confidence and self-reliance and creating new brilliance in socialist culture." To accelerate the building of a strong culture, it is necessary to clarify the two basic questions of "what to build" and "where it is strong," and grasp them from the two levels of construction goals and basic requirements.
From the perspective of construction goals, since the 18th Party Congress, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has continuously advanced the building of a strong socialist culture. The report of the 19th Party Congress clearly stated that "we must adhere to the path of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics, stimulate the cultural innovation and creativity of the whole nation, and build a strong socialist culture"; the report of the 20th Party Congress further put forward the goal and task of building a strong culture, emphasizing the need to "build a strong socialist culture by holding high the banner, rallying the people's hearts, cultivating new generations, developing culture, and presenting China's image"; the Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Further Deepening Reform Comprehensively and Advancing Chinese Modernization adopted at the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee listed "focusing on building a strong socialist culture" as one of the "seven focal points" for further deepening reform comprehensively; and the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee made specific arrangements for solidly advancing the building of a strong culture during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
In this process, the construction goals of a strong culture have become increasingly clear and can be understood from the following aspects: clarifying the path of cultural development, that is, taking the path of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics; clarifying the guiding ideology, that is, adhering to Marxism as the fundamental guiding ideology, adhering to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, formally proposing Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, and forming a more systematic scientific theoretical guidance for building a strong culture; clarifying adherence to the Two Integrations and proposing the "second integration," that is, integrating the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with the fine traditional Chinese culture, and realizing the creative transformation and innovative development of the fine traditional Chinese culture; clarifying the mission and tasks, that is, holding high the banner, rallying the people's hearts, cultivating new generations, developing culture, and presenting China's image; clarifying spiritual guidance, that is, adhering to the core socialist values, carrying forward the Chinese spirit, and rallying Chinese strength; clarifying the value orientation, that is, adhering to the people-centered fundamental position and taking meeting the people's spiritual and cultural needs as the starting point and foothold of cultural development; clarifying the driving force support, that is, stimulating the cultural innovation and creativity of the whole nation and realizing the prosperity and development of socialist culture; and clarifying the world significance, that is, enhancing national cultural soft power and the influence of Chinese culture and making Chinese contributions to promoting exchanges and mutual learning among human civilizations.
From the perspective of basic requirements, the "strength" of a strong culture has rich, internally unified stipulations. In Volume II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Continuously develop socialist culture with Chinese characteristics for the new era that has strong ideological guiding power, spiritual cohesion, value appeal, and international influence." This important statement points the way for us to grasp the basic requirements for building a strong culture in the new era.
Forging ideological guiding power. Ideological guiding power determines "what banner to hold and what path to take" in building a strong culture, and is centrally embodied in the ability of scientific theory to convince, unite, and guide people, occupying a dominant position among the four kinds of power. Marxism reveals that social consciousness does not passively reflect social existence, but has relative independence and exerts an active counter-effect on social existence; the direction and intensity of its counter-effect depend on whether that ideology correctly reflects the development trend of social existence and the depth and breadth with which it grasps the masses. Marx pointed out: "Theory, once it grasps the masses, also becomes a material force." Today, China is in a critical period of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and more than ever needs to unify thinking with advanced concepts and rally strength with scientific theory. Adhering to using the latest achievements of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism to unify thinking, will, and action means adhering to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply grasping its worldview and methodology, and transforming them into a powerful force for understanding and transforming the world.
Cultivating deep national spiritual cohesion. Spiritual cohesion is the basic driving force and deep foundation for maintaining the Chinese national community and for all the people to be working together with one mind and purpose (同心同德, tong xin tong de - "same heart, same virtue"). Spiritual cohesion is deeply rooted in the unique historical destiny and civilizational accumulation of the Chinese nation and is centrally embodied in core values. The core socialist values reflect the essential requirements of socialism, inherit and develop the fine traditional Chinese culture, absorb the beneficial achievements of human civilization, embody the spirit of contemporary China, and condense the common value pursuits of all the people. We must regard cultivating and practicing the core socialist values as a project of consolidating the foundation, use core values to integrate social consciousness and build value consensus, construct a shared spiritual home for the Chinese nation, and provide deep and lasting spiritual momentum for building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation.
Enhancing value appeal. Value appeal is the ability to achieve ideological persuasion, spiritual inspiration, and value identification through scientific truth and advanced values. A prominent feature of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics for the new era is that it takes the core socialist values as its core, stimulates resonance, identification, and aspiration deep within people's hearts through its scientific truth, value legitimacy, and people-centered nature, and inspires people to consciously practice them. In Volume I of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: "We must make the most basic cultural genes of the Chinese nation compatible with contemporary culture and coordinated with modern society, and promote them in ways that people are happy to see and that have broad participation." This requires us to connect the essence of Marxist thought with the essence of the fine traditional Chinese culture, integrate it with the common values that people use daily without being conscious of them, organically embed it in literary and artistic creation and public cultural services, and ultimately realize its internalization in the mind and externalization in action, converging into a powerful force for promoting the steady and long-term progress of Chinese modernization.
Enhancing international influence. International influence is a country's ability, by virtue of its comprehensive national strength, to guide agendas, shape perceptions, and win recognition in international affairs. In Volume II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Cultural soft power and influence are important components of comprehensive national strength." International influence is one of the important criteria for measuring the effectiveness of building a strong culture. To build a strong culture, on the basis of strengthening the cultural core, it is necessary to focus on forming international discourse power commensurate with China's comprehensive national strength and international status, guide the international community to better understand Chinese concepts, the Chinese path, and China's achievements, and contribute more Chinese wisdom and Chinese strength to the progress of human civilization.
Practical Guidelines for Accelerating the Building of a Strong Socialist Culture
In Volume I of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Only when both material civilization and spiritual civilization are well developed, both the country's material and spiritual strength are enhanced, and both the material and spiritual life of people of all ethnic groups across the country are improved, can the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics advance smoothly." Since the 18th Party Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping has led the whole Party and people of all ethnic groups across the country to unswervingly take the path of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics, promoting historic achievements in cultural development through upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground. At the same time, we must clearly see that the building of a strong culture still faces some problems that urgently need to be solved. For example, the situation of online ideological struggle is complex, the guidance of mainstream values faces new challenges, the supply of public cultural services in urban and rural areas and regions is still unbalanced, and the effectiveness of international communication is not yet strong. We must take Xi Jinping Thought on Culture as the guide, earnestly study and apply Volumes I and II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, anchor the construction goals, clarify responsibilities and tasks, accelerate the pace of building a strong culture, and strive to write a new chapter in building a strong socialist culture.
Upholding the Party's leadership. In Volume II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Our Party is a Marxist political party with a high degree of cultural consciousness, always standing at the forefront of the times, leading cultural development and progress, and leading the people to blaze a path of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics." Upholding the Party's leadership is the most essential feature of the path of socialist cultural development with Chinese characteristics. At present, changes unseen in a century are accelerating, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered a critical period, and the risks and challenges we face in the cultural field still exist. The more complex the situation, the more we must uphold the Party's leadership, adhere to the fundamental system of Marxism's guiding position in the ideological sphere, build a socialist ideology with strong cohesion and guiding power, and consolidate ideological unity throughout the Party and society. As contemporary Marxism and Marxism of the 21st century, Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the essence of the times of Chinese culture and the Chinese spirit. To achieve cultural confidence, self-reliance, and self-strengthening and sustained prosperity and development, we must consciously use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to consolidate the soul and strengthen the heart, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, adhere to the guidance of the core socialist values, and develop a socialist culture that is national, scientific, and popular, oriented toward modernization, the world, and the future. We must make greater efforts in the systematic and scholarly research and interpretation of the Party's innovative theory, take accelerating the construction of an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences as the guide, innovatively implement the Project to Study and Develop Marxist Theory, vigorously advance the innovation project for philosophy and social sciences, and contribute more wisdom and strength to Chinese modernization.
Enhancing governance capacity in the cultural field under the conditions of informatization. In Volume II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must fully implement the principles of the Party managing publicity, the Party managing ideology, the Party managing media, and the Party managing the internet, enhance governance capacity in the cultural field under the conditions of informatization, and consolidate the Party's governing foundation and mass foundation ideologically, spiritually, and culturally." At present, a new round of technological change represented by artificial intelligence is accelerating, the cultural field is one of the fields most directly affected by new technologies, and the rapid development of information technology has resulted in diverse cultural governance subjects, complex objects, and blurred boundaries, making traditional governance methods unsustainable. We must strengthen governance of the cultural field and enhance governance capacity in the cultural field under the conditions of informatization. This is both an inherent requirement of the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity and an inevitable path for accelerating the building of a strong culture. Adhere to the Party managing the internet, scientifically understand the laws of online communication, fully implement the responsibility system for online ideology work, and enhance governance effectiveness by innovating work concepts, content, means, and methods. Improve the comprehensive internet governance pattern with multi-stakeholder participation and multiple means combined, coordinate the promotion of online content development and comprehensive online governance, strengthen classified and tiered management of online platforms, improve the artificial intelligence governance system, broaden channels for social organizations and the public to participate, and promote the transformation of governance from single supervision to pluralistic co-governance and from passive response to active service.
Striving to stimulate the cultural innovation and creativity of the whole nation. In Volume II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Take stimulating innovation and creativity as the central link in deepening the reform of the cultural system and mechanism, and accelerate the improvement of the cultural management system and production and operation mechanisms." The cultural system and mechanism are important factors related to the prosperity of socialist culture. Promoting the reform of the cultural system and mechanism and stimulating innovation and creativity are dialectically unified: reform can enhance development momentum and increase creative vitality, while innovation and creativity provide new support for deepening the reform of the system and mechanism and provide inexhaustible momentum for building a strong culture. Stimulating cultural innovation and creativity should be systematically addressed from aspects such as production and creation, service guidance, system improvement, and technology empowerment. In production and creation, we must adhere to the people-centered creative orientation, establish and improve a cultural creation and production system and mechanism that puts social benefits first and unifies social and economic benefits, encourage emancipating the mind and bold exploration, innovate in themes, content, forms, and techniques, and continuously produce excellent works worthy of the times.In service guidance, we must focus on improving the capacity for original cultural creation, improve the service, guidance, and organization working mechanisms for literary and artistic creation and production, actively create a good cultural ecology, fully promote academic democracy and literary and artistic democracy, pay attention to prospering and developing new popular literature and art under internet conditions, and promote the continuous bursting forth of cultural innovation and creativity. In system improvement, we must improve the cultural industry system and market system, improve administrative approval and filing management in the cultural field, and improve the supervision system during and after the event. In technology empowerment, we must follow the trends of digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, explore effective mechanisms for the integration of culture and technology, actively promote the deep integration of culture and technology, deeply implement the national cultural digitalization strategy, and realize digital empowerment and informatization transformation of cultural development. At the same time, we must also accelerate the development of new cultural industry forms, transform and upgrade traditional cultural industry forms, cultivate new momentum through cultural innovation, technological innovation, and industrial integration, better play the role of culture in empowering economic and social development, and more effectively transform cultural resource advantages into cultural development advantages.
Always adhering to cultural development that focuses on people and lands on people. In Volume II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The 'strength' of a strong culture must ultimately be reflected in the people's ideological realm, mental state, and cultural cultivation." At present, the people's spiritual and cultural needs continue to rise, the main contradiction in cultural supply has shifted from "whether there is enough" to "whether it is good," and high-quality cultural products have shifted from "whether they exist" to "whether they are refined." We must adhere to a people-centered approach, focus on meeting the people's diverse, multi-level, and multi-faceted spiritual and cultural needs, continuously prosper and develop cultural undertakings and cultural industries, improve the capacity to supply cultural services and cultural products, and enhance the people's sense of gain and happiness in culture. Attach importance to the role of culture in nourishing the mind and cultivating sentiment, cultivate an uplifting and enterprising spiritual temperament of the whole nation, and enrich the people's spiritual world and strengthen the people's spiritual strength with high-quality cultural supply. Adhere to cultural benefits for the people, implement actions to improve the quality and efficiency of public cultural services, promote the direct delivery of high-quality cultural resources to the grassroots, and guide social forces to participate in public cultural services. Adhere to treating talent cultivation and team building as an important and urgent strategic task, accelerate the building of a large-scale, reasonably structured, and boldly innovative high-level cultural talent team, fully respect the laws of talent growth, establish and improve a scientific, authoritative, open, and transparent evaluation system for literature, art, and academia, improve the talent selection, cultivation, use, and incentive mechanisms that conform to the characteristics of the cultural field, and provide a continuous source of talent support for building a strong socialist culture.
Continuing the Chinese cultural lineage through creative transformation and innovative development. In Volume II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Strive to continue the Chinese cultural lineage and promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the fine traditional Chinese culture." The fine traditional Chinese culture embodies the genes and codes of the continuous development of the Chinese nation. Upholding the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation and protecting, carrying forward, and developing the treasures of Chinese civilization preserved through the vicissitudes of history are the historical responsibility and sacred mission of contemporary Chinese Communists. Adhere to the Two Integrations, especially the "second integration," deeply excavate and elucidate the spiritual connotation of the fine traditional Chinese culture, use Marxism to activate the excellent factors in traditional Chinese culture and endow them with new contemporary connotations, and promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the fine traditional Chinese culture. Make great efforts to implement the project for the inheritance and development of the fine traditional Chinese culture, accelerate the construction of a system of symbols for Chinese civilization, and answer the important questions of "what to extract," "how to express it," and "how to promote it systematically." Uphold the heart of reverence for history and love for culture, adhere to the principles of protection first, rational utilization, and minimal intervention, promote the systematic protection of cultural heritage, strengthen the overall protection and living inheritance of famous historical and cultural cities, neighborhoods, towns, and villages, deepen research in protection, improve protection through research, and highlight value through revitalization. Continue to promote the deep integration of culture and tourism, adhere to shaping tourism with culture and highlighting culture through tourism, develop red tourism, rural tourism, wellness tourism, and industrial tourism in light of local conditions, continuously strengthen the improvement of tourism public services, the strengthening of tourism market supervision, and the enhancement of consumption experience, and promote the high-quality development of the cultural tourism industry.
Continuously enhancing national cultural soft power and the influence of Chinese culture. In Volume I of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "To enhance national cultural soft power, China must make contemporary Chinese values go global." We must promote the reconstruction of the international communication pattern, increase the coordination and overall planning of external publicity work, innovatively carry out online external publicity, build a multi-channel, three-dimensional external communication pattern, and more proactively publicize China's propositions, spread Chinese culture, and present China's image. Accelerate the construction of a Chinese discourse and Chinese narrative system, focus on Chinese modernization and a community with a shared future for mankind, closely follow the practice of actively implementing the four major initiatives of global development, global security, global civilization, and global governance, create new concepts, new categories, and new expressions that connect China and the world, and tell well the stories of the CPC's governance, the Chinese people's struggle to realize their dreams, and China's adherence to peaceful development. Extensively carry out various forms of international people-to-people and cultural exchanges and cooperation, promote people-to-people connectivity, more actively and proactively learn from and draw on all the excellent achievements of human civilization, create a number of cultural achievements that integrate the ancient and the modern and connect China and the world through mutual learning among civilizations, present a credible, lovable, and respectable image of China in promoting exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, and inject profound cultural strength into building a community with a shared future for mankind.
The publication and distribution of Volumes I and II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture provide authoritative teaching materials for the whole Party and people of all ethnic groups across the country to deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping Thought on Culture. To accelerate the building of a strong culture, we must anchor the strategic goal of building a strong culture by 2035, further strengthen the study, research, publicity, and interpretation of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, further consolidate the ideological foundation for building a strong culture, and provide stronger and more effective support for building a strong country and realizing the great cause of national rejuvenation.
(The author is a researcher at the Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National Academy of Governance))
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General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the Central Conference on Urban Work held in 2025: "We must give full play to the pivotal role of cities in the domestic and international dual circulation, and continuously raise the level of opening up and cooperation." The "15th Five-Year Plan" for Urban Renewal explicitly lists "raising the level of urban opening up and cooperation with the outside world" as one of the main pathways for "cultivating and strengthening new drivers of urban development." We must deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, implement the deployment requirements of the "15th Five-Year Plan" for Urban Renewal, continuously raise the level of urban opening up and cooperation with the outside world, give full play to the pivotal role of cities in the domestic and international dual circulation, and promote high-quality development of the economy and society.
Build platforms for urban opening up and cooperation with the outside world. The "15th Five-Year Plan" for Urban Renewal proposes: "Support cities with the right conditions to host major foreign affairs and diplomatic activities, and attract influential international organizations to establish a presence." This points out the practical path for cities to expand international exchanges and raise the level of opening up and cooperation. First, serve the nation's overall diplomatic strategy, support cities with the right conditions to enhance their capacity to host international exchanges, undertake the hosting of major foreign affairs and diplomatic activities such as international conferences, competitions, and exhibitions, give play to the bridge function of cities connecting China and the world, and showcase to the world the vivid practice of Chinese modernization. Second, by improving policies and measures for international organizations to establish a presence, optimizing the urban environment for opening up and services, and raising the level of internationalization of public services, actively attract influential international organizations, especially headquarters or core branch institutions of benchmark international organizations, to take root and flourish in China, drive the clustering of international organizations, and make cities strategic platforms for gathering global high-end factors and resources. For example, the World Data Organization was formally established in March this year, bringing together more than 200 members covering over 40 countries around the world, with its headquarters in Beijing. As another example, the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, initiated by China, was formally established in July this year; it is the world's first intergovernmental international organization on artificial intelligence, with its headquarters in Shanghai. This helps, based on China's rich practice, to provide useful reference for the development and governance of global data and artificial intelligence, and is a positive achievement in building platforms for urban opening up and cooperation and in assisting the development and governance of global data and artificial intelligence.
Deepen exchanges and cooperation between international friendship cities. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must vigorously carry out the work of China's international friendship cities, promote exchanges between Chinese and foreign local governments, and promote the realization of resource sharing, complementing each other's strengths, and win-win cooperation." International friendship cities are important vehicles and channels for promoting cities' participation in international exchanges and cooperation. We must strive to build a network system of international friendship cities. Based on the resource endowments and basic conditions of cities, precisely advance regional opening up and cooperation, build a "circle of friends" network that fits the needs of urban development, and promote the high-quality development of cities' international "circle of friends." To promote the building of international friendship cities, we must earnestly practice the people-centered city philosophy, focus on key tasks of urban work such as optimizing the modern urban system, rely on exchange platforms such as the China International Friendship Cities Conference and the "World Mayors' Dialogue," cultivate and develop "small yet beautiful" cooperation projects, and make the network of international friendship cities an important vehicle for practicing the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and enhancing mutual understanding between the peoples of China and foreign countries. Taking the promotion of urban opening up and cooperation as the starting point, build consensus on urban development cooperation, and build modern people's cities that are innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and smart. For example, in May this year, the "2026 World Mayors' Dialogue · Huangshan" event was held in Huangshan City, Anhui Province, where city representatives from 10 countries conducted in-depth exchanges on the two-way empowerment of world heritage and urban development, becoming a vivid practice of exchanges and cooperation between international friendship cities.
Enhance the connectivity efficiency of urban opening up. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Some megacities and super-large cities must strengthen their capacity to allocate global high-end production factors. In conjunction with the high-quality joint building of the Belt and Road Initiative, a number of international gateway hub cities and regional open node cities should be built." We must take the building of international gateway hub cities and regional open node cities as the starting point, enhance the connectivity efficiency of urban opening up, and better give play to the pivotal role of cities in the domestic and international dual circulation. Improve the modern comprehensive transportation system and promote the intensive development of urban transportation. Accelerate digital-intelligent upgrading and green transformation, and carry out the renewal of transportation infrastructure and digital-intelligent renovation. Improve a diversified and resilient system of international transport corridors, advance the connectivity of cross-border transportation infrastructure, and raise the level of agglomeration and radiation of hub cities. Foster a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and internationalized, give play to the platform role of cities in promoting the "soft connectivity" of rules and standards, and enhance the international "magnetic attraction" of megacities and super-large cities. In urban development and governance, proactively align with international high-standard economic and trade rules represented by the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA), steadily expand institutional opening up in rules, regulations, management, and standards, promote the "soft connectivity" of rules and standards, and assist the high-quality joint building of the Belt and Road Initiative.
(The author is a researcher at the Zhejiang University City College Base of the Zhejiang Provincial Research Center for Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era)
Return to TopA Single Sip of Matcha Reaches the Heart
Guizhou Daily reporter Li Zhongdi, Yang Cong
During the National Day holiday, Mr. Shang, a tourist from Henan, came to the Fanjing Matcha Town in Taiping Town, Jiangkou County, Tongren City, Guizhou. As a "hardcore matcha enthusiast," he drank matcha oolong tea and matcha latte, ate matcha pastries, and even sampled matcha noodles. "The matcha here tastes very pure." Mr. Shang said.
Jiangkou County is located deep in the Wuling Mountain range, with low latitude, high altitude, and abundant cloud and mist — conditions suitable for tea cultivation. In 2008, the locality began developing tea planting, and in 2017, it jointly launched its matcha processing journey with Guizhou Guicha ( (Group) Co., Ltd. By 2025, Jiangkou County's matcha production and sales volume reached 2,500 tons, with products exported to 54 countries and regions.
At the end of May this year, the Fanjing Matcha Town officially opened its streets, becoming the local distribution hub for matcha products. Of the town's 51 merchants, 26 specialize in matcha products. A number of local matcha brands have clustered here, offering specialty products such as matcha craft beer and matcha egg-yolk pastries; the dining area has also launched an exclusive matcha banquet, incorporating raw matcha powder into dishes to create innovative items such as matcha dumplings, matcha sturgeon, and matcha crispy pork. In just three months, the Fanjing Matcha Town attracted over 400,000 tourist visits, with operating revenue exceeding 4 million yuan.
"When the summer crowds were heavy, the line to buy tea drinks stretched all the way to the street corner." Said Yang Wenjie, a clerk at a matcha beverage shop.
Among the tourists coming to Matcha Town, young people are the majority. "For Jiangkou, this is a brand-new breakthrough." Yang Fang, head of the Tourism Section of the Jiangkou County Culture, Sports, Broadcasting, Television and Tourism Bureau, introduced that Jiangkou County is home to Fanjingshan, a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site. "Hot on the mountain, cold at the foot of the mountain" and "the share of elderly tourists is too large" had long been difficulties facing local cultural-and-tourism development. Today, thanks to the pulling power of the matcha brand, wave after wave of young tourists arrive in search of tea.
Over the past two years, a large number of new-style tea beverage shops targeting young tourists as their primary consumer group have emerged across Jiangkou County. To date, the county has gathered 96 matcha new-style tea beverage enterprises and opened 189 matcha storefronts. At the same time, matcha food and beverage production is booming — 204 matcha food products have been developed, including matcha mooncakes and matcha cookies; 124 matcha beverages have been launched, including matcha rice wine and matcha coffee.
The same scene is also playing out at many matcha brand stores across Jiangkou County. In the production and warehousing workshop of a local food company, packaged matcha craft beer is being shipped via logistics to many parts of the country. Many tourists, after experiencing the products instore, place orders online — in the week before Mid-Autumn Festival alone, this company sold more than 40,000 units of matcha craft beer.
"Going to Jiangkou, eating matcha" has become a tea-mediated, all-domain, in-depth tourism experience that threads together industry, culture-and-tourism, and people's livelihoods. Behind this journey lies the industrial support of a 30,000-mu standardized matcha raw-material base and the world's largest single-unit matcha production workshop. Every sip of matcha that tourists taste is concretely converted into a driver of income growth for local tea farmers and merchants. In the first eight months of this year, Jiangkou County's matcha production and sales volume reached 2,750 tons, with output value exceeding 550 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 83.3%, cumulatively driving more than 8,600 tea-farming households across the county to achieve steady income growth.
A Cup of Coffee Fills the City with Fragrance
Suzhou Daily reporters Zhu Xinguo, Zhan Changsun
On October 5, at a coffee shop along the Dianshan Lake Ring Road in Qiandeng Town, Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, quite a few cycling enthusiasts were sipping coffee while taking a break — the spot has become a trendy check-in destination for cycling fans across the Yangtze River Delta.
At the end of September, the 2026 International (Kunshan) Specialty Coffee Exhibition was held in Kunshan, with more than 230 quality brands from 21 countries and regions making a splendid appearance.
Yu Chun and Wang Jie, tourists from Shanghai, are coffee lovers. In the morning they toured the exhibition and purchased a good number of specialty coffee beans and coffee extracts. Afterwards, they took the metro directly to a coffee shop on Nanshou Street — a "coffee check-in spot" they had been "planted" with online.
This coffee shop is located inside an old residence with a history of nearly a hundred years, featuring traditional white walls and black tiles (白墙黛瓦, bai qiang dai wa - "white walls, dark tiles") and an antique charm. In mid-September, this old residence made its new debut in the mode of "coffee space + cultural experience"; since the trial opening, out-of-town tourists have accounted for about 40 percent of customers.
According to statistics, for every three cups of coffee drunk nationally, two cups' worth of coffee beans are roasted in Kunshan. More than 40 global leading coffee brands have taken root here, and over 1,000 coffee shops are spread across Kunshan.
Coffee fragrance has also drifted into the countryside. In a homestay in Jijiadun Village, Jinxi Town, Kunshan, a coffee machine hums away. The homestay's person in charge, Sun Xiang, was formerly an orthopedic doctor in Shanghai; when he and his wife first walked into Jijiadun Village, they were drawn by the place, later settled down, and became new villagers.
Building on Kunshan's southern water-town advantages, Jinxi Town has been attracting young talent to return home for employment and entrepreneurship, exploring agriculture-culture-tourism integrated development models such as "coffee + homestay," "coffee + ancient town," and "coffee + exhibitions and performances," forming more than 70 varieties of "village coffee" shops.
One small coffee bean after another has strung together a complete industrial chain in Kunshan. In 2026, Kunshan's coffee roasting production capacity will be raised to 200,000 tons, with 150,000 tons of warehousing capacity simultaneously laid out. At the Asia-Pacific Coffee Green Bean Distribution Hub in the Kunshan Comprehensive Bonded Zone, coffee green beans from more than 30 countries and regions, including Ethiopia, Uganda, and Tanzania, are neatly stacked.
Shao Zhiqiang, deputy director of the Kunshan Comprehensive Bonded Zone Administration Bureau, introduced the agglomeration effect of Kunshan's coffee industry chain — the local supporting rate exceeds 90 percent, with green-bean trade, platform transactions, R&D and roasting, and brand sales connected through all links; within half an hour's drive, all enterprises from green beans to finished coffee can be assembled.
In 2025, Kunshan's coffee industry revenue exceeded 10 billion yuan. Centering on doing a good job with the "coffee +" article, Kunshan has built specialty carriers such as a Coffee Industry Creative Center anda Coffee Museum. In March this year, the Kunshan Coffee Industry Academy was established, with the first cohort of 50 full-time order-class students enrolling, planning to cultivate more than 300 professional talents per year.
Small coffee carries big culture-and-tourism. Anchoring itself on coffee as its fulcrum, Kunshan has found its own development path in the wave of cultural-and-tourism integration. In 2025, Kunshan received 28.025 million tourist visits, an increase of 16 percent over the previous year.
Return to TopFrom "Bulk" Snacks to "Integrated" Industry
Niu Wenjuan
In the past, when people talked about local specialty foods, what came to mind were likely the extremely famous and well-known (大名鼎鼎, da ming ding ding - "great, name, resounding, resounding") Beijing roast duck, Tianjin Goubuli steamed buns, and the like. Today, with high-speed trains racing and the internet connecting everything, the distance across all over the country (天南海北, tian nan hai bei - "sky, south, sea, north") keeps shrinking, and more and more specialty snacks once hidden in small-town streets and village lanes are entering the public eye.
Gong'an Guokui, a specialty food of Gong'an County, Jingzhou, Hubei Province, has been gaining sustained popularity recently. Short videos posted by foreign food bloggers have sparked longing among netizens both at home and abroad. Behind the buzz, however, the industry had long faced problems such as inconsistent taste and varying standards. Now, relying on industry associations to unify techniques, collectively registering trademarks and applying for intangible cultural heritage status, and carrying out regular skills training, tens of thousands of master craftsmen who have mastered standardized techniques are traveling to all parts of the country with their ovens. Thin sheets of dough have thus grown into a specialty brand industry with output value in the billions of yuan.
Similar stories are playing out in many other places. In the past, the Wa-flavor beef jerky of Ximeng Wa Autonomous County in Yunnan was mostly handmade and cured by households; now, relying on workshops to integrate farmers and unify techniques, and leveraging livestreaming to expand sales channels, the ethnic flavor of Wa mountain villages has gone viral and "broken out of its circle." Qiqihar in Heilongjiang coordinates the upstream and downstream linkages of barbecue restaurant operations, turning street food into a cross-regional industrial cluster. One by one, "bulk" snacks are growing into "integrated" industries, driving income growth for household after household and revitalizing county after county.
These transformations are not simply a matter of replacing handmade production with assembly lines. Craftsmen team up, industry associations set standards, industrial parks build platforms, and the chain of raw materials, processing, packaging, logistics, and sales is connected — scattered skills are converging into a powerful industrial synergy.
Of course, industrial expansion and standardization do not mean blind growth or smoothing away the individuality of the food. Authentic local flavor and distinctive taste are precisely the main competitiveness of snacks. In taking the cluster-development path, one must all the more preserve the craftsmanship of the artisans. Only thus can the individual craftsmanship of one stall, one flavor converge into the vigorous force of one industry prospering a township.
"Shopping in China," a New Kind of "Unboxing Surprise"
Zhong Yi
Another term with "China" in it has gone viral — "China Haul." This wave of enthusiasm also began with "grass-planting" by ordinary people. On overseas social platforms, a foreign netizen wrote: "I urge everyone traveling to China to bring an empty suitcase, because you will shop until you're exhausted." Many domestic netizens also joked: "No need to bring a suitcase at all — just buy one when you get there. Made in China — it's got everything!"
From "bringing an empty suitcase to go on a shopping spree" to "not even needing to bring a suitcase," one reflects a genuine longing, the other a full sense of pride. In the first half of this year, the number of overseas travelers handling tax refunds at departure increased by 366 percent year on year. "Travel in China" fueling "Shopping in China" has become a phenomenal topic in recent years.
More importantly, "Made in China" itself is truly capable. Many overseas consumers have found that even for small items like phone cases and small ornaments, "Made in China" products are not only rich in variety but also exquisitely designed and affordably priced. Popular smart products such as drones, AI (artificial intelligence) glasses, and intelligent translation devices have led many to exclaim: "So 'Intelligent Made in China' is this 'cool.'"
Commercial exchange is also a meeting of civilizations. "China Haul" has long transcended mere economic activity and become a vivid window for three-dimensional perception of China. Experiencing traditional Chinese medicine wellness and tasting authentic local flavors — foreign friends are drawn to the "Chinese way of life"; wearing ancient-style costumes and strolling through classical gardens — they experience "Chinese aesthetics"; the spirit of innovation, vitality of openness, and atmosphere of inclusiveness — these showcase "China's opportunities." The reason "Made in China" has become the "darling" of the global market lies precisely in its striving for something with great persistence (孜孜以求, zi zi yi qiu - "diligently, diligently, one, seek") for innovation, its agile response to demand, its complete industrial and supply chains, and its super-large market scale.
(Excerpted from Southern Daily)
"Important Notices" Must Not Be Abused
Pang Tao
On the door of a residential building unit, an "important notice" stamped with a red seal was conspicuously displayed. The author assumed it was an official announcement, but on closer inspection it turned out to be an introduction to a company's "home product upgrade."
An "important notice" is supposed to carry authority and credibility. In general contexts, it concerns either policy implementation, public safety, or the delivery of livelihood information. Precisely for this reason, people give it extra attention and extra trust. But when "important notice" is reduced to a marketing "disguise," it is not only harvesting public attention but also eroding the social information ecosystem.
A closer look at such "notices" reveals a routine exactly the same (如出一辙, ru chu yi che - "as, emerge, one, pattern") as one another: using "limited-time subsidy policy" to create a sense of urgency, and using "come to this area during such-and-such a time to handle the matter" to create the illusion of official service. The more closely the format imitates the real thing, the easier it is to make people let down their guard. The price of abuse is the overdraft of trust. When consumers are repeatedly lured into marketing traps by so-called "important notices," what is ultimately harmed is the genuine "important notice."
It is perfectly understandable for businesses to do marketing and promotion, but marketing should have rules and advertising should have a bottom line. Rather than racking their brains to exploit the "important notice" label, individual merchants would do better to spend their energy on improving product quality, optimizing service experience, and setting reasonable prices. Acts that borrow the name of "important notice" to carry out commercial promotion must be stopped and corrected.
(Excerpted from Liaoning Daily)
Return to Top"Me and Ditan" Beijing Book Fair Draws 836,000 Visitors
(Beijing Daily, Beijing, October 7) (Reporter Lu Yanxia) The 2026 "Me and Ditan" Beijing Book Fair recently concluded at Ditan Park. Over 11 days, 836,000 readers entered Ditan, 160 cultural activities appeared one after another in succession (轮番登场, lun fan deng chang - "wheel, turn; climb, appear"), and book-benefit vouchers benefited the broad readership.
At this year's book fair, the total exhibition area at Ditan Park exceeded 20,000 square meters, with more than 500 booths set up. Over 400 publishing houses, publishing institutions, and distinctive physical bookstores participated, with book booths accounting for 80 percent of the total.
All 117 Traditional Villages in Hainan Placed Under Protective Listing
(Hainan Daily, Haikou, October 7) (Reporter Sun Hui) As of now, 76 villages in Hainan Province included in China's national list of traditional villages and 41 villages rated as provincial-level traditional villages — 117 traditional villages in total — have all completed protective listing. A standardized protection registry based on a "one village, one file" system has been established in tandem, marking full coverage of basic protection work for traditional villages in Hainan and providing a complete digital basis for subsequent planning, restoration and conservation, and revitalization and utilization.
Guangxi Passes Regulations Against Domestic Violence
(Guangxi Daily, Nanning, October 7) (Reporter He Minghua) Recently, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region passed regulations against domestic violence, which will officially take effect on December 1, 2026.
The regulations refine the types of domestic violence and clarify the objects of regulation. They provide a clear definition of the concept of domestic violence, breaking it down into such types as physical assault, restriction of personal freedom, psychological abuse, and economic control. At the same time, the regulations stipulate that violent acts committed between persons who live together but are not family members shall be handled with reference to the provisions of these regulations, expanding the scope of protection coverage.
Shaanxi Imposes Special Protection on Ancient and Famous Trees Over 5,000 Years Old
(Shaanxi Daily, Xi'an, October 7) (Reporter Wang Ziyi) Recently, Shaanxi Province passed the newly revised "Shaanxi Province Regulations on the Protection of Ancient and Famous Trees," which will impose special protection on ancient and famous trees over 5,000 years old.
The regulations take effect on November 1, 2026, and stipulate that county-level people's governments shall establish dedicated protection teams for ancient and famous trees under special protection and organize routine protection and maintenance; the Shaanxi Provincial Greening Committee shall organize experts to provide technical guidance for the protection and maintenance of ancient and famous trees.
Huzhou, Zhejiang Issues "Ecological ID Cards" to Inland Waterway Vessels
(Zhejiang Daily, Huzhou, October 7) (Reporter Wu Liyan) Huzhou City in Zhejiang Province recently released the "Detailed Rules for Carbon Efficiency Evaluation of Inland Waterway Shipping" and issued "ecological ID cards" to 797 shipping vessels.
Inland waterway vessels registered in Huzhou, including both fuel-powered vessels and electric vessels, are uniformly included in the scope of evaluation. Two major indicators are mainly selected — total carbon emissions and carbon emission intensity per unit of turnover — on the basis of which vessels are divided into five grades, from Grade 1 (excellent) to Grade 5 (backward). The issued vessel "ecological ID cards" implement a "one vessel, one code" system, integrating basic vessel information, carbon efficiency grade, energy consumption and emissions, and verified records of emission reductions.
Qinghai's "Cold Recycling" Technology for Gravel Roads in Alpine Regions Promoted Globally
(Qinghai Daily, Xining, October 7) (Reporters He Min, Qi Wanqiang) In the Sanjiangyuan region of Qinghai, old road surface materials are reused on site to renovate and upgrade roads, without the need for large-scale excavation of grassland surfaces, solving the travel difficulties of farmers and herders in an ecologically friendly manner with low disturbance and low cost — this "cold recycling" technology for gravel roads in alpine regions has been selected as a 2026 global sustainable transport good practice case, with the relevant experience being promoted worldwide.
As of now, through pilot application of this technology, Qinghai Province has cumulatively implemented renovation projects covering more than 10,000 kilometers of gravel roads in farming and pastoral areas.
Return to TopBy: 云南红河元阳县融媒体中心记者 徐丽芳
In the golden autumn season, in the heritage area of the Yuanyang Hani Rice Terraces in the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, waves of rice ripple through the paddies, and farming households seize the fine, clear weather to harvest the rice.
The Yuanyang Hani Rice Terraces are a model of farming civilization that combines the "three heritages" — World Cultural Heritage, Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems, and World Heritage Irrigation Structures — in one. In the past, rice planting relied entirely on manual labor, time-consuming and laborious (费时费力, fei shi fei li - "spend time, spend effort"). Today, modern technology has been injected into the ancient terraces: drones hover over the terraced fields, precisely sowing, fertilizing, and spraying pesticides. Empowered by technology, the thousand-year-old terraces continue to yield abundant harvests.
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 刘 海 褚梓淇
The wine grapes on the eastern slopes of the Helan Mountains have recently entered the harvest season. Clusters of plump, fragrant grapes hang from the vines, and picking workers orderly harvest, sort, and transport them, sending the ripe grapes to the wineries at the earliest opportunity.
"Good wine comes from good terroir, and good wine is 'grown'." At a winery located in Minning Town, Yongning County, Yinchuan City, Ningxia, General Manager Ma Jie introduced that the winery settled here out of confidence in the region's unique terroir.
The Ningxia Helan Mountain Eastern Slopes wine-producing region, where Minning Town sits, is located around 38 degrees north latitude. The Helan Mountains stand like a natural barrier, warding off cold currents and blocking wind and sand; the Yellow River winds its way through, delivering nourishment to the vineyards; the soil is rich in minerals, the sunshine is ample, and the temperature difference between day and night is considerable — making it one of the industry-recognized golden belts most suitable for growing wine grapes and producing high-end wines.
Over the years, Ningxia has combined the development of the wine industry with strengthening the governance of the Yellow River floodplain areas and strengthening ecological restoration, concentrating on building a 195-kilometer wine grape planting corridor and turning more than 400,000 mu of wasteland into green oases. As of the end of 2025, Ningxia's wine grape base planting and development area exceeds 600,000 mu, and the wine industry provides 130,000 jobs each year for surrounding relocated residents.
As China's first comprehensive pilot zone for the open development of the grape and wine industry, Ningxia has already hosted 5 consecutive sessions of the International Wine Culture and Tourism Expo; actively carries out cooperation with international wine-related organizations and major wine-producing regions, continuously enhancing the region's international influence. At present, Ningxia has cultivated 30 wine import and export enterprises; over 1,800 wines from the region have won awards in international competitions, and its products are sold to more than 40 countries and regions. The purple dream beneath the Helan Mountains is brewing an even more mellow flavor in the harvest season.
(Xinhua News Agency dispatch)
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 王 凯
The 2026 "Boxing Prawn" Prawn King Competition was recently held in Qiaozhuang Town, Boxing County, Binzhou City, Shandong Province, with more than 50 groups of aquaculture households competing on stage with their Pacific white shrimp.
"In the past, this area suffered from severe salinization. The policy encouraged the farming of Pacific white shrimp, using underground brine drawn from shallow wells mixed with Yellow River freshwater to adjust the salinity. I never expected it would succeed," said Gao Xueqiang, a Pacific white shrimp farmer in Qiaozhuang Town. His shrimp ponds cover 18 mu, with an annual income of more than 250,000 yuan. Today, the Pacific white shrimp farming area in Qiaozhuang Town has reached 35,000 mu, with an annual output of more than 30,000 tons.
In recent years, Shandong has promoted high-quality development of the entire industrial chain of saline-alkali land agriculture, deeply tapping the unique value and functional characteristics of agricultural products from saline-alkali land, and strengthening regional public brands.
Walking into a winter jujube greenhouse of an ecological family farm in Fengjia Town, Zhanhua District, Binzhou City, plump winter jujubes hang heavy on the branches. Through refined cultivation and management, the winter jujubes grown here are crisp and sweet in taste with abundant juice. Today, Zhanhua District grows 300,000 mu of winter jujubes, with output value exceeding 7.5 billion yuan in 2025, driving 120,000 people to increase their incomes and become prosperous.
Wudi County, Binzhou City, is located at the center of the cotton region of the Yellow River Delta, with abundant available saline-alkali cultivated land resources and a long history of cotton planting. Relying on the national-level regional cotton improved seed breeding base, the cotton planting area in Xiaoxiwang Town has remained stable at 60,000 mu, forming a complete industrial chain of planting, processing, textile, and cultural tourism, with a total output value of the entire industrial chain reaching 700 million yuan.
Shandong continues to deepen the comprehensive improvement and utilization of saline-alkali land, developing distinctive planting and breeding industries in light of local conditions, turning the once barren wasteland into fertile ground for increasing incomes.
(Xinhua News Agency dispatch)
Return to TopBy: 沧州日报记者 孙 杰
Short-video operations, "AI + brand digitalization" operations... In the new semester, some universities in Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, have launched multiple micro-majors. Unlike traditional main majors, these micro-majors focus on market-scarce positions, emphasize a practical, precise, and cross-disciplinary training model, with short program durations, moderate entry thresholds, and strong practicality, becoming a new choice for many university students.
Cangzhou Normal University has launched distinctive micro-majors such as short-video operations and "AI + brand digitalization" operations; Hebei University of Water Resources and Electric Engineering has newly added micro-majors including overseas engineering management, digital economy, and artificial intelligence... These micro-majors generally adopt a flexible academic system of 2 to 3 semesters, set up 5 to 8 courses, among which courses such as large-model applications are very popular.
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The development of micro-majors has also driven the upgrading of university talent cultivation models. Micro-majors precisely connect with the talent demands of emerging industries and scarce positions, achieving a precise connection between university education and enterprise employment. A student at Hebei University of Water Resources and Electric Engineering who has elected a micro-major introduced that the school specially invites senior industry experts to serve as external teachers, integrating frontline project cases and industry practical standards into daily teaching; at the same time, it implements single-grade-sheet management for micro-majors, completely recording students' skill learning outcomes, so that when students seek employment, they have verifiable proof or credentials (有证可依, you zheng ke yi - "have certificate, can rely on") and verifiable evidence or records (有据可查, you ju ke cha - "have evidence, can investigate").
Return to TopBy: 本报通讯员 曾凤清
Recently, at the factory site of an environmental protection technology company located in the Lingang Industrial Concentration Zone of Zhongxian Town, Youxi County, Sanming City, Fujian Province, on-site testing by staff showed that the communication signal in the factory area was unimpeded and smooth (畅通无阻, chang tong wu zu - "smooth, pass, no, block"), and the former problems of weak signal and easy call drops no longer existed.
The seemingly ordinary full-strength signal, however, was a rigid need that enterprises had long awaited。This company is a high-quality local enterprise engaged in the resource-based utilization of tailings。Since the enterprise's factory buildings adopt a steel-sheet structure, the metal walls easily block signals, andthe office building at the rear of the factory area has poor network connectivity, often affecting daily office communications。“Previously the office basically had no signal, and call interruptions and the like occurred frequently, seriously affecting work,” said Xiao Fangming, general manager of the company。“After we reported the situation to the county industry and information technology department and the town government, we quickly received feedback。Relevant units came into the site to build a new communication base station, andthe problem that had troubled us for a long time was completely resolved。”
Since the beginning of this year, Youxi County has focused on issues such as financing, labor employment, approval, and factor guarantee, proactively going down to the industrial parks, delving deep into the front line of enterprises to conduct research and visits, transforming from "enterprises coming to the door to seek help" to "services coming to the door to resolve worries," promoting further smooth communication channels between government and enterprises。
(Luo Heng participated in the reporting)
Return to TopBy: 刘 阳 马泽祥
During the National Day holiday that has just passed, the film market featured new releases with fresh brilliance and diverse genres, fully meeting the viewing needs of different audiences. Platform data shows: as of 6:00 p.m. on October 7, the 2026 National Day box office (including presales) reached 1.138 billion yuan.
Not only during the National Day period — since the beginning of this year, cinemas across the country have been screening acclaimed films in full swing. Centering on developing the social functions of cinemas, cinemas nationwide have been exploring the creation of new types of cultural spaces, and "film+" is unleashing great energy. According to statistics, the total box office of Chinese films in 2026 (including presales) has exceeded 30.7 billion yuan. According to estimates, since the beginning of this year, the output value of the entire film industry chain has exceeded 480 billion yuan, injecting new vitality into economic development.
Focusing on precise audience segmentation to meet diversified viewing needs
"The film made us remember his name!"
"This is a film that showcases the wind and sand of the great desert!"
"I hope Mom can also enjoy her own life and not be bound!"
During the National Day holiday, on film rating websites, the exclamation marks given by many viewers revealed their emotional resonance with National Day new releases such as Traces of the Detective, Heroes of Dunhuang, and Vivid Life. This year's National Day films cover multiple genres including police-crime, comedy, suspense, and animation, meeting the diversified viewing needs of audiences. Among them, Traces of the Detective uses 4 cases and 4 breakthroughs to tell the moving story of Cui Daozhi, China's chief bullet and toolmark examination expert and recipient of the "July 1 Medal," and has been well received by audiences.
Zhou Baohua, dean of the School of Journalism at Fudan University, believes that since the beginning of this year, the types of films in the Chinese film market have become increasingly diverse, and the industry's response to audiences' segmented aesthetic needs has become more proactive. "The market has also shifted from competition among blockbuster hits to a contest among films of different themes and different scales on the same stage."
From Racing Through Life 3 and Silent Awakening during the Spring Festival period, to The Vanished and A Letter to Grandma during the May Day period, Kung Fu Women's Football and Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant during the summer season, and then Traces of the Detective and The Odd Couple during the National Day period, domestic films have firmly remained the mainstay of the market, and audiences hold greater expectations for domestic films and Chinese stories. Industry insiders say that domestic films leading the market is closely related to improved film quality and solid content. A movie fan told reporters: "The stories of domestic films are closely related (息息相关, xi xi xiang guan - "breath, breath; relate, relate") to everyone's lives, making them easier to resonate with emotionally, and leaving viewers with a full sense of reward after watching."
Particularly noteworthy is that since the beginning of this year, films such as The Escort: Wind Over the Desert, A Letter to Grandma, The Eight Immortals!, and Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant have had extended screening periods, with sustained viewing enthusiasm and continuously growing box office revenue. "The value of a film lies in its content; good content needs time and space to be carried, and extending the screening period allows the film's value to be fully released," Zhou Baohua said.
Focusing on the entire industry chain, "film+" steps onto a new track
During this year's National Day holiday, combined with specific time nodes and specific themes, a series of projects such as "film + tourism," "film + food," and "film + intangible cultural heritage" have come up with new innovations, attracting large numbers of audiences to gain more wonderful experiences beyond watching films.
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. At the end of September, the themed event "Light and Shadow, Ink and Rhyme · Chinese Cultural Heritage — Retracing the Long March with Films," hosted by the Publicity Department of the Chaoyang District Committee of the Communist Party of China in Beijing and the China Film Group Corporation, opened at Beijing Tiandi Zhongying Hui. The shopping mall, in conjunction with the Zhongying International Cinema Tiandi Zhongying branch, screened Long March-themed films and centrally showcased intangible cultural heritage and cultural and creative products from provinces along the Long March route.
"Film + Long March" — what can it add up to? Participating in Long March film knowledge quizzes, gaining insight into the long journey through film details; watching Long March-themed films, then using event-exclusive discount coupons to have lunch, stimulating new social needs... "The event gave audiences a deeper feeling about the Long March and also filled their fragmented time at the cinema." Wu Peng, general manager of the event execution company at Beijing Tiandi Zhongying Hui, said the event achieved a win-win between cultural experience and commercial consumption, allowing audiences to enter cinemas and fall in love with films in specific scenarios.
This year is the Film Economy Promotion Year. The National Film Administration and the Ministry of Commerce jointly launched the "film+" comprehensive consumption pilot work, and relevant departments in various regions have issued multiple "film+" consumption benefit activities for the public.
In Heilongjiang, public benefit activities such as "Follow Films on a Journey · Roam Freely in the Home in the Forest" have continued without pause. Especially during this summer, two series of film week activities were held consecutively in Harbin, continuously polishing Harbin's reputation as the "City of Film."
In Zhejiang, guided by the Zhejiang Provincial Film Administration, the "Film Ticket Stub Benefit Platform" built by Zhijiang Film Group was launched. The platform brings together a hundred cinemas, a thousand brands, and ten thousand merchants. Movie fans upload their film ticket stubs to generate benefit cards, unlocking exclusive discounts.
In Ningxia, the Shitanjing Industrial Culture and Tourism Film and Television Town in Shizuishan City, Ningxia, a filming location for Welcome to the Dragon Restaurant, has captured the cultural tourism traffic brought by "film+." Local authorities have introduced public benefit activities, improved cultural tourism supporting facilities, and recreated the "Dragon Restaurant" scene. According to preliminary statistics, after the film's release, the average daily number of visitors during peak periods here was 16 times that before the film's release.
"Film is a multidimensional, integrated, and three-dimensional modern cultural product with unique communication value. 'Film+' should focus on the ecology of its entire upstream and downstream industry chain," Zhou Baohua said.
Enhancing spatial value, exploring diversified cinema operations
In front of a sofa, a desk and a desk lamp. Turning sideways, a whole wall of books stands on bookshelves. This is not a library, but Hall 6 of the Wudiwu Cinema in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
On October 1, the Wudiwu Cinema, with the concept of "More Than a Cinema," made its debut. The cinema has created 9 themed halls with different themes, including a "Film Library" and a "Theater-Style Performance Bar," using distinctive spatial design to enhance the ritual sense of watching films and opening up new possibilities for cinema operations.
In June this year, the National Film Administration and the State Administration for Market Regulation jointly issued the Notice on Promoting Diversified Cinema Operations and Prospering Cinema Culture, supporting the transformation of cinemas into comprehensive cultural experience spaces integrating viewing, socializing, entertainment, and consumption. In cinemas, audiences can not only watch films, but also watch sports events, watch live broadcasts of galas, and hold offline activities... Cinemas across the country are conducting diversified explorations, striving to shift their positioning toward diversified community cultural spaces.
As night fell, more than 10 parents gathered with their children at Shanghai Huaxia Jiujin International Cinema. The young viewers watched a popular science film with unwavering attention (目不转睛, mu bu zhuan jing - "eye, not, turn, eye"), and after the screening eagerly raised their hands to ask questions. This was the "Elephant Parent-Child Film Growth Camp" activity launched by Elephant Screening, which organizes and operates parent-child customer groups based on the cinema's location and customer characteristics. "The cinema will become a cultural way station for surrounding families," said Cai Qingzeng, chief executive officer of Elephant Screening. "Parent-child groups have stronger spending power; one movie ticket can leverage a family's entire evening of entertainment consumption."
Based on the construction of the parent-child community, Shanghai Huaxia Jiujin International Cinema has found a direction for differentiated development and become a "parent-child co-built cinema" in cooperation with Elephant Screening. "We have gone from selling movie tickets to now being able to operate parent-child customer groups, accumulating several hundred loyal customers," said Yu Jianjiang, manager of Shanghai Huaxia Jiujin International Cinema.
Data shows that as of the end of September, this year the country has seen a net increase of 438 cinemas and 2,632 screens, with the total number of screens approaching 96,000, firmly ranking first in the world.
"Cinemas have strong social functions. They are not only venues for screening films, but also spaces that can generate more value around their social functions," said Zhang Yiwu, professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University. High-quality film content and audiovisual experiences, along with diversified consumption scenarios, are continuously meeting the public's cultural needs and enriching the spiritual world of the people. "We should explore and fully leverage the value of more than 90,000 screens to promote the sustained development and innovation of China's film industry."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曾亦辰
Light hits a white wall, and the silhouettes of a squad of soldiers charge forward; battle flags flutter in the wind, and mountain shadows stretch into the distance.
A few seconds later, the silhouettes abruptly change: a city gate tower, a crowd, and banners appear in succession, and the scene of a ceremony emerges.
There is no projector or electronic screen at the scene. In front of the lamp are nothing more than several sets of cut-and-spliced cardboard pieces. One side turns into the shadows, the other side meets the light, and a new image appears on the wall. This is not a projected image, but a double-sided three-dimensional paper-shadow work. Cai Hong, a "director" born in the 1990s, is the creator of the work.
Stepping into Cai Hong's studio in Chengguan District, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, film and television characters, opera figures, and the twelve zodiac animals pieced together from cardboard are neatly arranged on the display cabinet. "Traditional shadow puppetry is flat; the paper shadow I make is three-dimensional."Cai Hong's connection with paper shadow began in his childhood. When he was young, a shadow-puppet troupe came to the village, and behind the curtain, with one pull and one tug, the figures could raise their hands, take steps, and turn around; he watched, utterly fascinated. When the show ended and he went home, he found pieces of paper and made them himself—"with a pair of scissors anda hot-melt glue stick, you could create a little world of your own."
Cai Hong majored in computer science in college and worked as a programmer for 10 years after graduation, but he never gave up his interest. Around 2015, Cai Hong began fiddling with cardboard again, starting with text shapes: viewed head-on, the projection was one character; rotated about 90 degrees, the projection turned into another character. In 2024, he filmed his works and posted the videos online—"it took off all at once; one post gained 100,000 followers."
In 2025, Cai Hong devoted himself full-time to paper-shadow creation. He first breaks down a complete image into "modules"in his mind: which outlines are shared, which are separate. The decompositional thinking he developed from writing programs has now been applied to cardboard.
Artificial intelligence has also become an assistant. For finding references, adjusting compositions, and testing shapes, vague ideas can first be quickly rendered on a computer. "Paper shadow has no 'standard answer'."Cai Hong says that artificial intelligence can help him "draw out"his ideas more quickly, but whether they can become that beam of light and shadow he wants still depends on his own hands, trial by trial.
For the craftsmanship in his hands, Cai Hong often seeks inspiration from traditional skills. He watches shadow puppetry, pondering joint connections and rotation angles; he watches sugar painting, learning to do "subtraction."Shadow-puppet structures, sugar-painting lines, and paper-cutting solid-and-void relationships can all be taken apart and recombined with programming thinking, artificial intelligence, and digital modeling—"in a sense, this is also like reassembling the 'code' of shadow puppetry out of cardboard today."
To let more offline visitors encounter paper shadow, Cai Hong brought a paper-shadow model of Lanzhou's landmark building, the Zhongshan Bridge, to the side of the Zhongshan Bridge itself, letting the Zhongshan Bridge inside the paper shadow appear "in the same frame"with the real bridge. "People lean in for a closer look, and some children even want to follow along and make one."The enthusiasm of the audience has made Cai Hong begin to ponder whether more people could learn to make paper shadow.
Over these years, the themes of Cai Hong's paper shadows have also kept expanding. "Every day there are new stories and new changes, and they are all sources of creation."Cai Hong says, "I hope these works can bring more young people closer to paper shadow, letting them feel the charm of light and shadow."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 蕊
"New Year paintings can be this adorable?"
During the National Day holiday, at the Yangjiabu Folk Art Grand View Garden in Hanting District, Weifang City, Shandong Province, inside a small cultural-creative shop, Liu Yitong, a tourist from Zibo, could not move her feet.
She bent down and carefully examined a New Year painting: a chubby baby, wearing a longevity lock, holding a ruyi scepter in his arms, sitting cross-legged on the back of a rooster, surrounded by auspicious clouds and blooming peonies.
The New Year paintings in her memory were ones her elders pasted on the kang and on doors. But the charming appearance before her moved her heart, and she picked one out to buy and take home.
From "pasting New Year paintings for the New Year" to "buying New Year paintings to please oneself," the old New Year paintings have taken on a "new face," behind which lies the transformation of traditional intangible cultural heritage from a ritual item of New Year customs to a daily self-pleasing consumer product—
Turning into the New Year painting production experience hall (New Year painting cultural-creative hall), one sees a row of wooden printing blocks on the counter: Sun Wukong raising his golden staff, with a clever look on his face; Nezha stepping on his Wind-Fire Wheels, with two pigtails tied up; and a top scholar, beside whom is written "to succeed in the imperial examination"...
"New Year paintings have a strong local flavor, but in earlier years, quite a few young people and children did not buy into them," said Yang Lei, manager of the New Year painting cultural-creative hall. "Last year we carved a batch of new editions, with cartoon images and zodiac designs, all of which children and young people favor. More and more people are coming to print them. Look, they are even lining up!"
One can take one away, and one can also print one by hand. Liu Yitong picked out her zodiac edition from the block rack. Applying ink, rubbing the print, and gently lifting it, a little dog appeared vividly before her eyes, with a pair of big floppy ears, charming and cute in appearance (憨态可掬, han tai ke ju - "amiable, manner, can, be captured").
While strolling through the garden, Liu Yitong was also busy collecting "silver notes." "During the National Day holiday, we launched an interactive game. Tourists who pass the levels win 'silver notes,' which can be exchanged for the scenic area's self-developed New Year painting cultural-creative products," introduced Zhang Wenwen, the scenic area's marketing director.
Cultural heritage stimulates consumption vitality—since the beginning of this year, the garden has received 550,000 visitors, driving consumption of over 30 million yuan.
Heading north out of the Grand View Garden, not far away, is the old shop of Yang Naidong, the representative inheritor of the national-level intangible cultural heritage Yangjiabu woodblock New Year painting. Pushing open the door, one sees wall-mounted New Year paintings co-branded with a popular mobile game; the old craft colliding with new trends is especially vivid.
"While catching the wind of the young people, one must also hold fast to the roots of the older generation. The image can be made rounder, the expressions can be made cuter, but the knife strokes of woodblock carving and the overprint coloring are not the slightest bit sloppy," said Yang Naidong.
At the shop entrance, one encounters He Zhidong and his son, who came from Qingdao: the father clutches a just-acquired old edition door god painting—having thick eyebrows and staring eyes (浓眉竖目, nong mei shu mu - "thick, eyebrows, erect, eyes"), clad in armor and holding a sword; the son holds a door god refrigerator magnet—with big eyes and a round face, cordial and cute.
"What I am passionate about is the old flavor; what he loves is the new look," said He Zhidong with a smile. "The old is the root, the new is the sprout; only when the root is deep will the sprout be strong. As long as both ends have people willing to pay, this old craft can be printed and passed down year after year."
Return to TopOn October 9, Changsha University of Science and Technology will mark the 70th anniversary of its founding. Tracing the thread of its educational history, from 1956 onward, Changsha Navigation Engineering School, Changsha Hydroelectric Power School, Hunan Water Conservancy School, and Hunan Light Industry School were successively established. Through institutional consolidation and resource optimization, the schools successively developed into Changsha Communications Institute, under the former Ministry of Communications, and Changsha Electric Power Institute, under the former Ministry of Electric Power. In 2003, the two schools merged to form Changsha University of Science and Technology, achieving a historic leap from single-discipline industry institutions to a multi-disciplinary university. Over the past 70 years, the university has delivered more than 500,000 outstanding talents to the industry and society. Generations of Changsha University of Science and Technology graduates have set out from campus to the front lines of construction in transportation, electrical power, water conservancy, and other fields. Striving forward on the new journey of the 15th Five-Year Plan, the entire faculty and student body are vigorously advancing the construction of "world-class disciplines," gathering surging strength to accelerate the building of a high-level multi-disciplinary university with distinctive characteristics, focused primarily on science and engineering.
Building the Foundation with a Commitment to Education
Upholding the Direction of the University and Implementing the Fundamental Task of Fostering Virtue and Cultivating Talent
Cultivating talented people and scholars (育才造士, yu cai zao shi - "nurture talent, create scholars") is the foundation of the state. Changsha University of Science and Technology has always kept in mind its mission of educating people for the Party and cultivating talent for the country. It has systematically constructed a "grand ideological and political education" work pattern, continuously improved the ideological and political work system for faculty and students, and built an integrated ideological and political curriculum group of "theoretical main classroom + practical grand classroom + online new classroom + open classroom." The university was rated a 2025 national demonstration "one-stop" student community for colleges and universities. Its "foundation + theme" ideological and political education brand was selected as an outstanding case in grassroots ideological and political work, and the "Open Classroom Training for Ideological and Political Course Teachers" project it participated in was included in the Ministry of Education's "one province, one policy for ideological and political courses" collective action list.
Ideological and political education extends beyond the classroom podium to the vast world. In the past five years, the university has organized an average of more than 130 teams and over 2,500 faculty members and students each year to travel across the country, imprinting their footprints on the front lines of comprehensive rural revitalization, red education bases, and the sites of major national engineering projects. From theoretical outreach to serving people's livelihoods, from cultural inheritance to industrial research, from health protection to environmental governance, faculty and student representatives interpret the value pursuits of youth in the new era wherever the motherland needs them.
While deeply cultivating the ideological foundation, the university has implemented the "Top-Notch Innovative Talent Cultivation Plan," forming a dual-wheel-driven pattern of "excellence class + innovation class," and summarizing the "three colors" educational experience of "political foundation, professional essence, and innovative characteristics." Its innovative practice in talent cultivation models won a second prize in the National Teaching Achievement Awards and was selected as a pilot university for the Ministry of Education's reform of the supply-demand matching mechanism for talent cultivation. At present, the university's national first-class undergraduate major construction sites have increased to 43, and 19 majors have passed engineering education professional certification. The total student population has exceeded 55,000, and the graduate student population has exceeded 10,000. Implementing the "three 100 percent" employment project, the university has successively been rated a national model university for graduate employment experience and among the first batch of the top 50 national model universities for innovation and entrepreneurship experience.
Establishing Itself on a Foundation of Distinctive Characteristics
Deepening Advantageous Fields and Serving Major National Strategic Needs
Where the nation has needs, that is where action is directed. Changsha University of Science and Technology proactively aligns itself with major national strategies and regional high-quality development needs, conducting research where industry needs it most. The university has established the construction of the "world-class discipline" of transportation engineering as a key project, with civil engineering, electrical engineering, and other disciplines as primary supports, driving the coordinated development of multiple disciplines.
The results of discipline construction continue to emerge. Nine disciplines, including engineering, at the university have entered the top 1 percent of ESI globally. The transportation engineering discipline has risen to 7th place (Category A) in the ShanghaiRanking's Best Chinese Subjects Ranking. First-level discipline doctoral programs have increased to 13, achieving full coverage of engineering, science, economics, management, and other disciplines. Closely aligned with major national strategic deployments and the development needs of emerging industries, the university has established the School of Excellent Engineers, the School of Artificial Intelligence, and the School of Aeronautical Engineering, continuously optimizing its discipline layout and consolidating its capacity to supply high-level talent.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the university led 534 national-level projects in the natural sciences and 145 national-level projects in the social sciences, and added 17 new provincial and ministerial-level research platforms. Projects led by university faculty won a second prize in the National Technology Invention Award, and second and third prizes in the Ministry of Education's Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Awards (Humanities and Social Sciences), among other awards. At the same time, the university has established a new science and technology service mechanism of "enterprises pose the problems—the university tackles them—university-local government docking—transformation and application." Its science and technology achievement transformation index consistently ranks among the top of Hunan Province's universities, with a cumulative patent transformation rate exceeding 6 percent, injecting strong momentum for scientific and technological innovation into regional development.
Reaching Far with the Sincerity of Gathering Talent
Adhering to Both Introduction and Cultivation, Building a First-Class Talent Gathering Highland
Gathering talent brings prosperity; openness brings flourishing. Changsha University of Science and Technology advances its "strengthening the university through talent" strategy, striving to build a first-class talent gathering highland that attracts people from far and wide (近悦远来, jin yue yuan lai - "near, happy; far, come"). At present, the university has 3 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, more than 50 selectees of national-level talent programs, and more than 600 selectees of provincial and ministerial-level talent programs. It has 2 "National University Huang Danian-style Faculty Teams" and 3 national-level teaching teams, with its faculty teaching development index ranking 112th nationally.
The pace of open education is equally resolute. The university has co-established 3 Confucius Institutes and established stable cooperative relationships with more than 90 universities in over 30 countries and regions. It has been selected as a member university of the "China-Africa Universities Alliance" and the "China-Arab Universities 10+10 Cooperation Plan." In the past five years, the number of students going abroad (or to Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) for exchanges has increased 3.7 times, and the number of source countries for international students studying in China has expanded to 62.
Standing at a new starting point, Changsha University of Science and Technology will focus on advancing a discipline-leading strategy with the construction of the "world-class discipline" of transportation engineering as the breakthrough; a scientific and technological innovation strategy with the construction of a science and technology innovation port integrating science and education and merging industry and education as the engine; and a future development strategy with a future technology research institute featuring deep interdisciplinary crossover and artificial intelligence empowerment as the fulcrum. It will consolidate the support system of the "six major projects": first-class discipline leadership, first-class talent cultivation, first-class faculty introduction and development, first-class platform foundation, first-class scientific and technological innovation drive, and first-class digital-intelligent empowerment. It will deepen the "four cultures" education initiative with red culture as the spiritual root, Huxiang culture as the foundational heritage, network culture as the innovative carrier, and Changsha University of Science and Technology culture as the practical guide. By 2030, it strives to achieve a breakthrough in "world-class disciplines" and build a high-level multi-disciplinary university with distinctive characteristics; by 2035, it strives to have more advantageous disciplines enter the ranks of world-class disciplines; and by the middle of this century, it strives to build a high-level multi-disciplinary university that is domestically first-class, internationally renowned, and distinctive in characteristics.
Data source: Changsha University of Science and Technology
Return to TopDuring this year's National Day holiday, the cumulative cross-regional movement of people across society is expected to reach 2.144 billion person-trips, with an average of 306 million person-trips per day. The enormous passenger flow has brought benefits to many cities, but it has also placed higher demands on governance capacity. How can tourists be made to have fun and feel at ease? How can the tourist experience be balanced with residents' quality of life?
To this end, many places have drawn on the experience accumulated during "Super Weekends." A "Super Weekend" refers to a city using the weekend as a window to integrate resources such as sports events, performances, scenic attractions, and immersive experiences, thereby both opening up new ways for the public to relax and improving the refinement of governance. During the National Day holiday, many places continued these good practices, using one concrete measure after another to actively respond to the various tests brought by large passenger flows and turning in a new answer sheet for improving the quality and efficiency of urban governance.
——Editor
Xi'an, Shaanxi——
Multi-Party Coordination, Rapid Response to All Needs
People's Daily reporter Zhang Danhua
At 6 p.m., the festive lights of the Great Tang All Day Mall in Xi'an, Shaanxi, gradually lit up. This 2.1-kilometer-long Tang-style street district lights up more than 20,000 lamps every night, welcoming tourists from all over.
Not far away, on the big screen of the Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau's Great Tang All Day Mall Security Command Post, a real-time heat map of the crowd flow was jumping—traffic flow direction, venue capacity, and diversion suggestions could all be displayed. Zhang Jianping, deputy captain of the Security, Stability Maintenance, and Large Event Management Brigade under the Public Order Management Detachment of the Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau, told reporters: "Our command platform integrates data from the culture and tourism, emergency response, and transportation departments, enabling rapid response for emergency handling of sudden incidents."
During this year's Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and Great Tang All Day Mall tourist attractions received a total of 3.9 million visitors, of which the single-day passenger flow on October 3 reached 648,000, and the instantaneous peak crowd flow at 8 p.m. that evening reached 86,000.
"Watching people, controlling ground, observing objects, preventing incidents, and managing the network—these five aspects are the experience we have summarized from 'Super Weekends.'" Mi Pan, captain of the Large Event Management Squadron of the Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau, introduced that the Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau has explored a "three-tier circle control model"—centered on the Great Tang All Day Mall, delineating outward a core control zone, a key control zone, and a peripheral diversion zone. The Great Tang All Day Mall pedestrian street district, as the core control zone, implements grid-based management, relying on rapid response stations, emergency platforms, and police deployment points to handle security, order maintenance, and emergency response. Major roads and intersections constitute the key control zone, where diversion and flow control are implemented. In the outermost diversion zone, on-duty police forces implement segmented diversion and control according to instructions and road conditions, and patrol vehicles are arranged to strengthen patrols and traffic diversion on major roads.
In addition, when the instantaneous crowd flow in the street district reaches 50,000, the "tidal lane" contingency plan is immediately activated. In the core control zone, movable isolation barriers convert two-way walkways to one-way passage, effectively avoiding opposing crowd flows and ensuring tourists' visiting experience.
"When the crowd flow is large, most police reports involve family members getting separated, lost items, and tourists suddenly falling ill and needing to be sent to the hospital." Wang Wei, deputy captain of the Public Order Brigade of the Yanta Branch of the Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau, said, "During the holiday, we set up duty posts every 50 meters in the street district, so that tourists can have fun and feel at ease."
During the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays, the transportation department increased the frequency of bus routes around the scenic area. Xi'an public security traffic police, relying on big data, researched and optimized the holiday traffic flow control mechanisms for 850 traffic signals and 8 "slow entry, fast exit" plans for key scenic areas, further improving intersection passage efficiency. The city coordinated the opening of 100 temporary parking areas, added 18,000 temporary parking spaces, and activated more than 88,000 parking spaces.
Multiple departments are working together in close unity (拧成一股绳, ning cheng yi gu sheng - "twist, into, one, rope"). "The biggest difficulty in cross-departmental coordination is that information is not shared and instructions are not smooth." A staff member who has participated many times in holiday security work frankly admitted that in the past, public security handled public order, urban management handled order, and culture and tourism handled activities—each managing its own turf, and when encountering large passenger flows it was easy to "fight a chaotic battle." Now, Xi'an's public security, culture and tourism, subway, bus, urban management, and emergency response departments have established a joint response mechanism and "fight" together. In Qujiang New District, where the Great Tang All Day Mall is located, urban management, public security, culture and tourism, market supervision, and other units carry out routine joint law enforcement inspections, centrally rectifying various illegal business operations and acts disturbing public order in the street district.
At 10 p.m., the Great Tang All Day Mall was still crowds of people surging or moving about (人潮涌动, ren chao yong dong - "people, tide, surge, move"). "Although there are many people, there are staff guiding us all the way, the subway has added trains, and buses have extended hours—the whole city is helping tourists, which makes us feel warm." Ms. Li, a tourist from Guangzhou, said.
Yichang, Hubei——
Technology Empowers, Large Events Operate Efficiently
People's Daily reporter Wu Jun
On the evening of October 4, in Yichang, Hubei, the "Magnificent Three Gorges" themed light and shadow show was staged, attracting quite a few spectators. After the 15-minute performance ended, the audience left in an orderly manner in batches. "The crowd flow in the core viewing area alone reached 218,000 person-trips. We deployed in advance and guided effectively, and overall traffic operations were stable, with no long-duration or large-scale congestion." Yin Xuefei, captain of the Intelligence Command and Operations Brigade of the Traffic Police Detachment of the Yichang Municipal Public Security Bureau, said.
This composure comes from the urban governance capacity that Yichang has accumulated during "Super Weekends," with measures that "think one step further and act one step more," continuously improving the experience of both tourists and residents.
September 5-6 was a "Super Weekend" in Yichang. On the evening of September 5, a concert was held at the Yichang Olympic Sports Center Stadium, and a "Chu Super" football match was held at the Yichang City Stadium. The two large events, combined with the start of the school season at surrounding universities, pushed the single-day number of tourists, spectators, and others past 50,000.
"This is the command center. The drone has detected a large number of spectators moving from Gate 2 toward the South Plaza. Please dispatch additional police!" Just 3 minutes after the order was issued, ground police were in place and spectators left in an orderly manner.
This is the three-dimensional intelligent dispatch system that Yichang has established. "Using police drones and other equipment, we can accurately capture in real time the dynamics of crowd and vehicle flow in complex scenarios and transmit the on-site footage back to the command center, which helps quickly identify the source of congestion and achieve precise command and efficient dispatch of on-the-ground police situations." Yin Xuefei introduced.
After the spectators are diverted, how can the massive crowds be safely and efficiently transported to their destinations?
Whenever there is a major event with more than 5,000 participants, Yichang traffic police communicate in advance with the bus group and establish a joint logistics command post to maximize the advantages of public transportation. "For the venue layout and passenger flow characteristics of each event, we work with the bus group to customize dedicated bus transfer routes for entry and exit, plan driving routes and stop locations, and ensure that the walking distance for the public from the venue to the boarding and alighting points is the shortest and the time in transit is the least, effectively improving travel efficiency." Yin Xuefei said that through technology empowerment and refined dispatch methods, Yichang can basically achieve "crowd evacuation completed within one hour after the event ends."
The efficient operation of large events cannot be separated from the continuous expansion of urban space.
At the intersection of Nanbo Road and Jinling Road in the Xiaoting District of Yichang City, the lanes are straight and the trees provide shade. Previously, many construction barriers around the district's main and secondary roads and factory areas had long been left unmanaged, which not only affected the city's appearance but also posed safety hazards. "In the past, I had to be very careful passing by here, and when it was windy or rainy I was even more feeling extremely anxious or fearful (提心吊胆, ti xin diao dan - "lift, heart, hang, suspend, gall, fear"), afraid that the barriers would collapse and hurt someone." Zhou Hongrong, a citizen, said.
Starting in 2025, Yichang City carried out a special rectification of construction barriers, demolishing various barriers that were "enclosed but not built, long enclosed but not removed," achieving the opening of 13.8 kilometers of urban roads and the release of approximately 200,000 square meters of urban public space.
Revitalizing idle public spaces in the city has promoted the improvement and upgrading of the district's cityscape environment. To date, Yichang City has cleared a total of 990,000 square meters of illegal vegetable plots and built 5 pocket parks. "With more public space, it not only attracts tourists but also enhances the happiness of local residents." Chai Zheng, director of the Regulation and Protection Center of the Yichang Municipal Urban Management Committee, said.
Qingdao, Shandong——
Refined Management, Coordinated Supporting Work
People's Daily reporter Wang Zhe
Tasting specialty foods, making intangible cultural heritage products... During the National Day holiday, an intangible cultural heritage market was held in front of the former German Governor's Residence Museum in Qingdao, Shandong, where citizens and tourists experienced Lu embroidery making on site and felt the distinctive culture.
Since the beginning of this year, Qingdao has launched two year-round cultural and tourism consumption promotion activity plans—"One Theme per Month" and "Super Weekend"—integrating the large passenger flows brought by large events such as concerts and sports competitions into urban development. Zhao Fahai, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, introduced that "Super Weekend" emphasizes business format integration, organically embedding elements such as concerts, ticket stub consumption, and parent-child study tours into each month's theme, enriching consumption scenarios.
On September 25, a concert was held at the Guoxin Gymnasium of the Qingdao Sports Center, and the sanitation department of Qingdao's Laoshan District activated the large passenger flow cleaning mode. To facilitate restroom access for spectators, 60 mobile toilets were added in densely populated areas around the venue, and the ratio of male to female toilets was adjusted in a timely manner according to the gender ratio of spectators to improve restroom efficiency. At the same time, cleaning forces were increased, cleaning frequency was stepped up, and maintenance support was strengthened for 5 municipal public restrooms outside the venue to ensure that facilities and equipment were always in good condition. After the concert ended, the sanitation department quickly dispatched additional work teams to conduct a thorough sweep of the area around the venue to cope with the possible sudden surge in garbage pressure.
To date, Qingdao has held more than a thousand music, sports, and related events, and the instantaneous large passenger flows they bring have placed higher demands on the city's carrying capacity and service quality. Through the year-round normalized activity system of "One Theme per Month," the Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism has formed a synergistic effect of "shaving peaks and filling valleys, complementing long and short," smoothing the passenger flow from concentrated weekend surges to all time periods, improving the tourist experience.
The inbound tourism market is also flourishing. On October 2, the direct flight route from Qingdao to Vancouver resumed service, becoming the only passenger route in Shandong Province directly connecting to North America. As of the end of September this year, the Qingdao Airport Border Inspection Station of the Shandong General Station of Border Inspection had inspected a cumulative total of more than 490,000 inbound foreign tourists, a year-on-year increase of 32%. To improve the quality and efficiency of customs clearance, the border inspection authorities established the "Qinyi Guomen" multilingual volunteer service team, equipped with translation devices and foreign language signage to achieve barrier-free communication. Qingdao Airport continues to build and upgrade a comprehensive service center for overseas visitors, providing inbound travelers with "one-stop" comprehensive services including information inquiry, financial payment consultation, foreign currency exchange, foreign card cash withdrawal, cultural and tourism promotion, phone card activation, and transportation card sales.
It is necessary not only to improve the tourist experience but also to ensure the convenience of residents' daily lives. Qingdao continues to improve public service facilities and enhance emergency support capabilities. By issuing traffic control and travel tips in advance, optimizing bus and subway transfer capacity, and setting up temporary diversion areas around event venues, the impact of large events on the daily travel and life of surrounding residents is minimized to the greatest extent. At the same time, relying on the grid-based management mechanism, street communities promptly collect residents' demands and coordinate the resolution of practical issues such as noise, parking, and garbage removal, allowing citizens to share in the fruits of urban development.
"Supported by refined urban governance, we coordinate the supporting work of traffic diversion, safety assurance, and environmental improvement to ensure the safe and orderly operation of the city under large passenger flows." Zhang Yuanming, Deputy Secretary of the Laoshan District Party Committee and District Mayor, said.
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General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized that the disease prevention and control system is an important safeguard for protecting the people's health, ensuring public health security, and maintaining economic and social stability. Upon the approval of the State Council, the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration and six other departments jointly issued the "15th Five-Year Plan for Disease Prevention and Control" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), which is the first five-year national special plan in the field of disease control, clarifying the goals, tasks, and strategic measures for disease control work over the next five years. We must take promoting the implementation of the "Plan" as the starting point, deeply implement the healthy China priority development strategy, resolutely build a solid line of defense for public health security, and comprehensively protect the people's lives, health, and physical well-being.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, disease control undertakings achieved a historic leap
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the course of our country's disease control undertaking development was extremely unusual and extremely extraordinary. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, we withstood the unprecedented test of the pandemic of the century, the disease control system was systematically reshaped, institutional mechanisms were continuously improved, and core capabilities achieved a leapfrog improvement. First, governance mechanisms became more coordinated. The leadership mechanism for prevention and control of major infectious disease epidemics was continuously improved, cross-departmentaland cross-regional information sharing and joint response mechanisms were continuously perfected, the reform tasks for disease control institutions were basically completed, anda coordinated and efficient disease control work network from the national level to local levels was continuously improved. The Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases was revised, the Law on Response to Public Health Emergencies was formulated and formally implemented, raising the level of law-based prevention and control. Second, monitoring and early warning became more sensitive. The infectious disease monitoring system covered 84,000 medical institutions nationwide and 1,323 sentinel hospitals, monitoring channels were expanded to include pathogenic microorganism laboratories, disease vector organisms, urban sewage monitoring sites, and others, syndromic surveillance was expanded from 1 category to 5 categories, covering more than 90 types of pathogens. Front-end software for intelligent infectious disease monitoring and early warning was deployed and applied in medical institutions at all levels, achieving a major transformation in the monitoring and early warning model from passive to active, with significant improvements in the timeliness and accuracy of reporting. Third, emergency response became more efficient. Twenty-nine provinces established biosafety level III laboratories, and all provincial-level and more than 90% of city-level disease control centers possessed nucleic acid testing and virus isolation capabilities. The cross-departmental collaborative epidemiological investigation working mechanism was consolidated and expanded, emergency response team strength was continuously strengthened, every province undertook the construction of a national emergency infectious disease prevention and control team, and every prefecture, city, district, and county established grassroots infectious disease emergency response small teams. Fourth, measures benefiting the people became more pragmatic. The HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine was incorporated into the national immunization program, providing free vaccination with the bivalent HPV vaccine for school-age girls. Multi-channel financing supported vaccination with influenza vaccine for key populations of "the elderly and young children" in rural areas, insured employees of the basic medical insurance scheme and their insured close relatives, and workers in new forms of employment. Vaccination services were promoted at medical institutions of secondary level and above, electronic vaccination certificates were promoted and applied, and vaccine prescription services were advanced. Fifth, prevention and control effectiveness became more pronounced. Newly emerging epidemics such as human infection with H10N5 avian influenza and clade Ib mpox were discovered timely and rapidly handled, effective responses were made to multiple waves of the COVID-19 pandemic and outbreaks of dengue fever, chikungunya fever, and other epidemics in local areas, WHO certification for malaria elimination was obtained, China entered for the first time the ranks of countries with moderate-to-low tuberculosis burden globally, new hepatitis virus infections nationwide continued to decline, AIDS remained continuously controlled ata low epidemic level, the polio-free status was continuously maintained, the incidence rates of multiple vaccine-preventable diseases and key parasitic diseases fell to historically low levels, and after major natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods, no major epidemics occurred after the disasters, providing solid public health security support for economic and social development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.
The situation and challenges facing disease control work during the 15th Five-Year Plan period
From the perspective of the prevention and control situation, the uncertainty of the occurrence of new emerging infectious diseases globally continues to rise, cross-species transmission of pathogenic microorganisms occurs frequently, anda new emerging infectious disease has appeared on average every year globally since the beginning of the 21st century. Affected by factors such as climate change, the epidemiological characteristics of some infectious diseases have undergone obvious changes. With the increasingly frequent cross-border movement of people and goods, the pressure of overseas epidemics being imported into China and triggering local transmission continues to increase. Domestically, the prevention and control situation for key infectious diseases remains severe, respiratory infectious diseases exhibit periodic epidemics, and the prevention and control of traditional infectious diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, and others faces new situations and new problems. From the perspective of response capacity, aspects such as emergency response to major epidemics and coordinated governance still need continuous strengthening, and shortcomings still exist in early warning response, early diagnosis, and precise intervention for new emerging infectious diseases. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary to "strengthen the foundation, consolidate the groundwork," intensify efforts to consolidate and expand advantages, break through bottleneck constraints, and shore up shortcomings and weaknesses, and moreover to "improve quality and efficiency, achieve comprehensive upgrading," accelerate the construction of a powerful modernized disease control system, truly taking the initiative or making a strategic first move (下好先手棋, xia hou xian qi - "down, good, first, chess") and fighting the proactive battle.
Comprehensively promoting the key tasks for high-quality development of disease control undertakings during the 15th Five-Year Plan period
General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized that building a Healthy China by 2035 is a strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee, andhat the 15th Five-Year Plan period is a critical period for achieving this goal, requiring coordinated planning, intensified advancement, and striving for decisive progress.
We must closely focus on the goal of basically completing the construction of a modernized disease control system with Chinese characteristics by 2030, unswervingly (坚定不移, jian ding bu yi - "firm, not, move") follow the path of health development with Chinese characteristics, unswervingly implement the health work guideline for the new era, implement the various tasks of the "Plan" with the spirit of hammering nails, and accelerate the promotion of high-quality development of disease control undertakings
Strengthen joint prevention and control, and build a pattern of social co-governance for "big disease control." Disease control work concerns the masses or every household (千家万户, qian jia wan hu - "thousand, families, ten thousand, households"), requiring the joint participation of the whole society. Continue to promote the reform of the disease control system, achieving a strategic transformation from "professional prevention and control" to "systematic governance." It is necessary to improve the working pattern for infectious disease epidemic prevention and control featuring unified leadership by Party committees, joint leadership by the party and the government (党政齐抓共管, dang zheng qi zhua gong guan - "party, government, together, grasp, jointly, manage"), efficient coordination among departments, and extensive social participation. Maintain the normalized operation of joint prevention and control mechanisms for major infectious disease epidemics at all levels and the efficient peacetime-emergency transition, strengthen interdepartmental coordination. Consolidate the "four-party responsibilities" of localities, departments, units, and individuals, give play to the role of public health committees of village (residents') committees, implement the action to improve the health literacy of all people regarding infectious disease prevention, and foster a favorable atmosphere in which the whole society jointly pays attention to, supports, and participates in disease control work
Adhere to multi-disease co-prevention, and enhance the comprehensive effectiveness of infectious disease prevention and control. Multi-disease co-prevention is an optimization and improvement of prevention and control strategies proposed by us on the basis of comprehensively summarizing the practical experience of epidemic prevention and control in recent years, targeting the contradiction between the severe and complex infectious disease prevention and control situation and limited prevention and control resources. For diseases sharing the same transmission routes, such as respiratory infectious diseases, vector-borne infectious diseases, blood-borne and sexually transmitted infectious diseases, human-animal shared infectious diseases, and others, coordinate the adoption of countermeasures such as surveillance, testing, prevention, control, and management, improving the quality and efficiency of prevention and control. For example, promoting multi-disease co-prevention for vector-borne infectious diseases such as dengue fever and chikungunya fever, coordinating resources and efforts from aspects such as vector and case surveillance, environmental sanitation improvement and breeding site cleanup, case mosquito-proof isolation management, health publicity and education, and others. Multi-disease co-prevention is not only an optimization at the technical level, but also an upgrade of governance concepts, helping to enhance the overall effectiveness of infectious disease prevention and control, and providing methodological support for building a modernized disease control system
Focus on risk prevention, and make good preparations for responding to new emerging infectious diseases. The prevention and control of new emerging infectious diseases is the top priority of disease control work during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, and it is necessary to focus on key links such as early detection, scientific assessment, precise prevention and control, rapid response, and response preparedness, accelerate the construction of a smart multi-point-triggered surveillance and early warning system, build an epidemiological investigation team of approximately 77,000 regular plus reserve personnel, improve the public health laboratory network, strengthen normalized and practical drills, and effectively enhance the capacity for early detection and rapid response to major epidemics. In response to the new situation of continuously increasing risk of overseas epidemic importation, carry out the construction of "national gateway disease control," focusing on the three links of remote prevention and control, national gateway barrier, and domestic prevention and control, achieve closed-loop management of the entire chain of prevention and control of imported infectious diseases, and build a solid line of defense against external importation
Improve service capacity, and promote the forward movement of the prevention gateway. Prevention is the most economical and most effective health strategy. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the national immunization program strategy will be further improved, dynamically optimizing the types of vaccines in the national immunization program. Focus on vaccines with good immune effects, high public demand, and significant cost-effectiveness, explore supporting vaccination of key populations through multi-channel financing, promote the implementation of a whole-life-cycle vaccination strategy. Promote the provision of vaccination services by medical institutions of secondary level and above, implement the vaccine prescription policy, comprehensively promote electronic vaccination certificates and cross-regional sharing of vaccination data, providing the people with more equitable, accessible, and convenient vaccination services. Strengthen comprehensive public health interventions such as environmental health, school health, occupational health, injury prevention and control, comprehensively improving service levels. Strengthen prevention and control of key endemic diseases, controlling and eliminating the hazards of key endemic diseases by stage and by disease type
Deepen reforms, and promote quality improvement and efficiency enhancement in disease control undertakings. Strengthen the construction of national regional public health centers, plan and layout provincial-level regional public health centers. Implement the modernization construction project for the disease control system, enhance the comprehensive capacity of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, strengthen the construction and equipment configuration of provincial-level disease control centers. Further strengthen the professional leadership of higher-level disease control institutions over lower-level disease control institutions, accelerate the advancement of the work of strengthening the foundation in the field of disease control, promote the true integration and deep integration of municipal-and county-level disease control and health supervision institutions, advance the pilot construction of municipal-region disease control consortia. Promote medical-prevention collaboration and medical-prevention integration, establish and improve the system of disease control supervisors in medical institutions, advance the pilot work of granting prescription rights to public health physicians
The people's health is an important hallmark of socialist modernization. We must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, run the Party's leadership through the entire process and all aspects of disease control work during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, provide strong support for protecting the people's health, ensuring public health security, and maintaining economic and social stability, and build a solid public health security barrier for advancing Chinese modernization
(The author is a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the National Health Commission, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨 迅
Movies often feature such a trope: a police officer chasing a suspect, urgently borrowing a passerby's car, and staging a "high-speed pursuit" on the streets. A few days ago, this scene unfolded on the streets of Yueyang, Hunan. A citizen, without a moment's hesitation, voluntarily lent his electric bicycle to a police officer, buying precious time for the officer's pursuit of the suspect.
Wang Jian, a police officer from Dongmaoling Police Station of Yueyang Lou District Branch, Yueyang Municipal Public Security Bureau, and a team member were patrolling their jurisdiction when they received an instruction from the municipal bureau: "A fugitive from another province is currently active in your jurisdiction; please deploy police forces and apprehend him at an appropriate time." They quickly conducted a careful search along the roads of their jurisdiction, not letting any suspicious person slip by.
About half an hour later, Wang Jian spotted a man covering his mouth and nose with clothing, wearing a hat, with evasive eyes, whose physical characteristics closely matched those of the fugitive Xu, a certain individual. "Wearing a hat, in a gray jacket—it's him!" Wang Jian exchanged a glance with his teammate and quickly moved toward Xu.
"Don't move!" Wang Jian shouted an order, leaped over the green belt and chased after him. Xu, seeing the officer sprinting toward him, turned around and ran away.
During the pursuit, a passerby decisively extended both arms, trying to block Xu. This obstruction disrupted Xu's stride and bought time for the officers.
Xu continued to flee, and was about to run toward a more complex intersection. At a critical moment (千钧一发, qian jun yi fa - "thousand, jin, one, moment"), citizen Liu Xia, who was riding an electric bicycle ahead, looked back, immediately stopped her vehicle, and voluntarily gave the bicycle to the police officer.
"At the time I didn't know what was happening, and was a bit scared at first. But when I saw it was police chasing someone, I thought, I should help the police." Liu Xia recalled.
Wang Jian rode the electric bicycle, pursued closely along the street, and soon successfully subdued Xu at a street corner. "The suspect ran desperately, even losing his shoes in the process. Fortunately, thanks to this lady's electric bicycle, the arrest wouldn't have gone so smoothly." Wang Jian said.
At present, Xu has been lawfully transferred to the public security authorities of the other province's local jurisdiction for handling.
Afterward, the police returned Liu Xia's electric bicycle, offered to send her a banner of gratitude, and filed an application on her behalf for the "Yueyang City Outstanding Individual for Acts of Bravery." Liu Xia, however, waved her hand: "It's nothing, this is what I should do; anyone would help if they encountered this."
After this pursuit video was posted online, many netizens gave it thumbs-up: "The police pursued boldly, the public helped proactively—this is the best police-citizen relationship!"
(Li Jingui participated in the reporting and writing)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 乔 栋
During the National Day holiday, Qilian County in the Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province was "very popular." Online, entries such as "100,000 tourists flood into a county town of 50,000 people" and "the culture and tourism bureau director makes beds" frequently topped the hot search lists. Behind the hot searches, what efforts did Qilian County make?
Located deep in the Qilian Mountains at an average altitude of over 3,000 meters, Qilian County boasts diverse landforms including snow-capped mountains, grasslands, glaciers, and canyons. The "No. 9 Highway" within its territory holds strong appeal for self-driving tourists. During this National Day holiday, Qilian County received 221,000 tourist visits.
On October 3, heavy snow falling continuously (大雪纷飞, da xue fen fei - "big, snow, fly, scatter") hit Qilian County, and temperatures dropped sharply. The "No. 9 Highway," which normally takes two hours to traverse, saw its travel time stretched to several times that. Qilian County is nearly a three-hour drive from surrounding county towns. Combined with snowfall, poor mountain road conditions, and other factors, if tourists arrived late or their vehicles lacked sufficient range, staying in surrounding county towns would be difficult. Many tourists who had planned to pass through chose on that day to stay temporarily in Qilian County town.
To cope with the sudden surge in tourists and the tight housing situation, Qilian County urgently coordinated student dormitories to solve the accommodation problem.
Cultural tourism needs "traffic," but it also needs to be able to handle "traffic." A sudden incident tests a locality's emergency management capacity and collaborative governance capacity.
Multiple departments coordinated to solve the accommodation problem, "still wanting to do our best to give tourists a good experience"
When we met Feng Lingling, director of the Qilian County Culture, Sports, Tourism, Radio and Television Bureau, on October 7, she was still leading people in disinfecting the dormitories and taking inventory of students' belongings. "There is still a lot of follow-up work to do." Having slept only two or three hours a night for several days straight, her eyes were bloodshot.
On October 3, temperatures in Qilian County dropped sharply, with rain in the county town and snowfall in the surrounding areas. Out-of-town tourists driving the "No. 9 Highway" were especially excited because the snow-capped mountains were even more spectacular.
But the unexpected situation still came. As early as 8 p.m. on October 2, the duty office of the Qilian County Culture, Sports, Tourism, Radio and Television Bureau called Feng Lingling, saying that tourists were reporting there was no housing available.
Before the holiday, Feng Lingling had made a special trip to tour the homestays around the county town to ensure they had heating and could open their doors. After receiving the call, she urgently made contacts to find spare offline family inns and activate the "existing stock."
However, this situation was special. Data showed that during this year's National Day holiday, Qilian County's tourist reception volume increased by 220 percent year-on-year. The bureau's three telephone lines were ringing almost constantly, with tourists overwhelmingly reporting no housing available.
Qilian County activated its contingency plan at the first opportunity and responded through multiple means: townships and the agriculture and animal husbandry bureau opened their halls to facilitate heating for tourists; spare housing was coordinated to accommodate tourists in multiple locations; and tourists for whom conditions permitted were persuaded and redirected to turn back.
If there was not enough room, where would people be placed? The contingency plan had actually been prepared long before. With the flood season overlapping the tourism peak season in Qilian County, the county had already established an emergency joint meeting mechanism, and various departments had accumulated considerable experience in coordinated action.
A phone call was made to the county education bureau. Deputy County Magistrate Zhang Shouhong also rushed to the scene. After visits, research, and assessment, and after soliciting the opinions of the education department and the schools, the Qilian County government decided: open two schools including the County Ethnic Middle School, with 102 dormitory rooms and 500 beds.
The civil affairs and emergency management departments immediately allocated supplies: bed sheets, quilts, and pillowcases, all brand-new items prepared in advance. Feng Lingling led staff members in first tidying up the students' belongings, organizing them onto the upper bunk beds, and then laying out the new bedding. "We took photos of the original state of the dormitories in advance, and when tourists checked in, we specifically instructed them not to touch the children's things," Feng Lingling said. On the 3rd, Qilian County successively accommodated nearly 500 people.
Mr. Wang, a tourist from Shaanxi, arrived with his family on the 3rd and had originally planned to sleep in the car. After contacting the culture and tourism department, he was arranged that evening to stay in a middle school dormitory. "Four people per room, the students' belongings had all been tidied up in advance, the government provided brand-new supplies such as quilts, and there was both heating and hot water," Mr. Wang said.
Busy until 2:40 a.m. on the 4th, Feng Lingling grabbed a few bites of food and wrote on her WeChat Moments: "Even when exhausted, we still want to do our best to give tourists a good experience. Occasionally we feel lost, but whenever we see tourists' warm recognition, we feel that all our efforts are meaningful."
Anticipating in advance and formulating a contingency plan, placing tourists in schools was the optimal solution at the time
Although the accommodated tourists were full of praise, there were still different voices online. Could the situation have been anticipated earlier and preparations made sooner?
"Actually, we made predictions before the holiday, but reality exceeded expectations," Feng Lingling said. Before the National Day holiday, the county's Culture, Sports, Tourism, Radio and Television Bureau conducted a round of detailed surveys: visiting surrounding homestays, pastoral family resorts, and family inns to assess reception capacity. During the same period last year, Qilian County's cultural tourism reception volume increased by 75.8 percent year-on-year; this year that figure was 220 percent. "The number of self-driving tourists arriving on the spur of the moment surged sharply, and this portion could not be predicted in advance through online ticket bookings," Feng Lingling said.
Could tourists be accommodated nearby through dispersal or persuasion to turn back?
As a tourist destination, Qilian County has always had redundancy in its tourism reception capacity. Feng Lingling explained that the county's 23,000 beds could still provide good reception even during the peak summer season of the Qinghai-Gansu Grand Loop route. During the tourist peak on October 2 and 3, while increasing reception beds to accommodate tourists, Qilian County was also posting notices at highway entrances advising tourists to turn back and directing them to stay in nearby locations.
Was placing tourists in school dormitories done with the students' consent? Did it infringe on students' related rights and interests?
Si Linbo, a professor at the School of Public Administration of Northwest University, believes that during the period when students are away from school, the temporary requisition and use of dormitories for public interest has a legitimate basis and does not directly infringe on the right of use; student dormitories have the attribute of public resources, different from private residences. Combined with the fact that the two schools have waived accommodation fees for students, students have limited rights of use over the dormitories. Whether the right to privacy was infringed needs to be judged based on whether students' personal belongings were improperly occupied, used, or damaged.
On the evening of the 7th, Qilian County held a follow-up handling meeting and decided to write a letter of thanks to the students in the name of the county government. The two schools would check for any loss of student belongings, and the Qilian County Culture, Sports, Tourism, Radio and Television Bureau would distribute cultural and creative gift packages to students in the 102 dormitory rooms.
In addition, when clearing the lower bunk beds in the original dormitory rooms, staff had used quilts and other items to "package" the students' personal belongings. Moreover, before moving things out, photos of the original state of the dormitories were taken for the record.
Were public health details such as infectious diseases considered? Could tourists have been placed in sports venues instead?
"Placing people in schools was itself one of the emergency contingency plans," said Mei Jiancan, head of Qilian County. In recent days, nighttime temperatures have dropped below 0 degrees Celsius, and the sports venues have no heating. For the elderly and children to spend the night in a high-altitude, high-cold environment would pose health and safety risks. School dormitories have both heating and immediate occupancy, and can separate men and women. They were the optimal solution for the Qilian County government to implement temporary relief at that time.
Regarding hygiene issues, Feng Lingling said that the emergency management department dispatched pillowcases, bed sheets, and other items at the first opportunity, and everything that tourists came into direct contact with was new supplies. On October 6, the culture and tourism department and the schools had already restored the dormitories to their original state; on the 7th, disinfection of the dormitories was completed.
To turn an "internet sensation" into a "lasting sensation," it is still necessary to optimize the service system and long-term governance
Tourism is a pillar industry of Qilian County. As of October 7, Qilian County had received a cumulative total of 221,000 tourist visits during this year's National Day holiday. Behind the data is a highland town undergoing a transformation of its tourism industry.
As a must-pass tourist stop on the Qinghai-Gansu Grand Loop route, Qilian County actually has relatively ample experience in tourism handling. In its annual tourism plans and emergency response, it has a tradition of "spoiling its fans."
During this reception, an elderly couple in their 80s from Guangdong arrived at the school emergency shelter. Considering the couple's advanced age, staff members vacated the dormitory used for registration and reception work and moved to the corridor to do the registration instead. Because the school dormitories do not provide electrical outlets, tourists reported that the problem of charging mobile phones could not be solved. Qilian County urgently coordinated more than 10 mobile charging devices for tourists to use.
The holiday peak in visitor flow has passed, but Feng Lingling knows full well: "If we can't handle this wave of 'traffic,' our work will become passive." Feng Lingling believes that effort should be invested before the "traffic" arrives, and coordination should be integrated into daily governance.
On the evening of the 7th, Qilian County held a follow-up handling meeting, and one of the agenda items was "improving shortcomings."
How can reception capacity be made more "flexible"? This topic was raised at the meeting. "What if the 'No. 9 Highway' continues to be extremely popular and tourists surge in a short time? What if people are stranded? Special emergency measures must be formulated. We can no longer use past experience to judge visitor flow. While improving the quality of tourism accommodation, we must also make reasonable judgments about tourist flow," said Fu Qiang, secretary of the Qilian County Party Committee: "From the popularity of one road to the maturity of a complete service system and governance capacity, there is still a long way to go."
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 7) (Reporter Qiu Chaoyi) During the cabin service segment of a China Eastern Airlines flight, a meal cart incidentally touched a passenger. The flight attendant and purser on duty apologized to the passenger multiple times and carried out service remediation, yet the passenger still subjected the flight attendant on duty to verbal abuse and threats. After the incident occurred, China Eastern Airlines, in coordination with relevant parties, conducted a comprehensive review and evidence collection of the entire incident process, and provided psychological counseling and care support to the flight attendant involved. At present, China Eastern Airlines has completed the preservation of evidence and formally filed a report with the authorities.
In response to this incident, the China Air Transport Association stated on October 5 that it firmly supports member airlines of the China Air Transport Association in lawfully safeguarding employees' rights to perform their duties; it calls on airlines to optimize on-site handling procedures for disruptive behavior on board and to strengthen safeguards for frontline personnel performing their duties; and it calls on the general public to fly in a civilized manner and to protect their rights rationally. Passengers enjoy the right to service guarantees in accordance with the law. Those dissatisfied with service should express their demands through lawful channels such as complaints, appeals, and litigation, and must not "protect their rights" by means of verbal abuse or insults to personal dignity.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Zhengzhou, October 7) (Reporter Zhang Wenhao) The "Regulations of Henan Province on Inheriting and Carrying Forward the Spirit of the Red Flag Canal" were published on October 5 and will take effect on January 1, 2027. This is the first provincial-level local regulation in Henan Province with the theme of "the spiritual pedigree of Chinese Communists," providing a strong legal guarantee for inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of the Red Flag Canal.
According to the Regulations, the People's Government of Henan Province shall increase support and safeguards for inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of the Red Flag Canal and for the maintenance and management of the Red Flag Canal project, formulate special plans, improve working mechanisms, guarantee necessary funding, and promptly study and resolve major issues in the inheritance and promotion of the spirit of the Red Flag Canal as well as the protection and management of the Red Flag Canal project. Regarding innovative development in inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of the Red Flag Canal, the Regulations support building a red tourism brand with the Red Flag Canal as an important symbol, vigorously developing business forms such as red study tours and green eco-tourism; encourage the development of cultural and creative products inspired by the spirit of the Red Flag Canal, and expand new forms and new pathways for the popularization of the spirit of the Red Flag Canal and its scenario-based experience.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 洲
At 3 a.m. on October 4, Tiananmen Square was already crowded with people (人头攒动, ren tou zan dong - "person, head, crowd, move"). Visitors from all corners of the country (天南海北, tian nan hai bei - "sky, south, sea, north"), bearing reverence in their hearts, quietly awaited the gradual rising of the five-star red flag.
Amid the crowd, Wang Xiaoxuan (王晓璇),, a police officer of Yongledian Police Station under the Tongzhou Branch of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, was moving through the flow of people to maintain order as a support police force.
At the time, the temperature was only 8 degrees Celsius. On the square, a study tour group from Guangdong encountered a "small trouble": the children were shivering with cold (瑟瑟发抖, se se fa dou - "shivering, emit, tremble"), and the staff of the study tour group anxiously sought help from those around them, asking whether anyone had spare clothing.
"Put it on quickly, don't catch cold." Upon hearing the situation, Wang Xiaoxuan, who was on duty, did not hesitate — she directly took off the sweater she was wearing and had the child put it on quickly to keep warm. With no time to add clothing, wearing only a thin police uniform, Wang Xiaoxuan paid no heed to the cold and continued to hold her post firmly on duty.
After the flag-viewing ceremony ended, the child hurriedly returned the sweater to Wang Xiaoxuan and gave her a solemn salute. Seeing this, Wang Xiaoxuan also gravely returned a standard police salute. The the mutual salute, wordless respect flowed quietly, moving the visitors present, and was also captured on camera by members of the crowd watching the ceremony.
"People's police love the people," "police and people are one family"... Netizens lavished praise on Wang Xiaoxuan one after another; people admired this gentleness embedded in the front line of duty, and were also moved by the grateful youth.
This year marks Wang Xiaoxuan's fifth year participating in public security work. As a grassroots police officer, thoughtfulness and conscientiousness are the deepest impressions her colleagues and the people in her jurisdiction have of her. In daily life, she takes root in the community, mediates disputes, helps and supports the masses, and implements every piece of livelihood-related trivia concretely. Since joining the police, she has received one individual third-class merit and two individual commendations. Behind each honor lies her steadfastness in taking root on the front line, and her original aspiration of always keeping the warmth and cold of the masses in her heart.
"Holding my post firmly — the purpose is to safeguard the safety and happiness of the people." Speaking of this matter, Wang Xiaoxuan said plainly, "From now on, I will as always (一如既往, yi ru ji wang - "one, like, already, go") uphold my original aspiration of serving the people, carry forward fine traditions, devote myself with resolve, and wholeheartedly use my heart and efforts to resolve difficulties and troubles (排忧解难, pai you jie nan - "clear, worry, untie, difficulty") for the masses."
Return to TopThe "15th Five-Year Plan" outline has made a dedicated chapter-level deployment on "accelerating high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology, and leading the development of new quality productive forces," explicitly stating the need to "comprehensively strengthen independent innovation capacity,seize the commanding heights of scientific and technological development,deepen the integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation,and continuously give birth to new quality productive forces." As a listed company under the Chinese Academy of Sciences Holdings Co., Ltd., Beijing Zhongke Runyu Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. (abbreviated as "Zhongke Environmental Protection")has been focusing intensively on a specific field (深耕, shen geng - "deep, plow")in the field of waste-to-energy,adhering to being driven by two main factors or engines (双轮驱动, shuang lun qu dong - "double, wheel, drive")of independent R&D and global mergers and acquisitions. In July this year, Zhongke Environmental Protection successfully acquired the Swiss Stiefel incinerator brand and all its intellectual property rights,thereby fully owning high-end incineration equipment technology intellectual property rights,and achieving self-reliance and controllability of core waste-to-energy equipment.
Dual-wheel drive: mastering key technologies of core equipment
Independent innovation is an important path for Zhongke Environmental Protection to master core technologies. Relying on the scientific research accumulation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,the company launched independent R&D of core equipment in its early years,and after 10 years of digestion, absorption,and re-innovation,developed thousand-ton-per-day grate equipment and achieved large-scale application,completing the localization substitution.
Through the acquisition of the Swiss Stiefel incinerator brand and all its intellectual property rights,Zhongke Environmental Protection has further integrated global innovation resources. Stiefel was founded in 1973,and is one of the important pioneers of global water-cooled incineration technology;its equipment has undergone over 50 years of engineering verification in European markets with strict environmental standards,such as Switzerland,Germany,the Netherlands,and Italy. At this point,Zhongke Environmental Protection has formed a "water-cooled + air-cooled" dual-core technology matrix,built a complete technology system covering incineration technology,ultra-low pollutant emissions,efficient thermal energy utilization,harmless disposal and resource utilization of fly ash,and"AI+" smart power plants,completed full coverage of mainstream technology routes,and achieved self-reliance and controllability of intellectual property rights and brands.
Independent R&D: cultivating sustained innovation capability
The cultivation of sustained innovation capability relies on a complete R&D system. After the acquisition,Zhongke Environmental Protection placed Stiefel's over 50 years of engineering data on its own R&D platform for cross-validation,carried out adaptive re-development for complex local operating conditions,and jointly built an R&D network with multiple research institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and top domestic universities,deploying R&D bases and pilot-scale testing platforms in Cixi, Zhejiang,and Mianyang, Sichuan,etc.,forming a complete chain of"data—R&D—pilot testing—application"。
In the first half of this year,the company's R&D investment increased by approximately 25% year-on-year;the company's self-developed Automatic Combustion Control system(ACC)has been recognized as"domestically leading,"and some key equipment has reached"internationally advanced"levels;on this basis,the Intelligent Incineration Control System(AICC),iteratively upgraded in combination with AI technology,has been put into operation in internal projects,reducing manual intervention in core processes to once per day,becoming an industry benchmark for intelligence;;the Smart Operation Intelligent Agent is the first product in the environmental protection and new energy industry to pass the trusted evaluation of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. From introducing technology to independent innovation,the company's R&D capability has continued to strengthen through systematic construction.
Technology going global: building a"global technology exporter"
Possessing complete intellectual property rights is the foundation for Zhongke Environmental Protection to enter the global market. After the acquisition,the company has transformed from a"technology licensee"into a"technology owner,"possessing the capability to export to global markets with its own brand and independent technology,laying a solid foundation for the transformation from a"domestic operator"to a"global technology exporter"。
At present,green has become the defining color of jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative,and China's"dual carbon"industries"going global"has ushered in an important window period;;equipment going global,engineering and consulting export,and brand and standard export have become three levels for enterprises to expand into international markets. Only with self-reliance and controllability can one grasp the initiative in open cooperation;;relying on the over 50 years of engineering accumulation of the Stiefel brand,Zhongke Environmental Protection continues to accelerate the pace of equipment going global and technology export,promoting China's waste-to-energy equipment and technology to reach a broader international market.
Striving forward into the"15th Five-Year Plan,"Zhongke Environmental Protection will continue to adhere to placing equal emphasis on independent innovation and open cooperation,accelerating the iterative upgrading of key technologies for core waste-to-energy equipment,and contributing greater strength to building a Beautiful China and promoting green,low-carbon development.
Data source: Beijing Zhongke Runyu Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孟海鹰 门杰伟
On the afternoon of October 7, at the Changchun International Aviation Expo City in Jilin, accompanied by leaping drumbeats, the 100-day countdown theme event for the 33rd FISU World University Games Winter, Changchun 2027 (hereinafter referred to as the "Changchun Winter Universiade") — "Winter Universiade 100 Live" — kicked off.
"Changchun's full of youthful vigor (朝气蓬勃, chao qi peng bo - "morning, energy, surging, vigorous") and warm and hospitable (热情好客, re qing hao ke - "warm, passion, welcome, guest") nature left a deep impression on us before," said Leonz Eder, President of the International University Sports Federation, in a video address. "Let us meet in Changchun 100 days from now."
From January 15 to 25, 2027, the main competition zone in Changchun, together with the sub-competition zone in Jilin City, will host the 33rd World University Games Winter. This grand sporting event for university students worldwide features 12 major sports and 97 minor events, and will bring together thousands of university athletes from more than 60 countries and regions in the northern spring city, where they will pursue their dreams amid "powder snow, calm winds, and warm sunshine." At present, the 10 competition venues in Changchun have completed final acceptance inspections. The competition venues for this Winter Universiade are based on existing mature venues that have been renovated and upgraded, and after the Games they will continue to play a role in professional training, event hosting, and mass sports.
At the countdown theme event, as a specially designed device slowly opened, the torch "Jixiang" made its dazzling debut. "Jixiang" draws its meaning from "lucky and smooth (吉祥顺遂, ji xiang shun sui - "auspicious, smooth, following, complying"), spreading wings and soaring aloft." The overall shape of the torch is inspired by the clivia, the city flower of Changchun, bursting into bloom with gathered momentum. The upper section of the torch body incorporates film reel elements, with 12 ice and snow sports icons corresponding to the 12 major sports. The flame outlet fuses the dual elements of snowflakes and ginseng petals, the two sides of the torch body draw on the lines of skis, and the base is engraved with the texture of automobile wheel hubs, achieving a multi-dimensional fusion of sporting character and urban culture. "'Jixiang' is not only the sporting torch of the Winter Universiade, but also a regional calling card showcasing Jilin's cultural heritage, scientific and technological strength, and youthful vitality," said Guo Chunfang, representative of the torch exterior design team.
The medal "Jimeng" likewise embodies ingenious design. The obverse takes the sliding traces of ice skates and snowboards as its design inspiration, outlining the vigorous and striving postures of athletes, while also featuring the colorful Changchun Winter Universiade emblem. The reverse features as its main design element the "First Jade Bird of China," unearthed from the Wutaishan site in Nong'an, Changchun, with the jade bird portion to be inlaid with Songhua stone. The side of the medal uses film reel patterns to echo Changchun's signature identity as the "City of Film." In addition, a chip is embedded in the medal, and when athletes tap the medal with their mobile phones, they can view image materials of the glorious award ceremony moments and the beauty of Changchun across the four seasons.
At the event site, the promotional songs of the Changchun Winter Universiade, "We Meet in Changchun" and "Shining Winter," as well as the official uniforms for torchbearers, volunteers, staff, and technical delegation members, were also released one after another. In addition to the launch ceremony, six special activities, including an aviation carnival, a themed market, an international university student fun run, and a nationwide dance season, were carried out simultaneously, with scenic areas, commercial districts, and cultural and museum venues jointly launching more than 50 supporting activities, converging into a fervent momentum of the whole city rallying behind the Winter Universiade.
"The passion of sport surges through the pulse of Changchun's city," said a relevant official from the organizing committee. On October 8, the flame collection activity for the Changchun Winter Universiade will be held in Turin, Italy. "We sincerely look forward to joining everyone in igniting passion and writing friendship amid the covered in pure white snow (银装素裹, yin zhuang su guo - "silver, dress, plain, wrap") landscape, and leaving behind unforgettable memories of Changchun!"
When the flame from Turin crosses mountains and seas to arrive in Changchun, a city and a group of young people will together embark on this winter appointment.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 田 泓
In the evening, 70-year-old Auntie Zhu, a resident of Xuhui District, Shanghai, took a walk after dinner to the nearby national fitness center, where she was drawn to the free national physical fitness monitoring being carried out. Guided by Tian Sai, head of the physical fitness monitoring station, Auntie Zhu completed 19 tests including height, body fat percentage, vital capacity, and grip strength. Half an hour later, a detailed physical fitness report and a personalized "exercise prescription" were printed out.
"I have always insisted on practicing Baduanjin, and I feel that my reactions are quite agile. This monitoring helped me identify my weak points. Next, I will carry out targeted training to strengthen my upper limb strength," Auntie Zhu said.
Dai Wenwei, deputy director of the Xuhui District Sports Bureau, introduced that as a national sampling area for national physical fitness monitoring, Xuhui District has carried out national physical fitness monitoring six times since 2000. In the past, monitoring work often faced the difficulty of mobilizing participants, sometimes even requiring neighborhood committee mobilization and bus transportation to make up the sample size, and most participants were elderly people. To solve this problem and make the data more comprehensive, Xuhui District has put together a set of combined services: on the one hand, integrating monitoring stations with fitness venues, setting up regular stations at the Xuhui District National Fitness Center and the Tianlin Subdistrict Citizen Fitness Center, guiding citizens to test first and then exercise, making exercise and fitness more scientific and informed; on the other hand, precisely targeting office workers by extending reception hours to 8 p.m.
After the service upgrade, citizen participation increased considerably. The two major stations receive more than 60 person-visits per day on workdays, and during the 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. period, office workers account for over 60 percent of participants.
Mr. Yan, a 32-year-old internet industry practitioner, saw an introduction on social media that "planted the seed" of interest, and came to try it out. "It's really great to be able to take such professional tests for free." During the cycle ergometer test, watching the dynamic changes in his heart rate on the screen, Mr. Yan intuitively understood his cardiopulmonary load situation. After the test, the staff not only issued him an "exercise prescription" to increase his daily physical activity, but also gave him small tools such as an exercise heart rate calculation ruler, and told him that he could save the electronic report through the "Science Fitness Refueling Station" mini-program for convenient future comparison.
"Unlike ordinary physical examinations, which focus on detecting disease, national physical fitness monitoring focuses on identifying shortcomings, doing prevention, and providing solutions," Dai Wenwei said. Citizens have changed from "passively tested" to "actively tested," and are willing to share reports, discuss indicators, and exchange experiences on social media, which is highly consistent with the original purpose of national physical fitness monitoring. Through continuous innovation in service supply, Xuhui District is helping more people grasp their health conditions, laying a solid foundation for improving the overall physical fitness and health level of the people.
(Yu Qianhui participated in the reporting and writing)
Extended Reading
National physical fitness monitoring is a foundational project of China's national fitness program, with a national large-sample survey conducted every five years.
The "Bulletin of the Sixth National Physical Fitness Monitoring" was jointly organized and implemented by the General Administration of Sport of China together with eight departments, with results published at the end of 2025, covering 31 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government, and collecting 243,600 valid samples. In terms of change trends, China's national fitness program has achieved positive results in recent years, mainly reflected in the continuous expansion of the scale of the population participating in physical exercise, the continuous increase in the proportion of participants, the rich and varied (丰富多彩, feng fu duo cai - "abundant, rich; many, colorful") sports programs participated in, and the further improvement of scientific fitness literacy. However, the decline in adult muscle strength and unbalanced regional development remain prominent shortcomings.
Based on this baseline, various localities are continuously optimizing the layout of fitness facilities, promoting physical fitness monitoring stations into communities, and converting monitoring data into "exercise prescriptions" that the public can understand. Many localities are promoting the linkage between physical fitness monitoring and community health service centers, closing the loop of "monitoring—assessment—intervention—feedback." Some cities are applying physical fitness data to campuses, enterprises, and public institutions, carrying out health public welfare classes for different population groups.
National physical fitness monitoring is not just data collection; it is also a yardstick for people's livelihood. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, national physical fitness monitoring will continue to be promoted on a regular basis, so that data can truly be transformed into health services that benefit the people.
(Compiled by People's Daily reporter Ji Fang)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 季 芳 王 亮
On the evening of October 6, the men's singles final of the 2026 China Open (hereinafter referred to as the "China Open") was held at the Diamond Court of the National Tennis Center, with Serbian star Djokovic facing Australian player De Minaur. The two staged a brilliant duel in the first set, and shortly after the start of the second set, De Minaur retired due to injury. Djokovic thus claimed the China Open men's singles title and extended his personal winning streak at the China Open to 34 matches.
This is the seventh time Djokovic has lifted the China Open men's singles championship trophy. He previously won the title six times in 2009, 2010, 2012, and from 2014 to 2015, maintaining a 29-match winning streak. After an 11-year absence, he returned to compete in Beijing once again, continuing to rewrite the tournament's best-ever record.
This year, the road to the men's singles title was not an easy one for the 39-year-old Djokovic. As the No. 6 seed, he defeated Borges in straight sets in the first round to advance; in the second round, after losing the first set, he came from behind to beat Chinese player Bu Yunchaokete. From the quarterfinals onward, he successively defeated three players ranked in the world's top ten — Zverev, Medvedev, and De Minaur.
This men's singles final was the fifth meeting between Djokovic and De Minaur; in the previous four encounters, Djokovic held a 3-1 advantage. At the start of the final, the two produced many brilliant extended rallies. In the first set, the score remained tight throughout, going all the way to a tiebreak. In the tiebreak, the experienced Djokovic seized the initiative first, building a 4-1 lead, and ultimately won the tiebreak to take the first set. In the second set, De Minaur served first, and after holding serve, he — with a bandage wrapped around his left leg — walked over to the chair umpire, who then announced that De Minaur was withdrawing from the match. Djokovic thus won directly, claiming the 2026 China Open men's singles title.
Under the night sky, the cheers of the crowd echoed for a long time. On this "lucky ground" of the China Open, Djokovic once again experienced the moment of realizing his dreams (梦想成真, meng xiang cheng zhen - "dream, become, real"). He thanked Chinese fans for their support, which gave him a warmth and strength akin to playing at home: "I feel at home here. Every time I return to this court, I can feel the fans' full enthusiasm."
"How are you?" "Thank you for your support!" After the trophy ceremony, Djokovic greeted the audience in Chinese.
On returning to the China Open and winning the title, Djokovic said that he had experienced ups and downs over the years, but had never given up his pursuit of victory, and had always believed he could stand on the highest podium. "There is something special about the China Open that keeps giving me motivation." He said the significance of this trophy goes far beyond a single title or a single tournament: "This victory has greatly boosted my confidence." He also sent his best wishes to the retiring De Minaur, praising his outstanding performance and hoping he recovers soon and returns to the court.
Away from the matches, Djokovic also experienced traditional Chinese culture. The hotel where he stayed adjoins the Summer Palace, and strolling through the gardens in the early morning had become one of his pre-match routines. He said he is a fan of Chinese culture and is very interested in calligraphy and Baduanjin. This time, being able to experience up close Beijing's historical depth and natural vitality also made him feel even closer to Beijing and to China. He said he will definitely come to China again to continue his bond with Chinese fans.
Return to TopThe National Advanced Manufacturing Conference was held in Beijing a few days ago, and the requirement to "strive to promote the intelligent, green, and integrated development of manufacturing" once again clarified the development direction of "advanced manufacturing" for the industry. In recent years, Shanghai Electric Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Electric") has firmly seized the development opportunity of "AI + Manufacturing," taking the construction of the National Artificial Intelligence Application Pilot Base (Manufacturing Sector) as an important lever to accelerate the enterprise's iterative leap from traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing and service-oriented manufacturing. At present, the Group has built 19 intelligent factories, 3 of which were selected as 2025 Excellence-Level Intelligent Factories, achieving solid results in industrial intelligent transformation.
Shouldering the Mission and Responsibility
The Pilot Base Construction Achieves Phased Breakthroughs
In September 2025, the Shanghai "AI + Manufacturing" Work Promotion Meeting and the Launch Ceremony of the National Artificial Intelligence Application Pilot Base (Manufacturing Sector) were held at the Shanghai Electric Training Base. Under the guidance of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the base is undertaken and constructed by Shanghai Electric, focusing on solving common problems such as insufficient intelligent capability in R&D and design, the low level of high-precision complex manufacturing, and gaps in the technical performance of high-end equipment products.
In the year since the base's construction was launched, Shanghai Electric has innovated a "flywheel symbiosis" style industrial AI development path, anchoring on three major construction goals: a highland for frontier applications of AI in high-end equipment, a highland for product innovation and manufacturing of high-end equipment, and a highland for public services of "AI + High-End Equipment." Adhering to the implementation strategy of "small entry points, deep advancement," it is making every effort to build an industrial "AI+" capability hub, and the project construction has achieved phased breakthroughs.
Deep Cultivation of Core Scenarios
"Nebula Intelligent Manufacturing" Empowers reducing costs and increasing efficiency (降本增效, jiang ben zeng xiao - "reduce cost, increase efficiency") Across the Entire Chain
Following the general trend of intelligent transformation in manufacturing, Shanghai Electric has deeply cultivated the three core business areas of R&D and design, production and manufacturing, and operation and maintenance, successively launching 51 "Nebula Intelligent Manufacturing" series AI models and intelligent agents, empowering the industrial chain with technological innovation to reduce costs and increase efficiency, and accelerating the overall improvement of the industry's intelligent level.
In the R&D and design segment, the "Blade Process Plan Generation Intelligent Agent," relying on a process knowledge graph and integrating large language model capabilities, completes the rapid integrated design of blade structure, machining sequences, and tooling selection, compressing the overall R&D cycle from the monthly level to the weekly level. The "Unstructured Drawing Parsing Intelligent Agent" achieves recognition and extraction of more than 30 commonly used machining drawing symbols, shortening the effective structuring time of a single set of drawings from 30 minutes to 1 minute, breaking through the "islands" of unstructured drawing assets.
In the production and manufacturing segment, the intelligent agent for workshop planning and scheduling connects the collaborative chain of large language models with small models such as time series prediction and operations optimization, achieving a 12% reduction in the internal production circulation cycle and a 100% on-time delivery rate for orders. The "Weld Defect Detection Model" uses small-target, few-sample detection algorithms, greatly improving detection efficiency, with a defect detection rate of no less than 98%. At the same time, a batch of applications such as nuclear power technical preparation, operational risk identification, intelligent energy control, and quality root cause analysis have been implemented and delivered results, continuously promoting the evolution of production models toward flexibility and intelligence.
In the operation and maintenance segment, the "One-Stop Wind Power Key Component Maintenance Intelligent Agent" builds a smart brain for wind power operation and maintenance, reducing operation and maintenance costs by about 10%, with both fault downtime and unplanned shutdown frequency decreasing by 20%. The "Smart Elevator" system integrates large models and skills, improving maintenance supervision efficiency by nearly 10 times, and increasing the average compliance rate of controlled maintenance by 43%.
Forward-Looking Layout of Embodied Intelligence
Robots Are Being Deployed and Applied in Real Industrial Scenarios
Along with the iterative evolution of artificial intelligence technology, embodied intelligence is becoming an important frontier direction for industrial intelligent transformation. Aiming at this track, Shanghai Electric has completed the development and off-line production of 7 embodied intelligent robot prototypes, which have been put into real industrial scenarios for field testing.
The bipedal humanoid robot "Su Yuan" has 53 degrees of freedom of movement and is equipped with a multimodal visual sensing system, adaptable to diverse operation scenarios such as inspection, grasping, handling, and assembly; the industrial wheeled general-purpose humanoid robot "Tuo Yuan" can autonomously identify multi-specification connectors and stably complete plugging/unplugging and cable tidying operations; the bionic wheeled general-purpose humanoid robot "Mermaid" can accurately identify components such as buttons, knobs, and air switches, and can perform operations inside electrical boxes. Specialized robots such as explosion-proof inspection, six-wheel inspection, in-pipe chamfering, and wall-climbing robots have also successively "taken up their posts" in green methanol parks, marine crankshaft factories, Shanghai Generator Factory, national pipeline networks, and nuclear power equipment production sites.
Relying on the Group's accumulation of massive industrial application scenarios, Shanghai Electric has built an industrial embodied skills training ground and constructed a library of atomic skills for robots. At present, dedicated scenarios such as automatic cleaning of steam generator tube sheet tube holes and automatic ultrasonic flaw detection of forgings have been implemented, as well as general operation scenarios such as inspection, handling, sorting, assembly, and loading/unloading, with a cumulative collection of over 100,000 sets of various data including robot bodies and images. At the same time, the enterprise released the "AI-Native Factory White Paper," constructing an actively evolving flywheel architecture with the AI factory brain as the decision-making hub, physical models and digital twins as the supporting skeleton, multi-robot and intelligent agent collaboration as the execution terminal, and AI running through the entire product lifecycle.
Jointly Building the Industrial Ecosystem
Contributing the "Shanghai Electric Solution" with the Responsibility of a "Chain Leader"
To further integrate innovation resources, Shanghai Electric is actively promoting the joint construction and sharing of the industrial ecosystem. It has taken the lead in initiating the Shanghai "AI + Manufacturing" Industry Alliance, gathering more than 30 ecosystem partners to carry out collaborative innovation around technological breakthroughs, scenario implementation, and standard formulation; it has deeply participated in the compilation of the "Global Industrial AI Guidelines"; it has jointly established the "Shanghai Multimodal Embodied Intelligence Key Laboratory" with Fudan University; and it has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Pudong New Area government, focusing on advancing the R&D and manufacturing of embodied intelligent robots, supply chain management innovation, and demonstration applications.
From the National Artificial Intelligence Application Pilot Base to the "Nebula Intelligent Manufacturing" series of AI models and intelligent agents, from embodied intelligent robot applications to the joint construction of the industrial ecosystem, Shanghai Electric is promoting the intelligent transformation of industry with the responsibility of a "chain leader," contributing the "Shanghai Electric Solution" to the high-quality development of the national advanced manufacturing industry.
Data Source: Shanghai Electric
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘 赫
During the 63rd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Chinese side hosted multiple thematic side events, actively elaborating on human rights concepts and propositions with Chinese characteristics and publicizing China's human rights achievements. Representatives from China, Australia, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, Cuba, and other countries, heads of non-governmental organizations, and experts and scholars engaged in in-depth dialogue on human rights topics, unanimously agreeing that all countries should adhere to exploring human rights development paths based on their own national conditions, deepen equal dialogue and mutual learning and exchange, consolidate international consensus, and jointly promote the healthy development of the global human rights cause.
China's human rights development has reached a new level
The China Society for Human Rights Studies recently hosted in Geneva a side event themed "National Human Rights Action Plans from a Pluralistic Perspective." Chinese and foreign experts attending the event focused on China's "National Human Rights Action Plan (2026-2030)" released in June this year, conducting in-depth discussions on the Chinese experience in national human rights planning and its implications for global human rights governance.
During the discussions, Chinese experts comprehensively interpreted the institutional innovations and implementation pathways of the plan. Mao Junxiang, Executive Director of the Human Rights Research Center at Central South University, believed that China's latest fifth-phase National Human Rights Action Plan possesses distinctive characteristics including being grounded in reality, people-centered approach (以人为本, yi wei ren ben - "take people as foundation"), keeping pace with the times, embracing the world, and being action-oriented. Through successively formulating and implementing National Human Rights Action Plans, China has forged a human rights development path centered on planning and implementation.
Li Juan, a research fellow at the Human Rights Research Center of Central South University, focused on the protection of digital rights, showcasing China's concrete achievements in bridging the digital divide through network infrastructure, empowering government services and medical care and education and people's livelihoods with digital and intelligent technologies, and improving AI (artificial intelligence) ethics. A representative of the China Association for International Exchange of Ethnic Minorities elaborated on the vivid practices of taking a sense of community for the Chinese nation as the main thread, promoting the common prosperity and development of all ethnic groups, and safeguarding the equal rights of all ethnic groups.
Christoph Stückelberger, an international human rights expert, President of the Geneva Foundation of Great Love, and Founder and Honorary President of the Globethics Foundation, stated that China has so far released five phases of National Human Rights Action Plans, reflecting policy consistency and continuity. China is at the forefront of the world in digital human rights, with its concepts and practices being clearer and more advanced.
Calvin Quek, Director of the Geneva Multilateral Dialogue Center and Geneva Representative of the Global Governance Institute, believedthat China practices the people-centered development philosophy, and that China's National Human Rights Action Plan can serve as a leading example for other developing countries, and that the four major global initiatives proposed by China will play an increasingly positive role in the future.
Promoting the inclusive development of intelligent human rights
In recent years, China has attached great importance to the development and governance of artificial intelligence, from proposing the "Global AI Governance Initiative," implementing the"AI Capacity Building Action Plan for All," to open-sourcing large language models to lower the global application threshold, China has taken concrete actions to work with all parties to improve global AI governance, making artificial intelligence an international public good that benefits all of humanity.
At the side event themed "AI Empowering Human Rights Development," co-hosted by the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva and the China NGO Network for International Exchanges, multiple representatives shared vivid cases of China leveraging AI development to safeguard the equal participation of various groups in social life. Lu Xiaoguang, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Beijing Disabled Persons' Federation, introduced Beijing's ongoing efforts to promote the application of brain-computer interfaces, intelligent assistive devices, and other disability-assistive technologies, meticulously safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of persons with disabilities including convenience in daily life and equal development.
Wu Jianshe, a representative of the Beijing NGO Network for International Exchanges, centered on the core topic of "the right to be heard," shared practical achievements of AI in helping groups with stuttering, Alzheimer's disease, and other impairments break through communication difficulties, and provided a detailed introduction to the construction of Beijing's multilingual public service platform, offering multilingual convenience for foreign visitors to China.
Lau Chung-hang, Founding Convenor of the Global Professional Youth Initiative in Hong Kong, shared the mature experience of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in applying AI to empower human rights protection in fields such as healthcare and people's livelihoods, calling for strengthened cross-national and cross-regional non-governmental cooperation, precisely bridging the North-South development gap, and promoting the inclusive development of intelligent human rights.
While artificial intelligence has become an important driving force of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development has become increasingly prominent. David Lopez, an advisor to the International Association for Human Rights and Social Development, statedthat currently global intelligent services suffer from uneven resource distribution and imbalanced supply, and that all countries should accelerate the construction of public AI infrastructure, build inclusive intelligent service systems covering all people, and break down technological barriers.
Wang Nian, a Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva, statedthat China has put forward a series of joint statements on AI promoting the protection of human rights at the Human Rights Council, proposing "accessibility for all," advocating adherence to principles of being people-centered, inclusive and beneficial, and cooperation for win-win outcomes, promoting AI to empower the rights of persons with disabilities, older persons, women, children, and other groups.
Safeguarding the equal development rights of neurodivergent groups
"Every child, regardless of their neurological traits, should equally enjoy the development right to pursue a better life and self-realization." At the side event themed "Neurodiversity and Digital Inclusion," co-hosted by the Chinese non-governmental organization Beijing Guangming Charity Foundation and the Beijing NGO Network for International Exchanges, Jiao Guangsheng, a representative of the Beijing Guangming Charity Foundation and an advocate for neurodiversity and digital inclusion, shared his stance on the rights of neurodivergent groups with Chinese and foreign participants.
Since the United Nations General Assembly designated April 2 each year as World Autism Awareness Day in 2007, "neurodiversity," originating from civil advocacy, has gradually developed from a sociological concept into a mainstream international human rights consensus.
Joanna Pinto, from the Autism Organization of Geneva in Switzerland, statedthat neurodivergent groups still face discrimination in inclusive education, medical rehabilitation, leisure activities, vocational training, employment, housing, and other fields, and that insufficient participation rights exacerbate social exclusion, while a truly inclusive digital environment can help enhance their autonomy and social participation. Gholam-Reza Hajati, from the Autism Association of Iran, believedthat digital technologies applied to neurodivergent groups should be personalized and people-centered, while also paying attention to access inequalities caused by economic, geographical, linguistic, and other factors.
Liu Zhenzhong, Deputy Secretary-General of the China NGO Network for International Exchanges, believedthat digital exclusion is not merely a technological issue, but also concerns the right to equality and the right to development, and that relevant stakeholders should build consensus through cross-national dialogue, promoting neurodivergent groups' equal participation in digital life.
"Inclusion begins with seeing every different life." Li Lin, Chairperson of the Beijing Guangming Charity Foundation, statedthat neurodivergent groups globally face problems such as inadequate adaptation of public digital platforms, shortage of accessible digital products, and barriers in information access, and expressed expectations for exploring feasible paths of technology for social good (科技向善, ke ji xiang shan - "technology towards goodness") and diverse inclusion through cross-national dialogue.
Digital inclusion provides more platforms for neurodivergent groups to participate in social life. At the side event venue, the organizers jointly launched the"Joint Action Initiative on Neurodiversity and Digital Inclusion," held the"Angel's Love" public welfare art exhibition, showcasing 64 works created by young people with neurodivergent conditions including autism. Xue Kuiyang, Vice Chairperson of the Beijing Guangming Charity Foundation, introduced Chinese practices including the"Star Project" autism brain rehabilitation program, the global demonstration project for precise digital rehabilitation of autism, and the exploration of AI soul-companion intelligent agents, proposing to promote rehabilitation services as replicable and exportable across borders through digitalization and standardization. Wang Lifang, President of the Beijing Autism Rehabilitation Association, called on relevant United Nations agencies to incorporate neurodiversity and digital inclusion into the mainstream framework of global technology cooperation.
(People's Daily, Geneva, Switzerland)
Return to TopBy: 张矜若
The film Letters to Grandma (Gei A Ma De Qing Shu) continues to earn acclaim in Thailand. At the end of the film, one after another yellowed qiaopi (overseas Chinese remittance letters) slowly unfold on the big screen, with the everyday words written to family members on the pages spoken in a slow and gentle manner (娓娓道来, wei wei dao lai - "verb, verb, speak, come"). When the lights come up after the screening, many audience members still sit quietly in reflection, and many local Chinese audience members walk out of the theater with reddened eyes. Over the past period, in China's Hong Kong and Macao regions as well as Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, and Thailand, this "family letter" written on the screen has, following the trail of forebears who went south to the Nanyang a century ago, made its way into the hearts of more and more Southeast Asian audiences.
In the Chaoshan and Hokkien dialects, "pai" means letter. In the early years, overseas Chinese sent family letters together with remittances back to their hometowns, giving rise to the special cultural carrier of "qiaopi" (also known as "yinxin," or remittance letters). In 2013, the "Qiaopi Archive—Overseas Chinese Remittance Letters" was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. For Chinese communities in Southeast Asia, qiaopi has never been a dusty historical symbol, but rather an emotional resonance hidden in the memories of generation after generation.
This memory spanning a century remains vividly preserved in various places across the Nanyang to this day. At the Malaysian Chinese Museum, although the qiaopi in the display cases have yellowed pages and fading ink, the recipients' names and hometown addresses remain clearly distinguishable (清晰可辨, qing xi ke bian - "clear, can, distinguish"). Inquiries after parents' well-being, remittances for schooling, instructions for house repairs—within the most ordinary family matters lie the deepest love and concern. The century-old shop Zheng Mian Yuan Wine Merchants on Ban Teck Street in the old town of Malacca once also operated a remittance agency in its early years; the large number of reply letters and old account books discovered during renovations are now exhibited at the Nanyang Experience Hall founded by the shop's owners, Mr. and Mrs. Zheng Zhefeng. The old wooden counters and letter paper bring the long-vanished remittance agency vividly back to life. At the National Library of Singapore, "minxin ju" (letter agencies) and "remittance family letters" are high-frequency terms in the collection catalog and special exhibitions; the correspondence of generations of Chinese records not only the everyday life of families, but also the arduous trajectory of immigrants taking root and striving in a foreign land.
It is precisely this shared cultural memory that has enabled the film to continue resonating strongly across Southeast Asia. To date, Letters to Grandma has entered the top ten highest-grossing Chinese-language films in Malaysian film history, and in Singapore it has also become the highest-grossing Asian film since 2026. The Chinese community in Southeast Asia has a large population base—ethnic Chinese make up about one-fifth of Malaysia's total population—and the ancestors of many families came from Guangdong, Fujian, and Hainan. The hometown accents, ancestral houses, traditional customs, and home-style meals on the screen are not unfamiliar folk displays to local audiences, but rather stories told by elders and habits passed down through generations. Some young local audience members left comments on social media saying that after watching the film, they understood for the first time the weight of the old letter paper in their grandfather's drawer.
A single qiaopi carries far more than individual homesickness. In modern times, wave after wave of Chinese people, leaving their hometowns to live elsewhere (背井离乡, bei jing li xiang - "back, well, leave, village") amid war and poverty, eked out a living at the docks, mines, and rubber plantations of the Nanyang. They saved their hard-earned money to support their families and donate to their native villages, and at moments of national crisis they went further, giving all they had to support (倾囊支援, qing nang zhi yuan - "tilt, bag, support") the motherland. Behind the thin letter paper lies the resilient character of Chinese people in difficult circumstances, and a weighty history in which individual destinies, family responsibilities, and feelings for one's country are interwoven.
In this sense, the journey of Letters to Grandma through Southeast Asia is in fact a meaningful cultural "homecoming voyage." A century ago, qiaopi set out from the Nanyang, crossing the seas to reach towns and villages along China's southeastern coast; today, this film built on the foundation of qiaopi departs from the homeland and returns to the foreign lands where forebears struggled and lived—which are, in fact, a second homeland. The family letters and remittances that once crossed the sea have become the stories of light and shadow on today's screen; the private memories that once belonged to individual families have also been elevated into a collective narrative that audiences from different countries can all understand and empathize with.
Today, instant communication has bridged mountains and seas, and information is within easy reach. Yet the more we live in a fast-paced era, the more we come to understand why those letters that arrived after a long and circuitous journey are so precious. The roots of culture lie not only in classics and grand narratives, but also in a phrase of hometown dialect, a bowl of home-style cooking, and a simple "no need to worry at home." When the concerns in old letters reappear on the Nanyang screen, this cultural "homecoming voyage" spanning a century has also completed a warm journey of mutual reaching-out.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵益普
According to the latest data released by India's Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, India's gross domestic product for fiscal year 2025/2026 grew by 7.7 percent year-on-year, reaching 323 trillion rupees (1 yuan RMB is approximately equal to 14 Indian rupees). Against the backdrop of growing uncertainty in the external environment, the Indian economy has shown relatively strong resilience, with infrastructure investment and expansion of domestic consumption serving as important driving forces.
According to news from India's Ministry of Finance, in fiscal year 2025/2026, multiple industries in India, including manufacturing, trade, hotels, transport, communications, and real estate, all achieved double-digit growth, of which the manufacturing sector grew at a rate of 10.7 percent. It is understood that India's manufacturing sector is supported by five major industries: electronic products, automobiles, machinery and equipment, pharmaceuticals and chemicals, and textiles, and its industrial structure is undergoing a transition toward higher value-added sectors. To further expand the scale of manufacturing, India's Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade has recently proposed a manufacturing revitalization plan covering approximately 100 types of products, involving precision engineering equipment, electronic components, and other fields, so as to enhance India's local manufacturing capabilities. In the first half of this year, India's foreign trade export growth rate overall remained at 15 percent.
In recent years, the Indian government has increased infrastructure investment, having for several consecutive years allocated more than 100 billion US dollars to infrastructure fields such as highways, ports, and airports. India's fiscal year 2026/2027 budget proposal has raised public capital expenditure to a record 12.2 trillion rupees. India's Ministry of Finance has stated that it will continue to maintain the growth momentum of public capital expenditure. Benefiting from long-term tax incentives and policy support, foreign enterprises are also increasing their infrastructure investment in India; for example, the total investment in data centers built in India by various technology companies, including Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, had already exceeded 67.5 billion US dollars by the beginning of this year.
Relying on its large population and relatively young consumer base, India's growth rate of private consumption expenditure rose from 5.8 percent in the previous fiscal year to 7.7 percent in fiscal year 2025/2026, and the share of private consumption expenditure in gross domestic product also rose to 61.5 percent, setting a new high since fiscal year 2011/2012. India's private consumption is mainly concentrated in automobiles, home appliances, and the services sector, with simultaneous recovery in urban and rural consumption (城乡消费呈同步回暖趋势, cheng xiang xiao fei cheng tong bu hui han qu shi - "city, countryside, consumption, present, simultaneous, return, warm, trend").
However, India's agricultural sector had a growth rate of 3.2 percent in fiscal year 2025/2026, lower than the 4.2 percent of the previous fiscal year. Affected by global energy shortages and disruptions in fertilizer supply, it is expected that the growth rate of India's agricultural sector will continue to slow in fiscal year 2026/2027. As the world's third-largest oil importing country and consuming country, India relies on maritime transport for nearly 90 percent of its oil, and approximately 50 percent of its oil comes from the Middle East region. Disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz have pushed up India's domestic energy costs and industrial production costs, and have caused severe inflation. The Reserve Bank of India (India's central bank) has stated that the surge in oil prices poses a short-term downside risk to India's economic growth.
In view of the increased uncertainty in the international trade environment and elevated inflation expectations, India's central bank has adopted a tightening monetary policy, and has lowered its GDP growth forecast for fiscal year 2026/2027 to 6.6 percent. The Reserve Bank of India believes that India's macroeconomic risks are rising, and that persistently high inflation will be an important factor hindering growth. Diversified energy imports and ample foreign exchange reserves can provide a moderate buffer, and India's economy has the capacity to cope with external shocks.
Tahir Farooq, editor-in-chief of Pakistan's Daily Ittehad, told reporters that India's economy showed relatively strong resilience and vitality in fiscal year 2025/2026, but still faces pressures such as uncertain US tariffs and disrupted global energy supply chains, and that in the new fiscal year, India's economy will continue to seek room for growth under multiple pressures.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 徐 馨
Representatives of the agricultural and food sectors of the Visegrad Group member states (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia) recently held a meeting, jointly calling on the European Union to take immediate unified action and introduce necessary measures to alleviate the impact of the severe drought on farmers. Data show that Poland's crop output has fallen by at least 20 percent this year, and the Czech Republic has experienced its worst harvest failure in nearly 15 years. The feed shortage caused by reduced crop output will severely impact the livestock industry.
Since this summer, Europe has experienced multiple rounds of high-temperature weather, and several major rivers have faced low-water-level challenges. This hydrological crisis has had multiple impacts on shipping, industry, agriculture, and energy security in many European countries. The Danube River, which is more than 2,800 kilometers long, has experienced historically severe low water levels. The Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute said on October 6 that the daily average flow of the Danube at the Devín district of Bratislava, the Slovak capital, was 575.9 cubic meters per second on October 5, setting the lowest level on record. The water level at the Budapest section of the river in the Hungarian capital also once broke the historical low of 33 centimeters set in 2018. At Bezdan, the entry point where the Danube flows into Serbia, the current water level is about 20 centimeters lower than the historical low. Along the Po River, Italy's longest river with the largest drainage basin, some riverbeds are completely exposed.
The drop in water levels has led to reduced loads and even suspension of shipping, which in turn has affected European industry. The German Inland Waterways Administration said that the Rhine River in Germany has fallen to its historical lowest water level, with transport capacity reduced by two-thirds or even five-sixths. The Rhine carries about 80 percent of Germany's inland freight, and its banks are home to Germany's most important chemical industry cluster. The low water level has seriously affected the competitiveness of the petrochemical industry and other sectors. According to forecasts by the German Institute for Economic Research, restrictions on inland waterway shipping could reduce Germany's economic growth rate by 0.4 percentage points.
Low water levels have also caused problems such as shrinking river habitat areas, wetland degradation, and deterioration of fish breeding environments, and have had a major impact on European agriculture. The Po River basin in Italy is one of Europe's important agricultural regions. In 2022, the flow of the Po River fell by 70 to 80 percent, and rice output decreased by more than 30 percent year on year. As of July 13 this year, the Po River Basin Authority said that the available water could sustain irrigation for only 10 days. After the flow declined, seawater advanced upstream from the Adriatic Sea along the Po River, forming saltwater intrusion. As of early August, seawater had surrounded Rovigo, forcing the local authorities to close all irrigation intake pipes. Rodolfo Laurenti, director of the Po Delta Land Reclamation Consortium, said: "After the severe drought of 2022, we are once again witnessing the collapse of this land."
Low river water levels have also impacted energy security in many parts of Europe. The Paks Nuclear Power Plant is one of Hungary's most important sources of electricity, normally capable of providing half of the country's power generation. This summer, the water level of the Danube at the section where the plant is located fell to the lowest level on record, and the unit output had to be reduced multiple times, at one point reaching only 10 percent of normal generation capacity, causing monthly economic losses of 50 billion Hungarian forints (1 yuan is equivalent to about 48.8 Hungarian forints).
Water security is becoming a new focus of European public policy, and cross-border water resource management has become one of the important topics. The European Commission's Joint Research Centre, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, and several other research institutions believe that persistent high temperatures, insufficient rainfall, and enhanced evaporation against the backdrop of global warming form a mutually reinforcing cycle, making low-water-level events on European rivers more frequent and more persistent. The focus of European countries' responses is also shifting from temporary drought relief to long-term adaptation, including building low-water-level monitoring platforms, enhancing the resilience of inland waterway shipping, advancing coordinated river basin management, and adjusting the allocation of energy and water resources. Roswall, the European Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy, said that Europe must elevate water security to a position as important as energy security, strengthen transnational river basin management, and improve the efficiency of water resource utilization.
(People's Daily, Berlin, October 7)
Return to TopWorld Bank Raises Economic Growth Forecast for East Asia and Pacific Region This Year
(Xinhua News Agency, New York, October 6) (Reporter Liu Yanan) The World Bank on the 6th released an updated economic forecast report for the East Asia and Pacific region, raising its 2026 economic growth forecast for the region to 4.5 percent, 0.3 percentage points higher than the April forecast.
The report stated that this upward revision in the economic growth forecast is largely due to strong high-tech investment and export performance in countries that are part of the artificial intelligence value chain. Under the combined effects of market forces, increased use of renewable energy, drawing down of inventories, and consumer subsidies, the drag from high energy prices has not been as severe as expected.
The World Bank stated that, driven by the manufacturing and export of high-tech products, economic growth in several economies in the region this year has exceeded previous expectations. Among them, the economic growth forecasts for Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand this year were revised upward by 1.1 percentage points, 0.7 percentage points, and 0.7 percentage points, respectively. The economic growth forecast for Pacific island countries, which are sensitive to high energy prices and have limited buffers against external shocks, was revised downward by 0.5 percentage points this year.
Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, the World Bank's Vice President for the East Asia and Pacific region, said that global artificial intelligence-related activity has increased substantially, and the East Asia and Pacific region's deep integration into global value chains has allowed the region to benefit from this. The challenge now is to translate the region's advantages in producing artificial intelligence-related goods into widespread artificial intelligence applications, thereby boosting productivity and generating more and better jobs.
Russian Foreign Ministry: Will Take Reciprocal Countermeasures Against Japan's New Anti-Russia Measures
(Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, October 5) (Reporter Hou Ming) Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a commentary published on the Russian Foreign Ministry website on the 5th that Russia will take reciprocal countermeasures against Tokyo's unfriendly moves, targeting first and foremost those areas of important interest to Japan.
According to a report on the Nikkei website, the Japanese government decided at a Cabinet meeting on the 2nd to impose additional sanctions on Russia. With respect to 35 vessels in the so-called "shadow fleet" that Russia allegedly uses to secretly transport crude oil in order to evade Western sanctions, the Japanese government has in principle prohibited the provision of services such as operation, maintenance, insurance, and financing to them.
Zakharova stated that the Japanese side has shown disregard for international law and bilateral agreements, and that the Japanese government's actions have further deteriorated Russia-Japan relations. She said that the diplomatic policy pursued by Tokyo lacks independence, is "not determined by its own national interests," and instead blindly aligns itself with so-called "like-minded partners."
Over 20,000 Palestinian Teachers and Students Killed in Three Years Since the New Round of Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
(Xinhua News Agency, Ramallah, October 7) (Reporter Zhao Weihong) The Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education issued a statement on the 7th saying that in the three years since the outbreak of the new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict on October 7, 2023, Israeli military operations have led to the deaths of more than 20,000 Palestinian students and over a thousand teaching staff members.
The statement pointed out that Israeli military operations have led to the deaths of 20,575 students and 1,051 teaching staff members in the Gaza Strip of Palestine, and 173 students and 7 teaching staff members have also been killed in the West Bank of Palestine. In addition, 179 public schools in the Gaza Strip have been completely destroyed, and 105 schools of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East have been damaged by bombing.
Data from the health department in the Gaza Strip on the 7th showed that over the past three years, Israeli military operations have caused more than 74,000 Palestinian deaths and 175,000 injuries; since the ceasefire agreement took effect in October 2025, more than 1,500 people have still been killed and more than 5,000 injured.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵景锋 李祉瑶
"More than 20 years ago, an American named Sikos funded Chinese desertification-control worker Yin Yuzhen to plant trees. Not long ago, this elderly man returned to China and saw with his own eyes that the desert of those days had already become a lush and green forest." When President Xi Jinping made a state visit to the United States, he told the story of Yin Yuzhen and Sikos.
"The Earth will remember this effort; the desert wasteland will eventually become fertile soil." Recently, after the American friend Sikos ( real name Ronald Sakolsky) returned to the United States, he repeatedly expressed recognition of the Chinese desertification-control model. A while ago, when leaving the Mu Us Sandy Land in Inner Mongolia, Sikos issued an invitation to netizens around the world, hoping that everyone could come to Inner Mongolia and plant a tree with their own hands. This expectation has finally met with a response.
On September 10th, at the Yin Yuzhen Ecological Base located in the Mu Us Sandy Land, master craftsmen of the nation from all walks of life gathered here, planting saplings together with desertification-control model worker Yin Yuzhen; on the same day, at the Engebei Ecological Demonstration Zone in Dalad Banner, Ordos City, in the public welfare initiative "Come to Inner Mongolia and Plant a Tree of Friendship" — a nationwide ecological experience public welfare campaign — nearly 600 volunteers came from all directions to fulfill the appointment, jointly planting new greenery.
A reunion spanning 26 years, its influence is continuously expanding — more and more people are learning about the desertification-control practices in the Mu Us Sandy Land, and realizing the importance of sand prevention and desertification control to the ecological environment.
Planting a tree is no longer the solitary courage of a few people, but a social activity in which everyone can participate.
From "a group of people" to "the whole society," desertification-control has become a small start that spreads rapidly, igniting a prairie fire.
In 1985, Yin Yuzhen married into a place called Jingbeitang in Sala Wusu Village, Wushen Banner, Inner Mongolia — located deep in the hinterland of the Mu Us Sandy Land. In the desperate situation where yellow sand buried houses, she made the vow: "I would rather die of exhaustion planting trees than let the sand bully me to death." Over more than 40 years, she and her husband Bai Wanxiang, relying on manual labor, experienced countless failures of "planted-then-buried, buried-then-planted," and cumulatively brought over 70,000 mu of land under desertification control, turning the former sandy sea where nothing could grow into an oasis.
In the Mu Us Sandy Land, Yin Yuzhen's desertification-control story is not an isolated case.
Let the clock return to the 1950s. At that time, in Wushen Banner, desertified and sandified land area exceeded 90%, with forest coverage rate of only 2.6%. The first-generation desertification-control pioneer Baorledai stepped forward, leading over 60 young people to carry bedding, pots, and pans into the desert. Over more than 10 years, Baorledai and the masses explored local desertification-control methods of "blocking in front, pulling from behind; putting on boots and hats" and "locking the edges, encroaching gradually; advancing step by step," locking down over 100,000 mu of shifting sand dunes, and raising the forest coverage rate of Wushenzhao Town in Wushen Banner to nearly 15%.
In 2001, 13 women herders from pastoral areas in Wushen Banner each raised 3,500 yuan from their own funds, formed a women's desertification-control group, and declared war on the ferocious "Red Great Sand Ridge." First they erected sand barriers to fix the shifting sand, then planted sand willows, Yangchai… year after year, the "Thirteen Sisters," represented by Wuyun Siqing, caused the desert wasteland to regain vitality.
After a herdsman read about Yin Yuzhen's deeds in a newspaper, he regarded her as his "idol," specially rode his motorcycle to Jingbeitang to "seek instruction and learn skills," and after returning home, he summarized and innovated upon the methods he had learned, applying them to his own sandy land…
Driven by capable desertification-control figures like Yin Yuzhen, over 240 households with afforestation operations exceeding 3,000 mu each have emerged in Wushen Banner. In their hearts, there is the same simple and great goal — to plant a patch of green in the vast sandy sea.
The green that desertification-control experts have planted tree by tree is also inspiring more and more people to understand and enter the Mu Us Sandy Land.
On the road to Yin Yuzhen's home, traveling along the forest-interlaced highway, memorial stele stand tall in the wind on both sides of the road, with names of different institutions, units, and individuals carved on them — Yin Yuzhen says, whoever has planted a patch of green here, a stele is erected for them, anda line of name is engraved. Now, she has also prepared small tree tags for the people who come to plant trees — after planting a sapling, they can hang their own name on it.
On June 5, 2026, the public welfare tree-planting campaign "Come to the Mu Us Sandy Land and Plant a Tree with Yin Yuzhen," initiated by Yin Yuzhen, attracted over 1,000 volunteers from Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Shanxi, and other places — including college students who put down their backpacks, office workers who took annual leave, and young parents who brought their children to experience it. In two days, 500 mu of sandy land was draped in new green.
"Volunteers from across the country planting trees together — this is the best inheritance of the desertification-control spirit." At the tree-planting site, Yin Yuzhen, while teaching volunteers the essentials of planting trees in sandy land, also told her own desertification-control experience: "The power of one person is limited; each additional tree means one more share of hope; each additional person taking up the baton means the green can be passed down from generation to generation."
This patch of green is also attracting the attention of the world. Over the past decades, volunteers from more than 20 countries and regions have come, drawn by its reputation, to devote themselves to ecological restoration practices in the Mu Us Sandy Land. On August 11th, nearly 120 Chinese and foreign students from the "Future Agriculture" International Summer School of China Agricultural University came to the Mu Us Sandy Land. Yin Yuzhen stood among them, personally teaching foreign friends how to make saplings stand more firmly. "Before coming to China, I thought a desert could only be endless yellow sand; I never expected there would be stretches upon stretches of green as far as the eye can see." A student from Brazil sighed, "These experiences are worth learning from."
From one person to a group of people, from one country to dozens of countries, this public welfare cause of sand prevention and desertification control is influencing more and more people. "Before, I was just fighting against the desert; but when people from all over the world came to pay attention, I slowly began to realize that this is the common aspiration of all mankind." Yin Yuzhen said.
At present, the desertification-control area of the Mu Us Sandy Land within Wushen Banner has reached 8.3939 million mu, with a control rate of 85%, and forest coverage rate raised to 32.92%.
From "relying on manual labor" to "smart desertification control," science and technology have added wings to desertification control.
Sand prevention and desertification control, besides relying on the industrious wisdom of the masses, also cannot do without the key role of science and technology.
Opening trenches, planting seedlings, covering soil, compacting — in the hinterland of the Mu Us Sandy Land, a trench-opening and planting integrated machine equipped with BeiDou navigation is traveling steadily across. Looking closely, the driver's cabin is empty; all machine operations are controlled by a computer system.
After the machine passed, Tiemuer Bagen a squatted down, used his hands to push aside the sandy soil, took out a measuring ruler to carefully measure the planting depth and spacing of the saplings, then recorded a string of data in his notebook. "The sandy land has large undulations and complex terrain; the machine is still in the trial-and-verification stage before promotion, and various operating parameters need to be debugged over and over again." Tiemuer Bagen a said, current trial data show that, when this machine is applied, the spacing error can be controlled within 5 centimeters, and efficiency is improved by more than 3 times compared with manual labor.
Tiemuer Bagen a, 46 years old this year, is the head of the Forestry and Grass Workstation of Galutu Town, Wushen Banner. He was born into an ordinary herdsman family in Wushen Banner, with the endless yellow sand accompanying his childhood memories. He remembers that, back then, his father's generation held iron spades and planted sapling after sapling in the sandy land; but when a strong wind swept through, many saplings, before they could take root, were buried by the wind-blown sand.
Tiemuer Bagen a has been clever and fond of delving into things since childhood. He realized very early on that desertification control cannot rely only on a pair of hands; it needs the support of knowledge and technology even more. When filling in college application preferences, he chose the Wildlife and Nature Reserve Management major at Jilin Agricultural University. After graduating from university in 2003, he returned to his hometown, rooted himself in the front line of sand prevention and desertification control, and has been working there for 23 years.
After starting work, Tiemuer Bagen a devoted his main energy to the research and development of forestry, grass, machinery, and equipment. Through repeated field surveys, observations, and reflections, a seemingly inconspicuous link gradually attracted his attention — trench opening. Tiemuer Bagen a said that trench opening is not simply "digging a ditch"; the depth of the trench groove and the size of the plant spacing both directly affect the subsequent growth of saplings, while relying on manual operation not only involves high labor intensity but also makes it difficult to achieve precision requirements.
To conquer this technical difficulty, Tiemuer Bagen a moved the "laboratory" to the sandy land, developing trench-opening equipment adapted to the special terrain conditions of the Mu Us Sandy Land. However, the sandy soil is loose, and the machine is prone to unstable operation problems; if the trench is too shallow, sapling root systems find it hard to take hold; if the trench is too deep, it increases resistance and energy consumption. Operating, recording, adjusting… after hundreds of failures, the first-generation sandy-land trench-opening equipment was finally successfully developed.
Continuously iterating based on usage feedback, the trench-opening equipment has evolved from initially only being able to open trenches, to later achieving integrated trench-opening and planting, and then to being equipped with intelligent control systems, with functions continuously improving. At present, Tiemuer Bagen a's team has developed a total of more than 10 types of implements, applied to over 200 farming and herding households, large afforestation households, and afforestation enterprises in multiple places including Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, and Yulin City, Shaanxi.
To unblock the "bottleneck" between the front line of desertification control and scientific research institutions, and promote the combination of grassroots practical needs with expert research achievements, in 2023, Wushen Banner established the Mu Us Sandy Land Forestry, Grass, and Sand Industry Innovation and Entrepreneurship Doctoral Workstation, attracting a large number of experts from scientific research institutions such as Inner Mongolia Agricultural University and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Academy of Forestry Sciences, who, together with local indigenous experts and desertification-control model workers, jointly carry out technical research, so that achievements in the laboratory can be better transformed into desertification-control practice.
Yuan Limin, director of the Innovation Center of the Forestry and Grassland Science and Technology of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is one of the earliest researchers to join the doctoral workstation. Almost every month, he brings his students to the Mu Us Sandy Land, visiting local farmers and herders to understand desertification-control needs on one hand, while conducting technical verification in the test area on the other.
Yuan Limin introduced that, focusing on the characteristics of the local sandy land, the team has introduced advanced technologies such as degradable sand barriers, direct-seeding sand barriers, living-plant sand barriers, and reed sand barriers into a test area of over 200 mu. During the testing process, researchers regularly record wind direction and wind speed changes, observe sand particle movement and surface wind erosion conditions, measure data indicators such as plant species, quantity, and coverage, and continuously adjust parameter details based on test results, seeking desertification-control solutions more suited to the ecological conditions of the Mu Us Sandy Land.
Guided by the concept of science-and-technology-based desertification control, in recent years, Wushen Banner has continuously promoted the transformation of traditional desertification-control methods toward intelligentization and mechanization, with a batch of new desertification-control technologies and equipment such as container seedlings, tree-planting robots, and air-space-ground integrated monitoring continuously being introduced, gradually bidding farewell to the human-sea tactic in desertification control, with governance efficiency continuously improving.
From "sand prevention and desertification control" to "turning sand into gold," the desertification-control industry is both an ecological account and an economic account.
Sand prevention and desertification control must bring not only green, but also prosperity.
When Sikos visited Yin Yuzhen's home, there was a detail that left a deep impression —
"Can you guess how much Yin Yuzhen's annual income is now?" A journalist asked.
Sikos shook his head.
"1 million yuan!"
Upon hearing the answer, Sikos was stunned for a moment, repeatedly saying to himself: "Amazing(不可思议)."
From selling sheep in the past to buy saplings, to now earning 1 million yuan annually, the answer lies hidden in that tract of managed sandy land.
In Yin Yuzhen's small courtyard, a long table is set out, with ginseng fruit, watermelon, pumpkin, and various other fruits and vegetables presenting a feast for the eyes. These agricultural products were all grown by Yin Yuzhen and her family from the sandy land.
In 2005, Yin Yuzhen built a 500-mu desert oasis ecological park, beginning to try planting miscellaneous grains, fruits, and vegetables such as corn, watermelon, and cherries. Later, she also planted 30 mu of desert roses, and the specialty products processed from them — rose tea, rose cakes, rose jam, and others — have demand exceeding supply. In recent years, Yin Yuzhen has established a company, with business scope expanding from green agricultural product sales to picking, sightseeing, study tours, and other fields. The "Mu Us," where grass could hardly grow in the past, has become the "Golden Mu Us" in her words.
In Wushen Banner, more and more people, like Yin Yuzhen, are benefiting from ecological governance. Desertification control is no longer merely an input, but has become a new path driving people's livelihoods.
In the hinterland of the Mu Us Sandy Land, jujube trees stand tall against the wind, with clusters of green dates weighing down the branches. Gently patting leaves, checking trunks, walking through the lush and green jujube forest, Li Kong carefully records the growth condition of the jujube trees.
Li Kong, born in Anyang, Henan Province, came with his father to the Mu Us Sandy Land to start a business in 2014; in the blink of an eye, 12 years have passed. At first, many people around them did not understand: why not go to work in a big city, but insist on going to the sandy land to make a fuss?
Before coming, father and son already had a plan in mind — planting jujube trees in the sandy land. Li Kong said that the Mu Us Sandy Land has large temperature differences between day and night, relatively few pests and diseases, strong adaptability of jujube trees, and the fruit they bear is also sweeter.
At first, they turned their attention to jujube-producing regions such as Xinjiang and Gansu, introducing a batch of excellent cold-resistant, drought-resistant varieties. However, due to subtle differences in climate, the first batch of saplings did not succeed after being planted. Father and son expanded the range of varieties, tried using scientific and technological means, and after years of experimentation, finally cultivated three excellent varieties —"Mengzao No. 1, No. 2, No. 3" — with a survival rate as high as over 90%, and per-mu yield exceeding 2,000 jin.
Father and son also regularly organize technical training classes to teach growers, cumulatively training over 500 person-times; they lead technical teams to prune jujube trees for growers free of charge, promote high-yield cultivation techniques, cumulatively driving over 100 local people to find employment, with per-capita annual income increasing by 20,000 yuan.
Besides developing jujube tree cultivation, Wushen Banner is also exploring more diversified paths for ecological benefits to the people.
Walking into the biomass pellet plant in Wulan Shibatai Village, Tuketown, conveyor belts run at high speed, with bundles of sand willow branches being sent into the crusher, and after drying, compression, and molding, finally becoming brown pellets one by one. These seemingly unremarkable pellets are a type of clean, environmentally friendly biomass fuel, with high calorific value and low pollution, and are a "hot commodity" in the market.
"Sand willow is the 'pioneer tree species' for sand fixation in the Mu Us Sandy Land; every 3 to 5 years, the old branches must be cut off for stump sprouting and rejuvenation. In the past, the branches cut during stump sprouting were piled up at field edges and roadsides, both obstructing passage and easily causing fires." Liu Erfei, Party branch secretary of Wulan Shibatai Village, introduced that, in 2019, he led the village's two committee teams to research the market, learn technology, and raise funds, building the first village-run biomass pellet plant in Ordos City. Now, farmers and herders cut sand willow branches themselves and sell them to the pellet plant at a price of 160 to 180 yuan per ton. Just from this one source of income during the slack farming season alone, each household can steadily increase their income by 5,000 to 8,000 yuan per year.
Now, in Wushen Banner, the boundaries of the sandy-land industry are continuously expanding, with specialty products such as morel mushrooms, Astragalus, licorice, sea buckthorn, and others gradually growing out of the once-barren sandy land, and the banner's annual output value of the forestry, grass, and sand industry has exceeded 4.1 billion yuan.
Chen Yafeng, deputy director of the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Wushen Banner, stated that in the future, they will coordinate and promote sand prevention and desertification control, ecological restoration, and resource management and protection, solidly implement the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program, natural forest protection, degraded forest restoration, and degraded grassland governance, continuously consolidate the achievements of Mu Us Sandy Land governance; explore paths for realizing the value of forestry, grass, carbon sinks, and ecological products, advance the construction of smart forestry and grassland, develop green industries that enrich the people such as economic forests, under-forest planting and breeding, and ecotourism, and promote the formation of a win-win situation of good desertification-control ecology, excellent industrial development, and beautiful people's lives.
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On September 24, local time, at the welcoming state banquet hosted by U.S. President Trump, President Xi Jinping revisited stories of friendly exchanges between the Chinese and American peoples, and specifically mentioned a much-told tale of goodwill: "More than 20 years ago, an American named Salkauskas funded the tree-planting efforts of Yin Yuzhen, a Chinese desertification fighter. Not long ago, this elderly man returned to China and saw with his own eyes that the desert of those days has become a lush and luxuriant vegetation (郁郁葱葱, yu yu cong cong - "lush, luxuriant, green") forest."
In 1999, Salkauskas, then teaching in China, learned of Yin Yuzhen's deeds of putting down roots in the desert to plant trees and restore the land. Deeply moved, he raised $5,000 to support desertification control. Yin Yuzhen used this charitable donation to buy and plant more than 50,000 saplings, and named the forested land the "Salkauskas Forest." In late August this year, Salkauskas returned to China and reunited with Yin Yuzhen. During this trip, the two once again joined hands to plant a "tree of friendship" in the Mu Us Sandy Land.
This green rendezvous spanning mountains and seas is a vivid microcosm of the ecological transformation of the Three-North region.
For humanity to survive and develop better, desertification must be prevented and controlled. After nearly 50 years of sustained construction, China's "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program has achieved remarkable results, creating the ecological miracle of turning deserts into oases and wastelands into forests. In particular, in the more than three years since the "Three-North" Program's tough battle was launched, the country has cumulatively completed 265 million mu of construction tasks including new planting, improvement, and consolidation of past achievements, pushing the three landmark campaigns to achieve phased results. The savanna landscape of the Horqin Sandy Land is gradually reappearing, the amount of sediment entering the Yellow River is decreasing year by year, and the Taklamakan Desert has been fitted with a "green scarf."
Ecological restoration is an "endurance race." The green miracle of the Three-North region has never been the work of a very short period of time (一朝一夕, yi zhao yi xi - "one, morning, one, evening"), but rather a long march in which one baton is passed to the next and one generation of effort follows another.
Starting with the planting of her first batch of saplings in 1986, Yin Yuzhen has spent 40 years turning more than 70,000 mu of yellow sand green; Kurban Rozi, a forest ranger at the windbreak and sand-fixation work station in Qiemo County, Xinjiang, has put down roots on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert for more than 20 years, creating more than 100,000 mu of shelterbelt forest along the Qarqan River and building a green dike in the great desert that guards the county seat... Piece by piece, deserts once deemed "unsuitable for human survival" are being transformed, thanks to the efforts of a growing number of fellow travelers like Yin Yuzhen, into vivid examples of China's contribution to the global reversal of ecological degradation.
The 15th Five-Year Plan period is the decisive phase of the "Three-North" Program's tough battle. By making tree-planting and forest protection a social consensus and running the relay race of "green advancing, sand retreating" well, we will surely win and fight well the "Three-North" Program's tough battle and write a new chapter in the high-quality development of the "Three-North" Program.
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In accordance with the requirements of the NPC Standing Committee for the centralized cleanup of local regulations involving the ecological environment code, Shandong has conducted a "comprehensive physical examination" of hundreds of relevant local regulations across the province, and has so far cumulatively abolished 26 relevant local regulations and revised nearly 100; the Huangpu District People's Congress in Shanghai has changed its purely written review model, carried out "open-door review" of regulatory documents, solicited opinions and suggestions on the spot from people's congress deputies, government departments, community residents, and experts, and provided face-to-face feedback of review opinions to government departments...
The filing and review of regulatory documents is an important system for ensuring the implementation of the Constitution and laws and safeguarding the unity of the national legal system. Under the guidance and support of the NPC Standing Committee, in recent years, local people's congress standing committees have continuously strengthened the construction of the filing and review system and capacity building, and have carried out beneficial exploration and work innovation in related work.
"In the past, we described filing and review as being like a 'duck swimming in water' — the surface looks very calm, but the feet are working all the time underneath. Now it is no longer a 'duck swimming in water'; it is a ship making great strides in an undertaking (乘风破浪, cheng feng po lang - "ride the wind, break the waves")." A relevant person in charge of the Constitution and Law Committee of the National People's Congress said that in recent years, local people's congress standing committees at all levels have implemented the Party Central Committee's requirement to "bring all regulatory documents within the scope of filing and review," consolidated and expanded the scope of filing, innovated review methods, and strived to achieve "all documents that should be filed are filed, all filed documents are reviewed, and all errors found are corrected."
Expanding coverage, opening up the "last kilometer" of townships and sub-districts
Should "free-range chickens and ducks" become a deduction item in village and town environmental management? What to do if the new regulation on villagers' tomb-sweeping during the Qingming Festival is "one-size-fits-all" and cannot be implemented in the village... When Shi Huimin, then Party branch secretary of Wulin Village, Nanxun Town, Nanxun District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang, received several "red-head documents" issued by the town government two years ago, he was in a difficult position: some of the provisions in them did not fit the actual conditions of the village, and it was very difficult to communicate with the villagers and get them to cooperate.
In June 2023, after Shi Huimin was hired as a member of the expert group for filing and review of the town people's congress, he found that for such unreasonable regulatory documents, he could directly initiate the filing and review process by submitting suggestions to the presidium of the town people's congress. After these suggestions were submitted, the relevant filing and review was promptly initiated, and the town government also quickly revised the documents.
Regulatory documents of townships and sub-districts are the "last kilometer" of filing and review. In 2023, Zhejiang took the lead nationwide in carrying out filing and review work for regulatory documents of townships and sub-districts, bringing resolutions and decisions of township people's congresses and administrative regulatory documents of townships and sub-districts within the scope of filing and review, and promoting prefecture-level cities to issue local regulations on filing and review for townships and sub-districts.
But can the capacity of townships and sub-districts handle it? "In this regard, we carried out special research and sample surveys covering more than 1,360 townships and sub-districts across the province, and proposed countermeasures for difficulties such as manpower shortages and insufficient capacity, and scientifically demonstrated the necessity and feasibility of carrying out this work." A relevant person in charge of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee said that Zhejiang selected Wenzhou and Huzhou for pilot implementation first, providing replicable and scalable experience and practices for province-wide exploration.
To alleviate the difficulty of insufficient grassroots capacity, the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee developed a digital application for filing and review of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress, which can intelligently analyze and identify suspected legality issues in regulatory documents, output review reports, and provide important reference for manual re-review.
"From the actual situation, there are problems in regulatory documents issued by townships and sub-districts in some places, such as lax formulation procedures and illegal setting of administrative penalties and administrative compulsion." A relevant person in charge of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee said that carrying out filing and review work for regulatory documents of townships and sub-districts is of great significance for realizing the Party Central Committee's requirement to "bring all regulatory documents within the scope of filing and review" and for improving the level of law-based governance at the grassroots level.
At present, many places across the country have explored extending the reach of filing and review to townships and sub-districts. For example, Guangdong has developed and improved a module for filing and review reporting by townships and sub-districts based on relevant platforms, and the platform has now been connected to more than 1,600 townships and sub-districts across the province; Chongqing has organized special cleanups of township and sub-district documents, promoting in an integrated manner the "slimming down" and quality improvement of township and sub-district regulatory documents. "All localities can actively explore carrying out this work, achieving full coverage of review and supervision through full coverage of filing, and implementing the Party Central Committee's deployment requirements down to the ground." A relevant person in charge of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee said.
Implementing "all errors found are corrected," strengthening the timeliness of error correction and the rigidity of the system
Only with "all documents that should be filed are filed, all filed documents are reviewed, and all errors found are corrected" can the institutional rigidity of filing and review be guaranteed.
In 2025, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, organized a "comprehensive bottom-up inventory" of the rules and regulatory documents within the scope of filing and review of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress and the Municipal Government, in which a typical problem was discovered where the protection of the rights and interests of the masses had not kept pace and was making no progress (原地踏步, yuan di ta bu - "at original place, step, not step").
It turned out that regulatory documents of some districts in the locality stipulated that applications and recommendations for the confirmation of acts of bravery must be submitted within 6 months. But in fact, the "Regulations of Guangdong Province on Rewards and Guarantees for Persons Who Perform Acts of Bravery" had already been revised in 2024 and had added an exception provision that "for special reasons, the period may be extended to three years."
"Heroes who perform acts of bravery must not be made to 'bleed and also shed tears.'" A relevant person in charge of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee introduced that after review, the regulatory documents previously formulated by some districts had not promptly adjusted the relevant content in accordance with updates to the superior law or added the exception provision, resulting in an "institutional gap" in the protection of the rights and interests of the masses. In this regard, the Standing Committee of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress immediately urged the relevant formulating organs to revise the relevant provisions. At present, some districts have completed the revision work, and the remaining relevant districts plan to complete the revisions within this year.
According to statistics, this "comprehensive bottom-up inventory" special cleanup action cumulatively sorted through 1,189 current effective rules and regulatory documents, and cleaned up 106 rules and regulatory documents with problems. "In recent years, we have comprehensively used methods such as review upon application, proactive review, and transfer review to conduct a 'physical examination' of each regulatory document submitted for filing, and resolutely implemented 'all errors found are corrected.'" A relevant person in charge of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Guangzhou Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee said.
"Giving full play to the institutional advantages of filing and review can promote the improvement of the quality and level of local legislation, promote the effective implementation of laws, and serve and guarantee high-quality development." A relevant person in charge of the Filing and Review Office of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee introduced that, in accordance with the Party Central Committee's deployment requirements and the implementation of important laws, in recent years the NPC Standing Committee has organized centralized cleanup work on regulatory documents involving more than 30 fields, including ecological environment protection, the Civil Code, the Yellow River Protection Law, equal protection for enterprises, and the Private Economy Promotion Law.
"Since the ecological environment code was promulgated in March this year, in order to ensure the comprehensive and effective implementation of the code, we have organized centralized cleanup work on regulatory documents such as regulations, rules, and judicial interpretations involving the ecological environment code." A relevant person in charge of the Filing and Review Office of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee said that at present, all regions and relevant parties are successively reporting on the progress of the cleanup work. In the next step, based on the revision and abolition plans fed back from all regions, follow-up supervision will continue to be carried out.
A relevant person in charge of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee said that when all localities issue review opinions on illegal or inappropriate problems found in filing and review, they should specify a time limit for rectification to the formulating organ; for formulating organs that deliberately delay or fail to correct errors in a timely and proper manner, they should be dealt with according to law, and the authority and dignity of the Constitution and laws must be resolutely safeguarded.
When the people have something to say, we respond; deeply practicing whole-process people's democracy
Filing and review is not a "closed-door operation" of people's congress organs.
In Shandong, the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee has received more than 130 review suggestions from citizens in recent years, carefully studied and handled key review suggestions involving major livelihood interests, high social attention, and complex legal relationships, promptly corrected problems in regulatory documents involving urban greening management and other matters, and promoted the transformation of citizens' reasonable suggestions into institutional design.
In Nanchang, Jiangxi, in recent years, the masses and grassroots legislative contact points have put forward many review suggestions involving livelihood issues such as environmental protection, parking fees, and maintenance funds. On the one hand, the Standing Committee of the Nanchang Municipal People's Congress corrected documents with legality problems; on the other hand, it also promptly fed back on the handling of review suggestions, explaining the reasons and basis, clearing up doubts and misconceptions (解疑释惑, jie yi shi huo - "solve, doubt, explain, confusion"), so that every suggestion receives a response.
At present, many localities combine "absorbing public opinion" with "think tank support," continuously broadening channels for public participation, deeply practicing whole-process people's democracy, and striving to enhance the people's sense of gain in the rule of law.
"In response to the problem that the gradient of support is not obvious, it is suggested to establish 'ladder-type' policy support"; "in response to the problem of insufficient internationalization, it is suggested to upgrade from 'products going overseas' to 'brands going overseas' and 'standards going overseas,' providing professional services such as overseas intellectual property layout"...
At an expert review meeting in Nanjing, Jiangsu, focusing on the city's issued "Several Measures on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Specialized, Refined, Distinctive, and Innovative Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises," Professor Liu Xiaobing, chief expert of the Jiangsu Rule of Law Construction Research Base, on the basis of extensively soliciting opinions from multiple specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative enterprises and listed companies, combined with professional research, put forward suggestions for further improvement. These suggestions were later fully absorbed by the formulating department.
In response to the reality of insufficient professional capacity, the Standing Committee of the Nanjing Municipal People's Congress has strengthened the construction of an expert database for filing and review, leveraging external intellectual resources, and each year selects some documents involving the vital interests of the masses and with considerable controversy, routinely organizing expert reviews and promptly feeding back to the relevant units, striving to achieve "reviewing one document, standardizing a whole field."
Today, filing and review has become an important part of practicing whole-process people's democracy. In December 2019, the NPC Standing Committee opened an online platform for submitting review suggestions on the National People's Congress website of China, realizing "one-click submission" of review suggestions. In the past nearly 7 years, it has received nearly 20,000 review suggestions submitted online by citizens and organizations.
"It is necessary to guarantee that the people can put forward opinions and express their demands according to law through the filing and review system, strive to achieve 'when the people have something to say, we respond,' effectively safeguard the fundamental interests of the people, and make the filing and review system and work an important form and institutional carrier for practicing whole-process people's democracy." A relevant person in charge of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee said.
Reporter's Notes
Making efforts on the word "comprehensive"
The construction of China's filing and review system has so far gone through a course of more than 40 years. The breakthrough development of filing and review work in the new era is the inevitable result of the Party Central Committee's high attention to the implementation and supervision of the Constitution and the promotion of comprehensive law-based governance.
To implement the Party Central Committee's requirement to "bring all regulatory documents within the scope of filing and review" down to the ground, efforts must be made on the word "comprehensive." In practice, there are still some factors constraining the effectiveness of filing and review supervision: for example, full coverage of filing has not yet been completely achieved, and there are still some regulatory documents that have not been brought within the scope of filing and review; the linkage mechanism for filing and review needs to be further improved and perfected; and the filing and review system for regulatory documents of townships and sub-districts has not yet been universally established. All of this requires adhering to a problem-oriented approach, further summing up experience, improving the system, and promoting new progress in filing and review work.
The NPC Standing Committee's 2026 annual legislative work plan clearly proposes to conduct in-depth research and demonstration on formulating a special law on filing and review. At present, the legislative organ is coordinating research on integrating through legislation the filing and review systems of the people's congress, government, supervision commission, courts, procuratorates, and other relevant parties, and building a unified, coordinated, and comprehensively covered institutional system. By forming institutional synergy and enhancing overall effectiveness, the filing and review system will certainly be better able to shoulder the important responsibility and mission of safeguarding the unity of the national legal system.
Return to TopThe online protection of minors bears on the future of the nation and the hope of the people, and bears on the happiness and tranquility of hundreds of millions of families. How can we further strengthen the online protection of minors, foster an online environment conducive to the physical and mental health of minors, and safeguard the lawful rights and interests of minors? Our reporter interviewed four deputies to the National People's Congress.
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Chen Lina, deputy to the National People's Congress and deputy chief procurator of the Qiaoxi District People's Procuratorate of Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province:
Regulating the Provision of Online Services to Minors
To do a good job of protecting minors online, it is necessary to consolidate the primary responsibility of online platforms and build a protective barrier at the source of service supply.
Strengthen platform compliance and self-discipline. Urge platforms to fulfill statutory responsibilities and improve whole-process management and control of services for minors. Strictly set the entry threshold for minors, and make clear that minors must use the internet in compliance within the minor mode. Strictly implement the age identification and verification mechanism, use technologies such as facial verification and behavioral feature recognition to strengthen identification, and eliminate loopholes that allow the mode to be bypassed. Comprehensively clean up high-risk online services and cut off the source of risk at the product design level.
Optimize the orientation of algorithm governance. Improve the algorithm recommendation control mechanism and prohibit the setting of algorithm models that induce addiction, emotional dependence, or excessive consumption. Optimize the content pool of the minor mode, push more content on popular science knowledge, positive culture, and growth education, strictly control the push of vulgar and sensational, comparison and wealth-flaunting, and online violence and other harmful information, so that harmful content can be blocked and risky behavior can be controlled.
Improve the closed-loop supervision mechanism. Respond on a regular basis to the "Qinglang" special action, and prohibit information that violates public order and good customs, seeks novelty and attention, is vulgar and harmful, or harms the physical and mental health of minors from entering the internet. For those who fail to review strictly, allow harmful content to spread through missed review, and cause damage to the rights and interests of minors, pursue accountability and responsibility in accordance with regulations. At the same time, establish a regular self-inspection and rectification system, equip a full-time review team and technical protection force, and carry the standards of minor protection through the entire process of product iteration and daily operation, consolidating the primary responsibility of enterprises.
(Compiled by Shao Yuzi, reporter of this newspaper)
Chen Tianzhu, deputy to the National People's Congress and editor-in-chief of Reader Magazine:
Strengthening the Supply of High-Quality Content That Is Upward and Good
To strengthen the online protection of minors, it is necessary not only to improve technical protection but also to strengthen content development. We should encourage innovation in the functions of the minor mode, promote the effective connection between high-quality cultural resources and online platforms, and let content that is upward and good fill the cyberspace.
Open up resource channels and jointly build and share an exclusive content pool for minors. Publishing institutions have accumulated a large number of book and periodical resources that have undergone strict review and proofreading. It is suggested that a regular docking mechanism be established to promote the orderly access of high-quality resources to various platforms. Encourage publishing institutions, internet platforms, and education departments to jointly build a public content pool, break down platform barriers, and let China's excellent traditional culture, red culture, humanities and popular science, and other content be more widely disseminated in forms that children are willing to accept.
Give play to content advantages and integrate online literacy education into works. Content producers should integrate content such as rejecting online violence and protecting personal information into stories, audio, and video, and guide children to develop good internet use habits. At the same time, pay attention to the actual needs of rural schools and provide support for grassroots online literacy education.
Improve incentive mechanisms to give more impetus to the creation of high-quality content. It is suggested that support policies be improved, channels for high-quality works to access the public content pool be smoothed, and platforms be urged to give more display opportunities. Strengthen copyright protection so that more practitioners can settle down and continue to provide high-quality works for young people.
(Compiled by Zeng Yichen, reporter of this newspaper)
Chu Xiaofei, deputy to the National People's Congress and professor at the Business School of Henan University of Science and Technology:
Purifying the Cyberspace Ecology with Strict Supervision
The internet has been embedded in all aspects of production and life. At present, the cyberspace is generally improving, but online chaos cannot be ignored, such as online rumor-mongering, "online black mouths," and other problems that appear from time to time, especially the elements that harm the physical and mental health of minors, which deserve vigilance. To purify the online ecology, we must take decisive and tough action (动真碰硬, dong zhen peng ying - "move, truly, hit, hard") and strike with heavy force.
Weave a tight institutional defense line, accelerate the improvement of supporting laws and regulations for network governance, especially in response to the practical difficulties in law enforcement and judicial operations, refine the standards for identifying and the scale of punishment for new types of illegal and non-compliant online acts, and, in view of the chain-based and concealed characteristics of the online black industry, fill the regulatory shortcomings so that supervision and law enforcement have a legal basis and are more rigid.
Strengthen coordinated supervision, break through the data and law enforcement barriers among the cyberspace administration, public security, market supervision, and other departments, establish a regular joint rectification mechanism, carry out whole-chain strikes against rumor-mongering and rumor-spreading, malicious marketing, online extortion, and other acts, raise the cost of illegality, and form a strong deterrent.
Consolidate the primary responsibility of platforms, urge platforms to abandon the logic of "traffic first," improve the content review, account management, and risk early-warning systems, and seriously pursue accountability in accordance with the law against platforms that condone chaos or fail to perform their duties.
Cyberspace is the common spiritual home of hundreds of millions of people. Governing online chaos requires sustained, long-term effort. We must fully gather the joint force of social co-governance, smooth the channels for public supervision and reporting, guide netizens to jointly resist harmful information, and let the cyberspace have more positive energy and a cleaner ecology.
(Compiled by Jin Xin, reporter of this newspaper)
Zhu Xiangxiang, deputy to the National People's Congress and teacher at Zhengzhai Town Central Primary School, Pujiang County, Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province:
Strengthening Education and Guidance for Minors' Internet Use
To protect minors' healthy internet use, it is necessary for families, schools, and society to work together and build a comprehensive, three-dimensional network education system.
The family lays the foundation, nurturing healthy internet use habits with warm companionship. Parents need to earnestly fulfill their guardianship responsibilities, step out of the misunderstanding of "only blocking, not guiding," strengthen education, demonstration, guidance, and supervision of minors' internet use behavior, and guide children to use the internet reasonably. At the same time, integrate reading, sports, parent-child research and study, and other activities into daily family life, enrich children's lives with offline activities, and weaken children's dependence on the internet.
Schools provide empowerment, cultivating good online literacy with healthy concepts. Schools should take into account both students' physical health and mental health. Improve teachers' ability to identify and intervene early in minor students' internet addiction; work with vice principals for rule of law to incorporate online literacy education into the regular rule-of-law education system, and guide students to identify harmful information, protect personal privacy, and use the internet rationally and in a regulated manner. At the same time, actively implement the requirement of at least half a day of off-campus practical teaching per week, enrich students' body and mind with rich practical activities, and empower students' healthy growth.
Society provides escort, building a protective barrier for growth with a clear and clean ecology. The online protection of minors cannot be separated from the escort of all parties in society. Major online platforms need to strictly implement their primary responsibility, and regulatory departments continue to deepen special online rectification, striking heavy blows against all kinds of online chaos that infringe on the rights and interests of minors. At the same time, integrate public resources such as communities, youth palaces, and cultural and tourism venues, build high-quality offline activity platforms, enrich young people's after-school cultural life, and with a clear and clean online ecology and a positive social atmosphere, escort the healthy growth of minors in an all-round way.
(Compiled by Wei Zhezhe, reporter of this newspaper)
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"Before, the sunlight was blocked by tree branches; now it is bright and open, and when walking in the neighborhood I no longer have to worry about dead branches falling." With sunlight reaching into homes and green trees preserved, Ms. Li of Jinxing Community, Xiangfang District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, said.
Trees blocking light and dead branches falling as objects once troubled many residents of Jinxing Community. After residents reported their concerns, the grid worker quickly went to the door to verify, and then an under-the-tree discussion meeting was convened in the neighborhood pavilion.
Subsequently, under the coordination of the community party committee, the subdistrict urban management office, landscaping departments, property management, and resident representatives were linked together for joint consultation, real-time communication was carried out through the WeChat cloud discussion group, and a resident supervision group was formed to follow up on the construction throughout the process. Under the guidance of landscaping professionals, more than 40 trees were pruned, resolving the problem that had troubled residents.
This is a microcosm of Harbin's efforts to improve the effectiveness of grassroots governance. Excessive burdens at the grassroots level, with an inadequate resource attempting to handle a heavy task (小马拉大车, xiao ma la da che - "small, horse, pull, big, cart"), prominent property management disputes, and insufficient community service capacity... In recent years, in Harbin, proposals from people's congress deputies involving grassroots governance have accounted for a relatively high proportion.
In response to the deputies' proposals, on September 16, 2026, the 48th session of the Standing Committee of the 16th Harbin Municipal People's Congress voted to adopt the "Decision on Accelerating the Transformation of Grassroots Social Governance and Advancing the Modernization of the Grassroots Governance System and Governance Capacity" (hereinafter referred to as the "Decision"). The Decision consists of 16 articles, making institutional arrangements in four aspects: upholding the party's overall leadership, deepening self-governance by the masses, strengthening coordinated safeguards, and giving play to the supervisory role of the people's congress.
"The essence of this Decision is to implement power and responsibility together, providing support and backing for those who do the work, and reducing burdens and loosening constraints at the grassroots level," said the head of the Standing Committee of the Harbin Municipal People's Congress. During the drafting process of the Decision, a special team was formed to conduct research, collect the genuine demands of grassroots cadres, people's congress deputies, and the masses, draw on advanced experience from other places, and elevate mature frontline practices into institutional norms.
In terms of the allocation of powers and responsibilities at the grassroots level, the Decision legally strengthens the functional role of townships (subdistricts) in comprehensive management, overall coordination, and emergency response, gradually delegates administrative law enforcement powers in light of local conditions, and fills the gaps in grassroots authority. At the same time, it solidifies the "grassroots whistle-blowing, departments reporting for duty" response mechanism, promoting the sinking of law enforcement forces for linked and coordinated handling.
In Dacheng Subdistrict, Nangang District, many residents have reported livelihood problems such as chaotic parking order in residential areas and aging water supply pipe networks. The subdistrict uses the "Harbin Round Table · Consultation and Discussion Hall" as its main offline venue, supplemented by the online "City Reception Hall" cloud-based discussion channel, while simultaneously bringing in residents, property ownership units, water supply departments, urban management departments, and other subjects to participate in consultation, scheduling discussions at staggered times, and visiting special groups to hear their opinions, forming a closed-loop consultation and handling mechanism that resolves disputes and infrastructure maintenance problems in batches.
The elevator car landed steadily, the doors opened slowly, the ride was smooth, and vibration and noise were noticeably improved. In Daoli District, this reassuring elevator-riding experience has now become part of residents' daily life.
From a constant stream of elevator complaints to the completion of replacement and major repairs, the change benefited from the community's regular organization of tripartite centralized consultation among the neighborhood committee, the owners' committee, and the property management company.
The head of the Standing Committee of the Harbin Municipal People's Congress said that the Decision clarifies the boundaries of duties between townships (subdistricts) and villages (communities), implements the two lists of matters for self-governance according to law and matters for assisting government work, and promotes the freeing of village (neighborhood) committees from cumbersome extra affairs, returning them to their proper role of mass self-governance, so that more time and energy can be devoted to connecting with the masses, providing convenience services, and mediating disputes.
The Decision proposes "upholding and developing the Fengqiao model (枫桥经验) in the new era" and "ensuring that every dispute among the masses receives a timely response and proper handling."
Because his wages were withheld, Mr. Li, a migrant worker, came to the Comprehensive Social Governance Center of Harbin New District to report his grievance. The center coordinated multiple departments for linked handling, and recovered his wages for him in only three hours, enabling the masses to resolve their grievances by "entering only one door."
How to prevent institutions from becoming hollow and implementation from being discounted? The Decision embeds the people's congress's whole-process supervision into the entire chain of grassroots governance, with legislation, supervision, and deputies' performance of duties working in concert.
According to reports, on the one hand, local legislation is being advanced in key areas such as property services, grid-based management, and community services, and outdated institutional documents are being promptly cleaned up and revised. On the other hand, the toolbox of people's congress supervision is being fully utilized, and through hearing special reports, law enforcement inspections, work inspections, special inquiries, and performance evaluations, the support and safeguards provided by the "one government and two courts" for grassroots governance are brought within the scope of supervision, with continuous follow-up to promote rectification.
Furthermore, people's congress deputies are being promoted to regularly go down to communities and villages to listen to the demands of the masses; specific issues collected by deputies are incorporated into matters handed over by the people's congress for handling and supervision, with follow-up on their handling; and common livelihood issues are elevated into annual key supervision projects, with the standing committee of the people's congress keeping watch over their implementation.
"When the grassroots are strong, the country is strong; when the grassroots are secure, the world is secure." The head of the Standing Committee of the Harbin Municipal People's Congress said that through the sinking of powers and responsibilities, urban-rural classification, pluralistic co-governance, and closed-loop supervision, the Decision strives to break the predicament of an inadequate resource attempting to handle a heavy task, stimulate the vitality of mass self-governance at the grassroots level, and promote benign interaction among government governance, social regulation, and mass self-governance.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 金 歆
"Keeping the people's concerns at heart and working on practical matters, the long-standing certificate-issuance problem was resolved in one stroke."
Not long ago, resident representatives of a residential community in Xichang City, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, came to the reception hall of the Xichang Municipal Petition Bureau and presented a silk banner to the petition-handling cadres. It turned out that the community had been unable to obtain real estate ownership certificates for many years due to reasons such as a contract dispute between the developer and the construction party. After the centralized governance campaign for petition issues in the livelihood sector was launched this year, the municipal petition bureau took the lead in forming a special task force with multiple departments to tackle the problem, finally enabling the community residents to obtain the long-awaited "red booklets."
Petition work is mass work that comes to one's door, and petition issues in the livelihood sector concern the urgent difficulties and anxious expectations of the people.
Since the beginning of this year, the national petition system has carried out in-depth centralized governance of petition issues in the livelihood sector, focusing on tackling key problems, key regions, and key areas in the livelihood sector, and making determined efforts to achieve substantive resolution, so that the people can truly feel the changes and reap the benefits, continuously transforming the warmth of petition work into the thickness of livelihood well-being.
Guided by the rule of law, breaking through the bottlenecks of long-pending petition cases
Advancing the rule-of-law-based development of petition work is of great significance for promoting the high-quality development of petition work. The governance of prominent petition issues in the livelihood sector must likewise be carried out on the track of the rule of law. This requires petition departments and other relevant bodies to be adept at using rule-of-law thinking to clarify responsibilities and using rule-of-law methods to break deadlocks.
A residential community in Puyang City, Henan Province, was built in 1996. The homeowners have lived there for nearly 30 years but have never been able to obtain real estate ownership certificates. "The crux lies in an old loan." A resident of the community explained that the community was originally built by a certain enterprise, which at the time mortgaged the community's land to borrow 1.6 million yuan from a bank. The creditor's rights changed hands several times thereafter, but the mortgage right was never transferred or changed, and the original borrowing enterprise had its business license revoked in 2001, so the debt subject no longer exists.
The community residents then began petitioning. In response, a relevant official of the Puyang Municipal Petition Bureau stated, "Because the creditor's rights subject and the mortgage rights subject are inconsistent, and the debt has no one to repay, the land mortgage right cannot be released. According to relevant legal provisions, if the land mortgage right is not released, the housing cannot undergo transfer registration." Thus, the road to obtaining certificates for the 223 households of owners appeared to stretch on indefinitely.
Faced with such a complex situation, the relevant departments in Puyang did not simply push the dispute toward litigation, nor did they violate the law to resolve it crudely. Instead, they established the principle of "acting in accordance with laws and regulations, respecting history, and giving priority to people's livelihoods," and used their ingenuity to solve the problem within the bounds of the law.
Under the coordination of the Office of the Puyang Municipal Petition Work Joint Conference, with respect to the remaining unpaid principal, after repeated calculations and consultations, the homeowners raised 100,000 yuan to settle the creditor's rights. With respect to the inconsistency between the mortgage rights subject and the creditor's rights subject, the relevant departments coordinated all parties to transfer the mortgage right to the current creditor's rights subject, Company Hua, and subsequently the Municipal Real Estate Transaction and Registration Center established a direct-through mechanism of "payment—certificate issuance—mortgage release—registration," implementing "dedicated personnel liaison and completion within a set time limit" for matters of mortgage release and registration handling.
Soon, one after another, bright red real estate ownership certificates were delivered to the residents' hands. "We waited half our lives for this; now the house truly belongs to us." Many residents shed tears of emotion.
Advancing the rule-of-law-based development of petition work, implementing the Regulations on Petition Work, and refining and improving local relevant systems are important aspects. In the centralized governance of petition issues in the livelihood sector, all localities have likewise taken the rule-of-law-based development of petition work as the starting point, using institutions to nail down responsibilities.
"The person is a person of one county, but the matter is a matter of another district. Which body should ultimately be in charge of a petition matter is always a subject of wrangling."
Previously, the construction of a wind power project in a county of Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, requisitioned forest land belonging to the masses of a certain county. He, a member of the masses of a certain county, and others reported disputes over forest land compensation, which involved multiple localities and multiple departments. The procedures for transfer and collaborative handling between each other were not clear enough, and the resolution of the problem once came to a standstill.
Not long ago, the problem found a more institutionalized solution. The Zunyi Municipal Petition Work Joint Conference issued the "Zunyi Municipal Petition Matters Handling Work Mechanism (Trial)," establishing a work mechanism of "one case, four documents, four leaders, one reply, one return visit." After the masses come to petition, how petition matters are transferred and who is responsible are clearly delineated in terms of responsibility.
With respect to the problem of He and others, the Zunyi Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources followed up throughout the entire process, the principal leaders of the two counties took charge of the cases and coordinated the resolution, and a cross-county joint work mechanism was established, effectively clearing bottlenecks and standardizing the handling procedures, ultimately paying the full amount of compensation to the masses.
High-level promotion, alleviating the urgent difficulties and anxious expectations of the people's livelihoods
The "matters of concern in the hearts of the masses" must be treated by leading cadres as "matters of top priority." In the centralized governance of petition issues in the livelihood sector, leading cadres at all levels have both actively gone down to the front line and insisted on high-level promotion, striving to do the "mass work that comes to one's door" well and into the hearts of the masses.
One morning in August, the city of Changsha, Hunan, still carried a hint of mist. The Standing Committee member of the Kaifu District Party Committee and District Commission for Discipline Inspection secretary arrived early at the district petition bureau's reception room to receive petitioners publicly as the leading cadre on duty.
"In order to let the masses make fewer trips and handle matters more conveniently, the district petition bureau regularly makes the reception schedules of district-level cadres fully public on the government affairs platform and the public notice board. Leading cadres sit on duty to receive petitioners and may not be absent without special cause." An official of the Kaifu District Petition Bureau explained.
"I saw on the notice board that the Commission for Discipline Inspection secretary was on duty today, so I came early in the morning." Mr. Zhou was the first visitor of the day. When his wife retired, her length of service did not match the actual situation, which affected the calculation of her pension.
The leading cadre receiving the petition inquired in detail about Mr. Zhou's wife's work unit, retirement time, the work certificate issued by the subdistrict, and other circumstances, and coordinated on the spot for relevant departments and subdistrict staff to liaise and verify.
"It is possible that records were lost due to institutional reform and departmental changes. This cost should not be borne by the ordinary people." After on-site communication, Mr. Zhou received a detailed solution plan and a time limit.
When cadres go down to the grassroots, the people's hearts are gathered together. In the centralized governance work, Hunan has carried out regular work of going to the grassroots and identifying problems. The 122 "top leaders" of cities and counties across the province have sat on duty to receive petitioners and gone down to visit and make appointments with petitioners more than 1,640 times, receiving more than 5,600 petitioners.
Giving play to the role of high-level promotion and better coordinating the forces of all parties is an important way to resolve long-pending petition cases. In the centralized governance of petition issues in the livelihood sector, all localities have actively given play to the role of leaders taking charge of cases and coordinated various departments to tackle and resolve difficult problems.
"I really never imagined that this money could still be recovered!" Yao, a retired worker of a certain city in Shandong Province, held the hand of the petition work staff, her voice somewhat choked with emotion.
In previous years, the enterprise where Yao worked stopped paying social insurance premiums for its employees due to poor operating conditions. In the following years, Yao and more than a dozen old colleagues pooled their resources to advance more than 600,000 yuan of their own pension insurance and medical insurance premiums.
"At the time, we just thought of advancing the money to pay social insurance so that we could smoothly go through retirement procedures. The company promised to pay the money back to us later." Yao said. However, the company subsequently gradually fell into a state of paralysis and simply had no ability to repay. "The company's people cannot be found, and it has no property either. Even if the masses went to litigation and won, there would be no way to enforce the judgment." An official of the city's petition department said.
After this petition matter was included in the centralized governance of petition issues in the livelihood sector, the relevant leaders of the city began to take charge of the case and resolve it.
In order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the situation, the relevant leaders of the city gave play to high-level coordination, organizing the enterprise's original superior unit, the Municipal Supply and Marketing Cooperative, to join with the Municipal Court, the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, and other multiple departments to form a special task force.
Under the unified command of the municipal leaders, the task force sorted through the enterprise's remaining assets item by item and found that the enterprise had leased out some of its houses in its early years, but because the company was in a state of paralysis, the tenants had long been in arrears on rent. The work group then assisted the enterprise in collecting the rent, and also sorted out and leased out idle houses.
Once the funds were in place, the task force returned the full amount of more than 600,000 yuan in advanced payments to the retired workers at the earliest opportunity.
Drawing inferences from one case, building a long-term governance pattern
Resolving individual cases is treating the symptoms; source governance is the cure. The centralized governance of petition issues in the livelihood sector should take individual cases as the entry point, dig deep into the regulatory blind spots behind them, and transform the experience of "handling one matter successfully" into a mechanism for "resolving one category of matters."
"More than 180,000 yuan in arrears, fully settled by the end of May!"
In the first half of this year, in Zhongwei City, Ningxia, during the construction of a certain photovoltaic project, the construction party owed machinery rental fees, which also triggered arrears in workers' wages. Subsequently, the construction party and the contractor were unable to reach agreement on the amount of money, and the contractor filed a petition.
"Photovoltaic projects involve multiple layers of subjects, including the owner, the general contractor, the subcontractor, and the construction crew. We urged the relevant units to carry out on-site verification at the earliest opportunity, comprehensively sort out the hierarchical relationships of project contracting and subcontracting, verify one by one the core facts such as construction duration, rental agreements, and fee calculation standards, and accurately confirm the amount in arrears and the legal responsibilities and payment obligations of each party." An official of the Zhongwei Municipal Petition Department introduced that, ultimately, with the help of the relevant departments, the contractor and the construction party reached a mediation agreement.
"Handling this one petition matter is not the end." A relevant official of the Zhongwei Municipal Petition Department introduced that in recent years, photovoltaic and other new energy engineering construction projects have been increasing in Zhongwei, and the related disputes are very complex and often difficult to handle. Therefore, the successful experience of resolving individual cases should be transformed into institutional norms for industry regulation.
"Establish a special task force, with key personnel of the project and the general contractor unit jointly on duty at the human resources and social security and petition departments"; "build a 'full chain' of closed-loop management, and after mediation is reached, establish a 'one case, one file' supervision ledger, with dedicated personnel tracking the progress of funds and monitoring payment status in real time until the full amount is received"... In response to the problems, summarizing the experience, the relevant departments of Zhongwei City established a work mechanism to resolve from the source the problems of machinery fees, project funds, and wage arrears in the new energy engineering sector.
In addition to establishing mechanisms, Party committees and governments at all levels have also proactively identified common problems from individual petition matters in the livelihood sector, thereby promoting the resolution of a whole category of problems.
In Jiaoxi Town, Liuyang City, Changsha, some village groups are located in remote areas and have not yet been connected to the water supply pipeline network of large-scale water plants. Affected by drought weather, a small number of villagers face seasonal water shortages.
"When it doesn't rain, we have to carry water to drink." During a visit by a leader going down to receive petitioners, a villager of a certain village reported this to the relevant leader. Soon, the relevant departments of Liuyang City gained a detailed understanding of the villagers' water supply demands and studied and formulated a solution plan.
"This village is short of water, but what about other villages? Is this kind of problem widespread?"
With this question in mind, the Changsha Municipal Petition Bureau did not stop at this one village. They carried out an analysis of similar cases and found that petition demands regarding rural water supply were not isolated cases. Thereupon, the petition department immediately handed the problem over to the relevant functional departments, comprehensively surveyed the similar problems faced by people in remote mountainous areas and high-elevation areas across the city, and promoted resolution village by village and household by household through special task force scheduling and departmental coordination.
"From receiving one problem, to discovering one category of problems, to resolving a whole area of problems. Only then can the 'matters of concern in the hearts of the masses' truly become 'matters of reassurance.'" A relevant official of the Hunan Provincial Petition Bureau said.
Leaders going down to receive petitioners to directly face the demands of the masses, rule-of-law methods to break through the difficulties of long-pending cases, and drawing inferences from one case to achieve long-term governance — the national petition system, with one solid measure after another and one heartwarming result after another, continuously transforms the "problem list" in the livelihood sector into the people's "satisfaction list," constantly writing a new chapter of petition work serving the people in the new era.
A relevant official of the National Petition Bureau stated that organizing and carrying out centralized governance is very necessary and very important for promoting the resolution of livelihood issues that bear on the immediate interests of the masses, strengthening the flesh-and-blood ties between the Party and the people, and enhancing the level and capacity of social governance. In the next step, it is necessary to further strengthen ideological understanding, enhance the initiative and steadfastness in doing the work well, and promote the centralized governance to go deeper and be more solid.
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Food safety is the foundation of people's livelihood and the basis of development, bearing on the physical health and safety of life of the people. Recently, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission held a special meeting, clearly requiring that crimes endangering food safety be investigated and punished strictly in accordance with the law, and that the people's "safety on the tip of the tongue" be safeguarded. The Supreme People's Procuratorate released a batch of typical cases of procuratorial public interest litigation on food safety, using vivid judicial practice to take aim at food safety chaos and fill regulatory shortcomings. Strict deployment, precise performance of duties, and coordinated efforts—a series of measures conveys a clear signal: safeguarding "safety on the tip of the tongue" requires sustained, long-term effort, putting strictness first, and whole-domain co-governance.
Food is the people's primary concern (民以食为天, min yi shi wei tian - "people, take, food, as, heaven"), and safety comes first in food. At present, China's food safety situation continues to improve steadily, the level of standardization and normalization in the food industry keeps rising, and the safety defense line from the fields to the people's dining tables continues to be reinforced. But we must also clearly see that incidents that breach the bottom line of food safety still occur from time to time. The risks and hidden dangers in the food safety field have the characteristics of being concealed, recurrent, and chain-linked. Pesticide residues exceeding standards in agricultural products at farmers' markets, irregular operations in food delivery and takeout, hidden safety hazards in substandard tableware, false and exaggerated advertising for health foods... Some unscrupulous merchants, driven by greed (利欲熏心, li yu xun xin - "profit, desire, smoke, heart") and taking desperate risks (铤而走险, ting er zou xian - "take risk, go, danger"), touch the red line of food safety and harm the vital interests of the masses. These chaotic phenomena in the food safety field directly affect the people's sense of well-being and security, highlighting the necessity and urgency of normalized strict governance.
The rule of law is a solid barrier for safeguarding food safety, and strict law enforcement and judicial work are powerful handles for rectifying chaos. The batch of typical cases recently released by the Supreme People's Procuratorate is precisely a vivid practice of safeguarding food safety on the track of the rule of law. In Dongying, Shandong, in response to an enterprise illegally adding toxic and harmful non-food raw materials to health medicines, public interest litigation pursued strict accountability, making the violators pay a heavy economic price; in Changzhou, Jiangsu, focusing on regulatory loopholes in large edible agricultural product wholesale markets, procuratorial recommendations urged and promoted the construction of an information disclosure and whole-chain traceability supervision system, preventing food safety risks in the circulation of edible agricultural products; in Shenzhen, Guangdong, in response to the problem of disposable aluminum foil tableware not meeting food safety standards, procuratorial organs promoted administrative organs to improve a whole-chain quality and safety control system from production sources to circulation terminals, effectively regulating market order.
A batch of typical cases not only punished the violators and recovered losses to the public interest, but also promoted industry rectification, improved regulatory mechanisms, and filled institutional shortcomings, achieving the good effect of "handling one case, governing one area, and regulating one domain." These judicial practices profoundly confirm that food safety governance requires not only heavy-handed action against chaos and strict accountability, but also source governance and systematic governance, further consolidating primary responsibility and regulating the industry ecology.
Food safety governance is a systematic project that requires multi-party linkage and coordinated co-governance. Political and legal organs need to continue to maintain a high-pressure posture in law enforcement and judicial work, adhere to strict investigation and punishment without leniency, and resolutely cut off the chain of illegal interests in food safety; functional departments such as market regulation and agriculture and rural affairs should deepen the connection between administrative and criminal justice, improve mechanisms for information sharing, clue transfer, and joint law enforcement, and achieve seamless connection and two-way linkage between administrative penalties and criminal punishment. At the same time, it is necessary to firmly consolidate the primary responsibility of all links in food production, processing, sales, and circulation, promote enterprises to operate in compliance with the law and with integrity, and build a whole-domain governance pattern of "enterprise self-discipline, government regulation, judicial guarantee, and social supervision."
The safety of every meal is the most simple expectation of the masses. Food safety is both a livelihood project and a project for winning people's hearts. It is necessary to stand at the height of safeguarding and improving people's livelihood, take the rule of law as the guideline, strictness as the key, and co-governance as the foundation, keep a close eye on risks and hidden dangers, fill governance shortcomings, and improve long-term mechanisms, using the most rigorous standards, the strictest regulation, the most severe punishment, and the most serious accountability to continuously weave a tighter food safety protection net, so that the people can eat with confidence and peace of mind, and firmly safeguard the "happiness on the tip of the tongue" of hundreds of millions of people.
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After a dispute over a sales contract between a certain machinery company in Beijing and a certain machinery company in Suzhou entered the enforcement procedure, because the Suzhou machinery company had no assets available for enforcement (无财产可供执行, wu cai chan ke gong zhi xing - "no property can be executed"), the case was concluded with this enforcement procedure terminated. Thereafter, the Beijing machinery company discovered that the Suzhou machinery company had completed its deregistration procedures without having undergone lawful liquidation, and requested that the company's former shareholders Zhang Mou and Wen Mou be added as persons subject to enforcement in the case, and that their assets under their names be enforced according to law.
Zhang Mou and Wen Mou argued in their defense that when the company completed its deregistration, a liquidation group was established, and the members of the liquidation group had been filed and put on record with the approval of the market supervision and administration bureau. During the process of sorting out claims, the liquidation group notified creditors including the applicant, and produced a liquidation report, which did not constitute the circumstance of completing deregistration without undergoing liquidation.
After trial, the court held that the Suzhou machinery company, knowing full well that there were still debts involved in the case unsettled, still pledged in its deregistration that all debts had been cleared, and that based on the existing evidence, it could not be proven either that creditors, namely the Beijing machinery company, had been notified during liquidation; its liquidation results were inconsistent with the facts, and it could be determined that the company had completed deregistration without undergoing lawful liquidation.
In addition, Zhang Mou and Wen Mou pledged in the shareholders' resolution to bear all debts after the company's deregistration, that is, through the shareholders' resolution they formed a written commitment, which conformed to the relevant provisions of the "Provisions of the Supreme People's Court on Several Issues Concerning the Change and Addition of Parties in Civil Enforcement."
Ultimately, the court ruled to add Zhang Mou and Wen Mou as persons subject to enforcement in the case. After the two respondents applied for reconsideration, the Beijing Third Intermediate People's Court upheld the ruling result in this case.
The judge stated that this case is a typical case in which shareholders bear liability for repayment due to non-compliant liquidation procedures, and that the adjudication results of related cases provide lessons for business operators: first, one must be sure to sort out claims and debts clearly and initiate liquidation procedures in a timely manner; second, strictly carry out liquidation work according to law, ensuring legality and compliance; third, earnestly fulfill the obligation to notify known creditors.
From a long-term perspective, standardizing corporate deregistration procedures not only provides strong protection for creditors, but also is more conducive to safeguarding the vital interests of shareholders, and holds crucial significance for regulating the orderly exit of enterprises from the market. If a company wishes to achieve the purpose of evading debts and transferring assets through illegal or non-compliant methods such as false commitments, illegal liquidation, etc. to complete deregistration, then creditors can, through the enforcement objection procedure, add shareholders who have pledged to bear all debts after the company's deregistration as persons subject to enforcement in the case, effectively safeguarding their own lawful rights and interests.
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In the Hengkou Demonstration Zone of Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, the mobile phone number of Zhou Zhe, a 90s-generation full-time firefighter, is called by local villagers the "Xiao Zhou hotline" that answers at any call. However, when he first entered the villages to carry out fire-prevention publicity, Zhou Zhe, from the Yuelu Road Fire Rescue Station,had no shortage of being rebuffed and turned away (闭门羹, bi men geng - "close, door, soup").
The Hengkou Demonstration Zone is located deep in the Qinba mountainous area. Most young people in the villages under its jurisdiction work away from home elsewhere, leaving many elderly people living alone and left-behind children, whose safety awareness is relatively weak, and who always harbor a kind of fluke mentality that "fire won't burn down my own home." In 2025, when Zhou Zhe first arrived, he held publicity leaflets in his hand but no one took them, and most villagers spread their hands as if it were none of their business. "From the fire brigade? What fire could there possibly be in our mountain gully?" The village cadres were polite but carried a sense of estrangement.
Zhou Zhe did not retreat in the slightest. Instead, he rolled up his trouser legs, walked into the fields, and with a not-quite-fluent local dialect, picked tea, harvested crops, and chatted about daily life with the villagers. On workdays, he persuaded young people in the village to become fire-prevention volunteers so as to understand the situation; on rest days, he took off his blue uniform, sat himself among the elderly crowds to "find out the current situation," and sorted out the fire risks and hidden dangers of the villages.
Old Tang was a village figure famous for his "stubborn temper." The electrical wiring in his home had aged, with the outer insulation cracked. Zhou Zhe went to his door several times but was rebuffed each time: "I've lived here for decades and nothing has ever happened. Young man, you're just making a mountain out of a molehill" (小题大做, xiao ti da zuo - "small, topic, big, do")! Later, Old Tang would take a detour whenever he saw Zhou Zhe from a distance. The turning point came late one night not long after, when Old Tang's electricity meter box short-circuited, and sparks ignited the firewood piled in the corner of the yard. In his panic, Old Tang remembered the phone number Zhou Zhe had left behind, and with trembling hands dialed it, saying: "Xiao Zhou, there's a fire..."
Zhou Zhe and his colleagues rushed along the mountain road and arrived at the scene quickly, putting out the fire in time and preventing it from spreading to the main house. From then on, Old Tang not only took the initiative to check for hidden dangers himself, but also became a publicity officer in the village, telling everyone he met about the importance of fire safety.
Whose family had strung up private electric wires to keep wild boars away, whose family's brazier had ignited the quilts, whose family often dried clothes over an electric heater... After a period of time, Zhou Zhe had figured out the village's "fire ledger," and matching the hidden dangers he found with videos of the same type of incidents, he went to every villager's home, opened his phone and "talked about the matter."
Just after the Spring Festival holiday this year, Zhou Zhe came to Laowan Village under his jurisdiction, holding smoke alarms as he went door to door, but the elderly villagers were very resistant. Facing everyone's misunderstanding, Zhou Zhe, showing tireless patience despite repetitive tasks (不厌其烦, bu yan qi fan - "not, hate, its, tiresome"), explained: "Once there's smoke in the house, this networked smoke alarm will alert immediately, and the community duty room and your family members' phones will receive notifications. It's very safe!" At the same time, members of the village's two committees and grid workers went door to door in their respective areas to conduct inspections, registering information such as housing structure, electrical wiring layout, and so on.
Seventy-seven-year-old Grandpa Wang lived alone. Zhou Zhe carefully inspected the electrical wiring hazards in the elderly man's home, removed two aging, exposed socket strips, installed a smoke alarm for free, and tested it on the spot. He also took special care to teach the old man how to recognize the indicator light: "Regular blinking means normal, continuous beeping means alarm. If anything happens, don't panic — just go outside the door and wait for us."
Today, in the vast villages of the Hengkou Demonstration Zone, there are villagers checking their firewood piles in the early morning, volunteers patrolling on their own initiative in the evening, and children who can rattle off the fire alarm phone number at once. Fire safety has changed from "the fire brigade's business" into "the villagers' own business."
In recent years, in view of the weak fire-prevention infrastructure in remote rural areas, the Shaanxi Provincial Fire Rescue Corps has, in light of local conditions (因地制宜), carried out fire-prevention publicity, hidden-danger inspections, and education and training, striving to enhance grassroots fire-disaster prevention and control capabilities and bringing fire services to the doorsteps of the masses. Since last year, Shaanxi fire authorities have joined forces with civil affairs and agriculture-and-rural departments, establishing fire-assistance mechanisms such as "Warm Sun Protecting the Elderly" and "Neighborhood Watch," and have established paired assistance relationships with more than 58,000 elderly people living alone.
"A single phone number connects the hearts of the people, and only by letting more and more Zhou Zhes rush about on the small country paths can the rural fire-safety 'firewall' be built ever stronger." A responsible person from the Shaanxi Provincial Fire Rescue Corps said that, in the next step, they will organize "rural fire-prevention volunteer service teams," training village cadres, grid workers, and returning young people into "fire-safety savvy people," so that precise fire services of the "Xiao Zhou hotline" type can spread widely and flourish everywhere (遍地开花, bian di kai hua - "every, place, open, flower") across the land of the Three Qin region.
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Sponsored by the Literary and Art Bureau of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Domestic Liaison Department of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and the Chinese Theatre Association, the "Gathering the Finest of the Arts — 2026 National Outstanding Young Opera Talent Performance Exhibition" recently concluded at the Chang'an Grand Theatre in Beijing. Thirty-two young actors and musicians took the stage, with 29 troupes from 16 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps participating, covering 20 opera genres, encompassing all role types including sheng (male roles), dan (female roles), jing (painted-face roles), and chou (clown roles), as well as leading orchestral positions such as jinghu (Beijing opera fiddle) and sigu (drum conductor). The average age of the participants was under 35... The five performances were brilliant and varied (精彩纷呈, jing cai fen cheng - "splendid, abundant; divided, present"), presenting a succession of climaxes (高潮迭起, gao chao die qi - "high tide, rise up; rise, rise"), sketching out a vivid and multi-dimensional overall picture of young opera talent in the new era.
This year marks the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and the first year of implementation of the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Revitalization of Theatre (2026–2028)." This performance exhibition allows us to see the current state of the young opera talent contingent and provides insights for improving the opera talent cultivation system and advancing the high-quality development of the theatre industry.
The Garden of Opera Blooms with Boundless Spring
The foundations of the major opera genres are solid, and the lesser-known genres are no longer marginal embellishments on the stage. Major genres with broad audiences, such as Peking opera, Kunqu opera, Henan opera, Yue opera, Huangmei opera, and Qinqiang opera, are seeing new talents emerging in great numbers (新人辈出, xin ren bei chu - "new person, generation after generation, emerge"), with classic excerpted scenes such as "Zhuo Fang Cao · Su Dian" (Catching Cao Cao · The Overnight Stay), "The Red Plum · Seeing the Judge," and "Liang Zhu · Yingtai's Lament" fully displaying the distinctive style of each genre. A batch of rare local genres, including Taizhou Luantan, Qi opera, Sizhou opera, Puxian opera, Siping tune, and Longjiang opera, made concentrated appearances, presenting the vigorous momentum of art forms rooted in local soil. Repertoires such as Puxian opera's "Wang Kui and Guiying · On the Road," Sizhou opera's "Second Sister Xiao Er's Dream," and Longjiang opera's "Hanging Up the Command Is Hard for the Sister-in-Law" preserve the original characteristics of local genres.
This performance exhibition opened up social submission channels, breaking down institutional barriers. State-owned troupes, privately run troupes, and new literary and art groups competed on the same stage. Gong Jianqiang of Anhui's "Two New" opera groups, Zhu Feng of Taizhou Luantan in Zhejiang, and Xie Yanqiao of Henan's Xie Yanqiao Opera Art Center — three representatives of privately run troupes and new literary and art groups in opera — demonstrated from one angle the diversity of the garden of opera.
The complete presentation of all role types — sheng, dan, jing, chou — along with leading orchestral positions responds to the practical demand for balanced development across opera role types. Over a period of time in the past, some role types in the opera industry experienced a gap in talent, with insufficient reserves of performers for jing roles, chou roles, martial roles, and orchestral musicians. This performance exhibition selected 11 performers for sheng roles, 14 for dan roles, 2 for jing roles, and 2 for chou roles. Some role types in short supply received ample display, such as Gong Jianqiang of Sizhou opera, who took the stage as the only male dan performer in this exhibition. Performers of jinghu, sigu, gaohu, and erhu took the stage independently, changing the previous phenomenon of emphasizing performance while neglecting accompaniment, and highlighting the importance attached to the complete talent chain of opera art both on stage and behind the scenes.
In terms of professional performance, the young generation has solid basic skills and orderly inheritance. Most of the participating actors studied under famous masters and received systematic training in traditional techniques. Martial-role actors possess superb skills in tumbling and falling techniques, while civil-role actors are rigorous and standardized in singing, recitation, acting, and acrobatics. The unique skills and stunts of opera performance, such as the weapon skills (bazigong), object-throwing techniques, and soft and hard carpet acrobatics, present an overwhelming amount of things to see (目不暇接, mu bu xia jie - "eye, not, able to, receive"). Many breathtaking high-difficulty movement techniques and humorous stylized movement routines extremely test the actors' performance skill and artistic foundation, and also best display the captivating charm of opera art.
The repertoire covers a wide range of themes and varied styles. Whether expressing feelings of family and country, extolling truth, goodness, and beauty, or displaying a chivalrous and righteous spirit (侠肝义胆, xia gan yi dan - "heroic liver, righteous gall") and hating evil as if it were an enemy (嫉恶如仇, ji e ru chou - "hate, evil, like, enemy"), all embody the connotations of traditional Chinese aesthetics in their artistic presentation. In the Peking opera "The Stolen Silver Pot," the righteous thief Qiu Xiaoyi, possessing a chivalrous and righteous spirit, cleverly steals the silver pot; in the Qi opera "Dong Hong Falls into the Dungeon," Dong Hong searches for evidence in the water dungeon to rid the people of harm. The Pu opera "Hanging the Painting" and the Sizhou opera "Second Sister Xiao Er's Dream" express longing for a happy relationship, demonstrating the actors' rich expressiveness.
Among the actors are both professionally trained talents with master's degrees and grassroots inheritors rooted in the folk tradition and committed to the transmission of intangible cultural heritage. The young participants come from some from eastern coastal provinces and municipalities, others from border minority regions, showing that the vision for selecting opera talent has broadened.
Adapting to the communication environment of the all-media era, multiple platforms simultaneously live-streamed the performances. Nearly 4,000 audience members attended the five performances in person, and nearly 240,000 people watched online, further breaking through the boundaries of the theatre.
Building a Full-Chain Talent Cultivation Model of "Performance Exhibition + Follow-up Training"
This year marks the fifth year of "Gathering the Finest of the Arts." Over the past five years, the event has cumulatively brought together 138 young opera talents from 69 troupes (including art colleges and universities) across 24 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps to take the stage in the capital. Through five years of dedicated cultivation, "Gathering the Finest of the Arts" has become an important platform for discovering and displaying young opera strength.
The performance exhibition is like a mirror, reflecting the current state of the young opera talent reserve and also revealing the practical issues that still need to be addressed in talent cultivation. In accordance with the requirements of the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Revitalization of Theatre (2026–2028)" and based on the long-term goals of opera inheritance and development, sustained efforts are still needed in multiple areas.
Improve the closed-loop mechanism of performance exhibition and talent cultivation, and continue to support outstanding young innovative opera talents. Implement the growth plan for outstanding young theatre talents, make good use of high-level display platforms such as "Gathering the Finest of the Arts," change the phenomenon of "emphasizing selection while neglecting follow-up cultivation," and build a full-chain talent cultivation model of "performance exhibition + follow-up training."
Address structural shortcomings in the industry and strengthen the inheritance and protection of role types in short supply and endangered opera genres. In response to the practical difficulties of imbalanced development across role types and the lack of successors for rare genres, implement a revitalization plan for role types in short supply.
Deepen the deep integration of schools and troupes and build a compatible and diverse talent cultivation community. Break down the barriers between academies and troupes, improve the "academy + troupe" collaborative cultivation model, implement a dual-mentor system, bring industry forces such as famous troupe masters and Plum Blossom Award winners into teaching practice, and deeply integrate "famous masters transmitting opera" with academic education.
To uphold fundamental principles and break new ground and forge a young opera contingent in the new era that possesses both professional talent and moral integrity (德才兼备, de cai jian bei - "virtue, talent, both, possess"), it is also necessary to strengthen ideological and value guidance, cultivate deep feelings of family and country among young practitioners, and enable young opera artists to adhere to the professional pursuit of having both excellent moral character and artistic skill (德艺双馨, de yi shuang xin - "virtue, art, both, fragrant").
Consolidate talent support measures and solve the practical development difficulties faced by young practitioners. For example, improve incentive and support policies for young opera practitioners, especially increasing policy support for young talents in grassroots troupes and privately run troupes, so that young opera artists can settle down to deepen their professionalism and refine their skills.
When talent thrives, theatre thrives. The continuous transmission of the Chinese cultural lineage depends on the inheritance and struggle of generations of opera artists. Build high-level display stages well, do solid work in full-cycle cultivation; attach importance to major genres while also attending to rare genres; coordinate the development of state-owned troupes and new literary and art groups... We look forward to the garden of Chinese opera growing and flourishing like brocade-patterned flowers (繁花似锦, fan hua si jin - "prosperous, flower, like, brocade").
(The author is Vice Chairman of the Chinese Theatre Association)
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More than 90 years ago, with the support of the local Tibetan, Qiang, and other ethnic minority peoples, the Red Army crossed remote and inaccessible places (人迹罕至, ren ji han zhi - "people, traces, rarely, reach") snow-capped mountains, traversed grasslands known as "forbidden zones of life," fought bloody battles against Kuomintang troops several times their number, and finally marched northward to Shaanxi and Gansu in succession to achieve a triumphant grand rendezvous. The television drama The Journey, broadcast by China Media Group, focuses precisely on the history of the First Front Army, the Fourth Front Army, and the Second Front Army successively fighting and maneuvering through the Sichuan-Xikang region during the period of more than a year from June 1935 to August 1936.
The Red Army's Long March was a process of struggle against the reactionary Kuomintang, a process of struggle against the harsh natural environment, and also a process of struggle against erroneous tendencies within the Party. In the past, most film and television works on similar themes did not, by and large, depict in detail the struggle within the Party during this period against Zhang Guotao's retreatist line and splittist activities. The Journey breaks through this limitation, interweaving the struggle against the enemy with the struggle within the Party, and while fully reflecting the Red Army's fighting a desperate battle (殊死搏斗, shu si bo dou - "death, life, struggle, fight") against hundreds of thousands of Kuomintang troops, it directly confronts this period of history.
The drama prominently depicts Party and Red Army leaders such as Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Zhang Wentian adhering to the correct strategic policy of marching north to resist Japan, resolutely opposing Zhang Guotao's unauthorized retreat southward with the Fourth Front Army and his splittist act of setting up a separate "Central Committee," and highlights the broad-mindedness and struggle wisdom of sacrificing personal interests for the sake of the Party (相忍为党, xiang ren wei dang - "mutually, endure, for, party"). The drama meticulously depicts how Zhu De and Liu Bocheng, who went south with the Fourth Front Army, prioritizing the overall interests (顾全大局, gu quan da ju - "look after, complete, big, situation") and enduring hardship and humiliation to achieve a greater goal (忍辱负重, ren ru fu zhong - "endure, humiliation, bear, heavy"), persuaded Zhang Guotao with great patience, closely united the broad ranks of Red Army commanders and fighters, and finally brought about the process by which the Fourth Front Army once again marched north. Through this television drama, today's viewers can see how outstanding Chinese Communists, represented by Mao Zedong, at the "darkest moment" of the Chinese revolution, resolutely overcame erroneous tendencies within the Party, safeguarded the unity and unification of the Party and the Red Army, enabled the Chinese revolution to advance along the correct line, and opened up an entirely new situation in the development of the Chinese revolution.
This drama not only authentically reproduces the decision-making process of the Red Army's operational strategic policies at important meetings such as the Lianghekou Meeting, the Mao'ergai Meeting, the E'jie Meeting, and the Wayaobao Meeting, but also vividly depicts the heroic and arduous journey of the broad ranks of Red Army commanders and fighters overcoming difficulties amid the snow-capped mountains and grasslands, shaping a vivid and lifelike (有血有肉, you xue you rou - "have, blood, have, flesh") heroic group image of cadres and soldiers. A small grain-collecting detachment of the Fourth Front Army is a microcosm. When crossing the Songpan Great Grassland three times, grain was the lifeline. This small detachment, undergoing countless hardships (千辛万苦, qian xin wan ku - "thousand, hardships, ten thousand, bitterness"), collected a large quantity of grain, yet when crossing the grassland themselves, they were the first to run out of food. Their greatest wish was "to walk out of the grassland alive and reach northern Shaanxi." This most plain and simple of statements contains ordinary people's longing for life, and all the more highlights their firm revolutionary conviction. In the drama, their bodies left behind on the great grassland are like so many milestones of the Red Army's Long March.
Ethnic unity is an important narrative thread running through the entire drama The Journey. This drama vividly depicts how the Red Army, when in the Sichuan-Xikang region, respected the religious beliefs and customs of Tibetan, Qiang, and other ethnic minority peoples, protected their cattle, sheep, and grain, and helped them with farming and treated their illnesses. It artistically processes historical facts such as the formation of a Tibetan Red Army armed force in the Danba region, and through vivid storylines highlights the Chinese Communist Party's propositions and policies of ethnic equality and unity.
The drama was filmed entirely on location at Long March sites including highland snow-capped mountains, virgin grasslands, and ancient Tibetan and Qiang villages and temples. The unique history, culture, folk customs, rituals, and traditional production and daily life scenes of the Tibetan, Qiang, and other ethnic minorities restore the historical atmosphere of the Red Army's Long March, composing visual images with a pronounced texture.
The Journey reproduces the extremely difficult and tortuous journey in the history of the Red Army's Long March and profoundly reveals the ideological connotation of the Long March spirit.
(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee.)
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Have you ever "scrolled past" the "flash-step" or "bear-shiver" dance moves? On short-video platforms, these folk dance segments originating from the intangible cultural heritage of Anhui Huagudeng (flower-drum lantern) and Shandong Guzi Yangge (drum yangge) have been dubbed by netizens as "tension maxed out," spawning numerous imitations and "secondary creations."
It is not just the "flash-step" and "bear-shiver" moves—nowadays, many ethnic and folk dances are continuously "breaking out" through short videos. For instance, "Galloping," performed by Jiang Tiehong, a professor at the Minzu University of China's School of Dance, was originally a classic male group dance of the Mongolian ethnic group created by Ma Yue in the 1980s, and is a stage classic. The Jingpo ethnic group's knife dance from the Yunnan Song and Dance Theater conveys the unique sense of power of ethnic minority dance to tens of millions of netizens.
Traditional stage performances, relying on complete narratives and choreographic staging, can systematically showcase the profound beauty of ethnic culture and possess strong artistic appeal. Short videos further break down the boundaries of the theater. Even without a professional stage, splendid stage design, or a complete story, a few movement segments, relying on their distinct expressiveness and artistic style, are enough to attract a large number of netizens to follow and remake them.
Some people also worry that folk dance loses its core essence in entertainment-oriented dissemination, believing that imitation merely replicates the external form of the movements. The flash-step of Huagudeng condenses the life sentiments of the people on both banks of the Huai River; the continuous tremor of Guzi Yangge carries the spiritual outlook of the people of the Qilu region... Fragmented dissemination can hardly carry the complete cultural logic. Guiding the public from chasing outward forms to exploring the profound cultural roots behind the dance steps is precisely the space where professional workers and communication platforms can exert their influence. The fast-consumption style of internet dissemination is the entry point; spreading through this crack creates a superimposed and amplified effect: a single body movement "breaks out," which in turn drives the public to explore the roots of traditional culture.
Folk dance has always grown in the fields and by the roadside; it does not fear liveliness, but rather fears being ignored. Its inheritance has never been limited to a single path. Large-scale stage creation is inheritance; professional teachers recording teaching materials and passing down body techniques from generation to generation is inheritance; ordinary netizens spontaneously filming short videos and exploring the local stories behind the dance steps is equally a vibrant form of inheritance.
Short-video dissemination and stage art have never been in a relationship of one side growing at the expense of the other (此消彼长, ci xiao bi chang - "this, diminish; that, increase"). In the era of short videos, we still have the confidence to hold our ground. There is no harm in letting folk dance first "play" and come alive, then settle down and go further, because fun is the best cultural guide in the digital age. We look forward to more vivid body language of folk dance entering the public eye in a light and approachable manner, allowing folk art rooted in the countryside to be passed down from generation to generation and to achieve endless growth and development (生生不息, sheng sheng bu xi - "birth, birth, not, stop").
(The author is a student at the Minzu University of China's School of Dance)
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The Qinqiang opera Red River Valley is adapted from the film of the same name written and directed by Feng Xiaoning. From film to dance drama and then to opera, different art forms have all achieved successful expressions of this subject matter. Classic adaptation is by no means simple replication; rather, it is on the basis of thoroughly grasping the spirit of the original work that one finds the expression most suited to the art form itself. As the producer of the Qinqiang opera Red River Valley, what drew us to this subject was not only the subject matter itself, but also the dual resonance between the ethnic narrative and the aesthetics of the Qinqiang opera genre.
As the "ancestor of the bangzi tune system," Qinqiang's sonorous, solemn and stirring, high-pitched and impassioned, emotionally intense vocal qualities can form a powerful aesthetic resonance with the tragic epic told in Red River Valley of Tibetan compatriots and Han people standing shoulder to shoulder to resist foreign aggression, sharing the same fate of life and death (生死与共, sheng si yu gong - "life, death, with, share"). The cross-media dialogue between classic film and television works and traditional opera art expands the boundaries of Qinqiang subject matter, injecting innovative vitality into this ancient theatrical genre while allowing the classic to radiate new vitality in the new era.
In terms of character design, the Qinqiang opera Red River Valley takes Danzhu, the daughter of a Tibetan chieftain's household, as its protagonist. This is a new figure in the artistic gallery of Qinqiang opera, and also a new image I have never encountered before, making it extremely challenging. This challenge is not only a completely new character creation concerning Tibetan customs, emotional expression, and character growth, but also an exploration of transformation centered on Danzhu, from cinematic narrative to theatrical narrative. From first getting to know the character to repeated refinement, in the process of "performing" Danzhu I gradually entered her inner world, striving to touch her soul, seeking to achieve fusion with the character—it is Danzhu who ultimately made Danzhu stand on the stage.
Danzhu grew up on the snow-covered plateau. The uniquely favorable natural environment and her aristocratic status shaped her character foundation of being innocent and childlike (天真烂漫, tianzhen lanman - "heaven, truth, wild, blooming"), clear and magnanimous, daring to love and daring to hate. In her maiden years she was carefree and without worries (无忧无虑, wu you wu li - "no, worry, no, care"), devoted to the young Luosang and boldly pursuing love; Luosang's gentle rejection brought her emotional trauma. From this, she gradually moved beyond personal romantic entanglements, and her mind matured. Then misfortunes came arriving in quick succession (接踵而至, jie feng er zhi - "step, heel, and, arrive"): foreign invasion shattered the peace of her homeland, the flames of war swept through Red River Valley, the mountains and rivers were in turmoil, and the ancestral land suffered calamity. Before the great cause of family and country, having undergone the baptism of war, Danzhu completed the elevation of her realm from small love to great love, growing from an innocent and artless snowland maiden into a heroic woman who stepped forward bravely to take action (挺身而出, ting shen er chu - "straighten, body, and, emerge"), vowing to defend the land to the death.
Relying on the performance system of Qinqiang opera to restore the unique spiritual temperament of a Tibetan maiden, and performing with clear layers her psychological transformation from emotional setback to the awakening of great love, was my initial difficulty in shaping this character. After repeated discussions with the creative team, I settled on the approach of "the chengshi (stylized movements) as the bones, life as the flesh, and regional character as the soul." Using the standardized chengshi of Qinqiang as the performance framework, I preserved the unique rhythmic beauty of theatrical body movements; incorporating the natural, bright, expansive and graceful physical characteristics of Tibetan dance enriched the stage bodily expression. The singing was also adjusted extensively. Qinqiang has always been known for its high-pitched, impassioned, desolate and weighty qualities. In the early period, Danzhu dwells in a peaceful homeland with a bright and pure state of mind, so I restrained Qinqiang's signature vigorous and high-pitched quality, instead adopting a clear, bright, and soft timbre, with smooth and gentle phrasing, fitting the maiden's carefree and without worries state. At the same time, I drew on the melodious and lingering rhythm of Tibetan folk songs, fine-tuning breath and phrasing within the traditional banshi (metrical patterns) framework of Qinqiang, so that the singing both maintains Qinqiang's authentic flavor and gains a measure of the ethereal and far-reaching quality of snowland ballads.
The gentle and bright arias of the early period accumulate spiritual strength for the character's subsequent transformation. After the plot shifts to the war chapters, the character's circumstances and spiritual horizon are completely reversed, and the stage performance and vocal expression likewise complete an all-round elevation. In physical bearing, I emphasized uprightness and steadiness, fortitude and strength; the stage steps carry the responsibility of defending the land with solidity and weight. The vocal quality gradually returns from the clear, bright, and gentle style of the early period to Qinqiang's genre essence of high-pitched, tragic, generous and vigorous expression; by broadening the vocal range, strengthening breath, intensifying articulation, and heightening tension, the character's emotions are released layer by layer: from the shock and grief of the homeland's fall, to the subsequent full indignation, finally settling on the heroic integrity of refusing to yield even in the face of death (宁死不屈, ning si bu qu - "rather, die, not, yield") and sacrificing oneself for the land. In the climactic passage of the entire opera, I use Qinqiang's grand and sweeping stage presence and majestic singing to interpret the deep and weighty feelings of family and country of the frontier sons and daughters, allowing Qinqiang's unique tragic aesthetics and the unyielding and indomitable (不屈不挠, bu qu bu nao - "not, yield, not, bend") heroic spirit of the snowland people to merge and coexist.
Singing the snowland epic of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with the great Qinqiang voice of the Loess Plateau, the creation and performance of the Qinqiang opera Red River Valley strives to explore on the basis of consolidating the foundation, roots, and spiritual soul of the Qinqiang opera genre.
(The author is the producer and lead performer of the Qinqiang opera Red River Valley)
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After its appearance in the Classics section of the Toronto International Film Festival, the 4K restored version of Spring in a Small Town (小城之春) met audiences once again as the opening film of the Pingyao International Film Festival. This year marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of director Fei Mu. The restoration team of the China Film Archive recovered the complete orchestral score of Spring in a Small Town from nitrate film stock that had lain sealed for more than half a century, thereby breaking people's "impression of silence" regarding this "classic of Chinese poetic cinema" — the 1948 original was laid out with full-bodied music, a symphony of sound and image.
When Spring in a Small Town first appeared in 1948, it received a mediocre response (反响平平, fan xiang ping ping - "respond, level, flat, level"). In the 1980s it was rediscovered by scholars and defined as a classic of Chinese poetic cinema. In the versions that had previously circulated in the world, the images were plain and elegant, the inner feelings of the characters were blazing and surging, and the atmosphere remained throughout restrained and cool — especially in the latter half of the film, which differed markedly from the musical exposition of the opening, with almost no musical accompaniment. Film critics once interpreted it as a "tragedy without tears" and "the ultimate use of negative space." Little did they know that the "silence that speaks louder than sound" actually originated from a "loss of voice" buried by time.
In 2014, the China Film Archive performed a 2K restoration of Spring in a Small Town, restoring for the first time the texture of Fei Mu's images in clear form, and it was screened many times at home and abroad. Over more than a decade, technology has advanced. As the cold-light source scanning technology of film scanners has matured, and in order to make up for the questions and regrets left by the 2K restoration, and to allow more classic works to be seen by audiences, the China Film Archive decided to conduct another systematic investigation and verification of Spring in a Small Town, restore it with the latest technology, and called up the original 1948 source material. That original is made of nitrate film base — fragile and flammable, yet it preserves the original information.
This journey across time and space began with half a line of lost dialogue. In the film, Zhang Zhichen has a line: "Today is Sunday, no school, changed into..." — after which the content is missing. The restoration team judged this to be the result of damage to the early sound negative. To complete this segment of information, the team on the one hand retrieved the film's shooting script to verify the specific content of the missing line; on the other hand, they searched other film versions of the work in the archive's collection to find reference historical copies.
At the end of October 2025, copies and related materials of multiple archived versions were shipped out of the China Film Archive's Xi'an vault and transported to Beijing. These included materials and copies that, because of their low appraisal grade, had been limited by the technical conditions of their era and had never been digitized. By ordinary logic, a film very rarely has two sets of sound materials. The film originally had one set of sound negatives containing the dialogue, the opening and closing score, and the two inserted songs "In That Distant Place" and "A Lovely Rose." But among this batch of film stock, an independent set of sound materials was also discovered. Was this also the film's score? How should this score be matched to the images? Questions came one after another.
As the verification work deepened and more materials were scanned, the clues gradually became clear. The colleague in charge of verification paged through a large number of Republican-era periodicals, the creative notes and memoirs of the director and composer, film research articles, and other materials, and finally found solid documentation. In "Remembering Mr. Fei Mu — An Unpublished Memorial Article," published by Huang Yijun's descendants, there is a record of Huang Yijun composing the full score for Spring in a Small Town; the scholar Wang Wenhe also gave a detailed description of the score of Spring in a Small Town in his book Tracing Chinese Film Music. Almost at the same time, exciting news came from the scanning room: an urgently retrieved copy of the low-grade flammable stock had completed scanning, and the screen presented a complete score that nearly covered the entire film. Winds, strings, piano, and drums sounded together, and every passage of melody was extremely detailed and precise (丝丝入扣, si si ru kou - "silk, silk, enter, hook") in its correspondence with the rise and fall of the characters' emotions on screen. The film stock of this copy dates to 1948, exactly matching the time of Spring in a Small Town's creation and release. At this point it could be confirmed: the Spring in a Small Town released in 1948 originally had a complete score and clear positions for the music. The half line of lost dialogue was also completed — "Today is Sunday, no school, changed into a cheongsam!"
The significance of this discovery goes far beyond "completing a segment of sound." The plaintive sweetness of the strings carries Dai Liyan's sorrow; the dull drumbeats strike like heavy hammers on Dai Liyan's heart, telling of his inner oppression; the full orchestra sounding together is emotion that cannot be suppressed; joy and sorrow, struggle and conflict are all entrusted to the music, giving concrete form as auditory emotion to what cannot be spoken. The return of the score provides a more complete version of sound and image for Spring in a Small Town, allowing later generations to understand more accurately Fei Mu's creative design at the level of sound.
From the loss of half a line of dialogue to the recovery of the complete score, half a year elapsed and more than 50 reels of film were scanned. The restoration of Spring in a Small Town is a rescue of China's film cultural heritage. But this is only one epitome of the story of film heritage "returning." As restoration technology and concepts develop, more legends still lie deep within the film stock and the archives, waiting to be awakened.
The end point of restoration is precisely the starting point of a film's new life.
(Author's affiliation: China Film Archive)
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