Summary: The article reports on General Secretary Xi Jinping's remarks on advancing the fight against corruption with greater clarity and resolve, as emphasized at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Xi stressed maintaining a high-pressure posture without wavering, integrating the rectification of misconduct with corruption enforcement, and advancing the integrated effort to ensure officials do not have the audacity, opportunity, or desire to be corrupt. The piece cites statistics on disciplinary actions and examples of local investigations, such as in Dianjiang County, Chongqing, and highlights the role of integrity culture, referencing Xi's 2022 visit to the Three Su Shrine in Sichuan. It concludes by affirming that the Party will win the tough, protracted, and overall war against corruption to safeguard Chinese modernization.
Summary: The article reports on a nationwide ideological and political lesson titled "Each Generation Has Its Own Long March," launched by the Ministry of Education, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, and People's Daily, which reached 115 million students by October 28. The course, divided into four chapters for primary, junior high, senior high, and university students, revisits the Long March's history and its spiritual legacy, featuring teachers and students from schools along the route. It highlights stories such as the Red Army's capture of Luding Bridge, a proclamation by Mao Zedong and Zhu De, and General Liu Huaqing's vow on aircraft carriers, linking past struggles to China's current carrier development. Teachers and students express resolve to become inheritors, promoters, and practitioners of the great Long March spirit, with the article emphasizing the spirit's enduring relevance for the new journey.
Summary: The article reports on Hubei Province's efforts to build a "land of fish and rice for the new era," following General Secretary Xi Jinping's November 2024 instruction during an inspection tour of Hubei that the province "must strive to make achievements in urban-rural integrated development and comprehensive rural revitalization." It highlights agricultural technology advances, such as high-protein corn and rice breeding breakthroughs, and industry chain development, including the Wuchang fish industry leveraging Ezhou Huahu International Airport for global delivery. The piece also covers rural governance improvements, Party building leadership, and cultural tourism integration, citing examples like tea tourism in Enshi and the Tonglüshan archaeological site. Data cited include 48.08 million mu of high-standard farmland, six 100-billion-yuan industry chains, and 493 million rural tourism visits in 2025. The article concludes that Hubei is accelerating its role as a strategic fulcrum for the rise of the central region.
Summary: In Danyang City, Jiangsu Province, which produces about 45% of the world's resin lenses, the eyeglasses industry is accelerating its intelligent transformation, with smart glasses becoming a new frontier for technological innovation. Yuan Hongjin, secretary-general of the Danyang Eyeglasses Chamber of Commerce, said the complete industrial chain has laid a solid foundation for seizing opportunities in this shift. Companies like Jiangsu Gongda Jinkai have developed fully automated prescription lens production lines, while Nuotong Yimu uses semiconductor photolithography to make thinner, lighter lenses with higher precision and light transmittance. Hong Feng, director of the Danyang Economic Development Bureau, noted challenges such as core components like chips and optical modules not keeping up, prompting the city to issue an action plan for AI empowerment and establish public service platforms. Yuan added that the future focus will be on building the smart glasses industrial chain and accelerating dual-wheel drive of traditional eyeglasses and smart glasses.
Summary: Shanxi's Yuncheng City is committed to practicing the concept of green development, advancing comprehensive ecological environment governance, and creating high-quality living spaces for its citizens. The photo shows the ecological landscape of Yuncheng's central urban area. Photo by Yang Jianfeng (Image China).
Summary: Comrade Liu Yandong, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China and a loyal communist fighter having stood the test of time, passed away from illness in Beijing at 14:53 on October 28, 2026, at the age of 81. She was a distinguished leader of the Party's united front work and of China's education, science and technology, health care, and women's and children's affairs. She served as a member of the Political Bureau of the 17th and 18th CPC Central Committees, Vice Chairperson of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, former State Councilor, and former Vice Premier of the State Council.
Summary: The Ministry of Commerce reported that the consumer goods trade-in policy has driven sales in related categories past 2 trillion yuan since 2026, benefiting over 250 million person-times. At a national teleconference on advancing the trade-in work, the ministry summarized policy progress and deployed next-stage tasks. The meeting stressed that all regions must focus on key links, adopt more concrete measures, and implement the policy to a higher standard for a successful year-end conclusion. It also called for combining local realities, strengthening inter-departmental coordination, innovating offline consumption scenarios, and accelerating subsidy disbursement to enhance public benefit.
Summary: The Ministry of Transport reported that fixed-asset investment in transportation reached 2.4 trillion yuan in the first three quarters, with highway investment at 1.6 trillion yuan and waterway investment at 157.1 billion yuan. Commercial freight volume totaled 43.04 billion tons, up 2.3 percent year on year, while port cargo throughput reached 13.64 billion tons, up 0.7 percent, and container throughput rose 4.5 percent to 280 million TEUs. Cross-regional passenger flow grew 1.2 percent year on year to 51.22 billion person-trips, with September seeing a 5.1 percent increase.
Summary: The Ministry of Finance and three other departments issued the "Implementation Plan on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Agricultural Insurance," raising quantitative targets for 2030, including agricultural insurance depth of 1.9 percent and density of 1,200 yuan per person. Wang Zecai, director of the Government Performance Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences, explained that these indicators will guide precise underwriting and claims settlement. The plan proposes a multi-tiered protection system of "policy insurance + commercial insurance" and encourages innovative products like agricultural weather index insurance. It also introduces "one policy per household" to ensure data authenticity, and emphasizes proactive prevention alongside prompt claims payment. The plan promotes technology empowerment through tools like remote sensing and artificial intelligence, advancing agricultural insurance toward digitalization, intelligence, and standardization.
Summary: The article reports on the development of "Hejing 21," a cold-region rice variety bred by the Jiamusi Branch of the Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, with farmer Zhang Lizhi noting yields exceeding 700 kilograms per mu. Ding Junjie, director of the Jiamusi Branch, described over two decades of breeding efforts to overcome the short frost-free period and the unsuitability of introduced varieties, using a "double sieve" approach to combine early maturity, high yield, and quality. The variety has been applied on over 500,000 mu, generating nearly 50 million yuan in annual social benefits and cumulative output of about 320 million kilograms. Ding and his team are now pursuing biological breeding, whole-genome selection, salt-alkali-tolerant and disaster-resilient varieties, and an AI agricultural platform. The article includes an explanatory note that generation advancement involves winter breeding in Sanya, Hainan, to shorten the selection cycle.
Summary: Profits of industrial enterprises above the designated size rose 15.5% year-on-year in the first three quarters, with mining up 38.2%, manufacturing up 17.0%, and electricity, heat, gas, and water production and supply down 14.3%. The electronics industry drove growth significantly, with profits up 1.0 times and contributing 9.6 percentage points, supported by demand for artificial intelligence computing power and advanced storage. High-tech manufacturing profits increased 52.0%, accounting for 25.5% of total profits, while raw materials manufacturing grew 44.9%, with nonferrous metals up 79.7% and the petroleum processing industry turning a loss into a profit. Unit costs continued to decline, with cost per 100 yuan of operating revenue at 85.02 yuan, down 0.45 yuan year-on-year, and the operating revenue profit margin at 5.68%, up 0.44 percentage points.
Summary: General Secretary Xi Jinping, during his inspection of Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia, emphasized the need to implement high efficiency, green development, and safety requirements, paying attention to "computing-electricity coordination" and "computing-water coordination" in computing power center projects. The article discusses how Ulanqab, with per capita water resources below one-quarter of the national average, is using reclaimed water and liquid-cooled technology to support its green computing power industry. It argues that water resource allocation must improve the "degree of fit" for computing power development, balancing rigid constraints with innovative measures like water use rights trading and "water conservation loans." Huang Yongchun, a professor at Hohai University, suggests the western region handle non-real-time computing demands while the eastern region takes latency-sensitive tasks, accelerating liquid cooling and circulating water use. The piece concludes that the national water network, covering 80.3 percent of land area, can support the national integrated computing network by rebalancing water resources spatially and temporally.
Summary: The 350,000 mu of salt fields at Nanpu Saltworks in Caofeidian District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, have entered the autumn salt harvest period, with workers using fine weather to step up harvesting. Nanpu Saltworks is one of the sea salt production bases in China's Changlu salt region, and its total sea salt output this year is expected to reach 1.5 million tons. The photos were taken by Yang Shiyao, a reporter with Xinhua News Agency.
Summary: The People's Bank of China reported that green loans in both local and foreign currencies reached 49.22 trillion yuan by the end of the third quarter, up 13.0% year-on-year, with increases of 4.41 trillion yuan in the first three quarters. Loans for green infrastructure upgrading, green and low-carbon energy transition, and ecological protection, restoration, and utilization stood at 22.12 trillion yuan, 8.73 trillion yuan, and 5.43 trillion yuan, respectively. By industry, green loans for transportation, warehousing, and postal services reached 9.33 trillion yuan, while those for electricity, heat, gas, and water production and supply stood at 9.17 trillion yuan. Loan support for science and technology innovation enterprises remained stable, with 307,300 technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises and 292,700 high-tech enterprises receiving support, with loan access rates of 51.1% and 58.2%, respectively. Loans to technology-based SMEs grew 20.1% year-on-year to 4.27 trillion yuan, and loans to high-tech enterprises grew 17.2% to 22.09 trillion yuan, both outpacing overall loan growth.
Summary: China has achieved a new breakthrough in international standards for brain-computer interfaces, as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO/IEC) recently released the international standard for brain-computer interface reference architecture, led by China. The standard was led by Chinese experts as project leaders, jointly completed with experts from multiple countries including Italy, South Korea, the United Kingdom, India, the United States, Japan, Sweden, Finland, Australia, and Germany. The release will help unify global industry stakeholders' understanding of system composition, functional boundaries, and typical implementation methods, providing a unified technical reference for product development and system design. It also supports the subsequent development of related standards for data, interfaces, testing, and applications, further consolidating the standard foundation for scaled and standardized development.
Summary: Foreign enterprises are investing steadfastly in Shenzhen, with 44,000 new foreign-invested enterprises established during the 14th Five-Year Plan period and actual foreign capital utilization exceeding 300 billion yuan. Companies like Flextronics, Valeo, Siemens Healthineers, and KONE Elevator are deepening their roots by shifting from manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing and localizing R&D and innovation. Siemens Healthineers has delivered over 10,000 devices globally and plans a new high-end medical device base with investment exceeding 1 billion yuan, while KONE has launched innovations in China before promoting them globally. Shenzhen's service efficiency, such as Degussa Bank Consulting completing registration changes in an hour and a half, and policies like global bonded maintenance for Lufthansa Technik, support foreign enterprise retention and growth. An official from the Shenzhen Investment Promotion Bureau said the city will advance institutional opening and build a high-energy international trade hub to play an engine role in the Greater Bay Area.
Summary: The author, Director General of WorldSkills Germany, recounts leading a German delegation to the 48th WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai and participating in German-Chinese vocational education exchanges in Suzhou. He praises China's hosting and cites President Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter on promoting global skills development through exchange and cooperation. The article highlights the value of competition for youth development and the importance of vocational education in the digital and green transition. It emphasizes the broad space for German-Chinese cooperation in vocational education, including sharing experience and designing training topics for green transformation. The author concludes by looking forward to translating the consensus into practical cooperation for the benefit of both countries' youth.
Summary: Li Hongzhong, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, met in Beijing with a delegation led by Bernd Lange, chair of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade. Li stated that the essence of China-EU economic and trade relations lies in complementing each other's strengths and mutual benefit and win-win results, and that as comprehensive strategic partners, China and the EU can fully find mutually beneficial and win-win solutions through equal dialogue. He expressed the NPC's willingness to work with the European Parliament to consolidate the good momentum of exchanges and promote the healthy and stable development of China-EU relations. Lange stated that the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade is willing to strengthen dialogue and cooperation with the Chinese side to promote the stable and balanced development of EU-China trade.
Summary: On October 27, the 1 millionth vehicle supervised by Youyi Pass Customs entered or exited the border this year, a truck loaded with electronic products that passed through the Guangxi Pingxiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone and proceeded toward Vietnam after contactless clearance procedures. The report highlights the milestone at the Youyi Pass port, with photos by Pang Geping, Xie Haowen, and Liang Jiamei.
Summary: Cai Dafeng, Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, met with Bernd Lange, Chair of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade, at the Great Hall of the People on October 28. The two sides exchanged views on topics of mutual interest, including China-EU relations and exchanges between the legislative bodies of China and the EU.
Summary: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson announced on October 28 that President of the Swiss Confederation Parmelin will pay a working visit to China from October 30 to November 1.
Summary: The National Cultural Heritage Administration of China received two lost cultural relics returned by the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra on October 28, with Deputy Director Tang Wei, Chinese Ambassador Liu Jinsong, and Gallery Director Nick Mitzevich attending the handover ceremony. The Chinese side stated that promoting the return of lost cultural relics is a just act safeguarding cultural security and will further promote people-to-people and cultural exchanges between China and Australia as well as people-to-people connectivity. The Australian side said the return reflects respect for cultural heritage and will help deepen Australia-China friendly relations. The two relics are limestone statue heads of military and civil officials from the Northern Song Dynasty imperial mausoleums, originating from Henan Province. The recovery was achieved under the 1970 UNESCO Convention, based on a 2009 intergovernmental memorandum and the Gallery's 2021 provenance research policy.
Summary: The 14th Lancang-Mekong River Basin Countries Cultural and Arts Festival opened on October 28 in Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, with artists from China and abroad gathering to renew friendship and promote exchange. The opening gala, themed "Drinking from the Same River, Being One Family," featured performances from countries along the basin and concluded with the joint song-and-dance piece "Flying Together," expressing the wish of the six Lancang-Mekong countries to move forward hand in hand. During the festival, activities such as the "One Great River" Xishuangbanna International Photography Exhibition, the "Lancang-Mekong Fine Goods Carnival," and "Elegant Gathering: Tea and Music in Harmony" will further promote people-to-people and cultural exchanges and cultural-tourism cooperation among the basin countries.
Summary: Greek Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni said in an interview in Beijing that China and Greece, as representatives of the ancient civilizations of the East and the West, can provide answers to today's world problems through the wisdom of classical civilizations. Marking the 20th anniversary of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, she highlighted deepening practical cooperation and cultural exchanges, and said climate change and other common challenges can be addressed with solutions found in ancient wisdom. Mendoni, in China to attend the fourth "Liangzhu Forum," praised Greece-China cooperation in cultural heritage protection, citing the Chinese Academy of Classical Studies in Athens and joint archaeological projects as fostering mutual learning. She also cited successful co-organized exhibitions, including one on ancient Greece that drew one million visitors and a virtual reality display of Terracotta Warriors in Greece, and expressed hope to expand cooperation to contemporary culture, youth exchanges, and film and television.
Summary: The "Zhitong · Chuangxiang" China-ROK Science and Technology Innovation Exchange Conference was held in Seoul on October 28, attended by Chinese Ambassador Dai Bing, China International Communications Group Deputy Director Yu Tao, Seoul Shinmun President Kim Sung-soo, and Korea-China Parliamentary Assembly Chairman Kim Tae-nyeon, alongside about 120 guests from political, scientific, industrial, academic, and media circles. The conference focused on artificial intelligence, embodied intelligence, and high-end manufacturing, discussing new pathways for China-ROK cooperation in technological achievement transformation and cross-field integration. Participants said the event built a platform for face-to-face communication among the two countries' communities, and all sides will strengthen coordination to promote mutual reinforcement between scientific exchanges and people-to-people and cultural exchanges, accumulating positive outcomes for practical cooperation.
Summary: The article reports on police rescue efforts after an earthquake in Baqing County, Nagqu City, Tibet. Jinmei Dorje, deputy director of the Baqing County Public Security Bureau, described how officers went tent by tent at the Maru Township resettlement site to compile and resolve survivors' demands. He recalled that Sonam Jamyang, political commissar of the bureau, led a team to the epicenter, clearing rockslides and conducting rescue operations in three villages. Traffic police, including deputy captain Siling Nyima, set up road posts to clear hazards and guide vehicles, ensuring a "lifeline" for disaster relief. Auxiliary police officer Deka, whose own home collapsed, helped cook for seventy or eighty people, while more than 530 Nagqu public security officers and auxiliary police have been patrolling around the clock to protect the people's safety.
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Summary: The article recounts the transformation of the old course of the Yellow River in Siyang County, Jiangsu, from a silted "Waste Yellow River" plagued by dust and poor harvests into a thriving waterway and ecological corridor. Under Party and government leadership, poplar planting began in the late 20th century, and a major dredging and reinforcement project from 2015 to 2018 restored the channel, securing irrigation for over 70,000 mu of farmland. In 2021, Jiangsu deployed high-standard construction of an ecological corridor for enriching the people, leading to improved water quality, restored ecosystems, and the development of agricultural and agro-tourism projects. The author, a water affairs station worker, notes that all 11 villages along Likou Town now have full-time river guardians, and the river's revival exemplifies the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. The piece concludes that the old course now combines ecological beauty with industrial prosperity, carrying local dreams toward a better future.
Summary: The article describes the ecological transformation of the old course of the Yellow River in Likou Town, Siyang County, Jiangsu, from barren, wind-blown sand to a landscape of green waves, trees, flowers, and modern agricultural greenhouses. It credits generations of Siyang people's unremitting struggle in sand and water control, including dredging, ecological restoration, poplar planting, and specialty agriculture, for turning the "waste Yellow River" into a "river that enriches the people." The piece highlights rigorous institutions, strict protection, and scientific governance as foundations for high-quality green development, writing a new chapter of "when ecology thrives, civilization thrives" in the new era.
Summary: The article highlights how AI is being integrated into daily life across China, as outlined in the 15th Five-Year Plan's call to "deepen and expand 'AI+'." In Suzhou Industrial Park, the "Qi Xiao Fu" AI service entity helps entrepreneurs like Chen Jingwei match with enterprise-benefiting policies, while the "Xiao Yi" digital steward assists applicants like He Shanshan with materials. In Foshan, drones equipped with AI algorithms serve as "aerial grid inspectors," detecting illegal dumping and construction, with Liang Shenglun and Wang Yucheng explaining the system's intelligent identification and filtering capabilities. In Xinjiang, the "Xin e Chang Xing" WeChat mini-program, led by Jiasuer, uses an AI assistant to help drivers like Master Ye issue invoices and access road services, winning first prize in an AI+ Transportation competition. The piece underscores AI's role in making government affairs, urban governance, and public services more efficient and accessible.
Summary: China's marine economy achieved steady growth in the first three quarters, with the gross ocean product reaching 8.5 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.9 percent, according to preliminary calculations. Data released by the Ministry of Natural Resources on October 28 show that crude oil production from the ocean increased by 3.5 percent year on year, and China's first in-situ expansion platform for oil and gas at a water depth of 100 meters was officially put into operation. Marine aquatic product output increased by 4.6 percent year on year, while newly approved sea area and island use covered 219,000 hectares, involving an investment of over 670 billion yuan. Traditional marine industries such as shipbuilding, transportation, and tourism saw consolidated or steady development, while emerging sectors like marine engineering equipment manufacturing, marine energy, seawater desalination, and marine information services improved in quality and efficiency.
Summary: In Danyang City, Jiangsu Province, which produces about 45% of the world's resin lenses, the eyeglasses industry is accelerating its intelligent transformation, with smart glasses becoming a new frontier for technological innovation. Yuan Hongjin, secretary-general of the Danyang Eyeglasses Chamber of Commerce, said the complete industrial chain has laid a solid foundation for seizing opportunities in this shift. Companies like Jiangsu Gongda Jinkai have developed fully automated prescription lens production lines, while Nuotong Yimu uses semiconductor photolithography to make thinner, lighter lenses with higher precision and light transmittance. Hong Feng, director of the Danyang Economic Development Bureau, noted challenges such as core components like chips and optical modules not keeping up, prompting the city to issue an action plan for AI empowerment and establish public service platforms. Yuan added that the future focus will be on building the smart glasses industrial chain and accelerating dual-wheel drive of traditional eyeglasses and smart glasses.
Summary: The article argues that Party work style construction has improved since the new era, citing market data on moderately priced mooncakes and noting the correction of the Four Malfeasances under the Central Eight-Point Regulation. It uses the "three tables"—the dining table, conference table, and office desk—as windows into Party and government conduct, describing how cadres now avoid official entertaining, hold field meetings, and face reduced bureaucratic burdens. Examples include cadres in Chenzhou and Shizuishan using digital tools for transparency, courtyard meetings in Guizhou, and over 600 cadres in Honghe, Yunnan, experiencing new employment groups' conditions. The piece concludes that upright work style wins people's hearts and ensures the Party's cause flourishes, emphasizing continued efforts to strengthen work style construction on the new journey.
Summary: The article is an on-site commentary on cultural heritage protection, centered on Jingdezhen's porcelain industry and its inscription as a World Heritage site. It highlights General Secretary Xi Jinping's 2023 visit to Jingdezhen, where he praised porcelain as a treasure and calling card of Chinese civilization. The piece emphasizes that cultural heritage thrives through people, citing craftsmen like Sun Ligong and the city's preservation of old kiln sites and alleyways through micro-renovation. It argues that protection and revitalization, not demolition or over-commercialization, allow heritage to "come alive" and drive the cultural economy. The commentary concludes that the "cultural economy" must ultimately highlight the character "people," as people are both creators and beneficiaries of cultural prosperity.
Summary: The article praises Beijing's 12345 citizen hotline as a model of refined urban governance, noting that over seven years it has handled roughly 200 million complaints with resolution and satisfaction rates exceeding 97 percent. It cites General Secretary Xi Jinping's emphasis on building a modern people's city and highlights how the hotline precisely responds to diverse public demands, including helping lost Russian tourists at Fengtai Railway Station. The piece also credits digital intelligence and big data with transforming the hotline into a smart hub that enables proactive governance and cross-departmental synergy. It further describes how the hotline's labeling system enhances risk assessment, such as modeling extreme rainfall scenarios to provide over 100 reports to emergency departments during this year's flood season. The commentary concludes that this approach contributes Chinese experience to urban modernization worldwide.
Summary: China has over 100,000 representative items of intangible cultural heritage at all levels, with 45 items inscribed on UNESCO lists and registers, ranking first globally. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China will improve the protection and transmission system, conduct a second national survey, strengthen category-based protection, and promote integration into modern life. The article concludes with a poem by Xu Zhiwen celebrating cultural heritage's enduring roots and transmission across generations.
Summary: The article comments on the case of a fried skewer stall owner who died by suicide after receiving negative "avoid-this-place posts," urging that efforts to combat cyberbullying not become another round of online bullying. It stresses the importance of cutting the chain of abuse, not just finding its origin, and calls on netizens to uphold boundaries of speech by avoiding exaggeration, insults, and personal attacks. The piece cites examples like Zheng Linghua, the "pink-haired girl," and a teenager searching for his family to illustrate how follow-up comments and unchecked emotional venting cause lasting harm. It also holds platforms responsible, urging them to calibrate algorithmic values and implement protections required by the Anti-Cyberbullying Law (draft for comments). The commentary concludes by urging greater rationality and tolerance online to prevent tragedies from recurring.
Summary: The article is a warm commentary on the relaxed composure and self-confidence of young Chinese athletes at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, highlighting Chen Yujie's three golds and one silver and her candid remarks. It attributes this ease to solid competitive skill, team support, and institutional backing, citing General Secretary Xi Jinping's call to give young talents more trust and support. The piece extends this confidence to young innovators like the DeepSeek team and World Skills Competition winners, portraying a more confident China. It details institutional innovations across regions, such as open competition for posts and entrepreneurship support systems, as foundations for youth growth. The commentary concludes that integrating personal growth into national development will allow the youth of the new era to shine on the journey of advancing Chinese modernization.
Summary: The article reports on the recent selection of the Yue state capital and Han and Six Dynasties Kuaiji Commandery site in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, among the nation's top ten new archaeological discoveries, comprising the Jizhong and Tashan Hechangfang locations. Luo Peng, deputy director of the Shaoxing Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and project lead Li Longbin describe how excavations confirmed for the first time large-scale Yue state wooden building foundations dating to approximately 2,500 years ago, along with city walls, a sacrificial altar, and over 2,000 official wooden and bamboo slips. The findings mutually corroborate documentary records, reconstructing the layout of the Yue capital and commandery seat, and provide key physical evidence for studying ancient southern urban construction and sacrificial systems. Experts Huo Wei and Wang Wei highlight the rare example of urban evolution where "the city site did not change, and the cultural lineage continued." Conservation plans are being formulated for both sites, with Luo Peng emphasizing that archaeology aims to let the common people understand the long history and culture.
Summary: At a conference marking the 90th anniversary of the Long March victory, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed the need to carry forward the great spirit of the Long March and unswervingly promote high-quality development. During his October 2023 inspection of Jiangxi, Xi called on the province to take the lead in accelerating high-quality development in old revolutionary base areas and excel in advancing the Yangtze River Economic Belt. The article traces Jiangxi's transformation from the Long March's starting point to a "new highland of development," citing economic growth to 3.6 trillion yuan and the rise of industries like silicone production. It highlights infrastructure and opening-up achievements, including the Ganzhou International Inland Port and China-Europe freight trains, as well as poverty alleviation successes in places like Shenshan Village. The piece concludes that the new-era Long March is advancing on this red land, with a focus on innovation, openness, and improving people's livelihoods.
Summary: The article reports on Hubei Province's efforts to build a "land of fish and rice for the new era," following General Secretary Xi Jinping's November 2024 instruction during an inspection tour of Hubei that the province "must strive to make achievements in urban-rural integrated development and comprehensive rural revitalization." It highlights agricultural technology advances, such as high-protein corn and rice breeding breakthroughs, and industry chain development, including the Wuchang fish industry leveraging Ezhou Huahu International Airport for global delivery. The piece also covers rural governance improvements, Party building leadership, and cultural tourism integration, citing examples like tea tourism in Enshi and the Tonglüshan archaeological site. Data cited include 48.08 million mu of high-standard farmland, six 100-billion-yuan industry chains, and 493 million rural tourism visits in 2025. The article concludes that Hubei is accelerating its role as a strategic fulcrum for the rise of the central region.
Summary: Kaifeng Station in Henan, in partnership with local scenic areas, has launched a campaign turning train tickets into entry passes, offering tourists a new experience of "stepping out of the station and into the 'jianghu.'" The "15th Five-Year Plan" for the Development of Comprehensive Transport Services proposes expanding tourism service functions of passenger transport hubs and providing one-stop services like "train ticket + admission ticket." Qingdao launched the "Ticket Stub Economy Merchant Alliance," allowing tourists with transport ticket stubs to unlock nearly 700 benefits from more than 400 merchants, converting "transit traffic" into "consumption retention." Ma Delong, associate researcher at the Comprehensive Transport Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, said transport ticket stubs sit at the upstream end of the consumption chain, reducing decision costs and stimulating "exploratory consumption." Experts suggest promoting a market-based mechanism of shared benefits and risks, product innovation, and expanding from "ticket stubs" to "ticket credentials" to sustain the ticket stub economy.
Summary: The Enduli neighborhood in the Changbai Mountain Protection and Development Zone of Jilin has been revitalized from a stalled project into a cultural-tourism destination, receiving nearly 3 million visitors since opening in 2025. The zone's Party Working Committee and Administrative Committee established a special working group to resolve property rights and debt issues, injecting 11.3 billion yuan in ticket revenue rights to reduce the asset-liability ratio from 80.69% to 38.65%. General manager Wang Chunyuan of Changbai Mountain Enduli Commercial Management Co., Ltd. said the neighborhood broke away from unoriginal and monotonous approaches, achieving a 93% leasing rate and creating over 500 direct jobs. The "Cloudtop Heavenly Palace" snow sculpture, inspired by the novel *The Lost Tomb*, drove a 30% year-on-year increase in visitor volume during the last snow season. The second phase of Enduli is under construction, focusing on intangible cultural heritage exhibitions and cuisine, while the zone adheres to "one case, one strategy; precise policy implementation" for revitalizing other idle assets.
Summary: The Ministry of Veterans Affairs confirmed the identities of eight Chinese People's Volunteer Army martyrs whose remains were returned from the ROK, bringing the total number of identified martyrs to 44 out of 1,023 repatriated since 2014. Zhang Bai, deputy director of the Martyrs' Memorial Facilities Protection Center, detailed efforts to overcome DNA identification challenges for aged remains, including developing a new extraction method and mobilizing the veterans affairs system to locate relatives. Shi Yi, deputy director-general of the Commendation and Memorial Department, emphasized that this work consoles martyrs' spirits and comforts their relatives. Shi Yi also reported progress in seeking relatives for Red Army martyrs along the Long March route, with Jiangxi and Guizhou finding relatives for several martyrs. The integrated platform for seeking relatives of martyrs will be officially launched before the end of this year.
Summary: At the oath-taking ceremony held at the Shanghai Exhibition Center on October 28, 4,561 "little leaves" volunteers for the 9th China International Import Expo took their oath together online and offline, officially committing to volunteer services. During the expo, these volunteers will serve in 158 positions across 9 categories, including on-site guidance and consultation, exhibition registration management, and transaction data statistics.
Summary: The People's Bank of China released data showing that China's financial market has operated smoothly since the start of the year, with cumulative panda bond issuance reaching 245.05 billion yuan in the first nine months and 35 new overseas institutions entering the interbank bond market. Panda bonds, issued by overseas institutions in China and denominated in renminbi, are highlighted as a key measure for opening China's bond market and advancing renminbi internationalization. In September, net financing of government bonds was 1,536.22 billion yuan, up 346.96 billion yuan year-on-year, while the bond market custody balance stood at 210.8 trillion yuan at the end of September. Commercial bill acceptance amounted to 3.9 trillion yuan in September, with discounting at 2.9 trillion yuan; end-of-September balances rose 11.9 percent and 15.5 percent year-on-year, respectively.
Summary: The 2026 Inbound Tourism High-Quality Development Event and the "Guangdong Wonderful Night" Carnival were held in Jiangmen's Chikan Overseas Chinese Ancient Town, showcasing overseas Chinese hometown culture and Lingnan lifestyle to inbound tourists. Guangdong's inbound tourism market has shown strong vitality, with orders improving in both quantity and quality, and the province has launched two batches of ten boutique inbound tourism routes targeting overseas travelers' preferences. A French tourist praised the one-stop experience of Cantonese morning tea, lion dances, Hakka enclosed houses, and shopping, while a Korean tourist highlighted the stunning live lion dance at the Foshan Ancestral Temple Museum. Huang Jingru, Vice President of GZL International Travel Service, noted innovative themed products and dedicated consultation services at Baiyun Airport's visa-free transit counters, alongside the "Guangdong Inbound Tourism AI Card" for seamless travel. Guangdong has promoted "buy now, refund now" tax refunds and overseas bank card payments, with an official stating inbound tourism is key to the province's high-quality development and people-to-people connectivity.
Summary: The Yinhua Yuehai Water Group Water Conservancy Closed-End Infrastructure Securities Investment Fund was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on October 28, marking the nation's first real estate investment trust for power generation from water conservancy facilities. The fund's underlying assets are specific power generation assets and charging rights at the Feilaixia Water Control Project and the Chaozhou Water Supply Hub, with a term not exceeding 30 years. Proceeds are intended for major water conservancy projects such as the Huangmaoxia Reservoir Project and the Beibu Gulf Ring Water Resources Allocation Project in Guangdong. This establishes a mechanism for a healthy, positive cycle in which "revitalizing existing assets drives new investment," providing a practical model for the national water conservancy industry.
Summary: The article highlights Yunnan Province's efforts to promote high-quality development by leveraging red revolutionary resources, focusing on economic transformation in areas like Zhaxi Town and Jiaopingdu, and developing green industries such as hydropower and aluminum production. It reports on the province's clean energy achievements, including installed capacity and green electricity trading, and the construction of border happiness villages with income growth goals. The piece emphasizes the province's commitment to carrying forward the Long March spirit and advancing ethnic unity through concrete development tasks.
Summary: The article argues that building a culture of integrity in the new era provides deep support for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, citing General Secretary Xi Jinping's emphasis on strengthening this culture to foster a social environment that honors integrity and rejects corruption. It outlines how this culture extends from Party members to all of society, integrates traditional, revolutionary, and advanced socialist culture, and establishes "regarding corruption as shameful" as a core value yardstick. The piece highlights the culture's foundational role in the integrated advancement of not daring, not being able, and not wanting to be corrupt, as well as in nourishing an upright political ecosystem and maintaining the Party's advanced nature and purity. It proposes practical paths—strengthening institutional building, transforming cultural resources, improving coordination mechanisms, and giving play to the people's role as subjects—to enhance the effectiveness of this cultural construction. The author is a professor at the School of Marxism, Lanzhou University.
Summary: The article argues that scientific top-level design has played an irreplaceable role in shaping Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. It highlights General Secretary Xi Jinping's proposal of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party within the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy, and his elaboration of general requirements for Party building at the 19th National Congress. The piece also cites the 20th National Congress report's strategic deployment on improving the system for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. The author contends that this top-level design has achieved holistic innovation and provided systemic support for the formation and development of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. The article is excerpted from *Guangming Daily* and authored by Huang Yibing.
Summary: The article argues that constructing an independent knowledge system for Chinese ecological philosophy is a key part of building an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization. It contrasts this approach with Western environmental philosophy, which it says bears the color of Western centrism, and calls for drawing nourishment from the "sum total of human knowledge" by integrating ecological thought from ancient and modern times, China and abroad, as well as across disciplines. The piece proposes establishing research topics oriented toward ecological civilization construction, including studying green and intelligent digital ecological civilization and the path toward the new era of socialist ecological civilization. It advocates promoting a paradigm transformation based on the concept that humanity and nature are a community of life, upholding the unity of the ecological view of nature and history, ecological materialism and dialectics, and the ecological worldview, ethics, and aesthetics. The author is a professor at the School of Marxism Studies, Renmin University of China.
Summary: Young people in China are increasingly favoring personalized consumer goods that offer emotional resonance and cultural identity, driving new product categories and cultural trends. The article highlights Yongchun incense in Fujian, a national intangible cultural heritage, which has become an "emotional companion" for young consumers, with live-streaming sales of its products growing 461% year-on-year and young consumers now comprising over 60% of buyers. Local enterprises are integrating incense into daily life scenarios, developing cultural creative products, and collaborating with Anxi tea and Dehua porcelain to promote the "China Tea, Porcelain, and Incense Industry Integrated Development Demonstration Zone." In Jiangxi's Jinxi County, the spice and essence industry has formed a full industrial chain, with products exported to over 30 countries including the United States, Japan, and Italy, and natural linalool and camphor powder production accounting for 80% of the global total. The industry is transforming from raw material processing to distinctive experiences, developing new products tailored to young preferences and expanding through live-streaming sales.
Summary: The article discusses China's efforts to address myopia among children and adolescents, highlighting a revised national standard for classroom lighting that takes effect on November 1, raising requirements from "seeing clearly" to "seeing healthily and comfortably." It notes that the Ministry of Education, the National Health Commission, and the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration jointly issued a notice listing "ensuring the eye-use environment" as the first of six measures, with schools as the key venue for prevention. The piece emphasizes that families must also serve as a "source protection wall," and acknowledges challenges such as urban-rural differences and funding gaps, citing Anhui's provincial fiscal support for renovating classroom lighting in township schools. It concludes that eye protection requires coordinated efforts and that standards must be implemented gradually, not overnight.
Summary: The article discusses the growing popularity of cultural-creative products among young people, but notes that some products "do things superficially without going deep," leaving consumers to remember only the "good looks" while overlooking cultural substance. It argues that high-quality products delving deeply into content can serve as "mobile cultural classrooms," attracting youth to traditional culture and broadening cultural dissemination through "learning through play, inheriting through enjoyment." To carry forward cultural substance, producers should enrich content, such as adding QR codes for popular science or pairing products with short videos explaining cultural relics. This approach guides the public to actively understand and consciously inherit traditional culture, making cultural-creative products a cultural window for touching, understanding, and loving tradition.
Summary: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, and the National Development and Reform Commission issued a notice agreeing that five city clusters, including the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, will pilot comprehensive hydrogen energy applications for four years, advancing task lists on technology, industrial projects, fuel cell vehicles, and hydrogen refueling stations. Guizhou introduced ten measures to advance barrier-free reading, regularly collecting the reading needs of persons with disabilities and optimizing resource supply. Shanghai's home services industry credit rating evaluation will have a new benchmark after a revision draft was approved for project initiation, following evaluations of 88 units since 2022. Chongqing has cumulatively deployed more than 6,100 low-floor buses across 43 elderly-respecting routes, equipped with anti-slip flooring, handrails, and designated wheelchair areas. China's first wild fruit forest ecological observation station was put into use in Xinjiang, and Yunnan Honghe County successfully trial-planted artificially cultivated jian shou qing mushrooms, breaking seasonal limitations for year-round supply.
Summary: The Shandong Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve in Dongying City, Shandong Province, is currently in the migratory bird season, with large numbers of birds arriving at the Yellow River estuary wetlands to winter and roost. This creates a distinctive autumn ecological scene at the Yellow River's entry into the sea. The images were photographed by Zhu Zheng, a reporter with Xinhua News Agency.
Summary: The article reports on the growing trend of "intergenerational cohabitation," where young people move into nursing homes in exchange for low-cost or free accommodation and provide volunteer services to elderly residents. It highlights examples at the Wuxiang Elderly Care Service Center in Nanning, Guangxi, where volunteer Liang Yinxia became the first such participant in August, and in Jinyun County, Zhejiang, where hospital worker Wu Weifeng moved into a nursing home for a rent discount. Huang Zibiao, deputy director of the Wuxiang center, said the institution prioritizes young people with professional backgrounds in social work, medical care, psychology, and law, and provides them with full-process guidance, registered management, and regular evaluation of their volunteer services. The article notes that many localities are exploring operational mechanisms to convert young people's housing needs into a supply of elderly-care services.
Summary: The Foshan Federation of Trade Unions opened a canteen in a home appliance production park in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, offering over 60 dishes to workers, with union subsidy vouchers automatically deducted at checkout. Foshan, a major manufacturing city with 3.2 million industrial workers, launched the canteen on April 21 this year to address "expensive meals" and "hard-to-find meals" in industrial parks, allocating special funds from union dues to issue daily vouchers of 5, 10, and 20 yuan. The affordable meals also attracted food delivery riders, couriers, sanitation workers, and nearby residents. Foshan has since built several union canteens, issuing over 380,000 subsidy vouchers totaling more than 2.81 million yuan in subsidies.
Summary: The article describes a smart light system developed by Yanshan University teachers and students for hearing-impaired employees at Sanheju Restaurant, Qinhuangdao City's first "silent restaurant" for disability-friendly employment. The system, called "One Light," triggers a flashing light when an order receipt is printed, alerting staff to prepare meals, and was created through a public welfare project at the Qinhuangdao Disabled Persons' Entrepreneurship Incubation Base. Restaurant head Zhang Mengtong noted that traditional cashier systems only had voice prompts, inconvenient for the hearing-impaired, and sought help from the project team, which contacted the Aesthetic Education Art Integration Healing and Creation Center. Center head Wang Meixue explained that a light-sensing component on the order printer sends a flashing signal to the smart light, which stops only when the receipt is taken. Since implementation, the problem of missed delivery orders has been resolved.
Summary: The 2026 Yangtze River Delta National Fitness Walking (Running) Competition and Anhui Province National Fitness Hiking Conference (Huqiu Station) was held in Huqiu County, Lu'an City, Anhui Province, drawing over 2,200 participants from 14 cities. The event's green "sponsor" was a forestry carbon ticket issued by Xishan Forest Farm, which offset the event's carbon dioxide emissions, offering a low-cost model for county-level green event-hosting. Xishan Forest Farm was selected in 2022 as one of 21 national pilot forest farms for forest carbon sinks and in 2025 received one of Anhui Province's first batch of provincial-level forestry carbon tickets, with an approved carbon emission reduction of 31,000 tons. Han Shubao, deputy director of the Huqiu County Culture, Tourism, and Sports Bureau, said the organizers hoped to carry environmental concepts of reduction and harmlessness throughout the event, noting that 70 percent of participants came from outside the region. A participant from Shanghai expressed surprise at being able to take part in carbon neutrality through the hiking event, saying it gave a strong sense of accomplishment.
Summary: Li Yaoyong, a 42-year-old rural lighting technician from Zhangbei Village in Yanling County, Henan, works on short-drama sets at the Tangyun Eco-Tourism Zone, where he uses AI for pre-production storyboarding and color grading while emphasizing that manual lighting retains a unique, delicate texture that machines cannot replicate. Over the past two years, as AI short dramas have multiplied, Li has returned frequently to his hometown to participate in shoots, having honed his skills over 18 years working on film crews in Beijing and Zhejiang. He adjusts lighting logic and studies light and shadow to fit story atmospheres, using techniques like diffusion cloth for rural scenes and narrow beams for suspense. In Yanling County, local talent is growing, with over 2,900 registered film and television practitioners in Zhangqiao Township alone, including more than 1,000 lighting directors, who continue to energize the county's film and television industry.
Summary: The article reports on grassroots anti-corruption efforts in three Chinese counties as part of the final year of a three-year campaign against unhealthy tendencies and corruption around the masses. In Anhua County, Hunan, a big-data supervision platform uncovered improper medical charges, leading to refunds and the investigation of 63 people in the medical insurance field. In Yingshan County, Sichuan, a "non-resident deputy group leader" mechanism linked inspection and disciplinary supervision, uncovering the misuse of student funds for office consumables. In Delingha City, Qinghai, targeted governance of property services led to the refund of improper "electric vehicle charging fees" and disciplinary action against a negligent official. The article emphasizes the use of supervision recommendation letters, institutional reforms, and coordinated oversight to address corruption at the grassroots level.
Summary: The article reports on efforts to attract talent to support the revitalization of old revolutionary base areas, focusing on Longyan City, Fujian Province. It profiles Zhong Ming, a 63-year-old descendant of Red Army soldiers in Changting County who returned to his hometown to serve as a docent, and his son Zhong Zhenhua, who also became a docent. It also highlights Jing Xinwei, an entrepreneur from Hangzhou who opened a coffee shop in Yongding District, and Zhuang Ye, a chief technology research and development director from Beijing working at a new energy company in Xinluo District. The article emphasizes Longyan City's integration of industry and talent, attracting high-level talent through industrial chains in fields such as new materials and new energy. It concludes that revitalization requires a talent team with deep feelings for the grassroots and improved safeguard mechanisms for housing and education to help talent settle down and take root.
Summary: Chen Binhua, spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said at a regular press conference on October 28 that since the Central Taiwan Work Office released ten policy measures promoting cross-strait exchanges and cooperation on April 12, efforts have continued to promote their implementation, focusing on the livelihood needs of Taiwanese compatriots and helping agricultural and fishery operators on the island open up the mainland market. He noted that sales channels for Taiwanese fruits such as pomelo and sugar apple have expanded, and a ceremony for the import of Taiwanese fishery products into the mainland was held on October 23 in Xiamen City, Fujian Province, with more than 200 participants from both sides of the strait. Chen stated that this event demonstrates that as long as the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, and compatriots on both sides, work together, they can solve problems and increase well-being for Taiwanese agricultural and fishery workers. He added that the mainland's imports of agricultural products from Taiwan increased by 18.5% year-on-year in the first three quarters, with fishery product imports up 35.5%, and Fujian imported 19,100 tons of Taiwanese fishery products from April to September, valued at 585 million yuan, an increase of 35.9%.
Summary: Volunteers organized by Xinzai Subdistrict, Linqu County, Weifang City, Shandong, helped fruit growers in Sanshanyu load and transport harvested hawthorns during the golden autumn harvest season. The photo was taken by Chen Ming (People's Vision).
Summary: The Xiong'an New Area 12345 government service convenience hotline has established a four-tier complaint handling system and innovated working models such as "hotline + discipline inspection + supervision + judicial review" and "hotline + petitioning," with satisfaction and resolution rates continuing to rise. Since its launch on October 31, 2021, it has resolved 1.904 million pressing problems and urgent needs for 1.415 million enterprises and residents, maintaining connection, completion, and service satisfaction rates above 99 percent. The hotline has proactively established a regular communication mechanism with relocated groups and launched a Beijing-Xiong'an "same-city" service special line, promoting "one-key mutual transfer" between the Beijing and Xiong'an hotlines to handle cross-regional relocation appeals through one number. It has also built a high-frequency knowledge base for the Beijing-Xiong'an hotlines, sharing 2,740 items on medical insurance reimbursement, children's school enrollment, transportation, and other matters, with high-frequency concerns answered directly online and resolved immediately.
Summary: The "Chaoshan Overseas Chinese Gathering in Their Hometown" themed event was held on October 28 at the Jieyang Chaoshan Overseas Chinese Hall in Guangdong Province, with over 550 overseas Chinese of Chaoshan origin from 22 countries and regions attending. During the event, the hall was officially unveiled, with the first phase of 14 overseas Chinese association halls completed and opened, and construction of the second phase launched simultaneously. Activities included jointly painting a "Wall of Ten Thousand Blessings," planting a banyan tree, writing a "letter home," collecting "native soil," and economic, trade and cultural promotions, alongside root-seeking tours across local counties. Over 400 types of specialty products from host countries were showcased alongside "Jieyang Premium Products" hometown goods, accelerating connections between overseas Chinese capital and talent resources. Jieyang, a renowned hometown of overseas Chinese, has received overseas Chinese-related livelihood donations exceeding 360 million yuan and investment contributions of more than 3.3 billion yuan over the past three years.
Summary: The article highlights how the Hangzhou Federation of Trade Unions supports workers across traditional and digital sectors, featuring welder Ge Xiaoqing, who credits the union's skills competition platform for his honors and apprentices. In 2025, the union held 182 vocational skills competitions and 350,000 person-times grew through on-the-job training, while 246 model worker and craftsman service teams assisted enterprises. It also launched the "Hangzhou Digital Craftsman" recognition program for future industries, with 227 digital craftsmen like CloudMinds' Chu Zhen, and held AI-related competitions and training camps. The union operates 844 service stations, including a 24-hour one on Yuewang Road, forming a "15-minute worker service circle" for workers in new forms of employment. Zheng Rongxin, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, Executive Vice Chairman, and First-Level Inspector of the Hangzhou Federation of Trade Unions, pledged more complete institutional safeguards, broader development platforms, and more precise service measures to help workers realize their value.
Summary: Bank of China reported on its 2026 Financial Education Publicity Week activities, themed "Clear and Honest Financial Network, Safeguarding Worry-Free Consumption," which included rural anti-fraud education under the "Glimmer Plan" in old revolutionary base areas and an ancient-style market in Beijing's Longfu Temple. The bank highlighted its expansion of the "Glimmer Plan" from regional pilot to nationwide promotion, targeting 30 key county areas and over 100 rural schools over three years. It also detailed normalized education efforts under "BOC Consumer Protection, Companionship Through All Four Seasons," with over 320,000 activities carried out by end of September, a 100 percent increase year-on-year. The article emphasizes targeted outreach to groups such as the elderly, young people, new citizens, and rural workers, with regional examples from Guangdong, Chongqing, and Qinghai. Bank of China stated it will continue to practice the political nature and people-centered character of financial work, integrating consumer protection into its high-quality development and supporting the building of a strong financial nation.
Summary: The article reports on the revitalization of Zhanhua fisherman's drum opera, a national-level intangible cultural heritage in Shandong Province, through innovations like the newly compiled *A Playful Take on Journey to the West: Gao Village*. Wang Chunzhen, head of the Zhanhua Fisherman's Drum Opera Troupe, led efforts to digitally preserve endangered arias and musical modes, while young actors like Sun Pengcheng and Wang Qiaoyu use livestreams and school programs to expand the audience. The troupe has innovated over 100 repertoires, won 60 provincial awards, and performs over 200 benefit shows annually, reaching more than 100,000 people. Wang Qiaoyu, mentored by inheritor Fang Junxiang, teaches students like Wu Songjia, with the troupe conducting 60 "opera into schools" activities yearly. The piece highlights how digital dissemination and youth engagement have transformed the opera from "one-time viewing" into "long-term transmission."
Summary: The article argues that livestreaming, alongside short dramas and online literature, has become a new form of cultural consumption by expanding how people create, access, and participate in culture. It notes that livestreaming's interactivity allows audience feedback to shape creative processes, while interest formed online can convert into ticket purchases and cultural IP consumption, with theaters and livestreaming reinforcing each other. The piece highlights that livestreaming is shifting toward quality competition, citing data that performing arts livestreams reached 128 million sessions in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 26.39 percent. It cautions that traffic does not equate to cultural value, urging platforms, troupes, and industry organizations to prioritize social benefits, and mentions the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's "Art Livestreaming Plan" guiding state-owned troupes onto platforms. The author, the Director of the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, concludes that livestreaming brings professional stages to the masses and returns authentic cultural needs to the production end.
Summary: The article reports on CPIC Property Insurance Anhui Branch's implementation of the "Agricultural Insurance +" reform following the September 2025 issuance of provincial implementation opinions. The branch is executing four reform actions—diversified financing, multi-dimensional empowerment, multi-chain integration, and multi-level coverage—to support comprehensive rural revitalization. Specific initiatives include credit enhancement for agricultural businesses, meteorological index insurance for homestays and crops, and "one chain, one insurance" protection for industries like beekeeping and blueberries. The branch also provides full cost and income insurance for staple grains and poverty prevention insurance for nearly 2 million low-income rural residents. The article concludes by stating the branch will continue deepening reform and allocating financial resources to key areas of rural revitalization.
Summary: The article launches a "Health Science Popularization" column, citing General Secretary Xi Jinping's emphasis on prevention as the most economical and effective health strategy. It features Zhao Wenbo, associate researcher and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Neurology at Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, who explains stroke causes, risk factors, and prevention methods, including controlling hypertension, quitting smoking, and limiting alcohol. Zhao provides the "Stroke 120" and "BEFAST" mnemonics for identifying stroke symptoms and stresses the urgency of calling 120 immediately upon suspicion. He advises against common misconceptions in emergency care, such as waiting for symptoms to resolve or self-medicating. Finally, Zhao emphasizes that rehabilitation plans should be individualized and long-term, and that preventing recurrence requires sustained medication adherence and lifestyle management.
Summary: The Ministry of Finance has allocated funds to support free influenza vaccination for rural "one old, one young" populations—people aged 65 and above and compulsory-education students—providing one free dose of trivalent split-virion influenza vaccine. Wang Fuzhen, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, recommends early vaccination before the epidemic season for key groups. Vaccination is available at county hospitals and township health centers, following principles of informed consent, voluntary participation, and no charge, with recipients required to present ID and vaccination certificates. Localities like Xinmin City, Liaoning, and Yanzhou District, Shandong, are enhancing policy publicity and optimizing services, including mobile teams for disabled elderly. Some non-rural areas, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, also offer free vaccination, while others allow payment via employee basic medical insurance personal accounts for close relatives.
Summary: State Grid Anshan Power Supply Company has optimized the power business environment to support Anshan's high-quality development, using "three lists" to press service responsibilities down to each post. The company has coordinated with 18 government units to drive grid planning from "following installation applications" to "matching layout," supporting 874 key projects including the Yusen Pulp and Paper Integration project and the Tsingtao Brewery digital and intelligent production base. It has implemented an "open-door electricity connection" model in industrial parks, provided "four-fast" services, and saved customers 38 million yuan in investment since the beginning of the year. The company has also adopted imperceptible maintenance strategies such as loop network mutual transfer and live-line work, raising the power supply reliability rate to 99.96 percent. These efforts aim to inject momentum into the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China in the new era.
Summary: The article reports on the 2026 Chinese tennis season, which featured eight international tournaments across multiple cities and concluded with the Guangzhou Open. Local players delivered strong performances, including Zheng Qinwen winning her first WTA 1000-level title at the China Open, Zhang Shuai finishing runner-up in doubles, and young players like Sun Xinran and Zhou Yi setting personal milestones. The events boosted urban consumption, with the China Open drawing over 450,000 visitors and the Shanghai Masters generating approximately 500 million yuan in revenue. International players engaged with Chinese culture through activities like West Lake cruises and Song Dynasty-style experiences, while Bai Xilin, director of the Tennis Management Center of the General Administration of Sport of China, praised the season's openness and inclusiveness.
Summary: Bai Xilin, director of the Tennis Management Center of the General Administration of Sport of China, highlighted the strong performances of homegrown players in the 2026 Chinese season, including Zheng Qinwen's historic China Open title and young players' breakthroughs. He emphasized a tiered tournament structure and coordinated wild card resources to help juniors gain experience and confidence. Bai stressed respecting junior development laws, citing Sun Xinran's deliberate pacing before winning the ITF Junior Finals. He outlined a "champion model" and dual-pyramid talent system, noting an overseas training program in the United States launched in late 2025 has yielded results, with 8 Chinese players qualifying for the 2026 Australian Open junior main draw. Bai pledged continued investment in coaching, rehabilitation, and technology support to sustain long-term talent growth.
Summary: At the 2026 Yichun Forest Food Industry High-Quality Development Conference held on September 20, Heilongjiang released a standardized nutritional database and authentication fingerprint atlas for birch sap, led by the Heilongjiang Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau and undertaken by Northeast Forestry University. The database covers 1,717 valid samples spanning latitudes from 42 to 53 degrees north, marking the first such province-wide achievement nationwide. The release addresses industry problems such as inconsistent basic data and unsubstantiated quality claims, responding to consumer concerns about nutritional content and product authenticity. The initiative aims to empower enterprise development, guide fair competition, and support the standardized, transparent, and high-quality growth of the birch sap industry. Future work will refine the databases, promote standardized detection methods, and develop rapid detection techniques using fluorescent probes to support national standards compilation.
Summary: The article reports on Ganzhou City's economic and social development efforts, framed around the February 2026 issuance of central guidelines on accelerating revitalization of old revolutionary base areas. It highlights industrial cluster growth, including four 100-billion-yuan clusters and over 3,100 industrial enterprises above designated size, alongside infrastructure, urban renewal, and ecological achievements. The piece details cooperation with Shenzhen, China-Europe freight train operations, and progress in poverty prevention and rural revitalization. It also describes grassroots governance innovations, such as Longnan City's "grid + sharing" model, and emphasizes the inheritance of red genes and the Long March and Soviet area spirits.
Summary: The article discusses how Egypt, Indonesia, and Vietnam are promoting green buildings to enhance urban quality, in the context of World Cities Day and the UN's focus on urban renewal. Egypt established a local Green Pyramid Rating System and is integrating green standards into new cities, with the Grand Egyptian Museum receiving EDGE Advanced certification. Indonesia mandates green standards in public buildings and offers incentives, with the Sequis Tower as a benchmark LEED Platinum project. Vietnam aims to increase certified green buildings to 1,200 by 2030, updating its certification system and targeting net zero emissions by 2050. The piece highlights each country's efforts in standards, incentives, and demonstration projects for sustainable urban development.
Summary: The 47th World Congress of Vine and Wine, held for the first time in Asia in Yinchuan, Ningxia, showcased China's agricultural development, with International Organisation of Vine and Wine President Yvette van der Merwe praising Ningxia as "standing out as a unique entity" in the global wine landscape. The article argues that China's whole-industry-chain upgrades, from large-scale cultivation to cross-border logistics, have moved products like Ningxia wine, domestic caviar, and Yunnan blueberries from niche markets to global consumers. It highlights China's differentiated, resource-based agricultural strategies—citing cranberry cultivation in Heilongjiang, foie gras processing in Shandong, and matcha clusters in Guizhou—as a reference for global rural revitalization, with FAO Investment Centre Director Mohamed Manssouri noting their value for developing countries. The piece frames China's openness and mutual learning in agriculture, from wine's transformation into a "new Chinese specialty" to French foie gras exchanges and Mediterranean olives in Gansu, as a contemporary inheritance of ancient Silk Road exchange. It concludes that China will continue driving agricultural modernization through innovation, green development, and open cooperation with all countries.
Summary: A train collision in Toledo, Spain, killed 68 people and injured 77, with four Chinese citizens on board suffering minor injuries and no reported deaths. Spanish media reported that a Renfe train rear-ended an Irion company train, causing two carriages to derail. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez cancelled his schedule, expressed grief, and announced three days of national mourning. Transport Minister Óscar Puente attributed the accident to a computer failure in the railway network safety system. Separately, US media reported that US military spending on the war against Iran has risen to $47 billion, and Canada and the UAE signed a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement.
Summary: Fu Cong, China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, spoke at the Security Council open debate on "Women, Peace and Security," emphasizing that a peaceful and stable environment should be created for women. He noted that over 700 million women and girls lived in conflict-affected areas last year, and the first step to alleviate their suffering is to bring an end to war and promoting peace. Fu Cong stressed that development is an important foundation for solving all problems, and called on developed countries to fulfill aid commitments and increase investment in women's development projects in developing countries. He also urged the international community to strengthen North-South cooperation, South-South cooperation, and trilateral cooperation to help women address challenges such as poverty, discrimination, and the digital divide. Fu Cong concluded that China has always been a staunch advocate and active contributor to the global women's cause and is willing to work with all parties to jointly write a new chapter in the cause of "Women, Peace and Security."
Summary: African health ministers convened a high-level video conference on October 28, urged by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, to strengthen surveillance and cross-border coordination as confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) exceeded 10,000. The World Health Organization reported that the outbreak, caused by the Bundibugyo ebolavirus, continues to spread, with Kenya and Nigeria recently reporting imported cases. The DRC Ministry of Health reported 10,060 cumulative confirmed cases and 4,887 deaths as of October 25, with transmission intensity increasing in recent days. Kenya reported 9 cases, while Nigeria confirmed its first imported case, prompting activation of national incident management mechanisms. Multiple countries, including the DRC, South Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, and Ethiopia, have strengthened border surveillance and prevention measures, though analysts note that complex security situations and population movements in affected areas pose ongoing challenges.
Summary: The article reports on efforts to preserve qiaopi, the remittance letters and vouchers sent by overseas Chinese, which were inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2013. It highlights General Secretary Xi Jinping's 2020 call to protect these cultural relics and strengthen research, following his visit to the Qiaopi Cultural Relics Museum in Guangdong. The Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party submitted a proposal in 2023 on strengthening qiaopi protection, leading to measures such as digitization, museum exhibitions, and international communication platforms. Zheng Yelu, director of the Department of Political Participation and Deliberation of the Central Committee, and Huang Xiaobiao, a CPPCC member, are quoted on the need for broader awareness and coordinated protection systems. The article also notes the opening of the Qiaopi Museum in Xiamen in October 2025 and the World Chinese Businessmen Expo Museum in Guangdong, with CPPCC member Liao Yiman involved in collecting and displaying qiaopi letters.
Summary: The author, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee and Vice Chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the CPPCC, discusses the role of rural professional managers in agricultural revitalization, citing Huichang County's innovative cultivation models that increased grain output and income. The article notes challenges such as difficulty retaining managers and adapting to local conditions, and proposes improving training systems, policy guarantees, and market integration mechanisms. It highlights examples like Zhejiang's training plans and university-local cooperation, emphasizing the need for whole-chain selection, cultivation, and evaluation systems. The piece concludes that more rural professional managers will contribute to comprehensive rural revitalization and agricultural modernization.
Summary: The Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang proposes promoting high-quality development of cold-arid specialty agriculture in northwestern China, citing challenges such as lagging industrial development, weak infrastructure, and insufficient scientific and technological support. Recommendations include strengthening top-level design with national-level coordination led by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, establishing pilot zones and special support funds, and intensifying conservation of cold-arid germplasm resources. The proposal also urges stronger scientific and technological support, including innovation platforms, efficient water-saving equipment, and demonstration bases for facility-based planting and breeding. Additionally, it calls for brand building through market monitoring, export competitiveness reports, and overseas warehousing networks under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Summary: Qi Mingliang, a CPPCC National Committee member and lawyer, conducted field research at a nursing home in Shijiazhuang, Hebei, gathering elderly residents' complaints about fragmented social security procedures, which aligned with his long-standing concerns about scattered laws and departmental barriers. He emphasized that good proposals are "heard" from the masses and "run out" from the front line, citing his 2024 proposal that led to the May 2025 implementation of the Law on Promoting the Private Economy. After months of verifying procedures, interviewing new employment groups, and comparing urban-rural institutional differences, he submitted a March 2026 proposal recommending a Social Security Code as a basic law to integrate scattered regulations and break departmental barriers. In September 2026, the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee replied that it would seriously study the matter and advance legislative work in the social security field. Qi Mingliang pledged to continue deepening research and making solid suggestions to promote national development.
Summary: Gansu courts are extending judicial services to the grassroots frontline to support local characteristic industries, as seen in the "Astragalus Court" in Longxi County, which resolved a merchant's overdue payment case and recovered over 10 million yuan for herb farmers and enterprises. The "Huaniu Apple Court" in Tianshui handles apple-related disputes, using field visits and industry standards to mediate cases and issuing standardized contract templates to prevent future conflicts. In Qingyang's "East Data, West Computing" Industrial Park, the Big Data Base Circuit Court mediates land lease and labor disputes, linking with local units for joint resolution and issuing litigation-avoiding recommendations on data security and trade secrets. The article highlights a shift from "hearing cases in the courtroom" to proactive, frontline judicial engagement, emphasizing substantive dispute resolution and category-based prevention. It concludes that stepping forward in judicial services opens the "last mile" of serving enterprises and the people, making fairness and justice tangible.
Summary: The article is a Jintai Commentary arguing that the red line of cultural relic safety must not be crossed, citing six typical cases released by the Supreme People's Court and the National Cultural Heritage Administration. It emphasizes that cultural relics are non-renewable and irreplaceable, with over 600,000 unmovable cultural relics ungraded, and stresses the need for strict legal enforcement and public awareness. The piece highlights recent legal tightening, including the newly revised Cultural Relics Protection Law, and mentions innovative local measures such as Jiangxi's "cultural relic chief + caretaker" model and Sichuan's Long March relic alliance. It criticizes improper acts like a blogger doing pull-ups at the Hanging Temple in Shanxi, which led to police investigation, and calls for stronger penalties, better patrols, and public reporting to safeguard cultural heritage. The commentary concludes that protecting cultural relics through rule of law preserves national cultural roots, urging society-wide participation.
Summary: The Huangdao Border Inspection Station under the Shandong General Station of Exit and Entry Border Inspection has implemented a closed-loop management model for seaports, integrating data governance, customs clearance services, risk control, and diversified co-governance to improve clearance efficiency at Qingdao's Qianwan Port. Police forces were moved forward with five duty rooms established in the port area, enabling gangway supervision and simultaneous verification information push to checkpoints and business windows. On September 3, the vessel "MECL Maersk" set a new world record for single-vessel throughput on the Gemini Alliance AE10 Europe route after cargo originally destined for transshipment at congested foreign ports was transferred to Qingdao Port. The station established an exclusive support mechanism of "one ship, one strategy; advance assessment; full-journey escort," implementing measures such as pre-inspection and immediate processing to ensure quick berthing, inspection, loading, and departure. Ding Jinbo, station chief, stated the station strives to handle the relationships between openness and security, vitality and order, and management and service, safeguarding high-level opening up and high-quality development through high-efficiency port governance.
Summary: The author recounts working with Old Wang, the secretary of the Yanhe Work Committee in Hanggin Banner, to manage the challenges of the Yellow River. The narrative details the historical difficulties of controlling ice floods and desert erosion along the river's bend in Inner Mongolia. It highlights modern improvements, such as water-rights conversion to support industrial parks and the diversion of ice-flood water into the Kubuqi Desert to create aquaculture resources. Old Wang notes that these measures, alongside the Smart Yellow River Project, have transformed the region's economy and landscape.
Summary: The article argues that inspiration often arises from a fixed, focused gaze, citing Galileo's observation of a swinging chandelier that led to the pendulum's isochronism and Huygens' subsequent clock, as well as Wegener's map-gazing that produced the theory of continental drift. It also credits this focused attention for Chinese literary masterpieces like Wang Zhihuan's "Climbing the Stork Tower" and Li Bai's "Gazing at the Waterfall of Mount Lu." The author frames this as materialist reflection theory, not idealism, emphasizing that inspiration is a chance encounter between keen observation and accumulated knowledge. It stresses that a fixed gaze requires seeing with the mind, not just the eyes, and that long-term knowledge reserves are essential for seizing such moments. The piece concludes that unity of knowledge and action is necessary to capture fleeting inspiration and achieve discovery and creation.
Summary: The article is a personal essay by Li Peiyu reflecting on his long relationship with the Tianjin Daily, sparked by a New Year's greeting card from an unfamiliar editor, Song Shen. He recalls his internship at the paper over 40 years ago, where mentor Han Guozhen guided him and his first prose piece "Rain" was published in the Literary Supplement. In 2011, he received the first "Sun Li Newspaper Supplement Editing Award" and was warmly greeted by former colleagues Wang Daosheng and Sun Yan. The essay also recounts a letter from writer Hua Jing, who compiled a detailed catalogue of his published works, prompting him to send her a selection of his prose without a return address as a reciprocal surprise. The piece reflects on the fading art of letter-writing and the enduring warmth of literary friendships.
Summary: The article provides a lyrical description of the corn harvest occurring amidst heavy rain and thick clouds. Laborers are depicted working urgently to capitalize on the season as the weather begins to clear. The narrative follows the transition from misty conditions to the active use of harvesters and the subsequent collection of golden corn in truck beds.
Summary: Li Hanping's Chinese painting *Impression of the Populus Euphratica* is featured in a photo report.
Summary: The article describes the traditional preparation of chong cai, a pungent preserved mustard green dish made in the author's hometown during autumn, involving precise blanching, seasoning, and sealing in a pottery jar to achieve its signature spicy kick. The quality of chong cai is judged by its color, taste, and aroma, with the pungency being the most important criterion, and villagers believe only bold, vigorous cooks can make it properly. The dish is served to honored guests, stir-fried with meat after turning sour post-Spring Festival, and is considered essential to local life. The author notes that attempts to recreate it in Wuhan fell short, but e-commerce has now enabled villagers to sell this delicacy and allowed faraway wanderers to savor a taste of homesickness.
Summary: The article is a personal essay about the author's visit to the North Square of Beijing West Railway Station, reflecting on memories spanning thirty years. The author recalls his first arrival in Beijing in the winter of 1996, a failed attempt to buy a military greatcoat, and a commemorative photo taken in the square. He notes the station's symbolic representation of Beijing and contrasts past and present, including a conversation with a local elder about climate change. The essay concludes with the author photographing the square with his phone, treasuring these images alongside the old photo as witnesses of time.
By: 本报记者 张 洋
At the conference commemorating the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "Persist with sustained, long-term effort in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and constantly realize the Party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-renewal, and self-enhancement."
Corruption is a roadblock and stumbling stone in the course of the development of the Party's and the country's cause, and the fight against corruption is a major struggle that cannot be lost and must never be lost.
"Advance the fight against corruption with greater sobriety and resolve." In January this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed this out at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, our Party has successfully blazed a path of fighting corruption with Chinese characteristics, which, under the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, involves treating both the symptoms and the root causes (标本兼治, biao ben jian zhi - "sample, root; treat, cure") and advancing in an integrated manner the efforts to ensure that officials do not have the audacity, opportunity, or desire to be corrupt. "This path must be firmly walked to the end." In the first three quarters of this year, discipline inspection and supervision organs across the country filed a total of 800,000 cases and disciplined 680,000 people.
Following the guidance of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the charge against corruption will always be sounded.
— We must maintain a high-pressure posture without wavering.
On the issue of corruption, General Secretary Xi Jinping's attitude is resolute, stressing: "If it is allowed to breed and spread unchecked, it is bound to damage the environment for economic development, trigger various risks and hidden dangers, and shake the Party's foundation of governance."
Governing the Party is by no means a "lightning war" accomplished overnight, but rather a "protracted war" requiring sustained, long-term effort.
"At present, corruption problems are still prone to occurring frequently." General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "We must maintain a high-pressure posture without wavering. Adhere to the principle that where there is corruption it must be opposed, where there is graft it must be eliminated, and evil must be eradicated completely, leaving corrupt elements no place to hide."
Public support is the greatest politics. "We must make the rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses a regular task to be grasped on a routine basis, so that ordinary people can feel and benefit from it."
Villagers of Shuangqiao Village, Qiaoting Township, Pingle County, Guangxi, remarked with emotion: "The hearts of everyone are united again!" Previously, the village leased out collective mountain land, and the villagers discovered something suspicious in the accounts. Discipline inspection and supervision cadres entered the village to verify, village cadres who had embezzled collective funds were dealt with according to Party discipline, and the intercepted rent was recovered.
Today, the management of rural collective "three assets," the management of medical insurance funds, elderly care services... one item after another is advanced, one "fly-greed and ant-corruption" case after another is punished, and the broad masses of the people truly feel that fairness and justice are right by their side.
— We must continuously enhance the penetrating power of the fight against corruption.
In fighting corruption, we must both maintain a resolute attitude and employ effective means. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "We must grasp the new trends and new characteristics of corruption, innovate methods and means, and further discover in a timely manner, accurately identify, and effectively govern all kinds of corruption problems."
Deepening the simultaneous investigation and simultaneous governance of misconduct and corruption is an important path to enhancing the penetrating power of the fight against corruption.
When verifying the case of a cadre in a certain unit who improperly held a wedding banquet for his son, the Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervisory Commission of Dianjiang County, Chongqing, discovered that he had a close relationship with a businessman, and ultimately uncovered his serious violations of discipline and law. Through carrying out rectification of improper eating and drinking, the Dianjiang County Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervisory Commission seriously investigated and dealt with corruption problems hidden behind the misconduct problems of multiple Party members and cadres.
A large number of cases show that unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems are mutually reinforcing and share the same root and origin. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "Adhere to the integration of rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and fighting corruption, use 'simultaneous investigation' to severely punish problems where misconduct and corruption are intertwined, and use 'simultaneous governance' to eradicate the common roots of misconduct and corruption."
Through the tempering of the furnace of practice, our Party's understanding of the laws of the fight against corruption has become increasingly profound, the means for carrying out the fight against corruption have become increasingly abundant, and the methods for advancing the fight against corruption have become increasingly scientific.
— We must make greater efforts in integrated advancement.
Those skilled at eliminating harm examine its root; those skilled at curing illness sever its source.
"Adhering to the integrated advancement of ensuring that officials do not have the audacity, opportunity, or desire to be corrupt" is an important aspect of the Fourteen Commitments (十四个坚持) of Xi Jinping's Party building thought. General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: "The integrated advancement of ensuring that officials do not have the audacity, opportunity, or desire to be corrupt is not only the basic policy of the fight against corruption, but also an important strategy for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era."
Strengthening the deterrence that makes people not dare to be corrupt, tightening the cage that makes people unable to be corrupt, enhancing the self-awareness that makes people not want to be corrupt... our Party tirelessly explores making these three forces operate simultaneously, in the same direction, and in a comprehensive manner, striving to achieve more institutional achievements and greater governance results.
"Study for an upright career, be filial, kind, and benevolent, never take what is not righteous, govern with integrity..." Walking into the Three Su Shrine in Meishan City, Sichuan Province, the docent narrates at a measured pace. In June 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping came here and pointed out that "we should be good at drawing concepts and ways of thinking for governance from the excellent traditional Chinese culture."
The power of culture is profound and enduring. As a foundational project for the integrated advancement of ensuring that officials do not have the audacity, opportunity, or desire to be corrupt, the construction of a culture of integrity in the new era is being advanced in depth and in practice, vigorously creating a social environment that advocates integrity, rejects corruption, upholds thrift, and abstains from extravagance, and resolutely eradicating the soil and conditions for corruption to breed.
The Communist Party of China has always been the backbone of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation.
In his important speech on July 1 this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly summarized the six outstanding qualities of our Party, one of which is "focusing on strengthening and improving oneself, always full of vitality," pointing out that we must "resolutely eliminate all factors that harm the Party's advanced nature and purity, eliminate all viruses that erode the Party's healthy body, and become stronger and more powerful through revolutionary tempering."
"I will have no self, and live up to the people."
In October 2022, when participating in the discussion of the Guangxi delegation at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "Communists are materialists, they are fearless, what is there to fear? Accepting the test of violent storms and raging waves, I say, 'Though thousands of people stand against me, I will go forward'! There is nothing to be afraid of."
On the new journey, by deeply studying and implementing Xi Jinping's Party building thought, maintaining the tenacity and perseverance of always being on the road, we will surely win the tough battle, protracted war, and overall war against corruption, and safeguard the steady and long-term advancement of Chinese modernization with a clean and upright atmosphere.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 丁雅诵 张一夫
The Long March, an immortal spiritual monument.
At the conference commemorating the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Vigorously carry forward the great Long March spirit, continue the struggle, striving forward with determination (砥砺前行, di li qian xing - "polish, forge; move forward"), continuously advance the great cause pioneered by our revolutionary predecessors, and strive with all our might to create new brilliance on the new Long March!"
Starting October 23, a grand ideological and political lesson titled "Each Generation Has Its Own Long March," hosted by the Ministry of Education, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, and People's Daily, began to be delivered to primary, secondary, and university students nationwide. As of October 28, the number of people who had studied the Long March ideological and political lesson on campus reached 115 million, and the play count on the People's Daily client exceeded 26 million.
The course is divided into four chapters for primary school, junior high school, senior high school (secondary vocational school), and university, with the themes respectively being "A magnificent and breathtaking in scale (气吞山河, qi tun shan he - "breath, swallow; mountain, river") miracle of the human world," "The firm conviction of following the Party with iron determination," "A spiritual monument tempered into steel," and "Walking well the new Long March," leading students into that great expedition that shook the world and left a lasting and glorious mark in history (彪炳史册, biao bing shi ce - "shine, bright; history, book").
This is a lesson for revisiting history: the Long March was a magnificent and breathtaking in scale miracle of the human world.
In the primary school classroom, Zhong Yueming, an ideological and political course teacher at Jiangxi Huarong Ruijin Hope Primary School, posed a difficult question, pulling the students back to the critical moment of 1935: the Red Army was forcing its way across the Dadu River, with pursuing troops behind pressing closely and relentlessly (步步紧逼, bu bu jin bi - "step, step; closely, press") — what should be done?
The camera then turned to Xia Yun, a docent at the Memorial Hall of the Red Army's Capture of Luding Bridge. Xia Yun pointed to a line of text on the exhibition wall: "240 li in one day and one night."
With torrential rain pouring down and steep mountain paths, the soldiers chewed raw rice when hungry and cupped rainwater to drink when thirsty, yet they still managed to arrive at Luding Bridge on schedule.
Through Xia Yun's telling a story in an engaging and captivating manner (娓娓讲述, wei wei jiang shu - "softly, softly; tell, speak"), the children came to understand: the miracles along the Long March were achieved step by step by the Red Army officers and soldiers through their iron will.
This is a lesson for forging faith: we must firmly follow the Party and follow our ideals and convictions.
At the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution, Pei Keyun, an ideological and political course teacher at Baixing Ethnic Junior High School in Longli County, Guizhou, introduced to the students a yellowed proclamation. On November 7, 1934, Comrades Mao Zedong and Zhu De jointly issued a proclamation in Rucheng, Hunan, stating: "The Soviets and the Red Army advocated by the Communist Party are your way out."
"This lesson allowed me to truly understand the firm conviction that the revolution was bound to triumph," said Zhu Qinglin, a student at Peihong Ethnic Middle School in Nanning, Guangxi, with deep feeling.
This is a lesson of relay and inheritance: the new journey is a new Long March.
Chen Huafei, an ideological and political course teacher at Xi'an No. 26 Middle School in Shaanxi, told the students the story of General Liu Huaqing: during the Long March, 18-year-old Liu Huaqing was seriously wounded in the leg in battle, but dragging his injured leg, he kept close to the main force and completed the entire Long March. Decades passed, and the young Red Army soldier of those days grew into a general of the People's Republic, making a deeply moving or soul-stirring (撼人心魄, han ren xin po - "shake, people, heart, soul") vow: "If China does not develop aircraft carriers, I will not rest even in death!"
From refitting an aircraft carrier to domestically built giant vessels, China's aircraft carriers have been forging ahead through difficulties and obstacles (劈波斩浪, pi bo zhan lang - "split, waves; chop, waves") all the way. In a classroom video link, Bao Yu, a crew member of the Fujian, said: "Developing China's own aircraft carriers was the unfulfilled dream of General Liu Huaqing. To turn this dream into reality, we must vigorously carry forward the great Long March spirit."
"Why do generations of Chinese Communists all call the road under their own feet a 'Long March'?" Yu Ningyao, a teacher at the School of Marxism at Xiangtan University, gave the answer: "The answer lies in the original aspiration and the mission. Our Party is committed to the great undertaking for many generations (千秋伟业, qian qiu wei ye - "thousand, autumn; great, enterprise") of the Chinese nation, and having experienced many changes and hardships (历经沧桑, li jing cang sang - "pass through, vicissitudes") without changing its original aspiration, and having experienced much hardship and vicissitude (饱经风霜, bao jing feng shuang - "fully, endure, wind, frost") while remaining true to its true colors."
How can ideological and political lessons explain principles deeply, thoroughly, and vividly?
During the lesson preparation process, the team continuously discussed the teaching design: Can these historical scenes and these principles truly reach the students' hearts? The teachers delved deeply into historical materials, striving to anchor the grand narrative in perceptible, real stories.
"When teaching red history, one must reveal the vivid humanity and choices behind the cultural relics," said Di Yana, associate professor at the School of Marxism at Chongqing University of Science and Technology.
Following the laws of adolescents' cognitive development, how can the connection of education between different school stages be achieved?
Ten integrated teaching teams of universities, secondary schools, and primary schools from provinces along the Long March route conducted intensive discussions and designed progressive, integrated teaching content, attempting cross-stage teaching.
In the junior high school classroom, Meng Hao, an ideological and political course teacher at Southwest Jiaotong University, as a cross-stage teacher, innovated the teaching model, giving the Long March stories stronger ideological penetrating power.
Revisiting history is for the purpose of drawing wisdom and strength for striving forward.
"I want to be a good red story teller, telling the Long March stories to classmates, family, and more people," "I want to devote myself to the aerospace industry and translate the great Long March spirit into concrete actions to serve the motherland"... After the lessons, primary, secondary, and university students freely shared their reflections, resolving to become inheritors, promoters, and practitioners of the great Long March spirit.
Ninety years ago, the Red Army officers and soldiers carved out a road of hope from desperate straits; ninety years later today, this spiritual force that transcends time and space is being transformed into the pace of striving, marching toward an expedition filled with glory and dreams.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵婀娜 耿 磊 范昊天
The Yangtze River flows for ten thousand li through the land of Jingchu, converging mightily with its largest tributary, the Han River, giving birth to the Jianghan Plain, where lakes and waterways are densely interwoven and fertile fields stretch for a thousand li.
"When Huguang is ripe, the world is fed." This ancient agricultural proverb speaks to the region's unique natural endowments and also marks this land's distinctive strategic position on the nation's agricultural map.
In November 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping said during an inspection tour of Hubei: "Hubei must strive to make achievements in urban-rural integrated development and comprehensive rural revitalization."
Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest instructions, Hubei, building on its locational advantage as a place where many routes meet (九省通衢, jiu sheng tong qu - "nine, provinces, through, thoroughfare") and its resource endowment as a "province of a thousand lakes," has deeply integrated agricultural and rural modernization into the building of its strategic fulcrum, striving to make agriculture stronger, rural areas more beautiful, and farmers wealthier, and working hard to build a land of fish and rice for the new era.
From "One Seed" to See How Technology Strengthens Agriculture
"Living off the mountains if you live by mountains, living off the water if you live by water" speaks to the farming wisdom accumulated over many years; "working according to the heavens" and "increasing income through technology" demonstrate a profound understanding of modern agricultural development.
Stepping into the Hongshan Laboratory in Hubei, automated breeding platforms operate at high speed, indicator lights on gene sequencers blink in regular patterns, and outside the window, contiguous experimental fields are full of lush greenery (绿意盎然, lv yi ang ran - "green, meaning, abundant"). Inside the laboratory, researchers are intently comparing corn seed genotyping data before their instruments. A "Weiyu 115" variety corn harvested from the experimental fields has a protein content of 13 percent, more than 1.6 times that of ordinary corn.
"Corn is the most important energy feed for animal husbandry, directly related to the supply of meat, eggs, and milk," said Xiao Yingjie, a researcher at the laboratory and professor at Huazhong Agricultural University. "After breakthroughs in breeding technology, for every 1 percentage point increase in the protein content of China's corn, it is equivalent to adding 7 to 8 million tons of soybean supply, which can greatly reduce dependence on foreign feed."
One technology is linked to the supply on dining tables; one good seed concerns food security. Walking across the land of Jingchu, one can see everywhere that scientific and technological innovation has given wings to modern agriculture.
On the high-standard farmland of the Jianghan Plain, intelligent agricultural machinery operates with precision; in the specialty orchards of the mountainous western Hubei region, crop protection drones and mountain monorail transporters have replaced traditional manual labor; at the smart fishery farms along the Qing River, underwater monitoring systems track fish growth around the clock... Across the rural landscape, agricultural scientific and technological innovation has yielded abundant and successful results (累累硕果, lei lei shuo guo - "many, many, large, fruit").
Strengthening the scientific and technological foundation to consolidate the "confidence" of agricultural production. Two national major science facilities, eight national key laboratories, 230 provincial and ministerial-level innovation platforms... A provincial agricultural science and technology strength matrix has been initially established; intelligent agricultural machinery has been applied over more than 40 million mu-times, and a cumulative total of 48.08 million mu of high-standard farmland has been built, accounting for 67.3 percent of cultivated land area. New quality productive forces in agriculture are being accelerated, and the strategy of "storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology" has taken root.
Breaking through frontier technologies to demonstrate the "sharpness" of agricultural scientific and technological innovation. Focusing on original innovation and tackling key core technologies, the "Daogongxin" series chips developed by Hubei have become the country's first liquid-phase chips for molecular module breeding of major functional genes in rice, breaking through foreign intellectual property barriers; the newly bred rice variety "E Liangyou 2300" has achieved an average yield of over 900 kilograms per mu in small-area ultra-high-yield demonstration fields; innovative achievements such as boneless Wuchang fish and "rice-based hemoglobin" have emerged one after another.
Accelerating the transformation of achievements to nurture the "bustling vitality" of abundant resources and a prosperous population (物阜民丰, wu fu min feng - "things, abundant, people, prosperous"). In the ten-li vegetable corridor of Panjiawan Town, Jiayu County, Xianning City, 27,000 mu of vegetables roll in green waves. At the field edges, digital monitoring screens update meteorological, soil, and pest and disease data in real time; in the seedling center, temperature, humidity, light, and ventilation are automatically regulated, and tender seedlings break through the soil and sprout green, ensuring a continuous supply of vegetables in all four seasons. Jiayu County's vegetable industry has driven 75,000 farmers to work and do business at their doorsteps, with per capita annual income reaching 17,000 yuan.
The mountains remain the same mountains, and the waters remain the same waters. By seeking production capacity from technology and efficiency from innovation, the traditional land of fish and rice has blazed a new path of high-quality development driven by science and technology in agriculture.
From "One Fish" to See How Industry Enriches Farmers
"Just now I drank the waters of Changsha, and now I eat the Wuchang fish." In the past, tasting an authentic Wuchang fish was a longing for many people on their trip to Hubei; today, relying on the "live fish delivered to your door" model, fresh live Wuchang fish can reach the whole country within 24 hours and connect to the world within 48 hours.
This "freshness" comes from the continuously improved and deepened support of the agricultural industry chain.
In Sanshan Village, Dushan Town, Echeng District, Ezhou City, more than 9,800 mu of intensively managed fish ponds shimmer with shimmering green waters (碧水粼粼, bi shui lin lin - "green, water, shimmering, shimmering"). In 2024, a standardized processing plant was built locally, connecting the entire chain of breeding, processing, cold chain, and sales.
"We use live fish oxygenated fresh-keeping transport technology to solve the problem of live fish easily dying from oxygen deprivation during long-distance transport," said Wang Ge, head of Sanshan Lake Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. Leveraging the aviation cold chain advantages of Ezhou Huahu International Airport, fresh live Wuchang fish board cargo flights directly, sending the flavors of Jingchu to all corners of the world. In 2025, the total output value of the entire Wuchang fish industry chain in Ezhou City exceeded 20 billion yuan.
One fish swims to dining tables across the country, and one chain drives prosperity for a whole region. Through policy guidance, financial support, leading enterprise traction, and concerted development, the increasingly mature agricultural industry chain is pushing more and more of Hubei's "local specialties" into the "global supply chain."
The key to activating the momentum of the "chain" lies in giving play to the traction role of leading enterprises. Hubei Province has promoted the construction of ten key agricultural industry chains for six consecutive years, with the provincial finance allocating 1 billion yuan in special funds each year to support development across the entire chain. The province has cumulatively cultivated 1,238 leading agricultural enterprises above the provincial level, 15 listed agricultural enterprises, and 8 enterprises with annual revenue exceeding 10 billion yuan.
The key to leveraging the role of the "chain" is to improve the synergy efficiency of each link. Qichun County National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park in Huanggang City, with Qi mugwort as its leading industry, focuses on standardized planting, processing upgrading, and scientific and technological research and development, attracting more than 20 upstream and downstream supporting enterprises to cluster. "Upstairs is the mugwort leaf deep-processing workshop, downstairs is the packaging and logistics enterprise, and next door is the e-commerce livestreaming base. Everyone shares resources and develops together," introduced Wei Zilong, vice president of Hubei Qi Ai Group. In 2026, the comprehensive output value of the entire "Qi Ai" industry chain exceeded 19 billion yuan.
Today, Hubei has built six 100-billion-yuan-level industry chains, including high-quality rice and specialty freshwater products, created 10 national-level advantageous characteristic industry clusters and 15 modern agricultural industrial parks, and the revenue of the agricultural product processing industry has reached 1.04 trillion yuan.
To unleash the effect of the "chain," it is also necessary to fully apply "brand empowerment." From "shrimp, eel, rice, tea, lotus root, mushroom, orange, and mugwort" to Wuchang fish, in Hubei, a batch of provincial-level regional public brands are becoming increasingly bright or prominent (越擦越亮, yue ca yue liang - "more, rub, more, bright"), and the market competitiveness of products is continuously improving.
"The fish of the Yangtze River and the lotus root of Honghu Lake make people not want to leave after eating." In Honghu City, Jingzhou City, the lotus root industry has cultivated four national geographical indication products: "Honghu Lotus Root," "Honghu Lotus Seeds," "Honghu Lotus Root Strips," and "Honghu Lotus Leaf Tea." "Honghu lotus root tastes great, suitable for both stewing soup and quick stir-frying," said Ms. Wei, a tourist from Jiangsu. "I basically buy it every month through e-commerce and other channels. Direct delivery from the place of origin is very convenient, and the quality is also guaranteed."
In 2025, the lotus root planting area in Honghu City reached 225,000 mu, with a brand value of 25.861 billion yuan. The flavors of Jingchu on the tip of the tongue have enriched the dining tables of the nation and also filled the pockets of farmers.
From "One Village" to See How Good Governance Revitalizes Agriculture
Rice ears hang heavy, houses stand in neat rows, asphalt roads wind into the village, and new fitness equipment on the square complements the flowing water. Walking into Dongjiao Village, Zaoyang City, Xiangyang City, it feels like stepping into a pastoral scenic area.
"The roads are open, industry is thriving, and every household's life is getting better and better," said villager Yang Yongchao. This poor village, once described as "good fields and good land all flooded out, leaving only three yellow earth ridges," now boasts a beautiful environment, simple and honest local customs, and a thriving new business format of agricultural, cultural, and tourism integration, with happy smiles on the faces of the villagers.
The transformation of Dongjiao Village is a vivid vignette in the magnificent picture of Hubei's promotion of comprehensive rural revitalization.
What lays the foundation color of the picture is the change in infrastructure and the living environment. Hubei has promoted the improvement of the rural living environment across the entire region and routinely implemented the clean home campaign; rural infrastructure in Hubei has continued to improve and upgrade, achieving full coverage of delivery logistics, charging piles, 5G networks, and "Four Good Rural Roads"; education consortia cover 85 percent of primary and secondary schools, and more than 20,000 village (community) elderly care service facilities have been built.
What enriches the splendor of the picture is the coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization. Passing through Yanhe Village, Wushan Town, Gucheng County, Xiangyang City, one is surrounded by green mountains and murmuring streams. Putting ecological restoration first and deeply cultivating the tea industry based on the natural endowments of the mountains and waters, Yanhe Village has converted barren slopes into standardized tea gardens, making tea cultivation the village's pillar industry and a "money bag" for increasing income and getting rich.
The village library is open 24 hours a day with a complete range of books; the village stage has become a platform for villagers to showcase their talents; village rules and civil agreements skillfully resolve mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflicts and neighborhood disputes, filling the "vacuum zone" of grassroots governance. A series of governance measures in Yanhe Village not only preserve the ecological beauty of lucid waters and lush mountains but also cultivate the humanistic beauty of respecting virtue and doing good.
How can rural areas achieve comprehensive revitalization? Strengthening Party building is the key.
Zigui County, Yichang City, is among the first batch of places named "Hometown of Chinese Navel Oranges." In Yandengbao Village, Guojiaba Town, Zigui County, in the past, mountain fruit farmers could only carry oranges down the mountain "on their shoulders and backs." Li Songfei, director of the Party and Government Office of Guojiaba Town, introduced that local village-level Party member contact points and consultation and deliberation rooms have been established to promote Party members taking the lead in industrial development. Under the leadership of the Party organization, more than 30 certified drone pilots have been cultivated locally, helping oranges "fly" out of the mountains. Orange farmer Wang Hongzhen, looking at his orchard, said happily, "In the past, carrying oranges down the mountain often left my shoulders bloody from the friction. Now drones help with the lifting and transport, it's fast and worry-free!"
Today, the planting area of Zigui navel oranges has reached 400,000 mu, the comprehensive output value of the entire industry chain has exceeded 25 billion yuan, and 18 "100-million-yuan villages" for the citrus industry have emerged.
A grassroots Party organization is a fighting fortress. By strengthening Party building to lead grassroots governance, the construction of livable, workable, beautiful, and harmonious villages in Hubei is continuously improving and upgrading.
From "One Leaf of Tea" to See How Cultural Tourism Benefits Farmers
Cultural and tourism integration has broad prospects. It is necessary to promote the high-quality development of the cultural and tourism industry and truly build it into a pillar industry, a livelihood industry, and a happiness industry.
Based on rural production, life, and ecology, deeply coupling farming resources, cultural heritage, and distinctive business formats, supplemented by an increasingly complete service system, the value of rural areas can be more fully released. The high-quality development of rural cultural tourism injects strong momentum into Hubei's promotion of comprehensive rural revitalization.
Integrated development has prospered the countryside and enriched the people.
Sailing up the Yangtze River to the Wuling Mountain area of western Hubei, the 1.82 million mu of tea gardens in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture are layered among the mountains (层叠山间, ceng die shan jian - "layer, stack, mountain, between"), with green waves stretching continuously.
Entering Mazhe Village, Tunbao Township, Enshi City, a one-kilometer art tea corridor connects business formats such as cliffside tea rooms, homestays, and experience venues. On Taozi Bao Tea Mountain, steam rises inside the ecological agriculture plant of Lizhao Tea Industry, and Xie Baiyong, a municipal-level representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Enshi Yulu production techniques, demonstrates the traditional process of "shaking and frying over medium heat" with his hands flying, while tourists gather around the tea table to watch. The integration of tea and tourism has driven steady increases in the purchase price of fresh leaves and the per-mu output value of tea gardens, with village collective economic income exceeding 1.5 million yuan.
"Nearly one-fifth of the prefecture's population 'eats from the tea trade,' and the tea industry has driven an average annual per capita income increase of more than 8,300 yuan for farmers," introduced Liu Qiangsheng, director of the office of the Enshi Prefecture Tea Industry Association.
Launching the provincial-level rural tourism public brand "Zhizhi Hubei · Hometown as Familiar as Ever," creating 52 national key rural tourism villages and 7 key towns, and having 49 routes selected for the national "Four Seasons of Beautiful Rural Scenery" quality list, Hubei's rural development has taken on a pattern of outstanding points, scenic lines, and quality improvement across the entire region.
One charm renewed has enlivened the ancient town and prospered thousands of households.
Entering the Tonglüshan National Archaeological Site Park in Daye, Huangshi, the "super project" from more than 3,000 years ago is presented before one's eyes, with scenes of ancient copper mining and bronze smelting unfolding one after another, attracting tourists who come out of admiration. With protection first and revitalization through use, the park, in addition to the archaeological site, offers a rich variety of new cultural tourism scenes such as copper smelting experiences and scenario-based performances, giving new vitality to the millennia-old mining and metallurgy civilization.
Data show that in 2025, rural tourism in Hubei Province received 493 million visits, a year-on-year increase of 10 percent, achieving comprehensive income of more than 430 billion yuan.
Yunxi County in Shiyan has deeply explored the Qixi wedding customs of the Tianhe River and built the "Qixi Wonderland" cultural landmark; Qijiawan in Honghu has connected fishing and farming culture with red memories; Pengjiazhai in Enshi has revitalized the Tujia stilted house complex to create a rural cultural tourism complex... Shaping tourism with culture and manifesting culture through tourism, deeply exploring intangible cultural heritage and folk customs, historical context, red resources, and rural memories, the new path of common prosperity through the integration of agriculture, culture, and tourism in Hubei is growing ever broader.
You can smell it — the autumn wind carries the fragrance of rice; you can see it — fish and shrimp reflect the shimmering light of the river... Walking across the land of Hubei during the harvest season, a picture of a land of fish and rice for the new era is slowly unfolding. On the fields of hope, the people of Jingchu continue to strive, rowing forward with determination to accelerate the building of an important strategic fulcrum for the rise of the central region and to promote comprehensive rural revitalization.
(People's Daily reporters Wu Jun and Zhang Yifu contributed to this report)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 邓建胜 申 琳
In Danyang City, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, approximately 45% of the world's resin lenses are produced annually, with more than 1,600 enterprises along the industrial chain clustered there.
"After more than half a century of development and accumulation, Danyang's complete eyeglasses industrial chain has basically achieved self-sufficiency in materials, equipment, processes, and standards. This has laid a solid foundation for us to seizing opportunities (抢抓机遇, qiang zhua ji yu - "seize, grasp, opportunity") in the intelligent transformation." Yuan Hongjin, secretary-general of the Danyang Eyeglasses Chamber of Commerce, said.
In recent years, smart glasses have become a new frontier for technological innovation in Danyang's eyeglasses industry. Well-known smart glasses brands have successively established cooperation with Danyang eyeglasses enterprises, among which one mass-produced AI (artificial intelligence) glasses model weighs only 25.3 grams at its lightest, with first-batch signed orders exceeding 10 million yuan.
What does the intelligent transformation of the eyeglasses industry look like?
At Jiangsu Gongda Jinkai High-End Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd., located in Danyang City, on the fully automated prescription lens custom production line, machines operate in seamless linkage with no personnel on site throughout the process, with a film-coating speed reaching 520 to 540 lenses per hour.
Li Ruiyang, founder of the company, saw a business opportunity in the development of Danyang's eyeglasses industry many years ago and led a research team to develop the fully automated prescription lens custom production line. With ultra-precision machining special machine tools and ultra-precision polishing machines for high-end lenses, Gongda Jinkai has now become an enterprise engaged in the development and manufacturing of high-end lens processing equipment.
Lighter, thinner, and clearer — these three qualities that consumers value most are the key focus of Danyang eyeglasses in the field of visual optics.
Using "chip-making" technology to make "lenses" is the technological achievement of Nuotong Yimu Optical Technology (Danyang) Co., Ltd. "We have brought semiconductor photolithography processes onto the lens production line. A myopic lens of 1500 degrees now has a center thickness of only 2 millimeters," said Di Make, head of Nuotong Yimu.
Stepping into Nuotong Yimu's cleanroom, faint red lights flicker on the lithography machines. Di Make picked up a red laser pointer and shone the light through a lens, projecting onto the ceiling a precise honeycomb pattern formed by photoresist on the lens.
Using lithography machines to make lenses allows lenses of different diopters to be processed from resin material of the same thickness, making the lenses thinner and lighter. This technology has improved lens processing precision to the 0.1-micron level, raised material utilization to above 95%, and increased light transmittance by more than 15%.
"Danyang's eyeglasses industry has a huge scale and complete categories, with solid technological reserves in areas such as high light transmittance and thinness and lightness, enabling rapid adaptation to the upgrade needs of AI glasses optical components," said Hong Feng, director of the Danyang Economic Development Bureau. "In developing smart glasses, we also face problems such as core supporting components like chips, optical modules, and batteries not keeping up." To this end, Danyang City has issued the "Action Plan for Accelerating the Empowerment of the Visual Optics (Danyang Eyeglasses) Industry by Artificial Intelligence (2026–2030)," established public service platforms such as the National Eyeglasses Quality Inspection Center and the Intellectual Property Rapid Protection Center, and encouraged leading enterprises to take the lead in jointly forming innovation consortia with universities and research institutions to carry out "open competition for tackling key problems" and collaborative research.
At present, the overall self-sufficiency rate of supporting industries for Danyang's visual optics sector exceeds 90%, and the industry has extended from lens production to include high-end equipment manufacturing enterprises represented by Gongda Jinkai, producer services enterprises represented by Simu Technology, and a group of overseas e-commerce enterprises represented by Taojing.
"In the future, we will focus on building the smart glasses industrial chain, integrate resource factors in an all-round way, and accelerate the transformation toward dual-wheel drive of traditional eyeglasses and smart glasses," Yuan Hongjin said.
Return to TopShanxi's Yuncheng City is committed to practicing the concept of green development, advancing comprehensive ecological environment governance, and creating high-quality living spaces for its citizens.
The photo shows the ecological landscape of Yuncheng's central urban area.
Photo by Yang Jianfeng (Image China)
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 28) Liu Yandong, an outstanding member of the Communist Party of China, a loyal communist fighter having stood the test of time (久经考验, jiu jing kao yan - "long time, undergo, test"), a distinguished leader of the Party's united front work and of China's education, science and technology, health care, and women's and children's affairs, a member of the Political Bureau of the 17th and 18th CPC Central Committees, Vice Chairperson of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, former State Councilor, and former Vice Premier of the State Council, passed away from illness in Beijing at 14:53 on October 28, 2026, at the age of 81.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 28) (Reporter Wang Ke) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Commerce: Since 2026, the implementation of the consumer goods trade-in policy has driven sales in related categories to exceed 2 trillion yuan, benefiting over 250 million person-times, effectively promoting consumption growth, assisting transformation and upgrading, and smoothing circular utilization, achieving multiple policy effects.
The Ministry of Commerce held a national teleconference on advancing the consumer goods trade-in work on the 28th, summarizing the progress and results of policy implementation and deploying key tasks for the next stage. The meeting emphasized that all regions must focus on key links, adopt more concrete measures, and implement the policy to a higher standard, ensuring a successful conclusion and solid results for the year's work; they should combine local realities, strengthen inter-departmental coordination and linkage, intensify efforts, innovatively create offline consumption scenarios, accelerate subsidy disbursement, and effectively enhance the public's sense of gain.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 28) (Reporter Han Xin) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Transport: Driven by a series of major projects, fixed-asset investment in transportation has remained at a high level, with 2.4 trillion yuan of investment completed in the first three quarters, of which highway and waterway investment reached 1.6 trillion yuan and 157.1 billion yuan respectively.
Freight volume grew steadily. In the first three quarters, commercial freight volume reached 43.04 billion tons, up 2.3 percent year on year, of which September grew 1.3 percent year on year. By mode, highway freight volume reached 32.70 billion tons, up 2.5 percent year on year; waterway freight volume reached 6.39 billion tons, up 2.2 percent year on year. Cargo throughput at ports remained stable. In the first three quarters, cargo throughput at national ports reached 13.64 billion tons, up 0.7 percent year on year, of which September grew 2.6 percent year on year. Container throughput reached 280 million twenty-foot equivalent units, up 4.5 percent year on year. Passenger flow grew at a relatively fast pace. In the first three quarters, cross-regional passenger flow reached 51.22 billion person-trips, up 1.2 percent year on year, of which September grew 5.1 percent year on year.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 观 屈信明
Recently, the Ministry of Finance and three other departments jointly issued the "Implementation Plan on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Agricultural Insurance." This marks another top-level design upgrade in China's agricultural insurance sector, following the 2019 "Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the High-Quality Development of Agricultural Insurance."
How exactly will the acceleration of high-quality development of agricultural insurance be advanced? What tangible protections can farmers obtain? A reporter conducted interviews on these questions.
Protection quality upgraded, quantitative indicators comprehensively raised across the board
The phased goals set forth in the 2019 Guiding Opinions included: by 2022, agricultural insurance depth reaching 1 percent, agricultural insurance density reaching 500 yuan per person, and the insurance coverage rate for the three major grain crops reaching above 70 percent. This Implementation Plan comprehensively raises the quantitative indicators across the board — by 2030, agricultural insurance depth will reach 1.9 percent, agricultural insurance density will reach 1,200 yuan per person, the intensity of science and technology investment in agricultural insurance will reach 1 percent, and the insurance coverage rate for the three major grain crops will remain stable at around 90 percent.
"Clarifying the above indicators is conducive to steadily expanding the coverage and protection level of agricultural insurance under the premise that they can be monitored, assessed, and evaluated," explained Wang Zecai, director of the Government Performance Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences. Through the "depth" indicator, one can analyze the degree of contribution of agricultural insurance to local rural economic development; through the "density" indicator, one can analyze the per-capita level of protection that agricultural insurance provides to farming personnel, answering the question of how much insurance protection support farmers can obtain; through the intensity of science and technology investment in agricultural insurance indicator, one can guide the industry toward precise and refined development, supporting agricultural insurance in achieving precise underwriting and claims settlement.
Agricultural production changes with the seasons and differs by region, so insurance products and services also need to be tailored to different categories.
Anhui Province is rich in forestry resources, and insurance institutions have in recent years accelerated innovation in related insurance products and services in light of actual risk protection needs. Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance Chizhou Central Sub-branch innovatively launched forestry target carbon ticket carbon emission reduction insurance, where claims are triggered when actual carbon emission reductions fall below the agreed target due to disasters; Guoyuan Agricultural Insurance Yuexi Sub-branch implemented a "pest and disease control + insurance compensation" mechanism, providing upfront funds to support pest and disease management in forest areas...
"To safeguard the distinctive forestry industry, on the basis of accelerating the exploration of full coverage of policy-based forest insurance, we have innovatively launched an overlay protection model for economic forest insurance. For example, targeting the Torreya grandis industry that Yuexi County is focusing on developing, we developed Torreya grandis planting insurance, with a maximum protection of 1,500 yuan per mu," said Jiang Bo, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Guoyuan Agricultural Insurance Co., Ltd.
To continuously improve the product supply system and gradually broaden the scope of services, the Implementation Plan proposes efforts to improve the multi-tiered protection system of "policy insurance + commercial insurance" and "basic insurance + supplementary insurance," encourages the development of innovative insurance types such as agricultural weather index insurance in light of local conditions, and the development of comprehensive insurance protection plans that facilitate farmers' enrollment; it also explores incorporating agricultural product processing, warehousing, transportation, quality and safety, and management and maintenance of high-standard farmland into the scope of insurance services, promoting the extension of insurance services into areas such as green agricultural development and smart agriculture.
Not only "pay claims promptly," but more importantly "prevent proactively"
Proposing the implementation of "one policy per household" at the policy level for the first time is a major highlight of the Implementation Plan. "One policy per household" means issuing a policy with a single farmer household as the subject, promoting the interconnection, sharing, and cross-verification of agricultural insurance underwriting data with agricultural production and operation data, and consolidating the authenticity of underwriting information from the source.
Wang Zecai analyzed that on the surface, collecting identity information, verified land area, and self-paid premiums household by household, and refining the precision of policy endorsement, information changes, and customer service from the "village" level down to the "individual" level, will increase grassroots manpower input. However, policy implementation requires technological support. Through replacing on-site verification with data cross-verification, replacing paper-based processes with digital policy issuance, and implementing the system of insurance assistance officers, viewed over the full cycle, this is a one-time system investment in exchange for long-term data authenticity, subsidy security, and direct claims payment. As technology iterates, costs may actually decline instead.
In recent years, climate change has brought new challenges to agricultural insurance. Wang Zecai believes that to enhance comprehensive prevention and control effectiveness, the key lies in the data foundation being "stable," turning scattered disaster data into "early warning" information for insurance institutions; the risk management chain being "complete," promoting the transformation from single post-disaster claims settlement to full-process risk management; and the trigger mechanism being "accurate," reducing loss assessment costs and related risks. Insurance institutions are not merely passive actors that "pay money after disasters," but should also embed themselves into the key "gaps" of the agricultural disaster prevention and control system.
A relevant official from the Ministry of Finance stated that it is necessary not only to "pay claims promptly," but more importantly to "prevent proactively." On the basis of industry exploration and practice, the Implementation Plan further strengthens the deployment of risk reduction work, requiring the enhancement of the integrated service capability of "pre-disaster prevention and disaster reduction, during-disaster rescue and loss mitigation, and post-disaster timely claims payment." It encourages insurance institutions to cooperate with professional forces in agriculture and rural affairs, forestry and grassland, meteorology, and other fields, to establish normalized mechanisms for early warning and inspection, emergency disaster prevention, and rapid claims settlement, extending the work of "prevention" to before disasters occur, building a closed-loop risk management chain, and enhancing the comprehensive disaster prevention and control effectiveness of agricultural insurance.
Data sharing and technology empowerment to solve difficulties in underwriting and claims settlement
In recent years, strengthening data sharing and technology empowerment has become an important lever for solving difficulties in underwriting and claims settlement.
"Not long ago, pigs died continuously at one of our farms in Rongchang District, Chongqing. Fortunately, this batch of pigs was covered by breeding insurance, and the 'insurance-treatment linkage' one-stop service stabilized the company's subsequent production and operation," said a relevant official of Sichuan Mianyang Weiming Agricultural Development Co., Ltd.
After learning of the situation, CPIC Property & Casualty Insurance Rongchang Sub-branch simultaneously coordinated with the local animal husbandry and veterinary department to verify epidemic monitoring and harmless treatment-related information, and strictly carried out survey, loss assessment, and claims settlement in accordance with agricultural insurance policy terms.
"'Insurance-treatment linkage,' in plain terms, means connecting information related to the harmless treatment of dead pigs with the insurance company's business data. Once pigs die of disease, farmers and enterprises that want to obtain insurance claims must first undergo harmless treatment. This approach not only protects farmers' interests and prevents insurance fraud, achieving more precise underwriting and claims settlement, but also establishes an effective barrier against dead pigs entering the market," said a relevant official of the Chongqing Financial Regulatory Bureau.
It is reported that CPIC Property & Casualty Insurance Rongchang Sub-branch, through building a "digital-intelligent monitoring project" pilot, comprehensively applies technologies such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence to conduct real-time collection and dynamic monitoring of key data in the breeding process, further enhancing the authenticity and transparency of underwriting and claims settlement data, and promoting the transformation of underwriting and claims settlement management from traditional manual verification to digital-intelligent transformation.
Regarding further strengthening technology empowerment, the Implementation Plan clarifies that insurance institutions are encouraged to make good use of tools and means such as remote sensing, drones, and the Internet of Things, actively promote the application of new technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cloud computing in the field of agricultural insurance, and promote the deep integration of modern information technology with business links such as underwriting, verification, survey, loss assessment, and claims settlement; formulate standards and specifications for the application of agricultural insurance technology, and promote agricultural insurance toward digitalization, intelligence, and standardization.
A relevant official from the Ministry of Finance stated that efforts will continue to consolidate the development foundation, drive in the "foundation piles," focus on strengthening the information technology support for agricultural insurance, unify data standards, strengthen information sharing, and ensure that agriculture-related data "comes from agriculture and is used for agriculture."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郭晓龙
In October, the Sanjiang Plain is wrapped in a faint fragrance of rice.
On the ridge of a field in Xinzheng Village, Heli Town, Tangyuan County, Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province, farmer Zhang Lizhi bent down and stripped a heavy rice ear, gently rubbing it between his fingertips as several plump, translucent grains rolled into his palm.
"This year's yield exceeds 700 kilograms per mu, more than 50 kilograms more than the old variety, and the grain quality is better too." All 168 mu of Zhang Lizhi's land are planted with "Hejing 21," a "star variety" of cold-region rice bred by the Jiamusi Branch of the Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
The story behind cold-region rice goes back more than 20 years.
Ding Junjie, director of the Jiamusi Branch, threw himself into this cold-region rice area right after graduating from university. He clearly remembers that around 2000, Heilongjiang's rice acreage expanded year after year, but the varieties were few and the layout monotonous. "Fellow villagers went everywhere looking for good seeds, wanting to grow high-yield, high-quality rice, but there was little to choose from."
The difficulty of breeding in cold regions lies in the "window period" being too short. "The south can grow two crops a year; we grow one crop a year, with a frost-free period of at most about 130 days. If we fall short by three to five days, the rice may not ripen." Ding Junjie admitted that most varieties introduced from other regions are unsuited to the local environment (水土不服, shui tu bu fu - "water, soil, not, adapt") here: either they mature too late to put out ears, or they suffer frost damage when hit by low temperatures, and cannot be used directly as parent material.
With no shortcuts available, the breeding team repeatedly backcrossed and compound-crossed introduced varieties with locally dominant cultivars, multiplying generation after generation and screening season after season. "We raise seedlings in spring, hybridize in summer, select seeds in autumn, and advance generations in winter — working year-round without a break, just 'grinding' away in the field," Ding Junjie said. Through this painstaking effort, the team bred a batch of early-maturing germplasm resources suited to the cold-region climate, broadening the genetic background for breeding.
There is a saying in cold-region rice areas: early maturity makes high yield hard, and high yield means poor quality. The "Hejing 21" that emerged from the "grinding" was meant to break this contradiction as much as possible.
"Breaking through on a single trait is useless; improvement has to be systematic." Ding Junjie explained that the team adopted a "double sieve" breeding approach: the maternal parent used "Longjing 47," noted for its outstanding early maturity, and the paternal parent used "Longjing 31," excellent in both yield and quality. Through multiple generations of pedigree-method selection, the genes for early maturity, high yield, and good quality were aggregated into a single individual; the progeny lines were then cross-tested across different accumulated-temperature zones, soils, and yearly climates, eliminating lines with unstable grain filling under low temperatures, insufficient accumulated temperature for maturity, or declining yield and quality.
After layer upon layer of screening, "Hejing 21" became the "top performer" of the cold-region rice area. Its growth period is stable at under 130 days, allowing safe maturation in cold regions; in regional trials it yields more than 7 percent above the control variety; its taste score reaches 83 points and its head rice yield exceeds 70 percent; under low-temperature conditions the empty-grain rate is only 12.8 to 17.1 percent, so even in cold-damage years most of the harvest can be preserved; and with its compact plant type and sturdy stalks, it can be fully adapted to mechanized operations from transplanting to harvest. According to statistics, the application area of the "Hejing 21" achievement has exceeded 500,000 mu, generating nearly 50 million yuan in annual social benefits, with cumulative total output of about 320 million kilograms.
Today, Ding Junjie and his team are aiming at more distant goals: accelerating the transition to biological breeding, using whole-genome selection technology to cut the breeding cycle by nearly half; laying out salt-alkali-tolerant varieties, functional specialty rice, and "disaster-resilient" varieties more resistant to extreme weather; and promoting a universal AI agricultural platform so that farmers need only a mobile phone to handle fertilization, pest control, and farm machinery dispatch... More and more high-yield, high-quality cold-region rice varieties are taking root and flourishing in a new place (落地生根, luo di sheng gen - "land, fall, grow, root") on the Sanjiang Plain.
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What is generation advancement in breeding?
Generation advancement is a common means of shortening the selection cycle in crop breeding. Heilongjiang's cold region has a short frost-free period, allowing only one breeding cycle (one generation) per year, while developing a conventional variety usually requires eight generations, meaning that without generation advancement it would take eight years. Therefore, the breeding team takes seeds to Sanya, Hainan, in winter, using the warm local climate to complete an additional one to two generations of breeding, potentially cutting the selection cycle by more than half.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 28) (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang) The reporter learned from the National Bureau of Statistics: from January to September, the profits of industrial enterprises above the designated size nationwide increased by 15.5% year-on-year. Looking at the three major categories, the profits of the mining industry increased by 38.2%, the profits of the manufacturing industry increased by 17.0%, and the profits of the production and supply of electricity, heat, gas, and water decreased by 14.3%. In September, the profits of industrial enterprises above the designated size nationwide increased by 14.4%.
The electronics industry contributed significantly to profit growth. From January to September, the profits of the electronics industry increased by 1.0 times year-on-year, driving the profit growth of all industrial enterprises above the designated size by 9.6 percentage points, serving as an important support for the relatively rapid profit growth of industrial enterprises above the designated size. Looking at sub-sectors, driven by demand for artificial intelligence computing power, advanced storage, and other areas, the profits of the electronic special materials manufacturing industry and the semiconductor discrete device manufacturing industry increased by 2.2 times and 51.7%, respectively.
The leading role of high-tech manufacturing has become prominent. From January to September, the profits of high-tech manufacturing industries above the designated size increased by 52.0% year-on-year, a growth rate 36.5 percentage points higher than that of all industries above the designated size. High-tech manufacturing accounted for 25.5% of the total profits of industrial enterprises above the designated size, an increase of 6.2 percentage points compared with the same period last year. Looking at industries, the construction of computing power and data centers drove the profits of the optical fiber manufacturing industry and the optical cable manufacturing industry to increase by 5.7 times and 1.1 times, respectively.
The raw materials manufacturing industry grew at a relatively rapid pace. From January to September, the profits of the raw materials manufacturing industry above the designated size increased by 44.9% year-on-year, driving the profit growth of all industrial enterprises above the designated size by 5.9 percentage points. Looking at industries, the strong demand for basic metal products such as copper and aluminum in fields such as artificial intelligence and new energy drove the profits of the nonferrous metals industry to increase by 79.7%. The upward movement of international crude oil prices promoted the improvement of profitability in related industries, with the profits of the chemical industry increasing by 49.2% and the petroleum processing industry turning a loss into a profit (扭亏为盈, niu kui wei ying - "twist, loss, become, profit") year-on-year, achieving a total profit of 84.22 billion yuan.
The unit costs of industrial enterprises continued to decline. From January to September, the cost per 100 yuan of operating revenue for industrial enterprises above the designated size was 85.02 yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 0.45 yuan, and the cumulative unit cost of industrial enterprises has maintained a year-on-year declining trend since the beginning of this year. From January to September, the operating revenue profit margin of industrial enterprises above the designated size was 5.68%, an increase of 0.44 percentage points year-on-year.
Return to TopBy: 王 浩
The energy industry often says that "the end of computing power is electricity." In fact, in the "ledger" of the computing power industry's development, there is also water.
When General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia, he emphasized, "Seriously implement the requirements of high efficiency, green development, and safety, pay attention to 'computing-electricity coordination' and 'computing-water coordination,' do a good job in the construction and operation of computing power center projects, and actively promote the development of the green computing power industry." Compared with its endowment of "wind and solar" resources, Ulanqab's per capita water resource availability is less than one-quarter of the national average. From fully utilizing reclaimed water to adopting high-power-density liquid-cooled cabinet technology, water conservation is opening up new space for the development of the local computing power industry.
Computing power facilities are crucial to developing new quality productive forces. How can we use precious water resources where they are most needed (用在刀刃上, yong zai dao ren shang - "use, at, knife, on") to better support the development of the computing power industry?
To seize a new track and shape new advantages, one must take the initiative to gain an early advantage (下好先手棋, xia hao xian shou qi - "play, well, first, move"). China's basic water situation is characterized by summer floods and winter droughts, and scarcity in the north versus abundance in the south, with an extremely uneven spatial and temporal distribution of water resources. This "inequality" of water resources is even more pronounced in the western region. To promote the high-quality development of the computing power industry, it is necessary to "calculate the input-output account and improve the degree of fit."
From the input side, water is an important factor of production. Which areas are given priority for protection, and which areas have restricted use — the allocation of water resources tests the degree of fit. On the one hand, policies "draw red lines" for water use, promoting the implementation of a rigid water resource constraint system and implementing dual control over total water use and intensity, all for the purpose of keeping the development and utilization of water resources within the carrying capacity; on the other hand, from advancing a water budget management system and establishing a mechanism for tackling key technologies for water conservation, to carrying out market-based trading of water use rights and launching green financial products such as "water conservation loans," a series of innovative measures are aimed at improving the efficiency of water resource utilization and providing guarantees for the development of new quality productive forces, including the computing power industry.
From the industry side, developing the computing power industry requires passing the "water conservation test." Huang Yongchun, a professor at the Research Institute of Ecological Civilization Construction and Watershed Protection at Hohai University, suggests that the western region can leverage its advantages in wind and solar resources and energy costs to focus on undertaking non-real-time computing demands such as offline analysis and storage backup; the eastern region can rely on its advantages in user and industrial agglomeration to undertake latency-sensitive computing demands such as the industrial internet and telemedicine; in addition, the application of technologies such as liquid cooling, natural cooling, and circulating water use should be accelerated to reduce water demand in the cooling links of data centers and improve the efficiency of water resource utilization.
From a broader perspective, one of the benefits of accelerating the construction of the "six networks" is to promote the optimal allocation of resources across a larger spatial scope. The national water network now covers 80.3 percent of the country's land area. Reconstructing the spatial and temporal balance of water resources and rationally adjusting the surplus and deficit of water resources can provide strong water support for accelerating the construction of a national integrated computing network.
Determine the city by water, determine the land by water, determine the population by water, determine production by water — "however much soup you have, that's how many buns you can soak." Computing power may calculate faster, but it can also surely become "greener" and lower in carbon.
Return to TopRecently, the 350,000 mu of salt fields at Nanpu Saltworks in Caofeidian District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, have entered the autumn salt harvest period, and workers are making use of the fine weather to step up harvesting. Nanpu Saltworks is one of the sea salt production bases in China's Changlu salt region, and its total sea salt output this year is expected to reach 1.5 million tons.
All photos above were taken by Yang Shiyao, a reporter with Xinhua News Agency.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 28) (Reporter Wu Qiuyu) The latest data released by the People's Bank of China shows that since the beginning of this year, China's green loans have grown at a relatively steady pace. As of the end of the third quarter, the balance of green loans in both local and foreign currencies stood at 49.22 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.0%, with an increase of 4.41 trillion yuan in the first three quarters. By purpose, the balances of loans for green infrastructure upgrading, green and low-carbon energy transition, and ecological protection, restoration, and utilization stood at 22.12 trillion yuan, 8.73 trillion yuan, and 5.43 trillion yuan, respectively. By industry, the balance of green loans for transportation, warehousing, and postal services stood at 9.33 trillion yuan, with an increase of 1.02 trillion yuan in the first three quarters; the balance of green loans for the production and supply of electricity, heat, gas, and water stood at 9.17 trillion yuan, with an increase of 221.9 billion yuan in the first three quarters.
Since the beginning of this year, loan support for science and technology innovation enterprises has remained stable. As of the end of the third quarter, 307,300 technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises had received loan support, with a loan access rate of 51.1%, 0.9 percentage points higher than at the end of the previous year; 292,700 high-tech enterprises had received loan support, with a loan access rate of 58.2%, 0.9 percentage points higher than at the end of the previous year. As of the end of the third quarter, the balance of loans to technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises in both local and foreign currencies stood at 4.27 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.1%, with the growth rate 15.4 percentage points higher than that of all loans; the balance of loans to high-tech enterprises in both local and foreign currencies stood at 22.09 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.2%, with the growth rate 12.5 percentage points higher than that of all loans.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 28) (Reporter Lin Lili) The International Organization for Standardization (ISO/IEC) recently released the international standard for brain-computer interface reference architecture, led by China: "Information Technology — Brain-Computer Interface — Reference Architecture." This international standard was led by Chinese experts as project leaders, jointly completed with experts from multiple countries including Italy, South Korea, the United Kingdom, India, the United States, Japan, Sweden, Finland, Australia, and Germany, marking another significant achievement by China in the field of international standardization of brain-computer interfaces.
The release of this standard will help unify the understanding of global industry stakeholders regarding the system composition, functional boundaries, and typical implementation methods of brain-computer interfaces, provide a unified technical reference for brain-computer interface product development, system design, and the subsequent development of related standards for data, interfaces, testing, and applications, and further consolidate the standard foundation for the scaled and standardized development of brain-computer interfaces.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 纵
In Shenzhen's Qianhai, Siemens Healthineers' medical device bonded maintenance center supports global after-sales service for magnetic resonance equipment; Finland's KONE Elevator rapidly ships new digital equipment to the Greater Bay Area market; foreign banks and financial institutions from the United Kingdom, Singapore, and elsewhere have successively established operations in the Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Finance City... With a high degree of openness and strong economic vitality, Shenzhen's attractiveness and competitiveness as a global investment hotspot continue to rise.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Shenzhen saw 44,000 newly established foreign-invested enterprises, accounting for 16.2 percent of the national total, with actual utilization of foreign capital exceeding 300 billion yuan. More than 340 Fortune Global 500 companies have invested in Shenzhen cumulatively, and foreign enterprises from developed economies are rapidly converging on the city. The latest data show that from January to September this year, Shenzhen's actual utilization of foreign capital exceeded 44 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of over 60 percent.
From "manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing," deeply integrating into industrial development
"When I first came here more than a decade ago, the assembly lines were still crowded with workers." Standing beside the automated production lines of Flextronics Electronic Equipment (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Zhang Hongliang, Vice President of Operations for the Industrial Products Division of Flextronics Group Asia Pacific, said. Today, this site has become the only pilot of Flextronics' global "factory of the future" in Asia, where automated equipment, digital integrated systems, and artificial intelligence algorithms drive highly efficient production line operations, doubling per-capita efficiency.
In the early days of reform and opening up, advantages such as flexible special zone policies and convenient port transportation attracted a large influx of foreign-invested manufacturing. In 1987, Flextronics, a technology enterprise founded in Silicon Valley in the United States, established its first factory in mainland China in Shekou, Shenzhen. Since then, it has continued to increase investment, successively building shared service centers, R&D centers, and more in Shenzhen, providing innovative technology, supply chain, and advanced manufacturing solutions for industries including communications equipment, high-end medical, and industrial sectors.
The digital transformation that began around 2015 made the assembly lines "smarter." Flextronics, together with its customers and suppliers in the Pearl River Delta, jointly explored flexible automation solutions, gradually replicating the experience to more links in the chain.
"The efficient supply chain response, the strong digital atmosphere, and the government's technological transformation support have laid a solid foundation for the enterprise's intelligent upgrade," Zhang Hongliang said. These achievements are now spreading from Shenzhen to Flextronics' manufacturing bases elsewhere in the world at an accelerated pace.
A model of "Shenzhen innovation, global linkage" is gradually taking shape: products are developed in Shenzhen, sample production is completed there, and once the processes mature, production is expanded in Malaysia, Mexico, and other locations, using a flexible supply chain to help customers respond nimbly to changes in global markets.
From "manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing," foreign enterprises are deeply integrating into Shenzhen's industrial development, resonating with China's industrial transformation and upgrading, and seeking momentum for sustained "growth."
As Shenzhen accelerates its drive to build a new generation of world-class automobile city, French auto parts manufacturer Valeo is deeply embedded in the local automotive industry chain, deepening technological iteration and capacity optimization in the fields of intelligent driving and intelligent cockpits, to meet the growing cutting-edge demands of Chinese and global customers for future automobiles.
"China is no longer merely the world's largest automobile market; it has also become the global 'fitness center' and demanding testing ground for the automotive industry," said Zhou Song, President of Valeo China. About 30 percent of the value of intelligent connected vehicles comes from the information technology industry, which aligns highly with Shenzhen's industrial foundation and innovation ecosystem. "Deep localization has made Valeo an important partner for Chinese OEMs and the automotive innovation ecosystem," Zhou Song said. "We will continue to seize the opportunities of electrification, intelligence, and software-defined vehicles, and grow together with the Chinese economy."
Shenzhen Sena Technology Co., Ltd., which has been rooted in Shenzhen for more than a decade, has benefited from the upgrading of the local industrial chain and continues to launch new products. Yan Jun, the company's head of HR and administration, said that relying on Shenzhen's artificial intelligence and embodied intelligence industry chain, the enterprise's latest R&D of golf cart robots has entered the prototype sampling stage, while mature products such as motorcycle helmet Bluetooth headsets are also increasing capacity to better respond to market demand.
R&D in China, innovation in China, shaping global competitiveness
At the Siemens Healthineers Shenzhen base, more than a dozen magnetic resonance machines are neatly arranged, undergoing final system testing. Before long, they will be shipped to Australia, Japan, Thailand, and other destinations. As of 2025, the base has cumulatively delivered more than 10,000 magnetic resonance and angiography devices to over 120 countries and regions worldwide.
In 2002, Siemens Healthineers established operations in Shenzhen. At that time, the domestic medical device industry was still in its infancy. A single magnetic resonance machine involves thousands of components, and a local supply chain system urgently needed to be established. "We have adhered to a localization strategy, nurturing and driving the development of more than 300 local suppliers, with the localization rate of complete equipment reaching 80 percent," said Ma Tianshi, General Manager of Siemens (Shenzhen) Magnetic Resonance Ltd.
A sound innovation and industrial ecosystem continues to grow through the interaction of supply and demand. In 2025, Shenzhen's Nanshan District, where Siemens Healthineers is located, has gathered approximately 400 key enterprises and research institutes, and hosts four national key laboratories in imaging science, synthetic biology, brain-inspired intelligence, and cardiovascular disease.
Siemens Healthineers has repeatedly expanded its investment in Shenzhen: in 2013, it added angiography and medical systems R&D and manufacturing operations; in 2025, it launched an open innovation platform, with business gradually expanding from production and manufacturing to R&D, talent cultivation, and open innovation. A new high-end medical device R&D and manufacturing base in Shenzhen, with an investment of more than 1 billion yuan, is expected to commence production in 2027, at which time its area will be three times the current size.
"The new base will build a global source of green magnet technology, forming a closed loop of 'national first, Shenzhen manufacturing, Shenzhen application, global sharing,'" Ma Tianshi said. "We are firmly investing in Shenzhen and deepening our roots in China, serving China and the world with a higher level of 'intelligent manufacturing' capability."
In the layout of more and more foreign enterprises, Shenzhen is no longer merely a foothold for "Made in China," but has become a key link in "global innovation." In the first half of this year, actual utilization of foreign capital in Shenzhen's high-tech industries accounted for more than 70 percent of the city's total. At present, Shenzhen has more than 200 foreign-invested R&D centers, with over 30,000 R&D personnel.
In March this year, KONE Elevator's Southern China headquarters was officially put into operation in Qianhai, Shenzhen, forming a development pattern of "dual headquarters coordinated linkage." Previously, KONE had established a Greater Bay Area smart logistics and assembly center in Qianhai, and, leveraging Shenzhen's digital ecosystem advantages, had joined hands with local partners to launch the industry's first elevator intelligent system based on the HarmonyOS system. "KONE has gone through the stages of sales in China, factory construction in China, R&D in China, and now innovation in China," said Xie Jijun, Senior Vice President of KONE Elevator Greater China. Today, KONE is applying innovative technologies such as digitalization and green energy conservation to the Chinese market first, before promoting them globally.
Emerging and future industries are flourishing in Shenzhen, attracting the attention of international financial institutions. HSBC Bank (China) Company Limited has established a technology and innovation financial services team in Shenzhen, focusing on cross-border fintech innovation in the Greater Bay Area, and has also launched a series of innovative products empowered by digitalization and dedicated to serving technology and innovation enterprises. "This demonstrates our confidence in and commitment to Shenzhen's technology and innovation enterprises and emerging industries," said Li Qile, the company's Greater Bay Area General Manager.
Experiencing the speed and warmth of services, retaining enterprises and ensuring their sound development
Not long ago, Shi Zhu, Managing Director of Greater China at German enterprise Degussa Bank Consulting (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., went to handle a business registration information change. He had originally reserved a week for the task, but unexpectedly finished it in an hour and a half. "Since establishing operations in Bao'an, Shenzhen, we have fully experienced the speed and warmth of Shenzhen's services, and the enterprise services here are professional and efficient," Shi Zhu said.
This enterprise, which provides services such as guarantee accounts and study abroad insurance for people going to Germany, has served more than 300,000 students to date. In October 2024, company executives visited Shenzhen to assess the business environment, and in early 2025, the enterprise established a subsidiary in Shenzhen, making it the company's first international office outside Germany. Shi Zhu said that Shenzhen's degree of internationalization, dense talent resources, and convenient cross-border data flow have provided the enterprise with great convenience.
In 1981, Shenzhen issued China's first foreign-invested enterprise approval certificate, numbered "0001," becoming one of the earliest cities to introduce foreign capital. Since then, in the field of foreign investment services, Shenzhen has progressed from relaxing market access and standardizing operations to institutional innovation and legal safeguards, adhering to high-quality introduction and utilization of foreign capital and continuously raising the level of openness.
Earlier this year, Shenzhen Lufthansa Technik Co., Ltd. was approved as a pilot for global bonded maintenance business outside the Qianhai customs special supervision zone. Under this model, goods from overseas with damaged components or functional failures can be shipped directly into the company, undergo maintenance in bonded status, and then be shipped back out of the country.
"Global bonded maintenance improves the efficiency of maintenance services, helps us win more overseas orders, enhances competitiveness, and also reduces enterprise costs," said Yin Xueping, the company's Chief Financial Officer. This is one of the largest aircraft composite component repair enterprises in Asia and has been rooted in Shenzhen for more than 20 years. Shenzhen has continued to make efforts in policies such as additional deduction of R&D expenses and tax incentives for advanced manufacturing, reducing burdens and increasing efficiency for enterprises. The enterprise plans to make additional investments and continue to "increase its position" in Shenzhen.
Foreign capital must be able to enter, but also be retained and developed well. In December 2025, Shenzhen introduced implementation measures to further increase the attraction and utilization of foreign capital, improving a comprehensive policy support system from aspects such as promoting opening in key areas, optimizing the business environment, and improving investment facilitation.
A relevant official from the Shenzhen Investment Promotion Bureau said that in the next step, Shenzhen will actively participate in advancing institutional opening, build a high-energy international trade hub, promote high-level two-way investment, enhance the city's level of internationalization, strive to take the lead and set an example in building a new system for a higher-level open economy, and play Shenzhen's important engine role in the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and its radiating and driving role in the national overall plan in the fields of commerce and investment promotion.
Return to TopBy: 胡贝特·罗默
We look forward to German and Chinese youth both honing their skills through learning and exchange, and taking the initiative in their career development through cooperative practice, jointly creating value for the future development of human society.
Not long ago, I led a German delegation to Shanghai to attend the 48th WorldSkills Competition, and traveled to Suzhou, Jiangsu, to participate in German-Chinese vocational education exchanges. Shanghai allowed outstanding skills to shine in the world's spotlight, while Suzhou demonstrated how to build lasting bridges between youth, schools, and enterprises beyond the competition arena.
As the host, China built an impressive stage for this WorldSkills Competition. Standing in the competition venue, the scale of the events and the high standards reflected China's sincere willingness to promote learning from one another through mutual exchange (互学互鉴, hu xue hu jian - "each, learn; each, learn"), and also confirmed the important value of vocational education for global development. As President Xi Jinping pointed out in his congratulatory letter, "At present, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating breakthroughs, exerting a profound impact on global skills development" and "China is willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with all parties to promote the development of the world skills movement." This is highly consistent with the original aspiration that the German WorldSkills organization has always upheld.
For young German skilled talents, this competition was a "touchstone" for honing their craft against the world's top peers. Whether it was micron-level precision machining, complex mechatronics tasks, or high-standard professional services, victory or defeat often hung on the finest margins, testing not only knowledge reserves and fundamental skills, but also the comprehensive psychological quality of making independent decisions, detecting hidden problems, and responding quickly under high pressure. As team leader, I am deeply proud of the fighting performance of the German young men and women. They focused on the present, took full responsibility for every finished product and every service, and their transformation and growth along the way moved me deeply. The value of these qualities far transcends the competition arena and will become a reliable foundation for their careers. Competition and learning are complementing each other or working in tandem (相辅相成, xiang fu xiang cheng - "mutually, complement; mutually, succeed"). The agile and efficient style of the Chinese competitors and the ingenuity shown by representatives of other countries all brought us much inspiration. Even if languages differ and training paths vary, the love of and pursuit of craftsmanship is enough to transcend any cultural divide and become a common language for youth exchange and learning.
If the Shanghai arena showcased the pinnacle of technical competition, then the "Kerschensteiner Cup · Suzhou German-Chinese Skills Exchange Activity" held at Suzhou Vocational University turned our gaze toward the soil that nurtures skills. What kind of vocational skilled talents does the digital age need? How can cutting-edge technologies be transformed into classroom modules? How should young apprentices demonstrate and refine their mastery of work processes? The two sides engaged in candid exchanges on these practical topics. Through hands-on training, collaborative research and development of topics, and joint teaching seminars, young students and mentors from both countries learned from each other's strengths while tackling challenges together, bringing fruitful results back to the classroom and the workshop. International cooperation needs to be implemented through concrete projects. The charm of German-Chinese dialogue lies in the ability of both sides to seek the key to jointly addressing challenges while respecting each other's national conditions and differences in systems. By naming this exchange activity after the German vocational educator Kerschensteiner, we hope to integrate his vocational education philosophy, which emphasizes hands-on work practice and civic character cultivation, into the practical cooperation between the two countries.
The WorldSkills Competition has prompted society to reshape its perception of the value of vocational education. Vocational skills are an attractive path for life development, where young people can try cutting-edge tasks and open up broad horizons, achieving a bright future and personal value. Shaping this perception requires families, schools, and enterprises to work together, using a more standardized growth environment and clear career development paths to transform the enthusiasm of young competitors in competitions into endurance like a long-distance run, forging an outstanding spirit of craftsmanship through day-after-day training.
At present, with the popularization and deepening of artificial intelligence, the industrial internet, and automated processes, higher demands are being placed on skilled talents' professional judgment and data collaboration capabilities. Green transformation fields such as high-precision construction of low-carbon buildings and precision operation and maintenance of renewable energy equipment also rely on the frontline hands-on operations of highly qualified skilled talents. In this regard, there is broad space for German-Chinese cooperation in vocational education. Germany is willing to share its vocational education experience, jointly design practical training topics suited to the green transformation with China, and cultivate more highly qualified skilled talents for sustainable development.
From the top-level competition on the banks of the Huangpu River to the in-depth dialogue in the water towns of Gusu, friendly German-Chinese vocational skills exchanges have reached a new starting point. We look forward to translating this valuable consensus into more practical cooperation, so that the youth of both countries can both hone their skills through learning and exchange and take the initiative in their career development through cooperative practice, jointly creating value for the future development of human society.
(The author is the Director General of WorldSkills Germany.)
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 28) Li Hongzhong, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, met in Beijing on the 28th with a delegation led by Bernd Lange, chair of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade.
Li Hongzhong stated that the essence of China-EU economic and trade relations lies in complementing each other's strengths (优势互补, you shi hu bu - "advantage, complement, mutually, supplement") and mutual benefit and win-win results (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual, benefit, together, win"). As comprehensive strategic partners, China and the EU can fully find mutually beneficial and win-win solutions through equal dialogue. The NPC of China is willing to work together with the European Parliament to consolidate the good momentum of exchanges and play a positive role in promoting the healthy and stable development of China-EU relations.
Lange stated that the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade is willing to strengthen dialogue and cooperation with the Chinese side to promote the stable and balanced development of EU-China trade.
Return to TopOn the afternoon of October 27, a truck loaded with electronic products drove into the gate of the Guangxi Pingxiang Comprehensive Bonded Zone. After a series of contactless customs clearance procedures including license plate recognition, weighbridge weighing, and facial recognition comparison, it proceeded through the Youyi Pass port toward Vietnam. This was the 1 millionth vehicle entering or exiting the border supervised by Youyi Pass Customs so far this year.
Pang Geping Xie Haowen Liang Jiamei photo
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 28) On October 28, Cai Dafeng, Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, met with Bernd Lange, Chair of the European Parliament's Committee on International Trade, at the Great Hall of the People. The two sides exchanged views on topics of mutual interest, including China-EU relations and exchanges between the legislative bodies of China and the EU.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 28) (Reporter Chen Xirui) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson announced on October 28 that President of the Swiss Confederation Parmelin will pay a working visit to China from October 30 to November 1.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Canberra, October 28) (Reporter Che Bin) The National Cultural Heritage Administration of China received in Canberra on the 28th two pieces of lost Chinese cultural relics returned by the National Gallery of Australia. Tang Wei, Deputy Director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration of China, Liu Jinsong, Chinese Ambassador to Australia, and Nick Mitzevich, Director of the National Gallery of Australia, attended the return and handover ceremony and delivered speeches. Representatives from relevant institutions including the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Federal Department of the Arts attended the ceremony.
The Chinese side stated that promoting the return of lost cultural relics to their countries of origin is a just act that safeguards the security of cultural relics in all countries, respects the cultural rights and interests and national sentiments of the people of all countries, and protects the achievements of human civilization. This cooperation is an important outcome of China and Australia jointly implementing international conventions and protecting cultural heritage, and will further promote people-to-people and cultural exchanges between China and Australia as well as people-to-people connectivity (民心相通, min xin xiang tong - "people's heart, mutually connect").
The Australian side stated that the return of cultural relics is not only a physical handover but also reflects respect for cultural heritage, a sense of responsibility, and international partnership. This return will help deepen Australia-China friendly relations and promote continued cooperation between the two sides in the field of cultural heritage protection.
The two relics returned by the Australian side this time are the head of a military official statue from Yongyu Mausoleum and the head of a civil official statue from Yongchang Mausoleum, both imperial mausoleums of the Northern Song Dynasty of China. According to collection records previously published by the National Gallery of Australia, both relics come from Henan Province, China, and are made of limestone. The military and civil official statue heads are 68 centimeters and 70 centimeters high respectively, weighing 132 kilograms and 223 kilograms.
The National Cultural Heritage Administration of China, together with the Ministry of Public Security and the cultural relics and public security departments of Henan Province, conducted an investigation and formed evidentiary materials, and in 2025 submitted a memorandum to the National Gallery of Australia requesting the Australian side to return the above-mentioned relics, formally initiating the recovery work.
The National Cultural Heritage Administration of China, in close coordination with the Chinese Embassy in Australia, ultimately achieved the return of the two lost cultural relics to the motherland under the framework of the 1970 UNESCO Convention, based on the intergovernmental memorandum of understanding on cultural relics protection signed by China and Australia in 2009 and the due diligence and provenance and provenance history research policy published by the National Gallery of Australia in 2021.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Xishuangbanna, October 28) (Reporter Ye Chuanzeng) The 14th Lancang-Mekong River Basin Countries Cultural and Arts Festival opened on October 28 in Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Artists from China and abroad from the Lancang-Mekong basin are gathering together in one place (齐聚一堂, qi ju yi tang - "gather, together, one, hall"), using culture and the arts as a bond to renew friendship and promote exchange.
That evening, the Manting Imperial Garden Theater in Jinghong City was filled with song and dance. At the opening gala themed "Drinking from the Same River, Being One Family," distinctive performances from countries along the Lancang-Mekong basin took the stage in succession, presenting the audience with an artistic feast of multicultural convergence. At the end of the gala, Chinese and foreign performers jointly presented the song-and-dance piece "Flying Together," expressing the wish of the peoples of the six Lancang-Mekong countries to move forward hand in hand and jointly create a better future.
During this year's festival, a series of activities will also be held, including the "One Great River" Xishuangbanna International Photography Exhibition, the "Lancang-Mekong Fine Goods Carnival," and the "Elegant Gathering: Tea and Music in Harmony," further promoting people-to-people and cultural exchanges and cultural-tourism cooperation among the basin countries.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李安琪 白紫微
"China and Greece, as representatives of the ancient civilizations of the East and the West, have made tremendous contributions to the progress of human civilization. The wisdom of the classical civilizations possessed by the two countries can provide answers to the problems facing today's world." Greek Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni said in an interview with our reporter in Beijing recently, stating that the two great civilizations of Greece and China share many commonalities, which not only lay the foundation for cooperation between the two countries in the cultural field, but also provide intellectual inspiration for the two countries to jointly address global challenges.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between China and Greece. Over the past 20 years, enduring hardships and toil (栉风沐雨, zhi feng mu yu - "comb the wind, bathe in the rain"), practical cooperation between China and Greece has continued to deepen, and people-to-people and cultural exchanges have presented a series of brilliant highlights (亮点纷呈, liang dian fen cheng - "bright spots, profusely present"). Mendoni believes that climate change and other issues are common challenges facing the international community, and that the two ancient civilizations of Greece and China can provide valuable solutions for addressing various challenges. "We can find answers from ancient wisdom," she said. In this era full of uncertainty, it is in itself highly meaningful for different civilizations to come into contact, engage in exchanges, and understand each other. Both Greek and Chinese civilizations have had a tremendous influence on the Eastern and Western worlds, and continue to play an important role to this day. "Different civilizations need dialogue and exchange. Only by uniting all parties, promoting interaction, and jointly addressing contemporary problems can positive results be achieved," Mendoni said.
Mendoni attaches great importance to and appreciates the cooperation between Greece and China in the field of cultural heritage protection. Her main purpose in visiting China this time was to attend the fourth "Liangzhu Forum." In 2024, the Chinese Academy of Classical Studies was established in Athens. Now, the academy's first joint archaeological cooperation project in Greece has been officially launched, with cultural heritage protection personnel and archaeologists from Greece and China working side by side. "The spillover effects of their good cooperation are evident, and it has played a practical role in promoting people-to-people exchanges. Such cooperation has already extended to universities and educational institutions at all levels in both countries. The results of the cooperation are valuable and of great significance, creating conditions for us to deepen learning from and referencing each other (互学互鉴, hu xue hu jian - "mutually learn, mutually reference") in the field of classical studies," Mendoni said.
From the successful holding of the "China-Greece Year of Culture and Tourism," to the World Congress of Classical Studies moving from Beijing to Athens, and to the continuous achievements of the China-Greece Center for Mutual Learning Among Civilizations and the Chinese Academy of Classical Studies, China and Greece have continuously built sustainable channels and platforms for people-to-people and cultural exchanges. Mendoni believes that co-organizing exhibitions is an important part of people-to-people and cultural exchange cooperation between the two countries. She cited as examples the thematic exhibition "The Many Facets of Beauty: Art and Life in Ancient Greece," which was held in China and attracted a cumulative total of one million visitors, and "Parallel Universes: Encountering Terracotta Warriors in Greece," which used virtual reality, real-time rendering, and other technologies to allow Greek people to appreciate the beauty of Chinese culture. "In the future, we hope to incorporate contemporary culture into co-organized exhibitions and continue to make efforts to promote youth exchanges and film and television cooperation between the two countries," Mendoni said.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Seoul, October 28) (Reporters Mang Jiuchen, Wang Siyuan) The "Zhitong · Chuangxiang" China-ROK Science and Technology Innovation Exchange Conference was held in Seoul, the capital of the Republic of Korea, on the 28th. Dai Bing, Chinese Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Yu Tao, Deputy Director of the China International Communications Group, Kim Sung-soo, President of the Seoul Shinmun, and Kim Tae-nyeon, Chairman of the Korea-China Parliamentary Assembly of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, attended the event. Approximately 120 guests from the political, scientific and technological, industrial, academic, and media sectors of both China and the Republic of Korea participated in the activities.
The conference focused on fields such as artificial intelligence, embodied intelligence, and high-end manufacturing, conducting in-depth discussions on new pathways for China-ROK cooperation around the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and cross-field technological integration. Participating guests stated that this conference built a platform for face-to-face communication (面对面, mian dui mian - "face, towards, face") among the scientific and technological, industrial, academic, and media communities of China and the Republic of Korea, and that all parties will continue to strengthen communication and coordination in the future, promote mutual reinforcement between scientific and technological exchanges and people-to-people and cultural exchanges, and accumulate more positive outcomes for China-ROK practical cooperation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 徐驭尧
At the resettlement site in Maru Township, Baqing County, Nagqu City, Tibet, a police post sign hangs at the entrance of one tent.
"In recent days, the police post has been busy solving problems for the masses." Jinmei Dorje, deputy director of the Baqing County Public Security Bureau, introduced that they go tent by tent asking who lacks water, who lacks mattresses, compile the demands, report them to the emergency response command, and coordinate resources at the city, county, township, and village levels to resolve them one by one.
"When the earthquake struck, we were conducting a field exercise in Benta Township, the police force closest to the epicenter," Jinmei Dorje recalled. After receiving the order, Sonam Jamyang, political commissar of the Baqing County Public Security Bureau, led the team and immediately rushed to Maru Township. Finding rockslides blocking the road along the way, they left more than a dozen people behind to clear the road surface and ensure the passage of disaster-relief vehicles. The rest headed straight for the epicenter, split into three groups, and launched rescue operations simultaneously in Village One, Village Two, and Village Three.
"The moment we got out of the police car, the villagers ran over, pointing at the collapsed houses, saying people might be inside," Jinmei Dorje said. The eager look on the people's faces when they saw the police car, he has kept vividly remembering (记忆犹新, ji yi you xin - "memory, still, exist, new"). The houses were of earth-and-wood construction, and the pillars were already tilted at the time. Jinmei Dorje and the officers did not dare to use tools rashly; they could only dig through the earth with their bare hands and move the wood aside. After the search and rescue, they went house by house to check, and organized the masses to set up tents and move supplies in the open ground.
The road is the lifeline of disaster relief. Ambulances carried the wounded out, while supply vehicles carried cotton quilts and other goods in. The earthquake damaged the mountain roads, and rockslides and landslides could happen at any moment. "Worried that disaster-relief vehicles might have trouble getting through, we left more than a dozen people on the road," said Siling Nyima, deputy captain of the traffic management brigade of the Baqing County Public Security Bureau.
And so the traffic police set up their posts right on the road—clearing rockslides, eliminating hazards, setting up warnings; when manpower was short, they patrolled in sections; wherever a landslide occurred, they immediately cordoned off the area with warning lines and guided vehicles to detour. By day, the dust choked people's eyes shut; by night, the mountain wind cut like a knife, and police lights lit up the curves of the road, standing guard all night long.
When the road is open, rescue moves one step faster. From Maru Township to Gangqie Township, from the resettlement sites to the county seat, one smooth "lifeline" after another ensured the smooth progress of the rescue.
Auxiliary police officer Deka's home is in Village One of Maru Township; the house collapsed in the earthquake, and her father was injured by falling debris. After settling her father, Deka turned around and returned to her unit. Her support group of seven people was in charge of meals for seventy or eighty people. They got up before 6 a.m. every day to light the fire and cook, and late into the night they still kept watch by the stove, warming up food for comrades returning late. With no water source available, Deka led her teammates into the mountain gullies to find streams and carried water back on their backs.
In the evening, at the resettlement site in Village Two of Maru Township, fourth-grader Lhamo Tso quietly followed the patrolling police officers back and forth. When she was discovered, she took a few pieces of candy out of her pocket and wanted to share them with the officers on patrol. "When the earthquake first hit, I was a little scared. Seeing the police uncles, we felt at ease," she said.
Since the earthquake struck, more than 530 Nagqu public security officers and auxiliary police have been braving danger to move forward (向险而行, xiang xian er xing - "towards, danger, and, walk"), patrolling around the clock to protect the safety of the people's lives and property.
Return to TopBy: 讲述人：江苏省宿迁市泗阳县李口水务站站长 陈云飞
In 2026, the Party's leadership of the people in harnessing the Yellow River will have completed 80 years. The Yellow River, which once "breached its dikes twice in three years," now enjoys peace and tranquility year after year (岁岁安澜, sui sui an lan - "year, year, peaceful, calm") and benefits the people. In Siyang County, Suqian, Jiangsu, my hometown, the great changes along the old course of the Yellow River are a vivid epitome of this magnificent history.
The old course of the Yellow River within Siyang County stretches 41.8 kilometers in total, a relic left after the ancient Yellow River seized the Huai River's course and flowed into the sea. Over hundreds of years, sediment deposition raised the riverbed ever higher, and the channel eventually silted up and was abandoned; locals used to call this river the "Waste Yellow River." In my memories from my student days, the "Waste Yellow River" was covered in yellow sand, with clouds of dust flying in the air (尘土飞扬, chen tu fei yang - "dust, earth, fly, rise"), so much so that "three days without rain meant sand filled the sky" and "one bowl of seeds sown in spring yielded half a bowl of grain in autumn." This is a memory that generations of Siyang people cannot shake off.
In the late 20th century, in order to control sand and increase income, the people of Siyang, under the leadership of the Party and the government, vigorously planted poplar trees, building a forest belt of more than 40,000 mu along the banks of the old river course. The thorough transformation began in 2015. That autumn, Jiangsu launched the main-channel treatment project for the old course of the Yellow River, and excavators moved into the channel that had been silted up for years. On the day construction began, quite a few elderly people gathered on the bank; it was the first time they had seen such a large-scale operation.
Over the following three years, the channel was dredged and widened, the sub-levees were reinforced, and the bank slopes were protected with masonry, while sluice gates, pumping stations, and culvert sluices were built one after another. When the project was completed in 2018, the once narrow and silted channel had become a great river with a mouth width of more than 100 meters and a maximum width of 300 meters. With water, the crops gained confidence and vitality, and more than 70,000 mu of farmland along the route gained irrigation security. The elderly said: "This time it should not be called the 'Waste Yellow River' but the 'River of Prosperity for the People'!"
In 2021, Jiangsu deployed the high-standard construction of an ecological corridor for enriching the people along the old course of the Yellow River. Siyang anchored its goals and advanced with high quality the construction of four major corridors: a green, water-rich ecological corridor, an economy corridor for enriching the people and increasing income, a demonstration corridor for urban-rural integration, and a display corridor for the integration of culture and tourism.
That year I was transferred to the Likou Water Affairs Station, where I witnessed firsthand the ecological changes of the old course of the Yellow River — dredging and desilting, shoreline remediation, and levee reinforcement significantly enhanced the river's flood discharge capacity, with water quality stably reaching Class III standards; ecological wetlands and waterfront green corridors were built, aquatic plants such as reeds and calamus were planted, fish and shrimp were released, and a complete aquatic ecosystem was gradually constructed. Now, the trees on both banks are lush, with the beautiful scenery of singing birds and fragrant flowers (鸟语花香, niao yu hua xiang - "bird, language, flower, fragrance"), and birds such as egrets and wild ducks are often seen, with many residents coming to relax and take walks.
The story of the Yellow River continues. The improvement of the ecological environment has created conditions for the industrial revitalization of Siyang. Within the corridor, a national agricultural science and technology park and a provincial-level modern agricultural development demonstration park have been successfully established, and multiple industrial projects have been introduced and built. In Likou Town, where I work, a total of 12,600 mu of high-standard farmland has been newly built along the banks of the old course of the Yellow River, and distinctive agricultural projects and agro-tourism projects have also been developed. The average annual collective economic income of the 11 villages along the banks exceeds 700,000 yuan each, and the growth rate of farmers' annual per capita disposable income is higher than the county average.
The old course of the Yellow River today boasts both the ecological beauty of "clear water and green banks, with fish swimming gracefully in shallow waters (鱼翔浅底, yu xiang qian di - "fish, soar, shallow, bottom")" and the development momentum of "thriving industries and prosperous people."
To protect the old course of the Yellow River, all 11 villages along the banks of Likou Town have full-time river guardians. Every time I patrol the river, I am moved by the tremendous changes of the past decade or more: from "waste" to "prosperity," the story of the river at my doorstep is a vivid example of practicing the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets. In the construction of the ecological corridor for enriching the people along the old course of the Yellow River, it will carry the dreams of the people along its banks and rush toward an even better tomorrow.
(Compiled from interviews by Feng Hua, reporter for People's Daily, and Liu Yeye, reporter for Minsheng Weekly)
Return to TopBy: 刘烨烨
The wide river channel ripples with green waves (碧波荡漾, bi bo dang yang - "green waves, surging, rippling"), trees and flowers are full of life and vitality (生机盎然, sheng ji ang yang - "life, force, abundant, overflowing"), and modern agricultural greenhouses shine brightly (熠熠生辉, yi yi sheng hui - "shining, shining, emitting, light") under the sun... Standing beside the old course of the Yellow River in Likou Town, Siyang County, Jiangsu, it is hard to imagine that this was once a barren land where "when the wind rose, sand flew up."
From dredging and clearing silt to ecological restoration, from planting poplar trees to developing specialty agriculture, the transformation of the old course of the Yellow River bears witness to the unremitting struggle (不懈奋斗, bu xie fen dou - "not, slack, struggle, fight") of generations of Siyang people in controlling sand and water, and bears witness to the process by which ecological governance has turned the "waste Yellow River" into a "river that enriches the people."
Rigorous institutions, strict protection, and scientific governance, along with high-quality development with green as its foundation, have imbued this ancient river course with vibrant vitality (蓬勃生机, peng bo sheng ji - "vigorous, thriving, life, force") and vitality, continuously writing a new chapter of "when ecology thrives, civilization thrives" in the new era.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王伟健 李 刚 尚嵘峥
The 15th Five-Year Plan outline proposes to "deepen and expand 'AI+', empowering economic and social development and enhancing governance capacity." At present, the application of AI (artificial intelligence) continues to expand, entering all walks of life and reaching people's daily lives. In Suzhou Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province, business operators now have an AI service entity, making it more convenient to find policies and handle affairs; in Foshan, Guangdong Province, inspection drones use AI algorithms, providing precise evidence for urban governance; on highways in Xinjiang, drivers use AI assistants to look up information and find services...
"AI+" is not only "articulate and eloquent," but also capable of "handling practical matters," and people are increasingly experiencing the benefits brought by technological progress.
—Editor
Data "runs errands," policies arrive directly—
Enterprises now have a government affairs "steward"
Early one morning, Chen Jingwei, founder of Suzhou Dingji Digital Technology Co., Ltd., received good news from his "steward": the company's previously submitted Jiangsu Province "AI+" typical application scenario project had successfully passed.
"Thanks to the 'steward,' otherwise we would have missed the application window." The "steward" Chen Jingwei refers to is actually the "Qi Xiao Fu" AI service entity launched by Suzhou Industrial Park as part of its deepening of "AI+ government affairs" reform.
Chen Jingwei has been deeply engaged in the electric tool components sector for over 20 years, and five years ago crossed over into the artificial intelligence track, organizing a professional team to develop an emotional companionship large model. The new track requires heavy R&D investment, and Chen Jingwei has an urgent need for policy support, yet does not know how to connect with it.
In the artificial intelligence field, Suzhou Industrial Park has a wealth of enterprise-benefiting policies, but many startups lack dedicated personnel to connect with policies, and when faced with preferential policies, they easily fall into the predicament of "can't find them, can't keep up."
Targeting this pain point, the park's Enterprise Development Service Center used AI to optimize the logic of government services, launching the "Qi Xiao Fu" AI service entity. "Qi Xiao Fu" first finely decomposes policy items at all levels and standardizes the interpretation of application requirements, then deeply matches them with "digital profiles" generated from enterprise data on business registration, R&D, operations, and more, enabling precise alignment between the rich policy pool and suitable enterprises.
"Previously I would refresh platforms every day looking for policies, and sometimes had to run to one service hall after another to inquire. Now it's easier — data helps me 'run errands.'" Chen Jingwei said that "Qi Xiao Fu" automatically searches for projects and policies the company qualifies for, and issues reminders at the first opportunity based on the "digital profile." To date, he has successfully applied for more than 10 enterprise-benefiting projects through "Qi Xiao Fu."
In Suzhou Industrial Park, "AI+ government affairs" services have reached many entrepreneurs.
He Shanshan, a 29-year-old solo entrepreneur, is currently applying for the Suzhou International Science and Technology Park leading talent project. Previously, this was a "major undertaking" — the application materials alone required preparing hundreds of pages. Now, the government affairs digital steward "Xiao Yi" launched by the Suzhou Industrial Park Administrative Approval Bureau can not only help He Shanshan break down the application requirements, but also organize and integrate data to generate an application materials framework. She only needs to make simple supplements and revisions to complete it, saving considerable effort.
From "enterprises running errands" to "data running errands," from "people looking for policies" to "policies looking for people," Suzhou Industrial Park uses AI to clear the "last mile" of implementing enterprise-benefiting policies. "AI+ government affairs" enables policy dividends to reach more enterprises accurately, efficiently, and directly.
Intelligent inspection, identifying changes—
Governance now has more evidence
In a corner of a street in Dali Town, Nanhai District, Foshan, Guangdong Province, a truck quietly pulled over. Seeing no one around, the driver dumped a mixture of construction waste and industrial waste from the cargo compartment onto the open ground, then drove away.
However, this inconspicuous corner did not escape the eyes of the "aerial grid inspector." After the truck left, a drone from the Foshan government affairs drone management platform flew over during routine inspection, and the onboard high-definition camera captured images of the dumping area. Through AI image algorithms, it identified an anomalous patch indicating "suspected illegal dumping" and precisely located the site. The system automatically generated a standardized incident handling work order, pushed it at the first opportunity to the mobile terminals of relevant law enforcement personnel in Dali Town, who then promptly carried out enforcement procedures.
"In the past, discovering this kind of concealed illegal dumping mainly relied on manual inspection — time-consuming, labor-intensive, and with blind spots. Now, relying on the 'aerial grid inspector,' we can conduct timely inspections and intelligent identification, and after similar incidents occur, relevant departments quickly receive alerts." said Liang Shenglun, technical lead of the Foshan government affairs drone management platform.
At present, Foshan has divided the city into more than 3,600 "aerial grids," with 85 supporting drones. Except for no-fly zones, drones fly inspection missions over different grids at different times each day, covering 31 towns and subdistricts. Liang Shenglun explained that the "aerial grid inspector" is equipped with high-definition cameras and infrared sensors, executing scheduled flight missions daily. A flight trajectory of more than 10 minutes can cover a surrounding 1 km × 1 km grid, and the platform performs intelligent analysis on real-time imagery transmitted by the drones, marking changes within the grid.
The "aerial grid inspector" can provide more than 20 services to 8 departments including urban management, water affairs, and environmental protection, such as identifying illegal construction and inspecting water pollution discharge. Since 2023, Foshan has dispatched drones on more than 196,000 sorties, forming multiple urban comprehensive governance scenario cases.
Protecting the ecology "with faster detection." In ecologically sensitive areas such as wetlands, drones conduct "round-the-clock, full-coverage" patrols, and AI algorithms automatically analyze imagery data 24 hours a day. Once anomalies such as water temperature or smoke detection are found, alerts are immediately issued and locations locked, ensuring that illegal pollution discharge and other acts are "detected early, stopped early, and investigated early."
Detecting illegal construction "at an early stage." "Through 'aerial grid inspector' patrols and AI identification, the system can automatically recognize the initial forms of illegal structures such as scaffolding, generate work orders and push them directly to urban management departments. Law enforcement personnel intervene promptly, ordering rectification before the illegal construction takes shape, which greatly reduces enforcement difficulty compared to demolition after completion." Wang Yucheng, technical lead for drone operations in Nanhai District, explained that when a drone discovers a construction lead, the platform automatically compares it against data such as rural homestead approvals and state-owned land use approvals. If a corresponding record is found, it is automatically filtered out and no work order is generated; only construction leads for which no approval procedures can be found are pushed as alerts. This intelligent chain of "discovery—comparison—filtering—push" effectively reduces the verification pressure on grassroots law enforcement personnel.
Can look up information, help handle affairs—
Services are more intelligent and efficient
"I need to issue an invoice." Truck driver Master Ye opened the "Xin e Chang Xing" WeChat mini-program developed by Xinjiang Communications Investment Group and issued a voice command to the AI assistant. Following the guidance, he uploaded a screenshot of his WeChat payment transaction for expressway tolls, and the AI assistant immediately began automatically recognizing the merchant order number and filling in the previously bound invoicing information. In just a few dozen seconds, the electronic invoice was issued.
Jiasuer, project lead for the "Xin e Chang Xing" project at Xinjiang Communications Investment Group, explained that the R&D team analyzed nearly 700,000 survey questionnaires filled out by drivers and found high demand for services such as handling ETC, booking special vehicles, issuing electronic invoices, seeking roadside assistance, and checking service area information. At the end of 2021, the "Xin e Chang Xing" WeChat mini-program, which integrated online processing functions for these services, was officially launched.
"With the development of AI, we have also been thinking about how to apply AI to the WeChat mini-program to make services more heartwarming." Jiasuer said that after the mini-program had been operating for 3 years, the R&D team decided to upgrade it.
In March 2025, after validating the technical approach using an open-source large model, the R&D team partnered with a third-party AI application innovation platform to launch an AI assistant in the "Xin e Chang Xing" WeChat mini-program, making the mini-program simpler and more efficient to use — shifting from "manually searching" and "clicking" to "chatting" and "asking."
Master Ye has been running freight between Hebei and Xinjiang for 5 years. "Previously, when stuck in traffic and wanting to check road conditions at various entrances and exits, I had to check the opening status of each entrance and exit one by one on a mobile map. If I stalled halfway, I had to find the nearest rescue company — not only were the phone numbers hard to find, but they might not even get through. Now, I just ask the mini-program and I can know the latest situation."
Not only can it look up information, it can also help handle affairs. Jiasuer explained that the two services with the highest current demand — issuing electronic invoices and booking special vehicles — have both achieved AI-assisted processing. "Once you fill in binding information such as the license plate number for the first time, for subsequent transactions you only need to state your needs to the AI, and it handles the execution."
At present, the "Xin e Chang Xing" WeChat mini-program has more than 2.1 million registered users. In the finals of the AI + Transportation track of the first "AI Pilot Cup" National "AI+" Application and Skills Competition, the "Xin e Chang Xing" expressway travel service AI assistant won first prize.
From 2021 to 2025, the total mileage of expressways in Xinjiang increased from approximately 7,000 kilometers to approximately 8,000 kilometers. Drivers now traverse more mountains, grasslands, and deserts, while also enjoying more intelligent and immediate road services.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 28) (Reporter Liu Shiyao) Since the beginning of this year, China's marine economy has achieved steady growth, with continuous structural optimization, continued resilience, and a steadily consolidated momentum of development toward new and higher-quality directions. According to preliminary calculations, the gross ocean product for the first three quarters was 8.5 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.9 percent.
Data released by the Ministry of Natural Resources on October 28 show that in the first three quarters, the allocation of marine resources nationwide was advanced in a solid manner. Crude oil production from the ocean increased by 3.5 percent year on year, and China's first in-situ expansion platform for oil and gas at a water depth of 100 meters was officially put into operation; marine aquatic products maintained stable supply, with domestic marine aquatic product output increasing by 4.6 percent year on year; the efficiency of sea area and island factor guarantees was enhanced, with newly approved sea area and island use nationwide covering 219,000 hectares, involving an investment of over 670 billion yuan.
The foundation of traditional marine industries was consolidated. The marine shipbuilding industry grew rapidly, while the marine transportation industry and marine tourism developed steadily.
The quality and efficiency of emerging marine industries improved. The marine engineering equipment manufacturing industry showed notable growth, marine energy accelerated its large-scale development, seawater desalination and comprehensive utilization made new progress, and the marine information service industry accelerated its development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 邓建胜 申 琳
In Danyang City, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, approximately 45% of the world's resin lenses are produced annually, with more than 1,600 enterprises along the industrial chain clustered there.
"After more than half a century of development and accumulation, Danyang's complete eyeglasses industrial chain has basically achieved self-sufficiency in materials, equipment, processes, and standards. This has laid a solid foundation for us to seizing opportunities (抢抓机遇, qiang zhua ji yu - "seize, grasp, opportunity") in the intelligent transformation." Yuan Hongjin, secretary-general of the Danyang Eyeglasses Chamber of Commerce, said.
In recent years, smart glasses have become a new frontier for technological innovation in Danyang's eyeglasses industry. Well-known smart glasses brands have successively established cooperation with Danyang eyeglasses enterprises, among which one mass-produced AI (artificial intelligence) glasses model weighs only 25.3 grams at its lightest, with first-batch signed orders exceeding 10 million yuan.
What does the intelligent transformation of the eyeglasses industry look like?
At Jiangsu Gongda Jinkai High-End Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd., located in Danyang City, on the fully automated prescription lens custom production line, machines operate in seamless linkage with no personnel on site throughout the process, with a film-coating speed reaching 520 to 540 lenses per hour.
Li Ruiyang, founder of the company, saw a business opportunity in the development of Danyang's eyeglasses industry many years ago and led a research team to develop the fully automated prescription lens custom production line. With ultra-precision machining special machine tools and ultra-precision polishing machines for high-end lenses, Gongda Jinkai has now become an enterprise engaged in the development and manufacturing of high-end lens processing equipment.
Lighter, thinner, and clearer — these three qualities that consumers value most are the key focus of Danyang eyeglasses in the field of visual optics.
Using "chip-making" technology to make "lenses" is the technological achievement of Nuotong Yimu Optical Technology (Danyang) Co., Ltd. "We have brought semiconductor photolithography processes onto the lens production line. A myopic lens of 1500 degrees now has a center thickness of only 2 millimeters," said Di Make, head of Nuotong Yimu.
Stepping into Nuotong Yimu's cleanroom, faint red lights flicker on the lithography machines. Di Make picked up a red laser pointer and shone the light through a lens, projecting onto the ceiling a precise honeycomb pattern formed by photoresist on the lens.
Using lithography machines to make lenses allows lenses of different diopters to be processed from resin material of the same thickness, making the lenses thinner and lighter. This technology has improved lens processing precision to the 0.1-micron level, raised material utilization to above 95%, and increased light transmittance by more than 15%.
"Danyang's eyeglasses industry has a huge scale and complete categories, with solid technological reserves in areas such as high light transmittance and thinness and lightness, enabling rapid adaptation to the upgrade needs of AI glasses optical components," said Hong Feng, director of the Danyang Economic Development Bureau. "In developing smart glasses, we also face problems such as core supporting components like chips, optical modules, and batteries not keeping up." To this end, Danyang City has issued the "Action Plan for Accelerating the Empowerment of the Visual Optics (Danyang Eyeglasses) Industry by Artificial Intelligence (2026–2030)," established public service platforms such as the National Eyeglasses Quality Inspection Center and the Intellectual Property Rapid Protection Center, and encouraged leading enterprises to take the lead in jointly forming innovation consortia with universities and research institutions to carry out "open competition for tackling key problems" and collaborative research.
At present, the overall self-sufficiency rate of supporting industries for Danyang's visual optics sector exceeds 90%, and the industry has extended from lens production to include high-end equipment manufacturing enterprises represented by Gongda Jinkai, producer services enterprises represented by Simu Technology, and a group of overseas e-commerce enterprises represented by Taojing.
"In the future, we will focus on building the smart glasses industrial chain, integrate resource factors in an all-round way, and accelerate the transformation toward dual-wheel drive of traditional eyeglasses and smart glasses," Yuan Hongjin said.
Return to TopBy: 盛玉雷
When the Party's work style is upright, the people's hearts are at ease, and the Party and the people can share both joys and sorrows (同甘共苦, tong gan gong ku - "share, sweet, together, bitter"), our cause will flourish and develop.
Work style is intangible, but it leaves traces that can be followed.
Data show that this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, moderately priced mooncakes priced between 68 yuan and 200 yuan accounted for over 60 percent of the market. In recent years, from mooncakes no longer being cleverly repackaged, to sky-high priced cigarettes and liquor losing their market, to hairy crab prices becoming more affordable... the "social currency" has quietly returned to its "food essence," writing a vivid footnote for the achievements of work style construction in the new era.
"In seeking the way of governance, nothing takes precedence over rectifying customs and mores." The Party's work style and image bear on the Party's creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness, and determine the success or failure of the Party's and the nation's cause. Xi Jinping's thought on Party building clearly proposes "persisting in advancing the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction," pointing out the effective path for maintaining the flesh-and-blood ties between the Party and the masses.
Since the new era began, our Party has advanced full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in depth, making work style construction an important breakthrough in governing and managing the Party. Starting with the formulation and implementation of the Central Eight-Point Regulation as the opening move, it has corrected the Four Malfeasances with the spirit of driving in nails. From a series of centralized Party education campaigns that "refuel" and "supplement calcium," to deeply advancing simultaneous investigation and governance of malfeasance and corruption; from strengthening supervision and discipline enforcement, to continuously rectifying formalism to reduce burdens at the grassroots... we have persisted in both breaking and establishing, advancing step by step in depth, pushing Party and government work styles to take on a completely new look, and gathering strong positive energy for the development of the Party's and the nation's cause.
The dining table, the conference table, and the office desk—the three ordinary tables beside Party members and cadres in their daily work—are windows for observing Party and government work styles.
One dining table reveals popular customs, shows government conduct, and displays work style.
What was it like in the past? A grassroots cadre said: "The moment I heard there was to be official entertaining, my heart sank."
Cleansing the "unhealthy tendencies at the tip of the tongue" and rectifying the "chaos at the dining table," "we have restrained the mouths of some leading cadres and won the hearts of countless people."
Today, a fresh breeze blows and righteous energy abounds. In Chenzhou, Hunan, cadres going to the countryside no longer piece together "dinner parties" on the strength of official letters; they scan codes to pay and serve themselves in the canteen. In Shizuishan, Ningxia, electronic official letters carry "timestamps," making it immediately obvious who approved them, who ate, and how much was spent at a glance.
The changes do not stop there. While conducting field research in rural areas, the author found that village cadres organize filial piety canteens for the elderly, eating and chatting with the seniors. In the space of one meal, who has urgent difficulties and worries, who has brilliant ideas—everything is discussed openly and thoroughly, in a harmonious and happy atmosphere.
Public officials have extricated themselves from drinking and socializing together, channeling the energy saved into inquiring about people's well-being and doing practical work, drawing closer to the masses in affection and in heart.
One conference table, moved from the meeting venue to the field.
In Tangdong Group, Yangdi Village, Dushan County, Guizhou, a courtyard meeting was full of lively atmosphere. There was no rostrum, no red-headed documents; villagers sat together and spoke freely.
Moving the conference table to project construction sites, to the fields, and into people's homes, to gauge popular sentiment and plan development at the "first scene"... being able to be at the scene rather than in the meeting room is increasingly becoming the ideological and practical consciousness of Party members and cadres.
Rectifying the "mountain of documents and sea of meetings," strictly controlling the "gateway for agenda items," strictly observing the "hard constraint on duration," strictly managing the "precision of attendance," and strictly enforcing "post-meeting implementation effectiveness"... controlling the "form" of meetings while making the "effectiveness" of service real.
One office desk—what is reduced is burden, what is increased is real performance.
Filling in forms and reporting figures was once a major pain point on the office desks of grassroots cadres. A grassroots worker reported: "To fill in one form, I had to call village cadres in 19 villages."
Clarifying the "list of powers and responsibilities" to avoid "a small horse pulling a big cart"; strengthening digital empowerment to effectively reduce problems such as duplicate collection of grassroots data and difficulty in sharing... today, grassroots cadres are setting out with a light load and doing things well and achieving good results.
Reducing burdens is for the sake of empowerment. Spending a day as a delivery rider, following a ride-hailing driver for a day... Honghe, Yunnan, organized more than 600 cadres to step out of their offices and experience the working conditions of new employment groups, promoting the implementation of people-benefiting measures such as the "Warm Bee Courier Stations."
"Look at what the masses need, rather than what cadres imagine out of thin air"—what now sits on cadres' desks is precisely practical matters that benefit people's livelihoods, warm people's hearts, and accord with people's wishes.
The three tables reflect the spiritual outlook of Party members and cadres in the new era who work hard to start undertakings, take on responsibility and act, and work for the people's well-being, and bear witness to the steadfast actions of a century-old major Party that wins the trust and support of the masses through unremitting work style construction.
Since the new era began, from the vast fields of rural revitalization to the fiery practice of reform and tackling hard problems, it is precisely because of the broad participation and positive response of the masses that we have accomplished major affairs one after another and overcome difficulties and dangerous passes one by one. Practice has fully proven that when the Party's work style is upright, the people's hearts are at ease, and the Party and the people can share both joys and sorrows, our cause will flourish and develop.
On the new journey, persevering and persisting in strengthening the Party's work style construction, "with a good work style to inspire spirit, stimulate fighting will, establish image, and win people's hearts," we will surely be successful in all endeavors.
(This series of commentaries concludes here.)
Return to TopBy: 何思琦
Not long ago, the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Inheritance of Cultural Heritage" was issued. Starting today, this section launches a series of commentaries, to study, think, and practice at the cultural scene, and to gather wisdom and strength for accelerating the building of a culturally strong country.
—Editor
Vessels carry the Way; objects transmit culture. China is the homeland of porcelain, and porcelain is also a carrier of culture.
In October 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping conducted an inspection and research visit in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi. Beside the Nanyu site, the General Secretary examined closely and remarked with feeling: "China's fine traditional culture has never been interrupted from ancient times to the present day. Porcelain is a treasure of China and an important calling card of Chinese civilization."
Following the General Secretary's cultural footsteps, strolling through Jingdezhen in the night, one or two people can always be seen in shops bent over lamps, lifting brushes to paint. Outside the window is the clamor of the street market; inside the window is the tranquility of the craftsman. One suddenly feels that all the bustle in the world cannot compare to the craftsman's steadfast devotion.
In July this year, the "Jingdezhen Handmade Porcelain Industry Heritage" was successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List, becoming China's 61st World Heritage site. Entering the "Millennium Porcelain Capital," what is stunning is not only the vast array of beautiful things (琳琅满目, lin lang man mu - "forest, forest, full, eyes") of porcelain along the streets, but even more so the people who live here.
"Passing through seventy-two hands before it becomes a vessel." Clay throwing, mold pressing, trimming, painting, glazing, glaze removal... Jingdezhen's millennial vitality stems from layer upon layer of meticulous procedures, and even more so from the craftsman spirit upheld by generation after generation. Sun Ligong, the fourth-generation inheritor of the Sun Family Kiln, said, "Jingdezhen's porcelain is created jointly by all the craftsmen."
Plain words reveal the key to the endless cycles of life and continuous growth (生生不息, sheng sheng bu xi - "birth, birth, not, cease") of the thousand-year kiln fire — the foundation lies in people. The craftsmen who take charge of different procedures choose one craft and devote their whole lives to it, settling into a city character of striving for perfection and continuous improvement (精益求精, jing yi qiu jing - "refine, more, seek, excellence") and sustained, long-term effort, depicting Jingdezhen's profound yet vibrant humanistic foundation.
Culture is the soul of a city, and cultural heritage carries a city's history. From Jingdezhen's kilns to the Mogao Grottoes' caves, from the banks of the Nine-Bend Stream in Wuyi Mountain to the red walls and yellow tiles along Beijing's Central Axis, "the fine traditional culture passed down by our ancestors, we must continue to hold firmly in our hands, advancing in step with the times (与时俱进, yu shi ju jin - "with, time, together, advance"), and let it be promoted and expanded to a greater extent (发扬光大, fa yang guang da - "develop, spread, bright, large")."
Historical and cultural heritage is an invaluable resource that is non-renewable and irreplaceable. It belongs not only to us, but also to future generations. Always placing protection first and strengthening holistic, systematic protection does not mean "locking them up," but rather letting them "come alive." The "15th Five-Year Plan for the Protection and Inheritance of Cultural Heritage" proposes: "Promote living inheritance." Jingdezhen's kiln-fire narrative, rooted in people, is a microcosm of the systematic protection of cultural heritage.
Adhering to protection first, rational utilization, and minimal intervention, Jingdezhen has abandoned the model of enclosing land for development and relocating all original residents. Instead, through micro-renovation, light intervention, and repairing the old as it was, it has advanced the protection and revitalization of the old city. More than 160 old kiln sites and 108 old alleyways have been given rescue protection, and the city's original living fabric has been preserved.
Protection and revitalization bring new life and new opportunities. On one side are the ancient kiln sites and alleyways; on the other are modern markets and shops. More than 60,000 people from outside who are engaged in ceramic art creation, entrepreneurship, or related work have taken root here, including several thousand foreign nationals, and Sino-foreign ceramic cultural exchanges continue to deepen. The ceramic industry continues to grow in scale, with advanced ceramics accounting for about 40%... Where does cultural heritage "come alive"? It flows through streets and lanes, permeates daily life, empowers industry, and is fused into the living cultural lineage.
This logic is not limited to Jingdezhen. In Suzhou, Jiangsu, a single strand of silk weaves a "double-sided embroidery" of humanities and economy; the ultimate pursuit in Suzhou craftsmanship and Suzhou works nurtures a unique urban temperament that continuously nourishes the city's development. In Wuyi Mountain, Fujian, a thousand-year tea culture is inherited; a single leaf of tea spreads its fragrance across the four seas, and an old tea farmer cannot help but exclaim, "In the past, growing tea only covered daily necessities; now we can live a good life"...
When a city regards its cultural genes as a precious resource, humanities and economy form a combined force. Conversely, the large-scale demolition and construction and excessive commercialization of ancient cities and towns are truly inadvisable. The homogenized "one thousand cities, one face" causes cultural heritage to lose its local fabric and lack distinctiveness. Shelving cultural heritage and separating it from life is also a failure to act. Properly handling the dialectical relationship between the protection and utilization of cultural heritage must ultimately focus on people and rest on people.
"The essence of the 'cultural economy' lies in the integrated development of culture and economy; in the final analysis, it must highlight the character 'people.'" People are the creators of history and also its inheritors; they are participants and promoters of the humanistic economy, and even more so, beneficiaries of cultural prosperity and urban development.
Turning our gaze back to Jingdezhen, someone asks, why has the thousand-year kiln fire never been extinguished? The fire is in the kiln, but even more so in the heart.
(The author is a reporter for the Political and Cultural Department of this newspaper.)
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"My companions and I came to Beijing for the first time from Russia, and we got lost at Fengtai Railway Station. Could you help us?" In March this year, the foreign-language service desk of the Beijing 12345 citizen hotline received this call. After receiving the dispatched work order, staff quickly retrieved surveillance footage, arranged for volunteers to come forward and plan a route, and smoothly escorted the foreign tourists to the vehicle boarding entrance. What do you do when you encounter troubles in Beijing? Even foreigners know: call 12345, and your complaint will be handled upon receipt!
Not long ago, the 2026 Beijing Reform Forum on Handling Complaints Upon Receipt was held, and the exhibition at the hotline call-site drew the attention of Chinese and foreign guests. Over the past seven years, approximately 200 million complaints from citizens and enterprises have been received and handled, with both the resolution rate and satisfaction rate exceeding 97 percent, marking the livelihood warmth of a people's city.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized, "Take the realization of the people's aspirations for a better life as the starting point and ultimate goal of urban work, and strive to build a modern people's city." Through the 12345 hotline, one can better observe a new path for Chinese-style urban modernization.
Refinement: precisely responding to the demands of the masses.
People affectionately call the 12345 hotline the "chief customer service of urban governance." Whether the matter is big or small, one can pick up the phone and report a complaint. A leader from a certain district in Beijing said in a vivid metaphor during a speech: use the embroidery needle of governance to thread together the thousand threads of people's livelihood.
Refinement finds a concrete foothold for "a people's city serves the people." Urban modernization cannot focus only on the grand, on skyscrapers and aggregate economic output; it must also settle on the minute, responding to the vastly different (千差万别, qian cha wan bie - "thousand, differ, ten thousand, different") demands of the masses. Refinement has also been upgraded into a methodology of urban governance. Achieving orderly parking in the remote and obscure corners (犄角旮旯, ji jiao ga la - "corner, horn, corner, nook") of hutongs, making ecological dividends easily within reach (触手可及, chu shou ke ji - "touch, hand, can, reach") through tiny green spaces, recruiting diverse forces to serve as part-time grid workers... Governance effectiveness is not indicator reports; the daily life of the people is the final answer sheet.
Wisdom: empowering urban governance with digital intelligence.
Today, the 12345 hotline is closely integrated with big data and artificial intelligence technologies, transforming from a "receiving port for citizen complaints" into a "smart hub connecting multiple resources." Wisdom is reflected in timely responses and rapid handling, converting the demands of the masses into governance tasks that can be assigned and implemented; it is reflected in using data flows to break through departmental divisions and form governance synergy; it is reflected in conducting big-data analysis of massive volumes of complaints, achieving an upgrade from handling complaints upon receipt to handling them before they are filed, from passive response to proactive governance, from resolving a single complaint to achieving good governance across an entire area... Digital intelligence empowering urban governance has also contributed Chinese experience and Chinese solutions to the urban modernization of countries around the world.
Resilience: enhancing the capacity to defuse risks.
Raising the level of safety resilience is the cornerstone of urban development and prosperity and of the people living and working in peace and contentment (安居乐业, an ju le ye - "peacefully, live, happily, work"). A hotline that gathers the will of millions has opened a new channel for the government to perceive the operation of the city. The 12345 hotline has established a labeling system covering dimensions such as people, places, things, matters, organizations, and time, automatically classifying and analyzing complaints, which can enhance the capacity to assess and judge high-risk complaints. This helps resolve risks in the bud, achieving twice the result with half the effort (事半功倍, shi ban gong bei - "matter, half, effort, double, effect").
Taking the risk assessment of extreme heavy rainfall as an example, the 12345 hotline, together with emergency response departments, developed relevant models to conduct graded assessment of risk scenarios that may arise after extreme weather, such as damage to roads and urban facilities and personnel rescue, and provided more than 100 reports to emergency response departments in a timely manner during this year's main flood season.
Combining citizens' firsthand feelings with the urban operation information held by functional departments can better identify and handle risks, enhance the risk-resistance capacity and safety resilience of megacities, and fasten a safety belt for urban development.
The overhaul of the Fourth Ring Road, a family of a child with a rare disease seeking medication... The documentary "Your Voice 2," screened during the forum, presents the daily life of the 12345 hotline in a purely documentary style without narration. A single hotline connects the city and the people, links digital intelligence and governance, and gives wings of digits to urban modernization.
Return to TopChina has over 100,000 representative items of intangible cultural heritage at all levels, with 45 items inscribed on the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage lists and registers, ranking first in the world in number. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China will further improve the system for the protection and transmission of intangible cultural heritage, carry out the second national survey of intangible cultural heritage, strengthen category-based protection, stimulate the vitality of transmission practices, and promote the better integration of intangible cultural heritage into modern life and its service to a better life.
This is precisely:
The roots are deeply hidden in the native soil,
Passed down from generation to generation (代代相传, dai dai xiang chuan - "generation, generation, mutually, pass") without fail.
Nurturing tender leaves and new blossoms,
The charm of culture lingers long around the household.
Xu Zhiwen
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Recently, the case of a "fried skewer stall owner who took their own life after receiving a negative customer review" has sparked heated discussion. According to reports, police have intervened and launched an investigation. Seeing this news truly leaves one feeling heavy-hearted. Because the cause of the tragedy appears too trivial and too small—a customer, dissatisfied with the food portion size, posted "avoid-this-place posts" on multiple platforms.
Many people have pointed the finger at this customer, flooding their social media accounts with criticism. After a tragedy occurs, wanting to find someone to hold accountable is a simple sense of justice. But fighting cyberbullying should not turn into another round of cyberbullying; do not let one tragedy, before it has even concluded, already give way to the next round.
In governing cyberbullying, finding the "origin point" is important, but cutting the chain is even more crucial. To prevent tragedies from recurring, one must clearly see every link in the chain and clarify the boundaries each party should observe.
Uphold the boundaries of speech on public platforms. The internet is anonymous, and therefore some netizens lower their sense of responsibility and increase their emotional intensity when posting. These comments, after being reposted, forwarded, and re-processed, surge toward the person involved at an exponential rate, with hostility far exceeding what the original poster anticipated. Do not exaggerate, do not insult, do not engage in personal attacks, do not leak private information, do not incite group attacks—the boundary of speech should stop at the lawful rights and interests of others.
This yardstick applies equally to every person commenting online. An individual's words may be light, but when piled onto the person involved, they can sometimes become very heavy.
Take, for example, Zheng Linghua, the "pink-haired girl." The original rumormongers were of course detestable, but what caused lasting harm were the successive waves of follow-up comments from people who, without understanding the situation, began cursing. Some who posted malicious comments still feel wronged to this day: "I was deceived by the rumors too." But moral judgment without verifying the facts, and emotional venting without restraint, are themselves a form of violence.
When the fingertips move too fast, rationality cannot keep up. When scrolling to a hot topic again, one might do well to think more: Is what I am seeing the whole picture? Can the facts I understand withstand verification? When this sentence is sent out, am I reasoning, or merely venting?
To prevent "avoid-this-place posts" from rolling into a snowball of cyberbullying, platforms must shoulder their due responsibility.
A teenager searching for his family was accused by a self-media influencer of being "scheming" and "having ugly manners," with a large number of netizens following suit in attacking him; an elderly woman running a street stall, who attracted attention after being randomly posted online, was subjected to excessive gawking and even camera bullying... Looking back at each of these heartbreaking cases, the individuals involved were all in the same situation: enveloped by abusive voices, and even as they kept clarifying, the comment sections still felt like feeling extreme emotional pain or distress (万箭穿心, wan jian chuan xin - "ten thousand, arrows, pierce, heart").
Posts with fierce wording often get higher click-through rates than calm and rational ones. At such times, if algorithmic recommendations pursue traffic above all else, they are giving wings to hostility.
The Anti-Cyberbullying Law (draft for comments) released this year explicitly requires internet service providers to establish and improve cyberbullying monitoring and identification mechanisms and protective functions. It is necessary to calibrate the values of algorithms, compress the space for the spread of hostility, and also establish rule-based protections, providing parties involved with more convenient "one-click protection."
When going online, showing a little less hostility, a bit more rationality, and greater tolerance—this is what we can do, and it is necessary for cutting the chain of cyberbullying.
(Excerpted from the "People's Commentary" WeChat public account)
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Profile Young Athletes
Event Not long ago, the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games came to a close. Chen Yujie, a 17-year-old Chinese female athlete competing in the Asian Games for the first time, won a total of three gold medals in the women's 100 meters, the women's 4×100-meter relay, and the mixed 4×100-meter relay, as well as a silver medal in the women's 200 meters. She remarked with emotion: "Three golds and one silver, I'm really awesome!" "Just normal operations; next edition I hope to keep making persistent efforts to improve (再接再厉, zai jie zai li - "again, continue, again, strive")." Her candid expression lets people see the confidence and sharpness of the younger generation.
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Chen Yujie shouted into the camera, "I've made something of myself!"; Zhang Zhanshuo raised his right hand high and flashed a "7"; Yan Ziyi "won with a single throw" and said bluntly, "I've just been in particularly good form lately"... At this edition of the Asian Games, what left a deep impression on spectators was not only the athletes' brilliant performances on the field, but also their candor and ease off the field.
On the international stage, where top competitors face off, where does this sense of ease come from? In the video, Chen Yujie appears to be sleeping soundly under a blanket at the training venue, but in reality, competing in four events, she was finding any available opportunity to act (见缝插针, jian feng cha zhen - "see, gap, insert, needle") to recall technical details and recover her energy; when asked about pressure, Zhang Zhanshuo responded, "I have three very strong teammates." Solid competitive skill of one's own and a team fighting shoulder to shoulder behind one — these are precisely the foundation of young people's confidence in maintaining a proper balance between work and rest (张弛有度, zhang chi you du - "stretch, relax, have, degree") and handling difficult tasks with ease and composure (举重若轻, ju zhong ruo qing - "lift, heavy, as if, light"). The international arena is a stage for displaying national strength and spiritual outlook. Through these vivid expressions, what the world sees is a more confident and more endearing China.
The DeepSeek team, with an average age under 30, has brought China's artificial intelligence large models to the world's forefront; at the World Skills Competition, members of the post-2000 generation have repeatedly claimed top honors... From laboratories to factories, from office buildings to fields, more and more young talents are showing off their great skills or abilities (大显身手, da xian shen shou - "greatly, display, body, hand") across all walks of life. Facing difficulties and doubts, Wang Xingxing said: "I believe that what others can do, we can also do, and we can do it even better." From this, one can see the posture of today's Chinese youth: confident yet not complacent, relaxed yet not lax, working hard with heads down when effort is needed, and savoring the moment when results come to fruition. Countless such figures interweave into a vivid tableau of hundreds of boats racing in a current (百舸争流, bai ke zheng liu - "hundred, boats, compete, flow") and many talents competing to show their excellence (群才竞秀, qun cai jing xiu - "group, talents, compete, excellence").
How is it that figures who still look young and tender can step up and hold firm at critical moments? "Give young talents more trust, better help, and stronger support; support young talents in taking on major roles and playing the lead." General Secretary Xi Jinping's words reveal the true source of this ease and self-confidence: behind the free-spirited running of the broad masses of young people lies the support of an increasingly well-established institutional framework.
"Open competition for posts" and the "horse-race system" give more young talents a stage, allowing them to both display their abilities and grow their skills; Hangzhou in Zhejiang has built a full-cycle "entrepreneurship accompaniment" service system, ensuring that the development needs of enterprises at different stages always receive timely responses; Jinan in Shandong has issued 17 sets of differentiated standards around key fields, with talent evaluation following industry needs, allowing young people to make full use of their talents (尽其才, jin qi cai - "exhaust, its, talent") and each person displaying their own strengths (各展所长, ge zhan suo chang - "each, display, one's, strength")... One institutional innovation after another, closely accompanying the growth of young people, activates a state of vitality and potential for development (一池春水, yi chi chun shui - "one, pond, spring, water") in talent development, and achieves the splendor of "youth bearing grand aspirations, striving mightily in its own time."
When the young are strong, the country is strong, and the growth of the young, in the final analysis, cannot be separated from "cultivating" and "making good use of" them. Maintaining the patience of "nurturing a person takes a hundred years," persisting in creating an environment that recognizes, cherishes, respects, and employs talent, and supporting young people in pursuing what they love and daring to venture and act — what is gathered together is the surging vitality of a youthful China and an innovative China striding forward. Integrating personal growth into the needs of national development, the youth of the new era will surely run out their own brilliance on the journey of advancing Chinese modernization.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦 皓
In autumn, stepping into the archaeological excavation site of the Jizhong site within the ancient city of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, beneath a large white canopy, the scent of damp earth rushes forth, and giant wooden baseboards are laid out across the excavation squares. Not far away, at the Tashan Hechangfang site, an earthen sacrificial altar, sacrificial pits, and sacrificial ditches come into view.
Recently, the site of the Yue state capital and the Han and Six Dynasties Kuaiji Commandery site in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, were selected among the nation's top ten new archaeological discoveries. The site consists of two locations, Jizhong and Tashan Hechangfang; the former is a place where the Yue state palace-platform architecture and the Han and Six Dynasties Kuaiji Commandery government office are layered and stacked one upon another, while the latter has yielded Yue state city walls, a high-ranking sacrificial area, and prehistoric remains dating back more than 6,000 years.
Where was the core of the Yue state capital? How was the grassroots of the Han dynasty Kuaiji Commandery governed? At two work sites, a group of archaeologists, as trowels rise and fall, the answers gradually become clear.
A stroke of chance opens the door to the city's central hub buried underground
Luo Peng, deputy director of the Shaoxing Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, still remembers that three years ago, on September 26, with a light rain falling, he rode his electric scooter to the reconstruction and expansion work site of Jishan Middle School. "The night before, I received a phone call saying that 'big timbers' had been struck here," Luo Peng said. The timber was very large, and its form was similar to the wood seen in the Yinshan Yue royal mausoleum. At the site, there were also black pottery, proto-porcelain, stamped-pattern pottery, and other Yue state relics.
All signs indicated that beneath this work site, large-scale Yue state wooden architecture might be hidden. Because time was pressing and the underground conditions were unclear, Luo Peng remained very anxious.
If work stopped, the school construction plan would have to change; if it did not stop, the underground remains might be damaged. "Shaoxing does not lack a building; what it lacks is an archaeological site that substantiates the 2,500-year history of the ancient city of Shaoxing as the Yue state capital," Luo Peng said. The cultural relics department urgently coordinated a suspension of construction, and the school and education department cooperated with the survey.
At that time, the Shaoxing Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology had only recently obtained archaeological excavation qualifications, and the institute had only a batch of graduates who had just begun working, making the survey task extremely arduous. In February 2024, Li Longbin, as the person in charge of the archaeological project, formally entered the site to begin excavation. The archaeological team began clearing layer by layer from the surface, first exposing the later-period remains, then clearing the Han and Six Dynasties architecture, and then pursuing deeper into the gaps between the structures. As trowels scraped across layer after layer, the Yue state wooden structures finally came to light.
Through archaeological excavation, at the very bottom of the Yue state palace-platform architecture is the "ground beam": a large wooden board 1.8 meters long, 1.2 meters wide, and nearly 20 centimeters thick, with diagonal perforations at the four corners and a square pillar standing in the middle. Another type is the "raft-style wooden foundation," generally composed of six layers of logs laid horizontally and vertically, layered and stacked one upon another.
"In ancient times, Shaoxing was dense with lakes and marshes, and the ground was soft and damp. The Yue people first leveled and built a platform with tree bark, wood shavings, and the like, then dug trenches in the platform base to place the stacked logs, forming a giant 'underground wooden raft,' and then placed baseboards and standing pillars on top, both dispersing pressure and preventing settlement," Li Longbin said.
Having found the wooden structures, it was also necessary to "read" them. The archaeological team continuously carried out sampling, dating, and research on the building foundations. Carbon-14 dating placed the age of the wooden structures at approximately 2,500 years ago, consistent with the documentary record that around 490 BC Goujian ordered Fan Li to build the city, thereby confirming for the first time within the ancient city of Shaoxing this kind of large-scale, high-ranking Yue state building foundation.
The underground wooden structures are the skeleton, while other cultural relics continuously supplement the appearance of the palace platform. Eave tiles, proto-porcelain cups, black pottery dou vessels, large pottery jars, crystal rings, and a large bamboo mat that had collapsed and pressed beneath the roof tiles all bring the living scenes of Yue people 2,500 years ago vividly before one's eyes.
The archaeological team continued to decipher the strata and also discovered that the Han and Six Dynasties Kuaiji Commandery government office architecture was layered on top of the Yue state platform base. At the site, corridors, drainage ditches, and wells are scattered and unevenly distributed, and in a workshop on one side of the government office, iron materials, crucibles, armor pieces, arrowheads, and the like were unearthed. They also found bricks inscribed with "Kuaiji Commandery wall" and a clay seal stamped "Shanyin County Assistant Seal," and from wells and silt layers they recovered more than 2,000 wooden and bamboo slips recording official documents, covering household registers, account books, legal documents, and the like.
"The palace platform became a government office. Later generations did not simply tear down and start over, but rather built up with fill earth, partially continuing to use the platform bases and wooden materials of the previous era. History moved forward, yet the city's central hub continued on the same piece of land. In this way, the outline of a commandery seat gradually became clear," Li Longbin said.
Two "keys" piece together the layout of the Yue capital
The palace platform and government office gradually took shape, but the outline of the Yue capital still lacked a key boundary line—the city wall. To this end, Luo Peng turned his attention to Tashan, 400 meters away.
The Tashan Hechangfang site, located at the southern foot of Tashan in the ancient city of Shaoxing, is only 400 meters from the Jizhong site and was originally a residential area for a geological team. According to records in the Yuejue Shu and other documents, Tashan was formerly called Guishan, and King Goujian of Yue once built a platform there for divination, sacrifice, and astronomical observation, with the "Sima Gate" to its southeast.
After the breakthrough at the Jizhong site, in July 2024, Luo Peng led team members into the Tashan Hechangfang site to begin excavation work, where they found the two "keys" to solving the layout of the Yue capital.
The archaeological team laid out exploratory trenches in the southern part of the site, and a section of east-west city wall gradually emerged: the exposed portion is 45 meters long and 5 meters wide, with multiple layers of horizontal logs stacked at the base, topped with fill earth, stones, and layer upon layer of rammed construction, and at the foot of the wall there is also a wooden underground drainage culvert.
"The documents gave the direction; the trowel turned the direction into evidence. Four traces of door pillar holes were found on the eastern wall, their positions echoing the documentary record of the 'Sima Gate to the southeast,'" Luo Peng said. This is the first time Yue state city wall remains have been found within the ancient city of Shaoxing; once the wall is found, one can follow it to search for the palace city boundary.
The other "key" is hidden on the north side of the city wall. A multi-layered earthen sacrificial altar, 32 evenly spaced sacrificial pits, and a sacrificial ditch unfold in sequence. In the ditch, more than 100 stamped hard pottery jars are densely arranged, some retaining impressions of woven material, and the jars contain animal bones of horses, cattle, deer, fish, turtles, and the like, with deer bones being the most numerous. Also unearthed from the ditch were a tin ge dagger-axe, proto-porcelain, and stone chimes, and in one later-period pit a set of black pottery dou vessels was found.
"Sacrificial animals, vessels, dagger-axes, and chimes together piece together the scene of state sacrifice, and also provide physical materials for studying the Yue state's sacrificial ritual system," Luo Peng said.
Continuing downward in the excavation squares, at a depth of about 3 meters below the surface in the northern part of the excavation area, Majiabang culture remains appeared continuously from the eleventh to the nineteenth layer: sand-tempered pottery fu cauldrons, red pottery jars, and also jade huang pendants and jade jue rings. This is the first time Neolithic cultural remains have been found within the scope of the ancient city of Shaoxing.
"Jizhong has the palace platform, government office, and weapons workshop, manufacturing armor and arrowheads; Tashan Hechangfang has the city wall, sacrificial site, and remains of coin casting, mirror casting, and porcelain making. The two sites are like two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, piecing together the political, ritual, and economic life of the capital and the commandery seat," Luo Peng said. What the archaeologists dug were exploratory trenches, but what they read was the growth rings of a city's continuous development.
Expanding the multidisciplinary "archaeology circle of friends"
Above ground, there are classrooms, roads, and the bustle of city life; below ground, there are the Yue state palace platform, city wall, sacrificial remains, and the Han and Six Dynasties government office. Previously, the Yue state capital was known only from documents, and its specific location could only be inferred.
Huo Wei, academic dean and professor of the School of History and Culture at Sichuan University, said that this excavation mutually corroborates documentary records and archaeological discoveries, reconstructing the layout of the Yue state capital and the Kuaiji Commandery seat, and is a rare example of urban evolution in which "the city site did not change, and the cultural lineage continued."
In addition, during this archaeological excavation, more than 2,000 official wooden and bamboo slips brought to light the political and economic life of the Kuaiji Commandery during the two Han dynasties and the Three Kingdoms period. Together with the inscribed bricks, clay seals, and seal covers, a set of administrative mechanisms from commandery government to county, from document sealing to postal relay transmission, now has physical evidence.
Wang Wei, a member of the Academic Division of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that the remains of the large palace and state sacrificial site unearthed this time provide key physical evidence for studying ancient southern urban construction and sacrificial systems. At the same time, the Han dynasty Kuaiji Commandery wooden and bamboo slip documents excavated at the site reveal many details of social life at that time.
For the archaeological team, discovery is only the first step; sorting, research, and conservation work still lie ahead. New wooden and bamboo slips may still be unearthed from wells and ash pits, and the slips already unearthed need systematic cleaning, conservation, and decipherment; the building foundations need three-dimensional scanning and restoration research; and the animal and plant remains still need further identification and analysis. Through this excavation, the Shaoxing Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, in cooperation with key universities and research institutes, is continuously expanding the multidisciplinary "archaeology circle of friends."
The deeper the excavation, the more conservation must keep pace. In the canopy at the Jizhong site, team members use isolation cloth to wrap the base timbers. "The wooden components were able to survive underground for about 2,500 years thanks to a long-term stable waterlogged environment; once exposed, alternating between wet and dry, they are prone to cracking and damage," Luo Peng said. At present, both sites have been designated for in-situ conservation, and conservation plans are being formulated.
Walking through the ancient city of Shaoxing, the Touliao River outside the gate of Jishan Middle School flows quietly. According to legend, 2,500 years ago, Goujian poured all the fine wine presented by the elders into the river to share it with the three armies. Today, the streets here are lively, and the sound of reading resounds.
"Archaeology is not just about digging up artifacts; more importantly, it is about letting the common people understand our long history and culture," Luo Peng said.
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At the conference commemorating the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "To carry forward the great spirit of the Long March and take the new Long March well, we must unswervingly promote high-quality development and continuously meet the people's ever-growing needs for a better life."
The waters of the Yudu River flow on, ceaselessly.
In October 1934, more than 86,000 Red Army officers and soldiers set out on the expedition from eight ferry crossings. The people of Yudu removed their door panels and built pontoon bridges. Where there was no road, they forged a road with their own steps!
Why march? Where to march? For whom? — These are the questions Jiangxi is now answering.
In October 2023, during his inspection tour of Jiangxi, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Take the lead in accelerating high-quality development in the old revolutionary base areas, strive to be at the forefront in promoting the rise of the central region, and excel in advancing the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt."
Jiangxi has faced its prominent problems head-on and blazed a new path: during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, its economic aggregate climbed to the 3.6 trillion yuan level, revenue from industries above designated size exceeded 4.6 trillion yuan, and it has transformed from a major traditional agricultural province into a rising new industrial province... The former "starting point of the Long March" is becoming a "new highland of development."
In Jiangxi, the Long March is not only a spiritual coordinate integrated into the bloodline, but also a methodology that enlightens the present and breaks through for development.
From ferry crossing to port, forging an open road
"Woo——" At 3 p.m. on October 14, at Ganzhou International Inland Port. A whistle pierced the sky, and the X8218 China-Europe freight train slowly started, loaded with furniture, daily necessities, and mechanical equipment, heading for Moscow, Russia. Xiao Yan, a cadre at the port, watched the train leave the customs area. In her five and a half years on the job, this was the 21,061st train she had recorded.
Tangnei Village, Yudu County, is Xiao Yan's hometown. A small path winds through the mountains. In October 1934, the advance force of the First Red Army Corps passed along this path, arriving at the banks of the Yudu River by night and embarking on the Long March. More than 90 years later, Jiangxi faces a different "road" problem — although its location is advantageous, its transport corridors are weak.
In the early 1990s, Nankang's furniture industry was hindered in its growth and development due to blocked logistics channels. Luo Hailong, chairman of Jiangxi Tuantuan Yuan Furniture, cherished the dream of "buying globally, selling globally," but suffered from logistics bottlenecks. Some advocated attracting and gathering timber traders from across the country to Nankang, relying on industrial scale to compress transit costs. But research pointed directly to the pain point: timber supply sources and regulatory hubs are concentrated in coastal ports, and traders would not take root inland. This road would not work.
"Rather than going far to the coast to find ports and supply sources, it is better to 'move' the coastal regulatory zone to Nankang," said Cai Hunan, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Ganzhou International Inland Port.
Construction of the port began in 2014, and it was completed and opened two years later, becoming the first open port in the country's old revolutionary base areas. "Logistics costs dropped by 18%!" Luo Hailong pointed to a solid wood dining table being loaded into a container and said: "This batch of goods will reach Moscow in half a month."
In April 2020, the State Council approved the establishment of the Jiangxi Inland Open Economy Pilot Zone. Jiangxi became the only inland open economy pilot zone in the central region. In April 2021, Nanchang Customs and Shenzhen Customs jointly launched the "Ganzhou-Shenzhen Combined Port," pioneering a customs clearance cooperation mechanism of "cross-province, cross-customs district, cross-land-sea port," with outbound goods declared once, inspected once, and released once.
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, Jiangxi built 2 national-level open ports, 5 comprehensive bonded zones, and 9 cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot zones; export customs clearance efficiency has continued to improve. "At the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan, we will adhere to the mutual promotion of opening up to the outside and opening up within the country, and actively integrate into the domestic and international dual circulation," said Wang Qianhu, director of the Jiangxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission.
From ferry crossing to port, what has changed is the form; what has not changed is the same determination: within a closed system, forcibly creating an outlet leading to the outside world.
From a single spark to a galaxy of stars, forging an innovative road
"A good horse eats good feed. Why should we replace perfectly good processes and equipment?" In early 2022, in Yongxiu County, northern Jiangxi, at Jiangxi Bluestar Xinghuo Silicone Co., Ltd., a debate was underway.
"The market is good, and peers are acting in a frantic, unorganized rush (一窝蜂, yi wo feng - "one nest, bee") to add capacity. We don't have an energy advantage — what can we compete on?" The technical director spread out a piece of draft paper: "Catalyst reselection, precise temperature control, fine-tuning of distillation — reducing cost by more than 1,000 yuan per ton, and even with slightly lower-grade raw materials, output quality can still be maintained."
In the second half of that year, the market took a sharp downturn, and the capacity structure urgently needed optimization. Looking back, this step was taken ahead of the curve. Why prepare for danger in times of safety? When upstream costs are high and profit margins are thin, the space downstream is small. This is also a long-standing problem in Jiangxi's industry: more rough processing, less high added value.
This was once a place where the Red Army fought guerrilla warfare; in 1968, builders rushed to Yongxiu to produce liquid fuel for the Long March launch vehicle; today, silicone production capacity has achieved a leap forward.
In Xiong'an New Area, Hebei, the 165-meter-tall Sinochem Tower stands tall and imposing (巍然矗立, wei ran chu li - "towering, stand"). The "Golden Reed" exterior shell places extremely high demands on construction sealants. The Xinghuo team tested again and again, and in 2024, the silicone structural sealant for super high-rise curtain walls was successfully developed, breaking the foreign monopoly.
Today, Xinghuo has 6 major categories of specialty products. Liao Hongliu, head of Jiangxi Haiduo Silicone, is a veteran employee of Xinghuo. He started his business in 2005, and the company became a downstream enterprise of Xinghuo. In 2022, its business shifted to AI (artificial intelligence) computing power cooling fluids. This is a "no-man's land." The Jiujiang Municipal Science and Technology Bureau's "open competition" platform brought the team of Pan Jiayan from Jiujiang University to Haiduo. After 700 small-scale tests and 20 pilot-scale tests, an 8,000-ton alkyl-modified silicone oil production line was completed, and the product has entered commercial testing.
In 2025, Yongxiu's silicone revenue exceeded 25.5 billion yuan. This "big tree" is rooted in the soil of traditional industry, and its branches have already reached toward the sea of stars of emerging industries and future industries.
Looking at Jiangxi's "1269" action plan, the development of electronic information, new energy, and other industries cannot be separated from new materials; the transformation and upgrading of silicone cannot be separated from new scenarios. From a single spark to a galaxy of stars, what has changed is the path; what has not changed is the same pursuit: turning the "impossible" into "possible."
From farewell to return, forging a road to happiness
During the summer vacation of 2026, in Shenshan Village, Jinggangshan. A young man was explaining things to tourists. His name is Zuo Weibo, a direct-admission doctoral student of the Class of 2026 at Tsinghua University's School of Life Sciences. During the Jinggangshan struggle period, Zuo Weibo's great-grandfather, Zuo Guilin, was a Red Army bugler who sacrificed his life to cover the troops' withdrawal. That generation went out to carve out a new world. Today, the road is open, industry has risen — where do people go?
Three generations of the Zuo family have relayed along this road. Grandfather Zuo Xiufa never left the mountains in his entire life. He once thought the "blue card for poor households" at his door would never be shaken off.
On February 2, 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Shenshan Village and pointed out: "On the road to poverty alleviation, we must not leave behind a single poor family or abandon a single poor person."
Zuo Xiufa, who suffers from asthma, was once a registered poor household. Ji'an City sent a village work team to help Zuo Xiufa repair his house and convert it into a restaurant, and guided him to take shares in the yellow peach and tea cooperatives. At the end of the year, that "blue card" was torn off and replaced with a "certificate of honor for shaking off poverty." In 2017, Jinggangshan took the lead in removing itself from the poverty list. In 2020, all poor counties in the province shook off poverty.
His father, Zuo Xiangyun, was the first person in the village to make bamboo tube wine. He took the lead in establishing a bamboo products processing factory, absorbing villagers into employment. In 2025, the village's permanent population increased from fewer than 30 people to 186 people, with per capita disposable income of 36,000 yuan.
It is necessary to enrich both the pocket and the mind. On August 27, 2026, at Tsinghua University's Comprehensive Gymnasium. Zuo Weibo stood on the podium of the graduate school opening ceremony: "From a small mountain village to Tsinghua Garden, this road took me 10 years." In the year of the college entrance examination, his score was enough for popular majors. But he remembered that when he was a child, elderly villagers would climb over the mountains in the early morning to see a doctor. Without hesitation, he applied for life sciences. "Scientific research lies in responding to the needs of the people." In 10 years, this village has produced 9 college students. Going out is for the sake of one day being able to see a bigger world.
In Jiangxi, some stay — the "One Village, One College Student Project" has trained 80,000 farmer college students; some come — the "Hong Piao Station" provides 7 days of free accommodation for young job seekers, and during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, 580,000 young people came to or stayed in Nanchang.
Look at the swaying bamboo shadows in Shenshan Village, listen to the roar of machinery at the port and production lines — the Long March of the new era is advancing on this red land!
(People's Daily reporters Yang Yi, Yao Xueqing, Wang Dan, Zhou Huan, Yang Yanfei)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵婀娜 耿 磊 范昊天
The Yangtze River flows for ten thousand li through the land of Jingchu, converging mightily with its largest tributary, the Han River, giving birth to the Jianghan Plain, where lakes and waterways are densely interwoven and fertile fields stretch for a thousand li.
"When Huguang is ripe, the world is fed." This ancient agricultural proverb speaks to the region's unique natural endowments and also marks this land's distinctive strategic position on the nation's agricultural map.
In November 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping said during an inspection tour of Hubei: "Hubei must strive to make achievements in urban-rural integrated development and comprehensive rural revitalization."
Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest instructions, Hubei, building on its locational advantage as a place where many routes meet (九省通衢, jiu sheng tong qu - "nine, provinces, through, thoroughfare") and its resource endowment as a "province of a thousand lakes," has deeply integrated agricultural and rural modernization into the building of its strategic fulcrum, striving to make agriculture stronger, rural areas more beautiful, and farmers wealthier, and working hard to build a land of fish and rice for the new era.
From "One Seed" to See How Technology Strengthens Agriculture
"Living off the mountains if you live by mountains, living off the water if you live by water" speaks to the farming wisdom accumulated over many years; "working according to the heavens" and "increasing income through technology" demonstrate a profound understanding of modern agricultural development.
Stepping into the Hongshan Laboratory in Hubei, automated breeding platforms operate at high speed, indicator lights on gene sequencers blink in regular patterns, and outside the window, contiguous experimental fields are full of lush greenery (绿意盎然, lv yi ang ran - "green, meaning, abundant"). Inside the laboratory, researchers are intently comparing corn seed genotyping data before their instruments. A "Weiyu 115" variety corn harvested from the experimental fields has a protein content of 13 percent, more than 1.6 times that of ordinary corn.
"Corn is the most important energy feed for animal husbandry, directly related to the supply of meat, eggs, and milk," said Xiao Yingjie, a researcher at the laboratory and professor at Huazhong Agricultural University. "After breakthroughs in breeding technology, for every 1 percentage point increase in the protein content of China's corn, it is equivalent to adding 7 to 8 million tons of soybean supply, which can greatly reduce dependence on foreign feed."
One technology is linked to the supply on dining tables; one good seed concerns food security. Walking across the land of Jingchu, one can see everywhere that scientific and technological innovation has given wings to modern agriculture.
On the high-standard farmland of the Jianghan Plain, intelligent agricultural machinery operates with precision; in the specialty orchards of the mountainous western Hubei region, crop protection drones and mountain monorail transporters have replaced traditional manual labor; at the smart fishery farms along the Qing River, underwater monitoring systems track fish growth around the clock... Across the rural landscape, agricultural scientific and technological innovation has yielded abundant and successful results (累累硕果, lei lei shuo guo - "many, many, large, fruit").
Strengthening the scientific and technological foundation to consolidate the "confidence" of agricultural production. Two national major science facilities, eight national key laboratories, 230 provincial and ministerial-level innovation platforms... A provincial agricultural science and technology strength matrix has been initially established; intelligent agricultural machinery has been applied over more than 40 million mu-times, and a cumulative total of 48.08 million mu of high-standard farmland has been built, accounting for 67.3 percent of cultivated land area. New quality productive forces in agriculture are being accelerated, and the strategy of "storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology" has taken root.
Breaking through frontier technologies to demonstrate the "sharpness" of agricultural scientific and technological innovation. Focusing on original innovation and tackling key core technologies, the "Daogongxin" series chips developed by Hubei have become the country's first liquid-phase chips for molecular module breeding of major functional genes in rice, breaking through foreign intellectual property barriers; the newly bred rice variety "E Liangyou 2300" has achieved an average yield of over 900 kilograms per mu in small-area ultra-high-yield demonstration fields; innovative achievements such as boneless Wuchang fish and "rice-based hemoglobin" have emerged one after another.
Accelerating the transformation of achievements to nurture the "bustling vitality" of abundant resources and a prosperous population (物阜民丰, wu fu min feng - "things, abundant, people, prosperous"). In the ten-li vegetable corridor of Panjiawan Town, Jiayu County, Xianning City, 27,000 mu of vegetables roll in green waves. At the field edges, digital monitoring screens update meteorological, soil, and pest and disease data in real time; in the seedling center, temperature, humidity, light, and ventilation are automatically regulated, and tender seedlings break through the soil and sprout green, ensuring a continuous supply of vegetables in all four seasons. Jiayu County's vegetable industry has driven 75,000 farmers to work and do business at their doorsteps, with per capita annual income reaching 17,000 yuan.
The mountains remain the same mountains, and the waters remain the same waters. By seeking production capacity from technology and efficiency from innovation, the traditional land of fish and rice has blazed a new path of high-quality development driven by science and technology in agriculture.
From "One Fish" to See How Industry Enriches Farmers
"Just now I drank the waters of Changsha, and now I eat the Wuchang fish." In the past, tasting an authentic Wuchang fish was a longing for many people on their trip to Hubei; today, relying on the "live fish delivered to your door" model, fresh live Wuchang fish can reach the whole country within 24 hours and connect to the world within 48 hours.
This "freshness" comes from the continuously improved and deepened support of the agricultural industry chain.
In Sanshan Village, Dushan Town, Echeng District, Ezhou City, more than 9,800 mu of intensively managed fish ponds shimmer with shimmering green waters (碧水粼粼, bi shui lin lin - "green, water, shimmering, shimmering"). In 2024, a standardized processing plant was built locally, connecting the entire chain of breeding, processing, cold chain, and sales.
"We use live fish oxygenated fresh-keeping transport technology to solve the problem of live fish easily dying from oxygen deprivation during long-distance transport," said Wang Ge, head of Sanshan Lake Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. Leveraging the aviation cold chain advantages of Ezhou Huahu International Airport, fresh live Wuchang fish board cargo flights directly, sending the flavors of Jingchu to all corners of the world. In 2025, the total output value of the entire Wuchang fish industry chain in Ezhou City exceeded 20 billion yuan.
One fish swims to dining tables across the country, and one chain drives prosperity for a whole region. Through policy guidance, financial support, leading enterprise traction, and concerted development, the increasingly mature agricultural industry chain is pushing more and more of Hubei's "local specialties" into the "global supply chain."
The key to activating the momentum of the "chain" lies in giving play to the traction role of leading enterprises. Hubei Province has promoted the construction of ten key agricultural industry chains for six consecutive years, with the provincial finance allocating 1 billion yuan in special funds each year to support development across the entire chain. The province has cumulatively cultivated 1,238 leading agricultural enterprises above the provincial level, 15 listed agricultural enterprises, and 8 enterprises with annual revenue exceeding 10 billion yuan.
The key to leveraging the role of the "chain" is to improve the synergy efficiency of each link. Qichun County National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park in Huanggang City, with Qi mugwort as its leading industry, focuses on standardized planting, processing upgrading, and scientific and technological research and development, attracting more than 20 upstream and downstream supporting enterprises to cluster. "Upstairs is the mugwort leaf deep-processing workshop, downstairs is the packaging and logistics enterprise, and next door is the e-commerce livestreaming base. Everyone shares resources and develops together," introduced Wei Zilong, vice president of Hubei Qi Ai Group. In 2026, the comprehensive output value of the entire "Qi Ai" industry chain exceeded 19 billion yuan.
Today, Hubei has built six 100-billion-yuan-level industry chains, including high-quality rice and specialty freshwater products, created 10 national-level advantageous characteristic industry clusters and 15 modern agricultural industrial parks, and the revenue of the agricultural product processing industry has reached 1.04 trillion yuan.
To unleash the effect of the "chain," it is also necessary to fully apply "brand empowerment." From "shrimp, eel, rice, tea, lotus root, mushroom, orange, and mugwort" to Wuchang fish, in Hubei, a batch of provincial-level regional public brands are becoming increasingly bright or prominent (越擦越亮, yue ca yue liang - "more, rub, more, bright"), and the market competitiveness of products is continuously improving.
"The fish of the Yangtze River and the lotus root of Honghu Lake make people not want to leave after eating." In Honghu City, Jingzhou City, the lotus root industry has cultivated four national geographical indication products: "Honghu Lotus Root," "Honghu Lotus Seeds," "Honghu Lotus Root Strips," and "Honghu Lotus Leaf Tea." "Honghu lotus root tastes great, suitable for both stewing soup and quick stir-frying," said Ms. Wei, a tourist from Jiangsu. "I basically buy it every month through e-commerce and other channels. Direct delivery from the place of origin is very convenient, and the quality is also guaranteed."
In 2025, the lotus root planting area in Honghu City reached 225,000 mu, with a brand value of 25.861 billion yuan. The flavors of Jingchu on the tip of the tongue have enriched the dining tables of the nation and also filled the pockets of farmers.
From "One Village" to See How Good Governance Revitalizes Agriculture
Rice ears hang heavy, houses stand in neat rows, asphalt roads wind into the village, and new fitness equipment on the square complements the flowing water. Walking into Dongjiao Village, Zaoyang City, Xiangyang City, it feels like stepping into a pastoral scenic area.
"The roads are open, industry is thriving, and every household's life is getting better and better," said villager Yang Yongchao. This poor village, once described as "good fields and good land all flooded out, leaving only three yellow earth ridges," now boasts a beautiful environment, simple and honest local customs, and a thriving new business format of agricultural, cultural, and tourism integration, with happy smiles on the faces of the villagers.
The transformation of Dongjiao Village is a vivid vignette in the magnificent picture of Hubei's promotion of comprehensive rural revitalization.
What lays the foundation color of the picture is the change in infrastructure and the living environment. Hubei has promoted the improvement of the rural living environment across the entire region and routinely implemented the clean home campaign; rural infrastructure in Hubei has continued to improve and upgrade, achieving full coverage of delivery logistics, charging piles, 5G networks, and "Four Good Rural Roads"; education consortia cover 85 percent of primary and secondary schools, and more than 20,000 village (community) elderly care service facilities have been built.
What enriches the splendor of the picture is the coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization. Passing through Yanhe Village, Wushan Town, Gucheng County, Xiangyang City, one is surrounded by green mountains and murmuring streams. Putting ecological restoration first and deeply cultivating the tea industry based on the natural endowments of the mountains and waters, Yanhe Village has converted barren slopes into standardized tea gardens, making tea cultivation the village's pillar industry and a "money bag" for increasing income and getting rich.
The village library is open 24 hours a day with a complete range of books; the village stage has become a platform for villagers to showcase their talents; village rules and civil agreements skillfully resolve mother-in-law and daughter-in-law conflicts and neighborhood disputes, filling the "vacuum zone" of grassroots governance. A series of governance measures in Yanhe Village not only preserve the ecological beauty of lucid waters and lush mountains but also cultivate the humanistic beauty of respecting virtue and doing good.
How can rural areas achieve comprehensive revitalization? Strengthening Party building is the key.
Zigui County, Yichang City, is among the first batch of places named "Hometown of Chinese Navel Oranges." In Yandengbao Village, Guojiaba Town, Zigui County, in the past, mountain fruit farmers could only carry oranges down the mountain "on their shoulders and backs." Li Songfei, director of the Party and Government Office of Guojiaba Town, introduced that local village-level Party member contact points and consultation and deliberation rooms have been established to promote Party members taking the lead in industrial development. Under the leadership of the Party organization, more than 30 certified drone pilots have been cultivated locally, helping oranges "fly" out of the mountains. Orange farmer Wang Hongzhen, looking at his orchard, said happily, "In the past, carrying oranges down the mountain often left my shoulders bloody from the friction. Now drones help with the lifting and transport, it's fast and worry-free!"
Today, the planting area of Zigui navel oranges has reached 400,000 mu, the comprehensive output value of the entire industry chain has exceeded 25 billion yuan, and 18 "100-million-yuan villages" for the citrus industry have emerged.
A grassroots Party organization is a fighting fortress. By strengthening Party building to lead grassroots governance, the construction of livable, workable, beautiful, and harmonious villages in Hubei is continuously improving and upgrading.
From "One Leaf of Tea" to See How Cultural Tourism Benefits Farmers
Cultural and tourism integration has broad prospects. It is necessary to promote the high-quality development of the cultural and tourism industry and truly build it into a pillar industry, a livelihood industry, and a happiness industry.
Based on rural production, life, and ecology, deeply coupling farming resources, cultural heritage, and distinctive business formats, supplemented by an increasingly complete service system, the value of rural areas can be more fully released. The high-quality development of rural cultural tourism injects strong momentum into Hubei's promotion of comprehensive rural revitalization.
Integrated development has prospered the countryside and enriched the people.
Sailing up the Yangtze River to the Wuling Mountain area of western Hubei, the 1.82 million mu of tea gardens in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture are layered among the mountains (层叠山间, ceng die shan jian - "layer, stack, mountain, between"), with green waves stretching continuously.
Entering Mazhe Village, Tunbao Township, Enshi City, a one-kilometer art tea corridor connects business formats such as cliffside tea rooms, homestays, and experience venues. On Taozi Bao Tea Mountain, steam rises inside the ecological agriculture plant of Lizhao Tea Industry, and Xie Baiyong, a municipal-level representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Enshi Yulu production techniques, demonstrates the traditional process of "shaking and frying over medium heat" with his hands flying, while tourists gather around the tea table to watch. The integration of tea and tourism has driven steady increases in the purchase price of fresh leaves and the per-mu output value of tea gardens, with village collective economic income exceeding 1.5 million yuan.
"Nearly one-fifth of the prefecture's population 'eats from the tea trade,' and the tea industry has driven an average annual per capita income increase of more than 8,300 yuan for farmers," introduced Liu Qiangsheng, director of the office of the Enshi Prefecture Tea Industry Association.
Launching the provincial-level rural tourism public brand "Zhizhi Hubei · Hometown as Familiar as Ever," creating 52 national key rural tourism villages and 7 key towns, and having 49 routes selected for the national "Four Seasons of Beautiful Rural Scenery" quality list, Hubei's rural development has taken on a pattern of outstanding points, scenic lines, and quality improvement across the entire region.
One charm renewed has enlivened the ancient town and prospered thousands of households.
Entering the Tonglüshan National Archaeological Site Park in Daye, Huangshi, the "super project" from more than 3,000 years ago is presented before one's eyes, with scenes of ancient copper mining and bronze smelting unfolding one after another, attracting tourists who come out of admiration. With protection first and revitalization through use, the park, in addition to the archaeological site, offers a rich variety of new cultural tourism scenes such as copper smelting experiences and scenario-based performances, giving new vitality to the millennia-old mining and metallurgy civilization.
Data show that in 2025, rural tourism in Hubei Province received 493 million visits, a year-on-year increase of 10 percent, achieving comprehensive income of more than 430 billion yuan.
Yunxi County in Shiyan has deeply explored the Qixi wedding customs of the Tianhe River and built the "Qixi Wonderland" cultural landmark; Qijiawan in Honghu has connected fishing and farming culture with red memories; Pengjiazhai in Enshi has revitalized the Tujia stilted house complex to create a rural cultural tourism complex... Shaping tourism with culture and manifesting culture through tourism, deeply exploring intangible cultural heritage and folk customs, historical context, red resources, and rural memories, the new path of common prosperity through the integration of agriculture, culture, and tourism in Hubei is growing ever broader.
You can smell it — the autumn wind carries the fragrance of rice; you can see it — fish and shrimp reflect the shimmering light of the river... Walking across the land of Hubei during the harvest season, a picture of a land of fish and rice for the new era is slowly unfolding. On the fields of hope, the people of Jingchu continue to strive, rowing forward with determination to accelerate the building of an important strategic fulcrum for the rise of the central region and to promote comprehensive rural revitalization.
(People's Daily reporters Wu Jun and Zhang Yifu contributed to this report)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 韩 鑫 李 蕊 罗阳奇
Upon exiting the station, a travel voucher is exchanged for a scenic-area "silver note," and an ordinary train ticket instantly becomes a ticket to enter a scenic area and experience the "prosperity of the Northern Song Dynasty" — thanks to a special campaign jointly launched by Kaifeng Station in Henan and scenic areas such as Wansui Mountain Martial Arts City, many tourists have enjoyed a new experience of "stepping out of the station and into the 'jianghu.'"
The "15th Five-Year Plan" for the Development of Comprehensive Transport Services, jointly issued by the Ministry of Transport and three other departments, proposes expanding the tourism service functions of passenger transport hubs and providing one-stop travel services such as "train ticket + admission ticket."
From a travel credential to a consumption link, the small transport ticket stub is quietly "appreciating in value." How can one ticket link a hundred industries? Reporters visited multiple places and bring back frontline reflections.
The "travel range" of transport ticket stubs continues to extend
Pulling her suitcase and stepping out of Qingdao Station in Shandong, tourist Ms. Chen opened a mini-program on her phone. She uploaded her ticket, selected a restaurant, paid after the meal, presented a redemption code, and paid the discounted amount. She did the math: "A 290-yuan high-speed rail ticket saved me more than 40 yuan on meals!"
Arriving at the end of the journey, a consumption stop begins. Last October, Qingdao launched the "Ticket Stub Economy Merchant Alliance," using the "transport ticket stub" as a link for the first time to systematically integrate the city's cultural and tourism resources: tourists holding a train or plane ticket stub for arrival in Qingdao within seven days can unlock nearly 700 benefits from more than 400 merchants, including scenic areas, hotels, cultural and museum venues, restaurants, and cinemas.
Converting "transit traffic" coming from other cities into "consumption retention" that goes deep into the city — looking across the country, the "travel range" of transport ticket stubs continues to extend —
In Huangshan, Anhui, one ticket activates one-stop services. Huangshan Tourism Passenger Transport Center has launched a "driver-guide integrated" customized service, with routes going directly to more than 20 popular scenic areas including Huangshan Scenic Area and Hongcun, providing tourists with a full-process travel experience of "arrival—check-in—travel—sightseeing."
In Zhongshan, Guangdong, one ferry ticket unlocks a hundred ways to play. At designated restaurants, a fine dim sum can be claimed with the same-day ferry ticket; "buy a ferry ticket, get a ferry ticket" — spend the price of one and experience two water routes... Zhonggang Passenger Transport, in partnership with Zhongshan Culture and Tourism, has incorporated more than 600,000 ferry tickets into the ticket stub benefits system, closely linking the huge passenger flow with more than a hundred merchants.
"Transport ticket stubs sit at the upstream end of the consumption chain, with a guiding, convenience, and public-benefit character, and are one of the fields with the largest scale and the strongest traffic-attraction effect," analyzed Ma Delong, associate researcher at the Comprehensive Transport Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission. When travelers arrive at their destination, their willingness to consume may be uncertain and passive; the transport ticket stub provides an opportunity for "convenient consumption," reducing decision costs through ticket stub discounts, thereby stimulating "exploratory consumption" of scenic areas, dining, accommodation, and more, turning "passers-by" into "overnight guests."
With the accelerated development of the digital economy, more and more "digital ticket stubs" are achieving online linkage with local consumption, leveraging internet platforms to realize various discounts. According to travel platform statistics, transport tickets such as high-speed rail tickets and plane tickets have led 40 percent of ticket-holding users to increase their tourism spending, while also helping tourists save an average of 15 to 30 percent on related consumption expenditures.
"Travel credentials" transformed into a "consumption engine"
Why has the popularity of transport ticket stubs risen so quickly?
"This economic phenomenon is, in essence, a new business format formed by the digital economy and consumption upgrading catalyzed by policy dividends," Ma Delong said. The government sets the stage, merchants give up profits, and through transport ticket stubs linking scenarios and attaching benefits, a one-time transport trip extends into continuous consumption across multiple scenarios.
On the supply side, the national high-speed rail operating mileage has exceeded 50,000 kilometers, covering 97.2 percent of cities with populations above 500,000, making medium- and short-distance intercity travel routine. At the same time, the rapidly growing platform economy has made transport ticket stubs fully electronic, turning them into a front-loaded traffic gateway for consumption scenarios such as scenic areas, hotels, and restaurants.
In February this year, the "One Ticket Stub Tours Qingdao" digital public-benefit platform went online. "After consumers upload a transport ticket stub that meets the campaign requirements, they can search for corresponding discounts and redeem them at the relevant merchants," introduced Guo Jichao, a relevant official of the Qingdao Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism. Through digital means, benefits scattered across different stores and different campaigns are concentrated at a single entry point, better reaching potential consumers.
Platform companies are also making efforts. In September, Meituan, together with several airlines, launched exclusive membership benefits for air ticket members, who, while enjoying exclusive prices on designated routes, also receive coupon packages for dining, retail, accommodation, and other consumption at their destinations.
Transport ticket stubs linking consumption benefits keep travelers closely connected to consumption scenarios from the moment of departure. Data show that during this year's Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday, nearly half of users who purchased air tickets for travel claimed destination consumption coupon packages, which were widely used in multiple scenarios including in-store dining and hotel and homestay stays.
On the demand side, with accelerated consumption upgrading, consumers are no longer satisfied with one-time "check-in-style" consumption; they increasingly seek "one-stop" comprehensive experiences that string together the scattered merchants along the consumption chain. "What tourists need is to be able to play as soon as they get off the vehicle and to stay as soon as they finish sightseeing," introduced Hu Jianfei, assistant general manager of Huangshan Tourism Transport Company. The team has already established cooperative relationships with more than 50 hotels, with last year's turnover reaching nearly 4 million yuan.
Working together with concerted effort, letting transport ticket stubs release lasting energy
While results are notable, for transport ticket stubs to achieve long-term value extension, there are also many problems that need to be solved.
"The hardest part is still visibility." Guo Jichao frankly admitted. Ticket stub users are relatively concentrated, mainly young and middle-aged people and students, and because online operation is required, there remains a certain threshold for the elderly. At present, Qingdao is considering expanding from "ticket stubs" to "ticket credentials," including senior citizen cards within the scope of ticket stubs recognized by the platform, exploring the option of merchants granting discounts by default upon presentation of the credential, so that more groups can enjoy the dividends and consumption can be promoted on a larger scale.
Another issue: the benefit mechanism is relatively vague, and the gap between off-season and peak-season results is large. Ma Delong explained that in the off-season, when passenger flow is insufficient, scenic areas and hotels are willing to offer discounts in exchange for traffic; in the peak season, when the customer base is saturated, merchants' willingness to participate declines. How to keep participating merchants motivated tests the wisdom of urban governance.
"What consumers care about is how much money they save; merchants are calculating a different account." Guo Jichao believes that for merchants, whether the discounts given away will increase operating burdens and whether they can be exchanged for customer traffic are unavoidable questions for the sustainable development of the ticket stub economy.
In response, Qingdao first lowered the cost of merchant participation: joining the platform is free, and no commission is charged on transactions. In addition, the initiative in setting discounts is handed to merchants, allowing promotional activities to align with business rhythms and maximizing the activation of merchants' willingness to participate.
Experts suggest that the next step requires working together with concerted effort on mechanisms, products, and standards.
Ma Delong suggested promoting the construction of a market-based mechanism of shared benefits and shared risks, clarifying the distribution ratios of benefits among all parties, increasing the intensity of benefits in the off-season, and shifting toward value-added services in the peak season, so as to better smooth out off-season and peak-season fluctuations.
To promote the normalization of the transport ticket stub economy, product innovation is an important lever. At present, most benefit schemes for transport ticket stubs are "discounts upon presentation of the ticket," with limited depth of traffic conversion, and tourists are prone to aesthetic fatigue.
Moving beyond the single model of "admission ticket discounts," Qingdao currently plans to enrich the categories of the merchant alliance, improve the quality of participating entities, and explore mutual recognition of ticket stubs with cities inside and outside the province; Beijing has launched nearly a hundred cultural and creative transport cards, tapping the value of the carrier itself.
When every departure can activate new consumption scenarios, the vast development space belonging to the transport ticket stub is only just beginning.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 汪志球 郑智文
As dusk steeped the vast forest sea of Changbai Mountain, on the left bank of the Erdaobai River, the Enduli neighborhood was bright and magnificent (灯火璀璨, deng huo cui can - "lamp, fire; bright, resplendent") with thriving foot traffic, the water stage's "Fire Dance Soaring Sky" show took the stage, and beside the Fire Square, the Haidongqing patrol parade drew eyes.
This now-lively neighborhood was once long dormant. In recent years, the Changbai Mountain Protection and Development Zone of Jilin has revitalized dormant assets, turning this project, stalled for years, into a cultural-tourism neighborhood. Since opening in 2025, the Enduli neighborhood has received nearly 3 million visitors, with strong foot traffic and thriving business formats, becoming a new calling card showcasing the regional cultural characteristics of Changbai Mountain.
Exploring pathways to awaken dormant resources
"The original project was planned as a commercial-tourism complex, but unexpectedly it became a 'scar' on Changbai Mountain," said Chen Chenglong, general manager of Changbai Mountain Protection and Development Zone Enjili Real Estate Development Co., Ltd. In 2018, due to a partner's capital chain rupture, the original project was halted and entered bankruptcy proceedings. "At the time, the main structures on some plots were already completed—after decoration they could have been put into operation, and recovering capital was just one step short of the goal."
How could the project be revitalized, and how could historical legacy issues be properly resolved? The Party Working Committee and Administrative Committee of the Changbai Mountain Protection and Development Zone incorporated the revitalization of this project into the zone's key annual work deployment for 2024. "We brought forth the determination to tackle problems without leaving any corner untouched and to see things through to the end, thoroughly awakening high-quality resources that had been dormant for years," said a relevant official of the Administrative Committee of the Changbai Mountain Protection and Development Zone.
Setting revitalization goals and facing difficulties and challenges head-on. The Administrative Committee of the Changbai Mountain Protection and Development Zone established a special working group for revitalizing idle assets, item by item sorting through information on the project's construction history, root causes of idleness, property rights and ownership, and current conditions of buildings and facilities, digging deep into the crux of the project's stagnation, tailoring a revitalization pathway based on actual conditions, and gnawing through one "hard bone" after another—property rights that were intertwined and complicatedly connected (盘根错节, pan gen cuo jie - "coil, root, wrong, knot") and debts that were layered and interwoven.
To open up funding guarantee channels, the Changbai Mountain Protection and Development Zone deployed a combined set of measures: continuously repairing corporate credit, optimizing the overall asset-liability structure, and injecting the ticket revenue rights of the Changbai Mountain scenic area, valued at 11.3 billion yuan, into Jilin Province Changbai Mountain Development and Construction (Group) Co., Ltd. By the end of 2024, the group's total assets reached 20.614 billion yuan, with the asset-liability ratio dropping from 80.69% to 38.65%, successfully upgrading its main credit rating and significantly reducing corporate financing costs, injecting ample funding for the project's restart.
After renovation and renewal and business format restructuring, the first phase of the Enduli project was smoothly completed. "Expectations have become reality—Enduli has 'awakened,'" said Chen Chenglong. After the project was revitalized, total asset value increased from 713 million yuan to 981 million yuan, and state-owned assets achieved preservation and appreciation in value.
Refined operations, breaking away from the unoriginal and monotonous (千篇一律, qian pian yi lu - "thousand, pieces, one, pattern")
At nightfall, in the Enduli neighborhood, the aroma of Northeastern-style grilled skewers wafted through the air, long lines formed outside Manchu traditional Wula hotpot restaurants, and specialty shops such as cultural-creative workshops were bustling with crowds of people (人流如织, ren liu ru zhi - "people, flow; like, weaving"). "We draw inspiration from the natural elements of Changbai Mountain, incorporating mountain forest fallen leaves and the area's unique volcanic rock into our works," said Li Can, store manager of a cultural-creative shop, holding up a square ornament and sharing the product's creative concept with customers.
Li Can explained that thanks to the neighborhood's refined operations, the Enduli neighborhood has formed a combined route with the main Changbai Mountain scenic area, and most tourists choose to come here to browse the commercial district, buy local specialties, and taste local cuisine. "Since opening last December, business performance has been steadily improving, and original products are very well received."
"The scenic-area-plus-neighborhood model is common, but we chose to break away from the unoriginal and monotonous approach, letting culture empower the neighborhood and achieving the goal of shaping tourism with culture and promoting culture through tourism," said Wang Chunyuan, general manager of Changbai Mountain Enduli Commercial Management Co., Ltd. A professional commercial operations team planned the layout of new business formats in advance and carried out precise investment attraction and operations; currently, the leasing rate for shops in the project's first phase has reached 93%.
Changbai Mountain ecological culture, Manchu folk culture, Northeastern characteristic culture... Today, the Enduli neighborhood has become a window showcasing the regional culture of Changbai Mountain. "Scenery attracts people; culture keeps them. We hope that through diverse experiences such as distinctive night tours, folk custom experiences, and local cuisine, visitors will stay and feel a different kind of beauty of Changbai Mountain," said Wang Chunyuan.
Refined operations are also reflected in attentively listening to the voices of the people. During the 2025–2026 ice and snow season, the "Cloudtop Heavenly Palace" snow sculpture beside the Enduli neighborhood went viral online, becoming a popular winter check-in landmark of Changbai Mountain. The inspiration for the "Cloudtop Heavenly Palace" snow sculpture came from the well-known novel The Lost Tomb. "The ten-year appointment of Changbai Mountain is an appointment among book fans from all corners of the country (天南海北, tian nan hai bei - "sky, south, sea, north"), and it has always had a strong call online, giving us a new idea for developing literary tourism," Wang Chunyuan explained. Centering on the novel's narrative and book fans' ideas, Changbai Mountain created the "Daomi Festival" IP (intellectual property), set up classic check-in spots in Enduli, built original-novel scenes for book fans who traveled from afar, and deeply integrated the literary IP into cultural-tourism development.
According to statistics, during the last snow season, the opening of the "Cloudtop Heavenly Palace" snow sculpture drove a 30% year-on-year increase in visitor volume to the Enduli neighborhood, with young visitors accounting for over 60%.
Releasing value, driving income growth for the people
"There's work to do, people to chat with, and money to earn—life is good!" Wang Yanxia, a household that has shaken off poverty, now earns a living from tourism right at her doorstep: she works at a specialty homestay in the Enduli neighborhood, and her husband, thanks to his good cooking skills, is employed at a local restaurant.
With crowds gathering, employment thriving, and life full of hope. According to statistics, since the Enduli neighborhood began operations, it has directly driven the creation of over 500 new jobs and indirectly driven employment of over 1,000 people, becoming an important vehicle for absorbing local employment and promoting income growth.
Successively launching distinctive brand activities such as summer markets, intangible cultural heritage performances, and the "cat winter" lifestyle season, continuously deepening new business formats, enriching new scenarios, and promoting deep integration of culture, sports, and tourism, the Enduli neighborhood focuses on "cultural experience," striving to give visitors something new with every visit.
"The first phase has met expectations overall, and construction of the second phase of Enduli is currently being accelerated," said Wang Chunyuan. The second-phase project will develop in a differentiated manner from the first phase, offering experiences such as intangible cultural heritage exhibitions, intangible cultural heritage cuisine, and intangible cultural heritage cultural-creative products, with plans to build it into Changbai Mountain's intangible cultural heritage cultural salon. At the same time, business formats will focus on the mountain and wilderness natural scenery of Changbai Mountain, creating a "one store, one category; one craft, one theme" matrix of Changbai Mountain cultural business formats.
Beyond Enduli, other low-efficiency idle assets of Changbai Mountain have also successively "awakened": through creating differentiated IPs, Changbai Mountain Lujiao Village is becoming a new popular check-in spot; through reshaping cultural business formats, the Changbai Mountain Tianchi Academy Hotel has achieved reuse of idle space... The Changbai Mountain Protection and Development Zone adheres to the principle of "one case, one strategy; precise policy implementation," blazing a new path of high-quality development featuring revitalization of existing assets, cultural-tourism upgrading, and shared prosperity for people's livelihoods.
In recent years, Jilin Province has comprehensively surveyed existing asset resources and vigorously promoted the revitalization and utilization of low-efficiency idle assets, providing support for defusing risks, deepening reform, and economic and social development. Cities and prefectures across Jilin have innovated disposal measures, intensified revitalization efforts, continuously tapped and released the value of idle asset resources, and strived to transform dormant resources into development capital.
"We will continue to do a good job of revitalization and disposal with the spirit of reform and innovation, take a long-term view, calculate the overall economic account, release the value of idle assets through multiple measures, effectively solve the problem of assets that are 'valuable but have no market,' and empower and enhance efficiency for high-quality development," said the main responsible official of the Administrative Committee of the Changbai Mountain Protection and Development Zone.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 28) (Reporter Li Longyi) On the morning of the 28th, a reporter learned from the special press conference on commendation and memorial work held by the Ministry of Veterans Affairs that new progress has been made in the identification of the remains of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army martyrs in the ROK, and the identities of eight Volunteer Army martyrs have been confirmed.
The eight Volunteer Army martyrs are Shi Zhicheng, Xia Xiaolong, Zhang Zhenfa, Ren Dianyi, Jiao Dezheng, Xia Zongzhi, Chen Zhiguo, and Zhang Changxing. Since 2014, China has brought back the remains of 1,023 Chinese People's Volunteer Army martyrs in the ROK in 13 batches over 13 consecutive years. To date, identities have been confirmed and relatives found for 44 Chinese People's Volunteer Army martyrs in the ROK, turning more "nameless" martyrs into "named" heroes.
"In the field of DNA identification of aged remains, the international community recognizes two major difficulties: DNA extraction and the identification of complex kinship relations," said Zhang Bai, deputy director of the Martyrs' Memorial Facilities Protection Center (Martyrs' Remains Search and Identification Center) of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs. To solve the problem of DNA identification of aged remains, the National Martyrs' Remains DNA Identification Laboratory designed and tried more than 100 formulas and independently established a new rapid and efficient DNA extraction method; mobilized the strength of the national veterans affairs system, not overlooking any single clue (不放过任何线索, bu fang guo ren he xian suo - "not, let, go, any, clue") in investigating and locating the relatives of the martyrs; strengthened coordination and linkage, excavated relevant materials, and brought into play the technical advantages of relevant military and local departments.
"Carrying out the work of seeking relatives for martyrs seeks blood kinship, fulfills the long-cherished wishes of family and country, transmits spiritual faith, and guards the roots and soul of the nation. It is both a consolation to the spirits of the martyrs and a comfort to their relatives," said Shi Yi, deputy director-general of the Commendation and Memorial Department (Department of International Cooperation) of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs.
Shi Yi also introduced that the Ministry of Veterans Affairs has made key arrangements for provinces along the route of the Long March to carry out operations to seek relatives for Red Army martyrs, achieving positive results. Jiangxi has successfully found relatives and burial sites for eight Red Army martyrs who sacrificed during the Long March; Guizhou has sorted out and published the graves of Red Army martyrs without relatives to pay respects, and has so far found relatives for two martyrs. The integrated platform for seeking relatives of martyrs has completed construction and trial operation and will be officially launched before the end of this year.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Shanghai, October 28) (Reporter Cao Lingjuan) On October 28, the oath-taking ceremony for volunteers of the 9th China International Import Expo was held at the Shanghai Exhibition Center, where 4,561 "little leaves" volunteers took the oath together both online and offline, officially committing themselves to volunteer services for the CIIE. During the 9th CIIE, these volunteers will serve in 158 positions across 9 categories, including on-site guidance and consultation, exhibition registration management, and transaction data statistics.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 28) (Reporter Wu Qiuyu) The latest data released by the People's Bank of China shows that since the beginning of this year, China's financial market has been operating smoothly. In the first nine months, the cumulative issuance of panda bonds reached 245.05 billion yuan, with 35 new overseas institutions entering the interbank bond market.
It is understood that panda bonds are bonds issued by overseas institutions within China, denominated in renminbi, with principal and interest repaid in renminbi. They are both an important measure for promoting the opening of China's bond market and an important tool for broadening cross-border renminbi financing channels and advancing the internationalization process of the renminbi.
Data show that in September this year, net financing of government bonds was 1,536.22 billion yuan, an increase of 346.96 billion yuan year-on-year; as of the end of September, the custody balance of the bond market stood at 210.8 trillion yuan. In September, the amount of commercial bill acceptance was 3.9 trillion yuan, and the amount of discounting was 2.9 trillion yuan; as of the end of September, the balance of commercial bill acceptance was 22.5 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.9 percent year-on-year; the balance of discounting was 17.9 trillion yuan, an increase of 15.5 percent year-on-year.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 胡笑源 张艳秋
On October 19, the 2026 Inbound Tourism High-Quality Development Event and the "Guangdong Wonderful Night" Carnival were held in the Chikan Overseas Chinese Ancient Town in Jiangmen City, Guangdong. Relying on the arcade building complex combining Chinese and Western elements (中西合璧, zhong xi he bi - "middle, west, combine, together"), the event showcased the unique overseas Chinese hometown culture and Lingnan lifestyle to inbound tourists.
Inbound tourism routes and experiences have been continuously enriched, the level of customs clearance facilitation has been steadily improved, supporting services for inbound consumption have been consistently optimized, and inbound tourism orders have seen simultaneous improvement in both quantity and quality (量质齐升, liang zhi qi sheng - "quantity, quality, together, rise")... Since the beginning of this year, Guangdong's inbound tourism market has been full of vigor and vitality (蓬勃生机, peng bo sheng ji - "vigorous, lively, life, energy"), becoming the first stop for many foreign tourists to experience Chinese culture and lifestyle.
"Having Cantonese morning tea in Guangzhou, watching lion dance performances in Foshan, admiring Hakka enclosed houses in Meizhou, and buying a batch of clothing and electronic products before returning home — a one-stop (一站式, yi zhan shi - "one, station, style") trip with great rewards." A tourist from France summed up his Guangdong trip in these words.
Based on the travel preferences of overseas tourists and precisely targeting travel needs, Guangdong has integrated the province's high-quality cultural and tourism resources and launched two batches of ten boutique inbound tourism routes. Among them, the "Guangzhou-Foshan-Jiangmen-Zhuhai" in-depth tour links urban landmarks, the multi-day Chaoshan and Hakka culture tour combines ecological landscapes, humanistic heritage, and short routes covering destinations such as Foshan, Yangjiang, Maoming, and Heyuan. The differentiated, themed, and distinctive tourism product matrix provides overseas tourists with rich travel scenarios such as family trips, cultural study tours, and leisure vacations.
Rooted in the fertile soil of Lingnan culture, Guangdong has broken away from traditional sightseeing models, promoting the living transmission of intangible cultural heritage and immersive participation, making inbound tourism more culturally distinctive. "This is the first time I have truly felt the grandeur and artistic charm of the lion dance. The live scene was so stunning!" said a Korean tourist watching the Foshan lion dance at the Foshan Ancestral Temple Museum.
To make inbound travel more comfortable and reassuring for overseas tourists, Guangdong's cultural and tourism departments have coordinated with travel agencies to optimize service processes, providing inbound travelers with professional support such as itinerary planning and multilingual tour guidance. "Digging deep into Guangzhou's local culture and natural resources, and centering on Guangzhou's mountain veins, water veins, city veins, commercial veins, and cultural veins, travel agencies have innovatively launched a series of inbound tourism themed products such as the 'Five Veins' and 'Come to Guangdong, Come to Guangzhou,' and have arranged dedicated staff at the visa-free transit transfer counters at Baiyun Airport to provide consultation services for inbound tourists," said Huang Jingru, Vice President of GZL International Travel Service. To facilitate tourists' "short-distance transportation" from the airport to the city center and from hotels to scenic spots after entering the country, the "Guangdong Inbound Tourism AI Card" connects the entire process of transportation, sightseeing, and consumption, allowing one card to provide one-touch access to intelligent travel services.
Touring Lingnan's mountains and waters and savoring Lingnan culture, more and more overseas tourists are also turning their attention to the rich variety of quality Lingnan products. Dancong tea, Cantonese embroidery, purple clay teapots, Chaoshan beef balls, Lingnan cultural and creative products... "Cantonese goods" have become portable, memorable, and shareable mobile cultural business cards. To activate the consumption momentum of inbound tourism, Guangdong has continuously improved supporting services for inbound consumption, vigorously promoted the "buy now, refund now" departure tax refund service, and fully opened overseas bank card payment channels in key commercial districts, popular scenic spots, and high-end hotels, making the shopping and consumption experience for overseas tourists smoother.
Policies smooth the channels, culture wins hearts, and consumption builds bridges. Inbound tourism has gradually become a bright window showcasing the splendor of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and promoting people-to-people connectivity (民心相通, min xin xiang tong - "people, heart, mutually, connect") between China and foreign countries. A relevant official from the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism stated that, relying on the locational advantages of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the thousand-year Lingnan cultural heritage, and the international transportation network connecting the world, inbound tourism has become an important component of Guangdong's high-quality development in the tourism industry. Guangdong will adopt a more open and inclusive attitude to attract global tourists to visit Guangdong and understand China.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Guangzhou, October 28) (Reporter Li Zong) On October 28, the Yinhua Yuehai Water Group Water Conservancy Closed-End Infrastructure Securities Investment Fund was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. This is the nation's first real estate investment trust for power generation from water conservancy facilities, providing a practical model for the national water conservancy industry to revitalize existing assets and broaden financing channels for construction.
The underlying assets of the fund are specific assets related to power generation at the Feilaixia Water Control Project and the Chaozhou Water Supply Hub, along with the charging rights for the power generation business, issued on the basis of power generation operating income for a period not exceeding 30 years. The funds raised are intended for use in major water conservancy projects such as the Huangmaoxia Reservoir Project and the Beibu Gulf Ring Water Resources Allocation Project in Guangdong, establishing a mechanism for a healthy, positive cycle (良性循环, liang xing xun huan - "good, kind, cycle, revolve") in which "revitalizing existing assets drives new investment."
Return to TopFrom the roar of the turbine units at the Baihetan Hydropower Station to the surging flow of molten aluminum in the Funing Industrial Park; from the lights of ten thousand households in the 374 border happiness villages to the vivid scenes of people of all ethnic groups living and studying together, building and sharing together... Yunnan Province has vigorously carried forward the great Long March spirit, made every effort to promote high-quality development across the land of Yunnan, advance ethnic unity and progress, and working together with one heart and mind (同心协力, tong xin xie li - "same heart, together exert strength") to walk the new Long March well.
The Economic Transformation of Zhaxi Town
A Red Village Rises with Industries that Enrich the People
Zhaxi Town in Weixin County, Zhaotong City, is the site of the former venue of the Zhaxi Conference. In recent years, Zhaotong City has vigorously promoted a "red culture + green development" approach, employing a model of "village-level Party organizations + leading enterprises + collective economic companies + farmers" to channel red tourism traffic into the agricultural industry chain. Seizing this opportunity, Zhaxi Town has vigorously developed "red-green integrated" industries that enrich the people.
The Zhuangzishang residential group of Shikan Community in Zhaxi Town was once a small village with "almost no collective economy." In 2025, Shikan Community was designated as a pilot site for the construction of red beautiful villages in Yunnan Province. Building on this momentum, Zhuangzishang explored an operational model of "red training institutions + collective economy + farmers," cultivating red-themed agritainment, and supporting ancillary business formats such as study tours, specialty agricultural product sales, and rural leisure, transforming red study tours from "coming to listen to a lecture" into an industry chain that can drive increases in farmers' incomes. Red study tours, specialty dining, and other business formats have continued to generate income, driving an average annual income increase of more than 40,000 yuan for over 80 surrounding farming households.
By revitalizing red resources and promoting green development, Zhaxi Town has achieved a diversified development pattern of "red cultural tourism + specialty agriculture + under-forest economy," promoted sustained growth of the collective economy, and blazed a new path for old revolutionary base areas through transformation and upgrading.
The Functional Renewal of Jiaopingdu
A Red Ferry Crossing Develops Cold-Chain Transportation
In Jiaopingdu Town, Luquan Yi and Miao Autonomous County, Kunming City, the old ferry crossing has sunk beneath the reservoir area of the Wudongde Hydropower Station, and Jiaopingdu's mission of "ferrying" has continued in a different form. The local government introduced the leading enterprise Yunling Xiansheng's Jiaopingdu base, established a benefit-linking mechanism of "leading enterprises + village collectives + farmers," and integrated scattered arable land to develop standardized organic contract farming. The base currently has a planting area of over 1,000 mu, with multiple high-value-added varieties supplied directly to supermarkets nationwide, and its projected annual output value for 2026 exceeds 50 million yuan. Of the Italian lettuce sold by Yunling Xiansheng in the national market, 70% is produced at the Jiaopingdu base. Vegetable picking, sorting, packing, and cold-chain transfer have driven nearby villagers to find employment locally; villagers receive both land transfer rent and labor income earned at their doorstep.
At the same time, Jiaopingdu Town has linked the Shanle Red Army Long March Memorial Hall and the river-crossing site into a red study tour loop. Descendants of boatmen have returned to their hometown to serve as volunteer docents in the village, telling visitors the story of how, back then, the army and the people worked together with one heart to skillfully cross the natural barrier. Over the past five years, the town has received a cumulative total of 908 groups of tourists and study tour teams, exceeding 53,000 person-times. Today's Jiaopingdu, relying on red study tours, organic cultivation, and cold-chain logistics, has connected with the national market, and its "ferrying" channel is growing ever wider.
The Role Transformation of the Jinsha River
A "Natural Barrier" Transforms into an "Energy Corridor"
On the Jinsha River, four large hydropower stations—Wudongde, Baihetan, Xiluodu, and Xiangjiaba—have turned the former "natural barrier" into an "energy corridor." Among them, the Baihetan Hydropower Station, located at the junction of Qiaojia County in Zhaotong City and Ningnan County in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, has generated a cumulative total of over 280 billion kWh of electricity in the five years since it began operation. The four cascade hydropower stations enable "one drop of water to generate electricity four times" in the lower reaches of the Jinsha River.
As of September 2026, Yunnan's installed clean energy capacity reached 165 million kW, accounting for 91% of total installed capacity, ranking among the highest in the country; the share of electricity generation from clean energy has long remained above 85%; cumulative green electricity trading has exceeded 3.8 billion kWh, of which 1.334 billion kWh was traded from January to September 2026, a year-on-year increase of 133.2%. In addition, the province's installed new energy capacity exceeded 82 million kW by the end of September this year, and is expected to surpass the installed capacity of hydropower by year-end, becoming Yunnan's largest source of electricity.
The value of green electricity lies not only in "generating it and sending it out," but also in "keeping it here and turning it into industry." Driven by Yunnan Shenhuo Aluminum, the Funing Industrial Park in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture achieved a gross industrial output value of 20.012 billion yuan for enterprises above designated size in the first half of 2026, a year-on-year increase of 55%. Yunnan Aluminum Co., Ltd. achieved a green energy consumption share of 88% in 2025, and its low-carbon aluminum products have entered the supply chains of world-renowned automakers.
Today, Yunnan is breaking through the structural dilemma of "being rich in electricity but not rich in industry," letting green electricity come from the river water and then settle into the carbon footprints of molten aluminum, batteries, and export products, transforming the "natural barrier" into an "industrial foundation" and providing solid support for high-quality development.
The Income Growth of Border Villages
"Happiness" Becomes the "Underlying Tone of Development"
In 2021, Yunnan launched the construction of border happiness villages. By the end of 2025, all 374 border administrative villages in the province had been built into border happiness villages, with the per capita disposable income of rural permanent residents reaching 24,573 yuan and the permanent population achieving growth; all 8 border prefectures (cities) had been established as national demonstration prefectures (cities) for ethnic unity and progress.
During the period of the 15th Five-Year Plan, Yunnan has further clarified its goal: by 2030, the per capita income of the 374 border administrative villages should be higher than the average level of their respective prefectures (cities). An important pillar supporting this goal is the dual downward extension of industry and organization: border-area expressways link ports and villages, Party organization reach extends to village groups along the border, grassroots people are organized into the institutional framework of industry chains, border happiness villages, and demonstration zone creation, forming a set of operable and assessable mechanisms along the 4,060-kilometer border line.
The industrial transformation of a red village, the renewal of business formats at a red ferry crossing, and a livelihood report card on income growth in border happiness villages—Yunnan is striving to carry forward the great Long March spirit and walk the new Long March well in each concrete task, and amid the roar of machinery in workshops and mines, amid the lights of ten thousand households in border villages, and amid the ever-improving lives of people of all ethnic groups, it is working together with one heart and mind to march toward an expedition filled with glory and dreams.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Yunnan Provincial Committee
Return to TopBy: 刘先春
Integrity is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation and, moreover, a value foundation to which the Marxist party has always adhered. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized: "We must strengthen the construction of a culture of integrity in the new era, enhance the pertinence and effectiveness of integrity education, and vigorously foster a social environment that honors integrity and rejects corruption, and advocates frugality and guards against extravagance." Persistently and continuously advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party requires not only the thunderous force of drastic remedies for grave ills and severe punishment for disorder, but also the enduring effort of rectifying the mind, cultivating the self, and nurturing culture. The construction of a culture of integrity in the new era carries the logic of addressing root causes, acting through culture upon the depths of the human heart, and playing an irreplaceable foundational role in adhering to the integrated advancement of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt. A deep grasp of the rich connotations and theoretical innovations of the new era's culture of integrity, an understanding of its value and function in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and an exploration of practical paths to further strengthen the construction of a culture of integrity hold important theoretical value and practical significance for promoting the deepening of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and fostering a political ecosystem that is upright and clean.
Rectifying the source and clarifying the origin, deeply grasping the connotative leap of the new era's culture of integrity
The new era's culture of integrity is an important component of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. The proposal of the new era's culture of integrity has enabled our Party's understanding of its own integrity-building to achieve a profound leap from the partial to the holistic, and from treating symptoms to addressing root causes.
In terms of scope of coverage, it extends and expands toward the general public. For culture to perform the function of permeating the heart, it must achieve full coverage of all members of society. The subjects of the construction of the new era's culture of integrity include not only Party and government organs and their staff, but extend further to all walks of life, expanding from Party members and cadres to all members of society. If integrity is understood merely as "a matter for officials," it will forever remain suspended outside the daily lives of the majority. When integrity becomes a universal social psychology and cultural habit, creating a moral environment in which integrity is the norm and corruption is the anomaly, then in everyone's honoring, esteeming, and loving integrity, the social soil for resisting corruption and preventing change can be deeply cultivated. The construction of the new era's culture of integrity reflects a profound grasp of the laws of Marxist party building and of the mechanisms by which culture functions.
In terms of cultural roots, it organically integrates three types of cultural resources. The new era's culture of integrity is deeply rooted in the fertile soil of the culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: "Without the heritage and nourishment of China's outstanding traditional culture, revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture, faith and conviction can hardly be deep and steadfast." The outstanding traditional Chinese culture is used to cultivate the spiritual realm of self-restraint and devotion to public duty, and of incorruptibility and self-discipline; revolutionary culture is used to temper the noble character of selflessness and willingness to dedicate; and advanced socialist culture is used to cultivate the cultural soil of clean governance and the exercise of power in the public interest. The three are not isolated from one another, but are integrated into an organic whole in the construction of the new era's culture of integrity. The outstanding traditional Chinese culture provides the ethical foundation of propriety, righteousness, integrity, and a sense of shame, and the cultural tradition of placing integrity first in officialdom; revolutionary culture injects the spiritual character of selflessness and the genetic code of hard work and plain living; and advanced socialist culture, with the core socialist values at its core, endows it with the connotations of the times. The integrity elements of the three cultures activate one another, producing an aggregation effect that a single cultural resource cannot generate. In March 2014, at an enlarged meeting of the Standing Committee of the Lankao County Party Committee in Henan Province, General Secretary Xi Jinping quoted the "Essay Declining Gifts" (Que zeng xi wen) by Zhang Boxing, an upright official of the Qing Dynasty: "A single thread, a single grain — my reputation and integrity; a single cent, a single hair — the people's flesh and blood," and pointed out that "this can also serve as a mirror." The integrity genes of the outstanding traditional culture have been fully activated in the context of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, acquiring distinct connotations of the times.
In terms of core connotations, it establishes the value yardstick of "regarding corruption as shameful." In adhering to the integrated advancement of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, "not wanting" is fundamental. And the reason "not wanting to be corrupt" can transform from an external institutional requirement into an internal ideological self-awareness lies precisely in the value judgments shaped by the culture of integrity. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized: "Carry out in-depth education on Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline, inherit the Party's glorious traditions and fine conduct, stimulate the lofty ideals and pursuits of Communist Party members, and regard the abuse of power for personal gain and corruption as an extreme disgrace." "An extreme disgrace" directs the focus of the construction of the culture of integrity toward a deeper psychological logic. Some leading cadres violate discipline and the law not because they do not know the boundaries of discipline, but because deep in their hearts they do not truly regard corruption as shameful. The theoretical contribution of the new era's culture of integrity lies in the fact that it is not satisfied with the behavioral level of "not daring" and "not being able," but is committed to constructing, at the value level, the yardstick of "honor in integrity, shame in corruption," so that corruption is culturally adjudged as unacceptable, intolerable, and unforgivable behavior. This advances anti-corruption from the external logic of constraint to the internal logic of identification, providing a stable psychological foundation for "not wanting to be corrupt."
In terms of practical carriers, it emphasizes the building of a clean and upright family tradition. Family tradition building constitutes the micro-level test of whether the culture of integrity takes root and bears fruit. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized the issue of family tradition, using the difference in the written forms of the characters "home" and "grave" as a profound metaphor:"They look very similar; the difference lies in where that 'dot' is placed. This is like family building — if the requirements for family members and children are set a bit higher, it can become a happy family; if set a bit lower, it may bury a good family." The family is both a haven of integrity and a possible channel for corruption. When a leading cadre relaxes requirements for relatives and children in family life, the boundary between public and private may be eroded from the closest of relationships. For the culture of integrity to function, it cannot remain only in meeting rooms and documents, but must enter the daily life of the family and become a code of conduct jointly recognized by leading cadres and their family members. Family tradition building extends integrity from a work ethic to a life ethic, bringing the culture of integrity closer to the hearts of the people.
Consolidating the foundation and nourishing the roots, accurately grasping the value and function of the new era's culture of integrity in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party
The culture of integrity plays an irreplaceable and unique role in Party governance and Party discipline. The significance of the construction of the new era's culture of integrity is reflected in its deep support for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party at the level of cultural roots and value identification.
It is a foundational project for adhering to the integrated advancement of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt. Not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt constitute an organic whole of mutual dependence and mutual reinforcement; "not daring" is the premise, "not being able" is the key, and "not wanting" is the foundation. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized "consolidating and elevating the work on not wanting to be corrupt, placing greater emphasis on rectifying the source and consolidating the foundation and nourishing the roots," and has required "effectively linking not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, with all three exerting force simultaneously, in the same direction, and in a comprehensive manner." Punishment can form deterrence, and institutions can plug loopholes, but without value identification at the cultural level, the possibility of corruption breeding remains. Deprived of the nourishment of the culture of integrity, not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt would lack a stable value foundation. However dense the cage of institutions, it cannot replace the dike in the depths of the human heart. The construction of the new era's culture of integrity helps to link the deterrent effect of punishment, the rigid constraint of institutions, and the educational advantage of thought, prompting the three to move from exerting force separately to exerting force in the same direction.
It is the cultural soul that nourishes an upright and clean political ecosystem. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: "Political culture is the soul of political life and exerts a subtle and gradual influence on the political ecosystem." Clarity at the cultural level is the deep condition for the political ecosystem to achieve a peaceful and prosperous society (海晏河清, haiyan-heqing - "sea, calm; river, clear"). General Secretary Xi Jinping has required "advocating and promoting such values as loyalty and honesty, openness and candor, fairness and integrity, seeking truth from facts, hard work and plain living, and uprightness and incorruptibility," precisely in order to, through the value guidance of the culture of integrity, establish the clarity of the political ecosystem on the foundation of a healthy and upward Party political culture. The relationship studies, "thick black theory," officialdom arts, and various "unspoken rules" that appear in the political ecosystem are often the result of distorted political culture at work. As an important component of the Party's political culture, the function of the new era's culture of integrity lies in rectifying the source and clarifying the origin through the power of positive and healthy culture. It can clarify the direction, enabling Party members and cadres to understand what values should be upheld; it can establish rules, making clean governance and the clean exercise of power a behavioral self-awareness; it can rectify the atmosphere, driving Party conduct and government conduct to lead social customs and public morals upward and toward the good.
It is the cultural support for the Party's maintenance of its advanced nature and purity. For our Party to continuously achieve self-purification, self-improvement, self-renewal, and self-enhancement, the premise is that the Party maintains ideological purity and that Party members and cadres maintain spiritual self-awareness. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: "Ideological purity is the foundation of a Marxist party's maintenance of purity, and moral integrity is the basis for leading cadres to achieve uprightness and incorruptibility." The culture of integrity strengthens the foundation with ideals and convictions, enlightens the mind and moistens the heart with advanced culture, and tempers character with lofty morality; its deep function lies in cultivating an inner order that does not depend on external supervision. General Secretary Xi Jinping has cited the view of Xue Xuan, a Neo-Confucian scholar of the Ming Dynasty, who divided incorruptible self-discipline into three levels: "One who sees principle clearly and does not take improperly is the highest; one who values reputation and integrity and does not take carelessly is the next; one who fears the law and protects his position and dares not take is the lowest." General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We Communists pursue the great public interest, uphold the great righteousness, and seek the greater self; still more must we rectify the mind, understand the Way, cherish virtue, and respect ourselves." When a leading cadre truly regards integrity as the bottom line of conduct, professional ethics, and value criterion, resisting corruption and preventing change is no longer merely passive obedience to discipline, but becomes an active spiritual perseverance. The inner resolve generated by cultural identification is the spiritual condition for the Party to forever maintain its advanced nature and purity.
"Only clean governance can win the trust of the people; only the exercise of power in the public interest can win people's hearts." What the culture of integrity shapes is not only the moral conduct of individuals, but also the image and credibility of a political party in the hearts of the people. When honoring integrity and rejecting corruption becomes a universal social custom, and when the people feel fairness and justice from the clean conduct of Party members and cadres, the Party's governing foundation is consolidated at the level of cultural identification. The elevation of the construction of the culture of integrity into a political proposition concerning the direction of popular sentiment has its deep reason precisely here.
Transforming customs into prevailing practices, striving to enhance the practical effectiveness of the construction of the new era's culture of integrity
Since the beginning of the new era, the construction of the culture of integrity has achieved solid and remarkable results, powerfully promoting the complete renewal of Party conduct and government conduct and the continued improvement of social customs and public morals. Persistently and continuously advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party requires continuing to give play to the foundational supporting role of the construction of the culture of integrity. From the four dimensions of institutional building, content supply, work patterns, and the people's role as subjects, practical paths of mutual support are constructed to strive to enhance the practical effectiveness of the construction of the new era's culture of integrity, so that the culture of integrity is both fixed in institutions and permeates the heart.
Strengthening institutional building to provide rigid support for cultural permeation. General Secretary Xi Jinping has profoundly pointed out: "Integrity lies in self-awareness, its value lies in endurance, and its difficulty lies in thoroughness." The generation of self-awareness, the maintenance of endurance, and the realization of thoroughness all depend on the rigid support of institutions. Institutional norms embed the flexible guidance of culture into the rigid framework of governance, transforming the culture of integrity from an advocacy requirement into a normative requirement. Mature and effective practices in the construction of the culture of integrity should be promptly distilled and elevated into institutional norms, and the institutional building of the culture of integrity should be grasped firmly, tightly, and effectively as a foundational project of anti-corruption and integrity promotion. The provisions of existing intra-Party regulations on the construction of the culture of integrity should be refined, and supporting regulations should be formulated and improved with a focus on prominent problems and weak links in Party governance and Party discipline. The construction of the culture of integrity should be incorporated into the responsibility evaluation system for Party governance and Party discipline, with comprehensive evaluation conducted using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. Publicity efforts should be increased so that Party members and cadres deeply understand the connotations of the institutions, the transparency of law enforcement procedures should be enhanced to uphold institutional authority, and supervision and inspection should be strengthened to ensure the rigid operation of the institutions.
Promoting the transformation of cultural resources to enhance the attractiveness of content supply. The vitality of the culture of integrity depends on whether it can continuously complete the transformation from cultural resources to value identification. Cultural resources of integrity should be transformed into tangible and accessible cultural products, educational content, and everyday discourse, so that the concept of integrity integrates into people's cognitive structures and transforms into identification in daily life. In terms of the direction of transformation, cultural masterpieces with both ideological and artistic quality should be created, the integration of the culture of integrity into the daily life scenes of offices, enterprises, communities, and villages should be promoted, communication scenes should be enriched with the aid of digital communication means, and the culture of integrity should be moved from static texts to dynamic experiences, from "document language" to "life language." Content transformation needs to follow the laws of cultural communication, pay attention to the cognitive habits and emotional needs of audiences, and present the concept of integrity in ways that people are willing to accept and can empathize with. The design of cultural products and services should be close to daily life — for example, a bookmark embedded with the meaning of integrity, a folding fan inscribed with a family motto, or a study tour route linking stories of integrity — such cultural carriers more easily enter daily scenes and better perform the function of permeating the heart.
Improving the overall coordination mechanism and consolidating the work pattern of joint management by all parties. As a systematic project, the construction of the culture of integrity involves multiple fields including propaganda, discipline inspection, organization, education, and culture; advancement by a single subject can hardly produce economies of scale and sustained effects, and institutional arrangements that pool the strength of all fields, departments, and links are needed. In 2022, the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of a Culture of Integrity in the New Era" issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee proposed: "All regions and departments should assume the political responsibility for the construction of the culture of integrity, incorporate the construction of the culture of integrity into the layout of Party conduct and clean government building and anti-corruption work for planning, establish an overall coordination mechanism for the construction of the culture of integrity, make sustained, long-term effort to ensure implementation, and promote the in-depth development of the construction of the new era's culture of integrity." A working mechanism should be established and improved in which the Party committee exercises unified leadership, discipline inspection and supervision organs organize and promote, the departments primarily responsible perform their respective duties, and the whole society participates jointly. Leading cadres should play the "leading goose effect," leading by example and daring to manage and supervise; Party organizations at all levels should analyze, judge, coordinate, and deploy; and functional departments should integrate resources and firmly grasp implementation. By clarifying responsible subjects, decomposing goals and tasks, and establishing assessment mechanisms, the requirements for the construction of the culture of integrity are embedded in the normalized operation of the governance system, providing organizational guarantees for the construction of the culture of integrity.
Giving play to the role of the people as subjects and opening up the "last kilometer" of cultural implementation. The effectiveness of the construction of the culture of integrity must ultimately be felt and judged by the people. Responding to the concerns of the masses, focusing on the "micro-corruption" that the masses feel most directly and reflect most strongly, and on problems such as demanding and taking in the livelihood sector and unfairness in grassroots services, the appeal of the culture of integrity should be built on the masses' genuine sense of gain from fairness and justice. Carriers close to the masses, such as family traditions and mottos, village rules and civil agreements, and community conventions, should be well used, and elements of integrity should be embedded in grassroots governance and daily life, so that the masses understand through participation, identify through understanding, and practice through identification. The assessment and evaluation of the construction of the culture of integrity should take as its yardstick the masses' genuine feelings about changes in Party conduct, government conduct, and social customs, and whether honoring integrity and rejecting corruption has become a universal social psychology and cultural habit. The construction of the culture of integrity cannot be templated; it should be rooted in local historical context, local customs, and red resources, precisely extracting the cross-temporal core of the culture of integrity from family traditions and mottos, village rules and civil agreements, and intangible cultural heritage techniques, and relying on forms the masses love to see and hear to promote the deep integration of the culture of integrity with grassroots governance and family tradition building.
(The author is a professor at the School of Marxism, Lanzhou University)
Return to TopIn the formation and development of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, scientific top-level design has played an irreplaceable role in setting direction, providing overall command, and elevating the endeavor.
General Secretary Xi Jinping explicitly proposed full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and placed it alongside comprehensively building a modern socialist country, comprehensively deepening reform, and comprehensive law-based governance, forming the strategic layout of the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy (四个全面). This blueprint not only established at the strategic level the fundamental positioning of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party as the Party's long-term strategy and eternal subject, but also integrated Party building into the overall development of the Party and the country's undertakings. The political leadership and political guarantee role of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party was fully brought into play, providing the most vibrant source of practice for the construction of the theoretical system. In his report to the 19th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed and elaborated the general requirements for Party building in the new era. This systematic top-level design not only grasped the key issue or crucial point (牛鼻子, niu bizi - "cow, nose") of advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era; it also clarified the relationships among the various elements of Party building and their interactions, forming a powerful synergy of coordinated advancement across all levels, links, and fields. At the same time, this overall layout adjusted the positioning of institutional development from one of the "five major constructions" to "embedding institutional development throughout," vividly reflecting the Party's deepened understanding and practice of governing the Party through institutions and governing the Party through rules. In his report to the 20th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping explicitly proposed the strategic deployment of "improving the system for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party." This practical logic aims to continuously raise the level of institutionalization, standardization, and scientific rigor in managing and governing the Party, thereby effectively transforming institutional advantages into governance effectiveness, and providing a strong political guarantee for building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
The top-level design of Party building in the new era has achieved holistic innovation from strategic positioning to goal requirements, from guiding principles to value orientation, and from conceptual framework to practical pathways. It has not only provided comprehensive and forward-looking practical guidance for managing and governing the Party and strengthening and expanding the Party, but has also provided systemic support and directional guidance for the formation and development of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. Under the powerful traction of this scientific top-level design, rich practical and governance experience has been systematically integrated, and the understanding of the laws of managing and governing the Party has been continuously elevated into a systematic and complete scientific theory, leading the new great project of Party building in the new era to develop in depth.
——Excerpted from Guangming Daily, September 22, 2026, author: Huang Yibing, original title: "A New Coordinate of Marxist Party-Building Theory Forged by the Practice of Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party in the New Era"
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Constructing an independent knowledge system for Chinese ecological civilization is an important component of accelerating the construction of an independent knowledge system for Chinese philosophy and social sciences. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, with the proposal of signature concepts such as the "socialist view of ecological civilization" and the "new era of socialist ecological civilization," China's ecological philosophy knowledge system has gradually embarked on a path of independent construction and innovative development, playing an important role in constructing the independent knowledge system for Chinese ecological civilization, and making significant contributions to enriching and developing the new form of human civilization.
Drawing Nourishment from the "Sum Total of Human Knowledge"
Western academia generally uses environmental philosophy to refer to the ecological philosophy that studies the relationship between humanity and nature. Its mainstream research examines the development of this discipline only from the perspective of the Western philosophical tradition itself, bearing the color of Western centrism. Chinese ecological philosophy differs from this, striving to draw nourishment from the "sum total of human knowledge" and construct an independent knowledge system for Chinese ecological philosophy.
Integrating ecological philosophical thought resources from ancient and modern times, China and abroad. The relationship between humanity and nature is a basic relationship in human society and a major topic that philosophical research must confront. Around this relationship, the history of philosophy has formed a long tradition of ecological philosophical research, including Marxist ecological philosophy that upholds the unity of human history and natural history, ancient Chinese ecological philosophy that upholds harmony between humanity and nature (天人合一, tian ren he yi - "heaven, human, unite, together") and universal love for all people and all things (民胞物与, min bai wu yu - "people, my, things, with"), and modern ecological philosophy that upholds the systematic view of nature and the ecological view of nature. These thought resources together constitute the knowledge system of ecological philosophy. Ecological civilization construction in the new era is a great undertaking led by our Party and carried out by the people, a conscious process of historical creation under the guidance of Marxist thought on the relationship between humanity and nature, a great practice of continuing and developing the excellent traditional Chinese ecological culture, and a firm action of upholding the unity of building a beautiful China and jointly building a clean and beautiful world. Therefore, Chinese ecological philosophy research must adhere to the foundation of socialist ecological civilization construction, aim at meeting the people's needs for a beautiful ecological environment, take Marxist ecological philosophy as its soul, take the excellent tradition of ancient Chinese ecological philosophy as its roots, learn from and draw on the excellent achievements of various ecological philosophical thoughts, and construct an independent knowledge system for Chinese ecological philosophy by upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground.
Integrating ecological knowledge across various disciplines including natural sciences and philosophy and social sciences. With the integrated application and innovative development of modern science and technology in ecology, ecological thinking and methods have become a general paradigm for humanity to grasp the relationships between organisms and the environment, humanity and nature, and subject and object, promoting the ecological renewal of humanity's knowledge map in the natural sciences and philosophy and social sciences. Chinese ecological philosophy research should not grasp the relationship between humanity and nature merely from pure philosophical speculation and abstract ethical appeals. Rather, it should summarize the knowledge achievements of natural sciences such as ecological science and environmental science, absorb the knowledge and experience of philosophy and social sciences such as ecological economics, ecological environmental law, and environmental sociology, draw on knowledge methods such as ecolinguistics, establish ecological philosophy on the basis of summarizing the relevant development achievements of the natural sciences and philosophy and social sciences, and construct an independent knowledge system for Chinese ecological philosophy that integrates ecological knowledge across various disciplines including natural sciences and philosophy and social sciences.
Establishing Research Topics for the Independent Knowledge System of Chinese Ecological Philosophy Oriented Toward Ecological Civilization Construction
Western environmental philosophy stops at philosophical reflection on the relationship between humanity and nature and rarely touches on ecological civilization. Chinese ecological philosophy positions its research object as the laws of harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature, extends its research scope to ecological civilization construction, and on this basis establishes research topics for the independent knowledge system of Chinese ecological philosophy.
Systematically summarizing knowledge achievements concerning the relationships among nature, culture, and civilization, and concerning the relationships among original nature, humanized nature, and artificial nature. Western environmental philosophy, especially American environmental philosophy, is fond of "wilderness." Chinese ecological philosophy insists on viewing nature as a composite system composed of original nature, humanized nature, and artificial nature. Under the effect of human practice, original nature continuously transforms into humanized nature and artificial nature. Humanized nature and artificial nature possess both constructive and destructive qualities, requiring the resolution of ecological crises and the strengthening of ecological civilization construction. Chinese ecological philosophy should, in accordance with the historical materialist view that "civilization is a matter of practice, a quality of society," summarize knowledge achievements concerning the relationships among nature, culture, and civilization and concerning the relationships among original nature, humanized nature, and artificial nature, study the development trends of ecological civilization and its knowledge, and construct an independent knowledge system for Chinese ecological philosophy from the height of promoting the progress of human society.
Focusing research on green and intelligent digital ecological civilization. Forms of civilization are closely related to forms of technological society. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Looking at the history of world civilization, humanity has successively experienced the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and the information revolution. Each industrial and technological revolution has had enormous and profound impacts on human production and life." Agricultural civilization gave birth to an ecological cultural tradition of reverence for nature, while industrial civilization, with its production methods of high input, high consumption, high pollution, and high emissions, broke ecological balance and continuously triggered systemic ecological crises. As a reflection on and transcendence of industrial civilization, ecological civilization is an inevitable product of industrial civilization reaching a certain stage of development. Today, a new round of technological revolution characterized by greenness, intelligence, and ubiquity is promoting the continuous development of digital civilization and digital ecological civilization. Chinese ecological philosophy should deepen research on the role of ecological civilization in the succession of civilizational forms, study the significance of digital civilization, ecological civilization, and digital ecological civilization for civilizational evolution, and take the study of green and intelligent digital ecological civilization as a growth point for constructing the independent knowledge system of Chinese ecological philosophy.
Focusing on exploring the scientific path toward the new era of socialist ecological civilization. The Communist Party of China unites and leads the Chinese people, upholds and develops socialism with Chinese characteristics, incorporates ecological civilization construction into the overall layout of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, promotes the coordinated development of material civilization, political civilization, spiritual civilization, social civilization, and ecological civilization, creates a new path of Chinese modernization, and creates a new form of human civilization. Chinese ecological philosophy should view ecological civilization from the height of Marxist social organism theory and other perspectives, study the path toward the new era of socialist ecological civilization, and take socialist ecological civilization as the core category and important characteristic of the independent knowledge system of Chinese ecological philosophy.
Promoting the Paradigm Transformation of the Independent Knowledge System of Chinese Ecological Philosophy Based on the Concept of a Community of Life
Western environmental philosophy often regards anthropocentrism as the ideological root cause of ecological crises and takes ecocentrism as its research paradigm and practical program. However, both anthropocentrism and ecocentrism have the limitation of severing the relationship between humanity and nature. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Nature is the mother of life. Humanity and nature are a community of life. Humanity must revere nature, respect nature, follow nature, and protect nature." The concept that humanity and nature are a community of life fundamentally transcends the binary oppositional thinking model of Western environmental philosophy and establishes a new paradigm for the independent knowledge system of Chinese ecological philosophy.
Upholding the unity of the ecological view of nature and the ecological view of history. Historical materialism studies the dialectical relationship between human history and natural history, achieving the unity of the view of nature and the view of history. Western ecocentrism sets aside the relationship between humanity and society when viewing the relationship between humanity and nature, severing the view of nature from the view of history. Chinese ecological philosophy both grasps humanity, society, and history within nature and understands nature within society and history, follows the historical evolutionary law that "when ecology thrives, civilization thrives," and constructs the independent knowledge system of Chinese ecological philosophy from the height of an ecological worldview that unifies the ecological view of nature and the ecological view of history.
Upholding the unity of ecological materialism and ecological dialectics. Chinese ecological philosophy proceeds from China's actual conditions, takes promoting harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature as the basic principle of ecological civilization construction, connects the concepts that humanity and nature are a community of life, that mountains, waters, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and sands are a community of life, and that the Earth is a community of life, carries out ecological civilization construction in an all-round, all-region, and whole-process manner, achieves the unity of materialism and dialectics, and thereby constructs the independent knowledge system of Chinese ecological philosophy from the height of grasping the laws of the community of life.
Upholding the unity of the ecological worldview, ecological ethics, and ecological aesthetics. Ecological philosophy in the narrow sense, namely the ecological worldview, mainly includes the view of nature, the view of history, epistemology, methodology, and axiology. On this basis, Chinese ecological philosophy should further encompass ecological ethics and ecological aesthetics, develop ecological philosophy in the broad sense, study the complex composition and three-dimensional structure of the community of life, study the interaction between ecological factual judgments and ecological value judgments, study the close connections among ecological thinking, ecological ethics, and ecological aesthetics, and construct the independent knowledge system of Chinese ecological philosophy from the height of the unity of truth, goodness, and beauty.
(The author is a professor at the School of Marxism Studies, Renmin University of China)
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At present, more and more young people favor "small and beautiful," personalized consumer goods, and place greater value on emotional resonance, cultural identity, and expression of values. From small objects to new scenarios, the pursuits and choices of young people not only drive the emergence of new product categories in the consumer market, but also give rise to vibrant cultural trends. Young people are both feelers and participants of trends, and also creators and the main force. A batch of emerging industries are emerging and growing rapidly (破土而出, pò tǔ ér chū - "break, soil, emerge"), developing and strengthening, which is a vivid portrayal of youthful vitality and the opportunities of the era resonating in sync with each other (同频共振, tóng pín gòng zhèn - "same, frequency, together, vibrate") and moving toward each other, and also injects strong youthful momentum into economic and social development.
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From Intangible Cultural Heritage Craftsmanship to the Aesthetics of Daily Life
Ms. Chen, a 28-year-old internet industry practitioner, lights a Yongchun incense bought online after washing up before bed every night. "My brain automatically switches to 'rest mode.' The house smells nice, and my mood is relaxed too."
Ms. Chen is not an isolated case. On social media, many netizens share their incense-using experiences under related topics. Incense is gradually becoming young people's "emotional companion."
Dabu Town, Yongchun County, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, is the birthplace and industrial cluster area of Yongchun incense. Yongchun incense originated in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. In 2021, the Fujian incense-making technique, represented by Yongchun incense, was included in the national intangible cultural heritage list.
"Yongchun incense has many varieties, with bamboo-stick incense (miè xiāng) being the most famous," said Lin Wenxi, a representative inheritor of national intangible cultural heritage. Yongchun bamboo-stick incense uses local moso bamboo as the incense stick core, uses natural plants such as loquat leaves to bind Chinese herbal medicine powder, follows ancient methods, and completes more than ten processes purely by hand, including dipping in water to make the base, spreading the incense, swinging the incense, dyeing the incense, and sun-drying the incense, resulting in a mellow and long-lasting fragrance.
Today, Yongchun incense has become an industry with deep integration of primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors. The locality has about 300 incense-making enterprises, more than 30,000 employees, and over 1,000 types of incense products. The total output value of the entire incense industry chain has exceeded 10 billion yuan, and products are sold to many countries and regions. In the first five months of this year, the GMV (gross merchandise value) of live-streaming sales with traceability for Yongchun stick incense and new Chinese-style aromatherapy series grew 461% year-on-year, and the proportion of young consumers rose to over 60%.
An incense company located in Dabu Town keenly captured this trend. They introduced AI (artificial intelligence) to analyze product fragrance trend data on e-commerce platforms, adjusted incense material ratios based on ancient incense formulas, and made fragrances and "emotional New Year gift" boxes suited to young people's preferences, which are quite popular among young groups.
How many forms can incense take? New Chinese-style aromatherapy, car incense hangers, portable sachets, blended incense plaques... Yongchun incense has been integrated into various life scenarios. Another incense factory in Dabu Town, which started as a small family workshop in 1983, has developed into a comprehensive enterprise integrating R&D, production, cultural creativity, and tourism. Their incense culture creative park has been selected as one of Fujian's first batch of sightseeing tourism factories. Visitors not only buy incense but can also make incense by hand.
Nowadays, local Yongchun incense enterprises have stepped out of the traditional incense product framework and, focusing on high-frequency life scenarios such as tourist travel, urban commuting, and hotel stays, are promoting the transformation of the incense industry toward lifestyle and scenario-based applications. The market share of new product categories such as portable incense, car incense, home incense, and cultural creative incense plaques has been rising year by year. Orders from online and offline stores, scenic area cultural creative shops, and high-end hotels continue to grow, opening up a brand-new growth track for the incense industry. Incense enterprises are tapping into local cultural connotations and incorporating distinctive local cultural symbols into the cultural creative design of incense products. Cultural creative incense products with unique southern Fujian charm have become special souvenirs favored by tourists.
In recent years, Yongchun County has also joined hands with Anxi (tea) and Dehua (porcelain) to jointly build the "China Tea, Porcelain, and Incense Industry Integrated Development Demonstration Zone," packaging these three cultural business cards for export. From intangible cultural heritage craftsmanship to the aesthetics of daily life, Yongchun incense has found its own new ignition point. The oriental fragrance is drifting to more distant places.
From Raw Material Processing to Distinctive Experiences
How can a fragrance be "heard"? The answer lies in the exhibition hall of Xianggu (Incense Valley) Town, Jinxi County, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province. Put on the earphones, choose a fragrance, and corresponding music sounds in your ears. Many tourists curiously try it repeatedly, closing their eyes and following the melody to feel the fragrance.
Listening to incense, blending incense, making sachets and essential oil soaps, buying fragrance cultural creative products... As one of Jiangxi Province's industrial tourism demonstration bases, Xianggu Town combines the spice industry with incense culture study tours, hands-on experiences, and cultural creative product exhibitions and sales.
Jinxi County's spice and essence industry has formed an industrial chain from spice planting and R&D to production, processing, and sales. In 2025, Jinxi County's spice and essence industrial cluster was selected as a national-level distinctive SME industrial cluster, achieving operating revenue of 11.45 billion yuan. Products cover more than 300 spice products in 12 categories including camphor, anise, and eucalyptus, and nearly 10,000 subdivided essence products, exported to more than 30 countries and regions including the United States, Japan, and Italy. Among them, natural linalool and natural camphor powder production account for 80% of the global total.
The source of the fragrance is hidden in each camphor tree. Camphor is an important raw material for Jinxi's spice and essence industry. In 2025, the county's large-scale camphor planting area reached 165,000 mu. Through models such as "company + cooperative + farmer," Jinxi County drives surrounding farmers to participate in planting, and broadens income-increasing channels through employment and contract planting, boosting local farmers' incomes.
In Jinxi's Chengxi Ecological High-tech Industrial Development Zone, several spice enterprises carry out automated raw material processing. A local spice company has tens of thousands of mu of spice bases and has built more than 20 rectification production lines. Fu Houming, the company's general manager, introduced: "The raw material quality is stable, and many products are supplied to high-end perfume brands."
"In the early years, everyone only made industrial raw materials. Now we guide enterprises to stabilize the bulk raw material market and expand overseas orders, while developing new products according to young people's preferences," introduced Peng Wei, Party Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of Jinxi County Industry and Information Technology Bureau.
Many local spice raw material supply enterprises are transforming. The enterprise where Fu Houming works is one of the earlier ones to transform. Relying on its own raw material advantages, it develops essential oil and skin-care fragrance products, reaches young groups through live-streaming channels, and netizens' comments and order feedback in the live-streaming room push the enterprise to adjust fragrance types and launch new styles in a timely manner. In the first half of this year, live-streaming sales exceeded 50 million yuan.
Hu Gang, a young man born in the 1990s, after graduating with a master's degree in spice and essence technology and engineering from Shanghai Institute of Technology in 2020, saw the good prospects of his hometown's industry and joined a Jinxi spice company with technology as equity, participating in the R&D of new types of spices.
"The 'Temusone No. 1' we developed is mainly used in fields such as medicine and daily chemical washing products, and is very popular among young people," Hu Gang introduced. After the product was put into production, it enriched the company's synthetic spice product matrix and drove order growth in the company's daily chemical essence segment.
At present, the Jinxi County spice and essence industrial cluster has 126 enterprises in operation and 13 enterprises with operating revenue exceeding 100 million yuan, with the entire industrial chain driving employment for more than 11,000 people. In the first half of this year, the Jinxi County spice and essence industrial cluster achieved operating revenue of 6.645 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.18%.
(Ye Hongyu and Huang Zhishu participated in the reporting)
Return to TopBy: 徐雷鹏
In recent years, the problem of myopia among children and adolescents has drawn increasing attention. Vision has become a matter of concern for countless families.
On November 1, the newly revised mandatory national standard, "Hygienic Standard for Lighting and Illumination in Primary and Secondary School Classrooms," will take effect. This new version of the "eye-protection order" raises the requirements for the classroom light environment from "seeing clearly" to "seeing healthily and comfortably": classrooms should be equipped with curtains, the lowest point of the light-emitting surface of the luminaires should be no less than 1.7 meters above the desk surface, and the maintained average illuminance on the desk surface should be no less than 300 lux... The lighting environment in classrooms is being precisely measured.
Not long ago, the Ministry of Education, the National Health Commission, and the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration jointly issued a notice to deploy efforts to prevent and control high myopia among children and adolescents, listing "ensuring the eye-use environment" as the first of six measures, and pointing to outdoor activities, vision monitoring, and coordination among schools, families, and medical institutions. This means that paying attention to the lighting environment in classrooms is only a starting point, not the end point.
Schools are the key venue for myopia prevention and control. Whether physical activity can be guaranteed sufficient time, whether the "15-minute recess" can truly get students out of the classroom, how reading habits are cultivated, and whether vision monitoring is sufficiently meticulous — all of these bear on children's health. Putting effort in before myopia occurs is far more proactive and effective than chasing "after the degree" after the fact.
Eye protection has never been solely the school's responsibility. The family is another "source protection wall" that must be firmly guarded. After children leave school, the lighting at their desks, the selection of desk lamps, the duration of electronic device use, and their writing posture all affect children's vision in subtle ways.
Of course, turning standards from paper into practice is not achieving something overnight or in one single step (一蹴而就, yi cu er jiu - "one, step, and, achieve"). Urban-rural differences, funding gaps, and the transition between old and new standards all test the skill of "doing good things well." Some localities have already taken the lead in exploring the way. Anhui has coordinated provincial-level fiscal funds to support the renovation of classroom light environments in township schools in economically underdeveloped regions. It is believed that with fiscal support, professional guidance, and the dedication of schools, the standards will be better implemented.
The brightness of a lamp measures society's warmth toward the next generation. May the light in every classroom be brighter and more comfortable, and may every child not only see the blackboard clearly, but also see healthily and comfortably.
Return to TopBy: 刘 玥
From cultural-creative ice cream bars to bronze-ware blind boxes, from ancient-style bookmarks to mural-patterned notebooks... in recent years, cultural-creative products have become increasingly popular among young people. But some cultural-creative products on the market, in their cultural expression, do things superficially without going deep (浅尝辄止, qian shang ze zhi - "taste a little, then stop"), leaving many consumers to remember only the "good looks" while overlooking the cultural substance.
High-quality cultural-creative products that delve deeply into content bring communication value that goes without saying. Turning cultural-creative products into "mobile cultural classrooms" can attract young people to pay more attention to traditional culture; transforming cultural relic IP (intellectual property) into everyday consumer goods can broaden the coverage of cultural dissemination, achieving "learning through play, inheriting through enjoyment."
How can cultural-creative products carry forward cultural substance? The producers need to enrich the products' content. For example, adding QR codes for popular science, pairing them with short videos explaining cultural relics, makes it easier for people to understand the stories behind them. Guide the public to actively understand and consciously inherit traditional culture, making cultural-creative products a cultural window for touching tradition, understanding tradition, and loving tradition.
(Excerpted and compiled from Liaoning Daily)
Return to TopFive city clusters including the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region will pilot comprehensive hydrogen energy applications
(Xinhua News Agency report) The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, and the National Development and Reform Commission recently issued a notice to the public, agreeing that five city clusters — the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Greater Bay Area, the Northeast (including eastern Inner Mongolia)–Yangtze River Delta, the Xinjiang–Chengdu-Chongqing dual-city economic circle, and the Yellow River "several-bend"–Central Plains region — will carry out pilot work on comprehensive hydrogen energy applications, with the pilot lasting four years. The cities participating in the pilot work will promptly advance the implementation of four task lists: tackling key hydrogen energy technology and equipment challenges, hydrogen energy projects in the industrial sector, promotion of fuel cell vehicles, and construction of hydrogen refueling stations, putting plans into effect (落实落地, luo shi lu di - "implement, land").
Guizhou introduces measures to advance barrier-free reading
(Guizhou Daily, Guiyang, October 28) (Reporter Luo Liangliang) The Guizhou Provincial Disabled Persons' Federation and other departments recently issued the "Ten Measures of Guizhou Province for Advancing Barrier-Free Reading," regularly collecting the reading needs of persons with disabilities, optimizing resource supply, and advancing the construction of a barrier-free reading service system.
Shanghai's home services industry credit rating evaluation will have a new benchmark
(Jiefang Daily, Shanghai, October 28) (Reporter Wu Weiqun) Recently, the revision draft of Shanghai's group standard "Classification and Evaluation Specifications for Credit Ratings of Home Service Institutions" was officially approved for project initiation. Since the Shanghai Home Services Industry Association launched credit rating evaluations for member units in 2022, Shanghai has completed evaluations of 88 units in total, of which 84 were rated A-grade or above.
Chongqing has cumulatively deployed more than 6,100 low-floor buses
(Chongqing Daily, Chongqing, October 28) (Reporter He Chunyang) In order to better meet the travel needs of elderly passengers, as of now, Chongqing has cumulatively built 43 routes dedicated to respecting and caring for the elderly, with all age-friendly routes fully equipped with low-floor vehicles and a cumulative deployment of more than 6,100 low-floor buses; anti-slip flooring has been laid and handrails installed inside the vehicles, and designated wheelchair parking areas have been delineated.
China's first wild fruit forest ecological observation and research station put into use in Xinjiang
(Xinjiang Daily, Ili, October 28) (Reporter Shi Xin) Recently, the nation's first positioning observation and research station monitoring wild fruit forest ecosystems — the Xinjiang Ili Forest Ecosystem Positioning Observation and Research Station — was put into use in Alemale Township, Xinyuan County. The station will study the code of ecological system changes in the Tianshan wild fruit forests through year-round standardized, long-term sequential ecological monitoring, filling the domestic gap in systematic observation and research of wild fruit forests.
Yunnan Honghe County's artificially cultivated jian shou qing mushrooms successfully trial-planted
(Yunnan Daily, Honghe, October 28) (Reporter Rao Yong) Recently, artificially cultivated jian shou qing mushrooms trial-planted at the edible fungus cultivation base of the Honghe County Industrial Park in the Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan succeeded. Jian shou qing, whose scientific name is Boletus sinensis, gets its name from the fact that its flesh rapidly oxidizes and turns blue-green upon contact. Wild jian shou qing resources are limited in quantity and subject to seasonal restrictions; this successful trial planting can break through the seasonal limitations of the mushroom and achieve stable year-round supply.
Return to TopAt present, the Shandong Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve, located in Dongying City, Shandong Province, is in the midst of the migratory bird season, with large numbers of birds successively arriving at the Yellow River estuary wetlands to winter and roost, sketching out the unique autumn ecological tableau of the Yellow River's entry into the sea.
All of the above images were photographed by Zhu Zheng, a reporter with Xinhua News Agency.
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 陈一帆 唐 弢
In the afternoon, at the Wuxiang Elderly Care Service Center in Nanning, Guangxi, a creative painting class was underway. Liang Yinxia, a volunteer born in the 1990s, prepared painting tools for the elderly residents and explained the steps of the painting process. On ordinary days, she also accompanies the seniors on walks, reads the news to them, and teaches them how to use smartphones. 83-year-old Grandma Li said, "When young people come, we have more companions to talk to. In the past, I often couldn't keep up with the video tutorials in activity classes, but with a young person explaining by my side, it's much easier to learn."
In August of this year, Liang Yinxia became the first "intergenerational cohabitation" volunteer here. "Intergenerational cohabitation," also known as "cross-generational cohabitation," refers to young people moving into elderly care institutions and, in exchange for low-cost or free accommodation, providing volunteer services such as cultural and recreational activities, one-on-one companionship, daily life assistance, and health education sessions.
A similar story is also unfolding in Jinyun County, Zhejiang. Wu Weifeng, a young man from Jiangsu, came to work at a local hospital in August 2024. When he learned that the nursing home near the hospital had vacant rooms in its staff dormitory, and that he could enjoy a rent discount by spending time each month accompanying the elderly, he signed up to move in.
In recent years, many localities have explored operational mechanisms that convert young people's housing needs into a supply of elderly-care services, focusing on aspects such as recruitment, service management, and incentive guarantees. Huang Zibiao, deputy director of the Wuxiang Elderly Care Service Center, said that the institution gives priority to young people with professional backgrounds in social work, medical care, psychology, law, and other fields, balancing service enthusiasm with professional competence. After moving in, they receive full-process guidance from social workers and nursing staff, volunteer services are subject to registered management and regular evaluation, and service arrangements are dynamically adjusted based on feedback from all parties.
(Xinhua News Agency dispatch)
Return to TopBy: 南方日报记者 叶能军 赵 越
At noon, in a home appliance production park in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, workers streamed out of the workshops and surged toward the Foshan Federation of Trade Unions Canteen a few hundred meters away. Hong Kong-style roast meats, Sichuan and Hunan stir-fries... The workers each picked what they wanted from among more than 60 dishes, and the 650 dining seats quickly became completely full of people (座无虚席, zuo wu xu xi - "seat, not, empty, fill").
Worker Li Qingdao ordered a bowl of house-special pig ear rice, paired with two vegetable dishes, plus two cups of mung bean paste. At checkout, the union subsidy voucher was automatically deducted, and the savings were plain to see.
Foshan is a major manufacturing city, with 3.2 million industrial workers distributed across the city's various parks. For a long time, the problems of "expensive meals" and "hard-to-find meals" in some industrial parks and industrial zones have troubled many workers. On April 21 this year, the restaurant in this park was officially given the additional signboard of "Foshan Federation of Trade Unions Canteen." Relying on the "Foshan Yuegonghui" platform, the Foshan Municipal Federation of Trade Unions allocated special funds from union dues, issuing canteen subsidy vouchers every day in three denominations — 5 yuan, 10 yuan, and 20 yuan. Foshan union members who received the vouchers could use them to offset meal costs at the union canteen.
Drawn by the affordable meals and the reassuring meals, many people from outside the park also came specifically for them. Among the outside customers were many food delivery riders, couriers, sanitation workers, and also residents of the surrounding area. At present, Foshan City has built several union canteens, issuing a cumulative total of more than 380,000 subsidy vouchers, with subsidy funds exceeding 2.81 million yuan.
Return to TopBy: 河北日报记者 孙也达
At mealtime, inside the Sanheju Restaurant in Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, the sound of a food-delivery order alert rings out. Two seconds later, the order printer automatically prints out the order receipt, and a smart light on the wall immediately begins to flash. Upon seeing the light, the hearing-impaired employee takes the receipt and begins preparing the meal.
This "talking" light is the "One Light" smart order-receiving system, specially developed by a team of teachers and students from Yanshan University for hearing-impaired employees. Its creation originated from a public welfare project at the Qinhuangdao Disabled Persons' Entrepreneurship Incubation Base.
Sanheju Restaurant is a partner of the Qinhuangdao Disabled Persons' Entrepreneurship Incubation Base and is also the city's first "silent restaurant" for disability-friendly employment, where all frontline staff are hearing-impaired. Customers place orders through a mini-program, and employees only need to bring the dishes to the customers' tables to complete dine-in service.
However, the restaurant encountered difficulties when expanding into food-delivery business. "Traditional cashier systems only have voice prompts, which is very inconvenient for the hearing-impaired community," said Zhang Mengtong, the restaurant's person in charge, who approached the public welfare project team at the Qinhuangdao Disabled Persons' Entrepreneurship Incubation Base. The project team then contacted the Aesthetic Education Art Integration Healing and Creation Center at the School of Art and Design of Yanshan University for assistance.
"We made the voice prompt trigger a light prompt by installing a light-sensing component on the order printer. After the receipt is printed, the light-sensing component sends a flashing signal to the smart light, and the light only stops flashing once the receipt is taken away," said Wang Meixue, head of the Healing and Creation Center. Since the system was put into use, the problem of missed delivery orders at the store has been resolved.
Return to TopBy: 安徽日报记者 袁 野
Recently, the 2026 Yangtze River Delta National Fitness Walking (Running) Competition and Anhui Province National Fitness Hiking Conference (Huqiu Station) was held, with more than 2,200 walking and running enthusiasts from 14 cities gathering in one place (齐聚, qi ju - "gather together") in Huqiu County, Lu'an City, Anhui Province.
A small-town sporting event may seem ordinary, but this year it had a special green "sponsor" — a forestry carbon ticket issued by Xishan Forest Farm in Huqiu County. This carbon ticket offset the carbon dioxide emissions generated by the event, charting a low-cost, implementable new path for green event-hosting at the county level.
Where did this carbon ticket come from? It turns out that Xishan Forest Farm was selected in 2022 as one of the 21 national pilot forest farms for forest carbon sinks, and in 2025 it was awarded one of Anhui Province's first batch of provincial-level forestry carbon tickets, with an approved carbon emission reduction of 31,000 tons.
"Seventy percent of the event's participants came from outside the region, and we hoped to carry the environmental concepts of reduction and harmlessness throughout the event," said Han Shubao, deputy director of the Huqiu County Culture, Tourism, and Sports Bureau. "I used to think carbon neutrality was far removed from ordinary people. I never expected that coming to Huqiu for a hiking event would let me take part in it — it gives me a strong sense of accomplishment," said a participant from Shanghai after the race.
Return to TopBy: 河南日报记者 马 涛
At the short-drama industry base of Tangyun Eco-Tourism Zone in Yanling County, Xuchang City, Henan, a row of LED panel lights hangs beneath carved wooden beams, their purple, blue, green, and warm-white light shifting slowly with the plot. Li Yaoyong, 42, stood beneath the light rig, comparing layers of light and shadow as he said to a younger colleague: "Fine-tune the color temperature a little more—don't let stray colors steal the texture of the characters."
Over the past two years, AI (artificial intelligence) short dramas have multiplied. Li Yaoyong has also learned to use AI for pre-production storyboarding and color grading, treating the new technology as an auxiliary tool. "Machines calculate fast, but the emotions on a character's face still have to be brought out by lighting. Manual lighting has a unique, delicate texture. Used well, light and shadow can help a story take root and make characters stand firm."
Li Yaoyong is a villager of Zhangbei Village, Zhangqiao Township, Yanling County. Eighteen years ago he followed fellow townsfolk to film crews in Beijing and Zhejiang, working in the film and television lighting trade. In the past two years, as the short-drama industry rose in his hometown, he has often returned to Yanling County to take part in shoots. From an initial lighting assistant to a professional lighting director leading his own team today, Li Yaoyong's skills were honed bit by bit on sets all over the country (天南地北, tian nan di bei - "heaven, south, earth, north"). He repeatedly mulls over lighting logic, studies the structure of light and shadow, and has gradually found ways of using light that fit the atmosphere of a story.
Outdoors the sun is bright, but indoors the plot may require simulating dusk, deep night, or dawn. His keen sensitivity to light and shadow comes from the land beneath his feet. Shooting rural-themed material, he uses diffusion cloth to filter out the harsh glare of noon sunlight, setting off the warmth of kitchen smoke and fire; shooting suspense scenes, he narrows the beam, controls light and dark, and uses light and shadow to bring out the latent tension...
In Yanling County, local talents like Li Yaoyong are growing in number. The ranks of lighting directors, camera operators, and production assistants continue to expand, and supporting businesses such as equipment rental and prop transport have grown up alongside them. In Zhangqiao Township alone, more than 2,900 registered film and television practitioners are on the books, including over 1,000 lighting directors. With the lights in their hands, they continue to energize the county's film and television industry.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孙 超 李凯旋 江 萌
Editor's note: Rectifying unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses concerns the well-being of the people and bears on the question of whether the people support or oppose the Party. Grassroots organizations are closest to the people, and the masses feel more keenly the "flies and ants" of corruption "right before their eyes" — a hidden inspection fee, an irregular purchase of office consumables, an unreasonable property service fee... all directly affect the people's sense of gain.
2026 is the final year of the three-year concentrated rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses. As full and rigorous self-governance of the Party continues to develop in depth and extend to the grassroots, discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels deepen the simultaneous investigation and governance of corruption and misconduct, regulate the operation of micro-power, make every effort to eradicate the soil and conditions that breed corruption, and win the trust and support of the broad masses of the people with clean and upright conduct. Recently, reporters of this newspaper visited various places, focusing on typical cases of "flies and ants" corruption, digging deep into the root causes behind them, and promoting the establishment and improvement of systems.
Anhua County, Hunan: Building a supervision platform to rectify corruption problems in the medical field
A patient's second-test fee is recovered
"When I received the refund on my phone, I was really a bit surprised. I didn't expect that even a matter of a few yuan could get a response." Recently, Mr. Yao, a resident of Anhua County, Hunan Province, received a refund of 9 yuan for a urine analysis examination fee from a local hospital.
In Anhua County, 856 people have successively received this refund. It turned out that when these patients underwent urine examinations at this hospital, they had been charged an additional second-test fee.
How was this hidden charge discovered? In September 2025, the Anhua County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision established a big-data supervision center, built an "embedded" supervision platform, and, combining case investigation with prominent issues reported by the masses, took the medical field as the breakthrough point for supervision. In conjunction with the medical insurance, health, and other departments, it repeatedly verified and developed 10 supervision models in a targeted manner, which were embedded and operated in 6 pilot hospitals.
In January this year, one of the supervision models issued a blue warning: a pilot hospital had a violation record of repeatedly charging patients for urine analysis examination fees within the same day. After receiving the warning clue, discipline inspection and supervision cadres immediately coordinated with the hospital's discipline inspection body, comparing diagnosis and treatment behavior with charge items item by item, and ultimately verified that the hospital had repeatedly charged 857 patients who did not need a second test within the same day during a specified period. The Anhua County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision immediately urged the hospital to make immediate corrections, and promoted the recovery and return of 18,444.3 yuan in improper charges to patients.
Subsequently, the Anhua County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, learning from one case to handle others (举一反三, ju yi fan san - "lift one, reflect three"), optimized and added 39 supervision models, expanding the medical institutions embedded in the platform to 11. Taking the concentrated rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems around the masses as an opportunity, Anhua County also incorporated the rectification of prominent problems in medical insurance fund management into the county party committee and county government's key supervision matters. As of the end of September, a total of 63 people in the county's medical insurance field had been placed on file for investigation, 6 had been detained, 59 had been given Party discipline and government affairs sanctions, and a cumulative total of 17.1929 million yuan in improperly used medical insurance funds had been recovered or refused for payment.
"Medical insurance fund violations involve a wide scope and have complex causes. We must both tighten the chain of responsibility, strengthen joint supervision, and deepen warning education, and also focus on institutional loopholes to establish and improve systems," said Li Yi, member of the Standing Committee of the Anhua County Party Committee, secretary of the County Commission for Discipline Inspection, and director of the County Supervision Commission. Through issuing discipline inspection and supervision recommendation letters, the Anhua County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision urged the County Medical Insurance Bureau to issue the "Medical Insurance Fund Supervision Risk Early Warning Mechanism," and promoted the addition or revision of 29 systems covering fund supervision, internal control management, treatment review, qualification access, and other areas, tightening and weaving the institutional cage of "cannot be corrupt" in the medical insurance fund field.
Yingshan County, Sichuan: Deepening discipline inspection-inspection coordination and expanding case source channels
An irregular purchase of office consumables is investigated and handled
"How can funds that should have been used to purchase school uniforms and materials for students be used to purchase office consumables?" Not long ago, during the inspection of Sichuan Yingshan Vocational Senior High School by the First Inspection Group of the Yingshan County Party Committee in Nanchong City, Sichuan, a ledger of office consumables expenditures caught the attention of the inspection personnel.
The ledger recorded expenditures from the autumn of 2022 to the end of 2023 by the vocational high school on office consumables such as printing paper and toner cartridges, totaling more than 190,000 yuan, but the source of the funds was the student service fees and agency fees collected. The inspection group immediately contacted Huang Shuqiong, head of the Third Discipline Inspection and Supervision Office of the Yingshan County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, who served as the group's "non-resident deputy group leader."
"There are clear policy red lines on the use of student service fees and agency fees. The doubts about this expenditure are concentrated. I suggest fixing the financial vouchers as soon as possible and simultaneously talking with the handling personnel and the responsible leaders in charge," Huang Shuqiong said, combining her case-handling experience to offer suggestions on the characterization of the clue and the direction of evidence collection. The inspection group began to verify with the handling personnel and responsible leaders in charge one by one. Upon investigation, it was confirmed that the school had indeed used funds intended for purchasing student supplies to purchase office consumables.
"We had no choice. The expenditure on consumables was large. We could make it up when the next year's funds came down. It shouldn't matter, right?" When the inspection group initially interviewed Ai, the then principal of the school, Ai still harbored a fluke mentality. But after the inspection group presented the policy documents on the use of student service fees and agency fees, he realized the seriousness of the problem.
After the "non-resident deputy group leader" and the inspection group met and deliberated, they believed that the clue to this problem had clear facts and sufficient evidence. In accordance with the mechanism of "transferring clues while inspecting and investigating and handling quickly," it was immediately transferred to the Third Discipline Inspection and Supervision Office of the Yingshan County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision for handling. Upon verification, Ai and Zhu, the school's person in charge of financial work, were respectively given warnings within the Party discipline.
In recent years, Yingshan County has innovatively implemented the effective linkage between inspection supervision and disciplinary supervision, deepening discipline inspection-inspection coordination and expanding case source channels. The rapid investigation and handling of this case of irregular purchase of office consumables on campus benefited precisely from this.
In the pre-inspection stage, the Yingshan County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision arranges for the head of the discipline inspection and supervision office that corresponds to the inspected Party organization, or the head of the dispatched discipline inspection and supervision group, to serve as the "non-resident deputy group leader" of the inspection group, face-to-face briefing on key information such as the political ecology of the inspected Party organization, the situation of petition reports, and the handling of clues to problems of leading cadres, so as to accurately "portray" the inspected unit. In this way, the inspection group can quickly clarify the focus of supervision and identify the main direction of attack.
During the inspection process, Yingshan County has improved the mechanism for regular consultation and deliberation on problem clues. The case management office, review office, and other departments of the County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, together with the county party committee's various inspection groups, conduct consultations on issues such as how to characterize problem clues discovered during inspections. The "non-resident deputy group leader" participates throughout in the screening of clues and assists the inspection group in clarifying the direction for digging deeper into clues. To date, Yingshan County has discovered a total of 66 problem clues relying on discipline inspection-inspection coordination, and has given Party discipline and government affairs sanctions and organizational handling to 26 people.
Delingha City, Qinghai: Targeted governance of prominent problems in the property service field
An unreasonable property service fee is refunded
Five yuan per month, 60 yuan per year. For residents of Yijing Residential Community in Delingha City, Qinghai Province, this "electric vehicle charging fee" collected by the property company was paid without clear justification. Calculated household by household, 1,462 households were cumulatively charged more than 180,000 yuan in violation of regulations.
In 2025, Delingha City carried out a concentrated rectification of prominent problems in property services, and the masses reported this problem to the Delingha City Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision. Geng Jianzhen, head of the Fifth Dispatch Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the Delingha City Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, recalled that after receiving the clue, the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision immediately established a verification group, visited residents of the residential community and community workers on site, obtained charging receipts, and quickly ascertained the actual situation.
According to the relevant regulations of Qinghai Province, reasonable expenses incurred by property companies in the process of electricity transfer and resale, such as line losses and public electricity, should be included in property service costs and must not require owners to bear an additional share. "The property company of Yijing Residential Community collected fees from all households under the name of 'electric vehicle charging fee,' regardless of whether there was an electric vehicle in the home. This is unreasonable charging," Geng Jianzhen explained. After the technical conditions of the charging shed matured, the property company also did not install QR-code charging equipment to accurately bill electric vehicle users, but continued to use the old model to collect fees from all households.
"The problem lies in the absence of supervision." Geng Jianzhen said. According to the investigation, Yi, a staff member of the Housing Security Office of the Quality and Safety Supervision Station of the Delingha City Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, bore the responsibility for supervision and inspection of property service behavior, but since 2017 had failed to supervise the property company's long-term irregular collection of "electric vehicle charging fees" and "line loss fees," violating work discipline and causing economic losses to the masses. The investigation also found that the housing and construction department was not the only department with supervisory responsibility; the market supervision department also had supervisory responsibility for property charging behavior. Ultimately, Yi was given a warning within the Party discipline, and other responsible persons were given government affairs warnings.
After ascertaining the facts of dereliction of duty, the losses of the masses were recovered. The Delingha City Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, together with the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, jointly promoted the work, and the improperly collected fees were recovered and returned to the residents.
The investigation and handling did not stop at "returning the money." The Delingha City Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision issued supervision recommendation letters to the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau and the Market Supervision Bureau respectively, putting forward rectification requirements and following up. The housing and construction department invited the Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision to participate in a special symposium, soliciting face-to-face opinions from more than 40 people including resident representatives, directors of community neighborhood committees, representatives of relevant units, and representatives of relevant enterprises, and collected 45 opinions and suggestions. Geng Jianzhen introduced that 40 of these opinions had completed rectification, and the remaining part involved aging infrastructure problems such as heating and water supply, which need to be incorporated into next year's project plan and solved gradually.
After the case was concluded, the housing and construction department unified the property charging standards for residential communities throughout the city and comprehensively established a sunshine disclosure system, disclosing property charging items and standards to residents. "Focusing on the key field of property services, the Delingha City Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision urged the housing and construction department to solve 355 prominent problems in the property field and rectify 363 safety hazards. Since the beginning of this year, the Delingha City Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision has cumulatively investigated and handled 5 corruption and misconduct problems in the property service field," said Su Jinjuan, member of the Standing Committee of the Delingha City Commission for Discipline Inspection and member of the Supervision Commission.
Return to TopBy: 赵晓曦
Build a stage for undertaking work and starting businesses, let talent settle down with peace of mind and take root, and with sustained, long-term effort in solid work, work together with one heart to walk well the new Long March road.
On an afternoon in late autumn, in front of the Guanshou Ancestral Hall in Zhongfu Village, Nanshan Township, Changting County, Longyan City, Fujian Province, 63-year-old Zhong Ming, a descendant of Red Army soldiers, told visitors with deep feeling: "After the Battle of Songmaoling ended, the Ninth Red Army Corps assembled here and set out on the Long March road." As the departure point of the Ninth Red Army Corps' Long March, Zhongfu Village has welcomed wave after wave of visitors this year.
In 2012, Zhong Ming, who had been doing business elsewhere, returned to his hometown and participated in the application work for Zhongfu Village to be designated a famous Chinese historical and cultural village and a traditional Chinese village. Three years later, he became a full-time docent. In order to tell this history well and tell it vividly, Zhong Ming paid out of his own pocket and made multiple trips to field visit sites along the Long March route and search for historical materials.
When asked why he was so "hardworking," Zhong Ming said: "Six of my family members took part in the revolution, and none of them came back. More than 2,000 people from our village went to the battlefield, and in the end only six people returned to the village." Under Zhong Ming's influence, his son Zhong Zhenhua also returned to his hometown to work as a docent. "We have very deep feelings for our hometown, and from the bottom of our hearts we want to tell more people the stories of our hometown," he said.
At the Tulou scenic area in Yongding District, Longyan City, Jing Xinwei, an entrepreneur from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, has opened a coffee shop. He combined the local specialty red persimmon with coffee and launched a red persimmon latte, which is quite popular among young people.
Jing Xinwei once worked at a company in Hangzhou that developed agricultural products. In 2024, the company began discussing project cooperation with Yongding District. In September 2025, Jing Xinwei was stationed here by his company. The cultural tourism projects he and his team built together, such as the "New Farmers Tribe" and the "Hakka Tulou Theme Hall," not only provide venues for Hakka culture study activities but also help promote and sell local agricultural products.
"The government provided us with subsidies for renovation, equipment, and other items, as well as policies such as rent reductions and exemptions." Talking about the confidence and expectations for starting his business, Jing Xinwei said, "I hope to bring more young people to participate in the operation of the New Farmers Tribe and promote the specialty products here."
In the production workshop of Zijin Longjing Environmental Protection New Energy Co., Ltd. in Xinluo District, Longyan City, large-tonnage pure electric mining dump trucks are being assembled. "At least half of our employees here come from other places, especially technical workers. They bring advanced technology here and then pass it on." Zhuang Ye, the company's chief technology research and development director, comes from Beijing. Speaking of the revitalization of the old revolutionary base areas, he said with deep feeling, "In the final analysis, it still comes down to people. We must rely on the industrial chain to bring talent in and keep them here."
In recent years, Longyan City has adhered to the integration of industry and talent, closely focusing on fields such as new materials, new energy, nonferrous metals, and mechanical equipment, deeply integrating the talent chain with the industrial chain, innovation chain, and capital chain, and attracting high-level talent to settle down with technology and projects.
The revitalization of old revolutionary base areas carries the multiple missions of inheriting and carrying forward the revolutionary spirit, guarding the red roots, and promoting local economic and social development. It requires a talent team with deep feelings, a close connection to the grassroots, and the ability to do solid work. This team must understand integration, have flexible ideas, and be good at management, attract social capital to participate, and activate red cultural resources; it must be good at discovering local resource endowments, developing a distinctive economy, and genuinely driving up the incomes of the masses. At the same time, localities must also improve safeguard mechanisms for housing, education, and other areas, build a stage for undertaking work and starting businesses, let talent settle down with peace of mind and take root, and with sustained, long-term effort in solid work, work together with one heart to walk well the new Long March road.
(The author is a reporter of this newspaper)
Column submission email: rmrbzzb@peopledaily.cn
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, October 28) (Reporter Jiang Lin) Chen Binhua, spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, said at a regular press conference on the 28th in response to questions that since the Central Taiwan Work Office was authorized on April 12 to release ten policy measures promoting cross-strait exchanges and cooperation, we have, together with relevant parties on the island, adhered to the political foundation of the 1992 Consensus and opposing "Taiwan independence," focused on the livelihood needs of Taiwanese compatriots, and continued to promote the implementation and tangible results of the ten measures, doing one's utmost to help (尽心竭力, jin xin jie li - "exhaust heart, strain strength") agricultural and fishery operators on the island open up the mainland market. Sales channels in the mainland for Taiwanese fruits such as pomelo and sugar apple have continued to expand, allowing more compatriots on both sides of the strait to share in the benefits and advantages.
To help Taiwanese agricultural and fishery operators expand sales channels, a ceremony for the import of Taiwanese fishery products into the mainland was held on October 23 in Xiamen City, Fujian Province, with more than 200 people from all walks of life on both sides of the strait participating in the event, jointly witnessing another fruitful result in cross-strait fishery cooperation. Chen Binhua pointed out that this event is both another achievement in implementing the ten measures and a full demonstration that as long as the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China, and compatriots on both sides of the strait, work together, they can solve problems, find ways out, seek livelihoods, and increase well-being for Taiwanese agricultural and fishery workers. He stated that we will continue to uphold the concept of "both sides of the strait are one family," continue to promote the detailed and thorough implementation of the ten measures, help more Taiwanese agricultural and fishery products and quality goods open up the mainland market, provide mainland consumers with more diverse, fresh, high-quality, and affordable fishery products, and also enable agricultural and fishery workers on the island to obtain tangible benefits and share in the development dividends of the motherland's mainland.
In response to related questions, Chen Binhua also stated that we have always attached great importance to the livelihoods and well-being of grassroots agricultural and fishery workers in Taiwan. Over the past six months or more, we have, together with relevant parties on both sides of the strait, adhered to the political foundation of the 1992 Consensus and opposing "Taiwan independence," actively responded to the concerns of Taiwanese fishermen by holding docking and signing meetings, optimizing customs clearance procedures, and supporting participation in various exhibitions, and continued to promote the implementation and tangible results of the ten measures. In the first three quarters of this year, the mainland's imports of agricultural products from Taiwan increased by 18.5% year-on-year, of which imports of fishery products increased by 35.5% year-on-year; from April to September this year, that is, after the release of the ten measures, Fujian imported 19,100 tons of Taiwanese fishery products, with an import value of 585 million yuan, an increase of 35.9% year-on-year. More and more high-quality Taiwanese fishery products are entering the vast majority of households (千家万户, qian jia wan hu - "thousand families, ten thousand households") across the mainland, and more and more Taiwanese fishermen are benefiting from this.
Return to TopIn the golden autumn season, joy of the harvest abounds everywhere, and farming households seize the fine weather to harvest and sell their crops. The photo shows volunteers organized by Xinzai Subdistrict, Linqu County, Weifang City, Shandong, helping fruit growers in Sanshanyu load and transport the harvested hawthorns.
Photo by Chen Ming (People's Vision)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Shijiazhuang, October 28) (Reporter Zhang Tengyang) The Xiong'an New Area 12345 government service convenience hotline has established a four-tier complaint handling system covering the new area, sub-districts, communities, and dedicated personnel, and has innovated working models such as "hotline + discipline inspection + supervision + judicial review" and "hotline + petitioning," with complaint satisfaction and resolution rates continuing to rise.
Since its launch on October 31, 2021, the hotline has actively served relocation efforts, people's livelihoods, and decision-making, focusing on key matters such as household registration and housing, social security and medical insurance, talent incentives, and children's education. It has resolved 1.904 million pressing problems and urgent needs (急难愁盼, ji nan chou pan - "urgent, difficult, anxious, longing") for 1.415 million enterprises and residents, with connection rates, completion rates, and service satisfaction rates all maintained above 99 percent.
The hotline has proactively established a regular communication and exchange mechanism with relocated groups. The innovatively launched key 3 on the 12345 hotline (the Beijing-Xiong'an "same-city" service special line) promotes "one-key mutual transfer" between the Beijing and Xiong'an hotlines, enabling cross-regional relocation appeals to be handled through one number; it has also built a high-frequency knowledge base for the Beijing-Xiong'an hotlines, sharing 2,740 items of knowledge on medical insurance reimbursement, children's school enrollment, transportation, and other matters, with high-frequency concerns answered directly online and resolved immediately.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Jieyang, October 28) (Reporter Wang Yunna) On October 28, the "Chaoshan Overseas Chinese Gathering in Their Hometown" themed event was held at the Jieyang Chaoshan Overseas Chinese Hall, a new cultural landmark for overseas Chinese affairs in Jieyang City, Guangdong Province. More than 550 overseas Chinese of Chaoshan origin from 22 countries and regions, carrying homesickness in their hearts, crossed mountains and seas to return to their hometown, together expressing deep affection for one's hometown (桑梓情深, sang zi qing shen - "mulberry, catalpa, affection, deep"), carrying forward the enduring overseas Chinese heritage, and opening a new chapter of development. During the event, the Jieyang Chaoshan Overseas Chinese Hall was officially unveiled, with the first phase of 14 overseas Chinese association halls completed and opened, and construction of the second-phase halls launched simultaneously.
The event organized activities including jointly painting a "Wall of Ten Thousand Blessings," jointly planting a "Chaoshan Overseas Chinese Heart-to-Heart Banyan Tree," writing a "letter home," collecting a handful of "native soil," economic, trade and cultural promotion and food exhibitions, and "Chaoshan Overseas Chinese Gathering in Their Hometown" root-seeking tours in various counties (cities, districts), stringing each segment into a journey of root-seeking, a journey of cooperation, and a journey of dream-building.
The local customs and conditions of various overseas Chinese host countries were displayed in concentrated form at the Chaoshan Overseas Chinese Hall. More than 400 types of specialty products from the countries and regions where Chaoshan overseas Chinese reside were showcased and sold alongside "Jieyang Premium Products" hometown goods, with distinctive business formats continuously introduced and overseas Chinese capital and talent resources being connected at an accelerated pace. Jieyang is a renowned hometown of overseas Chinese. In the past three years, overseas Chinese-related livelihood donations to Jieyang have exceeded 360 million yuan, and overseas Chinese returning to invest in their hometown have contributed more than 3.3 billion yuan.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦 皓
Inside the welding workshop of Xizi Clean Energy in Shangcheng District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, 51-year-old welder Ge Xiaoqing grips his welding torch, moving it along the weld seam. He has held this torch for 32 years.
From enterprise-level competitions to the national skills competition, Ge Xiaoqing has earned honors including the National May Day Labor Medal, National Model Worker, and Master Craftsman Talent, and has trained more than 150 apprentices, many of whom have grown into "Zhejiang Craftsmen." "This would not have been possible without the skills competition platform built by the Federation of Trade Unions," Ge Xiaoqing said. "The trade union is the 'natal home' of us industrial workers."
In 2025, the Hangzhou Federation of Trade Unions held 182 vocational skills competitions of various types, and 350,000 person-times grew through on-the-job training. A total of 246 model worker and craftsman service teams assisting enterprises entered companies, and more than 600 assistance activities achieved cost reduction and efficiency gains of over 20 million yuan. Education subsidies, rewards for highly skilled talent, pay raises based on skills... one by one, channels for growth are being paved under the feet of industrial workers, and more "Ge Xiaoqings" are growing up from frontline workshops.
From the welding torch to code, the appearance of workers is changing, but the trade union's support has never changed.
At the testing ground of CloudMinds Robotics Co., Ltd. in Xihu District, Hangzhou, a wheeled-legged robot steadily leaps onto an 80-centimeter-high test platform. This year, relying on its technological breakthroughs and product advances in the quadruped robot field, the CloudMinds "Lynx" project team won the "2026 Zhejiang Province Workers' Pioneer Vanguard."
"The robot can move stably even in extreme scenarios thanks to the team's painstaking refinement." Chu Zhen, motion control supervisor at CloudMinds, is responsible for developing the motion control algorithms for the "Lynx" and other robot series. In 2025, he was recognized as one of the third cohort of "Hangzhou Digital Craftsmen." Since 2023, the Hangzhou Federation of Trade Unions has focused on future industries such as the low-altitude economy, humanoid robots, and brain-inspired intelligence, launching the "Hangzhou Digital Craftsman" recognition program so that digital skilled talent can take on the main responsibility or lead a task (挑大梁, tiao da liang - "pick, big, beam") and play the leading role. Today, there are already 227 "Hangzhou Digital Craftsmen" like Chu Zhen.
To cultivate digital talent through competitions, trade unions at all levels across the city have successively held vocational skills competitions in various artificial intelligence fields, including generative AI, big data algorithms, and the Internet of Things. Various AI application courses have moved from offline to online, with 182 sessions held over the past two years, covering more than 43,000 person-times of workers. This year, the Hangzhou Federation of Trade Unions also launched a "Digital Craftsman" innovation training camp, using a year-long follow-up training program to help participants grow quickly.
From traditional skills competitions to "Digital Craftsman" recognition, the ladder of growth extends toward the new track of the digital economy. Beyond the laboratory, more workers are busy on the streets and lanes of the city.
At noon, Xiao Zhang, a 25-year-old Meituan delivery rider, finished his orders, pushed open the door of the Yuewang Road trade union service station, poured a glass of water, plugged in his phone, and sat down on the sofa. "There's a microwave for heating meals and hot water when I'm thirsty. The trade union provides us with a lot of basic support."
This station is open 24 hours a day, year-round. Every Monday and Tuesday, the "Hangzhou Xiao'er" public welfare service team arrives on time to provide free services such as haircuts; for those who want to learn skills, the diversified skills empowerment classes offer courses in online marketing, video creation, and more; when disputes arise, legal aid volunteers and psychological counseling volunteers help offer advice and seek redress. There are 844 such trade union stations in Hangzhou in total.
Using the stations as nodes, Hangzhou has strung together a "15-minute worker service circle," drawing all workers in new forms of employment across the city into the embrace of the "natal home." From carrying out "love meal" activities, to providing free major-illness mutual aid insurance enrollment services for 10,000 workers in new forms of employment, from providing free physical examinations and other special services for 1,000 workers in new forms of employment, to holding a hundred sessions in the series of legal service activities for workers in new forms of employment... At the beginning of 2026, the Hangzhou Federation of Trade Unions, focusing on livelihood concerns such as job stability, skills upgrading, and physical and mental health protection, launched ten major practical projects to serve workers, and is continuing to advance them with precision.
"We will use more complete institutional safeguards, broader development platforms, and more precise service measures to help workers fully display their abilities and realize their value," said Zheng Rongxin, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, Executive Vice Chairman, and First-Level Inspector of the Hangzhou Federation of Trade Unions.
Return to TopFinance is the lifeblood of the national economy and an important component of national core competitiveness. The protection of financial consumer rights and interests is a direct manifestation of upholding the political nature and people-centered character of financial work; the popularization of financial knowledge concerns not only the vital interests of every household, but also confidence in the financial market, financial security and stability, and high-quality development of the economy and society. Bringing financial knowledge to the people and into their hearts is the vivid practice of Bank of China in fulfilling its social responsibilities and practicing finance for the people.
This autumn, with the theme of "Clear and Honest Financial Network, Safeguarding Worry-Free Consumption," the 2026 Financial Education Publicity Week arrived as scheduled, with financial knowledge popularization activities underway with great enthusiasm (如火如荼, ru huo ru tu - "like, fire, like, fire"). Bank of China, based on the two major scenarios of "rural areas" and "cities," carefully built its platforms — holding financial consumer education and publicity activities respectively in rural campuses in old revolutionary base areas and in historic hutong alleys, helping to increase the public's financial knowledge reserves and letting the glimmers of financial knowledge converge into a torch.
From rural campuses to ancient-style markets
Financial knowledge popularization activities are rich and varied
On the rural campus in Chunhua County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province — a county designated for paired assistance by Bank of China — the bank launched the "Glimmer Plan" rural financial consumer protection education and publicity tour. With the theme of "A Wonderful Night at the Museum," the activity adopted a lightweight, entertaining anti-fraud science popularization format, breaking down complex financial scams into easy-to-understand stories through immersive scenarios, and popularizing anti-fraud knowledge among rural children in the old revolutionary base areas.
Since its pilot launch in 2021, the "Glimmer Plan" has visited 50 townships and traveled more than 10,000 kilometers, with featured activities such as the "Glimmer Cinema" and "Rice Paddy Concert" widely welcomed. With the release of the "Bank of China 'Glimmer Plan' Rural Financial Consumer Protection Education and Publicity Three-Year Action Plan," the program has officially expanded from regional pilot to nationwide promotion. Over the next three years, it will focus on deepening work in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Qinghai, Xinjiang, and Tibet, entering 30 key county areas and remote townships, with plans to connect with no fewer than 100 rural primary and secondary schools, directly serving more than 100,000 person-times, advancing year by year under the three major themes of "culture nourishing the heart," "technology empowering," and "aesthetic education benefiting the countryside," so that the glimmer of financial consumer protection shines precisely into vast rural areas.
At Longfu Temple in Dongcheng District, Beijing, Bank of China created an ancient-style market with the theme of "Longfu Holds Faith, Consumer Protection for the People," integrating the financial philosophy of "fair transactions and fair dealing with everyone regardless of age" (童叟无欺, tong sou wu qi - "child, old, no, cheat") into the market setting, allowing citizens and tourists to learn financial knowledge while strolling, eating, and playing.
The ancient-style market featured six exhibition zones, each with its own ingenuity. The "Longfu Tongbao" stamp-collecting tour guided citizens to learn about financial consumers' right to education and right to know through checkpoint challenges; the "Daily Spending of Ten Thousand Coins" pitch-pot interactive game popularized credit reporting knowledge and rational consumption concepts; the "Wenkui Authentication" authenticity-verification bureau explained legitimate rights-protection channels and key points for identifying scams and preventing fraud; the "Longfu Flower Market" conveyed the concept of "suitability" in investment and wealth management; the "Caisson Stargazing" rights wheel centrally displayed the eight basic rights of financial consumers; and the "Seeking Autumn at Longfu" anti-fraud poetry game spread scam-identification and fraud-prevention knowledge in poetic form. Ancient charm and new trends blended, and the bustle of the marketplace and financial science popularization complemented each other to create a pleasing effect (相映成趣, xiang ying cheng qu - "mutually, reflect, become, interest"). Since the activity began, more than 14,000 citizens have participated in the stamp-collecting activity; online dissemination has exceeded 7 million views, allowing the good financial voice of the ancient capital to spread even farther.
The two major activities, following one after another and having a continuous lineage or tradition (一脉相承, yi mai xiang cheng - "one, vein, mutually, inherit"), both highlight the depth of history and culture and meet the needs of urban and rural people, serving as a vivid interpretation of Bank of China's use of scenario-based, life-oriented methods to bring financial knowledge deep into the masses.
In recent years, Bank of China has continuously made financial consumer education and publicity an important lever for practicing finance for the people, leveraging the Group's advantages in integrated operations, coordinating the synergy of domestic and overseas institutions, linking its own platforms with mainstream media, deepening collaborative co-building with regulatory authorities, local governments, and industry associations, pooling the joint force of financial education and publicity, and building an integrated and synergistic financial education dissemination pattern. With the "comprehensive consumer protection" work system as its foundation and the new "digital consumer protection" model as support, it promotes the sharing of outstanding education and publicity achievements across the whole bank with precision and direct reach. Adhering to honesty and trustworthiness, pursuing profit through righteousness, being prudent and cautious, upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, and acting in accordance with laws and regulations, Bank of China integrates financial cultural concepts throughout the entire education and publicity process, guiding the public to establish concepts of rational investment and rights protection in accordance with the law, and building a solid spiritual core for normalized financial education.
From concentrated publicity to companionship through all four seasons
Promoting the normalization and long-term effectiveness of financial education
Financial consumer education and publicity is a foundational project aimed at improving the nation's financial literacy and creating a safe and reassuring financial consumption environment, and it is long-term and systematic in nature. Taking the series of normalized activities under the theme "BOC Consumer Protection, Companionship Through All Four Seasons" as its starting point, Bank of China carries out targeted education and publicity for the differentiated needs of groups such as "the elderly, the young, and new citizens," "drivers, salespersons, and agents," rural groups, and cross-border consumers, focusing on themes such as age-friendly services, payment facilitation, and anti-fraud and anti-illegal-fundraising efforts, singing the "good voice of finance" and promoting financial knowledge from "entering the eyes" to "entering the heart."
In 2026, Bank of China concentrated its efforts on carrying out financial consumer education and publicity activities, seizing the four major nodes of the "3·15" International Consumer Rights Day, the "5·15" National Investor Protection Publicity Day, the June "Popularizing Financial Knowledge Ten-Thousand-Mile Journey," and the September Financial Education Publicity Week, advancing financial education and publicity work in succession. As of the end of September, the bank had cumulatively carried out more than 320,000 activities, an increase of 100 percent over the same period last year, bringing financial knowledge to factory workshops, fields and farmlands, and school classrooms. Financial education is settling into a long-term practice integrated into daily life and empowering people's livelihoods, achieving multiple breakthroughs in breadth of coverage, depth of reach, and novelty of format. Original quality products continue to break through circles: the anti-fraud video "Specialty" (拿手), created by Bank of China in conjunction with anti-fraud authorities, won an award in the Third National Anti-Fraud Short Video Competition; the original videos "Anti-Fraud Storm: The Loan Assistance Trap" and "Danger in an Instant, Stopped by Anti-Fraud" were respectively rated as an excellent short video and an outstanding short video in the People's Bank of China 2026 National Financial Industry Anti-Fraud Short Video Competition. The consecutively held consumer protection creative competitions have also produced a batch of original works including animations, H5 pages, and situational dramas. From micro-films to digital content, from creative competitions to artificial intelligence generation, Bank of China promotes financial knowledge into people's minds and hearts in forms the public loves, continuously amplifying the communication power, guiding power, and influence of financial education.
Bank of China focuses on key groups and delivers services to the "last kilometer." It helps the elderly cross the "digital divide," safeguarding the rights and interests of the "silver-haired" through companion-style and dialect-based services; helps young people establish rational consumption and fraud-prevention awareness, bringing financial knowledge into the first lesson of the school year; helps new citizen groups establish awareness of rational investment and rational rights protection, building "neighborhood financial classrooms" in industrial parks and communities; provides "drivers, salespersons, and agents" with places to rest and financial knowledge to learn on the go, bringing consumer protection services to the people through warm service stations; and helps cross-border consumers conveniently identify risks, safeguarding "going global" and "bringing in" through multilingual services. Through differentiated, scenario-based targeted education and publicity, Bank of China enables people of different ages, regions, and identities to understand and use financial knowledge, safeguarding the people's "money bags."
From each showing its strengths to joint efforts in the same direction
Branches converge to gather the warm current of finance for the people
Financial consumer education and publicity is carried out simultaneously across branches in various regions. From the shores of the South China Sea to the snow-covered plateau, from bustling cities to remote villages, Bank of China's outlets across the country act immediately upon receiving an order (闻令而动, wen ling er dong - "hear, command, and, move") and make joint efforts in the same direction, bringing financial knowledge to the people.
In Guangdong, Bank of China brought financial consumer protection education and publicity activities into Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, the "first stop" for international passengers arriving in Guangzhou: it set up "Financial Safety Photo Ops," blind box walls, and gacha machines containing portable bilingual financial risk reminder "tips" and "knowledge cards," with original anti-fraud flash mob dances performed with great fervor, letting the "Chinese warmth" of financial consumer protection fly to the world with the flights; at the same time, it entered century-old neighborhoods, combining intangible cultural heritage Chaozhou opera with anti-fraud content to carry out the "Chaoshan Voice Talks Finance" education and publicity activity. In Chongqing, Bank of China moved its financial classroom onto the "Little Red Boat" passenger ferry in Wushan, setting up mobile financial publicity stations along the "basket route" of the river gorge, where staff used the local dialect to explain knowledge about protecting account security and identifying illegal fundraising to elderly passengers, and distributed customized publicity brochures on rational consumption and reasonable credit to farmers and tourists along the river, letting financial protection sail into people's hearts with the boat. In Qinghai, Bank of China, based on local characteristics and local industries, sent publicity teams deep into grasslands, pastoral areas, and goji berry planting bases to carry out targeted publicity for herders, growers, and migrant workers, and, in light of the high incidence of telecom fraud, fraudulent purchasing, and fund transfer risks during the goji berry purchasing season, explained anti-fraud and credit reporting risk knowledge in plain and easy-to-understand language, moving the financial classroom to the fields and effectively filling the financial knowledge gaps of migrant workers.
From finance for the people to fulfilling responsibilities
Actively practicing the political nature and people-centered character of financial work
For high-quality development, only by moving steadily can one achieve long-term success (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk, steady, reach, far"). Financial consumer protection bears on the vital interests of the people and the overall situation of financial security, and is an important focal point for Bank of China in cultivating its commitment to the people and serving people's well-being.
Striving forward in the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Bank of China will actively practice the political nature and people-centered character of financial work, continue to improve the "comprehensive consumer protection" work system, promote the transformation of consumer protection from "fighting fires after the fact" to "preventing fires beforehand," and strive to turn consumer protection work into the internal driving force for the Group's high-quality development, into a solid support for meeting the people's aspirations for a better life, and into a responsibility and commitment to serving the building of a strong financial nation.
Bank of China will, guided by the "comprehensive consumer protection" work system, promote the integration of financial consumer education and publicity into daily life and the formation of long-term mechanisms, make financial knowledge popularization normalized and long-lasting, and, through education and publicity activities that are more down-to-earth and more popular, bring practical risk prevention knowledge to the people, letting financial consumer protection warmly safeguard every household and reach people's hearts.
On the new journey, Bank of China will always firmly stand on the people's side, unswervingly follow the path of financial development with Chinese characteristics, and, through the accumulated efforts of financial knowledge popularization, nurture the safe soil of financial consumption and gather solid strength for building a strong financial nation.
Data source: Bank of China
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 者
At 6:30 in the evening, a long queue forms at the entrance of the Zhanhua Grand Theater in Binzhou City, Shandong Province, where the newly compiled fisherman's drum opera A Playful Take on Journey to the West: Gao Village is about to be performed.
Backstage in the dressing room, "Pig Zhu Bajie" practices the movements of rooting in the ground and carrying his bride on his back over and over again, repeatedly polishing the wrist turns and the exertion of waist and abdomen strength; "Sun Wukong, the Monkey King" grips his golden-banded staff, seizing the moments before going on stage to practice his staff techniques, softly murmuring the rhythmic patterns of the opera's musical modes to himself...
Among the audience already seated below the stage, the faces of silver-haired opera fans, young people born in the 1990s and 2000s, and children are shining brightly in coordination (交相辉映, jiao xiang hui ying - "inter, cross, reflect, shine"). Why does a small local opera win over young fans?
Traditional old operas see a steady stream of innovations, with stages set up in fields and village lanes
As soon as 7:30 in the evening arrives, the lights of the grand theater slowly dim, the stage scenery gradually unfolds, the fisherman's drum and bamboo clappers strike up, and the gongs and drums of the civil and military accompaniment sections softly set the rhythm — the fisherman's drum opera officially begins.
Below the stage, 72-year-old opera fan Xu Changfeng listens with rapt attention; whenever he encounters a favorite aria, he gently taps his knee to the beat and softly hums the original fisherman's drum tune. "I've been listening to fisherman's drum opera for decades. I was originally worried that the adaptation would lose the old vocal style, but the rhythmic patterns and tonal modes are completely authentic, and they've even added martial arts and new-style dance. When the lines with local flavor come out, it feels especially familiar and warm," Xu Changfeng says.
Zhanhua fisherman's drum opera originated in the Qing Dynasty and has been passed down in northern Shandong for about 300 years; it is a national-level intangible cultural heritage project. Zhanhua fisherman's drum opera uses the fisherman's drum, the fisherman's fiddle, and bamboo clappers to keep time and accompany the singing. Its rustic local dialect is plain and moving, and its artistic style is having a unique style (独树一帜, du shu yi zhi - "alone, tree, one, mark"). However, Zhanhua fisherman's drum opera once faced the predicament of outdated repertoires, a broken generational chain of audiences, and the loss of its skills.
How can this precious cultural heritage be protected and passed on? The Zhanhua Fisherman's Drum Opera Troupe has continuously innovated in the way its repertoire is expressed, and the newly launched A Playful Take on Journey to the West: Gao Village this year is one of its representative works.
The play is recompiled on the basis of the original ecological traditional fisherman's drum opera Gao Village, preserving the core of its narrative singing, retaining the characteristics of the local vocal style, while at the same time polishing the stage content for different age groups. The dialogue incorporates local scenery and customs, the language is accessible and down-to-earth, the duration of martial arts and dance segments is reasonably controlled, and warm and humorous plot elements are interspersed, making the play suitable for all ages (老少皆宜, lao shao jie yi - "old, young, all, suitable") and refreshing and novel (耳目一新, er mu yi xin - "ear, eye, one, new").
Traditional old operas see a steady stream of innovations, while the fisherman's drum opera film A Joyous Event in the Jujube Village has achieved a breakthrough across media, allowing fisherman's drum opera to leap off the stage and into the fields and village lanes.
The film was invested in and produced by Zhanhua District. It balances the conventions of opera with the language of cinematic shots, preserves the melodious singing and rhythmic patterns of fisherman's drum opera, uses the camera to magnify the details of the opera, and employs real scenery to heighten the emotional mood of the arias, providing a vivid exploration for a niche opera genre to make its way onto the big screen.
The large-scale modern fisherman's drum opera Boiling the Sea, which deeply explores the local salt culture, won a major award at a provincial arts festival; the newly compiled historical fisherman's drum opera Zheng Banqiao, which promotes clean and upright conduct, tours grassroots communities year-round; original boutique short operas such as Interrogating the Yamen Runner and Old Xie Takes Office continue to be well received... As old operas are revitalized, the Zhanhua Fisherman's Drum Opera Troupe has over the years innovated a cumulative total of more than 100 repertoires and won over 60 provincial-level awards.
Youthful, life-oriented performances, with small operas sung into livestream rooms
"In order to preserve the authentic flavor of fisherman's drum opera, we went into the villages to visit and called on people to seek their instruction, striving to pass down the craft left by our ancestors." Recalling the past, Wang Chunzhen, head of the Zhanhua Fisherman's Drum Opera Troupe, is filled with emotion.
Twenty years ago, many of the classic old arias and traditional musical modes of Zhanhua fisherman's drum opera survived only in the memories of elderly artists, lacking complete audio-visual materials and facing the danger of being lost.
In order to safeguard the local intangible cultural heritage lineage, Wang Chunzhen decided to establish a digital resource database for Zhanhua fisherman's drum opera intangible cultural heritage, preserving the memory of the heritage. He led the troupe members, carrying camera equipment on their backs and bringing paper, pens, and ledgers, going from street to street and village to village to seek out elderly fisherman's drum opera artists.
In Huying Village, the team found four senior fisherman's drum opera artists, including Liu Zunlu. After they explained the purpose of their visit, the elderly artists, full of enthusiasm (满腔热忱, man qiang re chen - "full, chest, hot, enthusiasm"), unreservedly opened their voices to sing and demonstrated their stage movements. In the farmhouse courtyard, the fisherman's drum thumped and the singing was melodious. The team members focused intently on filming and recording, not missing a single detail of a raised hand or a shifted step, and transcribed the old musical scores stroke by stroke.
After dozens of days and nights of rescue and documentation work, the troupe successfully recorded 47 fisherman's drum arias, organized 13 precious hand-copied scripts, and restored 21 traditional musical modes on the verge of being lost, all of which were incorporated into the intangible cultural heritage digital resource database, preserving the roots of the fisherman's drum opera heritage.
As time passes, the protection and transmission of intangible cultural heritage has entered a new digital stage. The temporary rescue recording of the past has evolved into routine digital documentation work.
Every time the troupe creates a new fisherman's drum short opera, it conducts high-definition filming, completely preserving the full set of materials — from stage performance and singing details to props and stage blocking, musical scores and accompaniment — and archiving them in the cloud. To date, the database has collected audio-visual materials for 67 fisherman's drum operas.
"The fisherman's drum is our main percussion instrument..." With this explanation, in front of the camera, Sun Pengcheng, a young actor of the Zhanhua Fisherman's Drum Opera Troupe, struck the fisherman's drum and began to sing. In the livestream room, many netizens gave likes and left comments. One netizen said: "Now every day I accompany my child in learning the arias by following the videos."
Young inheritors are injecting vitality into the dissemination of intangible cultural heritage. Last year, Sun Pengcheng tested the waters of the new media track, regularly publishing content on short-video platforms such as excerpts of classic repertoires and behind-the-scenes footage of daily training, performing fisherman's drum opera in a youthful, life-oriented manner, with cumulative views exceeding 800,000.
Digital dissemination has allowed fisherman's drum opera to step out of the villages of northern Shandong and become known to more audiences, while also continuously expanding the performance market. The troupe performs more than 200 benefit performances for the public every year, reaching more than 100,000 person-times.
Benefit performances have evolved from "one-time viewing" into "long-term transmission"
"Leg work, tumbling skills, and weapon skills — going through circle-walking and vocal warm-ups again and again, this is the daily routine of a fisherman's drum opera actor." Wang Qiaoyu, a young fisherman's drum opera actor born in the 1990s, is deeply moved when she recalls her early days in the troupe.
A few years ago, she and other members entered the Zhanhua Fisherman's Drum Opera Troupe through open recruitment. Most of these young actors were encountering fisherman's drum opera for the first time. Every day they begin their training punctually at 5 a.m., practicing basic stage movements in the morning, studying the rhythms of the singing in the daytime, and reviewing the details of their stage steps in the evening — day after day (日复一日, ri fu yi ri - "day, repeat, one, day") honing their skills.
"At the beginning, I practiced over and over until my arms ached, and several times I wanted to back out," Wang Qiaoyu admits candidly. Her master is Fang Junxiang, a representative inheritor of the fisherman's drum opera intangible cultural heritage and a first-class actor. Seeing her apprentice wavering in her resolve, the master would often admonish her: "There is no shortcut in opera singing. Every bit of charm on stage is accumulated through ten years of hard work off stage."
The Zhanhua Fisherman's Drum Opera Troupe was established in 2006 and was transferred in its entirety to the Zhanhua District Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Transmission Center in 2012. It currently has 20 actors with an average age of 38.5, and a talent echelon in which the old, middle-aged, and young generations pass on skills in an orderly manner is gradually taking shape.
Transmission is also taking place in school classrooms.
On Thursday afternoon, the opera special-feature classroom of Zhanhua District No. 1 Experimental Primary School becomes lively. "Keep your back straight, make your steps lighter, let your eyes follow your hands..." In class, Wang Qiaoyu gives careful guidance. The students closely follow Wang Qiaoyu's movements — raising hands, shifting steps, turning, nodding — every move and gesture done in a proper or regular manner (有模有样, you mu you yang - "have, pattern, have, appearance").
"Fisherman's drum opera is really interesting — the more I learn it, the more I like it," says student Wu Songjia, her tone unable to hide her delight. Three years ago, at a special performance bringing fisherman's drum opera into the campus, the melodious and ethereal singing immediately captured her interest.
Since then, she has used her spare time to study fisherman's drum opera on her own, and has also taken the initiative to serve as a "little promoter" of intangible cultural heritage, using breaks between classes to share the joy of learning fisherman's drum opera with her classmates and to show them the arias and stage movements she has learned.
"Bringing opera into schools is not simply putting on a performance, but sowing the seeds of transmission," Wang Chunzhen says. The troupe has now reached cooperation agreements with multiple schools, turning benefit performances from "one-time viewing" into "long-term transmission." Every year, the troupe carries out 60 "opera into schools" activities and 36 class hours of fisherman's drum opera training, benefiting 50,000 person-times and effectively expanding the reach of public cultural services.
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Livestreaming, short dramas, and online literature have become important vehicles for mass cultural consumption today. Rooted in the daily life of the networked society, they have expanded the space for the people to create, appreciate, and share culture through new modes of production, dissemination, and participation. These three cultural forms each have their own characteristics. Among them, livestreaming, with its advantages of low barriers to entry, high frequency, and strong interactivity, connects content production, user feedback, and value conversion. What it changes is not only the dissemination channels of cultural content, but also the way cultural products are obtained, the way they are participated in, and the way their value is realized. From this perspective, livestreaming itself is a new form of cultural consumption.
Whether cultural consumption is vibrant depends on whether quality content can reach ordinary people conveniently. In the past, a good performance was often constrained by theater capacity, the number of performances, and geographical distance, limiting the audience. Livestreaming extends the stage into the daily lives of hundreds of millions of people. Art does not lose its weight because the screen is smaller; on the contrary, through close-ups, camera movement, and real-time interaction, it presents details that are not easily captured on stage.
The change brought by livestreaming also lies in the fact that audiences are no longer merely passively receiving content. Interactive methods such as comments, on-demand requests, live connections, and sharing allow audiences' immediate feedback to enter the creative process. Performers can perceive which content is deeply moving or touching (触动人心, chu dong ren xin - "touch, stir; human, heart"), and professional troupes and performing arts institutions can accordingly adjust their repertoire selections, staging, and explanatory approaches.
New cultural consumption includes not only "seeing" but also sustained action arising from identification. The interest formed in livestreaming rooms can be converted into ticket purchases for performances, cultural creative product consumption, and long-term attention to cultural IP (intellectual property). Livestreaming expands the initial reach of cultural products, while theaters use their complete spatial experience and artistic presentation to carry deeper levels of consumption. The two reinforce each other, extending the value chain of quality content and providing a new path for literary and artistic troupes to balance social and economic benefits.
New consumption scenarios give rise to new modes of production. Livestreaming may appear to take place within a single screen, but behind it, multiple forces such as content planning, host training, stage production, directing, and operations must work in coordination. Some professional teams have entered the group livestreaming field, transforming their experience in television program production into content production capabilities adapted to mobile terminals. Today's livestreaming is moving away from content homogenization and crude production, shifting toward quality competition supported by creativity, aesthetics, and professional division of labor. Data show that in 2025, performing arts livestreams on platforms reached 128 million sessions, a year-on-year increase of 26.39 percent.
It should also be noted that traffic does not naturally equate to cultural value. For livestreaming to become healthy, sustainable cultural consumption, social benefits must be placed in an important position. Platforms should continuously improve mechanisms for discovering and supporting quality content, so that good content is easier to see; troupes and creators should respect the laws of art and proactively learn the language of livestreaming, but must not replace artistic judgment with immediate feedback; and industry organizations should improve systems for talent cultivation, professional safeguards, and content evaluation, providing stable expectations for new professions and new divisions of labor. The Market Management Department of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has guided the implementation of the "Art Livestreaming Plan," promoting state-owned literary and artistic troupes and professional performers to enter livestreaming platforms. This is precisely about establishing a more effective connection between quality supply and public demand.
The "newness" of new mass literature and art lies not only in media forms, but also in the breadth and depth of the people's participation in cultural creation and sharing of cultural achievements. Livestreaming brings professional stages to the masses and also brings the people's authentic and vibrant cultural needs back to the production end. It allows traditional art to find young audiences, allows local culture to cross geographical boundaries, and allows more ordinary people to approach beauty, feel beauty, and participate in beauty.
(The author is the Director of the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Return to TopFrom "relying on the heavens for food" to "relying on protection for safe passage," from "post-disaster compensation" to "full-process safeguards," agricultural insurance in Anhui Province is undergoing a profound transformation. In September 2025, the "Implementation Opinions of the Anhui Provincial People's Government on Comprehensively Advancing the 'Agricultural Insurance +' Reform" was issued. The Anhui Branch of China Pacific Property Insurance Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "CPIC Property Insurance Anhui Branch") has thoroughly implemented the requirements of the document, closely adhering to the four major reform actions of "diversified financing, multi-dimensional empowerment, multi-chain integration, and multi-level coverage," turning each insurance policy into a source of continuous and vital resources (源头活水, yuan tou huo shui - "source, head; living, water") serving agriculture, rural areas, and farmers (三农), and delivering a financial answer sheet in support of the comprehensive advancement of rural revitalization.
Injecting a stream of capital through diversified financing actions. Agricultural business entities often face difficulties and high costs in financing due to a lack of effective collateral and guarantees. Relying on the "government-insurance-loan" platform, CPIC Property Insurance Anhui Branch has deepened "agricultural insurance + credit," establishing cooperation with various banks to provide credit enhancement services for new types of agricultural business entities. In Tongcheng City, Anqing City, CPIC Property Insurance Anhui Branch used insurance policy credit enhancement to connect with banks, helping "Tongcheng Xiaohua" tea enterprises and tea farmers obtain approved credit of 256 million yuan; joining hands with Anhui Province Agricultural Credit Financing Guarantee Co., Ltd., it established a "government-insurance-bank-guarantee" comprehensive service center in Pingpu Town, Fanchang District, Wuhu City; in Qianshan City, Anqing City, it implemented animal feed cost price index insurance, providing 6.29 million yuan in price risk protection for local poultry farmers, with a simple loss ratio of 104%, enhancing farmers' satisfaction and sense of gain. CPIC Property Insurance Anhui Branch is also actively exploring the "insurance-bank-supply-purchase" model in Anqing, Chuzhou, Lu'an, Wuhu and other areas, building a closed-loop industrial chain of "insurance as a safety net, bank loans, stable supply of agricultural inputs, and stable orders for sales" around leading industries such as blueberries, rice, tea, and live pigs, safeguarding the steady development of characteristic agriculture.
Expanding factor scenarios through multi-dimensional empowerment actions. The value of agricultural insurance lies not only in claims compensation, but also in leveraging more factor resources to empower rural development. CPIC Property Insurance Anhui Branch has implemented multi-dimensional empowerment actions, expanding service scenarios and promoting the influx of more factor resources into rural areas. In the cultural tourism dimension, it innovatively launched the province's first rural homestay meteorological index insurance product in Anqing City, providing homestay business entities with rapid claims services that are automatically triggered and require no on-site inspection; in the asset dimension, it promoted high-standard farmland project quality insurance in Chuzhou City, providing long-term protection for "transforming grain fields into high-quality farmland"; in the technology dimension, using meteorological data as the basis for claims, it implemented wheat harvest period precipitation index insurance and Keemun black tea planting meteorological index insurance, achieving "settlement based on data, automatic claims"; in the openness dimension, it provides export credit insurance for small and micro agricultural export enterprises, safeguarding characteristic agricultural products as they "set sail for overseas markets." In six cities—Chizhou, Anqing, Lu'an, Xuancheng, Huangshan, and Chuzhou—it implemented centralized procurement of forestry carbon tickets, and the purchased 43,500 tons of forestry carbon tickets will be used to offset part of the carbon emissions of the 9th China International Import Expo, creating a replicable model for the value conversion of ecological products and helping Anhui Province build a high-level demonstration zone for a Beautiful China in the Yangtze River Delta. One by one, the "agricultural insurance +" service scenarios are gathering more factors and greater vitality for the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.
Safeguarding characteristic industries through multi-chain integration actions. Industrial revitalization is the top priority of rural revitalization; the longer the industrial chain and the more risk points there are, the more the entire chain needs insurance protection. CPIC Property Insurance Anhui Branch has implemented multi-chain integration actions to serve the revitalization of rural industries. In Jinzhai County, Lu'an City, it pioneered a "one chain, one insurance" comprehensive protection model for the beekeeping industry, safeguarding the "sweet undertaking" of the old revolutionary base area—from honey production insurance hedging production risks, to group accident insurance mitigating operational risks, to public liability insurance protecting new business formats such as beekeeping tourism—each policy "links" the entire chain of breeding, processing, cultural tourism, and sales. In Wuhu City, it developed regional income insurance for high-quality rice around "Wuhu Rice," upgrading protection from "covering costs" to "covering income," providing over 10 million yuan in risk protection for 8,700 mu of high-quality rice in Fanchang District. In Huaining County, Anqing City, it customized a "combined package" of planting insurance, price index insurance, income insurance, and meteorological index insurance for blueberry growers, providing comprehensive risk protection of over 60 million yuan in 2025. CPIC Property Insurance Anhui Branch enables insurance to "grow" on the industrial chain, embedding itself throughout the entire chain and covering risks at every link, helping rural industries make steady progress toward long-term success (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk, steady; reach, far").
Building a solid foundation for people's livelihoods through multi-level coverage actions. Agricultural insurance is not only a "stabilizer" for industrial development, but also a "safety net" for livelihood security. Across the province, CPIC Property Insurance Anhui Branch provides full cost and income insurance protection for 2.1 million mu of the three major staple grains, stabilizing the "basic foundation" of food security; handles the "poverty prevention insurance" comprehensive insurance, providing risk protection for nearly 2 million low-income rural residents; carries out supplementary insurance for planting and breeding industries in flood storage and detention areas, handles government assistance liability insurance and policy-based rural housing insurance, making multi-pronged efforts to firmly uphold the bottom line of people's livelihoods and fully enhance farmers' sense of gain.
Taking root in the vast rural soil, serving the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. Based on its primary responsibility and main business of serving agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, CPIC Property Insurance Anhui Branch will anchor its reform goals, continue to deepen the "agricultural insurance +" reform and innovation practices, allocate more financial resources precisely to key areas and weak links in the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, and paint a new picture of comprehensive rural revitalization featuring strong agriculture, beautiful rural areas, and prosperous farmers across the vast fields.
Data source: Anhui Branch of China Pacific Property Insurance Co., Ltd.
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Opening Remarks for the Column
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Prevention is the most economical and effective health strategy. We must carefully handle and improve all foundational and source-level work in health and hygiene, and consolidate the foundation of health for the entire population."
The foundation of health begins with daily life. Starting today, this section launches the "Health Science Popularization" column, focusing on topics of concern to readers such as disease prevention, health management, and lifestyle, providing readers with authoritative and scientific health knowledge through a rigorous scientific approach and accessible language.
Sudden facial drooping, weakness on one side of the limbs, slurred speech, or dizziness, unsteady gait, and abnormal vision may all be signals of stroke.
How does stroke occur? Who is at higher risk? How can it be prevented? What should be done after suspected symptoms are discovered? How can patients avoid recurrence after discharge? Zhao Wenbo, associate researcher and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Neurology at Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, offers these reminders.
To prevent stroke, quitting smoking, limiting alcohol, controlling weight, and avoiding prolonged sitting are very important
Stroke, commonly known as "zhongfeng" (apoplexy), is an acute cerebrovascular disease in which blood vessels in the brain suddenly become blocked or rupture, causing damage to brain tissue. It is mainly divided into ischemic stroke and hemorrhagic stroke. Zhao Wenbo explains that ischemic stroke, namely "cerebral infarction," is the most common type of stroke, mainly caused by stenosis or occlusion of cerebral blood vessels. Common causes include atherosclerosis, thrombosis, and cardioembolism. Hemorrhagic stroke mainly includes intracerebral hemorrhage and subarachnoid hemorrhage, caused by rupture of cerebral blood vessels. Common causes include long-term hypertension, intracranial aneurysms, and cerebrovascular malformations.
Increasing age raises the risk of stroke, but stroke does not occur only in the elderly. The main risk factors for the elderly include hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, atrial fibrillation, and atherosclerosis. In addition to the aforementioned traditional risk factors, young people also need to pay attention to unhealthy lifestyles such as smoking, obesity, and lack of exercise, as well as special causes such as patent foramen ovale and cerebral artery dissection. Therefore, regardless of age, everyone should value a healthy lifestyle, undergo regular physical examinations, and detect and control risk factors related to cerebrovascular disease as early as possible.
"Hypertension is one of the most important modifiable risk factors for stroke," says Zhao Wenbo. Hypertension increases the risk of both cerebral infarction and intracerebral hemorrhage; diabetes, dyslipidemia, and atrial fibrillation are also important risk factors for stroke, among which atrial fibrillation easily leads to thrombus formation in the heart, increasing the risk of stroke by approximately fivefold; smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, obesity, and prolonged sitting also increase the risk of stroke occurrence and recurrence.
The key to preventing stroke lies in maintaining a healthy lifestyle and actively controlling related risk factors. Zhao Wenbo suggests that in daily life, one should adhere to a low-salt, low-fat, balanced diet, quit smoking and limit alcohol, control weight, avoid prolonged sitting, and engage in at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise per week. Adults should regularly measure blood pressure, especially those over 30, who are advised to measure at least once a year; middle-aged and elderly people and those with risk factors such as obesity or a family history of related diseases should regularly check blood glucose and blood lipids; people over 65 are advised to regularly check their pulse and, when necessary, undergo electrocardiogram screening for atrial fibrillation.
For patients already diagnosed with hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, or atrial fibrillation, standardized treatment should be carried out under the guidance of a doctor, with regular follow-up examinations, to keep relevant indicators within a reasonable range, thereby reducing the risk of stroke occurrence.
Two mnemonics are very practical for identifying stroke
Stroke usually has a sudden onset. Common symptoms include facial drooping, weakness or numbness on one side of the limbs, slurred speech, visual impairment, and unsteady gait. In severe cases, intense headache and impaired consciousness may occur. Zhao Wenbo explains that the "Stroke 120" mnemonic can be used to quickly identify stroke: "1" is to look at whether one side of the face is asymmetrical or the corner of the mouth is drooping; "2" is to check whether one of the two arms is weak; "0" is to listen to whether speech is clear.
In addition, the "BEFAST" mnemonic can be used as a supplement, namely observing whether the patient has Balance disorder, such as walking crookedly or having difficulty walking; whether the Eyes have difficulty seeing or transient vision loss; whether the Face has drooping at the corner of the mouth or disappearance of the nasolabial fold; whether the Arms are weak, numb, or difficult to raise; and whether Speech is unclear or the patient cannot understand what others say. If any of the above symptoms suddenly occur, one should promptly (Time) call 120.
Zhao Wenbo reminds that some patients may only present with sudden dizziness, unsteady gait, or abnormal vision, which should also not be ignored. Once suspected stroke symptoms appear, even if the symptoms resolve on their own after a short time, one should immediately call 120, because this may be a transient ischemic attack, an important warning sign of stroke.
After calling 120, state the patient's location, main symptoms, time of onset, and state of consciousness. At the same time, accurately record the time when symptoms appeared; if it cannot be determined, record the time when the patient was last seen to be normal. Also provide information on past illnesses and recent medication use, especially the use of antiplatelet drugs and anticoagulant drugs, so that emergency personnel can take appropriate measures promptly.
Stroke treatment must be carried out with acting with extreme urgency to save time (争分夺秒, zheng fen duo miao - "struggle, minute, second, snatch"). Zhao Wenbo explains that brain tissue is extremely sensitive to ischemia. After a blood vessel becomes blocked, brain cells may suffer irreversible damage within a short period. The earlier blood flow to the brain is restored, the greater the chance of saving brain tissue and the better the patient's prognosis. After the patient arrives at the hospital, doctors will quickly determine the type of stroke and the condition through head CT, vascular imaging, and necessary blood tests. For eligible patients with cerebral infarction, treatments such as intravenous thrombolysis and endovascular thrombectomy can be adopted to restore blood supply to the brain as early as possible; for patients with intracerebral hemorrhage, measures such as blood pressure control or surgery should be taken according to the condition. For patients who discover stroke symptoms upon waking, although the time of onset is unclear, through imaging assessment, some patients may still have the opportunity to receive thrombolysis or thrombectomy treatment. Medical attention should not be delayed because symptoms have lessened, blood pressure is normal, or the time of onset is unclear.
While waiting for the ambulance, one should avoid moving the patient at will and pay attention to keeping the patient's airway open; if vomiting or impaired consciousness occurs, the patient should be placed on their side to prevent aspiration. Do not feed water, food, or medication on your own, especially do not use aspirin or antihypertensive drugs without authorization, and do not adopt methods such as pinching the philtrum or pricking fingertips to draw blood, so as not to delay treatment.
Zhao Wenbo reminds that waiting for symptoms to resolve on their own, going to the hospital by oneself without calling 120, judging whether a stroke has occurred solely by blood pressure levels, and ignoring atypical symptoms are all common misconceptions in stroke emergency care.
Rehabilitation and recurrence prevention: plans vary by individual and require long-term persistence
Stroke patients should begin rehabilitation treatment as early as possible after their condition stabilizes. Under normal circumstances, patients with stable conditions can gradually begin rehabilitation training under the guidance of professionals within 24 to 48 hours after onset. The first 3 to 6 months after stroke are an important stage for functional recovery, but rehabilitation should be continued. Even in the chronic phase, standardized training still helps improve function.
Rehabilitation plans should be tailored to each individual and progress step by step. Limb rehabilitation should focus on improving muscle strength, balance, and mobility; language and cognitive training should focus on the recovery of communication, memory, and activities of daily living; patients with swallowing disorders should undergo professional assessment before choosing an appropriate feeding method to avoid aspiration.
Starting high-intensity training too early, over-relying on family caregivers, focusing only on the limbs while neglecting language and cognition, and force-feeding without a swallowing assessment are all common misconceptions in home rehabilitation. Rehabilitation should neither rush for quick results nor be abandoned because the early recovery stage has been missed. Scientific, standardized, and long-term rehabilitation training should be maintained.
Stroke is prone to recurrence, mainly because the underlying diseases and vascular risk factors that caused the first stroke may persist; non-standardized treatment, unauthorized discontinuation of medication, poor control of risk factors, and lack of regular follow-up also increase the risk of recurrence. After discharge, patients should adhere to medication as prescribed by the doctor and receive corresponding antithrombotic, antihypertensive, and lipid-lowering treatments according to the type of stroke and its cause. They must not stop medication or adjust dosages on their own. At the same time, blood pressure, blood glucose, blood lipids, and other indicators should be regularly monitored, follow-up examinations should be conducted on time, and treatment plans should be adjusted promptly.
Zhao Wenbo says that preventing stroke recurrence is a long-term task, and management should not be relaxed just because symptoms have improved or the condition has stabilized. Adhering to a low-salt, low-fat, balanced diet, quitting smoking and limiting alcohol, exercising moderately, controlling weight, avoiding prolonged sitting, and implementing preventive and therapeutic actions into daily life can reduce the risk of stroke occurrence and recurrence.
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Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Finance has specially allocated funds to support free influenza vaccination for groups such as people aged 65 and above in rural areas, providing one free dose of trivalent split-virion influenza vaccine to the key "one old, one young" population in rural areas. At present, all localities, in accordance with national policy requirements, are carrying out with great intensity (紧锣密鼓, jin luo mi gu - "tight, drum, dense, hurried") the free influenza vaccination work for the "one old, one young" population in rural areas. Who is eligible for free influenza vaccination, where to get vaccinated, and how can more people benefit from the policy? A reporter interviewed industry experts.
Q: Why provide free influenza vaccination for the "one old, one young" population in rural areas?
A: Autumn and winter are the peak seasons for influenza. The immune systems of the elderly and children are relatively weak, making them susceptible to influenza. Influenza vaccination is the most economical and effective means of preventing influenza and can significantly reduce the risk of severe illness and death. Wang Fuzhen, a researcher at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, recommends that people aged 6 months and above, especially key populations such as the "one old, one young" and those 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 epidemic season.
In the past, influenza vaccination was provided for a fee. Rural populations live scattered, and the proportion of elderly and children is relatively high. Awareness of influenza vaccination was weak and willingness was low, resulting in a relatively high incidence of influenza. Implementing a free vaccination policy for them can attract more people to get vaccinated, form an immune barrier, and reduce the occurrence of influenza clusters.
Q: Who exactly does the "one old, one young" population in rural areas refer to?
A: "One old" refers to elderly people aged 65 and above; "one young" refers to primary and secondary school students in the compulsory education stage.
For example, this year, the free influenza vaccination policy in Shenyang, Liaoning, has been further expanded: after incorporating all elderly people aged 65 and above and children aged 3–6 in the city into the scope of free vaccination under the municipal government's livelihood projects, primary and secondary school students in the compulsory education stage in rural areas have also been included in the scope of free vaccination.
Q: Where can one get free influenza vaccination, and what are the principles, procedures, and precautions for vaccination?
A: At present, vaccination clinics at medical and health institutions such as county (city) hospitals, township health centers (community health service centers) in various localities can all provide free influenza vaccination. Some localities also provide appointment-based on-site vaccination services for personnel in settings such as elderly care institutions and schools.
Free influenza vaccination for the "one old, one young" population in rural areas follows the principles of informed consent, voluntary participation, and no charge, and no fee of any kind is collected throughout the entire vaccination process. Before vaccination, vaccination staff will inform recipients of relevant information about the vaccine, populations unsuitable for vaccination, and post-vaccination precautions. Recipients should also truthfully report their recent physical condition and whether they have any contraindications to vaccination. After staff assess and confirm that vaccination is appropriate and the recipient signs the informed consent form, the vaccine can be administered. After vaccination, recipients should remain under observation at the vaccination unit for 30 minutes and may leave only if no abnormalities occur. If persistent discomfort occurs after vaccination, one should seek medical attention promptly and inform the vaccination unit. Elderly people aged 65 and above should present their resident identity card for vaccination, and primary and secondary school students, in addition to their identity card, also need to bring their vaccination certificate.
Q: How can more rural residents benefit from the preferential policy?
A: On the one hand, do a good job of policy publicity. For example, Xinmin City, Shenyang, Liaoning, carries out multi-channel publicity through coordination between towns and villages: medical staff enter communities for face-to-face science popularization; village loudspeakers broadcast repeatedly; village and group WeChat groups push policy information; town and village cadres visit households door to door, specifically explaining the policy, answering questions on the spot, and dispelling residents' doubts.
On the other hand, optimize vaccination services. For example, Yanzhou District, Jining City, Shandong, has launched a WeChat mini-program for influenza vaccination appointment, forming a model of "one-click online appointment + multi-point offline service." The central health center of Da'an Town, Yanzhou District, provides extended vaccination clinic hours and weekend vaccination sessions; for disabled and semi-disabled elderly people with limited mobility in nursing homes, it organizes mobile vaccination teams to provide on-site vaccination services.
Q: How do key populations such as the "one old, one young" in non-rural areas pay for influenza vaccination?
A: Some localities, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, Guangdong, have implemented free policies for influenza vaccination for key populations such as the "one old, one young" in non-rural areas. For example, Beijing implements a free influenza vaccination policy for elderly people aged 60 and above, students of all types of primary and secondary schools, as well as frontline staff in key industries such as primary and secondary schools, elderly care institutions, medical institutions, and disease control institutions.
At present, most regions of our country only implement free influenza vaccination for the "one old, one young" population in rural areas. For the "one old, one young" population in non-rural areas, influenza vaccination can be paid for using the personal account of employee basic medical insurance. The personal account of employee basic medical insurance can be used to pay for the insured person and their insured close relatives (spouses, children, parents, etc.), covering the influenza vaccine fee and injection service fee. It can be used when getting vaccinated against influenza at designated medical institutions such as community health service centers and township health centers.
Return to TopAnshan, Liaoning, is both the "Capital of Steel of the Republic," which rose to prominence through steel, and a "City of Revitalization" advancing toward the new. In 2025, Anshan's gross regional product grew by 5.5 percent year on year, ranking third in economic output in Liaoning Province. Behind these impressive figures lies the indispensable support of electric power, which not only provides basic safeguards for production and daily life but also lays a solid energy foundation for Anshan's high-quality development.
Over the years, State Grid Anshan Power Supply Company has taken the optimization of the power business environment as its starting point. In the process of building the "Liaoliang · Anxin" power supply service brand, it has used the Party committee responsibility list to set the direction, the administrative task list to ensure implementation, and the disciplinary inspection and supervision list to enforce strict accountability. These "three lists" are closely linked and interconnected (环环相扣, huan huan xiang kou - "ring, ring, connect, together") and work in the same direction, pressing service responsibilities down to each post and implementing reform measures down to each individual. A picture of electric power and the city prospering together, and of the power grid and industry resonating in unison, is slowly unfolding across the land of the Steel Capital.
Government-Enterprise Collaboration in Grid Construction
Making "Electric Power First" the "First Move in Revitalization"
State Grid Anshan Power Supply Company has moved its service front end forward, pressing the "accelerator button" for the implementation of key projects. Coordinating with 18 government units, and taking data sharing, planning integration, and construction coordination as its starting points, it has driven the transformation of power grid planning from "following installation applications" to "matching layout." Eleven obstructed power grid issues have been placed under "listed supervision and handling."
Since 2025, Anshan has strengthened targeted investment attraction in areas such as supporting facilities for leading enterprises and central-local enterprise cooperation, driving 874 key projects, including the Yusen Pulp and Paper Integration project and the Tsingtao Brewery digital and intelligent production base project, to start construction on schedule and accelerate construction. In the process of serving project construction, State Grid Anshan Power Supply Company has consistently adhered to "letting electric power development stay ahead of market demand," building a strong and smart power grid. The Tiaojuntai 220 kV power transmission and transformation project is being accelerated to safeguard electricity use for "Cornerstone Plan" projects such as Chen Taigou Minmetals. It has launched 20 key tasks under the "Anxin Business Environment, Electricity Lights Up the Steel Capital" initiative, proactively connected with 1,493 grassroots government grids, and provided "four-fast" services of "fast application processing, fast construction, fast transfer, and fast acceptance," resolving electricity-related demands at their source. It has connected the municipal administrative approval system with the power marketing system, realizing "online joint application for installation" and "offline joint site survey" for water, electricity, gas, and heating, changing enterprise electricity application from "running to multiple departments" to "handled in one place."
Today, "the power grid accompanying projects" has become the new normal.
Electric Power Services Benefit Enterprises
Making "Access to Electricity" the "Confidence for Development"
In recent years, Anshan has explored transformation and development, nurturing emerging industries such as the pet economy, magnesite new materials, and cultural tourism and health care. Electric power services have been integrated in advance into the entire chain of planning, construction, and operation of various industrial parks, and the improvement of "access to electricity" services has brought many conveniences to enterprises.
State Grid Anshan Power Supply Company has implemented the "open-door electricity connection" model in key industrial parks, with power supply services intervening in advance during the park planning and land transfer stages, laying out power source points and supporting grid frameworks ahead of time, so that enterprises can directly connect to electricity upon settling in. All seven county-level and district-level companies have fully promoted enterprise WeChat work account electricity application QR codes, helping enterprises analyze energy consumption conditions in real time, interpret electricity policies, provide electricity cost analysis reports, and guide enterprises in optimizing production shifts and adjusting load curves to tap into the potential for energy conservation and cost reduction. Through the "i State Grid" app, it operates the "Liaoran" micro-application, and relying on the intelligent Q&A AI function of the "Marketing Doubao" electricity policy knowledge base, it improves staff service capabilities and enhances the customer service experience. It has set up convenient power service points in industrial clusters, assigned "one-on-one" power service specialists to park enterprises, and provided services of "one plan per park, one specialist per enterprise, one-stop companionship," realizing that business such as power supply plan formulation and business expansion installation acceptance is handled by a single window, and enterprises can handle electricity matters without leaving the park.
In terms of cost reduction and empowerment, State Grid Anshan Power Supply Company has compiled service lists according to the key nodes of enterprise equipment installation, commissioning, and production start-up, ensuring that enterprises "connect to electricity upon landing." Since the beginning of this year, it has cumulatively saved customers 38 million yuan in investment. For rural industries such as deep processing of agricultural products, specialty breeding, and cold-chain logistics, it relies on village-grid co-construction service points and power supply service stations, enabling villagers to handle electricity matters without leaving their villages. In terms of industry customization, State Grid Anshan Power Supply Company has set up green electricity and green certificate counters and market-oriented service counters in business halls, promoted the "Dian e Jin Fu" series of products to broaden financing channels for small, medium, and micro enterprises, and during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the cumulative business scale has exceeded 11.3 billion yuan.
Digital and Intelligent Empowerment of Operation and Maintenance
Making "Imperceptible Maintenance" the "Normal State of Supply Guarantee"
On January 20, 2026, Anshan's power grid set a new historical record, with daily power supply reaching 90.68 million kWh, breaking through the 90 million kWh mark for the first time.
State Grid Anshan Power Supply Company has taken the transformation of maintenance methods as an important starting point for optimizing the power business environment, adhering to the principles of "transfer whenever possible, live-line work whenever possible, and combine multiple tasks into one outage," and comprehensively implementing four types of imperceptible maintenance strategies: "loop network mutual transfer, bypass transfer supply, direct supply by power source vehicles, and live-line work."
During power grid maintenance, State Grid Anshan Power Supply Company adopts a combination of "direct supply by generator vehicles + live-line work" for major traffic arteries, high-load parks, and continuous production enterprises. Generator vehicles first take over the load, and then maintenance is carried out while equipment remains in operation, reducing planned outage time from the source. It has advanced the "three-remote" upgrade of automation terminals, built 115 fully self-healing demonstration distribution network lines, and achieved precise fault isolation and rapid self-healing, transforming fault handling from "manual rush repair" to "automatic healing." It has comprehensively carried out the integration of autonomous drone inspection and AI image recognition, automatically identifying and eliminating hidden dangers such as loose fittings and damaged insulators, driving operation and maintenance from "passive handling" to "proactive warning," and raising the power supply reliability rate to 99.96 percent.
With the power grid as the foundation and peace of mind as the essence. From the project race of "connect to electricity upon acquiring land," to the service warmth of "not running even once," to the digital and intelligent answer sheet of "imperceptible maintenance," State Grid Anshan Power Supply Company is injecting inexhaustible momentum into the high-quality development of the Steel Capital with surging electric energy, and contributing to the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China in the new era.
Data source: State Grid Anshan Power Supply Company
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On October 27, in the first round of the women's singles main draw at the 2026 Guangzhou International Women's Tennis Open, young player Sun Xinran defeated Thai player Sawangkaew, who is ranked 80th in the world. This was the second time in her career that she has defeated a player ranked in the world's top 100.
As the main draw of the 2026 Guangzhou International Women's Tennis Open got underway, the Chinese tennis season gradually drew to a close. Entering its second year of branding, eight international professional tour events, spanning multiple cities and levels, were strung together into a tennis feast lasting nearly two months. With local players continuously breaking through, deep integration of culture, sports, tourism, and commerce, and the widespread dissemination of Chinese stories, the 2026 Chinese season delivered an impressive report card.
China's tennis talent pipeline continues to improve
Throughout this Chinese season, local players have been working together toward a common goal (并肩奔赴, bing jian ben fu - "side by side, rush toward") on various courts, continuously delivering surprises. Zheng Qinwen claimed the first local women's singles title at the China Open in the 20 editions of the tournament. After undergoing elbow surgery and seeing her ranking plummet, she withstood external doubts and found herself again. "I am truly grateful to have found that fire within me again, and I am striving to become the best version of myself." From the low point of injury to lifting her first WTA (Women's Tennis Association) 1000-level tournament trophy on home soil, Zheng Qinwen's return is the best illustration of resilience. The 37-year-old Zhang Shuai, after consecutively competing in the Billie Jean King Cup and the Asian Games, went on to finish as runner-up in women's doubles at the China Open, writing a moving chapter of hard work and perseverance.
At the Wuhan Open, more local players performed outstandingly. Young player Shi Han secured her first career victory over a top-20 player in the world. "I went in with the mindset of a challenger, fighting hard. I hope to maintain this momentum and play even better tennis." Guo Hanyu advanced to the women's singles round of 16, setting a new personal best in WTA 1000-level singles events.
The men's players also unleashed powerful energy. Shang Juncheng secured his first main-draw victory at the China Open and also reached the men's doubles semifinals with his partner; Bu Yunchaokete recorded wins at both the China Open and the Shanghai Masters; Wu Yibing, after winning the silver medal in men's singles at the Asian Games, advanced to the second round of men's singles at the Shanghai Masters, engaging in a fierce contest with world No. 1 German player Zverev, accumulating valuable experience in high-intensity competition. "Being able to compete against the world's top players is in itself a rare experience that will push me to keep moving forward," Wu Yibing said.
Veterans holding their ground, the middle generation breaking through, and the new generation making breakthroughs together outline the upward trajectory of China's tennis talent pipeline. The 16-year-old Sun Xinran became the youngest player in China Open history to advance to the round of 32 in singles; the 21-year-old Zhou Yi won two consecutive matches at the Shanghai Masters to advance to the round of 32 in men's singles, setting a new personal best at Masters-level events.
Tennis becomes a trendy lifestyle
Beyond the exciting matches, the various tennis events of the Chinese season are becoming important vehicles for driving urban consumption and activating economic momentum, and tennis has also become a trendy lifestyle for the public.
During the National Day holiday, the China Open's popularity and consumption figures both rose. During the tournament, the total number of visitors to the venue exceeded 450,000, with out-of-Beijing spectators accounting for 60 percent, box office revenue reaching 132 million yuan, and comprehensive consumption exceeding 55 million yuan, all setting new historical records. Sales of licensed merchandise doubled compared to last year. "This year's China Open built a four-tier integrated scenario of 'super live venue, business district linkage, cinema screens, and themed supporting activities,' transforming the unending and continuous (源源不断, yuan yuan bu duan - "source, source, not, continuous") spectator traffic into tangible consumption vitality for the city," said Li Xuhua, executive deputy secretary-general of the China Open organizing committee.
The Shanghai Masters broke free from the confines of the tournament period, extending the experience chain and creating diverse urban tennis scenarios. This year's Masters launched a carnival during non-match periods, featuring player training observation sessions, a tennis-themed museum, and celebrity invitational matches. "The tournament is no longer confined to the single venue of Qizhong Tennis Center. Through innovative formats such as second live sites, citywide stamp-collecting check-ins, and cross-event joint tickets, we extend the tennis atmosphere to the city's streets and alleys, continuously amplifying the tournament's brand value and tapping into the potential of high-end consumption scenarios," said Yang Yibin, chairman of Shanghai Jiushi Sports & Entertainment Culture and Tourism Group Co., Ltd. This year, the tournament attracted nearly 250,000 spectators, with overseas spectators accounting for about 12 percent, and total revenue of approximately 500 million yuan, with sponsorship, box office, and television rights dividends all setting new records.
The Wuhan Open, relying on policy empowerment, extended the ticket-stub economy to a broader scope. Hubei Province issued 20 million yuan in "Joyful Sports Hubei" consumption vouchers, which were stacked with Wuhan City's 10 million yuan in autumn sports consumption vouchers, linking business districts and scenic areas to offer exclusive ticket-stub discounts, connecting cultural and tourism resources across the province. The tournament attracted 202,700 spectators to the venue, setting a new historical record. According to comprehensive assessment, the tournament generated approximately 890 million yuan in comprehensive economic benefits, an increase of 26.24 percent over last year. The themed event bus of the Chengdu Open was particularly eye-catching. This "event + consumption" special route departs from Kuanzhai Alley, passes through Times Outlets, and goes directly to the Sichuan International Tennis Center. The bus features event and Chengdu city-life themed livery, with consumption maps and ticket-stub check-in QR codes posted inside the carriage. Spectators can use their event ticket stubs to unlock dining, shopping, and cultural tourism benefits at nearly 3,000 merchants across the city, achieving "watching matches in Shuangliu, consuming across the city."
Stepping off the court to "touch" Chinese culture
Tennis is a sport with global influence. The Chinese season has built a platform for exchange, with international players stepping off the court to "touch" Chinese culture and presenting vivid Chinese stories to the world.
The Hangzhou Tennis Open coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. The organizing committee arranged for players to board the "Moon Boat" on West Lake for a nighttime cruise, experiencing up close the Chinese-style romance of folk music, classical dance, and moon-worship customs; world No. 1 women's player, Kazakhstan's Rybakina, visited the Yuebo Shulou on Dongqian Lake before the start of the Ningbo Tennis Open, changing into Song Dynasty-style attire to experience tea whisking and painting oil-paper umbrellas. She admitted that Ningbo is a "special place, and I hope to come back again next year"; Spanish player Fokina visited the Chengdu Shu Brocade Cultural and Creative Park, witnessing the intricate and lengthy weaving process of the flower-loom, and remarked, "Tennis matches emphasize rhythm and patience, but every inch of brocade here requires a focus passed down through generations."
On and off the court, more and more foreign players, umpires, and technical officials are learning to greet and interact in simple Chinese. The match-watching etiquette of domestic fans has also earned widespread recognition from players. What impressed players even more were the thoughtful gifts from Chinese fans: hand-drawn portraits of star players, handwritten letters of blessing, city-themed cultural and creative products... Serbian star Djokovic sincerely said after winning the China Open title: "Chinese fans are among the best fans in the world. They send all kinds of gifts and wait for me for a long time. This sincerity is truly touching."
"The 2026 Chinese season has many highlights, great influence, and high value, showcasing the openness and inclusiveness of cities." Bai Xilin, director of the Tennis Management Center of the General Administration of Sport of China, believes that the Chinese season reflects diverse values: "More and more people are walking into tennis venues and feeling the culture and emotional resonance that the events carry."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 硕
In this year's Chinese tennis season, homegrown players have delivered one impressive performance after another. Zheng Qinwen became the first homegrown women's singles champion in the 20 editions of the China Open, and Zhang Shuai advanced to the women's doubles final of the China Open; Wu Yibing and Bu Yunchaokete secured victories at the Shanghai Masters; young players such as Shi Han, Sun Xinran, and Zhou Yi competed on home soil, setting new personal bests in their professional careers.
The 2026 Chinese season includes 8 international professional tour events, with a total of 45 tournaments of various kinds held during the same period, of which 27 are international events. Lower-tier events, junior events, and top-tier tournaments are linked in a tiered structure, building a platform for homegrown players of different levels to accumulate match experience and earn ranking points. This year, both the boys' and girls' singles champions of the China Open junior tournament went to young Chinese players, as the new generation shone on home soil. "We have coordinated the wild card resources across the Chinese season to give more young homegrown players the opportunity to step onto high-level courts, and through one hard-fought match after another, they have built up their confidence in competition," said Bai Xilin, director of the Tennis Management Center of the General Administration of Sport of China.
After 16-year-old Sun Xinran reached the women's singles round of 32 at the China Open, she deliberately slowed the pace of her professional tournament schedule, settling herself and adjusting her form, then competed in the ITF World Tennis Tour Junior Finals and ultimately claimed the title. "We must respect the laws of junior player development and must not act impetuously without regard for gradual progress," Bai Xilin said.
Tennis is a sport with pronounced internationalization and professionalization, and its pathways to success are diverse and open. Bai Xilin explained that in terms of reserve talent development, the Tennis Management Center benchmarks against top international standards to build a scientific "champion model," establishing a dual-pyramid talent development system that spans the entire chain of talent selection, cultivation, and development, integrates all elements of training, competition, study, and education, and covers all dimensions of government, society, market, and family.
At present, a clearly tiered junior tournament matrix has been established in China, with diverse events such as mini-tennis tournaments, the China Junior City Challenge, and the China Junior Tennis Tour being held regularly and on an ongoing basis, providing stable competitive opportunities for junior players of all age groups. "We adhere to the principle of solidifying the foundation at home while elevating capabilities abroad. The overseas training and competition program in the United States launched at the end of 2025 has yielded notable results, and the relevant overseas training plan for 2026 will continue to move forward, opening up a complete development pathway that runs from talent selection at home, through international forging, to testing on the world stage," Bai Xilin said. A total of 8 Chinese players qualified for the main draw of the 2026 Australian Open junior tournament, setting a new historical high; in internationally renowned junior events such as the Orange Bowl, young Chinese players have also continued to make breakthroughs.
The growth of reserve talent cannot be separated from the simultaneous upgrading of coaching and support teams. Bai Xilin explained that in the future, the center will rely on the Chinese season to carry out specialized training for coaches and rehabilitation therapists on a regular basis, dispatch key personnel to Grand Slam venues to study advanced concepts, and improve a technology support system integrating physical fitness, rehabilitation, psychology, and sports data analysis, so as to build a solid support foundation for the long-term development of junior players.
"Chinese tennis has already nurtured fertile soil for the continuous growth of talent. We will maintain patience and make sustained, long-term effort, continuously consolidating the foundation of reserve talent, smoothing diverse pathways for talent development, and enabling more junior tennis players to break through and grow, accumulating an inexhaustible long-term force for Chinese tennis," Bai Xilin said.
Return to TopOn September 20, the 2026 Yichun Forest Food Industry High-Quality Development Conference was held at the Lindu Hotel in Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province. At the conference, the results of the project "Multi-Nutrient Composition Detection and Analysis of Birch Sap and Construction of an Authentication Fingerprint Atlas," led by the Heilongjiang Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau and undertaken by the research team of Northeast Forestry University, were released, marking the official establishment of a standardized nutritional database and authentication fingerprint atlas for birch sap covering 1,717 valid samples across the entire Heilongjiang Province.
This achievement is the first standardized nutritional database and authentication fingerprint atlas for birch sap covering the entire Heilongjiang Province nationwide. The database brings together 1,717 valid samples, with sampling ranging from Mohe in the north to the southern foothills of the Zhangguangcai Mountains in the south, spanning latitudes from 42 degrees north to 53 degrees north, fully ensuring the comprehensiveness of the database samples and the reliability of the data, providing dual technical and data support for comprehensively characterizing the nutritional components of natural birch sap and defining product quality.
In recent years, the birch sap industry in Heilongjiang Province has developed rapidly, and birch sap has become an important category of the provincial forestry public brand "Nine Treasures and Eighteen Products" and an important growth point of the under-forest economy. At present, the birch sap industry still faces problems such as inconsistent basic data and a lack of scientific basis for related publicity, and the quality and efficacy claims of various products are of varying quality or standards (良莠不齐, liang you bu qi - "good, bad, not equal"). Questions such as "What nutritional components does birch sap contain?" and "How can one distinguish genuine from counterfeit products, and where can one buy authentic products?" have become focal concerns for consumers.
The establishment of the standardized nutritional database and authentication fingerprint atlas for birch sap this time fills the gap in basic industry data, actively responds to consumer concerns, empowers enterprise development, guides fair and orderly competition in the industry, and facilitates the standardized, transparent, and high-quality development of the industry. It also consolidates the technical foundation for birch sap quality evaluation and the compilation of atlas standards.
Going forward, the relevant research team will continue to improve the two major databases, promote the standardized implementation of detection methods and fingerprint atlases, and develop rapid detection methods using fluorescent probes for special components, providing strong technical support for the compilation of national standards for the birch sap industry.
Data source: Heilongjiang Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau
Return to TopIn the golden autumn of southern Jiangxi, vitality bursts forth everywhere, and the resolute strides to boost the economy, stabilize growth, and promote development ring out with strength. In February 2026, the "Opinions of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council on Accelerating the Revitalization and Development of Old Revolutionary Base Areas" was issued, bringing another major opportunity for the development of the old revolutionary base area of southern Jiangxi.
A long scroll of solid "Gan" (Jiangxi) effort shines upon the red soil, and revitalization and development advance to the rhythm of song. Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, is striving ahead with full force (奋楫扬帆, fèn jí yáng fān - "row, oar; raise, sail"), taking the construction of a demonstration zone for high-quality development in old revolutionary base areas as its overall focus, and in the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, vigorously forging a new situation of high-quality economic and social development.
Boosting industries, promoting opening up, development momentum grows stronger
Entering Ganzhou Pinxin New Materials Co., Ltd. in Xinhua Industrial Park, Dayu County, Ganzhou City, waste tungsten wire, waste tungsten alloy, waste milling cutters and other scrap materials are turned into treasure through the company's independently developed molten salt electrolysis technology for preparing ferrotungsten. As the "Tungsten Capital of the World," Dayu County has anchored itself to the direction of high-end, intelligent, and green development, and has formed a complete industrial chain of "mining—rough concentration—tungsten concentrate—ammonium paratungstate—tungsten oxide—tungsten powder—tungsten carbide powder—cemented carbide—cutting tools and drill bits—comprehensive resource recycling and utilization."
Adhering to cluster development and innovation-driven development, Ganzhou has optimized the implementation of the "7510" action plan, vigorously carried out the "Banyan Tree Action" to support enterprise growth, and striven to build a modern industrial system with Ganzhou characteristics. Four 100-billion-yuan industrial clusters—nonferrous metals and new materials, electronic information, modern home furnishings, and textiles and apparel—are developing rapidly; the number of industrial enterprises above designated size in the city has exceeded 3,100, ranking first in the province. The vitality of new quality productive forces continues to surge, scientific and technological strength is accelerating its convergence, the National Rare Earth Technology Innovation Center has launched enterprise-oriented operations, and the Gannan Laboratory has officially begun operations; breakthroughs in original innovation continue to emerge, with two Class 1 chemical innovative drugs and one Class 1.2 innovative traditional Chinese medicine coming to market, achieving a "zero breakthrough" for Jiangxi Province.
The modern service industry continues to prosper and develop. Ganzhou is promoting deep integration of culture, sports, commerce, and tourism, creating a new calling card as an "internet-famous city." From the cheers at the "Qianchao" Ganzhou City Football Super League, to the ten-thousand-person chorus at singer concerts, to the scene innovation of the "Sing and Tour Ganzhou" benefit concert, a series of events and performances have ignited the entire city, and "Ganzhou's popularity" is increasingly going viral.
Major industries, major platforms, major enterprises, and major markets resonate in unison, accumulating strong momentum for high-quality development. Ganzhou, located at the junction of the four provinces of Jiangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, and Hunan, is surging with a wave of opening up.
Promoting development through reform, Ganzhou has solidly advanced the reform of benchmarking against Shenzhen's rules and regulations, with the province having authorized 31 items cumulatively and the city having launched 84 reform items. Implementing the action to strengthen and extend the comprehensive freight hub chain, a cumulative total of over 1,800 China-Europe freight trains have been operated, accounting for more than 80% of the province's total.
Seeking win-win outcomes through cooperation, Ganzhou has vigorously implemented the assault action for investment attraction, newly introducing 112 projects of 100 million yuan or more this year, including Zhongqing Robotics and Quectel Wireless. The paired cooperation between Shenzhen and Ganzhou has deepened and been consolidated, with 18 annual key cooperation items advancing in an orderly manner, and Ganzhou is steadily moving toward its goal of building itself into a bridgehead for integrating into the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Strengthening foundations, optimizing the environment, urban and rural areas transform with new looks
Since officially opening to traffic more than a year ago, Ganzhou Ruijin Airport has opened 6 routes to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou in Guangdong, Chengdu in Sichuan, Nanjing in Jiangsu, and Zunyi in Guizhou, with cumulative passenger throughput exceeding 200,000, building an "air express lane" for the people of the Jiangxi-Fujian border region.
Ganzhou's status as a national comprehensive transportation hub is becoming increasingly prominent. It has built the province's largest railway network, expressway network, and rural road network, achieving "dual expressways" and piped natural gas in every county, and 5G network coverage in every village. The safe and efficient infrastructure system provides solid support for revitalization and development.
Urban and rural development must not only strengthen the bones and muscles but also expand capacity and improve quality. In the eastern urban area of Anyuan County, multiple roads are under construction simultaneously, excavators are carrying out orderly excavation operations, and the upgrading of underground "capillaries" is being accelerated. Previously, the underground pipe network in the eastern urban area had problems such as aging pipes, mixed rainwater and sewage connections, and insufficient drainage capacity. The Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Anyuan County has coordinated the advancement of the underground pipe network renewal project, continuously improving the quality and function of the city.
Since the beginning of this year, Ganzhou has implemented 529 urban renewal projects with a completed investment of 16.38 billion yuan. At present, the built-up area of the central urban area has expanded to 254 square kilometers, and the total mileage of expressways exceeds 131 kilometers. The urbanization rate of the city's permanent population has risen to 60.27%.
The magnificent southern Jiangxi, the rise of a great city. As an important ecological barrier in southern China, Ganzhou has solidly done its work on "governing the mountains and waters, revealing the mountains and waters," with a 100% excellent water quality rate at national assessment sections in 2025, and air quality maintaining the best in the province. The city has cumulatively renovated 5.3 million mu of low-quality and low-efficiency forests, completed the treatment of 2,423 abandoned mines left over from history, and created 258 pilot villages for beautiful and harmonious villages with "four integrations and one commonality," as the urban-rural ecological picture scroll of livability and tourism unfolds gradually and smoothly (徐徐铺展, xú xú pū zhǎn - "slowly, slowly; spread, unfold").
The five-year transition period task of consolidating and expanding the achievements of the battle against poverty and effectively linking them with rural revitalization has been successfully completed, and Ganzhou is striving toward a new journey. Through improving the monitoring, early warning, and assistance mechanisms for preventing the return to poverty and the emergence of new poverty, 133,100 people have been helped to eliminate the risk of returning to or falling into poverty. Through measures such as the driving force of assistance workshops, the placement of public welfare posts, and the creation of distinctive labor service brands, 634,200 people who have emerged from poverty in the city have found nearby and flexible employment.
On the road to comprehensive rural revitalization, modern agriculture paints a "bumper harvest" scene. The brand value of "Gannan navel oranges" has ranked first among national fruit categories for 12 consecutive years, "Gannan tea oil" has been listed on the China Geographical Indication Product Regional Brand Top 100 for 9 consecutive years, and "Gannan selenium products" have entered the World Selenium Capital (Enshi) Selenium Products Expo and Trade Fair and the China International Agricultural Products Trade Fair, with the city's total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries exceeding 80 billion yuan.
Benefiting people's livelihoods, uniting people's hearts, red genes are passed down from generation to generation
In San'erwu Village, Changning Town, Xunwu County, villagers grow passion fruit, run online shops, and serve as volunteer lecturers, leading a rich and colorful rural life. Relying on its abundant red resources, San'erwu Village has meticulously built the Xunwu Investigation·1930 Red Culture and Tourism Block and the San'erwu Cultural Living Room, enhancing the effectiveness of public cultural services and becoming a national pilot for the construction of beautiful red villages.
All the many things in life (悠悠万事, yōu yōu wàn shì - "long, long; ten thousand, matters"), people's livelihoods are the greatest. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan period, Ganzhou has adhered to a people-centered approach, with the proportion of livelihood expenditures in general public budget expenditures remaining above 80%, public services becoming more inclusive and higher in quality, and the average annual growth rate of urban and rural residents' income ranking first in the province over the past five years.
Focusing on the urgent difficulties and concerns of the masses, Ganzhou has done solid work on livelihood matters. The "free accommodation + precise assistance" employment service has made the job search journey of more than 4,000 college graduates more secure. Two national regional medical centers are operating with high quality, and 66 "medical insurance service e-stations" have been established, allowing the masses to seek medical treatment with fewer trips. 43,000 sets of "reclining" desks and chairs have been configured in nearly 200 primary and secondary schools, making children's lunch breaks more comfortable. Old school buildings have been "renewed," and 208 "happiness homes for the elderly and children" safeguard constant and enduring happiness (朝夕美好, zhāo xī měi hǎo - "morning, evening; beautiful, good").
The people of southern Jiangxi, bathed in the warm sunshine, are fully devoted to the overall situation of revitalization and development, and vivid scenes of cadres and the masses working together with one heart are visible everywhere.
Building a high-quality cadre and talent team, effectively resolving people's concerns and doing practical things. Recently, the 32nd session of the Ganzhou City Training Class for Young and Middle-Aged Cadres divided its trainees into 8 research groups to conduct social practice research at the grassroots level. The research groups integrated the "As Me +" action of Ganzhou City into the entire process of practical research, sorting out the genuine demands collected and transforming them into actionable and pragmatic countermeasures.
The elderly assistance service team has a "9 o'clock appointment" every day, the "skills sharing service group" provides "15-minute doorstep skills service," and "shared grandfathers" help pick up and drop off students in the jurisdiction... Longnan City's urban communities have innovatively implemented the "grid + sharing" management model, with three forces—"community workers + party member volunteers + functional department cadres"—sinking into 13 grids, achieving a response to general demands within 2 hours and resolution of complex problems within 24 hours, cumulatively carrying out nearly 4,000 sharing services, injecting momentum into grassroots governance.
With unity of purpose at all levels, Ganzhou's various undertakings have gained a profound and enduring source of strength. On the road of the new era's examination, Ganzhou inherits the red genes, vigorously promotes the great Long March spirit and the Soviet area spirit, and answers the "every journey, every breakthrough, every battle" of revitalization and development.
Chasing dreams on the red soil and setting out anew, the old revolutionary base area is precisely the time to strive with full force.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Ganzhou Municipal Committee, Ganzhou Converged Media Center
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 沈小晓 曹师韵 刘 刚
October 31 is World Cities Day. The United Nations Human Settlements Programme recently issued an announcement introducing that this year's World Cities Day theme is "Renewal Empowers, Livable Cities Realize Dreams," focusing on how urban renewal and livable construction can help achieve the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Buildings are the basic units of cities and also key areas of energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. A report by the United Nations Environment Programme shows that emissions related to building construction and operation account for about one-third of global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Accelerating the green transformation of the construction industry is increasingly becoming an important lever for countries to promote urban renewal and improve livability quality.
In recent years, Egypt, Indonesia, and Vietnam have, in light of local conditions, formulated industry standards, improved incentive policies, and created demonstration projects, building a number of green buildings with distinctive features, providing useful reference for sustainable urban development.
Egypt——
Building a Local Rating System
New Cities Incorporate Green Standards
Reflective roofs paired with external shading facilities effectively lower indoor temperatures; smart lighting and water-saving devices monitor energy consumption in real time... With multiple energy-saving and environmentally friendly designs, the Grand Egyptian Museum received the EDGE (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies) Advanced green building certification issued by the International Finance Corporation in February 2024, becoming the first museum in Africa and the Middle East to receive this certification.
In November 2025, the Grand Egyptian Museum officially opened. The museum covers a total area of 500,000 square meters. A relevant person in charge of the museum introduced that the energy saved by the museum each year is equivalent to the annual emissions of more than 400 fuel-powered vehicles removed from the streets of Cairo, and annual water savings can reach 63.4 million liters. The Grand Egyptian Museum demonstrates Egypt's leading position and firm determination in promoting green buildings.
To regulate the development of green buildings and reduce the impact of construction activities on the environment, Egypt established the Green Building Council in 2009, responsible for promoting green building standards and carrying out industry publicity and training. In April 2011, the council, together with the Egyptian National Research Center for Housing and Building, jointly released a local green building rating system—the Green Pyramid Rating System. The system conducts comprehensive ratings of buildings from seven aspects: sustainable sites, energy efficiency, water efficiency, materials and resources, indoor environmental quality, operations management, and innovation and added value, achieving standardized and localized management of green buildings.
The concept of green buildings is being integrated into the daily lives of Egyptians. Recently, the first phase of the Jadina comprehensive residential community in the New Heliopolis area of Cairo received the Gold certification under Egypt's Green Pyramid Rating System, becoming the country's first sustainable residential project to receive this certification. The project implements sustainable standards throughout the entire process of planning, design, and construction, covering multiple assessment dimensions such as energy efficiency and water efficiency. The project also introduces the Internet of Things and smart applications to support digital management of the community, extending the green concept from the construction stage to daily operations.
In the construction of projects such as the New Administrative Capital and New Alamein City, Egypt's Ministry of Housing is vigorously promoting the concept of green buildings, integrating sustainable development technologies into various systems including urban planning, infrastructure, landscape greening, water-saving irrigation, and energy-saving lighting. Among them, the rooftop solar project in the residential area of the New Administrative Capital is expected to have an installed capacity of 130 megawatts, which can meet 30 to 35 percent of the new city's electricity demand upon completion, making it a leading rooftop photovoltaic power generation project in scale in the Middle East and Africa region.
Karim Farah, an Egyptian expert on green buildings and sustainable development, said that to promote the long-term sustainable development of green buildings, it is necessary to introduce more supporting incentive policies, ensure the supply of affordable green building materials, build a coordination mechanism between government and market, and strengthen coordination and cooperation among all stakeholders.
Indonesia——
Public Projects Lead by Example
Creating Benchmarks for Ecological Buildings
The Sequis Tower, located in the Sudirman Central Business District in southern Jakarta, Indonesia, is a benchmark project for green buildings in Indonesia. The design of this 39-story office building is inspired by the aerial roots of local banyan trees. The four buildings rise from the ground like four saplings breaking through the soil and growing upward, with staggered heights at the top, forming a unique urban skyline.
Robert Whitlock, the design executive director of the tower, introduced that the building not only integrates natural imagery in its appearance, but its interior also incorporates multiple sustainable designs: the exterior walls use graduated fin-shaped panels, with panel density increasing with building height, effectively blocking solar radiation and reducing building temperature; 20 percent of building materials come from recyclable resources, and the project implements a strict waste recycling management system throughout; through water-saving fixtures and rainwater collection systems, water consumption is reduced by 30 percent; efficient ventilation, cooling, and lighting systems reduce the building's overall energy consumption by 36 percent compared to ordinary office buildings.
The Sequis Tower is one of the first buildings in Indonesia to receive Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification, and has also been certified as a Gold green building by the Green Building Council Indonesia. Mesari, a project developer management staff member, said: "The Sequis Tower is committed to creating an eco-friendly building, creating a better working environment and lifestyle for the city, and achieving harmonious coexistence between people and the environment."
In recent years, the demand for green buildings in Indonesia's market has continued to grow, and the government has introduced multiple measures to promote the development of the industry. The country took the lead in mandating green building standards in the public building sector, integrating green concepts into the construction of government office buildings, schools, hospitals, community facilities, and other projects. The Indonesian government has also introduced support policies such as tax reductions and fiscal subsidies, and has joined with financial institutions to launch financial products such as green low-interest loans and green bonds to broaden financing channels for green buildings.
In addition, the government and industry associations are actively promoting green technologies such as solar energy utilization, rainwater collection, and natural ventilation, and are enhancing society's awareness of green buildings through personnel training, industry exhibitions, and forums.
According to the "Indonesia Energy Transition Outlook 2026" report released by the Institute for Essential Services Reform in November 2025, as of 2024, according to the institute's statistical caliber, the total floor area of non-residential buildings in Indonesia certified as green buildings was approximately 7.4 million square meters, and the operation of green buildings had cumulatively reduced greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 350,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. The report predicts that by 2030, the certified green building area in Indonesia is expected to increase to 16.5 million square meters. With the continuous improvement of green building-related policies and technical standards, the potential for energy conservation and emission reduction in the building sector is expected to be further released.
Vietnam——
Improving Top-Level Policy Design
Increasing Quantity and Quality of Green Buildings
An oval building outline, a roof covered with lush green grass, and 10 large solar panels arranged symmetrically... The headquarters building of the telecommunications enterprise Viettel Group in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is a representative green office building in the country. This 8-story building creates an efficient collaborative office environment by opening up public spaces; the reasonable design of building depth and skylight layout allows all office areas to receive sufficient natural lighting, reducing artificial lighting energy consumption; native greenery planted on the roof effectively blocks heat absorption and improves the building's microclimate. According to the design team, integrating employees' office environment with the concept of sustainable development is the core element of the project's design.
Currently, Vietnam has proposed the goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2050, and regards the development of green buildings as an important measure to promote carbon emission reduction. To this end, the construction industry needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 74.3 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. To date, Vietnam has updated its green building certification system multiple times, providing clear references for green building construction entities. The latest certification standards cover the entire life cycle of green buildings from design, construction, to operation, setting specific standards in nine aspects including management, land and environment, energy, and capacity to respond to climate change.
Data from Vietnam's Ministry of Construction shows that, to date, the number of green buildings in the country has exceeded 500, with a total construction area of over 12 million square meters. In July this year, the government office building of Khanh Hoa Province in central Vietnam received green building certification, making it the first provincial government office building in Vietnam to receive green building certification. In response to the local characteristics of strong sunlight, the building uses high-performance glass and insulated roofing. A large-scale photovoltaic power generation system is installed on the building's roof to provide green electricity for the building. The building also has a smart energy monitoring system installed, which can save 45 percent of energy consumption and 43 percent of water resources, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 490 tons annually.
Recently, Vietnam's Ministry of Construction issued an action plan, striving to increase the number of certified green buildings to 1,200 by 2030. Nguyen Tuong Van, an official of Vietnam's Ministry of Construction, said that the government is continuously improving the policy system, enhancing the energy efficiency of the construction industry, and promoting resource conservation and environmental protection. "Green buildings are an important green solution that can both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and promote the green transformation of the construction industry."
(People's Daily reporter Bai Xiaochuan participated in the writing)
Return to TopBy: 崔 琦
Recently, the 47th World Congress of Vine and Wine and the General Assembly of Member States of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine concluded in Yinchuan, Ningxia. This is the first time in the congress's history of more than a century that it has been held in Asia. Yvette van der Merwe, President of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine, stated that Ningxia has standing out as a unique entity (独树一帜, du shu yi zhi - "alone, tree, one, mark") in the world's wine landscape. The fragrant journey of a glass of fine Gobi wine reflects the growth trajectory of Chinese agriculture from localized exploration to international development, and also embodies the deep development wisdom of China's advancement of agricultural and rural modernization in the new era.
For a long time, categories such as premium wine, caviar, and berries, constrained by production capacity, craftsmanship, and cross-border circulation conditions, have seen consumption largely limited to niche markets. Today, relying on a complete industrial system, China ensures stable supply through large-scale, standardized cultivation and breeding, enhances product quality through technological innovation, and opens up export channels through cross-border cold-chain logistics, enabling high-quality agricultural products to move from "niche novelty" to "shared by the masses." Ningxia wine has won the favor of overseas consumers with its excellent quality, domestically produced caviar has entered the global top tier thanks to a mature quality control system, and Yunnan blueberries have reached ordinary households in the Middle East through regular air freight. Overseas media have observed that China is continuously enriching the global supply of high-quality agricultural products. This practice of enhancing supply capacity through whole-industry-chain upgrading not only responds to domestic consumption upgrade demands but also provides more stable, high-quality options for the global market, allowing the fruits of agricultural development to benefit more people of all countries.
Based on local endowments and implementing differentiated policies, China has forged a path of differentiated, distinctive agricultural development, providing an important reference for global rural revitalization. Looking at the world, many countries' agricultural development faces the predicament of homogeneous competition and extensive growth, with distinctive high-value-added industries encountering difficulties such as seed and seedling barriers, technical shortcomings, and short industrial chains. China insists on proceeding from the resource endowments of each region, developing agriculture where suitable for agriculture and developing specialty industries where suitable for specialty industries, exploring a modern agricultural development path that prioritizes ecology, empowers industry, and enriches the people and revitalizes villages. Fuyuan in Heilongjiang has broken through core technologies for cultivating cranberry seedlings, allowing this berry crop native to North America to take root in cold regions, prospering the border areas and enriching the people; Linqu in Shandong has extended the foie gras industry chain, deepening intensive processing links and continuously raising product added value; Tongren in Guizhou has cultivated a matcha industry cluster relying on its excellent ecology, linking rural cultural tourism to unleash comprehensive benefits. Mohamed Manssouri, Director of the Investment Centre of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, observed that China's exploration of cultivating distinctive business forms based on local resources and promoting diversified income growth provides vivid experience for developing countries to activate rural endogenous momentum and explore differentiated revitalization paths.
Open, inclusive, learning from and learning through each other (互学互鉴, hu xue hu jian - "mutually, learn, mutually, examine"), China carries forward the tradition of agricultural civilization exchange, injecting lasting momentum into global agricultural cooperation. The cross-regional spread of species and the exchange and mutual learning of technology are the internal driving forces for the continuous evolution of human agricultural civilization. Historically, Chinese rice and tea traveled to the world along the ancient Silk Road, profoundly changing the global dietary landscape; foreign crops such as chili peppers and potatoes were introduced into China, also injecting new connotations into Chinese farming civilization. Today, from wine—once an "imported product"—growing into a "new Chinese specialty" with international influence, to French culinary teams coming to China to exchange foie gras processing techniques, and Mediterranean olives taking root in Longnan, Gansu, forming standardized cultivation experience, Chinese and foreign agriculture are learning from others' strengths to make up for one's own weaknesses (取长补短, qu chang bu duan - "take, long, supplement, short") and empowering each other through mutual learning. China consistently upholds the principles of openness, inclusiveness, cooperation, and win-win outcomes, promoting the interconnection of agricultural technology, the mutual appreciation of food cultures, and the sharing of development achievements. This is both a contemporary inheritance of a millennia-old tradition of agricultural exchange and a lasting source of momentum for global agriculture to jointly address challenges such as climate change and resource constraints.
Through a glass of wine, the world understands not only the growth of one industry in China, but also the practical logic and sense of responsibility of a major agricultural country in advancing modernization. China will continue to drive agricultural quality improvement through innovation, promote rural prosperity through green development, and advance common progress through open cooperation, working hand in hand with all countries to create a bright future of sustainable agricultural development and shared rural prosperity.
Return to TopTrain collision in Spain kills 68, with some Chinese citizens slightly injured
(People's Daily, Madrid, October 28) (Reporter Yan Huan) On the morning of the 28th local time, a high-speed railway train collision occurred in Toledo, capital of Spain's Castilla-La Mancha autonomous community. As of 18:00 on the 28th, the accident had caused 68 deaths, with 77 injured persons hospitalized, 15 of them in serious condition.
The Chinese Embassy in Spain stated that there were 4 Chinese citizens on the collided trains, some of whom suffered minor injuries, and there have been no reports of deaths of Chinese citizens so far.
Spanish media, citing emergency rescue department sources, reported that at around 9:00 local time, a moving Renfe train rear-ended another train of the Irion company stopped on the tracks near Toledo, causing two carriages of the latter to derail and fall down the embankment.
According to reports, the two trains carried 147 passengers and 397 passengers respectively. A survivor of the accident told Spanish media: "I was working on my laptop when I suddenly felt a strong acceleration, and then I hit the seat in front of me. People were thrown out of the car... We climbed out of the carriage gradually or bit by bit (一点一点, yi dian yi dian - "one, point, one, point"), and found that the train was tilted. Many people were injured, and many more were in shock."
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had already cancelled all of his public schedule for the day and rushed to the accident scene. Speaking at the scene, he expressed deep grief over the tragedy and announced three days of national mourning starting October 29.
The government of the Castilla-La Mancha autonomous community activated the regional emergency response plan after the accident. Madrid, the Andalusia autonomous community, and others have also expressed that they will provide assistance. Renfe has suspended train operations between Madrid and Andalusia.
Spanish Minister of Transport Óscar Puente stated in Madrid on the 28th that the accident was caused by a computer failure in the railway network safety system.
US media: US spending on war against Iran rises to $47 billion
(Xinhua News Agency, Washington, October 27) (Reporters Huang Qiang, Xu Jianmei) According to a report by The Hill on the 27th, US military spending on the war against Iran has risen to $47 billion, an increase of more than $3 billion compared with the previous month.
The report said that, according to estimates provided by US Central Command to Congress, the largest item in the cost is for ammunition replenishment, amounting to $29 billion, with another approximately $6.1 billion used to replenish equipment attrition. In addition, the costs of the US Air Force for support provided to deployed personnel in the theater, airlift, base operations, communications support, and transportation amounted to $7.6 billion. The estimate does not include the cost of repairing damaged US military bases in the Middle East.
The report said that this latest figure is an update of data from early September. The Pentagon reported to Congress in September that the US war against Iran had cost $43.6 billion.
According to other data released by the Pentagon, since the United States and Israel launched large-scale military operations against Iran on February 28, 21 US military personnel have been killed and 865 injured.
Canada and UAE sign Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
According to (Xinhua News Agency, Ottawa, October 27) (Reporter Lin Wei) Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on the 27th formally signed the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement between the two countries with visiting Crown Prince Khaled of Abu Dhabi of the UAE, aimed at eliminating economic barriers and promoting investment.
According to a press release published on the Canadian Prime Minister's official website, after the agreement is fully implemented, it will reduce or eliminate tariffs on more than 99 percent of Canada's current exports to the UAE.
The agreement will also address non-tariff barriers, create a more predictable environment for trade and investment, and expand market access for Canadian goods and services, covering fields such as industry, agriculture, forestry, fisheries and seafood, environment, and engineering. The agreement is expected to formally take effect in 2027.
During the meeting, the two sides also advanced the UAE's previously pledged 70 billion Canadian dollar (approximately US$49.8 billion) investment plan in Canada, and signed a number of commercial and energy cooperation agreements.
Analysts believe that Canada is enhancing its economic resilience by promoting trade and economic diversification and other measures, to hedge against the impact of the Canada-US trade dispute.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, United Nations, October 27) Fu Cong, China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, spoke at the Security Council open debate on "Women, Peace and Security" on the 27th, emphasizing that a peaceful and stable environment should be created for women.
Fu Cong said that the current international situation is marked by intensifying turmoil, and women still face challenges in various aspects such as violence, discrimination, and poverty. The international community should effectively implement Security Council Resolution 1325 and work together to protect women's rights and promote the development of the global women's cause. The report of the UN Secretary-General points out that last year, more than 700 million women and girls lived in conflict-affected areas. In the Middle East, Haiti, and parts of Africa, large numbers of women and girls have become innocent victims of armed conflict, gang violence, and terrorist attacks. To alleviate their suffering, the first step is to bring an end to war and promoting peace (止战促和, zhi zhan cu he - "stop war, promote peace") and stabilize the situation. Women are not only beneficiaries of peace, but should also become maintainers and builders of peace. The international community should help more women enhance their leadership and promote the full and meaningful participation of women in peace processes. Support should be given to women, especially women in developing countries, to fully bring into play their wisdom and talent in mediation, ceasefire monitoring, and political decision-making.
Fu Cong stated that development is an important foundation for solving all problems, and the right to development is the most basic human right. All countries should invest more resources to support women's equal participation in economic and social activities and implement national strategies and plans that safeguard women's rights. The international community should promote accelerated reconstruction in conflict-affected areas, help women gain equal access to education, healthcare, employment, and other opportunities, and enhance women's capacity for self-development and resilience against risks. The advantages of emerging technologies should be leveraged to help women gain equal access to resources and opportunities, while guarding against the risks of online discrimination and infringement, and ensuring that women safely enjoy the digital dividend. The global women's cause still faces challenges such as large funding gaps and uneven development. Developed countries should earnestly fulfill their aid commitments and increase investment in women's development projects in developing countries. The international community should strengthen North-South cooperation, South-South cooperation, and trilateral cooperation, bring into play the role of the private sector, mobilize more resources, and help women effectively address challenges such as poverty, discrimination, and the digital divide.
Fu Cong said that China has always been a staunch advocate and active contributor to the global women's cause. China is willing to work with all parties to jointly write a new chapter in the cause of "Women, Peace and Security" through concrete actions.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 黄炜鑫
On October 28, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention convened a high-level video conference of African health ministers to assess the Ebola outbreak situation and urge countries to strengthen surveillance, contact tracing, infection prevention and control, and cross-border coordination. The latest outbreak information shows that confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have exceeded 10,000. In an outbreak update issued on the 24th, the World Health Organization said the outbreak in the DRC continues to spread, with Kenya and Nigeria recently reporting imported cases respectively, and the risk of cross-border transmission of the outbreak is rising.
The latest outbreak report released by the DRC Ministry of Health on the 27th shows that as of October 25, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the country's current Ebola outbreak had risen to 10,060, including 4,887 deaths, a case fatality rate of 48.6%, with the outbreak having affected 8 of the country's 26 provinces. Since the outbreak was declared in May this year, the number of newly confirmed cases per day in the DRC has gradually climbed, peaking in late July and mid-August, and thereafter fluctuating at a high level through September. In late September, the number of new cases briefly fell, but rebounded again in early October. In recent days, the number of new cases has shown a slight upward trend, indicating an increase in the intensity of outbreak transmission.
The WHO has previously stated that this outbreak is "the second largest Ebola outbreak on record," caused by the Bundibugyo ebolavirus. At present, there is no approved vaccine or specific therapy for this virus type, and prevention and control rely mainly on early case detection, isolation and treatment, contact tracing, and community mobilization. On the 23rd, phase II and III clinical trials of a candidate vaccine against this virus type were launched in Bunia, DRC, with the first batch of trial participants already enrolled.
The outbreak is also spreading to other countries in the region. The Kenyan Ministry of Health issued a notice on the 20th saying that the country had reported 1 new case of Bundibugyo-type Ebola. Patrick Amoth, Director General of the Kenyan Ministry of Health, said on the 26th that the country had reported 9 Ebola cases, all belonging to the same known transmission chain, of which 2 had died and the remaining 7 patients were in stable condition and receiving treatment. That same day, the first batch of 20 contacts was released from isolation after 21 days of monitoring, and the remaining 98 people still in isolation will be released in 4 batches starting November 3.
Nigeria reported 1 imported Ebola case on the 20th, also becoming the fourth African country to report a case. The Nigerian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare said that a woman who arrived in the capital Abuja by plane from Uganda had been confirmed to be infected with the Ebola virus and had been placed in isolation for treatment. The WHO warned that the interval between onset of illness and confirmation of this case was relatively long, and there may be risks of undiscovered virus exposure and secondary transmission. Nigerian health authorities have activated the national incident management mechanism to strengthen case investigation, contact tracing, laboratory testing, and infection prevention and control in medical institutions.
Multiple countries have taken measures to further strengthen outbreak prevention and control. Health authorities of the DRC and South Sudan recently agreed on a joint surveillance and response plan in border areas, under which they will regularly share outbreak information, conduct joint investigations and risk communication, and implement measures at ports of entry such as temperature screening, information registration, and temporary isolation of suspected cases.
The Ugandan Ministry of Health issued a notice on the evening of the 23rd saying that it had resumed information registration for all incoming travelers, so as to facilitate timely follow-up tracing and contact screening, while strengthening infection prevention and control measures at border crossings and medical institutions, and continuing outbreak surveillance nationwide.
Tanzania, Ethiopia, and other countries have strengthened health screening at air and land ports of entry, coordinating laboratory testing, isolation facilities, and rapid response forces. The WHO has also listed Djibouti, Somalia, and Sudan as priority support countries, helping them address gaps in prevention and control through personnel training, technical support, material supply, and simulation exercises.
Analysts believe that at present, the security situation in some affected areas of the DRC is complex, population movements are frequent, and outbreak prevention and control still faces multiple challenges. Curbing the spread of the outbreak requires sustained coordinated action by affected countries, regional organizations, the international community, and local communities, implementing prevention and control measures in every link, from case detection and medical treatment to border surveillance.
(People's Daily, Nairobi, October 28)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 易舒冉 洪秋婷
This summer, the domestic film A Love Letter to Grandma became a hit, resonating widely with Chinese people at home and abroad. Many viewers learned the word "qiaopi" for the first time in the cinema.
What is qiaopi? In the Chaoshan and Southern Min dialects, "pi" means letter. Qiaopi, also known as "fanpi" or "silver letters," differs from ordinary family correspondence — it is a combined term for remittance vouchers and letters sent back to China by overseas Chinese through private channels as well as financial and postal institutions. In 2013, the "Qiaopi Archive — Overseas Chinese Silver Letters" was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
In October 2020, during an inspection tour of Guangdong, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the Qiaopi Cultural Relics Museum, which features the distinctive character of the Chaoshan hometown of overseas Chinese. "'Qiaopi' records the arduous entrepreneurial history and deep feelings for family and country of the older generation of overseas Chinese, and is also an important manifestation of the Chinese nation's credibility and commitment to keeping promises," General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed. He called for protecting these "qiaopi" cultural relics, strengthening research, and educating and guiding people never to forget the humiliating history China suffered in modern times and the arduous entrepreneurial history of the older generation of overseas Chinese.
How can this world memory of qiaopi be protected, utilized, researched, and interpreted? During the 2023 two sessions, the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party submitted a party proposal — the Proposal on Strengthening the Protection and Development of Qiaopi. Over the past several years, the suggestions in the proposal have been adopted by relevant departments, and a series of practical measures have been implemented one after another, pooling multi-party efforts for the protection and development of qiaopi.
Focus:
Field research to explore the feelings for family and country carried by qiaopi
Stepping into the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China, the yellowed qiaopi letters displayed in the showcases attracted many visitors to stop and take a closer look.
From the mid-19th century to the 1970s, qiaopi continued for more than a century. Some qiaopi envelopes bore only four characters: "ren zai yin er" — "ren zai" (the person is here) reported safety; "yin er" (silver two) indicated the amount of money remitted. Some qiaopi carried deep longing for hometown and family; still others bore phrases such as "revive the nation" and "share a common hatred against the enemy."
"The history carried by qiaopi cultural relics is an inseparable part of Chinese civilization. They bear witness to the spirit of countless overseas Chinese who, in the years of experiencing many ups and downs or instability (风雨飘摇, feng yu piao yao - "wind, rain, float, shake"), feared no hardship, forged ahead tenaciously, worked hard to build enterprises, and constantly strived for self-improvement (自强不息, zi qiang bu xi - "self, strengthen, not, cease"), and they engrave the sincerity of generations of overseas Chinese who kept their hearts tied to their homeland and loved their country and families," said Zheng Yelu, director of the Department of Political Participation and Deliberation of the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party.
Zheng Yelu said that during the proposal preparation stage, the special research group of the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party went to the Qiaopi Cultural Relics Museum in Shantou, Guangdong, to investigate and learn in detail about the current state of local qiaopi cultural relic protection and inheritance. During the research process, a stark contrast triggered Zheng Yelu's deep reflection. In the famous hometowns of overseas Chinese in Guangdong, Fujian, and other regions, people are quite familiar with qiaopi, but in the north, many people do not understand the historical value of qiaopi, and there are also obvious regional differences in protection and development efforts. "Most qiaopi archives are scattered in archives, museums, libraries, and private collections in Guangdong and Fujian, with many stored in local archival departments," Zheng Yelu said. "The family-and-country memories in qiaopi must not remain confined to the soil of the hometowns of overseas Chinese alone; they need to be seen by more people, and the work of protecting and developing qiaopi also needs to establish a more complete system."
Huang Xiaobiao, deputy director of the Counselors' Office of the Guangdong Provincial People's Government and a standing committee member of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), who has also long been rooted in research in the overseas Chinese field, holds a similar observation. "After joining the China Zhi Gong Party, I received many returned overseas Chinese and Chinese nationals, and my understanding of the character 'qiao' (overseas Chinese) grew from a single character into a group of people and a feeling for family and country," Huang Xiaobiao said.
Through continuous visits, Huang Xiaobiao gradually sorted out the practical difficulties in qiaopi protection. "A large number of qiaopi are scattered in the hands of private collectors, constituting private relics. There is a lack of supporting policies for folk collection, and collection channels are not smooth; most folk collectors do not have professional cultural relic preservation capabilities, and a thin sheet of letter paper, subject to moisture, insect damage, and sticking together, is often damaged happening silently or without making a sound (悄无声息, qiao wu sheng xi - "quietly, without, sound, breath")," Huang Xiaobiao said. He noted that qiaopi research spans multiple disciplines including history, economics, archives, and dialectology, with high academic thresholds and a shortage of research talent.
These practical difficulties facing qiaopi became the starting point for the subsequent proposal.
Suggestions:
Building consensus and jointly discussing paths for qiaopi protection and development
"From topic selection and research to the formation of a proposal for the party's central committee, we incorporate suggestions from multiple parties. Over the years, expectations from all sectors of society for the protection and utilization of qiaopi have been rising, and the calls for protecting, researching, and utilizing qiaopi at a higher level, on a broader scale, and to a deeper degree have been growing louder," Zheng Yelu said.
In January 2023, on the basis of full research, Huang Xiaobiao submitted the Proposal on Giving Full Play to the Role of the Qiaopi World Memory Project and Building a Spiritual Home for Overseas Chinese. One proposal, six suggestions, each one aimed directly at the problems identified.
Huang Xiaobiao suggested improving the coordinated linkage mechanism for qiaopi protection, pooling together archival departments, museums, universities, and folk collectors, "and it is also possible to build an online digital qiaopi museum."
During the same period, the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party was also polishing the Proposal on Strengthening the Protection and Development of Qiaopi, which was ultimately submitted as a party proposal to the First Session of the 14th CPPCC National Committee. The proposal offered suggestions and advice on five aspects: giving play to the cultural bond role of qiaopi protection and utilization, building a coordinated linkage mechanism system for protection, expanding and deepening the compilation, research, and utilization of qiaopi archival information, advancing the unified digitization of qiaopi archives, and building an international communication platform for qiaopi culture.
"We suggested establishing an integrated protection system for qiaopi protection and utilization, including emergency rescue protection goals and measures, reshaping and innovating with a global vision, modern concepts, and the spirit of the times, deeply exploring the contemporary value and significance of qiaopi culture, planning domestic and international cultural exchange and cooperation, and giving play to the role of qiaopi as cultural envoys," Zheng Yelu said.
After the proposal was submitted, it received high attention from the undertaking units — the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and the National Cultural Heritage Administration.
In April and June 2023, as assigned by the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, the special research group of the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China went to Guangzhou, Chaozhou, Shantou, and Jiangmen in Guangdong, as well as Quanzhou, Xiamen, and other places in Fujian, to conduct special research, listening to opinions and suggestions from overseas-Chinese-related museums, archives, and experts and scholars from relevant universities on the collection, protection, and utilization of qiaopi cultural relics, and communicated in depth with the Department of Political Participation and Deliberation of the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party.
"The problems and suggestions we raised in the proposal received attention, adoption, and absorption from relevant departments, and proposal consultation has become a channel for building consensus and solving problems. This kind of mutual effort or reciprocal movement (双向奔赴, shuang xiang ben fu - "two, directions, run, toward") is gratifying," Zheng Yelu said.
Echoes:
Putting into action to give qiaopi new life
The suggestions in the proposal have been transformed step by step into vivid practices of safeguarding and revitalizing qiaopi.
In accordance with the requirements of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China has in recent years continuously strengthened the protection, management, and utilization of overseas-Chinese-related cultural relics, especially qiaopi cultural relics. For example, it has carried out collection specifically targeting overseas Chinese cultural relics represented by qiaopi; upgraded the protection of its collection of qiaopi to a combined approach of general survey, archival establishment, backup, and physical security; set up special qiaopi columns in thematic exhibitions, excavated qiaopi on related themes, enriched the display methods for qiaopi, and brought visitors closer to qiaopi cultural relics.
Advancing the unified digitization of qiaopi archives is one of the main contents of the Proposal on Strengthening the Protection and Development of Qiaopi. The proposal suggested advancing the application of qiaopi digital resources, creating VR (virtual reality) technology and multi-dimensional digital qiaopi museums, and invigorating the creation of derivative cultural products of qiaopi culture in literature, drama, film and television, and creative arts.
"We have formulated relevant processes and standards for the digital display, protection, and utilization of the museum's qiaopi collection. After qiaopi are collected, they are stored in warehouses with constant temperature and humidity, and after high-definition scanning, they are simultaneously uploaded to the collection database, facilitating digital research and utilization of qiaopi. At the same time, we pay attention to adjusting the intensity and angle of exhibition hall lighting to avoid damage to qiaopi, and visitors can use multimedia equipment such as touch screens to enhance their experience," said Luo Peiling, associate research librarian at the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China. She said that next, the Overseas Chinese History Museum of China will continue to do a good job in the collection, protection, restoration, and management of qiaopi physical objects, intensify efforts to organize, research, and interpret qiaopi content, tell the qiaopi stories well and vividly, actively promote the display and dissemination of research results in appropriate ways, and promote the creative transformation of qiaopi cultural heritage.
Around supporting the development of qiaopi culture, the China Zhi Gong Party has not stopped in performing its duties. In October 2025, the Qiaopi Museum, located at No. 7 Datong Road, Siming District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, officially opened. The museum's interior layout follows a narrative approach of "one theme per floor, one context per letter," guiding visitors to engage in cross-time dialogue with overseas Chinese ancestors while changing scenery with every step taken (移步换景, yi bu huan jing - "move, step, change, scenery"), and interpreting the cultural code behind qiaopi through sections such as "Integrity and Keeping Faith," "Filial Piety and Family Heritage," and "Patriotism and Revitalizing the Hometown." The realization of this venue benefited from the promotion of proposals and suggestions by the Xiamen Municipal Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party, with joint efforts from overseas-Chinese-affairs units such as the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office and the Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese of Xiamen City and Siming District. The century-old residence was successfully transformed into a new cultural landmark carrying the feelings for family and country and the nostalgia of overseas Chinese, helping the locality polish its reputation as a hometown of overseas Chinese and pool the strength of overseas Chinese communities.
"As a participating party characterized by 'overseas Chinese' and 'maritime' features, the Central Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party has long focused on topics such as hometown culture of overseas Chinese and qiaopi protection, reflecting overseas Chinese conditions and serving overseas Chinese through special research, proposals, and other means. In the future, we will continue to base ourselves on our own characteristics and advantages, tell the stories of 'overseas Chinese' and 'maritime' well with dedication, and offer suggestions and advice with commitment for inheriting China's excellent traditional culture," Zheng Yelu said.
In the ranks of qiaopi protection and inheritance, there are also CPPCC members taking relay action in different ways.
On December 25, 2025, the World Chinese Businessmen Expo Museum opened at Guangzhou Huashang College in Guangdong Province, displaying more than 150 original qiaopi letters, attracting many young people to visit. In July and September 2026, the World Chinese Businessmen Expo Museum twice selected replicas of qiaopi and overseas Chinese historical documents and donated them to the Guangzhou Branch of the China National Archives of Publications and Culture. Liao Yiman, standing committee member of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the CPPCC and chairperson of the Hong Kong Guangdong Youth Association, was deeply involved in the landing and operation, external exchanges, and youth study and research transformation of the museum.
"The more than 150 qiaopi letters were collected by our team through extensive searching, connecting with private collectors and overseas Chinese history researchers, and rigorous verification of historical materials before they were acquired into the collection. In this process, I deeply felt that qiaopi are one of the most vivid physical pieces of evidence of the blood connection between overseas Chinese and the motherland. As a CPPCC member, I will continue to tell the stories of qiaopi on the road of fulfilling my duties," Liao Yiman said.
Return to TopBy: 谢 茹
Talent is the most precious resource and the foundational, strategic support for accelerating the building of a strong agricultural country.
In recent research and surveys, I have found that Huichang County, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, building on the needs of food security production and rural industry revitalization, relying on local talent resources such as grain-growing local experts, returning entrepreneurs, and leaders in getting rich, has innovatively implemented diversified cultivation models for grain-growing professional business entities, including "village collectives + grain-growing local experts," "cooperatives + field stewards," and "large-scale grain-growing households taking the lead." This has achieved a grain production pattern in which smallholder farmers receive refined trusteeship and large-scale growers operate on a large scale. Grain output per mu for large-scale growers has increased by an average of 200 jin, with per-mu income rising by more than 190 yuan. This has not only solved the problems of low output and high costs in village collective grain production as a safety net, but has also freed village cadres from tedious field agricultural work, allowing them to concentrate on village-level affairs such as rural governance, livelihood services, and industrial development, thereby promoting the joint improvement of grain production and village-level governance.
Similar to Huichang, some places are currently improving the professional level of rural operations by exploring the cultivation, selection, and hiring of rural professional managers, allowing a group of "new farmers" with new ideas, business acumen, and management skills to operate villages as if running enterprises, developing the rural collective economy, effectively rallying capable people, pooling resources, and activating new momentum for rural development.
Different from technical new farmers who specialize in a single skill and entrepreneurial new farmers who focus on a single industry, the "newness" of rural professional managers lies in the fact that they are not innovating in a single project, a single industry, or a single model, but rather, through professional and market-oriented operation of the rural collective economy, they coordinate the advancement of rural construction, rural industry, and rural governance, promoting the enrichment of villages and farmers. To some extent, they are more like empowering new farmers. From Zhejiang's launch of the "Thousand Rural CEOs Training Plan," to the national implementation of the "Ten-Thousand Rural Professional Managers Training Plan," and then to rural collective economy managers being included in the new national occupations, the training and certification system for rural professional managers has gradually developed.
It should also be noted that in some places, rural professional managers currently face problems such as "difficulty in sustaining salaries" making it hard to retain them, "not adapting to local conditions" making it hard for them to integrate, and working alone without support or cooperation (单打独斗, dan da du dou - "single, hit, single, fight") making it hard for them to grow strong, which to a certain extent affects and constrains their role in the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. To better leverage the role of rural professional managers in operating villages and enriching villages, it is necessary to focus on matching talent, villages, and industries, and further improve the whole-chain mechanism of selection, cultivation, management, and use. To this end, the following suggestions are made:
Adhere to the combination of specialized training and professional training, build a tiered training system, and match personalized training plans according to differences in the development of the rural collective economy. For example, China Agricultural University and Chengkou County, Chongqing, have cooperated between the university and the locality to build a rural operation talent cultivation mechanism of "centralized training—return-to-post practice—accompanying guidance—operation empowerment," achieving deep integration of talent cultivation and industrial development. Explore the opening of rural operation-related majors in institutions of higher learning, and guide college students to choose rural professional manager as a career option. Summarize a batch of typical cases of rural operations, build a number of rural operation training bases, and provide practical models for the cultivation of rural professional managers.
Improve policy guarantees and promote a two-way endeavor between rural managers and the big rural stage. For example, in response to the problems of "not being retained and not lasting long," innovate salary systems in forms such as "guaranteed base + performance," and establish incentive mechanisms linked to rural collective economy income; introduce comprehensive support measures covering entrepreneurship support, financial credit, land use guarantees, and the like, and build diverse talent exchange platforms such as talent stations in light of local conditions; establish a talent pool, support participation in professional title evaluations in the field of agriculture and rural areas, and applications for financial fund support projects, and establish a long-term evaluation system.
Connecting villages with the market is the value of rural professional managers. Smooth channels for resource docking and fully leverage the advantageous role of professional managers in market operations such as resource integration, project planning, and operational cooperation. Support rural professional managers in forming operation teams, explore diversified development paths such as whole-village operation, multi-village grouping, and village-enterprise co-construction, and innovate and practice in areas such as cultivating distinctive industries, revitalizing idle assets, and developing rural tourism. Optimize the assessment mechanism, incorporate indicators such as the effectiveness of industrial driving, the level of collective income increase, and public satisfaction into evaluation criteria, amplify the role of professional manager project operations in linking farmers and enriching them, and help smallholder farmers integrate into the big market.
In the future, I believe that more and more rural professional managers will bravely take on heavy responsibilities (勇挑大梁, yong tiao da liang - "bravely, lift, big, beam"), injecting vigorous strength into advancing the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas and promoting agricultural and rural modernization.
(The author is a member of the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee and Vice Chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the CPPCC.)
Return to TopProposer: Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang
Reasons: The northwestern region boasts a rich variety of cold-arid agriculture types with distinctive industrial advantages, possessing the foundational conditions for developing modernized cold-arid specialty agriculture. However, cold-arid specialty agriculture still faces difficulties and challenges such as lagging industrial development, weak infrastructure, and insufficient scientific and technological support, which constrain high-quality development.
Recommendations: Strengthen top-level design and chart the development path for cold-arid specialty agriculture. Coordinate planning at the national level, with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs taking the lead, jointly with meteorological, natural resources, and other departments, to scientifically map out a national blueprint for modern cold-arid specialty agriculture. Establish national-level pilot zones for modern cold-arid specialty agriculture and set up special support funds for modern cold-arid specialty agricultural industry clusters.
Strengthen the "agricultural chip" and attach importance to the conservation of cold-arid agricultural germplasm resources. Intensify the protection of regional specialty germplasm resources; in areas rich in specialty crop resources and with prominent industrial advantages, plan and establish native germplasm resource conservation zones or conservation sites, and build specialty crop germplasm resource banks and nurseries for endangered authentic medicinal herbs. Support the precise identification and shared utilization of germplasm resources, and build a database of specialty crop germplasm resources for cold-arid regions.
Strengthen scientific and technological support and encourage innovative development of cold-arid agriculture. Encourage the construction of innovation platforms for modern cold-arid specialty agricultural science and technology, support the establishment of national-level high-tech zones for cold-arid specialty agriculture, carry out research and development and innovative practices in frontier technologies for the efficient utilization of cold-arid resources, accelerate the research, development, and promotion of efficient water-saving equipment, promote the construction of oasis irrigation districts and reserve granaries on the Loess Plateau, and cultivate demonstration bases for facility-based planting and breeding and intelligent equipment.
Serve the joint pursuit of the Belt and Road Initiative and implement brand building for cold-arid agriculture. Integrate data from commerce, customs, and e-commerce platforms, accurately track domestic and international market demand, establish a market monitoring and early-warning platform for cold-arid specialty agricultural products, and regularly release national export competitiveness reports on cold-arid specialty agricultural products. Leveraging agricultural cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, build overseas warehousing and direct-sales networks in relevant countries. Construct high-standard intelligent processing and cold-chain logistics bases, and build a safe, efficient, and stable industrial and supply chain for cold-arid agricultural products.
(Compiled by Wen Tong)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 史自强
On the bank of the Taiping River, the warm sun slants westward. Inside the nursing home in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, the afterglow quietly falls on the faces of the elderly. Qi Mingliang (齐明亮), a member of the CPPCC National Committee and a lawyer at Beijing DeHeng (Shijiazhuang) Law Firm, pulled up a small stool and began chatting casually with the elderly.
It is not common for a CPPCC National Committee member to come for research, and soon the elderly gathered around. Qi Mingliang listened and asked questions, jotting down notes in a small notebook from time to time, and the elderly's chatter opened up at once. Uncle Zhang said: "Handling procedures related to endowment insurance sometimes requires running to several departments or windows, which is quite troublesome. It would be great if one department could manage it all!"
"The issue you raised is very key." Qi Mingliang nodded repeatedly and followed up on the details with further questions. The troubles casually spoken by the elderly coincided perfectly (不谋而合, bu mou er he - "not, plan, but, join") with the social security system issues he had long been concerned about. "The laws, regulations, and policies in the fields of elderly care and social security are scattered in various places and involve multiple departments, and the situation where the masses cannot find their way around is quite common." Qi Mingliang listened with exceptional focus. These materials collected from the front line are precisely the profound and insightful views (真知灼见, zhen zhi zhuo jian - "true, knowledge, burning, insight") he wants to incorporate into his proposal.
Without a preset outline, and without any formal briefing, a social security service research session was completed imperceptibly. Sitting around listening, heart-to-heart exchanges at zero distance — this is the norm for Qi Mingliang in his many years of performing his duties. In his view, those vivid everyday words from the front line carry great weight for a proposal. "Good proposals are not written sitting in an office; they are 'heard' from the masses' everyday words and 'run out' from the front line," Qi Mingliang said.
Such footprints of performing duties have long settled into a habit that Qi Mingliang never breaks. At the 2024 National Two Sessions, Qi Mingliang submitted a proposal recommending the formulation of a law on promoting the private economy. To make his suggestions more solid, he visited enterprises one by one, had in-depth talks with enterprise leaders, and learned about the difficulties and pain points in the development of private enterprises. In May 2025, the Law of the People's Republic of China on Promoting the Private Economy was officially implemented. After that, Qi Mingliang kept a close eye on how the law was implemented in detail in Hebei, entering industrial parks and visiting enterprises, walking through almost all the nearby factories.
In this research on social security issues, Qi Mingliang remained extremely meticulous and conscientious (一丝不苟, yi si bu gou - "one, thread, not, hook"). He traveled continuously for several months: entering government service halls to verify handling procedures face-to-face with staff; systematically sorting out the current state of scattered laws, regulations, and policies in the social security field; interviewing new employment groups to survey blind spots in social security coverage; and comparing one by one the institutional differences between urban and rural areas and among different groups. After several rounds, his thinking became increasingly clear — behind the masses' "running to multiple places" to handle affairs, the crux lies precisely in the insufficient integration of the social security legislative system.
Public opinion and popular sentiment from the streets and alleys ultimately crystallized into solid suggestions at the National Two Sessions. In March 2026, Qi Mingliang submitted the Proposal on Timely Launching the Legislative Work on a Social Security Code, suggesting that the Social Security Code be positioned as a basic law in the social field, that scattered laws, regulations, and policies be integrated in a coordinated manner, that departmental barriers be broken through, and that systematic legislation make it more convenient for the masses to handle affairs and make the protection of their rights and interests more solid.
In September 2026, Qi Mingliang received a reply from the Legislative Affairs Commission of the NPC Standing Committee, stating that it would seriously study the matter, actively strengthen communication with relevant departments, summarize practical experience, respond to new situations and new requirements, advance the relevant legislative and law-amendment work in the social security field, and improve and perfect the social security legal system.
"I deeply feel that on the shoulders of CPPCC members rests a heavy responsibility." As a member of the CPPCC National Committee from the social welfare and social security sector, Qi Mingliang sighed with emotion that the protection of people's livelihood has no end point, and the construction of the rule of law is always on the road. "In the future, I will continue to lower my posture and quicken my pace, deepen research, make suggestions more solid, and put forward valuable proposals that truly promote national development."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 魏哲哲
Early in the morning, at the "Astragalus Court" of the People's Court of Longxi County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province, reporters met herbal medicine merchant Wen Hanjie. He had come specially, holding a silk banner, to express his gratitude.
Just last month, he had finally received payment for goods that was nearly two years overdue. "This is hard-earned money I made from buying and selling medicinal herbs." In November of last year, Wen Hanjie, who does business at the Shouyang Chinese Medicinal Materials Trading Market in Dingxi, Gansu, had his payment withheld by a business partner, so he took the IOU to the "Astragalus Court."
The amount in dispute was not large, but it concerned the tangible interests of the people. From mediation during litigation to compulsory enforcement, the full amount of more than 26,000 yuan in payment for goods was recovered... In two months' time, the officers of the "Astragalus Court" had run the "last mile" of realizing fairness and justice. Wen Hanjie was deeply moved.
Letting enterprises and the people truly feel the warmth and strength of the law—this is a microcosm of how Gansu courts serve the development of local characteristic industries.
Wherever the industrial chain extends, judicial services follow. In recent years, Gansu courts have extended the reach of judicial services to the grassroots frontline, providing convenient, low-cost judicial services throughout the entire process. Recently, reporters traveled to Dingxi, Tianshui, Qingyang, and other places in Gansu to see how the judiciary helps the development of local characteristic industries and promotes steady and long-term progress in urban and rural development.
The "Astragalus Court" in the Marketplace
From "Hearing Cases in the Courtroom" to Proactively Serving Industrial Development
With the fragrance of herbs wafting through the air and display counters neatly arranged, in the Shouyang Chinese Medicinal Materials Trading Market, stalls are covered with authentic medicinal materials such as Codonopsis pilosula and Astragalus membranaceus, and merchants come and go in large numbers.
This is the largest trading market for origin-produced Chinese medicinal materials in Northwest China and one of the country's important distribution centers for Chinese medicinal materials.
"When buying and selling medicinal herbs, there are two things to worry about. One is that receipts are not standardized, leaving you without evidence when collecting debts; the other is that out-of-town merchants default on payments, making lawsuits difficult." Having been in the medicinal herb business for many years, merchant Sun Min has many such experiences. In recent years, judges from the "Astragalus Court" have regularly come into the market to carry out legal publicity, promptly reminding and guiding merchants to write IOUs in a standardized manner, and providing consultation in a timely manner when disputes arise.
The "Astragalus Court" that Sun Min speaks of is built right next to the Shouyang market. Based on the development of the local Chinese medicinal materials industry, in August 2023, the People's Court of Longxi County established the Astragalus Specialty Court, delivering judicial services to the very forefront of the industry.
"The more the industry develops, the more complex the legal risks become. The 'Astragalus Court' centrally handles all Chinese medicinal materials-related cases in the county—professionals handling professional matters—precisely embedding judicial services into the market transaction chain, enterprise risk control chain, employment safety chain, and intellectual property protection chain." Cai Yidie, deputy chief judge of the "Astragalus Court," introduced that on the monthly market days of the 6th, 16th, and 26th of the lunar calendar, judges go down to the Shouyang Chinese Medicinal Materials Trading Market to conduct circuit trials, legal consultations, and on-site mediation, preventing and resolving operational legal risks at the source.
In market transactions, credit purchases and deferred payments in the purchase and sale of Chinese medicinal materials are very common. This has also become a high-frequency dispute encountered in court hearings.
The case of Ma Wenjie, manager of Gansu Shenbao Pharmaceutical, seeking payment for goods is one such example. A few years ago, a certain Shao, who had had multiple business dealings with him before, came looking for him to purchase Codonopsis pilosula in large quantities. Trusting their acquaintance, the two quickly agreed on a price and reached an oral agreement: credit purchase with payment deferred, delivery in batches, at 48 yuan per kilogram, for a total payment of 864,000 yuan.
Thinking he had landed a big client, when the settlement date arrived, Shao's phone could no longer be reached. "The other party kept putting it off, saying their capital turnover was tight and to just wait a bit," Ma Wenjie said. But the wait stretched to three years. To press for payment, Ma Wenjie went to Shao's hometown and company, but could not find him anywhere.
"For a small pharmaceutical enterprise like ours, 864,000 yuan is half a year's profit." In April of this year, Ma Wenjie came to the "Astragalus Court" and filed a lawsuit.
It turned out that Shao had already been listed as a judgment debtor for non-performance by another court. Was there any other way to recover the payment for goods?
Through visits and investigations by the court, a clue was found: Shao was an agent of Ming'an Company, and the Codonopsis pilosula purchased that year had actually been received by Ming'an Company. It was precisely on the strength of this key clue that Shenbao Pharmaceutical ultimately succeeded in recovering the payment for goods.
"Credit purchases and deferred payments in the purchase and sale of Chinese medicinal materials, settlement of payments for goods, and warehouse storage contract performance account for 65% of the total number of medicinal materials-related disputes. Targeting these high-frequency disputes, the 'Astragalus Court' regularly carries out circuit trials and case-based legal education, opens a green channel for expedited trial and mediation of medicinal materials-related cases, and efficiently resolves market transaction conflicts." Cai Yidie introduced that to date, it has cumulatively recovered economic losses of more than 10 million yuan for herb farmers and herb enterprises.
"A fair and orderly trading environment is the competitiveness of the Shouyang market." Ma Zhenguo, general manager of Gansu Chinese Medicinal Materials Trading Center Co., Ltd., said that the guiding role of judicial adjudication is evident—once a case is decided, the market knows what can be done and what cannot, and when buying and selling medicinal herbs, people will operate according to the judges' guidance and better protect their own rights and interests.
In disputes over Chinese medicinal materials cases, professional issues such as the determination of content assay grade standards are often involved. To better resolve conflicts and disputes and make the parties more convinced, the "Astragalus Court" has appointed professional technical personnel as special consultants. Yang Hongqing, technical director of Gansu Digital Herbal Testing Center, is one such special consultant.
"When the court needs it, I contribute my professional knowledge to judicial fairness, providing objective and neutral consulting opinions on technical issues." Yang Hongqing introduced that in a dispute over the content of astragaloside IV, the two parties had completely opposite interpretations of the same testing report. Yang Hongqing helped clarify the technical focus by explaining to the court the relevant standards of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, the applicable conditions of the testing methods, and the basis for determining the results. The case was ultimately successfully mediated.
The "Huaniu Apple Court" in the Fields
From Handling One Case to Preventing a Category of Problems
Autumn tints the Longyuan land, and Tianshui Huaniu apples are big and red.
It is the peak trading season. At the Nanshan Huaniu Apple Base in Maiji District, Tianshui, Gansu, judges from the "Huaniu Apple Court" of the Maiji District People's Court came to Sun Huilan's orchard, distributing publicity brochures while reminding her that selling apples cannot rely on oral agreements, and also bringing model texts such as apple warehouse storage contracts for fruit farmers to use.
Judicial services are extended down to the orchard frontline. "The base has driven the development of apple cultivation for many surrounding farmers. During the peak harvest, purchase, and trading seasons each year, conflicts and disputes are relatively prominent. When there are issues of overdue payments, disputes over fruit quality, or cold storage warehouse disputes, fruit farmers are very anxious. If disputes cannot be resolved in a timely manner, it affects both the farmers' income and the base's development." Wu Zhengquan, head of the Huaniu Apple Base, said that in recent years, the "Huaniu Apple Court" has brought legal services to the orchard fields, and everyone's awareness of the rule of law has noticeably improved.
The jurisdiction of the "Huaniu Apple Court" is the core production area of Huaniu apples. In recent years, the "Huaniu Apple Court" has stationed its work sites down at the apple orchards, closely tracking the different time points of apple seedling cultivation, planting, picking, purchasing, and online sales. Based on the operational characteristics of the entire industrial chain at different times and combined with common legal risk points, it regularly carries out legal publicity activities, achieving early detection and early handling of conflicts and disputes, and jointly safeguarding the brand value of Huaniu apples.
In practice, fresh apples are highly seasonal with a limited window for freshness preservation. Any delay in dispute resolution directly affects the production and sales returns of an entire year.
How can the rights and interests of fruit farmers be better protected? Liu Yu, chief judge of the "Huaniu Apple Court," introduced that the "Huaniu Apple Court" has established a rapid mediation mechanism for agricultural product disputes, using multiple measures such as diversified dispute resolution, brand protection, and field-side legal publicity to inject judicial momentum into improving the quality and efficiency of characteristic agriculture and increasing farmers' production and income.
A dispute over apple cold storage warehouse storage is such a case. A fruit farmer stored apples in a local cold storage facility, and upon removal found that some apples had become soft and damaged. The fruit farmer believed that improper storage by the cold storage facility had caused excessive losses and refused to pay the storage fee. However, the cold storage operator believed that the apple losses were within the standard range and demanded full payment of the storage fee of 3,600 yuan, and the two sides were deadlocked.
"Most of those storing goods in the cold storage are local fruit farmers who know each other well. If the conflict and dispute are not resolved in a timely manner, and one fruit farmer refuses to pay the storage fee, other fruit farmers may follow suit." Ma Chendi, a lawyer at Xindun Law Firm, introduced that the cold storage operator, to protect its own rights and interests, filed a lawsuit with the court.
Considering the characteristics of fresh products, the "Huaniu Apple Court" immediately activated the green channel and contacted both parties to meet and communicate about the situation. Court assistant Wang Chan found that the two sides had not signed a written contract and each had a different account of the cause of the losses and damage. But the focus of the dispute in the case was very clear: how exactly should the standard for losses at the time of apple removal from storage be determined.
In order to more comprehensively grasp the actual situation of the storage industry in the jurisdiction and ascertain the facts, the case-handling personnel did not rush to hold a hearing, but decided to first conduct a field visit around the jurisdiction.
Visiting fruit farmers to verify the situation, asking peers in the cold storage industry about industry practices... Through its visits, the "Huaniu Apple Court" learned the industry consensus: during storage, for every 600 jin of apples removed from storage, 10 to 40 jin of bad fruit is within the normal loss range.
Having ascertained the industry loss standard, it was also necessary to quickly resolve the conflict and dispute to prevent losses from expanding. On the basis of fully questioning both parties, the "Huaniu Apple Court" carried out mediation work.
"We conducted the mediation at the cold storage site. This way, both sides could relax and open their hearts, and it also served as a reminder to local residents to strengthen their awareness of the rule of law." Wang Chan introduced that on the one hand, they patiently explained and communicated from the perspectives of legal principles and human sentiment; on the other hand, they contacted persons with relevant professional knowledge of cold storage to explain the reasoning. In the end, this storage fee dispute case was successfully resolved, the two sides reached a mediation agreement, the fruit farmer paid the storage fee in court, and the case was concluded with the matter settled.
Resolving an individual case is only the first step. During the visits, the case-handling personnel found that some fruit farmers and cold storage facilities were accustomed to oral agreements for transactions, and standards for losses such as natural moisture loss and normal rates of bad fruit were not put down on paper, making disputes easy to arise.
From handling one case to preventing a category of problems. The "Huaniu Apple Court," combining the actual situation found through visits and surveys, distilled the industry consensus and specially formulated and issued an apple storage contract template, converting the "scale" in everyone's minds into standardized, unified contract terms.
Points where conflicts and disputes are prone to occur are also the focus of legal publicity work. Combined with this case, the "Huaniu Apple Court" went deep into small and medium-sized cold storage facilities and fruit farmers' homes in the jurisdiction to carry out targeted legal publicity, guiding standardized transactions and moving the gate of risk prevention forward.
"This not only protects the legitimate rights and interests of fruit farmers and cold storage operators, but also precisely fills the gaps in transaction norms at the end of the industrial chain, creating a more stable, fair, and transparent rule-of-law business environment for the Huaniu apple industry." Liu Yu introduced that at the same time, the experience distilled from this case has been extended and applied to the prevention of transaction disputes for other agricultural products such as cherries, providing better judicial guarantees for various characteristic agriculture in the jurisdiction.
The Big Data Base Circuit Court in the "Computing Valley"
From Rural Social Governance to the Transformation Toward Smart Computing and Good Governance
China Computing Valley, Smart Qingyang. Qingyang, Gansu, is one of the eight hub nodes of the national integrated computing power network and one of the ten data center clusters, and is also a national "dual hub" city for computing power plus data.
The sky is clear and clouds are soft. Entering the Qingyang "East Data, West Computing" Industrial Park, buildings stand in close array, rows of cabinets in the machine rooms operate in orderly fashion, and digital power surges on the loess plateau.
The rapid establishment and development of the industrial park cannot be separated from judicial guarantees. "As enterprises have successively signed agreements and settled in, various types of conflicts and disputes such as land acquisition and demolition, engineering construction, and labor disputes have increased significantly, and grassroots social governance faces new challenges." Lu Xiaodong, Party Secretary of the Party Group and Acting President of the Xifeng District People's Court of Qingyang City, introduced that the Big Data Base Circuit Court is a special circuit trial point established by the Xifeng District People's Court to align with the national "East Data, West Computing" strategy and serve the Qingyang hub node.
At the beginning of the park's construction, a land lease dispute arising from a construction project was successfully resolved at the Big Data Base Circuit Court.
Due to the construction needs of enterprises in the industrial park, collective land of a village in Wenquan Town, Xifeng District, was subject to expropriation. However, villagers had objections to the resettlement plan and came into conflict with the village committee.
On the one hand was the development need of enterprises settling in the industrial park; on the other was the protection of the interests of the masses' demands. How could the rights and interests of all parties be quickly resolved and balanced? After learning of the situation, the Big Data Base Circuit Court proactively went down to the village groups to conduct mediation.
It turned out that many years ago, the village committee of that village had signed separate agreements with villager Yao and others, leasing land for the villagers to use for business development. A few years later, due to poor management, Yao and others ceased operations and fell behind on lease payments. "The village committee believed that, according to the agreement, since the lease payments were in arrears, the agreement had been terminated and the villagers should return the land." Liao Rui, head of the Big Data Base Circuit Court, introduced that the villagers, for their part, believed that since the agreement had not expired, the village committee should provide compensation for terminating the contract, and the houses they had built should also be compensated.
Visiting villagers to hear the parties' voices; actively communicating with the village committee to understand the relevant situation... After preliminary investigation, the Big Data Base Circuit Court found that the legal nature of the agreement signed by the two sides was a collective land lease contract, with an agreed term of 30 years, which did not conform to the maximum lease term of 20 years stipulated by law.
"This has strong practical warning significance." Liao Rui said that the court decided to conduct circuit mediation in the village committee's large meeting room, inviting villagers to observe, explaining the law and reasoning, and guiding villagers and the village committee to strengthen their awareness of the rule of law.
Introducing the relevant legal provisions, explaining the relevant terms of the agreement... The case-handling personnel balanced legal principles and human sentiment, and ultimately facilitated the reaching of a compensation agreement, the smooth vacation of the land, and ensured the steady advancement of the major project construction.
In the process of advancing the construction of the industrial park, such land expropriation issues are highly representative. In order to better resolve legal risks in grassroots governance and better serve the construction of the industrial park, the Big Data Base Circuit Court actively communicates with the local government, strengthens targeted legal publicity, enhances the rule-of-law awareness of enterprises and the masses, and optimizes the rule-of-law business environment of the industrial park.
"Land expropriation and demolition, engineering construction, and the like involve complex interest relationships." Liao Rui introduced that the Big Data Base Circuit Court adheres to diversified dispute resolution, linking with the park, townships, human resources and social security departments, judicial offices, and other units to build a joint mediation and handling system, focusing on resolving high-frequency conflicts such as project arrears, labor disputes, and contract performance, and carrying out judicial confirmation of mediation agreements in accordance with the law, effectively preventing group disputes and maintaining the construction order of the industrial park.
There is both legal support for resolving "material" matters such as land disputes, and "soft service" guarantees for the standardized operation of enterprises in the park. "Judges regularly enter enterprises to carry out targeted legal publicity, bringing enterprises a tangible sense of gain." Chang Sheng, head of an enterprise investing in computing power-related business in Qingyang, introduced that the Big Data Base Circuit Court, focusing on common aspects such as labor rights protection and contract standardization, provides in-enterprise reminders and precise judicial services, making enterprise development more stable.
It serves the present, and also looks to the future. "From rural social governance to the good governance of the Computing Valley industrial park construction, judicial guarantees are indispensable. With the development of the industrial park, in the next stage, the legal risks faced by enterprises will change, and judicial services will also be continuously updated and followed up." Liao Rui introduced that, in light of the problems that enterprises in the industrial park may face in the future, such as data security and trade secrets, the Big Data Base Circuit Court has targeted and summarized 6 actionable, litigation-avoiding recommendations. The court will further strengthen judicial services for enterprises, promptly reminding enterprises to strictly adhere to the bottom line of data security, enhance confidentiality awareness, and safeguard the core data and algorithm resources that are vital to development.
Reporter's Notes
The Valuable Step Forward of Judicial Services
Impartial justice is the last line of defense for maintaining social fairness and justice. With economic and social development, the people's demand for the rule of law continues to escalate, and people's requirements for judicial fairness, efficiency, and convenience are also higher.
How should the people's new expectations for fairness and justice be responded to? Walking across the Longyuan land, the judicial service philosophy and practice of "stepping forward" provides a vivid answer.
Not rushing to judgment, doing more legwork, and stepping forward once more in case handling is an important move for substantive dispute resolution. During interviews, many of the herbal medicine merchants and fruit farmers interviewed had only oral agreements when conducting transactions, lacking rigid constraints on who the buyer was, loss rates, and the like. In practice, frontline judges proactively go out, strengthen visits and investigations, and only then can they pinpoint the crux of the conflict and find the breakthrough for resolving the case. The case of Shenbao Pharmaceutical seeking payment for goods is a very good example. Judicial organs, with the awareness of "as if I were in litigation," have changed from "sitting in the courtroom" to going deep into the frontline, using heartfelt judicial services to resolve livelihood problems, allowing the people to feel the warmth of justice in their cases.
Doing more reviews, resolving category cases, and stepping forward once more after case handling is an effective path for promoting social governance. Judicial trial data is the "barometer" for observing social governance and industry development. Judicial work cannot stop at "concluding one case," but should be committed to "governing a whole area." Only by extending from handling one case to resolving a category of problems can social governance be better promoted. Regarding industry loopholes, institutional deficiencies, risk hazards, and the like discovered in case trials, timely countermeasure suggestions for avoiding risks should be put forward to relevant departments, industries, and units, preventing problems from occurring at the source and solving common industry ills.
Justice for the people is valuable in precise service. When judicial work steps forward a bit more, it can open up the "last mile" of serving enterprises and the people, making fairness and justice perceptible and tangible, and better delivered.
Return to TopBy: 亓玉昆
If ancient tombs are discovered on one's own homestead land, can the cultural relics be excavated? If cultural relics are picked up in a river channel, how should they be handled? If cultural relics are accidentally picked up in production or daily life, can they be sold? ... Recently, the Supreme People's Court and the National Cultural Heritage Administration released six typical cases of lawfully punishing cultural relic crimes, responding to these "everyday" questions and guiding the general public to strengthen awareness of cultural relic protection and legal awareness, jointly safeguarding cultural relic security.
Cultural relics are precious cultural resources that are non-renewable and irreplaceable; they are the emotional support and material carrier of national symbols and national memory. The Third National Cultural Relics Census shows that China has more than 600,000 unmovable cultural relics not yet graded, accounting for about 80 percent of the total unmovable cultural relics. A large number of ancient tombs, cave temples, ancient stone carvings, and other cultural relics are scattered across fields and mountains, widely distributed and difficult to protect. Cultural relic protection cannot afford "trial and error"; one misstep may mean a thousand years of regret. Therefore, the red line, bottom line, and lifeline of cultural relic security must be firmly held.
In recent years, the legal fence for cultural relic protection has been drawn ever tighter. The newly revised Cultural Relics Protection Law further improves the cultural relic protection management system, adds provisions for procuratorial public interest litigation, increases the types of administrative penalties, substantially raises the amount of fines, and enhances the law's deterrent force. Various localities have successively issued local regulations, refining protection requirements for ancient cultural sites, revolutionary cultural relics, and so on, further clarifying "what to protect, how to protect, and who protects." The typical cases released this time adhere to a whole-chain crackdown on "theft, excavation, trafficking, transport, and sale," and for those causing damage to cultural relics, the courts lawfully order them to bear restoration responsibilities and make public apologies, promoting the extension of cultural relic protection from "punishing crime" to "restoration and protection."
The protection of the rule of law is embodied in specific scenes of silent guardianship and taking decisive and forceful action (果断亮剑, guo duan liang jian - "decisively, flash the sword"). This year marks the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Many Long March sites and relics are located in remote mountainous areas, making protection difficult. Various localities have introduced innovative measures and come up with many methods: Jiangxi has implemented the "cultural relic chief + caretaker" model, enabling veterans, villagers, and grassroots cadres to look after the red sites around them; Sichuan has established a Long March cultural relic protection and utilization alliance, promoting cross-regional resource sharing and project co-construction... These explorations show that as long as the responsibility for cultural relic protection is placed on every site and every brick and stone, the red memory can be preserved and passed on well.
It must also be noted that in reality, some people are obsessed with tomb-robbing novels, treating fictional plots as "operation manuals." Some enterprises, knowing that the construction scope involves cultural relic sites, still continue excavation to catch up on schedules and pursue profits. More typically, recently a blogger did pull-ups on a horizontal beam inside the Hanging Temple in Shanxi, treating the thousand-year-old ancient building as "fitness equipment" and the national treasure as "traffic props." The public security organs have already initiated case filing and investigation. Judging from these improper acts, due to a lack of awareness of cultural relic protection, some actors have cognitive deviations regarding cultural relic criminal activities, thereby touching the legal red line.
To form a combined force of the rule of law in cultural relic protection, the law must first be given "teeth." For acts such as excavating, selling, and damaging cultural relics, punishment must be strictly imposed according to law, with particular attention to the source and the end of the chain, so that violators pay the due price. Cultural relic protection units should improve patrol persuasion and warning signs, adhere to protection as the priority in restoration and utilization, and keep hidden dangers outside the cultural relic bodies themselves. When online platforms discover content that spreads show-off or curiosity-driven destruction of cultural relics, they should handle it promptly. What the law prevents is not only damage that has already occurred, but also potential risks to cultural relic security. Relevant departments should innovate forms to carry out law popularization activities for cultural relic protection, enhance the whole people's awareness of cultural relic protection, guide the public to promptly report clues of illegal and criminal activities to relevant departments, and jointly safeguard cultural relic security.
The string of cultural relic security must not be loosened; the red line of cultural relic security must not be touched. The rule of law escorting cultural relic protection protects not only bricks, tiles, wood, and stone, but also the roots of national culture. Let every person hold reverence for history, let every law enforcement and judicial act become vivid law popularization, and cultural relic protection can transform from "guarded by a few" into "protected by the whole society."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张天培
In the autumn, over Jiaozhou Bay, the sky is high and the clouds are wide. At the container terminal of Qianwan Port in Qingdao, Shandong, giant ships dock one after another, shore cranes rise and fall without pause, and the port area carries out loading and unloading operations around the clock, presenting a scene of bustling activity. Here, nearly 240 shipping routes reach more than 180 countries and regions around the world, with an average of forty to fifty international route vessels entering and leaving each day, surging with the vitality of openness connecting the globe.
Port import and export business continues to climb, and the operating model of "large-scale entry and exit" and "fast entry and fast exit" poses a considerable test for port governance. The Huangdao Border Inspection Station under the Shandong General Station of Exit and Entry Border Inspection, based on the actual conditions of port duty operations, closely focuses on key elements such as "people, ships, locations, goods, matters, and networks," comprehensively exploring a closed-loop management model for seaports to serve the high-quality development of enterprises.
Facial recognition — "Passed, please proceed." At 6 a.m., at the gangway of the vessel Yixing Ares at Berth 109 of Qianwan Port, more than a dozen port workers line up for automatic verification before boarding, done in one continuous motion (一气呵成, yi qi he cheng - "one, breath, complete, succeed"), each taking only two seconds.
"We have moved our police forces forward, establishing five duty rooms in the Qianwan port area. Police officers work in conjunction with port co-management forces, implementing gangway supervision as soon as entry-exit vessels arrive. Personnel boarding or disembarking complete identity document comparison and baggage inspection at the duty rooms, and verification information is simultaneously pushed to the port area checkpoints and business processing windows," introduced Luo Wei, director of the Border Inspection Division of the Huangdao Border Inspection Station.
"In the past, vessel gangways, border inspection business processing windows, and port area checkpoints were scattered in location, with fragmented information, which easily created gray areas in supervision and was also very cumbersome," said Wang Yongfa, dispatch manager of the Qingdao Qianwan Automated Terminal. Now, from the gangway to the window and then to the checkpoint, personnel entering and leaving the restricted port areas are under closed-loop management, with the entire process traceable and every change recorded in real time — convenient and safe, while also saving enterprises a great deal of time and cost.
Solving enterprise problems and safeguarding port security. The port closed-loop management model integrates data governance, customs clearance services, risk control, and diversified co-governance into one, better optimizing service measures and improving clearance efficiency, truly converting governance effectiveness into development momentum.
Vessel berthing and departure is the starting point of container terminal operations and the first gateway of efficiency competition. On September 3, the vessel "MECL Maersk" efficiently completed loading and unloading operations in the Qianwan port area of Qingdao Port, successfully setting a new world record for single-vessel throughput on the Gemini Alliance AE10 Europe route, once again polishing the "efficient fast port" service brand.
The birth of this record has a special background — due to congestion at some foreign ports, part of the cargo on the Gemini Alliance AE10 Europe route that was originally to be transshipped at foreign ports was transferred to Qingdao Port for transshipment. Amid supply chain fluctuations, whether business can be smoothly taken over tests the port's comprehensive service capability.
To this end, the Huangdao Border Inspection Station leveraged the advantages of port closed-loop management, establishing an exclusive support mechanism of "one ship, one strategy; advance assessment; full-journey escort," comprehensively implementing convenience measures such as pre-inspection in advance, inspection upon arrival, and immediate processing and departure, embedding border inspection and document processing steps into the entire port logistics operation process, and making every effort to ensure vessels can berth quickly, be inspected quickly, be loaded quickly, and depart quickly.
Since the beginning of this year, Qingdao Port has newly opened 16 container shipping routes. As of the end of September, the Huangdao Border Inspection Station has inspected more than 13,500 entry-exit (port) vessels and more than 291,500 entry-exit personnel. Behind these figures lies not only a vivid footnote to the port's openness and vitality, but also a portrayal of the continuous improvement of port governance effectiveness and the iterative optimization of the customs clearance environment.
"A series of port closed-loop management measures have further optimized the border inspection and clearance process and improved clearance efficiency. For shipping companies and customers, this brings not just a saving of a few hours, but an improvement in the turnover efficiency of the entire shipping route and real, tangible cost reductions in logistics," said Wang Wei, deputy general manager of the Qingdao Qianwan Port Automated Terminal.
Ding Jinbo, station chief of the Huangdao Border Inspection Station, stated: "Standing at the very forefront of opening up to the outside world, we strive to properly handle the relationships between openness and security, vitality and order, and management and service, continuously improving and optimizing service measures, tightening port closed-loop management, and safeguarding high-level opening up and high-quality development through high-efficiency port governance."
Return to TopBy: 肖亦农
In 2008, I went to a township in Hanggin Banner, Inner Mongolia, to serve as the head of a poverty-alleviation work team, under the leadership of the Yanhe Work Committee of Hanggin Banner. Old Wang, the secretary of the Yanhe Work Committee, was my comrade-in-arms from the Corps, having spent his whole life working with the Yellow River. A fellow Corps veteran once urged him, "Leave this bitter, cold place along the river! You're getting old—find a unit in the city to retire in." But Old Wang said, "I've been an 'old Yellow River hand' for 33 years. If I can't hear the sound of the Yellow River's waves at night, I can't fall asleep." I knew Old Wang was speaking from the heart. He had made his home in Duguitala Town on the south bank of the Yellow River. Over the years, when Corps comrades returned to visit the old places, his home was where they could rest their feet. Whenever he had free time, Old Wang would accompany his comrades in gatherings, singing old Corps songs. Sometimes they would sing with eyes filled with tears (泪眼婆娑, lei yan po suo - "tear, eye, overflowing"), and he would sigh: "What can never be fully told is the bond of comradeship; what can never be forgotten is the bend of the Yellow River."
The bend of the Yellow River Old Wang spoke of refers to the Hanggin grassland in Inner Mongolia. When the Yellow River flows through the Ordos Plateau in Inner Mongolia, it first surges majestic and vast (浩浩荡荡, hao hao dang dang - "grand, grand, surging") northward, but upon entering this area, it turns like a horse wheeling around, making a sharp bend, and transforms into a flying arrow heading east. As the old saying goes, "The Yellow River brings a hundred harms, but only the Hetao Plain prospers." Yet this prosperity somehow missed the vast area along the Yellow River in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, which lies within the Hetao Plain.To the south is the Kubuqi Desert, and to the north is the Yellow River. Over the years, the desert has moved northward, severely eroding the areas along the river. To ensure the Yellow River's tranquility, people planted trees and grass, blocking the front and pulling back the rear, strictly guarding against the desert's advance so that it would not poke its head out and block the Yellow River.
On the day I reported to Old Wang, he briefed me on the situation. At the end, he sighed and said: "Old Xiao, I've been secretary of the Yanhe Work Committee for 10 years. Every year during the freezing and thawing seasons, I live each day in anxiety and fear. To control the ice floods, I nearly gave my life, but I couldn't stop the sand damage, and I couldn't stop the ice floods either. I'm not lying to you—even in my dreams I shout my own name: What kind of person are you?"
Old Wang's words made my heart ache a little. I know the ice floods of the Yellow River all too well. Every early winter when the river freezes and every spring when the ice thaws, floating ice in the river forms tall ice dams, stretching across the river surface, piled up in a jumble and blocking the Yellow River. The surging water level rises abruptly, and ice water frequently overflows the south bank, forming ice floods. When ice floods strike at night, the colliding ice blocks let out eerie howls that carry for dozens of miles. When I was a child, the south bank of the Yellow River experienced ice floods overflowing the levees almost every year, causing enormous losses to people's lives, property, and economic development. That is why the local people say: "The Yellow River brings a hundred harms, but ice floods are the worst."
I said, "Old Wang, our work team is in your jurisdiction. If you have anything, just tell me, and I'll come at your call." Old Wang said, "I'll certainly be troubling you." Later, Old Wang did call me, asking me to inspect the flood-control levees with him to prevent disasters. I remember it was a spring night. The ice water was crashing loudly against the banks, and the spring wind rolled up waves that howled toward the shore, making one's heart pound with fear. The levee was lined with sandbags, and militiamen, workers, and villagers stood shoulder to shoulder with shovels, ready at any moment to fight the ice floods with all their might. Old Wang said to me, "What do you think of my 'soldiers'? Can they be considered prepared for an imminent attack or event (严阵以待, yan zhen yi dai - "strict, formation, with, await")? Every person here can fight hard battles." Just as he was speaking, a rumbling sound came from afar. Old Wang listened and said happily, "The artillery is blasting the ice dam—looks like the water will recede soon." The levee erupted in cheers.
One early spring night, I received a phone call: two sections of the levee at the Kuisu section of Duguitala Town had breached, and ice floods had swept across Duguitala Town and several villages. At dawn, I rushed to the disaster-relief site, where people were wading through mud and water, stepping unsteadily. The city leader simply took off his leather shoes, rolled up his trousers, and followed Old Wang through the water. On the way, we passed Old Wang's home, which had already been destroyed by the ice flood. Several chunks of floating ice were propped against Old Wang's front door, but he didn't even glance at it. I greeted Old Wang and then followed them to a house on a high slope. It was in this house that an on-site disaster-relief meeting was held, presided over by the city leader with red-rimmed eyes. As the meeting was about to adjourn, Old Wang suddenly said, "I'm about to retire, and I've run into this business. I want to share a lesson with everyone: ice floods can't be managed this way anymore. We must have new thinking on disaster control." At that point, a young cadre wearing glasses stood up and said he was a technician from the local water resources bureau. He said, "I couldn't agree more. We can't always be led by the nose by disasters. Can we solve the thousand-year-old problem of ice floods at its root?" The city leader encouraged him to elaborate on his specific ideas, but the young technician said, "I don't have any specific ideas—I just feel we should solve it at the root." Some people laughed at that, but Old Wang did not laugh. He said disapprovingly, "What's there to laugh at? We must solve the problem at the root."
Later, Old Wang retired. Once, when we met, he said to me, "Now the young people in water conservancy along the river have made great contributions. There are two measures I'd never seen before, yet they've greatly solved the flood problem." I asked what measures they were. Old Wang said, "Now they're implementing water-rights conversion for the Yellow River. The water shortage problem for production and daily life in the industrial parks along the river has improved greatly. Why couldn't I have thought of such a good method back then?" I said, "Back then, did you even have industrial parks? Apart from growing wheat and sunflowers in traditional agriculture, what else could you do?" The water-rights conversion Old Wang mentioned is mainly government-led: water-using enterprises invest in renovating the agricultural water-use pipeline network, ditches, and canals. The agricultural water-use system—especially the branch, sublateral, and field canals used directly for irrigation—had been in disrepair for years. Now the irrigation channels have been repaired, and the agricultural water saved is converted through water rights to supply more than a dozen industrial park projects along the river. In this way, the Yellow River's water-supply quota has not changed, while industrial water use is guaranteed, and agricultural water costs have been greatly reduced. Industry and agriculture complement each other, and the economy along the river is bathed in spring sunshine.
The second measure Old Wang mentioned is even more interesting. In fact, water conservancy workers turned a disaster into a resource, boldly proposing the idea of diverting ice-flood water into the Kubuqi Desert. By 2023, nearly 500 million cubic meters of ice-flood water had been diverted into the desert, greatly solving the problem of ice floods overflowing the banks. In the more than 10 years since the diversion of ice water into the desert began, there have been virtually no ice disasters on the south bank of the Yellow River. The diverted ice water has formed a "thousand-island lake" stretching over a hundred kilometers, with sand lakes embedded in the Kubuqi Desert like strings of pearls. The local area has vigorously developed specialty aquaculture unique to the desert, raising fish, shrimp, soft-shelled turtles, and crabs in these desert sand lakes, bringing substantial income to aquaculture households along the banks.
Later, Old Wang invited several of us Corps comrades to visit the bend of the Yellow River again, saying he would treat us to "desert seafood." We all went with great pleasure (欣然而往, xin ran er wang - "joyful, thus, go"). We arrived at the full of vitality (生机勃勃, sheng ji bo bo - "life, machine, abundant, abundant") south bank of the Yellow River, where the desert had visibly retreated, and we could see vast stretches of land with crisscrossing paths and fields (阡陌交错, qian mo jiao cuo - "path, field, interlace, interlace") stretching straight to the horizon. Old Wang said, "Now they're using a 'company + farmer' operating model—from seeds going into the soil to product sales, everything is run on a corporate basis." As he spoke, Old Wang marveled, "In the past, I really couldn't have imagined that land could be farmed this way!" Old Wang also took us to visit the desert aquaculture operations and introduced us to Lao Li, an aquaculture farmer. When we met Lao Li, he was standing in a shrimp pond wearing waders. Shaking the net scoop in his hand, he said, "Counting up to last year, I've been raising shrimp here for 10 years, basically in sync with the diversion of ice water into the desert." An aquaculture technician inspecting the quality of shrimp fry said, "There are no fewer than several hundred households like Lao Li who have benefited from the diversion of ice water into the desert." When we asked him roughly how much his annual income was, Lao Li quickly waved his hand and said, "I just earn a bit of hard-earned money." Old Wang said, "If you're talking about hardship, wasn't I more hard-pressed than you in those years?" He laughed as he spoke, then suddenly stopped and asked me: "Have you heard of the Smart Yellow River Project?"
I said, "Now everywhere is advancing smart city construction. This Smart Yellow River Project must be part of smart city construction, right?" Old Wang said, "I went to the water resources bureau, wanting to find out exactly what's so 'smart' about it. The engineer there explained it to me for two hours before I managed to grasp a bit of the gist. Should I tell you?" I laughed and said, "If it took you two hours to grasp just a bit of the gist, don't show off to me—leave me a little room for imagination!"
Old Wang laughed heartily and said, "You're right, I should leave some room for imagination. But so many changes—in the past, one simply couldn't have imagined them."
Old Wang, beaming with spring breeze, wore a smile on his face like the waves surging on the beautiful Yellow River...
Return to TopBy: 申尊敬
Those who engage in scientific research or creative work must all look forward to such a stroke of luck as inspiration arriving suddenly.
Inspiration has many sources, and one of them is a fixed, focused gaze. What is meant by a fixed, focused gaze is steadying the mind, concentrating one's spirit and calming one's breath, carefully examining something while the mind is actively engaged — not letting the eyes wander or the gaze go hazy, appearing to look but in fact not seeing.
The birth of the clock originated from a moment of fixed, focused gazing upward by the Italian scientist Galileo. One day in 1583, the 19-year-old Galileo, while attending an event in a church, noticed that a chandelier swinging back and forth in the wind took almost the same time for each swing, whether the amplitude was large or small. He used his own pulse as a timing instrument to confirm this discovery, and from it put forward the key principle of the "isochronism of the pendulum." In 1656, the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, building on the principle put forward by Galileo, successfully designed and manufactured the world's first accurate pendulum clock. This is a typical example in the history of science and technology of theory and practice mutually advancing each other.
One day in 1910, the German Wegener, while staring blankly at a world map hanging on the wall in his sickroom, suddenly discovered that the protruding part of Brazil in South America matched the indented shape of the Gulf of Guinea on the west coast of Africa with incredible precision. Looking more closely, he further found that the edges of quite a few continents could be fitted together. On this basis he inferred that in ancient times the landmasses had been joined together, and that only later, through splitting and drifting, had the present pattern of seas and land come into being. Two years later, Wegener put forward the "theory of continental drift." This theory laid the foundation for plate tectonics, and people respectfully call him the "father of the theory of continental drift."
If Galileo and Wegener had not engaged in that fixed, focused gaze at that time and place, with earnest association of ideas, these far-reaching scientific theories might never have been discovered, and humanity's scientific research and science and technology might never have achieved the series of major breakthroughs that followed.
A fixed, focused gaze also produces fine works, and there is no shortage of such fine anecdotes in the history of Chinese literature.
One dusk during the Kaiyuan era of the High Tang, Wang Zhihuan gazed into the distance from the Stork Tower. He saw the sun about to set behind the mountains, saw the Yellow River rolling eastward, and may also have associated this with the pattern of life and one's aspirations, and so he intoned a five-character quatrain that has shone for a thousand ages, "Climbing the Stork Tower." Because its depiction of scenery is like a painting and it contains philosophy, later generations crowned it with the laurel of "the foremost of the five-character quatrains of Tang poetry." When Li Bai was young, he left Sichuan to roam; on his first ascent of Mount Lu, he fixed his gaze into the distance at Incense Burner Peak, saw the waterfall pouring straight down from on high, saw the mist in the sunlight colored like purple smoke, and his poetic inspiration surged, and so a seven-character quatrain praising the magnificent scenery, "Gazing at the Waterfall of Mount Lu," burst into the world.
If poets such as Wang Zhihuan and Li Bai had not fixed their gaze on those mountains and waters back then, their inspiration would not have erupted, and our spiritual sustenance would lack these "delicious delicacies."
This is not idealism, nor is it metaphysics; this is the reflection theory of materialism. This is a wondrous encounter between the mysterious world and keen eyes in time and space, this is the "quantum entanglement" of contingency and necessity in the human world, this is the mutual achievement between countless philosophers and the myriad phenomena of all things between heaven and earth. Objective things triggered the extremely rapid or momentary (电光石火, dianguanshihuo - "lightning, stone, spark, fire") inspiration of scientists and writers, and inspiration in turn stimulated their innate spiritual acuity, and then startling scientific theories or literary works began to take shape.
The importance of a fixed, focused gaze is no less than focusing the lens when taking a photograph with a camera. No matter how good the lens, if it is not focused, the people and scenery photographed will inevitably be blurry and indistinct.
A fixed, focused gaze requires not only looking with the eyes, but even more, seeing with the mind. Although inspiration is obtained by chance, it is in fact the harvest of long-term accumulation. Without a certain accumulation of knowledge, even if one "bumps one's nose crooked," no flash of insight will appear in the mind. In the five years before conceiving the theory of continental drift, the 25-year-old Wegener had already obtained his doctorate in astronomy from Humboldt University of Berlin. Li Bai from childhood was extraordinarily intelligent and loved reading; "at five he recited the Six Jia, at ten he surveyed the Hundred Schools." With this knowledge reserve, when the opportunity to ignite inspiration arrived, they were able to seize it as if aided by the gods and not miss the great opportunity brought by a fixed, focused gaze.
Faced with the myriad phenomena of all things that possess spiritual nature and can enlighten wisdom, if one only makes a superficial inspection, a hasty glance, the eye arriving but the mind not yet present, one will brush past the opportunity. When the mind has feeling and has comprehension, when the mind has arrived the hand must also arrive; when one has comprehended one must also act; when one has grasped one must also hold fast — only then will one not miss the opportunity, and thereby make discoveries, make creations, and make achievements. Only by concentrating the spirit and focusing the mind, by achieving unity of knowledge and action, can one capture the fleeting inspiration and not miss the good opportunity for discovery and creation.
Return to TopBy: 李培禹
I remember one day, hearing a knock at the door, opening it to see — "Fangzhuang Post Office, there's a letter for you."
A letter — it's been a long time!
From amidst the clouds, who sends a brocade letter?
I examined the envelope. In the lower right corner were printed red characters: Tianjin Daily Press Group. I tore it open hastily, and a postcard fell into my hand. On the back was written: "Teacher Li Peiyu: The new year is approaching. Thank you for your warm support of the Tianjin Daily Literary Supplement all along. Wishing you a happy new spring and abundant creative output! Looking forward to your masterpieces! Editor Song Shen." After that she had also appended her email address and mobile phone number. I did not know Editor Song at all. She could not have imagined that these few brief words of greeting would bring to mind my bond with the Tianjin Daily spanning more than 40 years.
More than 40 years ago, I was a third-year student in the Journalism Department of Renmin University of China, doing an internship at the Tianjin Daily. The person guiding me was Han Guozhen, a female reporter from the rural affairs section. Teacher Han had a steady, unassuming temperament, and she often quietly helped and looked after me. She took me to the countryside to do interviews, then set the themes, carefully revised my drafts, and when the pieces finally appeared in the paper, only my name was signed. Teacher Han said, during the internship period try to get as many pieces published as possible — your teachers are waiting to see the results. At that time, I often deliberately walked past the door of the literary supplement section and peered inside, because that was the place where the famous writer Sun Li had once worked. Later, I summoned up my courage and took a prose exercise I had written, "Rain," to the literary supplement editor. When the internship ended, I returned to Beijing. One day, I received a large envelope, with the red characters "Tianjin Daily" standing out conspicuously. In the sample copy of the newspaper that was sent, I was astonished to see that my piece "Rain" had been published! That was the first time my work appeared on the pages of the Literary Supplement.
The rapid passage of time (时光荏苒, shiguang ranran - "time, pass; time, flow"). In late autumn 2011, I once again basked in the reflected glory of the Tianjin Daily, receiving the first "Sun Li Newspaper Supplement Editing Award." In the morning was the award ceremony; in the afternoon the winners were invited to tour the Tianjin Daily offices, and I was more excited than anyone else. What nearly moved me to tears was that Wang Daosheng, a senior supplement editor at the Tianjin Daily, and Sun Yan from the rural affairs section, whom I had come to know during my internship back then, were already waiting for me at the newspaper's gate. Sun Yan was still as plain and unpretentious as ever. Just as the three of us were about to have a photo taken, Brother Hou Jun of the Shenzhen Commercial Daily joined in. In those days, he too had been in the rural affairs section of the Tianjin Daily.
This letter also brought back to mind those "brocade letters" I had sent and received in the days of yore.
There is one letter, carrying warmth, that I want to tell my friends about.
Brother Peiyu:
…The reason I am writing this letter to you is that I read your prose piece "Random Thoughts on Letters" in the People's Daily Dadi supplement, which evoked everyone's fond memories of the era of "writing letters." I said, let us all write letters… A letter, written on paper, is a sincere exchange between friends. Now, writing letters has become a kind of aesthetic luxury. Savoring the beauty of detail in "letter writing," though it rambles here and there with no fixed format, still moves me. Word by word, sentence by sentence, brewed at the tip of the pen, suffused with expression, feeling, savoring, and layers upon layers of artistic conception — there should be surprises, shouldn't there…
The one who wrote this letter to me was the woman writer Hua Jing. Her words left me enveloped in warmth. This letter was written neatly and carefully with a carbon pen. When I read to the end of the letter, I discovered there was more text on the following page. Spreading it out to look again, I saw the title was "A Record of Li Peiyu's Writings," and the content after it was a catalogue of the articles I had published in newspapers and periodicals in recent years — prose, poetry, reviews, essays — scarcely a single one omitted, and even the works I had posted on my WeChat public account were all listed. Gazing at that elegant handwriting, I was covered in shame! She was not only a writer whose achievements surpassed mine, but also a senior supplement editor. Before such a teacher, I had no way to hide my inadequacies (无处藏拙, wuchu cangzhuo - "no place, hide; clumsy skill"). I knew full well her sincerity, and knew that she wished me well. I summoned my courage and, following the list of works in the letter, compiled a selection of my prose of nearly 300,000 characters. When I received the sample copy, I sent the first one to Hua Jing. Naturally, I also attached a letter written neatly and carefully, and deliberately did not write a return address on the envelope. I, too, wanted to give my good friend a surprise, to let her guess from amidst the clouds who sent the brocade letter.
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The lush rain seems to harbor a reluctance to withdraw
Beneath the thick, dense clouds
On the land, everywhere are the inquiring gazes of laborers
We have endured many days and seen the season of harvest
Time is pinched between the fingertips; there is no moment more
precious than now. The first ray of light
flashing through the gaps in the clouds brings new hope
Shine a little more brightly, oh sodden earth
that needs warm sunlight. At the edge of the fields
the silenced motor of the harvester is about to roar to life
The mist rising from the mountains slowly disperses
The surface of the loess begins to turn pale. Like a signal
summoning the gathered crowd
"Cutting begins!" — cheers mingle with the roar of engines
In the trembling valley, golden corn
piles up in the truck beds, the most beautiful colors of autumn
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When autumn arrives, the vegetable garden is once again ready for sowing seeds and planting seedlings: radishes, Chinese cabbage, cilantro, spinach, lettuce... In my hometown, this bustling vegetable garden inevitably includes one essential item: chong cai (pungent preserved mustard greens).
What the villagers call chong cai is a type of green preserved mustard green. Sown in autumn along with radishes and Chinese cabbage, by winter the green preserved mustard greens have grown into the shape of large cabbages, also forming hearts, only with sturdier stems and thicker leaves than cabbage, the whole plant a verdant green, like a piece of jade, heavy and weighty, with the largest weighing seven or eight jin. Cutting the whole green preserved mustard green down and bringing it home, splitting it in half is like cleaving a piece of jade. The outer layer of stems and leaves is green, while the inner heart portion is pale yellow. After washing, it is placed on a woodpile in the yard or in a bamboo basket under the eaves to air-dry the moisture. Once the leaves have slightly wilted, they are chopped fine and put into boiling water. After a quick turn and blanch, they are promptly scooped out and placed into a basin, mixed with pre-prepared minced ginger, mashed garlic, salt flakes, and chili powder, then immediately packed hot into a purple clay pottery jar. Before packing, the cleaned pottery jar is rinsed with the hot water used to blanch the green preserved mustard greens — this both removes any off-odor and maintains the jar's temperature. After packing, the jar mouth is sealed tightly with a whole blanched leaf of green preserved mustard green, and the next morning the jar can be opened and eaten.
Making chong cai requires precise control of the heat and quick, nimble movements. Blanching, mixing seasonings, scalding the jar, packing the greens, sealing the mouth — the whole sequence is like a hundred-meter sprint, requiring finishing a task in one continuous, seamless motion (一气呵成, yi qi he cheng - "one, breath, complete, finish"), doing things in an orderly and methodical manner (有条不紊, you tiao bu wen - "have,条, not, disorder"), and being exactly right or appropriate (恰到好处, qia dao hao chu - "just, reach, good, place"). The blanching must not be excessive, or the greens will lose their crisp texture, nor too light, or the pungency will not come out and the flavor will be lost. The mixing of seasonings must also be quick, and the greens must be rapidly sealed tightly in the jar while hot, allowing them to develop their "pungency." Besides being properly salted to taste, the most important criterion for chong cai is that it be "pungent" — the more pungent the chong cai, the more authentic it is and the more it suits everyone's palate. The villagers believe that only people who are bold and vigorous in their ways can make truly pungent chong cai; those who are slow and lukewarm in their ways produce chong cai that lacks pungency. When people visit relatives and friends, they often judge a household's new daughter-in-law and mistress of the house — whether she is bold and "formidable," clever, and capable — by tasting the host family's chong cai and its pungent kick.
What the villagers call superior chong cai is judged, first, by color: it should be a mix of yellow and green, fresh and pleasing to the eye; second, by taste: it should be crisp and refreshing, with saltiness just right; third, by aroma: it should be fragrant and inviting, with a hidden pungency. For someone eating chong cai for the first time, just as a leaf enters the mouth and all seems well, a mustard-like flavor suddenly rushes straight up the nasal passages, provoking sneeze after sneeze; in severe cases, the eater is choked until tears and snot flowing profusely (涕泪俱下, ti lei ju xia - "tear, tear, both, descend"), drawing laughter from the whole table. But this pungent kick soon passes, and amid a succession of "achoo" sounds, the body's qi and blood vessels open up, and the internal organs all feel relaxed and comfortable. After the "pungency" passes, one finds it having a long-lasting and unforgettable aftertaste (余味无穷, yu wei wu qiong - "surplus, taste, no, end"), the appetite is whetted, and one cannot help but pick up the chopsticks for another helping.
When honored guests arrive before or after the New Year, a drizzle of sesame oil transforms this ordinary farmhouse side dish, making it glisten with oil and instantly beloved. After the Spring Festival, as temperatures rise, freshly made chong cai turns sour after just a few days, but this sour chong cai, stir-fried together with meat, is also a delicious delicacy once people have grown tired of chicken, duck, fish, and sumptuous delicacies from land and sea (山珍海味, shan zhen hai wei - "mountain, delicacy, sea, flavor").
Those accustomed to eating chong cai feel that life is somehow lacking without it. After moving to Wuhan for work, I once brought a few green preserved mustard greens from my hometown in western Hubei and made them using the old family method, but the flavor was always just a bit off. Fortunately, in recent years, with the rise of e-commerce, this delicious delicacy hidden deep in the mountains has become a channel for villagers to increase their income, while also bringing convenience to wanderers separated by vast distances involving many mountains and rivers (千山万水, qian shan wan shui - "thousand, mountain, ten thousand, water") to savor the taste of homesickness.
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The event was scheduled for 2 p.m., but the train arrived at the station at 8:15 a.m., ten minutes earlier than the scheduled arrival time — a rare occurrence in my years of train travel. Checking the navigation, from Beijing West Railway Station to the event venue at Balizhuang, a taxi ride would take only an hour, leaving four to five hours of spare time. So I decided to stroll around the North Square. Although I come to Beijing every now and then, it had been two years since I last visited the North Square.
The temperature in Beijing was not as cold as I had imagined. The morning sun filled the sky, and clear, bright sunlight spread across the entire North Square. I noticed that autumn sunlight in the north seems to have almost no blind spots; it makes everything transparent and luminous. The ceaseless wind set the flowers in the flower beds gracefully swaying and moving (摇曳生姿, yao ye sheng zi - "shake, sway; produce, appear; posture"), and the large chrysanthemums were especially brilliant. Autumn in Beijing seems always to be like this — sunlight and wind never take their leave. When I set out from Danfeng County town in Shaanxi, I had put on thermal underwear, which at this moment seemed entirely superfluous.
A railway station is a city's landmark and represents a certain image. In Beijing, there are many places people take pride in — the Forbidden City, Chang'an Avenue, the Bird's Nest, the China World Trade Center Tower — but I feel no place better represents Beijing than Beijing West Railway Station. Its sense of era, its all-encompassing and diverse (包罗万象, bao luo wan xiang - "encompass, capture; all, ten thousand; image, appearance") nature, its variegated and colorful (斑驳陆离, ban bo lu li - "mottled, spotted; variegated, colorful") panorama of humanity — it is condensed, realistic, and yet has an element of flamboyance.
I can no longer count how many times I have arrived and departed, entered and exited the station, sometimes choosing the South Square, sometimes the North Square. In my memory, I have had more connections with the North Square — sometimes by chance, sometimes by deliberate choice. After all, entering and exiting from there was more convenient, and the route was more familiar.
In the winter of 1996, it was exceptionally cold. That day, at minus ten-odd degrees Celsius, I came to Beijing for the first time, lingered in the North Square waiting to transfer trains, and truly felt Beijing's cold. In the winter of 2015, I participated in a program recording and stayed for three months on Litian Road in Shunyi. I once specifically asked a local elderly man about changes in Beijing's climate. He told me that before the beginning of this century, Beijing often had winters of minus 20 degrees Celsius, but since then such cold weather had never recurred. Thirty years ago that winter, I went to see a girl in Jiapigou, Hailin, Mudanjiang, as written in Tracks in the Snowy Forest, setting out from my hometown Xiahe, passing through Lushi, Lingbao, and Luoning, boarding a train in Luoyang, Henan, and arriving at Beijing West Railway Station after more than ten hours. I wanted to buy a military greatcoat to ward off the cold of the next leg of the journey, but the department store no longer had any. A salesgirl took off her own greatcoat and handed it to me to try on, but unfortunately it was too small. The store had heating, and the shelves were stocked with a dazzling array of goods; the salesgirls in their various military greatcoats were beautiful in their simplicity. I went to the square to take a commemorative photo and saw that on the pillars and buildings of the North Square there were many carved traces of "so-and-so was here."
At that time, digital cameras were not yet widespread; film was used. After taking a photo, one had to leave an address, and the photos would be mailed home several days later. While standing in line to fill in addresses, I overheard a conversation between two young women whose accent was exactly the same as the accent of people from my hometown. I suddenly felt the joy of meeting an old friend in a foreign land (他乡遇故知, ta xiang yu gu zhi - "other, land; meet, encounter; old, acquaintance"), but the address showed Huaining County, Anqing City, Anhui Province. This confirmed what people in my hometown had always said — that Anqing was our ancestral home.
The snow in the North Square had not yet melted, trampled by cars and feet into thick sheets of ice, and dust had fallen on the railings and flower bed edges in a thick layer of black traces. The Western Hills, the remaining range of the Taihang Mountains, stood solemn and desolate. Together they formed the background of the photo. I stood in the square, wearing a cheap khaki leather jacket and a pair of sneakers with ventilation holes, my hair disheveled, haggard from exhaustion, but my eyes bright and piercing.
It seemed to become the undertone and metaphor of my subsequent fate. Three years later, I went to work in the mines, crossing mountains and rivers, and was away for sixteen years, never returning since. That photo is still here to this day. At the time, two copies were developed — one was left at the home of the girl in Jiapigou, and one I brought back home. Ten years ago, a great flood struck a certain place in Jiapigou, and she said on the phone that the photo had been washed away by the flood along with the house; one could hear the sadness in her tone. The one at my home has already yellowed, its colors mottled, becoming the final witness of a period of youth.
Sitting under a corridor pillar in the North Square, tapping out these words, the sunlight has grown even more limpid, and the ginkgo trees by the street are half emerald green, half golden yellow — Beijing's finest season has arrived. I took a series of photos with my phone, a habit I have kept over years of travel — photographing as I go. I will treasure them together with that photo from thirty years ago, as witnesses of time.
From the North Square of thirty years ago to the North Square of today seems but an instant; from the youth of thirty years ago to the middle age of today, how enduring and far-reaching (山高水长, shan gao shui chang - "mountain, high; water, long") is the journey.
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