People's Daily - November 2, 2026

Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Continuously and Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China summarized the great achievements and valuable experience of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, analyzed the situation and tasks facing Party governance, Party building, and Party strengthening in the current and future period, and made the following decisions on several major issues concerning continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.

I. The Importance, Urgency, and Overall Requirements of Continuously and Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-governance of the Party

(1) The Communist Party of China was born for the people and thrives because of the people. It was founded at a time when the Chinese nation was in peril, and it grew and strengthened in the historical process of striving for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It united and led the people of all ethnic groups across the country to create the great achievements of the new democratic revolution, socialist revolution and construction, reform, opening up, and socialist modernization, and socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, writing the most magnificent epic in the several-thousand-year history of the Chinese nation, and demonstrating to the world the image of a firm, confident, strong, and powerful Marxist party.

The Communist Party of China has been able to advance from victory to victory because it cherishes the lofty ideal of communism, is committed to the great cause to be carried on for generations of the Chinese nation, persists in seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, attaches great importance to Party governance in every historical period, has the courage to uphold truth and correct errors, and has continuously grown stronger in relying on its own strength and the support of the people to solve its own problems, becoming the strong leading core of the cause of the Party and the people. In revolution, construction, and reform, it successively regarded Party building as a great project and a new great project. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, it has deepened the advancement of the new great project of Party building in the new era, found the answers of "letting the people supervise the government" and "self-revolution" to escape the cycle of rise and fall in history, which are the unique creations of the Communist Party of China and will forever be recorded in the annals of Marxist party building.

(2) After the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, with tremendous political courage and a strong sense of responsibility, directly confronted the severe reality of the once-weakened, diluted, and faded leadership of the Party, the lax, false, and ineffective governance of the Party, and the shocking problems within the Party, unswervingly advanced full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, engaged in self-examination and internal reform, applied severe measures to rectify chaos, continuously solved prominent problems, fundamentally reversed the lax, loose, and soft state of Party governance, stopped some unhealthy tendencies that had long gone unchecked, corrected some chronic and stubborn diseases that had persisted for years, eliminated serious hidden dangers within the Party, the state, and the military, and made the Party stronger and more powerful through revolutionary tempering. The Party's overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee were significantly strengthened, the Party's unity and solidarity were further consolidated, and the hearts of the Party, the military, and the people were highly united; the sinicization and modernization of Marxism achieved a new leap, the Party's theoretical arming was continuously deepened, and the Marxist level of the whole Party was further improved; the Party's organizational line for the new era was implemented effectively, the functions of Party organizations at all levels and the quality of Party members and cadres were improved overall, and the Party's organizational advantages were fully demonstrated; the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation gained authority as an iron rule, the rectification of the Four Malfeasances and the establishment of new practices advanced step by step, and the conduct of the Party, the government, and society was completely new or refreshed; the Party's discipline building was solidly advanced, discipline and rules became more stringent, and the roles of education, restraint, guarantee, and encouragement were increasingly strengthened; the fight against corruption achieved unprecedented intensity and results evident to all, successfully blazing a path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics; the system of intra-Party regulations and rules was further improved, the authority and enforcement of institutions were effectively enhanced, and the level of scientific, institutionalized, and standardized Party governance was markedly raised; Party organizations at all levels continuously strengthened their awareness of Party governance, responsibility implementation produced visible results, and a joint force of coordination from top to bottom and working together in a coordinated manner was formed. Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era opened up a new realm of self-revolution for a century-old major party, promoted historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the state, and the Party and the people won the historical initiative of strengthening the Party and the state.

The great achievements in Party governance, Party building, and Party strengthening in the new era, and the creation of a new situation in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, are fundamentally due to the helm-steering and navigation of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and to the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Establishing Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and establishing the guiding position of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, are major political achievements of the Party in the new era, and are of decisive significance to the development of the cause of the Party and the state in the new era and to advancing the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

In the great practice of Party governance, Party building, and Party strengthening in the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, centering on the major era-specific topics of what kind of long-term governing Marxist party to build and how to build a long-term governing Marxist party, put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies, forming Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. This thought enriches and develops the Marxist theory of party building, is a major achievement of promoting the Party's theoretical innovation by adhering to the combination of the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with China's excellent traditional culture, is the crystallization of the practical experience and collective wisdom of the Party and the people, is an important component of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and provides the fundamental guidance and action guide for deeply advancing the new great project of Party building in the new era.

(3) Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is always on the way. After long-term efforts, especially the tenacious struggle in the new era, China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, national defense strength, comprehensive national power, and international influence have been significantly enhanced, the modernization level of the national governance system and governance capacity has been markedly improved, the people of all ethnic groups across the country are more confident, self-reliant, and self-empowered, the building of a great modern socialist country has a more solid material foundation, more complete institutional guarantees, and more proactive spiritual strength, Party governance, Party building, and Party strengthening have gathered strong positive energy, and full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has many favorable conditions. At the same time, it must be clearly recognized that as the world situation, national conditions, and Party conditions undergo profound changes, full and rigorous self-governance of the Party also faces many new situations and new problems.

From the international perspective, changes unseen in a century are accelerating their evolution, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating breakthroughs, the Global South is rising collectively, the international balance of power is undergoing profound adjustment, unilateralism and protectionism are intensifying, the threat of hegemonism and power politics is rising, geopolitical conflicts and local wars continue unabated, the momentum of world economic growth is insufficient, global challenges are coming one after another, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation, and uncertain and unpredictable factors in the external environment are increasing. The task of the Party uniting and leading the people to safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests has become more arduous.

From the domestic perspective, China's development has entered a critical period of consolidating the foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. The problem of unbalanced and inadequate development remains prominent, population structure, social groups, and the pattern of interests continue to change, digitalization, networking, and intelligentization are developing rapidly, social production and lifestyle and organizational forms are becoming more diverse, various thoughts and values are interweaving and colliding, and further deepening reform comprehensively, promoting high-quality development, strengthening social construction and governance, coordinating development and security, and stimulating and enhancing social vitality have encountered many new issues. The task of the Party uniting and leading the people to promote reform and development and maintain social harmony and stability has become more arduous.

From the intra-Party perspective, the Party's ranks have undergone structural changes, with the proportion of Party members and cadres born after the reform and opening up growing larger, posing new requirements for education and management. The mainstream of the Party's ranks is good, but the problems of impure ideology, impure organization, and impure conduct have not been fundamentally resolved. Some Party members and cadres have qualities and abilities that do not meet the requirements of the development of the times. A small number of Party members and cadres, including senior cadres, have weak Party spirit, wavering or even missing ideals and convictions, weak feelings for the people, deviations in their view of political achievements, serious formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance, insufficient fighting spirit, failure to take responsibility and action, failure to observe discipline and rules, and even abuse of power for personal gain and corruption and degeneration. Some primary-level Party organizations have weak political and organizational functions, or are even weak, lax, and disorganized, and in some fields, especially emerging fields, the Party's organizational coverage and work coverage are not comprehensive and effective enough. Some Party organizations and leading cadres have inadequate understanding of Party governance, fail to implement responsibilities, work ineffectively, and do not strictly enforce institutions, failing to promptly discover and effectively solve prominent problems, and even allowing unhealthy tendencies or bad influences to breed and spread. The task of the Party maintaining its advanced nature and purity has become more arduous.

These new situations and new problems pose major challenges to the Party's governing capacity, leadership level, quality of its ranks, and resistance to corruption and degeneration under the new circumstances. The tests the Party faces of governance, reform and opening up, the market economy, and the external environment, and the dangers of mental slackening, insufficient capability, detachment from the people, and passive corruption, are long-term, complex, and severe, and solving the unique problems of a major party requires more arduous efforts. The longer the Party governs, the longer the period of peace and prosperity, and the more complex the environment, the more it must strengthen its awareness of potential dangers, remain vigilant in times of peace, and build the Party well and build it strong.

The whole Party must, from the strategic height of consolidating the Party's long-term governing position and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, deeply understand the great significance of continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, strengthen confidence, maintain strategic resolve, uphold and apply the valuable experience of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era with higher standards and more concrete measures, rectify and solve the prominent problems facing Party building, and consolidate and develop the sound political situation formed by Party governance.

(4) The guiding ideology for continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is: adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of the Three Represents, and the Scientific Outlook on Development, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, centering on realizing the Party's mission and tasks, implement the general requirements for Party building in the new era, take the Party Constitution as the fundamental basis, uphold the Party's vanguard nature, uphold the Party's overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, focus on improving the Party's long-term governing capacity, maintaining the Party's advanced nature and purity, and maintaining the Party's flesh-and-blood ties with the masses, adhere unwaveringly to the strict tone, improve the system for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, take the Party's political building as the guide, comprehensively advance all aspects of Party building, fully stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the whole Party, continuously realize the Party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-renewal, and self-enhancement, continuously strengthen the Party's political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal, and ensure that the Party always remains a vigorous Marxist governing party that walks at the forefront of the times, is sincerely supported by the people, and can withstand various storms and tests, and always remains the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

(5) Continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party follows the following principles.

— Adhere to serving the mission and tasks. Stay true to the Party's original aspiration and founding mission, plan and advance from the overall situation of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, closely integrate Party building with the cause of the Party and the state, and ensure that it always centers on the overall situation and serves the overall interests.

— Adhere to taking the Party's political building as the guide. Uphold and strengthen the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, promote all aspects of Party building to grasp the correct political direction and implement political requirements, improve the political capacity of Party organizations at all levels and Party members and cadres, ensure that the whole Party maintains a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee, and consolidate the Party's unity and solidarity.

— Adhere to comprehensive strictness. Strengthen systematic thinking, embody the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere in all aspects and the entire process of Party building, and achieve true management and true strictness, daring management and daring strictness, and long-term management and long-term strictness.

— Adhere to problem orientation. Take solving prominent problems within the Party as the focus, do not avoid contradictions, do not conceal illnesses and avoid doctors, and improve work standards in correcting deviations, rectifying chaos, and eliminating evil and promoting good.

— Adhere to upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground. Adhere to the Party's basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, follow the laws of Marxist governing party building, apply the historical experience of Party building, and continuously put forward new measures and new methods according to the development and changes of the situation and tasks.

— Adhere to leading by example from above. Start from the Party Central Committee, be strict with leading organs and leading cadres, with each level setting an example for the next and each level leading the next in work, and use the "key minority" to demonstrate and drive the "vast majority."

— Adhere to governing the Party according to regulations. Run institutional building through it, pay attention to using institutions to manage power, affairs, and people, strictly implement the Party Constitution, Party regulations, and Party discipline, and enhance work efficiency with a systematic, complete, scientific, standardized, and effective system of intra-Party regulations and rules.

These principles are the scientific summary of the experience of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era and must be adhered to for a long time and continuously enriched and developed.

II. Strengthening the Party Spirit of Communists

Strengthening Party spirit is the fundamental task of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It is necessary to promote all Party members and cadres to uphold the Party's nature and purpose, strengthen Party consciousness, Party member consciousness, and vanguard consciousness, take strengthening Party spirit cultivation as a lifelong topic, and make efforts in firming up ideals and convictions, forging loyalty to the Party, cultivating deep feelings for the people, adhering to seeking truth from facts, purifying moral character, and maintaining being honest and incorruptible, so as to be loyal, clean, and responsible, and always maintain the political character of Communists.

(1) Strengthen education on loyalty to the Party. Persist in placing loyalty to the Party in a prominent position in Party spirit cultivation. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to deeply understand the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, strengthen political consciousness, overall situation consciousness, core consciousness, and alignment consciousness, firm up confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics, resolutely safeguard Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, resolutely safeguard the authority and centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and always maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in thought, politics, and action. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to firm up their belief in Marxism, their conviction in communism, and their confidence in socialism with Chinese characteristics, and to be devout and persistent, and deeply faithful. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to improve their political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, consciously unify their thinking with the Party Central Committee's analysis and judgment of the situation and tasks, implement the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements without compromise, and resolutely struggle against all words and deeds that deny the Party's leadership and the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, all words and deeds that violate the Party's theory, line, principles, and policies, and all words and deeds that endanger national unity and ethnic solidarity. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to love the Party while in the Party, speak for the Party while in the Party, worry about the Party while in the Party, and work for the Party while in the Party, trust the organization, rely on the organization, obey the organization, consciously accept organizational management and supervision, speak honest words, do honest things, and be honest people, and be open and aboveboard, upright and candid, and consistent in words and deeds. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to adhere to putting the people first and the cause first, actively work for the Party and the people, and be dedicated to their work and willing to contribute.

Strictly enforce the Party's political discipline and political rules, and purify the intra-Party political ecosystem. Never allow the "seven have-its" of engaging in appointing people by favoritism and excluding dissidents, forming cliques and factions, making anonymous accusations and fabricating rumors, buying popularity and soliciting votes, promising official positions and celebrating promotions, acting on one's own and paying lip service, and becoming too powerful to control and making irresponsible remarks about the Central Committee. Resolutely oppose liberalism in thought, opportunism in politics, sectarianism in organization, departmentalism in work, and "good-old-boyism" in fulfilling responsibilities. Accurately identify and resolutely eliminate double-dealers.

(2) Persist in using the Party's innovative theory to unite hearts and forge souls. Strengthen the building of a Marxist learning party, take learning, comprehending, and applying the Party's innovative theory as the fundamental path to strengthening Party spirit cultivation, and promote the whole Party to use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to unify thought, unify will, and unify action. Deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. Enrich the ways and means of theoretical learning and education, highlight the main-course status of the Party's innovative theory in the education and training of Party members and cadres, guide Party members and cadres to read original works, study original texts, and comprehend principles, grasp the standpoints, viewpoints, and methods running through them, understand the realm and feelings contained in them, transform the subjective world while transforming the objective world, build a solid foundation of ideals, temper political character, and solve the "master switch" problem of worldview, outlook on life, and values. Promote the Marxist style of study, promote Party members and cadres to connect with the actual conditions of their own regions, departments, units, and their own ideological and work reality, consciously deepen theoretical learning, use the Party's innovative theory to analyze and solve practical problems, and achieve integrating learning, thinking, and practice, and unifying knowledge, belief, and action. Senior cadres of the Party must demand of themselves according to the standards of Marxist politicians, lifelong firm belief in, proficient mastery of, and good at applying the Party's innovative theory. Uphold and improve the "first agenda item" system. Improve the quality of theoretical learning center group studies of Party committees (Party groups) and theoretical learning of primary-level Party organizations. Innovatively implement the Marxist theory research and construction project, and deepen the systematic and theoretical research and interpretation of the Party's innovative theory. Strengthen the building of the disciplines of Party history and Party building.

(3) Use the Party's fine traditions and China's excellent traditional culture to nourish Party spirit. Deepen education on the history of the Party, the history of New China, the history of reform and opening up, and the history of socialist development, promote the spiritual pedigree of Chinese Communists originating from the great founding spirit of the Party, guide Party members and cadres to deeply understand the Party's major achievements and historical experience over the past century of struggle, carry forward the Party's fine style of work, inherit the red gene, continue the spiritual bloodline of Communists, and adhere to the values of Communists. Excavate and make good use of the moral concepts in China's excellent traditional culture such as emphasizing loyalty and trustworthiness, valuing integrity, knowing shame, maintaining vigilance, and attaching importance to self-reflection, deepen political morality education, guide Party members and cadres to understand great virtue, uphold public virtue, and be strict in private virtue, cultivate feelings for family and country, nourish a noble spirit, and withstand the tests of power, money, and beauty. Guide Party members and cadres to take the lead in reading and learning. Strengthen and improve ideological and political work under the new situation, and enhance its pertinence and effectiveness. Strengthen publicity and education on Party spirit. Give full play to the important role of Party schools (schools of administration) and cadre colleges in Party spirit education, and improve the curriculum system.

(4) Temper Party spirit in practice. Promote Party members and cadres to temper their Party spirit in implementing the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements, completing urgent, difficult, dangerous, and heavy tasks, and responding to major storms and tests, and to hone their Party spirit in handling relationships such as right and wrong, public and private, and gain and loss. Give full play to the role of intra-Party political life as a "big furnace" for tempering Party spirit, implement the norms for intra-Party political life, make good use of the weapon of criticism and self-criticism, and enhance the political nature, contemporaneity, principled nature, and combativeness of intra-Party political life. Enrich the content and forms of Party organizational life, and improve the quality of democratic life meetings, organizational life meetings, Party branch member meetings, Party branch committee meetings, Party group meetings, Party lectures, and Party Day activities. Strictly implement the regulations on leading cadres who are Party members participating in dual organizational life. Have the courage to expose and correct shortcomings and errors, dare to struggle against all unhealthy phenomena, and oppose being worldly-wise and playing safe and being "good old guys." Adhere to unity on the basis of the principle of Party spirit, and prevent unprincipled harmony. Give play to the exemplary role of advanced models, and guide Party members and cadres to emulate the worthy and strive for excellence. Promote Party members and cadres to strengthen Party spirit analysis, frequently analyze and reflect against the Party Constitution, Party regulations, Party discipline, and the oath of admission to the Party, and continuously sweep away dust, remove impurities, eliminate viruses, and strengthen immunity. Adhere to the combination of centralized education and regular education, and focus on solving prominent problems in Party spirit.

(5) Strengthen the identification of Party spirit. Take Party spirit as an important content of cadre inspection and democratic evaluation of Party members, with emphasis on understanding and evaluating the realm and pattern, loyalty, and integrity of Party members and cadres. Improve the communication mechanism between organizational departments and discipline inspection and supervision organs and inspection, audit, and petition departments, and conduct comprehensive analysis and judgment of the Party spirit of leading group members, cadres to be promoted, and young cadres. Pay attention to identifying Party spirit from performance in responding to challenges, resisting risks, overcoming difficulties, and resolving contradictions, judge Party spirit from daily work, personal words and deeds, social interactions, and family education and family style, and understand Party spirit through listening to superiors' evaluations, peer evaluations, subordinates' reflections, and public reputation. Use the results of Party spirit identification in cadre selection and appointment and in evaluation and commendation.

III. Strictly Implementing and Enforcing Democratic Centralism

Democratic centralism is the Party's fundamental organizational principle and leadership system, and implementing and enforcing democratic centralism is an inherent requirement of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It is necessary to improve and implement the various systems of democratic centralism, fully develop intra-Party democracy, effectively implement correct centralism, and better give play to the political, organizational, institutional, and work advantages of democratic centralism.

(1) Uphold and strengthen the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. Adhere to the principles of individual Party members obeying Party organizations, the minority obeying the majority, lower-level organizations obeying higher-level organizations, and all Party organizations and all Party members obeying the National Congress of the Party and the Central Committee. Improve the institutional mechanisms for the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee to ensure that the whole Party obeys orders and prohibitions. Improve the mechanism for implementing the Party Central Committee's major decisions and arrangements, and strengthen follow-up supervision and quality and effectiveness evaluation. Strictly implement the system of requesting instructions and reporting to the Party Central Committee. Advance political supervision in a concrete, precise, and regular manner, take the implementation of the Party Central Committee's major decisions and arrangements as the focus of supervision, promptly discover and solve problems of ineffective implementation and deformation and deviation, and prevent and rectify "low-level red" and "high-level black."

(2) Improve the quality of intra-Party democracy. Uphold and improve the intra-Party democratic system, respect the principal position of Party members, and guarantee the democratic rights of Party members. Implement the system for Party members to play a role as representatives at Party congresses at all levels. Improve the quality of Party committee meetings, standing committee meetings of Party committees, and Party group meetings. Carry out Party work in accordance with the democratic principles and procedures determined by the Party Constitution and Party regulations. Leading cadres must not treat the work, fields, and localities under their charge as "private territory," and individuals must not place themselves above the organization. Smooth the channels for Party members to participate in discussing intra-Party affairs, and expand the channels for Party members to express opinions. Improve the intra-Party situation notification system and situation reporting system. Adhere to the equal comradely relations of intra-Party democracy, create a good atmosphere for democratic discussion within the Party, encourage and support speaking the truth, speaking honestly, and speaking from the heart, and must not suppress, exclude, or attack comrades who express different opinions.

(3) Strictly implement the decision-making and deliberation rules of leading groups. Adhere to the combination of collective leadership and individual division of responsibility, adhere to scientific, democratic, and law-based decision-making, and all major issues must be decided through collective discussion in accordance with the principles of collective leadership, democratic centralism, individual deliberation, and decision by meeting. Improve the deliberation rules and decision-making procedures of Party committees (Party groups), strengthen investigation and research, scientific demonstration, and risk assessment of major decisions, and must not force decisions when there are major differences of opinion on important topics. Strengthen the compliance and legality review of major decisions, and improve the supervision mechanism for major decisions, important personnel appointments and removals, major project arrangements, and the use of large amounts of funds. Leading cadres must obey organizational decisions and organizational division of labor, perform their duties within the scope of their responsibilities in accordance with the spirit of the Party Central Committee and collective decisions, fully express opinions when studying work, and follow through to the end after decisions are made. Resolutely oppose and prevent arbitrary decision-making or acting independently, resolutely oppose and prevent endless discussion without decision, decision without action, and action without results, and resolutely oppose and prevent collective violations of regulations or evasion of responsibility in the name of collective decision-making by Party committees (Party groups). When higher-level Party organizations make important decisions concerning lower-level Party organizations, they should generally solicit the opinions of lower-level Party organizations in advance. Improve the system of lifelong responsibility for major decisions of leading cadres.

(4) Regulate the performance of duties and exercise of power by "top leaders." Implement the institutional provisions on strengthening supervision over "top leaders" and leading groups. When selecting and appointing "top leaders," pay attention to examining their quality and ability in implementing and enforcing democratic centralism. Improve the mechanism for restricting the exercise of power in leading groups, regulate the duties and authority of "top leaders," and implement the system of "top leaders" expressing their views last. Meetings of the secretary's special topics must not replace meetings of the standing committee of the Party committee in making decisions. Secretaries of Party committees (Party groups) must develop democracy, seriously listen to different opinions, correctly treat the opinions of the minority, not engage in "one-man rule" or "patriarchal style," must not express their positions without authorization on matters that should be studied collectively, must not replace the collective decisions of the leading group with personal opinions, must not change collective decisions without authorization, and must not demand at all levels that the personal authority of the "top leader" be maintained. Implement the system for "top leaders" to make special reports on their performance in managing and supervising "top leaders" of lower-level organizations. Implement the system for Party committees (Party groups) to conduct supervisory talks with "top leaders" of lower-level Party organizations. Improve the system and mechanism for peer supervision, and members of leading groups must fulfill the political responsibility of safeguarding democratic centralism and strengthen mutual supervision. When discovering problems with "top leaders," they should frankly raise them, and when discovering major problems, they should report to higher-level Party organizations.

IV. Forging a High-Quality Cadre Force Capable of Undertaking the Great Task of National Rejuvenation

The key to full and rigorous self-governance of the Party lies in strict governance of officials. It is necessary to implement the Party's organizational line for the new era, strictly manage cadre education and training, selection and appointment, and management and supervision, and build a high-quality cadre force that is politically sound, highly capable, with fine conduct, and strict discipline.

(1) Adhere to the correct orientation for employing people. Adhere to the principle of the Party managing cadres, adhere to both moral integrity and professional competence, with moral integrity first, adhere to the principle of selecting people from all over the country on their merits, and adhere to putting the cause first and being fair and upright. Implement the standards for good cadres in the new era, vigorously select and appoint cadres who are loyal to the Party, consistent in words and deeds, responsible and dedicated, with outstanding achievements, and being honest and incorruptible, resolutely not use those who fear difficulties and avoid affairs, are mediocre, lazy, and inactive, and have a floating style of work, and resolutely eliminate those who are disloyal to the Party, pay lip service, and abuse power for personal gain.

(2) Select and appoint people accurately and scientifically. Strictly implement the principles and procedures for cadre selection and appointment, adhere to organizational selection, fair employment, and selecting people based on the matter, and give play to the leadership and gatekeeping role of Party organizations. Improve the quality of cadre inspection, strengthen regular assessment, do solid and in-depth political quality inspection of cadres, pay attention to evaluating cadres from their consistent performance, inspect cadres at major junctures and critical moments, identify cadres from their performance in facing struggle tests, contradictions and difficulties, unhealthy tendencies or bad influences, interest temptations, and advancement and retreat, and observe cadres from their awareness of burdens, willingness to bear heavy loads, and ability to take on and do things. Strengthen extended inspection, pay attention to inspecting cadres at their original work places or units, pay attention to understanding cadres' life circles and social circles, and make good use of the results of inspections, audits, and supervision. Strictly select and use cadres according to the requirements of post responsibilities, and enhance the degree of fit. Adhere to the principle of individual strength and overall excellence, and structure serving function, and select and strengthen leading groups at all levels, especially "top leaders." Adhere to the echelon arrangement of old, middle-aged, and young cadres, coordinate the use of cadres of all age groups, cultivate and use female cadres, ethnic minority cadres, and non-Party cadres, not be limited to age, educational background, or seniority, prevent paying attention only to the structure of the leading group while ignoring individual quality, and paying attention only to educational background and seniority while ignoring actual ability, and prevent rigid allocation and lowering standards. Pay attention to discovering and selecting outstanding cadres from the grassroots. Improve the systems of cadre post avoidance, regular rotation, and exchange. Improve and implement the tenure system for leading cadres, strictly implement the relevant policies for maintaining tenure stability, and prevent frequent adjustment of cadres in the same post and frequent adjustment of posts for the same cadre. Strengthen the analysis and judgment of leading groups and leading cadres, promote the normalization of leading cadres being able to go up and down, and increase the intensity of adjusting cadres who are not competent for their current posts.

Adhere to the principle that cadre personnel files must be reviewed whenever promotion is proposed, personal matters reports must be verified whenever promotion is proposed, the opinions of discipline inspection and supervision organs must be heard whenever promotion is proposed, and petition reports with specific and verifiable clues of violations of regulations and discipline must be investigated whenever promotion is proposed. Implement the provision that integrity opinions must be jointly signed and confirmed by the secretary of the Party committee (Party group) and the secretary of the discipline inspection commission (leader of the dispatched discipline inspection and supervision group). Improve and implement the systems of pre-appointment matter reporting for cadres, full-process recording of selection and appointment, and "one report and two evaluations." Deepen special inspections of personnel selection and appointment, and improve the mechanism for investigating responsibility for cadres being "promoted with illness." Resolutely rectify unhealthy tendencies in the use of personnel, strictly prohibit private favoritism and appointing people by favoritism, resolutely break up "small circles," and seriously investigate and punish acts such as running after officials and seeking positions, buying and selling official positions, and canvassing votes and bribing voters.

(3) Promote cadres to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements. Deepen education on the view of political achievements, guide cadres to adhere to building the Party for the public, benefiting the people, making scientific decisions, and doing solid work, and create achievements that stand the test of practice, the people, and history. Fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, improve the assessment of political achievements in promoting high-quality development, adhere to the combination of assessing people and assessing affairs, and combining the use of existing assessment results with pre-appointment inspection, and deeply understand and analyze the situations of promoting reform and development and benefiting people's livelihood and ensuring safety, promoting current work and handling historical legacy problems, and producing visible achievements and emphasizing potential achievements. Dynamically adjust the list of major problems of deviation in the view of political achievements, and improve the working mechanism for effectively preventing and correcting deviations in the view of political achievements. Deeply rectify problems such as new officials not settling old accounts, seeking quick success and instant benefits, falsification, reckless action, unrealistic decision-making against the will of the masses, engaging in "image projects" and "political achievement projects," "flipping the pancake" of policies and plans, illegally adding hidden local government debt, and emphasizing only development without safety. Deepen the rectification of problems of inaction and reckless action. Improve the handover system for changes of principal responsible persons of leading groups.

(4) Enhance the ability of cadres to work and start businesses. Strengthen the ideological tempering, political training, practical exercise, and professional training of cadres, enhance their ability to promote high-quality development, serve the masses, prevent and resolve risks, and carry out work using legal thinking and legal methods, and strengthen the cultivation of fighting spirit and fighting ability. Promote cadres, especially leading cadres, to conduct in-depth investigation and research, and plan ideas, solve problems, and improve work in connection with reality. Promote cadres to accelerate knowledge updating, improve professional quality, make up for ability shortcomings, and become experts in their own work. Promote cadres to summarize experience and grasp laws in practice, and enhance the principled, systematic, forward-looking, and creative nature of their work.

(5) Improve the quality of cultivating and selecting outstanding young cadres. Improve the normalized working mechanism for cultivating and selecting outstanding young cadres. Strengthen political cultivation and political training, and guide young cadres to build a solid foundation of faith, replenish the calcium of the spirit, and steady the rudder of thought. Take the grassroots frontline as the basic position for cultivating young cadres, promote young cadres to go to difficult areas, complex environments, and demanding posts to temper themselves, sharpen their character, improve their style of work, and increase their abilities. Adhere to both cultivation and management, guide young cadres to take the path of healthy growth, obey organizational arrangements, be willing to work hard and do solid work, not be impetuous or aim too high, and not engage in self-design or take shortcuts. Track and understand the situations of young cadres in learning theory, participating in intra-Party political life, taking responsibility and acting, withstanding pressure and resistance, and observing rules and discipline, and strengthen growth guidance. Prevent and correct practices such as "pulling up seedlings to help them grow."

(6) Strengthen cadre management and supervision. Adhere to starting with senior cadres, strengthen all-round management and regular supervision of cadres, run strict requirements through the entire cycle of cadre growth and the entire process of education, management, and supervision, and prevent emphasizing selection over management. Improve the system of reporting personal matters of leading cadres, and investigate and verify family property and expenditures that clearly exceed normal income. Strengthen the normalized management of the spouses, children, and children's spouses of leading cadres engaging in business and running enterprises. Deepen the special rectification of the problem of "close-relative reproduction." Strengthen the management and supervision of personnel recruitment work. Regulate the behavior of cadres holding concurrent posts, temporary posts, and engaging in employment after leaving office, and prevent and rectify "escape-style resignation." Strengthen the management and supervision of retired cadres. Party organizations at all levels and leading cadres must dare to grasp and dare to manage, and strictly manage and strictly govern, and must not turn a blind eye to the erroneous words and deeds of cadres, or cover up and protect their shortcomings. Formulate regulations on cadre management and supervision work.

Adhere to the combination of strict management and care, and equal emphasis on incentives and constraints, improve the mechanism for encouraging and protecting cadres who take responsibility and act, stand up for those who take responsibility, take responsibility for those who are responsible, and support those who do things. Implement the system of heart-to-heart talks, promptly understand the ideological dynamics, work status, physical and mental health, and family situations of cadres, and strengthen education and guidance in a targeted manner. Strengthen and improve the work of civil servants, give play to the incentive effect of systems such as the parallel system of positions and ranks, and improve the mechanism for commendation and rewards. Implement various policies for caring for and caring for grassroots cadres.

Adhere to the principle of the Party managing talent, strengthen political guidance and political absorption of talent, deepen the reform of the institutional mechanisms for talent development, promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, cultivate, introduce, and make good use of talent in an all-round way, strengthen talent support and service guarantees, encourage the vast number of talents to love the Party and serve the country, be dedicated to their work and serve the people, and gather outstanding talents from all aspects into the cause of the Party and the people. Implement the system of Party committees contacting and serving experts, and improve the working mechanism for leading cadres to directly contact and serve experts. Guide Party members in the talent ranks to play an exemplary role in scientific research and tackling key problems, cultivating younger generations, unity and cooperation, academic integrity, and scientific and technological ethics, oppose academic fraud, plagiarism, and other academic misconduct, and resist unhealthy tendencies such as seeking quick success and being impetuous and flashy. Rectify the problem of talent "hats," and break down seniority-based promotion, clique culture, and the style of academic overlords.

V. Building a Tight Organizational System That Connects Up and Down and Executes Effectively

Party organizations at all levels are the subjects of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It is necessary to systematically advance the building of Party organizations at all levels and in all fields, strengthen the political and organizational functions of Party organizations, and ensure that the implementation of the Party's line, principles, and policies and the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements is coordinated from top to bottom, precise, and efficient.

(1) Give play to the exemplary role of Party organizations in central and state organs. Deepen the building of political organs, promote Party organizations at all levels and Party members and cadres in central and state organs to walk in the first phalanx, set an example in deeply studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, set an example in always maintaining a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and set an example in resolutely implementing the Party Central Committee's various decisions and arrangements, and build central and state organs into model organs that stress politics, observe discipline, are responsible, and are efficient. Adhere to grasping the organs to drive the system, managing the industry and managing Party building, improve the mechanism for the simultaneous advancement of Party building in organs, directly affiliated enterprises and public institutions, and dispatched institutions, and deepen the building of Party branches that are strong in political function, strong in branch leadership, strong in Party member ranks, and strong in playing their role. Promote the deep integration of Party building and business, and continuously solve the problem of "two skins." Make every effort to avoid "organ diseases" and "yamen style," and prevent "darkness under the lamp."

(2) Strengthen the functions of local Party committees. Adhere to the leadership role of local Party committees in their regions in commanding the overall situation and coordinating all parties, perform the duties of setting the direction, managing the overall situation, making decisions, and ensuring implementation, and build local Party committees into strong organizations that resolutely obey the command of the Party Central Committee, execute effectively, manage strictly, have united leadership groups, and have pure conduct. Encourage and support local Party committees to implement the spirit of the Party Central Committee in connection with reality and carry out work creatively. Promote the standing committees of local Party committees to build strong leadership groups, strictly manage their ranks, frequently conduct political physical examinations, and improve their ability to discover and solve their own problems. Revise the work regulations of local Party committees. Regulate the deliberation and coordination organs of local Party committees.

(3) Coordinate the advancement of the building of primary-level Party organizations in all fields. Strengthen the clear orientation of grasping the grassroots, adhere to the simultaneous promotion of making up shortcomings, filling gaps, and improving quality and strengthening functions, and build primary-level Party organizations into strong fighting fortresses that effectively realize the Party's leadership. Deeply advance the promotion of comprehensive rural revitalization through Party building, strengthen the building of township Party committees and village Party organizations, improve the education and management level of village cadres, and optimize the selection, dispatch, and management of first secretaries stationed in villages and work teams. Do solid work in Party building in "hollow villages." Strengthen Party building work in urban streets and communities, build and strengthen Party organizations in residential communities, and explore new models for the coordinated operation of residents' committees, owners' committees, and property service enterprises under the leadership of community Party organizations. Strengthen the building of Party organizations in "super-large communities." Advance Party building in development zones (parks). Strengthen primary-level Party building work in border areas. Deepen the leadership of Party building in primary-level governance and the building of primary-level political power, uphold and develop the Fengqiao model in the new era, and improve the urban and rural primary-level governance system under the leadership of Party organizations that combines self-governance, rule of law, and rule of virtue. Integrate and optimize grid governance services, give play to the role of Party and mass service centers, and broaden the channels for primary-level organizations and the masses to participate in primary-level governance in accordance with laws and regulations. Comprehensively improve the quality of Party building in organs, and do a good job in Party building in affiliated units and industries. Improve the institutional mechanisms for the Party's leadership in public institutions, and advance Party building in schools, hospitals, and scientific research institutes. Strengthen the Party's leadership in state-owned enterprises and state-owned financial enterprises, strengthen the substantive gatekeeping of Party committees (Party groups) in the pre-study and discussion of major business management matters, improve corporate governance, and enhance the quality and effectiveness of Party building work. Adhere to the combination of concentration and normalization, and rectify weak, lax, and disorganized primary-level Party organizations. Strengthen the cultivation, selection, education, and training of persons in charge of primary-level Party organizations. Promote the sinking of resources, services, and management, and the tilting of policies toward the grassroots, and improve the working conditions of the grassroots. Adhere to Party building leading group building, and give play to the role of mass organizations as bridges and bonds.

(4) Highlight the advancement of Party building in emerging fields. Classify and improve the Party building management systems and responsibility systems in emerging fields, compact the responsibilities of industry management and business supervision departments, business competent units, and localities, and enhance the Party's appeal, cohesion, and influence in emerging fields. Deepen and expand the organizational coverage and work coverage of the Party in new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups, select and strengthen secretaries of Party organizations, improve the selection and dispatch of Party building work instructors, and promote the organic combination of Party building work with production and operation, innovation and entrepreneurship, social services, and primary-level governance. Consolidate and improve Party building work in non-public enterprises, classify and advance Party building work in mixed-ownership enterprises, strengthen Party building work in platform enterprises, scientific and technological innovation enterprises, etc., establish a mechanism for the dynamic adjustment of the upgraded management of Party organizations in internet enterprises, and promote the implementation of Party building responsibilities. Classify and guide Party building work in new social organizations, improve the management systems and operating mechanisms of industry associations, societies, and chambers of commerce, fully implement the requirement of writing Party building work requirements into articles of association, and strengthen the leadership of Party building in industry self-discipline. Do a good job in Party building in private schools, private hospitals, etc. Strengthen Party building work for new employment groups, strengthen ideological and political guidance, do a good job in service management, protect legitimate rights and interests, and guide new employment groups to listen to the Party and follow the Party.

(5) Strengthen the building of the Party member ranks. Adhere to putting the political standard first, strictly follow procedures, strictly check, and strictly enforce discipline, improve the quality of developing Party members, and prevent people with impure motives from joining the Party. Pay attention to developing Party members from among young people, industrial workers, farmers, and intellectuals, do a good job in developing Party members in emerging fields, and optimize the structure of the Party member ranks. Strengthen the education and management of Party members, and carry out normalized training of Party members, especially basic training. Implement the responsibility of Party branches for directly educating, managing, and supervising Party members. Strengthen the management of Party members' online behavior. Normalize the registration and reception of mobile Party members, and improve the system for the coordinated co-management of Party organizations in the places of outflow and inflow, and the combination of online and offline. Promote practices such as setting posts and responsibilities, making commitments and fulfilling them, establishing commando teams, and showing identity and being pioneers, and improve and implement the mechanism for Party members to play their role online and offline, on and off duty, and in normal times and emergencies. Improve the intra-Party mechanism for incentives, care, and assistance. Seriously and steadily handle unqualified Party members.

(6) Improve the mechanism for connecting Party organizations at all levels. Improve the working mechanism for the transmission and implementation of higher-level deployments, the upward reporting of grassroots situations, and the coordinated resolution of contradictions and problems. Improve the Party building work system for territorial management and vertical management, and promote the combination of blocks and lines, each taking responsibility, and close connection. Increase the guidance of higher-level organizations to the Party building work of lower-level organizations, and summarize and promote experience. Do solid work in the performance evaluation of secretaries of Party committees (Party groups) grasping primary-level Party building work through reports and evaluations. Strengthen the building of the team of Party affairs workers, equip them with sufficient and strong forces, and provide necessary guarantees. Adhere to grasping the current level, driving the lower levels, and implementing layer by layer, promote the comprehensive progress and comprehensive excellence of Party organizations at all levels, and prevent the suspension of responsibility and the shifting of responsibility upward and downward.

VI. Unremittingly Rectifying Conduct and Enforcing Discipline

Rectifying conduct and enforcing discipline are powerful measures for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It is necessary to adhere to grasping Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline together, and connecting the rectification of conduct, the enforcement of discipline, and the fight against corruption, deepen the application of the experience of advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party starting from grasping conduct, continuously improve conduct, govern the Party with strict discipline, and unite hearts and gather strength with a good image.

(1) Walk the Party's mass line well in the new era. Deepen education on the Marxist view of the masses and the Party's mass line, guide Party members and cadres to strengthen their sense of purpose and sense of being public servants, stand firmly on the people's side, enhance their feelings for the masses, and prevent being aloof and detached from the masses. Guide Party members and cadres to grasp the characteristics and laws of the Party's mass work in the new era, frequently go deep among the masses, humbly listen to opinions, seriously solve the urgent, difficult, worried, and anxious problems, be good at relying on the strength of the masses to do work well and resolve contradictions, educate and guide the masses and lead the masses forward in serving the masses, and prevent and overcome commandism and "tailism." Implement the system of soliciting opinions from the masses on major decisions involving people's livelihood. Implement the system for leading cadres to publicize the Party's line, principles, and policies at the grassroots, conduct investigation and research at the grassroots, receive petitions at the grassroots, and handle affairs on site at the grassroots, and implement the system for Party members and cadres to directly contact and serve the masses. Promote Party members and cadres to take the lead in participating in volunteer services and carry out paired assistance. Continuously do a good job in resolving petition problems in the field of people's livelihood. Walk the online mass line well, enhance the ability of Party organizations to organize, publicize, unite, and serve the masses through the internet, and improve the ability of Party members and cadres to do online mass work.

(2) Persevere in implementing the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation. Take the Eight-Point Regulation as an iron rule and hard benchmark that must be adhered to for a long time, consolidate and expand the results of learning and education on deeply implementing the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation, improve and implement the detailed rules for the implementation of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation, deepen the rectification of the chronic diseases of formalism and bureaucratism, resolutely prevent the rebound and resurgence of hedonism and extravagance, and resolutely break down privileged thinking and privileged behavior. Streamline meetings, documents, and submitted materials, implement the requirement of "short, real, and new," and improve the style of meetings and writing. Without the approval of the organization, leading cadres of the Party and government must not publicly publish personal works. Strictly implement the regulations on visits abroad by leading cadres, and must not arrange for courtesy visits. Advance the rectification of formalism to reduce burdens on the grassroots, coordinate and regulate supervision, inspection, and assessment, regulate model creation, standards, and evaluation and commendation activities, clean up and regulate festivals, exhibitions, forums, and activities, rectify "formalism at the fingertips," implement the list of matters for performing duties in townships (streets), and improve the system for the admission of work matters in villages (communities). Continuously rectify prominent problems such as illegal eating and drinking, illegal giving and receiving of gifts and money, and infringement of the interests of the masses. Practice strict economy and oppose waste, adhere to Party and government organs living a tight life, strictly control the "three public" expenses, and strictly control the construction of new office buildings. Keep a close eye on new trends and new manifestations of unhealthy tendencies, and prevent and rectify hidden and mutated problems.

(3) Advance the normalization and long-term effectiveness of style building. Integrate style building into daily life and grasp it regularly, prevent passive coping and fatigue and war-weariness, and correct the "minor matter theory" and "special theory" of style problems. Improve the mechanism for regularly discovering and solving style problems, and strengthen the analysis, judgment, and targeted rectification of prominent problems of the Four Malfeasances. Grasp the regional, industrial, and stage-specific characteristics, and rectify style problems that occur commonly and repeatedly. Keep a close eye on important nodes, strengthen supervision and inspection, severely investigate and punish acts of violating discipline in defiance of warnings, and report and expose typical cases. Implement the responsibility of industry competent departments for managing industry conduct, strengthen the dynamic analysis and effective supervision of industry conduct, do a good job in the building of teacher ethics and teacher style, medical ethics and medical style, and art ethics and art style, and increase the intensity of rectifying the problems of the Four Malfeasances in state-owned enterprises, state-owned financial enterprises, and local branches of vertically managed units. Regulate law enforcement and judicial behavior involving enterprises. Deepen the simultaneous investigation and treatment of conduct and corruption, dig deep into the problems of cliques, entrusting affairs, and interest transfer behind the Four Malfeasances, and investigate the style problems in corruption cases. Adhere to the simultaneous promotion of rectifying the Four Malfeasances and establishing new practices, and lead social conduct to improve and be good with excellent Party and government conduct.

(4) Strengthen strict discipline enforcement. Run strict requirements through the entire process of Party regulation formulation, Party discipline education, and discipline enforcement supervision. Adhere to the principles that where there are regulations, they must be followed, where there is discipline enforcement, it must be strict, and where there are violations of discipline, they must be investigated, and investigate and deal with every violation of discipline as soon as it is discovered, never tolerating or compromising. Strictly enforce the Party's political discipline and political rules, and drive the comprehensive strictness of organizational discipline, integrity discipline, mass discipline, work discipline, and life discipline. Focus on key areas, weak links, and gray areas, and improve discipline norms. Adhere to discipline being stricter than law and discipline preceding law, and the connection of discipline enforcement and law enforcement, and the effective connection with justice. Adhere to grasping early and grasping small, and preventing problems before they become major, promptly remind and correct problems of a budding or tendentious nature, and prevent minor problems from evolving into major problems. Strengthen the supervision and inspection of the implementation of discipline, promote Party organizations at all levels to strictly implement and maintain discipline, and seriously investigate responsibility for lax discipline enforcement and laissez-faire.

(5) Comprehensively give play to the roles of discipline education in restraint, guarantee, and incentive. Establish and improve a normalized and long-term effective discipline education mechanism, take the Party Constitution, Party regulations, and Party discipline as required courses in the training of Party members and cadres, guide Party members and cadres to learn discipline, understand discipline, and observe discipline, and develop the habit of working and living in an environment of supervision and restraint. Strengthen full-cycle discipline education, and seize the various important nodes of joining the Party, entering a post, changing positions, family changes, and leaving office and retirement to strengthen discipline reminders. According to the requirements for performing duties of Party members and cadres at different positions and ranks and in different industries, clarify the discipline and laws that should be known and mastered. Do a good job in discipline training for key targets such as newly promoted cadres, cadres in key positions, and young cadres. Adhere to punishing the past to warn the future and curing the disease to save the patient, deepen the application of the "four forms" of supervision and discipline enforcement, pay attention to making good use of the "first form," set up defenses at all levels, and maximize the education and rescue of Party members and cadres. Adhere to seeking truth from facts and acting in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law, run ideological and political work through the entire process, enhance the standardization and accuracy of discipline enforcement and accountability, and achieve the organic unity of political, disciplinary and legal, and social effects. Adhere to the unity of strict discipline and care and love, and promote Party members and cadres to reform, innovate, and start businesses while observing rules and discipline. Seriously investigate and punish acts of false accusation, and promptly carry out work to clarify and rehabilitate. Do a good job in follow-up visits and education management of Party members and cadres who have been dealt with and disciplined.

VII. Unswervingly and Integratedly Advancing the Goals of Not Daring to Corrupt, Not Being Able to Corrupt, and Not Wanting to Corrupt

Integratedly advancing the goals of not daring to corrupt, not being able to corrupt, and not wanting to corrupt is an important strategy for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and the basic policy of the fight against corruption. It is necessary to bear in mind that the Party has no special interests of its own other than the interests of the working class and the broadest masses of the people, and that the Party is incompatible with corruption, firmly walk the path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics, strengthen the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over anti-corruption work, pay more attention to treating both the symptoms and the root causes and systematic governance, adhere to severe punishment, precise governance, effective prevention, and integrated grasping, and carry the fight against corruption through to the end.

(1) Maintain the high-pressure posture of punishing corruption. Deeply understand that the situation of the fight against corruption is still severe and complex, and the task of eradicating the soil and conditions for corruption is still arduous and heavy, adhere to the principles that where there is corruption, it must be opposed, where there is graft, it must be punished, and evil must be eliminated completely, resolutely "beat tigers," "swat flies," and "hunt foxes," always maintain strategic resolve and fighting tenacity, never stop for a moment, never retreat half a step, more forcefully curb the increase of new cases and more effectively eliminate the stock of existing cases, never allow corrupt elements to have a hiding place, and never allow "iron-hatted kings" or "iron certificates and exemption edicts." Focus on key areas, key problems, and key targets, deepen the rectification of corruption in areas with concentrated power, dense funds, and rich resources, focus on investigating and dealing with problems such as the interweaving of political and economic problems, collusion between government and business, and the penetration of capital into the political field, pay attention to investigating and dealing with corruption behind various risks, focus on investigating and dealing with corruption of the "key minority," especially "top leaders," and corruption of young cadres, seriously investigate and deal with family-style corruption of leading cadres and corruption of people around them, and resolutely eliminate corrupt elements who do not restrain themselves and act recklessly. Dig deep and investigate carefully new types of corruption and hidden corruption such as expected returns, agreed holding, "white gloves," and the "revolving door" between government and business, and resolutely combat corruption committed through the internet, virtual currencies, cross-border funds, blockchain, etc. Normalize the rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption around the masses, deepen governance around problems in the fields of employment, elderly care, social security, housing, education, medical care, and agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, seriously investigate and punish problems such as embezzlement and encroachment, interception and misappropriation, false reporting and fraudulent claiming, and demanding and taking bribes, severely punish "flies and ants" of corruption, and continuously advance the fight against organized crime and evil forces by "removing umbrellas and breaking networks." Deepen international cooperation against corruption, strengthen the pursuit of fugitives, prevention of flight, and recovery of stolen assets, and increase the intensity of investigating and handling cross-border corruption cases. Deepen the simultaneous investigation of bribe takers and bribe givers, investigate and deal with bribery acts in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law, strengthen joint punishment of key bribe givers, and prevent and combat "hunting" acts. Strengthen the dynamic monitoring of integrity risk hazards, and establish a linkage mechanism for corruption early warning and punishment. Promote localities, departments, and units where major corruption cases have occurred to thoroughly eliminate the poisonous influence and repair the political ecosystem.

(2) Strengthen the restriction and supervision of the exercise of power. Adhere to exercising power impartially, exercising power according to law, exercising power with integrity, and exercising power for the people, and prevent and rectify acts such as arbitrary exercise of power, abuse of power, and dereliction of duty. Improve the institutional mechanism that unifies the authorization, exercise, and restriction of power, and is clear, transparent, and traceable, strengthen the regulation and supervision of the allocation and exercise of power, promptly discover problems and correct deviations, and more scientifically and effectively put power in the cage of institutions. Grasp the key links such as policy formulation, deliberation and decision-making, examination and approval supervision, and law enforcement and justice, regulate the scope of duties and authority, the boundaries of power exercise, and work procedures, regulate discretionary power, and prevent the setting up of rent-seeking by power. Accelerate the building of norms and restriction mechanisms for the exercise of power in key areas and new fields. Establish lists of power in key industries and lists of small and micro power at the grassroots. Implement the system of recording and reporting leading cadres' interference in judicial activities and intervention in the handling of specific cases.

(3) Consolidate the ideological foundation of advocating integrity and rejecting corruption. Strengthen the building of a culture of integrity in the new era, enrich the content and carriers, and educate and guide Party members and cadres to be self-respecting and self-reflective, be cautious when alone and in small matters, and consciously resist corruption and prevent degeneration. Develop a positive and healthy intra-Party political culture, and use the ideals and convictions, value concepts, moral concepts, and discipline and law awareness contained in the Party's innovative theory to nourish the clean conduct of Party members and cadres. Integrate the culture of integrity into the building of the core values of socialism, integrate integrity education into the national education system, and create a social atmosphere of honoring integrity and being ashamed of greed. Innovate the mechanism for integrity publicity and education, link online and offline, determine content and methods by category and level, and enhance pertinence and effectiveness. Give play to the exemplary and leading role of diligent and incorruptible models and the warning and deterrent role of cases of violations of discipline and law. Supervise and urge leading cadres to take the lead in building a pro-clean government-business relationship, strengthen the building of family, family education, and family style, and strictly educate and manage relatives and staff around them.

(4) Enhance the comprehensive effectiveness of integratedly advancing the goals of not daring to corrupt, not being able to corrupt, and not wanting to corrupt. Deeply study and grasp the laws of anti-corruption under the conditions of the socialist market economy, improve anti-corruption laws and regulations, adhere to the simultaneous, same-direction, and comprehensive exertion of the goals of not daring to corrupt, not being able to corrupt, and not wanting to corrupt, and focus on eradicating the soil and conditions for corruption. Improve the mechanism for cooperation and coordination between discipline inspection and supervision organs and relevant departments under the unified leadership of Party committees, and promote integrated governance through whole-chain cooperation. Do solid work in promoting reform and governance through case handling, carry out special governance of industrial and systemic corruption problems discovered in major cases, improve institutional mechanisms through investigating and handling cases, eliminate loopholes in the exercise of power, blind spots in supervision, and institutional gaps, and form a closed loop of supervision, case handling, rectification, and governance. Grasp the new trends and new characteristics of corruption, deepen the building of the digital discipline inspection and supervision system, advance the building of a big data supervision platform for public power, and enhance the penetration of the fight against corruption.

VIII. Adhering to Governing the Party with Institutions and Governing the Party According to Regulations

Strengthening the building of the system of intra-Party regulations and rules is a long-term and fundamental strategy for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It is necessary to adhere to taking the Party Constitution as the fundamental code of conduct for the whole Party, deepen the reform of the Party building system, promote the organic unity of law-based governance and governing the Party according to regulations, and provide a strong institutional guarantee for continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.

(1) Improve the system of intra-Party regulations and rules. Scientifically formulate plans and programs for the formulation of intra-Party regulations. Coordinate the formulation, amendment, abolition, and interpretation of intra-Party regulations, pay attention to system integration, and strengthen supporting and connecting work. Formulate and improve intra-Party regulations and systems according to the actual needs of continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and promptly make up for institutional shortcomings. The establishment of rules and systems should target prominent problems and ensure convenience and effectiveness. Improve the interpretation mechanism for intra-Party regulations. Improve the mechanism for connecting and coordinating intra-Party regulations with national laws and regulations.

(2) Enhance the enforcement of institutions. Strengthen the rigid constraint of institutions, adhere to the principles that everyone is equal before institutions, there is no special treatment in observing institutions, and there is no exception in enforcing institutions. Promote Party members and cadres to consciously learn the Party Constitution, observe the Party Constitution, implement the Party Constitution, and safeguard the Party Constitution. Increase the publicity of intra-Party regulations. Strengthen the study and training of intra-Party regulations and systems. Run the enforcement and supervision of institutions through the entire process of the performance of duties by Party organizations and Party members and cadres, and through all aspects of regional governance, departmental governance, industrial governance, primary-level governance, and unit governance, to ensure that institutions exert their authority at all times and are effective everywhere. Resolutely correct the phenomena of orders not being carried out and prohibitions not being heeded, prevent the selective, discounted, and flexible implementation of institutions, and avoid the idling of institutions.

(3) Vigorously break down hidden rules. Adhere to establishing explicit rules, and advance the openness of Party and government affairs. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to stress principles, abide by laws and discipline, and follow the right path, and consciously oppose and resist hidden rules in the exercise of power, policy implementation, project competition, cadre selection and use, and evaluation and commendation. Resolutely rectify the chaos of "building antennas and paying homage to the boss," "principles are not as good as relationships," "chops are not as good as notes," not doing things without benefits, and operating behind the scenes, and resolutely resist the erosion of intra-Party life by the principle of commodity exchange and personal dependency relationships. Improve the reporting mechanism, and seriously investigate and deal with acts of making or acting as political brokers and political swindlers. Establish a system of case-type analysis, retrospection, and rectification notification, and improve the mechanism for dynamic monitoring, judgment, and governance of the political ecosystem.

To continuously and persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, it is necessary to further improve the Party and state supervision system. Do solid work in the comprehensive supervision of Party committees (Party groups), and strengthen the leadership over various types of supervision subjects. Revise the intra-Party supervision regulations. Improve the dual leadership system for discipline inspection and supervision work, do solid work in the principle that supervision and inspection and the investigation and handling of corruption cases are mainly led by the discipline inspection commissions and supervision commissions at the higher level, pay attention to the coordination and optimization of forces, and strengthen the overall connection of discipline supervision, supervision supervision, dispatched supervision, and inspection supervision. Make good use of the supervision resources and forces of counties, townships, and villages, improve the primary-level supervision system, improve mechanisms such as upgraded supervision and cross supervision, smooth the channels for mass supervision, and promote the organic connection of primary-level supervision and primary-level governance. Promote the deep integration and efficient linkage of intra-Party supervision with people's congress supervision, democratic supervision, administrative supervision, judicial supervision, audit supervision, financial and accounting supervision, statistical supervision, mass supervision, and public opinion supervision, and form a joint force of supervision. Comprehensively implement the Party's inspection work policy, implement the inspection work regulations, make good use of regular inspection, special inspection, mobile inspection, and upgraded inspection methods, innovate inspection methods, increase the intensity of inspection "look-back," strengthen the rectification and application of results of inspection, deepen the upper-lower linkage of inspection and inspection, improve the quality and effectiveness of inspection of villages, and give play to the role of inspection as a comprehensive supervision sword.

Continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is the common political responsibility of the whole Party. It is necessary to grasp the "ox nose" of the responsibility system for Party governance, compact and tighten the primary responsibility of Party committees (Party groups), the supervision responsibility of discipline inspection commissions, the responsibility of secretaries of Party committees (Party groups) as the first responsible persons, the "one post with dual responsibilities" of other members of leading groups, and the specific responsibilities of Party members and cadres, and improve a responsibility system in which each bears its own responsibility and is unified and coordinated. Party committees (Party groups) at all levels must take the initiative to grasp and manage with care, fasten the chain of responsibility, and transmit pressure layer by layer. Party committees (Party groups) at and above the county level must listen to reports on the performance of Party governance responsibilities by members of leading groups at least once a year, and strengthen supervision and guidance. Discipline inspection commissions (dispatched discipline inspection and supervision groups) at all levels must perform their supervision responsibilities well, and lower-level discipline inspection commissions (dispatched discipline inspection and supervision groups) must report to higher-level discipline inspection commissions (dispatching organs) at least once every six months on the performance of duties and exercise of power by members of the leading groups of Party committees (Party groups), especially "top leaders," and on their own performance of supervision responsibilities. Departments of Party committees must perform their duties and work together in a coordinated manner. Leading cadres, especially senior cadres, must be strict with themselves, strictly bear their responsibilities, and strictly manage their areas of responsibility, and set an example in fulfilling the responsibility of Party governance. Advancing Party building work at all levels and in all fields must seek truth from facts, seek practical results, and make every effort to avoid formalism. Optimize the evaluation mechanism for responsibility implementation, and seriously pursue accountability for those who govern the Party ineffectively or have serious problems.

History illuminates the future, and struggle accomplishes great undertakings. In the magnificent great journey, the Communist Party of China has forged excellent qualities such as being determined to pursue truth and always grasping the correct direction of progress, being deeply rooted in the people and always having a solid foundation, bravely undertaking historical missions and always mastering strategic initiative, conforming to the trend of development and always walking at the forefront of the times, daring and being good at struggle and always maintaining confidence in victory, and paying attention to strengthening itself and always being full of vitality. Over the past hundred years and more, the tremendous changes that have taken place on the land of China fully prove that the Party has lived up to history and the people, and is worthy of being the vanguard of the Chinese working class, and worthy of being the vanguard of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. The great, glorious, and correct Communist Party of China, having weathered storms without changing its original aspiration, with firm goals and courageous progress, will bear in mind the "three imperatives," forever maintain the sobriety and firmness of being on the examination, have the courage to carry out the great struggle with many new historical characteristics, resolutely overcome all difficulties and obstacles on the road forward, and continuously create a better future!

The whole Party must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, work hard with vigor and determination, continuously and persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, continuously open up a new situation in Party governance, Party building, and Party strengthening in the new era, and unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country to strive unremittingly for comprehensively building a great modern socialist country and comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese modernization!

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 1)

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Explanation on the Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Persisting in Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party

By: 习近平

Comrades:

Entrusted by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, I will now explain to the plenary session the relevant circumstances concerning the drafting of the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Persisting in Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party" (hereinafter referred to as the "Decision").

I. On the Consideration of Determining the Agenda of the Plenary Session

Party building bears on the future and destiny of the Party and on the rise or fall of the cause of the Party and the state. This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of our Party. The Political Bureau of the Central Committee decided that the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party would focus its study on the issue of persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. This is a major decision made by the Party Central Committee in light of the historical juncture of the development of the cause of the Party and the state, with an eye to the overall situation of Chinese modernization, acting according to the actual situation (审时度势, shen shi du shi - "observe, time; situation, assess") and after overall consideration.

First, this is an inevitable requirement for maintaining the Party's advanced nature and purity and consolidating its long-term governing position. How to break out of the historical cycle of rise and fall, order and chaos, is a fundamental question that our Party must answer well in its long-term governance. In this regard, Comrade Mao Zedong gave the first answer in the cave dwellings of Yan'an back then: "let the people supervise the government." Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, we have found the second answer in the practice of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party: self-revolution. The Party's self-revolution has a strict definition, namely, turning the blade inward, practicing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, maintaining the Party's advanced nature and purity, and realizing the Party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-renewal, and self-enhancement. For over 100 years, in the historical process of leading the people in unremitting struggle for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, our Party has always attached great importance to managing and governing the Party, has been brave in upholding truth and correcting errors, and has grown stronger in solving its own problems by relying on its own strength and the support of the people. The century-old Party is full of vitality and in the prime of one's life (风华正茂, feng hua zheng mao - "wind, flower; correct, flourishing").

At the same time, we must be soberly aware that full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is a long-term strategic task. Over the years, the Party's ranks have undergone structural changes, with the proportion of Party members and cadres born after the reform and opening up growing ever larger, posing new requirements for education and management. The mainstream of the Party's ranks is good, but there are still many problems and hidden dangers that weaken the Party's advanced nature, damage its purity, and affect its long-term governance. In particular, the problems of impure ideology, impure organization, and impure work style have not been fundamentally solved, and new problems keep emerging. Faced with these problems and challenges, only by persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and continuously eliminating the viruses that erode the Party's healthy body can we ensure that the Party never changes its nature, its color, or its character, and ensure that the red river and mountains are passed down from generation to generation.

Second, this is an inevitable requirement for consolidating and developing the sound political situation of high unity and solidarity of the whole Party and high cohesion of the Party, the military, and the people. After the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee faced squarely the grim reality of the once-weakened, diluted, and faded leadership of the Party, lax, false, and ineffective management and governance of the Party, and some problems within the Party that were shocking or appalling to witness (触目惊心, chu mu jing xin - "touch, eye; startle, heart"). It unswervingly advanced full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, continuously solved prominent problems, fundamentally reversed the lax, soft, and loose situation in managing and governing the Party, curbed some unhealthy tendencies that had long gone unchecked, corrected some chronic and stubborn diseases that had persisted for years, eliminated serious hidden dangers within the Party, the state, and the military, and the Party has become stronger and more powerful through revolutionary tempering. The Party's overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee have been significantly strengthened, the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism has achieved a new leap, the Party's organizational line for the new era has been implemented forcefully, the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation has gained authority as an iron rule, the Party's discipline building has been solidly advanced, the fight against corruption has been unprecedented in intensity with results visible to all, the system of Party regulations and rules has been further improved, and Party organizations at all levels have effectively fulfilled their responsibilities for managing and governing the Party. Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era has accumulated rich experience, opened up a new realm for the self-revolution of the century-old Party, further consolidated the Party's unity and solidarity, and achieved high cohesion of the Party, the military, and the people.

This sound political situation has not come easily. The whole Party must cherish it all the more and continuously consolidate and develop it. This requires us to adhere to and apply the valuable experience of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, to persist in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party with higher standards and more concrete measures, to continuously enhance the Party's political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal, and to ensure that the Party forever enjoys the heartfelt support of the people and always remains the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Third, this is an inevitable requirement for fulfilling the Party's historical mission and promoting the steady and long-term progress of the cause of the Party and the state. Comprehensively advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization is an unprecedented pioneering undertaking. Through the tenacious struggle of the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the cause of the Party and the state has achieved historic accomplishments and undergone historic changes, and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process. At the same time, changes in the world, changes in the times, and changes in history are unfolding in unprecedented ways, and the road ahead is fraught with multiple risks and challenges. From an international perspective, the changes unseen in a century are accelerating, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating breakthroughs, the international balance of power is undergoing profound adjustment, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation, and uncertainties and unpredictable factors in the external environment are increasing. From a domestic perspective, after more than 40 years of reform and opening up, China's economic and social life has undergone tremendous changes, the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development remains prominent, and further deepening reform comprehensively, promoting high-quality development, strengthening social construction and governance, coordinating development and security, and stimulating and enhancing social vitality have encountered many new issues.

To run China's affairs well, the key lies in the Party, and the key lies in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. Faced with the complex and ever-changing international and domestic situation and the arduous and heavy tasks of reform, development, and stability, to promote the steady and long-term progress of Chinese modernization, we must vigorously carry forward the great founding spirit of the Party, always bear in mind the "three imperatives," continuously carry forward the Party's fine qualities, persist in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, build our Party better and stronger, and provide a strong guarantee for comprehensively building a great modern socialist country and comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese modernization.

II. On the Drafting Process of the "Decision" Draft

In January this year, the Party Central Committee established the drafting group for the documents of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, with me serving as the head, and Comrades Wang Huning, Cai Qi, and Li Xi serving as deputy heads. Leading comrades of the Party and the state concerned and responsible comrades of relevant central departments and localities participated, and the work was carried out under the leadership of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. On February 6, the drafting group held its first plenary meeting, officially launching the drafting work.

In the drafting of the document, the following points were emphasized.

First, comprehensively implement the Party building thought for the new era. The Party building thought for the new era is the chapter on Party building in the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era and is the crystallization of the practical experience and collective wisdom of the Party and the people. The drafting of the "Decision" draft adhered to the guidance of the Party building thought for the new era, fully implementing the requirements of this thought in the arrangement of the document framework, the summary of achievements and experience, the analysis of the situation and tasks, the clarification of guiding ideology and principles, and the formulation of policy measures. It followed the laws of governing party building of a Marxist ruling party, fully applied the valuable experience of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, and strived to promote innovation in managing and governing the Party, revitalizing and strengthening the Party while upholding fundamental principles, and development while carrying forward the legacy.

Second, serve the mission and tasks. Subordinating to and serving the development of the cause of the Party and the state has always been an important principle of Party building. The drafting of the "Decision" draft adhered to staying true to the Party's original aspiration and founding mission, focused on realizing the Party's mission and tasks for the new era and new journey, paid attention to grasping the internal connection between managing and governing the Party, revitalizing and strengthening the Party, and building a strong country and national rejuvenation. All policy measures planned and proposed were closely linked to the needs of the development of the cause of the Party and the state, ensuring that all arrangements for persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party revolve around the central task and serve the overall situation.

Third, adhere to the strict tone. The key to full and rigorous self-governance of the Party lies in strictness, and persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party must be consistent and strict to the end. The drafting of the "Decision" draft firmly grasped the requirements that the standards for all aspects of Party building work must be strict, the education, management, and supervision of Party organizations at all levels and Party members and cadres must be strict, the measures to rectify unhealthy practices and corruption must be strict, and the responsibility for managing and governing the Party must be strictly implemented. It further deepened and improved various policy measures for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, clearly releasing a strong signal that the strictness will only increase. At the same time, it adhered to combining strict management with care and love, and balancing incentives with constraints, so as to be both strict and binding to the full extent, while also stimulating the initiative, enthusiasm, and creativity of the whole Party.

Fourth, highlight the problem orientation. Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is carried out in response to prominent problems within the Party, and persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party must continuously study new situations and solve new problems on the basis of consolidating existing achievements. The "Decision" draft seized on key points and focused on prominent problems in its overall planning. In planning ideas and measures, it adhered to solving whatever problems exist and focusing on solving whichever problems are most prominent, identifying the crux of the problems, conducting in-depth research and demonstration, and proposing targeted countermeasures.

Fifth, strengthen the systems concept. Persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is a systematic project, which requires planning and advancing the Party's political building, ideological building, organizational building, work style building, discipline building, institutional building, and the fight against corruption as an organic whole, and striving to improve the system for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. The drafting of the "Decision" draft fully implemented the general requirements for Party building in the new era, adhered to taking the Party's political building as the guide, paid attention to the coordinated efforts of all aspects of Party building and the articulation and coordination of various policy measures, paid attention to leading by example from the top, combining points and areas, and addressing both symptoms and root causes, paid attention to forming a working pattern of vertical and horizontal linkage, coordination between departments and localities, and joint management, and effectively enhanced the overall efficiency of managing and governing the Party.

During the drafting of the document, the Party Central Committee fully promoted democracy, conducted in-depth investigation and research, and extensively solicited opinions. On January 31, the Party Central Committee issued a notice soliciting opinions from all regions and departments on the agenda of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party. At the same time, 16 units were entrusted to conduct research on 23 key topics. On May 6, I presided over a symposium in Shanghai to hear the opinions of the principal responsible comrades of some provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government. On August 3, the "Decision" draft was distributed within a certain scope within the Party to solicit opinions, including opinions from some veteran comrades within the Party, and opinions were also specifically solicited from the leaders of the central committees of the democratic parties, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and representatives of personages without party affiliation.

All sides unanimously agreed that the Party Central Committee's decision to have the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party focus on studying the issue of persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party fully reflects our Party's high degree of sobriety and firm will regarding strengthening its own building. The "Decision" draft makes strategic arrangements for persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and will surely become a programmatic document for advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era. It is of great practical significance and long-term guiding significance for further creating a new situation in managing and governing the Party, revitalizing and strengthening the Party in the new era, and uniting and leading the people of all ethnic groups in the country to comprehensively advance the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization. At the same time, all sides put forward many good opinions and suggestions, which the drafting group studied one by one and absorbed as much as possible.

During the drafting of the "Decision" draft, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee held 3 meetings and the Political Bureau of the Central Committee held 2 meetings for deliberation and revision, forming the "Decision" draft submitted to this plenary session for deliberation.

III. On the Basic Framework and Main Content of the "Decision" Draft

Apart from the opening remarks and concluding remarks, the "Decision" draft is divided into three major parts.

The first part is the general introduction. It elaborates on the importance, urgency, and general requirements of persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, with a total of 5 aspects. First, it reviews the glorious course of our Party over the past 100 years in consistently strengthening Party building and uniting and leading the people from victory to victory. Second, it summarizes the great achievements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party since the 18th National Congress of the Party and elaborates on the great significance of forming the Party building thought for the new era. Third, it analyzes the new situation, new tasks, and new challenges facing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. Fourth, it puts forward the guiding ideology for persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. Fifth, it clarifies the 7 principles to be followed in persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.

The second part is the specific discussion, including the second to the eighth parts. It deploys the strategic tasks and major measures for persisting in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. Among them, the second part, "Enhancing the Party Spirit of Communists," emphasizes that this is the fundamental task of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and makes arrangements in 5 aspects: strengthening education on loyalty to the Party, adhering to using the Party's innovative theories to unite hearts and forge souls, cultivating Party spirit with the Party's fine traditions and the excellent traditional Chinese culture, tempering Party spirit in practice, and strengthening the identification of Party spirit. The third part, "Strictly Implementing Democratic Centralism," emphasizes that this is the inherent requirement of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and makes arrangements in 4 aspects: adhering to and strengthening the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, improving the quality of intra-Party democracy, strictly implementing the decision-making and deliberation rules of leading bodies, and regulating the exercise of power by "top leaders." The fourth part, "Forging a High-Quality Cadre Team Capable of Shouldering the Heavy Task of National Rejuvenation," emphasizes that the key to full and rigorous self-governance of the Party lies in strictly managing officials, and makes arrangements in 6 aspects: adhering to the correct orientation for selecting and appointing personnel, selecting and appointing cadres accurately and scientifically, promoting cadres to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, enhancing cadres' ability to work and start businesses, improving the quality of selecting and cultivating outstanding young cadres, and strengthening the management and supervision of cadres. The fifth part, "Building a Strict Organizational System with Vertical and Horizontal Linkage and Strong Execution," emphasizes that Party organizations at all levels are the main bodies of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and makes arrangements in 6 aspects: giving play to the exemplary role of Party organizations in central and state organs, strengthening the functions of local Party committees, coordinating the advancement of the building of grassroots Party organizations in all fields, highlighting the building of Party organizations in emerging fields, strengthening the building of the Party member team, and improving the mechanism for the articulation of Party organizations at all levels. The sixth part, "Unremittingly Rectifying Work Style and Enforcing Discipline," emphasizes that this is a powerful measure for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and makes arrangements in 5 aspects: following the Party's mass line in the new era, unswervingly implementing the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation, promoting the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style building, strengthening strict discipline enforcement, and comprehensively giving play to the constraining and guaranteeing, motivating and incentivizing roles of discipline education. The seventh part, "Unswervingly Promoting the Integrated Advancement of Not Daring to Corrupt, Not Being Able to Corrupt, and Not Wanting to Corrupt," emphasizes that this is an important strategy for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and the basic policy for the fight against corruption, and makes arrangements in 4 aspects: maintaining a high-pressure posture in punishing corruption, strengthening the restriction and supervision of the exercise of power, consolidating the ideological foundation for advocating integrity and rejecting corruption, and enhancing the comprehensive effectiveness of the integrated advancement of not daring to corrupt, not being able to corrupt, and not wanting to corrupt. The eighth part, "Adhering to Governing the Party with Institutions and Regulations," emphasizes that strengthening the building of the system of intra-Party regulations and rules is a long-term and fundamental strategy for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and makes arrangements in 3 aspects: improving the system of intra-Party regulations and rules, enhancing the execution of institutions, and vigorously eliminating hidden rules.

The third part includes improving the Party and state supervision systems and implementing the political responsibility for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. Arrangements are made separately for these two aspects.

Comrades, deliberating and adopting the "Decision" is the main task of this plenary session. Everyone should think carefully, discuss in depth, and put forward constructive opinions and suggestions, working together to make this plenary session a success and to revise the "Decision" draft well.

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 1)

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Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Continuously and Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China summarized the great achievements and valuable experience of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, analyzed the situation and tasks facing Party governance, Party building, and Party strengthening in the current and future period, and made the following decisions on several major issues concerning continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.

I. The Importance, Urgency, and Overall Requirements of Continuously and Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-governance of the Party

(1) The Communist Party of China was born for the people and thrives because of the people. It was founded at a time when the Chinese nation was in peril, and it grew and strengthened in the historical process of striving for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It united and led the people of all ethnic groups across the country to create the great achievements of the new democratic revolution, socialist revolution and construction, reform, opening up, and socialist modernization, and socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, writing the most magnificent epic in the several-thousand-year history of the Chinese nation, and demonstrating to the world the image of a firm, confident, strong, and powerful Marxist party.

The Communist Party of China has been able to advance from victory to victory because it cherishes the lofty ideal of communism, is committed to the great cause to be carried on for generations of the Chinese nation, persists in seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, attaches great importance to Party governance in every historical period, has the courage to uphold truth and correct errors, and has continuously grown stronger in relying on its own strength and the support of the people to solve its own problems, becoming the strong leading core of the cause of the Party and the people. In revolution, construction, and reform, it successively regarded Party building as a great project and a new great project. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, it has deepened the advancement of the new great project of Party building in the new era, found the answers of "letting the people supervise the government" and "self-revolution" to escape the cycle of rise and fall in history, which are the unique creations of the Communist Party of China and will forever be recorded in the annals of Marxist party building.

(2) After the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, with tremendous political courage and a strong sense of responsibility, directly confronted the severe reality of the once-weakened, diluted, and faded leadership of the Party, the lax, false, and ineffective governance of the Party, and the shocking problems within the Party, unswervingly advanced full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, engaged in self-examination and internal reform, applied severe measures to rectify chaos, continuously solved prominent problems, fundamentally reversed the lax, loose, and soft state of Party governance, stopped some unhealthy tendencies that had long gone unchecked, corrected some chronic and stubborn diseases that had persisted for years, eliminated serious hidden dangers within the Party, the state, and the military, and made the Party stronger and more powerful through revolutionary tempering. The Party's overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee were significantly strengthened, the Party's unity and solidarity were further consolidated, and the hearts of the Party, the military, and the people were highly united; the sinicization and modernization of Marxism achieved a new leap, the Party's theoretical arming was continuously deepened, and the Marxist level of the whole Party was further improved; the Party's organizational line for the new era was implemented effectively, the functions of Party organizations at all levels and the quality of Party members and cadres were improved overall, and the Party's organizational advantages were fully demonstrated; the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation gained authority as an iron rule, the rectification of the Four Malfeasances and the establishment of new practices advanced step by step, and the conduct of the Party, the government, and society was completely new or refreshed; the Party's discipline building was solidly advanced, discipline and rules became more stringent, and the roles of education, restraint, guarantee, and encouragement were increasingly strengthened; the fight against corruption achieved unprecedented intensity and results evident to all, successfully blazing a path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics; the system of intra-Party regulations and rules was further improved, the authority and enforcement of institutions were effectively enhanced, and the level of scientific, institutionalized, and standardized Party governance was markedly raised; Party organizations at all levels continuously strengthened their awareness of Party governance, responsibility implementation produced visible results, and a joint force of coordination from top to bottom and working together in a coordinated manner was formed. Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era opened up a new realm of self-revolution for a century-old major party, promoted historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the state, and the Party and the people won the historical initiative of strengthening the Party and the state.

The great achievements in Party governance, Party building, and Party strengthening in the new era, and the creation of a new situation in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, are fundamentally due to the helm-steering and navigation of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and to the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Establishing Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and establishing the guiding position of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, are major political achievements of the Party in the new era, and are of decisive significance to the development of the cause of the Party and the state in the new era and to advancing the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

In the great practice of Party governance, Party building, and Party strengthening in the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, centering on the major era-specific topics of what kind of long-term governing Marxist party to build and how to build a long-term governing Marxist party, put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies, forming Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. This thought enriches and develops the Marxist theory of party building, is a major achievement of promoting the Party's theoretical innovation by adhering to the combination of the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with China's excellent traditional culture, is the crystallization of the practical experience and collective wisdom of the Party and the people, is an important component of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and provides the fundamental guidance and action guide for deeply advancing the new great project of Party building in the new era.

(3) Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is always on the way. After long-term efforts, especially the tenacious struggle in the new era, China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, national defense strength, comprehensive national power, and international influence have been significantly enhanced, the modernization level of the national governance system and governance capacity has been markedly improved, the people of all ethnic groups across the country are more confident, self-reliant, and self-empowered, the building of a great modern socialist country has a more solid material foundation, more complete institutional guarantees, and more proactive spiritual strength, Party governance, Party building, and Party strengthening have gathered strong positive energy, and full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has many favorable conditions. At the same time, it must be clearly recognized that as the world situation, national conditions, and Party conditions undergo profound changes, full and rigorous self-governance of the Party also faces many new situations and new problems.

From the international perspective, changes unseen in a century are accelerating their evolution, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating breakthroughs, the Global South is rising collectively, the international balance of power is undergoing profound adjustment, unilateralism and protectionism are intensifying, the threat of hegemonism and power politics is rising, geopolitical conflicts and local wars continue unabated, the momentum of world economic growth is insufficient, global challenges are coming one after another, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation, and uncertain and unpredictable factors in the external environment are increasing. The task of the Party uniting and leading the people to safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests has become more arduous.

From the domestic perspective, China's development has entered a critical period of consolidating the foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. The problem of unbalanced and inadequate development remains prominent, population structure, social groups, and the pattern of interests continue to change, digitalization, networking, and intelligentization are developing rapidly, social production and lifestyle and organizational forms are becoming more diverse, various thoughts and values are interweaving and colliding, and further deepening reform comprehensively, promoting high-quality development, strengthening social construction and governance, coordinating development and security, and stimulating and enhancing social vitality have encountered many new issues. The task of the Party uniting and leading the people to promote reform and development and maintain social harmony and stability has become more arduous.

From the intra-Party perspective, the Party's ranks have undergone structural changes, with the proportion of Party members and cadres born after the reform and opening up growing larger, posing new requirements for education and management. The mainstream of the Party's ranks is good, but the problems of impure ideology, impure organization, and impure conduct have not been fundamentally resolved. Some Party members and cadres have qualities and abilities that do not meet the requirements of the development of the times. A small number of Party members and cadres, including senior cadres, have weak Party spirit, wavering or even missing ideals and convictions, weak feelings for the people, deviations in their view of political achievements, serious formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance, insufficient fighting spirit, failure to take responsibility and action, failure to observe discipline and rules, and even abuse of power for personal gain and corruption and degeneration. Some primary-level Party organizations have weak political and organizational functions, or are even weak, lax, and disorganized, and in some fields, especially emerging fields, the Party's organizational coverage and work coverage are not comprehensive and effective enough. Some Party organizations and leading cadres have inadequate understanding of Party governance, fail to implement responsibilities, work ineffectively, and do not strictly enforce institutions, failing to promptly discover and effectively solve prominent problems, and even allowing unhealthy tendencies or bad influences to breed and spread. The task of the Party maintaining its advanced nature and purity has become more arduous.

These new situations and new problems pose major challenges to the Party's governing capacity, leadership level, quality of its ranks, and resistance to corruption and degeneration under the new circumstances. The tests the Party faces of governance, reform and opening up, the market economy, and the external environment, and the dangers of mental slackening, insufficient capability, detachment from the people, and passive corruption, are long-term, complex, and severe, and solving the unique problems of a major party requires more arduous efforts. The longer the Party governs, the longer the period of peace and prosperity, and the more complex the environment, the more it must strengthen its awareness of potential dangers, remain vigilant in times of peace, and build the Party well and build it strong.

The whole Party must, from the strategic height of consolidating the Party's long-term governing position and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, deeply understand the great significance of continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, strengthen confidence, maintain strategic resolve, uphold and apply the valuable experience of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era with higher standards and more concrete measures, rectify and solve the prominent problems facing Party building, and consolidate and develop the sound political situation formed by Party governance.

(4) The guiding ideology for continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is: adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of the Three Represents, and the Scientific Outlook on Development, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, centering on realizing the Party's mission and tasks, implement the general requirements for Party building in the new era, take the Party Constitution as the fundamental basis, uphold the Party's vanguard nature, uphold the Party's overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, focus on improving the Party's long-term governing capacity, maintaining the Party's advanced nature and purity, and maintaining the Party's flesh-and-blood ties with the masses, adhere unwaveringly to the strict tone, improve the system for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, take the Party's political building as the guide, comprehensively advance all aspects of Party building, fully stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the whole Party, continuously realize the Party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-renewal, and self-enhancement, continuously strengthen the Party's political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal, and ensure that the Party always remains a vigorous Marxist governing party that walks at the forefront of the times, is sincerely supported by the people, and can withstand various storms and tests, and always remains the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

(5) Continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party follows the following principles.

— Adhere to serving the mission and tasks. Stay true to the Party's original aspiration and founding mission, plan and advance from the overall situation of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, closely integrate Party building with the cause of the Party and the state, and ensure that it always centers on the overall situation and serves the overall interests.

— Adhere to taking the Party's political building as the guide. Uphold and strengthen the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, promote all aspects of Party building to grasp the correct political direction and implement political requirements, improve the political capacity of Party organizations at all levels and Party members and cadres, ensure that the whole Party maintains a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee, and consolidate the Party's unity and solidarity.

— Adhere to comprehensive strictness. Strengthen systematic thinking, embody the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere in all aspects and the entire process of Party building, and achieve true management and true strictness, daring management and daring strictness, and long-term management and long-term strictness.

— Adhere to problem orientation. Take solving prominent problems within the Party as the focus, do not avoid contradictions, do not conceal illnesses and avoid doctors, and improve work standards in correcting deviations, rectifying chaos, and eliminating evil and promoting good.

— Adhere to upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground. Adhere to the Party's basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, follow the laws of Marxist governing party building, apply the historical experience of Party building, and continuously put forward new measures and new methods according to the development and changes of the situation and tasks.

— Adhere to leading by example from above. Start from the Party Central Committee, be strict with leading organs and leading cadres, with each level setting an example for the next and each level leading the next in work, and use the "key minority" to demonstrate and drive the "vast majority."

— Adhere to governing the Party according to regulations. Run institutional building through it, pay attention to using institutions to manage power, affairs, and people, strictly implement the Party Constitution, Party regulations, and Party discipline, and enhance work efficiency with a systematic, complete, scientific, standardized, and effective system of intra-Party regulations and rules.

These principles are the scientific summary of the experience of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era and must be adhered to for a long time and continuously enriched and developed.

II. Strengthening the Party Spirit of Communists

Strengthening Party spirit is the fundamental task of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It is necessary to promote all Party members and cadres to uphold the Party's nature and purpose, strengthen Party consciousness, Party member consciousness, and vanguard consciousness, take strengthening Party spirit cultivation as a lifelong topic, and make efforts in firming up ideals and convictions, forging loyalty to the Party, cultivating deep feelings for the people, adhering to seeking truth from facts, purifying moral character, and maintaining being honest and incorruptible, so as to be loyal, clean, and responsible, and always maintain the political character of Communists.

(1) Strengthen education on loyalty to the Party. Persist in placing loyalty to the Party in a prominent position in Party spirit cultivation. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to deeply understand the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, strengthen political consciousness, overall situation consciousness, core consciousness, and alignment consciousness, firm up confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics, resolutely safeguard Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, resolutely safeguard the authority and centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and always maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in thought, politics, and action. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to firm up their belief in Marxism, their conviction in communism, and their confidence in socialism with Chinese characteristics, and to be devout and persistent, and deeply faithful. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to improve their political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, consciously unify their thinking with the Party Central Committee's analysis and judgment of the situation and tasks, implement the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements without compromise, and resolutely struggle against all words and deeds that deny the Party's leadership and the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, all words and deeds that violate the Party's theory, line, principles, and policies, and all words and deeds that endanger national unity and ethnic solidarity. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to love the Party while in the Party, speak for the Party while in the Party, worry about the Party while in the Party, and work for the Party while in the Party, trust the organization, rely on the organization, obey the organization, consciously accept organizational management and supervision, speak honest words, do honest things, and be honest people, and be open and aboveboard, upright and candid, and consistent in words and deeds. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to adhere to putting the people first and the cause first, actively work for the Party and the people, and be dedicated to their work and willing to contribute.

Strictly enforce the Party's political discipline and political rules, and purify the intra-Party political ecosystem. Never allow the "seven have-its" of engaging in appointing people by favoritism and excluding dissidents, forming cliques and factions, making anonymous accusations and fabricating rumors, buying popularity and soliciting votes, promising official positions and celebrating promotions, acting on one's own and paying lip service, and becoming too powerful to control and making irresponsible remarks about the Central Committee. Resolutely oppose liberalism in thought, opportunism in politics, sectarianism in organization, departmentalism in work, and "good-old-boyism" in fulfilling responsibilities. Accurately identify and resolutely eliminate double-dealers.

(2) Persist in using the Party's innovative theory to unite hearts and forge souls. Strengthen the building of a Marxist learning party, take learning, comprehending, and applying the Party's innovative theory as the fundamental path to strengthening Party spirit cultivation, and promote the whole Party to use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to unify thought, unify will, and unify action. Deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. Enrich the ways and means of theoretical learning and education, highlight the main-course status of the Party's innovative theory in the education and training of Party members and cadres, guide Party members and cadres to read original works, study original texts, and comprehend principles, grasp the standpoints, viewpoints, and methods running through them, understand the realm and feelings contained in them, transform the subjective world while transforming the objective world, build a solid foundation of ideals, temper political character, and solve the "master switch" problem of worldview, outlook on life, and values. Promote the Marxist style of study, promote Party members and cadres to connect with the actual conditions of their own regions, departments, units, and their own ideological and work reality, consciously deepen theoretical learning, use the Party's innovative theory to analyze and solve practical problems, and achieve integrating learning, thinking, and practice, and unifying knowledge, belief, and action. Senior cadres of the Party must demand of themselves according to the standards of Marxist politicians, lifelong firm belief in, proficient mastery of, and good at applying the Party's innovative theory. Uphold and improve the "first agenda item" system. Improve the quality of theoretical learning center group studies of Party committees (Party groups) and theoretical learning of primary-level Party organizations. Innovatively implement the Marxist theory research and construction project, and deepen the systematic and theoretical research and interpretation of the Party's innovative theory. Strengthen the building of the disciplines of Party history and Party building.

(3) Use the Party's fine traditions and China's excellent traditional culture to nourish Party spirit. Deepen education on the history of the Party, the history of New China, the history of reform and opening up, and the history of socialist development, promote the spiritual pedigree of Chinese Communists originating from the great founding spirit of the Party, guide Party members and cadres to deeply understand the Party's major achievements and historical experience over the past century of struggle, carry forward the Party's fine style of work, inherit the red gene, continue the spiritual bloodline of Communists, and adhere to the values of Communists. Excavate and make good use of the moral concepts in China's excellent traditional culture such as emphasizing loyalty and trustworthiness, valuing integrity, knowing shame, maintaining vigilance, and attaching importance to self-reflection, deepen political morality education, guide Party members and cadres to understand great virtue, uphold public virtue, and be strict in private virtue, cultivate feelings for family and country, nourish a noble spirit, and withstand the tests of power, money, and beauty. Guide Party members and cadres to take the lead in reading and learning. Strengthen and improve ideological and political work under the new situation, and enhance its pertinence and effectiveness. Strengthen publicity and education on Party spirit. Give full play to the important role of Party schools (schools of administration) and cadre colleges in Party spirit education, and improve the curriculum system.

(4) Temper Party spirit in practice. Promote Party members and cadres to temper their Party spirit in implementing the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements, completing urgent, difficult, dangerous, and heavy tasks, and responding to major storms and tests, and to hone their Party spirit in handling relationships such as right and wrong, public and private, and gain and loss. Give full play to the role of intra-Party political life as a "big furnace" for tempering Party spirit, implement the norms for intra-Party political life, make good use of the weapon of criticism and self-criticism, and enhance the political nature, contemporaneity, principled nature, and combativeness of intra-Party political life. Enrich the content and forms of Party organizational life, and improve the quality of democratic life meetings, organizational life meetings, Party branch member meetings, Party branch committee meetings, Party group meetings, Party lectures, and Party Day activities. Strictly implement the regulations on leading cadres who are Party members participating in dual organizational life. Have the courage to expose and correct shortcomings and errors, dare to struggle against all unhealthy phenomena, and oppose being worldly-wise and playing safe and being "good old guys." Adhere to unity on the basis of the principle of Party spirit, and prevent unprincipled harmony. Give play to the exemplary role of advanced models, and guide Party members and cadres to emulate the worthy and strive for excellence. Promote Party members and cadres to strengthen Party spirit analysis, frequently analyze and reflect against the Party Constitution, Party regulations, Party discipline, and the oath of admission to the Party, and continuously sweep away dust, remove impurities, eliminate viruses, and strengthen immunity. Adhere to the combination of centralized education and regular education, and focus on solving prominent problems in Party spirit.

(5) Strengthen the identification of Party spirit. Take Party spirit as an important content of cadre inspection and democratic evaluation of Party members, with emphasis on understanding and evaluating the realm and pattern, loyalty, and integrity of Party members and cadres. Improve the communication mechanism between organizational departments and discipline inspection and supervision organs and inspection, audit, and petition departments, and conduct comprehensive analysis and judgment of the Party spirit of leading group members, cadres to be promoted, and young cadres. Pay attention to identifying Party spirit from performance in responding to challenges, resisting risks, overcoming difficulties, and resolving contradictions, judge Party spirit from daily work, personal words and deeds, social interactions, and family education and family style, and understand Party spirit through listening to superiors' evaluations, peer evaluations, subordinates' reflections, and public reputation. Use the results of Party spirit identification in cadre selection and appointment and in evaluation and commendation.

III. Strictly Implementing and Enforcing Democratic Centralism

Democratic centralism is the Party's fundamental organizational principle and leadership system, and implementing and enforcing democratic centralism is an inherent requirement of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It is necessary to improve and implement the various systems of democratic centralism, fully develop intra-Party democracy, effectively implement correct centralism, and better give play to the political, organizational, institutional, and work advantages of democratic centralism.

(1) Uphold and strengthen the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. Adhere to the principles of individual Party members obeying Party organizations, the minority obeying the majority, lower-level organizations obeying higher-level organizations, and all Party organizations and all Party members obeying the National Congress of the Party and the Central Committee. Improve the institutional mechanisms for the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee to ensure that the whole Party obeys orders and prohibitions. Improve the mechanism for implementing the Party Central Committee's major decisions and arrangements, and strengthen follow-up supervision and quality and effectiveness evaluation. Strictly implement the system of requesting instructions and reporting to the Party Central Committee. Advance political supervision in a concrete, precise, and regular manner, take the implementation of the Party Central Committee's major decisions and arrangements as the focus of supervision, promptly discover and solve problems of ineffective implementation and deformation and deviation, and prevent and rectify "low-level red" and "high-level black."

(2) Improve the quality of intra-Party democracy. Uphold and improve the intra-Party democratic system, respect the principal position of Party members, and guarantee the democratic rights of Party members. Implement the system for Party members to play a role as representatives at Party congresses at all levels. Improve the quality of Party committee meetings, standing committee meetings of Party committees, and Party group meetings. Carry out Party work in accordance with the democratic principles and procedures determined by the Party Constitution and Party regulations. Leading cadres must not treat the work, fields, and localities under their charge as "private territory," and individuals must not place themselves above the organization. Smooth the channels for Party members to participate in discussing intra-Party affairs, and expand the channels for Party members to express opinions. Improve the intra-Party situation notification system and situation reporting system. Adhere to the equal comradely relations of intra-Party democracy, create a good atmosphere for democratic discussion within the Party, encourage and support speaking the truth, speaking honestly, and speaking from the heart, and must not suppress, exclude, or attack comrades who express different opinions.

(3) Strictly implement the decision-making and deliberation rules of leading groups. Adhere to the combination of collective leadership and individual division of responsibility, adhere to scientific, democratic, and law-based decision-making, and all major issues must be decided through collective discussion in accordance with the principles of collective leadership, democratic centralism, individual deliberation, and decision by meeting. Improve the deliberation rules and decision-making procedures of Party committees (Party groups), strengthen investigation and research, scientific demonstration, and risk assessment of major decisions, and must not force decisions when there are major differences of opinion on important topics. Strengthen the compliance and legality review of major decisions, and improve the supervision mechanism for major decisions, important personnel appointments and removals, major project arrangements, and the use of large amounts of funds. Leading cadres must obey organizational decisions and organizational division of labor, perform their duties within the scope of their responsibilities in accordance with the spirit of the Party Central Committee and collective decisions, fully express opinions when studying work, and follow through to the end after decisions are made. Resolutely oppose and prevent arbitrary decision-making or acting independently, resolutely oppose and prevent endless discussion without decision, decision without action, and action without results, and resolutely oppose and prevent collective violations of regulations or evasion of responsibility in the name of collective decision-making by Party committees (Party groups). When higher-level Party organizations make important decisions concerning lower-level Party organizations, they should generally solicit the opinions of lower-level Party organizations in advance. Improve the system of lifelong responsibility for major decisions of leading cadres.

(4) Regulate the performance of duties and exercise of power by "top leaders." Implement the institutional provisions on strengthening supervision over "top leaders" and leading groups. When selecting and appointing "top leaders," pay attention to examining their quality and ability in implementing and enforcing democratic centralism. Improve the mechanism for restricting the exercise of power in leading groups, regulate the duties and authority of "top leaders," and implement the system of "top leaders" expressing their views last. Meetings of the secretary's special topics must not replace meetings of the standing committee of the Party committee in making decisions. Secretaries of Party committees (Party groups) must develop democracy, seriously listen to different opinions, correctly treat the opinions of the minority, not engage in "one-man rule" or "patriarchal style," must not express their positions without authorization on matters that should be studied collectively, must not replace the collective decisions of the leading group with personal opinions, must not change collective decisions without authorization, and must not demand at all levels that the personal authority of the "top leader" be maintained. Implement the system for "top leaders" to make special reports on their performance in managing and supervising "top leaders" of lower-level organizations. Implement the system for Party committees (Party groups) to conduct supervisory talks with "top leaders" of lower-level Party organizations. Improve the system and mechanism for peer supervision, and members of leading groups must fulfill the political responsibility of safeguarding democratic centralism and strengthen mutual supervision. When discovering problems with "top leaders," they should frankly raise them, and when discovering major problems, they should report to higher-level Party organizations.

IV. Forging a High-Quality Cadre Force Capable of Undertaking the Great Task of National Rejuvenation

The key to full and rigorous self-governance of the Party lies in strict governance of officials. It is necessary to implement the Party's organizational line for the new era, strictly manage cadre education and training, selection and appointment, and management and supervision, and build a high-quality cadre force that is politically sound, highly capable, with fine conduct, and strict discipline.

(1) Adhere to the correct orientation for employing people. Adhere to the principle of the Party managing cadres, adhere to both moral integrity and professional competence, with moral integrity first, adhere to the principle of selecting people from all over the country on their merits, and adhere to putting the cause first and being fair and upright. Implement the standards for good cadres in the new era, vigorously select and appoint cadres who are loyal to the Party, consistent in words and deeds, responsible and dedicated, with outstanding achievements, and being honest and incorruptible, resolutely not use those who fear difficulties and avoid affairs, are mediocre, lazy, and inactive, and have a floating style of work, and resolutely eliminate those who are disloyal to the Party, pay lip service, and abuse power for personal gain.

(2) Select and appoint people accurately and scientifically. Strictly implement the principles and procedures for cadre selection and appointment, adhere to organizational selection, fair employment, and selecting people based on the matter, and give play to the leadership and gatekeeping role of Party organizations. Improve the quality of cadre inspection, strengthen regular assessment, do solid and in-depth political quality inspection of cadres, pay attention to evaluating cadres from their consistent performance, inspect cadres at major junctures and critical moments, identify cadres from their performance in facing struggle tests, contradictions and difficulties, unhealthy tendencies or bad influences, interest temptations, and advancement and retreat, and observe cadres from their awareness of burdens, willingness to bear heavy loads, and ability to take on and do things. Strengthen extended inspection, pay attention to inspecting cadres at their original work places or units, pay attention to understanding cadres' life circles and social circles, and make good use of the results of inspections, audits, and supervision. Strictly select and use cadres according to the requirements of post responsibilities, and enhance the degree of fit. Adhere to the principle of individual strength and overall excellence, and structure serving function, and select and strengthen leading groups at all levels, especially "top leaders." Adhere to the echelon arrangement of old, middle-aged, and young cadres, coordinate the use of cadres of all age groups, cultivate and use female cadres, ethnic minority cadres, and non-Party cadres, not be limited to age, educational background, or seniority, prevent paying attention only to the structure of the leading group while ignoring individual quality, and paying attention only to educational background and seniority while ignoring actual ability, and prevent rigid allocation and lowering standards. Pay attention to discovering and selecting outstanding cadres from the grassroots. Improve the systems of cadre post avoidance, regular rotation, and exchange. Improve and implement the tenure system for leading cadres, strictly implement the relevant policies for maintaining tenure stability, and prevent frequent adjustment of cadres in the same post and frequent adjustment of posts for the same cadre. Strengthen the analysis and judgment of leading groups and leading cadres, promote the normalization of leading cadres being able to go up and down, and increase the intensity of adjusting cadres who are not competent for their current posts.

Adhere to the principle that cadre personnel files must be reviewed whenever promotion is proposed, personal matters reports must be verified whenever promotion is proposed, the opinions of discipline inspection and supervision organs must be heard whenever promotion is proposed, and petition reports with specific and verifiable clues of violations of regulations and discipline must be investigated whenever promotion is proposed. Implement the provision that integrity opinions must be jointly signed and confirmed by the secretary of the Party committee (Party group) and the secretary of the discipline inspection commission (leader of the dispatched discipline inspection and supervision group). Improve and implement the systems of pre-appointment matter reporting for cadres, full-process recording of selection and appointment, and "one report and two evaluations." Deepen special inspections of personnel selection and appointment, and improve the mechanism for investigating responsibility for cadres being "promoted with illness." Resolutely rectify unhealthy tendencies in the use of personnel, strictly prohibit private favoritism and appointing people by favoritism, resolutely break up "small circles," and seriously investigate and punish acts such as running after officials and seeking positions, buying and selling official positions, and canvassing votes and bribing voters.

(3) Promote cadres to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements. Deepen education on the view of political achievements, guide cadres to adhere to building the Party for the public, benefiting the people, making scientific decisions, and doing solid work, and create achievements that stand the test of practice, the people, and history. Fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, improve the assessment of political achievements in promoting high-quality development, adhere to the combination of assessing people and assessing affairs, and combining the use of existing assessment results with pre-appointment inspection, and deeply understand and analyze the situations of promoting reform and development and benefiting people's livelihood and ensuring safety, promoting current work and handling historical legacy problems, and producing visible achievements and emphasizing potential achievements. Dynamically adjust the list of major problems of deviation in the view of political achievements, and improve the working mechanism for effectively preventing and correcting deviations in the view of political achievements. Deeply rectify problems such as new officials not settling old accounts, seeking quick success and instant benefits, falsification, reckless action, unrealistic decision-making against the will of the masses, engaging in "image projects" and "political achievement projects," "flipping the pancake" of policies and plans, illegally adding hidden local government debt, and emphasizing only development without safety. Deepen the rectification of problems of inaction and reckless action. Improve the handover system for changes of principal responsible persons of leading groups.

(4) Enhance the ability of cadres to work and start businesses. Strengthen the ideological tempering, political training, practical exercise, and professional training of cadres, enhance their ability to promote high-quality development, serve the masses, prevent and resolve risks, and carry out work using legal thinking and legal methods, and strengthen the cultivation of fighting spirit and fighting ability. Promote cadres, especially leading cadres, to conduct in-depth investigation and research, and plan ideas, solve problems, and improve work in connection with reality. Promote cadres to accelerate knowledge updating, improve professional quality, make up for ability shortcomings, and become experts in their own work. Promote cadres to summarize experience and grasp laws in practice, and enhance the principled, systematic, forward-looking, and creative nature of their work.

(5) Improve the quality of cultivating and selecting outstanding young cadres. Improve the normalized working mechanism for cultivating and selecting outstanding young cadres. Strengthen political cultivation and political training, and guide young cadres to build a solid foundation of faith, replenish the calcium of the spirit, and steady the rudder of thought. Take the grassroots frontline as the basic position for cultivating young cadres, promote young cadres to go to difficult areas, complex environments, and demanding posts to temper themselves, sharpen their character, improve their style of work, and increase their abilities. Adhere to both cultivation and management, guide young cadres to take the path of healthy growth, obey organizational arrangements, be willing to work hard and do solid work, not be impetuous or aim too high, and not engage in self-design or take shortcuts. Track and understand the situations of young cadres in learning theory, participating in intra-Party political life, taking responsibility and acting, withstanding pressure and resistance, and observing rules and discipline, and strengthen growth guidance. Prevent and correct practices such as "pulling up seedlings to help them grow."

(6) Strengthen cadre management and supervision. Adhere to starting with senior cadres, strengthen all-round management and regular supervision of cadres, run strict requirements through the entire cycle of cadre growth and the entire process of education, management, and supervision, and prevent emphasizing selection over management. Improve the system of reporting personal matters of leading cadres, and investigate and verify family property and expenditures that clearly exceed normal income. Strengthen the normalized management of the spouses, children, and children's spouses of leading cadres engaging in business and running enterprises. Deepen the special rectification of the problem of "close-relative reproduction." Strengthen the management and supervision of personnel recruitment work. Regulate the behavior of cadres holding concurrent posts, temporary posts, and engaging in employment after leaving office, and prevent and rectify "escape-style resignation." Strengthen the management and supervision of retired cadres. Party organizations at all levels and leading cadres must dare to grasp and dare to manage, and strictly manage and strictly govern, and must not turn a blind eye to the erroneous words and deeds of cadres, or cover up and protect their shortcomings. Formulate regulations on cadre management and supervision work.

Adhere to the combination of strict management and care, and equal emphasis on incentives and constraints, improve the mechanism for encouraging and protecting cadres who take responsibility and act, stand up for those who take responsibility, take responsibility for those who are responsible, and support those who do things. Implement the system of heart-to-heart talks, promptly understand the ideological dynamics, work status, physical and mental health, and family situations of cadres, and strengthen education and guidance in a targeted manner. Strengthen and improve the work of civil servants, give play to the incentive effect of systems such as the parallel system of positions and ranks, and improve the mechanism for commendation and rewards. Implement various policies for caring for and caring for grassroots cadres.

Adhere to the principle of the Party managing talent, strengthen political guidance and political absorption of talent, deepen the reform of the institutional mechanisms for talent development, promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, cultivate, introduce, and make good use of talent in an all-round way, strengthen talent support and service guarantees, encourage the vast number of talents to love the Party and serve the country, be dedicated to their work and serve the people, and gather outstanding talents from all aspects into the cause of the Party and the people. Implement the system of Party committees contacting and serving experts, and improve the working mechanism for leading cadres to directly contact and serve experts. Guide Party members in the talent ranks to play an exemplary role in scientific research and tackling key problems, cultivating younger generations, unity and cooperation, academic integrity, and scientific and technological ethics, oppose academic fraud, plagiarism, and other academic misconduct, and resist unhealthy tendencies such as seeking quick success and being impetuous and flashy. Rectify the problem of talent "hats," and break down seniority-based promotion, clique culture, and the style of academic overlords.

V. Building a Tight Organizational System That Connects Up and Down and Executes Effectively

Party organizations at all levels are the subjects of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It is necessary to systematically advance the building of Party organizations at all levels and in all fields, strengthen the political and organizational functions of Party organizations, and ensure that the implementation of the Party's line, principles, and policies and the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements is coordinated from top to bottom, precise, and efficient.

(1) Give play to the exemplary role of Party organizations in central and state organs. Deepen the building of political organs, promote Party organizations at all levels and Party members and cadres in central and state organs to walk in the first phalanx, set an example in deeply studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, set an example in always maintaining a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and set an example in resolutely implementing the Party Central Committee's various decisions and arrangements, and build central and state organs into model organs that stress politics, observe discipline, are responsible, and are efficient. Adhere to grasping the organs to drive the system, managing the industry and managing Party building, improve the mechanism for the simultaneous advancement of Party building in organs, directly affiliated enterprises and public institutions, and dispatched institutions, and deepen the building of Party branches that are strong in political function, strong in branch leadership, strong in Party member ranks, and strong in playing their role. Promote the deep integration of Party building and business, and continuously solve the problem of "two skins." Make every effort to avoid "organ diseases" and "yamen style," and prevent "darkness under the lamp."

(2) Strengthen the functions of local Party committees. Adhere to the leadership role of local Party committees in their regions in commanding the overall situation and coordinating all parties, perform the duties of setting the direction, managing the overall situation, making decisions, and ensuring implementation, and build local Party committees into strong organizations that resolutely obey the command of the Party Central Committee, execute effectively, manage strictly, have united leadership groups, and have pure conduct. Encourage and support local Party committees to implement the spirit of the Party Central Committee in connection with reality and carry out work creatively. Promote the standing committees of local Party committees to build strong leadership groups, strictly manage their ranks, frequently conduct political physical examinations, and improve their ability to discover and solve their own problems. Revise the work regulations of local Party committees. Regulate the deliberation and coordination organs of local Party committees.

(3) Coordinate the advancement of the building of primary-level Party organizations in all fields. Strengthen the clear orientation of grasping the grassroots, adhere to the simultaneous promotion of making up shortcomings, filling gaps, and improving quality and strengthening functions, and build primary-level Party organizations into strong fighting fortresses that effectively realize the Party's leadership. Deeply advance the promotion of comprehensive rural revitalization through Party building, strengthen the building of township Party committees and village Party organizations, improve the education and management level of village cadres, and optimize the selection, dispatch, and management of first secretaries stationed in villages and work teams. Do solid work in Party building in "hollow villages." Strengthen Party building work in urban streets and communities, build and strengthen Party organizations in residential communities, and explore new models for the coordinated operation of residents' committees, owners' committees, and property service enterprises under the leadership of community Party organizations. Strengthen the building of Party organizations in "super-large communities." Advance Party building in development zones (parks). Strengthen primary-level Party building work in border areas. Deepen the leadership of Party building in primary-level governance and the building of primary-level political power, uphold and develop the Fengqiao model in the new era, and improve the urban and rural primary-level governance system under the leadership of Party organizations that combines self-governance, rule of law, and rule of virtue. Integrate and optimize grid governance services, give play to the role of Party and mass service centers, and broaden the channels for primary-level organizations and the masses to participate in primary-level governance in accordance with laws and regulations. Comprehensively improve the quality of Party building in organs, and do a good job in Party building in affiliated units and industries. Improve the institutional mechanisms for the Party's leadership in public institutions, and advance Party building in schools, hospitals, and scientific research institutes. Strengthen the Party's leadership in state-owned enterprises and state-owned financial enterprises, strengthen the substantive gatekeeping of Party committees (Party groups) in the pre-study and discussion of major business management matters, improve corporate governance, and enhance the quality and effectiveness of Party building work. Adhere to the combination of concentration and normalization, and rectify weak, lax, and disorganized primary-level Party organizations. Strengthen the cultivation, selection, education, and training of persons in charge of primary-level Party organizations. Promote the sinking of resources, services, and management, and the tilting of policies toward the grassroots, and improve the working conditions of the grassroots. Adhere to Party building leading group building, and give play to the role of mass organizations as bridges and bonds.

(4) Highlight the advancement of Party building in emerging fields. Classify and improve the Party building management systems and responsibility systems in emerging fields, compact the responsibilities of industry management and business supervision departments, business competent units, and localities, and enhance the Party's appeal, cohesion, and influence in emerging fields. Deepen and expand the organizational coverage and work coverage of the Party in new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups, select and strengthen secretaries of Party organizations, improve the selection and dispatch of Party building work instructors, and promote the organic combination of Party building work with production and operation, innovation and entrepreneurship, social services, and primary-level governance. Consolidate and improve Party building work in non-public enterprises, classify and advance Party building work in mixed-ownership enterprises, strengthen Party building work in platform enterprises, scientific and technological innovation enterprises, etc., establish a mechanism for the dynamic adjustment of the upgraded management of Party organizations in internet enterprises, and promote the implementation of Party building responsibilities. Classify and guide Party building work in new social organizations, improve the management systems and operating mechanisms of industry associations, societies, and chambers of commerce, fully implement the requirement of writing Party building work requirements into articles of association, and strengthen the leadership of Party building in industry self-discipline. Do a good job in Party building in private schools, private hospitals, etc. Strengthen Party building work for new employment groups, strengthen ideological and political guidance, do a good job in service management, protect legitimate rights and interests, and guide new employment groups to listen to the Party and follow the Party.

(5) Strengthen the building of the Party member ranks. Adhere to putting the political standard first, strictly follow procedures, strictly check, and strictly enforce discipline, improve the quality of developing Party members, and prevent people with impure motives from joining the Party. Pay attention to developing Party members from among young people, industrial workers, farmers, and intellectuals, do a good job in developing Party members in emerging fields, and optimize the structure of the Party member ranks. Strengthen the education and management of Party members, and carry out normalized training of Party members, especially basic training. Implement the responsibility of Party branches for directly educating, managing, and supervising Party members. Strengthen the management of Party members' online behavior. Normalize the registration and reception of mobile Party members, and improve the system for the coordinated co-management of Party organizations in the places of outflow and inflow, and the combination of online and offline. Promote practices such as setting posts and responsibilities, making commitments and fulfilling them, establishing commando teams, and showing identity and being pioneers, and improve and implement the mechanism for Party members to play their role online and offline, on and off duty, and in normal times and emergencies. Improve the intra-Party mechanism for incentives, care, and assistance. Seriously and steadily handle unqualified Party members.

(6) Improve the mechanism for connecting Party organizations at all levels. Improve the working mechanism for the transmission and implementation of higher-level deployments, the upward reporting of grassroots situations, and the coordinated resolution of contradictions and problems. Improve the Party building work system for territorial management and vertical management, and promote the combination of blocks and lines, each taking responsibility, and close connection. Increase the guidance of higher-level organizations to the Party building work of lower-level organizations, and summarize and promote experience. Do solid work in the performance evaluation of secretaries of Party committees (Party groups) grasping primary-level Party building work through reports and evaluations. Strengthen the building of the team of Party affairs workers, equip them with sufficient and strong forces, and provide necessary guarantees. Adhere to grasping the current level, driving the lower levels, and implementing layer by layer, promote the comprehensive progress and comprehensive excellence of Party organizations at all levels, and prevent the suspension of responsibility and the shifting of responsibility upward and downward.

VI. Unremittingly Rectifying Conduct and Enforcing Discipline

Rectifying conduct and enforcing discipline are powerful measures for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It is necessary to adhere to grasping Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline together, and connecting the rectification of conduct, the enforcement of discipline, and the fight against corruption, deepen the application of the experience of advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party starting from grasping conduct, continuously improve conduct, govern the Party with strict discipline, and unite hearts and gather strength with a good image.

(1) Walk the Party's mass line well in the new era. Deepen education on the Marxist view of the masses and the Party's mass line, guide Party members and cadres to strengthen their sense of purpose and sense of being public servants, stand firmly on the people's side, enhance their feelings for the masses, and prevent being aloof and detached from the masses. Guide Party members and cadres to grasp the characteristics and laws of the Party's mass work in the new era, frequently go deep among the masses, humbly listen to opinions, seriously solve the urgent, difficult, worried, and anxious problems, be good at relying on the strength of the masses to do work well and resolve contradictions, educate and guide the masses and lead the masses forward in serving the masses, and prevent and overcome commandism and "tailism." Implement the system of soliciting opinions from the masses on major decisions involving people's livelihood. Implement the system for leading cadres to publicize the Party's line, principles, and policies at the grassroots, conduct investigation and research at the grassroots, receive petitions at the grassroots, and handle affairs on site at the grassroots, and implement the system for Party members and cadres to directly contact and serve the masses. Promote Party members and cadres to take the lead in participating in volunteer services and carry out paired assistance. Continuously do a good job in resolving petition problems in the field of people's livelihood. Walk the online mass line well, enhance the ability of Party organizations to organize, publicize, unite, and serve the masses through the internet, and improve the ability of Party members and cadres to do online mass work.

(2) Persevere in implementing the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation. Take the Eight-Point Regulation as an iron rule and hard benchmark that must be adhered to for a long time, consolidate and expand the results of learning and education on deeply implementing the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation, improve and implement the detailed rules for the implementation of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation, deepen the rectification of the chronic diseases of formalism and bureaucratism, resolutely prevent the rebound and resurgence of hedonism and extravagance, and resolutely break down privileged thinking and privileged behavior. Streamline meetings, documents, and submitted materials, implement the requirement of "short, real, and new," and improve the style of meetings and writing. Without the approval of the organization, leading cadres of the Party and government must not publicly publish personal works. Strictly implement the regulations on visits abroad by leading cadres, and must not arrange for courtesy visits. Advance the rectification of formalism to reduce burdens on the grassroots, coordinate and regulate supervision, inspection, and assessment, regulate model creation, standards, and evaluation and commendation activities, clean up and regulate festivals, exhibitions, forums, and activities, rectify "formalism at the fingertips," implement the list of matters for performing duties in townships (streets), and improve the system for the admission of work matters in villages (communities). Continuously rectify prominent problems such as illegal eating and drinking, illegal giving and receiving of gifts and money, and infringement of the interests of the masses. Practice strict economy and oppose waste, adhere to Party and government organs living a tight life, strictly control the "three public" expenses, and strictly control the construction of new office buildings. Keep a close eye on new trends and new manifestations of unhealthy tendencies, and prevent and rectify hidden and mutated problems.

(3) Advance the normalization and long-term effectiveness of style building. Integrate style building into daily life and grasp it regularly, prevent passive coping and fatigue and war-weariness, and correct the "minor matter theory" and "special theory" of style problems. Improve the mechanism for regularly discovering and solving style problems, and strengthen the analysis, judgment, and targeted rectification of prominent problems of the Four Malfeasances. Grasp the regional, industrial, and stage-specific characteristics, and rectify style problems that occur commonly and repeatedly. Keep a close eye on important nodes, strengthen supervision and inspection, severely investigate and punish acts of violating discipline in defiance of warnings, and report and expose typical cases. Implement the responsibility of industry competent departments for managing industry conduct, strengthen the dynamic analysis and effective supervision of industry conduct, do a good job in the building of teacher ethics and teacher style, medical ethics and medical style, and art ethics and art style, and increase the intensity of rectifying the problems of the Four Malfeasances in state-owned enterprises, state-owned financial enterprises, and local branches of vertically managed units. Regulate law enforcement and judicial behavior involving enterprises. Deepen the simultaneous investigation and treatment of conduct and corruption, dig deep into the problems of cliques, entrusting affairs, and interest transfer behind the Four Malfeasances, and investigate the style problems in corruption cases. Adhere to the simultaneous promotion of rectifying the Four Malfeasances and establishing new practices, and lead social conduct to improve and be good with excellent Party and government conduct.

(4) Strengthen strict discipline enforcement. Run strict requirements through the entire process of Party regulation formulation, Party discipline education, and discipline enforcement supervision. Adhere to the principles that where there are regulations, they must be followed, where there is discipline enforcement, it must be strict, and where there are violations of discipline, they must be investigated, and investigate and deal with every violation of discipline as soon as it is discovered, never tolerating or compromising. Strictly enforce the Party's political discipline and political rules, and drive the comprehensive strictness of organizational discipline, integrity discipline, mass discipline, work discipline, and life discipline. Focus on key areas, weak links, and gray areas, and improve discipline norms. Adhere to discipline being stricter than law and discipline preceding law, and the connection of discipline enforcement and law enforcement, and the effective connection with justice. Adhere to grasping early and grasping small, and preventing problems before they become major, promptly remind and correct problems of a budding or tendentious nature, and prevent minor problems from evolving into major problems. Strengthen the supervision and inspection of the implementation of discipline, promote Party organizations at all levels to strictly implement and maintain discipline, and seriously investigate responsibility for lax discipline enforcement and laissez-faire.

(5) Comprehensively give play to the roles of discipline education in restraint, guarantee, and incentive. Establish and improve a normalized and long-term effective discipline education mechanism, take the Party Constitution, Party regulations, and Party discipline as required courses in the training of Party members and cadres, guide Party members and cadres to learn discipline, understand discipline, and observe discipline, and develop the habit of working and living in an environment of supervision and restraint. Strengthen full-cycle discipline education, and seize the various important nodes of joining the Party, entering a post, changing positions, family changes, and leaving office and retirement to strengthen discipline reminders. According to the requirements for performing duties of Party members and cadres at different positions and ranks and in different industries, clarify the discipline and laws that should be known and mastered. Do a good job in discipline training for key targets such as newly promoted cadres, cadres in key positions, and young cadres. Adhere to punishing the past to warn the future and curing the disease to save the patient, deepen the application of the "four forms" of supervision and discipline enforcement, pay attention to making good use of the "first form," set up defenses at all levels, and maximize the education and rescue of Party members and cadres. Adhere to seeking truth from facts and acting in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law, run ideological and political work through the entire process, enhance the standardization and accuracy of discipline enforcement and accountability, and achieve the organic unity of political, disciplinary and legal, and social effects. Adhere to the unity of strict discipline and care and love, and promote Party members and cadres to reform, innovate, and start businesses while observing rules and discipline. Seriously investigate and punish acts of false accusation, and promptly carry out work to clarify and rehabilitate. Do a good job in follow-up visits and education management of Party members and cadres who have been dealt with and disciplined.

VII. Unswervingly and Integratedly Advancing the Goals of Not Daring to Corrupt, Not Being Able to Corrupt, and Not Wanting to Corrupt

Integratedly advancing the goals of not daring to corrupt, not being able to corrupt, and not wanting to corrupt is an important strategy for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and the basic policy of the fight against corruption. It is necessary to bear in mind that the Party has no special interests of its own other than the interests of the working class and the broadest masses of the people, and that the Party is incompatible with corruption, firmly walk the path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics, strengthen the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over anti-corruption work, pay more attention to treating both the symptoms and the root causes and systematic governance, adhere to severe punishment, precise governance, effective prevention, and integrated grasping, and carry the fight against corruption through to the end.

(1) Maintain the high-pressure posture of punishing corruption. Deeply understand that the situation of the fight against corruption is still severe and complex, and the task of eradicating the soil and conditions for corruption is still arduous and heavy, adhere to the principles that where there is corruption, it must be opposed, where there is graft, it must be punished, and evil must be eliminated completely, resolutely "beat tigers," "swat flies," and "hunt foxes," always maintain strategic resolve and fighting tenacity, never stop for a moment, never retreat half a step, more forcefully curb the increase of new cases and more effectively eliminate the stock of existing cases, never allow corrupt elements to have a hiding place, and never allow "iron-hatted kings" or "iron certificates and exemption edicts." Focus on key areas, key problems, and key targets, deepen the rectification of corruption in areas with concentrated power, dense funds, and rich resources, focus on investigating and dealing with problems such as the interweaving of political and economic problems, collusion between government and business, and the penetration of capital into the political field, pay attention to investigating and dealing with corruption behind various risks, focus on investigating and dealing with corruption of the "key minority," especially "top leaders," and corruption of young cadres, seriously investigate and deal with family-style corruption of leading cadres and corruption of people around them, and resolutely eliminate corrupt elements who do not restrain themselves and act recklessly. Dig deep and investigate carefully new types of corruption and hidden corruption such as expected returns, agreed holding, "white gloves," and the "revolving door" between government and business, and resolutely combat corruption committed through the internet, virtual currencies, cross-border funds, blockchain, etc. Normalize the rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption around the masses, deepen governance around problems in the fields of employment, elderly care, social security, housing, education, medical care, and agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, seriously investigate and punish problems such as embezzlement and encroachment, interception and misappropriation, false reporting and fraudulent claiming, and demanding and taking bribes, severely punish "flies and ants" of corruption, and continuously advance the fight against organized crime and evil forces by "removing umbrellas and breaking networks." Deepen international cooperation against corruption, strengthen the pursuit of fugitives, prevention of flight, and recovery of stolen assets, and increase the intensity of investigating and handling cross-border corruption cases. Deepen the simultaneous investigation of bribe takers and bribe givers, investigate and deal with bribery acts in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law, strengthen joint punishment of key bribe givers, and prevent and combat "hunting" acts. Strengthen the dynamic monitoring of integrity risk hazards, and establish a linkage mechanism for corruption early warning and punishment. Promote localities, departments, and units where major corruption cases have occurred to thoroughly eliminate the poisonous influence and repair the political ecosystem.

(2) Strengthen the restriction and supervision of the exercise of power. Adhere to exercising power impartially, exercising power according to law, exercising power with integrity, and exercising power for the people, and prevent and rectify acts such as arbitrary exercise of power, abuse of power, and dereliction of duty. Improve the institutional mechanism that unifies the authorization, exercise, and restriction of power, and is clear, transparent, and traceable, strengthen the regulation and supervision of the allocation and exercise of power, promptly discover problems and correct deviations, and more scientifically and effectively put power in the cage of institutions. Grasp the key links such as policy formulation, deliberation and decision-making, examination and approval supervision, and law enforcement and justice, regulate the scope of duties and authority, the boundaries of power exercise, and work procedures, regulate discretionary power, and prevent the setting up of rent-seeking by power. Accelerate the building of norms and restriction mechanisms for the exercise of power in key areas and new fields. Establish lists of power in key industries and lists of small and micro power at the grassroots. Implement the system of recording and reporting leading cadres' interference in judicial activities and intervention in the handling of specific cases.

(3) Consolidate the ideological foundation of advocating integrity and rejecting corruption. Strengthen the building of a culture of integrity in the new era, enrich the content and carriers, and educate and guide Party members and cadres to be self-respecting and self-reflective, be cautious when alone and in small matters, and consciously resist corruption and prevent degeneration. Develop a positive and healthy intra-Party political culture, and use the ideals and convictions, value concepts, moral concepts, and discipline and law awareness contained in the Party's innovative theory to nourish the clean conduct of Party members and cadres. Integrate the culture of integrity into the building of the core values of socialism, integrate integrity education into the national education system, and create a social atmosphere of honoring integrity and being ashamed of greed. Innovate the mechanism for integrity publicity and education, link online and offline, determine content and methods by category and level, and enhance pertinence and effectiveness. Give play to the exemplary and leading role of diligent and incorruptible models and the warning and deterrent role of cases of violations of discipline and law. Supervise and urge leading cadres to take the lead in building a pro-clean government-business relationship, strengthen the building of family, family education, and family style, and strictly educate and manage relatives and staff around them.

(4) Enhance the comprehensive effectiveness of integratedly advancing the goals of not daring to corrupt, not being able to corrupt, and not wanting to corrupt. Deeply study and grasp the laws of anti-corruption under the conditions of the socialist market economy, improve anti-corruption laws and regulations, adhere to the simultaneous, same-direction, and comprehensive exertion of the goals of not daring to corrupt, not being able to corrupt, and not wanting to corrupt, and focus on eradicating the soil and conditions for corruption. Improve the mechanism for cooperation and coordination between discipline inspection and supervision organs and relevant departments under the unified leadership of Party committees, and promote integrated governance through whole-chain cooperation. Do solid work in promoting reform and governance through case handling, carry out special governance of industrial and systemic corruption problems discovered in major cases, improve institutional mechanisms through investigating and handling cases, eliminate loopholes in the exercise of power, blind spots in supervision, and institutional gaps, and form a closed loop of supervision, case handling, rectification, and governance. Grasp the new trends and new characteristics of corruption, deepen the building of the digital discipline inspection and supervision system, advance the building of a big data supervision platform for public power, and enhance the penetration of the fight against corruption.

VIII. Adhering to Governing the Party with Institutions and Governing the Party According to Regulations

Strengthening the building of the system of intra-Party regulations and rules is a long-term and fundamental strategy for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It is necessary to adhere to taking the Party Constitution as the fundamental code of conduct for the whole Party, deepen the reform of the Party building system, promote the organic unity of law-based governance and governing the Party according to regulations, and provide a strong institutional guarantee for continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.

(1) Improve the system of intra-Party regulations and rules. Scientifically formulate plans and programs for the formulation of intra-Party regulations. Coordinate the formulation, amendment, abolition, and interpretation of intra-Party regulations, pay attention to system integration, and strengthen supporting and connecting work. Formulate and improve intra-Party regulations and systems according to the actual needs of continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and promptly make up for institutional shortcomings. The establishment of rules and systems should target prominent problems and ensure convenience and effectiveness. Improve the interpretation mechanism for intra-Party regulations. Improve the mechanism for connecting and coordinating intra-Party regulations with national laws and regulations.

(2) Enhance the enforcement of institutions. Strengthen the rigid constraint of institutions, adhere to the principles that everyone is equal before institutions, there is no special treatment in observing institutions, and there is no exception in enforcing institutions. Promote Party members and cadres to consciously learn the Party Constitution, observe the Party Constitution, implement the Party Constitution, and safeguard the Party Constitution. Increase the publicity of intra-Party regulations. Strengthen the study and training of intra-Party regulations and systems. Run the enforcement and supervision of institutions through the entire process of the performance of duties by Party organizations and Party members and cadres, and through all aspects of regional governance, departmental governance, industrial governance, primary-level governance, and unit governance, to ensure that institutions exert their authority at all times and are effective everywhere. Resolutely correct the phenomena of orders not being carried out and prohibitions not being heeded, prevent the selective, discounted, and flexible implementation of institutions, and avoid the idling of institutions.

(3) Vigorously break down hidden rules. Adhere to establishing explicit rules, and advance the openness of Party and government affairs. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to stress principles, abide by laws and discipline, and follow the right path, and consciously oppose and resist hidden rules in the exercise of power, policy implementation, project competition, cadre selection and use, and evaluation and commendation. Resolutely rectify the chaos of "building antennas and paying homage to the boss," "principles are not as good as relationships," "chops are not as good as notes," not doing things without benefits, and operating behind the scenes, and resolutely resist the erosion of intra-Party life by the principle of commodity exchange and personal dependency relationships. Improve the reporting mechanism, and seriously investigate and deal with acts of making or acting as political brokers and political swindlers. Establish a system of case-type analysis, retrospection, and rectification notification, and improve the mechanism for dynamic monitoring, judgment, and governance of the political ecosystem.

To continuously and persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, it is necessary to further improve the Party and state supervision system. Do solid work in the comprehensive supervision of Party committees (Party groups), and strengthen the leadership over various types of supervision subjects. Revise the intra-Party supervision regulations. Improve the dual leadership system for discipline inspection and supervision work, do solid work in the principle that supervision and inspection and the investigation and handling of corruption cases are mainly led by the discipline inspection commissions and supervision commissions at the higher level, pay attention to the coordination and optimization of forces, and strengthen the overall connection of discipline supervision, supervision supervision, dispatched supervision, and inspection supervision. Make good use of the supervision resources and forces of counties, townships, and villages, improve the primary-level supervision system, improve mechanisms such as upgraded supervision and cross supervision, smooth the channels for mass supervision, and promote the organic connection of primary-level supervision and primary-level governance. Promote the deep integration and efficient linkage of intra-Party supervision with people's congress supervision, democratic supervision, administrative supervision, judicial supervision, audit supervision, financial and accounting supervision, statistical supervision, mass supervision, and public opinion supervision, and form a joint force of supervision. Comprehensively implement the Party's inspection work policy, implement the inspection work regulations, make good use of regular inspection, special inspection, mobile inspection, and upgraded inspection methods, innovate inspection methods, increase the intensity of inspection "look-back," strengthen the rectification and application of results of inspection, deepen the upper-lower linkage of inspection and inspection, improve the quality and effectiveness of inspection of villages, and give play to the role of inspection as a comprehensive supervision sword.

Continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is the common political responsibility of the whole Party. It is necessary to grasp the "ox nose" of the responsibility system for Party governance, compact and tighten the primary responsibility of Party committees (Party groups), the supervision responsibility of discipline inspection commissions, the responsibility of secretaries of Party committees (Party groups) as the first responsible persons, the "one post with dual responsibilities" of other members of leading groups, and the specific responsibilities of Party members and cadres, and improve a responsibility system in which each bears its own responsibility and is unified and coordinated. Party committees (Party groups) at all levels must take the initiative to grasp and manage with care, fasten the chain of responsibility, and transmit pressure layer by layer. Party committees (Party groups) at and above the county level must listen to reports on the performance of Party governance responsibilities by members of leading groups at least once a year, and strengthen supervision and guidance. Discipline inspection commissions (dispatched discipline inspection and supervision groups) at all levels must perform their supervision responsibilities well, and lower-level discipline inspection commissions (dispatched discipline inspection and supervision groups) must report to higher-level discipline inspection commissions (dispatching organs) at least once every six months on the performance of duties and exercise of power by members of the leading groups of Party committees (Party groups), especially "top leaders," and on their own performance of supervision responsibilities. Departments of Party committees must perform their duties and work together in a coordinated manner. Leading cadres, especially senior cadres, must be strict with themselves, strictly bear their responsibilities, and strictly manage their areas of responsibility, and set an example in fulfilling the responsibility of Party governance. Advancing Party building work at all levels and in all fields must seek truth from facts, seek practical results, and make every effort to avoid formalism. Optimize the evaluation mechanism for responsibility implementation, and seriously pursue accountability for those who govern the Party ineffectively or have serious problems.

History illuminates the future, and struggle accomplishes great undertakings. In the magnificent great journey, the Communist Party of China has forged excellent qualities such as being determined to pursue truth and always grasping the correct direction of progress, being deeply rooted in the people and always having a solid foundation, bravely undertaking historical missions and always mastering strategic initiative, conforming to the trend of development and always walking at the forefront of the times, daring and being good at struggle and always maintaining confidence in victory, and paying attention to strengthening itself and always being full of vitality. Over the past hundred years and more, the tremendous changes that have taken place on the land of China fully prove that the Party has lived up to history and the people, and is worthy of being the vanguard of the Chinese working class, and worthy of being the vanguard of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. The great, glorious, and correct Communist Party of China, having weathered storms without changing its original aspiration, with firm goals and courageous progress, will bear in mind the "three imperatives," forever maintain the sobriety and firmness of being on the examination, have the courage to carry out the great struggle with many new historical characteristics, resolutely overcome all difficulties and obstacles on the road forward, and continuously create a better future!

The whole Party must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, work hard with vigor and determination, continuously and persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, continuously open up a new situation in Party governance, Party building, and Party strengthening in the new era, and unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country to strive unremittingly for comprehensively building a great modern socialist country and comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese modernization!

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 1)

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The Nine-Bend Yellow River Brings New Vitality

By: 新华社记者

The nine-bend Yellow River has surged through the ages.

The Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation, and this year marks 80 years since the Party led the people in harnessing the Yellow River. Over the past 80 years, under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, Yellow River governance and protection have achieved achievements that have attracted worldwide attention. The river that was once a river of worry, with "two breaches every three years and a course change once a century," has undergone a transformation in the process of Chinese modernization.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping, standing at the strategic height of the sustainable development of the Chinese nation and Chinese civilization, has made multiple field inspections of the Yellow River, traveling to all 9 provinces and regions along the upper, middle, and lower reaches of the river, presiding over 3 symposiums for special deployment, mapping out the major national strategy of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin, and issuing the call to "make the Yellow River a happy river that benefits the people."

The great river is tranquil, and everything is renewed and fresh (万象更新, wan xiang geng xin - "ten thousand, phenomena, renew, new").

From water quality improvement to ecological restoration, from green transformation to improvement of people's livelihoods, from regional coordination to acting in light of local conditions, General Secretary Xi Jinping's concern and promotion have been translated into vivid practice up and down the great river, and a magnificent movement of a new-era "Yellow River Chorus" is being played out.

Mapping out a plan for the ages, establishing new coordinates for Yellow River governance from a strategic height

Rivers and streams nourish civilization, and the fortunes of waterways are linked to the fortunes of the nation.

General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: "To achieve peace and prosperity for the country and people (国泰民安, guo tai min an - "country, peaceful, people, safe") and years of good harvests (岁稔年丰, sui ren nian feng - "year, ripe, year, abundant"), one must be skilled at water management."

On September 17, 2019, at the Yellow River Museum in Zhengzhou, Henan. General Secretary Xi Jinping stood for a long time in the "Centuries of River Governance" exhibition hall, gazing for a long time at a map of historical Yellow River course changes: "In a sense, the history of the Chinese nation's governance of the Yellow River is also a history of state governance."

"When the Yellow River is peaceful, the world is at peace."

Starting from the northern foothills of Bayan Har Mountains, the Yellow River surges 5,464 kilometers before flowing into the vast sea. Bordering the Kunlun Mountains to the west, reaching the Yinshan Mountains to the north, leaning against the Qinling Mountains to the south, and facing the Bohai Sea to the east, the Yellow River basin spans the eastern, central, and western regions, nurturing the splendid Chinese civilization.

The nine-bend Yellow River carries ten thousand miles of sand. This great river is prone to heavy siltation, frequent breaches, and frequent course changes. In the more than 2,500 years from the pre-Qin period to the founding of New China, its lower reaches experienced more than 1,500 breaches and 26 course changes.

In order to harness the Yellow River well, for thousands of years, the Chinese nation has continuously struggled against the Yellow River's floods and droughts. The history of Yellow River governance, written with hardship, reflects the history of suffering, struggle, and state governance of the Chinese nation.

Eighty years ago, Chinese Communists took up this historic task of Yellow River governance.

In 1946, after the government of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region became aware of the Kuomintang's plan to return the Yellow River to its old course, it decided, in accordance with instructions from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, to prepare for the establishment of a Yellow River governance institution led by the Communist Party of China. The first river governance institution in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Liberated Area — the Yellow River Old Course Management Committee — was established, later renamed the Yellow River Water Conservancy Commission of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Region. The Communist Party of China led the people in opening a new chapter in the cause of Yellow River governance.

After the founding of New China, Party and state leaders attached great importance to the cause of Yellow River governance. In October 1952, Comrade Mao Zedong, on his first inspection trip outside Beijing after the founding of New China, came to the banks of the Yellow River and proposed "getting the affairs of the Yellow River done well." Since the reform and opening up, Party and state leaders including Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao have all personally visited the banks of the Yellow River to plan the strategy for Yellow River governance.

The great river flows day and night, carrying the deep affection of family and country across ten thousand miles.

Entering the new era, Yellow River governance faces new situations and new challenges. General Secretary Xi Jinping, examining this great river with a far-reaching historical perspective, profoundly pointed out: "Solidly advancing the great protection of the Yellow River and ensuring the safety and tranquility of the Yellow River are major matters of state governance."

In August 2019, during an inspection in Gansu, General Secretary Xi Jinping explicitly stated: "I once said that 'the Yangtze River is sick,' and quite seriously so. Today I want to say that the Yellow River has also long been frail and prone to illness, with frequent floods."

In September of the same year, at the symposium on ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin held in Zhengzhou, Henan, General Secretary Xi Jinping got straight to the point: "I have always been very concerned about the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin" and "No matter how busy I am, I must still arrange time to seriously study the Yellow River issue. The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to this issue."

At this symposium, General Secretary Xi Jinping explicitly proposed the overall guideline for Yellow River governance of "protection is the priority, governance is the key." The General Secretary sorted through the "illnesses" of the Yellow River one by one: flood risk remains the greatest threat, the ecological environment of the basin is fragile, the situation for water resource security is severe, and the quality of development needs improvement... "'Don't you see the waters of the Yellow River coming down from heaven!' How magnificent that was! Now how much effort is required to ensure the river never runs dry."

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Investigating the reasons, there are both objective constraints of congenital deficiencies and human factors of acquired neglect. These problems manifest on the surface in the Yellow River, but their roots lie in the entire basin."

Subsequently, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium in Jinan, Shandong in 2021 on deeply advancing the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin, and a symposium in Lanzhou, Gansu in 2024 on comprehensively advancing the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin. From "deeply advancing" to "comprehensively advancing," with consistency from beginning to end (一以贯之, yi yi guan zhi - "one, use, through, continue") and progressive deepening at every step, this national strategy for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin has continued to advance in depth.

Always keeping this matter in mind (念兹在兹, nian zi zai zi - "think, this, exist, this"), mapping out and providing leadership. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, from the source of the three rivers to the mouth of the Yellow River, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made dozens of inspection visits to provinces and regions in the Yellow River basin, tracing history, inquiring about ecology, inspecting flood control, and visiting people's livelihoods.

This is deep concern for the safety and tranquility of the Yellow River —

In March 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the last bend of the Yellow River — the bank of the Yellow River at the Dongbatou section in Lankao, Henan — and inquired in detail about Yellow River flood control and the production and living conditions of the people in the floodplain areas; in September 2019 in Henan, the General Secretary came to the Yellow River Museum and the Yellow River National Geopark to gain an in-depth understanding of the history of the Chinese nation's governance of the Yellow River and to inspect on site the ecological protection and embankment construction of the Yellow River.

This is a high degree of attention to the ecological environment of the Yellow River basin —

In July 2016, during an inspection in Ningxia, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "Yellow River protection must be strengthened, acts that pollute the Yellow River must be resolutely eliminated, and the mother river must be kept forever healthy"; in August 2016, during an inspection in Qinghai, he urged the locality to "must shoulder the major responsibility of protecting the source of the three rivers and protecting the 'Chinese Water Tower'"; in April 2020, during an inspection in Shaanxi, he emphasized "promoting the transformation of the Yellow River basin from excessive intervention and excessive exploitation to natural restoration and resting and recuperating to recover strength (休养生息, xiu yang sheng xi - "rest, nourish, grow, breathe"), and improving the quality of the ecological environment of the basin"; in October 2021, he came to the mouth of the Yellow River in Dongying, Shandong, and instructed local responsible comrades to "treat the protection of the Yellow River estuary wetlands as a noble cause."

This is diagnosis and prescription for the utilization of Yellow River water resources —

At the Jinan symposium, General Secretary Xi Jinping mentioned his experience of using water in northern Shaanxi in his youth, emphasizing the comprehensive implementation of the principle of "determining water use by water availability, determining land use by water availability, determining population by water availability, and determining production by water availability," noting that "you can only soak as much steamed bun as you have soup," and that water resources must be used with careful calculation and frugality, so that water resources are used where they are most needed; in June 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the water quantity informatization monitoring center of the Hetao Irrigation District in Bayannur, Inner Mongolia, and listened to introductions about the use of informatization methods to improve the refined management level of the Hetao Irrigation District and promote the green and efficient utilization of water resources, emphasizing that "work must continue to be improved and upgraded, and the level of scientific water distribution and dispatch must be raised. At the same time, one must live within one's means (量入为出, liang ru wei chu - "measure, income, as, output") and establish a diversified investment mechanism."

This is a clear requirement for high-quality development in provinces and regions along the Yellow River —

In June 2020, during an inspection in Ningxia, General Secretary Xi Jinping required "striving to build a pioneer zone for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin"; in 2025 in Shanxi, the General Secretary expressed expectations for Yangquan Valve Co., Ltd., a century-old factory: "The transformation and upgrading of traditional industries can also develop new quality productive forces" and "old enterprises can equally achieve high-end, intelligent, and green development"; in October this year, in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, General Secretary Xi Jinping urged the locality to coordinate high-quality development and high-level protection, adhere to the integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, grasslands, and deserts, and coordinately advance carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and economic growth, unswervingly following the path of ecological priority and green development.

Protecting the Yellow River is a great undertaking of lasting importance concerning the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and its sustainable development.

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Following the development strategy for the Yangtze River Economic Belt, we have proposed the strategy for ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin, and the nation's 'river strategy' has thus been established."

The Yellow River, this ancient great river, surges forward in the new era.

Coordinating policies and measures, playing the chorus of coordinated Yellow River governance

The difficulty of Yellow River governance lies in "nine dragons managing the water," and its success lies in coordinated efforts.

In September 2019, at the symposium on ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin held in Zhengzhou, Henan, General Secretary Xi Jinping cited a set of data:

The per capita share of Yellow River water resources is only 27% of the national average, the water resource development and utilization rate far exceeds the 40% ecological warning line for general river basins, and the per capita gross regional product of Yushu Prefecture in Qinghai at the source differs from that of Dongying City in Shandong at the river mouth by more than 10 times...

The key to solving the problem must be to reshape the governance pattern with a unified, coordinated plan (一盘棋, yi pan qi - "one, board, chess") for the entire basin.

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized "adhering to overall planning and coordinated advancement," and explicitly required "promoting new progress in ecological protection across the entire basin, new advances in green transformation, new results in high-quality development, and new improvements in the lives of the people, and creating a new situation for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin."

Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, a systematic governance effort spanning 9 provinces and regions and traversing mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasslands, and deserts has been fully rolled out up and down the great river —

Applying treatment based on syndrome differentiation, continuously improving the pattern of great protection and great coordination of the Yellow River basin ecology, and building a solid national ecological security barrier.

In the autumn of 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Gaoxigou Village in northern Shaanxi. Looking up and gazing intently (举目凝望, ju mu ning wang - "raise eyes, gaze"), the ridges and gullies of the loess land were clad in green. The General Secretary praised: "Gaoxigou Village is a model of ecological governance on the Loess Plateau."

The greening of the loess land tests the wisdom of acting in light of local conditions and systematic governance. Terraced fields are built on gentle slopes, silt-retention dams are built in gullies, reservoirs are constructed to irrigate farmland, and high and distant mountains are covered with forests... Over the years, Gaoxigou Village has uniformly planned ecological restoration plans according to natural conditions, achieving the goal that on rainy days "mud does not leave the mountain, and floods do not leave the gullies," and the problem of soil erosion has been gradually improved.

As of 2025, the Yellow River basin has cumulatively completed preliminary treatment of soil erosion over an area of more than 290,000 square kilometers; compared with the 1990s, the area of soil erosion in the current Yellow River basin has decreased by nearly half.

"We must adhere to comprehensive, systematic, and source-level governance of mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, lakes, and grasslands" "The Yellow River ecosystem is an organic whole" "Full consideration must be given to the differences between the upper, middle, and lower reaches"... Systematic thinking and dialectical thinking run through the entire process of General Secretary Xi Jinping's guidance on the ecological protection and governance of the mother river.

Once the main rope is pulled, the net opens. Strengthening the joint prevention and control of the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program, continuing to fight the battle against pollution, and lawfully rectifying "scattered, disorderly, and polluting" enterprises... In order to further highlight the systematic, holistic, and coordinated nature of Yellow River governance, in recent years, an integrated ecological environment governance system connecting the upper and lower reaches has been continuously constructed, major projects for the protection and restoration of important ecosystems have been deeply implemented, and the stability of the Yellow River basin ecosystem has been continuously improved.

Qinghai's Sanjiangyuan region has implemented comprehensive projects covering multiple elements including glacier protection, permafrost protection, and vegetation restoration; Inner Mongolia has continued to fight the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program battle, concentrating resources and efforts to implement a number of key projects; Henan and Shandong have signed a horizontal ecological protection compensation agreement, reversing the governance situation of one-way governance and unequal rights and responsibilities... Provinces and regions along the Yellow River have joined hands and acted in light of local conditions to fight the battles for blue skies, clear waters, and clean soil, explored the establishment of whole-basin, market-based, and diversified ecological protection compensation mechanisms, and made every effort to build a solid ecological security barrier for the Yellow River basin.

Green transformation, stimulating new momentum for development in the Yellow River basin.

Sea breezes blow, and machines roar. In October 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Shengli Oilfield at the mouth of the Yellow River for inspection and research.

After carefully listening to researchers' introductions on key technologies such as carbon dioxide capture, utilization, and storage, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "For our petroleum and energy industry, the next step is to improve technology, continuously increase production capacity and reduce costs, while following the direction of green and low-carbon transformation to achieve the goals of energy conservation and carbon reduction."

"Green and low-carbon development is the trend of the times; those who follow it prosper." General Secretary Xi Jinping said with deep feeling, clarifying the general direction of high-quality development in the Yellow River basin.

In recent years, provinces and regions along the Yellow River have unswervingly followed the modernization path of ecological priority and green development, actively exploring new paths for high-quality development with regional characteristics —

In Yuncheng, Shanxi, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "the ecological value and function of the salt lake are becoming increasingly important." Thanks to the "returning salt lakes to nature" policy, the ecological functions of the local salt lake have been gradually restored, providing space for the upgrading of the cultural tourism industry.

In Helan County, Yinchuan, Ningxia, regarding the development of modern specialty agriculture, the General Secretary urged "paying attention to properly resolving the contradiction between rice cultivation and water resources." With the support of water-saving technologies, the contradiction between water supply and demand in Helan County has been significantly alleviated, and both the quality and efficiency of agricultural production have improved.

In Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, the General Secretary emphasized that "new energy and clean energy must be vigorously developed, and efforts must be made to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality." At present, Inner Mongolia's energy transformation is advancing steadily, with new energy power generation ranking first in the country.

Clear waters and green mountains are gold and silver mountains. Provinces and regions in the Yellow River basin coordinate development and protection, balance supply and demand, and plan for the present and the long term, continuously converting the ecological "green content" into the "gold content" of development.

Reform empowers, building a solid foundation for high-quality development in the basin.

Water is a key variable affecting regional development. Water scarcity has always been a key contradiction constraining high-quality development in the Yellow River basin.

In June 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Ningxia, and upon learning that the autonomous region had signed a cross-provincial water rights transaction with Sichuan's Aba Prefecture, also located in the Yellow River basin, he encouraged active exploration and standardized promotion.

By optimizing the allocation of water resource use rights through market mechanisms, water use rights trading is expanding new development space for the Yellow River basin. At present, the water use rights trading platform for the Yellow River basin has been launched and put into operation, and practical exploration of water use rights trading has achieved remarkable results.

Development poses the questions, and reform provides the answers. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized ensuring the stable and long-term progress of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin through sound systems and institutional mechanisms.

Since the new era, a series of institutional plans have been successively issued — in October 2020, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the Outline of the Plan for Ecological Protection and High-Quality Development of the Yellow River Basin, mapping out a long-term blueprint for protecting the mother river; in June 2022, the Plan for Ecological Environment Protection in the Yellow River Basin was issued, clarifying specific directions for efforts; on April 1, 2023, the Yellow River Protection Law of the People's Republic of China came into effect, consolidating the concepts of overall coordination and systematic governance into legal measures.

A series of institutional mechanisms have been continuously improved — improving the Yellow River basin management system, improving the mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products, improving the organizational system of the river chief system and lake chief system... Relying on reform, provinces and regions along the Yellow River are successively writing new chapters of high-quality development.

"Promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin requires sustained, long-term effort (久久为功), pushing forward year by year and implementing year by year." "The merits and benefits of Yellow River governance must be measured in terms of centuries and millennia; one cannot be hasty, and one cannot be careless." General Secretary Xi Jinping spoke with earnest sincerity.

The Yellow River is beautiful, and it will be even more beautiful in the future.

The great river moves toward the new, writing a happy answer sheet that benefits the people

The governance of the Yellow River is, in the final analysis, for the people.

Today, up and down the great river, the ecology is improving, industry is turning green, and life is becoming more beautiful, with the results of protection and governance benefiting thousands of households.

Water systems nourish the ecology, and clear waters and green mountains have reappeared on both banks of the great river.

In the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve in Shandong, the young land formed by the deposition of large amounts of sediment nurtures boundless vitality and hope.

In October 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping stood at the pier at the mouth of the Yellow River, gazing into the distance: "The Yellow River flows into the sea — how vast it is! Having come here today, I have now visited the upper, middle, and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and my heart is at ease."

In recent years, the reserve has invested 1.56 billion yuan in integrated protection and restoration of the land-sea ecosystem, adding 74,000 mu of freshwater wetlands, dredging 76 kilometers of tidal channels, and connecting 241 kilometers of water systems.

Now, this place possesses the most complete, most extensive, and youngest wetland ecosystem preserved in China's warm temperate zone, spanning two major migratory bird flyways — the East Asian-Australasian and the West Pacific — and is an important transit point, wintering habitat, and breeding ground for global bird populations.

It is already late autumn, and flocks of migratory birds such as Dalmatian pelicans and Eurasian spoonbills take off from the reed marshes and shallows, gathering and wheeling in the air. The number of bird species has grown from 187 at the time of the reserve's establishment to about 400. The calls of birds sing the movement of the Yellow River's year-after-year tranquility.

In 2024, at the 46th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, the second phase of the Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of the Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China passed review smoothly, and the Yellow River Estuary in Dongying, Shandong was extended for inclusion in the World Heritage List.

The Fen River is the mother river of Shanxi and the second largest tributary of the Yellow River. In June 2017, during an inspection in Shanxi, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed making the Fen River "richer in water volume, better in water quality, and more beautiful in scenery." In 2025, the 716-kilometer river channel achieved continuous water flow throughout its entire length, and the proportion of excellent water quality in the Fen River basin reached 95.2%, basically realizing "a stream of clear water flowing into the Yellow River."

Wuliangsuhai Lake, located at the top of the "several-bend" of the Yellow River, is the largest lake wetland in the Yellow River basin. In June 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a special trip to inspect Wuliangsuhai Lake, emphasizing that "it must be governed with care and nurtured with devotion, with consistency from beginning to end and sustained, long-term effort," and urging the locality to "guard this 'pearl beyond the Great Wall.'" The locality has scientifically promoted ecological governance with a systematic approach. Today, the water quality of Wuliangsuhai Lake has significantly improved, and it has become a paradise for migratory birds.

In 2022, the main stream of the Yellow River reached Class II water quality along its entire length for the first time. In recent years, the water quality of the main stream has continued to maintain Class II and has shown steady improvement.

Water security nourishes people's livelihoods, and the picture of happiness is gradually unfolding.

The Hetao Irrigation District, one of the three super-large irrigation districts in the country, was once a gravity-flow irrigation area without gate control, where "in drought it was difficult to divert water, and in flood the water spread across the floodplain." After the founding of New China, the Party Central Committee was determined to solve this problem and built a single-head-gate gravity-flow irrigation district. The Sanshenggong Water Control Project, known as the "first gate of the ten-thousand-mile Yellow River," was thus completed.

In June 2023, in front of the sand table at the water quantity informatization monitoring center of the irrigation district, General Secretary Xi Jinping carefully examined the seven-level irrigation and drainage system. The main canal runs through the irrigation district, and capillary-like branch canals extend into the farmland, with the water level and flow rate at each capillary clearly marked.

"This system has required great effort, and it is worth it. In the future, it will be preserved as a foundation for centuries and millennia." General Secretary Xi Jinping said with feeling.

Since the new era, various localities and departments have continuously improved the Yellow River flood control, sediment reduction, and irrigation engineering system: the main stream of the Yellow River has cumulatively built about 3,000 kilometers of embankments and about 2,300 kilometers of river regulation works; 40 large reservoirs including Longyangxia, Liujiaxia, Sanmenxia, and Xiaolangdi provide solid support for flood control and water diversion; thanks to the poverty alleviation Yellow River irrigation project, people and land in the arid areas of Ningxia have access to Yellow River water...

The Yellow River basin is a region where multiple ethnic groups live together. Due to historical and natural conditions, economic and social development has been relatively lagging, especially in the upper and middle reaches and the downstream floodplain areas, which were once regions with relatively concentrated poverty-stricken populations in China.

"Poverty-stricken areas must improve infrastructure and public service levels and make every effort to guarantee and improve people's livelihoods" "continuously improve people's lives and promote common prosperity" "strengthen inclusive, basic, and bottom-line livelihood guarantees"...

On every inspection visit to provinces and regions along the Yellow River, and at every symposium he presided over, General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about the well-being of the people and has always carefully inquired about the production and living conditions of the masses.

Fumin New Village in the Huanghuatan ecological resettlement area of Gulang County, Gansu, is a typical village that has achieved poverty alleviation and prosperity through relocation. In the past, the villagers mostly lived in the deep mountainous areas of the south, where natural conditions were harsh, and "one piece of land could not support one person."

In August 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping came here, walking along the clean and spacious village roads, looking as he went —

At the village primary school, he carefully asked the children "Is school far from home?" "Where do you eat lunch?" "What courses are offered?"

At the convenience service hall of the village Party and mass service center, he specifically asked: "How many health clinics are there in the village?" "Are they all general practitioners?"

Entering a villager's home, he carefully learned about the improvement of housing and the renovation of water supply and toilets, and asked the villagers "Are you satisfied after moving down here? Do you have any other requests?"

Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, through targeted poverty alleviation, the poverty-stricken population in areas along the Yellow River has achieved stable poverty alleviation, and the lives of the people have been significantly improved.

Water veins connect cultural veins, continuing the roots and soul of the Chinese nation's endless vitality.

In September 2024, inspecting the Baoji Bronze Ware Museum, the Fuxi Temple in Tianshui, and the Maijishan Grottoes, General Secretary Xi Jinping's trip to Gansu and Shaanxi began with culture.

Standing before the national treasure bronze vessel He Zun, General Secretary Xi Jinping pondered for a long time.

The inscription on the He Zun contains the phrase "Zhai Zi Zhongguo" (residing in the central state), which has become the earliest written record of the word "China" to date.

"At that time, 'China' was a geographical concept, wasn't it?" the General Secretary asked.

The word "China," which has united hundreds of millions of Chinese people since ancient times, has continued through thousands of years of inheritance, becoming a mark of civilization that discards the old and embraces the new and shines with ever-renewed brilliance, where still waters run deep interwoven with surging waves.

General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out that Yellow River culture is an important component of Chinese civilization and the root and soul of the Chinese nation. "The systematic protection of Yellow River cultural heritage must be advanced, and the precious heritage left to us by our ancestors must be safeguarded."

In recent years, provinces and regions along the Yellow River and relevant departments have accelerated the formulation of specific plans, implementation plans, and policy systems, and have deeply advanced the construction of the Yellow River National Cultural Park; in Sichuan, a protection mechanism for cultural heritage in areas along the Yellow River has been effectively established, and a number of major landmark cultural projects are being implemented in an orderly manner; in Qinghai, the systematic protection of Yellow River cultural heritage has been strengthened, and major landmark cultural projects have been created... In practice, various localities are protecting and promoting Yellow River culture, inheriting the historical and ethnic roots, and deeply exploring the contemporary value of Yellow River culture.

The Yellow River has tempered the national spirit.

General Secretary Xi Jinping once said with deep emotion: "The Foolish Old Man who moved the mountains, and Yu the Great who tamed the floods — the Chinese nation has struggled against natural disasters for thousands of years, accumulating valuable experience, and we must continue this struggle."

The Yellow River surges forward, and with its indomitable and majestic momentum has shaped the national character of the Chinese nation's unremitting self-improvement.

In Lankao County, where the last bend of the Yellow River is located, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the Memorial Hall of Comrade Jiao Yulu, located on the sand dunes of the former old course of the Yellow River, and profoundly pointed out that the Jiao Yulu spirit "was, is, and will remain a valuable spiritual asset of our Party";

Coming to Shanxi, an important barrier guarding the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the ecological security of the Yellow River, the General Secretary emphasized carrying forward the "Youyu spirit": "do more things that benefit the present, benefit the long term, and benefit future generations";

"The reason rivers can burst through sheer cliffs and narrow passes is that they have accumulated the primordial power of surging for a thousand miles and converging from ten thousand ravines..." On the new journey of building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation, what the Yellow River has gathered is an irresistible and mighty force.

The great river flows on, never ceasing day or night.

Standing at the juncture of 80 years of the Party leading the people in governing the Yellow River, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, hundreds of millions of people will continue to strive with sustained, long-term effort, and will surely continue to write new chapters in the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin, so that the mother river will forever benefit the Chinese nation.

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 1)

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New Achievements in Party Governance and Discipline to Open New Prospects for Development (Study and Implement the Spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee)

By: 本报记者

Our Party is committed to the centuries-long great cause of the Chinese nation, and Party building bears on the Party's future and destiny as well as the success or failure of the Party's and the country's cause.

At the critical juncture of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the critical period of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the "Decision on Several Major Issues Concerning Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party" deliberated and adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party has unified thinking, rallied people's hearts, and inspired morale, eliciting enthusiastic responses from all sectors of society.

The broad masses of Party members, cadres, and the people have earnestly studied and understood General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech and the spirit of the Plenary Session. They have expressed that they will unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, take the spirit of the Plenary Session as their guide, persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, open up new prospects for the development of the cause with new achievements in governing and managing the Party, and deliver a new outstanding answer sheet for strengthening the Party and strengthening the country.

Based on the overall situation, serving and submitting to the development of the Party's and the country's cause

The more glorious the mission, the more arduous the task, the more the Party itself must be strong. The first major principle put forward by the Plenary Session for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is "adhering to serving the mission and tasks."

"This profoundly reveals the inherent laws between Party building, the Party's leadership, and the Party's and the country's cause, helps us accurately grasp the strategic judgment of the three 'more arduous' aspects, deeply understand the historical initiative spirit contained in the 'three inevitable requirements,' and helps us profoundly appreciate the strong sense of mission and responsibility of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party," said Wang Tao, director of the Party Building Teaching and Research Office of the Teaching and Research Department of the China Executive Leadership Academy Yan'an.

"Serving and submitting to the development of the Party's and the country's cause has always been an important principle of Party building. The more effective the governance and management of the Party, the stronger the guarantee for economic and social development." Yao Wenguang, director of the Department of Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention of the Ministry of Water Resources, said, "Water security is a major matter concerning the country's long-term peace and stability. We will take the spirit of the Plenary Session as our guide, uphold and strengthen the Party's overall leadership, effectively implement all tasks of governing and managing the Party, further promote the improvement of the river basin flood control engineering system, the rainfall and water regime monitoring and forecasting system, and the flood and drought disaster prevention work system, and make every possible effort to safeguard the safety of rivers and seas."

In the view of Chen Yang, secretary of the Hukou County Party Committee in Jiangxi Province, placing "adhering to serving the mission and tasks" first conveys our Party's great ambitions and aspirations and sense of responsibility in comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization. "Hukou is located at the mouth where Poyang Lake enters the Yangtze River, bearing the political responsibility of ensuring a lake of clear water flows into the river. We will use strict discipline to hold the ecological bottom line and transform ecological advantages into advantages for high-quality development; use a strict work style to guarantee the development environment, and coordinate high-level protection with high-quality development," Chen Yang said.

"Strictness is true responsibility toward cadres, is a high degree of responsibility toward the cause of the Party and the people, and is about forming a clean and upright political atmosphere within the Party and creating a favorable environment conducive to undertaking work and starting businesses by clarifying directions, establishing rules, rectifying conduct, and strengthening immunity," said Ma Xiaojie, secretary of the Party Committee of Lanzhou University. "We will take the spirit of the Plenary Session as our guide, unswervingly carry the requirements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party through all fields and all processes of governing and managing the Party and running the university, truly transform the political advantages of strict Party governance into governance advantages for running the university, and continuously write a new chapter of 'running a first-class university in the Northwest.'"

Grasping the direction, adhering to taking the Party's political construction as the guide

The Party's political construction is the fundamental construction of the Party and determines the direction and effectiveness of Party building. "Adhering to taking the Party's political construction as the guide" is one of the important principles followed by the Plenary Session in proposing to persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.

"Since the new era, our Party has placed political construction in the first position, always taking the Two Upholds as the highest political principle and fundamental political rule, fundamentally reversing the lax, weak, and loose situation in governing and managing the Party, and achieving great achievements in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party." Ma Ming, deputy secretary in charge of daily work of the Party Committee of the directly affiliated organs of the China Meteorological Administration (director of the Inspection Office), said that they will continue to deepen the special seminar on "taking the first square well," continuously extend the education of political organ awareness to the grassroots; solidly promote the creation of model organs, improve the mechanism of list-based management and closed-loop supervision, and test political responsibility on the front line of disaster prevention and reduction.

Adhering to taking the Party's political construction as the guide must ultimately be reflected in the practical work of all aspects of Party building, making it work together in the same direction with all other Party constructions and form a joint force.

"Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party must first be viewed from a political perspective, grasping the fundamental to solving various problems in Party building in the new era." Li Chuntian, secretary of the Binzhou Municipal Party Committee in Shandong Province, said that grasping political construction lies in practical implementation. We must take the spirit of the Plenary Session as our guide, carry political requirements through the entire process of cadre selection, education, management, and use, grassroots Party building quality improvement, and inspection and rectification closed-loop management, and test Party members' and cadres' political loyalty and political responsibility with solid development quality and tangible improvement in people's livelihoods.

"The system of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has distinct political attributes, requiring adherence to taking the Party's political construction as the guide and carrying political standards and political requirements through all aspects of Party building." Tang Bo, deputy secretary of the Yingshan County Party Committee and acting county head in Hubei Province, said, "Leading cadres are both organizers and promoters of the Party's political construction, as well as practitioners and demonstrators. They must take the lead in studying the Party's innovative theories, take the lead in strictly conducting intra-Party political life, take the lead in accepting supervision from the organization and the masses, take the lead in resolutely responding to what the Party Central Committee advocates, resolutely implementing what the Party Central Committee decides, and resolutely not doing what the Party Central Committee prohibits, and consciously maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core."

Firmly and faithfully practicing, building our Party well and building it strong

The principles proposed by the Plenary Session for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party reflect our Party's deepened understanding of the laws of building a Marxist ruling party. The broad masses of Party members and cadres have expressed that they will take Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building as their guide, deeply study and implement the spirit of the Plenary Session, get the thinking methods right, master the essential skills, and firmly and faithfully practice, and will surely build our Party well and build it strong.

"Adhering to comprehensive strictness conveys a clear signal that discipline enforcement will become stricter, standards higher, and constraints tighter as time goes on." Yan Chao, director of the Party Conduct and Government Integrity Supervision Office of the Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission of Chang'an District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, said that as a grassroots discipline inspection and supervision cadre, he will base himself on his post, adhere to strict daily supervision, adhere to strict discipline enforcement and accountability, closely focus on the operation of grassroots micro-power, focus on the implementation of policies benefiting the people, the management of rural collective "three assets" and other key links and key areas, carry out normalized supervision and inspection, strictly investigate clues, strictly handle, and strictly rectify.

"Since the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has adhered to a problem-oriented approach and rectifying long-standing problems and deep-seated issues, and the Party has become stronger and more powerful through revolutionary tempering." Chen Chuipei, deputy secretary in charge of daily work of the Party Committee of the directly affiliated organs of the General Administration of Customs, said that the customs bears the mission and responsibility of guarding the national gate and promoting development. It must take the spirit of the Plenary Session as its guide, adhere to a problem-oriented approach, strengthen bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking, build a high-quality cadre team with political excellence, strong abilities, good conduct, and strict discipline, and build a solid national gate security barrier.

"Upholding integrity enables us not to lose direction or make subversive mistakes, and innovation enables us to grasp the times and lead the times. The two run through all the practices of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era." Song Wei, professor at the School of Marxism of Tsinghua University, said that since the 18th National Congress of the Party, our Party has upheld integrity and carried forward the Party's fine traditions, always adhering to the tone of "strictness," from persistently strengthening work style construction to deeply advancing the fight against corruption, all reflecting the Party's adherence to and upholding of its nature and purpose; at the same time, the Party has paid attention to innovative paths, with ideological Party building and institutional Party governance working together in the same direction, and institutional tools such as inspections and intra-Party supervision have gradually taken shape. To persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, we must adhere to continuous innovation in the correct direction, achieving no deviation in direction, no reduction in intensity, and no cessation of innovation, and continuously open up new realms of governing and managing the Party.

"Adhering to leading by example from the top down is an important leadership method and working method for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. Take work style construction as an example: General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly proposed that the implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee should start from the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and be promoted from top to bottom. It is precisely because the General Secretary took the lead and led by example from the top down that our Party has stopped some unhealthy tendencies that had long not been stopped, rectified some long-standing problems and deep-seated issues that had not been eliminated for many years, and won the hearts of the Party and the people." Zhang Ning, secretary of the Qiuxian County Party Committee in Hebei Province, said that full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is always on the way. We will continue to adhere to the tone of "strictness" without wavering, exercise power with integrity and for the people, while resolutely fulfilling the responsibility of governing and managing the Party, grasping at each level, implementing layer by layer, being honest and upright in conduct, and doing things cleanly and purely.

"Adhering to governing the Party according to rules and regulations is the long-term and fundamental strategy for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping creatively proposed 'governing the Party according to rules and regulations,' and the level of scientific, institutionalized, and standardized governance and management of the Party has been significantly improved." Zhou Lin, secretary of the Party Committee of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), said, "We will conscientiously implement the spirit of the Plenary Session, use institutional rules to govern and manage the Party and the hospital. Major matters adhere to 'three major and one large' collective decision-making, not opening 'skylights' or leaving 'hidden doors,' while closely focusing on key areas such as drug and consumable procurement, equipment bidding, and infrastructure projects, putting power in the cage of institutions, and safeguarding the original aspiration of 'the people's hospital serving the people.'"

(People's Daily reporters Meng Xiangfu, Ouyang Jie, Li Hongmei, Wang Hao, Ding Yasong, Yao Xueqing, Zhang Danhua, Li Rui)

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Standalone Edition of CPC Central Committee Decision on Persevering and Unremittingly Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party Published

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 1) The standalone edition of the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Persevering and Unremittingly Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party" has been published by the People's Publishing House and will be distributed publicly at Xinhua Bookstores nationwide from today.

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Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Continuously and Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China summarized the great achievements and valuable experience of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, analyzed the situation and tasks facing Party governance, Party building, and Party strengthening in the current and future period, and made the following decisions on several major issues concerning continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.

I. The Importance, Urgency, and Overall Requirements of Continuously and Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-governance of the Party

(1) The Communist Party of China was born for the people and thrives because of the people. It was founded at a time when the Chinese nation was in peril, and it grew and strengthened in the historical process of striving for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It united and led the people of all ethnic groups across the country to create the great achievements of the new democratic revolution, socialist revolution and construction, reform, opening up, and socialist modernization, and socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, writing the most magnificent epic in the several-thousand-year history of the Chinese nation, and demonstrating to the world the image of a firm, confident, strong, and powerful Marxist party.

The Communist Party of China has been able to advance from victory to victory because it cherishes the lofty ideal of communism, is committed to the great cause to be carried on for generations of the Chinese nation, persists in seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, attaches great importance to Party governance in every historical period, has the courage to uphold truth and correct errors, and has continuously grown stronger in relying on its own strength and the support of the people to solve its own problems, becoming the strong leading core of the cause of the Party and the people. In revolution, construction, and reform, it successively regarded Party building as a great project and a new great project. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, it has deepened the advancement of the new great project of Party building in the new era, found the answers of "letting the people supervise the government" and "self-revolution" to escape the cycle of rise and fall in history, which are the unique creations of the Communist Party of China and will forever be recorded in the annals of Marxist party building.

(2) After the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, with tremendous political courage and a strong sense of responsibility, directly confronted the severe reality of the once-weakened, diluted, and faded leadership of the Party, the lax, false, and ineffective governance of the Party, and the shocking problems within the Party, unswervingly advanced full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, engaged in self-examination and internal reform, applied severe measures to rectify chaos, continuously solved prominent problems, fundamentally reversed the lax, loose, and soft state of Party governance, stopped some unhealthy tendencies that had long gone unchecked, corrected some chronic and stubborn diseases that had persisted for years, eliminated serious hidden dangers within the Party, the state, and the military, and made the Party stronger and more powerful through revolutionary tempering. The Party's overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee were significantly strengthened, the Party's unity and solidarity were further consolidated, and the hearts of the Party, the military, and the people were highly united; the sinicization and modernization of Marxism achieved a new leap, the Party's theoretical arming was continuously deepened, and the Marxist level of the whole Party was further improved; the Party's organizational line for the new era was implemented effectively, the functions of Party organizations at all levels and the quality of Party members and cadres were improved overall, and the Party's organizational advantages were fully demonstrated; the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation gained authority as an iron rule, the rectification of the Four Malfeasances and the establishment of new practices advanced step by step, and the conduct of the Party, the government, and society was completely new or refreshed; the Party's discipline building was solidly advanced, discipline and rules became more stringent, and the roles of education, restraint, guarantee, and encouragement were increasingly strengthened; the fight against corruption achieved unprecedented intensity and results evident to all, successfully blazing a path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics; the system of intra-Party regulations and rules was further improved, the authority and enforcement of institutions were effectively enhanced, and the level of scientific, institutionalized, and standardized Party governance was markedly raised; Party organizations at all levels continuously strengthened their awareness of Party governance, responsibility implementation produced visible results, and a joint force of coordination from top to bottom and working together in a coordinated manner was formed. Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era opened up a new realm of self-revolution for a century-old major party, promoted historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the state, and the Party and the people won the historical initiative of strengthening the Party and the state.

The great achievements in Party governance, Party building, and Party strengthening in the new era, and the creation of a new situation in the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, are fundamentally due to the helm-steering and navigation of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and to the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. Establishing Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and establishing the guiding position of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, are major political achievements of the Party in the new era, and are of decisive significance to the development of the cause of the Party and the state in the new era and to advancing the historical process of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

In the great practice of Party governance, Party building, and Party strengthening in the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, centering on the major era-specific topics of what kind of long-term governing Marxist party to build and how to build a long-term governing Marxist party, put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies, forming Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. This thought enriches and develops the Marxist theory of party building, is a major achievement of promoting the Party's theoretical innovation by adhering to the combination of the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with China's excellent traditional culture, is the crystallization of the practical experience and collective wisdom of the Party and the people, is an important component of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and provides the fundamental guidance and action guide for deeply advancing the new great project of Party building in the new era.

(3) Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is always on the way. After long-term efforts, especially the tenacious struggle in the new era, China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, national defense strength, comprehensive national power, and international influence have been significantly enhanced, the modernization level of the national governance system and governance capacity has been markedly improved, the people of all ethnic groups across the country are more confident, self-reliant, and self-empowered, the building of a great modern socialist country has a more solid material foundation, more complete institutional guarantees, and more proactive spiritual strength, Party governance, Party building, and Party strengthening have gathered strong positive energy, and full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has many favorable conditions. At the same time, it must be clearly recognized that as the world situation, national conditions, and Party conditions undergo profound changes, full and rigorous self-governance of the Party also faces many new situations and new problems.

From the international perspective, changes unseen in a century are accelerating their evolution, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating breakthroughs, the Global South is rising collectively, the international balance of power is undergoing profound adjustment, unilateralism and protectionism are intensifying, the threat of hegemonism and power politics is rising, geopolitical conflicts and local wars continue unabated, the momentum of world economic growth is insufficient, global challenges are coming one after another, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation, and uncertain and unpredictable factors in the external environment are increasing. The task of the Party uniting and leading the people to safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests has become more arduous.

From the domestic perspective, China's development has entered a critical period of consolidating the foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. The problem of unbalanced and inadequate development remains prominent, population structure, social groups, and the pattern of interests continue to change, digitalization, networking, and intelligentization are developing rapidly, social production and lifestyle and organizational forms are becoming more diverse, various thoughts and values are interweaving and colliding, and further deepening reform comprehensively, promoting high-quality development, strengthening social construction and governance, coordinating development and security, and stimulating and enhancing social vitality have encountered many new issues. The task of the Party uniting and leading the people to promote reform and development and maintain social harmony and stability has become more arduous.

From the intra-Party perspective, the Party's ranks have undergone structural changes, with the proportion of Party members and cadres born after the reform and opening up growing larger, posing new requirements for education and management. The mainstream of the Party's ranks is good, but the problems of impure ideology, impure organization, and impure conduct have not been fundamentally resolved. Some Party members and cadres have qualities and abilities that do not meet the requirements of the development of the times. A small number of Party members and cadres, including senior cadres, have weak Party spirit, wavering or even missing ideals and convictions, weak feelings for the people, deviations in their view of political achievements, serious formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance, insufficient fighting spirit, failure to take responsibility and action, failure to observe discipline and rules, and even abuse of power for personal gain and corruption and degeneration. Some primary-level Party organizations have weak political and organizational functions, or are even weak, lax, and disorganized, and in some fields, especially emerging fields, the Party's organizational coverage and work coverage are not comprehensive and effective enough. Some Party organizations and leading cadres have inadequate understanding of Party governance, fail to implement responsibilities, work ineffectively, and do not strictly enforce institutions, failing to promptly discover and effectively solve prominent problems, and even allowing unhealthy tendencies or bad influences to breed and spread. The task of the Party maintaining its advanced nature and purity has become more arduous.

These new situations and new problems pose major challenges to the Party's governing capacity, leadership level, quality of its ranks, and resistance to corruption and degeneration under the new circumstances. The tests the Party faces of governance, reform and opening up, the market economy, and the external environment, and the dangers of mental slackening, insufficient capability, detachment from the people, and passive corruption, are long-term, complex, and severe, and solving the unique problems of a major party requires more arduous efforts. The longer the Party governs, the longer the period of peace and prosperity, and the more complex the environment, the more it must strengthen its awareness of potential dangers, remain vigilant in times of peace, and build the Party well and build it strong.

The whole Party must, from the strategic height of consolidating the Party's long-term governing position and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, deeply understand the great significance of continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, strengthen confidence, maintain strategic resolve, uphold and apply the valuable experience of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era with higher standards and more concrete measures, rectify and solve the prominent problems facing Party building, and consolidate and develop the sound political situation formed by Party governance.

(4) The guiding ideology for continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is: adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of the Three Represents, and the Scientific Outlook on Development, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, centering on realizing the Party's mission and tasks, implement the general requirements for Party building in the new era, take the Party Constitution as the fundamental basis, uphold the Party's vanguard nature, uphold the Party's overall leadership and the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, focus on improving the Party's long-term governing capacity, maintaining the Party's advanced nature and purity, and maintaining the Party's flesh-and-blood ties with the masses, adhere unwaveringly to the strict tone, improve the system for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, take the Party's political building as the guide, comprehensively advance all aspects of Party building, fully stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the whole Party, continuously realize the Party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-renewal, and self-enhancement, continuously strengthen the Party's political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal, and ensure that the Party always remains a vigorous Marxist governing party that walks at the forefront of the times, is sincerely supported by the people, and can withstand various storms and tests, and always remains the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

(5) Continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party follows the following principles.

— Adhere to serving the mission and tasks. Stay true to the Party's original aspiration and founding mission, plan and advance from the overall situation of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, closely integrate Party building with the cause of the Party and the state, and ensure that it always centers on the overall situation and serves the overall interests.

— Adhere to taking the Party's political building as the guide. Uphold and strengthen the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, promote all aspects of Party building to grasp the correct political direction and implement political requirements, improve the political capacity of Party organizations at all levels and Party members and cadres, ensure that the whole Party maintains a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee, and consolidate the Party's unity and solidarity.

— Adhere to comprehensive strictness. Strengthen systematic thinking, embody the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere in all aspects and the entire process of Party building, and achieve true management and true strictness, daring management and daring strictness, and long-term management and long-term strictness.

— Adhere to problem orientation. Take solving prominent problems within the Party as the focus, do not avoid contradictions, do not conceal illnesses and avoid doctors, and improve work standards in correcting deviations, rectifying chaos, and eliminating evil and promoting good.

— Adhere to upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground. Adhere to the Party's basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, follow the laws of Marxist governing party building, apply the historical experience of Party building, and continuously put forward new measures and new methods according to the development and changes of the situation and tasks.

— Adhere to leading by example from above. Start from the Party Central Committee, be strict with leading organs and leading cadres, with each level setting an example for the next and each level leading the next in work, and use the "key minority" to demonstrate and drive the "vast majority."

— Adhere to governing the Party according to regulations. Run institutional building through it, pay attention to using institutions to manage power, affairs, and people, strictly implement the Party Constitution, Party regulations, and Party discipline, and enhance work efficiency with a systematic, complete, scientific, standardized, and effective system of intra-Party regulations and rules.

These principles are the scientific summary of the experience of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era and must be adhered to for a long time and continuously enriched and developed.

II. Strengthening the Party Spirit of Communists

Strengthening Party spirit is the fundamental task of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It is necessary to promote all Party members and cadres to uphold the Party's nature and purpose, strengthen Party consciousness, Party member consciousness, and vanguard consciousness, take strengthening Party spirit cultivation as a lifelong topic, and make efforts in firming up ideals and convictions, forging loyalty to the Party, cultivating deep feelings for the people, adhering to seeking truth from facts, purifying moral character, and maintaining being honest and incorruptible, so as to be loyal, clean, and responsible, and always maintain the political character of Communists.

(1) Strengthen education on loyalty to the Party. Persist in placing loyalty to the Party in a prominent position in Party spirit cultivation. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to deeply understand the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, strengthen political consciousness, overall situation consciousness, core consciousness, and alignment consciousness, firm up confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics, resolutely safeguard Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, resolutely safeguard the authority and centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and always maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in thought, politics, and action. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to firm up their belief in Marxism, their conviction in communism, and their confidence in socialism with Chinese characteristics, and to be devout and persistent, and deeply faithful. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to improve their political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, consciously unify their thinking with the Party Central Committee's analysis and judgment of the situation and tasks, implement the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements without compromise, and resolutely struggle against all words and deeds that deny the Party's leadership and the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, all words and deeds that violate the Party's theory, line, principles, and policies, and all words and deeds that endanger national unity and ethnic solidarity. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to love the Party while in the Party, speak for the Party while in the Party, worry about the Party while in the Party, and work for the Party while in the Party, trust the organization, rely on the organization, obey the organization, consciously accept organizational management and supervision, speak honest words, do honest things, and be honest people, and be open and aboveboard, upright and candid, and consistent in words and deeds. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to adhere to putting the people first and the cause first, actively work for the Party and the people, and be dedicated to their work and willing to contribute.

Strictly enforce the Party's political discipline and political rules, and purify the intra-Party political ecosystem. Never allow the "seven have-its" of engaging in appointing people by favoritism and excluding dissidents, forming cliques and factions, making anonymous accusations and fabricating rumors, buying popularity and soliciting votes, promising official positions and celebrating promotions, acting on one's own and paying lip service, and becoming too powerful to control and making irresponsible remarks about the Central Committee. Resolutely oppose liberalism in thought, opportunism in politics, sectarianism in organization, departmentalism in work, and "good-old-boyism" in fulfilling responsibilities. Accurately identify and resolutely eliminate double-dealers.

(2) Persist in using the Party's innovative theory to unite hearts and forge souls. Strengthen the building of a Marxist learning party, take learning, comprehending, and applying the Party's innovative theory as the fundamental path to strengthening Party spirit cultivation, and promote the whole Party to use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to unify thought, unify will, and unify action. Deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. Enrich the ways and means of theoretical learning and education, highlight the main-course status of the Party's innovative theory in the education and training of Party members and cadres, guide Party members and cadres to read original works, study original texts, and comprehend principles, grasp the standpoints, viewpoints, and methods running through them, understand the realm and feelings contained in them, transform the subjective world while transforming the objective world, build a solid foundation of ideals, temper political character, and solve the "master switch" problem of worldview, outlook on life, and values. Promote the Marxist style of study, promote Party members and cadres to connect with the actual conditions of their own regions, departments, units, and their own ideological and work reality, consciously deepen theoretical learning, use the Party's innovative theory to analyze and solve practical problems, and achieve integrating learning, thinking, and practice, and unifying knowledge, belief, and action. Senior cadres of the Party must demand of themselves according to the standards of Marxist politicians, lifelong firm belief in, proficient mastery of, and good at applying the Party's innovative theory. Uphold and improve the "first agenda item" system. Improve the quality of theoretical learning center group studies of Party committees (Party groups) and theoretical learning of primary-level Party organizations. Innovatively implement the Marxist theory research and construction project, and deepen the systematic and theoretical research and interpretation of the Party's innovative theory. Strengthen the building of the disciplines of Party history and Party building.

(3) Use the Party's fine traditions and China's excellent traditional culture to nourish Party spirit. Deepen education on the history of the Party, the history of New China, the history of reform and opening up, and the history of socialist development, promote the spiritual pedigree of Chinese Communists originating from the great founding spirit of the Party, guide Party members and cadres to deeply understand the Party's major achievements and historical experience over the past century of struggle, carry forward the Party's fine style of work, inherit the red gene, continue the spiritual bloodline of Communists, and adhere to the values of Communists. Excavate and make good use of the moral concepts in China's excellent traditional culture such as emphasizing loyalty and trustworthiness, valuing integrity, knowing shame, maintaining vigilance, and attaching importance to self-reflection, deepen political morality education, guide Party members and cadres to understand great virtue, uphold public virtue, and be strict in private virtue, cultivate feelings for family and country, nourish a noble spirit, and withstand the tests of power, money, and beauty. Guide Party members and cadres to take the lead in reading and learning. Strengthen and improve ideological and political work under the new situation, and enhance its pertinence and effectiveness. Strengthen publicity and education on Party spirit. Give full play to the important role of Party schools (schools of administration) and cadre colleges in Party spirit education, and improve the curriculum system.

(4) Temper Party spirit in practice. Promote Party members and cadres to temper their Party spirit in implementing the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements, completing urgent, difficult, dangerous, and heavy tasks, and responding to major storms and tests, and to hone their Party spirit in handling relationships such as right and wrong, public and private, and gain and loss. Give full play to the role of intra-Party political life as a "big furnace" for tempering Party spirit, implement the norms for intra-Party political life, make good use of the weapon of criticism and self-criticism, and enhance the political nature, contemporaneity, principled nature, and combativeness of intra-Party political life. Enrich the content and forms of Party organizational life, and improve the quality of democratic life meetings, organizational life meetings, Party branch member meetings, Party branch committee meetings, Party group meetings, Party lectures, and Party Day activities. Strictly implement the regulations on leading cadres who are Party members participating in dual organizational life. Have the courage to expose and correct shortcomings and errors, dare to struggle against all unhealthy phenomena, and oppose being worldly-wise and playing safe and being "good old guys." Adhere to unity on the basis of the principle of Party spirit, and prevent unprincipled harmony. Give play to the exemplary role of advanced models, and guide Party members and cadres to emulate the worthy and strive for excellence. Promote Party members and cadres to strengthen Party spirit analysis, frequently analyze and reflect against the Party Constitution, Party regulations, Party discipline, and the oath of admission to the Party, and continuously sweep away dust, remove impurities, eliminate viruses, and strengthen immunity. Adhere to the combination of centralized education and regular education, and focus on solving prominent problems in Party spirit.

(5) Strengthen the identification of Party spirit. Take Party spirit as an important content of cadre inspection and democratic evaluation of Party members, with emphasis on understanding and evaluating the realm and pattern, loyalty, and integrity of Party members and cadres. Improve the communication mechanism between organizational departments and discipline inspection and supervision organs and inspection, audit, and petition departments, and conduct comprehensive analysis and judgment of the Party spirit of leading group members, cadres to be promoted, and young cadres. Pay attention to identifying Party spirit from performance in responding to challenges, resisting risks, overcoming difficulties, and resolving contradictions, judge Party spirit from daily work, personal words and deeds, social interactions, and family education and family style, and understand Party spirit through listening to superiors' evaluations, peer evaluations, subordinates' reflections, and public reputation. Use the results of Party spirit identification in cadre selection and appointment and in evaluation and commendation.

III. Strictly Implementing and Enforcing Democratic Centralism

Democratic centralism is the Party's fundamental organizational principle and leadership system, and implementing and enforcing democratic centralism is an inherent requirement of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It is necessary to improve and implement the various systems of democratic centralism, fully develop intra-Party democracy, effectively implement correct centralism, and better give play to the political, organizational, institutional, and work advantages of democratic centralism.

(1) Uphold and strengthen the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. Adhere to the principles of individual Party members obeying Party organizations, the minority obeying the majority, lower-level organizations obeying higher-level organizations, and all Party organizations and all Party members obeying the National Congress of the Party and the Central Committee. Improve the institutional mechanisms for the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee to ensure that the whole Party obeys orders and prohibitions. Improve the mechanism for implementing the Party Central Committee's major decisions and arrangements, and strengthen follow-up supervision and quality and effectiveness evaluation. Strictly implement the system of requesting instructions and reporting to the Party Central Committee. Advance political supervision in a concrete, precise, and regular manner, take the implementation of the Party Central Committee's major decisions and arrangements as the focus of supervision, promptly discover and solve problems of ineffective implementation and deformation and deviation, and prevent and rectify "low-level red" and "high-level black."

(2) Improve the quality of intra-Party democracy. Uphold and improve the intra-Party democratic system, respect the principal position of Party members, and guarantee the democratic rights of Party members. Implement the system for Party members to play a role as representatives at Party congresses at all levels. Improve the quality of Party committee meetings, standing committee meetings of Party committees, and Party group meetings. Carry out Party work in accordance with the democratic principles and procedures determined by the Party Constitution and Party regulations. Leading cadres must not treat the work, fields, and localities under their charge as "private territory," and individuals must not place themselves above the organization. Smooth the channels for Party members to participate in discussing intra-Party affairs, and expand the channels for Party members to express opinions. Improve the intra-Party situation notification system and situation reporting system. Adhere to the equal comradely relations of intra-Party democracy, create a good atmosphere for democratic discussion within the Party, encourage and support speaking the truth, speaking honestly, and speaking from the heart, and must not suppress, exclude, or attack comrades who express different opinions.

(3) Strictly implement the decision-making and deliberation rules of leading groups. Adhere to the combination of collective leadership and individual division of responsibility, adhere to scientific, democratic, and law-based decision-making, and all major issues must be decided through collective discussion in accordance with the principles of collective leadership, democratic centralism, individual deliberation, and decision by meeting. Improve the deliberation rules and decision-making procedures of Party committees (Party groups), strengthen investigation and research, scientific demonstration, and risk assessment of major decisions, and must not force decisions when there are major differences of opinion on important topics. Strengthen the compliance and legality review of major decisions, and improve the supervision mechanism for major decisions, important personnel appointments and removals, major project arrangements, and the use of large amounts of funds. Leading cadres must obey organizational decisions and organizational division of labor, perform their duties within the scope of their responsibilities in accordance with the spirit of the Party Central Committee and collective decisions, fully express opinions when studying work, and follow through to the end after decisions are made. Resolutely oppose and prevent arbitrary decision-making or acting independently, resolutely oppose and prevent endless discussion without decision, decision without action, and action without results, and resolutely oppose and prevent collective violations of regulations or evasion of responsibility in the name of collective decision-making by Party committees (Party groups). When higher-level Party organizations make important decisions concerning lower-level Party organizations, they should generally solicit the opinions of lower-level Party organizations in advance. Improve the system of lifelong responsibility for major decisions of leading cadres.

(4) Regulate the performance of duties and exercise of power by "top leaders." Implement the institutional provisions on strengthening supervision over "top leaders" and leading groups. When selecting and appointing "top leaders," pay attention to examining their quality and ability in implementing and enforcing democratic centralism. Improve the mechanism for restricting the exercise of power in leading groups, regulate the duties and authority of "top leaders," and implement the system of "top leaders" expressing their views last. Meetings of the secretary's special topics must not replace meetings of the standing committee of the Party committee in making decisions. Secretaries of Party committees (Party groups) must develop democracy, seriously listen to different opinions, correctly treat the opinions of the minority, not engage in "one-man rule" or "patriarchal style," must not express their positions without authorization on matters that should be studied collectively, must not replace the collective decisions of the leading group with personal opinions, must not change collective decisions without authorization, and must not demand at all levels that the personal authority of the "top leader" be maintained. Implement the system for "top leaders" to make special reports on their performance in managing and supervising "top leaders" of lower-level organizations. Implement the system for Party committees (Party groups) to conduct supervisory talks with "top leaders" of lower-level Party organizations. Improve the system and mechanism for peer supervision, and members of leading groups must fulfill the political responsibility of safeguarding democratic centralism and strengthen mutual supervision. When discovering problems with "top leaders," they should frankly raise them, and when discovering major problems, they should report to higher-level Party organizations.

IV. Forging a High-Quality Cadre Force Capable of Undertaking the Great Task of National Rejuvenation

The key to full and rigorous self-governance of the Party lies in strict governance of officials. It is necessary to implement the Party's organizational line for the new era, strictly manage cadre education and training, selection and appointment, and management and supervision, and build a high-quality cadre force that is politically sound, highly capable, with fine conduct, and strict discipline.

(1) Adhere to the correct orientation for employing people. Adhere to the principle of the Party managing cadres, adhere to both moral integrity and professional competence, with moral integrity first, adhere to the principle of selecting people from all over the country on their merits, and adhere to putting the cause first and being fair and upright. Implement the standards for good cadres in the new era, vigorously select and appoint cadres who are loyal to the Party, consistent in words and deeds, responsible and dedicated, with outstanding achievements, and being honest and incorruptible, resolutely not use those who fear difficulties and avoid affairs, are mediocre, lazy, and inactive, and have a floating style of work, and resolutely eliminate those who are disloyal to the Party, pay lip service, and abuse power for personal gain.

(2) Select and appoint people accurately and scientifically. Strictly implement the principles and procedures for cadre selection and appointment, adhere to organizational selection, fair employment, and selecting people based on the matter, and give play to the leadership and gatekeeping role of Party organizations. Improve the quality of cadre inspection, strengthen regular assessment, do solid and in-depth political quality inspection of cadres, pay attention to evaluating cadres from their consistent performance, inspect cadres at major junctures and critical moments, identify cadres from their performance in facing struggle tests, contradictions and difficulties, unhealthy tendencies or bad influences, interest temptations, and advancement and retreat, and observe cadres from their awareness of burdens, willingness to bear heavy loads, and ability to take on and do things. Strengthen extended inspection, pay attention to inspecting cadres at their original work places or units, pay attention to understanding cadres' life circles and social circles, and make good use of the results of inspections, audits, and supervision. Strictly select and use cadres according to the requirements of post responsibilities, and enhance the degree of fit. Adhere to the principle of individual strength and overall excellence, and structure serving function, and select and strengthen leading groups at all levels, especially "top leaders." Adhere to the echelon arrangement of old, middle-aged, and young cadres, coordinate the use of cadres of all age groups, cultivate and use female cadres, ethnic minority cadres, and non-Party cadres, not be limited to age, educational background, or seniority, prevent paying attention only to the structure of the leading group while ignoring individual quality, and paying attention only to educational background and seniority while ignoring actual ability, and prevent rigid allocation and lowering standards. Pay attention to discovering and selecting outstanding cadres from the grassroots. Improve the systems of cadre post avoidance, regular rotation, and exchange. Improve and implement the tenure system for leading cadres, strictly implement the relevant policies for maintaining tenure stability, and prevent frequent adjustment of cadres in the same post and frequent adjustment of posts for the same cadre. Strengthen the analysis and judgment of leading groups and leading cadres, promote the normalization of leading cadres being able to go up and down, and increase the intensity of adjusting cadres who are not competent for their current posts.

Adhere to the principle that cadre personnel files must be reviewed whenever promotion is proposed, personal matters reports must be verified whenever promotion is proposed, the opinions of discipline inspection and supervision organs must be heard whenever promotion is proposed, and petition reports with specific and verifiable clues of violations of regulations and discipline must be investigated whenever promotion is proposed. Implement the provision that integrity opinions must be jointly signed and confirmed by the secretary of the Party committee (Party group) and the secretary of the discipline inspection commission (leader of the dispatched discipline inspection and supervision group). Improve and implement the systems of pre-appointment matter reporting for cadres, full-process recording of selection and appointment, and "one report and two evaluations." Deepen special inspections of personnel selection and appointment, and improve the mechanism for investigating responsibility for cadres being "promoted with illness." Resolutely rectify unhealthy tendencies in the use of personnel, strictly prohibit private favoritism and appointing people by favoritism, resolutely break up "small circles," and seriously investigate and punish acts such as running after officials and seeking positions, buying and selling official positions, and canvassing votes and bribing voters.

(3) Promote cadres to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements. Deepen education on the view of political achievements, guide cadres to adhere to building the Party for the public, benefiting the people, making scientific decisions, and doing solid work, and create achievements that stand the test of practice, the people, and history. Fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development philosophy, improve the assessment of political achievements in promoting high-quality development, adhere to the combination of assessing people and assessing affairs, and combining the use of existing assessment results with pre-appointment inspection, and deeply understand and analyze the situations of promoting reform and development and benefiting people's livelihood and ensuring safety, promoting current work and handling historical legacy problems, and producing visible achievements and emphasizing potential achievements. Dynamically adjust the list of major problems of deviation in the view of political achievements, and improve the working mechanism for effectively preventing and correcting deviations in the view of political achievements. Deeply rectify problems such as new officials not settling old accounts, seeking quick success and instant benefits, falsification, reckless action, unrealistic decision-making against the will of the masses, engaging in "image projects" and "political achievement projects," "flipping the pancake" of policies and plans, illegally adding hidden local government debt, and emphasizing only development without safety. Deepen the rectification of problems of inaction and reckless action. Improve the handover system for changes of principal responsible persons of leading groups.

(4) Enhance the ability of cadres to work and start businesses. Strengthen the ideological tempering, political training, practical exercise, and professional training of cadres, enhance their ability to promote high-quality development, serve the masses, prevent and resolve risks, and carry out work using legal thinking and legal methods, and strengthen the cultivation of fighting spirit and fighting ability. Promote cadres, especially leading cadres, to conduct in-depth investigation and research, and plan ideas, solve problems, and improve work in connection with reality. Promote cadres to accelerate knowledge updating, improve professional quality, make up for ability shortcomings, and become experts in their own work. Promote cadres to summarize experience and grasp laws in practice, and enhance the principled, systematic, forward-looking, and creative nature of their work.

(5) Improve the quality of cultivating and selecting outstanding young cadres. Improve the normalized working mechanism for cultivating and selecting outstanding young cadres. Strengthen political cultivation and political training, and guide young cadres to build a solid foundation of faith, replenish the calcium of the spirit, and steady the rudder of thought. Take the grassroots frontline as the basic position for cultivating young cadres, promote young cadres to go to difficult areas, complex environments, and demanding posts to temper themselves, sharpen their character, improve their style of work, and increase their abilities. Adhere to both cultivation and management, guide young cadres to take the path of healthy growth, obey organizational arrangements, be willing to work hard and do solid work, not be impetuous or aim too high, and not engage in self-design or take shortcuts. Track and understand the situations of young cadres in learning theory, participating in intra-Party political life, taking responsibility and acting, withstanding pressure and resistance, and observing rules and discipline, and strengthen growth guidance. Prevent and correct practices such as "pulling up seedlings to help them grow."

(6) Strengthen cadre management and supervision. Adhere to starting with senior cadres, strengthen all-round management and regular supervision of cadres, run strict requirements through the entire cycle of cadre growth and the entire process of education, management, and supervision, and prevent emphasizing selection over management. Improve the system of reporting personal matters of leading cadres, and investigate and verify family property and expenditures that clearly exceed normal income. Strengthen the normalized management of the spouses, children, and children's spouses of leading cadres engaging in business and running enterprises. Deepen the special rectification of the problem of "close-relative reproduction." Strengthen the management and supervision of personnel recruitment work. Regulate the behavior of cadres holding concurrent posts, temporary posts, and engaging in employment after leaving office, and prevent and rectify "escape-style resignation." Strengthen the management and supervision of retired cadres. Party organizations at all levels and leading cadres must dare to grasp and dare to manage, and strictly manage and strictly govern, and must not turn a blind eye to the erroneous words and deeds of cadres, or cover up and protect their shortcomings. Formulate regulations on cadre management and supervision work.

Adhere to the combination of strict management and care, and equal emphasis on incentives and constraints, improve the mechanism for encouraging and protecting cadres who take responsibility and act, stand up for those who take responsibility, take responsibility for those who are responsible, and support those who do things. Implement the system of heart-to-heart talks, promptly understand the ideological dynamics, work status, physical and mental health, and family situations of cadres, and strengthen education and guidance in a targeted manner. Strengthen and improve the work of civil servants, give play to the incentive effect of systems such as the parallel system of positions and ranks, and improve the mechanism for commendation and rewards. Implement various policies for caring for and caring for grassroots cadres.

Adhere to the principle of the Party managing talent, strengthen political guidance and political absorption of talent, deepen the reform of the institutional mechanisms for talent development, promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, cultivate, introduce, and make good use of talent in an all-round way, strengthen talent support and service guarantees, encourage the vast number of talents to love the Party and serve the country, be dedicated to their work and serve the people, and gather outstanding talents from all aspects into the cause of the Party and the people. Implement the system of Party committees contacting and serving experts, and improve the working mechanism for leading cadres to directly contact and serve experts. Guide Party members in the talent ranks to play an exemplary role in scientific research and tackling key problems, cultivating younger generations, unity and cooperation, academic integrity, and scientific and technological ethics, oppose academic fraud, plagiarism, and other academic misconduct, and resist unhealthy tendencies such as seeking quick success and being impetuous and flashy. Rectify the problem of talent "hats," and break down seniority-based promotion, clique culture, and the style of academic overlords.

V. Building a Tight Organizational System That Connects Up and Down and Executes Effectively

Party organizations at all levels are the subjects of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It is necessary to systematically advance the building of Party organizations at all levels and in all fields, strengthen the political and organizational functions of Party organizations, and ensure that the implementation of the Party's line, principles, and policies and the Party Central Committee's decisions and arrangements is coordinated from top to bottom, precise, and efficient.

(1) Give play to the exemplary role of Party organizations in central and state organs. Deepen the building of political organs, promote Party organizations at all levels and Party members and cadres in central and state organs to walk in the first phalanx, set an example in deeply studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, set an example in always maintaining a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and set an example in resolutely implementing the Party Central Committee's various decisions and arrangements, and build central and state organs into model organs that stress politics, observe discipline, are responsible, and are efficient. Adhere to grasping the organs to drive the system, managing the industry and managing Party building, improve the mechanism for the simultaneous advancement of Party building in organs, directly affiliated enterprises and public institutions, and dispatched institutions, and deepen the building of Party branches that are strong in political function, strong in branch leadership, strong in Party member ranks, and strong in playing their role. Promote the deep integration of Party building and business, and continuously solve the problem of "two skins." Make every effort to avoid "organ diseases" and "yamen style," and prevent "darkness under the lamp."

(2) Strengthen the functions of local Party committees. Adhere to the leadership role of local Party committees in their regions in commanding the overall situation and coordinating all parties, perform the duties of setting the direction, managing the overall situation, making decisions, and ensuring implementation, and build local Party committees into strong organizations that resolutely obey the command of the Party Central Committee, execute effectively, manage strictly, have united leadership groups, and have pure conduct. Encourage and support local Party committees to implement the spirit of the Party Central Committee in connection with reality and carry out work creatively. Promote the standing committees of local Party committees to build strong leadership groups, strictly manage their ranks, frequently conduct political physical examinations, and improve their ability to discover and solve their own problems. Revise the work regulations of local Party committees. Regulate the deliberation and coordination organs of local Party committees.

(3) Coordinate the advancement of the building of primary-level Party organizations in all fields. Strengthen the clear orientation of grasping the grassroots, adhere to the simultaneous promotion of making up shortcomings, filling gaps, and improving quality and strengthening functions, and build primary-level Party organizations into strong fighting fortresses that effectively realize the Party's leadership. Deeply advance the promotion of comprehensive rural revitalization through Party building, strengthen the building of township Party committees and village Party organizations, improve the education and management level of village cadres, and optimize the selection, dispatch, and management of first secretaries stationed in villages and work teams. Do solid work in Party building in "hollow villages." Strengthen Party building work in urban streets and communities, build and strengthen Party organizations in residential communities, and explore new models for the coordinated operation of residents' committees, owners' committees, and property service enterprises under the leadership of community Party organizations. Strengthen the building of Party organizations in "super-large communities." Advance Party building in development zones (parks). Strengthen primary-level Party building work in border areas. Deepen the leadership of Party building in primary-level governance and the building of primary-level political power, uphold and develop the Fengqiao model in the new era, and improve the urban and rural primary-level governance system under the leadership of Party organizations that combines self-governance, rule of law, and rule of virtue. Integrate and optimize grid governance services, give play to the role of Party and mass service centers, and broaden the channels for primary-level organizations and the masses to participate in primary-level governance in accordance with laws and regulations. Comprehensively improve the quality of Party building in organs, and do a good job in Party building in affiliated units and industries. Improve the institutional mechanisms for the Party's leadership in public institutions, and advance Party building in schools, hospitals, and scientific research institutes. Strengthen the Party's leadership in state-owned enterprises and state-owned financial enterprises, strengthen the substantive gatekeeping of Party committees (Party groups) in the pre-study and discussion of major business management matters, improve corporate governance, and enhance the quality and effectiveness of Party building work. Adhere to the combination of concentration and normalization, and rectify weak, lax, and disorganized primary-level Party organizations. Strengthen the cultivation, selection, education, and training of persons in charge of primary-level Party organizations. Promote the sinking of resources, services, and management, and the tilting of policies toward the grassroots, and improve the working conditions of the grassroots. Adhere to Party building leading group building, and give play to the role of mass organizations as bridges and bonds.

(4) Highlight the advancement of Party building in emerging fields. Classify and improve the Party building management systems and responsibility systems in emerging fields, compact the responsibilities of industry management and business supervision departments, business competent units, and localities, and enhance the Party's appeal, cohesion, and influence in emerging fields. Deepen and expand the organizational coverage and work coverage of the Party in new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups, select and strengthen secretaries of Party organizations, improve the selection and dispatch of Party building work instructors, and promote the organic combination of Party building work with production and operation, innovation and entrepreneurship, social services, and primary-level governance. Consolidate and improve Party building work in non-public enterprises, classify and advance Party building work in mixed-ownership enterprises, strengthen Party building work in platform enterprises, scientific and technological innovation enterprises, etc., establish a mechanism for the dynamic adjustment of the upgraded management of Party organizations in internet enterprises, and promote the implementation of Party building responsibilities. Classify and guide Party building work in new social organizations, improve the management systems and operating mechanisms of industry associations, societies, and chambers of commerce, fully implement the requirement of writing Party building work requirements into articles of association, and strengthen the leadership of Party building in industry self-discipline. Do a good job in Party building in private schools, private hospitals, etc. Strengthen Party building work for new employment groups, strengthen ideological and political guidance, do a good job in service management, protect legitimate rights and interests, and guide new employment groups to listen to the Party and follow the Party.

(5) Strengthen the building of the Party member ranks. Adhere to putting the political standard first, strictly follow procedures, strictly check, and strictly enforce discipline, improve the quality of developing Party members, and prevent people with impure motives from joining the Party. Pay attention to developing Party members from among young people, industrial workers, farmers, and intellectuals, do a good job in developing Party members in emerging fields, and optimize the structure of the Party member ranks. Strengthen the education and management of Party members, and carry out normalized training of Party members, especially basic training. Implement the responsibility of Party branches for directly educating, managing, and supervising Party members. Strengthen the management of Party members' online behavior. Normalize the registration and reception of mobile Party members, and improve the system for the coordinated co-management of Party organizations in the places of outflow and inflow, and the combination of online and offline. Promote practices such as setting posts and responsibilities, making commitments and fulfilling them, establishing commando teams, and showing identity and being pioneers, and improve and implement the mechanism for Party members to play their role online and offline, on and off duty, and in normal times and emergencies. Improve the intra-Party mechanism for incentives, care, and assistance. Seriously and steadily handle unqualified Party members.

(6) Improve the mechanism for connecting Party organizations at all levels. Improve the working mechanism for the transmission and implementation of higher-level deployments, the upward reporting of grassroots situations, and the coordinated resolution of contradictions and problems. Improve the Party building work system for territorial management and vertical management, and promote the combination of blocks and lines, each taking responsibility, and close connection. Increase the guidance of higher-level organizations to the Party building work of lower-level organizations, and summarize and promote experience. Do solid work in the performance evaluation of secretaries of Party committees (Party groups) grasping primary-level Party building work through reports and evaluations. Strengthen the building of the team of Party affairs workers, equip them with sufficient and strong forces, and provide necessary guarantees. Adhere to grasping the current level, driving the lower levels, and implementing layer by layer, promote the comprehensive progress and comprehensive excellence of Party organizations at all levels, and prevent the suspension of responsibility and the shifting of responsibility upward and downward.

VI. Unremittingly Rectifying Conduct and Enforcing Discipline

Rectifying conduct and enforcing discipline are powerful measures for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It is necessary to adhere to grasping Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline together, and connecting the rectification of conduct, the enforcement of discipline, and the fight against corruption, deepen the application of the experience of advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party starting from grasping conduct, continuously improve conduct, govern the Party with strict discipline, and unite hearts and gather strength with a good image.

(1) Walk the Party's mass line well in the new era. Deepen education on the Marxist view of the masses and the Party's mass line, guide Party members and cadres to strengthen their sense of purpose and sense of being public servants, stand firmly on the people's side, enhance their feelings for the masses, and prevent being aloof and detached from the masses. Guide Party members and cadres to grasp the characteristics and laws of the Party's mass work in the new era, frequently go deep among the masses, humbly listen to opinions, seriously solve the urgent, difficult, worried, and anxious problems, be good at relying on the strength of the masses to do work well and resolve contradictions, educate and guide the masses and lead the masses forward in serving the masses, and prevent and overcome commandism and "tailism." Implement the system of soliciting opinions from the masses on major decisions involving people's livelihood. Implement the system for leading cadres to publicize the Party's line, principles, and policies at the grassroots, conduct investigation and research at the grassroots, receive petitions at the grassroots, and handle affairs on site at the grassroots, and implement the system for Party members and cadres to directly contact and serve the masses. Promote Party members and cadres to take the lead in participating in volunteer services and carry out paired assistance. Continuously do a good job in resolving petition problems in the field of people's livelihood. Walk the online mass line well, enhance the ability of Party organizations to organize, publicize, unite, and serve the masses through the internet, and improve the ability of Party members and cadres to do online mass work.

(2) Persevere in implementing the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation. Take the Eight-Point Regulation as an iron rule and hard benchmark that must be adhered to for a long time, consolidate and expand the results of learning and education on deeply implementing the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation, improve and implement the detailed rules for the implementation of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation, deepen the rectification of the chronic diseases of formalism and bureaucratism, resolutely prevent the rebound and resurgence of hedonism and extravagance, and resolutely break down privileged thinking and privileged behavior. Streamline meetings, documents, and submitted materials, implement the requirement of "short, real, and new," and improve the style of meetings and writing. Without the approval of the organization, leading cadres of the Party and government must not publicly publish personal works. Strictly implement the regulations on visits abroad by leading cadres, and must not arrange for courtesy visits. Advance the rectification of formalism to reduce burdens on the grassroots, coordinate and regulate supervision, inspection, and assessment, regulate model creation, standards, and evaluation and commendation activities, clean up and regulate festivals, exhibitions, forums, and activities, rectify "formalism at the fingertips," implement the list of matters for performing duties in townships (streets), and improve the system for the admission of work matters in villages (communities). Continuously rectify prominent problems such as illegal eating and drinking, illegal giving and receiving of gifts and money, and infringement of the interests of the masses. Practice strict economy and oppose waste, adhere to Party and government organs living a tight life, strictly control the "three public" expenses, and strictly control the construction of new office buildings. Keep a close eye on new trends and new manifestations of unhealthy tendencies, and prevent and rectify hidden and mutated problems.

(3) Advance the normalization and long-term effectiveness of style building. Integrate style building into daily life and grasp it regularly, prevent passive coping and fatigue and war-weariness, and correct the "minor matter theory" and "special theory" of style problems. Improve the mechanism for regularly discovering and solving style problems, and strengthen the analysis, judgment, and targeted rectification of prominent problems of the Four Malfeasances. Grasp the regional, industrial, and stage-specific characteristics, and rectify style problems that occur commonly and repeatedly. Keep a close eye on important nodes, strengthen supervision and inspection, severely investigate and punish acts of violating discipline in defiance of warnings, and report and expose typical cases. Implement the responsibility of industry competent departments for managing industry conduct, strengthen the dynamic analysis and effective supervision of industry conduct, do a good job in the building of teacher ethics and teacher style, medical ethics and medical style, and art ethics and art style, and increase the intensity of rectifying the problems of the Four Malfeasances in state-owned enterprises, state-owned financial enterprises, and local branches of vertically managed units. Regulate law enforcement and judicial behavior involving enterprises. Deepen the simultaneous investigation and treatment of conduct and corruption, dig deep into the problems of cliques, entrusting affairs, and interest transfer behind the Four Malfeasances, and investigate the style problems in corruption cases. Adhere to the simultaneous promotion of rectifying the Four Malfeasances and establishing new practices, and lead social conduct to improve and be good with excellent Party and government conduct.

(4) Strengthen strict discipline enforcement. Run strict requirements through the entire process of Party regulation formulation, Party discipline education, and discipline enforcement supervision. Adhere to the principles that where there are regulations, they must be followed, where there is discipline enforcement, it must be strict, and where there are violations of discipline, they must be investigated, and investigate and deal with every violation of discipline as soon as it is discovered, never tolerating or compromising. Strictly enforce the Party's political discipline and political rules, and drive the comprehensive strictness of organizational discipline, integrity discipline, mass discipline, work discipline, and life discipline. Focus on key areas, weak links, and gray areas, and improve discipline norms. Adhere to discipline being stricter than law and discipline preceding law, and the connection of discipline enforcement and law enforcement, and the effective connection with justice. Adhere to grasping early and grasping small, and preventing problems before they become major, promptly remind and correct problems of a budding or tendentious nature, and prevent minor problems from evolving into major problems. Strengthen the supervision and inspection of the implementation of discipline, promote Party organizations at all levels to strictly implement and maintain discipline, and seriously investigate responsibility for lax discipline enforcement and laissez-faire.

(5) Comprehensively give play to the roles of discipline education in restraint, guarantee, and incentive. Establish and improve a normalized and long-term effective discipline education mechanism, take the Party Constitution, Party regulations, and Party discipline as required courses in the training of Party members and cadres, guide Party members and cadres to learn discipline, understand discipline, and observe discipline, and develop the habit of working and living in an environment of supervision and restraint. Strengthen full-cycle discipline education, and seize the various important nodes of joining the Party, entering a post, changing positions, family changes, and leaving office and retirement to strengthen discipline reminders. According to the requirements for performing duties of Party members and cadres at different positions and ranks and in different industries, clarify the discipline and laws that should be known and mastered. Do a good job in discipline training for key targets such as newly promoted cadres, cadres in key positions, and young cadres. Adhere to punishing the past to warn the future and curing the disease to save the patient, deepen the application of the "four forms" of supervision and discipline enforcement, pay attention to making good use of the "first form," set up defenses at all levels, and maximize the education and rescue of Party members and cadres. Adhere to seeking truth from facts and acting in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law, run ideological and political work through the entire process, enhance the standardization and accuracy of discipline enforcement and accountability, and achieve the organic unity of political, disciplinary and legal, and social effects. Adhere to the unity of strict discipline and care and love, and promote Party members and cadres to reform, innovate, and start businesses while observing rules and discipline. Seriously investigate and punish acts of false accusation, and promptly carry out work to clarify and rehabilitate. Do a good job in follow-up visits and education management of Party members and cadres who have been dealt with and disciplined.

VII. Unswervingly and Integratedly Advancing the Goals of Not Daring to Corrupt, Not Being Able to Corrupt, and Not Wanting to Corrupt

Integratedly advancing the goals of not daring to corrupt, not being able to corrupt, and not wanting to corrupt is an important strategy for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and the basic policy of the fight against corruption. It is necessary to bear in mind that the Party has no special interests of its own other than the interests of the working class and the broadest masses of the people, and that the Party is incompatible with corruption, firmly walk the path of anti-corruption with Chinese characteristics, strengthen the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over anti-corruption work, pay more attention to treating both the symptoms and the root causes and systematic governance, adhere to severe punishment, precise governance, effective prevention, and integrated grasping, and carry the fight against corruption through to the end.

(1) Maintain the high-pressure posture of punishing corruption. Deeply understand that the situation of the fight against corruption is still severe and complex, and the task of eradicating the soil and conditions for corruption is still arduous and heavy, adhere to the principles that where there is corruption, it must be opposed, where there is graft, it must be punished, and evil must be eliminated completely, resolutely "beat tigers," "swat flies," and "hunt foxes," always maintain strategic resolve and fighting tenacity, never stop for a moment, never retreat half a step, more forcefully curb the increase of new cases and more effectively eliminate the stock of existing cases, never allow corrupt elements to have a hiding place, and never allow "iron-hatted kings" or "iron certificates and exemption edicts." Focus on key areas, key problems, and key targets, deepen the rectification of corruption in areas with concentrated power, dense funds, and rich resources, focus on investigating and dealing with problems such as the interweaving of political and economic problems, collusion between government and business, and the penetration of capital into the political field, pay attention to investigating and dealing with corruption behind various risks, focus on investigating and dealing with corruption of the "key minority," especially "top leaders," and corruption of young cadres, seriously investigate and deal with family-style corruption of leading cadres and corruption of people around them, and resolutely eliminate corrupt elements who do not restrain themselves and act recklessly. Dig deep and investigate carefully new types of corruption and hidden corruption such as expected returns, agreed holding, "white gloves," and the "revolving door" between government and business, and resolutely combat corruption committed through the internet, virtual currencies, cross-border funds, blockchain, etc. Normalize the rectification of unhealthy tendencies and corruption around the masses, deepen governance around problems in the fields of employment, elderly care, social security, housing, education, medical care, and agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, seriously investigate and punish problems such as embezzlement and encroachment, interception and misappropriation, false reporting and fraudulent claiming, and demanding and taking bribes, severely punish "flies and ants" of corruption, and continuously advance the fight against organized crime and evil forces by "removing umbrellas and breaking networks." Deepen international cooperation against corruption, strengthen the pursuit of fugitives, prevention of flight, and recovery of stolen assets, and increase the intensity of investigating and handling cross-border corruption cases. Deepen the simultaneous investigation of bribe takers and bribe givers, investigate and deal with bribery acts in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law, strengthen joint punishment of key bribe givers, and prevent and combat "hunting" acts. Strengthen the dynamic monitoring of integrity risk hazards, and establish a linkage mechanism for corruption early warning and punishment. Promote localities, departments, and units where major corruption cases have occurred to thoroughly eliminate the poisonous influence and repair the political ecosystem.

(2) Strengthen the restriction and supervision of the exercise of power. Adhere to exercising power impartially, exercising power according to law, exercising power with integrity, and exercising power for the people, and prevent and rectify acts such as arbitrary exercise of power, abuse of power, and dereliction of duty. Improve the institutional mechanism that unifies the authorization, exercise, and restriction of power, and is clear, transparent, and traceable, strengthen the regulation and supervision of the allocation and exercise of power, promptly discover problems and correct deviations, and more scientifically and effectively put power in the cage of institutions. Grasp the key links such as policy formulation, deliberation and decision-making, examination and approval supervision, and law enforcement and justice, regulate the scope of duties and authority, the boundaries of power exercise, and work procedures, regulate discretionary power, and prevent the setting up of rent-seeking by power. Accelerate the building of norms and restriction mechanisms for the exercise of power in key areas and new fields. Establish lists of power in key industries and lists of small and micro power at the grassroots. Implement the system of recording and reporting leading cadres' interference in judicial activities and intervention in the handling of specific cases.

(3) Consolidate the ideological foundation of advocating integrity and rejecting corruption. Strengthen the building of a culture of integrity in the new era, enrich the content and carriers, and educate and guide Party members and cadres to be self-respecting and self-reflective, be cautious when alone and in small matters, and consciously resist corruption and prevent degeneration. Develop a positive and healthy intra-Party political culture, and use the ideals and convictions, value concepts, moral concepts, and discipline and law awareness contained in the Party's innovative theory to nourish the clean conduct of Party members and cadres. Integrate the culture of integrity into the building of the core values of socialism, integrate integrity education into the national education system, and create a social atmosphere of honoring integrity and being ashamed of greed. Innovate the mechanism for integrity publicity and education, link online and offline, determine content and methods by category and level, and enhance pertinence and effectiveness. Give play to the exemplary and leading role of diligent and incorruptible models and the warning and deterrent role of cases of violations of discipline and law. Supervise and urge leading cadres to take the lead in building a pro-clean government-business relationship, strengthen the building of family, family education, and family style, and strictly educate and manage relatives and staff around them.

(4) Enhance the comprehensive effectiveness of integratedly advancing the goals of not daring to corrupt, not being able to corrupt, and not wanting to corrupt. Deeply study and grasp the laws of anti-corruption under the conditions of the socialist market economy, improve anti-corruption laws and regulations, adhere to the simultaneous, same-direction, and comprehensive exertion of the goals of not daring to corrupt, not being able to corrupt, and not wanting to corrupt, and focus on eradicating the soil and conditions for corruption. Improve the mechanism for cooperation and coordination between discipline inspection and supervision organs and relevant departments under the unified leadership of Party committees, and promote integrated governance through whole-chain cooperation. Do solid work in promoting reform and governance through case handling, carry out special governance of industrial and systemic corruption problems discovered in major cases, improve institutional mechanisms through investigating and handling cases, eliminate loopholes in the exercise of power, blind spots in supervision, and institutional gaps, and form a closed loop of supervision, case handling, rectification, and governance. Grasp the new trends and new characteristics of corruption, deepen the building of the digital discipline inspection and supervision system, advance the building of a big data supervision platform for public power, and enhance the penetration of the fight against corruption.

VIII. Adhering to Governing the Party with Institutions and Governing the Party According to Regulations

Strengthening the building of the system of intra-Party regulations and rules is a long-term and fundamental strategy for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. It is necessary to adhere to taking the Party Constitution as the fundamental code of conduct for the whole Party, deepen the reform of the Party building system, promote the organic unity of law-based governance and governing the Party according to regulations, and provide a strong institutional guarantee for continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.

(1) Improve the system of intra-Party regulations and rules. Scientifically formulate plans and programs for the formulation of intra-Party regulations. Coordinate the formulation, amendment, abolition, and interpretation of intra-Party regulations, pay attention to system integration, and strengthen supporting and connecting work. Formulate and improve intra-Party regulations and systems according to the actual needs of continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and promptly make up for institutional shortcomings. The establishment of rules and systems should target prominent problems and ensure convenience and effectiveness. Improve the interpretation mechanism for intra-Party regulations. Improve the mechanism for connecting and coordinating intra-Party regulations with national laws and regulations.

(2) Enhance the enforcement of institutions. Strengthen the rigid constraint of institutions, adhere to the principles that everyone is equal before institutions, there is no special treatment in observing institutions, and there is no exception in enforcing institutions. Promote Party members and cadres to consciously learn the Party Constitution, observe the Party Constitution, implement the Party Constitution, and safeguard the Party Constitution. Increase the publicity of intra-Party regulations. Strengthen the study and training of intra-Party regulations and systems. Run the enforcement and supervision of institutions through the entire process of the performance of duties by Party organizations and Party members and cadres, and through all aspects of regional governance, departmental governance, industrial governance, primary-level governance, and unit governance, to ensure that institutions exert their authority at all times and are effective everywhere. Resolutely correct the phenomena of orders not being carried out and prohibitions not being heeded, prevent the selective, discounted, and flexible implementation of institutions, and avoid the idling of institutions.

(3) Vigorously break down hidden rules. Adhere to establishing explicit rules, and advance the openness of Party and government affairs. Educate and guide Party members and cadres to stress principles, abide by laws and discipline, and follow the right path, and consciously oppose and resist hidden rules in the exercise of power, policy implementation, project competition, cadre selection and use, and evaluation and commendation. Resolutely rectify the chaos of "building antennas and paying homage to the boss," "principles are not as good as relationships," "chops are not as good as notes," not doing things without benefits, and operating behind the scenes, and resolutely resist the erosion of intra-Party life by the principle of commodity exchange and personal dependency relationships. Improve the reporting mechanism, and seriously investigate and deal with acts of making or acting as political brokers and political swindlers. Establish a system of case-type analysis, retrospection, and rectification notification, and improve the mechanism for dynamic monitoring, judgment, and governance of the political ecosystem.

To continuously and persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, it is necessary to further improve the Party and state supervision system. Do solid work in the comprehensive supervision of Party committees (Party groups), and strengthen the leadership over various types of supervision subjects. Revise the intra-Party supervision regulations. Improve the dual leadership system for discipline inspection and supervision work, do solid work in the principle that supervision and inspection and the investigation and handling of corruption cases are mainly led by the discipline inspection commissions and supervision commissions at the higher level, pay attention to the coordination and optimization of forces, and strengthen the overall connection of discipline supervision, supervision supervision, dispatched supervision, and inspection supervision. Make good use of the supervision resources and forces of counties, townships, and villages, improve the primary-level supervision system, improve mechanisms such as upgraded supervision and cross supervision, smooth the channels for mass supervision, and promote the organic connection of primary-level supervision and primary-level governance. Promote the deep integration and efficient linkage of intra-Party supervision with people's congress supervision, democratic supervision, administrative supervision, judicial supervision, audit supervision, financial and accounting supervision, statistical supervision, mass supervision, and public opinion supervision, and form a joint force of supervision. Comprehensively implement the Party's inspection work policy, implement the inspection work regulations, make good use of regular inspection, special inspection, mobile inspection, and upgraded inspection methods, innovate inspection methods, increase the intensity of inspection "look-back," strengthen the rectification and application of results of inspection, deepen the upper-lower linkage of inspection and inspection, improve the quality and effectiveness of inspection of villages, and give play to the role of inspection as a comprehensive supervision sword.

Continuously and persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is the common political responsibility of the whole Party. It is necessary to grasp the "ox nose" of the responsibility system for Party governance, compact and tighten the primary responsibility of Party committees (Party groups), the supervision responsibility of discipline inspection commissions, the responsibility of secretaries of Party committees (Party groups) as the first responsible persons, the "one post with dual responsibilities" of other members of leading groups, and the specific responsibilities of Party members and cadres, and improve a responsibility system in which each bears its own responsibility and is unified and coordinated. Party committees (Party groups) at all levels must take the initiative to grasp and manage with care, fasten the chain of responsibility, and transmit pressure layer by layer. Party committees (Party groups) at and above the county level must listen to reports on the performance of Party governance responsibilities by members of leading groups at least once a year, and strengthen supervision and guidance. Discipline inspection commissions (dispatched discipline inspection and supervision groups) at all levels must perform their supervision responsibilities well, and lower-level discipline inspection commissions (dispatched discipline inspection and supervision groups) must report to higher-level discipline inspection commissions (dispatching organs) at least once every six months on the performance of duties and exercise of power by members of the leading groups of Party committees (Party groups), especially "top leaders," and on their own performance of supervision responsibilities. Departments of Party committees must perform their duties and work together in a coordinated manner. Leading cadres, especially senior cadres, must be strict with themselves, strictly bear their responsibilities, and strictly manage their areas of responsibility, and set an example in fulfilling the responsibility of Party governance. Advancing Party building work at all levels and in all fields must seek truth from facts, seek practical results, and make every effort to avoid formalism. Optimize the evaluation mechanism for responsibility implementation, and seriously pursue accountability for those who govern the Party ineffectively or have serious problems.

History illuminates the future, and struggle accomplishes great undertakings. In the magnificent great journey, the Communist Party of China has forged excellent qualities such as being determined to pursue truth and always grasping the correct direction of progress, being deeply rooted in the people and always having a solid foundation, bravely undertaking historical missions and always mastering strategic initiative, conforming to the trend of development and always walking at the forefront of the times, daring and being good at struggle and always maintaining confidence in victory, and paying attention to strengthening itself and always being full of vitality. Over the past hundred years and more, the tremendous changes that have taken place on the land of China fully prove that the Party has lived up to history and the people, and is worthy of being the vanguard of the Chinese working class, and worthy of being the vanguard of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. The great, glorious, and correct Communist Party of China, having weathered storms without changing its original aspiration, with firm goals and courageous progress, will bear in mind the "three imperatives," forever maintain the sobriety and firmness of being on the examination, have the courage to carry out the great struggle with many new historical characteristics, resolutely overcome all difficulties and obstacles on the road forward, and continuously create a better future!

The whole Party must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, work hard with vigor and determination, continuously and persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, continuously open up a new situation in Party governance, Party building, and Party strengthening in the new era, and unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country to strive unremittingly for comprehensively building a great modern socialist country and comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese modernization!

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 1)

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Adhere to the Principle of Strictness and Inspire the Entire Party's Enthusiasm, Initiative, and Creativity

By: 本报评论员

The key to full and rigorous self-governance of the Party lies in being strict, and advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party with persistence must be consistent from beginning to end (一以贯之, yi yi guan zhi - "one, use, through, connect") and strict to the very end.

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee made strategic arrangements for advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party with persistence, listed "adhering to full and strict governance" as one of the major principles that must be followed, and stressed "unwaveringly maintaining the strict tone" and "fully stimulating the initiative, enthusiasm, and creativity of the whole Party." This reflects the deep grasp by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core of the inherent laws of governing and managing the Party and revitalizing and strengthening the Party, and demonstrates our Party's clear-minded firmness in unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in depth.

The "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party with Persistence" reviewed and adopted at the Plenary Session firmly grasps the requirements that all standards for Party building work must be strict, that education, management, and supervision of Party organizations at all levels and of Party members and officials must be strict, that measures for rectifying undesirable work styles and corruption must be strict, and that responsibility for governing and managing the Party must be strictly implemented, further deepens and improves various policy measures for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and clearly releases a strong signal that the strictness will only increase over time. At the same time, it adheres to combining strict management with caring, and giving equal weight to incentives and constraints, so as to be both strict and in place, both constraining and in place, while also stimulating the initiative, enthusiasm, and creativity of the whole Party. We must comprehensively and deeply understand and earnestly study and implement the spirit of the Plenary Session, promote officials to dare to take responsibility and be good at acting on the premise of abiding by rules and discipline, and create work achievements that can withstand the test of practice and history through solid hard work.

From making intra-Party political life serious and standardized, and strictly enforcing the Party's political discipline and political rules, to resolutely implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee and rectifying work styles with strict discipline, and then to strictly implementing political responsibility for governing and managing the Party and tackling prominent problems with real action... The great achievements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era owe much to one important experience, namely being comprehensive and strict, and embodying the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere in all aspects and the entire process of Party building.

Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and encouraging officials to take responsibility and act are inherently unified. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed, "Being strict does not mean managing everyone to death, making people hesitant and cautious due to considering all consequences (瞻前顾后, zhan qian gu hou - "look, front, consider, back"), timid and hesitant to act (畏首畏尾, wei shou wei wei - "fear, head, fear, tail"), and turning things into a gloomy and lacking vitality (暮气沉沉, mu qi chen chen - "evening, air, sink, sink") stagnant pool of inaction."

Since the beginning of the new era, precisely because full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has clarified direction, established rules, rectified conduct, and strengthened immunity, the vast number of Party members and officials have devoted themselves and worked hard and pragmatically on the front lines of the battle against poverty and rural revitalization, have been concentrating with full attention (聚精会神, ju jing hui shen - "gather, essence, meet, spirit") and overcoming difficulties in advancing high-quality development, have practiced their purpose and created political achievements in doing practical things and solving problems for the people, and have continuously advanced Chinese modernization.

Rectifying conduct and enforcing discipline are powerful measures for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. Around the theme of persistent and never stopping (驰而不息, chi er bu xi - "gallop, and, not, rest") rectification of conduct and enforcement of discipline, the Plenary Session made concrete arrangements in five areas, including "strengthening strict enforcement of discipline" and "comprehensively giving play to the constraining role of discipline education and its safeguarding and incentivizing role," with the purpose precisely being to govern and manage the Party with strict discipline and to unite people's hearts and efforts (凝心聚力, ning xin ju li - "congeal, heart, gather, strength") with a good image. From this, we can better understand and grasp the major principle and practical requirements of adhering to full and strict governance.

On October 27 this year, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission published the summary of nationwide cases of violations of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee investigated and dealt with in September 2026. This is the 157th consecutive month of publishing monthly report data. By publicizing typical cases and seriously investigating and dealing with problems, the "golden name card" of work style improvement is being polished ever brighter.

Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era began with the formulation and implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee as its opening move, solving the problem of "a tiger wanting to eat the sky not knowing where to take the first bite," and promoting a completely new and refreshed (焕然一新, huan ran yi xin - "glow, like, one, new") Party conduct and government conduct and continuous improvement in social customs and public morals. We must also soberly recognize that work style problems are stubborn and recurrent. In grasping work style improvement, there is only a present continuous tense, no perfect tense. To promote the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee becoming custom and practice, we must rectify the Four Malfeasances with the spirit of hammering nails, promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style improvement, and resolutely win the protracted battle and the battle of endurance in work style improvement.

Our Party is a Marxist governing party organized on the basis of revolutionary ideals and iron discipline, and strict discipline is the Party's glorious tradition and unique advantage. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed, "The Party's discipline has both an educational and constraining function and a safeguarding and incentivizing role. The Party's discipline and doing solid work and starting undertakings are inherently unified."

In recent years, by adhering to the strict tone to strengthen the rectification of conduct, enforcement of discipline, and fight against corruption, a clean and upright intra-Party political ecology has been formed, and Party members and officials have been undistracted and fully focused (心无旁骛, xin wu pang wu - "heart, no, side, distracted") on their work and uncompromisingly and strictly (不折不扣, bu zhe bu kou - "not,折, not, deduct") implementing tasks; by continuously rectifying formalism to reduce burdens at the grassroots level, mountains of documents and seas of meetings have decreased, and comings and goings for social niceties have decreased, giving grassroots officials more time to implement tasks and seek development; by cultivating a new type of political-business relationship that is both clean and close and unified, leading officials at all levels have been able to travel light and work cleanly... Practice shows that abiding by rules and discipline means having full freedom and broad space for doing solid work and starting undertakings.

Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is always on the way. By highly unifying strict management and supervision with encouraging officials to take responsibility and act, achieving true management and true strictness, daring management and daring strictness, and long-term management and long-term strictness, we will surely forge a stronger leadership force and unite a broader force for struggle.

Our Party is the largest Marxist governing party in the world. Only through strict management and strict governance can we maintain the demeanor befitting a major party and build our Party into a stronger and more powerful one. The whole Party must unify its thinking and actions with the spirit of the Plenary Session and the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, implement the general requirements for Party building in the new era, improve the system for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, continuously realize the Party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-renovation, and self-enhancement, and strive to complete the Party's missions and tasks.

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Always Maintain Vigor and Vitality to Provide Fundamental Guarantee for Chinese Modernization (Study and Implement the Spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee)

At the important juncture of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, during the critical period of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and in the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party made systematic arrangements for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.

In recent days, cadres and the masses in various localities have been deeply studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session. Everyone unanimously expressed that this meeting fully demonstrated our Party's high degree of self-awareness in continuously advancing its own construction. The "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party" reviewed and adopted at the plenary session profoundly embodies the mission and responsibility of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in managing and governing the Party, and in revitalizing and strengthening the Party. On the new road of the examination, we must effectively unify our thoughts and actions with the spirit of the plenary session, build a solid foundation of faith, striving forward with determination (砥砺奋进, dili fenjin - "polish, strive; advance"), and strive to write a new chapter in Chinese modernization.

Seize historical initiative  Consolidate the foundation of governance

By the autumn shore of Baiyangdian Lake, the Xiong'an New Area in Hebei Province is gradually showing its new appearance. Industries such as artificial intelligence and aerospace information are rising vigorously, and the city's popularity continues to gather.

After the closing of the plenary session, cadres and staff of various departments in the Xiong'an New Area studied the spirit of the meeting at the first opportunity. "The development of the new area fully confirms that upholding the Party's leadership and full and rigorous self-governance of the Party are the fundamental guarantees for the implementation of major national strategies," said Liu Zhiliang, a member of the Party Working Committee of the New Area. "In the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, tasks are being fully rolled out. The more critical the stage, the more we must shoulder our responsibilities. We will deeply study and implement the spirit of the plenary session, keep in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's requirements on adhering to Party building to lead the governance of the New Area during his inspection of Xiong'an, implement and refine political responsibilities, lead and guarantee high-quality relocation and development with high-quality Party building, and solidly advance the construction of the 'City of the Future.'"

After more than a hundred years of trials and tempering, especially since the new era, the Communist Party of China has become stronger, more vigorous, and more dynamic through revolutionary forging, and has always been the strong leading core of the cause of the Party and the people.

The plenary session highly appraised the great achievements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era. Resounding statements such as "fundamentally reversing the lax, weak, and loose situation in Party management and governance" deeply resonated with Li Lepeng, Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Tianzhen County, Shanxi Province.

Li Lepeng stated that the great achievements in managing and governing the Party and revitalizing and strengthening the Party in the new era are fundamentally due to General Secretary Xi Jinping's helm and guidance, and to the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, which not only plans the overall layout from a global perspective, but also promotes full coverage of Party management and governance and layer-by-layer transmission, charting the direction and providing guidelines for grassroots supervision and discipline enforcement. "In recent years, we have focused on grassroots livelihood issues, using small entry points to rectify prominent problems in the management of rural collective 'three assets' (funds, assets, and resources), and have truly felt that only by grasping early and small matters and nipping problems in the bud (防微杜渐, fang wei du jian - "prevent, tiny, subtle, dawn") can we grasp the initiative in governance. In the next step, we will benchmark against the plenary session's arrangements, integratively advance the deterrence of corruption, the prevention of corruption, and the elimination of corruption, and provide strong guarantees for local transformation and development with the actual results of rectifying work styles, enforcing discipline, and combating corruption," Li Lepeng said.

Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era has many favorable conditions, but at the same time, we must clearly see that it also faces many new situations and new problems, and we absolutely cannot slacken or pause.

Chen Peng, a researcher at the Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, said: "The two words 'persistently' (chizhiyiheng) condense the practice of Party management and governance and mark the course for the new journey." He stated that the "Decision," guided by Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, has landmark significance for strengthening Party construction. Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is always on the way; we must continue to study deeply and act earnestly (深学笃行, shen xue du xing - "deep, study, earnest, practice") Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, solve prominent problems within the Party with higher standards and more practical measures, and uphold the strict tone for the long term.

At present, the world situation, national conditions, and Party conditions have undergone profound changes. The three "more arduous tasks" proposed by the plenary session deeply resonated with Zhang Xiaojun, chief commander of the No. 1 launch pad at the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site. "Aerospace is related to national development and security, and is also a fiercely competitive track," he said. China's aerospace industry has continuously made leaps and bounds, fundamentally because of obeying the Party's command and firm conviction. At present, the task of independent innovation is urgent, and it is even more necessary to forge an excellent team. We must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, integrate Party building into all aspects of launch preparation and technological research, and fulfill the mission and responsibility of aerospace workers through each safe and reliable launch mission.

Persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is being responsible to history and to the people.

At the Party and Mass Service Station of Shiminxincun Community on Bansongyuan Road, Shanghai, Zhang Wei, director of the neighborhood committee, studied the spirit of the plenary session together with residents. This service base, built on urban renewal, features fresh food direct-supply points, shared meeting rooms, and more, bringing convenient services to the doorsteps of the masses.

"In July this year, the General Secretary came here to inspect and urged grassroots Party organizations to 'truly do a good job of serving the people.' We will take the spirit of the plenary session as our guide, integrate the requirements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party into branch construction, Party member management, and serving the people, so that matters concerning the masses are discussed, grasped, and handled by someone, and test the quality of grassroots Party building with solid livelihood achievements," Zhang Wei said.

Deeply study the plenary session's arrangements  Thoroughly understand the principles and essentials

The plenary session clarified the guiding ideology for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and expounded the 7 principles to be followed.

After the release of the plenary session's communiqué, Han Xiping, deputy director of the University Affairs Committee of Jilin University, organized his team to study and discuss it at the first opportunity. He stated that these 7 principles condense the valuable experience of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, such as "adhering to taking the Party's political construction as the lead" to grasp the direction of strict Party governance, and "adhering to governing the Party according to rules and regulations" to consolidate institutional guarantees. The various principles are interconnected, coordinated, and organically unified. "As an educator, I must use typical cases in the classroom, explain the theoretical logic and practical requirements thoroughly, guide young students to understand the profound connotation of persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and promote the spirit of the plenary session to take root in people's hearts."

Not long ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the Chahar High-tech Industrial Development Zone in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, to inspect the development of green computing power industry and other matters.

Huo Jianzhong, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Ulanqab Chahar High-tech Industrial Development Zone, gained a deeper understanding of "adhering to serving the mission and tasks" through studying the "Decision": "The General Secretary emphasized that implementing the 'East Data, West Computing' project and building a national integrated computing power network is an important arrangement of the Party Central Committee. The development zone will deeply study and implement the spirit of the plenary session, run persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party through the entire process of computing power industry development, lead high-quality development with high-quality Party building, take a new path of transformation and development, and practice responsibility in serving the national computing power layout."

The plenary session made systematic arrangements for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, with "enhancing the Party spirit of Communists" placed in a prominent position.

Zhou Yongkai, winner of the "July 1 Medal" and former deputy secretary of the Daxian Prefectural Party Committee of Sichuan Province, was deeply moved. This old Party member has been in the Party for 81 years, personally experienced underground struggle, devoted himself to local construction after the founding of New China, and after retirement led fellow villagers in forest protection and afforestation, practicing loyalty to the Party throughout his life. He said that to temper Party spirit, one must firmly stand on the Marxist position, implement loyalty to the Party in every word and deed, and that Party spirit cultivation is a lifelong required course.

Party organizations at all levels and Party members and cadres are the subjects of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and are also the key force in promoting the development of the Party and the country's cause.

Leling City, Dezhou, Shandong Province, located at the junction of Shandong and Hebei, relies on local red resources to carry out regular on-site teaching for young cadres, guiding them to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements. Liu Zhigang, head of the Organization Department of the Leling Municipal Party Committee, stated that the plenary session made arrangements for Party organizational construction. In the next step, they will deeply study and implement the spirit of the plenary session, run the strict tone through the entire process of selecting the worthy and appointing the able, strengthening the foundation and consolidating the base, and cultivating and gathering talents, and strive to build a cadre reserve system with complete echelons, layered energy storage, and continuous strength.

It is the peak season for express delivery. Early in the morning, Chao Hongyin, a courier at the Dazhigu outlet of ZTO Express in Hedong District, Tianjin, came to the "Yilu You'ai" (Love on the Road) service area to prepare supplies for his colleagues. The plenary session's proposal to highlight the strengthening of Party building in emerging fields greatly increased his sense of belonging.

"We are both participants in and beneficiaries of Party building in emerging fields," Chao Hongyin said. Hedong District has created the "Yilu You'ai, Red Rider Vanguard" Party building brand, setting up courier canteens and service areas to provide thoughtful care for workers in new forms of employment. Driven by Party organizations, Party members at the outlet took the lead in forming volunteer service teams, encouraging riders to participate in grassroots inspections during delivery. He stated that he will take the spirit of the plenary session as his guide, drive more riders to integrate into community governance, and transform the results of Party building into practical actions to serve the masses.

Grasp implementation and implementation  Brave the new journey

Deeply studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session is a major political task for the entire Party at present and for a period to come. Promoting the implementation and effectiveness of various arrangements depends on genuine hard work and sustained, long-term effort.

In Benxi, Liaoning, in the meeting room of the Third Cold Rolling Mill of the General Cold Rolling Plant of Ansteel Group's Benxi Steel Plate, the leadership team conducted collective discussions on the high-end, intelligent, and green development transformation project, assessing investment and technical risks item by item. Zhao Xingtao, Party Secretary of the Third Cold Rolling Mill, said: "The plenary session clarified that we must improve and implement the various systems of democratic centralism, and proposed strictly implementing the decision-making and deliberation rules of leadership teams. We will continue to standardize decision-making processes, adhere to first conducting research and demonstration, then collective discussion and scientific decision-making for major projects, strictly strengthen supervision over 'top leaders' and leadership teams, transform institutional advantages into industrial development efficiency, and serve the construction of a modern industrial system."

"The plenary session clearly required persevering unremittingly (锲而不舍, qie er bu she - "drill, not, stop") in implementing the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation, and promoting the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction," said Zhang Yongsen, Secretary of Shouning County Party Committee, Fujian Province. He stated that the valuable thoughts and pragmatic work style left by General Secretary Xi Jinping during his work in Fujian, when he "visited Shouning nine times and entered Xiadang three times," must be inherited and applied well, continue to practice the "four grassroots-level practices" system, drive social customs and public sentiment with excellent Party conduct and government conduct, and actively build a beautiful homeland.

In Dongsheng Village, Xichou County, Yunnan Province, villagers often stop to check the village affairs disclosure board. In recent years, the village has improved the village affairs supervision mechanism, promoting the standardization and transparency of village-level project construction and the implementation of policies benefiting farmers.

The plenary session proposed strengthening the restriction and supervision of the exercise of power, which made Luo Ruicai, Secretary of the Party Committee of Dongsheng Village, clearer about the direction of work: "We will integrate the study and implementation of the spirit of the plenary session into the entire process of grassroots governance and rural revitalization, strictly adhere to the bottom line of power operation, implement whole-process supervision and normalized village affairs disclosure, and safeguard the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas with a clean grassroots political ecology."

Since its establishment 7 years ago, the China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone has continuously optimized services for enterprises, and various economic indicators have achieved breakthrough growth.

The plenary session put forward clear requirements for enhancing institutional execution. Wang Xinhong, full-time deputy director of the Free Trade Zone Work Office, further strengthened her confidence in serving market entities: "We will resolutely implement the spirit of the plenary session, ensure the orderly advancement of reform and innovation with strict discipline and work style and solid institutional execution, continue to create a first-class business environment, and activate the momentum of opening up."

The Party's overall leadership and all the Party's work must be realized through the Party's strong organizational system. The plenary session proposed ensuring that the implementation of the Party's line, principles, and policies and the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee are coordinated from top to bottom, precise and efficient. Yang Yi, a cadre aiding Xinjiang in Aksu City, seriously considered how to implement this requirement in practical work.

"Being on the front line of duty in southern Xinjiang, I must connect the implementation chain and precisely transmit arrangements," Yang Yi said. He stated that he will, based on his position, deeply study and earnestly practice the spirit of the plenary session, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the various arrangements of the Party Central Committee, actively explore the practice of advanced grassroots governance concepts locally, implement policies in line with the actual conditions of southern Xinjiang, and serve the people of all ethnic groups well.

In Sangzhi County, Hunan Province, at the Memorial Hall of the Departure Point of the Long March of the Second Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, visitors come in an endless stream.

"The new journey is an expedition full of glory and dreams, a new Long March of the Party and the people," said Gu Xiuqin, deputy director of the memorial hall. She stated that the spirit of the plenary session should be integrated into daily explanations, telling the stories of the Party's fine traditions and work style with heart and feeling, inspiring more people to unite their strength and take the new Long March road well.

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 1) (Xinhua reporters)

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Governance of a Major Party Brings New Inspiration to World Political Civilization (Voice)

The Communist Party of China is willing to deepen exchanges of governance experience with all parties, enhance the blending of ideas, join hands in walking the path of modernization, and stride forward on the great road of promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

From October 26 to 29, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing. The plenary session profoundly summarized the great achievements and valuable experience of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, and deliberated and adopted the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party." "The Fifth Plenary Session demonstrates the CPC's unswerving commitment to self-renewal," "It has further strengthened the stability and cohesion of the century-old Party," "It provides a reference for countries hoping to explore their own development paths"... The international community has paid close attention to the Fifth Plenary Session, reflecting the world significance and contemporary value of the century-old Party's experience in governing and disciplining the Party.

To understand today's China, one must understand the Communist Party of China. Over the more than 100 years since its founding, an important reason why the CPC has been able to achieve continuous success (从胜利走向胜利, cong sheng li zou xiang sheng li - "from, victory, go towards, victory") is that it has attached great importance to governing and disciplining the Party in every historical period, has been courageous in upholding truth and correcting errors, and has grown stronger in the process of solving its own problems by relying on its own strength and the support of the people. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, under the leadership and helm of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the Communist Party of China has deeply advanced the new great project of Party building in the new era, promoted historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the state, and created a new atmosphere of the governance of the Communist Party of China and the governance of China. An article published on the website of Pakistan's "Diplomatic Insight" magazine commented that the Communist Party of China has the ability to continuously discover and solve problems, which is an important political advantage indispensable to China's modernization process. International public opinion generally believes that the Communist Party of China's continuous strengthening of its own construction, improvement of its governance capacity, and persistent advancement of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party will help improve the governance system and provide strong political guarantees for confidently marching toward Chinese modernization.

To govern the country well, one must first govern the Party well; to make the country strong, one must first make the Party strong. In today's world, the international situation is intertwined with change and turmoil. Some countries have long been in conflict and disorder, while others are mired in party strife and social unrest. More and more people are turning their attention to China's practice, seeking the key code to "why the Communist Party of China can." In the more than five years since the Museum of the Communist Party of China opened, more and more foreign political party delegations have walked into this spiritual hall of the Communist Party of China to appreciate the century-old Party's experience in governing the country. After visiting the Museum of the Communist Party of China, Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov wrote: "All brilliant achievements and great victories are the result of the Chinese people's struggle for the future of the country under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China." During his visit to China, Faure Gnassingbé, President of the Togolese Republic, visited Liangjiahe in Shaanxi, Yundang Lake in Xiamen, and other places, and also walked into the Museum of the Communist Party of China, marveling that "under the wise leadership of President Xi Jinping, Chinese modernization has achieved outstanding development achievements" and "better understanding China's governing philosophy and the code to its success." The Communist Party of China governs and disciplines the Party with the tenacity and perseverance of "always being on the road," continuously enriching and improving its experience in governing the country, adding new connotations to exchanges and mutual learning among political parties at home and abroad, and providing valuable experience for world political party governance to draw upon.

In the great practice of governing and disciplining the Party, rejuvenating and strengthening the Party in the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies around the major contemporary issues of what kind of long-term governing Marxist party to build and how to build it, forming Xi Jinping's thought on Party building. This thought enriches and develops the Marxist theory of Party building, and is a major achievement of promoting theoretical innovation of the Party by adhering to the combination of the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with the excellent traditional Chinese culture. The power of truth transcends national borders. The Communist Party of China persistently advances full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, leading and guaranteeing the governance of China through its own governance, breaking the myth of the exclusive Western political party model, and contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the development and progress of world political civilization. Madhav Kumar Nepal, deputy coordinator of the Communist Party of Nepal and former Prime Minister of the government, said that Xi Jinping's thought on Party building answers questions that all political parties cannot avoid but almost no political party has seriously answered. Only when a political party always attaches importance to its own construction and is courageous in self-renewal can it lead the country toward lasting peace and stability.

The century-old Party is in its prime. As the largest political party in the world, the Communist Party of China is willing to deepen exchanges of governance experience with all parties, enhance the blending of ideas, join hands in walking the path of modernization, and stride forward on the great road of promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.

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Austrian Chancellor Stocker to Pay Official Visit to China Starting Today

At the invitation of Li Qiang, Premier of the State Council, Austrian Chancellor Stocker will pay an official visit to China from November 2 to 7.

Christian Stocker, born in March 1960 in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria. Doctor of Law from the University of Vienna. Since 2000, he has served as chairman of the People's Party in Wiener Neustadt. From 2000 to 2025, he served as deputy mayor of the city. From 2019 to 2025, he served as a member of the National Council. From 2022 to 2025, he served as secretary-general of the People's Party. Since 2025, he has served as chairman of the People's Party. He took office as Chancellor in March 2025.

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 1)

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The Nine-Bend Yellow River Brings New Vitality

By: 新华社记者

The nine-bend Yellow River has surged through the ages.

The Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation, and this year marks 80 years since the Party led the people in harnessing the Yellow River. Over the past 80 years, under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China, Yellow River governance and protection have achieved achievements that have attracted worldwide attention. The river that was once a river of worry, with "two breaches every three years and a course change once a century," has undergone a transformation in the process of Chinese modernization.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping, standing at the strategic height of the sustainable development of the Chinese nation and Chinese civilization, has made multiple field inspections of the Yellow River, traveling to all 9 provinces and regions along the upper, middle, and lower reaches of the river, presiding over 3 symposiums for special deployment, mapping out the major national strategy of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin, and issuing the call to "make the Yellow River a happy river that benefits the people."

The great river is tranquil, and everything is renewed and fresh (万象更新, wan xiang geng xin - "ten thousand, phenomena, renew, new").

From water quality improvement to ecological restoration, from green transformation to improvement of people's livelihoods, from regional coordination to acting in light of local conditions, General Secretary Xi Jinping's concern and promotion have been translated into vivid practice up and down the great river, and a magnificent movement of a new-era "Yellow River Chorus" is being played out.

Mapping out a plan for the ages, establishing new coordinates for Yellow River governance from a strategic height

Rivers and streams nourish civilization, and the fortunes of waterways are linked to the fortunes of the nation.

General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: "To achieve peace and prosperity for the country and people (国泰民安, guo tai min an - "country, peaceful, people, safe") and years of good harvests (岁稔年丰, sui ren nian feng - "year, ripe, year, abundant"), one must be skilled at water management."

On September 17, 2019, at the Yellow River Museum in Zhengzhou, Henan. General Secretary Xi Jinping stood for a long time in the "Centuries of River Governance" exhibition hall, gazing for a long time at a map of historical Yellow River course changes: "In a sense, the history of the Chinese nation's governance of the Yellow River is also a history of state governance."

"When the Yellow River is peaceful, the world is at peace."

Starting from the northern foothills of Bayan Har Mountains, the Yellow River surges 5,464 kilometers before flowing into the vast sea. Bordering the Kunlun Mountains to the west, reaching the Yinshan Mountains to the north, leaning against the Qinling Mountains to the south, and facing the Bohai Sea to the east, the Yellow River basin spans the eastern, central, and western regions, nurturing the splendid Chinese civilization.

The nine-bend Yellow River carries ten thousand miles of sand. This great river is prone to heavy siltation, frequent breaches, and frequent course changes. In the more than 2,500 years from the pre-Qin period to the founding of New China, its lower reaches experienced more than 1,500 breaches and 26 course changes.

In order to harness the Yellow River well, for thousands of years, the Chinese nation has continuously struggled against the Yellow River's floods and droughts. The history of Yellow River governance, written with hardship, reflects the history of suffering, struggle, and state governance of the Chinese nation.

Eighty years ago, Chinese Communists took up this historic task of Yellow River governance.

In 1946, after the government of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Border Region became aware of the Kuomintang's plan to return the Yellow River to its old course, it decided, in accordance with instructions from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, to prepare for the establishment of a Yellow River governance institution led by the Communist Party of China. The first river governance institution in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Liberated Area — the Yellow River Old Course Management Committee — was established, later renamed the Yellow River Water Conservancy Commission of the Hebei-Shandong-Henan Region. The Communist Party of China led the people in opening a new chapter in the cause of Yellow River governance.

After the founding of New China, Party and state leaders attached great importance to the cause of Yellow River governance. In October 1952, Comrade Mao Zedong, on his first inspection trip outside Beijing after the founding of New China, came to the banks of the Yellow River and proposed "getting the affairs of the Yellow River done well." Since the reform and opening up, Party and state leaders including Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Hu Jintao have all personally visited the banks of the Yellow River to plan the strategy for Yellow River governance.

The great river flows day and night, carrying the deep affection of family and country across ten thousand miles.

Entering the new era, Yellow River governance faces new situations and new challenges. General Secretary Xi Jinping, examining this great river with a far-reaching historical perspective, profoundly pointed out: "Solidly advancing the great protection of the Yellow River and ensuring the safety and tranquility of the Yellow River are major matters of state governance."

In August 2019, during an inspection in Gansu, General Secretary Xi Jinping explicitly stated: "I once said that 'the Yangtze River is sick,' and quite seriously so. Today I want to say that the Yellow River has also long been frail and prone to illness, with frequent floods."

In September of the same year, at the symposium on ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin held in Zhengzhou, Henan, General Secretary Xi Jinping got straight to the point: "I have always been very concerned about the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin" and "No matter how busy I am, I must still arrange time to seriously study the Yellow River issue. The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to this issue."

At this symposium, General Secretary Xi Jinping explicitly proposed the overall guideline for Yellow River governance of "protection is the priority, governance is the key." The General Secretary sorted through the "illnesses" of the Yellow River one by one: flood risk remains the greatest threat, the ecological environment of the basin is fragile, the situation for water resource security is severe, and the quality of development needs improvement... "'Don't you see the waters of the Yellow River coming down from heaven!' How magnificent that was! Now how much effort is required to ensure the river never runs dry."

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Investigating the reasons, there are both objective constraints of congenital deficiencies and human factors of acquired neglect. These problems manifest on the surface in the Yellow River, but their roots lie in the entire basin."

Subsequently, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium in Jinan, Shandong in 2021 on deeply advancing the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin, and a symposium in Lanzhou, Gansu in 2024 on comprehensively advancing the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin. From "deeply advancing" to "comprehensively advancing," with consistency from beginning to end (一以贯之, yi yi guan zhi - "one, use, through, continue") and progressive deepening at every step, this national strategy for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin has continued to advance in depth.

Always keeping this matter in mind (念兹在兹, nian zi zai zi - "think, this, exist, this"), mapping out and providing leadership. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, from the source of the three rivers to the mouth of the Yellow River, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made dozens of inspection visits to provinces and regions in the Yellow River basin, tracing history, inquiring about ecology, inspecting flood control, and visiting people's livelihoods.

This is deep concern for the safety and tranquility of the Yellow River —

In March 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the last bend of the Yellow River — the bank of the Yellow River at the Dongbatou section in Lankao, Henan — and inquired in detail about Yellow River flood control and the production and living conditions of the people in the floodplain areas; in September 2019 in Henan, the General Secretary came to the Yellow River Museum and the Yellow River National Geopark to gain an in-depth understanding of the history of the Chinese nation's governance of the Yellow River and to inspect on site the ecological protection and embankment construction of the Yellow River.

This is a high degree of attention to the ecological environment of the Yellow River basin —

In July 2016, during an inspection in Ningxia, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that "Yellow River protection must be strengthened, acts that pollute the Yellow River must be resolutely eliminated, and the mother river must be kept forever healthy"; in August 2016, during an inspection in Qinghai, he urged the locality to "must shoulder the major responsibility of protecting the source of the three rivers and protecting the 'Chinese Water Tower'"; in April 2020, during an inspection in Shaanxi, he emphasized "promoting the transformation of the Yellow River basin from excessive intervention and excessive exploitation to natural restoration and resting and recuperating to recover strength (休养生息, xiu yang sheng xi - "rest, nourish, grow, breathe"), and improving the quality of the ecological environment of the basin"; in October 2021, he came to the mouth of the Yellow River in Dongying, Shandong, and instructed local responsible comrades to "treat the protection of the Yellow River estuary wetlands as a noble cause."

This is diagnosis and prescription for the utilization of Yellow River water resources —

At the Jinan symposium, General Secretary Xi Jinping mentioned his experience of using water in northern Shaanxi in his youth, emphasizing the comprehensive implementation of the principle of "determining water use by water availability, determining land use by water availability, determining population by water availability, and determining production by water availability," noting that "you can only soak as much steamed bun as you have soup," and that water resources must be used with careful calculation and frugality, so that water resources are used where they are most needed; in June 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the water quantity informatization monitoring center of the Hetao Irrigation District in Bayannur, Inner Mongolia, and listened to introductions about the use of informatization methods to improve the refined management level of the Hetao Irrigation District and promote the green and efficient utilization of water resources, emphasizing that "work must continue to be improved and upgraded, and the level of scientific water distribution and dispatch must be raised. At the same time, one must live within one's means (量入为出, liang ru wei chu - "measure, income, as, output") and establish a diversified investment mechanism."

This is a clear requirement for high-quality development in provinces and regions along the Yellow River —

In June 2020, during an inspection in Ningxia, General Secretary Xi Jinping required "striving to build a pioneer zone for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin"; in 2025 in Shanxi, the General Secretary expressed expectations for Yangquan Valve Co., Ltd., a century-old factory: "The transformation and upgrading of traditional industries can also develop new quality productive forces" and "old enterprises can equally achieve high-end, intelligent, and green development"; in October this year, in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, General Secretary Xi Jinping urged the locality to coordinate high-quality development and high-level protection, adhere to the integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, grasslands, and deserts, and coordinately advance carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and economic growth, unswervingly following the path of ecological priority and green development.

Protecting the Yellow River is a great undertaking of lasting importance concerning the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and its sustainable development.

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Following the development strategy for the Yangtze River Economic Belt, we have proposed the strategy for ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin, and the nation's 'river strategy' has thus been established."

The Yellow River, this ancient great river, surges forward in the new era.

Coordinating policies and measures, playing the chorus of coordinated Yellow River governance

The difficulty of Yellow River governance lies in "nine dragons managing the water," and its success lies in coordinated efforts.

In September 2019, at the symposium on ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin held in Zhengzhou, Henan, General Secretary Xi Jinping cited a set of data:

The per capita share of Yellow River water resources is only 27% of the national average, the water resource development and utilization rate far exceeds the 40% ecological warning line for general river basins, and the per capita gross regional product of Yushu Prefecture in Qinghai at the source differs from that of Dongying City in Shandong at the river mouth by more than 10 times...

The key to solving the problem must be to reshape the governance pattern with a unified, coordinated plan (一盘棋, yi pan qi - "one, board, chess") for the entire basin.

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized "adhering to overall planning and coordinated advancement," and explicitly required "promoting new progress in ecological protection across the entire basin, new advances in green transformation, new results in high-quality development, and new improvements in the lives of the people, and creating a new situation for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin."

Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, a systematic governance effort spanning 9 provinces and regions and traversing mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasslands, and deserts has been fully rolled out up and down the great river —

Applying treatment based on syndrome differentiation, continuously improving the pattern of great protection and great coordination of the Yellow River basin ecology, and building a solid national ecological security barrier.

In the autumn of 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Gaoxigou Village in northern Shaanxi. Looking up and gazing intently (举目凝望, ju mu ning wang - "raise eyes, gaze"), the ridges and gullies of the loess land were clad in green. The General Secretary praised: "Gaoxigou Village is a model of ecological governance on the Loess Plateau."

The greening of the loess land tests the wisdom of acting in light of local conditions and systematic governance. Terraced fields are built on gentle slopes, silt-retention dams are built in gullies, reservoirs are constructed to irrigate farmland, and high and distant mountains are covered with forests... Over the years, Gaoxigou Village has uniformly planned ecological restoration plans according to natural conditions, achieving the goal that on rainy days "mud does not leave the mountain, and floods do not leave the gullies," and the problem of soil erosion has been gradually improved.

As of 2025, the Yellow River basin has cumulatively completed preliminary treatment of soil erosion over an area of more than 290,000 square kilometers; compared with the 1990s, the area of soil erosion in the current Yellow River basin has decreased by nearly half.

"We must adhere to comprehensive, systematic, and source-level governance of mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, lakes, and grasslands" "The Yellow River ecosystem is an organic whole" "Full consideration must be given to the differences between the upper, middle, and lower reaches"... Systematic thinking and dialectical thinking run through the entire process of General Secretary Xi Jinping's guidance on the ecological protection and governance of the mother river.

Once the main rope is pulled, the net opens. Strengthening the joint prevention and control of the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program, continuing to fight the battle against pollution, and lawfully rectifying "scattered, disorderly, and polluting" enterprises... In order to further highlight the systematic, holistic, and coordinated nature of Yellow River governance, in recent years, an integrated ecological environment governance system connecting the upper and lower reaches has been continuously constructed, major projects for the protection and restoration of important ecosystems have been deeply implemented, and the stability of the Yellow River basin ecosystem has been continuously improved.

Qinghai's Sanjiangyuan region has implemented comprehensive projects covering multiple elements including glacier protection, permafrost protection, and vegetation restoration; Inner Mongolia has continued to fight the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program battle, concentrating resources and efforts to implement a number of key projects; Henan and Shandong have signed a horizontal ecological protection compensation agreement, reversing the governance situation of one-way governance and unequal rights and responsibilities... Provinces and regions along the Yellow River have joined hands and acted in light of local conditions to fight the battles for blue skies, clear waters, and clean soil, explored the establishment of whole-basin, market-based, and diversified ecological protection compensation mechanisms, and made every effort to build a solid ecological security barrier for the Yellow River basin.

Green transformation, stimulating new momentum for development in the Yellow River basin.

Sea breezes blow, and machines roar. In October 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Shengli Oilfield at the mouth of the Yellow River for inspection and research.

After carefully listening to researchers' introductions on key technologies such as carbon dioxide capture, utilization, and storage, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "For our petroleum and energy industry, the next step is to improve technology, continuously increase production capacity and reduce costs, while following the direction of green and low-carbon transformation to achieve the goals of energy conservation and carbon reduction."

"Green and low-carbon development is the trend of the times; those who follow it prosper." General Secretary Xi Jinping said with deep feeling, clarifying the general direction of high-quality development in the Yellow River basin.

In recent years, provinces and regions along the Yellow River have unswervingly followed the modernization path of ecological priority and green development, actively exploring new paths for high-quality development with regional characteristics —

In Yuncheng, Shanxi, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "the ecological value and function of the salt lake are becoming increasingly important." Thanks to the "returning salt lakes to nature" policy, the ecological functions of the local salt lake have been gradually restored, providing space for the upgrading of the cultural tourism industry.

In Helan County, Yinchuan, Ningxia, regarding the development of modern specialty agriculture, the General Secretary urged "paying attention to properly resolving the contradiction between rice cultivation and water resources." With the support of water-saving technologies, the contradiction between water supply and demand in Helan County has been significantly alleviated, and both the quality and efficiency of agricultural production have improved.

In Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, the General Secretary emphasized that "new energy and clean energy must be vigorously developed, and efforts must be made to achieve carbon peak and carbon neutrality." At present, Inner Mongolia's energy transformation is advancing steadily, with new energy power generation ranking first in the country.

Clear waters and green mountains are gold and silver mountains. Provinces and regions in the Yellow River basin coordinate development and protection, balance supply and demand, and plan for the present and the long term, continuously converting the ecological "green content" into the "gold content" of development.

Reform empowers, building a solid foundation for high-quality development in the basin.

Water is a key variable affecting regional development. Water scarcity has always been a key contradiction constraining high-quality development in the Yellow River basin.

In June 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Ningxia, and upon learning that the autonomous region had signed a cross-provincial water rights transaction with Sichuan's Aba Prefecture, also located in the Yellow River basin, he encouraged active exploration and standardized promotion.

By optimizing the allocation of water resource use rights through market mechanisms, water use rights trading is expanding new development space for the Yellow River basin. At present, the water use rights trading platform for the Yellow River basin has been launched and put into operation, and practical exploration of water use rights trading has achieved remarkable results.

Development poses the questions, and reform provides the answers. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized ensuring the stable and long-term progress of ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin through sound systems and institutional mechanisms.

Since the new era, a series of institutional plans have been successively issued — in October 2020, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the Outline of the Plan for Ecological Protection and High-Quality Development of the Yellow River Basin, mapping out a long-term blueprint for protecting the mother river; in June 2022, the Plan for Ecological Environment Protection in the Yellow River Basin was issued, clarifying specific directions for efforts; on April 1, 2023, the Yellow River Protection Law of the People's Republic of China came into effect, consolidating the concepts of overall coordination and systematic governance into legal measures.

A series of institutional mechanisms have been continuously improved — improving the Yellow River basin management system, improving the mechanism for realizing the value of ecological products, improving the organizational system of the river chief system and lake chief system... Relying on reform, provinces and regions along the Yellow River are successively writing new chapters of high-quality development.

"Promoting ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River basin requires sustained, long-term effort (久久为功), pushing forward year by year and implementing year by year." "The merits and benefits of Yellow River governance must be measured in terms of centuries and millennia; one cannot be hasty, and one cannot be careless." General Secretary Xi Jinping spoke with earnest sincerity.

The Yellow River is beautiful, and it will be even more beautiful in the future.

The great river moves toward the new, writing a happy answer sheet that benefits the people

The governance of the Yellow River is, in the final analysis, for the people.

Today, up and down the great river, the ecology is improving, industry is turning green, and life is becoming more beautiful, with the results of protection and governance benefiting thousands of households.

Water systems nourish the ecology, and clear waters and green mountains have reappeared on both banks of the great river.

In the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve in Shandong, the young land formed by the deposition of large amounts of sediment nurtures boundless vitality and hope.

In October 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping stood at the pier at the mouth of the Yellow River, gazing into the distance: "The Yellow River flows into the sea — how vast it is! Having come here today, I have now visited the upper, middle, and lower reaches of the Yellow River, and my heart is at ease."

In recent years, the reserve has invested 1.56 billion yuan in integrated protection and restoration of the land-sea ecosystem, adding 74,000 mu of freshwater wetlands, dredging 76 kilometers of tidal channels, and connecting 241 kilometers of water systems.

Now, this place possesses the most complete, most extensive, and youngest wetland ecosystem preserved in China's warm temperate zone, spanning two major migratory bird flyways — the East Asian-Australasian and the West Pacific — and is an important transit point, wintering habitat, and breeding ground for global bird populations.

It is already late autumn, and flocks of migratory birds such as Dalmatian pelicans and Eurasian spoonbills take off from the reed marshes and shallows, gathering and wheeling in the air. The number of bird species has grown from 187 at the time of the reserve's establishment to about 400. The calls of birds sing the movement of the Yellow River's year-after-year tranquility.

In 2024, at the 46th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, the second phase of the Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the Coast of the Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf of China passed review smoothly, and the Yellow River Estuary in Dongying, Shandong was extended for inclusion in the World Heritage List.

The Fen River is the mother river of Shanxi and the second largest tributary of the Yellow River. In June 2017, during an inspection in Shanxi, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed making the Fen River "richer in water volume, better in water quality, and more beautiful in scenery." In 2025, the 716-kilometer river channel achieved continuous water flow throughout its entire length, and the proportion of excellent water quality in the Fen River basin reached 95.2%, basically realizing "a stream of clear water flowing into the Yellow River."

Wuliangsuhai Lake, located at the top of the "several-bend" of the Yellow River, is the largest lake wetland in the Yellow River basin. In June 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a special trip to inspect Wuliangsuhai Lake, emphasizing that "it must be governed with care and nurtured with devotion, with consistency from beginning to end and sustained, long-term effort," and urging the locality to "guard this 'pearl beyond the Great Wall.'" The locality has scientifically promoted ecological governance with a systematic approach. Today, the water quality of Wuliangsuhai Lake has significantly improved, and it has become a paradise for migratory birds.

In 2022, the main stream of the Yellow River reached Class II water quality along its entire length for the first time. In recent years, the water quality of the main stream has continued to maintain Class II and has shown steady improvement.

Water security nourishes people's livelihoods, and the picture of happiness is gradually unfolding.

The Hetao Irrigation District, one of the three super-large irrigation districts in the country, was once a gravity-flow irrigation area without gate control, where "in drought it was difficult to divert water, and in flood the water spread across the floodplain." After the founding of New China, the Party Central Committee was determined to solve this problem and built a single-head-gate gravity-flow irrigation district. The Sanshenggong Water Control Project, known as the "first gate of the ten-thousand-mile Yellow River," was thus completed.

In June 2023, in front of the sand table at the water quantity informatization monitoring center of the irrigation district, General Secretary Xi Jinping carefully examined the seven-level irrigation and drainage system. The main canal runs through the irrigation district, and capillary-like branch canals extend into the farmland, with the water level and flow rate at each capillary clearly marked.

"This system has required great effort, and it is worth it. In the future, it will be preserved as a foundation for centuries and millennia." General Secretary Xi Jinping said with feeling.

Since the new era, various localities and departments have continuously improved the Yellow River flood control, sediment reduction, and irrigation engineering system: the main stream of the Yellow River has cumulatively built about 3,000 kilometers of embankments and about 2,300 kilometers of river regulation works; 40 large reservoirs including Longyangxia, Liujiaxia, Sanmenxia, and Xiaolangdi provide solid support for flood control and water diversion; thanks to the poverty alleviation Yellow River irrigation project, people and land in the arid areas of Ningxia have access to Yellow River water...

The Yellow River basin is a region where multiple ethnic groups live together. Due to historical and natural conditions, economic and social development has been relatively lagging, especially in the upper and middle reaches and the downstream floodplain areas, which were once regions with relatively concentrated poverty-stricken populations in China.

"Poverty-stricken areas must improve infrastructure and public service levels and make every effort to guarantee and improve people's livelihoods" "continuously improve people's lives and promote common prosperity" "strengthen inclusive, basic, and bottom-line livelihood guarantees"...

On every inspection visit to provinces and regions along the Yellow River, and at every symposium he presided over, General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about the well-being of the people and has always carefully inquired about the production and living conditions of the masses.

Fumin New Village in the Huanghuatan ecological resettlement area of Gulang County, Gansu, is a typical village that has achieved poverty alleviation and prosperity through relocation. In the past, the villagers mostly lived in the deep mountainous areas of the south, where natural conditions were harsh, and "one piece of land could not support one person."

In August 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping came here, walking along the clean and spacious village roads, looking as he went —

At the village primary school, he carefully asked the children "Is school far from home?" "Where do you eat lunch?" "What courses are offered?"

At the convenience service hall of the village Party and mass service center, he specifically asked: "How many health clinics are there in the village?" "Are they all general practitioners?"

Entering a villager's home, he carefully learned about the improvement of housing and the renovation of water supply and toilets, and asked the villagers "Are you satisfied after moving down here? Do you have any other requests?"

Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, through targeted poverty alleviation, the poverty-stricken population in areas along the Yellow River has achieved stable poverty alleviation, and the lives of the people have been significantly improved.

Water veins connect cultural veins, continuing the roots and soul of the Chinese nation's endless vitality.

In September 2024, inspecting the Baoji Bronze Ware Museum, the Fuxi Temple in Tianshui, and the Maijishan Grottoes, General Secretary Xi Jinping's trip to Gansu and Shaanxi began with culture.

Standing before the national treasure bronze vessel He Zun, General Secretary Xi Jinping pondered for a long time.

The inscription on the He Zun contains the phrase "Zhai Zi Zhongguo" (residing in the central state), which has become the earliest written record of the word "China" to date.

"At that time, 'China' was a geographical concept, wasn't it?" the General Secretary asked.

The word "China," which has united hundreds of millions of Chinese people since ancient times, has continued through thousands of years of inheritance, becoming a mark of civilization that discards the old and embraces the new and shines with ever-renewed brilliance, where still waters run deep interwoven with surging waves.

General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out that Yellow River culture is an important component of Chinese civilization and the root and soul of the Chinese nation. "The systematic protection of Yellow River cultural heritage must be advanced, and the precious heritage left to us by our ancestors must be safeguarded."

In recent years, provinces and regions along the Yellow River and relevant departments have accelerated the formulation of specific plans, implementation plans, and policy systems, and have deeply advanced the construction of the Yellow River National Cultural Park; in Sichuan, a protection mechanism for cultural heritage in areas along the Yellow River has been effectively established, and a number of major landmark cultural projects are being implemented in an orderly manner; in Qinghai, the systematic protection of Yellow River cultural heritage has been strengthened, and major landmark cultural projects have been created... In practice, various localities are protecting and promoting Yellow River culture, inheriting the historical and ethnic roots, and deeply exploring the contemporary value of Yellow River culture.

The Yellow River has tempered the national spirit.

General Secretary Xi Jinping once said with deep emotion: "The Foolish Old Man who moved the mountains, and Yu the Great who tamed the floods — the Chinese nation has struggled against natural disasters for thousands of years, accumulating valuable experience, and we must continue this struggle."

The Yellow River surges forward, and with its indomitable and majestic momentum has shaped the national character of the Chinese nation's unremitting self-improvement.

In Lankao County, where the last bend of the Yellow River is located, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the Memorial Hall of Comrade Jiao Yulu, located on the sand dunes of the former old course of the Yellow River, and profoundly pointed out that the Jiao Yulu spirit "was, is, and will remain a valuable spiritual asset of our Party";

Coming to Shanxi, an important barrier guarding the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the ecological security of the Yellow River, the General Secretary emphasized carrying forward the "Youyu spirit": "do more things that benefit the present, benefit the long term, and benefit future generations";

"The reason rivers can burst through sheer cliffs and narrow passes is that they have accumulated the primordial power of surging for a thousand miles and converging from ten thousand ravines..." On the new journey of building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation, what the Yellow River has gathered is an irresistible and mighty force.

The great river flows on, never ceasing day or night.

Standing at the juncture of 80 years of the Party leading the people in governing the Yellow River, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, hundreds of millions of people will continue to strive with sustained, long-term effort, and will surely continue to write new chapters in the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River basin, so that the mother river will forever benefit the Chinese nation.

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 1)

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President Xi Jinping's Special Envoy and Director of the General Administration of Sport of China Gao Zhidan Attends Opening Ceremony of the 4th Youth Olympic Games

(Xinhua News Agency, Dakar, October 31) At the invitation of the government of the Republic of Senegal, President Xi Jinping's special envoy and Director of the General Administration of Sport of China Gao Zhidan attended the opening ceremony of the 4th Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, the capital of Senegal, on October 31. On the morning of the same day, Senegalese President Faye met with Gao Zhidan in Dakar.

Gao Zhidan conveyed President Xi Jinping's cordial greetings and good wishes to Faye, stating that China attaches great importance to developing China-Senegal and China-Africa relations, is willing to continuously enrich the connotation of the China-Senegal comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership, actively give play to the unique role of the Olympic Movement in promoting peace, unity, and inclusiveness, and make greater contributions to jointly building a China-Africa community with a shared future in the new era that is all-weather.

Faye asked Gao Zhidan to convey his sincere greetings to President Xi Jinping and thanked President Xi Jinping for sending a special envoy to attend the 4th Youth Olympic Games. Faye spoke highly of Senegal-China relations, saying that China is one of Senegal's most important partners, and thanked President Xi Jinping and the Chinese government for their strong support over the years for Senegal's economic and social development and for hosting this Youth Olympic Games.

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Chairwoman of Russia's Federation Council to Visit China

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 1) At the invitation of Zhao Leji, chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, Chairwoman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matviyenko will lead a delegation to visit China from November 1 to 3.

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Page 1 editors: Hu Anqi, Zhao Zheng, Luan Xinyi; Page 2 editors: Lin Lin, Qi Jiarun, Guo Xueyan; Page 3 editors: Liu Nian, Cui Bin, Zhang Xueyan; Page 4 editors: Han Xiaoming, Jiang Bo, Guan Haoyu

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Balancing "From 0 to 1" and "From 1 to N" (People's Commentary)

By: 邹 翔

Industrial innovation "from 1 to N" can also feed back into scientific and technological innovation "from 0 to 1." The deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation can fully achieve two-way empowerment.

Opening the 2025 list of typical reform cases from national independent innovation demonstration zones, one can discern a distinctive feature: many of the selected cases directly target the pain point of difficulty in transforming scientific and technological achievements.

Some adopt an "empowerment + agreed returns + fault tolerance and liability exemption" model to stimulate the initiative of scientific researchers; some implement a "grant-investment combination" model to break the dilemma of "daring not to invest"; some use a "dual appointment and mutual recognition" mechanism to remove barriers to talent introduction and mobility... Adhering to a problem-oriented approach, innovating with determination (锐意创新, ruì yì chuàng xīn - "sharp, resolute, innovate") and boldly exploring, they ignite the powerful engine for the development of new quality productive forces.

General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized "strengthening the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation," and has profoundly pointed out: "Original technologies must go from '0' to '1,' transforming from experiments into realization, rather than remaining at the paper stage. In the future, we must also stretch '1' longer and push it forward."

Behind this lies far-reaching consideration. The "2025 China Scientific and Technical Papers Statistics Report" shows that the global share of China's hot papers exceeded half for the first time, reaching 53.2 percent, ranking first in the world; at the same time, as of the end of 2025, the industrialization rate of invention patents in universities and scientific research institutions was only 10.1 percent and 17.2 percent respectively. A large number of achievements still remain at the paper level.

Science and technology are the primary productive forces, but technology does not automatically "grow into" productive forces. From principle exploration to market expansion, there lie in between such hurdles as concept validation, pilot testing, cost optimization, and scenario adaptation one after another. Precisely for this reason, the "Opinions on Developing New Quality Productive Forces" issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council places "accelerating the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productive forces" in an important position, not only pointing out the direction but also specifying concrete implementation paths, such as "planning and building concept validation and pilot validation platforms" and "exploring the establishment of whole-process evaluation mechanisms for science and technology projects."

For "deep integration," shifting from "technology supply" to "scenario traction" is the key.

Anhui's Wuhu has put forward "two lists" — a scenario opportunity list and a scenario capability list — linking the supply and demand sides, allowing more than 110 new products and new technologies to find a "place to display their talents" in real scenarios.

Jiangsu's Kunshan has inaugurated the country's first county-level "Scenario Office," which does not approve, does not issue documents, and does not distribute subsidies, but is dedicated solely to "finding applications for products and finding technologies for scenarios." Since its inauguration, it has helped multiple manufacturing enterprises connect with artificial intelligence partners.

Only by making every effort to remove ideological and conceptual constraints and institutional and mechanistic barriers that hinder high-quality development, and by enabling a seamless connection between the innovation chain and the industrial chain, can we activate a source of vitality and potential (一池春水, yi chi chun shui - "one, pool, spring, water") for the development of new quality productive forces.

Industrial innovation "from 1 to N" can also feed back into scientific and technological innovation "from 0 to 1." The deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation can fully achieve two-way empowerment.

In April this year, China's first million-cubic-meter-class salt cavern hydrogen storage demonstration project was officially put into operation in Pingdingshan, Henan Province. The breakthrough in related technology has verified the long-term sealing performance and engineering feasibility of hydrogen storage in layered salt rock, filling the key gap in large-scale, low-cost hydrogen storage; and when the "production-storage-transportation-use" of hydrogen energy enters a new stage of industrialization, the processes accumulated and data amassed in large-scale application will in turn consolidate the foundation for original innovation in the hydrogen energy field.

The smoother the cycle of "innovation — application — iteration — feedback — re-innovation," the faster the transformation of scientific and technological achievements into real productive forces, and the more conducive it is to accelerating the realization of high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology.

Innovation requires both market mechanism impetus and policy guidance. Recently, DeepSeek released a new version of its large model V4.1 Flash, reducing multi-scenario Token consumption by more than 50 percent. Looking back at the development path of China's large models, enterprises have been racing against each other in competition (你追我赶, ni zhui wo gan - "you chase, I run"), iterating and upgrading; the government has implemented the "East Data, West Computing" project, built a national integrated computing power network, and done a good job on new infrastructure. It is precisely the joint effort of the invisible hand and the visible hand that has allowed China's large models to continue to astonish the world.

By adhering to the combination of an effective market and a proactive government, strengthening the market's traction role in R&D directions and technology route selection, and giving play to the government's role as innovation organizer and ecosystem builder, we can better stimulate the innovation and entrepreneurial vitality of the whole society.

If "from 0 to 1" is the "spark," then "from 1 to N" is the "prairie fire." In building a strong country in science and technology, "accelerating the transformation from a global participant and contributor in science and technology to a pioneer and leader," we have taken a big step; on this basis, promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, an even greater blue ocean lies ahead.

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Listening to Nature, Seeing You and Me (Jintai Essay)

By: 孟繁哲

There is no need to seek afar; the shape of the wind, the breath of light, the pulse of emotion—all can become the language of cultural creation. Leave room for such inclinations, and familiar streets will keep growing new poetry.

Some say that once one touches nature, all the world feels kin. Indeed, before nature, people are more readily open to one another.

On the streets of Shanghai, a small cart painted blue with clouds sometimes drives by. Its windows are open; it sells no goods, plays no advertisements—it only beckons passersby to stop, share a snippet of birdsong, or casually draw a cloud.

This is the "Birdsong Radio" launched by an artist in 2022, which collects birdsong from all people and shares it through public spaces and such mobile "exchange stations." Over four years, the project has gathered more than 1,500 recordings of birdsong from 29 countries and regions. Each birdsong passes through the buildings, falls into people's hearts, links humans and nature, and gives strangers passing each other by (擦肩而过, ca jian er guo - "rub, shoulder, pass") a single moment of shared breath.

Today, the pace of life keeps accelerating, and floods of information pour in one after another, leaving people often with no time to notice the changes around them. Projects like "Birdsong Radio" are precisely an opportunity—reminding us to pause, to listen to nature's stirrings, to hear the voice within, and to see one another's faces.

Listening to the sounds of nature amid the clamor of the city requires the frame of mind of "idly tapping chess pieces as the lamp's wick falls," and also the convenience of "a quiet pavilion amid the sound of human voices." When natural scenery is integrated into the city and citizens can visit nearby and at their convenience, even a modern metropolis can retain poetry and preserve nostalgia.

In Beijing's Wenyu River Park, "lying-down bird-listening chairs" made from recycled meal boxes let visitors recline among the trees and quietly listen to birdsong; in Guangzhou, Guangdong, the Shamian Ancient Tree Park, relying on its 137 ancient trees, has improved its science-education system, launched an ancient-tree market and classes, and guided citizens to understand ancient trees and the city's cultural lineage. A reclining chair, a science session, a small corner garden—these are bridges built for the encounter between humans and nature. When more people are willing to pause, to see clearly, and to share gladly, the beauty of ecology naturally merges into the everyday rhythm of life.

What nature gives to the city is not only scenery to admire, but also stories and memories worth telling together. Fallen-leaf "lamps," fallen-leaf "animals," fallen-leaf "letters"... In Hangzhou, Zhejiang, at the China Academy of Art's Autumn Leaves Art Festival, fallen leaves are made into sculptures of various forms, drawing residents and tourists to stop and admire. Plane-tree leaves that would otherwise drift down with the seasons, through ingenuity, gain another layer of beauty for people to savor. There is no need to seek afar; the shape of the wind, the breath of light, the pulse of emotion—all can become the language of cultural creation. Leave room for such inclinations, and familiar streets will keep growing new poetry.

A public space that can long resonate with people and unite hearts often needs activity carriers that can hold emotions, host passions, and facilitate public participation. What it sustains is not only shared goals, but also the will to connect. In Suzhou, Jiangsu, multiple "community concentric gardens" have been built and incorporated into the volunteer service system: residents claim plants and participate in their care, while professionals provide technical support. In the process of meeting, chatting, and working together, neighborly trust is enhanced and emotional identification is strengthened—this is precisely the indispensable soil for cultural growth.

Life is by nature diverse and varied, and people's ways of getting close to nature differ as well. Only by nurturing an open and inclusive cultural foundation can everyone's passions be supported. Some enjoy lively gatherings on the grass, some prefer aimless strolls in green parks with no preset plan, and others savor quiet solitary listening among flowers and plants. There is no need to force the same rhythm, no need to cling to the same expression; put respect first, build bridges with understanding, and people from all corners of the country (天南地北, tian nan di bei - "sky, south, earth, north") can each find and enjoy their own unique beauty (各美其美, ge mei qi mei - "each, beautiful, its, beautiful") and share beauty and prosperity together (美美与共, mei mei yu gong - "beautiful, beautiful, with, share").

A city with warmth knows how to return nature to daily life, and also knows how to use nature's power to draw people closer to one another and warm each other. This inner spiritual connection builds a field of patient listening and sincere tolerance, allowing us to observe heaven and earth, to think across all things, and allowing every person to be heard, to be seen, to be understood. To accommodate poetic dwelling, to hear the echoes of the heart—there is no greater comfort in ordinary days than this.

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The Market Yardstick in "Melons Every Month" (Micro)

By: 周珊珊

In late autumn, the watermelon season should normally have drawn to a close, yet in the agricultural product market of Pengzhou, Sichuan, fresh watermelons continue to arrive in an unending stream. Melons from Jiamusi, Heilongjiang, travel more than 3,000 kilometers to reach the southwest. Northeastern melons, Guangxi melons, Myanmar melons, Laos melons, and local melons take turns on the market stage, so that here, year-round, "there are melons every month."

It is not just watermelons — all kinds of fresh produce circulate across regions in relay, giving people's palates "freedom in all four seasons." Behind this lies the continued growth of the unified national market, and it is also a vivid footnote to how Chinese agriculture has embedded itself in the dual circulation pattern and forged economic resilience.

Produce knows no distance, and markets know no off-season — this is the most direct change that the construction of the unified national market has brought to agriculture. In the past, in the circulation of agricultural products, regional barriers, information silos, and segmented transport raised transaction costs, and high-quality produce was often trapped in local markets, unable to travel far. Now, the unified national market has broken down invisible barriers, allowing produce to flow freely according to market rules and forming effective temporal complementarity.

Vegetables from Shouguang, Shandong, supply dining tables across the country; flowers from Yunnan "fly" overnight to florists in all directions; the "Old Man Melon," a specialty product once said to "never leave Xinjiang," now appears on shelves everywhere. The differentiated agricultural endowments of each region are transformed into a supply capacity shared by the whole society, allowing the dividends of development to cross mountains and seas and benefit farmers in production areas, merchants in circulation, and consumers at large.

The transformation of circulation not only links together the products of north and south, but also reshapes the logic of agricultural production, consolidating the foundation of the domestic economic cycle. Traditional agriculture is "plant first, sell later," relying on nature and weather for survival (靠天吃饭, kao tian chi fan - "rely on, heaven, eat, rice") and on luck to find markets, often falling into the predicament of mismatched supply and demand and "increased output without increased income." Today, the information network is set up in advance, orders are locked in ahead of time, and the production end adjusts varieties, controls scale, and optimizes off-peak scheduling in line with national market demand; some agricultural products have shifted toward "producing according to sales." On one end is the production supply of hundreds of millions of farming households; on the other is the continuously upgrading consumer demand of urban and rural residents. The positive interaction between the supply and demand ends steadily releases the potential of the super-large market.

A big market never develops behind closed doors. The Myanmar melons and Laos melons that take turns coming onto the market in Pengzhou bear witness to the unified national market simultaneously linking the domestic and international markets and two types of resources, promoting the positive interaction of domestic and international dual circulation. Relying on the mature cold-chain and trunk logistics systems at home, we can both send high-quality domestic agricultural products abroad and receive orderly entry of distinctive foreign agricultural products into the domestic market, enriching the supply system. Every time the market radius expands by one circle, production areas gain one more sales channel, consumers gain one more choice, and the economy's room for maneuver expands by one notch. This is precisely the micro-mechanism of dual circulation — the more volatile the external environment, the more it tests the stability of the industrial and supply chains, and this two-way flow continuously strengthens the resilience of the national economy.

It must also be noted that there are still shortcomings in weaving a dense circulation network. Insufficient cold-chain facilities at the end points in remote villages, the high cost for small farming households to connect with the big market, and redundant and loss-prone circulation links in some regions remain real difficulties. To advance the construction of the unified national market in depth, it is necessary to continue clearing bottlenecks and blockages through sustained, long-term effort and dynamic improvement.

By removing hidden barriers, smoothing the flow of factors, and optimizing institutional rules, and by building the unified national market better, the Chinese economy will demonstrate even stronger vitality and resilience.

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Emergency management bears on the safety of people's lives and property and on the overall situation of reform, development, and stability. During the period of the 15th Five-Year Plan, relevant departments will proceed from enhancing source prevention and engineering governance capacity, advancing the investigation and management of hidden dangers in major accidents, and accelerating the transformation of the fire safety governance model toward pre-incident prevention, among other measures, to strengthen the modernization of the national emergency management system and capacity, and to achieve a positive interaction between high-quality development and high-level safety.

This is expressed in verse:

Sharpening skills and deepening consensus,

Defense lines moved forward before trouble sprouts.

Safety underpins the foundation, development stays steady,

The eternal stability of the country (山河永固, shan he yong gu - "mountain, river, forever, firm") is as solid as a rock (若磐石, ruo pan shi - "as, large, rock").

Yuan Zhiwen

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A Form of Address Is a Steelyard

A Form of Address Is a Steelyard

Wu Cheng, Changzhou, Jiangsu

Working at the grassroots level, there is a knack to how the common people address you. A call of "Old Zhang" or "Little Li," a call of "Secretary" or "Director," a call of "that person over there" — different forms of address, different distances. A form of address is like a steelyard: it weighs the substance of one's practical work, and it also gauges the measure of one's interactions.

For the masses, whether a form of address feels close or not depends first on whether the cadre comes around often. If one often sits in their homes, asks more about daily necessities of life (柴米油盐, chai mi you yan - "firewood, rice, oil, salt"), and is good at resolving their urgent difficulties and anxious concerns, the masses will naturally be willing to call you "one of their own." But closeness is closeness; the proper measure must not be lost. Some cadres, once their relations with the masses have grown familiar, make casual promises, yet the masses may take them as government commitments. Once they cannot be fulfilled, trust is discounted. Therefore, one must be sincerely close to the masses, and even more so, one must be true to one's word.

When dealing with business operators, one must also pay attention to this point. Services must be proactive, and one should be a caring person who resolves worries and difficulties, but interactions must be clean and upright. Some cadres call entrepreneurs brothers, appearing warm and familiar, but in reality this easily blurs the line between public and private, appears improper in the eyes of the masses, and may even be exploited — to flaunt status and borrow influence for personal gain. Being close yet measured, clean yet effective, is the only way to both support development and hold the bottom line.

Handle affairs with a sincere heart, discipline oneself with a reverent heart, let warmth and principle coexist — only then can one earn a reputation that rings loud and clear and leave behind achievements that stand firm.

What Kind of Ceremonial Sense Does Marriage Need?

Li Yanjiao, Qiemo County, Xinjiang

Recently, two weddings have sparked heated discussion. A couple in Ningbo, Zhejiang held a "four-no wedding" — no bridal pickup, no wedding motorcade, no master of ceremonies, no makeup and photography crew. The bride's father went on stage and spoke for 41 seconds, then the banquet began directly. A couple in Huludao, Liaoning used AI (artificial intelligence) to generate wedding photos for use in wedding materials production. Some praised the streamlined, pragmatic approach, while others lamented it was "too sloppy." This inevitably makes one think: what kind of ceremonial sense does marriage truly need?

A wedding is a major event in life, but that does not mean it must involve great pomp and extravagance. Nowadays, many young people are doing subtraction at their weddings, removing unnecessary formalities and rituals (繁文缛节, fan wen ru jie - "elaborate, complex, superfluous, ceremonial"), and leaving behind sincere emotional expression and the witness of family and friends. Take that "four-no wedding": simple but not shabby, shifting the budget originally spent on wedding planning and motorcades to the quality of the banquet and hospitality for guests. The other couple used the time saved by AI wedding photos in exchange for more exclusive memories from their travel wedding. The forms were fewer, but the happiness was not one bit less.

To make frugal and civilized weddings understood and accepted by more people, it is necessary to carry out regular guidance for changing old customs and adopting new ones (移风易俗, yi feng yi su - "move, wind; change, custom"), and it is also necessary for relevant departments to provide more practical options and implementation platforms for simplified weddings. Gratifyingly, more and more places are already providing services up front, building the stage and paving the road for new trends. Some have added park registration points and outdoor certificate-awarding bases, integrating the ceremonial sense into natural scenery. Others rely on village cultural halls to create civilized wedding banquets, preserving the warmth of human relationships while reducing the economic burden.

Compared with the days after marriage, the wedding ceremony is but a single moment. Using a ceremony to open a married life that a couple manages with care — this is the most authentic meaning of a wedding.

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Future Mobility: An Undefined Long-Distance Race (People's Commentary)

By: 常言道

Recently, Tesla released a "flying car," sparking heated discussion. Some exclaim, "We have been left behind"; others treat it with contempt (嗤之以鼻, chi zhi yi bi - "sneer, with, at, nose"), calling it nothing more than a "big toy that hops high." Both judgments go to extremes and are too hasty. So, after all the excitement, with what vision and breadth of mind should we view such a technological demonstration?

We must maintain a clear-headed composure. We must not, upon seeing a novel demonstration, undervalue ourselves (妄自菲薄, wang zi fei bo - "presume, self, undervalue, thin"), ignoring the foundation that China's new-energy vehicles have accumulated.

Tesla's "flight" this time relies on cold-gas propulsion systems and the like to achieve brief liftoff and mid-air flips — indeed flashy. But regulations, scenarios, and safety certification are all still unknowns; how many people would be willing to drive sitting in front of two large compressed tanks is also open to question.

What China's new-energy vehicles hold in hand is a set of systematic solid skills: on speed, BYD's Yangwang U9 Xtreme topped the world's production-car top-speed list at 496.22 km/h; on charging, CATL's third-generation Shenxing ultra-fast charging battery reaches full charge in just over six minutes at room temperature, setting a new global record; on intelligent driving, Huawei, Li Auto, and others have released cockpit-driving integrated or end-to-end intelligent driving solutions, with technology continuously iterating...

Even in the flying car field, XPeng has already launched its split-type flying car, the "Land Aircraft Carrier." It can be said that Chinese automotive innovation is a breakthrough across multiple dimensions, deep cultivation along diverse paths, and advancement that delivers tangible results. Data is the most persuasive: China accounts for 35.6% of global automotive patent publications, with more than one in every three automotive patents worldwide coming from China. A moment of flashiness catches the eye, but pragmatic implementation is what enables making steady progress to achieve long-term success (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk, steady, reach, far").

Being clear-headed means not losing one's composure or becoming disorganized (自乱阵脚, zi luan zhen jiao - "self, disturb, battle, feet") because of others' demonstrations, and also not acting in an arrogant or conceited manner (目中无人, mu zhong wu ren - "eye, middle, no, person") because of existing achievements. When a new technology first emerges, even if it is still far from practical application, it has exploratory value, opening up possibilities for future mobility. We must avoid falling into "binary" thinking — either elevating it to a pedestal or trampling it to the ground.

Looking further, technological development accelerates breakthroughs precisely through competitive pursuit. China's open automotive industry has never feared competing on the same stage. Previously, we opened our doors wide to welcome Tesla to set up in Shanghai, creating the "Tesla speed" of starting construction, completing construction, and commencing production all within the same year — providing it with broad room for development while also generating a "catfish effect" that pushed Chinese automakers to accelerate innovation. This journey of mutual promotion has been something obvious to everyone (有目共睹, you mu gong du - "have, eye, together, see") across the entire industry.

Today, we have overtaken on the curve in electrification and intelligence, and we too have become that "catfish." The faster we run, the less we should dismiss others' explorations as useless or beneath notice. Moving from a major automotive country to an automotive power requires not winning at everything, but rather harboring an inclusive, level-headed mentality and creating a pattern of leadership and driving force. Running fast, we must also see far; having achievements, we must also maintain inner calm.

Future mobility is an undefined long-distance race, and we welcome more possibilities. With competition and cooperation in our eyes, composure under our feet, and vision in our hearts, and by focusing our energy on doing our own things well, the path of China's automotive development will surely grow ever broader.

(Excerpted from the "People's Commentary" WeChat public account)

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Page editors: Li Zheng, Zhang Fan, Yu Xuan

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"Here, I Felt the Warmth of Home"

By: 本报记者 琼达卓嘎 徐驭尧 人民网记者 次仁罗布

On the evening of November 1, the campus of Lhasa Nagqu Complete Middle School in Tibet was brilliantly lit (灯火通明, deng huo tong ming - "lamp, fire, completely, bright") and warm and cozy (暖意融融, nuan yi rong rong - "warm, feeling, melting, melting"). The first batch of 589 fifth- and sixth-grade teachers and students affected by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Baqing arrived smoothly at Lhasa Nagqu Complete Middle School, beginning their off-site resumption of classes and study life. Subsequently, a total of 1,495 students and 89 teachers from Maryu Township Primary School and Gangqie Township Primary School in Baqing County will arrive in succession for off-site class resumption.

At around 11 p.m., buses carrying the teachers and students drove into the campus, and the headlights illuminated the banner at the school gate reading "Welcome, Baqing children." As the doors opened, the children, carrying backpacks and luggage, got off in an orderly manner with the help of their teachers. On the November night in Lhasa, the air was piercingly cold (寒气袭人, han qi xi ren - "cold, air, attack, person"), but the children were dressed thickly and warmly. The leading teachers counted heads while helping the younger students adjust their hats and coats. The group walked along the lamp-lit path toward the cafeteria, where several staff members came forward, took the large pieces of luggage from the children's hands, and said softly, "Walk slowly, mind your step."

The cafeteria was brilliantly lit, and warmth rushed to meet them the moment they entered. On the dining tables were cups of steaming ginger cola, and beside them were basins of freshly cooked braised chicken legs, potato stewed with beef, and other hot dishes, along with candies that staff had specially portioned out for the children. "Considering that they are all elementary school students, we made these preparations especially," said Ciren Yuzhen, principal of Lhasa Nagqu Complete Middle School, as she handed ginger cola to the children and reminded them, "Careful, it's hot." Taking the warm drinks, the children's faces broke into shy yet happy smiles. The fatigue of the day's journey gradually dissolved in the warmth.

"We traveled on the road for a long time, and as soon as we got off the bus we saw teachers waiting for us, and they had also prepared chicken legs and cola for us. I was very moved," Baima Cuomu, a sixth-grade student from Maryu Township Primary School, told reporters. "Here, I feel the warmth of home. I will study hard together with my classmates."

Luo Meicuo is a villager of Village 6 in Gangqie Township and also a dormitory supervisor at Gangqie Township Primary School. She had arrived here five days earlier. "No need to worry about home — everyone has moved into prefabricated houses. These past few days I have been very happy. The new school has a beautiful and clean environment, and the children can resume classes," Luo Meicuo said with a smile as she briskly tidied the dormitory. Her son Nisang Ciren also arrived smoothly at the new school together with his classmates. "Before leaving home this morning, the child deliberately packed his schoolbag several times over," Luo Meicuo said, a smile in the corners of her eyes.

Qimi Rebudan, who handles logistics at Maryu Township Primary School, has been busy with various tasks and running errands (忙前忙后, mang qian mang hou - "busy, front, busy, back") these days, coordinating all kinds of support matters. Tonight he waited at the cafeteria entrance, watching the children file in one by one, occasionally stepping forward to pat a student on the shoulder and ask whether the journey had been tiring. "When we came, the school had already prepared everything for us. I was deeply moved. Dormitory arrangements, cafeteria coordination, teaching facilities, details of daily life — they have thought of everything in all aspects (方方面面, fang fang mian mian - "square, square, face, face") and very thoroughly," he said. He believes the students will feel at ease studying and living here, and the teachers will be able to devote themselves wholeheartedly to teaching.

It is understood that after the earthquake in Baqing County, Nagqu City, Maryu Township Primary School and Gangqie Township Primary School were relatively severely affected. Tibet promptly initiated the off-site resettlement and class resumption arrangements for students, transferring them to Lhasa Nagqu Complete Middle School for study, effectively ensuring the normal study and life of the affected students.

A cup of ginger cola, a piece of candy, a neatly made bed, a hot meal... The thoughtful and meticulous preparations at Lhasa Nagqu Complete Middle School let the teachers and students feel a deep warmth on the very night of their arrival.

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2026 "Forging a Strong Sense of Community — All Chinese Are One Family" Themed Publicity Campaign Xinjiang Centralized Interview Tour Launched

(Xinhua News Agency, Urumqi, November 1) (Reporter Sun Shaoxiong) The 2026 "Forging a Strong Sense of Community — All Chinese Are One Family" themed publicity campaign's Xinjiang centralized interview tour was launched on November 1.

This event will closely follow the main line of forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation, reflecting Xinjiang's experience and practices in ethnic work and its achievements in economic, social, and cultural development. The interview team will be divided into 3 routes heading to the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, entering communities and villages, orchards and fields, enterprises and campuses, recording the vivid scenes of the interaction and integration of ethnic groups (交往交流交融, jiaowang jiaoliu jiaorong - "social intercourse, exchange, blending") within the big family of the Chinese nation, telling well the stories of the Chinese national community, and telling well the stories of Xinjiang.

This event is carried out by the Central Publicity Department in conjunction with the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee and the National Ethnic Affairs Commission, organizing major central news media, industry media, media from provinces assisting Xinjiang, and local Xinjiang media to conduct research and interviews in Ili, Turpan, Kashgar, and other places. The event will last until November 7.

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Oleg races to the 'expo'

By: 本报记者 贾丰丰

"Thinking about catching the 'expo,' I was too excited to sleep." Thousands of kilometers of road, more than 10 hours of travel — Oleg came specifically for the "expo" — the 33rd China Yangling Agricultural High-Tech Achievements Expo and the 2026 SCO Agricultural Expo, held in Shaanxi from October 25 to 29.

Oleg comes from North Kazakhstan Region, Kazakhstan, is 36 years old, has worked with land and crops for about a decade, and farms more than a thousand mu of land. He also holds another title: deputy director of the North Kazakhstan Region Agricultural Experiment Station. This is one of the agricultural experiment bases co-built by Northwest A&F University and Kazakhstan.

"The base helps promote technology, guide management and protection, and prevent and control pests and diseases, but local crops have relatively weak disease resistance, and the pace of breeding for quality and efficiency gains is not fast enough..." Oleg cares about good seeds and good methods, hoping to carry out agricultural cooperation in China. He had finalized his itinerary early, coming to the expo to "hunt for treasure," "seek experience," and "explore the path."

"Hunting for treasure" — strolling the exhibition.

In the exhibition hall, he walked and looked as he went. Seeds, fertilizers, water-saving equipment, plant protection technologies — achievements from all directions made a concentrated appearance.

On the booth of Northwest A&F University, many wheat ears were laid out. He rubbed them, kneaded them, then put them under his nose and smelled them. "Can they withstand the cold wind? Can they adapt to the soil where we are?" Oleg pulled out his phone and used translation software to communicate with the staff.

Boarding the shuttle bus, Oleg came to the "on-site exhibition" — in the greenhouse of the Shaanxi Hybrid Rapeseed Research Center, rapeseed flowers were a sea of gold. New variety breeding, green prevention and control of pests and diseases, and supporting field management — the entire chain was clearly visible.

Rapeseed is also a "staple crop" of North Kazakhstan Region. "Local original varieties have unstable yields, and when disease strikes, farmers often have no way to deal with it," Oleg said. Experts brought out comparative data, and the yield-increase curve of improved seeds was immediately obvious (一目了然, yi mu le ran - "one, eye, clear, understand"). "The land of North Kazakhstan Region is waiting for cold-tolerant, stable-yield improved rapeseed varieties to take root." Oleg examined the trial samples closely, pulling experts aside to ask about soil quality, sowing dates, and management and protection...

"Seeking experience" — at the podium.

At Northwest A&F University, "dryland farming" is a research specialty. The exhibition hall featured a "mini classroom." On the blackboard and on screens, molecular breeding, disease-resistant selection, cultivation regulation — technical details were laid out one by one. Technologies he had only heard of before now appeared vividly before his eyes: a single seed contains genetic codes, and traits of high yield, cold tolerance, and disease resistance can be directionally bred and precisely improved in the laboratory.

Oleg kept taking notes. "Wheat's biggest fear is rust disease. Finding solutions at the genetic level — this is exactly the good prescription we urgently need!"

No sooner had this class ended than the roundtable podium was waiting for him.

At the SCO Modern Agricultural Development Roundtable, agricultural managers, agricultural technicians, and large grain-growing households from various countries sat together in discussion. "Leveraging the platform role of the SCO agricultural base to promote practical cooperation in water-saving agriculture in dryland areas of the SCO" was the theme of this meeting. Oleg spoke earnestly and listened carefully: "A bountiful harvest year after year is everyone's most simple wish."

"Exploring the path" — for cooperation.

With an excited heart, Oleg found his old partner — Li Yiya, head of Yangling Guohe Modern Agricultural Technology Transfer and Transformation Co., Ltd.

Starting in 2025, Li Yiya's team built rapeseed demonstration fields in North Kazakhstan Region, bringing Shaanxi's fine rapeseed varieties and standardized planting plans.

After one season of trials, per-mu yield increased by 20 to 30 percent over local traditional varieties. After a year of demonstration and drive, Shaanxi's high-quality rapeseed was promoted and planted on nearly 30,000 mu locally. "From sowing, field management and protection, to harvesting, we follow up on agricultural services throughout the entire process and purchase at unified prices, so farmers can steadily increase their income through good varieties and new technologies," Li Yiya said.

Old friends reunited, with new achievements again — a cooperation agreement was smoothly signed, to use Kazakhstan's own drought-resistant wheat varieties as a foundation, rely on China's molecular breeding technology to carry out targeted improvement, and cultivate new wheat lines with both drought resistance and disease resistance.

Yangling has become a vast fertile field connecting SCO member states. Since 2019, Yangling has built the SCO Agricultural Technology Exchange and Training Demonstration Base, and to date has trained about 300 doctoral students for SCO countries, trained 36,000 person-times of agricultural officials and experts, and built 10 overseas agricultural science and technology demonstration parks, with a radiation coverage of more than 30 million mu. The land where Oleg works and lives is one of them.

Carrying a full load of gains, Oleg is going home. "I want to tell everyone what I learned this time, and sow the new rapeseed and wheat varieties into our land."

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Preserving CIIE Memories, Witnessing the Expo's Progress (CIIE Stories)

By: 本报记者 曹玲娟

Since the first China International Import Expo in 2018, Feng Wei has collected more than 2,000 CIIE badges.

Feng Wei is a collector in Shanghai. His experience of collecting badges can be traced back to the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. That world-class event held "at his doorstep" made the young Feng Wei fall in love with collecting badges.

In 2018, another world-class event — the China International Import Expo — was held in Shanghai. Feng Wei became a venue construction worker for the first CIIE. Seeing volunteers wearing badges, his "badge complex" was awakened. His first collection was a set of 5 volunteer badges that Feng Wei assembled by exchanging his own World Expo badges with 5 volunteers from Shanghai University of Medicine & Health Sciences. "At that time, it was still during the exhibition setup phase, and the volunteers had entered the venue early to familiarize themselves with it. Therefore, every single one is very precious," Feng Wei recalled.

From the first session to the eighth, Feng Wei has kept his appointment with the CIIE every year, and the badges he has collected have grown in number and become increasingly exquisite. The volunteer badges bearing the words "March Forward, Youthful Expo" came from Shanghai Business School; the volunteer badges reading "With Me in Volunteering, Wonderful Because of You" came from Yunnan Minzu University; the Colombian double-badge set, featuring an avocado and a hummingbird respectively, was won by Feng Wei in a knowledge quiz activity... The stories behind each and every badge are still vividly remembered (历历在目, li li zai mu - "distinctly, in, eyes"). Feng Wei remarked with emotion: "The CIIE badge of each year is a small epitome of that year's expo, evoking the splendor of the grand event and the enthusiasm of its participants."

Looking at each badge, the images of the era leap before one's eyes.

Feng Wei clearly remembers that at the first CIIE, he saw a robotic arm displayed by a foreign company, which felt quite novel at the time. At the eighth CIIE, however, a large number of domestically produced humanoid robots showed off their skills on the same stage, filling Feng Wei with pride: "Every country showcases its industrial strength at the expo. Visiting the expo over these years, one can intuitively feel the rapid advancement of our country's science and technology."

Feng Wei also noticed that the CIIE is gradually evolving from an import commodity trading exhibition into a comprehensive international event that also serves as a showcase of various countries' cultures and a stage for industrial strength. Not only have many countries customized special badges for the CIIE, but more and more exhibiting companies have also launched exclusive badges. "Companies gain business opportunities at the expo, so naturally they attach increasing importance to it," Feng Wei said.

"The ninth CIIE is about to begin. I plan to go every day again, hoping to collect more distinctive badges and share the memories of the event with more people," Feng Wei said. He wants, through his collection and display, to help more people understand the CIIE.

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Construction begins on Phase III of Shandong Haiyang Nuclear Power Project

(People's Daily, Jinan, November 1) (Reporters Hou Linliang, Wang Yunshan) On October 31, the first concrete was poured for the nuclear island of Unit 5 of SPIC's Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant in Shandong, a key project under the national 15th Five-Year Plan, marking the official start of construction of the Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant Phase III project.

The Haiyang nuclear power plant site is planned in three phases for the construction of six million-kilowatt-class nuclear power units, with a total installed capacity of 7.6 million kilowatts. Units 5 and 6 of the Phase III project, which commenced construction this time, adopt domestically produced third-generation advanced passive pressurized water reactor nuclear power technology, and are the first nuclear power project in Shandong Province to start construction during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. With the official start of construction of the Phase III project, Haiyang Nuclear Power has entered a new stage of "cluster construction and cluster operation," and the pattern of diversified nuclear energy development and clustered development is being accelerated.

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Middle Route of South-to-North Water Diversion Project Completes 2025–2026 Annual Water Supply Task

(People's Daily, Beijing, November 1) (Reporter Wang Hao) The reporter learned from China South-to-North Water Diversion Group Corporation: As of October 31, the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project completed its 2025–2026 annual water supply task, delivering a cumulative annual total of 7.264 billion cubic meters of water to the receiving areas of Henan, Hebei, Beijing, and Tianjin. The project benefits 27 large and medium-sized cities along its route, with a beneficiary population of nearly 118 million people, providing strong water resource support and water security assurance for high-quality development of the economy and society along the route.

This year, on the basis of effectively guaranteeing water supply at the intake gates, the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project utilized surplus water volumes before and during the flood season, taking advantage of circumstances (相机, xiang ji - "opportunity, machine") to implement ecological water replenishment to 15 rivers along the route, including the Qing River, Jiayu River, Fuyang River, Qili River, and Zhi River, as well as to related areas, overfulfilling the summer concentrated replenishment plan issued by the Ministry of Water Resources, and effectively safeguarding the ecological security of rivers and lakes along the route.

In the next step, the South-to-North Water Diversion Group will focus on the goals of diverting more water and diverting good water, continuously enhancing the capacity for water supply security assurance, implementing precise and meticulous water volume dispatch, and ensuring that "a clear stretch of water continues to flow northward forever."

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New Achievements in Party Governance and Discipline to Open New Prospects for Development (Study and Implement the Spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee)

By: 本报记者

Our Party is committed to the centuries-long great cause of the Chinese nation, and Party building bears on the Party's future and destiny as well as the success or failure of the Party's and the country's cause.

At the critical juncture of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the critical period of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the "Decision on Several Major Issues Concerning Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party" deliberated and adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party has unified thinking, rallied people's hearts, and inspired morale, eliciting enthusiastic responses from all sectors of society.

The broad masses of Party members, cadres, and the people have earnestly studied and understood General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech and the spirit of the Plenary Session. They have expressed that they will unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building, take the spirit of the Plenary Session as their guide, persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, open up new prospects for the development of the cause with new achievements in governing and managing the Party, and deliver a new outstanding answer sheet for strengthening the Party and strengthening the country.

Based on the overall situation, serving and submitting to the development of the Party's and the country's cause

The more glorious the mission, the more arduous the task, the more the Party itself must be strong. The first major principle put forward by the Plenary Session for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is "adhering to serving the mission and tasks."

"This profoundly reveals the inherent laws between Party building, the Party's leadership, and the Party's and the country's cause, helps us accurately grasp the strategic judgment of the three 'more arduous' aspects, deeply understand the historical initiative spirit contained in the 'three inevitable requirements,' and helps us profoundly appreciate the strong sense of mission and responsibility of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party," said Wang Tao, director of the Party Building Teaching and Research Office of the Teaching and Research Department of the China Executive Leadership Academy Yan'an.

"Serving and submitting to the development of the Party's and the country's cause has always been an important principle of Party building. The more effective the governance and management of the Party, the stronger the guarantee for economic and social development." Yao Wenguang, director of the Department of Flood and Drought Disaster Prevention of the Ministry of Water Resources, said, "Water security is a major matter concerning the country's long-term peace and stability. We will take the spirit of the Plenary Session as our guide, uphold and strengthen the Party's overall leadership, effectively implement all tasks of governing and managing the Party, further promote the improvement of the river basin flood control engineering system, the rainfall and water regime monitoring and forecasting system, and the flood and drought disaster prevention work system, and make every possible effort to safeguard the safety of rivers and seas."

In the view of Chen Yang, secretary of the Hukou County Party Committee in Jiangxi Province, placing "adhering to serving the mission and tasks" first conveys our Party's great ambitions and aspirations and sense of responsibility in comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization. "Hukou is located at the mouth where Poyang Lake enters the Yangtze River, bearing the political responsibility of ensuring a lake of clear water flows into the river. We will use strict discipline to hold the ecological bottom line and transform ecological advantages into advantages for high-quality development; use a strict work style to guarantee the development environment, and coordinate high-level protection with high-quality development," Chen Yang said.

"Strictness is true responsibility toward cadres, is a high degree of responsibility toward the cause of the Party and the people, and is about forming a clean and upright political atmosphere within the Party and creating a favorable environment conducive to undertaking work and starting businesses by clarifying directions, establishing rules, rectifying conduct, and strengthening immunity," said Ma Xiaojie, secretary of the Party Committee of Lanzhou University. "We will take the spirit of the Plenary Session as our guide, unswervingly carry the requirements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party through all fields and all processes of governing and managing the Party and running the university, truly transform the political advantages of strict Party governance into governance advantages for running the university, and continuously write a new chapter of 'running a first-class university in the Northwest.'"

Grasping the direction, adhering to taking the Party's political construction as the guide

The Party's political construction is the fundamental construction of the Party and determines the direction and effectiveness of Party building. "Adhering to taking the Party's political construction as the guide" is one of the important principles followed by the Plenary Session in proposing to persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.

"Since the new era, our Party has placed political construction in the first position, always taking the Two Upholds as the highest political principle and fundamental political rule, fundamentally reversing the lax, weak, and loose situation in governing and managing the Party, and achieving great achievements in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party." Ma Ming, deputy secretary in charge of daily work of the Party Committee of the directly affiliated organs of the China Meteorological Administration (director of the Inspection Office), said that they will continue to deepen the special seminar on "taking the first square well," continuously extend the education of political organ awareness to the grassroots; solidly promote the creation of model organs, improve the mechanism of list-based management and closed-loop supervision, and test political responsibility on the front line of disaster prevention and reduction.

Adhering to taking the Party's political construction as the guide must ultimately be reflected in the practical work of all aspects of Party building, making it work together in the same direction with all other Party constructions and form a joint force.

"Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party must first be viewed from a political perspective, grasping the fundamental to solving various problems in Party building in the new era." Li Chuntian, secretary of the Binzhou Municipal Party Committee in Shandong Province, said that grasping political construction lies in practical implementation. We must take the spirit of the Plenary Session as our guide, carry political requirements through the entire process of cadre selection, education, management, and use, grassroots Party building quality improvement, and inspection and rectification closed-loop management, and test Party members' and cadres' political loyalty and political responsibility with solid development quality and tangible improvement in people's livelihoods.

"The system of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has distinct political attributes, requiring adherence to taking the Party's political construction as the guide and carrying political standards and political requirements through all aspects of Party building." Tang Bo, deputy secretary of the Yingshan County Party Committee and acting county head in Hubei Province, said, "Leading cadres are both organizers and promoters of the Party's political construction, as well as practitioners and demonstrators. They must take the lead in studying the Party's innovative theories, take the lead in strictly conducting intra-Party political life, take the lead in accepting supervision from the organization and the masses, take the lead in resolutely responding to what the Party Central Committee advocates, resolutely implementing what the Party Central Committee decides, and resolutely not doing what the Party Central Committee prohibits, and consciously maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core."

Firmly and faithfully practicing, building our Party well and building it strong

The principles proposed by the Plenary Session for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party reflect our Party's deepened understanding of the laws of building a Marxist ruling party. The broad masses of Party members and cadres have expressed that they will take Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building as their guide, deeply study and implement the spirit of the Plenary Session, get the thinking methods right, master the essential skills, and firmly and faithfully practice, and will surely build our Party well and build it strong.

"Adhering to comprehensive strictness conveys a clear signal that discipline enforcement will become stricter, standards higher, and constraints tighter as time goes on." Yan Chao, director of the Party Conduct and Government Integrity Supervision Office of the Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission of Chang'an District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, said that as a grassroots discipline inspection and supervision cadre, he will base himself on his post, adhere to strict daily supervision, adhere to strict discipline enforcement and accountability, closely focus on the operation of grassroots micro-power, focus on the implementation of policies benefiting the people, the management of rural collective "three assets" and other key links and key areas, carry out normalized supervision and inspection, strictly investigate clues, strictly handle, and strictly rectify.

"Since the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has adhered to a problem-oriented approach and rectifying long-standing problems and deep-seated issues, and the Party has become stronger and more powerful through revolutionary tempering." Chen Chuipei, deputy secretary in charge of daily work of the Party Committee of the directly affiliated organs of the General Administration of Customs, said that the customs bears the mission and responsibility of guarding the national gate and promoting development. It must take the spirit of the Plenary Session as its guide, adhere to a problem-oriented approach, strengthen bottom-line thinking and extreme thinking, build a high-quality cadre team with political excellence, strong abilities, good conduct, and strict discipline, and build a solid national gate security barrier.

"Upholding integrity enables us not to lose direction or make subversive mistakes, and innovation enables us to grasp the times and lead the times. The two run through all the practices of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era." Song Wei, professor at the School of Marxism of Tsinghua University, said that since the 18th National Congress of the Party, our Party has upheld integrity and carried forward the Party's fine traditions, always adhering to the tone of "strictness," from persistently strengthening work style construction to deeply advancing the fight against corruption, all reflecting the Party's adherence to and upholding of its nature and purpose; at the same time, the Party has paid attention to innovative paths, with ideological Party building and institutional Party governance working together in the same direction, and institutional tools such as inspections and intra-Party supervision have gradually taken shape. To persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, we must adhere to continuous innovation in the correct direction, achieving no deviation in direction, no reduction in intensity, and no cessation of innovation, and continuously open up new realms of governing and managing the Party.

"Adhering to leading by example from the top down is an important leadership method and working method for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. Take work style construction as an example: General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly proposed that the implementation of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee should start from the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and be promoted from top to bottom. It is precisely because the General Secretary took the lead and led by example from the top down that our Party has stopped some unhealthy tendencies that had long not been stopped, rectified some long-standing problems and deep-seated issues that had not been eliminated for many years, and won the hearts of the Party and the people." Zhang Ning, secretary of the Qiuxian County Party Committee in Hebei Province, said that full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is always on the way. We will continue to adhere to the tone of "strictness" without wavering, exercise power with integrity and for the people, while resolutely fulfilling the responsibility of governing and managing the Party, grasping at each level, implementing layer by layer, being honest and upright in conduct, and doing things cleanly and purely.

"Adhering to governing the Party according to rules and regulations is the long-term and fundamental strategy for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping creatively proposed 'governing the Party according to rules and regulations,' and the level of scientific, institutionalized, and standardized governance and management of the Party has been significantly improved." Zhou Lin, secretary of the Party Committee of Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), said, "We will conscientiously implement the spirit of the Plenary Session, use institutional rules to govern and manage the Party and the hospital. Major matters adhere to 'three major and one large' collective decision-making, not opening 'skylights' or leaving 'hidden doors,' while closely focusing on key areas such as drug and consumable procurement, equipment bidding, and infrastructure projects, putting power in the cage of institutions, and safeguarding the original aspiration of 'the people's hospital serving the people.'"

(People's Daily reporters Meng Xiangfu, Ouyang Jie, Li Hongmei, Wang Hao, Ding Yasong, Yao Xueqing, Zhang Danhua, Li Rui)

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Always Maintain Vigor and Vitality to Provide Fundamental Guarantee for Chinese Modernization (Study and Implement the Spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee)

At the important juncture of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, during the critical period of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and in the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party made systematic arrangements for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.

In recent days, cadres and the masses in various localities have been deeply studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session. Everyone unanimously expressed that this meeting fully demonstrated our Party's high degree of self-awareness in continuously advancing its own construction. The "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Persistently Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party" reviewed and adopted at the plenary session profoundly embodies the mission and responsibility of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in managing and governing the Party, and in revitalizing and strengthening the Party. On the new road of the examination, we must effectively unify our thoughts and actions with the spirit of the plenary session, build a solid foundation of faith, striving forward with determination (砥砺奋进, dili fenjin - "polish, strive; advance"), and strive to write a new chapter in Chinese modernization.

Seize historical initiative  Consolidate the foundation of governance

By the autumn shore of Baiyangdian Lake, the Xiong'an New Area in Hebei Province is gradually showing its new appearance. Industries such as artificial intelligence and aerospace information are rising vigorously, and the city's popularity continues to gather.

After the closing of the plenary session, cadres and staff of various departments in the Xiong'an New Area studied the spirit of the meeting at the first opportunity. "The development of the new area fully confirms that upholding the Party's leadership and full and rigorous self-governance of the Party are the fundamental guarantees for the implementation of major national strategies," said Liu Zhiliang, a member of the Party Working Committee of the New Area. "In the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, tasks are being fully rolled out. The more critical the stage, the more we must shoulder our responsibilities. We will deeply study and implement the spirit of the plenary session, keep in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's requirements on adhering to Party building to lead the governance of the New Area during his inspection of Xiong'an, implement and refine political responsibilities, lead and guarantee high-quality relocation and development with high-quality Party building, and solidly advance the construction of the 'City of the Future.'"

After more than a hundred years of trials and tempering, especially since the new era, the Communist Party of China has become stronger, more vigorous, and more dynamic through revolutionary forging, and has always been the strong leading core of the cause of the Party and the people.

The plenary session highly appraised the great achievements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era. Resounding statements such as "fundamentally reversing the lax, weak, and loose situation in Party management and governance" deeply resonated with Li Lepeng, Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Tianzhen County, Shanxi Province.

Li Lepeng stated that the great achievements in managing and governing the Party and revitalizing and strengthening the Party in the new era are fundamentally due to General Secretary Xi Jinping's helm and guidance, and to the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, which not only plans the overall layout from a global perspective, but also promotes full coverage of Party management and governance and layer-by-layer transmission, charting the direction and providing guidelines for grassroots supervision and discipline enforcement. "In recent years, we have focused on grassroots livelihood issues, using small entry points to rectify prominent problems in the management of rural collective 'three assets' (funds, assets, and resources), and have truly felt that only by grasping early and small matters and nipping problems in the bud (防微杜渐, fang wei du jian - "prevent, tiny, subtle, dawn") can we grasp the initiative in governance. In the next step, we will benchmark against the plenary session's arrangements, integratively advance the deterrence of corruption, the prevention of corruption, and the elimination of corruption, and provide strong guarantees for local transformation and development with the actual results of rectifying work styles, enforcing discipline, and combating corruption," Li Lepeng said.

Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era has many favorable conditions, but at the same time, we must clearly see that it also faces many new situations and new problems, and we absolutely cannot slacken or pause.

Chen Peng, a researcher at the Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, said: "The two words 'persistently' (chizhiyiheng) condense the practice of Party management and governance and mark the course for the new journey." He stated that the "Decision," guided by Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, has landmark significance for strengthening Party construction. Full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is always on the way; we must continue to study deeply and act earnestly (深学笃行, shen xue du xing - "deep, study, earnest, practice") Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, solve prominent problems within the Party with higher standards and more practical measures, and uphold the strict tone for the long term.

At present, the world situation, national conditions, and Party conditions have undergone profound changes. The three "more arduous tasks" proposed by the plenary session deeply resonated with Zhang Xiaojun, chief commander of the No. 1 launch pad at the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site. "Aerospace is related to national development and security, and is also a fiercely competitive track," he said. China's aerospace industry has continuously made leaps and bounds, fundamentally because of obeying the Party's command and firm conviction. At present, the task of independent innovation is urgent, and it is even more necessary to forge an excellent team. We must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, integrate Party building into all aspects of launch preparation and technological research, and fulfill the mission and responsibility of aerospace workers through each safe and reliable launch mission.

Persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is being responsible to history and to the people.

At the Party and Mass Service Station of Shiminxincun Community on Bansongyuan Road, Shanghai, Zhang Wei, director of the neighborhood committee, studied the spirit of the plenary session together with residents. This service base, built on urban renewal, features fresh food direct-supply points, shared meeting rooms, and more, bringing convenient services to the doorsteps of the masses.

"In July this year, the General Secretary came here to inspect and urged grassroots Party organizations to 'truly do a good job of serving the people.' We will take the spirit of the plenary session as our guide, integrate the requirements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party into branch construction, Party member management, and serving the people, so that matters concerning the masses are discussed, grasped, and handled by someone, and test the quality of grassroots Party building with solid livelihood achievements," Zhang Wei said.

Deeply study the plenary session's arrangements  Thoroughly understand the principles and essentials

The plenary session clarified the guiding ideology for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and expounded the 7 principles to be followed.

After the release of the plenary session's communiqué, Han Xiping, deputy director of the University Affairs Committee of Jilin University, organized his team to study and discuss it at the first opportunity. He stated that these 7 principles condense the valuable experience of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, such as "adhering to taking the Party's political construction as the lead" to grasp the direction of strict Party governance, and "adhering to governing the Party according to rules and regulations" to consolidate institutional guarantees. The various principles are interconnected, coordinated, and organically unified. "As an educator, I must use typical cases in the classroom, explain the theoretical logic and practical requirements thoroughly, guide young students to understand the profound connotation of persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and promote the spirit of the plenary session to take root in people's hearts."

Not long ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the Chahar High-tech Industrial Development Zone in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, to inspect the development of green computing power industry and other matters.

Huo Jianzhong, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Ulanqab Chahar High-tech Industrial Development Zone, gained a deeper understanding of "adhering to serving the mission and tasks" through studying the "Decision": "The General Secretary emphasized that implementing the 'East Data, West Computing' project and building a national integrated computing power network is an important arrangement of the Party Central Committee. The development zone will deeply study and implement the spirit of the plenary session, run persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party through the entire process of computing power industry development, lead high-quality development with high-quality Party building, take a new path of transformation and development, and practice responsibility in serving the national computing power layout."

The plenary session made systematic arrangements for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, with "enhancing the Party spirit of Communists" placed in a prominent position.

Zhou Yongkai, winner of the "July 1 Medal" and former deputy secretary of the Daxian Prefectural Party Committee of Sichuan Province, was deeply moved. This old Party member has been in the Party for 81 years, personally experienced underground struggle, devoted himself to local construction after the founding of New China, and after retirement led fellow villagers in forest protection and afforestation, practicing loyalty to the Party throughout his life. He said that to temper Party spirit, one must firmly stand on the Marxist position, implement loyalty to the Party in every word and deed, and that Party spirit cultivation is a lifelong required course.

Party organizations at all levels and Party members and cadres are the subjects of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and are also the key force in promoting the development of the Party and the country's cause.

Leling City, Dezhou, Shandong Province, located at the junction of Shandong and Hebei, relies on local red resources to carry out regular on-site teaching for young cadres, guiding them to establish and practice a correct view of political achievements. Liu Zhigang, head of the Organization Department of the Leling Municipal Party Committee, stated that the plenary session made arrangements for Party organizational construction. In the next step, they will deeply study and implement the spirit of the plenary session, run the strict tone through the entire process of selecting the worthy and appointing the able, strengthening the foundation and consolidating the base, and cultivating and gathering talents, and strive to build a cadre reserve system with complete echelons, layered energy storage, and continuous strength.

It is the peak season for express delivery. Early in the morning, Chao Hongyin, a courier at the Dazhigu outlet of ZTO Express in Hedong District, Tianjin, came to the "Yilu You'ai" (Love on the Road) service area to prepare supplies for his colleagues. The plenary session's proposal to highlight the strengthening of Party building in emerging fields greatly increased his sense of belonging.

"We are both participants in and beneficiaries of Party building in emerging fields," Chao Hongyin said. Hedong District has created the "Yilu You'ai, Red Rider Vanguard" Party building brand, setting up courier canteens and service areas to provide thoughtful care for workers in new forms of employment. Driven by Party organizations, Party members at the outlet took the lead in forming volunteer service teams, encouraging riders to participate in grassroots inspections during delivery. He stated that he will take the spirit of the plenary session as his guide, drive more riders to integrate into community governance, and transform the results of Party building into practical actions to serve the masses.

Grasp implementation and implementation  Brave the new journey

Deeply studying and implementing the spirit of the plenary session is a major political task for the entire Party at present and for a period to come. Promoting the implementation and effectiveness of various arrangements depends on genuine hard work and sustained, long-term effort.

In Benxi, Liaoning, in the meeting room of the Third Cold Rolling Mill of the General Cold Rolling Plant of Ansteel Group's Benxi Steel Plate, the leadership team conducted collective discussions on the high-end, intelligent, and green development transformation project, assessing investment and technical risks item by item. Zhao Xingtao, Party Secretary of the Third Cold Rolling Mill, said: "The plenary session clarified that we must improve and implement the various systems of democratic centralism, and proposed strictly implementing the decision-making and deliberation rules of leadership teams. We will continue to standardize decision-making processes, adhere to first conducting research and demonstration, then collective discussion and scientific decision-making for major projects, strictly strengthen supervision over 'top leaders' and leadership teams, transform institutional advantages into industrial development efficiency, and serve the construction of a modern industrial system."

"The plenary session clearly required persevering unremittingly (锲而不舍, qie er bu she - "drill, not, stop") in implementing the spirit of the Central Committee's Eight-Point Regulation, and promoting the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction," said Zhang Yongsen, Secretary of Shouning County Party Committee, Fujian Province. He stated that the valuable thoughts and pragmatic work style left by General Secretary Xi Jinping during his work in Fujian, when he "visited Shouning nine times and entered Xiadang three times," must be inherited and applied well, continue to practice the "four grassroots-level practices" system, drive social customs and public sentiment with excellent Party conduct and government conduct, and actively build a beautiful homeland.

In Dongsheng Village, Xichou County, Yunnan Province, villagers often stop to check the village affairs disclosure board. In recent years, the village has improved the village affairs supervision mechanism, promoting the standardization and transparency of village-level project construction and the implementation of policies benefiting farmers.

The plenary session proposed strengthening the restriction and supervision of the exercise of power, which made Luo Ruicai, Secretary of the Party Committee of Dongsheng Village, clearer about the direction of work: "We will integrate the study and implementation of the spirit of the plenary session into the entire process of grassroots governance and rural revitalization, strictly adhere to the bottom line of power operation, implement whole-process supervision and normalized village affairs disclosure, and safeguard the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas with a clean grassroots political ecology."

Since its establishment 7 years ago, the China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone has continuously optimized services for enterprises, and various economic indicators have achieved breakthrough growth.

The plenary session put forward clear requirements for enhancing institutional execution. Wang Xinhong, full-time deputy director of the Free Trade Zone Work Office, further strengthened her confidence in serving market entities: "We will resolutely implement the spirit of the plenary session, ensure the orderly advancement of reform and innovation with strict discipline and work style and solid institutional execution, continue to create a first-class business environment, and activate the momentum of opening up."

The Party's overall leadership and all the Party's work must be realized through the Party's strong organizational system. The plenary session proposed ensuring that the implementation of the Party's line, principles, and policies and the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee are coordinated from top to bottom, precise and efficient. Yang Yi, a cadre aiding Xinjiang in Aksu City, seriously considered how to implement this requirement in practical work.

"Being on the front line of duty in southern Xinjiang, I must connect the implementation chain and precisely transmit arrangements," Yang Yi said. He stated that he will, based on his position, deeply study and earnestly practice the spirit of the plenary session, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the various arrangements of the Party Central Committee, actively explore the practice of advanced grassroots governance concepts locally, implement policies in line with the actual conditions of southern Xinjiang, and serve the people of all ethnic groups well.

In Sangzhi County, Hunan Province, at the Memorial Hall of the Departure Point of the Long March of the Second Front Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, visitors come in an endless stream.

"The new journey is an expedition full of glory and dreams, a new Long March of the Party and the people," said Gu Xiuqin, deputy director of the memorial hall. She stated that the spirit of the plenary session should be integrated into daily explanations, telling the stories of the Party's fine traditions and work style with heart and feeling, inspiring more people to unite their strength and take the new Long March road well.

(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 1) (Xinhua reporters)

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Heilongjiang's Suibin County Carries Out Regular Volunteer Services to Warm People's Hearts

(People's Daily, Harbin, November 1) (Reporter Fang Yuan) "The fact that you can come and talk with me truly moves me deeply." A few days ago, at the Cihui Kangning Nursing Home in Suibin County, Heilongjiang Province, an elderly woman named Li Suyun held the hand of a police officer and expressed the gratitude of the elderly in the jurisdiction toward the local public security volunteer services.

That day, the Suibin County Public Security Bureau organized Party-member police officers and auxiliary police officers from more than 10 Party branches to enter the nursing home and carry out volunteer services respecting and caring for the elderly. During the activities, everyone split up to take action, cleaning the rooms for the elderly, wiping doors, windows, tables and chairs, tidying up the bedding and beds, and clearing debris from the courtyards, making earnest efforts to improve the living environment of the elderly. Since the beginning of this year, Party-member police officers and auxiliary police officers of the Suibin County Public Security Bureau have taken the initiative to go down to the streets and alleys, carrying out volunteer services such as respecting and assisting the elderly, environmental improvement, civilized traffic, and donating blood voluntarily (无偿献血, wu chang xian xue - "no pay, offer, blood") on a regular basis more than 80 times, mobilizing 950 volunteer person-times.

In recent years, Suibin County has successively formed 175 volunteer service teams including "Love for the Elderly and Assistance for the Disabled" and "Neighborhood Watch," with more than 2,500 volunteers registered under their real names. Volunteers focus on practical matters concerning people's livelihoods such as supporting the elderly and assisting the disabled, improving the environment, and civilized persuasion, helping to enhance the quality and efficiency of grassroots governance. From government organs to communities, from streets and alleys to courtyards, various activities are carried out on a regular and long-term basis, allowing the flower of civilization to bloom in urban and rural areas, conveying love and warmth.

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Old Homes Listed as Cultural Relics: How to Protect and How to Live (Jintai Observation)

By: 本报记者 胡笑源

Among China's ancient architectural heritage, traditional residences and dwellings, as well as traditional dwellings among modern and contemporary significant historical sites and representative buildings, are large in total number and widely distributed. According to statistics, of China's more than 760,000 immovable cultural relics, there are more than 400,000 cultural relic buildings, of which low-level cultural relic buildings designated as county-level cultural relic protection units or not yet verified and announced as cultural relic protection units account for over 95%. Some of these carry centuries of family cultural memory, and some are still inhabited to this day.

Some readers have written in to report that, without being informed, their family's old houses were designated as cultural relics. As cultural relics, repairs not only require approval from the cultural relic administrative department, but must also comply with strict regulations on cultural relic restoration. Some old houses have gradually deteriorated because they were not repaired in a timely manner, making them not only unfit for normal habitation but also suffering a significant reduction in value (大打折扣, da da zhe kou - "big, hit, discount") as cultural relics. How should the need for cultural relic protection be balanced against residents' daily living needs? A reporter conducted an investigation and interviews on this matter.

A real-world contradiction has emerged between cultural relic protection and the protection of property owners' rights and interests

"No one notified us, and our family's house was designated as a cultural relic." Ms. Bai, a reader from Xinjin District, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, said that the old house belonging to her husband's family had been lived in by the elderly for many years, and they never knew the house was a cultural relic. It was only last year, when the family wanted to demolish the old house and build a new one on the original site, that they discovered the long-unoccupied old house had been designated as a cultural relic more than a decade ago and could not be damaged, altered, added to, or demolished.

Ms. Bai left a message on the "Leadership Message Board" of People's Daily Online to the relevant local department seeking a solution, and the department replied that the cultural relic building where Ms. Bai's family resides was, during the Third National Cultural Relics Census, after procedures including cultural relic information collection, registration, and identification, and after successive acceptance inspections by cultural relic departments at the municipal, provincial, and national levels, announced by the then Xinjin County People's Government as a general immovable cultural relic. "According to the census policy requirements at that time, the cultural relic identification procedure did not include a step for soliciting public opinion."

Ms. Chen, a reader from Baodi District, Tianjin, had a similar experience. She told reporters that the old house in the village where her parents had always lived was designated as a district-level cultural relic protection unit in 2013. According to the relevant management regulations on cultural relic protection in Tianjin, the cultural and tourism department should have delivered in writing the identification documents, protection requirements, and subsidy application policies for repairs, and retained the delivery receipt, but she never received any relevant documents or notices. In response, the relevant department replied that after Ms. Chen's family residence was announced as a district-level cultural relic protection unit, the obligation of management notification was fulfilled through means such as government disclosure, town and village notifications, and public display of protection marker signs.

Ms. Chen believes that having the house designated as a cultural relic not only prevents her from freely renovating and remodeling it, but also, when she wanted to sell it, buyers repeatedly refused due to the cultural relic restrictions, causing the house to depreciate to a certain extent. She hopes to apply to the relevant department for repair subsidies or economic compensation. In response, the relevant department stated: "The identification of cultural relics and the announcement of cultural relic protection units are public management actions taken in accordance with the law; the implementation of on-site protection, repair approval, and construction control for immovable cultural relics has a legal basis" and "Ownership of cultural relic buildings is generally protected by law, and this falls under matters of district-level coordinated public resources." After multiple rounds of negotiation, the local government rejected Ms. Chen's demands on the grounds that there is no relevant policy for depreciation compensation and no special expropriation or replacement plan. "We support cultural relic protection, but who will make up for the residents' losses?" Ms. Chen said with helplessness.

Before privately owned residences are identified as cultural relics, is it necessary to inform residents and obtain the consent of the property owners? Once designated as cultural relics, do private houses automatically become public resources?

Yang Changgeng, associate professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, pointed out that the biggest difficulty in protecting privately owned immovable cultural relics is the contradiction and conflict between private rights and interests and cultural relic protection. According to the Cultural Relics Protection Law, the Regulations for the Implementation of the Cultural Relics Protection Law, the Interim Measures for the Administration of Cultural Relic Identification, and other current laws, administrative regulations, and departmental rules, cultural relic identification does not require the consent of the property owner.

"This is because cultural relics carry the public interest, and the government has an obligation to conduct cultural relic identification in accordance with its authority; the public interest in cultural relic protection cannot be tied to the personal wishes of property owners," Yang Changgeng said. However, cultural relic identification is a burdensome administrative confirmation that has a significant impact on property owners. Current laws and regulations emphasize the public interest in cultural relic protection, but there are deficiencies in the protection of the rights and interests of owners of privately owned immovable cultural relics.

"The emergence of this deficiency is influenced both by legal concepts and constrained by actual financial capacity. At present, some local regulations have already introduced explorations of soliciting property owners' opinions for the identification of historic buildings, such as the 'Shanghai Regulations on the Protection of Historical and Cultural Areas and Excellent Historic Buildings' and the 'Guangdong Province Regulations on the Protection of Famous Historical and Cultural Cities, Towns, and Villages.' This not only reflects respect for property owners but also makes it easier to gain their understanding and support," Yang Changgeng said.

Without approval, repairs cannot be made; without a plan, repairs cannot proceed — some low-level residential cultural relics face repair difficulties

Mr. Wang, the 78-year-old owner of the Chunmanting residence in Guanlu Village, Yi County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, has grown up since childhood in this ancestral house built during the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty. This old house, already designated as a cultural relic, has developed many places requiring repair, but Mr. Wang does not know how to carry out the repairs. In a room on the first floor, the reporter saw exquisite murals painted on the ceiling and elsewhere (see photo, taken by Hu Xiaoyuan), some of which have peeling surfaces and have become faded and mottled in color. "The ceiling of the first floor is also the floor of the second floor. The floor has already suffered damage and loosening and should have been repaired long ago, but the murals on the first floor cannot be damaged. I don't know how to repair it. I reported it to the cultural relics bureau, and they don't know how to handle it either," Mr. Wang said.

Mr. You, a reader from Xuancheng City, Anhui Province, encountered a similar situation. This summer, part of the roof of Mr. You's ancestral house collapsed due to days of continuous rain. Having worked away from home for years, he returned to his hometown to repair the old house but was told by the relevant department that he must first submit an application for approval and then carry out repairs according to cultural relic standards. "That could cost one to two hundred thousand yuan, which I cannot afford. My application to the government for repair subsidies also failed to pass approval," Mr. You said. In the photos of the old house's current condition that he showed, the reporter saw multiple tiles missing from the roof and some beams and columns already collapsed. "After our parents passed away, we children who work away from home return to the ancestral house every year for the Spring Festival reunion. Now the old house has never been repaired, and the damaged areas keep growing." Mr. You expressed regret.

Without approval, repairs cannot be made; without a plan, repairs cannot proceed; without support, there is no money to repair. Through the investigation, the reporter found that this is a common dilemma faced by the protection of many low-level residential cultural relics. Luo Deyin, professor at the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University, analyzed that at present, the main targets of residential cultural relic protection in China are the large number and wide distribution of ungraded residences, but the current approval and management system for this portion of residences still operates according to the logic of graded cultural relics, resulting in complex approval procedures and excessively high approval thresholds that dampen residents' willingness to repair.

For example, at the level of repair approval, according to Article 32 of China's Cultural Relics Protection Law, non-state-owned immovable cultural relics shall be repaired and maintained by their owners or users. Repairs to cultural relic protection units or ungraded immovable cultural relics shall be approved by the corresponding cultural relic administrative department according to the level of the cultural relic protection unit. In other words, residents bear the obligation to repair and maintain cultural relic buildings, but they cannot hire people to repair them on their own as they would for an ordinary residence; to carry out repairs, they must first apply and obtain approval.

In addition, the Cultural Relics Protection Law stipulates that repairs, maintenance, and relocation of immovable cultural relics must comply with the principles of not altering the original state of the cultural relic and minimal intervention. An industry insider in ancient building restoration said that to restore a cultural relic building "to its old state as if new," a one-household-one-policy approach is needed, preserving as much as possible the building's original materials, original craftsmanship, and original appearance, and the time and economic costs involved are often much higher than rebuilding a new structure. Although the Cultural Relics Protection Law stipulates that non-state-owned immovable cultural relics shall be repaired and maintained by their owners or users, and that people's governments at or above the county level may provide subsidies, as the relevant department in Baodi District, Tianjin, stated in its reply to Ms. Chen: "Subsidies are not a statutory obligation, and whether to provide them also depends on specific circumstances such as local fiscal conditions."

Yang Changgeng pointed out that the rigid requirements for cultural relic repair do indeed increase the difficulty and cost of repairs, which ordinary people find hard to bear. Although relevant laws and regulations stipulate that people's governments may provide subsidies for cultural relic repairs, there are no provisions on the specific requirements and amounts of such assistance, nor is it possible to specify them in detail. "Fiscal conditions vary from place to place, so it can only be left to each locality to decide on its own. Some local governments have limited financial capacity, and the situation regarding government subsidies and assistance for the repair of privately owned immovable cultural relics is indeed not optimistic."

Mobilize residents' enthusiasm for participation and advance holistic protection and living heritage transmission

How can the protection dilemma of low-level residential cultural relics be resolved? Experts point out that the protection of residential cultural relics faces a protection target whose fundamental base is large quantity and wide distribution. It is living heritage and also residents' homes. When discussing protection, it is essential to broadly mobilize residents' enthusiasm for participation, to see the people behind the cultural relics, and to find a balance between safeguarding historical culture and ensuring people's livelihoods.

At the cultural relic identification stage, Luo Deyin suggested shifting from a purely "administrative confirmation" to a composite structure of "administrative confirmation + protection agreement." Before the identification decision is made, fully explain to the property owner the rights, obligations, and available support after identification; when the identification takes effect, clearly specify in writing the technical support for repairs, subsidy channels, and simplified approval arrangements. "Property owners may not need to have veto power, but they must have full rights to information and consultation," Luo Deyin said.

At the cultural relic repair stage, the key to the problem is how to make people living in cultural relic buildings willing to repair, able to afford repairs, and able to repair without being penalized. On July 31 this year, the National Cultural Heritage Administration issued the "Guidelines for the Approval of Repair Works for Ungraded Residential Cultural Relic Buildings (Trial)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Work Guidelines"), which explicitly stipulates that maintenance and preservation works for ungraded residential cultural relic buildings are exempt from approval. At the same time, on the premise of not diminishing the value of the cultural relic and not affecting the safety of the cultural relic, it supports necessary adaptive renovations to ungraded residential cultural relic buildings, such as installing or upgrading kitchen and bathroom facilities, improving wall sound insulation performance, and renovating and upgrading infrastructure and equipment such as water, electricity, and heating.

"The substantive breakthrough of the Work Guidelines lies in distinguishing maintenance and preservation, simple repairs, and general repairs, and configuring different procedural requirements for different types of activities. What it does is not grading but classification — separating a large number of routine and simple repairs from the general repair procedure modeled on graded cultural relics, and replacing administrative approval with technical guidelines and on-site judgment," Luo Deyin said. Only when a household finds that it can repair a listed old house the way it would repair its own home, rather than being required to go through a procedure that even construction teams find daunting, does "protection" begin to form a positive connection with "daily life" at the experiential level.

Regarding repair support and economic compensation for residential cultural relic buildings, Yang Changgeng suggested resolving the issue through activation and utilization. "For example, using 'repair in lieu of rent' — keeping private ownership unchanged, with the government, state-owned enterprises, or social operators signing contracts with the owner, funding compliant repairs in exchange for a fixed period of use rights. After repair, the building can be used for compliant business formats such as homestays, small exhibitions, and intangible cultural heritage workshops. In addition, 'cultural relic adoption' can also be promoted, where ownership remains with the original owner, and enterprises, social organizations, or individuals bear the costs of repair and routine maintenance, obtaining use rights for a fixed period within the scope of approval by the cultural relic department," Yang Changgeng said.

Regarding the problem reported by some grassroots cultural relic protection departments of insufficient professional personnel for ancient building restoration, Luo Deyin suggested cultivating a team of local craftsmen who understand local materials and craftsmanship, can assess structural safety, and can explain to residents clearly "how to repair." At the county level, positions such as "cultural relic protection technician" or "rural architecture coordinator" should be established, relying on the vocational education and continuing education systems to train a group of personnel rooted at the grassroots level with basic survey and assessment capabilities and the ability to guide simple repairs.

Experts point out that cultural heritage protection must persist in advancing holistic protection and living heritage transmission, and the protection of residential cultural relics should be placed within a broader perspective. In 2015, the National Cultural Heritage Administration designated the entire county of Songyang County, Zhejiang Province, as a "Traditional Village Holistic Protection and Utilization Pilot Zone," and the "Rescue Old Houses Initiative" was promoted throughout Songyang County. As of 2025, more than 100 ancient villages and over 300 old houses in Songyang County have received proper protection and reasonable utilization. "Songyang's greatest significance is county-wide promotion, protecting residential cultural relic buildings and traditional villages as a whole. With greater coverage and more participants, whether in accumulating local experience in building restoration techniques or in promoting cultural tourism development, the strength of holistic advancement will be greater," Luo Deyin said.

"Repairing old houses is also a livelihood project." Luo Deyin believes that the most fundamental aspect of residential cultural relic protection is to enable the masses to establish the heritage protection concept that "protection is related to me" through the optimization of institutions and innovation of mechanisms.

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Construction Waste Piled at Building Entrance Blocks Community Fire Access (Matters in Daily Life)

We are homeowners of the Zhaotong Yipin residential community in Yuyao City, Zhejiang Province. A large amount of construction waste is piled directly opposite the unit entrance door of the building where we live (see photo). This construction waste is mixed with dangerous items such as gas canisters, which affects the environment while also posing safety hazards. This construction waste is piled on the fire access route of our community, which also creates fire hazards. We have reported this to the property management multiple times, all yielding no results (无果, wu guo - "no, fruit/result"). We request that the relevant departments pay attention to this issue, promptly clear away this construction waste, and reasonably select a site for the construction waste stacking point.

Netizen of the "Message Board for Leaders" on People's Daily Online

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Pocket parks must not be "built with emphasis but managed with neglect"

Pocket parks must not be "built with emphasis but managed with neglect"

In recent years, localities across the country have advanced urban renewal, using leftover space from demolition and corner vacant lots to build a large number of pocket parks, effectively expanding green leisure space for urban residents. But as batches of parks have been put into use one after another, the aftereffects of "building with emphasis but managing with neglect" have gradually emerged: in some parks, fitness equipment parts have fallen off and have gone unrepaired for more than half a year, posing safety hazards; some are occupied long-term by small groups, with square-dance speakers blaring from morning to night, leaving surrounding residents extremely annoyed and disturbed (不堪其扰, bu kan qi rao - "cannot endure its disturbance"); still others are located in remote spots, seldom visited (人迹罕至, ren ji han zhi - "people's traces rarely arrive") all year round, degenerating into sanitation dead zones. Livelihood projects built with fiscal funds have been discounted due to the absence of follow-up management and maintenance, which is truly regrettable.

To break the deadlock of "building with emphasis but managing with neglect," first, management and maintenance responsibilities must be clarified. At present, many pocket parks face the problem of unclear powers and responsibilities among the gardening department, subdistrict offices, and neighborhood residents' committees, with residents' complaints often being "kicked around like a ball." It is suggested that localities introduce special management measures for pocket parks, clarify the main management body and responsible persons for the parks, and itemize responsibilities such as facility repair, sanitation and cleaning, and order management one by one. Second, fiscal guarantees must be implemented. It is suggested that while incorporating pocket park management and maintenance funds into the annual fiscal budget, diversified fundraising channels may also be explored, encouraging surrounding enterprises, public institutions, and public welfare organizations to participate in maintenance, supplementing management and maintenance funds through multiple channels for sustainable operation. Third, residents should be guided to jointly maintain the parks. A "citizen park director" volunteer system may be promoted, recruiting enthusiastic residents to participate in daily inspections and civilized persuasion; QR codes for problem feedback may be placed in conspicuous spots in the parks, allowing residents to photograph and report facility damage or sanitation problems to relevant departments at any time for rapid handling and resolution.

Chen Jiaye, Qingdao, Shandong Province

Ensure smooth field production roads

In recent years, the author has found that in some cultivated land areas, field production roads are being "encroached upon" bit by bit — some farming households expand outward when cultivating, turning the spare land along the roadsides and field ridges into their own fields bit by bit to plant crops.

The roads are getting narrower and narrower, making it difficult for large agricultural machinery to pass; harvesters and rotary tillers are wide in body, and once the road surface is squeezed, the efficiency of entering the fields for operations declines. It also leads to poor road drainage; production roads are already potholed, and after the shoulders are expanded for planting, there is no space for ditches to channel water, so on rainy days the roads become muddy and churned up, and pedestrians and three-wheeled vehicles are prone to accidents when slipping. Moreover, emergency access is blocked — should a drought or fire occur requiring drought-relief irrigation equipment to enter the fields, or firefighting vehicles to pass, failure to arrive at the critical moment could cause serious losses. In addition, neighborhood disputes have also increased.

Production roads are collective public passageways, not "vacant roadside land." It is suggested that rights be uniformly confirmed and boundaries clearly delineated. Relying on land rights confirmation archives and original land distribution ledgers, village committees should take the lead in re-demarcating the width and field ridge boundaries of each production road, clearly marking the road shoulder boundaries with lime and boundary stakes. Villagers should be clearly told that production roads are collective public land, do not belong to any household's contracted cultivated land, and private expansion of planting is not permitted. At the same time, concentrated clearing should be carried out to remove crops occupying the roads. Village committees and grid workers should investigate and register encroachment points one by one, persuading farming households to voluntarily clear crops planted beyond the roadside. Publicity and guidance should also be strengthened, taking the message to the fields. Through villagers' assemblies, WeChat groups, field-side lectures, and other means, the public interest of ensuring smooth production roads for the whole village's agricultural machinery passage and drought resistance and drainage should be explained, reversing some farming households' mindset that "vacant roadside land not planted is wasted."

Netizen of the "Message Board for Leaders" on People's Daily Online

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Special-Needs Children in Regular Classes: Where Does the Difficulty Lie? (Readers' Concerns)

By: 本报记者 丁雅诵

Recently, a reader in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, reported that a child in their family falls somewhere between an ordinary child and a child with autism — able to recognize characters and do arithmetic, but prone to distraction, and occasionally disruptive to classroom order. When the child reached school age, the family consulted several local public and private primary schools, and the answers were largely the same: the student's enrollment record could be retained, but for studying in a regular class, the schools had concerns.

The Compulsory Education Law of the People's Republic of China clearly stipulates that ordinary schools shall accept school-age disabled children and adolescents who have the ability to receive ordinary education to study in regular classes, and shall provide assistance for their learning and rehabilitation. This is an important manifestation of educational equity. But in reality, the path for children with special needs to enter regular school classrooms is not smooth.

"Insufficient resources are a common difficulty constraining study in regular classes, but the bottom line cannot be relaxed," said Ding Meizhen (丁美珍), director of the Special Education Guidance Center of Hongkou District, Shanghai. "Schools at the compulsory education stage cannot, because of a lack of resources, deprive students studying in regular classes of the opportunity to learn on site, nor can they affect the complete right to education of special children through long-term suspension of classes. When a student exhibits severe behavioral problems, on-site safety protection and short-term isolation and adjustment should first be implemented. If placement adjustment is truly necessary, a professional assessment process must be initiated, and multiple parties should jointly decide whether the student transfers schools or leaves."

Study in regular classes is connected on one end to the right of special children to equal education, and on the other end to the stable and orderly teaching rhythm of ordinary classes. Previously, at a primary school in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, a student with behavioral disorders transferred into one class. Some parents of students in that class believed that this student walking around freely and shouting loudly in class disrupted the teaching order, and the parents collectively demanded that this child not attend class, hoping to draw the attention of the school and education authorities. The matter once sparked heated discussion.

"People easily argue about the tolerance of ordinary students' parents, but what deserves more reflection is whether the school has made adequate supporting preparations for accepting special children," a parent in Beijing told reporters. She said that her child's class had also received special students studying in regular classes, and there was considerable discussion in the parent group at first. "Later, the school arranged resource teachers to follow up and formulated a dedicated support plan. Classroom order was not greatly affected, and the parents' concerns gradually dissipated."

According to the Ministry of Education's "Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Work of Disabled Children and Adolescents Studying in Regular Classes at the Compulsory Education Stage," schools that receive five or more disabled students for study in regular classes shall establish dedicated resource classrooms and be equipped with necessary educational teaching and rehabilitation training facilities and equipment, as well as resource teachers and professional personnel. But in some places, especially less developed regions, classroom intervention and auxiliary support measures for special children are very limited.

Ding Meizhen suggested that a model of "itinerant special education teachers + shared district resource centers" could be promoted, with district and county governments coordinating professional personnel to cover multiple schools by district, regularly entering schools to conduct classroom observation, plan formulation, and teacher guidance. In this way, even if a school does not have its own full-time special education teacher, as long as district resources can arrive at the school in a timely manner, the pressure on frontline teachers can be effectively alleviated. At the same time, it is encouraged to introduce rehabilitation therapists and special education teaching assistants as supplementary forces through government purchase of services.

When professional personnel are lacking, is it feasible for parents to accompany their children in school? Some netizens commented that currently the law does not prohibit parents from accompanying their children in school, but there is a lack of unified national operational norms, most schools default to parents not being allowed to enter the classroom, and there is no standardized approval process for parents applying for short-term accompaniment.

"Accompaniment is not a long-term routine arrangement, but a transitional 'scaffolding' during the school adaptation phase — it needs to be built, and ultimately it must be gradually dismantled," said Zheng Xuan (郑璇), professor at the School of Special Education of Beijing Normal University. She believes that the core positioning of an accompanying parent is as the child's classroom supporter and assistant, not a "second teacher," and certainly not a new source of disruption to classroom order. A standardized accompaniment plan should involve preliminary assessment jointly conducted by the head teacher, resource teacher, parents, and special education professionals, to ascertain the child's type of disability, level of classroom adaptation, and specific links requiring support, and jointly determine the goals of the accompaniment phase, the duration of accompaniment, and the exit path, forming a written agreement.

Educational placement directly concerns the growth path of special children. How to scientifically determine what kind of child is suitable for study in regular classes, and under what circumstances transfer to special education schools, has always been a difficulty in practice.

"To clarify the boundaries of placement, one principle must be grasped: taking the benefit of children's development as the core, adhering to scientific assessment, placement according to need, and dynamic adjustment," Ding Meizhen explained. The criterion for judging whether a placement method is appropriate lies in whether professional support can be implemented on the ground and whether the child can obtain development opportunities suited to their own needs.

In terms of process, assessment work must be organized and carried out by the county-level education administrative department entrusting the expert committee on education of persons with disabilities, forming a cross-disciplinary team composed of backbone personnel in special education, rehabilitation, psychology, and general education. The head teacher or the school cannot unilaterally determine or decide the placement direction on its own. Ding Meizhen said, "If the assessment ignores whether the school has provided supporting measures and only focuses on the child's own ability status, that is inappropriate. Only after all supporting measures have been fully implemented and the child still finds it difficult to adapt to regular school teaching, and risks are difficult to control, should adjustment of the placement method be considered."

Looking to the long term, the foundation of inclusive education lies in frontline classrooms. Experts suggest strengthening general knowledge training in special education for teachers in ordinary schools, incorporating content related to special children studying in regular classes into compulsory courses for teachers' continuing education, so that more subject teachers master basic classroom adjustment and behavioral support methods. At the same time, relying on regional special education guidance centers for continuous follow-up, promoting policy provisions and financial resources to truly transform into visible, tangible support in classrooms, so that every child can growing up with ease and composure (从容成长, cong rong cheng zhang - "from, leisurely, grow, up") in an environment suited to themselves.

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Ningxiang ETDZ Writes a High-Quality Development Answer Sheet for Advanced Energy Storage Materials Industry

The Wei River surges, and the tide rises over Chu-Wei. On this inland land that produces no lithium, no cobalt, and no nickel, the advanced energy storage materials industry of Ningxiang Economic and Technological Development Zone (hereinafter referred to as "Ningxiang ETDZ") in Hunan Province is staging a great leap "from zero to one hundred billion." As early as 2003, Ningxiang ETDZ made an advance layout and planted the first "seed" of the lithium battery materials industry; after more than 20 years of chain-based growth, chain supplementation, and chain strengthening, it has now formed a closed-loop industrial chain covering the entire life cycle. The advanced energy storage materials industry achieved an output value of 68.301 billion yuan in 2025, with a year-on-year increase of 11.12% in the first half of 2026, and the completeness of the industrial chain remains firmly at the forefront of the country.

The great leap of the advanced energy storage materials industry is by no means accidental. Ningxiang ETDZ adheres to the two-way integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, activating endogenous driving forces; setting sail to go global and laying out global plans, opening up a second growth curve; and supporting the industrial ecology and business environment with dual support, consolidating the foundation for development. The three main lines interweave and exert force together, driving the advanced energy storage materials industry of Ningxiang ETDZ from an inland park toward a national highland, and from local leadership toward global competition.

Science and Industry in Tune: Bringing Laboratory Achievements to the Production Line

For an industry to move toward the new, innovation is the key. Ningxiang ETDZ breaks through the bottleneck of the disconnect between industry, academia, and research, breaks the inertial mindset of "whatever universities have, enterprises accept," and builds a demand-oriented innovation model — the real problems that enterprises identify at the front line of production are precisely the directions for tackling key problems for universities and research institutions.

Pilot-scale testing is the key link in "cashing in" scientific and technological achievements. Ningxiang ETDZ takes pilot-scale testing bases as its main lever, building an "intermediate runway" for "formulas on paper" to reach mass-production workshops. In 2025, four major platforms, including the Lanyuegu Advanced Materials Pilot-Scale Testing Base and the Sodium-Ion Battery Anode Material Pilot-Scale Testing Base, were put in place in a concentrated manner. Relying on these carriers, Nabang New Energy completed the entire process of "R&D—pilot-scale testing—mass production" in just one year, with a 1,000-ton/year polyanionic cathode material production line successfully put into operation, and its self-developed NFPP material solved at one stroke the industry-wide problem of poor conductivity of traditional polyanionic materials.

The wide-temperature-range high-performance sodium-ion battery project, led by CNGR Advanced Material with the joint tackling of Central South University, Nabang New Energy, and others, has broken through 10,000 cycles, promoting the landing of a 1.5 GWh sodium-ion battery production line with mass-production capability, achieving a complete leap from laboratory R&D achievements to scaled mass-production products. Funlite and Central South University, Hunan University, and others jointly built an open innovation platform, integrating high-quality external resources, promoting rapid technology iteration and updating, and through breakthroughs in new functional additives, installed efficient and stable "super blood" for high-voltage batteries, ranking among the country's first tier of electrolytes.

In order to continuously "supply oxygen" to innovation, Ningxiang ETDZ has built a multi-level science and technology innovation service system: two national-level platforms — the National Patent Navigation Service Base and the National New Materials Testing and Evaluation Platform — provide enterprises with full-chain professional services such as patent layout, material testing, and battery safety verification, helping to reduce R&D and pilot-scale testing costs; the industrial fund with a total scale of 2.5 billion yuan adheres to investing early, investing small, investing long-term, and investing in hard technology, sending "the first pot of gold" to start-up projects. From technological tackling to achievement landing, from capital support to service escort, scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation in Ningxiang ETDZ resonate at the same frequency, converging into surging momentum for industrial upgrading.

Opening Up to Break the Situation: Opening Up a Second Growth Curve for Global Competition

Ningxiang ETDZ, possessing a complete industrial chain, has not stopped at the local "comfort zone," but has instead actively embraced the global market, transforming the thickness of the industrial chain into international competitiveness, and creating a second growth curve for the industry in the vast overseas market.

Leading chain enterprises drive the effort and become the "leading geese" in going global. As a global new energy materials enterprise, CNGR Advanced Material adheres to the "development globalization" strategy, laying out overseas production capacity, and has built three raw material bases in Indonesia — Morowali, Weda Bay, and North Morowali — and its first new energy materials production line in Morocco was also officially put into operation in 2025. BFT New Materials has set up operations in Thailand, building an R&D and production base for UV-curable materials, water-based coatings, new PVC films, and more, precisely radiating to the Southeast Asian market and rapidly responding to the diversified needs of overseas customers. Brunp Recycling, meanwhile, specializes in waste battery recycling, and with its ternary precursor products has achieved cumulative shipments exceeding 1 million tons; Hunan Changning New Materials' main product, battery carbon rods, maintains a leading global sales position.

Individual efforts cannot achieve great things alone (单丝不成线,独木不成林, dan si bu cheng xian, du mu bu cheng lin - "single thread cannot make a line, single tree cannot make a forest"). Ningxiang ETDZ is well aware that small and medium-sized enterprises face high thresholds and high risks in going global, and actively builds economic and trade liaison platforms and forms an industry going-global alliance, driving upstream and downstream supporting enterprises in the industrial chain to "go global in groups" and "go global by boarding the ship," greatly reducing the going-global costs and trial-and-error risks of small and medium-sized enterprises. In 2025, Ningxiang ETDZ's actual scale of outward investment and its growth rate both ranked first in the province, with the advanced energy storage materials industry becoming the core growth sector.

Today, "Made in Ningxiang ETDZ" advanced energy storage materials have been sold to multiple countries and regions, widely supporting terminal scenarios such as global new energy vehicles and energy storage power stations, and have become an important link in the global new energy supply chain.

Services as the Foundation: Nurturing an Industrial Fertile Soil for Attracting and Retaining Talent

The flourishing and prosperous (枝繁叶茂, zhi fan ye mao - "branches are luxuriant, leaves are lush") growth of the industry cannot be separated from the nourishment of fertile soil. Ningxiang ETDZ not only grasps the "hard strength" of the industrial chain, but also puts full effort into polishing the "soft strength" of the industrial ecology, talent system, and business environment, creating a highland for industrial development that attracts people from both near and far (近悦远来, jin yue yuan lai - "those nearby are pleased, those far away come").

The clustered and symbiotic industrial ecology is the "ecosystem" for enterprise growth. CNGR Advanced Material, FinDreams Battery, and Brunp Recycling, three enterprises at the ten-billion level, constitute the "iron triangle" of industrial development in Ningxiang ETDZ: CNGR Advanced Material leads the track of precursor materials, FinDreams Battery takes the lead in laying out the "blade battery" production line, and Brunp Recycling opens up the closed loop of battery recycling. Leading chain enterprises are not only the "ballast stone" of scale growth, but also drive the coordinated growth of upstream and downstream enterprises by exporting supply chain resources, technical standards, and ecological dividends.

On this basis, Ningxiang ETDZ has carried out meticulous work in extending and supplementing the chain, from cathode and anode materials, separators, and electrolytes to cells, PACK, and waste battery recycling, with more than 120 enterprises stringing together a complete closed loop; supporting enterprises such as Asmi Technology and Zhongci New Materials have landed one after another, covering subdivided fields such as production equipment and basic consumables, allowing enterprises to "complete the entire industrial chain without leaving the park," continuously strengthening cost and supporting advantages.

The talent ecosystem that attracts people from both near and far is the "power source" for the innovative development of Ningxiang ETDZ. Deepening the "Alumni Return to Hunan" project, and conducting in-depth cooperation with Central South University, Xiangtan University, and other universities, in 2026 the Ningxiang ETDZ New Energy Industry Education, Science and Technology, and Talent Integrated Development Expert Committee was established, and 9 "talent recruitment workstations" were listed, directly setting up the talent recruitment portal at the doorsteps of university laboratories. For college students who come to Ningxiang ETDZ to start businesses or seek employment, the talent hostel is free to stay in, round-trip transportation expenses can be reimbursed, and talent apartments are move-in ready; because of the thoughtful and considerate services, they can settle down and put down roots.

The full-cycle escort of the business environment is the "warm nest" for enterprise development. Ningxiang ETDZ builds steps according to the rhythm of enterprise growth: providing workstations in the start-up period, offices in the incubation period, and standard factory buildings in the growth period, supporting enterprise development and growth step by step. At present, it has built a "1+3+10" incubation system, namely 1 core entrepreneurship base, 3 university workstations, and 10 specialized incubation bases, covering different tracks and growth stages. On October 20, at the 2026 Ningxiang ETDZ New Energy Industry Chain Science-Industry Integration Promotion Conference, the Ningxiang ETDZ New Energy Vertical Incubation Base was officially inaugurated, committed to further solving the transformation problem "from the laboratory to the market."

From a single seed to a hundred-billion-level chain, from the inland hinterland to the global stage, Ningxiang ETDZ, with more than 20 years of deep cultivation, has written the answer sheet of high-quality development for the advanced energy storage materials industry. With the industrial logic of chain-based development, the innovation momentum of the integration of entrepreneurship and innovation, the open pattern of facing the sea, and the warm and effective ecological support, Ningxiang ETDZ, this energy storage highland in central China, is accelerating its rise.

Data source: Ningxiang Economic and Technological Development Zone, Hunan Province

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Gain a Deep Understanding of the Scientific Thinking Methods Embodied in Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building (Thoroughly Study and Implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era)

By: 张士海

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party proposed that Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building enriches and develops Marxist party-building theory, is a major achievement in advancing the Party's theoretical innovation by adhering to the integration of the basic principles of Marxism with China's specific realities and with the excellent traditional Chinese culture, is the crystallization of the practical experience and collective wisdom of the Party and the people, is an important component of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, and provides the fundamental guideline and action guide for deeply advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era.

Thought guides action, methods affect results. Deeply comprehending the scientific ways of thinking embedded in Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building is of great significance for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party and deeply advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era.

Scientific ways of thinking manifest the distinctive theoretical character of Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building

An important theoretical character of Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building is its emphasis on using scientific ways of thinking to observe, consider, and analyze problems. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Continuously improve the abilities of strategic thinking, historical thinking, dialectical thinking, systematic thinking, innovative thinking, law-based thinking, and bottom-line thinking, and effectively achieve forward-looking thinking, overall planning, and holistic advancement of various undertakings." This important exposition points out the scientific ways of thinking for deeply advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era.

Grasp the political direction of Party building in the new era with strategic thinking that is having a far-sighted view (高瞻远瞩, gao zhan yuan zhu - "look high, gaze far") and having a bird's-eye view of the overall situation (统揽全局, tong lan ju quan - "grasp, encompass; whole, situation"). General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Strategy is making judgments and decisions from the overall situation, the long term, and the general trend." Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building carries out top-level design and strategic planning for the overall work of Party building in the new era, demonstrating extraordinary strategic vision. Strategic thinking is mainly manifested in having a far-sighted view, having a bird's-eye view of the overall situation, and being good at grasping the overall trends and directions of the development of things. The political direction is the primary issue for the survival and development of the Party. On the issue of "upholding the Party's leadership," Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building is being clear and outspoken in one's stance (旗帜鲜明, qi zhi xian ming - "flag, bright; banner, clear") and firm in position, emphasizing that "the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics" and "the Party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee for further deepening reform comprehensively and advancing Chinese modernization," etc., profoundly clarifying the fundamental, directional, and strategic significance of the Party's leadership.

Enhance the historical initiative of Party building in the new era with historical thinking that is learning from the past to guide the present (知古鉴今, zhi gu jian jin - "know, ancient; reflect, present") and learning from history to understand the future (鉴往知来, jian wang zhi lai - "reflect, past; know, future"). History is the best teacher and the most vivid textbook. Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building contains profound historical thinking, deep historical heritage, and strong historical responsibility, firmly grasping the historical initiative of deeply advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era. This thought is good at summarizing and refining the valuable experience accumulated by our Party in undergoing many hardships (历经艰辛, li jing jian xin - "go through, bitter; hardships") and enduring storms through long-term exploration in continuously strengthening its own construction, carrying forward our Party's fine tradition of strict Party governance, and emphasizing that "the more comprehensive the understanding of the historical process, the deeper the grasp of historical laws, the richer the Party's historical wisdom, the more proactive the mastery of the future." This profoundly reflects the deep summary of the Party's history, the scientific grasp of the Party's historical experience, and the self-confidence and self-awareness of using history as a mirror/lesson (以史为鉴, yi shi wei jian - "use, history; as, mirror") and creating the future.

Solve the development problems of Party building in the new era with dialectical thinking that grasps contradictions and seizes the key. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The more our cause develops in depth, the more we must continuously enhance the ability of dialectical thinking." Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building scientifically uses dialectical thinking to observe and analyze the contradictions and problems faced by Party building in the new era, scientifically handles a series of major relationships in full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, connects the top-level design that governs the whole with the micro-considerations that focus on specifics, both taking into account advancement in all fields and focusing efforts on key points; both making an overall summary of a series of basic issues of Party building in the new era through the Fourteen Commitments and systematically sorting out the specific practical issues of Party building in the new era, demonstrating the brilliance of the wisdom of materialist dialectics.

Draw the complete picture of Party building in the new era with systematic thinking that coordinates all aspects and links synergies. The systematic concept is a foundational way of thinking and working method. Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building organically unifies all aspects and various factors of Party building, exerts efforts from multiple dimensions, advances at multiple levels, and uses systematic thinking and scientific methods to promote full coverage of content, full coverage of objects, full chain of responsibilities, and full connection of institutions in Party governance and strict Party management. This thought does not simply list all aspects of Party building, but rather highlights the systematic integration among them. This thought uses the Fourteen Commitments to comprehensively and profoundly clarify the highest principles, strategic guidelines, value pursuits, work layouts, and method paths of Party building in the new era, promoting the organic connection, linkage, and synergy of all aspects of Party building.

Create a brand-new situation of Party building in the new era with innovative thinking that dares to blaze new trails and lead the times. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "The great new project of Party building in the new era must both strengthen the foundation and original vitality (培元固本, pei yuan gu ben - "cultivate, origin; strengthen, root") and blaze new trails and innovate." Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building both inherits a tradition from generation to generation (一脉相承, yi mai xiang cheng - "one, vein; connect, inherit") from the theoretical creations of predecessors and insists on upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground in thinking about and exploring the theoretical and practical issues of Party building in the new era, speaking new words that predecessors have not spoken, answering questions that predecessors have not answered, making major original contributions to enriching and developing Marxist party-building theory, and creating a brand-new situation of Party building in the new era.

Build a solid institutional barrier for Party building in the new era with law-based thinking that is standardized, rigorous, and governs through great wisdom. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must strengthen the high degree of self-awareness of governing the Party with institutions and governing the Party with rules, focus on improving the execution of institutions, and promote full and rigorous self-governance of the Party to develop in depth on the track of laws, regulations, and institutions." Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building attaches great importance to adhering to governing the Party with institutions and governing the Party with rules, creatively applying law-based thinking to the field of Party governance and strict Party management, closely focusing on the overall work of the Party and the state to strengthen Party institutional building, formulating laws, regulations, and institutions that are urgently needed in practice, mature in conditions, and practical and effective, providing fundamental, stable, and long-term guarantees for Party building in the new era with rigid institutional provisions and strict institutional execution, realizing that the implementation of the Party's leadership has rules and regulations to follow (有制可循, you zhi ke xun - "have, system; can, follow") and that strict Party governance and management has rules and regulations to rely on, effectively giving play to the leading and guaranteeing role of institutions.

Resolve the risks and challenges faced by Party building in the new era with bottom-line thinking that is vigilant in peace time and prevents problems before they occur. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "We must adhere to bottom-line thinking, enhance our sense of urgency, and effectively prevent and resolve various risks on the road ahead." Adhering to bottom-line thinking requires preparing for the worst in everything, striving for the best results, being prepared and not panicking when encountering difficulties, and firmly grasping the initiative in work. Facing the severe and complex "four major tests" and "four dangers," as well as various foreseeable and difficult-to-foresee risk factors, Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building is full of a strong sense of urgency and risk awareness, requiring that the longer the Party is in power, the longer the period of peace and stability, the more complex the environment, the more we must enhance our sense of urgency and be vigilant in peace time, persistently advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and ensure that the Communist Party of China always remains the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Mastering and applying scientific ways of thinking is the "secret to success" of Party building in the new era

Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building deeply grasps the internal connection between Party governance and strict Party management, rejuvenating and strengthening the Party, and building a strong country and national rejuvenation, coordinates the Party's leadership and Party building, masters and applies scientific ways of thinking to solve the difficult problems and challenges faced by Party building, and provides a fundamental guarantee for the Party and the country's cause to achieve historic achievements and undergo historic changes.

Open up a new realm of the Party's leadership with scientific ways of thinking. After the reform and opening up, the great new project of Party building achieved remarkable results, but at the same time, there were many problems within the Party such as vague understanding and weak action on upholding the Party's leadership, and problems of weakening, virtualizing, and diluting the Party's leadership, and lax, false, and weak Party governance and strict Party management. Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building uses scientific ways of thinking to profoundly clarify the extreme importance and scientific connotation of upholding the Party's leadership, providing a theoretical guide for unifying the thinking of the entire Party, the entire military, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country. This thought uses strategic thinking to understand and judge the situation from a strategic perspective, observe and handle problems, and clearly and unwaveringly uphold the Party's leadership over all work; this thought uses historical thinking to treat the Party's history with the correct stance, viewpoint, and method, emphasizing that the Party's leadership is the "anchor" for the continuous development of the Party and the country's cause; this thought uses dialectical thinking to think about and grasp the new situations, new problems, and new challenges faced by Party building, emphasizing that on the major principled issue of upholding the Party's leadership, there must be absolutely no ambiguity or wavering; this thought uses systematic thinking to clarify that the Party's leadership is comprehensive, systematic, and holistic, and must be implemented comprehensively, systematically, and holistically; this thought uses innovative thinking to both creatively develop Marxist party-building theory theoretically and guide the vivid practice of the Party's leadership, advancing the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics to a new historical height; this thought uses law-based thinking to correctly understand and grasp the relationship between the Party and the law, clarifying that the Party and the law, the Party's leadership and law-based governance are highly unified; this thought uses bottom-line thinking to emphasize that on the new journey, the entire Party must strengthen its sense of urgency, adhere to bottom-line thinking, carry forward the spirit of struggle, and enhance the ability to struggle. It is precisely because of mastering and applying scientific ways of thinking that the entire Party is more unified in thought, more united politically, more consistent in action, and the Party's leadership is stronger and more powerful.

Improve the overall layout of Party building with scientific ways of thinking. In the cause of the Party and the country, how to position Party building is a major issue that must be answered. Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building creatively establishes the strategic positioning of Party building in the cause of the Party and the country with scientific ways of thinking, and enriches and develops the overall layout of Party building in the new era. This thought uses strategic thinking to incorporate full and rigorous self-governance of the Party into the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy, profoundly pointing out that the great new project of Party building plays a decisive role in the "four greats," anchoring the long-term direction for the overall layout of Party building; this thought uses historical thinking to deeply grasp the process of enriching and developing the overall layout of Party building, laying a solid foundation of inheritance for the overall layout of Party building; this thought uses dialectical thinking to correctly handle a series of dialectical relationships such as inheritance and innovation, key breakthroughs and overall advancement, pointing out the internal logic for the overall layout of Party building; this thought uses systematic thinking to adjust and expand the Party's "five major constructions," building an overall framework for the overall layout of Party building; this thought uses innovative thinking to take the Party's political construction as the guide and comprehensively advance all aspects of Party building; this thought uses law-based thinking to adjust the "parallel status" of the Party's institutional building and other constructions to a "penetrating status," consolidating institutional support for the overall layout of Party building; this thought uses bottom-line thinking to focus on realistic challenges, deeply grasp the long-term, complex, and arduous nature of the anti-corruption struggle, and build a solid risk-prevention barrier for the overall layout of Party building. It is precisely because of mastering and applying scientific ways of thinking that the overall layout of Party building can become increasingly mature and perfect in keeping with the trend of the times, and Party building has concrete support and powerful handles.

Achieve a new improvement in the Party's governing capacity with scientific ways of thinking. In the history of political parties in the world, the lessons of some major and long-established parties losing their governing status or even moving toward extinction show that to achieve long-term governance, the problem of insufficient capacity and inadequate level of governing parties must be solved. Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building uses scientific ways of thinking to strengthen the Party's long-term governing capacity building, advanced nature and purity construction, making the Party stronger, more powerful, and more full of vitality through revolutionary tempering. This thought uses strategic thinking to correctly grasp the overall trends and directions of the development of things, promoting the Party to achieve a new improvement in overall control capability; this thought uses historical thinking to correctly grasp the laws and general trends of historical development, promoting the Party to achieve a new improvement in the ability to learn from history; this thought uses dialectical thinking to properly handle various relationships in the dialectical unity of the theory of two points and the theory of emphasis, promoting the Party to achieve a new improvement in the ability to coordinate all aspects; this thought uses systematic thinking to deeply grasp the internal connection between Party governance and strict Party management, rejuvenating and strengthening the Party, and building a strong country and national rejuvenation, promoting the Party to achieve a new improvement in collaborative governance capability; this thought uses innovative thinking to dare to advance theoretical innovation, practical innovation, institutional innovation, cultural innovation, and innovation in all aspects, promoting the Party to achieve a new improvement in the ability to break new ground and blaze new trails; this thought uses law-based thinking to consolidate the solid foundation of long-term governance with a standardized power operation system, promoting the Party to achieve a new improvement in the ability to govern the Party according to rules; this thought uses bottom-line thinking to ensure that the Party always remains vigilant in peace time and prepares for the future, promoting the Party to achieve a new improvement in risk prevention and control capability. It is precisely because of mastering and applying scientific ways of thinking that we have withstood the tests and challenges of risks from politics, economy, ideology, nature, and other aspects, the cause of the Party and the country in the new era has achieved historic achievements and undergone historic changes, and the Party and the people have won the historical initiative of strengthening the Party and the country.

Master and apply scientific ways of thinking to deeply advance the great new project of Party building in the new era

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Whatever stage the cause of the Party and the people develops to, Party building must advance to that stage." The period of the 15th Five-Year Plan is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and making comprehensive efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. Whether it is achieving the economic and social development goals of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, effectively responding to external risks and challenges, or solving the prominent problems existing within the Party itself, new and higher requirements are put forward for strengthening and improving Party building and improving the Party's governing capacity and leadership level. It is urgent to take Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building as the guide, master and apply the scientific ways of thinking contained therein, deeply advance the great new project of Party building in the new era, and continuously create a new situation of Party governance and strict Party management, and rejuvenating and strengthening the Party.

Anchor the forward course of Party building in the new era with scientific ways of thinking. The issue of the Party's leadership is a major practical issue related to the future and destiny of the Party and the success or failure of the cause, and also a major theoretical issue of Marxist party-building theory. The Party's leadership must be upheld and strengthened, must be implemented comprehensively, systematically, and holistically, and the primary and key to upholding, strengthening, and implementing lies in upholding the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized, unified leadership. To deeply advance the great new project of Party building in the new era, we must continuously strengthen strategic thinking and thereby improve leadership capability, ensure accurate strategic judgment, scientific planning, and winning the initiative on the basis of grasping the strategic overall situation and strategic key points, ensure that we always clearly and unwaveringly uphold and strengthen the Party's comprehensive leadership, and comprehensively and fully transform the Party's leadership advantages into governance advantages and development advantages.

Stand firm on the fundamental position of Party building in the new era with scientific ways of thinking. Our Party comes from the people, is born for the people, and thrives because of the people. The Party's foundation and lifeline are in the people, and the people's position is the Party's fundamental political position. The experience of Party building tells us that the stronger and more powerful the Party is, the closer the relationship between the Party and the masses of the people; the closer the relationship between the Party and the people, the more the Party seeks development and interests for the people, the more the people support the Party. To deeply advance the great new project of Party building in the new era, we must adhere to and apply historical thinking to analyze and solve problems, summarize historical experience, and ensure that the entire Party always places the people at the highest position in its heart at any time and under any circumstances. The longer the Party has been in power, the heavier the responsibilities it bears, and the more severe the risks and challenges it faces. Only by daring to innovate and create can we adapt to the development of the times, lead the people to push history forward, and create a better future. To deeply advance the great new project of Party building in the new era, we must adhere to and apply innovative thinking to plan and promote work, continuously broaden the horizon of innovation, open up innovative ideas, and safeguard the people's red river and mountains with the surging driving force of innovation.

Ensure the steady and rapid progress of Party building in the new era with scientific ways of thinking. Through unremitting efforts since the beginning of the new era, many prominent contradictions and stubborn diseases that have long existed within the Party have been effectively resolved, and full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has achieved remarkable results that are obvious to all. However, we must never rest on our laurels and be complacent, must never be blindly optimistic, and must never develop the idea of "taking a breather and resting our feet." To deeply advance the great new project of Party building in the new era, we must pay attention to using systematic concepts and dialectical thinking to govern and manage the Party, adhere to the simultaneous efforts of ideological Party building and institutional Party governance, adhere to grasping Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline together, and connect rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and fighting corruption, unswervingly and integratively advance the goal of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, and in practice handle well the relationships between strengthening the healthy and eliminating the evil and consolidating the foundation and cultivating the origin, establishing rules and regulations and implementing them effectively, treating symptoms and treating the root causes, grasping the "key minority" and managing the "vast majority," and continuously build the Party well and build it strong.

Solve the bottlenecks and difficult problems of Party building in the new era with scientific ways of thinking. Looking at the world, the century-old changes are accelerating, the world is intertwined with changes and turbulence, and turmoil is intensifying. The problem of unbalanced and inadequate development in our country is still prominent, and there are still hidden risks and dangers in key areas. The "four major tests" and "four dangers" faced by the Party will exist for a long time, and the Party's own construction requires more arduous efforts. To deeply advance the great new project of Party building in the new era, we must be good at using law-based thinking and law-based methods to plan work and handle problems, govern, manage, and build the Party on the track of the rule of law, and effectively transform law-based thinking and law-based methods into practical effectiveness. We must be good at using bottom-line thinking, both having "clever moves" to respond to crises and challenges and having "dikes" to prevent risks, making the first move and grasping the initiative in Party building.

Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building continuously enriches its connotation and improves its system in the development of the times and practical innovation, profoundly answering many major questions that Marxist classical writers have not spoken of and that Western party theories have never been able to solve, making major original contributions to enriching and developing Marxist party-building theory, providing guiding ideology, basic concepts, and basic theories for constructing a Marxist party-building theoretical system that is Sinicized and modernized, pointing out the direction for constructing an independent knowledge system of the study of the history of the Communist Party of China and Party building, and laying a solid ideological foundation. By scientifically mastering and applying the scientific ways of thinking contained in Xi Jinping Thought on Party Building, our Party will certainly be able to effectively respond to and resolve the risks and challenges faced by the Party's long-term governance, build the Party stronger and more powerful, better lead and guarantee the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation, and continuously create new miracles on the new road of catching up with the examination.

(The author is the Dean of the School of Marxism at Shandong University)

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Combining Phased Work with Long-Term Goals (Ideological Perspectives)

By: 张传泉

At the reception celebrating the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "As long as we strengthen our confidence, anchor our goals, and move forward steadily step by step, success will surely belong to the great Communist Party of China, the great Chinese people, and the great People's Republic of China!" By both anchoring goals and moving forward steadily step by step, General Secretary Xi Jinping's important remarks provide scientific methodological guidance for Party members and cadres in undertaking work and starting businesses. The success of an undertaking is not a sprint of a very short period of time (一朝一夕, yi chao yi xi - "one morning, one evening"), nor a leap accomplished in a single step. Only by combining phased work with long-term goals, implementing tasks one by one, and pursuing results year by year, can we continuously accumulate small victories into major victories.

Long-term goals are grounded in the overall situation and the long run, guiding the direction of career development. Determining long-term goals for struggle in accordance with the laws of economic and social development, and continuing the endeavor consistent from beginning to end (一以贯之, yi yi guan zhi - "one, through, connect, continue"), is a unique advantage of our Party. Long-term goals can consolidate social consensus, enabling everyone to think with one mind and exert strength in one direction; can maintain the stability and continuity of policies, forming a chain of endeavor that spans generations and realizing the drawing of one blueprint to the end; can guide resources to tilt toward fields that build foundations and benefit the long term, ensuring high-quality development and avoiding the "short-sightedness" of overexploiting resources for short-term gain (竭泽而渔, jie ze er yu - "drain, pond, then, fish") and sacrificing long-term interests for immediate gain (杀鸡取卵, sha ji qu luan - "kill, chicken, take, egg"). Phased work is grounded in the characteristics of the current stage, resolving the contradictions and problems of that stage. Great undertakings start from small beginnings (九层之台，起于累土, jiu ceng zhi tai, qi yu lei tu - "nine, layer, of, terrace; rise, from, accumulate, earth"); a long journey begins with a single step (千里之行，始于足下, qian li zhi xing, shi yu zu xia - "thousand, li, of, journey; start, from, foot, below"). Every item of phased work is an effort of accumulating earth, storing strength for the gradual realization of long-term goals.

Phased work emphasizes grasping the present, implementing tasks, and achieving breakthroughs; the key is to break down the grand blueprint into specific tasks that are visible, implementable, and verifiable. The Thousand-Village Demonstration and Ten-Thousand-Village Improvement Project implemented in Zhejiang is grounded in the long-term plan for agricultural and rural modernization, clarifying work priorities according to different stages of development, and determining task lists for rural sewage treatment, garbage disposal, toilet revolution, improvement of village appearance, and cultivation of distinctive industries. Through more than 20 years of continuous advancement, it has gradually moved from "beauty in one place" to "beauty in a whole area" and "beauty across the entire region," bringing enormous benefits to the people. To do phased work well, one must be adept at decomposing long-term plans into step-by-step concrete work, focusing on small entry points to formulate targeted and operable specific tasks, and transforming beautiful visions into tangible and accessible real-world prospects. Planning specific tasks does not require attending to every single detail (事无巨细, shi wu ju xi - "matter, no, huge, small") or trying to cover every aspect or detail (面面俱到, mian mian ju dao - "face, face, all, arrive"), but rather grasping the key points of the stage, highlighting shortcomings and weak links, precisely identifying bottlenecks and difficulties, and doing the work solidly and thoroughly with "embroidery skill," thereby driving overall improvement through breakthroughs at key points.

Phased work is not isolated and fragmented, but must serve long-term goals. Phased work cannot only focus on the immediate and discuss a matter based on its own merits (就事论事, jiu shi lun shi - "take, matter, discuss, matter"), but must always benchmark against the long-term direction to prevent deviation and divergence. After the establishment of Xiong'an New Area, full-scale construction did not begin immediately; instead, a considerable amount of time was spent compiling plans. The construction of Xiong'an New Area is a "millennium plan" and must become a benchmark of high-quality development and a new modern city. The phased work of compiling plans precisely anchors this long-term goal. In the short term, the pace of construction appears slower, but in reality it sets bottom lines and establishes rules for achieving the long-term goal, thereby avoiding the old path of building first and rectifying later. To do phased work well, one must both stand in the present, closely focus on the immediate main business to tackle key tasks and ensure the effective implementation of various tasks, and also look to the long term, make forward-looking arrangements around future development, and avoid short-term measures leaving historical legacy problems. Adhere to coordinating the near and the far, embed every phased task into the long-term development layout, and through steady accumulation step by step, promote the gradual transformation of strategic planning into vivid practice.

Phased work and long-term goals are closely connected and mutually reinforcing; long-term goals must guide phased work, and phased work must support long-term goals, achieving an organic integration of process advancement and goal attainment. After phased work is completed, one cannot relax or rest on one's laurels; one must anchor the long-term goals and continue to exert effort, resolving the contradictions and difficulties of the new stage. After long-term goals are established, one cannot act blindly without considering changing circumstances (刻舟求剑, ke zhou qiu jian - "carve, boat, seek, sword"); one must promptly summarize the experience of phased work to improve long-term arrangements.

Realizing socialist modernization is a historical process of stepwise progression and continuous development and progress; one can neither fantasize about "a single punch producing a golden doll" nor "fish for three days and dry the nets for two." Only by grasping the direction of progress and clarifying the goals of struggle, moving forward firmly step by step, and advancing Chinese modernization with undivided attention, can we create achievements that withstand the test of practice, the people, and history, and ensure that the cause of the Party and the state advances steadily and far.

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Guard the Peace and Security of the People (Special Topic Reflection)

By: 张成岗

General Secretary Xi Jinping, in his reply letter to all members of the "Zhangzhou 110" of Fujian Province, emphasized: "Guard the happiness of the people, protect the peace of the family and the nation, and the people's public security bears a heavy responsibility on its shoulders." General Secretary Xi Jinping, in making important instructions on building a higher-level Peaceful China, emphasized: "On the new journey, we must be guided by the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for the New Era, unswervingly implement the holistic approach to national security, uphold and strengthen the Party's overall leadership, coordinate development and security, focus on combining punishment and prevention, address both symptoms and root causes (标本兼治, biao ben jian zhi - "mark, sample, treat, cure"), strengthen the support of the rule of law and the empowerment of science and technology, strengthen the building of the national security system and capacity, improve the level of public safety governance, perfect the social governance system, prevent and defuse various risks, and continue to exert sustained effort on making the country more secure, society more orderly, governance more effective, and the people more satisfied, so as to ensure the steady and long-term progress of Chinese modernization through the building of a higher-level Peaceful China." To implement and concretize the goals of building a higher-level Peaceful China, we must adhere to the people's standpoint, continuously perfect the social governance system, and enable the people to truly and continuously feel safety and reassurance in every specific small matter of grassroots governance.

Peace and security is the primary need of ordinary people after they have solved the problem of food and clothing; it is an extremely important livelihood issue and also the most basic environment for development. The value coordinates of building a higher-level Peaceful China are always anchored to the people's ever-growing needs for a better life. In the process of Chinese modernization, peace and security have transcended the traditional sense of public order and stability and extended to all-dimensional livelihood fields such as secure employment, secure residence, secure health, and peace of mind. There are not only needs for the safety of life and property, but also aspirations for fairness and justice, harmony and order. Social governance connects policy with the people, and its key lies in transforming the people's diverse needs for peace and security into implementable governance results. The shift from a management-and-control mindset to a service-and-governance mindset vividly reflects the profound transformation of social governance concepts in the new era, namely, the governance subjects moving from single to multiple, governance methods moving from rigid to flexible, the focus of governance moving from the end to the front end, and governance standards shifting from "being able to manage and control" to "serving well." The deep logic behind this transformation lies in running the people-centered development philosophy through the entire process of building a Peaceful China and taking whether the people are satisfied or not as the fundamental yardstick for measuring governance results. There are no small matters in the affairs of the masses. The investigation of a hidden danger or the mediation of a dispute may seem trivial, but it concerns the sense of gain, happiness, and security of every household or family (千家万户, qian jia wan hu - "thousand, family, ten thousand, household"). Handling these "small matters" well and properly is precisely the concrete embodiment of the people-centered development philosophy in the field of social governance.

Move the focus downward and the threshold forward, and dissolve risks in the bud. To perfect the social governance system, the key lies in grasping the grassroots, grasping the front end, and grasping the source, dissolving risks in the bud and resolving contradictions at the source. Regular visits to villages and households can detect signs of contradictions in advance; the grid-based system covering streets and alleys can dynamically perceive changes in hidden dangers; consultation mechanisms rooted in the masses can resolve interest disputes in the community... Since the beginning of the new era, such "front-end governance" has shifted the governance logic from "mending the fold after the sheep are lost" to "preparing for a rainy day," promoting the transformation of Peaceful China building from passive response to active prevention, and from end-stage handling to front-end governance. At the grassroots level, early detection and early handling of contradictions often cost less and yield better results. "Front-end governance" conforms to the laws of social contradiction movement, places governance resources at the source in advance, and helps avoid the escalation of contradictions, preventing small matters from growing into big ones and big matters from exploding. Different from the Western approach to public security management, which emphasizes post-hoc punishment and end-stage control, this "front-end governance" that insists on moving the threshold forward and governing at the source makes peace and security a predictable and reliable normal guarantee for the people, and is a vivid manifestation of China's governance.

Everyone participates, everyone fulfills their responsibility, and a social governance pattern of joint building, joint governance, and shared benefits is created. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We must perfect the social governance system of joint building, joint governance, and shared benefits, realize the benign interaction between government governance, social regulation, and residents' self-governance, and build a community of social governance in which everyone is responsible, everyone fulfills their duty, and everyone enjoys the benefits." Peace and security have never been a matter of a few people protecting the many. From the continuous deepening of the Fengqiao model in the new era to the widespread popularization of mechanisms such as villagers' deliberation, people's sentiment talks, and building unit discussions, localities have effectively organized the wisdom, strength, and resources of the masses through institutionalized channels, so that the masses' worrying matters, troubling matters, and distressing matters have places to be voiced, people to manage them, and rules to handle them, making the masses the subjects of building a higher-level Peaceful China. Facts have proven that peace and security require not only professional prevention forces but also social coordination and mass participation. To perfect the social governance system, it is necessary to organize and mobilize the masses, so that the building of a Peaceful China changes from "being asked to participate" to "I want to participate," and from "a solo performance" to "a chorus of all." In this way, the building of a higher-level Peaceful China can gain more enduring support, and the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security can become more substantial, more guaranteed, and more sustainable.

(The author is the Dean of the Institute for Social Governance and Development, Tsinghua University)

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Uphold the Correct Course of "One Country, Two Systems" and Advance Hong Kong and Macao Toward the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation

By: 中共中央港澳工作办公室理论学习中心组

In his important speech at the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "promoting the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao is an inherent requirement of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. On the new journey, we must fully and accurately implement, unswervingly adhere to, the principles of 'One Country, Two Systems,' 'Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong,' 'Macao people administering Macao,' and a high degree of autonomy, implement the principles of 'patriots administering Hong Kong' and 'patriots administering Macao,' enhance the law-based governance capacity of Hong Kong and Macao, promote the economic and social development of Hong Kong and Macao, and support Hong Kong and Macao in better integrating into and serving the overall development of the country." General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, standing at the height of history, the overall situation, and strategy, focusing on comprehensively building a great modern socialist country, profoundly revealed the internal logic between promoting the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, further deepened our Party's understanding of the laws governing the practice of "One Country, Two Systems," and serves as the fundamental guideline for promoting the long-term peace, stability, and high-quality development of Hong Kong and Macao. Studying and comprehending the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech in depth is of great significance and has far-reaching influence for profoundly grasping the institutional advantages and practical logic of "One Country, Two Systems," anchoring the functional positioning of Hong Kong and Macao in serving the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation, better coordinating development and security, and continuously creating a new situation of high-quality development of the "One Country, Two Systems" cause.

General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech once again proclaimed to the world our Party's firm stance of fully and accurately implementing, and unswervingly adhering to, the "One Country, Two Systems" principle

In his important speech, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "we must fully and accurately implement, unswervingly adhere to, the principles of 'One Country, Two Systems,' 'Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong,' 'Macao people administering Macao,' and a high degree of autonomy," which is completely consistent with General Secretary Xi Jinping's repeatedly emphasized statements that "the Central Government's implementation of the 'One Country, Two Systems' principle" will "ensure it will not change or waver" and "ensure it will not be distorted or deformed." At the solemn historical moment of the celebration of the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping re-proclaimed and re-emphasized our Party's stance on implementing the "One Country, Two Systems" principle, fully demonstrating our Party's institutional confidence in "One Country, Two Systems," and embodying the political responsibility, firm conviction, and broad vision of Chinese Communists.

"One Country, Two Systems" is a great innovation of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the Communist Party of China is the designer, founder, maintainer, and promoter of the "One Country, Two Systems" cause. The magnificent development journey of Hong Kong and Macao since their return to the motherland fully proves that, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, "One Country, Two Systems" is the best institutional arrangement for maintaining long-term prosperity and stability after the return of Hong Kong and Macao, and is a good system for serving the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation. Since the return of Hong Kong and Macao, the constitutional order based on the Constitution and the basic laws has operated steadily, the Central Government's overall jurisdiction has been implemented, and the high degree of autonomy of the special administrative regions has been correctly exercised. The original capitalist systems and ways of life in Hong Kong and Macao have remained unchanged, the laws have remained basically unchanged, and the legitimate rights and freedoms of residents have been guaranteed. Hong Kong has moved from chaos to order and is now advancing from order to prosperity. Its status as an international financial, shipping, and trade center is stable, its innovation and technology industries are rapidly emerging, its freedom and openness rank among the best in the world, and its business environment is world-class. Hong Kong has been consistently rated the world's freest economy, its world competitiveness ranking has risen to second globally, and it has surpassed Switzerland for the first time to become the world's largest cross-border wealth management center. Macao's economic and social development has achieved historic leaps, the construction of the "one center, one platform, one base" has been solidly advanced, new progress has been continuously made in the appropriately diversified development of the economy, and its per capita GDP ranks among the forefront of the world. Exchanges and cooperation between Hong Kong, Macao, and the mainland in various fields have continued to deepen, with active participation in the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, deeply embedding them in the country's development process. The practice of "One Country, Two Systems" has weathered storms and forged ahead through difficulties, and its strong vitality and institutional resilience have become increasingly evident. "One Country, Two Systems" conforms to the fundamental interests of the country and the nation, conforms to the fundamental interests of Hong Kong and Macao, has received unanimous support from the residents of Hong Kong and Macao, and has also received general endorsement from the international community. General Secretary Xi Jinping's reiteration of our Party's firm stance on the "One Country, Two Systems" principle conforms to the trends of history and the times, reflects the will of the people, forcefully refutes the attacks and smears against "One Country, Two Systems" by external forces in the United States and the West, and has greatly enhanced the confidence of the entire nation, including our compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao, and the international community in the long-term stability of "One Country, Two Systems."

General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech further clarified the historical positioning of Hong Kong and Macao in the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation

In his important speech, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "promoting the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao is an inherent requirement of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation." This important assertion anchors the historical coordinates of Hong Kong and Macao in the overall development of the country on the new journey of advancing the building of a strong country and national rejuvenation, and their historical positioning in the overall cause of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, with profound connotations.

On the new journey, the destinies of Hong Kong and Macao are even more closely linked with that of the motherland; this is the historical logic of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the Chinese nation in modern times and the common aspiration of all Chinese people, including our compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao. Our compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao have always shared trials and tribulations together (风雨同舟, feng yu tong zhou - "wind, rain, same, boat") with the motherland, connected by blood. In the great leap of the Chinese nation from standing up, growing rich, to becoming strong, our compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao have never been absent. The return of Hong Kong and Macao to the motherland, washing away a century of humiliation, is a monumental achievement that will shine in the annals of the Chinese nation, and from then on, Hong Kong and Macao have embarked on a broad path of common development with the motherland, never to be separated. At present, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation has entered an irreversible historical process. The roots of Hong Kong and Macao lie in the motherland, and their future lies in the motherland. Hong Kong and Macao, sharing the same goals and ideals (同心同德, tong xin tong de - "same, heart, same, virtue") with the motherland, moving forward in the same direction, and our compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao, together with the people of the motherland, share the historical responsibility for national rejuvenation and share the great glory of the motherland's prosperity and strength.

On the new journey, Hong Kong and Macao will achieve better self-development by integrating into and serving the overall development of the country; this is an inherent part of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao are not just matters of one place or one region, but major propositions concerning the great cause of national rejuvenation, carrying the common expectations of all Chinese people. Adhering to combining the development of Hong Kong and Macao with the development of the country is a valuable experience in advancing the practice of "One Country, Two Systems." Since the return of Hong Kong and Macao, with the strong support of the Central Government and the mainland, they have undergone tremendous changes (翻天覆地, fan tian fu di - "turn, sky, overturn, earth"), their international influence has greatly increased, they have actively integrated into the overall development of the country, and they have made irreplaceable contributions to the country's modernization. In the critical period of comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization, it is not only necessary to maintain the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao, but more importantly, to promote their long-term prosperity and stability. The country's 15th Five-Year Plan provides unprecedented development opportunities and broad space for Hong Kong and Macao to better integrate into and serve the overall development of the country. "Integration" is the premise and the path; "service" is the goal and the elevation. If Hong Kong and Macao proactively align with the country's 15th Five-Year Plan, leverage their own strengths, respond to the country's needs, and implement their own five-year plans well, they will certainly be able to have great potential for success (大有可为, da you ke wei - "great, have, can, do") and achieve great accomplishments, forming a new pattern of two-way empowerment where the motherland supports Hong Kong and Macao, and Hong Kong and Macao contribute to the motherland.

On the new journey, Hong Kong and Macao will fully leverage their unique advantages and important roles; this is a strategic consideration for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The Central Government has always handled Hong Kong and Macao affairs from a strategic and overall perspective, and has always taken the fundamental and long-term interests of the country, Hong Kong, and Macao as the starting point and ultimate goal. An important strategic consideration of the Central Government in implementing the "One Country, Two Systems" principle is to leverage the unique position and advantages of Hong Kong and Macao in "relying on the motherland and connecting with the world." At present, the century-old changes are accelerating, a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating breakthroughs, great-power competition is becoming more complex and intense, unilateralism and protectionism are rising, and risks of external containment, suppression, and "decoupling and severing supply chains" are increasing. The more complex and severe the external environment, the more prominent the strategic value of Hong Kong and Macao's internal connectivity and external outreach. On the new journey, if Hong Kong and Macao better leverage their unique position and advantages, it will not only help enhance their own development resilience, but also help expand the space for the country's open development. To advance the practice of "One Country, Two Systems" making steady progress toward long-term goals (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk, steady, reach, far"), it is necessary to maintain the hard-won good situation in Hong Kong, consolidate and enhance the functions and roles of Hong Kong and Macao, leverage their unique advantages, strengthen internal connectivity and external outreach, more forcefully safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests, make greater contributions to the building of a strong country and national rejuvenation, and provide more Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the international community for solving similar problems and promoting peace and development.

General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech emphasized implementing the principles of "patriots administering Hong Kong" and "patriots administering Macao," enhancing the law-based governance capacity of Hong Kong and Macao, and providing clear guidance for good governance and effective administration in Hong Kong and Macao

In his important speech, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "implementing the principles of 'patriots administering Hong Kong' and 'patriots administering Macao' and enhancing the law-based governance capacity of Hong Kong and Macao." This important exposition profoundly enlightens us that implementing "patriots administering Hong Kong" and "patriots administering Macao," improving the governance system of the special administrative regions, and enhancing the effectiveness of law-based governance are the key levers for Hong Kong and Macao to maintain long-term prosperity and stability. We must strive to promote the growth and strengthening of the forces that love the country, love Hong Kong, and love Macao, build a strong governance team for the special administrative regions, innovate governance concepts, improve governance methods, and continuously enhance the governance capacity and standards of Hong Kong and Macao.

Adhering to "patriots administering Hong Kong" and "patriots administering Macao" is a fundamental principle that cannot be shaken. The constitutional order of the special administrative regions established by the Constitution and the basic laws determines, from a legal perspective, the logic of governance by patriots that is necessarily inherent in "Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong" and "Macao people administering Macao." The 2019 "extradition bill incident" in Hong Kong showed that if "patriots administering Hong Kong" is not implemented, the governance of the special administrative region will deviate from the correct direction. In recent years, by resolutely implementing "patriots administering Hong Kong" and "patriots administering Macao," resolutely combating forces in Hong Kong and Macao that oppose China and destabilize the regions, and resolutely struggling against external forces in the United States and the West, Hong Kong and Macao have shown a new atmosphere of good governance and effective administration. Firmly keeping the governance power of Hong Kong and Macao in the hands of steadfast patriots is an inevitable requirement for ensuring the long-term peace and stability of Hong Kong and Macao, and it must not be shaken at any time.

The key to implementing "patriots administering Hong Kong" and "patriots administering Macao" lies in selecting the worthy and appointing the capable. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that "we must select the worthy and appoint the capable according to the standard of possessing both virtue and talent (德才兼备, de cai jian bei - "virtue, talent, both, possess"), and broadly recruit outstanding talents who have a firm stance of loving the country, loving Hong Kong, and loving Macao, outstanding governance capabilities, and a heart for serving the public into the government." "Virtue" emphasizes a firm patriotic stance, loyalty to the country, and loyalty to the special administrative region. "Talent" emphasizes improving governance capabilities, having an overall perspective and international vision, and being adept at solving deep-seated contradictions and practical problems in economic and social development and people's livelihoods. We must adhere to and improve executive-led governance, improve the institutional mechanisms for implementing the principles of "patriots administering Hong Kong" and "patriots administering Macao," improve the relevant mechanisms for training, selection, appointment, and management, bring the worthy and capable into the governance team, organically combine an effective government with an efficient market, reform and innovate, take responsibility and act, and continuously demonstrate a new style of governance.

Achieve great unity and great alliance of the forces that love the country, love Hong Kong, and love Macao. Implementing "patriots administering Hong Kong" and "patriots administering Macao" is about drawing the largest concentric circle in society with patriotism as the greatest common divisor. To achieve the prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao, "patriots administering Hong Kong" and "patriots administering Macao" should become the common consensus and common will of Hong Kong and Macao society. The broad masses of our compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao are closely united under the banner of patriotism, converging into a powerful force to advance the practice of "One Country, Two Systems" making steady progress toward long-term goals. Hong Kong and Macao should vigorously promote the mainstream values centered on loving the country, loving Hong Kong, and loving Macao, which are compatible with the "One Country, Two Systems" principle, broadly unite the business community, professional circles, and grassroots organizations, and consolidate the mass foundation of "One Country, Two Systems." No matter what profession one engages in or what beliefs one holds, as long as one sincerely supports the "One Country, Two Systems" principle, as long as one loves Hong Kong and Macao, this homeland, and as long as one abides by the basic laws and the laws of the special administrative regions, one is a positive force for building Hong Kong and Macao.

Study and practice the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech in depth, and promote the high-quality development of the "One Country, Two Systems" cause in the new era

General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech is full of ardent expectations for Hong Kong and Macao to play a greater role and achieve better development in the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation, full of ardent expectations for deepening the practice of "One Country, Two Systems," and sets higher standards and requirements for doing the work on Hong Kong and Macao well in the new era. To study and practice the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech in depth, it is even more necessary to base ourselves on the historical vision and strategic pattern of the century-old Party, focus on the overall situation of the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation, promote the deep alignment of Hong Kong and Macao with the country's 15th Five-Year Plan, closely connect with the country's long-term goal of basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035, deeply integrate with the Second Centenary Goal of building a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and beautiful by the middle of this century, and safeguard the high-quality development of the "One Country, Two Systems" cause with high-level security.

Strive to build a safer Hong Kong and Macao. Security is the premise of development and an important guarantee for maintaining the free and open environment of Hong Kong and Macao, stabilizing market confidence, and expanding international connections. The firmer the security bottom line, the broader the space for Hong Kong and Macao's open development. Hong Kong's transition from chaos to order and then to prosperity is a process that cannot be separated. At present, the situation of safeguarding national security in Hong Kong and Macao remains severe and complex. Promoting development cannot ignore security, and safeguarding national security will accompany the entire process of the "One Country, Two Systems" practice. On the new journey, we must adhere to the unity of the Central Government's fundamental responsibility and the constitutional responsibility of the special administrative regions, legally and effectively prevent, stop, and punish acts and activities that endanger national security, maintain a high-pressure posture against elements in Hong Kong and Macao who oppose China and destabilize the regions, pay attention to security in non-traditional fields such as finance, shipping, trade, and the protection of overseas interests, continuously improve the legal systems and enforcement mechanisms for safeguarding national security in the special administrative regions, further improve the institutional mechanisms against sanctions, interference, and "long-arm jurisdiction," effectively prevent and curb external forces from interfering in Hong Kong and Macao affairs, effectively resolve major risks, support Hong Kong and Macao in broadly expanding international connections, and escort the high-quality economic development and high-level opening up of Hong Kong and Macao.

Strive to build a more prosperous Hong Kong and Macao. When economic vitality continues to increase, people's livelihoods continue to improve, channels for upward social mobility become smoother, and the general public's confidence in a better life becomes firmer, the foundation for the long-term peace, stability, and long-term development of Hong Kong and Macao will also become more solid. Support the Chief Executives and the special administrative region governments in governing effectively in accordance with the law, promote the implementation of the five-year plans by Hong Kong and Macao, and lead high-quality development and high-efficiency governance with planning blueprints. Support Hong Kong and Macao in leveraging the empowerment of national strategies, deeply cultivating open platforms such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, consolidating Hong Kong's status as an international financial, shipping, and trade center, accelerating the construction of the Northern Metropolis and the International Innovation and Technology Center, promoting the appropriately diversified development of Macao's economy, accelerating the development and construction of Hengqin, deepening exchanges and cooperation with the mainland, strengthening Hong Kong and Macao's advantageous industries, and cultivating emerging industries. Support the special administrative region governments in deepening reforms, removing development barriers, and fully releasing the innovative vitality of society. Fully leverage the role of Hong Kong and Macao as bridges and bonds connecting the mainland with the world, and actively assist our country in participating in global economic governance and expanding the space for international cooperation.

Strive to build a more harmonious Hong Kong and Macao. Social harmony and stability are an important manifestation of the positive interaction between high-quality development and high-level security. Promote a social culture of inclusiveness, mutual assistance, and seeking common ground while reserving differences (求同存异, qiu tong cun yi - "seek, same, keep, different") in Hong Kong and Macao, and consolidate and expand the patriotic united front of loving the country, loving Hong Kong, and loving Macao. Strengthen the regional governance system, enhance the effectiveness of public governance, resolutely prevent and curb the occurrence of major safety accidents, and ensure social stability in Hong Kong and Macao. Support Hong Kong and Macao in being people-centered, solving livelihood problems such as housing, education, employment, and elderly care, improving the livelihood security system, effectively enhancing people's well-being, making the whole society more content in life and more motivated in development, and jointly building a beautiful homeland in Hong Kong and Macao. Support the special administrative region governments and all sectors of society in doing youth work with heart and soul, taking multiple measures to break through the bottlenecks in youth development, and guiding young people in Hong Kong and Macao to cultivate deep feelings for the country and the nation and devote themselves to the great cause of national rejuvenation.

The building of a strong country and national rejuvenation have already unfolded a magnificent picture. The development of Hong Kong and Macao is full of vitality and vigor (生机勃勃, sheng ji bo bo - "life, machine, overflowing, overflowing") and holds promising prospects. On the new journey, as long as we adhere to the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech as the fundamental guideline, fully and accurately implement, and unswervingly adhere to, the "One Country, Two Systems" principle, with the great motherland as a strong backing, and with the joint efforts of the special administrative region governments and all sectors of society, Hong Kong and Macao will certainly be able to demonstrate new responsibility and achieve new accomplishments, and the practice of "One Country, Two Systems" will surely open up a new situation of high-quality development at a higher starting point.

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Let the tangible history reach people's hearts

By: 本报记者 李卓尔

The wind pours through the mountain pass, and one can only advance step by step, pausing at every step.

Mount Dangling, at an altitude of 5,470 meters, is the highest snow mountain the Red Army crossed during the Long March. A local folk rhyme says: "Climb Mount Dangling, and you enter the gate of hell."

This summer, the filming crew of the documentary The Great Expedition retraced the Red Army's footsteps and crossed Mount Dangling once again. When they reached the Xiaqiangnie'a Pass at an altitude of over 4,800 meters, someone wept: "This is far harder than I imagined. Every step is hard-won."

This year marks the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Recently, the documentaries The Great Expedition and Vast Mountains and Rivers broadcast on China Media Group have drawn enthusiastic responses and been warmly received by audiences. The Great Expedition has reached over 800 million views across the entire internet, while Vast Mountains and Rivers ranks first nationwide in its time slot for viewership ratings.

Today, how do we tell the story of this great miracle? The two documentaries use images as a bridge, allowing yesterday's journey and today's march to resonate on the same frequency, making the great spirit of the Long March tangible and palpable.

Letting details and physical objects "speak"

Xiao Pu, chief director of The Great Expedition, said the main creative team followed the creative philosophy of "thought + art + technology," striving to achieve: political commentary with height, narrative with warmth, and historical facts with precision.

"The 'substance' of the film comes from touchable objects: half a quilt, a kerosene lamp, a ferry boat, a newspaper, a flag," said Jia Yong, chief scriptwriter of The Great Expedition. "With these, the truth grows on its own."

"In the first episode, we used the notches on the pillar in Zhongfu Village. Those were left by a young man measuring his height before the Red Army set out. Most of them never came back, but the notches remain." Jia Yong said that a single notch is worth ten thousand phrases of "a mother sending her son to the battlefield."

Jia Yong explained that there is a hard rule for selecting details: they must be vivid, verifiable in historical records, and difficult or even impossible to replace.

Very few images of the Long March survive. Today, however, technology provides strong support: virtual filming of 15 key scenes, live-action filming of 8 major battles, plus satellite remote sensing, aerial photography, and image restoration — all allowing audiences to experience that history directly.

"What we restored are scenes with historical basis, not products of imagination," Xiao Pu said. "All technological innovation adheres to one principle — serving historical facts, assisting the narrative, and not overstepping boundaries. The underlying tone of technology is always reverence for history."

While filming Vast Mountains and Rivers, the main creative team followed this rule: let the physical objects "speak" for themselves. Chief director Zhu Yiran distilled it into nine characters — find them, measure them accurately, use them correctly.

The second episode, Bloody Battle at the Xiang River, begins with the recovery and identification of the remains of martyrs. In 2017, the bones of more than 20 martyrs who fell in the Xinxu Blocking Action were recovered from an underground dark river. The team led by Professor Li Fajun of Sun Yat-sen University identified them: most were only 15 to 25 years old, with slender bones and blunt-force wounds on their skulls.

"History tells us what happened, and the bones tell us who bore it all, and at what cost," Zhu Yiran said.

"Detail-driven narrative is effective because it provides evidence rather than conclusions," said Gu Yaqi, deputy dean of the School of Arts at Renmin University of China. "The martyrs' remains recovered from the Jiuhaijing well and other items provide verifiable evidence, allowing audiences to form judgments through their own perception."

Letting past and present illuminate each other

Xiao Pu said the production took more than a year, and the most important action of the main creative team was "walking."

The filming crew traveled through more than a dozen provinces along the Long March route and visited hundreds of former sites, interviewing over 100 experts and descendants of Red Army soldiers. The average age of the directing team was 35, and most were encountering this history systematically for the first time. The script was revised until "every word had been grounded by the soles of our feet" before it could be finalized.

"This film was not written or shot," Xiao Pu said, "but walked out and waded out step by step along the footprints of our forebears."

In Dushu Township, Fangcheng County, Henan Province, when the team arrived, the wheat fields were rolling in waves — a scene of bountiful harvest. More than 90 years ago, a fierce battle was fought there, and most of those who fell were Red Army soldiers of only 13 or 14 years of age.

Hu Yu, an editor of The Great Expedition, has an unforgettable memory of the survey of the grasslands crossing. Today the grasslands are magnificent in scenery, and audiences find it hard to understand what made crossing them so difficult. The team invited geology experts to explain the peat layers; drilling six meters underground, they still brought up soft, mushy mud.

"Once you sink in, you might truly disappear from sight," Hu Yu said.

The more they walked, the clearer they could see the transformation of mountains and rivers.

Mount Jiajin, crossed in those days, now has a tunnel open to traffic with a total length of 9.35 kilometers — "crossing" has become "passing through," and 110,000 local residents no longer fear the mountain being sealed off by snow in winter. Where the Red Army held the Huajiang Chain Bridge for three days and three nights, the Huajiang Canyon Bridge now soars across the "fracture of the earth." On September 6, 2026, a high-speed rail line from Ruijin to Yan'an officially began service — the journey of those days has been shortened to less than 12 hours.

Zhu Yiran and the creative team of Vast Mountains and Rivers likewise retraced the Long March route. What impressed them most was the search for that photograph of Snow.

In August 1936, American journalist Edgar Snow took an old photograph of the Red Army at Yuwangbao, Tongxin County, Ningxia. With a lead provided by historical researcher Zheng Wenzhu, it was published publicly in China for the first time. Zhu Yiran invited Zheng Wenzhu to Yuwangbao together, repeatedly comparing the mountain contours, the bulges of the earthen slopes, and the course of the gullies in the photograph.

Ninety years later, in the same season, they stood in the same position and at the same angle as Snow, completing another shoot across time and space.

At that moment, Zhu Yiran sighed with emotion: "The mountain is still the same mountain, but the world beneath it has changed."

Reaching younger audiences

As night fell, the study room of the "Dadu River Company" of an army unit was brightly lit.

The officers and soldiers sat upright in orderly rows, watching The Great Expedition together as a political education lesson. When the scene of the Seventeen Warriors forcing the Dadu River appeared, many soldiers unconsciously straightened their backs.

Staff Sergeant Second Class Luo Junjun said with emotion: "Our forebears braved a hail of bullets to seize the natural barrier, relying on the faith of hearts firmly set on the Party. Today, our training and combat readiness is precisely taking up the baton passed on by our forebears."

After The Great Expedition aired, the television audience and converged media readership both exceeded 400 million; the viewership rating reached 1.06%, and the audience share exceeded 6%. Vast Mountains and Rivers appeared on 47 national trending lists across the internet.

Xiao Pu said that the connections made by The Great Expedition often land on young people. After the film aired, new media platforms excerpted and distributed segments from it, one of which was titled — "29, 28, 27 — watching, and then the tears come."

"29, 28, 27 — these are the ages of three senior commanders who died in the Long March, all very young lives," Xiao Pu said.

Zhu Yiran said that reaching out to young people does not mean lowering the standard of history, but changing the tone of the telling, "letting history enter the lives of contemporary people in a way that can be 're-experienced.'"

Every generation has its own Long March.

Ninety years ago, the Red Army completed the Long March on foot; ninety years later, the name "Long March" has gone to the heavens and into the seas. Astronaut Zhu Yangzhu said: "The journey beneath our feet is the vast universe or a grand future (星辰大海, xing chen da hai - "stars, celestial bodies; great, sea"), and this is the space Long March of the new era."

Wu Danran, an American journalist born after 1995, said: "The spirit of the Long March is not a slogan; it is the conviction and perseverance that the Red Army truly walked out with their own feet. I want to be like Snow, telling the world about the China I have seen with my own eyes and truly felt."

Jidi Liaori, a Yi ethnic engineer, returned to the Daliang Mountains after earning his doctorate and now works at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. He said: "Leaving the Daliang Mountains was not about escaping this place, but about returning with vision and knowledge to give back to this place."

"The road that the ranks of 90 years ago trod out with their own feet," Xiao Pu said, "still requires us today to carry it forward with conviction and extend it with endeavor."

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2026 Greater Bay Area Science Forum Opens in Guangzhou

(People's Daily, Guangzhou, November 1) (Reporters Wu Qiqiang, Wang Yunna) On the morning of November 1, the 2026 Greater Bay Area Science Forum, jointly hosted by the governments of the three localities of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao under the guidance of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, opened in Guangzhou, Guangdong. With the theme "Intelligent Connectivity in the Bay Area, Advancing with Innovation — Building a New Frontier for Future Industries," the forum brought together representatives of governments and international organizations, scientists, and science and technology entrepreneurs from home and abroad to exchange views and discuss future industries and frontier science and technology.

At the opening ceremony, support measures for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center introduced by relevant national ministries and commissions and central units, as well as the "Disruptive Technology Foresight 2026" report issued by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, were released; the "Advanced Biotherapy Technology Key Special Project" and the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area International Science and Technology Innovation Center Key Special Project" under the national key research and development program of the 15th Five-Year Plan were launched; and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Science and Technology Achievements Matching and Transformation Hub Platform was put online. Relevant departments and universities of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao signed agreements on a joint funding program for collaborative innovation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Guangdong Province signed agreements on major science and technology projects, and a relevant official of the World Intellectual Property Organization gave a special interpretation and outlook on the Greater Bay Area innovation cluster.

Focusing on future industries and frontier science and technology, this forum features an opening ceremony, a main forum, 15 professional sub-forums, and 10 special events. Among them, the opening ceremony and the main forum are held in Nansha District, Guangzhou, while a series of activities are simultaneously held in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Huizhou, Dongguan, and Yangjiang, forming a forum pattern in which the three localities of Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao are linked and multiple localities participate in coordination.

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Photo Report

In the golden autumn season, the rural tourism themed event in Bale Village, Zhongliang Township, Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County, Laibin City, Guangxi, is in full swing. Fun agricultural competitions such as digging sweet potatoes, carrying pumpkins, and hauling grain, along with intangible cultural heritage performances, take turns on stage, attracting tourists to come and fully enjoy the beauty of the countryside. The photo shows tourists participating in a pumpkin-carrying competition in Bale Village on October 31.

Photo by Gao Rujin (People's Vision)

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Page editors: Ji Jianming, Xu Leipeng, Li Peiyang

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The Youthful Vibe of the "Living Fossil of Ancient Southern Opera" (Perceiving China Through Culture · Spotlight on Rare Opera Genres)

By: 本报记者 施 钰

The stage was dappled with light and shadow, the night deep and heavy. Dong Sheng grabbed Li Shi's hand; Li Shi covered her face and dodged aside, yet could not resist stealing a glance, their eyes meeting and then parting... Not long ago, the youth version of the Liyuan opera Dong Sheng and Li Shi completed its 520th performance in Shanghai. That performance came 33 years after the play's premiere.

Liyuan opera originated in Quanzhou, Fujian, during the Song and Yuan dynasties. It preserves many ancient scripts, vocal styles, and performance conventions of the Southern Opera of the Song and Yuan periods, and is hailed as a "living fossil of ancient Southern Opera."

Dong Sheng and Li Shi is a classic repertoire piece of Liyuan opera, performed continuously for over 30 years without losing its appeal. What is the reason?

"The answer is to uphold fundamental principles and break new ground." Lin Xiaowei, director of the Fujian Liyuan Opera Heritage Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Heritage Center"), said the center devotes itself to the protection and inheritance of traditional repertoire and the innovative development of newly written plays, actively carrying out explorations in contemporary art.

"When actors perform with their own temperament and understanding, the play naturally acquires contemporaneity"

"These young actors already have an artistic radiance about them." After watching the performance, Yuan Wei, a veteran opera fan who has followed Liyuan opera for over a decade, said.

Dong Sheng and Li Shi is a newly written play by the late playwright Wang Renjie: the tutor Dong Sheng is entrusted by the dying Squire Peng to keep watch over his widow Li Shi; the two gradually develop feelings for each other and ultimately defy the shackles of feudal ethics to unite.

"The new generation of young actors have been accumulating strength over time to achieve sudden breakthroughs (厚积薄发, hou ji bo fa - "accumulate, thick; release, thin"); with day-after-day rehearsal plus the sedimentation of life experience, their energy naturally bursts forth." Zeng Jingping, the original performer of Li Shi in Dong Sheng and Li Shi and a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage project Liyuan opera, commented.

"The beauty of Liyuan opera lies in its delicacy and refinement, its emphasis on the process of change and on the accuracy and sense of proportion of the characters." Zheng Yasi, who plays Li Shi in the youth version of Dong Sheng and Li Shi, explained that just as poetry has its metrical patterns, Liyuan opera also has a complete set of strictly regulated performance forms; its basic movements are called the "Eighteen Steps of the Mother of Movements," with over 900 stylized movements in total, truly a case of "one line of song, one step of movement."

Despite such strict regulations, Zeng Jingping's requirement for young actors is to "perform as yourself." "Actors need to move from imitation to standing on their own." In Zeng Jingping's view, the fact that Liyuan opera remains full of vitality today is the result of generation after generation "cultivating" the plays. "A person's temperament changes with the times and environment. When actors perform with their own temperament and understanding, the play naturally acquires contemporaneity."

"When Zeng Jingping's Li Shi scolds Dong Sheng, her tone carries a playful coquettishness; when Zheng Yasi plays Li Shi, her tone is fervent and bright, interpreting a youthful life in search of joy." Yang Zi, associate researcher at the Shanghai Art Research Center, offered this assessment after watching the youth version of Dong Sheng and Li Shi.

"It's no use if only one person is good; only when a whole group is good can Liyuan opera develop over the long term." Before retiring, Zeng Jingping taught all of her plays to completion before leaving. She said the Heritage Center has always attached importance to the inheritance of old repertoire, inviting veteran artists in to restore and rehearse plays and teach, while the archives hold ancient scripts, hand-drawn illustrations of body movements, and performance videos of actors from successive generations. "Inheritance is something we work on every day," Zeng Jingping said.

Over the past two months, 19-year-old Liyuan opera actor Zheng Yiping has been busy learning the role of Xie Guiying in the traditional repertoire piece Wang Kui. Zheng Yiping plans to first practice the framework, then seek out seniors to help with paired rehearsals and character study. "It's hard to perform one's own characteristics on the basis of tradition, but there's no rush — in the future I still have a long time to spend with Liyuan opera."

"Let traditional plays come alive again, and let newly written plays settle into new classics"

The lighting was dim, and a tune drifted faintly through the air. "Thinking of my lover, lovesick and wasting away..." Wuniang moved from the railed stage on the right side of the stage toward the lacquered red, gold-chased red bed on the left, leaning against the bed to sing the "Northern Longing" as she entered a dream.

The traditional Liyuan opera Chen San and Wuniang tells the love story of Chen San of Quanzhou, Fujian, and Wuniang of Chaozhou, Guangdong, who meet by chance on the Lantern Festival and, after many twists and turns, ultimately joyfully tie the knot (喜结连理, xi jie lian li - "joyfully, tie, connect, marriage") — how can new meaning be performed into it?

In March of this year, the newly created Liyuan opera The Red Bed led audiences into a beautiful dream — the stage begins around the solo dan role performance of the excerpted play Chen San: The Great Anguish. After Chen San is arrested by the authorities and exiled, Wuniang cannot sleep late into the night; the railed stage constructed by lighting performs the past, like Wuniang's memories after entering her dream. There are also actors representing the seven role types of the "Little Liyuan" school — sheng, dan, jing, mo, chou, wai, and tie — who sometimes perform the characters in the play and sometimes transform into stage attendants. On one side is the utmost stillness and seclusion of melancholy longing; on the other, the lively and vivid past. Between the real and the illusory, classical aesthetics and modern theater experience coexist.

Such a design was tried repeatedly by Heritage Center director Zeng Long and the actors for more than half a year. "It's not just stage design and actor choreography; the actors' performances also need to be fully integrated into the new performance space and the new mode of watching." Zeng Long explained that in the small theater, the front-row audience is only 1.5 meters from the stage, so the actors' facial expressions must be appropriately "reined in"; the troupe repeatedly reviewed performance videos to reassess expressions and details of performance. The dream-sequence performances require the actors' bearing to seem as if treading on clouds, with emphasis on breath control; in the chorus sections, the different role types must sense one another's volume, breathing, and rhythm to achieve fusion.

"Although there is new interpretation, the foundation still lies in traditional stylized expression — breath, bearing, and vocal style all strive for harmony in every respect." Lin Shiming, who plays the sheng role in The Red Bed, remarked with emotion, "Tradition gives us the skeleton and the stylized forms, as well as authentic vocal style and spoken lines. What we need to do is make the rhythm of the repertoire, the stage aesthetics, and the storytelling better fit contemporary audiences."

"Let traditional plays come alive again, and let newly written plays settle into new classics." Lin Xiaowei said the Heritage Center can stage more than 100 traditional repertoire pieces and plans to rescue traditional plays that have scripts and musical modes.

"Continuously using contemporary consciousness to enhance quality — that is doing what we ought to do"

In innovative expression, Liyuan opera began trying earlier than many people imagine.

The newly written play Chen Zhongzi uses a "T"-shaped stage, with actors breaking through the boundaries of the dan, sheng, and chou role types, one actor playing three roles;

In Shanghai, the same traditional excerpted play Lü Mengzheng: Crossing the Bridge and Entering the Kiln was performed for three consecutive days — on the first day in rehearsal form with audiences free to interrupt at any time, on the second day in full makeup and costume, faithful to the original, and on the third day performed while walking, with audiences following along;

The Liyuan opera "Shang Hao Ting" singing ensemble blends Liyuan opera repertoire, southern tunes, and pop songs, attracting the attention of a host of young audiences...

In Quanzhou, the Heritage Center's stage has rarely ever gone cold, and is often packed on holidays and weekends. The theater maintains regular performances and has also gained a base of regular audiences — not only local, but also opera fans who make special trips from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and other places.

"Liyuan opera is an art form with a very high artistic concentration and strong expressive power," Yuan Wei said.

Young faces have also multiplied. "I've already seen three performances and keep recommending it to friends." Su Yangqing, a senior at Huaqiao University, has loved the art form since attending a performance organized by the school last September. "The stage design and character interpretation are both wonderful. The characters' inner activities are fully expressed through body movement and lyrics, making people feel genuine emotion."

The skill on stage is visible from the audience.

"Liyuan opera is a delicate and elegant art form." In Lin Xiaowei's view, Liyuan opera has abundant cultural confidence. "The foundation of the art has always been there. We earnestly pass down each play, continuously using contemporary consciousness to enhance quality — that is doing what we ought to do."

Hold firm within, reach far without. "A local art form must first serve its local audiences, because this soil and water nurture you, and the audiences here need you," Zeng Jingping said. "On that basis, we actively step out of Fujian and go out into the world, so that more people can come to know Liyuan opera."

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Bring practice into the classroom, and let the classroom step onto the production line.

By: 本报记者 白光迪

"These are important parameters we obtained through industrial internet data collection, carrying out multi-axis coordinated intelligent control optimization, and repeated joint debugging with the enterprise over three months. Everyone, look at its evolution process..." In the intelligent machining production line technology class, Zhu Yadong (朱亚东), director of the Mechanical Technology Department at Yangzhou Vocational University of Technology in Jiangsu Province, was teaching using real cases he had encountered in enterprises.

As a member of Yangzhou's "Science and Technology Innovation Assistance" special mission team, Zhu Yadong recently visited more than 20 local enterprises, helping them solve the difficulties of "difficulty in recruiting workers and difficulty in retaining talent."

Where exactly is the difficulty? The head of a machine tool enterprise told him: "Previously, when schools taught engineering principles, they taught systems from 20 years ago, but our equipment is already using artificial intelligence, and the operating logic has completely changed."

To solve the problem, it is necessary to bring frontline industrial practice into the classroom. "Today, every case in the classroom is something that actually happened in the workshop, and every skill learned can be used in future work." Zhu Yadong remarked with emotion that integrating learning with practical application (学用结合, xue yong jie he - "learn, use, combine") means all content comes from the latest production lines, and students can get started in factories as soon as they leave the classroom.

At present, Yangzhou's "Science and Technology Innovation Assistance" special mission team has dispatched a total of 5 batches, 106 person-times of experts and professors from universities and research institutes in Yangzhou, facilitated 232 school-enterprise cooperation projects, recommended 528 talents of various kinds, and promoted the establishment of 57 enterprise R&D platforms.

Bringing frontline industrial problems into the classroom also brings the classroom into the forefront of industry.

"High-end precision stamping presses are one of the yardsticks for measuring the precision level of manufacturing. Today we will discuss process optimization control and digital design technology..." At the Yangtze River Delta Innovation Center of the Beijing Research Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Technology, Guo Yongqiang (郭永强), a member of the science and technology town mayor team selected and appointed by Yangzhou, was giving an on-site lecture to more than 70 students from the school-enterprise joint training class of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Yangzhou University who had come for study tours.

Yangzhou's high-end equipment industry is climbing toward intelligence and urgently needs young talent with broad vision and solid technical skills.

Guo Yongqiang's regular position is director of the Planning and Operations Department of the Beijing Research Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Technology. "The Beijing Research Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Technology has complete fine blanking and forging production lines and R&D transformation platforms, which can provide students with real scenarios for developing their skills." He introduced that in 2021, the Beijing Research Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Technology relocated its high-end fine blanking project to Yangzhou. In 2025, the school-enterprise joint training class officially began enrollment.

Yangzhou has cumulatively selected and appointed 868 experts and professors from universities and research institutes across 17 batches to serve in science and technology town mayor teams, forming pairing forms such as "team + group," joint construction of teams and studios, institute-team-association, "three-leader linkage," and industrial chain strengthening actions.

"Through institutional innovation, we turn industrial sites into educational classrooms and continuously promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent," said the relevant person in charge of the Organization Department of the Yangzhou Municipal Party Committee. Yangzhou is exploring a "high-level talent sharing plan," adopting a tripartite collaborative model of "government provides support, universities provide staffing quotas, and enterprises provide compensation" to attract and utilize talent. It has also established a special project for talent research joint bodies under the "Green Poplar Golden Phoenix Plan," supporting enterprises and universities and research institutes in joint research, with the current maximum funding for a single joint body reaching 5 million yuan.

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Chongqing: Field Ridges Hide "Grain" Strategies, Ba-Yu Granary Shows "Bumper" Glory

Every autumn harvest season, the land of Ba and Yu is bustling with activity. In the rice paddies, harvesters shuttle along the field ridges, and plump grains of rice are gathered into the granaries; on the hillsides that have been reclaimed and improved through re-cultivation, rows of young rapeseed seedlings are showing green, building strength for a bountiful oilseed harvest in the coming year. New grain has just been stored, and new seedlings have already broken through the soil — between the mountains and waters of Ba and Yu, harvest and hope continue endlessly (生生不息, sheng sheng bu xi - "life, life, not, stop").

In recent years, Chongqing has resolutely shouldered the political responsibility for food security, deeply implemented the strategy of "storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology," and focused on building the Ba-Yu granary by stabilizing area, increasing per-unit yield, improving quality, and enhancing benefits. In 2025, the city's grain sowing area reached 30.509 million mu, with output of 22.25 billion jin, setting a 20-year high and achieving "six consecutive bumper harvests" in total output and "ten consecutive increases" in per-unit yield. Grain and oilseed production received commendation from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. This year, Chongqing's summer grain sowing area is 5.661 million mu, with output of 1.279 million tons. At present, Chongqing is actively striving to become the first province in the country to build a whole-county, whole-system demonstration for large-area per-unit yield improvement of grain and oilseed crops.

Stabilize area, consolidate the foundation

Hold firm to the "basic plate" of grain fields

Cultivated land is the foundation of grain production. Chongqing integrates a large city, a large countryside, large mountainous areas, and a large reservoir area into one. Mountainous hills account for over 90 percent of the city's total area, and cultivated land with slopes of 15 degrees or more accounts for 40 percent — the natural conditions of cultivated land are inherently inadequate.

The tighter the resources, the more careful the calculation must be. Chongqing has made stabilizing area the main lever for building the Ba-Yu granary, breaking down and assigning grain and oilseed production tasks year by year, and implementing accountability down to districts, counties, townships, and plots to ensure all tasks are implemented and deliver results.

In addition, Chongqing has innovatively implemented the "three-party joint cultivation" model of "supply and marketing cooperatives + village collectives + farmers," advancing the re-cultivation and re-planting of abandoned farmland in light of local conditions, coordinating the use of resources such as winter fallow fields, and promoting annual rotation models such as "rapeseed—mid-season rice" and "rapeseed—sorghum" to improve the efficiency of cultivated land use, achieving the goal of planting every field that should be planted and planting fully and completely.

Once the area is stabilized, it must also be watched over and managed well. Relying on the "AI + food security" digital foundation, Chongqing has built a platform for intelligent management of cultivated land use control and the "greenhouse villa" problem, drawn up one map of cultivated land, one map of grain and oilseed crops, and one map of planting space, and achieved full-process closed-loop management in which plots can be located, uses can be monitored, plantings can be identified, tasks can be verified, violations can be warned of, and responsibilities can be traced — firmly holding the bottom line of cultivated land protection and food security.

Increase per-unit yield, strengthen the system

Deploy a "combined fist" for increasing production

After stabilizing the cultivated land area, how can grain production be increased? Chongqing leads good fields, good seeds, and good machinery with good methods, achieving the integration of the "four goods" and vigorously pursuing large-area per-unit yield improvement.

With good methods as the guide, technologies such as centralized seedling raising and dense planting in wide ridges are promoted, advancing the integration of the "three mains" — dominant varieties, main promoted technologies, and main machinery models. In terms of good fields, high-standard farmland construction and soil acidification treatment are being advanced with high quality; in terms of good seeds, hybrid rice that balances high yield and good quality, and corn that is dense-planting-tolerant, high-yielding, and suitable for mechanical harvesting, are being selected and promoted; in terms of good machinery, efficient agricultural machinery suitable for operation in hilly and mountainous areas is being promoted to reduce mechanical harvesting losses.

The integration of the "four goods" has borne rich fruit. In Qingfeng Town, Yongchuan District, through high-standard farmland construction, paired with high-quality, high-yield rice seeds and green planting technologies, rice production in the demonstration area has increased by about 10 percent, with a notable effect on per-unit yield improvement; in Daping Village, Zhuxi Town, Kaizhou District, the potato variety "Jinyun Potato No. 11" was fully replaced with improved seeds, and standardized technology was applied, achieving a substantial increase in average potato yield per mu.

In addition, to extend the integration of the "four goods" to more grain fields, Chongqing has established a "1+1+5" work system for large-area per-unit yield improvement of grain and oilseed crops, strengthened technical guidance and responsibility guarantees, carried out three "100-day assault" campaigns — "100 Days of Spring Plowing Service," "100 Days of Striving for Autumn Grain Bumper Harvest," and "100 Days of Autumn Harvest and Autumn Planting Service" — and built "hundred-thousand-ten-thousand" demonstration areas of over 700,000 mu in 16 ministry-level whole-county advancement districts and counties, promoting balanced, large-area yield increases in grain and oilseed crops.

Improve quality, increase benefits

Calculate the "income account" of grain farming well

Grow each grain of rice well, and hold the golden rice bowl firmly. To mobilize farmers' enthusiasm for grain farming, Chongqing has adopted multiple measures to ensure grain farmers increase production and income.

Real measures and practical policies provide a safety net, giving farmers security in grain farming. Chongqing has strengthened food security guarantees, investing a cumulative total of 100 million yuan to support strip intercropping of soybean and corn, with a direct subsidy of 200 yuan per mu; iteratively optimized municipal-level projects to stabilize grain production, implemented policy support for scale planting and high-yield incentives, with scale planting entities eligible for subsidies of about 70 yuan per mu; and entities with outstanding high-yield performance and strong demonstration effects can receive awards of 20,000 yuan.

Improved seeds and good methods enhance quality, allowing grain to sell at a good price. Chongqing coordinates precise water and fertilizer management and scientific pesticide application to improve the quality of grain and oilseeds. It is expected that this year the city's rice per-unit yield will increase by more than 5 kilograms per mu, and corn per-unit yield will increase by more than 4 kilograms per mu.

Data source: Chongqing Municipal Agriculture and Rural Committee

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Page editors: Cao Yiqing, Chen Shihan, Dong Yingxue

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Promoting Disability Risk Reduction Across Different Groups (People's Livelihood Frontline)

By: 本报记者 易舒冉

Disability risk accompanies every individual, from birth defects and developmental disorders to disease and accidental injury, all of which may affect physical function and capacity for daily living. However, the majority of disabilities can be avoided through scientific prevention.

On October 30, the Office of the State Council Working Committee on Disability (国务院残工委办公室) held a press conference in Beijing on the National Disability Prevention Action Plan (2026–2030) (hereinafter referred to as the Action Plan). The Action Plan sets 18 major indicators and deploys six major actions and 19 task measures: disability prevention science popularization; source prevention and control of disability caused by birth defects and developmental disorders; whole-chain prevention and control of disability caused by disease; prevention and control in key areas of disability caused by injury; improvement of rehabilitation services; and empowerment, quality enhancement, and efficiency improvement in disability prevention.

What major risks of injury-induced disability do the "elderly and children" groups face? What new requirements are there in the prevention and control of occupational-disease-induced disability? How can whole-chain prevention and control of chronic disease be advanced to reduce the risk of disability? Our reporter interviewed relevant experts in the field of disability prevention.

How can key populations be safeguarded?

Improve standards and norms for child safety protection products; provide high-level, standardized services for fall prevention for the elderly

Children and the elderly are high-risk groups for injury-induced disability and are also the key populations safeguarded under this round of the National Disability Prevention Action Plan.

"For the children's group, road traffic injuries, falls, drowning, suffocation, burns and scalds, and poisoning are all common types of childhood injuries and are also important causes of childhood disability. The coverage of protective equipment such as child safety seats and safety helmets is still uneven, standards and norms for child safety protection products still need to be improved, and a comprehensive cross-scenario coordination mechanism for child injury prevention and control should be further strengthened," said Duan Leilei (段蕾蕾), director of the Injury Prevention and Control Office of the Chronic Disease Center of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Duan Leilei reminded that, for the elderly group, the risk of disability from falls remains at a high level. In the home environment, slippery floors, height differences in steps or thresholds, lack of handrails, and insufficient lighting can easily trigger falls. Some elderly people who are very old, live alone, or are disabled have weak care support; delayed treatment after a fall and inadequate rehabilitation intervention can very easily result in disability.

The Action Plan explicitly requires providing high-level, standardized fall prevention services for the elderly and improving the care capacity of elderly caregivers in preventing fall-induced disability. It calls for conducting fall risk assessments for the elderly and strengthening safety hazard assessment and age-friendly renovation of public environments and elderly home environments.

"Health promotion group intervention projects for preventing falls among the elderly can be carried out, focusing on elderly people at higher fall risk, and providing fall prevention health education and health guidance services for the elderly through group activities, so as to improve elderly people's knowledge and skill levels in fall prevention," Duan Leilei said.

How can occupational-disease-induced disability be prevented?

Strengthen occupational health management capacity of small, medium, and micro enterprises and key industries

In recent years, the number of reported cases of legally defined occupational diseases in China has continued to decline steadily overall; the cumulative number of newly reported occupational disease cases during the 14th Five-Year Plan period fell by 49 percent compared with the 13th Five-Year Plan period.

"Because the base of traditional occupational diseases such as pneumoconiosis, noise-induced deafness, and occupational poisoning is relatively large, and most occupational diseases have long incubation periods and are not easily detected early, once irreversible damage occurs, they can easily lead to disability," said Fan Jingguang (樊晶光), director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the National Health Commission. New types of occupational hazards brought by new processes and new working methods are constantly emerging, and old and new occupational disease risks are intertwined and superimposed, placing new demands on prevention and control models.

The Action Plan proposes promoting the control and elimination of occupational disease hazards such as chemical poisons and noise at the source; strengthening the occupational health management capacity of small, medium, and micro enterprises and key industries; and enhancing environmental health risk assessment and early warning capacity while strengthening emergency response capacity for environmental health hazard incidents.

At present, the distribution of occupational health service resources is uneven. Small, medium, and micro enterprises, constrained by funding, technology, and personnel, have insufficient protective investment and nonstandard management, making them a relatively prominent weak link in the occupational disease prevention and control system.

"It is very important for the prevention of occupational-disease-induced disability that the broad mass of workers can enjoy convenient, high-quality occupational health services nearby," Fan Jingguang said. By 2030, the coverage rate of county-level occupational health examinations and prefecture-level city occupational disease diagnosis services will reach 90 percent or above.

Fan Jingguang suggested strengthening emergency response capacity for environmental health hazard incidents, conducting monitoring and assessment of environmental factors in media such as water, air, and soil that may harm health, and achieving early identification, early warning, and early handling of risks, so as to prevent environmental hazard disability risks from evolving into regional or group health incidents.

How can chronic-disease-induced disability be prevented and controlled?

Continue to advance routine screening of populations at high risk of chronic disease

China has approximately 450 million chronic disease patients; prolonged sitting, staying up late, smoking and excessive drinking, unhealthy diet, and lack of exercise are important triggers. Common high-incidence types include hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, and chronic kidney disease.

"Many chronic diseases are hidden and asymptomatic in the early stage, and the public generally holds the perception of prioritizing treatment over prevention (重治疗、轻预防, zhong zhiliao, qing yufang - "heavy, treatment; light, prevention"). Many people, by the time obvious symptoms appear, have already suffered irreversible damage. Although the rate of standardized grassroots management of hypertension and diabetes in China has exceeded 60 percent, screening coverage of high-risk populations remains uneven, and some members of the public have insufficient awareness that 'chronic diseases can cause disability' and do not incorporate protection of physical function into daily health management," said Wu Jing (吴静), director of the Chronic Disease Center of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Wu Jing suggested continuing to advance routine screening of populations at high risk of chronic disease and embedding the concept of functional protection into early prevention and control of chronic disease. She called for carrying out science popularization for the whole society to break the cognitive misconception that "chronic diseases only require treatment, not disability prevention," promoting the forward shift of the threshold, reducing the occurrence of functional damage from the source, and curbing the progression of chronic disease toward disability; promoting the implementation of functional assessment in chronic disease diagnosis and treatment in medical institutions, and promptly referring patients who show signs of functional damage to rehabilitation services; and promoting the sinking of high-quality chronic disease and rehabilitation resources to the grassroots, so that more people can enjoy continuous chronic disease management and early rehabilitation services at their doorstep, narrowing the service gap between urban and rural areas and between regions.

In recent years, stroke and dementia in old age have attracted attention. The Action Plan proposes implementing comprehensive prevention and control of stroke, continuing to carry out screening and intervention for high-risk populations, promoting appropriate technologies, strengthening emergency first aid for stroke, standardizing treatment implementation and follow-up, further improving the effectiveness of stroke prevention and treatment, and effectively reducing the incidence rate and disability rate. It also calls for carrying out screening and early intervention for dementia in old age, improving the level of standardized diagnosis and treatment services for dementia in old age, increasing the supply of care services for elderly people with dementia, building a dementia-friendly social environment, and reducing or delaying the occurrence and development of dementia in old age.

"Disability prevention is a social systems engineering project that concerns the well-being of all people and requires the joint efforts of the government, society, and every individual," said Guo Shaohua (郭韶华), deputy director of the Rehabilitation Department of the China Disabled Persons' Federation.

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Hone Professional Skills, Convey Humanistic Care

By: 本报记者 赵帅杰

With a "bang," the "flames" shot up and the alarm blared. The caregiver grabbed the phone and quickly reported the danger. Seeing smoke and dust rolling in outside the door, she immediately retreated, closed the door and windows tightly, used a wet towel to block the gaps, and splashed water on the door panel to cool it down. Then she turned, bent down, and reassured the elderly woman in the bed: "Grandma, don't be afraid. We are safe here for now, and the firefighters will be here soon..."

This scene took place at the finals of the Second National Civil Affairs Industry Vocational Skills Competition. The finals recently opened in Zhengzhou, Henan, with 32 teams and 317 contestants from across the country participating.

This year's competition set up four events: elderly care worker, orphaned and disabled children's care worker, funeral service attendant, and remains embalming and restoration specialist, all of which are individual events. Except for the elderly care worker event, the other three events were included in a national first-class vocational skills competition for the first time. "This year's competition incorporates risk identification, hidden danger inspection, and emergency response into the assessment system, with a focus on testing the ability to handle sudden scenarios such as fires," said the head of the Party Committee Office (Personnel Division) of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. At the same time, in keeping with the trend of artificial intelligence development, new technologies, new standards, new equipment, and new products have been integrated into the competition to test contestants' ability to use technological means to carry out services and to play a guiding role for the industry.

Inside the competition venue were companion robots, patrol robots, smart emergency call watches, one-touch call terminals, and other equipment. "Nearly 20 smart products were put into use on site. Contestants not only need to know how to operate them, but also need to understand their functions, troubleshoot simple faults, and develop an awareness of actively embracing smart care equipment," said Liu Zeyang, head of the expert group for the elderly care worker event.

Huo Chunnuan, head of the expert group for the orphaned and disabled children's care worker event, said that with the support of the Henan Provincial Department of Civil Affairs, the competition drew on local resources in Zhengzhou, with the living environment and interior furnishings of the rooms deeply recreating the scene of a children's welfare institution, thereby testing caregivers' comprehensive ability to carry out hands-on operations and solve complex care challenges.

Chen Qiufang, a 48-year-old contestant from Liuzhou, Guangxi, provides daily care for orphaned and disabled children aged 1 to 12, handling tasks such as washing, bathing, feeding, and toileting. Chen Qiufang said that her main goal in participating this time was not to compete for rankings; she hoped to learn advanced experience through the competition and bring the skills she acquired back to her job to better serve the children.

The venue for the funeral service attendant event was arranged simply and solemnly. Ding Hong, a contestant from Zhejiang, sat facing the "deceased's family members," listened attentively to their requests, checked the deceased's background and the family's wishes item by item, and did things in an orderly manner (有条不紊, you tiao bu wen - "have, order, not, confused") completed the funeral service planning plan. The entire process was quiet and restrained. From the greeting at reception, to the bow at farewell, to the service checklist and the farewell ceremony, every link tested professional competence and also conveyed humanistic care.

Highlighting humanistic care is another feature of this year's competition, in addition to benchmarking against the latest policies, adhering to technology empowerment, and strengthening safety assessment. In the elderly care worker competition area, an old-fashioned tape recorder sat quietly. "We use nostalgia therapy to carry out care, exercising the memory of elderly people, and through empathy, acceptance, and non-confrontational communication, we improve the professional level of elderly care workers, give these elderly people warm care, and establish practical guidance for the industry," Liu Zeyang said.

In the orphaned and disabled children's care worker event, humanistic care also ran through the entire assessment process. "Scoring does not only look at technical completion, but also observes details such as the contestant's verbal communication with the child, psychological comfort, nursery rhyme interaction, and shared picture book reading, as well as the easing of parents' anxiety," said Xu Lin, chief judge of the event. By increasing the proportion of humanistic care in scoring, the competition promotes learning through competition and evaluation through competition, establishing a clear orientation and promoting industry development.

As a national first-class vocational skills competition jointly hosted by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, this year's competition, since its launch in May this year, has organized more than 400 municipal-level selection competitions and 32 provincial-level selection competitions, with more than 20,000 participants.

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"Regular checkups right at our doorstep—convenient and reassuring!"

By: 本报记者 顾 春

"Regular checkups at the doorstep of my home—convenient and reassuring!" said Li Xiangqing, a resident of Taoyan Subdistrict, Yuecheng District, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province. Li Xiangqing had just completed a cardiac CT scan at the community health service center, ruling out the risk of myocardial infarction. Here, appointments are easy to make, the equipment is advanced, and it is reachable on foot—extremely convenient for community residents. In recent years, Yuecheng District has focused on strengthening the grassroots medical network at its base level, following the approach of "district-level coordination for standard-setting, town and subdistrict support for empowerment, and differentiated development among institutions," driving grassroots medical institutions to leap from "ensuring basic services" to "optimizing distinctive features," and building a new pattern of grassroots health services with full coverage and each institution excelling in its own field.

The differentiated quality improvement and upgrading of grassroots medical and health services helps promote the integration of medical treatment and disease prevention and the shifting of the threshold forward. Yuecheng District's promotion of the differentiated development path of "one institution, one distinctive feature" for grassroots medical and health institutions has been written into the district government work report for two consecutive years. Rather than requiring all institutions to present all institutions being identical and lacking distinction (千院一面, qian yuan yi mian - "thousand, hospital, one, face"), it instead combines residents' needs with targeted support for the development of distinctive specialty departments. At present, Yuecheng District has built 24 municipal-level grassroots specialty departments and full-coverage district-level specialty departments, forming a mutually complementary grassroots service matrix.

The Taoyan Subdistrict Community Health Service Center is a representative example. The subdistrict allocates more than one million yuan in special funds each year to support the center's upgrading of hardware such as CT and AI imaging, and to add early screening programs for tumors and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases to universal health checkups. The center has simultaneously established a closed-loop follow-up mechanism for abnormal indicators, completing early screening of more than 30,000 person-times among key populations over three years, and successfully helping multiple early-stage tumor patients seize the golden window period for diagnosis and treatment. After a health screening this year, Huang Qinqin, a physician at the center's outpatient department, reviewed the data item by item, found that a resident's tumor indicators were abnormally elevated, immediately contacted the patient and assisted in rapid referral to a higher-level hospital for examination, seizing the best treatment opportunity.

Behind this distinctive development model lies systematic institutional support. The Yuecheng District Health and Wellness Bureau has taken the lead in building a hierarchical diagnosis and treatment network with "the Provincial People's Hospital as the leading institution, the District People's Hospital as the backbone, 17 town and subdistrict health centers as the main body, and village health rooms as the foundation," investing more than 11 million yuan in total over the past three years to complete the standardization and smart transformation of all grassroots sites, and building a "15-minute medical service circle" across the entire district.

Through the "one institution, one distinctive feature" development mechanism, the district level has uniformly formulated construction standards, talent deployment policies, and assessment and incentive systems, guiding each town and subdistrict to allocate special funds in accordance with the population structure and high-incidence disease types of their jurisdictions, and supporting grassroots medical institutions in building differentiated advantageous specialties.

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SAMR Regulates Order of Quality Certification Market

(People's Daily, Beijing, November 1) (Reporter Lin Lili) In order to accelerate the building of the unified national market and fully bring into play the role of quality certification in "transmitting trust and serving development," the State Administration for Market Regulation recently issued the "Measures for the Administration of the Nationally Unified Voluntary Certification System (Trial Implementation)," which improves institutional rules at the source, regulates the order of the quality certification market, empowers industrial innovation and upgrading, and provides institutional support for high-quality development of the economy and society.

The nationally promoted voluntary certification system is an important component of China's quality certification system. According to statistics, China currently implements a total of 37 nationally promoted voluntary certification systems, with approximately 2.416 million valid certificates issued, accounting for nearly 56 percent of the total number of quality certification certificates nationwide, achieving notable results in multiple fields such as green and low-carbon development, equipment manufacturing, and livelihood services.

In the field of green building materials, 5,725 enterprises nationwide have obtained green building materials certification, driving industry revenue of nearly 130 billion yuan and achieving annual carbon emission reductions of over 30 million tons.

In the field of rail transit equipment, relying on the national certification of urban rail transit equipment products, the domestic production rate of urban rail transit vehicles has exceeded 95 percent, the self-sufficiency rate of core control devices for permanent magnet traction systems has reached 100 percent, and the market size of the rail transit equipment industry exceeds 1.2 trillion yuan.

In the field of livelihood security, 34 buildings, including Beijing Daxing International Airport and the National Barrier-Free Environment Exhibition Hall, have obtained barrier-free environment certification, and more than 250 million person-trips per year enjoy convenient and complete barrier-free facility services.

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First Nanjing Talent Week Opens

(People's Daily, Nanjing, November 1) (Reporter Yin Xiaoyu) On November 1, the 2026 First Nanjing Talent Week · the 18th China Nanjing International Exchange and Cooperation Conference for Overseas-Returned Scholars opened in Nanjing, Jiangsu. This year's event, themed "Gathering in Jinling, Creating the Future," builds platforms for achievement release, exchange and cooperation, and inspection and research, integrating recruitment matching, competitions and roadshows, and policy promotion. Two thousand employers and 30,000 quality job positions were collectively presented.

At the event site, awards were presented for the Nanjing Talent AIGC Short Video Creation Competition and the 2026 "Win in Nanjing" series of competitions, and certificates were issued to representatives selected for the "Purple Mountain Talent Plan." The Nanjing special-industry talent clusters for biomedicine and green smart agriculture were inaugurated, and the first batch of six municipal human resources service consortia received their plaques.

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Yunnan's Yongren County Uses "Small County, Big City" Construction as Engine to Drive Population Concentration, Industrial Agglomeration, and Service Integration

How can a county with a total population of under 100,000 answer the question of county-level development? Since 2025, Yongren County of the Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province has taken the construction of a "small county, big city" as its development engine, promoting population concentration, industrial agglomeration, and service integration: 1,905 new agricultural transfer residents have settled in the county seat, the output value of the forestry and fruit industry has exceeded 1.9 billion yuan, 7 "Happiness Mile" communities have provided 175,900 person-times of employment services, and the urbanization rate of the permanent resident population has risen to 42.98%. Behind this set of striking figures is a "combined punch" of measures adopted by this county seat with the smallest population in Chuxiong Prefecture to develop the county economy in light of local conditions: basing itself on a small county territory while building a large county seat; facing the small countryside while promoting large-scale concentration; focusing on small entry points while deepening major reforms; relying on small industrial parks while building large industries; optimizing the small environment while improving the people's livelihood — exploring a new path for the rural population to concentrate in towns and cities.

Gathering people through the city, so that the masses can "come in"

Yongren County's small population base, dispersed settlement, and insufficient agglomeration were once prominent shortcomings in its county-level development.

In response to the masses' concerns of "wanting to move to the city but fearing to move to the city," Yongren County has made simultaneous efforts on both the housing security and rights protection fronts, introducing benefit policies such as subsidies for purchasing homes in the county seat, co-ownership housing, and forest rights protection, and launching measures such as housing provident fund loans for flexible employment personnel, removing the worries of farmers moving to the city. As the population gathers, the vitality of the county seat is accelerating.

Industry as the foundation, so that the masses can "stay"

Moving to the city is only the first step; to stay steadily and become prosperous, the key still lies in having industrial support. Basing itself on its resource endowments, Yongren County has deeply cultivated three major industries — forestry and fruit, logistics hubs, and park-based industry — delivering employment opportunities to the doorsteps of the masses: 21 standardized forestry and fruit workshops have been built, driving the standardized development of over 10,000 mu of forestry and fruit bases; the county's total forestry and fruit planting area has reached 536,000 mu, with output value exceeding 1.9 billion yuan; it has been selected as a provincial-level logistics hub, opening up channels for agricultural products to leave the mountains and enter the cities; the county's total installed photovoltaic capacity has reached 1.778 million kilowatts, the first phase of the all-vanadium liquid flow energy storage project has been successfully completed and put into operation, and the green energy industry is rising with momentum.

Retaining people through services, so that the masses can "live well"

Yongren County has continuously improved and upgraded its services around the needs of the urbanized population concerning school enrollment, medical treatment, and handling of affairs: optimizing the layout of school sites, implementing subsidies for school enrollment, housing, and transportation for those who have moved to the city, improving the three-tier medical network at the county, township, and village levels, promoting itinerant diagnosis and treatment, and establishing "township affairs handled in the county seat" service stations in the county town, so that the masses can "leave their hometown without leaving their affairs behind, and move to the city without delaying their business." At the same time, it has deepened Party-building-led grassroots governance, with a dispute resolution rate of 98.4%, creating a favorable environment for peace of mind and stable employment. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the urbanization rate of the county's permanent resident population rose from 38.68% to 42.98%. Yongren County plans to raise the urbanization rate of its permanent resident population to over 60% by 2030.

In the next step, Yongren County will focus on industries such as energy storage, forestry and fruit processing, and residence-based health and wellness tourism, continuously improving the supporting mechanisms for employment, school enrollment, and elderly care for the urbanized population; and will continue to deepen reforms in land, forest rights, and household registration, striving to explore replicable and promotable experience for "urban-rural integration" in counties with small populations.

Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Yongren County Committee

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Page editors: Tang Tianyi, He Yuche, Liu Zihe

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Safeguarding the Landscape, Reaping Splendid Autumn Scenery (Beautiful China)

In the golden autumn season, the scenery across the country, north and south of the Yangtze, is enchanting. Behind this lies the vivid practice of localities continuously advancing ecological governance. At the Daling River estuary in Jinzhou, Liaoning, the red beach welcomes the return of cranes; at Qingtu Lake in Minqin, Gansu, blue waves reflect reed tassels; in the Sanguang area of Xichou, Yunnan, rocky desertification land now wafts with the fragrance of fruit... These once ecologically fragile areas now unfold in the autumn light a new ecological picture full of vitality (生机盎然, sheng ji ang ran - "life, spring, abundant").

— Editor

Jinzhou, Liaoning Improves Offshore Ecology

Red-Crowned Cranes Return to the Daling River Estuary

People's Daily reporter Xin Yang

As the tide recedes, the mudflat gradually emerges, and the stems and leaves of seepweed at the Daling River estuary stretch out, spreading all the way to the waterline. Tidal creeks wind through them, forming a texture of varying density on the red beach.

Zhang Wenqing, deputy director of the Jinzhou Municipal Ocean and Fisheries Bureau in Liaoning, crouched by a tidal creek to observe. "The water advances and retreats freely, and the tidal creeks have formed naturally."

A few years ago, the mudflat at the Daling River estuary was still covered with contiguous aquaculture cofferdams. Gray earthen ridges cut off the tidal creeks section by section, seawater could not flow in, seepweed degenerated and died off batch after batch, and the mudflat exposed cracked, dry saline-alkali land.

In 2018, Jinzhou began advancing the battle to comprehensively tackle pollution in the Bohai Sea, and later implemented the Daling River estuary ecological restoration project, dismantling aquaculture cofferdams, dredging and clearing tidal creeks, and replanting salt-tolerant reeds and seepweed; in 2022, it launched the marine ecological protection and restoration project, returning aquaculture ponds to wetlands, clearing out aquaculture ponds, dredging tidal creeks, and restoring salt marsh vegetation.

These young seepweed plants are mostly purplish-red, with fleshy leaves joined in patches, looking from afar like a red carpet spread over the mudflat. This expanse of red was "planted" back bit by bit. "The technical team selected salt-tolerant native plants such as seepweed and reeds, and while reshaping the terrain, used tidal simulation to allow vegetation to naturally succeed. At first, there were only scattered specks of green on the beach; later the green turned red, the light turned deep, and within a few years it joined into a stretch of red beach," recalled Man Zhi, deputy director of the Linghai Municipal Ocean and Fisheries Bureau in Jinzhou.

Once the tidal creeks were dredged, seawater surged back in, carrying nutrients that awakened the dormant seepweed. This area was once the southernmost end of the natural breeding grounds of wild red-crowned cranes, yet since 2009 there had been no record of red-crowned cranes breeding naturally.

In the spring of 2022, Yu Lian, vice president of the Jinzhou Wildlife and Wetland Protection Association, discovered 4 pairs of red-crowned cranes building nests and incubating eggs at the Daling River estuary — the cranes that had disappeared for more than 10 years had flown back. "Red-crowned cranes have relatively high requirements for their living environment. That they can stay here shows this place has truly recovered," Yu Lian said.

The data confirms the change. The number and variety of wetland bird species have increased significantly compared with before restoration, the hydrodynamic force of coastal wetlands has improved by 30%, and the retention rate of natural shorelines has risen. Ecotourism has carved out a path for fishermen to shift to other livelihoods, and some aquaculture households have become ecological bird protectors. The wetland birdwatching boardwalk and science education base receive more than 500,000 visitors annually.

Minqin, Gansu Implements Inter-Basin Water Transfer

Qingtu Lake, Dry for Years, Reappears Deep in the Gobi

People's Daily reporter Song Chaojun

The vast Gobi stretches with undulating sand dunes, yet a pool of blue water is "inlaid" in the heart of the desert. In the northern part of Minqin County, Wuwei City, Gansu, reed tassels at the shore of Qingtu Lake have turned yellow, and waterbirds skim across the waves. This arid-region wetland is firmly pinned between the Tengger and Badain Jaran deserts.

In the early morning, before dawn, Zhang Youchun, a forest ranger at the Lake District Forestry Work Station (Huangling Nursery) of the Minqin County Forestry and Grassland Bureau, had already set out on patrol, walking slowly along the sandy road by the lake shore.

Qingtu Lake is the terminal lake of the Shiyang River. Due to climate change, sharply reduced upstream inflow, and profligate water use that overextended resources, the lake surface shrank year by year and completely dried up in 1959. After the lakebed was exposed, shifting sand rose on all sides, forming a 13-kilometer-long wind-blown sand line that became the largest sand source in northern Minqin. Minqin is a key ecological barrier of the Hexi Corridor; had Qingtu Lake been lost, relying only on the natural inflow from the Qilian Mountains and local water conservation and savings could not have filled the ecological deficit.

To "revive" Qingtu Lake, inter-basin water transfer became the "key move." The second phase extension of the Jingtai Electric Irrigation Project to divert water to Minqin was completed in 2000, and water transfer to Minqin began in 2001. Yellow River water sets out from Jingtai County, Baiyin City, Gansu, is lifted nearly 500 meters through 13 pumping stations stage by stage, and travels along a canal route of more than 260 kilometers, crossing the Gobi and sand ridges to reach Minqin. The Yellow River water diverted by the Jingtai Electric Irrigation Project, after converging with local inflow at Hongyashan Reservoir and the Shiyang River, is then dispatched under unified scheduling, with ecological water allocated to Qingtu Lake.

In 2007, the Key Governance Plan for the Shiyang River Basin was issued, advancing in tandem the closure of wells and reduction of irrigated farmland, water-saving renovation, and greening and sand fixation. In 2010, Hongyashan Reservoir for the first time injected 12.9 million cubic meters of ecological water into Qingtu Lake, and the lake, dry for many years, for the first time formed a water area of 3 square kilometers. Over more than a decade, water delivery has continued without interruption, the regional groundwater level has steadily recovered, and today the water area of Qingtu Lake has reached 27.65 square kilometers.

Today, reed marshes stretch in unbroken succession here, with hundreds of birds dwelling among them, and saxaul and tamarisk have taken firm root in the sand dunes. The county's 380-kilometer oasis shelterbelt belt has formed a closed loop, reversing the trend of sand advancing and people retreating. Eco-industries that enrich the people have arisen; relying on the contiguous saxaul forests, local people promote understory Cistanche cultivation and nurture desert-adapted seedlings, enabling stable income growth right at their doorsteps.

Xichou, Yunnan Promotes Rocky Desertification Control

Former Barren Mountains Now Yield Harvests in All Seasons

People's Daily reporter Li Maoying

Standing on the observation deck, Gao Shixian, Party branch secretary of Duoyiping Village under Sanguang Village Committee, Xingjie Town, Xichou County, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, pointed at the kiwifruit groves covering the mountains in the distance and said, "That whole area used to be rocky crevice land where nothing could be planted."

"Come and try our kiwifruit." Not long ago, the kiwifruit here had just welcomed a bumper harvest, and in her own farmhouse courtyard, Gao Shixian warmly invited tourists to taste it. Walking into Sanguang Village, what meets the eye is greenery everywhere, and the wind carries the fragrance of fruit wafting all around — it is hard to imagine the desolation this place once had.

The change stems from the rocky desertification control that Xichou County has continuously advanced. Xichou County has implemented comprehensive improvement of "mountains, water, forests, farmland, roads, and villages," advancing projects such as ecological restoration, water conservancy facility construction, and farmland improvement. With their own hands, villagers transformed the rocky crevice land into terraced fields that retain water, soil, and fertilizer, significantly increasing the effective planting area.

With farmland in hand, ecological planting also got underway. In 2015, Xichou County introduced an agricultural development company, operating under the industrialized management model of "cooperative + base + farmers," introducing fine kiwifruit varieties and supporting them with efficient water-saving irrigation projects, driving income growth for surrounding villagers. Later, the village began promoting the cultivation of crops such as ginger, cucumber, and golden cabbage. "There are harvests in all four seasons," Gao Shixian said.

Today, the barren mountains of rocky desertification are covered in layers of green. As the ecology is gradually restored, this land has not only been reclothed in green but has also attracted more and more tourists for sightseeing, becoming a well-known tourist destination near and far.

With more and more tourists coming, Gao Shixian opened a farmhouse inn. Today, Gao Shixian does everything — planting, picking, and catering — and her annual income has grown from a few thousand yuan to more than 300,000 yuan.

As part of the Sanguang area, Sanguang Village, once severely affected by rocky desertification, has been transformed into a tourism complex integrating kiwifruit picking, ecological sightseeing, and ethnic culture displays, blazing a development path of ecological restoration, industrial income growth, and comprehensive rural revitalization. "Today's Sanguang Village is bright and clean in every corner, with verdant and beautiful scenery everywhere you look," Gao Shixian said with emotion.

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Ecological Restoration Requires a “Systemic” Approach (Quick Comment)

By: 董汶鑫

It is golden autumn again, with enchanting scenery. From saline-alkali wasteland to a spreading expanse of red beach at the Daling River estuary in Jinzhou, Liaoning; from years of drying up to the reappearance of blue waves at Qingtu Lake in Minqin, Gansu; from rocky desertification and barren mountains to spreading greenery in the Sanguang area of Xichou, Wenshan, Yunnan—these three ecological vistas showcase the vivid practices of various localities in advancing ecological governance.

The three practices each have their own focus, but together they confirm the profound truth that ecological protection and restoration must adhere to the integrated protection and systematic governance of mountains, waters, forests, farmlands, grasslands, and deserts, pursued with solid and steady steps. Jinzhou dismantled cofferdams, dredged tidal channels, reconstructed a complete hydrological cycle, and awakened the self-restoration capacity of the tidal flat ecosystem; Minqin promoted cross-basin water diversion and the integrated advancement and coordinated governance of planting greenery and fixing sand; Xichou implemented comprehensive remediation, allowing barren mountains to regain greenery and industrial development to act in synchronization or resonance (同频共振, tong pin gong zhen - "same, frequency, resonate, vibrate").

From the northern frontier to the Jiangnan region, from the coast to the mountains, such ecological transformations are occurring everywhere. The "systematic" solution to ecological restoration is continuously unfolding the scroll of a Beautiful China.

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National Surface Water at Class I–III Quality Reaches 86.1%

(People's Daily, Beijing, November 1) (Reporter Kou Jiangze) The Ministry of Ecology and Environment recently released the national surface water environmental quality status for January–September this year: the proportion of surface water at Class I–III quality nationwide was 86.1%, up 1.7 percentage points year on year; the proportion at worse-than-Class V quality was 0.8%, down 0.4 percentage points year on year.

In the seven major river basins — the Yangtze, Yellow, Pearl, Songhua, Huai, Hai, and Liao rivers — as well as the northwestern rivers, southwestern rivers, and rivers in the Zhejiang–Fujian area, the proportion of water at Class I–III quality was 87.1%, up 1.7 percentage points year on year; the proportion at worse-than-Class V quality was 0.7%, down 0.4 percentage points year on year. Among these, the southwestern rivers, the rivers in the Zhejiang–Fujian area, the Yangtze River basin, and the northwestern rivers had excellent water quality; the Pearl, Yellow, Liao, Huai, and Hai river basins had good water quality; and the Songhua River basin was lightly polluted.

Among the 145 key lakes (reservoirs) monitored, the proportion of lakes (reservoirs) with Class I–III water quality was 71.7%, up 2.0 percentage points year on year; the proportion of lakes (reservoirs) with worse-than-Class V water quality was 3.4%, down 0.7 percentage points year on year. Among the 145 lakes (reservoirs) monitored for trophic status, 2 were moderately eutrophic, accounting for 1.4%; 43 were lightly eutrophic, accounting for 29.7%; the remaining lakes (reservoirs) were in a mesotrophic or oligotrophic state. Among these, Taihu Lake had good water quality and was lightly eutrophic; Chaohu Lake was lightly polluted and lightly eutrophic; Dianchi Lake was lightly polluted and moderately eutrophic; Erhai Lake and the Danjiangkou Reservoir had excellent water quality and were mesotrophic; and Baiyangdian Lake had good water quality and was mesotrophic.

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Survey of Ancient and Notable Trees in Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park Launched

(People's Daily, Haikou, November 1) (Reporter Sun Haitian) A few days ago, the kickoff meeting for the survey of ancient and notable trees in Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park was held in Wuzhishan City, Hainan Province, marking the full launch of a new round of national park ancient and notable tree surveys.

This survey project will make full use of new technical means such as satellite remote sensing and drones to comprehensively ascertain the species, quantity, age, distribution, growth status, and historical and cultural connotations of ancient and notable trees within the national park, establish a comprehensive and accurate resource management database, precisely identify endangered and weakened ancient trees and key protected notable trees, and provide solid data support for scientific protection, classified management, and sustainable management.

A relevant official from the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park Administration introduced that carrying out a new round of comprehensive surveys of ancient and notable trees in the national park is a foundational project for Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park to address weaknesses and deficiencies (补齐短板, bu qi duan ban - "fill up, shortcoming, board") and consolidate the foundation of protection, and is also a key measure for building a solid ecological security barrier for Hainan. The Administration will strengthen coordination and linkage, implement unified management, strictly control quality checkpoints, strengthen whole-process quality control, resolutely hold the safety bottom line, strengthen safety safeguards, strictly observe operational norms, and ensure that the survey work advances safely, orderly, and with high quality.

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Inner Mongolia begins construction on 2,667 km of desert-crossing highways

(People's Daily, Hohhot, November 1) (Reporter Zhang Cheng) The reporter learned from the Department of Transport of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region: As of the end of September, 2,667 kilometers of desert-crossing highways had begun construction across Inner Mongolia this year, completing the annual target ahead of schedule.

Inner Mongolia, closely following the requirements of comprehensive desertification control and the sixth phase of the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Program, has innovatively promoted the "desert control through road construction" model, deeply integrating road network development with ecological governance, weaving an ecological protection network through the road network, and providing solid transportation support for comprehensive desertification control. Since 2024, Inner Mongolia has begun construction on 4,468 kilometers of desert-crossing highways, of which 3,827 kilometers are in the Horqin and Otindag Sandy Land annihilation zones and 641 kilometers are in the Yellow River "Ji" bend key battle zone; this will drive desertification control over 7.8745 million mu of land, including 7.5025 million mu in the annihilation zones and 372,000 mu in the key battle zone.

In July 2024, the Department of Transport of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the Forestry and Grassland Administration of the Autonomous Region jointly issued the "Development Plan for 'Desert Control through Road Construction' in the Horqin and Otindag Sandy Land Annihilation Zones of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (2024–2030)," making "desert control through road construction" an important lever in the annihilation battle against the Horqin Sandy Land and the Otindag Sandy Land, with the plan covering 39 banner-county districts in Hinggan League, Tongliao City, Ulanqab City, Chifeng City, and Xilingol League, focusing on upgrading ordinary provincial highways crossing the desert and on the construction and maintenance of rural roads crossing the desert. In 2025, building on the pilot experience, the "desert control through road construction" experience was comprehensively promoted, and the "Implementation Plan for 'Desert Control through Road Construction' in the Yellow River 'Ji' Bend Key Battle Zone and the Hexi Corridor–Taklamakan Desert Edge Blocking Zone of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (2025–2030)" was also formulated and issued, laying out three major projects: linking rural roads into a network, systematic maintenance and upgrading, and ecological governance.

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'Wenxiu' and 'Jiaolong' Hit the Market

By: 本报记者 李茂颖

On October 29, the fragrance was spreading everywhere (花香四溢, hua xiang si yi - "flower, fragrance, overflow, everywhere") at the Dawan Modern Ecological Agriculture Demonstration Park in the Kunming Dianchi National Tourism Resort in Yunnan.

In the "Chinese Style" self-bred fresh-cut flower variety display base, the goose-yellow "Wenxiu" stands tall and straight, while the pink "Jiaolong" holds its blossoms proudly. That day, the domestically bred fresh-cut rose varieties "Wenxiu" and "Jiaolong" officially went on sale, unveiling two new rose varieties independently cultivated by Yunnan with complete independent intellectual property rights.

For a long time, the domestic fresh-cut rose market has relied heavily on imported varieties, with a relatively monotonous flower shape. Roses with independent intellectual property rights — a "Chinese core" — are both a rigid demand for high-quality development of the industry and a link that must be filled in for the development of the regional flower industry.

In this regard, Cai Yanfei, a researcher at the Flower Research Institute of the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, introduced, "Guofeng roses are a new system of independently bred rose varieties led by the Flower Research Institute of the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, positioned as 'Chinese core, Chinese style, Chinese made,' emphasizing Eastern aesthetics and emotional expression, while balancing scientific research, market, and cultural value."

In recent years, China has continuously strengthened the selection and breeding of independent rose varieties. The "Wenxiu" and "Jiaolong" launched this time are precisely the latest independently bred innovative varieties of the "Heroine" series from the Flower Research Institute of the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and are also the latest achievements of the Guofeng rose system.

According to reports, the "Wenxiu" rose is a bright goose-yellow color, with an upright plant shape and resilient character. It is named and cultivated in honor of Comrade Huang Wenxiu, recipient of the "July 1 Medal" and "Role Model of the Times," symbolizing "ardent and selfless dedication," paying tribute to her spirit of being deeply rooted in the local countryside (扎根乡土, zha gen xiang tu - "root, in, countryside, soil"), working hard at the grassroots level (深耕基层, shen geng ji ceng - "deep, plow, grassroots, level"), and dedicating her youth and passion to the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. The "Jiaolong" rose has a full flower shape and elegant fragrance, bred with Comrade He Jiaolong, a grassroots cadre rooted in the border regions who helped farmers and revitalized the border areas, as its spiritual prototype, conveying the striving force of being rooted at the front line, acting with practical responsibility (实干担当, shi gan dan dang - "solid, work, responsibility, undertake"), and growing toward the sun.

At present, Kunming Dianchi Tourism Resort Guotou Xingye Co., Ltd., relying on the Dawan Modern Ecological Agriculture Demonstration Park, has undertaken the trial planting, demonstration cultivation, and scene operation of the two rose varieties. Chen Xingguo, deputy general manager of the company, introduced that "Wenxiu" and "Jiaolong" have completed their trial planting layout in the park, set up in the "Chinese Style" fresh-cut flower self-bred variety display base. The park is equipped with standardized facility cultivation conditions, with technical guidance provided throughout by the Flower Research Institute of the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, carrying out variety observation, trait recording, and cultivation process optimization.

Cai Yanfei introduced, "'Wenxiu' and 'Jiaolong' are highly ornamental, well-adapted, and have a long vase life. They are not only suitable for large-scale commercial cultivation and sale as fresh-cut flowers, but can also be used for flower sea landscape creation, horticultural landscaping, and science education and research scenarios, precisely matching the development positioning of the Dawan Modern Ecological Agriculture Demonstration Park in integrating agriculture, culture, and tourism and linking primary, secondary, and tertiary industries. In the future, they will surely realize the dual release of commodity value and landscape value."

As the official exclusive first-release channel for these new varieties, the Huawu Fresh Flower Trading Platform has simultaneously opened its online sales channel. Zhang Ge, co-founder and vice president of Huawu, introduced that the platform recently began selling "Wenxiu" and "Jiaolong," and "the first batch sold out within minutes of going on sale; bulk flowers will not be available until late November."

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Page editors: Chen Juan, Yang Xiaoyu, Dong Wenxin

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Be Bold, Try New Things to Create New Possibilities for Your Athletic Career (Behind the Signature Moments)

By: 本报记者 孙龙飞

Signature moments

On October 28, the 2026 National Swimming Championships (25m) concluded at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing. Zhejiang team star Xu Jiayu set multiple new short-course records: in the mixed 4×50m medley relay, he led off with a split of 22.03 seconds, rewriting the world record in the men's 50m backstroke; in the men's 100m backstroke, he twice broke the Asian record in the individual event and on the first leg of the mixed 4×100m medley relay, fixing the time at 48.54 seconds.

In the men's 100m backstroke final, lane four, yellow swim cap, Xu Jiayu was especially conspicuous in the pool. At the starting gun, he led all the way, and by the halfway mark was already nearly a body length ahead of second place. Touching the wall first, 48.77 seconds, the Asian record indicator on the big screen flashed continuously. Xu Jiayu sat on the lane line, slapping the water with both hands, releasing the joy of victory amid the roar of the crowd.

"Resting well is also a training method"

"This record was within expectations." Xu Jiayu quickly regained his composure. "Actually, my goal was to push toward the 'low 48s.'" In Xu Jiayu's eyes, improvement in performance matters more than gold medals.

Surprises arriving one after another (惊喜接踵而至, jing xi jie feng er zhi - "surprise, arrive one after another"). A few dozen minutes later, in the mixed 4×50m medley relay final, Xu Jiayu led off with a split of 22.03 seconds, breaking the short-course world record in the men's 50m backstroke set not long ago by South African swimmer Coetzee. "I hadn't thought I could break a world record before," Xu Jiayu admitted.

"I hope to carry this good form into every race that follows." In competition with younger swimmers, the 31-year-old Xu Jiayu has set himself a goal of continuous progress. A few days later, in the mixed 4×100m medley relay final, Xu Jiayu led off with a split of 48.54 seconds, once again breaking the short-course Asian record in the 100m backstroke, and the Zhejiang team also claimed the title in that event with a time surpassing the Asian record.

From the burst of individual events to leading the team to victory, Xu Jiayu has brought a steady reassurance to the Zhejiang team and even to Chinese swimming in the men's backstroke and relay events.

Behind the multiple new records is a training system that was proactively torn down and rebuilt. "The high-intensity, high-volume model no longer suits me at 31." Xu Jiayu re-explored his training approach — subtracting from total volume, adding to intensity, breaking the full race distance into start, middle, and finish, polishing each segment, and ending training as soon as obvious fatigue appears.

This new approach has received continuous positive feedback in competition. After the 20th Asian Games concluded, Xu Jiayu lowered his overall training intensity and competed in this National Championships in a "training through racing" state, and his results rose rather than fell. Xu Jiayu said: "Resting well is also a training method."

"We're still young, and we're all very willing to keep learning and improving"

In 2017, Xu Jiayu won China's first world championship gold in men's backstroke, and subsequently defended his world championship gold in the 100m backstroke. At the 2018 Short Course Swimming World Cup, he broke the world record in the men's 100m backstroke with a time of 48.88 seconds. Over the past decade, Xu Jiayu can well be called the leading figure of Chinese men's backstroke.

With age, injuries and technical bottlenecks gradually emerged, and Xu Jiayu also experienced ups and downs in form. At the 2025 World Championships in Singapore, he stopped at the semifinals in his main event, the 100m backstroke, and was exhausted to the point of collapse in the subsequent relays. In the mixed zone, Xu Jiayu said with reddened eyes: "If training doesn't change, it will only get slower."

Xu Jiayu decided to break through his own limits. One month before the 15th National Games last year, he sent his former Zhejiang team teammate Li Zhumao dozens of WeChat voice messages "asking for help." Li Zhumao quickly called back on video, and the two talked about training and technique until late into the night. After that, Li Zhumao began trying to lead his training. "If it works, we'll try to train with new concepts."

The 27-year-old Li Zhumao is a butterfly specialist who retired in 2021 and became a coach with the Zhejiang team. Both he and Xu Jiayu studied under gold-medal coach Xu Guoyi and share a deep foundation of trust. Xu Jiayu said that technical issues are discussed jointly with the team, and that in training plans he follows the coach's overall arrangements. "We're still young, and we're all very willing to keep learning and improving."

Li Zhumao helped Xu Jiayu rebuild his foundational training system, improving technique bit by bit and raising his overall capability. At the National Championships in June this year, Xu Jiayu swam 23.92 seconds in the 50m backstroke, breaking the Asian record that had stood for 17 years and becoming the first Asian swimmer to break 24 seconds. "We've found the right feeling," Li Zhumao said. Going forward, they must continue to benchmark against the international arena and top-level competitors to keep results stable.

"This time, what I'm thinking about is swimming a good time"

At this year's Asian Games, Xu Jiayu won a third consecutive title in the men's 100m backstroke, with a time of 51.98 seconds better than his silver-medal performance at the Paris Olympics. "Returning to within 52 seconds in the individual event is the greatest affirmation of my efforts this year." At this Asian Games, he took 4 golds and 1 bronze, bringing his personal total to 15 Asian Games gold medals, making him the Chinese athlete with the most Asian Games gold medals.

"In all my previous races I was thinking about competing for gold; this time, what I'm thinking about is swimming a good time." After this shift in mindset, he has been doing it with ease and skill (游刃有余, you ren you yu - "swim, knife, have, surplus") in the arena. Xu Jiayu looks forward to performing well in individual events and delivering in relays at the Short Course World Championships this December, carrying a relatively mature mindset and rich experience.

Xu Jiayu has already competed in four Olympic Games, winning silver twice in the men's 100m backstroke. Completing the puzzle of an individual Olympic gold has always been his dream. "As long as I can keep swimming, I will keep standing on the starting blocks," Xu Jiayu said. "The 2028 Los Angeles Olympics is the goal I'm sprinting toward."

With the men's 50m backstroke newly added to the Olympic program, Xu Jiayu has a brand-new main focus. The focus of his upcoming preparation training will revolve around the 50m backstroke, while also refining his tactical arrangements for the 100m backstroke. He believes that the abilities he has already acquired will not easily fade; bringing them along moderately in daily training is enough to maintain his level. What needs deep cultivation is the technique and tactics of every subdivided segment from the start through the race.

"I'm grateful that I was able to persevere." Xu Jiayu, now past 30, has redefined his pursuit. He hopes to try boldly and blaze a new path for himself and for more people to extend their athletic careers.

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Short course vs. long course: What's the difference? (Quick guide)

The 2026 National Swimming Championships (25m) recently concluded. Over the six-day competition, multiple short-course records were set, including 1 world record, 5 Asian records, 5 national records, and several national junior records.

In common Olympic Games, World Championships, and other swimming competitions, the lane length is 50 meters, while in short-course swimming World Championships, World Cups, and other events, the lane length is 25 meters.

What is the difference between short-course and long-course? Compared with long-course, competitors swimming the same distance in short-course make more turns, having to execute a turn, underwater kick, and re-acceleration every 25 meters. The distance covered by underwater gliding after a turn requires less effort than swimming strokes. Therefore, generally for the same race distance, times in short-course are shorter, and records are kept separately.

With more turns, will competitors forget how far they have swum? The referees are responsible for helping to keep track. For events of 400 meters and above, when there are 55 meters remaining in the race (two one-way lengths plus 5 meters), a referee at the poolside rings a bell to remind the athletes; the bell continues until the athletes have turned and swum past the 5-meter mark on the lane line, telling them that they are about to sprint to the wall.

Short-course races place greater demands on athletes' starting reaction, turn speed, underwater kick quality, touch judgment, rhythm switching, and energy distribution, requiring attention to more technical details.

(Compiled by People's Daily reporter Sun Longfei)

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The Excitement Extends Beyond the Court

By: 本报记者 陶相安 孔庆元

On the evening of October 29, the finals of the fourth National Rural Basketball League ("Village BA") concluded in Xiaomo Village, Gaoleshan Town, Xianfeng County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei Province. Guangdong Dongguan defeated the host team Hubei Xianfeng 95:66 to claim the championship. During the six-day tournament, 16 farmer teams that emerged victorious from the three qualifying zones in Baoqing County, Heilongjiang; Xingwen County, Sichuan; and Shanglin County, Guangxi delivered a series of thrilling matchups to the spectators.

Walking through the streets of Xianfeng, whether taxi drivers or restaurant waiters, everyone can chat about the "Village BA" at the mention of it. Many villagers brought dry provisions and arrived early at the venue to secure seats. "I arrived a little after 8 a.m.; if I had come later, there would have been no seats," said Zhou Xiuzhen, a resident of Gaoleshan Town. Local residents were enthusiastic about watching the games, and the fervor of fans from other places was equally high. A Ms. Wu from Zhongshan, Guangdong, took an overnight train just to cheer for her hometown team.

The enthusiasm of the fans is a vivid footnote to the development of mass basketball. Apart from school sports facilities, Xianfeng County has a total of 276 standard basketball courts, 112 three-on-three basketball courts, and 6 five-a-side football fields, with per capita sports facility area across the county reaching 3.51 square meters.

Behind the bustle, there is also an economic ledger. During the finals, the "village market, village arts, village fun, and village tours" opened simultaneously: 50 agricultural product booths and 74 food stalls created a lively and bustling atmosphere (烟火升腾, yan huo sheng teng - "smoke, fire, rise, soar"); more than 50 themed activities, including Nan Opera performances and Tujia hand-waving dance experiences, exuded rich folk customs. Stall owner Chen Bin started preparing goods at 4 a.m. every day, and more than 150 portions of spicy chicken were sold out on the first day of the tournament. Wang Doudou, who sold Tujia oil-tea soup, sold more than 9,000 bowls in six days, with daily sales exceeding 10,000 yuan. According to statistics, since the start of the finals, the areas around the county seat and core scenic spots have received more than 200,000 tourist visits. Guo Yani, deputy secretary of the Xianfeng County Party Committee and county magistrate, said: "The hosting of the tournament has boosted the sales of local agricultural products, and more people have come to know and understand Xianfeng through the 'Village BA.'"

The enthusiasm is not confined to Xianfeng. During the tournament, online and offline sales of agricultural specialty products and catering in Baoqing County, Heilongjiang, exceeded 20 million yuan; Xingwen County, Sichuan, received a cumulative total of more than 125,000 tourist visits, driving comprehensive consumption of 30 million yuan; Shanglin County, Guangxi, received 60,000 tourist visits, with comprehensive consumption exceeding 15 million yuan. The tournament has come to an end, but the bustle of the "Village BA" continues.

(Cui Jiarong contributed to the reporting)

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Pei Xinyi breaks two world records

(People's Daily, Ningbo, November 1) (Reporter Li Shuo) In the women's 61kg category at the 2026 World Weightlifting Championships held on November 1, two Chinese athletes born after 2005, Pei Xinyi and Yang Liuyue, took gold and silver in the total. Pei Xinyi succeeded in all six attempts, winning all three gold medals (包揽三金, bao lan san jin - "encompass, take, three, gold") with a snatch of 112kg, a clean and jerk of 142kg, and a total of 254kg, while also setting two world records in the clean and jerk and the total. Yang Liuyue, who just won gold at the 20th Asian Games, took bronze in the snatch with 110kg and silver in the clean and jerk and the total with 139kg and 249kg respectively.

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Nanjing Jiangbei New Area: Innovation-Driven, Industry-Strengthened, a Modern New Main City Grows Apace

On the north bank of the Yangtze River, scientific and innovative talent surges in like a tide, emerging industries gather into a powerful force, and the modern new main city of Nanjing Jiangbei New Area in Jiangsu Province is growing up with vigor.

As the only national-level new area in Jiangsu, Nanjing Jiangbei New Area adheres to building the district on industry and strengthening the district through manufacturing, with its overall strength rising steadily. Over the past five years, the region's gross domestic product has leapt from 306.2 billion yuan to 424.6 billion yuan. At present, Nanjing Jiangbei New Area, centered on building a modern industrial system, is promoting the upgrading of the industrial system toward high-end, intelligent, and green development, strengthening innovation-led growth, and striving to push high-quality development to the forefront and set an example.

Integrating Research and Production    Accelerating the Construction of High-Level Science and Innovation Bases

In September 2025, the World Young Scientist Forum (Nanjing) was held in Nanjing Jiangbei New Area, where more than 20 Nobel Prize laureates, academicians from home and abroad, and over a hundred young scientists jointly witnessed the release of the top ten original achievements in industry and technology by Nanjing Jiangbei New Area.

The continuous local transformation of innovation achievements and the growing vigorously (蓬勃生长, peng bo sheng zhang - "flourishing, growing") of industrial communities are inseparable from the integrated connection from "the laboratory to the production line." At present, relying on the EDA National Innovation Center (National Integrated Circuit Design Automation Technology Innovation Center), the National Integrated Circuit "Xinhuo Platform" (Nanjing), and key enterprises, Nanjing Jiangbei New Area has formed a full industry chain covering design, manufacturing, packaging and testing, equipment, and materials, cultivating research-production integrated chains such as EDA, automotive-grade chips, intelligent sensors, autonomous and controllable chip-machine linkage, and photonic chips, and gathering more than 600 industry chain enterprises including Huatian Technology, Changjing Technology, and Xinai Technology; Nanzhi Optoelectronics has joined with universities to form an innovation consortium, with the "thin-film lithium niobate + X" heterogeneous integrated photonic chip production line put into operation, reaching internationally leading levels in key technologies and processes; the Optoelectronic Technology Innovation Center and the Jiangsu Base of the National Intelligent Sensor Innovation Center are accelerating construction and upgrading, with the distinctive brands of intelligent sensing and optoelectronic chip continuing to grow stronger.

Advancing R&D    Biopharmaceuticals Gathering Strength for Innovation

Since the beginning of 2026, InnoCare Pharma has been listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and two Class 1 innovative drugs from Yaoke Ji'an and Weikaier Pharmaceutical have been successively approved for market, demonstrating the innovation vitality of the biopharmaceutical industry in Nanjing Jiangbei New Area.

At present, the Nanjing Biopharmaceutical Valley in Nanjing Jiangbei New Area has gathered more than 1,300 upstream and downstream enterprises in the biopharmaceutical industry, including 82 national and provincial-level specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative "little giant" enterprises and 2 national-level manufacturing single champion enterprises, and has hosted the National University Biopharmaceutical Regional Technology Transfer and Transformation Center (Jiangsu Nanjing), forming an industrial pattern with gene and cell therapy as the core leading force, innovative drugs and high-end medical devices as the two wings working in coordination, and the three chains of inspection and testing, CXO (contract research, development, and manufacturing organizations for pharmaceuticals), and pharmaceutical distribution integrated. A cumulative total of 8 Class 1 innovative drugs have been launched, and 26 innovative medical devices have entered the special approval channel; in the past three years, more than 50 landmark products have emerged for major diseases.

Nanjing Jiangbei New Area is accelerating the building of a cell and gene therapy technology innovation cluster, with more than 120 industry chain enterprises already gathered, an industry growth rate exceeding 20 percent in 2025, and 7 national-level platforms and 4 provincial-level public technology service platforms providing support for whole-chain innovation.

Climbing Technological Heights    Promoting a Leap in the Level of the Industrial System

Artificial intelligence, semiconductors, next-generation information technology, aerospace science and technology, precision manufacturing... Modern industrial clusters are taking shape and empowering each other in the Industrial Technology Research and Innovation Park of Nanjing Jiangbei New Area, serving as a microcosm of Nanjing Jiangbei New Area's efforts to promote a leap in the level of the industrial system.

At present, Nanjing Jiangbei New Area is promoting the renewal and upgrading of green petrochemicals and high-end steel, enhancing the level of industries such as integrated circuits, life and health, smart transportation, high-end equipment manufacturing, and emerging digital industries, and making forward-looking arrangements for future tracks such as gene and cell therapy, biomanufacturing, and atomic-level manufacturing. Among them, the smart transportation and high-end equipment manufacturing industries leverage the leading role of dragon-head enterprises such as Nanjing Automobile, CRRC Puzhen, and Sumec, and in fields such as intelligent connected vehicles, rail transit, the low-altitude economy, robots and key components, and intelligent complete sets and measurement and control equipment, build an industrial system of coordinated development of "material supply—R&D and design—high-end manufacturing—terminal application." Nanjing Jiangbei New Area implements the "digital-intelligent empowerment" and "artificial intelligence +" actions, deepens cooperation with China Mobile, and promotes the construction of intelligent computing cluster areas and 6G research; builds a highland for R&D in AI and industrial software, information security, and blockchain, constructs a demonstration zone for digital technology innovation and application, accelerates the construction of the Industrial Software Science Park, introduces enterprises such as Huawei Kunpeng and Loongson Technology, with Beilian Guoxin selected as a member unit of the Information Technology Application Innovation Working Committee, and continuously strengthens the digital-intelligent transformation of industry and independent innovation capabilities.

Livable and Business-Friendly    Promoting Connotative Urban Development

Around the running track of the Industrial Technology Research and Innovation Park in Nanjing Jiangbei New Area, flowers and trees flourish and the environment is beautiful, making it a good place for many entrepreneurs to relax and exercise after work.

Nanjing Jiangbei New Area firmly practices the people's city concept, makes every effort to build a new main city that is "modern, international, refined, vibrant, and ecological," promotes connotative urban development, strengthens the ecological protection of Laoshan Mountain and Foshou Lake, and continues to advance the protection of the Yangtze River, pollution prevention and control, and the dual control of total carbon emissions and carbon intensity in key areas; promotes the integration of industry and city through the "gathering" of talent, releases 20 policies on "youth development, talent gathering in the new area," and fully supports talent innovation and entrepreneurship.

Striving forward in the 15th Five-Year Plan, Nanjing Jiangbei New Area is continuously deepening reform, optimizing the business environment, deeply implementing the "nine ones" service measures, polishing the "Jiang Xiaofu" service brand, and constantly improving a comprehensive, fast-responding, full-lifecycle service system for enterprises, cultivating fertile soil for the growth and expansion of industrial clusters.

Data source: Nanjing Jiangbei New Area Management Committee

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Page editors: Luo Yan, Gong Yuhua, Gao Ji

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"High Alert Against Japan Using Cultural Products to Tamper with and Distort History" (International Perspective)

By: 本报记者 刘文璋

Recently, the second season of the hit drama VIVANT ("Betsu-han") broadcast by Japan's TBS television network, which maliciously smears China and fabricates false historical narratives, has aroused strong indignation among the Chinese public.

For some time now, erroneous words and deeds by Japan on historical issues have appeared frequently and intensively, and historical revisionism has been widespread and clamorous (甚嚣尘上, shen xiao chen shang - "very, noisy, rise, up"). The Japanese government has continuously pushed to revise history textbooks, and has disseminated erroneous views of history through popular cultural products such as television dramas, animation, manga, games, and novels, playing word games and downplaying and distorting the history of aggression in literary and artistic works, in an attempt to cover up the truth of history, mislead the historical understanding of the Japanese people, especially the younger generation, and even systematically erase Japanese society's memory of war crimes, while diluting the international community's collective memory of Japan's historical role as an aggressor. Many people of insight have pointed out that the international community should remain highly vigilant against and resolutely resist Japan's despicable tactic of using cultural products to spread erroneous views of history.

Erroneous views of history have seeped extensively into popular cultural products

Japanese militarism once used popular culture such as animation to serve its launching of wars of aggression. In 1943, with the support of the Japanese Navy Ministry, Momotaro's Sea Eagles was released, presenting military operations in the form of a fairy tale; in 1945, Momotaro: Sacred Sailors included plot elements that packaged occupation as "enlightenment." Under the "Imperial Rule Assistance system" established by Japan during the war to coerce the people into supporting the war of aggression, the manga Yokusan Family assumed the propaganda function of wartime general mobilization.

In recent years, the erroneous views of history of the Japanese authorities have seeped extensively into popular cultural products, involving both explicit expressions that directly deny history and implicit infiltration achieved through selective narratives and the entertainment-ization of symbols, quietly dissolving the true circumstances of the war of aggression. For example, Japanese right-wing manga artist Kobayashi Yoshinori's On War and related works openly deny historical facts such as the Japanese military's forced conscription of "comfort women," and have long propagated erroneous arguments that Japan launched wars of aggression for "self-preservation and self-defense" and "liberation of Asia." The 2018 Japanese novel A Second Life in Another World sets its protagonist as a Japanese soldier who killed thousands of people in China during the war of aggression against China; after the protagonist dies at an advanced age, he is reincarnated into another world and lives a smooth life. This work was originally planned to be adapted into an animation, but after several scheduled voice actors objected, the voice actors announced their withdrawal, the publisher stopped distribution and supply, and the animation adaptation plan fell through.

Japanese animation and game works such as Kantai Collection use old Imperial Japanese Navy warships as important creative material, personifying warships as young girl characters; Gate: Jieitai Kano Chi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri portrays the Japan Self-Defense Forces as a force upholding justice and order; the manga My Hero Academia once triggered protests from Chinese and South Korean readers because of the character name "Shiga Maruta" ("maruta" being a derogatory Japanese term used by Unit 731 for victims of human experimentation).

Since the Takaichi Sanae government took office, such problems have continued to emerge. In early 2026, the well-known game and animation IP Pokémon planned to hold events such as card-teaching sessions at venues related to the so-called "Yasukuni Shrine"; in September of the same year, Japanese fashion brand WEGO set the release date for its co-branded merchandise with the work on September 18. These moves were widely seen as consuming the history of aggression and hurting the feelings of the people of victimized countries, and the related events were subsequently called off. Meanwhile, the episodes in VIVANT turn things upside down, shifting the identity of the perpetrator onto modern Chinese people, while glorifying Japan Self-Defense Forces intelligence personnel as righteous counterattackers, beautifying their overseas cross-border operations, blurring the boundaries of the Self-Defense Forces' "exclusively defense-oriented" policy, and indirectly exporting an expansionist narrative. This work features first-tier stars and high production costs, and Takaichi also mentioned the drama in the Diet and expressed interest in watching it, further amplifying its negative impact.

Japanese scholar Yoshida Yutaka told reporters that cultural works such as animation have played an important role in shaping the historical understanding of postwar Japanese people. Deepening understanding of the true history of war through animation is very important, but the premise is having solid knowledge of historical facts and a consciousness of reflection; otherwise, deviations are extremely easy to occur. When historical symbols such as warships, warplanes, and military swords are artificially transformed into entertainment characters that can be collected, cultivated, and emotionally projected upon, the political background contained in war itself and the deeper connotations of humanitarian disasters are easily stripped away. What audiences see more are characters, equipment, and stories, while they tend to overlook the cruelty of war and the suffering it brings.

War memory is being further entertainment-ized and de-historicized

Many people of insight have pointed out that the connection between Japanese popular culture and political narratives deserves attention. The Japanese government has long promoted the "Cool Japan" strategy, using animation, games, and other media as important vehicles for cultural outreach. The Japan Self-Defense Forces have also cooperated with creators of military-themed works and organizers of animation-themed events. When military symbols in popular culture echo historical narratives in the political sphere, there is a need to be vigilant against war memory being further entertainment-ized and de-historicized.

It is worth noting that Japanese society has long harbored a tendency toward "victim memory." Its war memory mainly centers on the harm inflicted on the Japanese people by the Tokyo firebombing, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the Battle of Okinawa, while Japanese society lacks adequate representation of the Nanjing Massacre, the forced conscription of "comfort women," Unit 731, and Japan's colonial aggression against Asian countries, making its anti-war narrative extremely incomplete.

Relevant research indicates that Japanese society has long had a tendency to remember the war from the perspective of victims while downplaying the responsibility of the perpetrators, and the trend of historical revisionism has had an important influence on this. Komori Yōichi, professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo, stated that historical revisionist forces represented by the "Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform" have long worked to change Japanese society's, especially the younger generation's, understanding of war history.

Shiba Miyoko, a 97-year-old war survivor, said that the most terrifying thing about war is that it can distort people's thinking and shape people into individuals "born for war." She herself once received militarist education and became a so-called "model militarist girl." "In that war, we were both victims and perpetrators." Shiba Miyoko expressed concern about changes such as the historical revisionism emerging in Japanese society.

Japan's war memory is a selective construction that has permeated cultural creation fields such as animation and literature, and its deep roots are highly related to the orientation of historical education in Japanese society and changes in the political environment. "In recent years, the trend of historical revisionism in Japan has been continuously rising, and the accounts of war history in textbooks are also changing." Takanashi Kōga, secretary-general of the "Citizens' Group to Think About Kanagawa History Education," told reporters, "We must remain highly vigilant against Japan using cultural products to tamper with and distort history. If children are not allowed to understand true history, but instead are instilled with one-sided historical understanding, it will have a long-term impact on the younger generation."

The Japanese government should face up to its responsibility as perpetrator and the history of aggression

At present, on the one hand Japan is downplaying, denying, and beautifying its history of aggression, and on the other hand it is infiltrating and releasing "militarist ideological toxins" into the field of popular culture. Many people of insight have called for vigilance against popular cultural products becoming tools for the Japanese authorities to ideologically induce arms expansion and military buildup. There are also some people within Japan who, through historical research, oral history, and folk exhibitions, are striving to preserve the memory of Japan's wartime perpetration.

Some Japanese scholars and civil society groups continue to promote the holding of exhibitions of pictures and documents on wartime perpetration, displaying historical materials related to the Nanjing Massacre, Unit 731, poison gas warfare, and the forced conscription of "comfort women," and calling on Japan to face up to its war responsibility. There also exist in Japanese society some animation works that convey anti-war and peace ideas, such as Barefoot Gen. Manga artist Motomiya Hiroshi's The Country Is Burning once drew protests from some Japanese local assembly members and right-wing groups because it depicted scenes of the Nanjing Massacre.

Gushiken Takamatsu, special researcher at the University of the Ryukyus Regional Research Institute and representative of the volunteer group collecting war remains from the Battle of Okinawa, believes that if Japanese society cannot correctly understand the past, the younger generation may gradually lose their basic understanding of the responsibility for wartime perpetration amid fragmented information. "The Japanese government should seriously reflect on the history of the war and devote more energy to building friendly relations with neighboring countries," Gushiken Takamatsu said.

Xu Sheng, co-representative of the Japanese civil society organization "Peace Boat," believes that against the backdrop of Japan's strengthening trend of "re-militarization," greater vigilance is needed against the Japanese authorities' beautification and distorted dissemination of militarist history. Yamada Akira, professor at Meiji University, called on the Japanese government to face up to its responsibility for perpetration in the war, strengthen reflection on war history, and prevent the spread of the historical revisionist trend. Yamada Akira emphasized: "If Japan cannot face up to and tell the history of the harm it inflicted on Asian countries, it will be very difficult for Japan's claims about peace to win the trust of the world."

(People's Daily, Tokyo, November 1)

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Oman's green energy transition shows results

By: 本报记者 焦 翔

In Muscat, the capital of Oman, one can feel a scene quite different from other Gulf Arab countries — nearly uniform white buildings nestled between mountains and the sea, almost no gleaming skyscrapers in sight, and streets and alleys that are clean and orderly. The latest official Omani data shows that the country's GDP (gross domestic product) grew by 5.1% in the second quarter of this year.

Abundant energy resources are the main reason Oman is able to achieve stable growth. Data from Oman's National Centre for Statistics and Information shows that in 2025, the country's average daily oil production is approximately 1 million barrels, with considerable natural gas output as well. Even under the influence of factors such as obstructed shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the growth rate of the country's oil-related industries still reached 14.7% in the second quarter of this year, highlighting the playing a decisive or crucial role (举足轻重, ju ju qing zhong - "lift, foot, light, heavy") that the petrochemical industry plays in Oman's economic development.

In recent years, with the rapid development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, Oman has been making rapid but steady progress in adapting to local conditions, leveraging its endowment of good sunlight conditions and strong winds along its coasts and in its mountainous areas, vigorously promoting the green transformation of energy from national strategy down to specific implementation at every level, continuously enhancing the green undertone of economic operations and social development, and proactively reducing dependence on fossil energy.The country officially launched its "Oman Vision 2040" in 2020, with supporting funding and policy backing. The main goal of this vision is to reduce the national treasury's excessive dependence on hydrocarbon revenues and to build new diversified economic sectors such as renewable energy, port logistics, the digital economy, high-end manufacturing, and cultural tourism. In the several years since the plan's implementation, the real-time achievement rate of relevant indicators has exceeded 70%. As of the end of 2025, the share of renewable energy in power generation has risen from approximately 4% a few years ago to around 10%.

From solar panels rising out of the desert to wind turbines erected along coastal areas, Oman is building a future-oriented electricity infrastructure, aimed at attracting electricity-intensive industries such as data centers, advanced manufacturing, and green low-carbon industry. According to Oman's relevant plans, by 2030, the peak electricity load on Oman's grid will grow from 9,431.9 megawatts in 2026 to 13,967.4 megawatts, the share of new energy installed capacity will rise to 45%, and new energy generation will need to cover approximately 4% of annual electricity demand growth; by 2050, the country will strive to achieve "carbon neutrality." From resource dependence to environmental friendliness, Oman is taking proactive action, and its energy transition is making rapid but steady progress.

In this process, China, as the country with the world's largest and most complete new energy production and supply chain system, actively promotes the docking of the Belt and Road Initiative with Oman's "Vision 2040," helping to advance the country's energy transition process. On the power generation side, Chinese enterprises, leveraging their innovation and manufacturing advantages, have provided Oman with highly cost-effective photovoltaic and wind power generation equipment, significantly reducing the cost of the country's energy transition; on the power transmission side, China, drawing on its technical reserves and talent experience from building the world's largest power transmission network, is helping to solve the challenge of new energy consumption, contributing to ensuring electricity supply for the Omani people.

"China's high level in engineering construction, technology application, and project management is admirable." In July this year, at the energization ceremony of Oman's national key projects — the Ibri Energy Storage Station and the Duqm Energy Storage Station — Mansoor, Chairman of Oman's Public Services Regulatory Authority, could not help but express his admiration. The project was designed and constructed by a subsidiary of China's State Grid Corporation using Chinese technical standards, with both stations having an installed capacity of 500 megawatts/2,000 megawatt-hours, systematically applying the Chinese equipment system, effectively solving the key problems of unstable power supply and grid damage during power transmission from Oman's relevant photovoltaic bases and wind power projects. Local media commented: "This has far-reaching significance for improving the level of coordinated regional development of Oman's power sector, especially for promoting the safe and stable operation of the power grid."

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Can the UK's New Budget Ease High Government Bond Yields? (Economic Perspective)

By: 杨 芳

Recently, British Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey released his first budget since taking office, aiming to ease pressure on people's livelihoods and business costs through moderate fiscal loosening, while addressing the impact of rising government borrowing rates on public finances. Around the release of this budget, British government bond yields remained at recent highs. In early October, the 30-year gilt yield briefly broke through 6.03%, a 28-year high; the 10-year yield also rose to around 5.50%, close to its highest level since 2007. This means the British government's financing costs have risen significantly, fiscal adjustment space has narrowed, and risks to public finance sustainability have increased.

The persistently high level of British gilt yields is not an isolated phenomenon, but the combined result of external shocks, domestic policy uncertainty, and monetary policy adjustments. This round of fiscal policy adjustment has had a certain calming effect on the market, but amid the global yield uptrend driven by the artificial intelligence investment boom and large-scale borrowing by governments, how to control borrowing costs and debt scale will remain a major challenge for the British government. In fiscal years 2025 to 2026, British debt interest payments accounted for 8.0% of total public expenditure, one of the highest levels in nearly 50 years.

From an external perspective, the global bond market continues to come under pressure. After the Federal Reserve's rate hike in September, the global bond market experienced turbulence, with U.S. long-term Treasuries sold off, pushing up global long-term bond yields. The Middle East conflict has pushed up energy prices, inflationary pressures have risen in many countries, and the bond market has responded accordingly. U.S. Treasury yields have reached their highest levels since 2002, and the British gilt market has followed in someone's footsteps (步其后尘, bu qi hou chen - "step, follow, after, trace"). Long-term bond yields are usually determined jointly by expectations of future interest rates and the term premium. Although the Bank of England has slowed the pace of quantitative tightening, causing the term premium to decline somewhat, the rebound in oil prices and the sell-off in U.S. Treasuries have reversed this trend, and gilt yields have climbed again. As a typical open economy, the United Kingdom has a relatively high dependence on energy imports, and changes in international energy and commodity prices are transmitted relatively quickly to domestic prices, business costs, and household consumption, thereby affecting inflation expectations, the interest rate path, and market confidence, amplifying the impact of external shocks on the British bond market and economy.

From an internal perspective, the United Kingdom's particularly pronounced performance in this round of global bond market turmoil has multiple factors of its own. First, inflation remaining at a high level without falling (居高不下, ju gao bu xia - "reside, high, not, descend") has pushed up market expectations of Bank of England rate hikes. Since 2021, British inflation has exceeded the 2% policy target for five consecutive years, reaching a new high of 3.5% in September this year. Although the Bank of England has been cautious in its approach to rate hikes, the market expects it may raise rates multiple times by mid-2027. Rate hike expectations push up investors' risk premium requirements on government bonds, drive funds toward short-term assets, and amplify upward pressure on long-end yields. The British think tank Economic and Social Research Institute believes that the rise in gilt yields stems to a large extent from market expectations that monetary policy will be repriced.

Second, there have been many political changes in the United Kingdom, and the market is concerned about policy uncertainty. Since the 2016 Brexit referendum, there have been seven prime ministers in ten years, and political volatility has weakened public confidence in politics and consumed market credibility. In particular, after the Truss government's "mini-budget" in 2022 triggered financial market turmoil, the market has become more sensitive to government policy changes. In July this year, after the new Labour government took office, it proposed the biggest transformation in 40 years, reducing the cost of living for people and increasing public provision in education, healthcare, pensions, employment, and housing. Against the backdrop of a severe external environment, weak domestic growth, and tight finances, the market is still waiting to see whether the new budget can achieve its intended goals.

Finally, the impact of the Bank of England's quantitative tightening policy on gilt yields is gradually accumulating. Since February 2022, the Bank of England has begun to gradually exit quantitative easing, reducing its balance sheet by not reinvesting maturing bonds and actively selling maturing bonds. Institutions such as Morgan Stanley believe that the Bank of England's reduction of government bond holdings has affected market demand and investment preferences, exerting an important impact on long-term government bonds. To stabilize the market, the Bank of England has slowed the pace of quantitative tightening, changing the balance sheet reduction arrangement to a multi-year plan and suspending active gilt sales until April next year.

The rise in gilt yields highlights the volatile characteristics of uncertainty in the operation of the British economy. According to the latest forecast by the OECD, British GDP (gross domestic product) growth will be 1.1% in 2026 and 1.0% in 2027. The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee expects British inflation to exceed 4% in the first quarter of 2027. Data from the Office for National Statistics show that the British unemployment rate was 4.9% in the second quarter of this year, a relatively high level among the G7. In addition, British public sector net debt is approximately 95% of GDP, leaving limited fiscal space.

The rise in gilt yields and its knock-on effects comprehensively reflect the difficulties in British domestic politics, economy, and social governance. Low growth, high inflation, and high debt constrain one another, making policy choices more difficult. Whether the United Kingdom can achieve fiscal stability and enhanced economic resilience in the future depends not only on whether external energy shocks ease, but also on the effectiveness of domestic reforms to promote growth.

(The author is a research fellow at the Institute of European Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations)

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Sudan's Humanitarian Situation Continues to Deteriorate

By: 本报记者 黄炜鑫

Recently, a joint statement issued by dozens of countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Australia, and the United States, stated that Sudan's food security situation is deteriorating sharply and is cause for concern. These countries called on all parties to the conflict in Sudan to remove all obstacles impeding humanitarian assistance, urged the international community to increase funding, and asked relevant agencies to adjust existing programs to address Sudan's food security situation.

According to the latest report of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, which involves the United Nations World Food Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and their partners, due to factors including the armed conflict in Sudan and severe drought triggered by the El Niño phenomenon, food insecurity and acute malnutrition in multiple regions of Sudan "have reached alarming levels." Constrained by severe funding shortfalls, a deteriorating security situation, and restricted access, humanitarian relief operations are increasingly difficult to carry out.

On April 15, 2023, armed conflict broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces in the capital, Khartoum, with the fighting subsequently spreading to other regions. The ongoing conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and left millions displaced from their homes (流离失所, liu li suo shi - "flow, leave, lose, place"), with the humanitarian crisis continuing to intensify. At present, conflicts in the Middle East region have also caused delays in key imported supplies, pushing up local prices of food, fuel, and fertilizer. According to the latest statistics from the World Food Programme, approximately 9 million people in Sudan have been displaced by the conflict, nearly 19.5 million people are facing crisis-level hunger or worse, and an estimated 825,000 children under five are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year.

At present, the drought caused by El Niño has covered more than half of Sudan's territory, causing total crop failure in some areas. Sixty-four percent of cultivated land in North Darfur State and approximately 50 percent of cultivated land in the three states of South Darfur, West Kordofan, and South Kordofan have all reported extremely poor vegetation growth, and nearly all cultivated land in these four states suffers from severe water shortages. The deteriorating harvest outlook has kept food prices high, reduced agricultural employment opportunities during the peak farming season, and livestock husbandry will also be affected by drought and reduced grain output.

In addition to natural conditions, the continuously escalating conflict is also constraining the recovery of agricultural production in Sudan. At present, the Kordofan region is the center of the conflict in Sudan, and military clashes have prevented people from going to the fields to cultivate. The report shows that since October 2025, more than 300,000 people have been forced to leave their homes. In North Kordofan State alone, more than 60,000 people were displaced during the 2026 planting season. This year, markets across the Kordofan region have recorded more than 170 incidents of airstrikes, looting, and armed clashes, with attacks mostly targeting pastoralist and farming settled communities, causing severe damage to agricultural production.

The report shows that of the 17 nutrition surveys conducted in the Darfur region this year, 13 reported the presence of severe acute malnutrition. Recently, in East Jebel Marra in South Darfur State, a survey of two camps for displaced persons found acute malnutrition rates among children of 38 percent and 30.8 percent respectively, exceeding the famine classification threshold; in Nyala, the state capital, the proportion of severe acute malnutrition admissions among children seeking medical treatment has increased to 11 percent, and the proportion of children dying within 24 hours of admission to hospital remains high.

At the same time, humanitarian relief measures remain inadequate. As of October 22, the United Nations Humanitarian Response Plan for Sudan still has a funding gap of approximately 54 percent, resulting in a limited scale of assistance. In early October, a humanitarian aid convoy of the World Food Programme was also hit by an airstrike, killing one driver. "We are witnessing a humanitarian catastrophe of historic proportions." The Famine Review Committee of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has called for a ceasefire, ensuring that aid agencies can gain safe and sustained access to the relevant areas, providing large-scale flexible funding, implementing emergency food assistance, and rebuilding critical nutrition, health, water, and sanitation services.

Fu Cong, China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said in a recent speech during the Security Council's deliberations on the Sudan issue that African leadership should be upheld to promote a political settlement of the conflict in Sudan. The international community should urge all parties to the conflict to immediately cease hostilities and strictly abide by international humanitarian law. Existing Security Council sanctions measures should be strictly implemented, and external military support or intervention should cease. The international community should increase assistance input to Sudan. Development is the cornerstone of lasting peace, and the Sudanese government should be helped to eliminate the soil that breeds conflict at its source.

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Global Scan

COP17 Urges Faster Implementation of the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework"

(Xinhua News Agency, Yerevan, October 31) (Reporters Guo Shuang, Zhang Chaoqun) The Seventeenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (hereinafter referred to as the "Convention") concluded on October 31 in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. The conference adopted decisions on the first global collective progress review of the implementation of the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" (hereinafter referred to as the "KMGBF"), resource mobilization, and other agenda items, as well as the meeting report, urging all parties to accelerate the implementation of the KMGBF.

COP17 was originally scheduled to conclude on October 30. After overnight "overtime" consultations, the conference adopted the global review decision on the morning of October 31 local time, which includes the "Yerevan Pathway" proposed by the presidency, Armenia, aimed at accelerating the implementation of the framework, urging all parties to strengthen international cooperation and support for developing countries to close the current gaps in framework implementation.

Astrid Schomaker, Executive Secretary of the Convention Secretariat, said before the conclusion of the meeting that this session had completed the global review and identified existing gaps, and that it is now necessary to continue along the "Yerevan Pathway" to achieve the global restoration goals for 2030.

The conference also deliberated on topics including the financial mechanism, biodiversity and climate change, marine and coastal biodiversity, forest biodiversity, as well as traditional knowledge, synthetic biology, and the mainstreaming of biodiversity. The conference decided that the Eighteenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention will be held in Ecuador in 2028.

Germany's Nuremberg International Invention Fair Focuses on Green and Intelligent Innovation

(Xinhua News Agency, Nuremberg, Germany, October 31) (Reporters Chu Yi, Du Zheyu) The 2026 Nuremberg International Invention Fair in Germany commenced (拉开帷幕, la kai wei mu - "pull open, curtain") on October 31, with inventors and institutions from more than 20 countries and regions participating with nearly 600 inventions on display. Innovative achievements in fields such as sustainable development, green energy, and artificial intelligence drew attention.

The organizers stated that this year's inventions in the fields of environmental protection and energy technology are particularly abundant, and there are also many new achievements in mobile mobility; the exhibits also cover electrical engineering, information technology, teaching and scientific research, among others. Approximately 98 percent of the exhibited inventions will be shown to the public for the first time in Nuremberg.

Henning Könicke, General Manager of AFAG Messen und Ausstellungen GmbH, the fair's organizer, said that this exhibition reflects the topics of current economic and social concern. For many inventors, the fair provides a platform for connecting with research partners and enterprises, promoting innovative achievements toward the market.

The Nuremberg International Invention Fair was founded in 1948, aiming to provide a display platform and business opportunities for innovative inventions from various countries. This year's fair runs until November 2.

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Page editors: Zou Zhipeng, Zhang Huizhong, Chu Jun

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In Qinzhou, Feeling the Openness of a City Embracing Rivers and the Sea (Chinese Cities Through Foreign Eyes)

By: 本报记者 张云河

Qinzhou in Guangxi, on the shores of the Beibu Gulf, embraces rivers and faces the sea, and has been a maritime hub since ancient times. "Seventy-two streams divide and rejoin; eighty million li away, they come and go" — this vividly depicts the ancient scene of Qinzhou's waterways intertwining or crisscrossing (纵横交错, zong heng jiao cuo - "vertical, horizontal, cross, intersect"), with boats and merchants connecting with one another, and records the city's long-standing character of openness and inclusiveness. Today, the Beibu Gulf International Gateway Port, the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, and the China-Malaysia Qinzhou Industrial Park are thriving, and Qinzhou, opening toward the sea, continues to write new chapters.

Promoting Connectivity Through Ports, with a Complete and Efficient Multimodal Transport System

Beside the Qinzhou Automated Container Terminal of Beibu Gulf Port, oceangoing giant vessels hug the shoreline, conveyor belts operate day and night, loading and unloading operations never pause, and intelligent guided vehicles shuttle back and forth.

At the bulk cargo berth where the "Dubai Nature," a vessel fully loaded with imported soybeans, is docked, Bangladeshi crew member Rajib is on duty on deck. Rajib, 49, comes from Dhaka. He embarked on oceangoing routes at the age of 18 and has visited many ports around the world, arriving at Qinzhou Port terminal for the first time this July. Facing the vast sea breeze of the Beibu Gulf and watching the giant vessels on the shipping lanes pass by one after another, he said: "The port here is spacious, operations in the port area are smooth and orderly, the terminal is highly efficient, and the staff are friendly and responsible — it leaves a deep impression."

Located on the northern shore of the Beibu Gulf, Qinzhou Port connects northward to the Silk Road Economic Belt and southward to the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, and is the most convenient major sea passage from Southwest China to ASEAN countries. At present, the Qinzhou port area has 96 berths in operation, can accommodate the largest vessels of up to 300,000 deadweight tons, and has opened 92 container shipping routes, reaching more than 200 ports in over 100 countries and regions worldwide.

In recent years, the Qinzhou maritime department has integrated 67 maritime administrative matters into a "one-window service," and consolidated boarding inspections, compressing the average approval time for international vessels entering and leaving the Qinzhou port to 0.38 hours. Qinzhou Customs provides 7×24-hour appointment-based customs clearance services and has opened a "green channel" for goods with high time-sensitivity requirements such as fresh fruit, enabling same-day declaration, inspection, and release in as little as two hours.

In June this year, Moiz Farooq, executive editor of Pakistan's Economy Network, visited Qinzhou. At the Beibu Gulf Port Smart Port Innovation Center, Farooq observed up close demonstration scenarios of intelligent operations such as the precise dispatch of driverless container trucks and remote-controlled quay crane loading and unloading operations. "Qinzhou possesses world-class port facilities, and with landmark projects such as the Pinglu Canal, it has possessing unique and exceptional advantages (得天独厚, de tian du hou - "get, heaven, unique, thick") conditions for developing foreign trade," Farooq said. "We look forward to more Pakistani enterprises coming to Qinzhou to explore cooperation opportunities in logistics, port development, maritime trade, and the digital economy."

On September 16, the century-defining project, the Pinglu Canal, was completed and opened to navigation. As the first canal project in the history of New China to connect rivers with the sea, the Pinglu Canal has opened a direct river-sea link from the Xijiang River to the Beibu Gulf, building a new connectivity channel between the two major markets of China and ASEAN. Philippe Gourbesville, president of the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research, said after an on-site visit to the Pinglu Canal in Qinzhou: "The Pinglu Canal establishes a new connection between the inland waterway network and the ocean, effectively shortening transport distances and reducing transport costs. It will drive industrial agglomeration and port-side economic development in Qinzhou and enhance the region's economic competitiveness."

Fazilah Yassin, chief operating officer of Brunei's Muara Port Company Sdn Bhd, believes that Qinzhou is not only Guangxi's gateway to the sea but also an important transport hub for deepening economic and trade cooperation between ASEAN and China. "Qinzhou's well-developed shipping route network and friendly, open environment attract merchants from many countries," Yassin said. "The intelligent terminal at Qinzhou Port has greatly improved operational efficiency, achieved seamless integration between the railway network and international oceangoing routes, and formed a complete and efficient multimodal transport system, building an important bridge for deepening cooperation between Brunei and Guangxi."

Promoting Prosperity Through Industry, with Supporting Services Helping Enterprises Develop

In the seedling workshop of Guangxi Beibu Gulf Weide Biotechnology Co., Ltd. in Xiniujiao Town, Qinnan District, aquaculture technology director Bai Sheng stands by the seedling pond, observing the water, inspecting the growth of shrimp larvae, and reaching into the pond with a hand net to scoop up larvae for careful examination.

Bai Sheng comes from Kalasin Province, Thailand, and has worked in aquatic seedling cultivation for many years. He is now responsible for shrimp larvae grading and rearing at Weide Biotechnology Co., Ltd. Over more than a decade, he has moved between Guangdong, Fujian, and Hainan for aquatic technology work. Last year, at the invitation of a longtime former colleague, he chose to settle in Qinzhou. "In Qinzhou, you can enjoy the coastal scenery at Xili Bay and Sanniang Bay, and you can also take a boat out to sea to see Chinese white dolphins," Bai Sheng said. "These are all testimony to Qinzhou's protection of its blue coastline."

The possessing unique and exceptional advantages port conditions have opened up channels for Qinzhou's aquatic products to be exported and provided a broad stage for the development of the aquatic industry. "Here, the chain of aquatic breeding, cultivation, and export sales is complete, the business environment is good, and the prospects for the aquatic industry are broad," Bai Sheng said. "The company trusts my skills and hired me as technical director. I can combine the local water quality to explore and improve seedling cultivation methods. I no longer only engage in technical operations but also lead local workers in applying the experience gained overseas to workshop production."

Today, Bai Sheng has taught more than 10 local workers to master key skills proficiently, and they have grown into core backbone members of the workshop. His colleagues affectionately call him "Master Shrimp." "There is great potential in building a career here," he said.

To facilitate enterprise development, Qinzhou has established municipal- and county-level special work teams for research and service on the real economy. Staff regularly visit enterprises and, in conjunction with enterprise demands collected through online platforms, implement the processing time requirement of "response within 3 days, feedback within 5 days," following up throughout to resolve difficulties encountered in enterprise operations.

Han Shengyu is a Korean manager at Delin Toy Co., Ltd. in Lingshan County, Qinzhou City. Once, while handling a business involving a change of business premises, he encountered a problem with real-name authentication. He was very anxious at the time. After learning of the situation, staff at the Lingshan County Government Service Center helped coordinate communication and guided him to handle the matter on-site at the government service hall window. A problem he thought would be very troublesome was quickly resolved.

Relying on multiple open platforms such as the China-Malaysia Qinzhou Industrial Park and the Qinzhou Port Area of the China (Guangxi) Pilot Free Trade Zone, Qinzhou has gathered 211 foreign-invested enterprises, and foreign-invested projects in light industry, aquatic products, and port-side industries continue to be implemented, injecting strong momentum into local industrial development. Han Shengyu said: "Qinzhou not only has a good business environment but also has historical and cultural heritage. In Lingshan, ancient buildings such as the Dalu Ancient Village are preserved. Qinzhou, which is continuously expanding its opening up, will attract more Korean friends to come to Qinzhou for development and deepen Korea-China economic, trade, and people-to-people exchanges."

Promoting Integration Through Learning, Strengthening Cultural Exchanges with ASEAN Countries

Stepping into a classroom at Beibu Gulf University, the sound of Thai reading aloud rises one after another. Thai teacher Wei Caiping stands sideways beside the desks, leading the class through Thai phrases one by one, raising her hand to gesture the rise and fall of tones. Students sit together in a circle, taking turns practicing dialogue. The classroom is filled with laughter and cheerful voices, creating a happy and harmonious atmosphere (其乐融融, qi le rong rong - "its, joy, 融, 融").

"I have been in Qinzhou for so many years that I have long regarded this place as home. On weekends, I like to take a stroll through Qinzhou's old streets, take photos in Yimi Lane, and visit Sanxuan Hall to experience Qinzhou's cultural charm," Wei Caiping said. "Over the years, enabling young people from Thailand and China to achieve language mutual understanding and communicate better has been my most solid achievement."

In recent years, many schools in Qinzhou have become sister schools with schools in ASEAN countries such as Malaysia, continuously carrying out multi-level people-to-people and cultural exchange activities such as cultural and tourism friendship events and youth cultural study tours.

Wei Caiping grew up in a teacher's family in Nakhon Sawan Province, Thailand. She settled in Qinzhou in 2007, engaged in Thai language teaching, and officially joined Beibu Gulf University in 2020. Recalling the teaching changes at the university over the years, Wei Caiping has much to reflect on. She said: "When I first came to Qinzhou to teach, there were only 80 students in the whole university learning Thai. Now there are more than 200. More and more young Chinese people are willing to learn Thai."

She teaches specialized courses such as "Business Thai" and "Thai International Trade Practice" and has so far trained five cohorts of graduates. Talking about where her students have gone, Wei Caiping said: "My students are active in Thailand-China economic and trade exchange activities, serving as accompanying interpreters, business secretaries, and foreign trade accountants in Thai and Chinese enterprises, making contributions to a cause (添砖加瓦, tian zhuan jia wa - "add, brick, add, tile") to the economic and trade exchanges between Qinzhou and ASEAN."

Wei Caiping has witnessed all of Qinzhou's urban changes. "Qinzhou has developed step by step from a small city where tricycles were the main form of public transport in the early years into a modern city with minibuses, buses, new-energy electric buses, and an intelligent transportation network. In the past, it took a long time for Thai goods to enter China; today, rail-sea intermodal transport has become the norm. Multiple high-speed rail lines converge in Qinzhou, making travel and logistics unprecedentedly convenient." Qinzhou's openness and smooth connectivity are, in Wei Caiping's view, its most distinctive urban characteristics.

Liang Lanzi is a teacher at Qinzhou No. 6 Middle School. From 2015 to 2017, she went to Laos to teach Chinese courses at the Lao Gong Chinese Language School in Luang Namtha Province, and the two schools have since carried out cultural exchanges every year. This April, the two schools jointly held the 2026 World Book Day "Reading Chinese Classics Together" activity, with Liang Lanzi serving as the lead reading teacher, leading Chinese and Lao students to read together online.

"The sun has feet — it moves quietly and stealthily..." Lao student Liao Tongkang, in standard, fluent Mandarin, shared with students of Qinzhou No. 6 Middle School a sentence from the prose of Chinese writer Zhu Ziqing. "Chinese is a beautiful language. I love reading, I love Chinese, and I love China even more!" Liao Tongkang said.

Whether it is the thousand-year-old ancient port where sails came and went, or the modern gateway where giant vessels shuttle, Qinzhou, as a hub of the New Western Land-Sea Corridor, connects mountains and seas and nurtures opportunities, allowing goods to circulate here, enterprises to take root here, and people's hearts to connect here, continuously polishing the name card of this open city on the shores of the Beibu Gulf and writing a vivid answer sheet for exchanges and cooperation between China and foreign countries.

Reporter's Notes

A Warm Harbor for Guests from Afar

Guangxi's Qinzhou thrives through the sea, gathers people through industry, and promotes integration through affection, welcoming guests from all directions and continuously expanding channels for exchanges between China and foreign countries.

With superior port clearance conditions, some foreign friends have developed careers by leveraging the coastal location advantage; with a steady urban development momentum, some foreign friends have deepened their industries by following the complete industrial layout; with a relaxed and inclusive living atmosphere, some foreign friends have made this place their second hometown for peaceful residence.

Relying on the advantages of the Beibu Gulf gateway, Qinzhou connects ASEAN and radiates to Southwest China, and is a frontier city of the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area. By improving the transportation network, optimizing clearance services, and enhancing intermodal transport capacity, Qinzhou has transformed its location advantages into opening-up advantages, continuously expanding opening-up channels and facilitating exchanges, cooperation, investment, and business development between Chinese and foreign people.

Guangxi's first "Qualified Foreign Limited Partner + Cross-border RMB" business was successfully implemented in the Qinzhou Port Area, bonded logistics business contributes more than 30 billion yuan in foreign trade value annually, and the gross marine product averages 70 billion yuan per year... The diversified industrial pattern has consolidated Qinzhou's development foundation and continues to attract foreign businessmen, technical talents, and teachers to build careers and settle here. In the past two years, approximately 10,000 foreign nationals have come to Qinzhou for exchanges and development, active in trade, education and research, and industrial cooperation, serving as vivid testimony to the city's open development.

Qinzhou continues to improve its foreign-related service system, launching a special work team for language-barrier-free government services that provides services in multiple languages including English, Vietnamese, and Thai, making government procedures more convenient and efficient; continuously optimizing the foreign-related consumption environment, improving foreign card acceptance facilities in key commercial districts, and enhancing the consumption experience; and innovatively carrying out cultural exchange activities such as intangible cultural heritage experiences, on-site visits, and youth friendship events, bringing Chinese and foreign people psychologically closer... Thoughtful and meticulous services enable foreign friends to better integrate into Qinzhou.

From Rajib witnessing the vigorous pulse of port development at the terminal, to Bai Sheng applying his expertise to build a career, to Han Shengyu benefiting from the open and convenient business environment, and Wei Caiping teaching and educating while building bridges of people-to-people communication... Qinzhou is becoming a warm harbor for more and more guests from afar.

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Supporting Scientific Perseverance with Financial Assistance (Finance Observer)

By: 王 观

In Hefei, Anhui, the cooperation between Bank of China and the University of Science and Technology of China has spanned 25 years. From providing dedicated financial services to the innovation and achievement-transformation platforms of national laboratories in the quantum field, to serving as the custodian bank for the "USTC Silicon Valley" guiding fund, to offering comprehensive services covering credit, settlement, and cross-border finance to a group of technology enterprises that emerged from laboratories, such as iFlytek, QuantumCTek, and Origin Quantum, long-cycle, companion-style financial supply has continuously underpinned and empowered frontier foundational exploration. Recently, Bank of China released the "Comprehensive Service Plan for Financial Support of Basic Research Entities," introducing 20 measures across six areas, closely following the development patterns of basic research and improving the full-cycle comprehensive service model. This is another vivid practice of financial institutions proactively extending their service reach into the "uncharted territory" of original innovation.

Basic research is the source of scientific and technological innovation and the foundation of high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology. Unlike industrial technology innovation, which delivers results quickly and follows relatively clear pathways, basic research has a long cycle, high uncertainty, and great risk of failure. Much frontier exploration is difficult to translate into economic benefits in the short term and naturally lacks the favor of market-based capital. Consolidating the foundation of basic research requires not only the perseverance of researchers in maintaining perseverance and focus over a long period of time (十年磨一剑, shi nian mo yi jian - "ten, years, grind, one, sword"), but also a stable and diversified funding mechanism. In the past, the financial needs of research entities mostly remained at basic services such as account settlement and fund custody; today, national laboratories, high-level universities, and leading technology enterprises urgently need comprehensive financial support covering the entire chain of research tackling, achievement transformation, talent services, and international cooperation. Further guiding financial resources to flow precisely into the main battlefield of basic research and opening up the innovation chain from the "laboratory" to the "production line" is the proper meaning of financial services for new quality productive forces.

To provide good financial services for basic research, the foremost task is to firmly establish the concept of patient finance and build a long-cycle support system suited to the patterns of scientific research. Basic research cannot be measured by short-term returns, and financial supply must also break away from the inertial thinking of "short, flat, and fast." On the one hand, it is necessary to improve the diversified investment toolbox, comprehensively utilizing tools such as medium- and long-term credit, sci-tech innovation bonds, financial leasing, and equity investment to change the supply structure of single credit, and to accompany the growth and maturation of original achievements with more long-term capital and patient capital. On the other hand, it is necessary to build an ecosystem for the integration of industry, academia, research, and application, and remove bottlenecks in achievement transformation. The value of basic research ultimately needs to be released in industrial scenarios. Financial institutions can leverage their advantages in resource matching, link up with government guiding funds, venture capital institutions, and leading industry chain enterprises, regularly hold achievement-matching activities, provide relay-style financial services for the stages of pilot testing, pilot-scale testing, and industrialization, and promote the precise matching of basic research achievements with market demand.

To cultivate fertile soil for innovation in basic research, it is also necessary to adhere to a people-oriented approach and improve supporting financial services around research talent and an open ecosystem. Basic research ultimately depends on high-level talent. In the plan released this time, Bank of China made clear that it will launch a "Global Scientists Office" to help scientific and technological talent work with peace of mind and settle down, including equipping scientific and technological talent with a "1+1+N" dedicated service team, coordinating with professional institutions to provide services such as consulting on the compliant use of research funds, compliance support for technology equity investment, and assistance in confirming the ownership of scientific and technological achievements. This is a beneficial attempt to focus on the needs of research talent and expand the boundaries of financial services. Basic research is also a common cause of the world, and conducting research behind closed doors cannot go far or deep. In the future, further leveraging the advantages of cross-border financial services to provide integrated support such as cross-border receipts and payments and exchange rate risk hedging for international scientific and technological cooperation, and providing full-chain services of "introduction, settlement, and comfortable living" for overseas talent, are likewise part of the proper meaning of financial services for the open collaboration of basic research.

From the precise deployment of credit funds one by one to the optimization and upgrading of full-cycle financial services, the partnership between finance and technology has become more vibrant or fresh with the passage of time (历久弥新, li jiu mi xin - "pass, long time, still, more, new"). We look forward to more financial entities keeping pace, breaking away from traditional credit logic, building a virtuous cycle ecosystem of finance, technology, and industry, using financial support to uphold research perseverance, continuously irrigating this fertile soil of basic research, ceaselessly giving rise to major original achievements, helping to further consolidate the foundation for building a strong nation in science and technology, and accelerating the realization of high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology.

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Specialized insurance provides farmers with solid accident protection (Finance In-Depth)

By: 本报记者 屈信明

For many farming households, once they suffer a bump, bruise, fall, or injury while working in the fields, repairing houses, or working away from home, they may face a situation of seeking medical treatment and recuperating on the one hand while seeing their income decline on the other, bearing considerable financial pressure.

The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes vigorously developing technology finance, green finance, inclusive finance, pension finance, and digital finance, and strengthening high-quality financial services for major strategies, key areas, and weak links. To better fill the gap in accident risk protection in rural areas, the insurance industry should strengthen communication and cooperation with relevant departments and actively develop and promote products with strong inclusiveness such as rural micro accident insurance, providing farming households with a new option for risk underwriting and preventing relapse into poverty.

Insuring at the doorstep, settling claims at the fingertips — worry-free and reassuring

"Scan the code, click to select, fill in the information... I can buy insurance at home with my phone, and it takes only a few minutes from start to finish." Speaking of his experience enrolling in rural micro accident insurance, villager Lin Fu'an opened up: "Not only is buying insurance more convenient than before, but the premium of a few dozen yuan really comes through at critical moments and can help my family provide protection against difficulties or hardships (遮风挡雨, zhe feng dang yu - "block, wind; shield, rain")."

Lin Fu'an said that in July this year, his mother accidentally slipped at the doorstep of their home and suffered a fracture of the thigh bone. She was hospitalized for 20 days, with total medical expenses of nearly 30,000 yuan. After medical insurance reimbursement, they still had to pay 12,000 yuan out of pocket, which was no small expense for the family. "I remembered that I had enrolled in micro accident insurance, so I reported the claim to the insurance company. After submitting photos of the materials online, the compensation of more than 3,200 yuan arrived in the account quickly," Lin Fu'an said.

It is understood that the Fujian Branch of China Life Insurance has launched a micro accident protection plan for rural residents, covering protection liabilities including accidental injury, accidental medical treatment, and accidental hospitalization allowance, with annual premiums ranging from 20 to 100 yuan. Within an affordable framework, it provides rural residents with risk protection in daily life and labor.

Rural areas are often vast and sparsely populated, making the convenience and accessibility of financial services all the more important. Lin Fu'an said that in the past, if villagers wanted to buy accident insurance, they either had to wait for a salesperson to come to the village or make a special trip to a township outlet. "Now it can be done with a mobile phone — insuring at the doorstep, settling claims at the fingertips, worry-free and reassuring," he said.

"Using medical data to advance direct claim settlement, for claims under 10,000 yuan with clear liability and complete documentation, payment is achieved within 24 hours," said a relevant person in charge of the Fujian Branch of China Life Insurance.

Industry insiders explain that rural micro accident insurance is an accidental injury protection product launched for rural residents, mostly jointly introduced by governments and insurance companies. It mainly provides protection for high-incidence accident risks in rural areas such as falls while working in the fields, fractures from slips, scratches and bites from cats and dogs, and traffic accidents. Related medical expenses can be reimbursed according to the contract agreement; villagers who suffer death or disability due to accidents can also receive a certain amount of insurance compensation. These products highlight inclusiveness, with relatively low premiums and enrollment thresholds.

In recent years, based on the actual needs of rural residents and building on the protection functions of rural micro accident insurance, many localities have joined with insurance institutions to launch customized products, expanding protection coverage in a targeted manner.

Through government-insurance cooperation, PICC Property and Casualty has carried out comprehensive social governance insurance projects in Yunnan and other places, with protection coverage including theft and robbery of large livestock, accidental death, and relief and assistance for related cases; in Shandong, insurance institutions have stepped up promotion of middle-aged and elderly exclusive protection such as "Silver Age Health Insurance" in rural areas, with enrollment coverage among eligible groups in some districts, counties, and townships exceeding 70 percent; in Guangdong, insurance institutions have customized differentiated protection liability plans for rural groups of different age cohorts, precisely matching the protection needs of rural children, the elderly, and other groups.

"Strengthening rural accident risk protection can play a positive role in providing timely assistance in times of need (雪中送炭, xue zhong song tan - "snow, middle; send, charcoal") and serving people's livelihoods," said Wang Xiangnan, deputy director of the Insurance and Economic Development Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Insurance compensation can help farming households cushion the impact of accidents, buy time for resuming production, and reduce the risk of small incidents turning into major difficulties.

On the other hand, rural areas have many scenarios such as mutual help among neighbors and small-scale operations. After an accident occurs, the parties involved must not only clarify liability but also take personal relationships into account. "If there is no clear employment agreement in advance, disputes may arise after an accident over who should compensate. But if compensation is paid by insurance after an incident, it can not only ensure timely treatment for the injured but also help alleviate conflicts caused by compensation and reduce the coordination work pressure on village cadres," Wang Xiangnan said.

Protection scenarios are rapidly expanding, reducing the risk of accidents

Experts say that in recent years, various new forms of employment have developed rapidly, and many among the flexibly employed groups are migrant workers who have entered cities. Most of them are the main labor force and economic source of rural families. Once they are injured, the lives of their entire families will be affected. In response, the protection scenarios of related accident insurance products are rapidly expanding.

Chongqing Muyun Nongchuang Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. is a startup engaged in agricultural socialized services. "The company seized the opportunity of local livestock industry development, providing IoT services, disease prevention and control, and equipment leasing, with relatively fast business growth in the past two years," said Xiong Feng, the company's head. "With more business and greater labor demand, how to strengthen the protection of workers' rights and interests is a major issue."

Xiong Feng said that all formal employees of the company pay social insurance covering the five insurances. But every busy farming season, the temporary work teams assembled include many seasonal short-term workers and older workers. "This group often does not participate in work-related injury insurance. Previously, the biggest fear was that the workers might have a minor accident. Once an accident occurred, we would not only feel sorry for the villagers, but the enterprise could not bear the compensation liability either. Now, enrolling in 'Workers' Protection Insurance' has become a favorite among everyone," Xiong Feng said.

The "Workers' Protection Insurance" that Xiong Feng refers to is an inclusive accident insurance product for workers launched by the Chongqing Rural Revitalization Investment and Financing Association jointly with institutions including PICC Property and Casualty, Ping An Property and Casualty, CPIC Property and Casualty, and China Life Property and Casualty. It supports enterprises in fields such as catering, agricultural production, and information content production in enrolling workers, filling the protection gap in flexible employment scenarios. When flexible workers encounter accidents during work or non-working hours, the insurance pays compensation according to the contract agreement. To date, cumulative risk protection provided exceeds 50 million yuan.

"'Workers' Protection Insurance' solves the enrollment difficulties and pain points of personnel with ambiguous occupational status or those working beyond the statutory retirement age. It is an active exploration by commercial insurance to precisely fill the protection gap for flexibly employed persons," said a relevant person in charge of the Chongqing Financial Regulatory Bureau.

In addition to expanding protection scenarios, insurance institutions also have great potential in moving risk management forward to an earlier stage and reducing the risk of accidents.

"With these guardrails installed, I feel much more at ease riding my motorcycle on the mountain roads." Pointing at the guardrails built from colorful tires along the roadside, Zhao Lixiang, a resident of Dongsheng Community, Yaxi Town, Bozhou District, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, praised them repeatedly.

It is understood that the Guizhou Branch of Ping An Property and Casualty has strengthened communication with local traffic management departments, spraying and processing waste tires into guardrails on some rural road sections with high accident risk. As of mid-October this year, 117 high-risk points have been treated in 18 districts and counties in Bijie, Guiyang, Zunyi, and other places, using a total of 10,710 waste tires and installing 7,140 meters of tire guardrails.

"The waste tire guardrails use an orange-blue-green color scheme and are highly visible. They can not only serve an anti-collision function but also serve as a reminder to drivers," said Ran Maoqiao, deputy director of the Peaceful Rule of Law Office of Sancha Town, Bozhou District.

Traffic management department data shows that the incidence of traffic accidents on the treated road sections fell by 35 percent year-on-year.

Where do the waste tires come from? "Property and casualty insurance institutions already cooperate with many 4S shops. Converting discarded tires into road facilities can be described as turning waste into something valuable (变废为宝, bian fei wei bao - "change, waste; become, treasure"), reducing costs and being green and environmentally friendly. At the same time, insurance institutions can also reduce the pressure of auto insurance claims, achieving a win-win of economic and social benefits," said Min Qiaoying, regional manager of the claims department of the Zunyi Central Sub-branch of Ping An Property and Casualty.

Making rural accident protection products "well-received" and also "well-purchased"

Industry insiders frankly admit that products such as rural micro accident insurance play an obvious role, but the coverage rate of related protection remains relatively limited. The reasons are, on the one hand, that the human and material resources invested in providing related services are relatively high, while the pricing of such inclusive products is often relatively low, so insurance institutions face certain cost pressure in related business; and for farmers, their awareness of using insurance tools to strengthen risk protection still needs to be improved.

In response, a relevant person in charge of an insurance institution believes that localities with the conditions can increase efforts to promote government unified insurance and premium subsidies. For key groups such as people lifted out of poverty, recipients of subsistence allowances, the elderly, and workers beyond the statutory retirement age, special financial funds can be arranged to provide premium subsidies or direct unified insurance; for grid workers, forest rangers, flood and fire prevention personnel, and others, the competent departments can purchase unified insurance; for ordinary residents, a co-sharing model of "the government subsidizes a portion, the individual pays a portion" can be implemented to reduce enrollment costs and expand coverage.

Deepening villagers' understanding and awareness of insurance is the way to better guide villagers to actively enroll. "Organize public welfare publicity activities for rural populations, provide farmers with systematic and standardized health knowledge training to prevent the occurrence and development of diseases at an early stage; at the same time, increase the publicity and popularization of insurance knowledge to enhance farmers' risk protection awareness," said Luo Jianjun, deputy general manager of the Group Business Department of China Life Insurance.

Do a good job on the "bonus items" and also avoid "deduction items." "In the publicity process, if one-sided emphasis is placed on 'a few dozen yuan protects 100,000 yuan' without carefully explaining the protection scope, deductible amounts, and reimbursement ratios, villagers will not only have disputes when applying for claims but will also lose trust in insurance; in addition, untimely claims settlement will also reduce villagers' willingness to enroll," Wang Xiangnan said. In this regard, in the insurance sales process, the protection scope should be clearly explained in conjunction with specific terms and conditions, helping villagers avoid purchasing unsuitable products or duplicate insurance, and even more importantly, avoiding letting villagers mistakenly believe that "one insurance policy can compensate for everything."

In research conducted in multiple localities, reporters learned that even when insurance institutions promote online claims services, many villagers still prefer to apply for claims under the guidance of village cadres or insurance institution service personnel, or hand over the materials required for claims to village cadres, who then apply for online claims on their behalf.

"Online processing and offline assistance should 'walk in step.'" Wang Xiangnan said that insurance institutions can rely on grassroots service outlets to establish claims assistance mechanisms, letting villagers know who to report an incident to, what materials to prepare, and how long it will take to get a response. For cases that cannot be compensated for the time being, the reasons should also be explained and the follow-up handling arrangements stated. In addition, insurance institutions can carry out targeted safety publicity on fall prevention, agricultural machinery operation, cycling, and electricity use to enhance farmers' sense of gain from insurance enrollment.

Experts say that rural areas have many elderly people and casual laborers, while accident insurance products mostly have enrollment age and occupational restrictions, and the exclusive products that match their needs need to be further enriched.

"Strengthen communication and collaboration with relevant departments and units, explore more feasible paths for insurance to boost rural revitalization, and provide insurance protection services with richer products and more comprehensive protection for personnel involved in agriculture," Luo Jianjun said.

"Further promote the customization of differentiated products." A relevant person in charge of the Chongqing Financial Regulatory Bureau said that for construction workers, truck drivers, delivery riders, self-employed individuals, and new types of agricultural business entities, insurance institutions should be promoted to develop products including high-altitude extension, sudden death, commuting transportation, and employer liability linkage. At the same time, further deepen research and data sharing in related fields, and through real risk scenarios and data, do a good job in pricing and underwriting and claims services.

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Reshaping Economic Growth Momentum with New Quality Productive Forces (Finance & Economics Tea House)

By: 吉富星

The gold content, innovation content, and green content of new quality productive forces are continuously rising, bringing deep-level and holistic changes to economic and social development.

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, "Developing new quality productive forces is the intrinsic requirement and important focal point for promoting high-quality development." On October 9, the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Developing New Quality Productive Forces" was publicly released, transforming General Secretary Xi Jinping's original theory into a guide for action.

The gold content, innovation content, and green content of new quality productive forces are continuously rising, bringing deep-level and holistic changes to economic and social development.

New quality productive forces are profoundly reshaping the driving structure of economic growth, with innovation as the "primary driving force" growing ever stronger. The "newness" of new quality productive forces lies in their characteristics of high technology, high efficiency, and high quality. In 2025, China's new economic development momentum index grew by 12.5% year-on-year, and the added value of the "three new" economy accounted for 18.39% of GDP, showing a trend of year-on-year improvement. In the first three quarters of this year, new momentum represented by high-end manufacturing, digital-intelligent economy, and modern services continued to maintain a contribution rate of over 40% to economic growth. This means that new growth points are emerging at an accelerated pace, the "engine" of economic growth is shifting gears, thereby fundamentally reshaping the momentum of economic growth.

From traditional industries radiating new vitality to emerging industries accelerating their growth, new quality productive forces are driving the industrial structure toward new and better directions. On the one hand, new quality productive forces do not negate traditional industries, but rather achieve revitalizing old industries to bring forth new vitality (老树发新芽, lao shu fa xin ya - "old, tree, emit, new, bud") through digital-intelligent transformation, green transition, and high-end upgrading, radiating vigorous vitality. On the other hand, strategic emerging industries and future industries are accelerating their growth, with industries accelerating their advance toward the mid-to-high end. From 2021 to 2025, the added value of high-tech manufacturing above designated size grew at an average annual rate of 9.2%, significantly higher than the average level of industries above designated size. The optimization and upgrading of traditional industries, the cultivation and strengthening of emerging industries, and the forward-looking layout of future industries are building a modern industrial system with better structure, stronger resilience, and stronger competitiveness.

New quality productive forces not only inject innovative vitality into economic development, but also make the foundation of green development more distinct, with the "innovation content" and "green content" of development complementing each other. New quality productive forces are themselves green productive forces. By the end of 2025, the combined installed capacity of wind and solar power historically surpassed that of thermal power, with green electricity accounting for nearly 40% of total social electricity consumption. In September 2026, the retail penetration rate of new energy passenger vehicles reached 67%, setting a new historical record. The widespread application of green technologies and the accelerated growth of green and low-carbon industries are accelerating the transformation of ecological advantages into development advantages.

The achievements of new quality productive forces development are also reflected in the changes in the lives of the masses or every household (千家万户, qian jia wan hu - "thousand, families, ten thousand, households"), from "technology empowerment" to "human development," with development achievements benefiting the people more extensively and fairly. Technological progress has given rise to new occupations, with more and more workers mastering intelligent technologies and shifting to more creative positions. At the same time, telemedicine, online education, and other services span mountains and seas, allowing people in remote areas to share high-quality resources at their doorsteps; from government services handled online to smart homes entering every household, digital tools at one's fingertips are quietly changing governance and lifestyles. In the process of productive forces leaping forward, all localities are placing greater emphasis on "investing in people," safeguarding and improving people's livelihoods in the course of development, better reflecting the value orientation of new quality productive forces development.

Those who observe the situation are wise; those who grasp the situation prevail. It must also be recognized that as new quality productive forces develop rapidly, institutional mechanisms must keep pace. The key to developing new quality productive forces lies in acting in light of local conditions and establishing the new before abolishing the old. All localities should base themselves on their own resource endowments and industrial foundations to explore paths of distinctive, differentiated, and coordinated development. They should both actively lay out frontier fields and solidly transform and upgrade traditional industries; both strengthen the principal position of enterprises in innovation and better leverage the role of the government in planning guidance and policy support. In the future, it is also necessary to continuously improve the market-based allocation of factors, deepen institutional innovation in science and technology, industry, development models, institutional mechanisms, and talent work, and form relations of production more compatible with new quality productive forces.

(The author is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

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Continuous Innovation on an Independently Controllable Technology Foundation ("Coffee" Talks Tech)

By: 刘庆峰

From answering questions to executing tasks, as artificial intelligence applications deepen, there is an even greater need to build upon a technology foundation that is independently controllable, secure, and trustworthy. Whether the system can operate stably, whether data is secure, whether judgments have a basis, and whether problems can be traced after they occur determine whether artificial intelligence can achieve value creation at scale.

Independent controllability addresses the issue of initiative in technological development. Only by mastering key core technologies can the initiative in development be firmly held in one's own hands. The key lies in the coordination of chips, frameworks, models, and applications, enabling large models to be trained, deployed stably, and iterated quickly. In recent years, the domestic industry has continuously advanced software-hardware collaborative innovation and has already achieved full-chain training and inference of large models based on domestic computing power. This demonstrates that, relying on an independently controllable technology foundation, China has the conditions to build a large-model system with international competitiveness. Going forward, continued breakthroughs are needed in framework adaptation, training efficiency, inference cost, as well as model architecture and training methods.

With an independently controllable technology foundation in place, security and trustworthiness must also be implemented in product design and business processes. Which data can be accessed, which operations require confirmation, which judgments must be reviewed by professional personnel, and how problems are traced after they occur must all be clarified in product design and business processes. Only when technology supply is guaranteed and usage boundaries are clear can artificial intelligence be secure and trustworthy.

Practice in primary-level healthcare reflects this. iFlytek's Intelligent Medical Assistant has covered more than 800 districts and counties in China. It does not replace doctors in making final judgments, but rather provides auxiliary diagnosis and risk alerts based on clear evidence-based medicine (循证医学, xun zheng yi xue - "follow, evidence, medicine") grounds. The same applies in education scenarios: artificial intelligence can grade assignments, analyze incorrect answers, and help teachers grasp learning conditions and identify weak links, but accurate explanations, appropriate content, and protection of student information are the prerequisites for all of this.

To enable the value of artificial intelligence to be realized in more industries and move toward application at scale, three thresholds must also be crossed: cost, scenario, and ecosystem. Crossing the cost threshold requires making it affordable and effective for more enterprises to use. Through model optimization and device-cloud collaboration, routine tasks are completed locally while complex tasks call on cloud capabilities as needed, matching model capabilities with business needs and deployment conditions, thereby reducing usage costs while ensuring security and effectiveness.

Crossing the scenario threshold hinges on adapting to complex working environments. When workers operate equipment or doctors perform surgery, they use voice to retrieve information and issue commands, but on-site noise, dialect accents, and multiple people speaking simultaneously can all affect comprehension. Only by polishing perception, interaction, large models, and terminal devices together, achieving integrated software and hardware, and then combining these with industry knowledge and operating rules, can artificial intelligence be transformed from a question-and-answer tool into a work assistant.

Crossing the ecosystem threshold requires the joint participation of more enterprises, developers, and industry experts. Only when technology companies open up model capabilities, development tools, and mature experience, industry practitioners participate in defining problems and verifying results, and research institutions and developers jointly improve solutions, can general-purpose capabilities be turned into reliable industry applications.

In the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, artificial intelligence must continue to innovate on an independently controllable technology foundation and, on the premise of security and trustworthiness, penetrate more scenarios of economic and social development. Only when users dare to use it, are willing to use it, can afford it, and find it effective can technological capabilities be transformed into industry capabilities, and can innovation achievements truly become productive forces. The ultimate value of artificial intelligence development lies not only in enabling machines to complete more tasks, but also in liberating people from heavy and repetitive labor, allowing creativity to be more fully unleashed, and enabling more people to share in the fruits of technological progress.

(The author is the chairman of iFlytek and director of the National Engineering Research Center for Speech and Language Information Processing; compiled and edited by People's Daily reporter Gu Yekai)

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China Achieves Breakthrough in Underground Space Navigation (In-Depth Observation)

By: 本报记者 郑海鸥

"Parking underground no longer means aimlessly circling the lot with no idea where to go. Follow the navigation, and the status of parking spaces on every level is immediately obvious (一目了然, yimu liaoran - "one, eye, clearly, understand")." In Xiong'an New Area, Hebei Province, Chen Chong (陈冲), an engineer at the Network Communication Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the "Network Communication Institute"), drove to the underground parking lot of Xiong'an Science Park, opened the Xingyuan Navigation APP, and tapped "Go to Parking." The total number of spaces, the number of vacant spaces, and their specific locations were immediately obvious. After selecting a space, the navigation extended directly from the surface to the underground, guiding him through entrances, ramps, and intersections to reach the target space. "If the space is occupied along the way, the system will promptly recommend a new vacant space," Chen Chong said.

How does one navigate underground spaces?

When satellite navigation signals are not sensitive enough in underground spaces, the assistance of high-precision positioning and navigation for underground spaces is needed.

Theoretical breakthroughs, technological innovation, chip development, and application deployment... Dedicated to solving the challenges of long-distance, high-capacity, high-precision autonomous positioning and unmanned navigation control services in large underground spaces, the national key research and development program project "High-Precision Positioning, Navigation, and Control Technology for Large Underground Spaces," led by the National Key Laboratory of Integrated Spatiotemporal Networks and Equipment Technology of the Network Communication Institute, has successfully passed acceptance review by the Ministry of Science and Technology, marking a major original achievement by China in the direction of integrated spatiotemporal networks for underground spaces.

Precise positioning, underground where satellite signals cannot reach

After finishing his business, Chen Chong immediately tapped "Find My Car" on his phone, and the pedestrian navigation guided him back to his vehicle. "If you take a ride-hailing car, you only need to enter the license plate number to find the floor and space where the vehicle is located."

The technical support behind the intelligent navigation service for underground parking lots that Chen Chong experienced is the "Xingyuan" BeiDou micro-base station underground space positioning and navigation system developed by the team at the National Key Laboratory of Integrated Spatiotemporal Networks and Equipment Technology of the Network Communication Institute.

Traditional underground parking lot navigation often has three drawbacks: satellite signals cannot enter, ordinary phones cannot position accurately, and navigation entry points are discontinuous.

Wei Baoguo (蔚保国), director of the laboratory and project leader, introduced that the team deployed BeiDou micro-base stations in underground parking lots to radiate BeiDou signals, breaking through intelligent network deployment and seamless aboveground-underground positioning and navigation technology, enabling ordinary smartphones to also achieve positioning and navigation in underground spaces.

With the parking and car-finding problems solved, it means that mature navigation, travel, and life services on the surface can be "seamlessly" extended underground.

In Wei Baoguo's view, in the future, vehicles can accurately find parking spaces, passengers can accurately find ride-hailing cars, charging platforms can guide vehicles directly to charging piles, and in the future it can also provide precise positioning, navigation, and timing support for autonomous parking, underground logistics distribution, underground robot operations, and emergency evacuation. "Parking spaces will no longer be merely physical spaces for vehicles to park, but will become identifiable, searchable, navigable, and dispatchable digital transportation nodes. Automobile companies, map navigation companies, parking lot operators, ride-hailing platforms, commercial property managers, and charging operators can all develop new products and expand new services on this location service foundation," Wei Baoguo said.

Underground spaces include not only the parking lots people take for granted, but also complex underground logistics corridors and integrated utility tunnels.

In Xiong'an New Area, underground space development is an important component of its intelligent construction, with extremely high requirements for the precision, capacity, and intelligence level of positioning and navigation technology. The "Xingyuan" BeiDou micro-base station underground space positioning and navigation system enables personnel inspection, group operation management and control, and unmanned logistics.

When inspection personnel enter dangerous areas, the backend promptly issues warnings; unmanned transport vehicles can also drive stably and stop accurately in underground corridors without satellite signals... "Measured data from the underground space positioning and navigation system we independently developed shows that the static positioning accuracy for personnel in underground spaces is better than 0.2 meters, and high-speed unmanned vehicles can achieve sub-meter-level stable navigation," Chen Chong introduced.

Breaking through the bottleneck of underground positioning and navigation technology can not only solve the actual needs of the industry, but also safeguard the security of the national industrial and supply chains and empower intelligent development across all spaces. Wei Baoguo introduced that the team, joining forces with domestic advantageous forces, launched a systematic assault on high-precision positioning, navigation, and control technology for large underground spaces, with the goal of building a fully autonomous, full-chain, and scalable underground integrated spatiotemporal network technology system.

Taking a different path, solving theoretical and technological challenges

In underground spaces, why is the traditional satellite signal navigation that everyone takes for granted no longer sensitive enough?

"In short, satellite navigation signals cannot penetrate thick rock, soil, concrete, and metal structures. Moreover, underground space tunnels are narrow, structures cause severe shielding, and combined with metal equipment and dust, wireless signals are subject to multiple influences, making the electromagnetic propagation environment extremely harsh," Wei Baoguo introduced. At the same time, underground scenarios vary greatly in scale and form, ranging from narrow mine tunnels and road tunnels to open underground parking areas and logistics spaces, making network deployment very difficult. In addition, with the emergence of automated and intelligent business demands, various types of underground autonomous operation equipment all require sub-meter-level or even higher-precision positioning support, which traditional technology cannot satisfy.

Underground space signals being "unclear to see and inaccurate to measure" is the primary problem constraining positioning and navigation.

"Traditional signal modeling is a bit like 'looking at the calendar to guess the weather,' mainly summarizing general patterns based on historical data," Wei Baoguo used an analogy. This method can provide a rough reference, but changes in underground structures, and vehicle and personnel activity, can all alter the signal propagation state. If the model cannot be updated in a timely manner, predictions are prone to deviation.

Taking a different path, the team innovatively proposed a digital twin channel modeling method that combines online real-time data collection with offline model optimization. The new method is more like modern weather forecasting: the front end is like a "meteorological satellite," sensing on-site changes in real time; the backend is like a "forecasting center," repeatedly calculating and calibrating the model using long-term accumulated data. As the underground environment changes, the model can adjust accordingly.

The core of the technology is to draw an "underground wireless environment map," like a weather cloud chart, intuitively presenting where signals are strong and where they are weak, from which direction they come, and how long they take to arrive. "With this map, wireless signals that were originally invisible and intangible become observable, predictable, and simulatable, thereby providing reliable support for underground positioning and navigation and solving the problem of signals being 'unclear to see and inaccurate to measure' at its source," Wei Baoguo explained.

In underground spaces, it is not only necessary to navigate accurately, but also to be sufficiently intelligent.

"For example, to enable unmanned vehicles to operate autonomously, the problem of 'where am I' must first be solved. We designed a three-level elastic positioning standard of 'map, network, and terminal.' This is like giving unmanned vehicles a 'triple insurance policy.' Even if one type of positioning fails due to the harsh underground environment, the others can immediately take over, ensuring the vehicle does not get lost," said Pan Shuguo (潘树国), head of the navigation control topic of the project team.

At Menkeging Coal Mine in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, a miner carrying a mining smartphone went from the surface into the underground mine. Passing through crisscrossing tunnels, the system could not only display the tunnel where he was located, but also accurately determine his level and elevation. Even when entering areas densely populated with metal equipment such as working faces and pump rooms, positioning remained continuous and stable. When needing to go to another work location, the miner could directly use his phone to initiate a vehicle request, and the system would dispatch an unmanned shuttle vehicle based on his location; the vehicle autonomously traversed intersections and curves along the planned route, accurately arriving at the designated location to complete the pickup and drop-off.

"Behind the above applications is the underground space integrated spatiotemporal network deployed by the team. In the past, mine positioning was more about finding a general location along a line, and the maps were also static and two-dimensional, with positioning blind spots easily occurring in areas shielded by metal underground. Now, personnel and vehicle positions can be continuously presented in three-dimensional space, BeiDou positioning can extend from above ground to underground, and mining vehicles also possess precise autonomous navigation and control capabilities," said Du Shitong (杜世通), the person in charge of system integration technology for the project team.

Du Shitong introduced that the system is also equipped with a digital management platform for coal mine operations, achieving a unified spatiotemporal datum above and below ground, providing networked navigation services for personnel and vehicles, supporting safe production operation management and dispatch, and providing technical support for the intelligent transformation of the coal industry.

Developing chips, breaking foreign technological monopoly

In the field of underground positioning and navigation, the core chip is the "heart" of the industrial chain and a key factor constraining industry development.

"Before the project started in 2022, domestic UWB (ultra-wideband) positioning core chips had long relied on imports, which were not only costly and had unstable supply chains, but also meant that core technology and standards were completely controlled by foreign countries," Wei Baoguo recalled the past with reluctance. He said, "Without independent chips, underground positioning and navigation technology would be controlled by others. A breakthrough in the domestic production of core chips must be achieved!"

Through repeated exploration and continuous verification, the team realized that original innovation must start from the source of signal standards, and proposed the original HNav-UWB (navigation-enhanced ultra-wideband) independent signal standard, completely changing the traditional design philosophy of "communication first, navigation auxiliary" and shifting to a brand-new paradigm of "navigation enhancement, communication coordination."

"After comprehensive testing and verification, compared with internationally accepted standards, the new standard improves coverage by 28%, ranging accuracy by 6%, and single-station capacity by more than 65%, with core performance indicators comprehensively surpassing mainstream international standards," Yang Menghuan (杨梦焕), the person in charge of HNav-UWB signal standard design, said with considerable pride.

Based on the original HNav-UWB signal standard, the "Tanjie 100" pulse positioning chip, the first fully autonomous and controllable chip of its kind in China, was successfully developed.

Why is it named "Tanjie"? "It signifies exploring the boundaries of the environmental space and exploring the boundaries of measurement performance," the team members said in unison.

"The chip adopts a highly integrated radio frequency and baseband design, with ranging accuracy better than 10 centimeters and angle measurement accuracy better than 3 degrees. The dual-mode customizable UWB is an international first. In complex underground environments, this chip can achieve ultra-high positioning accuracy comparable to surface BeiDou navigation, fundamentally solving the industry pain points of traditional underground positioning ambiguity and large errors," said Zhao Jun (赵军), the person in charge of chip development.

The successful development of the Tanjie 100 chip broke the foreign monopoly on UWB positioning technology standards and core chips, marking China's pioneering new exploration and new achievements in the evolution of international UWB positioning technology, and also laying a solid foundation for the autonomous and large-scale high-quality application of underground space positioning and navigation.

In the future, the development and utilization of underground spaces will enter a new stage of large-scale, intelligent, and systematic development, and the demand for ubiquitous precise spatiotemporal information services will continue to rise.

Wei Baoguo stated, "We will continue to deepen our work in the field of integrated spatiotemporal networks, continuously optimize core technology and equipment performance, expand technology application scenarios, promote the large-scale application and implementation of achievements in more fields such as urban underground integrated utility tunnels, subway tunnels, deep mines, and underground civil air defense projects, further enhance China's core competitiveness in the global field of underground space positioning and navigation, establish a 'China standard' for global intelligent development of underground spaces, and provide strong support for high-quality development of the economy and society."

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Use "Sharp Eyes" to See Through Face-Swapping Tricks (The Sharpest Minds Around Me)

By: 田 天

With the help of AI (artificial intelligence) technology, AI face-swapping is enough to pass off the fake as the real (以假乱真, yi jia luan zhen - "use, false, confuse, real"). If the relevant technology is used maliciously, it may breed illegal activities such as manufacturing false information and fraud. How to see through AI face-swapping tricks? This is one of the directions my team and I are tackling.

Accurate and effective detection is the key to achieving this goal. With the rapid development of large AI models, forgery technology has also continued to "evolve." Traditional detection methods are like holding a fixed "crime map" to catch criminals—they perform passably against known forgery techniques, but once they encounter a new type of generation method never seen before, performance drops sharply. At the same time, the threshold for computing power and data has been lowered, making it possible to rapidly generate forged text, images, and even video in batches, further increasing the difficulty and cost of detection.

To crack the problem, we still have to rely on AI. We hope to use AI to forge "fiery eyes and golden pupils" to screen out risks such as AI face-swapping, making AI applications safer and more controllable. Putting technology into practical application is not easy. Faced with new forgery methods emerging in an endless stream (层出不穷, ceng chu bu qiong - "layer, emerge, not, exhausted"), for a period of time we were always trailing behind, struggling to keep up with (疲于应对, pi yu ying dui - "tired, at, respond, deal with") them, and the accuracy of our initially designed methods was also not high.

Why should we passively be responding to each move as it comes (见招拆招, jian zhao chai zhao - "see, move, dismantle, move")? Could we instead give AI the ability to cope with the "unknown"? My accumulation in the field of Bayesian deep learning during my student years helped me open up a new perspective. I thought: why must the detection model give a seeing things in black and white (非黑即白, fei hei ji bai - "not, black, or, white") answer for every sample? When the evidence is insufficient, why can it not honestly admit "cannot determine"?

After repeated argumentation and experimentation, we introduced Bayesian neural networks into the detection model, no longer treating model parameters as a fixed set of values, but using probability distributions to describe the possible values of the parameters. Through multiple probability samplings, the model is able to synthesize the judgment results under different parameter assumptions: when predictions are consistent, it indicates that the evidence is sufficient; when predictions diverge significantly, it means the sample may come from an unknown generator, have undergone complex rewriting, or itself lie at the fuzzy boundary of human-machine mixing. When faced with such high-uncertainty samples, we train the model not to rashly issue a genuine-or-fake determination, but to teach it to admit "uncertainty"; on this basis, we then optimize for such samples to improve model performance, enabling it to still identify more than 80% of synthetic data when facing new AI synthesis methods, with the false judgment rate effectively controlled.

This means the model no longer spends a large amount of effort on simple samples that can be judged at a glance, but shifts its learning focus to "uncertain" data. With resources concentrated where the real difficulty lies, the model can more quickly and accurately explore strategies for identifying AI content, and perform better when facing new AI-generated content. The moment the technical route was verified, the whole team was greatly inspired. We are no longer passive pursuers of forgery technology, but now possess a set of underlying logic for proactively responding to unknown risks, "teaching" AI to understand patterns at a deeper level, identify application risks, and reject harmful requests.

Today, AIGC (generative artificial intelligence) content detection platforms and other AI-derived security risk governance and AI intrinsic security products developed based on our team's technology have been applied in scenarios such as finance, government affairs, public security, and the internet. Due to security anxiety, some enterprises initially did not dare to use large models with confidence. After our technical security assessment and security hardening, they were relieved of their worries about the future or consequences (后顾之忧, hou gu zhi you - "behind, care, particle, worry") and truly enjoyed the convenience of AI.

AI is evolving, and risks are changing too. With the rise of intelligent agents and embodied intelligent robots, AI is transforming from a dialog box that "answers questions" into an actor that "executes tasks," and the related risks are also extending from the virtual world to the physical world. The security risks of embodied intelligent robots are more direct. Such robots operate in the physical world, and once they are unable to cope with special situations, they may cause harm to humans. Using human wisdom to govern AI is a topic of the times that must be confronted head-on in the intelligent age. My team and I will continue to deepen our research on AI security, helping AI develop in a healthy and orderly manner.

(The author is an expert committee member of the New Generation Artificial Intelligence Industry Technology Innovation Strategic Alliance; compiled from interviews by Jiang Ziyu and Yu Sinan)

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My Close Encounter with "China Railway"

By: 梁晓声

When I go out, I have always preferred to take high-speed trains; one can enjoy the scenery along the way, there is almost no noise, and they are punctual to the minute.

And as always, I am merely a passenger, having never had any other contact with "China Railway."

In the golden autumn of September, unexpectedly, I took part in a book-recommendation event, and all sorts of reflections welled up in my heart.

This book-recommendation event was aimed at promoting reading for all; not only did it seek to recommend good books to railway workers, it also hoped, through the special space of the train, to publicize good books to the broad body of passengers.

In Yantai, Shandong, at a port on the Bohai Bay, aboard a 10,000-ton passenger-cargo ferry, at 7 p.m., with a bright moon hanging askew in the night sky and the port's lights glittering, an unconventional and novel (别开生面, bie kai sheng mian - "separate, open, life, face") theatrical performance began—from the announcer to the host to the writers, directors, and performers of every single program item, all were drawn from among railway workers. The artistic atmosphere was full, the novelty was commendable, the moon mirrored dancing shadows, and songs stirred the waves; all the content revolved around the single word "book."

In any country, within any given year, there is always some day that is unique to that country, generally connected with a commemoration. On September 21, in China, neither a festival nor a holiday, this performance with books as its theme, held at a port, on a 10,000-ton ferry, written and created by railway employees, must be a theatrical phenomenon unique in the world—books, theatrical performance, railway employees, a 10,000-ton ferry, a seaport; how inconceivably "surreal" a combination it is in the eyes of other countries of the world!

Humanity originally had no literature and art; when people who delight in literature and love art, who are capable of literature and skilled in art, became numerous, literature and art came into being. Every "master" or "star" of any literary or artistic genre is produced from the soil of mass literature and art. What is called "new" refers to the fact that the masses of today's China, in their love of literature and art, in their enthusiasm for personally taking part in writing, creating, and performing, far surpass any century or era of the past. The literary and artistic talent they possess is also vastly different from the past (今非昔比, jin fei xi bi - "now, not, past, compare"), and may every time be praised with "look at one with new eyes." Therefore, there is a great prospect that can be foreseen: for China, the future aspect of the two words "literature and art" will certainly be—professionals and amateurs flying side by side, personal participation and appreciation coexisting; the "new mass literature and art," the true colors of tomorrow, will be even richer and more varied. On September 21, at the Bohai Bay port, on the 10,000-ton ferry, this performance offered by railway employees powerfully proved this point.

That a railway unit should own a ferry is a rare phenomenon nationwide; it proceeds both from practical needs and from consideration of the concepts of convenient management and unified responsibility. The effect is definitely good—the lower deck can "swallow" 50 train carriages of cargo arranged side by side; the middle and upper decks carry passengers at the same time, divided into sleeper tickets and seat tickets, the former 200 yuan, the latter 180 yuan, cheap. There are three sailings a day. At 6 a.m. from Yantai to Dalian, Liaoning, it does not delay passengers' daytime business, and returns in the evening, very popular. A reading room has been arranged on the ferry, displaying all kinds of books. Those who sleep late may go there to read during the night voyage and consume tea and refreshments. If several people board the ship on official business, they may also rent a small meeting room to discuss matters, at a cheap fee.

Our group participating in the event took a high-speed train from Yantai to Qingdao. The high-speed train carriages were also equipped with reading spaces, with posters of films or TV dramas related to railways pasted on both sides, lending the space a distinctive charm.

Qingdao Station likewise has a "reading island," where several kinds of children's books are deliberately placed to provide convenience for parent-child reading, with warm intent. What impressed me most were the following two points: first, a special service area has been set aside, dedicated to serving elderly people who are not adept at using mobile phones, for matters such as ticket refunds, ticket changes, and applying for special service requests; just as at a bank or hospital, staff can take a number on their behalf, after which they may sit comfortably in that area, quietly await their number being called, and go to the corresponding window to handle their business. Second, at a conspicuous spot outside the station, a backdrop board with colors visible at a glance has been installed, to facilitate people gathering there. Even more thoughtful is the help button beside it—no matter who stands there, standing there is equivalent to standing within the station's service area; should they encounter any difficulty, one press of this button, and a staff member will quickly appear before them. What the railway department can solve, it will naturally fulfill with due diligence; what exceeds the scope of its duties, it will also offer suggestions for a solution.

The railway enterprise of New China is as old as the Republic. The high-speed railway enterprise of New China, however, is an undertaking that has developed rapidly only in the past 20 years—to this day the total length of railways already ranks second in the world, while the operating mileage of high-speed railways firmly ranks first in the world, having built the largest high-speed railway network in the world.

The speed of development of China's high-speed railways is something the whole world is far too slow or inferior to catch up with (望尘莫及, wang chen mo ji - "watch, dust, not, reach").

Keeping pace with this speed is the level of China's railway construction—opening roads through mountains, building bridges across waters; certain projects have already become exemplars of the world's level of railway construction.

Yet the railway, especially passenger high-speed rail, is in essence an attribute of the state serving the people; hence, apart from speed, railway workers also devote their hearts and feelings to focusing much attention on the warmth of service. In the past it was said that the green-skinned train was a "mobile society"; from now on, the high-speed train may be called a "mobile big family."

Among those participating in the event was Ding Xiaoping of the People's Liberation Army Publishing House, who had published a prose piece titled "Oh! Dear Train" in the magazine China Railway Literature and Art, in which he recalled several experiences of riding green-skinned trains in past eras; reading it, one cannot help but feel resonance.

I especially like the title of this prose piece of his; for those who retain memories of riding green-skinned trains, that title truly makes one feel warm and intimate. China's territory is vast; in the past, the two lines of ancient poetry "In the fifth watch, dreams return three hundred li; in a single day, thoughts of kin come twelve times an hour" were also fitting for many older people who worked across provinces. Even without a seat ticket, having stood for however many hours to reach the station nearest home, one's heart was still filled with gratitude toward the train.

Now, if a person is in a central province, then, unless his or her home is in a remote area, he or she can basically take a high-speed train that departs in the morning and arrives in the evening to go home.

The change in wording from "train" to "high-speed train" is collateral evidence of the tremendous achievements of China's railway construction.

Among the younger generation, few still call the train a "train"; that would astonish their contemporaries.

They do not even say the two characters "lie che" (train) much.

"High-speed rail" has become their unified way of saying it.

But, dear train, the older generation still harbors deep affection for you to this day!

I believe that someone will surely also record, in the prose genre, their own stories of riding high-speed trains.

Will that person give their prose the title "Oh! Dear High-Speed Train"? Probably they will!

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Three Taboos for Miscellaneous Essays (Reflections on Writing)

By: 李建永

Having edited the miscellaneous essay volume of the Sunbird Literary Annual Selection for five years, I have read a great many miscellaneous essays. Because I have gained a relatively full grasp of first-hand materials, I have thus formed a somewhat superficial understanding of what makes such essays good or bad.

In my view, miscellaneous essays have three taboos. The first taboo is a vulgar title. As the common sayings go, "a good essay is half its title" and "a good title is half the essay" — the meanings are similar, both emphasizing the importance of an article's title. In idle moments I leaf through the collected works and titles of such masters of the miscellaneous essay as Lu Xun, Deng Tuo, and Nie Gannu. Titles like Lu Xun's "Little Random Thoughts," "The Take-ism," "A Record of Ghost-Playing," "The Art of the Second Clown," "On Keeping One's Eyes Open," and "On Deferring 'Fair Play'" — the moment I see the title I want to read on, and over decades I have savored them again and again without exhausting their flavor. A good title looks lively and interesting at a glance, and is also unexpected; it brings a smile at first encounter and yields something new with every reading.

A vulgar title is the kind that is commonplace and unoriginal (屡见不鲜, lǚ jian bu xian - "repeatedly see, not fresh") and unbearably clichéd. Once, browsing in a bookstore, I came across a collection of prose and miscellaneous essays in which titles built on the "de" (的) construction ran through the whole book, accounting for roughly eighty or ninety percent of the total. On seeing such titles, completely lacking in originality (了无新意, liao wu xin yi - "nothing, new, meaning"), one naturally loses one's appetite. If the title does not catch the eye, who would still buy or select the book?

The second taboo is stale allusions. By "stale allusions" I mean not only those allusions or classic works that are well-known and familiar (耳熟能详, er shu neng xiang - "ear, familiar, can, know") and frequently cited, but also writing that indulges in allusion to the point that the essay becomes obscure and hard to understand. Writing a miscellaneous essay does not necessarily require allusion. Works like Lu Xun's "The Warrior and the Fly," Ai Qing's "The Hunter Who Drew Birds," Lin Yutang's "Face and the Rule of Law," Hu Shi's "The Biography of Mr. Almost," and Bing Xin's "What If There Were No Scholars?" go straight to the point without beating around the bush, yet are full of wit and humor (妙趣横生, miao qu heng sheng - "wonderful, interest, sideways, arise") and carry profound meaning. Of course, there are also good miscellaneous essays that use allusion — for instance, Lu Xun's "The Flat Board," Deng Tuo's "The Three Blessings of Huafeng," Li Jianwu's "Three Good Audience Members," Huang Shang's "On Jiao Da," and Qian Zhongshu's "Reading Aesop's Fables." These employ allusions as apt metaphors, transform and elevate them, searching for subtle and exquisite details (寻幽入微, xun you ru wei - "seek, secluded, enter, tiny") and producing unexpected and brilliant effects (翻空出奇, fan kong chu qi - "turn, empty, produce, strange"), thereby carrying poetic feeling up to the azure sky. In writing miscellaneous essays, one may use allusions or not, but the greatest taboo is the "stale allusion."

The third taboo is forced argumentation. The miscellaneous essay is a genre of establishing a thesis, and the dimension and difficulty of writing one lie precisely in establishing and expounding the thesis. First, one must establish the thesis — establish a new thesis, a lofty thesis, a profound thesis, one with independent insight, striving to make the article's viewpoint possess both practical significance and philosophical flavor. Second, one must expound — "all interests converge in the writing, yet never depart from rhetoric and feeling": not only must the reasoning be rigorous, but the language of the reasoning must possess poetic beauty. Yet some miscellaneous essays, first, hold viewpoints that, though "novel," cannot stand up; second, have viewpoints that are passable, but the moment they come to analysis and elaboration, the authors find themselves lacking the strength to do what one intends (力不从心, li bu cong xin - "strength, not, follow, heart") and losing an argument due to lack of logic and words (理屈而词穷, li qu er ci qiong - "reason, yield, and, word, exhausted"). In this way, the essay unavoidably takes on a flavor of forced argumentation and a sense of arguing perversely or using fallacious reasoning (强词夺理, qiang ci duo li - "force, words, seize, reason").

Let me give an example. I once read a miscellaneous essay arguing that Lin Chong's whole life was one of "meticulous calculation." The first example the author used to expound this was that when Lin Chong, from behind, saw Gao Yanei molesting his wife, he rushed up, seized the man by the shoulder, and raised his fist to strike — but then recognized him as the "adopted son" of his immediate superior, Marshal Gao, and his hand went limp. The author then analyzed how Lin Chong "calculated precisely" in this way, yet failed to anticipate that the outcome would be his banishment to Cangzhou, and so on. As a "viewpoint" that can justify itself, the exposition was still fairly clear. But the problem is: when did Lin Chong ever "calculate precisely"? "Leopard Head" was no "actuary"; he was merely gritting his teeth and enduring, wanting to smooth things over and live the life of an ordinary man. This is precisely the element of character that led Lin Chong to be "driven up Mount Liang." In establishing the thesis of a miscellaneous essay, the viewpoint must be upright and able to stand, grasping what is essential — rather than failing to see the big picture by focusing on details (只见树木不见森林, zhi jian shu mu bu jian sen lin - "only, see, tree, wood, not, see, forest"), seizing on one point to the neglect of all else. Otherwise, in order to talk a "new viewpoint" into coherence, one has no choice but to be hard-pressed on all sides, forcing sorrow to compose new verses.

Someone once said that the miscellaneous essay is the "philosophy" of literature. This remark seems directed specifically at Lu Xun's miscellaneous essays, but in fact it also has inspirational and universal significance for the writing of miscellaneous essays in general. The philosophical character of the miscellaneous essay is embodied in the depth of thought and the beauty of exposition. Su Dongpo, the great literary figure of the Northern Song dynasty, put it well: "When language attains the power to express, then writing is inexhaustible in its uses." The writing of miscellaneous essays is the same.

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Dandelion seeds take root

By: 李燕燕

In 2006, Yao Meizi came to this street corner.

Her elder brother and sister-in-law had opened a print shop here two years earlier, right next to the newspaper and magazine stand. The shop was seven or eight square meters, with room for only two computers and two multifunction printers, the remaining space stacked with all kinds of paper. Every day people came in to print, but the young man and woman in the shop spoke in a thick local dialect that the customers could not quite understand, so no one knew where they had actually come from.

It must have been a fairly distant place, people figured. Thinking how hard it must be for them to make a living here, the neighbors all lent a hand. Old Wu at the newspaper stand opened early every day, and while sweeping the area around his own stall with a big broom, he also helped sweep the front of the print shop. When he saw someone holding something to be photocopied and the print shop not yet open, Old Wu would tell the person, "Wait a few more minutes, they'll be here soon." The couple were honest and sincere folk, too; when they went back to their hometown for the holidays and returned, they would often bring some local specialty such as salted fish to give to the neighbors.

It was not until Yao Meizi arrived, speaking fluent standard Mandarin, that the mystery of their hometown was solved. Yao Meizi told Old Wu, "We're from Xiangxiang, Hunan. People from outside can't really understand the dialect spoken in that place."

Yao Meizi said her elder brother and sister-in-law had gone to Chengdu. People like them, she said, had never thought about putting down roots in any particular city, so they drifted about like dandelion seeds, able to settle wherever they landed.

Earlier, Yao Meizi and her elder brother and sister-in-law had all worked as "apprentices" in a university print room. In 2000, her brother and sister-in-law went out on their own, and at that time Yao Meizi was still on the road of "learning the trade." Her mother followed her. Her mother had been disabled since childhood and walked with a limp, but she cooked well and helped out in the kitchen of a small restaurant. In 2002, her mother died in a traffic accident, and with her brother and sister-in-law not around, Yao Meizi was left to make her own way in the world alone.

"Mom loved hot pot and loved watching TV dramas. In all the years since, I've eaten delicious food on her behalf and lived a good life on her behalf. One day, I'll run into her at a street corner in the other world, and then I'll tell her about all the good food I've eaten over the years and the good TV dramas I've watched." Yao Meizi said with a smile.

Although the few of them were just casually chatting, Old Wu, upon hearing these words, found tears streaming from the corners of his eyes without his even realizing it.

Yao Meizi gave the little print shop a fresh new look.

First she had it repainted, then she installed an air conditioner. Old Wu thought the shop was too small and that buying a high-powered fan would be enough. But Yao Meizi said that in Chongqing the summer wind is a hot wind, and no fan would do any good; only an air conditioner could solve the problem. The work at a print shop kept one busy for half a day at a stretch, and if it was too hot, customers could not stay. Next, she sold the big printer and used her savings to replace it with a high-grade color printer. Now she could not only make flyers for hot pot restaurants and Chongqing cuisine eateries, but also produce high-grade promotional brochures or conference reception booklets for large companies. Because the machine was good, Yao Meizi could even take on jobs such as posters, signboards, and light boxes that only large print shops could handle.

Even though the flyers came with design templates, Yao Meizi would still offer her own suggestions for revision — "You see, put the signature dishes in the top row of the flyer, where they catch the eye and are seen at a glance. Put the brightly colored pictures as far forward as possible." These ideas made customers nod again and again, and as they left they would say, "Next time we have something, we'll come back to you." "Great, great!" Yao Meizi's eyes were full of smiles.

The six or seven shops at the street corner had, over the years, changed rapidly and constantly (走马灯一般, zou ma deng yi ban - "walk, horse, lamp, like"), but the print shop stood firm. Now Yao Meizi already has two children; the older one is in elementary school, and the younger one is still in a stroller, babbling as it learns to talk. Her husband tends the shop in another part of the city. She busies herself designing posters on the computer while gently rocking the stroller with her hand. A dandelion seed that once drifted about has slowly put down roots...

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Photo Report

Oil painting Viewing the West Lake from Geling Hill, by Hu Shanyu, in the collection of the National Art Museum of China.

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Picking Wild Grapes

By: 晓 寒

The weather is clear and fine, so I head into the mountains to pick wild grapes.

Early in the morning, I follow the familiar path into the mountains. The great peaks are shrouded in thin mist, the wind is cool, birds call out all around, and the road is carpeted with fallen leaves that feel soft underfoot. Among the leaves on the trees, the yellow ones are yellow, the red ones red. This is the season of ripeness, and the mountains too have ripened, reaching their most beautiful moment.

Crossing several ridges, I come to a small stream, its water crystal clear. On a maple tree by the stream, a wild grape vine climbs upward, winding among the branches. The maple leaves have already been dyed red by autumn frost, and the wild grape's leaves have nearly all fallen as well, with clusters of jet-black wild grapes hanging down from the vine. The wind rustles the maple leaves; red and black, motion and stillness, form a striking contrast.

Birds fly in the distance. They probably have not yet discovered these wild grapes, or perhaps they have noticed them and deliberately left them here, waiting to enjoy them when frost and snow arrive.

I brought no tools of any kind, so I can only climb the tree to pick them. It has been more than 20 years since I last climbed a tree, and after climbing a short stretch I am already panting heavily (气喘吁吁, qi chuan xu xu - "breath, pant, exhausted, gasping"). Once I reach the top and catch my breath, I pick a wild grape and put it in my mouth. With a gentle bite, the juice bursts out—tart, sweet, still the familiar taste.

This is an ancient wild fruit, hidden deep within the Book of Songs from two to three thousand years ago: "Luxuriant and long the kudzu vine, along the river's bank it climbs" and "In the south is a tree with bending boughs, the kudzu vine entwines it." Kudzu vine, that is, the wild grape. Wild grapes favor cool, shady, and moist places, mostly growing in valleys and by watersides, finding a tree or a stretch of rocky cliff and easily climbing up. In April, triangular leaves sprout from the vine, pale green on the front, grayish white on the back, with irregular serrated edges. In June, the flowers bloom—tiny blossoms, pale yellow, carrying a fragrance like osmanthus. Seven or eight days later, the flowers wither and tiny green grapes form; they do not fully ripen until October, turning into jet-black fruit.

I pick the wild grapes and toss cluster after cluster onto the withered yellow cogongrass below the tree. The wild grapes on the cogongrass gradually pile up, like ornaments casually arranged. I brought no basket and no bag, but this does not stump me. I find a few vines nearby, pull them down, and weave a rough basket, lining the bottom with a layer of red maple leaves before filling the basket with wild grapes. I grew up in the mountains and know every single plant and tree (一草一木, yi cao yi mu - "one, grass; one, tree") here. The mountain is a treasure trove; whatever problem one encounters in the mountains, there is always a way to solve it.

Many wild grapes still remain on the vine—I have picked only a small portion, and the rest I leave where they are. If the birds do not come, they will fall in wind and rain. Among the lucky ones, some may sprout new seedlings, climb a tree, and bear fruit again in a few years. Some may eventually be discovered by the birds, and then the birds can enjoy this autumn joy—after all, the birds are the masters of the mountain and more entitled than I to accept this gift from the mountains.

Carrying a basket of wild grapes back along the way, sunlight illuminates the colorful mountains, and the wind holds more warmth than in the morning. Taking a breath, the air is full of the fresh fragrance of trees. I walk slowly along the mountain path, as if walking within a painting.

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Running Toward the Distance

By: 马 辉

They gather in the anchor heads facing the morning glow

The helm wheel traces the river's course

The laden grain holds an entire autumn

Passing now and then the lake surface of their hometown

Sunlight spills across the porthole

The drifting cabin takes on the feel of home

The wind carries reed catkins, and carries the accents of home

They talk of the next leg of the voyage

Like those interlaced fishing nets

They gaze at the long, unbroken shoreline

And break into smiles along with the waves

The lights on the shore stand watch, keeping them company

And also telling of what they once were

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A Thousand-Mile Quest for Egg-Wrapped Splendor (A Gourmand's Corner)

By: 胡 静

Northern Guizhou has no shortage of delicacies, which has produced a crop of picky "foodies." My son is one of them.

With the same Luo family buns, he can tell how the meat filling at the shop below our building differs from that at the one across the street. With crispy pork and mung bean noodles, he can distinguish the thickness of the meat slices, the richness of the soy milk, and the spiciness of the chili at several shops. As for his favorite, egg-wrapped splendor, he can even taste the mood of the vendor uncle: if the flavor is slightly sweet, the uncle is in a good mood; if too much chili is added, the uncle is not in a good mood today. Once, he found the filling in the egg wrap much larger than usual, and even plucked up the courage to ask, "Uncle, is there some happy occasion at your home?" The uncle laughed heartily. From then on, every egg-wrapped splendor made for him was especially large, and the uncle also remembered his habit of not eating scallions. My son, in turn, was especially fond of eating at his shop.

Egg-wrapped splendor is the original creation of the people of Meitan. Inside the golden egg skin are wrapped not only mashed potatoes, but also glutinous rice, sweet potato noodles, rice sheets, ham sausage... The hot pan is greased with oil, the staple ingredients are stir-fried until fragrant and slightly charred, then crimson pickled radish cubes, plump white fish mint, brown crispy pork cracklings, and emerald scallions are added, sprinkled with salt and pepper, and drizzled with a spoonful of the secret sauce. The various colors are shining brilliantly in coordination (交相辉映, jiao xiang hui ying - "intermingle, shine, reflect, glow"), and merely looking at it makes one's mouth water.

The egg-wrapped splendor that comes out of the pan has a golden, slightly crispy egg skin, and looks quite lovely served in a transparent plastic box. With one bite, the thin and chewy egg skin, the soft fragrance of glutinous rice, the fine and dense mashed potatoes, the crisp aroma of the cracklings, the sour crunch of the radish cubes, and the fresh fragrance of the fish mint unfold in layers in the mouth, so delicious that one doesn't even mind burning one's tongue.

The soul of egg-wrapped splendor lies in the sauce, whether salty and fragrant, slightly spicy, or lightly sweet. The shop my son likes has chili that is fragrant but not spicy, which exactly suits his taste for the aroma of chili but fear of its heat, so he eats one every few days without fail.

Sometimes, when my son is doing homework at home, the hawker's cry selling egg-wrapped splendor comes from downstairs. It is as if two fingers are tugging at his stomach; he runs downstairs with a "thump, thump, thump" and can only settle down to study after eating one.

Later, the mobile food cart became a brick-and-mortar shop, and there is one right below our building. The wind often carries the aroma of egg-wrapped splendor straight up to our floor. With it now so convenient to get, from then on my son simply couldn't be happy without an egg wrap.

After my son was admitted to a university in Changsha, my friend who had come from Hunan to work in Guizhou teased him: "If you want to eat egg-wrapped splendor, you'll have to wait until the holidays." His grandmother also said worriedly, "He's still a child. What will he do if he gets homesick?"

Sure enough, after he went to Changsha, every video call my son said he missed home. The egg-wrapped splendor he had loved eating since childhood naturally was not available in Changsha.

I said, if you miss home, just come back. The high-speed rail from Changsha goes directly to Zunyi, arriving in 4 hours. The plane is even faster, arriving in just over an hour. Over his years at university, my son truly turned the thousand-li journey from Changsha to Zunyi into a short trip. Not only did he come back for winter and summer vacations, he also came back for National Day. The first thing he did upon returning was to head straight downstairs to eat egg-wrapped splendor.

Last summer vacation, he had to prepare for exams and didn't come back. On the eve of National Day, I tentatively sent him a WeChat message asking if he was coming back. He said he had to work on his research project during the National Day holiday and wouldn't be returning. My son's words left me feeling astringent inside. I walked to the window and looked at the bustling snack shop downstairs, and for the first time truly realized: the child who used to run downstairs with a "thump, thump, thump" to buy egg-wrapped splendor, and I, were gradually drifting further and further away from our hometown.

On the evening of National Day, as I passed the snack shop and was thinking about buying something to send to him, my phone rang — it was a video call request from my son.

"Mom, look!" He turned the camera around and aimed it at the plastic box in his hand, and in the box was exactly egg-wrapped splendor, still steaming hot.

"It took my classmates and me an entire afternoon to find it." He turned the camera toward what was behind him: behind him was a night market, crowded with people, and on the sign beneath the brilliant colored lights were written the four big characters "Egg-Wrapped Splendor."

"I asked the boss, and he went specially to Meitan to learn how to make it. Even the sauce is shipped directly from Zunyi." My son said as he took a big bite, burning his mouth, and the way he puffed out air to cool it was exactly the same as when he was little.

Behind him, the iron pan sizzled, and sheets of egg skin were spread across the bottom of the pan. In a daze, I could no longer tell whether it was the night market in Changsha or the snack shop in Meitan.

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