Summary: The article reports on Chinese efforts to improve elderly and chronic disease medical services, citing Xi Jinping's call for accessible, convenient health services. In Shanghai, a pilot program for elderly medical escort services, launched in January 2025, has expanded citywide, with over 300 institutions now offering such services. Jiangsu has built 120 chronic disease screening and prevention centers, promoting integrated outpatient clinics and "order-based" family doctor contracts. Yunnan encourages flexible outpatient clinics, with 439 public hospitals offering weekend clinics, 392 midday clinics, and 321 night clinics to accommodate working and schooling patients. The piece highlights specific cases, such as an elderly Shanghai patient aided by a medical escort and a Jiangsu township health center sharing resources with a city hospital.
Summary: The article emphasizes the Party Central Committee's strategic prioritization of people's health and the foundational role of health and medical undertakings in modernization. It highlights local initiatives across Shanghai, Jiangsu, Yunnan, and Anhui to improve medical service accessibility and convenience, aligning with the goal of building a Healthy China. General Secretary Xi Jinping is quoted as stating that advancing a Healthy China is the Party's solemn commitment to the people. The piece concludes that people's health is the fundamental basis of a nation, urging adherence to a people-centered development philosophy to enhance service quality and meet new health expectations.
Summary: President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message to Alar Karis on October 12, welcoming her assumption of office as President of the Republic of Estonia. Xi noted the traditional friendship between China and Estonia and the steady development of bilateral relations in recent years. He expressed his willingness to work with President Karis, using the 35th anniversary of diplomatic relations as an opportunity to enhance political mutual trust, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, and broaden people-to-people and cultural exchanges.
Summary: President Xi Jinping exchanged congratulatory messages with Grand Chief Sir Bob Dadae, Governor-General of Papua New Guinea, on the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations, calling Papua New Guinea a good friend, good partner, and good brother of China in the Pacific island countries region. Xi noted that bilateral relations have made steady and continuous progress over the past half century, benefiting both peoples and injecting strong impetus into building a community with a shared future for China and Pacific island countries. He stressed his willingness to work with Dadae to carry forward traditional friendship and lead the China-Papua New Guinea comprehensive strategic partnership to a new level. Dadae affirmed Papua New Guinea's firm adherence to the one-China principle and its hope to promote sustained and in-depth development of bilateral relations. Premier Li Qiang also exchanged messages with Prime Minister James Marape, expressing willingness to accelerate high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, while Marape appreciated China's contributions and reaffirmed the one-China principle.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang met with Chairman of Vietnam's National Assembly Tran Thanh Man at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 12. Li stated that under the strategic guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping and General Secretary To Lam, the China-Vietnam community with a shared future has advanced steadily, and China is willing to strengthen development strategy alignment and expand cooperation in connectivity, artificial intelligence, clean energy, and the digital economy. He also expressed willingness to enhance communication within multilateral frameworks such as APEC, China-ASEAN, and Lancang-Mekong Cooperation to address risks and challenges. Tran Thanh Man congratulated China on its economic and social achievements, reaffirmed Vietnam's firm adherence to the One-China policy, and expressed readiness to maintain close exchanges and pragmatic cooperation with China. Wang Dongming attended the meeting.
Summary: Zhao Leji, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, held talks with Tran Thanh Man, chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the 12th, and together they co-chaired the second meeting of the China-Vietnam Legislative Bodies Joint Committee. Zhao stated that China is willing to work with Vietnam to follow the strategic guidance of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, consolidate strategic mutual trust, deepen practical cooperation in areas such as infrastructure connectivity, artificial intelligence, and clean energy, and strengthen multilateral coordination to promote an equal and orderly multipolar world. He emphasized that the National People's Congress is willing to raise the level of cooperation with the National Assembly of Vietnam, establish a regular exchange mechanism, and act as intermediaries to facilitate connections for local, enterprise, and people-to-people exchanges. Tran Thanh Man stated that Vietnam regards Vietnam-China relations as a strategic choice and top priority in its foreign policy, and is willing to enhance strategic mutual trust and expand cooperation in trade, investment, infrastructure, and science and technology. Wang Dongming participated in the above activities.
Summary: Wang Huning, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, attended and delivered a speech at the commemorative conference marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, met with all the representatives present, and posed for a group photo with them. He stated that overseas Chinese affairs work is a long-term and strategic task of the Party and the state, and that General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to it, having put forward important expositions and instructions on the new journey of the new era. He said the Federation has united and mobilized the broad masses of overseas Chinese to make positive contributions in promoting the country's economic and social development, advancing the reunification of the motherland, inheriting and promoting Chinese culture, and enhancing exchanges and cooperation between China and foreign countries. He expressed hope that the Federation will bear in mind requirements to uphold and carry forward fine traditions, deeply cultivate feelings for the family and the country, give full play to unique advantages, and demonstrate greater achievements. Wang Yi, Li Ganjie, He Wei, Wu Zhenglong, and Xian Hui attended the activities, and about 770 people attended the conference.
Summary: The article discusses the importance of continuing the Chinese cultural lineage through creative transformation and innovative development. It emphasizes the need to preserve and revitalize traditional culture in a modern context. The piece outlines theoretical guidance for achieving this cultural continuity. No specific officials or events are mentioned. The article does not address the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang of the State Council held a telephone conversation with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon at the latter's request on October 12. Li stated that the China-New Zealand relationship continues to advance steadily, and both countries should carry out more communication and coordination as supporters of multilateralism and free trade. He expressed China's willingness to expand mutually beneficial cooperation, including in new energy vehicles, photovoltaics, and wind power, and to accelerate negotiations on the negative list for trade in services under the bilateral free trade agreement. Luxon affirmed New Zealand's firm adherence to the One-China policy and its support for China hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting. The two sides also exchanged views on international and regional issues of common concern.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang of the State Council will attend the opening ceremony and related events of the 140th Canton Fair, scheduled for October 15 to November 4, 2026, in Guangzhou, and deliver a keynote speech, as announced by He Yadong, spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce.
Summary: The article explains post-Value-Added Tax Law policy changes for China's cultural and tourism industry, based on expert Qu Junyu's interpretations. Travel agencies can now deduct input VAT on group meal purchases with compliant invoices, as these are not "directly used for consumption," while internal dining remains non-deductible. Scenic areas no longer owe VAT on free admission days or public welfare activities, as these fall outside "deemed taxable transactions," though genuine business conduct and evidence retention are required. Income from cable cars, shuttle buses, and cruise boats within venues must now be declared as cultural services at a 6% rate, with small-scale taxpayers eligible for a reduced 1% rate until December 31, 2027. The ticket tax exemption remains limited to "first-gate ticket income," and the differential taxation policy for tourism services stays applicable through 2027, prompting experts to urge enterprises to update policy understanding and maintain separate accounting.
Summary: The article highlights China UnionPay's global expansion, exemplified by Indonesian tourist Nur using GOPAY e-wallet for payments in China following cross-border QR code interoperability between China and Indonesia. UnionPay's acceptance network now spans 183 countries and regions, with over 100 million overseas merchants and QR code cooperation in Indonesia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Argentina, and Turkey. The piece traces UnionPay's evolution from its first cross-border transaction in 2004 to exporting technical standards to Laos, Thailand, Singapore, and other countries, achieving a leap from "laying networks" to "setting rules." UnionPay cards have become salary and student cards in countries like the UAE, Kenya, and Bangladesh, with Nielsen predicting UnionPay will rank first globally in circulating card volume by 2030. The article concludes by noting UnionPay's recent launch of an open protocol framework for agentic payments, committing to build a world-class payment interconnection network balancing efficiency and security.
Summary: China's automobile exports maintained rapid growth in September, with total exports reaching 1.053 million units, up 61.4% year-on-year, while new energy vehicle exports surged 1.6 times year-on-year to 571,000 units, according to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. New energy vehicles accounted for over half of total automobile exports for four consecutive months. In the first nine months, automobile exports reached 8.205 million units, up 65.8% year-on-year. During the same period, production and sales of new energy vehicles reached 12.483 million and 12.472 million units respectively, up 11% and 11.1% year-on-year, with their sales share in new vehicle sales exceeding 60% for three straight months and hitting a record 61.6% in September.
Summary: The article features two perspectives on China's domestically developed 4FZ-80 self-propelled tomato harvester. Huang Kaipeng, director of the Special Harvesting Machinery Research Institute at China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Corporation, describes the machine's design, including inertial vibration for fruit-vine separation and spectral reflectance-based color sorting that removes green fruit in 0.15 seconds. He reports that the harvester, launched in 2024, achieves 80 tons per hour with low loss and damage rates, and has harvested over 50,000 mu to date. User Zhu Zengming, a mechanized tomato harvesting dealer in Xinjiang, notes the domestic machine's lower cost and better after-sales service compared to imported equipment, while calling for further upgrades in hydraulic components and electric motors to improve stability and durability.
Summary: The National Development and Reform Commission, together with the Ministry of Finance, recently issued the fourth batch of this year's 62.5 billion yuan in ultra-long-term special treasury bond funds supporting the trade-in of consumer goods, completing the full allocation of the year's 250 billion yuan. Relevant departments have optimized support scope, subsidy standards, and implementation methods, guiding local governments to solidly carry out policy implementation. From January to August, sales of goods related to the trade-in program reached 1.55 trillion yuan, with subsidies benefiting 208 million person-times, including 5.353 million automobiles and 91.458 million home appliances traded in. Driven by the policy, retail sales of telecommunications equipment, high-energy-efficiency home appliances, and wearable smart devices maintained rapid growth.
Summary: In August, 60.55 million green certificates were traded nationwide, up 11.13% month-on-month and 25.18% year-on-year, according to the National Energy Administration. Of these, 25.52 million green certificates came from green electricity trading, down 0.25% month-on-month but up 44.86% year-on-year. The administration issued 354 million green certificates in August, a 15.75% month-on-month increase, involving 3.7096 million renewable energy power generation projects.
Summary: China's generative AI user base surpassed 700 million in the first half of this year, with a penetration rate exceeding 50 percent, according to the China Internet Network Information Center. The "Generative Artificial Intelligence Application Development Report (2026)" shows diversified application scenarios, with 76.0 percent of users using it to answer questions and significant year-on-year growth in comprehensive AI assistants and efficiency office tools. As of June, China had cultivated 16 national-level advanced manufacturing clusters in digital industries, with AI technology penetration exceeding 30 percent among industrial enterprises above designated size. Artificial intelligence has run through the entire chain from R&D to operations and maintenance in industrial applications.
Summary: The "2026 World Mayors' Dialogue · Luoyang" event, guided by the State Council Information Office and themed "Continuing the Cultural Lineage of the Ancient Capital, Mutual Learning Among Urban Civilizations," was held in Luoyang City, Henan Province, from October 9 to 11, with over 90 mayors, representatives, and experts from more than 10 countries including China, the UK, Italy, Argentina, and Algeria. Foreign guests visited intelligent factories of Luoyang Bearing, CITIC Heavy Industries, and YTO Group, witnessing industrial transformation and discussing cooperation in manufacturing and tourism. Officials such as Roberto Di Stefano, Mayor of Sesto San Giovanni, Italy, and Tony Hanson, Deputy Mayor of Durham County, UK, praised Luoyang's intelligent manufacturing and expressed interest in deepening bilateral cooperation. At the Longmen Grottoes and the ancient city of Luoyi, guests like Robbie Roddis, Chair of Durham County Council, UK, and Julio Zamora, Mayor of Tigre, Argentina, highlighted the value of heritage protection and revitalization in urban development. The event facilitated exchanges on sister city partnerships, industrial cooperation, and cultural tourism, with participants emphasizing that global challenges require collaborative urban solutions.
Summary: The article, an international forum piece, argues that civilization dialogue should serve as a bridge to transcend differences and enhance mutual learning, especially amid accelerating major changes. It cites China's advocacy, including President Xi Jinping's Global Civilization Initiative and the UN resolution establishing an "International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations," as efforts confirming a common international pursuit. The author, an adviser to the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, emphasizes that genuine dialogue requires equality and respect for diversity, not homogenization or new geopolitical confrontation, drawing on examples like the Musée du Quai Branly. He recounts participating in a civilization dialogue seminar hosted by the Chinese Consulate General in Lyon and prior France-China academic exchanges, calling for more institutionalized cooperation between the two sides. The piece concludes that civilizations are enriched through exchange and modernization develops through mutual learning, urging the building of broader consensus for a more inclusive world.
Summary: Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, met in Beijing on October 12 with Patrushev, Assistant to the President of Russia and Chairman of the Maritime Board. Wang Yi conveyed President Xi Jinping's cordial greetings to President Putin and stated that the two presidents' close communication is leading bilateral relations toward higher quality and higher levels. He called for activating the "blue engine" of China-Russia relations development, contributing to global maritime governance, and promoting a maritime community with a shared future. Patrushev conveyed President Putin's sincere greetings to President Xi Jinping and expressed Russia's willingness to work with China to advance the maritime community and add a new dimension to the Russia-China comprehensive strategic coordination.
Summary: Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, will attend the Seventh Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia in Baku, Azerbaijan, on October 15 as President Xi Jinping's special representative. He will also visit Azerbaijan, Croatia, Montenegro, and Bulgaria from October 14 to 20, as announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson on October 12.
Summary: A "Guma" basketball team from Guizhou, China, played a friendly match against Crimson Cliffs High School's girls' varsity team in Utah as part of a U.S. visit spanning California, Nevada, Utah, and Washington State. Team member Yu Ping said the game fulfilled a promise made two years ago when American friends visited Guizhou's "Village BA" arena, hoping to consolidate friendship between the Chinese and American peoples. Shen Xin, Vice President of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, who led the delegation, said the exchanges draw the two peoples closer and consolidate the people-to-people foundation of Sino-American relations. The article notes China's announcement to invite 100,000 American youths to China over five years, with local students and the school principal expressing anticipation for the opportunity.
Summary: He Lifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, met with Tim Cook, Executive Chairman of Apple Inc. of the United States, at the Great Hall of the People on October 12. He Lifeng stated that implementing the consensus of the two heads of state and building a "constructive strategic stable relationship between China and the United States based on respect, fairness, and reciprocity" is conducive to the stability and development of both countries' economies and the global economy, providing stable expectations and a sound business environment for multinational enterprises. He welcomed technology companies from various countries, including Apple, to continue deepening mutually beneficial cooperation with China and share the development opportunities of Chinese modernization. Cook stated that Apple is full of confidence in its long-term development in China and will play the role of a communication bridge for the business community, contributing more strength to promoting the stable and healthy development of China-U.S. economic and trade relations.
Summary: On October 12, the China Public Diplomacy Association held a "Linjia No. 7 Salon" in Beijing under the theme "Jointly Discussing Global Governance, Jointly Building the China-Latin America Future," inviting experts and scholars to discuss China-Latin America cooperation with Chinese and foreign journalists. Qiu Xiaoqi, Special Representative of the Chinese Government on Latin American Affairs, stated that Latin American and Caribbean countries are important partners for China in advancing global governance reform, deepening Global South cooperation, and building a community with a shared future for mankind, with both sides actively advancing the five major projects for jointly building a China-Latin America community with a shared future. Chen Dong, specially appointed researcher at the Research Center for a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind, said that China and Latin America working together in close cooperation will contribute more Southern wisdom to improving global governance. Yue Yunxia, Deputy Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, stated that the Global Governance Initiative provides conceptual guidance and an institutional framework for China-Latin America cooperation. The symposium featured lively exchanges, with experts answering reporters' questions on topics such as China-Latin America artificial intelligence cooperation and youth people-to-people and cultural exchanges.
Summary: The 47th World Congress of Vine and Wine and the General Assembly of Member States of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine opened on the 12th in Yinchuan, Ningxia, with representatives from 51 member states, envoys from 32 countries, and more than 800 guests in attendance. Co-hosted by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine and the government of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, it is the first time the congress has been held in Asia. Under the theme "Building a New Landscape for the Global Grape and Wine Industry," the congress focuses on industrial transformation, innovative development, and sustainable development, featuring five main activities including a seminar on the high-quality development of China's grape and wine industry and a science and technology sub-session. It is held concurrently with the 6th China (Ningxia) International Wine Culture and Tourism Expo.
Summary: The article recounts the story of a "What Is the Red Army" leaflet printed by the 25th Red Army during the Long March and hidden by villager Liu Liying in Yunxi County, Hubei Province, until it was turned over to the state in 1981. Li Dengke, grandson of Red Army soldier Li Yucai, described how his grandmother concealed the leaflet in a wall crack, believing the Red Army brought hope to the poor. Local history expert Li Renxi explained the leaflet was drafted to plainly state the Communist Party's original aspiration of seeking happiness for the people, and its distribution led over 400 young people in the Yunxi area to enlist. The article notes that in August 2024, the Long March National Cultural Park (Yunxi Section) opened, and Yunxi County now uses the leaflet as a "red calling card" to promote revolutionary heritage through propaganda teams, theatrical works, and cultural products.
Summary: The article argues that China's development achievements, such as its new energy sector's four "world No. 1s," result from directly confronting and solving problems, as exemplified by the battle against poverty and breakthroughs in science and technology. It cites General Secretary Xi Jinping's point that "the process of solving problems is also the process of development and progress." The piece frames problems as opportunities, asserting that facing them directly turns "roadblocks" into "stepping stones" and the "problem list" into a "splendid answer sheet." It concludes that as the nation forges ahead toward the 15th Five-Year Plan, continuously solving problems will turn the questions posed by the times into tangible achievements of high-quality development.
Summary: The article reports on cross-border China-Russia collaboration in counting the wild Amur tiger and leopard population in the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park. It highlights a female tiger that crossed from Russia in 2018 and gave birth to four litters totaling 13 cubs, earning the title "Heroic Tiger Mother," with the highest recorded instance of a full litter surviving. Since 2025, the two sides have jointly identified individuals using pattern comparison, creating "pattern ID cards," and have opened 290 wildlife migration corridors along the border. Officials including Chen Xiaocai, Zhu Shibing, Wang Tianming, Yu Hongxun, and Duan Zhaogang are quoted on monitoring methods, habitat improvements, and plans for a routine information-sharing mechanism. The article notes that 21 Amur tigers and 27 Amur leopards now achieve routine transboundary migration, reflecting improved ecological conditions in Northeast China.
Summary: The new Huanggang Port officially opened on October 12 after seven years of reconstruction, becoming the world's largest single-building land port. The port implements an integrated inspection model of "joint inspection, one-time release" under a "one place, two inspections" arrangement, allowing travelers to complete both Shenzhen and Hong Kong entry-exit procedures with one queue. Commuters like Shenzhen resident Li Rui praised the new process for completing all procedures in minutes, while Hong Kong resident Mr. Chen deliberately stayed overnight to be among the first to experience the convenience. The inspection of small passenger vehicles integrates five agencies' processes, reducing clearance time from about 10 minutes to about 2 minutes. Travelers widely praised the convenient transportation, smooth procedures, and clear signage at the port.
Summary: The article recounts the author's lifelong research on the Yellow River, which has remained free of flow interruption for 27 consecutive years since 1999. The author, originally from Ruicheng County in Shanxi Province, chose to study water conservancy to address water scarcity on the Loess Plateau. In the early 1990s, the author's team built a three-dimensional diagnostic framework for river health, leading to the 1999 unified regulation of Yellow River water volumes that ended flow interruption. The research was later extended to other rivers and lakes, including fishway construction standards and embankment "respiratory systems," and was applied in 83 major projects across 17 provinces, winning the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award. The author concludes by vowing to continue studying the river with dedication to preserve its healthy vitality.
Summary: The article highlights the role of scientific and technological innovation in river and lake governance, citing the Yellow River as an example where unified water allocation and improved water-sediment regulation address water scarcity and sediment issues. It emphasizes that water conservancy innovation supports national water security and advances in response to major country needs. The piece calls for maintaining strategic resolve and determination, strengthening basic research and high-tech development, and optimizing quality science and technology supply. It advocates enhancing ecological protection and governance of rivers, streams, and lakes through new governance technologies. The goal is to provide more solid water security guarantees for building a beautiful China.
Summary: The article argues that the Communist Party of China has won deep popular support by doing both earth-shaking major deeds for the nation and concrete, tangible small deeds for the masses, citing the Red Army's strict discipline during the Long March as an early example. It emphasizes Xi Jinping's call to regularly rectify unhealthy practices and corruption problems around the masses, noting that such problems often start small but accumulate into deep-seated issues. The piece highlights successes like curbing excessive eating and drinking through the Eight-Point Regulation and special rectification campaigns, and stresses the need for both thunderous enforcement and institutional prevention, such as digital oversight of village seals in Pinghu, Zhejiang. It concludes that Communists' political achievements lie in doing things that win, warm, and reassure people's hearts, and that full and rigorous Party self-governance is always ongoing.
Summary: The article argues that China's consumption growth has not fundamentally slowed but is undergoing structural upgrading from survival-oriented to development-oriented and quality-oriented consumption, with service consumption and new formats like livestream e-commerce expanding rapidly. It notes that while the pace of scale expansion has eased, the incremental scale remains considerable, with total retail sales approaching 33 trillion yuan in the first eight months. The piece highlights new growth points such as smart wearables and intelligent connected vehicles, with the smart home market expected to exceed 800 billion yuan this year. To boost consumption, it calls for coordinated efforts to increase residents' income, stabilize expectations, and strengthen policy support, including using a 100 billion yuan special fund for fiscal-financial coordination. The commentary concludes that promoting structural upgrading alongside scale expansion can consolidate domestic demand and translate economic development into tangible gains for the people.
Summary: The author, a Kunming municipal-level representative inheritor of Dianju (Yunnan opera), recounts how her family's opera troupe, facing dwindling audiences and financial losses, innovated by launching costume-photo experiences and shortened performances to attract young people. She describes growing up in an opera family, the tradition's national intangible cultural heritage status since 2008, and her insistence on preserving the authentic style and spirit of Dianju in these new offerings. The turning point came when social media posts drew young netizens eager to participate, leading to a viral "visa-on-arrival" experience in Kunming. She emphasizes that cultural confidence has made young people more willing to engage with tradition, and that innovation on the foundation of upholding what is right is key to survival. The article concludes with her belief that as long as the people are present, the opera and its spirit endure.
Summary: China's index of integrated development of informatization and industrialization rose from 59.6 in 2022 to 67.1 by the end of June 2026, according to statistics cited in the article. Digital-intelligent technologies are accelerating their integration across the entire manufacturing chain, giving rise to new business forms such as digital twins and intelligent production. The article includes a poetic description of automated logistics operating continuously day and night, cloud-based commands connecting to production lines, and intelligent manufacturing empowering new frontiers.
Summary: The article discusses the challenges facing China's historical classic industries, such as silk, tea, and porcelain, which lack independent brands and global pricing power despite being major producers. It highlights that these industries, employing nearly 3.5 million people with annual revenue of about 8 trillion yuan, need coordinated development through special policies recently issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and five other departments. The piece emphasizes integrating these industries with consumption upgrading, modern aesthetics, and technology to remain relevant. It cites General Secretary Xi Jinping's call to unify promotion of excellent traditional culture with contemporary cultural development. The article concludes that by transforming cultural heritage into market competitiveness, these industries can achieve both critical acclaim and commercial success globally.
Summary: The article, an on-site commentary from Ningxia, discusses how the region balances its traditional coal industry with new energy development, such as photovoltaic panels on the Gobi wasteland, to build a modern industrial system. It cites General Secretary Xi Jinping's assertion that Ningxia must pursue distinctive, differentiated industrial development based on its local conditions. The piece highlights examples like green power supporting green computing in Zhongwei and a power plant transforming into an "electricity steward," emphasizing that old and new growth drivers are not opposed but in a relay relationship. It concludes that iterative coexistence and simultaneous optimization of stock and increment can release enormous development potential, with the author being a reporter for the newspaper's Ningxia Branch.
Summary: The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission issued the *Opinions on Strictly Investigating and Punishing Crimes and Illegal Acts Endangering Food Safety in Accordance with the Law* to address persistent food safety breaches, citing recent incidents such as "formaldehyde cabbage" and "chemical-soaked bayberries." The responsible comrade of the Commission explained that the *Opinions* focus on key areas of high public concern—meat products, campus food, health food, and vegetables and fruits—while adhering to a people-centered approach and a strict, law-based governance stance. Specific measures include clarifying case transfer standards, improving coordination between administrative enforcement and criminal justice, and building a legal liability system with tiered punishment standards. The *Opinions* also call for accelerating revision of the Food Safety Law to regulate new online business forms like fresh food e-commerce and livestream sales, and for strengthening source governance through judicial recommendations and public interest litigation. Implementation will be coordinated by the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission with the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Justice.
Summary: A symposium marking the 160th anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's birth was held at the Macao Science Center, attended by Zheng Jianbang, Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, who delivered a speech. Ao Lan, representative of the Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region, delivered remarks, with Lyu Yuyin and Chui Sai Cheong also in attendance. Zheng stated that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao region is Dr. Sun Yat-sen's birthplace and an important cradle of his revolutionary thought, adding that Macao witnessed his intellectual leap from "healing the sick" to "healing the nation" and accumulated the patriotic tradition of Macao compatriots sharing a common destiny with the motherland. He urged holding fast to a sincere and patriotic heart, advancing the great cause of national reunification, telling well the story of Macao's "One Country, Two Systems," and pooling strength for advancing Chinese modernization. The symposium was supported by the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification (Macao Region),, hosted by the Macao-Taiwan Exchange Joint Association, and attended by approximately 300 people, including youth representatives from Macao and Taiwan.
Summary: A special concert commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese was held in Beijing on the evening of the 12th. Performed by the China National Symphony Orchestra, it looked back on the federation's seven decades of uniting Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad, conveyed the Party and state's care for overseas Chinese, and expressed their sentiments of serving their ancestral country. The program included pieces such as "Strings and Songs Remain," "Brewing Tea Under the Moon," and "The Most Beautiful Promise," highlighting patriotic dedication and family-and-country bonds. Comrades from central overseas-Chinese-related units, including the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress, the Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, and the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party, as well as more than 800 representatives of overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives, watched the concert.
Summary: The 2026 Beijing Immediate Response to Public Complaints Reform Forum opened on October 12 at the China National Convention Center, with the permanent theme "People's City, Creating a Better Future Together" and the annual theme "The Digital Intelligence Era and the People's City." The forum featured an opening ceremony, a main forum, six parallel forums, four salons, and a closing ceremony, alongside screenings of the documentary "Your Voice 2" and activities such as "Step into 12345." Over 3,200 guests attended, including more than 240 international guests from over 70 countries. At the opening ceremony, outcomes were released including the "Beijing Immediate Response to Public Complaints Reform Theoretical Research Findings (2026)" and the "Global Urban Hotline Service and Governance Effectiveness Evaluation Report (2026)," advancing the reform from summarizing experience to theoretical interpretation and from Chinese practice to international comparison. The forum, held every two years, is co-hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Media Group, the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the Beijing Municipal People's Government.
Summary: A photo report highlights a painting project by Benxi City, Liaoning Province, featuring a 650-meter-long, 3.5-meter-high colorful gallery on the outer wall of Wangxi Park. The painted content covers industrial memory and ecological characteristics. The photo, taken on October 11, shows citizens taking photos and posing at the gallery. The image is credited to Li Guangcheng of Image China.
Summary: The 10th China International All Print Exhibition opened on October 12 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre, with the theme "Smart Printing for the Future, Infinite Innovation in Printing," and a record-high exhibition area of 120,000 square meters. The event showcases the industry's digital and intelligent transformation, featuring over 100 debut cutting-edge equipment items and innovative achievements. It includes seven themed zones and brings together more than 1,000 renowned enterprises from countries including China, Germany, Japan, the United States, and Belgium, with over 120,000 professional visitors registered. The exhibition is hosted by the China Printing Technology Association, the China Academy of Printing Technology, and Messe Düsseldorf (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Concurrent high-level dialogues include the 2026 Shanghai Printing Forum and the China-Europe International Printing and Packaging Cooperation Forum, aimed at boosting global industry collaboration.
Summary: The Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Gansu Province and the Gansu Provincial Office of the State Taxation Administration jointly issued a notice to uniformly standardize unemployment insurance policies for migrant workers across the province, promoting unification of the system and equalization of guaranteed rights. The notice clarifies that all migrant workers employed by various types of employers shall uniformly implement the urban employee unemployment insurance contribution system, with employers and workers paying according to urban employee standards. After implementation, migrant workers who continue to participate and contribute normally may fully enjoy unemployment insurance protection equal to that of urban employees. The scope of treatment, calculation and payment standards, duration of enjoyment, and application conditions shall all be implemented with reference to the urban employee unemployment insurance policy.
Summary: Xu Dengyong, a balloon stylist from Nanzhang County, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, developed techniques including improved knotting, a double-layer balloon process, internal glue injection, and surface coating to extend balloon lifespan from 3 days to over 3 months, transforming them into commercial art works. Awarded the title of "Jingchu Craftsman," he established the Xu Dengyong Craftsman Innovation Studio in 2024 under the guidance of the Nanzhang County Federation of Trade Unions, recording his methods into instructional videos and conducting public welfare training. His works, including large-scale visual merchandising installations for shopping malls, have won championships at the China Balloon Art Competition and the "Top Ten Master Craft Award" at the Hubei Province High-Skilled Talent Skills Competition.
Summary: The Qarqan River Water Delivery Project (Phase I) in Ruoqiang County, undertaken by CSCEC Xinjiang Construction & Engineering Group, is being built at an accelerated pace on the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert. Upon completion, it will deliver nearly 20 million cubic meters of water annually, linking four major water systems and building a regional water network pattern of "four verticals and one horizontal, east-west allocation, and combined storage and diversion." The project team developed construction techniques suited to local aeolian sand, adopted the "riprap and mud displacement" process in marshland sections, and used dynamic management for anti-scour wall construction. During the critical stage of closing the cofferdam, team members worked in shifts to complete the 700-meter dam body before the flood season.
Summary: The article describes Weifang City, Shandong Province's implementation of "micro-renewal and micro-improvement" projects to build a "people's city," highlighting three examples: the ecological restoration of Bailang Luzhou Wetland Park, the renovation of the old Xiyuan Street market, and the revitalization of space under the Bailang River bridge on Yuqing Street. It details how the wetland park uses ecological methods like "fish to purify the water" and reclaimed water replenishment to improve water quality, attracting birds and new business formats. The Xiyuan Street renovation repaved roads, re-planned parking, and drew a business yellow line, boosting visitor traffic and merchant revenue while fostering a merchant self-governance alliance. The under-bridge space was cleared and transformed into a composite area with sports facilities, smart parking, and cultural murals, responding to residents' daily needs. Liu Yun, Secretary of the Weifang Municipal Party Committee, stated that urban work is evaluated by people's satisfaction and convenience, and the city will continue to consolidate its foundation with ecological governance, preserve livelihood warmth through market quality improvement, and activate urban space through renewal.
Summary: The China FAW Museum in Changchun, converted from the First Automobile Works' original tool workshop built in 1953, opened in July and received over 100,000 visits in its first month, displaying nearly 150 vehicles and over a thousand cultural relics. The city is revitalizing old industrial and urban spaces—such as the No. 54 tram line, Xinmin Street, the Xiguilin neighborhood, Nanhu Park, and the Changchun Water Culture and Ecology Park—by adding cultural performances, business formats, and landscape upgrades without large-scale demolition. During the National Day holiday, Xinmin Street hosted the themed event "Xinmin Embraces the New to Celebrate the National Day" after its pedestrianization and opening of historical courtyards. Changchun Zoological and Botanical Park has become a popular cultural-tourism destination with immersive day-and-night performances. The article highlights how Changchun is using craftsmanship and cultural content to activate old-city resources and polish its high-quality development calling card in culture and tourism.
Summary: The article profiles Maona Village in Wuzhishan City, Hainan, where tea cultivation has driven poverty alleviation and rural revitalization. Villager Wang Qiongxiang's income rose from 3,000 yuan per capita annually to 300,000 yuan as her tea garden expanded, while the village's tea gardens grew from over 600 mu to 3,388 mu. After the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park was established in 2021, the village shifted from resource extraction to tea-based development, releasing group standards and obtaining geographical indication certification for Wuzhishan black tea. The village also developed tourism through a village-collective company, hosting festivals and concerts, and promoting Li intangible cultural heritage crafts like pottery and herbal medicine. In 2025, Maona Village received 220,000 tourist visits, with village collective economic income reaching 3.06 million yuan, and its Party branch was awarded the title of National Advanced Primary Party Organization.
Summary: Villagers in Kaojian Village, Tianmen Town, Yi'an District, Tongling City, Anhui Province, took advantage of fine weather on October 12 to harvest late-season rice, ensuring the autumn grain harvest is safely stored. The photo was taken by Gao Xiaobing (Image China).
Summary: Seven departments, including the China Disabled Persons' Federation, jointly issued the "Third Phase National Action Plan for the Standardization of Sign Language and Braille (2026–2030)," deploying work for the 15th Five-Year Plan period. The plan focuses on six areas, including promoting nationally common sign language and braille, improving standardization systems, advancing informatization, enriching resources, cultivating talent, and fostering international exchange. Since 2015, two prior phases have been implemented, with steady progress in standardization, normalization, and informatization efforts.
Summary: In September 2026, China's logistics industry prosperity index reached 51.5 percent, up 0.6 percentage points month on month, remaining in expansion for five consecutive months, according to data from the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing. The new orders index rose for seven straight months to 51.2 percent, indicating warming logistics demand and increasingly evident enterprise resilience. By region, total business volume indexes for the eastern, central, and western regions all rose month on month, with the eastern region leading the rebound. The equipment utilization rate index returned to expansion for the first time this year at 50.1 percent, while the inventory turnover frequency index rose for five consecutive months. The business activity expectations index reached 56.2 percent, up 1.8 percentage points, with enterprises optimistic about the fourth quarter and strengthening investment willingness and confidence in stabilization.
Summary: The article reports on Liuhe District in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, which has pivoted from chemical industry support services to building a commercial aerospace industry, exemplified by Galactic Energy's rocket assembly base and the Zhongshexing-1 launch. District head Rong Fei explained that developing new industries means finding the "intersection" between local endowments and industrial demand, not chasing trends. The district partnered with Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics to establish the NUAA International Innovation Port, bringing in national key laboratories and innovation platforms, while leveraging Yangtze River transport and local manufacturing chains. Original industries have also benefited, with a positioning device co-developed locally used on the C919 aircraft, and the CNC machine tool park now supplies over 90 percent of components. Liuhe District Party Committee Secretary Zhou Yong stated the district will continue optimizing the innovation ecosystem to become a key position for Jiangsu's commercial aerospace industry and develop four advanced manufacturing clusters.
Summary: The 26th China International Industry Fair opened on the 12th at the National Convention Center (Shanghai) with the theme "Intelligent Economy, Boundless Intelligent Manufacturing," focusing on the new generation of intelligent manufacturing and showcasing new achievements in the intelligent, green, and integrated development of the manufacturing industry. At the opening ceremony, six Chinese and foreign institutions jointly released the "International Cities Initiative on Open Cooperation in Industrial and Supply Chains," advocating global cooperation to maintain supply chain stability, while Shanghai released its 2026 industrial map, announced 30 municipal-district coordinated trillion-yuan-level industrial clusters, and launched a new generation of intelligent manufacturing development action. The fair runs for five days with a total exhibition area of 310,000 square meters, featuring a national pavilion, ten themed exhibitions, and a first-time dedicated integrated circuit special exhibition, bringing together more than 3,200 exhibitors from 24 countries and regions.
Summary: Zhang Weiwei, a Tianjin cadre dispatched to Lintan County in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu, has transformed from an auditor into an industry expert over nearly three years, helping develop local mugwort and medicinal herb industries. He systematically clarified local resource endowments, connected enterprises with Tianjin channels, and promoted integrated agricultural, cultural, and tourism development, including the Yeliguan Scenic Area's rise to a national 5A-level attraction. Tianjin has invested 14.4 billion yuan cumulatively, dispatched over 460 cadres and 9,000 technical personnel, and received 13,300 Gansu cadres for training over 30 years of cooperation. The article highlights mutual growth through cadre exchanges, with Gansu's Min Bin applying Tianjin-learned agricultural modernization techniques to standardized medicinal herb planting. Tianjin and Gansu are now pursuing a collaboration path of complementary advantages, two-way empowerment, and common prosperity.
Summary: The article argues that industrial assistance fails when projects are built but no people are left behind to sustain them. It highlights Zhang Weiwei's approach of embedding himself locally rather than merely relocating projects. Evaluating east-west collaboration should focus on cultivating "leading geese" who understand industry and can stay put. The key to industrial assistance lies in people, enabling industries to take root and delivering technology and talent into local development.
Summary: China leads the world with 25 clusters on the World Intellectual Property Organization's 2026 list of the top 100 innovation clusters, ranking first for the fourth consecutive year, with the "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou," Beijing, and "Shanghai-Suzhou" clusters in the top ten. The article attributes this to the regional coordinated development strategy, citing models like "R&D in Beijing, manufacturing and transformation in Tianjin and Hebei" and the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor. It highlights the positive cycle between innovation and development, noting Wuhan's high-tech manufacturing growth and Ningde's rise tied to power battery innovation. Foreign enterprises are increasingly conducting R&D in China, with over 42,000 invention patent applications from foreign applicants in the first seven months of this year. Carsten Fink, chief economist of the World Intellectual Property Organization, is quoted as saying China's innovation is expanding the global technological frontier and benefiting countries worldwide.
Summary: The Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration issued an announcement on October 12 adjusting the export tax rebate policy for certain products, clarifying that starting April 1, 2027, the VAT export tax rebate rate for new energy vehicles will be lowered from 13% to 9%, and that the VAT export tax rebate for products such as e-cigarette devices and equipment will be abolished. The announcement states that for products subject to consumption tax, the export consumption tax policy will not be adjusted, and the consumption tax rebate (exemption) policy will continue to apply. The export tax rebate rate applicable to the listed products shall be determined by the export date noted on the customs declaration form.
Summary: The article discusses the new "Measures for the Administration of Online Marketing of Financial Products," effective September 30, which aim to curb false and misleading publicity and other risks in online financial marketing. It highlights past problems such as exaggerated loan rhetoric and wealth management marketing that downplayed risks, fostering perceptions of "guaranteed profit without any loss." The Measures require licensed operations, ban certain marketing phrases, and restrict non-financial institutions from marketing via live streaming and short videos. Dong Ximiao, chief economist of Zhaolian, says the rules will shift the industry from a "traffic is king" model to one based on "compliance as the foundation, service as the essence," affecting products like Huabei and Baitiao. Tencent and China Everbright Bank have begun rectification efforts, with Tencent stating the Measures provide clear compliance guidance for healthy industry development.
Summary: On October 12, tourists experienced picking fruit at the August melon planting base in Dalei Village, Rongshan Town, Linchuan District, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province. In recent years, Linchuan District has targeted market demand, adjusted its agricultural planting structure, and developed the cultivation of specialty fruits such as August melon, fruit cucumber, and fig in light of local conditions, promoting local farmers' income growth and prosperity. Photo by Guo Hao (China Images).
Summary: Guangdong convened a provincial conference on advanced manufacturing, pledging to accelerate high-quality development and deepen the construction of a strong manufacturing province. The province aims to create over 1,000 smart factories and 1,000 green factories by 2028, with AI application penetration among industrial enterprises above designated size exceeding 50 percent and annual humanoid robot output surpassing 80,000 units. In 2025, Guangdong's industrial enterprises above designated size recorded operating revenue of 19.34 trillion yuan, the largest in the country, with advanced and high-tech manufacturing accounting for 56.2 percent and 34.7 percent of added value respectively. The province has formed 8 national advanced manufacturing clusters and 30 national-level characteristic industrial clusters of SMEs, including 10 trillion-yuan-level industrial clusters. Guangdong will promote deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation to build world-class advanced manufacturing clusters.
Summary: The article reports on how State Grid Hangzhou Power Supply Company is supporting new business forms like computing power and intelligent manufacturing in Linping District through a new-type distribution network. Dai Lisong, a fifth-level staff member, said production in these industries is highly sensitive to reliable power supply, prompting measures like line upgrades and weak-point rectification. Liu Xiaofeng of China Unicom's Linping Computing Power Center noted that stable electricity reduces the risk of voltage fluctuations damaging large-model training data and hardware. The piece highlights an intelligent operation-and-inspection model with drones and AR devices, which Huang Qizhen, director of the Operation-and-Inspection Department, said raised daily inspection efficiency by 60%. It also covers full-line "fully automatic FA" coverage, live-line work to avoid outages, and benefits for rural industries like Xinyu Village's lotus-based economy.
Summary: This article discusses the importance of advancing the "Two Integrations" and the "Two Creations" (creative transformation and innovative development) of fine traditional Chinese culture, as guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Culture. It emphasizes that the Two Integrations establish the value stance, core orientation, and scientific methodology for cultural innovation, clarifying the dialectical unity between Marxism as the "soul" and traditional culture as the "root." The piece outlines the internal logic of creative transformation, which focuses on "carrying forward the past," and innovative development, which focuses on "opening up the future," stressing their organic unity. It calls for upholding Marxist guidance, integrating traditional culture into modern practice, innovating cultural expression, and strengthening institutional safeguards to build a culturally strong nation. The author is a professor at the School of Marxism, Tsinghua University.
Summary: The article argues that Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy is rooted in over five thousand years of Chinese civilization, achieving creative transformation of traditional culture through "the Two Integrations." It links the community with a shared future for mankind to traditional concepts such as "a vision of universal harmony," "being kind to others and friendly to neighbors," and "the unity of nature and humanity." The thought also nurtures an equal and orderly multipolar world, carrying the neighborhood diplomacy strategy of "amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness." Theoretically, it breaks with Western international relations theories by emphasizing interdependence and shared interests, transcending confrontational thinking through dialogue and consultation, and establishing an ethical orientation toward the common values of all mankind. The three levels—ontological, methodological, and axiological—are organically unified, forming a rigorous theoretical system.
Summary: The article discusses cultivating new scenarios for intangible cultural heritage inheritance and experience, as emphasized by General Secretary Xi Jinping and outlined in the 15th Five-Year Plan. It identifies two key shifts: from large-scale facility construction to refined, embedded layouts in everyday public spaces, and from passive protection to active empowerment of intangible cultural heritage as a cultural resource. Diverse scenario forms include production-oriented, community-oriented, culture-tourism integration-oriented, and digital-intelligence-empowered types, exemplified by the Miao embroidery workshop in Shibadong Village. Cultivation paths focus on opening scenarios, multi-subject participation mechanisms, and technological empowerment, while ensuring technology enhances rather than replaces offline experiences. The author is the director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Communication Research Center of Communication University of China.
Summary: The Supreme People's Court, the People's Bank of China, the National Financial Regulatory Administration, and the China Securities Regulatory Commission jointly released six typical cases on December 12 concerning the protection of financial consumers' and investors' lawful rights, covering financial lending, fund wealth management, digital finance, personal insurance, and securities investment. In one case, a court ruled that a bank compensate an investor more than 660,000 yuan for failing to fulfill its suitability obligations when consigning a high-risk asset management product, as the bank could not prove it had fully disclosed risks or matched them to the investor's tolerance. In another case, a court limited a bank's penalty interest claim, holding that an interest rate adjustment clause was a standard form clause that failed to meet legal standards for drawing consumer attention, and the lender had no right to calculate default interest under it. In a critical illness insurance dispute, a court facilitated mediation after finding that strict diagnostic requirements in standard form clauses exceeded clinical norms, leading the insurer to pay 360,000 yuan and waive subsequent premiums. The courts and financial regulators will continue joint governance to regulate financial service conduct and provide convenient, low-cost dispute resolution channels.
Summary: The article discusses Anhui Province's cancellation of quality grades for six 4A-level tourist scenic areas and the downgrade of the Jushi Mountain Eco-Cultural Tourist Area, framing this as a governance measure to uphold the credibility of the A-level label. It argues that the label represents a public commitment by management departments, and that removing it from underperforming areas preserves trust in the broader system. The notice's basis for removal includes long-term closures, outdated facilities, and safety hazards, with three areas voluntarily withdrawn by local departments, reflecting a shift from passive to active delisting. The downgrade of Jushi Mountain, rather than outright removal, is highlighted as a precise approach that both warns and allows for rectification. The article concludes that such actions are responsible to both scenic areas and tourists, providing a useful reference for visits.
Summary: Beijing will add over 20,000 parking facilities annually in central urban areas under its newly released 15th Five-Year Plan transportation development plan, which sets 18 indicators across four aspects. The plan optimizes the "eight stations and two airports" hub system, including upgrades to Capital Airport Terminal 3 and Daxing Airport's satellite hall. It deepens Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei transportation integration through projects like Rail Transit Line 22 and the Beijing-Xiong'an Express Line's integrated operation with the Daxing Airport Line. The plan also promotes station-city integration, renovating stations such as Guomao and Huoying, and building rail micro-centers like Dongdaqiao and Tongzhou West. A cumulative total of 600,000 effective parking spaces is targeted citywide.
Summary: Multiple regions including Zhanjiang in Guangdong, Fangchenggang in Guangxi, Kunming in Yunnan, and Urumqi in Xinjiang held centralized destruction of confiscated smuggled tobacco products and law-popularization activities themed "Strengthening Governance, Protecting the People's Safety, Promoting Development," destroying 188 million smuggled cigarettes, more than 55,000 e-cigarettes, and 2.7 tons of cut tobacco through harmless methods like biomass power generation. 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Summary: The article recounts how villagers in Shaozhai, Gaotun Community, Liping County, Guizhou Province, have guarded the "Shaozhai Red Army Bridge" for generations. In December 1934, during the Long March, the Red Army entered the village after villagers fled on enemy rumors; the soldiers' strict discipline led the elderly to summon the villagers back, and together they urgently repaired the damaged ancient bridge. To commemorate this army-people bond, the community established village rules vowing to protect the bridge, which later generations named for the Red Army. Subsequently, the once impoverished village underwent a complete transformation, and locals built a "New Red Army Bridge" nearby for vehicle traffic.
Summary: Guangxi has innovated its management of food stall vendors, designating 334 supervision and service areas and 11 roadside stall pilot areas, while completing code assignment for 16,700 food stall vendors and issuing 1,698 information disclosure cards. Following these measures, complaints and reports related to food stall vendors across Guangxi decreased by 26.9 percent year-on-year. Since 2025, the Market Regulation Administration of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, together with the Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the autonomous region, has launched a supervision and service model that "assigns identity, strengthens responsibility, and guarantees rights." In the next step, Guangxi will intensify law enforcement and rectification efforts, strictly investigating illegal acts such as food safety chaos, "ghost scale" cheating, illegal price increases, and illegal occupation of roadways. Relevant departments at all levels will strengthen coordination and supervision, establish "three lists" of work tasks, promotion measures, and implementation responsibilities, and promote the achieving practical results through implementation of various governance measures.
Summary: The article describes a Party school training session at the Comprehensive Service Center for Migrant Workers in Jinan City, where instructor Yang Lixin interviewed Zhang Haiyan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Jinan Chaoyixing Catering Co., Ltd., about her journey to Party membership. Zhang Haiyan recounted how she overcame difficulties expanding into Tai'an with Party organization encouragement, growing from a migrant worker into a delegate to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The session concluded with a Lü Opera performance recreating her story, part of the "Original Aspiration Party School" brand's immersive course format. Qi Man, Secretary of the Yingshan Community Residents' Committee, praised the lesson's vividness, while Ren Quanming, Executive Deputy Principal of the Party School, emphasized that original aspiration is concrete practice and action in the present.
Summary: The article reports on urban renewal efforts in Yichun, Heilongjiang, highlighting the integration of Party building into the process. It describes how Yimei District renovated the Hongsheng Residential Community, using a model of listening to public opinion, with community Party Committee Secretary Pang Haoyan holding a "Secretary's Tea Stall" to address resident demands and resolve disputes. Pang emphasized grounding efforts in residents' needs to achieve joint construction, governance, and shared benefits, transforming old neighborhoods from "worrisome housing" to "excellent housing." Yichun is advancing micro-renovation and refined upgrading, avoiding large-scale demolition, with projects like elderly-care beds, childcare spaces, and a 15-minute convenient living circle. The city has established a unified urban renewal project database with 683 projects, planning 91 projects in fiscal year 2026 with an estimated investment of 2.805 billion yuan.
Summary: The article describes how Hongjiang Village, an ancient Buyi ethnic village in Guizhou Province, was revitalized through art after literary and artistic workers settled there, transforming old houses into studios and workshops. Village party branch secretary Wei Yongjun noted that relying on artist resources has developed cultural tourism and study tours, with over 5,000 participants in the first eight months of this year. Poet Yan Xi, who joined in 2018, converted his rented old house into a public art space and book room, and villager Zhou Mincan returned home to join the restoration team and took up painting. The article highlights how the village's artistic growth has created employment opportunities, drawing villagers back home.
Summary: The article, part of the "Rural Voices" series, is a first-person reflection by a literary worker on living in Hongjiang Village, where art and daily rural life blend. The author describes restoring ancient houses while preserving original features like rammed earth walls and wooden beams, arguing that art originates from authentic nature and life. The piece emphasizes a "two-way nourishment" between art and villagers, who gradually come to understand the native soil's beauty. The author also mentions organizing activities like the Guizhou Province Campus Literature Competition and sorting poetic historical materials at the Yanxi Academy. The author is identified as a member of the Chinese Writers Association and deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Poetry Society.
Summary: The Central China Normal University Library, whose predecessor Boone Library opened to the public in 1910, continues a century-old tradition of openness, recently receiving a community reader's silk banner praising its inclusivity. Library director Wang Bin noted the library maintains document-sharing and interlibrary-loan mechanisms with outside libraries and has introduced a new service where students order books online and receive them by courier. The library has made ancient texts "come alive" through creative activities like the "Delicacies in Ancient Texts" campaign, which surpassed 100 million views, and the "Seeking the Blade in Ancient Texts" project that replicated a pudao from *Water Margin*. Its Future Learning Center, opened in March, features an AI Micro-Teaching Room that has served over 2,100 normal university students, alongside intelligent librarian services. The center has helped students achieve provincial first prizes in the China Collegiate Computer Design Competition, fostering a more complete ecosystem of learning and innovation through competition.
Summary: Jin Xin, representative inheritor of the Southern Song official kiln firing technique, a Zhejiang provincial intangible cultural heritage item, has built a digital system to empower celadon craftsmanship with digital technology. He explained that the Southern Song official kiln carries greater mystery and scarcity due to its imperial-use nature, and that the lack of young people is a current difficulty in intangible cultural heritage inheritance. The team generated three-dimensional models from archaeological drawings, with 87 pieces of celadon ware data in the system, and has now embedded artificial intelligence to generate corresponding celadon pieces from commands. Yang Minghui, a sophomore at Zhejiang Vocational and Technical University of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and a team member, said Jin Xin's patient guidance helped the team understand the "craftsmanship spirit." Jin Xin stated that they must embrace new technology to let Generation Z engage with and fall in love with intangible cultural heritage.
Summary: A Chinese research team has taken the lead internationally in developing a thorium-229 nuclear optical clock and achieving its stable operation, with results published in *Nature*. Ding Shiqian, an associate professor in the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University, explained that nuclear optical clocks use nuclear energy-level transitions within the thorium-229 atomic nucleus as a time-frequency reference, offering a more precise standard than atomic optical clocks due to reduced external electromagnetic disturbances. The team stated that nuclear optical clocks are expected to become a new generation of time-frequency standards, with potential advantages in miniaturization for applications such as satellite navigation and deep-space exploration. They also noted that nuclear optical clocks can provide a new precision detection platform for testing fundamental physical laws and open up new research directions for quantum precision measurement.
Summary: Chongqing's Qianjiang District has leveraged its geographical advantages to build the Changsheng Bridge Aesthetics Market, making intangible cultural heritage displays a long-term "stall" at the market. It has introduced more than 20 intangible cultural heritage items, including shadow puppetry, puppet shows, crosstalk, Suzhou pingtan, paper-cutting, and dough figurine making, integrating display, performance, instruction, and hands-on experience. The photo shows people watching a shadow puppet show at the market. The photo was taken by Yang Min (People's Visual).
Summary: The 7th World Ancient Capitals Forum, themed "Ancient Capitals · New Charm," was recently held in Luoyang, Henan Province. Luoyang is among the first batch of national famous historical and cultural cities, with 3 items of 6 world cultural heritage sites, 51 nationally protected key cultural relics units, over 10,000 immovable cultural relics, more than 600,000 pieces/sets of movable cultural relics, and 112 museums and memorial halls. The forum was hosted by the People's Government of Henan Province and organized by the Chinese Museums Association, the Chinese Society for Ancient Capitals, the China Cultural Relics Exchange Center, the Department of Culture and Tourism of Henan Province, the Cultural Heritage Administration of Henan Province, and the People's Government of Luoyang City. During the forum, delegates engaged in in-depth exchanges on cultural heritage protection and urban renewal, and museums and the high-quality development of ancient capital cities, through keynote speeches, roundtable dialogues, and thematic reports.
Summary: The release ceremony for the *China Fine Arts Yearbook·2025* was held at the Museum of the Communist Party of China, with the yearbook guided by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, hosted by the China Artists Association, published by the People's Publishing House, and undertaken by the *Fine Arts* magazine agency. The yearbook aims to present the annual development of Chinese fine arts through a comprehensive perspective, systematic organization, detailed records, and in-depth analysis. It includes six sections—annual review, annual exhibitions, annual education, annual publications, annual market, and annual chronicle—totaling more than 1.5 million characters, and possesses considerable documentary, reference, and research value.
Summary: The article reports on Yucheng County, Shangqiu City, Henan Province, which is leveraging three core platforms—the Shangqiu E-commerce Logistics Industrial Park, the China·Yucheng Surface Treatment Ecological Park, and the Shangqiu Bonded Logistics Center—to drive its transformation from a traditional agricultural county into a modern industrial and opening-up highland. The e-commerce logistics park integrates full-chain logistics services, processes 3 million parcels daily, and plans to deploy 75 intelligent unmanned delivery vehicles across the Shangqiu area. The surface treatment ecological park fills a key gap in the local hardware and measuring instrument industrial chain through standardized electroplating and green pollution control, attracting over 60 enterprises. The Shangqiu Bonded Logistics Center, operational since October 2017, provides bonded warehousing and cross-border e-commerce services, with supply chain business revenue reaching 1.286 billion yuan and ongoing cold storage construction expected to complete by the end of this year. The platforms together support job creation, agricultural product distribution, and deeper integration into global industrial and supply chains.
Summary: The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued the "Measures for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Workers in New Forms of Employment (Draft for Comments)" to safeguard workers such as food delivery riders and ride-hailing drivers. Meituan reported paying over one million riders monthly and launching an anti-fatigue mechanism with rest reminders and mandatory offline limits. Taobao Flash Purchase introduced a "waiting at red lights not counted" mechanism and a "Rider Rights and Interests Consultation Meeting" system to address algorithm concerns. Didi stated it is expanding the occupational injury protection pilot program nationwide, while JD Group is building vocational training systems like modern rider and housekeeping academies. The platform enterprises said they will align with the Draft for Comments to improve labor remuneration, rest protection, social security, and algorithm governance.
Summary: The article reports on China's ongoing influenza vaccination campaigns, with new state policies offering free shots for key rural populations like "the elderly and young children." Wang Fuzhen of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention stresses that vaccination is the most cost-effective prevention method, recommending early shots for all aged 6 months and above, especially high-risk groups. Zhang Ying from Tianjin's CDC explains that annual revaccination is necessary because influenza viruses mutate and vaccine antibodies decline after 6–8 months. Services are increasingly convenient at community health centers, with various approved vaccine types available, and Zhao Hui advises post-vaccination observation and care. The article provides practical guidance on where to get vaccinated and what to watch for after receiving the shot.
Summary: The 2026 World Conference on Technical and Vocational Education and Training will be held in Tianjin from October 15 to 17, themed "World Vocational Education: Jointly Embracing Change, Jointly Forging Standards, Jointly Creating the Future," according to a Ministry of Education press conference. The event includes five main segments and three concurrent activities, such as the Luban Workshop Tenth Anniversary Symposium and the World Vocational College Skills Competition Champions Final. The competition has expanded to 78 countries with 9,391 teams and 36,000 contestants, adding an Oceania zone and a traditional Chinese arts and crafts track. The conference will release the "World Technical and Vocational Education and Training Standards Framework" and sign multiple international cooperation agreements. This marks a leap from the 1.0 stage of "personnel exchange" and 2.0 stage of "project cooperation" to the 3.0 stage of "standards leadership" in China's vocational education international engagement.
Summary: Zhang Yongqiang, a 67-year-old photographer, runs a small studio at No. 7 Weikeng Hutong in Beijing's Xicheng District, using a camera he has held for over 20 years to capture portraits of job-seeking youth, couples, and visiting tourists. Influenced by his father, he entered the profession and, after his original studio restructured in 2006, opened his own shop, which moved from North Xinhua Street deeper into the hutong. The studio has recorded countless life trajectories, from children returning as adults in the prime of one's youth to couples returning as families of three, and an elderly neighbor whose portrait became a keepsake after her death. Zhang says "Customers who have come will come again," reflecting on over 40 years in the trade, from hand coloring and darkroom film to the digital age, as he quietly documents the passage of time and everyday warmth.
Summary: Nanjing has fully implemented a nationwide cross-regional housing provident fund loan policy, with China Construction Bank Nanjing Branch handling the city's first such loan for Zhou Tao, an external talent who had contributed to the fund in Beijing. The bank custom-made a low-pressure financing plan, enabling Zhou to obtain a 400,000 yuan loan and resolve the difficulty of contributing in one city while purchasing a home in another. The newly published State Council decision proposes enhancing fund management service efficiency and achieving mutual recognition of contribution records nationwide. The Nanjing Housing Provident Fund Management Center issued a notice expanding the scope of cross-regional loans to cover the whole country starting this September.
Summary: Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine, the only undergraduate institution of Chinese medicine in Yunnan Province, has for 66 years aligned its education with the health needs of all ethnic groups, delivering over 100,000 professionals to border regions. The university deepened engagement with ethnic medicine, building a complete bachelor's-master's-doctoral system for Dai medicine and compiling the *Grand Dictionary of Yunnan Ethnic Medicines*, while nearly 60 percent of graduates took root at the grassroots healthcare front line. Standing at a new starting point, it will uphold the inheritance of Chinese medicine, strengthen distinctive disciplines, and promote mutual learning between Chinese medicine and ethnic medicine to support Yunnan's construction of a strong province of Chinese medicine.
Summary: The China Development Bank announced it is accepting reports from all sectors of society to supervise the safety of its assets, building on efforts since September 2006. The supervision covers legal persons and organizations related to the bank's assets, including customers and guarantors. The bank listed specific reportable acts, such as defrauding funds with false information, violating contractual agreements, maliciously defaulting on debts, and providing false guarantees. Reporters may submit complaints by letter, telephone, or email, and are encouraged to report with their real names while being held responsible for the truthfulness of their claims. The announcement, dated October 13, 2026, includes contact details and notes that the bank will interpret the announcement.
Summary: The article reviews the five-year performance of China's first batch of national parks, established in 2021, including Sanjiangyuan, Giant Panda, Northeast China Tiger and Leopard, Hainan Tropical Rainforest, and Wuyishan. It reports that the national park system with Chinese characteristics has been basically established, with the excellent rate of ecological benefit evaluation indicators reaching 75% and core ecological services enhanced. Flagship species protection has seen historic breakthroughs, such as wild Amur tigers increasing from 27 to 72 and Hainan gibbons expanding to 44 individuals. Nearly 50,000 local people have been employed as ecological rangers, earning annual wages of 12,000 to 21,000 yuan. A National Forestry and Grassland Administration official stated that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China will continue high-quality construction and steadily establish new national parks.
Summary: The third round, seventh batch of central ecological and environmental protection inspections has been fully launched, with two routine teams inspecting the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs for one month, and three special teams targeting pollution in karst caves, sinkholes, and mountain valleys across Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan for about two weeks. The Office of the Leading Group for Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection has required precise, scientific, and law-based rectification alongside inspection, prohibiting "one-size-fits-all" approaches and simplifying reception arrangements to reduce grassroots burdens. It stressed that emergency suspensions or "shut down all at once" tactics to cope with inspections are strictly banned, with immediate rectification for solvable issues and clear goals, measures, timelines, and responsible units for others. Accountability must follow the principle of "seriousness, precision, and effectiveness," avoiding arbitrary or excessive punishment, with inspection teams issuing reminders or reporting serious cases to the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.
Summary: The results of the third comprehensive scientific expedition to Xinjiang were released in Urumqi, finding that over the past 30 years, the trend of warming and wetting in Xinjiang's climate has continued to intensify, with average annual river runoff increasing by about 10 billion cubic meters compared with the previous 40 years. Over the past 30 years, Xinjiang's ecology has continued to improve, with desertification and land sandification achieving a "double reduction," the oasis area increasing by 45,500 square kilometers, and the area at high risk of wind-blown sand disasters shrinking by 30 percent. The expedition ascertained a contiguous selenium-rich soil belt of more than 22 million mu in the Tarim Basin, identified 315 species of halophytes, took stock of biodiversity with 33 new species and 243 newly recorded species, and obtained more than 300 stress-resistance genes. In energy and mineral resources, breakthroughs were achieved with 10 prospecting target areas delineated in the Huoshaoyun mining area of the Kunlun Mountains and proven rich coal resources of 77.5 billion tons in the Tuha Basin. Launched in 2021, the expedition is a systematic survey of the entire Xinjiang region covering five major key areas — the Tarim River, the Ili River, the Irtysh River, the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains, and the Tuha Basin — comprehensively updating the basic understanding of Xinjiang's resources and environment.
Summary: The Beijing Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China is using its "Fenzhangtong" sub-account clearing product to provide integrated financial services for night markets, specialty markets, and cultural-tourism scenic areas, supporting small and micro merchants with digital settlement and credit. The services have covered 21 centralized market business entities and more than 300 merchants across Beijing, including districts such as Huairou, Miyun, Changping, Yanqing, Pinggu, and Fangshan. During the 2026 Beijing Orchid Culture Carnival, the branch completed preliminary preparations in eight days and processed nearly 20,000 transactions with zero-error clearing, while also conducting livestreams to promote exhibits. At Longqing Gorge scenic area, the branch combined "Youhuifu + Fenzhangtong" with digital RMB and consumption discounts, serving over 20 merchants with nearly 5 million yuan in transaction volume this year. The branch plans to continue extending its sub-account services to more offline scenarios, aiming to empower employment, livelihoods, and consumption vitality in Beijing's consumer market.
Summary: Zhao Jiaju, a former food delivery rider, won the Tor des Géants 330-kilometer ultramarathon in Italy on September 16, becoming the first Chinese champion in the race's history and breaking the course record with a time of 65 hours, 55 minutes, and 22 seconds. The article details his preparation, including running the course multiple times and using races as training, and his mental toughness during the race, where he overcame sleep deprivation and physical pain. It recounts his background, from various odd jobs to discovering marathon running in 2014, and his rise through domestic ultramarathons, culminating in his victory at the Ultra-Trail Mount Fuji in 2023. Zhao attributes his success to willpower rather than natural speed, stating he believes in his own strength and grinds down opponents through determination. The reporter's notes reflect on the race's significance, noting the evolution of Chinese trail running from a few hundred participants to 230,000 registered runners, and conclude that a giant lives in everyone's heart.
Summary: The "15th Five-Year Plan" for Building a Sports Power calls for strengthened efforts to rectify "fan circle" disorder in sports and end the "fan circle"-ization of competitive sports and the "internet celebrity"-ization of athletes. The article cites an incident at the WTT China Smash where Wang Hao, head coach of the Chinese national men's table tennis team, was surrounded and verbally abused, leading to administrative detentions by Beijing police. It attributes the persistent disorder to a mature traffic playbook and interest-chain loop involving capital, marketing accounts, fan-group leaders, and platform algorithms. The piece urges coordinated governance across society, including legal punishment, platform responsibility, family and school education, and athlete role-modeling. It concludes that rectification requires sustained, long-term effort to break traffic playbooks, sever interest chains, and restore the essence of sport.
Summary: The first batch of members of the Chinese sports delegation to the 5th Asian Para Games arrived in Nagoya, Japan, on October 12, preparing for the competition set to open on October 18. This edition marks the largest delegation China has sent to an overseas Asian Para Games, with 500 members, including 312 athletes from 25 provinces and 13 ethnic groups, competing in 335 events across 17 major sports. Wang Guishun, head coach of the Chinese blind football team, said the team would begin adaptive training as soon as possible after settling in. Yang Tianlong, a 22-year-old wheelchair basketball player participating for the first time, expressed hope to join teammates in giving their all to achieve good results. The Games will feature 502 events across 18 major sports, with more than 3,000 para athletes from 45 countries and regions expected to participate.
Summary: The 2026 Shanghai Derivatives Market Forum, organized by the China Financial Futures Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange, will be held on October 15–16, 2026, in Shanghai. The forum aims to enhance quality and efficiency, advance toward innovation, and accelerate the high-quality development of the derivatives market during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
Summary: The article reports on recent documentaries about Unit 731, including an NHK film using newly discovered photographs and rosters to expose the unit's crimes against humanity, drawing sustained international attention. Japanese experts and researchers cited say the truth of the Japanese military's crimes cannot be hidden forever, as new archives and private relics continue to emerge. The piece details how historical facts were systematically obscured through wartime evidence destruction, a postwar U.S.-Japan deal that exempted Unit 731 members from war responsibility in exchange for data, and ongoing official avoidance and social amnesia. It notes that Japanese textbooks rarely cover this history, leaving young people with a generational cognitive blank, while right-wing forces attack the documentary as "masochistic." The article concludes with Japanese voices warning that the danger of Japan repeating militarism is emerging, and that only by facing history squarely can Japan truly face the future.
Summary: The article highlights a shift in foreign tourists' focus from landmark sights like the Great Wall and Forbidden City to everyday Chinese life, exemplified by purchases of smart rice cookers and other practical appliances in Beijing. It notes that "Made in China" products are now entering daily use abroad, moving from "sightseeing labels" to "life companions," with interest extending to new energy vehicles. This change is linked to China's expanded visa-free policies, encouraging repeat visits where tourists explore markets and malls. The piece concludes that such everyday interactions, from rice cookers to cars, foster more enduring bonds between China and the world.
Summary: Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning, at a regular press conference on October 12, responded to recent Houthi military operations against Saudi airports, stating that China consistently opposes attacks targeting civilians and civilian facilities. She called on relevant parties to avoid actions escalating regional tensions and to resolve differences through dialogue and negotiation for early regional peace and stability. Mao Ning added that China condemns the attacks causing heavy casualties and expresses grave concern over the intensification of the conflict.
Summary: Germany's national youth entrepreneurship competition in Stuttgart drew over 6,500 middle and vocational school students, a record scale, while the KfW Banking Group's 2025 Entrepreneurship Monitor reports a historic youthfulness in entrepreneurship, with an average founder age of 34.2 and 44% of new firms in digital products. The German government supports this via the "EXIST" program and the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation, which funds high-risk projects and tolerates trial-and-error, as exemplified by a regenerative medicine firm from RWTH Aachen University receiving repeated backing. State governments also contribute, with Bavaria recently providing 400 million euros to fusion enterprise "Proxima Fusion," and universities like Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Technical University of Munich serving as incubators through courses and mentorship. Verena Pausder, president of the German Startups Association, attributes rising youth entrepreneurship to the AI wave and job market shifts, calling this a "golden window period" for startups.
Summary: Thailand has been hit by continuous heavy rainfall and flooding, affecting 51 provincial-level administrative divisions and causing 71 deaths, with 20 provinces and parts of Bangkok still affected. Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul presided over a national disaster prevention and mitigation command meeting, requiring relevant government departments to strengthen flood monitoring and early warning, accelerate resolution of long-standing waterlogging, and advance rescue and post-disaster recovery. The government has distributed subsidies totaling approximately 1.069 billion baht to more than 135,000 affected households, while industrial losses are estimated at 6 billion baht and about 10 auto parts companies have suspended operations. Chinese institutions in Thailand, including Sinotrans Thailand Company and the Poh Teck Tung Foundation, have actively assisted in disaster relief, and the Chinese Embassy in Thailand issued a safety reminder for Chinese citizens. The Economic and Business Forecasting Center of the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce estimates total losses from the flooding range from 22 billion to 30 billion baht.
Summary: Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said on October 12 that the root and essence of the problem in China-Japan relations lies in the serious deviation and fallacy in the historical and China-related views of Japan's current leaders, which have severely undermined the political foundation of bilateral ties. Responding to remarks by former Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and domestic Japanese criticism of the government's China policy, Mao stated that these reflect the rationality and conscience of far-sighted people in Japan, and that China views them positively. She emphasized that the responsibility lies entirely with the Japanese side and that to bring China-Japan relations back on track, the ball is in Japan's court. Mao urged Japan's current leaders to heed voices of justice at home, face up to the root of the problem, abide by the four political documents, and reflect on and correct mistakes on issues such as Taiwan, history, and perceptions of China.
Summary: China's 48th Navy escort task group departed Kota Kinabalu Port, Malaysia, on October 12, concluding a five-day friendly visit. Malaysian Navy Eastern Fleet officers, Chinese Embassy and Consulates staff, and representatives of Chinese-funded institutions and overseas Chinese saw the ships off. During the visit, the task group commander called on Malaysian Navy leadership, and both sides held mutual ship-visiting activities and discussions on maritime navigation safety, hydrology and meteorology, and escort operations in the Gulf of Aden. The two sides emphasized learning from each other and helping each other while recalling the traditional friendship between China and Malaysia.
Summary: The Saudi Arabian General Authority of Civil Aviation reported that an attack on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport on the 11th killed one Pakistani citizen and injured 11 others. The statement noted the injured have been hospitalized, property damage occurred, and an investigation is ongoing. The Saudi-led multinational coalition confirmed the airport was attacked again on the 11th after a previous attack on the 10th, which killed 12 and injured 309. From the 10th to the 11th, the Houthi armed forces carried out multiple military operations against airports and energy facilities inside Saudi territory, with King Khalid International Airport and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam each attacked twice.
Summary: A migrant boat carrying 305 people capsized off the coast of Djibouti, with the death toll rising to 139 and 84 people still missing, according to the International Organization for Migration. The accident occurred between the evening of October 8 and the early hours of October 9 local time while the boat was en route from Djibouti to Yemen. So far, 82 people have been rescued, and the International Organization for Migration and the Djiboutian government continue search and rescue operations while providing medical and food aid. Earlier information from the organization said the boat was carrying 350 people. In recent years, large numbers of migrants from Ethiopia, Eritrea, and other countries have traveled through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to the Arabian Peninsula in search of work.
Summary: The article showcases Chinese technology exports across four regions, including drone X-ray inspection for Laos's power grid, smart robots for a photovoltaic project in Uzbekistan, the 2Africa submarine cable project in Africa, and KraussMaffei's green headquarters in Germany. It highlights how these innovations empower local sustainable development and capacity building, with Chinese firms providing training and creating jobs. The piece quotes local officials and employees praising the efficiency and safety gains, as well as experts noting China's "new quality productive forces" as a model for green transformation. It also mentions China Mobile's role in the 2Africa cable, which aims to bridge Africa's digital divide and support regional integration. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chongqing Municipality has cultivated over 570 professional sci-tech innovation "pace companions" to serve talent by building teams, finding investment, and commercializing achievements, accelerating progress "from 0 to 1" and "from 1 to N." The initiative includes four "pace-companion teams" of technology, professional, investment, and incubator managers, supported by six talent innovation and entrepreneurship service ports built near universities and industrial parks. Reform measures incorporate "pace companions" into talent recognition, break down professional title barriers, and provide performance-based incentives, with 114 having been awarded senior professional titles. The article highlights examples such as Feng Wenxue, a "gold-medal pace companion" in biomedicine, and Xiao Chunrong, an incubator manager, who helped Jiang Yong's company develop through "investment + orders" support. It also notes the establishment of the Chongqing Technology Transfer College for master's-level cultivation and plans to reach a scale of 500 graduate-level "pace companions" per year.
Summary: The article emphasizes institutional governance of the Party and governance by rules and regulations as key aspects of Xi Jinping's Party-building thought and the Fourteen Commitments. It highlights the Eight-Point Regulation, first adopted in December 2012, as a long-term effective "iron rule" that has improved Party and government conduct and social customs. General Secretary Xi Jinping is quoted on perfecting norms and tightening the institutional cage to resolve contradictions and defuse challenges facing the Party. The piece stresses strengthening institutional implementation, holding leaders accountable, and preventing institutions from becoming "scarecrows," with leading cadres as the "key minority" setting examples. It concludes that improving the institutional system will transform institutional advantages into governance effectiveness on the new journey.
Summary: Luliang County in Qujing City, Yunnan Province, organized Party members and cadres to go to the grassroots frontline, focusing on pro-agriculture policy implementation, agriculture-related subsidy disbursement, and agricultural machinery service guarantees. The photo shows cadres of the Luliang County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision and resident cadres of Yubu Village, Fanghua Town, learning about the autumn harvest situation in the fields. The image was captured by Wang Yong.
Summary: Huang, former head of a residents' group in a community under Binjiang Subdistrict, Qiongshan District, Haikou City, Hainan Province, was investigated after an audit rectification supervision and inspection revealed that his project's rectification was becoming a mere formality, with false rectification occurring. Huang irregularly issued false certificates, packaging collective land as individual homestead land to defraud acquisition compensation funds of more than 7 million yuan. He admitted, "I thought that as long as the procedures were thorough, I wouldn't be caught." Huang was expelled from the Party, and the suspected criminal issues were transferred to the procuratorial organ for legal review and prosecution. The discipline enforcers commented that grassroots cadres must hold power in awe and discipline in reverence, and that source review and whole-process supervision are necessary to prevent "making money from certificates."
Summary: Wulian County in Rizhao City, Shandong Province, is pushing new village leadership teams to quickly deliver tangible results by focusing on a "first thing on the agenda" for each village's two committees. Examples include Cao Yuchao, secretary of Shanzhuang New Village's Party branch, who is expanding e-commerce and homestays, and Dajiji Village, which built a happiness canteen for elderly residents. The county also formulated term and annual plans, posted publicly, and held a "leading geese guiding the flight" training class that categorizes village Party branch secretaries into development and governance types with tailored policies. Through a "village-enterprise joint construction" activity, the county matches supply and demand lists to revitalize idle assets, with over 20 villages achieving project implementation. A closed loop of "commitment — public disclosure — evaluation" ensures progress is supervised, reported monthly, and scored by Party members and the masses at year-end.
Summary: The editor's note highlights the Zunyi Conference as a pivotal turning point in the Red Army's Long March and Chinese revolutionary history. It announces that the reportage *Three Days in Zunyi* by Hu Songtao won the ninth Lu Xun Literature Prize in July, and that a five-episode documentary based on the book aired in late September to widespread acclaim. The note emphasizes how the two works, spanning literature and film, provide insights for refined creation of major revolutionary historical subjects.
Summary: The author reflects on writing the reportage literature *Three Days in Zunyi*, inspired by Mao Zedong's account of composing "Recalling Qin'e · Loushan Pass" through "many years of accumulation" and "sudden convergence." After nearly 30 years of studying the Zunyi Conference, the author decided to write on the eve of its 90th anniversary, driven by the realization that the conference saved the Party, the Red Army, and the Chinese revolution. The book's structure hinges on the coincidental number "three"—the conference's three days, the preceding three-plus years of errors, and the three-plus months needed to implement its spirit—framing pre-history, scene, and aftermath. The author emphasizes truthfulness through extensive cross-checked historical materials and literary quality, blending revolutionary realism and romanticism to portray figures like Mao Zedong, Zhang Wentian, Zhou Enlai, and others. The creative process was moved by the revolutionaries' firm faith, self-renewal, and selfless spirit, which the author sees as spiritual wellsprings for today.
Summary: The article reviews the documentary film *Three Days in Zunyi*, released for the 90th anniversary of the Long March's victory, arguing its core value lies in clarifying the logical link between the Zunyi Conference and the revolution's fate. It praises the film's "two-way convergence" of documentary realism and narrative appeal, which uses a "small entry point" and a structure of "expounding principles" and"telling stories" to break public cognitive limits. The review highlights techniques such as oral recollections, expert interpretations, and dynamic visuals that restore history immersively. It concludes that the work achieves "integrating ideology and artistry into a single whole," profoundly interpreting the Conference's role in saving the Party, the Red Army, and the Chinese revolution. The author is identified as Director of the Editorial Department of the China Television Art Committee.
Summary: The article discusses the viral "landing visa" travel-photography trend during the National Day holiday, exemplified by Chongqing's motorcycle shots that surpassed 1.7 billion views and attracted foreign tourists. It argues that this new form of city check-in reflects tourists' emotional need to connect with cities, while local culture-and-tourism departments have followed suit in seeking their own camera positions. The piece highlights safety hazards in Chongqing's trend, noting local authorities have launched rectification, and frames management as needing to keep up with market innovation. It praises examples of hospitality, such as Chongqing's Rongchang District opening government canteens and Hubei's Xuan'en County setting up emergency beds, as signs of refined urban governance. Finally, it warns against homogenized commercial photography, urging cities to balance traffic with quality so that internet-famous trends become "long-lasting fame" rather than monotonous involution.
Summary: The article discusses the Beijing People's Art Theatre's staging of *Autumn in the Small County*, an adaptation of Tracy Letts' *August: Osage County*, which has resonated with Chinese audiences through localized, life-oriented interpretation rooted in realist drama. The play dissects family dysfunction and universal human struggles, transcending borders and cultures. The creative team, including translator Lu Yan and co-directors Tang Ye and Gong Lijun, Sinicized the stage presentation by blending realism and impressionism, Western text and Eastern aesthetics, adding Chinese-style poetry and warmth. The stage design uses frames and lines to construct an impressionistic three-story house, with the Native American maid Johanna observing the family from an omniscient perspective. The ending was given a warmer treatment, leaving the eldest daughter's decision to stay or leave open to audience interpretation.
Summary: The article discusses how guofeng galas have become testing grounds for new audiovisual technologies, citing the *2026 Mid-Autumn Wonderland Journey* as an example. The gala fused AI-generated audiovisual segments with live-action filming to tell the story of "moon chaser" Xiao Wang traveling back to ancient times. It treats AI as a tool serving the main narrative, using live-action for genuine emotions and AI for time-space jumps, achieving a seamless dialogue between ancient and modern. Traditional folk music, vocal dialogue, and digital light and shadow complement one another, integrating audiovisuals so that cultural elements are no longer isolated symbols. The author concludes that technology is the surface while cultural heritage is the core, allowing traditional culture to enter the hearts of contemporary people.
Summary: This article reviews the film *Detective of Traces*, a National Day box-office champion based on Cui Dazhi, China's first generation of criminal technical police, depicting his career through four major cases across different eras. The film focuses on physical evidence and trace examination, with dramatic tension derived from the protagonist's patience in discovering clues within "objects" rather than action sequences. The narrative highlights the transformation of consciousness and concepts in public security work, contrasting the clash between "placing greater weight on physical evidence" and "placing greater weight on witness testimony." The review notes that while social transformation leaves traces on characters, the protagonist's inner emotional flow appears underdeveloped, with the "case" outweighing the "person." It concludes by discussing director Chen Sicheng's trajectory in the public security and suspense genres, including a sequel preview, *Detective of Ballistics*.
Enable the broad masses of the people to enjoy, in the vicinity of their homes, fair, accessible, systematic, and continuous health services covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and health promotion.
— Xi Jinping
Shanghai Comprehensively Promotes Elderly Medical Escort and Companion Services
A Record of Escorting an Elderly Patient to Medical Treatment
People's Daily reporter Jiang Hongbing
Registering for medical treatment, paying fees and undergoing examinations, collecting medicine and consulting a doctor are difficulties many elderly people face when seeking medical care. Without family accompaniment, 79-year-old Shanghai patient Aunt Zhou found a professional medical escort.
"Where do you feel unwell? Is it pain in the lower left abdomen or the lower right abdomen? What did you eat today?..." In an emergency room at the South Campus of Renji Hospital Affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, facing the attending doctor's questions, Aunt Zhou, who was suffering from abdominal pain and diarrhea, appeared somewhat hesitant.
Medical escort Xu Tingting, wearing an orange vest, responded promptly, relaying the symptoms and feelings completely and fluently, with Aunt Zhou only needing to add a word or two based on her own condition. This illness information had been carefully asked about and recorded by Xu Tingting while accompanying the elderly woman during her wait for consultation.
After the doctor issued the CT scan and routine blood test examination orders, Xu Tingting accompanied Aunt Zhou throughout the process of paying fees, queuing, undergoing examinations, and collecting reports, then returned to the consultation room to hear the doctor's diagnosis and ask about precautions... During the interval while waiting for the intravenous drip, Xu Tingting explained the doctor's diagnosis, the efficacy of the medications, and the dosage in detail to the elderly woman.
"Fortunately, I had the medical escort to help take care of me!" Aunt Zhou said that when elderly people go to the hospital, they often need to see several departments for different conditions at one time. With the help of the medical escort, she could finish seeing two or three departments in a single morning. If she came alone for treatment, she would often have to queue for an entire day, exhausted to the point of dizziness and sore legs. Moreover, being not very adept at using smartphones and self-service registration machines, and unable to read the signs clearly, she faced considerable difficulties seeking medical care alone.
By the end of 2025, Shanghai's population aged 60 and above reached 5.8438 million, and there is a large social demand for elderly medical escort and companion services.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must attach importance to the health of key population groups, safeguard the health of women and children, and provide the elderly with continuous health management services and medical services."
In January 2025, the Shanghai Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau, the Municipal Health Commission, and other departments jointly issued the "Shanghai Pilot Plan for Elderly Medical Escort and Companion Services," and took the lead in piloting it in Pudong, Yangpu, Songjiang, Xuhui, and other districts.
Renji Hospital Affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine is one of the earliest public medical institutions to introduce escort services, and it signed a cooperation agreement with the "Pulaohui" elderly care service platform, with the latter dispatching medical escorts to be stationed at the hospital on a regular basis to provide public-welfare escort services for patients. In the first month, 15 patients made reservations online and offline; when the two sides' cooperation had lasted a full year, more than 3,000 escort service orders had been completed. In September this year, the various types of escort services completed through the "Pulaohui" platform exceeded 10,000 orders for the first time.
In July this year, on the basis of more than a year of piloting, Shanghai began implementing the "Plan on Comprehensively Promoting Elderly Medical Escort and Companion Services," under which all elderly people aged 60 and above in the city can purchase the service, regardless of household registration status. At present, more than 300 elderly care service institutions in Shanghai provide elderly medical escort services.
Jiangsu Focuses on Building Integrated Outpatient Clinics for Chronic Diseases
A Record of Chronic Disease Prevention and Treatment
People's Daily reporter Shen Lin
Hospitalized at the township health center at her doorstep for treatment of diabetes, 68-year-old Feng Meiqing received careful diagnosis and treatment from Liu Yingzhao, an expert "sent down" from Zhenjiang First People's Hospital in Jiangsu Province. Feng Meiqing lives in Shiye Town, Dantu District, Zhenjiang City, which is a river island in the Yangtze River. The island has a permanent resident population of more than 7,000 people, with elderly people accounting for more than half, and seeking medical treatment is "a major matter on the small island."
In December 2014, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the Shiye Town Health Center, he pointed out: "Medical and health services are directly related to the health of the people. We must push the focus of medical and health work downward, push medical and health resources to sink downward, promote the equalization of basic public services between urban and rural areas, provide the masses with safe, effective, convenient, and affordable public health and basic medical services, and truly solve the problems of difficulty and high cost of seeing a doctor for the grassroots masses."
Feng Meiqing has suffered from diabetes for many years, and in the past she had to go to the city hospital for inpatient treatment. Thanks to the joint outpatient clinic established between the Shiye Town Health Center and Zhenjiang First People's Hospital, with experts regularly coming to the island to hold consultations, Feng Meiqing has achieved "minor illnesses do not leave the island, and major illnesses have someone to rely on."
Today, the Shiye Town Health Center shares the high-quality resources of Zhenjiang First People's Hospital: a joint outpatient clinic has been established, with the First People's Hospital regularly dispatching experts to hold consultations at the town health center; a two-way referral channel has been opened up, allowing registration, hospitalization, and other procedures at the First People's Hospital to be handled directly at the town health center; imaging examinations at the town health center can be submitted directly to the imaging department of the First People's Hospital for diagnosis...
Moving from "treatment of a single disease" to "integration of medical care and prevention," the Shiye Town Health Center has explored the establishment of integrated outpatient clinics for chronic diseases, carrying out standardized, pathway-based diagnosis and treatment for chronic diseases such as hypertension and hyperglycemia, and implementing whole-process standardized management from pre-consultation lifestyle guidance for patients, to in-consultation treatment and examination, to post-consultation rehabilitation and follow-up.
The Chronic Disease Screening and Prevention Center of the Shiye Town Health Center maintains statistical data on 2,074 chronic disease patients in the town. The center is equipped with 7 professional chronic disease screening devices, and in recent years has cumulatively completed health screening of 1,479 people in the general population and screening of 447 people in high-risk groups, and has carried out professional exercise and nutritional health interventions for 520 key population members, effectively moving the gate of disease prevention and control forward.
"Through the establishment of the Chronic Disease Screening and Prevention Center, we have basically achieved precise management of chronic diseases for all residents of the town, and continue to advance the integrated service of 'screening, prevention, treatment, and management.'" said Zhao Guoqiang, director of the Shiye Town Health Center.
Centering on the health of the people, Jiangsu has in recent years focused on advancing the construction of integrated outpatient clinics for chronic diseases. By the end of 2025, a total of 120 chronic disease screening and prevention centers had been built across the province, promoting the forward movement of the gate of chronic disease management and comprehensively implementing "order-based" family doctor contract services, encouraging family doctors to open their workstations in communities.
Yunnan Encourages Medical Institutions to Open Flexible Outpatient Clinics
A Record of Hospital "Night Clinics"
People's Daily reporters Wang Tian and Li Maoying
As night fell, the outpatient area of Yan'an Hospital in Kunming City, Yunnan Province, was extremely bright or brilliantly lit (灯火通明, deng huo tong ming - "lamp, fire, completely, bright").
"During the day children have to go to school and parents have to go to work, so the night outpatient clinic is quite convenient." Shortly after 7 p.m., Kunming resident Ouyang, holding the hand of his daughter who is in elementary school, walked into the hospital's ophthalmology consultation room for a follow-up examination.
The night outpatient clinic has been open at Yan'an Hospital for nearly three years. "The outpatient services are 'the same day and night' — refraction, intraocular pressure, and fundus examinations can all be done, with no difference from the services enjoyed at the daytime clinic." Ouyang said.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The people not only demand that they can see a doctor and be treated well, but also hope not to get sick or to get sick less, to feel more comfortable when seeing a doctor and to receive more considerate services, and they place higher expectations on the government's safeguarding of people's health and provision of basic health and health services."
"The reason Yan'an Hospital opened a night outpatient clinic is precisely to make it more convenient for the masses to see a doctor." said Huang Ying, director of the outpatient department of Yan'an Hospital.
Clutching a stack of examination forms, Li Yishu, nearly 80 years old, walked into the endocrinology consultation room of Yan'an Hospital accompanied by her son. She has suffered from diabetes for many years and needs regular follow-up visits to adjust her medication. Deputy chief physician Zhou Qiong took the forms, asking about her recent diet and blood sugar levels while recording in her medical record.
"In the past I could only come during the day, and since my son has to work, he had to ask for leave every time to accompany me, which caused him a lot of trouble." Li Yishu said.
Zhou Qiong has deep feelings about this — the patients who come to the endocrinology department are mainly chronic disease patients with diabetes, thyroid diseases, and the like, with high follow-up visit rates and many elderly patients, who often need family accompaniment. Li Yishu, who frequently has follow-up visits, said: "At night it is quiet and there are relatively fewer people, so doctors and patients have more time to communicate."
"The laboratory department, radiology department, ultrasound medicine department, and outpatient pharmacy are all open normally at night." Huang Ying introduced that the examinations that can be done during the day can also be done at night, ensuring that patients enjoy the same quality of medical services.
Safeguarding the health of the masses is not limited to nighttime — clinics also open normally on weekends.
Patient Ms. Feng, who came from Xishuangbanna to Kunming for consultation due to swelling in her feet, made an appointment with Zhou Qiong, seeing the doctor on Thursday evening, undergoing examinations on Friday, and getting the results and continuing the consultation on Saturday. "In the past, there were no outpatient clinics on Saturday and Sunday, so I would have to wait two more days in the provincial capital. Now, as soon as the examination results come out, I can continue the consultation, saving the time and expense of going back and forth." Ms. Feng said.
Convenient outpatient services are not limited to Yan'an Hospital. Yunnan Province encourages medical institutions with the conditions to open flexible outpatient clinics, adding midday, night, weekend, and holiday clinics during peak consultation periods, and dynamically adjusting the number of consultation rooms, staff, and service hours according to the number of patients being diagnosed and treated, to meet the diagnosis and treatment needs of the masses. At present, among public medical institutions at or above the second level in Yunnan Province, 439 have opened weekend clinics, 392 have opened midday clinics, and 321 have opened night clinics, better meeting the medical needs of people who work, attend school, and the like.
Return to TopBy: 叶 琦
The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has always placed the people's health in a strategic position of priority development, and placed the development of health and medical undertakings in a foundational position within the overall context of modernization.
The medical and health service system is the main front for safeguarding and promoting the people's health. Shanghai is comprehensively advancing elderly medical assistance and companion services for medical visits, Jiangsu is advancing the construction of integrated outpatient clinics for chronic diseases, Yunnan encourages qualified medical institutions to open flexible outpatient clinics, and Wuhu City in Anhui, through the substantive construction and operation of consultation and referral centers, is building a tiered diagnosis and treatment pattern of "serious illnesses do not leave the city, minor illnesses stay in counties and districts, and rehabilitation returns to the grassroots"... With the goal of meeting the people's needs for convenient and nearby access to medical services, localities are continuously enhancing the people's health and well-being, and the construction of a Healthy China is being accelerated.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Advancing the construction of a Healthy China is our Party's solemn commitment to the people." Obtaining convenient and nearby access to high-quality, efficient, systematic, and continuous medical and health services is an inevitable requirement for building a Healthy China, and is also the eager expectation of the masses.
The people's health is the fundamental basis of a nation (立国之基, li guo zhi ji - "establish, country, particle, foundation"). We must always adhere to the people-centered development philosophy, continuously optimize service processes, shore up service shortcomings, and improve service quality, persistently enhance the masses' experience of seeking medical treatment, continuously meet the people's new expectations for health, and consolidate the health foundation of Chinese modernization.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 12) On October 12, President Xi Jinping sent a message to Alar Karis, congratulating her on assuming office as President of the Republic of Estonia.
Xi Jinping noted that China and Estonia enjoy traditional friendship. In recent years, bilateral relations have maintained a momentum of steady development, and exchanges and cooperation in various fields have continued to make new progress, bringing benefits to the peoples of both countries. I attach great importance to the development of China-Estonia relations and am willing to work with President Karis to take the 35th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries this year as an opportunity to enhance political mutual trust, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, broaden people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and continuously enrich the contemporary connotation of bilateral relations.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 12) On October 12, President Xi Jinping exchanged congratulatory messages with Grand Chief Sir Bob Dadae, Governor-General of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Xi Jinping pointed out that Papua New Guinea is a good friend, good partner, and good brother of China in the Pacific island countries region. Over the half century since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, political mutual trust has continued to deepen, mutually beneficial cooperation has yielded fruitful results, people-to-people and cultural exchanges have been increasingly expanded, and bilateral relations have made steady and continuous progress (长足发展, chang zu fa zhan - "long, foot, develop"), which has not only benefited the two peoples but also injected strong impetus into building a community with a shared future for China and Pacific island countries.
Xi Jinping stressed that he attaches great importance to the development of China-Papua New Guinea relations and is willing to work with Governor-General Dadae to take the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries as an opportunity to carry forward the traditional friendship, strengthen exchanges and cooperation in various fields, lead the China-Papua New Guinea comprehensive strategic partnership to a new level, and better benefit the two peoples.
Dadae said that over the 50 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, relations between Papua New Guinea and China have made steady and continuous progress, benefiting both countries and their peoples. Papua New Guinea cherishes its long-standing friendship with China, firmly adheres to the one-China principle, and looks forward to taking the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries as an opportunity to promote the sustained and in-depth development of bilateral relations.
On the same day, Premier Li Qiang of the State Council exchanged congratulatory messages with Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape. Li Qiang said that China is willing to work with Papua New Guinea to take the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations as an opportunity to accelerate high-quality Belt and Road cooperation and promote the continuous forward development of the China-Papua New Guinea comprehensive strategic partnership.
Marape said that the Papua New Guinea government highly appreciates China's significant contributions to Papua New Guinea's economic and social development. The Papua New Guinea side will continue to adhere to the long-standing one-China principle, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation with China in various fields, and promote the continuous development of the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two sides.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 12) On the afternoon of October 12, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang met with Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam Tran Thanh Man at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Li Qiang stated that in recent years, under the strategic guidance of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and President Xi Jinping and General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President To Lam, the building of the China-Vietnam community with a shared future has continued to advance steadily and deepen substantively. In April this year, the top leaders of the two Parties and two countries held a meeting in Beijing, further charting the course for deepening bilateral relations. As "comrades and brothers," we are willing to work with the Vietnamese side to carry forward traditional friendship, enhance solidarity and mutual trust, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, better benefit the peoples of both countries, and also inject positive energy into promoting stability and prosperity in the region and even the world.
Li Qiang pointed out that China is willing to strengthen development strategy alignment with Vietnam, better leverage the role of mechanisms such as the Steering Committee for Bilateral Cooperation, make the economic and trade cake of the two countries bigger and better, and promote continuous improvement in quality and efficiency of cooperation in such fields as connectivity, artificial intelligence, clean energy, and digital economy. The two sides should continue to properly organize activities such as the "China-Vietnam Year of Tourism Cooperation," deepen people-to-people and cultural exchanges and cooperation in medicine, education, youth, and other fields, and consolidate the public opinion foundation of friendship between the two peoples. Facing an international situation characterized by frequent changes and instability (变乱交织, bian luan jiao zhi - "change, chaos, interweave"), China is willing to strengthen communication and coordination with Vietnam within multilateral frameworks such as APEC, China-ASEAN, and Lancang-Mekong Cooperation, jointly address risks and challenges, and safeguard the common interests of both countries and the region. It is hoped that the legislative bodies of the two countries will strongly support pragmatic cooperation between the two sides and play a greater role in providing legal safeguards, promoting people-to-people connectivity, and other aspects.
Tran Thanh Man stated that in the face of the complex evolution of the international situation, China has achieved new major accomplishments in economic and social development, with its economic growth rate ranking among the forefront of the world's major economies, and making breakthroughs in scientific and technological innovation that lead the world, for which the Vietnamese side expresses sincere congratulations. Vietnam has always regarded China as the top priority and strategic choice in its foreign relations, firmly adheres to the One-China policy, and will, in accordance with the important consensus of the top leaders of the two Parties and two countries, maintain close exchanges at all levels with China, consolidate political mutual trust, strengthen strategic coordination, advance pragmatic cooperation in such fields as economy, trade, investment, connectivity, artificial intelligence, agriculture, deepen people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and maintain close multilateral coordination. The National Assembly of Vietnam attaches great importance to and recognizes Xi Jinping Thought on the Rule of Law, and is willing to strengthen exchanges with China on governance experience, playing an active role in advancing cooperation between the two countries in various fields and building a Vietnam-China community with a shared future of strategic significance at a higher level
Wang Dongming attended the meeting.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 12) Zhao Leji, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, held talks with Tran Thanh Man, chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on the 12th, and together they co-chaired the second meeting of the China-Vietnam Legislative Bodies Joint Committee.
Zhao Leji stated that in April this year, General Secretary and President Xi Jinping held highly productive and effective talks with General Secretary and President To Lam, setting the course for building a China-Vietnam community with a shared future of strategic significance at a higher level. China is willing to work with Vietnam to follow the strategic guidance of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, and, in accordance with the overall goal of the "six more" directions, promote the construction of the China-Vietnam community with a shared future to become more profound and practical. The two sides should consolidate strategic mutual trust, maintain the good momentum of high-level exchanges, strengthen strategic communication, and firmly support each other. They should deepen practical cooperation, advance infrastructure connectivity, and expand cooperation in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, the digital economy, clean energy, and communication satellites. They should cultivate a solid foundation of public support, deepen exchanges in culture, education, sports, and other fields. They should strengthen multilateral coordination, jointly implement the four global initiatives, and promote an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization. China is willing to work together with ASEAN countries, including Vietnam, to jointly advance the building of the "five common homes" of peace, tranquility, prosperity, beauty, and friendship.
Zhao Leji emphasized that the National People's Congress of China is willing to work with the National Assembly of Vietnam, taking the implementation of the important consensus of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries as the main thread, based on the functions and duties of legislative bodies, to further raise the level of cooperation and better serve the overall development of China-Vietnam relations. The two sides should establish and make good use of the regular exchange mechanism, sharing experience in legislation, oversight, and other work. They should supervise the implementation of legal documents on mutually beneficial cooperation and create a fairer, more transparent, and more predictable business environment. They should act as intermediaries to facilitate connections for local, enterprise, and people-to-people exchanges, actively publicize the stories of China-Vietnam friendship and the achievements of practical cooperation, and let the friendship between the two countries from generation to generation become deeply touching people's hearts.
Tran Thanh Man stated that under the strategic guidance of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership and the building of a community with a shared future of strategic significance have been continuously deepened. Vietnam firmly believes that under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, China will surely smoothly achieve the Second Centenary Goal and make greater contributions to peace and development in the region and the world. Vietnam regards Vietnam-China relations as a strategic choice and top priority in its foreign policy, and is willing to enhance strategic mutual trust, expand cooperation in trade, investment, infrastructure, science and technology, and other fields, and strengthen people-to-people and cultural exchanges. The National Assembly of Vietnam is willing to strengthen cooperation with the National People's Congress of China, give play to the role of the committee mechanism, deepen the exchange and mutual learning of experience in legislation, oversight, and the work of deputies, and contribute to promoting Vietnam-China relations to continuously reach new heights.
Wang Dongming participated in the above activities.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) The commemorative conference marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese was held in Beijing on October 12. Wang Huning, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, attended and delivered a speech, met with all the representatives present, and posed for a group photo with them.
Wang Huning stated that overseas Chinese affairs work is a long-term and strategic task of the Party and the state. General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to the work concerning returned overseas Chinese and their family members as well as overseas Chinese, and has put forward important expositions and instructions on overseas Chinese affairs work on the new journey of the new era, profoundly answering and promoting the resolution of a series of directional, fundamental, and strategic issues concerning the development of overseas Chinese affairs work. We must deeply study and understand, and comprehensively implement, General Secretary Xi Jinping's important requirements, and firmly grasp the direction and tasks of overseas Chinese affairs work.
Wang Huning stated that the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese is a people's organization led by the Communist Party of China and a bridge and bond linking the Party and the government with the broad masses of returned overseas Chinese, their family members, and overseas Chinese. Over the past 70 years, the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese has adhered to cherishing deep affection for overseas Chinese, fulfilling its responsibilities for serving overseas Chinese, and handling matters beneficial to overseas Chinese, uniting and guiding the broad masses of overseas Chinese to play a unique role in the development of the Party's and the state's undertakings. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese has adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on overseas Chinese affairs work and the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, adhered to the theme of uniting people's efforts and strength (凝心聚力, ning xin ju li - "congeal heart, gather strength") to jointly realize the Chinese Dream, adhered to the unity of serving the overall situation and serving overseas Chinese, and united and mobilized the broad masses of overseas Chinese to make positive contributions in promoting the country's economic and social development, advancing the reunification of the motherland, inheriting and promoting Chinese culture, and enhancing exchanges and cooperation between China and foreign countries.
Wang Huning stated that the period of the 15th Five-Year Plan is a critical period for basically realizing socialist modernization, and overseas Chinese affairs work faces new circumstances and tasks. He expressed the hope that the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese will bear in mind the requirement of upholding and carrying forward fine traditions, so that the "overseas Chinese spirit" is passed down from generation to generation among the broad masses of overseas Chinese; bear in mind the requirement of deeply cultivating feelings for the family and the country, guiding the broad masses of overseas Chinese to firmly forge the Chinese heart and the Chinese soul; bear in mind the requirement of giving full play to unique advantages, promoting overseas Chinese affairs work to better serve the country's overall development; and bear in mind the requirement of demonstrating greater achievements, uniting and guiding the broad masses of overseas Chinese to contribute strength to comprehensively building a modern socialist country and comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It is necessary to uphold the Party's overall leadership over the work of the Federation, comprehensively implement the Party's policies on overseas Chinese affairs, and promote the high-quality development of the Federation's undertakings. Party committees and governments at all levels should support the Federation's organizations in carrying out their work in accordance with laws and charters, and provide strong guarantees for the Federation's organizations to perform their various work functions.
Wang Yi, Li Ganjie, He Wei, Wu Zhenglong, and Xian Hui attended the above activities.
At the conference, Lu Zhiyuan, secretary of the Party Leadership Group and executive vice-chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, delivered a congratulatory address on behalf of the people's organizations; Wang Linggui, secretary of the Party Leadership Group and chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, delivered a speech; and Lin Dong, a representative of the overseas Chinese community, made a statement.
Responsible comrades from relevant departments of the central Party and state organs, representatives of the overseas Chinese community at home and abroad, and others, totaling about 770 people, attended the conference.
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Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 12) On the afternoon of October 12, Premier Li Qiang of the State Council held a telephone conversation with New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon at the latter's request.
Li Qiang stated that at present, the China-New Zealand relationship continues to advance steadily and soundly, with new progress constantly being made in cooperation across various fields. At the same time, the international situation remains complex and changing, with unilateralism and protectionism continuously impacting the world economy, and the international community's call for upholding the multilateral system and strengthening openness and cooperation is growing stronger. China and New Zealand are both supporters and practitioners of multilateralism and free trade, and should carry out more communication and coordination. Next year will mark the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and New Zealand. China is willing to work with New Zealand to carry forward the traditional friendship, expand mutually beneficial cooperation, and continuously deepen and solidify the China-New Zealand comprehensive strategic partnership, adding momentum to the stable development and prosperity of both countries, the region, and the world at large.
Li Qiang pointed out that China is willing to always be a mutually beneficial and win-win (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual benefit, mutual win") partner with New Zealand based on mutual respect, continue to promote the expansion and quality improvement of bilateral trade in goods, actively tap the potential of trade in services, and expand cooperation in areas such as new energy vehicles, photovoltaics, and wind power, so as to achieve more tangible results. It is hoped that both sides will accelerate the negotiations on the negative list for trade in services under the China-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement and reap substantive outcomes at an early date. Both sides should provide more convenience for the expansion of people-to-people exchanges, deepen exchanges and cooperation in culture, tourism, education, youth, and sub-national fields, and consolidate the foundation of friendship between the two countries. China and New Zealand are both members of the Asia-Pacific family, and China is willing to strengthen cooperation with New Zealand within the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and actively advance the building of an Asia-Pacific community.
Luxon stated that the current New Zealand-China relationship is developing steadily, with cooperation in various fields advancing solidly and benefiting the peoples of both countries. New Zealand attaches great importance to its relations with China, firmly adheres to the One-China policy, and is willing to take the opportunity of celebrating the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations next year to maintain close high-level exchanges with China, deepen mutual understanding and trust, deepen practical cooperation in trade, tourism, new energy, and other fields, and promote the development of the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries. New Zealand supports China in hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting.
The two sides also exchanged views on international and regional issues of common concern.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 12) He Yadong, spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce, announced that the 140th Canton Fair will be held in Guangzhou from October 15 to November 4, 2026. Premier Li Qiang of the State Council will attend the opening ceremony and related events and deliver a keynote speech.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 观
Whether travel agencies can deduct input VAT on group meal procurement, whether scenic areas must pay tax on free admission days, and which tax category applies to income from cable cars and shuttle buses... Since the Value-Added Tax Law and a series of supporting policies took effect this year, the cultural and tourism industry has faced new policy changes, and 12366 tax payment and fee payment service hotlines across the country have received policy consultations from cultural and tourism enterprises. In response to issues of widespread concern, reporters interviewed industry experts.
Change One: Travel agencies purchasing group meals can deduct input VAT with compliant special invoices
In the past, the input tax amount corresponding to special VAT invoices obtained by travel agencies when purchasing catering services for tour group clients could not be deducted. Now, Article 22 of the Value-Added Tax Law clearly stipulates the scope of input tax amounts that cannot be deducted: the input tax amount for catering services, residents' daily services, and entertainment services purchased and directly used for consumption may not be deducted.
"The key qualifying condition here is 'directly used for consumption.'" Qu Junyu, associate professor at the Law School of Guizhou University, stated that when a travel agency purchases group meals, it integrates catering services into tourism products for external sale. In simple terms, this is not for its own consumption, nor is it for entertaining guests; it is a component of travel services and does not fall under direct use for consumption. Therefore, for such procurement transactions, if compliant special VAT invoices are obtained, the input tax amount can be normally declared and deducted.
It should be noted that scenarios such as internal employee dining, business receptions, and procurement of ingredients for staff canteens still fall within the scope of direct consumption or collective welfare. Even if special VAT invoices are obtained, the input tax amount cannot be deducted.
Qu Junyu reminded that travel agencies should maintain separate accounting and classified management for external business group meal procurement and internal catering expenditures, separately collect invoices for catering services supporting tourism services, establish management ledgers, completely retain original materials such as tourism contracts, group meal details, and tourist information, and properly carry out tax-related record-keeping for future reference.
Change Two: No VAT payable on scenic area free admission days
Previously, when scenic areas held free admission days, public welfare performances, cultural experience activities, and the like, they were required to treat these as deemed sales of services and pay VAT by reference to normal ticket prices. After the Value-Added Tax Law took effect, these activities no longer require tax payment.
Qu Junyu stated that the Value-Added Tax Law optimized the expression "deemed sales" to "deemed taxable transactions" and adjusted the specific scope. Scenic areas providing services free of charge no longer fall within the scope of deemed taxable transactions. Holding free admission days, public welfare performances, cultural experience activities, and the like in scenic areas constitutes providing services free of charge and is no longer included in the scope of deemed taxable transactions. At the same time, the aforementioned provision of services free of charge does not fall under the non-deductible non-taxable transactions stipulated in Article 22 of the Implementing Regulations of the Value-Added Tax Law, and the corresponding input tax amount can be deducted in accordance with regulations.
"Policy relaxation does not mean it can be abused." Qu Junyu reminded that activities must be genuine and reasonable commercial conduct, and one cannot use "free of charge" as a pretext to conceal actual economic benefits and evade tax obligations. When enterprises hold related activities, they must properly retain supporting materials such as activity plans, official announcements, and on-site video footage to ensure the entire business process is verifiable with supporting evidence (有据可查, you ju ke cha - "have evidence, can be checked").
Change Three: Supporting projects within visiting venues should be declared as cultural services
In the past, income from cable cars, shuttle buses, sightseeing electric carts, cruise boats, and the like within scenic areas was a matter where tax category attribution was prone to error. Some enterprises might declare it as transportation services, while others might declare it as tourism services. After the Value-Added Tax Law took effect, such projects were clarified in the relevant provisions on the scope of taxation.
According to the announcement issued by the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration on matters concerning the specific scope of VAT collection, income obtained from operating cable cars, shuttle buses, electric carts, cruise boats, and the like within visiting venues shall pay VAT as cultural services. In terms of tax calculation standards, general taxpayers are subject to a 6% VAT rate; small-scale taxpayers are subject to a 3% collection rate, while also being eligible for phased preferential treatment, with the rate reduced to 1% before December 31, 2027.
Qu Junyu reminded that the ticket tax exemption scope stipulated in Item 9 of Article 24 of the Value-Added Tax Law is limited to "first-gate ticket income" — that is, ticket income collected when visitors enter through the first main gate — for cultural activities held by memorial halls, museums, cultural centers, management agencies of cultural relics protection units, art galleries, exhibition halls, calligraphy and painting academies, and libraries, as well as cultural and religious activities held by religious venues. It does not include ticket income collected for special exhibitions, special performances, temporary activities, and the like held inside the venues. Scenic area operating enterprises should promptly review their own policy applicability and proactively correct any past declaration errors. For scenic areas that concurrently operate different activities, all types of income should be accounted for separately to avoid policy application errors caused by unclear accounting.
In addition, the differential taxation policy for tourism services remains applicable, but relevant conditions must be met. According to the announcement issued by the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration on matters concerning the connection of VAT preferential policies after the implementation of the Value-Added Tax Law, during the period from January 1, 2026 to December 31, 2027, when taxpayers provide tourism services, the accommodation fees, catering fees, transportation fees, visa fees, ticket fees collected from purchasers of tourism services and paid to other units or individuals, as well as tourism fees paid to other tour-receiving tourism enterprises, are permitted to be deducted from the tax-inclusive sales amount.
After the Value-Added Tax Law and its supporting policies took effect, the tax calculation caliber, deduction rules, tax exemption scope, and other aspects of the cultural and tourism industry have been adjusted to varying degrees. Experts suggest that relevant enterprises should promptly update their policy understanding, particularly regarding fundamental changes such as the adjustment of the scope of deemed taxable transactions; standardize financial accounting, maintaining separate accounting and retaining records for special businesses such as group meal procurement, differential taxation, and ticket tax exemptions; and accurately distinguish tax treatment rules for different business scenarios to avoid declaration errors caused by misunderstandings.
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At Shanghai Pudong International Airport, Nur, an Indonesian tourist, recently arrived with her daughter to begin a long-awaited "trip to China."
"We plan to take a high-speed train from Shanghai to Huangshan in Anhui, then continue on to Jingdezhen, Sanqingshan and other places in Jiangxi, trying to see and experience as much as possible, to feel the beauty of China in depth," Nur said excitedly. "On this trip, I want to try using GOPAY for all payments, which would have been unimaginable before."
GOPAY is an e-wallet in Indonesia. This year, China and Indonesia achieved cross-border QR code payment interoperability. "Chinese users can use apps such as UnionPay QuickPass to scan and pay at Indonesian merchants, and Indonesian users can use e-wallets such as GOPAY to 'scan and pay in one step' at UnionPay and Alipay-accepting merchants within China," said a relevant person in charge of China UnionPay.
As an international card organization operating globally, UnionPay has for many years worked to connect bilateral and multilateral payment "lines" into a "network," achieving interoperability in acceptance, card issuance, and QR codes, jointly building the capacity to serve users worldwide.
To date, UnionPay's acceptance network has extended to 183 countries and regions, covering more than 100 million overseas merchants and connecting approximately 2,600 member institutions; UnionPay cards have been issued in 86 countries and regions overseas, and more than 200 UnionPay-standard digital wallets have been launched jointly with overseas institutions; QR code interoperability cooperation has been advanced in Indonesia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Argentina, Turkey and elsewhere, with the cumulative number of overseas UnionPay QR code acceptance points exceeding 46 million.
UnionPay users shopping or dining at supermarkets and stores in Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand and Malaysia can pay by scanning QR codes with their UnionPay e-wallets; when visiting the Middle East, such as the UAE, they can spend at airports and shop in commercial districts without exchanging local currency; in African countries such as South Africa, hotel stays and routine business expenses can be paid directly by swiping UnionPay cards... Cultivating a "China Service" brand accepted broadly around the world is something that cannot be achieved overnight (并非一日之功, bing fei yi ri zhi gong - "not, is, one, day, of, work").
In January 2004, the first cross-border transaction was completed; in 2012, UnionPay International was established. UnionPay put forward the vision of "global network, international brand," expanding its service targets to global users and deeply participating in the transformation and development of the international payment industry.
In recent years, through the "single-point connection" model, UnionPay has achieved interoperability with QR code networks in multiple countries and regions, exported switching and clearing systems and technical standards to Laos, Thailand and other countries, and participated in formulating local QR code standards in Singapore and Thailand, achieving a leap from "laying networks" to "setting rules."
"Taking South Asia as an example, the local payment industry is at a primary stage of development, institutions themselves lack strong technical capacity, and external service providers demand high prices and long development cycles. Through our cloud card issuance platform, with the highlight of relatively low system transformation costs, we successfully leveraged three local institutions to launch UnionPay card issuance business," said the relevant person in charge of China UnionPay. "Providing solutions based on the characteristics and pain points of local institutions themselves — this is an important principle for leveraging business and achieving cooperation."
As a national financial infrastructure under the guidance of the People's Bank of China, UnionPay has built a secure autonomous channel for cross-border RMB payments in a complex international environment. Through the export of technology and standards, it has lowered payment costs in some countries and regions participating in the Belt and Road Initiative and shared the dividends of digital payments. In addition, UnionPay connects the broad account side and the broad acceptance side, becoming a solution provider and builder for global payment interoperability.
From stabilizing systems and establishing standards, to building networks and opening acceptance, to promoting interoperability and strengthening the ecosystem, UnionPay's payment services not only help Chinese users and Chinese enterprises "go global," but also deeply integrate into the work and daily life of residents in multiple countries and regions. UnionPay cards are becoming salary cards and student cards for residents in the UAE, Kenya, Mongolia, Singapore, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh and elsewhere. Taking Bangladesh as an example, through long-term cooperation with local financial institutions, UnionPay has issued millions of cards cumulatively in the country, becoming one of the international card organizations with the largest card issuance there. In the first five months of this year, local transaction volume on UnionPay cards issued locally grew more than fivefold year on year, and transaction volume in China grew more than twofold year on year.
"UnionPay" has become one of the most common "China Service" brands overseas. Nielsen, a market research and data analysis company, predicts that by 2030, UnionPay will rank first globally in circulating card volume.
Relying on the continuously expanding "one global network" service, UnionPay's cross-border payment services are becoming increasingly convenient. "UnionPay keeps pace with the country's high-level opening up, connecting the world through payment services, forming a financial bond that links China and abroad and promotes the flow of funds and the connection of hearts and minds among peoples," said the relevant person in charge of China UnionPay.
Actively exploring the application of artificial intelligence technology in research and development, operations and other areas, in April this year UnionPay launched an open protocol framework for agentic payments, with multiple institutions working together to advance the construction of new trust infrastructure, committed to building an open, compatible and secure new paradigm for agentic payments and creating a world-class payment interconnection network that balances efficiency and security. Looking ahead, UnionPay will continue to be rooted in China and serve the world, continuously deepen technological innovation, accelerate the deep integration of new technologies such as artificial intelligence with payment business, and continuously improve the quality and efficiency of serving the real economy; promote interoperability and standardized development of the global payment market, and provide more and more valuable services to global partners, merchants and cardholders.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Wang Zheng) Data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers shows: China's automobile exports continue to maintain rapid growth. In September, automobile exports reached 1.053 million units, up 4.2% month-on-month and 61.4% year-on-year. Among them, new energy vehicle exports reached 571,000 units, up 1.6 times year-on-year; the share of new energy vehicle exports in total automobile exports has exceeded half for four consecutive months.
In the first nine months, automobile exports reached 8.205 million units, up 65.8% year-on-year.
In the first nine months, production and sales of new energy vehicles completed 12.483 million units and 12.472 million units respectively, up 11% and 11.1% year-on-year respectively, with sales of new new energy vehicles reaching 53.6% of total new vehicle sales. The monthly share of new energy vehicle sales in new vehicle sales has exceeded 60% for three consecutive months, and in September it reached a new high of 61.6%.
Return to TopFrom the Developers
Using inertia to shake out the fruit, removing green fruit in just 0.15 seconds
Huang Kaipeng
China is one of the world's three major industrial tomato production regions, and the industrial tomatoes it produces can be used to make tomato paste, tomato juice, and canned tomatoes. For a long time in the past, tomato harvesters were basically imported, with high prices and after-sales service that was difficult to guarantee.
We felt that it was time to build a tomato harvester of our own.
The process of harvesting tomatoes is not simple.
First, when tomatoes are ripe, the vines will lodge, and may even become tangled across rows. In our design, we equipped the header with vine-separating, vine-lifting, vine-picking, and cutting devices.
In this way, the header is like a pair of dexterous hands: the vine-separating device first separates the tangled vines, the vine-lifting device assists with feeding, and the vine-picking device then lifts the plants that are lying against the ground. Then, the reciprocating cutter blade goes "snap" and cuts the vines. Afterward, the cut tomatoes and vines are "swallowed" into the tomato harvester.
Next comes the critical "fruit-vine separation." After multiple rounds of testing and validation, we chose inertial vibration technology — installing a large, parameter-adjustable vibrator inside the tomato harvester, paired with composite-material vibrating rods, to make the tomatoes and vines "dance" inside the drum. The fruit is separated out due to its weight and inertia, while the vines are sent away.
However, the tomatoes separated out at this point are still mixed with impurities such as plastic mulch film, clumps of soil, and broken leaves. To ensure that what is delivered to the next stage is relatively clean tomatoes, we installed a plastic-film removal device and a debris-removal fan in the flexible material conveying system, gradually removing the debris during the transport stage.
Then comes the stage that most tests "eyesight" — color sorting. When the harvester is collecting, it is inevitable that a small number of unripe green fruit will be mixed in, and if these flow into the processing stage, they will affect the quality of tomato paste, tomato juice, and the like.
To this end, we designed a color sorter based on spectral reflectance recognition, which can quickly judge color within the window period of just 0.15 seconds while the tomato is falling, and precisely remove the green fruit.
In 2024, our 4FZ-80 self-propelled tomato harvester was put on the market. Working together with transport vehicles, its harvesting efficiency can reach 80 tons per hour, equivalent to the harvesting output of 400 to 800 manual laborers. Moreover, the total harvest loss rate is less than or equal to 4.5%, the mechanical damage rate is less than or equal to 5%, and the rate of foreign matter contamination is less than or equal to 3%. To date, the total area harvested exceeds 50,000 mu.
I believe that as long as the entire industry works together to drive continuous product iteration and upgrading, domestically made equipment will certainly become better and better to use, reaching a globally leading level.
(The author is the director of the Special Harvesting Machinery Research Institute of the High-End Agricultural Machinery Research and Design Institute of China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Corporation; compiled and organized by People's Daily reporter Li Xinping)
From the Users
Hoping to improve stability and make the equipment more durable
Zhu Zengming
I am a dealer in mechanized tomato harvesting, and in 2024 I purchased the 4FZ-80 self-propelled tomato harvester. To be honest, we had been waiting for a domestically made tomato harvester for far too long.
In the past, only imported equipment was available on the market, and one unit cost 2.6 million yuan. Moreover, no matter what problem occurred, you had to figure out how to fix it yourself.
With domestically made equipment, the price has come down, and with the 150,000 yuan agricultural machinery subsidy, the burden of purchasing the machine has been considerably reduced. The equipment can harvest 80 to 90 mu of land per day, on par with or comparable to (不相上下, bu xiang shang xia - "not, mutual, above, below") imported equipment, and the fruit-vine separation effect is also good. Moreover, domestic manufacturers also provide 3 years of after-sales service, with better service overall.
As equipment from the first batch, we did encounter some problems in the process of using it, but there were basically no major faults. Quite a few problems are being gradually resolved as the equipment undergoes iterative updates.
For example, the engine of the first-generation equipment was not designed specifically for the tomato harvester; it was large in size and prone to clogging with grass. After the equipment was optimized, the problem was solved.
Not only that, some details of the domestically made tomato harvester are done even better than those of imported equipment. For example, each electrical circuit is equipped with its own separate fuse, so if a problem occurs in one circuit, only that circuit needs to be repaired individually. With imported equipment, however, all circuits share a single fuse, so once a problem occurs, all circuits need to be checked, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
For the next step, we hope to see continued upgrades in hydraulic components and electric motors, to improve stability, further reduce the failure rate, and make the equipment more durable and easier to use.
(The author is a dealer in mechanized tomato harvesting in the Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region; compiled and organized by People's Daily reporter Li Xinping)
Layout design: Cai Huawei
This issue coordinated by: Jiang Xuejie
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang) The National Development and Reform Commission, together with the Ministry of Finance, recently issued to local governments the fourth batch of this year's 62.5 billion yuan in ultra-long-term special treasury bond funds supporting the trade-in of consumer goods. The full year's 250 billion yuan in trade-in funds for consumer goods has all been issued.
Since the beginning of this year, relevant departments have optimized the scope of support, subsidy standards, and implementation methods for the trade-in of consumer goods, guided local governments in solidly carrying out policy implementation, and promoted the trade-in policy for consumer goods to achieve positive and effective results (积极成效, ji ji cheng xiao - "positive, achieve, effect"). From January to August, sales of goods related to the trade-in program reached 1.55 trillion yuan, with subsidies benefiting 208 million person-times. Among these, 5.353 million automobiles were traded in, 91.458 million units of six categories of home appliances were traded in, and 108 million digital and smart products were purchased new. Driven by the trade-in policy for consumer goods, retail sales of telecommunications equipment, high-energy-efficiency home appliances, wearable smart devices, and other categories maintained rapid growth.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Wang Yunshan) The reporter learned from the National Energy Administration: In August, 60.55 million green certificates were traded nationwide, an increase of 11.13% month-on-month and 25.18% year-on-year. Among them, 25.52 million green certificates were from green electricity trading, a decrease of 0.25% month-on-month and an increase of 44.86% year-on-year. In terms of green certificate issuance, in August, the National Energy Administration issued 354 million green certificates, an increase of 15.75% month-on-month, involving 3.7096 million renewable energy power generation projects.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Jin Xin) The reporter recently learned from the China Internet Network Information Center that as of the first half of this year, the number of generative artificial intelligence users in China exceeded 700 million, with a penetration rate exceeding 50 percent.
The "Generative Artificial Intelligence Application Development Report (2026)" released by the center shows that generative artificial intelligence application scenarios are showing a trend of diversified development, with the potential of intelligent consumption represented by smart devices being released at an accelerated pace. 76.0 percent of users said they would let generative artificial intelligence answer questions; the proportions of users using generative artificial intelligence to process images/videos, text, and work summaries/meeting minutes/PPT were 47.8 percent, 37.6 percent, and 32.5 percent, respectively. The number of uses of applications such as comprehensive artificial intelligence assistants and artificial intelligence efficiency office tools both increased by more than 100 percent year-on-year.
As of June this year, focusing on digital industry fields such as integrated circuits and artificial intelligence, China has cumulatively cultivated and built 16 national-level advanced manufacturing clusters. The application penetration rate of artificial intelligence technology among industrial enterprises above designated size exceeded 30 percent, and artificial intelligence has basically run through the entire chain from R&D and design, production and manufacturing, to quality inspection and operations and maintenance.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 于景浩 张文豪
On the production lines of the intelligent factories of Luoyang Bearing and YTO Group, one can feel the strong pulse of new quality productive forces; before the giant statues of the Longmen Grottoes, a World Cultural Heritage site, one can appreciate the majestic momentum of a thousand-year cultural lineage; in the crowded with people streets and alleys of the ancient city of Luoyi, one can savor the smoke and fire of everyday life and the surging vitality of a mobile China...From October 9 to 11, the "2026 World Mayors' Dialogue · Luoyang" event, guided by the State Council Information Office and themed "Continuing the Cultural Lineage of the Ancient Capital, Mutual Learning Among Urban Civilizations," was held in Luoyang City, Henan Province. More than 90 mayors, mayors' representatives, representatives of international organizations, and experts and scholars from over 10 countries including China, the United Kingdom, Italy, Argentina, and Algeria engaged in dialogue on topics such as the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage, industrial transformation and upgrading, and urban renewal, discussing urban cooperation and sparking exchanges of ideas.
Industrial Leap, Strengthening Urban Resilience Through Intelligent Manufacturing
During the event, foreign guests visited in succession the intelligent factory of Luoyang Bearing Group, the heavy-duty CNC workshop of CITIC Heavy Industries, and the large wheeled tractor production line of YTO Group, witnessing the process of forging basic components for major national equipment such as high-speed railways, large aircraft, and nuclear power plants, and listening to the stories of these old factories enduring the pains of transformation and achieving breakthroughs through innovation.
On an open area of the YTO Group factory grounds, Roberto Di Stefano, Mayor of Sesto San Giovanni, Italy, climbed aboard a Dongfanghong tractor. He turned the steering wheel and, with the assistance of staff, experienced the joy of driving a large tractor. "The driving experience is fantastic! China's industrial chain advantages are deeply impressive. I look forward to deepening cooperation between our two countries in fields such as manufacturing and tourism, jointly enhancing the resilience of industrial development," Roberto said.
Entering the YTO Group production workshop, foreign guests walked along the large wheeled tractor production line, frequently exchanging words with Chinese staff. On this production line, tractors of different horsepower can all be assembled, with one rolling off the line every 3 minutes on average.
John Macharia, a representative of Nakuru County, Kenya, stated that Nakuru County is promoting industrial renewal and agricultural modernization, and that the modern mechanized equipment produced by YTO Group has great market potential in Kenya. He looks forward to strengthening cooperation with Chinese enterprises to drive Kenya's industrial upgrading and product improvement, benefiting economic development and people's livelihoods.
Tony Hanson, Deputy Mayor of Durham County, UK, said that Durham County was once an important heavy industry base in the UK, with more than 4,000 industry-related enterprises, and is now seeking the driving force for the development of emerging industries and digital transformation. He said that his visit to Luoyang City allowed him to see hope for old industrial bases to regain vitality and vigor. Durham County hopes to strengthen cooperation with Chinese cities, build emerging industry clusters and technology centers, and enable more young people to benefit from industrial development.
In recent years, three-wheeled motorcycles produced in Yanshi District, Luoyang City, have sold well overseas. Through technological empowerment and quality improvement, the small "san beng zi" (three-wheeler) has become a shining calling card for Luoyang manufacturing going global. In 2025, the district exported 98,000 complete three-wheeled motorcycles and 20 million parts, with total foreign trade exports reaching 770 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31%. As of June this year, the district had exported 55,000 vehicles, achieving export value of 430 million yuan. It is expected that by the end of 2026, exports will reach 110,000 vehicles, with export value rising to 860 million yuan, and complete vehicle exports increasing by 30% year-on-year.
The export of "san beng zi" to African countries has also brought new employment opportunities locally. "We have benefited greatly from China's successful practices," said Ramdane Lounis, a representative of Algiers Province, Algeria. "We look forward to strengthening cooperation with the Chinese side, providing more opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises, and promoting the innovative development of more SMEs."
"Luoyang's intelligent and green transformation is deeply impressive," said Emilia Ziva, Deputy Mayor of Irakleio, Attica, Greece. She stated that the development of emerging technologies should be committed to making people's lives better, and that future industrial development and urban planning should be more sustainable and smarter.
Continuing the Cultural Lineage, Keeping Cultural Heritage Alive and Thriving
At the foot of Longmen Mountain, by the banks of the Yi River, the Buddhist statues of the Longmen Grottoes, which have weathered more than 1,500 years of wind and rain, stand quietly. This treasure trove of grotto art is also a witness to the encounter and fusion of Eastern and Western civilizations. On the viewing platform, Chinese and foreign guests engaged in dialogue on respecting the diversity of world civilizations and strengthening international people-to-people and cultural exchanges and cooperation.
"History is not a burden on a city, but its most precious wealth. Civilization is not a dusty static exhibit, but a beacon that can illuminate the path ahead," said Robbie Roddis, Chair of Durham County Council, UK. He said that the value of a city lies not only in creating history, but also in inheriting culture and nurturing future generations. "I look forward to Durham County strengthening cooperation with Chinese cities, including Luoyang, drawing on each other's experience, and jointly writing a new chapter in the exchange and mutual learning of urban civilizations," Roddis said.
Adhering to the principles of protection first and minimal intervention, Luoyang City has systematically promoted the restoration of the main body of the Longmen Grottoes and environmental remediation, while using digital technology for archiving and restoration. Sergei Chertkov, Mayor of Mogilev, Belarus, said that Mogilev has a history of over a thousand years, and many historical buildings were destroyed during World War II, making the restoration of these buildings of great significance to the city. He said that Mogilev is actively strengthening dialogue with cities from various countries, including Luoyang, and looks forward to learning from experience in heritage protection and urban renewal, so that more international tourists can see the restored parks, museums, and art galleries and learn about the city's history.
"Here, the eyes are filled with greenery and flowers. The city has practiced the concept of green development very well," said Nachida Belhouane, Deputy Governor of Algiers Province, Algeria. She introduced that the history of the Casbah of Algiers can be traced back more than 1,000 years, and in recent years, 13 historic sites have been restored, with digital means used to strengthen protection. "Protecting the old city is not just about restoring stones and city walls, but also about restoring urban space and historical memory."
The ancient capital Luoyang boasts 3 items in 6 locations of World Cultural Heritage, 51 nationally protected key cultural relics sites, and more than 10,000 immovable cultural relics. While safeguarding its cultural heritage, Luoyang City is actively promoting the high-quality development of the cultural tourism industry. In this regard, Mao Sokheng, Deputy Governor of Siem Reap Province, Cambodia, said: "Siem Reap is a world-famous historical and cultural city, home to the World Cultural Heritage site Angkor Wat. Siem Reap enhances the visitor experience by improving infrastructure, while promoting handicraft skills, specialty cuisine, and skills training, so that tourism benefits the community. This visit has allowed me to learn about the achievements Luoyang City has made in this regard. We have many things in common."
Ancient Capital Renewed, Historic Districts Radiating New Charm
As dusk fell, the lights came on in the Sui and Tang Dynasty Luoyang City National Heritage Park. The Yingtian Gate, reconstructed at equal scale on the original site, slowly opened, with "military officials" dressed in Tang Dynasty warrior attire and "ladies" in ru skirts carrying palace lanterns performing the "city entry ceremony," recreating the grandeur of the High Tang era a thousand years ago. In the ancient city of Luoyi, "fairies" in flowing robes flew through the air, scattering flower petals. Intangible cultural heritage shops, Hanfu experience halls, and cultural and creative markets attracted numerous tourists... Luoyang has a civilization history of more than 5,000 years, an urban history of more than 4,000 years, and a history as a capital of more than 1,500 years. In particular, the overlap between China's cultural heritage and the modern city in the central urban area reaches 51%. The guests felt the new image of the ancient capital in the interplay of ancient and modern light and shadow, and appreciated the vivid practice of coordinated development of cultural protection and economic society.
"My visit here has shown me that heritage protection and urban development are not necessarily in conflict," said Stefano Mazzetti, Head of the Cabinet of the Metropolitan City of Bologna, Italy. "Bologna has a long history and is also very international, where cultural heritage protection and urban life are inseparable. For example, our porticoes are a World Cultural Heritage site and still provide shelter from wind and rain to this day."
"Heritage must not only be protected, but also kept alive. While preserving historical remains intact, Luoyang City has promoted their revitalization and utilization, integrating ancient civilization into modern urban development. This experience is highly instructive," said Julio Zamora, Mayor of Tigre, Argentina.
Hanson said that economic development and preserving urban memory should be given equal weight, and that future cities should be built as sustainable communities where both the environment and culture are preserved. Urban renewal cannot stop, and must continue to innovate. He will bring these experiences back to the UK, while also exploring the possibility of further cooperation with Chinese cities.
During the event, Luoyang conducted in-depth exchanges with cities from multiple countries on sister city partnerships, industrial cooperation, and cultural tourism connectivity, promoting the transformation of dialogue outcomes into practical cooperation.
"From climate change to sustainable development, from cultural heritage protection to urban digital transformation, these global challenges cannot be addressed by any single city alone," Roddis said. The World Mayors' Dialogue provides a valuable platform for cities to break down geographical and cultural boundaries, engage in candid exchanges, and learn from one another. He expressed the hope that different civilizations would inspire each other through exchange, allowing ancient wisdom to provide innovative solutions for modern cities, and jointly moving toward a more sustainable and splendid future.
Return to TopBy: 米歇尔·富歇
Let different civilizations enhance mutual understanding through exchange, develop together through mutual learning, and build broader consensus for a more inclusive and harmonious world.
Not long ago, I participated in a civilization dialogue seminar hosted by the Chinese Consulate General in Lyon. The event itself was a vivid microcosm of China's advocacy for inter-civilization exchange and mutual learning. Civilization dialogue is an ancient yet ever-renewed topic. At a time when major changes unseen in a century are accelerating, it is all the more necessary to continuously enrich its connotations and address real-world dilemmas: how civilization dialogue can truly play a role in building consensus and promoting development is precisely the question our times pose to us.
Civilization dialogue is not a brand-new concept. The United Nations designated 2001 as the "United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations" and adopted the "Global Agenda for Dialogue among Civilizations" that same year; in 2005, Spain and Turkey jointly initiated the establishment of the "United Nations Alliance of Civilizations," aiming to transcend the "clash of civilizations" theory and replace confrontation and misunderstanding with exchange and understanding; in 2024, the resolution proposed by China to establish an "International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations" was adopted by reaching a consensus through consultation (协商一致, xie shang yi zhi - "consult, discuss; reach, one; consistent") at the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. These efforts confirm that the peaceful coexistence, exchange, and mutual learning of different civilizations are a common pursuit of the international community.
In recent years, China has endowed this concept with new contemporary connotations. In 2019, President Xi Jinping advocated at the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations that different civilizations engage in equal dialogue, exchange and mutual learning, and mutual inspiration; in 2023, President Xi Jinping put forward the Global Civilization Initiative, sending a sincere call to the world to deepen inter-civilization exchange and mutual learning and promote the progress of human civilization; in 2025, at the Ministerial Conference of the Global Civilization Dialogue held in Beijing, China joined hands with all parties to explore the building of a global network for inter-civilization dialogue and cooperation, jointly painting a new picture of human civilization.
Over the past few decades, China has presented to the world a picture of sustained progress, openness, and inclusiveness in its development. Today, China emphasizes interpreting its development path from the civilizational dimension, placing modernization within the historical context of thousands of years of civilizational continuity, highlighting both the continuity of Chinese civilization and the independent choice of its modernization path. This fully demonstrates that there is no single model of modernization; every country can, based on its own historical and cultural traditions, explore a development path suited to its national conditions.
Looking back at the history of human civilization, modernization itself is a result of inter-civilization exchange and mutual learning. From ancient China's influence on East Asia, to the medieval Islamic civilization's influence on the development of European culture; from the modern Western industrial civilization's influence on the world, to China's active absorption of advanced world experience since reform and opening up, and to today's Chinese innovations continuously going global — civilizational development has always been accompanied by mutual learning and mutual reference. History proves that civilizations are enriched through exchange, and modernization develops through mutual learning.
The key to genuine civilization dialogue lies in equality and mutual benefit, not homogenization. A country can draw on the achievements of other civilizations without thereby losing its own cultural characteristics. Seeking a balance between pursuing common values and respecting civilizational differences is an eternal topic in the development of human civilization. Different civilizations each have their own distinctive features, and all embody a pursuit of universal values; therefore, civilizational diversity should be all the more respected, and the practice of measuring the world by a single standard should be discarded. At the same time, civilization dialogue must not become a new geopolitical tool; genuine inter-civilization exchange should be built on the basis of mutual respect and equal treatment, rather than creating new confrontation. The current international landscape is undergoing profound adjustment, and the world needs rationality, inclusiveness, and openness more than ever — not new ideological confrontation.
For example, the Musée du Quai Branly in France brings together rich artistic treasures from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, presenting the aesthetics and wisdom of non-Western civilizations from an equal perspective, and promoting mutual understanding and appreciation among different civilizations through exchange and display. This open attitude is precisely what inter-civilization mutual learning should entail. For Europe, there is a need to understand more deeply the development logic of other civilizations, to truly acknowledge and respect differences rather than attempt to eliminate them. France and China have carried out a series of fruitful cultural exchanges. I participated in the 2014 dialogue between the two sides on traditional Chinese political concepts, and in 2015 I took part in academic seminars on related themes. I look forward to the two sides launching more institutionalized exchanges, deepening cooperation among think tanks, youth, media, and cultural institutions, and injecting new vitality into the development of France-China relations and inter-civilization exchange and mutual learning.
Civilization dialogue is not the mutual repetition of those who hold the same views, but rather listening, exchange, and mutual learning on the basis of respect for differences. In the process of drawing closer to one another, humanity can transcend its own limitations and gain a deeper understanding of the world. Today, humanity needs civilization dialogue more than ever — let different civilizations enhance mutual understanding through exchange, develop together through mutual learning, and build broader consensus for a more inclusive and harmonious world.
(The author is an adviser to the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and a scholar)
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 12) Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs, held a meeting in Beijing on October 12 with Patrushev, Assistant to the President of Russia and Chairman of the Maritime Board.
Wang Yi conveyed President Xi Jinping's cordial greetings to President Putin. Wang Yi stated that President Xi Jinping and President Putin maintain close communication, leading the bilateral relations to advance toward higher quality and higher levels. It is necessary to activate the "blue engine" of China-Russia relations development, contribute China-Russia strength to improving global maritime governance, and promote the building of a maritime community with a shared future.
Patrushev conveyed President Putin's sincere greetings to President Xi Jinping, expressing that the Russian side is willing to work with the Chinese side to promote the building of a maritime community with a shared future, adding a new dimension to the Russia-China comprehensive strategic coordination.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Han Xiaoming) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson announced on October 12 that Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, will attend, as President Xi Jinping's special representative, the Seventh Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia, to be held on October 15 in Baku, Azerbaijan, and will visit Azerbaijan, Croatia, Montenegro, and Bulgaria from October 14 to 20.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李志伟
Recently, a special basketball game was held at the gymnasium of Crimson Cliffs High School in Washington City, Utah, United States. Amid applause and cheers, the "Guma" basketball team from Guizhou, China, played a friendly match against the Crimson Cliffs High School girls' varsity team, sharing the joy of basketball together (see photo, taken by Li Zhiwei, People's Daily reporter). After the game, spectators flooded onto the court and danced the lusheng dance with the players.
"Guma" basketball is a distinctive folk mass sports activity born in the Miao villages of Leishan, Guizhou. In Miao villages, women who have married out and returned home are called "guma" (aunts). "Guma" basketball was originally a leisure and recreational activity for returning women, and has now developed into a shining calling card showcasing the vitality of rural Guizhou.
From late September to early October, the "Guma" basketball delegation visited California, Nevada, Utah, and Washington State in the United States, conducting sports and cultural exchange activities with local schools and communities. The game at Crimson Cliffs High School was one of these exchange activities, attracting over a hundred American students to attend.
Unlike the dribbling rules of conventional basketball, "Guma" basketball players can run while holding the ball, making the game uniquely entertaining. Teagan Kanzee, a member of the Crimson Cliffs High School girls' basketball team, said she really enjoys this different kind of basketball. "It's especially fun, the process of playing is very enjoyable, and the experience is quite good."
Yu Ping, a member of the "Guma" basketball team, said that two years ago, American friends traveled all the way to Guizhou, entered the "Village BA" arena, and made a promise with them to meet again. "Today, this promise spanning mountains and seas has finally been fulfilled," Yu Ping said. "We hope that through such games we can consolidate the friendship between the Chinese and American peoples and let the friendship across the Pacific endure with endless and continuous growth (生生不息, sheng sheng bu xi - "birth, birth, not, cease")."
Shen Xin, Vice President of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, who led the "Guma" basketball delegation on its visit to the United States, said that through sports and through "Guma" basketball, the Chinese and American peoples quickly draw closer to each other and build friendship, and it also makes it easier for American people to get a close-up understanding of the daily lives of Chinese people and to learn more about China's diverse ethnic cultures and humanistic customs. "We believe that this two-way endeavor will better consolidate the people-to-people foundation of Sino-American relations and play a positive role in enhancing understanding and friendship between the two peoples," Shen Xin said.
Not long ago, China announced that over the next five years it will invite 100,000 American youths to China for exchange and study, filling many local young people with aspiration. Kennedy Snow, a student at Crimson Cliffs High School, said she looks forward to the opportunity to visit China or study in China and gain an in-depth understanding of Chinese culture.
Kim Moncrief, principal of Crimson Cliffs High School, is also full of anticipation for the "50,000 in 5 years" initiative. "This is an excellent opportunity for students to go to China and immerse themselves in Chinese culture," Moncrief said. Many students at the school have been learning Chinese language and culture since childhood. "If they can go to China and learn and explore as much as possible, that would be a wonderful thing."
Parker Belnap, a student at Crimson Cliffs High School, has been learning Chinese since first grade. "China has advanced technology and rich cuisine, and what is most attractive is its culture with profound heritage," he said. He said he very much enjoys participating in U.S.-China youth interaction and exchange activities, which help enhance mutual understanding and cultural awareness between the two sides, "truly bringing the people of the two countries together."
(People's Daily, St. George, United States)
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 12) He Lifeng, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, met with Tim Cook, Executive Chairman of Apple Inc. of the United States, at the Great Hall of the People on the afternoon of the 12th.
He Lifeng stated that implementing the consensus of the two heads of state and building a "constructive strategic stable relationship between China and the United States based on respect, fairness, and reciprocity" is conducive to the stability and development of the economies of both countries and even the global economy, and will provide stable expectations and a sound business environment for multinational enterprises. He welcomed technology companies from various countries, including Apple, to continue deepening mutually beneficial cooperation (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual benefit, win-win") with China and share the development opportunities of Chinese modernization.
Cook stated that Apple is full of confidence in its long-term development in China and will play the role of a communication bridge for the business community, contributing more strength to promoting the stable and healthy development of China-U.S. economic and trade relations.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Bao Han) On October 12, the China Public Diplomacy Association held a "Linjia No. 7 Salon" in Beijing under the theme "Jointly Discussing Global Governance, Jointly Building the China-Latin America Future," inviting experts and scholars to hold discussions and exchanges with Chinese and foreign journalists on topics such as China-Latin America cooperation.
Qiu Xiaoqi, Special Representative of the Chinese Government on Latin American Affairs, stated that Latin American and Caribbean countries are important partners for China in advancing the reform of the global governance system, deepening Global South cooperation, and building a community with a shared future for mankind. China and Latin America are actively advancing the five major projects for jointly building a China-Latin America community with a shared future, contributing important strength to promoting the construction of a more just and equitable global governance system.
Chen Dong, specially appointed researcher at the Research Center for a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind, stated that turning the vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind into reality cannot be separated from a just and equitable global governance system, and that China and Latin America working together in close cooperation (携手同行, xie shou tong xing - "hold hands, walk together") will surely contribute more Southern wisdom to improving global governance.
Yue Yunxia, Deputy Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, stated that the Global Governance Initiative provides conceptual guidance and an institutional framework for China-Latin America cooperation. From economic and trade cooperation to all-field cooperation, from bilateral interaction to global governance, China-Latin America cooperation is increasingly becoming a vivid practice in implementing the Global Governance Initiative.
The atmosphere at the symposium was lively, with Chinese and foreign media reporters asking questions enthusiastically, and the experts and scholars also answered reporters' questions on topics such as China-Latin America artificial intelligence cooperation and youth people-to-people and cultural exchanges.
The "Linjia No. 7 Salon" is hosted by the China Public Diplomacy Association, which from time to time invites guests to interact and exchange with Chinese and foreign journalists on relevant topics.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Yinchuan, October 12) (Reporters Zhang Wen, Qin Ruijie) The 47th World Congress of Vine and Wine and the General Assembly of Member States of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine opened on the 12th in Yinchuan, Ningxia, with representatives from 51 member states of the organization, envoys from 32 countries, and more than 800 guests from all sides in attendance. The congress is co-hosted by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine and the government of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and is also the first time it has been held in Asia.
Under the theme "Building a New Landscape for the Global Grape and Wine Industry," the congress focuses on the topics of industrial transformation, innovative development, and sustainable development, and features five main activities including a seminar on exchanges on the high-quality development of China's grape and wine industry and a science and technology sub-session. The congress is held concurrently with the 6th China (Ningxia) International Wine Culture and Tourism Expo.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 范昊天
The Red Army was an army led by the Communist Party, the Red Army was an army representing the interests of the poor... In the display case of the Archives of Yunxi County, Shiyan City, Hubei Province, a yellowed mimeographed leaflet lies quietly on display, its handwriting still easily recognizable and clear (清晰可辨, qing xi ke bian - "clear, can, be, distinguished"). This is the "What Is the Red Army" leaflet printed and distributed during the Long March of the 25th Red Army.
More than a hundred kilometers from the archives, on the mountainside of Hutouyan Village, Huikou Hui Township, the earthen walls of an old house are mottled with age. Li Dengke, grandson of Red Army soldier Li Yucai, stood in the main room and pointed to a crack in the wall beneath the eaves, saying: "Back then, Grandma Liu Liying tucked the leaflet into the family genealogy, and hid it right here."
In December 1934, the 25th Red Army fought its way into the Yunxi area at the junction of Hubei and Shaanxi, and decided to establish the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area. On February 19, 1935, the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China convened the "Yunxi Conference" at Laochi Courtyard in Huping Village, Yunxi County. Upon learning the news, Li Yucai, a young man from Hutouyan Village, walked more than 20 li to sign up for the army. Not long afterward, because his mother fell seriously ill, Li Yucai requested leave to return home, and the troops handed him a copy of the "What Is the Red Army" leaflet, instructing him to continue spreading the revolutionary message to the masses.
The leaflet was printed on December 10, 1934, and signed by the "Political Department of the Anti-Japanese Vanguard Detachment of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Advancing North." Li Renxi, a local history expert in Yunxi County, explained that the leaflet was drafted and carved for printing by the troops during the Long March so that the masses could easily understand the Red Army, and it plainly stated the original aspiration of the Communist Party of China and the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army to seek happiness for the people. After the leaflet was printed and distributed, more than 400 young people in the Yunxi area alone signed up for the army.
In July 1935, the main force of the 25th Red Army left Yunxi and other areas to continue the Long March. Li Yucai stayed behind to carry out revolutionary struggle, and he entrusted the leaflet to his wife Liu Liying for safekeeping. This illiterate rural woman wrapped the leaflet in red cloth, tucked it into the family genealogy, stuffed it into a crack in the eaves, plastered it over with thick mud, and made it perfectly integrated with the wall (yu qiang ti rong wei yi ti, yu qiang ti rong wei yi ti - "with, wall, body, melt, become, one, whole").
"Grandma witnessed how the 25th Red Army worked for the happiness of the poor and suffering people in the base area, and she firmly believed that as long as the Red Army was there, the poor would have hope and would have the day they could hold their heads high," Li Dengke said.
In 1981, when the local area was collecting revolutionary cultural relics, Liu Liying climbed up a wooden ladder, chiseled open the mud-sealed crack, took out the sealed Red Army leaflet, and turned it over to the state. That same year, the leaflet was treasured by the Yunxi County Archives.
With the passage of time (shi guang liu zhuan, shi guang liu zhuan - "time, flow, rotate"), a single sheet of leaflet has transformed from the revolutionary bugle call on the battlefields of those fiery years into a spiritual landmark for striving to remain true to one's original aspiration (砥砺初心, di li chu xin - "grind, sharpen, original, heart") and bravely undertaking the mission in the new era.
In August 2024, the Long March National Cultural Park (Yunxi Section) was officially opened, with more than 10 key projects completed and put into use, including the Long March historical trails, the Red Army Primary School, and the Red Army Fortress, and the former site of the 25th Red Army headquarters, the former site of the political department of the 223rd Regiment, and the former site of the "Yunxi Conference" all completed renovation and exhibition. As the core area of the Hubei-Henan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base Area, Yunxi County now has 75 red heritage sites, with Long March-related relics accounting for one-third of the province's total.
The Red Army leaflet that Liu Liying hid has also become a red calling card for Yunxi. Yunxi has organized a "Resounding Red Voices" propaganda team of more than 260 people, which goes into government offices, campuses, communities, and other places, telling the red story of her guarding the leaflet through local dialects, stories, and opera performances; batch after batch of Party members, cadres, and young students come to the revolutionary sites, carefully reading the words on the leaflet, looking back on those years of beacon-fire warfare, and comprehending the Red Army's original aspiration of "for whom they set out, for whom they fought."
Creating and staging the red theatrical work "Sparks on Paper" and the stage play "The Leaflet's Sparks Illuminate Yunxi"; developing more than 180 kinds of cultural and creative products around the red IP (intellectual property), with annual sales exceeding 50 million yuan... Today, relying on the construction of the Long March National Cultural Park, Yunxi County is persevering with constancy (持之以恒, chi zhi yi heng - "hold, that, with, constant") in telling the Red Army's stories well, passing on the red genes, and carrying forward the great Long March spirit.
Return to TopBy: 常 晋
Recently, the topic of "China's new energy sector achieving four 'world No. 1s'" has sparked lively discussion.
No. 1 in scale globally, No. 1 in utilization globally, No. 1 in the industrial chain globally, No. 1 in cost competitiveness globally... Behind these inspiring "No. 1s" lies a hard-core answer sheet written with hard work.
More than a decade ago, China's new energy industry was still in a passive situation of being "dependent on foreign countries for technology, equipment, and markets" — the slightest disturbance made it difficult to move forward. Anchoring itself in self-reliance and self-strengthening, with strategic vision it assessed the situation, laid out its plans, and made its moves. In step by step solving the "bottleneck" problems, China's new energy industry created a development miracle that amazed the world.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The process of solving problems is also the process of development and progress."
Development has never been smooth and without obstacles (一马平川, yi ma ping chuan - "one, horse, flat, level"); rather, it advances continuously by breaking through barriers and seizing passes. The answer sheet of the new era is splendid and varied (精彩纷呈, jing cai fen cheng - "brilliant, colorful, present, appear"), but this splendor did not fall from the sky — it was fought for and achieved through solving problems, one hurdle after another.
So it was with the battle against poverty. Overcoming "the poorest of the poor, the most difficult of the difficult" was already a hard battle, and with the added impact of the century-defining pandemic, the difficulty increased sharply.
We neither retreated nor fell into chaos: targeted assistance never stopped, with stable employment, consumption-based poverty alleviation, and basic-needs guarantees working in coordination; the policy toolbox was quickly opened, with tax and fee reductions and financial support reaching the grassroots directly, and the promise that "not a single person will be left behind" was fulfilled on schedule.
Facts have proven that as long as the direction is not off course and the momentum is not relaxed, treating difficult problems as whetstones, then no matter how hard the pass, it can be crossed.
The same is true of breakthroughs in science and technology. The "lack of chips and lack of souls" once served as a wake-up call: "Building a house on someone else's foundation, no matter how big or beautiful, may not withstand wind and rain."
The new system for mobilizing resources nationwide concentrated strength to tackle key problems, the position of enterprises as the main actors in innovation was continuously strengthened, and the "baton" of science and technology evaluation was continuously recalibrated... A batch of "great instruments of the nation" came into being one after another, and in some fields a leap was achieved from "following" to "running alongside" and "leading."
It was precisely by not fearing "hard bones" and daring to gnaw on "hard bones" that one "impossible" after another was turned into "definitely possible."
In response to lax, weak, and soft Party governance and administration, a "combined punch" of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party was delivered, and the century-old major Party continuously radiated vigorous vitality; in response to the Yangtze being "sick, and seriously so," the approach of joint efforts at major protection and no major development was upheld, and the scene of "finless porpoises leaping against the waves, sand birds catching fish at leisure" reappeared...
From the governance of a major Party to the governance of a major country, the fields differ and the questions differ, yet the approach to solving problems has been consistent throughout: face problems directly, never take a detour; crack difficult problems with sustained, long-term effort.
Problems are the voice of the times and also the opportunity to drive development. What they expose is the gap; what they open up is precisely the space. Fear problems, and problems become "roadblocks"; dare to confront the tough, and problems become "stepping stones." Daring to face problems directly and being good at cracking difficult problems enables one to grasp the initiative and win the future.
Of course, cracking difficult problems is by no means extremely easy to do (轻而易举, qing er yi ju - "light, and, easy, lift"). Between "how to see it" and "how to do it" lies precisely responsibility and practical action.
Where the problems are, there is the examination hall; where the pain points are, there is the point of force.
Scientific and technological innovation must adhere to "industry sets the questions, science and technology answers them"; reform and tackling hard problems must dare to touch vested interests and be good at clearing bottlenecks; improving people's livelihoods must keep a close eye on what the people are worried about and looking forward to... Step forward, settle down, and work with full effort, and only then will the problem list become a splendid answer sheet.
"Every era has its own problems. As long as we scientifically understand, accurately grasp, and correctly solve these problems, we can continuously push our society forward."
Today, the scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation are accelerating, and the people's expectations for a better life are rising accordingly. The times set the examination paper, and it has never allowed evasion; the people grade the paper, and they always see clearly. Whether one can withstand pressure and crack difficult problems tests the resilience of a country and also examines the original aspiration of a political party.
In realizing the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we are on the journey, and the "examination" is still ongoing.
Forging ahead toward the 15th Five-Year Plan, a new examination paper has already been laid out. By continuously solving problems and cracking difficult problems, we can turn the questions posed by the times into tangible achievements of high-quality development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尹 婕 蒋雪鸿
The forest stretches vast and green. In the Hunchun jurisdiction of the Jilin section of the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, a female wild Amur tiger is moving through the area with two cubs. Chen Xiaocai, director of the Comprehensive Business Division of the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park Administration, said that not long ago, the other three cubs from the same litter had already left the mother tiger one after another, each establishing its own territory. "In the future, the two cubs now at her side will also gradually become independent, and this mother tiger will enter a new reproductive cycle."
This mother tiger is the protagonist of the "six tigers in one frame" footage captured by monitoring cameras in the Hunchun jurisdiction of the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park in November 2025. That day, it was seen moving through the forest with five cubs. Afterward, experts in wildlife conservation both at home and abroad reviewed the footage and unanimously identified it as a family group of one mother with five cubs from a single litter. This is the highest recorded instance in China of a wild Amur tiger giving birth to a full litter with all cubs surviving.
The Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park is located in the southern part of the Laoye Mountains at the border of Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces. To the east, it borders Russia's Land of the Leopard National Park, with a border line stretching 256 kilometers. The Amur tiger is the only tiger subspecies in China with a stable wild breeding population. Amur tigers on both sides of the border often move back and forth along boundary rivers and mountain ridges, and their kinship ties are intricately intertwined and complex (盘根错节, panguo cuojie - "roots, twist; branches, entangle").
A search of the individual database of wild Amur tigers confirmed that this mother tiger crossed into the forests of the Hunchun jurisdiction from Russia in 2018. Since then, it has stayed and given birth to four litters totaling 13 cubs, earning it the title "Heroic Tiger Mother." In addition, other individual tigers and leopards also move back and forth across the border between the two countries.
In 2019, the China-Russia Three-Year Action Plan for Cooperation on Amur Tiger and Leopard Conservation was signed, formally establishing a strategic partnership for transboundary tiger and leopard conservation and jointly building a transboundary protected area of nearly 17,000 square kilometers.
Conservation knows no borders. How can the population of tigers and leopards moving across the border be "counted" clearly? Beginning in 2025, the two sides have jointly carried out work to identify and tally individual wild Amur tigers and Amur leopards.
Taisiya Marchenkova, a junior research scientist at Russia's Land of the Leopard National Park, said that the Chinese and Russian sides use the same method — identifying individuals through pattern comparison and creating a unique "pattern ID card" for each tiger and leopard. Zhu Shibing, a researcher at the Institute of Natural and Ecological Sciences of the Heilongjiang Academy of Sciences, said that individual population size, sex ratio, age structure, breeding status, home range, and transboundary movement are all indispensable core parameters for population conservation.
Using the same identification method, the same monitoring protocol, and mutually recognized measurement standards to conduct joint monitoring of the same species distributed across the border region is unprecedented in the field of international wildlife conservation. Wang Tianming, a professor at the School of Life Sciences of Beijing Normal University, commented that this is a model of international cooperation in wildlife conservation.
Transboundary conservation involves not only data sharing but also the joint construction of corridors. Since 2023, China and Russia have attempted to open wildlife migration corridors along the border. Sections of the barbed-wire fencing serving as physical barriers have been opened segment by segment, and no new fencing is being built. A total of 290 such corridors have been opened at the border between the two countries. Infrared camera records show that since the formal establishment of the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, wild animals including Amur tigers, Amur leopards, sika deer, wild boars, and roe deer have passed through these corridors more than 30,000 times.
In the five years since the formal establishment of the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, all 156 mining rights within the park have been closed and withdrawn, and 276 contracted projects for various gully systems have been orderly cleared. Systematic special rectification campaigns have been carried out, with a cumulative total of 81,500 head of free-grazing cattle removed, more than 1.3 million meters of illegal grazing fences dismantled, and 167 illegal structures demolished, covering an illegal construction area of 154,000 square meters — all to minimize the encroachment and disturbance of human activities on core habitats.
"Wild animals use their footsteps to 'score' the quality of their habitat environment," said Yu Hongxun, deputy director of the Hunchun Branch of the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park Administration. A mother tiger that crossed the border from Russia, settled and bred within China, and gave birth to four litters totaling 13 cubs over several years with all surviving — that in itself is the answer, "reflecting the overall improvement of the ecological environment of the forested areas of Northeast China."
On this year's Global Tiger Day, July 29, the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park released the latest data: according to the joint China-Russia tally, 21 Amur tigers and 27 Amur leopards have now achieved routine transboundary migration.
Duan Zhaogang, director of the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park Administration, said that the Chinese and Russian sides will further establish a routine mechanism for sharing monitoring information, promptly update population data, jointly track the migration and dispersal of tigers and leopards, and promote the conservation of wild Amur tigers and Amur leopards.
Tigers roar across the mountains, leopards roam the wilds — this is China's answer to the harmonious coexistence of humanity and nature, and a vivid echo of the vision of a community with a shared future for mankind amid green waters and lush mountains.
(Ouyang Yijia of People's Daily Online contributed to this report)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 程远州 冯学知
At 6:30 a.m. on October 12, the Huanggang Port, which had undergone seven years of reconstruction and upgrading, was officially opened and put into operation. This largest single-building land port in the world welcomed its first batch of inbound and outbound travelers.
On the first day of operation, many commuters between Shenzhen and Hong Kong came to experience the new clearance process. "All procedures can be completed in just a few minutes, making commuting much more efficient," said Li Rui, a Shenzhen resident of Guangdong who travels between Shenzhen and Hong Kong year-round. The intuitive experience of the public is a vivid microcosm (生动缩影, sheng dong suo ying - "vividly, miniature") of the iterative upgrading of the clearance model at the new Huanggang Port.
According to reports, the new Huanggang Port has established a new inspection system, implementing an integrated inspection model of "joint inspection, one-time release." The port operates under a "one place, two inspections" arrangement, whereby the Shenzhen General Station of Immigration Inspection and the Hong Kong Immigration Department complete both exit and entry inspection procedures for both sides at the same location, breaking down the traditional barrier of "two places, two inspections, two queues." Travelers passing through the "three gates" integrated fast lane on the dividing line can complete both Shenzhen and Hong Kong entry-exit inspection procedures with just one queue and one information collection.
Mr. Chen, a Hong Kong resident, came to Shenzhen for sightseeing on October 11 and deliberately stayed overnight to "try something new," becoming one of the first people to enter Hong Kong after the new Huanggang Port opened. He said excitedly that he had personally experienced the convenience of the new port and that it would be even more convenient to visit Shenzhen in the future.
Along the routes travelers take, informational posters and directional signs can be seen everywhere, and staff members in various uniforms stand at every intersection, ready to provide guidance at any time. At the public transport interchange, buses and shuttle minibuses carrying groups of travelers drive in and out. The convenient transportation, smooth procedures, and clear signage have been widely praised by travelers passing through the port.
The inspection of small (passenger) vehicles integrates the regulatory processes of five inspection agencies — Shenzhen Immigration Inspection, Shenzhen Customs, the Hong Kong Immigration Department, the Hong Kong Department of Health, and the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department — achieving "one stop, one inspection, coordinated release." Clearance time has been reduced from approximately 10 minutes previously to about 2 minutes.
Return to TopBy: 讲述人：河海大学水文水资源学院教授 董增川
Since 1999, the Yellow River has remained free of flow interruption for 27 consecutive years. The great river surges onward, reaching the sea as promised. Seeing this scene, many memories of my team's and my years of research on the Yellow River come flooding back before my eyes.
Many of the important choices in my life have been bound by an inseparable bond (不解之缘, bu jie zhi yuan - "not, untie, of, fate") with the Yellow River. My hometown, Ruicheng County in Shanxi Province, lies in a bend of the Yellow River as it flows eastward. My fellow villagers depend on the Yellow River's water for drinking and farming. Yet on the Loess Plateau, "the river flows at one's feet, yet drought brings worry." Seeing my fellow villagers suffer from water scarcity, when filling in my college application preferences for the college entrance examination, I chose the East China College of Water Conservancy (now Hohai University).
Between 1972 and 1999, the Yellow River experienced flow interruption in 22 years. At the time, the news said that people could walk across to the opposite bank along the dry riverbed of the interrupted Yellow River. Hearing this, I felt deeply uneasy, and doing something for the Mother River with my professional expertise became a seed buried in my heart.
In the early 1990s, my mentor undertook a research project for the Yellow River Conservancy Commission. Shuttling between the two banks of the Yellow River and staying in the laboratory, we sought scientific evidence and technical pathways for keeping the Yellow River flowing continuously, from sets of data and rounds of experiments. In researching the Yellow River, I had inexhaustible energy.
At that time, the challenges before us were considerable: How much water actually counts as "sufficient"? How should water volumes be allocated between the upper and lower reaches? How does one assess the health of a river? The deeper the research went, the more I felt that data must be allowed to speak. When a person sees a doctor, blood pressure is measured and heart rate is taken; to assess the health of a river, one likewise needs a set of quantifiable "vital sign indicators." My team and I undertook research and tackled key problems, building a three-dimensional diagnostic framework for rivers covering "baseline attributes, functional attributes, and ecological attributes," to take the pulse of the Mother River and prescribe remedies.
In 1997, the research report submitted by the team proposed scientifically allocating water volumes based on the entire river basin, which provided a decision-making reference for the unified regulation of Yellow River water volumes. In 1999, the Yellow River Conservancy Commission implemented unified regulation of water volumes, with coordinated implementation across the entire basin, and the Yellow River bid farewell to flow interruption.
Later, we also developed a decision support system for Yellow River water volume regulation, making the management of Yellow River water volumes more efficient. Over the years, through one directive after another, Yellow River water has been precisely allocated for use in the upper, middle, and lower reaches; disorderly water use has been transformed into scientific management, and the Mother River has been revived.
We gradually established a complete "examination—treatment—rehabilitation" system, extending our research results from the Yellow River to more rivers and lakes. Along the Taihu Lake ring dike and the Hongze Lake levee, we installed a "respiratory system" for the embankments. Flexible structures such as gabion mattresses and vegetation-covered slope protection replaced rigid bank walls, so that the levees can both withstand flood scouring and preserve channels for groundwater and biological exchange. Our team systematically studied the fish life habits of China's major large hydropower bases and proposed construction standards for fishways, fish ladders, and fish locks under different conditions, building pathways home for migratory fish.
If engineering technology is about "strengthening bones and muscles," then integrated basin regulation is about "unblocking blood vessels." We expanded from a single river to the entire basin, taking water withdrawal volumes, pollutant discharge volumes, industrial structure, and urban-rural development into coordinated consideration. Through systematic sorting, one research project after another crystallized into the "Key Technologies and Applications for the Functional Integrity Reconstruction of Rivers." The results have been applied in the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, and other major river basins, in 83 major projects across 17 provinces, and were awarded the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award.
Beneath the loess cliffs of my hometown, the sound of the Yellow River's waves remains as always, nourishing the fields on both banks year after year. Wherever I go, the Yellow River is the homesickness surging in my heart, and it is also the source of strength for my research on rivers and my guardianship of rivers. Looking ahead, I will continue to study with down-to-earth dedication, so that the Mother River may forever retain healthy vitality.
(Compiled and edited by Wang Hao, People's Daily reporter)
Return to TopBy: 王 浩
Great rivers, great streams, and great lakes are a broad stage for scientific and technological innovation. Taking the governance of the Yellow River as an example, in response to the problem of water resource scarcity, unified water allocation was the first to be implemented among the great rivers and streams; in response to problems such as too little water and too much sediment, and the uncoordinated relationship between water and sediment, the theory and practice of water and sediment regulation have been continuously improved... Facing the major needs of the country and the needs of river and lake protection and governance, water conservancy scientific and technological innovation continues to advance in depth, providing strong support for ensuring water security.
The rivers and streams pose the questions, and science and technology provide the answers. In exploring the way of water governance, it is necessary to maintain strategic resolve and determination (战略定力, zhan lue ding li - "strategy, long-term, stability, power"), continuously strengthen basic research in water conservancy and the research and development of high and new technologies, optimize the supply of high-quality science and technology, enhance the level of ecological protection and governance of rivers, streams, and lakes with the "new" content of governance technology, and provide more solid water security guarantees for the construction of a beautiful China.
Return to TopBy: 彭 飞
Why has the Communist Party of China, after more than a century of history, won such deep support from the people? The answer can be summed up in two kinds of things: doing earth-shaking major deeds for the nation, and doing concrete, tangible small deeds for the masses.
In 1934, during the Long March of the Red Army, the Red Star newspaper issued a call to the entire army, including "not taking a single thing from the masses without permission," "compensating for anything damaged belonging to the masses, and returning anything borrowed from the masses," "not forcing purchases, and paying for what is bought," "fully carrying out the practices of putting up door panels, bundling straw, and sweeping the ground clean," and "bidding farewell to the masses when departing," encouraging the creation of model companies for mass work and mass discipline.
Amidst gunfire and facing life-and-death situations, why still attach importance to such trivial matters? Because these "small matters" directly bear on the feelings of the masses. By strictly observing discipline and being completely innocent and beyond reproach (秋毫无犯, qiu hao wu fan - "autumn, without, any, violate"), the Red Army was able to win the heartfelt support of the people and achieve victory in the Long March. To this day, the truth contained therein has not changed: there is no small matter when it comes to the interests of the masses; it bears on whether the people's hearts are won or lost.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized, "treat the rectification of unhealthy practices and corruption problems around the masses as an important task to be carried out on a regular basis." Continuing to do this work well is crucial to safeguarding the vital interests of the masses and consolidating the Party's governing foundation.
One difficulty in rectifying unhealthy practices and corruption problems around the masses lies in the fact that many problems are small problems accumulating into a major issue (积小成大, ji xiao cheng da - "accumulate, small, become, big") and become deep-seated problems that are hard to rectify (积重难返, ji zhong nan fan - "accumulate, heavy, difficult, return"), and many people have even become accustomed to them.
In the past, the distorted "drinking-table culture" polluted social mores, and the rule that "nothing gets done without drinking" became an unspoken rule in many fields, even giving rise to absurd arguments such as "restricting excessive eating and drinking will hurt the economy." From breaking the ice with the Eight-Point Regulation (八项规定) to launching special rectification campaigns against unauthorized eating and drinking, taking decisive and tough action (动真碰硬, dong zhen peng ying - "move, real, bump, hard"), there are fewer social engagements involving eating and drinking, the burden on Party members and cadres is lighter, the broad masses are more at ease, the environment for work and entrepreneurship is better and more efficient, and everyone has more drive.
There are no deep-seated and difficult-to-cure problems (顽瘴痼疾, wan zhang gu ji - "stubborn, miasma, chronic, disease") that cannot be overcome; there are only resolutions and means that are not yet sufficient. For things the masses find repugnant and oppose, one should act with the force of a thunderbolt, establish iron rules and set hard bottom lines, grasp them to the end, and make a sustained, long-term effort.
The unhealthy practices and corruption problems around the masses are very specific, and the key to rectification lies in discarding superficial showmanship and "proceeding from specific individuals and specific matters, solving the problems one by one."
Two grassroots staff members in Longlin Various Nationalities Autonomous County, Guangxi, used their positions to defraud pension funds and illegally handle retirement benefits for relatives, and both were ultimately sentenced to prison. Many localities have carried out special rectification of campus meal programs, keeping a close eye on links such as food procurement and fund disbursement, and strictly investigating "micro-corruption" that harms students' interests, such as embezzling meal fees and accepting kickbacks. In many cases, an ironclad case or a single "naming and shaming" can make the masses feel real change and experience fairness and justice more than simply listing figures and achievements.
"When it comes to matters concerning the common people, the key lies in being practical." Whoever genuinely resolves worries and seeks well-being for the masses in a down-to-earth manner is the one the masses recognize, trust, and support from the bottom of their hearts.
While rectifying with thunderous measures, one must also prevent through institutional construction. Once many small matters and minor details lose their norms and standards, the damage done to the Party's image and the government's credibility is not easy to repair, and mending the fold after the sheep are lost (亡羊补牢, wang yang bu lao - "lose, sheep, mend, pen") is not the best policy. "Whatever the people oppose and hate, we must resolutely guard against and correct" — "guarding against" comes first.
In the past, the use of village-level official seals relied on manual registration, with unclear reasons for use and absent oversight, making it difficult to verify the authenticity of contracts and certificates, and the risks of "favor seals" and "private-use seals" were considerable. Pinghu, Zhejiang, conducted advance assessment, introduced "electronic seals," and established a digital oversight mechanism, so that seal management has bid farewell to "relying on experience and self-discipline." Technology plus institutions can make the operation of "micro power" more rule-based.
From solving one matter to solving a whole category of matters, making good use of the power of institutions to plug small loopholes in advance is the way to better safeguard the people's hearts.
From the perspective of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, huge corrupt officials often slide step by step into the abyss, starting from the loss of discipline in small matters and the accumulation of minor mistakes. Only by improving institutional mechanisms, eliminating hidden dangers in their infancy around the masses in advance, and intervening early while the disease is still minor, can the Party's body be kept healthy at minimal cost. Just as in traditional Chinese medicine treatment, one must not only use strong medicine to remove illness in serious cases, but also, in daily life, strengthening the foundation and vital energy (固本培元, gu ben pei yuan - "solidify, root, cultivate, origin").
A foreign media outlet once asked why the Communist Party of China, after more than a century of history, has won such deep support from the people. The answer can be summed up in two kinds of things: doing earth-shaking major deeds for the nation, and doing concrete, tangible small deeds for the masses. In the final analysis, the two kinds of things are actually one and the same — "the political achievements of Communists are doing things that win people's hearts, warm people's hearts, and reassure people's hearts."
The road of the examination is inspiring, full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is always on the way, and Communists of the new era are unafraid of wind and rain.
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The National Day holiday has become an important window for observing cultural-tourism consumption. Touching the thousand-year cultural lineage in historic cities, tracing the footsteps of our forebears along red tourism routes... over the seven-day holiday, people experienced "poetry and the faraway" through travel, converging into a steaming and vibrant picture of consumption.
Since the beginning of this year, China's consumption has shown a characteristic of slowing scale expansion. Has China's consumption growth "slowed down"? Is there still room to tap its potential?
To understand the Chinese market comprehensively, objectively, and dialectically, one must note that today's Chinese consumption is at a critical stage of upgrading from survival-oriented to development-oriented and quality-oriented consumption. The consumption structure is being reshaped at an accelerated pace, with service consumption expanding rapidly and new types of consumption flourishing. In this process, it is necessary both to resolve the pressure brought by the shift in growth drivers and, more importantly, to see the potential released by structural optimization.
In terms of scale, the pace of consumption expansion has slowed somewhat, but the incremental scale remains considerable. In the first eight months of this year, the consumption growth rate was lower than in the same period last year, due both to the diminishing marginal effect of the policy of trading in old consumer goods for new ones and to factors such as fluctuations in the international energy market — these are more short-term effects. More importantly, in the first eight months of this year, total retail sales of consumer goods approached 33 trillion yuan, an increase of more than 360 billion yuan over the same period last year. The scale of the consumer market is still expanding steadily, and the market's resilience remains strong.
In terms of structure, the consumption structure is upgrading at an accelerated pace, with the share of service consumption and quality consumption rising. In recent years, China's consumer market has shown new trends such as the quality-oriented upgrading of commodity consumption, the servitization of the consumption structure, and the digitalization of consumption methods. Service consumption has emerged suddenly and with great force (异军突起, yi jun tu qi - "different, army, rise, emerge"), becoming a vivid manifestation of the upgrading of the consumption structure. In the first eight months, retail sales of services grew by 4.9 percent year on year, faster than the growth of overall market sales, and the share of service consumption has continued to rise. At the same time, livestream e-commerce, instant retail, and other forms are rising rapidly, becoming an important force for innovating consumption business formats and models and activating consumption potential.
In terms of trends, new consumption growth points are constantly emerging, and the potential for boosting consumption is enormous. Taking the field of artificial intelligence as an example, at present, smart wearables, intelligent connected vehicles, and other products continue to be welcomed by consumers; this year, the size of China's smart home market is expected to exceed 800 billion yuan, with shipments expected to surpass 300 million units.
It should also be noted that boosting consumption still faces many challenges at present. Consumption is a function of income and wealth, and consumption growth is also affected by social expectations. To boost consumption, it is necessary to make coordinated efforts across multiple dimensions, including increasing residents' income, strengthening policy support, and fostering a favorable environment.
Increase residents' income so that residents are able to consume. Accelerating the formulation and implementation of plans to increase the income of urban and rural residents, and introducing a batch of practical measures in areas such as promoting income growth for low-income groups, increasing residents' property income, and improving the salary and social security systems, will help enhance residents' consumption capacity.
Stabilize consumption expectations so that residents dare to consume. Optimizing the structure of fiscal expenditure, raising the share of public service expenditure in fiscal expenditure, and achieving a close integration of investment in things and investment in people can alleviate residents' worries about education, medical care, and elderly care.
Strengthen policy support so that residents are willing to consume. It is necessary to make good and full use of the 100 billion yuan special fund for fiscal-financial coordination to promote domestic demand, implement well the interest subsidy policies for personal consumption loans and loans to business entities in the service industry, and better satisfy the people's aspirations for a better life with a sound consumption environment.
Expanding domestic demand hinges on expanding consumption. Promoting structural upgrading of consumption alongside its scale expansion can both consolidate the foundation of domestic demand for stabilizing the overall macroeconomic picture and translate the fruits of economic development into the people's tangible sense of gain, happiness, and security.
Return to TopBy: 张春丽
"Da-da-da-da, da, da, swish!" On the stage, the character Mu Guiying stepped rapidly to the small drum and flung her battle flags, and the photographer seized the moment, pressing the shutter in rapid succession. Below the stage, my eyes felt a little hot. Young people are willing to step onto the Dianju (Yunnan opera) stage, to play a role and learn about a culture — this kind of fondness is more precious than anything.
Checking in on Dianju and taking photos in costume has become a "visa-on-arrival" experience that has gone viral online in Kunming, Yunnan. The idea came from the younger members of my family. We opened up the theater and the museum for tourists to come and participate and experience. Now, young people are lining up to "learn opera," with bookings scheduled months in advance. Some people also question: why change a perfectly good opera stage like this? In the beginning, it was simply because there was no money to put on performances.
Dianju is a representative opera genre of Yunnan and was inscribed on the national intangible cultural heritage list in 2008. I am the fourth-generation inheritor in my family. I grew up in a "nest of opera," and at age four I was already performing alongside my father. Every tune and tone, every stage step and posture, was hand-fed to me by the older generation. Every time I dressed up as Mu Guiying and recited the line "A female general's heroism soars higher than the sky," my blood ran hot through my whole body, and I felt my bold spirit grow by another measure and my love deepen by another layer. Back then, every Spring Festival, the troupe performed from the first day of the new year through the fifteenth, and we never spent a full holiday at home. It was tiring, yet it felt solid.
Opera is greater than heaven, and when the chairs below the stage sit empty, half the sky collapses. The tide of the times rolls ever forward, and the people who love to watch opera and are willing to learn opera are slowly growing older and fewer. One performance costs at least 3,000 yuan, yet the income is pitifully thin. Every time we sing, we lose money. The Dianju museum founded by my father gradually became a warehouse of old objects — the more things piled up, the lower the foot traffic fell. Who can keep pouring money into a bottomless pit forever? But every time I step onto the stage, I always feel that my ancestors in the photographs on the wall are watching me, their eyes seeming to ask: girl, where is the opera? People must not forget their roots, and the torch passed down through several generations must not be extinguished in my hands.
To survive, we must change; on the foundation of upholding what is right, we must innovate. Dianju, in fact, has never been afraid of change. Since the 1970s and 1980s, some plays have incorporated Western instruments such as the cello into the accompaniment to heighten the atmosphere in keeping with the plot and scenes. Over thousands of years, the traditional culture that has survived to be known by people today has all developed and merged keeping pace with the times (与时俱进, yu shi ju jin - "with, time, follow, advance"), and only thus achieved its magnificent scope.
Breaking out of the circle begins with breaking the "circle" we drew around ourselves. To attract new audiences, we took part in music festivals, compressed the more-than-two-hour Legend of the White Snake into 40 minutes, and organized "mixed bills" bringing together enthusiasts of different opera genres... These efforts attracted quite a few opera fans, but the splash was still not big enough.
The turning point came unexpectedly. My niece insisted on posting Dianju videos and stage photos on social media, and some netizens came to ask: "Can I have my photo taken as this character?" "Can I be the lead?" A few words woke the dreamer. We decided to act freely without restraint (放开手脚, fang kai shou jiao - "release, open, hand, foot") and launch a costume-photo experience. As cultural confidence has risen, more young people are willing to draw close to tradition and understand tradition, to feel the traditional Confucian virtues of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, and righteousness (忠孝仁义, zhong xiao ren yi - "loyal, filial, benevolent, righteous") and the feelings for family and country within the plays. It is not that Dianju has grown old; it is that we had not found the right door. Once the door opened, people came.
Once the "visa-on-arrival" became popular, I feared that people would come in a flood and leave in a flood, taking nothing with them. In the photography, I have my own insistence: uphold what is right, uphold the flavor, and hold fast to the soul of Dianju. Before the photo shoot, we help choose the character, and once the role is set we first explain the background; whenever we have a spare moment, we introduce a few things about Dianju. The performance on stage lasts three to five minutes, but one must first spend more than 40 minutes learning the movements and postures. The tourists' makeup and headdressing are done exactly the same as ours when we go on stage — not a single step is skipped. Because of this insistence, the shooting time has grown longer and the number of guests we can receive has decreased. But only an authentic and unchanged in character or style (原汁原味, yuan zhi yuan wei - "original, juice, original, flavor") experience can open a window for young people to better feel Dianju. First comes interest, then they step inside, and once they are dressed up, they gradually come to understand the opera.
"I never expected our ancestors' aesthetic to be first-rate," "After the experience, I feel these performers really shine"... Every time I read these comments, I am moved anew. Having walked the old road of learning opera through tradition, I know well that becoming a leading role requires no less than ten years of hard work. But if no one is even willing to enter the theater, how can inheritance even be discussed? Developing the costume-photo experience is not about becoming an internet-famous check-in spot, but about both revitalizing the troupe's livelihood and building a bridge between generations, letting tradition crash into the eyes and hearts of young people. The process of experiencing is also a process of popularization and promotion.
To inherit culture, one must bow one's head to practice, and also raise one's head to see the road. When creativity finds the right need, an old opera can sing a new tune. I believe in one saying: when the people are here, the opera is here, and the soul is here. Today, standing on the opera stage, I can proudly sing out that line: "Who says the Yang family has no one left!"
(The author is a Kunming municipal-level representative inheritor of Dianju, a national intangible cultural heritage; compiled and edited by People's Daily reporter Zhang Chi)
Return to TopThe level of integrated development of informatization and industrialization is a composite index measuring the maturity of the digital, networked, and intelligent transformation of manufacturing. According to statistics, China's index has risen from 59.6 in 2022 to 67.1 by the end of June 2026. Digital-intelligent technologies are accelerating their integration and penetration across the entire chain and all scenarios of manufacturing, giving rise to new business forms and models such as digital twins and intelligent production, and continuously reshaping the industrial value system.
This is precisely:
Mechanical rocker arms dance with precision,
Automated logistics operating continuously day and night (昼夜行, zhou ye xing - "day, night, walk/travel").
Cloud-based commands connect to the production line,
Intelligent manufacturing empowers and opens new frontiers.
Liao Yuanwen
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Silk is a brilliant calling card of China. Yet many people may not know that, as the world's largest silk producer and exporter, China's silk products are mostly dominated by primary processing of raw materials and contract manufacturing, and independent brands have severely insufficient say in the international high-end consumer market.
The difficulties encountered in "going global" also appear in historical classic industries such as tea and porcelain. What are historical classic industries? They refer to traditional Chinese specialty industries with profound cultural heritage, including silk, tea, porcelain, traditional Chinese medicine, brewing, arts and crafts, and the four treasures of the study. According to incomplete statistics, the number of enterprises above designated size in representative sectors of historical classic industries reaches 25,000, employing nearly 3.5 million people, with annual operating revenue of the entire industry of about 8 trillion yuan. They are not only economic pillars that stabilize employment and invigorate local regions, but also cultural carriers that bear the genes of Chinese civilization.
However, some industries have output but no voice, have techniques but no standards, have demand but lack inheritance, and find it difficult to sell at good prices. Development shortcomings cannot be systematically resolved by acting alone without support or cooperation (单打独斗, dan da du dou - "single, strike, single, fight"). Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and five other departments jointly issued the "Opinions on Promoting the High-Quality Development of Historical Classic Industries," using special policies to help industries coordinate and develop in new directions.
One should avoid "discussing the industry only in terms of the industry" and truly place the development of historical classic industries within the broader chessboard of consumption upgrading in the new era.
Nowadays, consumption is accelerating its shift from "purchasing more goods" to "obtaining better services and experiences." Buying a cup of tea is for half an hour of relaxation; visiting a ceramic workshop is for experiencing culture and leisure; wearing a set of Chinese-style clothing is for emotional resonance on social platforms. By not only selling goods on shelves but also providing services that can be experienced and interacted with, the diversified integration of historical classic industries can open up greater space.
Seizing the opportunity of the rising national trend (guochao) lies in preserving the thousand-year roots and rejuvenating contemporary expression.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must be good at organically unifying the promotion of excellent traditional culture with the development of contemporary culture, closely combining them, developing through inheritance, and inheriting through development." Innovating in craftsmanship, preserving the essence of traditional skills while incorporating modern materials and scientific and technological achievements; innovating in technology, accelerating the transformation of industries toward high-end, intelligent, and green development; innovating in aesthetics, promoting the combination of traditional elements with modern aesthetics and practical functions, and developing high-value-added products that possess both traditional connotations and contemporary characteristics. With more time-honored brands engaging in cross-industry collaborations and renewing the old with the new, traditional classics can also become fashionable trendsetters.
Broadening our horizons, historical classic industries are carriers of China's soft power. Hainan's Li brocade and Guangdong's xiangyunsha have repeatedly appeared on international fashion week stages; intangible cultural heritage creative products such as Ningxia's hemp weaving and Zhejiang's Huzhou writing brushes have been included among officially licensed products of the World Cup; "China Travel" has boosted "China Shopping," and on the shopping lists of inbound tourists, besides traditional silk and tea, there are also new national products integrating traditional techniques such as museum cultural and creative items... Historical classic industries inherently carry the color of civilization, and by integrating with modern lifestyles, they are gaining increasing recognition in the global market.
We often say "what is national is what is global," and now we must also achieve "what is classic is also what is fashionable." By continuously opening up new paths and transforming cultural heritage into market competitiveness, historical classic industries will surely achieve both critical acclaim and commercial success (既叫好又叫座, ji jiao hao you jiao zuo - "both, praise, and, sell well"), remaining ever new and ever popular.
Return to TopBy: 张 文
On the barren Gobi wasteland south of Yinchuan, Ningxia, tens of millions of photovoltaic panels stand in neat rows, turning toward the sun. In this "blue ocean," solar energy is continuously converted into a steady stream of electric current, flowing to countless households. Beneath this same Gobi expanse, hundreds of meters underground lie abundant coal reserves, where automated and intelligent mining facilities continuously improve production efficiency.
"Chasing light above ground, transforming underground" — how does this energy industry, where the old and the new complement each other, release vitality amid the smooth sequential transition of development momentum?
"Ningxia's geographical environment and resource endowments are unique; it must pursue a path of distinctive, differentiated industrial development and build a modern industrial system that reflects Ningxia's advantages and possesses strong competitiveness." In General Secretary Xi Jinping's important assertion, we can find the answer.
Cultivating new drivers of growth depends on acting in light of local conditions and taking advantage of a favorable trend (乘势而上, cheng shi er shang - "ride, momentum, and, go up"). The vast Gobi wasteland and abundant sunlight are Ningxia's resource endowments for developing the new energy industry. Unfortunately, for a long period, Ningxia's local consumption capacity was relatively weak and outbound transmission corridors were lacking, rendering photovoltaic power generation economically unviable. Seizing the opportunity to build the nation's first comprehensive national new energy demonstration zone, and accelerating the construction of three major power outbound transmission corridors, Ningxia's light now illuminates lamps in "North China, East China, and Central China," and it has leapt to become the nation's first province to achieve "green power self-sufficiency." This success in green transformation is precisely the fruit of balancing what one region can provide with what the whole country requires.
The key to new development is not simply piling up technology, but aiming at the frontier, identifying feasible pathways, and resolving common challenges through technological restructuring, scenario implementation, and model innovation.
For example, using green power to support green computing, Ningxia Zhongwei has adopted a green power aggregation supply model of "direct photovoltaic connection + wind power trading + grid backup capacity." For the existing load of data centers, it provides "virtual direct supply" through market trading; for incremental load, it uses newly built facilities for "physical direct supply," achieving 24-hour uninterrupted green power coverage. This both guarantees the green power needs of data centers and resolves the challenge of local consumption of new energy projects.
Transformational development is enabling development. This requires stepping beyond "doing energy for energy's sake" and promoting value-chain extension and cross-sector integration.
For example, Guoneng Ningxia Electric Power Yuanyanghu Power Plant has transformed from "the electricity boss" into "the electricity steward," building multiple green energy power hub stations that provide comprehensive energy products and services such as steam and desalinated water to diverse users, achieving multi-energy co-supply and turning a loss into a profit (扭亏为盈, niu kui wei ying - "twist, loss, become, profit"). Likewise, the Ningdong Energy and Chemical Industry Base, deeply cultivating its "industrial oasis," has built a diversified hydrogen energy industrial ecosystem, from green hydrogen coupled with coal chemical industry, to hydrogen-powered transportation, natural gas blended with hydrogen, and hydrogen storage materials.
From energy supply to industrial enablement, breaking down the barriers between energy and the manufacturing and services industries, achieving quality improvement of traditional energy stock, empowerment of new energy increment, and cross-sector collaboration across the entire industrial chain — only then can one better use energy to invigorate industry, use industry to consume energy, extend the value chain, and blaze a new development path suited to building a modern industrial system.
Cultivating new drivers of growth and upgrading old drivers are not mutually exclusive. By welcoming the "new" without rejecting the "old," and focusing efforts on optimization, enhancement, and expansion, development can become more resilient and competitive.
In the first half of this year, the nation's first large-scale source-grid-load-storage integrated data center park was put into operation in Ningxia, integrating the three major resources of computing power electricity consumption, photovoltaic power generation, and energy storage systems to achieve intelligent operation of electricity through "self-generation and self-use, autonomous peak shaving." With the construction of the diversified system of "thermal power peak shaving + new energy outbound transmission + energy storage regulation," the predicament of "large installed capacity, high curtailment, low efficiency" has been further resolved, and grid stability, new energy consumption rates, and green power outbound transmission capacity continue to improve, with resource advantages rapidly being converted into energy industry advantages.
Old and new drivers of growth are not an oppositional relationship, but a relay relationship of sequential connection and functional complementarity. Adhering to iterative coexistence and simultaneous optimization of stock and increment, model innovation and business format upgrading can release enormous development potential.
Whether it is breaking off the old to establish the new (破旧立新, po jiu li xin - "break, old, establish, new") to cultivate new drivers of growth, or developing new ideas by building on the old (推陈出新, tui chen chu xin - "push, stale, bring out, new") to upgrade old drivers, grounding oneself in the "new" and persisting in "innovation," building a solid foundation through quality improvement of stock and shaping advantages through breakthrough of increment, the continuously renewed green energy will surge on without end.
(The author is a reporter of this newspaper's Ningxia Branch.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 亓玉昆
At present, the overall food safety situation in our country continues to improve steadily, yet incidents that breach the bottom line of food safety still occur from time to time. On September 24, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission held a special meeting to study and deploy work on strictly investigating and punishing crimes and illegal acts endangering food safety in accordance with the law. Recently, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission issued the Opinions on Strictly Investigating and Punishing Crimes and Illegal Acts Endangering Food Safety in Accordance with the Law (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions).
Why were the Opinions issued? How should implementation of the Opinions be carried out well? On October 12, the responsible comrade of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission provided an interpretation.
Focusing on key areas of high public concern such as meat products, campus food, health food, and vegetables and fruits, and supervising the handling of a number of major cases
Q: What is the background for issuing the Opinions?
A: The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core attaches great importance to food safety work, emphasizing that food safety work must be done well in accordance with the "four strictest" requirements of "the strictest standards, the strictest regulation, the strictest punishment, and the strictest accountability," so as to ensure the "safety on the tip of the tongue" of the broad masses of the people. In recent years, the political and legal system has conscientiously implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on the "four strictest" requirements for food safety, strictly cracking down on food safety crimes and illegal acts in accordance with the law, and achieving notable results. At present, the overall food safety situation in our country is generally stable and controllable, continuing to improve steadily, but at the same time some new situations and new problems have emerged. First, food safety crimes have taken on characteristics such as being networked, specialized, and chained. Second, there are shortcomings and deficiencies in law enforcement and case handling, such as insufficiently smooth coordination between administrative enforcement and criminal justice, and relevant systems awaiting improvement. Third, food safety crimes in related fields remain frequent and recurrent, especially recent incidents such as "formaldehyde cabbage," "dichlorvos disinfection," and "chemical-soaked bayberries," which have seriously breached the bottom line of food safety and triggered widespread public concern. In order to severely crack down on crimes and illegal acts endangering food safety and safeguard the lives, health, and physical safety of the people through the rule of law, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, together with relevant parties, conducted in-depth investigation and research, extensively solicited opinions, and studied and drafted the Opinions, putting forward requirements for strictly investigating and punishing crimes and illegal acts endangering food safety in accordance with the law.
Q: What is the overall consideration in formulating the Opinions?
A: Food safety bears on the health and safety of the lives of the people; it is both a livelihood project and a project of popular sentiment. Political and legal organs have continuously intensified efforts to crack down on and punish crimes and illegal acts endangering food safety, firmly safeguarding the "safety on the tip of the tongue" of the people. First, adhere to being people-centered. Focusing on key areas of high public concern such as meat products, campus food, health food, and vegetables and fruits, supervise the handling of a number of major cases, severely punish a number of criminals and illegal actors, promptly eliminate food safety hazards affecting the daily lives of the people, and let the people eat with confidence, eat with peace of mind, and eat healthily. Second, adhere to the main tone of strictness. Always maintain a high-pressure posture of putting strictness first and carrying strictness through to the end; for those lawless elements driven by greed and selfish desires (利欲熏心, li yu xun xin - "profit, desire, intoxicate, heart") who challenge the bottom line of morality and conscience, administer strong medicine and strike hard, investigating and punishing each case as it is discovered. Through penal sanctions, substantially increase the cost of crimes and illegal acts, form a powerful deterrent, and force producers and operators to abide by the law and exercise self-discipline. Third, adhere to law-based governance. Always take rule-of-law thinking and rule-of-law methods as important support for food safety governance, and put forward a number of specific measures in areas such as improving laws and regulations, handling cases in accordance with the law, perfecting the coordination mechanism between administrative enforcement and criminal justice, strengthening legal publicity, and promoting the strengthening of industry regulation, so as to promote normalized and long-term effective food safety governance.
Effectively solve problems such as unclear case standards, non-standardized transfer procedures, substituting fines for criminal punishment, and failure to punish when punishment is due
Q: The Opinions emphatically stresses "strict investigation and punishment in accordance with the law." What are the specific requirements in practice?
A: The Opinions puts forward requirements in three aspects around strict investigation and punishment in accordance with the law. First, highlight the key points of cracking down. Focus on key areas of high public concern such as meat products, campus food, health food, and vegetables and fruits, and key links such as production and processing, online sales, terminal catering, and food import, dig deep into case leads, severely punish criminals and illegal actors, and release a strong signal of strict punishment in accordance with the law. Second, adhere to strictness in accordance with the law. Put forward requirements for strictness in accordance with the law throughout the entire process and at all stages of criminal proceedings, including investigation, arrest, prosecution, trial, and execution of penalties; require strict control in accordance with the law over the application of suspended sentences and exemption from criminal punishment; and impose heavier sentences in accordance with the law for cases with serious circumstances and adverse impact. Third, strengthen supervision and guidance. For major, difficult, and complex food safety cases, increase the intensity of supervision and guidance through forms such as case-by-case supervision and guidance on case categories, so as to improve the quality and efficiency of case handling.
Q: What specific measures does the Opinions put forward in perfecting the coordination mechanism between administrative enforcement and criminal justice?
A: Perfecting the coordination mechanism between administrative enforcement and criminal justice is conducive to breaking down barriers between administrative law enforcement and criminal justice, pooling work synergy, and enhancing the overall effectiveness of cracking down on crimes and illegal acts. The Opinions puts forward requirements in three aspects around perfecting the coordination mechanism between administrative enforcement and criminal justice. First, strengthen communication and coordination with departments such as market regulation and agriculture and rural affairs, promote the issuance of relevant normative documents on the coordination between administrative enforcement and criminal justice in the field of food safety, clarify rules on case transfer standards, inspection and appraisal, and evidence conversion, and effectively solve problems such as unclear case standards, non-standardized transfer procedures, substituting fines for criminal punishment, and failure to punish when punishment is due. Second, promote the establishment of an information-sharing platform for the coordination between administrative enforcement and criminal justice in food safety, accelerate the sharing of information and data, and improve the efficiency of coordination between administrative enforcement and criminal justice. Third, improve the reverse coordination mechanism between administrative enforcement and criminal justice, and promote two-way coordination and seamless connection between administrative punishment and criminal punishment.
Build a legal liability system in which punishment is commensurate with the offense, and scientifically set tiered punishment standards
Q: What requirements does the Opinions put forward in improving legal policies?
A: The Opinions highlights law-based governance of food safety, fully gives play to the role of the rule of law in consolidating fundamentals, stabilizing expectations, and benefiting the long term, and puts forward requirements in three aspects around strengthening the supply of legal policies. First, in response to the new trends and new developments of the vigorous growth of new online business forms, accelerate the comprehensive revision of the Food Safety Law, clarify regulatory requirements for new business forms such as fresh food e-commerce, food delivery, and livestream sales, and consolidate the primary responsibility of all parties. Build a legal liability system in which punishment is commensurate with the offense, and scientifically set tiered punishment standards. Second, in response to issues of legal application encountered in law enforcement and case handling, promptly organize research and deliberation, and unify standards for legal application through means such as issuing and publishing typical cases and compiling cases for the case database of the People's Courts. Third, in response to new types of illegally added substances discovered in case handling, coordinate with relevant departments to promptly update the list of illegal additives, so as to provide legal and policy support for accurately punishing crimes in accordance with the law.
Q: The Opinions emphasizes the need to "strengthen source governance." How should implementation be carried out well in practice?
A: The Opinions, with a view to basing itself on the duties of political and legal organs, promotes the improvement of whole-chain supervision of food safety, strictly prevents, strictly manages, and strictly controls food safety risks, and mainly includes the following three work measures. First, in response to food safety risks and hidden dangers reflected behind cases, promptly issue judicial recommendation letters, procuratorial recommendation letters, and public security reminder letters, and promote the improvement of whole-chain supervision of food safety. Second, in connection with the study and implementation of the Law on Legal Publicity and Education and the comprehensive implementation of the "Ninth Five-Year" plan for legal publicity and education, deeply publicize laws and regulations such as the Food Safety Law, and enhance the food safety awareness of the general public. Third, make full use of big-data legal supervision models and procuratorial public interest litigation, promote relevant departments to deepen the verification of leads and industry rectification, and advance the transformation of food safety governance toward prevention before the fact.
Q: How should implementation of the Opinions be carried out well in the next step?
A: The Opinions requires the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission to strengthen overall coordination, and the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Justice to strengthen coordination and cooperation, while at the same time making specific deployments in light of actual conditions for the work of strictly investigating and punishing crimes and illegal acts endangering food safety in accordance with the law within their respective systems, so as to ensure that relevant work measures are implemented and take effect and achieve the expected results.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Macao, October 12) (Reporter Fu Zimei) A symposium commemorating the 160th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen was held at the Macao Science Center on October 12. Zheng Jianbang, Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee and Vice President of the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification, attended and delivered a speech. Ao Lan, representative of the Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region and Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, delivered remarks. Lyu Yuyin, Deputy Director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Macao, and Chui Sai Cheong, Chairman of the Members' Assembly of the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification (Macao Region), attended the symposium.
Zheng Jianbang pointed out that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao region is the birthplace and formative ground of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, as well as an important cradle of his revolutionary thought and an important carrier of his revolutionary cause. The hot land of Macao witnessed Dr. Sun Yat-sen's intellectual leap from "healing the sick" to "healing the nation," and has accumulated the patriotic tradition of Macao compatriots sharing a common destiny (命运与共, ming yun yu gong - "fate, and, together") with the motherland. We must hold fast to a sincere and patriotic heart, cultivate deep feelings for family and country, and anchor the youthful aspiration of staying true to the original mission; carry forward the will to strive, forever maintain a spirited posture, and temper the youthful responsibility to forge ahead; take the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as our own duty, advance the great cause of national reunification, and jointly seek the great cause of national rejuvenation; tell well the story of Macao's "One Country, Two Systems," and pool mighty strength for advancing Chinese modernization.
The symposium was supported by the China Council for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification (Macao Region), hosted by the Macao-Taiwan Exchange Joint Association, and co-organized by the Macao-Taiwan Youth Exchange Promotion Association. Approximately 300 people attended, including heads of relevant Macao associations and youth representatives from Macao and Taiwan.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporters Jiang Lin, Zhang Yifu) A special concert commemorating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese was held in Beijing on the evening of the 12th. This concert is one of the series of activities marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the federation.
The concert was performed with deep feeling by the China National Symphony Orchestra, using music as its vehicle, original aspiration as its foundation, and family bonds as its thread. It warmly looked back on the glorious journey of the federation over seven decades in uniting and rallying Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad, conveyed the profound care of the Party and the state for overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives, and expressed the sincere feelings of overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives in cherishing their native places and serving their ancestral (or native) country.
The concert opened with a majestic and grand symphonic movement, looking back through resounding melodies on the footprints of the federation's seven decades of making great strides despite hardships (风雨兼程, feng yu jian cheng - "wind, rain, simultaneously, travel"). "Strings and Songs Remain" used a gentle and melodious tune to fondly recall the patriotic dedication of earlier generations of overseas Chinese and their family-and-country sentiments of revering culture and promoting education (崇文兴教, chong wen xing jiao - "revere, culture, promote, education"); "Brewing Tea Under the Moon" used a warm and elegant melody to tell of the human bonds carried by a single overseas Chinese letter, and the strands of homesickness stirred by a single clear tune; "The Most Beautiful Promise" movingly performed the unswerving vow of Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad to be in complete agreement or harmony (心心相印, xin xin xiang yin - "heart, heart, mutually, print") with their ancestral (or native) country, with the resonance between family and country striking straight to the heart.
Comrades from central overseas-Chinese-related units including the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress, the Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, and the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party, as well as more than 800 representatives of overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese and their relatives, watched the concert.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Wang Haonan) On the 12th, the 2026 Beijing Immediate Response to Public Complaints Reform Forum opened at the China National Convention Center. The forum's permanent theme is "People's City, Creating a Better Future Together," and the 2026 annual theme is "The Digital Intelligence Era and the People's City."
This year's forum consists of an opening ceremony, a main forum, six parallel forums, four salons, and a closing ceremony. During the forum, the documentary on the immediate response to public complaints reform, "Your Voice 2," was screened, and supporting activities such as "Step into 12345" and city site visits were held. More than 3,200 guests attended this year's forum, including over 240 international guests from more than 70 countries.
At the opening ceremony, a series of outcomes were released, including the "Beijing Immediate Response to Public Complaints Reform Theoretical Research Findings (2026)," "How Urban Governance Works: A Study Based on Beijing's Immediate Response to Public Complaints Reform Practice," the "Global Urban Hotline Service and Governance Effectiveness Evaluation Report (2026)," the "National 12345 Hotline Service and Governance Effectiveness Evaluation Report (2026)," and the "Global Urban Governance Typical Cases (2026)." These further advance Beijing's immediate response to public complaints reform from summarizing experience to theoretical interpretation, and from Chinese practice to international comparison, providing practical experience and theoretical support for global urban governance.
The Immediate Response to Public Complaints Reform Forum is positioned as a governance forum, an academic forum, and an international forum, and is held every two years. This year's forum is co-hosted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Media Group, the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the Beijing Municipal People's Government.
Return to TopRecently, a painting project organized and implemented by relevant departments of Benxi City, Liaoning Province, has attracted the attention of citizens. On the outer wall of Wangxi Park in Benxi City, a colorful painting gallery stretching 650 meters in length and 3.5 meters in height has been formed, with the painted content covering multiple aspects such as industrial memory and ecological characteristics. The photo shows citizens taking photos and posing for pictures at the colorful painting gallery on October 11.
Photo by Li Guangcheng (Image China)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Shanghai, October 12) (Reporter Shen Wenmin) The 10th China International All Print Exhibition opened on October 12 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. With the theme "Smart Printing for the Future, Infinite Innovation in Printing," the exhibition runs for five days. The total exhibition area reaches 120,000 square meters, setting a new record high in the event's history.
This edition of the exhibition focuses on presenting the latest landscape of the industry's digital and intelligent transformation. At the exhibition site, more than 100 cutting-edge equipment items and innovative achievements made their debut, including high-speed wide-format inkjet digital printing presses, integrated intelligent packaging linkage production lines, and online visual quality inspection and digital process control and management platforms.
It is understood that this edition of the exhibition features seven themed exhibition zones: digital printing and prepress, packaging printing and post-press processing, labels and flexible packaging, innovative digital and intelligent technologies, inks and innovative materials, comprehensive printing, and comprehensive packaging, bringing together more than 1,000 renowned enterprises from countries and regions including China, Germany, Japan, the United States, and Belgium. The exhibition has attracted registrations from over 120,000 professional visitors from more than 120 countries and regions worldwide, and nearly 200 domestic and international industry associations, enterprise groups, and professional purchasing delegations will enter the venue to conduct business matchmaking, project negotiations, and industrial cooperation.
This edition of the exhibition is hosted by the China Printing Technology Association, the China Academy of Printing Technology, and Messe Düsseldorf (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Concurrently with the exhibition, a series of high-level dialogue events are being held, including the 2026 Shanghai Printing Forum, the 16th Label Innovation Technology Development Forum, and the China-Europe International Printing and Packaging Cooperation Forum, injecting momentum into the collaborative innovation and sustainable development of the global printing industry.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Lanzhou, October 12) (Reporter Zeng Yichen) Recently, the Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Gansu Province and the Gansu Provincial Office of the State Taxation Administration jointly issued a notice to uniformly standardize the participation, contribution, treatment standards, and transition between old and new policies for unemployment insurance for migrant workers across the province, promote the unification of the unemployment insurance system and the equalization of guaranteed rights and interests, resolve the problem of uneven participation, contribution, and treatment in unemployment insurance for migrant workers, and create a tight safety net for people's livelihoods (织密安全网, zhi mi an quan wang - "weave, dense, safety, net").
In terms of participation and contribution standards, the notice clarifies that all migrant workers employed by various types of employers across the province shall uniformly implement the urban employee unemployment insurance contribution system. Employers shall strictly follow the urban employee unemployment insurance employer contribution rate standards and pay in full the portion of premiums borne by the employer; migrant workers themselves shall pay their individual portion of premiums according to the urban employee unemployment insurance individual contribution rate standards, achieving unified participation and contribution rules and consistent standards across the province.
In terms of treatment, after the policy is implemented, migrant workers who continue to participate and contribute normally may fully enjoy unemployment insurance protection equal to that of urban employees. The scope of treatment, calculation and payment standards, duration of enjoyment, and application conditions for migrant worker unemployment insurance shall all be implemented with reference to the urban employee unemployment insurance policy.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 范昊天
The Highlights of the Master Craft
Xu Dengyong developed a method to extend the lifespan of balloons. By improving knotting techniques, the double-layer balloon process, injecting glue inside the balloon, and applying a surface coating, he extended the lifespan of balloons from 3 days to more than 3 months, transforming them from one-time decorations into commercial works of art. With this master craft of "balloon hand art," he was awarded the title of "Jingchu Craftsman."
How long can an ordinary balloon stay inflated without leaking? In the hands of balloon stylist Xu Dengyong (see second from the right in the photo, courtesy of the interviewee), the answer is more than 3 months.
A majestic Transformers, a golden dragon coiling and soaring, vivid and lifelike (活灵活现, huo ling huo xian - "alive, lively, flexible") depictions of Tang Sanzang and his disciples... Stepping into the Xu Dengyong Craftsman Innovation Studio located in Nanzhang County, Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, one sees photographs of various balloon sculpture works hanging on the walls. These balloon sculpture works have attracted many tourists to stop and admire them in shopping mall atriums and cultural tourism scenic spots in multiple places.
Behind these balloon works lies the master craft that Xu Dengyong has explored and refined over more than 10 years. This set of techniques has transformed balloons from one-time decorations into commercial works of art, opening the door to the high-end visual merchandising market.
Born in 1989, Xu Dengyong dropped out of school due to family circumstances and later went south to work on the assembly line of an electronics factory in Guangzhou. With a spirit of diligent study, he gradually grew into an electronics engineer responsible for maintaining equipment and writing automation programs.
But Xu Dengyong was not content with a life of working for others. After accumulating some savings, he conceived the idea of starting his own business. In 2013, a balloon costume worn by a guest on a variety show caught his eye: "Balloons are highly malleable, have a wide range of applications, and the entry barrier is not high." After learning about the basic situation of the industry, Xu Dengyong quit his job and began to study balloon sculpting techniques, opening a "balloon party store" in Nanzhang County.
Giving up a "proper job" to insist on "not doing one's proper work" and selling balloons instead? Friends and relatives all questioned his choice, but Xu Dengyong firmly believed that as long as he worked at it seriously, there would always be a market. Starting with small orders for birthday banquets and wedding decorations, he carried sample albums and visited every wedding company, shopping mall, and hotel in the local area, gradually opening up the market.
Around 2016, Xu Dengyong began undertaking large-scale visual merchandising installations for shopping malls. The malls were open during the day and only allowed nighttime work, but with the technology available at the time, balloons could only last about a week indoors. "If I could extend the lifespan of balloons, it would not only save time and effort, but also reduce costs," Xu Dengyong thought.
Making large installations often requires the use of tens of thousands of balloons. Traditional methods of pulling and tugging forcefully can easily scratch the balloon walls, leaving slow-leaking points. Xu Dengyong repeatedly explored and practiced, developing a new technique of pulling the knot out smoothly along the natural direction, which does not damage the balloon body and can keep the balloon from leaking for a week. He also invented the "double-layer balloon process" — wrapping one balloon with another layer on the outside, so that if the outer layer breaks, the inner layer remains, just like having double insurance.
But this was still not enough. To achieve an exhibition effect lasting one to two months, the interior had to be completely sealed. Xu Dengyong tested more than a dozen types of glue and finally selected a transparent glue that does not harden after curing and can form a soft protective film. He squeezed it into the balloon, kneaded it evenly, and then inflated and tied the balloon. This technique extended the lifespan of the balloons to 1 month. Outdoor exhibitions exposed to wind and sun would cause the balloons to oxidize and turn white. Inspired by car waxing, he screened more than a dozen materials and found a transparent oily gloss agent, applying a protective coating to the balloon surface just like applying skincare products to the skin. By combining these techniques, the shelf life of his works can reach up to more than 3 months.
His early experience working in the electronics factory also instilled in Xu Dengyong a foundation of standardized processes and rigorous attention to detail: from quality control of raw materials to the harmony of color matching, he is constantly striving for perfection (精益求精, jing yi qiu jing - "strive for perfection, seek excellence") in every step. When making large installations, he meticulously breaks down the production process, with each small group responsible for one module, improving the efficiency of team collaboration.
Gradually, the team attracted more and more attention and began to receive orders from all over, with the highest-priced order reaching 600,000 yuan. In 2019, the team's work won the championship in the large-scale group at the China Balloon Art Competition; in 2022, he won the "Top Ten Master Craft Award" at the Hubei Province High-Skilled Talent Skills Competition and was commended by the Hubei Provincial Federation of Trade Unions as a "Jingchu Craftsman."
In 2024, under the guidance of the Nanzhang County Federation of Trade Unions, the Xu Dengyong Craftsman Innovation Studio was established. He and his team recorded their independently developed balloon sculpting methods into instructional videos and carried out public welfare training online and offline for society at large. "I want to help more people realize their personal value, and I also want to give back to society." In Xu Dengyong's view, letting ordinary materials radiate extraordinary vitality is precisely the charm of balloon art.
(Gong Liangjie contributed to the reporting)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Urumqi, October 12) (Reporter Shang Rongzheng) Sand swirling in the wind (黄沙漫卷, huang sha man juan - "yellow sand, overflow, roll"), machinery roaring. On the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang, a 15-kilometer-long water-delivery "artery" is being built at an accelerated pace... This is the construction site of the first bid section of the Qarqan River Water Delivery Project (Phase I) in Ruoqiang County, undertaken by CSCEC Xinjiang Construction & Engineering Group. As a key local water conservancy project for people's livelihoods, upon completion it will deliver nearly 20 million cubic meters of water annually, linking the four major water systems of the Qarqan River, the Tashsay River, the Washixia River, and the Ruoqiang River, and building a regional water network pattern of "four verticals and one horizontal, east-west allocation, and combined storage and diversion," providing water resource security for the local area and better benefiting people's livelihoods.
According to reports, in the face of technical challenges such as difficulty in compacting aeolian sand, weak bearing capacity of marshland, and high risk of borehole collapse in sand layers, the project team established a test site deep in the desert and gradually developed construction techniques suited to the characteristics of the local aeolian sand; in marshland sections, they adopted the "riprap and mud displacement" process, dynamically adjusting the riprap thickness and stone gradation; in the construction of anti-scour walls in the riverbed section, they split the continuous construction section into short units, combined with the "drill-and-grab method" mechanical combination, implementing dynamic management of constructing, observing, and adjusting simultaneously. During the critical stage of closing the cofferdam of the water diversion hub, the dam body, 700 meters long with a maximum dam height of 4 meters, needed to be completed before the flood season; team members worked in shifts and ultimately achieved closure.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 波 侯琳良
In the early morning, at the Bailang Luzhou Wetland Park, reeds sway, the river water is clear and cold, and people exercise and stroll about;
At noon, on Xiyuan Street, the hustle and bustle of daily life rises, stalls are neatly arranged, ingredients are fresh, and people come and go;
In the evening, under the Bailang River bridge on Yuqing Street, neighbors chat and children play.
These three ordinary corners hide the answer to the same question of people's livelihood. Weifang City, Shandong Province, has implemented the construction of a people's city through one micro-renewal and micro-improvement project after another, making the city warmer and the foundation of happiness more vibrant.
An Ecological River
Clear Water, Green Banks, Beautiful Scenery, and Visiting Guests
The Bailang Luzhou Wetland Park, located in the southwest of Weifang's urban area, is a national urban wetland park. It is 6.7 kilometers long, covers an area of over 10 square kilometers, and through the changing seasons, vegetation flourishes and birds roost there.
Ma Gang, the head of the park management office, has managed the water for many years: "We use 'fish to purify the water,' releasing silver carp, bighead carp, and grass carp fry into the river to purify the water quality through ecological means. The water body is naturally nurtured, the ecological cycle is restored, and the Bailang River has a continuous and steady stream of clear water (清水长流, qing shui chang liu - "clear water, long flow"), with green banks and beautiful scenery."
In addition, an 11-stage fixed pumping station in the middle and upper reaches pumps reclaimed water from the downstream sewage treatment plant back up, stage by stage, to Yuandu Lake in the upper reaches, providing year-round, full-river-section routine ecological water replenishment.
"Now that the ecology has improved, each of us must also take care of it conscientiously, so that we can keep the beautiful scenery for a long time." Wang Haiyan, who lives nearby, often walks by the river and has seen the river water become increasingly clear and the number of birds increase year by year. Now, more than 30 species of birds, such as whiskered terns and egrets, and dozens of species of wild animals, such as squirrels and otters, have made their home here.
The water is clear, the banks are green, and the scenery is beautiful. Waterfront boardwalks, viewing platforms, and leisure greenways are connected throughout, sightseeing vehicles shuttle between the woods and the water, and campsite tents dot the area.
New business formats are also being introduced one after another. Fan Xiangxin, director of the Cultural Tourism Development Department of Weifang City Cultural Tourism Group, introduced that with the introduction of study tours, team building, weddings, film and television, and other business formats, the wetland park's "city reception hall" brand is becoming increasingly well-known. The ancient-style scene at Shicui Garden in the park is maturing day by day, and the upgraded campsite has been well received, with visitor numbers growing steadily, achieving a dual improvement in both economic and ecological benefits.
An Old Neighborhood
Market Renewal, Co-Governance and Shared Benefits
Xiyuan Street, an old street in the old city of Weifang, has 230 shops and 120 convenience stalls. Chaotian Guo (a traditional pancake roll), Rou Huoshao (a baked meat pastry) — the food memories of several generations are all deposited here.
In previous years, the old street had many problems — the road surface was potholed and prone to flooding when it rained; vehicles were parked haphazardly, in a chaotic mess, making it frustrating for residents to get around and also affecting the business of the merchants.
How to renovate? It was necessary both to solve the problems and to retain the old merchants, preserve the old flavors, and maintain the texture of the street's daily life.
"We can't renovate the old street out of existence, nor can we leave the problems in place." Yu Haige, the person in charge of the Xiyuan Street market, participated in the entire renovation process. In her view, the renovation mainly revolved around three things: letting merchants do good business, letting residents live good lives, and letting citizens enjoy a good market.
Before the renovation, street staff visited door to door, distributed questionnaires, and recorded the demands of the masses item by item. During the renovation, the road surface was fully repaved, parking spaces for non-motorized vehicles were re-planned, and with the drawing of a 2,600-meter business yellow line, the problems of broken floor tiles and chaotic vehicle parking were solved at the same time.
The yellow line drew order, but also left room for flexibility. "The merchants went from skepticism and wait-and-see to actively asking 'when will it be our turn here.' Once the renovation showed real results, attitudes naturally changed," Yu Haige said.
The upgrade of infrastructure drove the development of cultural tourism. The Xiyuan Auspicious Elephant Pillar, modeled on the "Weifang elephant," stands at the entrance to the street and has become a new check-in landmark; along the "Xiyuan Seal Charm · Long Song of the Market" landscape belt, hand-painted murals restore the life scenes of old Weixian, and the hustle and bustle of daily life rises amid the food and the daily interactions of neighbors. Today's Xiyuan Street integrates intangible cultural heritage inheritance and food appreciation, with visitor traffic doubling compared to before the renovation, and revenue at some specialty stores increasing by more than 100%.
The deeper change lies in the logic of governance. Representatives from 16 merchants formed a self-governance alliance, with star ratings and "stool talks" (马扎围谈) taking turns — self-management, mutual supervision, voluntary street sweeping, and maintaining order. Merchants shifted from "passively being managed" to "actively participating," becoming joint guardians of the neighborhood. "In the past, everyone just swept the snow in front of their own door; now we discuss things together when there's a problem, take turns on duty, and remind each other," said Qin Aihui, a merchant who has been rooted on Xiyuan Street for more than 20 years. "The neighborhood is clean and tidy, customers are willing to browse, and business is more stable."
A Micro-Space
Revitalizing Corners, Responding to Needs
What can the space under a bridge be used for?
After clearing away the debris and removing the "zombie cars," the originally dim area under the Bailang River bridge on Yuqing Street became open and bright. Patterns of the Eye of the Bohai Sea, Kuimen Gate, Weifang kites, and others leap onto the walls, turning the concrete bridge piers into canvases that tell the city's story. On the east bank, cobblestones and floor tiles are laid, and benches are arranged according to a chessboard layout; on the west bank, a colored plastic running track is laid, with dedicated areas for table tennis, square dancing, and ballroom dancing. On both sides under the bridge, smart parking lots and charging piles fill the daily needs of residents. The site connects the Bailang River with the riverside greenway, and while exercising and resting, one can take in the full view of the riverbank scenery.
Cultural empowerment, sports enhancement, and ecological integration — the space under the bridge is no longer a leftover corner of the city, but has become a composite space that can be toured, played in, appreciated, and experienced.
As night falls, residents gradually come to the area under the bridge. Zhang Xiulan lives not far from the bridge: "Every day after dinner, the neighbors all come over to sit, the children run and jump around, and there are young people exercising. Having an extra place where we can stay at ease at our doorstep is especially heartwarming." Long-term management and maintenance are being advanced in tandem, with territorial management responsibilities consolidated and dedicated personnel carrying out regular cleaning, maintenance, and inspections.
"Whether urban work is done well or not, whether the people are satisfied or not, and whether life is convenient or not, are important criteria for evaluation," said Liu Yun, Secretary of the Weifang Municipal Party Committee. "We will continue to respond to the daily needs of the masses, consolidate the city's foundation with ecological governance, preserve the warmth of people's livelihood through the improvement of the market's quality of life, and activate urban space through the renewal of existing stock."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孟海鹰
In Changchun, Jilin Province, there are quite a few visitors at the China FAW Museum.
In July this year, the museum officially opened, and in its first month of opening it received more than 100,000 visits. The museum was converted from the original tool workshop of the First Automobile Works, first built in 1953. Inside, it not only displays nearly 150 physical exhibition vehicles, but also exhibits more than a thousand precious cultural relics and historical materials, recreating through immersive scenes the course of struggle of the new China's automobile industry as it forged ahead through hardships (砥砺前行, di li qian xing - "grind, sharpen; move forward").
Changchun's striking automobile industry heritage is becoming a new "calling card" for culture and tourism.
Stepping out of the museum, one can take the cultural-tourism special train of the No. 54 tram and slowly pass through the mottled autumn leaves. The No. 54 tram was originally an ordinary industrial commuting line. Today, relying on the refined landscape management of "not sweeping fallen leaves," it has turned scenery along its route into an attraction viewable in all four seasons, and amid the deep fusion of film and automobile culture, a "internet-famous scenic route" has grown up along it.
Linking points into lines, revitalizing existing stock, and creating the new from the existing, Changchun activates the city's endowments with quality content, fresh creativity, and warm expression.
During the National Day holiday, on the century-old Xinmin Street, which has completed its pedestrianization upgrade, the themed event "Xinmin Embraces the New to Celebrate the National Day" presented a series of wonderful and varied performances (精彩纷呈, jing cai fen cheng - "brilliant, colorful; present"). As the first "China Historical and Cultural Famous Street" in Jilin Province, Xinmin Street was formerly just an ordinary main urban thoroughfare, with century-old buildings along the street blocked off by walls. With the advancement of the "Xinmin Street Historical and Cultural District Protection and Enhancement Project," the walls were demolished, public space was released, and the enclosed historical courtyards were fully opened up. Without large-scale demolition and construction projects (大拆大建, da chai da jian - "big, demolish; big, build"), but rather by implanting street performances, cultural exhibitions, and other content, the old street has regained its vitality.
The Xiguilin neighborhood has become one of the important destinations for people visiting Changchun. Formerly idle boiler rooms, old laundries, and other marginal spaces, after careful planning and business format upgrading, have become new internet-famous leisure landmarks integrating dessert baking, trendy music, and more.
The city's established parks have likewise undergone a magnificent transformation (华丽蝶变, hua li die bian - "magnificent, butterfly; change").
Changchun Zoological and Botanical Park has in one leap become a popular cultural-tourism check-in destination. Immersive performances are staged one after another, and the scene experience of being visitable both day and night attracts tourists.
The Nanhu area has also taken on a brand-new look. Nanhu Park has fully implemented the project of removing walls to reveal greenery, breaking the boundary between city and garden and achieving the integration of park and city, scenery and city; Nanhu Chunyu regularly holds resident performances by college student bands, flash mobs by campus talents, and fantastic magic shows, spreading an artistic atmosphere across the lakeside streets and alleys.
The Changchun Water Culture and Ecology Park, converted from the abandoned Nanling Water Purification Plant, completely preserves the appearance of the industrial heritage; the former Beihu muddy lowland, where sewage once flowed and garbage was everywhere, has transformed into Beihu National Wetland Park, with beautiful ecology and rich business formats.
Revitalizing old spaces and cultivating quality content, Changchun is using craftsmanship to activate the resources of the old city and empowering urban space with culture, continuously polishing the calling card of high-quality development in culture and tourism.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孙海天
At dawn, clouds and mist wrapped around the main peak of Wuzhi Mountain, and the tea gardens of Maona Village were already bustling. Wang Qiongxiang, 56, carried a bamboo basket as she moved between the tea rows, her fingertips flying as tender buds fell one by one into the basket.
A few years ago, Wang Qiongxiang was still a poor household in the village, with the family's per capita annual income at only 3,000 yuan. Now her family's tea garden has expanded from 5 mu to more than 40 mu, with an annual income of 300,000 yuan.
Maona Village is located in the township with the highest altitude on Hainan Island — Shuiman Township, Wuzhishan City — with a permanent population of 165 households and 646 people, in a land of very little arable area (九山半水半分田, jiu shan ban shui fen tian - "nine parts mountain, half parts water, divided parts field"). In the past, villagers lived off the mountain, chopping firewood and gathering medicinal herbs, scraping by. After the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park was established in 2021, more than 80 percent of the village's area was incorporated into the national park, and that old path was no longer viable.
How to blaze a new trail? Maona Village set its breakthrough on the tea garden.
Maona Village has a high altitude, slightly acidic soil, and rich organic matter. Wuzhi Mountain large-leaf tea has a good foundation, yet it had long been cultivated extensively and could not fetch a good price. In 2024, three group standards for Wuzhishan tropical rainforest large-leaf tea were released in Maona Village, and in the same year Wuzhishan tropical rainforest large-leaf tea was confirmed as a new species of the genus Camellia. In June 2025, "Wuzhishan black tea" received geographical indication product certification, laying the foundation for brand-based development.
Every household in Maona Village has a tea garden. The village Party branch took the lead in promoting the "village committee + enterprise + cooperative + farmer" model, linking planting, management and protection, picking, processing, and sales into one chain. The village's tea gardens expanded from more than 600 mu to 3,388 mu, and in 2025 tea leaf income reached 3.5 million yuan.
It was not only about selling the tea leaves, but also about attracting tea lovers into the mountains. In September 2023, the village-collective-controlled Maona Village Industrial Development Co., Ltd. was established. Holding to the bottom line of not demolishing houses, not cutting down trees, and not occupying farmland, the company built picking trails and tea garden viewing platforms. The early spring tea picking festival and the "Rainforest Time" concert were staged in turn, six farmhouse restaurants opened their doors, and 28 guesthouse rooms were completed one after another.
With tourists entering the village, old crafts found new outlets. In the Li pottery transmission institute, the "thump, thump, thump" of striking sounds came in waves. Wang Boxi, representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Li pottery and the first full-time Li pottery teacher in Shuiman Township, tended the turntable while several tourists sat in a circle around him, their fingertips covered in yellow clay. "In the off-season, 8 to 10 people come to experience it each day; in the peak season, we simply cannot keep up," Wang Boxi said.
Not far from the transmission institute, the herbal medicine shop of Wang Yuzhen, representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Li medicine, was filled with the fragrance of herbs. Eight products, including trauma ointment, were on the shelves, with cumulative sales of more than 100,000 yuan over three years. "In the past, only neighbors knew about it; now tourists from other places and even foreign tourists come looking for us," Wang Yuzhen said.
In 2025, Maona Village received 220,000 tourist visits, with tourism revenue exceeding 11 million yuan; village collective economic income reached 3.06 million yuan, an increase of nearly 20 times over 2021; and farmers' per capita disposable income exceeded 28,000 yuan. In July this year, the Maona Village Party branch was awarded the title of National Advanced Primary Party Organization.
These days, Wang Youshou, secretary of the village Party branch, and the cadres of the village's two committees have been making frequent trips to the meeting room, for the purpose of operational cooperation on the guesthouse rooms. Materials were spread out on the table, and negotiations proceeded round after round. After each round, Wang Youshou bent his head and carefully took notes in his notebook. "Only by choosing the right operators can the guesthouses go far. Our Maona Village will have even better days ahead," Wang Youshou said.
Return to TopOn October 12, in Kaojian Village, Tianmen Town, Yi'an District, Tongling City, Anhui Province, villagers seized the fine weather to harvest late-season rice, ensuring the autumn grain harvest is safely stored.
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Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Yi Shuran) Recently, seven departments, including the China Disabled Persons' Federation, the Central Publicity Department, the Ministry of Education, the National Language Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the National Radio and Television Administration, jointly issued the "Third Phase National Action Plan for the Standardization of Sign Language and Braille (2026–2030)," systematically deploying work on sign language and braille during the period of the 15th Five-Year Plan.
The action plan requires that efforts focus on six areas: strengthening the promotion of nationally common sign language and nationally common braille, providing barrier-free language and script services for people with hearing and visual disabilities to acquire knowledge and participate in social life; improving the system for the standardization and normalization of sign language and braille, deepening and expanding the development of relevant standards and norms with a focus on public services for persons with disabilities, education and teaching, and culture and sports; accelerating the innovative development of informatization for sign language and braille, incorporating the informatization of sign language and braille into the national digitalization project for the common language and script; enriching the effective supply of sign language and braille resources, continuing to expand the publication of related books and continuously developing related digital learning resources; strengthening the cultivation of professional talent in sign language and braille, expanding the ranks of high-level urgently needed talent, application-oriented talent, comprehensive talent, and young and middle-aged scientific research backbone personnel; and promoting international exchange in sign language and braille, advancing the transformation and application of related scientific and technological innovation products and solutions internationally.
Since 2015, departments including the China Disabled Persons' Federation, the Central Publicity Department, the Ministry of Education, and the National Language Commission have successively implemented two phases of action plans, with continuous progress in the standardization, normalization, and informatization of sign language and braille, and steadily increasing efforts to promote nationally common sign language and nationally common braille.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Ouyang Jie) Data released by the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing shows that in September 2026, China's logistics industry prosperity index stood at 51.5 percent, up 0.6 percentage points month on month, remaining in the expansion range for five consecutive months; the new orders index stood at 51.2 percent, up 0.4 percentage points month on month, rising for seven consecutive months, with logistics demand continuing to warm up and the resilience of enterprise operations becoming increasingly evident.
By region, in September, the total business volume indexes for the eastern, central, and western regions were 51.3 percent, 51.2 percent, and 51.7 percent respectively, all rising month on month. Among them, the total business volume index for the eastern region rose 1 percentage point month on month, serving as the main driver of the rebound in the total business volume index.
In September, the equipment utilization rate index stood at 50.1 percent, up 0.5 percentage points month on month, returning to the expansion range for the first time this year. The inventory turnover frequency index has risen for five consecutive months, and the efficiency of production-supply-marketing linkage across the industrial chain has continued to improve. Market expectations are accelerating their recovery; in September, the logistics industry business activity expectations index stood at 56.2 percent, up 1.8 percentage points month on month. Enterprises hold optimistic expectations for the fourth quarter, with investment willingness and confidence in stabilization strengthening in tandem.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尹晓宇
On September 1, at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, the Zhongshexing-1 (Wisdom Star-1), a medium-to-large reusable liquid-propellant launch vehicle independently developed by Galactic Energy, lifted off and accurately delivered its payload into the predetermined orbit.
About 2,000 kilometers away, at Galactic Energy's large-thrust liquid rocket assembly base in Liuhe District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, production preparations for the Zhongshexing-2 rocket are in full swing (紧锣密鼓, jin luo mi gu - "tight, gong, dense, drum"). The first phase of the base has a total investment of about 2 billion yuan and undertakes the assembly and integrated testing of large reusable liquid rockets, with a designed annual production capacity of 10 rockets.
Liuhe District is about 40 kilometers from downtown Nanjing. Its industry was previously dominated by supporting services for the Nanjing Chemical Industry Park, and its foundation for scientific and technological innovation was weak.
In recent years, Liuhe District has broken new ground in the aerospace industry and is building momentum for "takeoff." The Jiangsu Provincial Aerospace Advanced Structures and High-End Equipment Technology Innovation Center has settled in Liuhe District. An "Aerospace Creation Corridor," linking the NUAA International Innovation Port, the Aerospace Digital Intelligence Industrial Park, the Aerospace Industrial Park, and the Liuhe Aerospace Port, is accelerating its rise, forming an industrial pattern of "one body, two wings, one port" that connects the entire chain of innovative R&D, technology transfer, industrial manufacturing, and commercial application.
"In light of local conditions means not chasing trends, but finding the 'intersection' between one's own endowments and industrial demand," said Rong Fei, head of Liuhe District, explaining that the locality first re-examined its "family assets" to identify the focal point for developing new industries.
In 2021, Liuhe District and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics jointly built the NUAA International Innovation Port, and a number of talents and projects came here. Liuhe District borders the Yangtze River; rocket transport goes from the river to the sea, reaching the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site directly. Backed by the Yangtze River Delta manufacturing industry chain, more than 4,000 mu of contiguous industrial land leaves ample room for the agglomeration of upstream and downstream enterprises.
To nurture this emerging industry, Liuhe District has been making sustained efforts in talent and the industrial ecosystem.
In the National Key Laboratory of Complex Product Intelligent Manufacturing System Technology at the NUAA International Innovation Port, industrial robots with milling end-effectors feed steadily along the curved surfaces of complex wing-like components. Through line laser scanning and computer vision guidance, the research team has improved milling precision by 5 to 10 times. Li Kai, deputy director of the Liuhe District Science and Technology Bureau, said that the NUAA International Innovation Port has brought in 6 national key laboratories, 10 university-enterprise joint laboratories, and 13 provincial and ministerial-level innovation platforms. The Nanjing Yangtze River Industrial Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd., jointly built by the university and the locality, links together businesses such as concept validation, pilot-scale maturation, and enterprise incubation.
In Liuhe District, Wang Changrui, a researcher at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, incubated a heat dissipation technology achievement that effectively combines diamond with metal — from a laboratory research result into a project. In 2021, Wang Changrui founded a company serving multiple chip manufacturers, and the product has now been iterated to the third generation.
In June this year, the fourth Aerospace Industry-Creation Integration Promotion Event was held in Liuhe District, where 15 projects, including Yangwang Aerospace Precision Structural Parts R&D and Production and the Galactic Energy R&D Center, were signed centrally.
With aerospace manufacturing scenarios as the driver, the original industries have also grown by leveraging the momentum.
"In the past, it wasn't that we didn't want to tackle high-precision machine tools — we were simply trapped by the lack of application scenarios and the absence of customers willing to pay," said Tan Yinshu, general manager of Nanjing Sufeng CNC Technology Co., Ltd. Now, the positioning device co-developed by the company and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics has been used on the domestically produced large aircraft C919.
At present, the Liuhe High-End CNC Machine Tool Industrial Park has gathered more than 130 enterprises in the machine tool industry chain, and the park alone can supply over 90 percent of machine tool components. Last year, Liuhe District successfully attracted General Technology Group to settle there, jointly carrying out core technology research on precision CNC machine tools to solve "bottleneck" technical problems.
Satellite data processing, industry-specific vertical model training, artificial intelligence technology applications... In extending the digital intelligence economy industry chain, the "combination of software and hardware" is also continuously creating value in Liuhe District.
Behind the "new seedlings" of the aerospace industry, a "forest" has grown. In 2025, the total output value of industrial enterprises above designated size in Liuhe District achieved double-digit growth; in the first half of this year, it also achieved significant growth.
Zhou Yong, secretary of the Liuhe District Party Committee, said that in the future, the district will continue to optimize the innovation ecosystem and strengthen full-lifecycle services, build itself into an important position for the development of Jiangsu Province's commercial aerospace industry, and coordinately develop four advanced manufacturing industry clusters: new energy, high-end new materials, high-end intelligent manufacturing equipment, and aerospace.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Shanghai, October 12) (Reporter Shen Wenmin) The 26th China International Industry Fair opened on the 12th at the National Convention Center (Shanghai). With the theme "Intelligent Economy, Boundless Intelligent Manufacturing," this year's fair focuses on the new generation of intelligent manufacturing, showcasing new achievements in the intelligent, green, and integrated development of the manufacturing industry, and building an important platform for global industrial cooperation, technological exchange, and resource sharing.
At the opening ceremony, multiple major achievements were released and multiple major initiatives were launched. Six Chinese and foreign institutions jointly released the "International Cities Initiative on Open Cooperation in Industrial and Supply Chains," advocating that global cities work together to maintain and protect the stability and smoothness of industrial and supply chains, deepening practical cooperation in six areas — open connectivity, security and coordination, innovation linkage, digital-intelligent transformation, cluster co-construction, and empowering small and medium-sized enterprises — to support the coordinated development of global industry. Shanghai released the 2026 edition of its industrial map, simultaneously announced the list of 30 municipal-district coordinated trillion-yuan-level industrial clusters, launched the new generation of intelligent manufacturing development action, and clarified that by 2028 it will achieve full coverage of intelligent factories among key manufacturing enterprises, cultivate 500 advanced-level intelligent factories, implement more than 2,000 artificial intelligence intelligent manufacturing application scenarios, and continue to expand the scale of the intelligent manufacturing industry.
This year's fair runs for five days, with a total exhibition area of 310,000 square meters. It features a national pavilion and ten themed exhibitions, and for the first time sets up a dedicated integrated circuit special exhibition. It brings together more than 3,200 exhibitors from 24 countries and regions, and hosts over 100 industry forums, new product launches, and supply-demand matching events.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王锦涛 曾亦辰
A fine drizzle fell and the mountain road was muddy. Zhang Weiwei trod unsteadily along the slippery dirt path, heading for the Ecological Economy Industrial Park of Lintan County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province. "We have already brought in six enterprises, and this year we are helping the Tibetan mugwort and medicinal egg projects build smart production lines, so I need to check on the progress," he said as he walked.
In 2024, Zhang Weiwei, then deputy director of the Audit Bureau of Dongli District, Tianjin, was selected to serve as head of the Tianjin assistance working group for Lintan, Gansu, and concurrently as a member of the Standing Committee of the Lintan County Party Committee and deputy county governor. When he received the news, he felt somewhat uncertain: he had never lived at high altitude and knew nothing about agriculture and animal husbandry. Could he really shoulder this burden?
Nearly three years have passed. On the Gannan plateau, at an average altitude of about 2,900 meters, Zhang Weiwei has transformed from an auditor who "flipped through account books" into an industry expert who can discuss crop cultivation with villagers and markets with pharmaceutical dealers. Min Bin, a Gansu cadre selected for exchange to Tianjin under the exchange plan, has also grown rapidly through project work. Over the 30 years of Tianjin-Gansu cooperation, Tianjin has dispatched a total of more than 460 cadres and over 9,000 professional and technical personnel to the front line in Gansu, and has received 13,300 Gansu cadres and talents for training and temporary post assignments in Tianjin.
Proactively Integrating and Systematically Clarifying Resource Endowments
In January 2024, Zhang Weiwei came to Lintan County for the first time. After getting off the plane, a drive of more than five hours jolted his imagination apart. The altitude figures on roadside signs kept climbing, the green outside the window gradually thinned, replaced by endless "bald mountains." Before he had even grown familiar with the mountains, altitude sickness arrived first: chest tightness, insomnia, and shortness of breath when walking quickly.
Physical discomfort could still be overcome, but another difficulty troubled him more — he could not understand the local dialect and could not grasp the conditions of the villages. Facing this "leader from Tianjin," the villagers at first held back and were unwilling to speak their true minds.
Zhang Weiwei came up with a "clumsy" method: learn from local cadres and, through practice, find out what rural revitalization in the area truly lacked and where the bottlenecks were. Min Bin, then director of the Party Building Office of Zhuoluo Township, knew the situation of every village like the back of his hand. Zhang Weiwei often pulled him into discussions: "What concerns does this household have about not joining the cooperative?" "These medicinal herbs are of such good quality — could they be processed before being sold?"
Trip after trip over the mountain roads, visit after visit to the fields — Zhang Weiwei gradually shed the unfamiliarity of an outside cadre. Which turn in the road offered a view of the snow mountains, which stretch of roadside often saw flocks of sheep passing — he knew it all by heart. Through frequent visits and sincere listening, he gradually mastered the local dialect and drew closer to the masses. The villagers began calling him "our County Governor Zhang."
In the first three months after taking office, Zhang Weiwei went through the complete project ledgers of Tianjin's assistance to Gansu over the years, visited more than 100 villages across all 16 townships of the county, and systematically clarified the resource endowments. The professional habits from his auditing work in Tianjin led him to discover two problems in his field investigations: first, Lintan was rich in cultural and tourism resources, but they were "hidden deep in the mountains, known to no one"; second, the quality of the local medicinal herbs was not inferior, but standardized planting and deep processing were insufficient, leaving farmers with little profit. Villagers frankly said that in some years the returns on medicinal herbs did not even cover the labor costs of planting and harvesting, and on balance they still lost money.
"Fine mountains and fine waters known to no one, good things unable to fetch good prices — it is not that the resource endowments are poor, but that we do not know how to make the market see them." During that period, Zhang Weiwei often could not sleep and would get up to think. Looking up, he saw a sky full of stars. "Since I am here, I have to leave behind something real and tangible."
Growing Together: From Assistance Cadre to Industry Expert
For Zhang Weiwei, who had long worked in auditing, deep engagement with financial oversight and strict adherence to funding norms were his professional strengths, but revitalizing the industrial chain and driving up villagers' incomes through industry was an entirely new challenge.
Youfeng Agricultural Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. is an enterprise in Lintan that processes mugwort. When Zhang Weiwei first went to investigate, the person in charge, Song Chengcai, was worrying about sales channels. Zhang Weiwei took Song Chengcai and several employees on a special trip to Tianjin.
Visiting large pharmaceutical companies and looking at the shelves of chain pharmacies — after one round, Song Chengcai's horizons were broadened: goods of the same quality could differ in price severalfold depending on packaging specifications, whether there was a brand, and whether they could enter chain channels. What impressed him most was a livestream — the host described the products vividly and colorfully (绘声绘色, hui sheng hui se - "draw, sound, draw, color") in front of the camera, and cleared the inventory in a few minutes. "If you don't speak up, no one knows our goods are good," Song Chengcai remarked.
Through communication and coordination, Youfeng Company connected with channel resources in Tianjin, also began trying e-commerce livestreaming, and opened a Tibetan mugwort wellness experience store in Tianjin. Today, in Youfeng Company's production workshop, mugwort leaves are converted into dozens of products such as mugwort floss, mugwort sticks, and essential oils. "Before, I worked away from home and couldn't take care of my family. Now I work here, with a stable monthly income of 5,000 yuan, and I can also look after my parents and children," said Hu Zhiwen, a villager from Mapai Village, Changchuan Township, who was processing mugwort bags. Song Chengcai said the company has so far purchased more than 4,000 tons of mugwort in total, driving income growth for more than 600 households.
Just as Lintan's enterprises and cooperatives were exploring new industrial paths, Min Bin was selected under the exchange plan to study on attachment at the Jinqiao Subdistrict of Dongli District. At an aquaculture base, the base technician's phone opened a new world for him: "Water temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH value — all displayed in real time. Before, we relied on the experience of veteran workers; now we rely on data." During his year in Tianjin, he seized every opportunity to learn from local experience in agricultural modernization. After returning to Lintan, Min Bin was transferred to serve as deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Shubu Township. He applied what he had learned to the local Yaguan Village: organizing the scattered medicinal herb growers into a standardized planting base, with unified standards for fertilizing, weeding, and harvest timing.
Today, the medicinal herb origin trading market built with Tianjin assistance is officially in operation, the medicinal herb planting base and experimental testing project are being implemented, and the standardized planting of medicinal herbs in Yaguan Village has been incorporated into the base construction. A medicinal herb industrial chain covering scientific research and testing, standardized planting, deep processing, and market sales is gradually taking shape in Lintan.
A Shift in Thinking: Exploring Integrated Development of Agriculture, Culture, and Tourism
The mugwort processing plant was running, and the medicinal herb origin trading market was generating returns, but Zhang Weiwei did not relax. As a "veteran auditor," he was accustomed to reading the logic behind the account books. "No matter how well a single point in the industry is done, it is only a 'bonsai.' If it cannot be connected into a continuous area, then once the market fluctuates, the people's money bags are still not secure."
The Yeliguan Scenic Area in Yeliguan Town features distinctive landforms such as canyons, forests, and meadows. Although it had already been rated a national 4A-level tourist attraction, after several investigations Zhang Weiwei found that although the scenic area was beautiful, the surrounding villages had changed little. Some villagers propped up a piece of cardboard by the roadside as a sign; others did nothing at all, waiting for tourists to find them on their own. He realized that a single project could be pushed forward, but regional development still required overall design.
Zhang Weiwei plunged into the mountain valleys, investigating village by village. For villages along the river, he suggested developing rafting and helped secure funds to buy equipment; for hollowed-out villages, he brought in social capital to renovate idle old houses and create "Hualu" guesthouses; for villages with vast land and sparse population, he built self-driving campsites so that tourists would stay overnight. In every village he visited, he would pull the village cadres into calculating the detailed accounts: "How much is the investment, where are the customers, how many years to recoup the costs... If the accounts are not clear, the project will sit there without generating returns." Through the joint efforts of many parties, a new assistance path of integrated agricultural, cultural, and tourism development gradually emerged: taking the creation of the Yeliguan tourism area as the starting point, using three rural revitalization demonstration villages as fulcrums, linking 17 administrative villages across two towns, and promoting joint planning of regional schemes, mutual integration of industrial development, sharing of public services, joint governance of the living environment, and joint shaping of the rural landscape. Hongjia Village became the first batch of benchmarks, and its appearance was completely new (焕然一新, huan ran yi xin - "glow, change, one, new").
Over several years, with a cumulative investment of 88 million yuan from Dongli District, Yeliguan Town has changed its appearance. The roads are wider, the tourist center has been built, and the scenic area hospital is in use. At the end of 2024, the Yeliguan Scenic Area became the first national 5A-level tourist attraction in Gannan Prefecture. The region has launched brands such as "Yeliguan" rafting, "Guilu" morel mushrooms, and "Zui Taozhou" highland barley liquor, with operating income exceeding 40 million yuan and driving more than 3,100 person-times of employment.
With the brand now well known, Zhang Weiwei turned back to Tianjin to "build bridges." The Tianjin Metro launched a "Yeliguan Tourism Area promotional train," and tourists from Tianjin enjoy free admission to scenic spots in Lintan. In 2025, the number of visitors entering the Yeliguan scenic area increased by 75.2 percent year on year, of which the increase in Tianjin visitors was as high as 114.2 percent, making Tianjin the largest source of tourists to Gansu from outside the province.
This assistance interaction spanning a thousand miles has gathered an ever-growing force. To date, Tianjin has invested a cumulative total of 14.4 billion yuan in financial assistance funds, implemented more than 7,000 assistance projects, helped 34 counties in 7 cities and prefectures of Gansu win the battle against poverty, and consolidated and expanded the achievements of the battle against poverty with effective linkage to comprehensive rural revitalization. Tianjin and Gansu are now joining hands to walk a path of collaboration featuring complementary advantages, two-way empowerment, and common prosperity.
Return to TopBy: 林子夜
Assistance is like planting a tree — flourishing and lush (枝繁叶茂, zhi fan ye mao - "branch, luxuriant, leaf, luxuriant") is not achieved in a day. Sometimes, a project is built, but once the officials leave, operations falter; funds are invested, but once the market fluctuates, the industry "stalls." The root problem is not the project itself, but that "only the project was invested in, no people were left behind."
Zhang Weiwei's story offers another approach. Rather than simply "relocating" eastern projects, he "planted" himself there — understanding the accounts, understanding the processes, and working alongside local officials and the masses to turn an industry from blueprint into cash flow.
Evaluating the effectiveness of east-west collaboration requires looking not only at how many projects were signed and how much funding was landed, but also at how many "leading geese" were cultivated who understand industry, can stay put, and can lead a team.
The key to industrial assistance lies in people. East-west collaboration must enable industries to take root among the masses, deliver technology into their hands, and inject a living stream of talent into local development.
Return to TopBy: 谷业凯
The sound positive cycle between innovation and development is enabling a growing number of emerging industries and future industries to take advantage of a prevailing trend to advance (乘势而上, cheng shi er shang - "ride the momentum, go upward") and accelerate their growth within innovation clusters.
Recently, the World Intellectual Property Organization released its 2026 list of the world's top 100 innovation clusters. A total of 25 clusters in China made the list, ranking first globally in the number of listed clusters for the fourth consecutive year, with the "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou," Beijing, and "Shanghai-Suzhou" clusters entering the top ten.
The list primarily identifies regions where innovative activity is concentrated by analyzing relevant indicators such as international patent applications, scientific publications, and venture capital transactions. The consecutive dominance of the list and developing in many different areas simultaneously (多点开花, duo dian kai hua - "many points, bloom flowers") fully demonstrate the height and depth of China's innovation.
China's possession of the largest number of the world's top 100 innovation clusters benefits from the in-depth advancement of the regional coordinated development strategy in the field of scientific and technological innovation.
As an important component of the national innovation system, the regional innovation system is the foundational support for building a strong country in science and technology. The coordinated development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region has enabled the formation of a deeply collaborative model of "R&D in Beijing, manufacturing and transformation in Tianjin and Hebei"; the integration of the Yangtze River Delta has driven the G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor to link individual elements into a cohesive whole (串珠成链, chuan zhu cheng lian - "string beads, become chain"), building a cross-regional collaborative innovation platform covering nine cities... Strengthening regional collaborative innovation has formed a sound pattern of multi-point support and coordinated development.
Possessing the largest number of the world's top 100 innovation clusters confirms the comprehensive enhancement of the overall effectiveness of China's innovation system.
Innovation clusters can reflect the close connections among research, enterprises, talent, and investment. In recent years, the pace of transformation of scientific and technological achievements in China has accelerated markedly, new quality productive forces have been cultivated and strengthened, and many of the innovation clusters on the list are also industrial highlands. Wuhan, ranked seventeenth, saw the added value of its large-scale high-tech manufacturing industry increase by 65.7% in the first half of this year, with the optoelectronic information industry accelerating its development; Ningde's ranking jumped significantly by 24 places, closely related to innovation in the power battery industry. The sound positive cycle between innovation and development is enabling a growing number of emerging industries and future industries to take advantage of a prevailing trend to advance and accelerate their growth within innovation clusters.
Possessing the largest number of the world's top 100 innovation clusters, China's innovative development also provides valuable opportunities for the world.
A growing number of foreign enterprises are choosing to conduct R&D in China and innovate in China, with many of their R&D centers located in these innovation clusters. In the first seven months of this year, foreign applicants filed more than 42,000 invention patent applications in China; in 2025, the actual use of foreign capital in China's scientific research and technical services sector accounted for nearly one-fifth of the total actual use of foreign capital in China. China, with an attitude of openness and cooperation, promotes the sharing of innovation achievements. In the first half of this year, China's innovative drugs reached 81 cooperation agreements for out-licensing, and industrial robots were sold to 141 countries and regions. As Carsten Fink, chief economist of the World Intellectual Property Organization, stated, China's innovation is increasingly driving the continuous expansion of the global technological frontier in more and more fields, and countries around the world are increasingly benefiting from China's innovation.
Global innovation resources are converging on China in the form of innovation clusters.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Wang Guan) On October 12, the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration issued an announcement on adjusting the export tax rebate policy for certain products, clarifying that starting April 1, 2027, the VAT export tax rebate rate for new energy vehicles will be lowered from 13% to 9%; and that the VAT export tax rebate for products such as e-cigarette devices and equipment will be abolished.
The announcement states that for the aforementioned products subject to consumption tax, the export consumption tax policy will not be adjusted, and the consumption tax rebate (exemption) policy will continue to apply. The export tax rebate rate applicable to the products listed in the announcement shall be determined by the export date noted on the customs declaration form for export goods.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴秋余
"Guaranteed principal with high returns, guaranteed profit without any loss" (稳赚不赔, wen zhuan bu pe - "steady, earn, not, lose"), "instant arrival, low interest rates"... In recent years, the internet has gradually become an important channel for financial product marketing, improving the efficiency and coverage of financial services, but some platforms also have certain risk problems, such as engaging in false and misleading publicity, marketing practices suspected of monopolistic and disorderly competition, and marketing and publicity content that violates accepted social norms and moral standards (公序良俗, gong xu liang su - "public, order, good, custom").
Starting September 30, the "Measures for the Administration of Online Marketing of Financial Products" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"), formulated by the People's Bank of China and 7 other departments, officially came into effect. What role will the Measures play in regulating the online marketing of financial products? And what impact will they bring to the development of the industry?
On some online platforms in the past, false and misleading publicity was one of the most common chronic problems. Some institutions packaged loan products with exaggerated rhetoric such as "low threshold," "instant arrival," and "low interest rates," deliberately concealing key information such as comprehensive fee rates and overdue penalty interest. Wealth management marketing unilaterally emphasized high returns while downplaying risk warnings, leading investors to develop the erroneous perception of "guaranteed profit without any loss."
The Measures implement the requirement of "bringing all types of financial activities under regulation in accordance with the law" and further standardize the content and conduct of online marketing.
According to the requirements of the Measures, loan products must not use marketing rhetoric such as "low threshold," "instant arrival," and "low interest rates"; on the checkout pages of non-bank payment institutions, payment tools must be displayed separately from financial products such as loans, and users must not be misled into confusing payment tools with loan products; institutions that have not obtained qualifications for financial business or financial information service business must not use wording with financial attributes in the apps they operate and in their registered trademarks; personnel of non-financial institutions must not market financial products through live streaming, short videos, official accounts, and other forms, especially illegal securities investment consulting conducted in the form of stock recommendations.
"The Measures emphasize 'operating with a valid business license (持牌经营, chi pai jing ying - "hold, license, operate, manage") and compliant entrustment,' which will promote the industry's shift from a 'traffic is king' model to a sustainable development model of 'compliance as the foundation, service as the essence.'" Dong Ximiao, chief economist of Zhaolian, believes that according to the Measures, in the payment field, non-bank payment institutions must not list financial products such as loans as payment tool options, and "credit payment" products such as Huabei, Baitiao, and Yuefu face major adjustments; in the fund marketing field, the requirements of "institutions hold licenses, personnel hold certificates" are clarified, and the model in which unqualified institutions and financial influencers conduct financial marketing through channels such as live streaming and short videos is strictly constrained; in the insurance field, "institutions bear responsibility + personnel and certificates are unified + traceability" has become the ultimate direction of online marketing, and non-compliant accounts selling insurance through short videos and live streaming will be orderly cleared out.
Recently, some internet platform companies and financial institutions have begun to conduct investigations and rectification. Tencent has carried out a comprehensive investigation of financial advertising, focusing on four types of problems: disguised financial marketing, incomplete disclosure, non-compliant wording, and marketing without qualifications. China Everbright Bank provides users with an independent and convenient "personalized recommendation switch," allowing users to turn it on or off with one click. A relevant person in charge of Tencent stated that the introduction of the Measures provides clear compliance guidance for online marketing activities of financial products and is conducive to the healthy and orderly development of the industry in the long run.
Return to TopOn October 12, at the August melon planting base in Dalei Village, Rongshan Town, Linchuan District, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province, tourists experienced picking the fruit. In recent years, Linchuan District has targeted market demand, adjusted its agricultural planting structure, and developed the cultivation of specialty fruits such as August melon, fruit cucumber, and fig in light of local conditions, promoting local farmers' income growth and prosperity.
Photo by Guo Hao (China Images)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Guangzhou, October 12) (Reporters Wu Qiqiang, Wang Yunna) Guangdong recently convened a provincial conference on advanced manufacturing, clarifying its commitment to accelerating the high-quality development of advanced manufacturing, deepening the construction of a strong manufacturing province, and continuously consolidating the hard strength of modernization.
It is reported that Guangdong will continue to promote the intelligent, green, and integrated development of manufacturing, and continue expanding and strengthening (做大做强, zuo da zuo qiang - "do big, do strong") advanced manufacturing. It aims to create more than 1,000 advanced-level, excellent-level, and leading-level smart factories and 1,000 green factories by 2028, with the application penetration rate of artificial intelligence technology among industrial enterprises above designated size exceeding 50 percent, and the annual output of humanoid robots exceeding 80,000 units, making every effort to build a global highland for the development of embodied intelligence industry.
In recent years, Guangdong has accelerated the development of advanced manufacturing, with its overall strength continuously increasing and delivering an impressive report card. In 2025, the operating revenue of industrial enterprises above designated size across Guangdong reached 19.34 trillion yuan, maintaining the largest scale in the country; the added value of the province's advanced manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing accounted for 56.2 percent and 34.7 percent of the added value of industries above designated size, respectively, with the share of high-tech manufacturing added value in industries above designated size rising 2.7 percentage points compared with five years ago. Guangdong has cumulatively created 8 national advanced manufacturing clusters and 30 national-level characteristic industrial clusters of small and medium-sized enterprises, forming 10 trillion-yuan-level industrial clusters. In the future, Guangdong will promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, continuously promote the expansion and quality improvement of advanced manufacturing, and build world-class advanced manufacturing clusters.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘军国
In the equipment room of the China (Hangzhou) Computing Power Town in Linping District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, rows upon rows of servers are operating busily, and artificial intelligence large-model training continues without pause (昼夜不停, zhou ye bu ting - "day, night, not, stop") day and night.
In Linping, new business forms such as computing power and intelligent manufacturing are accelerating their clustering. "Production in these industries is characterized by continuity and precision, and is highly sensitive to reliable power supply." Dai Lisong, a fifth-level staff member of the State Grid Hangzhou Linping District Power Supply Company, introduced that in order to safeguard the development of new business forms, the State Grid Hangzhou Power Supply Company has deployed the construction of a new-type distribution network.
A series of measures such as line upgrades and rectification of weak points have been implemented simultaneously, and shortcomings at the periphery of the distribution network have been continuously addressed. From the main trunk grid to grassroots lines, a complete power supply skeleton has been constructed. High-quality power resources have been sunk down to the front line of production, leaving ample electricity capacity for enterprises to expand production and for new projects to land.
"Stable electricity supply is the foundation of confidence for enterprise development." Liu Xiaofeng, head of the China Unicom Zhejiang Linping Computing Power Center, introduced that large-model training never stops for a moment; once voltage becomes unstable, massive volumes of computing data can be damaged, and in severe cases server hardware can also be damaged. The upgrade and renovation of the power grid has helped reduce the risk of voltage fluctuations damaging data.
Walking into the production workshop of Hangzhou Huile Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., precision CNC equipment is processing high-precision components. "This batch of equipment is highly sensitive to voltage changes." Shao Lu, head of the enterprise, said, "Stable power supply, coupled with regular door-to-door inspections by dedicated personnel, allows us to confidently expand production capacity."
Behind the stable power supply lies a set of "ground-air integrated, cloud-edge collaborative" intelligent operation-and-inspection model providing protection and support (保驾护航, bao jia hu hang -"protect, guard, escort, sail"). In the air, drones shuttle above the park, bringing minor anomalies on lines and towers under monitoring. On the ground, AR (augmented reality) intelligent devices conduct close-range refined inspections, precisely locating fault points. When problems arise on site, one can also immediately connect with cloud-based experts for collaborative diagnosis and remote handling.
"The intelligent operation-and-inspection model has effectively solved the problems of numerous blind spots, low efficiency, and slow troubleshooting in traditional inspections; the accuracy rate of equipment hazard identification has greatly improved, and daily inspection efficiency has increased by 60%." Huang Qizhen, director of the Operation-and-Inspection Department of the State Grid Hangzhou Linping District Power Supply Company, said.
The inspection model has been continuously upgraded, and the power grid's fault handling capability has also been correspondingly strengthened. In 2023, Linping completed distribution automation renovation across its entire jurisdiction. Linping is also the first area in Hangzhou to achieve full-line coverage of "fully automatic FA (feeder automation)" deployment across its entire jurisdiction. "Fully automatic FA" can automatically assess faulty lines, isolate fault sections, and quickly restore power supply to non-faulty section lines.
The scope and frequency of applications such as live-line work have been continuously expanded, avoiding power outages that disrupt enterprise production. Not long ago, thee factory-area distribution lines of Zhejiang Sitong New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. needed to be upgraded. "The product delivery schedule cannot wait, and the production line cannot have its power cut midway." Tang Liang, head of the enterprise, said that thanks to the live-line work model, power grid upgrades and normal production have both proceeded without conflict.
The convenience brought by the high-quality power grid not only benefits industrial parks, but also injects vitality into the revitalization of rural industries. Xinyu Village in Linping District, relying on its lotus pond ecological resources, has developed deep processing of lotus seeds and rural cultural-tourism industries; various types of processing machinery, cold-chain warehousing, and cultural-tourism facilities all place higher demands on the continuity of power supply. The State Grid Hangzhou Linping District Power Supply Company has re-planned and relocated the village's internal lines, replaced aging cables, expanded distribution equipment, and comprehensively optimized the village-level power grid architecture. Today, sufficient and stable electricity allows Xinyu Village's characteristic industries to operate efficiently, villagers have fewer worries about electricity use in their businesses and more income.
"We will continue to advance the construction of the new-type distribution network, safeguarding the stable production of various new business forms with stable electricity, and injecting momentum into economic and social development." Huang Qizhen said.
Return to TopBy: 邹广文
Since the advent of the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has upheld the guidance of Marxism, creatively put forward the major thesis of "integrating the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with fine traditional Chinese culture," and coordinated efforts to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture, providing theoretical guidance and practical principles for inheriting and carrying forward Chinese civilization and developing socialist culture with Chinese characteristics for the new era. The important works of General Secretary Xi Jinping included in Volumes I and II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture comprehensively and systematically present General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important discourses on upholding the Two Integrations and advancing the inheritance and development of Chinese civilization, clarify the dialectical unity between Marxism, this soul, and fine traditional Chinese culture, this root, and systematically answer the major question of the times: "what fine traditional Chinese culture to inherit and develop, and how to inherit and develop it." In Volume I of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping points out that "contemporary China is the continuation and development of historical China," emphasizing the need to "deeply understand China's cultural lineage and accurately grasp the cultural soil that nourishes the Chinese people"; in Volume II, General Secretary Xi Jinping points out that "the experience of both positive and negative aspects of history shows that the Two Integrations are our greatest magic weapon for success," emphasizing the need to "continue the Chinese cultural lineage through creative transformation and innovative development." The entire collection runs through a clear internal logic: relying on the Two Integrations to open up the channel of integration between Marxism and Chinese civilization, relying on creative transformation and innovative development to keep fine traditional Chinese culture continuously vibrant, and better meeting the development needs of Chinese modernization.
At present, changes unseen in a century are accelerating, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered a critical period, and diverse ideological and cultural trends at home and abroad are exchanging, blending, and clashing. The importance of enhancing cultural soft power and continuing the Chinese cultural lineage has become even more prominent. As the deep spiritual foundation of national rejuvenation, the vitality of fine traditional Chinese culture comes precisely from sustained and deepening creative transformation and innovative development (hereinafter referred to as the "Two Creations"). We must take Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, as our guide, deeply understand the great significance of the major principle of the Two Integrations for the Two Creations, grasp the internal logic of creative transformation and innovative development, practice the Two Creations in building a culturally strong nation, effectively resolve prominent contradictions and practical problems in the cultural field, continuously unleash the powerful vitality contained in the treasure trove of Chinese civilization, constantly consolidate the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation, and build a solid cultural foundation for Chinese modernization to proceed steadily and far.
The Two Integrations establish the value stance, core orientation, and scientific methodology for the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture
In Volume II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly points out that "on the deep foundation of more than five thousand years of Chinese civilization, opening up and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, integrating the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with fine traditional Chinese culture, is the only way. This is the regularity-based understanding we have gained in exploring the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics," emphasizing that "'integration' is not a 'platter,' not a simple 'physical reaction,' but a profound 'chemical reaction.'" General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discourses show that the Two Integrations are by no means a simple superimposition of the Marxist theoretical system and traditional cultural resources, but rather an organic fusion in which scientific truth and the profound heritage of Chinese civilization interpenetrate and empower each other in both directions. This fundamentally delineates the value stance, core orientation, and scientific methodology of the Two Creations, and achieves a major ideological emancipation in the inheritance and development of fine traditional Chinese culture.
The "First Integration" clarifies the practical dimension of the Two Creations grounded in reality. Integrating the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities centers on adhering to proceeding from objective reality in everything, resolutely discarding dogmatism that is divorced from reality and clings to books. This fundamental principle directly stipulates that the Two Creations cannot be divorced from the national conditions of contemporary China, nor from the fiery practice of Chinese modernization. Traditional Chinese culture was generated in an ancient civilized society and inherently carries obvious limitations of its era; it is necessary to take its essence and discard its dross. Materialist dialectics provides us with the scientific methodology for comprehensively screening and dialectically transforming traditional Chinese culture. To advance the Two Creations, we must take deep root in the reform and development practice of the new era, test the value and quality of traditional culture in practical scenarios such as advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, achieving high-quality development, and continuously safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods, extract spiritual nourishment suited to contemporary development, and use it to answer the questions of China, the questions of the world, the questions of the people, and the questions of the times. For example, drawing on traditional people-oriented thought to improve the system of rule by virtue in grassroots social governance, absorbing the concept of harmony between humanity and nature (天人合一, tian ren he yi - "heaven, man; combine, one") to advance the green transition in ecological civilization construction, and relying on traditional virtues to cultivate a new trend of civility in social moral development, and so on. All of these require us to take root in the development realities of contemporary China, so that the precious resources contained in fine traditional Chinese culture always serve the great cause of building a strong country and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The "Second Integration" broadens the cultural space for the integration of ancient and modern in the Two Creations. In Volume II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes: "The 'Second Integration' is another ideological emancipation, enabling us to fully utilize the precious resources of fine traditional Chinese culture in a broader cultural space and explore theoretical and institutional innovation oriented toward the future." Marxism is the "soul" that must be upheld in cultural development in the new era, and fine traditional Chinese culture is the "root" on which the Chinese nation's survival and development depend; the soul guides the root to complete its modernization transformation, and the root enriches the historical foundation and mass base of the soul. The two complement each other, are internally unified, and are inseparable.
In Volume II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: "Fine traditional Chinese culture, having a long history and continuous development (源远流长, yuan yuan liu chang - "source, far; flow, long") and being broad and profound (博大精深, bo da jing shen - "wide, big; profound, deep"), is the crystallization of the wisdom of Chinese civilization. The ideas it contains — that the world belongs to all (天下为公, tian xia wei gong - "heaven, under; for, public"), that the people are the foundation of the state (民为邦本, min wei bang ben - "people, for; state, foundation"), governing through virtue (为政以德, wei zheng yi de - "govern, with; by, virtue"), discarding the old to establish the new (革故鼎新, ge gu ding xin - "discard, old; establish, new"), appointing people based on their ability (任人唯贤, ren ren wei xian - "appoint, people; only, worthy"), harmony between humanity and nature, constantly striving for self-improvement (自强不息, zi qiang bu xi - "self, strengthen; not, cease"), possessing great virtue to sustain all things (厚德载物, hou de zai wu - "thick, virtue; carry, things"), honoring commitments and promoting harmony, and being friendly to neighbors — are important manifestations of the worldview, view of the world, view of society, and view of morality that the Chinese people have accumulated in their long-term production and daily life, and are highly compatible with the value propositions of scientific socialism." The crystallization of the wisdom of Chinese civilization is an important historical and cultural foundation for us to implement the "Second Integration" and advance cultural innovation, but this does not mean it can be directly copied. In upholding the Two Creations of fine traditional Chinese culture, we must deeply recognize that the conceptual compatibility between traditional culture and contemporary propositions does not mean the content is directly equivalent. We must deeply recognize that traditional Chinese culture is rooted in the relations of production of ancient society and carries historical dross such as hierarchy, ritualism, closed-mindedness, and narrow-mindedness, and must be transformed before it can solve complex contemporary development problems. In Volume I of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes: "Inheriting Chinese culture is by no means simple restoration of the ancients, nor blind rejection of foreign things, but rather making the past serve the present, making foreign things serve China, making dialectical choices, and bringing forth the new from the old, discarding negative factors and inheriting positive ideas, 'using the rules of the ancients to open up new ground of our own.'" These are the important principles we must uphold in promoting the Two Creations of fine traditional Chinese culture. Only by adhering to a dialectical approach can we endow fine traditional Chinese culture with entirely new connotations of the times and modern expressions.
In locating the theoretical coordinates of the Two Creations within the Two Integrations, we must grasp the internal unity of the two. The Two Integrations are the general principle and general path governing the inheritance and development of fine traditional Chinese culture, focusing on resolving the fundamental stance issue in inheriting and developing fine traditional Chinese culture; the Two Creations are the concrete practice of the former in the cultural field, focusing on resolving the practical path issue of the modern transformation of fine traditional Chinese culture. The "First Integration" guides us to base ourselves on Chinese practice, and the "Second Integration" guides us to integrate the root of civilization; together they determine the stance, method, and boundaries of the Two Creations. Without the practical carrier of the Two Creations, the "Second Integration" can easily remain at the level of superficial textual and conceptual docking, making it difficult to take root and bear fruit; divorced from the ideological guidance of the Two Integrations, the Two Creations may go astray. Only by always upholding the scientific stance of Marxism, firmly establishing the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation, and properly handling the relationship between inheritance and innovation can we, in upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, promote the systematic modern reshaping of fine traditional Chinese culture.
Deeply grasp the internal logic and dialectical unity of the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture
The important works included in Volumes I and II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture systematically present the continuous development and deepening of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discourses on the Two Creations. In December 2013, when presiding over the twelfth collective study session of the Political Bureau of the Eighteenth Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed "striving to achieve the creative transformation and innovative development of traditional Chinese virtues"; in September 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping made systematic discourses on "scientifically treating cultural traditions"; in October 2017, the report of the Nineteenth Party Congress clearly stated "upholding creative transformation and innovative development"; in September 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed "placing cultural development in a prominent position in overall work," further indicating the practical path of how to transform and how to develop; in October 2022, the Twentieth Party Congress made new systematic arrangements for upholding the Two Creations; in October 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping instructed to "focus on continuing the Chinese cultural lineage and promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture," and the National Conference on Publicity, Ideological and Cultural Work formally proposed Xi Jinping Thought on Culture; in October 2024, when presiding over the seventeenth collective study session of the Political Bureau of the Twentieth Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed "upholding making the past serve the present and bringing forth the new from the old, upholding creative transformation and innovative development, deeply excavating and elucidating the spiritual connotations of fine traditional Chinese culture, using Marxism to activate the excellent factors in traditional Chinese culture and endowing them with new connotations of the times, and developing socialist culture with Chinese characteristics for the new era"; and so on. By deeply comprehending these important discourses of General Secretary Xi Jinping, we can sort out the internal logic and dialectical relationship of the Two Creations. "Creative transformation" and "innovative development" are both closely interlinked and organically unified, and each has its own emphasis and division of labor, jointly promoting the modern rebirth of fine traditional Chinese culture.
Creative transformation focuses on "carrying forward the past," concentrating on transforming and activating traditional cultural resources. Creative transformation is oriented toward cultural heritage left by history. In accordance with the characteristics and requirements of the times, it transforms those ideological connotations and old forms of expression that still have reference value today, strips away the institutional shackles and historical dross attached to the old era, places them in a brand-new era background and practical scenarios, and activates the inherent life force of fine traditional Chinese culture. This process is not a simple replication of the ideas of the ancients, nor is it restoration or regression, but rather adhering to treating things with discrimination and inheriting with critical selection, completing the screening, selection, and translation of traditional cultural resources, so that cultural genes spanning thousands of years can connect with contemporary society, and traditional culture can adapt to contemporary culture and coordinate with modern society.
Innovative development focuses on "opening up the future," aiming to expand and elevate new cultural forms. Innovative development is based on the new progress and new advances of the times, takes the cultural factors tempered through creative transformation as its foundation, supplements, expands, and perfects the ideological connotations of fine traditional Chinese culture, enriches cultural forms by relying on new practice, new technology, and new narratives, enhances the influence and appeal of Chinese culture, and promotes the evolution of fine traditional culture toward new cultural forms oriented to the future. Innovative development is not limited to the transformation of original cultural materials; it places greater emphasis on generating new cultural achievements in combination with the vivid practice of Chinese modernization, integrating the spiritual core of fine traditional Chinese culture into contemporary governance, social life, cultural development, and literary and artistic creation, focusing on the spiritual and cultural needs of the people, and promoting the continuous iteration and updating of cultural formats and modes of communication.
Creative transformation and innovative development are organically unified. From the perspective of dialectical relations, creative transformation is the premise and foundation, and innovative development is the extension and development; the two cannot be separated, advance in cycles, and rise in spirals, unified in the entire process of cultural development led by the Two Integrations. Without the screening and transformation of creative transformation, innovative development can easily become divorced from the cultural root and become water without a source; without the expansion and elevation of innovative development, the achievements of creative transformation will find it difficult to continue to grow and cannot complete the civilization reconstruction oriented toward the future. The two are not two independent stages completed sequentially, but are often interwoven and parallel; transformation contains innovation, and innovation elevates transformation.
The internal logic of creative transformation and innovative development profoundly responds to the "controversy between ancient and modern, Chinese and Western" since modern times, rejecting both cultural conservatism that values the past over the present and wholesale Westernization that severs tradition. This is precisely the methodological stance that runs through the implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture and the development of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics for the new era: upholding "developing through inheritance and inheriting through development," achieving through the Two Creations the upholding of fundamental principles without being conservative, and respect for the ancients without restoring the past, letting the light of Marxist truth activate the genes of Chinese civilization, letting the rich soil of Chinese civilization nourish the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism, and forging new brilliance of Chinese culture.
Advance the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture in the great practice of building a culturally strong nation
In Volume II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly points out: "Only by integrating the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with fine traditional Chinese culture, and adhering to the application of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, can we correctly answer the major questions raised by the times and practice, and can we always maintain the vigorous vitality and exuberant energy of Marxism." The Two Integrations are not only theoretical guidance at the macro level, but also a complete and implementable practical method running through the entire process of building a culturally strong nation. To promote the Two Creations of fine traditional Chinese culture, we must uphold the Two Integrations, uphold upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, making the past serve the present, and bringing forth the new from the old, and make coordinated efforts in value guidance, practical integration, innovative carriers, and institutional mechanisms, and actively assume the cultural mission of the new era.
Uphold the guidance of Marxism and consolidate the ideological foundation of the Two Creations. In Volume II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: "Marxism is the fundamental guiding ideology for our Party to build the Party and the country and to rejuvenate the Party and the country." The primary task of deepening the Two Creations is to reshape the deep ideological core of traditional culture with Marxist positions, viewpoints, and methods. Excavating traditional cultural resources cannot simply copy or replicate; we must use a dialectical eye to screen the essence and dross in traditional culture, and resolutely resist the two erroneous tendencies of beautifying feudal dross and wholly negating traditional culture. Xi Jinping Thought on Culture upholds the Two Integrations, elevating traditional people-oriented thought, harmony between humanity and nature, and the idea of a world of great harmony respectively into new-era theoretical concepts such as being people-centered, harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature, and a community with a shared future for mankind, adapting to the practical needs of governance and global governance in the new era, providing us with fundamental guidance for accurately grasping the value orientation of the inheritance and development of fine traditional Chinese culture and ensuring that the Two Creations always advance steadily along the correct political direction.
Promote the integration of fine traditional Chinese culture into modern production and life practice, and expand the practical field of the Two Creations. Advancing the Two Creations of fine traditional Chinese culture requires rich practice in the process of Chinese modernization; it cannot be confined to institutions such as cultural units and research institutes, but must enter the real scenarios of various fields such as economic development, grassroots governance, and livelihood security, promoting cultural relics, ancient texts, and intangible cultural heritage to step out of exhibition halls and texts and fully integrate into the production and life of the masses. For example, many places are currently drawing on traditional village rules and folk conventions to build governance models integrating rule by virtue and rule by law, relying on traditional ecological wisdom to develop green and low-carbon economies, and using integrity culture to improve the market credit system, and so on. These vivid practices allow fine traditional Chinese culture to step out of studies and exhibition halls, integrate into the overall development situation, and achieve two-way empowerment and benign interaction in which culture empowers economic and social development and practice nourishes cultural innovation.
Innovate cultural expression and communication forms to achieve the innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture. General Secretary Xi Jinping points out that in cultural development, "only through innovation can we grasp the times and lead the times." To promote the Two Creations of fine traditional Chinese culture, we must focus on innovating forms of expression and enriching new cultural formats, relying on digital technology and modern literary and artistic techniques to activate traditional culture. Empower cultural inheritance with digital technology, build digital museums and online intangible cultural heritage exhibition halls, create youth-oriented products such as short videos, immersive cultural tourism, and interactive mini-programs, break down the temporal and spatial barriers to the dissemination of fine traditional Chinese culture, and attract young people to actively approach and inherit classics. Innovate literary and artistic narrative methods, extract high-quality creative materials from traditional history, opera, and handicrafts, reconstruct traditional themes with contemporary aesthetics, create high-quality Chinese-style film and television, music, and art works, make fine traditional Chinese culture a mainstream culture loved by all the people, uphold the use of culture to educate and nurture people, and let the Chinese cultural lineage radiate vigorous vitality in the new era.
Strengthen institutional safeguards and consolidate long-term development support for the Two Creations. Advancing the Two Creations is a long-term civilizational project running through the entire process of Chinese modernization, and must rely on normalized and long-term institutional mechanisms. We must thoroughly implement the project for the inheritance and development of fine traditional Chinese culture, and improve supporting laws and regulations for the protection of cultural relics, intangible cultural heritage, and ancient texts; promote the layered integration of fine traditional Chinese culture into the national education system and consolidate the cultural foundation of young people; cultivate a contingent of composite talents who possess both Marxist theoretical grounding and literacy in fine traditional Chinese culture; build a multi-party coordinated work pattern with Party committee leadership, government leadership, social participation, and market supplementation; establish evaluation standards for cultural achievements adapted to the Two Integrations, and regularly rectify undesirable phenomena such as historical nihilism and the excessive commercialization and entertainment-oriented consumption of traditional culture, ensuring from the institutional level that the cause of the Two Creations proceeds steadily and far.
In Volume I of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes: "Fine traditional Chinese culture is our deepest cultural soft power and the cultural fertile soil in which socialism with Chinese characteristics is rooted." We must deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Culture, study and use Volumes I and II of Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Culture well, continuously deepen our understanding and grasp of the major theoretical and practical value of the Two Integrations, firmly uphold the work policy of the Two Creations, adhere to the guidance of Marxist scientific theory, firmly establish the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation, continuously excavate the unique value of fine traditional Chinese culture for the times, promote the modern rebirth of the ancient Chinese civilization with a history of more than five thousand years, and continuously provide powerful spiritual strength for the great cause of building a strong country and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
(The author is a professor at the School of Marxism, Tsinghua University)
Return to TopXi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy is deeply rooted in the more than five thousand years of profound accumulation of Chinese civilization, and has realized the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture. The vision of building a community with a shared future for mankind is deeply rooted in traditional Chinese wisdom on governance, integrating the ideal pursuit of a vision of universal harmony (天下大同, tian xia da tong - "world, great, same"): looking to being kind to others and friendly to neighbors (亲仁善邻, qin ren shan lin - "close, benevolent, good, neighbor") for lasting peace, looking to promoting harmony among all nations (协和万邦, xie he wan bang - "harmonize, unite, ten thousand, states") to safeguard universal security, looking to the world belongs to everyone (天下为公, tian xia wei gong - "world, for, public") to pursue shared prosperity, looking to seeking harmony while respecting differences (和而不同, he er bu tong - "harmony, and, not, same") to cultivate openness and inclusiveness, and looking to the unity of nature and humanity (天人合一, tian ren he yi - "heaven, man, combine, one") to protect a clean and beautiful world. China's excellent traditional culture also nurtures the proposition of an equal and orderly multipolar world, which not only carries the way of coexistence among civilizations of seeking harmony while respecting differences and the neighborhood diplomacy strategy of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness (亲诚惠容), but also embodies the underlying tone of interaction of being kind to others and friendly to neighbors. It is precisely through the Two Integrations (两个结合) that Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy both upholds the Marxist stand, viewpoint, and method and endows Marxism with a distinct Chinese style and Chinese manner, becoming an important bridge for Chinese culture to go global and for the world to understand China.
Examined from the perspective of theoretical connotation, Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy, at the ontological level, breaks through the inherent cognition of Western international relations theories that presuppose international society as a competitive arena of sovereign states under anarchy, emphasizing that all countries are an organic whole that is interdependent and sharing common interests and fates (休戚与共, xiu qi yu gong - "joy, sorrow, and, together"); at the methodological level, it transcends the confrontational thinking of binary opposition and either-or, advocating the practical path of dialogue and consultation, and joint discussion and joint construction; at the axiological level, it abandons the narrow nationalist stance centered on the private interests of one country, and establishes an ethical orientation aimed at the common values of all mankind. The three support each other and are organically unified, together constituting a theoretical system with rigorous logic and clear layers.
——Excerpted from the Chinese Social Sciences Today of September 11, 2026, author: Wang Dong, original title: "The Theoretical Character and Practical Value of Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy"
Return to TopBy: 杨 红
Intangible cultural heritage is an important component of China's excellent traditional culture and a vivid testimony to the continuous inheritance and development of Chinese civilization. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must do solid work in the systematic protection of intangible cultural heritage, better meet the people's growing spiritual and cultural needs, and advance cultural confidence and self-strengthening." The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes: "Raise the level of protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, and cultivate new scenarios for inheritance and experience." The "15th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Inheritance of Intangible Cultural Heritage" also makes arrangements for "exploring new ways of contemporary expression of intangible cultural heritage and new forms of rational utilization, and cultivating a batch of new scenarios for intangible cultural heritage inheritance and experience." The inclusion of "new scenarios for intangible cultural heritage inheritance and experience" in the top-level design of national economic and social development for the first time means that China's intangible cultural heritage protection undertaking has entered a new stage of driving systematic protection and high-quality development through innovation in application scenarios. The proposal to cultivate new scenarios for intangible cultural heritage inheritance and experience focuses on current problems in intangible cultural heritage inheritance and experience, such as limited audience coverage, relatively high thresholds for daily participation, and insufficient convenient access to intangible cultural heritage nearby, and helps realize the transformation of intangible cultural heritage inheritance and experience from "building venues" to "cultivating scenarios," promoting the shift of intangible cultural heritage protection from the construction of positions to the activation of functions, and from industry behavior to social co-construction.
An in-depth understanding of the connotative characteristics, diverse forms, and cultivation paths of new scenarios for intangible cultural heritage inheritance and experience is of great significance for promoting intangible cultural heritage to radiate new vibrant vitality in the new era and for providing the people with high-quality cultural products.
The connotative characteristics of new scenarios for intangible cultural heritage inheritance and experience. To understand the connotation of new scenarios for intangible cultural heritage inheritance and experience, the key lies in grasping two "shifts." First, shifting from large-scale construction of facilities to refined and extensive layout. The core characteristics of the new scenarios are distributed and embedded—advocating that the functions of intangible cultural heritage inheritance and experience penetrate like capillaries into the diverse existing public spaces with dense foot traffic in cities and villages, such as museums, cultural centers, commercial complexes, tourist attractions, and community service centers. This approach transforms intangible cultural heritage venues from destinations that require a special trip into everyday scenes that can be encountered in daily life, greatly lowering the threshold for public participation and enhancing the visibility and accessibility of intangible cultural heritage protection. Second, shifting from passive protection to active empowerment. The new scenarios position intangible cultural heritage as a high-quality cultural resource that can be transformed and utilized, and as a window for releasing cultural energy into economic and social development. This window opens in both directions: it both attracts social resources to feed back into protection and inheritance, and promotes the spillover of intangible cultural heritage value outward, demonstrating the contemporary value of intangible cultural heritage in serving national strategies and empowering economic and social development.
New scenarios for intangible cultural heritage inheritance and experience take on diverse forms. They encompass production-oriented, community-oriented, culture-tourism integration-oriented, and digital-intelligence-empowered types, among others, and can meet the needs of displaying the living inheritance of intangible cultural heritage in different spatial contexts. Production-oriented new scenarios rely on the more than ten thousand intangible cultural heritage workshops across the country, directly linking traditional craftsmanship with contemporary production and market sales. They not only provide inheritors with a stable livelihood, but also drive local employment, form distinctive industries, and become an important fulcrum for the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. For example, the Miao embroidery intangible cultural heritage workshop in Shibadong Village, Huayuan County, Hunan Province, has since 2013 developed a series of products based on Miao embroidery techniques, driving local women's employment and income growth, and has become a vivid microcosm of intangible cultural heritage assisting the battle against poverty and the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. Community-oriented new scenarios take root in the cultural practices of daily neighborhood life, allowing intangible cultural heritage to grow naturally from daily life, transforming intangible cultural heritage from "entering the community" to "being in the community," and weaving a dense grassroots network of cultural identity. In recent years, many places have extensively carried out the work of "intangible cultural heritage in the community," integrating traditional craftsmanship and festival folk customs into community public spaces, making intangible cultural heritage a bond that maintains neighborhood emotions and enhances cultural belonging. Culture-tourism integration-oriented new scenarios activate the endogenous driving force of cultural consumption. Their value lies not only in economic benefits, but also in allowing tourists to change from bystanders to participants, understanding the cultural connotations behind the craftsmanship through immersive experiences, and achieving a progression from enriching consumption experiences to enhancing cultural identity. Digital-intelligence-empowered new scenarios make full use of generative artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and other technologies, allowing audiences to deeply perceive the charm of intangible cultural heritage through immersive interaction, upgrading the traditional experience model of one-way display and static viewing into a living experience field that integrates virtual and real elements and features dynamic co-creation, empowering and enhancing the efficiency of intangible cultural heritage experience.
The cultivation paths of new scenarios for intangible cultural heritage inheritance and experience. Cultivating new scenarios emphasizes openness and collaboration. Only by breaking through institutional barriers, activating multi-party participation, and connecting with contemporary life can new scenarios truly take root, grow, and continue to radiate vitality. Increase the intensity of scenario opening, promote the deep integration of intangible cultural heritage resources with public spaces, reserve sufficient space and interfaces for intangible cultural heritage inheritance and experience in planning, design, and operation management, innovate the embedded layout model of intangible cultural heritage, move intangible cultural heritage exhibition halls into shopping malls, introduce intangible cultural heritage experiences into homestays, and bring intangible cultural heritage classes into community activity centers, so that intangible cultural heritage is not restricted by location and scenarios can be found everywhere, allowing citizens to encounter and experience intangible cultural heritage at their doorstep. Improve the mechanism for multi-subject participation, explore diversified models such as "government guidance + market operation," "community leadership + volunteer participation," and "enterprise creation + platform empowerment," encourage intangible cultural heritage inheritors, social organizations, enterprises, and universities to become builders and operators of new scenarios, and form a multi-party co-construction pattern of government guidance, market drive, and social participation. At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen institutional safeguards, create a fair and accessible market environment for all types of social subjects, and foster a sound ecosystem. Strengthen technological empowerment, rationally apply technologies such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, augmented reality, and holographic imaging, and promote the transformation of intangible cultural heritage experience from one-way communication to two-way interaction, and from sensory perception to emotional resonance. For example, digital twin technology can be used to restore the humanistic context and production process of intangible cultural heritage craftsmanship, motion capture and mixed reality technologies can be used to enable "human-machine co-creation" between inheritors and audiences, and intelligent recommendation algorithms can be used to match personalized intangible cultural heritage experience plans for different groups. At the same time, it should be noted that the application of technology should aim to enhance rather than replace offline inheritance and experience, so that technology truly becomes an aid to intangible cultural heritage inheritance.
(The author is the director of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Communication Research Center of Communication University of China)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 魏哲哲
After buying wealth management products and suffering heavy losses, must the buyer always bear the responsibility? When a loan cannot be repaid and one only then discovers high penalty interest and fee clauses, must this money be paid? After buying critical illness insurance and having a claim rejected, how is the claim threshold determined? ... In response to hot topics of social concern, the Supreme People's Court, the People's Bank of China, the National Financial Regulatory Administration, and the China Securities Regulatory Commission jointly released on the 12th six typical cases concerning the protection of the lawful rights and interests of financial consumers and investors, aiming to regulate the business conduct of financial institutions and effectively safeguard the lawful rights and interests of financial consumers and investors.
This batch of typical cases covers multiple fields including financial lending, fund wealth management, digital finance, personal insurance, and securities investment, focusing on realistic hot spots and judicial difficulties such as standard form clauses, fair transactions, suitability obligations, rights relief, and diversified dispute resolution, collectively demonstrating the value guidance of financial adjudication for the high-quality development of the financial industry.
If high-risk wealth management suffers losses, can compensation be claimed?
In daily life, many people choose to manage their finances through financial institutions. If losses occur, must the buyer always bear the responsibility?
In one case, Su, introduced by a customer manager of a certain bank, signed an asset management contract online and invested 6 million yuan through his online banking account to purchase an asset management product sold on consignment by the bank. Nearly two years later, the asset manager of the product issued an announcement stating that because the reference net value per share of the asset management plan had hit the stop-loss line, the plan was terminated early in accordance with the contract and entered the liquidation process as agreed. Su successively received liquidation distribution payments, but suffered losses on his investment principal.
Should the loss be borne by Su? Su did not accept this and filed a lawsuit, requesting the court to order the bank to compensate for the investment losses.
The court's trial established that although the contract stated "the principal of this asset management product may suffer losses," the original materials provided by the bank, including the contract and the "Risk Tolerance Assessment Questionnaire" and "Risk Disclosure Statement," all lacked Su's electronic signature confirmation, making it impossible to determine that the bank had fully disclosed the risks to Su and conducted risk matching. At the same time, the regulatory authority's investigation opinion also pointed out that the bank had problems in the consignment sale of the product, such as incomplete marketing materials and unclear product introductions.
"In the field of recommending and selling high-risk grade financial products and providing high-risk grade financial services, the performance of suitability obligations is the main content of the seller's due diligence and is also the premise and foundation of buyer-beware." The trial court held that Su's investment losses genuinely existed, and that during the process of selling the asset management product involved in the case, the bank failed to disclose to Su in an appropriate manner key information such as product risks, product characteristics, investment direction, and open redemption arrangements, nor did it provide a matching explanation between the product risks and Su's risk tolerance. Although the bank did not engage in deceptive marketing to induce the purchase of high-risk products, this cannot be inferred in reverse to mean that it had fulfilled its suitability obligations.
Ultimately, the court determined that the bank, as the seller institution, failed to fulfill its suitability obligations, and ruled that the bank compensate Su more than 660,000 yuan.
Must all high penalty interest and fees be repaid?
In recent years, with the extensive development of financial lending business, some banks have collected high penalty interest and fees by setting up multi-tier interest rate clauses. Financial consumers often overlook contract details and only discover after the loan is disbursed that the actual cost of borrowing is far higher than expected.
Pan and Li encountered exactly such a situation.
Due to production and operation needs, Pan and Li signed a contract with a certain bank, mortgaging their house for a loan of 750,000 yuan. Subsequently, because Pan and Li failed to repay the loan as agreed, the bank filed a lawsuit. However, what Pan and Li did not expect was that one of the bank's demands was to charge penalty interest and compound interest at an annual interest rate of 23.10%.
How was such a high penalty interest rate calculated?
It turned out that the contract between the two parties contained a clause on loan interest rate adjustment. According to the agreement, the bank claimed that after the borrower defaulted, the interest rate would first be adjusted from an annual rate of 6.9% to an annual rate of 15.4%, then increased by 50%, resulting in a default interest rate of 23.10% per annum, more than three times the normal borrowing rate.
The contract clauses are very clear — should the bank's claim be supported?
"The loan interest rate adjustment clause agreed upon by both parties is a standard form clause involving major interests of the borrower, characterized by non-consensuality and non-conventionality, and should be subject to the Civil Code's rules on the incorporation of standard form clauses and the provisions on the obligation of notification and explanation." Huang Yanzhi, the judge handling the case at the Shunde District People's Court of Foshan City, Guangdong Province, introduced that the interest rate clause is the core clause of a loan contract, and the lender bears the obligation to fully disclose the loan interest rate, ensuring that the loan contract reflects the borrower's true intention.
Judging from the circumstances of this case, the interest rate adjustment clause was not highlighted in bold. Whether in terms of prominence, or in terms of its overall coherence and continuity with the loan interest rate clause and the default interest rate clause, the clause did not meet the legal standard sufficient to draw consumer attention. Taking into account the other clauses of the contract, the court ultimately supported the bank's claims for the loan principal, interest at an annual rate of 6.9%, penalty interest and compound interest at an annual rate of 10.35%, and part of the attorney fee losses, as well as the request for priority right to compensation over the mortgaged property.
"Where it is determined in accordance with the law that the lender failed to perform its obligation of notification and explanation, it has no right to calculate the default interest rate in accordance with that clause." The Supreme People's Court and the other three departments held that the judgment in this case has important demonstrative significance for guiding financial institutions to prudently and compliantly draft contract texts, regulating the conduct of credit business, and fostering a sound financing environment.
Critical illness insurance claims rejected — how is the threshold determined?
In judicial practice, some critical illness insurance contracts set strict and detailed professional diagnostic requirements, objectively raising the claim threshold for insurance consumers, and the resulting insurance claim disputes are relatively frequent.
In one case, Xu purchased for her daughter Wu a certain lifelong critical illness insurance and an additional premium-waiver critical illness insurance from a certain life insurance company, with a basic sum insured of 400,000 yuan, an annual premium of 4,840 yuan, a payment period of 19 years, and a lifelong insurance period. According to the insurance contract, "hepatolenticular degeneration (Wilson's disease)" was included in the scope of critical illness coverage, but multiple strict clinical diagnostic requirements were set.
Several years later, Wu was treated at the Children's Hospital Affiliated to Zhejiang University due to abnormal liver function, and after multiple specialized examinations was diagnosed with "hepatolenticular degeneration (Wilson's disease)," with the hospital issuing a "Diagnostic Certificate."
Wu then applied to the life insurance company for critical illness insurance claim payment and requested waiver of subsequent premiums as agreed. After review, the life insurance company held that although the disease Wu suffered from fell within the category of critical illnesses listed in the contract, it did not fully meet all the clinical diagnostic requirements stipulated in the contract for that disease, and decided not to pay the claim and not to waive subsequent premiums. Thereafter, Wu filed a lawsuit.
Upon review, the Quzhou Zhizao New City People's Court of Zhejiang held that the insurance liability scope clauses in the insurance contract involved in the case were standard form clauses provided by the insurance company. These clauses set strict claim requirements and failed to fulfill the obligation of adequate notification and explanation, and the life insurance company's basis for refusing the claim on this ground was insufficient.
Considering that Wu urgently needed the claim payment for subsequent treatment, and in order to promptly remedy the parties' rights and interests and effectively resolving disputes in substance (实质性化解, shizhi xing huajie - "substance, reality, perform; transform, dissolve"), the court actively carried out litigation mediation. It carefully explained the Civil Code's rules on standard form clauses and the insurance law's principles of utmost good faith and contra proferentem, clarified the legal boundary between the diagnostic standards stipulated in the insurance contract and routine clinical medical diagnosis, and made clear that insurance companies may not refuse claims based on contract clauses that exceed clinical diagnostic norms...
Through the court's explanation of the law and reasoning, both parties voluntarily reached a mediation agreement: the life insurance company paid Wu 360,000 yuan in a lump sum as critical illness insurance claim payment; and waived Wu's 16 subsequent premiums totaling 77,440 yuan after diagnosis. A few days later, the life insurance company completed its payment obligations. From the initiation of the case to full performance, only 20 days elapsed.
In response to the characteristics of financial cases, and with the support and cooperation of regulatory authorities, the people's courts have comprehensively applied work measures such as diversified dispute resolution, mediation and settlement, model judgments, and representative litigation, simplifying rights protection procedures, shortening processing time limits, and reducing rights protection costs, providing financial consumers and small and medium-sized investors with convenient, efficient, and low-cost dispute resolution channels, achieving good dispute resolution results. In the next step, the people's courts and financial regulatory authorities will pool their joint governance efforts, jointly regulate financial service conduct, and strive to form a sound pattern of compliant institutional operations, rational consumer spending, precise regulatory policy implementation, and strong judicial safeguards, contributing to high-quality financial development.
Return to TopBy: 李俊杰
Promptly "removing the label" and "turning on the warning light" for scenic areas with problems can both urge scenic areas to face their gaps squarely and upgrade quality, and provide tourists with a genuinely useful reference for their visits.
Recently, the Department of Culture and Tourism of Anhui Province issued a notice canceling the quality grade of six 4A-level tourist scenic areas, including the Daishan Lake Tourist Scenic Area in Feidong County, while also downgrading the Jushi Mountain Eco-Cultural Tourist Area in Yixiu District, Anqing City. The delisting and downgrading are a sharp sword in the governance of tourism market order.
Tourism consumption has its particularity: payment comes first, experience comes later. Tourists cannot physically perceive a scenic area before departure, so they often make judgments based on the A-level label. In their minds, an A-level grade corresponds to matching facility standards, service quality, and safety guarantees.
Therefore, the A-level label is not only the facade of a scenic area, but also a public commitment made by the management department after "checking" on behalf of tourists. Once the label fails to live up to its reputation (名不副实, ming bu fu shi - "name, not, match, reality"), what is damaged is not just one scenic area, but the credibility of the entire public brand. In this concentrated removal in Anhui, what was taken down was the label, but what was preserved was trust.
A closer look at this notice shows that the basis for the removal is perfectly clear: some scenic areas have been closed for a long time and cannot receive tourists normally; some have stagnant business formats and aging, outdated facilities; and some have many problems and need to be rectified and improved anew. It is worth noting that three scenic areas were voluntarily withdrawn from by the local cultural and tourism departments, reflecting that management of scenic area quality across localities has long since shifted from "passive delisting" to "active removal." As for the Jushi Mountain Scenic Area, because some of its amusement equipment has safety hazards, the management department did not resort to dealing with the problem by simply removing it once (一摘了之, yi zhai le zhi - "one, pluck, finish"), but instead adopted a downgrade, which both lit a "warning light" and left room for rectification and improvement. Between the one delisting and the one downgrade, the standard is strict without losing precision.
In fact, the evaluation of A-level tourist scenic areas has a complete set of dynamic management mechanisms: application and evaluation, regular re-inspection, open and covert inspections, and social assessment, all aimed at "being able to enter and exit" and "being able to rise and fall." Anhui handles a batch of tourist scenic areas every year based on annual re-inspection and routine covert inspection findings, but this is the first time in recent years that it has done so by issuing a public notice. Promptly "removing the label" and "turning on the warning light" for scenic areas with problems is both being responsible to the scenic areas, urging them to face their gaps squarely and upgrade quality, and being responsible to tourists, providing everyone with a genuinely useful reference for their visits.
(The author is a reporter for the Anhui Branch of this newspaper)
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Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Wang Haonan) On October 12, the "Beijing 15th Five-Year Plan Period Modern Comprehensive Transportation System Development Plan" was officially released. The plan is grounded in the development requirements of the capital in the new era, anchors on the goal of "accelerating the formation of a safe, convenient, efficient, green, economical, inclusive, and resilient modern comprehensive transportation system," and sets 18 indicators across 4 aspects.
Beijing will continue to optimize the "eight stations and two airports" hub system, advance the improving quality and increasing efficiency (提质增效, ti zhi zeng xiao - "raise quality, increase efficiency") of Terminal 3 at Capital Airport and the construction of the satellite hall at Daxing Airport, and iteratively upgrade the functions of station areas such as Beijing Railway Station and Beijing West Railway Station. It will deepen the integration of transportation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, implement the intercity commuter efficiency improvement project, and accelerate the construction of cross-regional projects such as Rail Transit Line 22 (Pinggu Line), the western extension of the Beijing-Qinhuangdao Expressway, and National Highway 335. It will strengthen the rapid transportation links between Xiong'an New Area and the capital, promote the integrated operation of the Beijing-Xiong'an Express Line with the Daxing Airport Line, and the landing of the Beijing-Xiong'an Expressway's urban section within the city.
Beijing will also highlight a people-oriented service orientation and promote the improving quality and increasing efficiency of public transportation services. Adhering to the concept of station-city integration, it will advance the integrated renovation of rail stations such as Guomao Station and Huoying Station, build rail micro-centers such as Dongdaqiao Station and Tongzhou West Station, and open stations such as Hongmiao Station and Tongyunmen Station. It will continue to expand parking resources, with the central urban area adding more than 20,000 parking facilities each year, ensuring a cumulative total of 600,000 effective parking spaces across the city.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Zhang Tianpei) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security: On October 12, multiple locations including Zhanjiang in Guangdong, Fangchenggang in Guangxi, Kunming in Yunnan, and Urumqi in Xinjiang simultaneously carried out centralized destruction of confiscated smuggled tobacco products and law-popularization publicity activities themed "Strengthening Governance, Protecting the People's Safety, Promoting Development," destroying a total of 188 million smuggled cigarettes, more than 55,000 e-cigarettes, and 2.7 tons of cut tobacco. This destruction activity was implemented through harmless and environmentally friendly methods such as biomass power generation, effectively realizing the energy-oriented and resource-oriented utilization of waste.
Since the beginning of this year, 13 departments including the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, the Ministry of Public Security, and the General Administration of Customs have jointly carried out the special operation "Qingyuan Duanglian" (Clearing the Source, Severing the Chain), concentrating efforts on cracking down on various tobacco-related illegal and criminal activities. All departments, focusing on cracking down on the overseas manufacture of counterfeit tobacco and its smuggling into the country, adhere to the combination of punishment according to law, coordinated crackdowns, and comprehensive governance, intensify the comprehensive rectification efforts across the entire chain of "purchasing, transporting, storing, and selling," strengthen special governance at ports, border areas, and smuggling sources, enhance cross-border and transnational law enforcement cooperation against smuggling, make every effort to seal off tobacco smuggling channels, and to the greatest extent possible eliminating the conditions for something to develop (铲除滋生, chan chu zi sheng - "uproot, give rise to") the soil and conditions for tobacco-related illegal and criminal activities. Since the launch of the special operation, the whole country has investigated and handled more than 4,500 tobacco smuggling cases, seizing 1.27 billion smuggled cigarettes entering the country, 150,000 cigars, and 39.8 tons of cut tobacco and tobacco leaves, with a total value of 2.37 billion yuan.
Return to TopIn Shaozhai, Gaotun Community, Gaotun Subdistrict, Liping County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, a wooden bridge named the "Shaozhai Red Army Bridge" spans the Bazhou River, its body bearing the marks of time.
In December 1934, the Red Army passed through Shaozhai during the Long March. The villagers, having believed the enemy's rumors, fled deep into the mountains, leaving only a few elderly people in the village. After the Red Army entered the village, they maintained strict discipline. The elderly who stayed behind then sent word into the mountains to inform the villagers of the truth, and the villagers gradually returned to the village one after another.
At that time, the ancient bridge over the Bazhou River was low, narrow, and badly damaged. After entering the village, the Red Army worked together with the villagers to urgently repair the wooden bridge.
To commemorate this bond of affection between the army and the people, as close as fish and water, the local community established village rules and covenants, vowing to protect this wooden bridge for generations. Later generations, in memory of the Red Army, named it the "Shaozhai Red Army Bridge." Subsequently, the once impoverished village underwent a complete transformation (旧貌换新颜, jiu mao huan xin yan - "old appearance, exchange, new face"), and the locals built a new bridge not far from the old one to facilitate vehicle traffic, naming it the "New Red Army Bridge."
Return to Top(People's Daily, Nanning, October 12) (Reporter Pang Geping) The reporter learned from the Market Regulation Administration of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region: Guangxi has innovated its management of food stall vendors, designating 334 food stall supervision and service areas and 11 roadside stall pilot areas, completing code assignment for 16,700 food stall vendors and 3,311 roadside stall vendors, issuing 1,698 information disclosure cards, establishing 85 advance compensation areas, and conducting 131 sessions of free compliance and e-commerce training. After the series of measures were implemented, complaints and reports related to food stall vendors across Guangxi decreased by 26.9 percent year-on-year.
To address governance pain points such as the difficulty of supervising, tracing, and regulating urban food stall vendors, since 2025, the Market Regulation Administration of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, together with the Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the autonomous region, has launched a supervision and service model for food stall vendors that "assigns identity, strengthens responsibility, and guarantees rights," building a new path for food stall vendor governance adapted to the grassroots level. In the next step, Guangxi will intensify law enforcement and rectification efforts, strictly investigate and punish illegal and non-compliant acts such as food safety chaos, "ghost scale" cheating of customers, illegal price increases, and illegal occupation of roadways for business, so as to effectively maintain market order. Relevant departments at all levels will strengthen coordinated coordination, supervision and dispatch, and assessment and accountability, establish "three lists" of work tasks, promotion measures, and implementation responsibilities, and promote the achieving practical results through implementation (落地见效, luodi jianxiao - "land, fall; see, effect") of various governance measures.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 侯琳良 王 沛
At 9:30 in the morning, inside the training room on the sixth floor of the Comprehensive Service Center for Migrant Workers (Rural Migrant Workers) in Jinan City, Shandong Province, a Party school training session was underway. This place is not only the "home away from home" for migrant workers, but also an on-site teaching point of the Party School of the Shizhong District Committee of Jinan City.
"Haiyan, why did you join the Party?" Yang Lixin, one of the lead instructors, got straight to the point (开门见山, kai men jian shan - "open door, see mountain"), asking Zhang Haiyan, Director of the Warehousing and Logistics Center and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Jinan Chaoyixing Catering Co., Ltd. One lesson, three chairs; under Yang Lixin's guidance, Zhang Haiyan's story unfolded layer by layer.
Fifteen years ago, Zhang Haiyan, having just graduated from high school, carried her bedroll, brought a few hundred yuan with her, and came alone to Jinan to make her way, entering the catering industry. Shortly after joining the company, Zhang Haiyan submitted her application for Party membership. She was subsequently entrusted with an important task — to expand into a new market in the neighboring city of Tai'an. "It was too difficult; I lost my nerve and wanted to back out (打退堂鼓, da tui tang gu - "hit, retreat, hall, drum")." she said. "But the Party organization kept encouraging me, which is why I persevered." Within half a year, the store gradually turned a loss into a profit (扭亏为盈, niu kui wei ying - "twist, loss, become, profit"), and the Tai'an store became a successful model for Chaoyixing's outward market expansion.
Zhang Haiyan continued: "Through the cultivation of the Party organization, my understanding of the Party is no longer an abstract concept, but rather specific individuals, real events, and vivid history. All of these have deeply influenced me, and translated into action, they mean 'enduring hardship' and 'accepting losses,' taking root in one's post and striving for perfection." Zhang Haiyan grew from an ordinary migrant worker girl into a delegate to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and has been awarded the titles of National March 8th Red-Banner Pacesetter and National Model Worker.
Amid the lively discussion and interaction, this lesson on the original aspiration for Party membership drew to a close. Actors from the Shandong Provincial Lü Opera Troupe put on their makeup, bearing a striking resemblance to Zhang Haiyan. Stepping onto the stage, a newly composed Lü Opera piece told her story in a gentle and engaging manner (娓娓道来, wei wei dao lai - "softly, softly, speak, come"), recreating the journey of Zhang Haiyan's original aspiration.
The Party School of the Shizhong District Committee has deeply explored local Party-building resources, created the "Original Aspiration Party School" brand, developed immersive courses, and adopted a format of "interview + interaction + Lü Opera + on-site experience" to enhance the quality and effectiveness of training. Qi Man, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Residents' Committee of Yingshan Community, Silicun Subdistrict, Shizhong District, said: "This is the first time I have attended such a vivid Party lesson; my thoughts were completely drawn along. Original aspiration is not only a longing, but also tangible action." Ren Quanming, Executive Deputy Principal of the Party School of the Shizhong District Committee, said: "Revisiting the original aspiration — it is not an abstract idea, but concrete practice; this mission is not a distant goal, but action in the present."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 崔 佳 刘梦丹
Entering Yichun, Heilongjiang, the forests are lush green forests (林海苍翠, lin hai cang cui - "forest, sea, lush, green"), and streams babble softly. Passing through the Lesser Khingan Mountains, flower belts stretch in unbroken swaths along both sides of the tourist roads, offering a new scenery at every step (一步一景, yi bu yi jing - "one, step, one, scene"); within the urban area, old residential neighborhoods have taken on a fresh look, characteristic streets bustle with the rising smoke of daily life, pocket parks are exquisite and cozy, and residents and tourists alike stroll and linger at leisure...
Urban renewal is tied on one end to people's livelihoods and on the other to development. In recent years, the city of Yichun has deeply practiced the important concept that "the people's city is built by the people, and the people's city serves the people," integrating Party building work into the entire process of urban renewal.
Hongsheng Residential Community in Yimei District, Yichun, was once famous far and wide (远近闻名, yuan jin wen ming - "far, near, hear, name") as an "old, broken, and small" neighborhood. In the renovation of old residential communities, Yimei District has built a full-chain working model of "listening to public opinion in the early stage, charging to the front line during construction, and providing regular maintenance and care in the later stage," pushing Party organizations and Party members' strength down into the grid, taking root at the front line, and truly achieving asking the people about their needs before renovation, seeking the people's advice during renovation, and soliciting the people's feedback on results after renovation.
The "Secretary's Tea Stall" in Hongsheng Community is simple and unadorned—no solemn meeting-room setup, no rigid reporting procedures. With one long table and a few chairs, Pang Haoyan, the community Party Committee Secretary, sits "around the bench" with community residents, and through face to face (面对面, mian dui mian - "face, against, face") communication and heart-to-heart exchanges, the project to tidy up 72 exposed pipes was quickly implemented; 136 various livelihood demands sorted out from the people's sentiment record book—covering greening maintenance, elevator installation, entrance renovation, and more—were turned into solutions through on-site joint consultation; and a special neighborhood "hundred-family banquet" was held, effectively resolving 11 neighborhood disputes...
"We base ourselves on residents' needs, do solid and meticulous work in livelihood services, continuously raise the enthusiasm of diverse actors including the government, society, and the masses to participate, achieve joint construction, joint governance, and shared benefits, and push old residential communities to transform from 'worrisome housing' to 'excellent housing.'" Pang Haoyan said.
Anchoring on the goal of building a modern people's city that is innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and smart, Yichun, based on the realities of the forest region, adheres to its positioning as an ecological city and a tourist city, refrains from large-scale demolition and construction (大拆大建, da chai da jian - "big, demolish, big, build"), advances micro-renovation and refined upgrading, and, with the systematic thinking loop of "physical examination first, renewal second," drives urban renewal to undergo a systematic transformation from "project-based operation" to "district-based governance" and from "extensive demolition and construction" to "connotative operation."
Jiayin County is advancing the construction of complete communities through pilot programs, adding 200 elderly-care beds and 1,600 square meters of childcare space; Tangwang County has built a 402-square-meter elderly dining hall; Yimei District has resumed 18 old residential community renovation projects, covering 395 buildings with a total floor area of 1.4517 million square meters, benefiting 20,300 households... A batch of old streets and alleys and abandoned spaces, after refined renewal, both preserve the urban memory of the old forest region and fill gaps in public service shortcomings. A 15-minute convenient living circle is gradually taking shape, giving the city both "face" and "substance." Yichun also closely follows ecological protection, adhering to "adding greenery wherever space is available (见缝插绿, jian feng cha lv - "see, gap, insert, green"), demolishing illegal structures to add greenery, and breaking through hard surfaces to increase greenery," revitalizing idle corner spaces in the city and advancing the construction of pocket parks and street-corner green spaces.
"We advance urban renewal with the skill of embroidery, highlighting the people-centered foundation, systematically implementing ecological restoration and greening quality improvement, and activating historical spaces through red culture, industrial heritage, border characteristics, and farming folk customs." The head of Yichun's housing and urban-rural development department introduced that Yichun has established a city-wide unified urban renewal project database, with a cumulative total of 683 projects entered into the database. In fiscal year 2026, 91 urban renewal projects will be implemented with an estimated investment of 2.805 billion yuan, and the city will carry out renewal of water, heating, gas, and rainwater-sewage pipe networks, with a cumulative total of 135.63 kilometers of pipelines renovated.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 苏 滨
Nestled among mountains and encircled by streams, Hongjiang Village is gently shrouded in morning mist at dawn, with indigo-dyed cloth swaying in the breeze in the courtyard.
Hongjiang Village, located in Libo County, Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, is an ancient Buyi ethnic village. Over the long years, the walls of its old houses have peeled, terraced fields have gone fallow halfway up the slopes, and the village does not even have a bustling shop—it was once considered a "backward" place.
Yet a group of literary and artistic workers who came along the mountain hollows stayed in the village. In their eyes, the earthen walls hold the texture of time, and idle farm tools and ancient pottery jars are all artistic materials.
The encounter between the ancient village and art began 10 years ago.
At that time, Ma Lihua (马丽华), then the first secretary stationed in the village, led village cadres to photograph each old house one by one, sending the photos to literary and artistic worker friends in Beijing and inviting them to visit the village for inspection and artistic inspiration.
"Most of the able-bodied young people have gone out to work, and 114 Buyi stilt-style old houses are on the verge of collapse. With a remote location, sparse population, and weak foundations, can a hollowed-out village still become an art village?" Wei Yongjun (韦永俊), the current village party branch secretary, originally did not believe it.
In 2016, the first batch of 12 literary and artistic workers came to Hongjiang Village. They reached lease agreements with farming households, signing 52 contracts in less than a year. In 2018, the poet Yan Xi (雁西) also joined. "Beautiful, quiet, like a beautiful, secluded place or utopia (桃花源, tao hua yuan - "peach, flower, source") in a dream," Yan Xi exclaimed, and immediately rented an old house to build his own academy.
Without large-scale demolition or construction, the old houses were preserved to the greatest extent while incorporating new design aesthetics. Yan Xi converted the first floor into an art space for various exhibitions, and the second floor into a book room that can host seminars and poetry recitals. "This is both my creative space and a public art space. When I am away, the keys are kept by the village, and it can be used at any time," Yan Xi said. Children can come to read books and study, and he can sometimes even teach them to write poetry.
To date, 105 literary and artistic workers have settled in Hongjiang Village, and 93 old houses have been transformed into art studios, intangible cultural heritage workshops, and homestays.
The village accordingly organized an old-house restoration team, and 51-year-old villager Zhou Mincan (周敏灿) is one of its members. Previously, Zhou Mincan had long worked away from home. When he heard that his hometown was going to restore old houses and develop art, he decisively returned to the village to help.
"Maybe it's because I've spent a long time with artists that I've come to love painting." Finding moments of leisure amidst a busy schedule (忙里偷闲, mang li tou xian - "busy, inside, steal, leisure"), Zhou Mincan often dashes off a few brushstrokes, sometimes painting landscapes, sometimes sketching. He has carefully selected more than 10 works to hang in his home.
With art taking root, tourists have increased, and the village has also developed new industries.
A study tour group of 320 people from Tongzhou Primary School in Pingtang County, Qiannan Prefecture, came to Hongjiang Village. The children sat around a table, with pure white cotton cloth, plant dyes, and other materials neatly arranged. Following the explanations of the intangible cultural heritage workshop manager, the children experienced tie-dyeing. As the fabric was immersed in the indigo dye solution, layers of blue in varying shades of depth spread out, accompanied by the faint fragrance of botanical dyes—the atmosphere was rich.
In Hongjiang Village, study tour groups can not only experience tie-dyeing, pottery, and other crafts, but also communicate with resident artists and receive artistic guidance.
"Relying on artist resources to develop cultural tourism and study tours, the village has built intangible cultural heritage workshops for tie-dyeing, bamboo weaving, and other crafts, and opened a number of homestays," Wei Yongjun said. In the first eight months of this year, the village has cumulatively received more than 5,000 study tour participants.
The village's artistic flair is growing stronger, and more and more villagers are returning home. "Now there are more employment opportunities in the village," Wei Yongjun said. The village has many public cultural spaces that enrich people's spiritual and cultural lives, making it possible for people to "stay."
Not long ago, artists created a batch of land art works. One of them, "Old Wall Narrative," is a wall built from old stone, old bricks and tiles, and other waste building materials, presenting the village's evolutionary trajectory of building materials across generations and the process of villagers repairing old houses. "Participating in making art works is interesting and gives a sense of achievement," villager Wei Huili (韦慧利) said. Managing a homestay, participating in cultural activities, and also being able to create art with artists—who wouldn't like living such an artistic life in an ancient village?
Return to TopBy: 雁 西
Many people are in pursuit of a poetic life, and there is such a literary and artistic daily existence, hidden in the smoke and fire of daily life in mountain villages and countryside.
Hongjiang Village sits among the mountains, preserving its original ecological appearance. For literary and artistic workers from outside, this ancient, quiet, and secluded village has gradually become fertile soil that nourishes creative work.
For a long time, in many people's ingrained perceptions, the simplicity of the mountains and wilderness and the age-old character of ancient villages have been equated with isolation and backwardness. Some are eager to renovate and transform, erasing the traces of time. But I have always firmly believed that the most moving art originates from the most authentic nature and life. Poetic dwelling is a posture of life that coexists harmoniously with nature, and in Hongjiang Village, it is precisely this purity that draws people to explore.
Taking root in this mountain wilderness, I have come to understand the unique literary and artistic charm of the countryside.
With my back to the green mountains and gazing up at the starry river, strolling along the field ridges and quietly listening to the sound of the wind, planting flowers and trees in spring and tending the fields through the four seasons, this daily existence where the smoke of daily life and poetry blend together always allows the inspiration for artistic creation to surge forth. In ancient villages, old houses are not obsolete dwellings awaiting demolition, but carriers of nostalgia that have warmth and stories. Repairing ancient residences and renovating courtyards, for us, is about awakening the artistic vitality of the native soil. We insist on restoring the old as it was, preserving the original features such as rammed earth walls, wooden beams, and green tiles, not destroying the ancient texture of the village, only moderately integrating contemporary aesthetics and practical functions, thereby both retaining the village's memories of time and giving old houses new vitality.
The process of art taking root in the native soil is also a process of two-way nourishment. The villagers have always embraced art with a simple and sincere attitude. In day after day (日复一日, ri fu yi ri - "day, repeat, one, day") interaction, they have gradually come to understand the original beauty of the native soil and to comprehend the significance of art taking root in the countryside.
Literature and art taking root in the countryside can not only gain creative nourishment but also give back to the native soil and help development. We hope to let poetry permeate every inch of the countryside. Relying on the Yanxi Academy, I have sorted out the development lineage of lyric poetry and preserved poetic historical materials and classics. Every year, I also participate in organizing activities such as the Guizhou Province Campus Literature Competition, turning the mountains and wilderness into a natural classroom, allowing children to experience the charm of poetry and art up close.
For me, taking root in the countryside is choosing a life of poetic dwelling. With mountains and waters as the paper, time as the pen, and sincerity as the ink, the love poem of the earth will be even more moving; where nature and art blend, and poetry and the native soil reflect each other, the literary and artistic charm of this land will thrive endlessly.
(The author is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Poetry Society; compiled and organized by Su Bin, reporter of People's Daily)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 田豆豆
Recently, the "Director's Mailbox" of the Central China Normal University Library received a letter from a community reader, in which the writer said: "It is very rare that the university library has remained open and inclusive." Not long after, the library received a silk banner sent by this same reader, bearing the words "Fragrance of books knows no bounds; culture moistens all in silence."
The tradition of opening to the public has continued here for a century. The predecessor of Central China Normal University was Boone College, founded in 1871. Later, through fundraising and preparation by many parties, the Boone Library was completed and opened in 1910, serving not only faculty and students on campus but also readers outside the university.
In the library's ancient books collection room, the holdings of the Boone Library are still displayed. On the yellowed bookplates are written the "Regulations of the Circulating Department of the Wuchang Boone Library: All readers designated by this library may enjoy the benefit of borrowing and reading books." "We are not only open to the public, but have also formed a document-sharing and interlibrary-loan mechanism with several libraries outside the university," said Wang Bin, the library director. "This year we have made a new exploration: students 'place orders' online, the library purchases new books according to demand and delivers them directly to students by courier, and after reading, students simply return the books to the library."
Openness means both letting more people come in and letting sleeping ancient texts "go out" and "come alive."
"'Delicacies in Ancient Texts' creative activity has surpassed 100 million views!" Seeing the backend data, Han Xiaodan, director of the library's Cultural Publicity and Creative Products Center, was overjoyed. In early September, the library partnered with a social media platform to launch this activity, encouraging the public to create short videos on themes such as "cooking techniques," "regional cuisines," "food rituals," and "food customs" found in ancient texts. In just 20 days, nearly 10,000 people participated, with cumulative views exceeding 100 million.
The Central China Normal University Library holds more than 3 million volumes of collected documents, including nearly 112,000 volumes of ancient texts. These rich ancient texts carry a long history and splendid culture. How can these ancient texts be made to "come alive" and be brought closer to the younger generation? The university has been continuously exploring and innovating.
It has held the "Chinese Classics Recitation Contest" and the "A Hundred Festivals Begin with the New Year; Across the World We Share This Moment" series of activities on Chinese New Year culture, built traditional culture heritage brands such as scholarly garden parties and intangible cultural heritage handicrafts, and created and staged historical micro-dramas, with scriptwriters, directors, actors, and stage designers recruited from among all students. After the micro-drama performances, a student posted on the campus network: "After watching, I went straight to the library to borrow the original text of the Records of the Grand Historian."
What did the "pudao" (a kind of saber) in Water Margin look like, and from which era's ancient texts can its form be found? How can it be restored? The library launched the "Seeking the Blade in Ancient Texts" activity, in which teachers and students from different majors jointly worked to "solve the puzzle," and a majestic pudao was successfully replicated, wielded with full of vigor and spirit (虎虎生风, hu hu sheng feng - "tiger, tiger, produce, wind") in the hands of physical education teacher Li Xinhou.
As technology develops and changes with each passing day (日新月异, ri xin yue yi - "day, new, month, change"), students entering the library today can gain a new experience of "future learning methods."
Standing on the podium with cameras as her "audience," Yang Tiantian, a graduate student in the School of Physics, rehearses the "Newton's Third Law" course chapter again and again. After each lecture, she clicks on the small screen on the podium and improves item by item according to the software's intelligent feedback on expressions, voice, posture, and other aspects.
The "AI (Artificial Intelligence) Micro-Teaching Room" where Yang Tiantian works is located in the Future Learning Center inside the library. The center was put into operation in March this year, covering 3,000 square meters, integrating functions such as AI training, cross-domain seminars, and digital creation. The intelligent learning and practice space, together with round-the-clock intelligent librarian services, has built a new smart learning ecosystem with rich experiences.
To date, the "AI Micro-Teaching Room" has served more than 2,100 normal university students, and the language training room has completed oral training and testing for more than 1,500 person-times. Relying on the new equipment and new resources of the Future Learning Center, teachers and students of the university have achieved results such as provincial first prizes in the China Collegiate Computer Design Competition, and the ecosystem of promoting learning through competition and promoting innovation through competition has become more complete.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦瀚洋
At the foot of Phoenix Mountain in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, lies the Southern Song Dynasty official kiln site; at the foot of the mountain, within a small courtyard amid urban buildings, the ancient kiln fire burns without end.
This is the studio of Jin Xin, representative inheritor of the Southern Song official kiln firing technique, a Zhejiang provincial intangible cultural heritage item. Jin Xin and several young people are sitting around a computer, engaged in a lively discussion over the 3D modeling parameters of a Southern Song goose-neck vase. On the screen, the "Southern Song Official Kiln Digital Cultural Research System" categorically displays information such as vessel structure and glaze analysis. "This is a digital system we built, which sets up four spectrums—vessel form, semantics, craftsmanship, and manufacturing—for Southern Song celadon ware, assigning value to its artistic connotations," Jin Xin introduces.
Jin Xin is committed to empowering celadon craftsmanship with digital technology. At first, many people did not understand: why would a craftsman cross over to do "completely unrelated" work outside his field.
He explained the reason to reporters: "The Southern Song official kiln gathered the most advanced ceramic firing techniques of its time, and due to its imperial-use nature, it carries greater mystery and scarcity, and the pressure of its protection and inheritance is self-evident (不言而喻, bu yan er yu - "not speak, yet understand")." To collect more samples of Southern Song official kiln celadon ware, Jin Xin has visited virtually every relevant museum in the country. His experience teaching celadon techniques at universities further showed Jin Xin the current difficulties of intangible cultural heritage inheritance, "especially the lack of young people." To pass the craft down, one must first let young people understand intangible cultural heritage. Thus, the idea of building a digital system for celadon craftsmanship gradually took shape.
"For example, if a student wants to make a celadon goose-neck vase, in the past they needed to continuously imitate and practice to grasp the sense of proportion that can only be 'understood but not expressed'; now, using the database, the vessel form and glaze color are immediately obvious (一目了然, yi mu le ran - "one, eye, then, clear"), and hands-on practice has more direction," Jin Xin says.
Building a digital system from scratch is no easy task. To restore a Song Dynasty ear-handled vase, the team could only generate a three-dimensional model based on archaeological drawings. "We had to repeatedly locate the position and size of the 'ears' based on the drawings; the 3D model alone went through five or six iterations, and then we had to take it to experts for verification..." Today, the data information of 87 pieces of celadon ware in the system was all ground out bit by bit by the team.
The widespread application of artificial intelligence has shown Jin Xin new possibilities. "General large models often 'crash' in professional fields like intangible cultural heritage; we need to use feature-limiting algorithms to 'set rules' for them," Jin Xin says. In the early stage, the digital system completed the accumulation of craftsmanship experience, and now artificial intelligence has also been embedded into it. Opening the system, clicking on the "Workshop" section, and entering relevant commands, a corresponding Southern Song official kiln celadon piece is immediately generated. "With artificial intelligence, it is more convenient and more intuitive for the public to learn about a particular piece of celadon ware," Jin Xin says.
"In the past, I would pursue surface curvature precision while neglecting texture and detail. Teacher Jin Xin's patient and repeated guidance without getting tired (不厌其烦, bu yan qi fan - "not, tire, its, vexation") gradually made us understand what 'craftsmanship spirit' truly means." Yang Minghui, a sophomore at Zhejiang Vocational and Technical University of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and a team member involved in building the digital system, has gradually come to appreciate the profound heritage of the Southern Song official kiln through repeated practice.
Traditional ceramics are striking "cyber" sparks. "We must embrace new technology, let Generation Z be willing to engage with and fall in love with intangible cultural heritage, and create more new possibilities for the inheritance and development of ancient intangible cultural heritage," Jin Xin says.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Wu Yue) A Chinese research team has taken the lead internationally in developing a thorium-229 nuclear optical clock and achieving its stable operation. The relevant results were recently published online in the international academic journal Nature.
Ding Shiqian (丁世谦), one of the corresponding authors of the paper and an associate professor in the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University, introduced that currently, atomic optical clocks use electron energy-level transitions within atoms to provide precise time measurement, whereas nuclear optical clocks use nuclear energy-level transitions within the thorium-229 atomic nucleus as a time-frequency reference, much like keeping time through the rhythm within the atomic nucleus. The scale of the atomic nucleus is far smaller than that of the atom, and nuclear transitions are less affected by external electromagnetic environmental disturbances. Therefore, in principle, nuclear optical clocks can provide a more precise time-frequency standard than atomic optical clocks.
The research team stated that nuclear optical clocks are expected to become a new generation of time-frequency standards, and solid-state nuclear optical clocks have potential advantages in miniaturization and engineering, offering practical technological options for high-precision time-frequency needs in scenarios such as satellite navigation and deep-space exploration. In addition, nuclear optical clocks can also provide a new precision detection platform for testing fundamental physical laws and open up new research directions for quantum precision measurement and quantum manipulation.
Return to TopChongqing's Qianjiang District leverages its geographical advantages to build the Changsheng Bridge Aesthetics Market, making intangible cultural heritage displays a long-term "stall" at the market. It has introduced more than 20 intangible cultural heritage items, including shadow puppetry, puppet shows, crosstalk, Suzhou pingtan, paper-cutting, and dough figurine making, integrating display, performance, instruction, and hands-on experience so that residents and tourists can better appreciate the charm of intangible cultural heritage. The photo shows people watching a shadow puppet show at the Changsheng Bridge Aesthetics Market.
Photo by Yang Min (People's Visual)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Zhengzhou, October 12) (Reporter Zhang Wenhao) The 7th World Ancient Capitals Forum, themed "Ancient Capitals · New Charm," was recently held in Luoyang, Henan Province.
Luoyang is among the first batch of national famous historical and cultural cities, boasting 3 items of 6 world cultural heritage sites, 51 nationally protected key cultural relics units, over 10,000 immovable cultural relics, more than 600,000 pieces/sets of movable cultural relics, and 112 museums and memorial halls. This forum was hosted by the People's Government of Henan Province and organized by the Chinese Museums Association, the Chinese Society for Ancient Capitals, the China Cultural Relics Exchange Center, the Department of Culture and Tourism of Henan Province, the Cultural Heritage Administration of Henan Province, and the People's Government of Luoyang City.
During the forum, participating delegates engaged in in-depth exchanges on topics such as cultural heritage protection and urban renewal, museums and the high-quality development of ancient capital cities, through keynote speeches, roundtable dialogues, and thematic reports.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Ma Suwei) The release ceremony for the China Fine Arts Yearbook·2025 was recently held at the Museum of the Communist Party of China. The China Fine Arts Yearbook is guided by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, hosted by the China Artists Association, published by the People's Publishing House, and undertaken by the Fine Arts magazine agency.
The China Fine Arts Yearbook·2025 aims to present the annual development of Chinese fine arts through a comprehensive perspective, systematic organization, detailed records, and in-depth analysis. The book includes six sections: annual review, annual exhibitions, annual education, annual publications, annual market, and annual chronicle, totaling more than 1.5 million characters, and possesses considerable documentary, reference, and research value.
Return to TopEntering the Yucheng High-tech Industrial Development Zone, trucks shuttle back and forth in the Shangqiu E-commerce Logistics Industrial Park, while intelligent sorting production lines operate at high speed; in the China·Yucheng Surface Treatment Ecological Park, automated equipment works in an orderly manner and green pollution-control facilities run steadily; at the Shangqiu Bonded Logistics Center, containers are stacked high and customs clearance is busy... A picture of development, empowered by openness and thriving industries, is slowly unfolding across the eastern Henan plain.
As a traditional agricultural county, Yucheng County, Shangqiu City, Henan Province, bases itself on its locational endowments and industrial foundations, takes platform and carrier construction as the key lever for industrial transformation and upgrading, and concentrates its efforts on building three core platforms: the Shangqiu E-commerce Logistics Industrial Park, the China·Yucheng Surface Treatment Ecological Park, and the Shangqiu Bonded Logistics Center, driving the county economy to leap and upgrade from a breakthrough by individual industries to support from a cluster of platforms. Empowered by the three platforms, this small city in eastern Henan is accelerating its transformation from a traditional agricultural area to a modern industrial highland.
Shangqiu E-commerce Logistics Industrial Park: Smoothly Connecting Inside and Outside, Building a New Engine for the Hub Economy
Entering the Shangqiu E-commerce Logistics Industrial Park, multiple intelligent sorting conveyor belts operate at high speed, parcels are sorted and distributed in an orderly manner, forklifts shuttle back and forth transporting goods, large logistics trucks park in an orderly fashion for loading and unloading, and a steady stream of goods is dispatched from here to all parts of the country. The park integrates e-commerce operations, supply chain management, warehousing and distribution, and comprehensive supporting services, building a full-chain modern logistics industry ecosystem.
Yucheng County is located at the junction of the three provinces of Henan, Shandong, and Anhui, with railways, expressways, and national and provincial trunk roads crisscrossing the area, and its locational and transportation advantages are possessing unique advantages (得天独厚, de tian du hou - "obtain, heaven, uniquely, thick"). The park fully releases the locational dividend, promotes the "integration of four chains" of the supply chain, industrial chain, technology chain, and value chain, advances the "convergence of four flows" of logistics, commercial flow, capital flow, and information flow, and continuously deepens the two-way integration of the manufacturing industry and the logistics industry. A number of leading express delivery sorting centers, including SF Express, J&T Express, Yunda, and Bamma Cloud Warehouse, have successively settled in, and the park's daily sorting capacity has reached 3 million pieces, directly providing 2,500 jobs.
Technological empowerment adds intelligent wings to modern logistics. The park actively promotes the intelligent transformation and upgrading of the delivery system, piloting the deployment of 10 new-energy unmanned delivery vehicles, which deliver an average of 10,000 parcels per day. On this basis, it plans to deploy 75 intelligent unmanned delivery vehicles across the entire Shangqiu area, placing the scale of intelligent equipment deployment in the first tier among counties nationwide. The application of unmanned delivery equipment has effectively filled the gap in the "last mile" of rural logistics and strongly promoted the deepening and solidification of the integrated development of urban and rural transportation.
For industrial development, talent is the foundation. The park currently has more than 1,200 employees, including both professionally trained e-commerce and logistics talent and local residents who have achieved nearby employment through systematic training. Yucheng County regularly carries out vocational skills training, continuously improves the professional quality of employees, stabilizes the basic employment picture, and achieves a win-win situation for both economic and social benefits. Sorting operators, warehouse managers, logistics dispatchers, and back-office technical personnel each fulfill their responsibilities, working together to ensure the efficient operation of the logistics hub.
When logistics flows smoothly, industry thrives. Yucheng County produces 1.5 billion steel tape measures annually; a single small tape measure, relying on the logistics network that reaches all parts of the country, is sold across the seas and measures the world. The park continuously removes bottlenecks in circulation, greatly improves the circulation efficiency of local characteristic industries, promotes the deep coupling of traditional manufacturing and modern logistics, and continuously injects surging momentum into the high-quality development of the county economy.
China·Yucheng Surface Treatment Ecological Park: Gathering the Chain and Completing the Loop, Forging a New Path of Green Transformation
Hardware tools and measuring instruments are a characteristic industry of Yucheng County, but the electroplating surface treatment link once long faced difficulties such as technology and standards, restricting the industry's upgrading. In the past, Yucheng County lacked a standardized electroplating processing carrier, so local enterprises could only ship semi-finished products out for processing, raising production costs and restricting the agglomeration and growth of the industry. To solve this development pain point, Yucheng County planned and built the electroplating ecological park to high standards, exploring a transformation path of coordinated progress between "industrial agglomeration + green pollution control."
Ecological priority firmly establishes the development bottom line. Entering the China·Yucheng Surface Treatment Ecological Park, a complete set of modern sewage treatment facilities is particularly conspicuous, safeguarding the park's green production. The park strictly implements the treatment standards of "separation of clean water and sewage, separation of rainwater and sewage, separation of different types of sewage, treatment by quality, and reuse by quality," and wastewater from processes such as lead-containing, chrome-plating, and nickel-plating is all reused internally without external discharge. The treated reclaimed water is reused for workshop production, road dust suppression, and landscape water replenishment, achieving the recycling of water resources and realizing intelligent and clean production processes.
The platform fills key gaps in the industrial chain. After the China·Yucheng Surface Treatment Ecological Park was fully put into operation, it has continuously released multiple development benefits. It has filled the key surface treatment link in the industrial chains of hardware tools and measuring instruments and equipment manufacturing, completely changing the old pattern of local enterprises processing in other places and fully building a closed loop for local industries; standardized electroplating processing has comprehensively improved product surface treatment processes, enhanced the core market competitiveness of products, and driven industrial agglomeration and development and product iteration and upgrading; the implementation of centralized and standardized heavy metal treatment has held the ecological and environmental protection bottom line, achieving the synchronized resonance of green production and sustainable industrial development.
What once constrained industrial development has now become a fulcrum empowering upgrading. The China·Yucheng Surface Treatment Ecological Park is driving the hardware tools and measuring instruments and equipment manufacturing industries in Yucheng County and the surrounding areas to accelerate their progress toward green and intensive development, laying a solid foundation for the high-quality development of the real economy.
Shangqiu Bonded Logistics Center: Connecting the Globe, Building a New Highland of Inland Opening-Up
In October 2017, the Shangqiu Bonded Logistics Center was officially sealed and put into operation, possessing nine core functions including bonded warehousing, international distribution, and cross-border e-commerce, giving Yucheng County, which borders neither a border nor the sea, a window to connect with the world. The Shangqiu Bonded Logistics Center implements a city-county joint construction and operation model, innovates the "platform + service company" operation mechanism, and implements convenient measures such as 7×24-hour appointment customs clearance and advance declaration, allowing inland enterprises to enjoy port-level customs clearance services at their doorstep.
One platform activates an entire industry. Relying on the policy dividends of the Shangqiu Bonded Logistics Center, Huifeng Cotton has transformed from a traditional yarn production enterprise into a high-tech enterprise for spunlace nonwoven fabrics, building a 500-mu Yujian Medical Industrial Park and achieving leapfrog growth in production capacity and scale. The story of a platform empowering industrial transformation is continuously being staged in Yucheng.
Cross-border e-commerce broadens the two-way trade channel. The Shangqiu Bonded Logistics Center deeply cultivates the cross-border e-commerce track, opening up the two-way channel of "buying globally, selling globally." As of July 31, 2026, it has completed 3,219 cross-border e-commerce (1210) import retail transactions, shipping 8,721 pieces; and completed 400,340 domestic cloud warehouse orders, shipping 1,144,104 pieces. Leveraging the pilot policy of classified supervision of bonded and non-bonded goods in the same warehouse, it has laid out a cross-border e-commerce import pre-stocking warehouse and a domestic consolidation warehouse, creating a dual business model of "bonded pre-stocking + domestic cloud warehouse." Enterprises rely on big data to analyze overseas market demand, and Yucheng County's local characteristic products are also sold to the international market from here.
Supply chain services stabilize the chain, protect enterprises, and relieve difficulties. To date, the supply chain business revenue of the Bonded Logistics Center has reached 1.286 billion yuan, completing an import and export volume of 347 million yuan and paying taxes and fees of 5.3287 million yuan. It provides full-chain supporting services for raw material centralized procurement, inventory control, and product distribution, resolving practical difficulties such as corporate capital pressure, cumbersome customs procedures, and logistics bottlenecks, and safeguarding the stable operation of the local foreign trade industrial chain and supply chain.
Hardware iteration accumulates new momentum for opening-up. The continued construction and upgrading projects of the Shangqiu Bonded Logistics Center are advancing in an orderly manner, and the original warehouses have completed quality improvement and renovation; the main structures of the newly built No. 1 and No. 2 cold storage facilities have passed acceptance, insulation, roofing, and exterior wall construction are basically completed, and the ground construction of functional areas such as cold storage compartments, quick-freezing, and thawing has all been completed. At the present stage, internal partition wall construction is underway, and it is expected to be completed and put into use by the end of December this year. The intelligent bonded cold storage will fill the gap in the bonded cold chain carrier in the Shangqiu region. In the next step, the Shangqiu Bonded Logistics Center will build on the hardware advantages of the cold storage, coordinate with the Bozhou Chinese herbal medicine professional market, actively connect with customs and other competent authorities, promote the application for designated supervision sites for imported meat, lay out bonded business for Chinese herbal medicines, and build a complete industrial chain integrating bonded warehousing of meat and Chinese herbal medicines, international trade, logistics distribution, and processing and manufacturing.
Platform Convergence: Multi-Dimensional Empowerment, Activating New Momentum for County Development
The Shangqiu E-commerce Logistics Industrial Park focuses on "smoothness," opening up the internal and external circulation channels; the China·Yucheng Surface Treatment Ecological Park focuses on "green," holding the ecological bottom line and completing the chain; the Shangqiu Bonded Logistics Center focuses on "vitality," broadening the channel of opening-up to the outside world. The three platforms work together in synergy, becoming a powerful engine driving the high-quality development of Yucheng County. Yucheng County insists on both strengthening the hard power of industry and continuously improving people's livelihood and well-being, reshaping the county's pattern of opening-up.
The dividends of platform construction continue to benefit people's livelihoods. The Shangqiu E-commerce Logistics Industrial Park stably provides more than 2,500 jobs; the China·Yucheng Surface Treatment Ecological Park has attracted more than 60 enterprises to gather and settle in; the three-level county, township, and village logistics system has achieved full coverage, with 485 new or renovated village-level commercial service stations and nearly 10,000 person-times of free e-commerce skills training. It smooths the upward channel for agricultural products, broadens the path for increasing people's income, and continuously delivers development dividends to thousands of households.
The level of inland opening-up continues to leap upward. The Shangqiu Bonded Logistics Center has become an important node in Henan's opening-up to the outside world, and Yucheng County, located in the hinterland of the Central Plains, is deeply embedded in the global industrial chain and supply chain. From "one tape measure measuring the world" to "three platforms supporting the overall situation," from a traditional agricultural county to an industrial and opening-up highland, Yucheng County uses platform construction as a fulcrum to leverage industrial transformation and upgrading, the expansion of opening-up, and the comprehensive improvement of the county's overall strength, writing a vivid Yucheng answer sheet in the practice of high-quality development of counties in the Central Plains.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Yucheng County Committee
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 邱超奕
Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security issued the "Measures for the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Workers in New Forms of Employment (Draft for Comments)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Draft for Comments"), aiming to better protect the legitimate rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment such as food delivery riders and ride-hailing drivers, clarify the rights and obligations of platform enterprises, platform employment cooperation enterprises, and workers in new forms of employment, and promote the healthy development of new forms of employment.
As the main entities that absorb and manage workers in new forms of employment, how can platform enterprises further improve the protection of the rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment? Our reporter interviewed several leading platform enterprises with large numbers of workers.
In order to protect the basic rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment, such as remuneration payment and rest, the Draft for Comments puts forward clear requirements including "enterprises shall pay labor remuneration to workers in new forms of employment in full and on time" and "where workers work continuously for 4 hours, enterprises shall ensure that workers have appropriate rest time."
A person in charge of Meituan's rider protection affairs stated that Meituan provides stable and standardized labor remuneration in full and on time to more than one million riders every month, and urges platform employment cooperation enterprises to improve their level of compliant operations. At the same time, Meituan continues to improve the transparent rules for cooperation enterprises, rider income, and order pricing, displaying in the rider APP the total income and details of income such as order delivery fees, subsidies, rewards, and customer tips, and comprehensively considering factors such as delivery distance, delivery time, commodity weight, going up and down stairs, and special weather conditions in order pricing, adding corresponding subsidies for orders with heavy weight, large volume, or higher delivery difficulty.
In terms of rest protection, in April this year, Meituan improved workers' rest rights and interests based on suggestions put forward by riders, launched an anti-fatigue mechanism, and established a protection system featuring a reminder at 4 hours, a pop-up prompt at 8 hours, and a mandatory offline at 12 hours.
"The series of institutional constructions proposed in the Draft for Comments has drawn clear boundaries and provided a basis for platform enterprises to fulfill their employment responsibilities. Meituan will compare itself against the relevant requirements, listen carefully to the opinions of all parties, continue to improve labor remuneration, rest protection, social security, algorithm governance, consultation and appeal mechanisms, and work together with relevant departments, cooperation enterprises, and the broad community of riders to ensure that measures for protecting the rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment are implemented." said the person in charge of Meituan's rider protection affairs.
Platform enterprises often use algorithms to dispatch, supervise, evaluate, and incentivize workers in new forms of employment. With regard to the concern of being "trapped in algorithms," the Draft for Comments proposes that "enterprises shall adhere to a value orientation of a people-centered approach (以人为本, yi ren wei ben - "take, person, as, foundation"), fairness and justice, and safety and controllability when formulating algorithms, and fully listen to and adopt the opinions of interested parties."
In terms of algorithm governance, starting from July this year, Taobao Flash Purchase launched a "waiting at red lights not counted" mechanism in some cities, whereby the time riders spend waiting at red lights is no longer counted in assessments, and the system automatically extends the delivery time limit. At present, this mechanism has covered more than 10 cities including Beijing, Fuzhou in Fujian, Nanjing in Jiangsu, and Hangzhou in Zhejiang.
In order to effectively absorb riders' opinions and suggestions, Taobao Flash Purchase launched a "Rider Rights and Interests Consultation Meeting" mechanism, established a nationwide system of rider consultation representatives, and regularly holds regional consultation meetings and network-wide consultation meetings to ensure that riders have a voice and can participate in the formulation of rules such as algorithm governance.
"We will compare ourselves against the requirements of this Draft for Comments, continue to optimize the algorithm system, improve labor rules, strengthen communication and cooperation with all parties, and strive to enable riders to work with peace of mind and engage in dignified labor, achieving mutual promotion and win-win outcomes between the development of platform enterprises and the protection of workers' rights and interests." said the person in charge of Taobao Flash Purchase.
Food delivery riders and ride-hailing drivers are on the road for long periods of time, and occupational injury protection is a concern for many workers. The Draft for Comments proposes that "platform enterprises shall participate in occupational injury protection for workers in new forms of employment in accordance with regulations."
A person in charge of Didi stated that the company actively implements the requirements of relevant departments to expand the pilot program for occupational injury protection to the whole country, reducing the worries of more drivers, and properly handling matters concerning the vital interests of workers in new forms of employment.
Workers in new forms of employment equally enjoy the right to participate in vocational training. The Draft for Comments proposes "promoting the improvement of workers' skills and broadening career development space."
Our reporter learned from JD Group that JD is building a more complete vocational training and growth system, such as jointly launching modern rider academies and housekeeping academies with relevant departments in Guangdong, Sichuan, and other places, exploring new paths for skill transfer and career advancement, and broadening career development space for workers in new forms of employment.
A person in charge of JD Miao Song stated that JD will carefully study the various provisions of the Draft for Comments, consolidate the employment responsibilities of platform enterprises and partners, effectively safeguard workers' rights and interests, and strive to make frontline employees more respected, better protected, and more hopeful about the future.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 申少铁
Influenza vaccination campaigns are currently underway in various regions across the country. Starting this year, the state has implemented supportive policies such as free vaccination for key populations of "the elderly and young children" in rural areas. Why should one get vaccinated against influenza? If vaccinated last year, is it still necessary to get vaccinated this year? Where can one get vaccinated?
"Influenza is an acute respiratory infectious disease caused by influenza viruses," said Wang Fuzhen, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Currently, there are three subtypes of seasonal influenza viruses in circulation, to which the general population is universally susceptible, with high incidence in autumn and winter. In southern provinces, there can also be epidemics in summer. The currently circulating strains are predominantly influenza A H3N2 subtype, combined with the Victoria lineage of influenza B, indicating the need for early protection.
Influenza symptoms are more severe than those of the common cold and require attention. Wang Fuzhen reminded that influenza causes relatively severe systemic symptoms, and children, the elderly, and patients with chronic diseases in particular face a high risk of severe illness or other complications. "Getting vaccinated against influenza is the most cost-effective and efficient (经济有效, jingji youxiao - "economical, effective") means of preventing influenza," Wang Fuzhen said. After vaccination, specific protective antibodies can be produced, with notably pronounced effects in reducing severe illness and death. It is recommended that people aged 6 months and above, especially key populations such as "the elderly and young children" and patients with chronic diseases, as well as personnel in key settings such as schools, elderly care institutions, and welfare homes, get vaccinated against influenza as early as possible before the influenza season arrives. Monitoring by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention shows that in recent years, many localities have provided free influenza vaccination to primary and secondary school students and the elderly, achieving good protective effects.
Influenza vaccination is needed before the arrival of every influenza season. Zhang Ying, chief physician at the Tianjin Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, explained that influenza viruses mutate easily, and the predominant circulating strains in each influenza season differ from those of the previous year. The World Health Organization recommends the components of the new year's influenza vaccine each year based on global surveillance data. In addition, the immune protection conferred by the influenza vaccine is time-limited. Antibodies produced after influenza vaccination typically begin to decline after 6–8 months, and the protective effect correspondingly weakens. Therefore, revaccination is needed before the arrival of each influenza season.
Influenza vaccination services are becoming increasingly convenient and accessible. Most community health service centers and township health centers can provide vaccination services, and some even offer weekend appointment vaccination and extended-hour vaccination services. Those in need of vaccination can go to a nearby community health service center or township health center to get vaccinated.
Currently, the influenza vaccines approved for market in China include split-virus vaccines, subunit vaccines, and live attenuated vaccines. "All influenza vaccines approved for market after review by the national drug regulatory authorities have good safety and efficacy. One may consult the doctors at the vaccination site and choose a suitable vaccine for vaccination," said Zhao Hui, chief physician at the Wanshou Road Community Health Service Center in Haidian District, Beijing.
What should one pay attention to after vaccination? Zhao Hui reminded that after vaccination, one should remain at the vaccination site for observation for 30 minutes and may leave only after confirming there are no abnormal reactions. After vaccination, drink more water as much as possible and pay attention to rest. Keep the injection site dry and clean for 24 hours, and try to avoid showering and swimming. If redness, swelling, pain, itching, or a low-grade fever occurs at the injection site, special treatment is generally not needed; it can subside on its own after cooling, drinking more water, and adequate rest. If other conditions occur, such as a body temperature exceeding 38.5 degrees Celsius, persistent fever, or local redness and swelling, one should promptly seek medical attention at a hospital and promptly contact the vaccination unit to report the relevant situation.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Ding Yasong) The reporter learned from a press conference of the Ministry of Education: The 2026 World Conference on Technical and Vocational Education and Training will be held in Tianjin from October 15 to 17, with the theme "World Vocational Education: Jointly Embracing Change, Jointly Forging Standards, Jointly Creating the Future." This conference consists of five main segments and three concurrent activities. The main segments are the opening ceremony, plenary session, ministerial roundtable, parallel sessions, and closing ceremony. The concurrent activities include the Luban Workshop Tenth Anniversary Symposium, a special exhibition on China's vocational education, and the World Vocational College Skills Competition Champions Final.
Among these, the World Vocational College Skills Competition Champions Final will be held on October 16. This year's competition has reached a new scale, covering 78 countries, with a total of 9,391 teams and 36,000 contestants participating. On the basis of the original four overseas competition zones, an Oceania zone has been added, further expanding its international influence. At the same time, a track for traditional Chinese arts and crafts has been added, promoting Chinese culture onto a broader world stage and enhancing the appeal of Chinese culture.
This conference will release the "World Technical and Vocational Education and Training Standards Framework" and sign multiple international cooperation agreements on vocational education, promoting international exchange and cooperation between China's vocational education and vocational education worldwide, leaping from the 1.0 stage of "personnel exchange" and the 2.0 stage of "project cooperation" to the 3.0 stage of "standards leadership."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王若凡
"Move a little closer, smile. Tuck your chin in a bit, turn slightly to the side, very good." In the cramped photo studio, the voice of photographer Zhang Yongqiang is calm and steady. At 67 years old, he leans slightly forward, eyes fixed on the viewfinder, fingers gently pressing the shutter.
Zhang Yongqiang's studio is located at No. 7 Weikeng Hutong, Xicheng District, Beijing. In the small room, customers waiting to have their photos taken sit quietly—some are young people preparing for job hunting, some are couples wanting commemorative photos, and some are tourists who have come from afar specifically to visit. The studio has no flashy backdrops; Zhang Yongqiang uses a camera that has accompanied him for over 20 years to freeze frame after frame of faces.
Zhang Yongqiang's father devoted his entire life to the photography industry. Influenced by his father, Zhang Yongqiang often slipped into the darkroom as a youth, watching images slowly emerge in the chemical solutions. The wondrous transformations of light and shadow took root in his heart and led him to choose the photography profession later in life.
In 2006, the Hongjing Photo Studio where Zhang Yongqiang originally worked underwent restructuring, and most of his former colleagues switched to other careers. Unwilling to put down his camera, Zhang Yongqiang opened his own studio. The shop was initially located on North Xinhua Street, and later moved deeper into the hutong.
The hutong photo studio has recorded countless life trajectories. Some customers first came as children carrying schoolbags on their backs; when they walk through the door again more than a decade later, they have grown into young people in the prime of one's youth (风华正茂, feng hua zheng mao - "wind, flower, correct, flourishing"); some young couples came to take marriage registration photos, and years later return as a family of three; and there is an elderly grandmother, an old neighbor in the hutong, who came alone to have her portrait taken, and in the last days of her life instructed her daughter to retrieve the photo, making it a keepsake left for her family. Thin sheets of photographs bear witness to growth and reunion, and also hold parting and remembrance.
"Customers who have come will come again," Zhang Yongqiang says. Over more than 40 years in the profession, he has experienced the tremendous transformation of the photography industry, from hand coloring and darkroom film development all the way to the digital age. Standing steadfast behind the lens, he quietly records the passage of time and the warmth of everyday life through photograph after photograph.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Nanjing, October 12) (Reporter Wang Weijian) Recently, China Construction Bank Nanjing Branch successfully handled the city's first nationwide cross-regional housing provident fund loan for Zhou Tao, an external talent who had paid into the housing provident fund in another city, marking the full nationwide coverage of Nanjing, Jiangsu's cross-regional housing provident fund loan policy.
Zhou Tao had previously worked in Beijing for a long period, with all housing provident fund contributions made in Beijing. CCB Nanjing Branch, taking into account the client's provident fund contribution qualifications and talent housing needs, custom-made to suit specific needs (量身定制, liang shen ding zhi - "measure body, customize") a low-pressure financing plan, enabling him to successfully obtain a 40万元 provident fund loan and complete the first nationwide cross-regional provident fund loan, resolving the talent housing financing difficulty of contributing in one city while purchasing a home in another.
The newly published "Decision of the State Council on Amending the Regulations on the Administration of Housing Provident Funds" proposes enhancing the efficiency of housing provident fund management services, achieving mutual recognition and mutual trust of housing provident fund contribution records nationwide, and promoting the convenient and efficient handling of businesses such as the transfer and continuation of housing provident funds and cross-regional loans. The Nanjing Housing Provident Fund Management Center issued the "Notice on Further Expanding the Scope of Cross-Regional Housing Provident Fund Loans," clarifying that starting from September this year, the scope of cross-regional housing provident fund loans will be expanded to cover the whole country.
Return to TopYunnan University of Chinese Medicine is the only undergraduate institution of Chinese medicine in Yunnan Province. Founded in 1960, the university has taken root in the land of Yunnan for 66 years, closely aligning its education and talent cultivation with the health needs of people of all ethnic groups. It has cumulatively delivered more than 100,000 Chinese medicine professionals to border ethnic regions, blazing a distinctive path of running a school that serves national strategies and local economic and social development.
Deepening engagement with ethnic medicine to fill the shortage of medical talent in border regions
Relying on 2 directly affiliated hospitals, 13 indirectly affiliated hospitals, and more than 200 practical teaching bases, the university has joined with more than 160 Chinese medicine medical institutions and related units in Yunnan Province to form a Chinese medicine medical group, extending the classroom to the front line of grassroots communities and promoting resonating in sync with one another (同频共振, tong pin gong zhen - "same frequency, resonate together") between Chinese medicine education and the health needs of border-area people.
The university adheres to its positioning as a local application-oriented institution, deepens its engagement with the inheritance and innovation of ethnic medicine, and is committed to filling the shortage of high-level medical talent in border ethnic regions. It began cultivating master's degree students in ethnic pharmacology in 1987, published China's first set of planned undergraduate textbooks for Dai medicine education in 2007, established the College of Ethnic Medicine in 2011, and built a complete bachelor's-master's-doctoral integrated talent cultivation system for Dai medicine in 2018. It offers distinctive courses in ethnic medicine and hosts undergraduate classes for the demonstration of ethnic unity and progress. It organized more than 60 experts and scholars to systematically compile the secret prescriptions, proven formulas, and diagnostic and therapeutic techniques of the ethnic minority medicines of Yunnan Province, and after more than 10 years of effort compiled and published the Grand Dictionary of Yunnan Ethnic Medicines. It has built platforms including the Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Dai and Yi Medicine and the Yunnan Provincial Museum of Chinese Medicine and Ethnic Medicine, and has developed a medical resources database covering the 25 ethnic minorities of Yunnan, laying a solid research platform foundation for the inheritance and innovation of Chinese medicine.
Passing on the torch for 66 years, with graduates taking root at the grassroots front line
Passing on the torch of tradition or knowledge (薪火赓续, xin huo geng xu - "firewood, torch, continue, extend") for 66 years, nearly 60 percent of the university's graduates have taken root at the front line of grassroots healthcare, contributing to society while realizing their personal value. A large number of graduates work in border villages and hamlets, using Chinese medicine and ethnic medicine to provide saving lives through medical treatment (治病救人, zhi bing jiu ren - "treat illness, save people"), actively engaging in research on the breeding of improved varieties of plateau Chinese medicinal herbs, standardized cultivation, and intensive processing technologies, safeguarding the health of people of all ethnic groups, and boosting high-quality development of the local economy and society.
Standing at a new starting point, Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine will uphold the inheritance of the essence of Chinese medicine, uphold fundamental principles and break new ground, continue to strengthen the distinctive disciplines of Chinese medicine and ethnic medicine, continuously improve the talent cultivation model for Chinese medicine in multi-ethnic border regions, promote mutual learning and integration between Chinese medicine and ethnic medicine, and contribute the strength of a university to Yunnan's accelerated construction of a strong province of Chinese medicine.
Data source: Yunnan University of Chinese Medicine
Return to TopThe China Development Bank (hereinafter referred to as the "Development Bank") is a state-owned development financial institution established with state capital, directly under the leadership of the State Council, supporting the development of key areas and weak links in China's economy, and possessing independent legal person status. Based on its functional positioning, the Development Bank focuses on core responsibilities and primary business, actively supports major strategies, key areas, and weak links, and provides high-quality financial services to help consolidate and expand the momentum of economic recovery and improvement.
Since September 2006, when the Development Bank publicly began accepting reports from all sectors of society on asset safety supervision, good results have been achieved. To further ensure the stability of state-owned asset quality and maintain asset safety, and to effectively prevent and control financial risks, we sincerely welcome all sectors of society to supervise the asset safety of the Development Bank and to report acts that harm or may harm the interests of the Development Bank.
The relevant matters are hereby announced as follows:
I. Scope of Supervision
Legal persons and organizations related to the assets of the Development Bank. This includes various asset projects and customers of the Development Bank (including its wholly-owned subsidiaries), customers providing various guarantees for the assets of the Development Bank, and other customers involved in the managed assets of the Development Bank.
II. Content of Supervision
(1) Acts of defrauding Development Bank funds by using false information or materials. This includes, but is not limited to, acts such as using untrue or false customer information, financial statements, project conditions, and other application materials to defraud Development Bank funds.
(2) Acts by Development Bank customers in violation of contractual agreements. This includes, but is not limited to, acts such as borrowers or fund users violating contractual agreements, arbitrarily diverting project funds to other uses, embezzling, privately distributing, and transferring them, or causing major losses to the Development Bank, or other illegal or non-compliant uses.
(3) Acts of maliciously defaulting on or leaving debts owed to the Development Bank outstanding. This includes, but is not limited to, acts such as enterprises taking advantage of major operational events such as asset restructuring and corporate reform to transfer and siphon off funds, evade and leave debts outstanding, and other acts of maliciously evading or repudiating debts.
(4) Acts of providing false guarantees or maliciously transferring collateral or pledged property. This includes, but is not limited to, acts such as guarantee enterprises using untrue or false financial statements and property rights documents, through means such as handling false registration, to provide false guarantees for loan projects supported by the Development Bank, as well as maliciously transferring collateral or pledged property.
(5) Other acts that harm the asset safety of the Development Bank.
III. Reporting Methods
If persons from all sectors of society discover the above situations, they may at any time report or file complaints with the Development Bank by letter, telephone, e-mail, or other forms. Reporters should provide specific facts, evidence, or verifiable clues, and bear responsibility for the truthfulness and objectivity of the reported content. They must not engage in making guesses based on subjective assumptions (主观臆测, zhu guan yi ce - "subjective, arbitrarily, guess"), fabricate facts, manufacture false evidence, or frame and falsely accuse others; otherwise, they shall bear legal liability. Real-name reporting is encouraged (providing the true identity and credential information of an individual or unit and valid contact information is deemed real-name reporting). The Development Bank protects the lawful rights and interests of reporters in accordance with the law and strictly keeps confidential the relevant information of reporters. Reporters are requested not to file duplicate reports.
IV. Contact Information for Acceptance
Mailing address: Audit and Reporting Office, China Development Bank, No. 18 Fuxingmennei Street, Xicheng District, Beijing (Postal code: 100032)
Telephone: 010-68333171
E-Mail: jubao＠cdb.cn
V. This announcement is subject to interpretation by the Development Bank, and the relevant content has been published on the official website of the Development Bank
This announcement is hereby made.
China Development Bank
October 13, 2026
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 顾仲阳 董丝雨
Headline Focus
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that China's implementation of the national park system is aimed at preserving the authenticity and integrity of natural ecosystems, protecting biodiversity, safeguarding ecological security barriers, and leaving precious natural assets for future generations.
On October 12, 2021, China officially established five national parks: Sanjiangyuan, Giant Panda, Northeast China Tiger and Leopard, Hainan Tropical Rainforest, and Wuyishan. Over the past five years, the construction of the first batch of national parks has achieved fruitful results.
National parks protect the most important parts of China's natural ecosystems, the most unique natural landscapes, the most essential natural heritage, and the most biodiverse areas.
Since China officially established the five national parks of Sanjiangyuan, Giant Panda, Northeast China Tiger and Leopard, Hainan Tropical Rainforest, and Wuyishan in 2021, the construction of the first batch of national parks has achieved fruitful results. A national park system with Chinese characteristics has been basically established, the quality of natural ecosystems in key regions has continued to improve, and the populations of flagship species have grown steadily. Assessments show that the excellent rate of ecological benefit evaluation indicators for the first batch of national parks has reached 75%, and core ecological service functions such as water conservation, carbon sequestration and oxygen release, and soil and water conservation have been effectively enhanced.
Regional Ecological Foundations Continue to Be Consolidated
The Nibashan Giant Panda Ecological Corridor is a key passage connecting the Qionglai Mountain Range and the Daxiangling Mountain Range, located in the Yingjing area of Ya'an, Sichuan, within the Giant Panda National Park. This area once formed an ecological "breakpoint" due to vegetation destruction and human disturbance, causing long-term isolation of wild giant panda populations in the two mountain ranges and exposing them to the risk of inbreeding. Now, after continuous restoration, infrared cameras installed along this corridor have repeatedly captured images of giant pandas passing through with their cubs.
"Building a giant panda ecological corridor is not about artificially constructing a forest path. First, scientific surveys must be used to identify ecological 'breakpoints'; then mines and hydropower stations must be withdrawn, artificial barriers removed, and near-natural restoration methods adopted to rebuild composite forests of trees and bamboo; only when infrared camera monitoring shows wild giant pandas actively passing through and isolated populations achieve gene exchange can this lifeline corridor be considered truly completed," said Yang Zhisong, deputy director and researcher of the Sichuan Provincial Giant Panda Science Research Institute.
At present, the Nibashan Corridor has cumulatively restored more than 7,000 mu of damaged giant panda habitat, replanted over 120,000 native trees, and replanted more than 60,000 clumps of bamboo.
Protecting the authenticity and integrity of ecosystems is the primary task of national park construction and management. Over the past five years, the first batch of five national parks has coordinated the integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, grasslands, and deserts, implementing a series of measures such as habitat restoration, ecological corridor connectivity, and control of human activities, with regional ecological foundations continuing to be consolidated.
As the "Water Tower of China," the Sanjiangyuan National Park has seen significantly enhanced water conservation capacity, delivering an average of 80 billion cubic meters of high-quality water downstream annually, and Maduo County in Golog Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai, at the source of the Yellow River, has once again presented a magnificent scene of many lakes competing in beauty (千湖竞秀, qian hu jing xiu - "thousand, lakes, compete, show"). The Giant Panda National Park has opened up ecological corridors for 13 local wild giant panda populations, greatly improving habitat connectivity. The Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park has implemented ecological protection and restoration projects covering 600,000 mu, opening up cross-border ecological corridors to facilitate the migration and exchange of wild populations. The Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park has strengthened strict protection and management of natural forests, implemented rainforest ecological restoration, and the original rainforest habitat continues to improve. The Wuyishan National Park has promoted a mechanism for buying back commercial forests in key locations, advanced forest ecosystem protection and restoration, and continuously consolidated the mid-subtropical forest ecological barrier.
A relevant official from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration stated that the total area of the first batch of five national parks reaches 230,000 square kilometers, integrating and optimizing more than 120 nature reserves at various levels and categories, bringing representative and important ecosystems such as river sources, alpine forests, temperate coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forests, tropical rainforests, and mid-subtropical forests under protection, achieving large-scale, all-element, and holistic protection and restoration of important ecological spaces.
Historic Breakthrough in Flagship Species Protection
"The width of this footprint exceeds 10.5 centimeters; it should have been left by an adult male Amur tiger." Not long ago, near the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, Feng Limin, professor at the College of Life Sciences of Beijing Normal University, followed local villagers who had sighted tiger traces to the location where the tiger appeared to learn about the situation on the ground.
To ascertain the tigers' activity traces, in addition to relying on villagers' leads, infrared cameras are also needed. "Before the establishment of the national park, we could only rely on our feet to traverse the mountains. Now, the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park has built a space-air-ground integrated ecological monitoring system, weaving an all-weather intelligent ecological protection network," Feng Limin introduced. The system has been connected to more than 20,000 infrared cameras, basically covering the entire Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park.
The reproduction of tiger and leopard populations requires abundant food and intact habitats. Since its establishment, the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park has cumulatively monitored tiger activity more than 30,000 times and leopard activity more than 40,000 times.
Biodiversity is an important foundation for human survival and development. Over the past five years, the first batch of five national parks has achieved historic breakthroughs in flagship species protection—
The Tibetan antelope population in Sanjiangyuan has recovered to more than 70,000 individuals. Wild Amur tigers in the Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park have increased from 27 at the time of establishment to 72, and wild Amur leopards from 42 to 115. The Hainan gibbon population has expanded to 7 groups of 44 individuals, making it the only gibbon group in the world with sustained population growth. The Giant Panda National Park protects more than 70% of the wild giant pandas in China. The Wuyishan National Park has successively discovered multiple new species including the rain god horned toad, Wuyi forest frog, and Fujian gastrodia, continuously enriching the biodiversity baseline.
To strengthen the protection of flagship species, the national park perception system has been put into operation, achieving real-time monitoring of key areas. Each national park has built a space-air-ground integrated monitoring network, comprehensively applying technologies such as satellite remote sensing, drones, infrared cameras, and artificial intelligence to achieve dynamic monitoring and early warning of ecological changes, wildlife activity, and human disturbance. At the same time, national conservation research centers for giant pandas, gibbons, and others have been successively established, providing strong scientific research support for flagship species protection in national parks.
Nearly 50,000 People Have Become Ecological Rangers in National Parks
Patrolling water source areas, cleaning up grassland garbage, and carefully recording and filling in patrol logs—this is the daily routine of Mo Ding, an ecological ranger at the Sanjiangyuan National Park.
"Each patrol covers 30 to 40 kilometers; where there are roads I ride a motorcycle, and where there are no roads I walk," Mo Ding told reporters. During patrols, he also uses his mobile phone to record wildlife traces and population activities, collecting frontline data for biodiversity surveys and research.
"Now that I have the additional income of an ecological ranger, I have greater motivation to carry out ecological patrol, environmental protection, and wildlife conservation work," Mo Ding said. To date, the Sanjiangyuan National Park has approximately 27,000 ecological rangers.
Joint construction, shared benefits, and collective protection by the whole people, with participation from the entire society, are an important foundation for national park construction and management. Over the past five years, the first batch of five national parks has promoted the coordinated advancement of ecological protection and improvement of people's livelihoods, allowing the broad masses to tangibly share the dividends of ecological protection—
While strictly adhering to ecological protection red lines, each national park has driven local employment and income growth through ecological patrol, ecological compensation, development of ecological industries, and ecological experience activities. Nearly 50,000 local people have been employed as ecological rangers in national parks, receiving annual wage income ranging from 12,000 to 21,000 yuan per person. In light of local conditions, eco-friendly industries have been developed, continuously broadening channels for community income growth. The Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park has been selected as a pilot for the national mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products, with the gross ecosystem product of the park area reaching 208.966 billion yuan. Various regions have also relied on emerging new business forms such as nature education and ecological experience, cumulatively receiving more than 14 million visitors over the past five years.
A relevant official from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration stated that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China will continue to promote the high-quality construction of national parks and steadily and orderly establish new national parks. Planning guidance will be strengthened and spatial order regulated; habitat and ecological corridor construction and major biodiversity protection projects will be scientifically implemented to systematically restore habitats; and policies on ecological compensation, compensation for wildlife-inflicted damage, and operational services will be improved to continuously promote the improvement of people's livelihoods.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Kou Jiangze) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment: With the approval of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the third round, seventh batch of central ecological and environmental protection inspections has been fully launched. Two central routine ecological and environmental protection inspection teams have been formed to carry out routine inspections of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs respectively, with a stationing period of one month. At the same time, three central special ecological and environmental protection inspection teams have been formed to carry out special inspections on pollution problems in karst caves, sinkholes, and mountain valleys in Hubei, Hunan, and Guangxi (three provinces/regions), Chongqing and Sichuan (two provinces/municipalities), and Guizhou and Yunnan (two provinces), with a stationing period of about two weeks. During the stationing period, the two routine inspection teams will each set up a contact telephone number and a postal mailbox to receive letters, calls, and visits reporting complaints on ecological and environmental protection matters concerning the inspected entities.
The Office of the Leading Group for Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection has specifically sent a letter to the above-mentioned inspected entities, requiring resolute implementation of the central authorities' decisions and arrangements, precise, scientific, and law-based advancement of rectification alongside inspection, prohibiting the adoption of a "one-size-fits-all" approach, and simplifying inspection reception arrangements to effectively reduce the burden on grassroots units.
The document requires that the relevant departments and provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) advance rectification alongside inspection in a precise, scientific, and law-based manner. With regard to the complaints and reports from the public that are accepted and transferred by the routine inspection teams, they must both urge the relevant parties to seriously verify and resolutely rectify, effectively solving the prominent ecological and environmental problems strongly reflected by the public, and also act in accordance with laws and regulations, seeking truth from facts, and refrain from carrying out "campaign-style" rectification.
The document emphasizes that simple and crude acts such as emergency suspension of work, suspension of production, and suspension of operations to cope with the inspections are strictly prohibited, as are perfunctory coping practices such as "shut down all at once" and "stop first, talk later." The relevant departments and provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) must, in accordance with laws and regulations, coordinate the advancement of rectification of ecological and environmental problems. Problems that can be rectified immediately should be rectified immediately; problems that cannot be rectified for the time being should have clear rectification goals, measures, time limits, and responsible units, and all responsible entities should be urged to implement them properly. Sufficient time should be left for the units and personnel directly responsible for rectification work, and matters should be handled properly and advanced in an orderly manner, with the addition of escalating demands at each level and acceleration at each tier prohibited. For those who passively cope with the inspections by adopting a "one-size-fits-all" approach, the inspection teams will handle the matter seriously, investigating and punishing each case as it is discovered.
The document requires that, during the stationing of the inspections, the relevant departments and provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) strictly carry out accountability work on prominent ecological and environmental problems requiring accountability in accordance with the principle of "seriousness, precision, and effectiveness," avoiding acts such as substituting accountability for rectification, as well as arbitrary accountability, excessive accountability, and simplistic accountability. Where problems of the above-mentioned nature are found in accountability work, the inspection teams will promptly issue reminders, and for relatively serious cases, they will also report to the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission in accordance with relevant procedures.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Urumqi, October 12) (Reporter Li Yanan) The results of the third comprehensive scientific expedition to Xinjiang were released in Urumqi recently. The expedition found that over the past 30 years, the trend of warming and wetting in Xinjiang's climate has continued to intensify. The average annual runoff of rivers over the past 30 years has increased by about 10 billion cubic meters compared with the previous 40 years, and over the next 20 to 40 years, the volume of water coming from Xinjiang's mountainous areas is expected to maintain a high-level fluctuating and increasing trend. Over the past 30 years, Xinjiang's ecology has continued to improve, with desertification and land sandification achieving a "double reduction," the area of oasis increasing by 45,500 square kilometers, and the area at high risk of wind-blown sand disasters shrinking by 30 percent. This expedition ascertained that the Tarim Basin has a contiguous selenium-rich soil belt of more than 22 million mu; identified 315 species of halophytes in Xinjiang and proposed a development path for Xinjiang's characteristic saline-soil agriculture based on halophytes; took stock of Xinjiang's biodiversity baseline, discovering 33 new species, adding 243 newly recorded species for China or Xinjiang, and obtaining more than 300 stress-resistance genes. In the field of energy and mineral resources, breakthroughs were achieved in both theory and exploration, with 10 prospecting target areas delineated in the Huoshaoyun mining area of the Kunlun Mountains and proven rich coal resources of 77.5 billion tons in the Tuha Basin.
The third comprehensive scientific expedition to Xinjiang, launched in 2021, is a systematic survey of the resources and environment of the entire Xinjiang region conducted after an interval of many years, covering five major key areas — the Tarim River, the Ili River, the Irtysh River, the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains, and the Tuha Basin — and comprehensively updating the basic understanding of Xinjiang's resources and environment.
Return to TopUrban commercial districts, specialty markets, and cultural-tourism exhibitions carry a rich sense of everyday street life and are important vehicles for stimulating consumption vitality and stabilizing employment and people's livelihoods. The Beijing Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China practices the philosophy of "finance serving the people," bases itself on actual market operations, and relies on its "Fenzhangtong" (sub-account clearing) acquiring product to launch integrated financial services for specialty scenarios such as night markets and cultural-tourism scenic areas, empowering numerous small and micro business entities with digital settlement tools, making the city's everyday vitality stronger and the consumer market more active, and injecting financial momentum into the steady development of the real economy.
Settling the "livelihood account" clearly, optimizing merchant settlement methods
Night market formats are diverse, and a large number of food stalls and joint-operation booths need to complete the transfer and settlement of multi-party revenue according to agreed arrangements. In the past, merchants generally relied on manual revenue tallying and monthly settlement operations, placing considerable pressure on fund flows and day-to-day operational management.
Focusing on merchants' settlement pain points, the Beijing Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China has implemented a night market sub-account project. Relying on a unified acquiring and intelligent sub-account system, after consumers complete payment by scanning a QR code, the system automatically splits and transfers funds to the accounts of the market operator, merchants, and supply chain partners according to pre-agreed proportions, automatically completing the entire process of sub-accounting and reconciliation, achieving real-time sub-accounting of transaction funds and "D+1 settlement," replacing traditional manual operation models with digital means, effectively reducing the operating costs of small and micro merchants and safeguarding the fund rights and interests of business entities.
On the basis of solid settlement safeguards, the Beijing Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China relies on merchants' real operating revenue flows to provide supporting small and micro credit support, building a full-chain financial service of "acquiring—sub-accounting—financing," converting operating data into credit credentials and alleviating the practical difficulties faced by small and micro business entities such as lack of collateral and financing difficulties. To date, the relevant services have covered 21 centralized market business entities, served more than 300 market merchants, and reached Beijing's central urban area as well as multiple districts including Huairou, Miyun, Changping, Yanqing, Pinggu, and Fangshan. The service scenarios have gradually expanded from night markets to specialty markets and dining streets, benefiting a large number of individual industrial and commercial households and small and micro business entities.
Building a solid "fund shield," safeguarding diverse cultural-tourism scenarios
Various cultural-tourism projects link multiple business entities and place high demands on account coordination and fund clearing. The Beijing Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China, in light of actual project operations, customizes supporting financial service plans to provide protection and support for diverse cultural-tourism scenarios. During the 2026 Beijing Orchid Culture Carnival, the Beijing Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China balanced the needs of multi-party account coordination and efficient fund clearing and customized a financial service plan for the event. To ensure the event opened on schedule, the Beijing Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China seized the time window and completed all preliminary preparations—including project coordination, agreement signing, account opening and network access, and code plate placement—in just 8 days. During the event, the Beijing Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China opened a dedicated support channel, with staff stationed on site to provide business support, completing nearly 20,000 transactions in total, ensuring zero-error clearing of all funds, safeguarding the operating income of exhibiting merchants, and providing financial support for the public's cultural-tourism consumption. At the same time, the Beijing Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China conducted multiple linked livestreams to promote specialty exhibits and merchant products, helping offline activities gain greater attention.
At the Longqing Gorge scenic area in Yanqing District, the Beijing Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China relies on the combined tool of "Youhuifu + Fenzhangtong" to achieve unified collection, automatic splitting of revenue, compliant fund clearing, and real-time queryable transaction ledgers, layered with digital RMB and consumption discount campaigns to optimize the consumer experience for tourists, supplemented by comprehensive financial services such as small-amount credit and deposits, helping small and micro business entities ease working capital pressure and stimulate merchants' operational vitality. The services cover more than 20 scenic area merchants, with nearly 5 million yuan in transaction volume so far this year, conveying the warmth of financial services for people's livelihoods in the details.
Extending the "service circle," stimulating urban consumption vitality
Under different consumption scenarios, the demands of various joint-operation market business entities differ in emphasis. The Beijing Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China continuously refines its inclusive service model through frontline practice, dynamically optimizes service supply in light of the operational characteristics of each scenario, and promotes the adaptation of digital financial solutions to more offline operating scenarios.
Offline consumption formats are diverse, and areas such as scenic spots, food streets, industrial parks, and commercial properties generally have business demands for multi-party joint operation and revenue splitting. The Beijing Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China treats implemented projects as practical samples, continuously expands the scope of cooperation, promotes the service model of "single-point access, batch customer acquisition," deeply explores the comprehensive financial needs of existing customers, and provides a package of financial services around settlement, credit, and fund management, consolidating the foundation for bank-enterprise cooperation. At the same time, it proactively moves down-market, connects with the operation and management entities of various commercial districts, and extends mature sub-account financial services to more small and micro operating scenarios, allowing inclusive benefits to reach more business entities.
Going forward, the Beijing Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China will continue to anchor its fundamental mission of serving the real economy, follow the development trends of the offline consumer market, iteratively optimize scenario-based financial products, refine supporting service processes, and continue to increase financial support for numerous small and micro business entities, empowering employment and people's livelihoods and stimulating consumption vitality with financial strength, helping Beijing's consumer market improve in quality and expand in scale and better benefit the general public.
Data source: Beijing Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曾华锋
On October 2, at the Beijing stop of the National Modern Pentathlon Youth Obstacle Run Challenge, Zhao Jiaju started the race together with young runners from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, igniting the young people's passion for sport.
Just last month, Chinese runner Zhao Jiaju set a new historical record. In the early morning hours of September 16 local time in Italy, Zhao Jiaju ran through the long streets of Courmayeur, becoming the first of more than a thousand runners to reach the finish line of the Tor des Géants 330-kilometer ultramarathon, claiming the first Chinese champion in the race's history and breaking the course record with a time of 65 hours, 55 minutes, and 22 seconds.
From food delivery rider to world-class ultramarathon champion, how did Zhao Jiaju run his own path in life?
Breaking the Course Record
The Tor des Géants 330-kilometer ultramarathon is one of the most difficult super ultramarathons in the world. The course winds through the Alps mountain ranges, with a total length of approximately 336 kilometers and a cumulative elevation gain of 24,000 meters — horizontally equivalent to running eight full marathons, and vertically approaching the height of three Mount Everests. The climate contrasts are extremely sharp: high-altitude sections can encounter ice and snow, while low-altitude valleys are sweltering and sun-scorched. The 150-hour cutoff time means runners must overcome normal physiological sleep-wake cycles, continuously crossing those high-altitude passes through day-and-night alternation without any sleep or rest (不眠不休, bu mian bu xiu - "not, sleep, not, rest"). The race's completion rate is less than 60 percent, and no Chinese runner had ever finished in the top three.
In September of last year, Zhao Jiaju had already participated in the Tor des Géants once. Due to inexperience, with his physical strength exhausted, he chose to withdraw at the 203.8-kilometer gear-change point, determined to return and compete again the following year.
After returning to China, he ran several 168-kilometer and 100-kilometer ultramarathons, using races as training. In July 2026, at the Chongli 168 Super Ultramarathon, he won the championship and broke the record with a time of 19 hours, 1 minute, and 32 seconds, becoming the "four-time champion" of Chongli 168. Two months before this year's Tor des Géants, he and his wife arrived early in Italy's Aosta Valley and stayed near the 237-kilometer mark of the course. He "trod the course several times," running it at race pace, "so that even at the most painful moment of the race, without lifting my head I would know how much farther there was to go, where there was water, and where I could rest briefly."
At 10 a.m. on September 13, the race began. Zhao Jiaju led the entire way. At the 203.8-kilometer gear-change point — the place where he had withdrawn last year — he stopped and rested for 50 minutes. Swiss runner Jonathan Schindler, entering and leaving quickly (快进快出, kuai jin kuai chu - "fast, enter, fast, exit"), passed him while he was resting. At the 241-kilometer mark, he overtook Schindler. But at the 290-kilometer mark, he took a wrong turn, and Schindler caught up again, with the two at one point only five or six minutes apart. That was an uphill section, and Zhao Jiaju forced himself to run. "I wanted him to see that I could still run." The runner-up is the champion's whetstone (磨刀石, mo dao shi - "grind, knife, stone"), making the champion stronger.
In the latter half of the race, Zhao Jiaju's "muscles ached and the soles of his feet hurt badly." On the final night of the race, he was extremely sleepy and unable to bear it (困倦难耐, kun juan nan nai - "sleepy, weary, difficult, endure"), his vision blurring, and he could only keep reminding himself to stay alert and watch his footing. "There was another me in my head constantly reminding me to focus on the road and eat on time, otherwise I might not make it to the end," he recalled.
When he crossed the finish line, "I was so exhausted that I didn't want to think about anything — I just wanted to find a place to rest." After Zhao Jiaju woke up, the fatigue and pain in his body had eased somewhat, and only then did he truly experience the joy of winning the championship.
Striving to Pursue a Dream
From food delivery rider to world champion, Zhao Jiaju's personal story is a true comeback. In 1995, Zhao Jiaju was born in Guizhou and grew up in Fenghuang, Hunan. He had traveled from place to place repeatedly (辗转多地, zhuan zhuan duo di - "toss, turn, many, places"), working as a security guard, a kitchen worker, a porter, and a food delivery rider. In 2014, Zhao Jiaju learned about the "marathon" from a roadside billboard, and through the marathon he learned about trail running, then embarked on this path of running. The young man delivering meals in Wuhan's Optics Valley began to explore on his own. With no treadmill, no strength-training room, and no professional training plan, the city's roads, overpasses, staircases, and alleyways became his training ground.
"When I was delivering meals to others as a food delivery rider, deep down I was aiming for the day I could become a champion. In any job, I would put in more effort and do more work than others, train my physical strength a little better, carry heavier loads than others, and walk farther than others," Zhao Jiaju said.
In 2017, Zhao Jiaju quit his job and, inspired by his running companion Liang Jing, began running trail races full-time. In 2018, a domestic sports brand was screening young trail runners to sign. Liang Jing compiled Zhao Jiaju's training data and race footage and submitted them. It was this recommendation that earned Zhao Jiaju his first formal athlete contract. Champion of the 100-kilometer ultramarathon, champion of the Spartan Race Super, runner-up of the 800 Li Desert Extreme Race, champion of the Chongli 168 Super Ultramarathon... The young man who once supported himself by delivering food ran his own path in life for the sake of his dream. On April 22, 2023, Zhao Jiaju won the men's 100-mile category at the Ultra-Trail Mount Fuji. Before the race he said: "I came here to make up for Liang Jing's regret of not winning in 2019." He did it.
Believing in the Power of Will
Throughout the entire Tor des Géants, he barely slept — so how was he able to keep producing at high intensity and fast pace? "I only think about things that make me stronger: if I don't sleep, will I push myself to break through again? Rather than thinking, if I don't sleep, will I be unable to run?" Zhao Jiaju told the reporter that at the time his whole body was filled with hot blood that kept boiling; even after reaching the mountaintop, he couldn't feel the cold. "My focus was entirely on the course — for example, how many kilometers to the next aid station, and whether the next section was uphill or downhill."
Going head-to-head on the brutal course with European runners competing on home turf, Zhao Jiaju believes he does not have particularly good speed talent. "If I had to say what I have, I think it's more the toughness of my will. I have always believed in my own strength, and then used my willpower to slowly grind them down."
The 150-hour cutoff was the time limit, but Zhao Jiaju finished in less than 66 hours. This was no longer simply "running fast," but a comprehensive contest of body and spirit. Some people also question: what is the meaning of such a race? Zhao Jiaju says that if one takes everything lightly, there is no joy in it. People must, in continuous pursuit and action, create more possibilities for their own lives and give meaning to life.
When he first participated in the Tor des Géants last year, Zhao Jiaju had not prepared adequately, and when he withdrew he also blamed himself: "Standing alone on a mountaintop looking at the starry sky, I thought, this is just too hard." But then he thought again: "Life is about pushing yourself — only when you make yourself tired and sore do you cherish things all the more."
"In a race you encounter all kinds of situations — harsh weather, muscle soreness, nausea, dizziness... When all of these pile up on you, it is indeed very painful. And when you transcend the pain, at the moment you truly endure to the end, you feel that you have become stronger," Zhao Jiaju said calmly.
Reporter's Notes
A Giant Lives in Everyone's Heart
The Aosta Valley has four "giants": Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa, the Matterhorn, and Gran Paradiso. The ultramarathon that circles these four "giants" is called the Tor des Géants, and runners who complete the Tor des Géants are also called giants.
On September 14, 2013, after overcoming countless difficulties, I completed the Tor des Géants in 143 hours, 43 minutes, and 48 seconds, becoming the first Chinese person to finish it. For the last 10 kilometers, I ran while crying.
On September 16, 2026, I sat in front of my computer watching the live broadcast of the Tor des Géants. When Zhao Jiaju won the championship and broke the record with a time of 65 hours, 55 minutes, and 22 seconds, ending the 16-year history of European dominance of the title, I jumped for joy.
Thirteen years, from 143 hours to less than 66 hours — these two results are not a comparison of ability under equal conditions, but coordinates of two different eras. In between, Chinese trail running went from growing in an unmanaged or uncontrolled manner (野蛮生长, ye man sheng zhang - "wild, savage, grow, flourish") to orderly development, from several hundred runners competing to 230,000 Chinese runners registered in the rolls of the International Trail Running Association.
The Tor des Géants is a journey of ordeal, and even more a journey of dreams. And in everyone's heart, a giant lives.
Return to TopBy: 曹继炜
The "15th Five-Year Plan" for Building a Sports Power clearly states that efforts must be strengthened to rectify the disorder of the "fan circle" (饭圈) in sports, and to put an end to the "fan circle"-ization of competitive sports and the "internet celebrity"-ization of athletes.
During the WTT China Smash event, Wang Hao, head coach of the Chinese national men's table tennis team, was surrounded and verbally abused near the competition venue. The related footage and inflammatory remarks spread across the internet, causing a severely adverse social impact. Beijing police administratively detained 3 individuals involved in the incident in accordance with the law, and many others were subjected to criticism and education. The "fan circle" disorder reflected behind this incident merits deep reflection.
The "fan circle" disorder in the sports industry has existed for a long time (由来已久, lai you yi jiu - "origin, already, long, existed"). From the early years' organized online mutual attacks, comment-section control, and counter-blackening campaigns, to organized cyber-bullying of sports practitioners, deliberately manufactured opposition to harvest traffic, and offline disruption of order at competition venues, the "fan circle" disorder has harmed athletes and coaches, and has also damaged the image of Chinese sports.
The reason the "fan circle" disorder has become a persistent malady lies chiefly in the mature traffic playbook and interest-chain loop behind it. Capital and marketing accounts profit from manufacturing opposition and stoking anxiety; fan-group leaders organize at the front, dragging in low-age groups to charge forward; platform algorithms amplify the spread of conflict, forming a deformed model of "making money behind the scenes, with fans bearing the risk." If the traffic interest chain is not severed, the "fan circle" disorder can easily shift grounds, change forms, and make a comeback with renewed vigor (卷土重来, juan tu chong lai - "roll, earth, again, come").
To put an end to the "fan circle"-ization of sports, coordinated efforts from the whole of society are needed, forming a closed loop of governance. The law must continue to make clear the bottom line, imposing severe punishment in accordance with the law on acts such as surrounding, cyber-bullying, and organized disruption, digging deep into the instigators behind the scenes and the interest chains, using rigid constraints to build a firm red line. Online platforms must truly shoulder their primary responsibility , optimize algorithmic orientation, strictly control the spread of confrontational content, and block the spread of toxic sentiment. Families and schools must strengthen legal and media-literacy education for adolescents, helping children recognize the "fan circle" playbook and not be swept along by the circle. Social public opinion must consolidate consensus, advocate civilized spectating, and let the positive energy of sports become the mainstream.
Athletes should set an example with their own actions (以身作则, yi shen zuo ze - "use, body, act, model"), actively transmit positive and healthy values, and use their own words and deeds to guide fans to respect competition and respect opponents. Sports teams must strengthen positive management, advocate team-first principles, and actively resist "fan circle" division. Sports governing departments must moreover shoulder governance responsibility, introducing measures such as competition-site blacklists and civilized-spectating conventions, using institutional constraints plus positive guidance to establish norms for the industry.
The "fan circle" disorder has repeatedly defied prohibition, and rectification requires sustained, long-term effort . Only by breaking the traffic playbook, severing the interest chains, and filling governance shortcomings can the competition venue return to the essence of sport, restoring a pure land to sports.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Nagoya, October 12) (Reporters Ji Fang, Wang Liang) The first batch of members of the Chinese sports delegation to the 5th Asian Para Games arrived in Nagoya, Japan, on October 12, preparing to meet the competition set to open on October 18.
This edition of the Asian Para Games marks the largest delegation China has sent to an overseas Asian Para Games, with a total of 500 members, including 312 athletes from 25 provinces, covering 13 ethnic groups, who will compete in 335 events across 17 major sports.
"We have finally arrived in the host city, and once the team is settled, we will begin adaptive training as soon as possible," said Wang Guishun, head coach of the Chinese blind football team.
Yang Tianlong, a 22-year-old wheelchair basketball player, said this is his first time participating in the Asian Para Games, "I hope to join my teammates in giving our all to the task (全力以赴, quan li yi fu - "full, strength, go, follow") and achieve good results."
The 5th Asian Para Games will be held from October 18 to 24. The competition features 502 events across 18 major sports, with more than 3,000 para athletes from 45 countries and regions expected to participate.
Return to TopOrganizers: China Financial Futures Exchange, Shanghai Futures Exchange
October 15–16, 2026 · Shanghai, China
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘文璋
Since June this year, documentaries on the Unit 731 theme produced by media organizations in Singapore, Japan and other countries have been broadcast one after another, drawing sustained international attention. Among them, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) aired the documentary "The Hidden Unit: The Silent Postwar Period," which uses newly discovered private old photo albums, unit rosters and testimonies of survivors to expose Unit 731's crimes against humanity. People of insight from all walks of life in Japan have said that the continuously emerging new historical materials prove time and again that although the historical facts concerning Unit 731 have been deliberately concealed and obscured by the Japanese side for a long time, the truth of history will not be extinguished, and the crimes against humanity committed by the Japanese invading army in China are supported by irrefutable evidence (铁证如山, tie zheng ru shan - "iron, evidence, like, mountain") and cannot be denied.
"The truth of the Japanese military's crimes against humanity cannot be hidden forever"
This documentary is NHK's first Unit 731-themed work in many years. The film shifts its narrative focus to the postwar life trajectories of ordinary unit members, explicitly mentioning core historical facts such as human experiments, forcing prisoners of war to contract diseases, and conducting bacteriological warfare in multiple regions of China. Such expressions have rarely been seen in Japan's mainstream public opinion sphere in recent years.
A considerable portion of the film's main visual materials is being made public for the first time, including more than 200 old photographs privately preserved by former Unit 731 members. These photographs were discovered in 2022 at a secondhand bookstore in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and were all taken at the Unit 731 base in the Pingfang area of Harbin. The backs of the photographs bear relevant markings, recording the operation of experimental facilities and the daily work scenes of unit members.
After two years of tracking and verification, the production team, combined with the "Kwantung Army Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department Roster of Remaining Personnel" held in the collection of the National Archives of Japan — an archive that contains the names, native places and service information of more than 3,500 Unit 731 members — confirmed for the first time the identities of 26 former Unit 731 members who had previously existed only in written records. The production team visited more than 10 former members and their families, filmed relics such as surgical instruments, work notes and personal documents with a confessional tone brought back by former members, and, combined with archaeological findings at the ruins, used digital restoration technology to reconstruct the layout of Unit 731's headquarters and surrounding auxiliary facilities.
The testimonies of multiple survivors and family members allow the war crimes of aggression to be clearly presented within specific individuals and families. Sunaga Kikuta, a 98-year-old former boy soldier of Unit 731, gave a public interview, confirming that he entered the unit at age 14 to participate in the production of bacteriological weapons and that he was deeply impressed by the crematorium that operated year-round within the unit. Former boy soldier Shimizu Hideo recounted his participation in destroying evidence and disposing of victims' remains during the retreat after defeat. The surviving notes of former member Tanaka Shinichi recorded in detail his participation in experiments on lethal doses of X-ray irradiation on humans, and recounted the fear and guilt he carried for life. Many descendants of the perpetrators face cognitive rupture; some cannot accept the dual identity of their fathers as both "gentle fathers" in the family and executors of war, and some family members still maintain a denialist stance to this day.
Hironaka Kazushige, associate professor at Aichi Gakuin University in Japan who is devoted to research on the history of Unit 731, said, "As archives are continuously declassified and private relics are successively made public, the evidence of Unit 731's crimes will only increase, and the truth of the Japanese military's crimes against humanity cannot be hidden forever."
"The blank in historical cognition is being passed down from generation to generation"
Historical research shows that the historical facts concerning Unit 731 have long remained in a state of being sealed off from Japan's public sphere. This is a systematic obscuring formed by the superposition of multiple factors, including systematic destruction of evidence during wartime, postwar judicial deals, deliberate official avoidance, and collective social amnesia.
Before Japan's defeat and surrender, Unit 731 blew up experimental facilities on a large scale, burned paper archives, and executed all detained experimental personnel, attempting to erase all traces of criminal evidence from the source. Unit 731 head Ishii Shiro issued a lifelong gag order to all members: forbidding any mention of service experience to outsiders, forbidding former members from privately contacting one another, and forbidding the inclusion of relevant service information in personal resumes. In the documentary, Shimizu Hideo publicly testified that Unit 731 distributed suicide implements to its members, requiring that "if captured, take one's own life." The content of this documentary again confirms that this top-down secrecy system of Unit 731 caused the vast majority of survivors to conceal this history until death, creating a large-scale blank in historical materials.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Trial. Multiple historical researchers and a large amount of historical materials confirm that after the end of World War II, a secret deal was made between the United States and Japan, in which core members of Unit 731 exchanged the transfer of human experiment data and bacteriological warfare research results to the U.S. military for American exemption of Unit 731 members from war responsibility. In the end, the Tokyo Trial did not include Unit 731 members on the list of war criminals, and the crimes of bacteriological warfare almost never entered the core agenda of the trial. The backbone of Unit 731, who were not brought to justice by the Tokyo Trial, extensively infiltrated Japan's medical and public health fields after the war, either opening private clinics or taking positions in university medical schools, with some even serving as heads of national research institutions.
Nishizato Fujuko, a Japanese investigative journalist who has long followed the history of Unit 731, said in an interview with our reporter that these people even participated in postwar American projects investigating the damage of the atomic bomb, forming a self-protective chain of interests that made it difficult for historical accountability to ever reach the core. The NHK production team once interviewed the University of Tokyo regarding the postwar employment of relevant personnel, but was refused by the university on the grounds of "no organizational connection."
The documentary shows that the perpetrators of violence in the war dissolved into ordinary social roles, and "silence" gradually became a collective choice. The few former members who, in their later years, attempted to make public history and reveal the truth never received any response from officialdom or society.
Tabata Hironari, a Japanese university student majoring in archaeology, told our reporter that Japanese elementary and secondary school history textbooks almost never cover the human experiments and bacteriological warfare of Unit 731, and the vast majority of young people know nothing about it. "The blank in historical cognition is being passed down from generation to generation." Nishizato Fujuko also told our reporter that Japanese elementary and secondary school textbooks rarely cover Unit 731-related content, and most young people lack basic cognition of this history, and these cognitive blanks will continue to be passed on to the next generation.
"The danger of Japan repeating the mistake of militarism is constantly emerging"
Research on relevant historical materials has long proven that the crimes of bacteriological warfare and human experiments committed by Unit 731 are crimes too numerous to record (罄竹难书, qing zhu nan shu - "exhaust, bamboo, difficult, write"), constituting organized war crimes led by the Japanese state. Japanese domestic experts said that the Japanese archives and testimonies disclosed in the film, together with written archives and oral historical accounts of former members published in recent years by institutions such as the Exhibition Hall of Evidence of Crimes Committed by Unit 731 of the Japanese Invading Army in Harbin, corroborate each other and form a more complete chain of evidence, once again making completely public to the world (大白于天下, da bai yu tian xia - "great, white, at, heaven, under") the truth of the history of victimization inflicted by Unit 731 and other units of the Japanese invading army in China.
However, the film did not enter the prime-time viewing slots of Japan's mainstream terrestrial television channels, being broadcast only via satellite channels in late-night slots. The official website also offered only a limited-time catch-up viewing service, and no routine program promotion was conducted throughout. After its broadcast, the film was subjected to concentrated attacks and smearing by Japan's right-wing forces under the label of so-called "masochistic view of history."
Multiple people of insight in Japan emphasized that the attitude toward the history of Unit 731 is a mirror for examining Japan's view of history. Kaneko Tetsuo, head of a Japanese anti-war citizens' group and former member of the House of Representatives, said that historical issues have never been a mere past tense; they directly concern Japan's current national direction and the foundation of regional peace and stability. The Japanese authorities have persistently adopted an evasive and ambiguous attitude toward war crimes including those of Unit 731, textbooks have continuously downplayed relevant content, right-wing historical revisionist forces have been constantly rising, and the blank in historical cognition is rapidly expanding. At a time when Japan's right-wing forces are continuously pushing for constitutional revision and military expansion, the memory of war victimization is being extracted from social cognition, making it utterly impossible to draw lessons from history. "The danger of Japan repeating the mistake of militarism is constantly emerging."
Takenoue Katsutoshi, a descendant of a member of Unit 1644 (the Ei character unit), another bacteriological warfare unit, has relied on historical archives made public in recent years to investigate the organization and personnel of the Nanjing bacteriological warfare unit. Although official institutions all claim that relevant materials have been destroyed, making research difficult to advance, he still insists on restoring historical facts. He told our reporter, "The history of Japan's war of aggression cannot be denied. Only by facing history squarely and reflecting thoroughly can we truly face the future."
(People's Daily, Tokyo, October 12)
Return to TopBy: 牛瑞飞
During the National Day holiday that has just concluded, many foreign tourists came to China to experience the long history and developmental vitality of the Chinese land. Since the beginning of this year, "travel in China" and "shopping in China" have continued to heat up. In a home appliance store in Beijing, several foreign tourists stood for a long time around a smart rice cooker. Some repeatedly studied the functions on the touchscreen interface, some crouched down to measure the dimensions of the outer packaging, and some carefully asked the sales assistant whether it could be checked as luggage on a flight. What is more noteworthy than the increase in the number of tourists is the shift in their gaze — from famous historical sites such as the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, gradually moving toward the ordinary lives of Chinese people.
In earlier years, when foreign tourists came to China, their itineraries were mostly filled with landmark attractions, and what they packed in their return suitcases were mostly refrigerator magnets printed with scenery and full of charm and cuteness (憨态可掬, han tai ke ju - "charming, cute, endearing") panda plush toys, mainly serving as souvenirs of a "been there, done that" trip. Today, this "China shopping list" is quietly being updated. Smart rice cookers, portable mini fans, multi-function cooking pots... all kinds of practical small home appliances have become "must-buy items" for many foreign tourists. Once, rice cookers and similar products were popular items that Chinese tourists bought when shopping overseas.
From "hanging on the wall as a memento" to "placed on the dining table for use," this conceals the leap of Chinese manufacturing from a "sightseeing label" to a "life companion." A refrigerator magnet records the travel imprint of "I have been to China"; but a rice cooker that must cross the ocean and be used every day means that "Made in China" is entering their daily lives.
Such changes are not limited to home appliance stores. In an experience store of a Chinese new energy vehicle brand, even as the tour leader repeatedly urged everyone to gather, several foreign tourists still could not tear themselves away from the display car. Some sat in the driver's seat to feel the interior, some asked about range and charging details, and some said frankly that if such a car were available in their home market, they would definitely consider buying one. Their interest has long since moved past the check-in stage of "taking a photo with a Chinese car," and they genuinely look forward to these products becoming part of their lives.
From refrigerator magnets to rice cookers to new energy vehicles, all point to the same trend: the way foreign tourists get to know China is extending from "seeing the scenery" to "tasting life." Magnificent landscapes and profound culture have always been the first door to understanding China, but more and more people's footsteps do not stop at the exit of scenic areas.
This shift is directly related to the increasing convenience of inbound travel. In recent years, China has continuously expanded its visa-free "circle of friends," and more and more repeat visitors are coming for a "second visit" or "third visit." On the first visit, they first check in at the well-known and familiar (耳熟能详, er shu neng xiang - "ear, familiar, can, know") famous historical sites; when they come again, they are more willing to wander into alleyways and shopping malls to see how ordinary people live. Vegetable markets, home appliance malls, community parks... the radius of travel is widening, and the dimensions of understanding China are expanding in tandem.
When foreign tourists are no longer satisfied with "been there, done that" but are willing to step into China's everyday life with its hustle and bustle, the barriers between different countries and cultures quietly melt away in the details of daily necessities. This empathy rooted in everyday life is more concrete and more enduring. When rice steamed in a Chinese rice cooker is served on a foreign dining table, when a Chinese new energy vehicle drives onto the commuting route of an overseas family, the bond between China and the world takes root in these tiny moments of daily life.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Han Xiaoming) In response to the recent multiple military operations carried out by the Houthi armed forces in Yemen against facilities such as airports inside Saudi territory, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning answered questions at a regular press conference on the 12th, stating that China consistently opposes attacks targeting civilians and civilian facilities, calls on relevant parties to avoid actions that lead to an escalation of regional tensions, resolve differences and disputes through dialogue and negotiation, and achieve regional peace and stability at an early date.
"China condemns the attacks that have caused heavy casualties and expresses grave concern over the intensification of the conflict," Mao Ning said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 徐 馨
Not long ago, Germany's national youth entrepreneurship competition was held in Stuttgart. This competition, aimed at middle school students and vocational school students, attracted more than 6,500 participants, with the scale of participation reaching a historic high. The KfW Banking Group's newly released 2025 Entrepreneurship Monitor report shows that the trend of a younger entrepreneurial community in Germany is becoming increasingly pronounced, the number of people engaged in the technology sector has increased, and youth forces are reshaping the entrepreneurial landscape.
Data show that in 2025, the average age of German entrepreneurs was 34.2 years, 40% of entrepreneurs were aged between 18 and 29, and 22% of young people went directly into entrepreneurship after completing their studies, with the degree of youthfulness reaching a historic high. Among newly established enterprises, 44% were involved in digital products and services, with artificial intelligence and healthcare becoming the fields where young entrepreneurs concentrate their efforts. Dirk Schumacher, chief economist of the KfW Banking Group, stated that Germany, as a regional commercial center, needs entrepreneurs full of creativity and pioneering courage.
Behind the continuously growing vitality of German youth entrepreneurship lies the sustained efforts of the country's government support system. The "EXIST" program and the state-owned innovation institution — the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (hereinafter referred to as the "Innovation Agency") — are the main instruments through which the German government supports youth entrepreneurship. The "EXIST" program began in 2000, is funded by the federal government, connects with university resources, and focuses on supporting technology-oriented innovative projects. For example, in 2025, two teams of master's graduates received funding from this program, respectively developing an artificial intelligence autonomous firefighting platform and robotic medical, wearable exoskeletons, with the relevant results expected to be applied in fields such as fire prevention and control, limb disability rehabilitation, and others. Many entrepreneurial teams that grew out of this program have now grown into industry benchmark enterprises.
The Innovation Agency focuses on excavating high-risk, high-potential disruptive innovation projects. In addition to providing funding, this institution also connects entrepreneurs with industrial and international resources, assists in building teams, and at the same time tolerates entrepreneurial trial-and-error. The head of the institution, Rafael de la Vela, believes that a positive mindset, innovative enthusiasm, and adventurous spirit are the keys to the success of startups.
A regenerative medicine enterprise founded by graduates of RWTH Aachen University is committed to applying 3D bioprinting technology to overcoming difficult problems (攻克难题, gong ke nan ti - "attack, overcome, difficult, problem") in organ transplantation. Not long ago, this company just completed a 7 million euro financing round, with the Innovation Agency being one of the investors. As early as 2023, the Innovation Agency had already funded this young enterprise; now, as the company moves toward the clinical trial stage, the Innovation Agency has again stepped in to help it through this critical period.
German state governments have also successively introduced supporting measures, with nearly half of German startups having received state-level policy or financial support. Not long ago, Bavaria provided 400 million euros in support to the nuclear fusion energy enterprise "Proxima Fusion," established in 2023, assisting in the technological breakthrough of clean energy.
German university research institutions are also important incubators for youth entrepreneurship. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology offers systematic entrepreneurship courses starting from the undergraduate level, forms a mentor team composed of professors, entrepreneurs, and investors, and opens up the channel from research ideas to market implementation. Technical University of Munich provides students with entrepreneurship courses, prototype laboratories, and venture capital matchmaking, and has cumulatively supported more than 1,000 youth startups. Heidelberg University cultivates students' entrepreneurial literacy through activities such as entrepreneurship camps and entrepreneurship competitions. CODE University of Applied Sciences in Berlin takes cultivating entrepreneurial talent as its educational goal, with approximately 14% of its students having founded enterprises, cumulatively incubating more than 120 companies, with total financing exceeding 110 million euros.
Verena Pausder, president of the German Startups Association, believes that the wave of artificial intelligence technology, superimposed on changes in the job market, jointly pushes up the entrepreneurial willingness of German youth. When the stability of positions at large enterprises declines, independent entrepreneurship becomes a more attractive choice. "This is precisely the golden window period for startups, and society needs to maintain a more open and inclusive attitude toward new things." Pausder said.
(People's Daily, Berlin, October 12)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张矜若
Recently, many areas of Thailand have been hit by continuous heavy rainfall and flooding, damaging urban and rural roads and residential housing, and impacting agricultural production, the manufacturing industry chain and supply chain, and livelihood guarantees. Thailand's Ministry of Interior reported on October 12 that since September 16, the floods have affected 51 provincial-level administrative divisions across the country, including the capital Bangkok, causing 71 deaths. Data released by the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation that day showed that 20 provinces and parts of Bangkok are still affected, involving approximately 908,600 households and 2.4589 million people. At present, the Thai government is continuing to advance flood prevention and disaster relief, livelihood support, and production recovery.
Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul presided over a national disaster prevention and mitigation command meeting on the 12th, requiring relevant government departments to strengthen flood monitoring and early warning, accelerate resolution of long-standing waterlogging in some areas, and advance rescue of affected people and post-disaster recovery.
Thailand's water resources department has improved drainage efficiency by regulating reservoir sluice gates in the Chao Phraya River basin and dredging river channels, and has deployed 1,914 mobile pumping units; the agricultural department has mobilized 30 boats to deliver food, drinking water, and other supplies to areas where transport is blocked, and has set up temporary shelters in Ayutthaya Province. Anutin stated that the government has distributed subsidies totaling approximately 1.069 billion baht (1 yuan is equivalent to about 5.01 baht) to more than 135,000 affected households, and has required local authorities to accelerate review and distribution of remaining disaster relief funds.
Some low-lying communities in Bangkok have experienced waterlogging for many days. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration stated on the 8th that 80 communities in 9 eastern districts are still affected by waterlogging. Local authorities are accelerating drainage by adding pumping equipment, building temporary flood barriers, and lowering water levels in major canals; in some communities where floodwaters have receded, the Thai military, municipal departments, and volunteers have jointly carried out dredging operations, concentrated removal of waterlogged furniture and appliances, assisted in inspecting residential electrical equipment, and helped affected residents return to normal life.
The impact of the floods on industrial production is gradually emerging. The Federation of Thai Industries stated on the 7th that industrial losses from this round of flooding are estimated to have reached 6 billion baht, a significant increase over earlier preliminary estimates. The Thai Auto Parts Manufacturers Association stated that about 10 parts companies in the country have suspended operations due to the floods; although some companies were not directly flooded, due to blocked employee commuting and poor logistics and transport, they have been unable to deliver parts on time, and some vehicle manufacturers have suspended production.
Agriculture and livelihood guarantees are under pressure from the disaster. Vegetable growing areas in Ayutthaya, Nakhon Pathom, and Chachoengsao provinces have been damaged, and some layer hen farms in Chachoengsao Province have been flooded, with approximately 3 million laying hens killed. Thailand's Ministry of Commerce has required relevant enterprises to reduce egg exports by 30 to 50 percent in phases, coordinate increased supply from unaffected areas, stabilize egg market prices, and has launched sales of affordable agricultural products in Bangkok's affected areas starting from the 9th to ease the living burden on people in disaster zones.
The floods have also impacted public health services. Thailand's Ministry of Public Health stated on the 7th that 166 medical institutions nationwide have been affected by the floods, of which 54 have temporarily suspended services. Multiple medical rescue teams have gone deep into affected areas to carry out mobile consultations, medicine distribution, and disease prevention work, and have set up temporary medical facilities and arranged patient transfers.
During this flood disaster, Chinese institutions in Thailand have also actively offering assistance or help (伸出援手, shen chu yuan shou - "stretch out, extend, help") in disaster relief. On September 26, Sinotrans Thailand Company, together with the Pinglan Public Welfare Foundation, activated the "Disaster Express" emergency supply warehouse response mechanism, delivering 100 livelihood disaster relief boxes that same day to the disaster victim resettlement center at Siriphatthana School in Bangkok. Thai Chinese charity organizations such as the Poh Teck Tung Foundation organized rescue teams and volunteers, using flat-bottomed boats to deliver livelihood supplies and assist in transferring trapped people and patients. The Chinese Embassy in Thailand had previously issued a safety reminder, calling on Chinese citizens in Thailand to strengthen precautions, and published emergency consular assistance channels.
The Economic and Business Forecasting Center of the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce estimates that the total losses from this round of flooding range from 22 billion to 30 billion baht. Thailand's meteorological department issued its latest warning on the 12th, predicting that heavy rainfall may still occur in many areas including Bangkok and its surroundings on the 13th. The Thai government stated that it will continue to strengthen monitoring and early warning, advance flood prevention and disaster relief and post-disaster recovery, and strive to reduce the continued impact of the floods on the economy and people's livelihoods.
(People's Daily, Bangkok, October 12)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 12) (Reporter Han Xiaoming) Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said on the 12th in response to a question on China-Japan relations that the root and essence of the problem lies in the serious deviation and fallacy in the historical and China-related views of Japan's current leaders, which have severely undermined the political foundation of China-Japan relations. To bring China-Japan relations back on track, the ball is of course also in Japan's court.
At the regular press conference that day, a reporter asked: Recently, after visiting China, former Japanese Foreign Minister and President of the International Trade Promotion Association Takeshi Iwaya stated that the cause of the deterioration in China-Japan relations lies with the Japanese side, and that the Japanese government should seek to improve the situation. There are also voices within Japan criticizing the evasion of historical responsibility as having led Japan's China policy going down the wrong track (误入歧途, wu ru qi tu - "mistakenly, enter, crooked, path"), and calling on the Japanese government to face up to and resolve the problem. What is China's comment on this?
Mao Ning said that these remarks reflect the rationality and conscience of far-sighted people in Japan, and China views them positively. As they said, the root and essence of the problem lies in the serious deviation and fallacy in the historical and China-related views of Japan's current leaders, which have severely undermined the political foundation of China-Japan relations. Such a situation does not serve the interests of either side, and the responsibility lies entirely with the Japanese side. To bring China-Japan relations back on track, the ball is of course also in Japan's court.
"We urge Japan's current leaders to listen to and heed the voices of justice at home, face up to the root of the problem, abide by the four political documents between China and Japan, and earnestly reflect on and correct their mistakes on issues such as Taiwan, history, and perceptions of China," Mao Ning said.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, October 12) (Du Jiangfan, Xu Taotao) The 48th Chinese Navy escort task group departed Kota Kinabalu Port, Malaysia, on the 12th, concluding a five-day friendly visit to Malaysia.
As the ships left port, representatives of officers and soldiers from the Malaysian Navy Eastern Fleet, staff of the Chinese Embassy and Consulates in Malaysia, and representatives of Chinese-funded institutions and overseas Chinese and Chinese nationals gathered at the pier to see them off. The task group's officers and soldiers lined up in formation on the decks by section, waving goodbye to the crowd seeing them off.
During the visit, the task group commander called on the leadership of the Malaysian Navy. China and Malaysia organized mutual ship-visiting activities, and the two sides held discussions and exchanges on maritime navigation safety, hydrology and meteorology, and escort operations in the Gulf of Aden, learning from each other and helping each other (互学互鉴, hu xue hu jian - "mutually learn, mutually assist"), while jointly recalling the traditional friendship between China and Malaysia.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Riyadh, October 12) (Reporter Ren Haoyu) The Saudi Arabian General Authority of Civil Aviation issued a statement on social media in the early hours of the 12th, saying that in the attack on the capital Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport on the 11th, one Pakistani citizen was killed and 11 others were injured.
The statement said the injured have been sent to hospital for treatment, the attack also caused property damage, and the relevant investigation is still ongoing.
The Saudi-led multinational coalition confirmed a little earlier that King Khalid International Airport was attacked again on the 11th after being attacked on the 10th. According to the statement from the Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation, the attack on the airport on the 10th killed 12 people and injured 309.
According to information from the multinational coalition, the Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation, and the Houthi armed forces on the 11th, from the 10th to the 11th, the Houthi armed forces carried out multiple military operations against airports and energy facilities inside Saudi territory. Among them, King Khalid International Airport and King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Eastern Province, were each attacked twice.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Addis Ababa, October 11) (Reporter Liu Fangqiang) The International Organization for Migration announced on the 11th that a migrant boat carrying 305 people capsized off the coast of Djibouti, with the death toll now rising to 139 and 84 people still missing.
The statement said the accident occurred between the evening of October 8 and the early hours of October 9 local time. The boat capsized while en route from Djibouti to Yemen.
So far, 82 people have been rescued. The International Organization for Migration and the Djiboutian government continue to organize search and rescue operations, and are providing medical assistance and food aid to survivors. Earlier information released by the International Organization for Migration said the boat was carrying 350 people.
In recent years, large numbers of migrants from Ethiopia, Eritrea, and other countries have traveled through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait between Djibouti and Yemen to the Arabian Peninsula in search of work opportunities.
Return to TopLaos's smart power grid inspection safeguards power supply security, Central Asia's smart photovoltaic installations release the potential of clean energy, Africa's international submarine cable opens up digital arteries, and German manufacturing factories achieve green production... In recent years, a batch of Chinese innovative technologies and solutions have taken root and borne fruit overseas, effectively empowering local sustainable development and enabling more people to benefit from the dividends of innovation.
Laos National Power Transmission Grid Company —
Power inspection gains "clairvoyant eyes"
People's Daily reporter Yang Yi
Amid the dense forests of the mountainous northern regions of Laos, transmission towers stand tall. Employees of the Laos National Power Transmission Grid Company are operating drones to conduct X-ray flaw detection inspections on the lines. On the ground equipment screens, real-time images show faults being accurately identified.
"The drones can even find defects in blind spots of vision!" Lao employee Adu praised without cease. Chinese employee Lü Xi patiently explained by his side: "The drone is the 'clairvoyant eye' of power inspection. The onboard X-ray gives the lines a 'perspective scan.' Wherever there is hidden damage inside the conductor, it can see through it at a glance."
The Laos National Power Transmission Grid Company was jointly established by China Southern Power Grid and Electricité du Laos, and is responsible for the investment, construction, and operation of Laos's national backbone power grid. In March 2025, China Southern Power Grid introduced drone X-ray flaw detection technology to the company, first promoting and applying it on the China-Laos Railway power supply lines. This technology imitates the principle of computed tomography scanning: drones use X-rays to conduct "perspective physical examinations" of key components such as conductor and ground wire crimping positions, enabling accurate identification of hidden risks such as fractures in metal components and poor bonding, effectively preventing line faults and power outages, and greatly improving the efficiency and quality of operation and inspection.
"Traditional inspection requires first cutting off the power, with at least six staff members on site, of whom three to four must climb the tower for high-altitude work, and only one tower can be inspected per day — low efficiency and high risk." Liu Jinxiao, director of the Production, Operation, and Safety Supervision Department of the Laos National Power Transmission Grid Company, introduced that drone X-ray flaw detection technology allows live-line work; inspection can be completed simply by remotely controlling the drone, and the workload of several days in the past can be completed in half an hour.
To enable Lao employees to master this technology proficiently, the Laos National Power Transmission Grid Company has continuously carried out systematic training. Since 2024, relying on the "Craftsman Alliance" platform jointly established with Electricité du Laos, the company has conducted "one-on-one" teaching through the signing of "master-apprentice contracts," holding an average of three drone skills training sessions per year, and has cumulatively trained more than 300 Lao trainees, of whom 30 have proficiently mastered drone operation skills.
"Smart drone inspection has liberated us from heavy manual labor and is a successful practice on the path toward intelligence and unmanned operation." A Xin, squad leader of the Transmission Line Class of the Transmission and Transformation Management Office of the Luang Prabang Provincial Power Supply Bureau of Electricité du Laos, is one of the trainees and is currently responsible for the operation and maintenance of the Luang Prabang section of the line. He said with deep feeling: "In the past, line inspection often required trekking over mountains and wading through rivers, and not much work could be done in a whole day. Now, using drones not only greatly improves work efficiency but also reduces operational risks."
According to plan, drone-mounted X-ray flaw detection technology will be gradually applied to the inspection of Laos's national backbone power grid and will be coordinated with more intelligent operation and maintenance methods to continuously enhance the capability to safeguard grid security. "China's advanced technology will help us provide more stable and reliable power support for the safe and stable operation of the China-Laos Railway and for Laos's economic and social development," said Phantha Sisola, an employee of the Transmission Team of the Production, Operation, and Safety Supervision Department of the Laos National Power Transmission Grid Company.
Uzbekistan Integrated Energy Project —
Robots used for component installation
People's Daily reporter Li Qiang
On the Gobi Desert in Uzbekistan's Navoiy Region, rows of photovoltaic panels of the Navoiy Integrated Energy 300 MW photovoltaic project, which is about to achieve full-capacity grid connection, are neatly spread out, gleaming with a blue luster under the blazing sun. During the peak construction period at the beginning of this year, in addition to Chinese and Uzbek technical workers, smart photovoltaic component installation robots from China operated stably with precise and agile movements, becoming eye-catching "builders" on the Gobi Desert.
"In the past, construction on this kind of terrain was very difficult — moving components was laborious and positioning was inaccurate." Project safety supervisor Oybek Rakhimov said with emotion that the smart robots have greatly improved construction efficiency and significantly reduced the safety risks of high-altitude work and heavy object handling. "These Chinese devices seem tailor-made for this place; they can work continuously even in high-temperature and sandstorm weather."
The Navoiy Integrated Energy 300 MW photovoltaic project is invested in and constructed by China Energy Engineering Group Overseas Investment Company. The project introduced smart photovoltaic component installation robots for construction, integrating high-precision robotic arms, visual recognition, and multi-sensor navigation systems, achieving fully automated operations throughout the entire process of component handling, positioning, and installation. It has become the first photovoltaic power station in Central Asia built using smart installation technology.
Nazarbek Ismoilov, the Uzbek project manager, introduced that Uzbekistan has abundant sunshine and enormous potential for the development of the photovoltaic industry, but in the past it has lacked efficient, low-cost construction capabilities. Smart robot construction has shortened the critical construction period by more than 30% and reduced comprehensive installation costs by approximately 38%. "This provides a replicable and promotable mature model for Uzbekistan's large-scale development of photovoltaic projects. By introducing China's advanced equipment, the green energy industry has become both efficient and economical," he said.
"I feel like I am commanding an efficient construction team from the future. In the past, a group of workers could install at most three to four hundred components a day; now one robot can install seven to eight hundred components a day, with millimeter-level precision and a one-time success rate of over 99%." Young Uzbek engineer Murodjon Mukhammadov said. After systematic training from the Chinese side, he has already proficiently mastered technical essentials such as equipment monitoring and parameter setting.
Chinese engineer Lin Xu stated that the project has already provided two rounds of systematic training for local trainees, covering all aspects including robot operation, maintenance, and upkeep. "Our philosophy is not just 'handing over the keys,' but even more so 'passing on skills.' For the photovoltaic power station to operate stably over the long term in the future, a localized technical team is even more necessary." Lin Xu said that the project has already created more than 800 local jobs, and through systematic training, many local young people like Mukhammadov have already proficiently mastered smart equipment operation and basic operation and maintenance skills.
"This is not just the introduction of Chinese equipment, but a deep technological collaboration and capacity transfer." After a site visit, Farrukh Sabirzhanov, an Uzbek energy sector expert, said that the achievements China has made in developing new quality productive forces provide realistic options for Central Asian countries to achieve green transformation and also set a new benchmark for regional energy cooperation.
Africa's 2Africa International Submarine Cable —
Empowering Africa's digital development
People's Daily reporter Zheng Xiang
At the end of 2025, a test optical signal was sent from the South Africa landing station, passed through Kenya to Djibouti, and was successfully received at the opposite end on the section from Marseille, France, to Egypt, marking the activation and opening of key segments of the 2Africa international submarine cable project. This information superhighway, with a total length of 45,000 kilometers, will use innovative practices in the communications field to bridge Africa's digital divide.
"We continue to deepen cooperation with local operators, promote the extension of submarine cable transmission capacity to Africa's interior, and empower local digital development." Han Mei, network planning manager of the Planning and Technology Innovation Department of China Mobile International, stated that as a vice-chair unit of the project construction group, China Mobile has deeply participated in the entire process, including network architecture design, supplier selection, and project coordination. The 2Africa international submarine cable will provide Africa with extensive, stable, and low-cost internet connectivity, with a focus on covering rural and remote areas, "so that the digital dividend reaches more corners of the African continent."
Africa is the continent with the fastest internet growth in the world, but constrained by insufficient technology and funding, the number and coverage of submarine cable constructions are far lower than in data-traffic-dense regions. In 2020, China Mobile, together with eight international partner companies, jointly initiated the 2Africa international submarine cable project, laying submarine fiber optic cable around the African continent and connecting 33 countries and regions across Africa, Asia, and Europe, providing high-quality, low-latency international communications services to a total of approximately 3 billion people along the route. The project has a design capacity of 180 terabits per second. The backbone system has already been put into commercial use, construction on the Central and Southeast Asia segment is being accelerated, and full-line operation is expected within this year.
"We have deployed reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer technology for the first time in the African region, which is equivalent to building an 'intelligent interchange bridge' on the seabed that can remotely and flexibly dispatch bandwidth at each station according to real-time traffic demand, realizing intelligent and unmanned network operation and maintenance," introduced Xiong Xiong, head of the Submarine Cable Infrastructure Team of the Planning and Technology Innovation Department of China Mobile International.
"China Mobile has not only brought advanced technology, but has also taught us how to use this technology to change our own country." Kevin, an employee of China Mobile International from Kenya, majored in communications engineering at university and joined China Mobile after graduation, devoting himself to the construction of the 2Africa international submarine cable project. China Mobile widely employs local African technical personnel and helps them quickly master advanced communications technology through systematic technical training, one-on-one pairing guidance from international experts, and other methods, cultivating a valuable team of cutting-edge network technology talent for Africa.
William Kabogo Gitau, Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Information, Communications and the Digital Economy, stated that the 2Africa international submarine cable has greatly enhanced Africa's communications capacity, optimized usage costs, and effectively strengthened the resilience of Africa's digital infrastructure. The project has also opened up interconnection channels between coastal and landlocked countries, providing strong support for promoting cross-border connectivity and regional integration and for building a unified African digital market.
Germany's KraussMaffei Group —
Raising the level of green and intelligent development
People's Daily reporter Liu Zhonghua
At the KraussMaffei Group's new global headquarters base in Parsdorf, east of Munich, Germany, covering an area of more than 150,000 square meters, more than ten high-precision injection molding machines are arranged in a straight line in the production workshop. The intelligent assembly line runs slowly, injection molding machines, reaction process machinery, and extruders operate steadily, and automated handling equipment shuttles back and forth in an orderly manner.
"This place integrates digitalization, green energy, and global collaboration, bringing together headquarters functions, injection molding, reaction process machinery, additive manufacturing, and machinery production departments in one location, giving traditional manufacturing new vitality," said Zhang Chi, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of KraussMaffei Group.
KraussMaffei is a world-renowned manufacturer of plastics and rubber processing equipment with a history of more than 180 years. In 2016, Sinochem Holdings acquired KraussMaffei outright, promoting the gradual restructuring of its production capacity, R&D, and manufacturing networks and ushering it into a new stage of globally coordinated development. Frank Siemat, head of the Reaction Process Machinery division of KraussMaffei, said the company has benefited greatly from the Chinese market's development and technological innovation. "We have a century of engineering experience, and China has excellent cutting-edge technology and can respond quickly to market demand. The new equipment jointly developed by both sides is exported worldwide, greatly enhancing our core competitiveness."
In 2023, with Sinochem's financial and technical support, KraussMaffei moved to its new headquarters base in Parsdorf. As one of the largest new projects in the European injection molding industry in recent years, the new headquarters base deeply integrates digital manufacturing, high-performance materials processing, and energy sustainability concepts, and can realize the R&D and assembly of traditional injection molding machine manufacturing, modern additive manufacturing, and full-process system solutions. "The new headquarters base has replaced most of the equipment, making production processes smoother, greatly shortening delivery cycles, and giving us a new competitive advantage," said Holger Albern, Senior Operations Director of KraussMaffei.
"We have introduced digital production management systems and advanced logistics technology to raise the level of intelligence, while also equipping the facility with energy-efficient buildings, rooftop photovoltaic systems, and electric vehicle charging stations, striving to build a model low-carbon sustainable factory, with carbon neutrality expected to be achieved by 2030." Zhang Chi introduced that green and low-carbon is the distinctive label of the new headquarters base. It has one of the largest rooftop photovoltaic systems in Europe, with an output of more than 9 megawatts, capable of meeting approximately 40% of the company's electricity demand. In addition, all production lighting at the new headquarters base uses energy-saving lamps, and the office building design has also passed green certification, maximizing energy utilization efficiency.
This new headquarters base, integrating green, intelligent, and collaborative concepts, is becoming an important vehicle for China and Germany to promote global industrial upgrading and achieve achieving mutual benefits and win-win results (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual, benefit; together, win"). "Now I can invite customers into the new technology center and, through on-site displays and demonstrations, let them understand products and solutions more intuitively." René Dierks, Global Head of Multi-Technology Projects at KraussMaffei, stated that the new headquarters base invested in by Sinochem has greatly improved the production environment, raised process standards, and made all process flows more efficient, "creating new opportunities for sustainable multi-market growth for us in the current challenging market environment."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 姜 峰
The key to Chinese modernization lies in the modernization of science and technology. In the past two years, in order to promote the deep integration of the "four chains" — the innovation chain, the industrial chain, the capital chain, and the talent chain — Chongqing Municipality has made systematic efforts to cultivate and gather science-and-innovation "pace companions" (陪跑人), providing science-and-technology talent with services such as building teams, finding investment, expanding markets, and commercializing achievements for their innovation and entrepreneurship, overcoming difficulties such as technology maturation, production and operation, financing support, and market promotion, and accelerating the process "from 0 to 1" and "from 1 to N."
At present, more than 570 professional "pace companions" in Chongqing Municipality are active on the front line of the market, having served more than 6,300 person-times of talent, commercialized more than 1,000 achievements, and incubated 684 science-and-technology enterprises. In fields such as digital-intelligence technology, life and health, and new materials, they have promoted the realization of a number of important technological breakthroughs, with the "pace companions" helping to "accelerate" the pace.
Carefully selecting and clearly defining who will "pace alongside"
Feng Wenxue now has two identities: he is both the general manager of a biomedical company and a "gold-medal pace companion" cultivated and gathered by Chongqing High-tech Zone.
In 2017, he started a company with six classmates who had returned from studying abroad; at that time, Feng Wenxue was still an entrepreneur. "The biomedical industry has a very high threshold." After gaining experience through hard work and struggle (摸爬滚打, mo pa gu da - "crawl, climb, roll, tumble"), his university senior and junior fellow apprentices all came to him, saying, "We hear you are very experienced — can you help us with the commercialization of our achievements?"
"Among the dozens of shareholders and partners in the company, it can be said that apart from the head of R&D, I understand R&D better than anyone else, and apart from the head of marketing, I understand the market better than anyone else..." Feng Wenxue said with a smile. With his outstanding management and operation capabilities, he was selected as a Chongqing "gold-medal professional manager" and deeply participates in the full-cycle services for talent innovation and entrepreneurship in the biomedical field.
Last year, coordinated by the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee Talent Work Leading Group, the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, the Municipal Party Committee Financial Office, and the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau issued the "Chongqing Municipal Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship 'Gold-Medal Pace Companion' Team Building Plan," clarifying the need to do a good job in building the four "pace-companion teams" of technology managers, professional managers, investment managers, and incubator managers. "According to different needs such as technology maturation, operation and management, financing matchmaking, and incubation and cultivation, we establish a subdivided 'pace companion' team pool to provide precise matchmaking services," introduced Yang Pengfei, director of the Talent Development Center of the Organization Department of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee.
"Ten years ago, I came to Chongqing High-tech Zone to engage in incubation services for small and micro enterprises. From business registration to tables, chairs, and benches, I had to manage everything, like a 'nanny,'" said Xiao Chunrong, chairman of Chongqing Science City Science and Technology Innovation Development Co., Ltd. Today, as a "gold-medal incubator manager," he practices in his work the "three ones" mission pursuit of incubation and cultivation — helping talent establish a company, obtain an investment, and secure an order. "In the past we competed on quantity; now we compete on quality. 'Pacing alongside' is not 'watching the excitement'; incubation must produce results," Xiao Chunrong said.
Last year, Jiang Yong, an associate professor at Chongqing Vocational and Technical University of Industry, brought his R&D achievements to Xiao Chunrong. Developing a series of products to form a "moat" with strong technological relevance; Chongqing High-tech Zone injecting fiscal funds in the form of "investment first, equity later" to support, leveraging the "investment + orders" of leading enterprises... With Xiao Chunrong's pace-companion assistance, Jiang Yong's company has moved onto the "fast track" of development.
For the cultivated "pace companions," Chongqing Municipality organizes classified and coordinated special training classes at the primary, intermediate, and advanced levels, training 500 person-times of technology managers each year and 100 person-times each of professional managers, investment managers, and incubator managers. Trained personnel are continuously and dynamically incorporated into the "pace companion" information pool, promoting cross-field exchange and knowledge iteration.
At the same time, it opens up degree education and cultivates reserve forces. Last year, Chongqing High-tech Zone and Chongqing Technology and Business University jointly established the Chongqing Technology Transfer College to carry out master's degree cultivation in the technology transfer direction. "The school uses four master's degree programs — finance, accounting, intellectual property, and business administration — for cultivation, highlighting industry faculty and practice first," said Yang Kaiyuan, executive dean of the Chongqing Technology Transfer College. Feng Wenxue is precisely one of the college's graduate supervisors. "I am not only teaching the future 'pace companions,' but also scouting for young 'partners' who understand operations, are good at management, and have drive."
This year, the Chongqing Municipal Education Commission supports four qualified universities in participating in the cultivation of graduate-level "pace companions," and in the future it will gradually reach a scale of 500 people per year, concentrating efforts on building a cradle for cultivating "pace companions."
Aggregating resources to help efficient "pacing alongside"
One proactive door-knock "knocked open" resources 2,500 kilometers away.
Bishan District, Chongqing High-tech Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Service Port. Within a building area of 100,000 square meters, a comprehensive scenario integrating project collection and storage, pilot-scale maturation, enterprise incubation, and market services has been created. To date, 61 projects have been incubated and landed, including Chongqing Ha Chuan Technology Co., Ltd., jointly built by the Talent Port and Harbin Engineering University.
"We proactively approached the university, leveraged the platform advantages of the Talent Port, helped Ha Chuan Technology improve rules and regulations from scratch, build a core team, and carry out talent attraction and cultivation, and also coordinated the provision of supporting services such as finance and legal affairs, ensuring the standardized and stable operation of the start-up enterprise, and helping build the first deep-sea technology pilot-scale base in the western region," said Lin Peisi, a post-90s "pace companion" and operations director of the Chongqing High-tech Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Service Port.
"'Pace companions' provide professional services for achievement commercialization, and the Talent Port provides a comprehensive platform with integrated functions. This gave us a 'reassurance pill' and made us decide to settle in Bishan and build a product matrix of marine intelligent perception with completely independent intellectual property rights," said Chen Zhou, founder of Chongqing Ha Chuan Technology Co., Ltd. and a doctor from the College of Underwater Acoustic Engineering at Harbin Engineering University.
Not relying on the sea, not bordering the border, the hinterland of the southwest attracting deep-sea technology projects to settle is precisely a microcosm of Chongqing's building of talent ports to aggregate resources and help efficient "pacing alongside."
Under the guidance of the Organization Department of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, and the Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, and specifically constructed by Liangjiang New Area, Chongqing High-tech Zone, Beibei District, Banan District, Yongchuan District, and Bishan District, six talent innovation and entrepreneurship service ports have been built adjacent to universities, incubation platforms, and industrial parks, using one-stop talent innovation and entrepreneurship complexes to carry the landing of pace-companion projects. "Pace companions" are stationed at the ports on a regular basis, forming a "one-stop" service in which talent, as soon as they produce achievements, are incubated at the port, and once incubation succeeds, they leave the port to enter the park.
"'Pace companions' cannot operate alone without support or teamwork (单兵作战, dan bing zuo zhan - "single soldier, conduct war") or act or struggle entirely by oneself (单打独斗, dan da du dou - "single strike, single fight"); rather, they must rely on a strong position and hard-core support," Yang Pengfei said. "Pace companions" solve the problem of "who will do it," and the talent ports solve the problem of "where it will be done," allowing the talent ports and the "pace companions" to exert a "multiplier effect."
Beibei District, where Southwest University is located, once faced the dilemma of university science-and-innovation achievements achieving success or popularity elsewhere rather than at the source (墙内开花墙外香, qiang nei kai hua qiang wai xiang - "inside wall, flower, bloom; outside wall, fragrance"). In 2024, the university and the locality joined hands to build the first university-surrounding talent innovation and entrepreneurship service port in the west and issued eight measures including funding support and performance reform. "Right across from the university gate is Phase I of the Talent Port; now 'it is hard to find a single room.'" Huang Bin, dean of the Southwest University (Chongqing) Industrial Technology Research Institute, introduced, "Since Phase II of the Talent Port, with 90,000 square meters, was put into use, nearly 60 percent has already been rented out."
In the 2025 annual district-and-county science-and-technology work effectiveness assessment of the Chongqing Municipal Science and Technology Bureau, the construction effectiveness of the Beibei District Southwest University-surrounding innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem ranked first in Chongqing Municipality, driving Beibei District's social R&D funding input intensity to 5.9 percent, also ranking first in the municipality. Huang Bin, who has worked in the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements for 30 years, said with emotion: "Innovating on campus, starting businesses at the port, and efficient 'pacing alongside' — we have caught the best period."
Bishan District has simultaneously cultivated four "pace companion" teams at the port, with 86 people providing full-time, full-process pacing alongside the achievement commercialization chain of "technology R&D — pilot-scale verification — enterprise incubation — industrial landing," cumulatively providing more than 280 quality control templates for technology, processes, testing, and other aspects for enterprises at the port, helping eight enterprises including Zhongchuang Dingxin and Chensuo Measurement and Control successfully pass quality system certification, transforming "laboratory products" into "factory-grade quality goods."
Gathering momentum with the ports, "pacing alongside" achieves merit. As of now, Chongqing's six talent ports have helped cultivate 31 national-level "specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative" enterprises, 82 national-level high-tech enterprises, and 11 enterprises in the listing reserve.
Reform empowerment, driving sustained "pacing alongside"
Chen Jin, an incubator manager who has been deeply engaged in the science-and-innovation and incubation industry for more than 20 years, has successfully incubated 57 science-and-technology enterprises and promoted Chongqing Pingchuang Semiconductor Co., Ltd. to grow into a sixth-batch national-level specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative "little giant" enterprise, which was directly included in municipal-level high-level talent services.
"Talent who serve talent are also talent." This concept was repeatedly mentioned during interviews. Through reform empowerment, Chongqing has put together a "combined punch" of incentive and evaluation measures for "pace companions."
Incorporating them into talent recognition and strengthening high-end leadership. Chongqing selects "gold-medal pace companions" who have achieved landmark results from the four "pace companion" teams, taking the lead at the provincial level in recognizing them as high-level talent. For those who are particularly outstanding, their talent level is separately determined through "one case, one discussion," and they enjoy services equal to those of scientists and engineers.
Breaking down professional title barriers and smoothing the evaluation channel. Chongqing breaks down the barriers of fragmented professional title evaluation, and in the technical brokerage professional title, explores setting up corresponding sub-professional directions for the four "pace companion" teams, smoothing the evaluation channels for primary, intermediate, and senior professional titles. For technology managers and incubator managers, Chongqing has specifically opened a "dual channel" for professional title evaluation in natural science research or engineering technology, breaking the "ceiling" of professional title evaluation. To date, 114 "pace companions" have been awarded senior professional titles.
Outstanding achievements are incentivized. Chongqing supports districts and counties in independently granting certain awards and subsidies according to "pacing alongside" performance, giving "pace companions" a tangible sense of gain. Chongqing High-tech Zone, calculated at 1 percent of technology transaction volume, gives each "pace companion" a maximum reward of 200,000 yuan per year, driving the 2025 technology contract transaction volume to exceed 4.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 25 percent. Bishan District clarifies the follow-on investment ratio for individual projects, achieving a deep binding between the pace-companion team and the pace-companion project, implementing long-cycle overall assessment, downplaying the short-term success or failure of a single project, focusing on evaluating sustainable development capability, and implementing an "eight-level, ten-tier" growth system, with those who perform well in "pacing alongside" being promoted in rank and those who are particularly outstanding being adjusted in rank for use.
There is a stage for business competition. Not long ago, the "Gold-Medal Pace Companion" real-combat competition opened registration nationwide. Bao Zhiyue, assistant to the dean of the Southwest University (Chongqing) Industrial Technology Research Institute and an incubator manager, is eagerly preparing to register for the competition. "Proposing the optimal solution to the real needs of 'listed' enterprises is not only a competition among 'pace companions' on the same stage, but also a valuable opportunity to discover projects, match achievements, and sign cooperation contracts."
The "Future Pace Companion" competition for university students was also held at the same time, allowing more young people aspiring to "pace alongside" entrepreneurship to stand out, and making the concept of "making innovation not lonely and making entrepreneurship simple" more deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Return to TopBy: 史一棋
"Small wisdom governs affairs; great wisdom governs systems." Upholding institutional governance of the Party and governance of the Party by rules and regulations is an important aspect of Xi Jinping's Party-building thought, the Fourteen Commitments (十四个坚持).
Uphold institutional governance of the Party and governance of the Party by rules and regulations, and advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in depth.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized: "Strengthening the building of the Party's internal rules and regulations system is the long-term strategy and fundamental strategy for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party."
Rules, regulations, and institutions carry a fundamental, overall, stable, and long-term character. Rules, regulations, and institutions delineate behavioral boundaries with rigid constraints, clarify the responsibilities and compliance guidelines, solidify mature experience and governance requirements into norms, ensuring that the Party's cause develops developing steadily and maintaining long-term progress (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk steadily, reach far").
On December 4, 2012, less than a month after the conclusion of the Party's 18th National Congress, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee reviewed and approved the Eight-Point Regulation (八项规定) on improving work conduct and maintaining close ties with the masses. This was the first important internal Party regulation formulated in the new era, addressing the problem of "a tiger trying to eat the sky, not knowing where to bite down" in Party management and Party governance, launching the "first action" of reshaping the Party's image and appearance in the new era, becoming the "golden business card" of Party management and Party governance in the new era. For more than 10 years, work-conduct improvement has been making continuous and unremitting efforts (常抓不懈, chang zhua bu xie - "constantly grasp, not slack"), the Eight-Point Regulation has always been exerting force, becoming a long-term effective iron rule and hard standard. Through the deep implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation, our Party has halted some unhealthy tendencies that had long not been halted, corrected some chronic and stubborn maladies that had persisted for years unremoved, Party conduct and government conduct have become completely new in appearance (焕然一新, huan ran yi xin - "glow, change, one, new"), and social conduct and popular customs have continued to improve.
The Eight-Point Regulation is a microcosm of internal Party rules and regulations driving full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in depth. Upholding institutional governance of the Party and governance of the Party by rules and regulations, through scientific institutional arrangements, the level of scientific, institutionalized, and standardized Party management and Party governance has been continuously raised.
Uphold institutional governance of the Party and governance of the Party by rules and regulations, and tighten the institutional cage.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized: "To properly resolve the prominent contradictions and problems existing within the Party, to effectively defuse the major challenges and dangers facing the Party, a very important point is to perfect norms, improve institutions, and tighten the institutional cage."
Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has closely centered on the overall work of the Party and the state to strengthen the Party's institutional building, forming a relatively complete system of internal Party rules and regulations with the Party Constitution as its foundation, democratic centralism as its core, and the Party's organizational regulations, Party leadership regulations, Party self-building regulations, and Party supervision and guarantee regulations as its framework.
On the new journey, we must uphold advancing with the times (与时俱进, yu shi ju jin - "with, time, together, advance"), accurately grasp the new situation and new tasks facing Party management and Party governance, closely focus on prominent contradictions and institutional shortcomings exposed in practice, closely focus on prominent problems affecting the flesh-and-blood ties between the Party and the masses, and continuously enhance the targetedness and effectiveness of institutional supply.
Uphold institutional governance of the Party and governance of the Party by rules and regulations, and strengthen institutional implementation.
The vitality of institutions lies in implementation. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized: "We must enhance the enforcement of rules, regulations, and institutions, establish clear rules, break hidden rules, and prevent institutions from becoming 'scarecrows.'"
After institutions are formulated, nine-tenths of the effort must be spent on ensuring implementation. On the one hand, strictly implement the responsibility system for enforcing rules and regulations, work hard to connect the "first mile" and the "last mile" of institutional implementation, strengthen normalized supervision and special inspections, making internal Party rules and regulations become "high-voltage lines" carrying electricity. On the other hand, uphold holding people accountable for any dereliction of duty (失责必问, shi ze bi wen - "lose, responsibility, must, ask") and strict accountability, seriously pursue the responsibility of leaders of regions and departments where institutional implementation has failed due to dereliction of responsibility or inadequate supervision, use rigid accountability to force responsibility implementation, and promote institutional governance of the Party and governance of the Party by rules and regulations to continuously advance in depth.
In addition, give play to the leading role of leading cadres as the "key minority," uphold that there are no privileges in observing institutions and no exceptions in implementing institutions, use leaders' taking the lead to promote institutional implementation, and lead the entire Party and the whole society to consciously safeguard institutional authority.
On the new road of the examination, implementing Xi Jinping's Party-building thought, continuously improving a scientific, complete, effective, and workable institutional system, continuously transforming institutional advantages into governance effectiveness, we will surely be able to open up a new realm of China's governance through the governance of the Communist Party of China.
Return to TopRecently, Luliang County, Qujing City, Yunnan Province, organized Party members and cadres to go down to the grassroots frontline, closely focusing on key links such as the implementation of pro-agriculture policies, the disbursement of agriculture-related subsidies, and the guarantee of agricultural machinery services, listening to the voices of the people and visiting their conditions. The photo shows cadres of the Luliang County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision and resident cadres of Yubu Village, Fanghua Town, learning about the autumn harvest situation in the fields.
Photo by Wang Yong (People's Vision)
Return to Top"Who issued this 'Land Ownership Source Certificate'?" Facing the investigators' questioning, Huang, former head of a residents' group in a community under Binjiang Subdistrict, Qiongshan District, Haikou City, Hainan Province, lowered his head.
The matter originated from an audit rectification supervision and inspection in the field of land acquisition compensation. When verifying the acquisition materials for the shantytown renovation project in the southern section of Binjiang West Road, the Qiongshan District Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision discovered that the project's rectification was becoming a mere formality (流于形式, liu yu xing shi - "flow, at, form, pattern") and that false rectification had occurred, with multiple irregular compensations all claimed on the basis of the same batch of false land ownership certificates.
As the investigation deepened, a scheme to defraud state funds through land acquisition compensation gradually came to light. The land in question originally belonged to the collective assets of the residents' group. Someone split the plots before acquisition and applied for compensation in the name of individual homestead land. According to local policy, the compensation standard for homestead land is far higher than that for collective land, and the huge price difference stirred greed in Huang.
Taking advantage of his official position assisting in land acquisition verification and ownership determination, Huang irregularly issued false certificates, deliberately altered the nature of the land, packaged collective land as individual homestead land, and submitted it for approval. "I thought that as long as the procedures were thorough, I wouldn't be caught," Huang said. Relying on this material, the relevant plots passed review with a "green light" all the way, and compensation funds totaling millions of yuan were irregularly claimed.
By checking the plot ledgers one by one and reviewing the original registration records, the case-handling personnel established that Huang had used his official position to fabricate the nature of the land and defraud acquisition compensation funds of more than 7 million yuan. In the end, Huang was expelled from the Party, and the suspected criminal issues were transferred to the procuratorial organ for legal review and prosecution.
[Commentary from the discipline enforcers] Land acquisition compensation involves the vital interests of the masses. In this case, a grassroots cadre took advantage of his official position assisting in land acquisition work, harbored improper intentions in land ownership determination, and used review certificates as a tool to defraud compensation. Such conduct seriously harms state interests and undermines social fairness. Land acquisition compensation involves strong policy considerations and large amounts of funds; it is necessary to strengthen source review and whole-process supervision, and strictly prevent problems such as "making money from certificates." Party members and cadres should hold power in awe and discipline in reverence, and must never turn the power entrusted by the organization into a tool for seeking personal gain.
(Compiled by Sun Haitian, People's Daily reporter)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孟祥夫
Night falls, and mountain breezes blow gently. The e-commerce center of Shanzhuang New Village in Shichang Township, Wulian County, Rizhao City, Shandong Province, is brightly lit. Cao Yuchao, secretary of the village Party branch, leads several villagers in weighing, sorting, and packing, neatly arranging the last batch of pancakes, millet, and taro to be shipped that day. In the livestream room next door, an anchor is introducing the mountain agricultural products, and the order numbers on the screen keep climbing.
Cao Yuchao is native to the place (土生土长, tu sheng tu zhang - "earth, born, earth, grow") — a Shanzhuang New Village local. After graduating from university, she returned to her hometown to start a business, bringing mountain goods out of the mountains. Now, as the "head of the household" of the village, her "first thing on the agenda" is to broaden the two paths of e-commerce and homestays. Proactively connecting with television stations and tourism companies to promote the village's rose and rosebush cultivation and natural scenery... Groups of tourists enter the village, the villagers' agricultural product sales channels widen, and the small mountain village becomes livelier.
The changes in Shanzhuang New Village are not an isolated case. Recently, Wulian County has focused on the "first thing on the agenda" of the village's two committees, accomplishing one practical matter of greatest concern to the masses, allowing the new leadership team to quickly step into their roles and deliver tangible results.
In Dajiji Village, Kouguan Town, many young people have gone out to work, and the elderly at home "make do with whatever meal they can." The new leadership team spent over a month revitalizing idle houses in the village to build a happiness canteen, equipping it with a full kitchen and elderly-friendly tables and chairs, with the village's two committees and public welfare post personnel volunteering to help cook. Thirty-five elderly people now have a place to eat, and those with limited mobility receive meals delivered to their doors. The canteen prioritizes purchasing vegetables from surrounding villagers, which are both fresh and provide villagers with an additional income channel.
In addition to the "first thing on the agenda," the village Party organizations in Wulian County have also simultaneously formulated term plans and annual plans, listing each item clearly, and posting them together with the "first thing on the agenda" on the public notice board, so the masses can check the accounts at any time.
After the new village leadership teams took office, Wulian County promptly held a "leading geese guiding the flight" training class. The training, benchmarked against the county-wide "first thing on the agenda" list, follows the "three industries, one governance" framework, dividing village Party branch secretaries into three development categories — industrial upgrading, resource revitalization, and weak-link tackling — and one stability category for rural governance, tailoring specific policies to different categories (一类一策, yi lei yi ce - "one, kind, one, policy") with small classes and hands-on practice.
"Different villages have different situations; some face governance issues and must first stabilize the situation before pursuing industrial development," said Yao Yang, head of the First Organization Section of the Organization Department of the Wulian County Party Committee. The county has made clear that village Party branch secretaries with heavy rural governance tasks, based on the village's actual conditions, must also "take an additional course" in an industrial direction to support industrial development.
Wulian County has carried out the "village-enterprise joint construction, common prosperity and win-win" activity, going village by village to identify idle assets, cooperable specialty agricultural products, and development assistance needs, forming a supply list. On the enterprise side, the county organizes relevant departments to survey by industry, gathering who wants to expand production, who lacks factory space, and who is looking for raw material bases, item by item, to form a demand list. When the two supply-demand lists are matched, those with strong cooperation intentions and high compatibility are brought to the same table through industry promotion meetings and matchmaking sessions. The two lists are updated quarterly, with new village resources and new enterprise needs added at any time.
More than a dozen idle houses in Huangyachuan Village, Hubu Township, were precisely through the lists that a cultural tourism enterprise took a liking to and converted into homestays, with an annual guaranteed rent of over 200,000 yuan, instantly strengthening the village collective's financial backbone. The old factory building in Houweijia Village, Chaohe Town, was "matched" with a sweet potato dried goods processing enterprise and converted into a production workshop... To date, more than 20 villages across the county have achieved project implementation through list-based matchmaking, revitalizing more than 60 idle houses, old factory buildings, and other assets.
Whether a leadership team performs well depends on how many commitments are fulfilled. Wulian County has established a closed loop of "commitment — public disclosure — evaluation": on a daily basis, township officials assigned to villages supervise progress point-to-point; at the monthly "1-hour Party member activity," village Party branch secretaries report on progress; at year-end, village leadership teams check each item against their commitment letters, with Party members and the masses participating in scoring.
"Going forward, the county will continue to focus on handling the 'first thing on the agenda,' using the village-enterprise lists more flexibly, making the categorized training more solid, and enabling more new leadership teams to leverage support and get things done," said Zhu Kaikai, deputy head of the Organization Department of the Wulian County Party Committee.
Return to TopThe Zunyi Conference was a great turning point not only in the history of the Red Army's Long March but also in the history of the Chinese revolution. In July this year, the reportage Three Days in Zunyi, written by the author Hu Songtao, won the ninth Lu Xun Literature Prize; at the end of September, the five-episode documentary Three Days in Zunyi, which drew on the creative concept of the book, also met its audience and received widespread acclaim. From literature to film, from the historical scene to the contemporary moment, from the presentation of facts to the transmission of spirit, the two works offer insights for the refined creation of major revolutionary historical subjects.
—Editor
Return to TopBy: 胡松涛
After the Zunyi Conference, Comrade Mao Zedong commanded the Red Army to victory at the Loushan Pass, and composed the poem "Recalling Qin'e · Loushan Pass" on horseback, giving birth to the famous lines "The green mountains are like a sea, the setting sun like blood." Mao Zedong said: "Having accumulated many years of observation of scenery in war, when I arrived at Loushan Pass and encountered this sudden convergence of military victory and natural scenery, it produced these two lines that the author himself considers quite successful." This passage reveals the "secret" behind the birth of an unexpected work: first, "having accumulated many years of observation of scenery," and second, "the sudden convergence of military victory and natural landscape."
My writing of the reportage literature Three Days in Zunyi also went through a process of "many years of accumulation" and "sudden convergence." I have studied the Zunyi Conference and collected historical materials related to it for nearly 30 years, amassing considerable material, but I never thought of "turning" it into a book. On the one hand, my own life experience was insufficient and my depth of thought inadequate; I had no confidence in whether I could complete the grand narrative of the Zunyi Conference. On the other hand, this subject matter demands high political and theoretical standards; if written poorly, it could easily become party stereotyped writing, become "pre-made dishes." The three-day Zunyi Conference left not a single word of original record — how can one vividly and graphically recreate the historical scene? The figures, stories, and outcomes of the Zunyi Conference hold no suspense, and writing on major historical subjects cannot resort to fiction the way one writes a novel — how can one write something new? These were all tests for the author.
On the eve of the 90th anniversary of the Zunyi Conference, I made up my mind to begin writing. The driving force behind it was my profound realization: Why is China what it is today? Look back at the Zunyi Conference! At a moment of existential crisis, the Zunyi Conference saved the Party, saved the Red Army, and saved the Chinese revolution. This was not only a historical turning point in the Chinese revolution; the code of growth, the code of accomplishment, and the code of success contained within it hold enormous inspirational significance for an organization, a team, and even an ordinary person.
With historical materials fully prepared, I was troubled by the lack of an entry point. It was not until I discovered that the history of the Zunyi Conference conceals an extremely coincidental number — "three": the Zunyi Conference lasted three days; the three days of the conference corrected the errors of the "Left" deviationist line of the preceding three-plus years; and after the three days of the conference, another three-plus months of adjustment were needed to implement the spirit of the Zunyi Conference and form a new collective leadership.Therefore, I used "Three Days in Zunyi" as the title of the book and constructed three major sections. "Turbulent Times — More Than Three Years of Hardship Leading to the Zunyi Conference" depicts the Red Army's repeated defeats before the Zunyi Conference and the critical situation that was a matter of life and death (生死攸关, sheng si you guan - "life, death, exist, concern"), which was the "cause" of convening the Zunyi Conference. "Turning the Tide — Three Days of Forging That Completed the Zunyi Conference" restores the historical scene of the three-day Zunyi Conference, depicting the fierce confrontations in which the Communists contended for the Party and corrected errors. "A Splendid World — More Than Three Months of Break-in That Perfected the Zunyi Conference" depicts the historical legend of the Chinese revolution taking a sudden turn for the better (柳暗花明, liu an hua ming - "willow, dark, flower, bright") after the Zunyi Conference, which was the "result" of the Zunyi Conference.This framework sketched out the pre-history, the scene, and the aftermath of the Zunyi Conference, and I wrote with surging passion, completing the first draft in just over a month.
It can be said that it was the convergence of history and the times that gave birth to Three Days in Zunyi.
The lifeblood of reportage literature lies in truthfulness. In writing, I consulted a large number of documents and classics, cited several hundred items of historical material, cross-checked against the recollections of the Zunyi Conference participants, referred to the recollections of contemporaries of the conference, absorbed the research findings of scholars and experts, traced every sentence to its source, and verified every character, striving to ensure that every stroke had a basis and every statement was well-grounded. Seeking truth means one cannot evade the complex texture of history, cannot label or oversimplify the figures. Some reader friends said: they could see the postures and expressions of the participants, hear their breathing, and had a feeling of feeling as if one were present on the scene (身临其间, shen lin qi jian - "body, arrive, that, between").
Reportage literature is "literature" and must possess literary quality and literary texture. Three Days in Zunyi combines revolutionary realism with revolutionary romanticism, using new narrative, new rhythm, and richly colorful storylines to depict and portray the vivid images of Mao Zedong, Zhang Wentian, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Chen Yun, Bo Gu, and others. There is the brush of historical verification, the brush of cultural commentary, and the brush of military observation, writing reflections on victory and defeat, and meditations on individual destiny and collective destiny. I hope to write a song of destiny that unifies truthfulness and artistry, to express the grand theme of the Zunyi Conference and vividly present the great spirit of the Long March.
Throughout the creative process, I was moved time and again by the revolutionaries' firm faith and lofty vision. At the Zunyi Conference, the Communists' fearless courage in "discussing defeat," facing errors directly, and engaging in self-renewal; Mao Zedong's resilient character of never giving up and never "lying flat" despite being in desperate straits and suffering repeated setbacks; the broad-mindedness of revolutionary predecessors such as Zhou Enlai, who kept the overall situation in mind, practiced self-criticism, upheld truth, and were being selfless and impartial (大公无私, da gong wu si - "great, public, no, private"); the dauntless spirit of the Red Army commanders and fighters, whose faith was like a torch, who feared no sacrifice, and who were unyielding in the face of setbacks (百折不挠, bai zhe bu nao - "hundred, bend, not, yield")... These are precisely the spiritual wellsprings that drive us forward with determination today.
Return to TopBy: 闫 伟
On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the documentary film Three Days in Zunyi takes a critical period as its narrative anchor, using a small entry point to display the glorious journey and great significance of the Red Army's Long March, vividly portraying a high point in the history of the Chinese revolution. Through its compact narration and profound insight into the laws of historical development, the entire film powerfully interprets the power of faith embodied in the great Long March spirit.
Spiritual conception is the soul of a documentary. Compared with works on the same subject, the most important value of Three Days in Zunyi lies in its sorting out and expounding the logical relationship in which the Zunyi Conference is deeply bound up with the Long March and even the entire course of revolutionary history, breaking through the public's cognitive limitation of understanding what happened without knowing the underlying reasons (知其然不知其所以然, zhi qi ran bu zhi suo yi suo ran - "know its so, not know why so") regarding this period of history. The film attempts to tell us: at a moment of a matter of life and death (生死攸关, sheng si you guan - "life, death, involve, connection"), it was precisely the Zunyi Conference, lasting only three short days, that pointed out the direction for the Long March and profoundly changed the fate of the Chinese revolution; the Long March was not merely a strategic shift, but also the Chinese Communist Party's self-renewal in the face of desperate circumstances.
In order to express the above theme well, Three Days in Zunyi adopts a mode of presentation that organically unifies "expounding principles" and "telling stories." The film draws deeply on the creative essence of the reportage of the same name, abandons the grand but empty narrative formula, and uses precise slices of time and space, rich historical details, and delicate character portrayal to "bring out principles through stories" in a highly condensed manner. Through its audiovisual language, the work constructs a parallel chapter structure of "inside the meeting hall—inside Zunyi City—outside Zunyi City" and a vertical narrative thread of "earlier trials and tribulations—the three-day turning point—subsequent rebirth," achieving a deep integration of synchronicity and diachronicity. By looking back at the earlier explorations of the Tongdao Conference, the Liping Conference, and the Houchang Conference, it clearly shows that the Zunyi Conference was not accidental but an inevitable choice for survival in desperate circumstances; by focusing on the intense ideological contention and correction of the line at the meeting, it vividly restores the great attempt of the Chinese Communist Party to independently and autonomously solve the practical problems of the Chinese revolution; by extending to present the difficult adjustment in the three months after the meeting, it narrates from the side the strategic transformation of classic campaigns such as the Four Crossings of the Chishui River and the skillful crossing of the Jinsha River...With historical facts as its bones and logic as its veins, the work leads viewers to understand the irreplaceable and important value of the Zunyi Conference. It is precisely this two-way convergence of documentary authenticity and storytelling that gives the revolutionary history in the river of time warmth and radiance.
Breaking the single model of "piling up historical materials and dominated by commentary" and adopting diversified, multi-dimensional expression is another technique by which the work presents its profound conception. Sincere and unadorned oral recollections salvage details beyond the historical records, restoring little-known stories from before and after the conference, full of the flavor of everyday life and a sense of on-the-scene presence. The in-depth interpretations of authoritative experts explain profound concepts in a simple and easy-to-understand way (深入浅出, shen ru qian chu - "deep, enter; shallow, go out") the source and core of the Chinese Communist Party's spirit of self-revolution, independence and autonomy, and seeking truth from facts, elucidating the deep logic behind history. The original appearance of the meeting site, revolutionary manuscripts, marching implements, and battle blueprints shown in the lens—each object testifies to one matter, each object reveals one piece of history—become vivid carriers that narrate history. The insertion of film and television clips and dynamic prints transforms written historical materials into dynamic, visible images, immersively restoring classic historical moments with a distinctive, profound flavor.
Although there is still room for improvement in integrated innovation, technological expansion, and other aspects, Three Days in Zunyi remains a work that well achieves integrating ideology and artistry into a single whole (熔思想性和艺术性于一炉, rong si xiang xing he yi shu xing yu yi lu - "melt, ideology, and, artistry, at, one, furnace"). Through the telling of a story of just three days, it completely reproduces the major turning point in which the Chinese revolution was reborn from desperate circumstances, profoundly interprets the profound significance of the Zunyi Conference in saving the Party, saving the Red Army, and saving the Chinese revolution at the most critical juncture, and makes a unique annotation on the screen in commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March. Red history need not be rigidly didactic; it can also be narrated unhurriedly with a calm exterior that hides profound depth (静水流深, jing shui liu shen - "quiet, water, flow, deep"). It is believed that more excellent documentary works, through creative expression that is both meaningful and interesting, will enable the great Long March spirit to continue nourishing contemporary hearts and minds, infusing spiritual momentum into the struggle and endeavor of the new era.
(The author is Director of the Editorial Department of the China Television Art Committee and Executive Editor-in-Chief of China Television.)
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During the National Day holiday, culture and tourism were booming. On Nanbin Road in Chongqing, tourists scrambled to shoot images like this: in the night, wearing a helmet and sitting on the back of a motorcycle, the bike roaring past with the throttle open, behind them the river surface reflecting the lights. This kind of travel-photography video, dubbed by netizens "Chongqing landing visa," has surpassed 1.7 billion views on social platforms, and has even attracted many foreign tourists to make a special trip to Chongqing to check in.
"Landing visa" is a new form of travel photography invented by netizens. It borrows the widely known concept of entry and exit, upgrading a simple city photo check-in into an "entry ceremony" with a stronger sense of identity. Compared with the traditional "I was here" in scenic areas, the "landing visa" is more like a city greeting card invented by young people: turning around under the red wall of the Yellow Crane Tower in Wuhan, pinning flower ornaments into the hair at Xunpu in Quanzhou, changing into Hanfu under the city wall of Xi'an — once the image is frozen, it feels as if one has truly been "signed for" by the city. Through netizens collectively playing with the meme and spontaneously spreading it, the "landing visa" has become a culture-and-tourism experience that broke through the entire internet, and it has rapidly spread across multiple cities. Local culture-and-tourism departments have also followed suit, and many cities are searching for their own "landing visa" camera positions.
For tourists, taking a set of beautiful photos and harvesting likes on their Moments is essentially expressing "I have formed a connection with this city." Such an emotional need is a natural extension of the experience economy. For cities, using a highly recognizable visual symbol in exchange for nationwide exposure, turning more tourists into creators of city imagery and disseminators of city stories — why not? The emerging in an endless stream (层出不穷, ceng chu bu qiong - "layer, emerge, not, stop") of commercial travel photography, and the wide variety of one-stop services, can all be seen as the market's response to this genuine demand.
The market has run ahead, and management needs to keep up closely. In shooting the "Chongqing landing visa," there are safety hazards such as riders letting go of the handlebars, occupying motor vehicle lanes, and dangerous riding; local authorities have already launched rectification and standardization work. On one hand, there is the rare and precious opportunity (千载难逢, qian zai nan feng - "thousand, years, difficult, meet") of "sky-high traffic"; on the other, there are safety hazards urgently needing correction. Such two sides of the same coin are precisely the angle for observing new forms of culture and tourism.
The sound development of urban culture and tourism tests the level of refinement in services and governance. Every holiday, there are always cities that make the trending list for "hospitality with propriety." During the holiday, Rongchang District in Chongqing opened its government canteens to welcome guests, and Xuan'en County in Hubei set up emergency beds in its gymnasium for tourists who suddenly poured in. These details reveal a city's attitude toward tourists. Investigating the safety hazards in the "landing visa" is also a manifestation of urban services and governance. It is not about cooling down the culture-and-tourism boom, but about setting rules for new business forms; it is not about denying traffic, but about enabling this popularity to go far and steadily. Only when multiple parties strengthen coordination and form a joint force can a balance be struck among public safety, consumer rights, and commercial innovation, and can internet-famous turn into "long-lasting fame."
In addition, assembly-line commercial travel photography is highly prone to falling into homogenized involution. Every city's "landing visa" uses the same lighting, the same camera positions, and the same background music, and the freshness of travel gradually disappears amid identical consumption. The night scenes in filters are monotonous and unvarying (千篇一律, qian pian yi lu - "thousand, pieces, one, pattern"), while a play in the theater, a bowl of noodles at a stall at the alley entrance, and the vivid and full of life (活色生香, huo se sheng xiang - "living, color, produce, fragrance") daily life of a city are the unforgettable memories that remain in tourists' hearts. Today, when efforts are focused on cultivating new culture-and-tourism scenarios and new consumption, one cannot bet everything on a single internet-famous camera position. Traffic is responsible for "being seen," but quality is what makes one "remembered." A city's best "landing visa" is not stamped on a photo, but engraved in memory.
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The stage play Autumn in the Small County was launched last year by the Beijing People's Art Theatre, and its first round of performances already won a great success that wins enthusiastic applause (满堂彩, man tang cai - "full hall, color"). Recently, the play was staged as the opening production of the Beijing People's Art Theatre International Drama Invitational, and tickets remained extremely hard to obtain (一票难求, yi piao nan qiu - "one ticket, difficult, seek"). Why does a story set in an American family continue to resonate with Chinese audiences? The answer lies both in the emotionally charged script of playwright Tracy Letts and in the creative team's localized, life-oriented interpretation rooted in realist drama.
The family is the basic unit of society and also a window reflecting the times. Since ancient Greek drama, playwrights have revealed social issues by dissecting family problems. Autumn in the Small County opens with the elderly father, Beverly, alone in his study reciting Eliot's verse, "Life is very long." This line is both his retrospective on his own life and a kind of prophecy, foreshadowing that this family, which has struggled to hold together for years, will experience a sudden and rapid decline or change (急转直下, ji zhuan zhi xia - "suddenly, turn, straight, descend"). The head of the household leaves without a word; the wife and daughters gather at the old house, yet each person having their own private thoughts or motives (各怀心事, ge huai xin shi - "each, harbor, heart, matter"); when news arrives that the old father has drowned himself in the lake, a storm nearly half a century in the brewing erupts with a bang.
Why does a family end up each person harboring their own dissatisfaction (各怀不满, ge huai bu man - "each, harbor, not, satisfied") and pulling against one another? The play dissects the cycle of this predicament. Because the parental generation was never properly loved, their love for their children came with strings attached; the daughters, who never received their parents' pure, unconditional love, grow up to "seek love" elsewhere through feigned strength, self-sacrifice, and people-pleasing, replicating new unhappiness. The broken family, the oppressive old house—bearing the imprint of American society—reveal difficulties that are universally faced by humanity. The struggles deep in human nature and the contemplation of family relationships transcend borders and cultures.
The Beijing People's Art Theatre version's handling of the play, while fully respecting the original work's spiritual essence and ensuring narrative fluency, adds a Chinese-style poetry and warmth. Lu Yan, the translator of the original work, has been deeply engaged in Sino-foreign cultural exchange for many years; while reading the script, she thought of the classic Chinese film Spring in a Small Town. The two differ in time and place, yet both dissect family relationships and inner emotions. The play's original title, August: Osage County, was ingeniously rendered by the translator as Autumn in the Small County, allowing Chinese audiences to intuitively grasp the bleak flavor of "an eventful autumn"—"As the leaves are about to fall, the tree's form and the entanglement of its roots become all the more visible."
The co-direction of Tang Ye and Gong Lijun has further Sinicized the stage presentation of Autumn in the Small County. When the Beijing People's Art Theatre stages foreign classic dramas, it does not mechanically copy foreign accents or engage in forcing something to fit a standard by compromising its essence (削足适履, xue zu shi lv - "cut, foot, fit, shoe"), but rather relies on the mutual fusion of realism and impressionism, of Western text and Eastern aesthetics, giving the work a distinct "People's Art flavor." The plays The Investigation and The Gin Game are both examples of this, and Autumn in the Small County is precisely the latest practical achievement along this path. After three years of script polishing, actors including Gong Lijun, Chen Xiaoyi, and Pu Cunxin delivered textbook-level performances. The dense emotional shifts on stage, rendered through the actors' precise and vivid lines and actions, allow the audience to empathizing deeply with someone else's experience (感同身受, gan tong shen shou - "feel, same, body, receive") with the logic of real life and to resonate with the play's connotations and extended themes.
The intricate web of character relationships is presented through a stage design that combines the virtual and the real. The main body of the stage replaces solid walls with frames and lines, constructing an impressionistic three-story house; as the turntable rotates, the perspective of a house "leaking wind from every side" and the implication of setting arbitrary limits or confining oneself to a narrow scope (画地为牢, hua di wei lao - "draw, ground, for, prison") come fully into view. Each floor of the house has its own functional emphasis: the first floor displays domestic trivia and public quarrels, the second floor presents relatively private conversations, and the third floor is the residence of Johanna, the Native American maid, who observes this family's story from an omniscient perspective, "looking down" upon it.
In the original play, Johanna is highly metaphorical and an indispensable character who states the theme. She is kind, upright, and even-tempered. The People's Art Theatre version amplifies the light within her, and the ending has also been given a warm treatment. The original play ends with the three daughters each going their separate ways after seeing through the truth about love, whereas in the ending of Autumn in the Small County, after the eldest daughter flees the old house, she looks back with deep emotion. Whether she stays or leaves is left for the audience to judge.
Return to TopIn recent years, guofeng (Chinese traditional style) evening galas have become testing grounds for new audiovisual technologies. Not long ago, the 2026 Mid-Autumn Wonderland Journey skillfully fused AI (artificial intelligence)-generated audiovisual segments with live-action real-person filming, telling the story of "moon chaser" Xiao Wang who accidentally travels back to ancient times, making the profound Chinese cultural heritage perceptible and knowable amid the flow of light and shadow.
The gala treats AI as a tool serving the main narrative thread, rather than merely showing off technical prowess. Live-action shots convey the characters' genuine emotions; Xiao Wang's Mid-Autumn phone call with his mother is plain and moving, allowing the audience to empathize with him. AI-generated scenes assume the function of time-space jumps, using montage to complete the ancient-modern traversal and drive the plot forward. After arriving in the ancient virtual scenes, the use of AI-generated segments is restrained, naturally connecting with the live-action footage and achieving a seamless dialogue between ancient and modern time-space. Traditional folk music, vocal dialogue, and digital light and shadow complement one another, integrating audiovisuals, so that historical allusions and traditional cultural elements are no longer isolated symbols, achieving the harmonious coexistence of reality and illusion (虚实相生, xu shi xiang sheng - "void, solid, mutually, generate"). Technology is the surface, cultural heritage the core; the profound traditional culture will continue to enter the hearts of contemporary people.
(Wang Yanxia, Chaoyang District, Beijing)
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As the thematic key, "traces" carry multiple meanings in the film Detective of Traces. It refers not only to physical evidence traces in criminal cases; the creators also attempt, through a story spanning half a century, to sketch the trajectory of the times' development.
This National Day box-office champion takes as its character prototype Cui Dazhi, China's first generation of criminal technical police and a recipient of the "July 1 Medal," selecting four major cases from different eras to depict his career of more than 70 years through seeing only a small part of a much larger whole (管中窥豹, guan zhong kui bao - "tube, look, peep, leopard"). The protagonist Cui Xun spends his life dealing with material traces such as bite marks, fingernails, and explosive residue fragments, searching for and discovering those hidden pieces of information that help track down criminals. These silent materials are the breakthrough points of case investigation and, moreover, the pivotal points of plot narration, endowing the film with a distinctive temperament. What the protagonist directly faces is no longer criminals guilty of every conceivable evil, but thousands of physical evidence samples; the dramatic tension likewise does not derive from gripping and deeply moving (扣人心弦, kou ren xin xian - "hook, people, heart, strings") chases, or visually impactful struggles between good and evil, but rather from "human" patience—that moment of discovering useful clues within "objects"; the film's appeal also shifts from grand and magnificent spectacles to the charm of the microscopic world constituted by magnifying glasses and microscopes.
From the perspective of criminal investigation expertise, "whatever has passed through must leave traces," and traceology is therefore called the science of "reverse testimony to time." From the dimension of cinematic narrative, traces can also be understood as an engraving upon social history. The interlinked, mutually echoing detail settings in the film forge a chain of causality that, gear-like, propels the wheel of history ever forward. In the 1971 murder case in the ice city, trace examination technology had not yet received sufficient attention, and fingerprints could not even be effectively lifted; yet in the extraordinarily serious case of 1983, technical personnel who had been barred at the door more than a decade earlier were already able to enter the scene first to examine every tiny clue or trace (蛛丝马迹, zhu si ma ji - "spider, silk, horse, tracks").
Four major cases, four eras, make one deeply feel that the "sense of the times" in public security-themed works lies not in ever-renewing uniforms, instruments, and urban landscapes, but in the transformation of people's consciousness and concepts. Cui Xun and criminal police officer Wang Weiguo work together in investigating cases and cooperate with each other, yet they are not without differences and conflicts. Rather than saying that the two men's sharply contrasting personalities cause disagreement or conflict between people (龃龉, ju yu - "grind, teeth, gap, crack"), it is better to say this is a clash of concepts between "placing greater weight on physical evidence" and "placing greater weight on witness testimony." Time and again Cui Xun makes physical evidence "speak," finding the true culprit and the truth, continuously reinforcing the key role of material facts and evidence science in solving cases and convicting the guilty—which is naturally also a concrete embodiment of national development and conceptual progress.
Social transformation and the changes of the times likewise leave traces on the characters. Influenced by Cui Xun, Wang Weiguo, who had once doubted the role of trace examination, insists on using trace examination methods to prove his own innocence when a suspect injures himself to frame him; yet amid the tide of reform, he fails to withstand the temptation of profit and takes his own life over economic problems—a lamentable end. But on Cui Xun himself, this imprint of time appears somewhat blurred. The four cases, divided into episodic segments, cut across decades of years, and the resulting sense of leaps affects the full-bodied expression of the protagonist's inner emotional flow and character development. His ideals, his steadfastness, his quietness, his patience—all seem innate or inborn (与生俱来, yu sheng ju lai - "with, birth, possess, come") and unchanged year after year. In the transformation from real-life deeds to film and television creation, it somewhat appears that the "case" outweighs the "person," without delving deeply into the protagonist's complex psychological traces.
In the epilogue, a preview of the sequel Detective of Ballistics is released early, and director Chen Sicheng seems deliberately to be launching another "Detective Universe." From the perspective of the film industry, series films reduce development time and costs, help form an attractive IP brand, and maintain and enhance audience loyalty. At the narrative level, one also hopes the sequel can further enrich the characters' spiritual qualities.
From his box-office hit "Detective Chinatown" series as director, to the critically acclaimed The Three Teams as producer, and then to Detective of Traces, this is a creative trajectory for Chen Sicheng—long-term cultivation of the public security and suspense genres, committed to activating the inner vitality of similar subject matter, and the successes and failures along the way are all, without exception, valuable experience for the development of China's film industry. And the intrinsic essence of film art may well be rooted in the conjunction, overlap, and interaction between the traces of the times and the trajectory of creation.
(The author is an associate professor at the Beijing Film Academy)
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