Summary: The collection of Comrade Xi Jinping's writings "On Poverty Reduction and Alleviation," compiled by the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee, was recently published by the Central Party Literature Press and distributed nationwide. The thematic collection includes 55 important writings by Comrade Xi Jinping on poverty reduction and alleviation, some of which are published publicly for the first time. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core organized and launched an impressive and grand in scale battle against poverty and achieved a complete victory, accomplishing the arduous task of eliminating absolute poverty. Xi Jinping's series of important expositions on poverty reduction and alleviation are the theoretical crystallization of China's battle against poverty and the latest achievement in the Sinicization of Marxist anti-poverty theory. They are of very important guiding significance for consolidating and expanding the achievements of the battle against poverty, comprehensively advancing rural revitalization, and promoting the modernization of common prosperity for all the people.
Summary: The Cyberspace Administration of China is advancing network rule-of-law construction through improved legislation, law enforcement, and judicial protection. Recent efforts include soliciting public comments on draft regulations for ensuring the healthy and safe use of the internet by minors and a draft anti-cyberbullying law. The article notes that the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes improving regulations on internet content management and platform governance to address online rumors and cyberbullying. Additionally, departments are conducting "Qinglang" special actions to rectify chaos in artificial intelligence applications, livestreaming, and personal information protection. An official from the Central Cyberspace Administration of China stated that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary to strengthen overall coordination and enhance the effectiveness of network rule-of-law work.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang signed a State Council order promulgating revised Regulations on the Administration of Foundations, effective January 1, 2027. The Regulations, comprising 8 chapters and 79 articles, aim to strengthen foundation credibility and promote sound development. Key revisions include clarifying Party leadership and principles for public welfare activities, improving registration and internal governance mechanisms, and regulating fundraising and property management. The Regulations also strengthen information disclosure, industry self-discipline, and comprehensive supervision among registration authorities and supervisory units.
Summary: The article reports on Ningxia's efforts to balance internal strength with external reach in its opening-up strategy, following General Secretary Xi Jinping's June 2024 requirement to "adhere to combining opening up to the outside world with opening up within the country." It highlights the 47th World Congress of Vine and Wine held in Yinchuan, where OIV Director General John Barker praised China's wines, and notes that 9 of the 19 Chinese product brands in the global top 100 came from Ningxia. The piece details Ningxia's expanding trade channels—including rail-sea intermodal transport, cross-border e-commerce, and TIR operations—despite the region bordering no country and having no coastline, with goods trade reaching 19.98 billion yuan in the first three quarters of this year. It also covers the growth of distinctive industries such as wine grapes, wolfberry, and quality seeds, which have gained international certifications and market access, alongside cultural exchanges like the Arabic version of "Minning Town" broadcast in 12 Arab countries. The article concludes by emphasizing Ningxia's role in sharing poverty alleviation and desertification control experience globally, with over 600 foreign trainees from more than 60 countries learning these technologies this year.
Summary: Zhao Leji, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, met in Beijing with a delegation of Colombian multi-party officials led by Speaker of the House of Representatives Jaime Raúl Salamanca. Zhao stated that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China-Colombia relations have maintained a sound momentum of development, and China is willing to maintain high-level exchanges, enhance understanding and mutual trust, and expand practical cooperation in areas such as jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative. He also briefed on the situation of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. Salamanca thanked China for its selfless assistance to Colombia's earthquake relief efforts, saying that strengthening cooperation with China is the common will of Colombia that transcends partisan differences, and that Colombia firmly supports the one-China principle. The Colombian Congress is willing to strengthen exchanges with China's NPC to help promote the development of bilateral relations.
Summary: Wang Huning, chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, met in Beijing with Bousady, vice chairman of the Lao Front for National Construction Central Committee. Wang stated that Xi Jinping and Thongloun reached important consensus on building a China-Laos community with a shared future of the new era, and that China is willing to work with Laos under the strategic guidance of the two parties' and countries' top leaders. He also briefed on the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee. Bousady congratulated the session's success, praised China's modernization achievements, and expressed Laos's willingness to implement the leaders' consensus and deepen cooperation. Wang Dongfeng and others attended the meeting.
Summary: Quzhou City in Zhejiang Province has advanced its "carbon account" system, using IoT and big data to track emissions from individual behaviors to enterprise operations, with the People's Hospital of Kecheng District serving as a key example. The hospital, under a "comprehensive energy trusteeship model" with Xin'an Energy, achieved an 8.22% energy-saving rate and 506.07 tons of carbon reduction in the first three quarters of this year through renovations like replacing a steam boiler with an air-source heat pump. Zhu Huiwu, Party Secretary of the hospital, highlighted the pre-renovation boiler's high emissions, while Zheng Kun of Xin'an Energy explained the benefit-sharing arrangement based on pre-renovation baselines. The article cites General Secretary Xi Jinping's September 2023 call for green transformation and notes that 1,098 public institutions and 95% of residents aged 18 and above in Quzhou have established carbon accounts, with over 60,000 tons of recorded emission reductions. It concludes by framing these efforts as implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization to achieve the "dual carbon" goals.
Summary: According to customs statistics, in the first 10 months of 2026, China's total value of goods trade imports and exports reached 44.81 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20%, with exports up 17.6% and imports up 23.6%. In October alone, the total value was 4.87 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31.2%. By trading partner, trade with ASEAN rose 24.2% to 7.68 trillion yuan, with the EU rose 8.5% to 5.29 trillion yuan, and combined imports and exports with countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative totaled 22.88 trillion yuan, an increase of 18.5%. By foreign trade entity, private enterprises saw imports and exports of 25.46 trillion yuan, up 20.1%, while foreign-invested enterprises recorded 13.15 trillion yuan, up 20.4%. On the export side, mechanical and electrical products totaled 16.81 trillion yuan, up 25.2%, while on the import side, mechanical and electrical products rose 35% to 8.17 trillion yuan and agricultural products increased 4.6% to 1.29 trillion yuan.
Summary: On November 10, the main offshore bridge of the Xiamen–Kinmen Bridge (Xiamen section) was successfully joined, marking the completion of the main structure of the offshore mainline bridge. The main line of the project is approximately 17.34 kilometers in total length, with the sea-crossing section approximately 14.2 kilometers. Various supporting works of the project are currently being accelerated. The photo was taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wei Peiquan.
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Summary: The book *On Poverty Reduction and Alleviation*, compiled by the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee, features 55 manuscripts by Comrade Xi Jinping covering the period from November 2012 to July 2026. The collection details the strategic implementation of targeted poverty alleviation, the importance of rural revitalization, and the necessity of ensuring that no ethnic group or region is left behind in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. It emphasizes that the modernization of common prosperity is an essential feature of Chinese modernization that distinguishes it from Western modernization. Furthermore, the text highlights China's role as a member of the "Global South" and its commitment to supporting the global development cause to build a just world of common development.
Summary: The article reports on Ningxia's efforts to balance internal strength with external reach in its opening-up strategy, following General Secretary Xi Jinping's June 2024 requirement to "adhere to combining opening up to the outside world with opening up within the country." It highlights the 47th World Congress of Vine and Wine held in Yinchuan, where OIV Director General John Barker praised China's wines, and notes that 9 of the 19 Chinese product brands in the global top 100 came from Ningxia. The piece details Ningxia's expanding trade channels—including rail-sea intermodal transport, cross-border e-commerce, and TIR operations—despite the region bordering no country and having no coastline, with goods trade reaching 19.98 billion yuan in the first three quarters of this year. It also covers the growth of distinctive industries such as wine grapes, wolfberry, and quality seeds, which have gained international certifications and market access, alongside cultural exchanges like the Arabic version of "Minning Town" broadcast in 12 Arab countries. The article concludes by emphasizing Ningxia's role in sharing poverty alleviation and desertification control experience globally, with over 600 foreign trainees from more than 60 countries learning these technologies this year.
Summary: The ninth China International Import Expo concluded in Shanghai on November 10, with intended transaction volume over one year reaching USD 85.45 billion, up 2.3 percent from the previous session, and record numbers of Fortune Global 500 companies and debut exhibits. The article emphasizes that "China Opportunity 2.0" brings both market and innovation dividends, as China firmly advances high-level opening up and promotes economic globalization toward a more open, inclusive, balanced, and win-win direction. It highlights China's role as the world's second-largest import market, with data showing its share of absorbing global exports rose from 3.2 percent in 2000 to 9.2 percent in 2025. The piece features statements from executives of Bayer, IKEA, Ralph Lauren, COFCO, Danfoss, Mercedes-Benz, Henkel, Estée Lauder, Volkswagen, and Nike, all underscoring deepened cooperation and innovation in China. The CIIE is portrayed as a platform that injects certainty and positive energy into the world economy through mutual benefit and win-win outcomes.
Summary: The author, Chinese Ambassador to Australia, reflects on APEC's founding and Australia's role in establishing it in 1989, crediting China's reform and opening up as inspiration. He notes that over 73 percent of Australia's trade is with APEC economies and that Australian officials and public figures value the Asia-Pacific's development prospects, especially China's. The article highlights President Xi Jinping's call to uphold APEC's founding purpose and open regionalism, with Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expected to attend the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in China. It emphasizes China-Australia cooperation in traditional and frontier fields, and mentions Xi's recent reply to 110 young Australian students encouraging bilateral friendship. The piece concludes by urging both countries to work together to build an open, vibrant, resilient, and peaceful Asia-Pacific community.
Summary: Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, held talks with Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanár in Beijing on the 10th. Wang Yi stated that China and Slovakia have become an example of countries of different sizes and systems coexisting amicably, treating each other with equality, and pursuing win-win cooperation, and that China is willing to work with Slovakia to consolidate political mutual trust and contribute to China-Europe relations and world peace. Blanár congratulated the successful convening of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and said Slovakia regards China as an important partner and is willing to expand exchanges and cooperation.
Summary: The Cyberspace Administration of China is advancing network rule-of-law construction through improved legislation, law enforcement, and judicial protection. Recent efforts include soliciting public comments on draft regulations for ensuring the healthy and safe use of the internet by minors and a draft anti-cyberbullying law. The article notes that the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes improving regulations on internet content management and platform governance to address online rumors and cyberbullying. Additionally, departments are conducting "Qinglang" special actions to rectify chaos in artificial intelligence applications, livestreaming, and personal information protection. An official from the Central Cyberspace Administration of China stated that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary to strengthen overall coordination and enhance the effectiveness of network rule-of-law work.
Summary: Quzhou City in Zhejiang Province has advanced its "carbon account" system, using IoT and big data to track emissions from individual behaviors to enterprise operations, with the People's Hospital of Kecheng District serving as a key example. The hospital, under a "comprehensive energy trusteeship model" with Xin'an Energy, achieved an 8.22% energy-saving rate and 506.07 tons of carbon reduction in the first three quarters of this year through renovations like replacing a steam boiler with an air-source heat pump. Zhu Huiwu, Party Secretary of the hospital, highlighted the pre-renovation boiler's high emissions, while Zheng Kun of Xin'an Energy explained the benefit-sharing arrangement based on pre-renovation baselines. The article cites General Secretary Xi Jinping's September 2023 call for green transformation and notes that 1,098 public institutions and 95% of residents aged 18 and above in Quzhou have established carbon accounts, with over 60,000 tons of recorded emission reductions. It concludes by framing these efforts as implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization to achieve the "dual carbon" goals.
Summary: Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, held a telephone conversation on November 10 at the request of French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot. Wang Yi stated that China and France, as founding members of the United Nations and permanent members of the Security Council, should fulfill their special responsibilities and safeguard the international system centered on the United Nations. He emphasized implementing the consensus of the two heads of state, consolidating political mutual trust, and hoped the French side would adhere to the one-China principle with concrete actions. Wang Yi noted that for China and Europe, cooperation brings mutual benefit while conflict causes mutual harm, and expected the European side to move towards each other in a spirit of cooperation to build a stable and balanced China-EU key trade partnership. Barrot affirmed France's adherence to the one-China policy, expressed willingness to maintain high-level interactions and deepen strategic mutual trust, and the two sides exchanged views on issues including the election of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Summary: This commentary argues that Japan, under Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae, is paying an increasingly heavy economic and social price for its "remilitarization," as expanding defense spending squeezes resources for people's livelihood. It notes that Takaichi's pledge to address high prices has yielded little result, while Japan's fiscal space narrows and its GDP ranking is projected to fall to sixth place by 2027. The article criticizes Japan's military expansion, including defense spending reaching 2 percent of GDP, the revision of the "Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment," and signals on nuclear armament. It also condemns Takaichi's erroneous remarks on Taiwan, which have plunged Sino-Japanese relations into a stalemate, and her offerings to Yasukuni Shrine. The authors conclude that Japan's stubborn push for "remilitarization" is overdrawing the country's future, and ultimately Japan's own peace and development will pay the price.
Summary: The China-Turkey Green Development Business Forum was held in Istanbul on November 9, co-hosted by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey, with nearly 300 representatives from both countries' political and business communities in attendance. Ren Hongbin, President of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, stated that China-Turkey economic and trade cooperation has maintained sound development under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, and that green development is one of the most promising areas of bilateral cooperation. Turkish Vice President Yılmaz said that Turkey attaches great importance to developing relations with China and hopes to promote a more balanced and sustainable development of bilateral economic relations. He welcomed more Chinese enterprises to invest in Turkey and expressed willingness to strengthen alignment of the "Middle Corridor" plan with the Belt and Road Initiative. The forum also included thematic discussions on green energy and low-carbon industrial chains, as well as industry-specific business matchmaking sessions.
Summary: Wang Dongfeng, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the CPPCC National Committee, held talks in Beijing with Bousady, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Lao Front for National Construction. The two sides exchanged views on implementing the important consensus of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, deepening cooperation and exchanges, and making progress more profound and substantive in building the China-Laos community with a shared future. Wang Dongfeng also briefed on the situation of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Summary: The ninth Paris Peace Forum opened in Paris on November 10 under the theme "From Sovereignty to Cooperation," with over 350 participants set to discuss topics including "Peace and Geopolitics," "Development," and "Emerging Technologies." UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered a video address, stating that sovereign equality is a core principle of the UN Charter and that cooperation helps countries better safeguard their sovereignty, calling on all parties to build a multipolar world on the basis of international law. The organizers said that amid pressures on multilateral mechanisms and international law, countries must strengthen cooperation while safeguarding sovereignty to address global challenges in security, climate, technology, and development.
Summary: Liu Haixing, Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, met separately in Beijing with Moussa, General Secretary of the Congolese Labour Party, and Massimo D'Alema, former Prime Minister of Italy. They exchanged views on implementing the consensus of leaders of both sides, strengthening exchanges and cooperation, and promoting the development of China-Africa and China-Europe relations.
Summary: Central Publicity Group members delivered presentations on the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee at the NPC Standing Committee, the State Council General Office, the CPPCC National Committee, and in Guangxi, Sichuan, and Ningxia. Li Hongzhong, Wu Zhenglong, Mu Hong, Zhang Yuzhuo, Xie Chuntao, and Zhou Xinqun each gave systematic interpretations, emphasizing the need to deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, resolutely achieve the Two Upholds, and unswervingly advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. The speakers stressed studying and implementing Xi Jinping's thought on Party building and the Plenary Session's *Decision* as major political tasks. Several speakers also engaged in interactive exchanges with grassroots Party members, cadres, and the masses at local sites. The report meetings were attended by responsible comrades and Party members of the respective organs.
Summary: Zhang Guoqing, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, conducted research in Shanghai from the 9th to the 10th, emphasizing the need to implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and advance the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation. He visited enterprises in instrumentation and medical equipment, stressing the need to empower industrial innovation with high-quality scientific and technological supply and drive innovation through industrial demand for high-end, green, and intelligent development. He called for strengthening basic research, improving mechanisms for transforming innovation achievements, and fostering a sound innovation ecosystem, including deepening integrated innovation among large, medium, and small enterprises. He also highlighted the importance of promoting consumption upgrading, advancing major projects through the "six networks," deepening the unified national market, and addressing grassroots difficulties such as arrears owed to enterprises and stabilizing employment.
Summary: The Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and seven other central departments jointly issued a notice on supporting physical bookstores in serving nationwide reading, following the implementation of the "Regulations on Promoting Nationwide Reading" and tasks from the 2026 "Report on the Work of the Government." The notice calls for improving bookstore supply quality, implementing a "Thousand Store Managers" growth and training plan, promoting Xinhua Bookstores to update their networks, and encouraging differentiated development of private bookstores. It also emphasizes cultivating distinctive reading spaces, integrating bookstores into urban renewal and the city's 15-minute convenient living circle, and supporting their participation in public cultural services and library distribution. Financial support and guidance should be strengthened, with local finances supporting bookstores in government-purchased service projects and central finances reflecting performance-based rewards, while measures like people-benefiting book purchase vouchers and cost reductions are encouraged. All localities and relevant departments are urged to establish a collaborative promotion working mechanism and foster a societal atmosphere supporting bookstore development and nationwide reading.
Summary: The article reports on the revival of physical bookstores in China, citing the reopening of Xiaofeng Bookstore in Fuzhou and noting that "supporting the development of physical bookstores" was written into the Government Work Report for the first time this year. It details a new Notice from the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee that outlines measures to improve bookstore supply, cultivate distinctive reading spaces, and strengthen fiscal support. Examples include Qingyuan Bookstore's selective book curation, China Bookstore's focus on rare editions, and Shanghai's University Road clustering of themed bookstores. The piece also highlights cost-reduction efforts, such as rent concessions from COFCO Group and government subsidies, alongside digital initiatives like Amap's "City Book Fragrance Map" to guide readers to stores. The article concludes that these innovations help bookstores serve nationwide reading and radiate new vitality.
Summary: The All-China Journalists Association held its 199th News Tea on November 10, inviting Han Qiang, former dean of the School of Marxism at Beijing Foreign Studies University, to discuss "Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building and the Party's Theoretical Innovation" with journalists stationed in Beijing, foreign diplomats, and media reporters from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. Han Qiang interpreted the strategic arrangements for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, introduced the achievements and experience of Party building, and explained the Party's theoretical innovation and commitment to its original aspiration, following the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party. He also engaged in a question-and-answer interaction with the attending journalists.
Summary: The National Development and Reform Commission held a press conference on November 10 to outline plans for education, elderly care, and childcare under the 15th Five-Year Plan. Huang Weiru, Deputy Director General of the Department of Social Development, said work will focus on "three adaptations" to respond to changes in the school-age population, including optimizing preschool and compulsory education resources, expanding senior high school and higher education places, and safeguarding educational equity for urban and rural groups. The commission has allocated 14 billion yuan this year for elderly care and childcare facilities, and the recently issued "Implementation Plan for Building the 'Elderly and Young' Service System" proposes 13 measures to improve inclusive services. Huang emphasized strengthening community- and home-based service scenarios, such as daytime care and door-to-door assistance, while also supporting medical integration and hospital ward renovations. The commission has arranged about 20 billion yuan for county-level medical communities and over 20 billion yuan for ward conversions to improve hospitalization conditions.
Summary: The article highlights Mianyang Science and Technology City in Sichuan as a model of integrating scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, where researchers develop laser and photonics technologies to break foreign monopolies. It emphasizes the role of "prospectors" and "translators"—talent who understand both technology and the market—in bridging gaps among innovation actors, with local cadres and technology managers facilitating transformation. The piece cites examples like Mianyang's Photonics Technology Research Institute and its cultivation of technology managers serving over 500 enterprises, alongside Zhejiang and Anhui reforms promoting talent exchanges and industry-specific solutions. It references the recent *Opinions on Deepening the Integration of Scientific and Technological Innovation and Industrial Innovation* issued by the CPC Central Committee and State Council, which calls for improving innovation incentive policies. The commentary concludes that loosening reins for pathfinders and providing safety nets, such as liability exemptions in Guangdong, will enable more people to contribute to high-quality development.
Summary: The article discusses the formal implementation of China's nationally unified data property rights registration system, which aims to resolve ownership ambiguities for data as a production factor. It notes that in 2025, China's data industry reached 6.78 trillion yuan, with 482,000 data enterprises, and highlights the system's role in enabling "registration in one place, mutual recognition nationwide" to reduce transaction costs and boost data flow. The piece cites legal precedents, including Supreme People's Court guiding cases and a Fuzhou court ruling on AI plagiarism, to show how registration certificates can serve as evidence in disputes. It also mentions applications like Shenzhen Airlines converting maintenance data into digital assets and acknowledges remaining challenges in refining review standards. The commentary concludes that clear property rights are essential for the digital economy's healthy, rule-of-law-based development.
Summary: The article, a Jintai essay, argues that parental overprotection and meticulous care often intensify children's anxiety, and that the problem lies in the family's emotional system rather than the child alone. It advocates for "listening" as the key to untying this knot, which means truly hearing the child's underlying meaning and also discerning whether the anxiety belongs to the parent. The piece warns that avoidance nourishes anxiety, urging parents to shift from "comforter of anxiety" to "coach facing anxiety" and to lead by example through action. It emphasizes that love without boundaries is deprivation, and that a parent's own growth is essential to lifting the family upward. Ultimately, listening is presented as a family's deep healing, fostering a relaxed atmosphere that nourishes children more than meticulous care.
Summary: The Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Office of the National Working Commission on Aging, and the China National Committee on Aging issued a notice proposing visitation and care services for elderly people facing special difficulties, including those living alone, empty-nest elderly, left-behind elderly, and disabled elderly. It specifies that elderly people with higher safety risks will be treated as key targets, with at least one visit every two weeks, and that by the end of 2028, visitation and care services will be carried out on a regular basis with a routine, long-term mechanism comprehensively established. The article includes a poem by Gao Shilin emphasizing the warmth of these diligent visits and the long-term mechanism.
Summary: The article argues that this year's "Double 11" reflects a shift in consumption patterns, not a downgrade, citing consecutive growth in online sales from 2023 to 2025 and faster growth in service retail sales. It notes that as China's per capita GDP approaches 14,000 US dollars, consumption is transitioning from goods to services and experiences, aligning with a "structural turning point." The piece highlights that consumers are reallocating budgets toward quality-of-life purchases, such as travel and performances, while becoming more rational and pursuing "quality-price ratio" and "heart-price ratio." It concludes that the "Double 11 effect" has become more universal and ordinary, diluted by everyday promotional scenarios, reflecting a profound consumption migration rather than making do.
Summary: The article reflects on the continuity of Chinese civilization, as exemplified by the oracle bone inscriptions at the Yinxu Museum in Anyang, Henan. It cites General Secretary Xi Jinping’s remark that these inscriptions preserve 3,000-year-old writing, advancing China’s documented history by about 1,000 years. The piece highlights how the characters for "sun," "moon," "mountain," and "water" remain recognizable today, underscoring that Chinese writing is the only ancient system still in use. It describes modern efforts to integrate this heritage, such as oracle bone inscription calisthenics in schools, book houses, and a digital intelligent agent released at the museum. The author concludes that continuity is not rigid inheritance but innovation-driven growth, allowing civilization to endure and thrive in the new era.
Summary: The article is a notice from a Chinese newspaper page inviting reader contributions to its columns, including "Everyone's Discussion," "Warm News, Hot Commentary," "China's Path, China's Dream," and "Letters." It requests that contributors refrain from submitting the same piece to multiple outlets. Submissions should be sent to the provided email address, with the column name indicated.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of strictly implementing democratic centralism as the fundamental organizational principle and leadership system of the Communist Party of China. Drawing on the Decision adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, the text asserts that upholding democratic centralism is essential for full and rigorous self-governance and for advancing Chinese modernization. It highlights the need to safeguard the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized, unified leadership while simultaneously improving the quality of intra-Party democracy. Furthermore, the article calls for regulating the exercise of power by "top leaders" and ensuring that collective leadership is maintained through strict adherence to decision-making and deliberation rules. Leading cadres at all levels are urged to strengthen theoretical study, improve institutional mechanisms, and maintain strict supervision to ensure effective implementation.
Summary: Hong Kong held a series of events marking the 160th anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's birth, including an exhibition from November 2 to 7 featuring historical photographs, manuscripts, and physical materials from eight memorial institutions. Students and members of the public expressed that the exhibits deepened their sense of patriotic spirit and commitment to national rejuvenation. Chan Kwok-ki, Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, said the exhibition strengthens national identity and cohesion among Hong Kong citizens and Chinese people at home and abroad. Cheuk Wing-hing, Deputy Chief Secretary for Administration, noted the SAR government's first five-year plan proposes deepening patriotic, national, and national security education, with the seminar as a concrete practice. Sun Wei-yung, a deputy to the National People's Congress and great-grandnephew of Sun Yat-sen, urged drawing historical wisdom and striving to write a new chapter for Hong Kong.
Summary: Chaoyang Primary School in Beibei District, Chongqing, held a labor practice activity on November 9 titled "Growing Together with the Wheat Seedlings," during which children, aided by local farmers, experienced farming and developed an awareness of cherishing food. The accompanying photo shows the children observing the wheat seedlings, credited to Qin Tingfu (Image China).
Summary: Five consolation teams formed by the National Office of Double Support and the China Patriotic Support-the-Army Promotion Association recently visited 35 veteran Red Army soldiers living in their hometowns and Red Army personnel separated from their units across Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Fujian, and Sichuan. The teams talked face to face with the elderly and their families, inquiring about their living conditions and making the promotion of solutions to urgent, difficult, anxious, and longing concerns the top priority of their visits. A team member said that visits have itineraries but concern has no end point, and that respect and care must be placed in ordinary days so that the original aspiration of serving the people is passed on from one generation to the next.
Summary: The China Customs Working Committee held in Beijing the "Silver Hair Embodies Original Aspiration, Passing the Torch to Guard Growth" — 2026 National Caring for the Next Generation "Most Beautiful Five Elders" Advanced Deeds Release Event, collectively releasing the advanced deeds of 15 honorees including Zhang Zhendong. All 15 honorees come from the grassroots front line, selected through layer-by-layer recommendation by various localities and selecting the best from among the best. Their deeds include carrying forward the red bloodline, practicing the Lei Feng spirit, caring for left-behind and migrant children, helping wayward young people turn over a new leaf, and aiding local prosperity through technical problem-solving. The event described their actions as a vivid portrayal of the "Five Elders" spirit in the new era, demonstrating their original aspiration and responsibility in educating people for the Party and cultivating talent for the country. The China Customs Working Committee has issued a notice calling on committees at all levels to organize advanced models to enter government organs, schools, communities, villages, and red education bases to guide young people to listen to and follow the Party.
Summary: The State Administration for Market Regulation (Standardization Administration of China) recently approved and issued three mandatory national standards in the fire protection field, covering product supervision, rescue equipment, and access route assurance. These standards were organized for formulation and revision by the National Fire and Rescue Administration. The "Rules for On-Site Inspection and Determination of Fire Products" was upgraded from an industry standard to a mandatory national standard, establishing a three-tier determination system. "Fire Trucks — Part 12: Aerial Ladder Fire Trucks" adds the new category of aerial demolition fire trucks to address high-rise firefighting needs. The "Guidelines for the Installation and Management of Fire Truck Access Routes" specifies mandatory requirements for managing the "lifeline passage."
Summary: The 10th Tibet Think Tank International Forum, themed "Digital and Intelligent Practice in Tibet under the New Development Philosophy," and the launch of *Digital and Intelligent Development in Tibet: Sharing and Development* were held in Beijing on November 10. The forum featured keynote speeches and sub-forums on topics including the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, digital empowerment of Tibet's modernization, and cultural inheritance through digital technologies. The book, written by a research group from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, was based on field research in Tibet and released in e-book and audiobook formats. During a story-sharing session, doctors aiding Tibet, returning entrepreneurs, and villager representatives recounted how digital technologies have transformed production and daily life. The event was jointly hosted by the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, the Tibet Think Tank of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the China Social Sciences Press, with participation from domestic and international experts and scholars.
Summary: Officials from the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Civil Affairs answered reporters' questions on the revised Regulations on the Administration of Foundations, which were promulgated by Premier Li Qiang and take effect on January 1, 2027. The revision addresses new challenges such as unsound internal governance and insufficiently standardized activities, following a problem-oriented approach that balances support and regulation. The Regulations strengthen credibility through transparency requirements, bans on benefit transfers to donors, a dedicated information disclosure chapter, and increased penalties. They also refine registration procedures, including direct registration for foundations in fields like aiding the vulnerable and disaster relief, and improve internal governance by clarifying responsibilities and prohibitions on conflicts of interest. Implementation will involve publicity, supporting system revisions, and enhanced supervision by civil affairs departments.
Summary: At the 2026 Annual Meeting of the China Newspaper Supplement Research Association in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, over 180 supplement workers from more than 100 media outlets discussed how to run supplements with vitality and charm under new technological conditions. Cui Shixin, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the All-China Journalists Association, said running the supplement well is a deep-cultivation project of cultural construction and public opinion guidance. Xu Lijing, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of People's Daily, said adhering to the principle that the Party newspaper belongs to the Party is the fundamental way of the supplement, and its literary quality, humanistic foundation, and original spirit must not be weakened. Participants emphasized upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, moistening hearts through culture, and leveraging new technologies like artificial intelligence while maintaining authenticity as the bottom-line requirement.
Summary: Four departments jointly issued a notice on improving the safe and rational allocation and use of innovative drugs, focusing on key links and proposing measures on rational allocation, training, use conditions, and management. The notice requires medical institutions at or above the second level to promptly include innovative drugs in their medication catalogs based on capacity and needs. It promotes provincial- and municipal-level hospitals as models and drivers, and mandates regular training on medication knowledge and insurance payment policies. It also calls for compiling expert consensus and incorporating evidence-based drugs into clinical guidelines, while improving support measures and optimizing the policy environment for innovative drug use.
Summary: China Construction Bank Guangdong Provincial Branch is supporting development in old revolutionary base areas through financial services, including syndicated loans for the Guangdong Yuedian Dapu Power Plant and credit for wind power port infrastructure in Shanwei. The branch has also provided county revitalization loans to local enterprises in Lianzhou, such as a cured meat producer and an Orah mandarin grower, to boost distinctive industries. In education assistance, it has allocated student aid funds and invested in campus upgrades across Dapu County and Renhua County, including a renovated moral education classroom under the "Hope Project · CCB Five Rooms" initiative. The article highlights the branch's role in infrastructure, industry, and rural education to help these areas achieve leapfrog development.
Summary: The article highlights State Post Bureau data showing express delivery business volume in central and western regions exceeded 30 percent from January to September, reaching 31.2 percent, a three-year high, reflecting a clearer pattern of "the east stabilizing, the central region rising, and the west growing fast." It frames express delivery as a "barometer" of economic performance, with the shift indicating industrial gradient transfer and e-commerce expansion westward, as seen in examples like Yunnan coffee and Ningxia agricultural products. The piece argues that smoother parcel flows underscore the potential of the super-large market, with rural retail sales growth outpacing urban by 1.4 percentage points in the first three quarters. It also references the "six networks" initiative in the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, specifically the logistics network construction plan, which aims to transform infrastructure from "establishing points and smooth connections" to "forming chains and networks." The article concludes that more balanced express delivery flows across regions will help central and western areas integrate into the unified national market and boost coordinated regional development.
Summary: The article reports on the Agricultural Bank of China's Anhui Provincial Branch developing industrial finance to serve sci-tech enterprises, including a 100 million yuan credit line for Shenxiang Technology, a new-energy heavy-duty truck firm in Feixi Economic Development Zone. The bank established new-energy vehicle specialty outlets in Hefei and other Anhui clusters, issued implementation opinions with four special policies, and launched a "New-Energy Vehicle Industry Loan" with a bank-guarantee shared risk model. As of end-August, it provided cumulative 120.2 billion yuan in credit to the new-energy vehicle industry chain, covering firms like NIO, Chery, Volkswagen Anhui, and Gotion High-Tech, plus over a thousand SMEs. The branch also offered integrated services to Anhui Chujiang Technology and project loans to Anhui Sanduo Bearing, and promoted exclusive products like the "Sci-Tech Innovation e-Loan" across 20 key industry chains. A branch official said it will continue deepening industrial tracks and empowering Anhui's world-class industrial clusters.
Summary: The article highlights how e-commerce and express delivery logistics have boosted sales of Tianshui Huaniu apples in Gansu Province, with e-commerce operator Xu Lina shipping around 2,000 boxes daily. ZTO Express Tianshui outlet business manager Yang Yahong emphasized that stable prices and fast transport are key to profitability, and the outlet formed a dedicated freight fleet and published pricing standards ahead of the peak season. The national "green channel" policy exempts tolls for fresh agricultural product trucks, lowering long-distance costs. In 2026, the Huaniu apple planting area is approximately 870,000 mu, with an estimated output of about 2.03 million tons and an output value exceeding 6.6 billion yuan. Xu Lina concluded that e-commerce and logistics together bring mountain goods to life and make life more promising.
Summary: State Grid Tianjin Electric Power Company is enhancing power supply service quality by focusing on people-centered development and addressing public issues regarding electricity use. The company is advancing the renovation and takeover of residential communities not directly supplied by the power grid, such as Wolongtan Manor Community in Wuqing District and Binquli Community in Xiqing District. Additionally, the company is promoting a "scan-code electricity use" shared service to provide convenient and safe temporary electricity for scenarios like farmers' markets and street stalls. To further extend service reach, State Grid Tianjin Binhai Company has formed an "electricity-water-gas-heat" service alliance with water supply, gas, and heating units to provide coordinated consultations and safety inspections for residents.
Summary: The article argues that implementing the Party Central Committee's major decisions requires a rigorous organizational system, as outlined in the Decision of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, which lists "building a rigorous organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and powerful in execution" as a strategic task. It emphasizes upholding the Two Upholds as the highest political principle, with General Secretary Xi Jinping's guidance ensuring that Party organizations at all levels act in unity, likened to "the body commanding the arm, like the arm commanding the finger." The piece details the roles of central and state organs as the "first kilometer," local Party committees as the "middle section," and primary-level organizations as the "last kilometer," stressing that democratic centralism and the request-for-instructions and report system are key institutional supports for implementation. It cites examples like the battle against poverty and Beijing's "immediate response to complaints" reform to show how organizational advantages translate into governance effectiveness, and concludes that during the 15th Five-Year Plan, resolute implementation will turn the Party's blueprint into reality.
Summary: The article discusses China's push for international cooperation on AI capacity-building, citing Xi Jinping's call to help Global South countries bridge the digital-intelligence divide. It highlights China's role in the UN General Assembly resolution on AI capacity-building and the 15th Five-Year Plan's provisions for an open global AI ecosystem. The piece outlines four areas of action: consolidating infrastructure support, enhancing talent cultivation, strengthening practical application, and deepening participation in global governance. It emphasizes supporting Global South countries through mechanisms like the Digital Silk Road, BRICS, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, while opposing exclusive technical standards and export control abuses. The author is a researcher at the Belt and Road School of Beijing Normal University.
Summary: General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed the need to strengthen the employment-first orientation in advancing high-quality development, and the 15th Five-Year Plan outline proposes building an employment-friendly development model amid intertwined challenges including demographic shifts, digitalization, and AI's impact on the labor market. The article argues for integrating high-quality full employment into macroeconomic policy, industrial planning, and human capital development, establishing a broad view that "those who manage industry must manage employment, those who promote consumption must promote employment, and those who launch projects must expand employment." To resolve structural employment contradictions, it advocates investing in people and accelerating the shaping of modern human resources, focusing on skilled talent cultivation to address "having jobs but no one to fill them" and "having people but no jobs for them." It calls for strengthening workers' rights protection, improving wage determination and payment guarantee mechanisms, advancing legislation for new forms of employment, and implementing "AI + employment" to improve job matching efficiency. The piece concludes that high-quality full employment must be reflected in workers' sense of gain, happiness, and security, with fairer labor relations and a more complete rights protection system.
Summary: The 2026 "Belt and Road Initiative" Media Cooperation Forum released the "Fuzhou Initiative on Media Cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative," jointly issued by media representatives from different countries and regions. The initiative proposes five cooperation directions: firmly upholding win-win cooperation, consolidating consensus, deepening content collaboration, embracing the wave of technology, and fostering people-to-people bonds. It references President Xi Jinping's 2013 proposal of the Belt and Road Initiative and notes its progress over 13 years into a stage of high-quality development. The initiative calls on media to use platforms like the Belt and Road News Network for joint interviews, personnel exchanges, and co-production of programs, while adapting to new-generation information technologies such as artificial intelligence. It also highlights Fujian's association with the character "Fu" (blessing) as a medium for cross-cultural exchange and urges media to contribute to building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Summary: The 2026 Belt and Road Initiative Media Cooperation Forum was held in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, featuring a themed sharing session where Chinese and foreign guests recounted personal stories illustrating the joint pursuit of the Belt and Road Initiative. Lin Zhanxi, a researcher at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, discussed how Juncao technology, invented in 1986, has been promoted to over 100 countries and regions, helping reduce poverty and increase wealth. Abbas Sayed, an Egyptian tour guide and member of the Egypt-China Friendship Association, described his role as a cultural envoy between Egypt and China, having provided commentary at the Grand Egyptian Museum for the heads of state of China and Egypt. Serik Korzhumbayev, editor-in-chief of Kazakhstan's *Business Newspaper*, emphasized the need for comprehensive understanding of countries beyond statistical data, noting his report received a nomination for the International Communication "Silk Road Award." Márcia Melchior, founder of the Copacabana Fort Orchestra in Brazil, shared how CNOOC Brazil helped sustain the orchestra, which has been recognized as intangible cultural heritage of Rio de Janeiro State, and expressed that China is no longer a distant place but home to familiar faces and close friends.
Summary: The article reports on the 2026 Belt and Road Initiative Media Cooperation Forum held in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, from November 3 to 4, with over 200 foreign representatives from 100 countries attending. It highlights the story of Brazilian Marcia Melchior, whose Rio de Janeiro orchestra received Chinese support, illustrating people-to-people connectivity under the Belt and Road Initiative. The piece cites President Xi Jinping's statement that "People-to-people connectivity is an important part of international cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative," and features examples such as juncao technology in South Africa, a Luban Workshop in Thailand, and veterinary training in Ethiopia. It emphasizes that media cooperation can build consensus and accumulate strength for common development by disseminating practical outcomes and promoting mutual learning. The article concludes by noting President Xi Jinping and Sultan Haitham of Oman witnessed the signing of cooperation documents, and calls for turning mutual respect into common action in building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Summary: The 2026 "Belt and Road" Regional Cooperation Forum, a sub-forum of the 2026 "Belt and Road" Media Cooperation Forum, was held in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, to deepen regional cooperation and advance high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. Khalid Al-Orabi of Oman's Muscat Media Group said the Belt and Road Initiative is genuine and substantial action benefiting people of all countries. The forum shared cases of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits, including the "Maritime Silk Road" logistics brand, PetroChina's oil and gas operations, and Yili Group's localized supply chains. Guo Yunsheng of CNNC (Fujian) Electric Power Services Co., Ltd. described how Fuqing Nuclear Power's expert team completed a major overhaul of the "Hualong One" reactor in Pakistan, leaving behind standards and safety concepts. Wang Zunlong of Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group detailed the company's boat-fruited sterculia seed seedling base in Laos, aiming to build sustainable local industrial capability.
Summary: The 12th ASEAN+3 Media Cooperation Seminar, co-hosted by People's Daily and the People's Government of Fujian Province, was held in Fuzhou on November 4 under the theme "Open Cooperation, Shared Development," gathering over 120 representatives from 47 media outlets and institutions across 16 countries. A relevant official from People's Daily said regional cooperation faces both opportunities and challenges, and the media must contemplate how to use openness to ease development difficulties and cooperation to gather momentum for win-win outcomes. Kao Kim Hourn, Secretary-General of the ASEAN Secretariat, said the media help people understand the opportunities cooperation brings, while Li Jing, Deputy Secretary-General of the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat, stressed the media's irreplaceable role in enhancing understanding and building consensus. Participants discussed topics including deepening economic and trade cooperation, seizing digital opportunities, and promoting mutual learning among civilizations, with Choi Hyun-kyu of South Korea's NewsPim and Ma La Dan of Myanmar's Vidiya Media emphasizing two-way cultural exchange and responsible media practices. The seminar, held annually since 2007, aims to tell the story of mutually beneficial regional cooperation and bring peoples closer together.
Summary: The 2026 Silk Road Civilization Development Forum, a sub-forum of the "Belt and Road" Media Cooperation Forum, was held in Fuzhou on November 4, gathering Chinese and foreign media, government, research, and business representatives. Jiang Bo of Wuhan University used underwater archaeology, including the "Nanhai No. 1" shipwreck, to illustrate civilizational exchange along the Maritime Silk Road. Xu Tao of the Development Research Center of the State Council said over 2,000 years of Silk Road connectivity laid an irreplaceable historical foundation for people-to-people Belt and Road cooperation. Lai Jiangnan of China National Nuclear Corporation summarized the path as hard, soft, and heart-to-heart connectivity, citing projects like the Timor-Leste power grid and Pakistan's "Hualong One." Media representatives from Hungary, Uruguay, Cuba, France, and Denmark spoke, with Danish journalist Jesper Skyl emphasizing that the most important bridges are built of trust and friendship, and guests agreed to deepen cooperation and convey friendship through practical action.
Summary: An exhibition on the achievements of jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative was recently held in Fuzhou, Fujian, featuring thematic sections that review the development history of the Belt and Road Media Cooperation Forum and showcase exchanges between Chinese and foreign media. The forum, founded in 2014, has provided a high-end platform for dialogue among media, enterprises, and institutions from participating countries, with 327 media outlets from 120 countries now part of the Belt and Road News Network. Zheng Quanzhi, a member of the editorial board of Thailand's "Manager Online" website, expressed hope that the platform would enhance friendship and cultural understanding between Thai and Chinese peoples. The exhibition also highlights practical cases from provinces, state-owned enterprises, and private firms in advancing high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, including infrastructure, green development, and digital economy projects. Fujian's role as a Maritime Silk Road starting point is emphasized, alongside a media imaging technology experience area.
Summary: The 8th "Dongfeng Dream Car" International Youth Automobile Creative Design Competition held its final and award ceremony in Wuhan on November 4, with 220 attendees witnessing the showdown among three finalist teams. The competition, themed "A Young Person's First Dream Car," ran for seven months, drew participation from 76 universities across 9 countries and regions, and collected 368 entries. Dongfeng eπ Automobile Technology Company participated deeply and provided the Dongfeng eπ 007 as the exclusive prize for the champion team. The top three designs—*Borrowing the East Wind*, *Tracing the Boundary*, and *Ether*—were highlighted for their creative responses to young people's expectations for a dream car. The company delivered the keys to the actual eπ 007 to the champion team, and Dongfeng Automobile Group, the Dongfeng Public Welfare Foundation, and eπ Technology pledged to continue supporting youth innovation and talent growth.
Summary: President Xi Jinping promulgated the Law of the People's Republic of China on Antarctic Activities and Environmental Protection, adopted at the 25th Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress on November 6, 2026, effective January 1, 2027. The law regulates Antarctic activities by Chinese citizens, legal persons, and unincorporated organizations, as well as foreign entities organizing activities from Chinese territory, requiring permits for expeditions, tourism, and shipping. It prohibits military measures and mineral resource activities except for scientific research, and mandates environmental impact assessments, waste management, and protection of Antarctic animals, plants, and historic sites. The law establishes a permit system, inspection and observation mechanisms under the Antarctic Treaty system, and legal liabilities including fines and permit bans for violations. It also asserts Chinese jurisdiction over disputes and acts by Chinese inspectors, observers, and checkers in Antarctica.
Summary: Zhang Jianzhong, Chairman and CEO of Moore Threads, said that AI empowering all walks of life has become a reality, driving intelligent upgrading of traditional industries and creating new economic growth points. He emphasized that computing power is the foundational element of AI and that core key technologies cannot be bought, so the company chose the more difficult path of developing full-function GPUs. Moore Threads has adopted a strategy of rapid progress through incremental improvements, iterating one chip per year and building a developer ecosystem to support the digital-intelligent transformation of various industries. Zhang noted that competition in computing power has shifted to systemic breakthroughs in large-scale cluster capabilities, with customers demanding better software-hardware synergy and ecosystem maturity. Looking toward the 15th Five-Year Plan, he said the company will build a super-large-scale intelligent computing center cluster of 100,000 cards to contribute to high-level self-reliance in science and technology.
Summary: The Office of the Leading Group for Coordinated Promotion of Building a Strong Quality Country under the State Council, together with relevant member units, formed four quality inspection teams and launched the second batch of quality inspection work for 2026. The teams have stationed themselves in Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Sichuan and other provinces, focusing on the implementation of Party Central Committee and State Council decisions on quality work, quality responsibilities, and departmental synergy. They will carry out spot checks around key fields, key products, and key behaviors to address quality problems and hidden dangers. The goal is to resolve prominent quality issues of social concern and better serve high-quality economic and social development and the people's needs for a high-quality life.
Summary: The State Council has promulgated revised Regulations on the Administration of Foundations, adopted at its executive meeting on September 11, 2026, and effective January 1, 2027. The regulations stipulate that foundation work adheres to the Party's leadership, with Party organizations to be established in foundations, and set tiered minimum registered capital requirements ranging from RMB 2 million to RMB 20 million. They detail rules on establishment, organizational structure, property management, information disclosure, and supervision, including prohibitions on certain individuals serving as promoters or officers and restrictions on related-party transactions. The regulations also specify legal liabilities for violations, including fines, suspension of activities, and revocation of registration certificates.
Summary: The State Council has promulgated revised Regulations on the Administration of Foundations, adopted at its executive meeting on September 11, 2026, and effective January 1, 2027. The regulations stipulate that foundation work adheres to the Party's leadership, with Party organizations to be established in foundations, and set tiered minimum registered capital requirements ranging from RMB 2 million to RMB 20 million. They detail rules on establishment, organizational structure, property management, information disclosure, and supervision, including prohibitions on certain individuals serving as promoters or officers and restrictions on related-party transactions. The regulations also specify legal liabilities for violations, including fines, suspension of activities, and revocation of registration certificates.
Summary: The article reports on Nanchang's Donghu District's efforts to integrate commerce, culture, tourism, sports, and health to revitalize the old city. It highlights the district's use of historical landmarks like the Pavilion of Prince Teng and Bayi Square to boost consumption, citing projects such as the "Pavilion of Prince Teng Feast" theater and the Donghu Yiku creative park. The district has upgraded commercial streets and venues, contributing 8% of total retail sales with less than 0.8% of the city's land area, and hosted events like the Nanchang International Marathon. A supportive business environment has grown market entities from 28,626 to 42,497 during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. Looking ahead, Donghu District plans to implement industrial reshaping and urban renewal actions to build a quality consumption highland in the provincial capital.
Summary: The article reports on Yuhang District, Hangzhou, accelerating construction of the New Center Central Axis to attract and retain young people. At a recent partner recruitment conference, Yuhang District stated its goal is to build a city for young people that they are willing to stay in. The district has seen over 210,000 people flow in over five years, lowering the average age in the core area from 42 to 32. The New Center Central Axis includes 66 projects with planned investment exceeding 100 billion yuan, with partners such as vivo, ByteDance, and Alibaba contributing to commercial, cultural, and sports venues. Yuhang District released a "city partner" recruitment plan for four sectors, aiming to build a 100-billion-yuan AI industry alliance and a dual-ten-billion-yuan commercial circle.
Summary: On November 10, the Chinese and U.S. militaries held a ceremony at the Jianchuan Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan, to transfer the remains of U.S. military personnel, marking the second such homecoming at the museum following 2015. The Chinese side handed over remains of American pilots who aided China's resistance against Japan and were discovered along the "Hump Route," with China expressing willingness to continue pragmatic cooperation with the U.S. side in this field to add positive factors to a constructive and stable strategic relationship. A relevant official from the Archives Bureau of the General Office of the Central Military Commission stated that cooperation proceeded under a memorandum of understanding on military archival cooperation between the two countries' defense ministries, a framework tracing back to 2008. In 2024, a joint China-U.S. military investigation team unearthed remains at Xinbai Village in Hengdong, Hunan, later identified as those of Flying Tigers pilot Morton Schell, who was buried in South Carolina in December of the same year. The article highlights the museum's repeated searches in high-altitude snowy mountains over more than two decades, emphasizing the shared history of China and the United States fighting together side by side during World War II and the enduring friendship forged through these efforts.
Summary: NHK aired a program making public Yasukuni Shrine's internal records, revealing the secret decision-making process by which 14 Class-A war criminals were jointly enshrined, with records showing Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare reached a confidential consensus with the shrine as early as 1969. The enshrinement was completed in October 1978 during a change of chief priests, deliberately conducted without public disclosure to evade international pressure. The article criticizes Japanese politicians, including Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae, who has sent offerings five times this year, for using shrine visits to signal historical revisionism and hurt the feelings of Asian victimized countries. It highlights efforts by Japanese media, civic groups, and scholars like constitutional law professor Shimizu Masahiko to counter historical revisionism and restore historical truth. The commentary concludes that right-wing attempts to overturn the verdict on Japan's war of aggression are doomed to fail.
Summary: Zhangjiakou City in Hebei Province is leveraging its abundant wind and solar resources to integrate green electricity with computing power, holding the titles of the largest city for non-hydro renewable energy and a national hub node for the integrated computing power network. As of the end of September, installed wind and solar capacity exceeded 46 million kilowatts, while computing power centers consumed 10.173 billion kilowatt-hours, up 49.77% year-on-year, with multiple enterprises using over 90% green electricity. State Grid Zhangjiakou Power Supply Company formed a "computing power + electricity" task force to track 25 projects under construction and assess medium- and long-term electricity demand. In Huailai County, the Qinhuai Data base is advancing a green electricity direct-connection project and deployed the industry's first SST-based intelligent DC power supply solution, achieving 98.5% efficiency and supporting grid stability. Zhangjiakou is also accelerating four approved green electricity direct-connection projects and refining its computing-power-electricity coordination model to serve the "dual carbon" goals.
Summary: The article reports that Heilongjiang Puhuawei Dairy Group Co., Ltd. has grown in Tangyuan County, Heilongjiang Province, after local authorities facilitated its founding in 2018 by attracting a returning entrepreneur and providing full-process services, including dispatching technical personnel and securing 600,000 yuan in science and technology funds. The company uses a combined dry-wet process, adopts order-based production for zero inventory, and has tailored formulas for Philippine student nutrition meals while deepening its presence in the Tibet market. In 2025, its infant milk powder exports ranked among the top in the country, with products sold to 18 countries and regions. The company plans to accelerate projects for cream, milk protein deep processing, and infant formula liquid milk, projecting an annual output value of 2 billion to 3 billion yuan at full capacity. It aims to shift from selling raw materials to exporting high-end ingredients and technical solutions, promoting high-value-added "Made in Tangyuan" dairy products globally.
Summary: The article analyzes the nonferrous metals industry's third-quarter reports, noting a 76.5% profit growth alongside a 0.8% decline in industrial value-added output, attributing the contrast to market recovery, cost control, and statistical methodology. It urges the industry to seize favorable market conditions by investing in innovation to meet demand from emerging sectors like AI and new-energy vehicles, and by improving efficiency across the supply chain. The piece also emphasizes strengthening resource security through domestic exploration, diversified international channels, and expanded recycled metals use. It concludes that a strong industrial foundation, not just market profits, sustains long-term competitiveness, calling for steady progress toward high-quality development.
Summary: The article reports on the accelerated construction of China's national water network, citing General Secretary Xi Jinping's emphasis that a completed network would be "another century-spanning scroll in the Chinese nation's history of water governance." It details progress on major projects, including the Gezhouba shipping capacity expansion at the Three Gorges, the Yangtze-to-Hanjiang Water Diversion Project, and the South-to-North Water Diversion, which has cumulatively transferred over 92 billion cubic meters of water to 195 million people. Vice Minister of Water Resources Sun Zhiyu stated that inter-provincial river basin water resource dispatch has reached 89 basins, completing 95 percent of target tasks, with the remaining five to be initiated by the end of 2026. Minister of Water Resources Li Guoying said the ministry will make every effort to advance modern water network construction, striving to turn the new century-spanning scroll of water governance into reality. The piece also highlights rural water supply gains, with a goal of 98 percent rural tap water penetration by 2030, and notes improvements in river and lake ecology, including reduced groundwater over-extraction in the North China Plain.
Summary: The article examines how Zhengding, a national famous historical and cultural city in Hebei, preserves its rich architectural heritage through protection and revitalization efforts. It highlights archaeological work, digital collection, safety monitoring, and intangible cultural heritage promotion as key measures. The piece describes how the city brings history to life through cultural tourism activities, night tours, and the shaping of its "ancient city, ancient charm, carefree Zhengding" character. It also details Zhengding's expansion into a "new-ward" industrial landscape, leveraging its location facing Beijing and Tianjin and connecting to Xiong'an, with industries including the digital economy, high-end equipment manufacturing, biomedicine, modern logistics, and headquarters economy. The author is a professor at the Party School of the CPC Hebei Provincial Committee, with the article compiled from an interview by People's Daily reporter Shao Yuzi.
Summary: The article highlights that "Tokens" were sold on e-commerce platforms during this year's "Double 11" shopping festival, with JD.com and Tmall reporting significant sales growth, reflecting AI's integration into consumption and production. It argues this trend confirms consumption structure upgrading, as consumers pay for efficiency and intelligent services, citing service retail sales growth outpacing goods. The piece also frames Token purchases by small and medium-sized enterprises as evidence of new quality productive forces and accelerated digital transformation across all walks of life. It attributes the phenomenon to China's super-large-scale market advantages, noting daily Token call volume surged from 100 billion in early 2024 to over 140 trillion in March. Finally, it calls for improved security governance and after-sales services, referencing central policy documents promoting the "Artificial Intelligence +" action to empower all industries.
Summary: Seafood prices in China have fallen significantly since the Yellow Sea and East China Sea opened to fishing, with popular items like swimming crabs and hairy crabs seeing "rising volume and falling prices" in Beijing's Xinfadi Market. Cui He, president of the China Aquatic Products Circulation and Processing Association, attributed the trend to expanded domestic production capacity, including rapid growth in facility-based, deep-sea, and far-offshore aquaculture, which has made farmed output steadily above 80 percent of total supply. Zhang Chengpeng, associate researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, noted that new supply comes mainly from aquaculture rather than offshore fishing, with marine aquaculture output up 5.16 percent year-on-year from January to August 2026 versus only 0.29 percent for marine capture. Improved cold-chain logistics and e-commerce have also shortened delivery times and reduced losses, supporting a shift from "eating seafood at festivals" to "eating seafood every day." However, experts caution that the trend is better described as "popular seafood is more affordable" than "all seafood has entered an era of low prices," as wild-caught, scarce, and high-end imported varieties will continue to command premiums.
Summary: The article describes the success of "Bronze Chirp," a plush toy inspired by a bronze bird from the Sanxingdui Museum's Shang Dynasty sacred tree, designed to make the ancient relic more approachable. Designer Wu Zemin and his team preserved key features like the beak and crest feathers while altering the form to a round, fluffy shape, using custom fabrics and a built-in support structure. Launched in 2024, it became a bestseller with annual sales exceeding 70,000 units, later expanding into multiple colors, sizes, and peripheral products. The design team iterated based on consumer feedback and market research, achieving total series sales over 10 million yuan. Wu Zemin stated the team will continue creating quality products to tell Sanxingdui's story through cultural and creative goods.
Summary: Tian Jing'an, a resident of the Xiong'an New Area, finds dignity and joy in his work as a cleaner at the Honglian residential community. After facing a life of poverty, illness, and the loss of his wife, his circumstances changed following the establishment of the Xiong'an New Area and his marriage to Li Shumei. Li Shumei, a businesswoman, assisted with his heart surgery and helped transform his health and lifestyle. Now, Tian Jing'an works diligently in the community's underground space, finding contentment in his role and the development of the city.
Summary: The article reflects on "subtraction" as a principle across photography, painting, sculpture, and life, citing examples like Xie Hailong's *Big Eyes* and Qi Baishi's landscapes. It argues that subtraction—removing the superfluous—reveals what is essential, as illustrated by Michelangelo's sculpting method and Steve Jobs' 1997 product cuts at Apple. The author applies this to personal growth, suggesting maturity involves discarding excess desires and attachments to find peace of mind. Laozi's saying "Fewness obtains; abundance perplexes" is invoked to support this philosophy. The piece concludes by urging readers to delete restlessness, attachments, and greed, leaving calm, passion, and a clear original heart.
Summary: The article describes 84 retired fishing boats from the Yangtze River that were transported to Qishan Grassland in Yunyang County, Chongqing, and converted into guesthouses. The boats were retired as part of the ten-year fishing moratorium that began January 1, 2021, which involved over 1,000 fishermen and more than 500 boats in the Yunyang area. The county government decided to preserve the boats rather than scrap them, handing them over to a county-owned enterprise for conversion into lodgings. Retired fisherman Wu Xingjun and his wife visited their old boat, which he said they lived on for 12 years, expressing deep attachment to it. The article reflects on the boats' history and the transition of fishing households to new livelihoods under the moratorium.
Summary: The article is a photo report on the Chinese painting *Red Flags Billowing in the Wind Over the Western Pass* by Guo Weiqu, which is held in the collection of the Liaoning Provincial Museum.
Summary: The poem describes autumn wind moving through black bean fields, with round, plump bean pods touching the speaker's fingers. The flail sings joyfully as beans are harvested from village to household, then dried and stored in the granary. Throughout, the wind never stops, and within each heavy black bean, it quietly hides.
Summary: The article profiles four workers at the Manshen 8 metering and transfer station, the most remote such facility in the Fuman Oilfield, located deep in the Taklamakan Desert. It describes Wang Xiaoyan, her husband Xu Dajun, Huang Yuhua, and Zhang Yanqi, who live in a four-room camp and tend 14 oil wells, enduring frequent sandstorms and isolation. A March incident saw Xu Dajun and Huang Yuhua drive over 20 kilometers in darkness to shut in a well after a power failure, returning after 4 a.m. amid Wang Xiaoyan's anxious worry. The piece highlights their personal sacrifices, including Huang Yuhua's failed relationships due to infrequent home visits and Zhang Yanqi's paintings, including one of a faceless woman. It concludes by likening the four workers to the four desert birds that share their scraps, framing their solitary vigilance as guarding the nation's energy security.
Summary: The article is a nostalgic essay about rabbit-ear radishes, nicknamed "white rabbits," in the author's hometown, recounting a youthful memory of secretly pulling radishes with junior high classmates at Wang Lei's home. Wang Lei's father, who initially approached with a flashlight, later brought seasonings and sugar to the group, prompting laughter when they repeated their earlier warning "Situation, hit the deck!" The piece notes the radish's historical name "laifu" in the *Compendium of Materia Medica*, where Li Shizhen listed nine ways to eat it, and describes the author's favorite recipe of radish with crucian carp. It also includes a folk saying—"When radishes enter the city, the pharmacy closes its doors"—and a story from a period drama about an envoy mistaking a couple's radish meal for feasting. The essay concludes with a painter gifting the author an ink painting of a radish, which the author cherishes deeply.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 10) The collection of Comrade Xi Jinping's writings "On Poverty Reduction and Alleviation," compiled by the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee, was recently published by the Central Party Literature Press and distributed nationwide.
This thematic collection includes 55 important writings by Comrade Xi Jinping on poverty reduction and alleviation, some of which are published publicly for the first time.
Eliminating poverty is the common ideal of humanity. Eliminating poverty, improving people's livelihoods, and achieving common prosperity are the essential requirements of socialism with Chinese characteristics and an important mission of the Communist Party of China. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has placed the battle against poverty in a prominent position in national governance, made it a bottom-line task for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, organized and launched an impressive and grand in scale (声势浩大, sheng shi hao da - "sound, momentum, grand, large") battle against poverty and achieved a complete victory, accomplished the arduous task of eliminating absolute poverty, created a miracle in the history of human poverty reduction, blazed a path of poverty reduction with Chinese characteristics, and formed a theory of anti-poverty with Chinese characteristics. The series of important expositions by Comrade Xi Jinping on poverty reduction and alleviation, based on China's national conditions and grasping the laws of poverty reduction, are the theoretical crystallization of China's battle against poverty, the latest achievement in the Sinicization of Marxist anti-poverty theory, and are of very important guiding significance for consolidating and expanding the achievements of the battle against poverty, comprehensively advancing rural revitalization, promoting the modernization of common prosperity for all the people, and jointly building a beautiful world free from poverty and characterized by common prosperity.
(An introduction to the main articles in Comrade Xi Jinping's "On Poverty Reduction and Alleviation" appears on page 2)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 金 歆
In a conference room in Changning District, Shanghai, the atmosphere of discussion was heated.
"It is suggested that specific standards be clarified to address the problems of large differences in demand across age groups and mismatched content."
"It is suggested that feature designs prone to addiction, such as infinite scrolling and auto-play of consecutive episodes, be prohibited from being provided to minors."
The "Regulations of the State Council on Ensuring the Healthy and Safe Use of the Internet by Minors (Draft for Comments)" was recently opened for public comment. As one of the eight network legislation liaison points established nationwide by the Cyberspace Administration of China, Hongqiao Subdistrict (Gubei Civic Center) in Changning District, Shanghai, convened a legislative opinion solicitation meeting on this draft regulation, with platform representatives, experts, and grassroots members of the public attending. Since 2025, the Cyberspace Administration of China has collected more than 4,000 opinions and suggestions on key network legislation through the various network legislation liaison points.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "It is necessary to coordinate and advance legislation, law enforcement, judicature, and law popularization in the network field." The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes to "improve regulations on internet content management and network platform governance," "severely crack down on illegal and criminal acts in cyberspace," and "address chaos such as online rumors and cyberbullying, creating a clean and wholesome atmosphere (风清气正, feng qing qi zheng - "wind, clear; air, upright") in the online environment."
Pooling wisdom and ideas from various sources (集思广益, ji si guang yi - "collect, think, wide, benefit") and pooling collective wisdom and efforts (群策群力, qun ce qun li - "group, strategy, group, strength") to practice whole-process people's democracy and improve the system of network laws and regulations — this is precisely a vivid manifestation of the continuous advancement of China's network rule-of-law construction.
In the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, the cyberspace administration and relevant departments have continued to improve the system of network legal norms, strengthen law enforcement in key network areas, increase judicial protection of netizens' lawful rights and interests, coordinate the advancement of the "comprehensive network law popularization" system, and continuously raise the level of rule-of-law governance in cyberspace.
Wherever the internet develops, rule-of-law safeguards follow.
In recent years, legislation has kept a close eye on new contradictions and new risks in digital development, continuously shoring up weaknesses, building frameworks, and establishing rules.
Network service providers should "establish and improve cyberbullying prevention functions"; users who suffer harm from cyberbullying "have the right to notify network service providers to take measures such as deletion, blocking, and disconnecting links"... On July 29, the draft anti-cyberbullying law drafted by the Cyberspace Administration of China together with relevant departments was opened for public comment to the whole society. This will be China's first special legislation against cyberbullying to be formulated in the form of law.
Laws and regulations are being improved at an accelerated pace, and departmental rules and regulatory documents have been issued one after another — in April, five departments published the "Interim Measures for the Administration of Anthropomorphic Interactive Services Using Artificial Intelligence"; in June, three departments published the "Measures for the Assessment of Network Data Security Risks"; in July, the Cyberspace Administration of China and the Ministry of Public Security published the "Provisions on Simplified Measures for Personal Information Protection by Small Personal Information Processors"...
Centering on artificial intelligence governance, livestream e-commerce, and personal information protection, and in response to frontier hot spots and governance difficulties, legislation has adopted targeted measures and precise actions.
The vitality of laws and regulations lies in their enforcement.
"Heavy rain over several days in a certain city caused flooding and waterlogging at a toll station and a blueberry base!" Not long ago, a short video "went viral" online, and the "disaster" it described drew public attention.
Relevant departments intervened to verify the matter and found that the video had been fabricated by the blogger using artificial intelligence technology, solely to gain traffic and attract followers. The false information seriously disrupted local flood prevention and disaster relief order. The cyberspace administration department ordered the website platform to handle the violative account in accordance with laws and agreements, and the public security organ imposed administrative penalties on the video producer in accordance with the law.
In response to online chaos, law enforcement departments have continued to strike hard:
Routinely carrying out the "Qinglang" (Clear and Bright) series of special actions — covering key areas such as rectification of chaos in artificial intelligence application, governance of malicious hype of enterprise-related information, rectification of chaos in online entertainment group livestreaming, and protection of minors online.
Multiple departments jointly carrying out special rectification campaigns, with law enforcement in key scenarios efficiently implemented — the Central Cyberspace Administration of China and two other departments launched the 2026 special action series on personal information protection; two departments carried out concentrated rectification of online financial "black and gray industry" information chaos...
Beyond strict law enforcement, judicial innovation has filled in the governance chain.
How should responsibility be defined in disputes over the quality of goods sold via livestream commerce? Does a livestream host's belittling one person to exalt another (踩一捧一, cai yi peng yi - "step, one; praise, one") constitute reasonable evaluation or commercial disparagement? In response to new types of disputes in the digital economy, the Supreme People's Court released a batch of typical cases on August 3, covering scenarios such as livestream e-commerce, compliant platform operations, and maintenance of market competition order, delineating behavioral boundaries for market entities and stabilizing business expectations.
Since the beginning of this year, judicial adjudication rules involving artificial intelligence have continued to be refined, "digital-intelligent adjudication" has improved in quality and efficiency, and efforts have been made to uphold fairness and justice in the network field.
A digital society is shared by all, and a clear and wholesome internet is the responsibility of all. To consolidate the foundation of network rule of law, it is imperative to do a good job of network law popularization.
"Click-farming rebates hide traps; pies falling from the sky are sharp knives" "AI face-swapping easily defrauds money; verify identity before transferring funds"... In March this year, in Chengdu, Sichuan, the sound of bamboo clappers rang out and skits took the stage. Legal knowledge on preventing telecom and online fraud and protecting personal information was transformed into plain language, and the audience below understood it clearly and remembered it firmly.
This was a scene at the launching ceremony of the 2026 "Walking with the Law in the Digital Age" national network rule-of-law themed publicity campaign. The campaign runs from March to November, is jointly guided by the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Justice, and the National Office for Law Popularization, and has been rolled out in multiple locations including Sichuan, Jiangxi, Ningxia, and Liaoning, with total clicks on related publicity reports across the entire internet exceeding 8 billion.
The "Rule-of-Law Button" youth network law popularization activity was held; national network rule-of-law publicity quality works and exemplary cases continue to be released... Combining "popularizing the law through the network" with "popularizing network law," the cyberspace administration, judicial administration, and other departments have promoted the concept of network rule of law deep into people's hearts through vivid and intuitive forms.
"To safeguard high-quality development of the economy and society, network rule-of-law construction needs to seize the initiative and make forward-looking arrangements. To meet the people's needs and expectations for a sound online ecosystem, network rule-of-law construction needs to respond to concerns and take proactive action." A relevant official of the Central Cyberspace Administration of China stated that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary to further strengthen overall coordination, enhance organizational leadership, planning guidance, and mechanism building, and continuously improve the overall effectiveness of network rule-of-law work.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 10) Premier of the State Council Li Qiang recently signed a State Council order, promulgating the revised Regulations on the Administration of Foundations (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations), which shall take effect on January 1, 2027.
The Regulations aim to strengthen the credibility of foundations and promote their sound and orderly development. The Regulations consist of 8 chapters and 79 articles. The main contents of the revision are as follows.
First, improving the overall principles and requirements. It is made clear that foundation work adheres to the Party's leadership, requirements for Party building work are strengthened, and it is stipulated that foundations engaging in public welfare activities shall follow the principles of legality, voluntariness, good faith, openness, transparency, and non-profitability.
Second, improving the registration and administration system. The level of registration administration and registered capital are clarified, direct registration is steadily advanced, requirements for change-of-registration procedures are clarified, and liquidation procedures before deregistration are refined.
Third, improving the internal governance mechanism. The responsibilities of promoters and persons in charge are strengthened, the powers and functions of organizational bodies and their rules of procedure are improved, and persons in charge, directors, supervisors, and others are prohibited from using affiliated relationships to harm the interests of the foundation, beneficiaries, and the public interest.
Fourth, regulating activity management. Requirements for fundraising, donation, and funding activities are improved, and online public fundraising and cooperative public fundraising are regulated. Property management is strengthened, and it is made clear that all income shall be used for public welfare purposes. Project management is tightened, requiring tracking and management of project implementation.
Fifth, strengthening information disclosure and industry self-discipline. The information disclosure obligations of foundations are clarified, channels for social supervision are kept open, and industry norms are established and improved.
Sixth, strengthening comprehensive supervision. The responsibilities of registration administration authorities, business supervisory units, and industry administration departments, among others, are clarified, the responsibilities of all parties are consolidated, and a synergy of supervision is formed.
(The full text of the Regulations appears on pages 14 and 15)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曹鹏程 张 文 宦 翔
Not long ago, the 47th World Congress of Vine and Wine and the General Assembly of Member States of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) was held in Yinchuan, Ningxia. "China's wines are of excellent quality, embodying both a profound understanding of China's unique terroir and a firm commitment to sustainable development," said John Barker, Director General of the OIV.
A glass of wine has traveled from the Gobi wasteland to the world. The international wine product brand ranking released at the congress showed that 19 product brands from China entered the global top 100, 9 of which came from Ningxia. In the first three quarters of this year, Ningxia's total import and export of goods reached 19.98 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24.9%.
In June 2024, when General Secretary Xi Jinping heard the work report of the Party Committee and Government of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, he required Ningxia to "adhere to combining opening up to the outside world with opening up within the country."
The China-Arab States Expo is growing ever more popular; rail-sea intermodal transport and cross-border e-commerce connect domestic and foreign markets; products such as wine, cool-climate vegetables, and wolfberry have become famous abroad (蜚声海外, feishēng hǎi wài - "fly, sound; sea, outside"). Following the direction charted by the General Secretary, Ningxia is continuously writing a new chapter of "cultivating strength both internally and externally."
Not bordering any country, not adjacent to any sea, yet continuously upgrading its channels for open development
At the Yinchuan Comprehensive Bonded Zone, on a wall of the China-Arab Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Park, six large characters read "Buy globally, sell globally," catching the eye.
UAE dates, Egyptian handicrafts, Moroccan argan nuts... dozens of specialty products from Arab countries are on display here in a concentrated showcase. In the China Good Products Hall, wine, wolfberry, and other items are placed on shelves for cross-border livestream sales. Su Junping, head of the demonstration park, introduced that the park integrates exhibition and sales, negotiation, cross-border e-commerce, livestream marketing, and overseas warehouse layout into one platform. Relying on the China-Arab States Expo, it has attracted 89 enterprises from Shanghai, Zhejiang, and other places to settle in.
Ningxia continues to upgrade its channels for open development. Over the years, relying on international exhibitions such as the China-Arab States Expo, signed outcomes have been transformed batch by batch into implemented projects and increased economic and trade volumes.
"At the beginning of this year, the General Administration of Customs issued an announcement reducing the value-added tax rate on imported linseed oil and its fractions from 13% to 9%," said Feng Dayuan, head of the Bonded Business and Port Services Division of the Yinchuan Comprehensive Bonded Zone Management Committee. The park has also implemented the country's first batch of "TIR (International Road Transport) + bonded" operations, allowing goods on TIR vehicles to reach their destination countries directly. "It takes only 5 days to arrive in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, saving a considerable amount in transport costs."
Stepping into the Ningxia Bulk Commodity Cross-Border Direct Trading Platform hall, data on the trading screen jumps in real time. This platform integrates functions such as online contract signing, international logistics dispatch, and inspection and testing. Its business covers 25 countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, has attracted over 100,000 enterprises to settle in, and has listed more than 5,000 products.
"Contract signing and cross-border logistics dispatch have both saved considerable time," said Qin Xiuguang, head of the platform. Not long ago, an enterprise from Uzbekistan came to China to purchase live cattle in large quantities. Previously, this would have taken at least two months; now, through the platform, the transaction was completed in just over a week.
Eastward, "single document" rail-sea intermodal trains operate, reaching 35 countries and 61 ports via transshipment; westward, China-Central Asia freight trains operate, achieving a breakthrough from zero in TIR; southward, integration into the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor reaches Laos and Vietnam; northward, channels for importing Russian resources are kept open... Ningxia borders no country and has no coastline, yet its pace of opening up is resolute and powerful.
A frontier of opening up to the outside world, a fertile ground for exchanges between China and foreign countries. Ningxia has held the China-Arab States Technology Transfer and Innovation Cooperation Conference for 6 consecutive sessions, attracting over 3,000 Chinese and foreign guests, focusing on fields such as clean energy, green agriculture, desertification control, and artificial intelligence, releasing over 1,300 advanced applicable technological achievements, and facilitating the implementation of 109 scientific and technological cooperation agreements. At the 7th China-Arab States Expo, 331 cooperation outcomes were achieved, with intended contract signing exceeding 107.7 billion yuan.
"Ningxia's water-saving irrigation, grassland and livestock, and other industries are impressive, and the various exhibition platforms have made cooperation between Ningxia and Arab countries increasingly close," said Egyptian agricultural expert Sawi Ahmed.
Going out, obtaining certifications, and building distinctive industries in light of local conditions
Stepping into a winery at the eastern foot of the Helan Mountains, among 32,000 mu of vineyards, several micro weather stations capture wind speed, rainfall, and soil temperature and humidity in real time, providing data support for field management. In the tasting room, a glass of Cabernet Gernischt red wine is poured, its aroma wrapped in faint notes of violet and dark fruit.
"In the early days, Cabernet Gernischt had a low fruit set rate and a heavy green taste, so it could only play a 'supporting role,'" said Zhao Ning, a vineyard grower. After the winery took over the vineyard, it conducted repeated experiments in water and fertilizer management and canopy management, allowing this old variety to regain vitality (重焕生机, chóng huàn shēng jī - "again, shine, life, opportunity"). The Cabernet Gernischt dry red wine produced has since won international awards one after another, becoming a hot-selling export category. Zhao Qian, public affairs director of the winery, said, "This makes us even more confident that the world needs Chinese wine."
As of the end of 2025, the planting area of wine grapes at the eastern foot of the Helan Mountains reached 606,000 mu, accounting for 42% of the national total, with an annual output of 140 million bottles of wine, sold to more than 40 countries and regions.
Under interweaving red and blue lights, rows of seed culture dishes are neatly arranged, with temperature, humidity, and light precisely controlled. Tender green sprouts quietly emerge, continuously unfurling and growing. In the laboratory of Taijin Seeds in Pingluo County, Shizuishan City, a technician crouches down and uses fingertips to part the underside of leaves for inspection. This variety of zucchini seeds has already been sent to the Middle East for trial planting.
"Our varieties can produce stable yields all year round and hold a large share of the Middle East market," said laboratory director Shen Songzhen. Taijin Seeds' quality vegetable seeds sell well in 27 countries and regions, accounting for over 95% of Ningxia's exports.
Stepping into a wolfberry manor in Zhongning County, Zhongwei City, the cleaning, drying, and packaging production lines in the processing workshop run without pause. Here, wolfberry goes from harvest to vacuum packaging within no more than 24 hours, securing quadruple organic certification from China, the European Union, the United States, and Japan, and obtaining a passport to the world market. In the first three quarters of this year, Ningxia's total wolfberry exports reached 2,846.1 tons with a value of 160 million yuan, up 15.3% and 21.7% year-on-year respectively.
Wolfberry export value ranks first in the country, and Tan sheep and cool-climate vegetables are accelerating their way to overseas dining tables... Leveraging its unique geographical features, Ningxia, in light of local conditions, has developed distinctive agricultural industries such as wine grape cultivation and quality seed production into foreign trade industries. Specialty products of the fields have become calling cards to the outside world, deeply integrated with the international market.
Ye Jiahao, assistant researcher at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation under the Ministry of Commerce, believes that Ningxia has already carried out standard-setting and mutual recognition in industries such as specialty agriculture, filling gaps in standards in relevant fields, and has accumulated experience and practices in rule-setting leadership in the fields of trade and investment.
Agricultural foreign trade continues to gain momentum, and the prospects for industry going global are promising.
At the Ningdong Energy and Chemical Industry Base, Baofeng Group's coal-to-olefins products have carved out a brand overseas: high-end polyolefin products are sold to Kazakhstan and Turkey; the enterprise has also carried out technical exchanges with companies from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries, and deeply participates in cooperation on the China-Arab Clean Energy Training Center project. In the first three quarters of this year, among Ningxia's export products, electromechanical products, basic organic chemicals, and other industrial products became the main engines of growth.
Promoting technology, sharing experience, and telling China's story and the Chinese spirit
At Yinchuan's Smart Palace Group, the Arabic-language version of "Minning Town" is playing on a screen. Zhou Yang, a Sudanese expert, spoke of details from the dubbing process: "In the drama, Shuihua pulls a cart carrying her child and her paralyzed husband, walking through wind and sand for seven days and seven nights. I cried the moment I saw that scene." This TV drama, based on the relocation of people from Xihaigu and the Fujian-Ningxia collaboration, has been broadcast on mainstream television stations in 12 Arab countries since its Arabic version aired in 2022. The dubbing team translated its title as "The Road to Happiness."
"Arab viewers see that China also once experienced poverty and gradually shook off backwardness through hard work. Many people see the possibility of their own development in this," Zhou Yang explained.
To date, Smart Palace has cumulatively translated and published over 1,650 book titles and dubbed more than 330 film and television works, with over 1 million instances of Chinese language learning online and offline; every week, there are more than 2,000 inquiries from Arab people on overseas social media about learning Chinese and studying in China.
Telling China's story well and spreading China's experience. In 1997, Lin Zhanxi, a professor at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, brought Juncao technology to Xihaigu. Today, this "grass of happiness" has spread to more than 110 countries and regions, trained over 18,000 international trainees, and is widely applied in more than 40 African countries.
In September this year, the "Mongolia Poverty Reduction Experience Sharing and Green Sustainable Development Study Program" opened in Yinchuan, with a total of 24 trainees. In the classroom, they gathered around Chinese technical experts, pressing for details on how to use straw checkerboard sand barriers. Since the beginning of this year, more than 600 foreign trainees from over 60 countries have come to Ningxia to learn desertification control technology.
"Desertification control has become a common challenge facing countries around the world. Drawing on China's experience can help avoid detours," said Feng Zhanwen, director of the China-Central Asia Desertification Prevention and Control Cooperation Center. The center was inaugurated in Ningxia in July 2025, and more than 100 desertification control technologies have been promoted to over 40 countries and regions.
Ningxia has carried the spirit of hard struggle and building enterprises through solid work, along with its experience in poverty alleviation and ecological governance, beyond its borders. This spirit contains the boldness of "socialism is built through hard work," the deep concern of the Fujian-Ningxia collaboration that spans mountains and seas, and the broad-mindedness of openness, inclusiveness, and mutually beneficial and win-win (互利共赢, hù lì gòng yíng - "mutual, profit; together, win") cooperation.
Night once again spreads over the Helan Mountains. On the sand dunes, the starry river hangs low; in the vineyards, vine leaves gleam gold. A cargo plane at Yinchuan Hedong International Airport is taxiing toward the runway — wolfberry concentrate, wine, and cool-climate vegetables will board the "Air Silk Road" and appear on Middle Eastern shelves 8 hours later.
An ancient saying goes, "The Yellow River enriches Ningxia." Today, what people see on this land is not only the gift of the Yellow River, but also the vitality of development rooted in China and the potential of opportunities with a global vision. Keeping in mind the earnest instructions, blazing a new path of opening up both internally and externally for an inland region, Ningxia is writing open development as a new footnote to the times.
(People's Daily reporters Qin Ruijie and Chen Xirui contributed to this report)
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 10) Zhao Leji, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, met in Beijing on the 10th with a delegation of Colombian multi-party officials led by Speaker of the House of Representatives Jaime Raúl Salamanca.
Zhao Leji stated that under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China-Colombia relations have maintained a sound momentum of development. China is willing to maintain high-level exchanges with Colombia, enhancing understanding and mutual trust (增进理解互信, zeng jin li jie hu xin - "increase, promote, understand, mutual trust"), continue to firmly support each other on issues involving each other's core interests and major concerns, strengthen exchanges between political parties and legislative bodies, expand practical cooperation in areas such as jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative, promote the sustained and in-depth development of the China-Colombia strategic partnership, and work together to build a community with a shared future for mankind. Zhao Leji also briefed on the situation of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.
Salamanca thanked China for its selfless assistance to Colombia's earthquake relief efforts, saying that gaining an in-depth understanding of China and strengthening cooperation between Colombia and China in various fields is the common will of Colombia that transcends partisan differences. Colombia firmly supports the one-China principle. The Colombian Congress is willing to strengthen exchanges with China's NPC to help promote the development of bilateral relations.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 10) Wang Huning, chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, met in Beijing on the 10th with Bousady, vice chairman of the Lao Front for National Construction Central Committee.
Wang Huning said that in June this year, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and President Xi Jinping and General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and President Thongloun reached important consensus on building a China-Laos community with a shared future of the new era, mapping out a grand blueprint for bilateral relations. China is willing to work with Laos to follow the strategic guidance of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, adding new impetus to advancing each other's socialist modernization. The CPPCC National Committee of China is willing to deepen exchanges and cooperation with the Lao Front for National Construction, contributing to the building of a China-Laos community with a shared future. Wang Huning also briefed on the situation of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.
Bousady said that the Lao side congratulates the successful convening of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, highly appreciates the great achievements of China's modernization drive, and its important contributions to world peace and development. The Lao side is willing to implement the consensus of the leaders of the two parties and two countries, deepen cooperation in various fields, and continuously advance the building of a Laos-China community with a shared future.
Wang Dongfeng and others attended the meeting.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 何 聪 窦瀚洋
Stepping into the People's Hospital of Kecheng District, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, on the large screen of the Smart Energy and Carbon Management Center, data such as energy consumption metering and building energy efficiency are immediately obvious and clear (一目了然, yi mu le ran - "one, eye, clearly, understand").
A comprehensive energy-saving rate of 8.22% and a carbon reduction of 506.07 tons — this is the hospital's energy-saving report card for the first three quarters of this year. Compared with before the renovation, energy consumption per unit of building area has dropped from a peak of 13.19 kg of standard coal per square meter to the current 10.69 kg of standard coal per square meter.
In September 2023, during his inspection tour in Zhejiang, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Unswervingly promote the green transformation of development models, and establish and improve an economic system of green, low-carbon, and circular development."
Since 2024, a "carbon account" has been implemented in Quzhou. Relying on the Internet of Things and big data, everything from a single bus trip to the energy consumption of an enterprise's production line is now accurately recorded.
Under the coordination and leadership of the Quzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Quzhou Xin'an Energy Co., Ltd. proactively connected with the People's Hospital of Kecheng District. A brand-new Smart Energy and Carbon Management Center was established. The electricity, water, and gas consumption of each floor are monitored in real time through IoT sensors. Carbon emissions, once invisible and intangible, are now crystal clear.
"You don't realize it until you check the carbon account — and once you check it, it's a real eye-opener," said Zhu Huiwu, Party Secretary of the People's Hospital of Kecheng District. "Take the hospital's original traditional steam boiler, for example. Before the renovation, in the first half of 2025, its energy consumption was 77.28 tons of standard coal, and carbon emissions reached 137.78 tons — it was a veritable 'major carbon emitter.'"
With the baseline data now clear, how should the renovation proceed?
Quzhou innovated a "comprehensive energy trusteeship model," with Xin'an Energy fully funding the renovation costs. After the renovation is completed, the two parties use the pre-renovation energy consumption as the baseline and share the energy-saving benefits proportionally each year. "We first calculate the hospital's annual energy costs before the renovation. After that, however much energy consumption drops and however much money is saved, the two parties share it according to the agreed proportion," said Zheng Kun, Manager of the Market Development Department of Xin'an Energy Co., Ltd. "In a few years, we will have recouped our investment."
The traditional steam boiler was replaced with an air-source heat pump unit, reducing carbon emissions by 66.43 tons in the first half of this year; magnetic levitation air-conditioning units replaced the outdated screw-type water chillers, more than doubling cooling efficiency, with an expected annual electricity saving of about 260,000 kWh and a carbon dioxide reduction of 132 tons; the underground garage was fitted with 8-watt radar-sensing light tubes — lights on when cars come, lights dim when cars leave — saving 53% more energy than ordinary light tubes and cutting electricity costs by more than 20,000 yuan a year...
The visible changes are all around us; the invisible changes are in our hearts.
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes: "Accelerate the green and low-carbon transformation of development models, and foster new ways of green production and new trends in green living." On May 1 this year, the "Regulations of Quzhou City on the Construction and Application of Carbon Accounts" came into effect.
"Carbon reduction has the nation's big ledger, and it also has the individual's small ledger," said Wei Yanfen, an employee of the People's Hospital of Kecheng District, who has a strong sense of environmental awareness. "Low-carbon behaviors such as taking the bus and paying bills online earned me 5,600 carbon points last year. The low-carbon rating has also brought real money. When I bought a new-energy vehicle, the bank's credit line was raised from 100,000 yuan to 200,000 yuan, and the loan interest rate was simultaneously lowered by 0.3 percentage points."
As of now, 1,098 public institutions across Quzhou, including government agencies and public institutions, hospitals, schools, and supermarkets, have established carbon accounts, and 7 offline smart energy and carbon typical application scenarios have been built. The coverage rate of personal carbon accounts among residents aged 18 and above citywide has reached 95%, with a cumulative recorded emission reduction of more than 60,000 tons, and carbon inclusive activities have benefited 1.6 million person-times.
Thoroughly implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, Quzhou is closely focusing on achieving the "dual carbon" goals, continuously deepening multi-dimensional pathway exploration, establishing and improving long-term development mechanisms, and shaping new drivers and new advantages for economic and social development through green and low-carbon transformation.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 10) (Reporter Ouyang Jie) According to customs statistics, in the first 10 months of 2026, China's total value of goods trade imports and exports reached 44.81 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20%. Among this, exports were 25.99 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.6%; imports were 18.82 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.6%. In October, China's total value of goods trade imports and exports was 4.87 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 31.2%.
By trading partner, in the first 10 months, the total value of trade between China and ASEAN was 7.68 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24.2%; the total value of trade between China and the EU was 5.29 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.5%. During the same period, China's combined imports and exports with countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative totaled 22.88 trillion yuan, an increase of 18.5%.
By foreign trade entity, in the first 10 months, imports and exports by private enterprises were 25.46 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.1%; imports and exports by foreign-invested enterprises were 13.15 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.4%.
By key commodity, on the export side, in the first 10 months, China's exports of mechanical and electrical products were 16.81 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 25.2%. On the import side, in the first 10 months, China's imports of mechanical and electrical products were 8.17 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 35%; agricultural products were 1.29 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.6%.
Return to TopOn November 10, the main offshore bridge of the Xiamen–Kinmen Bridge (Xiamen section) was successfully joined. This closure marks the completion of the main structure of the offshore mainline bridge. The main line of the Xiamen–Kinmen Bridge (Xiamen section) project is approximately 17.34 kilometers in total length, with the sea-crossing section approximately 14.2 kilometers. At present, various supporting works of the project are being accelerated.
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Return to TopThe book On Poverty Reduction and Alleviation by Comrade Xi Jinping, compiled by the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee, contains 55 important manuscripts by Comrade Xi Jinping on poverty reduction and alleviation from November 2012 to July 2026. The main contents of this thematic collection are introduced as follows.
"The People's Aspiration for a Better Life Is Our Goal" is the main part of Comrade Xi Jinping's speech when meeting Chinese and foreign journalists as members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 18th CPC Central Committee on November 15, 2012. It points out that our people love life and look forward to better education, more stable jobs, more satisfactory incomes, more reliable social security, higher-level medical and health services, more comfortable living conditions, and a more beautiful environment, and look forward to their children growing up better, working better, and living better. The people's aspiration for a better life is our goal. We must always share the same thoughts and feelings (心心相印, xin xin xiang yin - "heart, heart, mutually, imprint") with the people, share both joys and sorrows (同甘共苦, tong gan gong ku - "together, sweet, together, bitter") with the people, and strive together with the people in unity, working hard to deliver a qualified answer to history and to the people.
"Speech at the Inspection of Poverty Alleviation and Development Work in Fuping County, Hebei Province" is Comrade Xi Jinping's speech on December 29 and 30, 2012. It points out that eliminating poverty, improving people's livelihood, and achieving common prosperity are the essential requirements of socialism. In building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, the most arduous and heaviest tasks lie in rural areas, especially in impoverished areas. Without a moderately prosperous society in rural areas, especially without a moderately prosperous society in impoverished areas, there can be no moderately prosperous society in all respects. It is necessary to raise awareness of the importance of doing well in poverty alleviation and development work and enhance the sense of responsibility and mission in doing so. It emphasizes that to deepen poverty alleviation and development and fight the battle against poverty well, first, one must strengthen confidence, and second, one must find the right path. It is necessary to proceed from reality, act in light of local conditions, clarify thinking, improve plans, and identify breakthroughs. Cadres at all levels should shift the focus of their work downward, go deep into reality, go deep into the grassroots, go deep among the masses, seriously study the practical problems facing poverty alleviation and development, and carry out work creatively.
"Implementing Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Targeted Poverty Eradication" is an excerpt of relevant contents from Comrade Xi Jinping's speeches from November 2013 to October 2015. It points out that in grasping poverty alleviation and development, it is necessary not only to act in an integrated manner with common requirements and measures, but also to highlight key points and strengthen assistance to extremely poor villages and extremely poor households, seeking truth from facts, acting in light of local conditions, providing classified guidance, and carrying out targeted poverty alleviation, continuously improving precision, effectiveness, and sustainability. Targeted poverty alleviation means implementing refined management of the targets of poverty alleviation, precise allocation of poverty alleviation resources, and targeted assistance to the targets of poverty alleviation, ensuring that poverty alleviation resources are truly used on the targets of poverty alleviation and truly used in impoverished areas, so that impoverished people truly benefit.
"Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects, Not a Single Ethnic Group Can Be Left Behind" is an excerpt of relevant contents from Comrade Xi Jinping's manuscripts from March 2014 to May 2020. It points out that in building socialism, we must enable people of all ethnic groups to live a happy and beautiful life. Without comprehensive moderate prosperity and modernization in ethnic regions, there can be no comprehensive moderate prosperity and modernization nationwide. It is necessary to adopt a sense of responsibility that brooks no delay, innovate work ideas, increase assistance efforts, act in light of local conditions, make precise efforts, establish a targeted poverty alleviation working mechanism, help at the point, help at the root, and help at the household level, ensuring that ethnic minorities and ethnic regions achieve comprehensive moderate prosperity and modernization together with the rest of the country.
"Leting Fellow Villagers Live a Good Life Is the Original Aspiration and Founding Mission of Our Party That We Have Never Waivered From" is an excerpt of relevant contents from Comrade Xi Jinping's manuscripts from April 2014 to September 2021. It points out that the reason the Communist Party of China has won the support and endorsement of the people is that our Party has always adhered to the original aspiration and mission of seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation. The people are the country; when the Communist Party fights for and guards the country, what it guards is the hearts of the people, and what it aims for is to let the people live a good life. At no time can we neglect agriculture, forget farmers, or be indifferent to rural areas. We must carry on the work generation after generation, not only accelerating poverty alleviation and prosperity, but also promoting comprehensive rural revitalization and moving toward modernization.
"Reply Letter to Villagers of Liangjiahe Village, Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province" is Comrade Xi Jinping's reply letter on May 5, 2014. It points out that whether there is moderate prosperity depends on the fellow villagers. It has always been my wish to let the villagers in the countryside and the broad masses of farmers across the country achieve a moderately prosperous life as soon as possible. I hope you will lead the fellow villagers to be down-to-earth and practical (脚踏实地, jiao ta shi di - "foot, tread, solid, ground"), work hard and do solid work, strive to make life better and better, and build the village more and more beautiful.
"Instruction on the First 'Poverty Alleviation Day'" is Comrade Xi Jinping's instruction on October 10, 2014. It points out that China will designate October 17 each year as "Poverty Alleviation Day," and on the occasion of the first Poverty Alleviation Day this year, commend advanced collectives and individuals in social poverty alleviation, and further deploy social poverty alleviation work. This is of great significance for carrying forward the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation in helping the poor and aiding those in distress, cultivating and practicing socialist core values, mobilizing all sectors of society to jointly declare war on poverty, and continuing to fight the battle against poverty. The whole Party and the whole society should continue to work together to form a strong joint force in poverty alleviation and development work.
"Speech at the Symposium on Poverty Alleviation and Prosperity in the Old Revolutionary Base Areas of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia" is Comrade Xi Jinping's speech on February 13, 2015. It points out that the old revolutionary base areas are the roots of the Party and the people's army. Accelerating the pace of development in the old areas, doing well in poverty alleviation and development work in the old areas, enabling impoverished rural people in the old areas to escape poverty and become prosperous, and enabling the people of the old areas to enter a comprehensively moderately prosperous society together with the people of the whole country are the bounden duties of our Party and government. Party committees and governments at all levels should enhance their sense of mission and responsibility, always keep the development of the old areas and the improvement of the people's lives in the old areas in mind and in hand. To accelerate the pace of poverty alleviation and prosperity in the old areas, it is necessary to work hard and do solid work, implement the requirements of targeted poverty alleviation, achieve clear goals, clear tasks, clear responsibilities, and clear measures, make precise efforts, help the truly poor and truly help the poor, spend money where it counts, and truly play the role of uprooting poverty.
"Speech at the Symposium on Poverty Alleviation and Economic and Social Development during the 13th Five-Year Plan Period in Some Provinces, Autonomous Regions, and Municipalities" is Comrade Xi Jinping's speech on June 18, 2015. It points out that the 13th Five-Year Plan is the concluding plan for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the key to economic and social development lies in filling the "short boards," among which the "short board" of poverty alleviation and development must be filled. Poverty alleviation and development has reached such a level that precision is precious, precision is important, and success or failure lies in precision. It will not do to engage in indiscriminate flooding, make a superficial inspection (走马观花, zou ma guan hua - "walk, horse, observe, flower"), treat things in a vague or careless manner (大而化之, da er hua zhi - "big, and, transform, 之"), or use a grenade to bomb fleas. It is necessary to achieve "six precisions," namely, precision in identifying assistance targets, precision in project arrangement, precision in fund use, precision in measures reaching households, precision in dispatching people (first secretaries) according to villages, and precision in the results of poverty eradication. All localities should think of ways, take practical measures, and achieve real results in these aspects of precision. It emphasizes that adhering to the Party's leadership and giving play to the advantage of the socialist system in concentrating forces to accomplish major tasks are our greatest political advantage. It is necessary to strengthen the leadership responsibility system for poverty alleviation and development work, and truly implement the management system of central coordination, provincial overall responsibility, and municipal (prefectural) and county implementation, the working mechanism of focusing on areas, working to villages, and helping to households, and the responsibility system for poverty alleviation and development work in which Party and government leaders at all levels bear overall responsibility.
"Joining Hands to Eliminate Poverty and Promote Common Development" is the keynote speech by Comrade Xi Jinping at the 2015 High-Level Forum on Poverty Reduction and Development held in Beijing on October 16, 2015. It points out that eliminating poverty remains the greatest global challenge facing the world today. It is necessary to build consensus, cross difficulties together in one boat (同舟共济, tong zhou gong ji - "together, boat, together, cross"), overcome hard tasks and difficulties (攻坚克难, gong jian ke nan - "attack, fortification, overcome, difficulty"), focus on accelerating the global poverty reduction process, focus on strengthening cooperation in poverty reduction and development, focus on achieving diversified, independent, and sustainable development, focus on improving the international development environment, and make unremitting efforts to jointly build a community with a shared future for mankind free of poverty and with common development.
"Speech at the Central Conference on Poverty Alleviation and Development" is Comrade Xi Jinping's speech on November 27, 2015. It points out that the complete eradication of poverty among the rural poor is a landmark indicator for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and achieving the first centenary goal. The battle against poverty has reached the sprint stage of gnawing hard bones and attacking strongholds, and it is necessary to achieve the goal of the battle against poverty with greater determination, clearer thinking, more precise measures, and extraordinary intensity, with unity of purpose forming an impregnable fortress (众志成城, zhong zhi cheng cheng - "all, will, form, city"). It is necessary to adhere to targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty eradication, with the focus on improving the effectiveness of the battle against poverty. It is necessary to solve the problem of "who to help," ensuring that the truly poor are clearly identified, implementing measures according to households and according to individuals, and truly helping the poor and truly helping the poor. It is necessary to solve the problem of "who helps," accelerating the formation of a working mechanism for poverty alleviation and development with central coordination, provincial (autonomous region, municipality) overall responsibility, and municipal (prefectural) and county implementation, achieving clear division of labor, clear responsibilities, tasks assigned to individuals, and assessment in place. It is necessary to solve the problem of "how to help," implementing the "five batches" project according to the specific conditions of impoverished areas and impoverished people. It is necessary to solve the problem of "how to exit," accelerating the establishment of an exit mechanism for impoverished counties and impoverished households that reflects objective reality, and striving to achieve targeted poverty eradication. It emphasizes that the charge of the battle against poverty has sounded. Party committees and governments at all levels must strengthen confidence, have the courage to take responsibility, carry the responsibility for poverty eradication on their shoulders, and grasp the tasks of poverty eradication in their hands. It is necessary to set the determination of the Foolish Old Man who moved the mountains, stay fixed on the goal, work hard and do solid work, resolutely win the battle against poverty, and ensure that by 2020 all impoverished areas and impoverished people enter a comprehensively moderately prosperous society together.
"Speech at the Symposium on East-West Poverty Alleviation Cooperation" is Comrade Xi Jinping's speech on July 20, 2016. It points out that east-west poverty alleviation cooperation and paired assistance are a major strategy for promoting coordinated, synergistic, and common regional development, a major layout for strengthening regional cooperation, optimizing industrial layout, and expanding new space for opening up to the outside world and internally, and a major measure for realizing the goal of the rich helping the poor and ultimately achieving common prosperity, and must be adhered to for a long time. The western region, especially ethnic regions, border regions, old revolutionary base areas, and contiguous extremely poor areas, has deep poverty, high poverty alleviation costs, and great difficulty in poverty eradication, and is the short board of the battle against poverty. It is necessary to raise awareness, strengthen leadership, improve pairing, deepen assistance, clarify priorities, focus precisely, strengthen assessment, ensure effectiveness, and further improve the level of east-west poverty alleviation cooperation and paired assistance under the new situation. It emphasizes that poverty alleviation must help the wise, and treating poverty must first treat ignorance. In escaping poverty and becoming prosperous, it is necessary not only to pay attention to filling the pockets, but also to pay attention to filling the minds. For the western region to completely uproot the "root of poverty," education must be grasped as a long-term undertaking.
"Better Promoting Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Targeted Poverty Eradication to Ensure the Timely Achievement of the Goals of the Battle against Poverty" is Comrade Xi Jinping's speech when presiding over the 39th collective study session of the Political Bureau of the 18th CPC Central Committee on February 21, 2017. It points out that the timely eradication of poverty among the rural poor, the removal of all impoverished counties from the list, and the resolution of regional overall poverty are the bottom-line tasks for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and are solemn commitments we have made. The further we go, the greater the difficulty of poverty eradication, and most of what remains are regions and people with poor conditions, weak foundations, and deeper poverty. It is necessary to fully understand the arduousness of winning the battle against poverty, adhere to targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty eradication, strengthen grassroots and basic work, grasp the correct direction of the battle against poverty, and ensure that by 2020 impoverished people and impoverished areas build a moderately prosperous society in all respects together with the rest of the country.
"Giving Play to the Role of Assessment as a Baton to Ensure the Quality of the Battle against Poverty" is an excerpt of Comrade Xi Jinping's speech on March 23, 2017, when the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 18th CPC Central Committee reviewed the "Report on the Assessment of the Effectiveness of Poverty Alleviation and Development Work of Provincial Party Committees and Governments in 2016." It points out that assessing the effectiveness of the battle against poverty of provincial Party committees and governments is an important means of forcing all localities to implement well. It is necessary to give play to the role of assessment as a baton, and through serious and rigorous assessment, establish orientation, clarify rules, and press responsibilities, ensuring the quality of the battle against poverty. It is necessary to continuously improve assessment work, pay attention to the application of assessment results, make assessment work more scientific, effective, and in line with reality, and thereby effectively urge and guide all regions to achieve targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty eradication, continuously improving the effectiveness of the battle against poverty.
"Speech at the Symposium on the Battle against Poverty in Deeply Impoverished Areas" is Comrade Xi Jinping's speech on June 23, 2017. It points out that since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee has regarded the eradication of poverty among the poor as the bottom-line task and landmark indicator for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and has launched the battle against poverty nationwide. The intensity, scale, and depth of influence of the battle against poverty are unprecedented. The battle against poverty is itself a tough battle, and the battle against poverty in deeply impoverished areas is the toughest of the tough. To accelerate the battle against poverty in deeply impoverished areas, it is necessary, in accordance with the unified deployment of the Party Central Committee, to adhere to the basic strategy of targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty eradication, adhere to the management system of central coordination, provincial overall responsibility, and municipal and county implementation, adhere to the work responsibility system in which Party and government leaders at all levels bear overall responsibility, adhere to the "three-in-one" large poverty alleviation pattern in which special poverty alleviation, industry poverty alleviation, social poverty alleviation, and other multiple forces and measures are organically combined and mutually supportive, focus on solving prominent restrictive problems, take major poverty alleviation projects and village- and household-level assistance measures as the starting point, take filling short boards as the breakthrough, strengthen the support and guarantee system, increase policy tilt, and ensure that deeply impoverished areas and impoverished people enter a comprehensively moderately prosperous society together with the people of the whole country.
"Resolutely Winning the Battle against Poverty" is part of the report by Comrade Xi Jinping at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on October 18, 2017. It points out that it is necessary to mobilize the strength of the whole Party, the whole country, and the whole society, adhere to targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty eradication, ensure that by 2020 the rural poor under the current standards of our country achieve poverty eradication, all impoverished counties are removed from the list, regional overall poverty is resolved, and truly escape poverty and truly eradicate poverty.
"Fighting the Targeted Poverty Eradication Battle Well and Taking the Road of Poverty Reduction with Chinese Characteristics" is part of Comrade Xi Jinping's speech at the Central Rural Work Conference on December 28, 2017. It points out that targeted poverty eradication is the battle against poverty that is most decisive for building a moderately prosperous society in all respects among the three tough battles proposed in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Party. To fight the targeted poverty eradication battle well, it is necessary to correct ideological understanding, establish a correct view of political achievements, pay attention to combining poverty alleviation with helping aspirations and helping wisdom, put improving the quality of poverty eradication first, and take stimulating the endogenous motivation of the poor and enhancing their development capacity as the fundamental measure. It emphasizes that the battle against poverty must seek truth from facts, must not add layers of tasks, and must not do things beyond the stage of development. It is necessary to resolutely oppose formalism, reduce the work burden on the grassroots, and let them focus their main energy on doing practical things for impoverished people.
"Speech at the Symposium on Fighting the Targeted Poverty Eradication Battle Well" is Comrade Xi Jinping's speech on February 12, 2018. It points out that it is necessary to soberly understand and grasp the arduousness of the tasks facing the battle against poverty, soberly understand and grasp the prominent problems existing in practice and the urgency of solving these problems, not relax, not pause, not slacken, and be prepared to respond to and overcome various difficulties and challenges. It is necessary to put improving the quality of poverty eradication first, focus on deeply impoverished areas, strengthen organizational leadership, adhere to goal standards, strengthen institutional mechanisms, firmly grasp precision, improve fund management, strengthen work style construction, organize cadre training, pay attention to stimulating endogenous motivation, and comprehensively fight the battle against poverty.
"The Battle against Poverty Is a Tough Battle That Must Be Won and Won Well" is part of Comrade Xi Jinping's speech when participating in the deliberation of the Gansu delegation at the Second Session of the 13th National People's Congress on March 7, 2019. It points out that there are only two years left before the completion of the goals and tasks of the battle against poverty in 2020, and this is the most critical moment; it is necessary to persist in doing the work well without slackening, and not withdraw troops until complete victory. It is necessary to strengthen confidence without wavering, stay fixed on the goal without relaxing, rectify problems without softness, implement responsibilities without slackening, and change work style without slackening, ensuring that the tasks of the battle against poverty are completed on schedule.
"Speech at the Symposium on Solving the Outstanding Problems of 'Two Assurances and Three Guarantees'" is Comrade Xi Jinping's speech on April 16, 2019. It points out that by 2020, stably achieving that the rural poor do not worry about food or clothing and have guaranteed compulsory education, basic medical care, and housing safety is the basic requirement and core indicator for poverty eradication of the poor, and is directly related to the quality of the battle. To solve the outstanding problems of "two assurances and three guarantees," finding out the bottom line is the foundation. It is necessary to increase work intensity, focus on prominent problems, check for gaps and fill short boards village by village, household by household, and item by item. It emphasizes that the battle against poverty has entered the critical stage of decisive victory, and the most important thing is to prevent slackening and prevent decline. It is necessary to strengthen the implementation of responsibilities, overcome the hardest of the hard, seriously rectify problems, improve the quality of poverty eradication, stabilize the policies of the battle against poverty, effectively improve work style, and not withdraw troops until complete victory.
"On Filling the Short Boards in Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects" is part of Comrade Xi Jinping's speech at the Fourth Meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission on April 22, 2019. It points out that building a moderately prosperous society in all respects has made decisive progress, but there are also some short boards that must be filled quickly. It is necessary to focus on short boards and weaknesses and implement precise attacks. In work, it is necessary to grasp the relationship between overall goals and individual goals, grasp the relationship between absolute standards and relative standards, and grasp the relationship between quantitative analysis and qualitative judgment. It is necessary to concentrate superior forces to fight a war of annihilation, comprehensively complete the tasks of the battle against poverty, solve the prominent problems of environmental pollution in key areas, accelerate the advancement of work in the field of people's livelihood, and improve the social security safety net mechanism.
"Continuously Consolidating and Expanding the Achievements of the Battle against Poverty and Ensuring That No Large-Scale Return to Poverty or New Poverty Occurs" is an excerpt of relevant contents from Comrade Xi Jinping's manuscripts from August 2019 to December 2024. It points out that the escape from poverty of impoverished fellow villagers is the first step, and the next step is to ensure that the fellow villagers stably escape poverty. It is necessary to continuously consolidate and expand the achievements of the battle against poverty and resolutely hold the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty or new poverty. It is necessary to improve and perfect the institutional mechanism for monitoring and assisting to prevent return to poverty, continue to promote the effective connection between comprehensive poverty eradication and rural revitalization, focus on enhancing endogenous development momentum and development vitality, and ensure that after escaping poverty, there can be development and sustainability.
"Speech at the Symposium on Decisive Victory in the Battle against Poverty" is Comrade Xi Jinping's speech on March 6, 2020. It points out that the battle against poverty cannot be won with a single charge; from decisive achievements to comprehensive victory, the difficulties and challenges faced are still arduous. This is a tough battle, and the closer to the end, the tighter the string must be pulled; there can be no pause, no carelessness, no relaxation. All provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities have signed military orders layer by layer, and promises must be fulfilled. It is necessary to strengthen the Party's leadership over winning the battle against poverty, overcome difficulties to complete tasks, strive to overcome the impact of the epidemic, take multiple measures to consolidate achievements, maintain the stability of poverty alleviation policies, strictly conduct assessments and carry out surveys, continue to promote the effective connection between comprehensive poverty eradication and rural revitalization, ensure the high-quality completion of the goals and tasks of the battle against poverty, and win the comprehensive victory of the battle against poverty.
"The Major Victory of the Battle against Poverty Lays a Solid Foundation for Achieving the First Centenary Goal" is the main points of Comrade Xi Jinping's speech on December 3, 2020, when the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 19th CPC Central Committee heard a report on the summary and evaluation of the battle against poverty. It points out that since the 18th National Congress of the Party, the Party Central Committee has placed the battle against poverty in a prominent position in governance, adopted many major measures of an original and unique nature, organized and implemented the largest and strongest battle against poverty in human history, and completed the goals and tasks of the battle against poverty in the new era on schedule. The major victory of the battle against poverty has laid a solid foundation for achieving the first centenary goal and has greatly enhanced the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security.
"Doing Well the Effective Connection between Consolidating and Expanding the Achievements of the Battle against Poverty and Rural Revitalization" is part of Comrade Xi Jinping's speech at the Central Rural Work Conference on December 28, 2020. It points out that now our mission is to comprehensively promote rural revitalization, which is a historic shift in the focus of work on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers. In the next step, the task of preventing return to poverty in poverty-eradicated areas is still heavy, and it is necessary to do well the effective connection between consolidating and expanding the achievements of the battle against poverty and rural revitalization, leaving no gaps in work and no blanks in policy, and absolutely not allowing the situation where comprehensive poverty eradication is declared on one side while large-scale return to poverty occurs on the other. The Party Central Committee has decided that after the completion of the goals and tasks of the battle against poverty, for counties that have escaped poverty, a five-year transition period will be established from the date of escaping poverty. During the transition period, the overall stability of major assistance policies must be maintained. Existing assistance policies should be classified and optimized and adjusted item by item, the rhythm, intensity, and time limit of adjustment should be reasonably grasped, and a smooth transition from concentrating resources to support the battle against poverty to comprehensively promoting rural revitalization should be gradually achieved.
"Speech at the National Conference on Summarizing and Commending the Battle against Poverty" is Comrade Xi Jinping's speech on February 25, 2021. The speech solemnly declares that our country's battle against poverty has achieved a comprehensive victory, regional overall poverty has been resolved, the arduous task of eliminating absolute poverty has been completed, and another miracle in the annals of history has been created. It points out that the achievements of the battle against poverty that have attracted worldwide attention rely on the strong leadership of the Party, rely on the spiritual quality of the Chinese nation of relying on one's own efforts (自力更生, zi li geng sheng - "self, strength, more, 生") and hard struggle, rely on the solid material foundation accumulated since the founding of New China, especially since reform and opening up, rely on the persistence and perseverance of carrying on the work one term after another, and rely on the united struggle of the whole Party, the whole country, and all ethnic groups. We base ourselves on our national conditions, grasp the laws of poverty reduction, and have blazed a road of poverty reduction with Chinese characteristics and formed a theory of anti-poverty with Chinese characteristics. The great struggle of the battle against poverty has forged and formed the spirit of the battle against poverty of "unity of purpose from top to bottom, sending out the best forces, precision and pragmatism, pioneering and innovation, overcoming hard tasks and difficulties, and living up to the people." It emphasizes that escaping poverty and removing the label is not the end point, but the starting point of a new life and new struggle. It is necessary to effectively do all the work of consolidating and expanding the achievements of the battle against poverty and connecting effectively with rural revitalization, making the foundation of poverty eradication more solid and the results more sustainable. It is necessary to adhere to taking solving the problems of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers as the top priority of the whole Party's work, take the road of socialist rural revitalization with Chinese characteristics, continuously narrow the development gap between urban and rural areas and regions, and let low-income people and underdeveloped regions share the fruits of development. On the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, it is necessary to place the promotion of common prosperity for all the people in a more important position, be down-to-earth and practical, make sustained, long-term effort, promote the all-round development of people and the overall progress of society, and let the broad masses of the people have a fuller sense of gain, happiness, and security that is more guaranteed and more sustainable.
"Incorporating Normalized Assistance into the Overall Implementation of the Rural Revitalization Strategy" is an excerpt of relevant contents from Comrade Xi Jinping's speeches from April 2021 to July 2026. It points out that it is necessary to increase support for counties with national rural revitalization key assistance, and establish a normalized assistance mechanism for low-income people and underdeveloped regions. Continuously consolidate and expand the achievements of the battle against poverty, carry out normalized precise assistance in depth, and firmly hold the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty or new poverty.
"Solidly Promoting Common Prosperity" is part of Comrade Xi Jinping's speech at the Tenth Meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Affairs Commission on August 17, 2021. It points out that common prosperity is the essential requirement of socialism. Winning the battle against poverty and building a moderately prosperous society in all respects have created good conditions for promoting common prosperity, and now we have reached the historical stage of solidly promoting common prosperity. It is necessary to adhere to the people-centered development thinking, promote common prosperity in high-quality development, promote social fairness and justice, promote the all-round development of people, and make all the people move forward solidly toward the goal of common prosperity.
"Comprehensively Promoting Rural Revitalization" is part of the report by Comrade Xi Jinping at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on October 16, 2022. It points out that in comprehensively building a modern socialist country, the most arduous and heaviest tasks still lie in rural areas. It is necessary to adhere to the priority development of agriculture and rural areas, accelerate the building of a strong agricultural country, develop rural characteristic industries, broaden channels for increasing farmers' income and prosperity, consolidate and expand the achievements of the battle against poverty, and enhance the endogenous development momentum of poverty-eradicated areas and poverty-eradicated people.
"Consolidating and Expanding the Achievements of the Battle against Poverty Is the Bottom-Line Task of Comprehensively Promoting Rural Revitalization" is part of Comrade Xi Jinping's speech at the Central Rural Work Conference on December 23, 2022. It points out that it is necessary to continue to press and compact responsibilities, give play to the early warning and response role of the monitoring and assistance mechanism for preventing return to poverty, connect the assistance policies for poverty-eradicated people and poverty-eradicated areas well, implement measures in place, achieve a smooth transition, and resolutely prevent the phenomenon of return to poverty of entire villages and entire townships. It is necessary to plan specific institutional arrangements after the transition period, promote the connection and integration of assistance policies for preventing return to poverty and normalized assistance policies for low-income people in rural areas, and study the establishment of a normalized assistance mechanism for underdeveloped regions.
"Common Prosperity for All the People Is the Essential Feature of Chinese Modernization" is part of Comrade Xi Jinping's speech at the study seminar on studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era for members and alternate members of the newly elected Central Committee and leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial level on February 7, 2023. It points out that the modernization of common prosperity for all the people is the essential feature of Chinese modernization and also a notable sign that distinguishes it from Western modernization. Chinese modernization adheres to development for the people, development relying on the people, and development achievements shared by the people, and has made important progress in promoting common prosperity for all the people, especially winning the battle against poverty since the 18th National Congress of the Party, enabling nearly 100 million rural poor to escape poverty. Now, we have formed a whole set of ideological concepts, institutional arrangements, and policy measures to promote common prosperity for all the people. It is necessary, while promoting high-quality development and making and enlarging the "cake," to further divide the "cake" well, let the fruits of modernization benefit all the people more and more fairly, and resolutely prevent polarization. Achieving common prosperity is a long-term task, and it is necessary to make sustained, long-term effort, stay determined and never waver from a goal (咬定青山不放松, yao ding qing shan bu fang song - "bite, fixed, green, mountain, not, loosen"), and continuously make new progress.
"Building a Just World of Common Development and Turning Beautiful Visions into Reality" is the main part of Comrade Xi Jinping's speech on the topic of "Fighting Hunger and Poverty" at the first phase meeting of the 19th Summit of the Group of Twenty held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 18, 2024. It points out that China's development is an important part of global common development. China's poverty eradication process shows that with the resilience, perseverance, and fighting spirit of dripping water wearing through stone and drawing one blueprint to the end, the poverty problem of developing countries can be solved, and weak birds can fly first and fly high. China can succeed, and other developing countries can also succeed. This is the world significance of China's successful victory in the battle against poverty. China has always been a member of the "Global South," a reliable long-term partner of developing countries, and also an actor and doer supporting the global development cause. China is willing to act together with all parties to build a just world of common development, let poverty become a thing of the past, and let beautiful visions become reality.
"Taking Solid Steps toward Common Prosperity for All the People Is an Overall Requirement Guiding Economic and Social Development during the 15th Five-Year Plan Period" is part of the "Explanation of the Recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China for Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" made by Comrade Xi Jinping at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee on October 20, 2025. It points out that Chinese modernization is the modernization of common prosperity for all the people. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, we have adhered to not forgetting the original aspiration, considered problems from the standpoint of the people, promoted coordinated regional development, taken effective measures to guarantee and improve people's livelihood, won the battle against poverty, and built a moderately prosperous society in all respects, creating good conditions for promoting common prosperity. The draft of the Recommendations prominently emphasizes in its guiding ideology that solid steps should be taken toward common prosperity for all the people, which is an overall requirement guiding economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 10)
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Not long ago, the 47th World Congress of Vine and Wine and the General Assembly of Member States of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) was held in Yinchuan, Ningxia. "China's wines are of excellent quality, embodying both a profound understanding of China's unique terroir and a firm commitment to sustainable development," said John Barker, Director General of the OIV.
A glass of wine has traveled from the Gobi wasteland to the world. The international wine product brand ranking released at the congress showed that 19 product brands from China entered the global top 100, 9 of which came from Ningxia. In the first three quarters of this year, Ningxia's total import and export of goods reached 19.98 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24.9%.
In June 2024, when General Secretary Xi Jinping heard the work report of the Party Committee and Government of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, he required Ningxia to "adhere to combining opening up to the outside world with opening up within the country."
The China-Arab States Expo is growing ever more popular; rail-sea intermodal transport and cross-border e-commerce connect domestic and foreign markets; products such as wine, cool-climate vegetables, and wolfberry have become famous abroad (蜚声海外, feishēng hǎi wài - "fly, sound; sea, outside"). Following the direction charted by the General Secretary, Ningxia is continuously writing a new chapter of "cultivating strength both internally and externally."
Not bordering any country, not adjacent to any sea, yet continuously upgrading its channels for open development
At the Yinchuan Comprehensive Bonded Zone, on a wall of the China-Arab Economic and Trade Cooperation Demonstration Park, six large characters read "Buy globally, sell globally," catching the eye.
UAE dates, Egyptian handicrafts, Moroccan argan nuts... dozens of specialty products from Arab countries are on display here in a concentrated showcase. In the China Good Products Hall, wine, wolfberry, and other items are placed on shelves for cross-border livestream sales. Su Junping, head of the demonstration park, introduced that the park integrates exhibition and sales, negotiation, cross-border e-commerce, livestream marketing, and overseas warehouse layout into one platform. Relying on the China-Arab States Expo, it has attracted 89 enterprises from Shanghai, Zhejiang, and other places to settle in.
Ningxia continues to upgrade its channels for open development. Over the years, relying on international exhibitions such as the China-Arab States Expo, signed outcomes have been transformed batch by batch into implemented projects and increased economic and trade volumes.
"At the beginning of this year, the General Administration of Customs issued an announcement reducing the value-added tax rate on imported linseed oil and its fractions from 13% to 9%," said Feng Dayuan, head of the Bonded Business and Port Services Division of the Yinchuan Comprehensive Bonded Zone Management Committee. The park has also implemented the country's first batch of "TIR (International Road Transport) + bonded" operations, allowing goods on TIR vehicles to reach their destination countries directly. "It takes only 5 days to arrive in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, saving a considerable amount in transport costs."
Stepping into the Ningxia Bulk Commodity Cross-Border Direct Trading Platform hall, data on the trading screen jumps in real time. This platform integrates functions such as online contract signing, international logistics dispatch, and inspection and testing. Its business covers 25 countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, has attracted over 100,000 enterprises to settle in, and has listed more than 5,000 products.
"Contract signing and cross-border logistics dispatch have both saved considerable time," said Qin Xiuguang, head of the platform. Not long ago, an enterprise from Uzbekistan came to China to purchase live cattle in large quantities. Previously, this would have taken at least two months; now, through the platform, the transaction was completed in just over a week.
Eastward, "single document" rail-sea intermodal trains operate, reaching 35 countries and 61 ports via transshipment; westward, China-Central Asia freight trains operate, achieving a breakthrough from zero in TIR; southward, integration into the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor reaches Laos and Vietnam; northward, channels for importing Russian resources are kept open... Ningxia borders no country and has no coastline, yet its pace of opening up is resolute and powerful.
A frontier of opening up to the outside world, a fertile ground for exchanges between China and foreign countries. Ningxia has held the China-Arab States Technology Transfer and Innovation Cooperation Conference for 6 consecutive sessions, attracting over 3,000 Chinese and foreign guests, focusing on fields such as clean energy, green agriculture, desertification control, and artificial intelligence, releasing over 1,300 advanced applicable technological achievements, and facilitating the implementation of 109 scientific and technological cooperation agreements. At the 7th China-Arab States Expo, 331 cooperation outcomes were achieved, with intended contract signing exceeding 107.7 billion yuan.
"Ningxia's water-saving irrigation, grassland and livestock, and other industries are impressive, and the various exhibition platforms have made cooperation between Ningxia and Arab countries increasingly close," said Egyptian agricultural expert Sawi Ahmed.
Going out, obtaining certifications, and building distinctive industries in light of local conditions
Stepping into a winery at the eastern foot of the Helan Mountains, among 32,000 mu of vineyards, several micro weather stations capture wind speed, rainfall, and soil temperature and humidity in real time, providing data support for field management. In the tasting room, a glass of Cabernet Gernischt red wine is poured, its aroma wrapped in faint notes of violet and dark fruit.
"In the early days, Cabernet Gernischt had a low fruit set rate and a heavy green taste, so it could only play a 'supporting role,'" said Zhao Ning, a vineyard grower. After the winery took over the vineyard, it conducted repeated experiments in water and fertilizer management and canopy management, allowing this old variety to regain vitality (重焕生机, chóng huàn shēng jī - "again, shine, life, opportunity"). The Cabernet Gernischt dry red wine produced has since won international awards one after another, becoming a hot-selling export category. Zhao Qian, public affairs director of the winery, said, "This makes us even more confident that the world needs Chinese wine."
As of the end of 2025, the planting area of wine grapes at the eastern foot of the Helan Mountains reached 606,000 mu, accounting for 42% of the national total, with an annual output of 140 million bottles of wine, sold to more than 40 countries and regions.
Under interweaving red and blue lights, rows of seed culture dishes are neatly arranged, with temperature, humidity, and light precisely controlled. Tender green sprouts quietly emerge, continuously unfurling and growing. In the laboratory of Taijin Seeds in Pingluo County, Shizuishan City, a technician crouches down and uses fingertips to part the underside of leaves for inspection. This variety of zucchini seeds has already been sent to the Middle East for trial planting.
"Our varieties can produce stable yields all year round and hold a large share of the Middle East market," said laboratory director Shen Songzhen. Taijin Seeds' quality vegetable seeds sell well in 27 countries and regions, accounting for over 95% of Ningxia's exports.
Stepping into a wolfberry manor in Zhongning County, Zhongwei City, the cleaning, drying, and packaging production lines in the processing workshop run without pause. Here, wolfberry goes from harvest to vacuum packaging within no more than 24 hours, securing quadruple organic certification from China, the European Union, the United States, and Japan, and obtaining a passport to the world market. In the first three quarters of this year, Ningxia's total wolfberry exports reached 2,846.1 tons with a value of 160 million yuan, up 15.3% and 21.7% year-on-year respectively.
Wolfberry export value ranks first in the country, and Tan sheep and cool-climate vegetables are accelerating their way to overseas dining tables... Leveraging its unique geographical features, Ningxia, in light of local conditions, has developed distinctive agricultural industries such as wine grape cultivation and quality seed production into foreign trade industries. Specialty products of the fields have become calling cards to the outside world, deeply integrated with the international market.
Ye Jiahao, assistant researcher at the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation under the Ministry of Commerce, believes that Ningxia has already carried out standard-setting and mutual recognition in industries such as specialty agriculture, filling gaps in standards in relevant fields, and has accumulated experience and practices in rule-setting leadership in the fields of trade and investment.
Agricultural foreign trade continues to gain momentum, and the prospects for industry going global are promising.
At the Ningdong Energy and Chemical Industry Base, Baofeng Group's coal-to-olefins products have carved out a brand overseas: high-end polyolefin products are sold to Kazakhstan and Turkey; the enterprise has also carried out technical exchanges with companies from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries, and deeply participates in cooperation on the China-Arab Clean Energy Training Center project. In the first three quarters of this year, among Ningxia's export products, electromechanical products, basic organic chemicals, and other industrial products became the main engines of growth.
Promoting technology, sharing experience, and telling China's story and the Chinese spirit
At Yinchuan's Smart Palace Group, the Arabic-language version of "Minning Town" is playing on a screen. Zhou Yang, a Sudanese expert, spoke of details from the dubbing process: "In the drama, Shuihua pulls a cart carrying her child and her paralyzed husband, walking through wind and sand for seven days and seven nights. I cried the moment I saw that scene." This TV drama, based on the relocation of people from Xihaigu and the Fujian-Ningxia collaboration, has been broadcast on mainstream television stations in 12 Arab countries since its Arabic version aired in 2022. The dubbing team translated its title as "The Road to Happiness."
"Arab viewers see that China also once experienced poverty and gradually shook off backwardness through hard work. Many people see the possibility of their own development in this," Zhou Yang explained.
To date, Smart Palace has cumulatively translated and published over 1,650 book titles and dubbed more than 330 film and television works, with over 1 million instances of Chinese language learning online and offline; every week, there are more than 2,000 inquiries from Arab people on overseas social media about learning Chinese and studying in China.
Telling China's story well and spreading China's experience. In 1997, Lin Zhanxi, a professor at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, brought Juncao technology to Xihaigu. Today, this "grass of happiness" has spread to more than 110 countries and regions, trained over 18,000 international trainees, and is widely applied in more than 40 African countries.
In September this year, the "Mongolia Poverty Reduction Experience Sharing and Green Sustainable Development Study Program" opened in Yinchuan, with a total of 24 trainees. In the classroom, they gathered around Chinese technical experts, pressing for details on how to use straw checkerboard sand barriers. Since the beginning of this year, more than 600 foreign trainees from over 60 countries have come to Ningxia to learn desertification control technology.
"Desertification control has become a common challenge facing countries around the world. Drawing on China's experience can help avoid detours," said Feng Zhanwen, director of the China-Central Asia Desertification Prevention and Control Cooperation Center. The center was inaugurated in Ningxia in July 2025, and more than 100 desertification control technologies have been promoted to over 40 countries and regions.
Ningxia has carried the spirit of hard struggle and building enterprises through solid work, along with its experience in poverty alleviation and ecological governance, beyond its borders. This spirit contains the boldness of "socialism is built through hard work," the deep concern of the Fujian-Ningxia collaboration that spans mountains and seas, and the broad-mindedness of openness, inclusiveness, and mutually beneficial and win-win (互利共赢, hù lì gòng yíng - "mutual, profit; together, win") cooperation.
Night once again spreads over the Helan Mountains. On the sand dunes, the starry river hangs low; in the vineyards, vine leaves gleam gold. A cargo plane at Yinchuan Hedong International Airport is taxiing toward the runway — wolfberry concentrate, wine, and cool-climate vegetables will board the "Air Silk Road" and appear on Middle Eastern shelves 8 hours later.
An ancient saying goes, "The Yellow River enriches Ningxia." Today, what people see on this land is not only the gift of the Yellow River, but also the vitality of development rooted in China and the potential of opportunities with a global vision. Keeping in mind the earnest instructions, blazing a new path of opening up both internally and externally for an inland region, Ningxia is writing open development as a new footnote to the times.
(People's Daily reporters Qin Ruijie and Chen Xirui contributed to this report)
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On November 10, the ninth China International Import Expo concluded in Shanghai. This year's CIIE saw active trading, with intended transaction volume over one year reaching USD 85.45 billion, up 2.3 percent from the previous session; the number of Fortune Global 500 companies and industry-leading enterprises participating exceeded 300; and the number of representative exhibits making their global debut, Asian debut, or China debut reached 485 items, all setting new historical records.
"China Opportunity 2.0" will bring not only market dividends but also innovation dividends. The ever-improving CIIE demonstrates to the world that China is firmly advancing high-level opening up, continuously promoting economic globalization toward a more open, inclusive, balanced, and win-win direction, and achieving mutually beneficial and win-win (互利共赢, hu li gong ying - "mutual, benefit, together, win") outcomes and common development with countries around the world.
Adhere to sharing the market and jointly making the "cake" bigger
As the world's second-largest import market, China, through its opening-up measures of actively expanding imports, provides the world with demand, opportunities, and room for growth.
The latest data from the General Administration of Customs show that in the first ten months of this year, China's total value of imports and exports of goods trade reached 44.81 trillion yuan, up 20 percent year on year. China's super-large market continues to provide "China opportunities" to countries around the world.
From daily consumer goods to "black technology," to industrial robots and specialized production services, the exhibition booths that delighted visitors reflect the "scale" and "newness" of the Chinese market. The "Export China Capability Development Report," released for the first time at this year's CIIE, shows that China's share of absorbing global exports rose from 3.2 percent in 2000 to 9.2 percent in 2025, and the share of exports to China from countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative rose to 59.4 percent. China provides an inclusive market for economies at different stages of development, and the world increasingly values and firmly holds a positive outlook on the Chinese market.
Nine editions of the CIIE have witnessed the landing and development of multiple innovative drugs from Bayer, a "full-attendance participant," in China. At this year's CIIE, Bayer's prescription pharmaceuticals division brought eight innovative products and new indications for their "CIIE debut." "China is an important market for global innovation and also an important participant in global innovation. For Bayer, the importance of the Chinese market is increasing day by day," said Zhou Xiaolan, head of the prescription pharmaceuticals division at Bayer Group.
Attending the CIIE for the ninth time, IKEA brought its globally debuted 2027 Lunar New Year of the Sheep collection. "IKEA will continue to deepen its presence in China, starting from local needs and continuously innovating home products and solutions. We firmly believe that walking together with China means walking together with the future," said Song Ying'ai, a relevant person in charge at IKEA.
In the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, Ralph Lauren's revenue in the Chinese market grew 40 percent year on year; in the second quarter, it grew 35 percent year on year. Making its debut at the CIIE, Cai Xinhui, CEO of Ralph Lauren Asia Pacific, said: "The CIIE demonstrates China's firm commitment to advancing high-level opening up and also provides an important platform for international brands to connect with Chinese consumers and jointly pursue a better life."
Li Guoqiang, chairman of COFCO Group, said: "COFCO Group is accelerating its efforts to build a globally leading and trustworthy agricultural and food enterprise. We are willing to work with global partners to extend trade cooperation toward full-industry-chain collaboration, contributing to safeguarding global food security, promoting sustainable development of world agriculture, and advancing the building of an open world economy."
Liu Yufeng, head of the research office of the Dewu APP, said: "Through artificial intelligence technology innovation, quality assurance services, and connections to global product resources, the Dewu APP is continuously expanding its business development space, raising the development level of the quality e-commerce industry, and bringing more quality global products closer to young Chinese consumers."
Deepen global cooperation and promote mutual benefit and win-win outcomes
From product transactions to establishing production lines, and then to setting up R&D centers, Chinese and foreign enterprises are extending toward full-chain cooperation in joint R&D, industrial co-construction, and ecosystem co-creation. Sino-foreign cooperation promotes the common development of the world economy through openness, connectivity, mutual benefit, and win-win outcomes.
China's complete industrial system, rich talent and human resource advantages, and open innovation ecosystem provide foreign enterprises with a stable and predictable environment for development in China.
On the eve of the CIIE, Danfoss announced the launch of an expansion project for its global refrigeration R&D and testing center located in the Tianjin Wuqing Park; on the opening day, AstraZeneca announced multiple new progress items in its billion-yuan investment in China; during the CIIE, Wärtsilä Qiyao signed an agreement with Shanghai Lingang Green Innovation Company to jointly implement the first demonstration project of an integrated diesel-storage-solar-charging industrial green microgrid in the Lingang New Area.
"A strong reserve of engineering talent, rapid capability for landing innovative technologies, and a vibrant industrial ecosystem provide strong support for the rapid validation, continuous optimization, and scaled application of enterprises' green technologies," said Xu Yang, president of Danfoss China.
From approximately 20,000 square meters in the early stage of entering the Chinese market to over 130,000 square meters today, the expansion of HRC Carbon Fiber Group's R&D and production area reflects the firmness of the enterprise's development in China. Chen Wenjin, marketing director of HRC Carbon Fiber, said: "Through the CIIE, we hope to connect with more global buyers, meet more upstream and downstream partners, further expand our 'circle of friends,' and enhance interaction and cooperation."
From technology to products, and then to the market, the CIIE's open character, pragmatic cooperation, and accumulated achievements have become a "booster" for many foreign enterprises to invest in China.
Li Jingming, executive officer of the China region of Canada's Aenova Group, introduced that the group established its China regional headquarters in Shanghai in 2020 and has reached cooperation with dozens of Chinese enterprises, bringing the enterprise's technology and services to the vast Chinese market.
At every edition of the CIIE, Mercedes-Benz presents its latest technological achievements. This year, Mercedes-Benz comprehensively presented the application results of artificial intelligence in intelligent mobility. Ola Källenius, member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group, said that over the past five years, the group's R&D investment in China exceeded 10 billion yuan. "In the future, the enterprise will continue to accelerate localized upgrading, deepen cooperation with Chinese enterprises, and serve more consumers with better products."
When participating in the CIIE in 2018, Driscoll's brought foreign berries; participating again this year, it brought berries grown in Yunnan. "In the past, we brought the world's good products to China; today, what we bring is not only products, but also a berry industry that has gradually taken root and developed in China," said Jon Gleeson, general manager of Driscoll's Asia and Australia and New Zealand region.
Deeply integrating into China's development process and helping China's industries build, supplement, and strengthen their chains, foreign enterprises achieve common development while participating in China's industrial upgrading.
Guo Jinyi, co-founder and CEO of Luckin Coffee, introduced: "With the stage of the CIIE, the upstream and downstream of the global coffee industry chain can further deepen cooperation and achieve mutual benefit and win-win outcomes, making the global coffee production and supply chain safer, more efficient, and more resilient."
Although Swiss enterprise Sonova has not participated in the CIIE for long, it has been operating in China for nearly 30 years. Fang Fang, president of Sonova China, introduced that China has grown into a leading innovation base, not just a sales market but also capable of becoming an innovation center. "We hope that new products can be pioneered and landed in China first, and then promoted to the world."
Strengthen innovation empowerment and promote transformation and upgrading
Integrating into China's innovation ecosystem and bringing innovation achievements to the world, multinational companies' innovation practices in China inject new momentum into the transformation and upgrading of global industries.
Whether a cutting-edge technology can mature depends to a large extent on whether it is repeatedly validated in numerous scenarios. China's complete industrial system and massive application scenarios are the most precious resources for global innovation.
"The Chinese market demonstrates strong resilience and long-term growth potential. As China continues to expand high-level opening up and cultivate and strengthen new growth drivers, Henkel will continue to invest in China and strengthen its localization capabilities," said Anna, president of Henkel Greater China. In September this year, Henkel signed a strategic cooperation memorandum of understanding with CALB and jointly inaugurated a battery innovation center in Changzhou, Jiangsu.
From "Made in China" to "Created in China," multinational companies are deeply integrating into China's innovation ecosystem. At this year's CIIE, the Estée Lauder Group signed a strategic cooperation memorandum with Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group to deepen cooperation between the two sides in the field of artificial intelligence. "China has become one of the most dynamic and mature beauty markets in the world," said Stéphane de La Faverie, president and CEO of the Estée Lauder Group.
From "adapting to China" to "serving the world," the Volkswagen Group, which has exhibited for nine consecutive years, made its debut at the CIIE with the new development strategy of "deep cultivation in China, win-win for the world." Relying on China's vibrant innovation ecosystem and efficient development system, electrification and intelligent technologies developed in China will move toward the broader Global South market, and China has become an important source of innovation for Volkswagen's global business.
"China is one of the fastest-changing markets in the world. Succeeding in China can also make Nike better globally," said Shen Kaixi, vice president of Nike Group and general manager of Greater China. This year, Nike globally debuted and first exhibited three products at the CIIE, continuously adjusted its retail layout, and launched new retail concepts.
The ever-improving CIIE witnesses the two-way journey between global innovation resources and China's innovation ecosystem. The CIIE builds a cooperation platform connecting the world, promotes enterprises of various countries to deepen industrial chain collaboration, stirs up innovation vitality, and injects precious certainty and positive energy into the world economy.
(People's Daily reporters Ouyang Jie, Luo Shanshan, Qu Xinming, Wang Donghui, Qi Zhiming, Lu Tao, Lu Fanbing, Li Xingyu, Liu Wenxin)
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My journey to take up my post as ambassador to Australia began in Beijing, flying due south to Sydney, a route spanning the vast lands and seas of Asia and the Pacific. Ten hours later, catching sight of the silhouette of the Sydney Opera House outside the cabin window, I could not help but ponder: From the perspective of Australians, is Asia near or far? Do they consider themselves members of the Asia-Pacific family? Where does Australia's future lie?
With these questions in mind, the first Australian scholar I engaged with after arriving in the capital Canberra was Professor Peter Drysdale, hailed as the "academic father of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)." The 88-year-old gentleman spoke in a slow and captivating manner (娓娓道来, wei wei dao lai - "softly, slowly, speak, come") about the history of how he assisted then-Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke in advocating for and driving the establishment of APEC in 1989, recounting how Australia raised high the banner of open regionalism and free trade to break free from the geographic constraints of its solitary position in the vast ocean. He told me that a key motivation behind Australia's advocacy for APEC was the vision, drawn from China's reform and opening up, of an Asia-Pacific takeoff, and that Australia was a staunch supporter of China's accession to APEC in 1991.
It is precisely thanks to China's accession and the growth and development of APEC that Australia's bilateral and multilateral cooperation with China and other Asian countries has deepened across the board. The Asia-Pacific, as the world's most economically dynamic region, has continuously injected strong momentum into Australia's economic development and improvement of people's livelihoods. To this day, over 73 percent of Australia's trade in goods and services is conducted with APEC economies, with Australian iron ore, liquefied natural gas, and beef and mutton streaming continuously without end (源源不断, yuan yuan bu duan - "source, source, not, continuous") to Asian ports. APEC economies account for half of a territory or domain (半壁江山, ban bi jiang shan - "half, wall, river, mountain") of Australia's two-way investment, serving as an important engine underpinning Australia's economic resilience and technological innovation. Of the inbound tourists and new immigrants Australia receives, more than 70 percent come from APEC members. The Chinese cuisine, Thai tom yum soup, Vietnamese pho, South Asian curry rice, and Japanese and Korean dishes found throughout Australia are a microcosm of the country's multiculturalism.
Since taking up my post, I have made many friends in Australia, from the federal to the local level. What concerns them most is the economy and people's livelihoods; what worries them most is the spread of unilateralism and protectionism; and what gives them the most confidence is the development prospects of the Asia-Pacific, especially China. President Xi Jinping has pointed out that we must stay true to APEC's founding purpose of promoting economic growth and enhancing people's well-being, and persist in sharing opportunities and achieving win-win outcomes through open development. All sectors in Australia greatly appreciate and resonate with this, and are full of expectation for China's third time hosting APEC after a 12-year interval. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has also repeatedly stressed that APEC is an important engine driving regional economic growth and job creation, and looks forward to attending the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in China.
The countdown to the APEC meeting in Shenzhen has begun, and next year China and Australia will mark the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. The bilateral relationship faces both the pressure of regression if not progress and the momentum for improvement, with both countries viewing their coordination and interaction within the APEC framework as a positive force in bilateral ties. China and Australia are both important Asia-Pacific economies with complementary economic strengths, making them natural partners. China has been Australia's largest trading partner for 17 consecutive years, and is accelerating the construction of the new development pattern while expanding high-standard opening up. It will continue to serve as a stable and reliable source of global economic growth, providing more cooperation opportunities for countries including Australia. Under the new circumstances, both sides need to revisit APEC's founding aspirations, consolidate and safeguard the multilateral trading system, build consensus on open regionalism, uphold the correct direction of APEC's development, continue to advance trade and investment liberalization and facilitation and the building of a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific, and work together to build an Asia-Pacific community. Both sides should work together to deepen cooperation in traditional fields and broaden cooperation in frontier fields such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and clean energy.
Recently, President Xi Jinping replied to a letter from 110 young Australian students, encouraging them to continue actively participating in the cause of China-Australia friendship, "to be inheritors of China-Australia friendship and cooperation, so that the friendship between China and Australia is passed down from generation to generation, endless cycles of growth and life (生生不息, sheng sheng bu xi - "birth, birth, not, cease)." President Xi Jinping's earnest message has drawn enthusiastic responses in both China and Australia, further demonstrating that the future of bilateral relations lies in the youth. The Chinese Embassy and Consulates in Australia are giving their all to a task (全力以赴, quan li yi fu - "all, strength, with, go") together with friends from all walks of life in Australia to implement President Xi Jinping's earnest entrustment.
Australia has a saying: "Let us keep our feet on the ground and reach for the stars." The Asia-Pacific is where China and Australia find their way to live and sustain themselves (安身立命, an shen li ming - "settle, body, establish, life") and the foundation of their development and prosperity. Facing the accelerated evolution of changes unseen in a century, the two countries should treat each other as equals, seek common ground while reserving differences (求同存异, qiu tong cun yi - "seek, same, preserve, different"), and engage in mutually beneficial cooperation, anchoring on the grand vision of building an open, vibrant, resilient, and peaceful Asia-Pacific community, working together with all parties to continue writing the "Asia-Pacific miracle" and jointly create an even brighter future for the region.
(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to Australia)
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 10) (Reporter Cao Jiayue) Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, held talks with Slovak Foreign Minister Juraj Blanár in Beijing on the 10th.
Wang Yi stated that in recent years, under the joint guidance of the leaders of both countries, China and Slovakia have become an example of countries of different sizes and different systems coexisting amicably, treating each other with equality (平等相待, ping deng xiang dai - "equal, treat"), and pursuing win-win cooperation. China is willing to work with Slovakia to further consolidate political mutual trust, strengthen strategic coordination, fully unleash cooperation potential, and contribute to the healthy development of China-Europe relations and world peace and stability through higher-quality, higher-level bilateral relations.
Blanár congratulated the successful convening of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, stating that Slovakia has always regarded China as an important partner and is willing to expand exchanges and cooperation with China in various fields.
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In a conference room in Changning District, Shanghai, the atmosphere of discussion was heated.
"It is suggested that specific standards be clarified to address the problems of large differences in demand across age groups and mismatched content."
"It is suggested that feature designs prone to addiction, such as infinite scrolling and auto-play of consecutive episodes, be prohibited from being provided to minors."
The "Regulations of the State Council on Ensuring the Healthy and Safe Use of the Internet by Minors (Draft for Comments)" was recently opened for public comment. As one of the eight network legislation liaison points established nationwide by the Cyberspace Administration of China, Hongqiao Subdistrict (Gubei Civic Center) in Changning District, Shanghai, convened a legislative opinion solicitation meeting on this draft regulation, with platform representatives, experts, and grassroots members of the public attending. Since 2025, the Cyberspace Administration of China has collected more than 4,000 opinions and suggestions on key network legislation through the various network legislation liaison points.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "It is necessary to coordinate and advance legislation, law enforcement, judicature, and law popularization in the network field." The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes to "improve regulations on internet content management and network platform governance," "severely crack down on illegal and criminal acts in cyberspace," and "address chaos such as online rumors and cyberbullying, creating a clean and wholesome atmosphere (风清气正, feng qing qi zheng - "wind, clear; air, upright") in the online environment."
Pooling wisdom and ideas from various sources (集思广益, ji si guang yi - "collect, think, wide, benefit") and pooling collective wisdom and efforts (群策群力, qun ce qun li - "group, strategy, group, strength") to practice whole-process people's democracy and improve the system of network laws and regulations — this is precisely a vivid manifestation of the continuous advancement of China's network rule-of-law construction.
In the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, the cyberspace administration and relevant departments have continued to improve the system of network legal norms, strengthen law enforcement in key network areas, increase judicial protection of netizens' lawful rights and interests, coordinate the advancement of the "comprehensive network law popularization" system, and continuously raise the level of rule-of-law governance in cyberspace.
Wherever the internet develops, rule-of-law safeguards follow.
In recent years, legislation has kept a close eye on new contradictions and new risks in digital development, continuously shoring up weaknesses, building frameworks, and establishing rules.
Network service providers should "establish and improve cyberbullying prevention functions"; users who suffer harm from cyberbullying "have the right to notify network service providers to take measures such as deletion, blocking, and disconnecting links"... On July 29, the draft anti-cyberbullying law drafted by the Cyberspace Administration of China together with relevant departments was opened for public comment to the whole society. This will be China's first special legislation against cyberbullying to be formulated in the form of law.
Laws and regulations are being improved at an accelerated pace, and departmental rules and regulatory documents have been issued one after another — in April, five departments published the "Interim Measures for the Administration of Anthropomorphic Interactive Services Using Artificial Intelligence"; in June, three departments published the "Measures for the Assessment of Network Data Security Risks"; in July, the Cyberspace Administration of China and the Ministry of Public Security published the "Provisions on Simplified Measures for Personal Information Protection by Small Personal Information Processors"...
Centering on artificial intelligence governance, livestream e-commerce, and personal information protection, and in response to frontier hot spots and governance difficulties, legislation has adopted targeted measures and precise actions.
The vitality of laws and regulations lies in their enforcement.
"Heavy rain over several days in a certain city caused flooding and waterlogging at a toll station and a blueberry base!" Not long ago, a short video "went viral" online, and the "disaster" it described drew public attention.
Relevant departments intervened to verify the matter and found that the video had been fabricated by the blogger using artificial intelligence technology, solely to gain traffic and attract followers. The false information seriously disrupted local flood prevention and disaster relief order. The cyberspace administration department ordered the website platform to handle the violative account in accordance with laws and agreements, and the public security organ imposed administrative penalties on the video producer in accordance with the law.
In response to online chaos, law enforcement departments have continued to strike hard:
Routinely carrying out the "Qinglang" (Clear and Bright) series of special actions — covering key areas such as rectification of chaos in artificial intelligence application, governance of malicious hype of enterprise-related information, rectification of chaos in online entertainment group livestreaming, and protection of minors online.
Multiple departments jointly carrying out special rectification campaigns, with law enforcement in key scenarios efficiently implemented — the Central Cyberspace Administration of China and two other departments launched the 2026 special action series on personal information protection; two departments carried out concentrated rectification of online financial "black and gray industry" information chaos...
Beyond strict law enforcement, judicial innovation has filled in the governance chain.
How should responsibility be defined in disputes over the quality of goods sold via livestream commerce? Does a livestream host's belittling one person to exalt another (踩一捧一, cai yi peng yi - "step, one; praise, one") constitute reasonable evaluation or commercial disparagement? In response to new types of disputes in the digital economy, the Supreme People's Court released a batch of typical cases on August 3, covering scenarios such as livestream e-commerce, compliant platform operations, and maintenance of market competition order, delineating behavioral boundaries for market entities and stabilizing business expectations.
Since the beginning of this year, judicial adjudication rules involving artificial intelligence have continued to be refined, "digital-intelligent adjudication" has improved in quality and efficiency, and efforts have been made to uphold fairness and justice in the network field.
A digital society is shared by all, and a clear and wholesome internet is the responsibility of all. To consolidate the foundation of network rule of law, it is imperative to do a good job of network law popularization.
"Click-farming rebates hide traps; pies falling from the sky are sharp knives" "AI face-swapping easily defrauds money; verify identity before transferring funds"... In March this year, in Chengdu, Sichuan, the sound of bamboo clappers rang out and skits took the stage. Legal knowledge on preventing telecom and online fraud and protecting personal information was transformed into plain language, and the audience below understood it clearly and remembered it firmly.
This was a scene at the launching ceremony of the 2026 "Walking with the Law in the Digital Age" national network rule-of-law themed publicity campaign. The campaign runs from March to November, is jointly guided by the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Justice, and the National Office for Law Popularization, and has been rolled out in multiple locations including Sichuan, Jiangxi, Ningxia, and Liaoning, with total clicks on related publicity reports across the entire internet exceeding 8 billion.
The "Rule-of-Law Button" youth network law popularization activity was held; national network rule-of-law publicity quality works and exemplary cases continue to be released... Combining "popularizing the law through the network" with "popularizing network law," the cyberspace administration, judicial administration, and other departments have promoted the concept of network rule of law deep into people's hearts through vivid and intuitive forms.
"To safeguard high-quality development of the economy and society, network rule-of-law construction needs to seize the initiative and make forward-looking arrangements. To meet the people's needs and expectations for a sound online ecosystem, network rule-of-law construction needs to respond to concerns and take proactive action." A relevant official of the Central Cyberspace Administration of China stated that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, it is necessary to further strengthen overall coordination, enhance organizational leadership, planning guidance, and mechanism building, and continuously improve the overall effectiveness of network rule-of-law work.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 何 聪 窦瀚洋
Stepping into the People's Hospital of Kecheng District, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, on the large screen of the Smart Energy and Carbon Management Center, data such as energy consumption metering and building energy efficiency are immediately obvious and clear (一目了然, yi mu le ran - "one, eye, clearly, understand").
A comprehensive energy-saving rate of 8.22% and a carbon reduction of 506.07 tons — this is the hospital's energy-saving report card for the first three quarters of this year. Compared with before the renovation, energy consumption per unit of building area has dropped from a peak of 13.19 kg of standard coal per square meter to the current 10.69 kg of standard coal per square meter.
In September 2023, during his inspection tour in Zhejiang, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Unswervingly promote the green transformation of development models, and establish and improve an economic system of green, low-carbon, and circular development."
Since 2024, a "carbon account" has been implemented in Quzhou. Relying on the Internet of Things and big data, everything from a single bus trip to the energy consumption of an enterprise's production line is now accurately recorded.
Under the coordination and leadership of the Quzhou Municipal Development and Reform Commission, Quzhou Xin'an Energy Co., Ltd. proactively connected with the People's Hospital of Kecheng District. A brand-new Smart Energy and Carbon Management Center was established. The electricity, water, and gas consumption of each floor are monitored in real time through IoT sensors. Carbon emissions, once invisible and intangible, are now crystal clear.
"You don't realize it until you check the carbon account — and once you check it, it's a real eye-opener," said Zhu Huiwu, Party Secretary of the People's Hospital of Kecheng District. "Take the hospital's original traditional steam boiler, for example. Before the renovation, in the first half of 2025, its energy consumption was 77.28 tons of standard coal, and carbon emissions reached 137.78 tons — it was a veritable 'major carbon emitter.'"
With the baseline data now clear, how should the renovation proceed?
Quzhou innovated a "comprehensive energy trusteeship model," with Xin'an Energy fully funding the renovation costs. After the renovation is completed, the two parties use the pre-renovation energy consumption as the baseline and share the energy-saving benefits proportionally each year. "We first calculate the hospital's annual energy costs before the renovation. After that, however much energy consumption drops and however much money is saved, the two parties share it according to the agreed proportion," said Zheng Kun, Manager of the Market Development Department of Xin'an Energy Co., Ltd. "In a few years, we will have recouped our investment."
The traditional steam boiler was replaced with an air-source heat pump unit, reducing carbon emissions by 66.43 tons in the first half of this year; magnetic levitation air-conditioning units replaced the outdated screw-type water chillers, more than doubling cooling efficiency, with an expected annual electricity saving of about 260,000 kWh and a carbon dioxide reduction of 132 tons; the underground garage was fitted with 8-watt radar-sensing light tubes — lights on when cars come, lights dim when cars leave — saving 53% more energy than ordinary light tubes and cutting electricity costs by more than 20,000 yuan a year...
The visible changes are all around us; the invisible changes are in our hearts.
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes: "Accelerate the green and low-carbon transformation of development models, and foster new ways of green production and new trends in green living." On May 1 this year, the "Regulations of Quzhou City on the Construction and Application of Carbon Accounts" came into effect.
"Carbon reduction has the nation's big ledger, and it also has the individual's small ledger," said Wei Yanfen, an employee of the People's Hospital of Kecheng District, who has a strong sense of environmental awareness. "Low-carbon behaviors such as taking the bus and paying bills online earned me 5,600 carbon points last year. The low-carbon rating has also brought real money. When I bought a new-energy vehicle, the bank's credit line was raised from 100,000 yuan to 200,000 yuan, and the loan interest rate was simultaneously lowered by 0.3 percentage points."
As of now, 1,098 public institutions across Quzhou, including government agencies and public institutions, hospitals, schools, and supermarkets, have established carbon accounts, and 7 offline smart energy and carbon typical application scenarios have been built. The coverage rate of personal carbon accounts among residents aged 18 and above citywide has reached 95%, with a cumulative recorded emission reduction of more than 60,000 tons, and carbon inclusive activities have benefited 1.6 million person-times.
Thoroughly implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, Quzhou is closely focusing on achieving the "dual carbon" goals, continuously deepening multi-dimensional pathway exploration, establishing and improving long-term development mechanisms, and shaping new drivers and new advantages for economic and social development through green and low-carbon transformation.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 10) Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, held a telephone conversation on November 10 at the request of French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot.
Wang Yi stated that China and France are both founding members of the United Nations and permanent members of the Security Council. The two sides maintaining communication and strengthening coordination on the development and changes of the international situation is of great importance to upholding the international system centered on the United Nations. China is willing to work with France to fulfill the special responsibilities of permanent members of the Security Council and safeguard the common interests of the international community.
Wang Yi said that maintaining the healthy and stable development of China-France relations serves the interests of both countries and the international community. The two sides should implement the consensus of the two heads of state, strengthen dialogue and cooperation, consolidate political mutual trust, and jointly respond to various risks and challenges. It is hoped that the French side will adhere to the one-China principle with concrete actions and safeguard the political foundation of China-France relations. For China and Europe, cooperation brings mutual benefit while conflict causes mutual harm (合则两利、斗则俱伤, he ze liang li, dou ze ju shang - "join, then both benefit; fight, then both suffer"). It is expected that the European side will move towards each other in a spirit of cooperation (相向而行, xiang xiang er xing - "facing each other, walk") with the Chinese side to jointly build a stable and balanced China-EU key trade partnership. It is believed that France, as a core major power of the European Union, will play a constructive role in this regard.
Barrot stated that the French side has always attached great importance to China's status as a major power, adheres to the one-China policy, and hopes to maintain high-level interactions with the Chinese side, deepen strategic mutual trust, strengthen communication and coordination on major issues such as United Nations affairs and artificial intelligence, and work hand in hand to defend multilateralism, safeguard global security and stability, and promote common development and prosperity. The French side is willing to play an active role in promoting dialogue and cooperation between Europe and China.
The two sides also exchanged views on issues of common concern, including the election of the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Return to TopBy: 吴怀中 陈 祥
The ever-expanding defense spending continuously squeezes resources for people's livelihood, and the rigid and confrontational diplomatic line further depletes room for development. Japan is paying an increasingly heavy economic and social price for its "remilitarization."
Since Takaichi Sanae became Prime Minister of Japan, Japan has been sliding step by step down the dangerous path of "new militarism." This has not only aroused high vigilance in the international community, but has also caused deep unease among the Japanese public at home. The ever-expanding defense spending continuously squeezes resources for people's livelihood, and the rigid and confrontational diplomatic line further depletes room for development. Japan is paying an increasingly heavy economic and social price for its "remilitarization."
At the start of her term, Takaichi made a high-profile pledge to "give priority to addressing the problem of high prices," yet over the past year this has yielded very little result (收效甚微, shou xiao shen wei - "receive, effect, very, slight"), and the pain points in people's livelihood have remained unresolved for a long time, becoming an important factor behind the decline in her approval rating. A survey by the Bank of Japan shows that more than 95 percent of respondents believe current prices have risen compared with the previous year, and nearly 90 percent of respondents expect prices to continue rising over the coming year. To ease pressure from public opinion, the Takaichi cabinet has made a "reduction in the consumption tax on food" its main proposal, planning to cut the tax rate from 8 percent to 1 percent within two years starting in April 2027. But the tax cut and transitional subsidies together would require about 5 trillion yen per year, and the source of funding remains unresolved to this day. Against the backdrop of weak economic growth, Japan's fiscal space is continuously narrowing. According to the latest World Economic Outlook report of the International Monetary Fund, Japan's gross domestic product (GDP) will be surpassed by India and the United Kingdom in 2027, with its overall economic ranking falling from the current fourth place in the world to sixth. According to public data from Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's government debt exceeds 200 percent of GDP, ranking first among major developed countries. As interest rates enter an upward cycle, the burden of interest payments on government bonds continues to climb, and fiscal sustainability already faces a severe test, while the ever-expanding defense spending is further aggravating the contradiction between revenue and expenditure.
In sharp contrast to the sluggish economy and having inadequate resources to meet needs (捉襟见肘, zhuo jin jian zhou - "pull, collar, see, elbow") in investment in people's livelihood is the dangerous trend of Japan's ever-expanding defense spending. Takaichi has made military expansion and "remilitarization" the focus of her governing line, and this policy preference is causing resources in the field of people's livelihood to come under continuous pressure. According to the budget plan released by Japan's Ministry of Defense, in 2025 Japan completed ahead of schedule its goal of defense spending accounting for 2 percent of GDP, and in fiscal year 2026 defense spending broke through the 9 trillion yen mark, achieving "14 consecutive increases." At the same time, Japan formally revised the "Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment," permitting the export of lethal weapons; established a "National Intelligence Agency" to strengthen foreign intelligence collection and support capabilities for military operations; revised the "three security documents" ahead of schedule; and has even attempted to break the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles," repeatedly floating signals of exploring nuclear armament. The Takaichi cabinet is trying to "drive the economy with the military industry," but a large share of the related investment flows to overseas weapons procurement, with only a small number of military enterprises profiting. This can neither drive overall economic growth nor will it cause a misallocation of innovation resources, dragging down the transformation and upgrading of the real economy.
Japan's repeated challenges to the postwar international order and its accelerated push for "remilitarization" have also left its diplomacy in an awkward predicament. Japan's relations with its neighbors in Northeast Asia remain tense. What is particularly egregious is that in November last year, Takaichi Sanae openly made erroneous remarks on Taiwan in the Diet, seriously violating the spirit and principles of the four China-Japan political documents, crudely interfering in China's internal affairs, and refusing to retract the remarks after China's solemn representations, thereby plunging Sino-Japanese relations into a stalemate. A series of moves by the Japanese government, such as lifting the ban on the export of lethal weapons and accelerating the militarization of the southwestern islands, has completely overturned the peaceful diplomatic line that Japan had long adhered to after the war and raised the risk of an arms race in the region. Even more dangerous is Takaichi's erroneous view of history. This year she has already made offerings or sent ritual fees to Yasukuni Shrine on multiple occasions, and on August 15, the anniversary of Japan's defeat and surrender in the war, she performed a "distant worship," triggering strong dissatisfaction among countries in the region.
Japan's constant creation of regional tension and its stubborn push for "remilitarization" are, in essence, overdrawing the country's future. History has repeatedly proven that peaceful development is the fundamental path to maintaining long-term peace and stability (长治久安, chang zhi jiu an - "long, govern, long, peace") for a nation. If Takaichi continues to bet on the aforementioned erroneous historical perceptions and real-world policies, binding Japan's development prospects to political ambition and military expansion, what will ultimately pay the price will be nothing other than Japan's own peace, stability, and long-term development prospects.
(The authors are respectively a research fellow and an associate research fellow at the Institute of Japanese Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Istanbul, November 10) (Reporter Li Ming) The China-Turkey Green Development Business Forum was held in Istanbul, Turkey, on November 9. The event was co-hosted by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey, with nearly 300 representatives from the political and business communities of both countries in attendance.
Ren Hongbin, President of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, stated that in recent years, under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, China-Turkey economic and trade cooperation has maintained a sound momentum of development and achieved fruitful achievements (丰硕成果, feng shuo cheng gu - "abundant, fruitful, results"). Green development is one of the most promising areas of bilateral economic and trade cooperation. This event aims to help the business communities of both countries seize opportunities, strengthen connectivity, and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation in the green sector.
Turkish Vice President Yılmaz said in his address that this year marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkey and China. Turkey attaches great importance to developing relations with China and hopes to promote a more balanced and sustainable development of bilateral economic relations. Turkey regards the green transition as one of the fundamental elements of its development policy, welcomes more Chinese enterprises to invest in Turkey, and is willing to strengthen the alignment of the "Middle Corridor" plan with the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, consolidating Turkey-China and regional connectivity cooperation.
During the thematic discussion session, representatives from the political and business communities of China and Turkey engaged in in-depth exchanges on topics such as green energy and low-carbon industrial chains, and the "Middle Corridor" and hub economy. During the forum, business matchmaking sessions divided by industry were also held, building a practical cooperation platform for enterprises of the two countries.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 10) Wang Dongfeng, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the CPPCC National Committee, held talks in Beijing on the 10th with Bousady, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Lao Front for National Construction. The two sides exchanged views on implementing the important consensus of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, deepening cooperation and exchanges, and making progress more profound and substantive (走深走实, zou shen zou shi - "walk deep, walk solid") in building the China-Laos community with a shared future. Wang Dongfeng also briefed on the situation of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Paris, November 10) (Reporter Shang Kaiyuan) The ninth Paris Peace Forum opened in Paris, France, on the 10th. Under the theme "From Sovereignty to Cooperation," more than 350 participants from around the world will discuss topics including "Peace and Geopolitics," "Development," and "Emerging Technologies."
UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered a video address at the forum's opening ceremony that day, stating that sovereign equality is one of the core principles of the UN Charter, and that cooperation is an important way for countries to better safeguard their sovereignty. He called on all parties to build a multipolar world on the basis of international law.
According to the organizers, against the backdrop of current pressures on multilateral mechanisms and international law, countries must strengthen cooperation while safeguarding their own sovereignty in order to address global challenges in areas such as security, climate, technology, and development.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 10) On November 10, Liu Haixing, Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, met separately in Beijing with Moussa, General Secretary of the Congolese Labour Party, and Massimo D'Alema, former Prime Minister of Italy, exchanging views on implementing the consensus of leaders of both sides, strengthening exchanges and cooperation, and promoting the development of China-Africa and China-Europe relations.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 10) (Reporter Peng Bo) Li Hongzhong, a member of the Central Publicity Group, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and Vice Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, on November 10 delivered a presentation on the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee at the offices of the National People's Congress.
Li Hongzhong gave a systematic presentation and in-depth interpretation of the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session, covering such aspects as deeply understanding that the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee was a very important meeting convened at a critical juncture in basically realizing socialist modernization, deeply studying and comprehending the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Plenary Session, and comprehensively and accurately understanding the overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures for unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Li Hongzhong emphasized that the major achievements and strategic deployments made by the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee further demonstrate that the Two Establishments (两个确立) are a major political achievement of Party building in the new era, fully reflect the high degree of historical initiative of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in uniting and leading the entire Party and people of all ethnic groups across the country to revitalize the Party and strengthen the country, and will inevitably exert a major and far-reaching influence on the development of the cause of the Party and the state on the new journey of the new era. It is necessary to thoroughly study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, resolutely achieve the Two Upholds, conscientiously implement the Party Central Committee's strategic deployment of unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, lead high-quality development of the work of the People's Congress with high-quality Party building, and uphold, improve, and operate well the system of People's Congresses.
Members of the Party Leadership Group of the organs of the National People's Congress, responsible comrades of the various special committees and working committees, and Party members and cadres of the organs attended the report meeting.
(People's Daily, Beijing, November 10) Wu Zhenglong, a member of the Central Publicity Group, State Councilor and Secretary-General of the State Council, on November 10 delivered a presentation on the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee at the offices of the General Office of the State Council.
Wu Zhenglong, centering on studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Plenary Session and the spirit of the Decision, and in conjunction with studying and implementing Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, gave a focused interpretation and systematic exposition of the spirit of the Plenary Session from such aspects as deeply comprehending the great significance of the Plenary Session, deeply grasping the great achievements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, and comprehensively and accurately understanding the importance, urgency, overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures of unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Wu Zhenglong emphasized that it is necessary to regard studying and implementing the spirit of the Plenary Session as a major political task, deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, resolutely achieve the Two Upholds, adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, unswervingly advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, take the Party's political construction as the guide, comprehensively advance all aspects of Party building, firmly grasp the fundamental task of strengthening Party spirit, conscientiously fulfill the political responsibility for governing the Party and running the Party strictly, take the lead in the first echelon, serve as the "three role models," and build model organs. It is necessary to consolidate and expand the achievements of study and education, adhere to promoting high-quality development of the economy and society with a correct view of political achievements, solidly advance the implementation and effectiveness of various policies and measures, ensure the completion of the year's main goals and tasks and a good start for the 15th Five-Year Plan, and make new and greater contributions to comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization.
Responsible comrades of the General Office of the State Council and the Research Office of the State Council, as well as representatives of Party members and cadres, attended the report meeting.
(People's Daily, Beijing, November 10) Mu Hong, a member of the Central Publicity Group and Vice Chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, on the 10th delivered a presentation on the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee at the offices of the CPPCC National Committee.
Mu Hong, centering on General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the Decision of the Plenary Session, gave a systematic and in-depth presentation from such aspects as fully understanding the major achievements made in the cause of the Party and the state since the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, the strategic considerations of the Party Central Committee in setting the agenda of the Plenary Session, and deeply comprehending the great significance, overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures of unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Mu Hong pointed out that the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference must deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, resolutely achieve the Two Upholds, unswervingly uphold the overall leadership of the Communist Party of China and the centralized, unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, take the Party's political construction as the guide to comprehensively advance the Party building of the CPPCC, unremittingly use the Party's innovative theories to strengthen people's resolve and character (凝心铸魂, ning xin zhu hun - "congeal heart, cast soul"), comprehensively study and implement Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, strictly strengthen work style construction, consolidate and expand the achievements of study and education in establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, and implement the requirements of unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Wang Dongfeng, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the CPPCC National Committee, presided over the report meeting. Shen Yueyue, Wang Yong, Xian Hui, and Jiang Xinzhi, Vice Chairmen of the CPPCC National Committee, attended. Deputy Secretaries-General of the CPPCC National Committee, members of the Party Leadership Group of the organs, responsible comrades of the various special committees, some members of the Standing Committee and members of the CPPCC National Committee in Beijing, and Party members and cadres at or above the deputy division level in the organs of the CPPCC National Committee attended the report meeting.
(People's Daily, Nanning, November 10) (Reporter Zhu Jiaqi) The Central Publicity Group for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee on November 10 delivered a presentation in Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Zhang Yuzhuo, a member of the Central Publicity Group and President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, delivered the presentation report.
At the report meeting, Zhang Yuzhuo, closely adhering to the theme of the presentation, centering on the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Unswervingly Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party adopted at the Plenary Session, gave a systematic presentation and in-depth interpretation of the spirit of the Plenary Session from such aspects as deeply understanding the great significance of the Plenary Session, deeply studying and comprehending the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Plenary Session, and comprehensively and accurately understanding the Party Central Committee's overall requirements, strategic tasks, and major measures for unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
In his presentation, Zhang Yuzhuo stated that it is necessary to deeply comprehend the Party Central Committee's strategic considerations in unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and consciously unify thoughts and actions with the decisions and deployments made at the Plenary Session. It is necessary to regard studying and implementing the spirit of the Plenary Session as a major political task, focus on the major deployments, important tasks, and key work of the Decision, implement them in light of actual conditions, unswervingly advance full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and continuously open up new prospects for governing the Party and running the Party strictly and revitalizing and strengthening the Party in the new era.
On the afternoon of the 10th, Zhang Yuzhuo went to the Madao Hub of the Pinglu Canal, where he delivered a presentation on the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee to grassroots Party members, cadres, and the masses, and engaged in interactive exchanges with them.
(People's Daily, Chengdu, November 10) (Reporter Li Kaixuan) The Central Publicity Group for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee on November 10 delivered a presentation in Sichuan Province. Xie Chuntao, a member of the Central Publicity Group and Executive Vice President of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee (National Academy of Governance), delivered the presentation report.
At the report meeting, Xie Chuntao profoundly elucidated the great significance of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, closely centering on the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Plenary Session and the Decision of the CPC Central Committee on Several Major Issues Concerning Unswervingly Advancing Full and Rigorous Self-Governance of the Party, and gave a comprehensive presentation and in-depth interpretation from such aspects as the great achievements of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, the major guiding significance of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, and the importance, urgency, guiding ideology and principles, strategic tasks, and major measures of unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Before the meeting, Xie Chuntao went to Zhanqi Village, Tangchang Town, Pidu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, to deliver a presentation and engage in interactive exchanges with representatives of grassroots cadres and the masses.
(People's Daily, Yinchuan, November 10) (Reporter Zhang Wen) The Central Publicity Group for studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee on November 10 delivered a presentation in Yinchuan City, Ningxia. Zhou Xinqun, a member of the Central Publicity Group and Deputy Director of the Central Policy Research Office, delivered the presentation report.
At the report meeting, Zhou Xinqun, centering on studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the spirit of the Decision of the Plenary Session, introduced the basic situation of the Plenary Session, the drafting process and main features of the Decision, and gave a comprehensive presentation and in-depth interpretation of the spirit of the Plenary Session, focusing on such aspects as deeply understanding the great significance of the Plenary Session, the new situation, new tasks, and new challenges facing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and systematically and deeply grasping the several major issues concerning the Party Central Committee's unswerving advancement of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party.
Zhou Xinqun stated that the Decision makes strategic deployments for governing the Party and running the Party strictly and revitalizing and strengthening the Party for the current and future period, and is a programmatic document for advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era. It is necessary to regard studying and implementing the spirit of the Plenary Session as a major political task, closely combine it with in-depth study and implementation of Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, implement with practical actions the various deployments for unswervingly advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, and provide a strong guarantee for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese modernization.
On the afternoon of the 10th, Zhou Xinqun went to Minning Town, Yongning County, Yinchuan City, where he engaged in interactive exchanges with grassroots Party members, cadres, and the masses on studying and implementing the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee.
Return to Top(Xinhua News Agency, Shanghai, November 10) Zhang Guoqing, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, conducted research in Shanghai from the 9th to the 10th. He emphasized the need to thoroughly implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping and the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, solidly advance the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, continuously enhance industrial innovation capabilities, and better support and underpin high-quality development of the economy.
Zhang Guoqing successively visited enterprises in industries such as instrumentation and medical equipment, inspecting laboratories and production workshops on site, and learning from enterprise leaders, R&D personnel, and frontline workers about production and operations, R&D and innovation, and other matters. He emphasized the need to highlight the supply of scientific and technological innovation and the traction of industrial demand, empower industrial innovation with high-quality scientific and technological supply, and drive scientific and technological innovation with industrial demand for high-end, green, and intelligent development, accelerating the transformation of innovation achievements into real productive forces. It is necessary to strengthen basic research, focus on weak links in key areas, intensify breakthroughs in advanced basic processes, key basic materials, and basic components, and build a solid technological foundation for industrial development. It is necessary to improve the mechanism for transforming innovation achievements that integrates research and application, strengthen specialized services such as intellectual property protection, entrepreneurship incubation, and technology finance, promote the opening of application scenarios and collaborative sharing, and smooth the innovation chain linking technological breakthroughs, pilot testing, application of achievements, and iterative upgrading. It is necessary to foster a sound innovation ecosystem, deepen integrated innovation among large, medium, and small enterprises and among upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain, and guide large enterprises to open application scenarios and supply chains to small and medium-sized enterprises. Traditional industries are the basic support for economic growth and employment and income; it is necessary to deeply advance the empowerment of traditional industries with advanced technologies and promote the high-quality development of traditional industries.
Zhang Guoqing also went deep into grassroots departments and units, holding discussions and exchanges with cadres from municipal, district, and township levels, enterprise representatives, and others, and listening to opinions and suggestions. He emphasized the need to innovate consumption scenarios, optimize the consumption environment, continuously expand the supply of high-quality products and services, and promote consumption upgrading. Greater attention should be paid to combining "hard investment" with "soft construction," and, taking the construction of the "six networks" as an opportunity, strengthen project reserves and preliminary work, and advance the construction of major projects in light of local conditions. It is necessary to deepen the construction of the unified national market in an all-round way, strengthen the rigid constraints of fair competition review, deepen the comprehensive rectification of "involution-style" competition, and create a fair and orderly market competition environment. It is necessary to promptly resolve the practical difficulties faced by grassroots units and business entities, intensify efforts to resolve the problem of arrears owed to enterprises, stabilize employment for key groups, firmly uphold the bottom line of the "three guarantees" at the grassroots level, and consolidate and expand the momentum of steady improvement in the economy.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 10) (Reporter Li Zhuo'er) In order to implement the "Regulations on Promoting Nationwide Reading" and carry out the tasks set forth in the 2026 "Report on the Work of the Government," recently, the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Central Social Work Department, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and the National Cultural Heritage Administration jointly issued the "Notice of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Others on Supporting Physical Bookstores in Serving Nationwide Reading."
The notice proposes that the quality of bookstore supply should be improved, a "Thousand Store Managers" growth and training plan should be implemented, bookstores' ability to select products should be enhanced, a public database of "bookstore keynote speakers" should be established, Xinhua Bookstores should be promoted to update their store networks and outlets, the differentiated development of private bookstores should be encouraged, and reading promotion volunteer service activities should be carried out relying on bookstores. It is necessary to cultivate distinctive reading spaces, create a number of landmark bookstores, distinctive bookstores, themed bookstores, and "small but beautiful" spaces, integrate them into urban renewal actions, and include them in complete communities and the city's 15-minute convenient living circle.
The notice stipulates that bookstores should be supported in participating in public cultural services, undertaking the operation and management of grassroots nationwide reading facilities, library distribution services for library collections, and reading activities, promoting the deep integration of bookstores with public cultural institutions, and, in light of actual conditions, including them in the county-level public library general-branch library system and the scope of support for new types of public cultural spaces. It is necessary to empower the building of scholarly campuses, encourage bookstores to build off-campus reading guidance classrooms and reading practice bases, participate in the construction of school reading spaces, themed reading activities, and the updating and supplementation of library books, and support the construction of campus bookstores.
The notice makes clear that financial support and guidance should be strengthened, with local finances supporting bookstores in equally participating in undertaking government-purchased service projects such as public reading services, central finances reflecting performance-based rewards, and various localities driving book reading and sales through measures such as issuing people-benefiting book purchase vouchers and nationwide reading consumption vouchers. It is necessary to help bookstores reduce costs and increase efficiency, encourage state-owned enterprises and public institutions to reduce or waive fees such as rent, optimize the procedures for handling licenses and permits for bookstores' diversified operations, promote the connection and integration of online and offline operations, promote bookstore map navigation, and continuously regulate the order of online book distribution.
The notice proposes that all localities and relevant departments should establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, refine measures in light of local conditions around the various work arrangements, establish a collaborative promotion working mechanism, and foster a strong atmosphere in which all sectors of society support the development of bookstores and participate in nationwide reading.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李卓尔
In February this year, at No. 153 Guping Road, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, the old bookstore "Xiaofeng Bookstore" (晓风书屋), which had been closed for eight years, reopened at its original site.
On the day it opened, the first reader to enter the store, Zhu Wen, brought a 1975 edition of Das Kapital and donated it to the bookstore. "When I learned the bookstore was reopening, I specially searched for it at home," he said.
The rebirth of a bookstore touches the hearts of many readers. A message on the bookstore's message board reads: "The passage of time and changing of the seasons (斗转星移, dou zhuan xing yi - "fight, turn; star, move"), round and round we go, and our memories have come back."
This year, "supporting the development of physical bookstores" was written into the Government Work Report for the first time. Physical bookstores are important cultural facilities, carrying functions such as book distribution and reading promotion. The deepening of nationwide reading has not only opened up new development space for physical bookstores but also placed higher demands on their service capabilities.
Recently, the Notice of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and Others on Supporting Physical Bookstores in Serving Nationwide Reading (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice") was issued, making arrangements in areas such as improving the quality of bookstore supply, cultivating distinctive reading spaces, supporting bookstores in participating in public cultural services, and strengthening fiscal support and guidance, thereby clarifying specific pathways for physical bookstores to serve nationwide reading.
Selecting Good Books
The Notice proposes improving the quality of bookstore supply, enhancing book-selection capabilities, encouraging differentiated development of private bookstores, and implementing a "Thousand Store Managers" growth training program.
China publishes more than 200,000 new book titles each year. Selecting good books for readers is a major value of bookstores.
Qingyuan Bookstore (青苑书店) in Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, does "subtraction": each year it selects only 5 percent of new books for its shelves, maintaining long-term cooperation with Zhonghua Book Company, SDX Joint Publishing Company, and others, focusing on classic literature, history, and traditional culture. On the bookshelves, translated masterpieces and Oracle Bone Script series are arranged neat and tidy (整整齐齐, zheng zheng qi qi - "straight, straight; neat, neat").
"What many readers need is not just a book, but systematic nourishment of knowledge," said Fang Wenmin, head of procurement at Qingyuan Bookstore. The bookstore relies on years of sales data and reader feedback to assess demand, and also on the professional competence of its staff to select and introduce good books. When the TV drama The Peaceful Era became popular, the store not only stocked bestsellers but also set up a themed display on "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and Wuyue Culture," bringing readers a richer experience.
Beijing's China Bookstore (中国书店), meanwhile, focuses on "selecting editions." After being closed for many years, the Longfu Temple branch of China Bookstore reopened in February this year, and its used-book section is bustling: the 1979 Zhonghua Book Company edition of The Collected Works of Bai Juyi is in excellent condition with fine printing, and early editions of Yao Xueyin's full-length historical novel Li Zicheng also draw book collectors to pause and examine them. The store has also opened an exhibition titled "Ancient Books as Art," attracting readers to linger among the displays.
"By uncovering the beauty of block-printing and the beauty of paper in ancient books, we want readers to feel that ancient books are not only carriers of knowledge but also tangible, touchable witnesses to history," said Liu Yichen, deputy general manager of China Bookstore.
Bringing Spaces to Life
University Road in Wujiaochang Subdistrict, Yangpu District, Shanghai, is only 700 meters long. Through the creation of distinctive reading spaces, its weekend foot traffic exceeds 100,000 visits.
In 2022, Fudan Used Bookstore, which had been open for more than 20 years, faced relocation due to the renovation of its original neighborhood. After receiving an invitation from Wujiaochang Subdistrict, it found a new home on University Road. Today, University Road has gathered a cluster of distinctive bookstores, including Fudan Used Bookstore, Shanghai Book City, Duoyun Academy, and Mystery House (谜芸馆). In 2025, the neighborhood hosted nearly 900 events, welcomed over 12 million visits, and achieved sales exceeding 200 million yuan.
The renewal of bookstores cannot be separated from their own proactive exploration. Mystery House once faced operational difficulties. The owner, Shi Chen, persisted in exploring, publishing an annual ranking of mystery novels and building a mystery salon, shifting from selling books to a composite operation integrating "reading, socializing, and copyright" elements, giving the bookstore new vitality.
The renewal of bookstores cannot be separated from strong policy support. Wujiaochang Subdistrict has simplified the filing process for events, allowed stores to set up outdoor displays, and supported bookstores in selling coffee and tea drinks. These flexible measures have injected vitality into bookstore development, and more and more bookstores are making flexible use of their spaces and gathering foot traffic.
The Notice proposes integrating into urban renewal initiatives, establishing themed bookstores in historical and cultural districts and heritage buildings, building a batch of "small but beautiful" reading spaces embedded in urban and rural communities, and incorporating bookstores into the city's 15-minute convenient living circle.
Guwu Xuan Bookstore (古吴轩书店) in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, sits adjacent to the former residence of Zhang Taiyan, exploring a "heritage protection + bookstore" model, running "Zhang Garden Night School" with more than 60 courses including ancient book restoration and Kunqu opera, attracting over 2,000 participant visits. In Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, the Gansu Provincial Library and Northwest Book City have explored a "You Borrow, We Pay" model, allowing readers to borrow books from the book city using their library cards. Hubei Province has built 36 university bookstores, bringing bookstores onto campuses. Deqing County in Zhejiang Province has promoted a "farmers' bookstore + Xinhua Bookstore" model, where townships provide the venues and Xinhua Bookstore manages operations, with books refreshed monthly and urban-rural interlibrary borrowing and return. A series of innovative explorations is making bookstores more grounded and more popular.
Bringing Costs Down
The Notice proposes strengthening fiscal support and guidance, with localities able to drive book reading and sales through measures such as issuing subsidized book purchase vouchers and nationwide reading consumption vouchers; and encouraging state-owned enterprises and public institutions to reduce or waive rent, utilities, and property management fees for bookstores leasing their premises, helping bookstores reduce costs and increase efficiency.
In July this year, Guizhou launched a campaign to boost consumption of publications, introducing instant discounts on book purchases through UnionPay QuickPass, with tiered discounts based on order amounts. The campaign attracted more than 200 state-owned and private bookstores across the province, with 5 million yuan in promotional funds driving sales of over 18 million yuan and more than 100,000 transactions, benefiting over 120,000 reader visits.
With rising costs for rent, labor, and logistics, some bookstores face considerable operational pressure in their development. Localities are continuously increasing support, reducing bookstore operating costs, and enhancing bookstores' capacity for self-generation.
Joy City, under COFCO Group, offers rent concessions to 35 bookstores across 25 shopping malls, allowing the malls to gather foot traffic and the bookstores to gather cultural atmosphere. In July this year, on the 9th floor of Beijing Chaoyang Joy City, a 3,700-square-meter CITIC Bookstore opened, attracting over 100,000 visits in its first week, with sales exceeding 500,000 yuan and readers averaging 80 minutes of stay.
The Regulations on Promoting Nationwide Reading stipulate that people's governments at or above the county level shall adopt policy measures to support the development of physical bookstores and encourage physical bookstores to improve reading conditions and carry out reading activities.
Zhejiang supports bookstores in carrying out reading promotion through government purchase of services, with provincial-level investment exceeding 10 million yuan supporting more than 300 bookstores; San Dieji·TRIBE Bookstore in Jinan City, Shandong Province, has explored a "zero rent + revenue sharing" cooperation model with its park, with average monthly revenue of about 300,000 yuan; Pengshan District in Meishan City, Sichuan Province, handles matters involved in opening a bookstore, such as business licenses and publication operation permits, through parallel processing...
Helping physical bookstores find their way forward also requires making good use of online traffic. The Notice proposes promoting bookstore map navigation. In July this year, Amap, together with nine cities including Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, launched a "City Book Fragrance Map," marking the coordinates of more than 400 physical bookstores. Not long ago, this map was extended to Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, and Guizhou, adding a new batch of city locations.
It is the fragrance of books that carries one farthest. As the points on the map grow more numerous, the prompt "There is a bookstore ahead" will bring more people to encounter and connect with bookstores, helping physical bookstores further radiate new vitality.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 10) (Reporter Li Zhuo'er) On November 10, the All-China Journalists Association held its 199th News Tea, inviting Han Qiang, former dean of the School of Marxism at Beijing Foreign Studies University, to exchange views with journalists stationed in Beijing from multiple countries, diplomats from foreign embassies, and media reporters from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan on the theme of "Xi Jinping's Thought on Party Building and the Party's Theoretical Innovation."
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party was a very important meeting convened at a new historical starting point, making new strategic arrangements for unswerving and persistent effort (持之以恒, chi zhi yi heng - "hold on, continue, with, persistence") in advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, which has drawn attention from the international community. Combining the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, Han Qiang interpreted the strategic arrangements for full and rigorous self-governance of the Party in the new era, introduced the great achievements and valuable experience of Party building, explained the Party's theoretical innovation achievements and its commitment to its original aspiration and founding mission, and conducted a question-and-answer interaction with the journalists present.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李心萍
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes "stepping up efforts to safeguard and improve people's livelihoods." How will work in education, elderly care, childcare, and other areas be carried out? On November 10, the National Development and Reform Commission held the fourth press conference in the "Striving for the 15th Five-Year Plan" series to introduce the relevant situation.
Education is the foundation of a long-term fundamental undertaking (百年大计, bai nian da ji - "hundred, years, great, plan"). At present, China's school-age population for kindergartens, primary schools, and junior high schools has peaked, while the school-age population for senior high schools and higher education continues to grow, which places new demands on resource allocation. Huang Weiru (黄玮茹), Deputy Director General of the Department of Social Development of the National Development and Reform Commission, stated that in the next step, work will be carried out around "three adaptations" to proactively respond to changes in the total size and structure of the school-age population——
Adapt to the downward trend in the total school-age population and optimize the allocation of preschool and compulsory education resources. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the number of students enrolled in kindergartens, primary schools, and junior high schools in China decreased by nearly 17 million. With regard to some surplus preschool and compulsory education resources, the National Development and Reform Commission will guide all localities to make coordinated allocations between urban and rural areas and between schools, open up channels for sharing school building resources across different school segments within counties, and orderly advance small-class teaching, so that children can enjoy higher-quality education.
Adapt to changes in the structure of the school-age population and increase the supply of senior high school and higher education places through multiple channels. In terms of senior high schools, support will continue for the construction of teaching buildings, dormitories, canteens, playgrounds, and other facilities in senior high schools, improving schooling conditions and enhancing the capacity to supply places. In terms of higher education, the enrollment scale of high-quality undergraduate education will be steadily expanded, and "Double First-Class" universities will be guided to give priority to using newly added resources for expanding undergraduate enrollment. This year, "Double First-Class" universities expanded undergraduate enrollment by 24,000 students.
Adapt to regional differentiation in the school-age population and better safeguard the right of all groups in urban and rural areas to receive education on an equal footing. From 2021 to 2025, the ratio of students enrolled in basic education in urban areas to those in rural areas in China increased from approximately 8:2 to approximately 9:1. In the next step, the proportion of children of migrant workers enrolled in public schools will be continuously raised, support will be given to localities in running necessary small rural schools and building well rural boarding schools, and educational equity will be effectively upheld.
"The elderly and the young" bear on the well-being of countless households. This year, the National Development and Reform Commission has allocated 14 billion yuan from central budget investment to support localities in building, renovating, and expanding a batch of elderly care and childcare service facilities, building more than 100,000 nursing-type elderly care beds and more than 30,000 childcare places, and using ultra-long-term special treasury bond funds to support the updating of approximately 110,000 units (sets) of equipment in public elderly care institutions.
Recently, the "Implementation Plan for Building the 'Elderly and Young' Service System" was issued, putting forward 13 task measures aimed at accelerating the improvement of inclusive elderly care and childcare services that cover urban and rural areas, have a rational layout, offer acceptable prices, and provide guaranteed quality——
On the "elderly" front, the focus will be on advancing the renovation, upgrading, and equipment updating of old elderly care institutions, raising the proportion of nursing-type beds in elderly care institutions to 73 percent, and expanding the supply of integrated medical and elderly care services, so as to ease the worries of families with elderly members.
On the "young" front, the focus will be on promoting full coverage of comprehensive childcare service centers at the prefecture-city level, developing integrated childcare and kindergarten services, and encouraging employers to provide childcare, so as to offer more and better choices for families in need of childcare services.
"For elderly care and childcare services that are close at hand and convenient, the needs of the 'elderly and young' groups are extremely urgent." Huang Weiru stated that the focus will be on strengthening relevant exploration and innovation and cultivating community- and home-based service scenarios——
On the community front, localities will be guided to give priority to revitalizing and utilizing idle resources within communities, building community integrated comprehensive service facilities focused on "elderly and young" service functions, and providing services such as daytime care and short-term custodial care.
On the home front, diversified door-to-door services will be actively expanded, such as meal assistance, cleaning assistance, bathing assistance, and early childhood development guidance, and mobile elderly care services will be developed in mountainous areas, pastoral areas, and rural areas where they are needed.
Seeking medical treatment is also a matter of concern to the public. Since the beginning of this year, the National Development and Reform Commission has arranged approximately 20 billion yuan in central investment to support the construction of 399 compact county-level medical communities. In many localities, people can already have X-rays and electrocardiograms taken at township health centers, with county hospital doctors reading the results and issuing diagnoses remotely.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, patients' hospitalization experience will become more comfortable. This year, the National Development and Reform Commission has arranged more than 20 billion yuan in central investment to convert 20,000 wards with four or more beds into wards with two to three beds, continuously improving the hospitalization environment. In the next step, the renovation of hospital wards will continue, with the addition of bathrooms, the installation of heating, air conditioning, and ventilation facilities, and the strengthening of age-friendly and barrier-free renovations.
The handoff between rehabilitation and nursing care will become smoother. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China will, in light of local conditions and in a step-by-step manner, advance the effective articulation of treatment beds in tertiary hospitals, rehabilitation beds in secondary hospitals, and beds at the primary level and in family settings.
Return to TopBy: 常 晋
Those who can understand the language of both sides and speak the language of both sides—by cultivating such a group of "prospectors" and "translators," one can better bridge the gaps among various innovation actors, gather scattered demands, and awaken dormant achievements.
Step into the Mianyang Science and Technology City in Sichuan, and you will encounter "a beam of light."
Chasing the light is a ceaseless constantly seeking the truth or way (上下求索, shang xia qiu suo - "up, down, seek, search") from dawn to dusk. Inside the Photonics Technology Research Institute, researchers focus on developing "radiophotoluminescence dosimeters" and other technologies; in the industrial park's workshops, workers are busy with precision calibration and quality inspection of laser products. Cultivating oneself or a field deeply and patiently (沉潜深耕, chen qian shen geng - "sink, hide, deep, plow"), all for the sake of blazing new paths and breaking through technological encirclement.
Harnessing the light is an inch-by-inch expansion of the boundaries of innovation. A beam of high-energy laser sweeps across a steel plate, stripping away rust without harming the substrate itself, achieving true non-destructive cleaning; a sensor smaller than a fingernail can measure temperature stably at minus 270 degrees Celsius, breaking foreign monopolies, and its radiation resistance performance has even achieved a reversal of the gap.
Becoming the light is stepping out of the institute's walls to empower a hundred industries and a thousand trades. Fourier transform spectrometers are applied to modern agriculture and the brewing industry; high-resolution optical non-destructive testing instruments provide new means for solving "bottleneck" problems in aerospace and high-end equipment... One beam of light ignites a thousand beams, radiating ten thousand kinds of warmth.
This journey of light is also a process of mutual integration and mutual promotion between scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. Mianyang once faced the predicament of "strong in science and technology, weak in industry." In recent years, using new-type R&D institutions as fulcrums and pilot-scale platform construction as a link, the innovation chain and industrial chain have resonated at the same frequency. As of last year, the number of high-tech enterprises had reached 1,042. The Photonics Technology Research Institute was jointly established by Mianyang's Youxian District and the Laser Fusion Research Center of the China Academy of Engineering Physics, helping the locality build a whole-chain innovation ecosystem.
A person in charge of a research institute put it vividly: "We hope to put more of our unique skills on the shelf through market-oriented means, building a 'Yiwu of science and technology.'" This analogy points to the essence of integration, yet also conceals the difficulty of transformation. From the laboratory to the production line, multiple links lie in between. How can the mountain passes be crossed? Technology does not walk on its own; what ultimately sets it in motion are people—those tackling the frontiers, those who understand the terrain, those who build bridges, those who provide escort...
During the visit to the Science and Technology City, the docent who had thorough knowledge of (了如指掌, liao ru zhi zhang - "understand, like, finger, palm") the professional technology was not an expert from the institutes, but a local cadre—a deeply impressive sight. Only by mastering professional knowledge can leading cadres better interact with research institutions and technology-based enterprises and develop the industrial ecosystem more efficiently; only by understanding the market, grasping technology, and knowing industry can they better realize the organic combination of an effective market and a well-functioning government.
Unblocking the bottlenecks between industry, academia, and research cannot be done without "technology matchmakers" who act as go-betweens (穿针引线, chuan zhen yin xian - "pierce, needle, lead, thread"). Mianyang cultivates technology managers who connect on one end with the needs of industry and on the other end delve deep into what the laboratories have to offer, bringing about "technology marriages," and this year they have already provided services to more than 500 enterprises. Zhejiang is advancing talent reform, with university teachers serving as "corporate vice presidents for technology" to practice in enterprises, and enterprise talents serving as "industry professors" to teach in universities, with both sides' "networks of contacts" connecting and empowering each other. Those who can understand the language of both sides and speak the language of both sides—by cultivating such a group of "prospectors" and "translators," one can better bridge the gaps among various innovation actors, gather scattered demands, and awaken dormant achievements.
To crack the pain points of innovation transformation, having "professional doctors" who take the pulse and make diagnoses is very important. Mianyang has engaged academicians and experts to conduct in-depth "physical examinations" of the laser industry, setting time nodes and drawing up development roadmaps, so that integration has direction and holds. Anhui is building an open ecological laboratory for the automobile industry, focusing on common enterprise difficulties to find the "root cause of the illness" and prescribe "remedies," then matching needed technologies nationwide, targeting the "medicine" precisely, making the industry healthier and more robust. With people who can see the overall picture clearly and feel the pulse accurately, technology transformation can aim at a specific target (有的放矢, you de fang shi - "have, target, shoot, arrow") and avoid detours.
To activate people's creativity, one must loosen the reins for pathfinders and provide a safety net for the bold. Not long ago, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Deepening the Integration of Scientific and Technological Innovation and Industrial Innovation, emphasizing "improving innovation incentive and evaluation policies." Mianyang is exploring the models of university staffing with enterprise employment and dual appointment between universities and enterprises, granting ownership or long-term usage rights of job-related scientific and technological achievements, so that university talent can achieve both fame and fortune (名利双收, ming li shuang shou - "fame, profit, both, receive") and be willing to transform achievements. Guangdong has issued "duty-free liability" guidelines, clarifying four types of liability-exempt circumstances in the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, helping researchers shed their mental burdens and dare to transform. Giving more incentives to exploration and leaving ample room for innovation will enable more people to step onto new paths and boldly venture into uncharted territory.
Talent is the primary resource. Scientists in laboratories, "running companions" who understand business and excel at service, "brokers" who connect technologies, think tanks that take the pulse of industries—all are indispensable pillars for advancing Chinese modernization. By breaking down barriers through reform and smoothing circulation through mechanisms, so that every person on the innovation chain can stand firm, go far, become light, and release warmth, the road ahead for high-quality development is bound to be shining with brilliant and immense radiance (光芒万丈, guang mang wan zhang - "light, rays, ten thousand, unit of length").
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One certificate confirming rights is worth more than a thousand promises. With the trial operation of the national data property rights registration service system, the three data exchanges in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen have been included in the national catalog of data property rights registration institutions, the first batch of 56 data property rights registration certificates has been publicly announced, and the nationally unified data property rights registration system has been formally implemented.
Data is a new type of production factor in the era of the digital economy and an important "nutrient" for the iterative upgrading of artificial intelligence. In 2025, the scale of China's data industry reached 6.78 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.7 percent, with 482,000 data enterprises, and the economic and social value of data resources has become increasingly prominent. However, unlike traditional production factors such as land and capital, data has characteristics such as non-exclusivity, replicability, and volatility of value, and the definition of its ownership has long faced difficulties. "Having data but difficulty in confirming rights, having assets but difficulty in realizing their value" has constrained the release of the value of data factors.
The nationally unified data property rights registration system is precisely the key to solving this dilemma and activating a source of abundant resources or vitality (一池春水, yi chi chun shui - "one, pool, spring, water"). Data property rights registration, through systematic review of the compliance of data sources, ownership attribution, and rights boundaries, issues credible ownership certificates to business entities, institutionally resolving key questions such as "Whose data is this?", "What can it be used for?", and "Who can use it?" The establishment of a nationally unified registration system has achieved "registration in one place, mutual recognition nationwide," laying the foundation for building an open, shared, and secure national integrated data market and fully releasing the value of data factors.
With data property rights having a nationally valid "identity card," circulation and transactions can achieve "certificates as the basis," reducing repeated verification, lowering transaction costs, and improving the efficiency of data flow. Especially for emerging business forms such as AI comic dramas, exploring the inclusion of full-process human-machine interaction data such as script deduction, prompt polishing, and storyboard production in the registration scope is conducive both to forming institutional recognition of creators' intellectual labor and to providing protection and support for development (保驾护航, bao jia hu hang - "protect, carriage, guard, 航") for the healthy development of the digital content industry.
If property rights are not clearly established, innovation is prone to disorder. Whether it is "pixel-level plagiarism" or "batch-style copying," or comic dramas changing the appearance while keeping the essence (换皮不换骨, huan pi bu huan gu - "change, skin, not, change, bone") and AI "face-swapping cloning," if the boundaries of data ownership are blurred, infringement problems will emerge in an endless stream (层出不穷, ceng chu bu qiong - "layer, emerge, not, exhausted"). The Supreme People's Court has issued guiding cases on data rights and interests. In response to unfair competition disputes arising from the crawling and copying of network platform data, it has clarified that network platform operators' operational interests formed from their data collections are protected by law. In the AI plagiarism-instigation infringement case heard by the Fuzhou Intermediate People's Court, it was determined that AI rewriting that retains the core content of the original work still constitutes infringement. The value of data registration certificates lies in serving as important evidence in ownership disputes, reducing the difficulty of burden of proof for enterprises and improving the efficiency of rights protection.
Confirming rights is only the "first half"; the application after confirmation is the more exciting "second half." After Shenzhen Airlines registered and confirmed the rights to its aircraft maintenance data, operational data was transformed into developable and reusable digital assets. In the future, it can output fault repair solutions to other airlines and airports, promoting the enterprise's transformation from "asset-heavy operations" to "data-driven services." Just as the development of artificial intelligence requires high-quality corpora as "clean rations," the growth and expansion of the digital economy equally requires the escort of a safe, reliable, and clearly defined property rights system.
It should also be noted that data property rights registration, as a brand-new system, still faces many challenges, such as the need to refine review standards for automatically collected public data and derivative data. This requires continuously improving the rule system in practice, expanding the application scenarios of certificates, advancing from "being able to check" to "being able to use," and promoting broader acceptance of registration certificates in fields such as judiciary, finance, and industrial policy.
Establishing rules for the digital economy and confirming rights for data factors ultimately aims to allow innovation vitality to flow fully. In the era of artificial intelligence, the threshold for content production continues to lower, but high-quality development of the industry must never come at the expense of sacrificing rights protection. With every data resource having clear ownership attribution, the digital economy will surely maintain steady progress to achieve long-term success (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk, steady, reach, far") on the track of rule of law.
Return to TopBy: 李 瑛
Having worked for many years in a pediatric psychosomatic medicine outpatient clinic, I have found that an invisible rope binds quite a few families. Parents provide extremely attentive and careful care (呵护备至, he hu bei zhi - "protect, care, prepare, reach"), always cushioning every fall, exhausting every effort to shield their children from all setbacks and unease, yet the more forcefully they guard, the more pronounced the children's fragility and anxiety become; the children are sensitive and apprehensive, afraid to try, fearful of making mistakes, and even dare not socialize or wish to attend school, mired in emotional depletion.
In response, some parents are puzzled: having poured out all their tenderness and devotion, wanting only to build a warm harbor, why has it instead intensified their children's anxiety? The answer has never lain in the child's isolated emotional problem, but in the emotional system of the entire family. Rather than busily "extinguishing" anxiety, it is better to untie the knot through listening.
Listening is not listening for what one wants to hear or expects, but listening to what the child is truly expressing.
In reality, this is precisely the first step that is difficult to achieve and easily overlooked. At times, the child is failing to express oneself clearly (词不达意, ci bu da yi - "words, not, reach, meaning"), and the parent, momentarily flustered, may "misread" it. Therefore, one must not merely listen, but listen deeply. True listening is being genuinely present, quieting down, slowing down, and sincerely accompanying. Understanding the child's underlying meaning of what is said (言下之意, yan xia zhi yi - "speech, under, meaning"), truly comprehending the child, only then will they open their hearts, building a bridge of smooth communication.
Listening also means listening to one's own inner voice, discerning to whom those anxieties and fears truly belong.
Some anxiety appears to be the child's, but is in fact the parents' own affliction. When parents become anxious on the child's behalf, trying to "help" the child through comfort, explanation, and promises, removing all uncertainty in advance for the child, they instead transmit a dangerous signal. The child thus concludes that the world is dangerous, believes they lack the ability to cope with difficulties on their own, and so begins to avoid and retreat, which in turn intensifies the parents' worry. Thus repeating in a continuous loop (循环往复, xun huan wang fu - "cycle, rotate, go, return"), anxiety rolls into a snowball. In such circumstances, the parents' anxiety is the starting point of the problem. Only when parents first listen to themselves can the closed loop of anxiety have any possibility of being broken.
After listening comes action, not avoidance.
There is a simplistic notion that to keep children from being anxious, one must remove the triggers of anxiety for them. If they fear exams, ask the teacher to reduce the number of tests; if they fear socializing, cancel all gatherings. But both clinical experience and scientific research prove that avoidance is the nourishment of anxiety. Even while carrying worry, as long as one takes action, the brain will instead realize that "it was really nothing much after all." Give a "preventive shot," identifying anxiety in advance; step out of the comfort zone, embracing uncertainty; set small expectations, guiding positive anticipation... Shift roles, from "comforter of anxiety" to "coach facing anxiety," leading by example (以身作则, yi shen zuo ze - "use, body, act, model"); every small action counts, and parents and children can walk hand in hand out of the emotional swamp.
Family narrative is full of the wisdom of love. In the complex proposition of "how to love," a sense of boundaries is an important dimension. Love without boundaries is not nourishment but deprivation. Deprived of the opportunity to practice coping with setbacks, how can children learn to grow? Guidance of others is built upon one's own development; a parent who has stopped growing themselves can hardly lead their child to grow. Example is better than precept. Whether reading books one wants to read or developing more hobbies, when you live a full, composed, and empowered life, you can then lift the family upward with your own growth, enabling every family member to gain more abundant positive energy. Parenting has never been one-sided sacrifice and devotion, but a process in which parents and children nourish each other.
Listening is a family's deep healing. A relaxed, tolerant family atmosphere that embraces uncertainty nourishes a child's inner world far more than meticulous care. May every parent learn to listen, with their ears, and even more with their whole heart. May every child's voice be heard, and may every family grow together through listening.
Return to TopThe Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Office of the National Working Commission on Aging, and the China National Committee on Aging recently issued a notice proposing the provision of visitation and care services for elderly people facing special difficulties such as those living alone, empty-nest elderly, left-behind elderly, and disabled elderly. It specifies that elderly people facing special difficulties with higher safety risks will be treated as key targets, with at least one visit every two weeks; where there is a genuine need, the frequency of visits may be further increased; by the end of 2028, visitation and care services will be carried out on a regular basis, and a routine, long-term mechanism will be comprehensively established.
This is precisely:
Knocking on doors, visits come to the home,
The needs of the old and frail are carefully sorted out one by one.
Showing great concern for someone's well-being (嘘寒问暖, xu han wen nuan - "exhale cold, ask warm"), with diligent visits,
The long-term mechanism warms the heart.
By Gao Shilin
Return to TopBy: 闫 丽
Many netizens have observed that this year's "Double 11" has taken on new changes: young people's shopping carts are filled with items such as rice, flour, cooking oil, and household daily necessities, and e-commerce platforms' promotional tactics have also become more pragmatic and simpler.
Some voices question: Is consumption momentum insufficient? Are young people all spending money in a make-do manner — isn't this consumption downgrading?
The answer is not so. First, look at what the data "say." According to third-party statistics, from 2023 to 2025, "Double 11" online sales across the entire network were approximately 1.14 trillion yuan, 1.44 trillion yuan, and 1.70 trillion yuan respectively, achieving consecutive growth. This proves that the pulling effect of concentrated promotions on consumption remains evident.
The structural data is even more worthy of careful reading: in the first three quarters of this year, China's service retail sales grew by 5.0% year-on-year, 4 percentage points higher than the growth rate of goods retail sales; per capita service consumption expenditure of residents grew by 4.6% year-on-year, 1 percentage point faster than the growth rate of per capita consumption expenditure of residents. This means that what consumers pursue is not just buying good things, but also buying "good experiences."
Such a shift conforms to the laws of development. Studies have shown that when per capita GDP reaches around 15,000 US dollars, consumption begins to shift from satisfying basic commodity needs to the service sector, ushering in a "structural turning point." In 2025, China's per capita GDP has approached 14,000 US dollars, precisely in this critical transition period. Offline service consumption has become more popular, while "Double 11," which is mainly based on online goods consumption, is in a period of steady growth.
There is also the diversification of scenarios. Besides shopping offline and selecting online, instant retail, community group buying, and private-domain communities are all attracting consumers. "Double 11," once a "occurring once every year (一年一度, yi nian yi du - "one year, one time") price depression," is having its irreplaceability diluted by the rich array of everyday promotional scenarios. Rather than saying consumers have cooled toward "Double 11," it is better to say that the "Double 11 effect" has become more universal and more ordinary.
To put it simply, demand is still there, money is still being spent, but the way of spending has changed. This means that after the extreme abundance of goods supply, consumers are reallocating their budgets, time, and attention, using daily expenses on things that truly enhance the quality of life — a journey to "poetry and the distant place," an exquisite figurine, a long-awaited performance. This is not consumption downgrading, but a profound consumption migration.
The key is that the mindset has changed. On the one hand, people have become more rational, "willing to buy expensive things, but not willing to be overcharged," pursuing "quality-price ratio"; on the other hand, they are more willing to pay for self-pleasure, stress relief, companionship, and identity recognition, pursuing "heart-price ratio." There is no making do; instead, there is greater refinement. Young people who champion "saving where one should save, spending where one should spend" are showing increasingly strong consumption subjectivity.
Looking at a deeper level, a rational and composed consumption mindset is precisely an active choice of returning to purity, and also the result of being supported by a rich material foundation.
Return to TopBy: 方 敏
Walking into the new building of the Yinxu Museum in Anyang, Henan, a tortoise-shell rubbing lies spread out in quiet stillness. More than ten middle school students gathered around the display case titled "Who Was This Man?" (子何人哉), examining it with curiosity. The docent pointed to a line of small characters on the oracle bone and said: "One day 3,000 years ago, a person of the Shang dynasty dreamed of a deer, and carved this matter onto the tortoise shell — doesn't it resemble the diaries you write today?" The students laughed. Three thousand years of time seemed, in that moment, to be condensed.
The thread of culture stretches on unbroken, and the continuous singing and teaching of culture (弦歌不辍, xian ge bu chuo - "string, song; not, stop") never ceases. When General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the Yinxu site, he pointed out: "The oracle bone inscriptions unearthed at Yinxu have preserved for us the writing of 3,000 years ago, advancing China's documented history forward by approximately 1,000 years." Chinese civilization possesses an outstanding continuity, which fundamentally determines that the Chinese nation must inevitably walk its own path.
What is continuity? It is that bend of the Huan River, flowing for a thousand years without ever running dry; it is a single carved mark on a tortoise shell, recognized at a glance by a child of today; it is the tacit understanding that, though a thousand years apart, one still knows the meaning upon seeing the character.
The continuity of Chinese civilization has long been inscribed in its writing.
In the Yinxu Museum, looking at the divination records from 3,000 years ago, we can still identify among them the characters "sun" (日), "moon" (月), "mountain" (山), and "water" (水). The docent explained that among the world's four great ancient writing systems, only the Chinese ancient writing system, represented by the Yinxu oracle bone inscriptions, has continued to the present day. Seeing someone's handwriting as if meeting them in person (见字如面, jian zi ru mian - "see, character, like, face") means that Chinese culture possesses an extremely strong resilience, and it also means that we share the same set of cultural genes with our ancestors. Looking at the oracle bone inscriptions of Yinxu further fills us with confidence — Chinese civilization has a traceable origin and continuous development (有源有流, you yuan you liu - "have, source; have, flow"), has roots and has veins.
Only when historical culture is integrated into modern life can the depth of cultural heritage become more enduring and more timeless.
On the streets of Anyang, this reporter saw many young people wearing clothing printed with the oracle bone inscription character "an" (安), whose form resembles a woman seated peacefully within a house. The designer said that the Shang dynasty people carved this character onto tortoise shells back then, praying for peace. Today, we have picked it up anew and woven it into the fabric of daily life. From the rediscovery of oracle bone inscriptions, to their inclusion in primary and secondary school textbooks, to the attention they now receive from more people — behind all this is the rising surge of cultural confidence. With this confidence, more and more people accumulate the motivation to consciously carry forward Chinese civilization. With this consciousness, the roots of civilization can sink ever deeper into the fertile soil of the era.
The more vast and profound in scope and depth (博大精深, bo da jing shen - "broad, great; exquisite, profound") a civilization is, the more it must concentrate its efforts on promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of fine traditional Chinese culture, and the more it should protect, promote, and develop the treasures of civilization well.
In Anyang today, oracle bone inscription radio calisthenics have entered primary and secondary school campuses, and more than a hundred oracle bone inscription book houses are scattered throughout the streets and lanes. At the Yinxu Museum, the world's first oracle bone inscription intelligent agent, "Yin Qi Xing Zhi" (殷契行止), has been released and opened to the public. Experts from the Key Laboratory of Oracle Bone Inscription Information Processing of the Ministry of Education at Anyang Normal University said that we have installed a "digital engine" onto the "cultural code" left to us by our ancestors.
Continuity is not rigid inheritance, but rather a process of historical progress supported by innovation. Promoting the unbroken continuation of civilization has never been about locking cultural relics inside glass cases, but about allowing them to continue growing in the new era. Today, the resonance between Yinxu civilization and youthful vitality, and its synchronization with digital-intelligent technology, are precisely the contemporary practice of activating the vitality of tradition with the spirit of the times.
As dusk gradually gathered and the visit to Yinxu was drawing to a close, this reporter stood before the chariot and horse remains exhibition hall, looking at the 25 Shang dynasty chariot and horse remains arranged in sequence, and could almost hear the sound of wheels grinding over the loess soil 3,000 years ago. Inside the hall, the lights of the study tour classroom were still on; outside the hall, the waters of the Huan River continued to flow slowly eastward, bearing witness to the eternity of Chinese civilization from ancient times to the present.
"Chinese civilization has a long and continuous history, never interrupted, which has shaped our great nation, and this nation will continue to be great." The reason a civilization is able to achieve endless and continuous growth or life (生生不息, sheng sheng bu xi - "birth, birth; not, cease") lies not in its never encountering wind and waves, but in its always possessing its own riverbed — knowing whence it has come, and understanding whither it is going.
The surging waters of the Huan River (洹水汤汤, huan shui tang tang - "Huan, water; surging, surging") flow past Anyang, and also flow through 3,000 years of time. Bathed in cultural nourishment, standing upon the soil of China, our steps forward are all the more resounding, because "the vast Chinese nation — how long is its history, how broad is its civilization; this is the foundation of our confidence and the source of our strength."
(The author is a reporter of this newspaper's Henan Branch.)
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Return to TopBy: 李干杰
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"), adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, focuses on the Party governing the Party and full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, makes important arrangements and puts forward clear requirements for strictly implementing the principle of democratic centralism, and has a major and far-reaching impact on deeply advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era.
I. Deeply Understand and Grasp the Important Significance of Implementing Democratic Centralism
The Decision points out that democratic centralism is the Party's fundamental organizational principle and leadership system, and implementing democratic centralism is an inherent requirement of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. This is an important conclusion drawn by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core through scientifically summarizing the historical experience of our Party's growth and development, drawing on the lessons of the rise and fall of some political parties in the world, and repeated testing in practice. It profoundly reveals the important institutional code by which the century-old major Party has maintained vigorous vitality through wind and rain and vicissitudes, and elevates our Party's understanding of the laws of democratic centralism to a new height. To implement the various arrangements and requirements of the Decision concerning democratic centralism, the first priority is to deeply study and thoroughly comprehend General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on democratic centralism, connect history and reality, theory and practice, deeply understand the extreme importance of democratic centralism, and further enhance the political consciousness, ideological consciousness, and action consciousness of implementation.
(1) Upholding democratic centralism is an important hallmark distinguishing Marxist political parties from other political parties. When Marx and Engels were preparing the Communist League and the International Workingmen's Association, they already expounded the idea of combining democracy and centralism. Lenin proposed that democratic centralism be formally written into the Party Constitution of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party as the Party's organizational principle, and extended this principle to the Party building of the Communist International's member parties. Our Party is the world's largest governing party established and developed under the guidance of Marxist Party-building theory and in accordance with the principle of democratic centralism. General Secretary Xi Jinping, based on the governance practice of a major Party and major country, emphasized that democratic centralism is our Party's fundamental organizational principle and leadership system, and is an important hallmark distinguishing Marxist political parties from other political parties; democratic centralism includes two aspects, democracy and centralism, which are mutually conditional, complementing each other (相辅相成, xiang xiang cheng - "mutually complement; each other support"), and indispensable to each other; safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized, unified leadership is consistent with upholding democratic centralism. These important expositions profoundly answer major theoretical and practical questions such as why democratic centralism must be upheld and how to uphold it, endow democratic centralism with new connotations of the era, and realize the theoretical innovation and institutional elevation of this fundamental organizational principle in the process of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxist Party-building theory.
(2) Upholding democratic centralism is an important guarantee for our Party to maintain unity and solidarity and make scientific decisions. Reviewing the century-long struggle, an important reason why our Party has been able to grow from small to large, from weak to strong, and continuously develop and expand in an extremely complex environment is that it has always upheld and practiced democratic centralism, thereby unifying the Party's thinking and action and effectively preventing and overcoming decentralism. General Secretary Xi Jinping, summarizing historical experience, profoundly pointed out that upholding democratic centralism is an important magic weapon for ensuring the Party's creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness, and ensuring the Party's unity and solidarity, and has set an example by one's own actions (率先垂范, lv xian chui fan - "take the lead; set an example") and led by example through personal action (身体力行, shen ti li xing - "practice what one preaches"), setting a brilliant example for the whole Party. Since the 18th National Congress of the Party, all decisions made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core have strictly implemented democratic centralism, paid attention to promoting intra-Party democracy, and been formed through in-depth investigation and research, extensive listening to opinions from all sides, and repeated discussion, ensuring that our Party has united and led the people of all ethnic groups across the country to overcome a series of major risks and challenges, solved many difficult problems that had long been desired to be solved but were not solved, accomplished many major matters that were wanted to be accomplished in the past but were not accomplished, and promoted historic achievements and historic changes in the cause of the Party and the state, fully demonstrating the powerful truth force and practical might contained in General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on democratic centralism.
(3) Upholding democratic centralism is an important measure for pooling the wisdom and strength to advance Chinese modernization. At present, the world situation, national conditions, and Party conditions have undergone profound changes, and China's development is in a period where strategic opportunities and risk challenges coexist and uncertainties and difficult-to-predict factors increase, requiring constant readiness to withstand major tests of high winds and rough waves, or even violent storms. The more complex the situation and the more arduous the tasks, the more necessary it is to uphold the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee and to pool the wisdom and strength of all sides. General Secretary Xi Jinping, grasping the new situation and new tasks, further emphasized that democratic centralism can both maximize the stimulation of the whole Party's creative vitality and unify the whole Party's thinking and action, effectively preventing and overcoming the decentralism of discussing without reaching a decision (议而不决, yi er bu jue - "discuss but not decide") and deciding without taking action (决而不行, jue er bu xing - "decide but not act"), and is a scientific, reasonable, and efficient system. This requires us to set higher standards, stricter requirements, and better implementation in upholding democratic centralism, to more effectively combine fully promoting democracy with implementing correct centralism, to continuously unify thinking, unify will, and unify action while mobilizing the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of all sides, to form a strong joint force for advancing Chinese modernization, to let the Party's fine traditions continuously radiate new vitality and brilliance, and to lead and create "governance of China" with "governance of the Communist Party of China."
II. Deeply Understand and Grasp the Focal Points of Implementing Democratic Centralism
The Decision profoundly elucidates the intrinsic relationship between democracy and centralism, and clarifies the key tasks for implementing democratic centralism from four aspects. We must adhere to dialectical thinking, accurately grasp the core essence, better leverage the political advantages, organizational advantages, institutional advantages, and work advantages of democratic centralism, and strive to create a lively political situation that has both centralism and democracy, both discipline and freedom, both unified will and personal ease of mind.
(1) Upholding the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee must be regarded as the highest principle. Safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized, unified leadership is not only the core requirement of the "four subordinations" of democratic centralism, but also the top priority for ensuring that the principle of democratic centralism is implemented and operates normally and orderly. We must deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speeches and important instructions and directives, insist on studying them as the "first agenda item" and handling them as the "first political requirement," deeply understand and accurately grasp the political considerations, strategic intentions, rich connotations, and practical requirements contained therein, benchmark against them to grasp the correct direction, implement them without compromise, achieve that everything has a result and every matter has a response, and practice the Two Upholds with concrete actions. We must improve the implementation mechanism for the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments, strengthen political supervision focusing on political requirements, improve the whole-chain working mechanism of task division, supervision and implementation, regular reporting, inspection and notification, follow-up and effectiveness evaluation, and supervision and accountability, explore and promote project-based, list-based, ledger-style closed-loop management of implementation work, promote experience and practices, strengthen warning and spurring, and ensure that the whole Party obeys orders and prohibitions. We must strictly implement the system of requesting instructions and reporting to the Party Central Committee, promptly request instructions and report to the Party Central Committee on major decisions, major matters, and important situations in work, ensure that major overall policies and guidelines are decided by the Party Central Committee, major principles and major matters are decided by the Party Central Committee, and important situations are reported to the Party Central Committee for knowledge, and resolutely put an end to acting first and reporting later, reporting while acting, and acting without reporting.
(2) Improving the quality of intra-Party democracy must be regarded as an important foundation. Intra-Party democracy is the life of the Party and an important foundation for a positive and healthy intra-Party political life. Promoting intra-Party democracy and being good at correct centralism are inevitable requirements for implementing democratic centralism. We must respect the principal position of Party members, safeguard Party members' democratic rights, implement Party members' rights to know, participate, elect, and supervise, smooth the channels for Party members to participate in discussing intra-Party affairs, broaden the channels for Party members to express opinions, educate and guide Party members to enhance their Party concept and principal consciousness, regard exercising the rights stipulated in the Party Constitution as their due responsibility to the Party, dare to take responsibility, dare to be accountable, abide by discipline and rules, and correctly exercise their rights. We must strictly carry out Party work in accordance with the democratic principles and procedures determined by the Party Constitution and Party regulations, implement the system for Party members' representatives at all levels of Party congresses to play their role, improve the systems for representatives to participate in major decision-making, participate in the recommendation and democratic appraisal of important cadres, attend relevant meetings of Party committees as non-voting participants, and contact Party members and the masses, focus on improving the quality of Party committee meetings, standing committee meetings of Party committees, and Party group meetings, with full preparation before the meeting, in-depth discussion during the meeting, and strict implementation after the meeting, and resolutely avoid one person having the final say and decision-making becoming a mere formality. We must create an environment and atmosphere for democratic discussion of issues and full expression of opinions within the Party, uphold the comradely relationship of equality within the Party, have Party organizations and leading cadres of Party organizations support and guarantee Party members' exercise of their rights, encourage Party members and cadres to speak freely at Party meetings, conduct equal discussions, protect those comrades who dare to speak the truth, speak honestly, and speak from the heart, and promptly criticize, educate, and seriously deal with acts that infringe upon Party members' rights, never tolerating or indulging them.
(3) Strictly implementing the decision-making and deliberation rules of leading bodies must be regarded as an important starting point. Democratic centralism is the fundamental working system of leading bodies, and collective leadership is the concrete embodiment of democratic centralism in the Party's leadership system. We must adhere to the combination of collective leadership and individual division of responsibility, strictly follow the principle of collective leadership, democratic centralism, individual deliberation, and decision by meeting for collective research and decision-making on all major matters and major issues, preventing individuals from being placed above the organization; scientifically define and strictly regulate the functions, duties, and responsibilities of leading body members, set benchmarks and clarify requirements for implementing responsibilities, neither "waiting, relying, and demanding" nor acting as "hands-off bosses," let alone each going their own way and singing a different tune, achieving that everything has someone in charge and everyone has expertise. We must 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, strictly follow decision-making procedures, achieve no blind decision-making without in-depth investigation, no hasty decision-making without multi-party argumentation, no forced decision-making without consensus, improve the supervision mechanism for "three major and one large" matters, strengthen the compliance and legality review of major decisions, carry out consistency assessment of macro-policy orientations, improve the working norms for higher-level Party organizations to solicit opinions from lower-level Party organizations before making important decisions concerning them, and ensure scientific decision-making with scientific institutions. We must grasp the implementation of decisions, resolutely obey the decisions of Party committees (Party groups), fully discuss and pool wisdom to gain more benefits (集思广益, ji si guang yi - "pool wisdom; gather ideas") during the deliberation stage, and after decision-making, act with promptness and vigor (雷厉风行, lei li feng xing - "swift and resolute; like thunder and wind") and carry through to the end, focusing on rectifying the chronic and stubborn problems of acting despotically without consulting others (独断专行, du duan zhuan xing - "dictatorial; acting arbitrarily"), each going their own way, and discussing without reaching a decision, deciding without taking action, and acting without achieving real results (行而不实, xing er bu shi - "act but not be practical"). We must improve and strictly implement the lifelong responsibility system for major decisions, forcing leading cadres to fear power, make prudent decisions, and strictly prevent collective violations of discipline or evasion of responsibility in the name of collective decision-making.
(4) Regulating the exercise of power by "top leaders" must be regarded as a key link. How well democratic centralism is implemented depends on how well leading cadres, especially "top leaders," do. We must urge "top leaders" to exercise power in accordance with regulations and laws, improve the power operation restriction mechanism of leading bodies, improve the systems of exercising power by separate matters, setting up posts by separate positions, authorizing by levels, and regular rotation of posts, clearly delineate the boundaries of "top leaders'" duties, powers, and responsibilities, strengthen whole-process supervision over the operation of power, put power in the cage of institutional constraints, and ensure that power operates in the sunshine and is exercised under supervision. We must implement the system of "top leaders" expressing their views last, and major decisions, important personnel appointments and removals, major project arrangements, and use of large amounts of funds must be decided through collective discussion, with "top leaders" not setting the tone first and not imposing their personal opinions on the leading body, but summarizing and centralizing after leading body members have fully expressed their opinions, forming resolutions according to the minority subordinate to the majority, and ensuring the implementation of democratic centralism procedurally. We must strengthen the inspection and supervision of "top leaders'" performance of duties, coordinate and strengthen supervision from above, supervision at the same level, and supervision from below, strictly implement the system of "top leaders'" special reports on their performance of duties and the system of managing and supervising "top leaders" at lower levels, and the system of Party committees (Party groups) conducting supervisory talks with "top leaders" of lower-level Party organizations, focusing on checking whether "one-man rule" and "patriarchal style" are practiced, whether the "three major and one large" collective decision-making and expressing views last are implemented, etc., make same-level supervision solid and detailed, and when selecting and appointing "top leaders," pay attention to examining their quality and ability in implementing democratic centralism.
III. Deeply Understand and Grasp the Methods and Paths for Implementing Democratic Centralism
Implementing democratic centralism is the common political responsibility of the whole Party, first of all the responsibility of leading cadres at all levels. Leading cadres at all levels must raise their political positioning, strengthen their sense of responsibility, play an exemplary role, abide by the rules of democratic centralism, enhance their quality in democratic centralism, and effectively do a good job in the construction of democratic centralism, ensuring implementation in place and execution in place.
(1) Strengthen theoretical arming and firmly grasp the correct political direction. Political firmness and conscious action come from theoretical sobriety. We must, from the height of deeply comprehending the decisive significance of the Two Establishments and resolutely achieving the Two Upholds, promote leading cadres at all levels to deeply study and implement the various arrangements and requirements of the Decision concerning democratic centralism, combine it with deeply studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping's thought on Party building, master the basic theory, basic content, and basic requirements of democratic centralism, and lay the ideological and theoretical foundation for implementing democratic centralism. We must incorporate the construction of democratic centralism into the important content of cadre education and training, clearly explain its theoretical logic, historical logic, and practical logic, and continuously improve the understanding level and application ability of all Party comrades regarding democratic centralism.
(2) Improve institutional mechanisms and focus on consolidating political responsibility. The implementation of democratic centralism must be guaranteed by specific institutional arrangements. Through long-term practice, our Party has formed a relatively complete institutional system of democratic centralism. We must improve and implement the various institutional provisions of democratic centralism, promote leading cadres at all levels, especially principal leading cadres, to accurately grasp the requirements, consolidate responsibilities layer by layer, and fully implement a series of institutional arrangements such as the Party congress system, the Party committee system, the intra-Party election system, the Party's collective leadership system, the intra-Party supervision system, the Party's organizational life system, and the system for safeguarding Party members' rights. We must pay attention to leveraging the institutional advantages of democratic centralism, further improve the institutional system of whole-process people's democracy, promote the institutionalization, standardization, and proceduralization of socialist democratic politics, and ensure that the country's political life is both full of vitality and stable and orderly.
(3) Strict supervision and accountability, and effectively strengthen rigid constraints. Mobilizing a thousand times is not as good as holding accountable once. We must focus on solving the problems of insufficient promotion of democracy, insufficient correct centralism, insufficient criticism, and insufficient strict discipline, strengthen the regular analysis, supervision and inspection, and assessment and evaluation of the implementation of democratic centralism by Party organizations at all levels, take the implementation of the "three major and one large" decision-making system as important content of daily supervision, inspection tours, audit supervision, and special supervision, promptly discover and resolutely correct erroneous acts that violate democratic centralism, and hold accountable the leading bodies and individuals who implement it poorly or have major deviations and errors. We must strengthen top-down organizational supervision, improve bottom-up democratic supervision, and give play to the role of mutual supervision at the same level. We must improve the supervision mechanism, clarify the key matters of supervision, specific measures, and accountability content, and ensure the strict implementation of democratic centralism.
(4) Improve ability and quality, and cultivate a good political ecology. Implementing democratic centralism is a leadership ability that leading cadres at all levels must possess and a leadership art that they must master. Leading cadres, especially "top leaders," must have a sincere attitude of treating others equally and being kind to others, have a broad mind that is possessing a mind as open as a valley (虚怀若谷, xu huai ruo gu - "open-minded; modest") and accommodating all rivers, grasp all and accurately grasp the true opinions of all sides, conduct repeated research, repeated comparison, and choose the good and follow it. We must master the working method of correct centralism, unify different opinions, extract and summarize the true insights from various scattered opinions, centralize the correct opinions that conform to the laws of development of things and the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people, and make scientific decisions. We must uphold unity on the basis of Party spirit principles, be good at using methods and means such as democratic life meetings, criticism and self-criticism, so that leading bodies at all levels establish good rules, and form a good political ecology that both stimulates individuals and relies on the collective, both trusts and encourages and criticizes and supervises, both tolerates mistakes and promptly corrects errors, and both unites and cooperates and does not violate principles.
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This year marks the 160th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Over the past few days, Hong Kong has held a series of commemorative activities. From November 2 to 7, the "From Rejuvenating China to National Rejuvenation — Exhibition of Sun Yat-sen's Historical Traces" was held, and many young students, social organizations, and members of the public visited the exhibition.
The exhibition content includes historical photographs, precious manuscripts, historical video materials, physical objects, and calligraphy and painting works, tracing the footprints Sun Yat-sen left in Hong Kong. The exhibition brings together physical materials from a total of eight Sun Yat-sen memorial institutions in the mainland and Hong Kong, vividly restoring Dr. Sun Yat-sen's feelings for family and country and details of his daily life.
Xiao Wu, a student at the University of Hong Kong, lingered for a long time in front of the historical photograph of "Sun Yat-sen's Speech at the University of Hong Kong." "Looking at this historical photograph, I felt as if I were spanning across different eras and locations (跨越时空, kua yue shi kong - "stride across, time, space"), and I could feel Dr. Sun Yat-sen's patriotic spirit," Xiao Wu said.
Xiao Fan, a member of the public, listened carefully to the docent's explanation while examining the documentary materials closely. He said: "Realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the greatest dream of the Chinese nation in modern times. As a young person, I must redouble my efforts and contribute my share to serving the building of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation."
In the 1880s, Sun Yat-sen went to Hong Kong to study. Li Kam-keung, honorary adviser to the Hong Kong Museum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and retired professor of history at Hong Kong Baptist University, introduced: "Dr. Sun Yat-sen lived in the Hollywood Road community at the time, and the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese was where he studied in those days."
"Hong Kong has a profound connection with Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary cause, which exerted a deep influence on his revolutionary thinking," said Chan Kwok-ki, Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. Through the exhibition, everyone jointly reviews Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary journey, carries forward the lofty ideal of rejuvenating China, and further strengthens the national identity and cohesion of Hong Kong citizens and Chinese people at home and abroad.
"We hope to use the exhibition as a classroom, history as a textbook, and culture as a bond, so that more Hong Kong citizens, especially young people, can keep their roots firmly in mind and strengthen their confidence while looking back on history," said Cui Zhaoyang, general manager of Bauhinia Culture Group, the event organizer.
During the exhibition period, a seminar commemorating the 160th anniversary of Sun Yat-sen's birth was also held, inviting experts and scholars from home and abroad to conduct exchanges.
Cheuk Wing-hing, Deputy Chief Secretary for Administration of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, said that in September this year, the SAR government published Hong Kong's first five-year plan. The plan clearly proposes deepening patriotic education, national education, and national security education. This seminar is precisely a concrete practice of this concept.
Ho Hon-kuen, a member of the CPPCC National Committee and principal of the National History Education Centre (Hong Kong), said that Dr. Sun Yat-sen adhered to loving the country and the people throughout his life, and that we should learn from and carry forward Dr. Sun Yat-sen's patriotic spirit and feelings for family and country. Hong Kong should leverage its own strengths and integrate into the overall development of the country.
Sun Wei-yung, a deputy to the National People's Congress and great-grandnephew of Sun Yat-sen, said that he hopes everyone can feel, through the photographs and documentary materials, the arduous efforts the forebears made for the future of the country and the nation, draw historical wisdom from them, and strive to write a new chapter for Hong Kong.
Return to TopOn November 9, Chaoyang Primary School in Beibei District, Chongqing, carried out a labor practice activity titled "Growing Together with the Wheat Seedlings." With the help of local farmers, the children experienced farming and cultivated an awareness of cherishing food. The photo shows the children observing the wheat seedlings.
Photo by Qin Tingfu (Image China)
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 10) (Li Longyi, Lü Zhipu) Recently, five consolation teams formed by the National Office of Double Support and the China Patriotic Support-the-Army Promotion Association traveled separately to Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Fujian, Sichuan and other places, visiting the homes of 35 veteran Red Army soldiers living in their hometowns and Red Army personnel who had become separated from their units, extending sincere greetings to the elderly and their families.
Among the elderly visited this time, some were wounded in battle, some became separated from their units during the revolutionary years, and some had once undertaken tasks such as medical care, communications, and supporting the front lines, making important contributions to the revolutionary cause. Wherever the consolation teams went, they talked face to face with the elderly and their families, inquiring in detail about their recent living conditions, understanding their practical difficulties, and making the promotion of solutions to urgent, difficult, anxious, and longing concerns the top priority of their visits.
"Visits have itineraries, but concern has no end point. To remember the road we have traveled, we must place respect and care in ordinary days, so that the original aspiration of serving the people is passed on from one generation to the next (代代相传, dai dai xiang chuan - "generation, generation, mutual, pass on")." A member of a consolation team said.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 10) (Reporter Li Changyu) On the 10th, the China Customs Working Committee held in Beijing the "Silver Hair Embodies Original Aspiration, Passing the Torch to Guard Growth" — 2026 National Caring for the Next Generation "Most Beautiful Five Elders" Advanced Deeds Release Event, collectively releasing the advanced deeds of 15 "Most Beautiful Five Elders" including Zhang Zhendong.
The 15 "Most Beautiful Five Elders" selected this time all come from the grassroots front line, produced through layer-by-layer recommendation by various localities and selecting the best from among the best (优中选优, you zhong xuan you - "excellent, among, select, excellent"). Some of them carry forward the red bloodline, guiding young people to inherit the red gene and fasten the first button of life; some practice the Lei Feng spirit with devotion, leading young people to pursue light and goodness; some keep in mind left-behind children, migrant children, and young people in difficulty, donating funds to support education, providing family-style companionship, and offering psychological counseling, guarding the growth of youth with genuine affection; some persist in education, persuasion, and redemption, helping wayward young people turn over a new leaf (改过向善, gai guo xiang shan - "change, mistake, toward, good") and return to the right path; some rush through deep mountains and rural fields, devoting themselves to solving industrial and technical problems, paving a sweet road to prosperity for a local community. Their moving deeds are a vivid portrayal of the "Five Elders" spirit in the new era, fully demonstrating the "Five Elders'" sincere original aspiration and sense of responsibility in educating people for the Party and cultivating talent for the country.
It is learned that the China Customs Working Committee has recently issued a notice, calling on customs working committees at all levels to extensively carry out learning and publicity activities. Customs working committees in various localities will organize advanced models to enter government organs, schools, communities, villages, and various red education bases, guiding young people to unswervingly listen to the Party and follow the Party.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 10) (Reporter Lin Lili) The State Administration for Market Regulation (Standardization Administration of China) recently approved and issued three mandatory national standards in the fire protection field: the "Rules for On-Site Inspection and Determination of Fire Products," "Fire Trucks — Part 12: Aerial Ladder Fire Trucks," and "Guidelines for the Installation and Management of Fire Truck Access Routes." These three standards were organized for formulation and revision by the National Fire and Rescue Administration. This batch of standards covers the three core areas of product supervision, rescue equipment, and access route assurance, further improving the mandatory standards system in the fire protection field and providing a unified technical yardstick for whole-chain governance of fire safety.
The "Rules for On-Site Inspection and Determination of Fire Products" has been upgraded from an original industry standard to a mandatory national standard, establishing a three-tier determination system of "market access verification, inspection document review, and on-site testing of key performance." "Fire Trucks — Part 12: Aerial Ladder Fire Trucks" focuses on the practical needs of firefighting and rescue in high-rise buildings; on the basis of the original three vehicle types — aerial work platforms, aerial ladders, and aerial water monitors — it adds the new category of aerial demolition fire trucks and performance requirements for demolition devices. The "Guidelines for the Installation and Management of Fire Truck Access Routes" addresses prominent issues in the governance of the "lifeline passage," specifying mandatory installation and management requirements.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 10) (Reporter Liu Botong) On the 10th, the 10th Tibet Think Tank International Forum, themed "Digital and Intelligent Practice in Tibet under the New Development Philosophy," and the book launch of Digital and Intelligent Development in Tibet: Sharing and Development were held in Beijing.
The forum featured keynote speeches and three thematic sub-forums, with discussions on topics including the practical achievements of the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, digital and intelligent empowerment of Tibet's modernization drive, and the inheritance of fine culture through digital and intelligent technologies.
According to the introduction, Digital and Intelligent Development in Tibet: Sharing and Development was written by a research group from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, based on in-depth field research in the Tibet region. To accommodate domestic market reading habits, the book has simultaneously launched e-book and audiobook versions online, meeting readers' needs for multi-scenario and fragmented reading. During the story-sharing session, doctors aiding Tibet, returning entrepreneurs from Tibet, and villager representatives shared their personal experiences of the changes that digital and intelligent technologies have brought to production and daily life.
This event was jointly hosted by the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Tibet Think Tank of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the China Social Sciences Press. Experts and scholars from multiple countries, as well as representatives from domestic universities, research institutions, and publishing units, participated in the event through a combination of online and offline methods.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 璁
Recently, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang signed a State Council order, promulgating the revised Regulations on the Administration of Foundations (hereinafter referred to as the Regulations), which shall take effect on January 1, 2027. Officials in charge of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Civil Affairs answered reporters' questions on issues related to the Regulations.
Q: Please briefly introduce the background and overall approach of the revision of the Regulations.
A: The Party Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to the administration of foundations. The current regulations were promulgated and implemented in 2004 and have played an important role in regulating the registration and administration of foundations and developing public welfare undertakings. With China's economic and social development, the administration of foundations faces some new situations and new problems, such as unsound internal governance mechanisms of foundations, insufficiently standardized activities, and the need to strengthen comprehensive oversight. The Charity Law imposes strict requirements on the supervision and administration systems for charitable organizations, including foundations. The Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China makes arrangements for promoting and regulating the development of public welfare and charity undertakings. Therefore, it is necessary to revise and improve the current regulations.
The revision of the Regulations follows the following overall approach: first, implementing the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on the administration of foundations. Second, adhering to giving equal weight to supporting development and regulating administration, strengthening the credibility building of foundations, and promoting the healthy and orderly development of foundations. Third, adhering to a problem-oriented approach, focusing on improving relevant institutional measures in such aspects as internal governance, activity standards, and supervision and administration of foundations.
Q: How does the Regulations strengthen the credibility building of foundations?
A: The Regulations establishes and improves a number of systems to enhance the transparency and credibility of foundations. First, it clarifies in the legislative purpose the strengthening of credibility building of foundations, and makes openness and transparency principles that foundation activities should follow. Second, to prevent the transfer of benefits, it stipulates that foundations shall not provide returns of benefits to donors and their interested parties, requires that foundations determine the executors of public welfare projects or the providers of materials and services in an open, fair, and just manner, and strictly regulates affiliated transactions. Third, it sets up a special chapter stipulating the information disclosure system, clarifying that foundations shall perform the obligation of information disclosure in accordance with the law and accept social supervision, while requiring registration administration authorities to supervise and guide foundations in properly carrying out information disclosure work in accordance with the law. Fourth, it improves legal liability, increasing the severity of penalties for illegal acts and adding penalty measures such as qualification penalties.
Q: What provisions does the Regulations make in improving the registration and administration system for foundations?
A: The Regulations improves the registration and administration system for foundations in the following three aspects. First, it clarifies the level of registration administration and registered capital. It stipulates that the civil affairs departments of people's governments at or above the level of cities divided into districts are the registration administration authorities for foundations, clarifies the scope of business supervisory units, and correspondingly clarifies the registered capital requirements for establishing a foundation according to the level of registration administration. Second, it steadily advances direct registration. It stipulates that foundations in the fields of providing aid to the vulnerable and needy (扶弱济困, fu ruo ji kun - "support, weak, relieve, hardship"), assisting the elderly and the disabled (扶老助残, fu lao zhu can - "support, elderly, assist, disabled"), assisting the sick and providing medical aid (恤病助医, xu bing zhu yi - "pity, sick, help, medical"), rescuing orphans and supporting education (救孤助学, jiu gu zhu xue - "rescue, orphan, help, study"), and providing disaster relief (赈灾, zhen zai - "relieve, disaster") may apply for direct registration by the initiators, with the registration administration authority being the civil affairs department of the people's government of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the central government, and at the same time one industry administration department shall be clarified. The specific measures for direct registration shall be formulated by the civil affairs departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government jointly with relevant departments and filed with the civil affairs department of the State Council for the record, so as to facilitate unified administration. Third, it improves the procedures for alteration and termination. It clarifies the procedural requirements for alteration of registration of foundations; improves the circumstances for termination of foundations, stipulating that foundations with circumstances such as not engaging in public welfare activities for two consecutive years shall be terminated; and details the liquidation procedures before deregistration.
Q: What provisions does the Regulations make in improving internal governance mechanisms?
A: To solve the problem of unsound internal governance mechanisms of foundations and strengthen the self-building of foundations, the Regulations mainly makes provisions in three aspects. First, it strengthens the responsibilities of initiators and persons in charge. It clarifies that initiators are responsible for the preparatory activities of a foundation before registration, adds specific circumstances under which one may not serve as an initiator or person in charge, and establishes systems such as public announcement of persons in charge before taking office. Second, it improves the functions and powers of organizational bodies and rules of procedure. It adds the content of the functions and powers of the board of directors, supervisors or the supervisory board, and the executive body, and details the rules and procedures for deliberation. Third, it clarifies prohibitive provisions. It emphasizes that persons in charge, directors, and others shall avoid conflicts between their own interests and the interests of the foundation, and shall not use affiliated relationships to harm the interests of the foundation, beneficiaries, and the public interest of society.
Q: What requirements does the Regulations put forward in regulating the administration of foundation activities?
A: The Regulations puts forward requirements for regulating the administration of foundation activities in the following three aspects. First, it improves the requirements for carrying out activities such as fundraising. It stipulates that foundations carrying out public fundraising shall lawfully obtain the qualification for public fundraising, and regulates cooperation with other organizations or individuals in carrying out public fundraising as well as carrying out public fundraising through the Internet; foundations accepting donations or providing grants shall not attach conditions that violate laws and regulations or contravene social morality. Second, it strengthens property management. It clarifies that investments made by foundations to preserve and increase the value of property shall comply with relevant provisions, follow the principles of legality, safety, prudence, and effectiveness, and that the proceeds shall all be used for public welfare purposes. Third, it strictly manages projects. It requires foundations to establish public welfare projects within the purposes and business scope stipulated in their articles of association, and to conduct follow-up management of project implementation; where public welfare projects are entrusted for execution, evaluation and supervision shall be carried out.
Q: What provisions does the Regulations make in strengthening supervision?
A: The Regulations improves the comprehensive supervision system to form a synergy of supervision. First, it clarifies departmental responsibilities. It details the registration review and supervision and administration responsibilities of registration administration authorities, and adds measures such as interviewing persons in charge of foundations. It clarifies that business supervisory units are responsible for review before registration and strengthen supervision and guidance. For directly registered foundations, it requires clarifying the industry administration department, which shall perform the duties of industry supervision and administration and assist in carrying out relevant work such as registration administration. Second, it strengthens the supervision of foundation property. It adds provisions that registration administration authorities, together with business supervisory units and finance, audit, and other departments, comprehensively use multiple methods to strengthen the verification of the legality and compliance of foundation revenues and expenditures, and supervise and guide foundations in lawfully and standardly managing and using property.
Q: What work needs to be done to ensure the smooth implementation of the Regulations?
A: The Ministry of Civil Affairs will, together with relevant departments, do a good job in implementing the Regulations. First, it will increase efforts in publicity and interpretation. It will organize publicity, interpretation, study, and training work on the Regulations, guide staff of registration administration authorities at all levels and relevant parties to accurately grasp the main content and practical requirements of the Regulations, and improve the ability and level of implementation. Second, it will accelerate the improvement of supporting systems. It will promote the formulation and revision of relevant supporting documents such as the Model Articles of Association for Foundations, adjust and improve relevant business handling systems, and ensure that the various systems of the Regulations are effectively implemented. Third, it will do a good job in implementation. It will strengthen and regulate the service and administration of matters such as foundation registration, supervise and guide foundations in carrying out standardized activities, and give play to the positive role of foundations in public welfare and charity undertakings.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 姚雪青 周 欢 马 涌
Putting real effort into running the supplement section well matters not only for the supplement itself, but also helps strengthen the influence of the Party newspaper.
On September 14 this year, the renowned writer Wang Meng published an article titled "Running a Supplement with Vitality and Charm" in the Dadi (Earth) supplement of People's Daily. Subsequently, People's Daily and Guangming Daily, focusing on topics such as the characteristics and functions of supplements, successively published several commentary pieces including "Dwelling at the 'End of the Paper' Yet Facing the 'Crest of the Tide'" to elaborate on the subject, and the national industry has launched a broad discussion on how to run supplements well.
On November 7, at the 2026 Annual Meeting of the China Newspaper Supplement Research Association held in Jiujiang, Jiangxi, more than 180 supplement workers from over 100 media outlets nationwide gathered around the theme of "putting real effort into running the supplement section well," sharing experiences, raising questions, and seeking approaches, exploring how, under the new technological conditions of intelligent connectivity and the new communication ecology, to uphold fundamental principles and break new ground, nurture the roots, and moisten the heart through culture, so as to run supplements with vitality and charm.
Upholding Distinctive Qualities, Worthy of the Era
Although the supplement occupies a corner of the newspaper, throughout history it has frequently resonated in unison with the great tides of the times and led the direction of social trends. "Dwelling at the 'end of the paper' yet facing the 'crest of the tide'" — this distinctive quality of the supplement was repeatedly invoked during the exchanges.
"Running the supplement well is not a trivial matter of page layout, but a deep-cultivation project of cultural construction and public opinion guidance." Cui Shixin, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the All-China Journalists Association, opened by stating his purpose clearly (开宗明义, kai zong ming yi - "open, the, chapter, clear"). He said that since the birth of Chinese newspaper supplements a century ago, they have been an important front for intellectual enlightenment and cultural dissemination. The supplement may appear to be positioned after other pages, but in reality it acts upon people's hearts; it may appear to take literature and art as its surface, but in reality it concerns the cultivation of values, cultural identity, and spiritual cohesion.
In the newspaper-reading experience of Bi Feiyu, Vice Chairman of the China Writers Association and Chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Writers Association, when a new newspaper arrives, one usually first flips through the front page; but if one wants a newspaper to accompany oneself through the entire evening, one instead reads from back to front, "the news records what happens in the physical world, while the supplement houses the human spirit — those things that may not actually happen in reality, yet truly exist in the depths of the soul."
Lu Xiaoqing, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee and head of the Provincial Publicity Department, said that the supplement is the vital energy and spiritual radiance of a newspaper, and in this regard, newspapers at the provincial, municipal, and county levels in Jiangxi have all made contributions. Zhang Feng, President of Jiangxi Daily Group, said: "The supplement is both the cultural face and spiritual foundation of a Party newspaper, and an important vehicle for displaying spiritual symbols and cultural essence."
The foundation of a "good supplement" lies hidden in the path trodden by the predecessors of the supplement field, and is also displayed in the practice of upholding distinctive qualities under the new conditions of the era.
Upholding Fundamental Principles and Breaking New Ground, Cultivating People Through Culture
Xu Lijing, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of People's Daily, said in her keynote speech that adhering to the principle that the Party newspaper belongs to the Party is the fundamental way of the supplement, adhering to cultivating people through culture is the foundation of the supplement's standing, and adhering to upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground is the source of the supplement's vitality. No matter how media forms change, the literary quality, humanistic foundation, and original spirit of the supplement must not be weakened.
Miao Kegou, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Media Group and Secretary of the Party Committee, President of Jiefang Daily, attributed his insights to "upholding what is fundamental." The three supplements — Jiefang Daily's "Morning Flowers," Wenhui Daily's "Pen Gathering," and Xinmin Evening News' "Night Light Cup" — each rely on their own accumulated heritage and distinctive qualities, with each person appreciating their own unique merits, and their common trait is upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, being inclusive and embracing diverse views, and passing on a tradition or spirit from generation to generation.
Moistening the heart through culture is the core value that distinguishes the supplement from other newspaper pages. Li Zhenyu, Director of the Culture Supplement Editorial Office of the PLA Daily, said: "Works with good writing style carry a natural 'sense of breathing,' allowing readers to savor a quality that is having a soulful and expressive quality, having ups and downs or dramatic fluctuations, and leaving a lasting impression or something to ponder."
Luo Meng, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Guangxi Daily Group, mentioned a detail: Mr. Wang Meng, due to poor hearing, said to a young editor who had raised a hand to ask a question, "Come closer and speak." He reflected on this: does not the editor, in relation to the author, also need to "come closer and speak"? When the distance among editor, author, and reader narrows, the vitality and charm on the paper naturally emerges.
A stream of witty remarks sparked deep reflection on the moving power of the supplement.
Leveraging Advantages, Putting in Great Effort
In deepening the systematic reform of mainstream media, the supplement must truly leverage its advantages, dare to act and be good at acting, and above all requires dedication of mind, effort, and feeling.
Chen Xinhua, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of China Culture Daily, values the participation of grassroots authors, believing this can give rise to works that are "warm, profound, and tasteful." Huo Jianhong, Director of the All-Media Culture News Department of Zhejiang Daily, believes that the value of the supplement lies in a lively quality within its weightiness, "not rejecting freshness, but rejecting impetuousness."
Liu Qiong, Deputy Director of the Literature and Art Department of People's Daily, said: "Grand themes can be placed in ordinary daily matters, and intellectual expression need not be rigidly didactic. The news nature of the supplement lies in building a solid relationship between the supplement and the life of the times, deeply cultivating depth, reason and emotion, and aesthetics, providing content that people are willing to reread repeatedly and that resonates with them."
Under the wave of digital intelligence, the vitality of the supplement lies on paper and also online, relying on upholding what is fundamental and also on innovation. Gu Xindong, former member of the Party Committee and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Xinhua Daily, said that making good use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence to empower supplement works, incorporating forms such as audio, short videos, and micro-dramas, "allows editors and readers to 'converse' in two-way interaction, drawing on grassroots energy and strengthening guidance."
Technology empowers media professionals, yet it also tests the original aspiration of creators. Wu Lirong, editor of the Social Culture News Department of Workers' Daily, said that at a time when artificial intelligence can generate content with a single click, "'authenticity' is the bottom-line requirement, and it can also be said to be the highest requirement."
Putting real effort into running the supplement well also precisely meets the eager expectations of the broad readership. "We look forward to supplement workers setting out on the road with motivation, producing masterpieces and works that will be passed down through generations," said Sun Dehong, professor at Nankai University.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 10) (Reporter Shen Shaotie) To promote the safe and rational allocation and use of innovative drugs and meet the public's diversified medication needs, recently, the National Health Commission, the National Healthcare Security Administration, the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration jointly formulated and issued the "Notice on Further Improving the Safe and Rational Allocation and Use of Innovative Drugs," which, focusing on the key links in the safe and rational allocation and use of innovative drugs, puts forward specific policy measures in such aspects as promoting rational allocation, strengthening training and guidance, optimizing conditions for use, and improving management measures.
The notice requires that medical institutions at or above the second level optimize and improve the systems and work procedures for bringing innovative drugs into the hospital, promptly convene meetings of the Pharmacy Administration and Therapeutics Committee, and, based on business capacity and diagnosis and treatment needs, promptly include innovative drugs in the institution's medication catalog. It promotes provincial- and municipal-level hospitals in playing a role progressively at each level (逐级发挥, zhu ji fa huy - "level by level, exert, play") as models and drivers. It requires regularly organizing training on medication knowledge and medical insurance payment policies, promptly compiling and publishing expert consensus on the clinical use of innovative drugs, and promptly incorporating drugs with sufficient evidence-based medical evidence into clinical diagnosis and treatment guidelines. It calls for implementing price items for pharmacy-related medical services, further improving support and safeguard measures, and optimizing the policy environment for the use of innovative drugs.
Return to TopThe Han River flows broad and deep, at the foot of Sanheba. In Sanhe Town, Dapu County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, two 1-million-kilowatt generating units of Guangdong Yuedian Dapu Power Plant stand side by side. This is the site of the historic Battle of Sanheba. Today, these two million-kilowatt-class "energy engines" are injecting surging momentum into the development of the old revolutionary base area.
Ensuring that the people of the old revolutionary base areas enjoy a better life is the responsibility and commitment of the major state-owned banks. China Construction Bank Guangdong Provincial Branch upholds the political and people-centered nature of financial work, vigorously promotes the great spirit of the Long March, and focuses on serving key areas such as infrastructure construction in old revolutionary base areas, development of distinctive industries, and rural education assistance. With the living water of finance, it irrigates the red soil and helps the old revolutionary base areas achieve leapfrog development.
Supporting the consolidation of the energy foundation, propping up the backbone of development in the old revolutionary base areas
In December 2025, the two 1-million-kilowatt units of Phase II of Guangdong Yuedian Dapu Power Plant achieved "dual commissioning" within the same month. As a key construction project of Guangdong Province, the total investment in Phase II of Guangdong Yuedian Dapu Power Plant is approximately 8.122 billion yuan, with an expected annual power generation of about 9 billion kilowatt-hours after completion. In response to challenges such as the long construction period and large funding needs faced by the project, China Construction Bank Meizhou Branch participated as the lead bank of a syndicated loan, disbursing over 1.3 billion yuan in total.
The provincial, municipal, and county-level institutions of China Construction Bank formed a dedicated service team, effectively guaranteeing the full-cycle construction and operation of the project. The changes that Dapu Power Plant has brought to the old revolutionary base area are written in the ledger of the town's economy: in the first half of this year, the total output value of Dapu Power Plant reached 1.792 billion yuan, accounting for 32% of Dapu County's gross regional product, making it an important engine driving local industrial growth.
On the seaside areas of eastern Guangdong, the story of the integration of energy and port-shipping is equally splendid. Shanwei boasts the second-longest coastline in the province. With the accelerated expansion of the offshore wind power industry, the "difficulty of shipping out" large wind power components once became a bottleneck for the industry. At the specialized wind power mother port of CGN New Energy Port Investment (Lufeng) Co., Ltd., China Construction Bank Shanwei Branch formed a dedicated service team, tailored a comprehensive financial service plan, approved fixed-asset loan credit of over 500 million yuan, and disbursed over 150 million yuan in total. In the first half of this year, the terminal completed a cumulative shipment volume of 682,000 tons of large wind power components, with comprehensive operational efficiency improving by 35%, strongly supporting the accelerated "going global" of the wind power industry in the Hailufeng old revolutionary base area.
Serving the cultivation of distinctive industries, activating the momentum for common prosperity in the old revolutionary base areas
In the autumn and winter season, cured meat production in Dongbei Town, Lianzhou City, Qingyuan City, enters its peak period, with the rich aroma of cured meat wafting across the drying grounds. Lianzhou Dongbei Hexianglong Cured Meat Food Co., Ltd. adheres to natural air-drying and zero-additive production, helping "Dongbei cured meat" be recognized as a national geographical indication product, and through the "company + base + farmers" model, it has driven more than 2,000 farmer households to increase their income. As sales channels continue to expand, the enterprise urgently needs financial support for raw material procurement and capacity expansion during the peak season. China Construction Bank Lianzhou Sub-branch proactively went down to the grassroots, conducted field research on the production process, and quickly implemented a 500,000-yuan county revitalization loan to fill the enterprise's funding gap, allowing the authentic cured meat of the old revolutionary base area to leave the mountains and sell well across the country.
In recent years, relying on abundant sunshine and fertile soil and water, Lianzhou Maofengyuan Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. has scaled up the cultivation of high-quality Orah mandarins on more than 600 mu of land. China Construction Bank Lianzhou Sub-branch provided proactive service, disbursing a 500,000-yuan county revitalization loan to the enterprise, turning the small Orah mandarin into a sweet industry that enriches the people, driving nearby employment and sustained income growth for villagers.
Deepening rural education assistance, lighting up the hope for revitalization in the old revolutionary base areas
As a member unit of Guangdong Province's "Hundred, Thousand, Ten-Thousand Project" group vertical assistance to Dapu County, China Construction Bank Guangdong Provincial Branch has innovatively built a two-way empowerment model of "industrial assistance + education assistance." Over the past two years, it has allocated 150,000 yuan in student aid funds, supporting 100 students who are both well-behaved and academically excellent (品学兼优, pin xue jian you - "product, study, both, excellent") from families in difficulty, covering 17 primary and secondary schools across the county; over the past three years, it has invested a total of 1.7 million yuan to support 7 schools in upgrading campus infrastructure, enabling students to use new running tracks and new canteens.
In Daqiao Town, Renhua County, Shaoguan City, the moral education classroom of Shengshan Hope Primary School has been completely renovated. With the implementation of CCB's "Hope Project · CCB Five Rooms" public welfare project, the "moral education classroom," which received 100,000 yuan in teaching equipment funding, is becoming a model base for nurturing the patriotic sentiments of young people. China Construction Bank Shaoguan Branch has also dispatched assistance cadres to the front line to assist villagers in applying for Yurun loans and popularize financial knowledge, striving to open up the "last mile" of financial services.
From the "energy engine" of Sanheba, to the aroma of cured meat in Dongbei Town, to the sound of reading aloud in Hope Primary School, the living water of finance is continuously flowing into the old revolutionary base areas of southern Guangdong. With solid and effective financial services, China Construction Bank Guangdong Provincial Branch is helping the old revolutionary base areas walk well the Long March road of the new era, and shine with new brilliance on the path of Chinese modernization.
Data source: China Construction Bank Guangdong Provincial Branch
Return to TopBy: 韩 鑫
A set of data released by the State Post Bureau recently has drawn attention: from January to September this year, the share of express delivery business volume in the central and western regions exceeded 30 percent, reaching 31.2 percent, a new high for the same period in the past three years, and the industry's development pattern of "the east stabilizing, the central region rising, and the west growing fast" has become clearer.
The express delivery industry, connected to production on one end and consumption on the other, is a "barometer" of economic performance. Changes in business volume data reflect changes in the flow direction of express deliveries, providing a vivid window into the resilience and vitality of the Chinese economy.
The change in express delivery flow reflects the vitality of coordinated regional development.
In the past, the logistics pattern of "strong east, weak west" was pronounced, with industrial agglomeration and active consumption in the eastern coastal areas, and express logistics highly concentrated there.
"Imbalance is universal; we must promote relative balance through development." After years of development, the e-commerce "free-shipping zone" has continued to advance westward, the express delivery network has continued to extend to remote areas, and more quality products from the west have emerged from deep mountains and gone to the world... China's express delivery industry has entered a new stage of upgrading and transformation, and the central and western regions, with their strong growth in business volume, have become a new engine driving industry growth.
Behind this shift, the pace of industrial gradient transfer is resolute and forceful. In Baoshan City, Yunnan Province, express delivery enters factories, helping coffee cross mountains and seas; in Minning Town, Yinchuan, Ningxia, e-commerce moves down to the grassroots, promoting the upward flow of agricultural products... Manufacturing capacity and e-commerce industries are being located locally, moving from "only going out, not coming in" to "both coming in and going out," and the ratio of parcels received to parcels sent in the central and western regions is steadily rising. The increasingly robust industrial foundation continues to stimulate regional development vitality, demonstrating the depth and space of a major country's economy.
The smooth flow of express deliveries highlights the potential of the super-large market.
Parcels traversing mountains and ridges (翻山越岭, fan shan yue ling - "climb mountain, cross ridge") and reaching north and south do not happen out of thin air; they depend on the connectivity of facilities and the unblocking of bottlenecks. It can be said that the smooth arrival of every parcel is a micro-level footnote to market integration.
Innovating the transit and consolidation model, the "e-commerce westward expansion" continues to advance; weaving a denser and stronger rural road network, express delivery into villages goes deeper... A more complete three-tier logistics system at the county, township, and village levels is accelerating the release of consumption potential in the lower-tier market. Macro data corroborate this: in the first three quarters, the growth rate of retail sales of consumer goods in rural areas was 1.4 percentage points faster than in urban areas.
"Only when coordinated development between urban and rural areas and among regions is achieved can the space for the domestic economic cycle be broader and its quality be higher." The more balanced express delivery flow across the east, central, and west is a powerful confirmation of the in-depth advancement of the unified national market and the continued release of the advantages of the super-large market.
With sufficient vitality and great potential, the prospects are positive. The "six networks" are an important move in the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan. Among them, the construction of the logistics network has already moved from blueprint to construction drawing: the recently issued "Implementation Plan for Logistics Network Construction" adheres to a goal-oriented approach, promoting the transformation and upgrading of logistics infrastructure from establishing points and smooth connections (布点畅线, bu dian chang xian - "arrange points, make lines smooth") to "forming chains and networks."
Coordinating the main arteries and micro-circulation, and synergizing the logistics network with the industrial chain, a logistics network covering urban and rural areas, connecting east and west, and operating efficiently and smoothly will surely help the central and western regions better integrate into the construction of the unified national market and inject stronger development momentum into coordinated regional development.
"Small parcels" running in more directions and generating greater flow bear witness to the new logistics speed, consumption breadth, and industrial depth of the Chinese economy.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 罗阳奇
"A credit line of 100 million yuan has removed our worries about future problems (后顾之忧, hou gu zhi you - "after, concern, of, worry") regarding production expansion and R&D." Entering Anhui Feixi Economic Development Zone, Xi Zhihui, financial officer of Shenxiang Technology Co., Ltd., told reporters.
This enterprise, focused on the new-energy heavy-duty truck sector, holds multiple key patents in intelligent driving, battery thermal management, and other areas. As order volumes continue to climb, the enterprise's expenditures on production stocking, parts procurement, and technology R&D have kept increasing, and a funding gap has emerged.
The sci-tech financial services task force of the Agricultural Bank of China Feixi County Sub-branch took the initiative to visit the enterprise, placing it on the whitelist of key sci-tech innovation enterprises, assessing the enterprise's intrinsic value from multiple dimensions including shareholder strength, technology patents, industry track, and order trends, opening a green approval channel and shortening approval timelines to rapidly complete and disburse the 100 million yuan credit line approval.
In July 2023, the Anhui Provincial Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China unveiled the province's first batch of new-energy vehicle specialty outlets in Hefei, gradually extending them to industrial clusters such as Wuhu and Chuzhou in Anhui, establishing four new-energy vehicle specialty outlets and building a regionalized specialized service matrix covering complete-vehicle R&D, complete-vehicle manufacturing, and parts supporting.
The Anhui Provincial Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China specifically issued the "Implementation Opinions on Financial Support for the High-Quality Development of the New-Energy Vehicle Industry," clarifying four special policies of credit allocation preference, interest rate concessions, resource preference, and approval priority, and jointly with Anhui Province Credit Guarantee Financing Group innovatively launched the "New-Energy Vehicle Industry Loan," relying on the "bank-guarantee shared risk" model to lower the financing threshold for small and medium-sized enterprises along the chain.
As of the end of August this year, the bank has provided a cumulative 120.2 billion yuan in credit support to the new-energy vehicle industry chain, with automobile enterprise loan balances at 29.3 billion yuan, up 16 percent from the end of the previous year, with services covering leading enterprises such as NIO, Chery, Volkswagen Anhui, and Gotion High-Tech, as well as more than a thousand small and medium-sized supporting enterprises.
In recent years, the Anhui Provincial Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China has made developing industrial finance an important lever for serving the modern industrial system, carrying out the "Hui Gathering Strength, ABC Assisting Enterprises" series of financial service activities within the province.
In Wuhu, the Agricultural Bank of China Wuhu Branch formed a dedicated service team to provide "parent-subsidiary company" integrated services to the local leading enterprise Anhui Chujiang Technology New Materials Co., Ltd., granting the enterprise a credit line of 2.851 billion yuan as of August this year and providing financial services to 22 member enterprises.
In Guangde City, Xuancheng, Anhui, Anhui Sanduo Bearing Co., Ltd. focuses on the R&D of high-end bearings for robots and intelligent equipment. The Agricultural Bank of China Xuancheng Branch, in coordination with other branches, jointly opened a green financing channel and provided preferential interest rate support, jointly offering project loans totaling 635 million yuan with a term of 10 years to support the enterprise in upgrading production lines such as intelligent grinding and assembly.
In addition, the Anhui Provincial Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China screened 20 key industry chains within Anhui Province and promoted exclusive products such as the "Sci-Tech Innovation e-Loan." As of the end of August this year, loans from the Anhui Provincial Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China to strategic emerging industries, manufacturing, and sci-tech enterprises increased by 37.5 billion yuan, 31.6 billion yuan, and 35.9 billion yuan respectively compared with the beginning of the year.
"In the future, the Anhui Provincial Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China will continue to deepen its presence in industrial tracks, innovate exclusive products, and increase credit allocation, fully empowering the construction of Anhui's world-class industrial clusters," said a relevant official of the Anhui Provincial Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 宋朝军
In a small courtyard in Zhongliang Town, Qinzhou District, Tianshui City, Gansu Province, e-commerce operator Xu Lina was busy shipping orders. The team sorted and labeled packages, sealed and packed boxes, and loaded them onto trucks, all in an orderly manner (井然有序, jing ran you xu - "well, orderly, have, order"). Rows of apples were neatly stacked, awaiting shipment to destinations across the country.
"Sales have been rising year after year in recent years. The logistics are reliable, so no matter how many orders come in, shipments never lag behind," Xu Lina said.
For mountain fruit to sell nationwide, it must compete on both quality and logistics. Thanks to the local area's unique soil, water, and sunlight conditions, Tianshui Huaniu apples have a well-proportioned shape, a bright and healthy color (色泽红润, se ze hong run - "color, luster, rosy, moist"), and a rich aroma. As the reputation of Huaniu apples has grown, e-commerce order volumes have kept climbing. Today, the coordinated development of e-commerce and express delivery logistics has opened up a sales channel for agricultural products from the mountains.
Xu Lina's own orchard produces more than 100,000 jin of apples. As online sales channels expanded, she also began purchasing quality fruit from surrounding orchards, and in 2024 she officially registered on an e-commerce platform.
Faced with a steadily expanding market, the concentrated outbound sale of large volumes of fresh fruit is testing the carrying capacity of rural logistics.
These days, Xu Lina starts work at six or seven o'clock every morning and keeps going until seven or eight in the evening, packing, sorting, and checking orders. Her average daily shipment volume holds steady at around 2,000 boxes, each weighing 3 to 5 jin net.
Around September each year, apples in the mountains are picked and sold in succession. At present, the Huaniu apple harvest in Tianshui City has fully wrapped up, with all fruit placed in cold storage and entering the sustained export-sales phase. Most merchants can sell through to around the Spring Festival, while larger operators with ample storage and stable supply can extend their sales cycle into March or April of the following year, achieving off-peak sales and sustained income growth.
Xu Lina is a mid-sized local merchant, and she has worked steadily with the ZTO Express Tianshui outlet for three or four years. Over these years of cooperation, what has impressed her most is the guaranteed efficiency.
"In past peak seasons with heavy volume, it took 48 hours to get everything shipped out. This year it takes just 24 hours — twice as fast," Xu Lina said.
Yang Yahong, business manager of the ZTO Express Tianshui outlet, has been in the express delivery industry for more than a decade. "Only when roads are open, goods move fast, and prices stay stable can fruit growers and e-commerce operators truly make money," Yang Yahong said. To fully support this year's apple sales season, she and her team formed a dedicated freight fleet well before the concentrated harvest period, implementing classified transport capacity and tiered distribution.
For large e-commerce clients placing more than 2,000 orders per day, the outlet dispatches semi-trailer trucks for fixed-point pickup, sending full loads directly to the Xi'an transshipment center in Shaanxi for rapid distribution nationwide; goods from small and medium-sized e-commerce clients are consolidated at the Tianshui first-tier outlet for orderly transshipment.
During the peak season of rapid sales growth, keeping express delivery price levels stable is very important. Before this year's apples hit the market, the delivery outlet published its pricing standards, coordination methods, and contact channels, reaching out to merchants in advance and forecasting order volumes to avoid a frantic rush (手忙脚乱, shou mang jiao luan - "hand, busy, foot, confused") and last-minute price hikes during the peak season.
The stability of logistics costs also benefits from the national "green channel" policy for the transport of fresh agricultural products. Under the policy, freight vehicles carrying fresh agricultural products in full legal loads are exempt from vehicle tolls. Apples are included in the "Catalog of Fresh Agricultural Product Varieties," and trucks shipping Huaniu apples enjoy toll reductions, substantially lowering long-distance transport costs.
In early September this year, when the fruit first came to market, ZTO Express alone shipped more than 600,000 orders of Tianshui Huaniu apples; entering the October sales peak, daily shipment volume has held steady at over 30,000 orders, with buying and selling activity remaining intense.
Today, every county and district in Tianshui City has established standardized first-tier express delivery outlets, with a dense network of delivery points across the entire region and smooth logistics links. Transport processes are efficiently connected, and more and more fruit trucks are going directly to the Xi'an hub and straight to key consumer markets.
In 2026, the Huaniu apple planting area in Tianshui City is approximately 870,000 mu, with an estimated output of about 2.03 million tons and an output value exceeding 6.6 billion yuan, benefiting more than 1.7 million residents and related workers.
As dusk fell, in Xu Lina's farmhouse courtyard, all 2,000-plus orders of fruit for the day were loaded and dispatched. She scrolled through the backend on her phone — new orders were still popping up one after another, and the buying and selling momentum showed no sign of cooling.
"E-commerce sets the stage, logistics steps on the gas — together they bring the mountains' fine goods to life, and life holds more promise," Xu Lina said.
Return to TopEvery aspect of people's livelihood is important (民生无小事, min sheng wu xiao shi - "people's livelihood, no, small, matters"), and every leaf and branch is bound up with feeling. State Grid Tianjin Electric Power Company adheres to the people-centered development philosophy, focuses on the public's "urgent, difficult, worried, and hoped-for" issues in electricity use, advances the renovation and takeover of residential communities not directly supplied by the power grid, promotes the "scan-code electricity use" shared service, joins with other public service enterprises to extend the reach of services, fills the gaps in people's livelihood electricity supply, promotes more equitable and convenient power supply services, and enhances the public's sense of gain, happiness, and security.
Focusing on Pain Points in People's Livelihood, Advancing the Renovation and Takeover of Residential Communities Not Directly Supplied by the Power Grid
Residential communities not directly supplied by the power grid generally suffer from aging equipment, insufficient operation and maintenance capacity, and inconvenience for residents in paying bills. State Grid Tianjin Electric Power Company has strengthened coordination with local governments and relevant units, made renovation and takeover a key task, and adopted measures tailored to different categories to resolve problems left over from history.
In Wuqing District, government and enterprises have worked together to issue a working mechanism for the renovation and handover of residential communities not directly supplied by the power grid in Wuqing District, led by the District Industry and Information Technology Bureau, with multiple departments and local towns and streets coordinating in tandem. State Grid Tianjin Wuqing Company has formed a dedicated task force, conducting household-by-household verification where homeowner information is missing, and providing door-to-door service for elderly people living alone. The first pilot community, Wolongtan Manor Community, completed the takeover in only 14 days, and residents achieved "one household, one meter," with services such as mobile phone bill payment and fault reporting becoming smoother. As of the end of September 2026, renovation and takeover of 6 communities had been completed, benefiting 4,562 households.
In the Binquli Community of Xiqing District, State Grid Tianjin Chengxi Company, in response to the property owner's funding difficulties, proactively promoted the implementation of renovation funds and clarified the responsibilities of all parties, adopting an approach in which the power supply enterprise builds the external power source and the project entity is responsible for internal renovation, implemented simultaneously. With the commissioning of a new 630 kVA box-type substation and the energization of residents' meters, 153 households achieved direct power grid supply, and the level of power supply guarantee and service was further improved.
Expanding Shared Services to Ensure Convenient and Safe Temporary Electricity Use
In response to problems such as the inconvenience of connecting electricity in scenarios like farmers' markets and community activities, and the safety hazards of unauthorized and disorderly wiring, State Grid Tianjin Electric Power Company promotes the "scan-code electricity use" shared service. Users can scan a code with their mobile phone to top up and use electricity, eliminating steps such as installation applications, approvals, and signing paper contracts. The equipment features intelligent settlement, overload protection, leakage protection, and other functions, supports one-touch power-off and balance refunds, and meets the needs for convenient power access, safe electricity use, and on-demand electricity use.
At the Dongmaju Farmers' Market in Wuqing District, State Grid Tianjin Wuqing Company put 3 scan-code electricity charging piles into operation, providing convenient power sources for mobile vendors, and organized staff to inspect line interfaces, switch contacts, and the operating condition of distribution boxes, answering electricity questions on site; at the Lutai Fair in Ninghe District, State Grid Tianjin Ninghe Company, based on stall distribution and vendor needs, added 3 additional devices after the first batch of 3 scan-code electricity charging piles was put into operation; in the Xinminli Community of Binhai New Area, scan-code electricity charging piles provided power for a cultural performance, reducing the inconvenience of temporary borrowing of electricity and laying cables.
At present, the "scan-code electricity use" shared service has covered scenarios such as farmland irrigation and drainage, street stalls and night markets, and electric bicycle charging. A total of 186 scan-code electricity charging piles have been built across the city, covering all 16 administrative districts, making temporary electricity use more convenient and safe.
Pooling Service Synergies to Extend the Reach of Services for the People
To meet the public's diversified energy needs, State Grid Tianjin Binhai Company took the lead in joining with water supply, gas, and heating units to form an "electricity-water-gas-heat" service alliance, reducing problems such as residents having to consult multiple parties and make repeated repair requests.
The service alliance regularly enters communities on the 18th of each month to carry out activities such as business consultation, policy interpretation, and safety science popularization, and distributes convenience service cards; for special groups such as elderly people living alone, it conducts joint household visits to inspect safety hazards in water, electricity, gas, and heat. The units have also established online working groups with communities, promptly connecting with responsible units when other energy needs are discovered, achieving information sharing and coordinated handling. The service alliance has cumulatively conducted more than 300 on-site consultations and made household visits to more than 30 elderly people living alone.
From solving the electricity problem of one household to responding to the people's livelihood needs of an entire city, State Grid Tianjin Electric Power Company aims at the public's "urgent, difficult, worried, and hoped-for" issues, extends the reach of services, makes it more worry-free for residents to obtain electricity service, safer for temporary electricity use, and more convenient for comprehensive energy use, and through one solid measure after another, does the work of benefiting people's livelihood, warming people's hearts, and following people's wishes right to the hearts of the masses, guarding the lights of ten thousand households.
Data source: State Grid Tianjin Electric Power Company
Return to TopBy: 中央党校（国家行政学院）习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想研究中心
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," deliberated and adopted at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, lists "building a rigorous organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and powerful in execution" as one of the strategic tasks and major measures for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, explicitly requiring "ensuring that the implementation of the Party's line, principles, and policies and the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee is coordinated from top to bottom, precise, and efficient," and making systematic arrangements in six aspects. This important arrangement covers all levels, all fields, and all links of the Party's organizational system, and a distinct orientation running through it is to ensure that the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee are resolutely and forcefully implemented. Implementing the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee has never been an abstract political requirement, but is concretely and realistically embodied in the actual actions of Party organizations at every level, every fighting fortress, and every Party member. Striving forward in the 15th Five-Year Plan and embarking on a new journey, we must, with higher standards and more solid measures, unify the rigorous organizational system with resolute implementation, so that the Party's leadership is acting with ease and coordination like a body commanding its limbs (如身使臂，如臂使指, ru shen shi bi, ru bi shi zhi - "body, command, arm; arm, command, finger"), ensuring that the orders of the Party Central Committee are unimpeded and that prohibitions are observed.
Upholding the Two Upholds as the highest political principle and fundamental political rule, and consolidating the fundamental political premise for implementation
Implementing the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee is first and foremost a political issue. General Secretary Xi Jinping has profoundly pointed out: "Upholding the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized, unified leadership includes both upholding the Party Central Committee's leadership system, procedures, and rules, and upholding the Party Central Committee's decisions, arrangements, and work plans," and "If the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee cannot be effectively implemented, where does the Party's centralized, unified leadership begin?" General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thesis internally unifies the implementation of the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee with the Two Upholds. The major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee manifest the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized, unified leadership, and embody the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people. Whether the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee are resolutely and forcefully implemented is the "touchstone" for testing the Two Upholds, and also a hard yardstick for measuring political judgment, political understanding, and political execution.
Resolute and forceful implementation stems from political firmness and sobriety. Since the new era, the Party and state undertakings have achieved historic accomplishments and undergone historic changes, fundamentally because of the helm-steering and navigation of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and because of the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The Two Establishments are major political achievements of the Party in the new era, and are the greatest certainty, the greatest confidence, and the greatest guarantee for doing all work well. Upholding the Two Upholds as the highest political principle and fundamental political rule means transforming the political consciousness of firmly supporting the Two Establishments into the action consciousness of implementing the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, so as to resolutely respond to what the Party Central Committee advocates, resolutely implement what the Party Central Committee decides, and resolutely refrain from what the Party Central Committee prohibits, and at all times and under all circumstances maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core.
The rigorous organizational system is the material support and organizational guarantee for the Two Upholds to be truly implemented. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Only when Party organizations at all levels are all sound and all competent, forming a rigorous organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and powerful in execution, can the Party's leadership be 'like the body commanding the arm, like the arm commanding the finger.'" The Party Central Committee is the brain and hub of the Party's organizational system. The Party Central Committee makes the final decision, local organizations serve as the link between the upper and lower levels, and primary-level Party organizations take root among the masses, forming a complete chain from the brain and hub to the "nerve endings." Without this complete chain, the Two Upholds can easily remain at the level of statements; with this complete chain, the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee can be connected level by level and implemented layer by layer, transformed into the actual actions of Party organizations at all levels and the broad masses of Party members. The Decision of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party lists "strictly implementing and carrying out democratic centralism" alongside "building a rigorous organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and powerful in execution," and the profound meaning lies precisely here: democratic centralism is the Party's fundamental organizational principle and leadership system, and the rigorous organizational system is the organizational carrier of the institutional principle; the two together ensure that the entire Party obeys the Central Committee and that the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee are implemented to the end and carried out in place.
Speaking of politics requires improving political execution. Political execution is not ordinary work ability, but the political consciousness and political ability to transform the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee into concrete actions, and its strength or weakness, high or low, ultimately must be judged by the actual results of implementation. Party organizations at all levels and the broad masses of Party members and cadres must at all times examine whether their thoughts and actions have deviated from the Party's line, principles, and policies and the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, and grasp implementation with the vigor of leaving marks on iron and prints on stone, ensuring that there is no deviation in political direction, no temperature difference in actual actions, and no gap in work results. No deviation in political direction means maintaining a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core at all times and under all circumstances, not engaging in selective implementation, not engaging in flexible adaptation or distortion; no temperature difference in actual actions means that wherever the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee reach, the actions of Party organizations and Party members follow, without cooling down, without attenuation, without suspension in midair; no gap in work results means testing the quality of implementation by actual results, not replacing implementation with documents, not replacing implementation with meetings. Only when the three are unified can implementation be truly resolute and forceful.
Opening up the "first kilometer," the "middle section," and the "last kilometer," making the chain of implementation interlocking at every link, and ensuring responsibility at every level
Connection from top to bottom is first of all connection of responsibility. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that central and state organs are the "first kilometer" for implementing the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, and there must be no "roadblock"; local Party committees are the "middle section" for implementing the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, and there must be no "midway obstruction"; primary-level Party organizations are the "last kilometer" for implementing the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, and there must be no "dead-end road." These three metaphors precisely point out the functional positioning of Party organizations at different levels in implementation, and also profoundly reveal where obstruction may occur in the organizational system.
The key to the "first kilometer" lies in central and state organs taking the lead in the first phalanx of practicing the Two Upholds. Central and state organs are closest to the Party Central Committee and serve the Party Central Committee most directly, and the quality of their performance of functions and duties directly determines the quality of the implementation of the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee. If a "roadblock" appears in the "first kilometer," the decisions and arrangements will be delayed and distorted at the starting point, and connection further down becomes impossible. Central and state organs must bear in mind the two overall situations, conscientiously perform the functions and duties entrusted by the Party and the state, transform the Party Central Committee's strategic intentions completely, accurately, and promptly into policies, measures, and work arrangements, and must not implement what suits them and delay what does not, still less dissolve the authority of the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee in departmental interests and partial considerations. The Decision of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party explicitly requires "giving play to the exemplary role of Party organizations in central and state organs," and what this points to is precisely the exemplary responsibility and political responsibility of the "first kilometer."
The key to the "middle section" lies in local Party committees serving as the link between the upper and lower levels and connecting the left and right. Local Party committees are situated between the Party Central Committee and primary-level Party organizations, and must both thoroughly understand the spirit of the Party Central Committee and combine it with the actual conditions of their own regions to carry out work creatively; their functional state determines whether decisions and arrangements can be smoothly transmitted from the "first kilometer" to the "last kilometer." If a "midway obstruction" appears in local Party committees, the upper-level situation cannot be transmitted downward and the lower-level situation cannot be transmitted upward, and the arrangements of the Party Central Committee will be intercepted and idled in the middle layer. Local Party committees must be built into strong organizations that resolutely obey the command of the Party Central Committee, are powerful in execution, strict in management, united in leadership, and pure in conduct, take the implementation of the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee as their primary responsibility, be good at finding the coordinates of their own regions in the overall situation of the Party and the state, integrate the work of their own regions into the overall cause of the Party and the state, and ensure that the spirit of the Party Central Committee is comprehensively implemented and precisely carried out in their regions.
The key to the "last kilometer" lies in primary-level Party organizations truly becoming fighting fortresses. Primary-level Party organizations are the "nerve endings" of the Party's body and the "last kilometer" for implementing the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee. The Party Central Committee's policies benefiting the people, governance measures, and development arrangements ultimately all depend on primary-level Party organizations to publicize, organize, and implement. If a "dead-end road" appears in the "last kilometer," no matter how good the decisions and arrangements are, they cannot reach the side of the masses, and no matter how strong the organizational system is, it will lose its effectiveness at the terminal end. We must uphold the clear orientation of vigorously strengthening the primary level, adhere to simultaneously strengthening weak links and filling gaps and improving quality and enhancing functions, continuously rectify weak and lax primary-level Party organizations, promote the all-round competence of Party organizations at all levels and in all fields, and make every branch a strong fighting fortress that publicizes the Party's propositions, implements the Party's decisions, leads primary-level governance, unites and mobilizes the masses, and promotes reform and development.
Connection is not an abstract slogan, but an actual state in which every level has someone responsible, every link has someone in charge, and every problem has someone to solve it. Only when the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee are connected through the whole chain and carried through to the end can a coordinated, precise, and efficient overall effect truly be formed.
Taking democratic centralism and the request-for-instructions and report system as the key institutional support, and bringing implementation onto a standardized and institutionalized track
Implementing the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee depends on both political consciousness and institutional guarantees. The Decision of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party places "strictly implementing and carrying out democratic centralism" in an important position among the strategic tasks and major measures, deployed in an integrated manner with the rigorous organizational system, precisely because institutions are more fundamental, more overall, more stable, and more long-term in nature.
Democratic centralism is the Party's fundamental organizational principle and leadership system, and its core requirement is the "four subordinations," the most fundamental of which is the subordination of the entire Party to the Central Committee. In the practice of implementation, democratic centralism solves the fundamental rule problem of how decisions are formed, how execution is unified, and how the upper and lower levels are connected. Only by transforming the institutional advantages of democratic centralism into rigid constraints on decision-making and execution can the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee move from "paper" to "ground" and from "meeting rooms" to "the scene." This requires both fully developing intra-Party democracy, so that the true conditions and opinions and suggestions of all aspects can enter the decision-making process, and implementing correct centralism, so that once the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee are made, they have the seriousness and unity that must be implemented. Without centralism on the basis of democracy, implementation will lose its direction; without democracy under the guidance of centralism, implementation will lose its order. Only when the two are unified can the unity and uniformity of action of the entire Party be guaranteed.
The request-for-instructions and report system for major matters is an effective working mechanism for implementing democratic centralism and an important institutional interface for ensuring that implementation does not deviate or go out of shape. The request-for-instructions and report system standardizes and proceduralizes the requirements for lower-level Party organizations to report major matters to higher-level Party organizations and for Party members and leading cadres to report major matters to Party organizations, enabling the Party Central Committee to grasp in a timely manner the implementation of decisions and arrangements, to discover in a timely manner deviations and problems in implementation, and to make timely corrections and dispositions. Strictly implementing and carrying out democratic centralism necessarily requires strictly implementing the request-for-instructions and report system in place, so that what must be requested for instructions is requested for instructions, what must be reported is reported, reporting both good news and bad news, both achievements and mistakes, both results and processes. If the request-for-instructions and report system becomes a mere formality, or if "flexible adaptation" replaces request for instructions and "post-hoc notification" replaces prior reporting, the connectivity of the organizational system will first break at the information level, and the precision of implementation cannot be guaranteed.
Implementing the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee cannot stop at "having been deployed" as completion, but must form a closed-loop management of the entire chain of communication and study, research and deployment, implementation and execution, follow-up supervision, and report and feedback. We must improve the closed-loop implementation mechanism for political requirements, take the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the important instructions and directives of General Secretary Xi Jinping as political requirements, establish ledgers item by item, clarify responsibilities item by item, and track effectiveness item by item, preventing "approving and being done with it," "forwarding and being done with it," and "reporting and being done with it." We must strengthen political supervision, promote the concretization, precision, and normalization of political supervision, take the implementation situation as a key focus of inspections and patrols and supervision and inspection, and discover and correct in a timely manner temperature differences, gaps, and deviations in execution. The significance of the institutional closed loop lies not only in being able to pursue accountability when problems arise, but also, through whole-process management and feedback, in making implementation a process that can be tracked, corrected, and sustained.
Transforming organizational advantages into governance effectiveness and development momentum, and demonstrating the practical power of the rigorous organizational system in implementation
The value of the rigorous organizational system ultimately must be tested in the actual results of implementation. The Party's organizational advantages are not an abstract existence, but visible combat effectiveness and tangible productivity. Since the new era, from the battle against poverty to major engineering construction, from epidemic prevention and control to disaster prevention and relief, at a single order from the Party Central Committee, Party organizations at all levels and the broad masses of Party members have acted swiftly, fully proving that the rigorous organizational system can, at critical moments, gather scattered forces and transform organizational advantages into actual effectiveness in overcoming difficulties and winning.
The battle against poverty is a classic sample of the connectivity of the organizational system. After the Party Central Committee made the decision to win the battle against poverty, five-level secretaries grasped poverty alleviation, the entire Party was mobilized to promote the assault, and 255,000 village-based work teams and more than 3 million first secretaries and village-based cadres fought together on the front line of poverty alleviation with nearly 2 million township cadres and millions of village cadres. In this process, the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee were transmitted level by level and pressed down layer by layer through the rigorous organizational chain, and Party organizations at the provincial, municipal, county, township, and village levels all became responsible subjects for implementation, ultimately transformed at the primary level into precise assistance of one policy per household and sustained development of one industry per village. Without a command system connected from top to bottom and powerful primary-level forces, resource allocation and organizational mobilization on such a scale would be unimaginable. The construction of the Pinglu Canal also provides a vivid footnote: 105 participating units and more than 20,000 builders established 40 Party branches with full coverage across project sections, construction teams, and frontline work sites, with more than 110 Party member commando teams charging ahead, Party building tasks and engineering tasks deployed simultaneously, organizational construction and project construction advanced simultaneously, and one "organizational chain" gathering scattered construction forces into a joint force for overcoming difficulties. These practices repeatedly prove that the more rigorous the organizational system, the more powerful the implementation; the more connected the organizational chain, the more effectively decisions and arrangements can be implemented and produce results.
Transforming organizational advantages into governance effectiveness also requires showing real results in the daily scenarios of primary-level governance. "Connected from top to bottom, powerful in execution" — the masses feel this most truly in the smoke and fire of daily life. Beijing's "immediate response to complaints" reform, coordinated by the municipal Party committee, with the linkage of the three-level Party building work coordination committees of districts, subdistricts (townships), and communities (villages), forms a dense "network for responding to people's livelihood," having cumulatively handled approximately 200 million complaints from citizens and enterprises, with resolution rates and satisfaction rates both exceeding 97 percent. The reason this mechanism is effective lies fundamentally in its transformation of the Party's organizational system from a "hierarchical chain" into a "response chain": once a complaint from the masses enters, it can quickly find the responsible subject along the organizational system and quickly form a closed loop of handling, so that the people-centered development philosophy is implemented in every concrete problem of primary-level governance. The connectivity of the organizational system ultimately must be implemented in the needs of the masses; the effectiveness of powerful execution ultimately must be reflected in the masses' sense of gain, happiness, and security. Without this foothold, the rigor of the organizational system will become the organization's own "internal circulation," and implementation will lose its fundamental value orientation.
Whether it is the battle against poverty or primary-level governance, although the practical scenarios differ, the winning code running through them is highly consistent: once the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee are made, the rigorous organizational system can quickly mobilize, organize, and gather the forces of the entire Party and the entire society, forming an invincible joint force of execution. This is precisely where the practical power of "connected from top to bottom, powerful in execution" lies, and it is also the vivid logic by which the Party's organizational advantages are transformed through the rigorous organizational system into governance effectiveness and development momentum.
Taking the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan as the real examination ground, and carrying implementation through to the end in persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party was a very important meeting held in the critical period of basically realizing socialist modernization and in the first year of the 15th Five-Year Plan. The plenary session made systematic arrangements for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, closely linking the rigorous organizational system with the implementation of the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, and promoting the implementation and effective realization of the goals and tasks of the 15th Five-Year Plan with strong organizational guarantees.
The development tasks of the 15th Five-Year Plan period are arduous and heavy, and the risks and challenges are complex and severe, placing higher demands on the connectivity and execution of the organizational system. The heavier the tasks and the more numerous the challenges, the more we need the "stabilizing anchor" of the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, the more we need the "steel skeleton" of the rigorous organizational system, and the more we need Party organizations at all levels and the broad masses of Party members to be more resolute and forceful in implementation. We must promote the high-quality development of Party organizational construction, embed the construction of the organizational system into the entire process of implementing the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan, so that every major strategy, every major task, and every major measure has organizational support, responsible subjects, and execution forces. We must test and identify cadres in implementation, take whether the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee are resolutely and forcefully implemented as an important part of political quality inspection, promote the normalization of the ability of cadres to move up and down, let those who grasp implementation firmly have positions and those who are perfunctory in their duties lose positions, take responsibility for those who take responsibility, take responsibility for those who are responsible, and back up those who do things. We must continue to rectify formalism to reduce burdens at the primary level, resolutely correct prominent problems such as replacing implementation with documents, replacing implementation with meetings, and replacing actual results with traces, free primary-level cadres from meaningless affairs, and concentrate their energy on truly grasping implementation and firmly grasping implementation.
Persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party itself contains the dialectical requirement of advancing in an integrated manner both "building the system" and "grasping implementation." The rigorous organizational system provides organizational support for implementation, and resolute implementation tests and tempers the organizational system. The two reinforce and fulfill each other in the practice of full and rigorous self-governance of the Party. The Decision of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party incorporates "building a rigorous organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and powerful in execution" into the strategic deployment for persistently advancing full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, precisely in order to form such a virtuous cycle: the more rigorous the organizational system, the smoother and more precise the implementation of the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee; the more resolute and forceful the implementation, the more the organizational system can be consolidated and enhanced in practice.
Historical experience repeatedly proves that the strength of a political party lies not only in whether its program is correct, but also in whether its organization can transform the program into action. The Communist Party of China has more than 100 million Party members and more than 5.43 million primary-level Party organizations, and the key to transforming the scale advantage of a major party into governance advantages lies in the connectivity of the organizational system and the forcefulness of execution. On the new journey, only by always upholding the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized, unified leadership, always taking the implementation of the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee as the primary political responsibility of Party organizations at all levels and the broad masses of Party members, and making the entire Party always march in step and act in unity under the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, can we surely continuously transform the Party's organizational advantages into powerful forces for advancing Chinese modernization, turn the grand blueprint of the 15th Five-Year Plan into reality step by step, and hand in an even better answer sheet on the new road of the examination.
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General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed: "We must carry out extensive international cooperation, help Global South countries strengthen capacity-building, bridge the digital-intelligence divide, promote sustainable development, and avoid creating new historical injustices in the field of artificial intelligence." In July 2024, the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus a resolution on strengthening international cooperation on artificial intelligence capacity-building, proposed by China. This is the first consensus document in the world to focus on artificial intelligence capacity-building, fully demonstrating China's responsible attitude and important leading role in the development and governance of artificial intelligence. The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes: "Promote the establishment of an artificial intelligence governance framework with broad participation of all countries, jointly build an open global artificial intelligence ecosystem of equal rights, mutual trust, diversity, and win-win outcomes, and support Global South countries in strengthening artificial intelligence capacity-building." At present, artificial intelligence technology is iterating rapidly, the digital-intelligence divide continues to widen, and Global South countries face real difficulties such as weak infrastructure, shortages in talent supply, insufficient application transformation, and imbalance in governance discourse power. We must deeply study the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important remarks, better practice the Global Governance Initiative, implement the relevant arrangements of the 15th Five-Year Plan outline, place international cooperation on artificial intelligence capacity-building in a prominent position in global artificial intelligence governance, promote universal access to technology, and let emerging technologies illuminate the path to shared prosperity.
Consolidate foundational support capacity and build a solid material foundation. Based on the economic development realities of all countries, promote the coordinated co-construction of computing and network facilities and the sharing of computing power resources, and build inclusive and applicable digital-intelligence infrastructure. Relying on the "Digital Silk Road" platform, advance the construction of information high-speed road networks and the layout of edge computing nodes, explore computing power sharing service models, and lower the hardware threshold for using intelligent technology. Vigorously promote lightweight model application solutions, and provide computing power support for practical needs such as agricultural production, disaster prevention and mitigation, and public services. Promote international collaborative application of open-source algorithms and open-source foundation models to reduce the cost of technology acquisition. Implement the open-source AI initiative for inclusive benefits under deepened BRICS cooperation, and take the lead in building a BRICS open-source artificial intelligence zone. Support countries in independently carrying out local data collection and organization, establish data collection, storage, and protection systems suited to their national conditions, firmly safeguard the data sovereignty of all countries, and transform local data resources into endogenous factors for artificial intelligence development.
Enhance talent cultivation capacity and promote sustainable development. In terms of mechanism building, help Global South countries improve localized artificial intelligence curriculum systems and talent cultivation mechanisms, and promote the shift of talent cultivation from short-term dispatched training and phased technical guidance toward normalized, self-sustaining local talent supply. In terms of specific methods, carry out international talent cooperation through joint education, thematic training programs, and hands-on practical training, accelerate the building of international artificial intelligence application cooperation centers oriented toward ASEAN, the Arab League, the African Union, CELAC, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and BRICS countries, and provide tiered and categorized training for government administrators, industry practitioners, and youth groups. In terms of talent empowerment, focus on cultivating core capabilities in local talent such as technology application, operations and maintenance iteration, innovative research and development, and scenario adaptation, and promote deep adaptation of artificial intelligence technology to various scenarios including local livelihood services, industrial development, and social governance.
Strengthen practical application capacity and unleash development effectiveness. Adhere to a demand-oriented approach and follow a localized path of artificial intelligence development. Help Global South countries focus on basic livelihood fields such as food security, public health, and disaster early warning, select artificial intelligence solutions suited to their own conditions, and enhance the capacity for on-the-ground application. Carry out pragmatic project cooperation around real pain points, simultaneously impart hands-on experience in deployment, operations and maintenance, and debugging during project implementation, train local teams through practice, and enable artificial intelligence technology to genuinely serve the production and daily life of ordinary people. Enhance the capacity for intelligent transformation of local industries, and rely on international cooperation platforms such as South-South cooperation and high-quality Belt and Road Initiative co-construction to empower local advantageous industries including characteristic agriculture, traditional processing, and cross-border trade with artificial intelligence. Develop localized artificial intelligence solutions closely targeting local industrial pain points, and encourage local enterprises to participate in project construction and operations and maintenance. Adhere to the philosophy of teaching someone how to fish instead of just giving them fish (授人以渔, shou ren yi yu - "give, person, use, fish"), and in cooperation, export technical experience and project management experience to consolidate the endogenous driving force of industrial development. Enhance the capacity for building an inclusive and universally beneficial application ecosystem, fully respect the civilizational traditions and social customs of different countries, improve the level of cultural adaptation of algorithms, and effectively prevent various risks arising from algorithmic bias. Continuously lower the threshold for small and medium-sized enterprises and social organizations to use artificial intelligence technology, so that the fruits of technological progress benefit a broader range of social groups.
Deepen capacity for participation in global governance and improve institutional safeguards. Enhance capacity for rule consultation and standards alignment, promote dialogue and exchange among countries on artificial intelligence development strategies, regulatory systems, and technical standards, promote mutual recognition of standards, oppose the use of technical standards to set up exclusive barriers, oppose the abuse of export control measures, and promote the formation of governance consensus that takes into account the interests of all parties. Support Global South countries in upholding common positions on multilateral platforms such as the United Nations and the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, fully integrate the practical demands of Global South countries for capacity-building into the global artificial intelligence rule consultation process, and change the pattern in which a few countries dominate rule-making. Enhance the capacity for utilizing multilateral cooperation mechanisms, give play to the leading role of the Global Governance Initiative and other frameworks, and rely on multilateral mechanisms such as BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation to expand South-South cooperation on artificial intelligence. Give play to the role of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization as a platform for practical cooperation, and promote technology assistance, knowledge sharing, and joint scientific research to go deeper and yield concrete results. Promote major countries to voluntarily assume corresponding international responsibilities, provide more international public goods in artificial intelligence, pool multilateral synergy, and bridge the digital-intelligence divide. Improve the capacity of all countries for artificial intelligence risk management and control, guide Global South countries to base themselves on their own industrial development stages, coordinate development and security, build artificial intelligence ethical guidelines, risk assessment mechanisms, and regulatory tools suited to their national conditions, and explore artificial intelligence governance paths that fit their own development stages.
(The author is a researcher at the Belt and Road School of Beijing Normal University)
Return to TopGeneral Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed: "It is necessary to strengthen the employment-first orientation in advancing high-quality development." The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes building an employment-friendly development model. At present and for a period to come, China's employment field faces a complex situation in which multiple challenges are intertwined and superimposed: demographic structural changes are reshaping the new pattern of labor supply, digital development is continuously increasing flexible employment and new forms of employment, and the development of artificial intelligence technology is profoundly affecting the labor market. Building an employment-friendly development model means deeply integrating the goal of promoting high-quality full employment into the entire process of macroeconomic policy formulation, industrial planning, and human capital development, so that the process of high-quality development becomes a process of improving the quality and expanding the capacity of employment.
Adhere to the employment-first principle and make high-quality full employment a priority goal of economic and social development. Incorporate high-quality full employment into national economic and social development plans, achieving priority of development goals, priority of macroeconomic regulation, and priority of policy coordination, and promote the coordinated linkage and concerted action of fiscal, monetary, investment, consumption, industrial, regional, and other policies with employment policies. Establish a broad view of employment that "those who manage industry must manage employment, those who promote consumption must promote employment, and those who launch projects must expand employment," and strengthen employment impact assessment.
Adhere to investing in people and focus on resolving structural employment contradictions. Structural employment contradictions are the principal contradiction in the current employment field. To resolve this contradiction, a fundamental solution to a problem (治本之策, zhi ben zhi ce - "cure, root, this, strategy") lies in improving the quality of workers and accelerating the shaping of modern human resources. Firmly grasp the "key link" of skilled talent cultivation, and start from resolving the problem of "having jobs but no one to fill them" to solve the problem of "having people but no jobs for them."
Adhere to putting the people first, strengthening the protection of workers' rights and interests, and improving the quality of employment. High-quality full employment must ultimately be reflected in workers' sense of gain, happiness, and security. It is necessary to improve the mechanisms for wage determination, reasonable growth, and payment guarantees for workers, so that the fruits of development benefit all workers more and more fairly. In response to the prominent shortcoming of protecting the rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment, accelerate the promotion of relevant legislation and improve systems for fair employment, labor remuneration, rest and leave, labor safety, and social insurance. Improve the public employment service system, implement "AI + employment," and improve the efficiency of matching people with positions. Enhance the capacity for labor relations governance, making labor relations more harmonious, rights and interests protection more complete, and the employment environment fairer.
— Excerpted from Study Times, October 5, 2026, by Mo Rong, originally titled "Building an Employment-Friendly Development Model to Promote High-Quality Full Employment"
Return to Top(People's Daily, Fuzhou) (Reporter Zhu Yuejun) Recently, the 2026 "Belt and Road Initiative" Media Cooperation Forum released the "Fuzhou Initiative on Media Cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative." The initiative was jointly issued by media representatives from different countries and regions, proposing five major directions for cooperation, and calling on media of all countries to firmly uphold win-win cooperation, consolidate consensus, deepen content collaboration, embrace the wave of technology, and foster people-to-people bonds.
Media representatives attending the forum expressed their expectation to continue close exchanges, jointly convey the voice of the times in promoting common development, and contribute greater strength to building a community with a shared future for mankind and creating a better world.
The full text of the "Fuzhou Initiative on Media Cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative" is as follows:
We, the media representatives attending the 2026 "Belt and Road Initiative" Media Cooperation Forum, coming from different countries and regions, gathering in Fuzhou, China, hereby jointly issue the following initiative on promoting high-quality media exchanges and cooperation in the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative:
I. Firmly uphold win-win cooperation. Openness and cooperation represent the trend of history, and mutual benefit and win-win outcomes are what people aspire to. In 2013, President Xi Jinping put forward the major initiative of jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative. Over the past 13 years, the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative has moved from a Chinese initiative to international practice, and has entered a new stage of high-quality development, making new contributions to promoting world economic growth, improving global economic governance, and enhancing the well-being of people in all countries. Countries participating in the joint construction have adhered to connectivity and common development, proving through concrete actions that only win-win cooperation can accomplish things, do things well, and achieve great things.
II. Consolidate consensus. The media plays an irreplaceable and important role in information dissemination, enhancing mutual trust, and consolidating consensus. Media of all countries should uphold professional ethics, discard subjective prejudice, identify and refute false statements, amplify positive voices, and build bridges of understanding and mutual trust through rational and fair reporting, creating a favorable public opinion atmosphere of sharing opportunities, jointly meeting challenges, and jointly creating prosperity.
III. Deepen content collaboration. Media of all countries will continue to rely on multilateral cooperation platforms such as the Belt and Road News Network, carry out in-depth cooperation projects including joint interviews, personnel exchanges, information exchange, and co-production of programs, continuously improve cooperation mechanisms that are broad in scope, diverse in form, and regular in operation, produce more high-quality works that resonate with people, and actively serve as recorders, participants, and promoters of the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative.
IV. Embrace the wave of technology. New-generation information technologies such as artificial intelligence are profoundly changing media forms and the public opinion ecosystem, presenting both opportunities and challenges. Media of all countries should follow the trend of digital and intelligent development, uphold the principle of technology serving good and positive purposes, deeply explore the rich connotations of green, digital, and health-related aspects of the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, empower the dissemination of quality content with technology, and let the voice of the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative cross mountains and seas to reach a broader audience.
V. Foster people-to-people bonds. Media of all countries should serve as envoys of exchanges among civilizations, expand diverse mechanisms for people-to-people exchanges, organize rich and colorful non-governmental exchange activities, and promote mutual appreciation and learning from each other and helping each other (互学互鉴, hu xue hu jian - "mutually learn, mutually assist") among different civilizations. Fujian is the only province in China named after the character "Fu" (blessing), and the beautiful meaning of "Fu" is shared by people of different countries and ethnic groups. Reverence for blessing, prayer for blessing, and hope for blessing are common aspirations of people of all countries. With "Fu" as a medium, we welcome media of all countries to participate, share, and jointly build, integrating the common aspiration for a better life into the communication practice of the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, and transforming aspirations rooted in the people's hearts into consensus of mutual trust and mutual understanding. Looking to the future, we expect media of all countries to continue close exchanges, jointly convey the voice of the times in promoting common development, and contribute greater media strength to building a community with a shared future for mankind and creating a better world.
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The tide rises in the southeast, singing toward the sea. The story of the thousand-year Silk Road continues to be written anew across the land of Fujian. Recently, the 2026 Belt and Road Initiative Media Cooperation Forum was held in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. During the "New Journey of the Silk Road, Jointly Composing a Splendid Chapter" themed sharing session at the forum's opening ceremony, Chinese and foreign guests told stories based on their personal experiences, providing a vivid illustration of the joint pursuit of the Belt and Road Initiative.
A single strain of Juncao grass connects ecology with poverty alleviation.
Lin Zhanxi, a researcher at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University who is over eighty years old, has another identity — the "Father of Juncao Grass in the World." In 1986, he invented Juncao technology and promoted its application in multiple places across Fujian. In 1994, Juncao technology was selected for a South-South cooperation project, and a few years later it was listed as a Fujian Province assistance project for the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, marking the beginning of Juncao technology's journey of foreign assistance.
Why has a single "grass" from China been able to travel across the ocean to far-off places (漂洋过海, piao yang guo hai - "float, ocean, cross, sea") and be promoted to more than 100 countries and regions around the world? Because Juncao grass not only has ecological value, but can also reduce poverty and increase wealth. In Papua New Guinea, it is affectionately called "Chinese grass"; in Africa, people also call it "grass of happiness."
"When advancing projects in different countries, we make helping local people escape poverty the focus of our services, and in light of local conditions, making things simple based on existing limitations (因陋就简, yin lou jiu jian - "according to, the bad, take, simple"), we innovate and promote Juncao technology as well as practical experience in escaping poverty through reliance on Juncao grass," Lin Zhanxi said. The projects include both small-but-beautiful, small-but-refined, and small-but-flexible family development models, as well as paths toward base-based, large-scale, and industrialized development, forming a complete set of technical promotion and application systems that can be localized and replicated.
A single language brings two great ancient civilizations together.
Abbas Sayed, a member of the Egypt-China Friendship Association and an Egyptian tour guide, first encountered perfectly square and regular Chinese characters (方方正正, fang fang zheng zheng - "square, square, upright, upright") more than twenty years ago and formed an inseparable bond (不解之缘, bu jie zhi yuan - "not, untie, the, fate") with Chinese culture. Since then, he has traveled among the pyramids, temples, and museums, using fluent Chinese to help waves of Chinese tourists understand ancient Egyptian civilization, while also spreading Chinese culture and its ancient civilization to the Egyptian people.
Abbas believes that the Belt and Road Initiative provides important opportunities for countries to deepen cooperation, and that cultural exchange helps bring the peoples of different countries closer together. In September this year, he provided commentary at the Grand Egyptian Museum for the heads of state of China and Egypt and their spouses. His story has been featured in People's Daily on multiple occasions. "As an Egyptian tour guide, I am also an envoy of cultural exchange between Egypt and China," Abbas said.
A single skilled pen brings mutual understanding closer.
In Kazakhstan, the place where the Belt and Road Initiative was first proposed, a media professional has been using the pen in his hand to continuously record the changes brought about by the joint pursuit of the Belt and Road Initiative.
As editor-in-chief of Kazakhstan's Business Newspaper, Serik Korzhumbayev has long followed Kazakhstan-China cooperation, documenting the details of exchanges between the two peoples. He has noticed a phenomenon in today's international journalism that deserves deep reflection: the speed of news dissemination has surpassed the speed of deep thinking. There is more and more information, yet mutual understanding does not necessarily increase accordingly.
"Over the years, I have traveled to China many times to attend international forums and visited media outlets, universities, and enterprises in various places. These experiences have made me realize: understanding a country cannot rely solely on statistical data, nor can it be achieved by looking at just one city; one needs to understand it comprehensively from more fields and perspectives," Serik said.
Last year, his report "The Secret of China-Kazakhstan Friendship" received a nomination for the Best Report Award at the second International Communication "Silk Road Award." "I think the significance of setting up awards of this kind lies not only in commending outstanding journalistic works, but even more in encouraging the media to play a bridging role, promoting exchanges between different societies, and enabling all parties to hear different voices," Serik said.
A single orchestra allows dreams to cross mountains and seas.
In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an orchestra composed of teenagers from impoverished communities has witnessed music crossing mountains and seas to reach people's hearts directly, and China, separated by mountains and waters, is no longer distant.
Fifteen years ago, Márcia Melchior founded the Copacabana Fort Orchestra, with the sole purpose of enabling children to see a broader world through music. Márcia was born in the inland region of São Paulo State, Brazil, and as a child she often heard people say: "It's neither here nor in China!"
"What this saying means is: forget it, it's impossible. Because at that time, for us, China was the most distant place we could imagine." Márcia changed her tone, "But this is already my third time coming to China."
In 2024, she brought the orchestra's children to China for the first time to participate in celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Brazil. They exchanged ideas at universities and performed on the Great Wall, receiving rounds of applause, which left an unforgettable impression on her. Just a few years ago, the orchestra once fell into financial difficulties, and everyone thought the music dream might not survive. CNOOC Brazil extended a helping hand, helping the orchestra gain a new lease on life. Today, the orchestra has been recognized as an intangible cultural heritage of Rio de Janeiro State.
Someone asked Márcia: What does the relationship between Brazil and China mean? "My answer is very direct: what I think of is not just trade and investment, but people, encounters, opportunities, and dreams," Márcia said with emotion. "Because today, China is no longer the distant place of my childhood. Here there are familiar faces, familiar names, stories I have personally experienced, and close friends."
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"It is neither here nor in China!" When she was a child, Brazilian Marcia Melchior often heard her compatriots use this phrase to mean "impossible," because China was a place they imagined as extremely far out of reach (遥不可及, yao bu ke ji - "remote, not, can, reach"). Years later, the Copacabana Fort Orchestra of Rio de Janeiro, which she led, fell into difficulty, and a Chinese company extended a helping hand. Later, these young musicians climbed the Great Wall to perform, and the orchestra was also recognized as an intangible cultural heritage of the state of Rio de Janeiro. A musical dream born in a poor community in Brazil moved toward a bigger stage through its encounter with China.
From November 3 to 4, the 2026 Belt and Road Initiative Media Cooperation Forum was held in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, with more than 200 foreign representatives from 100 countries and international and regional organizations and 182 media outlets and institutions attending. When sharing this experience at the opening ceremony, Marcia wrote a new answer for her own future: "It is both in Brazil and in China!"
President Xi Jinping pointed out: "People-to-people connectivity is an important part of international cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative." Development becomes mutual opportunity through joint effort, dreams gain new possibilities through mutual understanding, and high-quality Belt and Road cooperation thus possesses an even deeper social foundation.
Only when development opportunities are placed in the hands of ordinary people can cooperation have the broadest support.
Lin Zhanxi, a researcher at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, said at the forum that his team has explored a "10-square-meter mushroom farm" in South Africa, "simplifying and simplifying again" the juncao technology so that poor farming households can also apply it. Helping families that lack funds and equipment improve their livelihoods through labor reflects the care that cooperation shows for ordinary people.
Joint construction and shared benefit concern not only how outcomes reach the people, but also how development capacity is cultivated. Chinese and Thai institutions jointly built a Luban Workshop to help Thai youth learn automation technology; Chinese vocational college teachers set up veterinary classrooms in Ethiopia and carried out specialized training in livestock-raising techniques for more than 600 person-times; young Lao people on the China-Laos Railway learned driving skills from Chinese masters, and after becoming train drivers themselves, began training their own apprentices... Only when local people master skills and accumulate experience can they have the conditions to turn the opportunities brought by external cooperation into momentum for sustained development.
The deeper significance of people-to-people and cultural exchange lies in expanding the possibilities of cooperation through the diversity of civilizations.
Egyptian tour guide Abbas tells Chinese tourists about ancient Egyptian civilization in Chinese; the China-Uzbekistan joint archaeological team explores traces of civilizational exchange from relics such as ancient coins; Chinese and Kazakhstani media jointly host the "Silk Road Star" International Music Competition, with singers from 12 countries gathering in Yiwu, Zhejiang... Appreciating the unique creations of different cultures is also learning to understand different life experiences and spiritual worlds.
Every civilization has its own origins, and all gain new enlightenment through exchange. The view of civilizations based on equality, mutual learning, dialogue, and inclusiveness provides guidance for transcending cultural differences and seeking common values. When countries respect each other, engage in deep exchange, and discover shared concerns, common undertakings can transcend the limits of region and language and gain broader recognition.
At a deeper level, the diverse explorations of countries in their development processes have expanded the paths for mankind to achieve modernization. Bringing the development experiences of various countries into the view of the public worldwide is where media cooperation has great potential for success (大有可为, da you ke wei - "greatly, have, can, do"). As Serik Korzhumbayev, editor-in-chief of Kazakhstan's Business Newspaper, said at the forum, trust between countries and peoples stems from "listening to each other, respecting facts, and tolerating cultural differences."
Visiting Chibi in Hubei to observe how tea culture drives industrial development; visiting enterprises in Zhejiang to record how innovation changes traditional production; going to Kyrgyzstan to learn on the ground about the construction of China-Kyrgyzstan cooperation projects... Following the footsteps of media professionals from various countries, macro-level cooperation topics are grounded in concrete development practice. When media cooperation disseminates practical outcomes and promotes mutual learning of experience, it can build consensus and accumulate strength for common development.
Recently, President Xi Jinping and Sultan Haitham of Oman jointly witnessed the signing of multiple cooperation documents in fields such as industrial and supply chains, green development, and digital finance. The friendship forged between the two peoples along the ancient maritime Silk Road still nourishes new cooperation today. The more the world is in a state of intertwined change and disorder (变乱交织, bian luan jiao zhi - "change, chaos, interweave"), the more necessary it is to turn mutual respect into common action and shared interests into the strength to move forward hand in hand. We look forward to more parties that were once distant from one another becoming fellow travelers in jointly creating the future in the course of building a community with a shared future for mankind.
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On November 3, the 2026 "Belt and Road" Regional Cooperation Forum, one of the sub-forums of the 2026 "Belt and Road" Media Cooperation Forum, was held in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, injecting vitality into deepening regional cooperation and advancing high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.
"The Belt and Road Initiative is by no means mere rhetoric, but genuine and substantial action. The fruitful results achieved by the Initiative are benefiting the people of all countries." Khalid Al-Orabi, Executive Editor-in-Chief and Director of International Affairs of Oman's Muscat Media Group, voiced the sentiments of the guests present.
The cases of extensive consultation, joint contribution, and shared benefits shared at the forum are a vivid portrayal of how Belt and Road cooperation benefits the world.
In 2018, the "Maritime Silk Road" (Silk Road Maritime), a comprehensive logistics service brand under the Belt and Road Initiative themed on shipping, set sail in Xiamen, Fujian Province. At present, the "Maritime Silk Road" alliance has 393 members, operates 160 routes, and reaches 153 ports in 50 countries and regions; PetroChina's oil and gas equity production in Belt and Road partner countries has remained above 80 million tonnes for seven consecutive years, with annual average oil and gas trade volume with more than 50 partner countries approaching 300 million tonnes; in its internationalization process, Yili Group has localized its supply chain as much as possible — in Indonesia, more than 90 percent of the employees at Yili's production base are local people.
During the Silk Road Story Sharing session, stories of working together toward a common goal one after another demonstrated the power of win-win cooperation.
In May 2022, the overseas unit of the "Hualong One" reactor underwent its first major overhaul. Fujian Fuqing Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. dispatched a 10-member expert team to Karachi, Pakistan. The Chinese and Pakistani teams worked together to overcome difficult challenges, completing the overhaul in two months. This overseas practice originated from the complete set of capabilities accumulated by the first reactor of Fuqing Nuclear Power's "Hualong One." "What Fuqing Nuclear Power brings is never just a blueprint, but also standards, systems, and safety concepts, all left behind in full for the local community," said Guo Yunsheng, General Manager of CNNC (Fujian) Electric Power Services Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Fuqing Nuclear Power.
The boat-fruited sterculia seed (pangdahai) used in several products of Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group comes from the primeval forests of Champasak Province, Laos. The company has built a boat-fruited sterculia seed seedling base in Champasak Province and taught local villagers the medicinal standards and storage methods for boat-fruited sterculia seed as specified in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. Quality inspection experts have been stationed in the villages long-term with instruments to provide guidance, and seedling experts have been providing close, step-by-step guidance on soil fertility management. "What we hope to leave for the overseas supply chain is not just a purchase order, but an industrial capability that local people can operate independently and sustain in a healthy, positive cycle," said Wang Zunlong, Chief Brand Officer of Yangtze River Pharmaceutical Group.
This year marks the opening year of the 15th Five-Year Plan, and the outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan makes dedicated arrangements for high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. A new invitation to jointly create a better future was issued from the forum.
"Liaoning is willing to serve as the gateway to ice-and-snow tourism in Northeast China, using warm ice-and-snow activities, high-quality therapeutic hot springs, convenient entry procedures, and rich travel experiences to connect the Northeast as a whole, and to work hand in hand with friends from all countries to seek common development and create a shared future," said Huang Fang, Deputy Director of the Publicity Department of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism.
In 2027, the third Belt and Road Science and Technology Exchange Conference will be held in Chongqing, and the Western Science City Chongqing High-Tech Zone has undertaken relevant segments of the event. "We look forward to using the conference as a window for the world to see the growth of the Science City, and using the Science City as a bridge for more friends to find scenarios for technology application, partners for industrial collaboration, and opportunities for mutual engagement here," said Wang Zixiong, Member of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Administrative Committee of the Western Science City Chongqing High-Tech Zone.
In the intelligent era, it is increasingly important to promote the positive and beneficial application of artificial intelligence technology in communication.
A relevant official of the People's Daily said that the People's Daily has been thoroughly implementing the Party Central Committee's important decisions and arrangements on high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, and exploring the "5A" path for the intelligent transformation of mainstream media: upholding the concept of AI (artificial intelligence) for positive and beneficial purposes, developing the new business form of A2A, building AI-friendly platforms, cultivating AI-native teams, and actively participating in the global popularization of AI, so as to make new and greater contributions to Belt and Road regional cooperation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李林蔚
The 12th ASEAN+3 Media Cooperation Seminar, co-hosted by People's Daily and the People's Government of Fujian Province, was held in Fuzhou, Fujian, on November 4. Under the theme "Open Cooperation, Shared Development," more than 120 representatives from 47 media outlets and institutions across 16 countries and international organizations gathered gathering together in one place (齐聚一堂, qi ju yi tang - "gather, together, one hall") to conduct in-depth discussions on the responsibility and mission of media in regional cooperation, consolidating a broader consensus on cooperation.
"ASEAN, China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea are geographically close, culturally connected, and share intertwined interests, making this one of the most dynamic and promising regional cooperation blocs in the world. At present, the world is undergoing accelerated transformation unseen in a century, the global economy is under pressure to recover, the geopolitical landscape is undergoing profound adjustment, and technological change is changing with each passing day (日新月异, ri xin yue yi - "day, new, month, change"). Regional cooperation faces both opportunities and challenges. How to use openness to ease development difficulties and cooperation to gather momentum for win-win outcomes is a question of our times that we in the media must contemplate," said a relevant official from People's Daily.
The media are both recorders of the times and promoters of regional cooperation, bearing an indispensable or essential (不可或缺, bu ke huo que - "not, can, or, lack") social responsibility.
Kao Kim Hourn, Secretary-General of the ASEAN Secretariat, said in his address: "The media help people of all countries understand the opportunities that cooperation brings, the challenges it faces, and the value of win-win cooperation."
"Deepening regional cooperation requires both government guidance and broad public participation. As a bridge connecting all parties, the media play an irreplaceable role in enhancing understanding and building consensus," said Li Jing, Deputy Secretary-General of the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat.
Since 2007, the seminar has continuously promoted media exchanges and cooperation among countries and has become a highly influential brand event under the ASEAN+3 cooperation framework, fostering a favorable public opinion environment for regional cooperation.
At this year's seminar, participating representatives engaged in dialogue and exchanges on topics including "Deepening Economic and Trade Cooperation, Seizing Opportunities for Digital and Intelligent Development" and "Promoting mutual learning among civilizations (文明互鉴, wen ming hu jian - "civilization, mutually, learn from each other"), Building Consensus on People-to-People Connectivity."
"Cultural exchange should not be a one-way export or import of culture, but a two-way process of mutual understanding, mutual appreciation, and shared enjoyment," said Choi Hyun-kyu, head of the China bureau of South Korea's NewsPim news agency.
"Through open minds, mutual respect, and responsible media practices, we can reduce misunderstandings, break down prejudice, and reverse stereotypes. Only in this way can we create more opportunities for meaningful dialogue and bring the peoples of all countries closer together," said Ma La Dan, production director of Myanmar's Vidiya Media Co., Ltd.
Telling the story of mutually beneficial and win-win regional cooperation and of peoples knowing and loving each other deeply (相知相亲, xiang zhi xiang qin - "mutually know, mutually close") with a more open attitude and more pragmatic cooperation, and jointly writing a new chapter in regional media cooperation — this is the common aspiration of all participating representatives.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 阮可欣
The friendship between nations lies in the affinity between their peoples, and the affinity between peoples lies in the connection of their hearts. Exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations have laid a solid foundation of public support for the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative.
On the morning of November 4, one of the sub-forums of the 2026 "Belt and Road" Media Cooperation Forum — the 2026 Silk Road Civilization Development Forum — was held in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Representatives from Chinese and foreign media, government departments, research institutions, and the business community were gathering together in one place (齐聚一堂, qi ju yi tang - "gather, together, one hall").
"A sunken ship is a museum." Jiang Bo, a professor at Wuhan University, unfolded his account using underwater archaeology as a thread: the "Nanhai No. 1," the No. 1 and No. 2 shipwrecks on the northwest slope of the South China Sea, the site of the Maritime Trade Supervisor's Office (市舶司)… Each piece of evidence outlines a picture of civilizational exchange along the Maritime Silk Road.
Central Asia is an important hub for cultural integration and friendly exchanges between China and Eurasian countries. "More than 2,000 years of Silk Road connectivity and civilizational coexistence have accumulated a cooperative gene of equality and mutual trust, openness and inclusiveness, and mutual respect and mutual benefit, laying an irreplaceable historical foundation for the people-to-people cooperation of the Belt and Road Initiative," said Xu Tao, director of the Central Asia Research Office of the Institute for Eurasian Social Development under the Development Research Center of the State Council.
The threads of history extend into today's cooperation and mutual trust. "Hard connectivity consolidates the material foundation; soft connectivity broadens the path of mutual learning; heart-to-heart connectivity forges the soul of the people." Lai Jiangnan, director of the Publicity and Culture Center of China National Nuclear Corporation, summarized the practical path of civilizational exchanges and mutual learning in this way. From the national power grid of Timor-Leste to the "Hualong One" in Pakistan, project after project has become a vehicle for enhancing understanding and deepening mutual trust.
In the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, the media serves as a bridge and bond for communicating the hearts of the people. At the forum, media representatives from Hungary, Uruguay, Cuba, France, Denmark, and other countries delivered remarks, expressing their willingness to give play to the role of the media so that Silk Road stories can cross mountains and seas and reach directly into people's hearts. "The most important bridges are not built of steel and concrete, but of trust, respect, friendship, and the human heart," said Jesper Skyl, co-owner of the Danish newspaper The Copenhagen Post.
The special seminar was conducted under the topic "From Fujian to the World: Civilizational Exchanges and Mutual Learning along the Maritime Silk Road." The participating guests stated that they would deepen exchanges and cooperation based on their respective fields, enhance mutual understanding and convey friendship through practical cooperation, and promote the Maritime Silk Road culture to reach the world.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Fuzhou) (Reporter Li Junqiang) An exhibition on the achievements of jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative was recently held in Fuzhou, Fujian. The exhibition includes thematic sections such as "Review of Past Forums," "Foreign Exchange and Cooperation," and "Extensive Consultation, Joint Contribution, and Shared Benefits," reviewing the development history of the Belt and Road Media Cooperation Forum, showcasing the solid achievements of exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and foreign media, as well as practical cases of relevant provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and enterprises in promoting the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative.
In the "Review of Past Forums" section, a series of photographs trace the development trajectory of the Belt and Road Media Cooperation Forum since its founding in 2014. The forum has been successfully held for multiple sessions to date, providing a high-end platform for dialogue and exchange for media, related enterprises, and institutions from countries jointly building the Belt and Road Initiative.
Exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and foreign media are an important part of the exhibition. The "Foreign Exchange and Cooperation" section focuses on presenting the solid achievements of China in expanding the "circle of friends" of international media. At present, 327 media outlets from 120 countries have joined the Belt and Road News Network. Activities such as the "Silk Road Award" for international communication and the China-Japan-ROK Distinguished Journalists Dialogue continue to expand their influence, becoming important vehicles for media from various countries to enhance mutual understanding and deepen cooperation. Zheng Quanzhi, a member of the editorial board of Thailand's "Manager Online" website, said while visiting the exhibition area that Thai-Chinese media have carried out in-depth exchanges and cooperation in recent years, and expressed hope that the Belt and Road Media Cooperation Forum platform can help the peoples of the two countries enhance friendship and deepen mutual understanding of each other's cultures.
The "Extensive Consultation, Joint Contribution, and Shared Benefits" section brings together practical cases of relevant provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, and enterprises in promoting the high-quality joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, showcasing the active exploration of local governments in advancing foreign cooperation and optimizing the business environment, the achievements of central state-owned enterprises in participating in infrastructure connectivity and major engineering projects, as well as the pragmatic cooperation of private enterprises in fields such as technological innovation, green and low-carbon development, and the digital economy, presenting a vivid picture of multi-party participation and joint development. "When enterprises go global, they must not only help develop local manufacturing but also enhance 'soft power,' carrying out vocational skills training and public welfare projects in light of local characteristics, so that people-to-people bonds can transcend mountains and seas," said Yuan Qing, media affairs director of vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd.
As an important starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, Fujian holds a unique position and plays a prominent role in participating in the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. The exhibition area presents Fujian's specific practices of meticulous and painstaking work (深耕细作, shen geng xi zuo - "deep, plow, fine, work") and sustained, long-term effort in serving and integrating into the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, from aspects such as connectivity across sea, land, air, and cyberspace, institutional opening-up, economic and trade cooperation, and people-to-people and cultural exchanges.
The exhibition also sets up a media imaging technology experience area, showcasing the application of lightweight and intelligent media equipment in practice.
Return to TopOn November 4, the Dream Car Night·2026 — the final and award ceremony of the 8th "Dongfeng Dream Car" International Youth Automobile Creative Design Competition (hereinafter referred to as the "'Dongfeng Dream Car' Competition") — was held in Wuhan, Hubei Province. A total of 220 people, including review experts, contestants, representatives of partner universities, and youth volunteers, gathered at the venue to witness the three finalist teams engage in the ultimate showdown. This year's "Dongfeng Dream Car" Competition, themed "A Young Person's First Dream Car," lasted seven months, attracted participation from young people at 76 universities across 9 countries and regions, and collected a total of 368 entries. Dongfeng eπ Automobile Technology Company (hereinafter referred to as "eπ Technology") participated deeply with innovative concepts and brought the Dongfeng eπ 007 dream car as the exclusive prize for the champion.
A short film on the competition's achievements played at the venue, reviewing the journey of this year's "Dongfeng Dream Car" Competition from the release of the theme, to the collection of entries, to the emergence of the top three. This year's competition aimed to pool global youth creativity, build a stage for young people to realize their "car-making dreams," and fully showcase Dongfeng Automobile's image of being "technological, international, and youthful." As a young automaker, eπ Technology adheres to co-creation with users, upholds the philosophy of "making technology useful and fun," and creates products that embody "technology with warmth, trends with attitude, and driving with passion," delivering a new experience for users that is both good-looking and easy to use.
The top three designs each showing their unique talents, sketching out young people's dream cars
After layers of selection and practical refinement, the three works Borrowing the East Wind, Tracing the Boundary, and Ether stood out from the crowd and converged at the finals of the "Dongfeng Dream Car" Competition.
Borrowing the East Wind draws inspiration from Dongfeng's racing genes and development history, blending a sharp coupe silhouette with the "faint light" element of the "horse lantern"; Tracing the Boundary focuses on the spiritual needs of youth in the digital age, envisioning the car as a "spiritual charging station" connecting the real and virtual worlds; Ether adopts a low, wide body and "π"-shaped light cluster design, responding with a multi-mode cabin to the travel needs of young people in their diverse life states.
The top three works demonstrate young people's expectations for a "dream car" and also echo eπ Technology's understanding of young users. As a young automaker, eπ Technology insists on "not being bound by tradition, not compromising with rules," and continues to co-create with users. Its Dongfeng eπ brand is positioned as a "global trendsetting, intelligent, and enjoyable technology" brand. The newly released 2027 eπ 007, with its low, wide coupe stance, youthful color schemes, Tianyuan Intelligence, and long range at the 100,000-yuan level, responds to young people's expectations for their first coupe.
At the event, eπ Technology delivered the keys to the actual eπ 007 vehicle to the champion team. This dream car carries Dongfeng Automobile's recognition of youth creativity, making the competition's philosophy of "creativity being seen, dreams being supported" more tangible and concrete.
Deepening the integration of industry and education, supporting youth growth with the responsibility of a central state-owned enterprise
As a youth growth public welfare project continuously advanced by the Dongfeng Public Welfare Foundation, the "Dongfeng Dream Car" Competition not only focuses on outstanding design works but also places greater importance on young people's journey of pursuing their dreams. Through enterprise-set themes, university participation, expert guidance, industry research and study, and professional review, the "Dongfeng Dream Car" Competition promotes the organic connection of the education chain, talent chain, and industry chain, exploring a public welfare path for cultivating young automotive innovation talent.
From design sketches to physical car models, from youth creativity undergoing industrial scrutiny to the champion team being gifted a dream car, the "Dongfeng Dream Car" Competition has witnessed the entire process of "creativity being seen, dreams being supported."
Looking to the future, Dongfeng Automobile Group, the Dongfeng Public Welfare Foundation, and eπ Technology will continue to pool strength from multiple parties, keep building platforms for youth innovation practice, promote more outstanding creativity moving toward industry and into reality, support the growth of young talent with the responsibility of a central state-owned enterprise, and inject youthful energy into the high-quality development of China's automobile industry.
Data source: Dongfeng eπ Automobile Technology Company
Return to TopOrder of the President of the People's Republic of China
No. 87
The "Law of the People's Republic of China on Antarctic Activities and Environmental Protection" was adopted at the 25th Session of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on November 6, 2026, and is hereby promulgated, effective as of January 1, 2027.
President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping
November 6, 2026
Table of Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Permits for Antarctic Activities
Chapter III Antarctic Environmental Protection
Chapter IV Inspections, Observations, and Checks
Chapter V Safeguards and Supervision
Chapter VI Legal Liability
Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is enacted for the purposes of better understanding Antarctica, protecting Antarctica, and utilizing Antarctica, regulating Antarctic activities, protecting the Antarctic environment, fulfilling the Antarctic-related treaties concluded or acceded to by the People's Republic of China, promoting the development of Antarctic undertakings, and advancing the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Article 2 This Law applies to citizens, legal persons, and unincorporated organizations of the People's Republic of China that carry out Antarctic activities.
Where foreigners, stateless persons, foreign legal persons, and foreign unincorporated organizations organize Antarctic activities within the territory of the People's Republic of China, or depart from the territory of the People's Republic of China to carry out activities in Antarctica, this Law applies.
This Law applies to activities such as inspections, observations, and checks conducted to fulfill the Antarctic-related treaties concluded or acceded to by the People's Republic of China.
Article 3 The People's Republic of China upholds the Global Governance Initiative, pursues sovereign equality, abides by the international rule of law, practices multilateralism, advocates a people-centered approach, and emphasizes action orientation, actively participating in polar global governance and the formulation of relevant international rules.
Article 4 Antarctic activities shall be carried out in adherence to the principles of peaceful use, environmental protection, resource conservation, scientific and technological support, and international cooperation, safeguarding the common interests of mankind.
Measures of a military nature are prohibited in Antarctica, except for the use of military personnel or military equipment for scientific research or other peaceful purposes.
Activities related to mineral resources are prohibited, except for those related to scientific research.
Article 5 The national coordination mechanism for Antarctic affairs shall coordinate and plan major Antarctic matters and important work, and promote unified planning, coordinated construction, and unified management of national Antarctic work.
The marine administrative department of the State Council shall be responsible for the organization, coordination, and supervision and management of Antarctic activities; the fishery administration, transport, culture and tourism, and other relevant departments of the State Council shall, within their respective functions and duties, be responsible for the supervision and management of relevant Antarctic activities.
Article 6 The State shall establish and improve the Antarctic expedition system, and strengthen the management and regulation of Antarctic expedition activities.
Article 7 The State encourages and supports the development of Antarctic undertakings, enhances the capacity for safe access to and exit from Antarctica, scientific expeditions, and peaceful use of Antarctica, and safeguards the security of the State's activities, assets, and other interests in Antarctica.
The State protects, in accordance with law, the lawful rights and interests of Chinese citizens, legal persons, and unincorporated organizations in Antarctica.
Article 8 Green and low-carbon approaches to Antarctic activities are encouraged, and the use of carbon-reduction, energy-saving, and pollution-prevention technologies and equipment is supported, promoting the application of clean energy.
Article 9 The State encourages and supports basic research and scientific and technological innovation in Antarctica, strengthens the training of professional personnel and team building, promotes long-term research work, and enhances the capacity for scientific and technological support, safeguards, and the transformation of research outcomes.
Article 10 The State strengthens the dissemination and popularization of knowledge about Antarctica, and enhances public awareness of understanding, protecting, and utilizing Antarctica.
Social forces are encouraged and supported to participate in the dissemination and popularization of knowledge about Antarctica. News media shall carry out publicity and reporting on Antarctic knowledge through various forms; scientific research institutions, institutions of higher learning, museums, and other relevant entities shall, in light of their scientific research and sightseeing content, carry out targeted publicity and education activities on Antarctic knowledge.
Article 11 The State supports international exchange and cooperation in Antarctic scientific research, environmental protection, conservation of marine living resources, logistics support, and emergency rescue.
Article 12 Units and individuals that make outstanding contributions to Antarctic work shall be commended and rewarded in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State.
Chapter II Permits for Antarctic Activities
Article 13 Natural persons, legal persons, and unincorporated organizations carrying out Antarctic activities shall obtain administrative permits, except for shipping activities that pass through solely for the purpose of transit without making landfall in Antarctica.
Article 14 Organizers of Antarctic activities shall possess corresponding capabilities for responding to sudden environmental incidents, financial security, logistics support, and risk bearing, and shall have a comprehensive grasp of knowledge of Antarctic-related laws and regulations, environmental protection, and safety safeguards.
Article 15 Applications for permits for Antarctic expeditions, tourism, shipping, and other activities shall be submitted to the marine administrative department of the State Council, along with application materials such as Antarctic activity plans, environmental impact assessment documents, contingency plans, property guarantees, and insurance certificates.
When examining application materials, the marine administrative department of the State Council shall, according to the category of activity, solicit the opinions of the culture and tourism, transport, and other relevant departments of the State Council; for major Antarctic activities, it shall also solicit the opinions of the foreign affairs department of the State Council; where professional knowledge or technical issues are involved, it may entrust professional institutions or experts to conduct review. Where environmental impact assessment documents need to be submitted to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting for review, the time required shall not be counted within the time limit prescribed by law for making a decision on granting an administrative permit.
Where the marine administrative department of the State Council decides to grant a permit, it shall issue a written certificate; where it decides not to grant a permit, it shall state the reasons and notify the applicant in writing.
The specific measures for Antarctic activity permits provided for in this Article shall be formulated by the marine administrative department of the State Council jointly with the culture and tourism and transport departments of the State Council.
Article 16 For carrying out Antarctic fishery activities, applications for fishing licenses shall be submitted to the competent fishery administration department of the State Council in accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Fisheries Law of the People's Republic of China."
Those that obtain fishing licenses shall operate in accordance with the operating areas, operating types, fishing time limits, fishing targets, and fishing quotas approved by the competent fishery administration department of the State Council, and shall comply with the conservation measures prescribed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.
Article 17 Antarctic tourism operators shall provide tourists with equipment, means of transport, and other items that meet safety requirements, and shall adopt corresponding safety prevention and emergency measures.
Tourists shall, during Antarctic tourism activities, comply with the safety requirements and environmental protection provisions adopted by the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting; those visiting national Antarctic research stations and their facilities shall comply with the relevant provisions of the marine administrative department of the State Council and shall not interfere with national Antarctic expedition activities.
Article 18 Chinese-flagged vessels entering Antarctica shall, in accordance with the provisions of laws and regulations such as the "Maritime Traffic Safety Law of the People's Republic of China," pass inspection by a ship inspection institution, undergo ship registration, and obtain corresponding certificates and documents. Crew members serving on board shall, in accordance with the relevant provisions, complete corresponding training and obtain crew competency certificates and health certificates.
Article 19 When a sudden environmental incident occurs, or when relevant personnel, ships, aircraft, important equipment, important facilities, and installations are under security threat, natural persons, legal persons, and unincorporated organizations carrying out activities in Antarctica may take necessary emergency measures without a permit, but shall promptly report to the marine, fishery administration, or transport and other competent departments of the State Council.
Article 20 The marine administrative department of the State Council shall, jointly with the relevant departments of the State Council, establish an information-sharing mechanism for Antarctic activities.
After Antarctic expeditions, tourism, shipping, and other activities conclude, organizers of Antarctic activities shall, in accordance with the provisions, submit activity reports to the marine administrative department of the State Council. The marine administrative department of the State Council shall notify the foreign affairs department of the State Council of reports on major Antarctic activities.
The circumstances of Antarctic fishery activities shall be reported to the competent fishery administration department of the State Council in accordance with the provisions.
Chapter III Antarctic Environmental Protection
Article 21 In carrying out Antarctic activities, Antarctic animals and plants shall be protected, waste shall be properly handled and disposed of, marine pollution shall be prevented, the relevant provisions on regional protection and management shall be complied with, and adverse impacts on the Antarctic environment shall be avoided or reduced.
Article 22 When submitting environmental impact assessment documents in accordance with the provisions of Article 15 of this Law, applicants shall, according to the degree of impact the activity may have on the Antarctic environment, fill in an environmental impact assessment form, prepare a preliminary environmental impact assessment report, or prepare a comprehensive environmental impact assessment report. The specific measures shall be formulated by the marine administrative department of the State Council.
Article 23 Except for providing specimens for scientific research or for cultural and educational institutions with a permit obtained, the following acts are prohibited in the Antarctic activities provided for in the first paragraph of Article 15 of this Law:
(1) Introducing non-native animals, plants, and the like;
(2) Capturing, obtaining, or otherwise interfering with Antarctic animals and plants;
(3) Collecting meteorites;
(4) Entering Antarctic specially protected areas.
The procedures for applying for the permits provided for in the preceding paragraph shall be handled in accordance with the provisions of Article 15 of this Law. Applicants carrying out relevant activities shall carry the permits with them.
Article 24 In carrying out Antarctic activities, the total amount of waste shall be reduced, waste generated shall be subject to classified treatment and disposal with the results of treatment and disposal recorded, and waste shall not be discarded at will.
The marine administrative department of the State Council shall formulate and update waste management plans, establish a waste treatment classification system, and designate dedicated personnel at Antarctic waste treatment and disposal sites to supervise implementation.
Article 25 Ships entering Antarctica shall, in accordance with the requirements of the relevant international treaties concluded or acceded to by China, take effective measures to prevent marine pollution.
Article 26 Entry into Antarctic specially protected areas and Antarctic specially managed areas shall comply with the management plans approved by the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.
Entry into Antarctic marine protected areas shall comply with the conservation measures prescribed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.
Article 27 Damage, removal, or demolition of Antarctic historic sites and monuments is prohibited.
Article 28 Organizers of Antarctic activities shall formulate contingency plans for possible sudden environmental incidents, adopt reasonable preventive measures, and reduce the risks and adverse impacts of sudden environmental incidents.
For sudden environmental incidents caused by Antarctic activities, organizers of Antarctic activities shall take prompt and effective response actions and promptly report the relevant circumstances to the marine, fishery administration, or transport and other competent departments of the State Council. The relevant competent departments shall strengthen information notification regarding sudden environmental incidents.
The marine administrative department of the State Council shall strengthen international cooperation in response actions to sudden environmental incidents.
Chapter IV Inspections, Observations, and Checks
Article 29 The State shall, in accordance with the provisions of the "Antarctic Treaty" and the "Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty," conduct Antarctic inspections independently or jointly with other Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties.
Article 30 The foreign affairs department of the State Council, jointly with the marine administrative department of the State Council, shall be responsible for organizing and implementing Antarctic inspections. The results of inspections shall be reported to the State Council, notified to the relevant Contracting Parties, and submitted to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting for review.
Inspections may carry out the following activities:
(1) Entering any area of Antarctica at any time;
(2) Inspecting all stations, installations, and equipment in Antarctica, as well as all ships and aircraft at points of discharging or embarking cargo or personnel in Antarctica;
(3) Inspecting all records kept at stations, installations, and equipment, as well as on ships and aircraft in Antarctica, in accordance with the "Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty";
(4) Other activities provided for in the "Antarctic Treaty" and the "Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty," including aerial inspection of any area of Antarctica at any time.
Article 31 The competent fishery administration department of the State Council and relevant institutions shall be responsible for organizing observations and checks of ships carrying out Antarctic fishery activities or fishery scientific research.
Ships carrying out Antarctic fishery activities or fishery scientific research shall assist and cooperate with observers and inspectors in carrying out their work.
Article 32 Observers shall possess corresponding capabilities, receive training, carry identity documents, and, in accordance with the provisions of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, observe the fishery operations of ships, record operational details and catch data, and submit all observation logs and observation reports.
Article 33 Inspectors shall possess corresponding capabilities, and when conducting boarding inspections, shall present identity documents, verify the compliance of ships carrying out Antarctic fishery activities or fishery scientific research with the relevant conservation measures of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, and fill in the inspection report form of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.
Article 34 Those importing or exporting products controlled under the Catch Documentation Scheme of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources shall ensure the lawful origin of the products and apply to customs for customs clearance procedures.
International voyage ships carrying Antarctic catches that enter from the open ports of the People's Republic of China or ports approved by the State Council or departments authorized by the State Council shall berth at designated places, undergo port quarantine and inspection in accordance with the relevant provisions, and provide proof of the lawful origin of the catches.
Foreign-flagged ships included in the list of illegal, unreported, and unregulated vessels published by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, or carrying illegal, unreported, and unregulated catches, are prohibited from entering the ports of the People's Republic of China.
Chapter V Safeguards and Supervision
Article 35 The State shall take measures to increase support for the research and development of Antarctic technology and equipment and for basic and public-welfare Antarctic expeditions and scientific research, and strengthen the construction of infrastructure such as national Antarctic research stations, communication networks, observation and monitoring networks, navigation systems, transport systems, emergency rescue systems, and waste treatment facilities, enhancing the capacity for Antarctic activities and safety safeguards.
The State encourages and supports the participation of social capital in public-welfare Antarctic activities.
Article 36 The marine administrative department of the State Council shall make unified plans for, construct, and manage the national Antarctic observation and monitoring network, and organize and carry out Antarctic observation and monitoring activities.
Article 37 The marine administrative department of the State Council shall be responsible for formulating national Antarctic expedition plans and annual plans, and organizing and carrying out national Antarctic expedition activities:
(1) Determining on-site expedition projects such as scientific research, surveys, observations, and monitoring;
(2) Forming and managing national Antarctic expedition teams;
(3) Planning, constructing, managing, operating, and maintaining national Antarctic research stations and other infrastructure and major equipment;
(4) Providing, jointly with the relevant departments, logistical support and safety safeguards for national Antarctic expedition activities, and improving the working and living conditions of personnel engaged in national Antarctic expedition activities.
The State shall, in light of the needs of the development of Antarctic undertakings, strengthen the coordination of the direction of Antarctic scientific research, and support and guide scientific research institutions, institutions of higher learning, social organizations, and the like to carry out Antarctic expedition activities and related scientific research in an orderly manner in accordance with law.
Article 38 The State shall establish a system for the submission of samples and data from Antarctic expedition activities. Samples and data generated during Antarctic expedition activities shall be submitted to the platform designated by the marine administrative department of the State Council within the prescribed time limits.
The marine administrative department of the State Council shall be responsible for the coordinated sharing of samples and data from Antarctic expedition activities.
The submission, custody, use, and sharing of samples and data from Antarctic expedition activities shall comply with laws, regulations, and the relevant provisions of the State, and safeguard the security of samples and data. The specific measures shall be formulated by the marine administrative department of the State Council.
Article 39 The marine, fishery administration, transport, and other competent departments of the State Council and relevant institutions shall, in accordance with their respective functions and duties, carry out supervision and inspection of Antarctic activities.
Natural persons, legal persons, and unincorporated organizations carrying out Antarctic activities shall cooperate with supervision and inspection and shall not refuse or obstruct supervision and inspection.
Article 40 Organizers of Antarctic activities shall fully inform personnel participating in the activities of knowledge of Antarctic-related laws and regulations, environmental protection, and safety safeguards, and provide them with corresponding logistical support.
Organizers of Antarctic activities and personnel participating in the activities shall bear the costs of search and rescue, evacuation, medical treatment, and related matters.
Chapter VI Legal Liability
Article 41 Where staff members performing Antarctic activity management duties, in violation of the provisions of this Law, misuse their power or authority (滥用职权, lan yong zhi quan - "abuse, use, authority, power"), commit dereliction of duty (玩忽职守, wan hu zhi shou - "play, neglect, duty, guard"), engage in malpractice for personal gain (徇私舞弊, xun si wu bi - "follow, private, dance, fraud"), or commit other illegal acts in their management work, they shall be given sanctions in accordance with law.
Article 42 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, Antarctic expeditions, tourism, shipping, or other activities are carried out without a permit, the marine administrative department of the State Council shall order the immediate cessation of the activities and departure from Antarctica within a prescribed time limit, confiscate illegal gains, and impose a fine of not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan; where the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than 500,000 yuan but not more than 1,000,000 yuan shall be imposed, and the party shall not be permitted to apply for an Antarctic activity permit within ten years.
Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, Antarctic expeditions, tourism, shipping, or other activities are carried out not in accordance with the permit provisions, the marine administrative department of the State Council shall order corrections and impose a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; where the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan shall be imposed, and the party shall not be permitted to apply again for an Antarctic activity permit within five years.
Article 43 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, Antarctic fishery activities are carried out without a fishing license or not in accordance with the provisions, or ships and crew members fail to obtain the corresponding certificates, documents, and proofs in accordance with the provisions, penalties shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and regulations such as the "Fisheries Law of the People's Republic of China" and the "Maritime Traffic Safety Law of the People's Republic of China."
Article 44 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, Antarctic tourism operators fail to provide equipment, means of transport, and other items that meet safety requirements, or fail to adopt corresponding safety prevention and emergency measures, the marine administrative department of the State Council shall order corrections and impose a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan, and record the relevant illegal information in the credit record.
Article 45 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, national Antarctic research stations and their facilities are visited, or national Antarctic expedition activities are interfered with, the marine administrative department of the State Council shall order corrections and impose a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 50,000 yuan; where the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan shall be imposed, and the party shall not be permitted to apply again to visit national Antarctic research stations and their facilities within five years.
Article 46 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, Antarctic activities are carried out without fulfilling, or without fulfilling in accordance with the provisions, the reporting obligations, the marine, fishery administration, or transport competent departments of the State Council shall, in accordance with their respective functions and duties, order corrections and impose a fine of not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan.
Article 47 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, waste generated is not subjected to classified treatment and disposal, or other acts that may affect or damage the Antarctic environment are carried out, the relevant competent department or institution of the State Council exercising the supervisory and management authority over Antarctic activities in accordance with the provisions of this Law shall issue a warning and order corrections, and impose a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 50,000 yuan; where the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan shall be imposed, and the party shall be ordered to leave Antarctica within a prescribed time limit. Where corrections are refused, the competent department or institution that made the penalty decision may, in accordance with law, impose a continuous daily fine at the original fine amount starting from the day following the date of the order to make corrections, and shall promptly take measures to stop the illegal act.
Article 48 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, ships fail to take effective measures to prevent marine pollution in accordance with the requirements of the relevant international treaties concluded or acceded to by China, the relevant competent department or institution of the State Council exercising the supervisory and management authority over Antarctic activities in accordance with the provisions of this Law shall order corrections and impose a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 300,000 yuan on the owner, operator, or manager of the illegal ship.
Article 49 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, Antarctic historic sites or monuments are damaged, removed, or demolished, the marine administrative department of the State Council shall order the cessation of the illegal act and impose a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan; where the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 300,000 yuan shall be imposed, and the party shall not be permitted to apply again for an Antarctic activity permit.
Article 50 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, organizers of Antarctic expedition activities fail to fulfill the obligation to submit samples and data in accordance with the provisions, the marine administrative department of the State Council shall order corrections and impose a fine of not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; where corrections are refused, the party shall not be permitted to apply again for an Antarctic activity permit.
Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, the obligation to protect the security of samples and data is not fulfilled, penalties shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and regulations.
Article 51 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, supervision and inspection are refused or obstructed, or deception through fraud or falsehood (弄虚作假, nong xu zuo jia - "make, false, do, fake") is practiced during inspection, the relevant competent department or institution of the State Council carrying out supervision and inspection in accordance with the provisions of this Law shall issue a warning and order corrections, and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan; on the directly responsible supervisors and other directly responsible personnel, a fine of not less than 5,000 yuan but not more than 20,000 yuan shall be imposed.
Article 52 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, organizers of Antarctic activities fail to inform personnel participating in the activities of knowledge of Antarctic-related laws and regulations, environmental protection, and safety safeguards, or fail to provide them with corresponding logistical support, the relevant competent department or institution of the State Council exercising the supervisory and management authority over Antarctic activities in accordance with the provisions of this Law shall order corrections and impose a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 50,000 yuan; where the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan shall be imposed, and the relevant illegal information shall be recorded in the credit record.
Article 53 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, organizers of Antarctic activities fail to take prompt and effective response actions to sudden environmental incidents caused by Antarctic activities, they shall bear the responsibility for paying the costs required to implement the response actions.
Liability for paying the costs required to implement response actions shall be exempted where sudden environmental incidents are caused by the following reasons:
(1) War or acts of terrorism;
(2) Natural disasters that could not be reasonably foreseen, where reasonable preventive measures to reduce the risks of sudden environmental incidents and their potential adverse impacts have been taken;
(3) Necessary actions to protect the lives or safety of personnel;
(4) New sudden environmental incidents caused by taking reasonable response actions.
Article 54 Where, in violation of the provisions of this Law, harm is caused to others, civil liability shall be borne in accordance with law; where a crime is constituted, criminal liability shall be pursued in accordance with law.
Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions
Article 55 For the purposes of this Law, the following terms have the meanings set forth below:
(1) "Antarctica" means the area south of 60 degrees south latitude as provided for in Article VI of the "Antarctic Treaty"; where Antarctic fishery activities are involved, "Antarctica" means the area south of 60 degrees south latitude and the area between that latitude and the Antarctic Convergence which forms part of the Antarctic marine ecosystem, as provided for in Article I of the "Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources."
(2) "Antarctic environment" means the natural environment of the Antarctic region and the ecosystems dependent on it and related to it.
(3) "Antarctic activities" means expeditions, fishery, tourism, shipping, and other activities carried out in Antarctica.
(4) "Antarctic fishery activities" means the fishing and the supporting processing, supply, and transport activities carried out in Antarctica by fishery ships registered within the territory of the People's Republic of China.
(5) "Antarctic tourism activities" means sightseeing, touring, and other similar activities carried out in Antarctica.
(6) "National Antarctic expedition activities" means the expeditions, scientific research, and logistical support activities carried out in Antarctica by national Antarctic expedition teams.
(7) "Organizers of Antarctic activities" means natural persons, legal persons, and unincorporated organizations that plan and organize activities to be carried out in Antarctica.
(8) "Antarctic specially protected area" means the area provided for in Article 3 of Annex V to the "Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty."
(9) "Antarctic specially managed area" means the area provided for in Article 4 of Annex V to the "Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty."
(10) "Inspection, observation, and check": "inspection" means international supervision activities organized and implemented by the relevant competent departments of the State in accordance with Article VII of the "Antarctic Treaty" and Article 14 of the "Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty"; "observation" means scientific observation activities such as scientific data collection and sampling carried out on fishery ships in accordance with the requirements of the relevant systems of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources; "check" means maritime law enforcement activities carried out in accordance with the requirements of the relevant systems of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources.
Article 56 The courts of the People's Republic of China may exercise jurisdiction in accordance with law over disputes arising from Antarctic activities.
Article 57 Acts committed by inspectors, observers, and checkers of the nationality of the People's Republic of China and their accompanying personnel while staying in Antarctica for the purpose of performing their duties shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China.
Article 58 Where international treaties concluded or acceded to by the People's Republic of China contain provisions different from those of this Law, the provisions of the international treaties shall apply; however, except for the provisions on which the People's Republic of China has declared reservations.
Article 59 This Law shall come into force as of January 1, 2027.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 6)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李昌禹 刘博通
At Moore Threads' "Kua'e" Beijing Intelligent Computing Center, row upon row of tall server cabinets stretch neatly through the machine room. Vast amounts of data flow in and out here, while surging computing power continues to burst forth.
In 2025, China's AI (artificial intelligence) core industry scale exceeded 1.2 trillion yuan, with the number of valid AI patents ranking among the top globally. "AI empowering all walks of life (千行百业, qian hang bai ye - "thousand, lines, hundred, industries") has already become a reality," said Zhang Jianzhong, Chairman and CEO of Moore Threads. "The 'AI+' initiative not only drives the intelligent upgrading of traditional industries, but has also given rise to a host of emerging industries and future industries, becoming a new economic growth point."
In the six years since its founding, successfully mass-producing five chips and launching five generations of GPU (graphics processing unit) architectures... Moore Threads' development trajectory has become a vivid footnote to the rapid growth of China's AI industry.
In the era of artificial intelligence, the computing power role of GPU chips is increasingly prominent. "Computing power is the foundational element of AI, and core key technologies cannot be bought. The independence and self-reliance of computing power bears on how far the AI industry can go," Zhang Jianzhong said.
At the start of the venture, the R&D team once considered starting from a niche segment to develop specialized chips, thereby achieving faster commercial deployment. But in the end, Moore Threads chose the more difficult technical path of the "full-function GPU." "We believed that we should devote ourselves to building infrastructure capable of supporting long-term development, incorporating as many computing types as possible into the architecture design," Zhang Jianzhong said.
To help consolidate the domestic computing power foundation and break through the "bottleneck" challenges, Moore Threads has adopted a development strategy of making rapid progress through incremental improvements (小步快跑, xiao bu kuai pao - "small steps, fast running"). "We have formulated a clear roadmap of iterating one chip per year, and through 'product development—user feedback—iterative upgrades,' we enable our technology and products to improve under market scrutiny," Zhang Jianzhong said.
From the successful development of the first full-function GPU chip in 2021, to the independent development of the Yuan Computing unified system architecture, to the completion of a ten-thousand-card intelligent computing cluster... Moore Threads has adhered to independent R&D, providing computing power support for the digital-intelligent transformation of different industries through sustained technological breakthroughs and product iteration.
At the start of the venture, Zhang Jianzhong once worried about the scarcity of talent in the domestic GPU industry; today, Moore Threads has built a vast and active developer ecosystem. "A large number of high-level research universities, scientific research institutions, and national laboratories serve as technological backing, and more and more outstanding talent is entering this industry, providing powerful momentum for the entire sector," Zhang Jianzhong said.
"At present, competition in computing power has shifted from a contest of single-card performance to systemic breakthroughs in large-scale cluster capabilities," Zhang Jianzhong said. "Customers are placing higher demands on the software-hardware synergy and ecosystem maturity of domestic chips; market expectations have risen from 'usable' to 'easy to use,' with greater attention paid to indicators such as effective cluster computing power utilization and stable training duration."
The outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes supporting capable private enterprises in taking the lead in undertaking major national technological research tasks, and advancing the further opening of major national research infrastructure and public R&D platforms to private enterprises. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and seven other departments issued the "Implementation Opinions on the 'AI + Manufacturing' Special Action." With a series of policies being introduced and implemented, private enterprises have stronger confidence and greater assurance in moving toward innovation.
"Looking toward the 15th Five-Year Plan, we will deeply integrate into the wave of the intelligent economy, strive to build a super-large-scale intelligent computing center cluster of 100,000 cards, leverage our advantages in model training, and contribute to high-level self-reliance and strength in science and technology," Zhang Jianzhong said.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, November 10) (Reporter Lin Lili) Recently, the Office of the Leading Group for Coordinated Promotion of Building a Strong Quality Country under the State Council, together with relevant member units, formed four quality inspection teams and launched the second batch of quality inspection work for 2026.
The four quality inspection teams have successively stationed themselves in Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Sichuan and other provinces, and will continue to focus on the implementation of the Party Central Committee and the State Council's decisions and arrangements regarding quality work, the implementation of quality responsibilities, and the formation of departmental synergy to address quality problems and hidden dangers, carrying out spot checks and verifications around key fields, key products, and key behaviors. They will promote the resolution of a batch of prominent quality problems of social concern and strongly reflected by the masses, so as to better serve the high-quality development of the economy and society and the people's needs for a high-quality life.
Return to TopOrder of the State Council of the People's Republic of China
No. 848
The "Regulations on the Administration of Foundations" were revised and adopted at the 96th executive meeting of the State Council on September 11, 2026, and are hereby promulgated, to take effect as of January 1, 2027.
Premier Li Qiang
October 13, 2026
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated to regulate the organization and activities of foundations, safeguard the lawful rights and interests of foundations, donors, and beneficiaries, strengthen the credibility building of foundations, and promote the healthy and orderly development of foundations.
Article 2 For the purposes of these Regulations, a foundation refers to a non-profit legal person established in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations by Chinese citizens, legal persons, or other organizations using donated property, for public welfare purposes.
Article 3 The work of foundations adheres to the Party's leadership.
Foundations shall implement the Party's and the state's line, principles, policies, and decisions and deployments, abide by the Constitution, laws, regulations, and rules, practice the core socialist values, and shall not engage in, fund, or indirectly fund activities that endanger national security, unity, and ethnic solidarity, harm national interests, public interests, and the lawful rights and interests of others, or violate social morality.
Article 4 Foundations engaging in public welfare activities in accordance with their articles of association shall follow the principles of legality, voluntariness, good faith, openness, transparency, and non-profit.
Article 5 The civil affairs departments of people's governments at or above the level of a city divided into districts are the registration management authorities for foundations (hereinafter referred to as registration management authorities).
The relevant organs at or above the level of a city divided into districts are the business supervisory units (hereinafter referred to as business supervisory units) of foundations registered with the civil affairs departments of people's governments at the same level; organizations authorized in accordance with relevant state regulations may also serve as business supervisory units.
Article 6 In foundations, organizations of the Communist Party of China shall be established and Party activities shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Communist Party of China and relevant intra-Party regulations. Foundations shall provide necessary conditions for the activities of Party organizations.
Chapter II Establishment, Modification, and Deregistration
Article 7 To establish a foundation, the promoters shall apply to the registration management authority for registration.
For foundations with a business supervisory unit, consent of the business supervisory unit shall be obtained before registration.
For foundations in the fields of assisting the weak and relieving the distressed, supporting the elderly and assisting the disabled, caring for the sick and aiding the ill, rescuing orphans and supporting education, and disaster relief, the promoters may apply for direct registration, and the registration management authority shall be the civil affairs department of the people's government of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the central government. For the establishment of a directly registered foundation, an industry management department shall be designated to be responsible for industry supervision and management. The specific measures for direct registration shall be formulated by the civil affairs departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government jointly with relevant departments, and shall be reported to the civil affairs department of the State Council for filing.
Article 8 To establish a foundation, the following conditions shall be met:
(1) It is established for specific public welfare purposes;
(2) It has the necessary registered capital, which shall be monetary funds actually received; for foundations registered with the civil affairs departments of people's governments at the level of a city divided into districts, the registered capital shall not be less than RMB 2 million yuan; for foundations registered with the civil affairs departments of people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, or municipalities directly under the central government, the registered capital shall not be less than RMB 4 million yuan; for foundations registered with the civil affairs department of the State Council, the registered capital shall not be less than RMB 20 million yuan;
(3) It has a standardized name, articles of association, organizational structure, and full-time staff commensurate with its activities;
(4) It has a fixed domicile.
Article 9 Promoters shall be responsible for the preparatory activities of the foundation before registration. During the preparatory period of the foundation, promoters shall not, in the name of the proposed foundation, carry out activities unrelated to the preparation, and shall not publish preparatory information and fundraising information to non-specific targets.
The main promoter shall serve as the head of the first board of directors of the foundation; if the main promoter is a legal person or other organization, the representative appointed by it shall serve.
Organ legal persons shall not initiate the establishment of foundations.
Article 10 Under any of the following circumstances, a person shall not serve as a promoter, person in charge, director, or supervisor of a foundation:
(1) Having no capacity for civil conduct or having limited capacity for civil conduct;
(2) Having been or currently being subject to criminal punishment of deprivation of political rights;
(3) Having been sentenced to criminal punishment for intentional crime, where less than 5 years have elapsed since the completion of the execution of the sentence; where a suspended sentence was pronounced, where less than 2 years have elapsed since the expiration of the probation period;
(4) Having served as a person in charge of an organization under bankruptcy liquidation and bearing personal responsibility for the bankruptcy of that organization, where less than 5 years have elapsed since the completion of the bankruptcy liquidation of that organization;
(5) Having served as a promoter in an organization whose registration was revoked for engaging in fraud or deception (弄虚作假, nong xu zuo jia - "make false, do fake") to obtain registration;
(6) Having served as a person in charge of an organization whose registration certificate was revoked or which was banned, where less than 5 years have elapsed since the revocation of the registration certificate or the banning of that organization;
(7) Being included in the list of seriously dishonest entities;
(8) Other circumstances provided for by laws and administrative regulations.
Article 11 To apply for the establishment of a foundation, the promoters shall submit the following materials to the registration management authority:
(1) A written application and a draft of the articles of association;
(2) A letter of commitment for the donation of registered capital, capital verification vouchers, and proof of domicile;
(3) The list, basic information, and identity certificates of the promoters, directors, supervisors, and the proposed legal representative and persons in charge.
For foundations with a business supervisory unit, the document of consent to establishment issued by the business supervisory unit shall also be submitted.
Promoters shall be responsible for the legality, authenticity, accuracy, validity, and completeness of the application materials.
Article 12 The articles of association of a foundation shall specify the public welfare nature of the foundation and shall not contain content that enables specific individuals or organizations to benefit.
The articles of association of a foundation shall state that the foundation adheres to the comprehensive leadership of the Communist Party of China, specify the requirements for Party building work in the foundation, including the form of establishment of grassroots Party organizations, their duties and tasks, and basic safeguards, and shall also state the following matters:
(1) Name and domicile;
(2) Purpose and scope of business;
(3) Amount of registered capital;
(4) Sources and composition of property;
(5) Composition, functions, and rules of procedure of the organizational structure;
(6) Duties, qualifications, terms of office, and procedures for election and removal of the legal representative, persons in charge, directors, and supervisors;
(7) The system for the preparation and review of financial and accounting reports;
(8) The system for the management and use of property;
(9) Important systems such as project management and information disclosure;
(10) Procedures for amending the articles of association;
(11) Conditions and procedures for termination and the method of handling property after termination;
(12) Other matters that shall be provided for in the articles of association.
Article 13 The registration management authority shall, within 30 days from the date of receipt of all valid materials listed in Article 11 of these Regulations, make a decision to approve or deny registration. Where there are special circumstances requiring an extension of the time limit, the time limit may be appropriately extended upon approval in accordance with the law, but the extension shall not exceed 30 days.
When reviewing the materials submitted by the promoters, the registration management authority may organize an evaluation based on the actual circumstances, and the time required shall not be counted within the review period. The registration management authority shall notify the promoters in writing of the time required.
Article 14 For a foundation approved for registration, the registration management authority shall issue the "Foundation Legal Person Registration Certificate"; where registration is denied, the reasons shall be stated in writing.
The registered items mainly include:
(1) Name;
(2) Domicile;
(3) Scope of business;
(4) Legal representative;
(5) Registered capital;
(6) Business supervisory unit.
The registration certificate consists of an original and a duplicate, which have equal legal effect. The format of the registration certificate, model articles of association, and other items shall be uniformly formulated by the civil affairs department of the State Council.
Article 15 A foundation may simultaneously apply for registration as a charity organization in accordance with the provisions of the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China; those applying for the qualification for public fundraising shall make the application after being registered as a charity organization for a full year, and shall meet the requirements of a sound internal governance structure and standardized operation. After obtaining the qualification for public fundraising, public fundraising shall be carried out in accordance with the law; where public fundraising is carried out through the Internet, it shall also be conducted on the Internet public fundraising service platform provided for in the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China. The specific measures for public fundraising and platform management shall be formulated by the civil affairs department of the State Council jointly with relevant departments.
For a foundation registered as a charity organization in accordance with the law, the registration management authority shall indicate the words "charity organization" on the registration certificate.
Article 16 After a foundation is registered in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations, it shall handle tax registration and social insurance registration in accordance with the law, and perform corresponding tax payment and contribution obligations in accordance with the regulations.
A foundation shall, on the strength of its registration certificate, apply for engraving seals and opening bank accounts in accordance with the law.
A foundation shall report the seal impressions, bank account numbers, and copies of tax registration certificates to the business supervisory unit and the registration management authority for filing.
Article 17 Where a foundation modifies registered items or amends its articles of association, it shall submit an application to the registration management authority within 30 days from the date of making the resolution for modification or amendment.
For foundations with a business supervisory unit handling the above matters, they shall report to the business supervisory unit within 30 days from the date of making the resolution for modification or amendment, and shall submit an application to the registration management authority within 30 days from the date of consent by the business supervisory unit.
The registration management authority shall, within 30 days from the date of receipt of all valid materials submitted by the foundation, make a decision on whether to approve the modification of registration or amendment of the articles of association.
Article 18 A foundation shall terminate under any of the following circumstances:
(1) The circumstances for termination provided for in the articles of association arise;
(2) Termination is required due to division or merger;
(3) It has not engaged in public welfare activities for 2 consecutive years;
(4) Its registration is revoked or its registration certificate is revoked in accordance with the law;
(5) Other circumstances under which termination shall occur as provided for by laws and administrative regulations.
Article 19 Before termination, a foundation shall complete liquidation work in accordance with the law.
The directors of a foundation are the liquidation obligors. The liquidation obligors shall, within 30 days from the date of the occurrence of the termination circumstances of the foundation, form a liquidation group in accordance with the law to conduct liquidation, and shall make an announcement on the unified information platform established by the civil affairs department of the State Council.
Where the liquidation obligors fail to perform the liquidation obligations in a timely manner, causing damage, they shall bear civil liability; the business supervisory unit, the registration management authority, or interested parties may, in accordance with the law, apply to the people's court to designate relevant personnel to form a liquidation group to conduct liquidation.
During the liquidation period, the foundation shall not carry out activities other than liquidation.
Article 20 During the liquidation period, the liquidation group exercises the following functions and powers:
(1) To sort out the property of the foundation and separately prepare a balance sheet and a property inventory;
(2) To notify and announce to creditors;
(3) To handle the unfinished business of the foundation related to liquidation;
(4) To pay off owed wages of employees and medical, disability subsidy, and pension expenses, as well as compensation that shall be paid to employees in accordance with the law, to pay off owed social insurance premiums and taxes, and to calculate, declare, and pay social insurance premiums and taxes arising during the liquidation process;
(5) To sort out claims, debts, and remaining property;
(6) To represent the foundation in civil litigation and other activities.
Article 21 The liquidation group shall notify creditors within 10 days from the date of its establishment, and shall make an announcement within 60 days on the unified information platform established by the civil affairs department of the State Council. Creditors shall declare their claims to the liquidation group within 30 days from the date of receipt of the notice; those who have not received the notice shall declare their claims to the liquidation group within 45 days from the date of the announcement.
After sorting out the property of the foundation and preparing the balance sheet and property inventory, the liquidation group shall formulate a liquidation plan and perform its duties in accordance with the liquidation plan.
Article 22 The liquidation group shall, within 30 days from the date of completion of the liquidation, apply to the registration management authority for deregistration, and shall submit the following materials:
(1) A written application for deregistration and a liquidation report;
(2) The original and duplicate of the registration certificate;
(3) Proof of payment of social insurance premiums, tax clearance certificate, and proof of cancellation of bank accounts;
(4) Other materials required by the registration management authority.
For foundations with a business supervisory unit, the document of consent to deregistration issued by the business supervisory unit shall also be submitted.
Where a liquidation group is designated by the people's court to conduct liquidation, the liquidation group shall, within 30 days from the date of receipt of the civil ruling issued by the people's court confirming the report on the completion of liquidation and terminating the liquidation procedure, apply to the registration management authority for deregistration.
Where the registration management authority approves the deregistration, it shall make a decision to approve the deregistration and take back the registration certificate and seals of the foundation.
Accounting archives formed before the foundation completes the deregistration procedures shall be handled in accordance with the state's regulations on the management of accounting archives.
Article 23 Where the registration management authority makes a decision on modification of registration, deregistration, revocation of registration, or revocation of the registration certificate in accordance with the law, and the foundation refuses to return or is unable to return the registration certificate or seals, the registration management authority shall announce the invalidation of the registration certificate and seals.
Where the registration certificate or seals are lost or damaged, the foundation shall declare them invalid in accordance with relevant state regulations and apply for reissuance or re-engraving in accordance with the law.
Chapter III Organizational Structure
Article 24 A foundation shall establish a board of directors as the decision-making body of the foundation. The board of directors shall have 5 to 25 directors, with the specific number to be determined by the articles of association. Where the number of directors is less than that provided for in the articles of association, by-elections shall be held in a timely manner.
For foundations with the qualification for public fundraising, the total number of directors from the same organization and from organizations with affiliated relationships with each other shall not exceed one-third of the total number of directors.
For foundations established with donations of private property that do not have the qualification for public fundraising, the total number of directors who are close relatives of each other shall not exceed one-third of the total number of directors; for other foundations, persons with close kinship relationships shall not serve on the board of directors at the same time.
Article 25 The term of office of directors shall be provided for in the articles of association, with each term being 3 to 5 years; upon expiration of the term, re-election shall be held on time in accordance with the provisions of the articles of association, and directors may be re-elected and serve consecutive terms. The first board of directors shall be nominated and jointly determined through consultation by the business supervisory unit, promoters, major donors, and others.
Article 26 The board of directors exercises the following functions and powers provided for in the articles of association in accordance with the law:
(1) Amending the articles of association;
(2) Electing and removing the chairman, vice-chairmen, and directors, and electing, removing, or deciding to appoint or dismiss the secretary-general;
(3) Reviewing matters such as major fundraising activities, major transaction activities, investment activities, and foreign-related activities provided for in the articles of association;
(4) Reviewing the annual work plan, annual work report, revenue and expenditure budget, and final accounts;
(5) Deciding on the division, merger, or termination of the foundation;
(6) Establishing and managing executive bodies, branch offices, representative offices, and other bodies, and formulating relevant management systems;
(7) Formulating plans for the raising, management, and use of funds;
(8) Deciding on remuneration matters for full-time directors and the secretary-general;
(9) Other functions and powers provided for in the articles of association.
Article 27 The board of directors shall hold at least 2 meetings each year. Meetings of the board of directors shall be attended by more than two-thirds of the directors.
Meetings of the board of directors shall be convened and presided over by the chairman; where the chairman is unable to perform or fails to perform his duties, they shall be convened and presided over by a vice-chairman; where the vice-chairman is unable to perform or fails to perform his duties, or where no vice-chairman is established, a director shall be jointly nominated by more than half of the directors to convene and preside over the meeting.
The secretary-general who is not a director shall attend meetings of the board of directors as a non-voting participant.
Article 28 Directors shall attend meetings of the board of directors in person; where a director is unable to attend for good reason, he may entrust another director or other person in writing to attend on his behalf, and the scope of authorization shall be stated in the letter of entrustment.
A trustee may accept the entrustment of only one director at a single meeting of the board of directors. The number of persons attending on behalf of others shall not exceed one-fifth of the total number of persons attending the meeting.
Article 29 Resolutions of the board of directors shall be adopted by more than half of all directors.
The matters listed in items (1) through (5) of Article 26 of these Regulations shall be adopted by more than two-thirds of all directors.
Voting on resolutions of the board of directors shall be one person, one vote.
The board of directors shall make meeting records of the decisions on the matters discussed, and the directors and trustees attending the meeting shall sign the meeting records. The dissenting opinions of directors shall be recorded in the meeting records.
Article 30 A foundation shall establish an executive body to execute the resolutions of the board of directors and the functions and powers conferred by the articles of association, and to be responsible to the board of directors.
Article 31 A foundation shall establish a supervisor or a board of supervisors as the supervisory body of the foundation.
Foundations with the qualification for public fundraising, or foundations with 3 or more supervisors, shall establish a board of supervisors.
The board of supervisors shall have 3 to 7 supervisors, with the specific number to be determined by the articles of association. The board of supervisors shall have 1 chief supervisor.
Article 32 Supervisors shall be appointed by the promoters and major donors, and may also be appointed by the business supervisory unit and others.
The chief supervisor shall be elected by more than half of all supervisors. The term of office of supervisors shall be the same as that of directors. Upon expiration of the term of office, supervisors may serve consecutive terms.
There shall be no close kinship relationship among supervisors. Supervisors shall not be concurrently held by the secretary-general, directors, accounting personnel of the foundation, or close relatives of the above-mentioned persons.
Article 33 The board of supervisors and supervisors exercise the following functions and powers provided for in the articles of association in accordance with the law:
(1) Supervising the business operations of the board of directors and the executive body, and inspecting the financial and accounting materials of the foundation;
(2) Proposing to the board of directors the removal of the chairman, vice-chairmen, secretary-general, or directors who violate laws, regulations, the articles of association of the foundation, or resolutions of the board of directors;
(3) Reporting abnormal activities of the foundation to the registration management authority, the business supervisory unit, or tax, financial, and other relevant departments;
(4) Other functions and powers provided for in the articles of association.
Supervisors shall attend meetings of the board of directors as non-voting participants and may raise inquiries or suggestions regarding matters resolved by the board of directors.
Article 34 The board of supervisors shall hold at least 2 meetings each year. Meetings of the board of supervisors shall be attended by more than two-thirds of the supervisors, and resolutions of the board of supervisors shall be adopted by more than half of all supervisors.
Voting on resolutions of the board of supervisors shall be one person, one vote.
The board of supervisors shall make meeting records of the decisions on the matters discussed, and the supervisors attending the meeting shall sign the meeting records. The dissenting opinions of supervisors shall be recorded in the meeting records.
Article 35 The chairman, vice-chairmen, and secretary-general are the persons in charge of the foundation. The chairman and vice-chairmen shall be elected from among the directors; the secretary-general may be elected from among the directors or may be appointed under an employment system.
The age and number of terms of office of the persons in charge of a foundation shall comply with relevant state regulations; in principle, the age during the term of office shall not exceed 70 years old, and consecutive terms in the same position shall not exceed two terms. The secretary-general under the employment system shall not be subject to the limit on the number of terms.
The number of persons in charge of a foundation shall not exceed one-third of the total number of directors. A foundation shall have at least 1 chairman and 1 secretary-general position.
The chairman is the legal representative of the foundation and shall be a Chinese citizen. The chairman of a directly registered foundation shall be a resident of the mainland. The chairman shall not concurrently serve as the legal representative of another organization. The chairman and the secretary-general of a foundation shall not be concurrently held by the same person.
The secretary-general shall be a Chinese citizen. The secretary-general shall not concurrently serve as the legal representative, chairman (president), or secretary-general of another social organization. The secretary-general of a foundation with the qualification for public fundraising shall be full-time.
The persons in charge of a foundation shall not be concurrently held by active civil servants. A foundation shall establish a system of public announcement before the appointment of persons in charge and a system of work reports by the legal representative.
Article 36 Where a foundation undergoes a change of term or changes its persons in charge, directors, or supervisors during a term, it shall report to the registration management authority for filing within 30 days from the date of making the decision on the change of term or change. For foundations with a business supervisory unit handling the above matters, consent of the business supervisory unit shall first be obtained.
Article 37 Where the election of directors, appointment of supervisors, or election or appointment of the secretary-general violates the provisions of Article 10 of these Regulations, such election, appointment, or employment shall be invalid.
Where directors, supervisors, or the secretary-general fall under the circumstances listed in Article 10 of these Regulations during their term of office, the foundation shall remove them from their positions in accordance with the procedures.
Article 38 Persons in charge, directors, and supervisors shall avoid conflicts between their own interests and the interests of the foundation, and shall not engage in the following acts:
(1) Privately dividing, misappropriating, withholding, embezzling, or corrupting the property of the foundation;
(2) Depositing the funds of the foundation in accounts opened in their own names or in the names of other individuals or organizations;
(3) Accepting bribes or obtaining other illegal income by abusing their positions;
(4) Other acts of using their positions to seek improper benefits.
Article 39 The promoters, major donors, persons in charge, directors, supervisors, and others of a foundation shall not use their affiliated relationships to harm the interests of the foundation, the beneficiaries, and the public interest.
Where persons in charge, directors, supervisors, and others encounter situations in which their own interests and those of their close relatives are related to the interests of the foundation, they shall not participate in the decision-making on related matters.
Where the promoters, major donors, persons in charge, directors, and others of a foundation engage in transactions with the foundation, they shall not participate in the decision-making of the foundation regarding such transactions, and the relevant transaction information shall be disclosed to the public.
Supervisors and their close relatives shall not engage in transactions with the foundation, except for making donations to the foundation.
Article 40 Supervisors and directors who do not hold full-time positions in the foundation shall not receive remuneration from the foundation.
The number of directors receiving remuneration from the foundation shall not exceed one-third of the total number of directors.
Necessary expenses such as transportation, accommodation, and meals incurred by directors and supervisors in the performance of their duties shall be borne by the foundation.
Article 41 Where a foundation establishes, modifies, or terminates branch offices or representative offices, it shall report to the registration management authority for filing within 30 days from the date of making the decision. For foundations with a business supervisory unit handling the above matters, consent of the business supervisory unit shall first be obtained.
Where a foundation establishes a special fund, it shall establish a special fund management committee. Branch offices and representative offices such as the special fund management committee are constituent parts of the foundation, do not have legal person status, and shall, within the scope authorized by the foundation, use a standardized full name prefixed with the name of the foundation to which they belong when carrying out activities; all revenues and expenditures shall be included in the unified financial accounting of the foundation, and the foundation shall bear legal liability.
A foundation shall not establish regional branch offices.
Chapter IV Management and Use of Property
Article 42 Foundations carrying out fundraising, accepting donations, and providing grants shall comply with the provisions of laws and regulations and conform to the purpose and scope of business provided for in the articles of association. Where a foundation with the qualification for public fundraising cooperates with an organization or individual without the qualification for public fundraising, the foundation shall carry out the public fundraising, and the cooperating party shall not carry out public fundraising on its own in any form.
A foundation shall not engage in the following acts:
(1) Accepting donations with conditions attached that violate laws and regulations, contravene social morality, or constitute a return of benefits to the donor or its interested parties;
(2) Providing returns of benefits to donors or their interested parties;
(3) Apportioning or indirectly apportioning;
(4) Attaching conditions to beneficiaries or their interested parties that violate laws and regulations and contravene social morality;
(5) Making donations by beneficiaries or their interested parties to the foundation a condition for providing grants.
Article 43 The property and other lawful income of a foundation are public property and are protected by law. No organization or individual shall privately divide, misappropriate, withhold, embezzle, or corrupt the property of a foundation.
The property of a foundation shall be strictly managed, with allocating specific funds for specific purposes (专款专用, zhuan kuan zhuan yong - "special funds, special use"), conforming to the purpose and scope of business provided for in the articles of association, and shall not be distributed among promoters, donors, persons in charge, directors, or supervisors.
A foundation shall not fund activities for profit-making purposes, and shall not use the name of the foundation, project brands, or other items for non-public welfare purposes.
Article 44 When accepting donations, a foundation shall issue donation receipts to donors in accordance with the law. Where donors are anonymous or waive the acceptance of donation receipts, relevant records shall be made. For non-cash donated property, the foundation shall use relevant vouchers, historical cost, or fair value as the basis for confirming the value of the property.
Where a foundation concludes a donation agreement with a donor, the donated property shall be used in accordance with the agreement. Where it is truly necessary to change the use, the consent of the donor shall be obtained and the property shall still be used for public welfare purposes; where it is truly impossible to solicit the donor's opinion, it shall be used for the same or similar public welfare purposes.
Where donated goods are difficult to store, transport, or directly use for public welfare purposes, the foundation may auction or sell them in accordance with the law, and the income obtained, after deducting necessary expenses, shall be used entirely for public welfare purposes.
Article 45 Where a foundation makes investments to preserve and increase the value of its property, it shall comply with the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China and other laws, regulations, and relevant state regulations, follow the principles of legality, safety, prudence, and effectiveness, and the income from investments shall be used entirely for public welfare purposes.
The specific measures for the matters provided for in the preceding paragraph shall be formulated by the civil affairs department of the State Council.
Article 46 The net assets of a foundation at the end of the year shall not be lower than the statutory registered capital standard at the time of establishment registration.
For foundations that are charity organizations, the standards for annual expenditures on public welfare activities provided for in the articles of association and management expenses shall be implemented in accordance with the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China and relevant state regulations.
For foundations that are not charity organizations, annual expenditures on public welfare activities provided for in the articles of association shall not be less than 8 percent of the net assets at the end of the previous year or 8 percent of the average net assets at the end of the previous 3 years, and management expenses shall not exceed 10 percent of the total annual expenditures.
A foundation shall regulate the remuneration of its persons in charge, reasonably determine the remuneration standards for its staff, and the wage and welfare expenditures of full-time staff shall be controlled within the prescribed proportion.
Article 47 A foundation shall establish public welfare projects within the purpose and scope of business provided for in the articles of association, and shall track and manage the implementation of the projects to ensure their public welfare nature. A foundation may, based on actual circumstances, invite industry organizations or professional institutions to evaluate the necessity, feasibility, and implementation results of the establishment of public welfare projects.
Article 48 When a foundation determines the executor of a public welfare project or the provider of goods or services, it shall do so openly, fairly, and impartially.
A foundation shall not entrust a donor as the executor of a public welfare project; where another organization or individual is entrusted to execute a public welfare project, its qualifications, credit, capabilities, and other matters shall be evaluated, a written agreement shall be concluded regarding the execution of the public welfare project, and the entire public welfare project shall be supervised.
Where the executor of a public welfare project fails to use donated property in accordance with the agreement or otherwise violates the provisions of the agreement, the foundation has the right to terminate the agreement in accordance with the law and demand the return of property and compensation for losses.
Article 49 Donors have the right to inquire about and copy relevant materials concerning the management and use of their donated property, and the foundation shall promptly, proactively, and truthfully feed back relevant information to the donors.
Where a foundation violates the agreed use in the donation agreement and abuses donated property, the donor has the right to demand that it make corrections; where it refuses to make corrections, the donor may file a complaint, report, or initiate litigation.
Article 50 A foundation may conclude agreements with beneficiaries to stipulate the method and amount of grants, as well as the use and manner of use of funds. A foundation shall not designate or indirectly designate donors, persons in charge, directors, supervisors, foundation staff, or their interested parties as beneficiaries. When a foundation provides services in accordance with the law, it shall respect the personal dignity of beneficiaries and protect their privacy.
A foundation shall track and manage the use of grants. Where a beneficiary fails to use the grant in accordance with the agreement or otherwise violates the agreement, the foundation has the right to terminate the agreement in accordance with the law and demand the return of property from the beneficiary.
Article 51 A foundation shall implement the state's unified accounting system, conduct accounting in accordance with the law, and establish and improve internal accounting supervision systems.
A foundation shall manage funds and goods raised through cooperation and funds and goods of public welfare projects in accordance with the law, include all financial revenues and expenditures in the bank accounts it has opened, shall not open payment accounts with non-bank payment institutions, and shall not use the bank accounts of other organizations or individuals.
Article 52 A foundation shall accept tax supervision, financial and accounting supervision, and audit supervision implemented by tax, financial, and audit authorities in accordance with the law.
A foundation shall prepare a financial and accounting report at the end of each fiscal year and have it audited by an accounting firm in accordance with the law.
When a foundation undergoes a change of term or changes its legal representative, a financial audit shall be conducted.
Article 53 The remaining property of a foundation after liquidation shall be used for public welfare purposes in accordance with the provisions of the articles of association; where it cannot be handled in accordance with the provisions of the articles of association, it shall be transferred under the auspices of the business supervisory unit or the registration management authority to a non-profit legal person with the same or similar purpose as the foundation, and shall be announced to the public.
Chapter V Information Disclosure
Article 54 The registration management authority shall promptly disclose to the public on the unified information platform established by the civil affairs department of the State Council the following information generated in the course of performing its duties:
(1) Matters concerning the establishment, modification, and deregistration of foundations and the approval of articles of association;
(2) Matters concerning the filing of persons in charge, directors, and supervisors of foundations, as well as the filing of branch offices and representative offices;
(3) The results of inspections and evaluations of foundations;
(4) The results of commendations and punishments of foundations;
(5) Other information that shall be disclosed as provided for by laws and regulations.
The registration management authority shall supervise and guide foundations in properly carrying out information disclosure work in accordance with the law, and enhance the transparency and credibility of foundations.
Article 55 A foundation shall perform its information disclosure obligations in accordance with the law and accept social supervision. Information disclosure shall be truthful, accurate, complete, and timely, and shall not contain false records, misleading statements, or major omissions.
A foundation shall disclose to the public on the unified information platform established by the civil affairs department of the State Council its basic information, fundraising, public welfare projects, major asset changes and investments, major transactions and fund flows, related-party transactions, and other information required to be disclosed by the civil affairs department of the State Council. Where there are major changes to the above information, the foundation shall promptly disclose them to the public.
Article 56 A foundation shall, before May 31 of each year, submit to the registration management authority the annual work report of the previous year and the audit report issued by an accounting firm. For foundations with a business supervisory unit handling the above matters, consent of the business supervisory unit shall first be obtained.
Article 57 The contents of the annual work report of a foundation include: the construction of the organizational structure, the situation of Party building work, the situation of fundraising, acceptance of donations, and provision of grants, the situation of cooperation with foreign organizations or individuals, financial and accounting reports, the situation of information disclosure, and the opinions of supervisors. The annual work report shall be disclosed to the public through the unified information platform established by the civil affairs department of the State Council.
Article 58 Information involving state secrets, work secrets, trade secrets, personal privacy, and information such as the names, titles, domiciles, and contact methods of donors who do not agree to disclosure shall not be disclosed.
Chapter VI Supervision and Management
Article 59 People's governments at or above the level of a city divided into districts shall coordinate, coordinate, supervise, and guide relevant departments in properly carrying out the supervision and management of foundations within their respective scope of duties.
The registration management authority, business supervisory units, industry management departments, and other relevant departments shall strengthen information sharing and work coordination, and jointly do a good job in the supervision and management of foundations according to the division of duties.
The registration management authority shall, jointly with the business supervisory unit and financial, audit, and other departments, comprehensively use methods such as annual work report review, special inspections, financial and accounting supervision, audit supervision, and account supervision to strengthen the verification of the legality and compliance of foundation revenues and expenditures, and to supervise and guide foundations in managing and using property in a standardized manner in accordance with the law.
Article 60 The registration management authority performs the following supervision and management duties:
(1) Being responsible for the establishment, modification, and deregistration of foundations, the approval of articles of association, the filing of persons in charge, directors, and supervisors, and the filing of branch offices and representative offices;
(2) Supervising, managing, and inspecting the activities of foundations through methods such as spot checks of annual work reports, financial and accounting reports, and information disclosure;
(3) Coordinating and promoting the Party building of foundations in conjunction with its functions;
(4) Imposing administrative penalties on foundations that violate the provisions of these Regulations;
(5) Other duties provided for by laws and regulations.
Article 61 The registration management authority has the right to take the following measures against foundations suspected of violating the provisions of these Regulations:
(1) Interviewing the persons in charge of the foundation;
(2) Conducting on-site inspections of the domicile and the place where activities occur of the foundation;
(3) Inspecting the foundation under investigation in accordance with the law and entrusting an accounting firm to conduct an audit;
(4) Requiring the foundation to provide explanations, consulting and copying relevant materials, and sealing up documents and materials that may be transferred, destroyed, concealed, or altered;
(5) Investigating and inquiring with units and individuals related to the activities of the foundation suspected of violating the provisions of these Regulations regarding matters related to supervision and management;
(6) With the approval of the principal person in charge of the registration management authority, inquiring into the bank accounts of the foundation under investigation; for foundations that are charity organizations, handling the matter in accordance with the provisions of the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China;
(7) Other measures provided for by laws and regulations.
Personnel conducting on-site inspections or investigations shall be no fewer than 2 persons, and shall present lawful credentials and inspection or investigation notices.
The units and individuals being inspected or investigated shall cooperate, truthfully provide relevant documents and materials, and shall not conceal, refuse, or obstruct.
Article 62 The business supervisory unit performs the following supervision and management duties:
(1) Being responsible for the Party building of foundations, supervising and guiding foundations to abide by the Constitution, laws, regulations, rules, and relevant state policies, and to carry out activities in accordance with their articles of association;
(2) Supervising and guiding the personnel management of foundations, and being responsible for the review of the qualifications of persons in charge, directors, and supervisors of foundations;
(3) Being responsible for the review before the establishment, modification, and deregistration of foundations and the approval of articles of association, and the review before the filing of persons in charge, directors, and supervisors and the filing of branch offices and representative offices;
(4) Supervising and guiding foundations in standardizing financial management, preparing annual work reports, and performing information disclosure obligations;
(5) Assisting the registration management authority and other relevant departments in investigating and dealing with the illegal acts of foundations;
(6) Guiding the liquidation matters of foundations;
(7) Other duties provided for by laws and regulations.
The business supervisory unit may take the regulatory measures provided for in items (1) through (5) of the first paragraph of Article 61 of these Regulations against foundations suspected of violating the provisions of these Regulations.
Article 63 The industry management department shall perform industry supervision and management duties in accordance with the regulations, assist in supervising and guiding the Party building and personnel management of foundations, and assist the registration management authority in doing a good job in the registration management of foundations and other related work.
The industry management department may take the regulatory measures provided for in items (1) through (5) of the first paragraph of Article 61 of these Regulations against foundations suspected of violating the provisions of these Regulations.
Article 64 Financial, tax, audit, financial supervision and administration, public security, foreign affairs, human resources and social security, and other relevant departments shall, according to their functions, perform regulatory duties over matters of foundations involving their respective fields, investigate and deal with illegal and non-compliant acts in accordance with the law, and promptly report to the registration management authority.
Article 65 Where the registration management authority or business supervisory unit is not located in the same place as the domicile of the foundation under its jurisdiction, it may entrust the registration management authority or business supervisory unit at the place of the foundation's domicile to be responsible for the supervision and management work within the scope of the entrustment.
Article 66 The civil affairs department of the State Council shall establish systems for the evaluation of foundations and credit information management, and shall publish relevant information to the public on the unified information platform established by the civil affairs department of the State Council.
Article 67 Any unit or individual that discovers that a foundation has committed acts violating the provisions of these Regulations has the right to file a complaint or report with the registration management authority, the business supervisory unit, or other relevant departments. The department or unit receiving the complaint or report shall investigate and handle the matter in a timely manner in accordance with the law.
The general public and news media may supervise the fundraising activities and the use of donations of foundations.
Industry organizations of foundations shall establish and improve industry norms and strengthen industry self-discipline.
Chapter VII Legal Liability
Article 68 Where activities are carried out in the name of a foundation without registration, or activities continue to be carried out in the name of a foundation after its registration has been revoked or its registration certificate has been revoked, the registration management authority shall ban the activities, confiscate illegal gains, and may impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan on the responsible persons concerned.
Article 69 Where a foundation registration is obtained through fraud or deception, the registration management authority shall revoke the registration, and may impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan on the responsible persons concerned.
Article 70 Where a foundation falls under any of the following circumstances, the registration management authority shall order it to make corrections within a time limit and confiscate illegal gains; where it fails to make corrections within the time limit, it shall be ordered to suspend activities for a time limit and carry out rectification; a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan shall be imposed on the directly responsible supervisors and other directly responsible persons, and the removal of the directly responsible supervisors from their positions may be ordered; where the circumstances are serious, the registration certificate shall be revoked and announced, and the directly responsible supervisors and other directly responsible persons shall be prohibited from serving as persons in charge, directors, or supervisors of foundations for 1 to 5 years:
(1) Failing to carry out activities in accordance with the purpose and scope of business provided for in the articles of association;
(2) Refusing to accept or failing to accept supervision and inspection in accordance with the regulations;
(3) Failing to handle modification of registration or approval of articles of association in accordance with the regulations;
(4) Privately dividing, misappropriating, withholding, or embezzling the property of the foundation.
Where a foundation accepts donations or provides grants in violation of the provisions of Article 42 of these Regulations, it shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph; where a foundation carries out fundraising in violation of the provisions of Article 42 of these Regulations, the registration management authority shall punish it in accordance with the provisions of Articles 111 and 112 of the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China.
Article 71 Where a foundation falls under any of the following circumstances, the registration management authority shall order it to make corrections within a time limit and confiscate illegal gains; where it fails to make corrections within the time limit, it shall be ordered to suspend activities for a time limit and carry out rectification; a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan shall be imposed on the directly responsible supervisors and other directly responsible persons, and the removal of the directly responsible supervisors from their positions may be ordered; where the circumstances are serious, the directly responsible supervisors and other directly responsible persons shall be prohibited from serving as persons in charge, directors, or supervisors of foundations for 1 to 5 years:
(1) Forging, altering, renting, or lending the registration certificate, or renting or lending seals;
(2) Violating the provisions of Article 39 of these Regulations and causing property losses to the foundation;
(3) Unilaterally changing the use of donated property;
(4) Violating the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 51 of these Regulations in opening or managing accounts;
(5) Using property that shall not be used for investment for investment in violation of the regulations;
(6) Causing major losses to the property of the foundation due to poor management;
(7) Expenditures on public welfare activities or management expenses violating the regulations;
(8) Internal management chaos leading to the inability to carry out activities normally;
(9) Negligent management of branch offices and representative offices such as the special fund management committee, causing serious consequences;
(10) Establishing regional branch offices;
(11) Funding activities for profit-making purposes;
(12) Entrusting a donor as the executor of a public welfare project;
(13) Designating or indirectly designating donors, persons in charge, directors, supervisors, foundation staff, or their interested parties as beneficiaries;
(14) Disclosing the personal privacy of donors and beneficiaries, as well as information such as the names, titles, domiciles, and contact methods of donors who do not agree to disclosure;
(15) Failing to perform information disclosure obligations in accordance with the regulations;
(16) Failing to submit the annual work report and the audit report issued by an accounting firm in accordance with the regulations.
Where a foundation violates the regulations by disclosing state secrets, work secrets, or trade secrets, it shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws.
Where a foundation falls under the circumstances provided for in the preceding two paragraphs and again falls under the circumstances provided for in the preceding paragraphs within 1 year after being dealt with in accordance with the law, or where there are other circumstances of serious nature, the registration management authority shall revoke the registration certificate and announce it.
Article 72 Where a foundation falls under any of the following circumstances, the registration management authority shall order it to make corrections within a time limit; where it fails to make corrections within the time limit, it shall be ordered to suspend activities for a time limit:
(1) Failing to issue donation receipts to donors in accordance with the law, or failing to promptly, proactively, and truthfully feed back relevant information to donors;
(2) The net assets at the end of the year being lower than the statutory registered capital standard at the time of establishment registration;
(3) Branch offices, representative offices, or public welfare projects failing to include all revenues and expenditures in the unified financial accounting of the foundation.
Where a foundation violates the provisions of item (2) of the preceding paragraph for 3 consecutive years, the registration management authority shall revoke the registration certificate and announce it.
Article 73 Where a foundation fails to handle the filing of persons in charge, directors, and supervisors or the filing of branch offices and representative offices in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations, the registration management authority shall order it to make corrections within a time limit.
Article 74 Where promoters or donors of registered capital privately divide, misappropriate, withhold, or embezzle the registered capital after the establishment registration of the foundation, the registration management authority shall order them to make corrections within a time limit and impose a fine of not less than 1 times but not more than 5 times the amount privately divided, misappropriated, withheld, or embezzled.
Where the provisions of Article 38 of these Regulations are violated, causing property losses to the foundation, the registration management authority shall impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan on the responsible persons concerned and confiscate illegal gains.
Where the responsible persons concerned in the preceding two paragraphs are persons in charge, directors, or supervisors of the foundation, the registration management authority shall order their removal from their positions.
Article 75 Where the board of directors violates the provisions of laws, regulations, or the articles of association, causing losses to the interests of the foundation, the directors who participated in the decision-making shall bear corresponding liability for compensation; however, where it is proven that they expressed dissent at the time of voting and it was recorded in the meeting records, such directors may be exempted from liability.
Where directors, supervisors, the secretary-general, or other staff carry out activities in the name of the foundation without the consent of the board of directors, or violate the provisions of laws, regulations, or the articles of association in performing their duties with the foundation, causing losses to the interests of the foundation, they shall bear liability for compensation.
Article 76 Where a foundation is ordered to suspend activities for a time limit, the registration management authority shall seal up the registration certificate, seals, and financial vouchers.
Where a foundation's registration is revoked or its registration certificate is revoked, the registration management authority shall take back the registration certificate and seals.
Article 77 Where staff of the registration management authority, business supervisory units, industry management departments, and other relevant units abuse their powers, neglect their duties, or engage in malpractice for personal gain in their work, they shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law.
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions
Article 78 Where conditions permit, local governments may establish community foundations based on actual circumstances, which shall be registered by the civil affairs departments of the people's governments of cities divided into districts. The specific measures shall be formulated by the civil affairs departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government jointly with relevant departments, and shall be reported to the civil affairs department of the State Council for filing.
Article 79 These Regulations shall take effect as of January 1, 2027.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 10)
Return to TopOrder of the State Council of the People's Republic of China
No. 848
The "Regulations on the Administration of Foundations" were revised and adopted at the 96th executive meeting of the State Council on September 11, 2026, and are hereby promulgated, to take effect as of January 1, 2027.
Premier Li Qiang
October 13, 2026
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated to regulate the organization and activities of foundations, safeguard the lawful rights and interests of foundations, donors, and beneficiaries, strengthen the credibility building of foundations, and promote the healthy and orderly development of foundations.
Article 2 For the purposes of these Regulations, a foundation refers to a non-profit legal person established in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations by Chinese citizens, legal persons, or other organizations using donated property, for public welfare purposes.
Article 3 The work of foundations adheres to the Party's leadership.
Foundations shall implement the Party's and the state's line, principles, policies, and decisions and deployments, abide by the Constitution, laws, regulations, and rules, practice the core socialist values, and shall not engage in, fund, or indirectly fund activities that endanger national security, unity, and ethnic solidarity, harm national interests, public interests, and the lawful rights and interests of others, or violate social morality.
Article 4 Foundations engaging in public welfare activities in accordance with their articles of association shall follow the principles of legality, voluntariness, good faith, openness, transparency, and non-profit.
Article 5 The civil affairs departments of people's governments at or above the level of a city divided into districts are the registration management authorities for foundations (hereinafter referred to as registration management authorities).
The relevant organs at or above the level of a city divided into districts are the business supervisory units (hereinafter referred to as business supervisory units) of foundations registered with the civil affairs departments of people's governments at the same level; organizations authorized in accordance with relevant state regulations may also serve as business supervisory units.
Article 6 In foundations, organizations of the Communist Party of China shall be established and Party activities shall be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Communist Party of China and relevant intra-Party regulations. Foundations shall provide necessary conditions for the activities of Party organizations.
Chapter II Establishment, Modification, and Deregistration
Article 7 To establish a foundation, the promoters shall apply to the registration management authority for registration.
For foundations with a business supervisory unit, consent of the business supervisory unit shall be obtained before registration.
For foundations in the fields of assisting the weak and relieving the distressed, supporting the elderly and assisting the disabled, caring for the sick and aiding the ill, rescuing orphans and supporting education, and disaster relief, the promoters may apply for direct registration, and the registration management authority shall be the civil affairs department of the people's government of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the central government. For the establishment of a directly registered foundation, an industry management department shall be designated to be responsible for industry supervision and management. The specific measures for direct registration shall be formulated by the civil affairs departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government jointly with relevant departments, and shall be reported to the civil affairs department of the State Council for filing.
Article 8 To establish a foundation, the following conditions shall be met:
(1) It is established for specific public welfare purposes;
(2) It has the necessary registered capital, which shall be monetary funds actually received; for foundations registered with the civil affairs departments of people's governments at the level of a city divided into districts, the registered capital shall not be less than RMB 2 million yuan; for foundations registered with the civil affairs departments of people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, or municipalities directly under the central government, the registered capital shall not be less than RMB 4 million yuan; for foundations registered with the civil affairs department of the State Council, the registered capital shall not be less than RMB 20 million yuan;
(3) It has a standardized name, articles of association, organizational structure, and full-time staff commensurate with its activities;
(4) It has a fixed domicile.
Article 9 Promoters shall be responsible for the preparatory activities of the foundation before registration. During the preparatory period of the foundation, promoters shall not, in the name of the proposed foundation, carry out activities unrelated to the preparation, and shall not publish preparatory information and fundraising information to non-specific targets.
The main promoter shall serve as the head of the first board of directors of the foundation; if the main promoter is a legal person or other organization, the representative appointed by it shall serve.
Organ legal persons shall not initiate the establishment of foundations.
Article 10 Under any of the following circumstances, a person shall not serve as a promoter, person in charge, director, or supervisor of a foundation:
(1) Having no capacity for civil conduct or having limited capacity for civil conduct;
(2) Having been or currently being subject to criminal punishment of deprivation of political rights;
(3) Having been sentenced to criminal punishment for intentional crime, where less than 5 years have elapsed since the completion of the execution of the sentence; where a suspended sentence was pronounced, where less than 2 years have elapsed since the expiration of the probation period;
(4) Having served as a person in charge of an organization under bankruptcy liquidation and bearing personal responsibility for the bankruptcy of that organization, where less than 5 years have elapsed since the completion of the bankruptcy liquidation of that organization;
(5) Having served as a promoter in an organization whose registration was revoked for engaging in fraud or deception (弄虚作假, nong xu zuo jia - "make false, do fake") to obtain registration;
(6) Having served as a person in charge of an organization whose registration certificate was revoked or which was banned, where less than 5 years have elapsed since the revocation of the registration certificate or the banning of that organization;
(7) Being included in the list of seriously dishonest entities;
(8) Other circumstances provided for by laws and administrative regulations.
Article 11 To apply for the establishment of a foundation, the promoters shall submit the following materials to the registration management authority:
(1) A written application and a draft of the articles of association;
(2) A letter of commitment for the donation of registered capital, capital verification vouchers, and proof of domicile;
(3) The list, basic information, and identity certificates of the promoters, directors, supervisors, and the proposed legal representative and persons in charge.
For foundations with a business supervisory unit, the document of consent to establishment issued by the business supervisory unit shall also be submitted.
Promoters shall be responsible for the legality, authenticity, accuracy, validity, and completeness of the application materials.
Article 12 The articles of association of a foundation shall specify the public welfare nature of the foundation and shall not contain content that enables specific individuals or organizations to benefit.
The articles of association of a foundation shall state that the foundation adheres to the comprehensive leadership of the Communist Party of China, specify the requirements for Party building work in the foundation, including the form of establishment of grassroots Party organizations, their duties and tasks, and basic safeguards, and shall also state the following matters:
(1) Name and domicile;
(2) Purpose and scope of business;
(3) Amount of registered capital;
(4) Sources and composition of property;
(5) Composition, functions, and rules of procedure of the organizational structure;
(6) Duties, qualifications, terms of office, and procedures for election and removal of the legal representative, persons in charge, directors, and supervisors;
(7) The system for the preparation and review of financial and accounting reports;
(8) The system for the management and use of property;
(9) Important systems such as project management and information disclosure;
(10) Procedures for amending the articles of association;
(11) Conditions and procedures for termination and the method of handling property after termination;
(12) Other matters that shall be provided for in the articles of association.
Article 13 The registration management authority shall, within 30 days from the date of receipt of all valid materials listed in Article 11 of these Regulations, make a decision to approve or deny registration. Where there are special circumstances requiring an extension of the time limit, the time limit may be appropriately extended upon approval in accordance with the law, but the extension shall not exceed 30 days.
When reviewing the materials submitted by the promoters, the registration management authority may organize an evaluation based on the actual circumstances, and the time required shall not be counted within the review period. The registration management authority shall notify the promoters in writing of the time required.
Article 14 For a foundation approved for registration, the registration management authority shall issue the "Foundation Legal Person Registration Certificate"; where registration is denied, the reasons shall be stated in writing.
The registered items mainly include:
(1) Name;
(2) Domicile;
(3) Scope of business;
(4) Legal representative;
(5) Registered capital;
(6) Business supervisory unit.
The registration certificate consists of an original and a duplicate, which have equal legal effect. The format of the registration certificate, model articles of association, and other items shall be uniformly formulated by the civil affairs department of the State Council.
Article 15 A foundation may simultaneously apply for registration as a charity organization in accordance with the provisions of the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China; those applying for the qualification for public fundraising shall make the application after being registered as a charity organization for a full year, and shall meet the requirements of a sound internal governance structure and standardized operation. After obtaining the qualification for public fundraising, public fundraising shall be carried out in accordance with the law; where public fundraising is carried out through the Internet, it shall also be conducted on the Internet public fundraising service platform provided for in the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China. The specific measures for public fundraising and platform management shall be formulated by the civil affairs department of the State Council jointly with relevant departments.
For a foundation registered as a charity organization in accordance with the law, the registration management authority shall indicate the words "charity organization" on the registration certificate.
Article 16 After a foundation is registered in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations, it shall handle tax registration and social insurance registration in accordance with the law, and perform corresponding tax payment and contribution obligations in accordance with the regulations.
A foundation shall, on the strength of its registration certificate, apply for engraving seals and opening bank accounts in accordance with the law.
A foundation shall report the seal impressions, bank account numbers, and copies of tax registration certificates to the business supervisory unit and the registration management authority for filing.
Article 17 Where a foundation modifies registered items or amends its articles of association, it shall submit an application to the registration management authority within 30 days from the date of making the resolution for modification or amendment.
For foundations with a business supervisory unit handling the above matters, they shall report to the business supervisory unit within 30 days from the date of making the resolution for modification or amendment, and shall submit an application to the registration management authority within 30 days from the date of consent by the business supervisory unit.
The registration management authority shall, within 30 days from the date of receipt of all valid materials submitted by the foundation, make a decision on whether to approve the modification of registration or amendment of the articles of association.
Article 18 A foundation shall terminate under any of the following circumstances:
(1) The circumstances for termination provided for in the articles of association arise;
(2) Termination is required due to division or merger;
(3) It has not engaged in public welfare activities for 2 consecutive years;
(4) Its registration is revoked or its registration certificate is revoked in accordance with the law;
(5) Other circumstances under which termination shall occur as provided for by laws and administrative regulations.
Article 19 Before termination, a foundation shall complete liquidation work in accordance with the law.
The directors of a foundation are the liquidation obligors. The liquidation obligors shall, within 30 days from the date of the occurrence of the termination circumstances of the foundation, form a liquidation group in accordance with the law to conduct liquidation, and shall make an announcement on the unified information platform established by the civil affairs department of the State Council.
Where the liquidation obligors fail to perform the liquidation obligations in a timely manner, causing damage, they shall bear civil liability; the business supervisory unit, the registration management authority, or interested parties may, in accordance with the law, apply to the people's court to designate relevant personnel to form a liquidation group to conduct liquidation.
During the liquidation period, the foundation shall not carry out activities other than liquidation.
Article 20 During the liquidation period, the liquidation group exercises the following functions and powers:
(1) To sort out the property of the foundation and separately prepare a balance sheet and a property inventory;
(2) To notify and announce to creditors;
(3) To handle the unfinished business of the foundation related to liquidation;
(4) To pay off owed wages of employees and medical, disability subsidy, and pension expenses, as well as compensation that shall be paid to employees in accordance with the law, to pay off owed social insurance premiums and taxes, and to calculate, declare, and pay social insurance premiums and taxes arising during the liquidation process;
(5) To sort out claims, debts, and remaining property;
(6) To represent the foundation in civil litigation and other activities.
Article 21 The liquidation group shall notify creditors within 10 days from the date of its establishment, and shall make an announcement within 60 days on the unified information platform established by the civil affairs department of the State Council. Creditors shall declare their claims to the liquidation group within 30 days from the date of receipt of the notice; those who have not received the notice shall declare their claims to the liquidation group within 45 days from the date of the announcement.
After sorting out the property of the foundation and preparing the balance sheet and property inventory, the liquidation group shall formulate a liquidation plan and perform its duties in accordance with the liquidation plan.
Article 22 The liquidation group shall, within 30 days from the date of completion of the liquidation, apply to the registration management authority for deregistration, and shall submit the following materials:
(1) A written application for deregistration and a liquidation report;
(2) The original and duplicate of the registration certificate;
(3) Proof of payment of social insurance premiums, tax clearance certificate, and proof of cancellation of bank accounts;
(4) Other materials required by the registration management authority.
For foundations with a business supervisory unit, the document of consent to deregistration issued by the business supervisory unit shall also be submitted.
Where a liquidation group is designated by the people's court to conduct liquidation, the liquidation group shall, within 30 days from the date of receipt of the civil ruling issued by the people's court confirming the report on the completion of liquidation and terminating the liquidation procedure, apply to the registration management authority for deregistration.
Where the registration management authority approves the deregistration, it shall make a decision to approve the deregistration and take back the registration certificate and seals of the foundation.
Accounting archives formed before the foundation completes the deregistration procedures shall be handled in accordance with the state's regulations on the management of accounting archives.
Article 23 Where the registration management authority makes a decision on modification of registration, deregistration, revocation of registration, or revocation of the registration certificate in accordance with the law, and the foundation refuses to return or is unable to return the registration certificate or seals, the registration management authority shall announce the invalidation of the registration certificate and seals.
Where the registration certificate or seals are lost or damaged, the foundation shall declare them invalid in accordance with relevant state regulations and apply for reissuance or re-engraving in accordance with the law.
Chapter III Organizational Structure
Article 24 A foundation shall establish a board of directors as the decision-making body of the foundation. The board of directors shall have 5 to 25 directors, with the specific number to be determined by the articles of association. Where the number of directors is less than that provided for in the articles of association, by-elections shall be held in a timely manner.
For foundations with the qualification for public fundraising, the total number of directors from the same organization and from organizations with affiliated relationships with each other shall not exceed one-third of the total number of directors.
For foundations established with donations of private property that do not have the qualification for public fundraising, the total number of directors who are close relatives of each other shall not exceed one-third of the total number of directors; for other foundations, persons with close kinship relationships shall not serve on the board of directors at the same time.
Article 25 The term of office of directors shall be provided for in the articles of association, with each term being 3 to 5 years; upon expiration of the term, re-election shall be held on time in accordance with the provisions of the articles of association, and directors may be re-elected and serve consecutive terms. The first board of directors shall be nominated and jointly determined through consultation by the business supervisory unit, promoters, major donors, and others.
Article 26 The board of directors exercises the following functions and powers provided for in the articles of association in accordance with the law:
(1) Amending the articles of association;
(2) Electing and removing the chairman, vice-chairmen, and directors, and electing, removing, or deciding to appoint or dismiss the secretary-general;
(3) Reviewing matters such as major fundraising activities, major transaction activities, investment activities, and foreign-related activities provided for in the articles of association;
(4) Reviewing the annual work plan, annual work report, revenue and expenditure budget, and final accounts;
(5) Deciding on the division, merger, or termination of the foundation;
(6) Establishing and managing executive bodies, branch offices, representative offices, and other bodies, and formulating relevant management systems;
(7) Formulating plans for the raising, management, and use of funds;
(8) Deciding on remuneration matters for full-time directors and the secretary-general;
(9) Other functions and powers provided for in the articles of association.
Article 27 The board of directors shall hold at least 2 meetings each year. Meetings of the board of directors shall be attended by more than two-thirds of the directors.
Meetings of the board of directors shall be convened and presided over by the chairman; where the chairman is unable to perform or fails to perform his duties, they shall be convened and presided over by a vice-chairman; where the vice-chairman is unable to perform or fails to perform his duties, or where no vice-chairman is established, a director shall be jointly nominated by more than half of the directors to convene and preside over the meeting.
The secretary-general who is not a director shall attend meetings of the board of directors as a non-voting participant.
Article 28 Directors shall attend meetings of the board of directors in person; where a director is unable to attend for good reason, he may entrust another director or other person in writing to attend on his behalf, and the scope of authorization shall be stated in the letter of entrustment.
A trustee may accept the entrustment of only one director at a single meeting of the board of directors. The number of persons attending on behalf of others shall not exceed one-fifth of the total number of persons attending the meeting.
Article 29 Resolutions of the board of directors shall be adopted by more than half of all directors.
The matters listed in items (1) through (5) of Article 26 of these Regulations shall be adopted by more than two-thirds of all directors.
Voting on resolutions of the board of directors shall be one person, one vote.
The board of directors shall make meeting records of the decisions on the matters discussed, and the directors and trustees attending the meeting shall sign the meeting records. The dissenting opinions of directors shall be recorded in the meeting records.
Article 30 A foundation shall establish an executive body to execute the resolutions of the board of directors and the functions and powers conferred by the articles of association, and to be responsible to the board of directors.
Article 31 A foundation shall establish a supervisor or a board of supervisors as the supervisory body of the foundation.
Foundations with the qualification for public fundraising, or foundations with 3 or more supervisors, shall establish a board of supervisors.
The board of supervisors shall have 3 to 7 supervisors, with the specific number to be determined by the articles of association. The board of supervisors shall have 1 chief supervisor.
Article 32 Supervisors shall be appointed by the promoters and major donors, and may also be appointed by the business supervisory unit and others.
The chief supervisor shall be elected by more than half of all supervisors. The term of office of supervisors shall be the same as that of directors. Upon expiration of the term of office, supervisors may serve consecutive terms.
There shall be no close kinship relationship among supervisors. Supervisors shall not be concurrently held by the secretary-general, directors, accounting personnel of the foundation, or close relatives of the above-mentioned persons.
Article 33 The board of supervisors and supervisors exercise the following functions and powers provided for in the articles of association in accordance with the law:
(1) Supervising the business operations of the board of directors and the executive body, and inspecting the financial and accounting materials of the foundation;
(2) Proposing to the board of directors the removal of the chairman, vice-chairmen, secretary-general, or directors who violate laws, regulations, the articles of association of the foundation, or resolutions of the board of directors;
(3) Reporting abnormal activities of the foundation to the registration management authority, the business supervisory unit, or tax, financial, and other relevant departments;
(4) Other functions and powers provided for in the articles of association.
Supervisors shall attend meetings of the board of directors as non-voting participants and may raise inquiries or suggestions regarding matters resolved by the board of directors.
Article 34 The board of supervisors shall hold at least 2 meetings each year. Meetings of the board of supervisors shall be attended by more than two-thirds of the supervisors, and resolutions of the board of supervisors shall be adopted by more than half of all supervisors.
Voting on resolutions of the board of supervisors shall be one person, one vote.
The board of supervisors shall make meeting records of the decisions on the matters discussed, and the supervisors attending the meeting shall sign the meeting records. The dissenting opinions of supervisors shall be recorded in the meeting records.
Article 35 The chairman, vice-chairmen, and secretary-general are the persons in charge of the foundation. The chairman and vice-chairmen shall be elected from among the directors; the secretary-general may be elected from among the directors or may be appointed under an employment system.
The age and number of terms of office of the persons in charge of a foundation shall comply with relevant state regulations; in principle, the age during the term of office shall not exceed 70 years old, and consecutive terms in the same position shall not exceed two terms. The secretary-general under the employment system shall not be subject to the limit on the number of terms.
The number of persons in charge of a foundation shall not exceed one-third of the total number of directors. A foundation shall have at least 1 chairman and 1 secretary-general position.
The chairman is the legal representative of the foundation and shall be a Chinese citizen. The chairman of a directly registered foundation shall be a resident of the mainland. The chairman shall not concurrently serve as the legal representative of another organization. The chairman and the secretary-general of a foundation shall not be concurrently held by the same person.
The secretary-general shall be a Chinese citizen. The secretary-general shall not concurrently serve as the legal representative, chairman (president), or secretary-general of another social organization. The secretary-general of a foundation with the qualification for public fundraising shall be full-time.
The persons in charge of a foundation shall not be concurrently held by active civil servants. A foundation shall establish a system of public announcement before the appointment of persons in charge and a system of work reports by the legal representative.
Article 36 Where a foundation undergoes a change of term or changes its persons in charge, directors, or supervisors during a term, it shall report to the registration management authority for filing within 30 days from the date of making the decision on the change of term or change. For foundations with a business supervisory unit handling the above matters, consent of the business supervisory unit shall first be obtained.
Article 37 Where the election of directors, appointment of supervisors, or election or appointment of the secretary-general violates the provisions of Article 10 of these Regulations, such election, appointment, or employment shall be invalid.
Where directors, supervisors, or the secretary-general fall under the circumstances listed in Article 10 of these Regulations during their term of office, the foundation shall remove them from their positions in accordance with the procedures.
Article 38 Persons in charge, directors, and supervisors shall avoid conflicts between their own interests and the interests of the foundation, and shall not engage in the following acts:
(1) Privately dividing, misappropriating, withholding, embezzling, or corrupting the property of the foundation;
(2) Depositing the funds of the foundation in accounts opened in their own names or in the names of other individuals or organizations;
(3) Accepting bribes or obtaining other illegal income by abusing their positions;
(4) Other acts of using their positions to seek improper benefits.
Article 39 The promoters, major donors, persons in charge, directors, supervisors, and others of a foundation shall not use their affiliated relationships to harm the interests of the foundation, the beneficiaries, and the public interest.
Where persons in charge, directors, supervisors, and others encounter situations in which their own interests and those of their close relatives are related to the interests of the foundation, they shall not participate in the decision-making on related matters.
Where the promoters, major donors, persons in charge, directors, and others of a foundation engage in transactions with the foundation, they shall not participate in the decision-making of the foundation regarding such transactions, and the relevant transaction information shall be disclosed to the public.
Supervisors and their close relatives shall not engage in transactions with the foundation, except for making donations to the foundation.
Article 40 Supervisors and directors who do not hold full-time positions in the foundation shall not receive remuneration from the foundation.
The number of directors receiving remuneration from the foundation shall not exceed one-third of the total number of directors.
Necessary expenses such as transportation, accommodation, and meals incurred by directors and supervisors in the performance of their duties shall be borne by the foundation.
Article 41 Where a foundation establishes, modifies, or terminates branch offices or representative offices, it shall report to the registration management authority for filing within 30 days from the date of making the decision. For foundations with a business supervisory unit handling the above matters, consent of the business supervisory unit shall first be obtained.
Where a foundation establishes a special fund, it shall establish a special fund management committee. Branch offices and representative offices such as the special fund management committee are constituent parts of the foundation, do not have legal person status, and shall, within the scope authorized by the foundation, use a standardized full name prefixed with the name of the foundation to which they belong when carrying out activities; all revenues and expenditures shall be included in the unified financial accounting of the foundation, and the foundation shall bear legal liability.
A foundation shall not establish regional branch offices.
Chapter IV Management and Use of Property
Article 42 Foundations carrying out fundraising, accepting donations, and providing grants shall comply with the provisions of laws and regulations and conform to the purpose and scope of business provided for in the articles of association. Where a foundation with the qualification for public fundraising cooperates with an organization or individual without the qualification for public fundraising, the foundation shall carry out the public fundraising, and the cooperating party shall not carry out public fundraising on its own in any form.
A foundation shall not engage in the following acts:
(1) Accepting donations with conditions attached that violate laws and regulations, contravene social morality, or constitute a return of benefits to the donor or its interested parties;
(2) Providing returns of benefits to donors or their interested parties;
(3) Apportioning or indirectly apportioning;
(4) Attaching conditions to beneficiaries or their interested parties that violate laws and regulations and contravene social morality;
(5) Making donations by beneficiaries or their interested parties to the foundation a condition for providing grants.
Article 43 The property and other lawful income of a foundation are public property and are protected by law. No organization or individual shall privately divide, misappropriate, withhold, embezzle, or corrupt the property of a foundation.
The property of a foundation shall be strictly managed, with allocating specific funds for specific purposes (专款专用, zhuan kuan zhuan yong - "special funds, special use"), conforming to the purpose and scope of business provided for in the articles of association, and shall not be distributed among promoters, donors, persons in charge, directors, or supervisors.
A foundation shall not fund activities for profit-making purposes, and shall not use the name of the foundation, project brands, or other items for non-public welfare purposes.
Article 44 When accepting donations, a foundation shall issue donation receipts to donors in accordance with the law. Where donors are anonymous or waive the acceptance of donation receipts, relevant records shall be made. For non-cash donated property, the foundation shall use relevant vouchers, historical cost, or fair value as the basis for confirming the value of the property.
Where a foundation concludes a donation agreement with a donor, the donated property shall be used in accordance with the agreement. Where it is truly necessary to change the use, the consent of the donor shall be obtained and the property shall still be used for public welfare purposes; where it is truly impossible to solicit the donor's opinion, it shall be used for the same or similar public welfare purposes.
Where donated goods are difficult to store, transport, or directly use for public welfare purposes, the foundation may auction or sell them in accordance with the law, and the income obtained, after deducting necessary expenses, shall be used entirely for public welfare purposes.
Article 45 Where a foundation makes investments to preserve and increase the value of its property, it shall comply with the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China and other laws, regulations, and relevant state regulations, follow the principles of legality, safety, prudence, and effectiveness, and the income from investments shall be used entirely for public welfare purposes.
The specific measures for the matters provided for in the preceding paragraph shall be formulated by the civil affairs department of the State Council.
Article 46 The net assets of a foundation at the end of the year shall not be lower than the statutory registered capital standard at the time of establishment registration.
For foundations that are charity organizations, the standards for annual expenditures on public welfare activities provided for in the articles of association and management expenses shall be implemented in accordance with the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China and relevant state regulations.
For foundations that are not charity organizations, annual expenditures on public welfare activities provided for in the articles of association shall not be less than 8 percent of the net assets at the end of the previous year or 8 percent of the average net assets at the end of the previous 3 years, and management expenses shall not exceed 10 percent of the total annual expenditures.
A foundation shall regulate the remuneration of its persons in charge, reasonably determine the remuneration standards for its staff, and the wage and welfare expenditures of full-time staff shall be controlled within the prescribed proportion.
Article 47 A foundation shall establish public welfare projects within the purpose and scope of business provided for in the articles of association, and shall track and manage the implementation of the projects to ensure their public welfare nature. A foundation may, based on actual circumstances, invite industry organizations or professional institutions to evaluate the necessity, feasibility, and implementation results of the establishment of public welfare projects.
Article 48 When a foundation determines the executor of a public welfare project or the provider of goods or services, it shall do so openly, fairly, and impartially.
A foundation shall not entrust a donor as the executor of a public welfare project; where another organization or individual is entrusted to execute a public welfare project, its qualifications, credit, capabilities, and other matters shall be evaluated, a written agreement shall be concluded regarding the execution of the public welfare project, and the entire public welfare project shall be supervised.
Where the executor of a public welfare project fails to use donated property in accordance with the agreement or otherwise violates the provisions of the agreement, the foundation has the right to terminate the agreement in accordance with the law and demand the return of property and compensation for losses.
Article 49 Donors have the right to inquire about and copy relevant materials concerning the management and use of their donated property, and the foundation shall promptly, proactively, and truthfully feed back relevant information to the donors.
Where a foundation violates the agreed use in the donation agreement and abuses donated property, the donor has the right to demand that it make corrections; where it refuses to make corrections, the donor may file a complaint, report, or initiate litigation.
Article 50 A foundation may conclude agreements with beneficiaries to stipulate the method and amount of grants, as well as the use and manner of use of funds. A foundation shall not designate or indirectly designate donors, persons in charge, directors, supervisors, foundation staff, or their interested parties as beneficiaries. When a foundation provides services in accordance with the law, it shall respect the personal dignity of beneficiaries and protect their privacy.
A foundation shall track and manage the use of grants. Where a beneficiary fails to use the grant in accordance with the agreement or otherwise violates the agreement, the foundation has the right to terminate the agreement in accordance with the law and demand the return of property from the beneficiary.
Article 51 A foundation shall implement the state's unified accounting system, conduct accounting in accordance with the law, and establish and improve internal accounting supervision systems.
A foundation shall manage funds and goods raised through cooperation and funds and goods of public welfare projects in accordance with the law, include all financial revenues and expenditures in the bank accounts it has opened, shall not open payment accounts with non-bank payment institutions, and shall not use the bank accounts of other organizations or individuals.
Article 52 A foundation shall accept tax supervision, financial and accounting supervision, and audit supervision implemented by tax, financial, and audit authorities in accordance with the law.
A foundation shall prepare a financial and accounting report at the end of each fiscal year and have it audited by an accounting firm in accordance with the law.
When a foundation undergoes a change of term or changes its legal representative, a financial audit shall be conducted.
Article 53 The remaining property of a foundation after liquidation shall be used for public welfare purposes in accordance with the provisions of the articles of association; where it cannot be handled in accordance with the provisions of the articles of association, it shall be transferred under the auspices of the business supervisory unit or the registration management authority to a non-profit legal person with the same or similar purpose as the foundation, and shall be announced to the public.
Chapter V Information Disclosure
Article 54 The registration management authority shall promptly disclose to the public on the unified information platform established by the civil affairs department of the State Council the following information generated in the course of performing its duties:
(1) Matters concerning the establishment, modification, and deregistration of foundations and the approval of articles of association;
(2) Matters concerning the filing of persons in charge, directors, and supervisors of foundations, as well as the filing of branch offices and representative offices;
(3) The results of inspections and evaluations of foundations;
(4) The results of commendations and punishments of foundations;
(5) Other information that shall be disclosed as provided for by laws and regulations.
The registration management authority shall supervise and guide foundations in properly carrying out information disclosure work in accordance with the law, and enhance the transparency and credibility of foundations.
Article 55 A foundation shall perform its information disclosure obligations in accordance with the law and accept social supervision. Information disclosure shall be truthful, accurate, complete, and timely, and shall not contain false records, misleading statements, or major omissions.
A foundation shall disclose to the public on the unified information platform established by the civil affairs department of the State Council its basic information, fundraising, public welfare projects, major asset changes and investments, major transactions and fund flows, related-party transactions, and other information required to be disclosed by the civil affairs department of the State Council. Where there are major changes to the above information, the foundation shall promptly disclose them to the public.
Article 56 A foundation shall, before May 31 of each year, submit to the registration management authority the annual work report of the previous year and the audit report issued by an accounting firm. For foundations with a business supervisory unit handling the above matters, consent of the business supervisory unit shall first be obtained.
Article 57 The contents of the annual work report of a foundation include: the construction of the organizational structure, the situation of Party building work, the situation of fundraising, acceptance of donations, and provision of grants, the situation of cooperation with foreign organizations or individuals, financial and accounting reports, the situation of information disclosure, and the opinions of supervisors. The annual work report shall be disclosed to the public through the unified information platform established by the civil affairs department of the State Council.
Article 58 Information involving state secrets, work secrets, trade secrets, personal privacy, and information such as the names, titles, domiciles, and contact methods of donors who do not agree to disclosure shall not be disclosed.
Chapter VI Supervision and Management
Article 59 People's governments at or above the level of a city divided into districts shall coordinate, coordinate, supervise, and guide relevant departments in properly carrying out the supervision and management of foundations within their respective scope of duties.
The registration management authority, business supervisory units, industry management departments, and other relevant departments shall strengthen information sharing and work coordination, and jointly do a good job in the supervision and management of foundations according to the division of duties.
The registration management authority shall, jointly with the business supervisory unit and financial, audit, and other departments, comprehensively use methods such as annual work report review, special inspections, financial and accounting supervision, audit supervision, and account supervision to strengthen the verification of the legality and compliance of foundation revenues and expenditures, and to supervise and guide foundations in managing and using property in a standardized manner in accordance with the law.
Article 60 The registration management authority performs the following supervision and management duties:
(1) Being responsible for the establishment, modification, and deregistration of foundations, the approval of articles of association, the filing of persons in charge, directors, and supervisors, and the filing of branch offices and representative offices;
(2) Supervising, managing, and inspecting the activities of foundations through methods such as spot checks of annual work reports, financial and accounting reports, and information disclosure;
(3) Coordinating and promoting the Party building of foundations in conjunction with its functions;
(4) Imposing administrative penalties on foundations that violate the provisions of these Regulations;
(5) Other duties provided for by laws and regulations.
Article 61 The registration management authority has the right to take the following measures against foundations suspected of violating the provisions of these Regulations:
(1) Interviewing the persons in charge of the foundation;
(2) Conducting on-site inspections of the domicile and the place where activities occur of the foundation;
(3) Inspecting the foundation under investigation in accordance with the law and entrusting an accounting firm to conduct an audit;
(4) Requiring the foundation to provide explanations, consulting and copying relevant materials, and sealing up documents and materials that may be transferred, destroyed, concealed, or altered;
(5) Investigating and inquiring with units and individuals related to the activities of the foundation suspected of violating the provisions of these Regulations regarding matters related to supervision and management;
(6) With the approval of the principal person in charge of the registration management authority, inquiring into the bank accounts of the foundation under investigation; for foundations that are charity organizations, handling the matter in accordance with the provisions of the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China;
(7) Other measures provided for by laws and regulations.
Personnel conducting on-site inspections or investigations shall be no fewer than 2 persons, and shall present lawful credentials and inspection or investigation notices.
The units and individuals being inspected or investigated shall cooperate, truthfully provide relevant documents and materials, and shall not conceal, refuse, or obstruct.
Article 62 The business supervisory unit performs the following supervision and management duties:
(1) Being responsible for the Party building of foundations, supervising and guiding foundations to abide by the Constitution, laws, regulations, rules, and relevant state policies, and to carry out activities in accordance with their articles of association;
(2) Supervising and guiding the personnel management of foundations, and being responsible for the review of the qualifications of persons in charge, directors, and supervisors of foundations;
(3) Being responsible for the review before the establishment, modification, and deregistration of foundations and the approval of articles of association, and the review before the filing of persons in charge, directors, and supervisors and the filing of branch offices and representative offices;
(4) Supervising and guiding foundations in standardizing financial management, preparing annual work reports, and performing information disclosure obligations;
(5) Assisting the registration management authority and other relevant departments in investigating and dealing with the illegal acts of foundations;
(6) Guiding the liquidation matters of foundations;
(7) Other duties provided for by laws and regulations.
The business supervisory unit may take the regulatory measures provided for in items (1) through (5) of the first paragraph of Article 61 of these Regulations against foundations suspected of violating the provisions of these Regulations.
Article 63 The industry management department shall perform industry supervision and management duties in accordance with the regulations, assist in supervising and guiding the Party building and personnel management of foundations, and assist the registration management authority in doing a good job in the registration management of foundations and other related work.
The industry management department may take the regulatory measures provided for in items (1) through (5) of the first paragraph of Article 61 of these Regulations against foundations suspected of violating the provisions of these Regulations.
Article 64 Financial, tax, audit, financial supervision and administration, public security, foreign affairs, human resources and social security, and other relevant departments shall, according to their functions, perform regulatory duties over matters of foundations involving their respective fields, investigate and deal with illegal and non-compliant acts in accordance with the law, and promptly report to the registration management authority.
Article 65 Where the registration management authority or business supervisory unit is not located in the same place as the domicile of the foundation under its jurisdiction, it may entrust the registration management authority or business supervisory unit at the place of the foundation's domicile to be responsible for the supervision and management work within the scope of the entrustment.
Article 66 The civil affairs department of the State Council shall establish systems for the evaluation of foundations and credit information management, and shall publish relevant information to the public on the unified information platform established by the civil affairs department of the State Council.
Article 67 Any unit or individual that discovers that a foundation has committed acts violating the provisions of these Regulations has the right to file a complaint or report with the registration management authority, the business supervisory unit, or other relevant departments. The department or unit receiving the complaint or report shall investigate and handle the matter in a timely manner in accordance with the law.
The general public and news media may supervise the fundraising activities and the use of donations of foundations.
Industry organizations of foundations shall establish and improve industry norms and strengthen industry self-discipline.
Chapter VII Legal Liability
Article 68 Where activities are carried out in the name of a foundation without registration, or activities continue to be carried out in the name of a foundation after its registration has been revoked or its registration certificate has been revoked, the registration management authority shall ban the activities, confiscate illegal gains, and may impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan on the responsible persons concerned.
Article 69 Where a foundation registration is obtained through fraud or deception, the registration management authority shall revoke the registration, and may impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan on the responsible persons concerned.
Article 70 Where a foundation falls under any of the following circumstances, the registration management authority shall order it to make corrections within a time limit and confiscate illegal gains; where it fails to make corrections within the time limit, it shall be ordered to suspend activities for a time limit and carry out rectification; a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan shall be imposed on the directly responsible supervisors and other directly responsible persons, and the removal of the directly responsible supervisors from their positions may be ordered; where the circumstances are serious, the registration certificate shall be revoked and announced, and the directly responsible supervisors and other directly responsible persons shall be prohibited from serving as persons in charge, directors, or supervisors of foundations for 1 to 5 years:
(1) Failing to carry out activities in accordance with the purpose and scope of business provided for in the articles of association;
(2) Refusing to accept or failing to accept supervision and inspection in accordance with the regulations;
(3) Failing to handle modification of registration or approval of articles of association in accordance with the regulations;
(4) Privately dividing, misappropriating, withholding, or embezzling the property of the foundation.
Where a foundation accepts donations or provides grants in violation of the provisions of Article 42 of these Regulations, it shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph; where a foundation carries out fundraising in violation of the provisions of Article 42 of these Regulations, the registration management authority shall punish it in accordance with the provisions of Articles 111 and 112 of the Charity Law of the People's Republic of China.
Article 71 Where a foundation falls under any of the following circumstances, the registration management authority shall order it to make corrections within a time limit and confiscate illegal gains; where it fails to make corrections within the time limit, it shall be ordered to suspend activities for a time limit and carry out rectification; a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan shall be imposed on the directly responsible supervisors and other directly responsible persons, and the removal of the directly responsible supervisors from their positions may be ordered; where the circumstances are serious, the directly responsible supervisors and other directly responsible persons shall be prohibited from serving as persons in charge, directors, or supervisors of foundations for 1 to 5 years:
(1) Forging, altering, renting, or lending the registration certificate, or renting or lending seals;
(2) Violating the provisions of Article 39 of these Regulations and causing property losses to the foundation;
(3) Unilaterally changing the use of donated property;
(4) Violating the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 51 of these Regulations in opening or managing accounts;
(5) Using property that shall not be used for investment for investment in violation of the regulations;
(6) Causing major losses to the property of the foundation due to poor management;
(7) Expenditures on public welfare activities or management expenses violating the regulations;
(8) Internal management chaos leading to the inability to carry out activities normally;
(9) Negligent management of branch offices and representative offices such as the special fund management committee, causing serious consequences;
(10) Establishing regional branch offices;
(11) Funding activities for profit-making purposes;
(12) Entrusting a donor as the executor of a public welfare project;
(13) Designating or indirectly designating donors, persons in charge, directors, supervisors, foundation staff, or their interested parties as beneficiaries;
(14) Disclosing the personal privacy of donors and beneficiaries, as well as information such as the names, titles, domiciles, and contact methods of donors who do not agree to disclosure;
(15) Failing to perform information disclosure obligations in accordance with the regulations;
(16) Failing to submit the annual work report and the audit report issued by an accounting firm in accordance with the regulations.
Where a foundation violates the regulations by disclosing state secrets, work secrets, or trade secrets, it shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws.
Where a foundation falls under the circumstances provided for in the preceding two paragraphs and again falls under the circumstances provided for in the preceding paragraphs within 1 year after being dealt with in accordance with the law, or where there are other circumstances of serious nature, the registration management authority shall revoke the registration certificate and announce it.
Article 72 Where a foundation falls under any of the following circumstances, the registration management authority shall order it to make corrections within a time limit; where it fails to make corrections within the time limit, it shall be ordered to suspend activities for a time limit:
(1) Failing to issue donation receipts to donors in accordance with the law, or failing to promptly, proactively, and truthfully feed back relevant information to donors;
(2) The net assets at the end of the year being lower than the statutory registered capital standard at the time of establishment registration;
(3) Branch offices, representative offices, or public welfare projects failing to include all revenues and expenditures in the unified financial accounting of the foundation.
Where a foundation violates the provisions of item (2) of the preceding paragraph for 3 consecutive years, the registration management authority shall revoke the registration certificate and announce it.
Article 73 Where a foundation fails to handle the filing of persons in charge, directors, and supervisors or the filing of branch offices and representative offices in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations, the registration management authority shall order it to make corrections within a time limit.
Article 74 Where promoters or donors of registered capital privately divide, misappropriate, withhold, or embezzle the registered capital after the establishment registration of the foundation, the registration management authority shall order them to make corrections within a time limit and impose a fine of not less than 1 times but not more than 5 times the amount privately divided, misappropriated, withheld, or embezzled.
Where the provisions of Article 38 of these Regulations are violated, causing property losses to the foundation, the registration management authority shall impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan on the responsible persons concerned and confiscate illegal gains.
Where the responsible persons concerned in the preceding two paragraphs are persons in charge, directors, or supervisors of the foundation, the registration management authority shall order their removal from their positions.
Article 75 Where the board of directors violates the provisions of laws, regulations, or the articles of association, causing losses to the interests of the foundation, the directors who participated in the decision-making shall bear corresponding liability for compensation; however, where it is proven that they expressed dissent at the time of voting and it was recorded in the meeting records, such directors may be exempted from liability.
Where directors, supervisors, the secretary-general, or other staff carry out activities in the name of the foundation without the consent of the board of directors, or violate the provisions of laws, regulations, or the articles of association in performing their duties with the foundation, causing losses to the interests of the foundation, they shall bear liability for compensation.
Article 76 Where a foundation is ordered to suspend activities for a time limit, the registration management authority shall seal up the registration certificate, seals, and financial vouchers.
Where a foundation's registration is revoked or its registration certificate is revoked, the registration management authority shall take back the registration certificate and seals.
Article 77 Where staff of the registration management authority, business supervisory units, industry management departments, and other relevant units abuse their powers, neglect their duties, or engage in malpractice for personal gain in their work, they shall be given sanctions in accordance with the law.
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions
Article 78 Where conditions permit, local governments may establish community foundations based on actual circumstances, which shall be registered by the civil affairs departments of the people's governments of cities divided into districts. The specific measures shall be formulated by the civil affairs departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government jointly with relevant departments, and shall be reported to the civil affairs department of the State Council for filing.
Article 79 These Regulations shall take effect as of January 1, 2027.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 10)
Return to TopBy the banks of the Gan River lies the ancient commandery of Yuzhang. Donghu District of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, brings together such historical landmarks as the Pavilion of Prince Teng and Bayi Square, where red culture, the historical lineage, and the old city's streets and lanes are shining in each other's light (交相辉映, jiao xiang hui ying - "interact, shine, reflect"). In recent years, Donghu District has adhered to shaping tourism with culture and highlighting culture through tourism, continuously advancing the deep integration of commerce, culture, tourism, sports, and health, revitalizing existing space, activating consumption scenarios, and polishing the city's brand, blazing a new path of high-quality development through the integration of commerce, culture, tourism, sports, and health in the old urban area, and striving to write a new chapter of "a thousand years of Nanchang, seen in Donghu."
Revitalizing Cultural Resources
Using Historical Remains to Stimulate Consumption Momentum
Historical culture is the soul of a city and also the foundation for the integrated development of commerce, culture, tourism, sports, and health. Donghu District has systematically sorted out its cultural relic buildings, historical streets and lanes, and red heritage site resources, delved deep into the cultural lineage of ancient Yuzhang scenes such as "Autumn Breeze at the Pavilion of Prince Teng," "Morning Ferry at Zhang River," "Moonlit Night over Donghu Lake," "Spring Vegetables at Su Pu," and "Evening Glow at Longsha," coordinated cultural resources including the Pavilion of Prince Teng and Baihua Islet, delved deep into the connotations of revolutionary former sites, developed fine red-study tourism products, and pushed historical remains from the classics toward the public, transforming them into consumption momentum.
Relying on the millennium-old cultural IP of the Pavilion of Prince Teng, Donghu District has innovated a "bringing projects to attract investment" model and introduced leading cultural-tourism enterprises to build the "Pavilion of Prince Teng Feast · A Thousand Miles of Welcome" immersive dining-and-performance theater. The project took only half a year from contract signing to opening, and during its two-week trial operation it received more than 4,000 visitors, with revenue of about 1.5 million yuan, becoming a new landmark for cultural-tourism consumption in Donghu District. At the same time, it renovated and upgraded the Donghu Yiku (Donghu Idea Warehouse), preserving the original architectural texture of the old foreign-trade storage and transport base, and, relying on the old factory buildings and old railway tracks, built distinctive experience scenes such as the Longmen Theater and the Time Platform, with the park's investment attraction rate exceeding 92% and more than 80 enterprises settled in, transforming the old industrial remains into a trendy space for cultural creativity and performing arts, and, in conjunction with the new city library, jointly building a modern cultural landmark on the west bank of Qingshan Lake.
Revitalizing Old City Space
Linking various elements into a cohesive whole (串珠成链, chuan zhu cheng lian - "string, pearls, become, chain") to Build a Consumption Highland
The old city has limited space for development, but the potential of its existing stock of resources is unlimited. Taking urban renewal as its starting point, Donghu District has adhered to preserving the pattern of historical streets and lanes and the traditional look and feel, revitalizing and innovating in their use, avoiding large-scale demolition and construction, and treating idle buildings, old factory buildings, historical old residences, and back streets and alleys as the main front for integrated development, achieving a "major upgrading" of business formats through "micro-renovation" of space. Today, with less than 0.8% of the city's land area, Donghu District contributes 8% of total retail sales of consumer goods.
It has upgraded and improved the core commercial districts of Bayi Square, Shengli Road, and Wushang MALL, improved the quality of the Dashiyuan and Hamajie food streets, and cultivated the Qingchao (light-trend) street along Huanhu Road, the literary and artistic street of Houqiangli, and the Hanfu (traditional Chinese clothing) national-trend street of Rongmen Road. Huanhu Road has integrated a number of historical buildings including the Hedong Guild Hall, adhered to the principle of "restoring the old as it was," organically merged the heavy texture of old buildings with new consumption formats, and quietly formed a distinctive style of "a scene at every step, a charm in every shop." In 2025, the total visitor flow of all commercial complexes, scenic areas, and streets in Donghu District reached 120 million person-times, an increase of 12.2% over the previous year; total sales reached 6.773 billion yuan, an increase of 7.6% over the previous year.
Donghu District has coordinated its commercial districts, scenic areas, streets, and ecological resources, improved the cultural and sports facilities across the whole area, enriched the supply of consumption, continuously strengthened such consumption formats as nighttime, performing-arts, and experience-based consumption, and built up the "Night Donghu" cultural-tourism consumption circle. It has promoted the linking of various elements into a cohesive whole of the Pavilion of Prince Teng, Bayi Square, the old city's distinctive streets and lanes, and the Yangzi Islet area, opening up the humanistic, commercial, and ecological spaces, extending the complete consumption chain of food, lodging, transport, travel, shopping, and entertainment, and realizing the linked sharing of various resources. It has built community sports halls, the Dongjing Cultural and Sports Industrial Park, and a pickleball park, promoted the staggered opening of school sports venues to the public, and filled the gaps in public cultural and sports facilities. Relying on these spatial carriers, it has held the Xingchi Music Festival, the Nanchang International Fashion Week, and the "Charming Nanchang · Fireworks Donghu" series of activities to promote culture and tourism and stimulate consumption, and co-hosted the Nanchang International Marathon, enriching the supply of cultural and sports activities. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the district received a cumulative total of 84 million visitors, with tourism revenue exceeding 90 billion yuan, and was rated a Jiangxi "having exceptionally beautiful scenery" (风景独好, feng jing du hao - "scenery, uniquely, excellent") famous tourism county (district).
Cultivating a Fertile Business Environment
Safeguarding Integrated Development to Make Steady Progress to Achieve Long-Term Success (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk, steady, reach, far")
Donghu District's continuously upgraded business environment provides a solid guarantee for the prosperity of consumption formats. Donghu District has deeply implemented the action to benchmark and improve the optimization of the business environment, carried out the "visits to a thousand enterprises and ten thousand households" on a regular basis, innovated scenario-based investment attraction and chain-based investment attraction, and implemented special-team follow-up and full-cycle agency assistance for key commercial, trade, cultural, and tourism projects. Relying on digital means, it has achieved precise delivery of enterprise-benefiting policies, expanded the coverage of "enjoyment without application," implemented inclusive and prudent regulation and the non-penalty for first violations, reduced burdens and loosened constraints on market entities, and stimulated merchants' vitality in innovating consumption scenarios. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the number of market entities in the district grew from 28,626 to 42,497, with an average annual growth rate of 8.22%, and it has remained in the first tier of the provincial and municipal business environment evaluations for four consecutive years.
In addition, Donghu District held the first "Virtue Nourishes Donghu · Medical Care Benefits a Thousand Households" new-era civilized practice project, signed service cooperation agreements with seven medical institutions, established a long-term linked service mechanism, carried out free clinic and "good person" courtesy activities, channeled high-quality medical resources downward, and carried out health services online and offline simultaneously, nurturing a new trend of civility through medical care that benefits the people.
Striving forward into the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Donghu District is anchoring on the overall goal of strengthening the district and enriching the people, implementing the three major actions of industrial reshaping, project tackling, and scientific-educational innovation, and building five demonstration zones for industrial transformation, urban renewal, livelihood services, business environment, and grassroots governance. Seizing the opportunity of the national "three new" pilot, it will develop first-release economy, performing-arts formats, and nighttime consumption, coordinate the protection of the cultural lineage, the upgrading of commerce and trade, and cultural and sports benefits for the people, build a quality consumption highland in the central urban area of the provincial capital, and contribute Donghu's strength to implementing the provincial capital leadership strategy and writing a new chapter in the practice of Chinese modernization in Nanchang.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Donghu District Committee, Nanchang
Return to TopStanding on the construction site of vivo's Global AI R&D Center in Yuhang District, Hangzhou, and looking into the distance, the central axis of Hangzhou's new city center (hereinafter referred to as the "New Center Central Axis") stretches from north to south, revealing a cluster of buildings growing vigorously.
In 2023, Yuhang District solicited planning proposals for the New Center Central Axis from around the world; today, in 2026, ByteDance's Hangzhou office and Alibaba Center · Hangzhou Future Science and Technology City are already in operation, while the Yuhang International Sports Center, the CR Mixc Mall, and the Hangzhou Future International Performing Arts Center are accelerating construction. The International Future Block and the Sci-Tech Innovation Future Block are partially open, making them excellent destinations for many citizens and tourists to experience this new urban area immersively.
Recently, Yuhang District held the Hangzhou New City Center Partner Recruitment Conference and the "Central Axis Future Exploration Day — City Presence" urban event, inviting all sectors of society to jointly build the New Center Central Axis. How should it be jointly built? What form should it take? To answer these two questions well, Yuhang District first clarified "for whom the city is built." At this conference, Yuhang District gave its answer: build a city for young people, build a city that young people are willing to stay in.
Sharing: Three Years of Construction, yielding fruitful results (成果丰硕, cheng guo feng shuo - "fruit, abundant")
With the New Center Central Axis as its core, Yuhang District has gathered the largest cluster of high-energy sci-tech innovation platforms in Zhejiang Province — the National Major Science and Technology Infrastructure for the Ultra-Gravity Simulation and Experiment Device of Zhejiang University, four provincial laboratories, industrial parks such as the Zhejiang Overseas High-Level Talent Innovation Park, and leading enterprises such as Alibaba. Along this axis, Hangzhou's "Six Little Dragons" and "New Eight Steeds" enterprises continue to emerge, linking together a scientific and technological force with strong innovation capability and building an artificial intelligence industry cluster with national influence.
In the three years since the construction of the New Center Central Axis began, a number of visible results have been achieved: ByteDance's Hangzhou office and Alibaba Center · Hangzhou Future Science and Technology City were put into use last year; vivo's Global AI R&D Center is expected to be completed by the end of this year and officially put into operation in the middle of next year; the headquarters of AnHeart Therapeutics, Xing Shen Culture, Giant Star BeA, and other projects have successively taken root, forming a diverse super-headquarters matrix, with innovation capacity in the digital economy, artificial intelligence, and other fields continuously strengthening.
A city thrives because of its people, and the continuous influx of young people provides the city with sustained vitality for growth. From 2023 to the third quarter of this year, Yuhang District's gross regional product has ranked first in the province for consecutive years. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, Yuhang District will focus on building itself into the preferred destination for innovation sources and the preferred destination for distinctive tracks, with talent serving as the main supporting force. In the past five years, more than 210,000 people have flowed into Yuhang District. The continuous influx of young people has brought the average age of the population in the core area of Yuhang's urban district down from 42 years old ten years ago to 32 years old today.
Young people flock to Yuhang, and Yuhang responds to their expectations with blocks, commercial spaces, and cultural and sports venues. The New Center Central Axis, 2.5 kilometers in length with a core area of 2.84 square kilometers, was clearly designed from the outset to supplement the cultural, living, and other supporting services that the highly industry-concentrated Yuhang District lacked. The Hangzhou Intime Center, located at the southern end of the New Center Central Axis, will build a high-end TOD (Transit-Oriented Development) complex of approximately 600,000 square meters, which, together with the CR Mixc Mall scheduled for completion by the end of 2027, will form a "ten-billion-yuan commercial circle." The main structure of the Yuhang International Sports Center has been completed and is expected to be completed and put into use next year, with its "debut" imminent or approaching soon (指日可待, zhi ri ke dai - "point, day, can, await"). The Future Park (Phase I) is expected to open in the first half of 2027. The concert hall and opera house portions of the Hangzhou Future International Performing Arts Center have been under full construction for one year, and the Yuhang Cultural and Arts Center and the Future City Living Room are accelerating construction, set to become new cultural landmarks for Hangzhou and even Zhejiang Province.
As construction progress continues to be updated, the New Center Central Axis is not only becoming the main artery of Yuhang District's urban development, but will also become an axis of quality life for young people.
Openness: Two Blocks, the Future Has Arrived
The people's city is built by the people, and the people's city serves the people. This is an important concept that Yuhang District has consistently practiced throughout the construction of the New Center Central Axis. At the macro scale, Yuhang District is committed to making the New Center Central Axis a model of Chinese modernization in urban construction; at the micro scale, through green-link development and coordinated urban appearance management, Yuhang District is striving to create a beautiful urban life.
At the Hangzhou New City Center Partner Recruitment Conference, the International Future Block and the Sci-Tech Innovation Future Block were officially unveiled. Open landscapes such as Zhuyin Bridge, Zhuyu Pavilion, the Landscape Avenue, and rain gardens have become distinctive check-in spots along the New Center Central Axis. The International Future Block brings together large commercial office buildings such as AUX Center, EFC Australia, and the European Center, along with the Future Park, forming a distinctive L-Park. What was once fragmented space has now become a garden-style strolling area, with continuous and comfortable walkways and rest points under the shade of trees, providing young people with a beautiful habitat where they can pause for a moment. The Sci-Tech Innovation Future Block gathers Alibaba Center · Hangzhou Future Science and Technology City, ByteDance's Hangzhou office, and vivo's Global AI R&D Center, embracing the city with an open attitude. The connected river-network greenway has been transformed into Yunting Park, linking headquarters spaces and providing innovative talent with a composite scene for water-adjacent recreation, leisure, and social interaction.
For the two blocks, the key to renovation and renewal lies in "opening up." With sightlines opened, pedestrians emerge from the subway station directly into the heart of L-Park; with street corners opened, heavy buffer zones have been removed and marginal spaces expanded into rest points; with park walls opened, parks and urban blocks are connected. Qin Cheng Park connects the park with the urban blocks. Its space, surrounded by water on three sides, uses scenes such as a paddleboard pier, a camping area, and an ecological meadow to link together functions including modular space, office, commerce, and park waterfront, making it both an innovation highland of "AI + ecology" and an ideal place for slow-paced social life.
Recently, the New Center Central Axis has also transformed into an immersive urban exhibition hall, hosting the "Central Axis Future Exploration Day — City Presence" urban event. Dozens of events without walls are being held in the blocks, with the newly opened blocks and the industrial, commercial, and public spaces along the route forming the event venues, welcoming young people to step into the scene.
Joining Hands: Partner Synergy, Jointly Building a New City
For commercial, cultural and sports, and block spaces to truly "come alive," enterprises, operators, and the general public must all participate together.
At present, within the 17.2-square-kilometer scope of the New Center Central Axis, 66 projects have been included in the implementation plan, with a total planned investment exceeding 100 billion yuan, of which government-invested projects and socially invested projects each exceed 50 billion yuan. Enterprises such as vivo, DingTalk, ByteDance, Intime, CR Land, and Perennial International, as well as institutions such as the Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, and the China Academy of Art, have all become "city partners" of Yuhang District. With the combined efforts of government and enterprises, the construction of the New Center Central Axis is unfolding step by step.
The Yuhang International Sports Center, a new landmark of Yuhang District, is one of the representative projects of the "city partners." Its operator, Orange Lion Sports, is deeply connecting with event and performance resources. After the venue is put into use, it is expected to host more than 25 high-level professional football matches annually and more than 45 top-tier performing arts events per year on average. Another "city partner," the CR Mixc Mall, will bring more than 500 brand merchants to the New Center Central Axis, leveraging its compact-scale, functionally composite TOD complex to create an "All In One" one-stop consumption destination.
At the Hangzhou New City Center Partner Recruitment Conference, Yuhang District released the "city partner" recruitment plan for the four major sectors of the New Center Central Axis, calling on all sectors to join hands in promoting the New Center Central Axis's breakthrough growth and jointly build a future city of co-construction, co-integration, and co-existence. The sci-tech innovation sector focuses on the Smart Sci-Tech Innovation Headquarters (nine-grid) and the Sci-Tech Innovation Future Block, striving to build a 100-billion-yuan AI industry alliance; the commercial sector links the CR Mixc Mall, Hangzhou Intime Center, and Perennial International · Yunmen Center, striving to build a dual-ten-billion-yuan super landmark commercial circle; the cultural and sports sector, using landmark venues such as the Yuhang International Sports Center, the Yuhang Cultural and Arts Center, and the Hangzhou Future International Performing Arts Center as carriers, and relying on professional venue operations, plans to host 100 cultural, sports, and performance events of international standards annually; the pioneer space sector focuses on the International Future Block, the Future Park, Plot No. 2 of Mengxi Water Township, and Qin Cheng Park, integrating non-standard commercial spaces with independent cultural spaces, inviting young entrepreneurs from around the world to co-create new landmarks of ideal living.
A new center, a central axis, growing upward from north to south. Yuhang District is creating a city for young people with a younger posture. Headquarters buildings, corner parks, cultural and sports venues, and future blocks are spreading out along the route one by one, and a new city is growing together with its youth.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Yuhang District Committee, Hangzhou
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 宋豪新
Climbing onto glaciers at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, searching bit by bit among the rock crevices for possible remains, and having to hurry back down by daylight before nightfall to camp at an altitude of three to four thousand meters, then heading back up the mountain at dawn the next day... Over the years, Tsering Chuzha and his team members from the Jianchuan Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan, have gone into the mountains three times, repeating this kind of search work countless times.
On the morning of November 10, the Chinese and U.S. militaries held a ceremony at the Jianchuan Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan, to transfer the remains of U.S. military personnel. China handed over to the U.S. side a batch of remains of American pilots who aided China's resistance against Japan and were discovered in areas along the "Hump Route." This is the second time, following 2015, that the Jianchuan Museum has witnessed such a homecoming.
Cooperation in searching for the remains of missing U.S. military personnel in China is a vivid embodiment of the history of the Chinese and American peoples fighting together side by side (并肩作战, bing jian zuo zhan - "side by side, fight battles") during World War II against the Japanese militarist aggressors. Over the years, the Chinese side has always acted in a humanitarian spirit to assist the U.S. side in searching for the whereabouts of relevant remains. China is willing to continue pragmatic cooperation with the U.S. side in this field, adding positive factors to the building of a constructive and stable strategic relationship between China and the United States.
The remains transferred this time embody the cooperative efforts of both China and the United States in years of sustained searching. A relevant official from the Archives Bureau of the General Office of the Central Military Commission stated that under the overall framework of the memorandum of understanding on military archival cooperation between the two countries' defense ministries, China and the United States have conducted sustained, friendly, pragmatic, and effective cooperation in accordance with the principle of "equal consultation and mutually beneficial (互惠互利, hu hui hu li - "mutual, benefit; mutual, benefit")" cooperation. This cooperation framework can be traced back to 2008, when the defense ministers of China and the United States agreed at a meeting to share information on U.S. military personnel missing in China and agreed to hold regular meetings on locating missing prisoners of war and remains.
Under this mechanism, joint China-U.S. investigations have continued to make progress.
In 2024, a joint China-U.S. military investigation team unearthed more than 80 fragments of suspected human skeletal remains at Xinbai Village in Hengdong, Hunan, along with items such as aircraft wreckage, pilot jacket buttons, bullets, magazines, and wing fragments. In April 2025, China and the United States held a remains handover ceremony; after identification, they were determined to be the remains of Flying Tigers pilot Morton Schell. In December of the same year, Schell was buried in South Carolina, United States. From the fields of Hunan to a cemetery in the United States, a homecoming spanning more than 80 years was completed jointly by both China and the United States.
"What we initially searched for was the airplane," said Fan Jianchuan, curator of the Jianchuan Museum. The museum's Flying Tigers Gallery is dedicated to recording the history of the Flying Tigers' assistance to China's War of Resistance and the World War II "Hump Route." To collect artifacts, the museum has over the years organized personnel to search for aircraft wreckage in high mountains and glaciers, and has also conducted searches at Xiling Snow Mountain, Baoding Mountain, and other locations. "Over the past 20-plus years, we have mainly been searching for American aircraft wreckage on snow mountains at an altitude of 5,000 meters," he said.
What this arduous effort is tied to is a shared history of resistance against aggression from more than 80 years ago. In 1942, after the Burma Road was cut off, the "Hump Route" became an important channel for the Allies to transport war supplies to China. Transport aircraft traversed perilous mountain terrain to deliver urgently needed supplies such as gasoline and equipment to China. Amid harsh weather and complex terrain, more than a thousand Chinese and American aircrew members lost their lives on this route.
During World War II, China and the United States fought together for peace and justice. American aviation personnel assisting China fought against Japan and carried out transport missions, while Chinese soldiers and civilians built airfields, provided support, and rescued personnel in distress, forging deep friendship in fighting together side by side. "When our War of Resistance was at its most difficult, Americans came to help us, and of course we also helped the Americans," Fan Jianchuan said.
"The first time we went, we didn't even get up the mountain before turning back; the second time we went up, we found aircraft wreckage but no remains; the third time we found remains." Fan Jianchuan recalled that among the three searches over the past two years, not every one yielded results.
"Our clothes were never dry from the moment we entered the mountains until we came out." Before coming to work at the Jianchuan Museum, Tsering Chuzha had served as an armed police officer. After arriving at the museum, he started as a security guard, and now he leads teams into the snowy mountains, searching among the rocks without giving up on the slightest possibility.
Over the past two years, before each departure, the Jianchuan Museum would first gather information and understand the situation, then arrange a small team to conduct reconnaissance, and invite Tibetan compatriots familiar with the local environment to serve as guides. With dozens of people going into the mountains, food, tents, medicine, communications equipment, and work tools all had to be fully prepared.
In the high-altitude uninhabited areas there are no ready-made roads. One must pass steep cliffs and cross glacial rivers, and large pieces of aircraft wreckage are difficult to carry away intact. The team brings cutting machines, selects parts with identification value, and cuts them before transport when necessary.
The aircraft wreckage brought back from the snowy mountains has also been sent to more places. In recent years, the Jianchuan Museum has donated collected wreckage of U.S. aircraft that aided China to multiple museums and memorial halls themed on the War of Resistance, helping them enrich their exhibitions.
In 2015, the Jianchuan Museum donated fragments of an oxygen cylinder from U.S. aircraft wreckage to the Museum of the War of Chinese People's Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Fan Jianchuan hopes that these artifacts will enable more people to understand the joint China-U.S. resistance against aggression in those years.
The discovery of remains does not mean the end of the search work. The remains and related physical evidence still need to undergo collection, examination, identity comparison, and information verification, after which the two sides communicate and handle the transfer according to procedures. In a transfer held in Chengdu in 2015, after the Chinese side completed sample collection and preliminary examination of the remains, it notified the U.S. side of the relevant information; after receiving the remains, the U.S. side also sent them to relevant institutions for further comparison, verification of identity, and notification of family members.
The snowy peaks are silent, but the mountains and rivers remember forever.
"It is precisely your rigorous pragmatism, professional diligence, and close coordination that made this ceremony possible and enabled this solemn homecoming to be realized." At the transfer ceremony, a U.S. military representative said in his remarks that this transfer was the result of years of unremitting efforts by both sides. Personnel from all units present worked hand in hand, overcoming tough problems and difficulties (攻坚克难, gong jian ke nan - "attack, strong point; overcome, difficulty"), to search for the remains. This complete achievement makes all the shared toil and sweat deeply meaningful.
Each arduous trek into the high-altitude glaciers is steeped in the persistence of the search team members enduring wind and snow as companions (风雪为伴, feng xue wei ban - "wind, snow, act as, companion") and braving dangers to track down traces, and carries the simple moral sense of the Chinese people in valuing both affection and righteousness (重情重义, zhong qing zhong yi - "value, emotion; value, righteousness") and remembering the help they received.
More than 80 years ago, China and the United States, as World War II allies, crossed mountains and seas and shed blood together side by side, forging with their lives on the "Hump Route" a wartime memory of looking out for and helping one another (守望相助, shou wang xiang zhu - "watch, guard; look, help"). Today, this comradeship in arms that transcends national borders continues through repeated searches in the snowy mountains and solemn handover ceremonies.
Using history as a mirror/lesson (以史为鉴, yi shi wei jian - "use, history, as, mirror") and facing the future, this precious friendship that grew out of the flames of war and has been steadfastly maintained amid ice and snow will continue to inject warm strength into the efforts of China and the United States to uphold humanitarianism, carry out sound and pragmatic cooperation, and safeguard the hard-won peace.
(People's Daily Online reporters Liu Haitian, Zhao Zule, and Luo Yu participated in the reporting)
Return to TopBy: 刘文璋
Recently, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) aired a special program titled "The Secret Records of Yasukuni Shrine — The Blank Postwar History," making public for the first time internal meeting records of Yasukuni Shrine that had been sealed for decades, fully reconstructing the entire decision-making process by which 14 Class-A war criminals were secretly enshrined together. This piece of primary historical material, with ironclad evidence, tears open the historical black curtain that Japanese right-wing forces have covered for decades, making it impossible for the "shrine of war criminals" to keep its fig leaf in place.
The records show that as early as 1969, Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare had reached an internal consensus with Yasukuni Shrine on the joint enshrinement of Class-A war criminals, and agreed to keep the matter strictly confidential and advance it at an opportune time. The relevant truth was not known to the outside world until 1979. If they had not consciously stood on the opposite side of historical justice, why would they have been so evasive from the very beginning, not even daring to make a major matter like the joint enshrinement known to the public?
The entire enshrinement process was permeated with political calculation. In January 1969, the "General Assembly" of Yasukuni Shrine unanimously agreed to complete the joint enshrinement by October of that year, but only eight months later changed its position to "the joint enshrinement should be carried out in the future, and for now the status quo should be maintained." In 1970, when someone urged progress, the then chief priest of Yasukuni Shrine, Tsukuba Fujimaro, still stressed that "the timing must be carefully considered." And the so-called "carefulness" was never about reflecting on the right or wrong of history, but about calculating how to evade international public opinion pressure and reduce backlash from neighboring Asian countries.
The final implementation of the joint enshrinement was even more of a shady, underhanded operation conducted behind closed doors. After Tsukuba Fujimaro's death in 1978, his successor as chief priest, Matsudaira Nagayoshi, took advantage of the personnel transition window of the "change of chief priests" to opportunistically propose that "this is a good time for the joint enshrinement." After internal deliberation and approval, the entire process was quietly completed in October of that year, without any public disclosure throughout. Deliberately choosing the moment when public attention was lowest and following the most simplified internal procedures was, in essence, an attempt to turn the "whitewashing" of aggressive war criminals into an accomplished fact.
Nearly half a century has passed, and this tactic of "knowing it is wrong, yet quietly doing it" has not only failed to abate in Japanese politics, but has become increasingly intense. After the joint enshrinement of the 14 Class-A war criminals, some Japanese politicians have insisted on visiting the shrine or offering ritual fees, repeatedly hurting the feelings of the people of Asian victimized countries. Since the beginning of this year, Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae has sent offerings or ritual fees to Yasukuni Shrine five times; several cabinet members have even personally visited to pay homage. These politicians are by no means unaware of the political nature of Yasukuni Shrine — they are precisely seeking to clearly convey a signal of historical revisionism through their visits. The Yasukuni Shrine issue has never been a matter of "cultural tradition," but rather a touchstone of whether Japan can face up to its history of aggression. Japanese right-wing forces have repeatedly and continuously crossed the red line on historical issues, seriously hurting the feelings of the Chinese people and continuously draining Japan's international credibility.
The blank spaces of history will ultimately be filled by the power of justice. In recent years, from the historical facts of the Nanjing Massacre to the atrocities of Unit 731's germ warfare, to the historical truth of the forcibly conscripted "comfort women," international forces of justice, including some Japanese media outlets, have continuously restored the true face of history. The NHK production team spent two years in negotiations and interviewed more than 200 people involved before securing the disclosure of these records — this in itself is a powerful counterattack against historical revisionism. Every year around August 15, civic groups on the streets of Tokyo launch peace actions opposing shrine visits, and scholars continue to question the procedural legitimacy of the joint enshrinement of war criminals. As Shimizu Masahiko, a constitutional law professor at Nippon Sport Science University, put it, Japanese politicians' visits to Yasukuni Shrine are completely unacceptable from a historical perspective. In contrast, the right-wing forces, while staging political performances of historical revisionism on one hand, stigmatize voices that face up to history as a "masochistic view of history" on the other — the more they shift the blame onto others, the more they expose their having no logical argument or being at a loss for words.
Archives may be sealed for a time, but the truth will never be buried forever. The scheme of Japanese right-wing forces to stubbornly overturn the verdict on the war of aggression is doomed to be futile and will never succeed.
Return to TopThe long wind blows unceasingly over Bashang, and Zhangyuan is abundant in sunlight. Relying on exceptionally favorable natural conditions (得天独厚, de tian du hou - "get, heaven, unique, thick") for wind and solar resources, Zhangjiakou City in Hebei Province holds two weighty golden signboards: the largest city in the country for non-hydro renewable energy, and a national hub node city for the integrated computing power network. Today, the advantages of these two golden signboards are colliding deeply: green electricity converted from wind and sunlight flows in an unending stream (源源不断, yuan yuan bu duan - "source, source, not, continuous") toward data machine rooms; the computing power cluster, as a major electricity consumer, helps make the power grid controllable and adjustable through stable consumption and energy switching. Green electricity and computing power here achieve mutual efforts from both sides (双向奔赴, shuang xiang ben fu - "two, directions, run, towards") and coordinated symbiosis.
As of the end of September this year, Zhangjiakou's installed wind and solar photovoltaic capacity has exceeded 46 million kilowatts; electricity consumption by computing power centers reached 10.173 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 49.77%, and the green electricity usage rate of multiple computing power enterprises exceeded 90%.
Zhangjiakou adheres to systematic thinking, coordinating the integrated planning of new energy development, the power grid framework, and the computing power cluster, incorporating the load characteristics of computing power into the design of regional energy development planning. State Grid Zhangjiakou Power Supply Company has specially formed a "computing power + electricity" coordination task force, continuously tracking the business types, commissioning timelines, and construction scales of 25 computing power projects under construction, and, in combination with variables such as equipment iteration and business development, scientifically assessing medium- and long-term electricity demand, providing solid data support for power grid engineering construction, transmission corridor reservation, and optimal allocation of energy resources.
In Huailai County, Zhangjiakou City, the Qinhuai Data Huailai Sangyuan Cloud Computing Industry Base is advancing the construction of a green electricity direct-connection project, where wind and solar green electricity will be delivered directly to computing power machine rooms through dedicated lines, achieving physical direct supply and nearby consumption of green electricity. The base has also landed the industry's first commercial solution for intelligent DC power supply for computing power centers based on SST (solid-state transformers). This new power supply architecture achieves a power supply efficiency of 98.5%, occupies less than half the floor area of traditional solutions, and, with integrated energy storage, enables seamless switching among multiple power supply modes, taking into account both leveling out electricity demand peaks and troughs (削峰填谷, xue feng tian gu - "cut, peak, fill, valley") and emergency backup, promoting the transformation of computing power facilities from "adapting to the grid" to "supporting the grid."
Zhangjiakou innovates full-cycle electricity service for computing power projects, implementing dedicated liaison, one-window acceptance, and full-process assistance, ensuring projects are commissioned while being debugged. The 110-kilovolt substation of the Hebei Xinxinrui Cloud Computing Data Center in Yu County completed power transmission and commissioning 20 days ahead of schedule. At present, four green electricity direct-connection projects — Qinhuai Data Sangyuan, Zhangbei Yunlian, Zhangbei Rongtai, and Zhongming Energy — have been approved and are being accelerated in construction, and more demonstration projects are being applied for and advanced in an orderly manner.
Wind surges over Bashang; data gathers in Zhangyuan. Zhangjiakou continues to refine its practical model of computing-power-electricity coordination, exploring replicable and promotable regional practical experience for cultivating new quality productive forces and serving the "dual carbon" goals.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Zhangjiakou Municipal Committee
Return to TopTangyuan County, Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province, is situated on the banks of the Tangwang River in the lower reaches of the Songhua River. The region has four distinct seasons, and its territory is home to large tracts of pastureland, grasslands, and alluvial plains, with vast and level fertile fields. In recent years, Tangyuan County has focused on the five major industries of integrated dairy and milk production, modern machinery manufacturing, deep processing of agricultural products, modern animal husbandry, and clean energy, as well as strategic emerging industries. It has pursued targeted investment attraction, optimized the business environment, removed bottlenecks in project implementation, and won the trust of a wide range of business entities through efficient services.
Heilongjiang Puhuawei Dairy Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Puhuawei") settled in Tangyuan County under this opportunity and gradually grew and expanded. In 2018, the Tangyuan County Party Committee and County Government actively facilitated connections, attracting local entrepreneurs engaged in foreign trade to return to their hometown and invest in the dairy and milk industry. From the guarantee of electricity supply during the construction of the enterprise's plant to the research and development support during the production stage, the local government provided full-process front-line services, relieving difficulties and solving problems (纾困解难, shu kun jie nan - "relieve, hardship, solve, difficulty"), and thus Puhuawei took root in Tangyuan County.
The locality dispatched professional technical personnel to serve the enterprise on site, collaborating with the enterprise to develop more than 200 milk powder formulas, with multiple formulas achieving mass production. It also assisted the enterprise's meal replacement powder project in securing 600,000 yuan in special science and technology funds, providing important support for the enterprise to strengthen and extend its industrial chain.
Puhuawei adopts a combined dry-wet process production technology, optimized and improved in light of domestic consumption characteristics, to create rich-flavored, high-quality dairy products. It adheres to the principle of first expanding channels, then building factories, and then establishing pastures, takes customer demand as its guide, implements order-based production, and achieves zero-inventory operations. Relying on its channel advantages to avoid homogeneous competition in the industry, it focuses deeply on a niche market (深耕细分, shen geng xi fen - "deep, plow, fine, divide"): tailoring exclusive formulas to meet the standards of Philippine student nutrition meals and cross-border transportation conditions, adapting to overseas demand; and domestically, it has deepened its presence in the Tibet market, improving packaging through multiple trials and experiments, and cultivating a niche product with annual sales of over 30 tons into a best-selling product with annual sales of 700 to 800 tons.
In 2025, Puhuawei's export volume of infant milk powder ranked among the top in the country. At present, its products are sold to 18 countries and regions, and it has carved out a unique path of going global from a county-level region that is neither a core dairy-producing area nor a coastal port.
In the future, Puhuawei will accelerate the commissioning and full-capacity operation of projects for cream, deep processing of milk protein, and infant formula liquid milk, with projected annual output value of 2 billion to 3 billion yuan once full capacity is reached. At the same time, through deep processing such as membrane separation, it will promote the industry's leap from "selling raw materials and finished products" to exporting high-end ingredients, functional foods, and technical solutions, implementing strict standards in management and a pragmatic work style on the front line, so that more high-value-added "Made in Tangyuan" dairy products can reach the global market.
Data source: Heilongjiang Puhuawei Dairy Group Co., Ltd.
Return to TopBy: 刘温馨
The nonferrous metals industry's third-quarter reports were recently released, and two figures deserve attention: industry profits grew substantially by 76.5%, while the industrial value-added output declined by 0.8% year on year.
How should we view this contrast?
First, look at the causes. The profit growth stems both from a recovery in market conditions and from the industry's own contribution to cost reduction and efficiency improvement.
In the first three quarters, resource scarcity drove up international commodity prices, compounded by factors such as global inflation and heightened risk-aversion sentiment, causing prices of various nonferrous metals with financial attributes to rise. The development of emerging domestic industries drove growth in demand for certain metals, while enterprises' cost-control efforts showed results, with costs and expenses per 100 yuan of revenue declining year on year, all of which lifted the industry's profitability.
The decline in industrial value-added output, by contrast, has causes related to statistical methodology and production structure. The growth rate of industrial value-added output is calculated at comparable prices; this year, price indices for nonferrous metals have risen relatively sharply, and after stripping out the price factor, the value-added growth rate has been affected. On the other hand, output of the ten major nonferrous metals grew by 2.5% year on year, but output of metal content in six types of mined concentrate, as well as copper and aluminum products, declined.
This reminds us that, against the broad trend of an improving industry and growing profits, all links in the industrial chain should seize the opportunity and take full advantage of a favorable trend (乘势而上, cheng shi er shang - "ride the momentum, go upward"), comprehensively strengthening industrial competitiveness. To push the industry toward better and stronger development, sustained efforts must also be made to improve quality and efficiency.
Raise value through innovation. A good market is the best incentive for R&D. At present, industries such as artificial intelligence, computing infrastructure, new-energy vehicles, and new-type power systems are developing at an accelerated pace, placing new demands on copper, aluminum, lithium, nickel, as well as high-performance alloys and electronic materials. The market is calling, and material supply must be able to keep up in a timely manner. Substantial money or real assets (真金白银, zhen jin bai yin - "true gold, white silver") should be invested in basic research and tackling key core technologies, extending from producing basic materials to high-purity, high-performance, high-value-added products, so that "small metals" can command "big prices," turning market demand into new space for industrial development.
Improve efficiency through structure. In the first three quarters, the operating revenue profit margins of the mining, smelting, and processing links were 40.2%, 8.6%, and 2.0% respectively, with profits "clustering" in the upstream, while the smelting and processing links saw limited growth. To optimize the structure, the upper, middle, and lower reaches must be connected, coordination across production, supply, and sales strengthened, and shortcomings in deep processing and refinement addressed, so that value flows along the entire industrial chain. At the same time, attention should be paid to strictly controlling new production capacity, curbing low-level redundant construction and homogeneous competition, and enabling all links of the industrial chain to form a combined force for development.
Build confidence through security. External variables are difficult to predict, and the security of "industrial grain" must be held firmly in our own hands. To ensure raw material supply is never "cut off," it is necessary both to strengthen domestic mineral resource exploration and development and raise the level of comprehensive resource utilization, and to coordinate the use of both domestic and international markets and both types of resources, expanding diversified resource channels. It is also necessary to expand the recycled metals sector as a "urban mine," raising the level of recovery, sorting, and high-value utilization of scrap metals, securing resources through circular utilization, strengthening the security and resilience of the industrial and supply chains, and holding the initiative in development more firmly.
A good market can bring profit growth; a strong industrial foundation is what sustains long-term competitive advantage. With a high boom, there must also be high quality. Seizing the market window period and turning a favorable momentum into stronger strength, the nonferrous metals industry can maintain steady progress to achieve long-term success (行稳致远, xing wen zhi yuan - "walk steadily, reach far"), providing more solid support for the high-quality development of manufacturing.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 邓剑洋
A single water network pulses through mountains and rivers, reflecting tranquility and abundant harvests.
Three rivers converge, clear waters flow long. The follow-up optimization project for the interconnected water system of the Hanjiang, Rongjiang, and Lianjiang rivers in Guangdong has been put into operation, effectively resolving the shortage of water for daily life and production in eastern Guangdong; regulating surplus to supplement deficit, moistening fertile fields, the first generating units of the Xinjiang Dashi Gorge Water Conservancy Hub Project have been commissioned for power generation, accelerating the realization of its ecological, irrigation, flood-control, and power-generation benefits... A batch of major water conservancy projects has refreshed the "progress bar."
General Secretary Xi Jinping personally planned, personally deployed, and personally promoted the construction of the national water network, emphasizing: "Once the water network is built, it will be another century-spanning scroll in the Chinese nation's history of water governance, and it will be recorded in the annals of a thousand years."
Connecting networks, supplementing networks, and strengthening chains—the construction of the national water network is writing a new chapter. As of now, the coverage of the national water network accounts for 80.3 percent of the national territory, the rural tap water penetration rate nationwide has reached 96 percent, and China has built the world's largest water conservancy infrastructure system with the most complete functions and benefiting the largest population.
Unblocking waterways, development toward the new
In Yichang, Hubei, at the construction site of the upstream and downstream cofferdams for the Gezhouba shipping capacity expansion of the Three Gorges new water transport channel project, excavators and construction vessels are busy at work. Before long, two cofferdams will be erected here, "enclosing" a dry area in the river waters to lay the foundation for the new ship locks.
The Gezhouba shipping capacity expansion involves demolishing the existing No. 3 ship lock, building two new single-stage ship locks, and expanding the excavation of the upstream and downstream approach channels. Upon completion, the Gezhouba hub will form a pattern of four ship lock lines, with an annual total passing capacity reaching 360 million tons.
The cofferdam is the first critical hurdle in construction. "After the two cofferdams are completed, they will form a 'water-isolating ring' together with the bank slopes, creating the prerequisite conditions for dry-ground construction," said Yang Ning, chief engineer of the Three Gorges New Water Transport Channel (Hubei) Co., Ltd.
Switching the lens, in the priority excavation zone of the new Three Gorges hub channel, trucks shuttle back and forth, and various tasks proceed in an orderly manner. The priority excavation zone, where all blasting and excavation operations have been completed, will create favorable conditions for the subsequent relocation of high-voltage transmission lines and the full-scale construction of the main ship lock works.
The Three Gorges–Gezhouba hub river section is the vital throat of the golden waterway of the Yangtze River. In 2025, the annual throughput of the Three Gorges hub rose to 173 million tons.
From transporting bulk cargo such as coal and ore to transporting high-value-added goods such as automobile parts and precision instruments, Lei Shiqiang, a "boat boss" who has sailed the Yangtze River waterway for more than 30 years, is deeply impressed: "The river is still this river, but the cargo has changed. This golden waterway, stretch by stretch, is running out a new vista."
New vitality is confirmed in the data. Over 10 years of working hard through difficulties (砥砺, di li - "grind, forge") in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, high-grade navigable waterways in the Yangtze River system have increased from 8,000 kilometers to 11,000 kilometers, cargo throughput at trunk-line ports has grown by 71 percent and remains first among inland rivers worldwide, the proportion of excellent-quality water in the Yangtze River Economic Belt has risen from 67 percent to 96.5 percent, and regional GDP has more than doubled.
From "10,000-ton-class fleets" to "10,000-ton-class single vessels," once the Three Gorges new water transport channel project is completed, it will further unleash the shipping potential of the golden waterway. According to preliminary estimates by experts, after the Three Gorges new water transport channel is completed, the annual savings from improved navigation efficiency and substitution for land transport can reach 18 billion yuan.
Viewing "one network" from "one belt," the construction of the modern water network is accelerating. From January to September this year, China implemented 41,400 water conservancy projects of various types, newly started 28 major water conservancy projects—exceeding the total number started in the whole of last year—completed water conservancy construction investment of 795 billion yuan, and absorbed 2.01 million people in employment. The ever-denser water network provides solid support for promoting high-quality development of the economy and society.
The view on water use is connected to the view on development. During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China's total water use remained generally stable at around 600 billion cubic meters, with water use per 10,000 yuan of GDP and water use per 10,000 yuan of industrial added value falling to 42.4 cubic meters and 22.9 cubic meters respectively, and water resource utilization efficiency has been improved by a relatively large margin.
Efficient water use cannot be separated from unified water resource dispatch. Sun Zhiyu, Vice Minister of Water Resources, stated that as of now, the number of inter-provincial river basins carrying out water resource dispatch has reached 89, completing 95 percent of the target tasks, and dispatch for the remaining 5 rivers will be initiated by the end of 2026 as planned. Next, we will persistently advance unified water resource dispatch to provide solid water security safeguards for comprehensively advancing Chinese modernization.
A stretch of clear water, people's livelihood is paramount
A canal of "southern water" bears witness to the transformation of drinking water and writes the answer sheet of people's livelihood.
"From bitter well water to Danjiangkou reservoir water, the South-to-North Water Diversion has let us drink 'water of happiness.' Now when we boil water and cook, there is less scale, the water quality is better, and the water supply is more secure," said Chen Deshen, Party branch secretary of Tianshuijing Village, Fan County, Henan.
The clear "southern water" benefits countless families and households (千家万户, qian jia wan hu - "thousand families, ten thousand households"). More than 80 percent of Beijing's urban water supply is "southern water," and more than 9 million people in Hebei's Heilonggang River basin have bid farewell to the history of generations drinking high-fluoride and brackish water... At present, the guarantee rate of domestic water supply in the water-receiving cities along the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion has increased from 75 percent to over 95 percent, and the guarantee rate of domestic and industrial water supply in the water-receiving cities along the eastern route has increased from 80 percent to over 97 percent.
Underground in western Hubei, at the construction site of Lot 4 of the Yangtze-to-Hanjiang Water Diversion Project, the cutterhead of the single-shield hard rock tunnel boring machine "Jianghan Pioneer" spins rapidly, breaking through rock as it advances. On November 6, the "Jianghan Pioneer" cumulatively advanced past 2,000 rings, with each ring 1.8 meters wide, for a cumulative advance of 3,600 meters. The main tunnel of the Yangtze-to-Hanjiang Water Diversion Project has advanced 43.76 kilometers.
"The project construction faces complex geological conditions. We adhere to the principle of 'probe before every excavation, excavate only after probing,' innovatively integrate complete technical packages such as membrane-bag water blocking and grouting water sealing, and rely on advanced geological forecasting, surrounding rock stress monitoring, and a digital twin centralized control platform to advance the project construction in an orderly manner," said Long Gang, deputy general manager of the Tunnel Company of China Railway 18th Bureau Group and head of Lot 4 of the Yangtze-to-Hanjiang Water Diversion Project.
The Yangtze-to-Hanjiang Water Diversion Project is the first project to start construction among the follow-up projects of the South-to-North Water Diversion, with a total length of about 194.7 kilometers and an average annual water transfer volume of 3.9 billion cubic meters. After the project is completed, the Three Gorges Project and the South-to-North Water Diversion Project will be "joined hand in hand," which can greatly enhance the water supply capacity and water supply guarantee rate of the first phase of the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion and greatly improve the water resource allocation capacity of the Hanjiang River basin and the region.
As of November 9, the cumulative water transfer volume of the first phase of the eastern and middle routes of the South-to-North Water Diversion has exceeded 92 billion cubic meters. The South-to-North Water Diversion Project has provided stable, high-quality water sources to 195 million people in 48 large and medium-sized cities across 7 provinces and municipalities along its route.
The answer sheet of people's livelihood in a drop of water unfolds across the countryside. From January to September this year, China completed the construction of 2,012 rural water supply projects, strengthened the construction and management of small rural water supply projects, and improved the water supply guarantee level for 30.24 million rural residents.
"We will strive to achieve a rural tap water penetration rate of 98 percent nationwide, a proportion of 78 percent of the rural population covered by scaled water supply projects, and a county-level unified management ratio of 90 percent by 2030, further enhancing the level of rural water supply guarantee," said Ni Wenjin, director of the Department of Rural Water Conservancy and Hydropower of the Ministry of Water Resources.
Grain security underpins the nation, and water conservancy is the lifeline of agriculture. By the end of 2025, China's irrigated farmland area reached 1.095 billion mu, and in 2025, grain produced on irrigated farmland accounted for 80.76 percent of the national total grain output. "Large and medium-sized irrigation districts are the 'main force' of grain production," Ni Wenjin said. Next, we will continue to improve irrigation and drainage projects, solidly carry out agricultural disaster prevention and reduction work, make every effort to improve the institutional system for agricultural water conservation and efficiency enhancement, and further consolidate the water conservancy foundation of food security.
Happy rivers and lakes, beautiful China
On the fitness greenway on the north bank of the Qili River in Xingtai, Hebei, the Qili River is sparkling with light on the water surface (波光粼粼, bo guang lin lin - "waves, reflect, shimmering"), and some citizens and tourists stroll leisurely along the riverbank.
From a wasteland river channel to clear water and green banks, in recent years Xingtai has strengthened the ecological governance and protection of rivers and lakes through ecological restoration, greening and upgrading, and other means, promoting the Qili River to radiate new vitality. "We will take the river chief system as the starting point, continue to advance comprehensive river channel treatment and projects such as water system connectivity, and build more happy rivers and lakes that are suitable for leisure and water recreation and nurture ecology," said Wang Ping, deputy director of the Xingtai Municipal Water Affairs Bureau.
The governance of one river reflects a new picture of harmony between people and water.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has achieved continuous water flow along its entire course for 5 consecutive years since 2022; the Yellow River has achieved no flow interruption for 27 consecutive years and continues to provide ecological water replenishment to the Yellow River Delta and Wuliangsuhai Lake; the 27th ecological water conveyance has been implemented in the lower reaches of the Tarim River, and the water surface area of the terminal Taitema Lake and the wetland ecological environment have been effectively restored... By coordinating the governance of water disasters, water resources, water ecology, and water environment, the ecological environment of rivers and lakes has improved significantly.
Since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Water Resources has vigorously promoted the ecological recovery of rivers and lakes, consolidated the governance results of 88 recovered rivers and lakes, and launched the second batch of 111 mother river recovery actions, so that more and more rivers regain their life and river basins regain their vitality.
Strengthen comprehensive treatment of groundwater over-extraction. In recent years, the Ministry of Water Resources has vigorously advanced the treatment of groundwater over-extraction and achieved relatively notable results. The degree of groundwater over-extraction in the North China Plain has been significantly reduced, with the volume of groundwater over-extraction reduced by 75 percent and the area of severe over-extraction reduced by 92 percent. Among them, in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei treatment area, the average shallow groundwater level has rebounded by 3.76 meters, the average deep groundwater level has rebounded by 7.65 meters, and the deepest deep groundwater funnel area has rebounded by 32 meters.
Soil and water conservation is the fundamental measure for the protection and governance of rivers, and an inevitable requirement of ecological civilization construction. By the end of 2025, the total area of soil erosion nationwide has decreased to 2.5764 million square kilometers, and the national soil and water conservation rate has increased to 73.09 percent. Li Ming, director of the Department of Planning and Programming of the Ministry of Water Resources, stated that the goal proposed by the Ministry of Water Resources for the 15th Five-Year Plan period is to add 310,000 square kilometers of new soil erosion treatment area nationwide and achieve a soil and water conservation rate of 74 percent.
"Soil and water conservation, on the one hand, guards the tranquility of rivers, and on the other hand, concerns the well-being of the people," Li Ming said. We will upgrade and improve on the basis of traditional treatment, combine soil erosion treatment with improving the rural living environment and developing distinctive industries, advance the construction of ecologically clean small watersheds and urban soil and water conservation, achieve results wherever treatment is carried out, and let the people see visible changes and obtain tangible benefits.
Li Guoying, Minister of Water Resources, stated that next, the Ministry of Water Resources will make every effort to do all work on the construction of the modern water network, work hard and pragmatically, doing things well and achieving good results (善作善成, shan zuo shan cheng - "good, do; good, achieve"), strive to turn the new century-spanning scroll of water governance into reality, and make new contributions to promoting high-quality development of water conservancy and safeguarding China's water security.
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Zhengding, a national famous historical and cultural city in Hebei, sits in the heart of the central Hebei plain on the banks of the Hutuo River. Historically, it was known together with Beijing and Baoding as one of the "Three Northern Hero Towns." For more than 1,500 years from the Northern Wei dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty, it served successively as the seat of commanderies, prefectures, circuits, and prefectural administrations. The river waters nourished the fields, and the accessible thoroughfares gathered people and vitality, giving the ancient city a prosperous past summed up in the phrase "nine towers, four pagodas, eight great temples, and twenty-four memorial archways." Today, 10 nationally protected cultural relics, 8 provincially protected sites, 25 county-level protected sites, and 7,672 museum-held artifacts mean this "treasure house of ancient architecture" still possesses a rich historical endowment.
Why is this endowment so rich? The answer lies in the interweaving of geography and history. Living by the river with vast fertile fields, prosperous agriculture provided material support; successive dynastic administrative seats meant official construction was of high standard and fine materials, with buildings layered upon one another and repairs never ceasing; the dry, low-rainfall climate of the North China Plain made brick-and-timber structures easier to preserve. With these three conditions converging, Zhengding's ancient buildings were able to survive as a coherent system. From city walls to ancient pagodas, from temples to streets and lanes, the city itself becomes a history of ancient architecture that can be read on foot.
With a rich endowment, the key is to "protect" it well. "Protection" does not mean simply preserving an old appearance, but rather both safeguarding the bottom line that the ancient city is not damaged and retaining its ability to tell history. Five consecutive years of archaeological excavation at the southern site of Kaiyuan Temple deepened understanding of the urban layout and residents' lives since the Tang and Five Dynasties; Longxing Temple completed digital collection, laying a solid foundation for improving publicity and display; safety monitoring and assessment were carried out on 11 individual buildings, providing a scientific basis for formulating protection measures; and the Zhengding City Wall Protection Plan (2021–2035) established long-term rules for protecting the authenticity and integrity of the ancient city wall. Relying on 163 intangible cultural heritage projects and 76 representative inheritors at various levels, Zhengding continues to promote intangible cultural heritage into schools and scenic areas, allowing the living cultural lineage to merge into daily life. With archaeology, technology, institutions, and inheritance advancing in relay, what is "protected" is both tangible heritage and intangible nostalgia.
Being able to protect it is not enough; it must also be "brought to life." This does not mean fencing the ancient city off as a specimen for people to view from afar, but rather letting historical culture "live" in contemporary life. In Zhengding, this "living" quality is the shaping of the city's character — "ancient city, ancient charm, carefree Zhengding" both embodies the urban governance philosophy of letting visitors roam at ease and echoes the serene posture of the "Carefree Guanyin" in the Hall of Mani at Longxing Temple. This "living" quality is also the creation of cultural tourism activities — the ancient city, new city, and beautiful countryside are linked as three points, with the Hutuo River threading through as one line; along it, lantern festivals, national-style parades, intangible cultural heritage performances, and the National Drum King Competition take turns on stage, with more than 1,500 cultural activities of all kinds each year; viewing lantern festivals atop the city wall, watching "A Dream into the Red Chamber" within Rongguo Mansion, quietly enjoying the night scene before Guanghui Temple — night tours of Zhengding offer constantly changing scenery as one progresses (移步换景, yi bu huan jing - "move step, change scene"), with a distinctive charm; Nanguan Ancient Town and Wangquan Ancient Street gather nighttime dining, shopping, entertainment, and lodging, stringing together the peace and joy of present-day life. Behind the gathering of crowds flows the historical culture that lives between the climbable city towers, the viewable ancient pagodas, and the walkable streets and lanes — the human warmth of an ancient city that can be toured, experienced, traded in, and lived in.
Leveraging the "living" quality of the ancient city, Zhengding has expanded a broader "new-ward" industrial landscape. Today's Zhengding faces Beijing and Tianjin and connects to Xiong'an, with the airport, high-speed rail station, expressways, and metro linked together, and platforms such as the China (Hebei) Pilot Free Trade Zone Zhengding Area, Shijiazhuang Comprehensive Bonded Zone, and Zhengding High-tech Zone layered on top. The historically accessible land has thus gained new economic-geographic coordinates. Relying on these conditions, Zhengding continues to strengthen its "4+1" leading industries of the digital economy, high-end equipment manufacturing, biomedicine, modern logistics, and headquarters economy. The ancient city gains cultural distinctiveness, the new city and industrial parks carry industrial agglomeration, the countryside hosts leisure agriculture and ecotourism, and the Hutuo River connects ecological landscapes with urban and rural life — a development picture of clear division of labor and coordinated urban-rural progress is slowly unfolding in this thousand-year-old city.
From an important town on the post road to a modernized county, Zhengding's transformation is the result of geographic endowment and the choices of the era shaping each other. Protecting the ancient city's ancient charm well, making full use of its locational advantages, and solidly building up new business forms, this thousand-year-old city is moving toward the new, carrying the weight of history.
(The author is a professor in the Teaching and Research Department of CPC History at the Party School of the CPC Hebei Provincial Committee (Hebei Academy of Governance); compiled from an interview by People's Daily reporter Shao Yuzi.)
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This year's "Double 11" shopping festival, a new item has joined the shopping cart. In addition to traditional goods such as daily necessities, digital products, and home appliances, the intangible "Token" has also been placed on e-commerce shelves, becoming a new item that consumers are rushing to order.
JD.com data shows that during a two-hour livestream on November 2 by JD.com's 3C digital products procurement and sales livestream room, sales of large-model Token package products increased 20-fold month-on-month. Tmall data shows that on November 2, one Tmall livestream room set a sales record of 2 trillion Tokens in half an hour.
Tokens being placed on shelves is both a vivid microcosm of artificial intelligence accelerating its integration into production and daily life, and a clear footnote to the Chinese economy's development toward the new and the high-quality.
Looking at the near term, this is a powerful confirmation of consumption structure upgrading.
In the past, "Double 11" was a showcase stage for physical goods. Today, the hot sales of Tokens reflect the profound transformation of the consumption structure. From human-machine interaction in smart wearable devices to intelligent agents assisting daily office work, more and more consumption scenarios are being deeply integrated with artificial intelligence. Paying for Tokens is, in essence, paying for efficiency gains, creative empowerment, and intelligent services, reflecting the extension of consumer demand from traditional physical goods to digital services and intelligent experiences.
Data from the National Bureau of Statistics shows that in the first three quarters of this year, total retail sales of consumer goods and services grew 2.6 percent year-on-year, of which retail sales of services grew 5.0 percent, a growth rate 4 percentage points higher than that of retail sales of goods. The highlights in the structure are particularly striking. Ministry of Commerce business big data shows that in the first three quarters, sales of smart glasses on key platforms grew 1.1-fold, sales of exoskeleton assistive devices grew 46.4 percent, and sales of embodied intelligent robots grew 22.6 percent.
In the era of artificial intelligence, when consumers are willing to pay for intelligent modes of production and life, "stockpiling Tokens" naturally gains its driving force. Extending from traditional consumption to intelligent consumption can not only meet consumers' upgrading needs, but also expand the breadth and depth of expanding domestic demand.
Looking at the practical level, this is a vivid practice of the accelerated transformation of new quality productive forces.
The subjects of "stockpiling Tokens" include not only individuals, but also small, medium, and micro enterprises. From software development to product design, and then to later-stage publicity and distribution, the artificial intelligence application scenarios of small and medium-sized enterprises are continuously expanding. Behind this lies the urgent desire of the real economy for intelligent transformation, as well as the inherent requirement for promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and cultivating and strengthening new quality productive forces.
Against the backdrop of the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, artificial intelligence is becoming a key force reshaping the future pattern of development. In the field of commercial circulation, intelligent product selection and real-time multilingual translation help improve the quality and efficiency of cross-border trade; in production workshops, industrial quality inspection and supply chain scheduling have become more precise and efficient thanks to artificial intelligence. The fact that small and medium-sized enterprises are purchasing Tokens shows that artificial intelligence is changing from an "optional item" to a "mandatory item," and the digital transformation of all walks of life (千行百业, qian hang bai ye - "thousand, industry, hundred, industry") is accelerating.
As large models move from the laboratory to the front line of production, computing power, like electricity in the industrial era, has become an indispensable new factor of production, injecting strong momentum into the conversion of old and new drivers.
Looking at the deeper level, this is a concentrated manifestation of the advantages of the super-large-scale market.
This year's Government Work Report proposed "creating new forms of the intelligent economy." From the iteration and upgrading of artificial intelligence large models at the R&D end, to their widespread application at the production and consumption ends, China, by virtue of its super-large-scale market, has not only provided a vast experimental field for various new products and new business forms, but also supplied abundant nourishment for the growth of new forms of the intelligent economy.
Behind the hot sales of Tokens during "Double 11" is precisely the proactive embrace of intelligent modes of production and life by a huge number of users. The data is powerful proof — China's daily Token call volume has grown from 100 billion at the beginning of 2024 to more than 140 trillion in March this year.
In a super-large-scale market, massive application scenarios can support large models in iterating rapidly at relatively low cost, allowing the scale effects of the intelligent economy to be fully unleashed. Market advantages and innovation vitality reinforce each other, not only bringing computing power services from enterprise-exclusive to popular and universal, but also building China's new competitive advantages in the era of artificial intelligence.
Of course, placing Tokens on shelves is only a starting point. How to improve security governance, perfect after-sales services, and make intelligent consumption truly inclusive and accessible still requires the joint efforts of all parties.
In October this year, the Opinions on Promoting the Deep Integration of Scientific and Technological Innovation and Industrial Innovation issued by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council proposed fully implementing the "Artificial Intelligence +" action and promoting artificial intelligence to empower all walks of life in an all-round way. At present, although "stockpiling Tokens" has not yet become a widespread phenomenon, it demonstrates the new momentum of the vigorous rise of intelligent consumption. As artificial intelligence technology continues to mature and application scenarios continue to expand, trickles of water converge into rivers and seas, injecting an inexhaustible stream of new momentum into China's high-quality development.
Return to TopBy: 中国城市报记者 张阿嫱 邢 灿
"It's much cheaper now than during the holidays — swimming crabs are sold by the catty, and a catty costs only about 30-odd yuan." Liu Jia, a seafood vendor at Beijing's Xinfadi Agricultural Products Wholesale Market, told reporters. In recent times, prices of popular seafood have fallen. Since the Yellow Sea and East China Sea opened to fishing, Beijing's seafood market has entered an active trading period, with popular seafood seeing "rising volume and falling prices."
Is seafood getting cheaper? In the course of interviews, reporters learned that over the past two years, the overall price of aquatic products in China has indeed been on a downward trend — not only has popular seafood become more affordable, but seafood consumption has also become more a part of everyday life.
Over the past two years, the national aquatic products market has seen "rising volume and falling prices"
The moment one enters the seafood trading zone of Beijing's Xinfadi Market, the smell of marine products hits the face. The stalls are piled with fish, shrimp, crab, and shellfish, and the live seafood in the water tanks is lively and jumping. The market is crowded with people (人头攒动, ren tou zan dong - "person, head, crowd, move"), and the sounds of hawking, bargaining, and QR-code scanning rise and fall one after another.
"During this year's National Day holiday, hairy crabs were around 20 yuan each and swimming crabs 60-70 yuan per catty; now hairy crabs are a dozen-odd yuan each and swimming crabs 30-60 yuan per catty — about 20 percent cheaper than before. Seafood prices were the highest during the Mid-Autumn holiday, twice what they are now. Frozen goods are less affected by the season and fluctuate little day to day." Liu Jia said.
Every year, China's major sea areas enter a summer fishing moratorium lasting three and a half to four and a half months, roughly from May to September each year. If one wants to buy fresh, affordable seafood, the fishing season after the moratorium lifts is a good choice.
"September, when the seas first open, is the cheapest time of year for seafood, and the Spring Festival holiday is the most expensive." Rongcheng Shidao Fishing Port in Weihai, Shandong, is the largest fishing port in northern China, and Jing Xianming, general manager of Rongcheng Jingming Fishery Co., Ltd., has been in the seafood business for over a decade. Taking freshly caught large hairtail as an example, he told reporters that when the seas opened in early September this year it was only 30-odd yuan per catty, sold for over 100 yuan per catty at Mid-Autumn Festival, and can sell for around 250 yuan at Spring Festival; at present prices have stabilized at 50-70 yuan per catty.
Haitou Town in Ganyu District, Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, is known as "China's No. 1 Town for Seafood E-Commerce," and this year fishing opened even earlier. Short-video blogger Li Jialiang owns his own fishing boat, going out to fish and then selling wholesale. He explained that this year small boats began fishing on August 10 and large boats on August 25, with mantis shrimp, swimming crabs, hairtail, yellow croaker, and sea snails being the more popular items; two or three days after fishing opened, prices of the main seafood began to move downward — taking swimming crabs of about half a catty as an example, the decline was about 30 percent. The biggest price drop around the opening of the fishing season was for Boston lobster: before the season opened, Boston lobsters of 8 liang to 1 jin 3 liang sold for 150 yuan per catty; after the season opened they were about 60 yuan per catty — a difference of more than half.
"Overall, aquatic product prices have been running at a low level in 2025-2026. Looking at month-on-month data, prices fell sharply starting last year and have continued to decline this year; looking at year-on-year data, this year's situation is slightly better than last year's." Cui He, president of the China Aquatic Products Circulation and Processing Association, explained that over the past two years, the national aquatic products market has seen "rising volume and falling prices": transaction volume has grown both month-on-month and year-on-year, driving up total transaction value, but the increase is smaller than the increase in volume, meaning prices have not risen in step with sales.
Looking at the north-south pattern, the differences are clear. Sun Longqi, assistant researcher at the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, explained that in the north (Yellow Sea, Bohai Sea), marine aquaculture focuses mainly on bulk and high-value varieties such as shellfish, kelp, and sea cucumber, with Liaoning and Shandong as the main provinces; offshore fishing mainly targets swimming crabs, prawns, Spanish mackerel, pomfret, and hairtail, and after fishing opens in September, fresh catches come ashore in concentrated batches — with production areas close to markets and well-developed short-haul cold chains, prices respond quickly and declines are concentrated. In the south (East China Sea, South China Sea), marine aquaculture has a rich variety of species, with Guangdong, Fujian, and Hainan leading in output of farmed marine fish, abalone, oysters, kelp, and prawns, featuring short cycles and year-round rotational farming and harvesting; offshore fishing mainly targets hairtail, large yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, pomfret, Spanish mackerel, and grouper, with fishing opening successively from south to north starting in August, giving strong supply continuity and greater buffering against seasonal fluctuations in marine catches.
However, aquatic product prices have not fallen across the board. Cui He explained that popular seafood such as shellfish has large output and large consumption, making price increases difficult, and it shows a trend of steady but slow decline; small categories such as sea urchin and sea intestine, because of small output, regional character, and the preferences of specific consumer groups, have seen prices rise rather than fall.
Domestic production capacity continues to expand, and new production methods are developing rapidly
Why have popular seafood prices fallen? The continued expansion of domestic production capacity is an important reason.
Zhang Zhili, vice minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, explained that China adheres to a fishery development policy centered on aquaculture, and nearly 60 percent of the world's aquaculture output comes from China. China's total aquatic product output has ranked first globally for 37 consecutive years, with farmed output steadily above 80 percent. "In recent years, China's facility-based aquaculture has greatly improved production efficiency. Inland and northwestern regions have added large numbers of facilities and enterprises, solving water scarcity through water recycling, and per-mu output has risen from 1-2 tons to 10 tons." Cui He explained.
On the other hand, the space for traditional aquaculture has also been redefined. Deep-sea and far-offshore aquaculture has developed rapidly, further raising total production capacity and making the foundation of the "blue granary" more solid.
Marine aquaculture is already the absolute mainstay of China's marine product supply. According to the 2025 National Fishery Economic Statistics Bulletin, in 2025 the output value of marine aquaculture was 509.142 billion yuan; output was 26.5086 million tons, up 4.88 percent year-on-year; area was 2.40852 million hectares, up 7.52 percent year-on-year. Among these, popular varieties such as oysters, scallops, clams, and Pacific white shrimp have high supply elasticity, with price centers under long-term pressure and tending toward stability; high-end specialty varieties and high-quality wild-caught marine varieties, constrained by sea-area space, seedling technology, farming cycles, and resource endowments, expand capacity slowly and maintain high prices.
"This year's new seafood supply comes mainly from aquaculture rather than offshore fishing — this is a microcosm of the long-term structural change in China's aquatic product supply." Zhang Chengpeng, associate researcher at the Macroeconomic Research Institute of the National Development and Reform Commission, illustrated with a set of figures: from January to August 2026, domestic total aquatic product output was 43.0509 million tons, up 3.93 percent year-on-year; of this, marine aquaculture output was 16.5292 million tons, up 5.16 percent year-on-year; marine capture output was 4.3367 million tons, up only 0.29 percent year-on-year.
Today, new production methods such as deep-sea and far-offshore net cages, factory recirculating aquaculture systems, marine ranches, and aquaculture mother ships are developing rapidly. Seafood supply, which in the past depended heavily on natural resources and seasonal fishing, is increasingly being transformed into production that can be artificially controlled.
The scale of high-end seafood aquaculture is also continuing to expand. Lai Yang, an expert on the Expert Committee of the China General Chamber of Commerce and executive vice president of the Beijing Academy of Commercial Economics, explained that because of the upgrading of consumer categories, aquaculture operators see that pursuing high-end products yields better profits, high-end aquaculture is more developed than in previous years, and the total supply scale of high-end products continues to grow every year.
The improvement of cold-chain technology is also one of the factors enabling residents to eat seafood "both quickly and cheaply."
"The full maturity of end-to-end cold-chain logistics technology has shortened the time for seafood to reach market — in Beijing, for example, seafood from elsewhere can begin selling the moment it arrives; at the same time, it has greatly reduced the overall loss rate, so supply naturally goes up." Lai Yang said.
Sun Longqi explained that China's aquatic product cold-chain logistics network has taken initial shape, basically covering the entire process from "primary processing at origin — regional distribution and transshipment — terminal sales." The empowerment of cold-chain upgrading for marine fisheries is mainly reflected in three aspects: first, expanding the sales radius, allowing shellfish, sea cucumber, swimming crabs, prawns, hairtail, and pomfret from northern and southern aquaculture and offshore fishing to be delivered steadily to central and western inland markets, alleviating regional mismatches between supply and demand; second, supporting staggered pond harvesting and staggered market launches, avoiding concentrated launches that "pile up and force prices down"; third, enriching supply forms, as chilled and frozen marine products can release inventory during the fishing moratorium and peak holiday seasons, smoothing out short-term price spikes.
Shifting from "eating seafood at festivals" to "eating seafood every day"
Sun Longqi observes that residents' consumption of marine products is undergoing two structural shifts: first, a shift in perception — from pursuing "wild, live, freshly caught" seafood to diversified choices, with more and more consumers recognizing the value of properly farmed marine products and high-quality chilled products, and paying more attention to food safety and value for money; second, a stronger health orientation — preferring low-fat, high-protein marine products, with growing consumption of shellfish and shrimp, and increased attention to origin traceability and veterinary drug residue testing.
The development of e-commerce and instant retail is also accelerating seafood's entry into the era of mass consumption.
The head of aquatic product procurement and sales at JD Seven Fresh Supermarket explained that after the seas opened, consumers' enthusiasm for seafood rose markedly. Since September, the supermarket's overall online order volume and sales of aquatic products have grown substantially year-on-year, and consumer preferences have shifted from simply comparing prices to emphasizing quality, live freshness, and specifications, with some high-specification products actually selling well.
Sales on the instant retail side are also trending upward. The trend of consumers eating seafood in daily life is strengthening, and king crab and Boston lobster have also entered daily consumption; but the holiday effect for these large seafood items remains pronounced, with sales jumping during festivals. Thus "eating seafood every day" is becoming the norm, but it has not yet fully replaced "eating seafood at festivals."
Does this mean residents' consumption has entered an "era of normalized affordable seafood"? Zhang Chengpeng believes a more accurate formulation would be "popular seafood is more affordable, and seafood consumption is more a part of daily life," rather than "all seafood has entered an era of low prices." Ordinary farmed fish and some shrimp and shellfish, with scaled-up production and improved cold-chain and channel efficiency, will see prices move ever closer to levels acceptable for daily household protein consumption; but wild-caught products, scarce varieties, large-specification products, and high-quality imported seafood will continue to command a clear premium. "Everyday-ization" describes the future trend more accurately than "low-pricing": seafood is no longer just food for coastal regions, festive banquets, and high-end dining, but is gradually becoming a protein source that ordinary families can buy regularly.
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"Help me take a photo with 'Bronze Chirp'!" In the cultural and creative products store of the Sanxingdui Museum in Sichuan Province, tourists lined up beside an oversized plush toy. Ancient, rustic patterns transformed into fluffy, soft plush; the divine bird that perched on the bronze sacred tree more than 3,000 years ago has now taken on a cute, cuddly image and flown into people's arms.
Among the precious cultural relics at Sanxingdui, a finely crafted divine bird stands on the fruit branch of the Shang Dynasty bronze sacred tree. The prototype of "Bronze Chirp" is a bronze bird unearthed from the No. 2 sacrificial pit at Sanxingdui. The overall form of this artifact is a bronze bird standing upright on the fruit of a bronze flower; the bird's head is held high, with three crest feathers rising upward, each feather tip drilled with a hole, presumably to represent colored decorative patterns at the ends of the crest feathers; the bird's tail tilts upward, with three tail feathers branching upward and three branching downward, in a form resembling a peacock spreading its tail feathers (孔雀开屏, kong que kai ping - "peacock, open, screen").
"The image of Sanxingdui in people's minds is often hard and mysterious—could we create something softer and more approachable in cultural and creative products?" said Wu Zemin, a cultural and creative product designer at Guanghan Sanxingdui Cultural Tourism Development Co., Ltd. The inspiration for designing a plush toy arose spontaneously (油然而生, you ran er sheng - "oil, naturally, arise"), and the bronze bird was the most suitable prototype.
To both preserve the distinctive features of the cultural relic and stay close to aesthetic trends, the design team put considerable effort into sketching the image of "Bronze Chirp." Typical features such as the beak, crest feathers, and tail feathers were captured and preserved, with appropriate re-creation; the toy's form, however, did not copy the relic's "slenderness" but was changed to a round, fluffy appearance. The company regularly holds product review meetings, gathering opinions from professionals in the market and cultural heritage fields. After multiple rounds of adjustments and revisions, the design draft was finally finalized.
As a plush product, "feel" is of utmost importance. Wu Zemin explained that the design team tried the mainstream plush fabrics on the market one by one and ultimately settled on a custom exclusive plush fabric for "Bronze Chirp." At the same time, the designers selected differentiated materials and techniques for the toy's body, eyes, beak, and feet to give it a richer variety of textures. To make "Bronze Chirp" easier to display and arrange, the design team also added a clever touch: plastic particles are filled at the rear of the toy's bottom, forming a built-in mini "support" structure. "Although it's very soft, 'Bronze Chirp' can still sit up on its own," Wu Zemin said.
In 2024, as soon as "Bronze Chirp" was launched, it became a bestseller among Sanxingdui's plush cultural and creative products, with annual sales exceeding 70,000 units.
As sales of "Bronze Chirp" climbed, consumer voices grew louder in the guestbook of the Sanxingdui cultural and creative products store and on social media account backends, inspiring the design team's drive for striving for perfection (精益求精, jing yi qiu jing - "refine, further, seek, excellence").
Soon, "Bronze Chirp" became more colorful in appearance. Starting from the original classic edition, it gradually expanded to include three basic colors—black, white, and pink—as well as three tie-dye special-edition colors: peach blossom pink, wisteria purple, and mint green. The product forms became more diverse, with large-size plush versions, sound-emitting clap wristbands, and other peripheral products launched one after another. To make it convenient for tourists to take photos, the cultural and creative products store also specially placed an oversized "Bronze Chirp." After more than two years of iteration, "Bronze Chirp" has grown from a single product into a complete product matrix.
Integrating cultural relics into trendy life requires striking a balance among cultural heritage, aesthetic standards, and market demand. With offices filled with reference materials and regular cultural training sessions, the design team has been working hard to understand and interpret Sanxingdui; in their spare time, they also visit toy stores to research and learn about new products; at the same time, they continuously follow online user discussions—these lively shares and exchanges have all become driving forces for breaking through creative bottlenecks.
To date, total sales of the "Bronze Chirp" series have exceeded 10 million yuan, and it remains one of the most popular plush products at the Sanxingdui Museum. "We will continue to focus on creating quality products and use more cultural and creative products to tell the story of Sanxingdui," Wu Zemin said.
Return to TopBy: 李春雷
Do you know how much garbage the Honglian residential community in Xiong'an New Area, Hebei, produces in a single day?
I don't know.
But Tian Jing'an knows.
160 barrels.
Every morning at 7:30, Tian Jing'an reports for work on time. There, he finds a spacious, bright underground space. Following his work routine, he acts with extreme caution (小心翼翼, xiaoxin yiyi - "careful, tiny, tiny") as he pushes the trash bins from all directions to a fixed position, coordinating with machinery to dump the garbage into sealed containers for centralized processing. Then, he pushes the bins back to their original spots. This procedure repeats three times each day.
As for working hours, eight hours a day.
Objectively speaking, this post involves simple labor, but for him, it is dignity, it is contentment, it is joy.
To be honest, Old Tian has truly had a hard life.
In October 1965, he was born in Xiaowangying Village, Anxin County. His parents were both completely illiterate (目不识丁, mu bu shi ding - "eye, not, know, illiterate, character"), and none of his three older sisters and brothers ever attended school. Only he had the highest education—third grade of primary school. After dropping out, he joined the production team's labor.
Tian Jing'an will never forget that feeling of hunger: his stomach burning, contracting, cramping, aching. Looking at the sun in the sky, it was blurry, flat and round; looking at everything around him, it was a mixture of truth and falsehood (真真假假, zhenzhen jiajia - "true, true, false, false"), twisted and crooked.
After reform and opening up, the problem of food and clothing was solved, but as his two older brothers built houses and got married, the family was burdened with heavy debts. In a flash, he was 25 years old. For the sake of his marriage, his parents had no choice but to borrow again, building three mud-brick houses. At 27, he finally married. But before long, after giving birth to a baby girl, the woman vanished without a trace (无踪无影, wu zong wu ying - "no, trace, no, shadow").
Tian Jing'an lived with his daughter. He truly had no particular skills; he only knew how to farm. Loneliness was his only companion.
In the spring of 2015, Tian Jing'an suddenly fainted, then broke out in cold sweats all over, his limbs weak. A hospital examination revealed severe heart disease requiring bypass surgery. The cost of the surgery? At least 100,000 yuan.
Good heavens, where would he ever get that much money? This man in his forties spent every night trembling with fear or anxiety (战战兢兢, zhanzhan jingjing - "fight, fight, tremble, tremble") and every day sighing in despair.
On April 1, 2017, the state announced the establishment of Xiong'an New Area, and their village turned out to be in the initial development zone. Immediately, large-scale planning and relocation began in the area.
As the small village gradually disappeared, Old Tian's fate quietly changed, and the other half of his life also made a graceful entrance.
Li Shumei, born in 1970 into a rural family in the mountainous area of Chengde, later married into Baigou Town near Xiong'an New Area, where she ran a luggage business. In 2000, her husband died of illness, the business collapsed, and she had no choice but to work odd jobs everywhere. After Xiong'an New Area was established, she came here.
As for Tian Jing'an, although he had little education and no skills, he was honest and kind-hearted (憨厚善良, hanhou shanliang - "honest, thick, kind, good") and hardworking and dependable.
Li Shumei immediately contacted Beijing Aerospace General Hospital to arrange the heart surgery. Carrying his medical records, she ran up and down the stairs, registering, paying fees, and signing the informed consent form. Soon, three "bridges" were installed, costing 170,000 yuan.
Tian Jing'an felt deeply fortunate that this gentle, kind yet outspoken and capable woman was the benefactor and angel destined for him in life.
In August 2020, they officially married. Although they did not hold a grand ceremony, on that day, like young people, they both wore bright red wedding attire.
Under Li Shumei's well-meaning yet strict management, Tian Jing'an's life was completely transformed. Every day he bathed, brushed his teeth, ate fruit, and quit smoking. There was also physical activity—wielding the big whip. It not only trained his arm strength but also increased his lung capacity. The whip, braided from cowhide, was a full three meters long. Standing in the open field, he swung his arm in a full circle, and with a sharp "crack," it burst crisply, startling the sparrows in the treetops into fluttering wildly. Hands on his hips, he tilted his head back and laughed, as if he had won a great victory. In addition, there was dancing—the two of them had specifically enrolled in a dance training class.
Two years later, Tian Jing'an had fully recovered. He had originally weighed 85 kilograms, plump and overweight. Now, he was down to 70 kilograms, lean and strong. More importantly, where he had once been moving in a slow and sluggish manner (疲疲沓沓, pipi tata - "tired, tired, slow, slow") and looking disheveled or dejected (灰头土脸, huitou tulian - "ash, head, earth, face"), he now had a face glowing with health and happiness (红光满面, hongguang manmian - "red, light, full, face") and moved with agility, walking with a resounding stomp and laughing heartily.
Full of energy, he found idleness boring. Under 60, he still wanted to work.
So the community recommended him for a full-time cleaning post in the underground space of the Honglian residential community, responsible for transporting trash bins, with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan.
The community's household garbage is uniformly placed in the underground space.
In the underground space, cars are the most numerous.
Every day he pushes trash bins between the cars. Looking at the shiny, gleaming cars one by one, Tian Jing'an said to himself, Don't look down on me as a cleaner—I hold Xiong'an household registration, after all. Thinking of his wife and daughter driving cars running on the ground above his head, his body and mind, like the cars, sped off at full throttle.
After getting off work in the evening, after a simple meal, he changes into soft cotton clothes and goes for a walk, goes dancing.
As for his work uniform, every two or three days, Li Shumei washes it and irons it, keeping it neat and clean. His work uniform is also red. That is the color of their wedding attire, and the color of festivity.
Sometimes, Tian Jing'an also returns to the place where he lived as a child.
The vanished small village has long since become the center of Xiong'an New Area, where landmark grand buildings have risen abruptly from the ground (拔地而起, badì ér qǐ - "pull, ground, and, rise") one after another—the China Satellite Network Group Xiong'an headquarters office building, the Sinochem Tower, the China Energy Conservation headquarters building... All of these are only a few hundred meters from his former home.
He gazes at all of this from afar, and as he gazes, his whole body fills with a mysterious strength.
Indeed, in all these years, he has never caught a cold, never been to the hospital.
All of Tian Jing'an's daily life is simply working diligently and living honestly.
Every morning at 7 o'clock, he eats breakfast early, changes into his work uniform, and walks to work. Facing the rising morning sun, as if stepping on brand-new pianos beneath his feet, he enters his post.
Those trash bins—some red, some blue, some green, some light, some heavy—are like dance partners one by one, pushed, supported, held, embraced, with warmth, with rhythm, with passion.
Thinking this way, Tian Jing'an loves them even more, loves this city even more.
Indeed, it is precisely they, precisely this city, that have given him health, strength, and joy.
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Photography is an "art of subtraction." When we use a camera to take a photograph, the objects within the viewfinder do not naturally form the work we need; the various objects are numerous and disordered, and we must, according to the theme, subtract from the in a state of complete disorder (杂乱无章, za luan wu zhang - "messy, no order, no pattern") frame the parts that interfere with the theme, extracting the elements truly needed. In photography, the close-up is a form of subtraction: push the lens in close, let a face, a pair of eyes fill the frame, and the rest of the world is quietly hidden away.
Blurring the background is also a form of subtraction: the depth of field becomes shallow, the disordered outlines in front and behind dissolve into a patch of shadow, and the eye can only rest on the single clear thing. In 1991, photographer Xie Hailong's Big Eyes, taken in Jinzhai County, Anhui Province, was used as the promotional image for the Hope Project. Many primary school students sat in the classroom, and Xie Hailong focused his lens on the big-eyed girl Su Mingjuan. The black-and-white film stripped away the numerous colors, leaving people drawn only to the little girl's eyes, brimming with a thirst for knowledge. This is the effect produced by subtraction.
Painting is usually "addition": stroke by stroke, one depicts objects onto a blank sheet of paper, but within this addition there is also subtraction. In Liang Kai's Southern Song Li Bai Chanting While Walking, Li Bai's profile face is rendered in somewhat finer detail, but the robe on his body is outlined with only a few strokes, the lines of the clothing simple, forceful, and concise. This subtraction of brush and ink brings to life a Li Bai overflowing with the ethereal, romantic spirit of an immortal poet. Qi Baishi's Album of Borrowed Scenery is likewise. He "went out five times and returned five times," traveling half of China, having seen countless real mountains and real waters, "cutting and refining" those landscapes into images of extremely minimal brush and ink. In the extant 22 album leaves, there is no complex texturing, rubbing, dotting, or washing; the colors are also bright and simple. In Dongting Junshan, for example, only a few strokes sketch it out, like a single fist-sized rock. In the near distance there is a patch of sailboats, in the far distance a red sun emerges, and apart from this there is nothing but blank space — yet the vast Dongting Lake and the empty sky are all within the painting. Old Man Baishi said, "Of all the famous mountains and great rivers under heaven, those my eyes have seen or my ears have heard, I all wish to borrow them," but when "borrowed" onto paper, he again "had strange mountains and waters in his breast, and deleted the hands that copied from models," a mountain often left with only a few lines and a patch of color. He subtracted the complexity of the objects, reprocessed them with his own mind and spirit, and condensed the very soul of the mountains and waters at the tip of his brush.
Sculpture is likewise. In Michelangelo's handwritten letter to the Italian scholar Benedetto Varchi, he wrote: "By sculpture I understand that which is done by removing material." After subtracting, what remains is the complete achievement.
Is not our life likewise? Each day is probably like a photograph that has not been cropped: it has everything in it, each thing occupying a place, yet when you stare at it for long, you often cannot say clearly what was actually photographed. This requires us to use the subtraction of choosing an angle, framing a portion, and blurring the redundant, in order to focus on what is truly important.
In 1997, Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy. It is said that the first thing Jobs did after his return was to hold meetings with several dozen product teams, evaluate all products, and finally draw a four-quadrant chart on the whiteboard: the top two boxes read "consumer" and "professional," the bottom two read "desktop" and "portable." He cut 70% of products and models, concentrating only on developing and producing 4 products. What happened afterward, everyone knows.
Some say, "Growth is doing addition; maturity is doing subtraction." In the process of a young person's growth, piling experiences, knowledge, cultivation, and various pursuits onto oneself is necessary, because without enough "much," one cannot discern the weight of "little." But when a person finally knows which things can be taken out of the frame, he will no longer be trapped by the overfull reality. Crop some away, blur some away, and only then will what is truly essential remain in the picture of life.
In subtraction there is not only the way to success, but also the way to peace of mind. Laozi said: "Fewness obtains; abundance perplexes." We should ask ourselves from time to time: this thing before our eyes, this attachment in our hearts — is it, after all, superfluous? The negative of life cannot hold every scene; you must always choose an angle, frame a stretch of sky and earth, and leave the rest to fate. Excessive desires will trap the feet, tangled trivialities will obscure the original heart, and redundant attachments will consume the self. There is no need for us to crave abundance and completeness, to harbor the extravagant hope that everything will be perfect. May we all delete restlessness and anxiety, leaving calm and composure; delete attachments and entanglements, leaving pure passion; delete vanity and greed, leaving the original heart clear and limpid.
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Qishan Grassland is located in Qingshui Tujia Township, Yunyang County, Chongqing Municipality. By the time we arrived, the sea of flowers was no longer conspicuous; thick mist swirled, and the entire grassland had become hazy and indistinct.
Walking deeper into the meadow, my view was suddenly interrupted by some silhouettes. Seen from afar, they were the shapes of boats—real fishing boats. One after another, they were arrayed on the grass, their bows tilting slightly upward, all facing the same direction, as if still holding the posture of being about to set sail.
I stood there stunned for a moment—this was an alpine meadow at an elevation of 1,500 meters, dozens of kilometers from the Yangtze River. How could boats be here?
They really were boats! Only when I drew closer did I see clearly that they had evidently been deliberately placed here. The hulls were intact, the painted iron-shelled bodies bearing the weathered colors of wind and sun; some hulls still retained their original boat numbers, the strokes crude and clumsy, clearly painted on many years ago.
Stepping into the cabin, I found it had been converted into a guest room, with neat and clean bedding, and fishing gear hanging on the walls—straw rain capes, net shuttles, old-fashioned lamps. These did not seem like decorations, but rather things that had originally been on the boat, left just as they were.
A full 84 fishing boats were parked there, so quietly.
I asked my companions about their origins. It turned out these were all retired fishing boats, hauled up from the Yangtze River. Beginning January 1, 2021, the main stem of the Yangtze and its major tributaries within Yunyang's territory entered a ten-year fishing moratorium. The fishermen received compensation and moved ashore to switch livelihoods.
More than 500 boats were retired in the Yunyang area, involving over 1,000 fishermen. Once the boats were collected, how to dispose of them became a problem of no small size. Dismantling them all and selling them as scrap would have been clean and simple. But some people felt it was a pity—for those who had fished for half their lives, a boat was not just a tool.
Later, the county government made a decision: to hoist and transport these 84 retired fishing boats in a concentrated operation to Qishan Grassland, and hand them over to a county-owned enterprise for conversion into guesthouses. And so these boats, which had once drifted on the river, were carried up the mountain one by one, parked on the meadow, and became distinctive lodgings. They still had their original hulls, and the boat numbers had not been painted over—only the interior had been transformed into a different world.
Retired fisherman Wu Xingjun brought his wife specially to stay for a night. That day, the couple walked to the boat and, in the moonlight, quietly surveyed this old boat that had accompanied them for many years, their gazes tracing every mark on the hull. Wu Xingjun murmured with feeling: "The two of us lived and ate on this boat for 12 years—we have deep feelings for it!"
This boat had drifted on the Yangtze for 12 years, carrying more than 4,300 mornings of departure and evenings of homecoming. And now, it rests quietly on Qishan Grassland, its bow pointing toward the Yangtze from which it came.
The mist seemed to have thickened a little. Standing at the bow of the fishing-boat cabin, I felt as if I were sailing on a foggy river, except that what reached my ears was the sound of mountain wind sweeping across the grassland.
For many years, the fishing households on the Yangtze lived by working at sunrise and resting at sunset (日出而作，日落而息, ri chu er zuo, ri luo er xi - "sun, rise, then, work; sun, set, then, rest"). Their fishing boats were small; the bow was the place for work, the stern the space for living. A family ate and slept on the boat, the boat following the current, and their days rising and falling with the river's waves.
Fishing boats were scattered across every corner of the Yangtze and its tributaries. But the river's resources were ultimately finite. To protect the aquatic life resources of the Yangtze and restore the water ecology, the "ten-year fishing moratorium" was launched. Fishing boats were collected and placed in central storage, one after another. And these 84 boats were set down on Qishan Grassland—perhaps this was the most fitting way.
The mist dispersed, and the sun spread its warmth through the treetops. The hulls still bore traces of river water, and the deck planks still carried the grain of the years. The fishing boats, together with the days they had carried and the stories that had unfolded on them, all came to rest on this alpine meadow at an elevation of 1,500 meters.
Return to TopThe Chinese painting Red Flags Billowing in the Wind Over the Western Pass, by Guo Weiqu, is held in the collection of the Liaoning Provincial Museum.
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Leaving Summer Behind
Bursting out of the bean thicket, those gusts of wind
Are also deep brown
The wind still blows, the running bean pods
Touch my fingers
Very round and plump (圆滚滚, yuan gun gun - "round, rolling, rolling") autumn
Pops out with a patter
The flail sings joyfully
From this village, to that household
What never stops is still the wind
Picking out each black bean
Drying the days in the sun
Those black beans then enter the granary
What never stops is still the wind
Inside every black bean heavy with thoughts
It quietly hides
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Sand dunes embrace sand dunes, and a long dirt road stretches through the vast sea of sand, extending, extending... At the end of the road, a silver-gray installation suddenly appears on the horizon. The Manshen 8 metering and transfer station of the Fuman Oilfield has been reached.
This well station, planted at the "belly button" of the Taklamakan Desert, is the most remote metering and transfer station in the Fuman Oilfield. Looking out in every direction, apart from the limitless and boundless (漫无边际, man wu bian ji - "not, have, no, edge") yellow sand, there is almost no other living thing.
"Beep, beep..." The sound of the vehicle horn is especially loud in the empty wilderness.
Wang Xiaoyan pushes open the door of the field camp trailer and trots over to unlock the iron lock on the fence gate. Over her red work uniform she wears a floral-print apron, like a small burning spark.
Four rooms, four people, one metering and transfer station, and 14 oil wells — that is everything here.
Wang Xiaoyan and her husband Xu Dajun came here from Zhangye, Gansu, in early spring 2022. The other two people at the station are Huang Yuhua, who is from Sichuan, and Zhang Yanqi, a fellow townsman from Gansu. When Wang Xiaoyan cooks, she always tries to accommodate tastes from both north and south: "Usually I make three dishes — one meat, one vegetable, and a cold dressed dish. I alternate between rice and noodles, trying as much as possible to let everyone taste the flavor of home." She said with a smile as she picked vegetables.
After breakfast, the three men, like little birds leaving their nest, flutter and "fly" toward the oil wells among the sand dunes, inspecting the operating condition of each well. These oil wells are like their children, and they understand the temperament of every "child."
Sandstorms are a regular visitor here, with nearly 300 days a year being windy and dusty weather. At the worst times, daylight is instantly blown into darkness, and you cannot see your own feet when you look down.
One night in March this year, a strong wind snapped the transformer line, and the main control room screen suddenly went black. Past 1 a.m., the Manshen 11 well suddenly lost power, and it was necessary to shut in the well promptly; otherwise it would cause pipeline freezing and blockage or even leakage, with unimaginable and disastrous consequences (后果不堪设想, hou gu bu kan she xiang - "result, not, can, think, imagine"). Xu Dajun and Huang Yuhua got up and drove to the well site more than 20 kilometers away. Wind and sand wrapped in the darkness kneaded the headlights into two dim yellow points of light. They groped through the desert for more than three hours before they shut in the well.
"The gale roared with extremely loud and roaring noises (狮吼狼嚎, shi hou lang hao - "lion, roar; wolf, howl"), as if it would lift the field camp trailer, and sand pelted the iron sheeting with crackling sounds. It was 3 a.m. and they still hadn't come back; I was worried they had gotten lost." Wang Xiaoyan's heart was anxious like a cat scratching, and she kept calling Xu Dajun and Huang Yuhua, but the calls would not connect. It was not until past 4 a.m. that the familiar sound of an engine came from outside the door.
On days of calm and peaceful weather (风平浪静, feng ping lang jing - "wind, flat; wave, calm") when work is done, Wang Xiaoyan takes Xu Dajun's hand, and the two stroll on the nearby sand dunes. Deep in the great desert, their two hearts are drawn even closer. When Xu Dajun gets off work early, he accompanies Wang Xiaoyan in washing vegetables and cooking. Wang Xiaoyan pulls up a video on her phone: Xu Dajun, hand-rolling pulled noodles, wiggles his body comically to the music. The two of them have turned the hard, lonely days in the desert into poetry.
In the summer of 2019, Huang Yuhua came to the Manshen block of the Fuman Oilfield, and from the Manshen 1 to the Manshen 8 metering and transfer station, his figure can be found in the construction of every station. In more than seven years, the number of times he has gone home is very few and easily counted (屈指可数, qu zhi ke shu - "bend, finger, can, count"). His first girlfriend dated him for more than a year, but because they could not meet even a few times, it fell apart. The second and the third also ended for the same reason.
Zhang Yanqi, for his part, drives away loneliness by painting. He paints poplar trees, oil workers, and animals of the desert. He also painted one special picture — a slender, long-haired young woman, simply and fashionably dressed, but with only a blank space where her face should be. No one knows who she is. In the desert, everyone's private thoughts always carry an indescribable expectation.
During the interview, four sand-brown desert birds occasionally chirped "tweet, tweet," and their crisp calls echoed leisurely through the empty sea of sand.
Wang Xiaoyan said that when she first arrived there were only two. Later, two more flew in. Their leftover scraps are the desert birds' three meals a day. The birds, too, have become their companions. She also showed a photo of the four birds: on a dry withered branch, four birds stand facing the wind, against a deep, clear blue sky.
It suddenly occurred to me — are these four people not just the four desert birds on this same tree? They do not disdain their environment, they do not pick their conditions, they keep loneliness as their companion and solitude as their company, battling wind and sand, fighting scorching heat, and resisting bitter cold deep in the great desert, silently guarding one well station after another. And what the well stations connect to is the nation's energy security.
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In my hometown, the radish also has a nickname: the white rabbit.
On reflection, the radish's plump, white root really does resemble a white rabbit held up by its ears. I wonder whether, while growing underground, it might hop about like a rabbit. I have heard a romantic saying: like ginseng and fleeceflower root, it walks about under the moonlight. It must be a lively, spirited creature.
"Let's go, chase the rabbits!" This phrase sounds like something a hunter would say, yet it was the secret code we used in our youth to invite each other out to pull radishes.
One midsummer evening, Wang Lei invited several of us junior high school classmates to his home.
His home stood beside a vegetable garden at the end of the village. When we went upstairs, the moonlight was just right, and we could clearly see, in the vegetable plot below the window outside Wang Lei's home, the green radish leaves swaying, many of them arching a section of their bodies out of the soil, like warm white jade, and even more like white rabbits poking their heads out to look around.
"Let's go, chase the rabbits!" someone proposed. Everyone was eagerly preparing to take action (摩拳擦掌, mo quan ca zhang - "rub, grind, palm, rub"), and walking stealthily and quietly (蹑手蹑脚, nie shou nie jiao - "steal, hand, steal, foot") went downstairs.
In the lush green expanse of the vegetable bed, several dark shadows suddenly appeared. Bending low, stooping, they pulled up one radish after another with force. Gripping the feathery leaf tufts was like seizing a rabbit by both ears.
Suddenly someone whispered in a low voice: "Situation, hit the deck!" It turned out a person was approaching us, holding a flashlight in hand.
That was Wang Lei's father.
Everyone immediately lay flat, holding their breath. The radish leaves rustled by our ears, the moonlight poured down in bright splashes, and the flashlight's beam swept back and forth like a searchlight. That figure slowly walked toward us, and I could even see the Liberation rubber shoes on his feet, and cold sweat involuntarily seeped from my palms. Yet that figure, just as it was about to reach my side, turned around and, walking with large, brisk strides (da bu liu xing - "big, step, flow, star"), walked back into the house.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, washed the "spoils of war" clean by the ditch, and went back upstairs.
The radishes were cut into small cubes, pickled in salt for a while to "force out" the pungent juice, then mixed with chili powder, vinegar, and soy sauce — that made a fine meal. However, these things were only in the kitchen, which meant Wang Lei had to go fetch them. Wang Lei was hesitating when sounds came from the stairs, and Wang Lei's father walked up. Everyone was thrown into a fluster. But his father set a vegetable basin on the table, filled with all kinds of seasonings, and even a packet of white sugar that was scarce in those years, saying: "You classmates, have a good time!" Then he turned and went back downstairs.
After a brief silence, someone loudly repeated the words spoken in the radish field just now: "Situation, hit the deck!" Everyone looked at each other, then burst into laughter.
Sour, sweet, salty, and spicy — one bite, crisp, tender, and juicy. That summer night was so full of zest and flavor (有滋有味, you zi you wei - "have, flavor, have, taste").
Only later did I learn that this "white rabbit" has been "building its nest" in Chinese vegetable plots for several thousand years. In the Compendium of Materia Medica, its name is "laifu," and Li Shizhen also wrote down in the book nine ways to eat this "white rabbit": "It can be eaten raw or cooked, pickled or sauced, fermented with soybeans or steeped in vinegar, sugared or cured, or served with rice — it is the most beneficial of all vegetables."
My favorite way of eating it is this: fry a crucian carp golden brown on both sides, add water and boil until the soup turns milky white, add shredded radish, put in a few sections of red chili, toss in a little Sichuan peppercorn, and upon taking it off the heat sprinkle with chopped scallions and cilantro. A pot made this way is so fresh and sweet it is extremely beautiful or wonderful (不可方物, bu ke fang wu - "not, can, square, thing"). The shredded radish floating and sinking in the colorful pot makes one think of a white rabbit crouching in a bush.
For this "rabbit" that can relieve the world's hunger and thirst and warm the daily lives of the common people, there is also a folk saying in circulation: "When radishes enter the city, the pharmacy closes its doors."
In fact, its loveliness goes far beyond delighting the palate and nourishing the body.
I once watched a period drama in which there was a scene like this — an imperial envoy, traveling incognito to inspect a disaster-stricken area, overheard this conversation beneath the window of a local official: "My dear, you eat the lean part!" "My lord, you eat the fatty part!" The envoy kicked open the door in a fury and bellowed: "The common people are not having enough food to satisfy hunger (食不果腹, shi bu guo fu - "eat, not, reach, belly"), yet you two are here feasting and drinking — this is simply outrageous or unreasonable (岂有此理, qi you ci li - "where, have, this, reason")!" Looking down, he saw that what the couple had on the table was a bowl of red and white radishes. The envoy was instantly overcome with shame and remorse, apologizing again and again. Truly, "radishes and cabbage keep one safe and sound."
Not long ago, a painter gave me an ink painting, and what it depicted was a radish. In the painting, several green, feathery lobed leaves stretch upward, and the plump root lies like a white rabbit half leaning, half crouching, quietly keeping watch over a patch of purity that belongs to itself, so that I love it so much I cannot let it go (爱不释手, ai bu shi shou - "love, not, release, hand").
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